http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/04/07/iraq-a-defining-moment/
Again Saleem draws upon a variety of other people’s blogs and merely guides the discussion with some intermediary guidance, commentary and explanation.
This blog is dedicated to explicating the details of the current battles and power struggles which are occurring between the opposing military and political factions in Basra.
The first blog which Saleem extensively quotes, illuminates the personal qualities and respective positions of the two different warring parties. It also voices the expected outcome of the present dispute: “I believe there will be so much innocent's blood in the streets”.
A selection of blogs which critique the American/Western press follows. As does conjecture about the role of oil companies in Iraq, both in the past and in the present.
Again various links are provided, which give the full account/opinion from which the excerpts were taken. The material is highly particular and involved, difficult for a Westerner - who is only familiar with mainstream media – to really follow, as the material and the discussion assumes the reader is familiar with the subject area and persons involved.
Again the selected blogs are highly opinionated and do not desire to attain even a semblance of objectivity.
There is no mistaking that the persons writing are very much in the center of the action and have a familiarity and great interest in the events and persons discussed- probably because they live in the area of concern (Basra) and experience the consequences of the decisions and behaviors of the various political and military figures discussed.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Irag blog
http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/author/salam-adil/
Blogers name is Salam Ali. He is an Iraqi who has spent most of his life in London.
Salam draws upon a number of blogs from persons living in Iraq who give first person testimony of everyday life and experience in a variety of Iraqi cities. The first blog selected details the emotional turbulence and regular anguish that fills the life of a young Iraqi girl. One blog is about the dearth of electricity and fuel available to the Iraqi people. Another excerpt of a blog tells of the common practice of kidnapping, the countless deaths and of bodies lying/decomposing upon the road. The last excerpted blog voices anger towards the American government for inflicting such horrors upon the Iraqi people and suggests that the Regime of Saddam Hussein was by far a better alternative than the present.
Salim adds very few sentences of his own. He writes so as only to guide the discussion and structure the selected blogs into a coherent and informative unified blog of his own.
Salim provides the links to the entire blogs of which the excerpts were taken from. These links were found to be more detailed and more interesting than Salim’s.
Salim lives in London, whereas these bloger’s actually live in Iraq.
Blogers name is Salam Ali. He is an Iraqi who has spent most of his life in London.
Salam draws upon a number of blogs from persons living in Iraq who give first person testimony of everyday life and experience in a variety of Iraqi cities. The first blog selected details the emotional turbulence and regular anguish that fills the life of a young Iraqi girl. One blog is about the dearth of electricity and fuel available to the Iraqi people. Another excerpt of a blog tells of the common practice of kidnapping, the countless deaths and of bodies lying/decomposing upon the road. The last excerpted blog voices anger towards the American government for inflicting such horrors upon the Iraqi people and suggests that the Regime of Saddam Hussein was by far a better alternative than the present.
Salim adds very few sentences of his own. He writes so as only to guide the discussion and structure the selected blogs into a coherent and informative unified blog of his own.
Salim provides the links to the entire blogs of which the excerpts were taken from. These links were found to be more detailed and more interesting than Salim’s.
Salim lives in London, whereas these bloger’s actually live in Iraq.
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