Monthly Archives: September 2011

he also thinks that most Israelis do not understand the conflict they are involved in. “I think that we are acting or behaving as if we are fighting a conventional war,” he said

The American Federation of Government Employees’ National VA Council (NVAC) is calling on President Obama to halt the downgrade of administrative positions at Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers.

Former Afghan president Borhan el-Deen Rabani was killed Tuesday after an attack targeted his house in Kabul, Afghan officials said.

City Light & Power*, Long Beach, Calif., was awarded a fixed-price with prospective price redetermination contract for a maximum $180,501,821 for ownership, operation and maintenance of the electric distribution system at Travis Air Force Base, Calif.

The Military Sealift Command has recently renewed for a fifth year with their partnership to Hire Veterans. They continue offering exciting career opportunities to our Veterans. “Feel the pride of serving your country without making a service commitment.” With MSC there is not such thing as an ordinary day.

Is treatment of veterans done in an equitable manner and if not, how do we remedy the situation?

VA recently automated the online Health Benefits Renewal (10-10EZR) process for Veterans in an ongoing effort to streamline access to benefits.

As long as progressive Jews keep operating in ‘Jews only’ political cells, they won’t be part of a solution but just another aspect of the problem.

So many Americans still think torture, murder, gang rape of children is "fair and balanced" as a way of, of what? Waging war? Afghanistan is a war? Oh come now. Its an occupation, no more.

Using “leverage” to shunt Palestinian independence into the scrap-yard . What Hague wants to see at the UN is a return to lopsided negotiations.

With electronic health records, computers have proven their worth in tracking, sorting and displaying data.

At Sunday's Veterans Press Conference, Rusty Rustan, a disabled Vietnam War Veteran from Orange County, spoke on behalf of Paralyzed Veterans Association and delivered a powerful message regarding Veterans suffering from PTSD and quoted Major General Smedley Butler, a World War I hero and two-time recipient of the Medal of Honor.

Israel could – and should – have apologized in a full-hearted manner, but in a way that neither humiliated nor embarrassed them. Once the apology had been issued, and then accepted by Turkey, both countries would have had a platform for the restoration of normal relations.

Thursday night my hospital bed air mattress deflated, and I sank deeper and deeper into its folds, like a bug caught in a Venus fly trap. My diaphragm was compressing and my neck vertebrae were popping like knuckles when the night nurse saw me and saved me. Quadriplegics face such tragicomic perils regularly, in which simple equipment failures can be fatal.

I spent September 8th to 12th in Toronto, Ontario, Canada attending The International Hearings on the Events of September 11, 2001.

Hensel Phelps Granite Hangar, J.V., Irvine, Calif., is being awarded a $97,222,000 firm-fixed-price contract for the design and construction of an MV-22 aircraft parking apron/taxiway expansion; an Aircraft Maintenance Hangar 4 addition; and Aircraft Maintenance Hangar 7 construction at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar.

“Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.” Reinhold Niebuhr

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of nine servicemen, missing in action from World War II, have been identified and are being returned to their families for burial with full military honors.

U.S. Secretary of State Hilliary Clinton is at the United Nations to VETO Palestinian Statehood, she said "Yes to a two state solution but NO to U.N. recognition". These two faces of Eve put the U.S. on the verge of moral bankruptcy.

A Vietnam Veteran whose career has focused on helping war Veterans at VA's Vet Centers and a VA chief financial officer who led the agency to reduce costs were among nine federal officials honored with 'Service to America' medals.

This week the United States Middle East hypocrisy will be viewed by the world. After 44 years of illegal military occupation by Israel, Palestine is reaching out to the world for recognition and statehood even though their bid for statehood at the UN Security Council will surely be vetoed by Obama

The fist interviews ...will outline relations between President Reagan and Emil Lee Wanta, letting a few into the dream world of White House insiders.

$673 Housing stipend now available to online students   Effective October 1, 2011, the Post-9/11 GI Bill pays a housing stipend to students enrolled solely in...

As the U.S. economy grinds down to a finish, it becomes increasingly difficult to measure whether Washington understands the importance of how to deal realistically with the worsening crisis in Afghanistan.

Obama appoints 9/11 scriptwriter and master criminal Zelikow to Intelligence Advisory Board...

If the drama about to happen at the UN assists the process of truth-telling, this Palestinian initiative will have been worthwhile. by Alan Hart

Given that theU.S. policy change regarding Palestine and Israel under Obama has not materialized, it would seem that strategic U.S. interests have again been hijacked by the Israel lobby.

On one hand India claiming to be champions of democracy, secularism and human rights propagates that India is shining, on the other it suffers from highest rate of poverty, illiteracy, infant mortality, inequalities in society.

Yesterday, the Old Veterans Guard held our Veterans Press Conference for "Claiming Ownership to Our Land." We appreciate the loyal support of those who attended and the support this noble cause.

The best way for America to become more secure may well be to dismantle its vast security apparatus. This means eliminating the Department of Homeland Security, closing down our 800 military bases on foreign soil, and slashing armaments spending by the War Department, the one euphemistically called the Department of Defense but which is, in fact, the spearhead of today’s naked American aggression in six countries.

Earlier today, someone placed on our site an article favoring Allen West for Congress. It was removed as soon as it was found. This is one of the most reprehensible scumbags on America's political scene.

Compton Construction, Bumpus Mills, Tenn. (W9126G-11-D-0064); Au Authum Ki, Chandler, Ariz. (W9126G-11-D-0063); Small Business Group, Inc., Summerville, S.C. (W9126G-11-D-0062); and GSC Construction, Augusta, Ga. (W9126G-11-D-0061), were awarded a $263,000,000 firm-fixed-price multiple-award-task-order contract.

Pacifica and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation have joined forces in featuring Jonathan Kay in 9/11/11 coverage aimed at renewing the psychological warfare essential to the invasions, torture, Genocide, illegal occupations and Islamophobia characterizing the 9/11 wars.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn explained why the people I have interviewed in the last week and I have been targeted and attacked so much.

In recognition of Veteran’s Day 2011, which takes place on Friday, November 11, Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center will host an eight-day-long celebration, paying tribute to Veterans. Many events are open to the community.

Yesterday, 100 recently injured Veterans from around the country gathered in San Diego for the 4th National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic held through Sept. 23.

No wonder Dick Cheney has asked Hillary Clinton to offer a primary challenge to President Obama. As Obama has finally begun to take the grips of state, offending Israel with realistic foreign policy and demanding that wealthy Americans begin paying for their decades of failed "Reaganomics" free ride, Cheney, biggest lunatic of them all, works to divide.

Deficit agreement under which Pentagon must find billions in reductions may force cuts once considered unthinkable. Veterans benefits at risk!

There's never a shortage to write about when dealing with military, veterans, and government. They need the dirty underwear aired.

If we take a vote against Palestinian Independence in the UN, it is not only a serious strategic error but a tragic historical error.

Protests kick off 1 month earlier than planned. Watch Live – 50,000 Gathered In NYC Poised To Clash With Police.

While researchers might think that America's ousting by overt and covert means Slobodan Milosevic, the Taliban, and Saddam Hussein from power, smashing their regimes, and punishing countries like Iran, Turkey, Russia and North Korea which had tried to help them or exploit their difficulties would be the sum total of what was available to it, they would be wrong.