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North America

From The ‘Seinfeld Election’ To The Hunger Games Election

This is not, as some media outlets have described, “‘the Seinfeld Election,’ an election about nothing”, yet election news continues to reiterate this conception.
by Mayda Margarita De La Fuente
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Economy

Disciplined Growth: a new Franco-German engine for Europe?

From the very beginning of the European integration project, France and Germany have been at the core of the whole enterprise. It was German Chancellor Willy Brandt who joined French President Georges Pompidou at the very first...
by Gilles Pittoors
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Latin America

On This Day In History, Oil Spills…

Yesterday marked 25 years since the Exxon-Valdez oil supertanker ran aground on the Bligh Reef, releasing nearly 10.8 million gallons of crude oil across 1,300 miles of the Prince William Sound in Alaska. The impacts were ...
by Candler Vinson
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Europe
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The Census Is Flawed: BHA Reveals England’s Not Christian [Info-graphic]

In a response to David Cameron’s claim that Britain is still a Christian country, The British Humanist Association (BHA), alongside this open letter of complaint, published revelatory statistics to provide a more realistic...
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Asia

Taiwan: Who Misled Noam Chomsky?

The photo below, in which Noam Chomsky is holding a placard, is part of a global campaign organized by Taiwanese students against media monopoly in Taiwan. Chomsky’s photo has been circulated widely via online social m...
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Africa

They Lied Until He Died: Zambia Acknowledges President’s Illness Just Before His Death

Left in the dark about their leader’s illness, Zambians were angry more than shocked to learn this week that the country’s fifth president, Michael Sata, fondly known as King Cobra, died in London on October 28.
by Gershom Ndhlovu
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Israel
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The Pros and Cons of Drafting Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox

The Israeli public largely objects to the current policy of allowing ultra-orthodox Jewish youth to avoid army service, but the rule has long been upheld thanks to political power play. Now, for the first time in 18 years, an I...
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Europe
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Statelessness Should Never Be An Option

The news broke earlier this week that the Home Office backed, inevitably, by Teresa May, plans to “find a way of overturning international human rights conventions”, and seize the power to  confiscate the passports of susp...
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Africa

Cowardice of Cowardice, Insanity of Insanity: Malawi -Tanzania Rumours of War

The Malawi-Tanzania border wrangle is a ticking bomb, never to be underestimated and not to be ignored. Nyasaland – now Malawi – was a British protectorate and Tanganyika – now Tanzania – was a German pr...
by Jones Ntaukira
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