From February 3rd to February 5th, the Boston Initiative To Advance Human Rights ( BITAHR) is organizing a film forum to raise awareness about the epidemic crisis of human trafficking and to promote the cause of the anti-trafficking movement. Human trafficking victimizes millions of women and children worldwide, and should be considered modern day slavery. [...]
By Gilbert Mercier and Liam Fox Even though the revolution in Egypt is still at an uncertain, fluid stage, they’ve already made an irreversible geopolitical impact in the Middle-East, and beyond. If 9/11/2001 marked the start of a dark chapter in world history, 2/11/2011 may have been the beginning of a new era of positive [...]
A Crisis of Ontology The deadly disease of our global capitalist system is rather easy to understand from a philosophical standpoint. The crisis is ontological, a profound existential turmoil. Human beings are currently defined and valued by what they have, not by what they are. The quantitative aspect of our lives is in the forefront [...]
January 26, 2012, will mark the one year anniversary of the first protest in Syria which led to the mass movement that erupted two months later, on March 15, and has drawn the attention of the world to the plight of the Syrian people, and the brutality of the Al-Assad regime. According to the Syrian [...]
The Stop Online Piracy Act ( SOPA) if passed would create a “legal” tool for censoring websites. Just like others coercive and repressive legislation such as the Patriot Act and more recently the NDAA, it contains vague provisions, open to interpretations, which could be used to silence dissent, free speech and the freedom of the [...]
