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SAVAGERY AND SILENCE IN THE FIRST WORLD
Sandy Leon Vest – Toward Freedom,
5 Nov 2009
In America – in my country – I fear we are losing the battle for our humanity. Some say we have already lost it.Deep down I think they may be right. Such is the level of violence, voyeurism and detachment displayed this October in Richmond, California, when at least two dozen students cheered, laughed or […]
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TMS Editor,
4 Nov 2009
The UN Goldstone report is a well-researched, fair-minded report. Israel and Hamas must conduct credible, independent investigations on war crimes and possible crimes against humanity or face the International Criminal Court. We demand accountability for all victims, respect for the rule of law, international law and human rights.CLICK TO VIEW 2m29s BILL MOYERS INTERVIEW WITH […]
→ read full articleTHE STRUGGLE AGAINST FREE TRADE CONTINUES
Gabriela Campos – Foreign Policy in Focus,
4 Nov 2009
On October 15th, La Mesa Nacional Frente a La Minería Metálica en El Salvador, also known as El Salvador’s National Roundtable on Mining, won the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award awarded by the Institute for Policy Studies for their fight against mining in El Salvador.As the international community’s attention is fixed on the coup and crisis […]
→ read full articleBRAZIL’S NEW POLITICAL IDENTITY
Arthur Ituassu - Open Democracy,
4 Nov 2009
Brazil’s social and economic achievements during President Lula’s period in office is the foundation of its rising international status. But to ensure its future Brazil needs to pass two major tests.A number of events has projected Brazil into the headlines of international news, besides the traditional stories about violence, natural catastrophes or environmental issues. Behind […]
→ read full articleOCT 28 2009 MEETING IN UK PARLIAMENT AGAINST THE TRIDENT NUCLEAR WEAPONS SYSTEM
Diana Basterfield – Ministry for Peace, UK,
4 Nov 2009
[Editor’s Note: The Trident missile is a multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) designed by Lockheed Martin Space Systems in the United States which is armed with nuclear warheads and is launched from nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs). Trident missiles are carried by fourteen active US Navy Ohio class submarines, with U.S.-designed […]
→ read full articleA PALESTINIAN VIEW: PALESTINIAN RECONCILIATION AND THE PEACE PROCESS
Walid Salem - Center for Democracy and Community Development, Jerusalem,
2 Nov 2009
With the current paralysis in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process–which is due to the Israeli government’s refusal to abide by its obligations under previously signed agreements, notably the roadmap–it might at first glance seem strange to ask what are the ramifications of Palestinian unity for Palestinian-Israeli relations. But this is an Israeli government that tries to […]
→ read full articleLATIN AMERICA’S ECONOMIC REBELS
Mark Weisbrot - Center for Economic and Policy Research,
1 Nov 2009
Ecuador, Bolivia Show that Even Small Developing Countries Can Pursue Independent Economic Policies, Stand Up for Their Rights, and WinAmong the conventional wisdom that we hear every day in the business press is that developing countries should bend over backwards to create a friendly climate for foreign corporations, follow orthodox (neoliberal) macroeconomic policy advice and […]
→ read full articleDARING TO UNDERSTAND
Maryam Sakeenah - Dissident Voice,
1 Nov 2009
A Suicide bomber: A grotesque, bloodthirsty monster. And this haggard, greying old man with his vacant eyes and broken slipper, like the broken spirit within as the cameras stare into his face and the headlines are splashed across interfaces: Suicide Bomber. Caught in the Act. A thrilling, juicy piece of news. It will fly. And […]
→ read full articleIMPOSSIBLEISM
Aetius Romulous,
31 Oct 2009
Uninterrupted, sustainable economic growth is impossible. Those who support it are “Impossibleists”. They practice, preach, and defend to the death at times, “Impossibleism”. It is a universal phenomenon, practiced across economic, political, cultural, and social spectrums around the globe. Impossibleism is an umbrella philosophy that captures the insanity of any system that is completely unsustainable […]
→ read full articleProf. Johan Galtung on his latest book, ‘The Fall of the US Empire-And Then What? Successors, Regionalization or Globalization? US Fascism or US Blossoming?’
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2009
Interview with Prof. Johan Galtung about his latest book, ‘The Fall of the US Empire-And Then What? Successors, Regionalization or Globalization? US Fascism or US Blossoming?’ – Washington-DC, Oct 30 2009 (http://www.transcend.org/tup/) httpv://www.youtube.com/v/SfcoNlhxRow&hl=en&fs=1
→ read full articleTHE MYTH OF COLLATERAL DAMAGE: TRUTH, CONSEQUENCES AND A CHALLENGE TO ‘SAY IT PLAIN’
Luis Carlos Montalván,
30 Oct 2009
Maybe mainstream media’s penchant for superficial and divisive reporting, combined with the Department of Defense and State’s culture of secrecy, have created a popular vocabulary that reduces wide-scale human suffering to a necessary and insignificant cost, the equivalent of a few broken eggs. Maybe there are too many reporters telling the same story from a […]
→ read full articleELIMINATION OF WAR: SACROSSANT OBLIGATION
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D.,
28 Oct 2009
Since the early days of human existence, our earthly community has been basically characterized by violence of one kind or another. As time rolled on, the means used to destroy people became increasingly more sophisticated. Today, it’s enough to drop a few of bombs from the air to destroy the infrastructure of a city […]
→ read full articleLOCKED IN: LIFE IN GAZA – 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. Aljazeera video
TMS Editor,
28 Oct 2009
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WILL THE REAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PLEASE STAND UP?
TMS Editor,
28 Oct 2009
Yes Men Spoof that Fooled the Media Eric Wohlschlegel confronts Hingo Sembra. Which one legitimately represents the right way for American business? Oct. 19, 11:15am, Washington, D.C. Press Club.CLICK TO VIEW YOUTUBE VIDEO CLIP – FLUXDEPOT CNBC AND FOX ON CHAMBER CLIMATE HOAX A montage of CNBC and Fox Business Network reporting, then retracting the […]
→ read full articleWELCOME TO 2025
Michael T. Klare,
28 Oct 2009
American Preeminence Is Disappearing Fifteen Years EarlyMemo to the CIA: You may not be prepared for time-travel, but welcome to 2025 anyway! Your rooms may be a little small, your ability to demand better accommodations may have gone out the window, and the amenities may not be to your taste, but get used to it. […]
→ read full articleBALKANS: MUSEUM SPEAKS OF ROMA MISERY
Vesna Peric Zimonjic,
28 Oct 2009
The Balkans gets its first museum on the Roma, to tell a story about one of the most underprivileged ethnic groups in the region."This is practically the first museum of Roma culture in this part of Europe aimed at erasing the deep-rooted prejudice that Roma are illiterate or leave no records on their existence," head […]
→ read full articleDRUG DECRIMINALIZATION: A TREND TAKES SHAPE
Coletta A. Youngers and John M. Walsh,
28 Oct 2009
Latin American frustration with the “war on drugs” is growing. Harsh anti-drug laws have failed to stem apparently rising drug use, and incarceration rates are climbing—up 40 percent on average in Mexico and South America over the last decade—with more drug users and low-level dealers behind bars. But high-level drug traffickers carry on with impunity. […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) INDÍGENAS BUSCAM FORTALECER UNIDADE A NÍVEL CONTINENTAL
Cimi,
28 Oct 2009
Representantes da Bolívia, Argentina, Paraguai e Brasil definem linhas gerais do III Encontro Continental do Povo Guarani, que acontecerá no Paraguai em 2010.Representantes do Povo Guarani da Bolívia, Argentina, Paraguai e Brasil se reuniram em Foz de Iguaçu, de 16 a 19 de outubro, para definir linhas gerais sobre o que vai ser o III […]
→ read full articleTHE HUNGER BOOM
Ananya Mukherjee,
28 Oct 2009
One billion people, 1.02 billion to be precise, are hungry: we hear from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) as it releases its Report on the State of Food Insecurity. Accompanying this unprecedented level of hunger are lowest levels of food aid ‘in living memory’, warned the World Food Programme (WFP), which has collaborated on […]
→ read full articleRAINFOREST TREATY ‘FATALLY FLAWED’
Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor,
28 Oct 2009
Climate Summit Loophole Lets Palm Oil Producers Cull Vital Wilderness A vital safeguard to protect the world’s rainforests from being cut down has been dropped from a global deforestation treaty due to be signed at the climate summit in Copenhagen in December. Under proposals due to be ratified at the summit, countries which cut down […]
→ read full articleGO VEGGIE TO FIGHT GLOBAL WARMING, SAYS EXPERT
Matt Dickinson, Press Association,
28 Oct 2009
One of the world’s leading climate change gurus urged people to become vegetarian today, to help beat global warming. Nicholas Stern, the author of an influential 2006 review of climate change, said methane emissions from cows and pigs were putting "enormous pressure" on the world and people needed to think about what they ate. He […]
→ read full articleARRESTING BLAIR
George Monbiot - Published in the Guardian, 26th October 2009,
28 Oct 2009
His bid for the EU presidency gives us the best chance we’ll ever have.Tony Blair’s bid to become president of the European Union has united the left in revulsion. His enemies argue that he divided Europe by launching an illegal war; he kept the UK out of the eurozone and the Schengen agreement; he is […]
→ read full articleTHE CONSTRUCTION OF THE IRAN “THREAT” (Part 1)
Edward S. Herman and David Peterson,
28 Oct 2009
The Iran Versus the U.S.-Israeli-NATO Threats It is spell-binding to see how the U.S. establishment can inflate the threat of a target, no matter how tiny, remote, and (most often) non-existent that threat may be, and pretend that the real threat posed by its own behavior and policies is somehow defensive and related to that […]
→ read full articleROOTS AND BRANCHES OF THE BASES
Hector Mondragon,
28 Oct 2009
I The United States guarantees positively and efficiently to New Granada, by the present stipulation, the perfect neutrality of the Panama isthmus, by which the free transit from one to the other ocean will never, for so long as this Treaty exists, be interrupted, nor slowed, and, following this, guarantees in the same way the […]
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Edward S. Herman and David Peterson,
28 Oct 2009
The Iran Versus the U.S.-Israeli-NATO Threats And the media tremble also. Iranian words are also frightening, just as were Krushchev’s "I will bury you," the alleged Sandinista threat of a "revolution without borders," and Grenada’s reported threat to cut off the supply of nutmeg. Notoriously, in the rich load of disinformation that surrounds Iranian President […]
→ read full articleCUBA FACES OBAMA ADMINISTRATION CONTRADICTONS
Salim Lamrani,
28 Oct 2009
On September 23, 2009, President Barack Obama addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations for the first time in a speech hailed by the entire international community. Obama acknowledged that the hyper-interventionism of the U.S. in the internal affairs of other countries was a serious mistake. "No nation should be forced to accept the […]
