Wednesday, July 13, 2011

THE VERY REAL PRICE OF WAR AND GREED

 
   
  What would the world look like
If the rich spent billions 
On food for the poor  -
Instead of weapons for the military ?
 
Phyllis Carter
 
War doesn't determine who is right,
War determines who is left.
 
Bertrand Russell ( 1872 - 1970 )
English author, philosopher,
                                                                                                      
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This photograph showing a starving Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture won Kevin Carter the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.

Photographer Haunted by Horror of His Work

Obituary: Kevin Carter 1960 - 1994

Johannesburg - Kevin Carter, the South African photographer whose image of a starving Sudanese toddler stalked by a vulture won him a Pulitzer Prize this year, was found dead on Wednesday night, apparently a suicide, police said yesterday.  He was 33.  The police said Mr Carter's body and several letters to friends and family were discovered in his pick-up truck, parked in a Johannesburg suburb.  An inquest showed that he had died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

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