South Africa: a crisis for business over social reform

Link to Article: South Africa: a crisis for business over social reform

"But simultaneously maintaining essential international investor confidence and promoting social justice is difficult enough in a society like Britain, let alone South Africa with an apartheid legacy which remains a gigantic millstone around the country's neck."

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Today in History: McCarthy Army Hearings Begin

Link to Article:: McCarthy Army Hearings

Link to Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAur_I077NA

McCarthyism is a tremendous example of the consequences of a nation that relies upon being too inclusive. Inclusive in the context of classifying what is and what is not a true American or true believer in American values. When a society resorts to strict centralization, it deprives itself from adapting an ideology that encompasses the acceptance of other belief systems. Absolute unity must be achieved through the progression of a decentralized ideal system that incorporates an accepting adaptive nature. 

This Day In History: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Begins

Link to Article: THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING

Remember this day as one of humanity's strongest freedom fighters struggled against an unthinkable evil. Let us pull history into our present by understanding that we still have to promote freedom in the form of justice, equality, and peace in our modern world today. Although human equality and justice has increased in the last 70 years, we still have to progressively move forward as a global society 

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From Anglo-Saxon Common Law Origin to Modern American Writ of Habeas Corpus--Article by Joseph Dale Robertson

Link to article: HABEAS CORPUS THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY WRIT

Freedom of the under the protection of Habeas Corpus. I deem one of the essential principles of our government. ~Thomas Jefferson

Bringing our history into the present and applying its historical significance into our future is a crucial aspect of historical interpretation. Habeas Corpus's holds no justification for not applying its historical relevance into its current state of understanding.

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The Continued Struggle Over Guantanamo Bay

Link to Article:  Close Guantanamo Bay' senior US figures tell Obama





 "A symbol of the willingness of the United States to detain significant numbers of innocent people (along with the guilty) and subject them to serious and prolonged privation and mistreatment, even torture".

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The New Colonial Era: China's Involvement within Africa

LINK TO ARTICLE:   China Colonizing Africa? International Studies Club hosts lecture

South Africa's rich source of natural resources has lured the newly emerged (in reality, re-emerged) world power, China, into its borders. The new century marks a new beginning for South Africa, leaving its potential for success at an all-time high. Will the greedy hands of imperialism carve Africa up once more, or will this continent be able to hold their own. Only time will tell...


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Habeas Corpus is a tragic thing to waste...NY Times article of a certain Guantanamo Bay prisoner

LINK TO ARTICLE: Gitmo Is Killing Me

By SAMIR NAJI al HASAN MOQBEL




Can someone please tell me our judiciary system is not this inhuman by denying these prisoners the right of habeas corpus? I guess we have forgotten the sixth amendment.

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