In the desert of Southern Tunisia, a group of renewable energy entrepreneurs, NUR Energie Ltd, and their Tunisian joint venture partner, Top Oilfield Services, are creating what may just be the most ambitious solar power renewable energy project to date. Along with the endorsement of the...

"... They are finding that the isolation and separation of objects from each other is more apparent than real; at deeper levels, everything --atoms, cells, molecules, plants, animals, people -- participates in a sensitive, flowing web of information. Physicists have shown, for example, that if two photons are separated,...

There are many reasons to be hopeful about the world, even the economy, and especially that of Europe. And I write this as an American who believes we actually can learn something from what is going in the EU. One of the reasons I respect the process of the economic...

The Cinemateque de France in Paris held an important conference recently, with scholars, archivists, digital experts, filmmakers and film historians from the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Library in France and numerous other institutions. Over a period of two days, the speakers and the audience exchanged...

Every other day at least I take a look and read pages of personal stories on the site We Are the 99 Percent. I sit down with my 12-year-old half-American daughter and I explain to her what is going on back home. I show her videos...

We are changing the world, one picnic at a time. Yesterday in Paris, during what has been an unusually warm Indian summer, in the gorgeous Les Arenes du Lutece park, a group of thirty or so adults and fifteen or so children all met for the first TASTE...

It did not begin with the subprime disaster in 2007, nor the crash and burn of Lehman in 2008, nor are we able to blame any bubbles, be they dot.com or other. This Economic War began with the Asian Financial Crisis back in 1997, if not before. In fact, I...

She spoke about everything from her disciplined past as a dancer, to the importance of democracy, to corporations taking over our world (the film industry included). She spoke about freedom of expression, about sex, about the relationship between France the US and the founding fathers inspiring the French Revolution.

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Finally we can speak about what is really at stake in the DSK case. More information is coming out, one day after the new IMF head if officially named, is this also a coincidence? And while we do not know the outcome, nor were any of us in that hotel...

"May You Live in Interesting Times" -- an ancient Chinese proverb (often considered a curse followed by the following two curses -- "May you come to the attention of those in authority" and "May you find what you are looking for."

We most definitely live in interesting times. Leaving...

There may be an awful lot of lawyer jokes out there but for more and more documentary filmmakers, the legal challenges they are up against when trying to tell a story are no laughing matter. Forty years after the initial publishing of The Pentagon Papers, the full truth about Vietnam...

Firstly, I have worked, studied, carried out research etc. in the US and lived in France on and off since I was in university at the age of nineteen. I have raised a French-American daughter for the last twelve years between France, Italy, and briefly in Norway and the US....

"Only the mass media can put the kind of pressure on TEPCO and the Japanese government to bring about major change. This will cost at least 10 billion dollars if not 20-30 billion to clean up. It will take at least 10 years if not 20 and roughly 10,000 people...

I received the following email a few days ago from a Russian nuclear physicist friend who is an expert on the kinds of gases being released at Fukushima. Here is what he wrote:

About Japan: the problem is that the reactor uses "dirty" fuel. It is a combination of...

Wealthy folks, hedge funds and other financial entities are increasingly creating nonprofit, tax-write-offs called foundations. These foundations will often give grants to research at medical schools, universities, entrepreneurship-related activities, often linked to tax payer subsidies. For example, when a big state university, say in the tech belt of North Carolina,...

I have been receiving lots of emails with information that will help to explain the present situation of Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank. Supporters of microfinance around the world stand in support of Dr. Yunus and are doing their best to help resolve...

Now France is leading the way as more and more nations stand behind the decision to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya. Twenty five years ago France refused (under Mitterrand) to let the US fly over. The bombs in the metro, on the Champs Elysees that year (I had two...

There is something taking place right now in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which should have every single person on the planet prepared to fight and cry out in anger for what is more than simply unjust, but a deeply disturbing sign of how the poor will be treated in the years to...

Squeezed between the Golden Globes and the Oscars, the Berlinale may not attract the same attention from American audiences that it should. But if you really want to know what is going on in the world today, take a look at many of the films showcased in Berlin, and try...

In the past weeks, Nobel Peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus has been under attack by not only his leader of government in his native Bangladesh but by those people and organizations who are upset with what narrows down to Dr. Yunus' stand against corruption and loan sharking.

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