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Last Week: 26 US War Casualties

US media divert attention from the actual cost in American life and limb by reporting regularly only the total killed, but rarely mentioning those wounded in action

(PORTLAND, OR) - US military occupation forces in Afganistan under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 26 casualties in the week ending March 6, as the official casualty total for the Iraq and AfPak wars* rose to 112, 605.

Congress: Agent Orange Act Of 1991

Are veterans in need to be sacrificed?

(MEDIA, PA) - Someone once said, people are tired about hearing of the Vietnam War. This may be so. It is not so much about the war. That war is in the past. It is now about those veterans who were engaged in that war who can not get help and care.

The Agent Orange Act of 1991, was passed by the Congress to afford medical assistance and disability to all Vietnam Veterans.

Open Letter to Olympic Committee Members in London Over Down Sponsorship

The idea of Dow's advertising being plastered on the front of the stadium absolutely ruins the idea of what the Olympics are supposed to be.

(LONDON) - In a few weeks, unless you take action, the Olympic Stadium will have been surrounded by a wrap comprising 336 giant panels made by a company responsible for deaths of many thousands.

That company is Dow Chemical, whose record was known to each and everyone of you through the many court cases it has had brought against them in the US for disposing of tonnes of highly toxic waste into rivers and lakes near its plants.

Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine

The truth is finally emerging...

(MELBOURNE) - Whether Americans live in the one state or the other is the paramount question of this era.

For two hundred years Americans have been indoctrinated with a mythology created, imposed and sustained by a manipulating cabal: the financial elite that built its absolute control on the muscle and blood, good will, ignorance and credulity, of its citizenry.

VA Announces Funding Availability for the Grant and Per Diem Program

Expects to fund 600 beds across four priority areas; applications due May 30.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced the availability of funds for applications for assistance under the Per Diem Only component of VA's Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program.

This Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) includes funding priorities for those applicants who will serve specific homeless veteran populations that are identified in this NOFA...

Philadelphia VA Tells Marine to `Take a Hike`

America does not support it troops unless they're standing in a recruiting line or appearing in a Hollywood movie.

(PHILADELPHIA, PA) - The letter from the Philadelphia VA Regional Office was thick. It wasn’t a love letter.

The package was received on my daughter’s birthday, February 28, 2012. It contained the VA’s denial of my pending disability compensation claim. The denial runs a total of 66 single space pages.

Judge Sides With Monsanto

Ridicules Farmers' Right to Grow Food Without Fear, Contamination and Economic Harm.

(MANHATTAN, NY) - On February 24, Judge Naomi Buchwald handed down her ruling on a motion to dismiss in the case of Organic Seed Growers and Trade Assn et al v. Monsanto after hearing oral argument on January 31st in Federal District Court in Manhattan.

Her ruling to dismiss the case brought against Monsanto on behalf of organic farmers, seed growers and agricultural organizations representing farmers and citizens was met with great disappointment by the plaintiffs.

Military Psychiatrists with Personality Disorder

Commentary on the New York Times article: Branding Soldiers with Personality Disorders

(MOLALLA, OR) - For almost anybody with more than two brain neurons, the military, especially the Army, is really a weird place.

Arch-Criminal Flees Country to Escape British Justice

Norman has left the building....

(LONDON) - The arch-criminal Norman Scarth has fled the country to escape British Justice (now there’s an oxymoron for you!)

He has spread terror throughout West Yorkshire with his leaflets, grown men & women afraid to leave their homes for fear of attack.

Monsanto, Dow and Agent Orange - an Original Article by John Pilger

Whenever I have returned to Vietnam, and traveled in the Mekong Delta, I see adults and children who bear the deformities of Agent Orange."

(DA NANG, Vietnam) - On 13 February, a French court found the Monsanto company guilty of poisoning a farmer, Paul Francois, who developed neurological problems after working with one of Monsanto’s weedkiller.

The court found that Monsanto had failed to provide proper warning on the product label.