Incarceration Up, Education Down: America’s Cannibalistic Profiteering
The privatization of these crucial social programs has resulted in a situation contradictory to the benefit of society. The rate of incarceration has increased five fold during the same period that the cost of a post secondary education has increased threefold, and all for profit. America’s educational system and technological advances have declined over the same period that the county’s prison population has expanded. These results have benefited private interests while causing lasting and possibly irreparable damage to the nation and it’s citizens.
Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution: Spreading Fear Among Arab Dictators
Autocratic governments across the Middle-East are watching the events, quickly unfolding in Tunisia after the toppling of Ben Ali by a popular uprising, with anxiety and fear. In Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Syria, Yemen, Libya and even the Emirates and Saudi Arabia, the Arab autocratic rulers have a new fear: a popular uprising from their […]
Tunisia: Will Ben Ali’s Resignation Inspire Revolutions In Other Arab Countries?
Today, in a completely dramatic and unexpected turn of events, Tunisian autocratic President Ben Ali was forced out of office by the will of the Tunisian people. He quit his post on Friday night, panicked and fled the country defeated by the Tunisian popular uprising. The protests started a few weeks ago, originally triggered by […]
What Common Sense Tells Us About Climate Change
After babbling on with a number of factoids about global population, the land surface area of Texas and so on, the ‘Tennessee Conservative Watch (TCW)” asks “Considering that the earth’s atmosphere extends 50 miles up from the surface, how can anyone with half a brain think that humans can do anything to change the atmosphere […]
Haiti: Slow Recovery In The Misery Of Tent Cities, Cholera And Political Vacuum
One year after the massive earthquake struck Haiti on 12 January, 2010, Haitians are still grieving their incredible losses. It is time for the global community to reflect on the little that has been accomplished, mainly by NGOs, and why the progresses made have been so incredibly slow as challenges facing Haitians seem to be […]
