We are trapped in an alternative reality.

shafi شفيع شريفى ( ShafiSharifi) June 22, 2016

People are stuck in highways and streets around the city, especially in the north and east.

Nobel Prize winning climatologist Paul Crutzen calls our geological era the Anthropocene, the human dominated era. We are stuck with its obligations.

And that's completely possible. And if that's the case, then I think we're stuck with conventional car seats for a long time to come.

We can understand that the state is saying clearly that we have lost the game, we have no solutions, and you are stuck in it.

Well, the thesis of The Bottom Billion is that a billion people have been stuck living in economies that have been stagnant for 40 years, and hence diverging from the rest of mankind.

It went a whole life cycle without competition, took out of service. And we're stuck back here with the same kind of capability for military fighters and commercial airline travel that we had back in the late '50s.

This view implies that the poorest individuals and communities need to feel productive, valued, and empowered to take control of their own lives, rather than feel trapped in a subordinate position.

So we are stuck with an unsatisfactory status quo , in which NATO casts about for a role, Americans are less and less able to afford to be the world s policemen, and Europeans struggle to find a way to define their common interests.

We are caught in a trap where debt burdens do not fall, but simply shift among sectors and countries, and where monetary policies alone are inadequate to stimulate global demand, rather than merely redistribute it. The origin of this malaise lies in the creation of excessive debt to fund real estate investment and construction.

Palestinians were once reputed to be among the best educated people in the Middle East today, after years of violence, isolation, and poverty, their proud tradition of educational excellence has been shattered.