Peter Ward on Earth's mass extinctions

there is no need to exaggerate the role of mass media.

Maoist collectivization, too, was followed by mass shooting campaigns.

The former Yugoslavia has had enough destruction and mass killing.

There have been no mass purges and few large rallies.

They were picked up from the mass graves that appeared around Srebrenica.

Since the Cambrian explosion there have been five distinctly identifiable mass extinctions.

In all these cases, the image was presented as proof of mass killings.

Following the riots, incidents of looting in affluent neighborhoods multiplied.

In the case of massacres endured in the twentieth century, such storytelling can last decades.

After the polls closed on Dec.

There are also cholera outbreaks because of massive flooding and little sanitation.

The regime usually buries those that vanquish under torture in mass graves.

On days where there are mass murders, it leads to people saying, Who cares what their orientation was.

A picture of Warsaw's Old City filled with umbrellas became symbolic of the massive protests.

He says he was completely unaware that a mass protest was even taking place.

The Islamic world was also subject to massive changes as a result of Mongol invasions.

By some estimates, there are more than 20 mass shootings per year in the United States.

Of all gross violations, genocide knows no parallel in human history.

They demanded nationalization of their enterprise, stop mass sackings and guarantee the payment of wages.

Protesters block the road in Al Qadam, Bahrain, on the second anniversary of widespread protests.

TS The charges against me were participation in a crowd and resisting arrest .

These two reasons not only convinced the country to elect them, but to keep them in power.

State media recently started releasing year end mass incident statistics.

We must stop Col. Muammar el Qaddafi from committing mass murder in Benghazi.

Well, there are five major mass extinctions over the last 500 million years, called the Big Five.

Between the mid 1970 s and the mid 1990 s, Australia had several mass shootings.

President Fernando de la Rúa was brought down by riots that left 29 dead.

It is the first national election since the controversial 2009 presidential election and subsequent mass demonstrations.

Global Voices looks at several heroic stories during the latest mass attacks on French soil.

Some mainstream Sinhala newspapers in Sri Lanka violate this ethical guideline by portraying women as sex objects.

For some, the protests was a deja vu of the massive Falun Gong protests in 1999 outside Zhongnanhai.

One can only hope that the state can get out of the economy half as fast as it is getting in.

Finally, central banks still stand ready to intervene to prevent bank runs.

Massive stimulus and intervention the US Federal Reserve s current stance is unavoidable.

These new mass markets sustained a steady increase in average incomes and total employment.

The United Kingdom, for its part, grew fat on hundreds of years of colonial exploitation and massacre.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published a statement about the mass arrest of journalists, on Monday, January 28, 2013.

The protests in Shahbag are also being livestreamed intermittently which you can watch.

The Egyptian government, too, is unhappy that the world is not too pleased with its mass death sentences.

This is also one of the many mass killings that have taken place around the world in just a few months.

The International Criminal Court s existence will reinforce the message being sent by the proceeding against Pinochet there are no statutes of limitations and there will be no permanent safe havens for those who use state power to engage in mass torture or mass murder.

The first three floors were the scene of mass parties, which lasted up to two days and exasperated the tenants.

Now 85, the retired general must face trial accused of being responsible for one hundred massacres, which produced a death toll of one thousand, seven hundred and seventy one victims.

The decision came after several mass slaughters of African elephants, most notably the 2006 Zakouma elephant slaughter in Chad.