Dissecting The Dead In Odessa
Several dozen people burned to death late last week in Odessa, when violence between different political factions led to a fire in a heavily occupied building. Afterwards, witnesses uploaded to the Internet hundreds of differ...
Paradise lost: The displacement of Kashmiri pandits
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all the murderers are punished unless they kill in large number and to the sound of trumpets.” – Voltaire On January 19, 1990, the biggest ever exodus of people since the...
Extreme Poverty Set to Vanish by 2028?
“Statisticians are kind of bewildered by this,” but…”extreme poverty” — that is, the number of people around the world living on less than $1.25 a day, counting inflation — is “on a trend...
Why World Television Day Is A Horrible Idea
In December 1996, November 21st was declared “World Television Day” by the United Nations General Assembly. The resolution was adopted with flying colors, but not without 11 abstentions from the vote. One of these a...
With us or against us: Tory scaremongering has genocidal overtones
The newly independent Tory government has provided further indication of its brazen radicalism. Following the Queen’s Speech in May, during which plans were announced for a new “counter-extremism bill” that will brin...
Intern vs. Mayor: Battle Bares Bloomberg’s Argument for Secrecy
In November 2010, I was earning $300 a week for The Village Voice, blogging about unemployed actors who moonlit as bed bug exterminators and a city project to make biofuel out of toilet water. One afternoon, then-Schools Chance...
