There are many examples in American news today that budget cuts are supposedly a necessity to help America as a whole. Unfortunately the programs and projects which are already lacking funds and require more funding are the ones being cut. The state is responsible for deciding what they will cut in their budget. There are [...]
In the last 150 years, prospectors and energy companies have drilled as many as 12 million holes across the United States in search of oil and gas. Many of those holes were plugged after they dried up. But hundreds of thousands were simply abandoned and forgotten, often leaving no records of their existence. Government reports [...]
Newly released documents show that high officials of JPMorgan Chase bank knew for a long time that Bernard Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme. They did nothing to protect his investors, but they did protect their own investments that were tied to him. Chase risk analyst to look at a Madoff feeder fund, in February [...]
While Mexico is not a failed state by any means, it does possess the characteristics associated with a classic “narco- state” like Colombia. That is, it’s faced with a prolonged and protracted “narco-insurgency”, has a highly corrupt judicial system, and also contains a “home grown” narcotics -drugs’ production, distribution industry, which operates both within and [...]
Throughout the first part of February the World witnessed Egypt’s move toward democracy. Dictator Honsi Mubarak, although spreading several lies about the violent intentions of the pro-democracy protestors, was peacefully overthrown by his own people. While majority of the World rejoiced the event and supported the protestors actions, back home in America right-wing propaganda machine [...]
Pavillion, Wyoming is a small town where the skies are the blue, the grass is green and the water is contaminated. Pavillion is home to multiple gas drilling sites owned and run by a company called Encana. In 2008, Pavillion residents first began complaining “about foul smells, illness and discolored water.” The government ignored their [...]
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. [...]
Some 2 million or more undocumented young people call the U.S. home. About 65,000 graduate from public high schools every year. These cross-border children are indistinguishable from U.S.-born kids, tapping out text messages and watching gory horror movies and navigating the shoals of adolescence in status-conscious high-school cafeterias. But under current law, they have no [...]
Urban Gardeners across the country are at risk for having toxic levels of lead in their soil and food. More and more people grow fruits and vegetables for their own consumption, but they are not aware of the health risks that can go along with it. Urban gardeners are encouraged to study a map of [...]
The FBI raids squash the free speech rights of antiwar activists. On September 24, 2010, the FBI invaded houses and offices in Minneapolis/ St. Paul, Chicago, and North Carolina in search for evidence of involvement in terrorism. In reality, it is believed that they were truly raiding these locations to intimidate those involved in the [...]
