Obama Signs Landmark Community Service Bill
President Obama, today, April 21st, signed the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act into law. This landmark national service law will expand federal funding to the Corporation for National Community Service (CNCS), a federal agency that oversees such community service programs as AmeriCorps, Senior Corps and Learn and Serve America.
UN Racism Conference Opens Amid Concerns
A major United Nations anti-racism conference opened Monday in Geneva despite a boycott from the United States and several western countries owing to concern over a possible criticism on Israel.
Vietnam Fights for Universal Healthcare
Ha Noi — Viet Nam faces great challenges in achieving universal health insurance by 2014, said health minister Nguyen Quoc Trieu.
Real Men Don’t Cry – or Do They?
RIO DE JANEIRO, 20 April 2009 (PlusNews) - Men don't cry. Men take risks. Men don't ask for help. Men are strong. Men have many sexual partners. These stereotypes of masculinity are contributing to the spread of HIV throughout the world, experts warned at a recent symposium on men and boys.
Is it Texas Uber Alles, Governor?
A few years ago I was giving a lecture before a group of students about US Presidents and wars of aggression. After I had dealt with James K. Polk and the US-Mexican War, a student asked me if I would give up the conquests of the war, the contemporary US Southwest.
Dear Mr. President: You Really Need to be at the Conference on Racism
People keep telling me not to expect President Obama to make it to tommorow's Conference on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance (WCAR). I'd like to believe otherwise but I know better.
African Americans and the Economic Crisis
Biden was quite out front about it. On the same day the newspapers were trumpeting the news that President Obama had felt a 'glimmer of hope' in the economic situation, the Vice-President was telling CNN that we can expect unemployment to increase each month for the rest of the year.
What Does Carbon-neutral Mean?
According to the New Oxford American Dictionary, which made carbon neutral its 2006 “Word of the Year,” it involves “calculating your total climate-damaging carbon emissions, reducing them where possible, and then balancing your remaining emissions, often by purchasing a carbon offset.”
The Abuses in Iraq were Learned in Operation Condor
In a report presented last February in Geneva by former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) called upon President Barack Obama to put an end to the violations of human rights that have been a part of United States policy since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Obama Tries to Clean US Image at Summit of the Americas
HAVANA, Cuba, April 18 (acn) US President Barack Obama asked participants at the Summit of the Americas not to keep blaming his country for all the problems facing the western hemisphere, in times when a current global economic crisis emerged in the North is threatening the nations of the region.
