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IRISH 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 […]
→ read full articleWORKERS TO BOYCOTT ISRAELI SHIP
News24.com,
4 Feb 2009
(Johannesburg) – Durban dock workers are expected to refuse to off-load an Israeli ship as part of a week of action against "apartheid" Israel, Cosatu and the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) said on Tuesday. Cosatu spokesperson Patrick Craven and PSC spokesperson Salim Vally said dock workers would refuse to off-load the ship arriving on Sunday, […]
→ read full articleTHE LOOMING CRISIS AT THE PENTAGON: HOW TAXPAYERS FINANCE FANTASY WARS
Chalmers Johnson,
3 Feb 2009
Like much of the rest of the world, Americans know that the U.S. automotive industry is in the grips of what may be a fatal decline. Unless it receives emergency financing and undergoes significant reform, it is undoubtedly headed for the graveyard in which many American industries are already buried, including those that made televisions […]
→ read full articleTHE OFFENSIVE SIDE OF MISSILE DEFENSE
Mike Moore,
3 Feb 2009
William Lynn, President Barack Obama’s nominee for Deputy Secretary of Defense, vowed to make the Pentagon’s missile defense system “cost-effective” during his confirmation hearing earlier this month before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Indeed, missile defense strikes a lot of national security analysts as a frightful waste of money. Money is not the central issue, […]
→ read full articlePAN-AFRICANISM THROUGH PEACE, NONVIOLENCE AND A NON-DISCRIMINATIVE LENS
Claude Shema-Rutagengwa, M.D.,
3 Feb 2009
Introduction Nowadays, Pan-Africanism represents the aggregation of historical, cultural, spiritual, artistic, scientific and philosophical legacies of Africans from past times to the present. Pan Africanism as an ethical system traces its origins from ancient times, and promotes values that are the product of the African civilization and struggles against slavery, racism, colonialism, and neo-colonialism. Pan-Africanism […]
→ read full articleRAINFOREST RAZED SO CATTLE CAN GRAZE
Michael McCarthy, Environment editor,
2 Feb 2009
Brazil’s attempt to double its share of the global market for beef will carry a heavy environmental cost, report warns. Scenes like this, with vast tracts of Amazonian rainforest razed to make way for cattle, are to become more common in Brazil as it continues its drive to expand its beef export industry, according to […]
→ read full articleDIRTY BUSINESS, DIRTY WARS – U.S.-LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS IN THE 21st CENTURY
Cyril Mychalejko,
1 Feb 2009
Much is being made across the political spectrum in the United States about Washington’s waning influence in Latin America. The region has seen an emergence of left and center-left presidents voted into office, many as a result of budding social movements growing democracy from the grassroots. Some pundits and analysts are suggesting that this phenomenon […]
→ read full article‘PALESTINE TODAY IS AN OPEN-AIR PRISON’ – TURKISH PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN
Lally Weymouth,
1 Feb 2009
Tensions between Israel and Turkey broke into the open at the World Economic Forum in Davos when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan blasted Israel for its offensive in Gaza. Excerpts from Erdogan’s interview with Newsweek-The Post’s Lally Weymouth: Q: You’ve been so critical of the recent Israeli operation into Gaza. Some say it’s because […]
→ read full articleGEORGE BUSH’S GIFT TO THE WORLD: THE END OF AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
David Michael Green,
1 Feb 2009
George W. Bush was unquestionably the worst American president in the two and a quarter centuries of the country’s existence. After all, James Buchanan, the previous aspirant to the title, merely did nothing while the South seceded. Hah! You’ll have to do better than that, Jimmy, if you want to wear this crown! Bush did […]
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Johan Galtung: 50 Years with Peace Studies
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2009
Interview with Jan Oberg of TFF-The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siSLNNBCA3E
→ read full articleOBAMA AND US POLICY TOWARD AFRICA
Horace Campbell,
30 Jan 2009
As Obama takes over the presidency of the United States, Horace Campbell contextualizes an Obama presidency in the realities of Africa and the ongoing global finance crisis. He argues that “capitalism should not be reconstituted and rebuilt on the backs and bodies of Africans." For Campbell, the crisis is not simply a cyclical crisis of […]
→ read full articleTHE WORLD IS FACING THE FIRST TRULY GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS
Vladimir Putin,
30 Jan 2009
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s speech at the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, January 28, 2009 Good afternoon, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank the forum’s organisers for this opportunity to share my thoughts on global economic developments and to share our plans and proposals. The world is […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) CEM MIL NA MARCHA DE ABERTURA DO FÓRUM SOCIAL MUNDIAL
João Romão, de Belém do Pará, Brasil, para o Esquerda.net,
29 Jan 2009
Os cem mil participantes no Fórum atravessaram a cidade de Belém, bloquearam o trânsito, trouxeram para as janelas a população local e mobilizaram um enorme aparato policial, intimidativo mas que se limitou a observar um extraordinário desfile com todas as reivindicações sociais do planeta, todos os sons da militância solidária, toda a alegria do desejo […]
→ read full articleNEITHER THE U.S. NOR ISRAEL IS A “GENUINE PARTY TO PEACE”
Noam Chomsky,
29 Jan 2009
Barack Obama is recognized to be a person of acute intelligence, a legal scholar, careful with his choice of words. He deserves to be taken seriously – both what he says, and what he omits. Particularly significant is his first substantive statement on foreign affairs, on January 22, at the State Department, when introducing George […]
→ read full articleTHE REFUGEES’ RIGHT OF RETURN AND ISRAEL’S RIGHT TO EXIST AS A JEWISH STATE
Jerome M. Segal,
29 Jan 2009
A widely held Palestinian position is that Israel should first recognize the right of return as a matter of principle, and then Palestinians will work out with them a realistic compromise on implementation. Repeatedly, Palestinian leaders have made clear that they are not seeking the actual return of millions of refugees. However, they maintain that […]
→ read full articleIS AN ‘ASIAN NATO’ REALLY ON THE US AGENDA?
