Kirkuk the Consolation Prize?

Kirkuk the Consolation Prize?

OCTOBER 20, 2017, Counterpunch.org The Iraqi government has every right to assert control over Kirkuk and its environs. (One only wonders why it waited this…

Iraq Outside History

Iraq Outside History

MARCH 16, 2018, Counterpunch.org “Scientists Outside History” was published in the September 1996 issue of Natural History, the popular educational journal of the American Museum…

Awaiting the Next Rumble in Nepal

Awaiting the Next Rumble in Nepal

MAY 18, 2015, Counterpunch.org. Is Nepal in danger of being buried in data overload? The deluge of data about quake conditions may be part of…

Three Women in Search of Muna’s House: a Nepal Guide to Gongabu

Three Women in Search of Muna’s House: a Nepal Guide to Gongabu

MAY 13, 2015, Counterpunch.org. There’s a patch of Nepal I’d never seen before–it’s called Buspark or Gongabu, (‘cock-field’). Since there’s no guidebook available—I find it…

Nepal: Signs of Progress, If Not Hope

Nepal: Signs of Progress, If Not Hope

MAY 11, 2015, Counterpunch.org. Our night skies are still battered by the sounds never heard over Nepal before—they are the monster cargo planes departing after…

Dispatch From Kathmandu

Dispatch From Kathmandu

MAY 6, 2015 on Counterpunch.org. Kathmandu, Nepal. Revisiting a school I know well in Kathmandu city, I meet Tilok just as he and his wife,…