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THE HORROR OF HAITI: WHAT THE PRESS COVERAGE TELLS US
John Chuckman – Dissident Voice,
26 Jan 2010
It is relentless, the pictures of terror-stricken people, broken limbs, and bloated dead, and many of us cannot stand to see or hear more. One has to ask: what are we to do with such information? Create pressure on governments to keep the assistance flowing? Perhaps, but there is no shortage of assistance being sent […]
→ read full articleOUTSOURCING WAR: THE RISE OF PRIVATE MILITARY CONTRACTORS (PMCS)
Stephen Lendman – Dissident Voice,
26 Jan 2010
In The Prince, Machiavelli (May 1469 – June 1527) wrote: The mercenaries and auxiliaries are useless and dangerous, and if anyone supports his state by the arms of mercenaries, he will never stand firm or sure, as they are disunited, ambitious, without discipline, faithless, bold amongst friends, cowardly amongst enemies, they have no fear of […]
→ read full articleTHE DRONE SURGE: TODAY, TOMORROW, AND 2047
Nick Turse - Tomdispatch.com,
26 Jan 2010
Robots Will Soon Do All Our Killing For Us In the years ahead, unmanned machines will increasingly fight our wars. One moment there was the hum of a motor in the sky above. The next, on a recent morning in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, a missile blasted a home, killing 13 people. Days later, the same […]
→ read full articleWHEN SCHOLARS JOIN THE SLAUGHTER
Dahr Jamail - Truthout,
26 Jan 2010
A core tenant of the Obama administration’s plans for "victory" in Iraq and Afghanistan is an increased reliance on counterinsurgency.As previously reported on this web site, the US military has sent shock troops – anthropologists, sociologists and social psychologists – with their own troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan, who also donned helmets and flak […]
→ read full articleHAITI’S SUFFERING IS A RESULT OF CALCULATED IMPOVERISHMENT
Seumas Milne – The Guardian,
26 Jan 2010
Haiti’s poverty is treated as some baffling quirk of history or culture, when in reality it is the direct consequence of a uniquely brutal relationship with the outside world — notably the US, France and Britain — stretching back centuries. There is no relief for the people of Haiti, it seems, even in their hour […]
→ read full articleCONFLICT SOLUTIONS IN MAURITANIA
Mohamed Vall, in Africa,
24 Jan 2010
Mauritania is a tiny nation on the margins of the modern world. It’s been through several coups. Most of them not bloody. But there’s a really new trend that started to emerge since last year, one of peaceful dialogue.The former ruling junta finally sat around the negotiation table with the opposition. The deposed civilian president […]
→ read full articleLAST CHANCE TO SAVE WILD BUMBLE BEES — HAS COMMERCIAL SHIPPING BEEN WIPING THEM OUT?
Adam Federman - CounterPunch,
22 Jan 2010
Getting to the bottom of why bee populations have collapsed.In the early 1990s, the USDA conducted risk assessments of the interstate transport of bumble bees for commercial greenhouse pollination, particularly tomatoes. Because of the risk of introducing non-native pests and diseases into new areas, they concluded that commercially reared bumble bees should not be shipped […]
→ read full articleDO THE TALIBAN REPRESENT THE PASHTUNS? Muhammad Junaid: Pashtun traditional code conflicts with Taliban law, but the US attacks create support. Real News video.
TMS Editor,
22 Jan 2010
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→ read full articleIRAQ LITTERED WITH HIGH LEVELS OF NUCLEAR AND DIOXIN CONTAMINATION, STUDY FINDS
Martin Chulov in Baghdad - The Guardian,
22 Jan 2010
• Greater rates of cancer and birth defects near sites• Depleted uranium among poisons revealed in reportMore than 40 sites across Iraq are contaminated with high levels or radiation and dioxins, with three decades of war and neglect having left environmental ruin in large parts of the country, an official Iraqi study has found. Areas […]
→ read full articleONE QUARTER OF US GRAIN CROPS FED TO CARS – NOT PEOPLE, NEW FIGURES SHOW
John Vidal, environment editor – The Guardian,
22 Jan 2010
New analysis of 2009 US Department of Agriculture figures suggests biofuel revolution is impacting on world food supplies.One-quarter of all the maize and other grain crops grown in the US now ends up as biofuel in cars rather than being used to feed people, according to new analysis which suggests that the biofuel revolution launched […]
→ read full articleSTAND SHOULDER TO SHOULDER WITH THE PEOPLE OF HAITI
Marilyn Langlois - Haiti Emergency Relief Fund Board Member, TRANSCEND Convener for USA,
22 Jan 2010
–When asked “How are they surviving?” Haitian journalist Wadner Pierre responded, “Well, they’re all sharing. That’s what we do. That’s the way Haitians are.” (January 16) –“The city has seen little violence, despite persistent fears that shortages of food, water and shelter will spark unrest.” (January 21) –Photograph of a white female US Navy medic cradling and […]
→ read full articleCRIMINAL STATE: A CLOSER LOOK AT ISRAEL’S ROLE IN TERRORISM
Jeff Gates – Information Clearing House,
21 Jan 2010
Game theory war-planners rely on mathematical models to anticipate and shape outcomes with staged provocations. For the agent provocateur, the reactions to a provocation—as well as the reactions to those reactions—thereby become predictable within an acceptable range of probabilities. With ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan poised to expand to Iran and Pakistan, it is […]
