On 9 April, following months of negotiations, MEPs and ministers finally agreed to new transparency rules regarding payments to governments from the extractive sectors, involving companies from the mining, oil and gas, as well ...
Last week, a very serious espionage allegation regarding the NSA and several ‘allied’ countries was brought to light. Over the past 12 months whistle-blowers such as Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, and Julian Assan...
Fawaz Gerges, a prominent Middle Eastern scholar, notes that there exists a ‘terrorism narrative’ in the West. Amongst government officials and the wider public, the notion of imminent terrorist attack seems institutionali...
The 2012 US election has become a revolution in and of itself. Of course, I could be referring to the dramatic changes in campaign finances or the outlandish comments made by candidates such as Todd Aiken. However, my focus i...
Throughout history, there has always been concern about inequality growing to such an extent that it will become dangerous and imperil social cohesion and stability. When French revolutionaries took the Bastille and began their...
The results for the Delhi Assembly Elections 2013 were announced on December 8, 2013. Some twitter users pegged it as an event more enthralling than an India-Pakistan cricket match – a contest often viewed with nationalis...
Barring a miracle, the war in Syria will soon enter its fourth year. Hope among experts that the conflict may reach a prompt conclusion has waned. Every aspect of what has happened in the country – from the sheer number o...
Having been cast to the wayside in a way that it hadn’t been during the previous two presidential elections, eleven years after the September 11th terrorist attacks in 2001, the topics of National Security and Terrorism have ...
A few weeks ago, reports emerged that North Korea had publicly executed around 80 people. Their crime; watching South Korean film and television shows. In a nation where public executions are not unknown, and punishments for mi...