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Edgewood Arsenal/MKULTRA Lawsuit Moves to Next Phase
Larry Scott has been all over this betrayal.
EDGEWOOD ARSENAL / MKULTRA LAWSUIT MOVES TO NEXT PHASE
Claims it is unconstitutional for the VA to decide...
Marine Bill Finnegan Booed for Calling for Respect for Muslims
A sign of the times. See, being American means worshiping, if you wish, anyway you want. Marine Bill Finnegan knows this; others pictured at right...
GILAD ATZMON: ISRAEL: THE CRUCIFIXION OF KINDNESS
The Crucifixion of Kindness by Gilad Atzmon
Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 8:07AM Gilad Atzmon
Panic is detected in Israel. Strategic affairs minister, Moshe Boogi Ya'alon...
DAVID WINNETT: TO SERVE, OR NOT TO SERVE
To Serve, or Not to Serve: The good, the bad, the ugly, and the VA
David K. Winnett, Jr. Captain, USMC (Ret.)
With war still raging...
UN Special Rapporteur Calls for Full Flotilla Inquiry, All Records
From the Project on ExtraJudicialExecutions:
Today, Professor Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, released a statement calling for any Israeli inquiry into...
Israel’s Gaza Blockade
In a gesture that has received more than a little attention in the Western media, Israeli officials announced with some fanfare that they were easing the embargo of goods they allow into Palestine.
Exxon Valdez spill every 5-13 days
All sorts of good news this weekend.
- This image at right from video provided by BP PLC early Friday morning, June 11, 2010 shows...
What Happens When You Die? Evidence Suggests Time Simply Reboots
By Robert Lanza, M.D.
What happens when we die? Do we rot into the ground, or do we go to heaven (or hell, if we've...
Updated with Shocking Video: Israeli Soldier Kicks American Citizen Lying on the Ground, and...
Editor's Note: Please view this. Be enraged.
VT is in touch with a Gaza Friends human rights group that has photographic and video evidence of an "Israeli soldier...
ISRAEL SHAMIR: HAS TOO MUCH OUTRAGE LEFT JEWS CONSTIPATED?
These guys are always purple in the face with indignation – or is it constipation?
Much Ado about Helen Thomas
By Israel Shamir
Every second headline...
Rep. Henry Brown’s VA Commentary Is Dodge-and-Confuse
The online Politico ran a piece this week by Rep. Henry Brown (R-S.C.), who has served on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee for 10 years.
Rep....
Army admits bodies misidentified at Arlington Cemetery
Two civilian leaders forced out following yearlong Salon investigation
By Salon Staff and AP Reports
An Army investigation, sparked by a yearlong Salon investigation, has found...
MPs turn over Baghdad’s Green Zone as violence flares
From the Army Times
By David Larter
The 336th Military Police Battalion wrapped up a more than seven-year mission June 1 at a ceremony in Baghdad’s...
Families Devestated by BP Spill: ‘Quite Sorry,’ Says BP CEO
Check out Wonkette. She has a satirical piece written in the first-person by BP CEO, Tony Hayward.
Great stuff as always. We need humor, more...
Israel about to criminalize activity relating to boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) of Israel
From The Only Democracy
by Sydney Levy
What is Israel’s reaction to the growing nonviolent movement of boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS)? Well criminalize it, of...
Tell Congress and Obama NO to the siege of Gaza, NO to unconditional aid
Tell Congress and Obama NO to the siege of Gaza, no to unconditional aid.
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June 2010
From the Jewish Voice for...
Krugman: Misplaced Optimism
By Paul Krugman
Misplaced Optimism
I wish I could believe in this Macroeconomic Advisers claim that there is a zero chance of a double-dip recession. But...
Indispensable Reform Is ‘Section 716’
Dominated by the world’s largest banks, the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market has been expanding since the break-down of the Bretton Woods Agreement in the early 1970s privatized the international monetary system by shifting the payments process from central banks to commercial banks.
Marijuana Bombs Dropped on Tel-Aviv and Gaza
In a final desperate humanitarian attempt to resolve the modern long term hate and violence that infects the holy land peoples, it has been reported that, 2 days ago, a flotilla of C-130s were sent from a secret air base in Oaksterdam California loaded up "Marijuana Bombs" These baggies of "weed" bunched up into missle sized lots were dropped over the holy land peoples in a clandestine night time mission by an organization calling itself "The Peoples Peacemaker Project"
New VA Benefits Claim Form: Just Six Pages
Say good-bye to the 26-page-long benefits claims form from hell.
Is this the beginning of a veteran-friendly U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs? Are they listening?...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 476-10
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CONTRACTS: AIR FORCE
Metatech Corp., Goleta, Calif., was awarded a $49,000,000 contract which will providefor the Satellite AssessmentCenter. The center has performed a...
Obama, the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee, and the Gaza Flotilla
By JENNIFER LOEWENSTEIN in CounterPunch
Imagine the media coverage that would have awaited us in our local and national newspapers, our radio, facebook, twitter and...
