Lee on Jul 30 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lee's Page, Uncategorized
(photo: Charles Roffey - Charles & Fred)
Someone once said that in Damascus you truly can get a little bit pregnant. It’s a good aphorism, because if you asked the foreign minister of almost any state in the Middle East or the Mediterranean what his government’s policy relationship was with Syria, he would automatically furrow his [...]
Lee on Jun 01 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lee's Page, Uncategorized
(photo: Mani Babbar)
After 9/11 widened Al Qaeda’s ambitious war against most of the world, Osama bin Laden described his own axis-o-evil as being composed of “Crusaders, Zionists and Hindus.” But at some point, without anyone much noticing, that seems to have changed for Hindus.
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Lee on Feb 02 2008 | Filed under: Books, Developmental economics, Economics, Foreign affairs, Interviews, Lee's Page
Gas flaring in the Niger Delta (photo: Ellie)
John Ghazvinian is a journalist and historian of considerable insight into African affairs. He also happens to have written one of the best recent books on the emergent international struggle for African petroleum: Untapped: The Scramble for Africa’s Oil (the paperback edition is due out in April). Whilst [...]
Lance on Jan 12 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lance's Page
Stealing from Harry’s Place we find these fairly encouraging results:
Here’s the results of last November’s polling amongst Palestinians:
Support or opposition to a peace settlement with Israel
Support 72%
Oppose 25.5%
Support or opposition to the Palestinian participation in the peace conference that will be held at the end of the month.
Support 71%
Oppose 26.5%
Should Hamas maintain its position [...]
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