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Quake: no act of god

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Millions around the world were appalled at the death and devastation in Haiti. James Turley puts the calamity into context As readers will know, just before 5pm local time on January 12, a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti. Its epicentre was very close to Léogâne, a well-populated town not far from the capital, Port-au-Prince. The tremor is estimated ...

Liberal interventionism after the Burmese cyclone would spell another disaster

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by James Turley of Communist Students Crocodile tears and democracy Nature has been cruel to south-east Asia recently. The Union of Myanmar (formerly, and still popularly known as Burma) has been rocked by a devastating cyclone, the eighth most severe in recorded history; and Szechuan province in China, saw a powerful earthquake kill upwards of 12,000 people. While ...