The Gold of Sudan and Good Old-Fashioned Russian Colonialism in Africa
Sudan’s current military regime seized power in a coup d’état on October 25, last year. The coup effectively ended a shaky partnership between a civilian government and the military which had briefly...
The Daily Doormat
Political cartoon by Jeff Danziger, cartoonist, author and contributing editor to Global Insights. He is also a member of our media partner, Cartooning for Peace.
TUCSON, Arizona --...
Frozen Afghan Funds: The need for urgent UN Security Council action
The following article is offered on an oped basis.
United Against Inhumanity (UAI)launched a campaign on 8th March to challenge the decision by some governments to freeze Afghan national reserves that...
Russia and China: The Bros in the Owner’s Box
I call this Mort Report non-prophet; correspondents can only speculate on the future based on the present in light of the past. I am scared witless about far more than Ukraine —...
MortReport Extra: Now or Never
The following column by contributing editor, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum is from his regular comment The MortReport. Global Insights Magazine/Global Geneva Group are supporting Mort’s insightful and frank reporting from different parts of...
MortReport: Paris – An Immoveable Beast
Walking and bike path along former railway line in Paris. (Photo: Ville de Paris)
The following column by contributing editor, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum is from his...
A Mort Retort: Facete Rectos Pagare
The following column by contributing editor, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum is from his regular comment The MortReport. Global Insights Magazine/Global Geneva Group are supporting Mort’s insightful and frank reporting from different parts...
Mort Report Booster Shot
The following column by contributing editor, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum is from his regular comment The MortReport. Global Insights Magazine/Global Geneva Group are supporting Mort's insightful and frank reporting from different parts...
Over the Horizon
The following column by contributing editor, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum is from his regular comment The MortReport.
WILD OLIVES, France — Whether on battlefields or in backwoods Provence,...
Focus on Afghanistan: “We tried to tell you”
The following column by contributing editor, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum is from his regular comment The MortReport.
FLAYOSC, France — Here we go again. Americans clamor for the...
Michel Lavollay: A Cri du Coeur From a Doctor-Diplomat Who Knows
The following column by contributing editor, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum is from his regular comment The MortReport.
PARIS — Breakfast with Michel Lavollay at Café Flore, pleasant under any...
Sh’ma Yisrael – A Mort Report Extra
The following column by contributing editor, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum is from his regular comment The MortReport.
Photo courtesy of Letizia Agosta, Unsplash.
Jews have...
Last Dance at Oak Flat
The following column by contributing editor, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum is from his regular comment The MortReport.
SUPERIOR, Arizona – Big Copper’s Last Stand is imminent at Oak...
In France, a Mission to Uncivilize
The following column by contributing editor, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum is from his regular comment The MortReport. Also see his latest book: Saving the world from Trump.
Conflict, climate and...
Now What? Good schools and critical thinking.
The following column by contributing editor, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum is from his regular comment The MortReport. Illustrations are by Global Geneva contributing editor Jeff Danziger, a poltical cartoonist and author.
Biden’s new America: Where do we go from here?
Democracy may be the best form of government we have, but there’s never a guarantee that the government it produces will be a good one. While it looks as though Joe Biden’s “Blue...
Mort Report Extra: The Scream
The following column by contributing editor, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum is from his regular comment The MortReport. Illustrations are by Global Geneva contributing editor Jeff Danziger, a poltical cartoonist and author.
Cent femmes pour nous inspirer à changer
Hafsat Abiola - Drawing by Gayle Kabaker
Elles s’appellent Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Melinda Gates, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Nancy Pelosi, Michelle Bachelet, Geena Davis et Jacinda Ardern. Certaines dirigent des pays, d’autres des fondations ou contribuaient à...
On Young Dogs and Old Tricks
TUCSON, Arizona — I used to say the only difference between 23 and dead is all in the mind. Now, a lot closer to the latter than the former, not so much....
The Artistic World of Betsabeé Romero in Mexico
Betsabeé Romero is now listening to the suddenly silent streets of Mexico City, North America’s largest city. From her little street house in the Villa de Cortés district, the artist is on...
Pandemic: A Planetary Wake-up Call
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Coronavirus Stories: My Verbier Covid-19 Experience
It all started with a get-together in the 1,500 metre-high Swiss alpine resort of Verbier. Perhaps it started even before then; I will never know. My closest friends and I from here, there,...
The Mort Report: A crime against humanity
The following column by contributing editor, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum is from his regular comment The MortReport.
TUCSON — Let’s be clear. Deadly plague and deadlier politics put...
On Zapata, Bogey and Circling Vultures
The following article from the Mort Report out of Tucson, Arizona, is by veteran foreign correspondent Mort Rosenblum. You can subscribe directly to the Mort Report by going to his website.
Two movie scenes, both...
The #MeToo Movement: turning up the heat
Global Eye is an independent column on human rights issues.
Kathryn Mayorga has now decided to break her silence. In a backroom deal, in which she received US$375,000, the schoolteacher and former model was gagged...
The Mort Report: Extra! French Poodle Bites Puffed-Up Yank in the Ass
The following column by contributing editor Mort Rosenblum is from his regular comment The MortReport.
WILD OLIVES, France: -– Just back from America, I lit up the TV to hear a presidential president, in complete English...
In Lisbon, Still Savvy After All These Years, Growing Alarm
LISBON – Techies snapping up real estate call this the new San Francisco. Moveable-feast jet setters see a new Istanbul. But this is still the old Lisbon, a fresh incarnation of the outward looking...
