(MintPress) – There are few rights people take as seriously as their right to privacy. Most people want to live their lives as they wish; unmeasured, unchecked and unexamined. Ultimately, the life a person chooses to live is the only defining measure of him or her; it is expected that that life should not have […]
(MintPress) – There are few rights people take as seriously as their right to privacy. Most people want to live their lives as they wish; unmeasured, unchecked and unexamined. Ultimately, the life a person chooses to live is the only defining measure of him or her; it is expected that that life should not have […]
Each year, more than 1,500 military personnel make their journey to the state of Georgia to attend the School of Americas (SOA) — a U.S. military base, funded by taxpayers, intended to “train” Latin American military members.
Each year, more than 1,500 military personnel make their journey to the state of Georgia to attend the School of Americas (SOA) — a U.S. military base, funded by taxpayers, intended to “train” Latin American military members.
(CHICAGO) — Corporate predators seek cheap labor worldwide. Countries like China, India, Honduras, Jordan, Haiti and Bangladesh provide it. Transnational giants are unaccountable. Global sweatshops supply them. Workers endure horrific conditions. Some work up to 90 or more hours weekly. They’re wage slaves. They earn sub-poverty pay. They’re subjected to punishing harassment, beatings, sexual abuse […]
(CHICAGO) — Corporate predators seek cheap labor worldwide. Countries like China, India, Honduras, Jordan, Haiti and Bangladesh provide it. Transnational giants are unaccountable. Global sweatshops supply them. Workers endure horrific conditions. Some work up to 90 or more hours weekly. They’re wage slaves. They earn sub-poverty pay. They’re subjected to punishing harassment, beatings, sexual abuse […]
President Obama’s candidacy, nomination and election was hailed as some sort of seismic shift in race relations in this nation and represented an epic turning point in how we view ethnicity; a post-racial America, if you will. Nevertheless, this writer contends that Barack Obama’s presidency revealed to us not only how far we have come, […]
President Obama’s candidacy, nomination and election was hailed as some sort of seismic shift in race relations in this nation and represented an epic turning point in how we view ethnicity; a post-racial America, if you will. Nevertheless, this writer contends that Barack Obama’s presidency revealed to us not only how far we have come, […]
(MintPress) – Throughout the world, a new normal is settling in. As the climate shifts and changes on a daily basis, a new world of extreme weather is opening — the massive flooding and landslides in Brazil last January; the wildfires in Chile; the record-breaking cold in Europe and the scorching heat in the United […]
(MintPress) – Throughout the world, a new normal is settling in. As the climate shifts and changes on a daily basis, a new world of extreme weather is opening — the massive flooding and landslides in Brazil last January; the wildfires in Chile; the record-breaking cold in Europe and the scorching heat in the United […]
(MintPress) – In New York, a 38-year-old man loses his job in the downward-spiraling economy. His wife is a cancer patient, and mounting medical bills put him and his family past the breaking point. Faced with foreclosure, he found himself sinking, surrounded by scam artists promising to help him, but seeking only to pick over […]
(MintPress) – In New York, a 38-year-old man loses his job in the downward-spiraling economy. His wife is a cancer patient, and mounting medical bills put him and his family past the breaking point. Faced with foreclosure, he found himself sinking, surrounded by scam artists promising to help him, but seeking only to pick over […]
In 15 years of teaching, University of Pennsylvania classicist Peter Struck has guided perhaps a few hundred students annually in his classes on Greek and Roman mythology through the works of Homer, Sophocles, Aeschylus and others — “the oldest strands of our cultural DNA.” But if you gathered all of those tuition-paying, in-person students together, […]
In 15 years of teaching, University of Pennsylvania classicist Peter Struck has guided perhaps a few hundred students annually in his classes on Greek and Roman mythology through the works of Homer, Sophocles, Aeschylus and others — “the oldest strands of our cultural DNA.” But if you gathered all of those tuition-paying, in-person students together, […]
