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CAPITALISM – FROM THE STANDPOINT OF ITS VICTIMS
M. Shahid Alam,
24 Mar 2009
It has never been easy offering a critique of capitalism or markets to my undergraduate students. Most have never heard an unkind word about these bedrock institutions, which they know to be the foundations of American power and prosperity. These are hallowed institutions. The power of private capital to produce jobs, wealth and freedom is […]
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Justin Raimondo,
23 Mar 2009
Where is America Headed? Author’s note: The following is the text of a talk given in Paris on March 21, at the "Prendre le Moyens de la paix au XXI siecle," which I believe roughly translates into "Prospects for Peace in the 21st Century," a conference sponsored by Bernardins College and the Sorbonne. I am […]
→ read full articleNEW ERA, NEW APPROACHES
Walid Salem,
23 Mar 2009
(1) Time for a “Regional Road Map” Now it is time for a “Regional Road Map” for peace in the Middle East, not only given the emergence of new forces in the region -Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and the growing power of the right-wing parties in Israel- but also because of the crisis of the […]
→ read full articleAFRICOM’S COVERT WAR IN SUDAN
Keith Harmon Snow,
22 Mar 2009
I recently received a phone call from an Australian man who identified himself as an investigator for the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague, Netherlands. The investigator and his colleague had read my story, “Merchant’s of Death: Exposing Corporate Financed Holocaust in Africa,” and wanted my cooperation to provide more detailed […]
→ read full articleWAR ON TERROR WITHIN: THE END OF JEWISH HISTORY
Gilad Atzmon,
21 Mar 2009
The issue I am going to discuss today is probably the most important thing I’ve ever had to say about Israeli brutality and contemporary Jewish identity. I assume that I could have shaped my thought into a wide-ranging book or an analytical academic text but instead, I will do the very opposite, I will make […]
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PRESIDENT OBAMA’S SPECIAL MESSAGE FOR THE PEOPLE OF IRAN
TMS Editor,
21 Mar 2009
Mar 19 2009 President Obama released a special video message for all those celebrating Nowruz. Translated " New Day," Nowruz marks the arrival of Spring and the beginning of the New Year for millions in Iran and other communities around the world. 3:20-Min VideoCLICK TO VIEW
→ read full articleU.N. PANEL SAYS WORLD SHOULD DITCH DOLLAR
Jeremy Gaunt, European Investment Correspondent,
21 Mar 2009
LUXEMBOURG, Mar 18 2009, (Reuters) – A U.N. panel will next week recommend that the world ditch the dollar as its reserve currency in favor of a shared basket of currencies, a member of the panel said on Wednesday, adding to pressure on the dollar. Currency specialist Avinash Persaud, a member of the panel of […]
→ read full articleINTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN ISRAEL-GAZA: ‘OPEN THE DOORS’
Mairead Maguire – Nobel Peace Laureate and Member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace and Development,
20 Mar 2009
Speech at the European Parliament in Brussels to launch the Campaign organized by Peace Lines, supported by 128 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and 42 Nobel Laureates – March 18th 2009. Dear Friends, I would like to thank Peace Lines for giving me the opportunity to speak at this Press Conference in support of […]
→ read full articleGAMBIA: HUNDREDS ACCUSED OF ‘WITCHCRAFT’ AND POISONED IN GOVERNMENT CAMPAIGN
Amnesty International - Press Release Mar 19 2009,
20 Mar 2009
Banjul (Gambia) – Amnesty International today revealed that up to 1,000 people in The Gambia have been kidnapped from their villages by “witch doctors”, taken to secret detention centres and forced to drink hallucinogenic concoctions. The incidents are occurring in the context of a “witch- hunting campaign” that is spreading terror throughout the country. Amnesty […]
→ read full articleIS ACCESS TO CLEAN WATER A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT?
Yigal Schleifer, correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor,
20 Mar 2009
A growing movement thinks so, saying it will guarantee that the poor have water. But at a water conference in Turkey, officials voice concern about implementing such a right. With fresh water resources becoming scarcer worldwide due to population growth and climate change, a growing movement is working to make access to clean water […]
→ read full articleREVERSING BUSH DECISION, U.S. TO SIGN U.N. GAY RIGHTS DECLARATION
Alex Koppelman,
19 Mar 2009
The Obama administration has decided to sign on to a United Nations declaration that calls for countries around the world to decriminalize homosexuality, the Associated Press reports. Last year, under then-President Bush, the U.S. became the only Western government that refused to endorse the document. Though the declaration is non-binding, American negotiators had raised legal […]
→ read full articleDEMOCRACY-SUPPORT AND THE ARAB WORLD: AFTER THE FALL
Tarek Osman,
19 Mar 2009
A group of distinguished experts has sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to put democratic reform at the heart of the United States’s engagement with Arab regimes and publics. The letter – convened by the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID), and published on 10 March 2009 – is […]
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Submitted by Walid Salem (144 Signatures),
19 Mar 2009
March 10, 2009President Barack Hussein Obama Dear Mr. President: First of all, congratulations on your victory in November. Like so many others throughout the world, we find ourselves both hopeful and inspired. Your election is proof of America’s continued promise as a land of opportunity, equality, and freedom. Your presidency presents a historic opportunity to […]
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→ read full articleBEAWARE THE MADOFF DIVERSION!
