Only rarely does life imitate art in the starkness and directness of its message. When that message is a tragic one the effect becomes indelible. Such was the impact on Peru of theevents of Uchuraccay, a small village located in its central... I was surprised the moment he came to pick us up in the western Georgian town of Zugdidi. I had thought he would be young, like most of Mikheil Saakashvili's youthful administration. Shota Utiashvili was a senior government official, and I had... It may appear that any attempt to provide a definitive assessment of Georgia's war with Russia on 8-12 August 2008 is premature, for the very good reason that the broader conflict of which this disastrous eruption was a part is itself far from... Nizhny Novogorod today is really two cities. The upper city is on the hills of Verkhnie Pechory (upper caves) and the lower city is the other side of the river Oka. If you are planning to come and see us, you have to bear in mind that our metro... Burmese people across the world, whether in the homeland or in exile, have for the last eighteen years marked today's date with particular sharpness and poignancy. 8 August 1988 was the occasion of a massacre in the capital Rangoon in which the... Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, made a significant remark in his speech on 3 August 2009 that both endorsed and inaugurated the second term of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president. Khamenei described the popular uprising in... Momentum for a region-wide peace plan has been gaining ground since Barack Obama was sworn into office last January with Syria being singled-out as a central component to any successful endeavour. Once sidelined precisely because of the support... Back in March the FT reported that Jack Welch, the former chief of General Electric and champion of shareholder value since the 1980s, had declared the idea that company managers should concentrate on it to be ‘dumb’. His apparent conversion... The nuclear bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 is marked around the world every year on this date in memory of the tens of thousands of victims and as an awful warning of the horror of this form of weaponry. But sixty-four...
Violence and blindness: the case of Uchuraccay, James R Mensch
Tbilisi: Twenty Hours Before the War, Zygmunt Dzieciolowski
The Georgia-Russia war, a year on, Donald Rayfield
Life in Nizhny Novgorod doesn’t stand still, Lira Valeyeva
Burma's struggle, Daw Suu's role, Kyi May Kaung
Iran: revolution, suspended , Rasool Nafisi
Damascus: on the road to peace?, Stephen Starr
Shareholders' gain, society's loss, Peter Johnson
Hiroshima's echo: an end to nukes , Paul Rogers
Friday, 7 August 2009
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