José Miguel Alonso Trabanco,
29 Jan 2009
There has been some talk concerning American intentions to forge an Asian NATO, i.e. a US led military alliance meant to advance its members’ geopolitical interests in the region. During the Cold War, the US created the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) which also encompassed France and the UK as well as regional pro-Western States […]
→ read full articleWORLD GETS ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
Peter Popham,
29 Jan 2009
Former air hostess to be sworn in as Icelandic premier after economic collapse The first government collapse of the global economic crisis is about to yield the world’s first openly-gay leader. Johanna Sigurdardottir, a former air hostess, is expected to be sworn in as Iceland’s Prime Minister by the end of the week. Her moment […]
→ read full articleTHE MIDEAST’S ONE-STATE SOLUTION
Muammar Qaddafi,
28 Jan 2009
The shocking level of the last wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence, which ended with this weekend’s cease-fire, reminds us why a final resolution to the so-called Middle East crisis is so important. It is vital not just to break this cycle of destruction and injustice, but also to deny the religious extremists in the region who […]
→ read full articleOBAMA: REGIME ROTATION
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed,
28 Jan 2009
The arrival of the Obama administration will not fundamentally alter the course of military expansion accelerated during the Bush era. The origins of these policies do not lie uniquely in neoconservative ideology. While the election of President Obama may offer new opportunities for progressive forces to delimit the damage, their space for movement will ultimately […]
→ read full articleBOLIVIA SETS NEW GLOBAL HIGH MARK FOR INDIGENOUS RIGHTS
Sara Miller Llana - Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor,
28 Jan 2009
A new constitution approved handily Sunday also risks dividing the nation. Bolivia’s first indigenous president, Evo Morales, easily won his campaign for a new constitution Sunday – promising vast new powers to the country’s indigenous majority and bolstering his political clout. Critics say Mr. Morales is dangerously dividing the nation and merely following […]
→ read full articleOBAMA ON ISRAEL-PALESTINE
Noam Chomsky,
28 Jan 2009
Barack Obama is recognized to be a person of acute intelligence, a legal scholar, careful with his choice of words. He deserves to be taken seriously – both what he says, and what he omits. Particularly significant is his first substantive statement on foreign affairs, on January 22, at the State Department, when introducing George […]
→ read full articleTMS INTERVIEWS JOHAN GALTUNG
TMS Editor,
27 Jan 2009
The following is an interview with Prof. Johan Galtung, founder of TRANSCEND, about his recent visits to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and the UK Department for International Development, in London. TMS also asked him about his talk at the All Parties Peace Committee in the UK House of Commons and the European Parliament […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) CRONICA DE UM SUICIDIO ANUNCIADO: O CASO DE ISRAEL
Immanuel Wallerstein,
26 Jan 2009
O Estado de Israel proclamou a sua independência à meia-noite de 15 de Maio de 1948. As Nações Unidas tinham aprovado o estabelecimento de dois estados no território que fora a Palestina sob mandato britânico. A cidade de Jerusalém devia supostamente ser uma zona internacional sob jurisdição da ONU. A resolução da ONU tinha amplo […]
→ read full articleDIALOGUE WITH HAMAS IS ONLY PATH TO PEACE, URGES NOVELIST
Ben Lynfield in Jerusalem,
25 Jan 2009
Israeli writer who lost son in Lebanon accuses his countrymen of ‘cruelty’ David Grossman, the renowned Israeli novelist, issued a pained rebuke to his countrymen over the Gaza invasion yesterday and called for the immediate opening of talks with the militant Hamas movement. Embarking on what he conceded would be a daunting dialogue with Hamas, […]
→ read full articleMISTER OBAMA, YOU FORGET SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR TWO DAUGHTERS…
Michel Collon,
25 Jan 2009
Dear Mister Obama, You have declared about the Gaza conflict: "If somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I would do everything to stop that, and would expect Israel to do the same thing". Protect your children? I certainly can understand that. But if you want to be […]
→ read full articleEU NATIONS DIVIDED ON TAKING GUANTÁNAMO DETAINEES
Judy Dempsey and Stephen Castle,
25 Jan 2009
BERLIN: For years, Europe has been calling on the United States government to close the Guantánamo detention center that the Bush administration established after 9/11. But now that President Barack Obama actually intends to shut it down, European governments are divided over whether they should accept any of the detainees to help the United States […]
