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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 ...
Mar 4, 2021


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...
Jun 3, 2019

On Honest Government Ads
These parodies expose cynicism, corruption, cruelty and murder.
Feb 17, 2019


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...
Mar 30, 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 28, 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...
Feb 26, 2018

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'...
Sep 25, 2015


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...
Nov 4, 2014

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...
Sep 11, 2013
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...
Dec 16, 2011
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