The Children's Crusade
In 1954, a single book destroyed the popular notion that children are innocent souls. In that book, a plane of such innocent souls crashes on a deserted island. There, in a paradise of coral and...
View ArticleThe Children’s Crusade: a Global Epidemic of Youth-on-Youth Violence
In 1954, a single book destroyed the popular notion that children are innocent souls. In that book, a plane of such innocent souls crashes on a deserted island. There, in a paradise of coral and...
View ArticleLong Range Walkie Talkies: How to Choose the Best One
Although you can use your cell phone to communicate with your group members, you should try using a walkie-talkie in your next outdoor adventure. Mainly because you don’t know how much fun you are...
View ArticleCarbuncle Cup 2016: gong for UK's ugliest building up for grabs
From psychedelic chequerboards to sci-fi hulks, which of these magnificent monstrosities is deserving of architecture’s most ignoble accolade?...
View ArticleI’ll get my goat: Kazakhstan's ancient sport for modern times
The sport of kokpar is like blood-drenched polo, with a headless goat as the ball. And even as Kazakhstan tries to forge a modern, high-tech identity for itself, this age-old game is being pushed as a...
View ArticleAmerican Music awards 2015 – as it happened
We’re following all the action from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles where Jennifer Lopez is hosting the 43rd AMAs. Will Taylor Swift win everything? Will Justin Bieber continue his reinvention?...
View ArticleSyrian Opposition factions in the Syrian Civil War
The following collaboratively written article is the result of months of research in a joint project by Ryan O'Farrell and badly_xeroxed.Methodology We have divided the known active Syrian Opposition...
View ArticleKazakhstan Counter Operations: Resurrection of Soviet Era Regional Security
Energy Security has redefined the parameters in which the Eurasian Union has classified itself among international regional confederations. By unifying post-Soviet energy producing republics the...
View ArticleSecurity Council Considers Illicit Charcoal Trade in Somalia, Tensions over...
(Source: UN - United Nations) The Chair of the '751/1907' Somalia-Eritrea Sanctions Committee provided an update to the Security Council today on the recent findings of its Monitoring Group, as...
View ArticleTrump’s Afghan war: India must stay out
Views and opinions on what to do in Afghanistan will invariably be many, and conflicted. It is preferable, therefore, bank on plain, oft-forgotten or ignored facts to visualise the future east of Suez...
View ArticleDonald Trump and the rise of tribal epistemology
Journalism cannot be neutral toward a threat to the conditions that make it possible. Back in November 2009, as the Obama backlash was just gathering steam, Rush Limbaugh devoted a segment of his radio...
View ArticleNew York state of mind: a whirlwind weekend amid the city's #SoccerWarz
The glut of live soccer options is a recent phenomenon, and this past weekend Graham Parker waded into the city’s most crowded schedule yet – four days, three teams, four matches. His takeaway? The...
View Article'The Walking Dead' may have just killed off major character (Spoilers)
LOS ANGELES - Spoiler warning: Do not read on unless you've seen "The Walking Dead" episode 603, titled "Thank You." Did "The Walking Dead" just say goodbye to one of its most enduring characters? All...
View ArticleEnabling a Dictator
Summary On July 20, 2015, the trial of the former president of Chad, Hissène Habré—facing charges of crimes against humanity, torture and war crimes—began before the Extraordinary African Chambers in...
View ArticleDragged and Beaten
Summary At midday on October 26, 2015, some two dozen men viciously assaulted two opposition parliamentarians as they left Cambodia’s National Assembly following an anti-opposition demonstration...
View ArticleWalkie Talkie tower: stark reminder of forces that rule the City
Rafael Viñoly’s controversial tower is news again, this time due to its record-breaking £1.3bn sale price – 167% profit on development cost...
View ArticleWalkie Talkie wins Carbuncle Cup for worst building of the year
The London skyline is dominated by this thuggish comedy villain of a building, which has melted cars and caused winds strong enough to knock people over...
