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USA: A Failure of Democracy

Last night the US government barely avoided breaching the US debt ceiling, which would have left the US Treasury unable to pay their bills within the next few days. This could have been disastrous for the recovering global econ...

by Conor Sullivan

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The Gilded Age Of Russia’s Foreign Policy

Vladimir Vladimirovich celebrated his [Orthodox] Christmas holidays in his newly gilded city, Sochi, a gentle irony for the legions of Olympic workers for whom he cancelled the Christmas holidays a few weeks before. One wonders...

by Radim Dragomaca

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The Farcical Elections In Syria: Political Theater Amidst Chaos

For the past 3 years, Syria has been immersed in a bloody and complex civil war that has claimed the lives of over 150,000 people. Millions more have been displaced, and it is unlikely that they will be returning home anytime s...

by John Haltiwanger

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Obama Administration And Afghanistan: What Lies Ahead?

Barack Obama has recently approved guidelines allowing the Pentagon—the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense—to continue fighting the Taliban, al-Qaeda and its allied forces in Afghanistan alongside the A...

by Sohini Chatterjee

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Was a popular Saint Lucia blog taken down by Google hateful or just outspoken?

Writer and actor Jason Sifflet’s popular Saint Lucia-based Flogg Blog was taken down by Google for violating its terms of service before being restored last week. The no-holds-barred, muckraking blog had become both notor...

by Global Voices

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When Chemical Weapons & Terrorist Groups Are Better Excuses

The last few weeks have been generous in events and catastrophes, from the Boston bombings to the Iraqi bloodshed, from the attack in Libya against the French embassy to the Somali terror wave and the Iranian devastating earthq...

by Mohamed Belarbi

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Hague on Syria, Parliament and Britain’s Place in the World

Yesterday, (September 8th 2013) UK Foreign Secretary William Hague appeared on the leading BBC political and current affairs program – The Andrew Marr Show. Not unsurprisingly, there was only one real topic up for discus...

by Oscar Isham

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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...

by Andrew Herweg

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Attention: Non Consensual Sexualization Of Children In The Media Ahead…

Framed as being ‘hot’, ‘mature’, and ‘sexy’, media representations of children have been critiqued in recent times, yet again. The issue of portraying children, more so, young girls, as sexualized images has been br...

by Arpita Mitra

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USA: A Failure of Democracy

The Gilded Age Of Russia’s Foreign Policy

The Farcical Elections In Syria: Political Theater Amidst Chaos

Obama Administration And Afghanistan: What Lies Ahead?

Was a popular Saint Lucia blog taken down by Google hateful or just outspoken?

When Chemical Weapons & Terrorist Groups Are Better Excuses

Hague on Syria, Parliament and Britain’s Place in the World

Business As Usual

Attention: Non Consensual Sexualization Of Children In The Media Ahead…

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