Alter Destiny has interesting coverage on Honduras. Via mattbastard on Twitter.
And greekdude on Twitter gave me the URL of a Greek newspaper that I wasn’t already following, and that looks interesting.
Austin Heap on the state of Freegate in Iran.
You2Gov’s Top List to Learn About the Iran Revolution
Is your cat plotting to kill you? Via coffeesister on Twitter.
Dear Diaspora on Identity, Mutability, Context.
QuakerQuaker.org has been full of links to remembrances of Bonnie Tinker, who died in an accident while attending Friends General Conference. Normally I don’t link stuff already linked by QuakerQuaker, because I know it’s already going to show up in my sidebar (maybe I should rethink that), but I want to point to Eileen Flanagan’s post on Remembering Bonnie Tinker. Bonnie Tinker was very active with Love Makes a Family, a group that works for equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) families and individuals.
Chris Blattman recommends the development blog The Esteyonage, by a journalist based in Liberia, so I’m passing on the recommendation and adding it to my feeds.
Eve Tushnet reviews Alan Bray’s The Friend.
Natalia Antonova on Something that stopped me dead while reading Zoë Heller’s “The Believers”.
Stentor on Is the problem the cap or the trade?
The Economist on The Supreme Court’s important non-decisions.
Christy moves from “mulling over the pacifist thing some more” to a broader reflection on Ego and shadows and other good stuff.
Leon Zitzer on What did Jesus like about being Jewish?
Sophia on Calming the Storm.
It looks like the Honduras event is being used as a partisan marker. Right wingers are saying it is not a coup. From the web dictionary…..
“coup d’etat: a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force”
The military came at midnight to get Zelaya. Sent him out of the country. Seems to fit.
Steve