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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ZaIBFtxrTbU5OELLToY4Cj9BpgUER%2FEb" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Truthout Interviews Mike Ludwig on TISA and Julian Assange</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Ted Asregadoo, Truthout:</strong> Truthout reporter Mike Ludwig talks about the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) - Financial Services Annex documents that were recently published by WikiLeaks and the current status of WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3GDyf5bLVVKFQvBKgaFvO5bz2YdcFnMC" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Watch the Interview</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=gn51xKaTILEwCFD%2BOF16rT9BpgUER%2FEb" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Five Countries Where Child Soldiers Still Exist</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Lizabeth Paulat, Care2:</strong> Child soldiers and child combatants may seem like a far away problem, but you might be surprised at how common they still are. If these children survive combat, they often grow up with a unique set of psychosocial issues that are rarely addressed in their home countries.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=pa35xBxxMaqCU%2FLmOVOGQD9BpgUER%2FEb" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Andrew Bacevich: Chaos in Iraq</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company:</strong> While armchair warriors in Washington cry "back to Iraq," former combat veteran and military historian Andrew Bacevich says no way. "Our foreign policy establishment does not take war seriously," he said. "It assumes that the creation of precision guided weapons makes war manageable."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zYIe5bQY0hyQ64cH4Bk4sZbz2YdcFnMC" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Watch the Video and Read the Transcript</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3Xq5Tahl3K%2BprHaMOO5seJbz2YdcFnMC" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>How Stressed-Out People Impact Election Results</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Kevin Mathews, Care2:</strong> Why aren't more people showing up to vote in elections? Perhaps they're too stressed out. New research has found that citizens who are most prone to anxiety are more likely to skip the polls.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wEUx0Y1EJMWDFNnP%2BMssoD9BpgUER%2FEb" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>The Fight to Ban Gold Mining and Save El Salvador's Water Supply</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Julia Paley, Foreign Policy in Focus:</strong> Gold-digging multinationals are fueling political violence and environmental devastation in El Salvador, but communities are fighting back.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=JfNa4n4LUcBFAxDYZADCbD9BpgUER%2FEb" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article and Watch the Video</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=h2Wfmvw0Kg96ivHW6SXFNSE3w2%2BJtYwC" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>The Best Reporting on Children With Post-Traumatic Stress</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Lois Beckett, ProPublica:</strong> When people think of post-traumatic stress disorder, they often focus on military veterans, but there's growing evidence that PTSD is also a serious problem for American civilians, especially those exposed to violence in their own neighborhoods.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=MWTpVHOv9JewG8XR0M%2BsrT9BpgUER%2FEb" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1">Dr. Philip Caper says Medicare should be expanded to all veterans to alleviate VA wait times; Thorsten J. Pattberg decries the hypocrisy of Tony Blair; Reprieve announces a motion to question in court a Guantánamo prison chief who allegedly took the wheelchair of a disabled hunger striking prisoner; Mitch Trachtenberg bemoans the failure of democracy in the United States to solve the looming climate change disaster; Evaggelos Vallianatos discusses legislation that will further enable industry to pollute the planet with harmful chemicals; David Krieger's poem laments the decades of war set off by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand; the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation reports that mayors of large cities across the country called on leaders to act on nuclear disarmament; and more.</p>
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