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THE SMALLEST ARMY IMAGINABLE: GANDHI’S CONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSAL FOR INDIA AND JAPAN’S PEACE CONSTITUTION (PART 1)
C. Douglas Lummis – Japan Focus, The Asia-Pacific Journal,
21 Jan 2010
An analysis of Gandhi’s thought on nonviolence and its relevance.Prologue In 1931, on his way to the London Round Table Conference, Mahatma Gandhi was asked by a Reuters correspondent what his program was. He responded by writing out a brief, vivid sketch of "the India of my dreams". Such an India, he said, would be […]
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C. Douglas Lummis – Japan Focus, The Asia-Pacific Journal,
21 Jan 2010
Gandhi and the Art of the Possible I wrote above that it is strange that while plans for ideal polities such as those of More, Morris, and others are well known and still in print in many editions, Gandhi’s proposal is out of print and virtually unknown outside of India. There are many possible reasons […]
→ read full articleBOLIVIA LEADER CALLS ALTERNATIVE CLIMATE MEETING
AP – New York Times,
9 Jan 2010
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian President Evo Morales said Tuesday [5 Jan 2010] he’s inviting activists, scientists and government officials from around the world to an alternative climate conference following the failure of a summit in Copenhagen to produce binding agreements. The leftist leader said the April 20-22 meeting in Cochabamba will include indigenous […]
→ read full articleTAKING STOCK OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS 2009
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Ph.D.,
9 Jan 2010
The year 2009 will be remembered as one of the most difficult years in the annals of international politics. Though the actions and reactions of national and international players in this year is yet to be assessed fully, nonetheless the year long forays in international politics have not evoked much hope in the world. However, […]
→ read full articleTHE ‘COALITION OF THE WILLING’ IN IRAQ BECOMES AN ARMY OF ONE
Hannah Allam - McClatchy Newspapers,
2 Jan 2010
The British said cheerio back in July, around the same time the Romanians cleared out "Camp Dracula," their compound on a U.S. base in southern Iraq. Tonga and Kazakhstan left ages ago, and no one seems to remember if any Icelandic forces ever made it to Iraq. It doesn’t matter now, anyway, because as of […]
→ read full articleWHY DO WE CELEBRATE NEW YEAR?
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, PhD – Univ. of Mumbai,
29 Dec 2009
Why do we celebrate New Year? When the year approaches its end we start preparing ourselves for celebrations to bid farewell to passing year and to welcome New Year. We do it in our own ways but anyhow we do it. My point is besides the customary repetition of pomp every year in welcoming New […]
→ read full articleTERROR TRAIL FROM MUMBAI TO CHICAGO TO BRESCIA
Dr Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Mumbai,
4 Dec 2009
The riddle called the Mumbai terror attack still remains unsolved with new threads coming to picture. The terror strike in Mumbai last year that killed 174 people including children and women still reverberates in the memory of the people of Mumbai and reminds the ghastly designs of the terrorists whose networks spread all over the […]
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Mark Schapiro – Mother Jones, November/December 2009 Issue,
25 Nov 2009
In Brazil, people with some of the world’s smallest carbon footprints are being displaced—so their forests can become offsets for SUVs.I am standing in the shadow of General Motors’ $1 tree. It’s a native guaricica, with pale white bark and a spreading crown that looms about 40 feet above my head. Hanging from its trunk […]
→ read full articlePAYING OFF THE WARLORDS
Pratap Chatterjee – Tomdispach,
21 Nov 2009
Every morning, dozens of trucks laden with diesel from Turkmenistan lumber out of the northern Afghan border town of Hairaton on a two-day trek across the Hindu Kush down to Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul. Among the dozens of businesses dispatching these trucks are two extremely well connected companies — Ghazanfar and Zahid Walid — that helped […]
→ read full articlePANAMA LAUNCHES FREE INTERNET FOR ALL PROJECT
Telecompaper,
20 Oct 2009
Panama has launched the Internet for All project. The first phase of the programme will provide free internet connections to 500 locations in 11 cities across Panama, including Penonome, Colon, David, Chitre, Arraijan, Panama, La Chorrera, Santiago, Sona and Pese. Users will be able to access the internet at speeds of up to 512 kbps. […]
→ read full articleINDIA, CHINA AND PAKISTAN: UNEASY EQUATIONS
Aurobinda Mahapatra,
9 Oct 2009
Some of the recent developments bring to the fore the uneasy nature of regional dynamics in the Indian subcontinent with the powers India, China and Pakistan playing their national cards vigorously. Pakistan-China agreement to develop hydroelectric project at Bunji in the Kashmir currently under the control of Pakistan, India’s objection to Pakistan’s granting of autonomous […]
→ read full articleWHAT DEATH OF BAITULLAH MEHSUD MEANS FOR TERRORISM
Aurobinda Mahapatra,
28 Aug 2009
The death of Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on 5 August 2009 in the southern Waziristan has brought to the fore significant achievements of anti-terror operations in Pakistan. The incident brings respite to the victims of the Taliban though it would be premature to say the death has ended Taliban in the […]
→ read full articleCAN NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT PLAY A MEANINGFUL ROLE?
Aurobinda Mahapatra,
29 Jul 2009
Can non-aligned movement (NAM), as a movement emerged during heydays of the cold war, play a role in a changed post-cold war world? Probably, the 15th summit at the Egyptian Red Sea resort Sharm el Sheikh on 15th and 16th of July 2009 would guide the scholar to seek a plausible answer as to the […]
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Father Roy Bourgeois and Margaret Knapke,
28 Jul 2009
The day after Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was deposed, President Barack Obama cautioned against repeating Latin America’s "dark past," decades when military coups regularly overrode the results of democratic elections. Obama went on to acknowledge, in his understated way, "The United States has not always stood as it should with some of these fledgling democracies." […]
→ read full articleA DAY IN GAZA
VivaPalestina,
20 Jul 2009
The Viva Palestina delegation of solidarity activists from the U.S. was allowed to enter Gaza on July 15 with truckloads of desperately needed humanitarian supplies–but under the condition that the convoy leave again within 24 hours. The delegation, led by British Member of Parliament and antiwar activist George Galloway, met one bureaucratic obstacle after another […]
→ read full articleWHITHER PEACE IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT?
