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THREE GOOD REASONS TO LIQUIDATE OUR EMPIRE
Chalmers Johnson,
31 Jul 2009
And Ten Steps to Take to Do So However ambitious President Barack Obama’s domestic plans, one unacknowledged issue has the potential to destroy any reform efforts he might launch. Think of it as the 800-pound gorilla in the American living room: our longstanding reliance on imperialism and militarism in our relations with other countries and […]
→ read full articleTHE NEW COLONIALISM (Part 2): THE INVESTOR NEEDS A WEAK STATE
Horand Knaup and Juliane von Mittelstaedt,
30 Jul 2009
Rich nations are exchanging money, oil and infrastructure for food, water and animal feed. At first glance, this seems to present a solution for many problems, says Jean-Philippe Audinet of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). In principle, he is pleased about the agricultural investments, and says he fought for them for years. "What […]
→ read full articleTHE NEW COLONIALISM (Part 1): FOREIGN INVESTORS SNAP UP AFRICAN FARMLAND
Horand Knaup and Juliane von Mittelstaedt,
30 Jul 2009
Governments and investment funds are buying up farmland in Africa and Asia to grow food — a profitable business, with a growing global population and rapidly rising prices. The high-stakes game of real-life Monopoly is leading to a modern colonialism to which many poor countries submit out of necessity. Every crisis has its winners. A […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) PAÍSES RICOS TEM PRÁTICA DE EXPORTAR LIXO: BRASIL IMPORTA TONELADAS
Ana Maria Amorim,
29 Jul 2009
Os países mais ricos do mundo encontraram uma solução fácil para acabar com mais de 400 milhões de toneladas de lixo que produzem: estão exportando para os países pobres. Enviar o material para o terceiro mundo chega a ser dez vezes mais barato que tratá-lo no próprio país. No meio deste mercado está o Brasil, […]
→ read full articleCAN NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT PLAY A MEANINGFUL ROLE?
Aurobinda Mahapatra,
29 Jul 2009
Can non-aligned movement (NAM), as a movement emerged during heydays of the cold war, play a role in a changed post-cold war world? Probably, the 15th summit at the Egyptian Red Sea resort Sharm el Sheikh on 15th and 16th of July 2009 would guide the scholar to seek a plausible answer as to the […]
→ read full articleGLOBAL POWER AND GLOBAL GOVERNMENT (Part 2): ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE – REVOLUTION, WORLD WARS AND WORLD ORDER
Andrew Gavin Marshall,
29 Jul 2009
Russia, Oil and Revolution By the 1870s, John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Empire had a virtual monopoly over the United States, and even many foreign countries. In 1890, the King of Holland gave his blessing for the creation of an international oil company called Royal Dutch Oil Company, which was mainly founded to refine and […]
→ read full articleGLOBAL POWER AND GLOBAL GOVERNMENT (Part 1): EVOLUTION AND REVOLUTION OF THE CENTRAL BANKING SYSTEM
Andrew Gavin Marshall,
29 Jul 2009
Introduction Humanity is on the verge of entering into the most tumultuous period in our history. The prospects of a global depression, the likes of which have never been seen before; a truly global war, on a scale never before imagined; and societal collapse, for which nations of the world are building totalitarian police states to […]
→ read full articleA CHANCE FOR REAL DEMOCRACY IN HONDURAS
Kevin Coleman,
29 Jul 2009
Honduras is changing. In 1981, Ronald Reagan imposed democracy from the outside, yielding a constitution that minimized the participation of the citizenry in the decisions of their government and a process that repressed and decapitated the social movements—led by workers, peasants, and students—who sought to have their voices heard. Nearly three decades later, as President […]
→ read full articlePUSHING SOUTH ASIA TOWARD THE BRINK
Zia Mian,
28 Jul 2009
The contradictions and confusions in U.S. policy in South Asia were on full display during Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent visit to India. U.S. support for India, which centers on making money, selling weapons, and turning a blind eye to the country’s nuclear weapons, is fatally at odds with U.S. policy and concerns about […]
→ read full articleSCHOOL OF COUPS
Father Roy Bourgeois and Margaret Knapke,
28 Jul 2009
The day after Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was deposed, President Barack Obama cautioned against repeating Latin America’s "dark past," decades when military coups regularly overrode the results of democratic elections. Obama went on to acknowledge, in his understated way, "The United States has not always stood as it should with some of these fledgling democracies." […]
→ read full articleTHE FRATERNITY OF CIVILIZATIONS: PROSPECTS FOR DIALOGUE
Maryam Sakeenah,
28 Jul 2009
The ‘Clash of Civilizations’ thesis may stand refuted as it very well is, but “refuting the Clash of Civilizations thesis will not stop the Clash of Civilizations concepts being applied to the War on Terror. The issue therefore is not how one can refute it, but how one can challenge its application in the world […]
→ read full articleTHE WEST WIDENS THE FATAH-HAMAS SPLIT
Seumas Milne,
28 Jul 2009
