Articles by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
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Portugal Goes Left
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
30 Nov 2015
After four years of austerity, or better, social terrorism, with pensions slashed, salaries reduced, taxation increased and no hope of anything better for the future, the Left Parties united and said a resounding NO! and refused to accept the Government presented by the PP-PSD, which fell in a vote of no confidence with the majority of Parliament against.
→ read full articleAnimals: The “Personhood” Issue
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
4 May 2015
29 Apr 2015 – A recent case in the USA concerning the personhood of chimpanzees and therefore bringing into question the legality of their detainment in a laboratory follows on from a ruling in India two years ago about the status of dolphins as “non-human persons” enjoying specific rights. To what extent should this apply to other animals?
→ read full article(Português) Alternativas à experimentação animal no Brasil
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
2 Feb 2015
29 jan 2015 ‒ Congresso Nacional se prepara para aprovar R$ 16,7 milhões para alternativas à experimentação animal na próxima semana. A Humane Society International felicita os parlamentares pela alteração do orçamento a favor dos animais, da ciência e dos consumidores.
→ read full articleGoodbye G8, Hello BRICS. Out with the Old, In with the New
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
18 Nov 2014
From one side, a tired, imperialist and arrogant top-down, holier-than-thou approach with political strings attached; on the other, genuine friendship, cooperation, development, the desire for sincere cultural and economic ties. From the former, deployment and military bases; from the latter, development and education.
→ read full article(Português) Cuba: 23ª Votação na ONU Contra Bloqueio Evidencia Isolamento dos EUA
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
3 Nov 2014
As votações na ONU contra o bloqueio econômico que os Estados Unidos mantêm contra Cuba evidenciam o isolamento internacional de Washington. 188 países votam A Favor de levantar o bloqueio. 2 Contra: EUA e Israel. 3 Abstenções: Palau, Ilhas Marshall e Micronesia. Votação idêntica à do ano passado.
→ read full article(Português) Keynes Está Morto – Viva Marx!
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
22 Sep 2014
Muitos economistas liberais viram uma nova aurora para o keynesianismo no desastre financeiro de 2008. Quase seis anos depois, já é claro que as muito aguardadas prescrições keynesianas foram e são completamente ignoradas. Por quê?
→ read full article(Português) Paradigma Mecanicista versus Paradigma Organicista
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
13 Jan 2014
No final da vida, Michel Foucault ministrou um curso no Collège de France manifestando simpatia pelo neoliberalismo. Como anarquista, Foucault vislumbrou no neoliberalismo uma arma de destruição do Estado. Na verdade, o neoliberalismo enfraquece o Estado e o transforma em instrumento para seus objetivos.
→ read full articleSyria: Who Is the West Supporting?
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
6 Jan 2014
After over a year of anti-Assad hype, lies, fiction peddled as truth, false flag events, manipulation of facts and photographic evidence, the west has gone suddenly silent on Syria. What is going on, and who or what is the west supporting? Those playing soccer with the heads of their victims?
→ read full articleQatar World Cup: Over How Many Dead Bodies?
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
25 Nov 2013
Qatar, one of the richest countries in the world, just because it sits on massive resources of hydro-carbons, and the pariah of the international community with its alleged funding and aiding of terrorist groups in Chechnya, Libya and Syria, has been accused in a recent report of abusing migrant workers and having a deplorable safety record. Is this what FIFA stands for?
→ read full articleThe Plight of Benin’s Vidomègon Children
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
18 Nov 2013
Not surprisingly, the name “Vidomègon” will probably only raise an eyebrow among readers who find the word strange, not because it describes the plight of over one hundred thousand children, mainly girls, sold into slavery, prostitution and child pornography rings from Western Africa, undergoing rape, mutilation and murder.
→ read full articleThe Portuguese and the Crisis: An Analysis
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
18 Nov 2013
The key word for the survival of Portugal over all these years is “solidariedade”. In English, it is “solidarity”. This informal manifestation of socialism is endemic in Portuguese society, and persists whatever the social or economic climate. It is self-regulatory, it does not need a top-down approach.
