Well, they lasted a year, and at last the far-right racist and xenophobic block of the European Parliament fell apart last week. Known by their ironic title "Identity, Tradition and Sovereignty Group", the block dissolved after the Romanian far-right members were offended by derogatory comments by Mussolini's granddaughter. In practice it means they will get less speaking...
Thinking up podcast journeys for late October and November. One of them involves finally going to Romania to pursue the Rosia Montana gold mine story. But a new topic that occupies my mind is all about the region known as Tirol or South Tirol or the Italian Province...
Last week I talked about the rainbow families rescue work that Rob was involved in throughout the United States. Today I thought of him as I listened to RFI reporting about how extremely terrible the forest fires in Greece have now become. Photos of the earth...
I'm standing across the street from the EU parliament looking through my packet of information for this conference and suddenly there's a big to-do across the street. Several of the charming conference organizer ladies start looking towards the main doors in excitement. And there... walking out the...
For the past week I've been researching the activities of gold mining companies around the world. I've narrowed my focus to two places, Chilé and Romania. In both places it is one mining company above all, that is focused on extracting gold despite whatever risks to the environment...
