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Canada: How to waste $1 billion a year
feature Even as the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s importance has plummeted, “its self-importance has skyrocketed,” said Ezra Levant at the Toronto Sun.
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South Africa: A return to the days of censorship
feature The “increasingly remote” African National Congress party drafted the bill so that anyone who exposes ANC corruption could face 25 years in prison, said Margie Orford at the Mail & Guardian.
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Chile: Repulsive honors for a murderer
feature There’s a disgusting effort afoot to rehabilitate Pinochet-era torturers, said Elias Vera Alvarez at Clarín.
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Indonesia: The dark side of Bali’s blissful allure
feature The “sense of privilege” and entitlement that our tourists project helped incite terrorist attacks in Balinese tourist zones in 2002 and 2005, said Jeff Lewis at The Sydney Morning Herald.
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Egypt: Will the revolution hurt women?
feature Next on the chopping block, and already under discussion, is our right to sue for divorce and then to retain custody of our children, said Aliaa Dawood at Al-Masry Al-Youm.
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Australia: How to kill the poker high
feature The high of getting "the feature" impelled me to play for hours, losing hundreds of dollars to win maybe $20, said Scott Eagar at The Sydney Morning Herald.
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Pakistan: Is the U.S. undermining our president?
feature The Pakistani-American businessman claims that Husain Haqqani wrote a memo last May to Adm. Mike Mullen begging the Americans to intervene to prevent a military coup, said Cyril Almeida at Dawn.
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Russia: When oligarchs admit to their crimes
feature The confessions of Berezovsky and Abramovich are motivated not by remorse but rather by greed, said Stanislav Belkovsky at Moskovsky Komsomolets.
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Canada: A slap on the wrist for a pedophile
feature Canadians are outraged over the laughably light sentence given to a child molester.
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How they see us: Is health care for all un-American?
feature To most of the rest of the world, the “toxic debate” over health care is baffling.
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Russia: Cracking down on musical dissent
feature Last month, members of the punk band and activist group Pussy Riot were sentenced to prison for their protest against Vladimir Putin.
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Turkey: Will these killers ever be punished?
feature The Turkish state has proved once again that it is not yet ready to render even-handed justice to those it sees as enemies, said Mehmet Ali Birand at Hurriyet Daily News.
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Japan: Limping along, one year after the tsunami
feature The people are doing their best. “If only their politicians and bureaucrats were not so incompetent.”
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Israel: Is Netanyahu moving toward the center?
feature The prime minister surprised everyone by canceling elections and bringing the centrist Kadima party into his governing coalition.
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