The Antiswan On Unpredictable Weather, Crime and What Is and Is Not So
By Mike Sutton.
Karl Popper essentially falsified the inductive method of determining what is so. Induction is a now debunked methodology, which once held sway as orthodoxy in the 19th century, comprising the idea that knowledge about something [...]
Russia: College Education in Distress
By Masha Egupova.
Is Education the Key? by Bohman on FLickr
Education is something many people seek and work hard to get. They believe that school competitions, student loans and best grades will give them better chances for a good job and [...]
Picture from Genocide of Muslims or Tsunami?
By Nima Ch.
Two Iranian websites have (re)published heart breaking pictures of supposedly Muslim genocide in Burmese. I stress that this shall only show how the propaganda machines of Islamic Republic of Iran are working. It has nothing to do [...]
Squeeze the Producer: America’s “Statist” Quo
By Daniella M. Augenstein.
Applause and cheers of “yes!” and “that’s right!” echoed throughout the venue in Roanoke, Virginia on Friday as President Barack Obama spoke to hundreds about the deficit, cutting spending, the golden years [...]
Hollande says UK’s future lies within Europe
By Sanchia Alasia.
David Cameron last month said Britain would roll out the red carpet for wealthy French nationals, but yesterday rolled out the red carpet for François Hollande’s visit to the UK, in his first official trip here as French [...]
CM Punjab A show Off
By Adnan Aamir Sarparrah.
Chief Minister(Cm) Punjab, Shehbaz Sharif and self-proclaimed Khadim-e-Aala(Chief Servant) has been doing unique protests. He has setup a camp office in the lawn of Minar-Pakistan in Iqbal Park Lahore in order to protest [...]
John William Gary Answers Questions About the Higgs Particle
By Jaime Ortega Simo.
John Williams Gary, Ph.D from U.C. Riverside
1) The discovery of a particle that can produce all of matter is quite amazing. But why do they call it the God particle?
That is a silly name made up by Leon Letterman, [...]
Hollande calls for EU solidarity
By Sanchia Alasia.
François Hollande flexed his political muscles and urged the EU summit in Brussels, to support European countries such as Spain and Italy in their time of financial crisis, which may need swift action to mitigate the impact [...]
Kenyan sex workers: signs of progress
By Arjen Westra.
Yes, being in Kenya is great. But for me, it is not for the obvious reasons: not the safari’s, it’s not only the beautiful nature less than 30 minutes outside Nairobi. Europeans tend to think that when you live in Kenya, [...]
Aba Monsour al Amriki: Alabama Man Becomes Jihadist in al Shabab in Somalia
By Christine Axsmith.
Aba Monsour Al Amrikiwaswas born and raised in Alabama as a Southern Baptist. In 2006, he went to Somalia to join al Shabab, a radical and violent Islamic group.
His role in the group was to create recruiting videos for [...]
Unpopular Sanctions’ Effect on a Pro-American Country
By Nima Ch.
Are sanctions breaking the backs of the poor? … Or is it the mismanagements of Iran’s government? And … wasn’t it the Iranian foreign policy which caused the west to impose sanctions against Iran? Yes, undoubtedly [...]
Latest EU deal is the first step to debt mutualization and federalization
By Protesilaos Stavrou.
The latest European Council meeting of June 28-29 must be considered a minor success since on one hand it did make progress in areas where solutions are desperately needed due to the absence of essential institutions [...]
Hacking the Vote
By Ronald Bleier.
It wasn’t until some time after the passage of the Help America Vote Act in October 2002 that I was alerted to widespread election fraud, often by means of manipulation of the electronic vote count. If memory serves it was [...]
Article 7′s “democratic principles” and the National Rally of Independents (RNI)
By Samia Errazzouki.
To begin analyzing the state of a specific political party in Morocco, one should begin by considering the role of political parties vis-a-vis the monarchy. How significant is the role of a political party in a country where [...]
Is higher inflation in Germany a way to help Greece?
By Protesilaos Stavrou.
Often we come across the argument that one of the ways for Greece in particular and the eurozone’s periphery in general to overcome the crisis is for Germany to tolerate high inflation. The idea is that if there [...]
Are the Internet and Gaming Reducing Crime?
By Mike Sutton.
Since the Routine Activities Theory (RAT) is a theory of how crime shifts and changes in relation to changes in society – and according to Felson and Boba (2010) the key to such changes is the technology of everyday life [...]
Sudanese anti-government protests mushroom
By James M. Dorsey
Sudanese students are demanding the fall of President Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir’s government in growing daily demonstrations that come 15 months after student protests nearly forced the African Football Confederation [...]
What Is Causing the Euro Crisis: A Financial Mess, Cultural Diversity or Globalization?
By Claude Nougat.
We all know how the Euro crisis began: with Greece and lies about its public deficit. Then over the next two and a half years, the drama expanded to include Portugal, Ireland, Italy and Spain. Now the Spanish banking system [...]
Facebook The Social Filter of World Intelligence
By Jaime Ortega Simo.
Facebook incorporates over 600 million users thanks to its beautiful simplicity. Who wants complicated layouts like the 25 million users using MySpace?
Simple concepts are almost always better precepts for success. But [...]