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| October 15, 2006 "Empowering women is the best antidote to extremism anywhere. Women don't go off to drink away their money at the bar or gamble it away at cockfights." I interviewed Muhammad Yunus in 1999 and traveled around Bangladesh to visit the beneficiaries of his idea... Read... |
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| CHINA: A HUMAN JUGGERNAUT
The status of China as the world’s new commercial giant would have been impossible without the investments of the Chinese Diaspora in South East Asia. Even today, with their role as bridges to the outside world rather then as investors, these Chinese minorities abroad constitute a formidable fifth column for Peking. Read.. |
| February 2007 THE RED FACE OF JUSTICE |
| March 7,2007 SPRINGTIME FOR THE GREENIES |
| Vicenza,Italy PEOPLE’S POWER and PLUTONIUM: Vicenza, may 15,2007- Without a mass mobilization of indignant citizen the atomic secrets buried in the caves and bunkers..... Read... |
| Berlin, May 31 2007 ANOTHER GLOBAL ARMS RACE? Read... |
| July 4, 2007 ISRAEL DIVIDES AND RULES Read... |
| THE BUSH DOMINO EFFECT DROPS ALSO OLD BUDDIES.
Venice, July 11, 2007 – Read... |
| UNWANTED GUESTS IN ITALY:
Venice, Italy, Nov 3, 2007 - Read... |
| GENOA G8: Neither forgotten nor forgiven Genova 18, november 2007 Read... |
| TIBET: CHINA’S TRUE FACE March 21, 2008 Read |
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| To an old China hand the most puzzling news scenes over recent weeks have been the large and aggressive crowds of Chinese abroad who confronted Free-Tibet demonstrators during the global odyssey of the Olympic torch relay Read... |
| BAN THE BEGGARS Venice June 17, 2008 Read... |
| CHINA’S FIFTH COLUMN |
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| VENICE FILMFEST and the banality of evil.
VENICE . September 2, 2008- Perhaps the most pleasant part of the current 65th Venice Film Festival is the emphasis on introspective films that reflect the stark and often harsh reality of life in different parts of the world. These films have no up-beat message to peddle, no heroes, no happy endings. But they provide a mirror of our global society and force their audiences to reflect. Read... |
| VENICE FILMFEST:
PRIZES and PRICES VENICE, September 4, 2008 The Golden Lion, Venice’s equivalent to the Oscar, was won by the American film "The Wrestler," a soap opera that made it clear to anyone still with doubts that money talks louder then art. Read |
| FINANCIAL MERRY-GO-ROUND October 18, 2008 The infamous Bush-Paulson rescue plan for financial institutions in trouble reminds me of the Papua-New Guinea and Vanuatu 'cargo cults'when the natives, nurtured on hand-outs from allied air drops during World War II, sat around landing strips waiting for more cargo while engaging in weird worship rituals to attract the planes......Read |
| BARACK OBAMA: MISSIONARY OR VISIONARY?
November 2008 - After the U.S presidential election an excited white youth summed up his euphoria when he blurted into the camera: “For the first time I am proud of my generation.” He hit the nail on the head. Read... |
| GLOBAL MIGRATION IS PERMANENT:
Manila, December 3, 2008 – For those backroom economists and politicians eager to sanitize their economies by sending migrant labor back home the International Organization for Migration (IOM) had a nasty surprise this month: Migration is not going away and your solution is not expulsion but flexible new policies. . Read... |
| WHY GAZA IS BURNING AND ISRAEL IS NOT? January 17 2009 Read... |
| AUSTRALIA: A WARNING FROM THE BUSHFIRES. Melbourne, February 2009- There was Sam the rescued koala suckling water from a bottle held by a fireman; there was the couple falling into each others arms after the fire separated them; there were tears and defiant declarations "we' ll rebuild". And then there was the reaction to a campaign to help survivors of the worst bushfire in Australia's history, a horror scenario in which some two hundred small town residents burned to death. Read... |
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| SAME RECIPE - SAME DISH
March 3, 2009 For those who expected dramatic changes in America's Middle East and Further East strategy President Obama has offered no fresh ideas but the usual slide of hands of the politician. No one really expected miracles from a president who is as much a prisoner of Washington's ingrained interests as a Pope is prisoner of the Vatican Curia. But one might have expected a change in spin. Not so. The durable game of give with two fingers and take with the whole hand still dominates Washington. How else could Obama announce a virtual U.S. withdrawal from Iraq by 2010 and then follow it up by announcing a U.S. troop escalation in Afghanistan? Read... |
| A WALK-OUT AT THE U.N. April 25, 2009 In their controversial endeavor to be politically correct our democratic governments are frequently prepared to sacrifice some of our basic democratic rights, among them the freedom of speech. To kowtow to allies and mollify pressure groups our governments will not allow their own codes to apply to 'the others.' A telling example of this hypocrisy has been the walk-out this month of the U.S. and its main allies from a U.N. anti-racist conference. The allies were protesting against a conference speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during which he called Israel "he most cruel and repressive racist regime." Read... |
| ARE WE FACING ANOTHER PANDEMIC SCAM? April 30,2009 According to mass media hype we are on the verge 'again' of a global pandemic even though more sober experts point out there is no evidence the so-called Swine flu is as deadly as depicte or that the strain differs very much from ordinary flu. Read... |
| May 21, 2009
FREEDOM FOR AUNG SAN SUU KYI NOW An urgent global petition (see below) to free jailed Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi offered sad evidence once more about the unwillingness of our mercenary governments to punish maverick regimes that are lucrative trading partners. Read... |
| TIANANMEN ON THE 20th ANNIVERSARY: LEST WE FORGET Twenty years ago China’s ‘Red Emperor’ Deng Xiaoping decided that feeding his people and offering them material incentives was more important than giving them a say in how to run the country. Read ... |
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| EUROPE GOOSE-STEPS TO THE RIGHT
Venice, Italy, June 11 -- Frightened by recession and intimidated by migration many European voters supported xenophobic and racist parties in the election for the European parliament this month creating the absurdity that some member nations will be represented by neo-Nazis and white supremacists. Read... |
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| TIMES OF TERROR - Notebooks of a Foreign Correspondent
A Journalist’s Journeys in History, Politics & His Profession |
| From interviewing celebrities such as Bob Dylan, Louis Armstrong and Marlene Dietrich as a young tabloid journalist, to uncovering war crimes during Pinochet’s coup in Chile as a Reuters correspondent, from hobnobbing with Fidel Castro as the only foreign correspondent in the early days of Cuba’s revolution, to parachuting into the Middle East when the first Intifada broke out, the bombing of Tripoli or reporting the Tiananmen Square bloodletting Uli Schmetzer has seen and covered it all.Read |
