Monthly Archives: June 2010

More than six decades after he took emergency command of the destroyer USS Farragut during the devastating Japanese sneak attack on Dec. 7, 1941, the U.S. Navy gave 88-year-old Darien resident James Benham credit for his heroic leadership in bringing the vessel to safety amidst a hail of bombs and gunfire.

From the Free Gaza movement and allies: Thousands of words have already been written about the Freedom Flotilla, Israel is out with its talking heads...

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Lancaster, Ohio, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Greencastle, Pennsylvania, Billings, Montana, Rio Rancho, New Mexico, Stamford, Connecticut, Portland, Maine, Enid, Oklahoma, Sheridan, Wyoming, and LeRoy, Illinois.

By Khalil Nouri STAFF WRITER / EDITOR It’s ludicrous that in a matter of weeks Mr. Karzai has gone from being a frail, faltering,...

  NETANYAHU'S "TALIBAN" RULE CRUMBLING AROUND HIM JEWS VICTIMIZED BY "DIME STORE" DICK CHENEY CLONE "All I saw in Israel was cowards with guns"...US Marine Ken O'Keefe By...

The Government Is Drowning Us All” Uri Avnery attacked by rightist thugs By Uri Avnery (Editor's note:  Uri Avnery is the kind of Israeli Hollywood depicted...

Who's BP's favorite politician ever? If you're just going by the numbers, it's none other than President Barack Obama, who leads BP's lifetime campaign donation list with $77,051. That puts him just ahead of reliable oilmen such as Alaska Republican Rep. Don Young, his retired colleague Sen. Ted Stevens, and George W. Bush. According to data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics, BP and its employees have given more than $3.4 million to federal candidates since 1990, with much of their largesse going to these 20:

VT has been in touch with independent film director Fernando Beltran who has a film in production simply called P.T.S.D. Our collaboration with Mr. Beltran began when we asked copyright permission to use his attention getting images with our articles on PTSD in exchange I promised to research, review, and promote his efforts to spread public awareness about issues surrounding PTSD.

What the United Nations independent investigator on extrajudicial killings would like is for countries that employ surprise drone attacks to first...

* By Edward Colimore Philadelphia Inquirer * Nothing could have prepared him for what he witnessed that day. Arthur Seltzer is still processing it 66 years...

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Homelake, Colorado, Shreveport, Louisiana, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Knoxville,Tennessee, St. Louis, Missouri, Nashville, Tennessee, Houston, Texas, Roseburg, Oregon, New Milford, Connecticut, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

"OLD GUARD VETERANS" TAKE ON THE BRENTWOOD FATCATS PELOSI, WAXMAN AND WASHINGTON CORRUPTION FOR HOMELESS VETS By Gordon Duff and the Old Guard Veterans at VT Over...

CRAIG MURRAY, MARITIME LAW SPECIALIST, "TURKISH SHIP AT SEA IS TURKISH TERRITORY" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor This weeks Israeli attack on a Turkish ship...

It appears the Freedom Flotilla sailing to Gaza would go through a thicket of off shore oil and gas rigs and wells. The wells are sucking an estimated minimum of US$6 Billion Dollars of Palestinian off shore Natural Gas through rigs set up for slant drilling.

Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), chief architect of the pricey Post-9/11 GI Bill education benefit for veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan war era, could become a new champion, for taxpayers, against what he perceives as excess spending on military pay and on a new wave of Agent Orange claims.

Egypt has kept the Rafah crossing border point with the Gaza Strip opened for a fifth consecutive day "We sailed to Gaza,...

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Brattleboro, Vermont, Emmitsburg, Maryland, San Francisco, California, Jacksonville, Florida, Cleveland, Ohio, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Fort Worth, Texas, Sacramento, California, Raleigh, North Carolina, and Buffalo, New York.

The most recent attempt to highlight Israel’s criminal blockade and illegal occupation of Gaza was met with more Israeli piracy. See Al Jazeera and Witness...

"NO CLIMBING OUT OF THIS HOLE" DELEGITIMAZATION, ISRAEL OFFICIALLY A ROGUE NATION By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor The entire world joined with Israel in 1972 when...

By Ray Parrish, VVAW Veterans Benefits Counselor As mentioned in a previous article, Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) intends expanding its capability to offer...

