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SYSTEM 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 articleTHE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: WARRIOR-HERO WITH A VIETNAM COMPLEX AND ALCHEMIST WITH A FATHER COMPLEX
Ramon Lopez-Reyes, Lt.Col. (ret), Ph.D.,
16 Oct 2008
INTRODUCTION: The United States’ Presidential Election of 2008 is heralded as having the possibility of ushering in a new era. Such anticipation is a not uncommon among the living who tend to regard their particular span of history epochal. But besides such notion of collective self-importance certain circumstances suggest that these are “special historic times.” […]
→ read full articleRWANDA: GREAT LAKES CONFERENCE CONDEMNS DR CONGO CONFLICT
The New Times (Rwanda),
16 Oct 2008
The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) has come out to strongly condemn the deteriorating security situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, terming it a major setback to the regional peace process. A statement from the ICGLR Secretariat says that the renewed fighting in the Eastern part of the DRC in North […]
→ read full articleSOMALIA: ?ROBIN HOOD? PIRATES STEALING FROM THE RICH
Paul Goldsmith,
16 Oct 2008
What is it that makes pirates different from other brigands; why do dacoits of the sea excite the imagination where the land-bound highwayman invokes fear and loathing? To explain, we cite the curious case of the Pirates of Puntland. Somalia may be an arid and environmentally challenged country, but its strategic location and long coastline […]
→ read full articleVegetarianism against Global Hunger
EVANA-Swiss Union for Vegetarianism - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2008
On 7-8 October 2008, the European Commission, the European Parliament and the United Nations marked the anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights which assures everyone’s entitlement ‘to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food’. Sixty years after signing that declaration of good will, […]
→ read full articleCOLUMBUS EXPOSED AS IRON-FISTED TYRANT WHO TORTURED HIS SLAVES
Graham Keeley in Barcelona,
16 Oct 2008
Christopher Columbus was a despot who ruled his subjects with an iron fist, according to documents which have emerged 500 years after his death. The man who discovered America for Europe routinely tortured slaves and starved his subjects in colonies on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. Columbus was known to have mistreated native people when […]
→ read full article(GALEGO) ?MESTRA, APRENDEME A MIRAR!
Manuel Dios Diz,
16 Oct 2008
Parece unha moda, unha constante, unha estratexia de marketing perfectamente deseñada. Trátase de cargar contra da xuventude en xeral, en ocasións mesmo demonizando, cando non criminalizando, os seus comportamentos e condutas, unha triste reacción do chamado “mundo viejuno” respecto das novas xeracións, un deporte de fonda tradición e moi popular. Xa Sócrates (470-399 a.d.C.) acusaba […]
→ read full articleWORLD BANK LOAN ?THREATENS AMAZON?
Gabriel Elizondo in Maraba, Brazil,
16 Oct 2008
The expansion of Brazil’s cattle industry is widely regarded as being one of the greatest single threats to the Amazon rainforest. Now, environmentalists say deforestation in the fragile region, and consequently climate change, are set to worsen following the World Bank’s sponsorship of a major loan to Brazil’s second-largest beef processors. The criticism comes after […]
→ read full articleTOP EX-DIPLOMATS SLAM ?MILITARIZATION? OF FOREIGN POLICY
Jim Lobe,
16 Oct 2008
While the Pentagon’s budget has risen to heights not seen since World War II, US diplomatic and foreign aid assets have largely atrophied and must be quickly rebuilt by any new administration that takes office in January, according to a new report released here this week by former senior foreign service officers. The report by […]
→ read full articleThe Secret History of the American Empire
John Perkins - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2008
John Perkins is the author of Confessions of An Economic Hit Man The Truth about Global Corruption Perkins zeroes in on hot spots around the world such as Venezuela, Tibet, Iraq, Israel, Vietnam and others and exposes the network of events in each of these countries that have contributed to the creation of the American […]
→ read full articleAlfred Nobel’s Will Betrayed
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2008
A Norwegian lawyer and peace activist, Fredrik Heffermehl, has done the world a great favor with his book Nobels Vilje, Nobel’s Will, just out, showing that the Nobel Peace Prize committees have strayed away from Nobel’s testament. The prize, according to Nobel’s will, is for “the most or the best work for fraternity between the […]
→ read full articleWHAT WILL THE U.S. FOREIGN POLICY BE TOMORROW?
