Blog Feed: Globalization & Capitalism

Hace algunas semanas estaba leyendo un cuadernillo de investigación de la USAC titulado “El Terrateniente guatemalteco: una aproximación a su concepción ecológica y a los efectos de su práctica productiva sobre el medio ambiente” y m

Chavez is dead

Published on 2013-03-06 08:37:06

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our k

Worth reading: Lincoln’s Cooper Union Speech

Published on 2013-02-27 11:20:19

I watched a couple nights ago the movie Lincoln and also last week I finished reading Ronald C. White‘s biography of Abraham Lincoln. I must accept that before reading the book I had little sympathy for this men, due to many of the violations

82nd & Fifth. “My First Time” from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published on 2013-02-27 10:40:24

One of my favourite museums is The Met and one of my favourite paintings is also there. I was just impressed and happy to see that a new video cured by the art historian and curator George Goldner depicted and explained that painting. The painting

February 26: The day the Communist Manifesto was published

Published on 2013-02-26 08:43:39

26 February, 1848: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the COMMUNIST MANIFESTO, a political theory that has become one of the modern world’s most influential documents and a source of inspiration for most of our political leaders. The Commun

The Economic Impact of a War Between Japan & China

Published on 2013-02-22 09:38:42

“The United States believes that the establishment of diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic will contribute to the welfare of the American people, to the stability of Asia where the United States has major security and economic

For All the Tea in China

Published on 2013-02-22 09:03:20

22 February, 1784: The first American trade ship to China weighs anchor in New York City. The history of trade between China and the West is fraught with conflict and cultural complications, as demonstrated by the audacious 19th-century attempt by th

February 20 1524. The Commemoration of the death and defeat of a Mayan Prince in a Critical Juncture of Globalization

Published on 2013-02-20 11:27:22

The term Globalization refers to what many different historians considered a process of interrelation (or unification) of the world. It was a process of cultural, political and economic relations that for the first time in history united all mankind.

The legacy of George Washington’s Postal Service Act of February 20, 1792

Published on 2013-02-20 05:30:37

WASHINGTON — Faced with billions of dollars in losses, the Postal Service announced on Wednesday (Feb. 06 2013) that it would seek to stop Saturday delivery of letters, a sweeping change in mail delivery that immediately drew criticism from posta

Why is Copernicus relevant to our understanding of Globalization?

Published on 2013-02-19 10:50:56

We are constantly bombarded with media reports on globalization in terms of its increasing process and potential effects on our lives. What is meant by this concept and why should we be concerned with its impact? The developing countries of sub-Sahar

Remembering the wise Talleyrand

Published on 2013-02-13 04:48:03

Je connais quelqu’un qui a plus d’esprit que Napoléon, que Voltaire, que tous les ministres présents et futurs: c’est l’opinion. I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers pr

Celebrating Charles Darwin Day

Published on 2013-02-12 09:09:50

Today people around the world celebrates the 204 Anniversary of Charles Darwin birth. To me this day is special and I celebrate the life and work of this great man by sharing with you the WHY he is history’s most important thinker. Throughou

Is Globalization finally saying “STOP!” to the Catholic Church?

Published on 2013-02-11 08:27:41

After only seven years as Head of the Catholic Church, the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI is an astonishing news. This may be a message on how Globalization affects such global organization. The election of Pope Benedict XVI followed all the ru

A Satellite’s View of Ship Pollution and globalization

Published on 2013-02-09 10:48:04

The geographical hotspots of the world are all related to economic trade and global exchange of political interests. Places such as the Panama and Suez Canals have always been in the Western media. However, from an economic and strategic perspective,

U.S. Gun Murders in 2010: an Alternative View

Published on 2013-02-07 14:21:00

How many gun murder victims in the U.S. are black? How many were killed with hand guns (and not with the now fiercely debated assault rifles)? U.S. Gun Murders in 2010 [periscopic.com] by Periscopic combines function and beauty to examine the data re

Remembering J’accuse

Published on 2013-02-07 10:00:58

“It is a crime to poison the small and the humble, to exasperate passions of reaction and intolerance, while taking shelter behind the odious antisemitism…” A day like today in February 07 1898 the Émile Zola was brought to trial f