Richard Grossman,
18 Mar 2009
Sure, there are crooks out there. But the overwhelming majority of actions by corporate directors and managers that have created today’s messes have been legal. Not only legal, but also widely regarded as necessary and essential to sustain the American Way of Life. To put food on our tables. To heat our homes. To […]
→ read full articleJUDGING THE ICC
The Los Angeles Times – Editorial, Mar 16 2009,
18 Mar 2009
The cases for and against US participation in the International Criminal Court. The Nuremberg trials at the close of World War II were controversial in their day. Advocates saw civilized nations imposing just retribution for acts of depravity; critics saw an exercise of victors’ justice, with rules of warfare imposed after the fact. From […]
→ read full articleA SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY
George Monbiot,
17 Mar 2009
If you think preventing climate change is politically difficult, look at the political problems of adapting to it. Quietly in public, loudly in private, climate scientists everywhere are saying the same thing: it’s over. The years in which more than two degrees of global warming could have been prevented have passed, the opportunities squandered by […]
→ read full articleMexico: In the Brink of … What?
Fernando Montiel T.,
16 Mar 2009
The ongoing “War on Drugs” in Mexico is an everyday concern in the country. A war it certainly is, but against drugs is something not so clear. Context analysis may offer some hints on the conflict dynamics behind the current bloodbath that has reached the headlines both in domestic and world media. Some political, social, […]
→ read full article(SPANISH) COLOMBIA: ¿UNA POLÍTICA DE SEGURIDAD CONSOLIDADA, O PUESTA A PRUEBA?
Vicente Torrijos R. – Member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace and Development,
16 Mar 2009
I .- EL ORDEN POLÍTICO INTERNO Y LA POLÍTICA DE SEGURIDAD DEMOCRÁTICA (PSD) Introducción No cabe duda de que, en Colombia, la Política de defensa y seguridad democrática fue el resultado de la confluencia de diversos factores, dentro de los cuales cabe señalar : (1) el agotamiento de la apuesta de la opinión pública por […]
→ read full articleA PALESTINIAN VIEW – FINANCIAL SUPPORT: A TWO-EDGED SWORD
TMS Editor,
16 Mar 2009
A bitterlemons interview with Walid Salem, a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace and Developmentbitterlemons: A lot of money was pledged at the Sharm al-Sheikh conference for the reconstruction of Gaza. Do you think that this means reconstruction can now go ahead? Salem: I see two problems when it comes to the reconstruction of […]
→ read full articleTHE AMAHORO YOUTH CLUB IN BURUNDI – A young Burundian intellectual and activist, Armand Giramahoro, talks about the basic ideas and goals of the Amahoro Youth Club-AYC. A TFF Video.
TMS Editor,
15 Mar 2009
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→ read full articleMEXICO, PAKISTAN, AND THE SO-CALLED “FAILED STATE”
Shamus Cooke,
15 Mar 2009
Washington’s War on "Narco-Terrorism" Are Mexican drug cartels a threat to the United States? This is an easy conclusion to make after reading most mainstream U.S. newspapers. Hardly a day goes by without sensational stories about “broad daylight” gun battles, heart-wrenching interviews with weeping mothers, and praise for the Mexican army in its “war” against […]
→ read full articleBRIDGE TO TEHRAN
Mohammad Hassan Khani,
15 Mar 2009
Better Relations Are Within Reach — If Both Sides Make the Effort The state of relations between the United States and Iran is based on a long history of hostility and lack of trust. For Iranians, this tension dates to the early 1950s, when a coup engineered by the United States and Britain brought down […]
→ read full articleTIME TO CHANGE ‘CLIMATE CHANGE’
George Monbiot,
14 Mar 2009
What’s clear from Copenhagen is that policymakers have fallen behind the scientists: global warming is already catastrophic. The more we know, the grimmer it gets. Presentations by climate scientists at this week’s conference in Copenhagen show that we might have underplayed the impacts of global warming in three important respects: • Partly because the estimates […]
→ read full articleSPP: UPDATING THE MILITARIZATION AND ANNEXATION OF NORTH AMERICA
Stephen Lendman,
14 Mar 2009
The title refers to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), also known as the North American Union – formerly launched at a March 23, 2005 Waco, Texas meeting attended by George Bush, Mexico’s President Vincente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. It’s for a tri-national agreement, below the radar, for greater […]
→ read full articleGAZA: LEST WE FORGET
Ahmad Barqawi,
13 Mar 2009
Something happened in Gaza that shook the very core of my foundation and being; something that has fundamentally altered my perception of mankind in the 21st century; if this is what the “progress” and “evolution” of the human species have yielded so far; then I don’t even want to imagine what our fated future is […]
→ read full articleWHO IS AMERICA TO JUDGE?
