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THE GUAM TREATY AS A MODERN ‘DISPOSAL’ OF THE RYUKYUS
Kunitoshi Sakurai, Introduction by Gavan McCormack,
22 Sep 2009
Introduction Little attention internationally was paid to the agreement signed in February, 2009 between the newly commissioned Obama government in the US and the declining and soon to be defeated Aso government in Japan — the Guam Treaty. Many commentators drew the bland conclusion that by choosing Tokyo as her first destination Secretary of State […]
→ read full articleAMERICA HAS BEEN HERE BEFORE
Eric Margolis,
21 Sep 2009
"We should hang a huge neon sign over Afghanistan: "CAUTION: DEJA VU."Afghanistan’s much ballyhooed recent election staged by its foreign occupiers turned out to be a fraud wrapped up in a farce — as this column predicted a month ago. It was as phony and meaningless as U.S.-run elections in Vietnam in the 1970s. Canada […]
→ read full articleBOLIVIA, THE NON-VIOLENT REVOLUTION
Gabriela Amaya,
21 Sep 2009
In this article, the author analyses some of the factors that establish the “Bolivian Process”, led by President Evo Morales, as a peaceful, non-violent humanist process. A new revolutionary constitution that extends rights to more Bolivian citizens at home and abroad and Morales’ response to conflictive situation corroborate this assessment.When Evo Morales announced his support […]
→ read full articleTRANSCEND Member Richard Falk Awarded the Global Citizenship Prize
TFF - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2009
TRANSCEND Member Richard Falk speaking at the Kant Foundation on Jeff Halper, awarded the Global Citizenship Prize, and on the conditions of a lasting peace in the Middle East. httpv://www.youtube.com/v/efTDC8S8VJY&hl=en&fs=1
→ read full articleGHANA’S CHALLENGES WITH HOMOSEXUALITY
Ghana homepage,
20 Sep 2009
One of the themes of Ghana’s 50th anniversary of independence was to review the country’s progress so far. Ghana@50 provided an opportunity to assess the country’s progress as an independent nation, with a focus on how to continue improvements and overcome challenges of the future. Recently there have been accusations that the celebrations were a […]
→ read full articleSTOPPING INVESTMENT IN SUDAN
Henryk M. Broder in Lexington, Massachusetts,
19 Sep 2009
Activists Use Tools of Capitalism to Fight Darfur Genocide The non-profit organization Investors Against Genocide is trying to dissuade Americans from investing in companies that help fund the genocide in Darfur. But, as a recent shareholder meeting showed, not everyone wants to put principle before profit. In her career as a family lawyer, Mary Haskell […]
→ read full articleAFGHANISTAN: WHERE EMPIRES GO TO DIE
Dahr Jamail,
19 Sep 2009
On September 7 the Swedish aid agency Swedish Committee for Afghanistan reported that the previous week US soldiers raided one of its hospitals. According to the director of the aid agency, Anders Fange, troops stormed through both the men’s and women’s wards, where they frantically searched for wounded Taliban fighters. Soldiers demanded that hospital […]
→ read full articleISRAEL/AMERICA – A RAMBLING POEM
Remi Kanazi,
19 Sep 2009
The Israeli left is about as alive as Ariel Sharon. I’m sick and tired of asking for permission to resist, From antiquated leftists and progressives, Who care more about keeping it Kosher than moving things forward.Every time I think of 9/11I see burning flesh dripping off the bones of Iraqi children in FallujahNow GazaI tend […]
→ read full articleTHE ELDERS’ NEXT MOVE
Sam Bahour,
19 Sep 2009
At long last a spotlight is shining on Palestinian nonviolent efforts to throw off the Israeli occupation. A visit by a group of high profile “Elders” last month to the Palestinian village of Bil’in in the West Bank, and the barrier running through it, bathed our landscape in a moral clarity that is too rarely […]
→ read full articleRESPONSE TO JAKE LYNCH’S COLUMN, ‘FREE SPEECH AND THE PRO-ISRAEL LOBBY’ (Posted last week, 14-20 Sep, 09)
Philip Mendes,
19 Sep 2009
Jake Lynch’s article seriously misrepresents both my political views and research record. To be fair to Lynch, he is a relative newcomer to Australia so he is probably not familiar with the key players in the Australian debate. For the record, I have been a consistent supporter of a two-state solution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict […]
→ read full articleTOXIC SHAME: THOUSANDS INJURED IN AFRICAN CITY
Cahal Milmo, Chief Reporter,
19 Sep 2009
British trading giant agrees to pay millions to victims maimed and scarred by dumping of polluted sludge. A British oil trading giant has agreed to a multimillion-pound payout to settle a huge damages claim from thousands of Africans who fell ill from tonnes of toxic waste dumped illegally in one of the worst pollution incidents […]
→ read full articleCOUP INCITING REVOLUTION IN HONDURAS? – Oscar Estrada: Oligarchy’s attempt to save their neo-liberal project may initiate fall of entire regime. A Real News Network Video.
