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Welcome to The Global Dispatches,
This month, we have a review of a translation of Turkish author Burhan Sönmez's highly acclaimed "Istanbul Istanbul"; Yanis Varoufakison the IMF's own admission by the IMF Independent Evaluation Office that the institution immolated Greece on behalf of the Eurogroup; Daniel Akech Thiong on South Sudan "a country where a considerable number of citizens are crammed into UN protection camps out of fear of their own government", Mark Akkerman, a researcher at Stop Wapenhandel (Dutch Campaign Against Arms Trade), on the reltionship between migration and the arms trade and an interview with celebrated journalist John Pilger talking about China and US policy in Asia and much more... |
 | Updated for May 2017. Every month we recommend a few classic music CDs that rarely see the light of day. This month sees: Jesus Guerrero, Budos Band, Dead Combo, Ebo Taylor, Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos, Ali Khattab and The Cairo Jazz Band get main billing. |
 | Review of a recently translated novel by celebrated Turkish author Burhan Sönmez. While unmistakeably political in nature, the individual stories eventually merge into a love poem to the city of Istanbul. |
 | The former Greek finance minister on the IMF. |
 | The writer and satirist "Teffi" was a literary sensation in Russia until war and revolution forced her to leave Russia for ever. |
 | This is a country where a considerable number of citizens are crammed into UN protection camps out of fear of their own government. |
 | The EU must acknowledge its part in fuelling the drivers of migration and work to stop them, including the establishment of an embargo on arms sales to the Middle East and North Africa. |
 | Noted journalist John Pilger talks about China, Okinawa, and U.S. policy in Asia. "The Coming War on China" is his 60th film. |
 | The German Council of Economic Advisors recently proposed a mechanism for the orderly restructuring of sovereign debt in the Eurozone. The proposal builds on logical errors and embeds well-established ideas in a setup that suffers from serious limitations. |
 | "Istanbul is a city defined by water because its parts are separated by water. But the Bosporus is not merely a channel: it is a border between continents. If you cross to the Asian side you will not find, as visitors have been known to anticipate, signs of an Asiatic culture. " |
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