South Africa to Baltimore: The Place of Violence in Civil Protest
In the fall of 2015, university students in South Africa protested the announcement of impending tuition fee hikes of 10%. In initial response to the protests, the South African government promised to only increase tuition by 6%. After…
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Unfortunately, Hate Has Won
The world was stunned yesterday as Donald Trump won the 2016 American presidential election. His fear tactics have worked, for the American people have agreed with him. They believed that America wasn’t already great, and they needed…
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The Mosul Dam: an Unlikely Weapon of Unparalleled Force
Mosul used to be the second largest city in Iraq and the Northwest commercial center, naturally leaving it with a relatively dense population. Enter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), rooted in al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), the…
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SSUNS 2016 Interview Series: Crisis Director Phil April
Phil April is the Crisis Director for Queen Anne’s Revenge. He is in his final year at McGill, studying Political Science and History. He took some time out of his busy schedule, in between a pizza break and another committee session, to…
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Reality TV Politics
Now this is something unusual in the French TV landscape. Beside their polemical investigation of French Islam in the show “Dossier TABOU” , the M6 channel has launched “Ambition Intime,” a reality TV show inviting the presidential…
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You’re Wrong, But Thank You: An Open Letter to Donald Trump
Dear President-Elect Trump,
You’re wrong. You may have calculated correctly that the Rust Belt’s resentment would turn the election. You were right that social media would turn popular opinion into fact and smear campaigns into…
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First Comes War, Then Comes Famine
They’ve killed upwards of 20,000 people through suicide bombs and armed raids, decimated large swaths of land, taken hostages and prisoners, and disrupted the oil production of a country dependent on its revenues. The international…
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The Reluctant Welcome of the Calais Migrants and What It Means for France
When it comes to the dispatching of the Calais migrants throughout France, there seems to be two types of reactions. On the one hand, a supportive welcome, as in Cancale (Ille-et-Vilaine), Loudun (Vienne) or Pouilly-en-Auxois…
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The South China Sea Dispute: A Diplomatic Showdown
With rising tensions in the South China Sea, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries are finding it difficult to decide what to do next. The Philippines has recently chosen to strike a deal with China in order to gain…
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Crossing Arms: The Plight and Protest of the Oromo in Ethiopia
Equity statement: Accurate information on African politics and culture is extremely difficult to attain. Western countries routinely delegitimize African professionals and news outlets by sharing biased accounts of issues occurring in…
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