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Joseph Robertson is a poet, essayist, editor and photographer, and the founder and director of Casavaria Publishing. He is editor-in-chief of CafeSentido.com the news, politics, art, culture and exhibits project and its primary writer-reporter. He is also

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Society & Lifestyle > North American Culture Defining the American dream: 1 of 51
The Fourth of July is an American standard. It is a day of celebrations, of national fanfare, national idiosyncrasy, encounters with the outdoors, and the landscape and the feel of people coming together, a celebration of common experience, and of difference. It is so intimate a part of the national fabric that this particula... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Party Politics & Ideology Is the Republican Party broken?: 1 of 12
The "conservative movement" in America is struggling to understand its most important setback in a generation, in part because its worldview takes for granted that what has happened simply cannot be real. In today's New York Times, David Brooks writes about the growing rift between the conservative "Traditionalists" and the "... More..
Politics, News & Issues > US Economy American economy: Still dropping: 6 of 64
The United States is firmly in the thrall of a banking meltdown, in which the normal structures, the means of measuring performance, and the meaning of debt-holdings, are all out of balance. More than one Wall Street firm or investment bank has written off tens of billions of dollars in uncollectable debt. Financier George So... More..
Sciences > Water & Oceanography When will people worldwide have enough clean, safe water to drink?: 5 of 35
MORE THAN 1 BILLION PEOPLE ALREADY FACE FRESH WATER SCARCITY, FIGURE EXPECTED TO DOUBLE IN 20 YEARS' TIMEWater is one of the "fundamental building-blocks of life", as is often said in science, in biology classrooms, in medicine, theology, environmental policy debates, and in cosmology and space exploration. It is also a commo... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Economic News Causes and implications of rising oil prices: 7 of 44
Oil Shock: the Coming Economic Unraveling & How We Can AdjustPetroleum is the most pervasive base resource other than water in the global economy of the 21st century, and as demand is exploding, production is nearing its geological peak, and untenable price increases are hitting a strained economy hard. Oil prices could be in... More..
Arts & Humanities > English Language Should English be the official language in the USA?: 9 of 55
The United States of America has never had an official national language, and it doesn't need one. In fact, it would raise serious issues of Constitutional legitimacy, given the wording of the First Amendment, to establish any single language, whether for government interaction with the public or the public sphere in general.... More..
Arts & Humanities > Poets & Poetry Does poetry matter in the 21st century?: 22 of 121
Poetry is the frontier where language in use comes in contact with future meaning, and in the process, when best executed, brings a wealth of transcendent truths into the present. Poetry is relevant to all uses of language, though there may be trends that suggest popular culture is looking to new forms of poetic activity to r... More..
Computers & Technology > Internet Issues Why censorship will destroy the Internet: 2 of 8
The concept of 'net neutrality' refers to the current state of affairs in the free democracies of the world, where those who control the physical infrastructure of the Internet are not allowed to police its content or to charge for provider-user access. It is a vital ingredient in the make-up of the Internet, because it guara... More..
Business > Entrepreneurial Spirit Technological literacy key to prosperity in 21st century: 1 of 3
Adaptability and intellectual curiosity are key to building a top-quality 21st century workforce, as economic patterns have spread across borders and the evolution of specific industries is now a global process. Technological literacy, the ability to use, seek out, learn and re-learn, with relative independence, the technolog... More..
Politics, News & Issues > US Elections (Other) What makes a secure and reliable voting machine?: 1 of 3
There are ways to increase the security of ballots, before, during and after they are cast, and to provide for a reliable count of votes, which must be verifiable by a genuine "paper trail", a physical record of the voter's intent. By combining a series of new and existing technologies and oversight processes, we can craft wh... More..