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Photo: DDA. The forum was hosted to empower individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. Baltimore, MD – The Maryland Department of Health’s Developmental Disabilities Administration (DDA) this Wednesday hosted the People and Family Forum to empower individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families by providing…

Photo Google. By Isaac Cohen* A working paper released by the International Monetary Fund, in January, describes and analyzes recent trends in the utilization of gold as international reserve asset (IMF WP/23/14-pdf). Recognizing that gold holdings by central banks were “moving slowly downward for the better part of four decades,”…

The corporate-owned media and their best friends at the Pentagon want us all to be very, very afraid … of balloons. For two weeks now, the major newspaper and TV outlets have been saturated with wall-to-wall coverage of the controversy over an alleged Chinese spy balloon that was detected in…

Photo: courtesy of Democracy Now! In Israel, protesters are massing outside the Knesset in Jerusalem as the far-right ruling coalition advanced a plan to expand its power and weaken the judiciary. Over the weekend, tens of thousands demonstrated against the government for the fifth straight week, as President Isaac Herzog…

Photo: courtesy of Democracy Now! The death toll from Monday’s massive earthquakes in Turkey and Syria has passed 25,000 as pressure mounts on the United Nations to provide urgent aid to northwestern Syria, which was already in dire need of humanitarian assistance due to 12 years of civil war and…

Joe Biden’s speechwriters had a difficult task tonight – how can the near-total failure of an administration to deliver on what it had promised be packaged as a rousing success story? Unsurprisingly, the monologue they had Biden stumble through was filled with distortions and omissions. Biden claimed that, “My economic…

Photo Google. WASHINGTON, February 8, 2022.- The February 6 earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria has caused the deaths of thousands and injured many more. Bishop David J. Malloy of Rockford, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace, mourned the loss of so many…

Foto: Google By Isaac Cohen* Defying all predictions, last month the US labor market grew vigorously. The Labor Department informed that in January employers hired 517,000 new workers, the largest increase since last July. The unemployment rate decreased to 3.4 percent, from 3.5 percent in December, the lowest in more…

Photo: NDLON We are very excited to share that recently NDLON, together with New York State member organizations and the Fund Excluded Workers Coalition, launched a new campaign demanding an "Unemployment Bridge Program.” It’s a call to action to bring permanent safety net protections to excluded workers across New York. In the…

Photo: USCCB WASHINGTON, February 1, 2023.- Pope Francis has appointed Most Reverend Mario E. Dorsonville, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Washington, as Bishop of Houma-Thibodaux. The appointment was publicized in Washington, D.C. on February 1, 2023, by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States. The biography for…