The violence continues to escalate in Syria, where the entrenched regime of Bashar al-Assad continues a bloody repression of protestors who are trying to bring the ‘Arab Spring’ revolution to their country. In the latest news, Russia has now publicly stated that there...
Watch plaidcastIn completely unrelated stories, there is suddenly a flurry of protest activity this week by pissed off indigenous peeps that are creating a bit of chaos on two different continents. In China, pro-Tibetan-rights peeps are facing of against a crushing Chinese military...
Watch plaidcastA bunch of seemingly unrelated stories are unfolding concurrently in Europe that really get at the heart of the struggle for the future of the European Union. Protests for/against states rights in Hungary; a referendum for EU membership in Croatia; and even a...
Watch plaidcastIn the first full-on raging rant of the semester, the Professor talks about the deeper and more thought-provoking impact of the SOPA/PIPA internet protest that occurred yesterday, and how it reflects a new wave of democratic expression in the US. That is, it wasn’t...
Watch plaidcastOn December 5, 2011 Burmese democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Aung San Suu Kyi had a Skype interview with Virginia Tech geography Professor John Boyer and his 3000 student World Regions class.
Watch plaidcastMultiple high-profile al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders have recently been taken by the newest of new in death-dealing technologies: the drone! But what are these drone things? How long have they been around? Who is using them, and where? And why are they exploding in...
Watch plaidcastSo China is on the rise in the world, and China is specifically on the move on the water: assertively and aggressively pushing out its power and influence into the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean in general. Can their power now ever be checked? Is Chinese world...
Watch plaidcastSino-ships ahoy, my plaid friends! As the Spratly spat in the South China Sea continues to swell, a new component to the Chinese sea power equation has been added: China’s first aircraft carrier has been revealed! What is so special about this particular piece of...
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Wow…where do we even start with this mess? What mess? The convoluted, chaotic, corrupted and conflict-riddled mess that is the Congo, of course! The Democratic Republic of Congo or DRC to be precise…although even that ‘democratic’ label is questionable given that...
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He may be a secretary, but Leon Panetta ain’t your typical coffee-fetchin, folder-filing assistant…au contraire!... he is the most powerful secretary on the planet as the US Secretary of Defense! The power he wields is virtually second-to-none…okay actually it is...
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Ben “Big Bucks” Bernanke is the main man of monetary policy in the US, the big Kahuna of the bucks, the head of the Fed! Technically the title is “The Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System” is the head of the central banking system of...
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