Monthly Archives: July 2010

No. 669-10 July 29, 2010  ----------------------------------------------------- CONTRACTS DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY                 General Electric Aircraft Engines, Lynn, Mass. is being awarded a maximum $445,281,495 firm-fixed-price, sole-source, requirement-type contract for engine...

By Ian Graham WASHINGTON, July 29, 2010 – Defense Department officials want to ensure that anyone whose military enlistment was involuntarily extended under the so-called...

The news out of the Hearing on Dissatisfied Gulf War Veterans occurred on July 27th in The House committee on Veterans Affairs Subcommittee Oversight...

- It nests with corporations, squawking for tax breaks, bailouts and military contracts that have little to do with national security - By Chuck Collins at...

- Depleted Uranium (DU) - Uranium (U) is a naturally occurring heavy metal that has both radioactive properties caused by the decay of the uranium atom’s...

Gulf War Veterans(90-91) that are dealing with CFS are carefully monitoring what the civilians with CFS are keeping a close eye on and wondering...

By Anne Flaherty WASHINGTON – Estimates of the number of graves potentially affected by mix-ups at Arlington National Cemetery grew to as many as 6,600...

SAN DIEGO — Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will sue a conservative blogger who posted an edited video of her...

LAME "LEAK" SITE NOTHING MORE THAN THIN COVER FOR "THE TEL AVIV TANGO" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Now "Wiki-Leaks" is busy selling phony bin...

PSEG has again partnered with HireVeterans.com, now for the 4th year........ By Randy Miller Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) is a publicly traded ...

 - NAACP-SUPPORTED LEGISLATION TO REDUCE CRACK COCAINE/POWDER COCAINE SENTENCING DISPARITIES PASSES U.S. HOUSE AND SENATE; CRUCIAL BILL REDUCING SENTENCING DISPARITIES FROM 100:1 TO 18:1...

Don’t blame Pakistan for the failure of the war  By Imran Khan Before the West invaded Afghanistan my country had no suicide bombers, no jihad and...

The Army today released the Health Promotion, Risk Reduction, and Suicide Prevention (HP/RR/SP) Report, the result of a focused 15-month effort to better understand...

- Jewish Voice for Peace member Shelley Fudge takes part in an interfaith press conference organized by CodePink. -

- It is the worst of times, period. - By Pau Krugman I’ve seen a peculiar meme surfacing here and there lately — the assertion that...

By Gregg Zoroya - USA Today TAMPA, Fla. — Army Ranger Cory Remsburg was thrown like a rag doll into an Afghanistan canal Oct. 1...

- In 2009, the families of U.S. soldiers and veterans were supposed to be paid death benefits totaling $1 billion immediately, according to their...

Regional Veterans News 7/29/10 Regional stories on veterans’ health, education, benefits, legal affairs and other issues today from: Southeast Texas - Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical...

The political career of John McCain offers a case study in how organized crime operates in plain sight. When he was selling us on the war in Iraq, was he working for the same syndicate that sold us the subprime fraud?

- John McCain and the GOP protect the sleazy, negative campaign ads run by corporations and shady interest groups as  Democrats respond to the U.S. Supreme...

The richest 2% of this country have a great scam going for themselves. The poor and the middle class provide all the sacrifice, while the rich reap all the benefits. Our tax money is funding the wars and our children are providing the human cannon fodder, while the rich are reaping windfall profits and we're paying their taxes. Then, they call US greedy socialists if we ask for a crumb to feed our families. What a scam!

- "Members of our armed forces deserve the comfort of knowing that they will not be sacrificing their civilian careers when they make the...

- Consumer-focused reformist is needed at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) - By Mary Bottari at the Center for Media and Democracy One of the strongest...

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There is a lot of banter about profiling people based on looks or ethnic origin and whether it is right or not. From my humble perspective this is easy stuff. When a population in a certain geographic area is more prone to produce a violent response, you become “aware” that you could get killed by walking through that area, especially if they do not like your looks.

“It’s institutionalized bad faith. ... In my view, this is a scheme to defraud by inducing the policyholder’s beneficiary to let the life insurance...

- The IDF has not become more competent in recent years. By almost all accounts—including the Israeli government’s own commission of inquiry—it performed abysmally...

- America’s collapse occurred when government ceased to represent the people and became the instrument of a private oligarchy. Decisions were made in behalf...

 - You cannot blockade civilian populations for political purposes in international law. That is a war crime, and contrary to Israeli assertions, it would be...

- Americans can get no help out of Washington as the U.S. ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, declares that Washington’s commitment to Israel’s security is...

No. 666-10 July 28, 2010  ------------------------------------              Hess Corp., Woodbridge, N.J., is being awarded a maximum $42,591,541 fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract for gasoline.  Other locations...

 - Ethnic Cleansing in the Israeli Negev - The razing of a Bedouin village by Israeli police shows how far the state will go...

 - We should be grateful to the whistle-blowers who gave us the Afghanistan war documents for once again letting us in on the sick joke...

- Pakistan Warned; Noose Being Tightened - “There is no doubt in anyone's mind that should an attack against the United States be traced to...

- Legal Americans with by injunction, Constitutional rights upheld ...  NYT: “There is a substantial likelihood that officers will wrongfully arrest legal resident aliens,” U.S....

IN 2001 ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE OF UPI INTERVIEWED HAMID GUL ON 9/11 WHAT DOES THIS INCREDIBLE INTERVIEW MEAN TO US 9 YEARS LATER? By Arnaud de...

Via Salem-News.com- As a Vietnam Veteran, Webb is Against Legislation to Help other Veterans Suffering from Agent Orange Contamination (CYPRESS, Calif.) - During a five year...

- "The VA does not listen to expert scientists. The VA does not even listen to Congress," said Paul Sullivan of Veterans for Common Sense...

From the VA: Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1.      Bill With Money For Agent Orange-Exposed Vets Headed To President. The AP (7/28, Abrams) reports, "Months...

Gov. Jennifer Granholm warns of a "tragedy of historic proportions" if oil spill reaches Lake Michigan

The solution to our fiscal crisis, The Nation magazine editorializes, is to “end the wars, allow the tax cuts to expire and restore robust growth.” That’s because nearly the entire deficit this year and those projected at least for the short term are the results of “the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bush tax cuts and the recession,” the publication says in its lead editorial of August 2nd.