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Blog Entries by Peter Van Buren from 02/2013

Music to Our Ears: Failing in Afghanistan as We Did in Iraq

| Posted 02.03.2013
Read More: Afghanistan, Propaganda, Prt, Nation Building, Public Affairs, Music, Iraq, State Department, News

Kids and music go together beautifully. Free from pretensions, children play from their hearts. Put that beauty into an international setting -- in th...

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I Am Patient Zero in Our New Economy: Raise the Minimum Wage

| Posted 02.14.2013
Read More: 99 Percent, Walmart, Obama, Minimum Wage, State of the Union, Poverty, News

In his State of the Union Address, the president said that a person holding down a full-time job should not have to live in poverty in a country like America. I could not agree more; for the last few months I've lived like the people he referred to, and it is not a pretty picture.

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