Aug 15, 2014
PLEASURE WITHOUT DESIRE
One of my favourite philosophers, Gilles de Leuze, once famously declared: Tell me your desires, I will tell you who you are. In the western minds, who you are, is…
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Aug 15, 2014
AMERICAN INDIANS AND THE ISRAELI NOBEL LAUREATE, DANIEL KAHNEMAN
AMERICAN INDIANS AND THE ISRAELI NOBEL LAUREATE, DANIEL KAHNEMAN When I began working with the Indians, it looked like they were intent on educating this “tribal” boy into the ways…
Aug 15, 2014
HOW DOES THIS 53 YEAR OLD GRAIN MERCHANT ATTRACT THE ATTENTION OF YOUNG WOMEN WORLDWIDE
If you are reading airline magazines or on the net browsing, every now and then you come across the ads: How does this neurosurgeon look so good without his scrubs?…
Aug 15, 2014
EMBRACING MODERNITY WITHOUT LOOSING TRADITION: A SUCCESSFUL TALE AMONG THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS : THE KICKAPOO
In just over three hundred years, and in some cases even less, the American Indians had been forced to change their lifestyle, like no other people on earth. Forced to…
Aug 15, 2014
DRA. ESTELA ROSALES GARZA: THE INCREDIBLE PHYSICIAN OF COAHUILA
In my travels around the world, I have been fortunate to encounter physicians devoted to their craft. It is a pleasure to be in their presence and watch them heal…
Jul 15, 2014
ENGLISH THE LINGUA FRANCA OF EUROPE AND ALREADY THE WORLD
Those of us who are English speakers may take comfort in the fact that there is hardly any place on earth that we will not be understood! The formation of…
Jul 15, 2014
A NEW DAWN FOR INDONESIA : WELCOME PRESIDENT J0KOWI
WELCOME PRESIDENT JOKOWI OF INDONESIA I am sure there are thousands of politicians and businessmen in Indoneisa, shivering in their boots at this welcome news of a simple son of…
Jul 15, 2014
Mh 017 Bad Luck For Malaysia And Nail
MH 017 BAD LUCK FOR MALAYSIA AND NAIL IN THE COFFIN FOR MH, AND LOTS OF MEMORIES FLYING THEM I am at the International Airport in Kuala Lumpur, just one…
Jul 15, 2014
SHABBAT SHALOM FROM MALAYSIA A MOSLEM COUNTRY
IT is so very important to me to say my Shabbat prayers here in this Moslem Country where they chant anti Israeli songs each day and the politicians call Israel…
Jul 15, 2014
CELEBRATING BASTILLE DAY, THE FRENCH NATIONAL DAY IN MALAYSIA
IT is 14th of July 2014 Bastille Day Fete Nacional France Celebrations Parades Fireworks yes in France but I am in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Since I have family in France…
Jul 15, 2014
TOURIST NOT AN ANTHROPOLOGIST IN MALAYSIA: LAZY DAYS IN KUALA LUMPUR
This is the first time, in a very long while, that I have spent any time as a tourist in the capital of Malaysia. First of all, I have to…
Jul 15, 2014
MEDICAL CARE IN AN UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTRY: STORY OF IGNORANCE, GREED AND SUFFERING
MEDICAL CARE IN AN UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTRY STORY OF IGNORANCE, GREED AND SUFFERING Let us call this South East Asian country, Srivijaya. Charming people, wonderful smiles, tolerant of others, they had…