College students and graduates around the nation are buried in debt and trying to succeed in an extremely difficult and competitive economic environment. Many people are graduating only to find out that they are unable…
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China Communist Party Expels Military Firm Executive in War on Graft A former senior executive at a Chinese state-owned military giant has been expelled from the ruling Communist Party for taking bribes…
Twenty-five years ago today, every U.S. media outlet, along with then President Bush and the U.S. Congress were whipping up a full scale frenzied hysteria and attack against the Chinese government for what was described…
Abduction of students sparks outrage while imperialists pour in A video purportedly released by the armed Boko Haram sect based in northeastern Nigeria showed what was said to be school girls who have been held…
Damascus, Students everywhere are special people and this observer has discovered that Syrian students are among the very best. Meeting and interviewing students again this past week, before and following a frank and enlightening discussion…
“Australian universities. A Portrait of Decline” by Donald Meyers (AUPOD), is an important and hard-hitting book by an Australian neuroscientist and environmental scientist who argues passionately, cogently and with biting irony for a return to…
A cri de coeur from a Syrian Student at Damascus University: “Mr. Obama, Tear Down These Sanctions!”
This observer has learned from time in this region that if one wants to learn what is happening on the ground politically and socially it is fine to speak with government officials, journalists, long tenured…
A new exhibition at London’s Natural History Museum features more than 100 ‘skinned’ animals – from a balancing giraffe to a blood-red shark. “Ouah! Qu-est-ce que c’est que ca?!” A group of French high…
Online posters of love and peace draw support. Iranians send messages of thanks Online posters sending messages of love and peace draw widespread attention and support; Iranian citizens send messages of thanks and praise. An…
Teresa Wiltz in America’s Wire writes that despite claims of increased educational opportunities for minorities that the performance of black and Latino teenagers remains the same or lower than 30 years ago. In fact, the…