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FILLING THE SKIES WITH ASSASSINS – TERMINATOR PLANET: LAUNCHING THE DRONE WARS
Tom Engelhardt,
12 Apr 2009
In 1984, Skynet, the supercomputer that rules a future Earth, sent a cyborg assassin, a "terminator," back to our time. His job was to liquidate the woman who would give birth to John Connor, the leader of the underground human resistance of Skynet’s time. You with me so far? That, of course, was the plot […]
→ read full articleWHO IS BEHIND MOLDOVA’S TWITTTER REVOLUTION?
José Miguel Alonso Trabanco,
12 Apr 2009
"A lot of what we [National Endowment for Democracy] do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA." -Allen Weinstein It seems that those who anticipated the end of color revolutions have been proven wrong. So far, color revolutions have succeeded in Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan. On the other hand, they have […]
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STAN MEYER’S WATER DRIVEN CAR
TMS Editor,
10 Apr 2009
He was poisoned in mysterious circumstances in March 1998. Question: Where is the technology? Ideas cannot be killed. 1:45-Min VideoCLICK TO VIEW
→ read full articleROMA ARE SCAPEGOATS DURING DOWNTURN
Marina Litvinsky,
10 Apr 2009
WASHINGTON, Apr 8 (IPS) – On International Roma Day human rights groups voiced their concern for the discrimination and violence against Roma in European countries. Held on Apr. 8 every year since 1990, International Roma Day draws attention to discrimination directed at Roma and gypsy communities globally, according to Amnesty International (AI). Roma are stigmatised […]
→ read full articleCREDIT CARD INDUSTRY LOSES ONE – DEFEATED FOR NOW
ANP-American News Project,
10 Apr 2009
Credit card lobbyists glum as Senate passes 2 separate bills to protect consumers. 5:39-Min Video The Real News Network CLICK TO VIEW
→ read full articleTHEY SENT ME TO DISTANT LANDS TO FIGHT AGAINST MUSLIMS… THEN I BECAME ONE
Penny Coleman,
9 Apr 2009
Along the way, I ate Burger King in Peshawar, developed a debilitating drug habit and caught a 3-year prison sentence. Mike’s attraction to Islam dates to 2001, when his Afghan interpreter gave him a Quran. Mike had a deep respect for the spirit of those he fought and wanted to better understand what it was […]
→ read full article‘PIRATES’ STRIKE A U.S. SHIP OWNED BY A PENTAGON CONTRACTOR, BUT IS THE MEDIA TELLING THE WHOLE STORY?
Jeremy Scahill,
9 Apr 2009
Reports say the crew of a U.S. cargo vessel seized early today [Apr 8] has retaken the ship, but there’s more to the story of rising "pirate" attacks. UPDATE: At least one nuclear-powered U.S. warship is reportedly on its way to the scene of the hijacking off the coast of Somalia of a vessel owned […]
→ read full articleA NEW POLITICAL MOMENT FOR EMPIRE? John Feffer of Foreign Policy In Focus interviews Prof. Stephen Zunes about the role of the U.S. in the world under the Obama administration.
TMS Editor,
8 Apr 2009
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→ read full article“SINGING ALONG” WHEN REPORTING ON CONFLICT
Ron Kampeas,
8 Apr 2009
To be of one side in a conflict and to report it is to be perpetually stuck in that awkward moment at a dinner party when a childhood friend starts singing a familiar song that marked a perhaps silly yet definitely memorable event in the history of your friendship. You know the song. You know […]
→ read full articleTHE AFRICA THAT PUSHES BACK
Mukoma Wa Ngugi,
8 Apr 2009
I have been asked many times a variation of the same question: "Why do Africans wait until it is too late?" For most Westerners, Africa is hunger, war, despotism, AIDS and poverty — full of Africans who are either helpless victims, or who choose to sit on their hands, only lifting them up to accept […]
→ read full articleSOME THOUGHTS ABOUT SOCIALISM
William Blum,
8 Apr 2009
"History is littered with post-crisis regulations. If there are undue restrictions on the operations of businesses, they may view it to be their job to get around them, and you sow the seeds of the next crisis."– Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment analyst, CharlesSchwab & Co., a leading US provider of investment services.1 And so […]
→ read full articleMADOFF WAS A PIKER – AMERICA’S BIG BANKS ARE A FAR LARGER FRAUDULENT PONZI SCHEME
Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal,
7 Apr 2009
Bill Moyers: For months now, revelations of the wholesale greed and blatant transgressions of Wall Street have reminded us that "The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One." In fact, the man you’re about to meet wrote a book with just that title. It was based upon his experience as a tough […]
→ read full articleUS HYPOCRISY ON NORTH KOREA: LET’S TALK ABOUT ISRAEL’S NUKES
Jeremy Scahill,
7 Apr 2009
President Obama’s administration is pressing for diplomatic retaliation, perhaps in the form of more sanctions against North Korea, after Pyonyang launched a rocket into space. There are conflicting reports about the success of the launch. North Korea says the rocket carried a satellite, which is now orbiting the earth. That’s according to state-run media in […]
→ read full articleMADE IN U.S.A.