→ read full articleNUCLEAR WEAPONS ABOLITION: A FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT IN A DEMOCRATIC WORLD
Dr. Ime A. John,
25 Jan 2009
Nobel Laureates Conference, Paris, December 2008 It gives me great pleasure to address this distinguished assembly of Leaders and Statesmen who have excelled in so many important endeavours to achieve a more peaceful world in which human dignity and security have the highest priority. I also wish to thank the Gorbachev Foundation for its unwavering […]
→ read full articleDEUTSCHLAND UBER ALLES – PICTURES PROVE:
Norman G. Finkelstein,
25 Jan 2009
The grandchildren of holocaust survivors from World War II are doing to the Palestinians exactly what was done to them by Nazi Germany.CLICK TO VIEW
→ read full articleDEAR PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA,
Walid Salem,
25 Jan 2009
Bringing Peace Together (BPT) is a joint Palestinian-Israeli peace group dedicated to bringing real change to the lives of Palestinians and Israelis by contributing to the dialogue and development of a just and lasting peace. As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to escalate while the peace process remains stagnant, it is evident that a renewed commitment […]
→ read full articlePRO-LIFE GROUPS IN AMERICA PROMOTING CONFUSION AND DECEIT
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D.,
25 Jan 2009
In the spiritual sphere of American politics we witness two major groups. We have the self-proclaimed pro-life group, usually known as conservative or extreme right, and the self-styled pro-choice group, normally referred as liberal or extreme left. Unfortunately, both names are inappropriate because they do not reveal the real nature and character of their […]
→ read full articleWHATEVER IT TAKES
Diane Pearlman,
25 Jan 2009
Open Letter to President Obama from Conflict Analysis Professionals for Enduring SecurityDear President Obama, Congratulations on your election. We look forward to working with you to heal our country in every way we can. We are interdisciplinary conflict analysis professionals including psychologists and other social scientists devoted to the study and practice of violence prevention, […]
→ read full articleISRAEL’S CONSPICUOUS SILENCE AFTER THE WAR
Pierre Heumann in Tel Aviv - SPIEGEL,
25 Jan 2009
Israelis do not understand a world that reproaches them for what they have done in the Gaza Strip. They brush aside concerns about civilian casualities and stories about Palestinian suffering are relegated to the back pages. Why is discussion about the war so taboo? The number of dead, wounded and homeless runs into the thousands […]
→ read full articlePALESTINIAN CIVIL SOCIETY CALLS FOR BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT AND SANCTIONS AGAINST ISRAEL
Global BDS Movement,
25 Jan 2009
Until it Complies with International Law and Universal Principles of Human Rights One year after the historic Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) which found Israel’s Wall built on occupied Palestinian territory to be illegal; Israel continues its construction of the colonial Wall with total disregard to the Court’s decision. Thirty eight […]
→ read full articleISRAELI SOLDIERS REFUSE TO SERVE IN GAZA – Israel Social TV – Independent Media
TMS Editor,
25 Jan 2009
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→ read full articleHOPING FOR A NONVIOLENCE MOVEMENT IN PALESTINE
Achmad Munjid,
25 Jan 2009
Since I was a small child, I have been taught that the powerless party always deserves “affirmative action” in any unbalanced conflict before a true resolution can be settled. As a Muslim who now lives in the West, I keep trying very hard to understand why the mainstream West always assumes that the much more […]
→ read full articleWAR AGAINST IVORY TRADE TAKES TO THE SEA
Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor,
25 Jan 2009
Auction House Agrees to Stop Sale of Whale Tusks After Pressure from Campaigners It’s the "other" ivory. And this week, conservationists in London stepped in to stop its sale. It might not be as well known as the stuff that comes from elephants, but the ivory from the narwhal, the tusked whale of the northern […]
→ read full articleCAPTIVE NATION
Avi Shlaim,
25 Jan 2009
How Gaza Became a Palestinian Prison The only way to make sense of Israel’s senseless war in Gaza is through historical context. Establishing the state of Israel in May 1948 involved a monumental injustice to the Palestinians. British officials bitterly resented American partisanship on behalf of the infant state. On June 2, 1948, Sir John […]
→ read full articleFLYING OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST
George Monbiot,
14 Jan 2009