Michel Collon,
12 Oct 2008
When Bush goes, everyone will be hoping for a change – or fearing the worst. McCain or Obama ? What will that change for Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Africa, Caucasia, Cuba and Venezuela ? And for US relationships with the big powers : Europe, Japan, Russia, China? This text is extracted from our book « The […]
→ read full article2008 RIGHT LIVELIHOOD AWARD RECIPIENTS
Kimberlye Kowalczyk,
12 Oct 2008
October 12, 2008 On October 1st the 2008 recipients of the Right Livelihood Award, which has come to be widely known as the “Alternative Nobel,” were announced. The five co-recipients were celebrated for "offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today." Recipients of the Award, first established in 1980, have […]
→ read full articleMAY I QUOTE YOU, MR. PRESIDENT?
Prof. Rodrigue Tremblay,
12 Oct 2008
A Selection of 50 Quotes from President George W. Bush, for Entertainment or Meditation•A man lost in his geography: 1-"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe."George W. Bush2-"It’s time for the human race to enter the […]
→ read full articleA NAZI (IN THE POCKET) IS WORTH FOUR IN THE BUSH (FAMILY)
William Bowles,
12 Oct 2008
The Nazi’s American Banker What is interesting about the history of the Bush family are the connections: Avril Harriman, Allen Dulles, the Rockefellers (the start of the oil connection), James Baker III, Gulf Oil, Pennzoil, Osama bin Laden…on and on it goes. A lapse of memory? It’s as well to remember that the Web never […]
→ read full articleTHE “DEMONIZATION” OF MUSLIMS AND THE BATTLE FOR OIL
Michel Chossudovsky,
12 Oct 2008
Throughout history, "wars of religion" have served to obscure the economic and strategic interests behind the conquest and invasion of foreign lands. "Wars of religion" were invariably fought with a view to securing control over trading routes and natural resources. The Crusades extending from the 11th to the 14th Century are often presented by historians […]
→ read full articleGLOBAL MILITARY ALLIANCE: ENCIRCLING RUSSIA AND CHINA
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya,
12 Oct 2008
US Sponsored Military Partnership in the Far East and the Pacific Rim Although Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea and Japan are not formally members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), they are linked through military partnerships, affiliated government agreements, a network of partnerships, and bilateral military agreements with the United States and Britain. The […]
→ read full articleJEWS PROTECT PALESTINIANS IN HARVEST OF HATE
Donald Macintyre in Awarta, West Bank,
12 Oct 2008
Israelis Cross Religious Divide to Shelter Olive Farmers from Settlers’ Attacks In the shade of the trees where they have been picking olives all morning, in this wadi, south-east of Nablus, a Palestinian farmer, Jamal Otman Koarik, and two of his daughters share a lunch of home-baked bread, zatar, oil, courgettes and salad with three […]
→ read full articleHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST AND LEADERSHIP COUNCIL ON CIVIL RIGHTS PUSH TO PROTECT FREEDOM OF SPEECH
TMS Editor,
12 Oct 2008
Fighting Discrimination Program Director Tad Stahnke delivered a statement at the Durban Review Prepcom on behalf of HRF and the Leadership Council on Civil Rights. HRF and LCCR offered five principles for provisions on incitement in the future Outcome Document of the Durban Review Conference (to take place in 2009). Read the Full Statement
→ read full articleGLOBAL ARTICLE 9-CONFERENCE TO ABOLISH WAR, TOKYO-JAPAN
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate,
12 Oct 2008
‘Abolish War – Building a Culture of Nonkilling and Nonviolence’4-5 May, 2008 Dear Mina Sama, I am very happy to be with you in Japan. I would like to thank Peaceboat for their invitation to attend this Global Article 9 Conference. This is a good time to be in Japan and to celebrate with […]
→ read full articleCONSCIENCE OF THE ISRAELI SPYMASTER?S DAUGHTER
Igal Sama,
12 Oct 2008
A Mossad Chief’s Daughter is in Jail for Refusing National Service Omer Goldman is a very pretty girl, slender as a model. Never still and very restless, the expected loss of her freedom fills her with anxiety. For months before she refused to be drafted into the Israel Defence Forces she went to a psychologist […]
→ read full articleTOO FEW AWARE OF WORLD ORPHAN WEEK
Brian McAfee,
12 Oct 2008
October 11 marked the end of World Orphan Week. With 133 million orphans in the world today, most in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and 15 million of them orphaned due to HIV/AIDS (according to SOS Children) we have a moral responsibility to ensure the basic needs orphans around the World. These needs include health, […]
→ read full article?THE UNITED STATES HAS ESSENTIALLY A ONE-PARTY SYSTEM?
