Tough lives, Tough Questions at a Student-Run Mayoral Forum (The Baltimore Brew)
BALTIMORE, Maryland (The Baltimore Brew) – Unlike the forums held so far in the Baltimore mayoral primary, where the questions and answers have been earnest, increasingly polished and somewhat abstract, last week’s youth-run forum had a stinging, streetwise narrative – less policy paper, more urban tragedy. Instead of adult journalists or religious leaders, the six mayoral hopefuls faced teenagers, whose …
US Free Clinics Cater to Populations Too Poor For Obamacare
WASHINGTON (VR) – It looks like your normal run-of-the mill suburban doctor’s office replete with framed accolades of the doctor’s accomplishments and pictures of his children and their artwork. The difference is that this office houses the Center for Health and Human Rights, a free clinic based in the Washington DC suburb of Fairfax, Virginia, that provides medical assistance for free …
Unemployment in the US is Higher than Believed: Analyst
WASHINGTON (VR) – Unemployment in the United States is much higher than the 6.7 percent reported by the Department of Labor in March 2014, since the statistic does not account for the people that have dropped out of the labor force because of discouragement, according to Robert Pollin, Co-director and Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Political Economy Research Institute …
EXPOSED: US weapons sales to Egypt 2010 – 2013 (Infographic)
The Obama Administration is currently deciding whether or not to continue foreign military aid to Egypt in response to the 3 July coup d’état and the subsequent crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood members. It has postponed the delivery of four F-16 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin, and the president’s top national security aides have recommended that hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance be …
How To Stop Being Terrorists: A Guide For ISIS, Courtesy Of The MEK
Transcript: WASHINGTON (Mint) — While the world’s eyes are focused on ISIS [the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria] and rising tensions in the Middle East, a former terrorist group from Iran is tromping through the halls of Congress, and garnering support from some of America’s most powerful and prominent politicians and officials. Speaker: “Howard Dean, Ed Rendell, Patrick Kennedy, and …
Baltimore: Minority-Focused Foundation Empowers Latino Immigrants
BALTIMORE (VR) – Peruvian Renzo González believed he was stuck in an endless cycle of low-pay manual labor jobs like screen printing t-shirts and catering. Not anymore. Thanks to a Spanish-language computer literacy course targeted towards adult immigrants and sponsored by the William& Lanaea C. Featherstone Foundation in Baltimore, González has begun to realize the possibilities of work outside of manual labor …
Government Expects 60,000 Lone Child Migrants Will Try to Enter US in 2014
WASHINGTON (VR) – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) estimates that 60,000 unaccompanied alien children (UAC) will try to enter the country during Fiscal Year 2014, which runs from October 1st 2013 to September 30, 2014. This is a significant increase from a yearly average of 6,800 unaccompanied minors between the years of 2004 and 2011. HHS also estimates …
En värld – en Tro (One World – One Belief)
A short video created by Nadi Tofighian I participated in. It took about 10 takes for me to get my Moses pronunciation to sound Swedish.