Monday, June 18, 2007

The people of Palestine must finally be allowed to determine their own fate
Karma Nabulsi
The Guardian
18 Jun 2007

There is nothing uglier and more brutal to the human spirit, nothing more lethal to that universal hope for freedom, than to see a people struggling for liberty for such a long time begin to kill each other. How and why did we get here? Above all: how... read more...

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

In Bangladesh, democracy stalls
By Yaroslav Trofimov in Dhaka, Bangladesh
The Wall Street Journal Europe
05 Jun 2007

WHEN BANGLADESH’S ARMY intervened to abort a flawed election in this Muslim nation of 150 million in January, the U.S. and United Nations both offered tacit support for the coup. But now the army-installed caretaker government is back-pedaling on its... read more...