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Condemning honour killings as a moral relativist
Today’s shameful news that a Pakistani couple have killed their daughter by beating her and then burning 60% of her body with acid for daring to look at a boy presents me with a dilemma. I don’t believe that there is a mo...
Daily News Roundup – 30 November 2012
Middle East Peace-talks halted between Israel and Palestine A dispute has halted talks between Israel and Palestine. Israeli authorities are due to construct over 4,000 homes on occupied land in the West bank and East Jerusalem...
Did Torture Cost American Lives?
“The enemy is the enemy, until he becomes my prisoner,” I remember Lieutenant General Hal Moore saying, “then he is my responsibility”. Moore was with co-author Joe Galloway at Fort Hood, Texas, in 1993. They were talki...
How Gangs Have Become A Trojan Horse In El Salvador’s Security Forces
El Salvador seems to be replicating that mythical ploy of war known as the Trojan Horse. In Homer’s poem “The Odyssey”, he tells the story of how the Greek Achilles fakes the retreat of his army and leaves a wooden ho...
Boko Haram: Please #BringBackOurGirls
This is going to be an extremely ambitious post. Boko Haram, please #BringBackOurGirls. Or, better still, let them go. Well, you most probably are aware that about 276 school girls in Nigeria were abducted by Boko Haramwho hav...
Thai Coup Leads To Exodus Of More Than 180,000 Cambodian Migrant Workers
Hundreds of thousands of Cambodian migrant workers and their families have fled Thailand in the past two weeks after Thai coup leaders issued a warning that they will launch a crackdown against illegal foreign workers. Ac...
