In July 2015, the United States restored diplomatic relations with Cuba and, in March 2016, President Obama became the first sitting U.S. President to visit Cuba since the Castro revolution (Cocoli, 2016).

Love em or hate em - they exist and are perpetuated by equal parts greed, manipulation and profit. One caveat which is overlooked by many of the newly incorporated, is the signal manipulation by a select

Armenia was the first country in the world to adopt Christianity has state religion, in 301. The founder of the Armenian apostolic church was Saint Gregory the Illuminator, who was appointed catholicos

The collapse of the Soviet Union had great consequences for the peoples and languages of the USSR. The status of languages of the titular nations of the former union republics changed from being one of

Nature to me is a place that feels not designed or created by man. I would not consider a pine tree farm as being nature, but if I went to the woods and came to a pine tree farm adjacent to the woods,

As a student of both history and media, applications of effective strategic communications has always fascinated me as the collective actions of social engineering a society has proven all to easy and

What is nature? Perhaps, a broad generalized definition such as everything surrounding us, or everything surrounding us for many centuries, not constructed by human beings. What is human constructed, even

The following represents one minor contemporary example of centralized government draconian policies and subsequent enforcement powers in regards to access and control of your money. In this example, the

Where does the Anthropocene take place? When trying to decide where the Anthropocene takes place, it becomes obvious that the Anthropocene is also a planetary concept – it deals with large-scale environmental

Strategic communication is an important aspect of foreign policy that seeks to communicate messages to a target audience. The term has been used rather ambiguously, but can be summed up as the coordinated

The Meskhetian Turks are refugees, forced to leave Meskhetia, in southern Georgia under Stalin's deportation policies in 1944. This Caucasus region of Eurasia has existed as an imperial borderland for

It is interesting to see some of the localized abhorrent behavior of a particular environment in relation to our desensitized urban collective existence. While visiting a local cemetery within the New

As a graduate student studying INSS and in particular the application of IO through strategic communications, I had the distinction of being exposed to a wide assortment of peers within my courses. Their

In this article I will continue with my examination of the Anthropocene as an emerging concept and analyze what various prominent scholars and academics view as defining elements and contestable factors.

When I lived briefly in Florida, I became very familiar with the cultural divide that exists between the west and east coast. This division is even vehemently defended by the residents who inhabit each

In continuing this series on PSYOPS and Information Operations using both State and non-State actors as examples, I will now examine another pertinent and contemporary example which will utilize some of

Every now and then US State lottery jackpots reach enormous levels. This is almost entirely fueled by a culture of consumer greed, materialism, steeped in debt, accumulated over years of wanton binge shopping

As someone who has been interested in the social sciences with a preference for propaganda studies, I find these kinds of stories as attempts by the mass media to effectively social engineer society through

As a graduate student I once was told by a former Prof. in Defense & Strategic Studies, in reference to Strategic Communication that one must always remember that your SC messages have more than one

In this article I will continue my analysis of the various academic debates and principle discourses surrounding the Anthropocene as an emerging epoch and how various academic disciplines are seeking to