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Covering the Covering of Protests in Myanmar
Public protests haven’t always been a regular thing in Burma. Those that happened were often broken up viciously (the events at Monywa prove that this is still a very real possibility) [...]
Psychiatrists Testify to WikiLeaks Suspect’s Mental State
Two military psychiatrists who cared for Bradley Manning during his confinement at Quantico have testified that their recommendation that Manning be removed from a suicide watch was disregarded [...]
The Gaza Twitter War
It was inevitable as governments and the militants fighting governments became more adept at social media that they’d end up using Twitter and YouTube against each other [...]
Food Safety and Eating in China
Eating in China can be a diner’s delight, or a hellish game of chance [...]
Bradley Manning Acknowledges Leaking
Through a peculiar legal maneuver known as “pleading by exceptions and substitutions,” Army Pvt. Bradley Manning has for the first time explicitly acknowledged that he was responsible for leaking classified material that appeared on the Wikileaks website [...]
Share Your #Cleverdog
The World’s Ari Daniel Shapiro reported Wednesday on experiments aimed at improving the training and selection of dogs that serve society. The report got us thinking about our own clever dogs here at The World newsroom. I bet many of YOU have a clever dog too. Tweet your clever dog picture using the hashtag #cleverdog [...]
Israel Closely Watches US Vote
Ogling a tray of fresh hot chocolate rolls straight out of the oven at my favorite bakery… I thought of something a GOP activist told me in Las Vegas back in 2008.
A Journalist’s Call to Arms on Climate Change
A former member of the mainstream media argues that having finally come to terms with the reality of climate change, the mainstream media is still failing to come to terms with its seriousness.
Israeli Pol Pledges Multi-Partisanship
Centrist Israeli politician Yair Lapid, cruising for right-wing voters, calls Prime Minister Netanyahu’s work on peace a failure [...]
African Refugees in Swing State Like Healthcare Reform
Edith Doh-Taka from Cameroon is in a bind many refugees and asylum-seekers in the US face – living in a new country without health insurance. That is slated to change soon. Refugees, as legal immigrants, are eligible for the same protections and benefits as US citizens under the Affordable Care Act.
Moving to India With Live Cargo: ‘Yes, It’s a Cat’
Placido wouldn’t calm down. He yowled and drove his face into the stretchy mesh of his airline-approved bag. The vet warned against giving him tranquilizers, so I did the only thing I could to calm him: take him into the airplane bathroom [...]
WOMEX 2012: Slideshow
This year’s edition of WOMEX (the World Music Expo) brought musicians and delegates from all corners of the globe to Thessaloniki, Greece [...]
Fidel Castro: Immortal Until Proven Otherwise
The first time I saw Fidel Castro, he was already in his twilight. Or so it seemed [...]
Memo to the Moderator: Find That Lost Question on Climate Change
Don’t let the men who would be president ride out the rest of the campaign without telling the world how they’ll address the huge global threat of climate change [...]
Another Green Party Triumph in Germany
In Germany, environmental issues are taken seriously by almost all political parties, reflecting genuine concerns among voters. This is dramatically different in the United States [...]
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