What's New
| Presdent Obama Donated $250,000 of Nobel Prize Money to Fisher House |
March 11, 2010, Washington, DC (New York Times) - President Obama made good on his promise to give his $1.4 million Nobel Prize money to charity, releasing the names on Thursday of the organizations that will benefit. |
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| Dr. Haley at UTSW Presents Compelling Brain Images Showing Gulf War Illness |
VCS Asks VA: Since UTSW Research Remains Vital to Understanding Gulf War Illness, Then Why Did a Handful of VA Staff in Washington Impede UTSW Contract and Then End Funding for UTSW? March 9, 2010, Salt Lake City, Utah (Science News) - Nearly two decades after vets began returning from the Middle East complaining of Gulf War Syndrome, the federal government has yet to formally accept that their vague jumble of symptoms constitutes a legitimate illness. Here, at the Society of Toxicology annual meeting, yesterday, researchers rolled out a host of brain images – various types of magnetic-resonance scans and brain-wave measurements – that they say graphically and unambiguously depict Gulf War Syndrome. |
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| March 9 VCS Weekly Update |
This week’s VCS update keeps you in the loop with news on issues you care about. One good change – our weekly news updates won’t ask you for money. Instead, our news updates point you to news articles at our web site. We hope you will read them and share the important facts with your friends. This week's update includes news about VA and suicides, VCS on CNN, our VCS FOIA campaign, VA automating Agent Orange claims, a waterboarding torture video, and Gulf War veterans' benefits. |
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| Federal Court Keeps Torture Lawsuit Against Rumsfeld Alive |
What's Waterboarding? Watch Video of Torture March 5, 2010, Chicago, Illinois (Associated Press) - A federal judge refused Friday to dismiss a civil lawsuit accusing former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of responsibility for the alleged torture by U.S. forces of two Americans who worked for an Iraqi contracting firm. [Rumsfeld served at the Pentagon under former President George W. Bush.] |
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| Reducing Suicides: VA Adopts Policy on Emergency Care for Mental Health Patients |
This Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Directive provides policy to ensure the provision of safe and secure mental health services during all hours of operation for Emergency Departments (EDs) and Urgent Care Clinics (UCCs) in VHA |
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Military Families & War Veterans Press Conference
Written by Charles Sheehan-Miles
Friday, 10 January 2003 00:00
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January 10, 2003 - Dear friends and veterans, As many of you know, President Bush is expected to decide on war within weeks. In your efforts to prevent this war, many of you have come into contact with military families who fear for their loved ones in the service and Gulf War veterans who fear that another generation of veterans will suffer from the same unexplained illnesses that they have. If so, please forward this email to them, or email their contact pnone number to me by no later than Friday afternoon. Veterans for Common Sense (VfCS) is seeking both Gulf War combat veterans and military families with loved ones in the service who have deployed to the Gulf or are preparing to deploy to participate in a major national press conference late next week in Washington, DC. The event will raise legitimate unanswered questions as to why we are rushing to war. Equally important, the event is intented to empower other war veterans and military families to speak out against this rush to war. The message of the press conference will be: (1) Veterans and military families want the President to win without war and adhere to the UN process. (2) Given the risks involved, we could face U.S. casualties that we have not seen since Vietnam. (3) Another generation of veterans are vulnerable to the same illnesses and disabilities suffered by U.S. veterans of the 1991 Gulf War. (4) The chemical protection suits, gas masks, and detection alarms don't work. Our service members deserve to be protected and should not be unnecessarily put in harm's way. (5) Without our allies or a clear justication, a U.S. invasion is wreckless and unnecessary. Military families are concerned that their loved ones will die. (6) Americans feel the President has not made a case for war (December LA Times poll, MoveOn petition, city council resolutions, etc). All correspondences should be emailed to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |