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Commentary Vltchek: UN Report On Congo

Commentary, March, 15 2011 Andre Vltchek
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A 545-page report on atrocities that were committed predominantly by Rwanda and Uganda (and to much lesser degree by four other African nations) in DRC/Congo was first leaked to French newspaper Le Monde and later to the reporters of The New York ...

Commentary Vltchek: Discredited And Servile – Western Mass Media Perverts Information About Thailand

Commentary, May, 25 2010 Andre Vltchek
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Rebellion had been crushed and Bangkok streets were covered with blood, mostly that of poor Thai peasants with their origins in the country's north or northeast. Armored vehicles had crashed through the barricades made of old tires and bamboo ro...

Commentary Vltchek: Chile - Money And Propaganda Won

Commentary, February, 05 2010 Andre Vltchek
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President Salvador Allende once again overlooks baroque Presidential Palace La Moneda in the heart of Santiago de Chile. This time his body is not made of flesh and bones but of stone - he is nothing more than a statue - but his head is still high...

Commentary Vltchek: White Australians Can Booze-Up, But Not Aboriginese

Commentary, June, 28 2008 Andre Vltchek
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It is close to 6pm and the sunset viewing area in front of magnificent Uluru (also known as Ayers Rock) is full of families and independent travelers. Some are standing on the roof of their rented caravans, bottle of beer in one hand, camera in ot...

Commentary Vltchek: Hard Core Capitalist Indonesia And Awful Services

Commentary, May, 19 2008 Andre Vltchek
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During the Cold War, Eastern block countries used to be bombarded by radio broadcasts glorifying free-market economic system and consumerism. The message from the Radio Free Europe, Voice of America and BBC World Service had been clear: no matter ...

Commentary Vltchek: Pacific Island Nations: Will The Last Person Out Turn Off The Light? From Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Commentary, May, 06 2008 Andre Vltchek
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The sea is blue, beaches consist of golden sand, and palm trees are bent almost to the water surface. Underneath hardly detectable waves, marine life is fascinating and diverse. On hotel terraces, the coolness of coconut juice burns the refined th...

Commentary Vltchek: China - Tibet As Justification For Iraq

Commentary, April, 18 2008 Andre Vltchek
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Wouldn't it be nice to live in an ideal world with no violence and brutality, where every individual is free and responsible, where every nation can choose its fate and alliances?

Commentary Vltchek: Indonesian Morality: Ban Sex Sites Ignore Starving Children

Commentary, April, 04 2008 Andre Vltchek
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Here it goes again. Uncles with harsh over-smoked voices from Indonesian House of Representatives - that is synonymous with corruption and laziness - talking about morality and about "how to protect the nation" from the ills of pornography.

Commentary Vltchek: The French Are Not Lazy (Deleting Sarkozy)

Commentary, February, 16 2008 Andre Vltchek
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For decades, the French economic and social system has been haunting Anglo-Saxon market fundamentalists. While Americans work late into the evenings, often with only 2 weeks vacations, worrying about inadequate health insurance, education for thei...

Commentary Vltchek: Suharto As He Lays Dying

Commentary, January, 14 2008 Andre Vltchek
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It is 4 PM, 13th January 2008. The main entrance to Pertamina Hospital in South Jakarta is besieged by dozens of journalists. Almost all of them are local, as Indonesia doesn't attract international media conglomerates, unless there is a deadly la...

Commentary Vltchek: Fiji: Tourism Behind Barbed Wire From Viti Levu and Vanua Levu

Commentary, December, 28 2007 Andre Vltchek
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Just a few miles from the center of the second largest Fijian city - Lautoka - child scavengers are working in the middle of enormous garbage dump, trying to make living by separating filthy objects of at least some commercial value. They are surr...

Commentary Vltchek: Indonesia And Destruction Of Rainforest

Commentary, December, 01 2007 Andre Vltchek
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Indonesia And Destruction Of Rainforest

Commentary Vltchek: Kwajalein Missile Range, Captain Yossarian And Robert Jordan

Commentary, October, 12 2007 Andre Vltchek
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AMERICAN FICTION

Commentary Vltchek: Resisting Nokia E90

Commentary, September, 24 2007 Andre Vltchek
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In Southeast Asia, size matters. You enter one of the chain cafes in Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok or Jakarta (if you are after foamy cappuccino or latte, one of the chains may be your only option) and you will be welcomed by the latest display of the bul...

Commentary Vltchek: Jakarta Voted - Keep Holding Your Nose!

Commentary, August, 26 2007 Andre Vltchek
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Visit to the fourth largest urban area on earth (with approximately 23 million inhabitants) may be hazardous to your health. Although there are no exact statistics to prove it and one can hardly rely on official data anyway, the city of Jakarta is...

Commentary Vltchek: Fijian Military and Culture of Fear

Commentary, August, 02 2007 Andre Vltchek
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Short time after the coup, Executive Director of Fiji women's Rights Movement FWRM), Virisila Buadromo and her partner had been arrested and taken to the military barracks. "I was threatened and insulted, beaten and humiliated", she recalled. "...

