Unaccountable Killing Machines: The True Cost of U.S. #Drones - Joshua Foust - International - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/12/unaccountable-killing-machines-the-true-cost-of-us-drones/250661
Unaccountable Killing Machines: The True Cost of U.S. #Drones - Joshua Foust - International - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/12/unaccountable-killing-machines-the-true-cost-of-us-drones/250661
How Ethiopia’s Adoption Industry Dupes Families and Bullies Activists - Kathryn Joyce - International - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/12/adoption-inc-how-ethiopias-industry-dupes-families-and-bullies-activists/250296
Adoption searchers — specialized independent researchers working in a unique field that few outside the community of adoptive parents even know exists — track down the birth families of children adopted from other counties. In Ethiopia, searching has arisen in response to a dramatic boom in international adoptions from the country in recent years. In 2010, Ethiopia accounted for nearly a quarter of all international adoptions to the U.S. The number of Ethiopian children adopted into foreign families in the U.S., Canada, and Europe has risen from just a few hundred several years ago to several thousand last year. The increase has been so rapid — and, for some, so lucrative — that some locals have said adoption was “becoming the new export industry for our country.”
A Photo That Encapsulates the Horror of Egypt’s Crackdown - Max Fisher
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/12/a-photo-that-encapsulates-the-horror-of-egypts-crackdown/250147
Outraged Egyptian Facebook users posted a composite of three photos from the above video. Taken together, they appear to show that a pair of bystanders — a man and a woman, both well dressed — watched the young woman’s beating, went to her side after the troops discarded her, and were then beaten themselves for their effort.
Are Western-Educated Dictators Better Behaved? - Robert M. Danin - International - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/12/are-western-educated-dictators-better-behaved/249610
Many observers simply assumed that because these three men were not only bilingual but bicultural—mixing easily among Western jetsetters—that they would bring home with them Western values and progressive approaches. If anything, they embodied a sense of superiority and entitlement, not equality among common citizens. Their privileged experiences in the West seem to have bred contempt and condescension for their fellow countrymen. While they may have known which fork to use at a palace dinner, it turns out that they were equally comfortable with the AK-47 and the killing and bloodshed it produces.
Religion’s Role in Fighting AIDS - Isobel Coleman - International - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/12/religions-role-in-fighting-aids/249416
While religious leaders are unusually well-placed to provide followers with guidance about this preventable disease, they have in many cases contributed to the epidemic by denying the importance of condoms in HIV prevention and contributing to the stigma that AIDS patients already confront.
Nevertheless, even in light of the ongoing devastation of AIDS, our mixed response to it, and the current funding crunch, we can find a few glimmers of good news. The 2011 UNAIDS World AIDS Day Report indicates that the number of new HIV infections throughout the world decreased by 21 percent from 1997 to 2010.