The Rise & Fall of a “Terrorist” Group: Jabhat al-Nusrah, Syria
Western media and thinkers, as crude as that categorisation seems, tend to oversimplify matters when dealing with “Jihadist” groups such as Al Qaeda. Like any “human institution”, however totalitarian it may seem, balan...
Why Can’t Madagascar Settle on an Election Date?
Four years since a military takeover plunged the country into political crisis in 2009, Madagascar cannot seem to find a way out. One of the critical steps in the consensus road map [fr], an agreement signed by the head ...
Bangladesh Factory Collapse: A Call For Change
All human beings deserve to be treated with dignity. Here, one victim of the Bangladesh factory collapse, which killed over 1,000 workers, recounts her close to death experience. “I didn’t think anybody could save me,” s...
The Return of the Man with the Gun
The title of this article is not accurate, in order for something to return then it needs to leave first. The Egyptian Military never truly left the Egyptian political scene. In a previous article I argued that President Morsi ...
WATCH: This is What Torture Really Looks Like
As Ramadan begins, more than 100 hunger-strikers in Guantánamo Bay continue their protest. More than 40 of them are being force-fed. A leaked document sets out the military instructions, or standard operating procedure, for fo...
WATCH: The World’s Oceans Put Into Perspective
Despite some rather condescending commentary from Scott Gass this short clip provides some astonishing insights into the sheer size of the waters that cover the majority of our planet. The fact which most impressed me is that t...