Mark Weisbrot,
13 Mar 2009
After Abu Ghraib, Gitmo and extraordinary renditions, other countries now challenge America’s standing on human rights. The US state department’s annual human rights report got an unusual amount of criticism this year. This time the centre-left coalition government of Chile was notable in joining other countries such as Bolivia, Venezuela and China – who […]
→ read full articleCLOSED ZONE
TMS Editor,
13 Mar 2009
Animation About the Gaza Cage Gisha-Legal Center for Freedom of Movement calls on the state of Israel to fully open Gaza’s crossings and to allow the real victims of the closure – 1.5 million human beings – the freedom of movement necessary to realize their dreams and aspirations. 1:35-Min. VideoCLICK TO VIEW
→ read full article(SPANISH) COLOMBIA – EL TERRORISMO REACTIVADO
Vicente Torrijos R. – Member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace and Development,
13 Mar 2009
Balance y Perspectivas de la Seguridad en Colombia y el Área Andina 1 .- LAS FUERZAS ARMADAS REVOLUCIONARIAS DE COLOMBIA (FARC) 1.1. 2008 : UN ANNUS HORRIBILIS. Introducción Quizá el 2008 pasará a la historia del área andina como un annus horribilis para las Farc, dados los importantes acontecimientos que impactaron negativamente la capacidad ofensiva […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) BRASILEIROS NÃO PODEM SER COBAIAS DE ARROZ TRANSGENICO, DIZ GREENPEACE
Vinicius Mansur,
12 Mar 2009
Organizações ambientalistas estão em campanha contra a liberação comercial de uma variedade de arroz transgênico no Brasil. A variedade LL62, pertencente a multinacional Bayer, será o tema de uma audiência pública em Brasília (DF), no próximo dia 18. No dia seguinte, a Comissão Técnica Nacional de Biossegurança (CTNBio) tem agendada uma reunião, na qual o […]
→ read full articleA FALCON OF PEACE
Tom Engelhardt,
12 Mar 2009
How come they get to be the hawks? And we get to be the doves? A hawk is a noble bird. A dove – well, basically it’s a pigeon. The sort of bird that, in New York City anyway, messes your building’s window sills, is always underfoot, and, along with the city’s rats, makes a […]
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Haruki Murakami,
12 Mar 2009
I have come to Jerusalem today as a novelist, which is to say as a professional spinner of lies. Of course, novelists are not the only ones who tell lies. Politicians do it, too, as we all know. Diplomats and military men tell their own kinds of lies on occasion, as do used car salesmen, […]
→ read full articleBLACKWATER’S NEW FRONTIER: THEIR OWN PRIVATE AFRICA
Bruce Falconer and Daniel Schulman,
12 Mar 2009
Will military contractors blur the line between aid workers and hired guns? You give me money, I don’t care who you are." It was late October, and Zimbabwe’s defense attaché, a soft-spoken, thick-shouldered lieutenant colonel, was explaining his country’s freewheeling approach to business in the banquet room of the Liaison hotel on Capitol Hill. Mingling […]
→ read full articleFATE OF THE RAINFOREST IS ‘IRREVERSIBLE’
Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor,
12 Mar 2009
A third of the Amazonian ‘carbon sink’ is doomed whether or not emissions are cut, Copenhagen conference is told The impact of climate change on the Amazon rainforest could be much worse than previously predicted, new research suggests. Even if emissions were reduced and governments managed to limit temperature rises to 2C – the current […]
→ read full articleGUN MAKERS AND RETAILERS POST STRONG SALES INCREASES
Natalie Zmuda,
10 Mar 2009
Sour Economy, Potential for Tightened Regulations Drive Buyers to Firearms The economy might be tanking, but firearm sales are going great guns. Despite the weakest holiday season on record, outdoor-products retailer Cabela’s turned in strong fourth-quarter sales, largely as a result of an increase in firearm and ammunition sales. Smith & Wesson is reporting pistol […]
→ read full articleGALLOWAY PROTESTS ISRAEL’S ‘GENOCIDAL AGGRESSION’
Middle East Online,
10 Mar 2009
British MP arrives in Gaza with aid convoy to support Palestinian ResistanceRAFAH – British MP George Galloway arrived in Gaza Monday [Mar 9] at the head of an aid convoy to protest Israel’s "genocidal aggression" against Gaza and support the Palestinian "resistance." The staunchly pro-Palestinian parliamentarian said he was "overwhelmed with happiness" to arrive in […]
→ read full articleWHY DID SO FEW AMERICANS GIVE A DAMN?
