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VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS: THEIR SOURCE OF SUCCESS
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D.,
14 May 2009
In virtually every community we find several organizations of one kind or another. Some are political while others are religious; some may be academic while others merely recreational. Some may be profit-making while others may be non-profit, which are usually composed of volunteers. In this presentation we are concentrating on the latter one. In […]
→ read full articleMY ENEMY – Mohammad and Tom, two teenagers respectively from Palestine and Israel, discuss the difficult issues between them. 10:50-Min Video by PeaceItTogether
TMS Editor,
14 May 2009
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→ read full article(ITALIAN) “DISOBBEDISCO”
Carlo Olivieri - umanista,
14 May 2009
Appello Alla Disobbedienza Civile La Camera dei Deputati ha approvato il primo dei tre maxiemendamenti al disegno di legge in materia di sicurezza, quello che riguarda l’immigrazione. La maggioranza dei Deputati ha approvato norme che introducono il reato di clandestinità per chi entra o soggiorna illegalmente in Italia, che rendono legali le ronde, che vietano […]
→ read full articleCAPTIVE KNOWLEDGE
George Monbiot,
13 May 2009
The Funding for Academic Research Has Been Taken Over by Business Why is the Medical Research Council run by an arms manufacturer? Why is the Natural Environment Research Council run by the head of a construction company? Why is the chairman of a real estate firm in charge of higher education funding for England? Because […]
→ read full articleMARINE PROTECTION AS EMPIRE EXPANSION
David Vine and Miriam Pemberton,
13 May 2009
At the 100-day mark, the new president has tackled an extraordinarily wide-ranging agenda, but one item will need his attention soon: closing the empire of U.S. bases around the world. One place to start is to reverse the marine protection areas that the last president established in the Pacific. In a last-minute bid to salvage […]
→ read full articleTHE PROSPECTS OF A NEW COLD WAR? TOWARDS THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE RUSSIAN-LED CSTO MILITARY ALLIANCE
José Miguel Alonso Trabanco,
12 May 2009
"We are not afraid of anything, including the prospect of a new Cold War, but we don’t want one" -Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev In his 1997 book entitled The Grand Chessboard American geostrategist Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote that if Russia ever attempted to launch its own defense pact, it would include, "at most", Belarus and Tajikistan[1]. […]
→ read full articleTEN MORE THINGS YOU CAN DO TO OPPOSE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN
Tom Hayden,
12 May 2009
Editor’s Note: Peace activist Tom Hayden adds his ideas to Z.P. Heller’s April 8 piece, Ten Things You Can Do to Oppose the War in Afghanistan. This early period of Obama’s presidency is an opportunity to rebuild Afghanistan. It is a chance to become clearer than "out now," while still using the same force in […]
→ read full articleDR. FARHANG JAHANPOUR TALKS ABOUT PROSPECTS AND PROBLEMS OF GLOBAL NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT UNDER NEW US LEADERSHIP
Antonio C. S. Rosa, Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2009
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→ read full articleTHE CITY THAT ENDED HUNGER
Frances Moore Lappé,
3 May 2009
A city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: end hunger. “To search for solutions to hunger means to act within the principle that the status of a citizen surpasses that of a mere consumer.”CITY OF BELO HORIZONTE, BRAZILIn writing Diet for a Small Planet, I learned one […]
→ read full articleTHE COWARDICE OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM: FEAR OF THE T-WORD
Norman Kelley,
3 May 2009
Nothing better shows the utter cowardice of American journalism than Washington Post reporters refusing to call a spade a spade. In other a word, calling "enhanced interrogation" torture.Yesterday, during a chat with the Post’s Dana Priest, a questioner revisited the issue, specifically asking why the paper doesn’t call waterboarding "torture." This time however, the questioner […]
→ read full article(SPANISH) IRÁN, CUBA, AMÉRICA LATINA… ¿A DÓNDE VA OBAMA?
Fernando Montiel T. – Miembro de TRANSCEND,
3 May 2009
Alguien dijo alguna vez que, cansada de inventar, la historia tiende a repetir. Los apretones de mano y las sonrisas que atinadamente critica James Petras (Rebelión, Abril 27, 2009) ya se han visto antes: se vieron en los sesentas cuando los Estados Unidos presentaron la Alianza para el Progreso; se vieron en los setentas […]
→ read full article(ITALIAN) LIBERARE L’OPPRESSORE
Sami Awad,
30 Apr 2009
La nonviolenza è empowerment (acquisizione di potere). Permette agli individui di riconoscere che hanno scelte, che hanno la capacità di trattare qualunque tematica d’ingiustizia si trovino ad affrontare individualmente o in quanto comunità. L’empowerment aiuta a decidere di cambiare la realtà che si affronta, l’ingiustizia, con modalità che porranno fine all’uso della violenza dalla parte […]
→ read full articleZUMA: AN AFRICAN CHAVEZ?
