The Lord's Resistance Army has come to Darfur, Sudan, and that is not good news for anyone. The Lord's Resistance Army is a vicious militia led by self-proclaimed messiah Joseph Kony, and though he does not appear to be with the contingent that has moved into Darfur, Kony is widely and rightly regarded as one of the most heinous war criminals still on the loose in the entire world.
The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has long operated as a hybrid between a cult and a rebel army. Kony and the LRA originally sprang up in northern Uganda and waged a brutal campaign trying to overthrow that country's government. Millions of Ugandans fled the fighting, and the LRA engaged in virtually every depravity known in warfare. The LRA's ranks have been swelled with kidnapped child soldiers, girls are regularly treated as sex slaves, and innocent civilians are maimed and killed in a fashion too brutal to describe.
More...
March 12, 2010
Memphis LIVE On Twitter: Local News, Sports, People
Follow the latest in Memphis LIVE through our curated Twitter lists: local news, local sports, and local people via tweets.
Do you know a tweeter who's perfect for one of these lists? Email us at twitterlists@huffingtonpost.com!
More...
Do you know a tweeter who's perfect for one of these lists? Email us at twitterlists@huffingtonpost.com!
More...
Fox News Plucks ‘Back Wax’ Ad From YouTube
Fox News Channel has forced YouTube to take down a Democratic National Committee Web ad that mocks Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio for spending $130 on a haircut saying that the spot illegally uses network footage.
Rubio's grooming bill became an issue after his opponent, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, accused Rubio of spending the money on a back wax.
More...
Rubio's grooming bill became an issue after his opponent, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, accused Rubio of spending the money on a back wax.
More...
March 11, 2010
Baltimore LIVE On Twitter: Local News, Sports, People
Follow the latest in Baltimore LIVE through our curated Twitter lists: local news, local sports, and local people via tweets.
Do you know a tweeter who's for one of these lists? Email us at twitterlists@huffingtonpost.com!
More...
Do you know a tweeter who's for one of these lists? Email us at twitterlists@huffingtonpost.com!
More...
Charlotte LIVE On Twitter: Local News, Sports, People
Follow the latest in Charlotte LIVE through our curated Twitter lists: local news, local sports, and local people via tweets.
Do you know a tweeter who's for one of these lists? Email us at twitterlists@huffingtonpost.com!
More...
Do you know a tweeter who's for one of these lists? Email us at twitterlists@huffingtonpost.com!
More...
Chinese Media Warns of More Unrest in Xinjiang, But Analysts Not Convinced
China's state-owned Xinhua News Agency warned this week of a third summer of ethnic clashes in the Muslim Uyghur-dominated autonomous region of Xinjiang. But scholars say that recent deployments of thousands of Chinese police could quell a potential uprising.
Information from the remote region, situated on China's western frontier, is hard to come by after the Chinese government's ongoing restriction of Internet and telecommunications after riots last year. Still, international experts say that poverty and tension with ethnic Chinese continue to fuel discontent among Uyghurs.
More...
Information from the remote region, situated on China's western frontier, is hard to come by after the Chinese government's ongoing restriction of Internet and telecommunications after riots last year. Still, international experts say that poverty and tension with ethnic Chinese continue to fuel discontent among Uyghurs.
More...
Sex and power, from North Carolina to Congo
Last weekend in Hickory, North Carolina, a man was arrested and charged with raping a woman. According to Charlotte's Channel 9 News, the forty-one-year-old man was charged with first-degree kidnapping, first-degree rape and assault with a deadly weapon. Why assault with a deadly weapon? Because after he raped the woman, he used a box cutter to carve the word "Mine" into her stomach.
Rape is not about sex. Rape is about power. Rape isn't about a man getting carried away with passion and desire. As this case makes gruesomely clear, rape isn't about sexual attraction at all, but about controlling the victim and removing their autonomy and humanity.
More...
Rape is not about sex. Rape is about power. Rape isn't about a man getting carried away with passion and desire. As this case makes gruesomely clear, rape isn't about sexual attraction at all, but about controlling the victim and removing their autonomy and humanity.
More...
Joe Biden, East Jerusalem and A Divided Israel
As has been widely reported in the news this week, during Vice President Biden's trip to Israel, the Israeli Interior Ministry announced plans to build 1600 new homes in East Jerusalem. This has been described by some as a slap in the face by the Israeli Government of the Obama Administration's attempt to restart peace negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians. However, what many commentators have missed is that the row over settlements during Vice President Biden's trip to Israel is not between Israel and the U.S. Rather, it is between different segments in Israeli society and indicative of a deeper problem.
A small, but vocal, segment of Israeli Jews has asserted its view of Judaism - one in which the most important overriding concern is that God gave the Land of Israel to the Jewish people. This group of Israelis asserts its worldview while the majority of Israelis - secular and religious - have remained quiet in recent years. In the case of East Jerusalem, this plays out so that rather than negotiate the status of Jerusalem as part of a peace agreement, these Israelis who seek control over the entirety of the Land of Israel aim to enclose the Old City of Jerusalem by a Jewish buffer zone of Jewish enclaves between and within Palestinian neighborhoods. This will effectively prevent Jerusalem from ever being divided or from ever being claimed as a Palestinian capital.
More...
A small, but vocal, segment of Israeli Jews has asserted its view of Judaism - one in which the most important overriding concern is that God gave the Land of Israel to the Jewish people. This group of Israelis asserts its worldview while the majority of Israelis - secular and religious - have remained quiet in recent years. In the case of East Jerusalem, this plays out so that rather than negotiate the status of Jerusalem as part of a peace agreement, these Israelis who seek control over the entirety of the Land of Israel aim to enclose the Old City of Jerusalem by a Jewish buffer zone of Jewish enclaves between and within Palestinian neighborhoods. This will effectively prevent Jerusalem from ever being divided or from ever being claimed as a Palestinian capital.
More...
Carla Bruni: ‘Nicolas Would Never Have Affairs,’ Calls Marriage ‘Fairy Tale’ (VIDEO)
Sky News talked to French First Lady Carla Bruni about rumors that both she and her husband Nicolas Sarkozy are having extra-martial affairs. Carla said she trusts Nicolas and, "he would never have affairs." She said, "the real fairy tale is how lucky it was for me to fall in love at 40 years old." Check out her thoughts on monogamy and whether her marriage will last.
WATCH:
More...
WATCH:
More...
State Sales Taxes Continue to Rise
If you flip on the news or thumb through a newspaper these days, it's no secret that the federal government is facing a mounting deficit. Spending has outstripped revenues for years now, and the current recession has cut deeply into the biggest source of income: taxpayers.
What hasn't been touted as much is how the same financial crisis is affecting states. As the federal government cuts back on funding state projects (although many, such as those related to education and homeland security, are mandated by the feds), states are scrambling to make up the difference.
More...
What hasn't been touted as much is how the same financial crisis is affecting states. As the federal government cuts back on funding state projects (although many, such as those related to education and homeland security, are mandated by the feds), states are scrambling to make up the difference.
More...