Hundreds of thousands of servicemen were exposed to asbestos over decades, especially during the period from 1940 to 1980. Asbestos was used in construction of naval vessels as well as shore facilities. All branches of the military used asbestos, which was also widely used in civilian applications. Asbestos can cause mesothelioma. Because this cancer has a particularly long latency period, many servicemen who were exposed years ago are now developing this disease.
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Important Information for Veterans: Asbestos products were often used on military ships and within military housing, and Veterans may have been exposed. Previous exposure to asbestos is the only known cause of mesothelioma, a fatal cancer that has no cure and affects countless Veterans and loved ones. For more information regarding military asbestos exposure visit Mesothelioma.com
Special Report: Indo-Israeli Plot against Pak-Iranian Ties
By Sajjad Shaukat
Although the whole of Islamic world is target of Indo-Israeli plot, yet the same has intensified in case of Pakistan and Iran. It is because of the fact that Pakistan is a declared atomic country, while Iran is determined to continue its nuclear programme. In this regard, US-led some western countries have also been supporting the Indo-Israeli nexus against Islamabad and Tehran overtly or covertly.
However, we cannot blame especially India and Israel including US regarding the conspiracy against Pakistan and Iran without some concrete evidence. In this context, in his interview, published in the Indian weekly Outlook on February 18, 2008, Israel’s ambassador to India, Mark Sofer explained regarding India’s defence arrangements with Israel by disclosing, “We do have a defence relationship with India, which is no secret” and “with all due respect, the secret part will remain a secret.” On being asked whether he foresaw joint exercises, Sofer replied, “Certain issues need to remain under wraps for whatever reason.”
News: Sunken World War I submarine found after 93 years
The BBC reports today that a sunken Royal Navy submarine lost in World War I has been found on the bottom of the ocean floor in the Baltic Sea near the coast of Estonia. The sub went down with all hands (31 souls on board) in 1916 during a combat operation. The story is here.
Barack Obama’s recent conduct at the U.N. removed all remaining doubt as to Israeli influence inside this latest U.S. presidency. When he uttered the phrase “the Jewish state of Israel,” he provided precisely the provocation required to ensure that peace in the Middle East will continue to be deferred.
When, in May 1948, Christian-Zionist Harry Truman agreed to recognize an enclave of Jewish-Zionist extremists as a nation state, he struck out “Jewish state” and wrote the “state of Israel.” Despite assurances from Zionist lobbyist Chaim Weizmann that Israel would be a democracy, Truman feared the Zionist state might become what it became: a racist theocracy committed to an expansionist agenda that endangers U.S. interests in the region.
Joanna Brooks in Religion Dispatches - With Glenn Beck now a mainstay in the national debate, the public is getting exposure to a peculiar strain of religious political conservatism rooted in Mormon culture. Whether or not one believes that God rewards baptism with fortune, it is clear that Glenn Beck’s conversion to and education in the Mormon faith after 1999 corresponds precisely with his rise as a media force.
On September 24th, U.S. President Barack Obama presided over a U.N. Security Council session on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament. In March 2010, Moscow will host a Global Nuclear Summit that the U.S. has agreed to attend.
The next five months could prove hopeful or harmful-depending on the impact on Israel's nuclear arsenal. With U.S. backing, Tel Aviv has thus far avoided compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty-joining North Korea, India and Pakistan. President John F. Kennedy tried to stop Israel from starting a nuclear arms race in the Middle East....
Citations issued as squatters have 20 minutes to gather belongings
Four days after Anchorage police red-tagged homeless camps in Mountain View for shutdown, they returned Monday to find illegal campers still squatting on city land and gave them 20 minutes to clear out.
Opinion: Battle heats up over proposed apartment complex at Sepulveda VA
By Peggy Burgess
North Hills, CA. The battle to save the Sepulveda VA from encroachment by private sector developers has heated up as Veterans and a coalition of over 662,000 opponents rejected newly amended leases between the Department of Veterans Affairs and developers New Directions and A Community of Friends (ACOF).