View ArticleCarbuncle Cup: Walkie Talkie wins prize for worst building of the year
The London skyline is dominated by this thuggish comedy villain of a building, which has melted cars and caused winds strong enough to knock people over...
View ArticleAfghan Taliban: Mullah Mansour's battle to be leader
The Afghan Taliban say they have put aside disagreements and rallied around their new leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour. The announcement followed weeks of intensive efforts to unite the movement...
View ArticlePresident Trump: Irish writers have their say
While we were sleeping, first we voted into office the ones who watch you drown while very articulately expressing concern; then we tried voting for the ones who kind of like to see you drown. – from...
View ArticleThe contested centenary of Britain’s ‘calamitous promise’
The British pledge to establish a ‘Jewish national home’ in Palestine is being celebrated and condemned as a divisive anniversary approaches. By Ian Black...
View ArticleWhat is Al-Shabaab, and what does it want?
(CNN)Al-Shabaab is a Somali group that the United States designated as a foreign terrorist organization in March 2008. It wants to turn Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic state, according to the...
View ArticleHow Russia Became the Leader of the Global Christian Right
Facebook Twitter Google + Email Comment Print In early April 2014, as the post-Cold War order roiled in the aftermath of Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula—the first forced annexation...
View Article“Difference,” American-Style: Of High-Horse Riders and Low-Hanging Fruit
Annals of Parliamentary Cretinism: 4 This has been in the works since the get-go. HRC faces a tight race in what ought to be a walkover because she is a lousy candidate and a terrible campaigner, and...
View ArticleNew Atheism, Worse Than You Think
In the years since the so-called “New Atheism” burst onto the scene in the mid 2000s, the movement has not lacked for critics among nonbelievers and agnostics. Until recently, however, few of them...
View ArticleCombating Trump's Neo-Fascism and the Ghost of "1984"
The US may be on the verge of witnessing how democracy ends. We must fight the normalization of Trump and his actions. (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) When democracies start to break down, they...
View ArticleLife after Guantanamo: A tale of two Afghan friends; one joined IS, other...
Two Afghan friends were incarcerated together at Guantanamo Bay, but they chose starkly divergent paths after release -- one became an Islamic State jihadist, the other joined the US-led government...
View ArticleIs The Middle East In A War Without End Unleashed By ISIS?
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Has the Middle East—now beset by inter-nation, inter-Muslim and inter-ethnic conflict—been engulfed in a war...
View ArticleIslamic State: the West must embrace local state ownership of the region’s...
2 August 2017 - Peter Hain Has the Middle East - now beset by inter-nation, inter-Muslim and inter-ethnic conflict - been engulfed in a war without end? A war unleashed by the barbarism and terror of...
View ArticleWhy the Heroin Trade Helped Defeat the US in Afghanistan
America’s Opium War in Afghanistan. This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com. In...
View ArticleHow a Pink Flower Defeated the World’s Sole Superpower
America’s Opium War in Afghanistan By Alfred W. McCoy February 23, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - "Tom Dispatch" - After fighting the longest war in its history, the United States stands at the...
View ArticleHow a Pink Flower Defeated the World's Sole Superpower
America's Opium War in Afghanistan Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com After fighting the longest war in its history, the United States stands at the brink of defeat in Afghanistan. How can this be...
View ArticleThe Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir
Souad Sharabani: I am ashamed to admit that even though I have been a journalist for a very long time, covered and travelled to many parts of the world including India, my knowledge of Kashmir, the...
View ArticleThe Bin Laden Death Mythology
Official history of raid camouflages US protection of governments behind 9/11 By Nafeez Ahmed July 04, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "Medium" - The White House’s story of how US special forces...
View ArticleAmerican Nightmare: the Depravity of Neoliberalism
Deciphering the meaning of Neo-liberalism as a historical force and societal form requires the energies and know-how of a sagacious sleuth like Hercule Poirot. Wendy Brown, a philosophy professor at...
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