a travelogue
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10/10/07
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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 »
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10/10/07
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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 »
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09/30/07
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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 »
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09/18/07
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‘We were abandoned’
I’m as none violent as them come, but this a fascinating piece and the idea of hitting something with a rifle from 2.4 kilometers is similtaneously incredible and terrifying. That the something happens to be human being is tragic, but …continue reading »
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08/14/07
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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 »
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06/18/07
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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 »
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05/30/07
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The Truth About Pearl Harbor
Neatorama has been reprinting sections of Uncle John’s Legendary Lost Bathroom Reader, including this one on whether or not there was a conspiracy to let the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. My question is why is there a conspiracy to suppress …continue reading »
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05/24/07
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The Civil War in Four Minutes
Unfortunately for some reason the video has been removed from YouTube by the user, but it was damn cool, hopefully someone will get it back up. “To inform and illustrate the scale, scope and tragedy of the Civil War, the …continue reading »
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11/17/06
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Congo’s Wounds of War: More Vicious than Rape
The atrocity reports from eastern Congo were so hellish that Western medical experts refused to believe them—at first. <b>Warning: do not read this story if you are easily disturbed by graphic information, or are under age, or are easily upset …continue reading »
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09/27/06
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US may ban sale of cluster bombs to Israel
“The discovery of hundreds of US-made cluster bombs among the tens of thousands of unexploded munitions carpeting the south of Lebanon, has led to calls on Washington to impose a moratorium on sales of the weapons to Israel.” About time. …continue reading »