TMS Editor,
7 Apr 2009
John Smith started his day early, having set his alarm clock (made in Japan) for 6 a.m. While his coffeepot (made in China) was perking, he shaved with his electric razor (made in Hong Kong), put on a shirt (made in Sri Lanka), designer jeans (made in Singapore) and tennis shoes (made in Korea). After […]
→ read full articleTHE AUDACITY OF HOPELESSNESS
John Maxwell,
7 Apr 2009
Common Sense It is as idle to define the problems of Haiti as problems of economic development as it is to contemplate the problems of Elisabeth Fritzl as a problem of delinquent parenting. It will never be possible to disentangle Elisabeth Fritzl from the treachery and cruelty of an evil and incestuous father, a man […]
→ read full articleJohan Galtung: Can Japan Become Sovereign and Peaceful?
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2009
A TFF Video by Jan Oberg httpv://www.youtube.com/v/JTtzwgk9JD8&hl=en&fs=1
→ read full articleTHE TYRANNY OF ‘INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE’
Philip Hammond,
3 Apr 2009
Report from a conference that cross-examined the prosecution of presidents by international tribunals. Should sitting heads of state be liable to prosecution by international tribunals? That was the question at the heart of ‘Prosecuting Presidents’, a conference organised by the Royal United Services Institute and the Centre for Foreign Policy Analysis in London last Friday […]
→ read full articleTHE NUCLEAR GOLIATH: CONFRONTING INDUSTRIAL ENERGY
Frank Joseph Smecker,
3 Apr 2009
Lately, many may have heard the affable radio jingles for nuclear energy as a clean and reliable candidate to supplant the U.S.’s reliance on foreign fossil fuels. This is sheer, malignant propaganda. Nuclear energy, along with its requisite mining, is not only unsustainable to a high degree, but is, in all aspects, violently rapacious as […]
→ read full articleJAKE LYNCH SPEAKS ON SYDNEY RADIO
TMS Editor,
3 Apr 2009
On April 3 the Sydney radio station, 2SER, broadcast an eight-minute interview with Jake Lynch to mark the launch of his new book, Debates in Peace Journalism, published by Sydney University Press and TRANSCEND University Press. The show is called The Fourth Estate, the interviewer’s name is Shevonne Hunt, and you can listen to it […]
→ read full article10 TERMS NOT TO USE WITH MUSLIMS
Chris Seiple, Christian Science Monitor,
3 Apr 2009
Here is advice given to me from Muslim friends worldwide regarding words and concepts that are not useful in building relationships with them. In the course of my travels — from the Middle East to Central Asia to Southeast Asia — it has been my great privilege to meet and become friends with many devout […]
→ read full article(ITALIAN) L’IMPORTANZA DEI CORPI CIVILI DI PACE OGGI
Prof. Alberto L’Abate – Member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace and Development,
2 Apr 2009
L’Opinione di Quattro Generali Il secolo passato è stato quello nel quale sono morte più persone a causa delle guerre che in tutti secoli precedenti messi insieme, ma anche nel quale questi morti, che in precedenza erano in gran parte militari, sono stati in grande maggioranza civili. Si parla del 97% di morti civili nelle […]
→ read full articleOBAMA’S BLACKWATER? CHICAGO MERCENARY FIRM GETS MILLIONS FOR PRIVATE “SECURITY” IN ISRAEL AND IRAQ
Jeremy Scahill,
2 Apr 2009
On the campaign trail, Barack Obama’s advisers said he "can’t rule out [and] won’t rule out" using mercenary forces, like Blackwater. Now, it appears that the Obama administration has decided on its hired guns of choice: Triple Canopy, a Chicago company now based in Virginia. It may not have Blackwater’s thuggish reputation, but Triple Canopy […]
→ read full articleAN OPEN LETTER TO BAN KI-MOON
Richard Morse,
2 Apr 2009
Why Haiti Can’t Forget Its Past Dear Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, Thank you for the attention you have brought to the country of Haiti. In response to your New York Times Op Ed piece I wanted to widen your perspective a bit. I don’t pretend to represent anyone. I’ve been living in Haiti since 1985. I […]
→ read full articleEND THE WAR ON CIVILIANS IN SRI LANKA
Amnesty International,
2 Apr 2009
A briefing on the humanitarian crisis and lack of human rights protection. A human rights crisis is unfolding in Sri Lanka where tens of thousands of people are trapped in the middle of heavy fighting between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lanka Armed Forces in the north eastern Wanni region. […]
→ read full articleBEAWARE THOSE TREACHEROUS AFPAKIS
Eric Margolis,
1 Apr 2009
President Barack Obama has now taken full ownership of the Afghanistan War. Gone are Washington’s pretenses that a western "coalition" was waging this conflict. Gone, too, is the comic book term, "war on terrorism," replaced by the Orwellian sobriquet, "overseas contingency operations." Obama’s announcement last week of deeper US involvement in Afghanistan and Pakistan – […]
→ read full articleARAB-LATAM BID FOR A DIVERSE WORLD
Lucia Newman, Latin America editor,
31 Mar 2009
The Moors invaded and conquered much of the Iberian Peninsula in 711AD. By the time they were driven out of Granada in 1492, the Arabs had left an indelible racial and cultural imprint. Both the Spanish and Portuguese languages have a marked Arabic influence. Yet when the Spanish and Portuguese crossed the Atlantic to conquer […]
→ read full articlePRICE OF SILENCE – An Amnesty International video at the U.N. featuring 16 of the world’s top musicians—some of whom have fled oppressive regimes—in a rousing musical plea to guarantee human rights for all
TMS Editor,
31 Mar 2009
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Seymour M. Hersh,
30 Mar 2009
The Obama Administration’s chance to engage in a Middle East peace. When the Israelis’ controversial twenty-two-day military campaign in Gaza ended, on January 18th, it also seemed to end the promising peace talks between Israel and Syria. The two countries had been engaged for almost a year in negotiations through intermediaries in Istanbul. Many complicated […]
→ read full articleNO MONEY FOR BULLS IN THIS BEAR MARKET: TOWN VOTES TO AXE FIESTA
Elizabeth Nash in Madrid,
30 Mar 2009
Decision to cancel festival ‘another devastating blow’ for Spanish bullfighters. Spain’s economic woes have bitten into the heart of the nation with one small town voting at the weekend to scrap its annual bullfighting festival to save public money. The festival in Manzanares El Real, north of Madrid, is held in August. Residents decided in […]
→ read full articleCALL ON U.S. GOVERNMENT TO HALT ECOLOGICALLY MISGUIDED SUPPORT FOR LARGE SCALE BIOFUEL
TMS Editor,
30 Mar 2009
Please support US environmental and social justice groups calling upon the new Obama administration to halt financial and policy support for large scale biofuel production. In particular, the Obama government‘s potential support for agrofuel expansion — making of transportation fuels from food — runs counter to their aim to urgently address climate change and threatens […]
→ read full articleRUSSELL TRIBUNAL ON PALESTINE
TMS Editor,
30 Mar 2009
The recent war waged by the Israeli government and the Israeli army on the Gaza strip, already under a blockade, underlines the particular responsibility of the United States and of the European Union in the perpetuation of the injustice done to the Palestinian people, deprived of its fundamental rights. It is important to mobilize the […]
→ read full articleA TMS Interview with Abdul Nafi Olomi: Afghanistan in Context
TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2009
Abdul Nafi Olomi is an Afghan MA candidate in Peace & Conflict Studies at the European Peace University, Austria.
→ read full articleAFGHANISTAN: THE FOUR QUESTIONS
Robert Naiman,
28 Mar 2009
President Obama announced his new Afghanistan strategy on Friday – the traditional Washington day for burying things. But there weren’t any big surprises. The administration had been dribbling details out through the news media: more troops, more civilians, narrower goals. As for "narrowing the goals" in his speech, Obama had it both ways: He asserted, […]
→ read full articleDO GM CROPS INCREASE YIELD? THE ANSWER IS NO
Devinder Sharma,
28 Mar 2009
Lies, damn lies, and the Monsanto website. Tell a lie a hundred times, and the chances are that it will eventually appear to be true. When it comes to genetically modified crops, Monsanto makes such an effort — and it could be that you too are duped into accepting their distortions as truth. My attention […]
→ read full articleBACK TO BASICS: WHAT ARE WE ALL ABOUT?
Jim Albertini, from Hawaii,
27 Mar 2009
After 7 years of war and occupation in Afghanistan, six years of war and occupation in Iraq, an increasing loss of civil liberties at home, and now growing economic collapse, no wonder more and more people are feeling fearful and desperate. In such times it’s important to return to core principles of non-violence. […]
→ read full articleNON-COOPERATION CAN BRING A REVOLUTION TO THE HOLY LAND
Marc Gopin,
27 Mar 2009
It is time for a mass movement of nonviolent non-cooperation and resistance amongst Palestinians—because everything else has failed. I have hopes that the Obama Administration will be the best yet in moving the parties toward resolution, but in my heart I have always felt that there is one path to peace that has never been […]
→ read full articleTHE BIG TAKEOVER: BAILOUT OR COUP D’ETAT?
