KyiMayKaung

Burma, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a permanent exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.

Saturday, March 08, 2014

Aung San Suu Kyi's Suu Foundation--Burma

http://www.suufoundation.org/managing-committee-members.html

Friday, March 07, 2014

Thursday, March 06, 2014

US Peace Corps--

http://www.peacecorps.gov/

Volunteer travel for penny pinchers --

http://nonprofit.about.com/od/volunteers/tp/Volunteer-Travel-For-The-Penny-Pincher.htm

Outgoing Burma UN Human Rights envoy Tomas Ojea Quintana remains convinced of Duchira Dan massacres

http://www.dvb.no/news/un-envoy-remains-convinced-of-maungdaw-killings-burma-myanmar/37572

Wednesday, March 05, 2014

Russia taking back territory--from London Review of Books

http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2014/02/28/james-meek/russian-sponsored-territories/

Crimean Dreams--from the London Review of Books--

http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2014/03/01/peter-pomerantsev/crimean-dreams/

Tuesday, March 04, 2014

Mozart's The Magic Flute, complete opera--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b11ElH3qm2M

Sunday, March 02, 2014

Burma Studies Center, DeKalb, IL.

Kinnari (f) and kinnara (m) at NIU (Northern Illinois University), Burma Studies Center--If you can get there, from Chicago, in DeKalb, IL, the art collection (Burmese) is outstanding. Try and get there.

http://www.niu.edu/burma/collections/art/sculptures/sculpture_32.shtml

Challenge--make a papier mache elephant--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vlFkRngRQY

Video from Nov 2012, US Presdt Obama arrives in Rangoon, Burma

Video from US Presdt Obama's visit to Burma, Nov 2012. Spectators sound very happy, constantly saying "mike te," or "cool"--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmzPPWd_YbM

Saturday, March 01, 2014

Monologuist-actor Spalding Gray --

Monologuist actor, Spalding Gray.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spalding_Gray

I saw him in Gray's Anatomy at the Annenberg Center in mid-90s. At the time he was in the movie, Beyond Rangoon and he signed a program for me back stage. I was working as a house manager at the Annenberg Center Theatres then.

kmk

My dissertation abstract on University of Pennsylvania, Penn Commons--

My Ph.D. dissertation abstract. On why some nations don't develop, specifically Burma, but I also touched on the former USSR, Chinese economic planning, India (disstn was accepted in 1994) and Zaire (former Congo)--basically it's an indictment against centralization and totalitarianism.

http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI3116650/

A comment I wrote in 2009 on my sanctions and Burma debate with Steinberg--

A comment I wrote in 2009 on New Mandala--see who laughs last--

Kyi May Kaung (Ph.D.)
Posted November 12, 2009 at 6:57 AM

Nov 11, 2009.

This debate (on sanctions and Burma) never goes away.

Steinberg recently orchestrated a “policy review” in DC but did not invite people like me who disagree with him.

Sanctions are meant to send the junta a strong message — no more no less.

Anyway, all the “engagement policies” will do no good because junta just keeps on with its human rights abuses. It has carried on military campaigns against all the ethnic groups and is attacking its own people, if you haven’t heard.

Anyone trying to be in this debate should do their own research.

The anti-sanctions clique has accepted money and other perks like free trips from the spdc, so hardly have a good reputation, but they keep trying.

Kyi May Kaung — please don’t miss-spell my name!

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