ctrp372 Dissecting Dictators
Podcast: Download (Duration: 21:14 — 14.6MB) | Embed 2011 is the year where many observers and so called experts around the world scramble to understand how it is that so many dictatorships suddenly arrived at…
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bmtv83 Lisbon 1974
Podcast: Download (41.5MB) | Embed The 25 of April is a very special day. As per tradition, here’s a video blog entry paying tribute to 25 de Abril in Portugal.
Nuclear Juntas
Can’t quite finish the vlog I’m working on tonight so instead I wanted to bring up Burma. Or Myanmar, same difference. What strikes me as odd and worthy of attention about Burma is that over…
More on Russian Oligarchy
As I periodically do on this blog, today I’m writing about how more and more obvious it becomes that the Russian Federation is run by an oligarchy. Not that its so unique, lots of nations…
Zimbabwe Has No Oil
My good friend and longtime reader Jack wrote to me earlier in the day saying hello and asking if I’d address the forgotten issue of Zimbabwe. And he’s not the first to have done that,…