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19 Sep 2009
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→ read full articleLET US NOT BECOME THE EVIL WE DEPLORE
Amy Goodman,
19 Sep 2009
On Oct. 7, the U.S. enters its ninth year of occupation of Afghanistan–equal to the time the United States was involved in World War I, World War II and the Korean War combined.On Sept. 14, 2001, the U.S. House of Representatives considered House Joint Resolution 64, "To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces […]
→ read full articlePERPETUAL GRIEF OVER SEPTEMBER 11TH
Ramzy Baroud,
17 Sep 2009
The anniversary of the infamous tragedy of 9/11, 2001, and the subsequent ramifications indeed induce, throughout the world, a plethora of feelings of sorrow.The 9/11 event should have never taken place. Regardless of the situation, targeting civilians is unconditionally reviled. No matter where we stand on war, and how do we wish to rationalize and […]
→ read full articlePOLL: NEWS MEDIA’S CREDIBILITY PLUNGES TO NEW LOW
Michael Liedtke, The Associated Press,
15 Sep 2009
The news media’s credibility is sagging along with its revenue. Nearly two-thirds of Americans think the news stories they read, hear and watch are frequently inaccurate, according to a poll released Sunday by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. That marks the highest level of skepticism recorded since 1985, when this […]
→ read full articleHOW TO RESTORE TRUTH IN MEDIA REPORTING?
Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips,
14 Sep 2009
The Media Democracy Movement The late New York University media scholar Neil Postman once said about America, “We are the best entertained least informed society in the world." From Jessica Simpson’s weight and Brangelina’s escapades, to Britney Spears’ sister and the Obama’s First Puppy, Americans are fed a steady “news” diet of useless information laden […]
→ read full articleHARRASSED TAMILS LANGUISH IN PRISON-LIKE CAMPS IN SRI LANKA
Randeep Ramesh in Trincomalee,
14 Sep 2009
Living by a palm-fringed golden beach on the edge of the Indian Ocean, Suganthinhi Thesamanikam considers herself lucky to be alive after living through the hell of war.Caught between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan army, she dodged bullets and shells for two years before ending up on the sandy […]
→ read full articleTHROWING BULLETS AT FAILED POLICIES: US PLANS FOR NEW BASES IN COLOMBIA
Benjamin Dangl,
14 Sep 2009
It was a winter day in the Argentine city of Bariloche when 12 South American presidents gathered there on August 28. It was so cold that Hugo Chavez wore a red scarf and Evo Morales put on a sweater. The presidents arrived at the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) meeting to discuss a US […]
→ read full articleTHE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS ACTUALLY INCREASING THE US PRESENCE IN IRAQ
Michael Schwartz,
14 Sep 2009
US Presence in Iraq is Actually Growing Believe it or not, the U.S. presence in Iraq is growing under the leadership of ‘antiwar ‘president Barack Obama. A recent Washington Post by reporter Walter Pincus explains that when U.S. troops are "withdrawn," their jobs are taken over by……mercenaries — the notorious "contractors," who are hired for […]
→ read full article9/11: 8 YEARS AND COUNTING
Jim Albertini, from Hawaii,
11 Sep 2009
Unanswered questions suggest that people within the Bush administration may have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, or were directly involved in it to create a pretext for a new perpetual war against "terrorism" to replace the cold war against "communism."We want truthful answers to questions such as: 1. Why were standard operating procedures for dealing […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) VINTE BASES MILITARES NORTE AMERICANAS PRETENDEM ISOLAR A VENEZUELA DO MUNDO
Manuel Alexis Rodriguez,
11 Sep 2009
Um total de 13 bases militares dos EUA, localizadas estrategicamente em países aliados de Washington, cercam atualmente a Venezuela. Com o acordo do tipo “cooperação e assistência técnica em defesa e segurança”, que a Colômbia vai assinar com os Estados Unidos, e que permitirá que soldados norteamericanos utilizem sete novas bases militares na Colômbia, o […]
→ read full articleSOMALIA: WHO IS FIGHTING WHOM?
