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‘Continuation of Afghan war by NATO, crime’
By Press TV
“The clear issue we have on NATO is that from day number one this was an illegal war; those who started this war in the US, Britain and elsewhere did so as a war crime. And if it was a war crime, a continuation of the war by NATO should be looked on as a war crime. It’s the duty of everyone to oppose the war in Afghanistan.”
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As the NATO summit kicks off in Chicago, the anti-war activists from across the world gather to voice their opposition to the war and the global warmongers.
Press TV has conducted an interview with Gordon Duff, senior editor of Veterans Today, to further discuss the issue.
The following is a transcription of the interview.
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Press TV: Public opposition to NATO and its wars is greatly intensified but has it and will it affect the decisions being made at the summit today?
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Duff: I think we have a break in reality where governments are paying no attention to the public at all. How is, for instance, Russia going to maintain any sort of voice of opposition when very recently they crushed a protest in Moscow, far more viciously than anything we’ve done?
The clear issue we have on NATO is that from day number one this was an illegal war; those who started this war in the US, Britain and elsewhere did so as a war crime. And if it was a war crime, a continuation of the war by NATO should be looked on as a war crime.
It’s the duty of everyone to oppose the war in Afghanistan. There was never a reason to be there; there was never a reason to attack. There’s no reason to stay.
The idea now that our government here in the US is equating anti-war activity with terrorism is only a sign that the United States is increasingly becoming a police state.
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Press TV: This summit is also marking the activation of the first phase of the US missile system in Europe despite warnings from Russia due to its offensive nature as opposed to what they claim as it being a defensive mechanism. How is that going to play out, in your opinion?
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Duff: The rhetoric the US is using, militarily, is totally false. When we negate Russia’s ability to respond to an American first strike, which is their claim, we are making them vulnerable to attack. That’s an aggressive move. By saying that Poland is somehow going to be magically attacked by Iran is an absurdity beyond human measure.
Another issue, of course, tied to this is that the system that we’re installing right now is so filled with technical bugs that we can’t depend on in ourselves anyway. The Patriot 3 system has very considerable difficulty discerning warheads from scrap or chaff or other material. The system itself that we’re fighting over is ineffective.
It’s just the idea that we are going to use it and install this, really surrounding Russia, it has nothing to do with Iran whatsoever.
What we’re doing is we’re trying to return to the years of the Cold War to continue justifying military spending, continue justifying the presence of NATO — and these people calling for an end to NATO are very realistic.
NATO’s mission is at an absolute end. We learned this in Libya. NATO’s participation in Libya was a farce. I think it should have declared a death nail for NATO.
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Press TV: Speaking of which, Afghanistan is going to figure greatly in the summit, you touched upon that earlier. Rasmussen has already said that there will be no early withdrawal other than that of France’s.
How unified, do you think, are other member states over this behind closed doors, specifically in light of their own economic and political issues that they have to grapple with at home?
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Duff: The issue primarily is the US ability to apply leverage. Zardari from Pakistan is allowing US supplies through. Why? -Because he’s avoiding prosecution for laundering drug money in Switzerland.
As far as Karzai, Karzai will keep Americans there because every two weeks he does the same game. America has to leave, we bring him a suitcase of money, then America gets to stay.
If we’re gone, the suitcases of money stop. Anyone that thinks that isn’t true, and who doesn’t know that’s true, knows nothing about international affairs.
Short URL: http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=208088
Article source: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/05/22/duff-on-press-tv-missile-shield-and-nato-protests/
‘Continuation of Afghan war by NATO, crime’
By Press TV
“The clear issue we have on NATO is that from day number one this was an illegal war; those who started this war in the US, Britain and elsewhere did so as a war crime. And if it was a war crime, a continuation of the war by NATO should be looked on as a war crime. It’s the duty of everyone to oppose the war in Afghanistan.”
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As the NATO summit kicks off in Chicago, the anti-war activists from across the world gather to voice their opposition to the war and the global warmongers.
Press TV has conducted an interview with Gordon Duff, senior editor of Veterans Today, to further discuss the issue.
