Monthly Archives: August 2010

Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence agency, or ISI as it is popularly known, is seen as their nemesis by those who have tried to undermine the security interests of the country one way or the other. It is no wonder then that in past few years the Americans unleashed a strong ISI-bashing campaign, with India following suit.

- “When trust is broken, the unit is dysfunctional,” said the VA's chief of staff, John Gingrich. “The trust has been broken. We can’t change 20...

Regional Veterans News 8/04/10 Regional stories on veterans’ health, education, benefits, legal affairs and other issues today from: Monmouth County, New Jersey - Legislators want veterans...

From the White House: by Kori Schulman The Administration is committed to serving our veterans as well as they have served us. With Vietnam veteran, wounded...

The war in Afghanistan is a political and a military failure, even Batman cannot win it for the Americans. In producing this Batman vs. Al Qaeda movie, Miller is merely going to glorify and authenticate a political myth.

- WikiLeaks' Afghan War Diary just fills in details of what we already knew: The Afghanistan War is too costly to continue - By Phyllis...

By Eugene RobinsonIn Afghanistan, momentum has become a substitute for logic. We’re not fighting because we have a clear set of achievable goals. We’re...

No. 689-10 August 03, 2010  --------- CONTRACTS SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND                 Lifeport Interiors, Inc., Woodland, Wash., is being awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum value of $47,000,000 for...

By Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan continues to remain target of international and internal conspiracies. It is caught up in a vortex of American imposed war...

By Jeff Schogol in Stars and Stripes ARLINGTON, Va. — The end of the retroactive stop-loss pay program is fast approaching, but in the nine...

As part of Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki's effort to streamline access to benefits, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has removed...

- The data suggests is that combat may scar veterans who experience it, leading them to be less able to find work between the...

- We have entered an age of "imperial overkill," in which we "rely even more heavily on the military to compensate for a waning...

American support for President Obama’s Afghanistan war policy has plummeted amid a rising U.S. death toll and the unauthorized release of classified military documents, a new USA Today/Gallup Poll shows.

From Rep Bob Filner, House Committee on Veterans Affairs - Accomplishments for Our Nation’s Veterans -or- What Republicans Didn’t Do for America’s Veterans -  1.      Updated...

Congressman Glenn Nye (D-VA 02) Chairman, House Subcommittee on Contracting and Technology VetLikeMe interviewed Mr. Nye on June 9 from Capitol Hill. VLM: Executive Order 13540 (EO) issued...

-  White House Establishes VOB/Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB) Task Force SBA Leads - SDVOSB Federal Contracting Goals to be Addressed The White House on April...

- Congressman Glenn Nye Hears Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB) - Six months after government investigators found systemic fraud in a contract set-aside program for...

Radical assertions of executive power from the Obama administration challenged by civil rights organizations

From the VA: Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1.      Obama: Sacrifice Not Over In Iraq, But Commitment Is Changing. In continuing coverage, the AP (8/3,...

We live in the United States of Amnesia and selective memory. As we debate the breaking news, we easily forget the sequence of events that broke the bank and left us broke. Three years ago, when the idea of an Obama presidency was sill a fantasy in polite company, a non-seismic financial earthquake began to rumble in ways we then could barely anticipate. Buildings didn't fall as they did in Haiti's nightmare, only a financial system. And, there are still piles of rubble everywhere here, too.

Over the past six months, the smart money has gone from trying to cash in on the coming hyper-inflation the US will suffer as the Fed desperately tries to re-inflate the economy and destroys the dollar in the process...to reversing course and trying to cash in on a coming deflation.

Why does the Obama administration refuse to come straight with the American people, explaining the reality of our economy? It's in their political interests. Its the...

by Chris Hedges in TruthDig Today I will teach my final American history class of the semester to prison inmates. We have spent five weeks...

Regional Veterans News 8/03/10 Regional stories on veterans’ health, education, benefits, legal affairs and other issues today from: Bexar County, Texas - Outrage in Texas –...

- On Monday, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki joined Veterans at the 2010 Disabled American Veterans National Convention as President Obama spoke about “building a...

Health Fair and Reunion For Gulf War Veterans coming to Dallas Area- DFW Airport, Irving, Texas The National Gulf War Resource Center is holding a...

Stupid it is Greed  By Tarik Jan for VT   Imperialism, as British economist John Atkinson Hobson wrote in 1902, “is the endeavour of the great controller...

Washington D.C – On Thursday July 29, 2010, the House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity, led by Chairwoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, held a...

- Under the Bush-Cheney administration, the position was held by the notorious anti-veteran-benefits neocon, Renee L. Szybala - WASHINGTON – Tom Murphy was recently appointed...

Alabama Marine veteran files suit in District court for the death of one child and the injury to another from Camp Lejeune's contaminated well water. Several bills introduced in Congress would provide for medical coverage for injured veterans and their dependents.

No. 687-10 August 02, 2010   ------------  CONTRACTS DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY                 ExxonMobil Corp., Fairfax, Va. is being awarded a maximum $99,520,398 fixed-price with economic price adjustment, sole-source contract for...

- “As a candidate for president, I pledged to bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end,” Mr. Obama told a convention of...

ISRAEL TO USE IRANIAN AND PAKISTANI DUPES IN DIRTY NUKE PLOY    ... by Gordon Duff, Senior Editor   This week, the last piece fell into place. ...

By CARLA RIVERA - Los Angeles Times Dwight Radcliff, an Air Force veteran who overcame homelessness to lead a national organization providing services for former...

Go up close to what’s happening in Afghanistan – for example, in the city of Kandahar – and you find crime, corruption, tribal conflict and ordinary people powerless to resist the armed might of the militias. No happy ending is in sight

From the VA Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1.      Shinseki: VA Is Focusing On Outreach, Access. Stars And Stripes (8/1, Shane) reported, "Veterans Affairs Secretary...

Sgt. Thomas Riordan didn’t want to return to Afghanistan after home leave. He had just fought through a battle that killed eight soldiers, and when he arrived home his wife said she was leaving. He almost killed himself that night.

By Susie Madrak at Crooks and Liars I do believe hell has frozen over. First Alan Greenspan admits his ideological beliefs were wrong, he's now...

- At a hearing last week, experts told Congress that VA staff were "intentionally delaying research and treatment for our veterans" - by Nora Eisenberg...

For the past nine years, in Afghanistan and Iraq, they have borne the burdens of war. They – and their families – have faced the greatest test in the history of our all-volunteer force—serving tour after tour, year after year. Through their extraordinary service they have written their own chapters in the American story, and by any measure have earned their place among the greatest of generations.

From My CatBird' Seat: See also AMERICA-HIJACKED.COM Must listen interview with former Republican Congressman Paul Findley. Findley speaks out about the Israeli lobby and its manipulation...