It’s not often that I write good things about Bangladesh – its politics and economics. You see, the news cycle turn on the following dictum: “if it bleeds it leads.” I regret to admit that political analysis, commentary, is no different. Blood runs thicker with blood spilt. So I write analyses of terrible things, sometimes […]
One thing that bothered me about Kenya’s new constitution was that the US government lobbied heavily and spent $23 million (including funding NGOs) to bring about a “yes” vote. Vice President Biden, who personally traveled to Kenya, was quoted in the media saying that Kenya’s new constitution would “allow money to flow” from the US foreign […]
“The conviction therefore that our past tells us that the time for Africa’s Renaissance has come, is fundamental to the very conceptualization of this Renaissance and the answer to the question: Whence this confidence? Unless we are able to answer the question “Who were we?” we will not be able to answer the question “What […]
Ata-Jurt leader Kamchybek Tashiev Yesterday, on October 10, Kyrgyz voters cast their ballots for a new parliament. Overall, there were not a lot of new faces chosen, casting doubt on a fresh start after June’s riots and killings, when over 400 people reportedly died and more than 400,000 were forced out of their homes. On the other […]
On September 17, the Canadian Ice Service began tracking the 280-square kilometer ice island which fractured off of Petermann Glacier in western Greenland in early August, the Montreal Gazette reports. The ice floe, or more technically, the large tabular (meaning flat-topped) iceberg, split into two after ramming into Joe Island, where the Petermann Fjord meets […]
(Mandela with Conversations With Myself, Mail & Guardian.) Nelson Mandela’s new book, Conversations with Myself, which contains excerpts of his private journals, letters and personal notes, was released today across the globe. Barack Obama wrote the book’s foreword.
The top tier of Ayad Allawi’s secular Iraqiya slate met with Saudi leadership in Riyadh today, including King Abdullah to discuss Iran’s meddlesome role in Iraq’s domestic affairs.
Three countries, South Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Morocco, have placed bids to host the 2015 and 2017 African Cup of Nations. South Africa just successfully hosted the World Cup. Morocco was a finalist to host that event before South Africa emerged victorious. Even the romantics in the CAF cannot possibly think rewarding […]
Benjamin Domenech at Real Clear World’s ‘The Compass‘ blog produced this interesting piece on Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak’s efforts to bring a moderate form of Islam to Afghanistan. Here’s an excerpt: It was on this day in 2001 that the United States and Britain launched Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, which seems as proper […]
The strangely bizarre and comical launch of Musharraf’s so called Muslim League (or whatever name he is using) forced me to examine Pakistan. And, believe me, this time; I really looked hard not only at today’s Pakistan but also at its short, but awfully tumultuous history. And, it is extremely distressing to realize that nothing, […]
I ran across an excellent video I wanted to share concerning the Senkaku (Diaoyu) Incident. They do an excellent look at both the Chinese and Japanese positions. If this guy is fully representing the Chinese side, his argument is pretty weak, especially since the actual collision did not take place in disputed waters, but clearly […]
Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe may be a certified critic of the West, except that those words in the quotes bellow are not his but that of General Paul Kagame, the darling of the West, of Rwanda. Kagame, the rebel-hero who defeated the genocidal government in July 1994, has been accused of heavy-handed crackdown on his […]
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