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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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| 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... |
| 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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| CHINA’S FIFTH COLUMN |
| June 17,2008 Venice ,Riva degli Schiavoni |
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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 |
| European Social Forum at Malmo
THE FORLORN FORUM MALMO, Sweden, September 21 ,2008 If little else the European Social Forum (ESF) in Malmo this month ventilated the diverse aspirations of the alternative movement and the difficulty of a reunifying theme to make the dream work. Read... |
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| 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. Until that vote there was nothing to be proud of. His generation, our generation, had elected a liar and intellectual lightweight to the White House – twice. The ‘free’ world heeded the man’s fake call for patriotism and the defense of our lopsided culture and we sustained two wars of which at least one is nearly impossible to justify. We allowed a cartel of oil barons and smug financiers to create a ‘phantom’ boom economy’ and when their house of cards collapsed the U.S. administration and the rest of the world bailed out the gang of crooks by passing their debts on to the taxpayers. Most likely the election of Barrack Obama will not bring the ‘change’ he adopted as his slogan or break the stranglehold the rich have on the poor. It will remain however as a symbol of human dignity and racial equality.Read... |