The following is a transcription of the interview.
—————————————-
Press TV: Public opposition to NATO and its wars is greatly intensified but has it and will it affect the decisions being made at the summit today?
—————————————-
Duff: I think we have a break in reality where governments are paying no attention to the public at all. How is, for instance, Russia going to maintain any sort of voice of opposition when very recently they crushed a protest in Moscow, far more viciously than anything we’ve done?
The clear issue we have on NATO is that from day number one this was an illegal war; those who started this war in the US, Britain and elsewhere did so as a war crime. And if it was a war crime, a continuation of the war by NATO should be looked on as a war crime.
It’s the duty of everyone to oppose the war in Afghanistan. There was never a reason to be there; there was never a reason to attack. There’s no reason to stay.
The idea now that our government here in the US is equating anti-war activity with terrorism is only a sign that the United States is increasingly becoming a police state.
————————————–
Press TV: This summit is also marking the activation of the first phase of the US missile system in Europe despite warnings from Russia due to its offensive nature as opposed to what they claim as it being a defensive mechanism. How is that going to play out, in your opinion?
—————————————
Duff: The rhetoric the US is using, militarily, is totally false. When we negate Russia’s ability to respond to an American first strike, which is their claim, we are making them vulnerable to attack. That’s an aggressive move. By saying that Poland is somehow going to be magically attacked by Iran is an absurdity beyond human measure.
Another issue, of course, tied to this is that the system that we’re installing right now is so filled with technical bugs that we can’t depend on in ourselves anyway. The Patriot 3 system has very considerable difficulty discerning warheads from scrap or chaff or other material. The system itself that we’re fighting over is ineffective.
It’s just the idea that we are going to use it and install this, really surrounding Russia, it has nothing to do with Iran whatsoever.
What we’re doing is we’re trying to return to the years of the Cold War to continue justifying military spending, continue justifying the presence of NATO — and these people calling for an end to NATO are very realistic.
NATO’s mission is at an absolute end. We learned this in Libya. NATO’s participation in Libya was a farce. I think it should have declared a death nail for NATO.
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Press TV: Speaking of which, Afghanistan is going to figure greatly in the summit, you touched upon that earlier. Rasmussen has already said that there will be no early withdrawal other than that of France’s.
How unified, do you think, are other member states over this behind closed doors, specifically in light of their own economic and political issues that they have to grapple with at home?
————————————–
Duff: The issue primarily is the US ability to apply leverage. Zardari from Pakistan is allowing US supplies through. Why? -Because he’s avoiding prosecution for laundering drug money in Switzerland.
As far as Karzai, Karzai will keep Americans there because every two weeks he does the same game. America has to leave, we bring him a suitcase of money, then America gets to stay.
If we’re gone, the suitcases of money stop. Anyone that thinks that isn’t true, and who doesn’t know that’s true, knows nothing about international affairs.
Short URL: http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=208088
Article source: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/05/22/duff-on-press-tv-missile-shield-and-nato-protests/
A Realistic View of Japan’s Economic Future
By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
While massive debt in the US has been in the world news and the failure of austerity measures to stabilize the Euro have been continually reported, Japan has gone under.
Today, Fitch lowered Japanese foreign currency rating to near junk bond status. Japan had previously fallen to AA and is now down to “A,” a level unacceptable to a nation that most still consider a world “super-economy.”
The denial, of course, is that Japan will never recover from the Fukajima disaster and if we are honest, eventually world birthrates from the massive radiation leak that continues to this day will be a very real but unpleasant cure of a burgeoning world population.
Sterility and a worldwide “cancer cluster” will stem population growth.
As for Japan, this isn’t the end, further cuts in their credit rating are faced soon as their debt level continues to spin out of control, now at 239% of GNP, highest of any advanced nation. Japan makes Greece look successful and “well planned.”
“The downgrades and negative outlooks reflect growing risks for Japan’s sovereign credit profile as a result of high and rising public debt ratios,” Andrew Colquhoun, head of Asia-Pacific sovereigns at Fitch said in a statement.