→ read full articleHOW WESTERN DOMINATION HAS UNDERMINED HAITI’S ABILITY TO RECOVER FROM NATURAL DEVASTATION
Amy Goodman - Democracy NOW!,
21 Jan 2010
An interview with journalist Kim Ives about Washington’s domination of Haiti.AMY GOODMAN: I’m standing here near the airport in Port-au-Prince. I can’t exactly say my feet are firmly planted on the ground, because this morning, just about 6:00, here in Port-au-Prince, we were in our room and just getting ready to leave for this broadcast, […]
→ read full articleAMNESTY: ISRAEL ‘COLLECTIVELY PUNISHING’ GAZA
Middle East Online,
21 Jan 2010
AI: Israel as occupying power bears foremost responsibility for ensuring welfare of Gazans.Amnesty International on Monday [Jan 18 2010] accused Israel of "collectively punishing" the population of Gaza with border closures tightened after the democratically elected Hamas movement’s 2007 takeover. The British-based rights group said the firing of rockets by Palestinian resistance — which the […]
→ read full articleLEGACY OF US-HAITIAN RELATIONS DATING BACK TO 1804
Danny Glover and Amy Goodman - ZNet,
21 Jan 2010
Danny Glover is an acclaimed actor, director, producer and longtime friend of Haiti. His directorial debut, Toussaint, focused on the life of François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture, a former slave who became one of the fathers of Haiti’s independence from France in 1804. JUAN GONZALEZ: We’re joined here in New York by the acclaimed actor, director, producer and […]
→ read full articleEGYPT PROCEEDS WITH UNDERGROUND BARRIER ON BORDER WITH GAZA
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East,
21 Jan 2010
On December 17, an Egyptian newspaper with ties to the Egyptian government published a front page editorial defending the construction of an underground steel barrier along the length of the 14-kilometre Egyptian border with Gaza. According to the article, construction of the barrier is Egypt’s "sovereign right" and would be a mechanism to pressure Hamas […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) TERREMOTO É DESASTRE NATURAL, MAS A POBREZA EXTREMA, NÃO
Eduardo Sales de Lima e Igor Ojeda – Brasil de Fato,
21 Jan 2010
Mídia relaciona efeitos graves do terremoto com a pobreza extrema, mas não diz por que o país caribenho é tão subdesenvolvido.Um terremoto oportuno? “A pobreza extrema do Haiti é uma construção histórica bi-centenária” As imagens das TVs de todo o mundo mostram um verdadeiro inferno. Destruição total, corpos estirados, homens e mulheres aos prantos. Os […]
→ read full articleTHE SMALLEST ARMY IMAGINABLE: GANDHI’S CONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSAL FOR INDIA AND JAPAN’S PEACE CONSTITUTION (PART 1)
C. Douglas Lummis – Japan Focus, The Asia-Pacific Journal,
21 Jan 2010
An analysis of Gandhi’s thought on nonviolence and its relevance.Prologue In 1931, on his way to the London Round Table Conference, Mahatma Gandhi was asked by a Reuters correspondent what his program was. He responded by writing out a brief, vivid sketch of "the India of my dreams". Such an India, he said, would be […]
→ read full articleTHE SMALLEST ARMY IMAGINABLE: GANDHI’S CONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSAL FOR INDIA AND JAPAN’S PEACE CONSTITUTION (PART 2)
C. Douglas Lummis – Japan Focus, The Asia-Pacific Journal,
21 Jan 2010
Gandhi and the Art of the Possible I wrote above that it is strange that while plans for ideal polities such as those of More, Morris, and others are well known and still in print in many editions, Gandhi’s proposal is out of print and virtually unknown outside of India. There are many possible reasons […]
→ read full articleHOW OBAMA BETRAYS REVEREND KING’S PHILOSOPHY OF NONVIOLENCE
Jeff Nall – Toward Freedom,
21 Jan 2010
Each year, many remember Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s work on behalf of civil rights. Yet the most fundamental piece of his philosophical legacy, his rejection of the utility and morality of violence between individuals and nations, remains at best ignorantly obscured or at worst actively suppressed. In his 1967 book, Where Do We […]
→ read full articleCATASTROPHE IN HAITI
Ashley Smith – Socialist Worker,
21 Jan 2010
The natural and not-so-natural factors that contributed to the devastation when Haiti was struck by a strong earthquake.A DEVASTATING earthquake, the worst in 200 years, struck Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, laying waste to the city and killing untold numbers of people. The quake measured 7.0 on the Richter scale, and detonated more than 30 aftershocks, all […]
→ read full articleFRANCE: TIME TO PAY BACK HAITI
A.D. McKenzie – Terraviva Europe,
21 Jan 2010
As thousands of people filled Notre Dame Cathedral here Saturday evening in a special mass for victims of the earthquake in Haiti, the solidarity and sadness reflected the historical ties that bind France to the Caribbean nation.But these links are not easy or comfortable ones. Haiti’s current poverty can be traced directly to the heavy […]
→ read full articlePROFITING FROM HAITI’S CRISIS
Benjamin Dangl – Toward Freedom,
21 Jan 2010
US corporations, private mercenaries, Washington and the International Monetary Fund are using the crisis in Haiti to make a profit, promote unpopular neoliberal policies, and extend military and economic control over the Haitian people. In the aftermath of the earthquake, with much of the infrastructure and government services destroyed, Haitians have relied on each other […]
→ read full articleTELL CNN TO STOP HYPING FEARS OF VIOLENCE IN HAITI. FOR SHAME.
