Monthly Archives: November 2010
Last U.S. World War I Veteran Seeks DC War Memorial
America's last surviving World War I veteran says Congress should pass legislation to create a memorial in the nation's capital honoring veterans of that conflict. Frank Buckles, the 109-year-old honorary chairman of the World War I Memorial Foundation, said Wednesday on the eve of Veterans Day that such a memorial is overdue.
Veterans Day: MFSO Total Cost of War Campaign
Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) has joined with Veterans for Peace in launching a public education campaign to remind the public and voters of the fiscal costs of War, and the impact the War Economy has on all Americans.
NUCLEAR TERRORISM: A GROWTH INDUSTRY
The English, South Africans and Israelis have been allegedly buying and selling the same three or four big nuclear weapons for years now, over and over again, to finance elections and all manner of parties at remote estates in the English countryside.
Tomgram: Ira Chernus, Is Palestine America’s Next Vietnam?
- You're no longer a commie-pinko if you oppose the war lies and anti-veteran propaganda of the neocons; now you're an anti-Semite. How many...
Raja Mujtaba on Rense Radio
- Raja Mujtaba offers insight on Afghanistan, Pakistan and India on Rense Radio. -
Amid the 15,000 military and countless civilian Pakistani casualties, Raja Mujtaba...
Fisher House: Helping Military Families
From the Fisher House Program:
The Fisher House program is a unique private-public partnership that supports America's military in their time of need. The program...
QE-1, QE2 Value Wealth Labor Property and Assets Theft Deceptions
- The rise of the financial empire. -
By Tommy Tucci
Philadelphia, PA,,,,,,,,,,,,Updated "Dollar Plunges As Everyone Now Figures Return of Quantitative Easing Is A Done Deal"...
Debacle of America’s Democratic Party, Demise of the Left-Center Left, A Worldwide Trend
By Prof James Petras -- VT
Introduction:
The November 2, 2010 electoral debacle of the Democratic Party in the US cannot be solely ascribed to the...
The Wall
By Dave Bedworth
My life without you now,
glides dimly by in dankly selfish lumps.
No C-rats shared in sickly hooches,
with screaming bugs and distant crackle.
No insane...
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARINES!!!!
Now ... on to the news
From the VA:
1. Returning Vets Create New Generation Of Patients For VA. In a story carried by at...
VA home loan program used in record numbers
With mortgage rates at historic lows, Veterans and military personnel continue to use the VA home loan program in record numbers to purchase a...
How Can You Compromise with people whose Primary Mission is to Undermine America?
Yeah, I said it. Racism is the driving force behind the GOP's unprecedented anger against this administration. No, not all of them are racist, some are acting on greed, and others are simply dumb, but the greedy are the ones who are pulling the strings, and they're relentlessly stoking the flames of racism within their social conservative stormtroopers to promote their own interests.
Wanna lose your soul?
“When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
CONTRACTS:
No. 1027-10
November 09, 2010
ARMY
BAE Systems, York, Pa., was awarded on Nov. 5 a $250,128,753 cost reimbursement - no fee contract. This requirement will procure...
Former VA employee accused of stealing more than $2 million from Texas veterans
- Individual disabled vets lost anywhere from a few thousand dollars to more than $250,000. -
By Lise Olsen in the Houston Chronicle
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VA Expands Support for Families of Low-Income Veterans
- Communities and Non-Profits Will Play Critical Outreach Role -
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced today an important program designed...
Welcome to the Teabagger War!
With all the rhetoric, immpassioned pleas for this and for that, at the end of the day, the tea party movement is just plain and simply a White Right movement. The White Right just don't want the black guy leading their tribe. It's just that simple; not complex at all.
GORDON DUFF: THE ZOMBIE INTERNET, TIME TO FLUSH THE SEWAGE
PULLING THE PLUG MIGHT BE A FAVOR
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
The internet is not a reliable place for information, in fact, it can...
HOW TO ANGER THE PRO-ISRAEL LOBBY
To their eternal shame, Western churchmen seem to care little about the plight of their brothers and sisters in the Holy Land or the fate of the holy places where Christianity was born. There are, of course, honorable exceptions. One such is the Archbishop of Wales, the Most Rev Dr Barry Morgan, whose church has provided the Gazans with a mobile dental unit.
Veterans Day: How is the War Economy Working for YOU?
We at VT strive to help those grassroots organizations that know how to connect the dots between America at War and the meltdown of...
A Recipe for Fascism
By Chris Hedges at truthdig
American politics, as the midterm elections demonstrated, have descended into the irrational. On one side stands a corrupt liberal class,...
