Yearly Archives: 2010

HOUSE VA COMMITTEE SCHEDULE OF HEARINGS Just trying to keep all informed of hearing schedule in House VA Committee.      Committee Schedule January 20, 2010 10:00AM Full Committee Roundtable on Veterans...

CALL FOR ACTION  IS NEEDED BY NOT JUST VETERANS BUT CIVILIANS!  The Hill in DC is back.  Below is a list of Bills that the House...

There are scandals everywhere today being reported in the news.  I thought you might want to read some since generally speaking, veterans and veteran...

The Mexico Real Estate market is still recovering so that means foreigners are finding fantastic deals on property in resort areas.Since 2004 Cancun, Playa...

I am no psychiatrist or counselor but even I know when you take a young person and place them into an extended combat deployment four and five times, you have just made either a sociopath, a clinically depressed suicidal individual or a human being mimicing multiple personality disorder with a dash of schizo-affective disorder thrown in for good measure.

THE REBIRTH OF THE NAZI/GEHLEN TORTURE CULT AMERICA'S GANGSTER WAYS Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor If Americans don't like Iran, it is time they dug their history...

     "The Air Force has steadily tightened deployment exemptions - from yanking medical waivers to cutting training assignments." Military Times.       ...

What's Inside Today's Local News for Veterans1. Broadway, TV Actors Join Combat Vets Assistance Project. 2. Tomah VAMC Receives Grant To Help Patients With Chronic Illness....

Privatized War, and Its Price Wall Street Will Be Back For More The Other Cartoon Death...

A federal judge in Washington, Ricardo Urbina, has provided another compelling argument against the outsourcing of war to gunslingers from the private sector. In throwing out charges against Blackwater agents who killed 17 Iraqis in Baghdad’s Nisour Square in September 2007, Judge Urbina highlighted the government’s inability to hold mercenaries accountable for crimes they commit.

Palo, Michigan Two dead in veteran home fire Troy, New York Helping vets ‘the best job’ he’s ever had Rapid...

DEPLETED URANIUM THE CENSORED STORY A SHOUT OUT TO CIVILIAN DOCTORS AND MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS! DU is covered in other parts of the world but not in...

GULF WAR ILLNESS LOOKING TO RESEARCH FOR ANSWERS AND HELP! I spend quite alot of time deep into searching for any item that might help...

WOMAN KIDNAPPED, RAPED AND HELD 5 YEARS IN SECRET BAGRAM PRISON NOW FACING TRIAL FOR ATTACKING CIA TORTURE SQUAD By Gordon Duff/STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Next week, a...

I have not been writing much of anything lately, burn out, stress, the holidays? Who knows, but I have noticed that veterans are being pulled into factions again, veterans who served before the "War on Terror" and those that have served since 9/11. I am distressed by this, as a Vietnam era veteran, Gulf War veteran I thought veterans had decided to not let these divisions happen ever again.

By Bob Higgins Staff Writer/ Editor VT"Why?" Badriya Hussein asked as she surveyed the grim wreckage, the blanket covered bodies before her on the...

By Steve Clemons - Americans don't feel directly the financial costs of the war, ... don't pay a direct tax to support the more than $100 billion a year effort, and the US still has a volunteer army -- so the impact that might have been felt by society from a large scale draft is not there. America is engaged in big time, significant, long wars with a light footprint on the American psyche. ... We need to see more of what is happening in Afghanistan. We need to pay for wars we engage in -- not just leave the debts ... to the next generation, ... feel the real sacrifices involved with what has become for too many a casual game.

Cartoons of the WeekA Year in Iraq and Afghanistan The Other Plot to Wreck America ...

Terror and terrorism are all the rage today in online magazines.  Lets start with Time online.  Today's article entitled Amid the Hysteria, A Look...

DID YOU ASK FOR CHANGE? HAVEN'T YOU GOT IT?By Mehreen Saeed Why not?!  After all, that is precisely what our policy makers are relentlessly...

Eugene, Oregon Veterans’ clinic will be worth millions Evergreen, Montana Vets group gets a gift: a new building Redding, California Program...

Today's New York Times will infuriate you for many reasons but the most important is this one: we have lost all sense of common sense matrices for assigning value for a job well done or strict accountability for a job handled poorly. The American bankster is a prime example of this.

PAKISTAN: THE ONLY ALLY AMERICA CAN TRUSTBy Brig Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan-US relations that had soured after 1990, warmed up after 9/11 when Pakistan...

In an unusually candid look at how meaningless "government" anywhere can be when there is no real and impartial oversight of the "governors" tonight's New...

The Reuters news service is reporting tonight in a story entitled Chavez says Venezuela jets intercepted U.S. plane that Venezuela is claiming we have...

NOT BUYING THE TERRORISM COVER STORY ANYMORE NO MORE CONVENIENT COINCIDENCES By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor After the Christmas bombing fiasco in Detroit, prettymuch everyone is...

By Dahr Jamail t r u t h o u t Army Specialist and Iraq war veteran Marc Hall was incarcerated by the...

Buffered From Afghanistan's Stark Costs Five Radical Science Fixes to Global Warming US to review court decision on...

By Ray McGovern Consortium News Thank God for Helen Thomas, the only person to show any courage at the White House...

Three economists who during the Bush-Cheney years became political-economic pundits of sorts are sounding the macro-economic alarm, and we all need to listen. As President Obama turns the political focus onto “jobs, jobs, jobs,” Joseph Stiglitz, Simon Johnson and Paul Krugman warn of a "enormous catastrophe" (Johnson), and real-economy circumstances about which economists are "almost universally pessimistic (Nobel Laureate Stiglitz)."

Maui, Hawaii Proposed vet complex gains traction Portland, Oregon Oregon seeks site for 2nd VA home Tuscaloosa, Alabama Local...

In today's New York Times we have an article entitled White House Aides Said to Chafe at Slow Pace of Afghan Surge .  This...

In today's Sphere blog we have an article entitled Giuliani: 'No Domestic Attacks Under Bush' .  Simply read the article.  I won't comment.  I...

In tonight's edition of the Washington Post we find that Senators Joe Lieberman (I) and John McCain (R) and a pack of Republican senators...

by: Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t | Army Specialist and Iraq war veteran Marc Hall was incarcerated by the...

By BRUCE PATTERSON - The late comedian George Carlin did a bit about Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome (back then it wasn’t called a Disorder). During...

The Associated Press just released this story, Military leader says no plans for troops in Yemen .  The problem is, that several reliable and...

No. 012-09--------------------------------------------------------------------------------CONTRACTS: NAVY                NAVMAR Applied Sciences Corp.*, Warminster, Pa., is being awarded a $73,078,749 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research...

Exploiting Afghan Tribal Militias for an Optimal Counterinsurgency Campaign By Khalil Nouri STAFF WRITER FOR VETERANS TODAY The U.S. cannot politically or militarily afford an open-ended...

Left: The author and her family.By Catherine Ross The New York Times Not too many weeks ago, I was honorably discharged ...

Let's Chuck the Bottle Imposing Middle East Peace Blowing Up Mountains: Not a Great Idea ...

JOURNALIST LOOKING FOR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOREIGN SPY ORGANIZATION "CAN TELL ANY LIE YOU WANT, IF THE PRICE IS RIGHT" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Yesterday, Gerald...