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Justin Samuels: Samuels vs Barnard College
Reverse discrimination is still discrimination. The courts and government are ending preferential treatment. |
 Bob Johnson: An Islamic Victory Against Free Speech and Education A college professor lost her job teaching art history because she showed the class an image of a painting of Mohammed. We need to break free of the stranglehold Islam and the other manmade "revealed" religions have on society. 2  |
Steven Sahiounie: To cover, or not to cover, that is the question women are not allowed to answer
This article is about the head scarf is banned in France at schools but mandatory in Iran and discusses islamophobia |
 Bob Johnson: Most Americans Believe Moral Lessons of Passover and Easter Are Important A new survey by two Christian theocratic organizations shows the majority of Americans believe Passover and Easter have moral values that can help America. This article points out that Passover and Easter are void of moral values and that we need a new religious/spiritual alternative to the "revealed" religions. 16 |
Mohan Nepali: Empower Dalit Women
As the Nepal Human Development Report 2020 points out, the widening inequality and continued deprivation of such substantially productive human capital would undermine the nation's overall strength. Nepal's National Planning Commission is yet to produce a well-considered plan for the overall empowerment of Nepali Dalits. Education, as a multi-faceted change tool, would be the best option to plan for this purpose. 7 |
Dr. Donna Marks: Three Healthy Ways to Turn Holiday Depression into Joy
Many people suffer depression during the holidays. Dr. Marks offers some helpful tips to turn those painful feelings into joy without drugs or other unhealthy alternatives. 1 |
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Steven Sahiounie: Syrians reject the US 'regime change' and re-elect President Assad
This article talks about the latest syrian presidential election and the future of Syria Arab relation 1 |
 Ted Millar: Meet the New Senate Budget Committee Chair--Bernie Sanders Something Republicans have feared since Paul Ryan was still Speaker of the House is the possibility of Vt. Sen. Bernie Sanders assuming the role of Senate Budget Committee Chair. Well, the next Senate Budget Committee Chair is none other than Vt. Sen. Bernie Sanders. |
 Steve Schneider: Reading, Writing, Rithmetic. And Compassion? Broward County, in Florida, gave some teachers an accommodation to let them teach at home by computer. The school system did this to protect their health during the Coronavirus pandemic. But now the Broward Schools Superintendent wants them to return to the classroom. |
 Bob Johnson: Religions Set Us Up For Failure The recent clergy created declaration calling for better treatment of LBGT people ignores the elephant in the room: hate-based homophobic religious scriptures that are claimed to be from God. 7 |
 Jeff Bezos' Ex-Wife Has Already Given Away Over $4 Billion They came like gifts from a Secret Santa, $20 million here, $40 million there, all to higher education, but not to the elite universities that usually hog all the attention. These donations went to colleges and universities that many people have never heard of, and that tended to serve regional, minority and lower-income students. On Tuesday, MacKenzie Scott, the world’s 18th-richest person, publicly revealed that sh... |
Kamala Sarup: Yes, HIV can seriously slow economic growth
In a stagnating economy, the cost of treatment will exceed the economic value of lives. This will have an important impact on the rate of GDP growth over the coming decades. Per capita income levels should also decline in the future |
 Study Links Trump Rallies to More than 700 Covid Deaths President Donald Trump's campaign rallies between June and September may have caused some 30,000 coronavirus infections and more than 700 deaths, according to a new study by Stanford University economists. The working paper, released late Friday, examined the impact of 18 rallies held between June 20 and Sept. 30 by comparing spread of the virus after each event to parts of the country that didn't host rallies. The fi... |
Adomas Abromaitis: EC: Lithuania made slow progress on implementing social and economic reforms
According to Country Report Lithuania 2020, written by the European Commission, Lithuania is one of the countries which benefits most from EU support.
Even so, Lithuania made slow progress on implementing social and economic reforms to ensure that growth benefits all of society. | |
 Ted Millar: ICE Threatens to Deport International Students Taking Online Courses In its recent racist assault on immigrants, ICE has proposed a policy requiring deportation of international students taking online courses in the fall. |
 Mutation Could Make Coronavirus More Infectious, Study Suggests Researchers in Florida say they believe they have shown that the new coronavirus has mutated in a way that makes it more easily infect human cells. They say more research is needed to show whether the change has altered the course of the pandemic, but at least one researcher not involved in the study says it likely has, and the changes may explain why the virus has caused so many infections in the United States and ... 5 |
Blair Gelbond: Dumbin' Us Down
Many of us at home and abroad, are incredulously asking how the American people lifted Donald Trump into the position of President of the United States.
