The Far-Right’s 50-Year Project to Make America Great Again
The far-right continues its path of national destruction for its ideology. Far-Right incessant campaign by Tula Connell The current U.S. presidential election cycle may seem over the top. But in one important way, it is no different than any other over the past several decades. Since the 1970s, presidential candidates running under the Republican ticket […]
Opinion: The Dilemma of Eradicating Extremism
Promoting Nazi ideology in France, Germany and a number of European countries is considered a crime punishable by law. This is not because opposing ideas are prohibited, but rather because this ideology in particular threatens social peace and encourages discrimination. There are those who believe that the promotion of extreme Islamist ideology such as that […]
US-led air strikes kill 21 civilians in Syria
At least 21 civilians have been killed in air strikes by US-led coalition planes against areas in Syria held by the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant group (ISIL, also known as ISIS), a monitoring group said. In Monday’s air strikes on the northern Syrian town of Manbij, 15 civilians were killed in the […]
DNA Can Be Used To Predict Academic Achievement, Learning Disabilities
Scientists say they can predict academic achievement just by looking at someone’s DNA. The King’s College London scientists used a new genetic scoring technique and found that a genetic score comprising 20,000 DNA variants explains almost 10 percent of the differences between children’s educational attainment at the age of 16. According to a statement from […]
World’s Smallest Hard Drive Writes Data Atom-By-Atom
Dutch scientists have developed a unique solution to deal with the data storage problem. By manipulating single atoms, researchers have created the world’s smallest hard drive capable of storing 1 kilobyte of data (8000 bits) in a space under 100 nanometers across. Using this technology, one could store all the books in the world on […]
Melania Trump speech tarnished by plagiarism claim
Donald Trump’s wife, Melania, took centre stage on the first day of the Republican National Convention, but found herself in the midst of an embarrassing plagiarism controversy. The billonaire businessman’s wife appeared to have taken liberal inspiration from a 2008 speech by US First Lady Michelle Obama for her own address to the Republican convention […]
‘I’m not going to apologize for the Torah’
Chief Rabbi of Tzfat and member of the Chief Rabbinate Council, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, defended on Monday controversial comments made by Rabbi Yigal Levinstein, head of the pre-army academy in Eli, after he claimed labelled homosexuals “deviants”. Speaking to Army Radio, Rabbi Eliyahu emphasized that while he disagreed with the use of the term “deviants”, […]
Trump confuses ‘radical Islam’ with ‘Nation of Islam’
All he knows is that they are “ba Trump seemed to confuse the name of the group Baton Rouge cop killer Gavin Long belonged to, calling it “Radical Islam” instead of “Nation of Islam.” “I mean, you look at so many different fronts. It’s, you know, Radical Islam – and by the way, he seems […]
GOP, RIP?
John Darkow, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri The Republican Party came to life as the bastion of “Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Speech, Free Men.” It was a reformist party dedicated to stopping the spread of slavery and to fighting a “Slave Power” its founders saw as undermining free institutions. The new political organization grew out […]
Fareed Zakaria Demolishes Newt’s ‘Stupid’ Muslim-Deportation Scheme
How could we have prevented the Nice attacks based on the idea of better intelligence and better security can save lives? The perpetrator of that horrific act was not on any radar as he was not religious and appeared to have no affiliation with any known terrorist groups. Plus the security in the area was […]