The aspirations of nearly 30 million Kurds, most of whom live in Turkey, Iraq and Iran, were denied at the ...
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Hydraulic fracturing (fracking), the extraction of shale gas by a process of deep drilling, has been hailed in the US ...
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The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) now under negotiation between the EU and the US is set to be ...
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The death of Hugo Chavez has led to a period of turmoil and uncertainty in Venezuela with the opposition backed ...
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Western rhetoric suggests that China’s economic success, its huge currency reserves, increasing foreign direct investment, and its growing international influence ...
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Societies all over the world are experiencing spiralling inequality, led by countries such as the US and Britain, which reached ...
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Organisations cannot be held to account unless they are open to internal criticism, yet despite measures such as the Public ...
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In an increasingly urbanized and interconnected world, similar challenges appear to face most modern cities, whether regarding housing, poverty, pollution ...
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Since 2001, the civil liberties of British citizens have been progressively eroded. Among other examples, the Extradition Act (2003) allows ...
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The endless expansion of production in pursuit of maximum private profit is the basis of our global capitalist economy. This ...
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When Italy, second only to Greece in the Eurozone for its debt ratio, saw the interest rates of its 10 ...
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A combination of deepening socio-economic divisions and accelerating environmental limits, especially the impact of climate change, makes the next thirty ...
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The Angolan conflict, which had its roots in the anti-colonial struggles of the 1960s, seemed to defy the efforts of ...
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Conflicting geo-political interests in the Middle East makes the region a fulcrum for international conflict. Following the disastrous war against ...
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