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The Fifth Degree for Food Stamps

The Fifth Degree for Food Stamps

By: Daniel Nardini New York City Council member Christine C. Quinn has called for an ordinance to be passed tracking the costs of fingerprinting those who apply for food stamps…. Read more »

The War-mongering President

The War-mongering President

By: Daniel Nardini Just as the civil war in Libya is sort-of finished (well, not really), now U.S. President Barack Obama is putting 100 “advisers” into Uganda to “help” in… Read more »

Gutting Medicaid for Latinos

Gutting Medicaid for Latinos

By: Daniel Nardini While the United States is in the middle of two wars and getting involved in two conflicts (Libya and Uganda), the U.S. Congress is considering cutting funding… Read more »

Tania Leon

Tania Leon

By: Daniel Nardini [We continue our Hispanic Heritage Month series on Latino composers with the Cuban American composer Tania Leon] Tania Leon is a Cuban American composer, conductor and lecturer…. Read more »

Forbidden Hawaiian Island

Forbidden Hawaiian Island

By: Daniel Nardini Imagine a place anywhere in the United States where there are no computers (certainly no Internet), no TVs, no radios, no cars, no trains, no electricity, no… Read more »

Finding the Sacred Kings of Tenochtitlan

Finding the Sacred Kings of Tenochtitlan

By: Daniel Nardini Recently archeologists in Mexico City have unearthed a stone ceremonial platform that was used to cremate the dead kings of the Aztec Empire. The sacred platform was… Read more »

“I Do…..For Now”

“I Do…..For Now”

By: Daniel Nardini Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) legislators in Mexico City are proposing a new law that will limit marriage to two years. Their reasoning is that the… Read more »

H.R. 2587

H.R. 2587

By: Daniel Nardini Being touted as a jobs saving bill, the Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act (House Bill 2587, or H.R. 2587) is in fact a cover to make… Read more »

Return of the Communist Party of Honduras

Return of the Communist Party of Honduras

By: Daniel Nardini In not so well known news, the Communist Party of Honduras has reestablished itself this year. The party held its fifth national conference, and it decided that… Read more »

One Deportation is a Tragedy, 1,000,000 Are a Statistic

One Deportation is a Tragedy, 1,000,000 Are a Statistic

By: Daniel Nardini To paraphrase former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s phrase, “one death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic,” it seems that U.S. immigration’s view that 1,000,000… Read more »