Veterans

AFL-CIO's Veteran Council Demands Resignation of Defense Secretary and Joint Chiefs Chair Over Violent Clearing of Lafayette Square

President Donald Trump walks with Attorney General William Barr, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, and others from the White House to visit St. John's Church on June 1, 2020, in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

'Do the Right Thing': Veterans Call On National Guard Members to Refuse to Deploy Against Protesters

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

"It is asinine for a rich man hiding in a bunker to ask these troops, most of whom probably signed up to pay for access to college and healthcare, to take actions that will inevitably lead to more violence and haunt them for the rest of their lives."

'A New Roadblock': IRS Gives Social Security Recipients Until Wednesday to File for $500 Payments for Their Children

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"It is impossible to tell from the outside if this latest outrage is the result...

'Thank You For Rescuing Me': Watch Once-Suicidal Veteran Offer Sanders His Flight Jacket During Heartfelt Exchange

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

"It's a jacket that you earned and I want you to keep it," responded the 2020...

No 'Artwash' for Bush's Crimes, Says CodePink in Protest of Exhibit of Former President's Paintings of Veterans in War He Started

US Army Tweet Inadvertently Triggers Responses Revealing 'Real, Painful, and Horrifying Human Costs of War'

Trump Administration Defends Legality of VA Shadow Rulers

The Shadow Rulers of the VA

Take This Empire and Shove It: Openly Hostile to Capitalism, Outspoken U.S. Army Lieutenant Resigns

'This Is on Trump': VA Pick Ronny Jackson Withdraws as Reports of Misconduct and Lack of Vetting Swirl

Amid Allegations of Misconduct, Did Trump Just Throw His VA Nominee Under the Bus?

Bernie Sanders: Koch Brothers' Privatization Push Drove Shulkin's Ouster

Warnings of Koch Brothers Influence After Shulkin Says VA Privatization Advocates Forced Him Out

Sanders Warns Against VA Privatization After Trump Tweets Shulkin's Ouster

$30 Million for "Trump's Vanity Military Parade" Nothing Compared to $5.6 Trillion Spent on Endless War Since 2001

As $25,000 Unmet Promise to Family Exposed, Trump Told to 'Stop. Please, Just Stop.'

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...