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How do we make democracy work for the poor?
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A British judge has ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden to face questioning on allegations of sexual crimes. Assange plans to appeal within ten days. His defence team had argued against the extradition, in part, by citing the potential he could wind up being extradited to the United States and prosecuted for publishing classified government documents, a crime that could result in the death penalty.
Deamocracy Now speaks to constitutional law attorney and...
As a species, humans can adapt to whatever environment we are placed in. We have this extraordinarily high level of adaptability because of the plasticity of our brains. Humans have the best ability, compared to any other species on the planet, to "learn." Its what makes us the strongest species on the planet. However, we are only good at doing what we rehearse, argues British scientist, Baroness Susan Greenfield.
Libya is on a knife's edge with many predicting the imminent ousting of the country's dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, who has ruled over the country for 42 years, as high-level diplomats desert Libya's autocratic regime. In a desperate bid to cling to power, the Gaddafi regime has cracked down on anti-government demonstrators in the most brutal manner, killing an unconfirmed number of protestors.
The unrest has reached the capitol city of Tripoli and reports have emerged that protestors have...
Hosted by twice Oscar nominated actor and activist Woody Harrelson, Ethos is a documentary that lifts the lid on a Pandora's box of systemic issues that guarantee failure in almost every aspect of our lives; from the environment to democracy and our own personal liberty. Ethos examines and unravels these complex relationships, and offers a solution -- a simple but powerful way for you to change the system.
The film includes interviews with notable activists such as Noam Chomsky,...
In recent years there has been great volatility in food prices including a dramatic rise in the period June 2007- June 2008, when the global food price index nearly doubled.
The United Nations found that steep increases in food prices in 2008 led to malnourishment for 130 million additional people.
In the second half of 2010, food prices rose sharply again, nearly doubling in the case of wheat and increasing more than 60% in the case of maize. Right now in the world economy, we are...
Egypt has essentially been a military dictatorship since 1952, argues Gilbert Achcar professor of development studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. His most recent book is the Arabs and the holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives.
The backbone of the political system has been and continues to be the army that seized power after a civil uprising against the British-backed monarchy that coincidentally erupted on 26 January 1952, almost exactly...
