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Angelina Jolie, most powerful celeb in the world, fights Darfur atrocities

By Elizabeth Snead

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June 5, 2009 10:43 AM ET

Angelina-jolie Angelina Jolie-- the most powerful celebrity (say it like Keith Olbermann) IN THE WORLD (according to Forbes magazine's recent report) is using her powers for good, not evil.

Here's a snippet from her op-ed on TIME.com about the U.N. Security Council meeting taking place today, at which the International Criminal Court is presenting its investigation results on Darfur.

"Darfur has almost disappeared from the news, and experts now call it a 'low intensity' conflict," she writes. "But the intensity of the crisis has not lessened for those who are struggling to survive....

Jenn02li1 "Today the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court will stand in front of the UN Security Council. With painstaking detail he will report that Omar al Bashir -- a man who should protect his citizens, has attacked Darfuris relentlessly and methodically for five years, and continues to do so....

"Today the Security Council member states will be faced with a simple decision -- to embrace impunity or to end it."

Click here to read her entire incredibly moving and intelligent piece about the necessity for holding people accountable for terrible global human suffering.

Take that, Jennifer Aniston.

Whadda ya got, an ad for Smart Water?

Yeah, not cutting it....

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Photo credits: WireImage, Smart Water


7 Comments

What has this got to do with Jennifer Anniston? Let it go already. That was a very tacky dig.


Well they have to put Angelina on the pedastal..LMAO....Forbes said Magazine covers exposure was related...If they consider Tabloids Magazine covers looks like Angelina Jolie is the tabloid Queen not powerful..LMAO Oprah will always be #1 Oprah actually walks the walk.Angelina is only in it for exposure because of he tainted life....LMAO


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Seriously... bringing up Jennifer Aniston at ALL... Especially in a way that makes their efforts seem like a petty competition... you should be writing for a scummy tabloid rather than L.A. Times. You're sick.


This is totally untrue. Most middle-east men are well behaved. They're is a doubt that they can "do it" simply because we wish it. This has always been our problem, not let america takie this type of problem to the extreme.


No current comment sir.


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