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The Anti-Genocide Paparazzi Snap Crimes Against Human­ity from 300 Miles Up

By Frederick Clarkson On March 16, 2013  

Crossposted from Unbound: A Journal of Christian Social Justice

Crimes against human­ity are best car­ried out in secret. Ter­ror can be inflicted, eth­nic cleans­ing can be waged; tor­ture can be com­mit­ted — and in areas that the whole world is not already watch­ing — who will even know? That’s the [...]

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The U.S. in Libya: Like it or not, we’re in for the long haul

By Rafael Noboa y Rivera On March 31, 2011  

Yesterday, news broke that President Obama had signed a secret order – called a ‘finding‘ – which authorised the covert support of the United States government for the Libyan rebel forces.

Basically, a finding is one of the principal forms by which the president authorises secret operations by the Central Intelligence Agency.

As an Iraq [...]

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You Can’t Please All the War Criminals All the Time

By Frederick Clarkson On March 18, 2011  

Earlier this year, a new initiative called the Satellite Sentinel Project launched a new era in peace activism and the prevention of genocide. I wrote at the time:

A new human rights initiative may be the stuff of which peace is made.

The Satellite Sentinel Project is an [...]

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Eliminationism by Limbaugh

By Frederick Clarkson On March 2, 2011  

An important diary at Daily Kos today reports that Rush Limbaugh described “leftists” and President Obama as “cockroaches” during a recent show. The diarist goes on to remind us that in the run-up to the Rwandan genocide in the 90s, “cockroaches” was the favored term of Rwandan radio provocateurs.

While the use of [...]

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Will Gaddafi End up in a Hidey Hole Like Saddam?

By Russ Wellen On February 27, 2011  

Will Gaddafi meet his end strung up like Mussolini, shot like Nicolae Ceausescu, or hanged like Saddam? Or will he find exile in Saudi Arabia, like Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine BenAli?

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Vatican: Priests Have Been Raping Nuns to Avoid Hookers with HIV

By Joshua Holland On February 24, 2011  

Let us take a moment to recall Pope Benedict’s view of what caused the Holocaust:

As we reflect on the sobering lessons of the atheist extremism of the twentieth century, let us never forget how the exclusion of God, religion and virtue from public life leads ultimately to a truncated vision of man and [...]

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