Sunday, August 30, 2009

Amidst turmoil, Iranian exiles seek to be heard

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Amidst turmoil, Iranian exiles seek to be heard By Michael Deibert PARIS - When hundreds of thousands of Iranians flooded the streets to pro...
Saturday, August 29, 2009

Michael Deibert in Lonely Planet guide

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Heading out to dinner in Paris tonight with my good friend, the writer Ben Fountain , it was nice to find out that my 2005 book, Notes from ...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Senator Edward Kennedy, 77, dies

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United States Senator Edward Kennedy was a great legislator on behalf of working class, working poor and otherwise disadvantaged and disen...
Friday, August 21, 2009

A note on Jeb Sprague and Wadner Pierre's reporting of the Ronald Dauphin case in Haiti

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In an era during which, in my own country, right-wing groups such as FreedomWorks are advising opponents of healthcare reform on how best t...
Monday, August 17, 2009

A few words about Kenneth H. Bacon

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Kenneth H. Bacon, a courageous advocate for refugees, former assistant secretary of defense in the Clinton administration and former journal...
Friday, August 14, 2009

The Guns of August

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The Guns of August By Michael Deibert In November 1787, writing to William Smith from Paris, where I live, Thomas Jefferson, future presiden...
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Monday, August 10, 2009

A sense of Déjà Vu

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On the nighttime flight back to Paris from Miami, where I had appeared on a most interesting panel covering Haiti with such scholarly lumina...
Friday, July 24, 2009

An interview with Roberto Saviano

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I stumbled across this interview with Roberto Saviano, the author of a stunning book on organized crime in Naples, Italy, that I am currentl...

Another view of the Henry Louis Gates, Jr. arrest

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A rather thought-provoking take on the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been posted on IReport by my fellow Pennsylvan...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009

HAITI: "We Have Never Had Justice"

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HAITI: "We Have Never Had Justice" By Michael Deibert Inter Press Service (Read the original article here ) ST. MARC, Jul 21, 200...
Sunday, July 19, 2009

Tentative calm brings optimism to a 'failed' Haiti

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Sunday, July 19, 2009 Tentative calm brings optimism to a 'failed' Haiti Michael Deibert The Washington Time s (Read the original ar...
Sunday, July 12, 2009

Barack Obama's address to the Ghanaian Parliament

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Wednesday, July 08, 2009

HAITI: Deportees from U.S. Face Culture Shock, Retain Hope

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HAITI: Deportees from U.S. Face Culture Shock, Retain Hope By Michael Deibert Inter Press Service (Read the original article here ) PORT-AU...
Saturday, July 04, 2009

Manufactured diversity

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Manufactured diversity Published: June 12, 2009 Foreign Direct Investment (Read the original article here ) The economies of north Africa’s...