Dangerous Aid

In 2008, 260 humanitarian aid workers were killed, kidnapped or seriously injured in violent attacks – the highest yearly toll on record…The fatality rate of aid workers from malicious acts alone surpassed that of United Nations peacekeeping soldiers in 2008. In the most violent contexts for aid workers, politically motivated attacks have risen relative to [...]

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Italy

Unless you live under a rock, you know that there was a magnitude 6.3 earthquake in the Abruzzo Region of Italy. The city of L’Aquila was especially hard hit, as many of its buildings were hundreds of years old, and were obviously not up to modern, ant-seismic regulations. The figures are remarkable. Over 12,000 volunteers [...]

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Better Late Than Never?

There’s (finally) a push to prosecute Bush and all his cohorts for their crimes in office. Now, many of us Americans have been saying for years that if we can prosecute Clinton for lying about getting a blow job and find a new use for a cigar, we ought to be able to punish Bush [...]

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