Articles by Al Jazeera
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Brave Little Denmark Leads War against Coal
Paul Hockenos – Al Jazeera America,
24 Nov 2014
Danish energy policies offer model even more admirable than Germany’s. A coal-free Denmark would be a beacon not just for the rest of Europe but also for a world gradually coming to grips with the reality of climate change.
→ read full articleBehind The Barbarism: Misreading Online Militant Magazines
Rafia Zakaria – Al Jazeera America,
24 Nov 2014
In focusing narrowly on ISIL’s barbarities, the media are missing crucial insights on the group’s evolution. The proliferating militant magazines offer rare glimpses into the ascent of militancy, their appeal to Western youth and shifting political realities in the Muslim world.
→ read full articleCreditors Use New Devices to Put Squeeze on Debtors
Jathan Sadowski & Frank A. Pasquale – Al Jazeera America,
10 Nov 2014
Technologies of control promise dystopian future if public doesn’t fight back. The device allows lenders to track and monitor the location of the vehicle — both in real time and over time — and provides them with the ability to remotely shut off vehicles if, say, the borrower falls behind on payments (sometimes by just a few days) or drives outside an approved area.
→ read full articleEcuador’s FM Wants Transnational Corporations Held Accountable
Ricardo Patino – Al Jazeera,
3 Nov 2014
It’s time to reign in the arbitrary actions of corporate power and create the conditions for a more just world.
→ read full articleThe Decline of Journalism from Watergate to ‘Dark Alliance’
Nick Schou – Al Jazeera America,
27 Oct 2014
What if Ben Bradlee had overseen Gary Webb’s investigation into the CIA, Contras and crack cocaine? “We are trying to follow in Gary Webb’s footsteps not only because the reporting he did was so important and fearless, but how vindictive the way the CIA and media reacted underscores how urgent it is to shine a light on what they are doing.” –Glenn Greenwald
→ read full articleThe Case for a Europe of Regions
Paul Hockenos – Al Jazeera America,
20 Oct 2014
The critical lessons that Europe’s political elite would do well to take away from Scotland and Catalonia should be the same as the ones that invigorated European integration from the beginning: more democracy, fewer borders. There’s a middle road between out-and-out separatism and rigid centralized states, even if finding it will be time-consuming and contentious.
→ read full articlePacific Islanders on Canoes Blockade Australia Coal Export Terminal
Al Jazeera and Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Environmental activists teamed up with Pacific islanders in eastern Australia on Friday [17 Oct 2014] in an attempt to block the world’s largest coal export terminal by forming a blockade of canoes, surfboards and kayaks.
→ read full articleJournalism in the Age of Surveillance
Listening Post – Al Jazeera English,
6 Oct 2014
The ‘Snowden effect’ and challenges to the media in the age of state supervision. We spoke to journalists and technologists at the forefront of the effort to keep our communications – both the content and its related metadata – unavailable to the governments who might take advantage of them.
→ read full articleGermany’s Energy Model Can Save the World
Paul Hockenos – Al Jazeera America,
6 Oct 2014
The US and China can switch to renewables now – and prosper from it. The shift to citizen-owned energy in Germany has dethroned the big utilities that for so long put the brakes on anything that looked like a threat to fossil fuels.
→ read full articleHard Choices: Hillary Clinton Admits Role in Honduran Coup Aftermath
Mark Weisbrot – Al Jazeera America,
6 Oct 2014
Clinton’s embrace of far-right narrative on Latin America is part of electoral strategy.
→ read full articleObama Inches US Closer to Accepting Land Mine Ban
Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Laureate – Al Jazeera America,
29 Sep 2014
Land mines are illegal, indiscriminate weapons that can kill long after the end of armed conflicts, which means that those affected by this lethal detritus of war are civilians.
→ read full articleGaza and the ‘Crime of Crimes’
Ronnie Kasrils – Al Jazeera,
29 Sep 2014
Nelson Mandela frequently declared that “Palestine was the greatest moral issue of our time”. After we toppled the Apartheid regime in 1994, he went further, saying “We South Africans cannot consider ourselves free until the Palestinian People are free”.