Walter Smolarek,
30 Apr 2009
Africa is an infected continent. Its affliction is spread not by bacteria or parasites, but through loans. Delivered by the IMF and World Bank as part of the neo-liberal wave that enveloped the world after the fall of the Soviet Union, it plunged the continent, especially Southern Africa, into the pits of privatized hell. Neo-liberalism […]
→ read full article(100-DAY MARK) PINTER TO OBAMA: “SMASH THE MIRROR”
Mike Whitney,
30 Apr 2009
“Come and see the blood in the streets.Come and seethe blood in the streets.Come and see the bloodin the streets”! — Poem by Pablo Neruda About a month before Barack Obama announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States, former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski appeared on PBS’s Charlie Rose Show and was […]
→ read full articleOPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate,
30 Apr 2009
Dear President Obama, I found your book, ‘Dreams from my Father,’ a moving and inspiring story of your own struggle to find identity and purpose in life. You found it for sure, and today carry the hopes and dreams of so many people in our world. We pray for you and your family. We wish […]
→ read full articleICELAND’S NEW DAWN
José M. Tirado,
29 Apr 2009
How the Mighty Have Fallen: A Trouncing for the Right, Huge Support for the Left The numbers are in and they are decisive. The longstanding, corporate-right forces of the Independence Party, known here as Iceland ’s “Republicans”, have received a trouncing at the polls. With 100% of the vote tallied, the Social Democratic Alliance (moderate […]
→ read full articleTHE SWINE FLU CRISIS LAYS BARE THE MEAT INDUSTRY’S MONSTROUS POWER
Mike Davis,
29 Apr 2009
The Mexican swine flu, a genetic chimera probably conceived in the faecal mire of an industrial pigsty, suddenly threatens to give the whole world a fever. The initial outbreaks across North America reveal an infection already travelling at higher velocity than did the last official pandemic strain, the 1968 Hong Kong flu. Stealing the limelight […]
→ read full articleFLYING PIGS, TAMIFLU AND FACTORY FARMS
F. William Engdahl,
29 Apr 2009
If we are to believe what our trusted international media report, the world is on the brink of a global pandemic outbreak of a new deadly strain of flu, H1N1 as it has been labelled, or more popularly, Swine Flu. As the story goes, the outbreak of the deadly flu was first discovered in Mexico. […]
→ read full articleGAZA’S SEPARATION FROM THE WEST BANK IS ISRAEL’S GREAT TRIUMPH
Amira Hass,
28 Apr 2009
The total separation of the Gaza Strip from the West Bank is one of the greatest achievements of Israeli politics, whose overarching objective is to prevent a solution based on international decisions and understandings and instead dictate an arrangement based on Israel’s military superiority. In view of the violent rivalry between the two main movements […]
→ read full articleDISCOVERING A NATION’S TRUE FRIENDS AND ENEMIES
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D.,
28 Apr 2009
One familiar proverb reads as follows: “Not all that glitters is gold.” Another well accepted saying is: “Actions speak louder than words.” This one is virtually found in every nation with slight changes or modifications. The Romans, for example, used to say: “Aliud est theoria, aliud est practica – one thing is theory, another […]
→ read full articleTIME TO DEAL WITH HAITI
Paul Farmer and Brian Concannon,
28 Apr 2009
When President Barack Obama went to Trinidad for the Summit of Americas, he brought the promise of "change" to a Latin America policy that has brought suffering to our neighbors while reducing U.S. influence and moral standing in the hemisphere. Change would be especially welcome to Haitians, who have suffered their usual unfair share of […]
→ read full articleSWINE FLU: DON’T PANIC!
Rahul K. Parikh, M.D., in the USA,
28 Apr 2009
While the virus does reveal some novel traits, so far most symptoms are not out of the ordinary. With spring in high gear and summer just down the road, doctors thought we’d left another year’s influenza season in our collective rearview mirror. All of that changed late last week when the national Centers for Disease […]
→ read full articleV SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS: THE MORNING AFTER
Tom Loudon,
28 Apr 2009
Hopes raised at the Summit of the Americas for new approach to US relations with Latin America proved to be short-lived when, on the day after the Summit, the US administration announced that there will be no renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and that the US will begin to move forward […]
→ read full articleCAN CHINA’S WIND POWER SAVE THE PLANET? China pledges to have 15 percent of its energy to come from renewable sources by 2020. VideoNation
TMS Editor,
26 Apr 2009
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→ read full articleA CENTURY OF GENOCIDE, 1915-2009
Martin Shaw,
24 Apr 2009
The Ottoman-era massacres of the Armenians also belong to a century of "mass-death" episodes forged in war, state rivalry, ethnic targeting and expulsion. When Armenian leaders in Constantinople (now Istanbul) were massacred on 24 April 1915, it was the signal for killings and deportations of Armenians across eastern Anatolia, then the heartland of the Ottoman […]
→ read full articleINTERVIEW WITH JOHAN GALTUNG ABOUT THE CONFLICT IN SRI LANKA
Namini Wijedasa – Journalist,
24 Apr 2009
Editor’s Note: Published on Sun Apr 26 2009 in The Island, a major Sri Lankan daily. NW – The Rajapaksa regime used the attack on Sri Lanka’s embassy in Oslo to officially terminate Norway’s role as facilitator in the peace process. Hanssen Bauer responded via news reports that mediation had ended a long time ago. […]
→ read full articleTHE “NEW GREAT GAME” IN EURASIA IS BEING FOUGHT IN ITS “BUFFER ZONES” – MOLDOVA: CAUGHT BETWEEN NATO AND RUSSIA?
