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DEBATE ON THE U.N. GAZA WAR CRIMES REPORT
Justice Richard Goldstone and former Israeli ambassador Dore Gold,
19 Nov 2009
Packed house hears Justice Richard Goldstone, whose name has become synonymous with the U.N. Human Rights Council’s fact-finding report on the conflict, engage in a public forum with a senior Israeli political figure over widespread criticism of the report among supporters of Israel. "Let me be absolutely clear," Goldstone said. "International law allows, and indeed […]
→ read full articleGAZANS BRACE FOR COLD AND MISERABLE WINTER
Mel Frykberg – Terraviva Europe,
18 Nov 2009
EZBT ABBED RABBO (IPS) – Tens of thousands of Gazans living in tents and damaged homes face a wet, cold and miserable winter as Israel’s blockade of the coastal territory continues to prevent the importation of building and reconstruction material.During the last few weeks Gazans were given a brief reprieve from the oncoming winter as […]
→ read full article“PIG HELL” AT WAL-MART AND COSTCO SUPPLIER CAPTURED ON VIDEO
Martha Rosenberg - Mercy for Animals (MFA),
18 Nov 2009
“When he bolted her the first time, she didn’t die. She just stood there looking stunned as blood trickled from her forehead. She then got her bearings and tried to turn and run.” “The gas cart was filled to the brim with pigs today, a total of 39, including 9 large pigs that were at […]
→ read full articleWaging Peace: Interview with Prof. Johan Galtung (Part 1)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2009
Riz Khan interviews Prof. Johan Galtung and Amb. Alvaro de Soto. Washington-DC, Nov 16 2009. httpv://www.youtube.com/v/uVRSvJZLTYQ&hl=en_US&fs=1
→ read full articleFREE THE FORGOTTEN BIRD OF PARADISE
John Pilger – Information Clearing House,
18 Nov 2009
When General Suharto, the west’s man, seized power in Indonesia in the mid-1960s, he offered “a gleam of light in Asia”, rejoiced Time magazine. That he had killed up to a million “communists” was of no account in the acquisition of what Richard Nixon called “the richest hoard of natural resources, the greatest prize in […]
→ read full articleCLIMATE CHANGE: BRAZIL TO RECOVER LEADERSHIP ROLE WITH CO2 LIMITS
Mario Osava – Terraviva Europe,
18 Nov 2009
Brazil’s decision to adopt voluntary reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions is an indication that the planet’s climate change emergency has joined strategic, economic and ideological issues as a new factor on the global political agenda. At the World Climate Change Conference to be held Dec. 7-18 in Copenhagen, the Brazilian government will table its […]
→ read full articleYEMEN’S COMPLEX REALITY
Hashem Ahelbarra – Aljazeera,
18 Nov 2009
The war in Saada is perhaps the most misunderstood conflict in the world. And the reason is the very complex tribal, religious and political make up of Yemen.For centuries, Yemen had been shattered into a mosaic of kingdoms or sultanates – a Shia Zaidi Imamate in the north and Sunni Sultanates in the south. That […]
→ read full articleCOPENHAGEN: SEATTLE GROWS UP
Naomi Klein – The Nation,
16 Nov 2009
The other day I received a pre-publication copy of The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle, by David Solnit and Rebecca Solnit. It’s set to come out ten years after a historic coalition of activists shut down the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle, the spark that ignited a global anticorporate movement. […]
→ read full articleHOW THE SERVANT BECAME A PREDATOR
William K. Black, Assoc. Professor, Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City,
16 Nov 2009
Finance’s Five Fatal FlawsWhat exactly is the function of the financial sector in our society? Simply this: Its sole function is supplying capital efficiently to aid the real economy. The financial sector is a tool to help those that make real tools, not an end in itself. But five fatal flaws in the financial sector’s […]