→ read full articleConfidence Men and Their Masquerade: The Spanish Inquisition Provides a Telling Parallel to ISIL’s Extremism
John Bell – Al Jazeera,
22 Sep 2014
One of the most surreal events of the Spanish Inquisition, was the “Auto da Fe”, a ritual procession that took the victim to his or her punishment. The “guilty” would be dressed in a special yellow garment and a long pointed cap, both strangely decorated with hellish images of effigies, flames, and demons.
→ read full articleThe New (Religious) Face of Civil Disobedience
Sanford Levinson – Al Jazeera America,
22 Sep 2014
A resurgent sanctuary movement may complicate the precepts of the Christian right. Conservatives and liberals might find themselves rethinking some of their views about the meaning of religious freedom and the responsibilities of good citizenship.
→ read full articleAn Ideological Pendulum in the Arab World
Sharif Nashashibi – Al Jazeera,
22 Sep 2014
The tragedy of the Arab world is that people seem to be stuck between nationalistic and religious fascism.
→ read full articleNATO: The Alliance That Should Have Been Dissolved
Ian Klinke – Al Jazeera,
8 Sep 2014
3 Sep 2014 – The focus on Moscow’s bullish behaviour has obscured both NATO’s recent attempts of joining the Ukrainian proxy war and its long-term strategy of Eastern expansion. The summit in Wales is only the most recent reminder that NATO should have been disbanded long ago.
→ read full articleMali: The Forgotten War
Pape Samba Kane – Al Jazeera,
8 Sep 2014
6 Sep 2014 – As representatives of the Malian government and various rebel groups meet in Algiers for peace talks, violence in northern Mali continues and so does the French military presence. France launched its military intervention in Mali in January 2013.
→ read full articleThe Outlaw State of Israel (Part I)
Richard Falk and Akbar Ganji – Al Jazeera,
25 Aug 2014
Since 1948 Israel has drawn a long list of military aggression, human rights violations and war crimes. It has become an outlaw state.
→ read full articleThe Outlaw State of Israel (Part II)
Richard Falk and Akbar Ganji – Al Jazeera,
25 Aug 2014
Unconditional US support for the state of Israel has precluded a peace settlement and destabilised the Middle East. In Part I we described the reasons that Israel has become an outlaw state. In this part we discuss US support for Israel and its consequences.
→ read full articleThe Rise of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
Ahmed Moor – Al Jazeera,
25 Aug 2014
The BDS movement was founded by a broad coalition of Palestinian civil society groups in 2005. It has developed and gained force in tandem with two phenomena that will define the Palestinian fight for freedom for the foreseeable future:
→ read full articleWhy Latin American Leaders Are Standing Up to Israel
Laura Carlsen – Al Jazeera America,
18 Aug 2014
A Latin America freed from U.S. dictums has the capacity, if not to isolate a wayward state, at least to send a powerful message of opprobrium. Hopefully, other nations will see the example and follow suit.
→ read full articleCan Universal Jurisdiction Help Palestinians Seek Justice?
Rawan Abdulnabi – Al Jazeera,
18 Aug 2014
15 Aug 2014 – Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Maliki recently visited the International Criminal Court in The Hague seeking clarification about the legal procedures and mechanisms necessary for Palestine to join the International Criminal Court (ICC).
→ read full articlePower to the People: Extending the Israel Boycott
Hatem Bazian – Al Jazeera,
11 Aug 2014
Every consumer is empowered by a moral imperative to boycott nations which support the subjugation of Palestine.
→ read full articleThe Uphill Battle to Hold US Corporations Accountable for Abuses Abroad
Lauren Carasik – Al Jazeera America,
11 Aug 2014
Big companies employ their considerable resources to invoke the protections of international law when it suits them, taking advantage of free trade agreements that grant corporations the right to sue governments. Yet they aggressively resist efforts to impose accountability across borders.
→ read full articleAustralian Government: Pirates of the Indian Ocean
Fiona Broom – Al Jazeera,
28 Jul 2014
As Australia’s conservative government falls further in opinion polls, it is willing to eschew international refugee conventions to cling to what is winning it support – the illegal and inhumane treatment of asylum seekers.
