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V.A. Easing Rules for Users of Medical Marijuana

Managing Editor - July 24, 2010 4

By DAN FROSCH DENVER — The Department of Veterans Affairs will formally allow patients treated at its hospitals and clinics to use medical marijuana in...

U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards

Managing Editor - July 23, 2010 0

No. 655-10 ------------------------------ CONTRACTS DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY Propper International, Inc., Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, is being awarded a maximum $78,800,418 firm-fixed-price, sole-source contract for coats and trousers. Other...

Post-Traumatic Stress Lowest in IDF, Says Study

Managing Editor - July 23, 2010 9

- Israel's Aggression in Region Results in Lower Incidence of PTSD - By Maayana Miskin Compared to their counterparts around the globe, IDF soldiers are less...

Health Fair and Reunion For Gulf War Veterans

- July 23, 2010 1

The National Gulf War Resource Center is holding a Health Fair and Reunion for Gulf War Veterans and for OIF/OEF veterans in Dallas, Texas...

The Militarization of American Society Has Gone Too Far

Managing Editor - July 23, 2010 10

The savage thug who believes he can control reality by the use of his club... has been supplanted by the Gucci-suited technocrat who believes he can create reality by simply pushing a button or issuing an order. By commanding black-winged jet fighters to blast his enemies out of existence, the modern Attila believes he is constructing a new reality, one where his whims, his prejudices, his prissy little orthodoxies have the force of natural law. In short, the neocons are just plain crazy. Words: 1792

Afghanistan: Paths To Peace

Lieutenant General Hamid Gul - July 23, 2010 24

By Lieutenant General Hamid Gul History is about to take a monumental turn in the rugged, desolate hills and dales of Afghanistan where the world's sole...

Rep Butterfield Urges Boost for WWII Merchant Mariners

Managing Editor - July 23, 2010 9

- Effort to recognize and assist World War II U.S. Merchant Marines - Washington, D.C. – Congressman G. K. Butterfield has offered legislation to help...

The WMDs of War and Occupations

Managing Editor - July 23, 2010 1

- WMDs and the War on Terror: Lies that won't die - By Jim Staro Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) has become the new mainstream term...

PALESTINE: Anyone really serious about allowing their civil rights?

Managing Editor - July 23, 2010 4

By Dr Franklin Lamb Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp, Beirut—“Some members of Parliament prefer that the camps explode and then they will insist that “Palestinian security...

War on Terror or War of Terror?

Managing Editor - July 23, 2010 6

- U.S.-U.K. Wars Increase Global Terror Threat - By ANTHONY DiMAGGIO in CounterPunch Critical evidence from the British government and other sources suggest that the “War...

War on Terror’s Self-licking Ice Cream Cone

Managing Editor - July 23, 2010 1

- A recent exposé in the Washington Post shows that if you have a security clearance and are comfortable being part of a lucrative...

The Israel Lobbies and Breitbartism: Dirty Tricks, Taboos and the threat to American Democracy

Managing Editor - July 23, 2010 8

- If Israel told the truth, the whole cabinet would run screaming into the Mediterranean - By Juan Cole at Informed Comment Phil Weiss notes that another of...

Israel Gets Brutal With Media

Managing Editor - July 23, 2010 3

By Mel Frykberg NABI SALAH, Occupied West Bank, Jul 23, 2010 (IPS) - Palestinian activists are being jailed, Israeli activists are under surveillance, and the...

VA’s New Online Claims System Aims to Break Disability Claims Backlog, Agent Orange Presumptives...

Managing Editor - July 23, 2010 6

- New Online Medical Claims System Launches This Year, Agent Orange Presumptives Get First System Use - From the VA: VA plans to develop a fully automated, online...

U.S.S. Barb: The Sub That Sank a Train

Managing Editor - July 23, 2010 4

- Eight sailors conducted the ONLY GROUND COMBAT OPERATION on the Japanese “homeland” of World War II - Forwarded by VT's reader. In 1973 an Italian...

GOP: Go Back to Bush-Cheney

Managing Editor - July 23, 2010 2

- Even as America was savaged by eight years of Bush-Cheney, the GOP wants to resume the disastrous policies of the worst presidency in...

Israel Threatens More Terrorism and Piracy

Managing Editor - July 23, 2010 2

- "Provocative" thoughts expressed on the seas are cause for piracy and murder, says Israel - From the AP: Israel is urging Lebanon and the international...

VA creates new registry for soldiers exposed to hexavalent chromium in Iraq

Managing Editor - July 23, 2010 0

By Julie Sullivan, The Oregonian The Department of Veterans Affairs is launching a Qarmat Ali registry to aggressively track and treat veterans exposed to a...

Regional Veterans News 7/23/10

Managing Editor - July 23, 2010 0

Regional Veterans News 7/23/10 Regional stories on veterans’ health, education, benefits, legal affairs and other issues today from: Kansas City, Missouri - KC veterans conference educates...

President Obama Signs Extended Unemployment Insurance, GOP Obstruction Defeated

Managing Editor - July 23, 2010 1

By Jesse Lee Yesterday, at long last the Senate passed an extension of unemployment insurance, not only the decent thing to do but one of...

VA Seeks Cutting-Edge Musculoskeletal System Science

Managing Editor - July 23, 2010 1

From the VA: The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA)/Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Musculoskeletal Forum: Improving VA's Disability Evaluation Criteria will obtain current medical science information that...

HUD AND VA LAUNCH $15 MILLION DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM TO PREVENT VETERAN HOMELESSNESS

Managing Editor - July 23, 2010 2

- New effort to benefit homeless prevention programs near five military bases - WASHINGTON - In an effort to prevent homelessness among veterans, primarily those...

The Price of Silver is About to Explode!

Managing Editor - July 22, 2010 0

Share Few investment opportunities arise in our lifetime like silver. The stage is set for a silver price percentage gain of extraordinary magnitude! Forget the...

The Government is Destoying Jobs! Here’s How to Protect Yourself

Managing Editor - July 22, 2010 5

Government at this moment is unwittingly (purposely??) enacting job destruction policies. Presently public employees are paid far more than private employees for comparable work and if you do the math you will see that every 2 public jobs created destroys at least 3-4 private sector jobs. Whether we like it or not, the bottom line is that government, rightly or wrongly, siphons money, jobs and resources from the private economy. Should taxes go up in 2011 as scheduled, this will only shrink the private economy and accelerate private job destruction. Words: 1026

Inside the Israeli Knesset: A Parliamentary Mob

Managing Editor - July 22, 2010 6

- In comparison to the present Knesset, the 1967 Knesset looks like Plato’s Academy; WHAT FRIGHTENED me more than anything else was the readiness of...

U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards

Managing Editor - July 22, 2010 1

No. 649-10 July 22, 2010 -------------------------------- CONTRACTS AIR FORCE Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Clearfield, Utah, was awarded a $140,173,508 contract modification which will design, fabricate and modify production...

Maybe I’m Dumb, but Could Somebody Please Tell Me the Difference Between Zionism and...

Eric L. Wattree - July 22, 2010 38

How can you go into your neighbor’s home and kill his family, then call him the aggressor? And now they’re talking about invading Iran! It’s all about racism and greed. Think about it-- as bad as the Germans and Russians treated the Jews over the years, you’d think the Jews would have been given part of one of those countries. If they’d done that, European Jews wouldn’t have even had to leave home. But White folks don’t play that - no matter how much they hate each other.

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