Monday, May 22, 2006

It's official: Finland remains the arse end of nowhere

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The Danish budget airline Sterling have just announced that they will stop flying from Helsinki in August. They started two months ago. ...
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Thursday, May 18, 2006

Somalia: unravelling the threads of the Mogadishu fighting

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The extensive fighting in Mogadishu over the last week has brought Somalia back to international attention for a few days. Described as “a...
Wednesday, May 03, 2006

5 truths about Darfur

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One danger of using Google to do research is that you end up reading stuff that is interesting but not actually what you were looking for. A...
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Friday, April 28, 2006

A British Jihadi in Iraq?

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I only recently came across this interesting story in the Times. A British student in Iraq, Mobeen Muneef, gets 15 years from an Iraqi cour...
Thursday, April 27, 2006

Finally, the global oil market is working as it should...so American politicians want to shut it down.

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It has been with great interest that I’ve read the ‘high price of gas’ discussions in the United States in recent months. It seems politi...
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Thursday, April 20, 2006

Hollywood Generals?

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Charly’s ruminations on American generals from last week means that I just can’t help myself and I’m going to have to link this article fro...
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006

If People Die in Darfur and You Aren't Told About it - Do They Still Die?

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I woke up today determined to write a brilliant analysis on superpowers and the media. Rather, having a range of studies and reports float...
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Thursday, April 13, 2006

More Chad - last for today

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Earlier reports that a French Mirage fired warning shots at the rebel column advancing on N'Djamena seemed to have changed into them dro...