I’m playing my regular Wednesday gig on Radio Riel today with music of the Silk Road, including a particular focus on Persian and Arabic music. I hope you’ll tune in at http://music.radioriel.org.
Radio Riel is an internet radio station that started in Second Life. I do weekly programming as well as DJing for events in Second [...]
Thinking of Iran
June 17th, 2009 · No Comments
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Good coverage of Iran
June 13th, 2009 · No Comments
Regular updates on the election and its aftermath:
Breaking News – The Lede Blog – NYTimes.com
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Charming Tutu interview
May 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off
The Guardian intervews Desmond Tutu:
“Are you going to wear that shirt?” asks Lynn Franklin, his literary agent and friend, with whom he is staying on Shelter Island, a holiday retreat in the Hamptons, New York State.
Tutu widens his eyes and opens his mouth in mock indignation. “What is wrong with this shirt?” he says, looking [...]
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Malaria No More – Donate Bed Nets
April 25th, 2009 · Comments Off
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Trip to Europe, Mr Bush?
March 28th, 2009 · Comments Off
I’ve been hoping/waiting for this to happen. Harper’s magazine reports that Spain is going after the architects of U.S. torture: John Yoo, William J. Haynes II, David Addington, Alberto Gonzales, Jay Bybee, and Doug Feith.
The Spanish criminal court now may seek the arrest of any of the targets if they travel to Spain or any [...]
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Most amazing photos
March 14th, 2009 · Comments Off
The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated (A Library of Congress Exhibition) is an exhibit of digital prints created from the original glass negatives, which were taken through red, green, and blue filters in the early twentieth century. And aren’t these windmills something else?
(Tip of the hat to Sully.)
Tags: · history · international · photography
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
December 10th, 2008 · Comments Off
Preamble
Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,
Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a [...]
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Stratford Tea Leaves
September 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I spent the recent Labor Day weekend in St. Mary’s, Ontario, at a small convention of people I know from the Independent State of Caledon, a neo-Victorian, Steampunk community in the virtual world of Second Life. One afternoon, four of us went into nearby Stratford for lunch and a very pleasant (and informative) tea-tasting at [...]
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I want to live in a land called Paradise
February 17th, 2008 · Comments Off
(Hat tip to Will Shetterly.)
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Continuing trouble in Burma
January 30th, 2008 · Comments Off
Al Jazeera English – News – Myanmar Charges Protesters
Myanmar’s government has filed sedition charges against 10 pro-democracy activists detained during massive protests against the country’s military rulers last year.
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