Olga Belogolova

Chavez, Brown and Cameron 2.0

So Hugo Chavez has been out threatening to start his own blog, saying he will build his “own trench on the Internet” to fight against the oh so evil Venezuelan activist Twitter users. How dare they tweet? “Tweeting” may be a potty word in Venezuela, but to me it just echoes of the good ol’ days of Looney Tunes…

When I started my blog (or many numerous blogs), I didn’t realize I was building trenches a la Don Draper in the Korean War, but thanks to Mr. Chavez, I now know that I am sitting here and fighting all my own little wars with the magical powers of my sword-like pen or keyboard and firing with the words of each blog post.

Now I feel much more powerful.

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Great Minds Think Alike

While it may be presumptuous to refer to myself as a “great mind,” I have never really had any qualms about my freakishly healthy ego. That said, there are two articles these I read recently and very much enjoyed that highlight the very importance of what I have been writing about here.

Diplomacy 2.0 by Kenneth Weisbrode, The Guardian

Favorite quote:

“When, after the first world war, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the advent of the so-called New Diplomacy, whereby secrecy and the balance of power would be replaced by open covenants and collective security, many people regarded such things as the dreams of an idealist preacher.”

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Google, China, (and now Australia too?)

Almost two months ago, I vowed to start writing about my interest in the intersection of culture, world politics and social media. Then, life took over, and I have been a major failure at that since. Now that I have returned from a wonderful trip to my beloved East Coast, I am back in action…

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A Pretty “Great” Generation

My previous post was about how Tom Brokaw, the man that described America’s “Greatest Generation,” which came of age during the Great Depression, fought World War II and rebuilt America.

Today, I want to talk about a new generation of people. Our generation is coming of age in “The Great Recession.” Continue Reading…