Tag Archives: News
Short-Sighted: NCLB Taking Students In Wrong Direction By Cutting Recess, PE
May 20, 2013
Fourth-grade student Kevin Killion listens attentively to his daily class lesson, all the while walking at a moderate pace on a classroom treadmill.
“It gets oxygen in your brain,” the fourth grader told Mint Press News. “I...
Drone Schools Suggest Inevitability Of Drones In Everyday Life
By Frederick Reese
This week, the United States Navy launched its drone prototype, the X-47B, from the deck of the U.S.S. George H.W. Bush off the coast of Maryland. The X-47B is the first drone that has proven successful in launching from and landing on an aircraft carrier, giving the military...
Scandals With Traction?
By John Nordin
Forty-one percent of Republicans, according to a recent poll, think the “cover-up” of Benghazi is the “biggest political scandal in American history. Forty-three percent disagree; 74 percent think it was worse than Watergate.
The noise machine is in full cry. The...
Altruistic Kidney Donation: Going Under The Knife To Save A Life
By Carissa Wyant
Would you donate your kidney to a complete stranger? What would motivate someone to undertake such a random and extraordinary act of kindness?
This week Mint Press News spoke with one such person – Maryann Ford, a 45-year-old woman from New York City who has made the...
At Least 6 Dead After Tornadoes Plow Through Texas
By The Associated Press
GRANBURY, Texas — A rash of tornadoes slammed into several small communities in North Texas overnight, leaving at least six people dead, dozens more injured and hundreds homeless. The violent spring storm scattered bodies, flattened homes and threw trailers onto cars.
In...
Addressing Media Bias, Activists Petition NYT To Revise Coverage Of Chavez
By Mint Press News Desk
In the USA, the former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez continues to be labeled a “dictator,” a “despot” and a “tyrant” who oppressed his country during his 14 years in office. The image is inconsistent with the reports of elections monitors who have declared...
Obama Continues To Hack Away At Press Freedoms
By Mint Press News Desk
The New York Times (NYT) editorial board is calling out the Obama administration for “secretly combing through the phone records of reporters and editors at the Associated Press.” It’s a bold allegation that has drawn the ire of civil liberties groups and concerned...
Close Guantanamo Now!
By Stephen Lendman
As president and commander-in-chief, Obama has legal authority to do so. On May 3, New York City Bar President Carey R. Dunne wrote him. He did so on behalf of the organization he heads.
He called indefinite detention “legally and morally indefensible.” He said...
Museum For Fallen Journalists Bans Names Of Palestinian Journalists Killed By IDF
By Martin Michaels
By most accounts, 2012 was a rough year for press freedoms, seeing journalists targeted for reporting what various regimes didn’t like. More than 80 journalists were killed while reporting the news in some of the most dangerous conflict zones around the world, including...
ExxonMobil Gears Up For Publicity Battle As US Oil Reserve Estimates Climb
By Trisha Marczak
As America battles the prospect of a 1,700 mile Keystone XL pipeline constructed in the heartland of the nation that would transport more than 800,000 of oil through the U.S. every day, the oil-fracking movement is gaining even more traction with a new report indicating...