Palestinian unity is essential for any peace deal – but the US, Britain and the EU are playing a central role in preventing it It should be obvious that no settlement of the Israel-Palestine conflict is going to stick unless it commands broad support or acceptance on both sides. That is especially true of the […]
→ read full articleXINJIANG, TIBET, BEYOND: CHINA’S ETHNIC RELATIONS
Temtsel Hao,
27 Jul 2009
The interplay between local identity, state policy, and economic change is at the core of the violent events in Tibet in 2008 and Xinjiang in 2009. The Chinese government’s predicament in finding a workable policy in response is severe, says Temtsel Hao. The ethnic protests and clashes in China’s westernmost region of Xinjiang on 5-6 […]
→ read full articleHONDURAS: IN LIEU OF A PEACE PROCESS
Adrian Bergmann - Matagalpa, Nicaragua, July 23, 2009,
25 Jul 2009
There are well-founded arguments to say that deposed president Manuel Zelaya has violated the Honduran constitution. I do not thereby imply that his illegal actions are entirely immoral. There are immoral actions that are not illegal, just as there are laws that are immoral. The Honduran constitution is a conservative one, and contains a number […]
→ read full articleJake Lynch: Talisman Sabre Peace Convergence
TMS Editor,
25 Jul 2009
Video by TMS Peace Journalist Jake Lynch, Dir. of Univ. of Sydney Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, With Peace Journalist/Author Annabel McGoldrick. Yeppoon and Rockhampton, Central Queensland-Australia, Jul 11-12, 09 httpv://www.youtube.com/v/5sMsniEwA3o&hl=en&fs=1
→ read full articleAMERICA’S WARS: HOW SERIAL WAR BECAME THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE
David Bromwich,
23 Jul 2009
On July 16, in a speech to the Economic Club of Chicago, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that the "central question" for the defense of the United States was how the military should be "organized, equipped — and funded — in the years ahead, to win the wars we are in while being prepared […]
→ read full articleHONDURAN COUP REVEALS CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY IN THE UNITED STATES AS WELL
Tom Loudon,
23 Jul 2009
Three weeks have passed since the military coup d’état in Honduras, yet the United States has failed to join the international community in issuing a clear denunciation of the illegal overthrow of the government of Honduras. Despite a statement by President Obama calling the coup illegal and recognizing Zelaya as the legitimate president, the […]
→ read full articleMILITARY COUP IN HONDURAS: IS IT AGAINST OBAMA TOO?
Antonio Jarquin (TRANSCEND Member), Wim Dierckxsens, Paulo Nakatani, Paulo Campanario, Reinaldo Carcanholo & Remy Herrera,
22 Jul 2009
Two Events, Three Contexts, the Answer, Two Premises, Two Questions, Two Consequences, and Five Conclusions and Actions Events (1): Honduras (Central America): It is inhabited by 7.5 million people. It is one of the smallest and poorest countries in Latin America (poverty rate is 60 percent). It was called "Banana Republic" because it was absolutely […]
→ read full articleTOWARDS A GLOBAL CURRENCY? TOWARDS THE INTEGRATION OF THE DOLLAR AND THE EURO?
Michel Chossudovsky,
22 Jul 2009
With a view to restoring financial stability, World leaders have called upon the Group of 20 countries (G-20) to instigate a new global currency based on the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights (SDRs). The media has presented the global currency initiative as a consensus building process, in which BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) would […]
→ read full article(SPANISH) GOLPE MILITAR EN HONDURAS: ¿ES TAMBIÉN CONTRA OBAMA?
Dr. Wim Dierckxsens (Holanda), Dr. Antonio Jarquin T (Nicaragua), Dr. Reinaldo Carcanholo (Brasil), Dr. Paulo Campanario (Brasil), Dr. Paulo Nakatani (Brasil),
22 Jul 2009
Dos Hechos, Tres Escenarios, la Respuesta, Dos Premisas, Dos Preguntas, Dos Consecuencias y Cinco ConclusionesHechos: Honduras, 7.5 millones de habitantes, uno de los países más pequeños y pobres de A. Latina (60 % de pobreza), llamada “Banana Republic” por el control absoluto que ejerció la “United Fruit Company” de USA. Base de lanzamiento de operaciones […]
→ read full articleWAR WITHOUT END
Robert Templer,
22 Jul 2009
The guns have fallen silent in Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war, but the deep wounds of ethnic animosity have not even begun to heal. An estimated 300,000 Tamil civilians remain essentially prisoners in internment camps run by a Sinhalese-dominated government. To begin easing the deep mistrust between the communities, donor countries will have to pressure […]
→ read full articleFREE EDUCATION FOR ALL CITIZENS: BEST INVESTMENT FOR WORLD PEACE
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D.,
21 Jul 2009
One of the leading problems in the world may be viewed as ignorance, which is described by The New Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language as a state of being where knowledge is wanting, that is, missing. We tend to make several mistakes to the detriment of many because, quite often, we are not […]
→ read full articleWE HAVE GIVEN OUR BLESSING TO ISRAEL’S CRIMES
Sheila Samples,
21 Jul 2009
"If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers."-Albert Camus There is no subject more restricted nor more controlled in the United States than a critical discussion of Israel. Balanced argument […]
