Dec 15, 2015
CUBA AND AMERICA: ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY 17 DECEMBER 2015
The greatest victory of the accord of 17 dec 2014 between Obama and Castro, USA and Cuba is that Americans have flocked to the country in their thousands and seen…
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Dec 15, 2015
AN UMONHON NOZHITHI’A EN OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON
Little Mr D whom I met for the first time, is the son of Mitexi, my niece in the UmonHon Tradition. Olympia, the capital of the State of Washington is…
Dec 15, 2015
WHY ARE EDUCATED IMMIGRANTS FROM INDIA SO ATTRACTED TO FRAUD IN THE USA ? THE CASE OF DOCTORS
FROM THE ECONOMIST AND TO QUOTE Some criminals are switching from cocaine trafficking to prescription-drug fraud because the risk-adjusted rewards are higher: the money is still good, the work safer…
Dec 15, 2015
FRACTURED MEDICAL CARE IN TIME OF ARROGANCE OF BIOMEDICINE
FRACTURED MEDICAL CARE IN THE TIME OF TECHNOLOGY There is a shortage of Primary Care Providers so the burden has been shared with not so well prepared Doctor’s Assistant and…
Dec 15, 2015
MY SISTER FRIEND FROM GRAYLAND, WASHINGTON
For a person who was not fortunate enough to spend a lot of time with those related by blood to me, I have been extraordinarily grateful for the many members…
Dec 15, 2015
WESTPORT, WASHINGTON USA AN ENTHUSIASTIC RETURN TO AMERICANA
Westport, Washington: A report from what used to be the Salmon Capital of the World Going towards the Pacific coast, skirting the Puget Sound, once you pass an indistinct town…
Dec 15, 2015
THE LUCKY ENDOCRINOLOGIST OF HAVANA..OUR ANTHROPOLOGIST IN CUBA
I am writing this in a hotel room in Westport in the State of Washington in the USA. I can hear the ocean in the distance and i can see…
Nov 15, 2015
SPEECH BY FRENCH PRIME MINISTER MORE RELEVANT NOW THAN EVER
I am touched by the solidarity Solidarite shown by people all around the world for France and its people and also for Jewish People at this very difficult time. I…
Nov 15, 2015
CRYING FOR PARIS, THE FRENCH NATION AND THE FRENCH PEOPLE 13.11.2015
First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out…
Oct 15, 2015
FROM PIERRE TO JUSTIN PIERRE TRUDEAU: SOME HOPE FOR THIS WEARY WORLD
History repeats itself From Trudeau to Trudeau Vive CANADA One calculates time with changes in environment that influences ones thinking and changes its direction. 40 years ago Pierre Trudeau led…
Oct 15, 2015
ANCIENT WISDOM AND THE NEW SCIENCE
ANCIENT WISDOM AND THE NEW SCIENCE When you are with Indigenous people, you begin to understand intuitively, myth, history, symbolism. Claude Levi-Strauss recognized this 80 years ago when he worked…
Oct 15, 2015
Happiness and Health
Recently while in the Amazon River region, I was asked: what do you do keep yourself healthy? There are Medical and Anthropological answer to this question and surprisingly enough, they…