Oliver Stone has a mind to film a documentary on Mahmood Ahmadinejad. But the Iranian government, unsure of what he’s got in mind, is understandably wary. After his first request was deferred, his second has been stagnating for more than a week.
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The Sri Lankan government is having trouble stomaching the allegations of the Human Rights Watch — a NY based watchdog — who released a 134-page report detailing specific human rights abuses in the country.
Everybody Wins this War
Posted in Afghanistan, America on Aug 1st, 2007
In early April, the New York Times published an article (”Dutch Soldiers Stress Restraint In Afghanistan”) exploring what would happen if anti-terrorist task forces in Afghanistan, instead of fighting, helped physically rebuild the community and retreated at first glimpse of an insurgent offensive. Staunch US military officials called the tactic yellow; the Dutch — retorting […]
Double Standard
Posted in immigration, refugee, America on Jul 24th, 2007
I used to believe this country valued human life more than any other on the globe. But I made a Yankee mistake - I confused “human” with “American.” Don’t worry citizens - your boys in Washington are much clearer on the distinction than yours truly.
Last summer, a speedboat full of Cuban refugees-to-be were caught in […]
By now, we’ve all formed our opinion on what happened earlier this week in London and Glasgow. Cars became bombs, nails became knives, airports became vacuums, and healers became killers.
Only now is the dust beginning to settle. “Critical” is becoming “severe”, and the colorful labels of panic are slipping ever-so slightly. In their place comes […]
Call it the brown in me, but something happens to my heart when I’m encouraged to light a fuse and blow something up.
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