Scattered Thoughts on War and Peace

Social contract theory was used to critique a form of the state, but was also used to legitimize the modern nation-state.

Alarming West Texas Oil Theft Emerges As National Security Threat Criminals are exploiting weak points across the West Texas oil production region, which accounts for 15% of the world's energy resources. This emerging wave of oil theft is burning a multi-billion-dollar hole in the budgets of oil and gas operators across the Permian Basin and is becoming a national security threat. Bloomberg reports that oil and gas producers are losing at least $1 billion, if not more, per year due to oilfield theft in what the outlet describes as something...

Chinese Hackers Spied On Cuban Embassy As Trump Ramped Up Blockade Threats In a story which hearkens back to bygone Cold War years, fresh reports say that Chinese hackers breached and spied on the American Embassy in Cuba at a moment President Trump threatened a US naval blockade, similar to what was in place just before the overthrow by US military intervention of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro According to the findings from the cyber firm Gambit Security, cited in a Bloomberg report, "The campaign began in January and compromised the emails of 68...