Jordanian blogger Batir Wardam discusses his skepticism with Jordan’s democratic political progress in this post (Ar). Is there political money fueling his country’s campaigning for seats in the Parliament .. or it is just money?
Jumbie's Watch is not impressed by the Trinidad and Tobago opposition's latest maneuver, while KnowProSE.com thinks that the political parties “seem to be catering to the lowest common denominators - and those denominators are appallingly low.”
Child of the Revolution blogs about “a new exhibition…looking at the ‘use and abuse' of that now-ubiquitous Alberto Korda photograph of Ernesto ‘Che' Guevara.”
Find out why Rick Lowe at WeblogBahamas.com isn't so much into the Christmas spirit.
Seventy years since Stalin's Great Terror of 1937, many Russians are ignorant of their country's horrible past, Windows on Eurasia reports. Nevertheless, hundreds of people came to Lubyanka yesterday to read out the names of thousands of victims - and PODstantsiya, a podcasting project of the Moscow-based Foundation for Independent Radio Broadcasting, has recorded the […]
The latest strategy memo from James Carville, Stan Greenberg and Al Quinlin observes that “if Americans have ever been angrier with the state of the country, we have not witnessed
it… The scale of today’s discontent is evident in the 70% who
now say the country is off on the wrong track and in George Bush’s job approval and personal
ratings, now at their lowest levels ever.”
“The Democrats enjoy a stable 13-point lead in which party voters say they will support for president
(53% to 40%) and a stable 10-point lead in the named-ballot for Congress (51% to 41%) — both essentially unchanged all of this year… The freshmen Democrats have
consolidated their positions (ahead 55% to 37%), while Republicans in battleground seats are
trailing.”
Caveat: “Democrats have yet not found their voice as agents of change, except
perhaps on Iraq, and risk falling short of their greatest aspirations.”
Former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky says president Vladimir Putin doesn't understand the prison camp slang he sometimes uses, Window on Eurasia reports.
A new Rasmussen Reports survey of likely Virginia voters finds Mark Warner (D) leading Jim Gilmore (R), 53% to 37%, in a match-up for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. John Warner (R-VA).
Window on Eurasia writes about “Putin’s new man in the North Caucasus” and his methods.
Siberian Light notes the reaction of Chessbase to the angry readers protesting coverage of Garry Kasparov's political involvement.