→ read full articleAMY GOODMAN: BREAKING THE SOUND BARRIER
Bill Moyers,
28 Oct 2009
Bill Moyers writes this introduction to Amy Goodman’s latest book, "Breaking the Sound Barrier," published by Haymarket Books. You can learn more of the truth about Washington and the world from one week of Amy Goodman’s "Democracy Now!" than from a month of Sunday morning talk shows. Make that a year of Sunday morning […]
→ read full articleAFTER ALL I AM A PROPER ZIONIST JEW
Gilad Atzmon,
28 Oct 2009
I Am a Holocaust SurvivorYes, I am a survivor, for I have managed to survive all the scary accounts of the Holocaust: the one about the soap (1), the one about the lamp shades, the one about the camps, the mass shooting, the one about the gas (2) and the one about the death march […]
→ read full articleCOUNTERTERRORISM AND COUNTERINSURGENCY ARE DEAD ENDS, EXIT STRATEGY IS THE REAL ALTERNATIVE IN AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN AND IRAQ
Tom Hayden,
28 Oct 2009
Last night I participated in a Chicago forum with a retired US general who directs a large "capacity building" program on many battlegrounds of The Long War. It was a great dialogue, but I was chilled by one point he made, because I hear it all the time within national security circles. He said that […]
→ read full articleSOCIALISM AND “ANIMAL RIGHTS”
Paul D’Amato,
28 Oct 2009
To compare the condition of animals to groups of humans that are oppressed is to view the latter through a paternalistic lens, rather than a lens of human liberation.OUR SOCIETY engages in practices that are cruel toward animals. The spread of capitalism worldwide has seriously shrunk or destroyed the natural habitat of thousands of species, […]
→ read full articleTACKLING TERRORISM
Noam Chomsky,
25 Oct 2009
Edited extracts from his recent interview with Channel 4’s Jon Snow If someone was watching this from Mars, they’d collapse in ridicule. The United States is telling Iran to stop its aggressive militarism? I mean we occupy two countries on their border, US spending on arms is approximately equal to the rest of the world […]
→ read full articleTHE WANDERING WHO?
Gilad Atzmon,
25 Oct 2009
Tel Aviv University historian, Professor Shlomo Sand, opens his remarkable study of Jewish nationalism quoting Karl W. Deutsch: “A nation is a group of people united by a common mistake regarding its origin and a collective hostility towards its neighbours.”1 As simple or even simplistic as it may sound, the quote above eloquently summarises the […]
→ read full articleWHEN THE MEDIA IS A BIG PART OF THE PROBLEM
Mark Weisbrot,
24 Oct 2009
What kind of a public debate can we have on the most vital issues of the day in the United States? A lot depends on the media, which determines how these issues are framed for most people.Take the war in Afghanistan, which has been subject to major debate here lately, as President Obama has to […]
→ read full articleCASHING IN THE WAR DIVIDEND
Jo Comerford,
24 Oct 2009
The Joys of Perpetual WarSo you thought the Pentagon was already big enough? Well, what do you know, especially with the price of the American military slated to grow by at least 25% over the next decade? Forget about the butter. It’s bad for you anyway. And sheer military power, as well as the money […]
→ read full articleCYBER RESISTANCE
Dahr Jamail,
24 Oct 2009
If technology has transformed warfare into a spectacle of shock and awe, its contribution to the cause of dissent has been no less remarkable. It has enabled solidarities across borders and facilitated networks and forums dedicated to impartial communication of ground realities beyond the sanitized projection of mainstream news. True, technological advances have not […]
→ read full articleLITERATURE: BIBLE IS “A CATALOGUE OF CRUELTIES”
Mario de Queiroz,
24 Oct 2009
After a nearly two-decade truce, Portuguese Nobel literature laureate José Saramago has returned to the charge against the Catholic Church. This time his target is the Bible itself, which he describes as "a manual of bad morals" and a "catalogue of cruelties and of the worst of human nature". "About the holy book, I tend […]
→ read full articleFULL TEXT OF THE ‘GOLDSTONE REPORT’
UN Human Rights Council,
24 Oct 2009
United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza ConflictPresentation of the report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict to the Human Rights Council – 29 September 2009 Head of the UN Fact Finding Mission Justice Richard Goldstone presented the report of the Mission to the Human Rights Council in Geneva […]
→ read full articleREPORT OF THE EVALUATION OF DDR (DISARMAMENT, DEMOBILIZATION AND REINTEGRATION) AND CIP (COMMANDER’S INCENTIVE PROGRAM) IN AFGHANISTAN
submission of Robin-Edward Poulton,
24 Oct 2009
Paper deliverd by the author to a symposium at Washington, DC on Oct 21, 2009The report consists of five parts: 1: Summary Report 2: Lessons and Recommendations 3: Commander Incentives Programme 4: Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration 5: Annexes ABSTRACT Between 2003 and 2006 the UNDP and UNAMA assisted the Government of Afghanistan to organise the […]
→ read full articleSY HERSH: MILITARY ‘IN WAR AGAINST THE WHITE HOUSE’
Susie Madrak,
24 Oct 2009
