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FROM DELUSION TO VINDICTIVENESS
Gilad Atzmon,
13 Oct 2009
Interpreting the Zionist DreamAs an Israeli youngster I myself succumbed to this dream. I tended to believe that Israel was ‘my’ historic land, I regarded the Biblical protagonists as my direct ancestors. I was sure that, at least in the case of the so called ‘first Israelis’, the ideological transplant operation was a great success. […]
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Giorgia Giambi,
13 Oct 2009
Jenin Pilot EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Since mid-2007, after Hamas took power in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank has become the focus of an international strategy in which aid and international political recognition would be heaped on the territory under PA rule, with the purpose of bolstering the peace process and further isolating an impoverished and […]
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Antonio Mazzeo,
13 Oct 2009
Negli stessi giorni in cui è stata ufficializzata l’assegnazione del premio Nobel per la pace al presidente Barack Obama, il Dipartimento della difesa degli Stati Uniti ha annunciato la costituzione di una nuova e potentissima task force aeronavale destinata a presidiare i mari del contiente latinoamericano. Si tratta del Carrier Strike Group CSG 1 e […]
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→ read full articleTHE MYTH OF “AMERICA”
Dahr Jamail and Jason Coppola,
13 Oct 2009
Happy Columbus Day Columbus sailed the ocean blue in Fourteen Hundred and Ninety Two … May the spirit of adventure and discovery always be with you. Wishing you a great Columbus Day – Columbus Day greeting card To mark Columbus Day In 2004, the Medieval and Renaissance Center in UCLA published the final […]
→ read full articleOBAMA AND THE NOBEL PRIZE: WHEN WAR BECOMES PEACE, WHEN THE LIE BECOMES THE TRUTH
Michel Chossudovsky,
12 Oct 2009
When war becomes peace, When concepts and realities are turned upside down, When fiction becomes truth and truth becomes fiction. When a global military agenda is heralded as a humanitarian endeavor, When the killing of civilians is upheld as "collateral damage", When those who resist the US-NATO led invasion of their homeland are […]
→ read full articleTHE BIG QUESTION: IS THE BITTER DIVIDE BETWEEN TURKEY AND ARMENIA COMING TO AN END?
Marcus Tanner,
12 Oct 2009
Why are we asking this now? Because Turkey and Armenia finally signed an agreement on Saturday [Oct 10, 2009] to restore diplomatic ties, which Turkey broke off in 1993, and reopen the border, which Turkey closed that same year. The accord will hopefully bury the hatchet – or at least part of the hatchet – […]
→ read full articleCONGRATULATIONS PRESIDENT OBAMA ON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE – NOW PLEASE EARN IT!
Michael Moore,
10 Oct 2009
Dear President Obama, How outstanding that you’ve been recognized today as a man of peace. Your swift, early pronouncements — you will close Guantanamo, you will bring the troops home from Iraq, you want a nuclear weapon-free world, you admitted to the Iranians that we overthrew their democratically-elected president in 1953, you made that great […]
→ read full articleSCANDAL: OBAMA GETS THE “PEACE PRIZE”
Jan Oberg, Member of TRANSCEND,
10 Oct 2009
In his will, Alfred Nobel states the criteria for awarding the prize:Two general expressions, for all the five prizes: «during the preceding year» «has conferred the greatest benefit on mankind» and four expressions that apply particularly to the peace prize*:– "brotherhood among nations" – "abolition or reduction of standing armies" – "for the holding and […]
→ read full articleWAR/NO MORE TROUBLE – Playing for Change | Songs Around The World – This unforgetable track was performed by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it traveled the globe.
TMS Editor,
10 Oct 2009
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Mildred Pineda,
9 Oct 2009
Poverty, attacks on human rights and corporate fraud will be among the main news coverage focuses of a new regional public radio network, Radio del Sur, which will link stations from South America and Africa. Radio del Sur (Radio of the South) emerged as "an instrument of integration in a world of shifting power alignments […]
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Tom Loudon,
9 Oct 2009
Today [Oct 6 2009] marks 100 days since a military coup was carried out against President Zelaya in Honduras. It also marks 100 days of massive, sustained, nonviolent resistance on the part of the Honduran people who are saying no to this brazen attempt to return to the days of dictators. In the face […]
→ read full articleEU’S LUCKY CHARM: IRELAND SUPPORTS LISBON TREATY – NOW WHAT?