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN),
10 Sep 2009
Somalia has experienced conflict since 1991 when the late President Mohamed Siad Barre’s government was overthrown by opposition forces. Up to 2006, the fighting was largely between clan-based warlords clashing over territory and resources. In the process, one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world was created. In 2006, Islamic groups in Mogadishu fought […]
→ read full articleWHAT AMERICA’S ‘CRISIS’ MEANS TO THE REST OF THE WORLD
Noam Chomsky,
10 Sep 2009
The way we perceive "crises" here in the U.S. is a profound symbol of how we don’t understand them internationally. Perhaps I may begin with a few words about the title. There is too much nuance and variety to make such sharp distinctions as theirs-and-ours, them-and-us. And neither I nor anyone can presume to speak […]
→ read full articleZELAYA SPEAKS
Tom Hayden,
10 Sep 2009
In a significant development in hemispheric relations, the Obama admininstration yesterday condemned the June 28 Honduras coup d’état more strongly than ever, announced the cutoff of additional millions in economic aid and declared it would not accept the legitimacy of elections under the auspices of the coup government. In an interview shortly after his meeting […]
→ read full articleTHE FREE GAZA MOVEMENT
Tun. Dr. Mahathir Mohamad,
10 Sep 2009
We all remember the brutal Israeli attacks against Gaza last year. Many of us were outraged by the killings of some 1,300 Gazan Palestinian, men, women, the disabled, the children, the sick and the maimed.Hospitals and schools were destroyed. The condemnation of this brutal assault had forced the Israelis to stop the massive retaliation against alleged […]
→ read full articleLATIN AMERICA AND THE END OF SOCIAL LIBERALISM
Prof. James Petras,
10 Sep 2009
The current world recession and the potential recovery of some countries reveals all the weaknesses of the traditional “export market” – free trade – comparative advantage doctrines. Nowhere is this more evident than in the recent experience of Latin America. Despite recent popular upheavals and the ascent of center-left regimes in most of the countries […]
→ read full articleU.S. AMBASSADOR IN PAKISTAN FORCES A NEWSPAPER TO CENSOR A KNOWN U.S. CRITIC
Ahmed Qure,
10 Sep 2009
Finally, the Americans take their revenge. Dr. Mazari single-handedly threw cold water on Washington’s plan last year to send a rabidly anti-Pakistani US army general as defense attaché to Islamabad. The Pakistani government quietly accepted the appointment. But Dr. Mazari broke the story and aborted the plan. When the new pro-US elected government seized […]
→ read full articleSTONE FILM SAYS U.S. DEMONIZES CHAVEZ
Mike Collett-White,
10 Sep 2009
VENICE (Reuters) – Director Oliver Stone says the U.S. media and government have demonised Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and other leftist South American leaders, and argues in a new film that they were right to stand up to Washington. Chavez, who landed in Venice for the film’s premiere, has earned a reputation for his outspoken […]
→ read full articleTHE WORLD’S WORST RADIATION HOTSPOT
Jerome Taylor, in Kurchatov,
10 Sep 2009
At the start of the Cold War, Stalin chose one of the furthest outposts of his empire to test the Soviet Union’s first nuclear bombs. Sixty years on, their cancerous legacy is still being felt. Walking through the flat and endless Kazakh steppe, Nemytov Oleg suddenly stops, fumbles in his desert camouflage trousers and pulls […]
→ read full articleWHEN COCAINE AND MONSANTO’S PESTICIDE COLLIDE, THE WAR ON DRUGS BECOMES A GENETICALLY-MODIFIED WAR ON SCIENCE
Meg White,
10 Sep 2009
Monsanto and the U.S. government are dealing with unanticipated hazards of the pesticide Roundup in the South American drug war. At the intersection of cocaine and Roundup in rural South America, Monsanto and the U.S. government are struggling to keep up appearances. That’s becoming more and more difficult as the unanticipated hazards of genetic modification […]
→ read full articleON THE RECOGNITION OF ISRAEL AS A JEWISH STATE: CAN THE PALESTINIANS SEIZE THE INITIATIVE?
Ahmed Badawi,
10 Sep 2009
Palestinians balk at recognising a Jewish state, but they’re missing an opportunity to seize the initiative In his latest European tour, the Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu repeated his demand that the Palestinians must accept Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people before peace could be achieved. In the press conference with Gordon Brown […]
→ read full articleA RESPONSE TO BADAWI
Oliver Ramsbotham,
10 Sep 2009
To get beyond slogans, each side in the Israel/Palestine debate must have a strong sense of their own collective preferences, argues Oliver Ramsbotham. Ahmed Badawi is right to recommend that what is needed in intractable conflicts is inclusive internal ‘conversations’ within all main conflict parties (in this case Jewish Israelis and Palestinians) to determine ‘collective […]
→ read full articleDESPITE SLUMP, U.S. ROLE AS TOP ARMS SUPPLIER GROWS
Thom Shanker,
10 Sep 2009
Despite a recession that knocked down global arms sales last year, the United States expanded its role as the world’s leading weapons supplier, increasing its share to more than two-thirds of all foreign armaments deals, according to a new Congressional study. The United States signed weapons agreements valued at $37.8 billion in 2008, or 68.4 […]
→ read full articleETHNO-POLITICAL CONFLICT IN THE EX-BELGIAN COLONY
Claude Shema Rutagengwa, MD,
10 Sep 2009
Overview An ethnic conflict or ethnic war is a war between ethnic groups often as a result of ethnic nationalism. They are of interest because of the apparent prevalence since the Cold War and because they frequently result in war crimes such as genocide. Academic explanations of ethnic conflict generally fall into one of three […]
→ read full articleMR. ZELAYA GOES TO WASHINGTON – Ousted Honduran President takes his story to DC, gets a deceptive response from US State Dept. – The Real News Network Video
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7 Sep 2009
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→ read full articleATTEMPTING TO BREAK THE SIEGE OF GAZA AND ENDING UP ABDUCTED AND IMPRISONED IN ISRAEL FOR A WEEK
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate and a TRANSCEND Member,
30 Aug 2009
The Sequence of Events After waiting 4 days in Larnaca, Cyprus, to sail to Gaza, permission was given for only one boat, the ‘Spirit of Humanity,’ to sail. This meant the Free Gaza Boat, and half of the original passengers, including the cargo of cement, would have to be left behind. Early on Monday June […]
→ read full articleSEARCHING FOR PEACE IN A KINGDOM OF VULTURES
Nirmanusan Balasundaram,
29 Aug 2009
“Peace is the wholeness created by right relationships with oneself, other persons, other cultures, other life, Earth, and the larger whole of which all are a part.” The armed conflict in Sri Lanka came to an end by mid May 2009 – after more than three decades – with a ‘military victory’ of the Sri […]
→ read full articleCOULD U.S. OFFICIALS PLEASE TREAT A NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE WITH RESPECT?