→ read full articleHow US Evangelicals Are Shaping Development in Uganda
James Kassaga Arinaitwe – Al Jazeera,
28 Jul 2014
US evangelical groups are increasingly shaping Uganda’s development policies to suit their religious agenda.
→ read full articleOn ‘Human Shielding’ in Gaza
Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon – Al Jazeera,
21 Jul 2014
The Israeli army has tried to justify striking civilian areas. For Palestinians living in Gaza today, simply spending time in their own homes, frequenting a mosque, going to a hospital or to school has become a dangerous enterprise since any one of these architectural edifices can become at any moment a target.
→ read full articleBolivia Makes Child Labor Legal from Age 10
The Associated Press – Al Jazeera America,
21 Jul 2014
Child labor has been common in a nation that ranks as one of the poorest in the Americas.
→ read full articleUS-German Relations Reach Breaking Point
John Batchelor – Al Jazeera America,
14 Jul 2014
Berlin holds the whip hand in the EU. The way Berlin goes, Paris, London, Rome and the other NATO members will follow. Berlin’s inclination since well before the Ukraine crisis was to move closer to Moscow in the “Common Eurasian home” narrative.
→ read full articleAfrican Leaders Vote to Give Themselves Immunity from War Crimes
The Associated Press – Al Jazeera,
7 Jul 2014
July 1, 2014 – African leaders gathered for a continent-wide summit voted to give themselves and their allies immunity from prosecution for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide at a new African Court of Justice and Human Rights.
→ read full articleUS Signals Intention to Eliminate Its Land Mines, Join Treaty
Renee Lewis – Al Jazeera America,
7 Jul 2014
The U.S. military will not be expanding its land mine stockpile and aims to eventually eliminate its entire supply so that it can accede to the Ottawa Convention, a 15-year-old international treaty on mines, the White House announced Friday [27 Jun 2014].
→ read full articleRussia, China Sign Deal to Bypass U.S. Dollar
Michael Pizzi – Al Jazeera America,
26 May 2014
In a blow to U.S. global financial hegemony, Russia and China on Tuesday [20 May 20114] signed a deal to pay each other in domestic currencies, followed by the announcement on Wednesday of a $100 billion annual trade on natural gas, 10 years in the making.
→ read full articleChevron Uses Deep Pockets to Win Ecuador Legal Battle
Lauren Carasik – Al Jazeera America,
19 May 2014
Chevron’s bid to embolden transnational corporations to use their deep pockets to thwart justice underestimates the tenacity and resourcefulness of their opposition.
→ read full articleMultinational Corporations Play Key Role in Qatar Labor Abuses
Arezo Yazd – Al Jazeera America,
19 May 2014
While many cited the Qatari government’s responsibility for labor-related abuses that resulted in over 500 deaths of Indian migrant workers since 2012, few mention the importance of corporate responsibility, primarily in light of construction for World Cup 2022.
→ read full articleExclusive: Emails Reveal Close Google Relationship with NSA
Jason Leopold – Al Jazeera America,
12 May 2014
6 May 2014 – Email exchanges between NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander and Google executives Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt suggest a far cozier working relationship than was implied by Silicon Valley brass after last year’s revelations about NSA spying.
→ read full articleUkraine: Lies, Propaganda and the West’s Agenda
Alastair Sloan – Al Jazeera,
5 May 2014
Is the Western narrative obscuring what’s really going on in Ukraine? Washington and Brussels are the heroes of the Ukrainian saga, if you believe the Western media. Putin is cast as the Big Bad Russian Bear, Obama and Kerry are the Democratic A-Team. Kerry has called Ukraine an “incredible act of aggression”, conveniently ignoring drone strikes, the Iraq War, and the numerous illegal coups the US has pulled off since World War II.
→ read full articleNetanyahu’s ‘Destruction of Israel’ Mantra
John V. Whitbeck – Al Jazeera,
5 May 2014
Hamas is not remotely close to being in a position to cause Israel’s territory to sink beneath the Mediterranean or to wipe out its population or even to compel the Israeli regime to transform itself into a fully democratic state pledged to equal rights and dignity for all who live there.
