• Dan Moshenberg

When does being a Rwandan woman matter? When that woman is a killer, a rapist, a torturer, a `monster.’ Not when she is an organizer and a healer.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

A few of those things we missed, tweeted or could not get to this past week.

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• Elliot Ross

One of the key Greenpeace activists making an assault on oil drilling in Greenland is a political activist who was regularly arrested by South African police under apartheid.

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Video of a worthwhile lecture (recorded in February this year) by Berkeley geographer Michael Watts breaking down the workings of the oil industry.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Gabon's unsavory Life President came to visit the US. Probably to discuss oil deals. He became collatoral damage in the US right's media war against Barack Obama. So less time to focus on Bongo. So a win for him then.

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• Rich Blint

An interview with Rich Blint, a James Baldwin scholar. Biggest takeaway: Baldwin lamented the fragile human impulse for categorization.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The main reaction to Palin is to mock her, but the problem is someone like her got those close to the most powerful office globally. That should scare us.

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• Gregory Mann

The intersection of rape, power, and impunity in Guinea has a history that is very recent and very dark.

• Laura J. Mitchell

The global financial crisis is real, and its consequences are grave. It should not, however, be the reason for a US government to retreat from global engagement, especially education exchanges.

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Blackwater mostly recruits from former US soldiers and former soldiers from dictatorships like Apartheid South Africa

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Paul Kagame is a skilled media operator. Sending unprepared interviewers his way, is not how to do journalism.