Posts tagged with the keyword: ‘year’

NFL Ignores Iraq War Hero and Star Quarterback on Ten-Year Anniversary of September 11

NFL Ignores Iraq War Hero and Star Quarterback on Ten-Year Anniversary of September 11

On Sunday, September 11 2011 NFL teams across the United States commemorated the 10th anniversary of the New York and Washington DC terror attacks. Yet the name of former NFL player-turned-soldier Pat Tillman was only mentioned before the game at his home field in Arizona. The absence of Tillman’s name during memorial activities that swept [...]

Want a Passport? Better Find Your Circumcision Records

Want a Passport? Better Find Your Circumcision Records

It is now harder than ever to obtain a U.S. passport. Since September 11th ordering a passport now costs $135 (before September 11th it cost $25.) Along with providing their Social Security number, the State Department has proposed a new “Biographical Questionnaire” that if approved would have to be completed to receive a passport. Sample [...]

US: Improve Weak Standards to End Prison Rape

US: Improve Weak Standards to End Prison Rape

Since Congress passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) in 2003, the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission (NPREC) has been conducting a study on the causes and consequences of prison rape.  In June of 2009, the NPREC released its findings from the 6-year research program. The Justice Department has been slow to act and as [...]

Illnesses linked to BP oil disaster; Doctor attributes widespread sickness to toxic chemicals from the Gulf of Mexico catastrophe

Illnesses linked to BP oil disaster; Doctor attributes widespread sickness to toxic chemicals from the Gulf of Mexico catastrophe

Less than one year after the worst oil mishap in U.S. history, BP began running televised commercials featuring cheerful Gulf of Mexico fishermen as if the 185 million gallons of oil from the BP oil spill of 2010 was just a tiny drop in a big ocean that was quickly cleaned up. The commercials painted [...]

Washington DC Nurses Fight For Union Rights

Washington DC Nurses Fight For Union Rights

In June, President Obama told a meeting of delegates of the American Nurses Association that “Nurses are the beating heart of our healthcare system.” Unfortunately, when it comes to working conditions and cuts, nurses across the country have more and more become the bleeding heart of our healthcare system. In early October, a snapshot of [...]

Tax Time Difficulty for Same-Sex Couples

Tax Time Difficulty for Same-Sex Couples

As the end of the year is looming near, same-sex couples are finding it difficult to complete state and federal tax returns. While the couples have benefited from taxes in a state level, their unions are not recognized on the federal level. Couples must pay federal taxes on “employer-sponsored benefits provided to a partner.” Nine [...]

Obama’s Renewed Tax Cuts Continue to Make the Rich Richer

Obama’s Renewed Tax Cuts Continue to Make the Rich Richer

For the past 6 months, President Obama has been planning on extending the Bush/Cheney tax cuts for the super-rich, continuing the President’s support for Republican economic policies and the financial elite.  The President has tried different methods in order to get his new extension taken care of before the New Year; when taxes would have [...]

Japanese Dolphin Slaughter Cover-up

Japanese Dolphin Slaughter Cover-up

Over the years the Japanese have been going on annual dolphin hunts. The Japanese have issued over 23,000 dolphin hunting permits each year. This is giving permission to hunters to kill thousands of dolphins in the six month period from September to March.  The way these dolphins are being killed is brutal and inhumane. The [...]

South Asian Climate Trouble

South Asian Climate Trouble

South Asian countries face a catastrophic impacts from global climate change. At a UN Summit in Sept 2010, several people stressed the importance of the UN taking charge on the issue of a climate change in South Asian countries. These nations and other less developed countries with high poverty rates, poor economic infrastructure, and health [...]

President Obama deepens U.S.’s long-standing practice of giving the most military aid to the worst human rights abusers.

President Obama deepens U.S.’s long-standing practice of giving the most military aid to the worst human rights abusers.

The biggest human rights scandal in years is developing in Colombia. The largest mass grave unearthed in Colombia was discovered by accident last year just outside a Colombian Army base in La Macarena, a rural municipality located in the Department of Meta just south of Bogota. The grave was discovered when children drank from a [...]

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