Yearly Archives: 2010

The Committee to Stop FBI Repression urges supporters to contact U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and condemn the use of the grand jury to repress...

TV host, Jesse Ventura, former Navy Seal, former Governor of Minnesota, on a one hour documentary on prime-time American television, makes an open and shut criminal case tying Cheney, Rumsfeld and officials throughout the US government with complicity in the planning, execution and subsequent cover-up of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon.

The good general's reason for opposing the repeal of "don't ask don't tell"? Gay people will cause Marines to lose their legs By Alex Pareene in...

Gulf War Veterans another Diagnosed illness that we at VT have seen previously is Sarcoidosis. WE need to again step forward and make contact and tract our diagnosed illnesses, just like we have done in the pass with ALS, MS, Brain Cancer, Lung Cancer, Breast Cancer, Prostrate Cancer, Respiratory illnesses, Cardiac Illness, GI illnesses,Leischmanasis, Thyroid Dysfunctions, ME/CFS, Fibromylagia, Lyme Disease, and Diabetes to name a few. WE need to move forward and network again with national organizations to combine our strength and become more strong in numbers and find civilians that care!

This is just the beginning. You may think that nine years after troops were sent into Afghanistan that this would be close to the...

Gordon Duff is a Marine combat Vietnam veteran, among other colorful pursuits. You know not to ask him about his service, but he's pretty descriptive...

Tom Engelhardt says the Bush administration redefined patriotism and American identity, polarizing the country. Anyone who challenged the war, the Bush line went, must...

The White House is using its December review to try to spin the disastrous Afghanistan War plan by citing “progress” in the military campaign,...

Julian Assange, with his pale Warholian looks, is now a world hyper-celebrity or international super-villain, out of hiding and in custody, but still defiant....

New Program Speeds Approval for Vietnam Veterans WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has decided more than 28,000 claims in the first six...

135 Arrested For Civil Disobedience at White House By Rob Kall -- OpEdNews.com Today, 131 rebels were arrested for civil disobedience at the snow covered gates...

All in All You're Just another Brick in Israel's Wall 6 activists and a journalist were arrested December 13 in Oakland, when they performed this...

The lack of information damaging to Israel in the cables released by WikiLeaks has provided fodder for conspiracy theorists. By Danna Harman in Haaretz PARIS -...

By Air Commodore ® Khalid Iqbal The NATO nations and their coalition allies agreed to the December 2014 date for ending military mission in Afghanistan,...

Hmmm, fascinating! The managerial and professional class in America and Europe get their ass Zapped but good! Wonder how long this will go on?

Environmental factors associated with lung cancer are grossly underestimated. At the direction of Congress, the Institute of Medicine began studying the health impact of Gulf War exposure to depleted uranium, the residue left after nuclear-grade uranium is extracted. Like radon, which is the second leading cause of lung cancer, depleted uranium, used in weapons and armor shielding, can give off radioactive products of decay that can be carcinogenic. While the first Institute of Medicine report in 2000 found insufficient evidence of a definite link to lung cancer, the 2008 update report now assigns “high priority” to continued review of the link with lung cancer. The institute has also been reviewing the impact of exposure to fuel exhausts, smoke from burning oil wells, kerosene cookers and heaters in enclosed tents and other battlefield emissions. The “strongest finding” was the association of combustion products and lung cancer.

CONTRACTS: No. 1159-10 DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY Chevron Global Aviation, Houston, Texas, is being awarded a maximum $395,880,657 fixed-price with economic price adjustment, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for aviation fuel....

Update on Depleted Uranium Internationally. There has been work being done internationally while the media ignores the issue. Here is the news contained below that doesn't appear in mainstream media coverage. There is concern but medical research and peer reviewed journal articles seem to take decades, while veterans die without help, denial of compensation, denial of a proactive medical system to perform diagnostic tests in a full screening in a timely manner to catch health problems and to diagnose cancers at the earliest date possible and to monitor health status for other diseases related to respiratory and cardiac and neuroimmune problems.

What not to do this holiday season, or any occasion where giftgiving seems appropriate. Make this holiday season the best by avoiding common mistakes.

