Archive for 2011 – Week 46


The Bad in the Good and the Good in the Bad
Johan Galtung, 14 Nov 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service
November 14th, 2011 (EDITORIAL | 5 Comments »)
Europe – The Vicious Circle of Paying Debts With More Debts
Raul de Sagastizabal, PoliticaPress – Human Wrongs Watch
November 14th, 2011 (EUROPE | Comments Off on Europe – The Vicious Circle of Paying Debts With More Debts)
Can the BRICS Make a Difference At Busan? (Part 1)
Kanya D'Almeida – Inter Press Service-IPS
November 14th, 2011 (BRICS, ECONOMICS, COOPS-COOPERATION-SHARING | Comments Off on Can the BRICS Make a Difference At Busan? (Part 1))
Can the BRICS Make a Difference at Busan? (Part 2)
Kanya D'Almeida – Inter Press Service-IPS
November 14th, 2011 (BRICS | Comments Off on Can the BRICS Make a Difference at Busan? (Part 2))
Landgrabbing in Ethiopia: Legal Lease or Stolen Soil?
Philipp Hedemann – Inter Press Service-IPS
November 14th, 2011 (AFRICA | Comments Off on Landgrabbing in Ethiopia: Legal Lease or Stolen Soil?)
Nuclear Israel Revisited
Joseph Massad – Al Jazeera
November 14th, 2011 (WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION | 1 Comment »)
Black, Asian Teens Less Likely Than Whites to Abuse Drugs, Duke Study Concludes
Jay Price - McClatchy Newspapers
November 14th, 2011 (ANGLO AMERICA | Comments Off on Black, Asian Teens Less Likely Than Whites to Abuse Drugs, Duke Study Concludes)
The West’s Tragedy of Capital
Pepe Escobar – Al Jazeera
November 14th, 2011 (ANGLO AMERICA, EUROPE, ECONOMICS, CAPITALISM, TRADE, DEVELOPMENT | Comments Off on The West’s Tragedy of Capital)
Protest Planet
Juan Cole – TomDispatch
November 14th, 2011 (ACTIVISM | Comments Off on Protest Planet)
Two Occupations
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 14th, 2011 (ACTIVISM | Comments Off on Two Occupations)
Away With Objectivity
Ruben Luengas - Truthdig
November 14th, 2011 (TMS PEACE JOURNALISM | Comments Off on Away With Objectivity)
The Phantom Menace: Fantasies, Falsehoods, and Fear-Mongering about Iran’s Nuclear Program
Nima Shirazi – Wide Asleep in America
November 14th, 2011 (ANALYSIS | 1 Comment »)
A Vision of the Whole Human Race
Tarak Barkawi – Al Jazeera
November 14th, 2011 (ANALYSIS | 3 Comments »)
The CIA’s Unaccountable Drone War Claims another Casualty
Pratap Chatterjee – The Guardian
November 14th, 2011 (ANGLO AMERICA, MILITARISM, CENTRAL ASIA, JUSTICE | 1 Comment »)
Brazil Court Approves Building of Amazon Dam
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 14th, 2011 (ENVIRONMENT | Comments Off on Brazil Court Approves Building of Amazon Dam)
Criminalizing Diplomacy: Fanning the Flames of the Iran War Option
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 14th, 2011 (CURRENT AFFAIRS | 2 Comments »)
UN and Brazil Launch Initiative to Combat Hunger Among School Children
UN News Service – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 14th, 2011 (UNITED NATIONS | Comments Off on UN and Brazil Launch Initiative to Combat Hunger Among School Children)
US-Uganda: Award Honours Courageous Gay Rights Activist
Amanda Wilson – Inter Press Service-IPS
November 14th, 2011 (SEXUALITIES | Comments Off on US-Uganda: Award Honours Courageous Gay Rights Activist)
Rejecting Neoliberalism, Renewing the Utopian Imagination
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 14th, 2011 (TRANSCEND MEMBERS | Comments Off on Rejecting Neoliberalism, Renewing the Utopian Imagination)
The Globalization of Protest
Joseph E Stiglitz, Nobel Economics laureate – Project Syndicate
November 14th, 2011 (ACTIVISM | 1 Comment »)
World Bank Partners With Nestlé to ‘Transform Water Sector’
Corporate Accountability International – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 14th, 2011 (INDIGENOUS RIGHTS, SPECIAL FEATURE, JUSTICE, UNITED NATIONS, ECONOMICS, CAPITALISM, DEVELOPMENT, CIVIL SOCIETY | 1 Comment »)
Energy Markets or Energy Governance?
Javier Solana and Ángel Saz-Carranza – Project Syndicate
November 14th, 2011 (ENERGY, KUDANKULAM ANTI-NUCLEAR SATYAGRAHA, INDIA | Comments Off on Energy Markets or Energy Governance?)
