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Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
From the VA:
1. Veterans Suffer From Much Higher Unemployment Rate In California. The San Gabriel Valley (CA) Tribune (11/14, Hines) reports, "Finding a job is...
America Recycles Day
VA Green Routine recognizes recycling as a major component of how we will green VA. America Recycles Day -- http://www.americarecyclesday.org/ -- TODAY November 15th.
Here...
WILL OBAMA JOIN LEAR IN THE STORM AND RAGE AGAINST ISRAELI INSOLENCE ?
Two lines in the fourth stanza of The Star Spangled Banner provide a clue to one American mindset that supports empire building.
By James M. Wall...
Road to Hope Convoy to Gaza Members Kidnapped
The Road to Hope humanitarian aid convoy left London on the 10th of October with £500,000 of medical aid for the besieged people of the Gaza Strip. After travelling 4,500 miles through the UK, France, Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya the convoy stalled at the Egyptian border on October 26th due to an Egyptian refusal to allow land access to Gaza. As a result the convoy leaders had little choice but to secure a ship at significant extra expense and delay.
SIBEL EDMONDS: THE MAKINGS OF A POLICE STATE
The movement against TSA’s systematic degradation of our nation seems to be gaining a bit of momentum; long overdue. A few lawmakers are making some noise. Let’s hope it is not for show only. Pilots and related organizations have been making a little headway. And we have more than a few citizens coming up with and organizing actionable plans and ideas. I hope none of this ends up settling for ‘little bones.’ By that I mean quasi cosmetic changes like: giving our CNN’s Fitzpatrick what she is asking for - a heads up and notice signs for coming violations at check points, or installing separate screening detectors for the pilots and flight attendants, or having the screener police touch and violate you using three fingers instead of their entire palm. We seem to have momentum.
Operation Gladio: How We Terrorize Ourselves
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Wikipedia's report on Operation Gladio is reproduced below. This is a threatened document, an important part of our history. Help preserve it.)
How...
The War Economy pits Social Security against Defense
It is going to take much more people than the Veterans and Military Families in the Peace Movement to be able to connect the dots between the fiscal costs of Wars and the threat to Social Security and other domestic programs. The CATO Institute provides talking points on how to cut the Defense Budget and save Social Security.
A general speaks out about his battle with PTSD
This man is a true leader when it comes to talking about his own battle with PTSD. He is not ashamed and no one...
ELECTIONS PUT PRO-ISRAEL NEO-CONS BACK ON TOP
Exemplifying these new developments is the rapid-fire rise of Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), a deeply religious Orthodox Jew and pro-Israeli “neo-conservative” hard-liner who is...
DID BIBI NETANYAHU WIN THE MIDTERMS?
The Republican Congress isn't even in office yet and already it's screwing up the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
BY JAMES TRAUB
Foreign Policy
As a general rule, American...
India: HOLLOWNESS EXPOSED!
By Air Commodore Iqbal:
Yet once again, American calculus is faulty; premium placed on India is unrealistically inflated. Indian government would once again avail the opportunity and accrue short term benefits. Long-time sufferer is a common rural Indian, destined to live in poor social security and food insecurity environment for an indefinite time. For quite some time, stability of this region is likely to stay hostage to reinforced Indian arrogance.
SOUTH AFRICA ILLEGAL KIDNEY DEALS TIED TO ISRAEL
The biggest health care provider in South Africa has been involved in illegal kidney transplant operations.
Global Research
Netcare, the biggest health care provider in South...
Who Speaks Up For Holocaust Survivors?
Last week, 17 men were arrested in New York for defrauding Germany out of $42 million in payments to phony holocaust survivors. Tens of...
Jane Rosenstein: Chocolate Lovers’ Show in Paris
VETERANS TODAY PARIS DOES THE CHOCOLATE SHOW
By Jane Rosenstein, VT Paris Bureau
Photo credits: Lidiya Sevastanova and Catherine Szymanski
Chocolate lovers had the opportunity to visit...
THE TORTURERS REVISITED
BUSH'S AXIS OF EVIL WAR
The Trial is a novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1925. One of Kafka's best-known works, it...
GOP’s Cantor Makes It Official: Pledge of Allegiance to Israel
- Presumed House majority leader affirms: Israel First -
By Glenn Greenwald at Salon
Soon-to-be GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor met on Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
U.S. sending traumatized troops back again and again to war
How many of caskets have to be filled because of suicide?
I've been asking that question since 1982 when a veteran started to notice me...
Yemen Bombs and Smart Donkeys
May be the bombs were not the real issue behind this clumsy operation. But the mail bombs did carry explosives after all, it carried an explosive message that said; there are MUSLIMS behind this terrorist act who held a grudge against the west as old as the crusades and the fall of the Muslim empire in Spain.
IS AMERICAN PUBLIC ABOUT TO TOSS ISRAEL?
Some opinion analysts, like the 2009 Zogby International poll of American attitudes toward Israelis and Palestinians, express surprise with what they are learning from the American public and detect significant changes in American public attitudes favoring US disengagement from Israel
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
CONTRACTS:
No. 1043-10
November 12, 2010
CONTRACTS
DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY
Enersys Energy Products, Inc., Warrensburg, Mo., is being awarded a maximum $38,466,077 firm-fixed-price, sole-source contract for storage batteries. There...
