Tag: Crisis
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Yemen Endures: Saudi and Iran’s Proxy War in ‘The Happy Land’
A Rebel Group Backed By Iran, A Government Backed By Saudi Arabia, A President Struggling to Survive…. all this at the cost of human lives In Yemen. Before we talk about the ongoing Yemen civil war, in which 65,000 lives have been lost since 2015, it is imperative to understand the difference between a war…
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Who’s Children Are They Anyway: Kurds Divided Over Children Born of Islamic State Rape
Children of women raped by ISIL men will not be accepted into Yazidi community, declares the sect’s faith leaders. Kurdish leaders claim that the war with IS (Islamic State) is over, but is it? Although, IS has left the Kurdish area but has left behind a conflict for Yazidi women. The Supreme Yazidi Spiritual…
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1980s Revisited: Early Hip Hop, Politics , Rebel Music and MTV
Originally posted on FaultLines: Music has been around for centuries: As long as people have been getting fed up with the status quo, they’ve been singing about it. And because music styles, human emotions, and social issues are so wide-ranging, 80s songs are too. It was the decade when the future began. Starbucks started selling…
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Bombs, Shrapnel and Books: Syria’s Secret Library
In a country totally devastated by 9 years of war, hardly anyone would want to save a library while defending last inch of their territory from Pro-Assad Forces. Syria, now into its ninth year of civil war has witnessed 191,369 deaths (Data till 2014) and 10.9 million Syrians, or almost half the population, has been…
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Do we need another nation? The Catalonia question
Since time immemorial, Man has fought for his rights which include his personal freedom and independence. Over the past few months, the Catalan Independence Referendum is one issue which has caught many a people’s fancy. Last few years have been tough for EU, Scottish Revolution in 2014 followed by Brexit in 2016 and now, Catalonia.…
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