Matt Taibbi,
26 Mar 2009
The global economic crisis isn’t about money – it’s about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution. It’s over — we’re officially, royally fucked. no empire can survive being rendered a permanent laughingstock, which is what happened as of a few weeks ago, when the buffoons who have been […]
→ read full articleWHY CIVIL RESISTANCE WORKS: THE STRATEGIC LOGIC OF NONVIOLENT CONFLICT
Maria Stephan and Erica Chenoweth,
26 Mar 2009
In-depth study on why civil resistance works. In International Security, volume 33, issue 1, pages 7-44. This new study of 323 violent and nonviolent campaigns from 1900 to 2006 found that violent campaigns succeeded in only 26 percent of all cases, compared to 53 percent for nonviolent, civilian-based campaigns (Stephan and Chenoweth, “Why Civil Resistance […]
→ read full articlePERSPECTIVE OF THREE MAJOR PHILOSOPHIES IN HUMAN RELATIONS
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D.,
25 Mar 2009
In our earthly community, human relations vary from one group to another and from one country to another. They are generally built on cultural ties, religious connotations, and a variety of other factors. When we study history we are mostly learning about the story of human actions. Such actions reveal the philosophy of people […]
→ read full articleTHE RISE OF THE LAPTOP BOMBARDIER
Philip Hammond,
25 Mar 2009
Journalists and editors did more than simply cheer NATO’s bombing of Belgrade: they wrote the script for it. Do you remember Mark Laity? Ten years ago he was on British television virtually every evening, covering the Kosovo conflict from NATO headquarters in Brussels for the BBC. Described by Robert Fisk as ‘a sheep in sheep’s […]
→ read full articleSOME GOOD NEWS OUT OF AFRICA FOR A CHANGE
Mary Robinson,
25 Mar 2009
We now have a rare window of opportunity in the Congo. The war zone of the Democratic Republic of Congo is not a place that is usually associated with hope. The statistics quickly challenge optimism. Since 1998, the country has lost 5.4 million people to conflict, and more than a million people are still displaced […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) FAZER A PAZ COM A ÁGUA
Marcelo Barros,
25 Mar 2009
O fato da ONU consagrar o dia 22 de março como “Dia internacional da Água” não pode deixar de nos fazer recordar que estamos vivendo uma profunda crise da civilização. Este modo de organizar o mundo, baseado na sistemática exploração de seres humanos por outros seres humanos e na intensa destruição da natureza por uma […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) SOBERANIA ENERGÉTICA E REFORMA AGRÁRIA UNIFICAM MOVIMENTOS DE BRASIL E PARAGUAI
Daniel Cassol - Correspondente em Asunción, Paraguai,
25 Mar 2009
Um ato simbólico nesta quinta-feira (26/Mar) reunirá organizações sociais do Paraguai e do Brasil na Ponte da Amizade, entre Ciudad del Este e Foz do Iguaçu. A iniciativa simboliza o começo de um processo de articulação entre movimentos sociais dos países vizinhos, em defesa de soberania energética e reforma agrária. O Congresso Unitário Político e […]
→ read full articleHUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN PALESTINE AND OTHER OCCUPIED ARAB TERRITORIES
Richard Falk – Member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace and Development,
25 Mar 2009
United Nations General Assembly – Human Rights Council 18 February 2009 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.PLEASE CONTINUE READING IN THE ORIGINAL
→ read full articleCAPITALISM – FROM THE STANDPOINT OF ITS VICTIMS
M. Shahid Alam,
24 Mar 2009
It has never been easy offering a critique of capitalism or markets to my undergraduate students. Most have never heard an unkind word about these bedrock institutions, which they know to be the foundations of American power and prosperity. These are hallowed institutions. The power of private capital to produce jobs, wealth and freedom is […]
→ read full articleTHE AMERICAN EMPIRE: A FINALE
Justin Raimondo,
23 Mar 2009
Where is America Headed? Author’s note: The following is the text of a talk given in Paris on March 21, at the "Prendre le Moyens de la paix au XXI siecle," which I believe roughly translates into "Prospects for Peace in the 21st Century," a conference sponsored by Bernardins College and the Sorbonne. I am […]
→ read full articleNEW ERA, NEW APPROACHES
Walid Salem,
23 Mar 2009
(1) Time for a “Regional Road Map” Now it is time for a “Regional Road Map” for peace in the Middle East, not only given the emergence of new forces in the region -Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and the growing power of the right-wing parties in Israel- but also because of the crisis of the […]
→ read full articleAFRICOM’S COVERT WAR IN SUDAN
Keith Harmon Snow,
22 Mar 2009
I recently received a phone call from an Australian man who identified himself as an investigator for the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague, Netherlands. The investigator and his colleague had read my story, “Merchant’s of Death: Exposing Corporate Financed Holocaust in Africa,” and wanted my cooperation to provide more detailed […]
→ read full articleWAR ON TERROR WITHIN: THE END OF JEWISH HISTORY
Gilad Atzmon,
21 Mar 2009
The issue I am going to discuss today is probably the most important thing I’ve ever had to say about Israeli brutality and contemporary Jewish identity. I assume that I could have shaped my thought into a wide-ranging book or an analytical academic text but instead, I will do the very opposite, I will make […]
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PRESIDENT OBAMA’S SPECIAL MESSAGE FOR THE PEOPLE OF IRAN
