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Georgianne Nienaber is an investigative environmental and political writer. She lives in rural northern Minnesota, New Orleans and South Florida. Her articles have appeared in The Society of Professional Journalists' Online Quill Magazine, The Ugandan Independent, Rwanda's New Times, India's TerraGreen, COA News, ZNET, OpEdNews, Glide Magazine, The Journal of the International Primate Protection League, Africa Front, The United Nations Publication, A Civil Society Observer, Bitch Magazine, and Zimbabwe's The Daily Mirror. Her fiction expos- of insurance fraud in the horse industry, Horse Sense, was re-released in early 2006. Gorilla Dreams: The Legacy of Dian Fossey was also released in 2006. Nienaber spent much of 2007 doing research in South Africa, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She was in DRC as a MONUC-accredited journalist, and has been living Southern Louisiana investigating hurricane reconstruction and getting to know the people there since late 2007. Nienaber is currently developing a documentary on the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone, and continuing "to explore the magic of the Deep South." She is a member of the Memphis Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
Friday, January 21, 2011 Congresswoman Maxine Waters Opposes Plan to Control Haiti
"The plot to control Haiti has gone from the absurd to the ridiculous. The return of Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier to Haiti in the midst of a flawed election is truly shocking. The Duvalier dictatorship was absolutely brutal, and there is extensive documentation of the human rights violations suffered by the Haitian people during his reign.
Saturday, May 22, 2010 Thoughts From the Gulf: "Don't Make Us Tragedy Porn" by Amanda Mueller (2 comments)
"Don't watch from afar as disaster tourists. Don't make us tragedy porn.
If it were you, we would be there, doing what we could with what we had, opening our hearts and telling you we too know tragedy and we understand."
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 Haiti Donor Conference Presents Major Challenges/Georgianne Nienaber
Much hope and many expectations precede the International Donors' Conference Towards a New Future for Haiti, which begins today at the United Nations in New York. All 192 UN member states have been invited to attend the conference. The government of Haiti will formally unveil and discuss its Action Plan for Recovery and Development. Haitian officials are expected to ask for $11.5 billion to rebuild.
Sunday, December 27, 2009 Over Detroit Skies: Roey Rosenblith
Huff Post Blogger and research assistant to Arianna Huffington was on Detroit plane and gives account of what really happened.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 Robert Lanza: Does Death Exist?
This is absolutely wonderful article. Having studied higher math I have been convinced of multi-dimensions...but Lanza ties it all together beautifully. Be careful which doors you walk though, and choose your words carefully..or be doomed to repeat all in time forever.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 Freya Manfred: Swimming Into Winter (1 comments)
SWIMMING INTO WINTER a poem by Freya Manfred on YOUTUBE's Motionpoem's Channel..what a great idea!!! Check out Robert Bly's reading, also.
Sunday, December 13, 2009 Tonight Show: Shatner Gets served by Palin
Huffington Post Pick up of Tonight show bit. Leave political leanings at door and have a great laugh..we all need to laugh more...
Friday, September 25, 2009 Caroline Herring: Strikingly Intimate Follow-Up to Critically Acclaimed Lantana (4 comments)
I would die to review this, but in the course of getting back into music reviews, I happened to get to know Herring. I would say this...and more. If anyone deserves recognition as a true artistic genius, it is Herring.
Sunday, April 12, 2009 The Power of Horror in Rwanda
OPED by Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch describing how western guilt over the 1994 genocide has given Rwanda a free pass for repression.
Monday, July 28, 2008 Congo's Kemal Saïki: The force of a spokesperson in his work is his credibility (3 comments)
After more than three years of loyal service to MONUC, Kemal Saïki, mission spokesperson since January 2005, is leaving the Democratic Republic of Congo, to take up a post as director of Public Information for UNAMID, the UN mission in Darfur, Sudan. In an interview to the Mwebsite before his departure, he gave his impressions on the Congolese people, journalism in the DRC and his relationship with the Congolese.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 Levees Cost Estimate Soars (4 comments)
Here is a job for journalism 101. Why the cost increase? Who Benefits? Who are the contractors? What are connections to Homeland Security in this area which has largest oil refinery nearby?
Sunday, June 1, 2008 Independent experts to review 17th Street Canal repairs
Independent experts to review 17th Street Canal repairs
by Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune
Thursday May 29, 2008, 1:22 PM
The Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to work with the Southeast Louisiana Levee Authority--East in that agency's attempt to get independent review of the stability of levee walls along the 17th Street Canal, Corps Task Force Hope director Karen Durham-Aguilera said today.
Friday, April 18, 2008 Coastal Loss, Coastal Cost
New Orleans' Gambit Weekly takes a look at Walter Williams, creator of Mr. Bill, and at the eroding Louisiana coastline.
