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Feb 19	2012-02-18 #WikiLeaks News Update: #OccupyUNESCO, #WLAD, #Cablegate Coverage & More: TweetWikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 442 days.Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 439 days.Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 636 days.News: UNESCO held a 2-day conference entitled, “The Media World after WikiLeaks and News of the W...
Feb 19	Venezuela and Election 2012: TweetBy Nikolas Kozloff As the presidential election nears, Republicans are relying on their usual fear-mongering tactics by playing on supposed external threats such as Iran. Already it seems such a strategy seems to have moved Obama to the right with the president going out of his ...
Feb 19	Don't Shoot the Messenger: Wikileaks Assange & Democracy Feb 17, Sydney #wlad : TweetThe Wikileaks Assange and Democracy Public Forum held at the University of Technology, Sydney on Friday February 17 attracted over 400 people who packed the aisles and spilled out into the corridors. Chaired by Australian journalist and broadcaster Mary Kostakidis, speakers at the forum inc...

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From Bosnia to Canada > World

Feb 12	While Europe is sinking, Soros warns of new dangers: SURREY – European Union recently looks more like Berlin-Paris axis dictatorship rather to be union of equal members of the same club. Hostility which is deployed by Angela Merkel and Nicholas Sarkozy towards other nations and their leaders is outstanding and doesn’t shows unity of the institution...
Feb 12	Russia: Opposition on streets, administration out of touch with reality: SURREY – In Moscow in this time of the year winter is the strongest enemy of the citizens with temperatures way below -15C, but this winter Celsius minuses are not the biggest problem. Workers, professionals, intellectuals and businessmen’s supported by Russian Orthodox Church clergy are on the s...

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Gwynne Dyer

Feb 20	Gwynne Dyer: There is no need to panic over the power shift to Asia: A great shift of productivity and wealth is underway, but will the United States and China be able to manage the shift without a great war?
Feb 15	Gwynne Dyer: New divisions in Africa are going from bad to worse: In Nigeria, Islamist terrorists of Boko Haram are murdering people all over the country in the name of imposing sharia law on the entire nation.

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Marc Lynch | FOREIGN POLICY

Feb 21	Helping Syria Without War: How should the United States, and the international community, respond to the escalating bloodbath in Syria? Over the last two months, the overwhelming weight of editorial and op-ed commentary has been in the direction of calling for military action of some sort --- especially to arm a Free Sy...
Feb 9	The 'Arm the FSA' Bandwagon: Over the last few days there has been a cascade of politicians and analysts jumping on the bandwagon of arming the Free Syrian Army, from John McCain and Elliott Abrams to FP's Daniel Drezner. It's easy to understand why. The failure of the U.N. Security Council has blocked diplomatic efforts to...

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UN Dispatch

Feb 22	How the Charcoal Trade Fuels Terrorism: The Security Council passed a sweeping resolution on Somalia today that boosted the number of peacekeepers there. The Council also slapped new restrictions on the Somali charcoal industry. Here's why. Read more
Feb 22	Senegal Gripped by Pre-Election Violence: Growing tensions and violent protests have gripped Senegal ahead of the presidential election. Sunday will be a critical day for Senegalese democracy, as voters head to the polls for a very contentious vote. Read more

International Issues | Understanding the global bala...

Feb 15	Q&A: Syria Update: Since the Arab Spring began in January 2011 various countries in the Muslim world have seen uprisings and Syria was is no different. The scenario that has played out in Syria is no different to the other countries. Bashar al Assad launched a massive crackdown on his own people employing shelli...
Jan 17	Q&A – Recent Developments in Pakistan: What has led the current tensions? The response of the civilian government and the military to certain recent events has exposed their treachery towards Pakistan. This has led to the heightened tensions between the two. It began in May 2011 when US Special forces captured Osama bin Laden in Abbot...

Global Issues - God's Politics Blog

Feb 22	Afternoon News Bytes: Feb. 22, 2012: Religion And Politics Don't Mix, Major Religious Groups Tell Presidential Candidates; 25 Percent Of Super PAC Money Coming From Just 5 Rich Donors; POLL: Men, Evangelicals Boost Santorum; Southern Baptist Leaders OK 'Great Commission'; Obama Budget: Grow Prisons and Keep Gitmo; The Failure Of Aus...
Feb 22	The Bible is Not a Public Policy Manual!: My pastor and I have a friendly tiff going on. He says that Jesus was strictly a-political; therefore Christians should abstain from politics completely. I say that Jesus challenged violent, poverty-inducing, socio-political structures throughout his life and ministry; therefore Christians have a...

Friedman on Geopolitics | STRATFOR

Feb 22	Stratfor: VIDEO: Today's attack on the motorcade of Abkhazian President Alexander Ankvab and the security detail's response... http://t.co/Hzigii2U: Stratfor: VIDEO: Today's attack on the motorcade of Abkhazian President Alexander Ankvab and the security detail's response... http://t.co/Hzigii2U
Feb 22	Stratfor: Attacks by Knights Templar & other incidents may be signs of increasing violence in Guanajuato state, Mexico http://t.co/BG3W4pux: Stratfor: Attacks by Knights Templar & other incidents may be signs of increasing violence in Guanajuato state, Mexico http://t.co/BG3W4pux

GlobalIssues.org (Anup Shah)

Jan 29

Media and advertising: manipulating photos of people; going too far?: It has long been known that advertisers will “photoshop” (slang for editing photos to touch up or airbrush out imperfections) photos to make the subject more attractive. But many have pointed out that this subtle manipulation often goes too far. Young people, girls in particular, are ...

Perspectives on Global Issues Blog

2011 Jun

Worst Place in the World to be a Woman?: On June 15th, TrustLaw released a global perception poll of academics, aid professionals, health workers, policy makers, journalists, and development specialists on what in their opinion would be the five most dangerous countries in the world for women. The poll was based upon the levels of discr...

SkyReporter.com

Oct 9

OSAMA’S DEATH SHIFTS FOCUS TO PAKISTAN’S OTHER TERRORISTS: Today Western governments are justly heralding the strategic and symbolic significance of the military operation that cornered Osama bin Laden in his hideout north of Islamabad, at long last removing the al Qaeda leader from the global landscape of terror. But in one respect the battlefield is n...

Orato > World Affairs

Jan 29

World Water Conflicts: Scarce Resources: Climate Change, Politics =Less Potable Water With the World's population increasing, a never-ending increased demand for potable water, and the ecological damage to water sources, could this be the next huge oil crisis of the world? Only about 4% of the World's water is potable; with a limited su...

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