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THE MARTYRS OF AMRITSAR
Andrew Buncombe,
9 Jan 2009
After 90 years and a long campaign, the victims of a British atrocity in a holy city are being recognised as martyrs and freedom fighters by the Indian government On a sweltering afternoon 90 years ago in April, a squad of Gurkha and Baluchi troops under the command of British officers marched into an enclosed […]
→ read full articleAPPEALS FROM THE NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION AND FROM THE INDO-PAK CAMPAING AGAINST WAR AND TERRRORISM
TMS Editor,
9 Jan 2009
An Appeal to the Next President of the United States US Leadership for a Nuclear Weapons-Free WorldCLICK HERE to sign the Appeal as an Organization ***********************************To: Prime Minister of India and President of Pakistan Joint Signature Campaign by Citizens of India and Pakistan Against Terrorism, War Posturing and To Promote Cooperation and PeaceCLICK HERE to […]
→ read full articleGAZA CATASTROPHE: RESOURCE CONFLIC?
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed,
9 Jan 2009
Natural Gas, Palestinian Elections, and Israel’s Subversion of the ‘Peace Process’ Israel claims it is fighting in Gaza to stop Hamas rocket-fire against Israel, the continuation of which constituted a flagrant breach of the six-months ceasefire. Hence, the objective of the military operation is limited by the aim of putting an end to the rocket-fire. […]
→ read full articleA SHIELD THAT BRINGS DANGER
Mark Seddon,
7 Jan 2009
In these times of tension, Russia’s neighbours’ fears are far from alleviated by US missile defence plans. As Russia flexes its muscles, cutting gas supplies to Ukraine in a dispute that is as much about unpaid bills as it is about settling political scores, a small, disused Warsaw Pact airfield in a remote corner of […]
→ read full articleSHELL’S GAME
George Monbiot,
7 Jan 2009
Why Good People Do Bad Things For a while it seemed that Shell had stopped pretending. The advertisements which filled the newspapers in 2006, featuring technicians with perfect teeth and open-necked shirts explaining how they were saving the world(1,2,3), vanished. After being slated by environmentalists for greenwash, after two adverse rulings by the Advertising Standards […]
→ read full articleTHE GREAT DRAGON AWAKENS: CHINA CHALLENGES AMERICAN HEGEMONY
José Miguel Alonso Trabanco,
7 Jan 2009
Nowadays, most International Relations analysts acknowledge China’s potential to achieve superpower status over the course of the next decades due to its impressive economic growth, which was triggered by Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms program (inspired by theorists like Friedrich List). Chinese power has also increased considerably in military, geopolitical, trade and financial affairs. Some experts […]
→ read full articleSILENCE IS COMPLICITY – WE’RE ALL WAR CRIMINALS NOW
Joe Mowrey,
7 Jan 2009
In response to the current brutal assault on Gaza by Israel a well-known long distance service provider has sponsored a petition for their customers to sign urging a cease fire. On the face of it, this seems like a noble endeavor. The company in question caters to the progressive community and donates a portion of […]
→ read full articleWARSAW GHETTO JEWS RESISTED – WHY CAN’T PALESTINIANS RESIST ISRAEL?
