As a feminist who has devoted her entire adult life to campaigning against unspeakable atrocities toward women committed by violent men, I find the idea of Brown's "rebranding" as a "hard man" ready to "pummel David Cameron into defeat with his bare fist" deeply offensive.
In light of the recent tragedies of Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin, we focus our attention toward the racial divisions instead of the larger issue of human atrocities toward each other.
A White House fact sheet also cited Iran's material support for terrorism, role in the Syrian regime's atrocities, hostility toward Israel, threats to freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf, "grievous" human-rights abuses, detention of American citizens "on specious charges," and cyberattacks on Israeli and U.S. allies in the Middle East.
Blind faith of any kind is the first step toward atrocity.
But neither Hayley nor Trump addressed whether Tuesday's atrocity changed anything toward the president's stance on Syrian refugees.
The 1993 Black Hawk Down incident was tragic not only for the loss of United States servicemen, but because many experts credit this loss with a shift in American public sentiment and policy toward mass atrocity in Africa.
Instead of crafting catchy phrases to help kids stay safe in the event of an atrocity, we should work toward stronger gun ownership background checks and assault-weapon restrictions.
Over time they got the sense that he had stalled, then that his wheels had shifted into reverse, and then that he was heading backward at full speed, toward some oncoming atrocity — a slow and entirely psychological reënactment of their mother's death.
When filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer first met the boastful perpetrators of a decades-old genocide in Indonesia, he was so taken aback by their cavalier attitude toward this horrible atrocity that he decided to spend the next few years of his life unmasking the country's failure to address these crimes through film.
The Statute's definition of rape goes a long way toward recognizing rape as a gender-based atrocity on par with other long-recognized atrocities, such as torture and genocide (Parekh 2009).
