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Interview with Social Entrepreneur, Ben Lyon

We spoke with Ben Lyon, the founder of FrontlineSMS:Credit*, a non-profit focused on micro-financing. After his experience in the East Timor hotel, his passion, drive...READ»

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Kopernik Channels Copernicus, Crowd Sources for Social Good

Copernicus changed the way people viewed the world. Kopernik is changing the approach to development. Social Venture Kopernik uses crowd sourcing and crowd funding to connect progressive technologies, poor communities and a global network of donors. READ»

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Here, Charity Begins On-Site

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Fund-raiser recalls era of the Holocaust

MANALAPAN – This week marks the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 1938 attack by Nazis upon the Jews that is widely considered the presage to the Holocàust.Last night, many of New Jersey’s political, business, religious and civic ...READ»

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What It’s Like to Chill Out With : Ratko Mladic, Goran Hadzic and Radovan Karadzic

Retrospectively, it was all so simple, natural and matter of fact being on a boat restaurant in Belgrade, sitting with, laughing, drinking a two hundred bottle of wine and chatting about war and peace while Ratko Mladic held my hand. Mladic, a man considered the world’s most ruthless war criminal since Adolf Hitler, still at large and currently having a five million dollar bounty on his head for genocide by the international community. Yet there I was with my two best friends at the time, a former Serbian diplomat, his wife, and Ratko Mladic just chilling. There was no security, nothing you’d ordinarily expect in such circumstances. Referring to himself merely as, Sharko; this is the story of it all came about.READ»

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Terrorists Strike Fast... Interpol has to Move Faster... Ron Noble is on the Case

A profile of far-reaching change with life-and-death consequencesREAD»