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What do you want?

my continuing saga includes the pennsylvania department of public welfare. over the past couple years, i have seen post after post about the ease with which people can obtain public assistance. this experience just doesn’t mesh with what i have experienced. in fact, i’ve talked with social workers and others who work with the unfortunate […]

Kosovo Declaration of Independence

Here is the Declaration of Independence, taken directly from the website for the Assembly of Kosovo. Click here to learn more. I will respond to the press coverage of this in the next couple of days. It’s not every day that a territory posts its declaration on the internet, or is it? Kosovo Declaration of […]

Whose freedom?

I have begun to realize how difficult it must be for many to truly understand world events. Finding information is difficult enough, but how do we assess that information? For instance, my previous post about RED completely skirted an explanation of foreign aid and investment in Africa. As some theorists have suggested, it is not […]

Introduction

In August, I will begin the second year of my PhD program, and I am in the process of discovering my areas of interest. As I have begun to unpack what I have read over the past two semesters – a task that I think is more arduous than actually reading the literature – I […]