Spanish Teenagers Protest Controversial Education Law
By Jaime Ortega.
The Spanish Government has postponed giving the green light on Friday to draft an Organic Law to Improve Education Quality (LOMCE), alluding to a lack of close economic aspects that accompanies the laws promoted by the Department [...]
Hedgie T.Boone Pickens Sues to Squash Son’s Tell-All Speech About Family Emotional Abuse
By Tery Buhl.
Texas oil millionaire T. Boone Pickens is trying to use the Dallas state courts to squash his son’s first amendment rights after Mike Pickens wrote a tell-all blog about the famed hedge fund manager’s troubling family [...]
Immigration reform’s hidden border-crossing charge
By Sylvia Longmire.
Here is an excerpt from Mark Johanson’s article in the International Business Times:
“If the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has its way, Congress may soon authorize the study of a fee to be collected [...]
Women Altering Menstruation Cycles In Large Numbers, UO Study Shows
By Alton Parrish.
A surprisingly large number of women 18 or older choose to delay or skip monthly menstruation by deviating from the instructions of birth-control pills and other hormonal contraceptives, a team of University of Oregon researchers [...]
China’s Leadership Opportunity in Afghanistan
By Raffaello Pantucci.
First published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and The Diplomat on April 2, 2013
The 2014 deadline for the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan is fast approaching. China has just over [...]
Espionage And Historical Research
By Khaled Fahmy.
Researchers in Egypt face suspicion and a misguided obsession with security concerns, which is both a symptom and a cause of the country’s cultural backwardness.
On a trip to London last week, I visited the Royal College [...]
What is “strategic communications”?
By Christopher B. Daly.
While not wanting to sound holier than anybody, I have to ask:
What is a school of Journalism (not to mention the oldest one in the country) doing with a search for a new professor of something called “strategic [...]
Putin and Russian History
By Sean Guillory.
Arch Getty’s comment, “Putin in History,” was included in today’s Johnson’s Russia List. I asked him if I could repost it here. He kindly agreed. Full disclosure, Professor Getty was my dissertation advisor [...]
35 Statistics About The Working Poor In America That Will Blow Your Mind
By Michael T. Snyder.
In America tonight, tens of millions of men and women will struggle to get to sleep because they are stressed out about not making enough money even though they are working as hard as they possibly can. They are [...]
Earth Moved Closer To The Sun To End Ice Age
By Alton Parrish.
As Earth’s orbit brought it close to the sun more than 20,000 years ago, intense summer rays melted Northern Hemisphere glaciers, like this one in Greenland. Computer climate models have confirmed theories that the meltwater [...]
High School Student Arrested In Tempe For Holding Possession Of IED
Jaime Ortega.
Tempe, Arizona — 18-Year-old, Joshua Prater was arrested by Tempe police officers for being in possession of an Improved Explosive Device, otherwise known as (IED).
A woman found the device while she was cleaning a house. [...]
It’s Not the Crime, It’s the Cover-Up
By Alan Caruba.
I still recall the long months of the Watergate scandal that began with a botched break-in of the Democratic Party headquarters in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972. It was directed by a group of presidential operatives dubbed [...]
Muslim Extremist Urge Muslims To Hack U.S. Drones
By Jaime Ortega.
Drone Flying Through Afghanistan.
The first issue published by Azan, a radical Islamic magazine written in English that supports Muslim extremism, global domination, and global Jihad. Stresses the importance to stop worldwide [...]
Israeli forces hold Pal Media cameraman Abdul Ghani Natsheh
By Mada.Org.
Palestine— Israeli occupation forces detained a photographer Abdul Ghani Natsheh during his coverage of the visit of the delegation general secretaries of education and culture committees in the National Arab Ibrahim [...]
Nanoscale Technology Used To Drive A ‘Big’ C60 Through A ‘Small’ H2O May Help Drug Delivery
By Alton Parrish.
Columbia Engineering researchers have developed a technique to isolate a single water molecule inside a buckyball, or C60, and to drive motion of the so-called “big” nonpolar ball through the encapsulated “small” [...]
Internet Content Is Looking For You
By Brian Proffitt.
Where you are and what you’re doing increasingly play key roles in how you search the Internet. In fact, your search may just conduct itself.
This concept, called “contextual search,” is improving so gradually the [...]
Why CISPA?
Contributor opinion.
Is CISPA designed to protect our privacy from cyber threats (China espionage, Independent Cyber Activism: Anonymus, Hackers) or is there other reasons? and if they’re other reasons which are they?
Claude Nougat
“Good [...]
Non-competitive Election Held in Ethiopia
By Betre Yacob.
Ethiopia held a non-competitive local and city council election on 14 and 21 April 2013, in which only the authoritarian ruling party, Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), and its affiliated parties contested. [...]
Amnesty Bill is a Massive Multi-Million Dollar Fraud
By Alan Caruba.
Native-born and naturalized Americans who are currently seeking work are already competing with illegal immigrants—a term that the Associated Press says it will no longer use—or standing in line behind them as they sign up [...]
Japan Signs Historic Nuclear Deal With Turkey
By Jaime Ortega.
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shakes hands with Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan (right) after a press conference in Ankara on May 3, 2013.
The Turkish government has signed a deal with a Japanese-French [...]