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POLITICS OF THE EARTHQUAKE: RESPECT THE PEOPLE OF HAITI
Robert Roth - Haiti Action Committee,
18 Jan 2010
In June of 2004, I went to Haiti with two other members of the Haiti Action Committee. We were there to investigate the effects of the political earthquake in which the democratically elected government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide had been overthrown by a coup orchestrated by the United States, France and Canada. What we saw […]
→ read full articleSTATEMENT BY DR JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE, FORMER PRESIDENT OF HAITI
TMS Editor,
17 Jan 2010
15 January 2010 We thank all the true friends of Haiti, in particular the Government and the people of South Africa for their solidarity with the victims of Haiti. The concrete action undertaken by Rescue South Africa and Gift of the Givers is a clear expression of ubuntu. Ubuntu ngumuntu ngabantu. As we all know, […]
→ read full articleDR. MUSTAFA BARGHOUTHI NOMINATED FOR THE 2010 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
TMS Editor (Press Release, Jan 15 2010),
17 Jan 2010
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate and co-founder of Peace People (Northern Ireland) today announced her nomination of Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.In her letter to Nobel Committee, Maguire states: “I have pleasure in nominating Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. I am inspired by the life and work […]
→ read full articleCOMPLETE COVERAGE OF THE EARTHQUAKE AND OF HAITI (DATING BACK TO 1996)
Democracy NOW!,
17 Jan 2010
Sunday Jan 17 2010 – Special Update: Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! Arrive in Haiti.Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Elizabeth Press from Democracy NOW! have just arrived in Port-Au-Prince to report on the relief effort in Haiti. CLICK TO VIEW complete coverage and background information.
→ read full articleMORAL BANKRUPTCY: WHY ARE WE LETTING WALL STREET OFF SO EASY?
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Economics Nobel Laureate – Mother Jones, Jan/Feb 2010 Issue,
17 Jan 2010
IT IS SAID THAT A NEAR-DEATH experience forces one to reevaluate priorities and values. The global economy has just escaped a near-death experience. The crisis exposed the flaws in the prevailing economic model, but it also exposed flaws in our society. Much has been written about the foolishness of the risks that the financial sector […]
→ read full articleWE’VE IGNORED KING ON WAR
Rusty Nelson – The Spokesman-Review,
17 Jan 2010
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday [Jan 18 2010], hundreds of people will gather, greet friends, hear inspiring words, walk Spokane streets together and promote racial and community harmony. It’s a genuine community event, but some of us experience it more personally because our lives, faith perspectives and worldviews were transformed by the life […]
→ read full articleFROM COUP-LITE TO TRUTH-LITE: 10 WAYS THE U.S. FOUGHT DEMOCRACY IN HONDURAS
Andrés Thomas Conteris – Truthdig,
16 Jan 2010
Andrés Thomas Conteris, reporting from within the besieged embassy where ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has taken shelter, outlines 10 ways the United States has supported the coup and undermined democracy in Honduras.In his essay “Top Ten Ways You Can Tell Which Side the United States Government Is On With Regard to the Military Coup […]
→ read full articleALLOW ARISTIDE TO RETURN TO HAITI NOW
Submitted by Marilyn Langlois – Haiti Information Project,
16 Jan 2010
Haiti Information Project editorial by Kevin PinaHaiti is facing one of its most severe challenges after a large earthquake rocked the capital yesterday destroying most government buildings and killing possibly thousands. Now more than ever the people of Haiti need hope for the future and as Haiti’s ambassador to Washington Raymond Joseph said yesterday on […]
→ read full articleGM CORN CAUSES PROBLEMS IN RATS?
Marion Nestle - Food Politics,
16 Jan 2010
The research is out … if you can understand it.French investigators have published a reinterpretation of some feeding studies in small samples of rats. The studies were done originally by Monsanto to test three varieties of the company’s genetically modified corn. These investigators obtained the data from the feeding trials as the result of a […]
→ read full articleTHE MILITARIZATION OF EMERGENCY AID TO HAITI: IS IT A HUMANITARIAN OPERATION OR AN INVASION?
Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
16 Jan 2010
Haiti has a longstanding history of US military intervention and occupation going back to the beginning of the 20th Century. US interventionism has contributed to the destruction of Haiti’s national economy and the impoverishment of its population. The devastating earthquake is presented to World public opinion as the sole cause of the country’s predicament. A […]
→ read full articleJOHN DARA: NIGERIA’S OBAMA?
