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Re-boot Our Agencies and Build Peace Even though nearly 43% of American voters think of themselves as independent, there is currently a lot of confusion about independent politics in America. When I tell people, “I am an independent candidate for President of the United States,” I have learned to add “Independent, not Republican, not Democrat,…

In the early 1970s, America boasted 660,000 dairy farms. In 2018, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported the number of U.S. licensed dairy farms at 37,468. While the number of dairy farms dropped in half about every decade since the 1970s, the average farm size nearly doubled. That’s consolidation in the dairy industry…

We put food on your table and are never invited to sit at the table. Big money in politics means government decisions about America’s food supply serve only industrial agriculture. The voices of family-owned farming, ranching and fishing operations are ignored, silenced and misunderstood. Our rural and small-town economies are failing while the ultra-rich, big…

In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln created a facility: “To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan”. In the 21st century, a new mission is required for the Department of Veterans Affairs: To provide world-class services and benefits to our veterans and their families. Some VA medical facilities and VA healthcare…

Why is Lady Justice crying? Family Court decisions do extraordinary damage taking children from hundreds of thousands of loving families and failing those children truly at risk. As Green Party Congressional Candidate for New York District 21, I want to update my prior statements on abuses in foster care and traumas of child custody battles…

By Lynn S Kahn, PH.D. and Brenda Cochran Dr. Kahn is the Green Party candidate for Congress in New York District 21 #NY21 Brenda Cochran is a Pennsylvania farmer and member of Farm Women United For decades, especially since 1991, federal policy has set the price of farm milk below the cost of production, crushing…

In October 2016, at a Town Hall Meeting on Family Preservation in Clinton, Iowa, stories about the obscene failures of foster care in America nearly overwhelmed me. Family after family stood up to describe the nightmare of children and grandchildren taken by the state for unclear and unconstitutional reasons: “There had never been any abuse…

The broken-hearted stood up to give witness in Clinton, Iowa on October 8, 2016. After campaigning political candidates finished, families took the microphone. A soft-spoken, middle-aged woman went first (edited for clarity): “Iowa Department of Human Services [DHS] took my three granddaughters that had been living with me – two biological and one non-biological granddaughter.…

Based on comments made by Dr. Lynn Kahn Independent Candidate for President of the United States to Veterans in Politics, International in Las Vegas, Nevada 8/27/2015 We have heard the facts and read the personal stories: How do we begin to have the conversations that will lead us in the direction of fulfilling the promises we…

This article is based on a speech delivered by Dr. Lynn S. Kahn, Independent Candidate for President of the United States, to Veterans in Politics, International in Las Vegas, Nevada on August 27, 2015 The U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as a whole system is failing miserably and the culture of the Department and all…