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WATCH: Video animation of Guantánamo Bay hunger strikers
17 Guantánamo Bay prisoners are still participating in the hunger strike that became publicly known this spring. 16 of these prisoners are being force fed, using methods that can only be described as torture. Two others are t...
Bare Breasts Breed Bad Boys: Why Censoring Nudity In The Wolf of Wall Street In India Is Beyond Unbelievable
Leonardo DiCaprio, fast cars, mountains of cocaine, nudity that would put Italian statues to shame, and Martin Scorsese: this adequately sums up The Wolf of Wall Street. About five months ago, I watched it in India, and then sa...
Democracy – A Means Or An End? Lessons From China
Hilary Clinton, as Secretary of State, recently claimed the Chinese government was ‘trying to stop history by opposing the advance of democracy’. Indeed, since the West first adopted democracy as their uniform political sys...
Sri Lanka: Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting
The 23rd Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is being held in the capital city of Colombo, Sri Lanka, from the 15th – 17th of November 2013. The last CHOGM was held in 2011 in Perth, Australia and the first ever ...
Daily News Roundup – 27 November 2012
Africa Mass rally against Mursi in Cairo Tens of thousands of people are holding a protest in Cairo against Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi, who last week granted himself extensive new powers. Flag-waving demonstrators a...
Mashing Mexico’s Monopolies
The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa described Mexico under the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) as the ‘perfect dictatorship’; an exquisite balancing act of entrenched special interests. Much like Mexico under ...