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra,
6 Jul 2009
The prospects of peace in the Indian subcontinent post-26/11 appear bleak. The meeting of the top leaders of India and Pakistan at the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on 16 June 2009 did not bring any respite to the peace seekers in the subcontinent as the pronouncements […]
→ read full articleBLINDED BY THE HYPOCRISY
Bruce K. Gagnon, Coordinator, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space,
22 Jun 2009
We lecture and threaten Iran and North Korea about the evils of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). But the US routinely tests our own WMD’s from Vandenberg Air Force Base in southern California. And there will soon be another "test firing" of a Minuteman III nuclear missile from that base. A protest is planned at the […]
→ read full articleUGLY FACE OF TERROR
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra,
31 May 2009
The first decade of the 21st century has witnessed horrendous incidents of terror. While its beginning witnessed the attack on the twin trade towers in New York, towards its end another horrible attack occurred in the Indian commercial centre Mumbai. The attack further reinforced that terrorism has no religion, terrorists are not humans, and […]
→ read full articleTHE CITY THAT ENDED HUNGER
Frances Moore Lappé,
3 May 2009
A city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: end hunger. “To search for solutions to hunger means to act within the principle that the status of a citizen surpasses that of a mere consumer.”CITY OF BELO HORIZONTE, BRAZILIn writing Diet for a Small Planet, I learned one […]
→ read full articleRED CROSS SAYS THOUSANDS OF SRI LANKANS FACE ‘CATASTROPHIC’ HARDSHIP
Stephanie Nebehay – REUTERS April 21, 2009,
22 Apr 2009
Geneva – Up to 50,000 civilians trapped on a tiny strip in northern Sri Lanka are enduring dire hardship, suffering from a lack of food, water and medical care, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Tuesday. Hundreds of civilians have been killed or injured in the past 48 hours and more […]
→ read full articleGORBACHEV: US MILITARY POWER BLOCKS ‘NO NUKES’
Charles J. Hanley - AP Special Correspondent,
18 Apr 2009
ROME (AP) – President Barack Obama’s call for a nuclear weapons-free world is welcome, but the huge U.S. defense budget may prove an "insurmountable obstacle" to reaching that goal, former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev said Thursday [Apr 16 2009]. Talk of nuclear disarmament would be "just rhetorical" if other nations were asked to give […]
→ read full articleONE COUNTRY, THREE FUTURES
Pratap Chatterjee,
18 Mar 2009
The Afghanistan Americans Seldom Notice Want a billion dollars in development aid? If you happen to live in Afghanistan, the two quickest ways to attract attention and so aid from the U.S. authorities are: Taliban attacks or a flourishing opium trade. For those with neither, the future could be bleak. In November 2008, during […]
→ read full articleCRISIS OF CAPITALISM OR DEATH WISH?
Sylvain lapoix,
20 Feb 2009
Born of the meeting of economists Gilles Dostaler and Bernard Maris, "Capitalism and Death Wish" (published in French by Albin Michel) synthesizes Freud and Keynes’s conclusions concerning the modern economy based on accumulation, destruction … and the pleasure they provide! A brilliant work on the profoundly human drives behind the crisis. Who remembers that […]
→ read full articleACKNOWLEDGE SOLDIER’S RIGHT TO OBJECT
Evan Knappenberger,
10 Feb 2009
When I joined the Army shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, my friends and family raised many serious questions that, after almost four years on active duty and two years of college, I have only now started addressing. As an 18-year old, I deferred answering morally charged questions like "are you ready to […]
→ read full articleHILLARY CLINTON AND JAMES STEINBERG “TALK TOUGH” ON LATIN AMERICA
April Howard,
30 Jan 2009
While President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and their appointees emphasize a return to diplomacy in foreign relations, so far they show little inclination to be diplomatic toward leftist governments in Latin America. In fact, recent comments by Obama, Clinton and recent appointees show a continuation of an antiquated socialist-phobic analysis and a lack […]
→ 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 articleNEW INDICATIONS OF WARMTH BETWEEN CHINA, TAIWAN
AP,
20 Dec 2008
China offered Saturday to help Taiwan boost its economy if it needs assistance to weather the world economic slowdown. The statement at a meeting between China’s Communist Party and Taiwan’s ruling Nationalists in Shanghai comes amid new indications of warmth between the longtime rivals. Earlier in the week, the two sides initiated daily air and […]
→ read full articleEXXON MOBIL POSTS BIGGEST US QUARTERLY PROFIT EVER
John Porretto, AP Business Writer,
31 Oct 2008
Exxon Mobil Corp., the world’s largest publicly traded oil company, reported income Thursday that shattered its own record for the biggest profit from operations by a U.S. corporation, earning $14.83 billion in the third quarter. Yet numbers contained within the company’s most recent financial report revealed production numbers that continue to sag, and shares slipped […]
→ 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 articleCooperation as Rebellion:
April Howard,
30 Sep 2008
Creating Sustainable Agriculture in Paraguay In Paraguay, where 1 percent of the population owns 77 percent of all arable land, corrupt agrarian reform and the booming soybean industry is leading the country towards an industrial agricultural export model that leaves no room for small food producers. While many Paraguayan campesino [small farmer] families have moved […]
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