Yearly Archives: 2010

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recently concluded that there is sufficient evidence of a causal relationship for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Persian Gulf War (PGW) veterans that would in turn explain their other physical ailments. What a slap in the face. When you look at only a select handful of research studies and discount most others, you can no doubt make a convincing case for PTSD as the primary cause of Gulf War Illnesses (GWI). Veterans from today’s wars as well as the 1991 Persian Gulf War know better. All one needs to do in order to find the truth is to use the internet.

While the head of the nation’s largest organization for combat veterans is pleased that Congress stepped in to assure Tricare beneficiaries that the new health care reform law will not penalize them for having military group health coverage, he says lawmakers need to do the same for veterans. On Monday, Congress gave final approval to the Tricare Assurance Act, which officially exempts Tricare beneficiaries from a health care reform requirement to purchase private health care insurance or face a $750 annual penalty.

The Brad Blog has the story: By Brad Friedman Conyers Seeks Firing of FBI Officials Who Used 'National Security Letters' for Phone Records House Judiciary Chair Rep....

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Paramus Park, New Jersey, Jacksonville, Florida, Lafayette, Louisiana, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Randolph, New Jersey, Dedham, Massachusetts, Richmond, Virginia, San Jose, California, and Montgomery, Alabama.

With Sarah Palin leading the way ... .

Mapping a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Career Path Geographical Information Systems (GIS) is a fast-evolving capability used on an ever-increasing basis by governments and businesses...

No. 294-10 ------------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: AIR FORCE                   Rockwell Collins, Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was awarded a $208,905,836 contract which will provide for the Senior Leadership Command, Control,...

Every day, for four hours a day, Glenn Beck is playing out a Welles fantasy -- leaping out from behind an array of Carrot Top-meets-Gallagher props and gizmos while shouting BOO! at his audience without taking the slightest responsibility for the ensuing hysteria. In Beck's case, the "boo!" comes in the form of Joe McCarthy style red-baiting and Lee Atwater style race-baiting -- insisting with wildly incomprehensible chalkboard scribblings that Marxists and communists are lurking under our beds waiting to steal our money. Money that's better served feeding Glenn Beck's empire of fraud.

Processing of Claims Targeted for Extra Personnel WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is putting Americans to work with funds from the American...

Israel's colonization of Palestine is relentless. It's become a pivotal issue in countries' relations with Israel, but only to the extent that non-Israelis lip-synch their disapproval at press conferences while surrendering their conscience behind closed doors. This curious ability of a tiny nation to bring tremendous pressure to bear upon the world's leaders exemplifies the psychopath's ability to subvert the will of others to do its bidding, only it's happening on a macro-social scale.

DOING NOTHING AT ALL WOULD BE A HUGE IMPROVEMENT ALLOWING VETERANS TO DIE QUIETLY, BETTER THAN THE ABUSE By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor America has been at...

"We went to war on account of the thing we quarreled with the North about. I never heard of any other cause of quarrel than slavery. Men fight from sentiment. After the fight is over they invent some fanciful theory on which they imagine that they fought." -- Confederate Col. John Mosby

The GOP is attempting the Big Con on financial reform. First, they posture and pretend they are against the big banks and then do nothing,...

One of the newest courses at Fort Jackson, the Army's biggest basic training and combat instruction outpost, is something called Master Resilience Training. The genesis for the course has been the rise of suicide in the military. Yesterday, Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey, a vocal proponent of warrior resilience training, toured the South Carolina base and spoke about the novel 10-day program.

VA's Medical Foster Home program finds a caregiver in the community who is willing to provide a Veteran with 24-hour supervision and personal assistance. Read about the program in the Wall Street Journal

Looks like we're seeing the economy starting to stabilize and even grow a bit.  With J.P. Morgan reporting quarterly profits of 3.3 billion, demand...

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Jefferson City, Missouri, Monroe, New Jersey, Fallon, Nevada, Anchorage, Alaska, Land O' Lakes, Florida, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Lincoln, Nebraska, Opelika, Alabama, Beaufort, South Carolina, and San Antonio, Texas.

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by mal contends Right now millions of Americans should be receiving e-mails from David Plouffe, the 2008 Obama-Biden campaign manager, asking for input, thoughts, and...

By Khalil Nouri STAFF WRITER During the last few days, President Karzai has thrown the “kitchen sink” at his allies, and his own people. ...

Danny Schechter, who edits Mediachannel.org., recently posted his views on what has become obvious to anyone monitoring or just watching mainstream media that...

