Archive for the ‘Elsewhere’ Category
Ending the LRA…or preparing for a CIA-style strike?
So the House yesterday passed a bill aimed at ending the fight by the Lord’s Resistance Army, the Ugandan rebel group that spent a decade terrorizing northern Uganda and has recently spread the practice to DRC and Central African Republic.
Let’s skip the part where we wonder what a Congressional bill (HR 2478, for all you [...]
Tastes like terrorism!
“As another day passed with Mr. [Faisal] Shahzad talking to investigators about the car bomb he had admitted driving into Times Square on Saturday, details emerged on Wednesday about [Mr. and Mrs. Shahzad] and their life together, along with speculation about his radicalization….
A Pakistani man said that an acquaintance of his who was a friend [...]
Things that are worth your time
Adam Hocschild’s article from Congo, about mining, which I blogged about earlier, is online. Read it. Amazing.
“Africa to Appalachia,” Jayme Stone’s collaboration with kora player Mansa Sissoko. I’ve been listening to it on and off since it came out, but in the past few weeks, I’ve been really listening to it. It’s incredible. (So, too, [...]
Sharing the mission
This week, I start blogging at Change.org’s Global Poverty site. I hope you’ll come over, check out the site, and join in the dynamic conversation. You can also find some great work by my fellow Ochberg Fellow Husacar Robles from Haiti.
Good reads
While I’m distracted from writing by mundane daily life things, check out this stuff, which comes from the “Things I’m currently reading” list…
Guernica Magazine, an online assemblage of in-depth reporting, beautiful writing, and good Q&A-style conversation.
The Good Soldiers, David Finkel’s ridiculously good book about a battalion in Iraq. I’m going to have a lot [...]
On Haiti
Just a quick note to encourage those of you interested in what Haiti looks like to follow my friend Huascar Robles’ reporting. He is, among other projects, blogging about it over at the Dart Society. Here’s a sample:
I later visited Parc St. Therese, also in Petionville, and saw a crowd of people dancing [...]
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