→ read full articlePOVERTY, GLOBAL TRADE JUSTICE, AND THE ROOTS OF TERRORISM
John Perkins - Yes! Magazine,
16 Nov 2009
To combat terrorism, we should address the root causes of poverty, says former "economic hit man." The following is adapted from Hoodwinked: An Economic Hitman Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded—and What We Need to Do to Remake Them. Random House, 2009. Navy Seal snipers rescued an American cargo ship captain unharmed and killed […]
→ read full articleSTRATEGIES AND TACTICS AT THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION (WTO)
Umberto Mazzei – Global Research,
16 Nov 2009
Geneva — The WTO is an important multilateral forum because it attempts to negotiate the future. The unacknowledged purpose of creating the WTO was to perpetuate, through international agreements, the pattern of trade imbalances in the international economy. The ploy is to convene a forum to negotiate an equitable amendment. The tactic is to wear […]
→ read full articleHONDURAN ELECTIONS: OVER 240 ACADEMICS AND EXPERTS IN LATIN AMERICA CALL ON OBAMA TO DENOUNCE HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES BY HONDURAN DICTATORSHIP
Many Authors - ZNet,
15 Nov 2009
Free and Fair Elections Are Possible Only After the Coup is Reversed, They Say For Immediate Release: Claremont, CA – Over 240 academics and experts on Latin America sent a letter to President Obama yesterday urging him to denounce the ongoing human rights violations perpetrated by the coup regime in Honduras ahead of the planned […]
→ read full articleA FIASCO
Le Monde – Editorial, 12 Nov 2009,
15 Nov 2009
It’s time to stop the verbal pretense. In the Near East, there is no negotiation "process" underway. Furthermore, there is also no prospect for peace. The situation is nonetheless not in a state of status quo: it is regressing. Dangerously. The United States bears the primary responsibility. Several months ago, Barack Obama had placed the […]
→ read full articleThe 2009 Brazilian Music Institute in Gainesville, Florida featuring CECILIA SIQUEIRA (Uruguay) and FERNANDO LIMA (Brasil) – Duo Siqueira Lima – performing Tico Tico no Fubá, (Zéquinha de Abreu).
TMS Editor,
15 Nov 2009
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→ read full articleMORALITY VS. MATERIAL INTERESTS
Paul Craig Roberts – Information Clearing House,
15 Nov 2009
Myths of Our TimeHumanity has endeavored for millennia to control evil with morality. In the American "superpower," this effort has collapsed and failed. It is conventional wisdom that it was the draft that ended the Vietnam war. According to this explanation, cowardly college students subject to the draft and their unpatriotic families, forced an end […]
→ read full articleBACK TO BASICS FOR PALESTINIAN STRUGGLE
Jake Lynch and Majd Beltaji,
15 Nov 2009
The decision by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas not to seek re-election in January, and the vote at the UN General Assembly paving the way for the Security Council to consider the Goldstone Report, should, between them, prove a turning point in the Palestinian struggle for self-determination. Even the patient Mr Abbas has now apparently given […]
→ read full articleTHE PLIGHT OF THE ROMA: FROM EUROPE TO CANADA
Reuel S. Amdur – Toward Freedom,
13 Nov 2009
The media have not paid enough attention to the plight of the Roma in Europe. The Roma’s living conditions are miserable, and they suffer from serious discrimination in education and employment, and attacks from racists and neo-Nazis. Because of the conditions they face in Europe, a number of Czech Roma fled to Canada in 2008 […]
→ read full articleWHAT CAN PALESTINIANS LEARN FROM THE AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT?
