This amazing report Promising Democracy, Imposiing Theocracy: Gender Based Violence and the US War in Iraq just came out a few months ago from Madre concerning the rising violence against women in Iraq since the US-led invasion.
Check it out!
International Violence WAR
You Won’t Sleep If You Read This Link
Some mornings, I pray for peace. I really do. I pray for a peace that we cannot attain. A morning where only the sun burns and not human flesh with violence and war.
Other mornings, I wonder what is going on in the world. As I wake up and make love and drink tea, I ask myself what is the world feeling and thinking.
And then there are mornings when I receive answers and find this.
These are the mornings when I cannot comprehend the world and where we are going.
*REALLY GRAPHIC IMAGES OF VIOLENCE ARE ON THIS LINK.*