The ARTacama Project- Art Meets Science Mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background
Mark Devlin is an experimental cosmologist exploring the underlying structure of the universe. Jackie Tileston is an artist, and Christine Pfister not only heads one of Philadelphia’s most innovative galleries for contemporary art, but...
The Ethics of Impact
The following piece by Jonathan Leighton was published by the Huffington Post on March 17, 2015 as part of the Pioneers for Change initiative. This is a UK social enterprise committed to igniting an international movement...
Plane crashes and trying to get in – and out – of Katmandu
Husband, Bollywood Star, Migrant Worker, Tourist: Everyone is Trying to Get in or out of Nepal. Journalist Donatella Lorch offers her own personal perspective as a journalist on human interest stories in her regular blog...
Oman: The Call of Desert Sand
Italian-American Journalist Donatella Lorch, a former New York Times correspondent based in Peshawar, Nairobi and New York, writes a regular column, Tangled Journeys, from her current home in Katmandu. She recounts here her family's...
Williams and O’Reilly: Not the only truth-fudging in the name of journalism
The recent incidents of two leading American TV personalities claiming to have covered specific events, when they had not, only come across as yet more nails in the journalistic coffins of those still seeking...
Will the World Humanitarian Summit pass the accountability test?
Nick van Praag, who directs the Ground Truth Programme of Keystoneaccountability, explores whether World Humanitarian Summit will really look hard at whether, and if not why, humanitarian response is really working.
As the long...
Don’t Expect a ‘Grexit’: Greece Can’t Escape Europe
The following article by Wayne Merry, a former US diplomat and a now a member of the American Foreign Policu Council, was first published in The National Interest http://nationalinterest.org
Global financial markets currently obsess about the...
Switzerland’s Anne Frank Legacy: Beyond frontiers and religions
The following article was first contributed in November, 2014 to Le News, an English-language newspaper for the Lake Geneva region, by then editor Edward Girardet. The article received an enormous amount of interest, so...
Tim to the rescue: Legislating accountability
Nick van Praag sends this piece on the exceptional work achieved by US senatorial aide Tim Rieser regarding the reciprocal release of prisoners and the thawing of relations between the United States and Cuba.
Tim...
Stepping over the line
In 1979, I happened to run across Georges Bernier, the creator of the bitingly satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo. The motto was “Bête et Méchant,” which translates roughly as “stupid and nasty.” It had started in 1960...
Why the Swiss need to value their foreigners
The following piece by Swiss-American journalist and author Edward Girardet was initially written for Swissinfo, a news website funded by the Swiss Foreign Ministry and the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation. It was accepted and edited...
Beyond the blah-blah: What now with the Sustainable Development Goals?
The creation of a new and more realistic post-2015 agenda to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is already happening with Geneva in the forefront. But how will the new SDGs be implemented and...
Afghanistan – What went wrong?
The following essay by Geneva-based journalist and author Edward Girardet was published by the Cairo Review of Global Affairs in October, 2014. Girardet is also co-editor of the 4th fully revised Essential Field Guide...
The Essential Edge Guide to Aid Speak – Part I
The following is to help ordinary human beings understand the impressive but often incomprehensible-sounding terminology of the international aid community. We thank all those for their contributions and look forward to more.
Accountable: Key buzzword....
Modern assassins, murder and social media
Steven Sotloff’s murder and decapitation is a tragedy in itself, but it also marks a turning point both for journalism and the communications strategy for the world's most murderous insurgencies. Terrorists these days are...
What ever happened to real foreign reporting?
The brutal murder in the name of Islam of American reporter James Foley by a British Jihadist outlines – once again - the extreme dangers journalists, many of them freelance, now face when trying...
Time to focus on the people behind the numbers
This piece is contributed by Nick van Praag, a humanitarian specialist and director of Keystone's Ground Truth programme.
A slew of statistics released this week by UNHCR points to a rising tide of human misery as the...
The Silver Fox Remembered
With the death of former Soviet Foreign Minister and Georgian leader Eduard Shevardnadze earlier this month, journalist and writer Thomas Goltz remembers.
Livingston, Montana -- Eduard Shevardnadze and I bonded during the siege and fall...
Gérer internet… sans les médias? (Manning the internet…without media?)
The following article by Essential Edge French-language editor, Daniel Wermus, explores the role of the internet - and journalism.
En 2003 et 2005, le Sommet mondial sur la société de l’information (SMSI) donnait l’élan aux...
Putting UNRWA back on the Map
With the civil war in Syria stalemated in its fourth year and more than 164,000 Syrians dead, the public has begun to be anesthetized to what is really at stake. That changed briefly Thursday...
How bad language leads to poor humanitarian outcomes
Nicholas van Praag of Keystone's Groundtruth programme writes about the importance of language when dealing with the people one is trying to help.
When someone as eloquent as Robert Chambers chides you on your use of language,...
Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields, North Africa and the role of quality media
Since starting out as a foreign correspondent during the late 1970s in Paris, Swiss-American writer and journalist Edward Girardet would often make a point of coming to Geneva to report on peace talks, wars...
The PCDN Network – More than just information
For anyone - UN or NGO aid worker, policy analyst, researcher, journalist, donor, private sector - serious about being effective, the Peace and Collaborative Development Network (PCDN) is more than just an information tool,...
