Saturday, June 22nd, 2013 New York, NY Authors Medea Benjamin and James Mark Leas ask “is the Vermont Air National Guard being used for corrupt purposes having nothing to do with its military mission? The answer is yes. Big time. And for big money. In the article, “Those who “Fudged” Should not be Allowed to […]
Friday, June 21st, 2013 Montpelier, VT Ashley Wolf, is a member of the Vermont Workers’ Center Coordinating Committee. She lives in Burlington. In this op-ed, Wolf opines The Vermont Workers’ Center urges our congressional delegation to stand up against the stationing of the F-35 warplane at Burlington Airport and against the wasteful and dangerous military policy of […]
Thursday, June 20th, 2013 Washington DC Journalist Sydney J Freedberg Jr. reports “Yesterday, at a subcommittee hearing attended by just half a dozen Senators, the Pentagon’s top weapons buyer made a blunt admission: The military’s most expensive program, the stealthy F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, has been hacked and the stolen data used by America’s adversaries. Under Secretary Frank Kendall didn’t […]
Thursday, June 20th, 2013 Washington, DC Journalist Otto Kreisher reports, “In his first major initiative as chairman of the crucial subcommittee Sen. Dick Durbin noted that the F-35 “has had more than its share of problems” and served as “a text book example” of the Pentagon’s procurement woes. Durbin challenged the witnesses to tell him […]
Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 Burlington VT This op-ed written by Ernie Pomerleau, president and CEO of Pomerleau Real Estate in Burlington, and a member of the Airport Strategic Planning Committee. “I was born in Burlington and have been in real estate in the Burlington area for 40 years. I join other real estate professionals who […]
Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 Montpelier, VT South Burlington Attorney, Jimmy Leas, states, “the much higher crash rate expectation for the F-35, if more clearly presented, obviously militates against a site like Burlington — with 1,400 homes in the crash zones — accepting the F-35 in the first basing round when anticipate crash risk is at […]
Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 Burlington VT Journalist, John Briggs, reports that the revised Environmental Impact Statement released on May 30th, 2013 contains more errors. The Air Force said that an updated “public comment response matrix and alphabetized list of public commenters” were not included in the updated print and CD versions of the reportreleased in May. […]
