by Nick Patricca | Sep 5, 2023
The Covid pandemic threw a harsh spotlight on higher education in America, exposing forces eating away at the foundations of college and university learning, calling into question the traditional purposes of such education in our post-modern, high-tech society. The...
by Nick Patricca | Jul 20, 2023
The two primary issues in the Writers Guild and SAG/AFTRA strikes are streaming and artificial intelligence. In my judgement, the AI issue, in the long term, is the fundamental issue. But, let me begin with streaming. STREAMING. In the 1950s, Screen Actors Guild (SAG)...
by Nick Patricca | Jun 20, 2023
In 2022, 407 billion US dollars of the Pentagon budget – representing half of that year’s funding – were obligated to private contractors of which a significant number were Private Military Companies (PMCs) involved in combat operations. According to the Congressional...
by Nick Patricca | Jun 1, 2023
On April 03, 2016, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists [ICIJ] started publishing almost twelve million files of leaked documents revealing the details of tax havens sheltering more than one trillion dollars from legitimate governing taxing...
by Nick Patricca | Apr 3, 2022
QUESTION: “On a scale of one to 10, how faithful would you say you are, in terms of religion?” US Senator Lindsey Graham (R), South Carolina. RESPONSE: “… there’s no religious test in the Constitution under Article VI.” Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominee, US Supreme...
