Author: soj

I think I’ve written like 3 or 4 posts like this because every Sunday the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, goes on his special TV and radio program and blasts off a few incendiary statements. So every Monday I read...

[promoted by BooMan] A reader of my blog wrote to me about a month ago asking if it was true that American troops had been seeing action in the impoverished African nation of Chad.  I promised him/her that I’d do a...

Booman user Chamonix asked me to repost this article I wrote on Christmas Day 2004. Below is the original article in its entirety.Here in Romania it is now Christmas morning and I wanted to share with you a true holiday tale. I...

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...