Hi, Thanks for posting. At the outset, let's agree on some definitions. I support nationalism, but in the classic, 'national liberation' sense: as a liberating...
Okay... I'm not sure I totally understood all that, but let's have a bash; you support national liberation rather than all out nationalism (which sometimes has...
Thanks for this, and my apologies if my initial response was a bit of a ramble. Time is often against me. Let me say that it's refreshing to see such rational...
[This will continue, in my view, until national realities are acknowledged in Bosnia. No-one is going to support a federalism shoved down their throats by...
Thanks Uncle Joe, that response certainly was more welcoming than your first one, which made me feel like I was wrong to want independence. But that was the...
Not sure if you have a thread about this (This group does seem to spend a lot of time telling each other news rather than discussing situations. Maybe I've...
From the little I know of this situation, there are some modest efforts to arrest the slide (largely because the Latvian government likes to subsidise any...
Cornish died out in 1811. Well, we say died out, but what that really means is that the last person who spoke Cornish exclusively died in 1811. It was...
The Plight of the Kurds Voices From Around the World Monmouth County Library Manalapan, New Jersey Kani Xulam October 3, 2004 If the writing is garbled, click...
Kashubs are Kashubs. They speak Kashubian, which is a Slavic language very similar to Polish. I suppose the whole Polish/German dispute simply arose because...
[We've had several posts on the Diego Garcia situation before, but this one details the grubby deals between the British Foreign Office and the Pentagon for...
-- Tracing a tragedy / In an effort to understand the horror he witnessed in Beslan last month, Nick Paton Walsh travelled to the Chechen village that produced...
-- Separatist violence in India leaves 50 dead / Randeep Ramesh Separatist violence in India leaves 50 dead Randeep Ramesh On an Indian national holiday...
The following statelessnations poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: Would Haiti be better off if it had remained a French colony? ...
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[I thought I'd heard it all... UJ] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3749634.stm...
David Martinez's long-awaited book "A Country Of Our Own" is now available. This long-awaited book, after many delays has finally been released. The book's...
-- Iraqi Kurds found in mass graves / Rory McCarthy in Baghdad Iraqi Kurds found in mass graves Saddam's 'killing field' is excavated Rory McCarthy in Baghdad ...
[A funny yet informative backgrounder to the 1967-1970 War of Biafran Independence, and to ongoing ethnic tensions in Nigeria. The War Nerd rules! - UJ] ...