Terracotta vase in the form of a lobster claw

Published on 2013-02-06 16:32:09

Visiting history museums is one of my favorite activities. There, one of the things that I appreciate the most is learning about the paintings they have in vases and other pottery utensils from Ancient Greece. Why? Because of its relative durabilit

Satellite images of negative externalities caused by Globalization

Published on 2013-01-28 10:48:06

I always keep track of the images from space taken by NASA. They usually have impressive “natural hazards” photographed with the highest technology available. However, sometimes the natural hazards to humanity are not caused by the na

Today January 27 is International Holocaust Memorial Day

Published on 2013-01-27 11:12:39

Let us never forget, Holocaust Memorial Day Documentary Tribute to holocaust victims – We shall never forget! Filed under: Ethics and Morality, Europe, History, Philosophy, War Tagged: 1939-1945, 1944, Adolf Hitler, Auschwitz, Auschwitz concentrati

The Resistance Begins: New York Gun Owners Refuse to Register; “Largest Act of Civil Disobedience in State History”

Published on 2013-01-27 11:03:12

Reblogged from Boudica BPI Weblog: Via One upstate Republican AKA RINO voted with Cuomo and all upstate dwmocraps. Split NY into 2 states. Mid Hudson, Upstate NY vs. NYC, downstate on NY Gun Control Law With emotions running high in the aftermath of

Two historical references for a discussion on the right to keep and bear arms

Published on 2013-01-27 10:29:54

One of the most controversial discussions in the last few weeks has been the one around guns, its regulation and controls, its production, on the rights to use guns, on private gun ownership and the arguments of those in favor/against the Right to k

Will History (and people) love Barack Obama?

Published on 2013-01-26 17:21:31

In a new 538 post, the author Nate Silver spends a lot of energy proving the unsurprising: that presidents who serve longer, and win larger re-electoral margins, are better regarded by history—or at least by historians. If this is truth I suppose

Call for papers: American Studies Association Annual Meeting

Published on 2013-01-26 17:06:15

I republish information of interest from Blog de la AMHE by Itzayana Gutiérrez Dear colleagues: As member of the International Committee of the American Studies Association, I am soliciting panels or individual papers for our upcoming conference (ht

Walmart’s Irrational “buy American” Campaign

Published on 2013-01-16 12:11:55

Walmart‘s latest push to Buy American and Hire Veterans is irrational. In a world of interconnectedness in which products from pencils to airplanes are produced with parts and components made all over the world the “buy American”

RIP James M. Buchanan (October 3, 1919 – January 9, 2013)

Published on 2013-01-09 10:44:19

Nobel laureate and Classical Liberal economist James M. Buchanan has died today. He was one of the most important economist of the 20th. Century and will be long remembered for his work on the principles of economic self-interest and their use to

I don’t want a cheaper and weaker iPhone!

Published on 2013-01-09 09:24:31

I read today’s article”A Low-Priced iPhone Awaits” in the Wall Street Journal with disappointment. For some reason, it has become widespread for people to think that “successful products = low price” and that “ha

Gun control, school massacres and state-failure

Published on 2013-01-08 08:10:41

The article “More Guns = More Killing” By Elisabeth Rosenthal came to my attention as a good reference of how sometimes more “global approaches” to what we could explain as “local problems” results in sophistic arg

2012 in review

Published on 2012-12-31 06:39:36

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 9,100 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everes

Philosophy of Humor

Published on 2012-11-23 08:26:08

This is one of the latest entries from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. I am sure you will Laugh out loud and Learn with this amazing and interesting article, Philosophy of Humor First published Tue Nov 20, 2012 Although most people value hum

How Obama Won: Showing the Electoral Shifts through Visual Animation

Published on 2012-11-10 10:03:56

Animation is a little used, yet very strong visual cue, which possesses the unique quality that it can be added to most other existing visual cues (like color, shape, size, etc.), without loosing their pre-attentive characteristics. The NYTimes infog

Article recommendation: Twentieth Century Flick: Business History in the Age of Extremes

Published on 2012-11-05 11:21:01

I apologize for posting much these last weeks. I have been quite busy reading journals on Global Value Chains, Deviant Capitalism, Black Market Trade and theories on Global Political Economy. While this has driven me nuts… it has also made

Why Your Cat Hates You

Published on 2012-10-21 12:39:16

Reblogged from Bill McCurry: Good morning. I am your cat, and as you know I rarely speak. My vocabulary is poor. I cannot make myself understood by you and your human friends. Trust me, if it were otherwise I would be on the phone right now ordering Finding Nemo on Pay per View. But today [...]

