For your Friday WTF, if you thought your country had problems with its legal system, you don't have anything on Liberia, which may now be the most lawless country in the world. As in, it doesn't have any laws.

This is because, as Foreign Policy reports, Philip Banks, who has been head of the country's Justice department, has copyrighted them. ( Read more... )

Most cities, if you look at pictures of them from space, look sort of circular or oblong, like paint dripped on the natural landscape, oozing out from a central point until it forms an untidy blotch on the face of the Earth. It's a side effect of how transportation works, even though some cities are twisted by geography; San Diego for instance ( Read more... )

So there's a lot of fighting in Guinea, and a bunch of people are being massacred for protesting against what looks like an attempt to turn a "temporary" coup into a permanent dictatorship. This is, broadly, not a good thing ( Read more... )

So, if you've been following the news, you know that two European men in Africa have been sentenced to death for murdering their driver and, among other charges, spying for Norway.

Wait...Norway?

( Norway's Problem, Our Warning )

One of the most widely discussed, and completely misunderstood, topic in history is the struggle between civilization and barbarianism. Really we're speaking about the historical battle between between older civilizations with large, robust economies and strong cultural heritage coming into conflict with younger civilizations with a militaristic ( Read more... )

If you were wondering if the world is still a fucked up place, well then I have your answer; it still is.

The survey size is small; the survey itself is geographically limited, but still. One in four? One in four? And more then once? I don't have to crunch the ugly statistics for you to get an idea of what this means on the victim side of the ( Read more... )