Moody still keeps Japan at AA because of recent measures such as the doubling of the national sales tax. However, there is little chance that any plan to stabilize Japan will come soon as the government there is split on solutions and the Japanese have no history of dealing with austerity measures realistically.
We are seeing a similar reaction in France where Prime Minister Hollande has sworn to spend his nation out of debt. We wish him good luck with that.
There is one “however” that we might add.
A realistic look at world currency markets indicates a full scale crash of western currencies occurred in 2007, a “train-wreck” never adequately reported, replaced by stories of “bail outs” without backing by adequate reforms.
In fact, the financial crimes of the Bush era and their renewal are increasingly the subject of the first “signs of life” from the Obama administration, where serious investigations and prosecutions may begin in earnest, of course, during an election year.
Japan owns up to $10 trillion in public debt and hundreds of trillions in toxic derivative debt it plans to continue to shield from scrutiny.
Consider them as having applied for “third world” status, soon to be joined to so many others.
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Addendum
Political stability issues on the Korean peninsula, both within the South Korean government and between the South and North are totally “out of hand.” The reality of a new Korean War is too close at hand, something unreported, something based on behind the scenes manipulation by China and massive diplomatic failures by South Korea.
At one time, both Russia and Japan had the potential to become stabilizing influences in the region. Now, all that is left is the potential for mayhem, leaving only Hong Kong, Singapore and the Anzacs as viable.
The covert militarization of China, twice America’s secret estimates, three times its public estimates, and their unwillingness to exhibit mature leadership in regional affairs has made them a liability.
Combining this with the arms race in South Asia, Pakistan, thought of as a Chinese client state and India, far overreaching its military needs unless it plans to begin its own “Cold War” with China, only add to the chaotic potential.
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Short URL: http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=208103
Article source: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/05/22/japans-broke-highest-debt-ratio-of-any-natioln/
A Realistic View of Japan’s Economic Future
By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
While massive debt in the US has been in the world news and the failure of austerity measures to stabilize the Euro have been continually reported, Japan has gone under.
Today, Fitch lowered Japanese foreign currency rating to near junk bond status. Japan had previously fallen to AA and is now down to “A,” a level unacceptable to a nation that most still consider a world “super-economy.”
The denial, of course, is that Japan will never recover from the Fukajima disaster and if we are honest, eventually world birthrates from the massive radiation leak that continues to this day will be a very real but unpleasant cure of a burgeoning world population.
Sterility and a worldwide “cancer cluster” will stem population growth.
As for Japan, this isn’t the end, further cuts in their credit rating are faced soon as their debt level continues to spin out of control, now at 239% of GNP, highest of any advanced nation. Japan makes Greece look successful and “well planned.”
“The downgrades and negative outlooks reflect growing risks for Japan’s sovereign credit profile as a result of high and rising public debt ratios,” Andrew Colquhoun, head of Asia-Pacific sovereigns at Fitch said in a statement.
Moody still keeps Japan at AA because of recent measures such as the doubling of the national sales tax. However, there is little chance that any plan to stabilize Japan will come soon as the government there is split on solutions and the Japanese have no history of dealing with austerity measures realistically.
We are seeing a similar reaction in France where Prime Minister Hollande has sworn to spend his nation out of debt. We wish him good luck with that.
There is one “however” that we might add.
A realistic look at world currency markets indicates a full scale crash of western currencies occurred in 2007, a “train-wreck” never adequately reported, replaced by stories of “bail outs” without backing by adequate reforms.
In fact, the financial crimes of the Bush era and their renewal are increasingly the subject of the first “signs of life” from the Obama administration, where serious investigations and prosecutions may begin in earnest, of course, during an election year.
Japan owns up to $10 trillion in public debt and hundreds of trillions in toxic derivative debt it plans to continue to shield from scrutiny.
Consider them as having applied for “third world” status, soon to be joined to so many others.
———————————
Addendum
Political stability issues on the Korean peninsula, both within the South Korean government and between the South and North are totally “out of hand.” The reality of a new Korean War is too close at hand, something unreported, something based on behind the scenes manipulation by China and massive diplomatic failures by South Korea.
