Love, poverty and war - Christopher Hitchens

In this sweeping collection of essays, reportage and criticism, Hitchens' polemical talents at their most fearsome."I did not, I wish to state, become a journalist because there was no
other 'profession' that would have me. I became a journalist because I
did not want to rely on newspapers for information." Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays
showcases the Hitchens' rejection of consensus and
clich, whether he's reporting from abroad in Indonesia, Kurdistan,
Iraq, North Korea, or Cuba, or when his pen is targeted mercilessly at
the likes of William Clinton, Mother Theresa ("a fanatic, a
fundamentalist and a fraud"), the Dalai Lama, Noam Chomsky, Mel Gibson
and Michael Bloomberg. Hitchens began the nineties as a "darling of the
left" but has become more of an "unaffiliated radical" whose targets
include those on the "left," who he accuses of "fudging" the issue of
military intervention in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq. Yet, as
Hitchens shows in his reportage, cultural and literary criticism, and
opinion essays from the last decade, he has not jumped ship and joined
the right but is faithful to the internationalist, contrarian and
democratic ideals that have always informed his work.