Neutre et impartiale, la science? Depuis ses origines, nombreux sont ceux qui l’ont affirmé. Pourtant, l’activité scientifique est l’occasion d’un vaste et incessant débat d’idées et de théories que seule la confirmation expérimentale peut occasionnellement apaiser, et temporairement interrompre. Pour … Lire / Read
Hope Lies in Ruins: Deconstructing Neo-liberal Myths
The ongoing financial crisis is receiving enormous amounts of attention and a plethora of analyses every day. However, reports and opinions rarely reflect the historical underpinnings that reach farther than 2001, and remain mainly oriented on very recent years, wars, … Lire / Read
Antidepressant Use in Children: Should We Worry?
In 2003 and 2004, a controversy regarding the use of antidepressant medications in children and adolescents made the headlines. It was reported that these medications increased the risk of suicide. During the last four years, many studies have been conducted … Lire / Read
(Re)Considering gender equality
High levels of sexual and gender-based violence characterize current civil conflicts. Canada prides itself on upholding human rights and gender equality in such conflicts and during peacebuilding. It has adopted a narrow approach to gender equality, however, that does not … Lire / Read
At Play with the Border
While at play with the border in the virtual and futuristic world of the video game Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter2, we are confronted by the extent to which it imitates actual U.S.-Mexico border politics. The extreme sense of urgency and … Lire / Read
Sean Penn and a Possible US Imperialist Threat towards Venezuela, via Columbia
So we learn tonight, that Hollywood activist/journalist Mr Sean Penn has confirmed what many suspected, regarding the reason the United States is pressing the Columbia Trade Agreement through a spineless – without Obama – Congress: the United States may have … Lire / Read
Sustainability 101
J’ai beaucoup aimé la vidéo de ce cours donné à l’Université du Colorado à Bourder, aux États-Unis, s’intitulant « Sustainability 101: Arythmetics, Population and Energy ». Une vision réaliste et choquante de l’incompétence humaine en ce qui a trait aux … Lire / Read
Another Reason we must Make Glorious the Iraq War: Arrrr, Pirates!
Breitebart, via headline shrieking conservative mouthpiece Matt Drudge, has supplied us with yet another heroic reason to prolong the war in Iraq. “[T]he Gulf would be infested by pirates…if the U.S. quits Iraq too soon”, Iraq’s Defense Minister is quoted … Lire / Read
U.S.A. – Lame Duck Country
Many times in its history, the United States has acted unethically, prompted by reasons ranging from mere jingoistic nationalism which rallied around a Jesuitical plea for ends justifying means, to justifications from pure greed by which the bottom line becomes … Lire / Read
Chavarisme à la sauce suisse?
Une certaine Adrienne nous faisait remarquer, dans mon dernier post, que Suisses et Suissesses vivaient en démocratie directe. Je n’en savait rien. Alors j’ai mis mes gants et je suis allez voir du côté de l’internet de quoi il … Lire / Read