By Janine Mendes-Franco The news [1] of leatherback turtle hatchlings being crushed by bulldozers on a beach in Trinidad this past weekend has garnered international [2] media [3] attention [4] as well as concern [5] in the blogosphere [6]. The incident happened when the Ministry of Works [7] was attempting to re-route the […]
Portugal: Citizens Audit of Public Debt Raises More Questions Than Answers
Written byJúlio do Carmo Gomes and Translated by Sara Moreira Ever since Portugal’s previous government and the troika (EU, ECB and IMF) signed the “memorandum of understanding,” in May 2011, the country social problems have intensified: rights of workers have been withdrawn, wages have decreased and budget cuts to social assistance or […]
Diplomatic Bubbles: Balochistan becoming next Achilles”Heel
Balochistan becoming next Achilles’’Heel Diplomatic Bubbles Saeed Minhas Islamabad: It does not matter how bad is the situation in Balochistan and how inconsiderately we have neglected Baloch lands and people over the past half a century or so, but the moment US congress bill makes the headlines, the entire Pakistan seems to have erupted in […]
Neither patriotism nor peace
Definition of peace, taxonomy of patriotism and constitutional obligations of politicians, bureaucrats and common masses needs revisiting to understand it properly to avoid mingling of religion, politics and democracy. Anarchical approach of dispensation, ignorant stance of masses, hatred, communalism, corruption and unruly race for materialistic achievements has become routine of life, thus, haunting principles of […]
An Investigative Report on Cyber-stalking at Alfred State College, New York
Introduction In 2007, when I first spoke to Dr. Uma Gupta about writing an investigative piece about her experience as the target of cyber-predators during her Presidency at Alfred State College from 2003 -2006, my creative juices immediately began flowing as Dr. Uma Gupta and I examined the compelling elements: the harassment of […]
Psychiatric Categories as Natural Kinds: Essentialist Thinking about Mental Disorder – Abstract
IN a penetrating ethnographic study of American psychiatry, Tanya Luhrmann (2000) comes to a troubling diagnosis. At the end of the century, psychiatric practice, theory, and training are riven by a deep divide between two ways of understanding mental disorder. These orientations–the biomedical and the psychodynamic–have lived in uneasy coexistence for several decades, struggling to […]