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McCain’s Two Step – Unemployment Consequences In Ohio

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10,000 unemployed PEOPLE, their families, their homes, and the taxes they pay are nothing to sneeze at. Today the unemployment rate is the highest in 6 years.

The World Watches How America Treats Its Friends

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The US State Department rejects wannabe immigrants who have gambled their lives to help Americans. The stories are endless and tragic. Americans promise the world to Iraqis and Afghanis, winning their allegiance and support. Often recruiting them for dangerous translator positions, sometimes making outrageous promises they know can’t be kept. Some [...]

Bush Breaks More Promises To Soldiers Waiting For Citizenship

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After the War, a New Battle to Become Citizens
Despite a 2002 promise from President Bush to put citizenship applications for immigrant members of the military on a fast track, some are finding themselves waiting months, or even years, because of bureaucratic backlogs. One, Sgt. Kendell K. Frederick of the Army, who had tried three [...]

US Tax Dollars NOT Spent on Homeless Veterans – Words Are Cheaper

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1 Out of 4 Homeless Are Veterans
WASHINGTON — Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general adult population, according to a report to be released Thursday.And homelessness is not just a problem among middle-age and elderly veterans. Younger veterans from [...]

Who is Taslima Nasreen, Why Should We Care

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Taslima Nasreen should leave or die: Muslim clerics
MLA vows to ‘behead’ Taslima Nasreen

Aug 17: Muslim clerics in West Bengal Friday issued a “death warrant” against Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen if she did not pack her bags and leave India.
“Anybody eliminating her would be given Rs 100,000 and unlimited [...]

Russian Gays Face Tough Road Toward Equality

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Most Seem to Favor Low-Key Approach Over Confrontational One
By Anton Troianovski Special to The Washington Post Saturday, August 11, 2007

… with a small gay rights movement taking shape amid a more frank pop culture, gays are struggling with altogether different questions. Should they openly confront what many [...]

Civilians In Combat Risk All For A Few Dollars More

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Service Civilians and the Wounds of War
Many Fill Vital Roles in Iraq, but Medical Care Can Be Spotty
By Ann Scott Tyson Washington Post Staff Writer

Traveling through Sunni insurgent territory north of Baghdad, the U.S. military convoy was nearing a base when a roadside bomb ripped into the lead Humvee, leaving its gunner, [...]

Bush’s Private Armies Suffering Breakdowns

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Contractors Face Combat-Related Stress After Iraq
WASHINGTON, July 4 — Contractors who have worked in Iraq are returning home with the same kinds of combat-related mental health problems that afflict United States military personnel, according to contractors, industry officials and mental health experts.
But, they say, the private workers are largely left on their own to [...]

Bush Administration Last Days – Are We Scared Yet?

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Bush administration wants us to be scared of:

AlQaeda,
Other un-named terrorists,
Gays,
anyone who is not a radical Christian, anyone who is not with his agenda,

Inclusive health care
People who think

This administration wants his [...]

Fundamentalist Social Destruction Is Everywere

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Egypt forbids female circumcision   By Magdi Abdelhadi  [...]

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