Ann Wright, Retired U.S. Army Colonel,
29 Aug 2009
Less than a month ago, in late July, 2009, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire was traveling from Dublin, Ireland to Albuquerque, New Mexico to meet Peace Laureate Jody Williams to participate in peace events there. As she arrived at Dulles airport near Washington, DC, from Ireland on July 30, 2009, she passed through the regular […]
→ read full articleLET’S TALK TO BURMA. CHINA SURE IS.
Thant Myint-U,
28 Aug 2009
Twenty years of sanctioning and lecturing Burma’s military regime have failed. The West needs to engage with Burma’s leaders, increase humanitarian aid and reopen commercial relations with the country. If it doesn’t, not only will positive change remain as elusive as ever, but the country will turn quickly and irreparably into an economic vassal of […]
→ read full articleA PALESTINIAN VIEW: THE SECOND STAGE SHOULD BE BYPASSED
Walid Salem,
28 Aug 2009
The second stage of the "Performance-based Road Map" for Israeli-Palestinian peace is the most ambiguous and problematic among the three stages of the plan. Partly this is because of the contradiction between the original American proposal from 2002 and the final agreed-upon document released by the Quartet in 2003, as a compromise among all its […]
→ read full articleWHAT DEATH OF BAITULLAH MEHSUD MEANS FOR TERRORISM
Aurobinda Mahapatra,
28 Aug 2009
The death of Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on 5 August 2009 in the southern Waziristan has brought to the fore significant achievements of anti-terror operations in Pakistan. The incident brings respite to the victims of the Taliban though it would be premature to say the death has ended Taliban in the […]
→ read full articleWE SHALL NOT BE MOVED
Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Media Services,
24 Aug 2009
“A fight, a fight . . .” Oh Lord. From what depths did this story come? This was the power of the peace circle, pulling something out of me beyond any known zone of emotional safety. There were five or six of us, in a small breakout group, challenging one another with the deepest […]
→ read full articleOUTDATED AMERICAN CONSTITUTION PROVIDES CONTINUED VIOLENCE
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D.,
24 Aug 2009
There must be a reason as to why the United States is viewed in the world at large as a violent nation. In the early stages of this nation’s history everything seemed to be fine in many ways. However, as time rolled on, at least one segment of this well written document became obsolete, […]
→ read full articleA TMS Interview with Prof. Johan Galtung – The Millennium Development Goals
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2009
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→ read full articleGlobal Domestic Policy – GDP
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2009
The slogan was coined by the famous German nuclear physicist, philosopher and peace researcher, Carl Friedrich von Weizscäcker, who passed on in 2007 at the age of 94. The term Weltinnenpolitik caught on, with GDP as translation into English; in search of one appealing word. But that is but a word. What does it stand […]
→ read full articleProf. Johan Galtung on the Relationship between Peace & Business
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10 Aug 2009
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→ read full articleGLOBAL POWER AND GLOBAL GOVERNMENT (Part 3): CONTROLLING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY – BILDERBERG, THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION AND THE FEDERAL RESERVE
Andrew Gavin Marshall,
9 Aug 2009
The Bilderberg Group and the European Union Project In 1954, the Bilderberg Group was founded in the Netherlands, which was a secretive meeting held once a year, drawing roughly 130 of the political-financial-military-academic-media elites from North America and Western Europe as “an informal network of influential people who could consult each other privately and confidentially.”[1] […]
→ read full articleGLOBAL POWER AND GLOBAL GOVERNMENT (Part 4): CONTROLLING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY – BILDERBERG, THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION AND THE FEDERAL RESERVE
Andrew Gavin Marshall,
9 Aug 2009
Globalization: A Liberal-Mercantilist Economic Order? Neo-Liberals Take the Forefront In 1971, Jimmy Carter, a somewhat obscure governor from Georgia had started to have meetings with David Rockefeller. They became connected due to Carter’s support from the Atlanta corporate elite, who had extensive ties to the Rockefellers. So in 1973, when David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski were picking […]
→ read full articleBURMA’S STRUGGLE, AUNG SAN SUU KYI’S ROLE
Kyi May Kaung,
8 Aug 2009
The eighteenth anniversary of the “8-8-88” massacre in Rangoon is a moment to reaffirm the core principles of Burmese people’s long march to democracy, says Kyi May Kaung. Burmese people across the world, whether in the homeland or in exile, have for the last eighteen years marked today’s date with particular sharpness and poignancy. 8 […]
→ read full articleWILL VENEZUELAN DESTABILIZATION FOLLOW THE HONDURAN COUP?
