Our brothers and sisters, the Spanish indignados, have marched from their squares to Brussels, the home of the financial institutions who inflict a war of austerity on workers and the poor across Europe.
Like most of Afghanistan's highways, the road to Marjah has seen much damage inflicted by war.
Pol Pot, the overall leader, went on to command a rebel army that inflicted civil war on the country until the mid 1990s.
Movingly more than the sum of its three parts, Making Noise Quietly adds up to a powerful exposé of the damage inflicted by war.
A few weeks ago, I told an audience in Colombia that the world owed them an apology – for inflicting this war on them.
His words of gratitude are in sharp contrast with those of his predecessor, Hamid Karzai, who left office last year, accusing the US of inflicting a war on his country that had intensified with the drawdown of foreign forces.
The haunting images of Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi's body washed up on a Turkish beach, and of Omran Daqneesh's bloodied and bewildered face after his home was destroyed in Aleppo, have become emblems of the heavy toll inflicted by war and displacement on the world's children.
"To realists," Bass writes, "a war crimes tribunal is simply something that the countries that decisively win a war inflict on the helpless country that loses it.
Over the ensuing seven years, evil will proliferate, prompting our loving and merciful Heavenly Father to inflict upon mankind war, famine, pestilence, and a robust series of other catastrophes, including the seas turning to blood, the stars falling from the sky, an attack of invisible locusts, and the rise of the Antichrist.
