- 22 July 2013
After Aung San Suu Kyi, Malala as "the Darling of the West"?
Being a father of 2 girls - 4 and 13 - and an educator, I love what Malala Yousafzai stands for and salue her for raising her voice. My young one Nilah has just started reading, and she is surrounded by all kinds of reading materials.....
- 04 July 2013
Why European nations must protect Edward Snowden
The general secretary of Reporters Without Borders Christophe Deloire, and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange co-sign today an Op-Ed in Le Monde to call out the states of the European Union to protect Edward....
- 30 May 2013
"Buddhist Nation", My arse! : On Bama "Buddhist" Nationalism
Almost 70 years after independence from the White Man (the British Raj), Myanmar is rudderless. It is rudderless, intellectually and ideologically. The result is all kinds of 'democracy promoters' and 'capacity builders' from all.....
- 07 March 2013
Adiós, comandante: On the legacy of Hugo Chávez
I first met Hugo Chávez in New York City in September 2006, just after his infamous appearance on the floor of the UN General Assembly, where he called George W. Bush the devil. “Yesterday, the devil came here,” he said....
- 04 July 2013
From Guatemala to Brazil: Rescuing the memory of Latin America
It took 10 days for Guatemala's Constitutional Court to annul the historic conviction of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt. In Brazil, despite testimonials that brought the room to tears, the government insists the Truth Commission......
- 18 May 2013
Trial on Guatemalan civil war carnage leaves out U.S. role
In 1999, President Bill Clinton went to Guatemala and apologized. Just two weeks earlier, a United Nations truth commission found Guatemalan security forces responsible for more than 90 percent of the human rights....
- 05 February 2013
Guatemalan Genocide : How they nailed the dictator
In a remarkable development from the Americas, former Guatemalan president José Efraín Ríos Montt was ordered to stand trial for genocide and crimes against humanity carried out during his seventeen month dictatorship between...
