Blogging the democratic revolution
Val Prieto, who writes the more-than-excellent Babalu Blog, outlines an old story for Cuban-Americans – the blindness of those who will not see Castro’s atrocious tyranny. Miami Cubans, more so than many exiles on the freedom fighting frontier, run into these dictator-worshipping jackasses all the time. Val’s exchange with one of them is worth reading here.
While most of the sources I use for the daily Lebanon sources are indeed local sources (Lebanon Wire, Daily Star, Naharnet), they are more favorable to the events going on specifically because they are local. But what is the rest of the Arab world saying? How do they view this? In this post, we’ll peruse some news articles an editorials from leading news sites in the region such as Al-Jazeera and Arab News. Let the Lebanese sort out their own problems by Dr. Mohammed T. Al-Rasheed at Arab News: As the world watches, Lebanon throbs. To be a politician, one…
First the revolution; now the aftermath. Well, for Syria that is. Just about everyone and their mother is taking shots at what soon will be the next regime to surrender in the war of ideas. NEWS: The Lebanese opposition is keeping up the front, and have put forward a list of several basic demands that must be met to continue the activities of government: After a joint meeting at the mountain home of opposition leader Walid Jumblatt, they called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to announce a troop pullout from the country and for the resignation of security officials there.…
Winds of Change has a huge roundup of news concerning Iran. That and Wednesday’s briefing from Regime Change Iran complement each other nicely.
This is the guy that China put into power in Hong Kong after it was handed over from the British in 1997. After some protests against him, the Party promoted him out to a position in China. Bill thinks it has something to do with preventing a democratic push in light of events elsewhere in the world. UPDATE: Looks like a lot of people are taking notice here.
If you are prominent, you get arrested. If you are not, you get the death squad. Hundreds of complaints about dozens of discovered bodies signals an extremely alarming new development out of Venezuela. The details are atrocious. UPDATED
These are dark days for Venezuela. Dictator Hugo Chavez has ordered a terrible string of arrests of some of the country’s most prominent journalists, bankers, union leaders, lawyers, and political leaders. I have never seen anything like this, coming in such a sudden, synchronized wave. This is a dark night of totalitarianism descending.
One of the worst canards out there, sponsored by pro-Chavez leftists, is the repetitively boring claim that Venezuela’s opposition “has no ideas” other than to get rid of widely despised Marxist dictator Hugo Chavez. Alek Boyd at VCrisis has an interesting outline of proposals he thinks would benefit Venezuela in a post-Chavez area. It’s a fascinating glimpse of what’s likely to come and I enjoyed the read.
I was just sitting here a couple hours ago reading and thinking about doing a roundup on elections in Moldova, which are a week from now, but Lyndon Allin beat me to it.
A series of posts I have been reading over at David McDuff’s blog. Part six is up, and he has links to the other five parts. Check that out.
Nathan has a bunch of follow up news to the recent election there. Some are saying that democracy is on the march there as well!
Now this is news! Except that you have to wade through paragraph upon paragraph of details about bombings and missing people to see it. The writers at the AP really need to stay on focus before. Like I was taught in elementary school, “Opening, support, closing.” You’ll see from the article that their’s is more like “Opening, several paragraphs unrelated to the headline whatsoever, small snippet of relevant information.” I’ll put three dots for every paragraph skipped to get there: BAGHDAD, Iraq – More than 2,000 people demonstrated Tuesday at the site of a car bombing south of Baghdad that…
Aussiegirl is following the prosecution of the Gongadze case, a journalist whose head was found missing under Kuchma’s regime. Here are quotes from Yushchenko. Also, has his head finally been found? Either way, the killers have been found. Secret police, no less, though that was expected. And a witness was recently injured after the killers were named. I’m thinking there may be more than these three. abdymok is all over the whole story as well, with lots of information. For some background info, he is a journalist for the Kyiv Post.
And here begins the first of the daily Lebanon roundups. It’s hard to keep track of everything on the internet, so I’ll try to round it all up for you guys right here quick and easy. NEWS: Some protestors vow to stay in the streets until they get a good government: A few diehard activists remained in tents overnight and about 400 protesters joined them midmorning, but Lebanese soldiers had been withdrawn from the area where the day before 25,000 flag-waving demonstrators demanded and got Prime Minister Omar Karami’s resignation. “We will be here every day until the last Syrian…
Today’s Daily Burma is up and ready. Complete with link to the State Departments 2004 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for Burma and keeping you informed on the latest arrest of U Thu Wai. Thanks to Robert for letting me join the Publius team. No my site doesn’t have comments. That was originally by choice but over the weekend my server shut down comments on all MT accounts due to spam overload, so now it is no longer by choice. Feel free to leave comments here.
That from the report released from allAfrica.com within the last few hours. The African Union (AU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) should be commended for imposing punitive sanctions against Togo and forcing the illegal president to come to his senses and heed international calls for a return to democracy and the rule of law. The stepping down of Eyadema should be a warning and a lesson to other potential despots that the African continent has no time for them. As posted this morning, the media too is waking from it’s slumber. afrol reports seven private radio…
Val at Babalu Blog has gotten his hands on an important 15-minute Cuban film that’s spreading like lightning around Castro’s oppressed island. It’s all about local KGB goons. He’s painstakingly uploaded it to his blog and from my machine it works perfectly. However, he’s only going to have it up for two days, so it’s important to see it now. It’s in Spanish today, but even if you don’t speak Spanish, go see it anyway because you can still tell what’s going on. Val will have English subtitles up tomorrow. See the whole thing here.
Lebanses President Emie Lahoud set about today to form a new government while opposition leaders – Muslim, Druze and Christian – are expected to meet Tuesday to plan for what comes next: It wasn’t clear if they would seek to keep up the street pressure or – as some have urged – step back to work through the political process to ensure a new government less tied to Damascus. They have demanded a neutral government to organize parliamentary elections this spring and to investigate Hariri’s murder, which they blame on the pro-Syrian government and Syria. Both governments have denied involvement.…
Hey everyone. Yesterday was a long day, to note, I just woke up from my twelve hour slumber. Since many of you have never been here before, I thought I would give you a run down of what this site is about and what we’ll be covering post-revolution in Lebanon. We will definitely be keeping an interested eye on there. Updates on the daily political situation, news, what the blogs are saying, things like that. But we cover a lot of other things as well, such as what is happening in Ukraine post-revolution, A.M. Mora y Leon covers Venezuela and…