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A New Cold War with China
U.S.-Chinese relations will determine humanity’s fate. This applies to the increasingly dangerous arms race and military confrontations, the intense economic and technological competition, and the current absence of disarmament, pandemic, or climate change collaborations. How we respond to and shape that arc of history will affect the lives of this… »
The right to die
Death is the ultimate ending for all living beings. Yet, strangely, very few societies allow us the freedom to choose to die of our own volition – a practice called euthanasia or assisted suicide. The right to take our own life is something that should be a universal privilege… »
The Texas Climate and Energy Phenomena
As millions of people in the South find themselves without power for a third day due to record-breaking winter storms, some have wondered why Texas isn’t turning to other states for help. To answer this, there are two important points to take in consideration, one about the electrical grid and… »
How Anthropology Can Change the Future
By Rebecca Diers – SUNY Cortland Before going to college, I had never been exposed to anthropology in all my years of prior education. As I began to take courses in it, I was shocked that this wasn’t a more widespread discipline. While anthropology by definition is the study of… »
Western Sahara: the Moroccan monarchy and Polisario, a frozen conflict
Western Sahara is a desert territory populated by nomadic tribes, which has never been organized into a Nation-state. A territory of 266 000 km2 in northwestern Africa, bordered by Morocco to the north, Algeria to the northeast, Mauritania to the east and south, while its west coast overlooks Atlantic. It was under… »
The Middle East: Is there light at the end of the Long Corridor?
By Marc Finaud, Tony Robinson, and Mona Saleh[i]. Recent developments in the Middle East and the arrival of the Biden administration offer unique opportunities to improve regional security. However, obstacles on the way to such progress have far from disappeared. One set of developments are the so-called… »
PEC expresses concern over complete internet shut down in Myanmar
(as reported by Nava Thakuria) Geneva/Guwahati, 15 February 2021: After the military coup in Myanmar on 1 February, the junta has now cut down internet services across the south-east Asian country from Monday, seemingly to start an aggressive military action against millions of pro-democracy Burmese protesters and thus put their… »
Beyond Lake Sebu: Blaans’ rich indigenous dreamwoven tabih and its master weaver, rituals, dances, homestays, at Blaan Wellness and Tribal Village
INDIGENOUS CULTURE/NARRATIVE Narrative by Claire Madarang I have always associated South Cotabato, a province in the Philippines with the serene Lake Sebu and the dreamweaving T’boli indigenous people and their masterpiece, the t’nalak. South Cotabato is in fact known as the “Land of the Dreamweavers.” However,… »
Experimental Art Photos at the Exile Pattern Exhibit
VISUAL ARTS Exile Pattern is a collection of experimental art photos by photo patternist Bereket Alemayehu, a native Ethiopian who came to South Korea in 2014 and now resides in Seoul. The photographs, which were on exhibit at Urban Pluto Gallery, Seonyudo Seoul from February… »
The Stargazer
POETRY/ARTIFACT The shape of each life that has passed Through this tunnel of time Must mean something in the scheme of things If human beings leave behind bones, books Vases, paintings, all manner of artifacts Proof of existence and intention What are… »