Stephen Lendman,
8 Aug 2009
After ten and a half years in office, Hugo Chavez is very savvy about America’s intentions. On January 17, even before Obama’s inauguration, he said "Barack Obama has the ‘stench’ of his predecessor as US president and was at risk of being killed if he tries to change the American ’empire.’ " He added that […]
→ read full articleProf. Johan Galtung’s Insights on Somalia & Piracy
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7 Aug 2009
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→ read full articleMEDIA DISINFORMATION: BRITAIN’S ‘THE ECONOMIST’ BACKS DOWN OVER MISLEADING ITS READERS ON VENEZUELA
Francisco Dominguez,
5 Aug 2009
On its July 18, 2009, edition The Economist on article on Bolivia ("Bolivia’s divisive president. The Permanent Campaign", July 18), asserted that “Venezuelan troops helped quell a rebellion centred on the airport at Santa Cruz in the east in 2007.” The article did not bother to substantiate such a serious charge against Venezuela and is […]
→ read full articleAMERICA’S ULTIMATE WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION: BIOLOGICAL WARFARE
Tom Burghardt,
5 Aug 2009
Bioweapons Research, Secrecy and Contamination Go Hand in Hand The 2001 anthrax attacks underscore the dangers posed to our health and safety by the Bioweapons-Industrial Complex. The killer(s) employed a military-grade version of the deadly pathogen, a four-mutation blend of anthrax prepared at the government’s test site at the remote Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. […]
→ read full articleRESTORING DEMOCRACY IN HONDURAS
Mark Weisbrot,
2 Aug 2009
Hillary Clinton’s attempts to resolve the crisis in Honduras have failed. It’s time for Latin America to take the lead. The mediation effort that US secretary of state Hillary Clinton arranged to try to resolve the crisis in Honduras, which began when a military coup removed Honduran President Mel Zelaya more than four weeks ago, […]
→ read full articleUS-COLOMBIA MILITARY TIES FACE RESISTANCE – Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo Reports From The Capital, Bogota
TMS Editor,
2 Aug 2009
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→ read full articleAMERICA’S EXPANSIVE BIOWEAPONS INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Tom Burghardt,
1 Aug 2009
The dystopian British sci-fi film 28 Days Later opens with animal rights activists breaking into the Cambridge Primate Research facility to free chimpanzees used in a secret weapons program. Terrified by the intrusion, a scientist warns the raiders that the chimps are infected with a genetically-modified pathogen. Ignoring his admonition, the chimps are let loose […]
→ read full articleTHREE GOOD REASONS TO LIQUIDATE OUR EMPIRE
Chalmers Johnson,
31 Jul 2009
And Ten Steps to Take to Do So However ambitious President Barack Obama’s domestic plans, one unacknowledged issue has the potential to destroy any reform efforts he might launch. Think of it as the 800-pound gorilla in the American living room: our longstanding reliance on imperialism and militarism in our relations with other countries and […]
→ read full articleTHE NEW COLONIALISM (Part 2): THE INVESTOR NEEDS A WEAK STATE
Horand Knaup and Juliane von Mittelstaedt,
30 Jul 2009
Rich nations are exchanging money, oil and infrastructure for food, water and animal feed. At first glance, this seems to present a solution for many problems, says Jean-Philippe Audinet of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). In principle, he is pleased about the agricultural investments, and says he fought for them for years. "What […]
→ read full articleTHE NEW COLONIALISM (Part 1): FOREIGN INVESTORS SNAP UP AFRICAN FARMLAND
Horand Knaup and Juliane von Mittelstaedt,
30 Jul 2009
Governments and investment funds are buying up farmland in Africa and Asia to grow food — a profitable business, with a growing global population and rapidly rising prices. The high-stakes game of real-life Monopoly is leading to a modern colonialism to which many poor countries submit out of necessity. Every crisis has its winners. A […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) PAÍSES RICOS TEM PRÁTICA DE EXPORTAR LIXO: BRASIL IMPORTA TONELADAS
Ana Maria Amorim,
29 Jul 2009
Os países mais ricos do mundo encontraram uma solução fácil para acabar com mais de 400 milhões de toneladas de lixo que produzem: estão exportando para os países pobres. Enviar o material para o terceiro mundo chega a ser dez vezes mais barato que tratá-lo no próprio país. No meio deste mercado está o Brasil, […]
→ read full articleCAN NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT PLAY A MEANINGFUL ROLE?
