Yearly Archives: 2005

Alert for Chicago Area Veterans: You Can Question VA Chief About VA Disability Benefits Illinois veterans will have a chance to quiz Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson about the agency’s disability pay disparity on Friday at an open town hall … Continue reading →

  Librarian’s brush with FBI shapes her view of the USA Patriot Act   It was a moment that librarians had been dreading. On June 8, 2004, an FBI agent stopped at the Deming branch of the Whatcom County Library … Continue reading →

Stones For the Dead As part of a growing nationwide trend of building memorials to the Iraq war, members of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax, Virginia gathered this Sunday to dedicate a cairn to casualties of the two-year-long conflict. … Continue reading →

A message from Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton May 17, 2005 Mr. Seth PollackChairman of the BoardVeterans for Common Sense1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, SEWashington, D.C.  20003 Dear Mr. Pollack: I am pleased to announce that the Senate Armed Services Committee approved aprovision … Continue reading →

VA chief is asked to review hospital The request comes after a paralyzed Marine is injured at the James Haley VA Medical Center in Tampa. TAMPA – A week after a paralyzed Marine was injured at the James A. Haley … Continue reading →

Allegations of Kidnap in Controversial Army Recruiting Incident   May 5, 2005 Re: Army Recruitment Malfeasance Dear Congressman Howard Berman, We are writing on behalf of our friend Maria Iris and her son, Ever Jandres. We have known this family … Continue reading →

Heated criticism was growing last night over ‘double standards’ by Washington over human rights, democracy and ‘freedom’ as fresh evidence emerged of just how brutally Uzbekistan, a US ally in the ‘war on terror’, put down Friday’s unrest in the … Continue reading →

The CIA has so far refused to hand over control of Iraq’s intelligence service to the newly elected Iraqi government in a turf war that exposes serious doubts the Bush administration has over the ability of Iraqi leaders to fight … Continue reading →

With hundreds of thousands of soldiers having served in Iraq, conservative estimates indicate that 1 in 6 are returning from combat suffering from major depression, generalized anxiety, or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which can be as crippling as any physical … Continue reading →