Monthly Archives: October 2011

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has agreed to a settlement that is consistent with its policies for ensuring that families’ religious preferences are respected when their loved ones are laid to rest at the National Cemetery in Houston.

The Department of Veterans Affairs awarded $7.5 million to the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) to provide recreation and sport activities for disabled Veterans and disabled members of the Armed Forces.

If stealing $50 bucks gets you 30 days in jail, shouldn't stealing a billion get you 30 years? How much before we look at the needle or maybe the rope?

Mark this moment ~ a true shift in global consciousness is upon us for the Occupy Wall Street Movement is touching deeply felt evolutionary chords which will eventually break down the global walls of greed, separateness and war and will eventually replace them with altruism, social cooperation and peace ~ the true driving forces of evolution.

Ways to help separating service members and veterans prepare for and launch civilian careers topped the agenda during Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta’s visit yesterday with Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki, Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt. John Kirby reported.

More than 100 talented Veterans from across the nation have gathered for the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival in Fayetteville, Arkansas, showcasing their winning entries in art, music, dance, drama and creative writing.

S-1629 is not a bill to help veterans of Vietnam be compensated for Agent Orange exposure. It's a bill for all Americans

Vogue Magazine, November 2011 issue features actress Tilda Swinton as she drapes a Palestinian scarf. This is an amazing and powerful statement and speaks volumes...

After founding and then running a shelter for homeless veterans for a number of years, I began to see patterns of pathology among the clients.

The Iconoclast joins others on the Internet and in circles of power who know by experience that Captain May has an uncanny ability to correctly interpret what is really going on and to accurately predict what will happen next.

I have waited 40 years to see young people on the streets. I don't care if they all understand economics or that maybe Wall Street itself may not be the center of all evil in the world.

One in four veterans from the gulf war are affected minimally. That number is old and current data shows that number has continued to climb to over 1 in 3 at least have submitted claims from the Gulf War 1990-91.

October is Disability Employment Awareness Month.

Veterans Job and Resource Fair:  “The State of California’s 5th Annual Honor a Hero, Hire a Vet Job and Resource Fair is scheduled for Tuesday, November 1...

National Public Radio censors 9/11 truth. Here's how to beat the censorship.

There was opposition to Senft’s name carved on the memorial in perpetuum because he committed suicide allegedly making his service to country less honorable.

Brzezinski's Plea: Publish Their Names, the Mysterious Super-Rich Who Only Take

VA recently launched a campaign to increase awareness about Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and the services provided to Veterans and service members recovering from TBI and co-occurring complex injuries.

Quiz question—whose face is on the $20 Bill? More importantly, why do many, including me, consider Andrew Jackson the greatest of the presidents? He vetoed the banksters, that's why. Have we forgotten?

Like many Americans I follow the war in Afghanistan though the media. I watch our troops perform their duties with honor and courage.

Unlike robots, people can still be made by unskilled labour! China is run by scientists and engineers at the supreme council level, the USA has politicians, lawyers, and banksters.

DOES ANYONE CARE ? The FBI’s Counter Terrorist Unit has transformed itself into an instigator of crime.

Despite its evidently make-believe facade, the cooked-up story of the Saudi envoy assassination plot does not seem to be something which can be easily banished from the minds of the American powers that be.

Zionists and Jewish ‘anti-Zionists yet again join forces to burn a book that, amongst other things, explores the Jewish culture of book-burning

Marine Corps Veteran Sgt. Shamar Thomas on Occupy Times Square, Veterans’ Rights

Till 2004, Pakistan was a peaceful country and suicide bombing was unheard of. The figure of terrorism afflicted casualties began to rise from 2005 onwards and by 2007 the number rose to 3599 killed.

Gandhi pointed out three possible responses to oppression and injustice. The coward’s way out, which is to accept the wrong and run away, or to stand and fight by force of arms, but the third and best way is to fight by speaking truth and remaining physically nonviolent. The Palestinian Gandhi Project is.......

Congress can begin slashing military pay and benefits, cutting access to Tricare Prime and upping fees for retirees. John McCain said so and he represents everything military.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., Poway, Calif., was awarded a $30,279,377 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract.

More than 100 talented Veterans from across the Nation will attend the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival in Fayetteville, Ark., Oct. 17 – 23, showcasing their winning entries in art, music, dance, drama and creative writing.

Once upon a time there was a President named George who wanted to be Emperor. (Not a bad idea. He was a lousy President. He really needed a different job.)

Is anybody in Congress listening about the extent of Agent Orange and the health problems is has created?

By MICHAEL A. FLETCHER   CLEVELAND — As soon as Brian Joseph graduated from high school he joined the Army, where he was trained in a...

Scheuer stated that “the Congress is crazy for war with Iran” and that some U.S. Senators like Joe Lieberman and John McCain “are owned by the Israelis.

New York State was once known to the world as the Empire State. After decades of government mismanagement and corporate plunder, the beleaguered taxpayer needs and deserves substantial relief.

No matter which side of the political fence you’re on, just about everyone agrees that the employment situation in America is lousy.

One person was elected and another took office, or so it seems. How do you know? The news tells you, news we all know is controlled by Wall Street Corporations or worse, the Murdoch empire.

Homeland Security harassed 9/11 hero on tenth anniversary showing our movement towards fascism over the last 10 years.

We are angry at a political system that is so corrupted by money, greed, bad faith, contempt for the people and citizens with special breed of political and media consultants who sell us scruples idiots and demagogues as choices.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is recognizing Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October by asking all female Veterans to talk with their health care providers about appropriate breast cancer screenings, such as regular mammograms.

The six pages making up chapter 14 of Joe Mcginniss’ book about Sarah Palin are must reading. A book review is not supposed to tell you the contents, but to outline the important themes.

You can have a very strong economic and scientific community with a strong and credible military deterrence to invasion, or you can have a globe encircling military force that will force other countries and cultures to constantly confront you. Take your pick, it can't and won't be both!