→ read full articleRemembering Chernobyl
Evgenia Ivanova – Al Jazeera,
28 Apr 2014
The fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion remains as politicised as ever, 28 years on. Over 100 radioactive elements released during the explosion contaminated substantial amounts of soil and waterways in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. Many other neighbouring countries – Austria, Finland, Germany, Norway, Romania and Sweden – suffered radioactive contamination as well.
→ read full articleWhy 21st Century Capitalism Can’t Last
Bhaskar Sunkara – Al Jazeera America,
28 Apr 2014
The response to French economist Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” has been surprising, to say the least. Though the Amazon best-seller is well written and artfully translated from French by Arthur Goldhammer, the 696-page text is filled with enough charts and footnotes to occupy experts for months.
→ read full articleMarshall Islands Sues Nuclear Powers for Failure on Disarmament
The Associated Press – Al Jazeera America,
28 Apr 2014
“I personally see it as kind of David and Goliath, except that there are no slingshots involved,” said David Krieger, president of the California-based Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. Krieger is acting as a consultant in the case. There are hopes that other countries will join the legal effort, he said.
→ read full articleWhen Will the World Act on Myanmar’s Abuses?
Emanuel Stoakes – Al Jazeera,
28 Apr 2014
Most of all, highly credible allegations of crimes against humanity committed against the Rohingya minority underline the country’s enduring backwardness on urgent moral issues. The offences continue to this day, perpetrated as a matter of long-standing state policy.
→ read full articleTerrorism: The Legacy of US War in Iraq
Haifa Zangana – Al Jazeera,
7 Apr 2014
Words with noble meanings are used to camouflage acts of state terror: liberation rather than occupation; democratic government rather than a sectarian regime; transparency rather than corruption by bribes, theft, and extortion; communal violence rather than dirty war with manufactured terrorism and black operations.
→ read full articleThe New Shock Doctrine: ‘Doing Business’ With the World Bank
Jason Hickel – Al Jazeera,
7 Apr 2014
A yearly World Bank report encourages countries to undertake extreme deregulation. In 2003 the World Bank published the first Doing Business Report, which ranks the world’s countries based on the “ease of doing business” in them. Investors and CEOs use the rankings to decide where to move their money or headquarter their businesses for maximum profit.
→ read full articleNuclear Summit: Upgrade Or Downsize?
Kate Hudson – Al Jazeera,
31 Mar 2014
24 Mar 2014 – As world leaders gather to discuss securing fissile materials, nuclear arsenals remain the elephant in the room.The problem is that while steps certainly must be taken to reduce the risk of nuclear terrorism, nuclear risks are not reducible to terrorism.
→ read full articleCrimea: Whose Land Is This? (Part 1)
Sergei Khrushchev – Al Jazeera,
24 Mar 2014
In order to understand the conflict in Crimea, one has to know the history of the peninsula.
→ read full articleCrimea: Whose Land Is This? (Part 2)
Sergei Khrushchev – Al Jazeera,
24 Mar 2014
Is it fair for the US to expect unconditional obedience from Russia against its own national interests?
→ read full articleThe UN Is Not Above the Law
Lauren Carasik @ajam – Al Jazeera America,
10 Mar 2014
The US should support accountability claim for the cholera epidemic in Haiti.
→ read full articleNigeria Court Orders Men Whipped for Gay Sex
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Four young men have been convicted of gay sex and whipped publicly as punishment in an Islamic court on Thursday [6 Mar 2014], with 15 strokes. They also face a year’s imprisonment if they cannot pay a fine of $120. They had to prostrate themselves on the floor of the court to be whipped on their bottoms.
→ read full articleGigabytes Gone Wild
Neil Richards and Jonathan King – Al Jazeera America,
3 Mar 2014
Big data has outpaced our legal system’s ability to control it — we need a new ethics for a new digital age.
→ read full articleIsrael Jittery over Global Boycotts
Dalia Hatuqa – Al Jazeera America,
24 Feb 2014
But never has the issue of boycotts caused so much vexation inside Israel’s corridors of power. Israeli politicians have been trading barbs about who is fueling the situation.