No. 459-10 ------------------------------- CONTRACTS: NAVY                Austal USA, Mobile, Ala., is being awarded a $99,557,548 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-08-C-2217) for long lead time material (LLTM)...

By STEPHEN BERNARD NEW YORK -- Stocks tumbled Friday after the Labor Department said hiring remains weak and Hungary became the latest European country to...

We Can Kill Anyone, Anywhere No Reason Needed, We Are Terrorists By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor  Listen to USS Liberty Radio with Guests Jeff Gates and...

The gulf war veterans have been fighting for help with their illnesses due to their service since Operation Desert Storm, and still today with Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. Southwest Asia was and still is one of the most toxic places for a service member on deployment. We have been coming home from the gulf sick, and not getting any real help from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

Put simply, Israel says to the world: We do what we want when we want, we're entitled. Illegal blockade: we're entitled. Kill unarmed Americans and human...

Nine out of 10 Veterans have never been tested for HIV. That’s going to change! Every year, the U.S. marks June 27 as National HIV Testing Day. This year, VA is going one better. We’re having VA HIV Testing Week, June 27–July 3. The week will kick off a sustained effort to increase HIV testing throughout VHA, with a goal of diagnosing those Veterans with HIV and providing them with the care they need.

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Springfield, Massachusetts, San Antonio, Texas, Swannanoa, North Carolina, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Williamsburg, Virginia, Scottsdale, Arizona, Union Grove, Wisconsin, Columbus, Georgia, Jackson, Mississippi, The Dalles Oregon, and Canandaigua, New York.

PALESTINIAN KNESSETT MEMBER TELLS OF GAZA FLOTILLA "TROOPS FIRED ON SHIPS FROM THEIR BOATS..." By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor The video below features Chanin Zoabi, a...

So the predictable dynamics are unfolding. Anywhere the US does not have a veto, Israel is being condemned for its latest atrocities and for its illegal blockade on Gaza. Israel as usual has its puppets in the US Congress and the US mainstream media coming to its defense.

"Normal people can be terrorists, we are ourselves capable of terrorist acts under some circumstances" What sort of mental image comes to mind when you...

From Democracy in Action: Gaza Freedom Flotilla is an act of activists and social movements, a civil society  action made necessary when governments refused their...

No. 456-10 ---------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: NAVY                 Hensel Phelps Construction Co., Irvine, Calif., is being awarded a $102,779,000 firm-fixed-price contract for design and construction of mechanical and electrical...

I ran across two articles in the latest edition of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) The Veteran - Spring 2010 - newsletter both...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan announced today that nearly 8,000 homeless veterans will get permanent housing assistance through a HUD rental assistance program that connects homeless veterans from local Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMC) with rental assistance vouchers provided by local public housing agencies. HUD's Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing Program (HUD-VASH) will provide local public housing agencies with $58.6 million in funding specifically targeted to assist homeless veterans in their area.

By Selcan Hacaoglu and David Rising ISTANBUL – Mourners in Istanbul hoisted coffins Thursday to cheers of "God is great!" as they honored activists slain...

ISRAEL PLANNING ACT OF DESPARATION STILL HOLDS TWO STOLEN NUKES FOR POSSIBLE PORT ATTACK By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Whenever the gang that has seized power...

Note: A lightly edited version of this piece first appeared in the Daytona Beach News-Journal. By PHILIP C. RESTINO JR Few decisions are more serious than...

An American college student gets her eye shot out by the Israeli Army in the West Bank. Israel kills nine, including one American in the...

You won't be hearing Sarah Palin yell "drill, baby, drill," or suggest that government get out of the way of big business any time...

By Peter Boone and Simon Johnson in the Baseline Scenario Many commentators suggest Spain is now the euro zone’s Maginot line.  The argument is clear: ...

By SABRINA TAVERNISE and MICHAEL SLACKMAN in the NYT ISTANBUL — One of the nine people killed in an Israeli commando raid on a flotilla...

Oncology Nurse Cathy Stinnett at the Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center in Muskogee , Okla. , feels a passion for what she does and gets a lot of fulfillment from being there to help patients and family members through some of their most trying times. In May, Oncology Nurse Month, Stinnet was featured in a Tulsa World newspaper article about her job and the work she does daily to help patients deal with the serious challenges of cancer.