After a long hiatus, WNR is making a resurgence. I think the most coherent way is to explain the new WNR is through some questions and answers. Why WNR? How is that different from the old model? Two weeks ago, several staffers got together to discuss what to do about…
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BATTEN: Matthew Letterman came home from the Gulf War in 1991, but in some ways, he says, he never really left Iraq. LETTERMAN: I left a piece of myself over there. You know, I would like to either go there and get it and bring it back, or be buried…
On February 11, Huwayda Ahrraf and Radhika Sainath were arrested in Bahrain after they attended an anti-monarchy protest with an American activist group called Witness Bahrain. The story of their arrest and subsequent release to the United States, told in a forthcoming piece from War News Radio, got me curious…
BALDONADO: There are 10 veterans who die a day, because of their old age. Like myself, I’m 85 years old already. My comrade is 93. We had a meeting the other day and they said: we are losing our people around. SOMOSOT: That was Regalado Baldonado, Commissioner for Veteran Affairs…
HAMEED: On Islamabad’s Faqeer Aipee Road, a child leads a camel along the dirt path while an SUV races past on the pavement. It has become an ordinary scene to locals, scores of people and a sudden collection of shanties to the sides of the road. This is a place…
NAOMI GLASSMAN: President Otto Pérez Molina is starting his presidency amid consideration of Guatemala’s violent past and militarized future. Anita Isaacs, Professor of Latin American Studies at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, says that Otto Pérez Molina is an inherently complicated politician. ANITA ISAACS: He is kinda this enigmatic character, both…
REYES: El Puente, which is Spanish for The Bridge, has labeled the neighborhoods it serves in Brooklyn, New York City as some of the most environmentally hazardous residential areas in New York and claims that the high levels of contamination have contributed to an epidemic of health problems. A 2007…
Human Rights Watch says rebel fighters have tortured and executed members of security forces and pro-government gangs. from (author unknown) via http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/03/2012320173746248599.html
Tens of thousands of Egyptian Coptic Christians join a funeral mass for their pope in Cairo from (author unknown) via http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/mar/20/pope-shenouda-funeral-egyptvideo