From Tomgram: Though the U.S. regularly espouses and pretends to practice the rule of law, successive administrations have chosen to forswear important international agreements, largely for military reasons. Among those not even signed are the 1969 Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, the 1997 Ottawa Mine Ban …
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” James Baldwin, writer.
Accenture Consulting is an example of how big companies are shedding national identities and becoming unaccountable. Originally, Anderson Consulting, Acenture is now domiciled in Ireland (low tax), and has a series of loosely connected regional hubs, such as Prague and Dubai that also have low tax rates. To avoid residency problems for its 373,000 employees …
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The next time you reach for your phone, remember that it induces slouching, and slouching changes your mood, your memory and even your behaviour. The average head weighs about 10 to 12 pounds. When we bend our necks forward 60 degrees, as we do to use our cellphones, the effective stress on our neck increases …
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Kosovo has become a hotbed of Islamist extremism. The tiny Balkan country, whose population is largely comprised of Muslim ethnic Albanians, is studded with mosques that preach the Salafist strain of militant Islam, shared by al-Qa’eda and Isis. Hundreds of Kosovars have gone to Syria and Iraq to join extremist groups. Yet Kosovars also admire …
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