Will Banning ‘Killer Robots’ Actually Stop Robots From Killing?
A University at Buffalo research team has published a paper that implies that the rush to ban and demonize autonomous weapons or “killer robots” may be a temporary solution, but the actual problem is that society is entering into [...]
An Opportunity to Change US Policy on Taiwan
By Stephen Bryen.
United States defense policy toward Taiwan must change. Now there is a rare opportunity to make that happen with the election of Donald Trump. But everyone knows he lacks experience in foreign affairs, although [...]
SPOILING FOR A FIGHT, THE INTERREGNUM BETWEEN THE FALL OF BHIMSEN THAPA AND RISE OF JUNG BAHADUR
One cannot help but wonder what would have happened if the Punjab, Avadh and other princely Indian states had formed an alliance with Nepal during the Anglo-Nepalese War of 1814-16 A.D. Subsequently what would have happened had Jung Bahadur [...]
El Salvador and Manufacturing Exports
By: Donna Welles
El Salvador has defaulted on its national currency and now uses instead the United States Dollar. Violence in El Salvador is well documented by the media. El Salvador shares land borders with Honduras and Guatemala [...]
Saving Ancient Christian Ethiopia
The written sources of ancient Christian Ethiopia (which included part of contemporary Eritrea) are considered by scholars as the most important element of the cultural and historical heritage of the region. Experts estimate that currently [...]
THE MAHARAJAH’S LAST REPOSE
The maharajah was having a nightmare. He often did since he left the hurly burly of Nepalese politics for a life of a raj-rishi with determination to devote the remaining few years of his life to spiritual pursuit. He dreamed of a calamity striking [...]
Did Obama Deliberately Sabotage his Mortgage Relief program?
May 2016
by Ronald Bleier
At the heart of the Great Recession of 2008 were the millions of underwater homeowners — those whose mortgage debt had risen more than 20 percent higher than the value of their homes. At the peak of the 2008 [...]
Follow the Data: Wikipedia is being run by a weird cult called “Wikipedia Editors”
– By Mike Sutton –
Readers of my research might know I have a rather long-term issue with the fact that a number of Wikipedia editors are actively and “tautologically” engaged in their own pseudo-scholarly personal [...]
The fall of Palmyra – ISIS on the run?
By Rick Francona.
The historic archaeological-treasure city of Palmyra fell to the Syrian Army on March 27 (Easter Sunday in the West). Palmyra had been under the control of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) since [...]
On States of Denial
– By Mike Sutton –
The British ‘establishments’ of the BBC and Royal Society were in a ‘state of denial’ about the serious serial lying and other delinquent activities of celebrities Sir Jimmy Savile (OBE), [...]
In a Terrible ‘State of Denial’: Revealing More Facts that are Seemingly Invisible to Darwin Scholars
– By Dr Mike Sutton –
The Day the Supposedly Obscure Writer, Patrick Matthew’s Book “Emigration Fields” was Recommended Reading Material for Captain Fitzroy of the Beagle. No less!
The Year 1844. The publication:
The [...]
Capitalist ethics and myths
By Jon Kofas.
The Question:
Does the value system and Western-centered ethics that exists under the political economy of free enterprise best serve all of humanity, or merely a very tiny percentage of it? If indeed all of humanity [...]
The Hillary Enigma
By Alan Caruba
Does it strike anyone as strange that the only candidate for the Democratic Party’s nomination to be the next President of the United States is the wife of a former President? There is no historic precedent for this, no way [...]
My 2015 Commencement Address
By Alan Caruba
All manner of people are giving commencement speeches to students graduating from colleges and universities these days. It is doubtful that any will be remembered because the prospects of students depend in large part on the economy [...]
Obama’s Economic Disaster
By Alan Caruba
Commenting on the rioting in Baltimore, the Wall Street Journal’s Daniel Henniger was almost to the end of his April 30 text when he said “On Wednesday morning, the year’s first-quarter GDP growth rate came in—0.02%. Next [...]
Supreme Court to Rule on Same-Sex Marriage
By Alan Caruba
In 1973, the Supreme Court looked into the Constitution, found that it approved of abortion and overruled laws banning it. Other laws have since addressed late term abortions and those resulting from rape or incest, but killing [...]
Avoiding Hillary Misery
By Alan Caruba
While we endure the daily lies of President Obama, do we really want to have another four to eight years more of Hillary Clinton’s? It’s not like we don’t have ample evidence of her indifference to the truth and that is [...]
The Death Throes of Common Core
By Alan Caruba
Americans are learning the hard way that the federal government should not be permitted to impose one-size-fits-all standards to education. It was never intended to play a role in education and the absence of any mention in the [...]
It’s Not “Global Warming.” It’s “Springtime.”
By Alan Caruba
After decades of environmental claims that “global warming” would plunge the planet into catastrophic harm to its human and other inhabitants—at the same time blaming humans for causing it—the sheer arrogance and ignorance [...]
The EPA Thinks You’re Stupid
By Alan Caruba
The folks at the Environmental Protection Agency, starting with a long line of its administrators that now includes Gina McCarthy, think you and the Congress of the United States are stupid. They have been telling lies for so [...]