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Rape Is Funny
Prisoner rape is one of this country's most widespread human rights problems, and arguably its most neglected. Frustratingly, heartbreakingly—but also hopefully—if only we had the political will, we could almost completely eliminate it.
U.S. Prepares to Leave Iraq, Future Uncertain
Even as American combat forces leave, the United States will have to expend more treasure, time and maybe even blood to secure the gains of the last three years.
Olympians Join Tammy Duckworth at VA Winter Sports Clinic
On Wednesday, March 31, Olympic Gold Medalist and World Champion Alpine skier Bode Miller and Olympian Casey Puckett will join Assistant Secretary...
Regional Veterans News 3/6/10
Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Martinsburg, West Virginia, Craig, Colorado, Newark, New Jersey, Joplin, Missouri, Seattle, Washington, Las Vegas, Nevada, Brockton, Massachusetts, Merced, California, St Louis, Missouri, and Vero Beach, Florida.
GORDON DUFF: IS AMERICA SUBJECT TO A DOMESTIC REIGN OF TERROR?
IS AMERICA THE VICTIM OF A WAR FROM WITHIN?
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
One day you read about a break-in at a Senator's office,...
Remember Reid, the Shoe Bomber?
James J. Alonzo
Remember the guy who got on a plane with a bomb built into his shoe and tried to light it? Did you...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 173-10
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CONTRACTS: NAVY
Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded an $117,401,603 modification to a previously awarded fixed-price incentive fee V-22 multi-year...
Veterans Offered Jobs at Defense Contractor Charles F. Day
Defense Contractor Looking to Hire Veterans
Charles F. Day & Associates is looking to hire U.S. Veterans Now! They are mostly a contractor for the...
CNN Sinks to McCarthyite Depths
Update: Wolf Blitzer says CNN coverage of Cheney smear is "offensive" and that "CNN had no intention of suggesting that the Justice Department supports terrorism. Lawyers at the...
MGM Mirage Las Vegas Seeks to Hire Military Veterans
MGM Grand Las Vegas Seeks to Employ U.S. Veterans via HireVeterans.com
By Randy Miller
MGM Grand delivers more of the Las Vegas lifestyle. More nightlife hotspots...
Westinghouse Invites US Veterans To Its Work Force
Westinghouse Encourages US Veterans To Apply Today
By Randy Miller
It began in the Age of Steam—a 19th century success story that resonates in...
Rupert Murdoch Targets the Times
Not satisfied having decimated the news columns at the Wall Street Journal and bringing us Fox "News," rightwinger Rupert Murdoch is reportedly taking aim at...
General Mills Teams with HireVeterans.com to Employ Our US Veteran Men and Women
At General Mills, diversity is a key business strategy.
By Randy Miller
At General Mills, diversity is a key business strategy. The diversity of their work...
Senator Bunning’s Delusional Universe
Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky doesn't care about American workers and families. Nobel prize laureate Paul Krugman says Bunning also does not know.
Senator Bunning’s...
Top 10 Veterans News from Around the Country
The AP (3/4) reported that Sen. Daniel Akaka and Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki agree "that reforming the VA disability claims system must be a top priority," and in a release, Akaka said "that he is encouraged by the administration's commitment to add thousands of staff to process veterans' disability claims." However, the senator also believed "the situation will get worse before it gets better, because it will take years and significant resources to fully train new VA claims staff."
Regional Veterans’ News 3/5/10
Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Pensacola, Florida, Rochester, New York, Las Vegas, Nevada, San Diego, California, Boulder, Colorado, Camden, New Jersey, Jackson, California, and Youngstown, Ohio.
AMERICA’S POLITICAL MESS, TIME TO START OVER
Where do you start? John McCain is facing a challenge in Arizona. He is going to drag out his military record and his experience as a personal recommendation. Few Americans really know that McCain is a mental case with a "war record" he has had to have "classified" to keep himself out of prison.
Charles F. Day & Associates Joins HireVeterans.com
Defense Contractor Looking to Hire Veterans
Charles F. Day & Associates is looking to hire U.S. Veterans Now! They are mostly a contractor for the...
Two Veterans’ Cases in Last month Question DU
Couple Aims To Improve Military Health Care
RANCHO BERNARDO, Calif. -- A Rancho Bernardo couple has begun a campaign for federal legislation regarding health care...
Multiple Sclerosis Research Focuses on Autoimmune Symptoms and Bacterium
Italian Researchers Discover A Possible Onset Mechanism For Multiple Sclerosis
A non-pathogenic bacterium is capable of triggering an autoimmune disease similar to multiple sclerosis in...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 170-10
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CONTRACTS: AIR FORCE
Wyle Laboratories, Inc., West Huntsville, Ala., was awarded an $8,917,289 contract which will provide for the Reliability Information Analysis Center...
Text from U.S. Gov on Iraq War Reveals Lies and Cynicism
Update: See Iraq War Timeline for dates corresponding to lies (readers can click on dates and icons).
Could you knowingly lie to people serving in...
Woody Williams—A Life Inspires, a Man Makes Us Proud
Some we meet inspire a powerful sentiment of pride, love and respect; a desire to express gratitude, to shake hands, some human way to express joy that another lives with...