So many of the saner people were driven out of the military during the Bush administration, it doesn’t surprise me that the people left include a lot of the right-wing, racist fringe elements. Still, it’s shocking to hear this:DURHAM — The U.S. military is not just fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, America’s most renowned […]
→ read full articleTRICK OR TREAT FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
Amy Goodman,
24 Oct 2009
Halloween is around the corner, and children will soon be dressing up and chanting "trick or treat," their demand for candy backed up by the threat of a prank. Climate-change activists, from pranksters to presidents, are doing the same. This past Monday, the activist-artist group The Yes Men staged another of its hoaxes, with one […]
→ read full articleAGAINST GM TOXIC SOY
TMS Editor,
23 Oct 2009
The Dutch government is playing an active role to have GMO crops accepted and introduced to Europe. Part of this is the financial and political support for the Round Table on Resposible Soy (RTRS). This platform of mostly industry and big producers has set up a very weak standard that gives GM Roundup Ready soy […]
→ read full articleAN ECOTOPIA FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION
Clemens Höges,
23 Oct 2009
Samso Island Is Face of Danish Green Revolution The Danish island of Samso is a mecca for climate protection experts, because its residents generate more energy than they consume — with wind turbines, solar panels, straw combustion and heat exchangers that extract heat from cow’s milk. The small ecotopia will be held up as a […]
→ read full articleTHE BALANCE OF POWER – EXCHANGES WITH BBC JOURNALISTS (Part 2)
MediaLens,
20 Oct 2009
A Gale Of Spring Air: Barbara Plett And The PresidentOn September 24, we wrote to the BBC’s Barbara Plett: Dear Barbara Plett It’s hard to believe your article, ‘Debuts and diatribes at the UN’, was written by a member of an ostensibly free press. You write of Obama: “New US President Barack Obama set the […]
→ read full articleIMPERIAL GLOBALIZATION AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA
Profs. James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer,
20 Oct 2009
The unimpeded growth of Euro-American capitalism following the collapse of Soviet and European communism, the conversion of China and Indochina to state capitalism, and the rise of US backed, free-market military dictatorships in Latin America give new impetus to Western empire building, labeled “globalization”. The process of globalization was the result of ‘external’ and ‘internal’ […]
→ read full articlePANAMA LAUNCHES FREE INTERNET FOR ALL PROJECT
Telecompaper,
20 Oct 2009
Panama has launched the Internet for All project. The first phase of the programme will provide free internet connections to 500 locations in 11 cities across Panama, including Penonome, Colon, David, Chitre, Arraijan, Panama, La Chorrera, Santiago, Sona and Pese. Users will be able to access the internet at speeds of up to 512 kbps. […]
→ read full articleHOW CAN THE U.S. BE AN EMPIRE AND A DEMOCRACY AT THE SAME TIME?
Bill Moyers,
20 Oct 2009
An interview with Mark Danner, whose new book, Stripping Bare the Body, explores the strange notion of a democratic empire and the wars it wages. Broadcast on PBS’s Bill Moyers Journal.Bill Moyers: President Obama has been holding one meeting after another trying to decide whether to escalate the war in Afghanistan. He would do well […]
→ read full articleTHE CRIME OF OUR TIME: WAS THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE “INDEED, CRIMINAL?”
Stephen Lendman,
20 Oct 2009
A Review of Danny Schechter’s BookDanny Schechter is a media activist, critic, independent filmmaker, and TV producer as well as an author of 10 books and lecturer on media issues. Some call him "The News Dissector," and that’s the name of his popular blog on media issues. He’s also the co-founder of Media Channel.org that […]
→ read full articleAN IMPERIAL STRATEGY FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER: THE ORIGINS OF WORLD WAR III (Part 1)
Andrew Gavin Marshall,
18 Oct 2009
Introduction In the face of total global economic collapse, the prospects of a massive international war are increasing. Historically, periods of imperial decline and economic crisis are marked by increased international violence and war. The decline of the great European empires was marked by World War I and World War II, with the Great Depression taking […]
→ read full articleDECEPTION, SPIN AND LIES
Gilad Atzmon,
17 Oct 2009
‘By way of deception thou shalt do war.’– the Mossad motto Less than a week after Ankara cancelled an air exercise with Israel, Turkey’s state-sponsored channel TRT1 broadcast “Ayrilik” (”Farewell”), a new prime-time TV show that depicts the true image of Israel’s genocidal military operation in Gaza last January. The Israelis are not happy. “Broadcasting […]
→ read full articleBARBARA EHRENREICH: THE RELENTLESS PROMOTION OF POSITIVE THINKING HAS UNDERMINED AMERICA
Emily Wilson,
17 Oct 2009
The author talks about how a plague of positive thinking is permeating our society, from medicine to business, and is even contributing to our financial crisis.When Barbara Ehrenreich went to be treated for breast cancer, she was exhorted to think positively; and when she expressed feelings of fear and anger, she was chided for being […]
→ read full articleMedia for Peace Training Workshop in Sudan
Xchange Perspectives - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2009
Sudan, September 2009 – A video by Xchange Perspectives httpv://www.youtube.com/v/0yo8h0eJoF4&hl=en&fs=1
→ read full articleA NATO FOR THE MIDDLE EAST?
