Afghanistan
Welch bill to prevent Afghanistan from taxing U.S. aid coming to House floor tomorrow
Source: VTDigger.org
May 15, 2012 - 9:19 am
For immediate release
May 15, 2012
Contact:
Scott Coriell
Congressman Peter Welch
202.225.4115 (o)
202.689.5352 (c)
Welch bill to prevent Afghanistan from taxing U.S. aid coming to House floor tomorrow
WASHINGTON D.C. – A bill authored by Rep. Peter...
Calif. still leads nation in Iraq, Afghan war casualties
Source: California Watch
April 30, 2012 - 11:36 am
G.W. Schulz
U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Nicholas Johnson
More than 670 service members from California have died in the combined Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The state continues to lead the nation in fatalities in the conflicts,...
Calif. still leads nation in Iraq, Afghan war casualties
Source: Center for Investigative Reporting
April 30, 2012 - 12:00 am
Chief Warrant Officer Nicholas Johnson
Credit: U.S. Army
When Chief Warrant Officer Nicholas Johnson’s Black Hawk helicopter went down during bad weather April 19, killing him and three others, he became the 671st service member from California...
Afghanistan: The e-Bookseller of Kabul
Source: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
April 28, 2012 - 7:35 pm
Eliza Griswold, for the Pulitzer Center
Najibullah Manalai is a poet and a businessman who aspires to become “the Afghan Murdoch.” Late last year, he opened Book City, the nation’s largest bookstore, which currently stocks 20,000 titles in Pashto,...
Afghanistan: On Love and Suicide
Source: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
April 27, 2012 - 6:15 am
“My love will gather us both together on the day of resurrection. Brutes have placed stones between us in this world.”
--Rahila Moska, a young Afghan woman poet from Helmand
On April 8, 2010, Rahila Moska, who was 16,...
Bangladesh
Rohingya: A Stateless Struggle
Source: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
April 24, 2012 - 12:03 pm
Greg Constantine, for the Pulitzer Center
It is 9:00 a.m. in the outpost town of Teknaf in southern Bangladesh. The streets are teeming with rickshaws, street vendors, motorbikes, buses and thousands of people shuffling off to various jobs for the...
Bolivia
Bolivia: Sacred Lake Titicaca is Being Drowned by Pollution
Source: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
May 14, 2012 - 8:09 am
Sara Shahriari, Bolivia
Brown, rolling plains that seem to stretch on to eternity are suddenly broken by the brilliant blue of Lake Titicaca. The lake, which sits on the border between Peru and Bolivia, has supported indigenous farming and fishing...
Burma
Rohingya: A Stateless Struggle
Source: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
April 24, 2012 - 12:03 pm
Greg Constantine, for the Pulitzer Center
It is 9:00 a.m. in the outpost town of Teknaf in southern Bangladesh. The streets are teeming with rickshaws, street vendors, motorbikes, buses and thousands of people shuffling off to various jobs for the...
Cambodia
Local Communities in Cambodia Protest Logging
Source: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
April 20, 2012 - 10:20 am
Keyla Beebe, for the Pulitzer Center, Cambodia
“My life is important,” said Yin Chum, an activity leader with the Prey Lang Network (PLN) in Cambodia. “But the forest is my number one priority.”
Many villagers across Cambodia who share Chum’s...
Chile
Behind the Story: “Nostalgia for the Light”
Source: Center for Investigative Reporting
April 24, 2012 - 5:38 pm
Director Patricio Guzmán – famed for his political documentaries “The Battle of Chile” and “The Pinochet Case” – talks about his latest film, “Nostalgia for the Light.” The film played at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 2011.
Guzmán...
China
The Chinese Come to Suriname
Source: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
May 4, 2012 - 6:26 am
James Whitlow Delano, for the Pulitzer Center
This is not a story about a Red Scare. It has a political component but, in the early stages, it seems more like a story about immigrant Chinese families trying to find opportunity and a better way of...
China’s rare earth role
Source: WyoFile
May 1, 2012 - 1:00 am
How China came to monopolize the rare earth supply chain is a complex story. Today, it delivers 97 percent of the world’s rare earth elements and uses 60 percent to 70 percent. The United States had a rare-earth mine until 2002 at Mountain Pass,...
Cote d'Ivoire
Ivory Coast: Ethnic Tensions Along Coastal Road
Source: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
May 9, 2012 - 11:07 am
Austin Merrill, for the Pulitzer Center
La côtiere—the coastal road. That’s what everyone calls it. But there’s never a view of the coast, and it’s not really much of a road. It heads west from Abidjan toward the Liberian border, and its two lanes...
Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea: Legitimizing Obiang
Source: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
April 24, 2012 - 11:54 am
William Sands, for the Pulitzer Center, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
The Iberia flight from Madrid to Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, takes six hours and leaves every other day. It is normally booked full. In first-class, wealthy Equato-...
Iraq
Calif. still leads nation in Iraq, Afghan war casualties
Source: California Watch
April 30, 2012 - 11:36 am
G.W. Schulz
U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Nicholas Johnson
More than 670 service members from California have died in the combined Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The state continues to lead the nation in fatalities in the conflicts,...
