Robert Miller

Mar 18, 2024 | medium.com | Robert Miller

A forest has a unique kind of energy that anyone who ventures into it can feel. There are sounds, scents and so much visual beauty. Even our skin is stimulated by the wind, the rain or brushing against the understory. Ancient forests are abundant with this kind of energy, which is why many consider them spiritual places. When we defile these great cathedrals, we bring silence where there once was an abundance of life. Has modern society become disconnected from nature?

Dec 19, 2023 | repository.law.umich.edu | Harry Hobbs |Robert Miller

In the 1823 decision of Johnson v. M’Intosh, Chief Justice John Marshall formulated the international law of colonialism. Known as the Doctrine of Discovery, Marshall’s opinion drew on the practices of European nations during the Age of Exploration to legitimize European acquisition of territory owned and occupied by Indigenous peoples. Two centuries later, Johnson—and the international law of colonialism—remains good law throughout the world.

Nov 29, 2023 | medium.com | Robert Miller

Victor Hugo is credited with stating, "Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come." I wonder what Hugo would say today? The dawn of the Internet and social media made our modern society the founders of the information age and disinformation age.