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LULA PLANS IRAN VISIT TO PREVENT A REPEAT OF IRAQ WAR
Trend - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he planned to visit Iran next month to prevent a "mistake" like the one that led to the invasion of Iraq, dpa reported. "I am going there because I do not want the mistake that was made in Iraq to be repeated in Iran," he said, in […]
→ read full articleTOP 10 PLACES YOU DON’T WANT TO VISIT
Listverse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
In previous lists we have looked at amazing holiday destinations – today we are looking at the bottom ten; these are ten places you don’t want to visit! Having said that, maybe the curious would get a thrill from visiting some of these strange and dangerous places, but for most of us, reading about it […]
→ read full articleSAMSON AND THE 2ND NAKBA – A SHORT STUDY OF THE JEWISH HERCULES
Gilad Atzmon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
As much as many of us enjoyed watching the humiliation of Israel and PM Netanyahu in Washington this week, I am reluctant to suggest that the emerging crisis between America and Israel may also be a red light warning for all of us. The current crisis may lead to some devastating consequences as far as […]
→ read full articleANTI-SEMITISM: ZIONISM’S INDISPENSABLE ALIBI
Maidhc Ó Cathail – Dissident Voice,
28 Mar 2010
Although Zionism typically represents itself as the solution to anti-Semitism, the truth is less flattering. In fact, hostility toward Jews is indispensable to the cause of Jewish nationalism. If anti-Semitism didn’t exist, Zionists would have to invent it. And in many cases that is precisely what they have done. Contrary to the widespread perception that […]
→ read full articleNOTES ON THE STATE OF CAPITAL
Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan – Dissident Voice,
28 Mar 2010
Sean Starrs claims that we need to discard our notion of the ‘state of capital’. The gist of his argument is simple enough. Capitalist societies, he says, involve a myriad of power relations, many of them very important. These relationships, although often linked to the logic of capital, are distinct from that logic and therefore […]
→ read full articleSYSTEM DYNAMICS, HYPERCYCLES AND PSYCHOSOCIAL SELF-ORGANIZATION
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
Exploration of Chinese Correlative Understanding Introduction This document develops commentary in Club of Rome Reports and Bifurcations: a 40-year overview (2010). It is specifically concerned with how interrelated initiatives, such as those indicated there, might be understood as effectively mapping the territory of preoccupations with global governance — especially given their problematic relation to each […]
→ read full articleMAKING SENSE OF LIFE
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
People everywhere have many things in common, one of which is to enjoy life to the maximum possible. If it were possible, everyone would love to live forever, to explore and enjoy the mysteries of the universe, and to be productive in accordance with one’s talents and capabilities. This has been the focus of attention […]
→ read full articleDISARMAMENT, DEMOBILIZATION AND REINTEGRATION, AND SECURITY SECTOR REFORM IN NEPAL: A PRELIMINARY SOCIOLOGICAL OBSERVATION
Bishnu Pathak, PhD & Devendra Uprety – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
1. Setting Security Sector Reform (SSR) is a continuous process to all countries and regions, including politically stable states, fragile states, and post-conflict countries. However, it is widely understood that there need to be urgent SSR priorities in countries emerging from large-scale violent conflict. Over the years, Nepalese society has undergone deep structural […]
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THE STORY OF BOTTLED WATER
Annie Leonard, Story of Stuff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day), employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over five minutes, the film explores the […]
→ read full article(ITALIAN) LETTURA COLLETTIVA DELLA COSTITUZIONE DELLA REPUBBLICA ITALIANA
Silvia Berruto, antifascista - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
In "Collettivamente memoria 2010"Non è mai troppo presto per leggere la Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana. Una lettura che è Leitmotiv e canto d’amore per una terra libera come deve essere l’Italia. Non è mai troppo presto per una lettura collettiva, trasversale, intergenerazionale e informale, del testo più importante per i cittadini italiani. Una lettura collettiva […]
→ read full articleRE-VISITING GANDHI’S IDEAL OF TRUSTEESHIP
Vithal Rajan - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2010
