Mali poised for multi-sided war

…a healthy skepticism towards French intervention, and the BBC emphasizes that their spokesman did not say they are prepared to fight alongside the French. A Jan. 13 MNLA statement online

Next: Free Zazaistan?

…theory anymore. The Turkish military was exposed this year for having set up an unknown number of websites to battle “online Kurdish separatism” and pro-Kurdish sentiments online. The list of…

China: Bo Xilai purge and the World Bank

…the government’s role in managing the economy and move toward a more market-oriented system. According to Tuesday’s online edition of The 21st Century Business Herald, a respected Chinese publication, the…

From Charleston to Rhodesia…

Online activists are calling for the Confederate flag that remains flying outside South Carolina’s state house after nine parishioners were shot dead at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston to be removed…

Syria: protesters defy emergency rule

online. “There is no God but God,” a crowd inside the men’s section of the Omayyed Mosque started chanting in crescendo after prayers at noon. (Middle East Online, March 18)…

Podcast: humanitarian intervention for Gaza?

…zone around Gaza, physically stop Israel’s genocidal slaughter, and rush aid in to prevent mass starvation. There’s a petition online at Avaaz.org for “Urgent International Military Protection for Palestinians.” And…

FARC: “terrorists” or “belligerents”?

…book online by going to Lulu Bookstore: http://www.lulu.com/content/1753466 Dear Colombians (and Venezuelans), in my studies, I also read the Liberator Simon Bolivar forbade Non-Catholic Churches in Gran Colombia (and any…