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The Grievous Return of Henry Kissinger
Prof. Lawrence Davidson – To The Point Analyses,
14 Mar 2011
The gods protect us, Henry Kissinger is back!.. The real Henry Kissinger… borders on being a war criminal. That should tell us what his advice is really worth. President Obama would be a fool to listen to a man whose blood stained career should have long ago come to an ignoble end.
→ read full articleJapan Forced to Halt Whaling in Antarctic As Activists Claim Victory
David McNeill in Tokyo – The Independent,
21 Feb 2011
The US-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which has been stalking the whaling fleet with their own vessels, claimed that the Japanese ships had managed to harpoon just 30 whales, a fraction of their 945 target. “We’ve shut them down basically,” Sea Shepherd captain Paul Watson told The Independent by satellite from aboard the MY Steve Irwin. “It’s silly to say they’ve suspended the hunt. We suspended them.”
→ read full articleTunisia and Egypt: Why Now?
Lawrence Davidson – Information Clearing House,
7 Feb 2011
For a very long time now the U.S. has put its money on the dictators. Washington has bought both them and their armies so as to have the leverage to economically exploit their countries and dictate their foreign policies. We officially call this arrangement “stability.”
→ read full articleAfrica’s New Country
David Whitehouse – Socialist Worker,
31 Jan 2011
Background to the recent referendum in South Sudan, where voters overwhelmingly backed secession.
→ read full article(Castellano) EEUU: Partido Único
David Brooks, surysur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2011
Gore Vidal, el gran novelista y ensayista, ha repetido durante años: tenemos un solo partido, un partido esencialmente del empresariado estadounidense, con dos alas derechas, una llamada los demócratas, una llamada los republicanos”.
→ read full articleSilence Is Complicity: The Methodical Shooting of Boys at Work in Gaza by Snipers of the Israeli Occupation Force
Dr. David Halpin – Global Research,
31 Jan 2011
The deliberate injury of the limbs of 23 boys by high velocity weapons has been logged and described by Defence for Children International – Palestine Branch (DCI-P) since March 2010. (1) Some of the facts have been published in national newspapers. These barbarous acts contravene international and national law but there are no judicial responses. The caring professions see the physical and mental pain of those who suffer and they should be in the vanguard in calling for this great cruelty to cease forthwith. Political leaders have failed to act.
→ read full article(Italian) Palestine for Dummies
Davide Zivieri – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
27 Dec 2010
Ai cittadini israeliani è proibito entrare nei Territori Palestinesi, sebbene 450.000 coloni abitano negli insediamenti sparsi per la Cisgiordania e molte sono le presenze militari israeliane che controllano il territorio: “non vogliono che si veda che gli arabi non hanno il coltello tra i denti, le corna e la coda, e non sono tutti terroristi” afferma decisa un’ottantasettenne infermiera volontaria di PHR.
→ read full article[WikiLeaks] US Embassy Cables Leak Sparks Global Diplomacy Crisis
David Leigh – The Guardian,
29 Nov 2010
• More than 250,000 dispatches reveal US foreign strategies
• Diplomats ordered to spy on allies as well as enemies
• Hillary Clinton leads frantic ‘damage limitation’
The United States was catapulted into a worldwide diplomatic crisis today [28 Nov 2010], with the leaking to the Guardian and other international media of more than 250,000 classified cables from its embassies, many sent as recently as February this year.
Media Disinformation: Washington’s “Regime-Change Hit-List” – Iran vs. Honduras (Part 1)
Edward S. Herman and David Peterson – Monthly Review,
11 Oct 2010
It would be hard to find a better test of the integrity of the establishment U.S. media than in their comparative treatment of Iran and Honduras over the past couple of years (2009-2010).
→ read full articleNuclear Dangers and Opportunities in the Middle East
Richard Falk and David Krieger – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
27 Sep 2010
Hardly a week goes by without an Israeli top official threatening to attack Iran so as to disrupt or destroy its nuclear program, which is suspected of moving in the direction of acquiring nuclear weapons. Shamelessly, as well, the extreme right think tanks in the Washington Beltway and many faithful followers of Israel echo these dangerous sentiments. They send Tel Aviv a signal that it has a green light to launch an attack on Iran at the time of its choosing, along with the reassuring message that the United States Government will step forward in support, whatever the adverse economic and diplomatic consequences for the region.
