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| MULTITUDE: MONSTER OR MASTER In their brilliant analytical volume ‘Multitude’ two leading modern philosophers, Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, have come to our aid. Read... |
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| June 2, 2006
FROM THE FRYING PAN INTO THE FIRE Kidnapped by head hunters a group of Uighurs was released from Guantanamo Bay by the U.S. military last month after five years in detention, only to face new terrorist charges, this time by China…… Read... |
| Venice 08/06/2006
IS VENICE DOOMED BY APATHY AND NOT BY WATER Read.. |
| July 13, 2006
WHO ARE THE REAL TERRORISTS? Read... |
| VENICE FILM FESTIVAL: ‘THE OTHER INDUSTRY’
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| September 12, 2006 HOW WE EVALUATE THE DEAD AFTER 9/11/01 Read... |
| September 18, 2006
THE 10th INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION IN VENICE HAS EXPOSED THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL HORRORS FACING OUR MEGA-CITIES OF TOMORROW Read |
| 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 ANOTHER GLOBAL ARMS RACE? Read... |
| Rostock, june,2007 REFLECTIONS ON ROSTOCK |
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| THE ENIGMATIC WALDHEIM:
Venice, June 17, 2007 – Read... |
| July 4, 2007 ISRAEL DIVIDES AND RULES Read... |
| THE BUSH DOMINO EFFECT DROPS ALSO OLD BUDDIES.
Venice, July 11, 2007 – Read... |
| Venice Film Festival:No Shalom for Jimmy Carter Venice, September 8, 2007 – Read.. |
| 64th VENICE FILM-FEST RAISES DEBATES
Venice, September 8, 2007 .Read |
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| BURMA: WHEN DEMORACY KNOCKS AT THE DOOR |
| October 1, 2007 |
| UNWANTED GUESTS IN ITALY:
An emergency decree to expel poor Romanians illustrates once again our growing intolerance towards others. Venice, Italy, Nov 3, 2007 - Read... |
| GENOA G8: Neither forgotten nor forgiven Genova 18, november 2007 Tens of thousands of Italians traveled to Genoa in November to remind their government and the world that the atrocities committed against anti-G8 protesters six years ago are neither forgotten nor forgiven.Read... |
| LOST HISTORY IN LAOS LUANG PRABANG, LAOS, December, 2007 Read ... |
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| Israel’s Lobby debunked in a new book by two
American professors January 2, 2008 - Bungled wars, like the current debacle in Iraq, leave disastrous fallouts and kindle soul-searching for causes and culprits. Suddenly alliances are challenged, accepted truisms disputed and victims metamorphose into villains, villains into victims. In this atmosphere of escalating introspection in the U.S. two American professors have managed to publish a meticulous investigation into the negative effects of the Israeli lobby over the last 45 years on the foreign policy of the United States.Read... |
| MEDIA BLUES:
Melbourne, Jan26, 2008 The corporate mass media, more interested in profits then information, keeps slashing jobs and news bureaus to satisfy shareholders and their own executives whose wealth and future is tied to their product’s quote on the stock market. Read |
| U.S. ELECTION:
FALSE HOPES AND REALPOLITIK Read.. |
| TIBET: CHINA’S TRUE FACE March 21, 2008 No one seems to remember that less then twenty years ago the Chinese Communist Party crushed freedom-clamoring students with similar brute force it has mobilized against Tibetans demonstrating for ‘freedom’ this month. The formula of the Chinese has remained unchanged...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... |
| July, 2006
ABOUT DEMOCRACY in MEXICO Read... |
BAN THE BEGGARS In our western societies where the rich are becoming richer because they will not share even crumbs from their wealth with the poor no one should be surprised that the town of Assisi, home of St Francis, the saint of the poor, has banned all beggars from its churches and streets.Read... |
| November 2006 MEXICO: A POWER KEG From La Realitad and Oaxaca |
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| November 9, 2006 OAXACA: MEXICO’s WATERSHED |
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| In a world flooded with propaganda claiming to be news and commercials pretending to be information it was no surprise that a call to charge American officials with war crimes vanished through the porous part of our notoriously biased mass media system.
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| CHINA’S FIFTH COLUMN |
| July 30, 2008
DOES U.S. MIGHT REALLY MEAN RIGHT? |
| As always the basic question for any action in our mercenary society is how much will it cost, in this case how much would the United States have to pay in reparations to the victims of torture and other war crimes if some of its senior officials were convicted? Read |
| June 17,2008 Venice ,Riva degli Schiavoni |
