Archive for the 'News & Media' Category
Carpetbaggers Or Else!!!
It’s a terrifying sight, once respected minds voicing support for mayhem and death – for rather selective, hardly sane reasons. The leaders of the red shirts were successful at inciting hatred and violence in society, but not that the red cause lost support. The reds are dead. Long live the reds. Now even the “real
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Bangkok’s 9/11
The events of the passed few weeks, days and hours will be burned deeply into Bangkok’s psyche. Our Bangkok will be back. Not tomorrow, not next week – and any other attempt to hold a colored mass protest masqueraded as peaceful will ring alarm bells. Warning, graphic, this is what happened on May 19th, 2010.
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Thailand’s New Voice For Freedom
Robert Amsterdam, an international human rights lawyer acting on behalf of Thaksin Shinawatra, the deposed Thai prime minister, speaks to Al Jazeera about the political standoff in Bangkok. Amsterdam says international mediation is the way to resolve the conflict. On his blog Amsterdam promises a “temporary Thai-ification” of his work: “Given the serious political crisis
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The Stockholm Syndrome & Kraisak Choonhavan’s Letter To ACHR
One of the most amazing observations these days is the hardening of hearts and minds. Have to find yet a red shirt supporter or an opponent of the red shirts who changed to the other camp. Yes, there was a coup once, but we were way beyond that. And no, Thaksin is absolutely not out
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Say You’re In Charge: (Poll)
Abhisit is kicked from all sides. He could have acted faster, other governments would never have waited that long. The other night red paramilitary even attacked the Dusit Thani with an RPG (source: ThaiTV). That’s a serious war weapon. A big hole in one of the upper floors, CNN’s Sara Sidner reported. Under international law
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Carte Blanche
Say what you want here. Post your anger, fear, regret. Post a link, a photo, whatever matters. What’s next? A shut mouth catches no flies. Silence is golden. Still, everyone has a strong opinion right now. This site takes the useless pride in having warned from the beginning all the reds have is escalation. That’s
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The Seh Daeng Incident
For the latest on the highly fluid situation in Bangkok follow Bangkok Pundit’s coverage and trust the excellent Twitter resources @tulsathit, @terryfrd, @Tan_Network, @georgebkk, @RichardBarrow, @aleithead and @bangkokpundit. The events now may well mark a turning point in Thai history. Here’s a line of thought though. Yes some say the red movement has reached its
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A Real Ultimatum, Really?
The end is near, or so we thought. Some commentators were already putting up their final red protest analysis – such as Prof. Federico Ferrara aka Khi Kwai’s The End of the Beginning, or exiled Giles Ji Ungpakorn getting at the heart of what the reds may have achieved. May. Even the most ardent supporters
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More Thailand, Much Cheaper
You may have heard it, Thailand’s tourism industry is again suffering thanks to our red brothers promising a bright future and pure democracy. As a “side effect” there’s a flare up of civil unrest with reds hurting their very own people, upcountry migrant workers. Because, however looked at, as a result many tourists and business
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Thitinan & The Symbolism Of Ratchaprasong
Full house at the FCCT once again when a kind of The Last of the Mohicans among local academics, Ajarn Thitinan Pongsudhirak, took the floor only hours before the red Ratchaprasong rally culminated in a conditional declaration of victory. The reds want government guarantees and Abhisit shall not look like a hero. Enough is enough,
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