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An open letter to America's college cupcakes on Veterans Day

11/11/2016 - Ray Starmann, editor of USADefenseWatch.com, just posted this must-read Veterans Day commentary on college "crybully" snowflakes. It is an outstanding read, and it explains much of what has gone wrong with today's "pussified" youth who seem incapable of doing anything at all without claiming to be "triggered"...

DEA finally approves marijuana to be studied for veterans suffering from PTSD

5/20/2016 - In a long overdue move, the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has finally granted approval for clinical trials researching the therapeutic value of marijuana on veterans suffering from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The DEA's decision will potentially benefit hundreds of thousands...

VA hospital in West Haven, CT found to be feeding U.S. veterans an insane array of toxic chemicals through the water supply

3/23/2016 - As part of our EPA Watch program that aims to test public water supplies across America for toxic heavy metals and chemicals, I just finished testing a water sample that was collected from inside the VA hospital located at 950 Campbell Avenue, West Haven, Connecticut, zip code 06516. Click here for...

US government trying to mandate toxic vaccines for all veterans (or deny them VA healthcare services)

1/31/2016 - The S.1203 bill has been quick to draw criticism from a variety of groups due to its controversial attempt to mandate vaccinations for all veterans that wish to receive medical services from the Veterans Administration (VA).(1) It has long been suggested that veterans who seek medical...

Veterans complain of deadly, debilitating, chronic diseases amid chemicals, bioweapons and radioactive waste at Fort McClellan

1/22/2016 - Those who are sent abroad to serve our country are often sadly neglected once they return home. But there are also veterans suffering from a tragic fate which befell them here within our nation's borders who are also being forgotten and ignored by those in power. Fort McClellan is a now-defunct military...

Government continues to neglect veterans as PTSD epidemic explodes

12/28/2015 - It's a problem that veterans have had to face after every war throughout U.S. history, even if it wasn't always called the same thing. Whether it has been referred to as "shell shock," or "battle fatigue," or by its most modern incarnation, "post-traumatic stress disorder," all soldiers, sailors,...

Veterans Administration program will map Americans' genes to label citizens with "family health conditions" and mental health disorders

9/16/2015 - A new scheme by the federal agency tasked with caring for military veterans threatens to use servicemen's genes as a weapon against their constitutional rights. The so-called "Million Veterans Program," a voluntary research program by the Veterans Administration (VA) branded as "improving health care...

VA officials send veterans' medical info to FBI, ATF to facilitate gun seizures

8/13/2015 - As ironic as it sounds, the Obama administration's Department of Veterans Affairs is actually working to disarm veterans with an insane policy that treats America's warriors as threats. As reported by The Daily Caller, the VA is assisting in the disarming process by ensuring veterans are placed on...

VA hospital kills more American soldiers than our enemies

7/30/2015 - The extent of the shameful neglect on the part of the Department of Veterans Affairs toward sick veterans seeking health care is only now becoming apparent. A leaked document has revealed that more than 238,000 veterans died while their applications for treatment were pending. That's nearly one-third...

Here's how the US government treats vets: VA disability claims found shredded in the garbage

7/16/2015 12:13:38 PM - Does Uncle Sam hate his own military veterans? You might think so given his history of mistreatment, medical experimentation and outright disdain for them. The latest insult is actually a repeat of an earlier one: Again, the Veterans Administration has failed the very clients that the nation's largest...

Psychiatry exposed as hidden killer of U.S. veterans in new documentary featuring Health Ranger Mike Adams

6/18/2015 - According to a shocking statistic from the Department of Veterans Affairs from 2013, 22 U.S. military veterans were committing suicide every day. And while the figure may have tempered somewhat since then, it still remains high. There have been a number of "mainstream" reasons given for the high...

VA turns U.S. military vets into suicidal drug addicts while Big Pharma rakes in profits

6/11/2015 - A year ago, as the summer of 2013 dawned, the Obama Administration was hit with yet another scandal, one that would resonate with Democrat and Republican voters: VA Hospitals around the country were falsifying appointment records in order to satisfy treatment quotas, leaving scores of veterans without...

