On the Crisis in Ethiopia
As Ethiopia, once hailed as an African success story, descends into ethnic violence and turmoil, with cities being bombed and refugees ...
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Jun 3, 2019
On Indifference
At the time when Sri Lankan government forces were mopping up the Tamil resistance by forcing all of the residents of Jaffna and other...
Feb 17, 2019
On Honest Government Ads
These parodies expose cynicism, corruption, cruelty and murder.
Mar 30, 2018
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
German forces intended to begin the operation to liquidate the Warsaw ghetto on April 19, 1943, the eve of Passover. When SS and police...
Feb 28, 2018
Black History Month after Charlotteville
What will it take for the distrust and hate to melt away. Or has it been melting away the whole time, just too slowly for anyone to see...
Feb 26, 2018
A little more complicated than Peter Minuit's $24 worth of wampum
On this day in 1643, the governor of New Netherlands took a tough-on-Indians approach and murdered hundreds of Munsee Indians in a...
Sep 25, 2015
Mexico's Missing Teachers
September 26, 2015 will mark the anniversary of last year's horrific crime perpetrated against the students of the Ayotzinapa teachers'...
Nov 4, 2014
Just like MacBeth
27 years ago popular leader Thomas Sankara was murdered, dismembered and buried in an unmarked grave. Sankara had attempted to steer his...
Sep 11, 2013
911
On September 11th, I think of all of the ordinary people who died at work, whether tragically as victims of murder or heroically as first...
Dec 16, 2011
Iraq War
We have finally left Iraq today. This war was wrong. We should all agree, war is ALMOST always wrong. I hope that the lesson is not lost...
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