21 October 2005

Stories from 21 October 2005

Armenia: Voter Apathy

Watts up in Armenia reports that there is very little public interest in voting in Armenia's local elections.

22 October 2005

Poland: Bomb Scare

In its latest blogcast, PolBlog interviews Newsweek journalist Wojciech Rogacin about yesterday's bomb scare in Warsaw.

22 October 2005

China: Power Player

Musing Under the Tenement Palm reads the tea leaves in the probable absence of traditional prisoner releases before George Bush's state visit to China in November.

21 October 2005

Puerto Rico: Thoughts on Statehood

Gil Schmidt, who lived 20 years in the U.S., argues that Puerto Rico never has a chance of statehood. Following his post, a commenter writes, “That's absolutely right. Puerto Rico's...

21 October 2005

Jordan: Critical Cartoons

Jameed and Ahmed seem to agree that Emad Hajjaj is brilliant with his socially-critical cartoons, but not when it comes to ‘foreign affairs!

21 October 2005

Iraq: Downtime in Baghda

Christopher of Back to Iraq says: “My mental state is not what it was; I’m irritable and snappish, with less patience than ever before. Panic attacks are becoming more common...

21 October 2005

Iraq: Stolen Smile

ChildrenVoiceIraq calls: “Lets get back the stolen happiness to the Iraqi kids , Lets return nice smiles to their small lips. These wars and violence took every thing from them...

21 October 2005

Egypt: Child's Education Right

Maryanne of Living in Egypt says that theoretically, all children under the age of about 16 are supposed to be attending school, but not all of them do. Some of...

21 October 2005