[dropcap size=big]L[/dropcap]ast weekend we celebrated Easter – a time for reflection and rebirth. Several months ago, Dominique Arel (Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Ottawa), called my writings a “Maidan Diary”. Diaries are a tool for reflection, but...

Artist Thomas Van Houtryve made this chilling portrayal of what it would look like if drone strikes where to be ordered on targets in the west. The below text is taken directly from Thomas Van Houtryve’s website. He can explain his brilliant artistic perspectiv...

[dropcap size=big]I[/dropcap]diocy is much like a persistent cancer that raises its ugly head periodically when the right circumstances allow it to grow and flourish. Recently there has been a growth in the popular concept that “my ideas are as valid as anyone else”....

According to Eastern Rite tradition, the dead are mourned for 40 days. Although deaths are commemorated annually thereafter, after forty days, the lives of survivors are expected to continue. Sunday 31 March happened to be the 40th day after the Yanukovych regime’s s...

[dropcap size=big]A[/dropcap] man walks the streets of London shouting #FuckThePoor. Social experiment from poverty charity, “The Pilion Trust”, to see whether we really do care about those less fortunate. – www.justgiving.com/piliontrust

This year marks the 22th anniversary of Australia’s mandatory immigration detention system, which commenced in 1992 and applies to all who have an expired or cancelled visa, or arrive without a visa. Indefinite immigration detention of non-citizens is legal (Mi...