Human Rights – Canada on Thursday urged its citizens to get the hell out of Syria, saying President Bashar Assad’s authoritarian regime “has lost all legitimacy, and its abhorrent behavior will not be tolerated.” The United Nations drastically raised the mounting death...

Human Rights – One of the many questions that people like to think over when considering the future of our planet is what might remain when all else disappears. Well, there is now an answer, as unlikely as it may seem; President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia. Jammeh has informed the BBC in an...

Human Rights – For all those of us who thought we might be able to sleep easy following Zimbabwe’s 2013 elections, we must think again. Mugabe has decided that he’s not going anywhere. Retiring would, according to the man who has ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist since its...

Human Rights – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon heralded the swearing in of the Government of National Unity in Yemen, calling it “an important milestone in implementing the transitional agreement in the country.” According to a spokesperson, Ban commended “the...

Human Rights – Egypt looks set for a further series of political clashes after the ruling military declared that they, and not the elected-MPs, would have final say over the new constitution. With protests still ongoing, this is likely to inflame tensions even further and place an...

Social Issues – As if Russia’s election on Sunday was not enough of a fraud, Fox News decided to apply some of its trademark stellar journalism to the farce. When covering the completely and utterly merited mass protests in Russia, Fox decided that the riot, well just wasn’t...

Human Rights – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad unintentionally admitted that he is batshit crazy when he told ABC that only a “crazy” leader kills his own people. “We don’t kill our people … No government in the world kills its people, unless it’s led...

Social Issues – The elections in Egypt are in full swing as the citizens prepared to vote in the run-off parliamentary elections for one of 52 candidates who will fill “a third of the 498 seats in the lower house.” That is after two more rounds of voting, which will end in...

Human Rights – Less than two weeks after outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh signed a deal to turn over power to his deputy, violence erupts during a march in Taiz, Yemen’s third largest city. Reports indicate that a woman was killed by forces loyal to the outgoing president,...

Civil Rights – After a turnout of 62%, the recent Egyptian parliamentary elections appear to have secured a majority of seats for Egypt’s main Islamist parties. Initial counts have confirmed the predictions of many analysts that the Muslim Brotherhood and hard-line Salafist parties...

Human Rights – Syria buried 22 members of its armed forces Saturday, including six elite pilots, as the embattled government reiterated their mutual delusion that the 8-month-old revolt is the work of terrorist and foreign agents, not Syrians seeking reform. But “with no sign of...

Human Rights – Health workers volunteering at the bloody protests engulfing Cairo’s Tahrir Square have come under fire from security forces for–treating wounded anti-government demonstrators? That’s right, doctors, nurses, medical students, pharmacists, and other health...

Human Rights – A man run over by an armored tank dies as Egyptian security forces continue to clash with protesters just days before the parliamentary elections. The Interior Ministry “expressed regret for the death of the protester, identified as Ahmed Serour,” and indicated...

Human Rights – An Egypt-based Syrian dissident said Saturday that his 25-year-old pregnant wife was abducted by Syrian intelligence agents in Cairo, then released and left unconscious on a street in the Egyptian capital. Naturally, the Syrian Embassy in Egypt has denied the claim,...

Human Rights – A report detailing abuses to crush pro-democracy protests, which was recently released, resulted in thousands of people taking to the streets to rally against the Bahraini government in the Shi’ite village of Muqasha. The Sunni-dominated government says it has...

Human Rights – President Ali Abdullah Saleh ended his 33 year rule, but the people remain restless over the politics of the day.

Human Rights – After the military cabinet resigned earlier this week, Egypt’s military rulers have appointed ex-prime minister Kamal Ganzouri to form a new government. During his time as prime minister, Ganzouri was known as the “minister of the poor” because he...

Human Rights – The three American students, studying at the American University in Cairo, who were arrested earlier this week for allegedly throwing Molotov Cocktails during the Cairo protests, have been released. Gregory Porter, 19, Luke Gates, 21, and Derrik Sweeney, 19, have been...

Civil Rights – Egypt’s military rulers have agreed to speed up presidential elections, a key demand of the protestors flooding Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Field Marshall Mohamed Hussein Tantawi said on national TV the elections would happen by July 2012. He also promised the...

Update November 22, 2011 Human Rights – Egypt’s civilian Cabinet offered to resign on Monday amidst three days of violent clashes in Tahrir Square, but the action has failed to satiate the protestors who are deeply unsatisfied with yet another round of military rulers. The Health...

Social Issues – In a historic speech to isolated Myanmar, President Obama finally found a taker Friday for his Inauguration speech offer to extend aid to rogue states “if you are willing to unclench your fist.” The U.S. “sees Myanmar as responding to the three-year-old...