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28 December 2005

Stories from 28 December 2005

Russia: Corporatism

President Putin's economic adviser Andrei Illarionov resigned, charging Russia with corporatism. Sean Guillory examines the charges, looks at capitalism in Russia, and asks how far it is from the global...

Written by Nathan Hamm
29 December 2005

Cayman Islands: The Blue Dragon Trail

OddBlog announces the arrival of the Blue Dragon Trail, a series of 15 giant iguana sculptures “released” throughout Grand Cayman to raise awareness of the Blue Iguana Recovery Programme. The...

Written by Georgia Popplewell
29 December 2005

Armenia: Linux in Armenia

Onnik Krikorian has more on localized Linux in the Caucasus, noting that open source software often ends up costing more in developing countries than does proprietary software because of piracy...

Written by Nathan Hamm
29 December 2005

Mexico: The Zapatista Podcast

Anarchogeek notes that “everybody's favorite revolutionary social movement,” the Zapatistas of Southern Mexico, now have their own podcast. Also noted: “It's a good radio program to learn from because the...

Written by David Sasaki
29 December 2005

Venezuela: Media Cover Up?

Following up on Alex Beech's post on anti-Semitism in Venzuela, Miguel Octavio wonders why he had such a difficult time finding the quote from Chavez. Checking Google's cache, he finally...

Written by David Sasaki
29 December 2005

Latin America: Pan-American Literary Blog

El Boomeran(g) (ES) is a new group blog by eight critics and writers spread across Latin America and Spain. Sponsored by media conglomerate Grupo PRISA (owners of Spain's largest daily...

Written by David Sasaki
29 December 2005

Argentina: Novelist Manuel Puig

Jeff Barry celebrates what would have been Argentinean novelist, Manuel Puig's 73rd birthday by picking up his most well-known novel, The Kiss of the Spider Woman. Barry also notes that...

Written by David Sasaki
29 December 2005

About blogging in Morocco

Although blogging in Morocco is a new “fashion”, it is spreading with a high speed among Moroccans from all ages and different activities. You have the Doctor , the politic...

Written by Farah Kinani
28 December 2005

Travels in the Kurdish Blogosphere

Happy Holidays from the Kurdish section of the blogosphere! The Kurdistan Bloggers Union writes about security cameras being installed in the Southeast of Turkey to monitor the Kurdish population there....

Written by Deborah Ann Dilley
28 December 2005

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