Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Michael Deibert on drug trafficking and organized crime in Mexico and Guatemala

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My friend, the filmmaker and photographer Francesca Romeo , recorded me here in New Orleans this week talking about some of the challenges f...
Saturday, May 28, 2011

Michael Deibert on KPFK Pacifica Radio

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My interview yesterday with Suzi Weissman on KPFK Pacifica Radio about the violence currently affecting Mexico and Guatemala can be heard he...
Thursday, May 26, 2011

Mladic, Chomsky and Srebrenica: Time for an apology

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By now the word that wanted war criminal Ratko Mladic has been arrested in Serbia has traveled around the globe. On the run for nearly 15 ye...
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Saturday, May 21, 2011

The Struggle for Kashmir

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Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, chairman of the Hurriyat Conference in Indian-administered Kashmir, was placed under house arrest today in India's...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Estado de Sitio Petén

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Cartel Wars

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Cartel Wars May 16, 2011 By Michael Deibert Truthdig (Read the original article here ) MATAMOROS, Mexico—Of all the iconography that one enc...
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Thursday, May 12, 2011

Border region lives in fear amid Mexico cartel war

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Border region lives in fear amid Mexico cartel war By Michael Deibert Thu May 12 2011, 1:12 am ET MATAMOROS, Mexico (AFP) – Plastered to the...
Tuesday, May 03, 2011

A few thoughts on the killing of Osama Bin Laden

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Human emotions are complicated things. As someone who was in Manhattan on 9/11, I didn't exactly rejoice at Osama Bin Laden's death ...
Monday, April 25, 2011

Original Pigeon Town Steppers

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Thursday, April 21, 2011

A Note on the Passing of Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros

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By now, the news of the killing of journalists Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros by the forces Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in the bes...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Of Haiti and Côte d'Ivoire

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Reading the novelist Venance Konan's excellent Op-Ed in the New York Times the other day - about how he watched his friend and colleugu...
Saturday, April 09, 2011

Refugees tell of Côte d'Ivoire violence after fleeing to Liberia

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Friday, April 08, 2011

Message à la Nation: la Déclaration du Président de la République SEM Alassane Ouattara

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Dusk, Jackson Square

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Illegality and immorality of Guatemala´s election process

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(This is an important commentary on an upcoming election in a country that has virtually been forgotten by the international media, but wher...
Friday, March 18, 2011

Note on Jean-Bertrand Aristide's return to Haiti

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As questionable friends of Haiti such as Amy Goodman, Danny Glover and others celebrate the return to Haiti of a man as politically and pers...
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Monday, March 14, 2011

Note to the Corbett List

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I confess some surprise that a single article of mine on Haiti’s former president has sparked such debate as the country confronts its first...
Saturday, March 12, 2011

Follow Michael Deibert on Twitter

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You can now follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/michaelcdeibert . Happy Reading!
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Huffington’s Plunder

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(This piece by journalist and author Chris Hedges is perhaps the best article that I have yet read on the scandalous and rapacious practices...