From the Irrawaddy On-line.
The Irrawaddy is a monthly review of Burmese SE Asian news,
produced by exiled pro-democracy Burmese in Thailand:
Of Generals and Democracy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/aviewer.asp?a=6241z=108
Smiles Give Way to Doubts in Coupland
Since this subject has been broached here
quite recently, I take the liberty of pasting
below a message sent to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
The implications are wider than the regional
issue, for it raises the question of to what
extent major media (and telecoms companies)
dominated by big
This is not in any way to concur with the closure of The Midnight
University Website, far from it, but rather to give a different
perspective to the coup to that presented in some of the western
media.
The King of Thailand who has spoken and acted in favour of democracy
was almost
The article on Israeli tactical thinking is interesting
in (1) demonstrating the intellectual bent of some of
their field commanders and (2) the use of analogy to
apply studies in one subject to development of methods
of action in another.
It should be mandatory reading for those actively
... the popularity in the USA of a book like The Diary
of Anna Frank gave Holland the false reputation of
having been right on in its efforts to protect its
jewish population from the nazis, whereas in reality
collaboration was rife: 90% of Dutch jews were deported,
more than in any other