Veteran Falls Cook out Preview at Falls Site Granbury,Tx
by David Artzt, Staff Writer
This past Saturday's cookout was a huge success! We served around 500 who came out to see the progress of the Veteran Falls Memorial Park site. Families came with there children and spent a beautiful afternoon seeing, in most case's for the first time, the waterfall that is being built to honor our veterans and there families in the war on terrorism and all veterans who have served to preserve our freedom
The Mormon Church—the mere mention of the church and its doctrine is now associated (justifiably) with bigotry and hate, an authoritarian array of imbecilities so crazed that even rightwing Christians shun these guys for being absurd.
News: 'Veterans' Ridge' One homeless man in critical condition, tent burned
Photo by Marc Lester / Anchorage Daily News Anchorage police officer John Glor carries a gas can from a wooded area near Reeve Boulevard on Friday afternoon.
Other residents accused in attack, torching evidence
IN the early 1960s, Sen. William J. Fulbright fought to force the American Zionist Council to register as agents of a foreign government. The council eluded registration by reorganizing as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. AIPAC has since become what Fulbright most feared: A foreign agent dominating American foreign policy while disguised as a domestic lobby.
Israelis and pro-Israelis object when they hear that charge. How, they ask, can we so few wield such influence over so many? Answer: It’s all in the math. And in the single-issue advocacy brought to bear on US policy-making by dozens of “domestic” organizations that now compose the Israel lobby, with AIPAC its most visible force.
Special Report: AMERICA: LOST ON THE ROAD TO FINDING A REAL ENEMY
SO MUCH ANGER, ENERGY AND FEELINGS OF HELPLESSNESS
TIME FOR COMMON SENSE TO HELP US PICK THE REAL ENEMY
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
We are in the middle of a war and nobody is really mad. I have yet to see a single Taliban member hanged in effigy and none of us even know who their leaders are. Most people in the world are sure Osama bin Laden has been dead for years.
Here at home, every effort has been made to get us all to join militias, or go out into the streets to beat up police and burn cars to support more money to banks and insurance companies. Getting knocked in the head because some insurance company exec had to fire the pool boy at his second vacation home is not my idea of a reason for social conflict, much less a trip to the emergency room.
Special Report: Evangelicals Infecting Not Just Military, Politics but also ... Sports
Few need to be reminded that exclusionary religious forces are embedding themselves in myriad American institutions. But can't they leave sports alone?
Sportsfans notice the occasional baseball player ripping a HR or QB tossing a touchdown, then pointing to the sky and acclaiming that Jesus Christ is number one.
Strikeouts and sacks—those are the work of the desolate one and no cause to acknowledge his work.
This November, the Cumberland County Community Chorus will be giving a Veterans Benefit Concert. This "American Heroes" concert will be Sunday, Nov. 8, at 3 p.m., and held in the auditorium of Stone Memorial High School located on Cook Road in Crossville. The afternoon program will be a collection of patriotic melodies and Americana favorites. Others sharing the stage for this benefit concert will be a Clarion Brass Quintet from the Southern Stars Brass Orchestra; the Andrews Sisters; Ann Looney, on piano; and Marty Gibson, chorus director, musician and vocalist.
ST. LOUIS - An Army veteran remained jailed Wednesday after he was arrested with a loaded handgun outside an Illinois Veterans Affairs hospital where he warned a nurse he was armed and was "going to fill that place with lead," court documents show.
Mark Harmon, 29, of Shawneetown, Ill., told a nurse by telephone late last Thursday that he was headed to her workplace at the VA hospital in the southern Illinois town of Marion, according to an affidavit filed in court by Roy Thompson, acting chief of the site's police force.
Opinion: Columbus Day, An American Holocaust or Day to Celebrate?
Should we be celebrating the exterminations of a culture and people?
