Articles by DW
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“WE MUST TAKE PUBLIC CRITICISM INTO ACCOUNT. CRITICISM IS GOOD AND SHOULD HELP THE PROCESS”
Marta Harnecker and Edwin Herrera Salinas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
One of the greatest problems is that we are trying to build an alternative society with an inherited individualistic and clientelistic culture. . . . Even our best cadres are influenced by this culture. So, it’s a process of cultural transformation. Human beings change themselves through practice, not by decrees.
→ read full articleISRAEL AND APARTHEID: IS IT A FAIR COMPARISON?
Edward C. Corrigan – Dissident Voice,
2 Mar 2010
There is a controversy raging in North America over Israeli Apartheid Week (March 1-7 2010).1 A resolution was passed in the Ontario Provincial Parliament which was unanimously supported (only 30 MPPs voted) and declared the comparison of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to apartheid as “odious.” To quote an article in the Toronto Star Canada’s […]
→ read full articleNEED-BASED DEVELOPMENT IN A FREE, JUST SOCIETY: THE LASTING LEGACY OF MAHATMA GANDHI
Praful Bidwai – Transnational Institute,
26 Feb 2010
An emphasis on popular mobilisation, essential to enfranchising the millions who were excluded from public life and political processes for centuries, remains one of Gandhi’s epochal successes. Hind Swaraj is an extraordinary tour de force of ideas, which tries to invest the concept of independence for an India freed from the burden and ignominy of […]
→ read full articleMBAs UNPREPARED FOR A MORALLY COMPLEX FUTURE
Thomas N. Gladwin and David Berdish – Financial Times,
9 Feb 2010
Following Copenhagen, we face a perfect storm of global moral questions: what do we owe future generations, the deprived and the environment? Companies are being challenged to declare and act on their social and moral obligations. But business schools are failing to prepare leaders for this challenging task. The Aspen Institute’s latest Beyond Grey Pinstripes […]
→ read full articleTHE EX-GAY FILES: THE BIZARRE WORLD OF GAY-TO-STRAIGHT CONVERSION
Patrick Strudwick – The Independent,
1 Feb 2010
Is homosexuality a form of mental illness? A small but evangelical band of psychotherapists believe that it is – and they’re on a mission to ‘heal’ the afflicted. Patrick Strudwick enters the bizarre world of gay-to-straight conversion. In Britain today therapists are trying to convert gay men and women to heterosexuality. I know this, because […]
→ read full articleWHY SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IS NOT A JOB FOR THE MARKET
Michael Edwards – Open Democracy,
26 Jan 2010
In 2007, I experienced one of those fork-in-the-road moments that seem to occur when you least expect them. It was another day at the office, sifting through e-mails in the Ford Foundation’s glass palace in Manhattan, where I worked as one of the organization’s six directors. As usual, half of my inbox was filled by […]
→ read full articleEINSTEIN ON PALESTINE AND ZIONISM
Edward C. Corrigan – Dissident Voice,
11 Jan 2010
There is some controversy over Einstein’s political views especially on the issue of Palestine and the creation of a Jewish State. Many Zionists claim Einstein as one of their own. Einstein, however, was a pacifist, a universalist and abhorred nationalism. The recently published book, Einstein on Israel and Zionism: His Provocative Ideas About the Middle […]
→ read full articleTHE CONSTRUCTION OF THE IRAN “THREAT” (Part 1)
Edward S. Herman and David Peterson,
28 Oct 2009
The Iran Versus the U.S.-Israeli-NATO Threats It is spell-binding to see how the U.S. establishment can inflate the threat of a target, no matter how tiny, remote, and (most often) non-existent that threat may be, and pretend that the real threat posed by its own behavior and policies is somehow defensive and related to that […]
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Edward S. Herman and David Peterson,
28 Oct 2009
The Iran Versus the U.S.-Israeli-NATO Threats And the media tremble also. Iranian words are also frightening, just as were Krushchev’s "I will bury you," the alleged Sandinista threat of a "revolution without borders," and Grenada’s reported threat to cut off the supply of nutmeg. Notoriously, in the rich load of disinformation that surrounds Iranian President […]
→ read full articleREPORT OF THE EVALUATION OF DDR (DISARMAMENT, DEMOBILIZATION AND REINTEGRATION) AND CIP (COMMANDER’S INCENTIVE PROGRAM) IN AFGHANISTAN
submission of Robin-Edward Poulton,
24 Oct 2009
Paper deliverd by the author to a symposium at Washington, DC on Oct 21, 2009The report consists of five parts: 1: Summary Report 2: Lessons and Recommendations 3: Commander Incentives Programme 4: Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration 5: Annexes ABSTRACT Between 2003 and 2006 the UNDP and UNAMA assisted the Government of Afghanistan to organise the […]
→ 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 […]
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