NGWRC Releases 2010 Legislative Agenda for 1991 Gulf War veterans

February 5, 2010, Topeka, Kansas (National Gulf War Resource Center) - The following is a letter from NGWRC President James Bunker to Representative Bob Filner, the Chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, regarding the NGWRC's 2010 legislative agenda for veterans of the 1991 Gulf War.

January 29, 2010, London, United Kingdom (Times OnLine) - Tony Blair opened himself up to a charge of misleading Parliament today when he told the Iraq inquiry that by any objective analysis the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's chemical and biological weapons programme had not increased after 9/11.

Man Sets Self on Fire Outside Poplar Bluff VA Medical Center

January 29, 2010, Poplar Bluff, Missouri (Daily American Republic) - Authorities believe a patient of the John J. Pershing VA Medical Center attempted to commit suicide Thursday afternoon on the hospital's property by lighting himself on fire with gasoline.

A Call Center That Doesn't Take Calls?

January 25, 2010 (NextGov) - The answer to that question is the Veterans Affairs Department's Education Call Center in Muskogee, Okla., which no longer takes calls from veterans on Thursdays or Fridays.

January 20, 2010, San Francisco, California (Morrison & Foerster Press Release) – Morrison & Foerster yesterday won the right to proceed with a case against the CIA, the Department of Defense, and the U.S. Army, filed on behalf of veterans rights organizations Vietnam Veterans of America and Swords to Plowshares, along with six veterans with multiple diseases and ailments, tied to a secret testing program in which U.S. military personnel were deliberately exposed to chemical and biological weapons and other toxins without informed consent.