Kuala Lumpur  41 days of exile Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had a candidate to front for the Iraqi people — Dr. Ahmad Chalabi. He had been running the Iraqi National Congress for many years from the United Kingdom. He had a degree from the University of Chicago. He was connected. Former Secretary of State Colin …
Author: wade
Fuel Prices Going Up
Yogyakarta 41 days of Exile We were going to be leaving Indonesia in the nick of time. Gas subsidies are being reduced across the board on October 1st. Rallies and demonstrations were starting in both Jakarta and Jogya, as we prepared to close down the Organizers’ Forum for another year. We had moved out of Jakarta …
Aceh and Katrina
Yogyakarta 39 Days of Exile The tsunami on December 26th, 2004, was an unimaginable devastation for Indonesia. We met with people who usually used the figure of 200,000 dead, but essentially argued that the level was so horrendous and the destruction so immense that there was no real count and in fact some said that after …