Gabor Steingart, interviewing Noam Chomsky,
12 Oct 2008
The linguist and public intellectual Noam Chomsky has long been a critic of American consumerism and imperialism. SPIEGEL spoke to him about the current crisis of capitalism, Barack Obama’s rhetoric and the compliance of the intellectual class. SPIEGEL: Professor Chomsky, cathedrals of capitalism have collapsed, the conservative government is spending its final weeks in office […]
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Interview with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire
Kimberlye Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2008
TMS peace journalist Kimberlye Kowalczyk interviews Nobel Peace co-recipient (1976) Mairead Corrigan-Maguire in Stavanger, Norway, September 2008 at the Annual Nobel Peace Laureates Summit.
→ read full articleTHE WORLD BANK SUDDENLY DISCOVERS 400 MORE MILLION POVERTY-RIDDEN PEOPLE
Damien Millet and ?ric Toussaint,
6 Oct 2008
The World Bank recently acknowledged significant mistakes in its figures concerning poverty in the world. Indeed, while “the WB’s estimates of poverty are improved thanks to more reliable data on the cost of living”, the outcome is a head-on questioning of statistics produced by this institution, which has been facing a serious legitimacy crisis for […]
→ read full articleIRAQ: THEY MAKE IT A DESERT AND CALL IT PEACE
Eric Margolis,
6 Oct 2008
Those Wall Street financial alchemists who turned garbage into gold must have helped John McCain prepare for his debate with Barack Obama last Friday. Senator McCain’s insistent claims that the US is winning the war in Iraq thanks to his "surge" strategy are the military-political equivalent of the junk securities that Wall Street’s shady financiers […]
→ read full articleTHE FREE MARKET PREACHERS HAVE LONG PRACTISED STATE WELFARE FOR THE RICH
George Monbiot,
6 Oct 2008
Bailing out banks seems unprecedented, but the US government’s form in subsidising big business is well established. According to Senator Jim Bunning, the proposal to purchase $700bn of dodgy debt by the US government was "financial socialism, it is un-American". The economics professor Nouriel Roubini called George Bush, Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke "a troika […]
→ read full articleTHE END OF US BIPARTISANSHIP?
Robert Reynolds in Oxford, Mississippi,
6 Oct 2008
Aljazeera.net POLITICIAN, (noun): An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organised society is reared. When he wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive. (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary) What we are witnessing […]
→ read full articleTHE PROBLEMS OF LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Noam Chomsky,
6 Oct 2008
VII Social Summit for the Latin American and Caribbean UnityCaracas, Sep/24/2008 During the past decade, Latin America has become the most exciting region of the world. The dynamic has very largely flowed from right where you are meeting, in Caracas, with the election of a leftist president dedicated to using Venezuela’s rich resources for the […]
→ read full article“SHAL NOT PERISH FROM THE EARTH”
Malcolm Martin,
6 Oct 2008
The people of the United States are struggling with a marked escalation of the class war. Maybe no one has a firm grip on "what is to be done?", to borrow Lenin’s phraseology. But it is for sure a time to reject fatalism, defeatism, nihilism and any other current which involves the people in rolling […]
→ read full articleHAITI: IN SOLIDARITY WITH ITS FIVE FREEDOMS
James Petras,
6 Oct 2008
Today the acid test for all democrats in North and South America is the issue of the military occupation of Haiti ,the economic pillage and denial of elementary political and human rights of the Haitian people. In 2004 a US-led invasion force overthrew the democratically elected government of Jean Bertrand Aristide and subsequently promoted and […]
→ read full article“DOOMSDAY SEED VAULT” IN THE ARCTIC
F. William Engdahl,
6 Oct 2008
Bill Gates, Rockefeller and the GMO Giants Know Something We Don’t One thing Microsoft founder Bill Gates can’t be accused of is sloth. He was already programming at 14, founded Microsoft at age 20 while still a student at Harvard. By 1995 he had been listed by Forbes as the world’s richest man from being […]
→ read full articleOLMERT: WE MUST LEAVE MOST OF WEST BANK
The Jerusalem Post,
6 Oct 2008
Israel will have to give up virtually all of the West Bank and east Jerusalem if it wants peace with the Palestinians, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in a farewell interview published Monday, saying Israel faced a stark choice and needed to make a decision soon. Olmert also said Israel would have to leave the […]
→ read full articleLATIN AMERICA CENSORED: TOWARD FREEDOM EDITOR RECEIVES PROJECT CENSORED AWARD
Toward Freedom & Project Censored,
6 Oct 2008
A number of recent developments have dramatically changed the military and political landscape of Latin America. While some electoral victories in Latin America signal a regional shift to the left, Washington continues to expand its military and navy presence throughout the hemisphere. This year Toward Freedom editor Benjamin Dangl received a Project Censored Award for […]
