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Actions Speak Louder than Words, at least where Veterans are Concerned

A leader’s ears must ring with the voices of the people! Do you hear us, America? - President Woodrow Wilson

(GARDEN GROVE) - Veterans-For-Change, an advocacy group for Veterans rights, benefits, and treatment, would like to address the ever-increasing problems affecting veterans and their families every day.

President Obama has clearly stated, “Whether you left the service in 2009 or 1949, we will fulfill our responsibility to deliver the benefits and care that you earned. That's why I've pledged to build nothing less than a 21st-century VA.”

The Beat Within Makes a Difference in Vancouver

Each week the juveniles in this program are given several topics to inspire their creativity and help them work through the rough patches in their lives.

(VANCOUVER, Wa.) - During the past several weeks I have had the opportunity to volunteer my time working with incarcerated youth through a program called The Beat Within.

This program encourages juveniles to express themselves through poetry, writing, and artwork. The Beat Within compiles these submissions into a magazine for other juveniles and the public to read.

Conscious Peace: World Peace Depends upon Our Collective Consciousness

From the Book: RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War published by Trine Day.

(OLDENBURG, Germany) - I was sitting in full lotus, body wrapped in a blanket, mind rapt in deep stillness, breathing lightly, wisps of air curling into the infinite space behind my closed eyes.

My mantra had gone beyond sound to become a pulse of light in an emptiness that contained everything.

U.S. Taxpayers Raked Over The Fake War Coals Again and Again

Congressional Grifters Scam U.S. Taxpayers

(MELBOURNE) - The $1,202,614,324,202 dollar cost to date and counting, for the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan is the low estimate, or rather the literal cost.

This does not include the cost of borrowing that money, or the cost of 5 or 6 decades of medical care and disability pensions for several hundred thousand American soldiers.

Ankara asks Gaza flotilla to wait, but İHH says it will not

A battle of words between the ruling and opposition parties over Israel is getting extended everyday with both parties’ accusing each other of spoiling ties with the country.

(ANKARA) - Ankara has advised the international aid flotilla to Gaza that is planning to depart for Gaza in late June to reconsider its plans and postpone their activity to avoid a repetition of last year’s crisis.

Flotilla organizers, however, said it was unlikely to postpone the activity under the current conditions.

`Schumer turning US into Islamophobic police state`

Senator Charles Schumer has pushed for the creation of the No Ride List - similar to the No Fly List for airlines.

(OSAKA / TEHRAN Press TV) - Middle East Analyst Maidhc 'O Cathail, accuses New York Senator Charles Schumer of turning the United States into "an Islamophobic police state".

He told Press TV's U.S. Desk in a phone interview on Thursday that Schumer is "yet another reminder of who is stoking fear of Muslims in America."

How to Avoid Extrajudicial Execution in Honduras: Throw Popcorn at Police

The moral precariousness of popular consent in extrajudicial treatment; underscored in the police shooting deaths of seven presumed gang members

(TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras) - Two men were recently tied up, shot, and killed down the street from my friend’s house in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa.

When my friend happened upon the scene at around 9 p.m., a forensic investigator commented to him that these were the fourth and fifth cadavers he had personally dealt with that evening and that the number typically doubled by the end of the night.

New Doctor Joins Salem Dental Practice

Gives All That Donate $20 to Boys & Girls Club, a Free Dental Exam with Digital x-Rays ($202 Value)

(SALEM, Ore.) - SofTouch™ Dental announced their new partnership today with Andrew Abdelnour, DMD. Dr. Abdelnour joins SofTouch™ Dental after practicing in McMinnville and Sisters during the last nine years.

To celerate the new partnership between SofTouch™ Dental and Dr. Abdelnour, they are now accepting $20 donations on behalf of the Salem Boys & Girls Club.

Updates from Human Rights First

Elisa Massimino is the President and CEO of Human Rights First

(NEW YORK) - News of the Osama bin Laden operation wasn't even a day old when torture apologists began claiming vindication.

To hear former vice president Dick Cheney and his allies tell it, without the CIA's water-boarding program, the United States would never have found bin Laden.

Rwanda: Dictator Kagame`s Ruthless Pursuit of Exiled Editor Gasarira ends in Absentia Sentence

Kagame's regime, supported by the US govt., regularly violates the Human Rights of journalists.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Photos of Umuvugizi editor Jean Bosco Gasasira tell a chilling story.

One shows Gasasira in a Rwandan hospital in the aftermath of the beatings he received from Kagame thugs. This is what routinely happens in Rwanda when a paper publishes an unwanted story about the Rwandan Dictator.