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya,
16 Oct 2009
Israel and Frontline Arab States Join Hands After the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq the U.S. and British governments gave up their excuses about bringing democracy to the people of the Middle East and started slowly talking about their strategic interests in the region. Fighting terrorism and bringing democracy were mere pretexts for military assaults. The […]
→ read full articleTHE BALANCE OF POWER: EXCHANGES WITH BBC JOURNALISTS (Part 1)
MediaLens,
15 Oct 2009
In our previous alert (‘The Westminster Conspiracy,’ October 8) we described how the media’s insistence that journalists be ’balanced’, that they keep their personal opinions to themselves, is used as a tool of thought control. Journalists who criticise powerful interests can be attacked for their ‘bias’, for revealing their prejudices. On the other hand, as […]
→ read full articleLATIN MERICA’S TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SOCIALISM IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Prof. James Petras,
14 Oct 2009
The electoral victory of center left regimes in at least three Latin American countries, and the search for a new ideological identity to justify their rule, led ideologues and the incumbent presidents to embrace the notion that they represent a new 21st century version of socialism (21cs). Prominent writers, academics and regime spokespeople celebrated a […]
→ read full articleCOMMONS PROTEST AS TRAFIGURA GAG LIFTED
Andy McSmith,
14 Oct 2009
Carter-Ruck, the most feared firm of libel lawyers in the country, beat a retreat yesterday as information that its client had hoped to suppress was spread across the internet by bloggers and tweeters. Had the lawyers had their way, no one would have been allowed to report that an MP had asked a question that […]
→ read full articleDIRTY TRICKS AND TOXIC WASTE IN IVORY COAST
Meirion Jones and Liz MacKean, BBC,
14 Oct 2009
It is the biggest toxic dumping scandal of the 21st century, the type of environmental vandalism that international treaties are supposed to prevent. Now Newsnight can reveal the truth about the waste that was illegally tipped on Ivory Coast’s biggest city, Abidjan. A giant multinational is being sued in London’s High Court by thousands of […]
→ read full articleFROM DELUSION TO VINDICTIVENESS
Gilad Atzmon,
13 Oct 2009
Interpreting the Zionist DreamAs an Israeli youngster I myself succumbed to this dream. I tended to believe that Israel was ‘my’ historic land, I regarded the Biblical protagonists as my direct ancestors. I was sure that, at least in the case of the so called ‘first Israelis’, the ideological transplant operation was a great success. […]
→ read full articleJENIN MONITORING REPORT
Giorgia Giambi,
13 Oct 2009
Jenin Pilot EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Since mid-2007, after Hamas took power in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank has become the focus of an international strategy in which aid and international political recognition would be heaped on the territory under PA rule, with the purpose of bolstering the peace process and further isolating an impoverished and […]
→ read full article(ITALIAN) NUOVA TASK FORCE USA PER INTERVENIRE IN AMERICA LATINA
Antonio Mazzeo,
13 Oct 2009
Negli stessi giorni in cui è stata ufficializzata l’assegnazione del premio Nobel per la pace al presidente Barack Obama, il Dipartimento della difesa degli Stati Uniti ha annunciato la costituzione di una nuova e potentissima task force aeronavale destinata a presidiare i mari del contiente latinoamericano. Si tratta del Carrier Strike Group CSG 1 e […]
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→ read full articleTHE MYTH OF “AMERICA”
Dahr Jamail and Jason Coppola,
13 Oct 2009
Happy Columbus Day Columbus sailed the ocean blue in Fourteen Hundred and Ninety Two … May the spirit of adventure and discovery always be with you. Wishing you a great Columbus Day – Columbus Day greeting card To mark Columbus Day In 2004, the Medieval and Renaissance Center in UCLA published the final […]
→ read full articleOBAMA AND THE NOBEL PRIZE: WHEN WAR BECOMES PEACE, WHEN THE LIE BECOMES THE TRUTH
Michel Chossudovsky,
12 Oct 2009
When war becomes peace, When concepts and realities are turned upside down, When fiction becomes truth and truth becomes fiction. When a global military agenda is heralded as a humanitarian endeavor, When the killing of civilians is upheld as "collateral damage", When those who resist the US-NATO led invasion of their homeland are […]
→ read full articleTHE BIG QUESTION: IS THE BITTER DIVIDE BETWEEN TURKEY AND ARMENIA COMING TO AN END?
Marcus Tanner,
12 Oct 2009
Why are we asking this now? Because Turkey and Armenia finally signed an agreement on Saturday [Oct 10, 2009] to restore diplomatic ties, which Turkey broke off in 1993, and reopen the border, which Turkey closed that same year. The accord will hopefully bury the hatchet – or at least part of the hatchet – […]
→ read full articleCONGRATULATIONS PRESIDENT OBAMA ON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE – NOW PLEASE EARN IT!