Genevieve Fraser - RamallahOnline.com,
7 Jan 2009
Eighty percent of the Gaza Strip’s 1.5 million residents are refugees or their descendents, driven from their Palestinian homes by the creation of Israel in 1948, or during the 1967 Arab-Israeli Six-Day War. After Israeli settlements vacated Gaza, Palestine in 2005, Israel essentially sealed the borders. Crops raised for international markets rotted in place and […]
→ read full articleISRAEL’S ‘FAIT ACCOMPLI’ IN GAZA
Eric Margolis - Aljazeera,
7 Jan 2009
There are two completely different versions of what is currently happening in Gaza. In the Israeli and North American press version, Hamas – "Islamic terrorists" backed by Iran – have in an unprovoked attack fired deadly rockets on innocent Israel with the intent of destroying the Jewish state. North American politicians and the media say […]
→ read full articleLIVING ON BORROWED TIME IN A STOLEN LAND
Gilad Atzmon,
7 Jan 2009
Communicating with Israelis may leave one bewildered. Even now when the Israeli Air Force is practicing murder in broad daylight of hundreds of civilians, elderly persons, women and children, the Israeli people manage to convince themselves that they are the real victims in this violent saga. Those who are familiar intimately with Israeli people realise that […]
→ read full articleJEROEN VAN DER VEER CHALLENGED
George Monbiot,
7 Jan 2009
I grill the chief executive of Shell in the fourth of my aggressive interviews with policy makers. In the latest of his groundbreaking encounters with the figures whose decisions shape our environment, George Monbiot challenges Jeroen van de Veer, chief executive of oil and gas giant Shell, on ethics, greenwash advertising, renewable energy investments and […]
→ read full articleUNCENSORED VIDEO REPORT FROM NORWEGIAN DOCTOR IN GAZA HOSPITAL
Dr. Mads Gilbert – In Gaza,
7 Jan 2009
“This is an all-out war against the civilian Palestinian population” Dr . Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor in Gaza, tells Sky News that the number of civilians injured and killed in Gaza proves that Israel is deliberately attacking the population. 2:45-Min VideoCLICK TO VIEW
→ read full articleOPEN LETTER TO BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Dr. Mahathir Mohamad - Former Prime Minister of Malaysia,
4 Jan 2009
Dear Mr. President, I did not vote for you in the Presidential Election because I am Malaysian. But I consider myself one of your constituents because what you do or say will affect me and my country as well. I welcome your promise for change. Certainly your country, the United States of America needs a […]
→ read full articleTHE ALTERNATIVE’S ALTERNATIVE
Evgeny Morozov,
4 Jan 2009
The "Alternative media", an early-adopter of web technologies, has been left behind by the hyper-individualism of citizen journalism’s new turns. Whatever their impact on the domestic politics in Greece, the youth riots that have besieged Athens and other Greek cities earlier this month have also given rise to a new global phenomenon – the "networked […]
→ read full articleWE MUST ADJUST OUR DISTORTED IMAGE OF HAMAS
William Sieghart,
4 Jan 2009
Gaza is a secular society where people listen to pop music, watch TV and many women walk the streets unveiled. Last week I was in Gaza. While I was there I met a group of 20 or so police officers who were undergoing a course in conflict management. They were eager to know whether foreigners […]
→ read full articleISRAEL IN GAZA: RIGHT BUT NOT SMART
Rabbi Michael Lerner,
4 Jan 2009
Israel is still using a strategy of domination in its struggle with Hamas, trying to use force to gain security. But this is a recipe for endless war. Israel’s attempt to wipe out Hamas is understandable, but dumb. No country in the world is going to ignore the provocation of rockets being launched from […]
→ read full articleMOLTEN LEAD: ISRAEL’S NEW ELECTION WAR
Uri Avnery, RamallahOnline.com,
4 Jan 2009
Just after midnight, Aljazeera’s Arabic channel was reporting on events in Gaza. Suddenly the camera was pointing upwards towards the dark sky. The screen was pitch black. Nothing could be seen, but there was a sound to be heard: the noise of airplanes, a frightening, a terrifying droning. It was impossible not to think about […]
→ read full articleISRAEL VIOLATES INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW
Prof. Richard Falk - United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories,
4 Jan 2009
The Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip represent severe and massive violations of international humanitarian law as defined in the Geneva Conventions, both in regard to the obligations of an Occupying Power and in the requirements of the laws of war. Those violations include: Collective punishment – the entire 1.5 million people who live […]
→ read full articleTHE U.S. HAS 761 MILITARY BASES ACROSS THE PLANET, AND WE SIMPLY NEVER TALK ABOUT IT
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com,
4 Jan 2009
Here it is, as simply as I can put it: In the course of any year, there must be relatively few countries on this planet on which U.S. soldiers do not set foot, whether with guns blazing, humanitarian aid in hand, or just for a friendly visit. In startling numbers of countries, our soldiers not […]
→ read full articlePALESTINE’S GUERNICA AND THE MYTHS OF ISRAELI VICTIMHOOD
Mustafa Barghouthi - Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative,
1 Jan 2009
Barghouti is a former secular candidate for President of Palestine and has been a strong advocate of non-violent responses to Israeli occupation. Barghouti is thought by many to be a leading contender in the next Palestinian presidential election. Here is a link to an interview that Steve Clemons did with Barghouti in July 2008 regarding […]
→ read full articleTMS Interviews Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman,
30 Dec 2008
Democracy Now! hostess Amy Goodman, recipient of the 2008 High Livelihood Award
→ read full articleWEALTH CREATION, OR A PONZI SCHEME?