William Pfaff,
8 Mar 2009
The documents currently being released by the Justice Department that demonstrate the Bush administration’s view of the president’s constitutional power in a “state of war” tell us things we suspected but didn’t want to know. The first seven of these official memorandums issued last week dealt with claimed presidential powers to unilaterally abrogate international treaties; […]
→ read full articleTHE TAMILS
S.P. Udayakumar,
8 Mar 2009
"A race of people is like an individual man: until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its history, expresses its own culture and affirm its own selfhood, it cannot fulfill itself." – Malcolm X TASA – Tamilar Samadana Aayvagam (Tamils’ Peace Research Institute) Varalaaru–Sahavazhvu–Yethirgalam (History–Coexistence–Futures) ‘Pathetic’ is the word that comes […]
→ read full articleHELL HATH NO FURY LIKE AN IMPERIALIST SCORNED
William Blum,
7 Mar 2009
Hugo Chávez’s greatest sin is that he has shown disrespect for the American Empire. Or as they would say in America’s inner cities — He’s dissed the Man. Such behavior of course cannot go unpunished lest it give other national leaders the wrong idea. Over the years, the United States has gotten along just fine […]
→ read full article(ITALIAN) L’ESTREMISMO DELLA PASSIONE (E DELLA RAGIONE)
Gianluca Miano,
6 Mar 2009
Nella quotidiana esperienza di "portatori di pace", quando si tocca l’argomento veganismo da piu parti si viene etichettati come "estremisti" (quando non addirittura aggrediti). Nella mia personale esperienza, questo accade sempre più spesso con chi ha già fatto un minimo di percorso verso un modus vivendi piu etico che con chi questo percorso nemmeno pensa […]
→ read full articleEND THE USE OF CHIMPS IN RESEARCH
The Humane Society of the United States – Mother Jones,
6 Mar 2009
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→ read full articleSO, KARL MARX WAS RIGHT AFTER ALL
Mark Steel,
4 Mar 2009
Maybe the Mail will be yelling, ‘Smash the bosses, get the worker’s Mail’ The sudden change is disconcerting. For years I might suggest society would be improved if we sacked these vastly overpaid bankers, and the response would be some variety of "Here he goes again". Now if you say the same thing the response […]
→ read full articleISLAM’S EVOLUTIONARY LEGACY
Ehsan Masood,
4 Mar 2009
As we celebrate Darwin, let’s not forget the unsung champions of evolution from the Muslim world. Last month, scientists from around the world partied into the small hours on the 200th anniversary of the birth of Darwin. But as we celebrate the work of one of the most influential scientists ever, let’s take a moment […]
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The Guardian, UK - Editorial (Mar 3),
4 Mar 2009
Pledging aid for Gaza is the easy bit. Getting it delivered to Gazans living in tents after Israel’s three-week bombardment is another matter. The $3bn that donors promised in Sharm el-Sheikh yesterday will have to penetrate a labyrinth of barriers and conditions, the complexity of which King Minos of Crete would have been proud. The […]
→ read full articleIRAN/USA RELATIONS: TOUGH TRANSITION FROM BOXING TO CHESS
Lindsey Hilsum,
4 Mar 2009
Whose is the "clenched fist"? Is the Obama administration’s opening to Iran only a change of body language? And will Iran feel inclined to respond? The speaker of Iran’s parliament, Ali Larijani, has said he thinks the relationship between the Islamic Republic and the United States should be less like boxing and more like chess. […]
→ read full article12,000 CLIMATE ACTIVISTS CAN’T BE WRONG
Bill McKibben,
4 Mar 2009
Ah, the party planner’s problem. You send out an invitation, and what happens if they all say yes? I’m just back from today’s [Mar 2] magnificent civil disobedience outside the Capitol power plant. It began around 1 p.m., with the morning’s snow still swirling—and out of the snow hundreds and then thousands of people arriving, […]
→ read full articleISRAEL BOYCOTT MOVEMENT GAINS MOMENTUM
Mel Frykberg - Inter Press Service,
3 Mar 2009
"Standing United with the People of Gaza" is the theme of this week’s Israel Apartheid Week (IAW), which kicked off in Toronto and another 39 cities across the globe Sunday [Mar 1st]. A movement to boycott Israeli goods, culture and academic institutions is gaining momentum as Geneva prepares to host the UN’s Anti-Racism Conference, Durban […]
→ read full articleTHE IMPERIAL UNCONSCIOUS
Tom Engelhardt,
3 Mar 2009
Afghan Faces, Predators, Reapers, Terrorist Stars, Roman Conquerors, Imperial Graveyards, and Other Oddities of the Truncated American CenturySometimes, it’s the everyday things, the ones that fly below the radar, that matter. Here, according to Bloomberg News, is part of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’s recent testimony on the Afghan War before the Senate Foreign […]
→ read full articleTHE PROCEEDS OF CRIME
George Monbiot,
3 Mar 2009
The US and British governments have created a private prison industry which preys on human lives. It’s a staggering case; more staggering still that it has scarcely beeen mentioned on this side of the ocean. Last week two judges in Pennsylvania were convicted of jailing some 2000 children in exchange for bribes from private prison […]
→ read full articleINCONVENIENT TRUTHS: DON’T BELIEVE THE GREENWASH
Simon Usborne,
3 Mar 2009
So you drive a Prius, eat organic and boycott anything made in China – but will that help to fight climate change? Facing the facts many ecologists would rather ignore.Cute animals will have to die You may not have come across the Bewick’s swan. The smallest swan found in Britain, it reaches our shores from […]
→ read full articleSERMON FROM THE CORPORATE CHURCH
Peter Chamberlin,
2 Mar 2009