Michael Moore,
10 Oct 2009
Dear President Obama, How outstanding that you’ve been recognized today as a man of peace. Your swift, early pronouncements — you will close Guantanamo, you will bring the troops home from Iraq, you want a nuclear weapon-free world, you admitted to the Iranians that we overthrew their democratically-elected president in 1953, you made that great […]
→ read full articleSCANDAL: OBAMA GETS THE “PEACE PRIZE”
Jan Oberg, Member of TRANSCEND,
10 Oct 2009
In his will, Alfred Nobel states the criteria for awarding the prize:Two general expressions, for all the five prizes: «during the preceding year» «has conferred the greatest benefit on mankind» and four expressions that apply particularly to the peace prize*:– "brotherhood among nations" – "abolition or reduction of standing armies" – "for the holding and […]
→ read full articleWAR/NO MORE TROUBLE – Playing for Change | Songs Around The World – This unforgetable track was performed by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it traveled the globe.
TMS Editor,
10 Oct 2009
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→ read full articleSOUTH-SOUTH RADIO FROM CARACAS TO AFRICA
Mildred Pineda,
9 Oct 2009
Poverty, attacks on human rights and corporate fraud will be among the main news coverage focuses of a new regional public radio network, Radio del Sur, which will link stations from South America and Africa. Radio del Sur (Radio of the South) emerged as "an instrument of integration in a world of shifting power alignments […]
→ read full articleHONDURAS – 100 DAYS OF REPRESSION AND RESISTANCE
Tom Loudon,
9 Oct 2009
Today [Oct 6 2009] marks 100 days since a military coup was carried out against President Zelaya in Honduras. It also marks 100 days of massive, sustained, nonviolent resistance on the part of the Honduran people who are saying no to this brazen attempt to return to the days of dictators. In the face […]
→ read full articleEU’S LUCKY CHARM: IRELAND SUPPORTS LISBON TREATY – NOW WHAT?
Joelle Fiss, Human Rights First Pennoyer Fellow,
9 Oct 2009
BRUSSELS, October 3, 2009 – "This is a day of celebration for Ireland and for Europe", chuckled former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt to the press from a smoke-filled Irish pub in the heart of the European Union headquarters in Brussels. As EU staffers and journalists huddled around him, Verhofstadt was watching the live TV […]
→ read full articleINDIA, CHINA AND PAKISTAN: UNEASY EQUATIONS
Aurobinda Mahapatra,
9 Oct 2009
Some of the recent developments bring to the fore the uneasy nature of regional dynamics in the Indian subcontinent with the powers India, China and Pakistan playing their national cards vigorously. Pakistan-China agreement to develop hydroelectric project at Bunji in the Kashmir currently under the control of Pakistan, India’s objection to Pakistan’s granting of autonomous […]
→ read full article‘RETHINKING AFGHANISTAN’
Robert Greenwald (documentary) & Jeremy Scahill (article),
9 Oct 2009
Destroys Failed Logic of WarNew Video Documentary & Article Americans should stop and rethink support for a war that worsens by the day, costs billions of dollars, causes the deaths of U.S. soldiers and countless Afghan civilians and which, ultimately, will make the U.S. less safe. CLICK TO VIEW – ICH
→ read full articleNOBEL PEACE PRIZE TO PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate,
9 Oct 2009
PRESS RELEASE – Friday, Oct 9 2009 Speaking from Belfast regarding the Nobel Peace Prize 2009 being awarded to President Barack Obama, the 1976 Nobel Peace Laureate, Mairead Maguire, said: ‘I am very disappointed with the decision of the Nobel Committee to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 to President Barack Obama. They say […]
→ read full articleCOUPS, UNASUR, AND THE U.S.
Noam Chomsky,
6 Oct 2009
From a talk given in Caracas, Venezuela on August 29 (updated September 9) The last time I had the opportunity to speak in Caracas—at long-distance that time—was about a year ago, right after the UNASUR (Union of South American Nations) meeting in Santiago in September 2008. That meeting was called "with the purpose of considering […]
→ read full articleDECONSTRUCTING THE ISRAELI NARRATIVE
Dan Lieberman,
6 Oct 2009
As Israel’s democratic posture becomes more questioned, its mystique becomes more exaggerated. To prove the validity of its actions, Israel’s supporters focus on three components of Israel’s drive to an accomplished nation: The significance of the Zionist mission, Israel as a Jewish state, and Israel not being responsible for the Palestinian displaced […]
→ read full articleSOUTH ASIAN FEDERALIST (SAF) URGES FOR UN ASSEMBLY IN KATHMANDU
Himalayan News Service,
6 Oct 2009
KATHMANDU: South Asian Federalist (SAF) launched a campaign for the establishment of United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA), in Kathmandu, today [Oct 3, 2009].At a press meet in the capital, James Arputharaj W, President South Asian Federalist, claimed that the purpose of the UNPA was to represent citizens in global institutions. He further stated, “it would […]
→ read full articleTHE UN MUST ADOPT THE GOLDSTONE REPORT
Omar Barghouti,
6 Oct 2009
Dissolve the Palestinian AuthorityPalestinian civil society has strongly and almost unanimously condemned the Palestinian Authority’s latest decision to delay adoption by the UN Human Rights Council of the report prepared by the UN Fact-Finding Mission, headed by justice Richard Goldstone, into the recent Israeli war of aggression against the Palestinian people in the occupied Gaza […]
→ read full article16 OCTOBER: WORLD FOOD DAY
Rene Wadlow, Member of TRANSCEND,
6 Oct 2009
A Citizens of the World Focus16 October is the UN-designated World Food Day, the date chosen being the anniversary of the creation of the FAO in 1945 with the aim, as stated in its Constitution of “contributing towards an expanding world economy and ensuring humanity’s freedom from hunger.” Freedom from hunger is not simply a […]
→ read full articleLISBON TREATY: WILL WAR CRIMINAL TONY BLAIR BECOME PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION?
