Saturday, June 30, 2007

An update on the situation of the Lepcha of Sikkim

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While a virtual mainstream news blackout continues to exist with regards to the hunger strike of many Lepcha , the indigenous inhabitants of...
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Friday, June 29, 2007

FRANCE: Diaspora Trade Strengthens Communities

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FRANCE: Diaspora Trade Strengthens Communities By Michael Deibert PARIS, Jun 29 (IPS) - In the northern Paris neighbourhood of Chateau Rouge...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Few Concrete Steps Proposed for Darfur

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My new article on the lack of detailed proposals for action coming out of the recent conference on the Darfur conference here in Paris was p...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Help support the Lepcha of Sikkim

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A friend of mine who worked in the Himalayan Indian state of Sikkim, an area I was not able to visit during my time in India, recently infor...
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New Plans for Niger Basin

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My new article on moves by the Niger Basin Authority (NBA) to turn the 4,100 km long Niger River into a regional economic asset was publishe...
Monday, June 25, 2007

Open letter to Louis Joinet from Charliénor Thompson

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An open letter was recently sent to Louis Joinet , the United Nations' independent expert on the situation of human rights in Haiti on b...
Saturday, June 23, 2007

Reports sound the alarm on global warming

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A little piece that I wrote for the newsletter of the United Nations Association on the implcations of the first major global assessment of ...
Friday, June 22, 2007

Golem à Paris

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My old friend Aaron Diskin’s band Golem performed at the Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme last night as part of the Fête de l...
Thursday, June 21, 2007

Some stories coming out of Hispaniola

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There is a very interesting article recently published by the Inter-Press Service by Elizabeth Eames Roebling that looks, from the Dominica...
Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Brasil's military and police and Haiti - Clearing up some confusion

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As ther seems to be some confusion on the subject, I thought I would quickly post a little something to set right what appears to be a commo...
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Immigrants uneasy over proposed policies

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My first article since relocating here to Paris, on some of the immigration proposals and the creation of the new Ministère de l'immigra...
Friday, June 15, 2007

Vendredi (Paris)

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Though I landed in Paris at the beginning of the week, today, for some reason was the day it began to feel like a new home. After staying up...
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Saturday, June 09, 2007

Radio Caracas, Kashmir and the courtship of Haiti

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Continuing on the theme of free speech alluded to in recent posts here about Samir Kassir, Jacques Stephen Alexis and the film The Price of ...
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Thursday, June 07, 2007

Please sign in protest of Du'a Khalil's murder

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The below was forwarded to me. MD. Du'a Khalil Aswad , a 17 year old girl from the town of Bashiqa, in Iraqi Kurdistan, was stoned to de...
Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Mohammed's religion in Haiti

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In the wake of the rather bumbling apparent attempts by a Trinidadian-Guyanese quartet to blow up New York's JFK International Airport,...
Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Remembering Samir Kassir

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Two years ago, on Thursday June 2, 2005, the Lebanese journalist Samir Kassir was killed in Beirut when a bomb that had been placed in his c...

Palabras Prohibidas

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The closer they came to the promised land, the more they felt the net tightening around them. So writes perhaps Haiti’s greatest author, Jac...
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Thursday, May 31, 2007

Economiques africaines: Deuxième partie

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The second article in my series on African economic issues, this time focusing on efforts to encourage diaspora investment in the continent,...
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West Africa: Currency Integration A Few Years Off

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My new article for the Inter Press Service, on the process of trying to create a single unified currency for many of the country's in We...
Sunday, May 27, 2007

New York City Serenade

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When I first arrived in New York City in the spring of 1997, being a relatively impoverished recent college graduate, I roomed with my frien...
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