In Colombia’s Antioquia province, members of the “Mineros” paramilitary group demobilize. Photo courtesy of the Organization of American States’ Misson to Support the Peace Process (and with thanks to Vasja Badalic). For more on the demobilization of Colombia’s paramilitaries, see here and here.
A new Web site, Wikileaks.org, aims to be a Wikipedia for government whistle blowers. It apparently takes as its motto a quote from Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg: “We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.” Here’s what the site says about its mission: WikiLeaks is developing an uncensorable version of WikiPedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis. Our primary targets are highly oppressive regimes in China, Russia, central eurasia, the middle east and sub-saharan Africa, but we also expect to be of assistance to those in the west who wish to reveal unethical [...]
Coming as it did on the eve of a holiday weekend, Saddam Hussein’s execution has not yet received the full attention of the opinion press and the blogosphere. In the coming days, the trickle of commentary so far is certain to become a deluge. Still, what’s already been written is more than enough to occupy at least a good part of New Year’s day. So for those looking for a starting point for their reading, we offer a short roundup of commentary on the subject. Op-eds:Feared and Pitiless; Fearful and Pitied by John Burns, The New York TimesOnly Stupid, Sadistic [...]
