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Barack Obama – (KMGH) Last week Barack Obama gave a speech laying out his plan for getting more citizens active in serving American society.x40 Some points of his plan are: to boost the numbers in the military, Peace Corps and Americorps, to make it easy to volunteer, and to give volunteers help with the cost […]

Two weeks ago Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) brought an impeachment resolution against President George W. Bush to the House floor.x30×31 It took him nearly five hours to read the resolution’s 35 articles.x32 Each article charges Bush with a criminal act, cites the laws violated and gives supporting evidence.x33 Among the criminal acts are: pushing false […]

Global warming climate change is happening.x20 A major cause of it is the burning of fossil fuels. The effects of it will be severe and damaging. We are already seeing some effects in extreme weather events, melting glaciers and rising seas. Those are the facts. But ExxonMobil did not like the facts, and funded a […]

Memorial Day 2008 In June 2005, Major General John Batiste, commander of the First Infantry Division in Iraq, leader of 22,000 troops fighting in the Sunni Triangle, passed up a third star, and quit the U.S. Army to speak out against the Iraq occupation.x10 Last August, he wrote: I realized that I was in a […]

“For all the Pan-Africanism of the last four decades,” said Hugo Van Vuuren, “it is quite rare to have young students from South, East, and West Africa, in the same room without a soccer ball somehow involved.“x1 Van Vuuren was talking about himself and three other Africans, who along with two Americans formed Lebônê Solutions, […]