August 15, 2008
Writing from Tbilisi, Wu Wei says images of Russian tanks entering the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia bring back memories of Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968. Meanwhile, although no official evacuation of foreign citizens from Georgia has started, one USAID team is departing, a...
go to article »August 8, 2008
Blogian interviews the acting U.S. Ambassador to Armenia, Chargé d’Affaires Joseph Pennington. In an extended entry, the blog details some of the main points from the interview which includes reference to Armenian-Turkish relations, the post-election situation in the country and a recent visit by...
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It was 63 years ago today that the United States government unleashed an atomic attack on the civilian Japanese city of Hiroshima. The 9,700-pound uranium bomb lovingly named "Little Boy" killed about 150,00 people from the impact and continued to kill thousands for years after, from the radiation...
go to article »August 5, 2008
Cuban bloggers Babalu and Ninety miles away…in another country focus on U.S. Republican senator Arlen Specter's upcoming Latin American trip, during which he hopes to meet with both Raul Castro and Hugo Chavez: “The Cuban government has made clear that the only thing it is interested...
go to article »August 4, 2008
So Georgia keeps killing people in the breakaway republic of South Ossetia: "It was reported on Friday evening that three people had been killed as Georgian troops continued to shell its capital, Tskhinvali." Georgia has also: "declared a sniper war on the Republic of South Ossetia and made another ...
go to article »July 30, 2008
Who said Obama doesn't care about Latinos? He's got $20 million burning a hole in his pocket and guess where it's going? To try to get the Latino vote -- which some say he has in the bag -- to swing his way for sure. Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign launched a massive $20 million effor...
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Over on OurKingdom, Ian Parsley corrects Barack Obama's version of Northern Irish history. Standing near the ghost of the Berlin Wall last week, the US presidential candidate claimed that walls had “come down in Belfast, where Protestants and Catholics found a way to live together.” "Se...
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Former Estonian Prime Minister Mart Laar comments on the negative Russian reactions to US president's George Bush parallel between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in a recent speech celebrating the Captive Nations' week. Idel-Ural Kray presents an alternative view (RUS) of the matter. ...
go to article »July 29, 2008
Obama stopped through for two nights and a day, as if he were writing one of the New York Times travel pieces about how to spend 36 hours in some locale. At first glance, the trip was purely about photo-ops, gathering footage for later campaign ads that will air in south Florida. But there were some...
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