Almost every week another building goes up in flames and dozens die in Dhaka. For those wondering why nothing is done to fix the zoning, structural, and fire code violations, ask yourself this: what is the incentive for an unelected government to do that ESPECIALLY when the violators—almost always big businesses with ownership interest held …
Monthly Archives: March 2019
The Cadre’s Training School ULAB
Every dictatorship needs its own institution of higher learning to train cadres outside of the military academies. China has its Central Party School; the USSR had its The Higher Party School or VPSch. Saddam Hussein’s Iraq had its Saddam University (now called Nahrein University). The purpose for all these was to train smooth faced interlocutors …
Another day, another ‘election’ in Bangladesh
Given how ‘elections’ happen in Bangladesh, the mayoral one in the northern half of the capital Dhaka is no surprise with the usual make-believe candidates running against the anointed ruling junta selectee and the press showing all the silly coverage of phony canvassing and long queues at polling booths. It is doubly phony since the …
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