Conference: Global History of Agrarian Labor Regimes, 1750 to 2000 (Harvard University)

Published on 2012-10-16 11:00:54

My interest in Agrarian Labor Regimes was first awaken in my research on Opium trade in India. Since then, more readings have made me realize the complex structures behind the history of agrarian labor in a global context. If you are also interested in the topic, the *Weatherhead Initiative on Global History (WIGH)* at Harvard [...]

The 55th Anniversary of Atlas Shrugged

Published on 2012-10-10 11:04:43

“My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists—and in a single choice: to live. The rest proceeds from these. To live, man must hold three things as the ruling values of his life: Reason—Purpose—Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge—Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that [...]

Poor Haitians Reading #FirstWorldProblems Tweets Might Be The Best Ad Of The Year

Published on 2012-10-08 12:00:23

I was just told about this ad campaign and I couldn’t more than agree. Because #FirstWorldProblems are not real problems when understood in a global context, DDB New York has created an ad for the Haitian charity “Water Is Life” that humiliates whiners on Twitter who use the “#Firstworldproblems” hashtag to complain about life’s trivial [...]

Fascists Arrest Woman Blogger

Published on 2012-10-07 17:06:41

Reblogged from FACTS MATTER: Links to the Spanish and English language blogs of a brave Cuban blogger have been on this blog for years. This courageous anti-dictatorship woman’s name is Yoani Sanchez. She was arrested recently by the Castro fascist police. Below is her communication from the English language blog. Notably, I was unable to [...]

A GPE perspective: World’s richest woman makes case for $2-a-day pay

Published on 2012-10-07 11:33:57

Reaction to article: Lazarus, David. 2012. She’s back: World’s richest woman makes case for $2-a-day pay. Los Angeles Times, 5. September, sec. Money. A month ago the world’s richest woman made a comment that got everyone’s attention. Major sensationalist papers in the globe elaborated different arguments on Gina Rinehart case for a $2-a-day pay. But [...]

Ancient Buddhist statue found by Nazi expedition was carved from thousand-year-old meteorite

Published on 2012-09-28 10:05:33

Reblogged from National Post | News: AP Photo/University of Stuttgart, Elmar Buchner BERLIN — An ancient Buddhist statue that a Nazi expedition brought back from Tibet shortly before World War II was carved from a meteorite that crashed on Earth thousands of years ago. What sounds like an Indiana Jones movie plot appears to have [...]

Conservative Environmentalism

Published on 2012-09-28 09:51:45

Reblogged from Notes On Liberty: Conservatives often affirm that creating alarm over alleged global warming is meant to lead to another attempt at collectivist control of our lives. They say that radical environmentalism is the new communism. This makes sense but I think it misses two marks. First, it makes it sound as if the [...]

The Water We Eat: Scroll-Down Infographic Story on Water Usage

Published on 2012-09-26 14:48:24

This made me think of all the readings I have done on Privatization of Water, Vía information aesthetics The Water We Eat [angelamorelli.com] by information designer Angela Morelli is an infographic story that unfolds by the act of scrolling down the page. It features various animated visual elements that move, appear, rotate, zoom or fall, to [...]

The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D.

Published on 2012-09-26 08:47:43

via Open Culture by Dan Colman, Matthew Might, a computer science professor at the University of Utah, writes: “Every fall, I explain to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is. It’s hard to describe it in words. So, I use pictures.” It’s September 26. That means fall is here again, and it’s time to bring [...]

The Evidence of the Senses now available for FREE ONLINE

Published on 2012-09-20 08:53:14

I have GREAT NEWS for all Philosophy fans!!! “David Kelley‘s classic, The Evidence of the Senses, is now available on Scribd.com FOR FREE! The Scribd platform allows you to search the book, share it with friends, print it, download it, read it online, copy and paste text from it, and comment or communicate with others reading the [...]