Aurobinda Mahapatra,
29 Jul 2009
Can non-aligned movement (NAM), as a movement emerged during heydays of the cold war, play a role in a changed post-cold war world? Probably, the 15th summit at the Egyptian Red Sea resort Sharm el Sheikh on 15th and 16th of July 2009 would guide the scholar to seek a plausible answer as to the […]
→ read full articleGLOBAL POWER AND GLOBAL GOVERNMENT (Part 2): ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE – REVOLUTION, WORLD WARS AND WORLD ORDER
Andrew Gavin Marshall,
29 Jul 2009
Russia, Oil and Revolution By the 1870s, John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Empire had a virtual monopoly over the United States, and even many foreign countries. In 1890, the King of Holland gave his blessing for the creation of an international oil company called Royal Dutch Oil Company, which was mainly founded to refine and […]
→ read full articleGLOBAL POWER AND GLOBAL GOVERNMENT (Part 1): EVOLUTION AND REVOLUTION OF THE CENTRAL BANKING SYSTEM
Andrew Gavin Marshall,
29 Jul 2009
Introduction Humanity is on the verge of entering into the most tumultuous period in our history. The prospects of a global depression, the likes of which have never been seen before; a truly global war, on a scale never before imagined; and societal collapse, for which nations of the world are building totalitarian police states to […]
→ read full articleA CHANCE FOR REAL DEMOCRACY IN HONDURAS
Kevin Coleman,
29 Jul 2009
Honduras is changing. In 1981, Ronald Reagan imposed democracy from the outside, yielding a constitution that minimized the participation of the citizenry in the decisions of their government and a process that repressed and decapitated the social movements—led by workers, peasants, and students—who sought to have their voices heard. Nearly three decades later, as President […]
→ read full articlePUSHING SOUTH ASIA TOWARD THE BRINK
Zia Mian,
28 Jul 2009
The contradictions and confusions in U.S. policy in South Asia were on full display during Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent visit to India. U.S. support for India, which centers on making money, selling weapons, and turning a blind eye to the country’s nuclear weapons, is fatally at odds with U.S. policy and concerns about […]
→ read full articleSCHOOL OF COUPS
Father Roy Bourgeois and Margaret Knapke,
28 Jul 2009
The day after Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was deposed, President Barack Obama cautioned against repeating Latin America’s "dark past," decades when military coups regularly overrode the results of democratic elections. Obama went on to acknowledge, in his understated way, "The United States has not always stood as it should with some of these fledgling democracies." […]
→ read full articleTHE FRATERNITY OF CIVILIZATIONS: PROSPECTS FOR DIALOGUE
Maryam Sakeenah,
28 Jul 2009
The ‘Clash of Civilizations’ thesis may stand refuted as it very well is, but “refuting the Clash of Civilizations thesis will not stop the Clash of Civilizations concepts being applied to the War on Terror. The issue therefore is not how one can refute it, but how one can challenge its application in the world […]
→ read full articleTHE WEST WIDENS THE FATAH-HAMAS SPLIT
Seumas Milne,
28 Jul 2009
Palestinian unity is essential for any peace deal – but the US, Britain and the EU are playing a central role in preventing it It should be obvious that no settlement of the Israel-Palestine conflict is going to stick unless it commands broad support or acceptance on both sides. That is especially true of the […]
→ read full articleXINJIANG, TIBET, BEYOND: CHINA’S ETHNIC RELATIONS
Temtsel Hao,
27 Jul 2009
The interplay between local identity, state policy, and economic change is at the core of the violent events in Tibet in 2008 and Xinjiang in 2009. The Chinese government’s predicament in finding a workable policy in response is severe, says Temtsel Hao. The ethnic protests and clashes in China’s westernmost region of Xinjiang on 5-6 […]
→ read full articleHONDURAS: IN LIEU OF A PEACE PROCESS
Adrian Bergmann - Matagalpa, Nicaragua, July 23, 2009,
25 Jul 2009
There are well-founded arguments to say that deposed president Manuel Zelaya has violated the Honduran constitution. I do not thereby imply that his illegal actions are entirely immoral. There are immoral actions that are not illegal, just as there are laws that are immoral. The Honduran constitution is a conservative one, and contains a number […]
→ read full articleJake Lynch: Talisman Sabre Peace Convergence
TMS Editor,
25 Jul 2009
Video by TMS Peace Journalist Jake Lynch, Dir. of Univ. of Sydney Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, With Peace Journalist/Author Annabel McGoldrick. Yeppoon and Rockhampton, Central Queensland-Australia, Jul 11-12, 09 httpv://www.youtube.com/v/5sMsniEwA3o&hl=en&fs=1
→ read full articleAMERICA’S WARS: HOW SERIAL WAR BECAME THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE
David Bromwich,
23 Jul 2009
On July 16, in a speech to the Economic Club of Chicago, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that the "central question" for the defense of the United States was how the military should be "organized, equipped — and funded — in the years ahead, to win the wars we are in while being prepared […]
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Tom Loudon,
23 Jul 2009
Three weeks have passed since the military coup d’état in Honduras, yet the United States has failed to join the international community in issuing a clear denunciation of the illegal overthrow of the government of Honduras. Despite a statement by President Obama calling the coup illegal and recognizing Zelaya as the legitimate president, the […]
→ read full articleMILITARY COUP IN HONDURAS: IS IT AGAINST OBAMA TOO?
Antonio Jarquin (TRANSCEND Member), Wim Dierckxsens, Paulo Nakatani, Paulo Campanario, Reinaldo Carcanholo & Remy Herrera,
22 Jul 2009
Two Events, Three Contexts, the Answer, Two Premises, Two Questions, Two Consequences, and Five Conclusions and Actions Events (1): Honduras (Central America): It is inhabited by 7.5 million people. It is one of the smallest and poorest countries in Latin America (poverty rate is 60 percent). It was called "Banana Republic" because it was absolutely […]
→ read full articleTOWARDS A GLOBAL CURRENCY? TOWARDS THE INTEGRATION OF THE DOLLAR AND THE EURO?
Michel Chossudovsky,
22 Jul 2009
With a view to restoring financial stability, World leaders have called upon the Group of 20 countries (G-20) to instigate a new global currency based on the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights (SDRs). The media has presented the global currency initiative as a consensus building process, in which BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) would […]
→ read full article(SPANISH) GOLPE MILITAR EN HONDURAS: ¿ES TAMBIÉN CONTRA OBAMA?
