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September 12, 2006
HOW WE EVALUATE THE DEAD AFTER 9/11/01
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September 18, 2006
THE 10th  INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION IN VENICE HAS EXPOSED THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL HORRORS FACING OUR MEGA-CITIES OF TOMORROW
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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
ANOTHER GLOBAL ARMS RACE?
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                                                              Rostock, june,2007
                                                                            

                                   
REFLECTIONS ON ROSTOCK

                                
July 4, 2007
ISRAEL DIVIDES AND RULES  
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THE BUSH DOMINO EFFECT DROPS ALSO OLD BUDDIES.
Venice, July 11, 2007 –  Read...
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UNWANTED GUESTS IN ITALY:
Venice, Italy, Nov 3, 2007 - Read...
GENOA G8: Neither forgotten nor forgiven
Genova 18, november 2007 Read...
Israel’s Lobby debunked in a new book by two                   American professors
January 2,   2008 - Read...
TIBET: CHINA’S TRUE FACE
March 21, 2008   Read
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...
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July, 2006
ABOUT DEMOCRACY in MEXICO
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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.
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November 2006
 
MEXICO: A POWER       KEG
From La Realitad and Oaxaca
November 9, 2006
OAXACA: MEXICO’s WATERSHED
                               
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CHINA’S FIFTH COLUMN
June 17,2008
Venice ,Riva degli Schiavoni
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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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