The rise of “fake news” (misinformation presented in the format news reports) and a claimed breakdown social consensus behind reliability experts mainstream reporting as information sources (leading to “post-truth” society) have raised hard choices for journalistic fact-checkers. Should they focus on nuanced evaluations specific claims by politicians, or shift debunking misinformation more gene...

Consuming news articles is an integral part of our daily lives and news agencies such as The Washington Post (WP) expend tremendous effort in providing high quality reading experiences for their readers. Journalists and editors are faced with the task of determining which articles will become popular so that they can efficiently allocate resources to support a better reading experience. The rea...

There is a crisis in multilateralism.  No major new binding rules relating to international commerce have come into force in more than 20 years.  Demands by some nations for rules in new areas are not being met. The negotiations in the WTO of trade rules and the negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to devise rules restricting the annual emissions of greenhouse ga...

Introduction/background In recent months there has been heated debates on Zambia's economic governance especially as it relates to prudent fiscal management. Being a heavily donor dependent country with over 40% of its national budget supported by external resources, Zambia has had no choice but to abide by the Post-Washington consensus—a new economic doctrine supported by our external financie...

the us, not only failed to predict the occurrence of the middle east revolutions but also failed to understand the depth and the probability of its spread to other countries. while washington was engaged in tactical initiatives in confronting the islamic awakening, the islamic republic of iran took the creativity of a strategic game in hand. this was a three-step profile raised by the supreme l...

Remotely sensed imagery provides a useful tool for land managers to assess the extent and severity of post-wildfire salvage logging disturbance. This investigation uses high resolution QuickBird and National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP) imagery to map soil exposure after ground-based salvage operations. Three wildfires with varying post-fire salvage activities and variable ground truth d...

Faithful to Foreign Affairs. Margaret van Kleffens, Anne Roijen, the Embassy in Washington, and Significance of Diplomatic Partnership for Post-War Dutch Relations This article argues that more attention role diplomats’ partners, who studied period were almost exclusively female, offers new insights into daily practices twentieth-century diplomacy. It begins with a short overview research on wi...

“occupy wall street” movement which has aimed the heart of the global financial capitalist system enjoys a special significance in the perspective of social-economic- political, human rights (work force), moral and cultural heritage of nations and can be considered as a symbol of work force economic jihad in national and global level in order to realize justice and socio-economic equality. but ...