The New Context

The Student Journal of International Affairs at The New School

Day: April 3, 2014

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‘Just’ some clever ‘Foreign Policy’ activism

* Protect Access to Medicine for Iranian Civilians * Declassify the CIA Torture Report * Fix False Reporting on Venezuela * Back Senator Sanders: Use War Money to Help Veterans * Pass the Drone Strike Transparency Bill For those of […]

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How Western Media Hijacked Somali Pirates

Last year, Belgian undercover agents posing as a film crew contacted Mohamed Abdi Hassan, leader of a successful Somali pirate gang. The agents spent months convincing a skeptical Hassan to be in a documentary, thenĀ arrestedĀ him as soon as he landed […]