→ read full articleAustralian Terrorists in Syria Alarm Officials
Sophie Cousins – Al Jazeera,
10 Feb 2014
The Australian government has confiscated passports in an effort to prevent attacks by returning fighters. With estimates of up to 11,000 foreign mercenaries in Syria, Western powers are increasingly worried about the potential national security threat posed by returning fighters.
→ read full articleHomophobia: Africa’s New Apartheid
Azad Essa – Al Jazeera,
3 Feb 2014
Both African and western governments are using gay rights as a political tool.
→ read full articlePatterns of Impunity and Deceit in Myanmar
Emanuel Stoakes - Al Jazeera,
27 Jan 2014
A UN supervised investigation is needed before more atrocities are committed against the Rohingya Muslims.
→ read full articleHawks for Humanity
Chase Madar – Al Jazeera,
27 Jan 2014
To be fair, Human Rights Watch and Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., are far from alone in warmongering: In 2012, Amnesty International USA went so far as to put up bus-stop advertisements in Chicago during the NATO conference to urge the military alliance to “keep the progress going.”
→ read full articleHonduras: Audit Slams World Bank Agency
Kate Woodsome – Al Jazeera,
20 Jan 2014
Investigation says loan to Honduran palm oil magnate, alleged to be linked to activist deaths, violated bank’s rules.
→ read full articleUS in Iraq: They Broke It but Didn’t Fix It
Rachel Shabi – Al Jazeera,
13 Jan 2014
Even as news from Iraq is overwhelmingly of death, suffering and despair, the US still asserts that its ravaging venture in Iraq was designed to bring stability and democracy. It’s as though Iraqis, dealing with the senseless devastation of their country and longing for a normal life, are supposed to remember, above all, that the US is a force for good and that – well, it really means well.
→ read full articleThe Way Forward for South Sudan
Mahmood Mamdani – Al Jazeera,
6 Jan 2014
How does one understand the current conflict in South Sudan? Two major explanations are on offer.
→ read full articleResearchers Find 7,300-Sq-Mile Ring of Mercury around Tar Sands in Canada
Peter Moskowitz – Al Jazeera,
6 Jan 2014
Scientists have found a more than 7,300-square-mile ring of land and water contaminated by mercury surrounding the tar sands in Alberta, where energy companies are producing oil and shipping it throughout Canada and the U.S.
→ read full articleWhy Do Western Media Get Africa Wrong?
Nanjala Nyabola – Al Jazeera,
6 Jan 2014
There are fundamental differences in how Western and African media cover African events. Ask Africans what they think and have them tell their own stories, instead of co-opting them to undermine or reinforce existing narratives among the Western audience.
→ read full articleFun with Chronology: Misreporting the Israeli Assault on Gaza
Belen Fernandez – Al Jazeera,
6 Jan 2014
The media has a habit of using truncated timelines to excuse Israel’s assaults on Gaza. The New York Times’ rendering of recent violence on the border between Gaza and Israel is a shining example of the chronological sleights of hand that have come to characterise mainstream reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
→ read full articleThe Deal of the Year: Why the Iran Nuclear Deal Is Good News for All
Riccardo Alcaro – Al Jazeera,
30 Dec 2013
Opponents of the US-Iran nuclear deal have much to gain from it.
→ read full articleIs BDS Campaign against Israel Reaching a Turning Point?
Omar Barghouti – Al Jazeera,
30 Dec 2013
The movement calling for the boycott, divestiture and sanction of Israel is gaining momentum globally.
→ read full articlePungesti: Romania’s Battlefield against Chevron
Raluca Besliu – Al Jazeera,
16 Dec 2013
13 Dec 2013 – For the past few days, the small village of Pungesti has become a battle scene between protesters opposing US energy giant Chevron’s intention to explore for shale gas in a nearby field and Romanian police forces, sent by the government to protect Chevron in installing its equipment.
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Pathways to Peace: Talk with Johan Galtung
The Stream – Al Jazeera,
9 Dec 2013
Dec 5, 2013 – In a world full of conflict, how does one manage to negotiate peace? Al Jazeera’s “The Stream” talks to the father of peace studies, Prof. Johan Galtung, about the future of peace studies and conflict resolution, US foreign policy, and issues facing the world.