→ read full articleSyria: From Fermenting Uprising to Delivering Polio
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
11 Nov 2013
Sometimes it truly seems as if the demented Armageddonists and George W. Bush’s “Crusaders” have shaped a “New World Order” which has regressed to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Conquest, War, Famine and Death.
→ read full articleHow The G8 Joint Statement Should Read
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
24 Jun 2013
For decades, an evil clique of nations controlled by the corporate elite whose goal was and is hegemony over the world’s resources – its capital – either installed governments or else closed ranks around them, neutering any socially progressive vectors by nipping them in the bud.
→ read full articleWill Someone Speak Out for the Heroic Libyan People?
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
12 Nov 2012
The heroic people of Libya fight on against the occupation of their beloved country by NATO and by their Islamist terrorists who have visited terror on peaceful communities living together side-by-side for decades. Let us take a look at the situation today and apportion the blame.
→ read full article9/11: A Geo-political Monster
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
17 Sep 2012
The victims of 9/11 are not only encountered in New York but also in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Libya and today, in Syria; campaigns created and wars waged on the back of the most shocking example of the manipulation of fear in the history of humankind. The legacy of 9/11 is therefore its consequences: torture, rape, murder, illegal detention, war crimes, atrocities, sodomy, urination in food, sleep deprival, setting dogs on detainees, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, racism…the list goes on and on and on and reads like a shopping list for Satan.
→ read full articlePost-Qathafi Libya…Another Fine Mess, NATO
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
27 Aug 2012
Congratulations to William Hague, Hillary Clinton and the sickening little wannabe Napoleons who rule France these days, desperately trying to claw back some international prestige. Let us compare Gaddafi’s Libya with FUKUS [France-UK-US] Libya… Nice one, NATO, nice one… Chuckle smugly and look over your shoulders. Karma time’s a-coming!
→ read full articleKiller Bug in Cambodia: Latest
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
23 Jul 2012
A joint investigation launched by the WHO-World Health Organization, the Cambodian Health Ministry, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge has drawn up some conclusions on the killer disease with a very high mortality rate in Cambodia. It has been confirmed that the severe illness is a very severe form of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease.
→ read full articleThe Grand Prix, Western Hypocrisy and the Gulf States
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
23 Apr 2012
Ahead of the Formula One race this weekend, arrests and cases of torture by the authorities have been rife, the use of shotguns against civilians has been widespread. Illegally detained citizens protesting against the murderous regime in Bahrain are denied access to lawyers and due legal process. Pre-dawn raids, discharging of firearms, detention in medieval conditions, torture chambers… never mind. Bahrain is cool. So, where is the invasion? Where are the special forces? Where is the demonology in the media? Nowhere, of course.
→ read full articleMladic Arrest: What about the NATO War Criminals?
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
30 May 2011
Ratko Mladic has been arrested and his extradition to the International Penal Court is under way. As the NATO leaders make their victory speeches, let us ask this question: When is NATO going to stand in the dock and when are its leaders going to answer for their crimes? The answer in a world without international law is very simple: Never.
→ read full articlePortugal – Crisis, what crisis?
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
11 Apr 2011
After Prime Minister José Sócrates presented his resignation to President Anibal Silva on Wednesday [23 Mar 2011], the Portuguese mass media indicates a new legislative election at the end of May. However, this is not the only option open to the President. After decades of mismanagement, reality slams Portugal square in the face. What happens now?
→ read full articleGlobal Food Prices: Panic?
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
14 Mar 2011
That a system that rewards investment in speculative concepts for the bolder members of society creates wealth and income, no problem for those who wish to gamble. Yet that a system which turns the entire macro-economic mechanism into a huge bet, devoid of any fundamentals, in which the real life consequences are tangible and dramatic not for the speculators but for the public at large, wholly and totally unacceptable it is.
→ read full articleCemetery Attack on Children: Israelis Cross the Red Line
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
28 Feb 2011
16 Feb 2011 – An Israeli bulldozer at the gate of a Bedouin cemetery at Al-Araqib in the Negev Desert advanced against children, injuring some of them. The source is credible, and historically accompanies its accusations with photographs. Where on this planet would a bulldozer be deployed to injure children at a cemetery? Why, Israel, where else?
