Month: September 2014

From The Norway Post:  “Israel’s expropriation of land in the West Bank is in violation of international law and is a setback for the efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in the […]

From an article in The New York Post:  “When it was revealed that the Boston Marathon bombers attended a Cambridge, Mass., mosque, its leaders were quick to disavow their actions.  Elder brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s ideology […]

A candidate for the Swedish parliament with the Centre Party has become embroiled in controversy after uploading a video featuring former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke onto Facebook. From The Local Sweden: “Dayana Jadarian, […]

From The Local Sweden: “A photo obtained by The Local appears to show Catharina Strandqvist, a soldier and the Sweden Democrats’ top candidate in Halmstad municipality in south-west Sweden, cleaning up after a party with […]

Sweden has not actively taken part in a war since 1814 – breaking even Switzerland’s record for peace. One peace and conflict expert has told The Local that Swedes learned the hard way to take […]

An older article, but still worth noting (via The Wire): “According to Germany’s Der Spiegel, German police shot only 85 bullets in all of 2011, a stark reminder that not every country is as gun-crazy […]