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#50Days4Gaza

#50Days4Gaza: War journalism in Gaza

Understanding the meaning of ‘shell-shocked’ in a context of war, conflict and gross human rights violations often allows us to negotiate with a complex of emotions and stories that move beyond journalistic ethos of ‘obje...
by Arpita Mitra
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Russia
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This Russian Lawmaker Thinks the US Can Take Russia Off The Internet

A deputy in the Russian parliament thinks the United States might cut off Russia’s Internet and suggests Russians take measures to get ready for the information blackout. Ilya Kostunov, the deputy in question, believes th...
by Global Voices
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Colombia

Neither forgetfulness nor forgiveness

On 24 December 2014, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos expressed his hope that the New Year could bring an end to his country’s 50-year-old internal conflict. The negotiations between the central government and the Revol...
by Leonardo Goi
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North Korea

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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Asia

Assessing Change in the Philippines: A Personal Perspective on Institutional Stickiness and Idealism

A popular sentiment among my friends in the Philippines is that the government is getting worse with each passing day; with this comes the belief that there is little recourse to a ‘better life’ but to leave the country. It...
by Alvin Almendrala Camba
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Armenia

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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North America

Election 2016: Predictions for the primaries

Political campaigning never seems to end in the United States. A mere four months after the Republican party thrashed the Democrats in the 2014 mid-terms, the first candidate for the Republican nomination announced he was runni...
by Simon Fraser
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Egypt
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Ramadan Flavoured Arrests In Egypt

A year has passed since the ousting of Egypt’s president Mohamed Morsi and the new regime has already received a lot of criticism for the declining human rights condition which arbitrary arrest is a big part of. In part...
by Global Voices
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#50Days4Gaza

50Days4Gaza: Ali Abunimah speaks about resistence movements being labelled as “terrorism”

8 July 2015 marked the one year anniversary of the 2014 Gaza war. With there being very slow progress on reconstuction in the Gaza Strip since the war ended, over 100,000 Palestinians remain homeless and not one house has been ...
by Priyanka Mogul
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