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Guns: The New Socio-Economic Divide in America?

With the ongoing debate surrounding gun control permeating the American public sphere since the tragic Newton, Conneticut shooting in December, the National Rifle Association (NRA) recently fired back with a highly propagan...

by Urban Times

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Sorry, Sarah: Why The Left Owes Palin An Apology Over Ukraine

As one of the most derided political figures of the 21st century, Sarah Palin’s authority to speak on American foreign policy is by all accounts non-existent. Unrelenting attacks by the liberal media have rendered this forme...

by Richard Corlett

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WATCH: The race to save the Arctic

Our poles remain the only two parts of our planet unexploited by man, but the growing interest in oil and rich fishing grounds in the Arctic is leading to a free for all as nearby powerful nations scramble to declare the territ...

by Nicky Armstrong

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USA Triggered Afghan Corruption, Pentagon Finds

Afghanistan is facing a dramatic election crisis which threatens to tear the country apart. Although nearly 7m Afghan citizens turned up to vote, the results were dismissed by candidate Abdullah Abdullah, who alleged they had b...

by Tessa Evans

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Introducing: Mitt Romney

by Sam Kirk

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An American In Palestine: The Power Of Positionality In Understanding Conflict

There is an urban legend within the US State Department of a US Senator who, upon his first trip to Jerusalem, was so shocked by the violence between Palestinians and Israelis within the holy city that he demanded a briefing fr...

by Andrew Ferguson

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Operation Iraqi Freedom: What We Have Learned in 10 Years?

Ten years ago today, on March 19 2003, the USA and its allies launched the second Iraq war in a bid to radically change the face of the region. To this day, after the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime and the complete withd...

by Nadim Souss

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Land of the Free: US Incarceration Rates

According to the International Centre for Prison Studies, no other country incarcerates a higher percentage of its population that the United States. The latest studies show that 716 people per 100,000 are incarcerated in Ameri...

by Nicky Armstrong

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This is not Islam

We in the West can all too easily believe that every Muslim wishes to kill in the name of religion. The protests that have swept across the Muslim world over the past several days are nothing to do with the inflammatory anti-Is...

by Gareth Lewis

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Guns: The New Socio-Economic Divide in America?

Sorry, Sarah: Why The Left Owes Palin An Apology Over Ukraine

WATCH: The race to save the Arctic

USA Triggered Afghan Corruption, Pentagon Finds

Introducing: Mitt Romney

An American In Palestine: The Power Of Positionality In Understanding Conflict

Operation Iraqi Freedom: What We Have Learned in 10 Years?

Land of the Free: US Incarceration Rates

This is not Islam

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