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Irene Fernandez: The Best or Worst of Malaysia?

Suzette Standring | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Poverty, Rape, Abuse, Detention Camps, Migrant Workers, Kuala Lumpur, Criminal Justice, Immigration, Death, Irene Fernandez, Nobel Prize, Human Rights, Freedom of Expression, Malaysia, Illegal Immigrants, Right Livelihood Award, Poor, Suzette Standring, Torture, Politics News
Suzette Standring

It is a textbook case of laws being used to crush critics of governmental operations. Malaysia may be 9,296 miles from the US, but authorities seeking to silence protest is universal.

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ASBL Recommendations to End Fraud, Abuse, and Loopholes in Federal Small Business Contracting

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 10.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Fraud, Abuse, Barack Obama, Economy, Middle Class, Asbl, American Small Business League, Loopholes, John McCain, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

The American Small Business League believes that it does not make sense to create new programs when the existing programs that were designed to direct federal contracts to middle class firms have been corrupted.

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Obama and McCain Response To One Question Could Redirect Billions Into Middle Class Economy

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 10.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Fraud, John McCain, Small Business, Abuse, Loopholes, Barack Obama, American Small Business, Economy, Middle Class, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

Mainstream Media Could Save Thousands of Small Businesses With One Question For Obama and McCain Thousands of small businesses around the country co...

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Friday Talking Points [51] -- Some Positivity

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Debate, Abuse, Demagogue, Green, Fisa, Mccain, Campaign, CAFE Standards, Sarah Palin, Gambling, Pissed Off, 2008, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Student Loan, Rockefeller, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Health Care, Energy, Jay Rockefeller, Democrat, Congress, Joe Biden, 08, Stimulus, Barack Obama, Biden, Election, 08 Election, Elections, Education, Demagoguery, Anger, Mddotw, College, Wiretapping, Warrantless, Troopergate, GI Bill, Mudslinging, Mother's Day, Mud, Obama, Democratic, Shocked, Waxman, Republican, Pelosi, Casablanca, Minimum Wage, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, 2008 Campaign, Report, Keating Five, John McCain, Keating, Mental Health, Angry, Medicaid, 2008 Elections, Henry Waxman, Alternative, 2008 Election, Crowd, 08 Campaign, Wall Street, Mother, Fat Cat, Palin, 2008 Presidential Race, Charles Keating, Wiretap, Telecommunications, Medicare, Head Start, Rocky IV, Fitzmas, Politics News
Chris Weigant

While we're all waiting for someone to leak the Palin Troopergate Report (which is reminiscent of waiting for "Fitzmas" during the whole Scooter Libby...

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Anything for Passion

Carine Fabius | Posted 10.05.2008 | Living

Read More: Healing, Abuse, Passionate Love, Passion, Self-Loathing, Meaning of Life, Relationships, Living News
Carine Fabius

Beginning when I was 21, I endured my fiancé's abuse and cruelty -- and by extension his hot and cold displays of "love" -- for three long years.

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McCain-Palin Agenda Threatens Teens

Don Ringe | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Girls, Rape, Abuse, Mccain, Health, Teen Pregnancy, Palin, Teenagers, Politics News
Don Ringe

Some will go across the border, consider self-abortion, suicide, and some will suffer serious injuries or die.

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New Government Policy Helps Big Businesses Hide in Small Business Database

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 08.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Fraud, Bush Administration, Small Business, Small Business Administration, Abuse, Ccr; Central Contractors Registration, Economy, Procurement, Contracting, Loopholes, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

A new Bush Administration policy will make it easier for large businesses to land government small business contracts by misrepresenting themselves as...

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An Elegant Solution: Act III: Interrupting Generations of Poverty, Abuse and Neglect with Education

David Ambroz | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Education, Foster Care, California, Abuse, Poverty, Higher Education, Community College, Politics News
David Ambroz

We are blessed with a plethora of affordable open admission community colleges, and these treasures should be leveraged to assist in the empowerment effort for foster youth.

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The Estimated Cost of Human Life in Zimbabwe is Four Dollars!

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights Violations, Civil War, Abuse, Rape, Zimbabwe, Women and Children and Rape, The Elders, Mugabe, Zimbabwe Elections, Tsengeri, Politics News
Michealene Cristini Risley

The state-backed violence has reached a pinnacle in rural areas. Mugabe and his allies think the rural vote will decide the octogenarian's grip on power.

