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VA’s “A-Z Benefit Information Index”
From the VA:
I am sure many have surfed VA’s Web-Site to see what information is available. But for those who may not have had...
Desert Storm Veteran on Trial
Expert testifies about meds
Pharmacist one of five witnesses called before defense rests
By JUSTIN STORY, The Daily News, jstory@bgdailynews.com/783-3256
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 11:46 AM CDT
An...
Jewish War Veterans Go Bigoted: NO ISLAMIC COMMUNITY CENTER ‘AT’ GROUND ZERO
- Editor's Note: VT supports the rights and freedoms of all religions under the U.S. Constitution to exercise their chosen faith. We reject the Islamophobia reflecting...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 734-10
August 18, 2010
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CONTRACTS
DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY
Owens & Minor, Mechanicsville, Va., is being awarded a maximum $442,607,746 firm-fixed-price, sole-source, prime vendor, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for...
Formalizing Israel’s Stolen Land
Time is running out for Israel. And the Israeli government knows it. The Jewish Diaspora, especially the young, has a waning emotional and ideological investment in Israel. The demographic boom means that Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territories will soon outnumber Jews. And Israel’s increasing status as a pariah nation means that informal and eventually formal state sanctions against the country are probably inevitable.
DR. JOHN H. HUMINS: U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISION AND THE CORPORATE STATE
U.S. Supreme Court Decision and the Corporate State:
John H. Humins STAFF WRITER
34In December 2000, the Florida presidential election was in chaos. We remember the...
Insider: The DoD and Brass Don’t Know and Don’t Care about Suicides
- " was going to be different, and that it was going to be house-to-house and urban combat. And that type of warfare requires...
Arab Oil States AWOL on Pakistani Flood Relief
By Amb. Marc Ginsberg in Huffington Post
For nearly three weeks since the monsoon rains triggered historical flooding along Pakistan's Indus River the world has...
Obama: Ending the War in Iraq
From the White House:
Good afternoon,
Shortly after taking office, I put forward a plan to end the war in Iraq responsibly. Today, I'm pleased to...
Wayne Madsen: Obama’s CIA Connections, Part I and II
- Special Report: The Story of Obama: All in The Company Part I -
By Wayne Madsen
WMR has discovered CIA files that document the...
Former Hill staffer takes on Pentagon budget
- Move questioned by many as cosmetic budget cutting -
By Anne Flaherty
WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Robert Gates has put a former Capitol Hill staffer...
Where’s our Money?
The Obama administration has bailed out the banks. It has bailed out a couple too-big-to-fail corporations. It has bailed out the insurance companies with the generous provisions of the health care reform.
Playing the Never Again Card, Again
The phony intelligence used to induce our March 2003 invasion of Iraq has been dusted off. This time it’s being deployed to take us into Iran. Same scam. Same storyline. Same fraud—even featuring some of the same players.
Air Force Academy Fundamentalist Proselytizing Is a Four-star Mess
Christian fundamentalist proselytizing persists despite Academy lies. 'The integrity and leadership for which this institution was once known, does not exist anymore. It was replaced with religious ideology and religious zeal
Petraeus’s New Offensive: Prepares the Way for Obama to Retract the Withdrawal Pledge
But for the White House, something was more important than the upcoming assault on Kandahar. And that's to give Obama room to retreat from his pledge last December. And even that pledge was hedged like a French garden: "We will execute this transition responsibly, taking into account conditions on the ground," he said at the time.
Old-Time Bigotry Alive in America
Editor’s Note: Even as American soldiers and diplomats in the Middle East seek to win hearts and minds by persuading the people that the...
You know nothing, You remember nothing
By Ernest A. Canning at the BradBlog
On Sunday, Brad Friedman posted a "Toon of the moment" in which a hypnotist sits dangling a...
Bolton Contradicted by Bush on Danger of Iran’s Bushehr Reactor
Neocons need to get their lies straight. Bolton’s former boss, George W. Bush, endorsed the Russian reactor deal with Iran in 2007
The Amazing Disappearing and Reappearing CIA Torture Tapes
By Scott Horton at Harper's
The Associated Press reports:
The CIA has tapes of 9/11 plotter Ramzi Binalshibh being interrogated in a secret overseas prison. Discovered under...
Iraq Vet Claims Burn Pit Exposure, Heads to War-Related Illness and Injury Center
From KTVI-TV St. Louis, MO (8/17, Hayes):
ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI-FOX2now.com) - An Iraq War Veteran hopes to finally get a diagnosis for what's killing him....
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
From the VA:
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
1. Hearings Focus On Gulf War Illness. The second item for the Washington Times (8/18, Fales) "Sgt....
Veterans & Military News
From the Friends of Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs:
Advocates Concerned About US Soldiers Discharged For Personality Disorder. In a story run by at least...