How did Marxist class warriors end up fighting for the bosses’ right to fly? It would be stupid to claim that environmentalism is never informed by class. Compare, for example, the campaign against patio heaters to the campaign against Agas. Patio heaters are a powerful symbol: heating the atmosphere is not a side-effect, it’s their […]
→ read full articleCALL ON THE UNITED NATIONS TO ESTABLISH AN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR ISRAELI WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
Mairead Maguire – Nobel Peace Laureate,
14 Jan 2009
Rally at Belfast City Hall, 9/Jan/09 Dear Friends, Thank you all for coming here today to support the people of Gaza and call for an immediate ceasefire. I join you in sending my deepest sympathy to the families of those killed and injured by the Israeli massacre in Gaza, and to all those Israeli families […]
→ read full articleTHE NUCLEAR PARADOX: THREAT TO GLOBAL SECURITY AND PEACE
Dr. Ime A. John,
14 Jan 2009
Co-President of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War–IPPNW, a Nobel Peace Laureate institution Point of Peace Summit – Stavanger, Norway It gives me pleasure to address you at this august gathering of experts, activists, and peacemakers in a Country renowned for honouring and supporting global peace. Our topic — REDEFINING SECURITY: FROM […]
→ read full articleWhy are the American (and Canadian) media so biased in the coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict? A video from The Paradigm Shift
TMS Editor,
14 Jan 2009
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→ read full articleYES GEORGE, YOU SERVED YOUR MASTER WELL
David R. Hoffman - Legal Editor of Pravda.Ru,
14 Jan 2009
Now George it is over. Your Faustian deal gave you eight years of illegal and undeserved power. And did you make the most of it! You stole elections without hesitation, you lied without compunction, you started illegal wars without any consideration for international law, you shredded the Constitution without any respect for the check-and-balance system, […]
→ read full article‘A DANGEROUS LUXURY’ – THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT’S DREAM OF GLOBAL JUSTICE
Thomas Darnstädt, Helene Zuber and Jan Puhl – SPIEGEL online,
14 Jan 2009
The International Criminal Court in The Hague is supposed to bring war criminals to justice, but it has yet to deliver a single verdict. Can international law bring peace to war-torn regions — or does it actually hinder the peace process? Calvin Ocora is afraid whenever he hears a rustling sound in the jungle. At […]
→ read full articleTAKE PART IN THE AJURI OF THE CARACOL IN OUTEIRO
Indymedia - CMI Brasil,
14 Jan 2009
The Zapatista inspired network "Flor da Palavra" ("blossom of words", in a free translation) invites everyone to participate in a "ajuri" (gathering) to build the first "caracol" (snail) of Brasil, in the island of Caratateua (Outeiro), in Belém, Brasil, starting in January 2009. These "snails" are the bases for the organization of autogestion in the […]
→ read full articleTHE TIME OF THE RIGHTEOUS
By Gideon Levy – Haaretz.com,
12 Jan 2009
This war, perhaps more than its predecessors, is exposing the true deep veins of Israeli society. Racism and hatred are rearing their heads, as is the impulse for revenge and the thirst for blood. The "inclination of the commander" in the Israel Defense Forces is now "to kill as many as possible," as the military […]
→ read full articleTHE FACTS ABOUT HAMAS AND THE WAR ON GAZA
Norman Finkelstein,
12 Jan 2009
Hamas was signaling that it wanted a diplomatic settlement of the conflict along the June 1967 border. In order to defeat the peace offensive, Israel sought to dismantle Hamas. The blockade was implemented before Hamas came to power. It doesn’t even have anything to do with Hamas. The record is fairly clear. You can find it […]
→ read full articleWHO WILL SAVE ISRAEL FROM ITSELF?
Mark LeVine,
12 Jan 2009
One by one the justifications given by Israel for its latest war in Gaza are unravelling. The argument that this is a purely defensive war, launched only after Hamas broke a six-month ceasefire has been challenged, not just by observers in the know such as Jimmy Carter, the former US president who helped facilitate the […]
→ read full articleUNUSUALLY LARGE U.S. WEAPONS SHIPMENT TO ISRAEL: ARE THE U.S. AND ISRAEL PLANNING A BROADER MIDDLE EAST WAR?
Michel Chossudovsky,
12 Jan 2009
A very large delivery of US weaponry to Israel consisting of 3,000 tons of "ammunition" is scheduled to sail to Israel. The size and nature of the shipments are described as "unusual": "Shipping 3,000-odd tons of ammunition in one go is a lot," one broker said, on condition of anonymity. "This (kind of request) is […]
→ read full articleTMS Interview with Gudrun Kramer
TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2009
Gudrun Kramer is co-director of Vienna’s Institute for Integrative Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding.