CNN reporter blames veterans for Baltimore riots

4/30/2015 - In a moment of what may have been unbelievable candor, a CNN host demonstrated why hers is one of the least-watched cable news channels on the air today. Her name: Brooke Baldwin. As reported by Breitbart News' media critic John Nolte, Baldwin made the outrageous insinuation that veterans, somehow,...

Army undersecretary apologizes to veterans harmed by chemical exposure in Iraq

4/23/2015 - The New York Times ran an article on March 26, 2015 that exposed insufficient treatment of soldiers wounded by chemical agents as they were disarming chemical munitions in Iraq. The lack of treatment involved actual insufficient medical treatment and lack of recognition by not awarding them Purple Heart...

VA labels veterans 'incompetent' to handle finances, stripping them of the right to purchase and own guns

11/29/2014 - Tens of millions of Americans were outraged earlier this year when news broke that Veterans Administration hospitals were deleting veterans' records and failing to schedule them for needed medical appointments in order to appear as though they were fixing a horrible backlog of patients who had yet to...

U.S. government houses veterans in dilapidated building filled with mold, bedbugs and disease-carrying rats

11/17/2014 - It's becoming clear -- honorable US service men and women are becoming nothing more than expendable numbers filed away in a system set up to profit off their service, rather than respect and honor their service. For those who volunteer to serve, it's about defending the country's freedom and values,...

Ebola intentionally spread across USA as part of 'organized terror plot' says veterans news site

10/28/2014 - The potential for Ebola to be deployed as a weapon of terror has been on everyone's minds since the Dallas outbreak and the NYC doctor episode. One prominent online publication now believes that Ebola's deployment as a weapon is already under way (see below). Virologists have long known that Ebola...

Veterans with PTSD cope with help of nature, pets and yoga

9/24/2014 - Army veteran Stephen Simmons arrived home from his last tour in Iraq in 2008, but adjusting to civilian life has been difficult due to his post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). (1) It's not uncommon for those suffering from PTSD to experience feelings of shock, guilt and anger, while also having...

Mindfulness training improves diabetes symptoms and blood sugar levels

8/25/2014 - It's easy to let current circumstances in our lives dictate our thoughts and feelings. When a problem arises, if we get sick, we are quick to blame it on anything but ourselves. In this way, we are undermining the power of our own thoughts and intentions at work, in us and around us, guiding our present...

VA hospital guards Maced veteran and gave him concussion after he complained about nurse and tried to leave

8/6/2014 - The VA hospital system has come under fire recently, ironically around the same time that Obamacare enrollments were initially pushed. The main concerns have been VA eligibility applications "lost" and long waits that have left many needing urgent care or having gone beyond care, as in dead. There have...

Fabricated compassion: Democrats abandon U.S. homeless, veterans and the hungry in rush to roll out red carpet for illegals

7/16/2014 - "We are all connected. We can't just build a wall or a fence and say no more. This is America. Our doors are open." These are the words of U.S. House of Representatives John Lewis, (1) one of many democrats who seem to be stampeding over each other to see who can offer the most enticements to accelerate...

Shock: VA whistleblower says veteran deaths covered up to improve stats

7/4/2014 - Another whistleblower has stepped forward in the ongoing VA scandal, telling CNN reporters that records of dead veterans were changed or physically altered -- some even recently -- to hide the number of them who have died while waiting for care at the Veterans Administration medical center in Phoenix,...

Over 1,000 U.S. veterans killed by disastrously inept VA hospital system

6/29/2014 - A newly issued report by a U.S. senator found that more than 1,000 U.S. veterans likely died in the past decade because of malpractice in regard to a lack of proper and timely care from the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) medical centers. The report from Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., himself a physician,...

