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JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL: GOODBYE MR SHAKESPEARE 2010.
January 26, 2010.
JAIPUR, India - In literature, as in cinema, the audience is mesmerized by celebrities rather then quality or art. Readers buy books promoted by critics who are in the majority friends of the writer or publisher. In India, where books are amazingly cheap, the 'literate' prefer to buy two cups of coffee rather then a new book......Read

Vole Soyinka
Jaipur Literature Festival

PUSHKAR: PILGRIMS OF ALL KINDS PUSHKAR, Read

VENICE, May 10, 2010 - Europe�s frantic efforts to save its runaway currency had an uncanny similarity to the proverbial farmer locking his stable door after the horses bolted.
In this case the �horses� � who ran off with their feed � were the global speculators, whose scams, manipulations and raids have gone uncurbed with neither the U.S. nor the European Union willing to change financial rules and ensure a more stable global economy.

THE GREAT EURO RAID :
A TALE ABOUT FARMERS AND HORSES.

In the raid against the Euro Anders Borg, Sweden�s finance minister, accused these speculators, most of them U.S. financial institutions, of having acted �like a wolf-pack� to ravage the weakest of the European nations, Greece. Then, he said, these financial raiders threatened to tear apart the rest of the struggling members of the European Union, Spain, Portugal and possibly Italy. Read...

IS THE U.S.PREPARING FOR WORLD WAR III? Read...

Migration (2)

THE ECONOMIC CRISIS:
A PRODUCT OF GREED

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ISRAEL: How to explain a massacre

Venice , May 31, 2010 - The great lesson from the bloody Israeli raid on a flotilla of pacifists heading for Gaza with humanitarian aid is how easy it has become to control public opinion as long as the information is manipulated and comes exclusively from one source � the government and its military.

As we know governments and the military always tell the truth - unlike the others. No one should be surprised that 24 hours after Israeli commandoes opened fire on a ship taking ..... Read

Venice: protest against Israel

A CALL TO BOYCOTT ISRAELI PRODUCTS
Venice, June 6, 2010 - Read...

BEATING UP ON A VENERABLE OLD LADY
Venice, June 8, 2010 � .Read...

FALLOUT FROM THE COLD WAR IN AFGHANISTAN
The saying what you sow you harvest applies also to war as the U.S. public discovered this month when leaked classified documents revealed the C.I.A. in the 1980s probably supplied the heat-seeking Stinger missiles to Afghanistan that are today knocking down American warplanes and helicopters and killing their crews.
The Wikileaks documents published this week proved US helicopters, drones and warplanes had been shot down by surface-to-air heat-seeking missiles and not, as military spokesmen kept claiming, by artillery and ground fire. Read...