By Sean Goforth (co-author of the FPA Latin America blog) An editorial in yesterday’s Washington Post takes a swipe at American agricultural subsidies. The Obama administration recently agreed to pay Brazilian producers $147.3 million a year to resolve a trade dispute with the Brazilian government, after Brazil threatened WTO-authorized retaliatory tariffs because of unlawful cotton […]
Israel-Turkey ties had already been strained. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has attempted to garner the support of the Muslim world, condemning Israel for even the most minor of missteps. Tensions began to rise following Operation Cast Lead, where Israel killed some civilians in its attack on the Hamas terror infrastructure. Then, an Israeli ambassador […]
The Daily Star reports the following grim news: At least 87 people, mostly women and children, were burned alive and scores more wounded in a blaze in the densely-populated Old Dhaka last night. The death toll may rise sharply, as rescuers early today were pulling out bodies from eight houses and 20 shops that had […]
Lebanese leaders and citizens are expressing their outrage over last Sunday’s botched Israeli raid in international waters off the coast of Gaza that resulted in at least 9 deaths. Since the Hamas-led government took over control of Gaza in 2007, Israel has had the territory under siege. In 2009, Israel launched an assault on Gaza […]
One of the reasons that I do not worry about the ANC’s stranglehold on South African politics taking the country toward the sort of one-party state that bedevils much of the rest of the continent is that there is such a vibrant, lively, and dissent-laden tradition within the ANC coalition itself. The latest contretemps involves […]
The Mail & Guardian is not thrilled with what it sees as a lack of transparency on the part of the World Cup Local Organizing Committee and is taking steps to force information out into the open.
Suspending cynicism for just a minute I have to praise France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy for his recent unequivocal assertions that Africa must be given a greater global role. Now, his remarks took place at a France-Africa summit in Nice, so it was in Sarkozy’s interest to play nice in Nice (ok — consider it a […]
The BNP is using the government shut down of the daily newspaper Amar Desh to good affect. Using a calculated show of protest against recent government actions, the BNP delegation joined a budgeting session only to walk out to signal disfavor of the government’s actions against the newspaper. Amar Desh often joins with the BNP […]
Andrey Voznesensky, the Russian-Soviet poet who died yesterday, spent his life in a no-man’s land between poetry and politics, ‘left’ and ‘right’, East and West. Along with Bulat Okudzhava, Bella Akhmadulina and Yevgeny Yevtushenko, he formed the core of the Soviet ‘beat poets’ of the post-Stalin thaw. And unlike the likes of Joseph Brodksy and […]
As further examples of the “peace activist’s” violent attacks against the IDF soldiers, watch the videos. The top video includes the blatantly anti-Semitic chant used by Hamas and other extremist organizations that references the slaughter of Jews by Muhammad’s army. The other videos show attacks by the activists. The guilt here is clear.
The government of Bangladesh recently announced that along with making secondary and tertiary education free for students in public institutions, it will put together a trust to provide scholarship stipends for high achieving students. This move, directed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, ensures Bangladesh’s future as an innovating economy and stabilizes its export market for in-demand labor […]
Sadly, the sun will rise, the sun will set, and Zimbabwe will remain in grim political stasis. Something tells me next year’s elections won’t exactly make things better. But I had to smile when US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson put the smack down on Zimbabwean Ambassador H.E. Machivenyika Mapuranga, who […]
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