Social-consciousness -Bulletin

bbc.co.uk - The UN says 7.6 million people became refugees in 2012, with the total number now higher than at any time since 1994. A report from the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says ...

guardian.co.uk - Two Palestinian writers have been refused visas to travel to the UK and speak at a festival celebrating contemporary Arab art. The Gaza-based husband and wife writers, Ali Abukhattab and Samah al-S...

buzzfeed.com - For most bigwig Democrats in Washington, D.C., the last 48 hours has delivered news of the worst kind — a flood of new information that has washed away any lingering doubts about where President Ob...

rollingstone.com - Michael Hastings, the fearless journalist whose reporting brought down the career of General Stanley McChrystal, has died in a car accident in Los Angeles, Rolling Stone has learned. He was 33. Has...

guardian.co.uk - Millions of people around the world are likely to be pushed back into poverty because climate change is undermining economic development in poor countries, the World Bank has warned. Droughts, floo...

cbc.ca - Half of status First Nations children in Canada live in poverty, a troubling figure that jumps to nearly two-thirds in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, says a newly released report. "The poverty rate is ...

guardian.co.uk - Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, has suspended talks on a long-term security deal to keep US troops in his country after Nato leaves in 2014, accusing Washington of duplicity in its efforts t...

democracynow.org - Top U.S. intelligence officials appeared before Congress on Tuesday to detail what they claimed to be the role of NSA surveillance programs in foiling militant attacks. NSA Director Keith Alexander...