WATCH: Why do they hate us?

“Itching to use force and then pretending it’s because we had no choice.” Bill Maher’s summation of American Foreign Policy is more than simply satire. It represents a view of the United States that many outside the Wes...
by Miro Ralston
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This is not Islam

We in the West can all too easily believe that every Muslim wishes to kill in the name of religion. The protests that have swept across the Muslim world over the past several days are nothing to do with the inflammatory anti-Is...
by Gareth Lewis
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The Lion’s Claws, or Flemish Nationalism in a European Perspective

“So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause.” It is a sad time indeed. Flanders fell to the claws of populist nationalism, and if Belgian politicians continue their current strategy, so will Belgium in a ...
by Gilles Pittoors
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International Political Forum

India: The New America

As the Indian elections come to a close and we elect a man who outdid Tupac by using holograms for election speeches, Narendra Modi, a man who was once a street side tea seller, is now our Prime Minister. It seems like he achie...
by Apratim Vidyarthi
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A new era for the “Front National” in France?

Arriving third in the race with 17.9 per cent of the vote, many people were arguably shocked when it was revealed that over six million French people had voted for far-right candidate Marine Le Pen of the Front National (FN) du...
by Emily Annear
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Moscow’s March of Millions

Last Saturday’s ‘March of Millions’, which took place in central Moscow, drew tens of thousands of people to protest against President Vladimir Putin, the latest in a series of protests against the current Russian governm...
by Bryony Cottam
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International Political Forum

The Return of the Ottoman

The Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has the status of a national hero in the Middle East. This status was first created during his now famous walk-out during a debate with Shimon Peres during the World Economic...
by Maged Mandour
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Miley Twerking On Things We Should Talk About

The last few days my Facebook news feed has been inundated with ‘news’ from the MTV Video Music Awards. Newspapers are picking up on the ‘drama’ from the award ceremony, and the internet is aflutter with...
by Natasha Lipman
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International Political Forum

All Quiet on the Syrian Front: But Who are the Winners and Losers?

The rhetoric has been scaled-back. Potentially embarrassing Congressional votes have been avoided. Multinational conflict has (for now) become an unlikely possibility. In fact, since the chemical arms agreement with Syria was s...
by Miro Ralston
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