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New Honduran political party weighs in against chaos and crime
November 9, 2011Killings and crime make present day Honduras look like the former U.S. "wild west." Yet the "sheriffs" - read police and armed forces - are in cahoots with the bad guys.
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Video: Farmer-labor alliance reborn in Wisconsin
March 15, 2011March 12 the big tractors thundered into Madison, Wisconsin.
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Republicans “deaf ” to Black farmers’ $1.25 billion claim
September 9, 2010WASHINGTON – Willie E. Adams, a founding member of the National Black Farmers Association (NBFA), has been fighting U.S. Agriculture Department (USDA) discrimination in denying Black farmers federal loans for as long as he has been a...
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Factory farms produce more than eggs
August 24, 2010In the early 1970s, I took a job at a brand new "industrial" hen house in Indiana.
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Cuba travel bill takes flight
July 5, 2010Congress could be on the verge of ending the U.S government's ban on travel by its citizens to Cuba.
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