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• Democracy in Ukraine: 20 Years Later

  

  Just over a year ago, in December 2010, riot police in Kyiv brought to an end a series of street protests by entrepreneurs against a new tax code. The arrests... Read more

  The 16 December 2011 by   Center For International Private Enterprise
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• Apple To Launch A New iPad Next Year- Maybe

  

  Apple is hinting release of a small-version iPad in 2012 Read more

  The 16 December 2011 by   Periscope
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• Obama Keeps Promise to Withdraw US Troops from Iraq but Was the War a Triumph fo...

  

  As the US withdraws troops from Iraq, future relations between the two countries look bleak. Read more

  The 15 December 2011 by   Periscope
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• The USSR: Twenty Years Later

  

  The end of December marks the 20-year anniversary of one of the most momentous political events of the 20th century. The collapse of the Soviet Union shocked... Read more

  The 14 December 2011 by   Center For International Private Enterprise
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• Another Racist Rant on Public Transportation in England

  

  London bus. Photo credit: Louisa Thomson, http://flic.kr/p/4Jabnh We’ve had racist tram woman, racist train woman and racist Tube woman – now it’s time for... Read more

  The 14 December 2011 by   Periscope
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• Sherlock Holmes: His Best and Worst – The Antiscribe Overview

  

  By Jonathan Morris, Antiscribe.com With the sequel Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows being released on December 16, I thought I would take an always welcome... Read more

  The 14 December 2011 by   Antiscribe.com
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• Time’s Person of the Year: 'The Protester'

  

  Is the choice bang on the money? Or lame and non-committal? Read more

  The 14 December 2011 by   Periscope
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• UN Human Rights Chief Recommends Syria to the International Criminal Court

  

  Reports that deaths in Syria have reached 5,000 have caused the UN Human Rights chief to recommend the country to the International Criminal Court. Read more

  The 14 December 2011 by   Periscope
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• Sherlock Holmes the Sequel: A Game of Shadows

  

  Robert Downey Jr as Sherlock Holmes Robert Downey Jr returns as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic detective in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, with Jude Law a... Read more

  The 13 December 2011 by   Periscope
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• Are We Seeing a “Slavic Spring?”

  

  Vladimir Putin. Photocredit: World Economic Forum Demonstrations in Russia over the weekend, in many cities, were the biggest political protests since... Read more

  The 12 December 2011 by   Periscope
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