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“A public servant who was injured during sex while away on a work trip is claiming compensation, saying she is entitled to a payout because the injury was sustained during the course of...
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Yesterday I feel scared and ashamed because of my country’s present situation. I am the representative of Shahid Bhagat Singh, Vidyasagar, Netaji, and so on…. But...
made popular Apr 29 2011
Algiers, Amman, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Khartoum, Sana, Tripoli, Tunis…….
Do you recognize the mentioned names? I think you are. They are all the capital cities...
made popular Apr 26 2011
Democracy is supposed to be by the people and for the people. But is it any truth right now? It appears to be by the autocrats and against the interests of...
made popular Apr 12 2011
When we strip democracy bare, the only thing it asks of us is that the people should have a credible way to elect the leaders they want. And when the people have...
made popular Apr 4 2011
When we say “Money can buy anything”, we are only becoming a part of the system that has led to the plunder of India by corrupt politicians and business men hand in...
made popular Mar 15 2011
With the recent fall of the Tunisian and Egyptian leaders after civil protests against their continued and bloody rules, many people have wondered if the Zimbabwean...
made popular Feb 24 2011
Thank God for revolutions. Now we can call Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s theatrics by its real name- bullshit.
Over the years, I have argued that Colonel Qaddafi was a...
made popular Feb 24 2011
The global consensus until recently had been that liberal democracy was now simply a form of government, not necessarily better than any others (take Winston...
made popular Feb 23 2011
I fully realise that there are more experienced and level-headed African commentators than I, but I still believe that common sense and logic are two paramount...
made popular Feb 10 2011
To get a true feedback of introducing a new brand, well-fashioned democracy as per the needs of the costumers of European or American streets one has to take the...
made popular Feb 10 2011
Watching the images of young Tunisians take to the streets and in great courage and new found freedom chant down their corrupt and authoritarian leader is an image I...
made popular Jan 17 2011
Massive demonstrations ignited due to public anger over aiding youth unemployment and rises in poverty but which have morphed into general opposition against a...
made popular Jan 13 2011
Amidst a media blackout imposed by the authoritarian Ben Ali regime, Tunisian protests continue for nearly a month now since the attempted suicide and subsequent death...
made popular Jan 13 2011
In an otherwise quite nation that usually sits below the radar of Arab politics, Tunisia has been gripped by numerous protests up-and-down the country for several weeks...
made popular Jan 6 2011
Rebuilding Trust in Our Government
One of Americas statesmen stated “government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” His presidency...
made popular Jan 4 2011
The vile and oppressive regime in Tunisia is brutally cracking down on protests, many of them led by students, against high youth unemployment in the country....
made popular Dec 30 2010
In the present scenario politically we are simply out of breath feeling our position ever unsafe. The days of imperialism has gone; keeping military rule at bay, now...
made popular Dec 29 2010
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The Tunisian government has sold the people the mantra of “shut up and make money.” Political dissent was silenced by the...
made popular Dec 27 2010
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Hugo Chavez has always held authoritarian instincts: Back in the 1990s when he was a general he attempted a failed coup against the democratic government in Caracas....
made popular Dec 27 2010
Ideal varies from man to man and gets oriented according to business and industry—gets extended to all that serves our purpose. There is no prejudice in accepting...
made popular Dec 16 2010
Ideal varies from man to man and gets oriented according to business and industry—gets extended to all that serves our purpose. There is no prejudice in accepting...
made popular Dec 16 2010
What’s the benefit of strengthening unwanted elements for nothing in every issue of senior authorities those are seriously involved in the service to our nation?...
made popular Dec 15 2010
I do not think that this article can go without response.
The writer is obviously very pro-Mugabe, but doesn’t live in the ruined country of Zimbabwe. And...
made popular Nov 24 2010
Written by Virag
Tuesday, 09 November 2010 20:01
Did You Know?
Men have made some of the most wonderful inventions/discoveries which have made life easy today,...
made popular Nov 23 2010
Wouldn’t it be nice if they had a war - and nobody came?
This weekend, there was supposed to be a SADC conference in Botswana to discuss the Zimbabwean crisis -...
made popular Nov 22 2010
We know well indeed that Mr. A. Raja, our Telecommunication Minister is in a fix. Fix ultimately appears as a scam. He has been discharged from his ministry. He...
made popular Nov 22 2010
Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has told the BBC she is ready for talks with all groups to achieve national reconciliation.A day after her release...
made popular Nov 15 2010
Saudi Arabia recently banned the social network site Facebook due to ‘moral concerns’. This is the standard Saudi pretext for banning anything dissident....
made popular Nov 15 2010
I first read this story yesterday afternoon and I was quite annoyed that Chinotimba attempts to pass himself off as a war veteran, when, in reality, during the 1970s...
made popular Nov 9 2010
We are the so called biggest democracy in the world but definitely not the best one.Our democratic system is,of course,an example of a system with the participation of...
made popular Nov 8 2010
In an article about the upcoming non-election election in Jordan, The Economist opines that “JORDAN seems to be the Canada of the Middle East.” Well, yes,...
made popular Nov 10 2010
It is not democracy, it is democratic circus that is going on in Karnataka. In full view of the world.
History has been created in Karnataka as not once before in...
made popular Oct 14 2010
The huge, inflated ego of Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chavez, must be mightily bruised in these latest round of parliamentary elections, considering his...
made popular Sep 28 2010
The transition from soft dictatorship to Banana Republic. The nation decays once more.
The above description of Tunisia - a nation meta-morphing from a stable and...
made popular Sep 16 2010
Turkey votes for democracy.
The Turkish republic was founded by a general - Mustafa Kamel or “Ataturk” (Father of the Turks) - who believed in the extreme...
made popular Sep 13 2010
A sham democracy in the name of narcissism.
The Egyptian regime annually reinstates “Emergency Laws” first enacted after the assassination of president...
made popular Sep 6 2010
That Tunisian regime...
Although often neglected by Western governments in their annual human rights reports, Tunisia is one of the most repressive regimes in the Arab...
made popular Sep 3 2010
Even as Washington is recasting the narrative of the Iraq war in terms of the troop withdrawal and campaign promises, Iraqi citizens say they’re still caught in...
made popular Aug 31 2010
Tunisia using marketing to distract from the cruelty.
This is a hallmark of the repressive Tunisian regime of Ben Ali (in power since 1986): Using its admittedly...
made popular Aug 27 2010
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Nepalese artists perform a traditional mask dance during the 59th National Democracy Day parade in Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009.
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