Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Plotting Europe's eastern border
Viktor Yushchenko, candidate in the upcoming Ukrainian presidential elections, makes some interesting points about the future of the Ukraine, and worries concerning the expanded European Union. He states: While welcoming the enlargement of the European Union, Ukrainians are anxious about European integration halting at our western frontier and in fact creating a new dividing line.…
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EU plays a strong role on Darfur
Bernard Bot, minister of foreign affairs of the Netherlands and the current president of the EU Council of Ministers writes about Europe’s efforts in relation to Darfur. If the European Union talks to the rebels, we will declare a unilateral cease-fire,â? said Vice President Ali Osman Taha of Sudan after his meeting with a Dutch…
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A Western strategy for Chechnya
Anatol Lieven, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington has a good piece about Chechnya in the IHT. He believes that the West needs a new strategy for Chechnya and that this strategy should have 3 vital components: The first would be directed towards Moscow, and would echo our approach…
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Sitemeter
Oh and my Sitemeter has passed the 250,000 visitor mark. Wohoo.
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Posting
I have alot of work to do on the backend of the server – I need to do some tweaking in order to get RSS, RSS2, RDF and Atom.xml feeds working again. It is all in PHP and SQL and relates in a complicated way to how WordPress is installed. I also have to work…
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Bloggin
Just too tired lately to blog, but have a good list of stuff to blog…it builds and builds.
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Pakistan is a nuclear time bomb: Graham Allison
Not since the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 have I been as frightened by a single news story as I was by the revelation late last year that Abdul Qadeer Khan, the founder of Pakistan’s nuclear-weapons program, had been selling nuclear technology and services on the black market. The story began to break last…
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Bush's Lost Year
James Fallows in the Atlantic. Read it.
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RSS issues
I have been having some difficulty with RSS feeds, and I am working on resolving them. It really is quite complicated.
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New addition
The newest addition to my blogroll: Politics on Slashdot And I do hope they keep it up after the election.
Got any book recommendations?