Cyber Charter Schools have been expanding in numbers in the United States since 2003.  Over 190 schools are now labeled as Cyber Charter Schools. These schools are being called  “21st century learning” which advocates for a more technology based and student-centered curriculum. Cyber Charter Schools are being used as a way to undermine teachers and in particular teacher [...]

On November 3 members of the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), “a new intellectual property enforcement treaty,” met in Seoul, North Korea for a closed discussion of “enforcement in the digital realm.” According to a leaked memo from the conference, the United States is pushing for a Three Strikes/ Graduated Response policy and proactive policing [...]

James Neal Blue, who helped devise the Predator unmanned aircraft that are in use in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, is the director of a company that bought the Four Mile uranium mine in Australia.  Blue is the chairman of Quasar Resources, which is affiliated with General Atomics, a major United States weapons and nuclear [...]

Prior to the 9/11 attack, the number of immigrants entering the United States has doubled.  Since 9/11, the Bush administration influenced local law enforcement departments to help federal officials to detain immigrants from leaving the United States who they might possibly return as terrorists.  In addition, detainees fingerprints were entered by police “into a joint [...]

Every year an estimated 700,000 to two million women and children are trafficked globally.  The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) estimates that almost 50,000 of those women and children are brought to the United States. Major cities in the United States have become receiving centers for trafficked women and children, and brothels are formed. The Immigration [...]

The World Bank, funded by British taxpayers, has pledged an undisclosed amount of money to fund programs that avoid deforestation in the Amazon. However, it has recently been reported that the World Bank is also funding programs that are promoting the expansion of cattle ranching in the Amazon, which is the second leading cause of [...]

Protestors in Greenville, South Carolina have ‘locked’ themselves to a generator weighing 1.5 million pounds that is being shipped to a coal plant intended to be built by Duke Energy in Rutherford County, North Carolina. The protestors also hung a banner from the generator that says, “Stop Cliffside,” the name of the new plant. Duke’s [...]

On March 15, 2009 Mauricio Funes won the presidential election in El Salvador.  He was the candidate from the Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional (Farabundo Marti for National Liberation), FMLN, left wing party. A few days before the election a U.S. House Republican representative, Dana Rohrabacher(CA) said, “El Salvador’s election is on Sunday. If [...]

The International Committee of the Red Cross has reported that the underground water system in Gaza is at risk of collapsing. The water system could also contaminate the area’s drinking water, potentially causing an outbreak of Hepatitis A and parasitic infections. Although the Israeli government has de facto responsibility over the area of Gaza, the [...]

United Nations special rapporteur Raquel Rolnik reports that the wealthy United States citizens are ignoring the ever growing homeless crisis while pumping billions in bank rescues. Rolick claims that instead of spending money on other expenses the United States should be putting more money into lifting its people out of homelessness and substandard, overcrowded housing. [...]