Wednesday, 31 January 2007

Teetering Turkmenistan?

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From my Reuters AlertNet blog, 31 January 2007. ======= IWPR just published a good overview report on Turkmenistan as the country faces...
Thursday, 7 December 2006

BBC: Worth It for International News Alone

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I posted this on my Reuters AlertNet blog on 7 December 2006. ======= While these blog pages have looked at a couple very significant m...
Wednesday, 6 December 2006

Online Iran

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From my Reuters AlertNet blog on 6 December 2006. ======= The online media in Iran have been under pressure for some time, and yet, the...
Thursday, 23 November 2006

Egeland and After

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I posted this on my Reuters AlertNet blog on 23 November 2006. ======= On 4 December, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland will ...

Media on Darfur: Detached and Dehumanised?

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This originally ran on my Reuters AlertNet blog on 23 November 2006. ======= I met with a few well-placed Darfurians a couple days ago ...
Wednesday, 22 November 2006

Al Jazeera International: The First Week

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From my Reuters AlertNet blog, 22 November 2006. The station later settled on "Al Jazeera English" as its name. ======= One w...

Uzbekistan: Beyond Sanctions

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This originally appeared in Transitions Online on 22 November 2006. ======= The EU can do little now to change Uzbekistan’s direction, ...
Thursday, 16 November 2006

Afghanistan: Battered Women

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This ran on my Reuters AlertNet blog on 16 November 2006. ======= Tuesday's post by my fellow AlertNet blogger, F. Brinley Bruton, ...
Friday, 3 November 2006

Great Hopes for Al Jazeera International

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This piece appeared on my Reuters AlertNet blog on 3 November 2006. Of course, the name they eventually chose to use was "Al Jazeera E...
Monday, 23 October 2006

Darfur: The End of an Insider's Blog?

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From my Reuters AlertNet blog, 23 October 2006. ======= Khartoum has ordered Jan Pronk, Special Representative of the Secretary-General...
Tuesday, 26 September 2006

Darfur Disconnect

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This appeared on my Reuters AlertNet blog on 26 September 2006. Apart from a throat-clearing introductory piece, it was my first post there...
Sunday, 10 September 2006

The War in American Hearts and Minds

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I wrote this for openDemocracy as part of their look at the legacy of 9/11 five years after. It was my effort to define how a "conflic...
Friday, 12 May 2006

We Must Prepare for the Coming Crisis in Uzbekistan

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This comment piece originally appeared in the Financial Times on 12 May 2006. ======= A year has passed since government troops fired o...
Thursday, 6 April 2006

The EU and the Turkmen "Prophet"

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I wrote this piece together with Tanya Cox of Human Rights Watch. It was published in the European Voice on 6 April 2006. ======= For y...
Wednesday, 22 March 2006

Uzbekistan: A Lifeboat for the Media

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This piece originally appeared in Transitions Online on 22 March 2006. About a year after the Andijan masacre, Uzbekistan had become a medi...