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya,
23 Apr 2009
On April 7, 2009 in Moldova’s capital Chisinau, supporters of the Liberal Party of Moldova, the Liberal-Democratic Party of Moldova, and the Our Moldova Alliance ignited violent protests in response to the results of Moldova’s parliamentary elections. They respectively won 13.14%, 12.43%, and 9.77% of the total vote, while the ruling party, the Communist Party […]
→ read full articleWOMEN IN NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS
Inter-Parliamentary Union,
22 Apr 2009
The data in the table below has been compiled by the Inter-Parliamentary Union on the basis of information provided by National Parliaments by 28 February 2009. 188 countries are classified by descending order of the percentage of women in the lower or single House. Comparative data on the world and regional averages as well as […]
→ read full articleOBAMA’S REAL PLAN IN LATIN AMERICA
Shamus Cooke,
21 Apr 2009
At first glance Obama seems to have softened U.S. policy toward Latin America, especially when compared to his predecessor. There has been no shortage of editorials praising Obama’s conciliatory approach while comparing it to FDR’s ”Good Neighbor” Latin American policy. It’s important to remember, however, that FDR’s vision of being neighborly meant that the U.S. […]
→ read full articleEMPIRE FORECLOSED?
Mark Engler,
21 Apr 2009
Not long ago, excitement over American imperialism reached levels not seen in a century. "People are coming out of the closet on the word ‘empire,’" the right-wing columnist Charles Krauthammer told The New York Times in early 2002. Neoconservatives were on the rise in Washington, and their leading propagandists were not shy in making the […]
→ read full articleTHE LATEST OBSCENITIES
Aaron Smith,
21 Apr 2009
Exxon Mobil tops Fortune 500 Exxon Mobil shoved aside Wal-Mart Stores to retake the top place on the Fortune 500, proving that Big Oil was king of the economy last year. Exxon Mobil (XOM, Fortune 500) was the top selling-company in 2008, with nearly $443 billion in revenue, a jump of almost 19% from the […]
→ read full articleUS-NATO MILITARY AGENDA: THE DESTABILIZATION OF PAKISTAN
Michel Chossudovsky,
20 Apr 2009
Author’s note: In an article published in December 2007, following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, I suggested that the US-NATO course for Pakistan consisted "in fomenting social, ethnic and factional divisions and political fragmentation, including the territorial breakup of Pakistan." Recent developments (including the aerial bombardments of Pakistani villages under the auspices of the "war […]
→ read full articleJesus, Judas and Che Guevara
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2009
There is an exercise called Western Civilization, and a dramatic narrative at the center of that exercise with two persons in the key roles, Jesus and Judas. Easter times, now, are here to remind us of the drama. The outer events, delivered through the millennia, by Mark in the 70s, Matthew in the 80s, then […]
→ read full articleTHE TAMIL DIASPORA: SOLIDARITIES AND REALITIES
Nirmala Rajasingam,
18 Apr 2009
The Tamils abroad mobilising in response to events in Sri Lanka need to face difficult truths about the political narratives and forces that have contributed to their compatriots’ plight, says Nirmala Rajasingam. The Sri Lankan Tamil community may not be the largest of the diaspora communities represented in London or other such greatly diverse cities […]
→ read full articleSOCIALISM HAS FAILED. NOW CAPITALISM IS BANKRUPT. SO WHAT COMES NEXT?
Eric Hobsbawm,
18 Apr 2009
Whatever ideological logo we adopt, the shift from free market to public action needs to be bigger than politicians grasp. The 20th century is well behind us, but we have not yet learned to live in the 21st, or at least to think in a way that fits it. That should not be as difficult […]
→ read full articleMEDIA AS CRITICAL REFLECTIVE PRACTICE
Mohammed Cherkaoui,
18 Apr 2009
In June 2006, I led a series of workshops for Palestinian journalists in Ramallah, West Bank. I was shocked to discover how party bias influenced their reporting. Five months earlier, the Hamas movement had won the Palestinian Legislative Council elections in the West Bank and Gaza, and the divide between the Hamas and Fatah parties […]
→ read full articleTHE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
Rannie Amiri,
18 Apr 2009
It is one of the great paradoxes of the modern Middle East: When peace with the Palestinians is in sight, Israel will turn violent. This is quite understandable though, when one realizes that the entire raison d’être of the Jewish state is based on the principle of establishing “greater Israel.” That could not happen of […]
→ read full articleSUPPORT FOR U.N. INDIGENOUS RIGHTS DECLARATION A WATERSHED MOMENT FOR AUSTRALIA
Australian Human Rights Commission,
18 Apr 2009
This morning’s [April 3 2009] formal support from the Australian Government for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is likely to go down in history as a watershed moment in Australia’s relationship with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma said today. […]
→ read full articleA LETTER FROM NELSON MANDELA TO THOMAS FRIEDMAN
Arjan El Fassed (Media Monitors Network),
18 Apr 2009
To: Thomas L. Friedman (columnist, New York Times)From: Nelson Mandela (former President of South Africa) Dear Thomas, I know that you and I long for peace in the Middle East, but before you continue to talk about necessary conditions from an Israeli perspective, you need to know what’s on my mind. Where to begin? How […]
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Partying for Peace
Submitted by Kimberlye Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2009
The winning DJ from Japan will be flown to Chile to participate in a round of events to promote the protection of the Patagonian mountain range. 9:29-Min. Video CLICK TO VIEW
→ read full articleDON’T HAVE A COW!
