The oceans are a vast expanse of lawlessness. Where international law governs, it is often the case that no law is enforced. Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing is a part of a global fishing fleet where a significant number of fishing boats act with impunity. These ships fish in protected marine areas with destructive methods. They threaten endangered species on vessels that simultaneously carry out human rights and labor abuses.
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Super Bowl LV: How This Year is Economically Bizarre
Although the NFL managed to get in all of its games without a single cancellation (just postponements), franchises are still projected to lose approximately $100 million in revenue each for a league wide total of $3-4 billion. Regular-season viewership fell 8% on average and Super Bowl advertising spots dropped in price […]
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Why Does the “All Lives Matter” slogan hurt BLM?
The deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Rayshard Brooks have not only served to reignite the Black Lives Matter movement, but also the furor at its most common rebuttal: “all lives matter.” The back and forth has been going on for seven years, and just last week, when pressed […]
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Is Trump Abusing His Power by Sending Troops West?
If President Donald Trump has his way, federal law enforcement agents like those in Portland, Oregon, could soon head to other cities with Democratic mayors: “I’m going to do something — that, I can tell you. Because we’re not going to let New York and Chicago and Philadelphia and Detroit and Baltimore […]
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The Police Brutality Riots: It’s No Longer About Justice
In America’s polarized politics, pointing to the errors made on both sides of the conflicts that divide us gets a bad rap. What has the Civil Rights Movement taught us? What did it say about police brutality? It just comes to show how little our society has actually come. This […]
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Will Ocean Seabed Mining Delay a Coronavirus Cure?
The ocean remains relatively undiscovered, with only 5% explored. It has always been an intriguing field of study, but with the overarching problem of the coronavirus in modern society, ocean exploration and profitable mining projects are sporadically affecting research to end the pandemic once and for all, but to what […]
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How is the Coronavirus Pandemic Going to End?
As stock markets plunge, travel is disrupted and new coronavirus infections are diagnosed across the United States, one question on everyone’s mind is how the outbreak is going to end. No one knows for sure, but virologists say there are clues from similar outbreaks. Health officials control coronavirus through strict public health […]
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The False Paradigms of Innovation
Innovation According to Fiction In the winter of 1865, in a stately room decorated from the floor to ceiling with paintings and paraphernalia observing the recently concluded Civil War, four men sat in armchairs by a raging fire. Their arguments were no less heated, for these grizzled men were debating […]