Blogging the democratic revolution
With elections next year, the U.S. faces the possibility that its next door neighbor, Mexico, may elect a Saguaro Chavez – bringing a far-left regime like Hugo Chavez’s of Venezuela right to our border. In which case, we will empathize more than ever with Colombia, but might not have much time for it. Because given…
Ever wondered what makes the sinews of one the world’s foremost enemies of freedom move? It’s money of course, $500,000 of it in oil-rich Venezuela’s case, but how it happens is what’s most in need of some daylight. Alek Boyd at VCrisis has gotten hold of new Freedom of Information Act documents on the Venezuela…
Editor Thomas Lifson at American Thinker points out that Herbert Meyer, a former Reagan administration intelligence official, has made some impressive forecasts about where to spot the next revolution, in an interview on Larry Kudlow’s show. He discussed his essay on the nature of revolutions, and told Kudlow, days ago, that Kyrgyzstan was next. He…
Kyrgyz President Akayev has reportedly fled to Russia after protesters stormed the presidential compound: One key opposition figure, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, was at the scene, and state TV appeared to be in opposition hands ???????? underscoring the impression that the hitherto fragmented opposition was consolidating control. Another leading opposition figure was said to have been freed…
Besides the basic human drive for freedom that is comparable in each revolution, each has had a flower and each set of protestors has given them to the security forces. Even in the recent Tulip Revolution! See what I mean: Kyrgyzstan Another one courtesy of The Emirates Economist: Lebanon Ukraine Those riot police kind of…
Remember those pictures of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez hugging Mullah Mohamad Khatami of Iran, and the two of them waving their fists from the banks of the Orinoco? To much fanfare, the pair of them jointly opened a tractor factory in Ciudad Bolivar to cement their alliance. Then they announced the dawn of a new…
More good investigative work on the Hugo Chavez financial and propaganda networks from Alek Boyd here. It’s interesting reading.
I knew the nicey-nice between President Uribe of Colombia and dictator Hugo Chavez of Venezuela was fake. The spat they had over Colombian bounty hunters snatching FARC terrorists from Venezuelan streets was just a prelude. Today, a new incident happened. Venezuelan troops, seeking ‘gas smugglers,’ actually crossed the border into Colombia and occupied a little…
It looks as if Dennis Hastert has done the right thing: Yushchenko to address Senate and House in joint meeting Washington, DC ???????? Word has come in that the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, has been invited to address a combined meeting of the Senate and House during his visit to the U.S. in early…
Veronica Khokhlova is back visiting Kiev, and of all things she had a run in with Yanukovich protestors who were vying for Putin’s attention. How bizarre, reading this was like a flashback into three months ago (and I still can’t believe it’s been that long, either). Here’s a link to her photo page where she…
“Kathmandu” from Radio Free Nepal is updating on the situation there. Things are still looking bad, but the U.S. and India are working to restore democracy as soon as possible. In another encouraging note, USA and India have told they are coordinating for early restoration of multi-party democracy in Nepal. Visiting US secretary of State…
Fausta in the comments let me know about an article that not only describes the deteriorating situation in Venezuela and spies in the U.S., but how liberal commie-wannabes are idolizing Chavez and his so-called Bolivarian revolution. Check out the article. It has a lot of translations from Spanish articles.
Democracy is at work in this country of ours, where scandal has broken out in perhaps one of America’s most important polls. That’s right, American Idol. US television network Fox has been forced to throw out the latest voting results in American Idol after a bungled display of the phone numbers viewers use to choose…
Jane over at Armies of Liberation is hallucinating with joy as al-Khaiwani, editor of the al-Shoura opposition newspaper, was pardoned directly by President Saleh. Jane, as you may know, had received correspondence from him and organized a petition to have him freed. Hopefully the blogosphere played a little part. Congrats!
Communist President Voronin was just tapped for possible election again after Moldova’s recent parliamentary elections. He’s pretty confident he’ll win. CHISINAU, March 23 (Itar-Tass) – Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin said he was confident that the new parliament elected on March 6 will vote for the head of state at the first try. Voronin made the…
Blogger Alek Boyd has done an amazing job unravelling the the tangled web of dictator Hugo Chavez’s financial network in the U.S. Linking shell corporation to shell corporation, he’s well on the way to putting together a comprehensive picture of these enemies of the U.S. nesting and operating in our own country. The Chavista network…
If you need a summary of what has happened to Venezuela since the dictatorship of Hugo Chavez, Gustavo Coronel, an elegant essayist, has a long but well-written description of the path to ruin, “In Venezuela: The Time of the Barbarians” here.
Miguel Octavio outlines an alarming scenario to Hugo Chavez’s mysterious pattern of actions regarding his assets abroad and at home. The blogger believe Venezuela may be shoved into default, like Argentina, and Chavez is taking steps to shield himself from creditors after the deed is done. To ruin a country’s good name like that should…
The new Ukrainian government continues to contend with the fall out from the dealings of the last Kuchma regime. I mentioned yesterday that Yushchenko has shown a tendency to fall into a kind of minor-league imitation of his predecessor when reporting on his government’s actions. David Crouch notices the same thing: The suicide two weeks…
You may remember earlier in the week when a bomb went off, triggering quite a bit of anxiety about the possiblity of another civil war and the influence of Syrian intelligence. Another one just went off. It took me awhile to find a good article that wasn’t full of “Hizb’allah rules; American drools” filler info….
But not by me. Nathan has put all of his posts on the ongoing developments in Kyrgyzstan into one easy roundup for your viewing pleasure. Once you read that, though, you might want to go to the main page because there will undoubtedly be more.
Big thanks to Ian from The Political Teen for letting me know. This website was featured on Connected Coast to Coast at the end of the segment. What’s better? Ian has the video uploaded so that you can see. I’ll probably be including this link inside family Christmas cards for years to come.
Every day I ask myself, “So, what government will fall today?” Because literally, in 2005, that’s what seems to be happening. Estonia is no exception. TALLINN, Estonia — Estonia’s prime minister announced his resignation and dissolved his government Monday after lawmakers said they had no confidence in his justice minister because of a controversial anti-corruption…
Continuing protests in southern Kyrgyzstan are giving rise to speculation that Russia might intervene militarily. Democracy Guy and Registan.net both correctly say, however, that the Russian military isn’t capable of an unwanted intervention (read: invasion), and the geo-political ramifications would be immense – certainly far more than the Kremlin wants to deal with right now….