by Andre Vltchek | Nov 28, 2011 | War & Peace
As a result of Kenya’s recent invasion of Somalia, the situation in Kenyan refugee camps has sharply deteriorated and is now on the verge of a full-scale humanitarian crisis. In Dadaab, the largest refugee camp on earth with close to half a million people,...
by Nicole Erwin | Jul 4, 2011 | War & Peace
The Samsung-owned dredging barge arrived in Gangjeong on June 20 to deliver blocks of concrete for a controversial South Korean naval base. Gangjeong sits on the south side of Jeju Island, the only place in the world to receive “triple crown status” from...
by Katie Thomas | Jun 15, 2011 | Environment
I’ve seen destruction before, tragedy too, but within the confines of a museum or memorial: clean, organized, and touching, but safe. The day before I arrived in Fukushima I wandered through the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Museum and looked at pictures of a city laid...
by Paul Mutter | Apr 13, 2011 | War & Peace
Sixty years after the conclusion of World War II in North Africa, destroyed European weaponry once again litters Libya’s coastal roads as the civil conflict there enters its second month. But Europeans are not fighting on the ground in the former Italian colony....
by Jon Mitchell | Apr 6, 2011 | Environment
In the early 1980s, when the Japanese government censored accounts of its nation’s wartime atrocities from school textbooks, a group of Japanese university students chartered a ship to travel around Asia and talk firsthand to the victims of their nation’s...
