By Robert Merkel on January 3, 2012
The world continues to inch towards the eradication of two more diseases. The number of Guinea worm cases continues to decline. According to the latest WHO bulletin, in January through September 2011, there were 1,008 cases of dracunculasis reported, compared [...]
Posted in Developing world, Foreign policy, Health, Medicine, Science, War | Tagged guinea worm, Nigeria, pakistan, polio, polio eradication |
By tigtog on July 27, 2010
Afghan, Pakistani Reactions at Odds Over Leaked US Documents, US says Afghan Wikileaks ‘could put lives at risk’
Posted in Afghanistan, Politics, USA | Tagged Afghanistan, pakistan, roundtable, whistleblowers, Wikileaks |
By Robert Merkel on March 3, 2009
Terrorism in Pakistan is, sadly, not that surprising. An attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team’s bus is. According to ABC news, five players, and their Australian coach Trevor Bayliss, were wounded, and are being treated by the team doctor. [...]
Posted in Crime, International, Sport, Terrorism | Tagged cricket, pakistan, sri lanka, Terrorism, trevor bayliss |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 1, 2008
On a couple of reports on tonight’s tv news, I saw a citizen of Mumbai being interviewed who demanded the Indian government go to war with Pakistan. That set me to wondering what such a war – and God forbid [...]
Posted in Disasters, Government, History, International, Politics, Sociology, Terrorism, War | Tagged assymetrical warfare, attacks, Eric Hobsbawm, global sociology, globalisation, globalism, India, Max Weber, modernity, Mumbai, Norbert Elias, pakistan, political sociology, Saskia Sassen, Sociology, state, state power, Terrorism, Urbanism, War, warfare |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 28, 2008
The Mumbai terror attacks are horrendous and to be roundly and loudly condemned. But, as with all events of this nature (particularly those which involve attacks on Westerners), inevitably there’s been a rush to inscribe their significance within a political [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Crime, Developing world, International, Media, Middle East, Nationalism, Politics, Religion, Sociology, Terrorism | Tagged Al Qaeda, andrew bolt, attacks, BJP, Congress, Hindutva, India, Indian politics, inter-communal violence, international politics, Mumbai, Nationalism, pakistan, political violence, Religion, sectarianism, secularism, Shiv Sena, Sociology, terror, Terrorism, terrorism studies |
By tigtog on November 11, 2008
Remember all that McCain campaign rhetoric about how Obama’s August 2007 statement on the need for sporadic pursuits of Al Qaeda into Pakistan without prior diplomatic notice showed that he was an irresponsible loon who should never be commander-in-chief? (and [...]
Posted in Afghanistan, Ethics, Imperialism, Law, Nationalism, Terrorism, USA | Tagged barack obama, George W. Bush, incursions, IOKIYAR, John McCain, musharraf, pakistan, special forces |
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