Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 
International Political Forum

Bosnian Protesters Demand Bread, Social Justice And Freedom Of Speech

When the citizens of Bosnia’s second biggest city, Tuzla, went out to protest on February 4, 2014, few expected to witness the country-wide riots that followed. Whether the latest unrest in Bosnia-Herzegovina can be qualifi...
by Rayna St
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Armenia’s genocide

In an address to a group of Nazi leaders and Wehrmacht Generals in 1939, the German Führer, Adolf Hitler was reported to have said: “Who, after all, speaks today about the annihilation of the Armenians…….?” The...
by Samson Faboye
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The Fight Against Climate Change In 2014

If 2014 was an historic year for climate change, where the world dug deeper into its resolve not to collectively fight it. Yet despite the worsening snowstorms and stranded polar bears, more extreme climate activity, and the pa...
by Apratim Vidyarthi
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Iraq, ISIS, And The War On Terror: Why We Must Face This Threat Head On

In 2004, the BBC released filmmaker Adam Curtis’s documentary, The Power of Nightmares. In its three episodes, he carefully and convincingly made the case for the threat of international terrorism being greatly exaggerated; I...
by Simon Fraser
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WATCH: A Tribe With A Horrific Secret

First, a few facts about the Suruwahan people. They are an indigenous tribe living outside the confines of Brazilian society. They are self-sufficient, sustaining themselves by hunting. They do not feel the need to wear clo...
by Chez
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The reality of the North Korea problem

North Korea is an Orwellian nightmare, straight out of the Cold War: a dictatorship with the world’s largest active army per capita and the fourth largest active overall, a nuclear arsenal, more than one million people suffer...
by Apratim Vidyarthi
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Why Are So Many Athletes Violent Towards Their Female Partners?

Two weeks ago, two world class athletes with a history of violence against women took centre stage in world news: United States National Football League (NFL) player Ray Rice and South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius. The ...
by Aidan Liban
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Paradise lost: The displacement of Kashmiri pandits

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all the murderers are punished unless they kill in large number and to the sound of trumpets.” – Voltaire On January 19, 1990, the biggest ever exodus of people  since the...
by Sneha Nanavati
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International Political Forum

The World Cup Conundrum: A Legacy Of Loss?

Pele, Ronaldinho, Kaka. To the common layperson, these names may not mean much, but to football aficionados, they hold the same rank as St Paul or St Joseph do to devout Catholics: holy figures, to be admired and worshipped for...
by Tamar Ziff
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