The psychology behind addiction is relatively simple when it is reduced to its most basic explanation, in the brain you have dopamine in which functions as a neurotransmitter – a chemical released by neurons. Dopamine is a reward chemical in which is stimulated to release in excessive amounts whenever we engage in reward-motivated behaviour, it…
The Democratic Solution
The fundamental problem of where to properly vest authority is one in which differs in any society or nation. If authority is vested in the wrong hands it can be utilized improperly and its effects can be felt by many people in a given social unit, whether it be the family, community, company or nation,…
Using Neuroscience to improve the Justice system
Our modern day belief in free will touches nearly every aspect of life in which Humans put value in, for many it is impossible to think of law, politics and religion without imagining that every human is the true source of his or her thoughts and actions. Most philosophers tend to consider the mind as…
Africa’s misleading economic boom
Numbers can be very tricky things, sometimes it seems as if there can be statistical evidence obtained to back any claim made on a particular issue in the world of economics. Numbers can give rise to false narratives, which in the case of Africa’s economic boom which had been popularised by the economist magazine in…
Grenada’s Revolution
On the morning of 13 March 1979, 46 lightly armed cadres led by Maurice Bishop successfully overthrew Eric Gairy in a bloodless coup. The new government was widely welcomed by the people of Grenada, under neocolonial policy, many were subject to poverty, exploitation and general backwardness. The New Jewel movement represented a long awaited change…
Evo Morales
The year was 2002, Gonzalos Sanchez de Lozada, a US-educated mine owner whose English was stronger than his Spanish, won the Bolivian election with a popular vote of 22% mostly coming from Bolivia’s upper and middle Business classes. The victory was thanks to aggressive campaign strategies of US polling and marketing consultants Greenville Carville and…
A Brief analysis of the Third International Theory
The instruments of modern representative Democracies constitute a large problem in which affect present day society. How should society organize itself, and where should the authority be vested? Communities and families who place authority in the wrong people are exposed to risks and face the consequences of wrong answers and decisions. In order to discover…
Technology and Income Inequality
In modern economies, the developments of technology leads to an instability within the labour force. It results more in an accumulation of wealth which creates an oligarchy of private capital, the profit motive in conjunction with competition amongst capitalists causes the development and advancements made within technology to release workers to cut down on labour…
Jamahiriya
Jamahiriya (State of Masses/People’s republic),the form of the Libyan state adopted by Muammar al-Gaddafi on March 2, 1977, when a General People’s Council (GPC) was established to proclaim the commencement of “people’s power” in Libya and change the Country’s name to the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. Jamahiriya was a revolutionary Variant of Direct Democracy,…
Thomas Sankara’s legacy
When Sankara, along with his colleagues took power on August 4, 1983, there was great doubt within the Council of the Revolution as to what type of attitude would meet the new regime. Thomas Sankara had made it clear to the people that his regime focused on a sweeping political and social change to the…
New Democrat Society 