An Australian War tourist travelogue of a day trip to Grozny.
Nothing can prepare you for entering a live combat zone. I’ve lived across from Belfast’s notorious Sandy Row and gotten into fisticuffs with an armed and amorous Cambodian soldier in Khmer Rouge territory, but Grozny made everything else look like War-Lite.
The ravaged outskirts of the [...]

Very cool.
cre8d-design has won a NetGuide award for Best Youth Blog in New Zealand.
No small potatoes, but then again Idolblog was/is no small project.
It is evening in New Zealand as I post this, so Rachel and Regan Cunliffe (cre8d-design) are still at the awards ceremony and it the announcement just came up.
Caught between corporate heavy-handedness [...]

An answer to Lt.Col John McCrae
by Moina Michael - 1918
Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields,
Sleep sweet - to rise anew!
We caught the torch you threw
And holding high, we keep the Faith
With All who died.
We cherish, too, the poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led;
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood [...]

Longtime Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has died, signaling the end of an era for his people.
Arafat leaves his 42-year-old wife, Suha, who lives in France with their young daughter.
Arafat had been under the care of French doctors in the hospital at Clamart near Paris since Oct. 29, when he was airlifted there from his Ramallah [...]

This is interesting, moving, shocking, sad, delightful…
It is 100 pictures and 100 words that update every hour - 10 X 10.
If you put your cursor over a picture, a word comes up to explain it. Click on a picture and it opens in a window.
It is certainly an example of how ‘bad news’ sells and [...]

Tomorrow Canada honours it’s military. Thousands of men and women have come home from war, if not physically wounded, more often than not psychologically damaged. It has taken a long time to begin to understand the effect war has on a warrior.
War is a life threatening experience that involves witnessing and engaging in terrifying and [...]

This isn’t a picture of the northern lights. It’s bombs raining down on Fallujah.

The assault, dubbed Operation Phantom Fury, perversely started on Laylat e-Qadr, the most important and holy night of the year for the Islamic world.
In terms of the information war, the hospital was indeed the most strategic of targets. During the first siege [...]

Nine Iranian bloggers will go on trial next week in Iran. They have been in jail since September.
They have been held in solitary confinement and have not been allowed to see their families or their lawyer.
They are charged with:
“propagating against the regime, acting against national security, disturbing public opinion and insulting religious sanctities,”
according to Reuters. [...]