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In One Collective Pause -- the World Waits to Stop the Atrocities in Zimbabwe!

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 05.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Women, Global Outrage, Child Soldiers, United Nations, Abuse, Rape, Girls, Human Rights Violations, Human Despair, Blood Diamond, Mugabe, Mobsters, International Red Cross, The Red Cross, Youth Militia, Torture, Dictator, Politics News
Michealene Cristini Risley

Why does the world watch in slow motion as Zimbabweans are threatened, beaten and tortured back into submission.

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Prosecuting Polygamy in El Dorado

Marci Hamilton | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Polygamy, Abuse, Big Love, Cult, Mormons, Mormonism, Sexual Abuse, Patriarchy, Latter Day Saints, Texas Polygamists, Warren Jeffs, Warren Jeffs Compound, Religion, Polygamy Laws, Texas Religious Compound, Child Abuse, El Dorado, Religion and Politics, Girls Texas Compound, Faith, Warren Jeffs Abuse, Texas Compound, Politics News
Marci Hamilton

There is nothing so dangerous for a child as an insular, patriarchical religious organization and the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints is one of the scariest examples.

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Is Zimbabwe Heading Toward Great Change or a Colossal Fall?

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 03.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Starvation, Elections, Hunger, Zimbabwe and Elections, Abuse, Rape, Human Rights, African Equality, Heroes, Zimbabwe, President Mugabe, Simba Makoni, President Bush, Grinch, Politics News
Michealene Cristini Risley

Robert Mugabe's reign of terror is so wide and so powerful, that it followed me into South Africa after my deportation from Zimbabwe.

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No Cow Left Behind

Kerry Trueman | Posted 02.18.2008 | Living

Read More: Westland Meat Packing Company, Humane Society of the United States, Meat Recall, Animal Rights, Animal Cruelty, Abuse, Beef, Animal Abuse, Beef Recall, Mad Cow Disease, E. Coli, Slaughterhouse, Cows, Cruelty to Animals, US Beef, Meat, Living News
Kerry Trueman

Industrial livestock production relies on the systemic abuse of cows, pigs, chickens, and the workers who process them. When did Americans develop such a taste for torture, anyway?

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A Moral Imperative

George Hunsinger | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo, Christianity, Waterboarding, Abuse, Guantanamo Detainees, Ethics, Torture, Politics News
George Hunsinger

The urge to humiliate, torment and degrade lurks deep within every human breast. Under conducive circumstances, no one can entirely withstand it.

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Oprah's School and Tough Love

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 11.07.2007 | Living

Read More: Boot Camps, Oprah, Tough Love, Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy, Oprah Winfrey, Abuse, Bruce Perry, Child Trauma, Oprah School Abuse, Living News
Maia Szalavitz

Oprah got to the heart of the matter: institutions in which children are fearful and silenced are institutions that will sooner or later, inevitably, become abusive.

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Ending Violence Against Women and Girls

Kevin Powell | Posted 10.31.2007 | Living

Read More: Rape, Abuse, Child Abuse, Spousal Abuse, Sexism, Racism, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Classism, Shani Baraka, Domestic Violence, Megan Williams Kidnap, Domestic Abuse, Living News
Kevin Powell

So many American males have such a distorted definition of manhood that we don't even have the basic respect to listen to women's voices when they talk about violence and abuse.

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Teen Whisperer or Teen Tormentor: As Congress Takes On Troubled Teen Programs, Times Inadvertently Plugs One

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 10.23.2007 | Living

Read More: Teen Whisperer, Child Abuse, Abuse, Spring Creek Lodge, Teenagers, Wwasps, Tough Love, The Teen Whisperer, Wwasp, Troubled Teens, Living News
Maia Szalavitz

I think parents considering taking advice from the "Teen Whisperer" might want to know that he has been accused as well of being a "Teen Tormentor" and party to institutionalized child abuse.

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Gratitude: Musings after my Incarceration in Zimbabwe

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 09.01.2007 | Living

Read More: Tapestries of Hope, Girls, Girl Child Network, Zimbabwe, Abuse, Rape, Betty Makoni, Living News
Michealene Cristini Risley

I recently traveled to Africa to tell the story of the rape and abuse of young girls in Zimbabwe. After arrest and interrogation, I am grateful to be walking again on U. S. soil.

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