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Keep your eye on disabled Americans struggle for benefits

January 6, 2008

As the economy as a whole continues its downward trends, those of us who are disabled due to service in Iraq or other wars, getting old, workplace accidents, illness or other reasons are being hurt hard....

Campaign launched to stop violence against Iraqi women

January 5, 2008

Iraqi women are being killed and subjected to all forms of violence every day. What they have suffered in the city of Basra is perhaps something unprecedented in Iraqi society. Women have been killed and their...

Hunger strikers protest indigenous oppression in Chile

January 5, 2008

Five Chilean hunger strikers, four of them members of the indigenous Mapuche people, are playing a leading part in the struggle of the country’s indigenous people for economic and civil rights. They have the support of...

Big change starts in Iowa

January 4, 2008

DES MOINES, Iowa – If an 11th hour Obama rally, that brought over 1,000 voters out into sub-zero cold to Hoover High here on Jan. 2 is any indication then the 2008 elections are bound to...

Whose way of life is at risk? Not yours

January 4, 2008

Each year as the calendar moves toward the New Year, I find myself thinking about Dick Cheney. The vice president once called energy conservation a “matter of personal virtue” not part of a national energy plan....