Ansel Herz – mediahacker,
21 Jan 2010
19 Jan 2010 I just checked the front page of CNN. The lead reads: In the shadow of Haiti’s wrecked presidential palace lie the new homes of the capital’s 500,000 displaced residents. But with 4,000 convicted criminals on the loose, nothing and no one is safe.They started pushing the violence meme the day after the […]
→ read full articleUS SECURITY COMPANY OFFERS TO PERFORM “HIGH THREAT TERMINATIONS” AND CONFRONT “WORKER UNREST” IN HAITI
Jeremy Scahill – Rebel Reports,
21 Jan 2010
Here we go: New Orleans 2.0We saw this type of Iraq-style disaster profiteering in New Orleans and you can expect to see a lot more of this in Haiti over the coming days, weeks and months. Private security companies are seeing big dollar signs in Haiti thanks in no small part to the media hype […]
→ read full article(ITALIAN) HAITI VA AIUTATA O ANNESSA?
Gianni Minà – LatinoAmerica, Editoriale,
21 Jan 2010
A meno di 24 ore dalla catastrofe che ha disintegrato la già poverissima isola caraibica di colonizzazione francese, i 344 medici e specialisti della salute cubani che, in 227 dei 337 comuni del paese aiutano e curano da tempo, quotidianamente, quella martoriata umanità, erano già intervenuti in più di mille emergenze. Solo tre di loro […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) EUA JÁ TÊM 13 BASES MILITARES EM TORNO DA VENEZUELA
Ignacio Ramonet – Brasil de Fato,
21 Jan 2010
Barack Obama parece ter deixado o Pentágono de mãos livres neste tema. E Hugo Chávez denuncia que está sendo tramada uma agressão contra o país.A chegada de Hugo Chávez ao poder, na Venezuela, em 2 de fevereiro de 1999, coincidiu com um acontecimento militar traumático para os Estados Unidos: o fechamento de sua principal instalação […]
→ read full article(SPANISH) LA CRÍSIS EN HAITÍ OFRECE OPORTUNIDADES DE INTERVENCIÓN A EE.UU.
Naomi Klein - TeleSur,
21 Jan 2010
La siguiente es la intervención de Naomi Kein el pasado jueves, 14 de enero, en el programa de Amy Goodman (Democracy now!) sobre los sucesos Haití y quienes ya están sacando lucro de la tragedia.NAOMI KLEIN: Como escribo en ”The Shock Doctrine” (”La doctrina del choque”), se aprovechan las crisis como pretexto para imponer las […]
→ read full articleWHEN THE MEDIA IS THE DISASTER: COVERING HAITI
Rebecca Solnit - TomDispatch,
21 Jan 2010
Soon after almost every disaster the crimes begin: ruthless, selfish, indifferent to human suffering, and generating far more suffering. The perpetrators go unpunished and live to commit further crimes against humanity. They care less for human life than for property. They act without regard for consequences.I’m talking, of course, about those members of the mass […]
→ read full article(ITALIAN) I CONTRACTORS SONO MERCENARI?
Gianni Minà – LatinoAmerica, Editoriale,
21 Jan 2010
Un giudice federale di Washington, Ricardo Urbina, ha rifiutato l’incriminazione per strage di alcuni mercenari nordamericani, dipendenti della famigerata Blackwater, accusati di aver ucciso, senza motivo, 17 civili iracheni a Baghdad nel 2007. Le ragioni con cui Urbina ha motivato la sua decisione sono una vera e propria caricatura del garantismo più estremo e capzioso: […]
→ read full articleISRAEL AND EGYPT CONTINUE TO SQUEEZE THE LIFEBLOOD OUT OF THE PEOPLE OF GAZA
Ann Wright – Common Dreams,
18 Jan 2010
Israeli Airstrikes and Tank Shelling and Egyptian Underground Walls and Maritime Blockade Two weeks ago, almost 2,000 internationals came to Egypt and Gaza in a massive show of civil society support for the people of Gaza. 1,362 persons representing 44 countries in the Gaza Freedom March and over 500 persons with the Viva Palestina Convoy […]
→ read full articlePOLITICS OF THE EARTHQUAKE: RESPECT THE PEOPLE OF HAITI
Robert Roth - Haiti Action Committee,
18 Jan 2010
In June of 2004, I went to Haiti with two other members of the Haiti Action Committee. We were there to investigate the effects of the political earthquake in which the democratically elected government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide had been overthrown by a coup orchestrated by the United States, France and Canada. What we saw […]
→ read full articleSTATEMENT BY DR JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE, FORMER PRESIDENT OF HAITI
TMS Editor,
17 Jan 2010
15 January 2010 We thank all the true friends of Haiti, in particular the Government and the people of South Africa for their solidarity with the victims of Haiti. The concrete action undertaken by Rescue South Africa and Gift of the Givers is a clear expression of ubuntu. Ubuntu ngumuntu ngabantu. As we all know, […]
→ read full articleDR. MUSTAFA BARGHOUTHI NOMINATED FOR THE 2010 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
TMS Editor (Press Release, Jan 15 2010),
17 Jan 2010
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate and co-founder of Peace People (Northern Ireland) today announced her nomination of Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.In her letter to Nobel Committee, Maguire states: “I have pleasure in nominating Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. I am inspired by the life and work […]
→ read full articleCOMPLETE COVERAGE OF THE EARTHQUAKE AND OF HAITI (DATING BACK TO 1996)
Democracy NOW!,
17 Jan 2010
Sunday Jan 17 2010 – Special Update: Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! Arrive in Haiti.Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Elizabeth Press from Democracy NOW! have just arrived in Port-Au-Prince to report on the relief effort in Haiti. CLICK TO VIEW complete coverage and background information.
→ read full articleMORAL BANKRUPTCY: WHY ARE WE LETTING WALL STREET OFF SO EASY?
