A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNCW) sheds new light on the detrimental impact background television has on children’s neural development and social skills. The UNCW study shows that children exposed to more TV are more likely to develop problems with hyperactivity and antisocial behavior. When children [...]

In August 2012 at the International AIDS Conference in Washington DC, HIV advocates met to discuss the skyrocketing HIV infection rates in black women that are increasing to levels found in sub-Sahara Africa. The recent growth in HIV cases among African-American women especially among youth has public health professionals concerned. In 2010, black women contracted [...]

The United Nations, in conjunction with its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is using the threat of “climate change” in order to establish a carbon trading system. Despite scandals such as “Climategate,” IPCC regularly reports full of misinformation and scientific data supporting the fact that CO2 may not be a threat, the UN pushes for [...]

Two former establishment journalists are blowing the whistle on their former employers for using censorship and propaganda to satisfy the agendas of domestic and foreign governments. Instead of working to “print all the news that’s fit to print,” as the New York Times vows to do, Times journalist Daniel Simpson recently came forward claiming the [...]

The agricultural company Monsato has partnered with Alnylam Pharmaceuticals to genetically modify crops in order to produce food products as drugs. Monsato wants to use Alnylam’s structure of manipulating the way genes naturelly develop themselves to prevent the production of proteins in crops. This form of gene altering is called RNAi Technology and it has [...]

Crops across the world have been suffering from abiotic stresses, unbeknownst to many citizens.  Drought, abnormal ph levels due to high levels of toxic chemicals, and rapidly spreading diseases like UG99 and wheat rust are just a few of the many abiotic stresses being introduced everyday into our environment by large corporations. As the food [...]

In May 2012, three male assailants held down a 15-year-old mentally challenged girl and, for nearly ten minutes, forced her to perform oral sex during science class at Martin De Porres Academy in Elmont, New York.  The assailants also tried to anally sodomize the girl, whose IQ score is reported to be less than sixty. [...]

We go into any grocery store and venture through the aisles and all you see on the shelves are plastic bottles. Plastic is everywhere. Everything we consume is all packaged in plastic containers. Plastic packaging is the norm. Even the water we drink is packaged in plastic. In fact the U.S. purchases more bottled water [...]

A bill is being proposed in Maryland to the Senate Education Committee to save children from unnecessary suspension. Just this year two, 6-year-old boys have been given a two day suspension, one for shaping a pop-tart into a gun and one for shaping his fingers into an “L” shape and both saying, “bang-bang”. Is this [...]

An ethical dilemma is exposed like a festering wound in the recent National Public Radio (NPR) report, “A Turning Point For Talking About Guns In Wyoming,” by Kirk Seigler, published on March 19, 2013, as part of an NPR series, “Guns in America: A Loaded Relationship.” Set in the midst of a growing public debate [...]