Rev. Olufemi Oluniyi, Ph.D.,
16 Jan 2010
The Peoples Democratic Party, Nigeria’s ruling party, since the transition from military dictatorship to civilian manipulation, which prides itself as the largest party in Africa boasted on 1 October 2009, the 49th independence day anniversary, that the party will rule Nigeria uninterrupted for the next 60 years. That boast was three months ago. Since then, […]
→ read full articleBLOOD DIAMONDS IN ZIMBABWE: CORRUPTION IS FOREVER
Dikson M. – The New Internationalist,
14 Jan 2010
The last time I was in Zimbabwe I had an encounter with a local arts and crafts vendor who has a stall in one of Harare’s bustling flea markets. On this occasion he seemed disinterested in flaunting his archetypal Zimbabwean sculptures of mothers cradling their young or the clichéd soapstone wildlife roaming his rickety tabletop. […]
→ read full articlePARECON & PARTICIPATORY SOCIETY
Matt Grinder, interviewing Michael Albert - ZNet,
14 Jan 2010
In this interview, Michael Albert, one of the originators of Participatory Economics (along with Robin Hahnel), is interviewed by parecon advocate Matt Grinder. Matt Grinder: Could you briefly summarize Participatory Economics, or parecon? Michael Albert: Participatory Economics, or parecon for short, is a vision for how to conduct economics in a classless manner. It delivers to […]
→ read full articleHOLDING CORPORATIONS ACCOUNTABLE FOR APARTHEID CRIMES
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
14 Jan 2010
A landmark class action case is under way in a New York federal court, with victims of apartheid in South Africa suing corporations that they say helped the pre-1994 regime. Among the multinational corporations are IBM, Fujitsu, Ford, GM and banking giants UBS and Barclays. The lawsuit accuses the corporations of "knowing participation in and/or […]
→ read full articleWERE AFGHAN CHILDREN EXECUTED BY US-LED FORCES? AND WHY AREN’T THE MEDIA INTERESTED?
David Cromwell – Znet,
14 Jan 2010
Ignoring or downplaying Western crimes is a standard feature of the corporate Western media. On rare occasions when a broadcaster or newspaper breaks ranks and reports ‘our’ crimes honestly, it is instructive to observe the response from the rest of the media. Do they follow suit, perhaps digging deeper for details, devoting space to profiles […]
→ read full articleWHAT THE MUSLIM WORLD CAN TEACH US ABOUT NONVIOLENCE
Randall Amster - ZNet,
14 Jan 2010
It might be a bad dream but it feels real enough. The mantle of warfare slips seamlessly from one president to another, from one party to another, from one decade to another, from one generation to another. The impetus of national aggression transcends race, creed, socio-economic status, age, and geography. Our collective sin is the […]
→ read full articleMOTHER OF SALVATION: SOURCE OF COURAGE
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D.,
14 Jan 2010
If there is one common element among all human beings, it would be this. They all want to be saved when confronted with danger of any kind. To save their beloved ones from danger, most humans would be ready to risk their lives. Throughout history, we find great religious figures from Buddha down to Jesus […]
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NAOMI KLEIN ON DISASTER CAPITALISM IN HAITI
Amy Goodman & Naomi Klein – Democracy NOW!,
14 Jan 2010
Thursday, January 14, 2010Journalist and author Naomi Klein spoke in New York last night and addressed the crisis in Haiti: “We have to be absolutely clear that this tragedy—which is part natural, part unnatural—must, under no circumstances, be used to, one, further indebt Haiti and, two, to push through unpopular corporatist policies in the interest […]
→ read full articleBEHIND MASS DIE-OFFS, PESTICIDES LURK AS CULPRIT
Sonia Shah – Yale Environment 360,
12 Jan 2010
In the past dozen years, three new diseases have decimated populations of amphibians, honeybees, and — most recently — bats. Increasingly, scientists suspect that low-level exposure to pesticides could be contributing to this rash of epidemics.Ever since Olga Owen Huckins shared the spectacle of a yard full of dead, DDT-poisoned birds with her friend Rachel […]
→ read full articleOVERCOMING THE COPENHAGEN FAILURE
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Prize Laureate economist,
12 Jan 2010
Pretty speeches can take you only so far. A month after the Copenhagen climate conference, it is clear that the world’s leaders were unable to translate rhetoric about global warming into action.It was, of course, nice that world leaders could agree that it would be bad to risk the devastation that could be wrought by […]
→ read full articleHONDURAS AND A DIVIDED LATIN AMERICA
Amb. Robert E. White – Americas Program, Center for International Policy,
12 Jan 2010
Despite many credible reports of violent crackdowns against supporters of ousted president, Mel Zelaya, the de facto government of Honduras has managed to hold presidential elections that came off better than most observers had expected. The easy victor was the conservative Nationalist Party candidate, Porfirio Lobo. The United States quickly recognized the election results. Yet, […]
→ read full article(SPANISH) HONDURAS Y UNA AMÉRICA LATINA DIVIDIDA
Embajador Robert E. White - Programa de las Américas, Centro de Política Internacional,
12 Jan 2010
A pesar de reportes creíbles de las campañas violentas contra los que apoyan al expulsado presidente, Mel Zelaya, el gobierno de facto de Honduras ha logrado reclamar elecciones presidenciales que salieron mejor de lo que la mayoría de los observadores habían previsto. El vencedor fácil fue el candidato conservador del Partido Nacionalista, Porfirio Lobo. Estados […]
→ read full articleACTIVISTS WORRIED ABOUT “SECRET” INTERNET TREATY
Emilio Godoy – Inter Press Service,
12 Jan 2010
MEXICO CITY, Jan 12 , 2010 (IPS) – An international treaty to combat copyright infringement and piracy, being negotiated by Mexico and other countries, could curtail expansion of the internet, violate people’s rights to privacy and freedom of expression, and undermine multilateral accords on intellectual property, activists warn. Canada, the European Union, Japan, Switzerland and […]
→ read full articleLOSING THE INTERNET AS WE KNOW IT
Megan Tady – The Huffington Post,
12 Jan 2010
How much have you already used the Internet today?We don’t think twice about how much we rely on the Internet. Imagine not being able to map directions on Google or check the weather online. A business that doesn’t have a Web site? Forgettable. Or rather, unsearchable. Remember when we didn’t have e-mail? Would you want […]
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YOU NEVER EXPLAIN WHY THEY WANT TO DO US HARM! WHAT’S THEIR MOTIVATION?
