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POPSNo right to on-line anonymity? Isn`t our democracy a hybrid? Partially open and democratic and partially like fascism or stalinism? Do you know who knows everything about you? Could be your neighbour. Or your sister.
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POPSCourt Moves To Charge Sudanese President al-Bashir With Genocide "The solution to problems and the current situation in Darfur is not completely independent from the work of the International Criminal Court." The German chancellor said she and Ban also discussed instability in Zimbabwe and the challenge of supporting Africa as food and fuel prices skyrocket. Merkel said that Germany had pledged €600 million (US$954 million) in emergency aid to African nations struggling to deal with rising prices. "Naturally, Germany is strongly committed to development aid." Ban was in Germany for a two-day visit that will also take him to Bonn, where several U.N. programs have their headquarters.
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POPSWhy The Silence on This Dictator?
Peter Maass writes on why we rarely hear U.S. criticism of Teodoro Obiang, the draconian ruler of Equatorial Guinea -- when we hear so much about Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe. Maass posits that it's because of U.S. oil investments in the West African nation. There's no doubt some truth to that notion. But it could also have to do with the strange ebbs and flows of the media. Britain's BBC has gone to extraordinary lengths to cover Zimbabwe, in part because it was a former British colony, which Equatorial Guinea was not. But more importantly, perhaps, is the fact that just about every news organization in the world that covers Africa on the ground has a correspondent in South Africa. Call it the Jerusalem effect: Sure, it's newsworthy. But there are more foreign correspondents per capita in Jerusalem than anywhere else in the world. So closer things get covered more, farther things not so much. And Equatorial Guinea is a long, long way away from the foreign press.
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POPSThe Western Hypocrites Line Up There is currently a worldwide food crisis, created by the greediest bastards of the West. How dare these pile of hypocrites get mad because Robert Mugabe is in attendancce. Starvation in Zimbabwe? Excuse me? Starvation means dying from hunger. So whose dying of starvation in Zimbabwe. News to me. The average Zimbabwean is fatter than the average European. So are Europeans are "starving" to death? Robert Mugabe is denounced for one reason and one reason ONLY, despite all the bloviating from the West and the West alone: Mugabe is alone among African leaders with the balls to declare that the land and its resources of Zimbabwe belongs to Zimbabweans. Considering the fact that the US kidnaps, tortures, invades, steals, mass-murder, starves and both commits and finance state terrorism and Europe doesn't notice one thing wrong, European critics of Mugabe are just plane full of shit.
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