→ read full articleNOBEL PEACE LAUREATE MAIREAD MAGUIRE SUPPORTS CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR ISRAELI WAR CRIMES
TMS Editor (Press Release),
10 Jan 2009
JANUARY 4, 2009 – Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire has today written to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and to Father Miguel D’Escoto, President of the UN General Assembly, adding her voice to the many calls from international jurists, human rights organizations and individuals for the UN General Assembly to seriously consider establishing an International […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) 0729 – BOICOTE OS PRODUTOS DE ISRAEL
Altamiro Borges,
10 Jan 2009
Durante a longa e heróica resistência ao apartheid, os lutadores anti-racistas da África do Sul contaram com uma inestimável solidariedade internacionalista. Além dos crescentes e massivos protestos de rua, um movimento mundial de boicote às multinacionais daquele país, que sempre lucraram com o segregacionismo, contribuiu decisivamente para isolar os racistas. Agora, diante da barbárie promovida […]
→ read full articleISRAEL: BOYCOTT, DIVEST, SANCTION – LOOKOUT
Naomi Klein,
10 Jan 2009
This article appears in the January 26, 2009 edition of The Nation. It’s time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa. In July 2005 a huge coalition of […]
→ read full articleCHAIN OF HUMANITY FOR DIGNITY, EQUALITY AND LIFE WITHOUT DISCRIMINATION
Shula Koenig - People's Movement for Human Rights Learning,
10 Jan 2009
In our fast moving tumultuous lives there are moments of unexpected transcendence that liberate us and give us real, meaningful hope. Recognizing and capturing these magical moments move us to reinvent our lives as one vibrant link in the chain of humanity’s expectations for dignity, equality and life without discrimination. As we gain this insight […]
→ read full articleU.S. MILITARY BASES AND EMPIRE
The Editors, Monthly Review,
9 Jan 2009
The Bases of Empire Empires throughout human history have relied on foreign military bases to enforce their rule, and in this respect at least, Pax Americana is no different than Pax Romana or Pax Britannica. “The principal method by which Rome established her political supremacy in her world,” wrote historian Arnold Toynbee in his America […]
→ read full articleISRAEL AND GAZA: RHETORIC AND REALITY
Avi Shlaim,
9 Jan 2009
The historical record of Israel’s dealings with Gaza sheds light on its strategic aims in the current conflict there, says Avi Shlaim. The only way to make sense of Israel’s senseless war in Gaza is through understanding the historical context. The establishment of the state of Israel in May 1948 involved a monumental injustice to […]
→ read full articleWAR AND NATURAL GAS: THE ISRAELI INVASION AND GAZA’S OFFSHORE GAS FIELDS
Michel Chossudovsky,
9 Jan 2009
The military invasion of the Gaza Strip by Israeli Forces bears a direct relation to the control and ownership of strategic offshore gas reserves. This is a war of conquest. Discovered in 2000, there are extensive gas reserves off the Gaza coastline. British Gas (BG Group) and its partner, the Athens based Consolidated Contractors International […]
→ read full articleTHE MARTYRS OF AMRITSAR
Andrew Buncombe,
9 Jan 2009
After 90 years and a long campaign, the victims of a British atrocity in a holy city are being recognised as martyrs and freedom fighters by the Indian government On a sweltering afternoon 90 years ago in April, a squad of Gurkha and Baluchi troops under the command of British officers marched into an enclosed […]
→ read full articleAPPEALS FROM THE NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION AND FROM THE INDO-PAK CAMPAING AGAINST WAR AND TERRRORISM
TMS Editor,
9 Jan 2009
An Appeal to the Next President of the United States US Leadership for a Nuclear Weapons-Free WorldCLICK HERE to sign the Appeal as an Organization ***********************************To: Prime Minister of India and President of Pakistan Joint Signature Campaign by Citizens of India and Pakistan Against Terrorism, War Posturing and To Promote Cooperation and PeaceCLICK HERE to […]
→ read full articleGAZA CATASTROPHE: RESOURCE CONFLIC?
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed,
9 Jan 2009
Natural Gas, Palestinian Elections, and Israel’s Subversion of the ‘Peace Process’ Israel claims it is fighting in Gaza to stop Hamas rocket-fire against Israel, the continuation of which constituted a flagrant breach of the six-months ceasefire. Hence, the objective of the military operation is limited by the aim of putting an end to the rocket-fire. […]
→ read full articleSHELL’S GAME
George Monbiot,
7 Jan 2009
Why Good People Do Bad Things For a while it seemed that Shell had stopped pretending. The advertisements which filled the newspapers in 2006, featuring technicians with perfect teeth and open-necked shirts explaining how they were saving the world(1,2,3), vanished. After being slated by environmentalists for greenwash, after two adverse rulings by the Advertising Standards […]
→ read full articleTHE GREAT DRAGON AWAKENS: CHINA CHALLENGES AMERICAN HEGEMONY
José Miguel Alonso Trabanco,
7 Jan 2009
Nowadays, most International Relations analysts acknowledge China’s potential to achieve superpower status over the course of the next decades due to its impressive economic growth, which was triggered by Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms program (inspired by theorists like Friedrich List). Chinese power has also increased considerably in military, geopolitical, trade and financial affairs. Some experts […]
→ read full articleSILENCE IS COMPLICITY – WE’RE ALL WAR CRIMINALS NOW
Joe Mowrey,
7 Jan 2009
In response to the current brutal assault on Gaza by Israel a well-known long distance service provider has sponsored a petition for their customers to sign urging a cease fire. On the face of it, this seems like a noble endeavor. The company in question caters to the progressive community and donates a portion of […]
→ read full articleWARSAW GHETTO JEWS RESISTED – WHY CAN’T PALESTINIANS RESIST ISRAEL?
