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Veterans' Groups Sue for Faster Disability Rulings
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: veterans, politics, u.s., government )

Cal
- 1679 days ago - cnn.com
Two veterans' organizations Monday filed a federal lawsuit seeking to accelerate decisions on disability claims for retired military personnel.
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Code Pink Bails Out One Homeowner With Help of Concerned Citizens!
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: government, corruption, bailout, foreclosures, veterans, code pink, heros, do good )

Clever
- 1701 days ago - salsa.democracyinaction.org
Friday was an historic day. At 11am, Jocelyne Voltaire, mother of a soldier who died in Iraq this year, was scheduled to lose her home in Queens Village, the home she had lived in for the past 20 years, the home where she raised her four children.
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McCain Refuses to Meet With Iraq Veterans Against War
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Mc Cain, McCain, veterans, veterans against the war, abuse, americans, bush, bushadministration, candidates, congress, constitution, corruption, cover-up, crime, dishonesty, elections, ethics, freedoms, government, Govtfearmongering, iraq, lies, media, mi )

Michael
- 1747 days ago - the-uptake.groups.theuptake.org
the goal of presenting Senator John McCain with a list of demands about the Iraq Occupation. While the veterans had no problem gaining access to Senator Obama, Senator McCain refused to meet with the group. He's a Veteran of war, which side??
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Action Alert: SHOULD THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION (VA) ALLOW VOTER REGISTRATION DRIVES IN VETERAN'S AFFAIRS RUN HOSPITALS?
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: VETERANS, usa, war, troops, freedoms, government, healthcare, military, elections, constitution, americans )

Brenda
- 1749 days ago - congress.org
Department of Veterans Affairs, "led by James B. Peake issued a directive that bans nonpartisan voter registration drives at federally financed nursing homes, rehabilitation centers and shelters for homeless veterans."
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Suicide Hot Line Got Calls From 22,000 Veterans
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: army, navy, air force, marinesm coast guard, national guard, suicide, troops, us, war, military, help, va, veterans, ptsd )

NotSilent
- 1784 days ago - news.yahoo.com
The VA estimates that every year 6,500 veterans take their own lives. ...... of the 18 veterans who commit suicide each day, four to five of them are under VA care, and 12,000 veterans under VA care are attempting suicide each year.
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VA Debated PR Plan on Vets' Suicides
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: veterans, Veterans Administration )


- 1881 days ago - consortiumnews.com
how to downplay evidence of a stunning number of suicides and suicide attempts among veterans who were treated or had sought help at VA hospitals around the country, according to newly disclosed internal VA e-mails.
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Distressed War Veterans Get Day in Court
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: veterans, PTSD )


- 1883 days ago - news.yahoo.com
The lawsuit...claims the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs was unable to deal with the growing number of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, cases emerging from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Listen to the Veterans Who'Ve Obeyed Their Hearts and Come to Their Senses: End This War, Now!
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Middle-east, Iraq_war, Veterans, terrorism )

Just
- 1908 days ago - dissidentvoice.org
"Poor and working people in this country are sent to kill poor and working people in another country, to make the rich richer. Without racism, soldiers would realize that they have more in common with the Iraqi people than they do with the billionaires...
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Tune in to Winter Soldier Hearings - By Aaron Glantz
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: war crimes, veterans, peace )


- 1924 days ago - antiwar.com
Winter Soldier testimony and panels will be broadcast live on nationally Pacifica Radio and satellite television station Free Speech TV Channel 9415. Streaming video on IVAW.org, as well as audio at KPFA.org and WarComesHome.org, will enable people to tun
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Forgotten Veterans of Cold War Experiments
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: veterans, human testing, crimes against humanity )


- 1928 days ago - opednews.com
Last week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) confirmed what many veterans have known: that the Department of Defense (DOD) stopped trying to find those who participated in the military's chemical and biological experiments.
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Vets Break Silence on War Crimes
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: veterans, war crimes, iraq, afghanistan )


- 1933 days ago - commondreams.org
U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are planning to descend on Washington from Mar. 13-16 to testify about war crimes they committed or personally witnessed in those countries.
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AMERICA'S HEARTLAND: WHERE'S YOUR HEART?
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: government, veterans, homeless, apathy )

Just
- 1941 days ago - care2.com
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) says the nation's homeless veterans are mostly males (4% are females). The vast majority are single, most come from poor, disadvantaged communities, 45% suffer from mental illness...
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How Lack of Counting = Lack of Funding - Homeless Veteran's Survival Guide
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: homeless, veterans, government, accounting )


- 1947 days ago - wanderingvets.com
On page 63 footnote (d,) it lists that 90% of the data pertaining to if the person was a veteran and or a person with disabilities was lost or not recorded (how convenient).
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Iraq, Afghanistan Veteran Suicides Reach Record Level
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: soldier sucides, Iraq, Afghanistan, PTSD, depression, veterans, Walter Reed )

RC
- 1964 days ago - washingtonpost.com
And yet we keep sending our troops into the hellhole of Iraq & Afghanistan...I weep for these men and woman who can no longer see any hope, any light at the end of the tunnel of their suffering.
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Next Wave of Homeless Vets Emerges
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: veterans, homeless, afghanistan, iraq, vietnam )

Brian
- 1975 days ago - usatoday.com
This is not a new story in America: A young veteran back from war whose struggle to rejoin society has failed, at least for the moment, fighting demons and left homeless. it is happening to a new generation. Afghanistan & Iraq vets.
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