Resolving the Sabah Island Conflict Between Malaysia and the Philippines
A claim over the island of Sabah has developed into a serious issue between Malaysia and the Philippines. The problem is so complex that a definite and viable solution seems unforeseeable in the near future. Notwithstanding legal claims based on documents of ownership by the so-called ¨Sultanate of Sulu,¨ basic issues need to be resolved, […]
Glitter of Brazil’s World Cup Hides Inequality, Corruption, Human Rights Abuses
International financial and neoliberal institutions, most notably the International Monetary Fund (IMF), have created conditions in Brazil that led millions to protest throughout the country. Images of the protests bring to mind photographs of the 1968 hundred-thousand march against the military dictatorships. How did it start? It began with a demonstration at the Confederation Cup: […]
Turkey’s Unrest: A Fight for Secularism
By Rick Staggenborg It is often agonizing for Americans who recognize their government as being the greatest threat to peace and freedom in world history to see how ignorant most of their fellow citizens are to what is obvious to the rest of the world; however, recent events are opening the eyes of citizens in […]
La Navase: Conservation of Biodiversity by Haiti’s Sustainable Practices
An unspoiled Haitian island, called La Navase, has been claimed by the United States and renamed “Navassa Island,” although it lies a mere 25 miles southwest of the city of Jeremie and 37 miles from Haiti’s western-most peninsula. La Navase is uninhabited by humans, but Haitians have fished its coasts for more than two centuries, […]
The United States of Extra-Judicial Murder and Imprisonment
Not since Nazi Germany marched its jackboots into the Sudetanland has there been such an abject disregard for the rule of international and national law. The Nazi’s advance resulted in the illegal imprisonment and mass murder of, firstly, many political dissidents, the mentally ill, homosexuals, and later and on a much larger scale, Jews and […]