Friday, February 8, 2008 DoJ Served Major Labels over 'Total Music' Initiative
The major labels, eager to wrest control over digital music pricing and distribution from Apple, are considering a project called Total Music that would allow them to charge device manufacturers, cellphone service providers, and other businesses $5 per month for the right to let their customers listen to free music. Total Music is being championed by Universal Music Group and Sony/BMG.
Looks bad for Indies and internet.
Friday, November 9, 2007 Congress Passes $3 Billion Road Home Grant
In a late night, surprise move,Congress passed legislation Thursday that will grant Louisiana $3 billion to help bail out its troubled Road Home rebuilding program.
Thursday, November 8, 2007 Rescue the Road Home
Rescue the Road Home Bill from Congressional wrangling and help the poor souls in New Orleans who were promised help two years ago
Saturday, October 27, 2007 No Hallowen Hoax. Just a Nightmare That Won't End
Read This great piece by Coleen Rowley. What if you lived in a country where, after the Administration negligently failed to prevent a major terrorist attack, they deliberately exploited everyone's fears....
Sunday, October 7, 2007 Rape Epidemic Raises Trauma of Congo War
The New York Times finally takes a look at the unimaginable sexual violence against women in DRC's Kivu Province.
Saturday, October 6, 2007 Congo Transport Chief Fired After Crash
MONUC update on crash of Russian-made aircraft in Kinshasa. The Democratic Republic of Congo has one of the world's worst aviation safety records.MONUC is the United Nations Mission to DRC.
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 Dallaire Describes Carnage He Saw During Rwandan Genocide (1 comments)
UN general Romeo Dallaire is testifying at a war crimes trial in Canada. His book, "Shake Hands Withe the Devil," is testimony to the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
Thursday, August 2, 2007 451 Minnesota Bridges "Functionally Obsolete"
By Conrad deFiebre
Minnesota 2020 Fellow
The Interstate Hwy. 35W bridge that tragically collapsed into the Mississippi River Wednesday evening was one of 1,135 road spans in Minnesota rated as "structurally deficient" by the federal government.
Thursday, August 2, 2007 Newspaper Legend Jim Klobuchar: A Bridge Collapses... (1 comments)
...At 6 p.m. on Aug. 1 an interstate bridge that had carried millions of cars and passengers over 40 years collapsed into the Mississippi River in the heart of Minneapolis. The bridge decks broke into gigantic slabs. Vehicles clanged into each other. Some pitched into the water; some capsized. Fires broke out. Men, women and children screamed. People died. Scores were injured...
Monday, July 30, 2007 Gorilla Killings: Extra, Extra: STOP the Mainstream Press!
There is a back story involving US strategic minerals interests that has not been reported in the onslaught of gorilla killings stories in the mainstream press.
Friday, July 6, 2007 KING KONG: The Hanged Man
They say Klaus-Jurgen Sucker was beginning to look like the Silverback Gorillas he so tenaciously protected in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park (MGNP). Friends noted that an eerie change took place in his physical form. His hair was turning a premature grey as he struggled to "out-Fossey Dian Fossey"
Wednesday, July 4, 2007 Mary Gauthier: Singing Her Heart Out at Nashville's Bluebird Café on the WWW
Bob Dylan highlighted Gauthier's song I Drink for his XM radio gig. By her own admission Mary Gauthier was "born a bastard child in New Orleans." Forty-something and a late bloomer, she is somewhat of a surprise in a music industry dominated by glam women. Channeling Janis Joplin and Hank Williams in her smoky Louisiana drawl, Gauthier is by turns a pretty and striking woman with a tough, yet vulnerable stance.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007 King Kong: The Map, the Mad Scientist and the Mayor (3 comments)
Hundreds of millions of dollars are annually funneled into the scientific mapping industry under the banners of "conservation" and the now prominent buzzwords of "sustainable development" and "capacity building."
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 Analysis: Animal group faults USDA report
Michael Budkie is a contributor and source for OpEd News...mainstream is beginning to look here first.
By STEVE MITCHELL
UPI Senior Medical Correspondent
WASHINGTON, June 8 (UPI) -- An animal rights group says a recent U.S. Department of Agriculture report vastly underestimates the number of animals in research facilities...
Monday, June 11, 2007 Shooting Lions in South Africa
OpEdNews contributor, Chris Mercer, is featured in the video link at the end of article. Click on:
Watch my report
Femi Oke, CNN International Correspondent
Monday, June 11, 2007 Carving up the Congo Rainforest
Check out what villagers have to say about trading forests for beer and salt in this Greenpeace footage. We had similar footage on the Tayna preserve that was stolen from us by British conservation interests.
