By Rami Alhames This post is part of our special coverage Syria Protests 2011/13 [1] During the last 10 years, around 10 million children are estimated to have been killed as a result of war, reports the Children’s Rights Portal [2]. The site categorizes child war victims as civilian victims, soldiers, displaced, orphans, wounded or handicapped, […]
The lowest in eleven years, the price of oil may fall further
Oil prices continued to slide. Brent dropped below 36.6 dollars Monday afternoon is its lowest level since December 2004, there are eleven. And the decline could go on. French motorists have found in recent days a liter of diesel to less than 1 euro will probably be able to enjoy some time. For the price […]
Petition launched calling for investigation into the mishandling of the Meredith Kercher murder case by the authorities
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE KNOX SUPPORTERS LAUNCH PETITION CALLING FOR INVESTIGATIONS INTO FAIR TRIAL VIOLATIONS. Supporters of the wrongly accused and provisionally convicted, Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, have launched a petition calling for the governments of three countries – Italy, the UK and the USA – to investigate the multiple violations of their right to […]
SAS GEELANI’S CONDITIONAL ‘UNITY OFFER’
“Yeh kahaan ki dosti hai ke baney hain dost naaseh Koi chaarasaaz hota, koi ghamgusaar hota!” -Mirza Ghalib (What kind of friendship is this; all friends have started playing a counselor’s role? Wish I had someone to heal my wounds- someone who’d come and console) Two very unusual things have happened lately- the first, New […]
Nepal: UML Party Convention and its possible future repercussions
Unified Marxist-Leninist (UML), which stands as the second largest political party through the Constituent Assembly II elections this year, is engaged in an intensive process of choosing the next party leadership through the ongoing Ninth Party Convention in Kathmandu. Jhalanath Khanal, the current UML Chair, has been adopting strategic silence during the whole process of […]
Big Corporations are the Problem with Big Data
Everybody’s going on about big data these days, from the Guardian’s Sustainable Business podcast (http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/big-data-sustainability-podcast) to the Financial Times (http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/21a6e7d8-b479-11e3-a09a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2xXga2LUN) to AT&T (http://adage.com/article/cmo-strategy/t-big-data-shape-tv-creative/292313/). IBM estimates that 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are generated every day and 90% of all the information in the world was created over the last two years (http://www.carbontrust.com/news/2013/10/big-business-big-data-big-sustainability). Le Monde declares […]
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