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May 31, 2001 |
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International News of the Week
Russ Watson, Senior Editor, Newsweek Magazine |
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Turkey's Military in Flux
According to opinion polls, the vast majority of Turks support the
military. However, with Turkey aspiring to join the European Union,
the future role of the Turkish army is in question. Radio Deutschewelle's
Dorian Jones reports from Istanbul. |
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UN Faces Difficulty Delivering Humanitarian
Aid
in Afghanistan
Stephanie Bunker, spokesman for the United Nations coordinator for
Afghanistan |
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May 30, 2001 |
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Russia turns down US proposal to
use Russian
missiles in shield
Joe Cirincione, Senior associate for the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace
Steven Blank, Professor at the US Army War College's Strategic Studies
Institute |
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Obit: Senator Moakley's Legacy on
El Salvador
Doug Cassel, Northwestern University's Center for International
Human Rights |
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Looking Back on Powell's Trip to
Africa
Salih Booker, Executive Director of Africa Action
www.africapolicy.org |
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May 29, 2001 |
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Stories of Resistance and Repression
in Burma
Christina Fink, anthropologist, and author of Living Silence:
Burma under Military Rule. She was the Editor of BurmaNet News
(1995-1998), and has plans to return to Thailand where she is working
with Burmese dissidents in a program of internships with international
Burmese pro-democracy groups. |
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May 25, 2001 |
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Balkans Update: Macedonia deal
fails, new moves on Milosevic
John Lampe, Professor of history at the University of Maryland |
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Banking According to Sharia (Islamic
law)
Sylvia Smith, Radio Netherlands |
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NAFTA and Labor
Robin Alexander, Director of International Labor Affairs for the
United Electrical Workers of America |
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Cannes International Film Festival
in Retrospect
Milos Stehlik |
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May 24, 2001 |
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International News of the Week
Russ Watson, Senior Editor, Newsweek Magazine |
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Peru: Presidential runoff campaign
gets ugly; Fujimori accused of homicide link
Riordan Roett, Director of Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins
University |
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Egypt: American Human Rights/Media
Organizer Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison
Laith Kubba, Senior Program officer for Mideast and North Africa
at the National Endowment for Democracy |
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May 23, 2001 |
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U.S.-China Relations tense as
Taiwanese president and Dalai Lama visit
Dali Yang, Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Committee
on International Relations at the University of Chicago |
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U.S. Service Members Protection
Act takes a swing at the International Criminal Court
Doug Cassel, Northwestern University's Center for International
Human Rights |
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Implementing the Landmines Treaty
Ambassador Daniel Livermore, Canada's Ambassador for Mine Action,
He spoke yesterday on "The State of the Global Land Mines Problem"
at an event sponsored by the United Nations Association |
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May 22, 2001 |
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Israeli-Palestinian violence escalates;
U.S. releases Mitchell report |
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Perspective One:
Ali Abunimah, Vice President of the Arab American Action Network
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Perspective Two:
David Makovsky, fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East
Policy, former correspondent for Haaretz |
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More Eco-Tourism Issues
Costas Christ, former peace corp coordinator who worked with local
communities on eco-tourism projects in several African countries
Thanks to Uma Ganapathy for arranging
the Eco-Tourism programs
Eco-tourism links are here |
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May 21, 2001 |
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Eco-Tourism and Sustainable Development |
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Martha Honey, author of "Eco-Tourism
an Sustainable Development: Who Owns Paradise?" |
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Deborah McLaren, coordinator of the
Rethinking Tourism Project |
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Andy Drumm, director of the Nature
Conservancy's Eco-tourism Project |
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Thanks to Uma Ganapathy for arranging
the Eco-Tourism programs |
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Links to further information on Eco-tourism
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May 18, 2001 |
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U.S.-Taiwan relations: Chen Shui-bien
visits New York
Shelly Rigger, Professor of Political Science at Davidson College |
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Ukraine: The saga of the headless
journalist gets wierder
Paul Goble, Director of Communications for Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty |
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54th Cannes International Film Festival:
David Lynch Confuses Cannes Crowd
Milos Stehlik |
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May 17, 2001 |
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International News of the Week
Russ Watson, Senior Editor, Newsweek Magazine |
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U.S.-UN Relations and Human Rights
Doug Cassel, Northwestern University's Center for International
Human Rights |
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Who Gets to Run in Iran's Upcoming
Elections?
Daniel Brumberg, assistant professor of government at Georgetown
University, author of Reinventing Khomeini: The Struggle for
Reform in Iran; also editor of Ethnicity, Pluralism and Democracy:
A Critical Reader |
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Film Fatigue at the 54th Cannes
International Film Festival
Milos Stehlik has managed to find some solace in a quiet Italian
period film - a work that has been overshadowed by its somewhat
louder surroundings |
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May 16, 2001 |
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Meaning of U.S. Missile Defense
Policy
Michael Moore, Senior Editor of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist |
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Minimalist Cannes?
