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May 25, 2015
My latest book review: Modernizing Mexico, one feud at a time
Two Mexicos coexist, one an insular land of hard-to-kill monopolies in politics and business, the other more outward-looking, embracing modernity and even the United States. In “Amarres perros” pundit-politician Jorge Castañeda recalls a life of trying to change the balance.
(I took the photo nearly 30 years ago at a hunger strike to demand fair elections in Chihuahua, Mexico in 1986.)
Tagged: Jorge Castañeda, Mexico
April 2, 2015
Review: Choking on digital exhaust
Government and corporate mass surveillance of citizens is an aberration on a par with child labor or environmental pollution, claims security expert Bruce Schneier in Data and Goliath. He offers a rousing call for resistance, and hope for change – a few decades hence.
My review:http://reut.rs/19Mnq4L
March 12, 2015
Sanctions? Sí, gracias
A bit of chat – in my work hat – about U.S. sanctions against Venezuela. It’s fun to be looking at Latin America again, 25 years after I first went there as a reporter.
Breakingviews TV:Martin Langfield and Reynolds Holding discuss Uncle Sam’s designation of Venezuela as a security threat and how the move could help embattled President Nicolas Maduro at home.
Sanctions? S��, gracias
A bit of chat – in my work hat – about U.S. sanctions against Venezuela. It’s fun to be focusing on Latin America again, 25 years after I first went there as a reporter.
Breakingviews TV:Martin Langfield and Reynolds Holding discuss Uncle Sam’s designation of Venezuela as a security threat and how the move could help embattled President Nicolas Maduro at home.
January 24, 2015
Review: Monetizing the moment
The Mad Men are watching you. Martin Langfield on privacy and online ads in Mike Smith’s “Targeted”:��http://reut.rs/1JtiRau
December 26, 2014
Review: Fixing the CIA – a novel approach
Could an outsider best reform the CIA in the wake of torture revelations? In David Ignatius’ novel “The Director,” a pro-privacy tech CEO tries to drag an agency that has lost its way into a new world of tighter rules, leaky secrets and cyberthreats. Good idea, uneven results.
http://reut.rs/1t5P8wP
November 29, 2014
Review: A user’s guide to slacking at work
Review: “The Peripheral” by William Gibson
July 3, 2014
More hopping about getting the words down and the story told.
So my writerly friends Mark McNease and D.J. McIntosh took part in the next hop of the “blog hop” I did last week. Here they are on what they write and how they get the words down on the page: Mark andD.J.
The hop came to me via the good offices of the talented and highly rhythmic Steve Coulter and also led to this dyspeptic snorter from the great Ken Layne. Enjoy!
June 25, 2014
A blog hop on getting the story told
My friendSteve Coulter, who in addition to drumming in the fab LA bandTsar is turning his talented hand(s) to crime fiction, kindly tagged me to join “The Writing Process Blog Hop.” In addition to me, Steve also tagged the mightyKen Layne. This is august company, and I’m honoured.
At the end of this post I’ll tag two authors who’ll write next week about how they get their own stories told and words down on the page: Mark McNease and D.J. McIntosh. You can read about them and find links to thei...
