Why Are We Ignoring the War on Yemen?
Aug 20, 2015 Key human rights groups have warned about war crimes and mass starvation in the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led war on Yemen. But almost as stunning as the atrocities there is the silence of politicians and the public.
Quarantine Borders
Oct 28, 2014
Truthdiggers of the Week: Frontline Ebola Responders
Oct 19, 2014 Doctors Without Borders was on the scene in West Africa six months before the U.N. declared the outbreak a "threat to international peace and security."
‘The World Is Losing the Battle to Contain’ Ebola
Sep 3, 2014 The world's leading medical organizations are sounding the alarm over an outbreak of the Ebola virus, which has now spread to Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Senegal and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Of the 3,500 confirmed cases, 1,500 people have died.
Doctors Without Borders, With a Film Crew
Jun 10, 2010 Mark Hopkins, the director of the new documentary “Living in Emergency,” about the international humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières -- Doctors Without Borders -- compares the group to the Special Forces. Not many people get accepted to the program, and of those who are, few go on to do a second mission. Mark Hopkins, the director of the new documentary “Living in Emergency,” about the international humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières -- Doctors Without Borders -- compares the group to the Special Forces.
Haiti Death Toll Could Figure in Hundreds of Thousands
Jan 14, 2010 As rescue teams and aid groups rush to help the injured and displaced -- and to tend to the dead -- after Tuesday's devastating earthquake in Haiti, officials from the Caribbean nation estimated Wednesday that the number of casualties could exceed 100,000, even by a large margin. Updated
Becoming What We Seek to Destroy
May 11, 2009 The bodies of dozens, perhaps well over a hundred, women, children and men, their corpses blown into bits of human flesh by iron fragmentation bombs dropped by U.S. warplanes in a village in the western province of Farah, illustrates the futility of the Afghan war.