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Economics Nobel Laureate – Mother Jones, Jan/Feb 2010 Issue,
17 Jan 2010
IT IS SAID THAT A NEAR-DEATH experience forces one to reevaluate priorities and values. The global economy has just escaped a near-death experience. The crisis exposed the flaws in the prevailing economic model, but it also exposed flaws in our society. Much has been written about the foolishness of the risks that the financial sector […]
→ read full articleWE’VE IGNORED KING ON WAR
Rusty Nelson – The Spokesman-Review,
17 Jan 2010
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday [Jan 18 2010], hundreds of people will gather, greet friends, hear inspiring words, walk Spokane streets together and promote racial and community harmony. It’s a genuine community event, but some of us experience it more personally because our lives, faith perspectives and worldviews were transformed by the life […]
→ read full articleFROM COUP-LITE TO TRUTH-LITE: 10 WAYS THE U.S. FOUGHT DEMOCRACY IN HONDURAS
Andrés Thomas Conteris – Truthdig,
16 Jan 2010
Andrés Thomas Conteris, reporting from within the besieged embassy where ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has taken shelter, outlines 10 ways the United States has supported the coup and undermined democracy in Honduras.In his essay “Top Ten Ways You Can Tell Which Side the United States Government Is On With Regard to the Military Coup […]
→ read full articleALLOW ARISTIDE TO RETURN TO HAITI NOW
Submitted by Marilyn Langlois – Haiti Information Project,
16 Jan 2010
Haiti Information Project editorial by Kevin PinaHaiti is facing one of its most severe challenges after a large earthquake rocked the capital yesterday destroying most government buildings and killing possibly thousands. Now more than ever the people of Haiti need hope for the future and as Haiti’s ambassador to Washington Raymond Joseph said yesterday on […]
→ read full articleGM CORN CAUSES PROBLEMS IN RATS?
Marion Nestle - Food Politics,
16 Jan 2010
The research is out … if you can understand it.French investigators have published a reinterpretation of some feeding studies in small samples of rats. The studies were done originally by Monsanto to test three varieties of the company’s genetically modified corn. These investigators obtained the data from the feeding trials as the result of a […]
→ read full articleTHE MILITARIZATION OF EMERGENCY AID TO HAITI: IS IT A HUMANITARIAN OPERATION OR AN INVASION?
Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
16 Jan 2010
Haiti has a longstanding history of US military intervention and occupation going back to the beginning of the 20th Century. US interventionism has contributed to the destruction of Haiti’s national economy and the impoverishment of its population. The devastating earthquake is presented to World public opinion as the sole cause of the country’s predicament. A […]
→ read full articleJOHN DARA: NIGERIA’S OBAMA?
Rev. Olufemi Oluniyi, Ph.D.,
16 Jan 2010
The Peoples Democratic Party, Nigeria’s ruling party, since the transition from military dictatorship to civilian manipulation, which prides itself as the largest party in Africa boasted on 1 October 2009, the 49th independence day anniversary, that the party will rule Nigeria uninterrupted for the next 60 years. That boast was three months ago. Since then, […]
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NAOMI KLEIN ON DISASTER CAPITALISM IN HAITI
Amy Goodman & Naomi Klein – Democracy NOW!,
14 Jan 2010
Thursday, January 14, 2010Journalist and author Naomi Klein spoke in New York last night and addressed the crisis in Haiti: “We have to be absolutely clear that this tragedy—which is part natural, part unnatural—must, under no circumstances, be used to, one, further indebt Haiti and, two, to push through unpopular corporatist policies in the interest […]
→ read full articleBLOOD DIAMONDS IN ZIMBABWE: CORRUPTION IS FOREVER
Dikson M. – The New Internationalist,
14 Jan 2010
The last time I was in Zimbabwe I had an encounter with a local arts and crafts vendor who has a stall in one of Harare’s bustling flea markets. On this occasion he seemed disinterested in flaunting his archetypal Zimbabwean sculptures of mothers cradling their young or the clichéd soapstone wildlife roaming his rickety tabletop. […]
→ read full articlePARECON & PARTICIPATORY SOCIETY
Matt Grinder, interviewing Michael Albert - ZNet,
14 Jan 2010
In this interview, Michael Albert, one of the originators of Participatory Economics (along with Robin Hahnel), is interviewed by parecon advocate Matt Grinder. Matt Grinder: Could you briefly summarize Participatory Economics, or parecon? Michael Albert: Participatory Economics, or parecon for short, is a vision for how to conduct economics in a classless manner. It delivers to […]
→ read full articleHOLDING CORPORATIONS ACCOUNTABLE FOR APARTHEID CRIMES
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
14 Jan 2010
A landmark class action case is under way in a New York federal court, with victims of apartheid in South Africa suing corporations that they say helped the pre-1994 regime. Among the multinational corporations are IBM, Fujitsu, Ford, GM and banking giants UBS and Barclays. The lawsuit accuses the corporations of "knowing participation in and/or […]
→ read full articleWERE AFGHAN CHILDREN EXECUTED BY US-LED FORCES? AND WHY AREN’T THE MEDIA INTERESTED?