Hurricane winds pound at the gates of Fortress America and our leaders send out the order for more straw and sand to pound into the widening cracks. The harder the winds of change blow the more apparent it becomes that our “leaders” cannot lead, when they themselves await orders from above. As our house of […]
→ read full articleEXCLUSIVE: THE IRAQI RESISTANCE RESPONDS TO PRESIDENT OBAMA
Rafidan - The Political Committee,
2 Mar 2009
Baghdad The Republic of IraqStatement in Response to President Obama’s Remarks made on the 27th or February 2009 regarding the proclaimed ending to the occupation of The Republic of Iraq. Official English Transcript Release No: 57 In Respect to the remarks of President Barak Hussain Obama, The president of the United States of America. The […]
→ read full articleZONES OF PEACE IN THE SOUTH CAUCASUS
Susan Allen, Irakli Kakabadze, Arsen Kharatyan, Jamila Mammadova and Ekaterina Romanova,
1 Mar 2009
At a recent symposium held at George Mason University, peacebuilders based in Baku, Tbilisi, Yerevan, Moscow, and Washington D.C. considered the concept of Zones of Peace. While Georgian Minister for Reintegration Temuri Yakobashvili’s announcement this week of the Georgian initiative to declare Abkhazia a weapon-free zone was met with disdain by Russia and Abkhazia, there […]
→ read full articleFREEDOM OF SPEECH VS. FREEDOM FROM HUMILIATION
Karin Maria Svanå,
28 Feb 2009
Part of openDemocracy’s blog by participants at the International Student Festival in Trondheim, Norway, 20 Feb-1 Mar 2009. Should there be a limit to free speech? If so, what limits should there be and at what point? Who should exercise these limits? And who has the right to define when humiliation has occurred? These were […]
→ read full articleDISENTANGLING LAYERS OF A LOADED TERM IN SEARCH OF A THREAD OF PEACE
Michael Slackman,
28 Feb 2009
If President Obama is serious about repairing relations with the Arab world and re-establishing the United States as an honest broker in Middle East peace talks, one step would be to bridge a chasm in perception that centers on one contentious word: terrorism. The recent fighting in Gaza offered a potent reminder of the challenge […]
→ read full articleHEALING, CONCILIATION AND CLOSURE THROUGH ART – Discussion with Hector Aristizabal about his life and his creative approach to coping with the aftermath of torture.
TMS Editor,
28 Feb 2009
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→ read full articlePEACE WITH JUSTICE FOR BURMA
Jake Lynch in Chiang Mai, Thailand,
28 Feb 2009
Why do Russian dentists extract their patients’ teeth through the nose? Because Russians are afraid to open their mouths. It’s a good joke, and one that’s acquired fresh relevance in recent times, fit to rank alongside Soviet-era classics like the one about Moscow policemen and their habit of patrolling in threes (one could read, one […]
→ read full articleHOW IT WORKS
TMS Editor,
27 Feb 2009
Young Chuck, an investment banker, moved to Texas and bought a donkey from a farmer for $100.00. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day. The next day he drove up and said, ‘Sorry son, but I have some bad news, the donkey died.’ Chuck replied, ‘Well, then just give me my money […]
→ read full article‘LESS NOISE THAN A CRAB’ – SERIOUS SUB COLLISION A ‘NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE’
Clemens Höges,
26 Feb 2009
The collision of two strategic nuclear submarines earlier this month shows that the Cold War is still being fought every day in the Atlantic — with the world’s most powerful weapons. The world is a good and beautiful place, and on the Mull of Kintyre, it seems as peaceful as Paul McCartney described it in […]
→ read full article(ITALIAN) ISRAELIANI E PALESTINESI: OCCHO PER OCCHIO?
Parvez Ahmed,
26 Feb 2009
In un momento in cui così tanto sangue innocente è stato versato, è difficile riuscire a pensare al perdono. Ma è tempo che i palestinesi comincino a delineare un nuovo percorso per portare avanti la loro lotta, un percorso orientato alla nonviolenza – afferma il commentatore indiano-americano. Quando Israele ha lanciato le sue bombe americane […]
→ read full articleTOXINS ’R’ US
Amy Goodman,
26 Feb 2009
Is your lipstick laden with lead? Is your baby’s bottle toxic? The American Chemistry Council assures us that “we make the products that help keep you safe and healthy.” But U.S. consumers are actually exposed to a vast array of harmful chemicals and additives embedded in toys, cosmetics, plastic water bottles and countless other […]
→ read full articleKASHMIR: CONFLICT IN A PEACEFUL VALLEY
Ershad Mahmud,
25 Feb 2009
The new US Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, identified Kashmir as one of the world’s hot spots and bracketed it with contested regions such as the Balkans and Golan Heights during her testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations committee last month. Likewise, in an interview with Time magazine in November 2008, US President […]
→ read full articleRIMINGTON IS RIGHT. THIS IS A RECIPE FOR CREATING TERRORISTS
Seumas Milne,
25 Feb 2009
New Labour’s sins in the war on terror are catching up with it, but ministers want to shift blame on to the Muslim community. I never imagined I would say this, but Stella Rimington is right. The former head of MI5 who made her career running the security service’s dirtiest operations in the 1980s, against […]
→ read full articleSTRATEGIC ASSESSMENTS: ISRAEL-PALESTINE
Walid Salem,
23 Feb 2009
(1) Conflict Management in the Name of Conflict Resolution During the last 20 years since the Palestinian declared officially the right of Israel to exist in the 19th Palestinian National Council held in Algeria in 15/11/1988, what was going on is a process of conflict management on the name of conflict resolution. When the two […]
→ read full articleIRAN’S DÉTENTE GESTURE TO OBAMA?
