Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Author: GKU In August, the California Assembly passed resolution HR 35, urging University of California officials to do more to fight anti-Semitism on university and college campuses. The resolution suggested the European definition of anti-Semitism be used. Language in the resolution has led to the interpretation that even some peaceful university protests against specific Israeli government policies should be prohibited as ethnically-motivated, hateful, or dangerou...

Credit: laist.com The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously in July to close medical marijuana dispensaries within the city. This attempt to enact a Los Angeles medical marijuana ban adds another layer of ambiguity to an already complicated California drug policy. LA City Councilman Jose Huizar wrote the legislation in an attempt, not just to curtail the appearance of medical marijuana dispensaries in areas with schools and children, but to ban the dispensaries outright from the city. Thi...

Photo: eutimes.net As Iran hosts the Nonaligned Movement Conference this week, the Middle Eastern country has shown the international community that it will not bow easily to antagonistic pressure as it gathers countries from all over the world to its capital. With such an unstable, vocal, and armed government, US policy on Iran often falls into the foreign policy dialogue of both President Obama and presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on the campaign trail. Presently, US policy on Iran walks a ...

Assange and President Correa Talk on Russia Today (Youtube / RT) On Sunday Julian Assange stood in the Ecuadorian embassy in London to deliver a ten-minute speech condemning the actions of Britain, Sweden, and the United States for their treatment of the WikiLeaks founder. The embassy standoff shows that governments are under pressure to enter a new world of rapid technological advancements that policy often has trouble keeping up with. So far, international law has kept both WikiLeaks and its...

Photo: Houston Chronicle Social justice has been a perennial topic of discussion in the United States from the progressive reforms of the Gilded Age to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Today, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community has defined the social justice dialogue that reaches the popular airwaves. From the passage of Proposition 8 in California in 2008 to the legalization of same-sex marriage in New York in June of 2011, the social dialogue of gay marriage a...