Monthly Archives: July 2010

The JWV Decries Verdict in Stolen Valor Act Case   The Jewish War Veterans of the USA (JWV) staunchly opposes the recent decision by U.S. District...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel and the United States have signed an agreement to make the Arrow II ballistic shield capable of shooting down missiles...

By Anne Flaherty WASHINGTON – The Pentagon said Monday it was trying to assess the damage caused by the Internet leak of some 91,000 classified...

MARCY KAPTUR FUMBLES VET FUNDRAISER By Nick Haupricht for VT Six months ago, I was approached by Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur (Dem) to organize a veterans monument...

  Washington, D.C. – On Thursday, July 22, 2010, the House Veterans’ Affairs Health Subcommittee, led by Chairman Michael Michaud (D-ME), held a hearing to...

From the VA: Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1.      Two Americans Missing, Five Killed By IEDs In Afghanistan. NBC Nightly News (7/24, story 4, 1:30,...

By Paul J. Balles at Redress.com Paul J. Balles argues that the continued presence of 1,000 American military bases outside the USA nearly two decades...

- Multi-millionaire GOP Candidate Trying to Buy Wisconsin Senate Seat, $100,000s invested in Big Oil, Runs from Pro-Great Lakes Drilling Stance - Ron Johnson: On Great Lakes...

- Greatest government leak since the Pentagon Papers, NYT: The War Logs - By Glenn Greenwald The most consequential news item of the week will obviously be...

Regional Veterans News 7/26/10 Regional stories on veterans’ health, education, benefits, legal affairs and other issues today from: Los Angeles, California  - Senator Boxer says new...

I had never heard of "Boston Brakes" until two days ago. I had been on the Kevin Barrett radio show yesterday, discussing, among other things, the endless ways to gain control of an aircraft and plow it into a building, something I had been briefed on by my Air Force buddies.

Though stunned at the palpable weakness of John McCain's character, it was oddly comforting to hear him concede his key role as a serial Evil Doer.

- Families who like better schools may lose out - By David Rogers The Senate sent back to the House Thursday night a stripped-down $59 billion...

By Hope Yen WASHINGTON – Patients treated at Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics will be able to use medical marijuana in the 14 states where...

OVER 200,000 AMERICAN JEWS TRAINED AND ONLY 4,000 SERVE By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor According to the Department of Defense, only 4000 Jews serve in...

By Dwight Garner FREEDOM SUMMER, The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy. Bruce Watson (369 pages. Viking. $27.95.) The comedian Dick Gregory...

We've got to learn to stop thinking in terms of Black and White, Jew and Gentile, or whether a person is Gay or Straight. As long as we think in those terms and continue to antagonize one another, we sabotage every opportunity to form coalitions to fight for our common good. That's why people like Bush, Cheney, and much of the GOP crowd thrive in a hostile environment. They love keeping us ignorant, because ignorance keeps us divided, and that very division allows them to step in and conquer all of our hopes and dreams as a people. It is a must, therefore, that we develop the wisdom to understand that there are only two kinds of people in this world - good people, and bad people.

- Considered presence on the Nixon enemies list a tribute - By Robert D. Hershey Jr. in the NYT Daniel Schorr, whose aggressive reporting over 70...

By Asif Haroon Raja In accordance with the chalked out plan, terrorism was intentionally pushed into Pakistan to destabilize the country. The two extreme flanks...

NORFOLK, Va. — Virginia political leaders are opposing a possible recommendation to eliminate the Norfolk-based Joint Forces Command. Gov. Bob McDonnell and several members of...

 - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the National Convention Center, Hanoi, Vietnam July 23, 2010 Yesterday, I arrived in Vietnam and I was...

- How would you Rate Your Veteran Service Officer? - By Jim Davis Veterans for Change (VFC) has been working very hard over the past year...

From the VA: Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. VA Will Release RFPs For $12 Billion In IT Outsourcing. InformationWeek (7/23, Hoover) reports that...

- You, a Vietnam veteran yourself, are turning your back on your own brothers. ... You are denying those who served on Guam their due...

- Between 1962 and 1971, the US military sprayed an estimated 80 million litres of Agent Orange and other herbicides on Vietnam, the journal Nature...

- Book Review of Norman Finkelstein’s This Time We Went Too Far on Israel’s 2008-09 Gaza blitzkrieg killing some 1,400 people of whom four-fifths were civilians...

via mal contends I doubt few remember fearing the consequences of zero national debt. But we as a country faced this fiscal prospect after Bush was granted...

New York Institute of Technology is a private, non-sectarian, co-educational university located in New York. The University has two New York campuses, one in Old Westbury Long Island and one near Columbus Circle in Manhattan. They also have several global campuses and programs which are found in China and the Middle East. Overall they have over 15,000 students registered at NYIT.

By Jesse Lee Following the signing of historic Wall Street Reform legislation, the President lays out his plans to strengthen the middle class, give tax...

When nations face bankruptcy and are unable to rollover their government debt, the first thing to go is often the currency due to hyperinflation but this isn't the end of the debacle but rather the beginning. The politicians and central bankers first try to shore up their control and hang on to the gravy train for a while longer by confiscating more wealth when possible and allowing the hyperinflation to push taxes to the top brackets. Finally only when the population has lost their savings and property and when government pensions and safety net programs are rendered meaningless by hyperinflation does the last terminal stage take place. Words: 2815

Is this Israeli arrogance or are there genuine problems with, not only America's military but culture as well? Are both true? How is being a Jew serving in Israel's military, more conducive to protecting soldiers from combat stress? Why are Americans, in combat across the Middle East, fighting securing Israeli interests in the region, subject to much higher rates of Post Traumatic Stress than Israeli's in action against their own citizens?

- But what we really need to concentrate on is fraud because our troops are a bunch of liars, say neocons. What's the ratio...

Readers may have caught Juan Cole's piece on the lies of the Israel pressure group, CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in...

By Sherwood Ross The Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) has confirmed the worst fears of its creator President Harry Truman that it might degenerate into “an American...

Update: See also Department of Ed Rule will Limit Access for Black Students. WASHINGTON -- MANA, A National Latina Organization, is encouraged by the work...

By Clyde H. Stagner For the Veteran: Proposed VA Veteran Patient Medical Bill of Rights This is what is should be regulations that have the force of federal law. 1....

By DAN FROSCH DENVER — The Department of Veterans Affairs will formally allow patients treated at its hospitals and clinics to use medical marijuana in...

No. 655-10 ------------------------------ CONTRACTS DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY                 Propper International, Inc., Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, is being awarded a maximum $78,800,418 firm-fixed-price, sole-source contract for coats and trousers.  Other...

- Israel's Aggression in Region Results in Lower Incidence of PTSD - By Maayana Miskin Compared to their counterparts around the globe, IDF soldiers are less...

The National Gulf War Resource Center is holding a Health Fair and Reunion for  Gulf War Veterans and for OIF/OEF veterans in Dallas, Texas...

The savage thug who believes he can control reality by the use of his club... has been supplanted by the Gucci-suited technocrat who believes he can create reality by simply pushing a button or issuing an order. By commanding black-winged jet fighters to blast his enemies out of existence, the modern Attila believes he is constructing a new reality, one where his whims, his prejudices, his prissy little orthodoxies have the force of natural law. In short, the neocons are just plain crazy. Words: 1792

By Lieutenant General Hamid Gul History is about to take a monumental turn in the rugged, desolate hills and dales of Afghanistan where the world's sole...