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CENSORSHIP IN THE WESTERN MEDIA: WHAT THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW
Eric Sommer,
13 Nov 2008
The Western media has recently outdone itself in censoring important stories – stories which contradict the policies and interests the media seeks to uphold. Western publics have been systematically misled in recent weeks on vital issues related to war-and-peace, human rights, the financial crisis, and more. Only a few examples can be set out here. […]
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Jake Lynch on Peace Journalism (Part 1)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2008
Point of Peace Summit Stavanger, Norway, September 2008 httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg9YPYBtpsY
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Ceci Connolly and R. Jeffrey Smith,
9 Nov 2008
Stem cell, climate rules among targets of President-Elect’s team. Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse White House policies on climate change, stem cell research, reproductive rights and other issues, according to congressional Democrats, […]
→ read full articleMASS MEDIA AND MASS POLITICS
James Petras,
8 Nov 2008
Conservative, Liberal and Marxist Perspectives The role of the mass media (MM) in influencing mass and class behavior has been a central concern among critical writers, especially since the turn of the Twentieth century. Debates and studies on the MM have focused on its political bias, ownership and links to big business, relationships and ties […]
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Michael Moore,
8 Nov 2008
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 Friends, Who among us is not at a loss for words? Tears pour out. Tears of joy. Tears of relief. A stunning, whopping landslide of hope in a time of deep despair. In a nation that was founded on genocide and then built on the backs of slaves, it was an […]
→ read full articleWITH AN OBAMA PRESIDENCY, PERHAPS WE CAN
Kimberlye Kowalczyk,
8 Nov 2008
November 8, 2008 The election of a truly multicultural president, a symbolic reflection of the United States as a nation and the world as a whole, resulted in worldwide celebration. Kenya, the birthplace of Barack Hussein Obama’s father, announced a national holiday upon his election. In Washington DC police officers and firefighters danced in the […]
→ read full articleHOPE AS PALESTINIANS USE NONVIOLENCE IN THEIR STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOM
Mairead Maguire (Nobel Peace Prize laureate),
8 Nov 2008
REPORT: Journey to Gaza, 28th October-lst November, 2008 On 28th October, 2008, the Free Gaza Movement set sail on SS Dignity from Larnaca, Cyprus, to Gaza. On board were 27 internationals from 13 countries, including Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, five physicians, human rights lawyers, and others. On this second […]
→ read full articleGLOBAL COOLING IS HERE
Prof. Don J. Easterbrook, Department of Geology, Western Washington University,
4 Nov 2008
Evidence for Predicting Global Cooling for the Next Three Decades Global Research Editor’s note The following article represents an alternative view and analysis of global climate change, which challenges the dominant Global Warming Consensus. Global Research does not necessarily endorse the proposition of "Global Cooling", nor does it accept at face value the Consensus on […]
→ read full articleAVRAHAM BURG: ISRAEL?S NEW PROPHET
Donald Macintyre,
2 Nov 2008
Avraham Burg was a pillar of the Israeli establishment but his new book is causing a sensation. It argues that his country is an "abused child" which has become a "violent parent". And his solutions are radical, as he explains to Donald Macintyre In shorts, T-shirt and cotton kippa, Avraham Burg is sitting in his […]
→ read full articleA GLITTERING DEMON: MINING, POVERTY AND POLITICS IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
Michael Deibert, Special to CorpWatch,
1 Nov 2008
In the heart of the war-scarred Ituri region in northeastern Congo, some 200 mud-covered men pan for traces of gold in the muddy brown waters. Working for the Congolese owners of Manyida camp, the miners are following a map of the site made by the Belgians, the country’s former colonial rulers. “It’s very difficult, punishing […]
→ read full articleTWO PARTIES, ONE IMPERIAL MISSION: THE US EMPIRE WILL SURVIVE BUSH
Arno J. Mayer,
30 Oct 2008
The United States may emerge from the Iraq fiasco almost unscathed. Though momentarily disconcerted, the American empire will continue on its way, under bipartisan direction and mega-corporate pressure, and with evangelical blessings. It is a defining characteristic of mature imperial states that they can afford costly blunders, paid for not by the elites but the […]
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Mark Gay,
30 Oct 2008
russiatoday.com The U.S. administration has prompted a huge surge in the U.S. dollar, which may help refinance its financial sector. The cost is a currency whirlwind that threatens the collapse not just of banks and companies but entire countries. In the past week the financial crisis, which began in banking and spread to stocks, has […]
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Guy Adams,
30 Oct 2008
The streetcars are being renamed and the red carpets rolled out in the Castro district of San Francisco for the world premiere of Milk, the latest film to break Hollywood’s long-running taboo over homosexuality. A roar of approval greeted Sean Penn and Josh Brolin as they swept past several hundred people who had gathered on […]
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George Monbiot,
30 Oct 2008
Why morons succeed in US politics. How was it allowed to happen? How did politics in the US come to be dominated by people who make a virtue out of ignorance? Was it charity that has permitted mankind’s closest living relative to spend two terms as president? How did Sarah Palin, Dan Quayle and other […]
→ read full articleWALL STREET?S TROJAN HORSE
Michel Chossudovsky,
29 Oct 2008
Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has announced that Brazil, Russia, India and China will "coordinate efforts in overcoming the financial crisis". The statement suggests that the four countries will confront the dominant US-UK-EU alliance, which personifies Western banking interests, at the forthcoming Summit in Washington. “We are going to coordinate our moves with the leading […]
→ read full articleLATIN AMERICA?S ?NEW LEFT? IN CRISIS AS THE ?FREE MARKET? COLLAPSES
James Petras,
29 Oct 2008
Latin America is entering a period of profound economic recession, financial crises, collapsing stock market quotations, prices, deep devaluation of its currencies, growing unemployment, declining revenues and the prospect of a prolonged socio-economic recession. The economic breakdown, which is still unfolding, affects the entire political spectrum, extending from the far-right Uribe regime in […]
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Dahr Jamail,
29 Oct 2008
Long before I discovered the mysterious mix of pain and relief that writing from the heart brings, I was pursuing a Masters in English Literature at Central Washington University in the small town of Ellensburg, Washington. I was broke, like most grad students, and supported myself by working for two individuals confined to […]
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Bill Moyer's Journal,
29 Oct 2008
Video and transcript: This is the big one. I have been working on financial crises since the New York City rescue in 1975. And this is, by far and away, the biggest threat to the system as a whole that we’ve seen in my lifetime and I think the biggest threat since the late 1920s.CLICK […]
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Stephanie McCrummen,
29 Oct 2008
On a continent that has been dominated by the rule of men, this tiny East African nation is trying something new. Here, women are not only driving the economy — working on construction sites, in factories and as truck and taxi drivers — they are also filling the ranks of government. Women hold a third […]
→ read full articleJohan Galtung: The World after 9/11 [Pat 2]
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2008
Stavanger, Norway, Point of Peace Conference httpv://www.youtube.com/v/HrI9ipWgmKM&hl=en&fs=1
→ read full articlePOVERTY AND GLOBALIZATION
John Maxwell,
26 Oct 2008
President Jean Bertrand Aristide, now in enforced exile in South Africa, might be sardonically entertained by a new report just published by the world’s Club of the Rich, the OECD –Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. This report, titled “Growing Unequal” examines the accelerating trend toward economic inequality in the societies of the world’s richest […]
→ read full articleDON?T EXPAND NATO
Benjamin H. Friedman and Justin Logan,
26 Oct 2008
At the upcoming North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in December, U.S. officials will once again make the case for admitting Georgia and Ukraine to the alliance. Our NATO allies, with Germany and France leading the way, already blocked the two countries’ path to membership last spring, a move that in retrospect might have prevented August’s […]
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John Maxwell,
26 Oct 2008
The people of Haiti are as poor as human beings can be. According to the statisticians of the World Bank and others who speculate about how many Anglos can dance on the head of a peon, Haiti may either be the second, third or fourth poorest country in the world. In Haiti’s case, statistics are […]
→ read full articleJohan Galtung: The World after 9/11 [Part 1]
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2008
Stavanger, Norway, Point of Peace Conference httpv://www.youtube.com/v/-leJrsuRQEQ&hl=en&fs=1
→ read full articleZIONISM, MILITARISM, AND THE DECLINE OF THE US POWER
Stephen Lendman,
25 Oct 2008
