Know Your Next War: Somalia

First an announcement, in addition to the blog here, I am now also contributing to The Mantle, a forum for progressive critique, and all-around fascinating site covering books, films, society, culture, as well as hosting discussions on important topics of the day.

My first post is on Somalia and how there's a growing chance that it will wind up as America's next war. The reason? A growing Islamic insurgency, Somalia's status as a failed state, and political pressure on President Obama to "act tough" in the arena of foreign affairs. You can check out the whole post, "Know Your Next War: Somalia", at The Mantle.

Site updates

There are a few new features on the site.

First, there's now a link at the bottom of each post titled: "Sphere: Related Content". Click on it and a pop-up window opens with links to additional content related to the topic - other news stories, video clips and blogger posts. Click on the "X" at the top right corner of the Sphere window to close it.

Next, I've changed the news feed on the right hand corner of the page (again) since the other feeds haven’t been working properly. The new feed is from Google World news and offers up a broad list of world stories. Click on the link in the news feed to open the story you want to read.

Finally there's a new email link on the right hand side of the page for comments, questions or story ideas. Feel free to contact the site at ehaworldview@gmail.com

New Features

I've been making some upgrades to the site, you can check them out along the right side of the page.

Below the post archive now is a feature that let's you view all posts tagged with a certain label - for example, click on "Canada" and you'll get all the post written about Canada. You can also still use the search box at the top left hand corner of the screen to look for specific terms.

I've also added two news features to the site. The first is a newsticker via Yahoo! that shows headlines and summaries of a few top stories from the major wire services. You can click on the links provided to open the full story. Below that is a cool feature called the News Map. Click on a country and you will get a news site from there (for example, click on Russia and you'll get The Moscow Times site).

I'm working on adding a couple of other cool things in the near future, stay tuned. Drop me a line and tell me what you think.

- E.