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VA Home Loan News | No. 2 U.S. Bank Admits to Overcharging Troops on...
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)
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
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
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’
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
“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
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?
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
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????
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
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
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?!”
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
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.
Take the Watch
Infantry squad members "stand lines". This means that during hours of darkness 360 degree observation of the units perimeter are kept under observation by...
Captain Israel—A Sickening Hasbara Magazine for Jewish Diaspora Youngsters
Captain Israel—A Sickening Hasbara Magazine for Jewish Diaspora Youngsters
Update: Jerusalem Post says: omic book artist Eli Valley as a sort of parody of the image...
WISCONSIN AND AMERICA’S WARS (VIDEO)
This video aired on Wisconsin Public Television and may be the first public or Town Hall Meeting in the nation to recently discuss the impact that the wars in Iraq and Afhganistan have had on a state's economic and moral health.
Blodget: Get Ready for Another Decade of Crappy Stock Returns
Well, it's official. The stock market has now gotten so far ahead of itself that we're set up for another decade of crappy returns.
By...
Evidence of an American Plutocracy: The Larry Summers Story
“So here is the evidence for an American plutocracy of a narrow and discrete but hardly harmless sort. Wall Street seduced the economics profession...
DOD CDMRP Pre Announcement for Researchers for Gulf War Illness
Pre application for gulf war illness research for FY2011.
Gulf War Veteran, Scott Worthy, Funeral 2pm Sunday Jan 16
We salute another young veteran of the Gulf War, USA, 45, Cancer, from Birmingham, Al who will be laid to rest Sunday during the 20 year anniversary of the Gulf War.
US Representative says Gulf War Veterans Will Get Help!
Us Representative from Connecticut pledges help for Gulf War Veterans but is this really happenning
UK Gulf War Veterans Still Ill and Waiting
UK Gulf War Veterans still ill just as US veterans and other coalition forces. Waiting for their governments to care for them in a timely manner. What is the reason for the delay. It has been 20 years and many thousands have died.
ANN WRIGHT : YOUTH RESISTANCE IN AFGHANISTAN AND GAZA
You might ask yourself, what can you do? Wright recommends contacting the Youth Peace groups directly. Get involved.
By Barb Forsyth -- The Hawaii...
PAUL BALLES : GRAINS OF SAND, PART II
This week, I’d like to share my interest in writers who have brought important perspectives to one major issue: Israel and the role of...
Second Desert Storm Veteran Astronaut Injured
Shuttle Discovery's Lead Spacewalker Hurt in Bicycle Accident
by Willam Harwood
Space station veteran Timothy Kopra, scheduled for launch Feb. 24 aboard the shuttle Discovery, was injured...
Oil Wars, A Mid-East Misadventure
Arab and Persian Oil Worth Killing For! This might be instructive. It was for me. I can’t remember how the contact was made but one day three Arab gentlemen appeared at our office in Carmel.
Desert Storm Twenty Years and Counting
Gulf War Memory Many individuals and different groups have tried over the past 20 years. We spoke, testified, went to the media and to the elected representatives and any other committee or advisory group that came along. But our job, our duty, our moral and ethical duty to each other has not been accomplished. We have not crossed the finish line until each gets the care and help needed.
Veterans and Mesothelioma: A Case Study in Systemic Negligence and Denial
The veterans of the United States military branches, including the U.S. Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and others have served their...
Cervical Cancer: The Power of Early Detection
Each year, approximately 12,000 women in the U.S. get cervical cancer. As the second most common cause of cancer deaths in women, cervical cancer...
VA Boosts Process for Camp Lejeune Toxic Water Claims
VA Boosts Process for Camp Lejeune Toxic Water Claims
Tim King Salem-News.com
Claims will be consolidated at one office that will focus on the contaminated...
USA TODAY: Study links obesity to greater pain, weakness in fibromyalgia patients
Fibromyalgia is a “presumptive” condition for Gulf War veterans
Written by Maureen Salamon, HealthDay, USA Today
(HealthDay, USA Today) - Obese fibromyalgia patients suffer more severe...