New colonialism land grab
2009.08.04 15:36
Barangkali ada yang tertarik baca2… Para investor rebutan tanah2 subur buat pertanian/perkebunan… yang hasilnya kemungkinan besar buat ekspor ke pasar global… padahal tanah2 itu ironisnya di daerah2 yang masih banyak yang kelaparan (dalam hal ini di Afrika)… http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,639224,00.html Untuk versi printable-nya (lebih enak buat dibacanya): http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-639224,00.html Mudah2an Indonesia gak jadi korban “nekolim” semacam ini… Apa [...]
Pemilu 2009: Act 2, TGIO
2009.07.09 23:28
(This is Part II of my rantings on Indonesia’s 2009 General Elections. This time it’s about the presidential elections. Part I –on the legislative elections– is here.) If the quick count results are indeed to be any indicator of the upcoming official tally, then Indonesia has a new Vice President: Boediono… The President? Meh… Same [...]
Buku “Ilusi Negara Islam”
2009.05.20 03:45
Mungkin ada baiknya segera membaca buku ini… Ilusi Negara Islam:Ekspansi Gerakan Islam Transnasional di Indonesia …sebelum ada kelompok2 yang menuntut untuk melarangnya… dengan segala macem alasan, padahal mungkin karena buku ini bakal mengungkap apa yang emang sebenernya dari kelompok2 itu… Kabar2nya buku ini emang udah mulai di-larang2 juga… Untungnya penerbit buku ini kayaknya udah antisipasi, [...]
Pemilu 2009: Act 1, Scenes Ad Nauseum
2009.05.18 17:20
So I guess we’ve come to the end of the first part in this whole charade called the Pemilu 2009 (Indonesia’s 2009 General Elections), with its endless scenes of political twists and turns, which had become even more bizarre ever since the April 9th legislative election. And don’t expect an intermezzo anytime soon, coz we’re [...]Guernica
2009.04.13 23:01
BBC recently ran a story about Pablo Picasso’s painting of the Guernica bombing, in remembrance of the tragic event, which occured on April 26, 1937. Guernica, a historical Basque town in the Biscay province, was victim to a particularly controversial type of air-raid bombing –known as “terror bombing“– during the Spanish Civil War. Immortalized in [...]
Soviet propaganda posters
2009.04.07 02:04
Any kind of propaganda should of course be taken with a grain of salt. Here are some Cold-War-era propaganda posters by the Soviet Union against the U.S., which have been archived at EnglishRussia.com (the exact links with the complete collection of posters can be found here and here). Despite their propaganda nature, some of the [...]
Pretext for Mass Murder
2009.03.14 12:30
I just finished reading: Pretext for Mass Murder The September 30th Movement and Suharto’s Coup d’Etat in Indonesia by John Roosa Assistant professor of history University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada Published: The University of Wisconsin Press 2006 Table of Contents: 1. Introduction 2. The Incoherence of the Facts 3. The Supardjo Document 4. Sjam [...]
Open Veins of Latin America etc.
2009.03.06 23:13
I’m currently reading the book… Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano …in between the time that I’m supposed to finish up an assignment :p Just half way through, I’m already liking this book a lot, by the way the author wrenches our feelings with the [...]
