By Thaufan Malaka Andrea Hirata has written creatively his tetra logy, namely, Laskar Pelangi, Sang Pemimpi, Edensor & Maryamah Karpov and has been successful as bestseller in Indonesia.. Those works smoothly have been accepted by Indonesian people, essentially the lower-classes from underprivileged families, who are looking for inspiration to change their life in Indonesia, and [...]

I open this note with the statement of John Locke from his famous book The Second Treatise of Government in 1690 : “The natural liberty of man is to be free from any supervisor power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law [...]

By David D’Amato CNN reports on the controversy surrounding discovery of horsemeat in beef products in the United Kingdom, France and Sweden: “UK food businesses have been ordered to test all processed beef products for ‘authenticity’ and report back to the authorities by Friday.” Calls for more stringent regulatory structures are already proliferating in Europe [...]

  By Yenifer Canelon The Oceanographer The balance of the ecosystem is extremely important because all organisms belonging to the ecosystem depend upon each other to maintain this balance. All living organisms within an ecosystem are called a community. The organisms within a community are co-dependent upon each other. The relationship between these organisms forms [...]

By Sean Gabb At the moment in England, our masters and their clients are discussing censorship of the newspaper press. After months of submissions, a government inquiry into newspaper conduct has finished, and its report will almost certainly call for what is called “a rule-based framework of regulation.” The surface argument is between those who [...]

In an effort to maintain its quota, the government is tightening subsidized fuel consumption by taking several measures, including limiting certain vehicles’ fuel consumption, launching a subsidized fuel-free day and introducing a new payment system. The government has previously set the quota of subsidized fuel consumption at 40 million kiloliters in the 2012 state budget [...]

By Valarie Kaur On Friday, I participated in a memorial for the victims of the 4 August shooting in a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. I am a third-generation Sikh American, and as the ceremony drew to a close, I tweeted, “May this not be the last moment the nation watches and mourns with [...]

By Mustafa Abdelhalim During the 2012 Summer Olympics, each country cheered for its athletes’ success. In Egypt, this hope went beyond winning. For a country with many societal divides, sports – particularly football [American soccer] – can strengthen social cohesion and national identity. Egypt’s participation in the Olympics could not be more symbolic of the [...]