HBO’s The Newsroom: News as Fantasy and Spectacle
After only three episodes, the ratings have started to slip for “The Newsroom.” Despite this, HBO, has faith in its future and has announced it is renewing the show for a second season. That’s a vote of confidence for a show that needs a lot of work, if it is to survive. Aaron Sorkin is […]
Discourse, Truth and Power
Discourse, with Latin root in discursus, synthesizes a dynamics of running through some thing or to some thing, place, situs. Radicularly contaminated by the Greek notions of logos and dianoia, the Latin notion of discursus incorporated the meaning of thought, intelligence and reflection that pushed it towards the complex semantic development, taken place in the […]
Africa: An Ethical and Sustainable US Business Venture in Ghana
Ghana- known 55 year ago as The Gold Coast- gained its independence from the United Kingdom in 1957. By doing so, it became the first African nation to free itself from British, French, Portuguese or Belgium colonial rulers. Even so Ghana has recently become politically more stable than most countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana’s economy […]
Israel and America’s Duet “Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran!”: Back in the Limelight
Even so the civil war in Syria is creating regional and global tensions, a much bigger potential crisis is brewing near by. This one is created by the increasing two tracks pressure put by Washington on Teheran. Once again, the familiar phrase “All options are on the table” has been used by the Obama administration. […]
Syria’s Civil War: Assad’s Fall Could Mean an Alawite Genocide
In the fog of civil war enveloping Syria, all communities are suffering while regional powers such as Saudi Arabia and Iran are fighting a proxy war, on Syrian soi, reviving a thousand-year-old conflict between Sunnis and Alawites. Meanwhile, the United States and Western Europe have either failed to take this sectarian war in the making […]
