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25 years since the Santa Cruz massacre – David Webster
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November 11, 2016. 25 years since the Santa Cruz massacre. Monument to Sebastiao Gomes, killed in 1991, Dili, Timor-Leste (2015 photo). Screened around the world, leading to a wave of outrage and activism. The fuller story has been told many times – Clinton Fernandes’ Companion to East Timor. Being one of the most accessible. Canadian embassy report on Santa Cruz massacre, dated 14 Nov. 1991: cej-massacre-report-1991-11-14. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).
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In memoriam George Aditjondro – David Webster
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December 21, 2016. In memoriam George Aditjondro. 8220;Academics are too caught up in comfort and too often afraid,” George Aditjondro told me in Vancouver back in 1997. It’s not a trap he fell into. 8221; he asked. It’s not a name I knew. “Antonio Gramsci,” he explained. “Read some Gramsci, and then maybe we can talk about this again one day.”. 8220;George was known as a passionate critic of what he saw as corrupt power,” reads his obituary in the Jakarta Post. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your com...
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25 years after the Santa Cruz massacre: did corporations influence Western government policy? – David Webster
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November 12, 2016. 25 years after the Santa Cruz massacre: did corporations influence Western government policy? Digging into the archival records isn’t purely academic. It can tell us why governments make the decisions they did – and suggest ways to influence future government decisions. 8220;The images recorded by those journalists and the articles they wrote travelled the world and spread news of the crime committed in Santa Cruz on 12 November 1991.”. Archives can help here. The Canadian governme...
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The pattern of UN technical assistance, 1954 – David Webster
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September 30, 2016. The pattern of UN technical assistance, 1954. Where did United Nations technical assistance advisors in the early years come from? Where did they go? A comprehensive “experts list” from 1954 provides the data to answer. The UN created a Technical Assistance Administration (TAA) and started sending out technical assistance advisors in the early 1950s. I’ve written about the TAA’s short, strange history elsewhere. But what nationality were the “experts” chosen to go overseas? In those s...
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international and trans-pacific histories – David Webster
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January 14, 2015. September 25, 2015. International and trans-pacific histories. Click on About, Research, Writing, or Teaching to read more. An Australian development advisor in the USSR: Eleanor Hinder. In memoriam George Aditjondro. 25 years after the Santa Cruz massacre: did corporations influence Western government policy? 25 years since the Santa Cruz massacre. The pattern of UN technical assistance, 1954. Follow me on Twitter. Claire Bond Potter The New School. Life at Aitarak Laran.
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Australia “anchor of instability” faces increased tensions – David Webster
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July 5, 2016. July 5, 2016. Australia “anchor of instability” faces increased tensions. If the media wrote about wealthy countries the way they write about the Third World:. CANBERRA — The unstable South Pacific nation of Australia has had another chaotic election that leaves the strife-torn country’s future in doubt. A nationalist map popular in Australia because it shows that country at top centre rather than in its usual marginal spot. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. An Australian...