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Art Prevails Project Awarded a Residency at AARLCC

    AARLCC has established a residency for the Art Prevails Project (APP), a South Florida-based nonprofit dedicated to strengthening underserved communities through literary and performing arts. This dynamic residency will feature a series of engaging programs designed to inspire creativity and self-expression among participants of all ages. […]

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Killing of the United Healthcare CEO Sparked Long Overdue Conversation About Greed

        Call him a misguided hero or villain, but the man who killed the United Healthcare CEO struck a nerve, exposing a deep rage shared by many Americans across the political spectrum — anger at an industry that earns obscene profits from the suffering of others. His chilling act shifted the national conversation from immigration to corporate greed. Finally.  […]

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Federal Budget: America’s Golden Eggs

  There’s an age-old fable entitled “The Goose That Laid The Golden Eggs.”  The story goes that a farmer had a goose that laid a golden egg each day, making the farmer very wealthy. However, the farmer’s greed for more golden eggs led him to kill the Goose, hoping to capture all the golden eggs inside. Sadly, he discovered that only organs were inside. Now, the farmer’s source of wealth was gone. […]

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In Its Final Days, the Biden Administration Delivers Big Time for America’s Coastal Communities

       This week, in the waning days of his administration, President Biden announced he would use his authority under Section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to permanently withdraw 625 million acres from leasing for oil and gas drilling and exploration off our nation’s coasts. The protected waters include the entire eastern Atlantic coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific coast of California, Oregon, and Washington, and portions of the Northern Bering Sea in Alaska. […]

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The People’s List of Trump’s Worst

       The conflict of interest for Kushner now that his father-in-law is about to return to the White House is obvious. Kushner continues to advise Trump, maintains relations with Middle East dictators and with the Netanyahu administration in Israel, and is regularly on the phone with people in and out of government who want advice on Middle East policy. By law, Kushner should be a registered foreign agent of Saudi Arabia, but don’t count on his doing anything of the sort. […]

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Aspirational Genocide

     Is Putin conducting genocidal acts on Ukrainians? Looks like Israel is, ironically, attempting some sort of genocide against Gazans, with Hamas trying their version of a genocidal attack against Israel on 7 October 2023. How about China’s aggression against the Uyghurs or Myanmar’s against Rohingyas? […]

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Finding a Cure for Humanity’s Cancer

     The words are those of Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, quoted in a recent UN report about Israel’s ongoing devastation of Palestinian hospitals and its virtually total destruction of the occupied territory’s healthcare system, including the arrest – the abduction – of hundreds of doctors and other medical professionals, who often wind up being tortured and sometimes murdered. […]

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The Political Sheep

      Our political mourning period cannot last forever. John 10 also says the sheep will recognize the political shepherds, the media shepherds, the educational shepherds, the workplace shepherds, and all other true leaders and protectors of all the sheep in the flock, including the Black sheep. […]