By Will Bacha on Jul 20, 2019 01:00 pm
“We have experimented educationally on children who are poor, who are of color, who go to underfunded schools. We come up with ways of teaching them that are experiments and have absolutely no kind of basis in research.” Charter schools and the “school choice” movement have become a major part of the fabric of the […]
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By Jacqueline Havelka on Jul 20, 2019 11:00 am
Saturday, July 20, is the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 space program’s landing on the moon. In honor of the achievement, Citizen Truth will run a series of articles about little known aspects of the Apollo 11 space program all week. From rockets to remnants, here are the top five interesting Apollo moon landing […]
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By Rami Almeghari on Jul 20, 2019 09:00 am
Because of multiple petitions from humanitarian groups, last May Israel’s High Court of Justice ordered the release of fishing boats seized in 2014 for allegedly violating Israeli waters. Last week, Israeli authorities released dozens of Gaza fishermen’s boats, which were stored at the Israeli port city of Ashdod. The number of boats is estimated at […]
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By Jacqueline Havelka on Jul 20, 2019 07:00 am
Saturday, July 20, is the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 space program’s landing on the moon. In honor of the achievement, Citizen Truth will run a series of articles about little known aspects of the Apollo 11 space program all week. What happened when a noted astronomer asked for collaborators in 1955 to use […]
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By Rami Almeghari on Jul 20, 2019 05:00 am
Shortly after a promising ceasefire and troop pullout deal was reached for the Yemen port city of Hodeidah, tensions escalate between Saudi Arabia and Houthi rebels in Yemen. In recent weeks, the Houthi rebel group in Yemen began an offensive campaign in Saudi Arabia using unmanned explosives-laden drones to target Saudi Arabian airports. Previous attacks […]
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By Jacqueline Havelka on Jul 19, 2019 07:00 pm
NASA is marking the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing by opening its moon rock samples to geologists. Hundreds of pounds of moon rocks have been closely guarded in a restricted Houston lab for decades. But now, NASA wants modern geologists to examine the rocks using state-of-the-art technology. NASA stated that it was […]
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By Peter Castagno on Jul 19, 2019 05:25 pm
“The real (inflation-adjusted) minimum wage is now roughly 30 percent lower than it was in 1968, and it has been more than 10 years since Congress raised the minimum wage.” The House voted on Thursday to pass the Raise the Wage Act (RTWA), a bill to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. […]
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By Yasmeen Rasidi on Jul 19, 2019 12:50 pm
“This is a strong message, I think, that our values must guide our foreign policy.” On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representative passed three resolutions to block President Donald Trump’s plan to sell precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) without congressional review. The vote sends the bills to the […]
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By Dr. Francesca Norton on Jul 19, 2019 09:00 am
On the reception held for the National Day of France, the French Ambassador to Albania, Mrs. Christina Vasak criticized her colleagues by saying that ambassadors do not judge or replace Albanian authorities. That was a slap in the face to her colleagues regarding their behavior in the country. She stressed that “diplomats are here to […]
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By Peter Castagno on Jul 19, 2019 07:00 am
“Let me get this straight. You’re still due to get at least a million-dollar payout from when you lobbied for Raytheon. You won’t commit to recuse yourself.” Mark Esper won the approval of the Senate Armed Service Committee to serve as U.S. Defense Secretary on Thursday, preceding a likely confirmation for the nominee next week. […]
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By Jacqueline Havelka on Jul 19, 2019 05:00 am
This Saturday is the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 space program’s landing on the moon. In honor of the achievement, Citizen Truth will run a series of articles about little known aspects of the Apollo 11 space program all week. Nichelle Nichols is best known for playing Lieutenant Uhura on the 1960s Star Trek […]
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By Jack Xiong on Jul 18, 2019 04:55 pm
“What we are saying is what we are seeing in the streets. We are telling a story of the moment we are in right now.” Puerto Rican recording artists Bad Bunny, Residente, and iLe released a protest anthem aimed at Puerto Rico governor Ricardo Rosselló, on Wednesday. The new song is called “Afilando Los Cuchillos” […]
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By Walter Yeates on Jul 18, 2019 04:35 pm
If the JCPoA can be salvaged, the world may avoid war in Iran. “Iran has seized an oil tanker it claimed was carrying 1 million liters of ‘smuggled fuel,’ state news agency Press TV said on Thursday, before later releasing a video purporting to show the tanker,” CNN reported early Thursday morning. “The semi-official Fars […]
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By Prabir Purkayastha on Jul 18, 2019 01:30 pm
There are signs of a new tanker war in the Persian Gulf, with Britain joining a coalition that wants a war with Iran. The standoff between the U.S. and Iran is now developing into a reenactment of the tanker wars in the Persian Gulf during the 1980–88 Iran–Iraq War. The United Kingdom seems to have […]
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By Rami Almeghari on Jul 18, 2019 12:43 pm
According to the power-sharing agreement, a total of six civilians and five military leaders will rule the country until an election is held in three years. Following weeks of deadly protests and a series of negotiations, both Sudan’s military transitional council and opposition groups signed on Wednesday a power-sharing deal that lays the foundations for […]
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