Iran – A Nation of Bloggers
Independent reporting on human rights, environmental and conflict issues
Photos From Wednesday’s Silent Protest in Tehran
Independent reporting on human rights, environmental and conflict issues
Foreign Journalists Tell of Arrests and Beatings of Press Corps in Iran
I received a first hand report from an Iranian I know inside Iran that he was arrested and his cameras were taken away from him. Also this has appeared on […]
British Parliamentarians Speak Out Against Gaza Offensive 1
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British Parliamentarians Speak Out Against Gaza Offensive 2
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Letter From the Grave
Last Thursday, Lasantha Wickramatunga, editor of the Sri Lankan newspaper the Sunday Leader, was assassinated on his way to work by two gunmen riding motorcycles. He knew it was only […]
Propaganda Wars and the Gaza Offensive
by Anne Holmes Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, who is working to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Gaza said yesterday that slanted coverage of the war mocks world opinion. […]
NYC Pro and Anti-Israeli Rallies
Transcript from Democracy Now’s coverage of a counter-protest held the next day on the same spot by New York Jews: On Monday, a group called Jews Against the Occupation staged […]
Ending the War in Gaza
International Crisis Group A war neither Israel nor Hamas truly wanted turned into a war both are willing to wage. The six-month ceasefire that expired on 19 December was far […]
Jose Cendon and Collin Freeman Released
Jose Cendon and Collin Freeman were freed today against ransom and are on their way to Nairobi. The photographer and writer team were reporting on piracy in Somalia when they […]
Karl Rove IT Guru Set to Testify Dies in Plane Crash
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Updated: The Cockroaches Take Over
Giles Ji Ungpakorn, professor of political science at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, has kindly allowed us to publish his analysis of the current political crisis in Thailand. See below. (Update: Mr. […]
Good Job America!
Christine King Farris, Martin Luther King Jr.’s sister, reacts to the news at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia (couldn’t find the credit) The above photograph is one of my […]
ALERT: Somali Kidnappers Threaten to Kill Canadian and Australian Journalists
Amanda Lindhout While I was in Afghanistan last summer I met a young, budding photojournalist named Amanda Lindhout. She was kidnapped this past August in Somalia along with her Australian […]
And Now for Something Completely Different II
On my recent trip to London, I had the great fortune of spending some time with a few admired and celebrated poets from Africa who were on tour in the […]
EUFOR in the Chadian Theatre
by Anne Holmes When the sun comes up in eastern Chad, the dawn of a new day brings with it a host of daunting challenges. Soon the temperatures will rise […]
Notes on the Darfur Refugee Crisis
Camp Iridimi, Eastern Chad I spent a month wandering around eastern Chad, along the border with Sudan, where some 250,000 Darfuris fled a genocidal conflict to settle in massive refugee […]
Burning the Master’s House
by Onyango Oketch Now let the blame game begin. Schools in Kenya are going up in flames, together with the ideologies they espouse. We might say nothing new in these. […]
Firefight in Abeche
by Anne Holmes In Abeche now, the day was very calm. After checking with various people about the security situation, we took a drive up north to Biltine to have […]
Chad Day 1
Arrival in N’djamena, Chad June 17, 2008. Things are calm in the capital after a series of rebel attacks in the east destabilized regular proceedings and raised the alert levels […]
New Multimedia Slideshow
For those of you who have been keeping up with my regular posts, thanks for stopping in. I will be taking a break from my reporting on Kenya and shall […]
Kenya Rocked by Mungiki Surprise Attacks
The cities of Nairobi, Nakuru, Naivasha, Nyieri and Eldoret were all affected by yesterday’s Mungiki demonstrations. A day after President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga named the cabinet […]
Pulling the Railway Line
A young man hacks at bolts holding the railway line together in Kibera slums. © Anne Holmes Residents of Nairobi’s Kibera slum continued to pull up the railway line late […]