Gulf War Veterans Show Illness Is Real in Airway Studies
Ill Gulf War Veterans Show Sleep Disorder Breathing
A new study of Gulf War illness has been reported. The study shows sleep disordered breathing for...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 730-10
August 17, 2010
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CONTRACTS
NAVY
JLG Industries, Inc., McConnellsburg, Pa., is being awarded a $40,373,200 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the purchase of up to 280 Extendable Boom...
Pentagon Leaks: Senior Officials with Loose Lips
Jeff Danziger gave VT permission to use any of his copyrighted political cartoons to make or reinforce points for our readers.
The point we wish...
The “Me-First” Attitude of American Politicians is Trashing the U.S. Constitution
What has been proven, however, is that even though the Iranians were considered an enemy of the United States and had held sixty-six Americans hostage for 444 days, Reagan entered into a secret agreement with the Iranians to have Israel ship them military arms, then resupply Israel in return for payment under the table (treason). Reagan needed the money to fund the Contras in a war in Nicaragua in which congress outlawed funding under the Boland Amendment. Reagan also drummed up funding for the Contras by flooding the nation's inner cities with illegal drugs - an act of treachery that thirty years later, the nation is still feeling the negative effects.
Project to End the U.S. Senate Filibuster Is Launched
In the middle of several crises, the U.S. Senate filibuster is employed by the GOP like an artillery battery targeting the American people, obliterating relief for suffering American families. Time f0r the filibuster—and its anti-democratic, authoritarian corruption—to go! Where else does 41 votes beat 59 votes? Iran? Saudi Arabia? -
Leo Hindery, Jr: Treasury Secretary Geithner’s Good-News Spinning Is Out of Control
Mr. Geithner's rhetorical deceptions mask the ineffectiveness of the only two potentially meaningful job-creation initiatives -- aid to the states and the bailout of Detroit -- that he and Summers largely put together, while letting him ignore the several initiatives, including trade reform, which could actually create, relatively quickly, millions of jobs.
Gates exit sparks talk of Hillary Clinton taking over at Pentagon
Speculation in the nation's capital on who will replace Robert Gates at the Pentagon has centered on an intriguing possibility: Hillary Rodham Clinton.
VA Obligates Last of its Recovery Act Funds to Help Veterans
$1.8 Billion Investment Improves Care and Services for Veterans
Reported from the VA website by Randy Miller
WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)...
Tracking Medical Research for Gulf War Veterans
Hot News Is Expected for Chronic Fatigue Sufferers
XMRV Findings More Expected
This is exciting news in the civilian world for Chronic Fatigue Sufferers that may...
Change Law to Allow Vets to form Org supplying VA system with medical hemp
Here is my thought; if we as disabled vets formed a consortium to investigate and report on the medical value of the by-products of Hemp and the industrial production of "usable products" we could get a ground floor hold on a contract to supply the entire VA system with medical high grade marijuana (when the Federal Laws that inhibit are changed).
OBAMA’S AFGHAN STRATEGY IS NOT WORKING
By RIZWAN ASGHAR
With every passing day there is growing perception in international media that President Obama’s Afghan strategy is not working. American public opinion...
Bill seeks to make electronics accessible to blind, deaf
Blind and deaf consumers, who have fought to make home phones and television more accessible, say they are being left behind on the Web and many mobile devices. Touch-based smartphone screens confound blind people who rely on buttons and raised type. Web video means little to the deaf without captioning.
Who gets discharged under ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’?
By Ed O'Keefe in the Post
The military threw out hundreds of service members in 2009 for violating its "don't ask, don't tell" policy, including...
The Mosque: Courage, Truth and the Law
The current hoo-hah over President Obama's public statement of the obvious, that Muslims have the same rights as everyone else, to worship, to speak, to petition the government for redress, to get jiggy, and just about whatever, Dude, has had the media, the Republicans and a few chicken shit Democrats obsessing through the weekend and deep into today, with no end in sight.
Afghan presidential decree bans security firms
Afghanistan's president issued a decree Tuesday formalizing his four-month deadline for private security companies to disband — a move likely to dismay NATO and the U.S. military that rely on such firms to protect convoys and bases.
Doctor Treats PTSD With Injection To Block Memories
The procedure you are about to read could be a breakthrough in treating post traumatic stress disorder(PTSD). In which a local anesthetic is injected at the base of the neck. the medical procedure is called stellate ganglion block (SGB).
Tea Party takes on net neutrality, This is liberty?
Tea Party Shows True Colors as Corporate America tries to destroy and control the Internet
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome-Research Vitamin E
Veterans' Affairs Doctors Need to Share Findings on Gulf War Illness
Gulf War Veterans being diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome need to be educated on...
GOP Wants Social Security Destroyed
From Karoli at Crooks and Liars:
Frames are beginning to take clear shape for the midterms, and yes, Social Security will be under attack. While...
Bin Laden is Dead; Long Live “Bin Laden”
- Who's keeping the terror myth alive? -
In the trigger-happy post-9/11 world, the favoured way to instigate a war is to demand that the designated...