→ read full articleFREEDOM FROM WAGE SLAVERY
Kim Petersen,
19 Jul 2009
Waking Up: Freeing Ourselves from Work By Pamela SatterwhitePublisher: Humming Words Press (2009)ISBN: 978-0-9649465-1-4 Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of life energy. – Nikola Tesla, quoted in Waking Up: Freeing Ourselves from Work Tesla’s quotation captures the reality of the working world for many people. People trudge off to work, do work, return […]
→ read full articleTHE INSATIABLE AMERICAN THIRST FOR BLOOD
Dr. Muzaffar Iqbal,
19 Jul 2009
The Anti-War Movement in America, Canada, and Britain has virtually become a non-entity. This was not unpredictable because the diverse groups which make up the so-called Anti-War Movement have neither the resources, nor the leadership, nor any solid ideological foundation beyond the apparent loathing for war. The invasion of Afghanistan by the United States took […]
→ read full articleMINUTEMAN III POISED FOR LAUNCH FROM CALIFORNIA TO THE MARSHALL ISLANDS
TMS Editor,
18 Jul 2009
Call for Local Protests on Weekend of August 22-23, 2009 The US arsenal of hypocrisy is poised for another launch from Vandenberg AFB in Southern California in the early morning hours of August 23. Our government lectures and threatens Iran and North Korea about the evils of nuclear weapons and then arrogantly continues to fire nuclear […]
→ read full articleSPEECH AT THE INTER-ASIAN RELATIONS CONFERENCE, NEW DELHI – APRIL 2, 1947
Mohandas K. Gandhi,
17 Jul 2009
At the closing session of the Inter-Asian Relations Conference held on April 2, 1947 in New Delhi, Mahatma Gandhi spoke to over 20,000 visitors, delegates and observers. A speech highly relevant for today. Madam President and friends, I do not think that I should apologize to you, for having to speak in a foreign tongue. […]
→ read full articleEARTH CONDOMINIUM – THE GLOBAL NEIGHBORHOOD
TMS Editor,
17 Jul 2009
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→ read full articleDEVELOPMENT: ‘FARMERS CAN GAIN FROM CRISIS’
Sabina Zaccaro interviews Josefina Stubbs from IFAD,
17 Jul 2009
The financial crisis could actually boost agriculture in Latin America, Josefina Stubbs, director of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) division for Latin America and the Caribbean tells IPS in an interview. Excerpts from the interview: IPS: What are the effects of the economic crisis on agriculture in Latin America? Is there a risk […]
→ read full articleBALKANS: MEDIA COULD BE IN THE DOCK OVER WAR CRIMES
Vesna Peric Zimonjic,
17 Jul 2009
Journalists are in the dock now for their role in provoking the wars of the 1990s across former Yugoslavia that left more than 100,000 dead. "We’re analysing the influence of certain Serbian media on war crimes committed in the 1991-95 wars," Bruno Vekaric, spokesman for the Special War Crimes Prosecutor in Belgrade told IPS. "The […]
→ read full articleTAMIL CAMPS
NY Times Editorial Jul 15 09,
17 Jul 2009
More than two months after declaring victory over Tamil Tiger guerillas, Sri Lanka’s government is continuing to hold hundreds of thousands of displaced Tamil civilians in what it calls “welfare villages,” but what increasingly look like military internment camps. The civilians, many of whom were held hostage by the guerrillas in the bloody last stage […]
→ read full article(FRENCH) AFRIQUE DE L’OUEST: LES RESSORTS D’UNE ÉCONOMIE SOCIALE ET SOLIDAIRE
Abdou Salam Fall, Cheikh Guèye,
17 Jul 2009
Le regain d’intérêt que suscite l’Economie sociale solidaire est inséparable de l’urgence de changement de paradigme dans le processus de création de richesse en particulier dans les sociétés du Nord. Le décalage entre richesse et bien-être suffit à marquer le malaise. Ainsi de plus en plus d’auteurs ( Bertrand de Jouvenel, 1968, Dominique Méda, 2000, […]
→ read full articleOBAMA’S PRIVATIZATION OF AMERICAN WARS
Jenny Kakasuleff, Liberal Examiner,
16 Jul 2009
If you thought the end of American intervention in foreign wars was nearing, think again. President Obama has been replacing soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan with private contractors—some 250,000 are currently deployed overseas—including Black Water (operating under another alias.) Contractors are not subject to the same guidelines as our soldiers, and thus, have not been […]
→ read full articleSEASON OF TRAVESTIS: FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY IN MID-2009
Noam Chomsky,
15 Jul 2009
June 2009 was marked by a number of significant events, including two elections in the Middle East: in Lebanon, then Iran. The events are significant, and the reactions to them, highly instructive. The election in Lebanon was greeted with euphoria. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman gushed that he is "a sucker for free and […]
→ read full articleNIGER DELTA STANDOFF
Kia Mistilis,
14 Jul 2009
Behind fighter-planes and gunboats, Nigerian forces launched a full-scale offensive in the Niger Delta on May 13, displacing 30,000 people and sparking a humanitarian crisis. Thousands of civilians fleeing destroyed villages are now trapped between armed resistance groups and the Nigerian military. These civilians are hiding in the bush without food, water, or medical supplies, […]