C-SPAN (MoxNews),
12 Jan 2010
White House press corps journalist Helen Thomas asks the fundamental Peace Journalism question: Why? And nobody answers. 1:52-Min. VideoCLICK TO VIEW YOUTUBE VIDEO C-SPAN (MOXNEWS)
→ read full articleTHE HOLOCAUST WE WILL NOT SEE
George Monbiot - The Guardian,
12 Jan 2010
Avatar half-tells a story we would all prefer to forget.Avatar, James Cameron’s blockbusting 3-D film, is both profoundly silly and profound. It’s profound because, like most films about aliens, it is a metaphor for contact between different human cultures. But in this case the metaphor is conscious and precise: this is the story of European […]
→ read full articleTHE US AS A GREAT WARRIOR TRIBE
Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera's senior political analyst,
12 Jan 2010
According to tribal Yemeni tradition, if a dispute has been resolved peacefully, any dagger that has been drawn cannot go back into its scabbard unless it tastes blood. Traditionally, an animal is slaughtered to satisfy its thirst and restore its holder’s honour. Since the Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union and […]
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GITMO GUARD REUNITES WITH FREED INMATES SO HE CAN APOLOGIZE
BBC (MoxNews),
12 Jan 2010
Former Guantanamo Bay prison guard travelled to England to meet ex-Gitmo detainees Ruhal Ahmed and Shafiq Rasul to express remorse for his part in their two and a half years imprisonment. 3:47-Min. VideoCLICK TO VIEW YOUTUBE VIDEO – BBC (MOXNEWS)
→ read full articleEGYPT’S SHAMEFUL BAN ON FREEDOM MARCHERS
Laura Durkay, from Cairo,
12 Jan 2010
The efforts of the Gaza Freedom Marchers to show their solidarity with Palestine—and the crackdown by Egyptian authorities.IN THE last week of 2009, 1,360 activists from 43 countries converged on Cairo for the Gaza Freedom March. We intended to enter Gaza through the Rafah crossing, controlled by Egypt, for a display of mass international solidarity […]
→ read full articleA PATH FOR PEACE IN SOUTH ASIA
Zia Mian – Foreign Policy in Focus,
12 Jan 2010
It has been a grim start to the New Year and the new decade in South Asia. Vested interests, hardened obsessions, and old habits continue to push India and Pakistan in the direction of ruinous conflict. While military planners in both countries plan and prepare for the next war, politicians and diplomats remain determined not […]
→ read full articleYEMEN ‘CANNOT CONTAIN AL-QA’IDA’
Donald Macintyre – The Independent,
12 Jan 2010
The author ventures into the new stronghold of extremism – and finds out why the battle against terror is failing.The governor of a key province in the front line of Yemen’s struggle against al- Qa’ida has admitted that the government’s control in his area is "not strong", and says that no extra troops have been […]
→ read full articleMY CRAZY TRIP TO A GOLDMAN SACHS EXECUTIVE’S BRAZILIAN SLAVE PLANTATION, OR WHY WE NEED A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR
Mike Elk – Truthout,
12 Jan 2010
I have made friends with a lot of people in my life. But as working-class kid from Pittsburgh, perhaps my most unusual friendship was with a Goldman Sachs executive, Pedro Henrique Fragoso Pires Garcia.Typically in Brazil, people abbreviate their names, but Pedro used his full name. including his mother’s maiden name, Fragoso Pires, to signal […]
→ read full articleTRANSITIONS BETWEEN ECONOMIC SYSTEMS
Rick Wolff – Monthly Review,
12 Jan 2010
The transition out of feudalism to capitalism in Europe, mostly from the 17th to the 19th centuries, took multiple forms. It was uneven as well, happening in different ways at different rates in different places. Marx studied that transition’s various dimensions because they offered valuable lessons for the different transition he was interested in: out […]
→ read full articleTERROR IS THE PRICE OF SUPPORT FOR DESPOTS AND DICTATORS
Seumas Milne – The Guardian,
12 Jan 2010
Egypt’s complicity in Gaza’s siege underlines the role of western support for such regimes in the spread of war. If an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor had gone on hunger strike in support of a besieged people in another part of the world, and hundreds of mostly western protesters had been stoned and beaten by police, you […]
→ read full articleNEVER MIND THE FACTS, LET’S HAVE A WAR…
Finian Cunningham – Global Research,
12 Jan 2010
A missile test-fired by Iran last week was reported on the BBC World Service as being “capable of striking Israel”. The choice of words was not unusual. On previous occasions when Iran has test-fired a long-range rocket, the BBC and other western news media dutifully inform us that the said device is “capable of striking Israel”. […]
→ read full articleAFRICOM – LATEST U.S. BID TO RECOLONISE THE CONTINENT
Tichaona Nhamoyebonde – Global Research,
11 Jan 2010