At one time, both Russia and Japan had the potential to become stabilizing influences in the region. Now, all that is left is the potential for mayhem, leaving only Hong Kong, Singapore and the Anzacs as viable.
The covert militarization of China, twice America’s secret estimates, three times its public estimates, and their unwillingness to exhibit mature leadership in regional affairs has made them a liability.
Combining this with the arms race in South Asia, Pakistan, thought of as a Chinese client state and India, far overreaching its military needs unless it plans to begin its own “Cold War” with China, only add to the chaotic potential.
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Short URL: http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=208103
Article source: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/05/22/japans-broke-highest-debt-ratio-of-any-natioln/
Memorial Day program honors men and women who died serving our nation
West Lafayette, IN – May 22, 2012 – On May 28, 2012, the Indiana Veterans’ Home invites the community to attend a special Memorial Day service to honor the men and women who died while serving in the armed forces. The program, led by American Legion Post 492, will be held at 10:30 a.m. in the MacArthur Auditorium at the Indiana Veterans’ Home. The program will include a wreath presentation and a reading of the names of deceased Indiana Veterans’ Home residents.
“As veterans and veterans’ spouses, our residents understand the sacrifices of military life more than most,” said Melissa Durr, interim superintendent of the Indiana Veterans’ Home. “It is our privilege to take this opportunity to remember those brave men and women who died serving our country.”
As a part of this special Memorial Day service, Master Sergeant David Templeton, USMC (retired), will speak about his 20 years of active duty. MSGT Templeton twice served with Marine One and has been deployed to or stationed at numerous locations in the U.S. and around the world, including Iraq, Okinawa, Korea, the Philippines, Thailand and many other countries during Presidential Support missions. MSGT Templeton’s personal awards include the Meritorious Service Medal, Navy Achievement Medal with two Gold Stars and the Presidential Service Badge.
About Indiana Veterans’ Home
Located in West Lafayette on more than 250 wooded acres overlooking the Wabash River, the Indiana Veterans’ Home is the only veterans’ home in the state of Indiana. We serve honorably discharged members of the U.S. armed forces and their spouses with long- and short-term medical and rehabilitative services. Indiana Veterans’ Home is a Medicaid-certified facility and also accepts private pay, as well as Medicare A for short-term rehab stays. For more information or to schedule a tour, please contact our Admissions Department at (765) 463-1502.
Contact:
Melissa Templeton
(765) 463-1502, ext. 8675
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Article source: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/05/22/indiana-veterans-home-remembers-fallen-heroes/
Memorial Day program honors men and women who died serving our nation
West Lafayette, IN – May 22, 2012 – On May 28, 2012, the Indiana Veterans’ Home invites the community to attend a special Memorial Day service to honor the men and women who died while serving in the armed forces. The program, led by American Legion Post 492, will be held at 10:30 a.m. in the MacArthur Auditorium at the Indiana Veterans’ Home. The program will include a wreath presentation and a reading of the names of deceased Indiana Veterans’ Home residents.
“As veterans and veterans’ spouses, our residents understand the sacrifices of military life more than most,” said Melissa Durr, interim superintendent of the Indiana Veterans’ Home. “It is our privilege to take this opportunity to remember those brave men and women who died serving our country.”
As a part of this special Memorial Day service, Master Sergeant David Templeton, USMC (retired), will speak about his 20 years of active duty. MSGT Templeton twice served with Marine One and has been deployed to or stationed at numerous locations in the U.S. and around the world, including Iraq, Okinawa, Korea, the Philippines, Thailand and many other countries during Presidential Support missions. MSGT Templeton’s personal awards include the Meritorious Service Medal, Navy Achievement Medal with two Gold Stars and the Presidential Service Badge.