→ read full articleTRANSCEND UNIVERSITY PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT
TMS Editor,
12 Jul 2009
Dear friends, I have the pleasure to inform you that books #5 and #6 from TRANSCEND University Press are already available at www.transcend.org/tup. They are: 5 – The Fall of the U.S. Empire–And Then What?: Successors, Regionalization or Globalization? U.S. Fascism or U.S. Blossoming? By Johan Galtung. 6 – Peace Business: Humans and Nature Above […]
→ read full articleWASHINGTON IS PLAYING A DEEPER GAME WITH CHINA
F. William Engdahl,
12 Jul 2009
After the tragic events of July 5 in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China, it would be useful to look more closely into the actual role of the US Government’s ”independent“ NGO, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). All indications are that the US Government, once more acting through its “private” Non-Governmental Organization, the NED, […]
→ read full articlePOEM FROM PRISON
Mairead Maguire - Nobel Peace laureate,
11 Jul 2009
From the Ramle Israeli prison to Gaza and the Palestinian People – 30 Jun 09 ‘SPIRIT OF HUMANITY’AS LONG ASTHE PEOPLE OF PALESTINEHAVE NO LIBERTY, NO FREEDOMTHOSE OF US WITH A VOICE TO SPEAK MUST SPEAKAS LONG ASTHE CHILDREN OF GAZALIVE IN FEAR OF ISRAELIBOMBS AND OCCUPATIONTHOSE OF US WITH A VOICE TO SPEAKMUST SPEAKAS […]
→ read full articleTAMIL DEATH TOLL ‘1,400 A WEEK’ AT MANIK FARM CAMP IN SRI LANKA
Rhys Blakely in Mumbai,
11 Jul 2009
About 1,400 people are dying every week at the giant Manik Farm internment camp set up in Sri Lanka to detain Tamil refugees from the nation’s bloody civil war, senior international aid sources have told The Times. The death toll will add to concerns that the Sri Lankan Government has failed to halt a humanitarian […]
→ read full articleIT’S NOT JUST OUR 21 KIDNAPPED PASSENGERS: It’s an outrage, but it is hardly an isolated one. Free Gaza Video
TMS Editor,
11 Jul 2009
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→ read full articleDESERT ENERGY
Dennis Nottebaum,
9 Jul 2009
The idea sounds intriguing: place a vast number of solar thermal energy collectors in an area where both solar energy and space are available in abundance – the desert – and supply a major part of the population with emission-free electricity. What sounds like a remote scenario for energy creation in a future world has […]
→ read full articleUS LEAVES HONDURAS TO ITS FATE
Mark Weisbrot,
9 Jul 2009
Washington is unwilling to take the side of democracy in Honduras by opposing the coup leaders it helped to train. The military coup that overthrew President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras took a new turn when Zelaya attempted to return home on Sunday. The military closed the airport and blocked runways to prevent his plane […]
→ read full articleTHE FEDERATION OF THE WORLD
Silver Donald Cameron,
8 Jul 2009
When commentators and reporters describe people like me as “anti-globalization,” I get annoyed. “Globalization” in its true sense is not a set of policies or institutional initiatives. It is simply a fact. How can one oppose the movement of the air, sushi, the circulation of the oceans, the Internet, the migration of birds, the world-wide […]
→ read full articleSTRAIGHT TALK: REVEALING THE REAL U.S.-AFRICA POLICY
Gerald LeMelle,
8 Jul 2009
It’s time for some straight talk on U.S. foreign policy as it relates to Africa. While Obama administration officials and the U.S. African Command (AFRICOM) representatives insist that U.S. foreign policy towards Africa isn’t being militarized, the evidence seems to suggest otherwise. While Africans condemned U.S. military policy in Africa under the Bush administration, the […]
→ read full articleA COUP IS NOT A COUP. A NOT-COUP IS A COUP
Kevin Coleman,
8 Jul 2009
On Sunday June 28th, the Honduran military kidnapped their president, Manuel “Mel” Zelaya, and flew him to Costa Rica in his pajamas. In doing so, the military enforced an unconstitutional and undemocratic transfer of power from the Honduran left to the right. The international community immediately and unanimously condemned the coup d’état. Meanwhile, there is […]
→ read full articleVEGETARIANS LESS LIKELY TO DEVELOP CANCER THAN MEAT EATERS, SAYS STUDY
Karen McVeigh,
6 Jul 2009
Striking difference found in risk of disease in blood. Scientists acknowledge more research still needed. For years, they have boasted of the health benefits of their leafy diets, but now vegetarians have the proof that has so far eluded them: when it comes to cancer risks, they have the edge on carnivores. Fresh evidence from […]
→ read full articleWHITHER PEACE IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT?
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra,
6 Jul 2009
The prospects of peace in the Indian subcontinent post-26/11 appear bleak. The meeting of the top leaders of India and Pakistan at the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on 16 June 2009 did not bring any respite to the peace seekers in the subcontinent as the pronouncements […]
→ read full articleISRAEL’S BARRIER (Part 2) – NPR’s Eric Westervelt and David Gilkey traveled the length of Israel’s separation barrier to explore how it has affected the lives of people on both sides.
