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Enduring Disaster (offline)

By: 
Pranjal Tiwari
Date Published: 
January 01, 2008
    It's seven years into the century, and the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the 2004 tsunami in South and Southeast Asia, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans have collectively killed and displaced millions of people around the world. All of these events have come to be labeled in their own way as "disasters" by the mainstream media, either as unfortunate natural calamities caused by uncontrollable forces or as "policy disasters" blundered into by incompetent or arrogant authorities.

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