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GE Healthcare Reaches Out To Military Veterans

Managing Editor - January 18, 2011 1

GE Healthcare needs your technical, electronic and mechanical expertise. By Randy Miller GE Healthcare has openings in their Service team that particularly suit veterans. They...

A LOOK ON THE WILD SIDE

Debbie Menon - January 18, 2011 28

By Philip Giraldi I have been hearing about the National Geographic documentary Restrepo for some time, though I only had a chance to view it last...

Repealing Health Care Law Would Be Anti-Veteran

Managing Editor - January 18, 2011 7

On Wednesday, the Majority Leadership in the House will make good on their promise to bring up for a vote a bill that repeals...

From Military-Industrial Complex to Permanent War State

Managing Editor - January 18, 2011 32

Fifty years after Dwight D. Eisenhower’s January 17, 1961 speech on the “military-industrial complex”, that threat has morphed into a far more powerful and...

Sarah Palin Speaks: Asked if crosshairs-gun imagery are too much, Palin says her silence...

Managing Editor - January 18, 2011 5

Sarah Palin was too blood libeled! In a defensive blast at her critics, she doubles down on her use of the charged term and...

Austin Energy Enters 4th Year with HireVeterans.com

Managing Editor - January 18, 2011 2

Austin Energy Has Partnered With HireVeterans.com to Employ War Veterans Austin Energy Offers Jobs to Veterans By Randy Miller In a move as smart and as...

Five Strategies for Growing as a Domestic Manufacturer

Managing Editor - January 18, 2011 2

Domestic manufacturing is an unexpected Cinderella story. As the United States clears the worst recession since the 1930′s, manufacturing has grown revenue for the...

Bad Start: New Vet Affairs House Chair: Look at VA Cost, Efficiencies and Privatization

Managing Editor - January 18, 2011 12

U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller (Rep-Fla) is a former real estate broker and deputy sheriff who is now the new chairman of the House Veterans...

Gulf War Illnesses Recognition Day

Managing Editor - January 18, 2011 2

By Jackie Johnson on Wisconsin Public Radio It’s a day to recognize those who suffer from post-deployment health issues. Over 10,000 Wisconsin veterans, and nearly...

U.S. Army Troop’s First-Person Story: I’m a “Spiritual Fitness Failure”

Managing Editor - January 17, 2011 11

... Before I tell you, Mr. Weinstein and the MRFF, of my total outrage at the U.S. Army for grading me as a "Spiritual...

ALLEN L ROLAND: King’s Fearless Speech

Allen L Roland, PhD - January 17, 2011 4

It is Martin Luther King’s fearless speech against the Vietnam war in 1967 that should be used today, word for word, in regards to...

VA Home Loan News | No. 2 U.S. Bank Admits to Overcharging Troops on...

Managing Editor - January 17, 2011 0

One of the nation's biggest banks — JP Morgan Chase — admits it has overcharged several thousand military families for their mortgages, including families of troops fighting in Afghanistan. The bank also tells NBC News that it improperly foreclosed on more than a dozen military families.

Resolution Desert Storm Veterans 20 Year Anniversary(11-10)

- January 17, 2011 2

Congressman Manzullo, stood up for Ill Desert Storm Veterans, this author worked with his staff along with a number of other gulf war veteran advocates. Many hours were spent on the hill in DC and it took several sessions of congress to get the measure passed into law. His staff truly worked hand in hand with the veteran's advocates and held monthly meetings and updates on the final push. This is the bill that became law that listed each of the symptoms of gulf war illness that should be compensated!

An Open Letter to Sandy Berger and Stephen Hadley

Prof. William A. Cook - January 17, 2011 9

An Open Letter to Sandy Berger and Stephen Hadley: A Road Map to Peace beginning with Justice By William A. Cook Let me introduce myself lest you...

Mystery Illness

- January 17, 2011 2

From the Fay Observer an excellent article. We are reposting this article at VT to be sure all see one of the worse case...

Pentagon Ecstatic Over New Chinese J-20 ‘Threat’

Managing Editor - January 17, 2011 4

Once upon a time, as the FY 1964 defense appropriations bill was making its way through congress, there came a somber moment when it...

ALAN HART: HEZBOLLAH’S NASRALLAH COULD BE RIGHT

Alan Hart - January 17, 2011 39

Hezbollah’s Nasrallah could be right By Alan Hart STAFF WRITER It’s not impossible that Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah was right when he described the tribunal investigating...

