Some 21,000 children die every day around the world. That is equivalent to: 1 child dying every 4 seconds 14 children dying every minute A 2011 Libya conflict-scale death toll every day A 2010 Haiti earthquake occurring every 10 days A 2004 Asian Tsunami occurring every 11 days An Iraq-scale death toll every 19–46 days Just under 7.6 million children …
Vijay Prashad – We Are in Pitiless Times
Carnage after this week’s bombings in Beirut. ” For those in the west, the bombings in Baghdad and Beirut will not take up too much time – after all, the western media seems to suggest that bombings of this kind are routine in these places; they are almost natural,” writes Prashad. (Photo: Reuters) A week of horrible carnage – bomb …
Hearts of Darkness: The Vileness of the Clintons by JOSEPH GROSSO
‘Shall we only threaten and be angry for an hour? When the storm is ended shall we find How softly but swiftly they have sidled back to power By the favor and contrivance of their kind?’ – Rudyard Kipling, Mesopotamia What could possibly explain the staying power of the Clintons? After all it’s been over two decades and numerous scandals since …