→ read full articleNuclear Detonation: Fifteen Scenarios
David Krieger – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
27 Sep 2010
Many people are complacent about nuclear weapons. They would prefer to deny the nuclear threat and put nuclear dangers out of their minds. Unfortunately, this is a dangerous approach to a serious threat to humanity. There are many ways in which a nuclear detonation could take place, including accident, miscalculation and intentional use. Any use of nuclear weapons, including by accident or miscalculation, could lead to the destruction of a city as occurred at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
→ read full article‘The Roma Are EU Citizens — Everywhere in the European Union’
David Crossland - Spiegel,
13 Sep 2010
France’s expulsion of Roma people could be copied by other governments unless it is vigorously condemned by the European public, warn German media commentators. They argue that Brussels is right to voice its misgivings against a policy that flies in the face of the principles the French nation has stood for since the revolution.
→ read full articleEurope: New Expulsions Hit People Without a Place
David Cronin – TerraViva Europe,
13 Sep 2010
Roma gypsies are routinely described as Europe’s largest ethnic minority. Numbering between 10 and 16 million, their combined population exceeds that of many European Union countries. Yet their numerical strength offers no compensation for the poverty, persecution and scapegoating that the Roma have to endure — or for how their welfare is accorded a low priority by the EU’s institutions.
→ read full articleRed Shirt vs. Yellow Shirt: Thailand’s Political Struggle
David McNeill in Lamphun – The Independent,
23 Aug 2010
The supporters of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra are massing again.
→ read full articleA Case of Decency Deficit – An Analysis
Professor Lawrence Davidson - ICH,
23 Aug 2010
Many Israelis are convinced that the Palestinians are barbarians, “beasts walking on two legs,” who want to “push the Jews into the sea.” The answer to this alleged threat is to convince the Palestinians that they are “a defeated people.”
→ read full articleOmar Khadr, Bradley Manning and Our National Psyche
Lawrence Davidson - Reader Supported News,
16 Aug 2010
At present there are two men sitting in prison who have never met but are nonetheless intimately connected. One is 23-year-old Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen who was with a group of Afghan resistance fighters attacked by US troops in 2002 (when he was 15). The second is PFC Bradley Manning, the man who blew the whistle on the barbaric tactics used by the US in both Iraq and Afghanistan. It is their different forms of resistance to a war sold to the US public as “necessary” and defensive that binds their fate.
→ read full articleGuantánamo’s Child-Soldier Trial
Amy Davidson - The New Yorker,
16 Aug 2010
“Where are our concerns about the rehabilitation of child soldiers when one falls into our own hands?”
→ read full articleExposed: The Truth about Israel’s Land Grab in the West Bank
Catrina Stewart in Jerusalem and David Usborne – The Independent,
19 Jul 2010
As President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet, a report reveals 42 per cent of territory is controlled by settlers.
→ read full articleThe U.S. War Addiction: Funding Enemies to Maintain Trillion Dollar Racket
David DeGraw - Alternet,
19 Jul 2010
Editor’s Note: With so many problems in the USA, it’s no easy job to single out a handful of the most important, priority issues. But the enormous pile of wasted money spent on wars and the military-industrial complex has to be right at the top. Not only is the money spent an enormous destructive waste, but there’s also the question of opportunity cost; just a fraction of war money could make major improvements to health care, schools and universities, and our decaying public infrastructure. The release of the Pentagon’s Quadrennal Defense Review indicates that Obama intends to spend even more on war. David DeGraw’s article below sheds some light on the madness of war spending and the serious attempts made by the racketeers to make our wars self-perpetuating to keep the cash rolling in; infuriating as it is sickening.
→ read full article(Italian) Conflitto Israelo-Palestinese: L’Esperienza Nonviolenta di At-Tuwani e di Operazione Colomba
Davide Ziveri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
Sabato 12 giugno una trentina di coloni mascherati hanno attaccato con sassi e spranghe la casa del villaggio palestinese di At-Tuwani più prossima all’avamposto di Havat Ma’on, nelle colline a sud di Hebron, in Cisgiordania. Nell’abitazione in quel momento si trovavano solo donne e bambini. Da allora, ogni notte, i coloni si sono organizzati in ronde e non hanno cessato di lanciare intimidazioni agli abitanti del villaggio. Solo un altro aneddoto del mitico conflitto mediorientale?
