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How do we make democracy work for the poor?
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Internet café refugees started appearing in Japan in the late 1990's. They are temporary workers who live in Intenet café cubicles because their salaries are too low to rent apartments. Japan's temporary workers earn less than half the income of full time employees; a disparity that leads directly to poverty.
“Net Café Refugees” is a short film by Shiho Fukada. It forms part of a trilogy of films that examine Japan's highly stressful work environment. From...
The Internet and social media have accelerated the pace of news consumption and readers have grown addicted to news snacking. The situation has reached crisis proportions with journalists themselves relying on social media and often getting facts wrong in their haste to release stories. A counter movement, the slow journalism movement, has hit the breaks to preserve the true essence of journalism. With names such as Delayed Gratification, Long Play and Retro Report, these publications are...
This week President Barack Obama issued an executive order placing sanctions on seven Venezuelan officials for alleged human rights violations against opposition protesters since February 2014. His order will freeze the officials' assets and block their entry to the U.S. Several Latin American leaders have denounced the move with the Maduro government responding by demanding that the U.S. embassy in Venezuela reduce its staff by 80%. U.S. citizens are now also obligated to apply for visas...
The fact that the Indian government has banned India's Daughter, the BBC documentary that features the mass protests that erupted in India after the rape and tragic death of Jyoti Singh in 2012, has received much media attention. But, Professor of English at the University of Cambridge, Priya Gopal argues that the film has actually divided Indian feminists. There are those who believe that the film is important because it brings awareness to the issue of rape. But there is also a...
In today's world, we absorb five times as much information as we did in 1986. We’ve created a world that has 300 exabytes of information - that’s 300 followed by 18 zero’s - and we are assaulted by it everyday. In order to cope, we multi-task. But neuroscientists have discovered that multi-tasking doesn’t really exist. What’s actually happening is that our brains are rapidly shifting focus from one thing to the next, as we fractionate information into very small...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the world must stand together to stop Iran from gaining access to a nuclear weapon in his much-anticipated address to the U.S. Congress. Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst, Marwan Bishara, analyses Netanyahu’s speech arguing that the Israeli prime minister chose to focus on Iran’s nuclear programme to avoid having to address the Palestine question. He argues further that only when speaking about Iran can Netanyahu speak...