Review of James Petras’ book James Petras is Binghamton University Professor Emeritus of Sociology. His credentials and achievements are long and impressive as a noted academic figure on the left. A well-respected Latin American expert, and a longtime chronicler of the region’s popular struggles. He’s also a prolific author of hundreds of articles and dozens […]
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P. Gillespie | The Irish Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2008
18 Oct 2008 – In November, 1857, Karl Marx wrote to Frederick Engels: “The American crash is a delight to behold, and it’s far from over.” He predicted the financial crisis – the most geographically widespread to have hit 19th-century capitalism until then – would deepen and lead to a complete collapse of Wall Street, […]
→ read full articleTRACTATUS LOGICO PALESTINICUS
Gilad Atzmon,
22 Oct 2008
Atzmon tries to lift the Palestinian Discourse where Wittgenstein left it… 1 “What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about, we must pass over in silence.” (Ludwig Wittgenstein 1918) 1.1 Humanism and ethics are ends worth fighting for. 1.2 Western politics and political discourse (on the other […]
→ read full articleIDENTITY: BEYOND SELF, CULTURE, NATION, AND HUMANITY TO “LIFEISM”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D.,
22 Oct 2008
President, Psychologists for Social Responsibility Summary: This article explores the nature and meaning of identity and its personal, cultural, and national nuances and consequences. In this presentation, I note, as have many others, that meaningful personal and social identities are at the core of a meaningful human existence. But this assertion raises critical questions about […]
→ read full article(A MUST READ) THE FALL OF THE U.S. EMPIRE–AND THEN WHAT?
Johan Galtung, 22 Oct 2008 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2008
[Economic Contradictions- (2)]- between productive and finance economy: Domestic and global market turnover being high even if the growth is sluggish in the productive economy in many countries, and distribution being low, there will be heavy accumulation of liquidity high up searching for an outlet. Luxury consumption and productive investment being limited, the obvious outlet […]
→ read full articleISLAMIC BANKING ESCAPES FALLOUT
The Straits Times-Singapore,
22 Oct 2008
Islamic banking has largely escaped the fallout from the global financial crisis, thanks to rules that forbid the sort of risky business that is felling mainstream institutions. But experts say that because of its heavy reliance on property investments and private equity, the booming 1.0 trillion dollar global industry could be hit if the turmoil […]
→ read full articleWORLD PEACE IS MORE THAN JUST THE SILENCING OF THE GUNS
Peter Chamberlin,
21 Oct 2008
World peace is more than just the silencing of the guns, it is the elimination of the injustice that has compelled the men to reach for those guns in self-defense against the aggression. In the currently building world war (which is based on lies and deceptions), the mission is to identify all of the men […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) AN?LISE: CRESCIMENTO DA CHINA ? CRUCIAL PARA AM?RICA LATINA SUPERAR CRISE
James Painter,
21 Oct 2008
Analista da BBC para a América Latina As economias da América Latina se encontram em uma posição mais forte para enfrentar a crise financeira global do que estavam no passado. A maioria dos países tem superávit comercial, grandes reservas monetárias e um nível saudável de déficit fiscal. Mas a combinação de uma desaceleração global com […]
→ read full articleFINALITY BEFORE JUSTICE ? EXECUTION DATE FOR TROY DAVIS SET FOR OCTOBER 27TH
Annette Schiffman,
21 Oct 2008
Amnesty International calls for urgent action NOW The US Supreme Court, without any explanation and in a one-sentence declaration on October 14, has refused Georgia death row inmate Troy Anthony Davis a hearing, declining to enter a contentious debate as to whether the condemned inmate was the real killer of a Savannah police officer in […]
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Johan Galtung, 20 Oct 2008 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2008
Greensboro and the Blue Ridge, North Carolina, 20/Oct/2008 There is tremendous excitement in the air, carried by the name Obama. Change. The mantra word. The feeling that a New Beginning may be around the corner. For one who has the privilege of organizing workshops on the concrete content Americans might like to see happen, there […]
→ read full articleAFHANISTAN?S EMERGING ANTIWAR MOVEMENT
Anand Gopal, The Christian Science Monitor,
20 Oct 2008
Afghan NGOs are teaching human rights and Islamic law along with calls to end the war with a national peace jirga. In a musty room near the edge of town, a group of bearded men sit on the floor and heatedly discuss strategy. The men are in the planning stages of an event that they […]
→ read full articleJUDGE ORDERS OPENING OF FEDERICO GARC?A LORCA?S GRAVE
Graham Keeley in Valencia,
20 Oct 2008
