César Chelala
Dr. César Chelala is an international public health consultant, co-winner of an Overseas Press Club of America award and two national journalism awards from Argentina.
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Views Friday, August 04, 2017 The UK High Court Is Wrong The decision by the UK High Court to block a bid by a former chief of staff of the Iraqi army to bring a private prosecution against Tony Blair for his responsibility over the Iraq War is misguided. It means, essentially, that one of the architects of a war that almost destroyed a country will... Read more |
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Views Sunday, July 16, 2017 Gazans Are the Victims of Their Own and Israel's Leadership The curtailing of electricity to Gaza conducted by the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah in connivance with Israeli authorities seriously hurts the people of that region. They have become the victims of the political fighting between the Palestinian Authority ruled by Fatah, and the Palestinian... Read more |
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Views Sunday, July 02, 2017 Solving Donald Trump's Mystery Recently, as I picked up a book from my bookcase, I realized that one word in its title had the answer to a problem that for months had been bothering me. The book is “ The voice imitator ” by the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. And the word that solved the mystery, you may already have guessed it... Read more |
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Views Sunday, May 28, 2017 Poetry to the Rescue of America's Soul As President Donald Trump’s (is this true or is it only a passingvnightmare?) wrecking machine continues its steady work of destroying everything that is dear to Americans, two poets, Roque Dalton (1935-1975), a Salvadoran poet and Langston Hughes (1902-1967), a poet of the dispossessed, seem to... Read more |
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Views Friday, April 28, 2017 The World's Wealthy Nations Are Failing Yemen Antonio Guterres, U.N.’s Secretary General, has informed that international donors have pledged $1.1 billion in aid for Yemen. Rather than a humanitarian action, this pledge only underscores the responsibility that big powers have had in the crisis that has all but devastated that country... Read more |
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Views Saturday, March 11, 2017 From Barry Goldwater to Donald Trump Increasingly, members of the psychiatric profession are expressing their concern about President Donald Trump mental health status. In a recent letter to the New York Times, two prestigious psychiatrists, Judith L. Herman and Robert Jay Lifton seriously question his grasp of reality and say, “Soon... Read more |
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Views Sunday, February 12, 2017 A Psychological Portrait of President Trump Last October, before he was elected President of the U.S., I, among others, put forward the hypothesis that Mr. Donald Trump was a narcissist. I based my interpretation on the fact that he fulfilled practically all the criteria included in the classification of narcissism established by the... Read more |
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Views Sunday, December 25, 2016 Too Little, Too Late for US Decision on Settlements The United States’ abstention on the UN Security Council (UNSC) anti-settlement resolution is a serious blow to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policy of annexation in the West Bank. Israel’s Prime Minister Bureau stated that, “Israel rejects the contemptible, anti-Israel UN resolution and will... Read more |
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Views Monday, December 12, 2016 Poverty: The Dark Side of the American Empire If we have learned anything from this last presidential election it’s that poverty continues to be an ignored concept by president-elect Trump and by U. S. politicians. Although both avoid using the word like a naked man avoids a poisonous snake, poverty is integral to the current reality of the U... Read more |
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Views Saturday, November 26, 2016 Meeting Fidel As a young medical student in Argentina I had been fascinated by Fidel Castro and his rebel combatants and followed with interest their advance from the mountains to the plains to the capital city of Havana . I longed to visit the island but the US blockade made it extremely difficult to travel to... Read more |