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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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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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We’re Being Out-Democracied

By Russ Wellen On March 4, 2011  

Tunisian students are energized by the prospect of participating in the government. Meanwhile, complacency about democracy doesn’t become Americans.

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