Tag: politics
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Syria- a test of diplomacy.
In March of 2003 the world woke up to news and scenes of Iraq under attack. Chief amongst the reasons given by President George Bush for this attack was that Saddam Hussein’s regime was in possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction, and as such a threat to global security. At the time we didn’t know…
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Fifty Years On From The Dream…
August 28 1963, about 250,000 men and women, black and white, Marched On Washington side by side, in what would become known as one of the most defining moments in history. The day culminated in the most definitive speech ever given. The speaker was a preacher from Georgia, his name was Dr. Martin Luther King…
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When PC is too PC.
Thanks to the evolution of the internet and the new age of Social Media, we have become a generation of the overly Politically Correct. Whilst there may be situations that demand boundaries be set- for instance when The Onion, the satirical website, rightly apologised for calling Quvenzhané Wallis the C word- there are other situations…
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The Inauguration; Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
President Barack Hussein Obama was inaugurated into office for the second time on the 21st of January 2013 in what can be described as a moving and poignant ceremony. Made even more so because it fell on Martin Luther King Day. Mrylie Evers-Williams, widow of civil rights activist Medgar Evers who was killed by the…
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RAPE.
Possibly the worst form of humiliation suffered by one human being at the hands of the most cruel and soulless human beings. A violation. It is the absolute abuse. A girl was raped recently, attacked by savages, and thirteen days later she died from injuries suffered as a result. Her name was Jyoti Singh Pandey,…
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A brave girl called Malala.
At age fourteen, I, like many of my peers, was busy figuring out the world of adolescence, making sense of body changes and navigating the tumultuous teenage years where things like boys and make up took centre stage. We were lucky. Or so we thought. Education was a right and we took that for granted.…
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When Politicians Play God.
Politics is a nasty game, a game in which God is played by men who think they know it all. Men who have assumed it is their right to tell you, who to be, who to love, how and when. As they do with Gay/Lesbian/Transgender rights. How is it possible that a politician can define…