Our Tragic and Comedic World

Images from the War in Iraq

2009-02-19T09:11:00.002-05:00

2008 Election Photojournal

2008-11-04T15:24:00.004-05:00

The Landscape
The Candidates
The Voters...

The Times's Katharine Q. Seelye narrates a look back at the two-year campaign.

2008-06-05T16:51:00.003-04:00

You can’t plan on love, you can’t rationalize it, you can’t keep it, you can’t hold it. All you can do is enjoy it, and be with it, and live every minute as it comes to you. If you have love in your heart right now, enjoy it for the gift that it is, and if you have lost it or it has left you, enjoy it for what it was but let it go and clear your life and soul so that you may be available for next time that it comes.

And in the meanwhile, enjoy the path. Without the bad, how would we know the good? Life is lived on a spectrum. We need difficult times in order to recognize the great times.

www.waynemosesburke.com

2008-05-16T17:59:00.000-04:00

2008-05-16T17:34:00.009-04:00

BBC Coverage of Cyclone in Burma/Myanmar
BBC Coverage of Earthquake in China
NY Times - Sichuan Earthquake
NY Times - Cyclone Nargis

Bearing Witness

2008-04-02T10:22:00.004-04:00

Through half a decade of war, a team of 100 Reuters correspondents, photographers, cameramen and support staff have strived to bring the world news from the most dangerous country for the press. This is their testimony - bearing witness to ensure the story of Iraq is not lost.

Iraq War Timeline

Iraq, Afghanistan and the Reach of War

Obama vs. Clinton

2008-02-26T13:55:00.006-05:00

2008-01-19T13:52:00.000-05:00

“Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war.
Until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes, and until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained...
...now everywhere is war.”- Haile Selassie I

On Our Watch

2007-10-29T11:20:00.000-04:00

"And so it goes, in another of hell's waiting rooms - a blind man; unprotected, in a lawless land, waits for the world to finally live up to its promises."

Taken from "On Our Watch"

Watch online:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/

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Faith

2007-01-31T23:13:00.000-05:00

Rival Factions

2007-01-31T11:14:00.000-05:00

2007-01-21T23:48:00.000-05:00

Quotes from Native American Tribes
from "The Soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears"

I seek Strength, not to be greater
than my brother, but to fight my
greatest enemy-myself.
(unknown)

Every fire is the same size when it starts.
(Seneca)

Man has responsibility, not power.
(Tuscarora)

It is no longer good enough to cry peace,
we must act peace, live peace
and live in peace.
(Shenandoah)

Deeds speak louder than words.
(Assiniboine)

Strive to be a person who is never absent
from an important act.
(Osage)

One has to face fear or forever
run from it.
(Crow)

It is not good for anyone
to be alone.
(Cheyenne)

Kashmir & New Orleans

2006-12-07T16:58:00.000-05:00

2006-12-06T11:39:00.000-05:00

"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."
Lyndon B. Johnson

2006-11-16T15:11:00.000-05:00

"I was looking at them and shaking their hands, I noticed some blood spots still on them. And all of a sudden they disappeared from being human. All of a sudden something happened that turned them into non-human things. I was not talking with humans, I literally was talking with evil, personified...It even became a very difficult ethical problem. Do I actually negotiate with the devil to save people? Or do I wipe it out, shoot the bastards right there? I haven't answered that question yet...

...the pain of killing yourself is nothing compared to the pain of living with this, and it's only by flukes and by chances that some of us don't actually do it.

...I was the commander, my mission failed and hundreds of thousands of people died. I can't find any solace in statements like I did my best. … A commander can't use that as a reference in any operation. He succeeds or he fails and then he stands by to be held accountable. My mission failed and that's that.

Excerpts from an interview with General Romeo Dallaire

Interview transcript

Ghosts of Rwanda

2006-11-16T02:04:00.000-05:00

A US Army soldier has plead guilty to raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and helping murder her and her family.

BBC Article, BBC Video,
CNN Article discribing the incident
The Washington Post

No excuse

Beit Hanoun, Gaza

2006-11-09T15:24:00.001-05:00

It never stops

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

2006-11-09T15:22:00.000-05:00

Walking Contradictions

2006-10-29T17:02:00.000-05:00

2006-10-25T18:59:00.000-04:00

Photojournalist Brent Stirton

2006-10-21T17:07:00.001-04:00

artwork by Adam Razak

2006-10-21T16:49:00.000-04:00

"The closer you get to evil, the harder it is to draw the line."

- Wayne Moses Burke

Our Age of War and Peace

2006-10-17T00:59:00.001-04:00

The same person can both create and take life. We as humans are capable of the most daring, courageous, and inspirational acts, while at the same time have the power to ravage and ruthlessly destroy our neighbors, and our friends. The conflict rests within ourselves, dormant, yet waiting to be manifested. How we manifest that dichotomy is how we define ourselves.

Funeral - Israel

Funeral - Lebanon

World Press Photo of the Year 1994 - Rwanda