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Blog: Russell Myrie - North Korea

Did George Bush, or at the very least, his speechwriters, get one thing right? Were the neo-cons right when they labelled North Korea ‘evil’? Even if they were, did they get it so disasterously wrong about Iraq, and handle all things Iran so badly, that the other 'evil' country was...

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Ctrl.Alt.Shift @ Rock Around The Blockade Meeting

On Wednesday 20th May, an upstairs room at LSE was packed to hear from the brigadistas - six young people who had travelled to revolutionary Cuba on a trip organsied by Rock Around The Blockade, an organisation working in solidarity with Cuba and to dispel some of the myths surrounding life in a...

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Ctrl.Alt.Shift @ March Against Police Violence

Ever since the now infamous G20 protests, and the tragic death of Ian Tomlinson, a storm of discontent has been brewing under a coppers kettle. But it is clear that violence at the hands of the Metropolitan Police is far from a new phenomenon, so Against Police Violence was formed to confront the...

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Ctrl.Alt.Shift @ Sack Parliament!

Those G20 Meltdown guys are at it again! With the bankers shown up for the criminals they are, the government were the next target...

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Blog: Bibi Van Der Zee - Heroes

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Feature: Nigeria's Forgotten Children

So you come home late from a night out with your friends, or you bunk off college, and you might get a swift talking to. If you're really unlucky you might get grounded. Yet in some parts of Nigeria young people who disobey their parents are being accused of witchcraft where the punishment is their...

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Feature: Shock & Ore

Apple, Sony, Dell and Nokia are some of the biggest electronics brands in the world, but mass-producing their staggering array of constantly updated gadgets means they regularly need to get their hands on more metal than Ozzy Osbourne's got in his record collection.

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Blog: Russell Myrie -The Boot

Someone had to get the boot. Every scandal has a scapegoat and because this was some cross party effrey it was hard to tell who was going to get the boot when it began to hit the fan a couple of weekends ago.

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Feature: Peru - Inca Heartland

Wednesday July 27th: The people, united, will never be defeated... Cusco, Inca heartland of Peru, is hot and high and alive to the sound of protestors today, as between the heavy beating of a hundred drums shattering off the Cathedral in Plaza de Armas come the voices of thousands of campesinos (...

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Young Blood: Would You Like Dog With Your Fries?

By day, Wangfujing Road, located at the heart of Beijing’s Dongcheng District, is home to a cosmopolitan crowd of high-flying professionals, tourists, students and bargain-hungry shoppers. So packed are the pavements of this historic limb of China’s capital, that you eventually tire of...

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