Aziz Abu Sarah – Common Ground,
13 Nov 2009
Appealing to the Jewish Conscience The struggle for civil rights, freedom and independence is not unique to the Palestinian people. Many nations have travelled the same road. Palestinians today have the advantage of looking back and learning from those who succeeded in their struggles. The American civil rights movement in particular has important lessons for […]
→ read full articlePAID LYING: WHAT PASSES FOR MAJOR MEDIA JOURNALISM [IN THE USA]
Stephen Lendman – Dissident Voice,
13 Nov 2009
Today’s major media journalism is biased, irresponsible, sensationalist reporting that distorts, exaggerates or misstates the truth. It’s misinformation or agitprop disinformation masquerading as fact to boost circulation, readership, viewers, or listeners, and on vital issues lie about or suppress uncomfortable truths to provide unqualified support for state and/or corporate interests — to the detriment of […]
→ read full articleFROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA
Gilad Atzmon - Information Clearing House,
12 Nov 2009
Let’s once and for all stop getting excited about America mounting pressure on Israel to freeze West Bank settlements. The entire fascination with the topic is a product of Zionist spin. It is there to divert attention from the root cause of the conflict: The robbery of Palestine and Palestinians in the name of a […]
→ read full articleBELLO, CLAPPERTON-1824, YARADUA’S AMNESTY, AND THE NIGER DELTA
Rev. Olufemi Oluniyi, Ph.D. - Centre for Values and Social Change, Nigeria,
12 Nov 2009
In 1823 Hugh Clapperton, a British adventurer, set out to unravel the Niger waterway. He arrived in the Bornu in the Lake Chad region late that year and went westward to Kano in 1824, and later to Sokoto in the same year. Sultan Bello, the ruler of the Muslim empire founded by his predecessor, Uthman […]
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→ read full article(SPANISH) DOCUMENTO OFICIAL DE LA FUERZA AÉREA DE EEUU REVELA LAS VERDADERAS INTENCIONES DETRÁS DEL ACUERDO MILITAR CON COLOMBIA
Eva Golinger - Centre Europe-Tiers Monde,
10 Nov 2009
Un documento oficial del Departamento de la Fuerza Aérea del Departamento de Defensa de Estados Unidos revela que la base militar de Palanquero, Colombia “garantiza la oportunidad para conducir operaciones de espectro completo por toda América del Sur”. Esta afirmación contradice las explicaciones dadas por el presidente Álvaro Uribe y el Departamento de Estado de […]
→ read full article(SPANISH) LA MALA INFLUENCIA DE OBAMA
Naomi Klein - TeleSur,
10 Nov 2009
Estados Unidos ha tenido una similar influencia corruptora como nuevo integrante del Consejo de Derechos Humanos de Naciones Unidas. Su primera gran prueba fue el valiente informe del juez Richard Goldstone sobre la masacre en Gaza perpetrada por Israel, que concluía que el ejército israelí y Hamas habían cometido crímenes de guerra. En vez de […]
→ read full articleNO NATION CAN LIBERATE ANOTHER
Malalai Joya – Speech in NYC – Socialist Worker,
10 Nov 2009
Malalai Joya is known around the world as a courageous opponent of the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan, the corrupt regime presided over by President Hamid Karzai–and the Taliban and other conservative Islamist forces battling U.S. and Afghan government troops. An uncompromising fighter for women’s rights, Joya was elected to parliament in 2005, where she denounced […]
→ read full articleHOW BIASED MEDIA CAN BRAINWASH YOU
Melinda Burns - Alternet,
10 Nov 2009
A new study reveals that even savvy media consumers are affected by biased coverage.There’s nobody more cynical about the media than your average European. Only 12 percent of Europeans claim to trust the media, compared to 15 percent of North Americans, 29 percent of Pacific Asians and 48 percent of Africans, the BBC has found. […]
→ read full articleOUR INFORMATION DILEMMA
James Keye - Dissident Voice,
10 Nov 2009
What is to be done when the major means of communication with the majority of a nation’s people is under the control of select groups that consistently distort and fabricate the information delivered? This is the situation that the whole world faces. The major points of contact with the information that the world’s people require […]
→ read full articleA STEP TOWARDS A WAR-FREE WORLD: CRIMINALIZE WAR
Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, former Prime Minister of Malaysia,
9 Nov 2009
Why We Must Reject War Criminalise War Conference, Opening Address, 28th October 2009 Speech by [former Malaysian Prime Minister] Tun Dr Mahathir Bin Mohamad at the Criminalise War Conference and War Crimes Tribunal 2009 at Putra World Trade Center, Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, 28 October 2009 WAR AND CRIME 1. As one of the convenors […]
→ read full article“MAKE WAR A CRIME”: BRING THESE WAR CRIMINALS TO TRIAL
Arman Ahmad - from Kuala Lumpur,
9 Nov 2009
The Kuala Lumpur Initiative to Criminalize WarKUALA LUMPUR: The international community has failed to charge leaders who went to war to solve problems. "The criminals have not been questioned or tried," said former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad ahead of the War Criminal Conference and Exhibition from Wednesday to Saturday at the Putra World […]
→ read full articleTHE NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF NATO-US-ISRAELI WAR CRIMES
George Galloway, British MP – Global Research Video,
9 Nov 2009
Here is the speech by George Galloway MP at the War Crimes Conference & Exhibition that took place at the Putra World Trade Centre in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia on 28th October 2009. 10-Min Youtube Videos GO TO ORIGINAL – GLOBAL RESEARCH
→ read full articleVIDEOS: WAR CRIMES MULTIMEDIA
Matthias Chang and Christopher Chang – Global Research,
9 Nov 2009
Carefully Researched Documentary The following video (Part I and II) produced and directed by Matthias Chang and Christopher Chang was shown at the War Crimes Conference & Exhibition that took place at the Putra World Trade Center (PWTC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from October 28 to 31, 2009. The showing of this outstanding video production preceded […]
→ read full articleGERMANS PRESS FOR REMOVAL OF US NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN EUROPE
Julian Borger, diplomatic editor – The Guardian,
9 Nov 2009
Pressure is growing within Nato for the removal of the remaining US nuclear weapons on European soil, and for a new doctrine for the alliance that would depend less on nuclear deterrence.The initiative is being driven by the new German government coalition, which has called for the removal of American nuclear weapons on its territory […]
→ read full article(SPANISH) ISRAEL, GAZA Y LA IMPUNIDAD
Víctor M. Carriba - TeleSur,
8 Nov 2009
Las conclusiones de Goldstone fueron avaladas por el Consejo de Derechos Humanos de la ONU. El documento expresa preocupación por "las informaciones relativas a graves violaciones de los derechos humanos y serias infracciones del derecho internacional humanitario cometidas durante las operaciones militares israelíes en la Franja de Gaza". La expectativa radica ahora en si el […]
→ read full articleCHOMSKY: ‘US FOREIGN POLICY IS STRAIGHT OUT OF THE MAFIA’
Seumas Milne – The Guardian,
8 Nov 2009
Noam Chomsky is the closest thing in the English-speaking world to an intellectual superstar. A philosopher of language and political campaigner of towering academic reputation, who as good as invented modern linguistics, he is entertained by presidents, addresses the United Nations general assembly and commands a mass international audience. When he spoke in London last […]
→ read full articleGOLDSTONE AND GAZA
Jimmy Carter – The New York Times,
8 Nov 2009
Knowing of the ability of Israeli forces, often using U.S. weapons, to strike targets with pinpoint accuracy, it was difficult to understand or explain the destruction of hospitals, schools, prisons, United Nations facilities, small factories and repair shops, agricultural processing plants and almost 40,000 homes.Judge Richard Goldstone and the United Nations fact-finding mission on the […]
→ read full articleANIMAL ACTIVISTS OUTRAGED BY NEPAL’S PLANS FOR MASS ANIMAL SACRIFICE
Rhys Blakely in Mumbai – The Times,
8 Nov 2009
Plans to sacrifice more than 500,000 animals during a two-day religious festival in Nepal this month have met with the wrath of animal rights activists, who have called for the 300-year-old ritual to be banned. Every five years the tiny village of Bariyapur near Nepal’s southern border with India is swamped with blood as hundreds […]
→ read full articleTHE EVIL EMPIRE
Paul Craig Roberts – Information Clearing House,
8 Nov 2009