TMS Editor,
4 Jul 2009
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→ read full articleNOBEL PEACE LAUREATE MAIREAD MAGUIRE [MEMBER OF TRANSCEND] AND CYNTHIA MCKINNEY SPEAK FROM AN ISRAELI JAIL CELL
Free Gaza Team and Democracy Now!,
3 Jul 2009
Transcript and Audio "This is Cynthia McKinney and I am calling from an Israeli prison." Mairead Maguire: “Yes. We have just been locked into our cells now for a couple of hours. We are currently going through their process. We are being charged with entering illegally into Israeli—near Israeli shores. We are going, it looks like, […]
→ read full articleHOW TO DEAL WITH AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF BASES
Chalmers Johnson,
3 Jul 2009
A Modest Proposal for Garrisoned LandsThe U.S. Empire of Bases — at $102 billion a year already the world’s costliest military enterprise — just got a good deal more expensive. As a start, on May 27th, we learned that the State Department will build a new "embassy" in Islamabad, Pakistan, which at $736 million will […]
→ read full articleTHE LAUNCHING OF U.S. CYBER COMMAND (CYBERCOM)
Tom Burghard,
3 Jul 2009
Offensive Operations in Cyberspace U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates signed a memorandum on June 23 that announced the launch of U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM). A scheme by securocrats in the works for several years, the order specifies that the new office will be a "subordinate unified command" under U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM). According to the […]
→ read full articlePERU: INDIGENOUS VICTORY IS A VICTORY FOR ALL
MADRE,
3 Jul 2009
This month saw an important victory by Indigenous Peoples in Peru. Thanks to their months-long protest, the Peruvian government repealed new laws that opened the Amazon rainforest to oil drilling. This was an important win for Indigenous rights—and for all of us. The Amazon region (known as “the lungs of the earth”) is crucial to […]
→ read full articleRECORD TURNOUT FOR ARMS TRADE TREATY WEEK OF ACTION
Amnesty International - 22 June 2009,
3 Jul 2009
Last week, campaigners in the largest number of countries so far took part in an annual worldwide Week of Action, aimed at highlighting the need for an effective Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). NGOs in over 90 countries organized activities to draw attention to the treaty, and the rapid rise in the human cost of armed […]
→ read full articleEXPOSÉ – ANIMALS SKINNED ALIVE: A SHOCKING LOOK INSIDE CHINESE FUR FARMS
PETA-People for Ethical Treatment of Animals,
3 Jul 2009
Undercover investigators from Swiss Animal Protection/EAST International recently toured fur farms in China’s Hebei Province, and it quickly became clear why outsiders are banned from visiting. They found that many animals are still alive and struggling desperately when workers flip them onto their backs or hang them up by their legs or tails to skin […]
→ read full articleISRAELI NAVY ATTACKS, BOARDS AND COMANDEERS FREE GAZA BOAT
Press Release, Free Gaza Movement,
2 Jul 2009
Today [June 30, 2009] Israeli Occupation Forces attacked and boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, abducting 21 human rights workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (see below for a complete list of passengers). The passengers and crew are being forcibly dragged toward […]
→ read full articleTRIBAL MARXISM FOR DUMMIES
Gilad Atzmon,
1 Jul 2009
"The European left must make a serious critical assessment of this “we know better” attitude and the ways it tends to deal with popular forces in the south as ideologically and politically inferior." Hisham Bustani “The subsequent emergence of Islamism holds a false promise. While it poses a challenge to Western domination, it is backward […]
→ read full articleHOW LONG IS LONG ENOUGH?
Bob Herbert, The New York Times,
1 Jul 2009
No one seems to know how old Mohammed Jawad was when he was seized by Afghan forces in Kabul six and a half years ago and turned over to American custody. Some reports say he was 14. Some say 16. The Afghan government believes he was 12.What is not in dispute is that he was […]
→ read full articleFRANCE: AMBIGUOUS ON NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
Alecia D. McKenzie,
30 Jun 2009
As the international war of words over nuclear programmes heats up, with North Korea threatening to strengthen its "nuclear deterrence" against the United States, countries such as France find themselves in a stance that some analysts describe as ambiguous and hypocritical. France and Britain are the two countries in Western Europe that are nuclear weapon […]
→ read full articleSRI LANKA: CAMPS, MEDIA… GENOCIDE?
Martin Shaw,
30 Jun 2009
What kind of violence has the Sri Lankan state been committing against its Tamil civilian population as the island‘s civil war ended; on what scale and with what intentions? Martin Shaw explores the difficult terrain where war, atrocity and genocide meet. The civil war in Sri Lanka is receding from the international headlines, as crises […]
→ read full articleHELP ADDICTS, BUT LOCK UP THE CASUAL USERS OF COCAINE
George Monbiot - Published in the Guardian 30th June 2009,
30 Jun 2009
The UN’s Proposal for Decriminalisation is Senseless and DestructiveIt looked like the first drop of rain in the desert of drugs policy. Last week Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said what millions of liberal-minded people have been waiting to hear. “Law enforcement should shift its focus from […]
→ read full article(FRENCH) UNE ASSEMBLÉE PARLEMENTAIRE MONDIALE
Andreas Bummel, Grégory Gihoul, Dirk Van Der Maelen et Patrick Moriau,
30 Jun 2009
Et si l’Onu se "parlementarisait"? Une Assemblée parlementaire des Nations unies (UNPA) superviserait toute la gouvernance mondiale, du FMI à l’Onu en passant par l’OMC. La crise financière mondiale a déclenché l’une des pires perturbations économique et sociale au cours des cinq dernières décennies. Restaurer la stabilité économique et financière et redonner confiance dans le […]
→ read full article(NORWEGIAN) DROMMEN OM ÉN VERDEN
Kjartan Almenning Leder i Én Verden,
30 Jun 2009
En permanent parlamentarikerforsamling i FN kan være et viktig skritt på veien mot et verdensdemokrati. De av oss som arbeider for globale demokratiske institusjoner blir ofte sett på som drømmere. Og drømmere får sjelden politisk gjennomslagskraft. Da gjelder det å konseptualisere drømmen til noe som folk kan kjenne seg igjen i. Ny Tid har den […]
→ read full articleVERSAILLES, 1919-2009: A NEW WORLD ORDER’S LEGACY
David A Andelman,
30 Jun 2009
The treaty concluded on 28 June 1918 reverberates today across a huge area from Iran and Iraq to the Balkans and even beyond. The real roots of many major recent and current political events – the convulsions surrounding Iran’s Islamic regime, the bloody troubles in neighbouring Iraq, the ethnic cleansing and mass murders in the […]
→ read full articlePRIVATELY RUN CHEKPOINT STOPS PALESTINIANS WITH ‘TOO MUCH FOOD’
Amira Hass, Haaretz,
30 Jun 2009
A West Bank checkpoint managed by a private security company is not allowing Palestinians to pass through with large water bottles and some food items, Haaretz has learned. MachsomWatch discovered the policy, which Palestinian workers confirmed to Haaretz. The Defense Ministry stated in response that non-commercial quantities of food were not being limited. It made […]
→ read full articleHIGH-TECH BARBARISM: LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! IT’S A BIRD… IT’S A PLANE… IT’S A RAYTHEON SPY BLIMP!
