San Diego, CA, March 14, 2013 — After a four year campaign, UCSD’s undergraduate student government has passed a resolution urging the University of California, San Diego to cease its investments in companies that profit from the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories. The bill, which was cosponsored by multiple student government members, was similar [...]

A new law passed in Saudi Arabia will give women the right to vote without the approval of her male guardian (normally a father or husband). Saudi women only recently gained suffrage rights, and this recent legislation does away with the additional approval restrictions. The first election where women may vote without male guardian approval [...]

For the first time in modern history, women will have the right to vote in Saudi Arabia. This development was announced in a speech on state television yesterday by Saudi ruler, King Abdullah. Women will also be permitted to run for office in municipal elections, King Abdullah said. “We refuse to marginalize the role of [...]

The Center for a New American Dream recently posted a beautifully done video outlining their vision for what a post-consumer economy could look like. They assert that we can reduce the scale of our consumer economy, negative social impacts, and environmental footprint without compromising quality of life. In fact citizens of the new “Plentitude Economy” [...]

The status of Palestinian political prisoners in Israel has long been regarded as one of the central factors in the negotiation of a peace agreement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As of 2010 over 7,000 Palestinian prisoners are incarcerated in Israeli prisons, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. The most famous of these is [...]

As democrats and republicans fight over different plans to raise the debt ceiling, an alarming factoid has surfaced… Apple Inc. now has more money than U.S. Government. The U.S. Treasury’s most recent report shows the U.S. government holding a cash balance of just under $74 billion in operating funds. At the same time, Apple Inc.’s [...]