Executive master’s in European Journalism, IHECS Brussels

Published on 2012-09-18 18:27:53

Recent economic and political turmoil has shaken the European Union to its foundations and at the same time has demonstrated how the EU has grown in importance, and how its politics affect so many aspects of the daily lives of its citizens. But for many of those citizens, the EU remains remote. The way it works [...]

Hayek’s Spontaneous Order Goes Global with Instagram

Published on 2012-09-17 07:51:24

Several months ago when I heard the news about Facebook paying $1 Billion for Instagram I thought ‘the world was going crazy’. My first impression was to think that the ruling scale of values was mistaken. That people was giving value to unimportant things while the rest of the world was still trying to manage [...]

We Are Now One Year Away From Global Riots, Complex Systems Theorists Say

Published on 2012-09-14 06:24:37

Remember 1989? Well, as argued by many scholars, that years was the culmination of global interactions that “dynamized in many places of the world crisis phenomena and synchronized, the resulting transformation processes Had they been previously locates primarily in a national framework, now its global dimension is obvious. Thus began both reflect on the established order of [...]

The Global Politics of the Diaoyu Islands

Published on 2012-09-13 12:44:14

As The Japanese government’s moved to purchase the Diaoyu Islands (also known as Senkaku Islands) three days ago the government of the People’s Republic of China reacted energetically. Initially, Chinese media reporters influenced mediatic understanding of the situation by emphasizing the nationalization of the islands by Japan (ringing the history bells to Chinese people on how Japan had previously [...]

The Book WE have been waiting for is finally here!!!

Published on 2012-09-12 17:58:58

I have GREAT NEWS for all Philosophy fans! One of the books I have been awaiting for is finally published! The first time I heard about this book was in a conference I attended by Dr. Peikoff’s at OCON 2010 in which he identified three different modes of integration, i.e., of interrelating concretes, such as [...]

Course on Human Action starts tomorrow!!!

Published on 2012-09-11 13:07:47

Starting Tomorrow: Human Action, Part 1 Instructor: David Gordon Cost: $79 (50% off!) Dates: September 12 – November 6, 2012 Length: Eight weeks It is perhaps the most important and profound book ever written. Yet how many, in their attempts to read it, have been stopped in their tracks by Part I? In those 7 chapters, Mises lays out the [...]

The role of Ethics, Economic Power and Political Power in Big Corporations

Published on 2012-09-11 09:41:13

Today in class we had a short discussion on which is the economic and political power of Corporations and Transnational Companies in the Global Political Economy as compared with the power that have states and governments. Undoubtedly, the scope and array of political activities of companies is huge and their economic activities are even more [...]

Graph: Poverty In The U.S. By The Numbers

Published on 2012-07-14 07:57:48

The people at http://visual.ly/ prepared a very complete graphic with information regarding the state of poverty in the United States in 2010. Just two years after one of the worst financial depressions the country had seen, the numbers of how 46.2 million people lived in poverty are impressing. The graphic includes information regarding race and ethnicity, [...]

Bell Curve of Despotism

Published on 2012-07-12 10:43:55

Reblogged from keimh3regpeh2umeg: Bell Curve of Despotism. ptb PTB P.T.B. Pe.Te.Be. Pee.Tee.Bee. Powers.That.Be. Petty, Tardy, Banal Partial, Total, Brutal Preachy, Tactless, Barbaric Perverted, Truculent, Bribable Pernicious, Tyrannical, Blithering Plundering, Treacherous, Bloodthirsty Plutocrats > Technocrats > Bureaucrats Plundering, Treacherous, Bloodthirsty Pernicious, Tyrannical, Blithering Perverted, Truculent, Bribable Preachy, Tactless, Barbaric Partial, Total, Brutal Petty, Tardy, Bana [..]

Free Online Education on Objectivism, the philosophy founded by Ayn Rand

Published on 2012-07-12 10:38:27

I am happy to learn that more online Free services are been made available for those interested in studying Philosophy. The news was sent by the Atlas Society, “The Atlas Society is launching a new video education series, theAtlas University. And we need your input as we get the first units ready for public launch. [...]

Past and present of the globalization of knowledge

Published on 2012-07-12 07:45:34

Globalization of knowledge is what I define as the process by which actors conceptualize and interconnect ideas in a global scale. In the past, the globalization of knowledge required initially an extensive research in books, magazines and other print resources of ideas that could be connected in order to create a larger image of the [...]