Katharine Mieszkowski,
18 Apr 2009
Famous animal lover Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, the author of "The Face on Your Plate," talks about why you should consider giving up the burgers — and the fromage. Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, 68, is a former psychoanalyst, known for his popular books about the emotional lives not of humans, but of animals. As scientists continue to […]
→ read full articleEMPIRE AND AGENCY
Muhammad Idrees Ahmad,
16 Apr 2009
A review of Patrick Tyler’s A World of Trouble: America in the Middle East. United States Middle East policy has been defined since World War II by the tension between two competing concerns: the strategic interests which require good relations with Arab-Muslim states, and domestic political imperatives which demand unquestioning allegiance to Israel. That the […]
→ read full articleHUMAN NEED AND THE ECONOMY
James Keye,
16 Apr 2009
Human economies have no separate existence; they are not some universal latent design waiting for the human substrate to be displayed. We ask the wrong questions with: “What is wrong with the economy and how can we fix it?” Our first efforts must be to understand the origin of how we have come to exchange […]
→ read full articleU.S. MERCENARIES TO UN: STOP USING THE WORD ‘MERCENARY’ IN YOUR INVESTIGATION OF MERCENARIES
Jeremy Scahill,
16 Apr 2009
The U.S. mercenary trade association asks the UN to join its rebranding campaign. The latest episode of "Total Makeover: Make Me a More Huggable Mercenary" is just too precious to pass up. As observers of the rise of private paramilitary forces, like Blackwater/Xe (Bush’s thugs) and Triple Canopy (Obama’s hired guns) know, the mercenary industry […]
→ read full articleLESSONS FROM LATIN AMERICA: PERU’S SHINING EXAMPLE
James McEnteer,
16 Apr 2009
Peru’s Supreme Court sentenced former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori to twenty-five years in prison last week for creating death squads during his presidency – from 1990 to 2000 – which murdered dozens of people. More than seventy thousand people died during Fujimori’s reign in the war between his iron-fisted administration and Maoist guerilla groups, the […]
→ read full articleMARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: STILL A PROPHET FOR OUR TIME
Louie Vitale, OFM,
14 Apr 2009
The following reflection on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was written last year on Dr. King’s birthday by Friar Louie Vitale, OFM while he was incarcerated in the Imperial County Jail following a nonviolent witness at Ft. Huachuca in Arizona calling for an end to torture training. It is offered as a meditation as we […]
→ read full articleTHE TWO PIRACIES IN SOMALIA: WHY THE WORLD IGNORES THE OTHER?
Mohamed Abshir Waldo - Journalist/Consultant,
14 Apr 2009
Much of the world’s attention is currently focused on the Somali sea lanes. The navies of big and small powers are converging on the Somali waters in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean. The recent hijacking of the Saudi oil tanker and Ukrainian MV Faina, laden with arms for Kenya, off the coast of […]
→ read full articleWHY WE DON’T CONDEMN OUR PIRATES IN SOMALIA
K'Naan - URB Magazine,
14 Apr 2009
Can anyone ever really be for piracy? Outside of sea bandits, and young girls fantasizing of Johnny Depp, would anyone with an honest regard for good human conduct really say that they are in support of Sea Robbery? Well, in Somalia the answer is: it’s complicated. The news media these days has been covering piracy […]
→ read full articleA SLAUGHTER OF TAMILS
Joint Statement (names in the end),
14 Apr 2009
The Sri Lankan government is intensifying its ongoing war on the country’s Tamil minority with a new assault on alleged fighters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam–or "Tamil Tigers"–inside a "safety zone" in the country’s Vanni region that had been set up as a haven for civilians. In recent weeks, the government has reportedly […]
→ read full articleREPORT ON THE TREATMENT OF FOURTEEN “HIGH VALUE DETAINEES” IN CIA CUSTODY
International Committee of the Red Cross - Regional Delegation for United States and Canada,
14 Apr 2009
ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen “High Value Detainees” in CIA Custody along with the cover letter that accompanied it when it was transmitted to the US government in February 2007. This version, reset by The New York Review, exactly reproduces the original including typographical errors and some omitted words.CLICK TO DOWNLOAD THE ORIGINAL […]
→ read full articleWho are the real pirates? The Somalis or the Western nuclear waste dumpers? Somali-Canadian Musician-Poet K’Naan Presents the Somali Side of the ‘Pirates’ Issue.
