Student participants on the 1009th Wednesday Demonstration in Seoul, South Korea, February 15, 2012. JoonYoung Kim/Flickr. Some rights reserved.On Wednesday 6th January 2016, the 24th year anniversary of the weekly…
AC-130H Howitzer. Flickr/US Air Force. Some rights reserved.The United States air-force's assault on a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan on 3 October 2015 is reported to have killed twenty-two people and…
Nathan Webster/Demotix. All rights reserved.When the radical totalitarians of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant—known to themselves as the Islamic State but usually labelled by the acronyms in…
On Tuesday, one of the worst chemical bombings since the Syrian war began occurred in a northern rebel-held town, killing at least 72 people, including 10 children, according to reports. Russian officials…
Editor’s note: Amanda Gillespie is Manager of Extraordinary Ability Cases at Samuel Christensen Law Firm. She’s been hunting down wild H-1Bs for people of extraordinary ability since 2003. It sounds simple:…
Slums in Rio de Janeiro. Flickr. Some rights reserved.Given that the cycle of Latin American progressive politics (progresisimo) appears to be coming to an end, it seems the right time…
Click:milling Palazzo Giusso (Napoli). Wikicommons/Sistermone. Some rights reserved.Over the last few months, a campaign inviting Italian academics to abstain from participating in the latest nationwide research assessment exercise (VQR 2011-2014)…
The Iranian National Chess Team has removed a pair of sibling chess masters for not adhering to the country’s religious laws. The duo, 18-year-old Dorsa Derakhshani and her 15-year-old brother Borna…
Protests in Brazil. Flikr, Samilla Luz, some rights reserved “Brazil: land of the future” is the title of a 1941 classic book by Stefan Zweig. Ithe title became a popular…
HDP's massive election rally in Istanbul, May 30, 2015. Demotix/ Sahan Nuholglu. All rights reserved.Demotix/ Sahan Nuholglu. All rights reserved.Two historic general elections were held in Turkey over the course…
How much would you pay to keep the phrase “on fleek” in your lexicon? While many would surely donate money to erase its existence altogether, the personality behind the phrase…
Members of the upstate Drone Action Coalition outside the Hancock Air Force base, New York. Ed Kinane is on the far left. Credit: http://www.upstatedroneaction.org/. All rights reserved. In one way…