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Daily News Roundup – 31 October 2012
Africa Twenty villagers murdered in Nigeria Gunmen have killed 20 people, including a traditional leader, in an attack on a village in northern Nigeria’s Zamfara state, a local official has said. The attackers stormed Ka...
Snowden, Censorship & the Surveillance State
Sighs of relief are being breathed across the world now Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in Russia, ending his one-month confinement in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. Snowden, who told the world the truth abo...
Right-Winging It: Populism, The Constitution, And Orbán’s Hungary
Following its 2014 elections, Hungary now has the dubious claim to fame of hosting the largest far-right presence in a European legislature. The Jobbik party, known for its nationalist, anti-Semitic, and anti-Roma views, has em...
A Mutual Split: Turkey and the EU
Orhan Pamuk’s article, “Europe is turning away from Turkey, and the rest of the world”, pleas for a Europe which engages with Turkey on the basis of enlightenment principles, rather than old-fashioned notions of Islamic e...
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...
The Logic of Our Sex Laws, Part 1: An Overview
Slag, skag-head, hooker, ho, trafficked, trapped, bullied, abused… The visions created by the mention of prostitution – and the levels of compassion or contempt they illicit – can vary wildly from one person to the n...
