Tag Archives: Zimbabwe

The Last Jews of Zimbabwe

Posted on September 8, 2008 by Lee

David Saks reflects on a vanishing community. Down to 260 individuals by some estimates.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Africa, community, David Saks, jews, Zimbabwe | Leave a comment

Christopher Hitchens on Robert Mugabe

Posted on August 31, 2008 by Lee

I’d heard that Hitch addressed the situation in Zimbabwe in his introductory remarks at the Freedom Fest 2008 debate with Dinesh D’Souza, but I hadn’t seen the video of it until today. It’s worth a watch. The subject of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs | Tagged Africa, anticolonialism, Catholic, Christopher Hitchens, Dinesh D'Souza, Freedom Fest, God, Harare, hypocrisy, ideology, Maoism, Mugabe, mythology, nationalism, racism, religion, Rhodesia, Robert Mugabe, secularism, socialism, western, Zimbabwe | 2 Comments

Blog Graphics Retrospective

Posted on August 31, 2008 by Lee

I was searching for an image on my backup drive today and came across a cache of header graphics I’d thrown together for posts over the years. The diversity of subjects was kind of interesting as a gallery. Here’s a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Lee's Page, Uncategorized | Tagged Al Askari, allegory, Barack Obama, blog, China, congress, ecuador, Eurabia, George Alec Effinger, graphics, green party, Gun Smuggling, Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedow, headers, Hillary Clinton, HIV, Hugo Chavez, Iraq, islam, John McCain, larry craig, Muqtada al-Sadr, National Defense, Rafael Correa, Red Army Faction, Richard Dawkins, Robert Mugabe, Samarra, Saudi Arabia, Silvio Berlusconi, Slobodan Milošević, Vaclav Havel, women, Zimbabwe | 3 Comments

China & Russia: Models and Modalities

Posted on August 3, 2008 by Lee

Francis Fukuyama chats with Robert Kagan on a number of interesting things: Flash | WMV | MP3 (via: The American Interest). Of immediate interest is Kagan’s notion that the the emergence of global multipolarity induces an imperfect, baseline bipolarity of … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page | Tagged authoritarianism, bipolarity, Burma, Calvin Coolidge, China, China Model, Cuban Revolution, diplomacy, eastern, flash, Francis Fukuyama, imperial, internationalism, Kremlin, Lenin, Mao, Moscow, mp3, multipoliarity, nationalism, Nikolai Bukharin, oligarchy, power, revolution, Robert Kagan, Russia, russocentrism, sinocentrism, Soviet, Soviet Union, Stalin, tibet, Trotsky, Tsarist, unification, vassal states, video, western, Zimbabwe | 3 Comments

Scrambling for Africa: A Conversation with John Ghazvinian

Posted on February 2, 2008 by Lee

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Developmental economics, Economics, Foreign affairs, Interviews, Lee's Page | Tagged Africa, Alberta, Angola, Arctic, Beijing, Bonga, business, Cabinda, Cameroon, Canada, Chad, Chevron, cocoa, Cold War, Congo, Domestic Politics, Dutch disease, economy, energy, Environment, ethnic nationalism, Financial Times, FPSO, Gabon, Geneva, geostrategy, ghana, guerrilla warfare, Gulf of Guinea, Houston, IMF, interview, John Ghazvinian, Joseph Kia Mboungou, kidnapping, left, memo, mercantile, Middle East, neoconservative, Niger Delta, Nigeria, offshore, oil, oil sands, oilfield trash, peak oil, petroleum engineers, post-nationalism, prostitution, reinvestment, rentier, Royal Dutch Shell, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, shale, Shell, subculture, Suez Canal, Transportation, Uganda, UK, United Nations, Washington, workers, World Bank, Zimbabwe | 9 Comments