→ read full articleHere Is Why Deconstructing Zionism Is Important
Michael Marder – Al Jazeera,
9 Dec 2013
First, the biggest threat to the wellbeing and security of Israeli Jews (and, often, by implication of Jews who live elsewhere in the world and are assumed to be the supporters of Israeli policies) is neither Iran nor Syria; it is the State of Israel itself.
→ read full articleUS And Iran: Seven Questions beyond the Nuclear Deal
Marwan Bishara – Al Jazeera,
2 Dec 2013
What are the ramifications of Iran’s deal with the West on Middle East politics?
→ read full articleObama, Karzai and the Afghan Labyrinth
Deepak Tripathi – Al Jazeera,
2 Dec 2013
Afghan constitutions have come and gone with the country’s upheavals. The customary role of tribal assemblies in approving a constitution, resolving disputes and considering issues of national importance has remained constant.
→ read full articleChild Soldiers: Passive Victims?
Virginie Ladisch – Al Jazeera,
25 Nov 2013
As a young woman demobilised at age 16 from the FARC in Colombia explained about reintegration programmes, “Many of us possess vast experience in the areas of survival, health, and discipline that we gained as a result of our time in the armed groups. But it’s not appreciated. They force us to push aside these things, to erase them and accept an identity that is not ours, to be bakers and cobblers…”
→ read full articleLibya: On the Brink of Abyss
Solomon Dersso – Al Jazeera,
18 Nov 2013
Libya’s dangerous slip into anarchy will have serious implications for Africa. Overshadowed by the events in Egypt and Syria, Libya’s multidimensional crisis attracts little attention.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Other Silent War
Belen Fernandez – Al Jazeera,
18 Nov 2013
State-sponsored racism and discrimination against African migrants continue amid international media silence. “When Israel rounds up and deports African refugees, it makes a mockery of the millions of Jews who died during World War II because no one would grant them shelter.” — David Sheen, Israeli-Canadian journalist.
→ read full articleBlame It on the French
Khosrow Soltani – Al Jazeera,
18 Nov 2013
What are France’s motives in undermining a crucial deal between Iran and P5+1? Different viewpoints have been expressed on the multiple motives, ranging from commercial to geopolitical interests, to just playing its role as a scapegoat for the US.
→ read full articleUN Climate Change Summit Kicks Off in Poland
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
World leaders launch new round of talks in Warsaw to pave way for 2015 deal to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. The 12-day United Nations Climate Change Conference began on Monday [11 Nov 2013] in Poland’s capital amid a slew of warnings about a potentially disastrous rise in greenhouse-gas emissions.
→ read full articleRevealed: NSA Pushed 9/11 as Key ‘Sound Bite’ to Justify Surveillance
Jason Leopold – Al Jazeera,
4 Nov 2013
The document, obtained by Al Jazeera through a Freedom of Information Act request, contains talking points and suggested statements for NSA officials responding to the fallout from media revelations that originated with former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
→ read full articleBlackfish: Highlighting the Plight of Captive Orcas
Rose Aguilar – Al Jazeera,
4 Nov 2013
Blackfish, a riveting documentary about the deadly consequences of kidnapping orcas from the ocean and keeping them in captivity, is Sea World’s biggest nightmare. If you want to stop this brutality, refuse to go to water parks. Don’t buy a ticket. See the film and spread the word. We now know too much to allow this to continue.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate} Aung San Suu Kyi and the World of Buddhist Islamophobia
Maung Zarni – Al Jazeera,
4 Nov 2013
The details of this systematic ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya which has been set in motion as a matter of state policy since 1978, and the more recent anti-Muslim mass violence, again with state impunity, generally play second fiddle in the media, to Suu Kyi’s failure to condemn it.
→ read full articleWhere Is the Ethical Leadership over Syria?
Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate – Al Jazeera,
4 Nov 2013
It was tragic to see Western politicians who spoke out against military intervention get slammed for somehow being cowardly. Although their effort would not stop the killing outright, to hold back the war designs of their own leaders was a brave act.
