Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Tort of Defamation

by James Corbett BoilingFrogsPost.com May 20, 2014 Early 20th century writer Franz Kafka was known for creating unsettling stories of characters set upon by unseen forces, caught in the labyrinth of modern-day bureaucracy. A lawyer by training, this sense of angst is...

Unite and Conquer: Fighting Back Against the Oligarchy

by James Corbett BoilingFrogsPost.com February 18, 2014 In recent weeks, the Eyeopener has been examining the politics of division. In our first report, we looked at how the left/right political spectrum is used as a wedge to divide the people against themselves. In...

Anti-War Goes AWOL: Divide and Conquer in Action

by James Corbett BoilingFrogsPost.com February 4, 2014 Drone strikes in Pakistan. The surge in Afghanistan. The bombing of Libya. Aiding terrorists in Syria. Crippling sanctions on Iran. The Asia-Pacific Pivot. Here in 2014, the Nobel committee’s 2009 decision...

Divide and Conquer: Politics and the Left/Right Fraud

by James Corbett BoilingFrogsPost.com January 28, 2014 From education to the environment, business to banking, housing to health care, it seems that there is no issue in the world that the industrialized western democracies cannot reduce to a simplistic paradigm of...