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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Aug 18, 2011

  Education is the key

By Keith Noel   THE RIOTS that have taken place in England have caused a flurry of comments from all sides of the political spectrum. One common factor on which most agree is that the education system and the social structures it supports, and which support it, seem...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Aug 17, 2011

  Jamaica: A time bomb among the youth

jamaica-gleaner editorial :   Jamaicans, like others around the world, watched with amazement the television images of young people in Britain's cities trashing buildings, looting shops and engaging in what, from a distance, appeared to be sheer anarchy. We...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Aug 14, 2011

  England's Riots: A line has been crossed

By SIR RONALD SANDERS     THE riots in London, which spread to other cities in England in a copy-cat pattern, are unlike any that had been seen before. When normalcy is restored, the British authorities will have to examine its origins very carefully....... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 12, 2011

  Revolution tide may go deeper into Africa

RIA Novosti interview with Yevgeny Satanovsky:     Experts and analysts are not hesitating in calling the situation in Libya a civil war.  How long will it last? What countries may suffer the same fate?  Yevgeny Satanovsky, president of the Middle...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 21, 2011

  Libyan government massacres demonstrators as uprising spreads

By Patrick O’Connor:   The Libyan government of Muammar Gaddafi is attempting to violently suppress an uprising centred in the country’s eastern cities and towns. US-based organisation Human Rights Watch has said it has confirmed 173 deaths in the protests, which...... [view]

Posted By:  wvrasdonk
Posted On:  Jan 24, 2009

  DUTCH TELEVISION IN 1967. RIOTS IN THE USA

You have probably seen the tears streaming down the face of Reverend Jesse Jackson as he waited to hear Barack Obama's victory speech. Watch it on Youtube . In the Dutch program ‘Pauw & Witteman’, Koos Postema told the about an interview he had with Jesse Jackson in Chicago in 1967 for...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 13, 2009

  What It Was Like Being Forced to Leave Palestine 60 Years Ago

By Suzanne Manneh, New America Media: Editor's Note: The current conflict between Hamas forces and Israel has rekindled memories among many Palestinian expats of a time more than six decades ago when they were forced to flee their homeland as violence erupted there. A 78-year-old...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 11, 2008

  UNITED NATIONS warns hungry Haitians could cause more unrest in Haiti

UN warns hungry Haitians could cause more unrest: By Louis Charbonneau - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters): Ignoring the plight of hurricane-ravaged Haiti and leaving its population hungry and angry could lead to a new wave of social unrest in the Caribbean country, the top UN envoy to Haiti said...... [view]

Posted By:  yajitha
Posted On:  Jul 30, 2008

  ‘Baaldhiya’ or ‘Vaaldhiya’: Two Wor(l)ds Separated by a Consonant

I don’t think I had the slightest inkling of a problem between the sinhala and tamil people in Sri Lanka, until July 1983. But I should have. In the heady days of the 1977 election, a good 13 years before I could vote, I remember my father quite nonchalantly relating a story: at some...... [view]

Posted By:  yajitha
Posted On:  Jul 25, 2008

  Pricking the conscience on reminiscences of ‘Black July’

by Austin Fernando In July 1983, my Accountant Mr. Vallipuram at the Cooperative Department lived off Castle Street where his neighbour was a notorious Sinhalese thug. Until ‘Black July’ Vallipuram once told me that, that thug was the ‘assailant select’ in his mind, whenever he...... [view]

Posted By:  laurakenyon
Posted On:  Nov 26, 2007

  Une petite probleme.

Riots again. Technically not in Paris - but an area considered a banlieue or suburb [ghetto] of Paris. Villiers-le-Bel. This all started with the deaths of two young men - involved in a traffic accident with a police car. Does it sound familiar? That's because less than three years ago almost the...... [view]

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