TMS Editor,
14 Apr 2009
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→ read full articleRETHINKING AFGHANISTAN
Anne Miller,
14 Apr 2009
Last week, the US Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on Afghanistan and Pakistan. It was revealed that the Obama administration is planning on sending an additional 21,000 troops to Afghanistan with no clear benchmarks for progress or "success" yet in place. The lack of serious scrutiny of the president’s Afghanistan policy is […]
→ read full articleTHE CASSANDRA SYNDROME
Michael N. Nagler,
14 Apr 2009
"As a colleague of mine in Public Health recently declared, ‘We are increasing violence by every means possible.’ He was talking about the mass media. The enormously high, and increasing, level of violence in the ‘entertainment’ industry – including the violent emphasis of the nightly news – makes violence seem normal, unavoidable, sexy and fun […]
→ read full articleBIG FOOD IS COPYING BIG TOBACCO’S DISINFORMATION TACTICS, HOW MANY WILL DIE THIS TIME?
Fen Montaigne, Yale Environment 360,
14 Apr 2009
The playbook is the same, but this time the the lies and misinformation could be disastrous for everyone — children especially. Increasingly, the question of what we eat and how it affects our health is a subject that is important not just to those concerned about nutrition but to environmentalists. Kelly D. Brownell, a psychologist […]
→ read full articleEMPIRE AND LATIN AMERICA IN THE OBAMA ERA
Manuel Pérez-Rocha,
14 Apr 2009
Barack Obama’s rise to the U.S. presidency has left most Latin Americans suspended between skepticism and hope. That’s bound to make the V Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago, to be held on April 18 and 19, especially interesting.A promising sign of meaningful change in U.S. foreign policy toward the hemisphere would be […]
→ read full articleTEL AVIV, THEN AND NOW
Jeremy Ben-Ami,
12 Apr 2009
One hundred years ago, my grandparents and 59 other families gathered on a sand dune outside Jaffa to draw lots for new homes in a garden suburb to be called Tel Aviv. With their parents, my grandparents immigrated to Palestine — one in the 1880’s, the other in the 1890’s — fleeing oppression in Czarist […]
→ read full articleFILLING THE SKIES WITH ASSASSINS – TERMINATOR PLANET: LAUNCHING THE DRONE WARS
Tom Engelhardt,
12 Apr 2009
In 1984, Skynet, the supercomputer that rules a future Earth, sent a cyborg assassin, a "terminator," back to our time. His job was to liquidate the woman who would give birth to John Connor, the leader of the underground human resistance of Skynet’s time. You with me so far? That, of course, was the plot […]
→ read full articleWHO IS BEHIND MOLDOVA’S TWITTTER REVOLUTION?
José Miguel Alonso Trabanco,
12 Apr 2009
"A lot of what we [National Endowment for Democracy] do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA." -Allen Weinstein It seems that those who anticipated the end of color revolutions have been proven wrong. So far, color revolutions have succeeded in Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan. On the other hand, they have […]
→ read full articleROMA ARE SCAPEGOATS DURING DOWNTURN
Marina Litvinsky,
10 Apr 2009
WASHINGTON, Apr 8 (IPS) – On International Roma Day human rights groups voiced their concern for the discrimination and violence against Roma in European countries. Held on Apr. 8 every year since 1990, International Roma Day draws attention to discrimination directed at Roma and gypsy communities globally, according to Amnesty International (AI). Roma are stigmatised […]
→ read full articleCREDIT CARD INDUSTRY LOSES ONE – DEFEATED FOR NOW
ANP-American News Project,
10 Apr 2009
Credit card lobbyists glum as Senate passes 2 separate bills to protect consumers. 5:39-Min Video The Real News Network CLICK TO VIEW
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STAN MEYER’S WATER DRIVEN CAR
TMS Editor,
10 Apr 2009
He was poisoned in mysterious circumstances in March 1998. Question: Where is the technology? Ideas cannot be killed. 1:45-Min VideoCLICK TO VIEW
→ read full article‘PIRATES’ STRIKE A U.S. SHIP OWNED BY A PENTAGON CONTRACTOR, BUT IS THE MEDIA TELLING THE WHOLE STORY?
Jeremy Scahill,
9 Apr 2009
Reports say the crew of a U.S. cargo vessel seized early today [Apr 8] has retaken the ship, but there’s more to the story of rising "pirate" attacks. UPDATE: At least one nuclear-powered U.S. warship is reportedly on its way to the scene of the hijacking off the coast of Somalia of a vessel owned […]
→ read full articleTHEY SENT ME TO DISTANT LANDS TO FIGHT AGAINST MUSLIMS… THEN I BECAME ONE
Penny Coleman,
9 Apr 2009
Along the way, I ate Burger King in Peshawar, developed a debilitating drug habit and caught a 3-year prison sentence. Mike’s attraction to Islam dates to 2001, when his Afghan interpreter gave him a Quran. Mike had a deep respect for the spirit of those he fought and wanted to better understand what it was […]
→ read full articleA NEW POLITICAL MOMENT FOR EMPIRE? John Feffer of Foreign Policy In Focus interviews Prof. Stephen Zunes about the role of the U.S. in the world under the Obama administration.
