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 Gr
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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 Gr
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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 abo
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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
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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 conferen
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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 abo
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As the year turned 07, Romania and Bulgaria became part of the EU. What does this mean to people living in the country? What are their hopes and fears after joining the Union?
To help better underst
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I thought after this weekend life might get care free and easygoing. It probably is, but I'm buried under last-minute editing work because I live below the poverty level and needed the income. For a
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It has been awhile since I last gave some credit to the great and dedicated comment leavers on this weblog. And naturally there are plenty of gems that I'm going to repost here and share will all of y
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