Global Investment Watch

How about human rights at home?

John Richardson — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:08:49 +0000

Today was one of those “only in Washington” days where I attended two conferences on human rights. The first one was held at George Washington University and the focus was on business and human rights. A second conference was held …

The Debt Supercommittee: Will it raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy?

John Richardson — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:55:43 +0000

The Debt Super Committee – the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction – has been established to create a plan before Thanksgiving to cut $1.5 trillion in federal spending over the next decade. If the Committee fails there will be an automatic $1.2 trillion in cuts to defense and discretionary spending. While this pressure is significant for the committee members and Congress as a whole, the likelihood of success for this Committee in coming up with a workable plan is unknown.

Land Grabbing: The New Colonialism?

John Richardson — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:00:01 +0000

Land Grabbing: the acquisition of large tracts of land in developing countries where corporations and foreign states acquire millions of acres of land for pennies to develop commodity crops for sale on the global markets.

Stuxnet as Cyberwar: The Law of War and the Virtual Battlefield

John Richardson — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:33:23 +0000

I recently wrote a paper entitled Stuxnet as Cyberwarfare: Applying the Law of War to the Virtual Battlefield, where I attempted to address a number of legal issues related to the recent attack known as Stuxnet, looking at the nature of the attack and whether it adhered to the law of war principles of distinction and proportionality.

Stuxnet: The Movie

John Richardson — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:35:37 +0000

In my last post a few weeks ago, I wrote about the Stuxnet virus. If reading a long paper is not your thing, the following video does a very nice job of explaining things.