Cuban bloggers Yoani Sanchez and Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo visit the White House to discuss military relations between Cuba and the U.S.
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Cuban bloggers Yoani Sanchez and Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo visit the White House to discuss military relations between Cuba and the U.S.
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Bina Shah discusses the “Islamophobia” trend, in which media and other groups portray Islam-American relations in a negative light for money-making purposes.
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This week: the CCP blocks news sites for the 18th Party Congress, Tibetan self-immolations continue in China, and an interview with poet/ activist Amiri Baraka.
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Rupa Marya, singer, songwriter, and guitarist for Rupa & the April Fishes, talks to Sampsonia Way about non-English music in the United States, her work on the U.S.-Mexico border, and her dual life as a musician/doctor.
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Pakistani writer Bina Shah recounts reading George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language with university students and highlights the troubling comparisons between his work and Pakistan today.
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It’s clear that Twitter and Facebook are an important aid in spreading the message of the Egyptian protesters to the rest of the country and to the world. Two Egyptian protesters explain how the human voice is still the powerful instrument — with or without the help of social media.
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