Fisk: Rising Tensions Threatening New Conflict in Lebanon
Five years after Lebanese former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri was killed, rising sectarian tensions and a teetering government are threatening a new conflict in...
PECO Manufacturing Teams with HireVeterans.com
PECO Manufacturing Joins with HireVeterans.com to Attract US Military Veterans to Their Workforce
By Randy Miller
Previously named Product Engineering Corporation, PECO was founded ...
CINDY McCAIN VIDEO: STOP THE BULLYING, SUPPORT LESBIAN/GAY TEENS
VETERAN'S TODAY THANKS CINDY McCAIN FOR HER COURAGEOUS STANCE AGAINST, WELL, HER IMBECILE HUSBAND
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
Gay bullying is no joke, nor...
CHAPLAIN KATHIE: COMMONALITY OF PAIN
If you hear someone say they have an abscess tooth, you understand how much pain they are in even if you've never had one, you have had a tooth ache. If you hear someone say they have a sinus infection, you understand how much pain they are in with the pressure building in their head and their body is drained of energy.
UN Human Rights Council Calls On U.S. to Enforce “Leahy Amendment”
The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva yesterday released its draft report on the first Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the U.S. human rights record. The report called for greater transparency and accountability in U.S. foreign military aid and programs. On Thursday, November 4, Gina Patnaik spoke at UN headquarters in Geneva, representing the Rachel Corrie Foundation in a side panel to the U.S. review, and called upon the U.S. Government to enforce two existing mechanisms for monitoring human rights abuses - the "Leahy Amendment," and the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.
Iran-backed al-Maliki Tapped to form Government in Iraq
- I don’t think there is any way to interpret what has happened except as a victory for Iran. -
By Juan Cole at Informed...
Veteran Suicide: A Must Watch Video
Via 91Outcomes:
Joseph C. Wilson on George Bush’s ‘Deception Points’
- Lame attempt to cleanse history -
By Joseph C. Wilson in the Huffington Post
Having read that people began lining up in front of bookstores...
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
From the VA:
1. Shinseki Commemorates Veterans Day. In continuing coverage, the CNN (11/12) website says, "Americans around the world," including US Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric...
VA researchers playing a lead role at scientific meeting
- VA Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC) researchers educate providers and enhance transitions of care for our older Veterans, and they are...
America’s Veterans: The Collateral Damage of War
- The current situation for veterans is not new, just different. This Veterans Day, HBO is debuting a documentary entitled Wartorn: 1861-2010. Through interviews,...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Award
CONTRACTS:
No. 1041-10
November 11, 2010
CONTRACTS
AIR FORCE
United Technologies Corp., East Hartford, Conn., was awarded a $100,738,400 contract modification which is an increase in the undefinitized...
Wingnuts on Parade
Most voters seemed to understand that the outcome of America’s midterm election was the result of a devastated economy and the President Barack Obama’s failure to create jobs or even to understand the difficulties that are confronting many American families.
WESTERN MEDIA FRIGHTENED OF THE ‘F’ WORD IN ITS ISRAELI CONTEXT
More than six decades on, under the headline Weimar in Jerusalem: The rise of fascism in Israel, Uri Avnery wrote: “Throughout the years, we were careful not to mention the word fascism in public discourse. It raises memories which are too monstrous. Now this taboo has been broken.”
HOMEWARD BOUND
The ultimate grunt,
Dress Blues now white;
One Marine standing tall
on this most sacred night.
Young and vibrant,
wounds of battle now gone.
No more suffering or pain,
As he rose to move on.
The Plot to Destroy the United States
The plans are in place to bring that to an end.
JB CAMPBELL: DEFENSE AGAINST ZIONIST AGGRESSION
Defense Against Zionist Aggression
By J.B. Campbell
Once we acknowledge the threat that faces us – Zionist Aggression – we are left with the problem of...
Once we were Warriors Original Veteran’s Day 2010 Military Tribute
From TunesNorth:
Veterans and mental health care
- We can honor our veterans and ourselves by fighting stigma together. It’s a battle we know we can win. -
By Rosalynn Carter and Patrick...
Pausing to Remember This Veterans Day
From PTSD Combat: From Winning the War Within:
Known as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day in other parts...
From the White House on Veterans Day
From the White House:
On the eve of Veteran’s Day, I wanted to write today with a simple message to our nation’s veterans: thank you....
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
Shinseki To Commemorate Veterans Day At White House, Arlington National Cemetery. In a story offering details on Veterans Day activities planned by the Obama Administration, the "Federal Eye" blog for the Washington Post (11/11, O'Keefe, 605K) says that while the President and First Lady "will still be overseas" on Thursday, Vice President Biden is scheduled to host a "Veterans Day breakfast at the White House," lay a "wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery and give a speech at the Memorial Amphitheater." Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, who will "attend Biden's Veterans Day breakfast at the White House and the events" at Arlington National Cemetery, "plans to attend receptions hosted by the Legion of Valor and the Paralyzed Veterans of America organizations."