Tuesday Talks: Veterans Day Chat with Tammy Duckworth Today
by Kori Schulman
November 11th is Veterans Day, a time when the country comes together to pay tribute to the men and women who have...
Veteran Veteran’s Wife
"Caregivers often experience stress, burnout or feel overwhelmed" is putting it mildly! Still as we talk about the strength, courage, commitment our veterans have,...
VA Health System Shines in Quality-of-Care Study
WASHINGTON -- A report in the November issue of the national publication Medical Care finds that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health system...
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
From the VA:
1. Study Led By VA Researcher Warns Of Risk For Early Dialysis. HealthDay (11/9, Reinberg) reports, "Putting people on dialysis early, while their...
VA is launching its first official blog
- Online Communications Tools Between VA and Veterans About to Increase -
VA is launching its first official blog, opening a new line of communication between...
Facility Solutions Group Needs Veterans Now in LA/OC California
Facility Solutions Group Needs Veterans for Employment Right Away !!!
By Randy Miller
Facility Solutions Group (FSG) is one of the nation's largest single-source...
VETERANS DAY: Coming Home, the Final Battle Documentary by 8th Grader Max Benning
Hello Veterans, my name is Max. I am 14 years old and won 3rd place for CSPAN STUDENTCAM for my documentary about the battles veterans and their families face when they return home. For this Veterans Day, I hope that can help others who may need someone to lean on.
Obama and Jihad and how not to fight terrorism
Despite President Obama's rhetoric (sometimes) to the contrary, his policy of continuing targeted assassinations by drone attacks over Afghanistan is escalating a drift to...
GORDON DUFF: MEMORIES OF THE PATTON HOTEL
Lobby Portrait, Patton Hotel AFRC'S "GEM" IN GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, GERMANY...NOT FORGOTTEN
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
I drive past the old building, a...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
Boeing Co., Mesa, Ariz., was awarded on Oct. 29 a $141,701,518 firm-fixed-price contract for the advanced procurement for the manufacture of 31 AH-64D model aircraft and two fixed-site Longbow crew trainers matching the Taiwan AH-640 aircraft configuration. Work is to be performed in Mesa, Ariz., with an estimated completion date of July 30, 2015. One bid solicited with one bid received. AMCOM Contracting Center is the contracting activity (W58RGZ-09-G-0147).
Wholesale Treason: Why Israel Bought Congress
AIPAC, the Israel lobby used to, well, we don't exactly know what they are "used to" but every politician in America is terrified of it for some reason, claims to have total control over the new congress.
President Obama: A Living Portrait of Your United States Postal Service
The Black community didn't turn out in unprecedented numbers to simply elect the first Black president; we turned out to elect a strong Black president. In that regard, as a student of history, I hope you recognize that you're dealing with a Rosa Parks moment here, and you're completely missing the boat. Do you see the strong stand being taken by that one courageous and solitary Black woman above? That's what we elected you to do.
Three–Day Symposium; November 18–20—Next Stop Is Vietnam: The War on Record, 1961–2008
“We Gotta Get Out of This Place”
ELIZABETH YOUNG: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC): What is the Rapture Doing in this...
The controversy surrounding the Large Rube Goldberg Hadron Atom smashing Collider (RLHGC) from CERN got me thinking: What's all the fuss about? So I followed the money to find out who really benefits, Cui bono. There is only one grass roots organization big enough to come up with the $80 Billion (the tunnel probably cost 8 billion) to pay for the Collider: the two billion Christians in the world looking for Higgs boson (a very, very tiny god).
Veterans Advocate for Improved Care at Boston U.
- Keeping up the pressure -
By Lisa Chedekel via 91Outcomes
(Boston, Mass. – Boston University) -- Some of the wounds of war are invisible to...
CAROL DUFF: HISTORY OF TEQUILA
HISTORY OF TEQUILA
BY CAROL DUFF STAFF WRITER/Editor
Tequila is an alcoholic drink made from the fermented and distilled sap of the...
Amy Goodman on War’s Hidden Death Toll
- As of this month, over 5,700 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. -
That count does not include those veterans who...
William Grigg on War and Slaughter as Economic Stimulus
- Using bloodshed to prime the economic pump is inefficient and immoral -
David Broder, war lackey: "It may be obvious to perceptive adults that wars...
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
From the VA:
1. Shinseki Maps Broader Attack On PTSD. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (11/7, Fuoco, 205K) begins a four-part series on the mental health challenges for...
Signing Up for VA Health Care
By serving in our nation’s armed services, you have earned a right to professional and modern health care
Fox News, Fear Peddlers and Falsehoods Reshape Congress
By James M. Wall -- VT
Politicians, pollsters, media and pundits would have us believe ”the economy and taxes” were the burning issues in...