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11/08/07 // Link:: Travelling In America, Where Everyone’s A Suspect Filed “we gotta get out of this place.” Here’s the story of what it’s like to be a foreign traveller visiting the United States. Contrasting this with my own experiences abroad is downright frightening. Nepal, for instance, may have a …continue reading »
10/10/07 // Link:: Through a Lens, Darkly A very long and well written Vanity Fair piece about the legacy and personal toll on the children who were part of the “Little Rock Nine,” the first African American children to attend desegregated schools in Little Rock Arkansas. During …continue reading »
10/10/07 // Link:: On Torture and American Values It’s not often that I agree with the op/eds from the New York Times, but this one is right on. This exactly why I’m embarrassed to be an American right now. If you think the dollar is at an all …continue reading »
10/10/07 // Link:: Make Sure Your Money Isn’t Supporting Genocide In Sudan I’ve been trying to follow the new in Sudan ever since I wrote about it for Wired, but it isn’t easy. Mainstream media seems to still ignore Africa, doubly so in the United States, but I did run across this …continue reading »
10/03/07 // Link:: Video of Brutal Crackdown in Myanmar Video smuggled out a Myanmar shows protesters arrested and beaten by police. Given that Myanmar’s regime is largely backed with Chinese money and weapons, until someone convinces China to stop supplying the government, there’s little that’s going to be accomplished. …continue reading »
09/30/07 // Link:: The Octopus in the Cathedral of Salt A short and brutal history of the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita). From the Virginia Quarterly Review: By the twenties, United Fruit also had transformed small villages such as Santa Marta, along Colombia’s Caribbean coast, into booming industrial centers. Workers …continue reading »
09/23/07 // Link:: Monks in Myanmar Protest for Third Day The monks are challenging the military regime in Burma/Myanmar. From the New York Times: Hundreds of Buddhist monks marched through rain-washed streets for the third day in Myanmar’s main city yesterday, taking the lead in monthlong protests that the military …continue reading »
08/14/07 // Link:: Vietnam’s War against Agent Orange From the BBC: The Vietnam War ended in 1975, but the scourge of dioxin contamination from a herbicide known as Agent Orange did not. “The damage inflicted by Agent Orange is much worse than anybody thought at the end of …continue reading »
07/27/07 // Link:: 3 Famous Psychology Studies That Would Be Illegal Today “What happened to the good old days, when a scientist could just rustle together some test subjects and let loose in the lab? You know, without having to worry about petty humane things.. like ethics!” Indeed. And what’s more, who …continue reading »
06/18/07 // Link:: Khmer Rouge Trials Ready to Start No one has ever faced charges for the Cambodian genocide perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s and 80s. Pol Pot who was largely responsible for the deaths of an estimated two million Cambodians during the Khmer Rouge’s reign …continue reading »
06/18/07 // Link:: Irena Sendlerowa Named Polish National Hero From the Guardian: “Irena Sendlerowa was named a national hero by Poland yesterday for her secret work in the Warsaw ghetto. She smuggled children out through sewers and in suitcases and boxes. Irena Sendlerowa, 97, who has been nominated for …continue reading »
07/17/06 // Link:: Rabbis Against Torture “Invoking centuries of Jewish law, hundreds of American rabbis confront Bush… ‘Complicity with torture diminishes America’s ability to insist that other governments uphold human rights.’”continue reading »
05/26/06 // Blog Post from Prague // Prague // Czech Republic: Four Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds “He tried to gather up and hold the phrase or harmony… that was passing by him and that opened his soul so much wider, the way the smells of certain roses circulating in the damp evening air have the property … continue reading » Topics: Architecture, Death, Europe, Holocaust, Human Rights, Memory, Round The World Trip, War
12/15/05 // Blog Post from Durbar Square // Kathmandu // Nepal: Durbar Square Kathmandu I flew into Katmandu around ten o’clock at night, which meant I unfortunately missed any view of the Himalayas. I spent most of the next day walking the streets of Thamel (the backpackers’ area of Katmandu) looking at the endless … continue reading » Topics: Asia, Children, Durbar Square, Food, Human Rights, Round The World Trip, Temples

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