Dr. Wim Dierckxsens (Holanda), Dr. Antonio Jarquin T (Nicaragua), Dr. Reinaldo Carcanholo (Brasil), Dr. Paulo Campanario (Brasil), Dr. Paulo Nakatani (Brasil),
22 Jul 2009
Dos Hechos, Tres Escenarios, la Respuesta, Dos Premisas, Dos Preguntas, Dos Consecuencias y Cinco ConclusionesHechos: Honduras, 7.5 millones de habitantes, uno de los países más pequeños y pobres de A. Latina (60 % de pobreza), llamada “Banana Republic” por el control absoluto que ejerció la “United Fruit Company” de USA. Base de lanzamiento de operaciones […]
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Robert Templer,
22 Jul 2009
The guns have fallen silent in Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war, but the deep wounds of ethnic animosity have not even begun to heal. An estimated 300,000 Tamil civilians remain essentially prisoners in internment camps run by a Sinhalese-dominated government. To begin easing the deep mistrust between the communities, donor countries will have to pressure […]
→ read full articleFREE EDUCATION FOR ALL CITIZENS: BEST INVESTMENT FOR WORLD PEACE
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D.,
21 Jul 2009
One of the leading problems in the world may be viewed as ignorance, which is described by The New Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language as a state of being where knowledge is wanting, that is, missing. We tend to make several mistakes to the detriment of many because, quite often, we are not […]
→ read full articleWE HAVE GIVEN OUR BLESSING TO ISRAEL’S CRIMES
Sheila Samples,
21 Jul 2009
"If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers."-Albert Camus There is no subject more restricted nor more controlled in the United States than a critical discussion of Israel. Balanced argument […]
→ read full articleFREEDOM FROM WAGE SLAVERY
Kim Petersen,
19 Jul 2009
Waking Up: Freeing Ourselves from Work By Pamela SatterwhitePublisher: Humming Words Press (2009)ISBN: 978-0-9649465-1-4 Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of life energy. – Nikola Tesla, quoted in Waking Up: Freeing Ourselves from Work Tesla’s quotation captures the reality of the working world for many people. People trudge off to work, do work, return […]
→ read full articleTHE INSATIABLE AMERICAN THIRST FOR BLOOD
Dr. Muzaffar Iqbal,
19 Jul 2009
The Anti-War Movement in America, Canada, and Britain has virtually become a non-entity. This was not unpredictable because the diverse groups which make up the so-called Anti-War Movement have neither the resources, nor the leadership, nor any solid ideological foundation beyond the apparent loathing for war. The invasion of Afghanistan by the United States took […]
→ read full articleMINUTEMAN III POISED FOR LAUNCH FROM CALIFORNIA TO THE MARSHALL ISLANDS
TMS Editor,
18 Jul 2009
Call for Local Protests on Weekend of August 22-23, 2009 The US arsenal of hypocrisy is poised for another launch from Vandenberg AFB in Southern California in the early morning hours of August 23. Our government lectures and threatens Iran and North Korea about the evils of nuclear weapons and then arrogantly continues to fire nuclear […]
→ read full articleSPEECH AT THE INTER-ASIAN RELATIONS CONFERENCE, NEW DELHI – APRIL 2, 1947
Mohandas K. Gandhi,
17 Jul 2009
At the closing session of the Inter-Asian Relations Conference held on April 2, 1947 in New Delhi, Mahatma Gandhi spoke to over 20,000 visitors, delegates and observers. A speech highly relevant for today. Madam President and friends, I do not think that I should apologize to you, for having to speak in a foreign tongue. […]
→ read full articleEARTH CONDOMINIUM – THE GLOBAL NEIGHBORHOOD
TMS Editor,
17 Jul 2009
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→ read full articleDEVELOPMENT: ‘FARMERS CAN GAIN FROM CRISIS’
Sabina Zaccaro interviews Josefina Stubbs from IFAD,
17 Jul 2009
The financial crisis could actually boost agriculture in Latin America, Josefina Stubbs, director of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) division for Latin America and the Caribbean tells IPS in an interview. Excerpts from the interview: IPS: What are the effects of the economic crisis on agriculture in Latin America? Is there a risk […]
→ read full articleBALKANS: MEDIA COULD BE IN THE DOCK OVER WAR CRIMES
Vesna Peric Zimonjic,
17 Jul 2009
Journalists are in the dock now for their role in provoking the wars of the 1990s across former Yugoslavia that left more than 100,000 dead. "We’re analysing the influence of certain Serbian media on war crimes committed in the 1991-95 wars," Bruno Vekaric, spokesman for the Special War Crimes Prosecutor in Belgrade told IPS. "The […]
→ read full articleTAMIL CAMPS
NY Times Editorial Jul 15 09,
17 Jul 2009
More than two months after declaring victory over Tamil Tiger guerillas, Sri Lanka’s government is continuing to hold hundreds of thousands of displaced Tamil civilians in what it calls “welfare villages,” but what increasingly look like military internment camps. The civilians, many of whom were held hostage by the guerrillas in the bloody last stage […]
→ read full article(FRENCH) AFRIQUE DE L’OUEST: LES RESSORTS D’UNE ÉCONOMIE SOCIALE ET SOLIDAIRE
Abdou Salam Fall, Cheikh Guèye,
17 Jul 2009
