Blogging the democratic revolution
Vitrenko, leader of the PSPU (“progressive socialists”), just announced that they will attempt to impeach Yushchenko by collecting signatures: According to her, Yushchenko was elected with the serious violations of the law and of European democratic standards, and thus he does not have a moral right to be a President. To speed the things up, her party is using its favourite public method: the collection of signatures. It is not clear whether the signatures collected by Vitrenko????????s party ???????against Yushchenko???????, ???????for Yanukovych???????, ???????for the referendum???????, ???????for Orthodox Christianity and the Union??????? will also be taken into account. And this is…
Via INBB, it looks like Tymoshenko is actually wiping the slate clean. No previous cabinet members or regional administers will keep their positions, and she has already tapped those that she wants for the positions. KYIV. Feb 1 (Interfax-Ukraine) – None of the members of the previous Ukrainian Cabinet of ministers or heads of regional administrations will retain their posts, acting Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said. In an interview published in the Ukrainska Pravda (Ukrainian Truth) newspaper, Tymoshenko said candidates for all Cabinet positions and heads of regional administrations have been found. “The government has been 100% formed, and…
I always forget to check INBB International Bulletin because I always go to the main website. But you need to make sure to visit it because Zed posts a Daily Burma roundup with news about the situation there.
Many of you have asked me (Okay, maybe not) where the donation button came from. It’s my way of subliminally asking for money to offset hosting costs and possibly buy some advertising. If you want to donate, I’ll be eternally grateful, and eternity is a pretty darn long time. I’ll be getting Blogads soon as well, at a very low price, so if you donate now you can still collect your ad time when they get set up. Alright, I’m done pimping myself. For shame, for shame. UPDATE: I was prodded to sign up with Amazon, so I did that…
David McDuff has posted his 8th installment of Going Back.
Discoshaman has his Ukraine update for 02/02. Yulia’s gaining steam, and the new opposition, well, isn’t really there yet.
I was taking a nap and woke up to images on the television of people rioting in the streets; behind the broadcaster’s words that “King Gyanendra of Nepal has just sacked the democratic government for failing to hold parliamentary elections and fight rebels.” Maybe it’s just years of training my fine intuition, but that just doesn’t seem like the right answer. Nepal was thrown into a dramatic crisis yesterday as King Gyanendra sacked the entire government, put the Prime Minister under house arrest and announced he was taking direct power into his own hands. Already reeling from a Maoist insurgency…
Nathan has posted a roundup of news concerning Central Asia. I’m such a whore for these kinds of things.
It’s a bad day for the independent media in Venezuela. The Chavistas are in an extremely ugly, confrontational mood and starting to lash out. Most disturbingly, Patricia Poleo, the fearless Venezuelan journalist whose home was raided last week, has just been indicted and charged with misuse of information. Miguel’s blog has additional background. But that’s not all – the tremendous Michael Rowan essay cited here a couple days ago, is now under attack by chavista minions who parrot the communist line of Hugo Chavez. This is a warning to this writer that they will come after him next. It’s getting…
Venezuelan writer Jorge Arena has an elegant essay on the emerging climate of fear in under Venezuela’s strengthening dictatorship on Daniel’s blog. Well worth reading for its thoughtful on-the-ground detail.
Alek also has fished up some laws Venezuela’s El Supremo seems to have broken in his toilet-mouthed TV chat about distinguished US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Read the whole thing here.
Alek Boyd provides some choice details about FARC narcoterrorists defending their great hero, none other than Marxist dictator Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. By their friends do you know them!
There’s nothing a jackass communist tropical dictator likes less than ridicule. Go give some to Venezuela’s tinpot Hugo Chavez, in an awesome collection of photos over on Miguel’s blog.
Laurence found a cool sounding book a posted a review he found. It’s called “Breaking the Real Axis of Evil: How to Oust the World????????s Last Dictators by 2025.” Twenty years wait? I’ll be an old by then. Speaking of which, I haven’t said much about myself, so before I hit the sack, how about making the comments for this post where you all guess my age?
Make sure to be checking out Crossroads Arabia; John is revving up the posting due to the oncoming municipal elections. I’ll leave this up to the experts.
I came across this awesome blog today called Window on the Arab World, and more!. It is done by a guy named Kirk H. Sowell, a specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs and a published author. Read his website, the information and commentary is awesome. To start, here is something cool I read: Just now I watched a segment on Al-Jazeera about the attack earlier today in Kuwait against foreigners. The commentator, a Kuwaiti named Ahmad Shiraf, was asked who was behind this, and he responded enemies of civilization who are encouraged by those who glorify terrorism, such as Al-Jazeera!!! The…
Discoshaman already has his first Ukraine update for February up! And things are looking bright for Tymoshenko.
Here’s a big shoutout to Babalu Blog, who just got a big mention on the front page of the Miami Herald. Congratulations! The more people who knows about your cause, the better.
It looks like a total of 489 felons counted so far were allowed to vote in the Washington state elections. That’s higher than than the amount of votes that the fishy third hand-recount afforded to the Democrat candidate for victory. Pretty messed up situation, and sadly, the real winner may never be known. The government doesn’t owe either of the two candidates anything — not even victory. They owe the people what they are paid to do, and make sure that the people’s rightful choice is elected. How hard is it, honestly, for the government to fulfill its basic duties?
Norman Geras is pissed at the Guardian’s editorial section. But honestly, it’s no use getting mad at people who can’t write.
John Hawkins has his own roundup of favorite quotes from blogs on the Iraq election. I’ve posted similar lists earlier on if you’re interested, just scroll.
I hope Bloggle doesn’t mind too much, but I just had to post this in full: Jack Chirac told president Bush in a phone conversation that “The participation rate and the good technical organization of the elections were satisfactory.” Say what you want, but the famous silver-tongued French certainly know how to gussy up a phrase, don’t they? I can see Jack making the moves on one of the tarts on the Champs d’Elysee, running a hand through his thinning pate, leaning in to fill his Gallic nostrils with sweet Parisian parfum, and whispering, “Ah mademoiselle, your lips are quite…
Almost missed this other post by Nathan. Looks like he is keeping up with elections in Kyrgyzstan. More power to him; I certainly have to sleep at times! Lots of links and quotes and commentary. Check it out. I’ll try to find more information in the coming days as well. UPDATE: Russia obviously has a large interest in maintaining the status quo. Good article for some good information, though.
Nathan writes on the upsurge of protests from democratic movements in Central Asia, much greater than they were just a year ago. It’s really good.