→ read full article(GALEGO) 2 DE OUTUBRO – DIA INTERNACIONAL DA NON VIOLENCIA
Manuel Dios Diz, presidente, Seminario Galego de Educaci?n para a Paz,
6 Oct 2008
Foi precisamente un 2 de Outubro de 1869, en Porbandar, na India, cando vía a luz o que pasa por ser o pacifista contemporáneo máis recoñecido, Mohandas Karamchad Gandhi. Por iso, a Asemblea Xeral de Nacións Unidas proclamou, en xuño pasado, que nesa data, cada ano, conmemorásemos o Día Internacional da Non Violencia. […]
→ read full article“THE AGE OF THE WARRIOR”
Democracy Now!,
6 Oct 2008
Robert Fisk on the U.S. Elections, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine As the US-led wars in the Middle East shows no sign of abating we turn now to a man who has chronicled eleven major wars in this part of the world. GO TO ORIGINAL
→ read full articleTHE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY: CUT SHORT BY 92 YEARS
Mike Whitney,
6 Oct 2008
America’s time as a superpower is coming to an end. The financial crisis was just the last straw. Whatever good faith was left after the invasion of Iraq, the shrugging off of international treaties and the shameless disregard for human rights, is now gone. The United States has polluted the global economic system with worthless […]
→ read full articleAMERICA’S ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
David Michael Green,
6 Oct 2008
The second most astonishing thing about American politics is that John McCain and Sarah Palin have a respectable chance of winning the White House in 2008. (Or, for that matter, that any Republican could have a shot at any office for which the Democratic candidate hasn’t suddenly died on the stump.) Yeah, yeah, I know. […]
→ read full articleSTATEMENT ABOUT THE ‘FREE GAZA MOVEMENT’
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize laureate,
6 Oct 2008
October 1st, 2008Dear Antonio, please divulge at TRANSCEND Media Service. The collective punishment of Gaza by Israel is prohibited by international humanitarian law and should end immediately. On 22nd September, 2008, I flew to Larnaca, Cyprus, at the invitation of the Free Gaza Movement to join them on a mission from Larnaca to Gaza. The […]
→ read full articleMAOIST NEW NEPAL: INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM COVERED BY SOCIALISM
Bishnu Pathak PhD and Neil Horning. Assisted by Surendra Uprety (PhD student), Rushma Shakya, Rita Chaudhary, Ganga Puri and Meena Siwakoti,
6 Oct 2008
The reactions to the budget from the nation’s policymakers and critics are often guided by four motives. Those who made the budget in the past regard it as imbalanced and untenable and heap praise on their own budget. Others who suffered defeat in the CA polls from the Maoists are scared of the perpetual marginalization […]
→ read full articlePeace Process in Central Uruan, Niger Delta
Kimberlye Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2008
When oil was discovered in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria in 1956, hopes were high that development would follow. Soon all Nigerians would live a comfortable and healthy life with accessible and affordable social services including healthcare, education, and transportation. However, it quickly became apparent that the foreign oil corporations (notably Shell) and a […]
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TMS Editor,
3 Oct 2008
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Sails with the Free Gaza Movement to Break the Siege of Gaza On Tuesday, September 23, 2008 Mairead Maguire joined Palestinians,Israelis and Internationals from many countries to sail from Cyprus tobreak the Siege of Gaza. This is the second sailing into Gaza followingthe one in August, when 48 activists did […]
→ read full articleTalk between Johan Galtung and Ikuro Anzai
Akifumi Fujita & Robert Kowalczyk,
30 Sep 2008
Topic: Article 9 and Japan’s future. Ikuro Anzai is honorary director of the Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University, and Johan Galtung is founder of TRANSCEND-A Network for Peace and Development. I. Anzai: The Kyoto Museum for World Peace of Ritsumeikan University was established in 1992. Since that time the museum has been visited […]
→ read full articleNato Should Stop Expanding, Says UK Think Tank
Anne Penketh and Mary Dejevsky,
30 Sep 2008
Nato needs to stop expanding, according to a leading British strategic think tank. The International Institute for Strategic Studies challenged the Nato secretary-general today by warning against embracing Georgia and Ukraine in the light of last month’s Caucasus war. "The policy of Nato enlargement now, we believe, would be a strategic error," the head of […]
→ read full articleSurviving Democracy
Stephen Lendman,
30 Sep 2008
