Outside Insight

The Recent History of the Hmong

There’s no logic or reason in my mind for that. How can a person not be affected by such images? How can someone do any of it and not feel something terribly wrong with themselves? This is what wars do to men - and I say “Men” specifically. Abuses to [...]

Evo Morales is the first president after Sept of last year, when the UN passed the Declaration of Indigenous people, to adopt indegenous-protecting laws in his country. Bravo Evo!

World Food Crisis:

Price of food increases at least 40% around the world this last week - in the meantime in the US our poor are dying from health problems deriving from obesity and easy access to bad quality quickly and cheaply produced foods. We are a country where the “poor are fat” so when I [...]

The protests are against China’s government oppression of the people of the region - Chinese, Tibetans and Burmese, etc. - not against the Olympics themselves.

Too bad our system punishes those who care about justice and celebrates those who make war and death happen.
War Protest - March 19th 2008, 5th Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq