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MOOD MIXED AS CLIMATE SUMMIT ENDS
Richard Black - BBC News Environment Correspondent,
14 Dec 2008
Poznan – The UN climate summit has ended with delegates taking very different views on how much it has achieved. Western delegates said progress here had been encouraging, but environment groups said rich countries had not shown enough ambition. Developing nations were angry that more money was not put forward to […]
→ read full article9 IS NOT 11
Arundhati Roy and Tom Engelhardt,
13 Dec 2008
The single omnipresent historical reference in the American media immediately in the wake of September 11, 2001, was, of course, "Pearl Harbor" – and those code words for it, "infamy" and "day of infamy," splashed in mile-high letters across the front pages of papers. What we had experienced, it was commonly said then, was "the […]
→ read full articleWEST’S ROLE IN AFGHANISTAN NEEDS RE-EXAMINING
William Pfaff,
11 Dec 2008
It seems agreed here that the overwhelming majority of Germans are against any expansion of the German role in Afghanistan if it means German troops in combat. Germany’s soldiers complain about this because it puts them personally in an invidious position among most of the rest of the NATO forces in that country. It also […]
→ read full articleIS A MUSLIM GANDHI POSSIBLE?
Ramin Jahanbegloo,
11 Dec 2008
Though during centuries thousands of people have been killed in the name of religion, it can not be denied that some religious people like Lord Buddha, Mahatma Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr. have played a positive role in removing sense of hatred and violence in human culture. Gandhi’s mission was not to politicize religion, […]
→ read full articleUS-CUBA: BUSINESS SUPPORT FOR DISMANTLING EMBARGO
Jim Lobe,
8 Dec 2008
If U.S. President-elect Barack Obama wants to begin dismantling Washington’s nearly 50-year-old trade embargo against Cuba, it appears he will have widespread support for doing so. Not only have some major foreign policy heavyweights recently called for ending the embargo if, for no other reason, than to create desperately needed goodwill elsewhere in the Americas […]
→ read full article“REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR!”
John Lamperti,
7 Dec 2008
"Pre-emptive" War, Then and Now The name Pearl Harbor resonates in American history; it is synonymous with the U.S. entry into World War II. It stands for tragedy – and for treachery. On December 7, 1941, Japanese carrier-based aircraft attacked United States naval and air forces in the Hawaiian Islands, and scored a major […]
→ read full articleB R E A K I N G … N E W S …
Jan Oberg - Member of the TRANSCEND Network,
7 Dec 2008
Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research-TFF hasobtained a copy, reproduced below, of a UN-NATO document held secret tothe general public. It is a Cooperation Declaration signed by the top leaders of the United Nations and NATO. Here follows the statement of the TFF Board, formulated as 9 questions,for everyone – including the media – […]
→ read full articleGAZA: BEYOND THE BLOCKADE
Sameh Habeeb,
7 Dec 2008
Report on the humanitarian crisis taking place inside Gaza’s sealed borders. The Real News Network6:38-Min VideoCLICK TO VIEW ******* Dear Johan Galtung, Sameh Habeeb is a journalist and peace activist in Gaza City, Palestine. He is seeking an opportunity to earn a masters degree in a peacemaking related field, with relevance to his calling into […]
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Antonio C. S. Rosa Interviews Johan Galtung
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2008
… about his book, 50 Years-25 Intellectual Landscapes Explored, TRANSCEND University Press-TUP, 2008. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbGgxUYUERI Antonio Carlos da Silva Rosa, born 1946, is founder-editor of the pioneering Peace Journalism website, TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS (from 2008), an assistant to Prof. Johan Galtung, Secretary of the International Board of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment, and recipient […]
→ read full articleAFGHANISTAN: ANOTHER UNTOLD STORY
Michael Parenti,
6 Dec 2008
Barack Obama is on record as advocating a military escalation in Afghanistan. Before sinking any deeper into that quagmire, we might do well to learn something about recent Afghan history and the role played by the United States. Less than a month after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the […]
→ read full articleCRAFTING A BLUE-PRINT FOR A GREEN GLOBAL ECONOMY
UN Environment Programme,
6 Dec 2008
Leading environmental economists researchers, business leaders and senior figures from international organizations are to meet in Geneva to take forward the United Nations’ Green Economy initiative. Also headlined as a ‘Global Green New Deal’, the $4 million initiative was recently announced in London by Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director, UN Environment Programme […]
→ read full articleOBAMA’S KETTLE OF HAWKS
Jeremy Scahill,
4 Dec 2008
Barack Obama has assembled a team of rivals to implement his foreign policy. But while pundits and journalists speculate endlessly on the potential for drama with Hillary Clinton at the state department and Bill Clinton’s network of shady funders, the real rivalry that will play out goes virtually unmentioned. The main battles will not be […]
→ read full articleSOMALIA: ANOTHER CIA-BACKED COUP BLOWS UP
Mike Whitney,
4 Dec 2008
"The Ethiopian invasion, which was sanctioned by the US government, has destroyed virtually all the life-sustaining economic systems which the population has built for the last fifteen years." Abdi Samatar, professor of Global Studies at the University of Minnesota, Democracy Now Up until a month ago, no one in the Bush administration showed the least […]
→ read full articleUS WON’T PARTICIPATAE AS CLUSTER BOMB BAN SIGNED
News from Antiwar.com,
4 Dec 2008
Most of the world’s nations met today in Oslo, Norway to sign a treaty banning the use, stockpile, transfer, and manufacture of cluster munitions. Among those agreeing to the ban were most NATO members, including Britain, France, Germany, and Australia. Conspicuously absent were Russia, China, Israel, India, Pakistan, and the world’s largest manufacturer of such […]
→ read full articleDEVELOPMENT-LATAM: THE GREATER THE SOLIDARITY, THE LOWER THE COST
Darío Montero,
2 Dec 2008
Football in Belize does not aim for international achievements, but that does not matter to the environmental group that uses the sport to recruit children and young people to fight for the protection of local biodiversity under threat. Now the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is promoting it to the major […]
→ read full articleWHEN ABRAHAM WEPT
Rabbi Reuven Hammer,
2 Dec 2008
Last Shabbat, when the Torah portion telling of Abraham’s purchase of Ma’arat Hamachpelah (Tomb of the Patriarchs) was read, thousands of Jewish Israelis descended on Hebron. They came both to celebrate that historic event and to show their identification with the contemporary struggle for the "house of contention," a house near the Machpelah, in the […]
→ read full articleD.R. CONGO: THE DEVIL YOU SEE… (ANALYSIS)
Charles-M. Mushiz,
2 Dec 2008
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) Few Congolese believe Laurent Nkunda is the man with whom to negotiate peace in North Kivu. The crux of the matter is economics and geopolitics — both greatly influenced by Western interests. And yet because of the security issues in North Kivu, there seems no way around Nkunda, leader […]
→ read full articleTHE GREAT LAND GIVEAWAY: NEO-COLONIALISM BY INVITATION
James Petras,
2 Dec 2008
Colonial style empire-building is making a huge comeback, and most of the colonialists are late-comers, elbowing their way past the established European and US predators. "The deal South Korea’s Daewoo Logistics is negotiating with the Madagascar Government looks rapacious…The Madagascan case looks neo-colonial…The Madagascan people stand to lose half of their arable land." Financial Times […]
→ read full articleDEVELOPMENT-LATAM: SOLUTIONS FROM BELOW
Darío Montero,
30 Nov 2008
The global financial crisis has not demoralised those involved in community projects throughout Latin America and the Caribbean who took part in ECLAC’s fourth social innovation fair, which ended Friday in this city in northwest Colombia. Optimistic based on her lengthy experience evaluating sustainable development plans, Colombian economist Norah Rey de Marulanda said the countries […]
→ read full articleMUMBAI TO OBAMA: END BUSH’S WAR ON TERROR
Steve Weissman,
30 Nov 2008
The terrorist attacks in Mumbai call out to President-elect Barack Obama and his advisors to rethink the signature blunder of George W. Bush’s eight years in office – the so-called War on Terror. As US intelligence reports have made clear, the centerpiece of the supposed campaign against terror, the military occupation of Iraq, has increased […]
→ read full articleTUTU, OBAMA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
Amy Goodman,
29 Nov 2008
As President-elect Barack Obama focuses on the meltdown of the U.S. economy, another fire is burning: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. You may not have heard much lately about the disaster in the Gaza Strip. That silence is intentional: The Israeli government has barred international journalists from entering the occupied territory. Last week, executives from the Associated […]
→ read full article(GALEGO) NO 60 ANIVERSARIO DA DECLARACIÓN UNIVERSAL DOS DEREITOS HUMANOS (1948-2008)
Manuel Dios Diz,
29 Nov 2008
A Declaración Universal dos Dereitos Humanos celebra o vindeiro 10 de Decembro o seu 60 aniversario. O feito de seren estes dereitos recoñecidos debémolo, en gran medida, aos milleiros e milleiros de persoas que se sacrificaron e mesmo deron a súa vida por facelos realidade. A Declaración Universal dos Dereitos Humanos de 1948 é […]
→ read full articleSOFA FINAL AGREED TEXT
TMS Editor,
28 Nov 2008
Full Text of the agreement between the United States of America and the Republic of Iraq on the withdrawal of the United States forces from Iraq and the organization of their activities during their temporary presence in IraqCLICK TO READ – PDF File
→ read full articleFINANCING POVERTY – RESCUING THE RICH INSTEAD OF THE POOR
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Peter Saunders,
28 Nov 2008
Taxpayer’s money is being misused in the global financial crisis to rescuing those that have grown super-rich by draining the real economy, creating poverty, and fuelling the destruction of the earth. Time to replace the dominant model with a circular eco-economy that mimics nature More than 116 million people around the world demonstrated on October […]
→ read full articleTHE BIG QUESTION: IS GREENLAND READY FOR INDEPENDENCE, AND WHAT WOULD IT MEAN FOR ITS PEOPLE?
Andy McSmith,
27 Nov 2008
Why are we asking this now? The people of Greenland went to the polls this week and voted 3-1 in favour of a plan for greater self-government. The rules under which oil revenues are split between Greenland and Denmark are to be revised in Greenland’s favour, with the first 75 million kroner (£8.5m) going to […]
→ read full articleISRAEL GOES TO WAR OVER HEBRON’S ‘HOUSE OF PEACE’
Donald Macintyre,
27 Nov 2008
A nation has been polarised by the decision to forcibly remove some Jewish settlers from the West Bank city. And a ramshackle dwelling has found itself at the centre of the storm. From the inside, it could at first sight be a squat anywhere in the developed world. The bare concrete floors, the nylon doors, […]
→ read full articleFREEDOM FOR ALL PEOPLE
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate,
27 Nov 2008
Speech delivered at the Sabeel 7th International Conference East Jerusalem, Nov. 19, 2008 Dear Friends, I am very happy to be here with you and to be invited to speak to you. I want to take this opportunity to thank Rev. Naim Ateek and all those who helped organize this conference. I am deeply grateful […]
→ read full articleWESTERN PROGRESSIVE OPINION: BRING ON THE VICTIMS! CONDEMN THE FIGHTERS!
James Petras,
24 Nov 2008
We know in some detail of the willing and gratuitous support, which tens of millions of American citizens have bestowed on the White House and Congressional perpetrators of crimes against humanity. The Clinton Administration was freely re-elected in 1996 after deliberately imposing a starvation embargo on Iraq and mounting a relentless, unopposed bombing campaign on […]
→ read full articleMAKING THE WORLD’S POOR PAY: THE ECONOMIC CRISIS AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH
Adam Hanieh,
24 Nov 2008
The IMF Returns to Center Stage The current global economic crisis has all the earmarks of an epoch-defining event. Mainstream economists — not usually known for their exaggerated language — now openly employ phrases like ‘systemic meltdown’ and ‘peering into the abyss.’ On October 29, for example, Martin Wolf, one of the top financial commentators […]
→ read full articleCAUTIONARY TALES FROM A NUCLEAR WAR ZONE
Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly M. Barker,
24 Nov 2008
John Anjain, Alab of Rongelap, Marshall Islands: Early in the morning of March 1, 1954, sometime around five or six o’clock, American planes dropped a hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll. Shortly before this happened, I had awakened and stepped out of my house. Once outside, I looked around and saw Billiet Edmond making coffee near […]
→ read full articleU.S. MISSILE SHIELD DESTINED FOR THE DUSTBIN?
Manjit Singh,
24 Nov 2008
The U.S.’ planned European missile defence shield, a principal feature of the Bush administration’s foreign policy, appears destined for the dustbin after Barack Obama’s recent presidential election victory. Friday, at a summit with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy warned Washington that deployment of the planned missile defence shield would not only fail […]
→ read full articleURGENT STATEMENT BY ANTI-ZIONIST ORTHODOX JEWS WORLDWIDE
Rabbi Meir Hirsh,
24 Nov 2008
How long will Jewish and non-Jewish leaders who claim the mantle of civilization and morality remain silent in the face of the ongoing state terrorism practiced by the Zionist state against the Palestinian People, most visibly today in Gaza, where the Zionists believe they can starve the Palestinians into submission in violation of all tenets […]
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Jake Lynch on Peace Journalism (Part 2)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2008
Point of Peace Summit Stavanger, Norway, September 2008 httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptw84Za7PLc
→ read full articleGLOBAL TRENDS 2025
Chairman of the National Intelligence Council,
23 Nov 2008
"Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World" is the fourth unclassified report prepared by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) in recent years that takes a long-term view of the future. It offers a fresh look at how key global trends might develop over the next 15 years to influence world events. Our report is not meant […]
→ read full articleA PLEA FROM CONGO’S CIVIL SOCIETY TO THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL
TMS Editor,
22 Nov 2008
A Plea from Local Organizations and Civil Society in North Kivu, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, to the United Nations Security Council and Other International Leaders Goma, November 18, 2008 Dear Excellencies, As the representatives of Congolese non-governmental organizations in North Kivu, we come before your authority to request an immediate reinforcement of peacekeeping forces […]
→ read full articleA REVOLUTIONARY REWORKING FOR MARX’S ‘KAPITAL’
David McNeill in Tokyo,
20 Nov 2008
Treatise on Capitalism To Be Turned Into Manga Comic 140 Years After Publication Karl Marx, the German revolutionary who predicted that capitalism would crumble under the weight of its own contradictions, is making a comeback – in the form of a comic. More than 140 years after Marx’s Das Kapital was released on an initially […]
→ read full articleA VIEW FROM THE SOUTH
Amy Goodman,
20 Nov 2008
Evo Morales knows about “change you can believe in.” He also knows what happens when a powerful elite is forced to make changes it doesn’t want. Morales is the first indigenous president of Bolivia, the poorest country in South America. He was inaugurated in January 2006. Against tremendous internal opposition, he nationalized Bolivia’s natural-gas fields, […]
→ read full articleTHIS IS CHANGE? 20 HAWKS, CLINTONITES AND NEOCONS TO WATCH FOR IN OBAMA’S WHITE HOUSE
Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet,
20 Nov 2008
A Who’s Who Guide to the People Poised to Shape Obama’s Foreign Policy U.S. policy is not about one individual, and no matter how much faith people place in President-elect Barack Obama, the policies he enacts will be fruit of a tree with many roots. Among them: his personal politics and views, the disastrous realities […]
→ read full articleBREAKDOWN OF THE GLOBAL MONETARY SYSTEM BY SUMMER 2009
Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin n° 29 - November 17, 2008,
19 Nov 2008
The G20-meeting held in Washington on November 14/15, 2008, is in its essence a historical indicator that the Western – above all Anglo-Saxon – monopoly on global economic and financial governance, is coming to an end. Nevertheless, according to LEAP/E2020, this meeting also clearly demonstrated that this kind of summits is doomed to inefficiency because […]
→ read full articleCLEARING UP THIS MESS
George Monbiot,
19 Nov 2008
John Maynard Keynes Had the Answer to the Crisis We’re Now Facing; But It Was Blocked and then ForgottenPoor old Lord Keynes. The world’s press has spent the past week blackening his name. Not intentionally: most of the dunderheads reporting the G20 summit which took place over the weekend really do believe that he proposed […]
→ read full articleBREAKING INVESTIGATION REVEALS HOLIDAY HORRORS FOR TURKEYS
PETA-People for Ethical Treatment of Animals,
19 Nov 2008
Violence, Torture and Cruelty Against Animals Killed for “Food”The solution? Don’t eat the cadavers they produce. The holiday season is upon us, but for turkeys on factory farms, there is nothing to be thankful for. We have just released footage from an undercover investigation that reveals a rarely seen side of the turkey industry. I […]
→ read full articleFROM INSIDE THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO-DRC
Submitted by Marianne Perez,
19 Nov 2008
Editor’s Note: the name of the author has been omitted to protect her/his personal security in the DRC. In fact, western media does not highlight enough the economic and financial stakes of the conflict in Congo. If there weren’t immense resources to exploit in the region, the resolution of the conflict would be easy. Under […]
→ read full articleOPEN LETTER FROM ITALIAN ORGANIZATIONS FOR NONVIOLENCE TO BARACK OBAMA, THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Submitted by Prof. Alberto L'Abate,
18 Nov 2008
Dear President-Elect Obama, We would like to congratulate you and all the citizens of the United States on your election as President. We hope that you will govern your country with the goal of making your dream — which is also ours – come true, concretely demonstrating the words pronounced in your victory speech […]
→ read full articleIS ISRAEL DELIBERATELY STRENGHTENING HAMAS?
Amira Hass,
18 Nov 2008
Let’s not be dragged into calculating how many tons of rice, flour and cooking oil there are in the Gaza Strip 10 days after Israel once again hermetically sealed all the crossings into the enclave. Let’s not count the number of children who wait for a nutritious meal at UN Relief and Works Agency schools, […]
→ read full articleFLIGHT PATH TO DISASTER IN AFGHANISTAN
Tom Engelhardt,
17 Nov 2008
One of the eerier reports on the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan appeared recently in the New York Times. Journalist John Burns visited the Russian ambassador in Kabul, Zamir N. Kabulov, who, back in the 1980s, when the Russians were the Americans in Afghanistan, and the Americans were launching the jihad that would eventually wend its […]
→ read full articleCLUSTER BOMB ‘SOON TO BE THING OF THE PAST’
Angus Crawford - BBC News Germany,
15 Nov 2008
On 3 December, more than 100 countries, including the UK, will sign a treaty banning cluster bombs. As a result Britain, by law, will have to destroy more than 30 million explosives. The UK does not have the facilities, so they are being exported to Germany for disposal. "I feel good to work for a […]
→ read full articleLANDSLIDE UN VOTE IN FAVOR OF ARMS TRADE TREATY
Amnesty International – 31/Oct/08,
15 Nov 2008
Today 147 states at the United Nations voted overwhelmingly to move forward with work on an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). The Control Arms campaign, which represents millions of campaigners around the world welcomed the vote but called for more urgency from states to advance the process quickly and ensure a strong Treaty with human rights […]
→ read full articleHELP BAN CLUSTER BOMBS NOW! SIGN THE PEOPLE’S TREATY
TMS Editor,
15 Nov 2008
The Cluster Munitions Convention’s signing ceremony will take place in Oslo, Norway, from 2-3 December 2008. That is about two weeks to ensure that countries – your country – will be ready to sign the treaty! To keep pressure on governments, sign the People’s Treaty now. Eleven years ago on 3 December 1997 in Ottawa, […]
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Antonio C.S. Rosa Interviews Lars Thyholdt about SABONA
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2008
SABONA is a Conflict-Resolution Program being applied to school children in Norway. It is a practical application of the TRANSCEND Method of conflict transformation developed by Prof. Johan Galtung. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw9CEgF5hso Antonio Carlos Silva Rosa is the editor of the pioneering Peace Journalism website, TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS, an assistant to Prof. Johan Galtung, and Secretary of […]
→ read full articleDO UNTO OTHERS
Karen Armstrong – The Guardian,
15 Nov 2008
World Religions Too Often Seem Predicated on Prejudice, When Their True Roots Lie in Compassion The practice of compassion is central to every one of the major world religions – but sometimes you would never know it. Instead, religion is associated with violence, intolerance and seems more preoccupied by dogmatic or sexual orthodoxy. People don’t […]
→ read full articleRARE TREATMENT IS REPORTED TO CURE AIDS PATIENT
Donald G. McNeil Jr., The New York Times,
15 Nov 2008
Doctors in Berlin are reporting that they cured a man of AIDS by giving him transplanted blood stem cells from a person naturally resistant to the virus. But while the case has novel medical implications, experts say it will be of little immediate use in treating AIDS. Top American researchers called the treatment […]
→ read full articleWHY DID THE WEST IGNORE THE TRUTH ABOUT THE WAR IN GEORGIA?
Mary Dejevsky,
14 Nov 2008
The US and UK left the impression that Russia was the guilty party. Thank goodness, they might be thinking at the US State Department and the British Foreign Office, for the financial crisis. Were it not for the ever-blacker news about the Western world’s economy, another scandal would be vying for the headlines – and […]
→ read full articleMISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE: WHO WAS BEHIND THE OCTOBER 2002 BALI BOMBINGS?
Michel Chossudovsky,
14 Nov 2008
Three Islamic militants were executed on November 9th for their alleged role in the 2002 Bali bombings that resulted in the death of 202 people. The official version of events was that the bombings were sponsored by Al Qaeda and carried out by members of an affiliate Islamic organization Jemaah Islamiyah (JI). Most of those […]
→ read full articleOFF THE COAST OF SOMALIA: ‘WE’RE NOT PIRATES. THESE ARE OUR WATERS, NOT THEIRS’
Daniel Howden and Abdinasir Mohamed Guled,
14 Nov 2008
When Bile Wadani is not counting his money, he counts his wives. So far he has three – but he promises there will be more to come. "I didn’t ever dream I would marry three wives but I have that dream now because I can get as much money as I want." As he speaks, […]
→ read full articleU.S. FOREIGN POLICY, NOT ISLAMIC TEACHINGS, ACCOUNT FOR AL-QAEDA’S DRAW
Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Ph.D. and Alejandro J. Beutel,
13 Nov 2008
Minaret of Freedom Institute Recently Michael Scheuer, a former 22-year CIA analyst and head of the agency’s Bin Laden Unit gave an interview with John Barry of Newsweek. Scheuer observes that a new generation of middle class, well-educated Muslims are taking up arms to fight for Al-Qaeda. Furthermore, he points out the main reason why […]
→ read full articleTHE GM GENOCIDE: THOUSANDS OF INDIAN FARMERS ARE COMMITTING SUICIDE AFTER USING GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS
Andrew Malone,
13 Nov 2008
When Prince Charles claimed thousands of Indian farmers were killing themselves after using GM crops, he was branded a scaremonger. In fact, as this chilling dispatch reveals, it’s even WORSE than he feared. The children were inconsolable. Mute with shock and fighting back tears, they huddled beside their mother as friends and neighbours prepared their […]
→ read full articleCENSORSHIP IN THE WESTERN MEDIA: WHAT THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW
Eric Sommer,
13 Nov 2008
The Western media has recently outdone itself in censoring important stories – stories which contradict the policies and interests the media seeks to uphold. Western publics have been systematically misled in recent weeks on vital issues related to war-and-peace, human rights, the financial crisis, and more. Only a few examples can be set out here. […]
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Jake Lynch on Peace Journalism (Part 1)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2008
Point of Peace Summit Stavanger, Norway, September 2008 httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg9YPYBtpsY
→ read full articleOBAMA POSITIONED TO QUICKLY REVERSE BUSH ACTIONS
Ceci Connolly and R. Jeffrey Smith,
9 Nov 2008
Stem cell, climate rules among targets of President-Elect’s team. Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse White House policies on climate change, stem cell research, reproductive rights and other issues, according to congressional Democrats, […]
→ read full articleWITH AN OBAMA PRESIDENCY, PERHAPS WE CAN
Kimberlye Kowalczyk,
8 Nov 2008
November 8, 2008 The election of a truly multicultural president, a symbolic reflection of the United States as a nation and the world as a whole, resulted in worldwide celebration. Kenya, the birthplace of Barack Hussein Obama’s father, announced a national holiday upon his election. In Washington DC police officers and firefighters danced in the […]
→ read full articleHOPE AS PALESTINIANS USE NONVIOLENCE IN THEIR STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOM
Mairead Maguire (Nobel Peace Prize laureate),
8 Nov 2008
REPORT: Journey to Gaza, 28th October-lst November, 2008 On 28th October, 2008, the Free Gaza Movement set sail on SS Dignity from Larnaca, Cyprus, to Gaza. On board were 27 internationals from 13 countries, including Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, five physicians, human rights lawyers, and others. On this second […]
→ read full articleMASS MEDIA AND MASS POLITICS
James Petras,
8 Nov 2008
Conservative, Liberal and Marxist Perspectives The role of the mass media (MM) in influencing mass and class behavior has been a central concern among critical writers, especially since the turn of the Twentieth century. Debates and studies on the MM have focused on its political bias, ownership and links to big business, relationships and ties […]
→ read full articleA LETTER
Michael Moore,
8 Nov 2008
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 Friends, Who among us is not at a loss for words? Tears pour out. Tears of joy. Tears of relief. A stunning, whopping landslide of hope in a time of deep despair. In a nation that was founded on genocide and then built on the backs of slaves, it was an […]
→ read full articleGLOBAL COOLING IS HERE
Prof. Don J. Easterbrook, Department of Geology, Western Washington University,
4 Nov 2008
Evidence for Predicting Global Cooling for the Next Three Decades Global Research Editor’s note The following article represents an alternative view and analysis of global climate change, which challenges the dominant Global Warming Consensus. Global Research does not necessarily endorse the proposition of "Global Cooling", nor does it accept at face value the Consensus on […]
→ read full articleAVRAHAM BURG: ISRAEL?S NEW PROPHET
Donald Macintyre,
2 Nov 2008
Avraham Burg was a pillar of the Israeli establishment but his new book is causing a sensation. It argues that his country is an "abused child" which has become a "violent parent". And his solutions are radical, as he explains to Donald Macintyre In shorts, T-shirt and cotton kippa, Avraham Burg is sitting in his […]
→ read full articleA GLITTERING DEMON: MINING, POVERTY AND POLITICS IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
Michael Deibert, Special to CorpWatch,
1 Nov 2008
In the heart of the war-scarred Ituri region in northeastern Congo, some 200 mud-covered men pan for traces of gold in the muddy brown waters. Working for the Congolese owners of Manyida camp, the miners are following a map of the site made by the Belgians, the country’s former colonial rulers. “It’s very difficult, punishing […]
→ read full articleTHE TRIUMPH OF IGNORANCE
George Monbiot,
30 Oct 2008
Why morons succeed in US politics. How was it allowed to happen? How did politics in the US come to be dominated by people who make a virtue out of ignorance? Was it charity that has permitted mankind’s closest living relative to spend two terms as president? How did Sarah Palin, Dan Quayle and other […]
→ read full articleTWO PARTIES, ONE IMPERIAL MISSION: THE US EMPIRE WILL SURVIVE BUSH
Arno J. Mayer,
30 Oct 2008
The United States may emerge from the Iraq fiasco almost unscathed. Though momentarily disconcerted, the American empire will continue on its way, under bipartisan direction and mega-corporate pressure, and with evangelical blessings. It is a defining characteristic of mature imperial states that they can afford costly blunders, paid for not by the elites but the […]
→ read full articleU.S. PULLS THE PLUG ON THE WORLD
Mark Gay,
30 Oct 2008
russiatoday.com The U.S. administration has prompted a huge surge in the U.S. dollar, which may help refinance its financial sector. The cost is a currency whirlwind that threatens the collapse not just of banks and companies but entire countries. In the past week the financial crisis, which began in banking and spread to stocks, has […]
→ read full articleTHE MAN WHO SET AMERICA STRAIGHT ABOUT GAY RIGHTS
Guy Adams,
30 Oct 2008
The streetcars are being renamed and the red carpets rolled out in the Castro district of San Francisco for the world premiere of Milk, the latest film to break Hollywood’s long-running taboo over homosexuality. A roar of approval greeted Sean Penn and Josh Brolin as they swept past several hundred people who had gathered on […]
→ read full articleWOMEN RUN THE SHOW IN A RECOVERING RWANDA
Stephanie McCrummen,
29 Oct 2008
On a continent that has been dominated by the rule of men, this tiny East African nation is trying something new. Here, women are not only driving the economy — working on construction sites, in factories and as truck and taxi drivers — they are also filling the ranks of government. Women hold a third […]
→ read full articleWALL STREET?S TROJAN HORSE
Michel Chossudovsky,
29 Oct 2008
Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has announced that Brazil, Russia, India and China will "coordinate efforts in overcoming the financial crisis". The statement suggests that the four countries will confront the dominant US-UK-EU alliance, which personifies Western banking interests, at the forthcoming Summit in Washington. “We are going to coordinate our moves with the leading […]
→ read full articleLATIN AMERICA?S ?NEW LEFT? IN CRISIS AS THE ?FREE MARKET? COLLAPSES
James Petras,
29 Oct 2008
Latin America is entering a period of profound economic recession, financial crises, collapsing stock market quotations, prices, deep devaluation of its currencies, growing unemployment, declining revenues and the prospect of a prolonged socio-economic recession. The economic breakdown, which is still unfolding, affects the entire political spectrum, extending from the far-right Uribe regime in […]
→ read full articleTHE COST OF SLUMBER
Dahr Jamail,
29 Oct 2008
Long before I discovered the mysterious mix of pain and relief that writing from the heart brings, I was pursuing a Masters in English Literature at Central Washington University in the small town of Ellensburg, Washington. I was broke, like most grad students, and supported myself by working for two individuals confined to […]
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Bill Moyer's Journal,
29 Oct 2008
Video and transcript: This is the big one. I have been working on financial crises since the New York City rescue in 1975. And this is, by far and away, the biggest threat to the system as a whole that we’ve seen in my lifetime and I think the biggest threat since the late 1920s.CLICK […]
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John Maxwell,
26 Oct 2008
The people of Haiti are as poor as human beings can be. According to the statisticians of the World Bank and others who speculate about how many Anglos can dance on the head of a peon, Haiti may either be the second, third or fourth poorest country in the world. In Haiti’s case, statistics are […]
→ read full articleJohan Galtung: The World after 9/11 [Part 1]
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2008
Stavanger, Norway, Point of Peace Conference httpv://www.youtube.com/v/-leJrsuRQEQ&hl=en&fs=1
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Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2008
Stavanger, Norway, Point of Peace Conference httpv://www.youtube.com/v/HrI9ipWgmKM&hl=en&fs=1
→ read full articlePOVERTY AND GLOBALIZATION
John Maxwell,
26 Oct 2008
President Jean Bertrand Aristide, now in enforced exile in South Africa, might be sardonically entertained by a new report just published by the world’s Club of the Rich, the OECD –Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. This report, titled “Growing Unequal” examines the accelerating trend toward economic inequality in the societies of the world’s richest […]
→ read full articleDON?T EXPAND NATO
Benjamin H. Friedman and Justin Logan,
26 Oct 2008
At the upcoming North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in December, U.S. officials will once again make the case for admitting Georgia and Ukraine to the alliance. Our NATO allies, with Germany and France leading the way, already blocked the two countries’ path to membership last spring, a move that in retrospect might have prevented August’s […]
→ read full articleZIONISM, MILITARISM, AND THE DECLINE OF THE US POWER
Stephen Lendman,
25 Oct 2008
Review of James Petras’ book James Petras is Binghamton University Professor Emeritus of Sociology. His credentials and achievements are long and impressive as a noted academic figure on the left. A well-respected Latin American expert, and a longtime chronicler of the region’s popular struggles. He’s also a prolific author of hundreds of articles and dozens […]
→ read full articleISLAMIC BANKING ESCAPES FALLOUT
The Straits Times-Singapore,
22 Oct 2008
Islamic banking has largely escaped the fallout from the global financial crisis, thanks to rules that forbid the sort of risky business that is felling mainstream institutions. But experts say that because of its heavy reliance on property investments and private equity, the booming 1.0 trillion dollar global industry could be hit if the turmoil […]
→ read full articleCrisis Allows Us to Reconsider Left-wing Ideas
P. Gillespie | The Irish Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2008
18 Oct 2008 – In November, 1857, Karl Marx wrote to Frederick Engels: “The American crash is a delight to behold, and it’s far from over.” He predicted the financial crisis – the most geographically widespread to have hit 19th-century capitalism until then – would deepen and lead to a complete collapse of Wall Street, […]
→ read full articleTRACTATUS LOGICO PALESTINICUS
Gilad Atzmon,
22 Oct 2008
Atzmon tries to lift the Palestinian Discourse where Wittgenstein left it… 1 “What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about, we must pass over in silence.” (Ludwig Wittgenstein 1918) 1.1 Humanism and ethics are ends worth fighting for. 1.2 Western politics and political discourse (on the other […]
→ read full articleIDENTITY: BEYOND SELF, CULTURE, NATION, AND HUMANITY TO “LIFEISM”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D.,
22 Oct 2008
President, Psychologists for Social Responsibility Summary: This article explores the nature and meaning of identity and its personal, cultural, and national nuances and consequences. In this presentation, I note, as have many others, that meaningful personal and social identities are at the core of a meaningful human existence. But this assertion raises critical questions about […]
→ read full article(A MUST READ) THE FALL OF THE U.S. EMPIRE–AND THEN WHAT?
Johan Galtung, 22 Oct 2008 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2008
[Economic Contradictions- (2)]- between productive and finance economy: Domestic and global market turnover being high even if the growth is sluggish in the productive economy in many countries, and distribution being low, there will be heavy accumulation of liquidity high up searching for an outlet. Luxury consumption and productive investment being limited, the obvious outlet […]
→ read full articleWORLD PEACE IS MORE THAN JUST THE SILENCING OF THE GUNS
Peter Chamberlin,
21 Oct 2008
World peace is more than just the silencing of the guns, it is the elimination of the injustice that has compelled the men to reach for those guns in self-defense against the aggression. In the currently building world war (which is based on lies and deceptions), the mission is to identify all of the men […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) AN?LISE: CRESCIMENTO DA CHINA ? CRUCIAL PARA AM?RICA LATINA SUPERAR CRISE
James Painter,
21 Oct 2008
Analista da BBC para a América Latina As economias da América Latina se encontram em uma posição mais forte para enfrentar a crise financeira global do que estavam no passado. A maioria dos países tem superávit comercial, grandes reservas monetárias e um nível saudável de déficit fiscal. Mas a combinação de uma desaceleração global com […]
→ read full articleFINALITY BEFORE JUSTICE ? EXECUTION DATE FOR TROY DAVIS SET FOR OCTOBER 27TH
Annette Schiffman,
21 Oct 2008
Amnesty International calls for urgent action NOW The US Supreme Court, without any explanation and in a one-sentence declaration on October 14, has refused Georgia death row inmate Troy Anthony Davis a hearing, declining to enter a contentious debate as to whether the condemned inmate was the real killer of a Savannah police officer in […]
→ read full articleReconstructing USA
Johan Galtung, 20 Oct 2008 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2008
Greensboro and the Blue Ridge, North Carolina, 20/Oct/2008 There is tremendous excitement in the air, carried by the name Obama. Change. The mantra word. The feeling that a New Beginning may be around the corner. For one who has the privilege of organizing workshops on the concrete content Americans might like to see happen, there […]
→ read full articleAFHANISTAN?S EMERGING ANTIWAR MOVEMENT
Anand Gopal, The Christian Science Monitor,
20 Oct 2008
Afghan NGOs are teaching human rights and Islamic law along with calls to end the war with a national peace jirga. In a musty room near the edge of town, a group of bearded men sit on the floor and heatedly discuss strategy. The men are in the planning stages of an event that they […]
→ read full articleJUDGE ORDERS OPENING OF FEDERICO GARC?A LORCA?S GRAVE
Graham Keeley in Valencia,
20 Oct 2008
The remains of Spanish poet Federico García Lorca and others buried in mass graves during the Civil War are to be exhumed as part of an investigation into mass killings, a judge has ordered. Judge Baltasar Garzon authorized the opening of the graves containing remains of the victims of General Franco’s victims all over Spain, […]
→ read full article20BN BARREL OIL DISCOVERY PUTS CUBA IN THE BIG LEAGUE
Rory Carroll, Latin America correspondent,
20 Oct 2008
• Self-reliance beckons for communist state • Estimate means reserves are on a par with US Friends and foes have called Cuba many things – a progressive beacon, a quixotic underdog, an oppressive tyranny – but no one has called it lucky, until now . Mother nature, it emerged this week, appears to have blessed […]
→ read full articlePAYBACK?S A BITCH
David Michael Green,
20 Oct 2008
With apologies to Churchill (who owed a few of his own): Never have so many been so wrong about so much. There are few things you’d less rather be right now than a conservative/regressive, and that is why. It’s like the old Firesign Theater bit: Everything You Know Is Wrong. “Dogs flew spaceships! The Aztecs […]
→ read full articleWHO CARES ABOUT OMAR KHADR?
Debbie Menon,
17 Oct 2008
Omar Khadr is probably the greatest shame on Canada, because two governments, the Liberals under Paul Martin and the Conservatives under Harper have both made the overt decision to leave him in prison. The case against him is insane. He was a child, aged 15. He was in Afghanistan because his parents took him there. […]
→ read full articleSYSTEM FAILURE AND THE NEED FOR (NONVIOLENT) REVOLUTION
Raymond Lotta,
17 Oct 2008
The most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression shows no sign of letting up. The financial edifice of U.S. imperialism is in danger of crumbling. The U.S. ruling class is confronting what Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke describes as a crisis of “historic proportions”—and is hurriedly cobbling together desperate measures to prevent wholesale collapse. […]
→ read full articleCRUNCH RESURRECTS MARX
Erik Kirschbaum in Berlin,
17 Oct 2008
Two decades after the Berlin Wall fell, communism’s founding father Karl Marx is back in vogue in eastern Germany, thanks to the global financial crisis. His 1867 critical analysis of capitalism, Das Kapital, has risen from the publishing graveyard to become an improbable best-seller for the academic publisher, Karl-Dietz-Verlag. "Everyone thought there would never again […]
→ read full articleUS POLICIES MAY HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO IRAN REVOLUTION, STUDY SAYS
Borzou Daragahi, The Los Angeles Times,
17 Oct 2008
A report based on declassified documents suggests that the Nixon and Ford administrations, angry with the shah for his support for raising oil prices, worked to curb his ambitions. A new report based on previously classified documents suggests that the Nixon and Ford administrations created conditions that helped destabilize Iran in the late […]
→ read full articleANTI-DEMOCRATIC NATURE OF US CAPITALISM IS BEING EXPOSED
Noam Chomsky,
17 Oct 2008
Bretton Woods was the system of global financial management set up at the end of the second World War to ensure the interests of capital did not smother wider social concerns in post-war democracies. It was hated by the US neoliberals – the very people who created the banking crisis writes Noam Chomsky The simultaneous […]
→ read full articleECOLOGY AND INDIAN MOVEMENTS: ?DIVERSITY WITH INEQUALITY IS NOT SOCIAL JUSTICE?
Prof. James Petras,
17 Oct 2008
A Class Perspective Introduction There are two opposing approaches to the analysis of ecological destruction and the emergence of Indian movements in Latin America: the liberal and the Marxist. The liberal approach emphasizes ‘universal responsibility" for the destruction of the environment – rich and poor, mining companies and miners, factory owners and factory workers, auto […]
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