TMS Editor,
21 Mar 2009
Mar 19 2009 President Obama released a special video message for all those celebrating Nowruz. Translated " New Day," Nowruz marks the arrival of Spring and the beginning of the New Year for millions in Iran and other communities around the world. 3:20-Min VideoCLICK TO VIEW
→ read full articleU.N. PANEL SAYS WORLD SHOULD DITCH DOLLAR
Jeremy Gaunt, European Investment Correspondent,
21 Mar 2009
LUXEMBOURG, Mar 18 2009, (Reuters) – A U.N. panel will next week recommend that the world ditch the dollar as its reserve currency in favor of a shared basket of currencies, a member of the panel said on Wednesday, adding to pressure on the dollar. Currency specialist Avinash Persaud, a member of the panel of […]
→ read full articleINTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN ISRAEL-GAZA: ‘OPEN THE DOORS’
Mairead Maguire – Nobel Peace Laureate and Member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace and Development,
20 Mar 2009
Speech at the European Parliament in Brussels to launch the Campaign organized by Peace Lines, supported by 128 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and 42 Nobel Laureates – March 18th 2009. Dear Friends, I would like to thank Peace Lines for giving me the opportunity to speak at this Press Conference in support of […]
→ read full articleGAMBIA: HUNDREDS ACCUSED OF ‘WITCHCRAFT’ AND POISONED IN GOVERNMENT CAMPAIGN
Amnesty International - Press Release Mar 19 2009,
20 Mar 2009
Banjul (Gambia) – Amnesty International today revealed that up to 1,000 people in The Gambia have been kidnapped from their villages by “witch doctors”, taken to secret detention centres and forced to drink hallucinogenic concoctions. The incidents are occurring in the context of a “witch- hunting campaign” that is spreading terror throughout the country. Amnesty […]
→ read full articleIS ACCESS TO CLEAN WATER A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT?
Yigal Schleifer, correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor,
20 Mar 2009
A growing movement thinks so, saying it will guarantee that the poor have water. But at a water conference in Turkey, officials voice concern about implementing such a right. With fresh water resources becoming scarcer worldwide due to population growth and climate change, a growing movement is working to make access to clean water […]
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→ read full articleREVERSING BUSH DECISION, U.S. TO SIGN U.N. GAY RIGHTS DECLARATION
Alex Koppelman,
19 Mar 2009
The Obama administration has decided to sign on to a United Nations declaration that calls for countries around the world to decriminalize homosexuality, the Associated Press reports. Last year, under then-President Bush, the U.S. became the only Western government that refused to endorse the document. Though the declaration is non-binding, American negotiators had raised legal […]
→ read full articleDEMOCRACY-SUPPORT AND THE ARAB WORLD: AFTER THE FALL
Tarek Osman,
19 Mar 2009
A group of distinguished experts has sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to put democratic reform at the heart of the United States’s engagement with Arab regimes and publics. The letter – convened by the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID), and published on 10 March 2009 – is […]
→ read full articleOPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA
Submitted by Walid Salem (144 Signatures),
19 Mar 2009
March 10, 2009President Barack Hussein Obama Dear Mr. President: First of all, congratulations on your victory in November. Like so many others throughout the world, we find ourselves both hopeful and inspired. Your election is proof of America’s continued promise as a land of opportunity, equality, and freedom. Your presidency presents a historic opportunity to […]
→ read full articleJUDGING THE ICC
The Los Angeles Times – Editorial, Mar 16 2009,
18 Mar 2009
The cases for and against US participation in the International Criminal Court. The Nuremberg trials at the close of World War II were controversial in their day. Advocates saw civilized nations imposing just retribution for acts of depravity; critics saw an exercise of victors’ justice, with rules of warfare imposed after the fact. From […]
→ read full articleBEAWARE THE MADOFF DIVERSION!
Richard Grossman,
18 Mar 2009
Sure, there are crooks out there. But the overwhelming majority of actions by corporate directors and managers that have created today’s messes have been legal. Not only legal, but also widely regarded as necessary and essential to sustain the American Way of Life. To put food on our tables. To heat our homes. To […]
→ read full articleA SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY
George Monbiot,
17 Mar 2009
If you think preventing climate change is politically difficult, look at the political problems of adapting to it. Quietly in public, loudly in private, climate scientists everywhere are saying the same thing: it’s over. The years in which more than two degrees of global warming could have been prevented have passed, the opportunities squandered by […]
→ read full articleMexico: In the Brink of … What?
Fernando Montiel T.,
16 Mar 2009
The ongoing “War on Drugs” in Mexico is an everyday concern in the country. A war it certainly is, but against drugs is something not so clear. Context analysis may offer some hints on the conflict dynamics behind the current bloodbath that has reached the headlines both in domestic and world media. Some political, social, […]
→ read full article(SPANISH) COLOMBIA: ¿UNA POLÍTICA DE SEGURIDAD CONSOLIDADA, O PUESTA A PRUEBA?