Reviewing Naomi Klein’s "The Shock Doctrine" Naomi Klein is an award-winning Canadian journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and activist. She writes a regular column for The Nation magazine and London Guardian that’s syndicated internationally by the New York Times Syndicate that gives people worldwide access to her work but not its own readers at home. In […]
→ read full articleNow Is the Time to Resist Wall Street’s Shock Doctrine
Naomi Klein,
30 Sep 2008
I wrote The Shock Doctrine in the hopes that it would make us all better prepared for the next big shock. Well, that shock has certainly arrived, along with gloves-off attempts to use it to push through radical pro-corporate policies (which of course will further enrich the very players who created the market crisis in […]
→ read full articleBil?in Grassroots Nonviolent Resistance Movement:
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate,
30 Sep 2008
A Light of Hope that Deserves International Support It is difficult to sustain a grassroots non-violent movement. The sceptics argue nonviolence doesn’t work, the militants argue only violence gets results, and many just sit on the sidelines to see which way the wind will blow. In Bil’in every Friday the wind blows, and it blows […]
→ read full articleFranklin Roosevelt, a Nation Turns Its Lonely Eyes to You
Michael Winship,
30 Sep 2008
We thirst for leadership, vision, someone who can speak to us in a way that refuses to avert its eyes from the crisis but shines a light of truth upon the problem, then offers hope and possible solutions. If this is indeed an economic 9/11, as some have suggested, we need that voice […]
→ read full articleGoldman Sachs Socialism
William Greider,
30 Sep 2008
Wall Street put a gun to the head of the politicians and said, Give us the money–right now–or take the blame for whatever follows. The audacity of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s bailout proposal is reflected in what it refuses to say: no explanations of how the bailout will work, no demands on the bankers in […]
→ read full articleShould We Plunge Into Pakistan?
Mother Jones magazine,
30 Sep 2008
As part of our special investigation "Mission Creep: US Military Presence Worldwide," we asked a host of military thinkers to contribute their two cents on topics relating to global Pentagon strategy. (You can access the archive here.) The following dispatch comes from military strategist Douglas Macgregor, a retired Army colonel and author of Breaking the […]
→ read full articleUS Generals Planning for Resource Wars
Tom Clonan,
30 Sep 2008
ANALYSIS: The US military sees the next 30 to 40 years as involving a state of continuous war against ideologically-motivated terrorists and competing with Russia and China for natural resources and markets. AS General Ray Odierno takes command of US forces in Baghdad from troop surge architect Gen David Petraeus, America has begun planning […]
→ read full articleA Week to Watch for South Asia
J. Sri Raman,
30 Sep 2008
With harrowing uncertainty rather than hope, South Asia waits for a week of far-off diplomatic events fraught with consequences for decades. It will watch with anxious interest signals emanating from New York and Washington, from this Tuesday to Friday in particular, on issues involving Islamabad and New Delhi. Two major flashpoints of the […]
→ read full articleHuman Rights Watch in Venezuela
Prof. James Petras,
30 Sep 2008
Lies, Crimes and Cover-ups Human Rights Watch, a US-based group claiming to be a non-governmental organization, but which is in fact funded by government-linked quasi-private foundations and a Congressional funded political propaganda organization, the National Endowment for Democracy, has issued a report “A Decade Under Chavez: Political Intolerance and Lost Opportunities for Advancing Human Rights […]
→ read full articleThe Destabilization of Bolivia and the “Kosovo Option”
Michel Chossudovsky,
30 Sep 2008
The secession of Bolivia’s Eastern provinces is part of a US sponsored covert operation, coordinated out of the US State Department, in liaison with US intelligence. The death squads armed with automatic weapons responsible for killing supporters of Evo Morales in El Porvenir are supported covertly by the US. According to one report, "USAID has […]
→ read full articleThe US Economic Crisis: 10 Proposals
Johan Galtung, 29 Sep 2008 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2008
Stavanger-Norway, September 29/2008 What a cynicism to talk about “crisis” as a phenomenon of a month or a year or two, when every day about 125,000 die from system-produced hunger and curable-preventable diseases! Much of the responsibility lies buried in an economism privileging the transaction system above the basic needs of the actors. Economics as […]
→ read full articleNUCLEAR WAR BY MISCALCULATION
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2008
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→ read full articleTHE GEOPOLITICS OF GEORGIA
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2008
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→ read full articleWHO’S TO BLAME FOR THE RUSSIAN GEORGIAN CONFLICT?
