Monthly Archives: November 2012

After working with her for Columbia College Chicago’s Covering NATO course in May, I was excited to see professor Teresa Puente’s Daily Beast article about the allegations of voter fraud surrounding Mexican President Elect Enrique Peña Nieto who will be taking office … Continue reading →

http://www.elobservador.com.uy/noticia/238223/asi-voto-el-mundo-el-reconocimiento-a-palestina/ This story from the Uruguaian newspaper El Observador announces the approval of Palestinian as observer state inside the United Nations. The story also shows a map that indicates the way nations voted. I like the way the story reports … Continue reading →

This directly relates to Valeria’s story she’s working on….right? http://www.progressillinois.com/posts/content/2012/11/27/domestic-workers-face-many-hardships-report-finds

This Los Angeles Times story – also published on the Chicago Tribune last Sunday – was particularly hard to swallow. A decade after the first ever left-leaning, socially conscious political party took the presidency in Brazil, a grim, heart-wrenching reality still persists … Continue reading →

Since I have a soft spot for online news and magazines, I looked to Slate.com for some insightful–though not breaking news–coverage of the violence in Gaza. Magazines are the perfect platform for explainer pieces and columns, and that’s what I … Continue reading →

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/19/israel-anonymous-cyberattack_n_2161260.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20356757 I chose these stories from the Huffington Post and BBC because they take the Israeli-Palestinian issue from a different angle. Also, I was very curious to read about anonymous’ plans of blocking Israeli web system. Because I knew … Continue reading →

This story attempts to cover the week-long conflict in the Gaza Strip that ended last week  after a ceasefire was declared, but does not have an adequate nut-graph. The reader would have really benefited from a paragraph or two that … Continue reading →

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/11/20/the-video-of-a-teenage-girls-random-assault-that-has-london-up-in-arms/ This is very important because the nature of this incident. Situations similar occur all over the world and until people decided to stand up it will continue to happen. This is really sad, especially since it was a 16-year … Continue reading →

This article written by Richard Falk is an excellent interpretation on the latest ceasefire that was issued between Israel and Gaza.  Falk agrees that this ceasefire would be great only if it holds up. He touches on the factors that … Continue reading →