We Are Human, Like You

A delegation of women from Iraq told stories last night in Washington, D.C., unlike anything we've ever heard about this war from the media in the United States. And the media was not there, so I'm going to tell you what they said.

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Iraqi Women Make Rare Trip to U.S. to Tell Their Stories of Life Under Occupation

This weekend, five Iraqi women arrived in New York City to begin a speaking tour to educate Americans about the reality in Iraq and meet with UN and US officials to call for a peace plan. Two of them join us in our firehouse studio: Faiza Al-Araji is a civil engineer and blogger, whose family recently fled to Jordan after her son was temporarily kidnapped, and Eman Ahmad Khamas, an Iraqi journalist, translator and human rights activist.

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Academy Award Voting Lessons for Activists

"Oh those heartthrobs, especially the winners" -- My silly neighbor, gushing.

Rebecca Murray, intimately associated with the 78th Oscars, tells me that Academy voting procedures are quite secure, immune to tampering. In her words:

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Doctors Serve As Middle-Man Pushers

Although peddling psychiatric drugs for off-label treatment of every ailment known to man is highly profitable, it is also illegal. Marketing schemes that increase the rates at which drugs are prescribed for off-label use, result in the sale of drugs that have not been proven safer or superior to FDA approved medications already on the market.

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