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Foreign Policy Briefing 2/6/10
A group of ex-Taliban officials have prepared a "road map" to promote a political settlement between the Taliban and the Karzai government, Gareth Porter reports for Inter Press Service. The first step would be an agreement between Karzai and the Taliban about no killing of doctors and no damage to roads by the Taliban, in return for no night raids and detention by the United States.
Regional Veterans’ News 2/6/10
Regional stories on Veterans benefits, health, education and other issues today from: Redding, California, Phoenix, Arizona, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Bennington, Vermont, Denver, Colorado, Torrington, Connecticut, Roseberg, Oregon, Ocala, Florida, Nobleboro, Maine, Fort Worth,Texas, Vineland, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Chillicothe, and Columbus, Ohio.
Iraq and Depleted Uranium: Time for Transparency for Iraq and our US Veterans
The Environment of Iraq
Responsibility of USA in Contaminating Iraq with Depleted Uranium
Abstract:
For two decades, the administrations of the United States of America and the...
Stop the Extradition of Specialist Marc Hall to Iraq!
In my previous post, I talked about how the Army plans to Extradite to the sovereign nation of Iraq a Stop Loss Rappin Soldier...
GORDON DUFF: TALIBAN; RETURN KIDNAPPED AND RAPED HOUSEWIFE OR WE WILL EXECUTE...
SOLD TO THE CIA TO FOR BUSH "TERROR QUOTA"
RAPED, TORTURED, ONE OF HER CHILDREN MURDERED, NOW CONVICTED OF IMPOSSIBLE CRIME
By Gordon Duff STAFF...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 095-10
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CONTRACTS: ARMY
GM GDLS Defense Group, LLC, JV, Sterling Heights, Mich., was awarded on Jan. 28, 2010, a $253,329,165 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. This action...
Army plans to Extradite Stop Loss Rapper away from Public Scrutiny
This is a follow-up of an earlier report posted on VT in Army Jails Soldier for Singing Against Stop-Loss Policy.
Iraq Veterans Against the...
Secessionist Scholars Gather in Charleston -AOL News
In AOL News online today we read a piece entitled Secessionist Scholars Gather in Charleston . Here we go again.
This is starting to gin...
Editor’s Picks: News and Opinion Around the Web
Robert Reich points out that it's Congress that does the legislating around here not Wall Street. SC's Lt Guv finds lots of laughs in the unemployed using food stamps, Jim Hightower can't find the humor. At Tomgram we learn that as we suspected, "The Commercials Are the Super Bowl," and the GOP after preaching the horrors of public insurance wants to ration my Medicare and get its greedy fingers ion my Social Security. All that and more in today's picks
Top 10 Veterans News From Around the Country 10/5/10
Find out What's Inside Today's Local News for Veterans
VA To Open New Clinic In Montana.
VA Spreads Word About Student-Produced Film.
Four Veterans...
Americans overwhelmingly reject all types of government spending cuts
More than five out of six Americans are opposed to cutting 98% of the federal budget. Most don't want to cut the remaining 2%, either. Keep that in mind whenever you hear politicians calling for spending cuts, and polls claiming that voters want spending cuts.
VETERANS’ Stand Down Rally Milwaukee WI
This post is related to my previous one on DryHootch coffee shops.
Again although the focus is on Wisconsin, I wanted to give our readers...
Veterans’ Employment & Training Service (VETS)
Veterans' Employment & Training Service (VETS) is maintained by the U.S. Dept of Labor as a resource for veterans, service members and families to make...
Dryhootch – A Place for Vets to Reconnect
"....take the money from your magnetic “support our troops” ribbon, or the money from a company putting that “support our troops” ad on TV;...
Regional Veterans’ News 2/5/10
Regional stories on Veterans, health, education and other benefits and issues, today from:Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, Terre Haute, Indiana, Concord, California, Lombard, Illinois, Wilmington, North Carolina, Cranford, New Jersey, Houston, Texas,Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, Terre Haute, Indiana, Concord, California, Lombard, Illinois, Wilmington, North Carolina, Cranford, New Jersey, Houston, Texas, and Cranford, New Jersey
Even Where Pakistani Law Exists, Taliban Find a Porous Border
The way the Taliban use Pakistan’s tribal areas to launch cross-border attacks inside Afghanistan is perhaps the most contentious issue between Pakistan and the United States. But the problem is hardly contained to Pakistan’s lawless tribal areas.
Gaping holes in security checks along the border also remain at heavily trafficked crossings, like this one, in Baluchistan Province, where, American officials say, the Taliban’s leaders have taken refuge, out of reach of American and NATO forces.
Global markets plunge on fears of U.S. jobs report
By Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy Newspapers --WASHINGTON — A steep drop in stock prices worldwide, fears of an imminent wave of global debt defaults...
Foreign Policy Briefing 2/5/10
While U.S. officials prefer to focus on low-level fighters while hoping that an additional 30,000 troops can pummel the Taliban into a weaker negotiating position, President Karzai's government has stressed the need to reach out to the Islamist movement's leadership, the Washington Post reports. "It's questionable why the United States just wants to reintegrate the low level of the Taliban and not the leadership," said Karzai's policy chief. "That's something they are concerned about, but from the Afghan side, we are trying to include everyone in negotiations." In public statements, the Taliban has predicated any negotiation on the departure of foreign troops.
The Great Recession, Jobs and the Deficit
As the Labor Dept report released today revises upward the number of estimated job losses incurred during the Great Recession, economist Paul Krugman warns that...
Vietnam tries dissident writer on assault charges – Washington Post
In today's Washington Post we read a sad piece entitled Vietnam tries dissident writer on assault charges . Apparently, this young woman was attacked...