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2008
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→ read full articleGORBACHEV DESCRIBES GEORGIA ATTACK
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2008
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rjbwlyguEGY%26hl%3Den%26fs%3D1
→ read full articleNO “GOOD GUYS” IN GEORGIA CONFLICT
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2008
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→ read full articleINSIDE IRAQ – AMERICAN MASTER PLAN – PART 1
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2008
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tGzEaYxOCyk%26hl%3Den%26fs%3D1
→ read full articleRUSSIANS CHECKMATE U.S. IN GEORGIA
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2008
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lcUnsf0pkOk%26hl%3Den%26fs%3D1
→ read full articleRUSSIAN GENERAL THREATENS POLAND OVER MISSILE DEAL
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2008
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kIdDc_YLeQs%26hl%3Den%26fs%3D1
→ read full articleU.S. MISSILE DEAL ENRAGES RUSSIA
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2008
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→ read full articleFULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2008
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→ read full articleSHOCK DOCTRINE OPENS WAY FOR OIL DRILLING
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2008
https://youtube.com/watch?v=KkGjyBhAw3I%26hl%3Den%26fs%3D1
→ read full articleINTERACTIVE MAP; US MILITARY PRESENCE
www.motherjones.com,
16 Sep 2008
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→ read full articleFROM JORDAN: IRAQIS NEED OUR HELP
Luis Carlos Montalv?n and Tyler Boudreau,,
16 Sep 2008
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→ read full articlePEACEFUL PROTESTS IN KASHMIR ALTER EQUATION FOR INDIA
Emily Wax - The Washington Post,
16 Sep 2008
Tough Response Criticized as Outmoded Read more
→ read full articleKASHMIR: HATE IN A HEAVEN
J. Sri Raman,
16 Sep 2008
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→ read full articleAMERICA’S OUTRAGEOUS WAR ECONOMY!
Paul B. Farrell (MarketWatch),
16 Sep 2008
Pentagon can’t find $2.3 trillion, wasting trillions on ‘national defense’Read more
→ read full articleTHE SMASH OF CIVILIZATIONS
Chalmers Johnson,
16 Sep 2008
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→ read full articleHONDURAS LEFT BEHIND BY WASHINGTON, TURNS TO CHAVEZ
Gustavo Palencia and Anahi Rama (Reuters),
16 Sep 2008
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→ read full articleWE TILT AT WINDMILLS AS WORLD WAR LOOMS
Simon Jenkins (Times online),
16 Sep 2008
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→ read full articleWHY I HAD TO RECOGNIZE GEORGIA’S BREAKAWAY REGIONS
Dmitry Medvedev (President of the Russian Federation),
16 Sep 2008
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→ read full articleRUSSIA, GEORGIA, AND THE KOSOVO CONNECTION
J. Victor Marshall (Media Monitors Network),
16 Sep 2008
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→ read full articlePARENTAL CHILD BEATING VS. CHILDREN’S RIGHTS
Rutagengwa Claude Shema, MD,
16 Sep 2008
Failure of Human Kind, Lack of Intellectual Skills, Unprecedented StupidityRead more
→ read full articleRICH COUNTRIES ONCE USED GUNBOATS TO SEIZE FOOD:
George Monbiot, Guardian UK,
16 Sep 2008
Now They Use Trade DealsRead more
→ read full articleBARACK OBAMA HAS EMBRACED THE “GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM”
Michel Chossudovsky,
16 Sep 2008
Obama’s "American Promise" is War Read more
→ read full articleNEW SPY SOFTWARE COMING ON-LINE
Tom Burghardt,
16 Sep 2008
"Surveillance in a Box" Makes its DebutRead more
→ read full article“WE ARE ALL WHITE MICE!”