Calif. still leads nation in Iraq, Afghan war casualties
Source: Center for Investigative Reporting
April 30, 2012 - 12:00 am
Chief Warrant Officer Nicholas Johnson
Credit: U.S. Army
When Chief Warrant Officer Nicholas Johnson’s Black Hawk helicopter went down during bad weather April 19, killing him and three others, he became the 671st service member from California...
Israel
Feldman gives Fulbrights view of Iran nuclear issue
Source: Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism
April 30, 2012 - 11:36 am
Neither the American president nor the Israeli prime minister has given the other what he wants with regard to dealing with Iran's nuclear aspirations, the Crown Center director says, but the two leaders have shown flexibility that has helped ease...
Mexico
Questions Surround 49 Bodies Found on U.S.-Mexico Border
Source: New America Media
May 14, 2012 - 3:59 pm
On Sunday, Mexican police found 49 mutilated bodies, believed by some to be migrants, on a road that connects the industrial city of Monterrey with the United States border.
The corpses had their hands, heads, and feet chopped off, making them...
Nigeria
Nigeria Beyond the Headlines: Population, Health, Natural Resources, and Governance
Source: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
April 24, 2012 - 1:19 pm
Event date: April 25, 2012 - 8:30am
Pulitzer Center grantee Ameto Akpe will discuss accountability, transparency and the management of Nigeria's water sector at a day-long conference held by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars...
North Korea
Korea Flashpoint: Disputed Yellow Sea Boundary
Source: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
April 23, 2012 - 12:55 pm
Tomas van Houtryve, for the Pulitzer Center
With each passing year, South Korea's inhabited islands in the Yellow Sea look less idyllic and more like a war zone.
On Baengnyeong Island, South Korean marines can be seen digging fresh trenches and...
Sudan
Sudan: The Lost Children of Nuba
Source: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
May 14, 2012 - 8:17 am
Trevor Snapp
Rose was in the middle of an English lesson at her school when the bombers arrived. Hearing the buzz of old Russian Antonov cargo planes, the students scurried outside, peering into the sky. At that moment, high above the children’s...
Suriname
The Chinese Come to Suriname
Source: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
May 4, 2012 - 6:26 am
James Whitlow Delano, for the Pulitzer Center
This is not a story about a Red Scare. It has a political component but, in the early stages, it seems more like a story about immigrant Chinese families trying to find opportunity and a better way of...
Chinese Soft Power, Wikileaks, and a Small Amazonian Country
Source: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
May 4, 2012 - 5:41 am
Suriname, with its pristine environment, has become a pawn in a new Great Game as the balance of power in the Americas shifts from the United States toward China. Documents made available by Wikileaks have opened a curtain, partially, onto...
Syria
As cease-fire in Syria dissolves, an all-out civil war looms
Source: WBEZ Chicago
April 25, 2012 - 11:54 am
A UN-brokered cease-fire in Syria, in place since April 12, has had little effect on stemming the violence that has raged for more than a year now. Yesterday, three members of the Syrian security service were killed in Damascus.
Taiwan
Lobbyists Arranged N.Y. Congressman’s $20,000 Trip To Taiwan
Source: ProPublica
May 10, 2012 - 6:00 pm
by Justin Elliott
Update May 11, 2012: Rep. Bill Owens announces he will reimburse costs for Taiwan trip.
Two days after Christmas last year, Rep. Bill Owens, D-N.Y., and his wife, Jane, boarded a first-class flight to...
United States
Welch bill to prevent Afghanistan from taxing U.S. aid coming to House floor tomorrow
Source: VTDigger.org
May 15, 2012 - 9:19 am
For immediate release
May 15, 2012
Contact:
Scott Coriell
Congressman Peter Welch
202.225.4115 (o)
202.689.5352 (c)
Welch bill to prevent Afghanistan from taxing U.S. aid coming to House floor tomorrow
WASHINGTON D.C. – A bill authored by Rep. Peter...
Filipino Amerasians’ Lifelong Fight Against Stigma
Source: New America Media
May 13, 2012 - 12:00 am
BRENTWOOD, Calif - Even after 21 years of living in the United States, Rose Cruz still has trouble sleeping at night. She flinches when her husband tries to hold her.
“It’s so hard to sleep. Every little noise, I’m awake,”...
America's Cities Shaped (and Mishaped) by Rules
Source: City Limits New York
April 29, 2012 - 9:00 pm
Zoning laws, building codes and other regulations can seem like bureaucratic obscurities. But, says this author, they have a powerful—and often negative—impact on urban areas.
New study affirms the grim role played by US guns in Mexican violence
Source: Center for Public Integrity
April 27, 2012 - 8:36 am
South of the border, war is raging with guns mostly supplied by merchants in the United States.
The Government of Mexico has estimated that almost 50,000 people have been killed since 2006, a toll that has made its top officials irate about the...
Threats of terrorism, violence at border overblown, study says
Source: California Watch
April 26, 2012 - 12:05 am
Tia Ghose
Jim Greenhill/Flickr A U.S. Army National Guard soldier watches the U.S.-Mexico border near Nogales, Ariz.
The threats of terrorism and spillover violence from the Mexican drug war are largely overblown, according to a new...
