Posted by Juliana Rincón Parra to Global Voices Online The International AIDS Conference takes place every two years, and this year was the first time it took place in Latin America. Between August 3rd and August 8th, delegates from all over the world arrived at Mexico City to discuss issues surrounding this health topic. The […]
Japan: The New Era of Video
by Chris Salzberg The days of traditional television are approaching an end. The monopoly on video production and editing once held by TV stations is over, and the age of YouTube — an age in which any individual with a camera and a computer can create a video and upload it onto the net — […]
Scornful denial
It is quite understandable that one common trait that a person has in his/her sense of reasoning is the word denial. This inherited characteristic serves as a defense mechanism when a person is under scrutiny or being accused of irregularity. More often than not, a person caught lying tries to cause an angry […]
Military Spending Proves a Detriment to Human Rights
The disproportionate rift between military spending and money spent on programs that would potentially advance or sustain human rights has become a disturbing worldwide standard. As William Felice points out in his article from International Affairs, many of the world’s nations are denying basic fiscal rights to their citizens, instead favoring major investments in […]
The U.S Patriot Act And You!
The Patriot Act was passed into law on October 24, 2001 by the Congress of the United States, just 45 days after the September 11 attacks, with virtually no debate. There are significant flaws in the Patriot Act, flaws that threaten your fundamental freedoms by giving the government the power to access your medical records, […]
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, […]
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