Shortly before 7:00h CEST on 29 May 2021, we were alerted to an unseaworthy zodiac without a motor, that had left from Achakar, Morocco with 11 people, among them two women, just a few hours earlier. Alarm Phone A family member contacted us as he had lost contact […]
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TRIPS exemption for vaccines discussed in secret
Lobby Watchdog Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) published evidence that the EU Council of Ministers decided its position on patents on covid-19 vaccines (as well as therapeutics and diagnostics) in secret on 20 May, to prepare for ongoing global negotiations on the crucial matter. Despite huge public interest and debate on […]
Covid in Cuba: a cautious June follows a dark May
The forecasts were accurate in early May when they announced a tricky month for Cuba due to Covid-19. In fact, 35,701 cases were filed in 31 days. According to the Cuban health authorities, the immunisation of 70% of the island’s inhabitants is expected to be completed by August. Claudia […]
Disappointed intellectuals of the new Elizabethan age!
Recently, I had yet another book proposal turned down by a publisher. Merely the last in a long line of many. Still, it left a bitter taste of disappointment in my mouth. Steve Latham I have to conclude, I think, that either my work is simply not good […]
Creating memorials, building identities
The displays are a form of ‘guerrilla memorialisation’, as they are forays by a small minority into a world controlled by the ideologies of the perpetrators, in the belief that even a small seed of change, is a sign of hope. It is an attempt by the victims, to get […]
















