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...news hasn't been confined to the financial pages. Was there actually more bad news than usual? The answer is an objective yes. For example, there were more mass shootings and school shootings, such as the murder of 32 students at Virginia Tech in 2007 and the recent slaughter at Fort Hood, than in any other decade. There were more large-scale terrorist bombings and attacks in countries like England, Spain, Pakistan, Indonesia, Russia, Jordan, the Philippines, Turkey, India and of course the U.S. The absolute number killed was not great, but the idea that terrorists can attack anytime...
...combat the slaughter, Thailand has unleashed a massive surge, sending nearly 70,000 security forces into a region populated by 1.7 million people. But the authorities have also encouraged local residents to arm themselves and form militias with fanciful names like the Iron Ladies, the Night Butterflies and the Eyes of a Pineapple. Around 100,000 civilians are now members of such armed groups, and they either receive free guns from the military or can buy them at deeply subsidized rates. The majority of militia members come from Buddhist ranks because the government feels they are most vulnerable to attack...
Although many people are vaguely aware that factory-farmed animals are kept in small, crowded enclosures and are subject to painful slaughter procedures, Foer exposes the suffering of these animals throughout their entire lives, focusing largely on the degree to which the animals’ natural behaviors are disrupted. Industrial pigs, chickens and seafood (and, to a lesser extent, cattle) are prevented from engaging in any of their instinctive behaviors; chickens are kept in tiny cages and often kill and cannibalize each other for lack of social hierarchy. Pigs and fish undergo similar experiences. “I simply cannot...
...Serbia. "More the foreman than the architect [that distinction belonged to Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic] of the worst massacres in Europe since World War II," as TIME's Massimo Calabresi wrote in 2008, Karadzic allegedly ordered the siege of Sarajevo, which killed at least 10,000 people, and the slaughter at Srebrenica in 1995, which killed more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys. (See pictures from 2006 of the last Albanian community in Serbia...
...Karadzic, 64, is accused of orchestrating the 44-month siege of Sarajevo, during which some 10,000 people were killed, as well as the slaughter of about 8,000 captured Bosnian Muslims in the town of Srebrenica in July 1995. After more than a decade on the run, living in Serbia under the assumed identity of a psychic healer named Dragan Dabic, the world's most wanted fugitive was finally captured in July 2008 and transferred to the International Criminal Tribunal for War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague. He faces a maximum sentence of life...