Muhammad Sahimi,
22 Feb 2009
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) just released its latest report on Iran’s nuclear program. The report states that all of Iran’s nuclear materials, research, and development are under the Agency’s containment and surveillance, and all the nuclear materials are safeguarded. The Agency also reported that there has been no divergence of nuclear material, in […]
→ read full articleSAVING SUCCEEDING GENERATIONS FROM THE SCOURGE OF WAR – BUILDING A NONKILLING, NONVIOLENT CULTURE FOR THE HUMAN FAMILY
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate,
21 Feb 2009
Annual Erskine Childers Lecture – 2009: Action for UN Renewal Dear friends, I am very happy to be here with you. I would like to thank Vijay Mehta and the Action for UN Renewal for kindly inviting me to give the 2009 Erskine Childers Lecture. Erskine Childers, UN Diplomat and son of the 4th […]
→ read full articleAN IMPENDING GEOPOLITICAL EARTHQUAKE?
José Miguel Alonso Trabanco,
21 Feb 2009
The financial and economic turmoil the world is currently experiencing will certainly have many serious consequences beyond those fields. Indeed, its geopolitical fallout could be far more serious than commonly acknowledged and it is an element that cannot be neglected by neither statesmen nor analysts. Some scholars frequently hold that politics and economics are somehow […]
→ read full articleNUKED BY FRIEND AND FOE
George Monbiot,
21 Feb 2009
An unsentimental appraisal of our energy choices doesn’t boost your popularity. One of my favourite environmental writers, my friend Merrick Godhaven, is taking shots at me and Mark Lynas – http://bristlingbadger.blogspot.com/2009/01/nuke-mark-lynas.html. It concerns that most divisive of green topics: nuclear power. Merrick argues that if you express even qualified support for new nukes, it takes […]
→ read full articleJohan Galtung on “Class, Nation and the Philippines”
TMS Interview,
21 Feb 2009
TMS: Professor Galtung, as you write in your TMS editorial [week of 16-22 February] “Class, Nation and the Philippines,” about conversations you maintained from 4 to 9 February 2009 in Manila, you met with Government and Parties for a dialogue about the future of the peace process in the Philippines on issues of class and […]
→ read full articleUK “COULD EXPERIENCE A CRASH SIMILAR TO ICELAND”
hedgeweek.com,
20 Feb 2009
The global financial crisis could be entering a ‘new and more treacherous phase’, which could push international countries to the brink of failure and further hinder the global economic recovery, according to Hennessee Group. Charles Gradante, co-founder of the Hennessee Group, points out that Iceland had one of the highest standards of living in the […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) EM DEBATE: MONSANTO – VERDADES E MENTIRAS SOBRE OS TRANSGENICOS
Desirèe Luíse e Juliano Domingues,
19 Feb 2009
O uso de transgênicos pode ser a solução para acabar com a fome no mundo. A ideia foi defendida pelo vice-presidente da Monsanto, Jerry Steiner, em entrevista recentemente cedida ao jornal espanhol El País. O empresário defende a imagem da empresa, afirmando que a Monsanto é uma entidade preocupada com o meio ambiente, e ressalta […]
→ read full articleGEORGE GALLOWAY – VIVA PALESTINA GAZA CONVOY, 14 February 2009
TMS Editor,
19 Feb 2009
From London to Gaza Convoy A convoy of more than 110 vehicles has snaked its way out of London for Gaza to deliver more than £1m worth of aid, including ambulances and a fire engine. 4:02-Min. VideoCLICK TO VIEW
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An Expert’s Analysis of the Feb 3 2009 Collision between French and British Nuclear Submarines in the Atlantic
TMS Editor,
18 Feb 2009
Prof. Jan Oberg is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment, and director/founder of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research (TFF). httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc-sMy2I7jg
→ read full articleTHE US AND IRAN TAKE CENTER STAGE
Rami G. Khouri,
16 Feb 2009
History is a stubborn companion to life and politics in the Middle East, so to understand what is happening in the region today you have to go back 30 years. One of the pivotal moments in modern Middle Eastern history was the 1977-1979 period, when three major developments occurred that still define, and sometimes plague, […]
→ read full articleNUCLEAR REDUCTION TALKS WITH UNITED STATES POINTLESS
Vladimir Anokhin and Vadim Trukhachev,
16 Feb 2009
US President Barack Obama is ready to discuss the perspectives of the START-2 Treaty with Russia. At the same time, the question regarding the deployment of the missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic remains open. The Czech Republic expects the USA to build a radar station on its territory during the forthcoming […]
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Naomi Klein,
16 Feb 2009
Observando a multidão na Islândia a bater frigideiras e panelas até o governo caír fez-me recordar um refrão popular em círculos anticapitalistas, em 2002: “Vocês são a Enron, nós somos a Argentina!” A mensagem era bastante simples. Vocês – políticos e presidentes-executivos em alguma cúpula comercial – são como os fraudulentos e temerários executivos da […]
→ read full articleAN AMERICAN FOREIGN LEGION
William Astore,
16 Feb 2009
Is the U.S. Military Now an Imperial Police Force? A leaner, meaner, higher tech force – that was what George W. Bush and his Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld promised to transform the American military into. Instead, they came close to turning it into a foreign legion. Foreign as in being constantly deployed […]
→ read full articleIN SHIFT, BLACKWATER DUMPS TARNISHED BRAND NAME
Mike Baker, Associated Press Writer,
16 Feb 2009
Raleigh, North Carolina – Blackwater Worldwide is still protecting U.S. diplomats in Iraq, but executives at the beleaguered security firm are taking their biggest step yet to put that work and the ugly reputation it earned the company behind them. Blackwater said Friday [Feb. 13] it will no longer operate under the name […]
→ read full articleJEREMY SCAHILL ON BLACKWATER: LEAVING IRAQ, CHASING PIRATES? After $1.3 billion in government contracts and controversy over the killing of innocent Iraqi civilians, Blackwater Worldwide is moving on.
