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The Turkish Culture of Dissatisfaction

The “Riots” It has been more than three months since the Turkish protests that started as an environmental campaign to stop the Taksim Gezi Park in Istanbul from changing into anything other than a protected green area. It ...

by Ozlem Unat

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Revolution, Civil War Or Proxy Conflict? In Reality, The Ukrainian Crisis All Boils Down To Money

Cast your mind to any place in modern day Europe, east of the Czech Republic, and your imagination will inevitably be playing three degrees of separation with one major reference point in terms of culture, economics, history a...

by Damien Sharkov

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Let Colombia End Its Civil War

Colombia has been the host of some of the most extreme and brutal violence in Latin America’s history. The country’s half-century long conflict has taken the lives of almost a quarter million women, men, and children, and d...

by Global Voices

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Clearing the Smoke, Part I: Confederwhat?

Belgian political life is currently embroiled in a debate on the concept of confederalism, which the Flemish nationalists pose as a solution to the ‘Belgian problem’ – which seems to me as as merely a badly disguised st...

by Gilles Pittoors

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Mandela: The last Of The Global Icons?

Mandela, as the eulogies which were sent from all corners of the globe showed, was a man revered by almost everybody. At his funeral Obama mixed with Raul Castro, Robert Mugabe and Oprah Winfrey. As we lose the last of the grea...

by Joe Corry-Roake

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Death by Omission: African migration tragedy in the Mediterranean and the European Union

VIDEO LINK: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/19/700-migrants-feared-dead-mediterranean-shipwreck-worst-yet As the voyage for seeking a better life for many migrants led them to their untimely death in the Mediterranean...

by Paridhi Singh

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“Morally Indefensible” British Foreign Policy

In an open letter, Sayeeda Warsi took the bold move of resigning from her position as a minister in Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). She said her decision was a result of the government’s policy on the rece...

by Ved Menon

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Is More Democracy Always the Best Option?

At the outset of the Arab Spring, there were some protests in Jordan, calling for an elected prime minister. But in a country whose monarch is actually doing a great job of working in the interest of his people, has been an act...

by Nadine Tewfik-Saad

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‘One Member One Vote’ – Radical Reforms To UK Labour

Proposals to change the link between the UK Labour party and the trade unions have been approved at the party’s spring conference with 86% of members in favour of the new rules. The Labour Leader Ed Miliband had urged the pa...

by James Walker

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The Turkish Culture of Dissatisfaction

Revolution, Civil War Or Proxy Conflict? In Reality, The Ukrainian Crisis All Boils Down To Money

Let Colombia End Its Civil War

Clearing the Smoke, Part I: Confederwhat?

Mandela: The last Of The Global Icons?

Death by Omission: African migration tragedy in the Mediterranean and the European Union

“Morally Indefensible” British Foreign Policy

Is More Democracy Always the Best Option?

‘One Member One Vote’ – Radical Reforms To UK Labour

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