Mar
17
2009
This is a most compelling read: You are Being Lied To About Piracy The words of one pirate from that lost age – a young British man called William Scott – should echo into this new age of piracy. Just before he was hanged in Charleston, South Carolina, he said: “What I did was to [...]
Tags: Nuclear Waste, piracy, pirates, poverty, somali pirates, somalia
Dec
22
2008
I found this piece, from the BBC, fascinating to contemplate, as an American: Iran sends ship against pirates Iran has sent a warship to the Gulf of Aden to protect its merchant shipping from attacks by Somali pirates, Iranian state media has reported. The Iranian force joins ships from the EU, US, India, Russia, Malaysia [...]
Tags: piracy
Nov
18
2008
On Cap’n Richard Rodriguez’s superlative Bitter End blog, we find this: http://captrichardrodriguez.blogspot.com/2008/11/more-piracy-news.html A hijacked supertanker with two British crew members was being taken to a Somali port this afternoon after pirates seized their biggest vessel yet off the African coast. Acts of piracy in the shipping lanes of the Arabian Sea have become increasingly violent [...]
Tags: Bitter End, piracy
Oct
15
2008
If you’re paying attention (always a question, since there’s so much going on these days in the world), the piracy thing is getting a lot of media attention lately. And people are genuinely freaked out. Everyone loves Jack Sparrow, but when faced with the reality of piracy, that there are scary folks out there on [...]
Tags: blog action day, Doctors Without Borders, musings, piracy, poverty, Spirituality, Thich Nhat Hanh