Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, Muslims have been among the chief targets of the U.S. government’s “war on terror.” As a result, Muslims in communities across the U.S. have been subjected to both heightened surveillance and privacy invasions, resulting in the arrests of thousands of Muslim Americans, especially evident amongst the Muslim male population. [...]

The rise in higher education costs (which rose 80% from 1996-2006) combined with drastic cuts in public funding of colleges and universities has culminated in high levels of personal debt that threaten the financial future of young adults entering post-graduate life. As administered during the last decade, especially, student loans often create a vicious cycle [...]

The Bush administration’s undercover relationships with owners of mainstream media corporations like Fox News, ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and others led to the intimidation of news reporters, who failed to report the truth about the U.S. invasion of Iraq. In fact, the corporate media played a major role in promoting the U.S. invasion of Iraq [...]

In 2009, violence against the homeless was at an all time high, with reports of injuries, vandalism of property, and 43 deaths among homeless persons across the nation. The stressful experiences of becoming homeless and then being victimized create extremely high levels of trauma, leading to elevated rates of mental illness among homeless individuals. These [...]

Over the past decade, post-traumatic stress disorder has become increasingly among troops who have participated in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A large study from the RAND Institute, a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision-making through research and analysis, reported that one in five servicemen return home from those wars with PTSD. [...]

Last month Supachai Panitchpakdi, The Secretary General of the UN Conference on Trade and Development reported that Global poverty had doubled since 1970 and that the amount of people living in extreme poverty “increased by three million people per year during the boom years of 2002 and 2007,” which makes a total of 421 million [...]

The House has passed and sent to President Barack Obama a bill to delay for a year an impending sharp cut in Medicare pay to doctors. Doctors that threatened to disrupt care for the nation’s seniors will be cut funding. The doctor cuts are the result of a 1990s budget-balancing law that tried, but failed, [...]

Despite publicly announcing that Google is not in any way condoning or assisting in the surveillance of Chinese email accounts, we can see numerous cases in which Google has assisted in government operations and the violations of human rights. Google is the provider for the software “Intellipedia,” a highly-secured online system where 37,000 US spies [...]

Wikileak documents reveal that US Diplomats were ordered by Hillary Clinton to gather intelligence on Ban Ki-moon and other UN officials. It seems Washington is running a secret intelligence campaign targeted at the leadership of the United Nations, including the secretary general, Ban Ki-moon and the permanent security council representatives from China, Russia, France and [...]

Many people used to use just soap and water when they needed to clean something in the house. Today that is not the case. Why put some muscle into it when you can just spray on some 409 and wipe it off a minute later? Many people do not understand the health hazards of using [...]