Joelle Fiss, Human Rights First Pennoyer Fellow,
9 Oct 2009
BRUSSELS, October 3, 2009 – "This is a day of celebration for Ireland and for Europe", chuckled former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt to the press from a smoke-filled Irish pub in the heart of the European Union headquarters in Brussels. As EU staffers and journalists huddled around him, Verhofstadt was watching the live TV […]
→ read full articleINDIA, CHINA AND PAKISTAN: UNEASY EQUATIONS
Aurobinda Mahapatra,
9 Oct 2009
Some of the recent developments bring to the fore the uneasy nature of regional dynamics in the Indian subcontinent with the powers India, China and Pakistan playing their national cards vigorously. Pakistan-China agreement to develop hydroelectric project at Bunji in the Kashmir currently under the control of Pakistan, India’s objection to Pakistan’s granting of autonomous […]
→ read full article‘RETHINKING AFGHANISTAN’
Robert Greenwald (documentary) & Jeremy Scahill (article),
9 Oct 2009
Destroys Failed Logic of WarNew Video Documentary & Article Americans should stop and rethink support for a war that worsens by the day, costs billions of dollars, causes the deaths of U.S. soldiers and countless Afghan civilians and which, ultimately, will make the U.S. less safe. CLICK TO VIEW – ICH
→ read full articleNOBEL PEACE PRIZE TO PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate,
9 Oct 2009
PRESS RELEASE – Friday, Oct 9 2009 Speaking from Belfast regarding the Nobel Peace Prize 2009 being awarded to President Barack Obama, the 1976 Nobel Peace Laureate, Mairead Maguire, said: ‘I am very disappointed with the decision of the Nobel Committee to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 to President Barack Obama. They say […]
→ read full articleCOUPS, UNASUR, AND THE U.S.
Noam Chomsky,
6 Oct 2009
From a talk given in Caracas, Venezuela on August 29 (updated September 9) The last time I had the opportunity to speak in Caracas—at long-distance that time—was about a year ago, right after the UNASUR (Union of South American Nations) meeting in Santiago in September 2008. That meeting was called "with the purpose of considering […]
→ read full articleDECONSTRUCTING THE ISRAELI NARRATIVE
Dan Lieberman,
6 Oct 2009
As Israel’s democratic posture becomes more questioned, its mystique becomes more exaggerated. To prove the validity of its actions, Israel’s supporters focus on three components of Israel’s drive to an accomplished nation: The significance of the Zionist mission, Israel as a Jewish state, and Israel not being responsible for the Palestinian displaced […]
→ read full articleSOUTH ASIAN FEDERALIST (SAF) URGES FOR UN ASSEMBLY IN KATHMANDU
Himalayan News Service,
6 Oct 2009
KATHMANDU: South Asian Federalist (SAF) launched a campaign for the establishment of United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA), in Kathmandu, today [Oct 3, 2009].At a press meet in the capital, James Arputharaj W, President South Asian Federalist, claimed that the purpose of the UNPA was to represent citizens in global institutions. He further stated, “it would […]
→ read full articleTHE UN MUST ADOPT THE GOLDSTONE REPORT
Omar Barghouti,
6 Oct 2009
Dissolve the Palestinian AuthorityPalestinian civil society has strongly and almost unanimously condemned the Palestinian Authority’s latest decision to delay adoption by the UN Human Rights Council of the report prepared by the UN Fact-Finding Mission, headed by justice Richard Goldstone, into the recent Israeli war of aggression against the Palestinian people in the occupied Gaza […]
→ read full article16 OCTOBER: WORLD FOOD DAY
Rene Wadlow, Member of TRANSCEND,
6 Oct 2009
A Citizens of the World Focus16 October is the UN-designated World Food Day, the date chosen being the anniversary of the creation of the FAO in 1945 with the aim, as stated in its Constitution of “contributing towards an expanding world economy and ensuring humanity’s freedom from hunger.” Freedom from hunger is not simply a […]
→ read full articleLISBON TREATY: WILL WAR CRIMINAL TONY BLAIR BECOME PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION?