Michael Hudson,
24 Dec 2008
Last week the Good Lord evidently realized that not enough people had been reading Hyman Minsky’s explanation of how financial cycles end in Ponzi schemes – the stage in which banks keep the boom going by lending their customers the money to pay interest and thus avoid default. So He sent Bernie Madoff to dominate […]
→ read full articleTHE PARANOIA SQUAD
George Monbiot,
24 Dec 2008
Published in the Guardian, 23rd December 2008. A British police unit is demonising peaceful protesters to stay in business. When you hear the term “domestic extremist”, whom do you picture? How about someone like Dr Peter Harbour? He’s a retired physicist and university lecturer, who worked on the nuclear fusion reactor run by European governments […]
→ read full articleVENEZUELA: HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH REPORT UNDER FIRE
Humberto Márquez,
24 Dec 2008
A Human Rights Watch report on alleged setbacks in human rights in Venezuela since President Hugo Chávez first took office 10 years ago has been severely questioned by 118 academics from the United States and several other countries. The report, "A Decade Under Chávez: Political Intolerance and Lost Opportunities for Advancing Human Rights in Venezuela", […]
→ read full articleMODUS OPERANDI OF PEACE ORGANIZATIONS
Charles Mercieca,
23 Dec 2008
The expression modus operandi is a Latin phrase that literally means mode or way of operating or functioning. It is generally based on established principles. A peace organization refers to any group of individuals that decide to work together wholeheartedly for the achievement of the same constructive goals and objectives. The word peace is […]
→ read full articleA WORLD ENSLAVED
E. Benjamin Skinner,
23 Dec 2008
There are now more slaves on the planet than at any time in human history. True abolition will elude us until we admit the massive scope of the problem, attack it in all its forms, and empower slaves to help free themselves. Standing in New York City, you are five hours away from being […]
→ read full articleSONG AROUND THE WORLD “STAND BY ME” – A Video by “Playing for Change: Peace Through Music”
TMS Editor,
23 Dec 2008
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→ read full articleWILL WAR CRIMES BE OUTED?
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith - The Nation,
23 Dec 2008
As the officials of the Bush administration pack up in Washington and move into their posh suburban homes around the country, will they be able to rest easy, or will they be haunted by the fear that they will be held accountable for war crimes? There are many reasons to anticipate that the incoming Obama […]
→ read full articleBERNARD MADOFF: WALL STREET SWINDLER STRIKES POWERFUL BLOWS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
Prof. James Petras,
23 Dec 2008
“We never thought he would do this to us, he was one of our people”, member of Palm Beach Country Club. In a few days, one individual, Bernard Madoff, has struck a bigger blow against global financial capital, Wall Street and the US Zionist Lobby/Israel-First Agenda than the entire US and European left combined over […]
→ read full articleDOCTORS NAME TOP 10 HUMANITARIAN CRISES OF 2008
Michael Astor,
23 Dec 2008
Spiralling violence in Somalia, forced civilian displacements in eastern Congo, and neglected medical emergencies in Myanmar and Zimbabwe were among the Top 10 humanitarian crises of 2008, according to an annual list released by Médecins Sans Frontières. Other crises on the group’s list included: malnutrition, which claims 5 million young lives across the globe each […]
→ read full articleA SHORT PATH, FROM GAZA TO SOMALIA
Daniel Levy – Haaretz.com,
23 Dec 2008
As the defined period for the Gaza cease-fire comes to an end today [19 Dec, 08], preceded by a new cycle of violence, Israelis are being treated to a predictable dose of political posturing and chest-thumping. "We must do something, exact a price," we hear. Yes, the rocket fire needs to stop, but there is […]
→ read full articleTALIBAN LEADER MULLAH OMAR URGES SEVEN POINT PLAN FOR PEACE
Jalal Ghazi - New America Media, News Analysis,
21 Dec 2008
Eye on Arab Media Editor’s Note: While President-elect Barack Obama vows to pull back from Iraq and focus military action on Afghanistan, Taliban leader Mullah Omar is working hard to negotiate his way out of this situation. Jalal Ghazi is the associate producer of the Peabody Award-winning show "Mosaic: World News from the Middle East," […]
→ read full articleBRAZIL’S EXPERIENCE WITH LULA OFFERS LESSONS FOR OBAMA SUPPORTERS
Michael Fox,
20 Dec 2008
We arrived early, but the field was already packed with an ecstatic crowd waiting to hear the one man who they believed could actually turn the country around. Nearly three months before he had won the presidency with the promise of change, and now more than a hundred thousand had descended on this grassy hillside […]
→ read full articleFINDING COMMON GROUND IN CRISIS: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN SOUTH AMERICA AND THE US
Benjamin Dangl,
20 Dec 2008
