Monika’s Pensieve

A short report from Al Jazeera about the fate of religious minorities in Afghanistan.

I’d intended to write about this ages ago, but somehow didn’t *sigh* Anyway, Indian elections came and went and the Congress party won once again with even more votes than last time (that means the government is socialist yet again).
A lot of interesting news reports came up during this time. On the one hand, there [...]

Myanmar (Burma) is one of the worst totalitarian regimes in the world. Getting reasonable media coverage from the country is very difficult and so, even though I don’t think this is the best of news reports, I thought I’d link to it. Just seeing footage from Burma is special in itself. I wonder how Al [...]

Russell Means is an actor, who has extensively campaigned for Native American rights throughout his career. The interview is fascinating :)

This is an article about a recent event on Haizhu Bridge. It’s a place that suffers from frequent traffic jams caused by would-be suicide jumpers (they very rarely actually jump). Apparently one of the people in the traffic jam got impatient and pushed the would-be jumper off (onto an emergency air cushion - the jumper [...]

A short report from Al-Jazeera, which talks about how co-operation between the US and Iran would benefit all three parties.

For the first time in the history of Kuwait, women have been voted into parliament :)

Warsaw reminds me of 80s London these days in terms of the amount of smog that’s in the air. Quite seriously, I think these days the Warsaw smog is worse than the air in today’s London. And London is 3 or 4 times the size of Warsaw, so maybe we should start worrying about this [...]

Abdul Salam Rocketi (the man in question) talks about the importance of including the Taleban into Afghan politics. He talks about the mistakes the US has made and how the peace process is not possible without including the Taleban in Afghan politics.

An interesting article I think.