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Ex-Child Soldier's Memoir Called Into Question
It's all about how you present your story.This spring I read Dave Eggers' heartbreaking book "What is the What", which recounts the powerful and tragic experience of Valentino Achak Deng, who was a child refugee...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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Origins of Mother's Day - a Cry for Peace!
The ancient Greeks celebrated Mother's Day, for Rhea, mother of the Gods, with spectacular feasting, music and dancing. And, in the 1600s, England celebrated "Mothering Sunday" -allowing servants to return home to...
created by Maireid Sullivan | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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528 views | 7 recommendations | 4 comments
The Wars of Black America - Opinion
The International Institute of Nonviolence By: Rev. Jermano http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Mar...Luther_King,_Jr.On several occasions Martin Luther King Jr. expressed a view that black Americans, as well as...Watch List on Children and Armed Conflict - Sri Lanka report
April 14, 2008, New York- There is virtually no safety for children in Sri Lanka as the brutal armed conflict there escalates. Every day the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE), the Government armed forces, and...
created by IRTAG Media | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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A Second Korean War Looms
What does one do with a naughty child who keeps taunting and smacking other children? Well, smacking their hand back seems appropriate, since it is a punishment that fits the crime.At the moment, North... Somalia Cries For its Dying Children
OPINION PIECE:Why is there so much publicity about Dharfur (and rightly so!) yet we hear so little about events happening in Somalia these days? They are certainly both experiencing the same horrors.Does it... Endangered pygmy hippo found in Liberia - see the photos
The endangered pygmy hippo has surprised conservationists and has been caught in photographic traps set up by a team from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) in Liberia. Gorilla Warfare: Fighting Dirty in DR Congo
Update: the Congolese rebels holed up in Virunga National Park have stepped up their threat, moving from gorilla to human. Also, the rebels have created their own cottage industry of taking tourists into the...
created by Jordan Yerman | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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Civil war looms in Lebanon
A civil war in Lebanon, where Iran through Syria has played an alleged role in funding and supporting Hizbullah, is libel to disrupt the region even further. "As street clashes between rival political factions in Beirut fuel fears of a new civil war, many Lebanese have...Bill Kristol on Ron Paul: He's a crackpot
"Video: America's favorite neocon commentator takes a crack at America's favorite quasi-Libertarian presidential candidate. Hey, might as well - everyone else is ripping Paul, as they always do when anyone gets too big for his britches. Kristol is particularly...Ivory Coast: "The war is over"
" The war in Côte d'Ivoire is over. That was the declaration of President Laurent Gbagbo and rebel leader turned Prime Minister Guillaume Soro as Gbagbo set foot in former rebel territory for the first time...
created by Jordan Yerman | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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Civil Wars And Childhood Lost: Who Care ?
Recent decades have witnessed a significant increase in the number of armed confrontations internationally, ranging from outright warfare and mass violence to sporadic civil unrest and long-term unstable post-conflict situations. Engagement by trained armed forces is but one... Ideological Intolerance Jeopardizing Nepal’s Peace Process
08 June 2007 Mohan Nepali, Kathmandu: Through their decade-long armed struggles with nationwide escalation, Nepal’s Maoist insurgents have succeeded in establishing their agenda of the abolition of monarchy with the establishment of a federal republic, the production of...Black History Month; P.B. Randolph
"Paschal Beverly Randolph (P.B. Randolph) was a 19th Century magickian, a spiritualist and founder of the Rosicrucian movement in the United Sates. Like Paul Lafargue he was a mulatto but one who initially denied...Like Barney Fife -- Iraqi Military has One Bullet in Their Pocket
"Buried inside of the big troop surge idea is the another idea -- an idea so bad and so poorly thought out that it has even warheads like John McCain backing off on the plan."Salon:The Baghdad surge plan,...Top Members Today
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