Will we be enduring four more years with Donald Trump at the helm? Why is our next election predicted to be even close, not to mention, "highly competitive?" Trump's approval rating has remained steady between 40% and 44%. Why aren't more of us utterly appalled? 5 |
 Ted Millar: New Edu. Dept. Rule Eases Up on Students Accused of Sexual Assault In four years, Edu. Secretary Betsy DeVos has turned its back on student loan borrowers, transgender, and disabled students. Sexual assault victims are now next. |
James Smith: Unearthing The Roots Of Veganism
The International Vegetarian Union is a non-profit which was founded in 1908 in Dresden, Germany, as a consequence of worldwide growth in vegetarian society, after the Vegetarian Federal Union, which was established in 1889. Till now, IVU has encouraged many people around the world to become vegetarian. They are promoting vegetarianism on a global stage. 3 |
 John Klyczek: COVID19 Distance-Learning Rules Help Big Tech Shut Down Brick-and-Mortar Public Schools, Replace Human Teachers with AI This article breaks down the new US federal "distance-learning" regulations that are being proposed by the DeVos Department of Education. These new federal rules, which have been proposed to assist with the COVID-19 shutdown, will be open for public comment until 5/4/20. 7 |
 Bob Johnson: US Congresswoman Betty McCollum Blasts the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Calling AIPAC a Hate Group US Representative Betty McCollum was attacked by the most powerful part of the overly powerful Israel lobby, AIPAC. She is fighting back! She's a true inspiration and a true profile in courage! 6 |
Global Justice in the 21st Century
Letter to the Members of USA Congress.The Letter was composed prior to the Iranian missile attacks on two American military bases in Iraq and before Trump made his formal statement the following day, January 8 th . Although his statement can is being read in many ways, including the suggestion that Trump’s intention was to step back from the brink of a devastating war. I listened to Trump from my own perspective a... |
 "Dersh-o-mania!': Laurence Tribe demolishes Trump lawyer's 'Wizard of Oz' impeachment defense On the eve of Trump’s historic impeachment trial, Harvard University’s Constitutional Law Scholar Laurence Tribe hammers his former Harvard colleague and Trump defense lawyer, Alan Dershowitz. Tribe says he is “very disappointed” in Dershowitz, adding he is taking a “Wizard of Oz” approach to impeachment by claiming his “client is the constitution of the United States.” Tribe ... |
 Some Good News Out of Kentucky Democratic Govenor Beshear canned the KY Board of Education filled with Bevin cronies and appointed new members by executive decision on his 1st day, removing Commissioner Wayne Lewis. (some former members are suing him), Over his roughly 18 months leading the department, Lewis oversaw several major developments:The roll-out of the state's new school accountability system;The passag... |
 Students' meals were thrown away over a lunch debt. People donated more than $22,000 to pay it off 100's donated to pay off lunch debts at a Minnesota school after hearing that students' hot meals were thrown away. 40 students at Richfield High School had a lunch balance of $15, had their lunches thrown away November 11. A video surfaced on social media of lunches being tossed; the community responded angrily. The district apologized and asked people to donate.75% of US school districts report student... |
 Ted Millar: Education Secretary Facing Possible Jail Time For Defying A Court Order A lawsuit against Betsy DeVos is going "full-steam ahead" to determine whether to hold the Edu. Dept. in contempt for defying an Obama-era order. 1 |
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Kevin Anthony Stoda: Censorship of Teachers and Students
All of our lives we face some sort of censorship from media, but our schools are called to do the same. How many good teachers have been tossed aside do to self-censorship or open censorship in schools and educational settings in the USA? How many students have had their right to protest and to write under first amendment been hampered by censorship? |
 Your dog's food may be linked to enlarged canine heart disease (dilated cardiomyopathy) FDA has investigated more than 500 cases of dilated cardiomyopathy in dogs and has identified 16 brands of dog food which had the most frequent reported cases. The top three brands, according to the FDA, are Acana, named in 67 reports; Zignature, named in 64, and Taste of the Wild, named in 53 reports. "We know it can be devastating to suddenly learn that your previously healthy pet has a potentially life-threaten... 5 |
 NJ-11 Rep. Sherrill's SALT CAP testimony: Federal Judge: "it's a rope to the neck with a gradual squeezing over time". NJ-11 Rep. Mikie Sherrill give SALT CAP testimony on 6/25/19 in connection with her bipartisan SALT Relief and Marriage Penalty Elimination Act, H.R. 2624 (endorsed by the American Federation of Teachers and National Association of Realtors}. In it she referred to the Trump Administration’s arguing that the SALT cap is not a “gun to the head” of states. That may be true. But, as a federal judge p... 1 |
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