Stories about Ideas from October, 2006
Jamaica: The 1970s
“Before my ninth birthday I knew IMF was screwing up the economy, socialism was just an appetiser for the communist meal, gunmen would kill you for sporting the wrong colours...
Ayatollah Khomeini's Letter: Nuclear Weapons and the End of War
According to various media reports, former President Hashemi Rafsanjani has made public in Tehran a letter from 1988 in which Iran's top commander is quoted as saying Iran would need...
Congo-Brazzaville: Should a Colonizer Be Honored Like a Founding Father?
For me, this De Brazza business is like someone telling you: “We got the crap beaten out of us, but at least De Brazza put on some vaseline while the...
China: Fifty-three things you may not know
As if learning Chinese wasn't hard enough, did you know that all bloggers in China are security encryption experts? ‘An effective way to visit Wikipedia’ [zh]—which is blocked in China—from...
Jamaica: Colin Channer
An interview with Jamaican writer Colin Channer is the latest in Geoffrey Philp's 5 Questions series.
Iran:Designs and Empire
Legomahi, presents a new collection of designs. The blogger says the designs are inspired by Sassanid Empire.
Kangi Alem on American Empire
Togolese writer Kangi Alem discusses (Fr) Noam Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival: The Imperialist Strategy of the United States and the dark side of America's international role. Alem calls the U.S....
Congolese Blogger on Darfur
At Forum Realisance (Fr), Congolese blogger Musengeshi Katata takes France, Colin Powell, Henry Kissinger, Christianity, radical Islam and the black African elite to task for the conflict in Darfur: “Darfur...
Martinique: Aimé Césaire and Franz Fanon
Le Blog de Moi (Fr) describes the debate over after which anticolonialism thinker to name Martinique's international airport: Aimé Césaire or Franz Fanon. Fanon, although born in Martinque, is not...
Jamaica: Rastafari influence
Geoffrey Philp starts a survey: How has Rastafari — and Bob Marley — influences our lives? powered by performancing firefox
Jamaica: Can blogging effect change?
Presenting the results of his “Can blogging effect change” poll, Jamaican writer Geoffrey Philp highlights some of the ways he's benefitted from blogging.
Interview with Paris Marashi, Iranian-American Vlogger
Thanks to Ethan Zuckerman, I discovered Paris Marashi's blog or vlog and her project in Iran. On Paris’ vlog we can read and watch very interesting things about Iranian daily...
The Kannada Context: “Gandhigiri”, nADahabba and Everything Else
Gandhi Jayanti (Gandhi‘s Birth Anniversary) was observed yesterday in India and elsewhere. It was celebrated the most by the electronic media, of course. What was different this time, however, was...
Republic of the Congo: In Search of Political Heroes
Congo-Brazzaville is repatriating the remains of Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, the French-Italian colonialist, and interring them in a mausoleum built at the government's expense. Togolese blogger, Kangni Alem, rebukes those...
Caribbean: 5 Questions with poet Adrian Castro
Geoffrey Philp continues his series of Five Questions with Caribbean writers — this week he chats with Caribbean/South Florida poet Adrian Castro.