TMS Editor,
8 Apr 2009
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→ read full article“SINGING ALONG” WHEN REPORTING ON CONFLICT
Ron Kampeas,
8 Apr 2009
To be of one side in a conflict and to report it is to be perpetually stuck in that awkward moment at a dinner party when a childhood friend starts singing a familiar song that marked a perhaps silly yet definitely memorable event in the history of your friendship. You know the song. You know […]
→ read full articleTHE AFRICA THAT PUSHES BACK
Mukoma Wa Ngugi,
8 Apr 2009
I have been asked many times a variation of the same question: "Why do Africans wait until it is too late?" For most Westerners, Africa is hunger, war, despotism, AIDS and poverty — full of Africans who are either helpless victims, or who choose to sit on their hands, only lifting them up to accept […]
→ read full articleSOME THOUGHTS ABOUT SOCIALISM
William Blum,
8 Apr 2009
"History is littered with post-crisis regulations. If there are undue restrictions on the operations of businesses, they may view it to be their job to get around them, and you sow the seeds of the next crisis."– Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment analyst, CharlesSchwab & Co., a leading US provider of investment services.1 And so […]
→ read full articleMADOFF WAS A PIKER – AMERICA’S BIG BANKS ARE A FAR LARGER FRAUDULENT PONZI SCHEME
Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal,
7 Apr 2009
Bill Moyers: For months now, revelations of the wholesale greed and blatant transgressions of Wall Street have reminded us that "The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One." In fact, the man you’re about to meet wrote a book with just that title. It was based upon his experience as a tough […]
→ read full articleUS HYPOCRISY ON NORTH KOREA: LET’S TALK ABOUT ISRAEL’S NUKES
Jeremy Scahill,
7 Apr 2009
President Obama’s administration is pressing for diplomatic retaliation, perhaps in the form of more sanctions against North Korea, after Pyonyang launched a rocket into space. There are conflicting reports about the success of the launch. North Korea says the rocket carried a satellite, which is now orbiting the earth. That’s according to state-run media in […]
→ read full articleMADE IN U.S.A.
TMS Editor,
7 Apr 2009
John Smith started his day early, having set his alarm clock (made in Japan) for 6 a.m. While his coffeepot (made in China) was perking, he shaved with his electric razor (made in Hong Kong), put on a shirt (made in Sri Lanka), designer jeans (made in Singapore) and tennis shoes (made in Korea). After […]
→ read full articleTHE AUDACITY OF HOPELESSNESS
John Maxwell,
7 Apr 2009
Common Sense It is as idle to define the problems of Haiti as problems of economic development as it is to contemplate the problems of Elisabeth Fritzl as a problem of delinquent parenting. It will never be possible to disentangle Elisabeth Fritzl from the treachery and cruelty of an evil and incestuous father, a man […]
→ read full articleJohan Galtung: Can Japan Become Sovereign and Peaceful?
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2009
A TFF Video by Jan Oberg httpv://www.youtube.com/v/JTtzwgk9JD8&hl=en&fs=1
→ read full articleTHE TYRANNY OF ‘INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE’
Philip Hammond,
3 Apr 2009
Report from a conference that cross-examined the prosecution of presidents by international tribunals. Should sitting heads of state be liable to prosecution by international tribunals? That was the question at the heart of ‘Prosecuting Presidents’, a conference organised by the Royal United Services Institute and the Centre for Foreign Policy Analysis in London last Friday […]
→ read full articleTHE NUCLEAR GOLIATH: CONFRONTING INDUSTRIAL ENERGY
Frank Joseph Smecker,
3 Apr 2009
Lately, many may have heard the affable radio jingles for nuclear energy as a clean and reliable candidate to supplant the U.S.’s reliance on foreign fossil fuels. This is sheer, malignant propaganda. Nuclear energy, along with its requisite mining, is not only unsustainable to a high degree, but is, in all aspects, violently rapacious as […]
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TMS Editor,
3 Apr 2009
On April 3 the Sydney radio station, 2SER, broadcast an eight-minute interview with Jake Lynch to mark the launch of his new book, Debates in Peace Journalism, published by Sydney University Press and TRANSCEND University Press. The show is called The Fourth Estate, the interviewer’s name is Shevonne Hunt, and you can listen to it […]
→ read full article10 TERMS NOT TO USE WITH MUSLIMS
Chris Seiple, Christian Science Monitor,
3 Apr 2009
Here is advice given to me from Muslim friends worldwide regarding words and concepts that are not useful in building relationships with them. In the course of my travels — from the Middle East to Central Asia to Southeast Asia — it has been my great privilege to meet and become friends with many devout […]
→ read full articleOBAMA’S BLACKWATER? CHICAGO MERCENARY FIRM GETS MILLIONS FOR PRIVATE “SECURITY” IN ISRAEL AND IRAQ