Genevieve Fraser - RamallahOnline.com,
7 Jan 2009
Eighty percent of the Gaza Strip’s 1.5 million residents are refugees or their descendents, driven from their Palestinian homes by the creation of Israel in 1948, or during the 1967 Arab-Israeli Six-Day War. After Israeli settlements vacated Gaza, Palestine in 2005, Israel essentially sealed the borders. Crops raised for international markets rotted in place and […]
→ read full articleISRAEL’S ‘FAIT ACCOMPLI’ IN GAZA
Eric Margolis - Aljazeera,
7 Jan 2009
There are two completely different versions of what is currently happening in Gaza. In the Israeli and North American press version, Hamas – "Islamic terrorists" backed by Iran – have in an unprovoked attack fired deadly rockets on innocent Israel with the intent of destroying the Jewish state. North American politicians and the media say […]
→ read full articleLIVING ON BORROWED TIME IN A STOLEN LAND
Gilad Atzmon,
7 Jan 2009
Communicating with Israelis may leave one bewildered. Even now when the Israeli Air Force is practicing murder in broad daylight of hundreds of civilians, elderly persons, women and children, the Israeli people manage to convince themselves that they are the real victims in this violent saga. Those who are familiar intimately with Israeli people realise that […]
→ read full articleJEROEN VAN DER VEER CHALLENGED
George Monbiot,
7 Jan 2009
I grill the chief executive of Shell in the fourth of my aggressive interviews with policy makers. In the latest of his groundbreaking encounters with the figures whose decisions shape our environment, George Monbiot challenges Jeroen van de Veer, chief executive of oil and gas giant Shell, on ethics, greenwash advertising, renewable energy investments and […]
→ read full articleUNCENSORED VIDEO REPORT FROM NORWEGIAN DOCTOR IN GAZA HOSPITAL
Dr. Mads Gilbert – In Gaza,
7 Jan 2009
“This is an all-out war against the civilian Palestinian population” Dr . Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor in Gaza, tells Sky News that the number of civilians injured and killed in Gaza proves that Israel is deliberately attacking the population. 2:45-Min VideoCLICK TO VIEW
→ read full articleA SHIELD THAT BRINGS DANGER
Mark Seddon,
7 Jan 2009
In these times of tension, Russia’s neighbours’ fears are far from alleviated by US missile defence plans. As Russia flexes its muscles, cutting gas supplies to Ukraine in a dispute that is as much about unpaid bills as it is about settling political scores, a small, disused Warsaw Pact airfield in a remote corner of […]
→ read full articleOPEN LETTER TO BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Dr. Mahathir Mohamad - Former Prime Minister of Malaysia,
4 Jan 2009
Dear Mr. President, I did not vote for you in the Presidential Election because I am Malaysian. But I consider myself one of your constituents because what you do or say will affect me and my country as well. I welcome your promise for change. Certainly your country, the United States of America needs a […]
→ read full articleTHE ALTERNATIVE’S ALTERNATIVE
Evgeny Morozov,
4 Jan 2009
The "Alternative media", an early-adopter of web technologies, has been left behind by the hyper-individualism of citizen journalism’s new turns. Whatever their impact on the domestic politics in Greece, the youth riots that have besieged Athens and other Greek cities earlier this month have also given rise to a new global phenomenon – the "networked […]
→ read full articleWE MUST ADJUST OUR DISTORTED IMAGE OF HAMAS
William Sieghart,
4 Jan 2009
Gaza is a secular society where people listen to pop music, watch TV and many women walk the streets unveiled. Last week I was in Gaza. While I was there I met a group of 20 or so police officers who were undergoing a course in conflict management. They were eager to know whether foreigners […]
→ read full articleISRAEL IN GAZA: RIGHT BUT NOT SMART
Rabbi Michael Lerner,
4 Jan 2009
Israel is still using a strategy of domination in its struggle with Hamas, trying to use force to gain security. But this is a recipe for endless war. Israel’s attempt to wipe out Hamas is understandable, but dumb. No country in the world is going to ignore the provocation of rockets being launched from […]
→ read full articleMOLTEN LEAD: ISRAEL’S NEW ELECTION WAR
Uri Avnery, RamallahOnline.com,
4 Jan 2009
Just after midnight, Aljazeera’s Arabic channel was reporting on events in Gaza. Suddenly the camera was pointing upwards towards the dark sky. The screen was pitch black. Nothing could be seen, but there was a sound to be heard: the noise of airplanes, a frightening, a terrifying droning. It was impossible not to think about […]
→ read full articleISRAEL VIOLATES INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW
Prof. Richard Falk - United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories,
4 Jan 2009
The Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip represent severe and massive violations of international humanitarian law as defined in the Geneva Conventions, both in regard to the obligations of an Occupying Power and in the requirements of the laws of war. Those violations include: Collective punishment – the entire 1.5 million people who live […]
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Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com,
4 Jan 2009
