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Dissertation: The Failure of the War on Drugs
Introduction “Prohibition… goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control mans’ appetite through legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not even crimes…” - Abraham Lincoln, 1840 The United States government has implemented federal laws that outlaw certain narcotics since the early 20th Century. The implementation of such policies […]
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Margaret Thatcher’s death: the slightly morbid afterparty
April 9, 2013
When I was born in London in early 1990, Margaret Thatcher was serving her final year as Prime Minister. Though I remember nothing of her time as PM, I eventually learned how much of a divisive figure she was. Her strengthening of neoliberal economic policy in Britain caused much anguish, particularly among the working class. […]
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The international community’s failure to prevent the Rwandan Genocide
April 4, 2013
April 6th marks 19 years since the beginning of the Rwandan Genocide. In early 1989, the United States, under George H. W. Bush’s administration, became legally bound by the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (‘Genocide Convention’). When signing the legislation during his presidency, Ronald Reagan described […]
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Caste discrimination in the UK: the hidden apartheid
January 12, 2013
Despite leaving the Indian subcontinent, many UK citizens from the South Asian diaspora continue to experience the effects of the caste system in their daily lives. Research has indicated that there is particular prevalence in the UK for those of ‘lower castes’ to experience discrimination, prejudice or abuse in employment, education and the provision of […]
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Palestine’s success in the UN vote faces the ‘harshest Israeli response’
November 30, 2012
On November 29th 2012, the United Nations voted in overwhelming support for an upgrade of the status of Palestine from a “non-member observer entity” to a “non-member observer state”, with 138 nations supporting the new measures; the combined population of the nine nations that voted against Palestinian statehood (including the US, Canada and Israel) makes […]
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The US role in the rise of Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile
November 28, 2012
This is an academic piece written for my university which explains the impact that the United States had in the overthrow of democratically elected Salvador Allende, and the installation of dictator Augusto Pinochet, in the CIA-backed coup in Chile in 1973: During the 1960s and 1970s, Latin America saw a sharp rise in the number […]
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President Barack Obama, Term II: Attack of the Drones
November 26, 2012
On Tuesday 6th November, Barack Obama won a second term of the US presidency with 50.8% of the popular vote, compared to Mitt Romney’s share of 47.5%. Prior to the elections, US and international media had been buzzing at the closeness of the race, and the ominous prospect of a return to the growingly radical […]
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