Global Poll Offers New Proof of Web’s Widening, Deepening Societal Role
Nearly 80 percent of people around the world think that access to the internet should be a “fundamental right,” according to a global poll conducted by the BBC World Service. Covering 26 countries, it surveyed 27,000 adults, including both internet users and people not using the web. The survey showed that str(79 percent) answered “yes” to a question on people’s entitlement to internet access – a view implying both a demand for the expansion of high-speed broadband telecommunications infrastructure and also opposition to unreasonable charges or censorship on users.
Claims for Internet as “Right” for Citizens are Spreading Worldwide
Legislating “Genocide” in Armenia — What Can Congress Possibly Be Thinking?
Once again the US Congress is mystifying the world and seriously muddying US-Turkey relations by trying to pass a resolution declaring that it was “genocide” when over a million Armenians were massacred in 1915 by Ottoman Turks. The proposed U.S. measure was passed out of the House Foreign Affairs Committee in early March.
Immigration in Europe Now at Crisis Point -- More New Blood, Not Less, May be Answer
In Practice, Leaders’ Refusal to Grapple with Immigration Breeds “Dark Tribalism”
Almost in a fit of absent-mindedness, major European countries have become magnets for immigration. Between 1990 and 2009, 26 million migrants arrived in Europe -- compared to 20 million to America – a country that (unlike Europe) naturally thinks of itself as a land of immigrants.
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