Belgian Activists Breach Security Around US Nukes – Washington Post
In AOL News today we find a piece entitled Belgian Activists Breach Security Around US Nukes . This ain't good.
I am all for anti-government...
U.S. commanders in Afghanistan face tougher discipline for battlefield failures – Washington Post
In today's Washington Post in an article entitled U.S. commanders in Afghanistan face tougher discipline for battlefield failures we learn that there is a...
House passes bill to return to pay-as-you-go budget rules, raise debt limit – Washington...
In today's Washington Post we learn that the House is moving toward an old Bill Clinton strategy to get government spending under control. The...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 094-10
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CONTRACTS: DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY
Otis Products Inc.*, Lyon Falls, N.Y., is being awarded a maximum $176,056,609 firm-fixed-price, sole-source contract for parts. There are...
GORDON DUFF: WHAT IS BEING KEPT FROM YOU
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT, I DON'T CARE
AMERICA'S GOVERNMENT LIVES UNDER A CLOUD OF FEAR
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
A couple of weeks ago,...
Editor’s Picks: News and Opinion Around the Web
The Fundraising Congress
What vets need from the prez
How to Get Our Democracy Back
The death penalty -- it's unworkable
To win Afghan war, isolate the...
GORDON DUFF: NEW PATRIOTISM; RESTORING OUR REAL FREEDOMS
NO MORE CORPORATE RUN "MILITIA" GROUPS
NO MORE CONTROLLED PRESS AND "POLITICS AS USUAL"
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
I am sick and tired of what...
Toyota Says Cup Holders Still Working Great
Embattled automaker Toyota today said that despite problems with accelerators and brakes, the cup holders on its most popular car models were “perfectly safe to use.”
“Feel free to enjoy the beverage of your choice and know that you can rest it in one of our cup holders with confidence,” said Tokyo spokesman Hiroshi Kyosuke. “Our cup holders are world-class.”
Army Medic Walks for Children
Former Army medic walks the length of Vietnam to raise funds for children affected by Agent Orange. “Doc” Duff, age 59, now lives with his Vietnamese wife in Nha Trang, Vietnam, which is the kick-off point for this year’s walk.
Regional Veterans’ News 2/4/10
Regional stories on Veterans benefits, health, education and other issues today from: Watertown, New York, Morgantown, West Virginia, Allentown, Pennsylvania, Battle Creek, Michigan, Washington, DC, Stockton, California, Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, Buckeye Lake, Ohio, Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, Denver, Colorado, Portland, Oregon, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Cowardly Congress Thinks Backing White House Plays It Safe
While the Constitution’s Article I, Section 8, invests Congress with the power “to declare War,” the law school dean points out this has been largely ignored since President Harry Truman in 1950 “de facto changed the Constitution so that not the Congress, but the President, and he alone, makes the decision on war.”
The Defense Budget – New York Times
The New York Times is inching back slowly to its base progressive readership. Today in an editorial entitled The Defense Budget the Times tells...
Top 10 Veterans News From Around the Country 2/4/10
If you watched the Grammy Awards on January 31, you were part of one of television’s largest audiences and you also saw VA’s new health care recruitment ad. The Winter Olympics is another big-audience event coming up where the commercial will run a total of 12 times between February 8 and February 28. The ads will also run during CBS’s Amazing Race on February 14 from 8-9 p.m. (EST) and on 60 Minutes February 28 from 7-8 p.m. (EST). The ads direct viewers to VA Careers, and VA medical centers are making sure all available jobs are posted to make the most of the ad campaign’s referral to the site for information about VA job opportunities. These are just a few of the hundreds of television airings scheduled for the recruitment ads in the near future.
New stamps honor 4 Navy veterans – washingtonpost.com
From admiral to mess attendant, four sailors who distinguished themselves are being honored with new U.S. postage stamps.
Ceremonies to dedicate the new 44-cent stamps were set for Thursday at the U.S. Navy Memorial. The stamps are going on sale nationwide.
What Vets Need From the Prez
The failure to answer 90 percent of calls says a lot about the VA. As the second-largest bureaucracy in the country, it continues to be a model of how not to run government programs. Forget all of Washington's buzz words: transparency, efficiency, fiscal responsibly. We need the administration to try a new term, "customer service."
These veterans aren't calling to order an iPad, they're trying to take advantage of a historic benefit that was promised to them by Congress and this president.
CIA Accused of Cover Up in Deaths of U.S. Civilians in Peru – Politics...
In Politics Daily tonight we learn in an article entitled CIA Accused of Cover Up in Deaths of U.S. Civilians in Peru that finally,...
EXODUS: A Film To Steal America’s Soul
Shaking Off Six Decades of Deceit...
Time for an American Intifada?
Econ Crisis Is Not Over, Second Wave Possible
Paul Craig Roberts sees an enduring lack of financial regulation; public deficits and debt; a possible loss of confidence in the dollar as the...
Foreign Policy Briefing
A proposal to swap the bulk of Iran's enriched uranium for fuel for a medical reactor appeared to be revived as President Ahmadinejad said Iran had "no problem" with a deal brokered by the IAEA, the Washington Post reports. U.S. officials reacted cautiously to Ahmadinejad's remarks. "If Mr. Ahmadinejad's comments reflect an updated Iranian position, we look forward to Iran informing the IAEA," said a White House spokesman.
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 090-10
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CONTRACTS: NAVY
Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., is being awarded $158,382,797 for fixed-price delivery order #0064 under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (M67854-06-D-5028). This...
Liberals Present ‘Pentagon’s New Strategy’
Establishment liberals are presenting President Obama's Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) released this week as a break from the Bush-Cheney-neocon policy. Fair to say that the jury is out.
Iraq to Sue Over DU
This should now get interesting with Gulf War Veterans 90-91 and to present and their health effects that our own government has ignored for...