Wednesday, January 30, 2008

A new Lebanon-based blog of note

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My friend and fellow journalist Irina Prentice has a new blog written from her home in Beirut featuring her articles and observations about ...
Sunday, January 27, 2008

Obama's election night party in Columbia, South Carolina.

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There are about 300 million reasons why I like this picture.

Fidel's view

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My review of Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography, as told by Fidel Castro to Ignacio Ramonet, is the lead book review in today...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

45,000 people dying a month in Congo, says report

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As the government of President Joseph Kabila squabbled with representatives of renegade general Laurent Nkunda’s Congrès national pour la d...
Monday, January 21, 2008

Reflections on Côte d’Ivoire’s economic outlook

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My five-part series on Côte d’Ivoire’s economic prospects was published by the Financial Times’ Foreign Direct Investment magazine at the en...

Remembering Andy Palacio

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In the fall of 2003, I lived in Guatemala for a time while covering that country’s presidential election. My work reporting on the electoral...
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Friday, January 18, 2008

The case of Altaf Ahmad Khan

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It is easy to destroy someone’s life and reputation. It is much harder to give such things back. On my daily perusal of news this morning, t...
Tuesday, January 08, 2008

How Cigna HealthCare killed Nataline Sarkisyan

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I had a very pleasurable break visiting family and friends in the United States for Christmas and then visiting an old friend in Roma for Ne...
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Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Controversy Follows Gaddafi's Rapprochement With Europe

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Controversy Follows Gaddafi's Rapprochement With Europe By Michael Deibert Inter Press Service PARIS, Dec 31, 2007 (IPS) - The re-emerge...
Sunday, December 23, 2007

2007: A Reporter's Notebook of the Year Gone By

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This past year was a fairly interesting one for me, from a reporting perspective and otherwise, and saw me traveling to six countries on thr...
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Friday, December 14, 2007

COTE D'IVOIRE: A Call for Solidarity in Resolving Fate of Missing Reporter

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COTE D'IVOIRE: A Call for Solidarity in Resolving Fate of Missing Reporter By Michael Deibert Inter Press Service PARIS, Dec 14, 2007 (...
Thursday, December 13, 2007

W’s Christmas present to American children: Vetoing health insurance

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As one of the nearly 50 million Americans without health insurance, my feelings about the American healthcare system - where private health ...
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Monday, December 10, 2007

How different the world might have been…

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...If things had turned out differently in Florida during that November seven years ago… He referred to or quoted several major world and l...
Sunday, December 09, 2007

The fields of Nandigram

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I have been following with concern in recent weeks the situation in the Indian state of West Bengal. Home to the world’s longest serving dem...
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Saturday, December 08, 2007

A good week for democracy, a bad week for democracy and the head-in-the-sand approach to climate change

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Democratic progressives were alternately heartened and chastened by developments around the world in the past week. In Venezuela, President...
Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Interview with KDVS

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I had a fairly wide-ranging interview with France Kassing of Davis, California’s KDVS yesterday, concerning the recent Paris riots , my expo...
Monday, December 03, 2007

The Bitter Taste of Cocoa in Côte d'Ivoire

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ECONOMY The Bitter Taste of Cocoa in Côte d'Ivoire By Michael Deibert Inter Press Service BINAO, Southern Côte d'Ivoire, Dec 3, 2007...
Saturday, December 01, 2007

Taslima Nasreen forced into hiding

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News reaches me via an article in The Guardian and via a rushed instant message conversation with the author herself, who is in hiding, th...
Friday, November 30, 2007

TRADE: Blood Diamonds No Longer Congo-Brazzaville's Best Friend

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TRADE: Blood Diamonds No Longer Congo-Brazzaville's Best Friend By Michael Deibert Inter Press Service PARIS, Nov 30, 2007 (IPS) - The...

FRANCE: Troubled Suburbs Erupt Again

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FRANCE: Troubled Suburbs Erupt Again By Michael Deibert Inter Press Service VILLIERS-LE-BEL, France, Nov 29, 2007 (IPS) - The police station...
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