Le regain d’intérêt que suscite l’Economie sociale solidaire est inséparable de l’urgence de changement de paradigme dans le processus de création de richesse en particulier dans les sociétés du Nord. Le décalage entre richesse et bien-être suffit à marquer le malaise. Ainsi de plus en plus d’auteurs ( Bertrand de Jouvenel, 1968, Dominique Méda, 2000, […]
→ read full articleOBAMA’S PRIVATIZATION OF AMERICAN WARS
Jenny Kakasuleff, Liberal Examiner,
16 Jul 2009
If you thought the end of American intervention in foreign wars was nearing, think again. President Obama has been replacing soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan with private contractors—some 250,000 are currently deployed overseas—including Black Water (operating under another alias.) Contractors are not subject to the same guidelines as our soldiers, and thus, have not been […]
→ read full articleSEASON OF TRAVESTIS: FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY IN MID-2009
Noam Chomsky,
15 Jul 2009
June 2009 was marked by a number of significant events, including two elections in the Middle East: in Lebanon, then Iran. The events are significant, and the reactions to them, highly instructive. The election in Lebanon was greeted with euphoria. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman gushed that he is "a sucker for free and […]
→ read full articleNIGER DELTA STANDOFF
Kia Mistilis,
14 Jul 2009
Behind fighter-planes and gunboats, Nigerian forces launched a full-scale offensive in the Niger Delta on May 13, displacing 30,000 people and sparking a humanitarian crisis. Thousands of civilians fleeing destroyed villages are now trapped between armed resistance groups and the Nigerian military. These civilians are hiding in the bush without food, water, or medical supplies, […]
→ read full articleTRANSCEND UNIVERSITY PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT
TMS Editor,
12 Jul 2009
Dear friends, I have the pleasure to inform you that books #5 and #6 from TRANSCEND University Press are already available at www.transcend.org/tup. They are: 5 – The Fall of the U.S. Empire–And Then What?: Successors, Regionalization or Globalization? U.S. Fascism or U.S. Blossoming? By Johan Galtung. 6 – Peace Business: Humans and Nature Above […]
→ read full articleWASHINGTON IS PLAYING A DEEPER GAME WITH CHINA
F. William Engdahl,
12 Jul 2009
After the tragic events of July 5 in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China, it would be useful to look more closely into the actual role of the US Government’s ”independent“ NGO, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). All indications are that the US Government, once more acting through its “private” Non-Governmental Organization, the NED, […]
→ read full articlePOEM FROM PRISON
Mairead Maguire - Nobel Peace laureate,
11 Jul 2009
From the Ramle Israeli prison to Gaza and the Palestinian People – 30 Jun 09 ‘SPIRIT OF HUMANITY’AS LONG ASTHE PEOPLE OF PALESTINEHAVE NO LIBERTY, NO FREEDOMTHOSE OF US WITH A VOICE TO SPEAK MUST SPEAKAS LONG ASTHE CHILDREN OF GAZALIVE IN FEAR OF ISRAELIBOMBS AND OCCUPATIONTHOSE OF US WITH A VOICE TO SPEAKMUST SPEAKAS […]
→ read full articleTAMIL DEATH TOLL ‘1,400 A WEEK’ AT MANIK FARM CAMP IN SRI LANKA
Rhys Blakely in Mumbai,
11 Jul 2009
About 1,400 people are dying every week at the giant Manik Farm internment camp set up in Sri Lanka to detain Tamil refugees from the nation’s bloody civil war, senior international aid sources have told The Times. The death toll will add to concerns that the Sri Lankan Government has failed to halt a humanitarian […]
→ read full articleIT’S NOT JUST OUR 21 KIDNAPPED PASSENGERS: It’s an outrage, but it is hardly an isolated one. Free Gaza Video
TMS Editor,
11 Jul 2009
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→ read full articleDESERT ENERGY
Dennis Nottebaum,
9 Jul 2009
The idea sounds intriguing: place a vast number of solar thermal energy collectors in an area where both solar energy and space are available in abundance – the desert – and supply a major part of the population with emission-free electricity. What sounds like a remote scenario for energy creation in a future world has […]
→ read full articleUS LEAVES HONDURAS TO ITS FATE
Mark Weisbrot,
9 Jul 2009
Washington is unwilling to take the side of democracy in Honduras by opposing the coup leaders it helped to train. The military coup that overthrew President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras took a new turn when Zelaya attempted to return home on Sunday. The military closed the airport and blocked runways to prevent his plane […]
→ read full articleTHE FEDERATION OF THE WORLD
Silver Donald Cameron,
8 Jul 2009
When commentators and reporters describe people like me as “anti-globalization,” I get annoyed. “Globalization” in its true sense is not a set of policies or institutional initiatives. It is simply a fact. How can one oppose the movement of the air, sushi, the circulation of the oceans, the Internet, the migration of birds, the world-wide […]
→ read full articleSTRAIGHT TALK: REVEALING THE REAL U.S.-AFRICA POLICY
Gerald LeMelle,
8 Jul 2009
It’s time for some straight talk on U.S. foreign policy as it relates to Africa. While Obama administration officials and the U.S. African Command (AFRICOM) representatives insist that U.S. foreign policy towards Africa isn’t being militarized, the evidence seems to suggest otherwise. While Africans condemned U.S. military policy in Africa under the Bush administration, the […]
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