David Cromwell – Znet,
14 Jan 2010
Ignoring or downplaying Western crimes is a standard feature of the corporate Western media. On rare occasions when a broadcaster or newspaper breaks ranks and reports ‘our’ crimes honestly, it is instructive to observe the response from the rest of the media. Do they follow suit, perhaps digging deeper for details, devoting space to profiles […]
→ read full articleWHAT THE MUSLIM WORLD CAN TEACH US ABOUT NONVIOLENCE
Randall Amster - ZNet,
14 Jan 2010
It might be a bad dream but it feels real enough. The mantle of warfare slips seamlessly from one president to another, from one party to another, from one decade to another, from one generation to another. The impetus of national aggression transcends race, creed, socio-economic status, age, and geography. Our collective sin is the […]
→ read full articleMOTHER OF SALVATION: SOURCE OF COURAGE
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D.,
14 Jan 2010
If there is one common element among all human beings, it would be this. They all want to be saved when confronted with danger of any kind. To save their beloved ones from danger, most humans would be ready to risk their lives. Throughout history, we find great religious figures from Buddha down to Jesus […]
→ read full articleNEVER MIND THE FACTS, LET’S HAVE A WAR…
Finian Cunningham – Global Research,
12 Jan 2010
A missile test-fired by Iran last week was reported on the BBC World Service as being “capable of striking Israel”. The choice of words was not unusual. On previous occasions when Iran has test-fired a long-range rocket, the BBC and other western news media dutifully inform us that the said device is “capable of striking Israel”. […]
→ read full articleBEHIND MASS DIE-OFFS, PESTICIDES LURK AS CULPRIT
Sonia Shah – Yale Environment 360,
12 Jan 2010
In the past dozen years, three new diseases have decimated populations of amphibians, honeybees, and — most recently — bats. Increasingly, scientists suspect that low-level exposure to pesticides could be contributing to this rash of epidemics.Ever since Olga Owen Huckins shared the spectacle of a yard full of dead, DDT-poisoned birds with her friend Rachel […]
→ read full articleOVERCOMING THE COPENHAGEN FAILURE
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Prize Laureate economist,
12 Jan 2010
Pretty speeches can take you only so far. A month after the Copenhagen climate conference, it is clear that the world’s leaders were unable to translate rhetoric about global warming into action.It was, of course, nice that world leaders could agree that it would be bad to risk the devastation that could be wrought by […]
→ read full articleHONDURAS AND A DIVIDED LATIN AMERICA
Amb. Robert E. White – Americas Program, Center for International Policy,
12 Jan 2010
Despite many credible reports of violent crackdowns against supporters of ousted president, Mel Zelaya, the de facto government of Honduras has managed to hold presidential elections that came off better than most observers had expected. The easy victor was the conservative Nationalist Party candidate, Porfirio Lobo. The United States quickly recognized the election results. Yet, […]
→ read full article(SPANISH) HONDURAS Y UNA AMÉRICA LATINA DIVIDIDA
Embajador Robert E. White - Programa de las Américas, Centro de Política Internacional,
12 Jan 2010
A pesar de reportes creíbles de las campañas violentas contra los que apoyan al expulsado presidente, Mel Zelaya, el gobierno de facto de Honduras ha logrado reclamar elecciones presidenciales que salieron mejor de lo que la mayoría de los observadores habían previsto. El vencedor fácil fue el candidato conservador del Partido Nacionalista, Porfirio Lobo. Estados […]
→ read full articleACTIVISTS WORRIED ABOUT “SECRET” INTERNET TREATY
Emilio Godoy – Inter Press Service,
12 Jan 2010
MEXICO CITY, Jan 12 , 2010 (IPS) – An international treaty to combat copyright infringement and piracy, being negotiated by Mexico and other countries, could curtail expansion of the internet, violate people’s rights to privacy and freedom of expression, and undermine multilateral accords on intellectual property, activists warn. Canada, the European Union, Japan, Switzerland and […]
→ read full articleLOSING THE INTERNET AS WE KNOW IT
Megan Tady – The Huffington Post,
12 Jan 2010
How much have you already used the Internet today?We don’t think twice about how much we rely on the Internet. Imagine not being able to map directions on Google or check the weather online. A business that doesn’t have a Web site? Forgettable. Or rather, unsearchable. Remember when we didn’t have e-mail? Would you want […]
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YOU NEVER EXPLAIN WHY THEY WANT TO DO US HARM! WHAT’S THEIR MOTIVATION?
C-SPAN (MoxNews),
12 Jan 2010
White House press corps journalist Helen Thomas asks the fundamental Peace Journalism question: Why? And nobody answers. 1:52-Min. VideoCLICK TO VIEW YOUTUBE VIDEO C-SPAN (MOXNEWS)
→ read full articleTHE HOLOCAUST WE WILL NOT SEE
George Monbiot - The Guardian,
12 Jan 2010
Avatar half-tells a story we would all prefer to forget.Avatar, James Cameron’s blockbusting 3-D film, is both profoundly silly and profound. It’s profound because, like most films about aliens, it is a metaphor for contact between different human cultures. But in this case the metaphor is conscious and precise: this is the story of European […]
→ read full articleTHE US AS A GREAT WARRIOR TRIBE
Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera's senior political analyst,
12 Jan 2010
According to tribal Yemeni tradition, if a dispute has been resolved peacefully, any dagger that has been drawn cannot go back into its scabbard unless it tastes blood. Traditionally, an animal is slaughtered to satisfy its thirst and restore its holder’s honour. Since the Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union and […]
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GITMO GUARD REUNITES WITH FREED INMATES SO HE CAN APOLOGIZE
BBC (MoxNews),
12 Jan 2010