Commentary Vltchek: BEING HUMILIATED AT NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIAN AIRPORTS

Commentary, June, 03 2007 Andre Vltchek
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I have to fly ten times a year through Australia and New Zealand, sometimes more frequently. As a journalist I cover Asia Pacific and Pacific Island Nations, two enormous geographic areas. The only way to move between them is to change planes at ...

Commentary Vltchek: BEING HUMILIATED AT NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIAN AIRPORTS

Commentary, May, 24 2007 Andre Vltchek
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I have to fly ten times a year through Australia and New Zealand, sometimes more frequently. As a journalist I cover Asia Pacific and Pacific Island Nations, two enormous geographic areas. The only way to move between them is to change planes at ...

Commentary Vltchek: KINGDOM OF TONGA AND FIGHT AGAINST FEUDALISM

Commentary, May, 02 2007 Andre Vltchek
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This week, Kingdom of Tonga is getting ready for a lavish wedding. Seventh in line for the royal throne, Fanetupouvava'u Tuita, 29, will on Thursday marry Kiu Kaho, an army lieutenant whose father is a noble, Tu'ivakano, and is a cousin of the roy...

Commentary Vltchek: PACIFIC ISLANDS: WITH WHOM DO WE SLEEP TONIGHT?

Commentary, April, 21 2007 Andre Vltchek
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Oceania -- Francis Hazel, director of The Micronesian Seminar, remembers how one day a television crew from Israel had besieged his office in the capital of Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) -Pohnpei -. "I wondered what they were doing in this ...

Commentary Vltchek: ASEAN - Distant Dream of Unity

Commentary, March, 11 2007 Andre Vltchek
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Kuala Lumpur -- Small Airbus-319 of Cebu Pacific Airlines departs Manila for almost 4 hours long journey to Jakarta, but the service started only recently and it is not flying every day. Capitals of two enormous Southeast Asian countries are still...

Commentary Vltchek: INDONESIA: NATURAL DISASTERS OR MASS MURDER?

Commentary, January, 11 2007 Andre Vltchek
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Another day, another unnecessary loss of lives: 16 people killed and 16 still missing in floods and landslides on a small island Tahuna off Indonesia's Sulawesi.

Commentary Vltchek: Bush: Six Hours 'Charm Offensive' in Indonesia

Commentary, November, 20 2006 Andre Vltchek
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COMMENTARY/SUSTAINERS

Commentary Vltchek: S. Korean Propaganda - Travelling with Mr. Kim: From the North/South Korean Border and Seoul

Commentary, November, 19 2006 Andre Vltchek
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I grew up in the Czech city of Pilsen (Plzen), just a few dozens of miles east from the ÒIron CurtainÓ and the border with then West Germany. ThatÕs why I think I should be pardoned for feeling strange obsession with the borders and division line...

Commentary Vltchek: Coming Back to Hanoi

Commentary, October, 02 2006 Andre Vltchek
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There is a guillotine placed in the courtyard of Maison Central, its blade sharp and shining. The former Hoa Lo Prison is a gloomy reminder of dark days of torture and humiliation; this is where thousands of Vietnamese patriots vanished without a ...

Commentary Vltchek: Thai Coup: Old Elites Against New

Commentary, September, 23 2006 Andre Vltchek
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"Notorious Bangkok traffic jams indicate that the country is returning to normalcy", reported western mass-media outlets including BBC World Service just two days after the military coup overthrew democratically elected government of Thaksin Shina...

Commentary Vltchek: Cambodia: HIstory And Unanswered Questions

Commentary, August, 25 2006 Andre Vltchek
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It is hot and dusty. The stale air of the Cambodian capital is heavy with exhaust fumes. Traffic is chaotic. Street children and beggars besiege posh-looking French cafes on the Sap River; tourists and international workers pretending to lead a no...

Commentary Vltchek: World Cup - Predictable Victory Of Big Business

Commentary, July, 17 2006 Andre Vltchek
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On June 17, I was sitting in Jakarta, reading through an important manuscript sent to our publishing house, Mainstay Press, from far-away Ghana. It was written by Manu Herbstein, a South African/Ghanaian novelist, and it was called "Ramseyer's Gho...

Commentary Vltchek: Once Again Indonesia Failed Its Quake Victims

Commentary, June, 25 2006 Andre Vltchek
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A devastating earthquake of 6.3 magnitude hit central Java on May 27, killing more than 5,800 people, leaving 420,000 homeless. This is just the latest terrible disaster that has hit this enormous archipelago - home to almost 250 million people. M...

Commentary Vltchek: Laos: Secret War Still Killing Thousands Of People

Commentary, June, 16 2006 Andre Vltchek
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Plain of Jars, Laos. "It is terrible when the bomb kills the cow," says my guide and translator, Mr. Van Lorn, as we are leaving Phonsavan in Plain of Jars, driving east, towards Vietnam. "Cows like to chew on stones. Very often they dig out some ...

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