Photos Of Recovery After Tsunami Devastated 15,000 Japanese
Two Months Later: Tsunami Devastated Japan May 9, 2011 | 0 Two months ago this week, on March 11, the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami struck northeastern Japan. As of today, nearly 15,000 deaths have been confirmed, and more than 10,000 remain listed as missing. In some coastal communities, where the ground has sunk lower than…
The Coca Cola Effect : Drugs & Crimes In Afghanistan Rob The Soul
The Lost Souls of Kabul: Photographs by James Nachtwey A man injects himself under a bridge near an open sewer in Kabul. While overall production has dropped thanks to aggressive eradication efforts, and a blight that destroyed almost half of last year’s harvest, more Afghans than ever are getting addicted to opiates. We’re used to…
Law Of Banking Jungle: Gadaffi Money Becomes Rebel Money $33 Billon
U.S. to allow Libyan rebels access Gaddafi’s frozen $33bn Libya’s rebels will be given access to part of the $33bn of Libyan state assets that have been frozen at US banks, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said. Clinton’s announcement that the US is creating a legal framework for rebels to…
Mission To Kill: The Architect Of Ten Years Of Terror
The weeks before President Obama ordered Navy SEALs into Pakistan in pursuit of Osama bin Laden, administration officials weighed using American warplanes to obliterate the terror mastermind’s fortified compound from the sky or sending commandos on a high-risk mission to assault the structure from the ground. But there’s one option the administration appears to…
China Politics: Ai Weiwei Champion Of Social Equality
Horror does not come from savageness and brutality but the universal acquiescence in brutality.
The Double Death of Osama bin Laden
As evidenced by this year’s “Arab spring,” Osama Bin Laden’s political influence began to wane even before his death.