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Jim W. Dean - The curve ball in all of this analysis is cyber warfare, the kind where ships' electronics can be crashed without being hit by a conventional weapon and made defenseless for an easy kill.

In our latest school show, undergraduate studios at the Manchester School of Architecture explore how feminist architectural theory can be used as a tool to design a fairer society.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche Helga Zepp-LaRouche is the Founder and Chairwoman of the Schiller Institute. She delivered this keynote address to Panel 1, “The March of Folly: Can Mankind Still Extinguish the Now-Lit Fuse of Thermonuclear War?” of the Schiller Institute’s May 8, 2021 conference, “The Moral Collapse of the Trans-Atlantic World Cries Out for a New Paradigm.” I greet all of you, wherever you may be around the world. I’m telling you that we are conducting this Schiller Institute c...

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Print text only Cancel The clock is ticking. Taiwan and mainland China are seemingly on a collision course, a flashpoint that could trigger a catastrophic regional or even global conflict. China is stepping up military pressure on Taiwan, sending military aircraft into Taiwanese territory. The incursions are happening on an almost daily basis. Taiwans foreign minister, Joseph Wu, has warned that Chinese drones may be shot down and that, if attacked, Taiwan will defend itself "to the very last ...

Agnes Denes, Isometric Systems in Isotropic Space - Map Projections: The Snail, 1978, ink on rag paper with printed Mylar overlay, 24 x 30”. IN THE FIRST MONTHS OF QUARANTINE, my apartment became my personal ecosystem. The idiosyncrasies of daily life in isolation—the peculiar sleep hours, the midnight meals on the fire escape, the evening Scrabble ritual—felt entirely specific. And yet, with over half of the world’s population instructed to quarantine as well, these intimate idiosync...

Almost as if we could not have an ordinary moment when everybody gets together, agrees on a spending package. we avoid a crisis and a deadline. clearly, the president was tweeting out these veto threats without consulting, without thinking through. its not -- it wouldnt even be possible to bring lawmakers back into session. theyre headed out on their easter recess, headed out of the country. it would be physically impossible to avoid a government shutdown very likely if he had gone through with ...