James Corbett,
5 Oct 2009
Major media outlets from the BBC in Britain to RTE in Ireland are now reporting that the Yes side scored a resounding victory in Ireland’s vote Friday on the EU Lisbon Treaty. With the treaty’s ratification, the obstacles preventing the total federalization of the EU superstate are now removed. As the Daily Mail reported earlier […]
→ read full articleBRAZILIAN FAVELAS IN THE MEDIA
Martim S Silveira,
4 Oct 2009
A History of Stereotyping 1. Introduction“Favela” is the generic name by which slums and shantytowns are known in Brazil. They are a national social phenomenon, spread throughout all the biggest urban centers in the country, inhabited by some of the poorest Brazilian families, and receiving little or no attention from the State in what concerns […]
→ read full articleTHE ECONOMIC RECOVERY IS AN ILLUSION
Andrew Gavin Marshall,
4 Oct 2009
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Warns of Future Crises War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, and Debt is Recovery In light of the ever-present and unyieldingly persistent exclamations of ‘an end’ to the recession, a ‘solution’ to the crisis, and a ‘recovery’ of the economy; we must remember that we are being […]
→ read full articleWARS, GUNS AND VOTES: DEMOCRACY IN DANGEROUS PLACES
Dr Mutuma Ruteer,
3 Oct 2009
Review of Paul Collier’s Book Reacting to Prof Paul Collier’s book that patronises ‘unsuccessful’ Sub Saharan states and others, researcher MUTUMA RUTEERE rejects its imperialistic tone, noting that Africa has handled its governance and security problems well. Paul Collier, a professor of economics at Oxford University, has written a troubling book. Wars, Guns & Votes: […]
→ read full articleTOWARD A BREAKDOWN OF THE CAPITALIST SUBJECT?
Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval | Le Monde,
3 Oct 2009
Perhaps the economic catastrophe is dissipating the most glaring illusions about the self-regulating market, making global capitalism’s doctrinarians a bit less arrogant, provoking the spectacular conversions of some "leaders" who would urgently like to make us forget their previous blindness. But the catastrophe has not yet brought about the blockage of all the apparatuses, […]
→ read full articleRIDDING THE WORLD OF THE SICKNESS OF PACIFISM
William Blum,
3 Oct 2009
Picture the scene: Afghanistan, two hijacked tankers filled with highly inflammable fuel, surrounded by a crowd of Afghans eager to syphon off some for free … What’s the last thing you want to do? Right — drop bombs on the tankers. That’s what a German military commander signaled an American drone airplane to do September […]
→ read full articleTHE ANGLO-US DRIVE INTO EURASIA AND THE DEMONIZATION OF RUSSIA
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya,
3 Oct 2009
Reframing the History of World War II As tensions mount between the U.S. and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on one side and Moscow and its allies on another, the history of the Second World War is being re-framed to demonize Russia, the legal successor state and largest former constituent republic (pars pro toto) […]
→ read full articleHACKING THE SKY
Jason Mark,
3 Oct 2009
Geo-Engineering Could Save the Planet … and in the Process Sacrifice the World Having unintentionally warmed the planet, we may have little choice but to intentionally cool it back down. But at what cost? Earth is busted. Like a supercomputer whose elaborate code has developed a few bugs, the core operating systems of the planet […]
→ read full articleTHE POPULATION MYTH
George Monbiot,
3 Oct 2009
People who claim that population growth is the big environmental issue are shifting the blame from the rich to the poor.It’s no coincidence that most of those who are obsessed with population growth are post-reproductive wealthy white men: it’s about the only environmental issue for which they can’t be blamed. The brilliant earth systems scientist […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) MÁFIAS FARMACEUTICAS
Ignacio Ramonet,
3 Oct 2009
Pouquíssimos meios de comunicação comentaram. A opinião pública não foi alertada. E, entretanto, as preocupantes conclusões do Informe final1 publicado pela Comissão Europeia, no dia 8 de Julho, sobre os abusos em matéria de competição no sector farmacêutico, merecem ser conhecidas pelos cidadãos e amplamente divulgadas. O que diz esse Informe? Em síntese? Que, no […]
→ read full article(FRENCH) AMÉRIQUE LATINE – GAUCHES SOCIALE ET POLITIQUE: ORPHELINE D’UNE STRATÉGIE
Emir Sader,
3 Oct 2009
Il manque encore à l’Amérique latine, continent de révolutions et de contre-révolutions, une pensée stratégique capable d’orienter des processus politiques riches et diversifiés, et qui soit à la hauteur des défis à relever. Malgré une forte capacité analytique, d’importants processus de transformation et des dirigeants révolutionnaires emblématiques, le continent n’a pas produit la théorie de […]
→ read full articleCASINO CAPITALISM AS USUAL
Mark Engler,
3 Oct 2009
