Tag: Veterans

Categories USA

Two officials charged with ‘deadly decision’ that led to Covid-19 outbreak at Massachusetts veterans’ facility

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The Massachusetts attorney general is pressing criminal charges against two officials for a “deadly” decision that led to a Covid-19 outbreak in a veterans’ health care facility. … Read More >Two officials charged with ‘deadly decision’ that led to Covid-19 outbreak at Massachusetts veterans’ facility

Categories USA

‘I judge a man by his actions’: VA secretary says Trump’s pro-troop policies belie media narrative that he disparaged veterans

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US Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie dismissed media reports that Donald Trump disparaged the nation’s war dead as “losers,” saying the president honors those who fought for the country by taking real steps to help them. … Read More >‘I judge a man by his actions’: VA secretary says Trump’s pro-troop policies belie media narrative that he disparaged veterans

Categories Russia

‘Monumental vileness’: How an elderly WW2 veteran was hounded by representatives of Russia’s West-leaning opposition

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World War II veteran Ignat Artemenko, 93, found himself at the center of a scandal, after Moscow protest leader Alexei Navalny insulted him and other participants in an RT video on Russia’s proposed constitutional amendments. … Read More >‘Monumental vileness’: How an elderly WW2 veteran was hounded by representatives of Russia’s West-leaning opposition

Categories Russia

‘Are we going to fire?’ 95yo WWII veteran tankman who helped defeat Nazis joins Victory Day parade rehearsal (VIDEO)

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Nikolay Borisov, who fought the Germans in World War II and took part in the iconic victory parade in Red Square in 1945, agreed without hesitation when offered another chance to get into a tank, despite being 95 years old. … Read More >‘Are we going to fire?’ 95yo WWII veteran tankman who helped defeat Nazis joins Victory Day parade rehearsal (VIDEO)

Categories Russia

78-year-old academic & navy veteran charged with HIGH TREASON for selling classified data on Russian Arctic submarines to China

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Despite Moscow and Beijing’s cultivation of friendship in recent years, there’s still competition between the two powers. The arrest of the president of Russia’s Arctic Academy of Sciences on treason charges serves as a reminder. … Read More >78-year-old academic & navy veteran charged with HIGH TREASON for selling classified data on Russian Arctic submarines to China

Categories Russia

Moscow protest leader Navalny faces community service & large fine if found guilty of libeling elderly WWII veteran

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Russian authorities have opened a defamation case against Alexei Navalny, after he called a World War II veteran a “traitor” for expressing his support for Russia’s proposed constitutional changes. … Read More >Moscow protest leader Navalny faces community service & large fine if found guilty of libeling elderly WWII veteran

Categories Op-ed

US veterans survive foreign battlefields only to die back at home from invisible enemies like Covid-19 & suicide

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This Memorial Day, America is confronted with the task of honoring members of its armed forces who died while serving a globe-spanning killing machine, while those veterans who made it home are dying from a host of afflictions. … Read More >US veterans survive foreign battlefields only to die back at home from invisible enemies like Covid-19 & suicide