By Luc Bronner, Le Monde.,
16 Sep 2008
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→ read full articleRON PAUL SAYS IT’S TIME TO END THE EMPIRE
TMS Editor,
14 Sep 2008
Paul Jay interviews Ron Paul from the "Rally for the Republic9.5-Min VideoView video
→ read full article“THE WANDERING WHO?”
Gilad Atzmon,
14 Sep 2008
"When And How the Jewish People Was Invented" is a very serious studywritten by Professor Shlomo Sand, an Israeli historian. It is the mostserious study of Jewish nationalism and by far, the most courageouselaboration on the Jewish historical narrative. Read more
→ read full articleTHE PROBLEM IS EMPIRE
Tom Hayden,
14 Sep 2008
We will have to go back to the lessons Roman and British empires tolearn the painful lessons of imperial overextension. The lessons inblood bravely shed in lost or dubious causes. The lesson of a weakenedcapacity to fund healthcare, education, our children’s futures. Thelesson that democracy is diminished as the secrecy of the warmakingstate expands. The […]
→ read full articleGOING ON AN IMPERIAL BENDER HOW THE U.S. GARRISONS THE PLANET AND DOESN’T EVEN NOTICE
Tom Engelhardt,
14 Sep 2008
At the height of the Roman Empire, the Romans had an estimated 37 majormilitary bases scattered around their dominions. At the height of theBritish Empire, the British had 36 of them planetwide. Depending onjust who you listen to and how you count, we have hundreds of bases.According to Pentagon records, in fact, there are 761 […]
→ read full articleENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: CLICK HERE TO PLANT A TREE
Mario Osava,
14 Sep 2008
It has become fashionable in Latin America to pursue initiativestowards "zero carbon", neutralising the climate-changing greenhousegases produced by industry, commercial aviation and even the footballWorld Cup — and along with it, atoning for the environmental sins ofpolluters.Read more
→ read full articleTHE BUSH REGIME’S IMPERIAL AFFIRMATION: ENDLESS WAR, ENDLESS CONQUEST, ENDLESS REPRESSION
Tom Burghardt,
14 Sep 2008
While people around the world begin to celebrate George W. Bush’sJanuary 20, 2009 departure from the White House, senior administrationofficials are crafting legislation, rule changes and executive ordersthat will make permanent the worst excesses of this criminal regime. Read more
→ read full articleWHY THE PEACEFUL MAJORITY OF MUSLIMS ARE NOT IRREVELANT
Sheldon Richman,
14 Sep 2008
A few years ago, FrontPageMag.com columnist Paul Marek wrote an articletitled “Why the Peaceful Majority Is Irrelevant.” His thesis was thateven if the majority of Muslims abhor violence, it doesn’t matterbecause “the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history…. The hardquantifiable fact is, that the ‘peaceful majority’ is the ‘silentmajority’ and it is cowed […]
→ read full articlePUTIN’S RUTHLESS GAMBIT
Michael T. Klare,
14 Sep 2008
To fully grasp the recent upheavals in the Caucasus, it is necessary toview the conflict as but a minor skirmish in a far more significantgeopolitical struggle between Moscow and Washington over the energyriches of the Caspian Sea basin – with former Russian president (nowprime minister) Vladimir Putin emerging as the reigning grand master ofgeostrategic chess […]
→ read full articleThinking Conflict
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2008
In an important article in the leading Austrian newspaper Der Standard (16-17 Feb 2008), Hans Küng, the famous president of the World Ethos Foundation, calls for more than “change” from a new US president. He calls for basic change, guided by a new ethos. And Küng gives a number of examples of misguided policies by […]
→ read full article50 Years of Fidel
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2008
Late 1958, 50 years ago, the revolution won, Batista fled, Fidel and his brother Raúl entered Habana early 1959. The rest is history. Castro’s resignation as President is a mini-event. He has put his mark on the history of Cuba, Latin America, the whole world. He has survived politically 10 US presidents (5 even serving […]
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