I took this picture in April of 2008 on the road to Herat: As we found out when passing through the area again later, the Taliban hit them less than an hour after the above photograph was taken. Continue reading
Author Archives: Justin
Quote Of The Day: Lord Byron
From Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: There is the moral of all human tales; ‘Tis but the same rehearsal of the past, First Freedom, and then Glory — when that fails, Wealth, vice, corruption — barbarism at last. Continue reading
Venezuelan Gold by Barnaby Rogerson
We took coffee of a jaguar hunter who lives alone in his commodious hut in the jungle, the woven wattle walls of his three rooms decorated with cast-offs from the odd bits of the materialist civilization that he had need of out here, so that there were a line of worn out toothbrushes used as … Continue reading
Photo Of The Day: Artisanal Gold Miners In Sierra Leone
Subsistence miners at work in a creek in Sierra Leone… This is definitely one that is at its best when the image is clicked on and brought up to its full size: Continue reading
Photo Of The Day: Boys Will Be Boys
China’s Desperate ‘Terrorists’
I had intended the most recent post on Xinjiang to be my last on the subject. I considered “The War For Xinjiang” to be the culmination of the series of posts on that region and I thought I would be moving on to other places and topics… However, the volume of harassment and threats I … Continue reading
The War For Xinjiang
So, what has been the purpose of all of the recent posts on Xinjiang? Aside from the obvious merits of the places that I have profiled, I have also been trying to provide you, dear readers, with an understanding of what Xinjiang looks and feels like. Hardly anyone outside of China has even heard of … Continue reading
The Velvet Rocket 