Former Guantanamo Bay prison guard travelled to England to meet ex-Gitmo detainees Ruhal Ahmed and Shafiq Rasul to express remorse for his part in their two and a half years imprisonment. 3:47-Min. VideoCLICK TO VIEW YOUTUBE VIDEO – BBC (MOXNEWS)
→ read full articleEGYPT’S SHAMEFUL BAN ON FREEDOM MARCHERS
Laura Durkay, from Cairo,
12 Jan 2010
The efforts of the Gaza Freedom Marchers to show their solidarity with Palestine—and the crackdown by Egyptian authorities.IN THE last week of 2009, 1,360 activists from 43 countries converged on Cairo for the Gaza Freedom March. We intended to enter Gaza through the Rafah crossing, controlled by Egypt, for a display of mass international solidarity […]
→ read full articleA PATH FOR PEACE IN SOUTH ASIA
Zia Mian – Foreign Policy in Focus,
12 Jan 2010
It has been a grim start to the New Year and the new decade in South Asia. Vested interests, hardened obsessions, and old habits continue to push India and Pakistan in the direction of ruinous conflict. While military planners in both countries plan and prepare for the next war, politicians and diplomats remain determined not […]
→ read full articleYEMEN ‘CANNOT CONTAIN AL-QA’IDA’
Donald Macintyre – The Independent,
12 Jan 2010
The author ventures into the new stronghold of extremism – and finds out why the battle against terror is failing.The governor of a key province in the front line of Yemen’s struggle against al- Qa’ida has admitted that the government’s control in his area is "not strong", and says that no extra troops have been […]
→ read full articleMY CRAZY TRIP TO A GOLDMAN SACHS EXECUTIVE’S BRAZILIAN SLAVE PLANTATION, OR WHY WE NEED A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR
Mike Elk – Truthout,
12 Jan 2010
I have made friends with a lot of people in my life. But as working-class kid from Pittsburgh, perhaps my most unusual friendship was with a Goldman Sachs executive, Pedro Henrique Fragoso Pires Garcia.Typically in Brazil, people abbreviate their names, but Pedro used his full name. including his mother’s maiden name, Fragoso Pires, to signal […]
→ read full articleTRANSITIONS BETWEEN ECONOMIC SYSTEMS
Rick Wolff – Monthly Review,
12 Jan 2010
The transition out of feudalism to capitalism in Europe, mostly from the 17th to the 19th centuries, took multiple forms. It was uneven as well, happening in different ways at different rates in different places. Marx studied that transition’s various dimensions because they offered valuable lessons for the different transition he was interested in: out […]
→ read full articleTERROR IS THE PRICE OF SUPPORT FOR DESPOTS AND DICTATORS
Seumas Milne – The Guardian,
12 Jan 2010
Egypt’s complicity in Gaza’s siege underlines the role of western support for such regimes in the spread of war. If an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor had gone on hunger strike in support of a besieged people in another part of the world, and hundreds of mostly western protesters had been stoned and beaten by police, you […]
→ read full articleAFRICOM – LATEST U.S. BID TO RECOLONISE THE CONTINENT
Tichaona Nhamoyebonde – Global Research,
11 Jan 2010
African revolutionaries now have to sleep with one eye open because the United States of America is not stopping at anything in its bid to establish Africom, a highly-equipped US army that will be permanently resident in Africa to oversee the country’s imperialist interests. Towards the end of last year, the US government intensified its […]
→ read full articleTHE ‘FALSE’ PANDEMIC: DRUG FIRMS CASHED IN ON SCARE OVER SWINE FLU, CLAIMS EURO HEALTH CHIEF
Fiona Macrae - MailOnline,
11 Jan 2010
The swine flu outbreak was a ‘false pandemic’ driven by drug companies that stood to make billions of pounds from a worldwide scare, a leading health expert has claimed. Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, accused the makers of flu drugs and vaccines of influencing the World Health Organisation’s decision to […]
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William Blum - Dissident Voice,
11 Jan 2010
The Anti-Empire Report Lincoln Gordon died a few weeks ago at the age of 96. He had graduated summa cum laude from Harvard at the age of 19, received a doctorate from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, published his first book at 22, with dozens more to follow on government, economics, and foreign policy in […]
→ read full articleSUICIDE CLAIMS MORE US MILITARY LIVES THAN AFGHAN WAR
James Cogan – Global Research,
11 Jan 2010
American military personnel are continuing to take their own lives in unprecedented numbers, as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq wars drag on. By late November, at least 334 members of the armed forces had committed suicide in 2009, more than the 319 who were killed in Afghanistan or the 150 who died in Iraq. […]
→ read full articleWELCOME TO ORWELL’S WORLD
John Pilger – The New Statesman,
11 Jan 2010
Barack Obama’s deceptions over the Afghanistan war should remind people of the lessons of George Orwell’s 1984.IN 1984, George Orwell described a superstate, Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that "passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’" […]
→ read full articleSCAPEGOATS AND SCAREMONGERS
Alan Maass – Socialist Worker,
11 Jan 2010
The deceptions and hidden motives in the government and media response to the plot to set off a bomb on a plane bound for Detroit.HE ATTEMPT by a 23-year-old Nigerian man to explode a bomb on a Detroit-bound airplane has become the excuse for a return to some of the worst "war on terror" hysteria […]
→ read full articleA DESTRUCTIVE CULINARY PREFERENCE
Mark Hand – Dissident Voice,
11 Jan 2010
When will humans stop eating factory-farmed nonhuman animals? They won’t—unless something happens to curtail the supply of nonhuman animal meat produced by the factory farm system. Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer, (Little, Brown and Company, 2009). If you’re waiting for governments to pass laws or issue new rules forcing corporations to shut down their […]
