Sepher Salimi, a leading environmentalist blogger writes about filtering of several green and environmenal blogs in recent years. Written by Fred Petrossian · comments (0) Share: Donate · fa...
Taras Kuzio of Jamestown Foundation Blog writes about corruption in Ukraine's parliament and alleged preparations for election fraud. Written by Vilhelm Konnander · comments (0) Share: Donate...
Citizen journalist Rami Al Sayed, whose videos and live-streaming of the bombardment of Homs showed the world the daily carnage in Syria, was killed yesterday, reports Ahmed Al Omran, on the NPR news...
As the "Friends of Syria" coalition lays an international path for ending a conflict that has claimed more than 6,000 lives, debate is raging over whether the United States should arm Syria's untested...
The global economy and finances are now replete with "machines from hell" that together threaten the collapse of the economic system, yet turning any of them off is extremely difficult and poses its o...
As Southeast Asian countries lined up against China in the South China Sea sign pacts with extra-territorial powers like Russia and India to redress the strategic balance, Beijing can only respond wit...
It is little surprise that as tensions between the West and Iran reach crisis level, scarcely a story in the corporate media on the Iranian nuclear program appears without referencing the "existential...
India is resisting pressure from the United States and Israel to stop buying oil from Iran, despite Delhi signing on to various United Nations sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear program. Iran says a...
Hong Kong chief executive candidate Henry Tang Ying-yen's campaign has crumbled as revelations of extra-marital infidelity were compounded by the uncovering of an illegal "underground palace" housing...
As Iran and Azerbaijan trade barbs over allegations of assassination plots, many worry that these and other incidents mean the countries in the South Caucasus region - American-backed Georgia and Arme...
A unit of Hong Kong-listed NetDragon Websoft has produced a tool, 91 Assistant, that up to 80% of China's iPhone users consider must-have software for helping to download mobile-phone applications. It...
Whether there is any substance in allegations about a plot to kill the pope cannot be established, but China's name has been dragged into the conspiracy whirlpool. That's a leap of imagination: China...
Indonesia has the world's fastest deforestation rate, according to the World Wildlife Fund, thanks to Indonesian-based pulping firms that deliver low-price goods to shoppers in the United States while...
Calling a default something else shores up the US$32 trillion credit default swap market and the bankers behind it. But with the house so obviously rigged, as MF Global discovered and owners of Greek...
A little of the Mughal Empire wealth used to build Delhi's iconic Red Fort wouldn't go amiss as underfunded restorers attempt to reawaken its opulent waterworks, gardens and "palace of color". A symbo...
Netizens covering the daily carnage in Syria on social media had to take a step back today to soak in news of more atrocities committed against humanity in the Baba Amr neighbourhood, in besieged city...
Green spaces in Armenia continue to dwindle at an alarming rate, but a small yet dedicated group of environmental activists has also grown. Now, in order to prevent further damage, they are attempting...
Lebanese blogger and Nasawiya activist Nadine posts a translation of Farfahinne's post[Ar] about how the law to protect women from family violence is facing horrible distortions. Written by Layal...
Lebanese blogger Adon (at Ninar) starts a series of posts on his blog entitled “Living as a Photo: How Facebook Makes us Misrable“[Ar]. He has published four posts so far: “Can you S...
Lebanese blogger Rami(at +961) shares his opinion about the state of Beirut's public park Horsh Beirut, which has been closed for decades for unknown reasons in his latest post. Written by Layal A...
Since the beginning of the so-called Arab Spring, that has brought to the forefront the atrocities Arabs face at the hands of their ruling clans, Kuwait's stateless population, which number more than...
StopTGV.com is a web campaign launched by a number of Moroccan NGOs. It calls for the cancellation of the controversial French-made Tangier-Casablanca TGV rail link due to start operating by December...
A satirical cartoon on the self-immolation of Tibetans and the conflict situation in Tibet. By Gianfranco Uber at Cartoon Movement. Written by Oiwan Lam · comments (0) Share: Donate · facebo...
Time out Hong Kong from ChinaSMACK explains how the fate of Hong Kong is controlled by a number of tycoons while middle class have become slaves in the city. Written by Oiwan Lam · comments (0) S...
China Media Project has translated prominent blogger Yang Hengjun's recent analysis of three statements made by China's future president, Xi Jinping, in his visit to the U.S.A. Written by Oiwa...
ЖЖ Сухуми სოხუმი cyxymu [RU] updates its readers on another assassination attempt made today on the defacto President of Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region, Alexander Ankvab.
Venezuela and the United States claim they want to reduce their co-dependence on oil, as supplier and importer, respectively. But their mutually beneficial relationship continues with hardly a hiccup...
The ongoing crackdown by Egypt's military rulers on a handful of civil society groups accused of receiving illegal foreign funds has far-reaching implications for the estimated 40,000 non-government...
A resolution presented by the US congressman Dana Rohrabacher on Balochistan has stirred the political spectrum in Pakistan. Condemnations have come from government and opposition parties in the natio...