Supreme Court upholds Obamacare. Recommended analysis on its short & long-term effects.

Published on 2012-06-28 17:55:42

Today, Americans who Love Freedom lost a battle against the Welfare State. In a historical decision, the Supreme Court decided to support Obamacare and to extend the devastating track of health care regulations in The United States of America. The effects of Obamacare will represent higher costs, less competition, less innovation, more bureacracy, and decreased [...]

Live-streaming of The Atlas Summit Available for June 28-July 1, 2012!

Published on 2012-06-27 10:40:26

Register for Live-streaming! I am very happy to inform you that The Atlas Summit that is going to be held in the following days in Washington, D.C. is going to be available for Live-streaming.Here is a link to the Speaker Bios and information on the topic of their talks. I am very exciting about this event since I [...]

Afghanistan during the 50s vs Today

Published on 2012-06-16 06:53:39

A friend in Facebook posted yesterday an interesting link that read “Afghanistan of the 50s-60s”. The description of the website read that “having seen the title of the post, many probably thought that it would be about a wild, backward, medieval country with even worse living conditions…” However, the photographs in the link failed to [...]

New book!!! Living Economics by Peter J. Boettke

Published on 2012-06-03 11:16:36

Retail $26.95 Sale $22.95 SAVE 15%! Paperback & Hardcover eBook Coming Soon to Kindle, iPad, and Nook456 Pages • 6 x 9 Inches 2 Tables • 5 Figures For Educators: Request Free Review Copy for Course Adoption Living Economics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow By Peter J. Boettke The passion of the teacher is often the inspiration [...]

Book Review: Free Will

Published on 2012-05-29 06:37:05

Harris explores the notion that free will is an illusion in this nimble book (which, at 83 pages, can be read in one sitting or a couple of Metro rides), amiably and conversationally jumping from point to point. The book’s length is one of its charms: He never belabors any one topic or idea, sticking [...]

On the fallacies of an Emerging Global Left

Published on 2012-05-28 08:27:11

“Socialism is unrealizable as an economic system because a socialist society would not have any possibility of resorting to economic calculation. This is why it cannot be considered as a system of society’s economic organization. It is a means to disintegrate social cooperation and to bring about poverty and chaos.” Ludwig von Mises. Money, Method, and [...]

Travel Diary: Prices, Unions and Freedom in one of the richest countries of the World

Published on 2012-05-23 07:37:52

Prices in a capitalist economy reflect the relative scarcity of a good or service as well as the amount and intensity of consumer demand. Free-market prices are the only viable means of rational economic calculation. If a good or service becomes in shorter supply, for whatever reason, its price will rise, all other things being [...]

Minorities are for the 1st time in History a Majority in the United States

Published on 2012-05-17 06:26:21

“So long as racial discrimination remains a fact of life and statistics can be arranged to support racial difference, the American belief in races will endure.” Painter, Nell. The History of White People. Though race holds no scientific validity it has been use as a political weapon to conceal power into the hands of small elitist groups. Among [...]

Review of Austrian Economics—The Full Collection! (e-book format)

Published on 2012-05-10 09:16:50

This are great news for those of you interested in reading and learning more of the ideas that enabled a revolutionary development of new understandings on Economics and Human Action. “Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. [...]

Interview: How Procter and Gamble Learned To Love YouTube

Published on 2012-05-07 15:53:29

“Action is purposive conduct. It is not simply behavior, but behavior begot by judgments of value, aiming at a definite end and guided by ideas concerning the suitability or unsuitability of definite means. . . . It is conscious behavior. It is choosing. It is volition; it is a display of the will.” Ludwig von [...]

Discourse: Nationalization, Private Companies and Crony Capitalism

Published on 2012-05-06 10:31:48

The neoliberal (a.k.a. crony capitalism) ruling of the world during the last 50 years is usually generalized as a “big fish eats small fish” relationship. The story continues, with the big fish in Washington, Brussels and Moscow fed themselves with the riches of the world and profited from globalization. Meanwhile, the small fish continued breeding and [...]

