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What’s Next? Europe and the World in 2013
It is impossible and thus totally pointless to try and predict what the world will look like in 2013. Only a few weeks ago we were not even sure there would still be a world – luckily the Mayas rephrased their prophecy just i...
The Blame Game: Political Chess in the Far East
Grudges can last for a long time. The one held between China and Japan, the two traditional adversaries of the Far East, however, has been particularly lengthy. Since 1895, when China suffered a bitter defeat to Japan in the Si...
Rejecting the decline in Liberia’s unemployment reports
For more than a decade, this part of Western Africa was engulfed with one chaotic event after another. The country descended into a dungeon that no man would ever dare dream of entering. It was all in the name of freedom for th...
Taiwan: Who Misled Noam Chomsky?
The photo below, in which Noam Chomsky is holding a placard, is part of a global campaign organized by Taiwanese students against media monopoly in Taiwan. Chomsky’s photo has been circulated widely via online social m...
Volunteer Tourism: Harming rather than helping?
With a new cohort of 18 and 19 year olds about to embark on their gap years, the intensification of promotions by volunteer tourism organisations begins. With promises that prospective volunteers will have the opportunity to ...
Daily News Roundup – 12 September 2012
Europe German court backs ESM bailout fund Germany’s Constitutional Court has rejected calls to block the permanent eurozone rescue fund, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), but has imposed conditions including a c...
