The electronics we use every day could have a sinister side: they could contain slave-mined minerals in the Congo, otherwise known as ‘Conflict Minerals.’ The Second Congo War, also known as the Great War of Africa, caused by these conflict minerals, is not well
We’d like to think slavery is in the past, but this short and to-the-point documentary asks you to consider that the cellphone you’re holding in your hand may have involved something equally terrible: young Chinese workers enduring 15-hour days without holidays or rights. These
The “Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe” (OSCE) has urged Kiev authorities to release the Russian journalists captured in eastern Ukraine, saying that intimidation and obstruction of media working in the country is “unacceptable.” Before that, Moscow had called on the (OSCE) to
“The Simpsons” is argued to offer concrete proof that the U.S. is behind the crisis in Syria and what called “Arab Spring” revolutions, according to an Egyptian TV station. An AnAl-Tahrir TV anchor said the presence of a Syrian opposition flag in the 2001
Since 2007, each year the Global Peace Index has been issued by the IEP (Institute for Economics and Peace) and is a measurement of nations’ and regions’ peacefulness based on external and internal measures. Although it seems like the world is becoming crueller and
In September 2013, the so-called Syrian “rebels” attacked and overtook the ancient Christian town with an Assyrian/Syriac population that speaks Western Neo-Aramaic (language of Christ), Ma’loula. The town is located 56 km to the northeast of Damascus, and built into the rugged mountainside at
Cities in eastern and southern Ukraine have become battlefields, as the junta in Kiev has unleashed military and paramilitary thugs on the people of those regions. At the same time: the media, with its critical role in picturing public opinion, has also become one
According to information published by Aydınlık newspaper (AKP Wanted Army to Enter Syria Three Years Ago), within the first months of the war in Syria, the AKP government had sent instructions to the Turkish Armed Forces for a military intervention into Syria and for
Due to a new ruling from Michigan’s Commission of Agriculture and Rural Development, residents will lose their right to keep livestock on their own property. On April 28th, 2014, the commission ruled that local governments have the right to ban livestock from any area
According to official media agencies, more than 100 people have died in 1 single day, in separate terrorist attacks in several places across Syria. In Homs city, two car bombs exploded, killing at least 90 people and wounding tens of others. Many media agencies reported
