Polish workers are everywhere
Or so it seems sometimes :] Here’s an article about how the economy crisis is effecting Poles in Iceland.
Do the people waging wars know any history or geography?
When I read things like this I get very aggravated:
The tragedy happened early on in Britain’s deployment to Helmand province, at a time when 3 Para and others faced chronic shortages of everything from ammunition, helicopters and even - in some cases - food.
Few had realised the front-line would present quite such savage terrain.
Afghanistan [...]
Mumbai, Maharashtra, the diversity of India and how the Shiv Sena fit in
One of the things that I find most mind-boggling about India (or what I think I know about it anyway) is that every opinion or stance you could possibly conceive of seems to be somehow represented if you look for it hard enough. Things that seemingly contradict will mysteriously manage to function side by side.
Mumbai, [...]
NATO agrees to fight drug trade in Afghanistan
Afghanistan is the biggest opium producer in the world. It is estimated that in 2007 93% of the drugs made from opium and its derivatives on the world market came from Afghanistan. Apparently there is more land in Afghanistan used for opium production than there is land used for cocaine production in Latin America…
For the [...]
Iran supporting Afghanistan
I’m trying to finally get back to reading news - I miss it :]
So I just read an article about a railway being built between Afghanistan and Iran, financed by the USA. Somehow I found it strange since the US is supposed to consider Iran evil and all. Even more interesting, it says Iran has [...]
The US presidential campaign
(there’s also a little more on the veteran issue at the end of the clip)