About Indiana Veterans’ Home
Located in West Lafayette on more than 250 wooded acres overlooking the Wabash River, the Indiana Veterans’ Home is the only veterans’ home in the state of Indiana. We serve honorably discharged members of the U.S. armed forces and their spouses with long- and short-term medical and rehabilitative services. Indiana Veterans’ Home is a Medicaid-certified facility and also accepts private pay, as well as Medicare A for short-term rehab stays. For more information or to schedule a tour, please contact our Admissions Department at (765) 463-1502.
Contact:
Melissa Templeton
(765) 463-1502, ext. 8675
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Short URL: http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=208089
Article source: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/05/22/indiana-veterans-home-remembers-fallen-heroes/
by Joe Wallace
In October, 2011, authorization for the Temporary Residence Grant or TRA was extended under Public Law 112-37. The Veterans Health Care Facilities Capital Improvement Act of 2011 was signed into law on October 5, 2011, and as a result TRA grant money availability was extended until December 31 2012.
TRA was created to help eligible disabled veterans adapt a family member’s home to make it more accessible for the veteran.
According to the FHA official site, “The Temporary Residence Adaptation (TRA) grant program is available to veterans and servicemembers who have been rated eligible for the Specially Adapted Housing section 2101 (a) (SAH) or the Special Home Adaptation section 2101(b) (SHA) grant on a one time basis.” But is time running out on TRA benefits? the authorization currently expires at the end of 2012, but there is an effort to extend that authorization.
Read more @: www.vanewsblog.com
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Article source: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/05/22/is-time-running-out-for-the-va-temporary-residence-grant/
by Joe Wallace
In October, 2011, authorization for the Temporary Residence Grant or TRA was extended under Public Law 112-37. The Veterans Health Care Facilities Capital Improvement Act of 2011 was signed into law on October 5, 2011, and as a result TRA grant money availability was extended until December 31 2012.
TRA was created to help eligible disabled veterans adapt a family member’s home to make it more accessible for the veteran.
According to the FHA official site, “The Temporary Residence Adaptation (TRA) grant program is available to veterans and servicemembers who have been rated eligible for the Specially Adapted Housing section 2101 (a) (SAH) or the Special Home Adaptation section 2101(b) (SHA) grant on a one time basis.” But is time running out on TRA benefits? the authorization currently expires at the end of 2012, but there is an effort to extend that authorization.
Read more @: www.vanewsblog.com
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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
1. Pathfinders’ preparedness is tested by deadly IED blasts. When they landed, Pathfinders with 4th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 101st Airborne Division bounded from the aircraft with their Afghan partners. They knelt and readied for the fight as the helicopter lifted. But when the brownout settled, they were met with desolation and an eerie silence. The soldiers had been dropped into a sophisticated and deadly trap.
2. Iraq buys US drones to protect nation’s oil exports. The United States has agreed to sell unarmed surveillance drones to Iraq’s navy as part of an effort to help protect that nation’s oil exports amid growing tensions in the Persian Gulf and to strengthen U.S.-Iraqi ties.
3. Amid budget austerity, Reserve looks for new ways to maintain capabilities. As combat winds down and the military faces a budget crunch, the Army’s reserve forces are looking for new kinds of deployment opportunities and cheaper ways to train.
4. Police: Corning man stole sold bronze Veteran’s Memorial Markers. News 10NBC
… stole the seven markers from Houghey Funeral Home in Corning and later sold them to Swarthout’s Recycling as scrap. Swarthout’s Recycling have assisted in this investigation and all markers have been returned to The US Dept of Veteran’s Affairs.