→ read full articleThe National Interest Has Gone Missing
Lawrence Davidson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
It does not take a genius to observe that the pursuit of national interests, defined in common sense terms, would have led to very different behavior by the U.S. and Israeli governments. But both failed to pursue such a course. Their doors remained locked. The question why is a seminal one. It touches on war and peace and thus the lives of millions. So let’s look at some of the factors that might go into an answer to this question–why was national interest not pursued?
→ read full articleBetter Than Facebook?
David Bollier – Yes! Magazine,
5 Jul 2010
Fed up with Facebook’s commercialism, four NYU students have created an open source, peer-to-peer alternative: Diaspora.
→ read full articleIcons, of Peace
David Inkey – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
I want to tell you a story about The Pieces of Peace in The United Nations.
It is a story that only I know how to tell and it is meant only for peacemakers:
I Am Too Poor to Go to War…
David Inkey - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
A Poem
→ read full articleTale of Two Nuclear Whistleblowers
David Krieger – Common Dreams,
21 Jun 2010
What are we to learn from this tale of two whistleblowers, one fictitious, one real? One important lesson is the danger of nuclear double standards. We cannot be content to make a hero of a fictional Iranian nuclear whistleblower, while turning a blind eye to the treatment of a real-life Israeli nuclear whistleblower and to the Israeli nuclear arsenal.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks is Asking for Urgent Help
David Heath - iTWire,
21 Jun 2010
Following the arrest of the person suspected of leaking the “Collateral Murder” video, WikiLeaks feels that it is under attack and is seeking urgent support. iTWire received the following message in the past few minutes, its meaning is very clear. We ask readers to assist where they can.
→ read full articleCorporate Greenwash at EU Environment Meet?
David Cronin - IPS,
7 Jun 2010
Coca-Cola, recently indicted for causing serious damage to water and soil in India, might seem like an odd champion of environmental protection.
→ read full articleThe Ocean Is a Rich Blue. But Suddenly We See What This Crisis Is All About
David Usborne – The Independent,
10 May 2010
There may be few indicators to the scale of the US oil slick from land, but from the air it is a different story.
→ read full articleEurope Imports Torture from US
David Cronin – TerraViva Europe,
19 Apr 2010
A U.S. company has admitted for the first time that it exports equipment designed to inflict pain on prisoners to Europe.
→ read full articleThe New U.S. Nuclear Posture Review
David Krieger, TFF & Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
While pausing to celebrate the incremental steps in arms reductions and the limitations on nuclear weapons use that are being made now, we should also recognize that a policy of No First Use and a commitment to negotiate a Nuclear Weapons Convention would move us far more rapidly toward the peace and security of the nuclear weapon-free world envisioned by President Obama.
→ read full articleEU BOOSTS ARMS MANUFACTURERS
David Cronin – TerraViva Europe,
12 Apr 2010
Arms traders are to be given a central role in formulating a new European Union (EU) blueprint for stimulating weapons production, it has been confirmed.
→ read full articleWIKILEAKS: INSIDE THE GROUP THAT HAS EXPOSED THE SECRETS OF SARAH PALIN, SCIENTOLOGY AND THE PENTAGON
David Kushner – Mother Jones,
12 Apr 2010
Since 2006, WikiLeaks has posted more than 1.2 million documents. Governments and corporations have tried to shut them down. They’ve failed.
→ read full articleIRAQ WAR TRIUMPHALISM IGNORES A KEY MATTER: DEAD CIVILIANS
David Corn – Politics Daiy,
20 Mar 2010
Whenever there’s an election in Iraq, U.S. triumphalism follows. In a recent column, Peter Wehner, my PoliticsDaily.com colleague, touts George W. Bush’s war in Iraq and joins others in the it-hasn’t-turned-out-so-bad chorus. But these pronouncements serve as a reminder that it’s rather easy to be a freedom fighter with somebody else’s blood. Wehner, who worked […]
→ read full articleTHE LEFT-RIGHT CONFERENCE ON WAR
David R. Henderson - AntiWar.com,
14 Mar 2010
In which the author finds hope in a left/right antiwar movement.On Friday, February 19, I went to the opening dinner of a Washington, D.C. event billed as “Across the Political Spectrum Against War and Militarism.” That’s not my favorite title because it sounds as if the participants are presumed to be against all war. I’m […]
→ 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 articleWERE AFGHAN CHILDREN EXECUTED BY US-LED FORCES? AND WHY AREN’T THE MEDIA INTERESTED?
