Monthly Archives: September 2010

POLITICS, RELIGION AND THE MILITARY, A RECIPE FOR DISASTER By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor (Russian translation below) A dozen American soldiers are under arrest, five for...

Shell Respects Military Veterans that have Demonstrated their Dedication and Loyalty to Our Country. By Randy Miller Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical...

No. 812-10 September 09, 2010 ----------------------------------- CONTRACTS  NAVY                  Buchanan Roofing & Guttering, Inc.*, Spring Lake, N.C. (N40085-10-D-3576); Cram Roofing Co., Inc.*, San Antonio, Texas (N40085-10-D-3577); HUB-TEK2 Construction, Inc.*,...

A DEBT, NOT A GIFT By Joe "Ragman" Tarnovsky STAFF WRITER Veterans are patriotic to a fault. Even when we see and hear politicians and bureaucrats...

Build a Successful Career Path in the Electronic Manufacturing Services Industry By Randy Miller VAe’s mission is to equip America’s veterans with the skills necessary to...

WASHINGTON  – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has selected the construction contractor to build the Denver VA Medical Center (VAMC) replacement hospital. The...

Having served six years in the Army, and being honorably discharged as a 1st Lieutenant, Donald Skyler of Denison, Texas was activated and deployed...

Construction Industry Leader PCL Teams with HireVeterans.com By Randy Miller At PCL, they aspire to be the most respected builder, renowned for excellence, leadership and...

Construction Industry Leader PCL Teams with HireVeterans.com By Randy Miller At PCL, they aspire to be the most respected builder, renowned for excellence, leadership...

Muslims cannot retaliate against burning al Quran by burning any copy of the Bible because Islam decrees Muslims should respect and honor the Bible and Torah as well.

 - Twelve American soldiers face charges over a secret "kill team" that allegedly blew up and shot Afghan civilians at random and collected their...

Via LA Now A veterans group is protesting a decision by the Veterans Affairs hospital in La Jolla to allow a former Marine sergeant to...

- Traumatic Brain Injuries Don't Merit Purple Heart? - From the VA:  NPR (9/9, Miller, Zwerdling) reports, "Army commanders have routinely denied Purple Hearts to soldiers who...

From the VA: In the US News and World Report (9/8) "Professors' Guide" blog, Lynn F. Jacobs and Jeremy S. Hyman write on the 10...

From the VA: Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1.      VA Awards Contract For Colorado VA Hospital Work. The Aurora (CO) Sentinel (9/9, Goldstein, 8K) reports,...

Federal government recruitment and hiring is becoming more efficient and effective! In May, President Obama signed a memorandum stating: “To deliver the quality services...

 - As world-wide resistance to the terror state of Israel grows, so too does American solidarity for Middle-East justice groups fighting off Israeli oppression...

Via the Defense Base Act Compensation Blog Many Injured Contractors were repatriated via the Military Medical Evacuation System which was/is badly contaminated with Multi Drug...

 - The Dept of Veterans Affairs should clarify what a new, second Agent Orange claim contract is all about. Will VA and IBM be ready...

Internal Revenue Service Joins HireVeterans.com IRS hiring Now!  Veterans get Career Jobs at IRS by Gordon G. Gates Okay, everyone knows who the IRS is right?  But...

By Khalil Nouri Staff Writer / Editor There has recently been a call for the establishment of an Afghanistan-Pakistan Study Group (APSG) that will be...

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) will not let the Qur'an-burning Islamophobia and plain bigotry go unchallenged. From the Military Religious Freedom Foundation: After being contacted by...

No. 809-10 September 08, 2010 ----------------------------- CONTRACTS MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY                The Missile Defense Agency is pleased to announce the award of advisory and assistance services contracts to Booz...

 - Untold Casualties in the VA’s Drug War in Los Angeles County—site of more homeless Veterans than any other county in the nation - By Robert...

AMERICA'S WORST KEPT SECRET   By Gordon Duff , Senior Editor   I learned about 9/11 from the news.  Before the second plane had crashed, people in the crowd...

- World's worst nuclear offender gets another pass - By Jonathan Tirone September 06, 2010 (Bloomberg) -Sept, 03, 2010-- United Nations investigators, ordered to write a...

- Fighting bigotry with peace and love  -  Our broader mission — to strengthen relations between the Western and Muslim worlds and to help counter radical...

The Gulf War Veterans Who Are Ill Await News from the International Meeting of XMRV/MLV Researchers at the NIH The gulf war veterans who have been...

By Joseph Glatzer  The Nobel Prize award winning show, “The Peace Industry” comes back for its 19th season on September 2nd, after an almost 2 year hiatus.  It...

Soldier. Citizen. Scholar Building Community Awareness of Veterans’ Contributions and Experiences Manchester, NH – This fall the University of New Hampshire at Manchester will bring the...

From the VA:  The Madison (WI) Capital Times (9/7, Novak) reported, "Women veterans from all branches of the military are invited to the fourth annual...

Should Saudi King Abdullah invite Netanyahu to Riyadh? By Alan Hart The suggestion that he should was made by Thomas L. Friedman in his column for...

From the VA: The AP (9/8, Jennings) reports that the documentary "Ward 54," named after the psychiatric wing of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, is...

From the VA: Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1.      VA Expanding Agent Orange Benefits. The Webster (NY) Post (9/7) reported that veterans exposed to Agent...

By Adam Goldman at Huffington WASHINGTON — A former CIA officer accused of revving an electric drill near the head of an imprisoned terror suspect...

No. 804-10 September 07, 2010 --------------------------------- CONTRACTS  NAVY               Triton Marine Construction Corp., Bremerton Wash. (N44255-10-D-5017); Manson Construction Co., Seattle, Wash. (N44255-10-D-5018); Nova Group, Inc., Napa, Calif. (N44255-10-D-5019); Reyes...

Mainstream media has given an unknown religious cult of similar ilk as Westboro Baptist Church - the nut cases who protest homosexuality at our...

From the VA: The Retroactive Stop Loss Pay (RSLSP) will end on October 21, 2010. Some who are eligible to receive this benefit have not...

While most Western countries have serious debt problems none of them has a fiscal crisis as bad as that of the United States. In spite of that, however, the U.S. corporate-controlled media has been obsessively shining the spotlight on the so-called “PIGS” of Europe rather than on the staggering financial crises facing America. If that weren’t bad enough, it has become impossible to trust the few economic statistics that are “fed” us. Words: 1136

- America Supports a Dangerous, Racist Foriegn Policy with Israel and TNR's Marty Peretz Says 'Great,' Let's Be Racist Here Too - By Jason Linkins in the Huffington...

- The Military’s Media Megaphone and the U.S. Global Military Presence  - By Tom Engelhardt at TomDispatch The fall issue of Foreign Policy magazine features Fred Kaplan’s “The Transformer,” an article-cum-interview with...

Mass or anonymous mailings of gifts to our troops are controlled by the authorities but there still are many ways for you to show your appreciation and support for the efforts and sacrifice of our troops fighting for freedom or preserving peace around the world. Read here of specific things you can do and then share the list with your friends and neigbors and your local newspaper too! Words: 423