World Voting, located at http://www.WorldVoting.net, is the world’s first attempt at spreading the democratic process outside of traditional national boundaries. WorldVoting.net allows anyone with an Internet connection and an opinion to participate in a poll for any heads of state (or heads of go...

The controversy caused by Georgia's Eurovision Song Contest entry seems to be over (or, depending on one's perspective, has reached its climax), now that Georgia has decided not to take part in this year's event in Moscow, following the European Broadcasting Union's demand that the l...

Another Not So Smart Power initiative humiliatingly spurned | Cold Fury Oh, but this is rich: Boy Genius makes overtures to “moderateâ€� elements of the Taliban, gets stupid ass spanked — again: Obama’s foreign policy doesn’t seem to be very effective....

Female bloggers from across the Middle East joined hands in marking the International Women's Day with posts reflecting on the occasion and celebrating the lives and achievements of women who have touched them. In Saudi Arabia, American Bedu admits that while many women in the kingdom may not ev...

This has been a pretty turbulent week in Ukraine: on Tuesday, the parliament fired Volodymyr Ohryzko, Ukraine’s foreign affairs minister, and on Wednesday, riot police stormed the Kyiv headquarters of Naftogaz, the Ukrainian national energy company. Ukrainiana wrote this about the foreign affairs ...

U.S. president Barack Obama is planning to visit Great Britain, France, Germany and the Czech Republic next month, during his first trip to Europe since taking office. In a post titled “They all want to meet him,” P O Neill of A Fistful of Euros writes this about the upcoming visit: An i...

Yesterday, headlines informed attentive audiences that the president of Sudan, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, had been issued with an arrest warrant by the ICC's prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo. A straightforward success story according to Human Rights Watch and like-minded organisations. Regimes that murder...

President Barack Obama just plain rude to Britain. Don’t call us in future. :: Iain Martin We get the point, sunshine: we’re just one of many allies and you want fancy new friends. Well, the next time you need something doing, something which impinges on your national security, then try ...

Cricket, that shared legacy of British colonialism, has taken centre stage in Australian blogs following the terror attack in Lahore. Irfan Yusuf at Planet Irf saw it this way: Pakistan may describe itself as an Islamic republic, but the real religion which unites all Pakistanis is cricket. This is ...

When was the last time you sent or received a hand-written letter?  And cards don’t count.   A LETTER , written by hand on paper preferably go on think about it? Hmmm..I bet you can’t remember the last time you got one? I can’t remember when I last got one either so don’t ...