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- Trouble in Paradise
The Solomon Islands is usually too small to make big news but managed to get some time in the international press today. As could be expected, it wasn’t the travel section nor was the news good.
Australia Sends Troops to Solomon Islands
HONIARA, Solomon Islands—Scores of Australian troops landed in the Solomon Islands on Wednesday to try [...]
- Colonize Nepal!
The West must step in and take control of Nepal! Though politics is usually the study of picking the lesser evil, I’d like to propose my own to Nepal’s continuing anarchy. When it comes to choosing between the Maoists or the King, most debates end up going nowhere with misguided idealists attacking the King’s [...]
- The Race for the 3rd World
During the 1880s, the so-called Scramble for Africa pitted the British, Germans and French against each other in a race to snatch up “available” territory in Africa. With the collapse of the great empires after WWI and WWII, the ensuing Cold War led to a rather similar race between the United States and the USSR. [...]
- Hamas and the Palestinian Elections
Chief Wiggum, regular reader and valued commenter on ComingAnarchy, has forwarded me a most interesting article on Hamas’ recent win in Palestine which gets into Palestinian election law and the reality of what happened. Much ink has already been spilled over the issue but the article is well worth one’s attention as it puts the [...]
- WaPo in Yemen
Something about Yemen has always fascinated me. I had always planned to take a trip there, and maybe I will in the future. In the meantime, I will just have to read an interesting series the Washington Post has on an American NGO working in Yemen. So far there are two articles, an extensive photo [...]
- Quote of the Day
“I think this is one point where the government does represent the people, actually the only point”
-Syrian Friend of Chirol’s on how Syrians feel about Israel.
- Blueprint for Action
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- Dangers of Democracy; Democracies in Danger
Judge calls Russian party ads “racist”
Russia’s top court on Friday upheld a ban on a nationalist party taking part in Moscow city elections over a campaign ad that judges said incited racism. The 30-second television clip by the Rodina (Motherland) party showed a blonde woman walking in Moscow surrounded by people who resembled dark-skinned [...]
- How bad was Pinochet?
I know it’s very fashionable to condemn Pinochet and all of that— I’m going to put my foot in my mouth.
Pinochet was a terrible man, I think 3,000 people tortured and killed under his rule are 3,000 reasons to hate him. I have no problem with this.
It’s also a fact that Venezeula has been [...]
- New German Government in Shambles
The grand coalition between Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU) and Social Democrats (SPD) has fallen apart even before it came into being. First, Edmund Stoiber, current president of the state of Bavaria, slated to become Finance Minister, announced that he would not be joining Merkel’s cabinet and then Franz Münterfering, the SPD leader and would-be vice-chancellor [...]
