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If you’ve logged on to Google Earth (earth.google.com) and looked up your house, you know the program is surprisingly accurate, with individual cars and buildings made visible. And hey, that dot on the sidewalk could be you walking to school.

With the ability to zoom in on one’s own house and view photos of college campuses, Google Earth may be a source of amusement and interest, but this program also serves a greater purpose.

Many nonprofit organizations now use Google Earth to quickly locate refugee camps and provide aid. In dire emergencies, lack of communication and panic can make it almost impossible to find those in greatest need, so Google Earth is a huge advantage for aid workers. In fact, after Hurricane Katrina, some used this technological tool for rescue operations  Read More »

Imagine waking up in the middle of the night to an arm wrapping around you. Instantly, you are being dragged from your home by a man that you do not know. As you are leaving your hut, he shoots your mother and father, and several other men hack your baby sister to death.  Read More »

"We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow, We Will be Killed With Our Families", a book written by Philip Gourevitch answered a lot of questions for me about the genocide in Rwanda. Yes, I've seen the movie, but it still didnt make sense to me. If explained in the movie Hotel Rwanda why the Tutsis were being eliminated by the Hutus, i must've missed it.  Read More »

World War II was perhaps the bloodiest war of the twentieth century, if not of all history. Estimates for total deaths range between fifty to sixty-five million. Of those, eleven million were civilians murdered systematically by the Nazis. Six million were Jews – about 72% of the total Jewish population in Europe. In some countries, nearly 90% of the Jewish population was killed.  Read More »

By Stewart N. Thorpe (Ramognino) of Citizen Press Revolution

Darfur, ladies and gentlemen, as the public knows it, is a hoax, a great, giant, big, freaking big hoax.

The Save Darfur Coalition spent $15 million in 2006 and none of that $15 million went to aid groups on the ground in Darfur. None.  Read More »