1 day ago by Tonje

The world is getting smaller every minute and our responsibilities for taking care of each other grow with it. These days, information technology spreads the Syrian people's misery around the world, and we hear the civilian voices clearer than ever before. It is then perhaps a bit ironic that when a ...

1 day ago by Michael

Just for fun, of course! Hmm … would that be Kampala, Uganda? How could anyone want me in Kampala? It is, after all, rather far away. And I don’t know anyone there. Well, as a preliminary matter, one might dispute how far away Uganda is these days. In case you missed it, internet kills distance. And ...

1 day ago by researcher

Just when the nation state reached the point where it had essentially acquired a monopoly of positive (and in some places customary) law, new systems of law have arisen to diminish the effect of this sort of control. Among the competing systems of rules that are rising to regulate global commercial ...

1 day ago by Grandfather Smiles

"The candidate supported by progressives — President Obama — himself holds heinous views on a slew of critical issues and himself has done heinous things with the power he has been vested. He has slaughtered civilians — Muslim children by the dozens — not once or twice, but continuously in numerous ...

2 days ago by Reed Brundage

The Texas Tribune: "The Dos Republicas Coal Partnership, which is owned by Mexican mining companies, has applied to renew a permit that would let its American partners mine about 6,300 acres of land in the border town of Eagle Pass, Texas, across the border from the Mexican city of Piedras Negras . ...

2 days ago by soc links

60 Minutes - Qatar (January 15, 2011) - YouTube

3 days ago by Blue Sky GIS

Here's a fun little animation showing a map of human impact on the planet. It's from an organization called Globaïa which focuses on “a better understanding of big history". Here's an article about it. Anthropocene Mapping from Globaïa on Vimeo.

3 days ago by Karla

On January 24th, Thomas Friedman wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times titled “ Average Is Over“. Friedman writes that the reason we have such high unemployent and dropping middle-class incomes isn’t just because of the Great Recession, but also because of advances in globalization and the in ...

3 days ago by hwaairfan

Occupy World 2012 The Occupy Movement began in Tunisia 17 December, 2010, when an unemployed graduate, Mohammed Bouazizi set himself on fire as a result of police confiscating his means of survival, fruits and vegetables. The Jasmine Revolution was born and took 4 weeks of people’s power that demons ...

4 days ago by writteraccess

Globalization suggests helping the interdependence, on the web connectivity as well as is intergrated on the world wide levels depending on social, national, political, technological, economic as well as enviromentally friendly quantities. Great things about Globalization Things the ones are general ...