VCS in the News: At a Congressional hearing last week, experts told Congress that VA staff was “intentionally delaying research and treatment for our veterans.”

July 30, 2010 (AlterNet) - Despite the recently announced intention by Secretary Eric Shinseki and his Chief of Staff, John Gingrich, to change the “culture” of VA, the agency is in the grips of a rogue bureaucracy that bypasses congressional oversight and sabotages veterans interests and health.

July 28, 2010 (CBS) - In nearly a decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, 5,620 Americans have died. Survivors of these fallen heroes are entitled to a life-insurance payment and the government uses a private company to handle it. What happened to the mother of 24-year-old Ryan Baumann of Great Mills, Maryland when she tried to collect serves as a lesson to every military family.

Document Reveals Military Was Concerned About Gulf War Veterans' Exposure to Depleted Uranium

July 28, 2010 (TruthOut) - For years, the government has denied that depleted uranium (DU), a radioactive toxic waste left over from nuclear fission and added to munitions used in the Persian Gulf and Iraq wars, poisoned Iraqi civilians and veterans.