TARIK JAN: THE BUZZ WORD OF INTERFAITH DIALOGUE
The Buzz Word of Interfaith Dialogue
By Tarik Jan
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz was lately in Davos. According to the implications of his own statement, he...
Soldiers Trained at Gagetown, Canada Exposed to Agent Orange
Thank you to the writer, Ashley Studley, for her work on this. People have been e-mailing and asking about this for some time.
Soldiers trained...
CRUISE PLANNERS DONATES $18,000 TO FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION
Cruise Planners/American Express, the nation’s largest home-based travel agent franchise network in the cruise industry, donated $18,000 to the Fisher House Foundation as part of its CP Cares initiative. The funds were collected at the company’s annual convention late last year through Cruise Planners t-shirt sales and a silent auction.
Hedge Fund-Euro Collusion Charge Scares Many
From TechTicker, Hedge fund managers and anyone with an interest in such financial dark matter are concerned.
By John Carney
From The Business Insider, March 4,...
General sounds alarm on U.S. Army training
By Nancy A Youssef | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — The Army's ability to train its forces is "increasingly at risk" because of the nation's protracted...
Foreign Policy Briefing
Some American doctors are pleading U.S. officials to keep the Navy hospital ship Comfort in Haiti, the Baltimore Sun reports. University of Southern California surgeon Randy Sherman, medical director for the aid organization Operation Smile, said "there is no doubt" there are enough earthquake victims to keep the Comfort busy. He thinks it could operate at high volume for at least three more months. US doctors say Haiti is replete with patients whose orthopedic injuries have healed improperly and require complex surgeries that only the Comfort can provide.
Anti-Colonialism, Liberation, and Lives, Not Islam & Judaism
Nir Rosen offers more sanity on militarism and colonialism.
By Nir Rosen--On Sunday, February 28th the New York Times published an outrageous oped by Efraim Karsh...
GORDON DUFF: NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE ON “COL. IMAM” PUZZLING
GORDON DUFF: Special Forces Trained "Col. Imam" Outspoken Critic of US Policy Wrongly Accused by Time
Times Reporter Victimized by "Spoof"
By Gordon Duff / STAFF WRITER...
Top 10 Veterans News from Around the Country
Find out What's Inside Today's Local News for Veterans
Over $41 Million To Improve Audie L. Murphy VA Medical Center.
American Legion Travels To...
Regional Veterans’ News 3/4/10
Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Hilton Head, South Carolina, Lubbock, Texas, Amherst, Massachusettes, Tallahassee, Florida, Alexandria, Virginia, Santa Barbara, California, and Atlanta, Georgia.
Chalabi Met Iran Quds Brigade Comm; Voting Begins in Iraq; Sadr’s warrant an Error
Update: Deadly Attacks Mar Early Voting in Iraqi Elections
Lots of news from Iraq.
From Juan Cole:
Chalabi met Iran Quds Brigade commander; Voting begins in Iraq; Sadr's...
ADMIRAL SIROHEY TO COLIN POWELL: “SAVE AMERICA’S HONOR”
FORMER CHAIRMAN, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF, PAKISTAN, WRITES HIS FRIEND AND COUNTERPART, GENERAL COLIN POWELL
By Admiral Iftikhar Ahmed Sirohey (Retd) Former Chairman Joint Chiefs...
Who Ordered Agent Orange To Be Used?
James J. Alonzo
With all the illnesses, malformed babies, and suffering from Agent Orange, one could wonder who the person that ordered it to be...
GULF WAR VETERANS TO VA SECRETARY ON VA OPENING VETERANS’ CLAIMS, ‘WE’RE HIGHLY...
Gulf War Veterans question how well the VA’s plan will work at reopening Gulf War Veterans’ claims on Gulf War Illness.Gulf War Veterans are...
PRESIDENT OF GULF WAR VETERANS GROUPS CRITICIZE VA RESEARCH ON GULF WAR ILLNESS AND...
The first is the VA spending $11 million on a piece of equipment that will go to a researcher trying to duplicate Dr Haley’s study and failing. The reason he could not duplicate this study is because he did not use the same criteria for his control and study groups as did Dr. Haley. Therefore, he examined vets who were not truly sick.
GULF WAR ILLNESS RESEARCH LED BY DR HALEY AND SUPPORTER ROSS PEROT CONTRIBUTES TO...
UCA professor researching Gulf War Syndrome
By Courtney Spradlin
University of Central Arkansas professor Patrick Carmack is working on what could be a monumental step in...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 166-10
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CONTRACTS: AIR FORCE
MultiLingual Solutions, Rockville, Md., was awarded a $62,000,000 contract which will provide personnel, equipment, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and...
GORDON DUFF: FREEING DR. AAFIA, A MATTER OF HONOR
THE SERVICE AND SACRIFICE OF ALL AMERICAN WAR VETERANS IS AT STAKE
MY HONOR IS NOT FOR SALE, NOT FOR A LIE
By Gordon Duff STAFF...
New Suspect in Gulf War Illness
Dr. Douglas FieldsChief of the Nervous System Development and Plasticity Section, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
New Suspect In Gulf War Syndrome
Washington,...