Milos Stehlik takes a look at several minimalist, intellectual films
from Argentina, Spain, and Japan |
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May 15, 2001 |
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Diverse Perspectives on U.S. Withdrawal
from Kyoto Protocol |
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Tim Wirth, President of United Nations
Foundation and Better World Fund, first Undersecretary of State
for Global Affairs under Clinton Administration |
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David Victor, Senior Fellow at the
Council on Foreign Relations in New York |
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David Anderson, Environment Minister
of Canada |
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Robert Van Lierop, former Permanent
Representative to United Nations from Vanuatu and former chair of
the Alliance of Small Island States, now a corporate and intellectual
property lawyer in New York |
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Political Side of the 54th Cannes
International Film Festival
Milos Stehlik looks at two of the more political films, Qandahar,
which looks at the plight of women in Afghanistan and No Man's
Land, offers a critique of UN peacekeeping in Bosnia. |
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May 14, 2001 |
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Berlusconi Takes Italian Elections
Joseph Lapalombara, Professor of Political Science at Yale University |
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New Modes of Development in India
Dunu Roy, Director of the Hazards Centre in New Delhi India |
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Favorites of the 54th Cannes International
Film Festival
Milos Stehlik looks at two of the more talked about films-The Cohen
brothers' The Man Who Wasn't There, and Claire Denis' Trouble
Every Day |
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May 11, 2001 |
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Italian Election Preview
Tim Laxton, writer for The Economist |
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Putting Macedonia in Context
Eran Fraenkel, Executive Director of Search for Common Ground in
Macedonia |
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54th International Film Fesitval
in Cannes
Facets Multimedia's Milos Stehlik is in Cannes, and has these thoughts
on the unusual prominence of the multi-national production "Moulin
Rouge" |
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May 10, 2001 |
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International News of the Week
Russ Watson, Senior Editor, Newsweek Magazine |
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Unblocking the Danube River in Yugoslavia
Kyle James, Radio Deutchewelles |
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Korea: International involvement
in the peace tract and regional relations
Bruce Cummings, Professor of History at the University of Chicago,
currently on leave at the Center for Advanced Studies in Stanford,
CA |
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May 9, 2001 |
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Nigeria's Obasanjo Headed to D.C.
Adotei Akwei, Director of Advocacy for Amnesty International |
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Italian Election Preview
Claire Dulles, Radio Deutchewelles |
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Combatting Kidnapping in Colombia
Salud Hernandez, founder of Pais Libre (Free Country) an organization
dedicated to training people how to avoid and survive kidnappings,
journalist for the Spanish paper El Mundo.
www.paislibre.org.co |
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May 8, 2001 |
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British Election Update
Rodney Barker, London School of Economics |
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UN-U.S. Relations
William Luers, President of UNA-USA |
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Colombia
Father Javier Giraldo, author and human rights activist in Colombia |
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May 7, 2001 |
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Jerome McDonnell with
William Schulz |
The Benefits of Defending Human Rights
William F. Schulz, Executive Director, Amnesty International USA,
author of In Our Own Best Interest: How Defending Human Rights
Benefits Us All |
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May 4, 2001 |
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Jewish Unity for a Just Peace Conference
Steven Feuerstein, Coordinator of the Organizing Committee for the
Jewish United for a Just Peace conference
Jeff Halper, Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House
Demolitions (ICAHD) and a Professor of Anthropology at Ben Gurion
University
Rela Mazali, human rights activist, writer, founding member of New
Profile-a feminist Movement for the Civil-ization of Israeli Society |
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The conference takes place May 4th
- 6th at the International Conference Center in Uptown in Chicago.
For more information call 312.409.4845, www.junity.org |
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Perspectives on the American Jewish
Community's reaction to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Michael Kotzin, Executive Vice President of the Jewish Federation
of Metropolitan Chicago/Jewish United Fund
David Roett, Israeli Consulate |
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Israeli
Consulate site
More information on the 2001 Walk with Israel event is at the
Jewish
Federation website
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Cannes Film Fest Preview
Facets Multimedia's Milos Stehlik checks in with a preview of the
Cannes film line-up and the perennial Cannes scandals |
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May 3, 2001 |
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Indonesia Update
Jeffrey Winters, Professor of Political Economy at Northwestern
University |
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World Press Freedom Day: Attacks
on Bangledeshi Journalists
Kavita Menon, Asia Program Coordinator for the Committee to Protect
Journalists |
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www.cpj.org
(Committee to Protect Journalists site)
www.rsf.org
(Reporters Without Borders site) |
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Turkey: Prison Hunger Strike
Radio Deutchewelles' Dorian Jones |
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May 2, 2001
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Indigenous Rights in
Mexico
Franc Contreras, Correspondent
for The World and Latino USA
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Amazigh (Berber) protests
in Algeria
Dr. Akli Gana, Former president
of the
Amazigh Cultural
Association
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May 1, 2001 |
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Chechnya
Anne Nivat discusses Chienne
De Guerre, a book about her experiences in Chechnya.
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