Sep 28, 2010

Core Topics Links - September 28, 2010

Muslims in Mumbai protest against terrorismImage by Bird Eye via Flickr
Muslims in Mumbai protest against terrorism (BM)


Southeast Asia

Burma postings are covered daily in my Burma Monitor blog at http://burmamonitor.blogspot.com/

I have created extensive link directories to Southeast Asia sources on my second research blog,
Starting Points, here at http://starting-points.blogspot.com/

Bioprospecting is threatening Bunaken National Park
http://www.insideindonesia.org/stories/big-business-big-damage-12091345

Bali-based NGOs are an important part of Indonesia’s growing sustainable agriculture movement
http://www.insideindonesia.org/stories/in-search-of-sustainable-farming-05091344

Update of Poverty Incidence in Timor-Leste
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/EASTASIAPACIFICEXT/TIMORLESTEEXTN/0,,contentMDK:22703761~menuPK:294027~pagePK:2865066~piPK:2865079~theSitePK:294022,00.html?cid=EXTEAPMonth1

Indonesia: Growth Continues, Challenges Lie Ahead
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/EASTASIAPACIFICEXT/INDONESIAEXTN/0,,contentMDK:22715171~pagePK:1497618~piPK:217854~theSitePK:226309,00.html?cid=EXTEAPMonth1

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister charged with criminal offences over corruption
allegations
http://easttimorlegal.blogspot.com/2010/09/deputy-prime-minister-and-foreign.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EastTimorLawJusticeBulletin+%28East+Timor+Law+%26+Justice+Bulletin%29


The Muslim World


Yemen: Al Qaeda 2.0
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/middle-east/100926/yemen-al-qaeda

What to Do About Guantánamo?
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/oct/14/what-do-about-guantanamo/?pagination=false

Our Man in Palestine
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/oct/14/our-man-palestine/?pagination=false

The Serbian Surprise
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/sep/28/serbian-surprise/

Iran's Interrupted Lives
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/sep/27/irans-interrupted-lives/

From Baltistan to the Hindu Kush: A Road Trip, Continued
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/sep/24/baltistan-hindu-kush-road-trip/

Turkey Packs the Court
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/sep/22/turkey-packs-court/

The Pirates Are Winning!
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/oct/14/pirates-are-winning/?pagination=false


American Studies

U.S. Wants to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/us/27wiretap.html

Bewitched
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2010/10/04/101004taco_talk_mead

Why the revolution will not be tweeted
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/04/101004fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all

On Tony Judt
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/oct/14/tony-judt/?pagination=false


Global Issues

The Way Out of the Slump
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/oct/14/way-out-slump/?pagination=false

Who's Afraid of Ukrainian History?
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/sep/21/whos-afraid-ukrainian-history/

Iraq: The Ignored Victims
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/oct/14/iraq-ignored-victims/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailmarketingsoftware&utm_content=302072438&utm_campaign=October142010issue&utm_term=IraqTheIgnoredVictims


Minority Groups

Mexico's illegal immigrants? Americans.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/mexico/100916/migrants-illegal-immigration

Chagos people press to return to their island home
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/africa/100925/mauritius-chagos

Booming China, Migrant Misery
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/sep/14/booming-china-migrant-misery/

Islamophobia, European-Style
http://www.thenation.com/article/154978/islamophobia-european-style?rel=emailNation


Internet Studies

Beyond Diaspora: Another Facebook alternative has a head start
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2010-09-27-n29.html

Twitter feeds and blogs tell hidden story of Mexico's drug wars
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/26/twitter-blog-mexico-drug-wars

FacePINCH - Real-time Facebook search engine. What are people talking about right now? No Facebook
account needed
http://facepinch.com/

David Fincher and “The Social Network”
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2010/10/04/101004crat_atlarge_denby

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