Piñera’s administration haunted by ghosts of Pinochet era
Nick MacWilliam — July 1, 2010 3 Comments
For while the name Pinochet is representative of oppression and abuse internationally, to many Chileans, particularly among the well-off minority, it is cause for admiration, a fact emphasised by the identity of another political candidate in the last election
Editor's Pick, Politics
Is it really the case of private sector good, public sector bad?
Alex Meikle — June 30, 2010 2 Comments
Certainly, there is no simple dichotomy of public sector, bad and wasteful, private sector good and efficient. The key question is what should the public sector be delivering that the private sector can’t, at what price and how affordable in terms of taxes.
Editor's Pick, Politics
Dubious polls: How accurate are Iraq’s death counts?
Robert Shone — June 30, 2010 2 Comments
The 2006 Lancet study on Iraqi deaths has received a 2010 “Top Ten Dubious Polling” award, following criticism of the study’s lead author by the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR). Are these merely agenda-driven attacks on credible research, or do they represent accurate and justified criticisms?
Editor's Pick, Media
The US must switch support to the CHP in Turkey
Burhan Gurdogan — June 30, 2010 6 Comments
It is apparent that every day under the antiquated Neo-Ottomanist policies of AKP and Davutoglu, Turkey is drifting apart from West rapidly. If AKP manages to win one more election, the United States and the West will completely lose an ally in Turkey.
Editor's Pick, Politics
The fight to preserve Latin America’s democratic revolution
Matt Kennard — June 28, 2010 0 Comments
For Prof Anderson the template of Spain after Franco’s destruction of civil society “has become the general formula of freedom: no longer making the world safe for democracy, but democracy safe for this world.” Through a confluence of historical factors, Latin America is the crucible where the last chance to make a world safe for democracy is being fought. The importance of this battle shouldn’t be underestimated: if it fails, we might not get another chance
Editor's Pick, Politics
“We pulled worms out of her arms”: Remembering Zehra
Hikmet Karcic — June 28, 2010 22 Comments
On 27 June 1992, around 70 Bosnian Muslims were barricaded and burnt alive in Visegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Only one woman managed to survive and tell her story. This year survivors will return to mark one of the worst crimes during the Bosnian War.
Editor's Pick, Politics
Outrage at Afghan Boy’s Murder for “Collaboration”
Mohammad Ilyas Dayee — June 24, 2010 2 Comments
Lynching of eight-year-old in Helmand universally condemned, may turn tide of opinion against Taliban.
Editor's Pick, Politics
Through A Glass Darkly: A Review
Ali H — June 20, 2010 2 Comments
Through a Glass Darkly opened at the Almedia theatre this month, the only adaptation of the film ever approved by Bergman for the stage. Bergman himself was famously unhappy with the original, calling it ‘a desperate attempt to present a simple philosophy: God is love and love is God.’ But Worton adeptly shows that there is far more substance in the script than its urge to impose certainty.
Culture, Editor's Pick
Peter Erlinder jailed by one of the major genocidaires of our era
David Peterson — June 17, 2010 2 Comments
The May 28 arrest of U.S. attorney and Chicago native Peter Erlinder by the Paul Kagame dictatorship in Rwanda reveals much about this regime that is routinely sanitized in establishment U.S. and Western media coverage and intellectual life. But if we use Erlinder’s arrest to call attention to some less-well-known facts, a much grimmer scenario about Kagame than one that portrays him as the “man of the hour in modern Africa,” who “offers such encouraging hope for the continent’s future” (Stephen Kinzer), comes to light
Editor's Pick, Law
Welcome to RupertLand
Leah Borromeo — June 17, 2010 0 Comments
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation feels it’s time for its cousin BSkyB to join the family.
Editor's Pick, Media
Srebrenica Numbers: DNA Science vs. Genocide Denial
Daniel Toljaga — June 16, 2010 2 Comments
Forensic evidence confirms 8,100 Bosniak victims summarily executed immediately after the fall of Srebrenica