Obama’s credibility is shot. And so is Congress’s, assuming it ever had any. The US House of Representatives has just voted to show the entire world that the US House of Representatives is nothing but the servile, venal, puppet of the Israel Lobby.The US government is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest […]
→ read full articleWORLD MARCH FOR PEACE AND NONVIOLENCE AT THE 10TH NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES SUMMIT – BERLIN, NOVEMBER 10-11, 2009
Javier Tolcachier – Pressenza International, by email,
8 Nov 2009
The summit’s slogan is "BREAKING DOWN NEW WALLS AND BUILDING BRIDGES TO ENSURE A WORLD OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND A WORLD WITHOUT VIOLENCE." The World March for Peace and Nonviolence will be at the Summit on November 11th when Silo, thinker of Universalist Humanism and main inspiration of the March will speak. The Summit will […]
→ read full articleAMERICA’S NEW CRUSADER CASTLES
Simon Tisdall – The Guardian,
6 Nov 2009
Across the Middle East, the US is building heavily fortified embassies which cut off diplomats and create hostilitiesAfter the US Congress agreed a $7.5bn aid package for Pakistan this autumn, the Obama administration was taken aback by the seemingly ungrateful reaction of its intended recipients. Pakistani opposition politicians fumed about "colonialism" and "imperialism". Military men […]
→ read full articleUSA TO LAUNCH ICBM MINUTMAN III ON NOV 18 FROM VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE TO THE MARSHALL ISLANDS
MacGregor Eddy, by email,
5 Nov 2009
This seems hypocritical after the criticism of North Korea’s short range liquid fuel missiles. Minuteman III is a hair trigger alert high speed, solid fuel, computer/satellite guided desiged to carry weapons for large civilian areas. The test missile will carry dummy warheads, but it is a missile test for nuclear delivery systems. This violates the […]
→ read full articleITALIAN RULING A MILESTONE VERDICT – AND EMBARRASSMENT FOR THE CIA
Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff - Newsweek,
5 Nov 2009
The ruling by an Italian judge convicting 23 Americans—including several CIA officers—of plotting the abduction of a Muslim cleric is a milestone verdict on several fronts. It represents the first legal judgment by a foreign court that elements of the Bush administration’s post-9/11 counterterrorism policies involved the commission of criminal acts. Even if none of […]
→ read full articleISRAEL’S WORST ENEMIES ARE THOSE WHO SUPPORT ITS POLICIES, CLAIMS CHOMSKY
Paul Cullen – Irish Times,
5 Nov 2009
ISRAEL’S GREATEST enemies are those who support its decline into moral degeneration and destruction, philosopher and political activist Noam Chomsky has told an audience in Dublin.Chomsky, who is retired professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said Israel was once a civilised society similar to those found in Scandinavia. Now, however, that has […]
→ read full articleITALIAN COURT SENTENCES 23 CIA AGENTS OVER RENDITION FLIGHT
Richard Owen in Rome – The Times,
5 Nov 2009
An Italian court sentenced 23 former CIA agents to up to eight years in prison today for their role in the abduction of an Egyptian terrorist suspect in the first trial over “extraordinary renditions”.The Americans were all tried in absentia, but the verdicts were nevertheless hailed by human rights campaigners as an important victory that […]
→ read full articleZIONISM’S JEWISH ENEMY
Information Clearing House,
5 Nov 2009
Alan Hart Interviews Professor Ilan Pappe, Israel’s leading “new” or “revisionist” historian. Like all Israelis, Ilan was brought up, conditioned, to believe Zionism’s version of the history of the making and sustaining of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It wasn’t until he went to England to continue his academic studies that he had access to documentation which […]
→ read full articleSAVAGERY 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 […]
→ read full articleSUPPORT THE GOLDSTONE REPORT
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 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 articleTHE CONSTRUCTION OF THE IRAN “THREAT” (Part 2)
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 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 […]
→ 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 […]
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