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...