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indonesia / philippines / australia / miscellaneous Tuesday March 29, 2005 22:50 byMark
The most catastrophic earthquake in recent memory occurred in the Indian Ocean on St. Stephen's day 2004. The resulting tsunami caused the deaths of at least 250,000 people across many countries in the region and has left millions more without homes, food, water or livelihoods.
central africa / miscellaneous Thursday March 10, 2005 23:30 byChekov
We had very little prior information about the Central African Republic, commonly known as the CAR. Our guidebook had only a couple of pages about it, most of which seemed to be very out of date, with almost no concrete information. We had heard the tales of the dictator Bokassa who used to publically feed his enemies to his pet lions and crocodiles, who had ordered massacres of protesting primary school kids and who had been rumoured to indulge in cannabalism, but that was in the 1970's
east africa / miscellaneous Friday March 04, 2005 22:44 byChekov Feeney
It is a grave error for anarchists to fall into the trap of attributing the chaos and instability of some modern African nations as being due to the weakness of the state.The imposition of artificial states which coresponded to no conceivable 'nation' and which were based on no strong local bourgeois and no large middle class meant that these states could never have been stable bourgeois democracies.
central america / caribbean / miscellaneous Friday March 04, 2005 20:44 byRamor Ryan
Reflections on the political situation in Central America brought on by a Dec 2004 bus trip through the region
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