If you look to your left, you will see that there are some new categories. This is to make research easier for people using this blog for that purpose. Going over the blog entries over the past few months, I realized that much of my blogging falls into a number of categories finer than I had been using. So, I added the following self-explanatory categories:
Africa
Canada
Colombia
Haiti
Israel/Palestine
If you visit any of these links, you’ll see that I’ve gone through the database and linked up each previous blog entry relating to these places in terms of the categories.
I realize there is a proportion problem here — the idea of having a category for ‘Canada’ and a category for ‘Africa’ seems a bit preposterous, given that one is a massive tortured continent and the other is a small privileged country. But blogs are only as comprehensive as their bloggers, and I can’t help but blog using sources to which I have access. I’m in Canada right now, so I might as well try to do something for Canadian readers and activists. I try to pay some attention to Africa, but Mandisi Majavu’s blog will consistently do a better job than mine. Still, I might have something to offer from time to time.
The previous set of categories still exist:
Americas (South & North): has all the entries it used to have, and will continue to have entries on places that don’t quite fit (I’ve had a few entries on Bolivia, for example, quite a few on Venezuela, some on Mexico, and so on. If I find myself covering something a lot, I’ll create a new category for it). Of course United States coverage falls here as well.
Asia (West & South): Also has all the previous entries, but will continue to have things on places like Iraq (which I will cover when I have to or when I can say something dozens of others aren’t saying), Saudi Arabia and South Asian issues — India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka…
and of course,
Corporate World: will still continue to have CP Pandya’s insightful blogging on corporate villainy.