Last week’s Group of 20 (G20) meeting in Pittsburgh brought together leaders from the most significant players in the global economy and charged them with renovating the financial system at the heart of the economic crisis. Change was on the agenda, and the heads of state claimed to deliver. As the summit concluded, The New […]
→ read full articleFROM SPACE, NO ONE CAN WATCH YOU DIE
Loring Wirbel and Bill Sulzman,
3 Oct 2009
Peace groups internationally are putting the pressure on President Obama this fall, as he ponders the request from Gen. McChrystal for a “surge” troop escalation in Afghanistan. Thankfully, leading Democrats and even former President Clinton are urging caution, though few are taking the wiser step of recommending a pullout. But there is an additional decision […]
→ read full articleCLEAN COAL IS FICTIONAL – Energy Action Coalition Executive Director Jessy Tolkan: Washington saying coal industry can be “clean” is pure fiction. A Real News Video
TMS Editor,
3 Oct 2009
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→ read full articleSOUTH AMERICA-AFRICA: COMING TOGETHER TO FIGHT POVERTY
Humberto Márquez,
28 Sep 2009
A declaration that puts an accent on the positions of the developing South and expresses a renewed commitment to cooperation in the fight against poverty and for development was signed by the leaders who met over the weekend in the second South America-Africa summit, on the Venezuelan island of Margarita. Eight South American and 20 […]
→ read full articleKEEP SPACE FOR PEACE WEEK – EVENTS PLANNED WORLDWIDE
TMS Editor,
28 Sep 2009
On October 3-10 a week of local protest events to Keep Space for Peace will be held worldwide. Each fall the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space organizes Keep Space for Peace Week: International Days of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space. These events are intended to help educate the public […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) FAVELAS BRASILEIRAS NA MÍDIA
Martim S Silveira,
28 Sep 2009
Uma História de Estereótipos1. IntroduçãoA palavra “favela”, no Brasil, não é somente usada para indicar os bairros mais pobres dos centros urbanos do país. Ela tem em si uma conotação negativa, já que serve também para descrever qualquer lugar “de mau aspecto” ou uma “situação que se considera desagradável ou desorganizada”, conforme definição do Dicionário […]
→ read full articleDON’T ISRAEL’S NUCLEAR WEAPONS COUNT?
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown,
28 Sep 2009
Netanyahu has what he wants to keep up the idea of his plucky, vulnerable little state.Influential Europeans – including many Muslims – recently debated freedom of expression with the Danish editor who commissioned the cartoons of Prophet Mohammed which led to riots. Held in Berlin, it was a good, at times blazing, debate. Freedom of […]
→ read full articleCOCA-COLA’S LIES ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY HAVE GONE TOO FAR
Amit Srivastava, India Resource Center,
26 Sep 2009
They’ve gone from greenwashing to outright lying.In 2007, facing growing opposition to its water management practices, particularly in India, Coca-Cola’s CEO, Neville Isdell came up with a brilliant idea. The Coca-Cola company, he announced, will become water neutral, replenishing every drop of water they use, and therefore, as the suggestion went, Coca-Cola would have no […]
→ read full articleA NEW NUCLEAR DEBATE IN INDIA
J. Sri Raman,
24 Sep 2009
As an anti-nuclear-weapon activist of India, I am abashed to admit this. But the main nuclear debate in the major South Asian country has not been the one between nuclear militarists and their opponents. It has been the one between two schools of nuclear militarism. The debate has acquired a new dimension, with […]
→ read full articleWHILE YOU ARE MINDING YOUR OWN BUSINESS, THE U.S. IS CONSTANTLY MAKING WAR AROUND THE GLOBE
Tom Engelhardt,
23 Sep 2009
As much as it might seem that most of us are going along, living peaceful lives, there’s another kind of America that operates on the same soil — a warfare state."War is peace" was one of the memorable slogans on the facade of the Ministry of Truth, Minitrue in "Newspeak," the language invented by George […]
→ read full articleGOLDSTONE COMMISSION GAZA CONFLICT FINDINGS AND REACTIONS
Stephen Lendman,
22 Sep 2009
On April 3, 2009, a UN press release stated:The Human Rights Council (HRC) today announced the appointment of Richard J. Goldstone….to lead an independent (four-person) fact-finding mission to investigate international human rights and humanitarian law violations related to the recent conflict in the Gaza Strip…. The team will be supported by staff of the Office […]
→ read full articleTOXIC ASSETS
George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian, 22nd September 2009,
22 Sep 2009
The Trafigura scandal is just one of thousands of cases of the rich world’s fly-tipping. It was revolting, monstrous, inhumane – and scarcely different from what happens in Africa almost every day. The oil trading company Trafigura has just agreed to pay compensation to 31,0000 people in Cote d’Ivoire, after the Guardian and the BBC’s […]
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