Haiti: Where Democracy and Justice Make a Stand Against Corrupt Power
In Haiti, in early July 2013, no criminal case was more important than the one handled by Magistrate Jean Serge Joseph, a 58 year-old Haitian-Canadian who had returned to work in his country of birth after earning his degrees abroad. Judge Joseph was examining a complaint of corruption, embezzlement of public funds, money laundering, and […]
Uzbekistan’s Dictatorship Is No Laughing Matter
Since the attack on the twin towers and the declaration of an endless global “war on terror,” non-peacetime measures have been introduced into mainstream media that have eroded civil liberties and turned television into little more than a propaganda machine. Truth being the first victim of war, little can be taken on face value. It […]
Global Police State Calls for Globalization of Dissent and Protest
A report from The International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations presents alarming case studies of protest suppression and criminalization of political and social dissent around the world. Ironically, the name of the report, “Take Back the Streets,” came from an order from Toronto’s police commander to his force in June 2010, when more than 100,000 […]
Saudi Arabia and Qatar: Kingdoms of Slave Labor, Human Rights Abuses
In the past few decades, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have seen their influence, both regional and global, grow rapidly. The extraordinary wealth of both oil-rich nations give them a lot of say and sway far beyond the Gulf area. Both Kingdoms have used their tremendous power of the purse, given by oil revenues, to gain […]
Turkey’s Revolutionary Conundrum
To characterize the current struggle in Turkey as being a clash of secularism versus Islam — that is, a conflict between the secular demands of the urban Turkish population and the pro-Islamic social conservative forces led by Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) — is dangerous. This not only […]