Vicente Torrijos R. – Member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace and Development,
16 Mar 2009
I .- EL ORDEN POLÍTICO INTERNO Y LA POLÍTICA DE SEGURIDAD DEMOCRÁTICA (PSD) Introducción No cabe duda de que, en Colombia, la Política de defensa y seguridad democrática fue el resultado de la confluencia de diversos factores, dentro de los cuales cabe señalar : (1) el agotamiento de la apuesta de la opinión pública por […]
→ read full articleA PALESTINIAN VIEW – FINANCIAL SUPPORT: A TWO-EDGED SWORD
TMS Editor,
16 Mar 2009
A bitterlemons interview with Walid Salem, a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace and Developmentbitterlemons: A lot of money was pledged at the Sharm al-Sheikh conference for the reconstruction of Gaza. Do you think that this means reconstruction can now go ahead? Salem: I see two problems when it comes to the reconstruction of […]
→ read full articleTHE AMAHORO YOUTH CLUB IN BURUNDI – A young Burundian intellectual and activist, Armand Giramahoro, talks about the basic ideas and goals of the Amahoro Youth Club-AYC. A TFF Video.
TMS Editor,
15 Mar 2009
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→ read full articleMEXICO, PAKISTAN, AND THE SO-CALLED “FAILED STATE”
Shamus Cooke,
15 Mar 2009
Washington’s War on "Narco-Terrorism" Are Mexican drug cartels a threat to the United States? This is an easy conclusion to make after reading most mainstream U.S. newspapers. Hardly a day goes by without sensational stories about “broad daylight” gun battles, heart-wrenching interviews with weeping mothers, and praise for the Mexican army in its “war” against […]
→ read full articleBRIDGE TO TEHRAN
Mohammad Hassan Khani,
15 Mar 2009
Better Relations Are Within Reach — If Both Sides Make the Effort The state of relations between the United States and Iran is based on a long history of hostility and lack of trust. For Iranians, this tension dates to the early 1950s, when a coup engineered by the United States and Britain brought down […]
→ read full articleTIME TO CHANGE ‘CLIMATE CHANGE’
George Monbiot,
14 Mar 2009
What’s clear from Copenhagen is that policymakers have fallen behind the scientists: global warming is already catastrophic. The more we know, the grimmer it gets. Presentations by climate scientists at this week’s conference in Copenhagen show that we might have underplayed the impacts of global warming in three important respects: • Partly because the estimates […]
→ read full articleSPP: UPDATING THE MILITARIZATION AND ANNEXATION OF NORTH AMERICA
Stephen Lendman,
14 Mar 2009
The title refers to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), also known as the North American Union – formerly launched at a March 23, 2005 Waco, Texas meeting attended by George Bush, Mexico’s President Vincente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. It’s for a tri-national agreement, below the radar, for greater […]
→ read full articleWHO IS AMERICA TO JUDGE?
Mark Weisbrot,
13 Mar 2009
After Abu Ghraib, Gitmo and extraordinary renditions, other countries now challenge America’s standing on human rights. The US state department’s annual human rights report got an unusual amount of criticism this year. This time the centre-left coalition government of Chile was notable in joining other countries such as Bolivia, Venezuela and China – who […]
→ read full articleCLOSED ZONE
TMS Editor,
13 Mar 2009
Animation About the Gaza Cage Gisha-Legal Center for Freedom of Movement calls on the state of Israel to fully open Gaza’s crossings and to allow the real victims of the closure – 1.5 million human beings – the freedom of movement necessary to realize their dreams and aspirations. 1:35-Min. VideoCLICK TO VIEW
→ read full article(SPANISH) COLOMBIA – EL TERRORISMO REACTIVADO
Vicente Torrijos R. – Member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace and Development,
13 Mar 2009
Balance y Perspectivas de la Seguridad en Colombia y el Área Andina 1 .- LAS FUERZAS ARMADAS REVOLUCIONARIAS DE COLOMBIA (FARC) 1.1. 2008 : UN ANNUS HORRIBILIS. Introducción Quizá el 2008 pasará a la historia del área andina como un annus horribilis para las Farc, dados los importantes acontecimientos que impactaron negativamente la capacidad ofensiva […]
→ read full articleGAZA: LEST WE FORGET
Ahmad Barqawi,
13 Mar 2009
Something happened in Gaza that shook the very core of my foundation and being; something that has fundamentally altered my perception of mankind in the 21st century; if this is what the “progress” and “evolution” of the human species have yielded so far; then I don’t even want to imagine what our fated future is […]
→ read full articleBLACKWATER’S NEW FRONTIER: THEIR OWN PRIVATE AFRICA
Bruce Falconer and Daniel Schulman,
12 Mar 2009
Will military contractors blur the line between aid workers and hired guns? You give me money, I don’t care who you are." It was late October, and Zimbabwe’s defense attaché, a soft-spoken, thick-shouldered lieutenant colonel, was explaining his country’s freewheeling approach to business in the banquet room of the Liaison hotel on Capitol Hill. Mingling […]
→ read full articleFATE OF THE RAINFOREST IS ‘IRREVERSIBLE’
Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor,
12 Mar 2009
A third of the Amazonian ‘carbon sink’ is doomed whether or not emissions are cut, Copenhagen conference is told The impact of climate change on the Amazon rainforest could be much worse than previously predicted, new research suggests. Even if emissions were reduced and governments managed to limit temperature rises to 2C – the current […]
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Vinicius Mansur,
12 Mar 2009
Organizações ambientalistas estão em campanha contra a liberação comercial de uma variedade de arroz transgênico no Brasil. A variedade LL62, pertencente a multinacional Bayer, será o tema de uma audiência pública em Brasília (DF), no próximo dia 18. No dia seguinte, a Comissão Técnica Nacional de Biossegurança (CTNBio) tem agendada uma reunião, na qual o […]
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Tom Engelhardt,
12 Mar 2009
How come they get to be the hawks? And we get to be the doves? A hawk is a noble bird. A dove – well, basically it’s a pigeon. The sort of bird that, in New York City anyway, messes your building’s window sills, is always underfoot, and, along with the city’s rats, makes a […]
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Haruki Murakami,
12 Mar 2009
I have come to Jerusalem today as a novelist, which is to say as a professional spinner of lies. Of course, novelists are not the only ones who tell lies. Politicians do it, too, as we all know. Diplomats and military men tell their own kinds of lies on occasion, as do used car salesmen, […]
→ read full articleGUN MAKERS AND RETAILERS POST STRONG SALES INCREASES
Natalie Zmuda,
10 Mar 2009
Sour Economy, Potential for Tightened Regulations Drive Buyers to Firearms The economy might be tanking, but firearm sales are going great guns. Despite the weakest holiday season on record, outdoor-products retailer Cabela’s turned in strong fourth-quarter sales, largely as a result of an increase in firearm and ammunition sales. Smith & Wesson is reporting pistol […]
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Middle East Online,
10 Mar 2009
British MP arrives in Gaza with aid convoy to support Palestinian ResistanceRAFAH – British MP George Galloway arrived in Gaza Monday [Mar 9] at the head of an aid convoy to protest Israel’s "genocidal aggression" against Gaza and support the Palestinian "resistance." The staunchly pro-Palestinian parliamentarian said he was "overwhelmed with happiness" to arrive in […]
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William Pfaff,
8 Mar 2009
The documents currently being released by the Justice Department that demonstrate the Bush administration’s view of the president’s constitutional power in a “state of war” tell us things we suspected but didn’t want to know. The first seven of these official memorandums issued last week dealt with claimed presidential powers to unilaterally abrogate international treaties; […]
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S.P. Udayakumar,
8 Mar 2009
"A race of people is like an individual man: until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its history, expresses its own culture and affirm its own selfhood, it cannot fulfill itself." – Malcolm X TASA – Tamilar Samadana Aayvagam (Tamils’ Peace Research Institute) Varalaaru–Sahavazhvu–Yethirgalam (History–Coexistence–Futures) ‘Pathetic’ is the word that comes […]
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William Blum,
7 Mar 2009
Hugo Chávez’s greatest sin is that he has shown disrespect for the American Empire. Or as they would say in America’s inner cities — He’s dissed the Man. Such behavior of course cannot go unpunished lest it give other national leaders the wrong idea. Over the years, the United States has gotten along just fine […]
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Gianluca Miano,
6 Mar 2009
Nella quotidiana esperienza di "portatori di pace", quando si tocca l’argomento veganismo da piu parti si viene etichettati come "estremisti" (quando non addirittura aggrediti). Nella mia personale esperienza, questo accade sempre più spesso con chi ha già fatto un minimo di percorso verso un modus vivendi piu etico che con chi questo percorso nemmeno pensa […]
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The Humane Society of the United States – Mother Jones,
6 Mar 2009
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The Guardian, UK - Editorial (Mar 3),
4 Mar 2009
Pledging aid for Gaza is the easy bit. Getting it delivered to Gazans living in tents after Israel’s three-week bombardment is another matter. The $3bn that donors promised in Sharm el-Sheikh yesterday will have to penetrate a labyrinth of barriers and conditions, the complexity of which King Minos of Crete would have been proud. The […]
→ read full articleIRAN/USA RELATIONS: TOUGH TRANSITION FROM BOXING TO CHESS
Lindsey Hilsum,
4 Mar 2009
Whose is the "clenched fist"? Is the Obama administration’s opening to Iran only a change of body language? And will Iran feel inclined to respond? The speaker of Iran’s parliament, Ali Larijani, has said he thinks the relationship between the Islamic Republic and the United States should be less like boxing and more like chess. […]
→ read full article12,000 CLIMATE ACTIVISTS CAN’T BE WRONG
Bill McKibben,
4 Mar 2009