TMS Editor,
14 Feb 2009
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→ read full articleLATIN AMERICAN LEADERS SAY ‘NO’ TO U.S. DRUG WAR
Marina Litvinsky,
13 Feb 2009
A commission led by three former Latin American heads of state has called the 30-year U.S. "war on drugs" in Latin America a failure and urged a drastic change in policy. The Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy issued a report Wednesday, "Drugs and Democracy: Toward a Paradigm Shift," which calls for the creation […]
→ read full articleTHE UNITED NATIONS AND NATO
Hans Christof von Sponeck, former UN Assistant Secretary General,
13 Feb 2009
Which security and for whom? The world the UN advocates looks good on paper.1 In June 1945, the Charter of the United Nations was signed by 51 member states. Several years later, the two great conventions for civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights came into being, and in subsequent years, important conventions on torture, […]
→ read full articlePRO-PALESTINIAN AND PRO-ISRAELI?
Shayna Zamkanei,
11 Feb 2009
For those of us alarmed by the recent civilian death toll in Gaza, our obligation as concerned global citizens has been to promote the end of the war, provide humanitarian aid and press Israel and Hamas to reach a sustainable ceasefire agreement. With these weighty issues surrounding us, it might seem frivolous to harp on […]
→ read full articleTHE BOSNIAN EXAMPLE OF COEXISTENCE
Amir Telibečirović,
11 Feb 2009
"No ‘Westerner’ can erase the Islamic influences in Bosnia, and no ‘Easterner’ can impose their own influences on our way of life." This statement, overheard at a Sarajevo coffee bar, explains the unique character and identity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Despite the conflict of the previous decade, it is still a unique case of a […]
→ read full articleCAPITALISM’S SELF-INFLICTED APOCALYPSE
Michael Parenti,
11 Feb 2009
After the overthrow of communist governments in Eastern Europe, capitalism was paraded as the indomitable system that brings prosperity and democracy, the system that would prevail unto the end of history. The present economic crisis, however, has convinced even some prominent free-marketeers that something is gravely amiss. Truth be told, capitalism has yet to come […]
→ read full articleTHE WAR THAT DID NOT MAKE THE HEADLINES: OVER FIVE MILLION DEAD IN CONGO?
Keith Harmon Snow,
11 Feb 2009
Behind the Numbers Redux: How Truth is Hidden, Even When it Seems to Be Told The International Rescue Committee in late January 2008 released a new report on the mortality in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo. The report caught the eye of some news agencies, who quickly whipped up trite little articles as supposed […]
→ read full articleHOW COULD 9,000 BUSINESS REPORTERS BLOW IT?
