Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Books for autumn

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As we head into fall, and I work on my own pair of new books, several friends of mine have books coming out that are well worth checking out...
Monday, September 21, 2009

Gorki Águila canta "El General" en Miami, September 19, 2009

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"He sings, sways and shouts in his bloody rock lyrics what others mutter with fear” - Yoani Sanchez
Sunday, September 20, 2009

Report of the United Nations fact finding mission on the Gaza conflict

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The report of the United Nations fact finding mission on the Gaza conflict has been published and can be read here .
Friday, September 11, 2009

Letter from Senator Edward M. Kennedy to President Barack Obama

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Below is the text of the letter from Senator Edward M. Kennedy referenced by the President in tonight’s address to a Joint Session of Congre...

Brice Hortefeux not a fan of black, blanc, beur

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Quand il y en a un, ça va. C'est quand il y en a beaucoup qu'il y a des problèmes. Classy, huh? About the discourse one would expect...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

A few thoughts from Paris on President Barack Obama’s healthcare speech to Congress

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Barack Obama joue le tout pour le tout , read the first lines of the article in today’s Le Monde concerning the speech on healthcare of th...
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Thursday, September 03, 2009

A few thoughts on the death penalty

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Having covered the debate regarding capital punishment in the Western Hemisphere tangentially for a few years now, both in the United States...
Tuesday, September 01, 2009

A further note on the killings at La Scierie

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A fellow I hadn't heard of before recently wrote to me in the wake of my highlighting some of the problems with the reportage of Wadner...
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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