Entries Tagged as 'international affairs'

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Medicine for Peace Update: Haiti

I wanted to share this with my readers and encourage you to visit the site:
Dear Mark,
Just a short note to thank you for your contribution to Medicine For Peace’s Haiti relief efforts. Seven weeks since the earthquake struck, and it is still difficult to describe the extent of the devastation in Port-Au-Prince or the squalor [...]

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

Pre-Emptive War Is Murder

I adhere to a position that may seem at first blush to be as recklessly extreme as one taken by certain anti-abortion activists: I equate with murder the killing that goes on in what is popularly referred to as “pre-emptive war.” 
 
This oxymoronic phrase is a crass euphemism, not only for its attempt to make [...]

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Dear Casim – Letter One

These letters were discovered in a pile of refuse outside Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station. The author is believed to have been a gentleman known as Jasper–or John Doe #124587-49C (Phila. County Coroner’s Office)–who died of heart failure this past March and has not been identified.