Healthcare disgrace: 100,000 veterans discovered to endure long wait times for initial doctor visits at VA hospitals

6/16/2014 - A just-released report by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) revealed that the dearth of patient care for our nation's veterans is more widespread -- and shocking -- than initially thought. The report, which was based on an audit of nearly half of the VA's 1,700 medical centers, clinics and...

This Memorial Day, join the call for dignified health care for all U.S. veterans

5/26/2014 - Recent revelations that VA hospitals kept veterans on secret "waiting lists" to deny them care are shocking, if not downright despicable. If the moral integrity of any government is measured by how well it treats its own veterans, the current U.S. government has almost no morality at all. We owe it...

VA hospital officials shredded documents to hide existence of secret waiting lists that killed U.S. veterans

5/20/2014 - The horrific Veterans Administration scandal, in which scores of patients on a "secret list" reportedly died after spending as long as a year without treatment, has widened. CNN correspondent Jake Tapper recently grilled White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough over President Obama's usual scandal...

Gulf War illness found to be caused by toxic chemicals

5/16/2014 - Researchers have made progress toward understanding a set of physiological mechanisms that underlie "Gulf War syndrome," a heretofore mysterious illness involving a diverse set of symptoms that affected scores of troops who returned from Iraq during the first Gulf War. According to a recently released...

Public Health Service approves marijuana testing for PTSD treatment

4/6/2014 - From flashbacks and insomnia to anxiety and depression, veterans are coming home to America in need of help on many levels, and the last thing they need is "chemical" medicine. Though "psych" meds are prescribed almost across the board for "psychological" issues, the psychiatric manual DSM-5 doesn't...

48,000 United States Afghan/Iraq Vets are homeless - They should have an entire city dedicated to them

1/30/2014 - Did you know that the number of homeless (or on the brink of being homeless) veterans who served in the Middle East has tripled in just the past three years? It's true. Many "vets" are returning from multiple deployments with more stress, more injuries and more needs for help and resources. They should...

Is this even America? Local bar ordered to remove sign thanking veterans for their service

12/5/2013 - You may not always agree with our country's decisions to send troops to certain parts of the world, but holding the men and women who do the fighting in contempt is not right, no matter how you feel about U.S. foreign policy. So it's no surprise that veterans and the owner of a local bar and grill...

Yoga provides relief to veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

11/17/2013 - It used to be that "yoga" and "veterans" were two words you never heard in the same sentence. But in 2013, yoga for veterans has become a necessary practice for those suffering with PTSD, with classes springing up around the country. In fact, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' National Center...

Veterans routinely given psychiatric drugs even without diagnosis of mental disorder

11/11/2013 - A major indicator of the deteriorating quality of conventional medical care in the U.S. is its growing reliance on pharmaceutical drugs as a catch-all for pain and disease management. And a new study published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry shows that this dire situation is only worsening,...

A government that sends riot police to block veterans from visiting a war memorial is an illegitimate, immoral government

10/16/2013 - The president of the United States has his priorities mixed up. And what's more, he ought to be ashamed of himself. That isn't a Democrat or Republican criticism. It is a statement of fact regarding any American president who would allow illegal aliens the "right" to protest on a taxpayer-bought-and-paid-for...

EXPOSED: Health threats of 'safe' levels of radiation covered up by Anglo-American establishment in nuke test; vets fight for pensions

7/10/2013 - A pensions case has become the site of a vicious battleground between the Anglo-American establishment and a British scientist in a row over accepted safe levels of radiation exposure. It began in 2011 when a group of 16 veterans of UK nuclear bomb tests in Australia and Christmas Island applied...

VA uses tranquilizers on over 30 percent of veterans with PTSD despite clinical warnings against their use

3/27/2013 - Doctors and medical professionals at the Veterans Affairs are handing out dangerous tranquilizers such as Xanax and Valium to military service members diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder though they have been repeatedly advised not to do so because of the potential the drugs could cause more...

Are experimental vaccines for soldiers causing premature aging?