Nisreen Awwad moves closer to the microphone as she signs off to her listeners, the words "Nisaa FM: music, change, success" displayed prominently over her left shoulder.
A movie theater in Lima became the scene of a case that public opinion quickly deemed another example of the ongoing problem of racism in Peru: a 13-year-old boy uttered racist insults at a couple who...
Blogger Luis Figueroa [es] wonders if Guatemala could benefit from following Georgia's example in fighting corruption. Written by Silvia Viñas · comments (0) Share: Donate · facebook &#...
Maka, a website that monitors corruption in Angola, launched an online campaign petitioning CNN International to stop accepting advertisement from the government of President Dos Santos. The president...
The well-known blogger and journalist Mildred Largaespada was recently interviewed about her participation as the first Nicaraguan woman in the 20minutos.es Premios 20Blogs blog competition. Here we s...
Just days before the opening meeting of the new international "Friends of Syria" in Tunis Friday, the debate over whether the United States should provide more support – including weapons – to...
One year after the Egyptian revolution, 10% of its Social Media Documentation is already gone. An article on US magazine The Atlantic explains how this is happening, quoting a study conducted by a p...
The international community has failed to grapple with the real underlying political and economic issues facing the troubled East African nation of Somalia, which has been surviving without an effe...
Since February 2009, 23 Tibetans have self-immolated to protest for a free Tibet and the return of the Dalai Lama. In the month of the Tibetan New Year, activists from all over the world are showing t...
As the number of domestic workers flooding into Jordan from Indonesia, Philippines and Sri Lanka reaches 140,000 annually, non-governmental organisations on the ground are working hard to protect mi...
Today is Carnival Tuesday in Trinidad and Tobago and though most bloggers are taking part in the festivities, a few of them have managed to post atypical photos of their 2012 Carnival experience…...
African Arguments Online is a multi-blogging platform that covers contemporary African events and develops debates on themes that are important to an ever changing continent. The platform has 6 blog...
Just a few days after the police crackdown at the Luis Vives Institute of Secondary Education in Valencia, students have again been the targets of beatings, pushing and violence from the police.
“In the information era we live in and social media revolutionizing the way we siphon written truths it’s still a sad thing that letters to the editor are not popular in Papiamentu newspapers&...
Barbados Underground says that “there are basically five types of bloggers, the political blogger, the philosophical blogger, the religious blogger, the light hearted blogger and the blogger ext...
Grasshopper Eyes The Potomac attends a symposium on gang violence in the Caribbean and comes to the conclusion that “white-collar crime is no better or worse than street crimes.” Written b...
A book gathering a detailed recount of the indigenous march in defense of the Indigenous Territory and National Park Isiboro Sécure (TIPNIS for its initials in Spanish) has been published in a digit...
In 2005, there were 163 million more men in Asia, more than the entire female population of the United States. Asia is now facing serious consequences from sex selection, a situation the West might...
"We don't want a repeat of welfare-oriented programmes, because they are unsustainable," said Rony Palacios of the National Network for the Defence of Food Sovereignty in Guatemala, criticising Presid...
By waving through a flotilla of Iranian warships to cross the Suez Canal and dock in Syria in support of the regime, Egypt has signaled the Middle East can never be the same again. Iran, for its part,...
Iran seems to have set aside the option of blocking the Strait of Hormuz in favor of curtailing oil exports to Britain and France for their strong support of an embargo. The suspension sends a message...
Year-long negotiations between the Barack Obama administration and the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai on a United States military presence in Afghanistan beyond 2014 are stalled over the...
A bull market is supposedly emerging, with bears pummeled into submission as central banks pump money into the system. But this is the type of manic marketplace that brought us the 2010 "flash crash"...
The most sane, pro-business candidate still viable in the Republican primaries claims not to want a trade war with China, but makes a strong case to an insecure electorate for how he would make one al...
A spike in oil prices talked up by neo-con warmongers is compensating Iran for funds lost to "biting" sanctions, never mind that Asian buyers of its crude have told Washington hegemons to mind their o...
As US political leaders condemn Chinese trade practices, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping wants an end to curbs on high-tech US exports to China and easier access for Chinese firms to America. Leader...
A trailblazing radio program in Laos that encouraged public comment on issues such as social justice, corruption and land grabs has been canceled by the authorities - a deluge of the National Assembly...
The Turkistan Islamic Party presents itself as a champion of Uyghur grievances over the education, migration and economic policy dictated to Xinjiang province by China's leadership. However, the TIP h...
In cash-strapped Europe, human rights seems to come one step behind economy and trade, never more so as the European Union prepares to seal the biggest trade deal in the world. That is why the EU is t...
The historic visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Cyprus last week moved forward cooperation between the two countries on developing gas deposits in their respective territories, with...
India plans to relax state control over the opium it produces for medicines, with a new policy permitting private firms to buy poppy directly to manufacture their own drugs. While this also takes aim...