Thursday, June 20th, 2013
- Two Years Into the Syrian Conflict, the Suffering Continues
- From Tahrir to Taksim: Are the Taksim Square Protests Turkey’s Arab Spring?
- Venezuela: An election to be remembered
- The UK Energy Bill: Causing a Quarrel in Parliament
- A Decade of Prime Minister Erdogan Leads To Widespread Protests in Turkey
- A Global Warning: Atmospheric CO2 reaches highest level in human history
- Around the World, People March Against Monsanto
- Dwindling Fish Stocks: Global Warming and the Threat to Food Security
- Profits Over Justice: The 21st century prison system in America
- North Korea Fires Missiles for Three Consecutive Days
Politics
From Tahrir to Taksim: Are the Taksim Square Pr...
Are the anti-government protests rippling across Turkey the country’s version of the Arab Spring that uprooted Hosni Mubarak from power in Egypt? Are the events unfolding in Istanbul’s Taksim’s Square…
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Commerce
Income Inequality Undermines Economic Recovery
An Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report released last week found that the global economic and financial crisis deepened social inequality. The report found that after ta…
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- Rigging Rates: The banking scandal of Libor and, now, ISDAfix
- Euro Crisis: Is There A Way Out For Cyprus?
- Bitcoin: Virtual Currency Facing Reality of Public Doubt and Financial Crises
- Britain’s Small Businesses: Propping up the Economy
- US Congress on the Verge of Ending Too-Big-to-Fail, or Politics as Usual?
Environment
The UK Energy Bill: Causing a Quarrel in Parlia...
This week, the question of Britain’s energy future was brought before Parliament in Westminster. The under-consideration Energy Bill, along with a number of other strategic policy considerations, had …
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- Dwindling Fish Stocks: Global Warming and the Threat to Food Security
- Around the World, People March Against Monsanto
- A Global Warning: Atmospheric CO2 reaches highest level in human history
- Music Festivals: A Stage for Environmentalism
- Gloom for Keystone XL: Is Arkansas Oil Spill a Taste of Things to Come?
Health
WHO Urges for International Collaboration as SA...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged countries with cases of the novel coronavirus (nCoV) – a new SARS-like virus – to share information after Saudi Arabia said patent rights on n…
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- Questioning the Necessity of GM Labeling
- Antibiotic Armageddon: Modern Medicine on the Edge of the Abyss
- New Research, Recurring Concerns: The Use of Stem Cells in HIV Treatment
- The Drive to Win: Both Coaches and Players Guilty of Overlooking the Threat of Concussions
- TSA Removes X-Ray Body Scanners From Major US Airports
Culture
The Eurovision Song Contest: As Useful a Barome...
One could be forgiven for writing off Denmark’s victory at the Eurovision Song Contest on May 18th as something of an irrelevance, given the more newsworthy occurrences affecting the continent at pres…
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Rights
Two Years Into the Syrian Conflict, the Sufferi...
93,000 people have died in the Syrian war according to a study by the United Nations’ human rights agency. Since last July, around 5,000 people have died each month. According to the study, 82.6 perce…
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- The Stateless Rohingya: A Humanitarian Crisis in Burma
- Collapse of Bangladesh Garment Factory a Wake-up Call for Western Retailers
- The Guantanamo Hunger Strike: Is There Still Hope for President Obama?
- The Future of 'Ag Gag' Laws: Activism Versus Industry
- Is There Hope for Women's Rights in Post-Assad Syria?