BY JUSTIN HUNTER – On October 30, 2014, protestors in the small West African nation of Burkina Faso stormed and torched the parliament building.[1] The capital city of Ouagadougou had faced unrest in the past days because President Blaise Compaore’s attempt to extend his 27 years of rule through the legislature.[2] During the protests, the president […]
BY MELISSA JORDON – Seventy-five years ago today, unlimited submarine warfare commenced as German U-boats began sinking passenger liners.[1] While the first ideas to build submarines came centuries before, the first steam-powered naval submarine was built by an American for the U.S. Navy in 1875.[2] A look into the development of law of the seas […]
BY KEVIN CORREA – “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses, yearning to breath free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”[1] For over a hundred years, this excerpt from Emma Lazrus’ poem has stood as a message to the world that […]
BY MATTHEW DEBLINGER – I. A Pirate’s Life for Xi President Xi Jinping and the People’s Republic of China have turned a blind-eye to piracy. Historically, China has always been a hub for intellectual property theft, particularly American IP that is ever so protected under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, but China’s piracy […]