African revolutionaries now have to sleep with one eye open because the United States of America is not stopping at anything in its bid to establish Africom, a highly-equipped US army that will be permanently resident in Africa to oversee the country’s imperialist interests. Towards the end of last year, the US government intensified its […]
→ read full articleTHE ‘FALSE’ PANDEMIC: DRUG FIRMS CASHED IN ON SCARE OVER SWINE FLU, CLAIMS EURO HEALTH CHIEF
Fiona Macrae - MailOnline,
11 Jan 2010
The swine flu outbreak was a ‘false pandemic’ driven by drug companies that stood to make billions of pounds from a worldwide scare, a leading health expert has claimed. Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, accused the makers of flu drugs and vaccines of influencing the World Health Organisation’s decision to […]
→ read full articleTHE AMERICAN “ELITE”
William Blum - Dissident Voice,
11 Jan 2010
The Anti-Empire Report Lincoln Gordon died a few weeks ago at the age of 96. He had graduated summa cum laude from Harvard at the age of 19, received a doctorate from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, published his first book at 22, with dozens more to follow on government, economics, and foreign policy in […]
→ read full articleSUICIDE CLAIMS MORE US MILITARY LIVES THAN AFGHAN WAR
James Cogan – Global Research,
11 Jan 2010
American military personnel are continuing to take their own lives in unprecedented numbers, as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq wars drag on. By late November, at least 334 members of the armed forces had committed suicide in 2009, more than the 319 who were killed in Afghanistan or the 150 who died in Iraq. […]
→ read full articleWELCOME TO ORWELL’S WORLD
John Pilger – The New Statesman,
11 Jan 2010
Barack Obama’s deceptions over the Afghanistan war should remind people of the lessons of George Orwell’s 1984.IN 1984, George Orwell described a superstate, Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that "passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’" […]
→ read full articleSCAPEGOATS AND SCAREMONGERS
Alan Maass – Socialist Worker,
11 Jan 2010
The deceptions and hidden motives in the government and media response to the plot to set off a bomb on a plane bound for Detroit.HE ATTEMPT by a 23-year-old Nigerian man to explode a bomb on a Detroit-bound airplane has become the excuse for a return to some of the worst "war on terror" hysteria […]
→ read full articleA DESTRUCTIVE CULINARY PREFERENCE
Mark Hand – Dissident Voice,
11 Jan 2010
When will humans stop eating factory-farmed nonhuman animals? They won’t—unless something happens to curtail the supply of nonhuman animal meat produced by the factory farm system. Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer, (Little, Brown and Company, 2009). If you’re waiting for governments to pass laws or issue new rules forcing corporations to shut down their […]
→ read full articleMEDIA BATTLES IN LATIN AMERICA NOT ABOUT “FREE SPEECH”
Mark Weisbrot - The Guardian,
10 Jan 2010
For at least a month now in Ecuador there has been a battle over regulation of the media. It has been in the front pages of the newspapers most of the time, and a leading daily, El Comercio, referred to the fight as one for “defense of human rights and the free practice of journalism.” […]
→ read full articleANSWERING HELEN THOMAS ON WHY
Ray McGovern - Consortiumnews,
10 Jan 2010
Thank God for Helen Thomas, the only person to show any courage at the White House press briefing after President Barack Obama gave a flaccid account of the intelligence screw-up that almost downed an airliner on Christmas Day.After Obama briefly addressed L’Affaire Abdulmutallab and wrote “must do better” on the report cards of the national […]
→ read full articleTHE FUTURE TAMIL POLITICS
Balasundaram Nirmanusan,
10 Jan 2010
Eelam War IV shattered and devastated Tamils social, economical, cultural and political structural factors. These four structural factors were corner stone’s of the Tamil National Struggle and were intricately interconnected to each other. These became primary targets during the war and were destroyed. To give this research paper a focus and due to contextual developments […]
→ read full articlePROPOSED AMNESTY SERVES TO WHITEWASH HONDURAN COUP
Mark Weisbrot – The Center for Ecomomic and Policy Research,
10 Jan 2010
Vote expected next week to absolve Honduran Military of crimes, even as murders continue.The international community should offer no support for planned amnesty for the perpetrators of the Honduran coup, Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, said today. Noting that both ousted President Manuel Zelaya and coup leaders previously agreed […]
→ read full articleVIVA PALESTINA CONVOY ON DEMOCRACY NOW! – 7 Jan 2010: Report on the Convoy and Interview With George Galloway. (More videos in the Video Section of TMS).
