Rattling with implications.
Terrorism and torture, those twin nightmares of modern life, seemed before 9/11 to exist, somehow, out there. Terrorism was a Middle Eastern and North African phenomenon, mostly, and torture a South American specialty. Of course neither could really be confined geographically. There were terrorists in Northern Ireland, Italy, and...

Captives of the Junta.
A group of National League for Democracy (NLD) members gathered outside their party headquarters in Yangon to mark Suu Kji's 63rd birthday Thursday by releasing 63 sparrows and shouting "Free Aung San Suu Kyi. "Seven government cars arrived shortly after the protest began and rounded up at least 30...

Waves of Hope: The U.S. Navy's response to the Tsunami in Northern Indonesia.
Living Diplomatically: A Life in the U.S. Foreign Service - Living Diplomatically: A Life in the U.S. Foreign Service, by William N. Dale, Hamilton Books, 71 pages Bill Dale, our colleague at American Diplomacy and good friend, notes that much has changed in the Foreign...

Second Thoughts.
This is the controversial project that UCLA history graduate Sondhi Limthongkul seeks to accomplish. Sondhi earned, lost, and recovered vast fortunes in media and communications technology, but gained national prominence in politics. His outdoor talk shows at Thammasat University drew the crowds that became the core of the anti-Thaksin...

Oakwood suspect granted bail.
In a release order dated July 17, Judge Cristina Cornejo of Makati Regional Trial Court branch 148 directed the commanding officer of the PAF Custodial section at Villamor Air Base in Pasay City to discharge Acedillo after posting a P50,000 bail. Earlier, Acedillo, through counsel Theodore Te,...

Sukarno and the Indonesian Coup: The Untold Story.
Sukarno and the Indonesian Coup: The Untold Story. By Helen-Louise Hunter. Westport CT: Praeger Security International, 2007. Hardcover: 201pp. This book ought to have been published with two warnings. First, in all its 201 pages, there is not a single footnote, bibliographical reference or specification of a...

What's left of the old right.
[Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement, Justin Raimondo, ISI Books, 369 pages] Human Events, the periodical that takes credit for "leading the conservative movement since 1944," has indeed captured the spirit of conservatism since its inception. Felix Morley, opponent of political centralism...

Myths and realities; the democratization of Thai politics.
9781920901844 Myths and realities; the democratization of Thai politics. Tamada, Yoshifumi. Kyoto University Press 2008 356 pages $79.95 Hardcover Kyoto area studies on Asia; v.15 DS586 Yoshifumi (political science,...

TURKEY - July 14 - Eighty-Six Indicted In Plot To Topple Turkish Government.
A top prosecutor announces a long-awaited indictment against 86 individuals suspected of involvement in a coup plot against Turkey's Islamist-rooted government. The document is the first to emerge from a year-long investigation into an alleged ultra-nationalist network in the country dubbed "Ergenekon". The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP),...

The world comes to Qatar: Interfaith conversations in an Arab land.
THE NATION OF QATAR, roughly the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island, is the world's leading producer of natural gas and has the highest per capita income of any country in the Arab world. A few decades ago it was a tribal society with an economy based largely on...