Jeremy Scahill,
2 Apr 2009
On the campaign trail, Barack Obama’s advisers said he "can’t rule out [and] won’t rule out" using mercenary forces, like Blackwater. Now, it appears that the Obama administration has decided on its hired guns of choice: Triple Canopy, a Chicago company now based in Virginia. It may not have Blackwater’s thuggish reputation, but Triple Canopy […]
→ read full articleAN OPEN LETTER TO BAN KI-MOON
Richard Morse,
2 Apr 2009
Why Haiti Can’t Forget Its Past Dear Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, Thank you for the attention you have brought to the country of Haiti. In response to your New York Times Op Ed piece I wanted to widen your perspective a bit. I don’t pretend to represent anyone. I’ve been living in Haiti since 1985. I […]
→ read full articleEND THE WAR ON CIVILIANS IN SRI LANKA
Amnesty International,
2 Apr 2009
A briefing on the humanitarian crisis and lack of human rights protection. A human rights crisis is unfolding in Sri Lanka where tens of thousands of people are trapped in the middle of heavy fighting between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lanka Armed Forces in the north eastern Wanni region. […]
→ read full article(ITALIAN) L’IMPORTANZA DEI CORPI CIVILI DI PACE OGGI
Prof. Alberto L’Abate – Member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace and Development,
2 Apr 2009
L’Opinione di Quattro Generali Il secolo passato è stato quello nel quale sono morte più persone a causa delle guerre che in tutti secoli precedenti messi insieme, ma anche nel quale questi morti, che in precedenza erano in gran parte militari, sono stati in grande maggioranza civili. Si parla del 97% di morti civili nelle […]
→ read full articleBEAWARE THOSE TREACHEROUS AFPAKIS
Eric Margolis,
1 Apr 2009
President Barack Obama has now taken full ownership of the Afghanistan War. Gone are Washington’s pretenses that a western "coalition" was waging this conflict. Gone, too, is the comic book term, "war on terrorism," replaced by the Orwellian sobriquet, "overseas contingency operations." Obama’s announcement last week of deeper US involvement in Afghanistan and Pakistan – […]
→ read full articleARAB-LATAM BID FOR A DIVERSE WORLD
Lucia Newman, Latin America editor,
31 Mar 2009
The Moors invaded and conquered much of the Iberian Peninsula in 711AD. By the time they were driven out of Granada in 1492, the Arabs had left an indelible racial and cultural imprint. Both the Spanish and Portuguese languages have a marked Arabic influence. Yet when the Spanish and Portuguese crossed the Atlantic to conquer […]
→ read full articlePRICE OF SILENCE – An Amnesty International video at the U.N. featuring 16 of the world’s top musicians—some of whom have fled oppressive regimes—in a rousing musical plea to guarantee human rights for all
TMS Editor,
31 Mar 2009
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→ read full articleSYRIA CALLING
Seymour M. Hersh,
30 Mar 2009
The Obama Administration’s chance to engage in a Middle East peace. When the Israelis’ controversial twenty-two-day military campaign in Gaza ended, on January 18th, it also seemed to end the promising peace talks between Israel and Syria. The two countries had been engaged for almost a year in negotiations through intermediaries in Istanbul. Many complicated […]
→ read full articleNO MONEY FOR BULLS IN THIS BEAR MARKET: TOWN VOTES TO AXE FIESTA
Elizabeth Nash in Madrid,
30 Mar 2009
Decision to cancel festival ‘another devastating blow’ for Spanish bullfighters. Spain’s economic woes have bitten into the heart of the nation with one small town voting at the weekend to scrap its annual bullfighting festival to save public money. The festival in Manzanares El Real, north of Madrid, is held in August. Residents decided in […]
→ read full articleCALL ON U.S. GOVERNMENT TO HALT ECOLOGICALLY MISGUIDED SUPPORT FOR LARGE SCALE BIOFUEL
TMS Editor,
30 Mar 2009
Please support US environmental and social justice groups calling upon the new Obama administration to halt financial and policy support for large scale biofuel production. In particular, the Obama government‘s potential support for agrofuel expansion — making of transportation fuels from food — runs counter to their aim to urgently address climate change and threatens […]
→ read full articleRUSSELL TRIBUNAL ON PALESTINE
TMS Editor,
30 Mar 2009
The recent war waged by the Israeli government and the Israeli army on the Gaza strip, already under a blockade, underlines the particular responsibility of the United States and of the European Union in the perpetuation of the injustice done to the Palestinian people, deprived of its fundamental rights. It is important to mobilize the […]
→ read full articleA TMS Interview with Abdul Nafi Olomi: Afghanistan in Context
TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2009
Abdul Nafi Olomi is an Afghan MA candidate in Peace & Conflict Studies at the European Peace University, Austria.
