US steers clear of joining International Criminal Court, but it is now much more aligned with the court’s goals than ever before. By Blake Evans-Pritchard Although the United States remains outside the International Criminal Court, ICC, it is increasingly showing support for the court, and more generally for international efforts to bring the perpetrators […]
Global Warming: Geoengineering is not politics
It’s an election year, and the heat is on. The US presidential election gets the world to pay attention, and somehow, informed people around the world have their pick, albeit they are not eligible to vote. The election is big, widely reported, and gets interesting. There are two major sides in the election, when […]
Legal Immigration Controversy and the Non-Bias in Academia
According to the U.S. Immigration Support website, “Florida is home to 2.7 million, of 17 percent, foreign-born residents.” Florida may be a melting pot for people of all sorts of nationalities but it is also a border state with an immigration problem, according to the Florida Immigrant Coalition. […]
SOPA Shelved, PIPA on Its Last Leg, and the Internet Saved?
by Matthew L. Schafer Opponents of the industry supported piracy bills SOPA and PIPA celebrated as word came from Washington that legislators have shelved SOPA. Over the weekend the Obama administration, responding to a petition, suggested that it would not support the current legislation. “Any effort to combat online piracy must guard against the risk of online censorship […]
Climate Change & Global Warming: A Case For Geoengineering
Geoengineering can be described as the intentional manipulation of conditions in the earth’s atmosphere to reduce or prevent effects of global warming. Geoengineering is seen as an option aside mitigation of Greenhouse (GHG) emissions traditionally seen as the solution to global warming. Proposals for geoengineering include having giant mirrors in the upper atmosphere to […]
On Establishing a Tenable, New World View — It’s Time
by Donald Croft Brickner Hello everyone. It’s been some nine months since I’ve last published an essay — there’s lots of reasons for that — and while what will follow quickly has very little to do with greed and avarice, the two key already-locked-into-play reflections of these times, I wish to open with but a […]
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