Paul Phillips

LATEST ARTICLES ( 506 )

• Why Is The U.S. Not Like Finnish Paradise?

  

  A great article in The Atlantic about how Finland has created a near Eden-with-snow-like society while America struggles with all sorts of a economic and... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• NSA’s Hand-Wringing Over Snowden According To Report

  

  An article in The Post outlines that a NSA internal report states that the U.S. intelligence community is especially afraid that Edward Snowden will release... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Paltry Action to Help Bangladesh

  

  17 North American companies are promising millions in a plan to improve working conditions for Bangladeshi garment workers. Problem is that it is a... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Sanctions Increase on Iran Despite Little Proof to Justify the Added Burden

  

  Additional sanctions on Iran came into effect this week and we must still ask the question as to what the reasoning is for the increase? Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Two Questions About the NSA Spying on EU

  

  As more info is released surrounding NSA’s spying tactics, more questions arise as to why they are doing what they have been doing. Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Crime Falls in the US. Are You Safer Today? – The Christian Science Monitor –...

  .Some really good graphics on the significant drop in crime over the last two decades in the United States.  Nothing particularly surprising if you have seen an... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Bangladeshi Garment Industry Disasters Continue Without Owner Prosecution

  

  On April 24, a Bangladeshi garment factory fire in Savar (an industrial suburb of Dhaka) collapsed killing 1,129 people. It was the deadliest disaster in the... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Two Upcoming Protests Sunday May Clash in Egypt

  

  An article in The Guardian relates that both Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood President Morsi’s supporters and liberal anti-Morsi protesters may clash in huge protest... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Guide to U.S. Whistleblowers

  

  With Edward Snowden leaking NSA documents to The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald over the last few weeks in an effort to expose secret government domestic spying... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• EU Makes Another Interesting Move to Balance Income Inequality in Times of Crisis

  

  The European Union again proved they are willing to take much more aggressive action than the United States when it comes to putting the burden of financial... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The 5 Ways Gay Marriage Can Win at the Supreme Court – Molly Ball – The Atlantic

  .A great summarized prep in anticipation of the Supreme Court ruling coming today.  Let’s hope we get ruling #1 and the inevitable legalizing of gay marriage fo... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Texas State Sen. Davis’ Filibuster Fails

  

  To update a prior post regarding Texas State Sen. Wendy Davis’ attempt at a 13 hour filibuster to prevent a bill that would issue tight restrictions against... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Filibustering for Female Reproductive Rights

  

  Wendy Harris, a Texas State Senator, is attempting a 13 hour filibuster to stall a female reproductive bill that would strictly limit the access to abortions... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Snowden As Spy Novel Protagonist

  

  Alex Berenson, a former NYT reporter and spy novelist, wrote a very entertaining op-ed in the NYT today posing hero/villain Edward Snowden as the main... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Countering the Right: Foreign Affairs Op-ed Defending Drones Part II

  

  Continued from part I here…Carrying on the argument against the op-ed in Foreign Affairs advocating drone use, his next point gets at a key point in the... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Countering the Right: Foreign Affairs Op-ed Defending Drones Part I

  

  Foreign Affairs published op-eds recently to debate the for and against sides of drone warfare (although the against often sounds like a commendation of the... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Former Enron Exec Uses $$$ to Reduce Sentence

  

  I didn’t believe this one when I saw it but former Enron criminal Jeffrey Skilling received a decade off his sentence for surrendering assets the government... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Syrian Refugees Growing Problem in Small Lebanon

  

  A good op-ed in the NYT by contributor Ninette Kelley, the representative in Lebanon of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, about the growing... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Highlights of IRS Manager’s Testimony: What Issa Doesn’t Want Us to Know

  

  The full transcript of the testimony of the IRS manager in charge of the screening unit for 501 c 4 groups was released yesterday in two parts (part one here,... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• How Are We To Know???

  Today at a public House Intelligence Committee public oversight hearing, the NYT reports, Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the National Security Agency (NSA),... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY