Liberal Debutante

Le. Sigh.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation, the U.S. government failed to take advantage of millions of dollars in foreign aid from its allies, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
The U.S. has collected about $126 million and used just $40 million of the $454 million in cash that was offered, the newspaper reported, citing U.S. [...]

Sam and I have now posted three individual pieces on the upset from Virginia Tech. …I don’t want to make anyone think that I’m a cold hearted bitch, that I don’t see why this is so upsetting or anything like that - but I’d appreciate it if you’d just… read the following headings. I think [...]

Greenpeace International has been busy in the past two years finally producing a study which says for the past three year Congolese village chiefs have been giving humongous expanses of the Congo rainforest to European and U.S logging companies. Each tree can bring in about $8 000 but rather than this direct money they were [...]

My near future looks as though it will be steering me toward Africa if all works as planned, so I’ve been reading a lot about Africa lately… News, reports, journals, travels… etc. Just to see… what people are up to, what other people experienced, what the people who live there experience… etc and I’ve come [...]

After watching the movie Blood Diamond I was a little shaken up. I got talking about it with a friend of mine, who kept reminding me that it was fictional, so I shouldn’t get so worked up. The story was fictional. “Van De Kapp doesn’t even exist”… she said to me. “The RUF is now [...]