At the G8 summit in L’Aquila, Italy earlier this month, leaders came together to tell the world about all the great things they have in store for us. The money, the figures, and the promises. $20 billion will go to help feed the starving around the world. We’ve heard that one before at Gleneagles all […]
To add to the post, India Continues to Battle Against Child Labor, which the 1986 Child Labor Prohibition and Regulation Act that stated that children under fourteen years of age were prohibited to be employed in occupations deemed hazardous, and then the 2006 law, which banned the use of child labor for domestic purposes, and […]
A friend of mine recently commented that it seems like everything is a human right these days. He may be on to something. Case in point: Earlier today Intel appealed a landmark antitrust fine imposed on them by the European Union on the basis that the fine violated the company’s human rights. In May, the […]
Distinguished MIT professor Andrew W. Lo and private sector Research Analyst Jasmina Hasahodzic interviewed thirteen highly successful, award-winning market professionals who credit their investment acumen and success to technical analysis.
What should the United States do about Iran and its nuclear program? Is diplomacy still an option? Before she left on her trip to India and Thailand, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, “We remain ready to engage with Iran, but the time for action is now. The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.” […]
If the positions of the sun and the moon influence the future global balance of power, the solar eclipse seen today in Asia could mark the dawn of a new Asian century. This was the longest eclipse since July 11, 1991 (only months before the official dissolution of the Soviet Union) and there won’t be […]
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s repayments to the government of last year’s bailout money, including an agreement today to repay warrants, generated a 23 percent annualized return for U.S. taxpayers.
There has been much ink spilled lately over the fight between the Obama administration and the House and Senate over the fate of the F-22 Raptor. The administration was seeking to limit the number of planes to the 187 that had already been ordered, arguing that the advanced fighter, which has never seen combat, was […]
With a Friday prayer sermon by a former president and a call for a national referendum on the government’s legitimacy by another, the drama and crisis in Iran following the disputed elections are not over yet. When he spoke on Friday, former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said many Iranians have doubts about the election […]
This documentary is a love letter to Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Director Estela Bravo doesn’t try to hide her adoration of the man many in the developing world look up to. Using archival footage and interviews with friends, relatives, and celebrities, Bravo paints a picture of a person who has not lost his idealism. [kml_flashembed […]
What this all means is that the problem of macho run amok and the excessively over-compensated male ethos of ‘macho’ aggression and propensity for risk-taking is now giving way to the male unemployed and undirected—a different but possibly just as destructive phenomenon. Long periods of unemployment are a strong predictor of heavy drinking, especially for men ages 27 to 35, a study in Social Science & Medicine found last year. And the macho losers of globalization can forget about marrying: “Among the workers who disproportionately see their jobs moving overseas or disappearing into computer chips,” says sociologist Andrew Cherlin, “we’ll see fewer young adults who think they can marry.” So the disciplining effects of marriage for young men will continue to fade.
Surly, lonely, and hard-drinking men, who feel as though they have been rendered historically obsolete, and who long for lost identities of macho, are already common in ravaged post-industrial landscapes across the world, from America’s Rust Belt to the post-Soviet wreckage of Vladimir Putin’s Russia to the megalopolises of the Middle East. If this recession has any staying power, and most believe it does, the massive psychic trauma will spread like an inkblot. How will this shift to the post-macho world unfold? And what will be its legacy in the world of 21st century capitalism and the global economy..??
On July 14, the prosecution wrapped up its case against Thomas Lubanga, the first ever accused brought before the International Criminal Court (ICC). Lubanga, the alleged leader of the Union des Patriotes Congolais (UPC), and its military wing the Forces Patriotiques pour la Libération de Congo (FPLC), has been charged with enlisting and conscripting child soldiers between […]
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