People in the US seeking ways to confront the economic crisis could follow the lead of South American social movements. From Argentina to Venezuela, many movements have won victories against the same systems of corporate greed and political corruption that produce economic strife across the hemisphere. These movements also have experience holding politicians’ feet to […]
→ read full articleLANGIWE JOYCE NGOMA, OF ZIMBABWE PEACE PROJECT, ON THE ABDUCTION OF HER DIRECTOR, JESTINA MUKOKO, ON DEC/3 IN ZIMBABWE
TMS Editor,
20 Dec 2008
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→ read full articleUN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR JUDGES LIBERALIZATION HARMFUL TO FRAGIL AGRICULTURES
Jean-Pierre Stroobants, Le Monde,
18 Dec 2008
Olivier De Schutter, a Belgian academic who is currently the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food, is about to present a much-awaited report to Pascal Lamy, director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO). It concerns both the impact of liberalized world trade on hunger in the world and free trade’s […]
→ read full articleBRAZIL’S SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Amnesty International,
18 Dec 2008
A vote in Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday [Dec 10/08] upheld the rights of Indigenous Peoples in the reservation of Raposa Serra do Sol on the frontier between Brazil and Guyana/Venezuela. The vote is seen as a victory for all Indigenous Peoples across Brazil. The Supreme Court’s vote is a milestone in the thirty-year battle […]
→ read full articleLATIN AMERICA: SUMMIT MARKS DISTANCE FROM U.S.
Mario Osava,
18 Dec 2008
A motion calling for an end to the United States embargo against Cuba accentuated the anti-imperialist tone taken on by the summit of Latin American and Caribbean leaders that ended Wednesday in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia. The motion, approved by all of the countries of the region, including several that have conservative governments […]
→ read full articleAFGHANISTAN: A WAY FORWARD
Maya Schenwar,
17 Dec 2008
An interview with Stephen Kinzer Last week, with President-elect Obama’s blessing, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced the beginning of a troop "surge" in Afghanistan. As the US embarks on a slow redeployment of troops away from the widely condemned occupation of Iraq – though that occupation is not by any means ending – it […]
→ read full article[TRANSCEND MEMBER] U.S. PROFESSOR RICHARD FALK DENIED ENTRY INTO ISRAEL AND DEPORTED FROM BEN GURION AIRPORT
Marian Houk,
17 Dec 2008
Princeton Professor Emeritus of International Law Richard Falk, the United Nations Human Rights Council´s Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territory, has been deported from Israel on Monday [Dec 15] after being barred from entry at the airport, according to an Israeli human rights organization, ADALAH. The first alert […]
→ read full articleGREECE’S MAELSTROM OF VIOLENCE
Manfred Ertel and Daniel Steinvorth,
17 Dec 2008
The Revolt of a Disappointed Generation The violent unrest that followed the shooting of a 15-year-old boy has driven Greece to the brink of a political crisis. The rioting marks an explosion of rage by the country’s young people who have few prospects of carving out a place in a society where all initiative is […]
→ read full articleBUSH EXCLUDED BY LATIN SUMMIT AS CHINA, RUSSIA LOOM
Joshua Goodman,
16 Dec 2008
Latin American and Caribbean leaders gathering in Brazil tomorrow [Dec 16/08] will mark a historic occasion: a region-wide summit that excludes the United States. Almost two centuries after President James Monroe declared Latin America a U.S. sphere of influence, the region is breaking away. From socialist-leaning Venezuela to market-friendly Brazil, governments are expanding military, economic […]
→ read full articleHUMAN RIGHTS AND NONVIOLENCE – BASIS FOR A NONKILLING WORLD
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate,
16 Dec 2008
Speech at the 9th World Summit of Nobel Peace LaureatesParis, Dec 11-13/2008 Dear Friends, I am very happy to be here with you all. I would like to thank Bertrand Delanoe, the Mayor of Paris, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Walter Veltroni for their invitation to this Summit. It seems to me that we can only have […]
→ read full articleTHE CRISIS: AN OPPORTUNITY TO SAVE THE PLANET
Antoine Reverchon, Le Monde,
16 Dec 2008
An interview with Lord Nicholas Stern, professor at the London School of Economics, who received an honorary doctorate from the University of Paris-Dauphine on November 24. Le Monde: Your report on the economics of global climate change, published in October 2006, had a significant impact, since it quantified the economic costs of different scenarios […]
→ read full articleMOOD 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 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: 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 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 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 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 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 […]
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