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.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

African Countries Stand Up to EU

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African Countries Stand Up to EU By Michael Deibert Inter Press Servce PARIS, Aug 28, 2007 (IPS) - Concern over getting too little in retur...
Tuesday, August 28, 2007

L'Affaire Libyenne Shows a New Policy

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L'Affaire Libyenne Shows a New Policy By Michael Deibert Inter Press Service PARIS, Aug 27 (IPS) - When the government of Libyan leader ...

FRANCE: Differences Arise Over Education Law

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FRANCE: Differences Arise Over Education Law By Michael Deibert Inter Press Service PARIS, Aug 27 (IPS) - The government of President Nico...
Friday, August 24, 2007

Gassant and the Senate: A pointless showdown with no winners in sight

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The current face-off taking place between Port-au-Prince’s chief prosecutor, Claudy Gassant, and Haiti’s parliament has thus far shown signs...
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Monday, August 20, 2007

The ghost of the St. Louis sails through the Negev

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In 1939, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States of America, denied permission to the MS St. Louis , a German oc...
Saturday, August 11, 2007

In defense of Taslima Nasreen

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Even as I was perusing my friend Dilip D’Souza’s well thought-out and persuasive rational argument on Kashmir, however, the faces of intoler...
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An electoral solution for Kashmir

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I was very happy to learn this week that the Indian journalist Dilip D’Souza was awarded first prize by the India National Interest website...

On the passing of Tony Wilson

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Anthony “Tony” Wilson, the Manchester music impresario who was instrumental in the creation of that city’s Factory Records label as well as ...
Sunday, August 05, 2007

“Freedom always has a price."

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For about two hours this afternoon, I found myself transported to revolutionary-era Iran, Vienna, and back again to Paris under the aegis of...
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Saturday, August 04, 2007

Distasteful politicking in Haiti?

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Perish the thought! Thought that was indeed what was evidently behind this week’s successful passage of a parliamentary motion in Haiti of ...

Pa bliye Pere Ti Jean

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On 3 August 1998, assassins in Haiti struck down Father Jean Pierre-Louis, known as “Pere Ti Jean” to the peasants in Haiti’s Plateau Centra...
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...
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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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