Yearly Archives: 2011

Gulf War Veterans Came Home Ill But NO One Knew Why...... The American people, thinking it was such a fast war, there would be...

The AMERICAN DREAM is a 30 minute animated film that shows us how we've been scammed by the most basic elements of our government system.

The sun was shining brightly at the National Museum of the Marine Corps on February 11, 2011 as Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus presented the Navy Cross and a Bronze Star for Valor to Vietnam Veteran, Marine Lance Corporal Ned E. Seath of Reed City, Michigan.

Most recent published pilot research project on Gulf War Illness by combined research between University of Miami, Miami VA and University of Alberta in Canada is showing a complex disorder involving the nervous, endocrine and immune regulation systems points stronger to an auto immune component to Gulf War Illness. This was a small pilot study to test their hypothesis which involved 9 Gulf War Veteran and 11 control subjects, but it does appear to confirm their connection. It also boost the gulf war veterans that this is indeed REAL. Autoimmune disorders can involve the total of body systems and the list of autoimmune disorders are quite numerous.

 I thought getting the clergy involved in helping veterans would be easy.... By Chaplain Kathie STAFF WRITER Living in Florida, knowing this state has over a...

Millions of people can’t be wrong. Millions of people can’t do wrong Millions of people can’t go wrong … when they are joined as one in front of forces of corruption and hypocrisy.

Today the power is with the people Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak finally stepped down and handed power to the military, according to the country's...

People the world over must find non-violent ways to oppose American military force lest they suffer the fate of the Vietnamese and the Iraqis....

Veterans! Here’s your Top 10 News stories of the day compiled from the latest sources. We encourage you to browse our list so that you can take what you want and keep what you need…..

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is awarding two grants totaling $7.5 million to the U.S. Olympic Committee to enhance recreation and sporting activities for disabled Veterans and disabled members of the Armed Forces.

I have a friend and fellow vet in Texas who's a confirmed teabagger. The only thing we agree upon is that we like and respect each other, but other than that, we come from two different planets.

The Dayton VA Medical Center is notifying 535 Veterans they are eligible to obtain free screenings for possible infections due to potential lapses in infection control procedures that occurred in the Dental clinic from January 1, 1992 through July 28, 2010.

The Tahrir Square as the Tiananmen square in china will be a memorial place for the noble and courageous struggle of young generation for FREEDOM.

CRIMES AGAINST INTERNATIONAL LAW CRIMES AGAINST UNITED NATIONS CHARTER CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY By Stuart Littlewood / STAFF WRITER The word ‘justice’ is conspicuously absent from the mouthings...

Ynet reported today that  US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said during a House Intelligence Committee hearing Thursday that Egypt’s branch of...

FOX NEWS INSIDER: “Stuff Is Just Made Up” February 10, 2011 7:20 am ET by Eric Boehlert Asked what most viewers and observers of Fox...

What strikes me most strongly is that this Tunisnian, now Egyptian event is part a bigger grander major shift on the global political techtonics. This Facebook generation of Eqyptians are nothing like the past. They speak and quote Martin Luther King and seek American style freedom and liberty. Many speak English and want to live in the global world. Yet our own US Government seems stuck between the 20th and 21st century, between what was and what is to come and it's starting to look like we are missing the history boat. Maybe we are on the wrong side of historicial? Maybe the future is here and we can't see it through our 20th century eyes?

For the first time, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development today published the most authoritative analysis of the extent and nature of homelessness among Veterans. According to HUD and VA’s assessment, nearly 76,000 Veterans were homeless on a given night in 2009 while roughly 136,000 Veterans spent at least one night in a shelter during that year

Former President George W. Bush cancelled his 12 February 2011, trip to Switzerland because of the call for mass protests from human rights activists seeking to bring a legal case against him for ordering the torture of terrorism suspects and calling for participants to each bring a shoe to the rally outside the Hotel Wilson, where Bush was scheduled to speak about freedom.

Dozens of U.S. human rights groups will present an open letter to the Spanish public to consulates and Madrid officials on Valentine's Day. They will encourage support of Spanish courts in prosecuting U.S. officials who authorized torture.

by Jeanette Steele The first veteran to appear in San Diego County's new court for those with emotional battlefield scars stands next to his lawyer,...

Veterans for Peace Besiege Obama’s White House Winter Soldiers The first Washington snow of the season kept falling as Daniel Ellsberg, of the Pentagon papers fame,...

Veterans!  Here’s your Top 10 News stories of the day compiled from the latest sources We encourage you to browse our list so that you...

