Month: March 2005

This is Part 4 of my coverage.  You can read Part 1 here, Part 2 here and Part 3 here. It’s over folks.  Just like that, the people have taken control of their own government and Akayev is no more: Kyrgyz...

Photo courtesy of Reuters There are very few independent media reporters inside Kyrgyzstan but stories are starting to come out, predominantly via the Russian press. Just as I covered the Ukraine elections at the end of 2004, I...

He’s Amy Goodman’s special guest today on Democracy Now! (Listen or watch! Read the transcript in a couple hours.)

Cross-posted at DailyKos. In the most significant action taken against privately held land since the 2001 Land Reform, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez — in a “War to the Death” against large estates — has...

I first ran into a reference to this March 7, 2005 Program on International Policy Attitudes [PIPA] Survey on the public’s budget priorities at Boffoblog. This is the Report of Findings and the Questionnaire (all are .pdf...