Tis explanation of a recent rise in gas prices charged by Turkmenistan is a decent insight into just how political energy is - the past situation makes not the slightest sense in economic terms, but political considerations outweigh all that.
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Tis explanation of a recent rise in gas prices charged by Turkmenistan is a decent insight into just how political energy is - the past situation makes not the slightest sense in economic terms, but political considerations outweigh all that.
Gas dispute between Russia and Turkmenistan
Registan does that whole 'stepping outside the echo chamber' thing, and argues that the SCO may not be all that important after all. I feel suitably chastened.
No, I'm not impressed by headlines like US-led forces 'kill 65 Taleban'. You don't win a war just by killing as many people as you can.
Half a million displaced in Assam: Nearly a million people have been displaced by flood waters in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam.
Half a million? Nearly a million? Learn to count, BBC! But half a million displaced is still massive; makes me feel guilty worrying about 10,000 in Ramadi.
Andul Khalim Saidullayev (a Chechen separatist leader) has been killed by the Russian military. So, this one lasted just over a year - what brave fool wants to take his place?
Language politics is common. But script politics? There's an attempt in progress to revive the Vietnamese Nom script, which was banned by the French in the 1920s.
"A Sunday Herald investigation has discovered that coalition forces are holding more than 100 children in jails such as Abu Ghraib. Witnesses claim that the detainees – some as young as 10". [source]
Some inspiration for the coming career-plunge - although it is a little odd to find myself thinking of oft-revisited blog posts like this as old classics.
The Non-Aligned Movement includes 114 member states; I had no idea it was so big - and therefore hard to ignore. No idea if their take on Iran will achieve anything, though.
There's not much more terrifying than the idea of RuneScape as a model community
For some reason the title Adviser Has President's Ear gave me entirely the wrong impression about this article
For some reason the title Adviser Has President's Ear gave me entirely the wrong impression about this article
Maoists in India'. South Asian communism - in both the armed and the democratic forms - seems truly fascinating. Another thing I could spend some time reading up.
At the G8 (and pretty much every similar event), governments make pledges, then don't follow through on them. Takes NGOs to point it out, and even them we're all too bored to pay attention. If I liked economics a bit more, I could do some proper digging into this kind of government scam.
New HRW report on Darfur. In the grand tradition of 'put up a link so you don't have to think about it'
Does bad temper count as a medical condition? What I love is the acronym, IED, for 'intermittent explosive disorder. Gives surreal images of planting the office dragon beside a road outside Najaf...
Good grief! Somebody has written a sane, coherent article about RuneScape. He even seems to be more than 14 years old. And he's not complaining about scammers or gold farmers. Time to dig out Nostradamus' prophecies and head for a nuclear bunker: the endtimes, they are a-coming