Kyrgyzstan: Turmoil Continues Despite Quick Power Shift
Today, the ousted leader of Kyrgyzstan, President Bakiyev, refused to step down just a day after he was forced to leave the capital, Bishkek, in a bloody popular uprising that left the opposition in control of the country, despite anger still boiling in the streets. Russia and the European Union said they were supporting the […]
Is Europe’s Model Better Than America’s Shock Capitalism?
The global financial and economic meltdown of 2008, which originated in the United States, was a perfect opportunity for Americans to seriously reconsider their conception of “free market”, and put into question America’s own brand of “wild” capitalism, where the cycles of economic boom and bust always end up making the wealthy-few richer, and the […]
Pakistan: The Taliban Strike Back
Today, a series of deadly blasts rocked Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP). The explosions killed at least 52 people and wounded more than 100 others according to Pakistani authorities. In the first attack, a suicide bomber killed 46 people at a celebration organized by the leading secular party in North West Pakistan. The second […]
South Africa: Will Killing of White Supremacist Trigger Racial Violence?
As South Africa gets ready to host the World Cup, the killing of far-right white supremacist leader, Eugene Terreblanche, could not come at a worse time. Today, President Zuma called for calm after Terreblanche was found hacked to death by machete on his farm in the country’s Northwest. The 69-year-old leader of the white supremacist […]
Russia: Will Moscow Bombings Be Used To Crack Down On Human Rights?
Yesterday, one of the suicide bombers who blew themselves up in Moscow on March 29 was identified as Jennet Abdurakhmanova. She was 17-years old, and the widow of the leader of a Dagestan separatist and Islamic group, Umalat Magomedov. According to Dagestan’s police investigators, Jennet became involved in terrorist activities after she developed an intimate […]
