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This photograph, taken by Guillermo Olivares of his father Daniel, was posted with the following caption in Spanish: This is my dad, today on October 20th, he turns 56-years-old. He...
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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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“night_eulen” says that the plan to build a new orphanage for disabled children in Tajikistan has some troubling aspects.
This year's First Carnival of Blog Translation has concluded and Liz Henry has a list of the original posts along with their translations. Russian, French, English, Portuguese, Swedish, Bulgarian, and Spanish are represented.
Christian Garbis says that someone needs to do something to stop the cutting of Yerevan's trees.
Mirwais calls on the international community to save dying children and mothers in Afghanistan.
Luís Afonso Assumpção says that beneath the festive celebrating of Carnival, there is a political-cultural current.
Testimonies from the oppressed community at the Punjab Dalit Solidarity blog - “I, Baljit Kaur, daughter of Sri Bant Singh, am a resident of village Burj Jhabbar in Mansa District, Punjab. I was gang-raped on 6 July 2002….”
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...