Veterans

For-Profit Schools See Veterans as 'Nothing More Than Dollar Signs in Uniform'

Nika Knight, staff writer

Nearly 200 for-profit colleges around the country are skirting federal law, a report released last week by the Department of Education finds, by targeting U.S. military veterans for their G.I. bill tuition funds. Federal law requires that for-profit schools abide by a 90/10 funding ratio, meaning that federal funds must account for no more than 90...

Veterans at Standing Rock Ready to Take Clean Water Fight to Flint

Nika Knight, staff writer

The veterans who deployed to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe reservation in North...

'We Are Protectors': After DAPL Decision, Tribal Members Look to the Future of Pipeline Fight

Nika Knight, staff writer

After celebrating the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Sunday decision to deny the...

Native Leaders Formally Forgive Veterans in Emotional Ceremony

Heeding Call of Duty, Thousands of Veterans Stream into Standing Rock

Naomi Klein, Tulsi Gabbard Travel to Standing Rock Alongside Veterans

Veterans Arrive at Standing Rock to Act as 'Human Shields' for Water Protectors

Veterans Plan "Deployment" to Join Water Protectors' Battle Against DAPL

#VeteransForKaepernick Takes Off to Support Quarterback's Political Protest

Amidst Civil War Ghosts, Sanders Laments: 'I Worry about Future of Democracy'

Who Did George W. Bush Charge $100k to Hear Him Speak? Wounded Veterans of His Immoral Wars

Harper Blasted for 'Offensive,' 'Grotesque' Mother Canada Statue Plans

New Study Finds 'Staggering' Suicide Rates Among Female Veterans

Asked by Veteran to Apologize for Horrors of Iraq War, Karl Rove Says No

Iraq War Veteran, Outspoken War Critic Tomas Young Dead at 34

Further

U.S. To Veterans: You Can Go Fight Our Pointless Wars For Us, But You Can't Smoke Weed When You Come Home Broken

Even as a new report calls for ending a war on drugs with "enormous negative outcomes and collateral damage,” Congress has rejected an amendment to a veterans' funding bill to allow VA doctors in medical marijuana states to discuss pot - not prescribe it or provide it but suggest it - to treat PTSD and other ills they got serving the country that is now denying them what "a mountain of evidence" says is their best treatment. The close 222–195 vote suggests the tide is turning, but not quickly...