EU Politics: Arab Spring’s Migrants Are Giving the Far-Right a Boost

The European Union’s interior ministers met in Luxembourg on April 11, 2011 to discuss a recent spike of undocumented migrants from North Africa in the aftermath of the Tunisian revolution. Italy alone has reported that 26,000 migrants have entered the country since the North African unrest started in January 2011. One of the numerous threats […]
Bailing out the Dying: In the fight against AIDS, The Good News is–Hopelessness is a Lie

By Kenneth Lipp Countries spent an average of 16.9 percent of their GDP, worldwide, bailing out banks and private financial institutions (source: World Bank- “A User’s Guide to Banking Crises”) in the year 2000. The original allocation for the now infamous bailout of U.S. leviathans such as Goldman-Sachs was 700 billion dollars, and though the […]
Nuclear Power: It’s Like Keeping a Dirty Bomb in Your Backyard

In light of the disaster in Japan, nuclear power has been put on trial worldwide. So far the verdict is not in favor of nuclear energy, and Japan’s tragedy could be a turning point and the final political nail in the coffin of a dangerous technology. The world’s worst atomic disaster since Chernobyl in 1986 […]