Social media is essentially a marketing platform people use to promote themselves-and their egos. One alarming trend involves people from first world countries taking selfies with poor children in places like Africa and South America, we live in a world today where...
Should the decision to relax the one-child policy be seen as a welcome, humane reform? China’s one-child policy is frequently framed as an economic and social imperative, implemented not wilfully, but rather as a necessity. Those favoring this argument often fail to...
Here’s an interview I did with Flashpoints Radio is the United States about the recent wave of Tibetan self-immolations. The interview begins at around 36 mins.
Wandering the almost deserted streets of London in 1665, the year the Great Plague swept through the city, H.F., the narrator in Daniel Defoe’s novel A Journal of the Plague Year, remarked that: …the poor People were to be pity’d in one particular...
It’s reflective of just how punitive Australia’s refugee policy has become that the government still has the ability to horrify thinking Australians this long after Kevin Rudd announced his PNG Solution. At the time it seemed the lowest ebb in what has been a very...
