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North America

Unthinkable Tragedies in the Age of “Nod and Pass”

Every once in a while there comes a time when we are jolted from our routine self-absorption. These moments are sudden—disorienting. They push us into a larger, more insecure reality, where the illusions of power and control ...
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Iraq

UNESCO’s “Unite4Heritage” Campaign: Effective in the Middle East?

‘Syrian citizens were bent over, crumbled to the floor in rubble and crying for the loss they felt from seeing their buildings and monuments destroyed. These brave people had risked their own lives to try to save these ...
by Flo Carson
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Europe

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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Middle East
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The Procedures of Killing People Legally

Where was the world when the first 100,000 Syrians were killed? Where was the efforts for intervention when the first 2 million civilians, men, women, children and elderly fled from a conflict that didn’t care for collateral ...
by Ozlem Unat
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Argentina

Argentina vs. Argentina

On October 29th the Argentine Supreme Court ruled that Grupo Clarín, Argentina’s biggest media conglomerate, would have to comply with the 2009 Audio-visual Media Law, concluding a dispute that began four years earlier. Whi...
by Rose Butters
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Asia

When It All Comes Crashing Down: The Future Of Hun Sen And Cambodia

In 1985, 33-year-old Hun Sen became the youngest prime minister in the world. Nearly thirty years later, Prime Minister Sen is now Southeast Asia’s longest serving non-royal leader. His grip on power, however, is trembling. A...
by Rohan Desai
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Asia
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The international politics of searching for MH370

“We don’t want Chinese warships sniffing around in the area on the pretext of hunting for the missing jetliner or anti-piracy patrols” The world has been watching with baited breath as the search for Malaysian Airlines fl...
by Amanda Sheppard
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Hong Kong
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Pro-Democracy Protesters In Hong Kong Can Face Down Police, But Not Their Mom And Dad At The Dinner Table

Many activists in Hong Kong have dared to confront police during recent pro-democracy demonstrations. In fact, more than 500 protesters stood their ground against authorities by refusing to leave a sit-in in early July and we...
by Oiwan Lam
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Economy

The Eurozone’s achilles heel

On 25 January 2015 Greece ushered in the New Year with the election of the leftist SYRIZA party to parliament. All eyes are now on Greece and her new Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, in hopes that he will compromise and continue...
by Robert Billings
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