On March 28, 2023, Puerto Rican governor Pedro Pierluisi announced a plan to renew Puerto Rico’s power grid through solar energy initiatives (AP News 3). Weakly maintained by a private company and devastated by storms like Hurricane Maria, the power grid is responsible for providing electricity to 3.2 million people (AP News 3). Pierluisi has […]
Posted October 12, 2023
It has been two years since the United States pulled out of Afghanistan. The chaotic departure from Kabul reminded many of the ignominious 1975 collapse of Saigon. Critics contends the withdrawal emboldened rivals, especially Russia and China, and encouraged smaller nations and their leaders to recalculate policies and politics. The hasty exit highlighted that the […]
Posted September 1, 2023
The Wagner Group has emerged as one of the most controversial elements in contemporary geopolitics. This Russian private military company (PMC) has been involved in several military operations in Africa and Ukraine. Recently, it has become the subject of global attention due to a purported move against the Russian President, Vladimir Putin. To understand the […]
Posted July 18, 2023
On March 31, 2022, the Indian Government lifted all Covid-19 restrictions (Business Today, 2022). Despite that decision, millions of migrants or “informal” workers in India are still locked in exploitative debt bondage arrangements at increasing levels. Despite supposed government intervention this Human Rights crisis has only deepened due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. India […]
Posted April 21, 2023
Since Puerto Rico’s economic crisis in 2006, the island’s housing market has faced a growing and evolving set of challenges. The widespread devastation of hurricanes, earthquakes, and natural disasters in general, severely worsened an already existing housing problem. Hurricane Irma and Maria alone damaged over 725,000 households, representing nearly 60% of all occupied housing units […]
Posted April 21, 2023
On February 28th, 2023, three days after the Nigerian Presidential elections started, Bola Tinubu from the All Progressives Congress Party was declared the winner (AJLabs. 2023, March 1). Even though the former governor of Lagos, Nigeria’s economic capital, beat Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party by over a million votes, there are claims of […]
Posted April 14, 2023
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has emerged as a key player in the shifting power balance of the Middle East, serving as the Iranian government’s primary power projection tool abroad. Formed in the aftermath of the creation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) in 1979, the IRGC’s paramount mission is to preserve and […]
Posted April 14, 2023
On March 7th, our very own, Dr. Ted Reynolds presented at the Learning Institute for Elders at the University of Central Florida event. His presentation, titled “When the Lights Go Out: The Evolving Threat to the U.S. Power Grid” served as a way to educate participants on the impact of a potential grid collapse, and […]
Posted April 11, 2023
The Chinese government recently issued official statements that its population is shrinking. With a reported birth rate of 9.56 million and a death rate of 10.41 in 2022 (CNBC), the country’s population fell for the first time since the 1960s (Statista 1). The dependency ratio in 2021, which indicates the growing population that must be […]
Posted March 20, 2023
In the last several decades, pornography has gone from being a shameful, taboo topic to one that is widely accepted as a viable career path. While porn can be financially beneficial to those involved (Glassdoor), if unchecked, it can also have negative effects on the lives of its subjects and “stars”. Many people who begin […]
Posted March 1, 2023