Tom Burghardt,
27 Jun 2009
As the American republic’s long death-spiral continues apace, newer and ever more insidious technologies usher us towards an age of high-tech barbarism"At first glance" Newsweek reveals, "there was nothing special about the blimp floating high above the cars and crowd at this year’s Indy 500 on Memorial Day weekend." "Nothing special" that is, until you […]
→ read full articleAMERICA’S “BASES OF EMPIRE”
Stephen Lendman,
27 Jun 2009
Besides waging perpetual wars, nothing better reveals America’s imperial agenda than its hundreds of global bases – for offense, not defense at a time the US hasn’t had an enemy since the Japanese surrendered in August 1945. So when they don’t exist, they’re invented as former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Charles W. Freeman, Jr., […]
→ read full articleACTON FOR LIFE AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN PARAGUAY
TMS Editor,
26 Jun 2009
Sign a letter asking the president to veto the law that threatens life!Despite being a relatively small country, Paraguay has turned into the 4th world soy exporting country. GM soy monocultures, Monsanto‘s RoundupReady soy, are destined for the agro industry in Europe and China and currently take up over 2 million hectares in Paraguay. Industrial […]
→ read full articleWHICH LIFE WAS MORE VALUABLE?
Information Clearing House,
26 Jun 2009
Death on Camera Shame on CNN and the Western media for hypocritically ‘caring’ about the death of nonviolent protesters in Iran according to the interests of U.S. foreign domination. The ‘love’ these journalists profess for Neda equals their indifference towards Bassem Abu Rameh, a young Palestinian nonviolent protester shot by the Israeli military near the apartheid […]
→ read full articleSEEING THROUGH ALL THE PROPAGANDA ABOUT IRAN
Eric Margolis,
26 Jun 2009
Iran’s political crisis continues to blaze. It’s still impossible to say which leaders or factions will emerge victorious, but one thing is certain: the earthquake in the Islamic Republic is shaking the Mideast and deeply confusing everyone, including the US government. Highlighting the complexity of this crisis, Meir Dagan, the head of Israel’s intelligence agency, […]
→ read full articleTHE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO – CONTROLLING OUR FOOD
Information Clearing House,
26 Jun 2009
Video Documentary On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television – a documentary that Americans won’t ever see. The gigantic bio-tech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years.CLICK TO VIEW – GOOGLE VIDEO
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Bob Herbert - The New York Times,
26 Jun 2009
Proof of guilt? In 21st-century America, there is no longer any need for such annoyances. Human rights? Ha-ha. That’s a good one. Policies that were wrong under George W. Bush are no less wrong because Barack Obama is in the White House. One of the most disappointing aspects of the early months of the Obama […]
→ read full articleJINGOISM ISN’T JOURNALISM: WHY I DON’T TRUST CORPORATE MEDIA ON IRAN
Linda Milazzo,
26 Jun 2009
Why is corporate media so eager to cover the people’s movement in Iran, but unwilling to cover the anti-war movement here? As a critic of media, in particular of cable/satellite "news," I’m troubled by American corporate-media, in particular CNN’s near non-stop coverage of the turmoil in Iran. Not because the story isn’t important. It’s critically […]
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George Monbiot,
23 Jun 2009
Let’s divert the money spent on arms to addressing the real strategic threat.What would we be doing now if we took climate change seriously? Last week the government released a report on the likely temperature changes in the United Kingdom(1). It shows that life at the end of this century will bear no relationship to […]
→ read full articleTHE ST. LOUIS REFUGEE SHIP BLUES: ART SPIEGELMAN RECOUNTS A SAD STORY 70 YEARS LATER
Human Rights First-USA,
22 Jun 2009
In this cartoon commentary in The Washington Post on World Refugee Day [June 20], Spiegelman uses the familiar character from his graphic novel, Maus, to look back on how we treated refugees in 1939 – notably the refusal of the U.S. to grant entry to 900 Jews fleeing Nazi Germany. Spiegelman connects this to the […]
→ read full articleFOURTH SUMMIT, GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR MINISTRIES & DEPARTMENTS OF PEACE: BUILDING BRIDGES OF PEACE
TMS Editor,
22 Jun 2009
San José, Costa Rica – 13-21 September 2009 Dear Global Alliance Supporter, On behalf of the Costa Rican government, the Academy for Peace of Costa Rica and the Global Alliance, we are pleased to announce that Costa Rica will host the 2009 Summit of the Global Alliance for Ministries and Departments of Peace. Founded in […]
→ read full articleMADAGASCAR: DAEWOO’S RAINFOREST LAND GRAB IN NATURE’S PARADISE
TMS Editor,
20 Jun 2009
The island of Madagascar is a veritable Noah’s Ark of biodiversity, and this natural wealth is the country’s primary treasure and opportunity for future ecologically sustainable development. The Korean company Daewoo Logistics continues to pursue plans to lease half the agricultural land in Madagascar for 99 years, industrially producing maize and palm oil on 1.3 […]