TMS Editor,
9 Jan 2010
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→ read full article(FRENCH) LE NIGÉRIEN À LA BOMBINETTE
Mireille Delamarre – Institut Hoggar, Genève,
9 Jan 2010
Une Operation Sous Faux Pavillon Pour Une Nouvelle Guerre D’agression Us… Au Yemen?Des similitudes avec le cas Reid des inconsistances dans cette affaire remettent en cause la version officielle simpliste colportée par les médias serviles. Obama a besoin de justifier sa prochaine guerre… au Yémen. Cette opération sous faux pavillon tomberait donc à pic. Explications […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) FÓRUM SOCIAL MUNDIAL, DÉCIMA EDIÇÃO
Breno Altman - Brasill de Fato,
9 Jan 2010
Os milhares de ativistas que se reunirão, no final desse mês, terão várias razões para comemorar seu feito. Mas também estarão diante do fracasso.Os milhares de ativistas que se reunirão em Porto Alegre, no final desse mês, terão várias razões para comemorar seu feito. Mas também estarão diante do fracasso de um dos conceitos estratégicos […]
→ read full article(SPANISH) HONDURAS: ORDEN DE CAPTURA A GENERALES GOLPISTAS JAJAJA
Roberto Quesada - Escritor y diplomático hondureño,
9 Jan 2010
”Nadie resulta inocente cuando su adversario es el Juez”: Lucano. El de Honduras ha sido un golpe de Estado militar y golpe de las mentiras. Cada vez que alguien del Departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos visita Tegucigalpa, inmediatamente sale una falsa esperanza, antes para revertir el golpe de Estado militar y ahora para […]
→ read full articleCANCER – THE DEADLY LEGACY OF THE INVASION OF IRAQ
Jalal Ghazi - New America Media,
9 Jan 2010
This is too terrible even to imagine. And the US is continuing to use depleted uranium. If Americans were allowed to see these deformed babies, Iraqi and American, even their pictures and articles in the newspapers and newsmagazines and on TV, could they continue to support war? I don’t think so. It is unconscionable, barbaric. […]
→ read full articleTHE YEMEN HIDDEN AGENDA: BEHIND THE AL-QAEDA SCENARIOS, A STRATEGIC OIL TRANSIT CHOKEPOINT
F. William Engdahl – Global Research,
9 Jan 2010
On December 25 US authorities arrested a Nigerian named Abdulmutallab aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on charges of having tried to blow up the plane with smuggled explosives. Since then reports have been broadcast from CNN, the New York Times and other sources that he was "suspected" of having been trained […]
→ read full articleU.S. KICKS HORNET’S NEST IN YEMEN
Eric Margolis – Toronto Sun,
9 Jan 2010
Failed attack on Detroit-bound plane was retaliation for American military ops in the Arabian country, sources say.Welcome to the Afghanistan of Arabia. Yemen, the likely source of the failed Christmas Day airliner bombing at Detroit, has just rudely intruded into the west’s awareness. Sources there claim the attack by a young Nigerian was retaliation for […]
→ read full articleYEMEN, THE JOKE IS ON YOU …
Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera's senior political analyst,
9 Jan 2010
By offering military support the West might prolong an autocratic regime.Marginalised by regional developments and intimidated by Washington’s Cold War and Gulf War victories, two Yemenis – so goes the joke – wondered if their country should declare war on the US, force it to occupy Yemen and care for it. "But what if we […]
→ read full articleFROM ANTI-WAR AGENDA TO PEACE INITIATIVES
Mutsuko Murakami - TerraViva Europe,
9 Jan 2010
Mutsuko Murakami interviews IKURO ANZAI, honorary director of the Kyoto Museum for World Peace.Of approximately 170 peace museums that exist around the world, one third are found in Japan. The Kyoto Museum for World Peace at Ritsumeikan University, located in Kyoto, is the only one in Japan housed in a higher educational institution. It captures […]
→ read full articleREBUTTAL TO THE ARTICLE, ‘OBAMA PRESSES REVIEW OF NUCLEAR STRATEGY’
Joseph Gerson – American Friends Service Committee,
9 Jan 2010
The Boston Globe ran a major article in yesterday’s [3 Jan 2009] Sunday paper under the title "Obama presses review of nuclear strategy." It focuses more on the possible removal of the bomber leg of the nuclear "triad" and possible reductions in land based ICBMs. As the following letter to the editor indicates, I thought […]
→ read full articleTHE QUESTION NO U.S. OFFICIAL DARE ASK
William Pfaff - Truthdig,
9 Jan 2010
It could be, as they say in the bureaucracies, “a career destroyer” to ask whether it has been a terrible error for the United States to have built a system of more than 700 military bases and stations girdling the world.It is time to ask a question that virtually no one in an official or […]
→ read full articleCAN YOU STOMACH THIS?: “IF SLAUGHTERHOUSES HAD GLASS WALLS EVEYONE WOULD BE VEGETARIAN” – Narrated by Sir Paul McCartney. PETA Video
TMS Editor,
9 Jan 2010
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→ read full articleMAN WHO DEFIED BOTH A-BOMBS DIES AGED 93
David McNeill in Tokyo,
9 Jan 2010
The only man to experience nuclear bombardment twice and live to tell the tale became an eloquent voice for peace.Reporters never knew whether to call Tsutomu Yamaguchi the luckiest or unluckiest man alive. In 1945, the Nagasaki native was exposed to both nuclear blasts that incinerated his home city and Hiroshima. Last year the Japanese […]
→ read full articleTAKING STOCK OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS 2009
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Ph.D.,
9 Jan 2010
The year 2009 will be remembered as one of the most difficult years in the annals of international politics. Though the actions and reactions of national and international players in this year is yet to be assessed fully, nonetheless the year long forays in international politics have not evoked much hope in the world. However, […]
→ read full articleWHO WOULD BENEFIT POLITICALLY FROM A TERRORIST INCIDENT ON AMERICAN SOIL? THE STRANGE CASE OF UMAR FAROUK ABDULMUTALLAB
Tom Burghardt - Global Research,
9 Jan 2010
Despite some $40 billion dollars spent by the American people on airline security since 2001, allegedly to thwart attacks on the Heimat, the botched attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to bring down Northwest Airlines Flight 253 over Detroit on Christmas Day was foiled, not by a bloated counterterrorist bureaucracy, but by the passengers themselves. Talk […]
→ read full articleAN AMERICAN WORLD OF WAR – THE YEAR OF THE ASSASSIN
Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse - TomDispatch,
9 Jan 2010
What to Watch for in 2010 According to the Chinese calendar, 2010 is the Year of the Tiger. We don’t name our years, but if we did, this one might prospectively be called the Year of the Assassin.We, of course, think of ourselves as something like the peaceable kingdom. After all, the shock of September […]
→ read full articleBOLIVIA LEADER CALLS ALTERNATIVE CLIMATE MEETING
AP – New York Times,
9 Jan 2010
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian President Evo Morales said Tuesday [5 Jan 2010] he’s inviting activists, scientists and government officials from around the world to an alternative climate conference following the failure of a summit in Copenhagen to produce binding agreements. The leftist leader said the April 20-22 meeting in Cochabamba will include indigenous […]
→ read full articleDENMARK, NOT CHINA SHOULD BE BLAMED FOR FAILURE OF COPENHAGEN CONFERENCE
Xinhua - Global Times,
9 Jan 2010
It was Denmark, not China which "hijacked" the Copenhagen climate change conference last month and caused its failure, said a recent article from the Guardian website.In an article entitled "Blame Denmark, not China, for Copenhagen failure" published on the Guardian website on Dec. 28, Martin Khor, executive director of the South Center, an inter-governmental organization […]
→ read full articleA BRAVE NEW WORLD?