Here it is, as simply as I can put it: In the course of any year, there must be relatively few countries on this planet on which U.S. soldiers do not set foot, whether with guns blazing, humanitarian aid in hand, or just for a friendly visit. In startling numbers of countries, our soldiers not […]
→ read full articlePALESTINE’S GUERNICA AND THE MYTHS OF ISRAELI VICTIMHOOD
Mustafa Barghouthi - Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative,
1 Jan 2009
Barghouti is a former secular candidate for President of Palestine and has been a strong advocate of non-violent responses to Israeli occupation. Barghouti is thought by many to be a leading contender in the next Palestinian presidential election. Here is a link to an interview that Steve Clemons did with Barghouti in July 2008 regarding […]
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Amy Goodman,
30 Dec 2008
Democracy Now! hostess Amy Goodman, recipient of the 2008 High Livelihood Award
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Michael Hudson,
24 Dec 2008
Last week the Good Lord evidently realized that not enough people had been reading Hyman Minsky’s explanation of how financial cycles end in Ponzi schemes – the stage in which banks keep the boom going by lending their customers the money to pay interest and thus avoid default. So He sent Bernie Madoff to dominate […]
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George Monbiot,
24 Dec 2008
Published in the Guardian, 23rd December 2008. A British police unit is demonising peaceful protesters to stay in business. When you hear the term “domestic extremist”, whom do you picture? How about someone like Dr Peter Harbour? He’s a retired physicist and university lecturer, who worked on the nuclear fusion reactor run by European governments […]
→ read full articleVENEZUELA: HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH REPORT UNDER FIRE
Humberto Márquez,
24 Dec 2008
A Human Rights Watch report on alleged setbacks in human rights in Venezuela since President Hugo Chávez first took office 10 years ago has been severely questioned by 118 academics from the United States and several other countries. The report, "A Decade Under Chávez: Political Intolerance and Lost Opportunities for Advancing Human Rights in Venezuela", […]
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E. Benjamin Skinner,
23 Dec 2008
There are now more slaves on the planet than at any time in human history. True abolition will elude us until we admit the massive scope of the problem, attack it in all its forms, and empower slaves to help free themselves. Standing in New York City, you are five hours away from being […]
→ read full articleSONG AROUND THE WORLD “STAND BY ME” – A Video by “Playing for Change: Peace Through Music”
TMS Editor,
23 Dec 2008
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Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith - The Nation,
23 Dec 2008
As the officials of the Bush administration pack up in Washington and move into their posh suburban homes around the country, will they be able to rest easy, or will they be haunted by the fear that they will be held accountable for war crimes? There are many reasons to anticipate that the incoming Obama […]
→ read full articleBERNARD MADOFF: WALL STREET SWINDLER STRIKES POWERFUL BLOWS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
Prof. James Petras,
23 Dec 2008
“We never thought he would do this to us, he was one of our people”, member of Palm Beach Country Club. In a few days, one individual, Bernard Madoff, has struck a bigger blow against global financial capital, Wall Street and the US Zionist Lobby/Israel-First Agenda than the entire US and European left combined over […]
→ read full articleDOCTORS NAME TOP 10 HUMANITARIAN CRISES OF 2008
Michael Astor,
23 Dec 2008
Spiralling violence in Somalia, forced civilian displacements in eastern Congo, and neglected medical emergencies in Myanmar and Zimbabwe were among the Top 10 humanitarian crises of 2008, according to an annual list released by Médecins Sans Frontières. Other crises on the group’s list included: malnutrition, which claims 5 million young lives across the globe each […]
→ read full articleA SHORT PATH, FROM GAZA TO SOMALIA
Daniel Levy – Haaretz.com,
23 Dec 2008
As the defined period for the Gaza cease-fire comes to an end today [19 Dec, 08], preceded by a new cycle of violence, Israelis are being treated to a predictable dose of political posturing and chest-thumping. "We must do something, exact a price," we hear. Yes, the rocket fire needs to stop, but there is […]
→ read full articleMODUS OPERANDI OF PEACE ORGANIZATIONS
Charles Mercieca,
23 Dec 2008
The expression modus operandi is a Latin phrase that literally means mode or way of operating or functioning. It is generally based on established principles. A peace organization refers to any group of individuals that decide to work together wholeheartedly for the achievement of the same constructive goals and objectives. The word peace is […]
→ read full articleTALIBAN LEADER MULLAH OMAR URGES SEVEN POINT PLAN FOR PEACE
Jalal Ghazi - New America Media, News Analysis,
21 Dec 2008
Eye on Arab Media Editor’s Note: While President-elect Barack Obama vows to pull back from Iraq and focus military action on Afghanistan, Taliban leader Mullah Omar is working hard to negotiate his way out of this situation. Jalal Ghazi is the associate producer of the Peabody Award-winning show "Mosaic: World News from the Middle East," […]
