“The vicious cycle of austerity is over,” declared Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras on the day of his party’s election win. After six years of austerity, recession, mass unemployment and falling living standards, the Greek pe...
The beginning of 2015 was pointedly marked by Dr Richard Smith’s comment that cancer is the best way to die.The comment met with extraordinary backlash from researchers, charities, and the families and friends of those th...
During World War II allegedly 200,000 women and girls were coerced into sexual slavery in the military brothels or “comfort stations” of the Japanese Imperial Army. Euphemistically called “comfort women”, these girls we...
In 2003 watchdog group Transparency International rated Nigeria the second most corrupt country across the world and, for years, the country struggled with a debt which restricted its ability to make any real economic progress...
January 27th marked the 70-year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland by the Red Army. This date signifies the end to a site that facilitated some of the worlds most heinous and utterl...
The third Sunday of January every year is celebrated globally as World Religion Day. Established in 1950 in the United States of America by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is, it is an endeavour to encourage i...
Human imagination has created a million ways to reach the divine saviour. However, we are only aware of the hegemonic presence of the major religions. For the rest, there exists a covert censorship.
Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. “Holocaust” is a word of Greek origin meaning “sacrifice by fire...
A new song has been making its way around Lebanese airwaves, one that’s sparked both laughter and groans. “I can’t believe there’s even a song about her now!” commented a Facebook user. The song in question? It’s ca...