The Army will court-martial a lieutenant colonel who refused to deploy to Afghanistan because he considers orders from President Barack Obama to be illegal, military officials told NBC News on Tuesday.

No. 291-10 ------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY   Refinery Associates of Texas, Inc.,* New Braunfels, Texas, was awarded a maximum $253,790,281 fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract for...

Israel is hunting down a journalist who exposed its human rights violations in the 2008 Israeli massacre in Gaza in which over 1,400 innocents were...

When Wisconsin does something honoring veterans, it does it right. Presenting LZ Lambeau: Welcome Home, Vietnam Veterans, May 2010. LZ Lambeau On the behalf of the...

Knowing the Tea Party's idiosyncratic views on the Armed Forces, the U.S. Constitution, God and oath to resist the liberals enslaving real Americans, the...

By Desmond Tutu, 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner writing in the Huffington Post: It was with great joy that I learned of the recent 16-4...

From Naked Capitalism: The Origins of the Next Crisis William White, the former chief economist at the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) gave an important speech...

If it has been difficult for American leaders to influence the country's foreign policy since the military-industrial complex wrested control from the state office after the Second World War, it has proven impossible to do so since the US sealed its Faustian bargain with Israel on 9/11. The US Empire is damned if it does cut the flow of money and arms to Israel and damned if it doesn't. The truth about 9/11 is going to emerge one way or another. How the momentum is managed will determine who is left without a chair when the music finally grinds to halt. While it's broadly in both the US and Israeli governments interests to keep a lid on the truth by distracting the US population any which way it can, there appears to be a game of hide and seek taking place through the media to prepare the ground and cast one or the other in the role of villain. This was in evidence these past few weeks as '9/11 Truth' hit the mainstream like never before.

The United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims is a national court of record, established under Article I of the Constitution of the United States. The Court has exclusive jurisdiction to provide judicial review of final decisions by the Board of Veterans' Appeals, an entity within the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Moroccan tourist officials may well boast of their luxury hotels designed to lure European and North American tourists but the regime of King Mohammed VI has much less to say about the hell-on-earth that is his prison system and of the torture of those inside.

By Eugene Robinson It was bad enough when Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell proclaimed "Confederate History Month" without mentioning slavery, but at least he came to...

Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. If you’re a Veteran trying to quit, VA wants you to know that there are resources available to help. Learn more from The American Veteran.

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Texarkana, Texas, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Spokane, Washington, Benicia, California, Jefferson City, Missouri, Los Angeles, California, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Bristol, Connecticut, Batavia, New York, and Pendleton, South Carolina.

Governors Haley Barbour (Mississippi) Bob McDonnell (Virginia) wish the civil rights movement never happened. This applies to the whole of the Republican Party, the White Party. By...

The three key ingredients to finding a successful civilian career are a degree, certifications (specific training), and experience. But when you’re transitioning from the military to a civilian career, it will take time and dedicated preparation to gain all three.

Degree, Certifications/Training and Experience. Get them and be successful

THE SPECIAL FORCES OPINION By Colonel Evgeny (Gene) Khrushchev STAFF WRITER/Editor Army of the Soviet Union/Russian Army (ret) The latest spike of the terrorist attacks against Russia...

No. 287-10 ----------------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: NAVY                   Lockheed Martin Corp., Maritime Systems and Sensors, Manassas, Va., is being awarded a $58,605,221 not-to-exceed, cost-plus-incentive-fee letter contract for the design...

The US military has warned that surplus oil production capacity could disappear within two years and there could be serious shortages by 2015 with a significant economic and political impact.

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. – With a mission to serve disabled veterans by helping them experience the camaraderie of scuba diving and the wonders of the underwater world, a handful of volunteer staff of the Disabled Veterans SCUBA Project have started training disabled veterans to become certified scuba divers since Jan. 17, as part of a VA-approved adaptive recreational therapy program. The training is held at the Joint Forces Training Base swimming pool nearly every week, usually on Sunday evenings.

The Department of Defense is the agency responsible for the four branches of military service in this country. Those branches - The Navy, the Marine Corps, Army and the Air Force - are honored by this every citizen in this country on May 16th, the national holiday known as Armed Forces Day. Honoring those who serve was established during President Harry S. Truman's administration. He was the primary motivator to establish a single day to pay our respects to those who perform such a patriotic service for this country. Once compiled under the Department of Defense, the four branches as the Armed Forces received national recognition.