Comments on: Freedom on the March

by: Mike the Mad Biologist ¦ Mirror ¦ rorriM

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:59:47 +0000

[…] Stumbleupon Review of : http://scienceblogs.com/mikethemadbiologist/2007/09/this_is_what_courage_really_lo.php Myanmar : This is What Courage Really Looks Like. From the page: “I don’t have much to add about the situation in Myanmar; maha has some good posts about it, along with AmericaBlog. But the picture to the left is a study in contrasts. The foreground speaks for itself, but if you look at the upper left background, you’ll see an advertisement for the movie 300. To my mind, 300 represents a juvenile, fantastical crusade for freedom from dictatorship. But unlike 300, most struggles against dictatorships and juntas during the last century have not involved smashing things, bellowing, and rippling abdominals, but ordinary people, who simply possess a dreadful hope that, despite all the murderous evidence to the contrary, human decency and the justice of which we can conceive will prevail over unethically-wielded might. Too often, this has not been the case, and there has been a dreadful and bloody price. Yet the people of Myanmar still march, only armed with the conviction that their government is unjust and that it can be changed through non-violent means. They are awe-inspiring and humbling, not only for their courage, but for their steadfast commitment to dignity in the face of in indignity. More: […]

by: Mike the Mad Biologist

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:44:41 +0000

Myanmar: This Is What Courage Really Looks Like

It’s not like the movies.

by: Jon Swift

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:37:21 +0000

Burma Schmurma

I’m just as bored by what’s happening there as most liberal bloggers seem to be.

by: The Mahablog » Tiananmen Remix

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:03:10 +0000

[…] I wrote about the recent protests in Burma/Myanmar a couple of days ago, and mentioned President Bush was going to speak about Myanmar when he addressed the UN yesterday. This has resulted in mostly isn’t it nice that he mentioned Myanmar stories in the U.S. press. But Pepe Escobar writes for Asia Times: The mystery of why US President George W Bush took center stage at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday but did not promote the next neo-con war on Iran was solved when it became evident that the job has fallen to his new European poodle, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who in his speech once again assumed the inevitability of an Iranian nuclear bomb. […]

by: SteveG

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:08:03 +0000

Feel better!

When you write, just remember that punctuation becomes much more interesting than it really is with high doses of painkillers.

by: maha

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:53:56 +0000

Donna — I couldn’t find your email. Can you re-send?

by: Donna

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:12:56 +0000

Um, I am thinking of a Wall Street Journal article, September of 2000 [if my memory is accurate], which reported on Dick Cheney playing footsie with the Myanmar military junta in his role as CEO of Halliburton. In the mid-nineties, at a time when the western world was putting their heads together trying to come up with ways to handle Myanmar’s human rights abuses, Cheney was in bed with the abusers in order to secure and profit from the rights to build a pipeline in that country. As part of the deal, the military junta forced peasants, including children, into slave labor to help build roads for Halliburton.

So, given that craven behavior by our sitting VP, it is surprising that his puppet Bush would come out publically against the veep’s old business partners.

(Maha, check your e-mail for a personal message from me, ok?]

by: Bonnie

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:43:30 +0000

Get well quickly, Maha. And, I am sure your incoherent posts will still make more sense than any commentary from those crazies in the rightwingosphere.

by: Swami

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:05:07 +0000

I hope you heal quickly,Maha. And if my comments are incoherent for the next few days it’ll be because the summer harvest is in.