→ read full articlePROPOSED AMNESTY SERVES TO WHITEWASH HONDURAN COUP
Mark Weisbrot – The Center for Ecomomic and Policy Research,
10 Jan 2010
Vote expected next week to absolve Honduran Military of crimes, even as murders continue.The international community should offer no support for planned amnesty for the perpetrators of the Honduran coup, Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, said today. Noting that both ousted President Manuel Zelaya and coup leaders previously agreed […]
→ read full articleMEDIA BATTLES IN LATIN AMERICA NOT ABOUT “FREE SPEECH”
Mark Weisbrot - The Guardian,
10 Jan 2010
For at least a month now in Ecuador there has been a battle over regulation of the media. It has been in the front pages of the newspapers most of the time, and a leading daily, El Comercio, referred to the fight as one for “defense of human rights and the free practice of journalism.” […]
→ read full articleANSWERING HELEN THOMAS ON WHY
Ray McGovern - Consortiumnews,
10 Jan 2010
Thank God for Helen Thomas, the only person to show any courage at the White House press briefing after President Barack Obama gave a flaccid account of the intelligence screw-up that almost downed an airliner on Christmas Day.After Obama briefly addressed L’Affaire Abdulmutallab and wrote “must do better” on the report cards of the national […]
→ read full articleTHE FUTURE TAMIL POLITICS
Balasundaram Nirmanusan,
10 Jan 2010
Eelam War IV shattered and devastated Tamils social, economical, cultural and political structural factors. These four structural factors were corner stone’s of the Tamil National Struggle and were intricately interconnected to each other. These became primary targets during the war and were destroyed. To give this research paper a focus and due to contextual developments […]
→ read full articleDENMARK, NOT CHINA SHOULD BE BLAMED FOR FAILURE OF COPENHAGEN CONFERENCE
Xinhua - Global Times,
9 Jan 2010
It was Denmark, not China which "hijacked" the Copenhagen climate change conference last month and caused its failure, said a recent article from the Guardian website.In an article entitled "Blame Denmark, not China, for Copenhagen failure" published on the Guardian website on Dec. 28, Martin Khor, executive director of the South Center, an inter-governmental organization […]
→ read full articleVIVA PALESTINA CONVOY ON DEMOCRACY NOW! – 7 Jan 2010: Report on the Convoy and Interview With George Galloway. (More videos in the Video Section of TMS).
TMS Editor,
9 Jan 2010
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→ read full article(FRENCH) LE NIGÉRIEN À LA BOMBINETTE
Mireille Delamarre – Institut Hoggar, Genève,
9 Jan 2010
Une Operation Sous Faux Pavillon Pour Une Nouvelle Guerre D’agression Us… Au Yemen?Des similitudes avec le cas Reid des inconsistances dans cette affaire remettent en cause la version officielle simpliste colportée par les médias serviles. Obama a besoin de justifier sa prochaine guerre… au Yémen. Cette opération sous faux pavillon tomberait donc à pic. Explications […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) FÓRUM SOCIAL MUNDIAL, DÉCIMA EDIÇÃO
Breno Altman - Brasill de Fato,
9 Jan 2010
Os milhares de ativistas que se reunirão, no final desse mês, terão várias razões para comemorar seu feito. Mas também estarão diante do fracasso.Os milhares de ativistas que se reunirão em Porto Alegre, no final desse mês, terão várias razões para comemorar seu feito. Mas também estarão diante do fracasso de um dos conceitos estratégicos […]
→ read full article(SPANISH) HONDURAS: ORDEN DE CAPTURA A GENERALES GOLPISTAS JAJAJA
Roberto Quesada - Escritor y diplomático hondureño,
9 Jan 2010
”Nadie resulta inocente cuando su adversario es el Juez”: Lucano. El de Honduras ha sido un golpe de Estado militar y golpe de las mentiras. Cada vez que alguien del Departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos visita Tegucigalpa, inmediatamente sale una falsa esperanza, antes para revertir el golpe de Estado militar y ahora para […]
→ read full articleCANCER – THE DEADLY LEGACY OF THE INVASION OF IRAQ
Jalal Ghazi - New America Media,
9 Jan 2010
This is too terrible even to imagine. And the US is continuing to use depleted uranium. If Americans were allowed to see these deformed babies, Iraqi and American, even their pictures and articles in the newspapers and newsmagazines and on TV, could they continue to support war? I don’t think so. It is unconscionable, barbaric. […]
→ read full articleTHE YEMEN HIDDEN AGENDA: BEHIND THE AL-QAEDA SCENARIOS, A STRATEGIC OIL TRANSIT CHOKEPOINT
F. William Engdahl – Global Research,
9 Jan 2010
On December 25 US authorities arrested a Nigerian named Abdulmutallab aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on charges of having tried to blow up the plane with smuggled explosives. Since then reports have been broadcast from CNN, the New York Times and other sources that he was "suspected" of having been trained […]
→ read full articleU.S. KICKS HORNET’S NEST IN YEMEN
Eric Margolis – Toronto Sun,
9 Jan 2010
Failed attack on Detroit-bound plane was retaliation for American military ops in the Arabian country, sources say.Welcome to the Afghanistan of Arabia. Yemen, the likely source of the failed Christmas Day airliner bombing at Detroit, has just rudely intruded into the west’s awareness. Sources there claim the attack by a young Nigerian was retaliation for […]
→ read full articleYEMEN, THE JOKE IS ON YOU …
Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera's senior political analyst,
9 Jan 2010
By offering military support the West might prolong an autocratic regime.Marginalised by regional developments and intimidated by Washington’s Cold War and Gulf War victories, two Yemenis – so goes the joke – wondered if their country should declare war on the US, force it to occupy Yemen and care for it. "But what if we […]
→ read full articleFROM ANTI-WAR AGENDA TO PEACE INITIATIVES
Mutsuko Murakami - TerraViva Europe,
9 Jan 2010