Pacified & Lulled, Still Waiting for the Pendulum to Swing By Sibel Edmonds STAFF WRITER It was a rainy April day in 2004, and I was...

Murder in Tampa studied by Russia? What could be so interesting about a murder in Tampa that Russian President Medvedev would have the Russian Academy...

Israel and its American lobby have committed audacious but generally unknown crimes against the United States. The government has long kept files about Israeli espionage, weapons smuggling, and covert operations on American soil classified...until now. Spy Trade begins on the trail of a vast smuggler network funneling stolen and illegally purchased surplus WWII arms to Jewish fighters in Palestine

The following is an updated edition of a paper I published eighteen months ago. The current edition includes new references to the unfolding events in Egypt. In...

OPPRESSION BREEDS REVOLUTION By Dr. Frederick Toben for VT TEHRAN, Iran—Media reports show there is a pervasive restlessness among the middle classes in the Middle East...

NUCLEAR TERRORISM IS HERE, AMERICANS HAVE DIED AND OUR GOVERNMENT HAS LIED Dimitri Khalezov talks about nuclear terrorism, 9/11 and who is responsible for terror...

The results are out from the DOD Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program on Gulf War Illness for the 2010 funded studies. These are the list of those studies that have passed the two panel review process. Details will come as they progress to actually getting the funding and getting set up to proceed. Sometimes that can take several months or more. Our congratulations to the researchers and their institutions for their applications to receive funding consideration. The list of researchers and institutions :

  President Obama has been caught like a deer in the headlights by Egypt’s internal cry for freedom and justice whereas empty words and rhetoric...

Unemployed job seekers are entitled to some tax breaks, but most people have only a hazy idea of what they are. Let's say you're out...

A retired hospital chaplain, Ray Deabel speaks at 80 or so funerals a year, many for fellow military veterans. That is an honor. But sometimes only a handful of mourners show up. That is a shame. At the service for one World War II veteran a few years ago, only the chaplain and the funeral home director were there to say thank you and goodbye.

Veterans!  Here’s your Top 10 News stories of the day compiled from the latest sources We encourage you to browse our list so that you...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is increasing its support to caregivers with a new, toll-free telephone line for the caregivers of Veterans of all eras.

The protests in Egypt have prompted renewed questions about the U.S.’s aid to the country—an issue that the U.S. government has also pledged to reconsider [1]. We’ve taken a step back and tried to answer some basic questions, such as how as much the U.S. has given, who has benefitted, and who gets to decide how its all spent. How much does the U.S. spend on Egypt?

Traumatic Brain Injury a signature wound of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to be the focus of medical research meeting in DC. March 7th targeted to bring researchers and government and military medicine together to tackle the issue of finding new therapie for the newest and youngest veterans of this country. So while the hunt goes on for 20 years on Gulf War Illness and to find help for those veterans that have waited, those veterans were also the first to stand up and push to help the youngest group in hope they will not have as longer of a wait as previous wars.

Gulf War Veterans 1990-91/ Desert Storm Veterans that are suffering from gulf war illness are searching for answers and only through their own continual push to find answers has there been a response at all from their government. Through their efforts a law was passed to get the Veterans Affairs Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Illness which meets February 28- March 1 in Washington DC. Their efforts have led to the push for research into biomarkers, the best diagnostic tools, and possible treatment modalities for their illnesses. Dr Bach at the Minneapolis Va has been busy examining their blood for clues and has found some clues and has found so far they have a low level chronic coagulation activation problem. Dr Martin Pall in Washington State is working on oxidative stress as a problem in chronic fatigue, gulf war illness and other undiagnosed illnesses. Dr Bach's research continues and publication of his findings are eagerly awaited. The VA RAC GWI has also reviewed the chronic inflammatory nature of these illnesses at their last meeting in Boston.

AT THE SCENE-MEDICAL SUPPLY CENTER DESTROYED SECRET ISRAELI/US BOMBING PROGRAM EXPOSED By Ken O'Keefe and Gordon Duff for VT "We're in the building here, what do we...

One of the biggest problems tracking reports across the country is that there are days when I get hit with more news than I...

Case against releasing Jonathan J. Pollard, currently sentenced to life in prison for spying for Israel. By Grant F. Smith / Antiwar Almost one year ago...

“That’s the Holy Land!” exclaimed a Palestinian refugee “the Holy Land belongs to everyone! It doesn’t belong exclusively to the Jews!” The...