Peace Veterans and Supporters Mass at the Gates of Power - 16 Dec 2010 Back in late November, VT published an Action Alert from Veterans...

In issuing its findings of fact and conclusions of law ACMA found that Al Manar did not violate Australian law, and was free to...

The Dream Act should stay a Dream because as it stands it is a nightmare of too many calories in this bill that will be up for the vote shortly. I do not like to see this as a party issue but it seems like that is all that our elected officials see. I look at cost factors, impacts on our system that is at the breaking point ie Health, Education, impacts on our current native born citizens, impacts on our adult children that battle for admission to colleges and post graduate education that will have to compete against this group of illegals seeking amensty and more! I look at priorities and resources for the citizens we currently need to protect! Can we do more? Is this the right time? Do we have other priorities? What is really hiding here? Is this party tactics to control future elections?

Thursday night marked the final "Daily Show" of the year -- and the decade -- so it's fitting that Jon Stewart spent its entirety...

Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL), incoming G.O.P. chair of the House Financial Services Committee: “y view is that Washington and the regulators are there to...

Think U.S. Rep John A. Boehner (R - OH) and Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) are the lowest of pond scum.They're rookies. Meet Wisconsin State Senator Russ Decker (D-Wausau,...

Lauren Baas, a US Air Force Academy graduate, was the victim of proselytizing by Cadets for Christ. This cookbook (pictured at left) entitled "Baa...

GE Teams with HireVeterans.com to Attract US Military Officers GE Healthcare's Junior Officer Leadership Program (JOLP) gives veteran military officers the opportunity to...

In a story run by at least 20 publications, the AP (12/17) reports, "Flags on New Hampshire state buildings are being lowered to half-staff...

WASHINGTON - Implementing the Post-9/11 GI Bill is a major priority for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and continued improvements to the bill...

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1.      House Passes Bill Requiring Army To Account For All Graves At Arlington Cemetery.  The Washington Post (12/17,...

WASHINGTON (Dec. 16, 2010) – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced today it will begin using Medicare’s standard payment rates for certain medical...

VA’s Homeless Intervention Program Nears Roll Out; Provider Groups Sought for Applications, Training WASHINGTON  (Dec. 16, 2010) – A homeless-prevention program by the Department of...

That is the Christmas Gift of Caring enought to give your time weekly in an effort to educate and make it better. Letters and emails with introductory comments with an article that is educational. We provide the article and you play it forward and help us be heard!

Veterans in Need! Right Before Christmas, if you want to help deserving Veterans, VT will post stories that have been published elsewhere or input we get of Veterans that need Special Santas! This article is a repost from another paper in our country that the writer found and felt that it was appropriate to publish on a Veterans News Website. WE have so many troops and veterans and small veteran organizations that need fund raising help Now and Throughout the year.

So many questions and no answers! Why are the experts on DU not allowed to testify themselves? Why no hearings focusing on this continuing health problem? Where is COL, Dr Durakovic and why has he not been allowed to testify on the hill in DC? Why does every piece of legislation that has DU in it ignored on the hill in DC?

Tickers on different news channels were running fast at the bottom of the television screen. It was the evening before the next batch of...

The New York Times: A Curious Case of Change of Heart? Thursday, 16. December 2010 Seeing the Light, Sanctioned Illusionary Game, or …I am...

CONTRACTS: No. 1155-10 NAVY Raytheon Co., Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $209,027,172 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-09-C-0007) to exercise an option for the...

The hell with regulations, we hate gays and lesbians and so does god By Chris Rodda in Huffington Post Saying that his "commitment to God...

Mother of a U.S. Soldier current serving, Teri Hart wrote and has just released this moving song "Until They All Come Home". She's currently planning on hitting the road in support of her Nothin Yellow But The Ribbon tour. The song is an amazing tribute to our current troops serving and a reminder to all of us on why we do what we do.

IS THE TRUTH REALLY OUT THERE? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Those "in the know" have long since picked up the fact that Wikileaks is...

Calls upon the Administration to affirm that the United States will oppose any attempt to seek recognition of a Palestinian state by the United...