A great hobby with literate Indians is following their statistics on growth. However much rents and fuel prices may go up, however unaffordable vegetables and milk may get, they feel cheered with good news about growth statistics. Particularly heartwarming is news that since a year ago Indian billionaires have doubled in number with 50 on […]
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Johan Galtung Conscientious Objector at 21
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2010
JOHAN GALTUNG, leading figure in international peace, born in Oslo-Norway in 1930, refused the military service, jailed as a conscientious objector at 21. At age twelve witnesses the Nazis take his father to a concentration camp. More… httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJf0m-Nz35E
→ read full articleENGLAND: MINISTER SIGNALS BAN ON CIRCUS WILD ANIMALS
Martin Hickman – The Independent,
26 Mar 2010
Wild animals are to be banned from circuses, ending hundreds of years of performing elephants, tigers and lions in the big top, the Government will say today. In response to a public consultation. Environment minister Jim Fitpatrick said he was ‘minded’ to bring in a ban after 94 per cent of people backed the idea. […]
→ read full articleHAITI: WHERE SOLIDARITY MEANS SURVIVAL
Beverly Bell – Toward Freedom,
26 Mar 2010
Perhaps more than anything today, Haiti needs a new macro-economy, one based above all on meeting the needs of its citizens. Post-earthquake economic restructuring could include equitable distribution of resources, high levels of employment with fair compensation, local production, and provision of social services. In the meantime, what saved many during the earthquake, and what is […]
→ read full articleU.S. BASES IN COLOMBIA RATTLE THE REGION
Benjamin Dangl – The Progressive,
26 Mar 2010
On the shores of the Magdalena River, in a lush green valley dotted with cattle ranches and farms, sits the Palanquero military base, an outpost equipped with Colombia’s longest runway, housing for 2,000 troops, a theater, a supermarket, and a casino. Palanquero is at the heart of a ten-year, renewable military agreement signed between the […]
→ read full articleTRIVIALIZING WAR
Cesar Chelala – Information Clearing House,
26 Mar 2010
"Drones are currently killing people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. It should be noted that the United States is not at war with any of those countries, which should mean in a sane world that the killing is illegal under both international law and the US Constitution," states Philip Girald, a former CIA officer […]
→ read full articleHITLER AND THE CHALLENGE OF NON-VIOLENCE
Jorgen Johansen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2010
What was done to counter the ’rise and rise’ of Adolf Hitler, fascist German leader, in the 1930’s? What could have been done?”What effect could nonviolence have had against Hitler?” This is one of the most frequent questions I get when I lecture on nonviolence. And it is a good one. To answer we need […]
→ read full articleON THE DUTY TO CONSCIENTIOUSLY OBJECT
Camillo "Mac" Bica - Truthout,
26 Mar 2010
Moral values and norms are the means through which we define ourselves as persons, structure our world and render our relationship to it and to other human beings comprehensible. That is, moral values and norms provide the parameters of our being – what I term our “moral identity.” I submit that the moral principle of […]
→ read full articleCANCER-FIGHTING PROPERTIES OF PAPAYA
Journal of Ethnopharmacology - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2010
Researchers said Tuesday [23 Mar 2010] that papaya leaf extract and its tea have dramatic cancer-fighting properties against a broad range of tumors, backing a belief held in a number of folk traditions. University of Florida researcher Nam Dang and colleagues in Japan, in a report published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, documented papaya’s anticancer […]
→ read full articleOBAMA’S BAD PRESCRIPTION FOR INDONESIA
Amy Goodman – Truthdig,
24 Mar 2010
President Barack Obama dedicated the signing of health care legislation to a number of people, including his mother, S. Ann Dunham Soetoro, who, he said, “argued with insurance companies even as she battled cancer in her final days.” The health care legislative process and its frenetic endgame prompted the president to postpone a trip to […]
→ read full articleMILITARIZING LATIN AMERICA
Noam Chomsky - ZMagazine,
24 Mar 2010
The United States was founded as an "infant empire," in George Washington’s words. The conquest of the national territory was a grand imperial venture, much like the vast expansion of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. From the earliest days, control over the Western Hemisphere was a critical goal. Ambitions expanded during World War II, as […]
→ read full articleWHO IS THE BRITISH DOG?
