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DEPARTING FROM DETERRENCE – WHY A NUKE-FREE WORLD IS POSSIBLE
Oliver Thränert – SPIEGEL Online International,
1 Feb 2009
A world without nuclear weapons is not only possible, it is at the top of the global agenda. The new American administration could give the initiative for a non-nuclear world a decisive push in the right direction. But the US and other major nuclear powers have to get serious about scrapping their own arsenals. Despite […]
→ read full articleWAR AGAINST IVORY TRADE TAKES TO THE SEA
Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor,
25 Jan 2009
Auction House Agrees to Stop Sale of Whale Tusks After Pressure from Campaigners It’s the "other" ivory. And this week, conservationists in London stepped in to stop its sale. It might not be as well known as the stuff that comes from elephants, but the ivory from the narwhal, the tusked whale of the northern […]
→ read full articleSO FAR, OBAMA’S MISSED THE POINT ON GAZA…
Robert Fisk,
25 Jan 2009
It would have helped if Obama had the courage to talk about what everyone in the Middle East was talking about. No, it wasn’t the US withdrawal from Iraq. They knew about that. They expected the beginning of the end of Guantanamo and the probable appointment of George Mitchell as a Middle East envoy was […]
→ read full articleOBAMA: DECLARE AN END TO ‘THE WAR ON TERROR’
Robert Dreyfuss,
14 Jan 2009
The Middle East looms large for Barack Obama, and in Washington it’s clear that the seething arc of crises from Gaza and Lebanon through Iraq and Iran into Afghanistan and Pakistan won’t let Obama ignore the region from Day One. Starting today, and continuing for the rest of this week, I’m presenting a series of […]
→ read full articleAMERICA’S SHAME
Paul Craig Roberts,
12 Jan 2009
Why does Israel have a right to exist, but Palestine doesn’t? This is the question of our time. For sixty years Israelis have been stealing Palestine from Palestinians. There are maps available on the Internet and in Israeli publications showing the shrinkage over time of what was once Palestine into what Palestine is today–a small […]
→ read full articleWHEREVER I GO, I HEAR THE SAME TIRED MIDDLE EAST COMPARISONS
Robert Fisk,
11 Jan 2009
On both sides of the Atlantic the experience has been weirdly repetitive It all depends where you live. That was the geography of Israel’s propaganda, designed to demonstrate that we softies – we little baby-coddling liberals living in our secure Western homes – don’t realise the horror of 12 (now 20) Israeli deaths in 10 […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) EXTERMÍNIO JUDEU: CRIME OU GLÓRIA?
José Roberto Orquiza – port/pravda.ru,
10 Jan 2009
Quantos precisam morrer? Quantos precisam ser dilacerados em Gaza para a humanidade acordar? Mais que mulheres, crianças, velhos, civis quaisquer os judeus estão provando uma insensatez extraordinária. Contra os militantes do Hamas matam, destroem, assassinam, exterminam como se a ação programada fosse compreensível. Se a insanidade tivesse lugar em tempos bárbaros, no meio de manifestações […]
→ read full articleAMERICA’S SOUL SICKNESS & PERMANENT WAR – OBAMA’S RUDE AWAKENING
Roberto Rodriguez,
9 Jan 2009
Obama’s first challenge will not be the unresolved Middle East crisis. Nor will it be Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo or the economy. His primary challenge will come in coming face to face with the Bush/Cheney doctrine of permanent worldwide war. Unless Obama renounces it on inauguration day, this doctrine will continue to be U.S. policy. Beyond […]
→ read full articleBUSH PLAN BEAT OBSTACLE TO GAZA ASSAULT
Gareth Porter,
9 Jan 2009
Until mid-2007, there was a serious political obstacle to a massive conventional war by Israel against Hamas in Gaza: the fact that Hamas had won free and fair elections for the Palestinian parliament and was still the leading faction in a fully legitimate government. But the George W Bush administration helped Israel eliminate that obstacle, […]
→ read full articleWHY DO THEY HATE THE WEST SO MUCH, WE WILL ASK
Robert Fisk,
7 Jan 2009
So once again, Israel has opened the gates of hell to the Palestinians. Forty civilian refugees dead in a United Nations school, three more in another. Not bad for a night’s work in Gaza by the army that believes in "purity of arms". But why should we be surprised? Have we forgotten the 17,500 dead […]
→ read full articleWHY BOMBING ASHKELON IS THE MOST TRAGIC IRONY
Robert Fisk,
7 Jan 2009
How easy it is to snap off the history of the Palestinians, to delete the narrative of their tragedy, to avoid a grotesque irony about Gaza which – in any other conflict – journalists would be writing about in their first reports: that the original, legal owners of the Israeli land on which Hamas rockets […]
→ 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 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 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 articleALTERNATIVE THEORY OF 9/11?
