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 US Politics & Gov't  Michael - 37 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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 US Politics & Gov't  Brenda - 39 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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 US Politics & Gov't  NotSilent - 74 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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 US Politics & Gov't  JohnMicha - 118 days ago - truthawaits.com Wayne Madsen reports that he knows people within the NSA that would testify if we were to succeed with this Ballot Initiative and create a new Commission!
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Change.Org - Tell Congress to Help Veterans Go to College - Take Action
US Politics & Gov't  Kelli - 121 days ago - change.org Senator Jim Webb from Virginia has introduced an expanded version of the GI Bill, called the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Act, to increase education benefits for veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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 US Politics & Gov't  - 172 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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 US Politics & Gov't - 174 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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 US Politics & Gov't  Just - 199 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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 US Politics & Gov't - 214 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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 US Politics & Gov't Kelli - 219 days ago - news.yahoo.com The Veterans Affairs Department estimates that on any given night last year, 154,000 veterans were homeless, about a 20 percent decrease from 195,827 in the agency's 2006 estimate.
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 US Politics & Gov't - 219 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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 US Politics & Gov't - 224 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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 US Politics & Gov't Just - 231 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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 US Politics & Gov't - 237 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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 US Politics & Gov't  Ombretta - 255 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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