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WATCH: Understanding the Modern Refugee – An Impossible Task?

How does it feel to be a refugee? For most of the “Western” world, that’s always going to be an unanswerable question. As unstable as the European and American economies and governments may get, the chances of war breakin...
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WATCH: A Return to the Gilded Age

The Gilded Age was one of the darkest periods in history for the common industrial worker. Extreme wealth in the hands of a few, a lack of industrial regulation, and ruthless laissez faire markets all conspired to oppress an en...
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NATO In A New Era

In the waning days of World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered his strategists to develop a plan for a surprise attack against USSR forces in occupied Germany. Appropriately named “Operation Unthinkable...
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The Human Right to Ski

North Korea is famous for several things, among them: eccentric totalitarian dictators, mass starvation, and the rejection of traditionally held international principles. This story fits in with all of these traditional themes...
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Health

WATCH: What is the “Zambulance”?

How do you get an ambulance to someone in need on dirt roads in the middle of Africa? Well, a Zambulance. Most people never consider the incredible logistics behind the ambulance system in the industrialized world, or just take...
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North America

WATCH: The Indiscriminate Atomic Weapon

When you think about nuclear weapons, what is the first thought that comes to your mind?  Destructiveness? Maybe, death? For me at least, power, danger, and control are probably the first three words I associate with nuclear w...
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A Land without a Government: How America’s Budget Fight Could Affect You [Infographic]

As of October 1st, the Federal Government of the United States has officially begun a partial shutdown for the first time in 17 years. In an incredible act of political brinkmanship, a debate between the House of Representative...
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Video & Photography

WATCH: Drones For Trees

With the ongoing US drone campaigns in Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan, it seems like many people have specifically labeled drones agents of wanton death and destruction. The more informed individual might label drones as tools of...
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WATCH: Climate Change Explained

Global climate change is an issue which has haunted much of the industrialised world for the last decade. Almost all scientists, politicians, and people in general acknowledge industrialised nations’ culpability for the d...
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