Intra-state Wars

Mexico says drug witness died in apparent suicide

MEXICO CITY (AP) - A top drug cartel suspect who turned state's evidence has been found dead in an apparent suicide, while a body found in Guerrero state was identified as a rebel leader who accused the state governor of drug...

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Use Reenactors to Make History Come Alive

Bring a New Dimension to History with Historical Reenactors Reenactors can be used to enhance the education of students. A typical reenactor may participate as a private in the Union Army during the United States Civil War and...

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Sri Lanka vows to free 130,000 refugees

Colombo government bows to international pressure to close internment camps that have held civilians since end of civil war with Tamil Tigers Sri Lanka today bowed to international pressure and announced plans to close the...

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Why French Algerians' football celebrations turned into a battle

As the French nation prepared for the crucial World Cup qualifying match against Ireland on Wednesday evening, the streets of Paris were already in carnival mood long before the kick-off in the Stade de France. From 8.30pm...

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Books of the year

Was it Thomas Cromwell's machinations, a frustrated MP's diaries, or a novelist's treatment of his father's suicide? We asked a few people… Peter Carey – novelist Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows (Bloomsbury) has huge ambition...

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Czech president signs Lisbon Treaty/EU Dirty Deal regarding human rights

With the EU guarantee to the Czech president, that the Czech State should not be exposed to property claims of expelled Germans after World War II, the EU not only implicitly consents with ethnical cleansings, it is also highly...

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Terror-ifying prospects

Anyone who ever thought that an asymmetric war or a proxy war is a very low cost option and far more effective than good, old-fashioned conventional conflict just needs to look at the experience of Pakistan, and perhaps also...

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Rugian War (War/Steampunk) Signup/OOC

Welcome to Rugia, a glorious land that is about to fall into a civil war. The rural east wants to be independent of the industrial west but they wont let that happen. Both sides have their strengths and weaknesses. The east...

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GENDER-AFRICA: Some Progress Amidst Continuing Challenges

BANJUL, Nov 21 (IPS) - The Beijing Platform for Action in 1995 set out an agenda to address gender equality in priority areas, including poverty, education, and health care. It also committed governments to address violence...

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God and Government: Islam and West Are Incompatible

Western policymakers and elites in government, academia, and the media suffer from an extraordinary ignorance about the true nature of Islam. And Bob Schieffer of CBS News wondered if Hasan was merely a "nut," just like many of...

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