Vote, and we'll reward you with a vibrator. The article depicts the photograph of a sex toy surrounded by a star-and-stripes flag, with the caption: "Flag not included". On the eve of election day, in a Country were barely fifty percent of the population usually goes to vote, there's plenty of initiatives aimed at convincing the reluctant citizens. continue...
Summer has just begun and it looks like a scorcher. In the Palestinian Territories, as usual, water rationing is underway, but this year looks even worse than usual. B’Tselem, the joint Israel-Palestine news agency, announces that this year the Palestinian water ration will be at least 40 million cubic meters less than in 2007. One cause of the change is drought, but the Israeli government, its regional authorities, continue...
When George W. Bush mentioned Jesus and the inspiration he drew from him, Europeans used to a separation between politics and religion turned up their noses. But what will they say in Europe now that Barack Obama has done the same thing? The strong faith of the Democrat candidate to the White House is the subject of a new book written by the author of a biography of the current president. Stephen Mansfield, continue...
During the last years the article 301 of the Turkish penal code has been one of the major obstacles in the relationships between Turkey and European Union. The law would punish any criticism to “Turkishness” as well as any controversial comments regarding Kurds' rights, the Armenian massacre or the values of Ataturk republic. Thousands of people committed to trial, hundreds condemned, continue...
Written for PeaceReporter by Edoardo Occa The dull thump of mortar and pestle rises with the first light of day and the pungent aroma of manioc in the air beating out an ancestral rhythm that has marked the passage of hours in these African villages since ancient times. In the Central African Republic, humidity cloaks every gesture and sudden, quick movement is simply out of the question. continue...
In Japan more than 5,000 people live in internet cafés, which have become a virtual house for the new poor of the Rising Sun. A report commissioned by the Ministry of Health has noted that the phenomenon of “internet café refugees,” as the frequenters of such places are commonly known, is undergoing an alarming expansion. continue...
‘On the screen of the radar for news but without the knowledge of the big media. This is the online fight for power of Islamic militants’. This is the beginning of the declaration made by Gerald, author of the Internet Anthropologist blog, in which he encourages his readers to fight online terrorism using a toolbar available from his website, explicitly created to spread information. continue...