Mutsuko Murakami interviews IKURO ANZAI, honorary director of the Kyoto Museum for World Peace.Of approximately 170 peace museums that exist around the world, one third are found in Japan. The Kyoto Museum for World Peace at Ritsumeikan University, located in Kyoto, is the only one in Japan housed in a higher educational institution. It captures […]
→ read full articleREBUTTAL TO THE ARTICLE, ‘OBAMA PRESSES REVIEW OF NUCLEAR STRATEGY’
Joseph Gerson – American Friends Service Committee,
9 Jan 2010
The Boston Globe ran a major article in yesterday’s [3 Jan 2009] Sunday paper under the title "Obama presses review of nuclear strategy." It focuses more on the possible removal of the bomber leg of the nuclear "triad" and possible reductions in land based ICBMs. As the following letter to the editor indicates, I thought […]
→ read full articleTHE QUESTION NO U.S. OFFICIAL DARE ASK
William Pfaff - Truthdig,
9 Jan 2010
It could be, as they say in the bureaucracies, “a career destroyer” to ask whether it has been a terrible error for the United States to have built a system of more than 700 military bases and stations girdling the world.It is time to ask a question that virtually no one in an official or […]
→ read full articleCAN YOU STOMACH THIS?: “IF SLAUGHTERHOUSES HAD GLASS WALLS EVEYONE WOULD BE VEGETARIAN” – Narrated by Sir Paul McCartney. PETA Video
TMS Editor,
9 Jan 2010
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→ read full articleMAN WHO DEFIED BOTH A-BOMBS DIES AGED 93
David McNeill in Tokyo,
9 Jan 2010
The only man to experience nuclear bombardment twice and live to tell the tale became an eloquent voice for peace.Reporters never knew whether to call Tsutomu Yamaguchi the luckiest or unluckiest man alive. In 1945, the Nagasaki native was exposed to both nuclear blasts that incinerated his home city and Hiroshima. Last year the Japanese […]
→ read full articleTAKING STOCK OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS 2009
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Ph.D.,
9 Jan 2010
The year 2009 will be remembered as one of the most difficult years in the annals of international politics. Though the actions and reactions of national and international players in this year is yet to be assessed fully, nonetheless the year long forays in international politics have not evoked much hope in the world. However, […]
→ read full articleWHO WOULD BENEFIT POLITICALLY FROM A TERRORIST INCIDENT ON AMERICAN SOIL? THE STRANGE CASE OF UMAR FAROUK ABDULMUTALLAB
Tom Burghardt - Global Research,
9 Jan 2010
Despite some $40 billion dollars spent by the American people on airline security since 2001, allegedly to thwart attacks on the Heimat, the botched attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to bring down Northwest Airlines Flight 253 over Detroit on Christmas Day was foiled, not by a bloated counterterrorist bureaucracy, but by the passengers themselves. Talk […]
→ read full articleAN AMERICAN WORLD OF WAR – THE YEAR OF THE ASSASSIN
Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse - TomDispatch,
9 Jan 2010
What to Watch for in 2010 According to the Chinese calendar, 2010 is the Year of the Tiger. We don’t name our years, but if we did, this one might prospectively be called the Year of the Assassin.We, of course, think of ourselves as something like the peaceable kingdom. After all, the shock of September […]
→ read full articleBOLIVIA LEADER CALLS ALTERNATIVE CLIMATE MEETING
AP – New York Times,
9 Jan 2010
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian President Evo Morales said Tuesday [5 Jan 2010] he’s inviting activists, scientists and government officials from around the world to an alternative climate conference following the failure of a summit in Copenhagen to produce binding agreements. The leftist leader said the April 20-22 meeting in Cochabamba will include indigenous […]
→ read full articleA BRAVE NEW WORLD?
Andy Yee - Open Democracy,
8 Jan 2010
Is there a good response to China’s ‘resilient capitalist authoritarianism’? The world is heading towards the second scenario envisaged by Francis Fukuyama in his afterword to The End of History and the Last Man: a combination of capitalism and authoritarianism, driven by China’s brand of ‘resilient authoritarianism’. Conducted in a spirit of ‘if you can’t […]
→ read full articleLIVING IN A WORLD OF MAKE-BELIEVE: THE MYTHMAKERS OF THE GLOBALISING AGE
Gerry Hassan – Open Democracy,
8 Jan 2010
Despite the failings of the neo-liberal model, the media still uses its advocates in City institutions, financial bodies and agencies associated with them to explain and analyse the crisis.Thirty years ago in another economic and political age the Glasgow University Media Group analysed the biases of current TV news in a series of seminal reports […]
→ read full article12 INNOVATIONS THAT COULD SAVE US
Sarah van Gelder - YES! Magazine,
8 Jan 2010
With climate disruption, war, and a faltering economy, that was a tough decade. Still, seeds were sown for a more green and egalitarian 2010s.In my last column, I listed nine crises of the ‘00s. But something else happened during the first decade of the millennium. People around the world turned away from ways of life […]
→ read full articleREMEMBERING A FREEDOM FIGHTER
Lee Sustar and Aisha Karim - Socialist Worker,
8 Jan 2010
The authors, who edited Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader, describe the contribution of a great poet and political activist.AFTER ALL the wonderful tributes to South African activist and poet Dennis Brutus following his death December 26, another may seem superfluous. But having spent considerable time interviewing Dennis and researching his life and work, […]
→ read full articleJUST WAR? OR JUST WAR…
Mumia Abu-Jamal,
3 Jan 2010
Politics, it is said, makes strange bedfellows — but the Nobel Peace Prize may make even stranger ones. There has been considerable commentary over the award to President Barack Obama, and whether or not it was deserved. His speech upon receipt of the honor was not about peace, but about war — or, to be precise "just […]
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