The US ban on visitors with HIV coming to the country could soon be at an end, as a senate bill aimed at fighting AIDS could ease restrictions for travel. Since 1987, the US has banned anyone with HIV from travelling...
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A new citizenship test in Germany is coming under fire today by Jews living there because it does not mention the Holocaust.It does however, mention many other less important points in German history.Starting in...
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A new study out this week highlights how popular Berlin has come for foreigners. The City's Fast Paced urban lifestyle has been compared to New York City of the 1980's and this study is simply more to reinforce (as an American living in Berlin) something most of us...
"San Francisco officials possibly in violation of the law operated a special tax-funded service for illegal Honduran drug lords to protect the “youths” from federal immigration officials. When the city was told...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorThe land of Chocolate and Secret Bank accounts, have dismissed 8 of 10 Cantons proposed by the Swiss Peoples Party (SVP) proposal that naturalisation of immigrants be...
"Detention Nation": a major investigation of the US's detention program.The Washington Post is set to roll out a major investigative series by prizewinning reporters Dana Priest and Amy Goldstein,centering on the...
Where is the leadership of the Latino community? How will anyone take serious the concerns of Latinos if they don't come together with a unified agenda? " In Los Angeles, where about 8,500 people took part in three separate marches that merged to rally at 1st Street...
"As if Katie Couric didn’t already have enough problems. Weighed down by record-low ratings at the anchor desk of “CBS Evening News,” and by reports suggesting she will leave that post two years before her multimillion-dollar contract expires, Couric now has civil...
At least 300 workers have been arrested in chicken factories in Texas."Federal agents arrested hundreds of people in raids at Pilgrim's Pride chicken plants in five states, the latest crackdown on illegal immigrant labor at the nation's poultry producers.In separate sweeps...
Morrissey does seem oddly conservative at times, but racist? Come on. Maybe he really is hated for loving."Music magazine The Word was today forced to apologise to former Smiths frontman Morrissey in the high court...
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Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor
Ah Yes, Rogue Dentists, Like Dinosaurs and UFO's we've heard of them, but never actually seen one. One envisions a Hard drinkin Leather clad Harley drivin Dentist,...
As the current Democratic election campaign is approriately demonstrating, race issues in the United States are being played out in fascinating ways. The Obama and Clinton camps are already divided based on the gender and race of their candidacies, but they are in further...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorNo Jail time, certainly smacks of Par for the Course when it comes to Justice for None.It would have been nice to have a photo of Mr. Beck to have publicly posted for all...
I don't think this serves an educational purpose on taser use; and it isn't an appropriate 'statement', no matter what Mr. Greenway intended it to be. "A recent Mega Man ROM hack video recreating the death of Polish...