Former teacher, journalist, business communicator. Writing stuff.
Buus, Switzerland
Joined April 2010
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Shit happens. At this level, with the what passes for intellectual commentary, only in Germany.
He Smeared Feces on a Critic, and Lost a Job. Now, He Wants to Be Heard. nyti.ms/3jXOpon
It's a mad world, bonking mad.
Inclusive or Alienating? The Language Wars Go On nyti.ms/3wSySbW
Bjorn Edlund retweeted
Kenneth Williams telling *that* story about Bertrand Russell and the taxi driver
A sad report of things the way they are.
A Decade of Failed Efforts to Protect Journalists in Latin America
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Devastatingly clear. Trump attempted a coup d'etat.
June 9, 2022 heathercoxrichardson.substac…
This is how the coup attempt on Jan 6, 2020, was engineered by POTUS 45 and his henchmen.
March 28, 2022 heathercoxrichardson.substac…
No shit. Terrible.
CPJ: ‘Putin has plunged Russia into an information dark age’: mailchi.mp/cpj/cpj-putin-has…
Wise words. A warning to be heeded.
Jimmy Carter: I Fear for Our Democracy nytimes.com/2022/01/05/opini…
A chilling reminder of how little it would have taken to push the USA into totalitarianism. Let's hope this parliamentarian roll-up doesn't get stuck in the DC quagmire.
December 14, 2021 heathercoxrichardson.substac…
GATT was known in journalist circles as the General Agreement to Talk and Talk. There's hope, it seems, that WTO won't stand for We'll Talk it Over.
Today, 67 WTO-members, representing 90% of services trade, finalized & concluded the services domestic regulations negotiations in the #wto. Important step & sign that the WTO can deliver on trade negotiations.
Giving Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize was like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain, said Leonard Cohen - himself a mighty peak.
"Christmas party in the test center." A Neue Zürcher Zeitung cartoon displays rare silliness. The words "it's got to stink just a little" are a Coop slogan, and what Swiss Germans say about ripe cheese.
Summers makes great points. Global corporate tax helps halt globalization's race to the bottom.
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Great insights and guidance from my friend @saliltripathi . He spoke at the Launch of Reporting Business and Human Rights – A Handbook | ihrb.org/news/salil-tripathi…
I'm going to give Twitter a miss for a while. It's restful to open the door and see how the light shifts, and listen to and talk to people. And to read and think, on my own.
Because I find her reflections worth reading, I just subscribed to Letters from an American heathercoxrichardson.substac…