Engineering Failed States: The Strategy of Global Corporate Imperialism
Empires as national and cultural megalomaniac dreams Once upon a time, national entities and cultures aspired to build empires. The impulse was the erroneous assumption of being a superior civilization. It was about exporting an extensive set of aspirations, a culture, and a value system. Romans thought that bringing water through aqueducts and paved roads […]
Bosnia’s Violent Protests: ‘He Who Sows Hunger Reaps Anger’
Bosnia Herzegovina is the microcosm of the rest of the Balkan republics. It was where the dream of a united Yugoslavia was plotted. It proved to be the seat of the multi-ethnic framework that Tito imposed with a mixture of both terror and sweet perseverance. Sarajevo was the ethnic wonderland, a musical and cultural playground […]
The Rise of BRICS: Cold War Redux or End of Empires?
There is a vague nostalgia for the Cold War era, which spanned from almost immediately after World War II in 1945 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991. It was arguably a period of history marked, if not by peace and stability, at least by a sense of predictability emanating from a […]
From Analog to Digital: The Revolution Against the Patriarchal World Order
In the analog era, our perception was shaped by certain images and concepts created in our minds by whatever the media presented to us, including the books we read, movies we watched, and music we listened to. We believed we were being informed on politics, social sciences, economics and psychology when we read books or […]
Privacy and Civil Liberties: Will the EU Prevent NSA-Like Suspicionless Surveillance?
By Vicki S. Nikolaidis The telephone records were not enough. Some members of United States President Barack Obama’s surveillance task force were calling for more types of data around the end of 2013. They wanted to include email metadata. Simultaneously, Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography professor Bart Preneel was recommending to a European Parliament (EP) […]