Bank Admits it Overcharged Troops on Mortgages

Managing Editor - January 17, 2011 9

One of the nation's biggest banks — JP Morgan Chase — admits it has overcharged several thousand military families for their mortgages, including families of troops fighting in Afghanistan. The bank also tells NBC News that it improperly foreclosed on more than a dozen military families.

Krugman: The GOP’s Logic-Killing Arguments

Managing Editor - January 17, 2011 3

Paul Krugman could be less polite and simply call the Republican communicaiton plan on Health Care repeal a bunch of well-crafted lies. But instead...

GORDON DUFF: MLK, A Dream Forgotten Awaiting Rebirth

- January 17, 2011 66

The death of "Greatness" in America By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor I read today's newspapers, demands for an attack on Iran. Iran has no nuclear...

Jesse Helms, John McCain, MLK and the Republican Party

Managing Editor - January 17, 2011 1

The national holiday commemorating Martin Luther King that we celebrate today comes with a bitter irony: Its creation nearly three decades ago was instrumental...

BBC: Two decades later, ‘Gulf War Syndrome’ remains

Managing Editor - January 17, 2011 0

Veteran Kerry Fuller: "It would have been far better to be killed in action" Every week, Kerry Fuller counts out his medication into a plastic...

Employers FAQs: Find Out How to Activate and Deactivate Job Posts on HireVeterans.com

Managing Editor - January 17, 2011 0

Employers! Learn how to activate and deactivate your job posts in HireVeterans.com by using the MyJobs link inside the MyAccount main menu tab...........

‘Stop loss’ bonuses go unpaid to 35,000 soldiers

Managing Editor - January 17, 2011 2

The Army is struggling to find about 35,000 soldiers, most of them veterans now, who are owed bonuses because they were forced to remain...

Israel Targets Free Gaza Movement with Repulsive Propaganda

Managing Editor - January 17, 2011 12

It is not enough that humanitarian activists on the Mavi Marmara were illegally boarded and attacked in international waters on a peace mission to Gaza....

Celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

Managing Editor - January 17, 2011 5

On Monday, January 17th, President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and other Administration officials will honor Dr. Martin Luther King by participating in a...

Why not talk to the Taliban?

Raja Mujtaba - January 17, 2011 3

“This war is going to leave in chaos…He leaned forward in his chair. There’s young men dying in their thousands, men who...

Bg Asif Haroon Raja: Review of war on terror in December 2010

Managing Editor - January 17, 2011 3

The Republicans under George W Bush had taken the credit of stabilizing Iraq and gradually handing over provinces in Iraq to Iraqi forces. Gen...

Tunisia first victim of Israeli Public Relation Wikileaks?

Managing Editor - January 16, 2011 31

Tunisia may be the first nation to be overthrown with Wikileaks playing an active part, this time in support of Israel, the CIA and a group claiming to be Al Qaeda.

MAZIN QUMSIYEH : TUNISIA AND RESHAPING THE ARAB WORLD

Debbie Menon - January 16, 2011 9

I think the empire's hold on the Arab World has begun to unravel and I think we see in Tunisia the first spark of...

P.T.S.(D)??????? What is it????

- January 16, 2011 14

P.T.S (D)????? By Paul Newell STAFF WRITER P.T.S.D These are letters that a lot of people right now are throwing around as if they know what...

ALLEN L ROLAND: Martin Luther King / The Voice That Can’t Be Silenced

Allen L Roland, PhD - January 16, 2011 6

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. / Born Jan. 15, 1929 Assassinated April 4, 1968 The voice of Martin Luther King will never be silenced because his...

The Right Wing of Killing: A Public Health Crisis

Managing Editor - January 16, 2011 8

Extremist Killing Is as American as Apple Pie Murders Grow on the Far Right Four Decades After Martin Luther King By Stephan Salisbury The landscape of America is...

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “I have a dream…to go to war?!”

Managing Editor - January 16, 2011 7

The Pentagon sank to a new low this week in their attempt to sell the Afghanistan War to the American people. At their Martin...

Vermont Desert Storm Veteran Michael John Lambert,58,1st Sgt, 131st ENG.,Army National Guard

- January 16, 2011 2

Yet Another notice as we look back on 20 years since the Gulf War. No one can really tell us how many Gulf War Veterans have died since Operation Desert Storm and at what age, what cause of Death, unit assigned, or location in theater. The Gulf War veterans will do it again for themselves! We need to be sure that each of the survivors and any dependent children get the help and benefits that were earned.

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