This article on the new Iraqi Prime Minister is interesting reading.
The concluding paragraph:
Allawi’s appeal, and also his liability, is that he will govern Iraq as a strongman. His biggest problem these next few months will be staying alive, in the face of death threats. His only real protection will be the support of other Iraqis. […]
Here is a good article in The Christian Science Monitor on some upcoming hurdles in Iraq.
While attention has remained focused on the majority Shiites in the South, the non-Arab Kurds in the north, distrustful of promises of autonomy, are threatening to kick over the traces and pull out of the new government.
Kurdish distrust of the […]
Here is an interview with Phillip Longman who has recently written a book on world population decline and the problems it will produce.
Italy is on the threshold of losing population in absolute terms; Russia is losing about 750,000 people a year. South Africa is losing population primarily because of AIDS and falling birthrates. Japan will […]
Here is an editorial that restates many of my arguments on the torture memos and how they relate or don’t relate to Abu Ghraib.
The good, if under-reported, news is that the pile of documents released by the Bush Administration this week effectively rebuts the charges of “torture” that have been flying around. While White House […]
Citizen Smash examines the recent attacks by Zarqawi’s forces.
I agree with his analysis that this feels like a desparate attempt to turn the tide. He is losing and he knows it. Read Smash’s post and follow through to his links from Iraqi bloggers on this.
Devasting critique.
I don’t plan on seeing this movie. Not because I don’t believe in looking for opinions contrary to my own, in fact I purposefully seek out such opinions. I enjoy listening to and taking into accounts opposing arguments. I don’t think I will find that in Fahrenheit 911 though. Innuendo, […]
The Darfur Information Center has tons of links about Darfur and the Genocide going on there. Great info for anyone who is interested in this crisis.
Hat Tip: Instapundit
Al Gore gave a speech yesterday. I’m not going to discuss all of it, it is more of the same of what we have been hearing from Gore recently and I think all my readers know where I stand. This one paragraph bears examination though:
The Administration works closely with a network of “rapid […]
Washington Post:
When Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez faced a coup d’état in April 2002, the international community roundly condemned the assault on Venezuela’s constitutional order. Now, as he faces a recall referendum in August 2004, Chavez’s own government threatens to undermine this country’s fragile democracy through a political takeover of its highest court.
The new law […]
US News:
WADI HAWAR, DARFUR, SUDAN–Seeing 12-year-old Adam Erenga Tribe, small and guarded, his clothing frayed, it is hard to grasp that he is the lucky one. Yet he may be the only person in his village of 300 to have escaped the attack by the dreaded men on horseback–the Arab Janjaweed militia. “I was coming […]
