The Day We Fight Back campaign against America’s surveillance of your email traffic and telephone has good intentions – but it’s not fun, people aren’t talking about it and it’s too techie. What can be done to make people take this issue seriously? An episode of webshow the Red Couch.
Monthly Archives: February 2014
Breaking free of crime and opiate addiction in Moldova’s frozen conflict zone of Transnistria needed a cocktail of spiritual and psychological aid for ex-fighter Yuri – a feature published in The Black Sea A former amateur boxer and soldier, 42 year-old Yuri, is reminiscing about his veins. Once they were raised and prominent, like those of a […]
Paralyzed by legal highs, wedding singer Ciobi was alone, jobless, living on the streets of Bucharest, his body collapsing – until he took up popping, locking and breaking – a feature from The Black Sea In south-central Bucharest, 43 year-old Ciobi is standing by the water cooler upstairs in a ramshackle villa housing Italian charity Parada, which […]
A comment piece in reaction to the hate and love against Romania in the British press, published in Romanian on contributors.ro If you believe The Daily Mail, all Romanians are benefit frauds, pickpockets and secret millionaires of a specific minority and Romania is a country of mud-huts, sick horses, starving dogs and gated palaces of […]
Michael Bird Writer & Journalist 