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The Inconsistent Effectiveness Of The UN Security Council
The Syrian political crisis has escalated rapidly in the last few years with Bashar al-Assad’s government employing chemical weapons against its own civilians. Even though Syria committed to destroying its chemical stockpile ...
What We Know About The Internet And Political Protest (II)
I left you with a point in the previous article: it is unlikely that the Internet will lead to liberation – or oppression – all around the globe, just because of its inherent features. What usage of the Internet can...
Business As Usual
The Snowden revelations have cause us to re-examine our internet freedom and right to self-privacy. The far reaching surveillance by the National Security Agency and the rest of the Five Eyes (Canada, United Kingdom, New Zealan...
Immigrants Are People Too, With Stories: Here’s Mine.
There is something startling in how little the British seem to know about their history. The same holds true for the majority of Europeans. I arrived in the UK aged 13 from Portugal in 2004. My father had been in England for 1...
Hetty Bower, Political Activist, Dies Aged 108
Hetty Bower was born in 1905 and throughout her life campaigned for numerous causes that she believed in from the suffragette movement to the 1926 General Strike, the 1936 Battle of Cable Street, being a founding member of the ...
Egypt: All The News That’s Unfit To Print
In 2013, Egypt was ranked 158 out of 178 countries in the annual Reporters Without Borders Freedom Index. This troubling ranking is a reflection of the Egyptian Armed Forces and the Muslim Brotherhood both of which have commi...
