Obama says “Fuck It”

Obama says “Fuck It”
Obama is doing his best to make positive changes in America and the world, but all that he’s getting for it is abuse and loss of popularitry. Where has all the faith gone? The first inspirational leader in at least a generation and everyone’s bored already… VN:F [1.7.8_1020]please...
March 11th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More

A Swansea Love Story

A Swansea Love Story
In the last 4 years, the small South Wales city of Swansea experienced a rise in heroine addiction of 180%. VBS befriends a gang of young addicts caught up in South Wales’ largely ignored heroin epidemic. Our intimate look into their lives shows the unbreakable cycles of economic depression, family...
March 8th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More

The Men Who Really Stare At Goats

The Men Who Really Stare At Goats
Three years in the making, Jon Ronson’s “Crazy Rulers of the World” explores the apparent madness at the heart of US military intelligence. With first-hand access to the leading players in the story, Jon Ronson examines the extraordinary and plain bizarre national secrets at the core...
February 11th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More

The Price of Prison

The Price of Prison
Locking up a criminal in police stations to alleviate prison over-crowding costs as much per night as a week in the Canary Islands, figures show. The most obvious solution to alleviate this social and financial burden would be to decriminalize the use of prohibited drugs such as Cannabis and Ecstacy....
February 2nd, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More

Are Charter Cities the way to Third World Prosperity?

Are Charter Cities the way to Third World Prosperity?
Could new communities sponsored by the West help end poverty or would they just become another manifestation of neocolonial profiteering? All over Africa this evening, students will sit outside their homes and read textbooks under street lights. They do this because they have no electricity at home....
February 1st, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More

Let’s Eliminate Welfare for Terrorists

Let’s Eliminate Welfare for Terrorists
Of all the factors on the table in the current Afghan strategic review, the war on drugs and its unintended consequences should be front and center. Our 95-year effort to create a Drug Free America by enforcing world-wide prohibition has twisted our foreign policy out of shape all over the globe and...
January 29th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More

The Abolition of Man

The Abolition of Man
It came burning hot into my mind, whatever he said and however he flattered, when he got me home to his house, he would sell me for a slave. —John Bunyan C.S.Lewis’ famous and prophetic essay about man’s realationship with nature and technology. `Man’s conquest of Nature’...
January 26th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More

Google to end censorship in China over cyber attacks

Google to end censorship in China over cyber attacks
Google, the world’s leading search engine, has thrown down the gauntlet to China by saying it is no longer willing to censor search results on its Chinese service. The internet giant said the decision followed a cyber attack it believes was aimed at gathering information on Chinese human rights...
January 18th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More

Jimmy Carter: Gaza must be rebuilt now

Jimmy Carter: Gaza must be rebuilt now
December 30, 2009 We can wait no longer to restart the peace process. The human suffering demands urgent relief. It is generally recognised that the Middle East peace process is in the doldrums, almost moribund. Israeli settlement expansion within Palestine continues, and PLO leaders refuse...
January 14th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More

Blackwater and The Last Crusade

Blackwater and The Last Crusade
THE most recent allegations against Blackwater, the American security company, are lurid. Tasked with providing security for American officials in Iraq and Afghanistan, the company is already under investigation for shooting deaths in Iraq. Adapted from an article in The Economist Magazine Now two former...
January 11th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More
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