Dean Starkman,
11 Feb 2009
A former Wall Street Journal writer dissects why business reporters bought the bull—and missed the biggest story on their beat. FOR CASUAL readers of business coverage—that is, most of us—the past 18 months have been a crash course in things we never knew existed but that, we are told, have already done us all irreparable […]
→ read full articleA CALL TO END ALL RENDITIONS
Marjorie Cohn, Jurist,
11 Feb 2009
Jurist Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that instead of leaving the door open for the CIA to continue to engage in the rendition of terrorism suspects to other countries so long as the process is somehow handled "humanely", the Obama administration should end renditions altogether and prosecute those who […]
→ read full articleALL OF THEM MUST GO
Naomi Klein,
11 Feb 2009
Watching the crowds in Iceland banging pots and pans until their government fell reminded me of a chant popular in anti-capitalist circles in 2002: “You are Enron. We are Argentina.” Its message was simple enough. You–politicians and CEOs huddled at some trade summit–are like the reckless scamming execs at Enron (of course, we didn’t know […]
→ read full article50 YEARS, 100 PEACE & CONFLICT PERSPECTIVES
Rutagengwa Claude Shema, M.D. - Regional Coordinator, Great Lakes Peace Initiative (GLPI),
10 Feb 2009
Review of book by peace discipline pioneer Pr. Dr. Johan Galtung The world we live today is facing multiple challenges, different kind of disasters, but often the calamities made by human beings. In other words, the conflict issues and wars made by ourselves as humane are more disastrous than any natural disaster. The reason is […]
→ read full articleUSES OF GENOCIDE: KENYA, GEORGIA, ISRAEL, SRI LANKA
Martin Shaw,
10 Feb 2009
The concept of genocide has become a weapon of political polemic. But the violence inflicted on civilians in four conflicts shows how it is also rooted in the logic of modern wars. The accusation of "genocide" nowadays seems to accompany almost any episode of political violence and armed conflict around the world. In the last […]
→ read full articleRAPE AS A WEAPON OF WAR: MISANDRY VS. MISOGYNY
Rutagengwa Claude Shema, M.D. - Regional Coordinator, Great Lakes Peace Initiative (GLPI),
10 Feb 2009
My Opinion about Systematic use of Rape and Torture in the Conflict in the Congo A) Rape Rape in DR Congo (République démocratique du Congo, DRC) has been used as a war weapon in different ways. But the fundamental reasons can vary as well. Military on the front line can spend a long time in […]
→ read full articleGADDAFI’S CALDRON AND OUR COCKTAIL
The Gambia Journal - Editorial,
9 Feb 2009
The Heads of State Summit of the African Union ended Wednesday 4th February leaving a bitter after-taste in the mouths of many proponents of a new African Renaissance. In his inaugural speech as new African Union (AU) chairman, Libya’s leader Muammar Gaddafi said that multi-party democracy in Africa leads to bloodshed. Speaking at the AU […]
→ read full articleWhat Is Conflict?
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2009
A peace education video by Fall 2008 students of the European Peace University in Austria. An introductory insight into the complexities of Peace and Conflict Studies as a mind-mapping tool. httpv://www.youtube.com/v/u5pU5DNjoXY&hl=en&fs=1
→ read full articleWOULD IT KILL US TO APOLOGIZE TO IRAN FOR THE COUP?
Robert Naiman,
8 Feb 2009
When President Obama told al-Arabiya, "if countries like Iran are willing to unclench their fist, they will find an extended hand from us," the most widely reported Iranian response was President Ahmedinijad’s suggestion that if the U.S. truly wants good relations with Iran, it should begin by apologizing for U.S. "crimes" against Iran, including U.S. […]
→ read full articleOBAMA SEEKS NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT DEAL WITH RUSSIA
Ian Traynor in Munich and Luke Harding in Moscow,
7 Feb 2009
Hillary Clinton to head US efforts to reduce warheads to about 1,000 The Obama administration is looking for a quick deal between the US and Russia to more than halve their nuclear weapons stockpiles, reversing the Bush White House’s refusal to be bound by international treaties. Diplomats and officials say they are optimistic Washington and […]
→ read full articleHOW TO CREATE A WORLD WITHOUT WARS
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D.,
7 Feb 2009
From the early days of creation there seems to have been wars going on century after century. Needless to say, there have been extended periods in history that were characterized by peace. For example, we read in the Holy Scriptures that when Christ was born the whole world was at peace. As a result, […]
→ read full articleIMPRESSIVE: ARAB WOMAN SPEAKS OUT BOLDLY AGAINST ISLAMIC CULTURE – LIVE ON ALJAZEERA QATAR
Memri TV,
7 Feb 2009
A MUST WATCH – Wafa Sultan, an Arab American psychologist from Los Angeles, speaks her mind about differences between Arab/Muslim and Western cultures. 5-Min VideoCLICK TO VIEW
→ read full articleLATIN AMERICA BREAKS FREE
Benjamin Dangl,
6 Feb 2009
Five years ago, when Evo Morales was a rising political star as a congressman and coca farmer, I met him in his office in Cochabamba, Bolivia. He was drinking orange juice and sifting through the morning newspapers when I asked him about a meeting he just had with Brazilian President Lula. "The main issue that […]
→ read full articleWHISTLING PAST THE AFGHAN GRAVEYARD
Tom Engelhardt,
6 Feb 2009
Where Empires Go to Die It is now a commonplace — as a lead article in the New York Times’s Week in Review pointed out recently — that Afghanistan is "the graveyard of empires." Given Barack Obama’s call for a greater focus on the Afghan War ("we took our eye off the ball when we […]
→ read full articleIRISH CIVIL SOCIETY CALLS FOR BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL
Irish Palestinian Solidarity Campaign,
5 Feb 2009
The following letter was published in a full-page advertisement in The Irish Times on 31 January 2009: (The original ad, including signatures – headed by Irish Nobel Peace Prize Laueate Mairead Maguire – may be downloaded here. [PDF] ) Israel’s bombardment of Gaza killed over 1,300 Palestinians, a third of them children. Thousands have been […]
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