Sunday, 23 June 2019

Asylum-seeker from Guatemala

https://theintercept.com/2019/06/23/guatemala-land-defender-san-rafael-mine/

Nicholas Kristoff in the NYT

(dangers of) trmp playing chicken with Ayatollah

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/22/opinion/sunday/trump-iran-strikes.html

in fact ALL orange turd's behavior is RISKY, from his grandstanding, to his strutting and boasting, to his sex (according to Stormy though, "boring") and his loose lips and his so-called "policies."

Uggh

#Impeach DonaldTrump Now.

6-23-2019

Saturday, 22 June 2019

Post apocalyptic fiction to read before the world ends.

https://reedsy.com/discovery/blog/best-post-apocalyptic-books

What to do if ICE knocks on your door.


You will need a Twitter acct to see this.

They may say they are police or looking for someone.

Don't open the door, don't say anything, don't sign anything, let them pass it under the door.

Contact your lawyer or ACLU.  Take photos of whatever document they shove under door.  It's supposed to be for illegal aliens only, but legal aliens and even citizens may get harassed, even though T said he won't go ahead with mass arrests as he planned tomorrow (Sunday).

Above all don't panic.
"Time cover" by actor/cartoonist Jim Carrey

6-22-2019  Saturday.

Friday, 21 June 2019

Friday, June 21, 2019

CNN Chief WH correspondent Jim Acosta's book has hit the NYT bestseller list at #10

https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062916129/the-enemy-of-the-people/

Evaluating Burma's so-called democratic reforms.

Evaluating Burma's so-called democratic reforms-- my article in Speakout/Truthout

https://truthout.org/articles/fire-in-the-eves-to-major-conflagration-its-high-time-to-evaluate-burmas-so-called-democratic-reforms/

This is one of my articles that I sent out, and didn't know was published till I "googled myself."

But anyway, it's published and I reckon some people might have read it.

kmk
6-21-2019




Papier mache artwork by K M Kaung,

Let it Fly with the Flowers: Essays about the Institute of Economics, Rangoon, Burma.


Memorializing our brilliant, humane and committed mentors in Economics.

Thanks to all the Contributors and especially Daw Khin Pwint Oo, who helped with collecting the essays, some "collectible" and requiring quite a bit of legwork. 

edited by KM Kaung

2014


Rohingya Activists' Handy Handbook.

Friday, June 21, 2019

My Rohingya activists' handy handbook--

https://www.amazon.com/Rohingya-Genocide-Burma-2012-2017-Actvists/dp/1981805028#reader_1981805028

The problem of nearly 1 m displaced in the biggest refugee camp in the world in Bangladesh remains.

Learn here how to get connected and try and solve this tremendous Human Rights problem, how to get connected to top activists.

Start from WORDS

They are not "Bengalis"

They did not come in from across the border.

They have been here for centuries.

The junta wants their land.

Now they have nowhere to go.

6-21-2019


Friday, June 21, 2019

1988, a student leader Mothi Awegoke flees from the MIS (Military Intel) on the streets of Rangoon.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NHZX3DP

Wolf:  A Novel of Love and Betrayal, now on Amazon in print and e-editions.

6-21-2019

Monday, 17 June 2019

Prof. of English Literature at Rangoon Univ + mention of Miss Virginia Geiger


I still wish I had followed U Myo Min's advice, and taken English Literature.

I went to see him, as he asked to see me.  I had taken E Lit as well as Burmese Lit for 2 years in college.  I remember some of the lecturers, most notable Raymond Adlam from the British Cuncil.

I told U Myo Min I could read English on my own, but I couldn't read Economics, so I was taking Ecos.

I can still see him shaking his head.

In 2004 I found he had written a beautiful obituary for my father U Kaung.

km

6-17-2019

Saturday, 15 June 2019

A Plan for Democracy and Development in Burma, by Kyi May Kaung (Ph.D.) --for NCGUB


I was commissioned to write this, with input from Janelle Saffin, Burma Lawyers Assoc., Dr Sean Turnell, Dr Nancy Hudson Rodd and others.

It's a good "blueprint" to compare with what is actually happening in Burma right now.

--the Plan is not in the online sample, so you will have to buy a copy.

I don't have any review copies to give away.

It was on the NCGUB (National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma--The Burmese Democratic Govt in Exile) website, but as NCGUB was disbanded in 2012, I thought rather than have it disappear in cyberspace, it would be better to publish it somewhere.

If there is enough interest I will publish it as a stand alone pamphlet.

Just let me know.

kmk
6-16-2019




Important article/speech by Timothy Snyder--Judenplatz 1010

https://www.eurozine.com/judenplatz-1010/?fbclid=IwAR3e6iMR2wmwXtnIc5kpjGtxZvVAWt8ZH7LuH1XDvSFoPKCcHrnYvJl5Xks

Tuesday, 11 June 2019

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

My novel Wolf: A Novel of Love and Betrayal, is now out on Amazon in print and Kindle editions.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NHZX3DP

 Now that we've just had the anniversaries of D-Day and the Tiananmen Square Uprising, if you haven't bought my novel Wolf yet, please do.

You won't be disappointed.

1988.
Burma Students Uprising.

Student leader Mothi Awegoke is fleeing from the junta's agents, when a girl in a white Mercedes brakes to a halt, picks him up, and rescues him.

So begins his journey, from Burma to the Thai Border, to the glittering capitals of the world and its slums.

Ten years in the writing, this is K.M. Kaung's magnum opus.

Burma Watcher.