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Robin Hood Tax: Will it Save the Day?
Mario Monti, the Italian prime minister, who studied at Yale with the respected economist James Tobin, the first to propose the financial transaction tax, said that his one-time mentor likened…
Prism Releases its Content Under a Flexible Creative Commons License
I would like to announce that Prism has embraced the republishing-friendly model of licensing its content (text and video) under a Creative Commons Non Commercial License. Publishers and blog owners…
Are Western Democracies Turning into Police States?
Posing the above question might surprise us Westerners as we had never imagined that our countries would one day go back to the dark ages. No one of course has a…
After Athens….. Rome?!
During the last few months, the world never stopped talking about the fate of Greece. All eyes were fixated on this relativity small European country as if it holds the magical secret that…
150 Rendition Flights Transited Through Finland
It is increasingly obvious that it may be years until the world learns the full scope of countries tainted by the US extraordinary rendition program. Recently, Amnesty International has been…
Video: Q&A Session of the Hassan Diab Panel Featuring Nathalie Desrosiers and Donald Bayne
A panel on the Hassan Diab case took place at Carleton University on October 19, 2011. The panelists included Donald Bayne, Diab’s lawyer, and Nathalie Desrosiers, General Counsel of the…
Video: Hassan Diab Panel Featuring Nathalie Desrosiers and Donald Bayne
A panel on the Hassan Diab case took place at Carleton University on October 19, 2011. The panelists included Donald Bayne, Diab’s lawyer, and Nathalie Desrosiers, General Counsel of the…
The Greek Crisis and the Future of Capitalism
I am certainly not a fan of the ex-IMF director Dominique Strauss Kahn (aka DSK). He headed an institution that dictates the economic policy of many poor countries. In the 90s,…
The Oslo Massacre
If you’re one of those busy people who gets his/her news on the fly, as it were, in little dribs and drabs, you’d have been pretty certain that the guy…
Media Bias Against Muslims: Myth or Reality?
When it comes to judging whether there is bias against Muslims in the media look no further than to the latest press coverage regarding the terrorist attack that took place…
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