“We zijn op een haar na verwijderd van een gigantische crisis”, waarschuwt de directeur van de Wereldbank, Robert Zoellick. Door de stijgende voedselprijzen dreigen steeds meer mensen wereldwijd in extreme armoede verzeild te raken.
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Arab Revolutions: the role of Facebook & Twitter
With the popular uprisings across the Maghreb and Middle East, we see people using internet and social networks to organise their protests. Some people are even getting directly involved, like Wael Ghonim of Google. Do you think online media should play an active role in promoting this? (For example: Iran, Egypt.) Or should they cooperate with …
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Cellcom ad from Israël
This advertisement for Cellcom, an Israeli cellphone firm, showing soldiers playing football over the West Bank barrier, has sparked cries of bad taste and prompted Arab lawmakers to demand it be taken off the air. Cellcom defends ad, critics say it demonstrates alienation.
Oorlog in Gaza: operatie ‘Cast Lead’
Neen, ik keur die zelfgemaakte Qassam en Katyusha raketten van de Islamitische verzetsbeweging Hamas zeker niet goed. Maar denkt u niet dat u nu wat overdrijft?
Declassified government docs show U.S. let Saddam gas Kurds for farm deal
Declassified U.S. government documents show that while Saddam Hussein was gassing Iraqi Kurds, the U.S. opposed punishing Iraq with a trade embargo because it was cultivating Iraq as an ally against Iran and as a market for U.S. farm exports.