A Question of Blame When Societies Fall
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Who or what is to blame when a once-powerful society collapses?
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Sometimes what we think is true doesn't measure up to the facts. The outdoors is full of conventional wisdom that was passed around the campfire then passed down from one generation to the next. Some of this hand-me-down knowledge is accepted as fact, even when it shouldn't be.
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When civilization falls, does it make a sound? Two books about the end of worlds--and what follows
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The more we are losing our values, the more we are suffering from serious problems such as STD&#39;s (Sexual Transmitted diseases) and this has become a very critical social cause in our country too.
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Two anthropologists are proposing a new explanation for the demise of the Neanderthals that hinges on the fact that they didnÂt divide the labor.
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BISHKEK, May 24 (IPS) - Surviving alone in the era of globalisation has  become increasingly difficult for smaller countries with limited  natural resources. Nations which were recently striving for  independence are beginning to unite with others as a means to  withstand economic hardships.
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Lithuanians who lost savings when the USSR collapsed are due to get compensation.
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The blame game The task of apportioning blame has begun in earnest in the wake of the Montreal college shootings as Canada and its media try to digest the incident.â¦
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I am sick of being blamed for bankrupting the country's future. The coming collapse of Social Security, soaring drug costs in Medicare, the breakdown of Medicaid -- all my fault! Because I and millions of others are growing older and are about to become eligible for these giant public programs.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends. The war on terrorism has long since lost its crisp moral lines. We may agree that terrorism is wicked, but we're still unsure about how to answer it
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By American News, Aberdeen, S.D.  Sep. 19--If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.   It's an old saying, but it rings true.
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Out of death may come a rebirth. The alternative is much more likely to happen. And if it does the consequence will be a living hell that will go on and on and on.
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The recent string of disasters in Indonesia raises the question: Can the human toll be reduced?
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THE Nuremberg Trials suggested that the German people and media were to blame for not standing up to the Nazi Party. Will history make the same argument against the British and the UK media for not standing up to Tony Blair and New Labour?   Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction.
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The collapse of SunRocket, an Internet telephone company that went out of business without warning, raises questions about what responsibility such companies have to their customers.
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When one considers the United States&#39; cold war preoccupation with containing or destroying socialism over the past 50 years, and Washington&#39;s exemplary record at destabilizing communism world-wide, it is a mystery that some cannot for a moment imagine
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The New York Times has recently run a piece pondering the renowned nation of Canada, and whether it has fallen from its once lofty heights of international greatness.    "A country is not just a health system."  This is the sentiment of one of a few Canadian authors recently lamenting the decline of Canadian engagement around the world.  The question then becomes: what makes a nation great?  Why would Canadians resent the place of  their placid and peaceful country?  And, what does this say about the roles taken on by other influential nations around the world?