Book Reviews/A Writing Journey
Author: Mallee Stanley
Attkisson is a journalist who worked for CBS News who, at one time, was assigned to cover medical controversies. As a naïve reporter in the beginning, she soon began identifying fact from fiction to reveal how the pharmaceutical giants subverted their profit agenda into government, health institutions, non-profit organizations, doctor training programs, and the media.
Continue reading “Sharyl Attkisson’s—Follow the Science*****”
This title refers to many—the Dayak and Penan peoples of Borneo as well as Michael Palmieri and Bruno Manser. Palmieri, from the U.S. was credited with saving for posterity the ancient artwork of these tribes, but he saved it for the highest bidder who was never a native born Malaysian or Indonesian.
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Eight-year-old Twyla and Roberta are thrown together as roommates in a shelter. Years later, they meet in a diner and again during a protest. But which female is black and which one is the white character. This is the crux of this clever story that has the reader questioning their own racism. It’s only a short story, but well worth reading. My advice—read the story first, then the introduction.
In an Afghan village, Zeba is discovered beside her dead husband in the courtyard of their home. She is immediately blamed for the murder and imprisoned in Kabul’s Chil Mahtab women’s prison. When her lawyer arrives, she refuses to reveal the events that led to her husband’s brutal murder. With little hope of Zeba not being found guilty, her lawyer, Yusuf visits her village to try to uncover the truth. Because he’s lived in New York since the age of five, the villagers don’t trust him, and he is at a loss to know how to defend a woman he believes is innocent.
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