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Tag Archives: conflict deaths
Afghanistan, where the war on drugs and the war on terror meet
In the last couple of weeks, watching the end of the American war in Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover, I realized that Afghanistan is at the intersection of the war on terror and the war on drugs. I have been … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, conflict deaths, Covid-19. opium, drug overdose deaths, fentanyl, heroin, opium production, USA
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Looking at the COVID-19 statistics on day 3
I live just a couple of kilometres from the border of Switzerland with France, and last Monday evening the border was closed except for frontaliers (who live across the border from work) and those with urgent reasons. We are now … Continue reading
The decline of war as a cause of human mortality
With recent events in Iraq, Syria, Gaza and parts of Africa, and shortly after the century in which millions were killed Stalin, Hitler, and Mao, Steven Pinker’s claim that the human impact of war and conflict has been diminishing may … Continue reading
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