Chris McGreal reports for the guardian.co.uk, Friday 19 November 2010: There’s not much mystery about how Henry Glover ended up a charred corpse in a burned-out car in the heart of New Orleans. One police officer has admitted to shooting … Continued
Devastation
Politics
Part Two: Forgetting-The protest turns deadly
It’s a strange thing how some faces become etched in memory, serving as a visual representation of events. For me, the face of protests in Sarajevo 1992 belongs to a man for whom the intensity of his emotions became more … Continued
Is Stupid the New Smart?
by Amy Spicer As I channel surfed the other night I was once again visually assaulted with mind numbingly bad “reality” shows. But I had to take pause when coming across one particularly vile show. Take a female group of … Continued
International
Politics
Floods, Drought, & a Population on the Brink
Several years ago my Dad said something rather prophetic during a family conversation about living in California. A few of us were expressing our reservations about ever moving to a state that was a couple dozen earthquakes away from falling … Continued