David Cromwell – Znet,
14 Jan 2010
Ignoring or downplaying Western crimes is a standard feature of the corporate Western media. On rare occasions when a broadcaster or newspaper breaks ranks and reports ‘our’ crimes honestly, it is instructive to observe the response from the rest of the media. Do they follow suit, perhaps digging deeper for details, devoting space to profiles […]
→ read full articleMAN WHO DEFIED BOTH A-BOMBS DIES AGED 93
David McNeill in Tokyo,
9 Jan 2010
The only man to experience nuclear bombardment twice and live to tell the tale became an eloquent voice for peace.Reporters never knew whether to call Tsutomu Yamaguchi the luckiest or unluckiest man alive. In 1945, the Nagasaki native was exposed to both nuclear blasts that incinerated his home city and Hiroshima. Last year the Japanese […]
→ read full articleCOPENHAGEN CLIMATE PROTESTERS RALLY
Bibi van der Zee in Copenhagen, David Batty and agencies – The Guardian,
13 Dec 2009
Thousands of people march as part of a global protest to demand that governments agree a new climate deal.Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Copenhagen today (Sat, Dec 12, 2009] as part of a global protest to demand governments across the world agree a binding new global deal to tackle climate […]
→ read full articleDANGEROUS PEOPLE NEEDED
David Swanson – Global Research,
4 Nov 2009
"The Most Dangerous Man in America""Glaubt es mir – das Geheimnis, um die größte Fruchtbarkeit und den größten Genuß vom Dasein einzuernten, heisst: gefährlich leben." — Friedrich Nietzsche On Thursday night I had the privilege of viewing a premier of a film together with its star. The theater was in the U.S. Capitol, and the […]
→ 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 […]
→ read full articleTHE CONSTRUCTION OF THE IRAN “THREAT” (Part 2)
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 articleARMY’S SHOPPING MALL GAME CENTER SHUT DOWN BY PROTESTS
David Swanson,
17 Sep 2009
The Army Experience Center, an amusement hall built in a Philadelphia area shopping mall to make killing and dying look like fun to kids, has been the focus of repeated protests and criticism. This past weekend hundreds again protested at the AEC, and police arrested six protesters and one journalist. The journalist was not with […]
→ read full articleAMERICA’S WARS: HOW SERIAL WAR BECAME THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE
David Bromwich,
23 Jul 2009
On July 16, in a speech to the Economic Club of Chicago, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that the "central question" for the defense of the United States was how the military should be "organized, equipped — and funded — in the years ahead, to win the wars we are in while being prepared […]
→ read full articleVERSAILLES, 1919-2009: A NEW WORLD ORDER’S LEGACY
David A Andelman,
30 Jun 2009
The treaty concluded on 28 June 1918 reverberates today across a huge area from Iran and Iraq to the Balkans and even beyond. The real roots of many major recent and current political events – the convulsions surrounding Iran’s Islamic regime, the bloody troubles in neighbouring Iraq, the ethnic cleansing and mass murders in the […]
→ read full articleAMAZON RAINFORESTS PAY THE PRICE AS DEMAND FOR BEEF SOARS
David Adam in Maraba,
4 Jun 2009
Inquiry highlights concerns over ranching in heartland of Brazil. Four-year old Daniel Santos da Silva and his older brother Diego Mota dos Santos, 10, heard their first gunshots in April. Their father was shot in a dispute over land on a cattle ranch near the Brazilian town of El Dorado, in the Amazonian state […]
→ read full articleNORTH KOREA’S NUCLEAR TEST MESSAGE
David Krieger – Member of TRANSCEND,
31 May 2009
When a country tests a nuclear weapon, it is sending a message. It is not always clear, however, what that message is. In the case of the recent nuclear test by North Korea, some commentators have argued that the North Koreans are sending a “pay attention to me” message to the international community and particularly […]
→ read full articleMARINE PROTECTION AS EMPIRE EXPANSION
David Vine and Miriam Pemberton,
13 May 2009
At the 100-day mark, the new president has tackled an extraordinarily wide-ranging agenda, but one item will need his attention soon: closing the empire of U.S. bases around the world. One place to start is to reverse the marine protection areas that the last president established in the Pacific. In a last-minute bid to salvage […]
→ read full articleTRY A FRESH APPROACH IN THE HORN OF AFRICA…