→ read full articleHOPE FOR GAZA: ADDRESS TO THE UN RELIEF WORKS AGENCY’S HUMAN RIGHTS GRADUATING CLASS
Jimmy Carter, 2002 Nobel Peace Laureate - in Gaza, 16 Jun 09,
20 Jun 2009
Director of UNRWA operations John Ging, thank you for inviting me to Gaza. Distinguished guests, children of Gaza, I am grateful for your warm reception. I first visited Gaza 36 years ago and returned during the 1980s and later for the very successful Palestinian elections. Although under occupation, this community was relatively peaceful and prosperous. […]
→ read full articleWAZIRISTAN IS STILL A HANGOVER FROM THE COLONIAL HEADACHE
Jeremy Page,
19 Jun 2009
When Lord Curzon was Viceroy of India at the turn of the last century, he delivered the following verdict on the rebellious tribesmen of Waziristan: “No patchwork scheme will settle the Waziristan problem. Not until the military steamroller has passed over the country from end to end will there be peace. But I do not […]
→ read full article(ITALIAN) LA DIETA CARNEA: INFORMAZIONI SU CUI RIFLETTERE
Maurizio Sabbadini,
19 Jun 2009
"I ricchi consumatori del Primo mondo si godono i piaceri di una dieta carnea, ma patiscono le conseguenze degli eccessi che la posizione dominante nell’artificiosa scala delle proteine comporta: con il corpo intasato di colesterolo, vene e arterie occluse dai grassi animali, sono vittime delle "malattie del benessere", degli attacchi cardiaci, dei tumori del colon […]
→ read full articleGRASSROOTS LESSONS FROM LATIN AMERICA
Michael Fox,
19 Jun 2009
Michael Fox is a Brazil-based independent journalist and co-producer of the new documentary Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas (PM Press). He is also the co-author of an upcoming book called Venezuela Speaks: Voices From the Grassroots, also available through PM Press and set to be released this fall. Throughout his research for this […]
→ read full articleISRAEL IS LOSING THE PR WAR SO BADLY THAT EVEN EVANGELICAL SUPPORT IS ERODING
Brian Schrauger – The Jerusalem Post,
19 Jun 2009
The war that Israel keeps losing is the war of world opinion, the war for individual hearts and minds. Consider recent stumbles. Israel’s military campaign in Gaza should have been named "8,000 is enough!" This would have communicated a determination to stop the barrage of missiles from Hamas, using surgical precision to destroy its arsenal, […]
→ read full articleMASSACRE IN THE AMAZON: THE US-PERU FREE TRADE AGREEMENT SPARKS A BATTLE OVER LAND AND RESOURCES
Raúl Zibechi - americas.irc-online.org,
19 Jun 2009
On June 5, World Environment Day, Amazon Indians were massacred by the government of Alan Garcia in the latest chapter of a long war to take over common lands—a war unleashed by the signing of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Peru and the United States. Three MI-17 helicopters took off from the base of […]
→ read full articleMcCARTNEY URGES ‘MEAT-FREE DAYS’ TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE
Martin Hickman, Consumer Affairs Correspondent,
15 Jun 2009
Chargrilled asparagus and lemon tart – that’s the vegetarian menu for a glamorous cast of musicians, actors, writers and artists starting a mass movement today to limit meat eating and combat climate change. With his daughters, Stella and Mary, Sir Paul McCartney is behind Meat Free Monday, which aims to persuade people to go veggie […]
→ read full articleINNER SPACE: THE POWER OF SOLITUDE
Tom Darling,
15 Jun 2009
When Tom Darling told his friends he planned to spend 10 days in silent meditation with a group of strangers, they joked that he was joining a cult. But the experience – gruelling and profound – offered an extraordinary antidote to the modern world. The moment the question is asked, the smiles and jokes we’ve […]
→ read full articleProf. Abbas Aroua Interviews Prof. Johan Galtung
TMS Editor,
15 Jun 2009
An Analysis of Current World Issues & Concerns Geneva, 30 May 2009 (in French) httpv://www.youtube.com/v/BHVFsommeBM&hl=en&fs=1 Abbas Aroua is a medical physicist and adjunct professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the Lausanne University, Switzerland. He is director of the Cordoba Foundation of Geneva for Peace Studies and Convener for the Arab world for TRANSCEND Network […]
→ read full articlePRICE OF PEACE FOR THE INNOCENT TAMILS
Dan McDougall,
15 Jun 2009
The Disappeared Murdered, missing, imprisoned in camps…The guns may be silent in Sri Lanka for the first time in 26 years, but the price of peace for the innocent Tamils caught up in the fighting could not be higher … Dan McDougall travels from the Tamils’ UK protest in Parliament Square to the killing fields […]
→ read full articleDEPRAVED INJUSTICE AND THE PRIVATIZATION OF THE GLOBAL FRESHWATER COMMONS
Frank Joseph Smecker,
15 Jun 2009
“Of all our natural resources water has become the most precious. By far the greater part of the earth’s surface is covered by its enveloping seas, yet in the midst of this plenty we are in want. By a strange paradox, most of the earth’s abundant water is not usable for agriculture, industry, or human […]
→ read full articleWE ARE ALL BUILDERS OF PEACE: A CONSTRUCTIVE APPROACH TO GANGS
Adrian Bergmann in San Salvador – Member of TRANSCEND,
