links for 2009-07-07

• Han Chinese vow revenge after deadly riots: AFP - Yahoo! Singapore News
  And....so it begins...
  (tags: china protests)
• The Weekly Standard
  it’s one of those rare occasions when the military stands to deny, not support, the aspirations of a dictator-in-waiting. No junta has or will be formed, and a new election is forthcoming. Not only was Honduras' action legal, it stands as a model for how a republic steels itself against internal subjugation.
  (tags: news honduras)
• In Latest Upheaval, China Applies New Strategies to Control Flow of Information - NYTimes.com
  government took all the usual steps to enshrine its version of events as received wisdom: it crippled Internet service; blocked Twitter’s micro-blogs; purged search engines of unapproved references to the violence; saturated the Chinese media with the state-sanctioned story.
  (tags: china protests)