Ah, the party planner’s problem. You send out an invitation, and what happens if they all say yes? I’m just back from today’s [Mar 2] magnificent civil disobedience outside the Capitol power plant. It began around 1 p.m., with the morning’s snow still swirling—and out of the snow hundreds and then thousands of people arriving, […]
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Mark Steel,
4 Mar 2009
Maybe the Mail will be yelling, ‘Smash the bosses, get the worker’s Mail’ The sudden change is disconcerting. For years I might suggest society would be improved if we sacked these vastly overpaid bankers, and the response would be some variety of "Here he goes again". Now if you say the same thing the response […]
→ read full articleISLAM’S EVOLUTIONARY LEGACY
Ehsan Masood,
4 Mar 2009
As we celebrate Darwin, let’s not forget the unsung champions of evolution from the Muslim world. Last month, scientists from around the world partied into the small hours on the 200th anniversary of the birth of Darwin. But as we celebrate the work of one of the most influential scientists ever, let’s take a moment […]
→ read full articleTHE PROCEEDS OF CRIME
George Monbiot,
3 Mar 2009
The US and British governments have created a private prison industry which preys on human lives. It’s a staggering case; more staggering still that it has scarcely beeen mentioned on this side of the ocean. Last week two judges in Pennsylvania were convicted of jailing some 2000 children in exchange for bribes from private prison […]
→ read full articleINCONVENIENT TRUTHS: DON’T BELIEVE THE GREENWASH
Simon Usborne,
3 Mar 2009
So you drive a Prius, eat organic and boycott anything made in China – but will that help to fight climate change? Facing the facts many ecologists would rather ignore.Cute animals will have to die You may not have come across the Bewick’s swan. The smallest swan found in Britain, it reaches our shores from […]
→ read full articleISRAEL BOYCOTT MOVEMENT GAINS MOMENTUM
Mel Frykberg - Inter Press Service,
3 Mar 2009
"Standing United with the People of Gaza" is the theme of this week’s Israel Apartheid Week (IAW), which kicked off in Toronto and another 39 cities across the globe Sunday [Mar 1st]. A movement to boycott Israeli goods, culture and academic institutions is gaining momentum as Geneva prepares to host the UN’s Anti-Racism Conference, Durban […]
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Tom Engelhardt,
3 Mar 2009
Afghan Faces, Predators, Reapers, Terrorist Stars, Roman Conquerors, Imperial Graveyards, and Other Oddities of the Truncated American CenturySometimes, it’s the everyday things, the ones that fly below the radar, that matter. Here, according to Bloomberg News, is part of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’s recent testimony on the Afghan War before the Senate Foreign […]
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Peter Chamberlin,
2 Mar 2009
Hurricane winds pound at the gates of Fortress America and our leaders send out the order for more straw and sand to pound into the widening cracks. The harder the winds of change blow the more apparent it becomes that our “leaders” cannot lead, when they themselves await orders from above. As our house of […]
→ read full articleEXCLUSIVE: THE IRAQI RESISTANCE RESPONDS TO PRESIDENT OBAMA
Rafidan - The Political Committee,
2 Mar 2009
Baghdad The Republic of IraqStatement in Response to President Obama’s Remarks made on the 27th or February 2009 regarding the proclaimed ending to the occupation of The Republic of Iraq. Official English Transcript Release No: 57 In Respect to the remarks of President Barak Hussain Obama, The president of the United States of America. The […]
→ read full articleZONES OF PEACE IN THE SOUTH CAUCASUS
Susan Allen, Irakli Kakabadze, Arsen Kharatyan, Jamila Mammadova and Ekaterina Romanova,
1 Mar 2009
At a recent symposium held at George Mason University, peacebuilders based in Baku, Tbilisi, Yerevan, Moscow, and Washington D.C. considered the concept of Zones of Peace. While Georgian Minister for Reintegration Temuri Yakobashvili’s announcement this week of the Georgian initiative to declare Abkhazia a weapon-free zone was met with disdain by Russia and Abkhazia, there […]
→ read full articleDISENTANGLING LAYERS OF A LOADED TERM IN SEARCH OF A THREAD OF PEACE
Michael Slackman,
28 Feb 2009
If President Obama is serious about repairing relations with the Arab world and re-establishing the United States as an honest broker in Middle East peace talks, one step would be to bridge a chasm in perception that centers on one contentious word: terrorism. The recent fighting in Gaza offered a potent reminder of the challenge […]
→ read full articleHEALING, CONCILIATION AND CLOSURE THROUGH ART – Discussion with Hector Aristizabal about his life and his creative approach to coping with the aftermath of torture.
TMS Editor,
28 Feb 2009
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Jake Lynch in Chiang Mai, Thailand,
28 Feb 2009
Why do Russian dentists extract their patients’ teeth through the nose? Because Russians are afraid to open their mouths. It’s a good joke, and one that’s acquired fresh relevance in recent times, fit to rank alongside Soviet-era classics like the one about Moscow policemen and their habit of patrolling in threes (one could read, one […]
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