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Tunisia: Between Political Instability, Terrorism and Police Repression

When journalists are arrested because they’ve taken photos for their articles, we ask, where is freedom of expression? When there is denial of accessibility, we ask, where is transparency? When the corrupt hands are out o...

by Aya Chebbi

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Carpet Bagging, Liz Cheney & the Cowboy State: The Looming US Senate Battle for Wyoming

The daughter of former US Vice President Dick Cheney has announced her intention to run against Senate incumbent Mike Enzi from Wyoming in the upcoming 2014 Republican primary. There’s nothing strange about that in itself, ex...

by Trudy McIntosh

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Does the NSA Tap That? What We Still Don’t Know About the Agency’s Internet Surveillance

Among the snooping revelations of recent weeks, there have been tantalizing bits of evidence that the NSA is tapping fiber-optic cables that carry nearly all international phone and Internet data. The idea that the NSA is swe...

by Justin Elliott

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‘One Nation’ – Two Narratives

Cairo has so far been spared the same fate as Damascus, but sure enough, the sounds of fireworks and jubilant crowds that greeted the coup of July 3rd have now been replaced by the grimmer sounds of sirens and gunfire across E...

by Owen Stenner

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Behind Turkey’s Peace with PKK

This is how the fairy-tail goes: “Suddenly Abdullah Ocelan, founder of the militant marxist PKK, decided to agree to negotiate with the AKP government. The party that once called for an independent Kurdish state, agreed t...

by Mohamed Firas Arfaoui

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Crisis In Darfur: Will Arresting The Sudanese President Change Anything?

Ever since 2003, the crisis in Darfur has grown consistently worse. At the moment, human rights activists are vehemently protesting for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes and charges of genocide af...

by Bianca Facchinei

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Can People Power Rescue Bosnia’s Blighted Citizens?

Since my previous article, published earlier this month, significant events have occurred in Bosnia. The tragic death of baby Berina Hamidovic, whose denial of a passport to Serbia for life saving surgery, has sparked the belea...

by Neil Cropper

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The Rise & Fall of a “Terrorist” Group: Jabhat al-Nusrah, Syria

Western media and thinkers, as crude as that categorisation seems, tend to oversimplify matters when dealing with “Jihadist” groups such as Al Qaeda. Like any “human institution”, however totalitarian it may seem, balan...

by Mohamed Firas Arfaoui

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Why Can’t Madagascar Settle on an Election Date?

Four years since a military takeover plunged the country into political crisis in 2009, Madagascar cannot seem to find a way out. One of the critical steps in the consensus road map [fr], an agreement signed by the head ...

by Lova Rakotomalala

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Tunisia: Between Political Instability, Terrorism and Police Repression

Carpet Bagging, Liz Cheney & the Cowboy State: The Looming US Senate Battle for Wyoming

Does the NSA Tap That? What We Still Don’t Know About the Agency’s Internet Surveillance

‘One Nation’ – Two Narratives

Behind Turkey’s Peace with PKK

Crisis In Darfur: Will Arresting The Sudanese President Change Anything?

Can People Power Rescue Bosnia’s Blighted Citizens?

The Rise & Fall of a “Terrorist” Group: Jabhat al-Nusrah, Syria

Why Can’t Madagascar Settle on an Election Date?

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