Andy Yee - Open Democracy,
8 Jan 2010
Is there a good response to China’s ‘resilient capitalist authoritarianism’? The world is heading towards the second scenario envisaged by Francis Fukuyama in his afterword to The End of History and the Last Man: a combination of capitalism and authoritarianism, driven by China’s brand of ‘resilient authoritarianism’. Conducted in a spirit of ‘if you can’t […]
→ read full articleLIVING IN A WORLD OF MAKE-BELIEVE: THE MYTHMAKERS OF THE GLOBALISING AGE
Gerry Hassan – Open Democracy,
8 Jan 2010
Despite the failings of the neo-liberal model, the media still uses its advocates in City institutions, financial bodies and agencies associated with them to explain and analyse the crisis.Thirty years ago in another economic and political age the Glasgow University Media Group analysed the biases of current TV news in a series of seminal reports […]
→ read full article12 INNOVATIONS THAT COULD SAVE US
Sarah van Gelder - YES! Magazine,
8 Jan 2010
With climate disruption, war, and a faltering economy, that was a tough decade. Still, seeds were sown for a more green and egalitarian 2010s.In my last column, I listed nine crises of the ‘00s. But something else happened during the first decade of the millennium. People around the world turned away from ways of life […]
→ read full articleREMEMBERING A FREEDOM FIGHTER
Lee Sustar and Aisha Karim - Socialist Worker,
8 Jan 2010
The authors, who edited Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader, describe the contribution of a great poet and political activist.AFTER ALL the wonderful tributes to South African activist and poet Dennis Brutus following his death December 26, another may seem superfluous. But having spent considerable time interviewing Dennis and researching his life and work, […]
→ read full articleJUST WAR? OR JUST WAR…
Mumia Abu-Jamal,
3 Jan 2010
Politics, it is said, makes strange bedfellows — but the Nobel Peace Prize may make even stranger ones. There has been considerable commentary over the award to President Barack Obama, and whether or not it was deserved. His speech upon receipt of the honor was not about peace, but about war — or, to be precise "just […]
→ read full articleREVIEW OF NEWSPEAK IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Joe Emersberger - Medialens,
3 Jan 2010
Medialens is a UK based website founded by David Edwards and David Cromwell that critiques media that progressives are inclined to respect such as the Guardian, the Independent and the BBC. Since 2001, it has compiled enough evidence to convince all but the most blinkered that the so called liberal media is incapable of producing […]
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Authors Many, 2 Jan 2010,
3 Jan 2010
Gaza Freedom Marchers issue the "Cairo Declaration" to end Israeli ApartheidContact: Ziyaad Lunat – 0191181340 (Egypt) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary 1, 2010 (Cairo) — Gaza Freedom Marchers approved today a declaration aimed at accelerating the global campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli Apartheid. Roughly 1400 activists from 43 countries converged in Cairo on their […]
→ read full articleGAZA FREEDOM MARCH: WHAT WE’VE ACCOMPLISHED SO FAR
Robert Naiman - Sun, 3 Jan 2010,
3 Jan 2010
CAIRO, Egypt – Some of us reached Gaza and particpated in the Gaza Freedom March as planned. All of us significantly raised the profile of dissent – particularly, American dissent – against the blockade of the people of Gaza imposed by Israel and Egypt, with the backing of the United States and the acquiescence of […]
→ read full articleAMERICA IN TRUE PERSPECTIVE
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D.,
3 Jan 2010
There has never been a country in the history of the world that has occupied the minds of so many nations as the United States. A person is best judged not by the looks, outfit, wealth and power but rather by the character and personality. These two elements are generally viewed as sources of credibility […]
→ read full articleLOCKED IN: LIFE IN GAZA (PART 2) – An insight into an ordinary Gazan man struggling to make a living and to find a solution for his family in the difficulties of the Gaza Strip.
TMS Editor,
3 Jan 2010
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→ read full articleFANNING THE FLAMES OF FREEDOM FROM CAIRO TO GAZA AND BEYOND
Emily Ratner,
3 Jan 2010
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class–it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of freedom. –Anna Julia Cooper, page 27, my US passport. The Gaza Freedom March announced the Cairo Declaration to End Israeli Apartheid on January 1st, and so yesterday […]
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Tom Fawthrop - Aljazeera,
2 Jan 2010
In 2010, Cuba marks the 51st anniversary of the revolution that transformed the Caribbean nation from a sleazy centre of casinos run by US gangsters, to the only outpost of socialism in the Americas – defying US superpower only 90 miles from the shores of Florida. That Cuba’s defiant brand of socialism has survived so […]
→ read full articleTHE ‘COALITION OF THE WILLING’ IN IRAQ BECOMES AN ARMY OF ONE
Hannah Allam - McClatchy Newspapers,
2 Jan 2010
The British said cheerio back in July, around the same time the Romanians cleared out "Camp Dracula," their compound on a U.S. base in southern Iraq. Tonga and Kazakhstan left ages ago, and no one seems to remember if any Icelandic forces ever made it to Iraq. It doesn’t matter now, anyway, because as of […]
→ read full articleEGYPTIAN SECURITY FORCES ATTACK GAZA PROTESTERS
Max Ajl - Gaza Freedom March organizer,
1 Jan 2010
Cairo, Egypt, 31 Dec 2009 – Egyptian security forces were attacking protesters in Tahrir Square, at the core of downtown Cairo, after they sat down in the middle of a busy Cairo street, protesting the imprisonment of the people of Gaza. Others were literally barricaded inside their hotel, the entrance surrounded by steel riot barriers. […]
→ read full articleAN APPEAL FOR THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT TO OPEN THE RAFAH CROSSING ALLOWING HUMANITARIAN AID INTO GAZA
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate,
31 Dec 2009
On Thursday, 3lst December 2009, people of Gaza remembered the beginning of the Operation Cast Lead massacre upon them, by the Israeli military, when 1,400 people in Gaza were killed and some 5,000 were injured during the 22-day assault. These crimes against humanity and war crimes perpetrated by the Israeli government are not only remembered […]
→ read full articleFILM REVIEW: AVATAR, A HUMANIST CALL FROM MT. HOLLYWOOD
Gilad Atzmon,
31 Dec 2009
Avatar may well be the biggest anti War film of all time. It stands against everything the West is identified with. It is against greed and capitalism, it is against interventionalism, it is against colonialism and imperialism, it is against technological orientation, it is against America and Britain. It puts Wolfowitz, Blair and Bush on […]
→ read full articleALBA DECLARATION ON COPENHAGEN CLIMATE SUMMIT
Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – ALBA,
31 Dec 2009
The following is the statement issued by the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) on 18 December in response to the results of the UN Copenhagen Climate Summit. We, the countries that make up ALBA, denounce before the world the threat that the results of the United Nations Conference in Copenhagen pose for […]
→ read full articleTHE POETIC JUSTICE OF DENNIS BRUTUS
Amy Goodman – Democracy Now!,
30 Dec 2009
Dennis Brutus broke rocks next to Nelson Mandela when they were imprisoned together on notorious Robben Island. His crime, like Mandela’s, was fighting the injustice of racism, challenging South Africa’s apartheid regime. Brutus’ weapons were his words: soaring, searing, poetic. He was banned, he was censored, he was shot. But this poet’s commitment and activism, […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) O LEGADO DE 1989 NOS DOIS HEMISFÉRIOS
Noam Chomsky,
29 Dec 2009
O contraste entre a libertação dos satélites da União Soviética e o esmagamento da esperança nos estados clientes dos EUA é impressionante e instrutivo – ainda mais quando ampliamos a perspectiva. Novembro marcou o aniversário de grandes eventos em 1989: «o maior ano da história do mundo desde 1945», como o historiador britânico Timothy Garton […]
→ read full articleWHY DO WE CELEBRATE NEW YEAR?
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, PhD – Univ. of Mumbai,
29 Dec 2009
Why do we celebrate New Year? When the year approaches its end we start preparing ourselves for celebrations to bid farewell to passing year and to welcome New Year. We do it in our own ways but anyhow we do it. My point is besides the customary repetition of pomp every year in welcoming New […]
→ read full articleTHE LEGACY OF 1989, IN TWO HEMISPHERES
Noam Chomsky,
29 Dec 2009
The contrast between the liberation of Soviet satellites and the crushing of hope in U.S. client states is striking and instructive.November marked the anniversary of major events in 1989: “the biggest year in world history since 1945,” as British historian Timothy Garton Ash describes it. That year “changed everything,” Garton Ash writes. Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms […]
→ read full articlePeace Education Video by European Peace University Grad Students
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2009
An experimental peace education video created by EPU (European Peace University) Grad Students of Fall Term 2008. Based on the World Cafè methodology. httpv://www.youtube.com/v/u5pU5DNjoXY&hl=en_US&fs=1
→ read full articleLATIN AMERICA & HONDURAS
Prof. Noam Chomsky, MIT,
27 Dec 2009
History of US Rule in Latin America; Elections and Resistance to the Coup in Honduras.Filmed by Paul Hubbard at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Dec 15 2009.CLICK TO VIEW – ZMAGAZINE
→ read full articleINSIDE THE MILITARY MEDIA INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: IMPACTS ON MOVEMENTS FOR PEACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Profs. Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff – Dissident Voice,
27 Dec 2009
Among the most important corporate media censored news stories of the past decade, one must be that over one million people have died because of the United States military invasion and occupation of Iraq. This, of course, does not include the number of deaths from the first Gulf War nor the ensuing sanctions placed upon […]
→ read full articleA CALL FROM GAZA
Authors Many,
27 Dec 2009
(Gaza) — This week marks one year since Israel began its attack on the Gaza Strip: a year since phosphorus bombs, dime bombs and other weapons of death and destruction were unleashed on a defenseless civilian population. A year since the people of the world demanded that Israel end its attack on Gaza . […]
→ read full articleGAZA FREEDOM MARCH: PALESTINIAN NON-VIOLENCE AND INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY
Max Ajl - ZNet,
27 Dec 2009
I’m going to discuss the utility of non-violent resistance as it applies to resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict and, specifically, the occupation and blockade of the Gaza strip. Even more specifically, I’m going to discuss the Gaza Freedom March (GFM), of which I’m one of the organizers. But before discussing Palestinian non-violence, several things must be […]
→ read full articleTHE ORIGINS OF WORLD WAR III (PART 3): A NEW WORLD WAR FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER
Andrew Gavin Marshall – Global Research,
26 Dec 2009
Introduction In Parts 1 and 2 of this series, I have analyzed US and NATO geopolitical strategy since the fall of the Soviet Union, in expanding the American empire and preventing the rise of new powers, containing Russia and China. This Part examines the implications of this strategy in recent years; following the emergence of […]
→ read full articleTHE ORIGINS OF WORLD WAR III (PART 4): A NEW WORLD WAR FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER
Andrew Gavin Marshall – Global Research,
26 Dec 2009
Latin America Is Not to Be Left Out: The Coup in Honduras It is important to take a look at recent events in Latin America in an imperial context to understand how wide and vast American and NATO imperial strategy is. While the world’s eyes and media were fixated on events in Iran, another event was […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) VERDADES OCULTAS SOBRE A NOSSA COMIDA
Silvia Ribeiro – Informação Alternativa,
24 Dec 2009
Muita gente não sabe que o aumento da produção através de variedades de cultivos de alto rendimento (“sementes melhoradas” ou híbridos) implica a diminuição de nutrientes, vitaminas e proteínas nos alimentos produzidos. Trata-se de um efeito conhecido há décadas por agrónomos e investigadores agrícolas denominado “efeito diluição”. O incremento drástico do rendimento dos cultivos por […]
→ read full articleCLIMATE DISCORD: FROM HOPENHAGEN TO NOPENHAGEN
Amy Goodman – Democracy Now!,
23 Dec 2009
Barack Obama said, minutes before racing out of the U.N. climate summit, “We will not be legally bound by anything that took place here today.” These were among his remarks made to his own small White House press corps, excluding the 3,500 credentialed journalists covering the talks. It was late on Dec. 18, the last […]
→ read full articleCHILD SOLDIERS: CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
Pawan Bimali and Bishnu Pathak, Ph.D. – Conflict Study Center, Nepal,
23 Dec 2009
Executive Summary Each year thousands of children under 18-year have been affected by armed conflict, directly and indirectly. They are recruited on the hope (of better future), fear, and insecurity. Child soldier is widely practiced in the form of spies, porters, messengers, cooks, lay or clear landmines, training or guarding other children, weapons transport workers, […]
→ read full articleGAZA MUST BE REBUILT NOW
Jimmy Carter,
22 Dec 2009
We can wait no longer to restart the peace process. The human suffering demands urgent relief.It is generally recognised that the Middle East peace process is in the doldrums, almost moribund. Israeli settlement expansion within Palestine continues, and PLO leaders refuse to join in renewed peace talks without a settlement freeze, knowing that no Arab […]
→ read full articleBEYOND STALEMATE: REPLACING THE VICIOUS WITH THE VIRTUOUS CIRCLE
Diana Francis - Open Democracy,
22 Dec 2009
What is conflict transformation? How do you begin to approach the mutual hurt of conflict embedded in systems and culture? There are many strands to a challenging and delicate process. Here are some of them.Stefanie Kappler’s challenging article, along with Paula Green’s passionate support, brings our debate alive, for which I am delighted and grateful. […]
→ read full articleTHE CHALLENGE OF MOVING FROM WAR TO PEACE
Bridget Walker - Open Democracy,
22 Dec 2009
One of the challenges in this set of unseen and unsung practices is how to make it visible and strengthen its advocacy without destroying its impact. Conflict transformation work not only deserves but needs a wider audience.There is substantial documentation on war and a body of theory about its causes and conduct, while, as is […]
→ read full articleOBAMA’S BIOWEAPONS PROGRAM
Tom Burghardt – Global Research,
22 Dec 2009
The Obama administration’s recent declaration on bioweapons would simply be another run-of-the-mill example of our "change" president’s duplicity were it not such an unmitigated disaster. Recapitulating sinister Cold War practices that informed American ruling class consensus when it came to secretly toying with nature’s most deadly pathogens, (a) because they could, (b) because it was, and […]
→ read full articleSOCRATES
TMS Editor,
20 Dec 2009
Keep this philosophy in mind the next time you hear, or are about to repeat a rumor. In ancient Greece (469 – 399 BC), Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom. One day the great philosopher came upon an acquaintance that ran up to him excitedly and said, "Socrates, do you know what I just […]
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