Today I received an e-mail from a friend and was moved by his words about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and how we may remember and honor him today; "...on the 19th of January every year those of us who have heard the mellifluous voice and equally as powerful message of Reverend King shall be reborn alongside him and feel the connection slowly move from the deepest holes of their unconscious and creep towards ...

Bush admits on Fox News Sunday, that he personally authorized the torture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Think Progress: Bush: I Personally Authorized Torture Of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed» In an interview with Brit Hume that aired today on Fox News Sunday, President Bush admitted that he personally authorized the torture of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed...  ...

Obama has choosen Dawn Johnsen, a strong critic of 'Bush's corruption of our American ideals,' as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel. She is openly public about her criticism of John Yoo and the OLC's 'Torture Memos.' Her appointment and other recent senior Justice Deptartment selections are being intrepreted as a message that "President-elect Barack Obama has indicated that he inten ...

President-elect Obama has appointed Tom Vilsack as Secretary of Agriculture. The Organic Consumers Association has presented six major reasons why Vilsack's appointment is a "terrible idea," siting his support of genetically engineered pharmaceutical crops, Biotechnology Industry Organization, Trans Ova (through the creation of the Iowa Values Fund), Iowa's 2005 seed preemption bill, GMO agribusiness giant ...

Research and production of new airport security technology from Israeli based companies are being funded by grants from the Transportation Security Administration, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. This technology is able to measure signs of emotional stress and strain or deduce that one intends to carry out malicious acts based on how an individual is walking or sitting. This will supposedly speed up t ...

There is an online movement for President-elect Obama to appoint Michael Pollan as the Secretary of Agriculture.  Pollan's recent article Farmer in Chief has already caused a stir amongst the farming lobbyists. Obama supposedly paraphrased from this article accusing the U.S. food production system as being one of the contributing factors creating our current major health issues; "type 2 diabetes, stroke and ...

Our nation's universities are turning out minds that are fragmented and overly specialized... perfect for avoiding any process of critical thinking or universal questioning. A "moral void" has been created in the "educated population" by the obsessive drive to produce the perfect "analytic." I really agreed with the majority of what this article is saying, right up until the last two depressingly negative a ...

Education, Arts, Human Services, Environmental Workers... Randy Shaw, of BeyondChron: San Francisco's Alternative Online Daily, explains areas that really need support from Obama's $750 billion stimulus package... "President-elect Obama’s $750 billion stimulus package is seeking to boost jobs by focusing on such “brick and mortar” infrastructure projects as roads, bridges, schools, and solar panels. But the ...

In my internet wondering I recently came across a college course called Philosophy of Media and Technology, taught by Dr. David L. Hildebrand at the University of Colorado Denver. An excerpt of his course description reads; "As we are constantly reminded, we live in an ever-accelerating "Information Age," an era of rapidly shifting images and voluminous data. Students and teachers alike feel overwhelmed by ...

52% of American claim to "closely follow world news," yet the US media is increasingly reporting less international information. Essentially, we are learning more about less. Alisa Miller of Public Radio International explains: From TED.com: "Miller is an advocate for a global perspective in news programming. She notes that, even while society becomes more globally interconnected, "Americans seem to know le ...