→ read full articleMalala and Nabila: Worlds Apart
Murtaza Hussain – Al Jazeera,
4 Nov 2013
The only people to be recognized for their suffering in this conflict are those who fall victim to the Taliban. Malala for her struggles was to be made the face of the American war effort while innumerable little girls such as Nabila will continue to be terrorized and murdered as part of this war without end. There will be no celebrity appearances or awards ceremonies for Nabila. At her testimony almost no one even bothered to attend [5 congressmen].
→ read full articleCuba to Open Tax Free Special Economic Zone
Chris Arsenault – Al Jazeera,
28 Oct 2013
First development of its kind on the island take effect in November [2013].Communist Cuba is the latest country to plan a “Special Economic Zone”, part of an economic model blasted by critics for creating a “race to the bottom” on wages and corporate taxes.
→ read full articleReport: US and UK Spied on Italian Government
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
U.S. and British intelligence services monitored Italian telecommunications, targeting the government and companies, L’Espresso reported Thursday [24 Oct 2013]. The report, based on evidence from Edward Snowden, is likely to fuel growing anger among Washington’s European allies.
→ read full articleNo Place for Islam? Buddhist Nationalism in Myanmar
Harrison Akins – Al Jazeera,
21 Oct 2013
The continued violence against the broader Muslim community stains any democratic reforms in a country.
→ read full articleTime for the ICC to Act on Palestine
Raji Sourani & Shawan Jabarin – Al Jazeera,
21 Oct 2013
We urge the prosecutor to visit Palestine, to meet with the victims, and to experience the reality on the ground. Justice is not a commodity that can be traded in the name of political progress. The International Criminal Court must not become complicit in the on-going failures of the peace before justice process.
→ read full articleThe Deep Roots beneath 1,000,000 Dead Iraqis
Mark LeVine – Al Jazeera,
21 Oct 2013
Iraq continues to suffer the legacy of two decades of US military intervention and meddling, with little end in sight.
→ read full articleIt’s Time to Put an End to Israel’s Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell Nuclear Policy
Pam Bailey & Medea Benjamin – Al Jazeera,
21 Oct 2013
Israel’s nuclear facility at Dimona, a city in the Negev desert, has six underground floors to plutonium extraction and production of tritium and lithium-6, for use in nuclear weapons. Whereas Iran has signed the Non-proliferation Treaty, giving the international community the right to demand inspections and controls, Israel has not – and is therefore not subject to external oversight.
→ read full articleJapan Asks for World’s Help on Fukushima Leaks
Al Jazeera and The Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday [6 Oct 2013] that Japan is open to receiving overseas help to contain widening disaster at the crippled nuclear plant in Fukushima, where radioactive water leaks and other mishaps are now reported almost daily. “My country needs your knowledge and expertise,” he said.
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Myanmar: Can the Religious Violence Be Ended?
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
3 Oct 2013 – TRANSCEND member Dr. Maung Zarni and Debbie Stothard: A 25-minute analysis of Myanmar’s “Communal or Religious Violence.”
→ read full article(Arabic: Peace and the Islamic Roots of Non Violence) صدر مؤخرا للبروفيسور عباس عروة كتاب عن السلام ومرجعية اللاعنف في الإسلام
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2013
في كتابه الجديد “السعي إلى السلام في الموروث الإسلامي” يواصل البروفيسور عباس عروة مشروعه في تقديم رؤاه الدينية لإيضاح صورة الإسلام الحنيف، وتقديمه للقارئ الغربي وتخليصه مما شابه من عوالق لسوء تأويل مارسه بعض دعاته من جهة، وإغناء مكتبة مسلمي ودعاة الغرب بكتاب دعوي يعود إلى مبادئ الإسلام الأولى تعليما وتثبيتا لهم من جهة أخرى.
(In his new book, “The Quest for Peace in the Islamic Tradition” Professor Abbas Aroua continues his program in providing a clear image of the Islamic religion and presenting it to the Western reader free from the accumulated ill-interpretations.)
Al-Shabab Defends Nairobi Attack
Hamza Mohamed – Al Jazeera,
30 Sep 2013
Military spokesman explains why mall siege was launched, and what will happen next.
→ read full articleTimeline of Edward Snowden’s Revelations
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
In-depth look back at two months of leaks by the ex-NSA contractor who fled from Hawaii to Hong Kong to Russia after releasing loads of documents on surveillance in the U.S. and around the world. The information below is compiled from the news outlets that first reported the data.
