Category: World

  • WHY BAD GUYS ARE WINNING

    WHY BAD GUYS ARE WINNING

    If the 20th century was the story of slow, uneven progress toward the victory of liberal democracy over other ideologies—communism, fascism, virulent nationalism—the 21st century is, so far, a story of the reverse. Democratic revolutions are contagious. If you can stamp them out in one country, you might prevent them from starting in others. How…

  • 4 out of 10 people who get doctorates in Norway are foreign citizens

    4 out of 10 people who get doctorates in Norway are foreign citizens

    4 out of 10 people who get doctorates in Norway are foreign citizens

  • America’s largest immigrant group comes from?

    America’s largest immigrant group comes from?

    This map shows where each state’s largest immigrant group comes from, excluding Mexico. The percentage of the population born outside the US varies widely from state to state. Among those immigrant populations, countries of origin also vary widely. For 32 states, the most common country of birth among respondents who said they were born outside…

  • French Court Rules in Favor of helping Illegal Migrants

    French Court Rules in Favor of helping Illegal Migrants

    Dr. Zia Oloumi is a Human Rights Lawyer of Iranian-descent, living in France. He is the Attorney representing Cédric Herrou, and is the architect of the new defense approach based on the value of ‘Fraternity’ leading to the Constitutional Council ruling of July 6th 2018, in favor of Humanitarian Aid to Illegal Migrants. “I wish…

  • West is not Bad

    West is not Bad

    In general there is no Western human and its unique way of biological being that differs from the rest of the world… So there is no innate quest in West to dominate other human. Whoever had the power would do the same as west did. The fact of the matter is, in the long evolving…

  • Canadian Couple Cancels Wedding to Help Syrian Refugees

    Canadian Couple Cancels Wedding to Help Syrian Refugees

    A Toronto couple cancelled plans for a big, expensive wedding and asked guests at their small city hall ceremony to donate money in lieu of gifts — all to help them raise thousands of dollars to sponsor a family of Syrian refugees Samantha Jackson and Farzin Yousefian were planning a traditional wedding for March with all the trimmings, at a cost of tens…

  • Syrian Toddler Pulled Alive From Rubble After Aleppo Bombing

    Syrian Toddler Pulled Alive From Rubble After Aleppo Bombing

    A toddler completely buried under rubble in Syria has been pulled out alive by rescuers who dug with their bare hands. This video, posted on YouTube by Syrian activists, appears to show a recovery team frantically digging to rescue the trapped youngster in Aleppo, reportedly after government bombings After apparently hearing cries while scouting for…

  • 400 Unrecognised Countries

    400 Unrecognised Countries

    Motivations for the creation of micronations include theoretical experimentation, political protest, artistic expression, personal entertainment and the conduct of criminal activity. Micronations can also exist in various forms, including in the physical world (on land, at sea and in outer space), online, in the minds of their creators, or some combination of these. Some micronations…

  • Niqabitch Unveil Themselves

    Niqabitch Unveil Themselves

    The two students, who are studying political science and communication in Paris with their action debating and mocking the ban on Niqab. Risking both criminal records and heavy fines from the authorities, plus a possible backlash from the any militant Muslim community in France, two anti-ban activists hit the streets of Paris as NiqaBitch with…

  • Palestinian Lose of Land 1946 to 2005

    Palestinian Lose of Land 1946 to 2005

    This is a chart that shows how gradually Palestine has been annexed by Jewish state. It is not hard to imagine that what would be left of Palestine in the last 9 years. United nation once and for all has to declare that both Israel state and Hamas government are war criminals. Both governments are …

  • Palestinians Are Living the Life of Hell

    Palestinians Are Living the Life of Hell

    Palestinians are living the life of hell that all the 3 religions of Nile river imagined. I wonder why there is no power in the hands of wonderful, successful, high achiever, scientists, intellectuals, well educated Jewish people around the world to stop the atrocity and suffering of the Palestinians once for all.

  • Being Singular Plural in Canada’s 147th Birthday

    Being Singular Plural in Canada’s 147th Birthday

    In his book, Being Singular Plural, the acclaimed French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy talks about how the individual identity won’t exist without the community identity as a whole. According to him, there is no meaning to existence, if we don’t co-exist with others. The reason lies not in the meaning of reality of existence itself, but…

  • Roger Waters supports  Boycott on Israel

    Roger Waters supports Boycott on Israel

    After visiting Israel in 2005 and the West Bank the following year, I was deeply moved and concerned by what I saw, and determined to add my voice to those searching for an equitable and lawful solution to the problem – for both Palestinians and Jews. Given my upbringing, I really had no choice. In…

  • Ukraine, Putin, and the West

    Perhaps the way to put it is that an intellectual mistake was turned into a political mistake. The intellectual mistake was to fixate on Putin as the bad man who came along and suddenly undid the good work of Boris Yeltsin. (Bill Clinton’s Russia hand Strobe Talbott the other day tweeted an inadvertent reductio ad…