Published in the Bangkok Post on May 25, 2011; in The Nation, on May 28, 2011 As the one-year anniversary of the army’s crackdown on the red-shirt protest has come and gone, many people remain bitterly divided on just what happened a year ago and what it means for Thailand today. The recently released Human [...]
Archive for May, 2011
After Osama bin Laden was hunted down and killed by the US armed forces earlier this month, President Obama immediately went on television to explain his government’s actions. He admitted to the killing and justified it as a necessity of war. While some may oppose this method of summary justice, even for international terrorists of [...]
Though Thailand is the main topic of this blog, with news of bin Laden’s death dominating the last 24 hours, thoughts and memories of September 11 started naturally coming back. The piece below is just a personal essay I wrote after visiting New York City in the aftermath of that day; and it was originally published in The Nation on December 10, [...]
Natthawut’s Struggle for True Irony
Posted: 31st May 2011 by bangkokdave in 2011Published in The Nation, June 1, 2011 Thai politics may be short on many things: honesty, decency, common sense – but one can safely say that it is definitely not short on irony, especially during election season. From the interesting notion that a hand-picked family “clone” of one of most divisive political figures in Thai [...]