→ read full articleAFGHANISTAN: THE FOUR QUESTIONS
Robert Naiman,
28 Mar 2009
President Obama announced his new Afghanistan strategy on Friday – the traditional Washington day for burying things. But there weren’t any big surprises. The administration had been dribbling details out through the news media: more troops, more civilians, narrower goals. As for "narrowing the goals" in his speech, Obama had it both ways: He asserted, […]
→ read full articleDO GM CROPS INCREASE YIELD? THE ANSWER IS NO
Devinder Sharma,
28 Mar 2009
Lies, damn lies, and the Monsanto website. Tell a lie a hundred times, and the chances are that it will eventually appear to be true. When it comes to genetically modified crops, Monsanto makes such an effort — and it could be that you too are duped into accepting their distortions as truth. My attention […]
→ read full articleBACK TO BASICS: WHAT ARE WE ALL ABOUT?
Jim Albertini, from Hawaii,
27 Mar 2009
After 7 years of war and occupation in Afghanistan, six years of war and occupation in Iraq, an increasing loss of civil liberties at home, and now growing economic collapse, no wonder more and more people are feeling fearful and desperate. In such times it’s important to return to core principles of non-violence. […]
→ read full articleNON-COOPERATION CAN BRING A REVOLUTION TO THE HOLY LAND
Marc Gopin,
27 Mar 2009
It is time for a mass movement of nonviolent non-cooperation and resistance amongst Palestinians—because everything else has failed. I have hopes that the Obama Administration will be the best yet in moving the parties toward resolution, but in my heart I have always felt that there is one path to peace that has never been […]
→ read full articleTHE BIG TAKEOVER: BAILOUT OR COUP D’ETAT?
Matt Taibbi,
26 Mar 2009
The global economic crisis isn’t about money – it’s about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution. It’s over — we’re officially, royally fucked. no empire can survive being rendered a permanent laughingstock, which is what happened as of a few weeks ago, when the buffoons who have been […]
→ read full articleWHY CIVIL RESISTANCE WORKS: THE STRATEGIC LOGIC OF NONVIOLENT CONFLICT
Maria Stephan and Erica Chenoweth,
26 Mar 2009
In-depth study on why civil resistance works. In International Security, volume 33, issue 1, pages 7-44. This new study of 323 violent and nonviolent campaigns from 1900 to 2006 found that violent campaigns succeeded in only 26 percent of all cases, compared to 53 percent for nonviolent, civilian-based campaigns (Stephan and Chenoweth, “Why Civil Resistance […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) FAZER A PAZ COM A ÁGUA
Marcelo Barros,
25 Mar 2009
O fato da ONU consagrar o dia 22 de março como “Dia internacional da Água” não pode deixar de nos fazer recordar que estamos vivendo uma profunda crise da civilização. Este modo de organizar o mundo, baseado na sistemática exploração de seres humanos por outros seres humanos e na intensa destruição da natureza por uma […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) SOBERANIA ENERGÉTICA E REFORMA AGRÁRIA UNIFICAM MOVIMENTOS DE BRASIL E PARAGUAI
Daniel Cassol - Correspondente em Asunción, Paraguai,
25 Mar 2009
Um ato simbólico nesta quinta-feira (26/Mar) reunirá organizações sociais do Paraguai e do Brasil na Ponte da Amizade, entre Ciudad del Este e Foz do Iguaçu. A iniciativa simboliza o começo de um processo de articulação entre movimentos sociais dos países vizinhos, em defesa de soberania energética e reforma agrária. O Congresso Unitário Político e […]
→ read full articleHUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN PALESTINE AND OTHER OCCUPIED ARAB TERRITORIES
Richard Falk – Member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace and Development,
25 Mar 2009
United Nations General Assembly – Human Rights Council 18 February 2009 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.PLEASE CONTINUE READING IN THE ORIGINAL
→ read full articlePERSPECTIVE OF THREE MAJOR PHILOSOPHIES IN HUMAN RELATIONS
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D.,
25 Mar 2009
In our earthly community, human relations vary from one group to another and from one country to another. They are generally built on cultural ties, religious connotations, and a variety of other factors. When we study history we are mostly learning about the story of human actions. Such actions reveal the philosophy of people […]
→ read full articleTHE RISE OF THE LAPTOP BOMBARDIER
Philip Hammond,
25 Mar 2009
Journalists and editors did more than simply cheer NATO’s bombing of Belgrade: they wrote the script for it. Do you remember Mark Laity? Ten years ago he was on British television virtually every evening, covering the Kosovo conflict from NATO headquarters in Brussels for the BBC. Described by Robert Fisk as ‘a sheep in sheep’s […]
→ read full articleSOME GOOD NEWS OUT OF AFRICA FOR A CHANGE
Mary Robinson,
25 Mar 2009
We now have a rare window of opportunity in the Congo. The war zone of the Democratic Republic of Congo is not a place that is usually associated with hope. The statistics quickly challenge optimism. Since 1998, the country has lost 5.4 million people to conflict, and more than a million people are still displaced […]
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