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Poverty is Tearing the Middle Class Apart, in the Hell of the `New Poor`

Any of us can fall into extreme poverty.

(MADRID, Spain) - About 3,000 “new poor” arrived to Caritas Spain in 2010.

Most of them families who went from lassitude to homelessness in the wake of endless unemployment caused by the economic crisis. Most of the cases seen were families, about 74%.

Statement of Transitional Justice Coordination Group on Chicago Conference

اعلامیه گروه هماهنگی عدالت انتقالی در پیوند با کنفرانس شیکاگو/ د شيکاګو د کنفرانس په تړاو د انتقالي عدالت د ډلې اعلاميه/

(KABUL, Afghanistan ) - The Transitional Justice Coordination Group appreciates the ten-year achievements in government-building, and other fields that have been reached with the participation of the people by the government and the international community for fulfillment of democracy.

However, those trends have not taken root in our country...

Never Forget That Bradley Manning, Not Gay Marriage, Is The Issue

Obama's historic achievement as president of the United States has been to silence the anti-war and social justice movement associated with the Democratic Party.

(SYDNEY ) - In the week Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, he ordered bombing attacks on Yemen, killing a reported 63 people, 28 of them children.

When Obama recently announced he supported same-sex marriage, American planes had not long blown 14 Afghan civilians to bits.

Why Can`t People Work In Your State?

New State-by-State Report: Would-be Workers Hurt by Licensing Laws

(ARLINGTON, VA) - Why can’t many Americans simply create jobs for themselves and others?

For many jobs, a recently released report finds the answer is: The government won’t let them.

Soetoro and Maino

Barry is a lawyer-liar; Maino is a semi-literate liar who must read Hindi notes written in uppercase in English. She does not know Hindi; perhaps Barry does not know Kenyan local lingo either.

(CHENNAI, India) - Barry Soetoro rules the world’s most powerful democracy; Antonia Maino rules the world’s largest.

One is a black man ruling over conservative white Amerika; the other is a white woman ruling over conservative black India.

Goodbye Mother`s Day: Bill Gates Wants to Stop Kids William Davies

Genetically engineered organisms might wreck the cycle of existence but they provide a synthetic cycle, not of life but of profit.

(NEW YORK ) - The destruction of our earth is coming from the massive industries behind fossil fuels, deforestation, industrial agriculture, extraction of natural resources, and the synthetic drug industry.

But the wealthiest people in the world are pinning the blame on babies. And parents who made them. And they have a solution - vaccines!

Government Cuts to Food Assistance Programs Would Escalate Food Insecurity, Researcher Says

Expert says cuts will affect approximately 50 million Americans struggling to meet their food needs.

(COLUMBIA, MO.) - Congress currently is considering the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2012, commonly known as the “farm bill,” which would cut billions of dollars to public food assistance programs.

Michelle Kaiser with the University of Missouri School of Social Work, says the cuts will affect approximately 50 million Americans struggling to meet their food needs.

Abandoning Afghanistan, Great Job America

It isn't truth making American Navy SEAL's celebrities.

(SALEM) - Does America do anything these days with a sincere purpose? Afghanistan's violence is our doing; it is a result of the contrast between stated intentions and reality.

It's strangely sad that the only time of peace that this country has known in modern time, was a result of Communism.

Urban India Shines: Without Toilets, Many Homeless

India’s slum population more than doubled, from 43 million in 2001 to 93 million in 2011 in ten years and it is projected to grow at 5% per year, adding nearly two million every year, according to official Government data.

(NEW DELHI, India) - Former International Monetary Fund [IMF] bureaucrat Manmohan Singh was never projected as India’s Prime Minister; he was imposed on 1.2 billion hapless Indians.

Former World Bank [WB] major domo Montek Singh was never elected yet lives a lavish life in Delhi.

My Confrontation with Mr. Fayyad, Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority

Tense times in Palestine between a top official, and an activist who states the truth...

(RAMALLAH) - I participated recently in the 'Welcome to Palestine' program headquartered in Bethlehem, the West Bank.

On Thursday, April 19th, as part of the program, I was to travel with a group from the “Welcome to Palestine” program in order to confront Prime Minister Fayyad who had invited us to speak with him.