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Sustainable Ways to Feed the World Are Subverted by Corporations

Sustainable Ways to Feed the World Are Subverted by Corporations

Humans’ relationship to food is one of the most fundamentally shaping aspects of our societies. The sole fact that the majority of the world’s population now lives in urban centers is the direct result of a process that began approximately 10,000 years ago. This process was the switch from nomadic hunting-gathering societies to urban sedentary […]

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Winter Solstice: From Pagan Spirituality to Christian Consumerism

Winter Solstice: From Pagan Spirituality to Christian Consumerism

Solstice: the sun stands still. In temperate countries of the northern and southern hemispheres, every year there are two: summer and winter. The northern hemisphere’s summer solstice, which occurs on a day in the middle of the year (June 20 to 22, depending on the year), is the southern hemisphere’s winter solstice. Conversely, the southern […]

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Haiti: Time for Clinton and Co to Pack and Go

Haiti: Time for Clinton and Co to Pack and Go

Once more, we have tasted salt. We have mourned our dead from the earthquake and the cholera epidemic. The collective depression, the temporary zombification has lifted. It is time to evict the occupier and pursue the traitors and enemies of our independence. No exception. This is not the first time the United States has occupied […]

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The Myth of India as a Superpower

The Myth of India as a Superpower

The verdict of the world press is finally out: India, they say, is no longer a poor, despicable country as depicted by orientalist European cinema and novels but is now a superpower. To strengthen their argument, they show us India’s nuclear arsenal. If this does not suffice, they show us that the wealth of the […]

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Blast from the Cold War: Danger and Futility of Nuclear Proliferation

Blast from the Cold War: Danger and Futility of Nuclear Proliferation

Why keep an irrelevance? In the world of defense, nuclear weapons have assumed a stature of near futility. While conferences, think tanks, and superfluous professorial chairs exist on the subject of nuclear studies, the stark reality remains that the nuclear weapon is redundant as a weapon of security. The problems of nuclear insecurity, notably to […]

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