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(Artwork, Beirut Spring) Today, a prominent anti-Syrian politician and Journalist was killed in a car-bomb explosion in Beirut. The Lebanese bloggers were quick to show their disgust, shock and fury....
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In Consent of the Networked, internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon argues that the purpose of technology is to serve humanity, not the other way around. It’s time to wake up and act before the reversal becomes permanent.
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Pablo Bastidas (ES) and FayerWayer (ES) both comment on Entel's recent announcement to blanket 14 of Chile's biggest cities with WiMax internet access.
Happy Día de la Virgen. Calypso MX has a description while photographer Carlos Bravo offers his own contribution, which resonates wide amongst the Flickr community.
Passion of the Present writes on a UNICEF project to provide safe places for refugee children to help them overcome trauma and malnutrition…..UNICEF is supporting 46 ‘child-friendly spaces’ in five refugee camps in eastern Chad, where families have fled the fighting in the neighbouring Darfur region of Sudan.
Anthony talks of Nupi Lal (or Women's War), an occassion that celebrates women who were involved in an uprising in the early 1930s when food prices shot up in Manipur.
This is Zimbabwe - reports on WOZA - Women of Zimbabwe Arise - who took to the streets of Harare on Saturday 10th December which was Human Rights Day. During the demonstration women were assulted by security forces and some of them arrested….”By noon five women from the Harare protest were in custody at Harare Central Police station. They were assaulted with open palms and baton sticks whilst in detention by officers, including one called Mhondoro. Due to a combination of this assault and refusal of access to lawyers, the women decided to negotiate the payment of ZD $25,000 admission of guilt fines. They were released on this basis at 16:45 pm”.
DesiPundit collates various links to the latest bribery scandal that has been unveiled by a sting operation. The sting involves sitting Members of Parliament accepting bribes to raise questions in the Parliament.
Trivial Matters has an excellent collection of photographs on the open spaces in Bombay (also known as Maidans).
I guess it has to do with humanizing a figure we prefer to see as super-natural. The almost funny thing...
people of maldives..you have to stop this civil war. its sad to see it in this state of affairs....
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I do not support capital punishment, in this instance there have no other alternative. What these killers have done is...