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| VENICE, Italy, October 16, 2011 - After years of protests against a corrupt and bungling Italian political system whose Prime Minister legislates for his own benefit, some of the protesters in Rome last Saturday apparently felt that walking through the capital with banners and slogans was a waste of time and energy.Read |
| SABRA and SHATILA SHATILA REFUGEE CAMP, Beirut, Sept 18, 2011 – Plaster and decay have healed the bullet scars on the concrete walls but not the scars in the collective memory of those who continue to live here - 29 years after an Israeli-armed and commandeered Christian militia shot, knifed and beat to death thousands of unarmed Palestinian refugees during a three day killing spree for which no one has yet been brought to justice.Read... |
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| Lebanon: Fallouts from the Arab Spring MAROUN EL RAS, Lebanon, Sept. 2011 –.Read... |
| VENICE Film Fest 2011: Despair, fear, no future and apocalypse. VENICE, Sept 12, 2011 - Read... |
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| LONDON RIOT: I-PHONE NOT BREAD Venice, August 2011 Read EUROPE; HOW LONG WILL SHOCK THERAPY WORK? Venice July 15, 2011 Read... |
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| The Chinese Juggernaut How the Chinese conquered Southeast Asia and target Europe Available in Amazon |
| TIMES OF TERROR Notebooks of a Foreign Correspondent Available for purchase on Amazon |
| GIVE A VOICE Gortahork, Donegal, Ireland, June 16 2011 Read |
| FALL-OUT MELBOURNE April 28 2011 HOW PEOPLE' S POWER WAS BETRAYED MANILA PHILIPPINES Feb 28 2011 EGYPT: REVOLUTION OR SLIDE OF HANDS ? February 12 2011 |
| ULI SCHMETZER NEW BOOK ! |
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| The Chinese Juggernaut : How the Chinese Conquered Southeast Asia tells the stories of the Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia and Australia. Despite persecutions, legal restrictions, expropriations and periodic pogroms the Chinese migrants persevered in Asia with the same stubborn determination that has made them the most active, successful but also feared new settlers and investors around the world today. |
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| USA :SLOW ROAD TO FREEDOM FOR THE INNOCENT Jan 4 2011 THE WIKILEAKS CASE Melbourne Australia December 8 2011 |
| BUTHAN: Is Gross National Happiness a seductive slogan or a pioneering idelogy? Thimphu, Kingdom of Buthan April 2011 RESTORING ART IN THE HIMALAYAS Thimphu April 17 2011 |
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| ‘The Yellow Peril” and ‘U.S. Imperialism’ Melbourne, November 22, 2011 Old fears, inoculated since childhood and passed down through generations, often lead to rash decisions with negative consequences. So Australia might yet regret signing this month an accord to host a U.S. Marine base in its Northern Territory, closest to China.Read,,,, |
| WOODFORD: Woodstock with yuppies Letter sent December 31, 2011 from Woodford, Queensland, Australia. Old buddy I am penning this from Woodford Folk Festival, a much celebrated shindig now run by profit-culture gurus who took over what was, once upon a time, a spontaneous happening reflecting the injustices of our times in song and speech. I figured the bash would be some kind of modern Woodstock but turned out to be so sanitized even the toilets were perfumed. The main message was not to raise the spirit but to raise the belly......Read... |
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| Buffy St. Marie at Woodford |
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| CRUISING TO DEATH January 16,2012 - Photos of the crippled cruise ship Costa Concordia on its side reminded me of a morning a few years ago when I stood at a window of the Doge’s Palace on San Mark’s watching a seven storey tall cruise ship slither past. The gigantic vessel was so close we could see the faces of the.....Read |
