Now that it’s old news, maybe we can better digest the fact that GE did not pay taxes. In 2010 it made a $14.2 billion profit worldwide, of this $5.1 billion were from operations within the U.S. Still the corporation paid no taxes. Not only does GE have a whole department and a corporate culture…

R2P, the Right to Protect principle was born after the Rwanda genocide. It is not part of international law per se but rather is “a norm” meaning something to guide and aspire to. The UN Security Council Resolution 1973 which authorized the no-fly zone over Libya stems from R2P. We may have objections to our…

Sometimes statistics are so striking they haunt. In 2010 one in five Californians struggled to afford enough food either for themselves or for their families. What’s even more striking is that California is not the exception, only slightly higher than the national average of 18%, according to a recent report by the Food Research &…