15 July 2005

Stories from 15 July 2005

Commentary

  15 July 2005

Laurence Caromba, writing in the South African group blog Commentary, points out the difficulties that the home-grown London bombers pose for political theory: “it robs the neoconservative explanation of terrorism (in a nutshell: illiberalism) of some of its power… it also destroys the arguments of … the anti-war left and...

Mexico City Weblogs.Communication Conference

  15 July 2005

Today beginning at 4 p.m. is the first ever Weblogs.Communication conference, which will take place at the Foro Cultural Coyoacanense (Allende 36, Centro de Coyoacán) in Mexico City. A list of speakers can be found here and immediately following the conference is a “cervezas, sushi, and blogs get-together” at Kuru...

The Evo Morales Debate

  15 July 2005

Blog From Bolivia slices and dices the charismatic and ever-controversial Evo Morales, who this post claims “has about as much chance of becoming President of Bolivia after next December’s elections as I have of being Bush’s pick for the US Supreme Court.” Barrio Flores notes that Evo Morales places second...

Lynchings in Bolivia

  15 July 2005

Both Barrio Flores and MABB comment on the recent flourish of lynchings, or “communal justice” in Cochabamba, Bolivia.