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The week in Bahrain continues to be dominated by cartoons, which even overshadowed an important speech by the king!
The supposedly predictable Costa Rican elections bring up surprising results as the Candidate Otton Solis faces off with ex-president Oscar Arias for the presidential seat, less than half a point...
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In Consent of the Networked, internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon argues that the purpose of technology is to serve humanity, not the other way around. It’s time to wake up and act before the reversal becomes permanent.
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Maxwell A. Cameron aims to dissect the exponential rise in popularity of Peru's outsider presidential candidate, Ollanta Humala.
Ben Paarmann reports that Kazakhstan is moving ahead with plans to construct a nuclear power plant that has proved a source of controversy in the past.
Christian Espinosa, Communication professor and author of Cobertura Digital received a National Award of Journalism from the National Union of Journalists for the category of new communication technology. It is the first time such an award has been given to a blogger in Latin America.
Boz has two posts summing up the latest polls throughout Latin America while Eduardo Avila looks at a new poll in Bolivia which finds overwhelming support for President Evo Morales' plans to reduce the salaries of politicians.
Jeff Barry recounts the history of his girlfriend's ancestors who immigrated to Quilmes after their Adriatic coastal town was occupied my German soldiers. Barry makes the story - representative of a generation of Italian immigrants - come alive with vivid descriptions of their trials and tribulations.
Sean Guillory of Sean's Russia Blog argues that the word ‘hazing' does not reflect all the brutality of what was done to Andrei Sychev, an 18-year-old Russian soldier in Chelyabinsk.
George Hari Popescu of Strangers on the Net is frustrated with how some students would go a long way to get their professors to give them the grades they don't deserve.
I guess it has to do with humanizing a figure we prefer to see as super-natural. The almost funny thing...
people of maldives..you have to stop this civil war. its sad to see it in this state of affairs....
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I do not support capital punishment, in this instance there have no other alternative. What these killers have done is...