Voting is generally done by blocs, not by individuals, who benefit from a patronage system that resembles the special interest groups of First World lobbies.
It was a protest against the government’s fixation with shifting Tunisia in a more religious direction while failing to address its appalling poverty.
On December 1, Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) assumed the Mexican presidency amid a flurry of protests against the party, whose previous 70-year rule defined the country’s authoritarian past. Yet it’s difficult to imagine that the new president’s term could be worse than the unmitigated disaster of his predecessor’s, which was marked by a dramatic militarization of Mexico’s drug war, widespread human rights abuses, and tens of thousands of deaths.
Even the most peaceful of religions produces violence.
It is time to bring the 21st century’s version of “the Great Game” to an end.
Fundamental differences exists between Hamas in Gaza in 2012 compared to 2008.
While a significant chunk of USAID spending goes to education and health programs, pockets of aid enlarge the already bloated military budgets of recipient governments. The result: less security and more violence against women, particularly women human rights defenders.
Just two countries — South Africa and Nigeria — currently account for over 33 percent of the continent’s economic output.
Hasn’t the time come to admit that military solutions have run their course?
One would think that, by this point in history, the military and intelligence agencies would be alert to manipulation by indigenous peoples.