Gilad Atzmon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2010
Israeli officials and politicians sharply criticized the intention of the UK government to expel an ‘unnamed’ Israeli ‘diplomat’ in response to its passports being used in the Dubai assassination of Hamas Freedom Fighter Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. MK Aryeh Eldad (Israel National Union) doesn’t show much respect to the Brits whom he compares to dogs: "I think […]
→ read full articleBID TO REOPEN ELEPHANT IVORY TRADE REJECTED
Paul Armstrong - CNN,
23 Mar 2010
Conservationists have welcomed the decision to reject a bid from Tanzania and Zambia to temporarily suspend a worldwide ban on trading in African elephant ivory so they can offload legal stockpiles in a one-off sale. The 175-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), meeting in Doha, Qatar, on Monday, voted to reject the […]
→ read full articleWHALING: THE GREAT BETRAYAL
Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor – The Independent,
23 Mar 2010
Outrage as Secret Deal Set to Sweep Away International MoratoriumThe moratorium on commercial whaling, one of the environmental movement’s greatest achievements, looks likely to be swept away this summer by a new international deal being negotiated behind closed doors. The new arrangement would legitimise the whaling activities of the three countries which have continued to […]
→ read full articleLATIN AMERICAN GAYS: THE POST-LEFT LEFTISTS
Prof. Javier Corrales – Americas Quarterly,
23 Mar 2010
When most straight people are forced to think about gay people, they usually think of one thing first, sex. A political scientist might focus instead on a different question: how do gays perform in politics? Judged from their political achievements this past decade, the answer is, at least for Latin American gays: they’re pretty good. […]
→ read full articleMONKEY BUSINESS ALRIGHT
Dietrich Fischer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2010
Once upon a time a man appeared in a village and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each. The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and, as supply started to diminish, the villagers […]
→ read full articleWOMEN IN THE VENEZUELAN REVOLUTION: `WE’RE NOT INVISIBLE BUT INVINCIBLE’
Tamara Pearson - ZNet,
21 Mar 2010
“I’m a woman with a new life since the Bolivarian Revolution knocked on my door”, said Pielrroc Montenegro, Maracaiban[i] by birth and Andean by tradition, with eyes full of nostalgia and gratitude. She described herself as a “dignified mother of the neighborhood” since the mission of that name[ii] enabled her to realize one of her […]
→ read full articleTHE “WILD MAN” OF ANIMAL PROTECTION, STEVE HINDI
Martha Rosenberg – Dissident Voice,
21 Mar 2010
Martha Rosenberg: Here in Chicago, you are known as the “Wild Man” who staged alternative whale shows with inflatable orcas outside the Shedd Aquarium in the 1990s and who went to jail for disrupting a bird shoot with a powered paraglider. Now, both issues are back in the news. Steve Hindi: At the time we […]
→ read full articleTHE BLACK MARKET ANIMAL BUSINESS – US customs agents say smuggling of protected wildlife is becoming a multi-billion dollar business, generated by a huge demand. Mike Kirsch – Aljazeera
TMS Editor,
21 Mar 2010
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→ read full articleSILENT SPRING HAS SPRUNG
Randall Amster J.D., Ph.D. - Truthout,
20 Mar 2010
Seasons change, yet some things remain the same. Nearly half a century ago, Rachel Carson debuted the first serial installment of what would eventually become one of the landmark works of the 20th century, "Silent Spring." In that book, Carson famously argued that the pesticide DDT was responsible for negative impacts on the environment, animals […]
→ read full article(ITALIAN) IL BRASILE VINCE NELLA OMC: SANZIONI CONTRO GLI STATI UNITI
Gianni Minà – LatinoAmerica e tutti i sud del mondo,
20 Mar 2010
Alzando la bandiera dell’uguaglianza di condizioni commerciali il Brasile sconfigge gli Stati Uniti nell’Organizzazione mondiale per il commercio (OMC) che stabilisce il pieno diritto di Brasilia ad applicare sanzioni commerciali contro gli Stati Uniti, rei da sempre di assistere indebitamente la propria industria e la propria agricoltura. Senza risalire a Mar del Plata e all’impallinamento […]
→ read full articleA MORAL VEST
Dr. June Terpstra – Information Clearing House,
20 Mar 2010
In the film, Fidel, The Untold Story, there is an interview with Fidel Castro where he says he does not need a Kevlar vest to protect him from countless CIA assassination attempts because he wears a moral vest. I am back in Havana, Cuba today after visiting a natural medicine clinic in Santa Clara, Cuba; […]
→ read full articleKISSINGER’S 1974 PLAN FOR FOOD CONTROL GENOCIDE
Joseph Brewda – Market Watch,
20 Mar 2010
The study falsely claimed that population growth in the so-called Lesser Developed Countries (LDCs) was a grave threat to U.S. national security. Adopted as official policy in November 1975 by President Gerald Ford, NSSM 200 outlined a covert plan to reduce population growth in those countries through birth control, and also, implicitly, war and famine.On […]
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John Omaha - Truthout,
20 Mar 2010
Can a nation have PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder)? Can a diagnosis created to understand the dysregulated behavior of individuals be applied to an entire nation? I argue yes on both counts. If a diagnosis can help us understand and treat aberrant behavior, then it doesn’t matter if the aberrantly behaving thing is an individual or […]
→ read full articleNEPAL’S FORMER PRIME MINISTER DIES
Steve Herman - VOA News, New Delhi,
20 Mar 2010
Nepal’s former five-term prime minister has died. Girija Prasad Koirala, who was in his mid-80’s still headed the country’s Congress Party, playing a critical role in Nepal’s fragile government until just before his death. There are concerns his passing could re-plunge the Himalayan nation into a chaotic period. Nepal’s senior statesman died early Saturday [20 […]
→ read full articlePROTECTING ISRAEL’S LAWLESSNESS WITH SPYING AND SMEAR CAMPAIGN
Naomi Klein,
19 Mar 2010
A while ago, the Reut Institute, arguably Israel’s most influential think tank, published a very controversial report about "hubs of delegitimization." It attempted to equate tactics of non-violent resistance—like the growing movement to use Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) to force Israel to comply with international law—with a military campaign to destroy the state of […]
→ read full articleCLOSE THE WAIHOPAI SPYBASE NOW!
