Monthly Archives: June 2011

We just cannot say “Thank You” enough to our young Veterans coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan. Like so many other Service members from previous conflicts, they carry the scars of battle buddy’s getting killed, long deployments and painful combat wounds.

L-3 Communications Integrated Systems, LP, Platform Integration Division, Waco, Texas, is being awarded a $537,971,180 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity delivery order contract consisting of cost-plus-award-fee, cost-plus-incentive-fee, and cost-plus-fixed-fee line items for the Airborne Sensors Program for a five-year base and five one-year options.

More than 500 Family Caregivers who applied for new services offered for Post 9/11 Veterans started their care-giving training June 9 and 10.

A new program called Hero Health Hire is the health care industry’s commitment to make jobs available to some of the 10,000 wounded warriors who transition each month from the military into the workforce.

Fukushima Radioactivity is Everywhere All Over Northern Hemisphere and Every One is Already Contaminated to Some Degree.

My name is Ron Walters and I work for the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration. As a “VA official,” I was asked to give remarks during this year’s Memorial Day ceremony at South Florida National Cemetery in Lake Worth.

Aphasia is an acquired disorder that impacts language and its different modalities (i.e. production, comprehension, reading, or writing).

In the budget battle, the veteran is probably going to be on the short end of the stick if we don't exercise our voting power

Why do the working class people of world need to pay the scam-created money of banksters? Because their governments are too corrupt to say no.

The operations conducted against Libya and Syria involve the same actors and strategies. However, their respective outcomes will differ since the situations in these countries are not comparable.

German Attorney Torsten van Geest has submitted a provisional order to force the German government into action in light of what he claims are multiple indicators of an impending nuclear terror attack at Berlin's Olympic Stadium on June 26, 2011, during the opening ceremony of the Women’s World Soccer Championship.

Syrians turned out to express their support for the reform measures announced by President Bashar Al-Assad the previous day in the speech he delivered at the University of Damascus.

Catastrophic injuries are a sad reality of war and our brave men and women of the military are aware of these risks and still elect to carry out their duties in defending our country.

When Marine Corps Master Sgt. Lorenzo Lacy left for a six-month deployment with Marine Central Command in June 2010, he had a considerable task ahead of him.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System (GLA) posted the Master Plan for the West Los Angeles (WLA) campus, which includes plans to expand the homeless program by renovating buildings on the historic campus.

Religious zealot and religious/political con-man Glenn Beck will hold a rally to support Israel's illegal occupation of the entire city of Jerusalem on August 24, 2011.

The Department of Veterans Affairs’ mail-order pharmacy program has been recognized as a J.D. Power 2011 Customer Service Champion

A shadowy figure has contacted intelligence agencies in the west claiming proof of Iran's payment into a Swiss bank of 8.5 tons of gold for nukes sold to Iran. Another scripted lie!

America is a violent country. It was founded in violence, in revolution against a violent England. It expanded to its present size in just over a century by violent conquest.

By act of Congress, Israeli businesses can even bid on most American Federal and State government contracts just as if they were US companies....

Archbishop Williams’s comments about Bethlehem were “particularly faulty and offensive”, according to Rifat Kassis, especially his claim that Muslims coming into the Bethlehem area, where space is limited, was forcing Christians to leave.

Mossad is planning a false flag operation against the city's new Olympic stadium for mid-August. August 12 is a day to mark, they say, since it will be one year before the 8/12/2012 opening of the London Summer Olympics. They add that young Pakistanis living in the poorest parts of London will be blamed, and that Scotland Yard has already prepared a long list of suitable suspects.

Today notorious Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio joined Senator John McCain and announced that the horrific Arizona fires were "likely set by Mexican smugglers" with the operative word be "likely"; just speculation, no evidence whatsoever.

Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded an $182,341,825 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-09-C-5305) for low-rate initial production of fiscal 2011 Standard Missile 6 (SM-6) Block I all up rounds (AUR).

The War Resisters League, an 88-year-old national group with more than 25 chapters across the U.S., targets students and, when possible, tables at schools to provide little-known facts about the military

As Veterans, we hold a powerful tool to employ on our quest for a first-rate education: our stories.

For Frances Pulley, a 73-year old U.S. Air Force Veteran from Syracuse, N.Y., socialization and even going downstairs in her home were difficult, if not impossible, before she started the Veteran-Directed Home and Community Based Care Services Program (VDHCBS).

The US Conference of Mayors just passed an historic resolution urging Congress and the President to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan so that the trillions of dollars currently squandered on illegal wars can be poured back into our communities and used for funding our enormous unmet human needs here at home.

An Air Force Space Command chief master sergeant used the occasion of her retirement ceremony here to take care of one last troop -- her father, who was presented with the Bronze Star Medal he earned four decades ago.

Pakistan was, first and foremost, destroyed by the active connivance of its own military, its own politicians, its own literati, its own press, its own fifth columnists, and by the silent apathy of its 180 million spectating public who are still to become the greatest victims of “imperial mobilization”.

Elite commandos from 19 countries are participating this week in Fuerzas Comando 2011, a demanding counterterrorism and special operations skills competition sponsored by U.S. Southern Command to promote military-to-military relationships, increased interoperability and improved regional security.

In 1947, 20% of the total population of the Holy Land was Christian. Today, less than 1.3% of the total population of that troubled piece of real estate is Christian.

Four cheers for the U.S. Conference of Mayors! It has just voted up a resolution calling on Washington to transfer $126-billion in annual spending from its Middle East wars to America's cities!

There are 10,000 members of the American Legion in Los Angeles County and 20,000 homeless Veterans in Los Angeles County. Outnumbered 2-to-1, the American Legion still chooses to side with VA land policies that keep our homeless and disadvantaged Veterans from living in their rightful and legal “Home.”

The Saudis have shown their frustration with Washington in a number of dramatic ways recently. What happens if the Saudis decide that the time really has come to exercise their immense economic power? Saudi Arabia’s power, is truly international and represents well founded, mass economic power.-- By Dr. Lawrence Davidson

Win for Randazza Legal Group- Federal Judge Rejects New, May 9 'Clarification' of Strategic Alliance Agreement

I recently posted an article entitled “President Obama: What’s the Difference Between Zionism and Racism?” In response I received several comments from a gentlemen who posts under the name of Tim 2. His comments were so reflective of the typical Zionist reaction to this debate that I thought it would be enlightening to present it as an article under its own name.

Veterans-For-Change, respectfully request that both Houses of Congress hold hearings immediately to call the Department of Defense, Department of the Army and the Department of Veterans Affairs to explain toxic waste dumps

Off air since Jan. 20, Olbermann mysteriously disappeared off MNSBC for reasons never explained returned last night and hit hard with revelations that former GOP Congressman called the shots.

This story is from Tom Valentines archives circa 1996; Vaccines remain one of the most contentious issues today, with a determined anti-advocacy continuing to battle fascist monopoly medicine

The United States Conference of Mayors, representing 1,200 cities with populations over 30,000, voted in their June 20 plenary session to call on the federal government to end America’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and redirect that military spending to home land priorities.

There are an estimated 600,000 VIetnam and Desert Storm Veterans and an another 160,000 Iraqi and Afghanistan Veterans with PTSD. Find out how to get help.