In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue ‘ethnic’ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%) of Tutsi (14….

A serious pacifist approach can't win wars against enemies whose only program is violence. That doesn't mean I think the US has fought terrorists so ….

Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls around ev….

The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report all massacres ar….

What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to ma….

Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island’s flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is th….

The people are living seperately together," he said. "So there is responsibility. I cry, you cry. You cry, I cry. We all come running, and the one th….

Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building..

Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good..

The photographs of one dead terrorist mastermind carry no real news or information about the nature or horror of war. They just create sensation inst….

I'm not pro-war. But I think war has been the dominant condition of humankind, and peace has been the anomaly - certainly sustained periods of peace ….

The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the me….