Anti-Bases Campaign,
18 Mar 2010
WHAT IS THE ANTI-BASES CAMPAIGN (ABC)? We are a Christchurch-based group with links and members all over Aotearoa/New Zealand. We concentrate on the foreign military and intelligence installations in New Zealand. There are three – the US "Deep Freeze" military base at Harewood (Christchurch Airport); and the "NZ" intelligence gathering installations at Tangimoana (Manawatu) and […]
→ read full articleSPY BASE VERDICT LETS PROTESTERS GO FREE
Vaimoana Tapaleao – NZHerald,
18 Mar 2010
Three peace protesters have been found not guilty of an attack on a top-secret South Island spy base, despite freely admitting causing damage put at $1 million. Otaki schoolteacher Adrian Leason, Auckland Catholic priest Peter Murnane and Hokianga farmer Sam Land were cleared by a Wellington District Court jury yesterday evening of burglary and wilful […]
→ read full articleON THE WAIHOPAI THREE VERDICT, AND EAST JERUSALEM
Gordon Campbell,
18 Mar 2010
The acquittal of the Waihopai Three for their attack on the Waihopai spy base is as welcome as it is surprising. To succeed in court, one would have thought they would need to have proved a direct connection between the base near Blenheim and the war atrocities inside Iraq and/or the renditions occurring elsewhere – […]
→ read full articleST. PATRICK’S DAY AT BELFAST
Aurobinda Mahapatra, Ph.D.,
18 Mar 2010
This morning I went to the City Hall at the centre of the Belfast city to watch the march of processions to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. This day is celebrated on 17 March of every year. St. Patrick is revered by Christians throughout the world as a great Saint who could uphold the values of […]
→ read full articleTHE DANGER OF A SINGLE STORY
Chimamanda Adichie,
18 Mar 2010
Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding. In Nigeria, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Half of a Yellow […]
→ read full articleACTIVISM 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 article(SPANISH) EN DEFENSA DE CUBA
Red En defensa de la Humanidad*,
18 Mar 2010
El acoso económico y mediático al que está siendo sometida Cuba, aun antes del deceso del preso común Orlando Zapata, constituye un atentado contra los derechos humanos y políticos de un pueblo que decidió hacer un camino diferente. Exigimos respeto a los procesos internos del pueblo cubano para definir y ejercer su democracia.A propósito de […]
→ read full articlePENTAGON SEES A THREAT FROM ONLINE MUCKRAKERS
Stephanie Strom – The New York Times,
18 Mar 2010
To the list of the enemies threatening the security of the United States, the Pentagon has added WikiLeaks.org, a tiny online source of information and documents that governments and corporations around the world would prefer to keep secret. The Pentagon assessed the danger WikiLeaks.org posed to the Army in a report marked “unauthorized disclosure subject […]
→ read full articleBANNING CLUSTER BOMBS: LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS OF CONFLICTS
Rene Wadlow - Toward Freedom,
18 Mar 2010
In a remarkable combination of civil society pressure and leadership from a small number of progressive States, a strong ban on the use, manufacture, and stocking of cluster bombs will come into force on August 1, 2010 now that 30 States have ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions. The Convention bans the use, production, transfer […]
→ 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. […]
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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 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 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 […]
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 […]
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