Tucked away in the lower echelons of today's news, and rather reluctantly presented, is the story of two pre-university age teenagers who have taken the government to court over its decision, courtesy of 'Business Secretary' Vince Cable, to allow unversities across England (but not Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland,…
"You've got to be taught/To hate and fear, /You've got to be taught /From year to year, /It's got to be drummed /In your dear little ear /You've got to be carefully taught." ~Oscar Hammerstein (“You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught,” from South Pacific) A teenager named Sarah Crank…
You have noticed that Republicans dominate the news scene day after day, and have for at least the last two decades. It is no accident. It is a unified and scripted approach to gaining dominance, pushing minority beliefs through techniques of fear and angst through a friendly, corporate media.…
I live in Britain, known informally by the rest of the world as 'England', whose official name is the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' a state that has only been in existence for less than 80 years. Despite being legally unified with Wales in the 1530s,…
By Jim Hoover Acrimony and lies are so much a part of Republican rhetoric that we need a full-time monitor just to catch and register the breadth and the scope of Republican fabrication, for it is rampant. We also need a historian to research the wild references made by…
A couple of years ago, I read Dr. Martin Luther King’s A Letter from a Birmingham Jail and I was mesmerized by the passion and anger in his words and although we are in the second decade of the 21st century, his words still resonate. This letter I am…
By: Amanda Übermansch Perhaps both the problem and the solution with PIPA and SOPA being so publicized is that many people didn't realize that international legislation aimed at a plurilateral agreement among countries, on a voluntary basis, called Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) acts in the same manner as PIPA…
The role that the educational system should play in the lives of individuals is to educate them to be conscious, critically thinking individuals who do not passively accept knowledge but question the knowledge that is being taught to them. Education should be taught to give students the skills and…
By OcJim President Obama made an important announcement: as currently planned, the Keystone Pipeline will be dropped. The response from Republicans was predictable. I do get tired of right wing lies, like John Boehner’s claim that the Keystone Pipeline would create 100,000 jobs. Even more brazen and divorced from…
By: Johnny Bint Current legislation going through the United States Congress is sparking rapid debate throughout the country and beyond about the future of the internet. SOPA, (Stop Online Piracy Act) going through the House of Representatives, essentially marks a proposed censorship blow to the internet, allowing the government…