http://vision.org/rss/Current Events and PoliticsCopyright 2008, VisionPRESSfeed Co. http://www.press-feed.comThu, 10 Jul 2008 04:05:26 GMTen-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttp://vision.org/visionmedia/default.aspxhttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/images/lang/1033/pv_bg-b.jpgRussias struggle for national identity sheds light on our own need to know who we are and whats expected of us. How does one form a sense of identity, whether as a nation or as an individual?<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=9U4mjJ"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=9U4mjJ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=fljlDj"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=fljlDj" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=SgJbEj"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=SgJbEj" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~r/CurrentEventsAndPolitics/~4/331403852" height="1" width="1"/>http://feeds.vision.org/~r/CurrentEventsAndPolitics/~3/331403852/article.aspxWed, 09 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=5814http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=5814The daily news reports of terror, the televised sound bites from devastated Palestinian towns and villages and Israeli shopping malls, markets, and buses, are about people and the conflict and passion generated by identity and ideology. Thinking about how peoples identities and ideologies explain their actions in respect of the Arab - Israeli conflict and the Jerusalem conflict yields some important questions. Is there hope for what seems the world's most intractable problem?<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=ATfEJH"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=ATfEJH" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=jFoW2h"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=jFoW2h" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=B3zxyh"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=B3zxyh" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~r/CurrentEventsAndPolitics/~4/295045529" height="1" width="1"/>http://feeds.vision.org/~r/CurrentEventsAndPolitics/~3/295045529/article.aspxWed, 21 May 2008 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=5552http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=5552When David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the State of Israel in Tel Aviv on May 14, 1948, he very likely did not envisage how long the conflict with the Arab world would continue.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=PkrwyH"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=PkrwyH" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=4k35hh"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=4k35hh" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=Or9sVh"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=Or9sVh" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~r/CurrentEventsAndPolitics/~4/287748007" height="1" width="1"/>http://feeds.vision.org/~r/CurrentEventsAndPolitics/~3/287748007/article.aspxSat, 10 May 2008 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=5584http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=5584Earth Day, often thought to be the most widely celebrated secular holiday, is an internationally recognized opportunity to foster a sense of human responsibility for earth science and the environment. Though there are differing opinions about who actually founded Earth Day and when it should be celebrated, much of the world's Earth Day activity focuses on March 22 every year.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=gM9VioG"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=gM9VioG" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=yBVlg3g"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=yBVlg3g" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=91Ka7Yg"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=91Ka7Yg" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~r/CurrentEventsAndPolitics/~4/275837682" height="1" width="1"/>http://feeds.vision.org/~r/CurrentEventsAndPolitics/~3/275837682/article.aspxMon, 21 Apr 2008 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=5262http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=5262What would happen if a video of our daily lives was placed on YouTube?<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=erC6p5E"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=erC6p5E" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=EDQvdLe"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=EDQvdLe" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=30rdg4e"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=30rdg4e" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~r/CurrentEventsAndPolitics/~4/231208059" height="1" width="1"/>http://feeds.vision.org/~r/CurrentEventsAndPolitics/~3/231208059/article.aspxTue, 22 Jan 2008 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=4490http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=4490Some feel that a lack of style is present in the newly signed treaty for the European Union. And serious questions and concerns about it have surfaced quickly after EU leaders signed the document in Lisbon on December 13, 2007.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=yP1yC9E"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=yP1yC9E" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=bvm18Oe"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=bvm18Oe" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=JmI9gOe"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=JmI9gOe" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~r/CurrentEventsAndPolitics/~4/231208060" height="1" width="1"/>http://feeds.vision.org/~r/CurrentEventsAndPolitics/~3/231208060/article.aspxThu, 03 Jan 2008 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=4398http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=4398Author and associate professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, Zachary Shore, attempts to discover the underlying attitudes behind Muslim bitterness toward the West, and toward America in particular. Shore argues that at the core of the antagonism between Islam and the West is a conflict over values and identity.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=UE2guyE"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=UE2guyE" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=KU6CkTe"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=KU6CkTe" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=YGroYBe"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=YGroYBe" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~r/CurrentEventsAndPolitics/~4/231208061" height="1" width="1"/>http://feeds.vision.org/~r/CurrentEventsAndPolitics/~3/231208061/article.aspxFri, 07 Sep 2007 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=3578http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=3578<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=e3JcvmE"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=e3JcvmE" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=29bC2Ae"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=29bC2Ae" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=x8UeZEe"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=x8UeZEe" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~r/CurrentEventsAndPolitics/~4/231208062" height="1" width="1"/>http://feeds.vision.org/~r/CurrentEventsAndPolitics/~3/231208062/article.aspxWed, 18 Jul 2007 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=816http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=816<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=3M7GgCE"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=3M7GgCE" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=XgXd3Ke"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=XgXd3Ke" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=IQbPmPe"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=IQbPmPe" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~r/CurrentEventsAndPolitics/~4/231208063" height="1" width="1"/>http://feeds.vision.org/~r/CurrentEventsAndPolitics/~3/231208063/article.aspxWed, 18 Jul 2007 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=839http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=839<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=uJo4cUE"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=uJo4cUE" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=BZFoWNe"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=BZFoWNe" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?a=3p3Ydue"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/CurrentEventsAndPolitics?i=3p3Ydue" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~r/CurrentEventsAndPolitics/~4/231208064" height="1" width="1"/>http://feeds.vision.org/~r/CurrentEventsAndPolitics/~3/231208064/article.aspxWed, 18 Jul 2007 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=750http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=750