FULL MOON OVER BOLIVIA
By Johan Galtung

La Paz-Santa Cruz 17/Nov/08

    A full moon illuminates the mountains, the altiplano, and that vertical capital La Paz, as well as the plains around Santa...
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HELP BAN CLUSTER BOMBS NOW! SIGN THE PEOPLE’S TREATY
By TMS Editor

The Cluster Munitions Convention’s signing ceremony will take place in Oslo, Norway, from 2-3 December 2008. That is about two weeks to ensure that countries - your country - will be ready...
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WHAT IS PEACE JOURNALISM?
By Jake Lynch

This is the first of a series of weekly columns, exclusive to TMS, by Jake Lynch. Jake is Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of...
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HARNESSING CARBON FINANCING TO BOOST SUSTAINABLE FARMING
By UN-FAO

Win-Win-Win for Development, Climate Efforts

Some 100 experts from five continents meet today (28/Oct/08) to chart the way to harnessing a large new flow of funding...
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LANDSLIDE UN VOTE IN FAVOR OF ARMS TRADE TREATY
By Amnesty International – 31/Oct/08

Today 147 states at the United Nations voted overwhelmingly to move forward with work on an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). The Control Arms campaign, which represents millions of campaigners around...
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YOUNG EUROPEANS PRESENT STRATEGIES TO COMBAT RACISM IN SPORTS TO EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
By unescopress

Representatives of the project “Youth Voices against Racism”, an initiative of UNESCO, FC Barcelona and the European Coalition of Cities against Racism (ECCAR), in partnership with...
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U.S. FOREIGN POLICY, NOT ISLAMIC TEACHINGS, ACCOUNT FOR AL-QAEDA’S DRAW
By Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Ph.D. and Alejandro J. Beutel

Minaret of Freedom Institute

Recently Michael Scheuer, a former 22-year CIA analyst and head of the agency’s Bin Laden Unit gave an interview with John Barry of...
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FULL TEXT: BIN LADEN’S ‘LETTER TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE’
By Observer-Nov. 24, 2002

The letter first appeared on the Internet in Arabic and has since been translated and circulated by Islamists in Britain.

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the...
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THE PROMISED LAND?
By John V. Whitebeck

Obama, Emanuel and Israel

In the first major appointment of his administration, President-elect Barack Obama has named as his chief of staff Congressman Rahm Emanuel, an...
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WITH IRAN, OBAMA NEEDS MORE CARROT, LESS STICK
By Scott Ritter

As Iran heads toward a presidential election in the coming year, the United States—and the Obama administration—would achieve better and longer-lasting results by seeking solutions...
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MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE: WHO WAS BEHIND THE OCTOBER 2002 BALI BOMBINGS?
By Michel Chossudovsky

Three Islamic militants were executed on November 9th for their alleged role in the 2002 Bali bombings that resulted in the death of 202 people.

The official version of events...
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OFF THE COAST OF SOMALIA: ‘WE’RE NOT PIRATES. THESE ARE OUR WATERS, NOT THEIRS’
By Daniel Howden and Abdinasir Mohamed Guled

When Bile Wadani is not counting his money, he counts his wives. So far he has three – but he promises there will be more to come. "I didn't ever dream I would marry three wives but I...
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MAKING A KILLING FROM HUNGER: GLOBAL STARVATION IGNORED BY AMERICAN POLICY ELITES
By Peter Phillips

Grain.org describes the core reasons for continuing hunger in a recent article “Making a Killing from Hunger.” It turns out that while farmers grow enough food to feed the world,...
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GEO-ENGINEERING OVERSIGHT AGENCY FOR THERMAL STABILIZATION (GOATS)
By Anthony Judge

Introduction

An editorial in the journal New Scientist (Time to rank the best ideas to engineer the climate, 29 October 2008) has just echoed the proposal of Philip W. Boyd...
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LETTER FROM AMBASSADOR REGINALD DUMAS TO WORLD BANK PRESIDENT ROBERT ZOELLICK ON THE CANCELLATION OF HAITI’S DEBT
By Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network

Dear President Zoellick

I take the liberty of writing you on the subject of Haiti, a country in which I have had a particular interest since my stint there in 2004 as the Special...
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CLUSTER BOMB ‘SOON TO BE THING OF THE PAST'
By Angus Crawford - BBC News Germany

On 3 December, more than 100 countries, including the UK, will sign a treaty banning cluster bombs.

As a result Britain, by law, will have to destroy more than 30 million...
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OBAMA’S CHANCE TO END THE FANTASY THAT IS STAR WARS
By Johann Hari

The US has spent $160bn – only to increase the danger to itself and the rest of us.

The world is still pleasurably suffering from Woah-bama whiplash. Did he really...
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WAR IS A RACKET
By Chycho

Remembering the Victims of Those Who Profit From War

(Editor’s note: please go to original to be able to access the many links embedded in the...
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OLMERT: ARABS SUFFER ‘INTOLERABLE’ DISCRIMINATION
By Israel National News

"For sixty years there has been discrimination against Arabs in Israel. The discrimination is built-in and intolerable," Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Wednesday at a session of...
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DO UNTO OTHERS
By Karen Armstrong – The Guardian

World Religions Too Often Seem Predicated on Prejudice, When Their True Roots Lie in Compassion

The practice of compassion is central to every one of the major world...
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RARE TREATMENT IS REPORTED TO CURE AIDS PATIENT
By Donald G. McNeil Jr., The New York Times

    Doctors in Berlin are reporting that they cured a man of AIDS by giving him transplanted blood stem cells from a person naturally resistant to the virus.
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SELF-EVIDENT TRUTHS
By The Guardian - Editorial

If there is a truth which the world now holds to be self-evident, it is that the US prison camp in Guantánamo Bay should close. Four prosecutors at the camp have resigned, and the last...
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WHY DID THE WEST IGNORE THE TRUTH ABOUT THE WAR IN GEORGIA?
By Mary Dejevsky

The US and UK left the impression that Russia was the guilty party.

Thank goodness, they might be thinking at the US State Department and the British Foreign Office, for...
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LIVERPOOL: A CITY THAT IS FINALLY GLAD TO BE GAY
By Jonathan Brown

The Gay Village is a long overdue addition to a place where homophobic crime is rife.

Journey on any typical Saturday night to downtown Liverpool and you can expect to...
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THE GM GENOCIDE: THOUSANDS OF INDIAN FARMERS ARE COMMITTING SUICIDE AFTER USING GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS
By Andrew Malone

When Prince Charles claimed thousands of Indian farmers were killing themselves after using GM crops, he was branded a scaremonger. In fact, as this chilling dispatch reveals, it's even...
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BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
By Real News Network

Sabah al-Nasseri: Will Iraq's 'democracy' reject US plan?

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LATIN AMERICA: THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY
By John Pilger

Toward Freedom - Documentary Online

The War on Democracy is John Pilger's first major film for the cinema - in a career that has produced more than 55 television...
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