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Eye on Conakry, Guinea: Poverty

Eye on Conakry, Guinea: Poverty
Guinea is a country heavily burdened by poverty. The population sells anything possible. Drugged dogs can be purchased on roadways, from the comfort of your car, if you’re lucky enough to have one. Almost all food is imported. My friend tells me that, “you can’t look at prices when go to grocery.”...
March 2nd, 2010 | HEADLINES, INTERNATIONAL | Read More

Grenada’s Imaginary Subversives

Grenada’s Imaginary Subversives
The specter of Communism swept across the world until the late 1980s, haunting the collective minds of Westerners. Western governments safeguarded their citizens against this threat by stringently guarding their buffer countries. The tiny island nation of Grenada purportedly fell to Communism from 1979-1983,...
February 22nd, 2010 | HEADLINES, INTERNATIONAL | Read More

Three Days in Barcelona

Three Days in Barcelona
Barcelona’s heritage is etched in the lines of antiquity but definitively defined by modernity. It is one the notable cities where the ubiquitous glassy facades of modernist architecture works, even when juxtaposed against the stone of centuries old buildings. It is home to architectural heavyweights,...
January 21st, 2010 | HEADLINES, INTERNATIONAL | Read More

Bun Ziua From Bucharest!

Bun Ziua From Bucharest!
by Candice Brown It was with mild reluctance that I finally purchased a plane ticket to Bucharest, Romania- two days before the flight. I finally gave in to a friend’s persistence to sojourn to Eastern Europe. Thus I ended up in an area of the world, and a country in which I never imagined going. What...
December 3rd, 2009 | HEADLINES, INTERNATIONAL, TRAVEL DIARIES | Read More

U of C Voices from Abroad: Italy’s Two-Faced Liberties

U of C Voices from Abroad: Italy’s Two-Faced Liberties
by Candice Brown The culture shock inherent in traveling does not spare you in Rome. Its ubiquitous police force comes in four easily identifiable divisions, including military police. They all patrol the city streets. The shocking numbers of police seem to parallel the crushing volume of tourists trawling...
November 11th, 2009 | INTERNATIONAL | Read More

Traffic Jams in Pakistan

Traffic Jams in Pakistan
By Ayesha Siddiqi In May 2006, a major Pakistani publication reported that, in Karachi alone, over five hundred lives had been claimed because ambulances could not reach hospitals on time due to choked roads. Today, the traffic is worse and the number of deaths is increasing. In August 2009, former Prime...
October 21st, 2009 | INTERNATIONAL | Read More

The Kashmir Conflict: A Crisis Unjustly Forgotten

The Kashmir Conflict: A Crisis Unjustly Forgotten
A battle rages on in Kashmir, with no end in sight. It is a land cursed by its very location – cruelly sandwiched between three nuclear states: India, Pakistan, and China. Their political tug-of-war of greater powers has torn apart the Kashmir region, and its people. The centerpiece of the conflict...
September 21st, 2009 | INTERNATIONAL | Read More

An Interview with Norman Finkelstein

An Interview with Norman Finkelstein
by Mario Diaz-Perez (from the January 2007 print edition) Norman Finkelstein, professor of political science at DePaul University, is one of the most controversial commentators on the Israel-Palestine conflict. A long-standing critic of the policies of the Israeli government, Finkelstein has often been...
September 9th, 2009 | INTERNATIONAL, ISSUES | Read More

Non-Governmental Disorganization: The Problem with Third-World NGOs

Image by Julie Fry By Julie Fry (from the January 2007 print edition) I completed a 10-week internship in Nairobi, Kenya, with Defence for Children International (DCI), the internationally-recognized, Geneva-based NGO. I was interested in the area of children’s rights, and more specifically the demobilization...
September 9th, 2009 | ACTIVISM, INTERNATIONAL, TRAVEL DIARIES | Read More

Gimme the Loot: A New Age of Piracy on the High Seas

by Ram Krishnan Fangcheng Anchorage South China Sea LAT: 21 45 N LON: 108 21 E The lights of the docks were veiled in halos from the light drizzle. From the harbor lane they ran together in a mass of incandescence. The crew of the Kanpur steamed into Fangcheng just after dark, in hopes that there would...
April 19th, 2005 | INTERNATIONAL | Read More
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