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- Gotta Love Google Earth
Google Earth is such a fun program—I love using it to visit all those places in the world I want to see but have yet to visit. Namely…
- Hope in Burundi?
Despite the usually depressing news from Africa, Burundi has finally overcome its civil war and gotten on its feet. What happens still remains to be seen.
Burundi gets post-war governmentMr Nkurunziza has vowed to engage the FNL rebel group in peace talks
Burundi’s new president, former rebel leader Pierre Nkurunziza, has formed the country’s first government [...]
- Mark Your Calendars!
The Robert D. Kaplan ANARCHY TOUR 2005 is about to commence! Mark, he’ll be in Chicago! Nathan, he’ll be in Seattle! Joe, he’ll be in Philly! Saru and Adamu, he’ll be in DC! And as for me, he’s coming to the Big Apple and I intend to go check him [...]
- FINALLY
That’s right, the impossible finally happened. Chirol’s DSL has finally been hooked up after two long socialist and frustrating months. Hooray! And 2 days short of his leaving for Syria no less. But better than nothing.
- Assad Speaketh
The German Spiegel has an interview up on its English-language site with Syrian President Bashar Assad. It’s well worth a read and I see Prof. Landis over at Syria Comment has it as well.
“Poverty Is a Greater Concern for Most than a Democratic Constitution”
Syrian President Bashar Assad discusses initial stabs at democracy in his [...]
- The Left’s Gulag Fetish
What is it about activists and their gulag fetish? What gives?
Russia: Rights Group Compares Current State Of Country’s Prisons To Gulags
In a new report, a group of leading Russian rights activists is accusing authorities of ignoring systemic abuses and torture in the country’s prisons. The nongovernmental movement For Human Rights compares the current prison system [...]
- Ties to Mossad
Is the Mossad really the deadly cloak and dagger organization we think it is?
An amusing incident related to the informality of Israeli dress is recalled by the former Mossad operative Victor Ostrovsky, who went on to spill the beans about the organization in two bestsellers (By Way of Deception, 1990 and The Other Side of [...]
- How Lady Curzon Saved the Rhino!
Here’s a wonderful little article from an Indian website. Who knew that Curzon was a environmentalist of the Teddy Roosevelt variety?
Most Indians may remember Lord George Curzon as the man who sowed the seeds for the Hindu-Muslim divide during his tenure as viceroy between 1898 and 1905. But a hundred years later, one state [...]
- Value for Money
The oil companies of the US and other developed countries are money-making enterprises that have to be profitable to their shareholders. However, in the developing world, plenty of state oil companies are heavily subsidized by the government for the very valid reason that the most important factor is guaranteeing a reliable stream of import [...]
- Keep Nepal Free
It’s been quite a while since I first wrote about the appalling state of affairs in Nepal. The situation remains grim. The King continues his brutal crackdown on dissent, opposition parties have gone so far as to meet with the Maoist guerillas to plan joint protests against the king, relations with the US [...]