→ read full articleSanctions: Cruel and Counterproductive
Jason Ditz – Al Jazeera,
30 Sep 2013
The great sanctions experiment of the late 20th and early 21st centuries has been a disastrous failure, and must be abandoned outright, both on humanitarian grounds as well as a rational measure of its impracticality. Sanctions simply don’t work.
→ read full articleThe Millennium Development Goals and the Courage to Go Further
Paul Kagame – Al Jazeera,
30 Sep 2013
Rwandan President Paul Kagame argues for a post-2015 Millennium Development Goal agenda that goes beyond poverty reduction.
→ read full articleThe Modern Day Heroes of Investigative Journalism
John Pilger – Al Jazeera,
23 Sep 2013
John Pilger discusses the role of the media in the contemporary context of whistleblowers and war.
→ read full articleVoyager Probe Reaches Interstellar Space
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The US space probe Voyager 1 has crossed a new frontier, becoming humanity’s first spacecraft ever to leave the solar system, NASA has said. Thirty-six years after it was launched from Earth on a tour of the outer planets, the plutonium-powered spacecraft is more than 11 billion miles from the Sun in interstellar space.
→ read full articleSyria: The Crucible
Hamid Dabashi – Al Jazeera,
29 Jul 2013
There are officers of various UN agencies who, when you tell them of a child with leishmaniasis (a disease spread by the bite of a sand fly), say they can’t because it is a single child, and they only deal with “childhood” as a whole. Antisthenes is believed once to have said to Plato, regarding the notion of Platonic forms, “A horse I see, but ‘horseness‘ I do not see”. If like those UN officers you cannot see the childhood in that individual Syrian child, then we all have a problem far worse than merely philosophical.
→ read full articleEmerging From Darkness, the Edward Snowden Story
Rebecca Solnit – Al Jazeera,
29 Jul 2013
An Open Letter to Edward Snowden – Pity the country that requires a hero, Bertolt Brecht once remarked, but pity the heroes too. They are the other homeless, who don’t fit in, who see the hardest work and do it, and pay the price we charge those who do what we can’t or won’t. Modern heroes – Nelson Mandela, Cesar Chavez, Rachel Carson, Ella Baker, Martin Luther King, Aung San Suu Kyi – endeavored to save us from ourselves, from our own governments and systems of power.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Tutu Says He Cannot Worship ‘Homophobic’ God
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
South African peace icon Desmond Tutu has said he would rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God, likening the fight against gay prejudice to the anti-apartheid struggle. Tutu made the comments on Friday [26 Jul 2013] at the launch of a United Nations gay equality campaign in Cape Town.
→ read full articleNeoliberalism and Public Unrest: Time to Make the Connection
Mandeep Tiwana – Al Jazeera,
15 Jul 2013
While the power of transnational corporations expands, income and wealth disparities are threatening societies. Neo-liberalism, using a dictionary definition, as a “modern politico-economic theory favouring free trade, privatisation, minimal government intervention, reduced public expenditure on social services etc.,” reduces the responsibility of the state while promoting privatisation to favour those with access to resources and influence.
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Guantanamo Inmate Accuses Military of Rape
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
A detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison is accusing the US military of sexual assault under the guise of maintaining security. In a letter to his lawyers, the inmate claims the practice is widespread.
→ read full articleBulgaria: A New Face for European Dissent
Julian Popov – Al Jazeera,
15 Jul 2013
Bulgaria’s peaceful protests might provide a new model for discontented Europeans seeking to engage their governments.
→ read full articleMy Life at Guantanamo
Moath al-Alwi – Al Jazeera,
8 Jul 2013
A detainee at the US prison explains that hunger striking is the only way left to cry out for life, freedom and dignity. This article was translated from Arabic by his attorney, Ramzi Kassem.
→ read full articleInfographic: The United Kingdom’s Tax Havens – Interactive
Simon Hooper and Ben Willers – Al Jazeera,
24 Jun 2013
About one-fifth of the world’s tax-free shelters are UK territories and crown dependencies.
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