Stories from 1 March 2006
Guatemala: Ex-Soldiers’ Supplemental Police Force Debate
Rob Mercatante has a four part series (1, 2, 3, 4) as to why he believes former members of the Guatemalan army shouldn't be hired as a supplemental police force.
Guatemala: Legends and Folklore on mp3
Leyendas de Guatemala (ES) is a new weblog with a great offer (ES). If you email Dorge Ozaeta with your name, country, and reason for wanting the recordings, he will email you mp3 versions of popular Guatemalan legends. Isa, who has a similar blog about Nicaraguan legends, thinks this is...
Latin America: Leftist Tide?
Christian Gomez is back after a four month recess, arguing that, “there does not exist one ‘left’ which is fueled by Chavez; rather, a moderate brand of governing demonstrated by Lagos, Lula, and Kirschner, which continues to employ economic pragmatism in setting its policy agenda. It is too easy to...
India: Why bother with the budget
India: Why bother with the budget
India: Budget Talk
India: Budget Talk
Jordan Stops an Al-Qaeda Attack!
Jordan has foiled a planned suicide bomb attack on “a vital civilian installation,” official state-run media has reported. Two Iraqis and a Libyan, believed to be members of the al-Qaeda terror network, have been arrested in connection with the plot, Petra news agency reported. Police are said to be hunting...
Prison mutiny
Today a coordinated prison mutiny was staged at the Juwaida prison in southern Amman, as well as in Suwaqa (in the south) and Qafqafa (in the north). The incident led to wounding of four security personnel, and the holding of the Juwaida warden and six guards as hostages for most...
Nepal: Legal Eagles meet
Nepal: Legal Eagles meet
Nepal: Roles of journalists
Nepal: Roles of journalists
Ukraine: Less Than A Month Before the Election
Dan McMinn of Orange Ukraine looks at Ukraine's pre-election politics and how it relates to real life (or not).
Muslim Madonna
Muslim pop singer Deeyah has irked the Muslim world with her provocative new music video that shows her stripping off a burka to reveal her bikini-clad body. Mohammed AlMaskati wonders where is this going really; now the west needs to free Muslim women from the Burka’a so that they can...
The flags are burning
Toman Bay wonders how the west only takes notice of what's happening here when flags start burning. And it occurred to me; as I have taken liberty with deleting words from dictionaries before, why not contribute positively and add an actual idiom. Hence, “The flags are burning”! He said.
Pakistan: A page in Bush's journal
Pakistan: A page in Bush's journal
Egypt's Modern Art Goes Online, But!
A beautiful online gallery for Egyptian modern and contemporay artists is built to serve as a window for Egypt's modern art that is usually overlooked due to the populatrity and fame of ancient Egypt, but little information is given about this business or who is running it, Freedom for Egyptians...
Russia: Moscow Registration and Bureaucracy
Lex Libertas writes about what it takes to get through the Russian bureaucracy and obtain the obligatory Moscow registration stamp, and how it feels “to live and work illegally in a foreign country.”
Russia: Communist Party Card Loss
Laurence Jarvik retells a post-Soviet tale about the consequences of losing one's Communist Party card.
After the Philippines’ “Coup”: Anger, Apathy and a Sense of Deja Vu
Last week there was an attempted coup in Manila, resulting in a declaration of emergency rule. So what's new? That was the reaction of some Filipino bloggers who wrote about last week's murky events. Leftists and groups opposed to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo had planned protests between Feb. 22 and...
Russia: Soviet Underwear
Sean Guillory writes about “Professor Olga Gurova from the European University in St. Petersburg,” who is researching Soviet underwear.
Kurdistance: Quick Quips
I thought that we would begin today with a little story from Talk about the Passion: Of course, it also can be quite an ordeal when you're trying to manage 30+ rambunctious 5th graders. The endeavor required our school's armed guards to escort us up the mountain (they must've figured...
Philippines: We Prefer Irony
Filipino blogger and columnist Jessica Zafra suggests eight reasons why comments to her blog sometimes don't show up. For example, “1. You are earnest and literal. We prefer irony.”
Russia: Khodorkovsky's Prison and Political Future
Yuri Mamchur of Russia Blog describes the surreal conditions one of the world's richest men now lives in and analyzes Mikhail Khodorkovsky's political potential.
