Michael Deibert, Writer

Michael Deibert is the author of Haiti Will Not Perish: A Recent History (Zed Books), In the Shadow of Saint Death: The Gulf Cartel and the Price of America's Drug War in Mexico (Lyons Press, 2014), The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair (Zed Books, 2013) and Notes from the Last Testament: The Struggle for Haiti (Seven Stories Press, 2005). He can be followed at twitter.com/michaelcdeibert.

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

India, justice delayed…

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Bombay’s trinubals surrounding the 1993 explosions that killed 257 persons in India's commercial capital took on a farcical, show-trial ...
Monday, July 30, 2007

Sarkozy charges ahead, sets stage for power struggle within France’s Socialists

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My new article on the political landscape here in France, which finds itself worryingly without an electoral or politically-effective opposi...

Shukran, Team Iraq

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Yesterday, in Jakarta, Indonesia, a football squad comprised of Sunnis, Shias, Kurds and Turkomans gave a great gift to their fellow Iraqis ...
Sunday, July 29, 2007

Russian Roulette

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My review of journalist Anna Politkovskaya's new book A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death i...
Saturday, July 28, 2007

Jean-Rabel: 20 years on

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There is an interesting and moving commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the massacre of Haitian peasants in the northwestern town of Jea...

An anti-journalistic talking shop for the privileged class

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Ever since I was libeled in its pages by a wealthy, college-dwelling professional dissembler (York University Professor Justin Podur  (a man...
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Thursday, July 26, 2007

For Jazz Musicians, a Paris Tradition Continues

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FRANCE: For Jazz Musicians, a Paris Tradition Continues By Michael Deibert Inter Press Service PARIS, Jul 25, 2007 (IPS) - On a quiet side s...
Monday, July 23, 2007

Hope, Concern Greet China's Growing Prominence in Africa

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Hope, Concern Greet China's Growing Prominence in Africa By Michael Deibert Inter Press Service PARIS, Jul 23, 2007 (IPS) - While China...
Sunday, July 22, 2007

A Russian Diary

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I am currently reading Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya’s A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and De...
Thursday, July 19, 2007

A few notes on journalism

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In 1959, a 27 year-old Australian Aborigine named Max Stuart was convicted of raping and murdering Mary Hattam, a nine-year-old girl, near ...
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Monday, July 16, 2007

Deibert on YouTube

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I have opened up a YouTube account which I hope to update semi-regularly with videos from my travels. For the initial offering, please go se...
Saturday, July 14, 2007

Following Oil Boom, Biofuel Eyed In Africa

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TRADE: Following Oil Boom, Biofuel Eyed In Africa By Michael Deibert Inter Press Service PARIS, Jul 13 (IPS) - While oil profits have floode...
Wednesday, July 11, 2007

The Bush administration’s bad medicine

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As the Bush administration, isolated but not, sadly, without weapons, draws to its shameful end, recent testimony by former Surgeon General...
Monday, July 09, 2007

A Haitian world champion and le jogging

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Though I am no fan of boxing, I feel that some kudos are in order for Joachim Alcine who defeated Travis Simms for the World Boxing Associa...
Saturday, July 07, 2007

A nod to the resourceful women of India

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Two very different women drew notice for two very different types of protests in India this week In the southern Indian state of Karnataka (...
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Thursday, July 05, 2007

The Struggle for Kashmir (Continued)

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My article The Struggle for Kashmir (Continued) , based on my visit to the conflict zone in February of this year, has just been published i...
Sunday, July 01, 2007

A quick word of congratulations to Thony Bélizaire

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The Haitian news source AlterPresse has printed the good news that veteran Haitian photographer Thony Bélizaire, of Agence France Presse, ...
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...
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I am an author and journalist who focuses on Haiti, the Great Lakes Region of Africa, Mexico, Guatemala and occasionally further afield in Africa, the Americas and Europe. Hopefully, that means being of some use in the struggle of economically and socially disadvantaged people to lead more just and decent lives. Photo © Hilary Wallis
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