David Brin,
18 Apr 2009
….and (carefully) assert power for good. A recent surge of high-profile piracy has drawn attention to the Gulf of Aden – one of the world’s most important seaways – now under siege and frequent assault by brazen pirates, based in Somalia. That lawless land has been a calamity in many other ways, for example by […]
→ read full articleCOLUMBINE QUESTIONS WE STILL HAVEN’T ANSWERED
David Sirota,
18 Apr 2009
Isn’t violence a predictable byproduct of our winner-take-all economy? As Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold’s posthumous infamy turns 10 on April 20, I wish I were surprised that Columbine-like shootings are still happening, or even that our national discussion about violence hasn’t yet matured past gun control and video games.I wish I were surprised, but […]
→ read full articleGOOGLE SHOWS ALTERNATIVE ENERGY FIRMS THE WAY
David R. Baker,
3 Apr 2009
Picking the right place for an immense solar power plant or wind farm is a tricky business, one that can turn natural allies into enemies. An open stretch of desert might look empty to a renewable-power developer who wants to blanket a few hundred acres with solar panels or mirrors. To environmentalists, the same […]
→ read full articleSILENCE IS INDEFENSIBLE
David Krieger,
13 Mar 2009
Arundhati Roy, the great Indian writer and activist, has said, “There’s nothing new or original left to be said about nuclear weapons.” Nonetheless, she speaks out because, in her words, “silence would be indefensible.” Silence is the norm. We live our day-to-day lives with these weapons capable of destroying our cities, our countries, our civilizations, […]
→ read full articleTOO MANY OVERSEAS BASES
David Vine,
2 Mar 2009
In the midst of an economic crisis that’s getting scarier by the day, it’s time to ask whether the nation can really afford some 1,000 military bases overseas. For those unfamiliar with the issue, you read that number correctly. One thousand. One thousand U.S. military bases outside the 50 states and Washington, DC, representing the […]
→ read full articleIMAGINE
David Pérez,
19 Feb 2009
I imagine being in a room of maimed, deformed and tortured Iraqis, Afghans and Palestinians, accompanied by widows and orphans mourning because their entire family has been exterminated. I imagine this roomful of walking dead sitting around while my friends and I discuss how “realistic” we in the U.S. must be with our electoral politics, […]
→ read full articleGEORGE BUSH’S GIFT TO THE WORLD: THE END OF AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
David Michael Green,
1 Feb 2009
George W. Bush was unquestionably the worst American president in the two and a quarter centuries of the country’s existence. After all, James Buchanan, the previous aspirant to the title, merely did nothing while the South seceded. Hah! You’ll have to do better than that, Jimmy, if you want to wear this crown! Bush did […]
→ read full articleYES GEORGE, YOU SERVED YOUR MASTER WELL
David R. Hoffman - Legal Editor of Pravda.Ru,
14 Jan 2009
Now George it is over. Your Faustian deal gave you eight years of illegal and undeserved power. And did you make the most of it! You stole elections without hesitation, you lied without compunction, you started illegal wars without any consideration for international law, you shredded the Constitution without any respect for the check-and-balance system, […]
→ read full articleSCORCHED EARTH
David Glenn Cox,
21 Dec 2008
There comes a point, as the car careens out of control down the icy highway, when we are no longer the driver but just the person holding onto the wheel. We try to do what’s right but the situation changes from instant to instant and it appears that our actions have little effect. The undercurrents […]
→ read full articleA REVOLUTIONARY REWORKING FOR MARX’S ‘KAPITAL’
David McNeill in Tokyo,
20 Nov 2008
Treatise on Capitalism To Be Turned Into Manga Comic 140 Years After Publication Karl Marx, the German revolutionary who predicted that capitalism would crumble under the weight of its own contradictions, is making a comeback – in the form of a comic. More than 140 years after Marx’s Das Kapital was released on an initially […]
→ read full articlePAYBACK?S A BITCH
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 articleAMERICA’S ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
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. […]
→ read full articleTHE STATE OF THE EMPIRE
David Harvey,
17 Sep 2008
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