‘J. Edgar’: Hoover’s Hubris Writ Large
Richard Schickel - Trughdig
November 14th, 2011 (ANGLO AMERICA | Comments Off on ‘J. Edgar’: Hoover’s Hubris Writ Large)
Preparing For Revolution
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 14th, 2011 (KUDANKULAM ANTI-NUCLEAR SATYAGRAHA, INDIA, POETRY FORMAT | 1 Comment »)
(Portuguese) Retirada dos EUA e Derrota no Iraque
Immanuel Wallerstein – Esquerda.net
November 14th, 2011 (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES | Comments Off on (Portuguese) Retirada dos EUA e Derrota no Iraque)
Less Healthcare, But Greece Is Still Buying Guns
Roxane McMeeken - The Independent
November 14th, 2011 (EUROPE | Comments Off on Less Healthcare, But Greece Is Still Buying Guns)
Mapping Paralysis and Tokenism in the Face of Potential Global Disaster
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 14th, 2011 (TRANSCEND MEMBERS | Comments Off on Mapping Paralysis and Tokenism in the Face of Potential Global Disaster)
Case Study: Haiti
Gender Action – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 14th, 2011 (LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN | Comments Off on Case Study: Haiti)
Lessons from Iceland (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Al Jazeera, Counting the Cost – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 14th, 2011 (Music Video of the Week | Comments Off on Lessons from Iceland (VIDEO OF THE WEEK))
Tar Sand Song
TMS Editor
November 14th, 2011 (SHORT VIDEO CLIPS | 1 Comment »)
The Devil in the Tar Sands
Jody Williams and Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace laureates – Project Syndicate
November 14th, 2011 (NOBEL LAUREATES | Comments Off on The Devil in the Tar Sands)
Stingy…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 14th, 2011 (JOKE OF THE WEEK | Comments Off on Stingy…)
Corporate Media Stumped on How to Cover the Occupy Movement
Russ Baker, WhoWhatWhy.com – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 14th, 2011 (MEDIA | Comments Off on Corporate Media Stumped on How to Cover the Occupy Movement)
(Castellano) No Me Pidan Neutralidad
Rubén Luengas – Latino California
November 14th, 2011 (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES | Comments Off on (Castellano) No Me Pidan Neutralidad)
Hacking Palestine: A Digital Occupation
Helga Tawil-Souri – Al Jazeera
November 14th, 2011 (PALESTINE - ISRAEL | 1 Comment »)
The Self-Attribution Fallacy
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 14th, 2011 (CURRENT AFFAIRS | Comments Off on The Self-Attribution Fallacy)
Yet Another Report Lambasts Shell Nigeria
Jerome Mwanda - InDepth News
November 14th, 2011 (AFRICA | Comments Off on Yet Another Report Lambasts Shell Nigeria)
(Portuguese) No Brasil, Executivos do Banco Panamericano São Banidos do Sistema Financeiro por até 20 Anos
Antonio Carlos Lacerda - Pravda
November 14th, 2011 (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES | Comments Off on (Portuguese) No Brasil, Executivos do Banco Panamericano São Banidos do Sistema Financeiro por até 20 Anos)
Alarming Rise in Mercenary Activities Calls for Attention
UN Human Rights Council – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 14th, 2011 (UNITED NATIONS | Comments Off on Alarming Rise in Mercenary Activities Calls for Attention)
A Call against Arms
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 14th, 2011 (IN-DEPTH VIDEOS | Comments Off on A Call against Arms)
How Goldman Sacked Greece
Greg Palast for In These Times – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 14th, 2011 (EUROPE | 1 Comment »)
Mengele in America
Donna Dickenson – Project Syndicate
November 14th, 2011 (IN FOCUS | Comments Off on Mengele in America)
U.S.: Frustrated with Big Banks, More Turn to Cooperatives
Elizabeth Whitman – Inter Press Service-IPS
November 14th, 2011 (ANGLO AMERICA, ECONOMICS, CAPITALISM, COOPS-COOPERATION-SHARING | Comments Off on U.S.: Frustrated with Big Banks, More Turn to Cooperatives)
US Researchers And Pharmaceutical Companies Conducting Human Experimentation in Africa
Farid Zakaria, PBFC – TRANSCEND Media Service
November 14th, 2011 (IN FOCUS | 3 Comments »)
Difference between a Jew and a Zionist
TMS Editor
November 14th, 2011 (SHORT VIDEO CLIPS | 3 Comments »)
And the Big Time Banksters Come Marching In
Robert Wenzel – Economic Policy Journal
November 14th, 2011 (NEWS | Comments Off on And the Big Time Banksters Come Marching In)
Brazilian Winds Fuel Green Job Creation
Alice Marcondes, Tierramérica – Inter Press Service-IPS
November 14th, 2011 (BRICS | Comments Off on Brazilian Winds Fuel Green Job Creation)
You Can’t Bank On Free Speech
Kristinn Hrafnsson – Al Jazeera
November 14th, 2011 (CURRENT AFFAIRS | 1 Comment »)
Corzine’s Downfall
Nick Paumgarten – The New Yorker
November 14th, 2011 (CAPITALISM | Comments Off on Corzine’s Downfall)