From "We've Been Betrayed!" by Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon:

Who's Fighting Back (and not) Against Trump's Cuts in VA Jobs and Services Among the Republican voters experiencing buyer's remorse are more than a few military veterans who chose Trump over Harris by a margin of 65 to 34%, according to some exit polls. Their shock and dismay surfaced in DC this month during the legislative conference of the reliably conservative and hawkish Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), which has 1.4 million members. In the run-up to that annual event, VFW national commander Al Lipphardt urged his members to "march forth" and "engage with lawmakers" to "stop the bleeding" at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Thanks to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) , the VA now faces disruption of its benefit claims handling, healthcare delivery, data security, critical medical research, and stable employment for 100,000 former service members... Read More

In This Issue:

1. Nazis, Fascists, and Oligarchs Must be Defeated by VVAW National Office
2. VVAW Library and Learning Center Updates by VVAW
3. Musk Calls Historical Helpers To Perfect the Nazi Salute (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
4. Fraggin' by Bill Shunas
5. Trump Cuts Aid to Vietnam, then Restores - Some! by Nadya Williams
6. Saving the VA: A Social Worker's Perspective by Aimee Potter
7. We Must All Speak Up Before VA Health Care Is Gutted by John Ketwig
8. Letter to the Editor by John Lindquist
9. Neville Chamberlain Republicans by Mike Woloshin
10. For Pointman: Faint Praise For A Nation's Plebiscite (poem) by John Crandell
11. "We've Been Betrayed!" by Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon
12. What We Can and Can't Afford by John Ketwig (reviewer)
13. Trigger Finger (poem) by Jim Hale
14. 26 August 71 by Marc Levy
15. Darkness by Tony Cokely
16. Trump Throws Zelensky Out of the White House (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
17. Trading One Uniform for Another: The Military to Prison Pipeline by Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon (reviewers)
18. Everything is Going to be Okay by Lawrence Markworth
19. Barry Romo is not Dead (poem) by Alan Donohue
20. Getting Out of That Place (poem) by John Crandell
21. The Pope Accused of Misrepresentation by Bill Potvin
22. 1965: A Sailor Recalls the First Year of the "American War" by Joe Miller
23. Romeo and Tuyet: A Love Story by Jane Barton Griffith
24. Milwaukee Save the VA Rally by VVAW
25. Photos from the VVAW Archives by VVAW
26. Remembering Joan Davis: 50-year Member of VVAW by VVAW
27. On Teaching High School Students About the Vietnam War by Joan Davis
28. Tribute to Jim Fallon by Walt Nygard
29. Division of Labor (poem) by W. D. Ehrhart
30. Albert Penta's Navy Service Saga by Albert Penta
31. Mitch Kuhn - Presente! by VVAW
32. The Healing Power of the Pen by John Brennan
33. For Aged Vets and Non-vets Alike Who are Treading Near the Edge (poem) by Woody Powell
34. From Bullets to Books by William L. Richter (reviewer)
35. The Amazing Adventures of Captain Embers by Phil Marshall (reviewer)
36. Mr. Musk's SpaceX Company Blows Up Two Rockets in a Row (poem) by Jeff Danziger
37. Almost Home by Marc Levy
38. Spilling Red by Emily Sanner
39. Pieces (poem) by Woody Powell
40. Falling by E.C. Streeter
41. Oxy, the Smart Bomb (cartoon) by Billy X. Curmano
42. The Bloodbath That Wasn't by W. D. Ehrhart (reviewer)
43. The Relentless Call From Vietnam by Ngan Nguyen (reviewer)
44. Looking for Duong Thu Huong by John Conroy
45. Ravens on a Wire by John Ketwig (reviewer)
46. Oh, How We All Sang Along: Continued Thoughts on LBJ by John Crandell
47. To Janice, These Many Years Later (poem) by rg cantalupo
48. Reflections on Resisting the Draft: Connecting to Vietnam Veterans by Ted Scharf
49. Letter to the Editor by Richard H. Skiba, Jr.
50. Teaching Map-Reading To Draftees (poem) by rg cantalupo
51. From 2.5 pages of text in a Chomsky paperback* (poem) by John Crandell
52. The Price of Macabre is Written on the Wall (poem) by Mike Hastie
53. A Bad Morning on the Da Nang Bridge by Richard Fleming
54. Old No Guts (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger