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ACTIVISM IS CHANGE: A VIEW FROM THE STRUGGLE IN GAZA
Ramzy Baroud – Toward Freedom,
18 Mar 2010
An activist is a person who feels strongly about a cause and who is also willing to dedicate time and energy towards advancing and realizing this cause. This might be my own limited interpretation of what activism means. I was born and raised in a Gaza refugee camp where the daily struggles of the community […]
→ read full articleSRI LANKA’S FORGOTTEN TAMILS
Melanie Gouby – Open Democracy,
17 Mar 2010
Rejected by the rest of the Tamil population and ignored by the Sinhalese authorities, tea workers who migrated from Tamil Nadu centuries ago are exploited in the plantations of the Sri Lankan highlands Her hands are cut and swollen from years of hard labour on the steep slopes of the tea plantation. She smiles, but […]
→ read full article“ANCIENT DILEMMA OF THE LEFT: THE CASE OF BRAZIL”
Immanuel Wallerstein - ZNet,
17 Mar 2010
On the occasion of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the creation of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT, the Workers’ Party) in Brazil, the principal independent left newspaper, Brasil de Fato, published interviews with four leading left intellectuals in Brazil. All four were once active in the PT, indeed among its founders. Three of […]
→ read full articleA SKEPTICAL VIEW OF ‘NET NEUTRALITY’
Scott Sanders and James Owens – Editor & Publisher,
17 Mar 2010
Net Neutrality won’t do anything to democratize the media if corporate media and traditional professional journalists just use it to rebuild the Old Media in new technolgy, media activists Scott Sanders and James Owens argue. Media justice organizers at the Center for Media Justice and MAG-Net have recently produced a brilliant campaign plan (‘The Campaign […]
→ read full articleMAPPING CONFLICT AND PEACE IN EURASIA, EDITED VOLUME
Dr. Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, member of the TRANSCEND Network,
17 Mar 2010
The Eurasian Conflicts in international politics are known for their embedded nature transcending beyond a mono-factor for analysis. Owing to diversity and fragility many states have not matured towards coherent status of nation building; rather it appears the agenda has remained unfinished due to disturbed ethnic aspirations, fragile borders, inherent complications and power interventions. These […]
→ read full articleTHE ‘MISSING’ AFGHANS
Jake Lynch and Annabel McGoldrick, with additional research by Indra Adnan,
17 Mar 2010
A cricketing joke from the 1980s saw Mark Waugh, the Australian batsman, nicknamed ‘Afghan’. Struggling to emerge from the shadows of brother Steve, he was always in danger of being overlooked: ‘the forgotten Waugh’. The war in Afghanistan is a canvas on to which powerful intervening nations project their own preoccupations; one that goes through […]
→ read full articleFEMINISE THE REPORTING OF AFGHANISTAN
Jake Lynch and Annabel McGoldrick, with additional research by Indra Adnan - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2010
For much of the last decade, the war in Afghanistan was obscured, in the media of troop-contributing countries, by news from Iraq, to the extent that it became, once again, “the forgotten war”. Those assessments came on the basis of reporting in 2006, since when Afghanistan has grown in salience, but the vast majority of […]
→ read full articleBEYOND ORWELL: THE ELECTRONIC POLICE STATE, 2010
Tom Burghardt – Global Research,
17 Mar 2010
A truism perhaps, but before resorting to brute force and open repression to halt the “barbarians at the gates,” that would be us, the masters of declining empires (and the chattering classes who polish their boots) regale us with tales of “democracy on the march,” “hope” and other banalities before the mailed fist comes crashing […]
→ read full articleTHE WOMAN WHO JUST MIGHT SAVE THE PLANET AND OUR POCKETBOOKS
Fran Korten and Elinor Ostrom - YES! Magazine,
15 Mar 2010
For one thing, she is the first woman to receive the prize. Her Ph.D. is in political science, not economics (though she minored in economics, collaborates with many economists, and considers herself a political economist). But what makes this award particularly special is that her work is about cooperation, while standard economics focuses on competition. […]
→ read full articleTHE LEFT-RIGHT CONFERENCE ON WAR
David R. Henderson - AntiWar.com,
14 Mar 2010
In which the author finds hope in a left/right antiwar movement.On Friday, February 19, I went to the opening dinner of a Washington, D.C. event billed as “Across the Political Spectrum Against War and Militarism.” That’s not my favorite title because it sounds as if the participants are presumed to be against all war. I’m […]
→ read full articleEIGHT HOURS IN THE BASEMENT FOR PEACE
Sam Smith - Progressive Review,
14 Mar 2010
Last Saturday [Feb 20 2010] I spent eight hours with three dozen other people in a basement conference room of a Washington hotel engaged in an extraordinary exercise of mind and hope. The topic was, by itself, depressingly familiar: building an anti-war coalition. What made it so strikingly different was the nature of those at […]
→ read full articlePERSPECTIVE OF GOOD LAWS IN OPERATION
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D.,
14 Mar 2010
For endless centuries people everywhere were faced with laws of one kind or another. Some laws were viewed as fair and beneficial while others were viewed as biased and harmful in a number of ways. When the world at large speaks of laws, usually we are referring to man-made laws, commonly known as civic […]
→ read full articleTHE FAILURE OF AMERICAN AND ISRAELI PEACE ORGANIZATIONS
Prof. Jerome Slater,
13 Mar 2010
The prospects for a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have never been worse, primarily because of the rightward shift of the Israeli government and public opinion and, secondarily, because of the end of hopes that the United States would help "save Israel from itself." And yes, I assign little or no responsibility to the Palestinians: […]
→ read full articleBILLIONAIRES AND MEGA-CORPORATIONS BEHIND IMMENSE LAND GRAB IN AFRICA
John Vidal – Mail & Guardian,
10 Mar 2010
20+ African countries are selling or leasing land for intensive agriculture on a shocking scale in what may be the greatest change of ownership since the colonial era. We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile across empty land before we found what will soon […]
→ read full articleBOLIVIA, A BEACON OF HOPE
Matt Kennard – The Guardian,
9 Mar 2010
The inspiring example of Evo Morales’s Bolivian government. There’s a game I’ve been playing recently. Any time I read the news and get depressed about the parlous state of our world, I type "Bolivia" into Google news and wait for the results. It’s really all you need to brighten up your day. In the last […]
→ read full articleTHE UNPERSUADABLES
George Monbiot,
9 Mar 2010
In fighting for science, we subscribe to a comforting illusion: that people can be swayed by the facts. There is one question that no one who denies manmade climate change wants to answer: what would it take to persuade you? In most cases the answer seems to be nothing. No level of evidence can shake […]
→ read full articleEXPOSED: CHEVRON’S COVER-UP OF GROSS ENVIRONMENTAL ABUSES IN ECUADOR
Cameron Scott - Alternet,
9 Mar 2010
Chevron claims it’s not responsible for dumping 18 billion gallons of industrial wastewater into the Amazon. A local leader says otherwise. What is a lost culture? Is it just some intangible time before? Is it an economy? Can you inventory a lost culture in the number of lives lost or rivers polluted? Those questions haunt […]
→ read full articleTARGETING ISRAELI APARTHEID
Stephen Lendman – Dissident Voice,
7 Mar 2010
Reports like the Cape Town, South Africa-based Human Sciences Research Council’s (HSRC) May 2009 one titled, “Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid” highlight what many others understand, including former UN Special Human Rights Rapporteur for Occupied Palestine, John Dugard, stating in January 2007: “Israel is clearly in military occupation of the OPT (Occupied Palestinian Territories). At the same […]
→ read full articleSAUDI ARABIA AS INTERLOCUTOR IN SOUTH ASIA?
Dr Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra,
7 Mar 2010
Mediating in conflicts in South Asia particularly between India and Pakistan since the inception of bilateral animosities has become a prize catch in international politics since long. In the list of players as mediator the name that has emerged recently is that of Saudi Arabia. Indian Prime Minster visited Saudi Arabia on 27 February 2010 […]
→ read full articleISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK TORONTO – Highlights from the opening day of the sixth annual Israeli Apartheid Week in Toronto, filmed on 1 March 2010. Speakers include Na’eem Jeena and Jon Elmer.
TMS Editor,
6 Mar 2010
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→ read full articleONTARIO MPPS IGNORE INTERNATIONAL DENUNCIATIONS OF ISRAELI APARTHEID
Shourideh cherie Molavi - ZNet,
6 Mar 2010
On February 25, a group of Ontario Members of Provincial Parliament (MPP) voted unanimously on a motion to “denounce” this year’s Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW). Claiming to send a message of so-called “moral suasion” to all “fair-minded Ontarians,” Peter Shurman, the MPP who tabled the motion, argued that the mere application of the phrase ‘Israeli […]
→ read full articlePACIFIC PUSHBACK: HAS THE U.S. EMPIRE OF BASES REACHED ITS HIGH-WATER MARK?
John Feffer – Tom Dispatch,
5 Mar 2010
For a country with a pacifist constitution, Japan is bristling with weaponry. Indeed, that Asian land has long functioned as a huge aircraft carrier and naval base for U.S. military power. We couldn’t have fought the Korean and Vietnam Wars without the nearly 90 military bases scattered around the islands of our major Pacific ally. […]
→ read full articleBANKS’ RECORD PROFITS ARE A POLITICAL MATTER
Thomas Piketty - Libération,
5 Mar 2010
So BNP Paribas, the largest French and European bank, has just announced 8 billion euros of profit for 2009, tying its 2007 record. Some are already crowing: after all, isn’t it better to have healthy rather than failing banks? Certainly. However, it is well worth the attempt to understand where these profits come from. The […]
→ read full articleGOLDMAN SACHS AUTHORS A GREEK TRAGEDY
Jim Hightower - Truthout,
5 Mar 2010
"Goldman, a global financial conglomerate and America’s largest banking fiefdom, is notorious in our country for its arrogant, anything-goes corporate ethic that is astonishingly avaricious, even by Wall Street’s dissolute standards. The firm is villainous enough that it could be its own reality TV show, perhaps titled, ‘Bankers Behaving Badly.’"Another Greek-based cargo ship and its […]
→ read full article(FRENCH) PROFITS RECORDS DES BANQUES : UNE AFFAIRE POLITIQUE
Thomas Piketty - Libération,
5 Mar 2010
Ainsi donc BNP Paribas, première banque française et européenne, vient d’annoncer 8 milliards d’euros de bénéfices pour l’année 2009, renouant avec son record de 2007. Certains poussent déjà des cocoricos : après tout, n’est-il pas préférable d’avoir des banques bien portantes plutôt qu’en faillite ? Certes. Mais il n’est pas inutile de tenter de comprendre […]
→ read full articleDISTURBING STORY OF FALLUJAH’S BIRTH DEFECTS
John Simpson - BBC News,
5 Mar 2010
Six years after the intense fighting began in the Iraqi town of Fallujah between US forces and Sunni insurgents, there is a disturbingly large number of cases of birth defects in the town.Fallujah is less than 40 miles (65km) from Baghdad, but it can still be dangerous to get to. As a result, there has […]
→ read full article“PEACE OR APARTHEID” ARE NOT THE ONLY OPTIONS FOR ISRAEL
Alan Hart – Information Clearing House,
5 Mar 2010
The developing debate about Israel’s future offers two scenarios but there is a third which, apparently, should not be discussed in the open, in public. So let’s do just that. Among the most recent contributors to what I’ll call the two-scenario debate was no less a figure than Ehud Barak, Israel’s defense minister. In a […]
→ read full articleHONDURAS AFTER THE COUP: FEAR AND DEFIANCE
Peter Lackowski - Toward Freedom,
5 Mar 2010
"Nos tienen miedo porque no tenemos miedo." ("They are afraid of us because we are not afraid of them.") This slogan was chanted by the thousands of demonstrators who defied the illegitimate de facto government imposed by the Honduran military in the protests that erupted throughout the country immediately after the after the coup of […]
→ read full articleCHILE’S SOCIALIST REBAR
Naomi Klein,
5 Mar 2010
Ever since deregulation caused a worldwide economic meltdown in September ’08 and everyone became a Keynesian again, it hasn’t been easy to be a fanatical fan of the late economist Milton Friedman. So widely discredited is his brand of free-market fundamentalism that his followers have become increasingly desperate to claim ideological victories, however far fetched. […]
→ read full articleGREECE HITS BOTTOM: A CLASH OF CULTURES ON THE AEGEAN
Manfred Ertel in Athens - Spiegel,
5 Mar 2010
The Greek government is doing everything it can to prevent national bankruptcy. But the real fight will be waged between those in Greece who are prepared for sacrifice and those who want to cling to the good old days. A report from the front lines. The 2004 Olympic Games in Athens were easily the high […]
→ read full articleU.S. STILL NONCOMMITTAL ON LANDMINE TREATY
Matthew Berger – TerraViva Europe,
4 Mar 2010
As the 11th anniversary of the Mine Ban Treaty entering into effect came and went Monday, the United States remained one of only 37 countries to have yet to sign on to the agreement.The U.S. does, however, comply with many of the provisions of the international treaty, which prohibits the use, stockpiling, production and export […]
→ read full articleTHE NEW CANADIAN PARADIGM: EMBRACING APARTHEID
Kim Petersen – Dissident Voice,
4 Mar 2010
Yves Engler on Canada’s Complicity in Israeli Apartheid.A recent headline for the Toronto Star reads: “New face of Canada isn’t pretty.” The national affairs columnist, James Travers, writes, “The confluence of domestic politics, Christian fundamentalism and foreign policy is now so strong that Israel’s tail is wagging Canada’s dog.” Yves Engler’s latest book, Canada and […]
→ read full articleCOMPETITION IN IGNOMINY
William Pfaff - Truthdig,
4 Mar 2010
There is a lot of money to be made by big international banks in impoverished small, and even medium-size, countries in times of world crisis.On my flight to Doha, where money doesn’t seem to be a problem, I read in London’s Guardian about the vultures making serious money out of the poorest national economies in […]
→ read full articleFURY AS EU APPROVES GM POTATO
Martin Hickman and Genevieve Roberts – The Independent,
4 Mar 2010
Critics claim plant could spread antibiotic-resistant diseases to humans.The introduction of a genetically modified potato in Europe risks the development of human diseases that fail to respond to antibiotics, it was claimed last night. German chemical giant BASF this week won approval from the European Commission for commercial growing of a starchy potato with a […]
→ read full articleBLACKWATER CRIME SPREE IN AFGHANISTAN
goog2k, MSNBC,
2 Mar 2010
Author Jeremy Scahill and Rachel Maddow discuss the ongoing crimes & scandals by Blackwater / Xe, & front company contractors in Afghanistan & elsewhere. 5:25-Min videoCLICK TO VIEW
→ read full articleAPARTHEID AND ETHNIC CLEANSING AS DIVERSION
Kim Petersen – Dissident Voice,
2 Mar 2010
Apartheid Although apartheid must be opposed by social justice activists, does the focus on apartheid serve the exigencies of social justice? First, it must be stated that, given its obviousness, a discussion of whether apartheid is practiced by Israel is nugatory. Still, why the focus on Israel as an apartheid state? Others target Israel for […]
→ read full articleSECURING HAITI
Andrew Crosby and Ajay Parasram – Dissident Voice,
2 Mar 2010
Soldiers vs. Doctors in Post-earthquake HaitiWithin hours of Haiti’s devastating earthquake, Cuban doctors, Chinese search and rescue teams and Venezuelan medical professionals were on the ground. When the US military took control of Port-au-Prince Airport, however, they prioritized landing soldiers instead of humanitarian supplies, according to humanitarian organizations like Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) and Amnesty […]
→ read full articleFUNDING ISRAELI MILITARISM, BELLIGERENCE AND OCCUPATION
Stephen Lendman – Dissident Voice,
2 Mar 2010
From birth, Israel was a regional menace until America became its benefactor in the late 1960s. Now it’s a global one, powerful with a large standing army and the latest weapons and technology, nuclear armed and ready to use them. It’s belligerent on the slightest pretext or none at all, and a threat to world […]
→ read full articleIT IS TIME FOR ISRAEL’S FRIENDS TO CONDEMN ITS ACTS OF TERRORISM
Amin Saikal – SMH,
2 Mar 2010
By and large a one-dimensional approach has characterised our approach to understanding the phenomenon of terrorism. However, the recent killing of a Hamas figure, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, in Dubai should make us cast our net wider to focus also on state terrorism. The Dubai police have claimed with almost undisputed evidence that the Israeli intelligence agency, […]
→ read full articleUNIVERSITIES ACROSS THE GLOBE MARK ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK
Danna Harman, Haaretz Correspondent in Europe,
1 Mar 2010
A filmmaker, anthropologist and economic researcher are among those headlining events marking what pro-Palestinian organizers have declared as "Israeli Apartheid Week" – and all three speakers are Israeli. University campuses in more than 40 cities around the world are marking the week with lectures, films, multimedia events, cultural performances and demonstrations. Since they were first […]
→ read full articleTURNING POINT: WHEN SOLDIERS HAVE HAD ENOUGH
Nadya Williams - Truthout,
28 Feb 2010
Stand up and repeat these words in marching cadence: "I went down to the marketWhere all the people shopI pulled out my macheteAnd I began to chop I went down to the parkWhere all the children playI took out my machine gunAnd I began to spray"This is a chant our young are taught to march […]
→ read full articleCHALLENGING HISTORY: WHY THE OPPRESSED MUST TELL THEIR OWN STORY
Ramzy Baroud - ZNet,
27 Feb 2010
When American historian Howard Zinn passed away recently, he left behind a legacy that redefined our relationship to history altogether. Professor Zinn dared to challenge the way history was told and written. In fact he went as far as to defy the conventional construction of historical discourses through the pen of victor or of elites […]
→ read full articleSHOULD WILD ANIMALS BE USED AS ENTERTAINMENT? – CNN / MOXNEWS VIDEO
TMS Editor,
27 Feb 2010
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→ read full articleTHE AID RACKET
Ashley Smith - Socialist Worker,
26 Feb 2010
IT’S NOW more than a month since the earthquake that laid waste to Port-au-Prince, killing more than 200,000 people and thrusting millions of people into the most desperate conditions. But according to the U.S. government, Haitians have a lot to be thankful for. On February 12, the U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Ken Merten boasted, "In terms of […]
→ read full articleIF YOU LIKED BOVINE GROWTH HORMONE, YOU’LL LOVE BETA AGONISTS
Martha Rosenberg – Dissident Voice,
26 Feb 2010
While researchers and scientists investigate the cause of our diabetes, obesity, asthma and ADHD epidemics, they should ask why the FDA approved a livestock drug banned in 160 nations and responsible for hyperactivity, muscle breakdown and 10 percent mortality in pigs, according to angry farmers who phoned the manufacturer. The beta agonist ractopamine, a repartitioning […]
→ read full articleLATIN AMERICA’S PATH TO INDEPENDENCE
Mark Weisbrot – The Guardian,
26 Feb 2010
With the creation of a new regional organisation, Latin America is emerging as a power bloc with its own interests and agenda. Latin America took another historic step forward this week with the creation of a new regional organization of 32 Latin American and Caribbean countries. The United States and Canada were excluded. The increasing […]
→ read full articleMOSSAD’S MURDEROUS REACH: THE LARGER POLITICAL ISSUES
James Petras – Dissident Voice,
26 Feb 2010
On January 19 Israel’s international secret police, the Mossad, sent an eighteen member death squad to Dubai using European passports, supposedly ‘stolen’ from Israeli dual citizens and altered with fake photos and signatures, in order to assassinate the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud al Mabhouh. The evidence is overwhelming: The Dubai police presentation of detailed security videos […]
→ read full articleGLOBAL SWEATSHOP WAGE SLAVERY
Stephen Lendman – Dissident Voice,
26 Feb 2010
In its mission statement, the National Labor Committee (NLC) highlights the problem stating: Transnational corporations (TNCs) now roam the world to find the cheapest and most vulnerable workers.” They’re mostly young women in poor countries like China, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia, Nicaragua, Haiti, and many others working up to 14 or more hours a day […]
→ read full articleU.S. ALLIES IN EUROPE BEGIN TO PULL BACK
William Pfaff - Truthdig,
24 Feb 2010
Last Friday [Feb 19 2010] five NATO governments made it known that they want American nuclear weapons removed from their territories. They include the Benelux three, together with Germany and Norway. The five reportedly will ask that all the European NATO governments endorse their position before a meeting in New York in May. The Dutch […]
→ read full articlePSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTIONS
Claude Shema Rutagengwa, M.D.,
23 Feb 2010
Western vs. Local Approaches On the field mission There have been critics over the western psychosocial interventions in the conflict areas. Most of experts intervening to the fields are westerns, working in different countries all over the world: Africa, Asia, and Southern America mainly. They face a big challenge related to the culture and customs, […]
→ read full articleTHINKING FORWARD
Michael Albert - NLP,
21 Feb 2010
NLP talks to Michael Albert, co-founder of Z Magazine, ZNet and South End Press, about complementary holism, Participatory Economics and an alternative to capitalism.1. Could you outline for us what the theory of complementary holism, is?Very briefly, it is a way of organizing one’s thoughts, you might say, when considering matters of history and society. […]
→ read full articleFOLLOWING THE MINERAL TRAIL: CONGO RESOURCE WARS AND RWANDA
John Lasker – Toward Freedom,
20 Feb 2010
The Rwandan government and its military have largely been suspected by a UN Panel of Experts, human rights organizations and independent journalists, of financially supporting a number of violent militias that have destabilized the eastern Congo region to illegally traffic millions-of-dollars worth of minerals such as coltan, gold, and cassiterite. These minerals are then brought […]
→ read full article4TH WORLD CONGRESS SEEKS TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
Mary Susan Littlepage - Truthout,
20 Feb 2010
More than 1,000 people are expected to attend the 4th World Congress Against the Death Penalty February 24-26 in Geneva. The Congress is organized by the French NGO Ensemple in partnership with the Swiss Confederation and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty. During the 3rd World Congress Against the Death Penalty, held in Paris […]
→ read full articleAMERICA’S GLOBAL WEAPONS MONOPOLY: DON’T CALL IT “THE GLOBAL ARMS TRADE”
Frida Berrigan - Tomdispatch,
20 Feb 2010
On the relatively rare occasions when the media turns its attention to U.S. weapons sales abroad and shines its not-so-bright spotlight on the latest set of facts and figures, it invariably speaks of “the global arms trade.” Let’s consider that label for a moment, word by word: *It is global, since there are few places […]
→ read full articleNEUROSCIENCE AND NATIONAL SECURITY: THE COMPLEX RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCIENCE AND THE MILITARY
Emily Badger – Global Research,
20 Feb 2010
The military commonly enlists science in its efforts. But when science is humanity, the relationship gets a little stickier.Neuroscience and national security go together somewhat uneasily. Stick the two in a single sentence, and University of Pennsylvania historian Jonathan Moreno starts getting e-mails from all kinds of people who are sure they’ve been brainwashed by […]
→ read full articleCLUSTER BOMB BAN TO BECOME LAW – WITHOUT U.S.
Matthew Berger - IPS,
20 Feb 2010
Just over a year after it was opened for signature, an international treaty banning cluster bombs received the final two ratifications it needed to become international law Tuesday [Feb 16, 2010].Burkina Faso and Moldova ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions to much praise from human rights and victim advocacy groups. The treaty will become international […]
→ read full articleCOMMON ACTIVIST ERRORS AND SOME PROPOSALS TO RECTIFY THEM
Yousef Abudayyeh, Mohamed Khodr, Mary Rizzo, Haitham Sabbah and Saja – Palestine Think Tank editorial,
20 Feb 2010
Activism and activists for Palestine have been getting some media attention recently. This is absolutely great news. It is an opportunity that we need to take advantage of, especially since Palestinians themselves are denied space in almost all mainstream mass media. Reflecting on this fact, we at PTT have decided to express some of our […]
→ read full articleCOMMON ACTIVIST ERRORS AND SOME PROPOSALS TO RECTIFY THEM
Yousef Abudayyeh, Mohamed Khodr, Mary Rizzo, Haitham Sabbah and Saja – Palestine Think Tank editorial,
20 Feb 2010
Activism and activists for Palestine have been getting some media attention recently. This is absolutely great news. It is an opportunity that we need to take advantage of, especially since Palestinians themselves are denied space in almost all mainstream mass media. Reflecting on this fact, we at PTT have decided to express some of our […]
→ read full articleWORLD DAY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE: A SENSE OF DIRECTION
Rene Wadlow - Member of the TRANSCEND Network,
20 Feb 2010
On a proposal of the Ambassador of Kyrgyzstzan, the United Nations General Assembly has set 20 February as the World Day of Social Justice. It was observed for the first time in 2009, but is not widely known. As with other UN-designated “Days”, the World Day of Social Justice gives us an opportunity to […]
→ read full articleA PERSONAL STAKE IN SANITY
Robert C. Koehler - Tribune Media Services,
20 Feb 2010
When we write about mass slaughter, even the good kind, which we call “war,” the waging of it should be on trial in every sentence. Anything less than that is propaganda, the chief characteristic of which is moral opacity. Sadly, this is how our news is delivered to us. Reading it makes me feel homeless. […]
→ read full articleCONTROLLING THE ABILITY OF PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS TO ACCESS THE INTERNET
Bob Chapman – Global Research,
17 Feb 2010
Under the guise of “protecting Americans” and choosing itself in so-called “national security,” the current Obama administration wants to be able to control the ability of people and organizations to access the Internet. This concept on its face seems very harmless and in the best interest of the country, however, having the ability to “turn the […]
→ read full articleCAN CAPITALISM SAVE HAITI ?
Shamus Cooke – Global Research,
17 Feb 2010
Absolute horror continues in Haiti . The inhuman — response by the international community the U.S. especially — has been directly responsible for thousands of deaths, whether it be those who were buried alive under rubble, or who died by infection or other untreated injuries. The U.S. military’s domination of the Port-au-Prince airport prevented international […]
→ read full articleMEDIA AND DEMOCRACY IN THE POST-MODERN AGE
Greg Guma – Znet,
17 Feb 2010
In the Watergate era, journalists were often seen as heroes. Even commercial TV and radio news outlets, although on the way to becoming showcases for infotainment, were considered by many to be potential parts of the solution. By the end of the 20th Century, however, most people didn’t trust reporters any more than politicians, and […]
→ read full articleASBESTOS: ASIA INHALES WHILE THE WEST BANS THE DEADLY CARCINOGEN
Melody Kemp, Special to CorpWatch,
17 Feb 2010
In parts of Asia, carrying 500 grams of one white powder can draw a death sentence, but importing 1,000 tons of another lethal white dust is both legal and profitable. Asbestos, a known carcinogen banned in much of the world, is a common and dangerous building block in much of Asia’s development and construction boom. […]
→ read full articleA NEW JEWISH GOAL
Gilad Atzmon,
16 Feb 2010
Holocaust is indeed important and crucial, especially due to the embarrassing fact that just 3 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the newly born Jewish state ethnically cleansed the vast majority of the indigenous Palestinians from their cities and villages. Just five years after the liberation of Auschwitz the newly born Jewish State set racist […]
→ read full articleBEGIN’S GRANDSON: ‘MURDEROUS BLOOD FLOWS IN ISRAELI ARTERIES’
Maysaa Jarour - The Palestine Telegraph,
16 Feb 2010
"Murderous blood flows in Israeli arteries," says the grandson of former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.Avindav Begin, who is also the son of the current Likud Knesset member Benny Begin, refuses to stand during the Israeli national anthem "Hatikva" and participates in protests against the Apartheid Wall. He does not see himself as a Jew […]
→ read full articleINDIGENOUS PEOPLES FIGHT FOR RIGHTS
Betwa Sharma — Special to GlobalPost,
16 Feb 2010
United Nations report shows native peoples struggle for better health, education and environmental protection.A grandmother of seven, Colleen Swan, along with 400 members of her Eskimo community are preparing to leave their homes on the 8-mile barrier reef off the coast of the Chukchi Sea in Alaska. The sea ice that once protected the Kivalina […]
→ read full articleHAITI: A CREDITOR, NOT A DEBTOR
Naomi Klein,
16 Feb 2010
This article appears in the March 1, 2010 edition of The Nation.If we are to believe the G-7 finance ministers, Haiti is on its way to getting something it has deserved for a very long time: full "forgiveness" of its foreign debt. In Port-au-Prince, Haitian economist Camille Chalmers has been watching these developments with cautious […]
→ read full articleGREEK PEOPLE RESIST PAYING FOR CRISIS – Goldman Sachs helped create Greek financial crisis and now EU and IMF want people to pay. Real News Network video
TMS Editor,
16 Feb 2010
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→ read full articleWHAT DO EMPIRES DO?
Prof. Michael Parenti – Common Dreams,
14 Feb 2010
When I wrote my book Against Empire in 1995, as might be expected, some of my U.S. compatriots thought it was wrong of me to call the United States an empire. It was widely believed that U.S. rulers did not pursue empire; they intervened abroad only out of self-defense or for humanitarian rescue operations or […]
→ read full articleBREAK THE SILENCE ON IRAN
Lamis Andoni – AlJazeera,
13 Feb 2010
Analyst says Arabs can no longer afford to ignore Tehran’s human rights abuses.Three decades ago, the Iranian revolution inspired generations of Arabs and infused in them a spirit of resistance to foreign intervention. It came at a time when many Arabs had been disheartened by the 1979 Camp David agreement between Israel and Egypt, and […]
→ read full articleEUROPE’S FIVE “UNDECLARED NUCLEAR WEAPONS STATES”
Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
13 Feb 2010
Are Turkey, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and Italy Nuclear Powers? According to a recent report, former NATO Secretary-General George Robertson confirmed that Turkey possesses 40-90 "Made in America" nuclear weapons at the Incirlik military base.(en.trend.az/) Does this mean that Turkey is a nuclear power? "Far from making Europe safer, and far from producing a less […]
→ read full article(SPANISH) MÉDICOS DE CUBA EN HAITÍ: LA SOLIDARIDAD SILENCIADA
José Manzaneda - TeleSUR,
13 Feb 2010
El diario El País, el 15 de enero, publicaba una infografía sobre la "Ayuda financiera y equipos de asistencia", en la que Cuba ni siquiera aparecía entre los 23 estados que han aportado colaboración (4). La cadena estadounidense Fox News llegaba a afirmar que Cuba es de los pocos países vecinos del Caribe que no […]
→ read full articleDREYFUS, THE PROTOCOLS AND GOLDSTONE
Gilad Atzmon,
13 Feb 2010
Alan Dershowitz on Judge Goldstone: “But now I see him as a traitor… It’s as if they would have taken a Jew to edit the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. He uses his Jewish last name to kosher his slander of the Jewish People.” For those who still cannot make their minds up about […]
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(SPANISH) MÉDICOS DE CUBA EN HAITÍ: LA SOLIDARIDAD SILENCIADA
Cuba Informacion TV,
13 Feb 2010
Los medios han ocultado deliberadamente la solidaridad médica cubana en Haití, crucial en las primeras 72 horas tras el terremoto. Hay voces en EEUU que impulsan la cooperación Cuba-EEUU para ayudar a Haití. 4:39-Min. VideoCLICK TO VIEW – CUBA INFORMACION TV
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) A TOMADA DA DEMOCRACIA NORTE-AMERICANA PELO SETOR CORPORATIVO
Noam Chomsky,
12 Feb 2010
A Suprema Corte dos EUA determinou que o governo não pode proibir as corporações de fazerem gastos políticos durante as eleições. O dia 21 de janeiro de 2010 será lembrado como uma data sombria na história da democracia norte-americana e seu declínio. Naquele dia, a Suprema Corte dos EUA determinou que o governo não pode proibir […]
→ read full articleGLOBALIZATION IS KILLING THE GLOBE: RETURN TO LOCAL ECONOMIES
Thom Hartmann – The Huffington Post,
11 Feb 2010
Globalization is killing Europe, just as it’s already wiped out much of the American middle class.Spain and Greece are facing immediate crises that many other European nations see on the near horizon: aging boomer workers are retiring with healthy benefit packages, but the younger workers who are paying for those benefits aren’t making anything close […]
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M. Shahid Alam – Dissident Voice,
11 Feb 2010
He who knows himself and othersHere will also see,That the East and West, like brothers,Parted ne’er shall be.— Goethe1 In no other major civilization do self-regard, self-congratulation and denigration of the ‘Other’ run as deep, nor have these tendencies infected as many aspects of their thinking, laws, and policy, as they have in Western Europe […]
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Richard Seymour – Socialist Worker,
11 Feb 2010
The author of The Liberal Defense of Murder analyzes the propaganda manufactured to justify U.S. actions in Haiti after the earthquake.WITHIN DAYS of Haiti suffering an earthquake registering 7.0 on the Richter scale, the U.S. government had sent thousands of 82nd Airborne troops and Marines, alongside the super-carrier USS Carl Vinson. By this Sunday, a […]
→ read full articleSOMALIA: HOW COLONIAL POWERS DROVE A COUNTRY INTO CHAOS
Gregoire Lalieu & Michel Collon, interviewing Mohamed Hassan,
11 Feb 2010
Somalia had every reason to succeed: an advantageous geographical situation, oil, ores and only one religion and one language for the whole territory; a rare phenomenon in Africa. Somalia could have been a great power in the region. But the reality is completely different: famine, wars, lootings, piracy, bomb attacks. How did this country sink? […]
→ read full articleTHE 700 MILITARY BASES OF AFGHANISTAN: BLACK SITES IN THE EMPIRE OF BASES
Nick Turse - Tomdispatch,
11 Feb 2010
In the nineteenth century, it was a fort used by British forces. In the twentieth century, Soviet troops moved into the crumbling facilities. In December 2009, at this site in the Shinwar district of Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Province, U.S. troops joined members of the Afghan National Army in preparing the way for the next round of […]
→ read full articlePUSHING FOR “ZERO TOLERANCE” ON SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
Ramona Vijeyarasa – RH RealityCheck,
10 Feb 2010
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been torn by violent conflicts since its independence from Belgium in 1960. Beginning in 1998, the Second Congo War involved seven foreign armies, these major actors driven largely by desires for control over natural resources, including diamonds, copper, zinc and coltan, these “economic forces and mineral resources fueling […]
→ read full articleDESCENT INTO BARBARISM: THE US AND NATO WAGE WAR ON THE WORLD
Finian Cunningham – Global Research,
10 Feb 2010
The argument is won: capitalism as an effective system to organise society and provide for human needs has expired. The evidence is conclusive. Trillions of dollars to kickstart the economy in the US and Europe may have given an ephemeral lease of life to the financial class to spin the casino wheel once again, but […]
→ read full articleTHE “SHOCK DOCTRINE” FOR HAITI
Ashley Smith – Socialist Worker,
10 Feb 2010
The U.S. is reviving what Haitians call "the plan of death."ONE MONTH after the devastating earthquake, Haiti continues to suffer under apocalyptic conditions. The quake killed more than 200,000 people, injured 250,000 and has left over 3 million dependent on assistance for food, water and housing. Contrary to the puff pieces in the media, the […]
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Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
10 Feb 2010
The tragedy of the Haitian earthquake continues to unfold, with slow delivery of aid, the horrific number of amputations performed out of desperate medical necessity, more than a million homeless, perhaps 240,000 dead, hunger, dehydration, the emergence of infections and waterborne diseases, and the approach of the rainy season, which will be followed by the […]
→ read full articleCHALLENGING “WEST VERSUS ISLAM” MEDIA PARADIGMS
Gabriel Faimau – Common Ground,
10 Feb 2010
At an international conference on “Islam and the Media” organised by the Center for Media, Religion and Culture at the University of Colorado-Boulder in January, many of the participants, including myself, examined the negative stigma attached by the media to Islam and Muslims, especially after 9/11 and various terrorist attempts made in the name of […]
→ read full articleHAITI AND MEDIA CENSORSHIP
William Blum – Dissident Voice,
10 Feb 2010
In America you can say anything you want — as long as it doesn’t have any effect.– Paul Goodman Progressive activists and writers continually bemoan the fact that the news they generate and the opinions they express are consistently ignored by the mainstream media, and thus kept from the masses of the American people. This […]
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Shlomo Shamir, Barak Ravid and Avi Issacharoff – Haaretz,
10 Feb 2010
Arab states set to force debate that would bring Gaza war crimes claims before international court.The United Nations is likely to refer the findings of the Goldstone report to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, diplomatic sources in New York said on Saturday. A decision to bring the report on last year’s Gaza […]
→ read full articleTHE RISING TIDE OF INTERNET CENSORSHIP
James Corbett – Global Research,
10 Feb 2010
Will recent successes in fighting internet controls be enough to stave off tyranny?The focus is back on Internet censorship this week as a pair of articles from Time Magazine and The New York Times came out almost simultaneously advocating for licences to operate web sites. These articles were skillfully skewered by Paul Joseph Watson as […]
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→ read full articleMBAs UNPREPARED FOR A MORALLY COMPLEX FUTURE
Thomas N. Gladwin and David Berdish – Financial Times,
9 Feb 2010
Following Copenhagen, we face a perfect storm of global moral questions: what do we owe future generations, the deprived and the environment? Companies are being challenged to declare and act on their social and moral obligations. But business schools are failing to prepare leaders for this challenging task. The Aspen Institute’s latest Beyond Grey Pinstripes […]
→ read full articleBRITAIN, YOU BETTER WAKE UP
Gilad Atzmon,
9 Feb 2010
The more I read about the Chilcot inquiry the more disturbed I am. The fallacy imbued in the heart of British ‘democracy’ is staggering. While some commentators are concerned with questions to do with the legality of the war, the most crucial issue here is actually the disappearance of ethical judgment from our public and […]
→ read full articleCOULD U.S. AIR STRIKES PUSH PAKISTAN INTO KHMER ROUGE TYPE GENOCIDE?
Pratap Chatterjee and Tom Engelhardt - Tomdispatch.com,
9 Feb 2010
Almost every day, reports come back from the CIA’s “secret” battlefield in the Pakistani tribal borderlands. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles — that is, pilot-less drones — shoot missiles (18 of them in a single attack on a tiny village last week) or drop bombs and then the news comes in: a certain number of al-Qaeda or […]
→ read full articleTHE US MILITARY: A MINDSET OF BARBARISM (Part 2)
Dahr Jamail - Truthout,
7 Feb 2010
This is the second part of an interview with Dr. Stjepan Mestrovic, a Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University who has written three books on US misconduct in Iraq: "The Trials of Abu Ghraib: An Expert Witness Account of Shame and Honor," "Rules of Engagement?: Operation Iron Triangle, Iraq" and "The ‘Good Soldier’ on […]
→ read full articleHITCHENS HAS NO CLOTHES: A RESPONSE TO ‘VIDAL LOCO’
Dr Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, MA DPhil (Sussex) – The Independent,
7 Feb 2010
In his February Vanity Fair hitpiece, Christopher Hitchens argues that the post-9/11 world has driven Gore Vidal ‘Loco’ – the signs, he says, were always there, but 9/11 and events thereafter ‘accentuated a crackpot strain that gradually asserted itself as dominant.’ Hitchens begins his missive with Gore’s take on 9/11 itself, in which he ‘insinuated […]
→ read full articleSOUTH AFRICA’S DATE WITH DESTINY
Mike Hanna in Africa – AlJazeera,
7 Feb 2010
Mike Hanna remembers the day in February 1990 when South Africa began its march to democracy. The image that stuck with me that bright February morning was never filmed or photographed. A pair of white police officers were watching a video feed from parliament just over the cobble-stoned street from where they were standing: FW […]
→ read full articleTHE US MILITARY: A MINDSET OF BARBARISM (Part 1)
Dahr Jamail – Truthout,
7 Feb 2010
On December 27, in the eastern Kunar region of Afghanistan, ten Afghans, eight of whom were schoolchildren, were dragged from their beds and shot by US forces during a nighttime raid. Afghan government investigators said the eight students were aged from 11 to 17 years. This incident is but one example of countless atrocities US […]
→ read full articlePLEASE, MR. PRESIDENT, STOP TALKING NONSENSE
Alan Hart – Information Clearing House,
7 Feb 2010
At a town hall meeting in Tampa, Florida on 28 January, President Obama explained what in his view had to happen if there is to be a two-state solution which would see Israel and the Palestinians living side by side in peace and security. He said, “Both sides are going to have to make concessions”. […]
→ read full articleRAINFOREST RESCUE
TMS Editor,
5 Feb 2010
Dear friends, A leaked draft EU document shows that the Commission would like to rename palm oil plantations as “forest” in order that biodiesel from palm oil plantations can still meet EU biofuels sustainability criteria. Palm oil expansion is a major cause of tropical rainforest destruction and biodiesel from palm oil can easily cause more […]
→ read full articleMALAYSIA & THAILAND: CIVIL SOCIETY AND ETHNIC CONFLICT
Daniel Semcesen , Pierre Nikolov – Centre Tricontinental,
5 Feb 2010
The importance of civil society for advancing peace efforts and outcomes generated increased and wide interest after the Cold war. During this era the number of armed intra-state and violent ethnic conflicts also increased dramatically. In Southeast Asia only Malaysia has avoided intra-state conflict and recurring ethnic violence. Thailand constitutes a typical regional case with […]
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