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  • Philippine Extra-Judicial Killings Continue, Obama’s Response In Question
    29 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Philippine Extra-Judicial Killings Continue, Obama’s Response In Question by Brian McAfee
    On March 23rd, Sabina Ariola, the leader of "Citizens for Excellence, Progress, Peace towards the Country’s Great Future," was gunned down. She is the 992nd civilian to be killed in the ongoing spree of extra-judicial killings that have been occurring since 2001, when Gloria Macapagal Arroyo assumed the (…)

  • Obama’s First Full Month Significant And Telling
    3 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Barack Obama’s first full month as president will be marked as historically significant for its shift away from the fraudulent "trickle down" economic model begun by Ronald Reagan almost 30 years ago. The first significant policy vote was to approve and increase the State Children’s Health Insurance Program or SCHIP. This program provides health coverage for children of working parents who are not eligible for Medicaid and whose parent’s employers do not provide health insurance. (…)

  • DR Congo’s Historic Urgency.
    17 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Brian McAfee
    The conditions in the democratic republic of Congo are dire for millions of its people despite the fact that the Congo has more mineral wealth than any other part of the African continent. Over a quarter of a million people are displaced because of the civil war currently raging in the eastern part of the country. Women and children have been primary targets of both sides in the conflict with rape used as a weapon by both sides. The war between the government forces and (…)

  • Pakistan Earthquake Response
    31 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Brian McAfee
    With now over 300 reported deaths, 500 injured and thousands rendered homeless as a result of the October 29 earthquake that struck Baluchistan in southwest Pakistan a new need for humanitarian assistance presents itself. Many in the area have left their homes because of fear that their homes will collapse due to structural damage from the initial earthquake or the numerous aftershocks that continue to occur.
    UNICEF reports that over 70,00o people, 30,000 of them (…)

  • Too Few Aware Of World Orphan Week.
    11 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Brian McAfee
    October 11 marked the end of World Orphan Week. With 133 million orphans in the world today, most in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and 15 million of them orphaned due to HIV/AIDS (according to SOS Children) we have a moral responsibility to ensure the basic needs orphans around the World. These needs include health, education and welfare. Addressing poverty issues in the various regions particularly populated with high levels of orphaned or abandoned children is being (…)

  • Pakistan As "New" Front In Terror War.
    26 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The truck bomb that exploded in front of Islamabad’s Marriott hotel killing at least 53 people heralded in the latest salvo in the the U.S.’s and Mujahedin’s love/hate relationship. Their relationship began in 1979 in Afghanistan and Pakistan when the U.S., starting with Jimmy Carter and his National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brezezinski hatched an idea of using the most extreme militant Islamists to first draw in the Soviets (to Afghanistan) then go to war against them. At the time the U.S. (…)

  • The Afghan War’s Heavy Toll On Children
    3 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Brian McAfee
    Again today reports coming out of Afghanistan indicate more dead children. Three were killed and seven injured when western troops fired artillery shells at a civilian house in western Afghanistan. This occurs in the wake of the August 22 bombing that resulted in the deaths of 90 people, 60 children, 15 women and 15 men. Afghans and UN officials have confirmed the numbers but the U.S. insists there were only 5 dead children and 25 dead Taliban. Civilian casualties are a (…)

  • Bush’s False Analogies Between Vietnam and Iraq!
    26 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Brian McAfee
    With President Bush recently bringing up the killing fields of South East Asia as justification for the US continuing the war in Iraq [1], I could not help but think of John Pilger’s 1991 film "Cambodia: The Betrayal." This documentary investigates and outlines the West’s, particularly the US’s, behind the scenes and ongoing support for Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. Indeed, this backing began during the Carter administration and it continued throughout both the Reagan and (…)

  • Two Island Tales, The Use and Abuse of Power
    24 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Brian McAfee
    The idyllic lives of two island based populations were inexorably changed and came close to annihilation just to accommodate U.S. supposed protection of democracy. Both Bikini Atoll in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean’s Diego Garcia island were populated by thriving, self sufficient, fishing based population until coming under the radar screen of British and U.S. hegemonic interests. The disregard and callus indifference towards the effected populations show the true nature (…)

  • South Asia Monsoon Crisis Presents An Opportunity To Learn And Prepare For Future Crisis.
    15 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Brian McAfee.
    Is the South Asia monsoon a harbinger of things to come and will we be ready next time around? The perennial monsoon floods that have devastated parts of Bangladesh, India, and Nepal are said to be the worst in 30 years.
    The death toll has surpassed 2,200. meanwhile, the event has made over twenty million people homeless and has resulted in massive crop failure, ensuring hunger, poverty and homelessness for millions of men, women and children in South Asia for some time (…)