The plug has been pulled on Jonathan Jakubowicz's film Queen of the South, based on the book by bestselling Spanish author Arturo Perez-Reverte (a former war correspondent), due to death threats received by cast and crew from Mexican gangs.

From Guy Adams' article in The Independent:
"I've worked really hard to make this beautiful movie, but the ( Read more... )

Geoff Davies' "Economia: New economic systems to empower people and support the living world" is a book that incorporates so many of my intellectual interests (economics, science, sociology, systems theory, anthropology, etc.), and has a vision that almost makes me shrug off my overwhelming cynicism and deep depression about the future - until I ( Read more... )

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