5. ‘We Pretend the Vets Don’t Exist’. Newsweek Pull up your local newspaper online and search “veteran suicide,” and you’re likely to come up with at least one link to a story. Based on data from the National Violent Death Reporting System, Mark Kaplan of Portland State University asserts that male …
6. Disabled vet Sherman Barton battles for military contracts for business. Philadelphia Inquirer Those injuries earned Barton an honorable discharge and classification by the Department of Veterans Affairs as having “a 100 percent permanent and total service-connected disability.” It was a tough-to-take classification for the Edgewater Park …
7. New Program Seeks to Place Unemployed Veterans in High-Demand Jobs. Patch.com The US Department of Veterans Affairs and US Department of Labor have partnered to offer the program, which is geared toward veterans between the ages of 35 and 60. The program provides benefits toward education costs for up to one year. The Veteran …
8. SBA names Veteran Small Business Champion of the Year. Norwalk Plus Magazine By US Small Business Administration (SBA) Hartford, CT – The US Small Business Administration (SBA) announced its annual award winners for 2012. Michael Zacchea, Program Director of the University of Connecticut Entrepreneur Bootcamp for Veterans with …
9. Appeals court blocks overhaul of VA mental health system. American Medical News Veterans groups are working on an appeal to the US Supreme Court after a federal appeals court halted a revamping of the Dept. of Veterans Affairs’ mental health system. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals said May 7 that it does not have jurisdiction …
10. Veterans Disability Lawyer Urges Changes in VA Mental Health Care Delivery. Law Firm Newswire The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA ) announced in April that the agency needs about 1900 new positions, but Shinseki told the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee that the VA needs additional workers in mental health care beyond the 1900 already ..
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Article source: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/05/22/top-10-veterans-stories-183/
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
1. Pathfinders’ preparedness is tested by deadly IED blasts. When they landed, Pathfinders with 4th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 101st Airborne Division bounded from the aircraft with their Afghan partners. They knelt and readied for the fight as the helicopter lifted. But when the brownout settled, they were met with desolation and an eerie silence. The soldiers had been dropped into a sophisticated and deadly trap.
2. Iraq buys US drones to protect nation’s oil exports. The United States has agreed to sell unarmed surveillance drones to Iraq’s navy as part of an effort to help protect that nation’s oil exports amid growing tensions in the Persian Gulf and to strengthen U.S.-Iraqi ties.
3. Amid budget austerity, Reserve looks for new ways to maintain capabilities. As combat winds down and the military faces a budget crunch, the Army’s reserve forces are looking for new kinds of deployment opportunities and cheaper ways to train.
4. Police: Corning man stole sold bronze Veteran’s Memorial Markers. News 10NBC
… stole the seven markers from Houghey Funeral Home in Corning and later sold them to Swarthout’s Recycling as scrap. Swarthout’s Recycling have assisted in this investigation and all markers have been returned to The US Dept of Veteran’s Affairs.
5. ‘We Pretend the Vets Don’t Exist’. Newsweek Pull up your local newspaper online and search “veteran suicide,” and you’re likely to come up with at least one link to a story. Based on data from the National Violent Death Reporting System, Mark Kaplan of Portland State University asserts that male …
6. Disabled vet Sherman Barton battles for military contracts for business. Philadelphia Inquirer Those injuries earned Barton an honorable discharge and classification by the Department of Veterans Affairs as having “a 100 percent permanent and total service-connected disability.” It was a tough-to-take classification for the Edgewater Park …
7. New Program Seeks to Place Unemployed Veterans in High-Demand Jobs. Patch.com The US Department of Veterans Affairs and US Department of Labor have partnered to offer the program, which is geared toward veterans between the ages of 35 and 60. The program provides benefits toward education costs for up to one year. The Veteran …
8. SBA names Veteran Small Business Champion of the Year. Norwalk Plus Magazine By US Small Business Administration (SBA) Hartford, CT – The US Small Business Administration (SBA) announced its annual award winners for 2012. Michael Zacchea, Program Director of the University of Connecticut Entrepreneur Bootcamp for Veterans with …
9. Appeals court blocks overhaul of VA mental health system. American Medical News Veterans groups are working on an appeal to the US Supreme Court after a federal appeals court halted a revamping of the Dept. of Veterans Affairs’ mental health system. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals said May 7 that it does not have jurisdiction …
10. Veterans Disability Lawyer Urges Changes in VA Mental Health Care Delivery. Law Firm Newswire The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA ) announced in April that the agency needs about 1900 new positions, but Shinseki told the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee that the VA needs additional workers in mental health care beyond the 1900 already ..
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Article source: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/05/22/top-10-veterans-stories-183/