14 Jun 2009
On the eve of the inauguration of El Salvador’s new government on June 1, 2009, a communiqué appeared, emanating from the country’s two largest gangs. Totaling seven very well written pages, the communiqué is entitled «We are human beings with very pronounced faults and potentials that are generally ignored». Word up! The letter was sent […]
→ read full articleAFRICA’S PEOPLE NEED BOLD, FOCUSSED AND SUSTAINED LEADERSHIP FROM ITS GOVERNMENTS
Graça Machel,
11 Jun 2009
It would be easy, when faced with the crisis in development that now threatens Africa, to demand that the rest of the world ride to our rescue. After all, it is not the people of Africa who are responsible for the financial crisis devastating our economies or the climate change that has unleashed floods, droughts […]
→ read full articleIS THERE A RIGHT TO PEACE?
James Avery Joyce,
11 Jun 2009
Human rights have recently been extended far beyond their earlier connotation as duties “owed” to individuals by a national government or, at least, by the community. Such rights are normally enforceable if and when they are violated by authority or by other individuals. In short, a human right is a legally enforceable claim. International lawyers, […]
→ read full articleDECLARATION ON THE RIGHT OF PEOPLES TO PEACE
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights,
11 Jun 2009
Approved by General Assembly Resolution 39/11 – November 12, 1984 The General Assembly, Reaffirming that the principal aim of the United Nations is the maintenance of international peace and security, Bearing in mind the fundamental principles of international law set forth in the Charter of the United Nations, Expressing the will and the aspirations of […]
→ read full articleNUCLEAR PROMISES
Zia Mian,
10 Jun 2009
The leaders of the nuclear weapon states, led by President Barack Obama, are promising to abolish nuclear weapons. It is a good sign. But we have been here before. This time the world needs more than promises. To demonstrate that they are serious, nuclear weapon states should announce clear policies to move irreversibly and quickly […]
→ read full articleMANAGING WORLD WATER
Daniel Moss,
10 Jun 2009
With climate change deepening the water crisis, wonky discussions of how to manage our water systems are suddenly attracting increased public attention. "Unlike oil, there’s no substitute for fresh water," says Maude Barlow, senior advisor on water to the president of the United Nations General Assembly. "We all need it." This recognition of the indispensability […]
→ read full articleIT’S TIME FOR A SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN THE SPIRIT OF PERESTROIKA
Mikhail Gorbachev - June 10, 2009,
10 Jun 2009
Years ago, as the Cold War was coming to an end, I said to my fellow leaders around the globe: the world is on the cusp of great events, and in the face of new challenges all of us will have to change, you as well as we. For the most part, the reaction was […]
→ read full articleFOR 300 YEARS BRITAIN HAS OUTSOURCED MAYHEM. FINALLY IT’S COMING BACK HOME
George Monbiot,
10 Jun 2009
Opium, famine and banks all played their part in this country’s plundering of the globe. Now it’s over, we find it hard to accept. Why now? It’s not as if this is the first time Britain’s representatives have been caught out. The history of governments in all countries is the history of scandal, as those […]
→ read full articleDERAIL ALSTOM!
Omar Barghouti,
9 Jun 2009
In the first smashing and convincing victory of the global BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement against Israel in the field of corporate responsibility and ethical compliance, Veolia is reportedly abandoning the Jerusalem Light Rail project, an illegal project that aims at connecting Israeli colonies built on occupied Palestinian territory to the city of Jerusalem. As […]
→ read full articleFEASIBILITY OF PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D.,
9 Jun 2009
Over the past few decades, the Middle East has increasingly emerged to become a malignant tumor of our earthly community. Like any other disease, this fatal malady can still be cured in one way or another, even through an unexpected miracle. During the past centuries, quite a few books were written on the nature […]
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DIAMONDS 101 – What You Should Know Before Buying That Diamond Ring
GOOD Magazine,
9 Jun 2009
If you’re planning on popping the question this year, you’re probably in the market for some jewelry. And we realize you might be too busy crafting the perfect proposal to research the pedigree of your engagement ring. That’s why we do the legwork for you in our latest video Transparency.CLICK TO VIEW
→ read full articleTHE HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE
Stephen Lendman,
8 Jun 2009
On March 15, 2006, the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly 170 to 4 (with only the US, Israel, the Marshall Islands and Palau against) "to establish the Human Rights Council (HRC), based in Geneva, in replacement of the Commission on Human Rights, as a subsidiary organ of the General Assembly….responsible for promoting universal respect for […]
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