Blogging the democratic revolution
Gateway Pundit has been following elections in Kyrgyzstan as well, and note unrest in the south over fraud, along with violations of people being bought off. Make sure to read it over. In addition to that, a grenade was aimed at an opposition leader, but it did not succeed. But read this: BISHKEK, March 3…
Elmar Huseynov, the editor of the outspoken anti-government weekly publication, Monitor, was shot dead by an unknown assailant on March 2. The first thing that jumped to my mind when hearing about this was the murder of Gongadze in Ukraine, who was the anti-government editor of Ukrainska Pravda. HRW, New York, 04.03.2005 — The Azerbaijani…
A lot of stuff is going on in the world. We’ve got a Lebanon roundup coming up for you as the day gets started there, with a focus on the role of Hizb’allah and an opposition group called Lebanese Forces. The Moldovan elections are on Sunday, and I’ll prepare a primer to those for you…
That’s the title of a new report by Amnesty International concerning Nepal. The government of Nepal should restore fundamental human rights, open a peace process based on justice and respect for human rights, protect human rights defenders and end the impunity of the security forces. The Maoists should commit themselves to respect international human rights…
In a truly alarming development, Miguel Octavio reports that Venezuela’s dictatorship is handing over the job of issuing identity cards for every Venezuelan to a Cuban “company.” With this measure, every Venezuelan’s fingerprints, photograph and identity particulars will be in on file with Castro’s secret police. Every one. Given that the Chavez dictatorship enacted a…
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I missed yesterday but today I am back on track. Daily Burma is up. It’s short and sweet but there are some interesting developments to watch out for.
Arthur Chrenkoff is doing just that. Check it out, it makes interesting reading. I’ve got some work to get done and a nap to take, so the Lebanon update will come in the wee hours of the morning (which is cool, because the time zone difference will give me more to collect). Look forward to…
The Reuters headline says it all: Oil Rich Venezuela Devalues Currency. Just as the IMF always recommends to developing (but not donor) countries. ‘It will raise your exports!’ they lie. Chavez didn’t need the IMF to order him to do this, he was happy to commit economic suicide on his own. What’s confounding is that…
Senator John McCain, my senator in Arizona, issued a statement on the recent elections in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. And it was the right oneto make.
Blogger Randy Paul from Beautiful Horizons has a welcome perspective on Uruguay and its new president, Tabare Vazquez, a leftist, whose party is unpromisingly identified on the radio here as a collection of ‘communists, socialists and tupamaro guerrillas.’ Understandably, Vazquez is a cause for alarm to some – even some Uruguayans. But Randy checked around,…
Alek Boyd has located a disturbing new story out of Rome about a member of Chavez’s trusted inner circle – a presidential guardsman charged with protecting Chavez’s life, who’s now charged with drug trafficking among Europe’s dangerous syndicates. In light of recent stories about Chavez’s permitting FARC Marxist drug lords like Rodrigo Granda to walk…
One of the best Venezuelan bloggers has today’s pickings from Hugo Chavez’s latest lunatic ravings. The unpopular Venezuelan dictator’s going off the deep end.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…