Blogging the democratic revolution
Norman Geras has an interesting story to tell: Here’s a story for our time and it’s from my neck of the woods. Demonstrators against the Iraqi election were chased off by people who weren’t too impressed with their demonstration. The demonstrators were from an Islamic group; the ones who got upset with them were… Iraqis:…
Mohammed and Omar at Iraq the Model have posted their election day summary. I liked this part the best: The first thing we saw this morning on our way to the voting center was a convoy of the Iraqi army vehicles patrolling the street, the soldiers were cheering the people marching towards their voting centers…
The Wall Street Journal did an Iraqi blog roundup of post-election reactions. And Jeff Jarvis is a blog roundup pimp; he’s got just about everything. And Friends of Democracy has many interviews from the streets. Just scroll.
What is quickly becoming a new symbol of defiance, revolution, and democracy is the ink-stained finger representing that someone has just voted. Via: Fox News Via: Cigars in the Sand Via: Cigars in the Sand Via: Chris Muir More photos here and a slideshow here and even more here.
Check out this article from the AP that discusses Arab world reaction to the elections just held. I thinik some people are in denial!
But CNN doesn’t think so. Check out how this article is constructed. BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Polls have closed and ballot counting has begun after Iraq’s first free election in a half century, with officials reporting a higher than expected turnout of registered voters amid attacks and threats of violence. Insurgents carried out more than…
IEDs (full disclosure: I write for this site) has stories here, here and here.
I outline NYT reporter Juan Forero’s propaganda that gives Venezuela’s dictator Hugo Chavez a boost, now that he’s off to Porto Alegre to defend Zimbabwe-style land expropriations. Juan’s timing for Chavez is just ‘coincidentally’ perfect, and his arguments are party-line. As news, it’s weeks late, but it’s just perfect to re-frame the debate for Chavez’s…
Alek Boyd has found the news clip showing that Fox News has picked up Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez’s filthy talk directed at distinguished United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Go there and view the film clip.
There is a lot of coverage of the elections on C-Span today. Friends of Democracy will be on from 2:00 to 4:00 pm and it will also be liveblogged. Make sure to check it out. For now, I’m going to bed. Blogging is tough work you know. I’ll begin updating again when I wake up.
Chrenkoff has thrown his hat in and is now liveblogging the election.
Via Bloggledygook, are photographers and journalists being tipped off by terrorists? And are they falsifying stories? The analysis is very interesting. Kind of reminds me why the U.S. suspended Al Jazeera in Iraq — those guys were definitely embedded with the militants.
Mark Glaser back in September did an online review of milibloggers and Iraqi bloggers, complete with history, background information, and interview questions for many of the big names out there. It’s pretty cool.
The BBC has a feed of reporters’ logs from their guys all over Iraq. It’s not exactly inspiring, but if you’re interested in a particular region’s situation, check it out. And contrary to John Cole’s “Daming But” Roundup, I think I found a “but” that’s positive: But now that polling’s been underway for two or…
I have been going around all the Iraq blogs and big bloggers and I’ve noticed something… the United Nations Foundation has bought a lot of ads promoting itself in Iraq. Check out, for instance, Tim Blair or Instapundit and they have these UN ads that say “Ensuring Credible and Fair Elections,” followed by a graphic,…
John posts his comments on a fantastic article by Arab news discussing the issues that concern Iraqis. Are the insurgents and their terrorist allies in the Sunni Triangle doing Iraq a favor without knowing it? The question is not fanciful. The violence unleashed by the insurgency has concentrated most minds on a single issue: Security….
For official information about the electoral process, you can go to the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq website, and official information for out-of-country voting can be found here. Here’s the voter education page, which goes over the procedure. Also, here is an FAQ with valuable information.
Hammorabi has some words for the totalitarians of old and new: No more 99.99 % in Iraq! This is the figure of the Arabs’ dictators except Saddam! He used to get 100%! Surprisingly those who voted for the master of the mass graves are abstaining now! Our voting is: No to the terrorists! No to…
Ali from Free Iraqi had some thoughts before he went to vote: … I fear only one thing and that is that only small percentage of Iraqis vote. I hope and expect the opposite but as I said before everyone has been speaking on behalf of Iraqis for a long time and therfore it’s very…
As I’m posting this, Fox News just said that no car bombs have gone off as of yet. Here’s holding on to hope. UPDATE: Nor any violance yet in Sadr City. While there have been mortar attacks, suiciders, gunners, etc… and dozens have died thusfar; as the guy on Fox News just said, “That is…
Radio Blogger has got a lot of pictures of Iraqis voting in California. And from the BBC: Election views in pictures.
Chrenkoff gives his impressions of the election so far, and his thoughts on the defeatist Left. But what made me strike a thinking pose the most was the following: Every revolution has its symbol or gesture – the democratic revolution in Iraq, and hopefully throughout the broader Middle East, will have its own, too: a…
BLOG ROUNDUPS: -Jeff Jarvis has a huge roundup. Even cooler, he found an RSS feed that automatically shows the updates from all the links he posted. Also, Iraqi blogger reactions gethered up. More reactions from military bloggers –More from the Foundation For The Defense Of Democracies. LIVEBLOGGERS: -Roger Simon is liveblogging the TV news coverage….
I’m about to begin doing my series of Iraq roundups, but I thought I would start off with some satire. You heard me right. Dear Diary, Today started out as a amazing day! I was going to be a part of history and nothing was going to stop me! To my amazement, luck was on…