June 2, 2009

Chavez a no-show

Last weekend, Hugo Chavez was celebrating the 10 years of his weekly TV program Alo Presidente with 4 day marathon starting last Thursday. It didn't work out too well.  Thursday: two "shows" (3 hours and 5 hours)Friday: ...

May 20, 2009

The Mystery of the Venezuelan Satellite

Venezuela's "socialist satellite" is mostly a no-show when it comes to television broadcasts. Bad news for Hugo Chavez, and worse news for the Chinese, whose space program supplied it.During the May 10th broadcast of his weekly show Al...

June 15, 2007

Where are the civilian casualties in Palestinian fighting?

I've been searching and searching for reports of civilian casualties in the current fighting between Hamas and Fatah and guess what? I could not find a single instance.  These guys must have very precise weapons.On the BBC website I visited last...