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(10/04/15 4:41pm)
If the entire world lived like the citizens of the United States of America, it would require nearly five earths, as cited by Patrick James of Co.EXIST. Despite this staggering number, we are trying to aid others in moving up to our style of life. Development projects span across Northern Africa, giving the false promise that they can one day live lives like Americans if we can fix the underdevelopment caused by old European customs like the slave trade, as pointed to and addressed in more detail by Walter Rodney in “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.”
(10/04/15 4:35am)
The Huffington Post’s Lucy Sherriff comments on the fact that Ernst & Young, an international professional services firm headquartered in London, U.K., will no longer be using a college degree as a criteria for its positions. With Ernst & Young being the fifth largest recruit of graduates in the U.K. their action bring up the question of whether or not a college degree is worth it—I believe it is not.
(09/20/15 2:47pm)
The Houthis—a Zaidi group from Sa’dah, in Yemen—are an honorable breed of rebels. They fight for a new democratic system to represent their entire country, instead of the one that their current president, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, envisions. As a response to the Houthi rebellion, the United States and Saudi Arabia decided to unjustly drone strike and air raid the rebels in Yemen under the cover of “humanitarian intervention,” killing thousands of innocents in the process. This is a crime and a failure to implement the United Nation’s “Responsibility to Protect” policy, as well as a failure to allow other countries to form democracies on their own, as the United States did.
(09/16/15 3:24pm)
The Republicans have proven that they are incapable of reading or comprehending anything regarding the Iran Deal aside from it simply not happening. Their public statements blatantly contradict what news sources from CNN to PolitiFact have confirmed is true about the deal and it is clear that they are geared towards fanning the flames of misdirected hysteria of a nuclear Iran than deal with the truth that the current deal would make it impossible for Iran to go nuclear for the next fifteen years.
(09/08/15 7:33pm)
It’s football season again and, for me, that means it’s the time of year when I pick the football team I follow in order to appease my modern-gladiatorial-game-watching friends. I’m completely astonished by the attendance and attention sports garner as a whole and believe that sports are a leech on society. From the simple waste of cash flow on basic coliseum-style entertainment, to doing the opposite of its assumed job of relaxing and calming people.
(09/01/15 6:26pm)
Every American
should realize that it is their obvious duty to vote for Donald Trump to be the
45th president of the United States. He is clearly an excellent reflection of
who Americans are, what we stand for and he is the president this country
deserves for as long as we go by the basis of the majority.
(06/28/15 2:50pm)
Eastern Michigan University has recently announced that it is raising the cost of tuition by 7.8 percent. I find that while this raise itself is appropriate in order to make EMU more and more independent from government aid, the marketing tactics used before raising the cost of tuition are not.
(06/21/15 2:56pm)
Capitalism is an ideology and, like many ideologies, it requires multiple factors that only exist in a textbook to ensure it works 100 percent of the time with 100 percent efficiency. Perfect competition is one example of this economic thought. Perfect competition requires multiple businesses providing a similar product competitively in order to drive the price of their product down to a natural price floor. There are some examples of this in reality that merit value, such as crops in America all essentially being the same price through various vendors, with the only difference being shipping costs. However, one part of capitalism that is not one of its tenets is crony-capitalism, popularly known as corporatism.
(06/14/15 2:47pm)
Authority in the United States is given too much room for error and interpretation. Allowing authority figures, paid for by the American tax dollars, too much leniency is like two parents telling a child not to open the cookie jar, but then leave him unattended for a week. Eventually the cookie jar will be opened. Unmonitored and unjustified authority can become a hazard to the security of the citizens who no longer pay it any attention.
(06/07/15 3:21pm)
Trickle-down economics has become a popular phrase in conservative media since their king, President Ronald Reagan, in the 1980s. The term, according to Alex Andreou at The Guardian, was actually a witty catchphrase created by the Democrats of the 1980 Presidential Race to be thrown at Reagan. Despite Reagan winning the election, the Democrats were correct in their criticism of “Reaganomics” in that the trickle-down effect does not work.
(05/24/15 1:20pm)
In times of economic recession and political failure, it is
up to the citizenry to alter the course of history, as we must all be the
change we wish to see in the world. Those who rise to the occasion are the
“sheepdogs” of society, guiding the sheep through the meadows and biting back
at the wolves of corruption and bureaucracy.
(05/03/15 3:24pm)
I believe that a realist perspective is required to solve the qualms of conflicting ideologies. When amid a public relations disaster you must focus on the practical, pragmatic and probable, not the ideological, as this may add fire to the flame with further political foolishness. As is the case for public relations disasters, compromise is absolutely necessary.