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Postcard from Pyongyang
Flying from Beijing to Pyongyang is an unsettling journey. Not because you have to fly on Air Koryo – the world’s only one star airline – but because of the reputation that precedes this socialist dictatorship run co...
The Internet Responds: At 89 Years Old, Zimbabwe President Mugabe Sworn in for Five More Years
President Robert Mugabe took the oath of office in Zimbabwe’s capital city of Harare on August 22, 2013 after beating his closest rival, former Prime Minister of the coalition government Morgan Tsvangirai for the Moveme...
‘Things Fall Apart’
My maternal grandmother has been an Internally Displaced Person (IDP) since 1997, immediately after the December elections and the subsequent ethnic clashes that ensued. My maternal grandfather and his second family followed th...
Syrian-Palestinian Refugees of Rap: “The Age of Silence is Over”
Refugees Of Rap is a Syrian – Palestinian hip-hop band, one of the first in Syria. The four rappers, from Syrian, Palestinian and Algerian origin, started singing in 2005 in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, locate...
How Racist Zoning In Houston Continues To Damage Communities
Texas is the only state in America without zoning laws. Once oil was discovered in East Texas in the late 1800′s, the city of Houston became a prized location for entrepreneurs and corporations. The oil boom can be directly l...
Extreme Poverty Set to Vanish by 2028?
“Statisticians are kind of bewildered by this,” but…”extreme poverty” — that is, the number of people around the world living on less than $1.25 a day, counting inflation — is “on a trend...
