Update: There appears to be some doubt as to the validity of the statement that the site is targeting Israelis or contains any malware at all.
Mahmood Ahmadinejad, Iranian President, has taken to blogging. I think it’s great that he’s addressing people in this medium. Be sure to click the US flag, second from the left [...]
Jill Carroll, the freelance journalist for The Christian Science Monitor (a great newspaper by the way), tells her story on The CSM starting here. It’s a multi-part series starting today. Absolutely riveting.
Link: The Jill Carroll Story - Introduction
There’s a great read in the July 27th edition of the Economist that reminds me of the perils associated with the imperialistic endeavors involving the US, Britain, and France in relationship to the Suez Crisis of the 50’s.
Britain and France wanted control of the Suez Canal, but had no basis for invading Egypt, so [...]
Thanks to all those people who emailed or called asking if we had any relatives who were affected by the attacks in Bombay. I don’t have immediate relatives there, but I have plenty of distributed family members living in the area. None were directly involved in the train bombings, but they will surely [...]
I’m not quite sure how much the news of the Nepal student protests resulting in reinstitution of parliamentary powers has been making the rounds in the West, but in India this is getting top billing. Justly so, the voice of the students has been heard and the King decided to act in the interest [...]
April 15th marked the 94th birthday of Kim Il Sung, North Korea’s founding leader. I continue to be fascinated with the hermit kingdom and their cult of personalities. I watched no less than 4 documentaries this past week on North Korea. It’s amazing how well the North Korean gov’t has orchestrated and [...]
The people spoke. Well, they burned a bunch of cars in protest to the youth job contract which would have given employers the ability to terminate the employment of younger workers within two years. With youth unemployment at nearly 23%, it’s widely thought that the job contract would have actually increased employment in that demographic. [...]
I’m amazed that the situation in Sudan isn’t getting more attention. I constantly wonder how many more people have to die until the world takes action. A proxy war is taking place between Chad and Sudan and the largest casualties belong to the civilians.
It’s one thing to have pedestrian victims when [...]
Not all Arabs are terrorists. Not all Arabs are even Muslims. Arab Jews are not uncommon. And anyone who was afraid of having a Dubai based company run some of the US ports can stand down. The CEO of the largest Israeli shipping company just endorsed the Dubai company in question. [...]
God bless the only-in-America irony. She’s been on the Administration like a hawk over Abu Ghraib. From reading the article, I can tell that I am instantly a fan. Link courtesy of my younger sister — the other fiesty Bala.
Last month, American Civil Liberties Union staff attorney Amrit Singh fired one of [...]
I’m bullish on America sharing civilian nuclear technology with India for many reasons. But I probably would be given my occassional quasi-nationalistic feelings towards India though I was born in America.
I have always felt that India is more than just a “counter balance” to China. Politically, there are clear reasons for America to [...]
David Irving is just another idiot, but he shouldn’t be jailed for voicing what amounts to his opinion on the holocaust. He has made some outrageously inaccurate statements that should be factually challenged, reducing him to idiot status amongst the intelligentsia. That would be enough.
European countries that prosecute people who make [...]
I’m convinced that technology and the internet will be China’s Achilles’ heel. They won’t be able to continue the level of censorship without slowly ceding to the opinions of the people. The incident recently regarding Li Datong and his criticism of the regime and the result is one example.
I can’t wait until it [...]
I’m not referring to the XmlHttpRequest object that is the special sauce behind the new age of code-heavy clients like Gmail and Google Maps. AJAX, in reference to development, is all about a smoother browser interaction and transparency for the user. It’s a broker of sorts that makes page transitions more seamless. [...]
It’s a hard thing to think about, isn’t it? Hamas is now in power because the people want them there. We should give them a chance. The PLO at one point was as radical as Hamas is today. Abbas is practically a walking joke. He’s taking the Palestinian cause nowhere [...]
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