2012, Early Summer Reading List #Books

Published on 2012-05-01 07:15:01

I am reading all day long specialized non-fiction books and journal essays. That is how life is like when you want to be an Academic in a world in which competition is getting harder and harder. However, I also find some time to read good non-fiction from other specialties or great fiction and poetry that [...]

Free ebook: The Morality of Capitalism by Tom G. Palmer

Published on 2012-04-25 12:13:20

Today I finished reading a great book titled “The Morality of Capitalism” written by Tom G. Palmer. The book is the result of a project done by the US based think tank “Students for Liberty“. As explained by the think tank leaders, the book was written as a “new tool in the fight for liberty, [...]

Published on 2012-04-23 09:09:26

Today I am joining the celebration of the World Book and Copyright Day (also known as International Day of the Book or World Book Days) a yearly event on 23 April, organized by UNESCO to promote reading, publishing and copyright. The Day was first celebrated in 1995 and in 2012 the UK World Book day was celebrated on March 1, 2012.[1] As part of my [...]

On Earth Day 2012

Published on 2012-04-22 20:18:24

Yesterday, April 22 many people gathered to celebrate “Earth Day” in order to call for a stop of human action and creativity in the process of transforming our planet. Fortunately, against these destructive minds and philosophy many men and women have been working to show why the transformation of the world is something good, positive [...]

Inequality in India

Published on 2012-04-21 08:47:51

By 2011 the BRIC economies had some of the highest rates of income inequality adjusted to the Human Development Index among developing nations. At the same time, the BRIC countries had consistently had the highest GNP growth versus the previous 10 years among developing nations. How is it that there is not a parallel growth [...]

Favorite Autobiographies for Free Download

Published on 2012-04-20 14:39:15

One of my favorite hobbies is reading autobiographies of those great minds of the past and present. Here are the link to access and download the FREE ebooks ready to be read in Computer / eBook Reader / Mobile / or Kindle Enjoy them! Autobiography by John Stuart Mill. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Theodore Roosevelt; an [...]

China & Global Oil

Published on 2012-04-17 14:50:41

I am currently enrolled in the course “Oil, Power and Climate – A Global Perspective” with Dr. habil. Peter Gärtner who is an specialist in Global Studies, North-South relations, democratization, development theory and policy, law and globalization with a regional focus in Latin America. As part of our initial discussions we were required to present a review [...]

Knight Of The Apocalypse No. 3

Published on 2012-03-23 11:22:47

This is one new posts in celebration of the “A Week”, “Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; where we have no reasons, we have lost both our connection to the world and to one another.” Sam Harris Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Sam Harris andChristopher Hitchens have been referred to as The [...]

Knight Of The Apocalypse No. 2

Published on 2012-03-20 10:51:50

This is one new posts in celebration of the “A Week”, “I think that there are no forces on this planet more dangerous to us all than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism, of all the species: Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as countless smaller infections. Is there a conflict between science and [...]

Knights Of The Apocalypse No. 1

Published on 2012-03-19 07:29:02

Image via Wikipedia “My approach to attacking creationism is to attack religion as a whole (…) religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial, supernatural non-explanations and blinds them to the wonderful real explanations that we have within our grasp. It teaches them to accept authority, revelation and faith instead of [...]

Global integration of trade

Published on 2012-03-18 10:59:50

National Geographic is running a wonderful website on Globalization, the international exchange of goods, services, cultures, ideas, has brought increased wealth for many and transformed forever the way humans interact. But while its roots may be in commerce, globalization‘s effects can be very personal. Advances in communication and transportation have created a rich, unprecedented mixing [...]

On Atheism

Published on 2012-03-18 10:38:36

What is Atheism? Over the centuries hundreds of millions of people have worshipped a god or many gods as their creators. These gods were usually represented in a series of objects in nature and today, only Hinduism remains as a truly polytheistic religion. Other religions have a monotheistic god that created everything and still has [...]

Summer Seminar 2012. Either-Or: Atlas Shrugged and the Future of Individualism

Published on 2012-02-18 09:43:56

WHEN: June 29-July 1, 2012 WHERE: Renaissance Hotel, Washington, D.C. WHO: individuals from all around the world interested in learning Objectivist values and ideas. FROM: The Atlas Society OFFICIAL WEBSITE: Atlas Society Summer Seminar 2012 THEME: ”Either-Or“. “Either-Or” is an affirmation of Aristotelian logic, particularly the tenets of the Law of identity (A = A; a thing is identical to itself), the Law of excluded middle (either [...]

