Chris Gelken
In his spare time, Chris and his wife offer media services to NGO/NPOs on a volunteer basis.
Articles by Chris Gelken
October 31, 2009
Impossible is just a word
During a recent exchange of emails with the director of a highly effective, and very well respected child welfare NGO, I received the following sobering caution:
"As I´m sure you know, media can be complex when you are doing charity work. We try to keep a low profi...
August 25, 2009
Afforestation efforts are having an impact on global desertification, but South Korea's Kwon Byong-hyon of Future Forest says more needs to be done to stop and push back the drifting sands.
April 24, 2008
US lawyer makes dramatic request during live television broadcast on US-Israeli relations
April 12, 2008
Above article based on PressTV discussion program Middle East Today hosted by author.
April 05, 2008
The Petraeus report could be the final tipping point in deciding military action against Iran. But can we trust it? In fact, should we trust it?
March 19, 2008
Above article based on interviews conducted by author and first broadcast on PressTV News on Wednesday, 19th March, 2008.
March 12, 2008
Above article is based on interviews conducted by author and first broadcast on PressTV News on March 12, 2008
March 04, 2008
The above article is based on interviews conducted by the author and first broadcast on PressTV´s Middle East Today and PressTV News on March 4-5, 2008.
March 03, 2008
The above article is based on interviews conducted by the author and first broadcast on PressTV on March 3rd, 2008.
February 13, 2008
White House orders diplomats to compare Guantanamo military tribunals to Nuremburg War Crimes trials.
February 08, 2008
The above interview was conducted by the author and first broadcast on PressTV News on Saturday 9th February, 2008.
February 08, 2008
Above interview conducted by author and first broadcast on PressTV on Friday, 8th February 2008.
February 06, 2008
Above article is based on television interviews conducted by author and first broadcast on PressTV on Thursday, 7th February, 2008
February 06, 2008
This article is based on interviews conducted in the production of PressTV's news and current affairs program, Middle East Today, hosted by the author and first broadcast on Saturday, Feb. 2.
January 31, 2008
Above article based on television interview conducted by author and first broadcast on PressTV on Thursday 31 January, 2008
January 11, 2008
Navy report undermines Bush's drive to isolate Iran
TEHRAN: The U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet has released a statement saying it cannot say with any certainty that threats to blow up its vessels actually came from Iranian Navy speedboats in Sunday's Straits of Hormuz incident.
The revelation tacit...
January 10, 2008
Lame duck President seeking last minute foreign policy success
Since President George W. Bush arrived in Israel he has offered little more than rhetoric in his effort to jump-start the long stalled Middle East peace process. No new initiatives have been introduced, just empty platitudes of "t...
January 06, 2008
Progress in Iraq security talks is key to future relationship, say analysts
TEHRAN, Iran: As U.S. President George W. Bush declared a primary goal of his upcoming tour of the Middle East was to drum up support for further isolating Iran, the country's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyyid Ali Khamenei...
January 03, 2008
America's top lawman has announced the launch of a criminal investigation into the CIA's destruction of videotapes allegedly showing the violent interrogations of al-Qaeda suspects being held at a secret prison.
Attorney General Michael Mukasey has appointed a modern day 'Untouchable' to head up ...
December 29, 2007
White House accused of cover-up in torture tape outrage.
The President is playing dumb and denying everything, and White House lawyer Joseph Hunt assumed an aggrieved air and asserted that it was “inconceivable” that the missing Central Intelligence Agency interrogation video tapes could possi...
December 28, 2007
Return to Pakistan was a suicidal decision
Canadian writer Mark Steyn wrote on his blog today, ˇ°She was beautiful and charming and sophisticated and smart and modern, and everything we in the West would like a Muslim leader to be - though in practice, as Pakistan's Prime Minister, she was just...
December 23, 2007
This week a U.S. human rights group filed its second lawsuit against security contractor Blackwater on charges of war crimes, assault and wrongful death. The company, at the center of the infamous Nisoor Square shooting in Baghdad that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead, is further accused of killing an I...