→ read full articleBRAZIL’S EXPERIENCE WITH LULA OFFERS LESSONS FOR OBAMA SUPPORTERS
Michael Fox,
20 Dec 2008
We arrived early, but the field was already packed with an ecstatic crowd waiting to hear the one man who they believed could actually turn the country around. Nearly three months before he had won the presidency with the promise of change, and now more than a hundred thousand had descended on this grassy hillside […]
→ read full articleFINDING COMMON GROUND IN CRISIS: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN SOUTH AMERICA AND THE US
Benjamin Dangl,
20 Dec 2008
People in the US seeking ways to confront the economic crisis could follow the lead of South American social movements. From Argentina to Venezuela, many movements have won victories against the same systems of corporate greed and political corruption that produce economic strife across the hemisphere. These movements also have experience holding politicians’ feet to […]
→ read full articleLANGIWE JOYCE NGOMA, OF ZIMBABWE PEACE PROJECT, ON THE ABDUCTION OF HER DIRECTOR, JESTINA MUKOKO, ON DEC/3 IN ZIMBABWE
TMS Editor,
20 Dec 2008
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→ read full articleUN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR JUDGES LIBERALIZATION HARMFUL TO FRAGIL AGRICULTURES
Jean-Pierre Stroobants, Le Monde,
18 Dec 2008
Olivier De Schutter, a Belgian academic who is currently the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food, is about to present a much-awaited report to Pascal Lamy, director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO). It concerns both the impact of liberalized world trade on hunger in the world and free trade’s […]
→ read full articleBRAZIL’S SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Amnesty International,
18 Dec 2008
A vote in Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday [Dec 10/08] upheld the rights of Indigenous Peoples in the reservation of Raposa Serra do Sol on the frontier between Brazil and Guyana/Venezuela. The vote is seen as a victory for all Indigenous Peoples across Brazil. The Supreme Court’s vote is a milestone in the thirty-year battle […]
→ read full articleLATIN AMERICA: SUMMIT MARKS DISTANCE FROM U.S.
Mario Osava,
18 Dec 2008
A motion calling for an end to the United States embargo against Cuba accentuated the anti-imperialist tone taken on by the summit of Latin American and Caribbean leaders that ended Wednesday in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia. The motion, approved by all of the countries of the region, including several that have conservative governments […]
→ read full articleAFGHANISTAN: A WAY FORWARD
Maya Schenwar,
17 Dec 2008
An interview with Stephen Kinzer Last week, with President-elect Obama’s blessing, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced the beginning of a troop "surge" in Afghanistan. As the US embarks on a slow redeployment of troops away from the widely condemned occupation of Iraq – though that occupation is not by any means ending – it […]
→ read full article[TRANSCEND MEMBER] U.S. PROFESSOR RICHARD FALK DENIED ENTRY INTO ISRAEL AND DEPORTED FROM BEN GURION AIRPORT
Marian Houk,
17 Dec 2008
Princeton Professor Emeritus of International Law Richard Falk, the United Nations Human Rights Council´s Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territory, has been deported from Israel on Monday [Dec 15] after being barred from entry at the airport, according to an Israeli human rights organization, ADALAH. The first alert […]
→ read full articleGREECE’S MAELSTROM OF VIOLENCE
Manfred Ertel and Daniel Steinvorth,
17 Dec 2008
The Revolt of a Disappointed Generation The violent unrest that followed the shooting of a 15-year-old boy has driven Greece to the brink of a political crisis. The rioting marks an explosion of rage by the country’s young people who have few prospects of carving out a place in a society where all initiative is […]
→ read full articleBUSH EXCLUDED BY LATIN SUMMIT AS CHINA, RUSSIA LOOM
Joshua Goodman,
16 Dec 2008
Latin American and Caribbean leaders gathering in Brazil tomorrow [Dec 16/08] will mark a historic occasion: a region-wide summit that excludes the United States. Almost two centuries after President James Monroe declared Latin America a U.S. sphere of influence, the region is breaking away. From socialist-leaning Venezuela to market-friendly Brazil, governments are expanding military, economic […]
→ read full articleHUMAN RIGHTS AND NONVIOLENCE – BASIS FOR A NONKILLING WORLD
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate,
16 Dec 2008
Speech at the 9th World Summit of Nobel Peace LaureatesParis, Dec 11-13/2008 Dear Friends, I am very happy to be here with you all. I would like to thank Bertrand Delanoe, the Mayor of Paris, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Walter Veltroni for their invitation to this Summit. It seems to me that we can only have […]
→ read full articleTHE CRISIS: AN OPPORTUNITY TO SAVE THE PLANET
Antoine Reverchon, Le Monde,
16 Dec 2008
An interview with Lord Nicholas Stern, professor at the London School of Economics, who received an honorary doctorate from the University of Paris-Dauphine on November 24. Le Monde: Your report on the economics of global climate change, published in October 2006, had a significant impact, since it quantified the economic costs of different scenarios […]
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