Posts Tagged ‘libya’
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 [...]
Twitter revolutions?
‘Tis the season of revolutions — American independence day, Rwandan independence and liberation days — and right on that timely little wave, I have a new cover story for the Christian Science Monitor’s weekly magazine (yes, we still publish on dead trees — and you should subscribe, because we are glossy and pretty and cheap) [...]
Events that are worth a New York minute — and more
Here are two upcoming events that promise to be interesting and inspiring. If you’re in the City, come on by. If you’re not, tell your metro-friends. (And come say hi to me at the Dart celebration!) A Celebration of the Dart Society, an collective of journalists whose work focuses on trauma, broadly defined. Gloria Steinem [...]
With this death, losing a way of seeing — and being in — the world
Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, two eminent photographers and journalists, were killed yesterday in Libya. I’d learned about Tim’s work from Glenna Gordon, whose talent and practice has been heavily influenced by Tim’s own. Glenna pays moving tribute to Tim’s work here. And on the Lens Blog at the New York Times, former West Africa [...]
Uganda finds easiest Security Council sanctions loophole ever
In order to comply with UN sanctions, Uganda froze the assets of Tropical Bank, “99.6875 percent” owned by Libya, according to Bloomberg. (The other “0.3125 percent” belongs — shocker — to the Ugandan government.) Then it took the bank over. Why? Bloomberg reports on a statement from Bank of Uganda Governor Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile: The measures [...]
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 [...]
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