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August 8, 2010
in Americas: Haiti
On Surfari Haiti from Russell Brownley on Vimeo.......
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August 1, 2010
in Americas: USA
Reposted from Repeating islands:URL: http://wp.me/psnTa-4NGChristopher Columbus is on the move again in the New World, after numerous rejections in a nearly two-decade quest to find him a suitable spot, the Associated Press reports. A towering statue of the explorer -- twice......
in Americas: Haiti
Reposted from Repeating Islands: URL:http://wp.me/psnTa-4OyHaïti, une traversée littéraire [Haiti, a Literary Voyage] is a new book by Louis- Philippe Dalembert and Lyonel Trouillot (Éditions Philippe Rey/Culturesfrance, Paris, 2010).Description: Haiti is not only the country where "Négritude stood up for the first time,"......
in Americas: Haiti
Representatives of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) based in Haiti and the Dominican Republic have reached agreement on the preparation of a binational project that will focus on......
July 26, 2010
in Americas: USA
The online whistle-blowing organisation Wikileaks has made public more than 90,000 reports, detailing the war in Afghanistan. The documents, extracts of which were published by the New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel, expose the unseen side to the......
in Americas: Haiti
Jacqueline Charles, writing for the Miami Heald, looks at how Haitian President René Preval, from dispatching government loaders to hiring consultants, is laying a foundation for a new Haiti. Deep in the ravine amid the narrow corridors and chaotic construction,......
July 19, 2010
in Americas: Haiti
Watch live streaming video from tgonline at livestream.com Live TV/Radio Debate Ann Pote Kole Pou Nou Ka Reconstwi Ayiti July 15th, 2010 Haiti held the first of what is expected to be a series of nationally televised "Town Hall" on......
July 18, 2010
in Americas: Haiti
Mapping a Way From Disaster in Haiti from Leonard Doyle on Vimeo. Since the January 12 earthquake Humanitarian Openstreetmap.org has completed three training courses to help volunteers map Haiti. Recently the "HOT" team was hosted by IOM at its sub......
June 6, 2010
in Americas: Mexico
Where the Mexican media is failing to report on drug related crime a new blog is filling the gap. Not for the fainthearted, , The corpses lie twisted at the foot of a shrine. Their bodies slashed with a Z,......
June 4, 2010
in Americas: USA
Angry Gunmen in the Age of Obama from Leonard Doyle on Vimeo.......
May 22, 2010
in Americas: Cuba
Get out of the fire of hypocrisyfrom the edge of barefoot verseLook for an avenue to throw down these necessitiesand don't delay on the threshold of pearls and rain.Enter like a shooting star.Break the protocoland teach the remnants of......
May 21, 2010
in unfreemedia.org Africa: Mauritius
By Patrick Smith, Editor Africa ConfidentialIndian companies are routing tens of billions of dollars through Mauritius each year in a giant tax avoidance scheme India is changing its tax laws in a bid to introduce greater transparency into its financial......
May 18, 2010
in unfreemedia.org - International: post traumatic stress
Why do British troops who fought just as hard in Iraq or Afghanistan have far lower rates of post-traumatic stress than their Americans cousins? Dr. Simon Wessely, of King's College London, who conducted the study suggests it may have something......
in unfreemedia.org - International: mobile money
By Jenny Aker Share at the Center for Global DevelopmentIn the wake of the Haitian earthquake, major wireless carriers used text messages to speed up and simplify donation processes, allowing thousands of people to send financial support via their mobile phones. Within two days,......
in unfreemedia.org Asia: Afghanistan
Jason Motlagh, for the Pulitzer CenterJalalabad, AfghanistanIt was late Friday afternoon when we heard that a nighttime US Special Forces raid had allegedly killed civilians in a village about nine miles west of Jalalabad, our reporting base in eastern Afghanistan's......
in unfreemedia.org Europe & Central Asia: United Kingdom
Mikhail Beketov had been warned, but would not stop writing. About dubious land deals. Crooked loans. Under-the-table hush money. All evidence, he argued in his newspaper, of rampant corruption in this Moscow suburb. Not long after, he was savagely beaten......
May 17, 2010
in unfreemedia.org Asia: Tibet
#tibet Kate Saunders, International Campaign for Tibet A vibrant literary and cultural resurgence has swept Tibet since Spring 2008 when supporters of the Dalai Lama went into open protests against Chinese government policy across the plateau. A new generation of......
in unfreemedia.org - International: radio
The radio program This American Life has ventured outside the US to look at stories that happen around bridges and other passage-ways around the world. There's a bridge in China that's famous for its massive size and its high suicide......
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