New Blog: Laissez Faire by Don Watkins and Yaron Brook

Published on 2012-02-15 15:20:06

A new blog has been born for those of you interested in learning and discussing the principles of Capitalism. The title of the blog is “Laissez Faire: The Uncompromised Case for Capitalism” and is going to be written by Don Watkins and Yaron Brook from the Ayn Rand Institute. The blog aims to discuss the philosophic ideas [...]

Drugs: A Legal Market is not a Free Market

Published on 2012-02-13 17:26:23

A couple days ago, Otto Perez Molina, recently elected as President of Guatemala; announced that he was willing to decriminalize the commercialization of drugs. According to U.S. authorities, Guatemala has became the transshipment point for more than 75 percent of the cocaine smuggled into the United States since 2005. Along with this, the Opium poppy cultivation is [...]

Summer Seminars for You in the U.S. Apply before March 31!

Published on 2012-02-13 12:08:31

Want to find out how individual liberty and economic freedom have shaped the modern world? Discover the classical liberal ideas that have helped to end slavery, inspire women’s suffrage, and give us religious freedom. What’s in store at an IHS Summer Seminar? Plenty of discussion about today’s toughest political and social issues Top-tier teaching on principles [...]

Darwin Day. February 12, 2012.

Published on 2012-02-12 10:35:09

Darwin Day is a global celebration of science and reason held on or around Feb. 12, the birthday anniversary of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin and the anniversary of the publication of “On the Origin of Species”. I invite you to watch this video with a musical celebration of the wonders of biology, including evolution, natural selection, DNA, and [...]

TED lecture. Sheikha Al Mayassa: Globalizing the local, localizing the global

Published on 2012-02-12 09:28:18

After watching a TED lecture by Sheikha Al Mayassa, a patron of artists, storytellers and filmmakers in Qatar, I had some questions. First, she emphasizes how art and culture create a country’s identity — and how they allow every country to share its unique identity with the wider world. While an interesting video, as usually [...]

“This Is the Dream” by Norwegian poet Olav H. Hauge

Published on 2012-02-10 16:26:23

Last night I couldn’t sleep. I choose to read some poetry to go somewhere else for the night. Now I share with you the poem that moved me the most. I hope you enjoy it, This Is the Dream by Norwegian poet Olav H. Hauge This is the dream we carry through the world that something fantastic [...]

Book Reco: Individual Rights and Government Wrongs by Brian Phillips

Published on 2012-02-10 16:04:42

An excerpt from the Introduction to Individual Rights and Government Wrongs. This book was written for those who love the United States of America and the principles upon which it was founded. America was founded on an ideology—the right of each individual to his own life, his own liberty, and the pursuit of his own happiness. As [...]

Milton Friedman and Social Security Taxes

Published on 2012-02-10 12:13:11

Agreeing with the economist Milton Friedman, “one of the things that have always shocked me is how people, whom I would have trust with my pocket book in their private capacity and of whom I would never question their integrity, will in their public capacity -because they believe it is in the best interest of other people- [...]

Earth in Detail. Fantastic high resolution photographies!

Published on 2012-02-03 09:27:53

The Spanish blog “Pasa la vida” shared these wonderful pictures of Earth in high resolution (11500 x11500) As mentioned by them, the pictures were taken by the satellite Suomi NPP with the instrument Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). Picture 1 Picture 2 by by NASA Goddard Photo and Video in Flickr.com Filed under: Africa, America, Asia, Global Studies, Globalization, History, Technology [...]

Atlas Shrugged Part 2 Teaser Trailer

Published on 2012-02-02 18:09:47

And here it is, the Official Teaser for the movie Atlas Shrugged Part 2!!! Based on the book Atlas Shrugged written by Ayn Rand. Check it up! in theaters Fall 2012 Official website of the movie Filed under: America, Capitalism, Economic History, Economics, Philosophy Tagged: 2012, Atlas, Atlas Shrugged, Atlas Shrugged Part 2, Ayn Rand, Collectivism, [...]

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