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- Friday, Feb 19, 2010
ZNet Article Andre Vltchek from Palembang, Musi River and Bangka Island. Introduction by Geoffrey Gunn -
- Saturday, Feb 13, 2010
Book "André Vltchek has compiled a stunning record in evoking the reality of the contemporary world, not as perceived through the distorting prisms of power and privilege, but as lived by the myriad victims. He has also not failed to trace the painful ... Book Western Terror is a book of essays and political commentaries by Andre Vltchek that revisits many complex regional conflicts on our planet, including in the United States, Iraq, India, East Timor, Indonesia, and Latin America. Book Point of No Return shows the world through the eyes of a war correspondent, visiting places that are rarely covered by the mainstream media, offering provocative points of view about the pitiful state of today's world, its disparities and scandalo... -
- Friday, Feb 12, 2010
Book “Fascinating... endlessly sad.”—Noam Chomsky
In these remarkable interviews with André Vltchek and Rossie Indira, Indonesia’s most celebrated writer speaks out against tyranny and injustice in a young and troubled nation. Toer here discusses pe... -
- Friday, Feb 05, 2010
Commentary 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... -
- Wednesday, Jun 17, 2009
ZNet Article Sometimes I am chased by nightmares: I am in the middle of some bombed out refugee camp, maybe in Congo (DRC) or in some other desperate country at the periphery of media interests. Children are running around with swollen bellies, clearly sufferi... -
- Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009
ZNet Article Dozens of green military tents dot the vast campground and jamboree site at Cibubur, a suburb just half an hour’s drive from the center of Jakarta. Hundreds of girls, some as young as 15, have called this camp home for almost 6 months. This is w... -
- Saturday, Jun 28, 2008
Commentary 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... -
- Wednesday, Jun 25, 2008
ZNet Article Samoa (formerly Western Samoa) and American Samoa. -
- Monday, May 19, 2008
Commentary 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 ... -
- Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Commentary 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... -
- Thursday, May 01, 2008
ZMag Article While the cyclone and neo-Nazis were busy on the homefront, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek was meeting George Bush in Washington. The two heads of state were trying to conclude negotiations about the construction of the U.S. radar base in We... -
- Friday, Apr 18, 2008
Commentary 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? -
- Friday, Apr 04, 2008
Commentary 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. -
- Wednesday, Apr 02, 2008
ZMag Article After the death in January of Indonesia’s former dictator from 1967-1998, Suharto, the Western mainstream media rediscovered the zeal with which it had supported the Indonesian dictator throughout his killing sprees of 1965-66 and the 25-year occu... -
- Saturday, Feb 16, 2008
Commentary 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... -
- Monday, Jan 14, 2008
Commentary 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... -
- Friday, Dec 28, 2007
Commentary 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... -
- Saturday, Dec 01, 2007
Commentary Indonesia And Destruction Of Rainforest -
- Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007
ZNet Article This article provides an overview of the difficulties confronting East Timor, the Asia Pacific's newest and poorest nation, and an interview with Mari Alkatiri.
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- Friday, Oct 12, 2007
Commentary AMERICAN FICTION -
- Monday, Sep 24, 2007
Commentary 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... -
- Sunday, Aug 26, 2007
Commentary 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... -
- Thursday, Aug 02, 2007
Commentary 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. "... -
- Sunday, Jun 03, 2007
Commentary 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 ... -
- Thursday, May 24, 2007
Commentary 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 ... -
- Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Commentary 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... -
- Saturday, Apr 21, 2007
Commentary 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 ... -
- Sunday, Mar 11, 2007
Commentary 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... - All Most Recent Content
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- Saturday, Feb 13, 2010
Book "André Vltchek has compiled a stunning record in evoking the reality of the contemporary world, not as perceived through the distorting prisms of power and privilege, but as lived by the myriad victims. He has also not failed to trace the painful ... Book Western Terror is a book of essays and political commentaries by Andre Vltchek that revisits many complex regional conflicts on our planet, including in the United States, Iraq, India, East Timor, Indonesia, and Latin America. Book Point of No Return shows the world through the eyes of a war correspondent, visiting places that are rarely covered by the mainstream media, offering provocative points of view about the pitiful state of today's world, its disparities and scandalo... -
- Friday, Feb 12, 2010
Book “Fascinating... endlessly sad.”—Noam Chomsky
In these remarkable interviews with André Vltchek and Rossie Indira, Indonesia’s most celebrated writer speaks out against tyranny and injustice in a young and troubled nation. Toer here discusses pe... - All Recent Books
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