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I’d have added the following comment to the post, G20 Post Mortem / Open Thread, had I been able to register. It may show up there yet; I’ve sent it to the blog editor and left it up to him. … Continue reading →

Tourists snapping up £20 guided walks around Nairobi’s open-sewer streets Xan Rice in Nairobi, guardian.co.uk, 25 September 2009 The streets of Kibera, Nairobi, are attracting the interest of tour operators – but critics say the residents are on parade like … Continue reading →

President Obama has the uncanny ability to achieve Bush-like ends by much smoother means. He announces a compromise on missile defense systems in Eastern Europe, then moves the weapons elsewhere on the continent. He initially tones down the rhetoric on … Continue reading →

25 September 2009 Police used teargas pepper spray and rubber bullets against University of Pittsburgh students during the Pittsburgh G20 Summit. Many of the students were not part of any demonstration but bystanders, curious to find a mass of armed … Continue reading →