The new Global Peace Index rank US on 96th, Iraq ranks last The USA, to many (inside the country, at least) the land of freedom and opportunity, is also a land of violence. According to a study published by the Economist Intelligence Unit – EIU, the renowned think tank associated with The Economist, called […]
Free Media, Unless You’re Arab
Since 9/11, when the whole turned their faces to understanding — or criticizing, for some — the Middle East and its Islamic population, one channel managed to rise as a spokesman for the Arab population in the world, the voice of what the people in the Middle East, as well as in other Muslim nations, […]
Web Site Charts 3 Months of Violence
In the beginning of 2007, more precisely on Jan. 31, a month after Rio de Janeiro went through one of its most violent episodes, a Web site (in Portuguese and some English) was created out of sheer outrage by a few "cariocas" — born in Rio — who simply couldn’t stand the situation anymore. The […]