Monday, June 4, 2007 KONG - Part Three: A MWAMI'S TALE
Henchmen and Heartbreak in the Heart of Darkness. For the people of Congo, suffering and death are a way of life. Now, the million-dollar question seems to be: How are "conservation" and "development" reconciled with the bloodbath that is Central Africa today?
Friday, June 1, 2007 Hope Afloat in Congo
The children of DRC do not have massive publicity machines to tell their sides of the story. They have no administrative assistants and press offices, no travel budgets, no legions of attorneys, Congressional lobbyists, or contacts in the U.S. Embassy in Kinshasa or the Washington D.C. But, they have YOUTUBE!
Saturday, May 26, 2007 KONG: The Monkey Smuggler and the Femme Fatales
Human rights investigator keith harmon snow takes a hard look at some "monkey business" in Africa and strange ties between Hollywood and conservation interests
Saturday, May 12, 2007 Interhamwe Abuses in Eastern DRC: BBC Report
A brave Congolese woman tells Mike Thompson of her abduction by Hutu militia, the murder of her villagers and her escape. You may find the contents of this interview disturbing.
Reporter Mike Thomson compiles a number of reports from his travels into Eastern Congo.
Friday, May 11, 2007 What I Heard About Iraq
Eye-witness accounts paint a terrifying picture of the war in Iraq.
Adapted for radio by Simon Levy.
With Tony Pasqualini, Bernadette Speakes, Darcy Halsey, Marc Casabani, Ryun Yu.
Director Tim Dee
Tuesday, May 8, 2007 Sex and foreign aid
The lessons learned from a high-level administration official's resignation in the 'D.C. Madam' scandal. LAURIE GARRETT is a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of "Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health."
Thursday, May 3, 2007 Tenet's Moment of Truth or Just More Sellout?
Coleen Rowley has a little first-hand experience that contradicts what Tenet has pulled out to explain the post 9/11 need to torture. In May of 2002 Rowley brought some of the pre 9-11 lapses to light and testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee about some of the endemic problems facing the FBI and the intelligence community. Rowley was one of three whistleblowers chosen as persons of the year by TIME magazine.
Friday, April 27, 2007 War on Terror Spawns War Crimes Charges in Somalia
When a Bush-backed "regime change" is in high gear, you can bet that war crimes are not far behind. And so it has proved in Somalia, where a senior European Union security official has told the organization that the American-trained and American-funded Ethiopian invaders and their Somali allies "may have committed war crimes and that donor countries could be considered complicit if they do nothing to stop them"....
Monday, April 16, 2007 Two DRC soldiers get death sentence for journalist murder
MONUC is the United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Readers will find information here that will never be reported by corporate media in the US.
Monday, April 16, 2007 Is Cheney Right? Will Democrats Cave on Iraq Funding?
Ray McGovern served as an Army infantry and intelligence officer in the early sixties and then as a CIA analyst for 27 years. He is a member of the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Diaspora Do-Gooders Help African Businesses (2 comments)
F. Brinley Bruton is a freelance journalist. In 2004 and 2005 she trained journalists at Pajhwok Afghan News, the country's largest independent news service. Since then she has written about Afghanistan, Iran and Yemen and focused on economics, security and humanitarian issues. She is an eloquent voice for what Africa really needs.
Saturday, April 7, 2007 White Toyota, White Aid (1 comments)
"Hey white man" she called to me "these people all come to our country in their fast cars saying they want to help us but they never stop and give us a lift."
Reuters won't "take responsibility" for this commentary, but it should. Hugo Slim could have been with me in DRC, when the "conservationist" guiding our vehicle left three villagers in the dust while they were running from a gun battle.
Friday, April 6, 2007 Gore's Policies Keep Africa in the Dark--Interview With Paul Driessen (2 comments)
Paul Driessen is the author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death (Bellevue, Wash.: Merril Press, 2003) What Dreissen says about Africa is hard to refute. His views on global warming are another issue. All investigative journalists should consider reading "Eco-Imperialism"
Tuesday, March 13, 2007 Atta Girl, Cassandra! Just Keep on Trying! (1 comments)
In May of 2002 Rowley brought some of the pre 9-11 lapses to light and testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee about some of the endemic problems facing the FBI and the intelligence community. Rowley was one of three whistleblowers chosen as persons of the year by TIME magazine.
Wednesday, March 7, 2007 How an Overabundance of Foreign Aid Is Killing Afghanistan (2 comments)
The government of Afghanistan cannot directly channel reconstruction money, so it delegates to NGOs and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). As a result, it exercises no control, no accountability, and, most ominously, no legitimacy over the reconstruction process.