The remains of Spanish poet Federico García Lorca and others buried in mass graves during the Civil War are to be exhumed as part of an investigation into mass killings, a judge has ordered. Judge Baltasar Garzon authorized the opening of the graves containing remains of the victims of General Franco’s victims all over Spain, […]
→ read full article20BN BARREL OIL DISCOVERY PUTS CUBA IN THE BIG LEAGUE
Rory Carroll, Latin America correspondent,
20 Oct 2008
• Self-reliance beckons for communist state • Estimate means reserves are on a par with US Friends and foes have called Cuba many things – a progressive beacon, a quixotic underdog, an oppressive tyranny – but no one has called it lucky, until now . Mother nature, it emerged this week, appears to have blessed […]
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David Michael Green,
20 Oct 2008
With apologies to Churchill (who owed a few of his own): Never have so many been so wrong about so much. There are few things you’d less rather be right now than a conservative/regressive, and that is why. It’s like the old Firesign Theater bit: Everything You Know Is Wrong. “Dogs flew spaceships! The Aztecs […]
→ read full articleUS POLICIES MAY HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO IRAN REVOLUTION, STUDY SAYS
Borzou Daragahi, The Los Angeles Times,
17 Oct 2008
A report based on declassified documents suggests that the Nixon and Ford administrations, angry with the shah for his support for raising oil prices, worked to curb his ambitions. A new report based on previously classified documents suggests that the Nixon and Ford administrations created conditions that helped destabilize Iran in the late […]
→ read full articleANTI-DEMOCRATIC NATURE OF US CAPITALISM IS BEING EXPOSED
Noam Chomsky,
17 Oct 2008
Bretton Woods was the system of global financial management set up at the end of the second World War to ensure the interests of capital did not smother wider social concerns in post-war democracies. It was hated by the US neoliberals – the very people who created the banking crisis writes Noam Chomsky The simultaneous […]
→ read full articleECOLOGY AND INDIAN MOVEMENTS: ?DIVERSITY WITH INEQUALITY IS NOT SOCIAL JUSTICE?
Prof. James Petras,
17 Oct 2008
A Class Perspective Introduction There are two opposing approaches to the analysis of ecological destruction and the emergence of Indian movements in Latin America: the liberal and the Marxist. The liberal approach emphasizes ‘universal responsibility" for the destruction of the environment – rich and poor, mining companies and miners, factory owners and factory workers, auto […]
→ read full articleIMPACT ON HUMAN RIGHTS OF PRIVATE MILITARY AND SECURITY COMPANIES? ACTIVITIES
Jos? L. G?mez del Prado,
17 Oct 2008
There has been a remarkable expansion, in the last 20 years, of private military and security companies providing services in zones of low-intensity armed conflict and post-conflict situations such as Afghanistan, the Balkans, Colombia, the Congo, Iraq, Somalia or Sudan. These transnational private companies can provide logistics, combat or combat related security training and intelligence […]
→ read full articleWHO CARES ABOUT OMAR KHADR?
Debbie Menon,
17 Oct 2008
Omar Khadr is probably the greatest shame on Canada, because two governments, the Liberals under Paul Martin and the Conservatives under Harper have both made the overt decision to leave him in prison. The case against him is insane. He was a child, aged 15. He was in Afghanistan because his parents took him there. […]
→ read full articleSYSTEM FAILURE AND THE NEED FOR (NONVIOLENT) REVOLUTION
Raymond Lotta,
17 Oct 2008
The most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression shows no sign of letting up. The financial edifice of U.S. imperialism is in danger of crumbling. The U.S. ruling class is confronting what Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke describes as a crisis of “historic proportions”—and is hurriedly cobbling together desperate measures to prevent wholesale collapse. […]
→ read full articleCRUNCH RESURRECTS MARX
Erik Kirschbaum in Berlin,
17 Oct 2008
Two decades after the Berlin Wall fell, communism’s founding father Karl Marx is back in vogue in eastern Germany, thanks to the global financial crisis. His 1867 critical analysis of capitalism, Das Kapital, has risen from the publishing graveyard to become an improbable best-seller for the academic publisher, Karl-Dietz-Verlag. "Everyone thought there would never again […]
→ read full 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 articleMAY I QUOTE YOU, MR. PRESIDENT?
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. Bush 2-“It’s time for the human race […]
→ 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 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 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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
→ 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 […]
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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 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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2008
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