When WNR’s Amy DiPierro isn’t reporting about international conflict, she moonlights as a ukulele columnist for Swarthmore’s Daily Gazette. This week, the topics Amy covers for her two favorite news organizations share some surprising overlap.
Issues involving violations of human rights are almost always more complicated then they first appear. Campaigns like KONY 2012 and situations like the conflict in Syria seem to offer clear courses of action, but how well are they represented and addressed by those involved in the solutions? WNR’s Collin Smith…
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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…
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…