Archive for the ‘Elsewhere’ Category
When the good guys are also bad guys
The Globe & Mail has an article today about abuses by Libyan rebels (h/t @geoffreyyork). I think it’s a good piece, and if you’ll indulge me a second, I’ll point out that I find the reporter Graeme Smith very deft here: For the most part, rebels appear to have kept their prisoners safe, giving them enough [...]
In crisis, who is media for?
Among the many talents of my friend Aaron Ernst is one for language. He recently translated tweets from a victim of the earthquake in Japan, who lives in Sendai, and they’ve got me thinking aloud… The tweets: @Kchang40 I’m a quake victim from Sendai City. As electricity has begun to be restored, I’ve been watching [...]
Silly women and their sexual assault. Don’t they know it’s complex?
At a small school in Pennsylvania, students staged a sit-in to protest the way their campus handles rape reports. This piece, from the Philadelphia Inquirer, says that on a campus of 2400 students, there were five sexual assaults reported last year. Any woman will tell you that’s got to be a case of underreporting. The [...]
And, 5-0, the ICC gets Libya
The Security Council unanimously voted to refer Libya to the International Criminal Court, for “widespread and systematic attacks” against citizens protesting Qaddafi. (NYT source, NYT spelling.) There’s also a bunch of sanctions in the vote. The unanimous vote surprised me — China, betraying a friend like that? What’s going on in Beijing? Then The Globe [...]
Calling anyone who knows about illicit economies
This just in. Those in need or desirous of publication, take note: CALL FOR PAPERS: St Antony’s International Review – The Challenges of Illicit Economies Abstracts due April 29, 2011 Papers due August 26, 2011 Whether in the form of piracy, prostitution, people trafficking, the sale of counterfeit goods, or the trade of illegal drugs, [...]
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