9/14/2012 - The research is preliminary and the results inconclusive, but scientists believe several factors are related to repeated exposure to combat conditions could be causing premature aging among many of our nation's veterans, though some believe the cause could be much more sinister. Post-traumatic stress...

US government ran chemical experiments on military veterans under operations MKUltra, Bluebird and Artichoke

7/26/2012 - The United States, for its warts, has achieved much in its short 230-plus year history. It is a benevolent world superpower, for the most part, that serves as a beacon of hope and freedom for an increasingly oppressed world, even as it serves as a guardian against tyranny for as many as half of the...

Federal government routinely denies medical claims to injured, disabled veterans

7/18/2012 - Eight U.S. Army veterans have claimed in court that the federal government denied their medical claims and that the government regularly does so with scores of other veterans as part of a "standardized" practice. In the suit, the vets - led by plaintiff Dannie Fail - claim the Army's Servicemembers...

Insurance companies, government steals life insurance benefits from PTSD veterans who commit suicide

7/16/2012 - There is despicable, there is diabolical, and there are both. This appears to be a story about the latter. Families of four veterans diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder following their tours of duty in combat zones who committed suicide after returning home are charging Prudential Insurance...

US veterans face financial ruin waiting for benefits from overburdened VA

5/27/2012 - We depend on them to protect our country, our lives, our freedom, our way of life. So why does our government continue to shortchange our veterans by chronically underfunding the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), especially at a time when our vets need the VA the most? As lawmakers and the president...

Appeals court reverses overhaul of veterans healthcare

5/12/2012 - The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is no different than any other government agency, in that it is a slow, bureaucracy-heavy, perpetually under-resourced leviathan that isn't as responsive to its constituency as it was designed to be. But that doesn't mean the VA, as it is most commonly known...

War veterans prone to drug addiction often prescribed risky painkillers

3/30/2012 - As if some returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan didn't have enough problems already, many of them are now being prescribed risky painkillers that can have profoundly negative effects, especially for those with pre-existing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other physical ailments. According...

Scientists find Gulf War veterans have chronic abnormal blood flow in brains

9/14/2011 - More than 20 years after the end of the Gulf War, tens of thousands of US veterans are still complaining of a host of symptoms developed during or after their tour of duty. They suffer from memory and concentration problems, chronic headaches, widespread pain, depression, balance disturbances, gastrointestinal...

18 U.S. veterans commit suicide daily; largely due to psychiatric drugs

6/3/2011 - "If mentally incapacitated troops are being drugged with dangerous, mind-altering drugs and deployed to battle against their will, how can we say that we have a volunteer army?" asked Alliance for Human Research Protection, the national network dedicated to advancing responsible and ethical medical...

VA Strains to Meet the Needs of our Veterans

2/5/2009 - The number of veterans needing health care is rising, and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is having difficulty meeting the needs of our veterans. New statistics released from the Department of Defense and the VA reveal that US casualties are rising. Injuries and deaths connected to Iraq and...

Veterans Hospital Told to Stop Diagnosing Iraq War Soldiers with PTSD

8/25/2008 - The post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) coordinator for a Texas veterans hospital sent an email to facility staff suggesting that they stop diagnosing returning Afghanistan and Iraq veterans with PTSD. "Given that we are having more and more compensation-seeking veterans, I'd like to suggest that...

Depleted uranium has killed 11,000 U.S. military veterans; mainstream media ignores story

11/3/2006 - Highly toxic depleted uranium has created a death toll reaching the 11,000-soldier mark, and the continuing scandal is thought to have been the main reason behind the recent departure of Anthony Principi -- the secretary of the Veterans Affairs Department. Arthur Bernklau, executive director of Veterans...

Human medical experimentation in the United States: The shocking true history of modern medicine and psychiatry (1965-2005)

3/6/2006 - This is part two of a two-part series on human medical experimentation. Click here to read part one and the introduction. (1966) The CIA continues a limited number of MKULTRA plans by beginning Project MKSEARCH to develop and test ways of using biological, chemical and radioactive materials in intelligence...

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