Elizabeth Woodworth,
31 Dec 2008
Joel Brinkley: Does His Article on Richard Falk Demonstrate the Right "Frame of Mind" to Teach Journalism at Stanford? In a companion essay, I discussed the response of some articles in the mainstream press to the claim, made by some defenders of Israel, that Professor Richard Falk should be removed from his current position of […]
→ read full articleMAY WE NO LONGER BE SILENT
Paul Craig Roberts,
30 Dec 2008
The title of my article comes from the sermon of the Episcopal Bishop of Washington DC, John Bryson Chane, delivered on October 5, 2008, at St. Columba Church. The bishop’s eyes were opened to Israel’s persecution of Palestinians by his recent trip to Palestine. In his sermon he called on “politicians seeking the highest office […]
→ 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 articleONE MISSING WORD SOWED THE SEEDS OF CATASTROPHE
Robert Fisk,
21 Dec 2008
No One in 1967 Thought the Arab-Israeli Conflict Would Still Be in Progress 41 Years Later A nit-picker this week. And given the fact that we’re all remembering human rights, the Palestinians come to mind since they have precious few of them, and the Israelis because they have the luxury of a lot of them. […]
→ read full articleNOBEL PRIZE PROBE LAUNCHED
Stuart Laidlaw,
18 Dec 2008
Toronto Star – Faith and Ethics Reporter Swedish anti-corruption agents are investigating allegations that pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca influenced the awarding of this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine. "I have formally instigated, or started, a criminal investigation," Swedish anti-corruption prosecutor Nils-Erik Schulz told the Star in a telephone interview from Stockholm yesterday. Schulz’s investigation was sparked […]
→ 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 articleTHE UNITED STATES: A COUNTRY WITHOUT MERCY
Paul Craig Roberts,
17 Dec 2008
The Christmas season is a time to remember the unfortunate, among whom are those who have been wrongly convicted. In the United States, the country with the largest prison population in the world, the number of wrongly convicted is very large. Hardly any felony charges are resolved with trials. The vast majority of defendants, both […]
→ read full articleTHE LOGIG OF KEYNES IN TODAY’S WORLD
Robert Reich,
17 Dec 2008
Not long ago I was talking to someone who once had been a deficit hawk but the current recession had turned into a full-blooded Keynesian. He wanted a stimulus package in the range of $500 to $700 billion. "Consumers are dead in the water," he said, fervently, "so government has to step in." I […]
→ read full articleTHE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS: THE NEXT SIXTY YEARS
Conor Gearty,
13 Dec 2008
A landmark anniversary is a moment to move beyond complacency and engage in critical self-reflection of the foundation of human rights. There is much natural jubilation over the fact that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is celebrating its sixtieth birthday in 10 December 2008. At one level, it is indeed right to observe […]
→ 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 articleWHENEVER I’M IN TAJIKISTAN, MY MOBILE PHONE SAYS I’M IN DUBAI
Robert Fisk,
6 Dec 2008
Just look how we’ve forgotten the CIA’s secret prisons in Afghanistan I knew I was in Tajikistan this week when my Lebanese roaming mobile phone welcomed me to "Russia" on arrival at Dushanbe airport. Yup folks, Alpha Beirut really believed I was in Mr Putin’s empire. And, wondrous to behold, the phone pinged again when […]
→ read full articleKABUL 30 YEARS AGO, AND KABUL TODAY – HAVE WE LEARNED NOTHING?
Robert Fisk,
24 Nov 2008
‘Terrorists’ Were in Soviet Sights; Now They Are in the Americans’ I sit on the rooftop of the old Central Hotel – pharaonic-decorated elevator, unspeakable apple juice, sublime green tea, and armed Tajik guards at the front door – and look out across the smoky red of the Kabul evening. The Bala Hissar fort glows […]
→ read full articleONCE MORE FEAR STALKS THE STREETS OF KANDAHAR
Robert Fisk,
23 Nov 2008
Five years after his last visit, our correspondent finds the Taliban back in charge of their spiritual home – and girls attacked with acid simply for attending school There is a little girl in the Meir Wais hospital with livid scars and dead skin across her face, an obscene map of brown and pink tissue. […]
→ 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 articleRIO GROUP ACCEPTS CUBA – GROUP DEMANDS ROLE IN GLOBAL ECONOMIC ORDER
Raul Cortes,
18 Nov 2008
Argentina, Brazil & Mexico to Go to Washington for World Economic Summit The Rio Group club of Latin American and Caribbean nations agreed to join forces in order to deal with the current economic crisis and to defend their rights in a possible new world financial order, on the same day it approved the inclusion […]
→ read full articleTHERE IS NO END TO THE CENTURIES OF SAVAGERY IN AFGHANISTAN
Robert Fisk,
17 Nov 2008
Geneva Conventions were supposed to end the mass destruction of human life Back in Afghanistan, the mind turns to the small matter of savagery. Not the routine cruelty of war but the deliberate inhumanity with which we behave. The torture and killing of prisoners in this pitiful place – the American variety in Bagram and […]
→ 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 articleARABS HAVE TO RELY ON BRITAIN AND ISRAEL FOR THEIR HISTORY
Robert Fisk,
4 Nov 2008
There is no Public Record Office in the Arab World, no National Archive In Damascus, a massive statue of the late President Hafez al-Assad sits on a mighty iron chair outside the 22,000sq m Assad Library, a giant book open in his right hand. Behind him lie the archives of his dictatorship. But not a […]
→ read full articleTHE END OF INTERNATIONAL LAW?
