Veterans

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

Trump Administration Defends Legality of VA Shadow Rulers

Isaac Arnsdorf, ProPublica

In a court filing, government lawyers argued that a Watergate-era sunshine law doesn’t apply to three Trump associates influencing the VA from Mar-a-Lago.

The Shadow Rulers of the VA

Isaac Arnsdorf

How Marvel Entertainment chairman Ike Perlmutter and two other Mar-a-Lago...

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

Jon Queally, staff writer

"I would encourage all soldiers who have a conscience to lay down their arms...

'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.'

In Direct Affront to Diplomacy, Trump Declares 'Talking Is Not the Answer!'

Rethinking The Cost of War

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

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

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

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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...