Iraqi security forces fire artillery, Fallujah, 29 May 2016. Anmar Khalil/AP/Press Association. All rights reserved.The assault on Fallujah has begun. United States-trained Iraqi army units supported by Shi’a militias and…
After nine black people were shot to death in June 2015 as they prayed at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, chilling pictures of the killer, white supremacist Dylann Roof, emerged.…
On 25 July, the ABC – Australia’s version of the BBC – aired a terrific program of Four Corners, exploring how guards in the Northern Territory (NT) were brutalising children…
Taiwan’s highest court delivered a history-making ruling on Wednesday, opening up the country’s laws to allow same-sex marriages. Judges deemed current laws preventing same-sex unions from happening as unconstitutional and…
Five years ago Spain’s ‘indignados’ or the 15M movement erupted onto the scene in the context of a political and socio-economic crisis resulting from successive corruption scandals, social welfare cuts,…
A sculpture of José Antonio Elvira to protest about the situation in the nearby Guantanamo prisoner, 2005 camps.Wikicommons/Zosimo.Some rights reserved.Five men stand accused for planning the terrorist attacks on 11…
Click:DIY Toy setThe comparisons between far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen and Trump continue to stack up. Only instead of plagiarizing a fictional super villain, Le Pen repeated several…
Nariman El-Mofty/AP/Press Association. All rights reserved.Like any fascist regime, Sisi’s military junta has been predominantly dependent on myths of national pride. Its inauguration was made possible in 2013 by propagating…
It's past 8 p.m. on a Saturday night, and a housing complex in central Mumbai resonates with the dull thud of tennis balls on the hard, blue court. Kartiki Salvi, who at 5 feet…
Every once in awhile one of my teen sons comes home and tells me that someone got busted with drugs at school. But that doesn’t mean all the kids on campus…