James Corbett,
5 Oct 2009
Major media outlets from the BBC in Britain to RTE in Ireland are now reporting that the Yes side scored a resounding victory in Ireland’s vote Friday on the EU Lisbon Treaty. With the treaty’s ratification, the obstacles preventing the total federalization of the EU superstate are now removed. As the Daily Mail reported earlier […]
→ read full articleBRAZILIAN FAVELAS IN THE MEDIA
Martim S Silveira,
4 Oct 2009
A History of Stereotyping 1. Introduction“Favela” is the generic name by which slums and shantytowns are known in Brazil. They are a national social phenomenon, spread throughout all the biggest urban centers in the country, inhabited by some of the poorest Brazilian families, and receiving little or no attention from the State in what concerns […]
→ read full articleTHE ECONOMIC RECOVERY IS AN ILLUSION
Andrew Gavin Marshall,
4 Oct 2009
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Warns of Future Crises War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, and Debt is Recovery In light of the ever-present and unyieldingly persistent exclamations of ‘an end’ to the recession, a ‘solution’ to the crisis, and a ‘recovery’ of the economy; we must remember that we are being […]
→ read full articleWARS, GUNS AND VOTES: DEMOCRACY IN DANGEROUS PLACES
Dr Mutuma Ruteer,
3 Oct 2009
Review of Paul Collier’s Book Reacting to Prof Paul Collier’s book that patronises ‘unsuccessful’ Sub Saharan states and others, researcher MUTUMA RUTEERE rejects its imperialistic tone, noting that Africa has handled its governance and security problems well. Paul Collier, a professor of economics at Oxford University, has written a troubling book. Wars, Guns & Votes: […]
→ read full articleTOWARD A BREAKDOWN OF THE CAPITALIST SUBJECT?
Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval | Le Monde,
3 Oct 2009
Perhaps the economic catastrophe is dissipating the most glaring illusions about the self-regulating market, making global capitalism’s doctrinarians a bit less arrogant, provoking the spectacular conversions of some "leaders" who would urgently like to make us forget their previous blindness. But the catastrophe has not yet brought about the blockage of all the apparatuses, […]
→ read full articleRIDDING THE WORLD OF THE SICKNESS OF PACIFISM
William Blum,
3 Oct 2009
Picture the scene: Afghanistan, two hijacked tankers filled with highly inflammable fuel, surrounded by a crowd of Afghans eager to syphon off some for free … What’s the last thing you want to do? Right — drop bombs on the tankers. That’s what a German military commander signaled an American drone airplane to do September […]
→ read full articleTHE ANGLO-US DRIVE INTO EURASIA AND THE DEMONIZATION OF RUSSIA
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya,
3 Oct 2009
Reframing the History of World War II As tensions mount between the U.S. and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on one side and Moscow and its allies on another, the history of the Second World War is being re-framed to demonize Russia, the legal successor state and largest former constituent republic (pars pro toto) […]
→ read full articleHACKING THE SKY
Jason Mark,
3 Oct 2009
Geo-Engineering Could Save the Planet … and in the Process Sacrifice the World Having unintentionally warmed the planet, we may have little choice but to intentionally cool it back down. But at what cost? Earth is busted. Like a supercomputer whose elaborate code has developed a few bugs, the core operating systems of the planet […]
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George Monbiot,
3 Oct 2009
People who claim that population growth is the big environmental issue are shifting the blame from the rich to the poor.It’s no coincidence that most of those who are obsessed with population growth are post-reproductive wealthy white men: it’s about the only environmental issue for which they can’t be blamed. The brilliant earth systems scientist […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) MÁFIAS FARMACEUTICAS
Ignacio Ramonet,
3 Oct 2009
Pouquíssimos meios de comunicação comentaram. A opinião pública não foi alertada. E, entretanto, as preocupantes conclusões do Informe final1 publicado pela Comissão Europeia, no dia 8 de Julho, sobre os abusos em matéria de competição no sector farmacêutico, merecem ser conhecidas pelos cidadãos e amplamente divulgadas. O que diz esse Informe? Em síntese? Que, no […]
→ read full article(FRENCH) AMÉRIQUE LATINE – GAUCHES SOCIALE ET POLITIQUE: ORPHELINE D’UNE STRATÉGIE
Emir Sader,
3 Oct 2009
Il manque encore à l’Amérique latine, continent de révolutions et de contre-révolutions, une pensée stratégique capable d’orienter des processus politiques riches et diversifiés, et qui soit à la hauteur des défis à relever. Malgré une forte capacité analytique, d’importants processus de transformation et des dirigeants révolutionnaires emblématiques, le continent n’a pas produit la théorie de […]
→ read full articleCASINO CAPITALISM AS USUAL
Mark Engler,
3 Oct 2009
Last week’s Group of 20 (G20) meeting in Pittsburgh brought together leaders from the most significant players in the global economy and charged them with renovating the financial system at the heart of the economic crisis. Change was on the agenda, and the heads of state claimed to deliver. As the summit concluded, The New […]
→ read full articleFROM SPACE, NO ONE CAN WATCH YOU DIE
Loring Wirbel and Bill Sulzman,
3 Oct 2009
Peace groups internationally are putting the pressure on President Obama this fall, as he ponders the request from Gen. McChrystal for a “surge” troop escalation in Afghanistan. Thankfully, leading Democrats and even former President Clinton are urging caution, though few are taking the wiser step of recommending a pullout. But there is an additional decision […]
