Mia Farrow: Nations Should Protest China At Olympics
BANGKOK, Thailand — Mia Farrow said Friday the world should use next month's Olympic Games as a platform to demand that China end its support fo...
Myanmar
George Clooney And Brad Pitt Launch Myanmar Campaign
AFP | Posted 06.25.2008 | Entertainment
Hollywood stars George Clooney and Brad Pitt joined forces with Asian political figures in an advertising campaign calling on the region to push Myanm...
Iraqi Allies Struggling in the U.S. -- What Do We Do to Help?
Jane Leu | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
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Americans in Iraq sought out talented professionals for their skills, college educations, professional experience, but in the US, these refugees receive the lowest paying jobs, if any.
Contraband Images Escape Online From Burma
Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 06.17.2008 | Home
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The last thing the junta wants is to have its people travel to the cyclone devastated areas, take photographs and then send the images abroad. But that's what my friend did, and here they are.
Helping Those Who Don't Want Help
Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 06.13.2008 | Home
Humanitarian workers are scrambling to make up for lost time. The world was in disbelief when the Burmese government closed its borders followin...
Period Panties Protest
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 06.09.2008 | Living
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I always knew my undies were powerful. In college someone went to the trouble of breaking into my apartment to steal them. (Side story: the perp wa...
Myanmar Forcing Cyclone Victims Into Menial Labor For Food : Amnesty International
AP | Posted 06.05.2008 | Living
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YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar's military junta has detained a popular comedian who had just returned from an aid trip to the cyclone-ravaged delta, ...
In A World That Glorifies Fictional Superheroes, Will A True Act Of Heroism Be Forgotten?
Christal Smith | Posted 06.02.2008 | Media
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It's in a media climate where fictional superheros get as much press as the recent earthquake in China that I hold out the hope that the truly heroic Mr. X will still get his star turn in the spotlight.
A Bilious Situation
Lapham's Quarterly | Posted 05.30.2008 | Living
With germ theory still in its infancy, London physician John Snow debunked the fallacy of the "miasma theory," which held that foul air, and not contaminated water, communicated cholera from one Londoner to another.
Burma Dictatorship To Decide Tuesday Whether To Extend Aung San Suu Kyi's Detention
New York Times | Seth Mydans | Posted 05.26.2008 | Politics
Almost lost in the clamor over Myanmar's devastating cyclone, the house arrest of the charismatic pro-democracy leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, reaches ...
Myanmar: Why You Won't Be Going There Anytime Soon
Richard Walden | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics
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The Generals in charge of Myanmar, isolated from world opinion as they may be, are intent on achieving "Failed State" status with or without a cyclone disaster.
Who Are We To Lecture the Burmese?
Harry Shearer | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics
Gee, I wonder how a government gets to the point where it's more interested in the preservation of its own power than in relieving the suffering of its people in the wake of a disaster.
Greening Hollywood: Clooney, Cheadle Gang Watching Out for the Little Ones
Paige Donner | Posted 05.16.2008 | Living
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Clooney and Cheadle's non-profit Not On Our Watch has awarded $250,000 to children in Myanmar through Save the Children to provide for the critical needs of children and their families in Myanmar devastated by recent Cyclone Nargis.
Red Cross: Up to 128,000 may have died in Myanmar
AP | Posted 05.14.2008 | Home
YANGON, Myanmar — The Red Cross estimated Wednesday that the cyclone death toll in Myanmar could be as high as 128,000 _ a much larger figure th...
Emergency Cyclone Aid vs. Human Rights In Myanmar
Richard Walden | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics
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Most people think everyone engaged in relief, development, and human rights basically have shared goals. But there's a shocking split between human rights and relief communities.
Burma's Criminal "Malign Neglect"
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics
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Burma is making China look like a world leader on human rights. The troops in China are pitching in to help earthquake victims, Burmese troops have blocked the way to relief from the cyclone.
The Limits of "Doing Something" in Burma
John McQuaid | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics
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Declaring that "something must be done" without an idea of what is just moral posturing, something that's only gotten us into trouble in international affairs of late.
Burma's Cyclone, China's Earthquake, America's Katrina
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 05.13.2008 | Home
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The Bush Administration should go after the Myanmar junta for not letting well-meaning foreign governments deliver relief-- except that the Bush Administration did the same thing when we needed relief.
Myanmar (and China) Need the Odd Couple
Carol Felsenthal | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics
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Wouldn't it be something if this current natural disaster in Myanmar could bring together George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton in another heroic relief effort?
The Politics of Counting the Dead after Disasters
Lionel Beehner | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics
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Whenever a natural disaster strikes, the number of casualties first reported is always deceptively low but creeps upward. The opposite is true after a terrorist attack or nuclear meltdown.
Who Will Save the Dying Burmese? Best Answer: The Chinese
Mary Wald | Posted 05.12.2008 | Home
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Apparently the Burmese people just have not been made to suffer enough, because Time.com is recommending this morning that we "give war a chance" and ...
Obama and Wisdom and Clinton
Norman MacAfee | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics
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I have been meaning to write about whom I support in the Democratic primary. In January I backed all three main candidates. Basically, it was a case o...
CNN Gets Graphic In Myanmar With Footage Of Dead Bodies (GRAPHIC)
Huffington Post | Posted 05.12.2008 | Media
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In Monday afternoon's coverage of last week's cyclone in Myanmar, CNN took the rare step of showing dead bodies — both human and animal — ...
From South to South: Refugees as Migrants: The Rohingya in Pakistan
Derek Flood | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics
I've had an idea for sometime that by meeting people living on the world's geopolitical periphery, I can learn the most about both globalization and its attendant wars.
Silence From Our Sabre Rattlers as Burma's Dying Cry Out to be Saved
Simon Jenkins | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics
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What is this fine distinction between a massacre and what the military are now inflicting on the Burmese people? A corpse is a corpse.
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