The Obama Administration has granted authorization for British Petroleum (BP) to drill in the Gulf of Mexico despite the uncertain and incomplete clean up of the biggest oil spill in US history occurring in April 2010. Presently over 25,000 abandoned oil wells exist in the Gulf, some that have been there since the early 1940s. [...]
“Who creates and allows poverty to exist in the wealthiest and most powerful country in recorded history?” (Paul Thomas) The ever-popular education/poverty debate is a chick-or-egg problem; no one is quite sure which came first and how to solve the problem. When looking to fix the problem we need to focus on improving the education [...]
Most people are finding excuses to avoid confronting their own thoughts and behaviors. These claims are part of the general belief that “your genes made you do it,” with “it” being outlandishly open-ended. Much research towards gender has created society to believe that the two sexes are naturally unequal and this inequality is rooted in [...]
In the January 2011 issue of American Psychologist, the American Psychology Association (APA) dedicated 13 articles, detailing and celebrating a 117 million dollar collaboration with the US Army, called Comprehensive Soldier Fitness (CSF). It’s being marketed as a resilience training to reduce if not prevent adverse psychological consequences to soldiers who endure combat. Because of [...]
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has created CMUs, or Communications Management Units, where the “management” part consists of denying inmates virtually all communication with their families and the outside world. In its Terre Haute, Ind., facility, the BOP is concentrating Arab and Muslim inmates and limiting them to mailing one six-page letter per week, [...]
The Senate has designated April as National Child Abuse Prevention month due to a growing concern for the well-being of American children. The 2008 Child Maltreatment Study compiled by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimated 772,000 children were victims of abuse or neglect; in 2008, an estimated 1,740 children died as a [...]
According to a report from The Insight Center for Community Economic Development, women of color possess a wealth of approximately $100 compared to white men and women with over $40,000. The situation is direr for single women of color, of whom almost half have no or negative wealth. Tim Grant of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette—the only [...]
Although President Obama has said that he would improve the lives of Native Americans, extreme crises still occur in the country’s largest Indian reservations. In South Dakota, the per capita income in the Oglala Sioux reservation is $7,000 per year. In Wisconsin, the Menominee Indian Reservation has the highest suicide rate of any other county [...]
Gary Conklin, the owner of Conklin Dairy Farms in Ohio, was acquitted by a Union County grand jury of any criminal charges regarding accusations of animal abuse—despite video footage of animal abuse taking place at his farm. This protection of agribusinesses over farm animals is international: The Australian revealed that more than 90% of Australian [...]
Republicans in the U.S. House of representatives are trying to eliminate all federal funding from Planned Parenthood. The issue will go before the Senate by the beginning of March. Republicans accused the organization of providing abortion services with Title X funding, which is not true because such centers have been providing evidence that such funding [...]
