Bloody Bling: Review of Blood Diamonds and The Empire In Africa
In 1991, in the tiny West African country of Sierra Leone, former army corporal Foday Sankoh and his Revolutionary…
The Indypendent
In 1991, in the tiny West African country of Sierra Leone, former army corporal Foday Sankoh and his Revolutionary…
Rape has become a defining characteristic of the war in the DRC, as has the mutilation of victims. In…
Leopold’s Legacy: A Doc. on the Colonialism in the Congo
King Leopold’s Ghost is a newly-released documentary based on the bestseller by American journalist Adam Hochschild. It depicts how…
Congo Poised Between War And Peace
Oct. 29 will be an important day in the history of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The run-off…
The George W. Bush Action-Less Figure
Did George W. Bush show up for a physical at his National Guard base in 1972? That’s besides the…
Bush’s Double-Speak: Deceiving the Public, One Lie at a Time
With unemployment reaching its highest level in years, the national deficit setting new records, constitutional rights disappearing, and an…