There’s A Dark Side To Alibaba’s Massive Profits In China
Every year on November 11, e-commerce giant Alibaba makes business headlines with its sales record on Singles Day, a holiday celebrating China’s single men and women that has become a popular online shopping day. This ye...
What we know about the Internet and political protest (I)
The quote above is extracted from an article written in 1985 by George P. Schultz, US Secretary of State at the time. Even if I hadn’t just told you that the quote dates back to the 1980s, you would probably have been abl...
Pro-austerity VVD’s victory in Dutch elections hides the real winners of last night’s poll – a social democratic Europe
With over 96% of votes counted, the result of yesterday’s Dutch election sees Mark Rutte, leader of the right-wing Liberals (VVD), set to stay as Prime Minister. But the closely fought election left his party with only two mo...
Has The Gang Truce In El Salvador Failed?
Violent drug gangs have been confronting El Salvador with an enormous internal security problem for more than two decades; inhibiting development and prolonging poverty and structural violence. If one considers the 1992 peace a...
Daily News Roundup – 16 July 2012
Europe Athletes arriving in London for Olympics With 11 days to go until the Olympic Games are to start, thousands of athletes and officials have begun arriving at London’s Heathrow airport, which is expecting its busiest day...
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...
