civilization
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MDA and the Red Crystal
For 57 years, Israel’s Magen David Adom (MDA) was not a member of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Due to explicit non-recognition by the international community, the lone national aid society with a Jewish symbol faced a thorough rejection of its red Star of David as a valid international
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The War on Carbon
Either you’re with us or you’re against us. This is a battle to the death between good and evil. The simple binarisms carry over beautifully into this campaign. This is another war on a noun, but it is brought to you by rather different folks who inculcated you in the other wars on nouns. This
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United Nations = Global Government
For better or for ill, the United Nations forms the basis of what has become the global tier of government in the modern age. Although the levels are government in this supposedly globalized society are usually said to be local, state, and federal, there is no reason why we ought to stop at the federal
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The System & The Condition of Post-Modernity
One well-known critic by the name of Mike Lwin had this to say about my recent blog post on God & BIBLE: “I don’t think God arose in human consciousness because people started to understand morality as a guiding force–rather, I believe that the concept of God was created as a coping mechanism for humans