Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them. ~ Carl Bernstein

A deal that might work: SCO membership for nuclear concessions

The geopolitical power center just changed. You didn't feel it happening. There were no major tremors detected by the journalistic seismic recorders, and no shock waves throughout the media and the blogosphere.

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Radicalization, destabilization and empowerment

The most obvious problem with the grievance theory, the assumption that social or political radicalization arise from social disparates, is the existence and prevalent influence of the radical intellectual.

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Welfarism a Vaccine Against Fascism

This article is written in response to the article The Coming American Civil War written by a Newsvine member with the pen name Behind My Screen. It is a very well written article.

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How to win the battle for the hearts and minds

I was once interviewed for a paper. It was before I became a journalist myself, and the reason was the fact that I was caught red-handed doing something very, very dangerous and unusual: I was teaching a "gang" of young "marginalized" Muslim guys about democracy.

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Neo-liberalism is Imperialism denial

Political discussion can be a fruitful process to improve ideas, alter consensus and foster new solutions to common problems. It can also be a fierce contest between paradigms attempting to establish dominance over the collective mindset of a group.

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Blueprints for the terrorism factory

The best way to identify the components that make out the fertile ground for terrorism is to simply try to answer this simple question: How do we produce more terrorists? By attempting a systemic analysis from an inverted position we are able to address the issue without the inte …

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50 million in queue for better eyesight

Optometrists dreaming of long queues in front of their clinics will have to look further than the directory.

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Newsvine - Next Web or next web bubble?

There is money to be made on the web. The question is: Is it going to be made by you? For all those who are little interested in getting their share of the potentially lucrative ad revenue business on Newsvine, here is why you should care:

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How the 'new right' changed the face of Europe

About ten years ago a young Iraqi colleague of mine named Khalil said something I shall never forget: ”It's strange that we can be such good friends, and ten years from now we may be taking cover in each our trench, pointing a rifle at each other.”

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About Claus Jacobsen

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Claus Jacobsen was born in South Korea in 1972. He is a Danish journalist with a professional degree from Danish School of Journalism.

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