Has President Abandoned Paul Volcker’s Ideas On Financial Reform?
By Simon Johnson
The official reconciliation process between Senate and House reform bills will get underway next week, but the behind-the-scenes maneuvering (and intense lobbying)...
Mr. President: How About a Little of that Change We Can Believe in?
At 600,000 strong, plus family, friends, and neighbors - and in an election year where incumbents are hanging on by their fingernails - postal employees are in the driver's seat of a tank. Yet, they're allowing themselves, and their families, to be robbed by a guy with a butter knife - and not just once outside a liquor store, but repeatedly in what is supposed to be the sanctity of their workplace. This has got to come to an end.
Iran’s Green Movement: One Year Later
Iran’s Green Movement is one year old this Sunday, the anniversary of its first massive demonstrations in the streets of Tehran. Greeted with great hope in much of the world, a year later it’s weaker, the country is more repressive, and its hardliners are in a far stronger position -- and some of their success can be credited to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and sanctions hawks in the Obama administration.
Corexit Sprayed by BP Tops 1 Million Gallons
(TRENTON, NJ) - I'm not a scientist, but Alexander Higgins' blog scares the hell out of me. BP's continued use of Corexit is unbelievable...
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
From The VA
VA’s The American Veteran Wins Two Emmy Awards
VA’s video magazine, The American Veteran, recently received two Emmy Awards at the...
As Pressure Mounts, BP’s Shares Slide Further
By DAVID JOLLY and SUSANNA G. KIM
Shares of BP continued to slide Thursday in London as political pressure mounted over the spill in the...
Noam Chomsky on Israel and the Gaza Flotilla Attack:”Sheer Criminal Aggression, with no Credible...
For updates, see Al Jazeera and Witness Gaza.
By Noam Chomsky
Haymarket Books Press Release, June 2010
Hijacking boats in international waters and killing passengers is, of...
Regional Veterans News 6/10/10
Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Meridith, Vermont, Atlanta, Georgia, Monterey, California, Reading, Pennsylvania, Elmira, New York, Winter Springs, Florida, San Rafael, California, Salt Lake City, Utah, andCharlotte, North Carolina.
Great Escape veteran of Second World War dies
Jack Harrison, who survived the Great Escape plot by Allied prisoners in a German prison in the Second World War, has died at age 97, his family said. Harrison died on Friday at Erskine veterans' home in Bishopton, Scotland.
Obama’s Doublespeak on Iran
Via CounterPunch
Extending Hands or Clenching Fists?
By ESAM AL-AMIN
On April 12, 2010, President Barack Obama hosted a forty-seven nation Nuclear Security Summit in Washington. He...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 472-10
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CONTRACTS: MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY
Gray Research, Inc., Huntsville, Ala., is being awarded a sole-source modification to continue performing work under its previously competitively...
GERMAN MP SAYS 19 OR MORE KILLED IN FLOTILLA RAID
Did Israel murder more then 9 in the Flotilla Massacre? A German MP seems to think so.
By Kalid Shamt - Berlin
Is has been reported...
GORDON DUFF: CONGRATS ISRAEL ON A GOOD WEEK, PLENTY OF DEAD AND HELEN...
Why is Helen Angry? Helen Remembers JFK.
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
"Caught in the act, Israelis tape edit alters "get this man a doctor"...
Alert: Russia Orders Troops To Prepare For War With US
Alert: Russia Orders Troops To Prepare For War With US
From the EU Times June 7, 2010
(Editor's note: Despite the questionable origin of this story, it...
Gordon Duff: Intelligence Confirmations, Leaks And Rumors This Week
INFORMATION GRADED FROM A TO D BASED ON SOURCE AND NUMBER OF CONFIRMATIONS
By Gordon Duff and the Editorial Staff at VT
The information provided is...
Gordon Duff: USS Liberty Remembrance Day, Forgotten, Suppressed, Silenced
AMERICA'S HIDDEN HOLIDAY, JUNE 8TH
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
"The ultimate lesson of the Liberty attack had far more effect on policy in Israel...
Attracting Veterans To Your Work Force via HireVeterans.com
Hire Our Talented US VT
By Randy Miller
I know some may look for free ways to advertise their jobs.
As you may or may not know,...
The Attack on the USS Liberty: Lessons for U.S. National Security
It comes down to this: Are Gazans and other Arabs really human? And if so, are they the right kind of human?
The Attack on...
Clemons: ‘Did I Read This Right? Brookings Scholar References Israel Attack on USS Liberty?’
Chomsky, Finkelstein, Ellsberg, Greenwald, Sullivan, , Levy, Cook, Danger, Duff, Cockburn, Whitney, on and on, the list is growing of accredited anti-Semites demonstrated per force...
AIG’s problems far greater than Bush officials told public
By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — At the peak of the 2008 financial crisis, then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and top Federal Reserve officials...