Are we just another group of DIRTY PITCHERS?
by Johnny Punish
Happy Columbus Day! It's the day Europe discovered America. Or if, you're an indigneous native, it's the darkest day in history. It's the day the end of a people and culture began its extermination. Should we be celebrating this day?
So to begin the week, here are some suggestions for some media outlets routinely covering stories that should be blanketed, but aren't. Readers of Veterans Today will find these media critical reading; they're not right or left, just fact-based and brilliant; speaking truth to power.
An ambitious, five-day undersea search of Santa Monica Bay for the last missing Womens Airforce Service Pilot from World War II ended Saturday with the whereabouts of Gertrude Tompkins'P-51D Mustang fighter plane still a mystery.
Left Pictured: Last year, in a previous accident, a truck carrying a rocket booster for a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile overturned near Makoti, N.D.
BISMARCK, N.D.—A truck driver who lost control of a semitrailer carrying missile parts from North Dakota's Minot Air Force Base was distracted by a "large insect" that flew in a window and landed on the driver's back, the military said in a report released Friday.
News: Ex-VA nurse pleads not guilty to killing WW II Vet
Innocent until proven guilty, remember.
by Jennifer Hewlett Lexington, Kentucky - A nurse charged in the death of a Veterans Affairs Medical Center patient entered a not guilty plea Friday during an arraignment in U.S. District Court.
Maria K. Whitt, 32, of Mount Sterling, is charged with murder in the death of 90-year-old World War II veteran Jesse Lee Chain, who died of a morphine overdose Sept. 3, 2006.
Special Report: Internet More International Minded Than Mainstream Media
[Editor's note: This is part four of a four-part series based on the just published "News Media In Crisis"(Doukathsan) book from the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover. Bob Higgins]
By Sherwood Ross, Staff Writer
A survey comparing online and mainstream media finds that 27 percent of lead news stories in the former had an international focus compared with 16 percent in the latter. “That’s a pretty big difference,” says Paul Hitlin of Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) of Washington, D.C.
News: Santa Monica College Opens New Veterans Center
Santa Monica College (SMC) has opened a new Veterans Center dedicated to assisting the estimated 300 to 350 student veterans at the college. This semester, SMC opened the Veterans Center in a small complex of former faculty offices that college officials say will help them better serve this special population, which includes many veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The center is located in Room 135 of the Liberal Arts Building and is open 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday.
Special Report: Newspaper Decline Traced To Widespread Illiteracy
[Editor's note: This is part three of a four-part series based on the just published "News Media In Crisis"(Doukathsan) book from the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover. Bob Higgins]
By Sherwood Ross, Staff Writer
One reason for the decline of newspaper circulation is that 42 million Americans are illiterate and roughly 50 million more are semi-literate, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Christopher Hedges says. What’s more, he adds, 80 percent of U.S. households last year did not buy a book.
“The rates of illiteracy or semi-literacy---meaning people reading at a fourth or fifth grade level---now comprise one-third of the United States,” says Hedges, “and even those who are technically literate opt into a system where they get most of their information through images---images which are of course skillfully manipulated.”
Special Report: Fox News Blasted At Journalism Conference
By Sherwood Ross, Staff Writer
Andover, Mass. ---Veteran reporters attending a journalism conference here largely agreed that Fox Television Network presents mostly opinion rather than news and is not particularly interested in getting at the truth.
How Israel's Nuclear Arsenal Endangers Us All
The Mormon Church—the mere mention of the church and its doctrine is now associated (justifiably) with bigotry and hate, an authoritarian array of imbecilities so crazed that even rightwing Christians shun these guys for being absurd. 
Photo by Marc Lester / Anchorage Daily News Anchorage police officer John Glor carries a gas can from a wooded area near Reeve Boulevard on Friday afternoon.
HOW THE ISRAELI LOBBY CONTROLS US
SO MUCH ANGER, ENERGY AND FEELINGS OF HELPLESSNESS
American institutions. But can't they leave sports alone?
Should we be celebrating the exterminations of a culture and people? 
