If we could think and mobilize globally for the environment, what exactly is it that impedes the international community from doing the same for migration?
The disproportionate use of violence in peaceful protests in Brazil quickly led to a radicalization of its protests. But who was responsible?
Every time the Gulf States’ rulers justify their support for violent rebels in Syria or the military regime in Egypt by appealing to the unalienable right of peoples to basic rights and representative governance, they legitimize the Arab Spring in the eyes of their own peoples, too.
The new composition of the European Parliament after the elections in 2014 is expected to be rather different. It is estimated that the number of anti-Europeans and Eurosceptics will increase from around 100 to around 200 MEPs in a total of 751 seats, reinforcing the presence of radical parties.
The balance of forces inside Syria and across the region makes current United States strategy perilous.
The whole structure is designed to look like any other building both outside and inside.The goal was to give the client a sense of security without giving them the feeling that they were in a bunker.
Someday, someway, somehow, somebody will do something stupid similar to Mubarak and his "crown" inheritance project - (maybe El Sisi running for president?) - and this could result in a return of the initial uproar.
There is little systematic evidence to suggest that “ruthlessness” is, in and of itself, a critical variable.
In an excerpt from Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield Jeremy Scahill traces how the US, who once focused its attentions on "rogue states," became a rogue superpower itself, engaged in endless war.
