We can use that desire also to shame and coax better behavior out of China’s leaders.

The G-8’s collective shrug today about the Darfur genocide - because the victims are black, impoverished and hidden from television cameras - will be a lingering stain.

“Genocide has always evoked a transcendent horror, and it has little to do with the numbers of victims. The Holocaust resonates not because 6 million Jews were killed but because a government picked people on the basis of their religious heritage and tried to exterminate them.”

“There are also practical arguments, for genocide can create cycles of revenge and displacement that make it far more destabilizing than any famine or epidemic. The Darfur genocide may well lead all Sudan to fragment into civil war, interrupting Sudanese oil exports and raising oil prices.”

Video included: “The Genocide Insider”

Zimbabweans suffered for so many decades from white racism that the last thing they need is for Robert Mugabe’s brutality to be excused because of his skin color.

By Nicholas D. Kristof (The New York Times)
THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2008
Americans will regret their myopia if they allow Iraqi refugees to grow up uneducated and unemployable.

By Nicholas D. Kristof (The New York Times)
THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 2008
If the U.S. and Israel had formed a Joint Commission to Support Hamas Extremists and Bolster Iranian Influence, they could hardly have done a better job

Have you heard about Nicholas Kristof from the New York Times? Great journalist, great writer, and to me a real ethical institution. You will find lots of links to his articles on Fairplanet’s website in the Read the World section.