→ read full articleCLEAN COAL IS FICTIONAL – Energy Action Coalition Executive Director Jessy Tolkan: Washington saying coal industry can be “clean” is pure fiction. A Real News Video
TMS Editor,
3 Oct 2009
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Humberto Márquez,
28 Sep 2009
A declaration that puts an accent on the positions of the developing South and expresses a renewed commitment to cooperation in the fight against poverty and for development was signed by the leaders who met over the weekend in the second South America-Africa summit, on the Venezuelan island of Margarita. Eight South American and 20 […]
→ read full articleKEEP SPACE FOR PEACE WEEK – EVENTS PLANNED WORLDWIDE
TMS Editor,
28 Sep 2009
On October 3-10 a week of local protest events to Keep Space for Peace will be held worldwide. Each fall the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space organizes Keep Space for Peace Week: International Days of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space. These events are intended to help educate the public […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) FAVELAS BRASILEIRAS NA MÍDIA
Martim S Silveira,
28 Sep 2009
Uma História de Estereótipos1. IntroduçãoA palavra “favela”, no Brasil, não é somente usada para indicar os bairros mais pobres dos centros urbanos do país. Ela tem em si uma conotação negativa, já que serve também para descrever qualquer lugar “de mau aspecto” ou uma “situação que se considera desagradável ou desorganizada”, conforme definição do Dicionário […]
→ read full articleDON’T ISRAEL’S NUCLEAR WEAPONS COUNT?
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown,
28 Sep 2009
Netanyahu has what he wants to keep up the idea of his plucky, vulnerable little state.Influential Europeans – including many Muslims – recently debated freedom of expression with the Danish editor who commissioned the cartoons of Prophet Mohammed which led to riots. Held in Berlin, it was a good, at times blazing, debate. Freedom of […]
→ read full articleCOCA-COLA’S LIES ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY HAVE GONE TOO FAR
Amit Srivastava, India Resource Center,
26 Sep 2009
They’ve gone from greenwashing to outright lying.In 2007, facing growing opposition to its water management practices, particularly in India, Coca-Cola’s CEO, Neville Isdell came up with a brilliant idea. The Coca-Cola company, he announced, will become water neutral, replenishing every drop of water they use, and therefore, as the suggestion went, Coca-Cola would have no […]
→ read full articleA NEW NUCLEAR DEBATE IN INDIA
J. Sri Raman,
24 Sep 2009
As an anti-nuclear-weapon activist of India, I am abashed to admit this. But the main nuclear debate in the major South Asian country has not been the one between nuclear militarists and their opponents. It has been the one between two schools of nuclear militarism. The debate has acquired a new dimension, with […]
→ read full articleWHILE YOU ARE MINDING YOUR OWN BUSINESS, THE U.S. IS CONSTANTLY MAKING WAR AROUND THE GLOBE
Tom Engelhardt,
23 Sep 2009
As much as it might seem that most of us are going along, living peaceful lives, there’s another kind of America that operates on the same soil — a warfare state."War is peace" was one of the memorable slogans on the facade of the Ministry of Truth, Minitrue in "Newspeak," the language invented by George […]
→ read full articleGOLDSTONE COMMISSION GAZA CONFLICT FINDINGS AND REACTIONS
Stephen Lendman,
22 Sep 2009
On April 3, 2009, a UN press release stated:The Human Rights Council (HRC) today announced the appointment of Richard J. Goldstone….to lead an independent (four-person) fact-finding mission to investigate international human rights and humanitarian law violations related to the recent conflict in the Gaza Strip…. The team will be supported by staff of the Office […]
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George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian, 22nd September 2009,
22 Sep 2009
The Trafigura scandal is just one of thousands of cases of the rich world’s fly-tipping. It was revolting, monstrous, inhumane – and scarcely different from what happens in Africa almost every day. The oil trading company Trafigura has just agreed to pay compensation to 31,0000 people in Cote d’Ivoire, after the Guardian and the BBC’s […]
→ read full articleTHE 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 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 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 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 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.
TMS Editor,
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 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
TMS Editor,
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 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 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 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 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 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 […]
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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
TMS Editor,
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
TMS Editor,
7 Aug 2009
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→ 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 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 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 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 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 […]
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