Robert Dreyfuss,
4 Nov 2008
A parallel new Bush doctrine is emerging, in the last days of the soon-to-be-ancien regime, and it needs to be strangled in its crib. Like the original Bush doctrine — the one that Sarah Palin couldn’t name, which called for preventive military action against emerging threats — this one also casts international law aside by […]
→ 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 articleWHEN IS A CHILD NOT A CHILD?
Andy Worthington,
21 Oct 2008
When is a child not a child? Apparently, when he is Omar Khadr, a 15-year-old Canadian who was shot in the back after a firefight in Afghanistan in July 2002. Omar has been in U.S. custody ever since, first at a prison at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, and for the last six years in Guantánamo. […]
→ read full article“SUCKERS!” – LAHDE QUITS HEDGE FUNDS, THANKS ?IDIOTS? FOR SUCCESS
Katherine Burton,
20 Oct 2008
Andrew Lahde, the hedge-fund manager who quit after posting an 870 percent gain last year, said farewell to clients in a letter that thanks stupid traders for making him rich and ends with a plea to legalize marijuana. Lahde, head of Santa Monica, California-based Lahde Capital Management LLC, told investors last month he was returning […]
→ read full articleJAPAN IN A POST-U.S. WORLD
Robert Dujarric,
20 Oct 2008
Special to The Japan Times Besides the economic damage, the global financial crisis has dangerous strategic implications for Japan. Since 1945, the world has been organized along U.S.-centric lines. By providing security guarantees to its allies, Washington has supplied an international public good to the entire planet. Even countries not aligned with the United States, […]
→ read full articleA POSSIBLE SOLUTION TO THE ECONOMIC CRISIS
Paul Craig Roberts,
17 Oct 2008
What Is to be Done? Readers have been pressing for a solution to the financial crisis. But first it is necessary to understand the problem. Here is the problem as I see it. If my diagnosis is correct, the solution below might be appropriate. Let’s begin with the fact that the financial crisis is more […]
→ 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 […]
→ 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 articleNEW ZEALAND: THE MAORI STRUGGLE FOR LAND AND LIFE
John Schertow,
6 Oct 2008
The Maori People of Aotearoa (New Zealand) are now standing at a crossroads, forced to choose between sovereignty and colonialism. Within the recent Maori settlement program, the government offers large sums of money and small fragments of land. In exchange, the Maori are expected to give up their independence and become New Zealand citizens. Recent […]
→ 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 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 articleAMERICA SHOULD LISTEN TO AHMADINEJAD
Paul Craig Roberts,
6 Oct 2008
The full text of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech to the UN General Assembly last week was printed in the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz (9-25-08). Although our Founding Fathers would have comprehended and endorsed Ahmadinejad’s speech to the United Nations, present-day Americans would find it strange should they happen to hear about it. Unlike their forbears, […]
→ 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 article? o fim do Capitalismo?
esquerda.net - Portugal,
30 Sep 2008
Esta pergunta circulou nos últimos dias na imprensa financeira respeitável. Assim colocada, a pergunta não tem grande sentido. Todos conhecemos a correlação das forças sociais e políticas. E todos sabemos que uma transição sistémica desejável deverá ser o resultado de um longo processo de acumulação de forças democráticas e de vitórias socialistas no campo das […]
→ read full articleWHY DO WE KEEP LETTING THE POLITICIANS GET AWAY WITH LIES?
Robert Fisk,
16 Sep 2008
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→ read full articleJEWISH HISTORY Inventing an Invention
Israel Bartal, Haaretz,
16 Sep 2008
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→ read full articleSOLUTIONS DEMAND END TO NATION-STATE MYTH
Devin Stewart,
14 Sep 2008
NEW YORK — This fall, thousands of college students will be taught amyth presented as fact. It is a myth that has helped fuel wars and mayhinder finding solutions to the world’s biggest problems. Though theorigin of this myth is cloudy, science has proven its falsity, and aglobalized world has rendered it anachronistic. I am […]
→ read full articleTHE PROPHETIC CHALLENGE: “FEW ARE GUILTY, BUT ALL ARE RESPONSIBLE
Robert Jensen,
14 Sep 2008
One of the common refrains I heard from progressive people in Pakistanand India during my month there this summer was, “We love the Americanpeople — it’s the policies of your government we don’t like.”Read more
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