→ read full article(Portuguese) Sérvia: Direitos dos Homossexuais, Direitos Humanos, Tolerância e Homofobia
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
18 Oct 2010
A República da Sérvia é um ponto de encontro de numerosos povos, religiões e culturas ao longo dos séculos, e de modo geral, têm coexistido em paz. Que triste, que este domingo a Parada Orgulho Gay terminou em uma orgia de violência causada por um punhado de fanáticos homofóbicos que deixou mais de cinquenta pessoas feridas. Esta foi a primeira Parada do Orgulho Gay da Sérvia, uma oportunidade para a sociedade fazer uma exibição pública de tolerância no início do Terceiro Milénio, permitindo às pessoas expressarem a sua sexualidade em público, vestidos com as roupas que escolhessem, sentindo-se feliz. Em vez disso, houve um crescendo de violência, insultos, arremesso de mísseis e, finalmente, uma batalha campal entre cerca de mil manifestantes anti-Parada e a polícia, resultando em 57 feridos, sendo 47 policiais, um internado em estado grave. A orgia de violência continuou com a destruição de propriedade do estado.
→ read full articleSerbia: Gay Rights, Human Rights, Tolerance and Homophobia
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
18 Oct 2010
The Republic of Serbia is a meeting point of numerous peoples, religions and cultures and over the centuries, by and large, they have coexisted in peace. How sad it is that this Sunday’s Gay Pride Parade ended in an orgy of violence caused by a handful of homophobic bigots which left over fifty people injured.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Se Não É de Portugal, Então Deve Ser da União Europeia
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
11 Oct 2010
E não é porque eles são portugueses. Vá ao Luxemburgo, que lidera todos os indicadores sócio-econômicos, e você vai descobrir que doze por cento da população é português, o povo que construiu um império que se estendia por quatro continentes e que controlava o litoral desde Ceuta, na costa atlântica, tornando a costa africana até ao Cabo da Boa Esperança, a costa oriental da África, no Oceano Índico, o Mar Arábico, o Golfo da Pérsia, a costa ocidental da Índia e Sri Lanka. E foi o primeiro povo europeu a chegar ao Japão….e Austrália.
→ read full articlePakistan: Where the International Community Got It Wrong
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
23 Aug 2010
The people of Pakistan have been left to rot by the international community. The scale of the flood disaster has either been wholly misunderstood or else there are forces at play which wish to take advantage of a destabilized Pakistan; the pitifully weak response by the international community moves this country and the region nearer to the abyss of chaos. This week UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the UN General Assembly “Make no mistake: this is a global disaster, a global challenge. It is one of the greatest tests of global solidarity in our times”.
→ read full articleHumanitarian Catastrophe in Niger: Where is This Story?
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
16 Aug 2010
The buzz-words of the moment are Naomi Campbell and blood diamonds, Cristiano Ronaldo and his troupe of girlfriends and the (sickeningly close) new soccer season. However, where is the story about the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Niger? (Where?) where 670,000 children are at risk of starving to death and eight million people need emergency food assistance?
→ read full article(Portuguese) Estamos Todos Com MV Rachel Corrie
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
7 Jun 2010
Israel vai cometer outro massacre? Haverá um ato de pirataria no alto mar? Tel Aviv vai torpedear o navio MV Rachel Corrie, um navio irlandês que viaja para Gaza, sob a égide do Direito Internacional das Nações Unidas (Resolução 1860)?
→ read full article(Portuguese) BRIC: Rumo a Um Mundo Multilateral, Mais Democrático e Justo
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
26 Apr 2010
Os líderes do Brasil, Rússia, Índia e RP China, as quatro maiores economias emergentes, estiveram reunidos esta quinta-feira [15 Apr 2010] para a Segunda Cúpula BRIC em Brasilia. Os assuntos discutidos foram maioritariamente económicos, com as áreas de energia e infra-estruturas de maior relevo.
→ read full articleRUSSIA AND USA GIVE START A NEW START
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
12 Apr 2010
The sticky issue here is the planned missile defence shield in territories NATO moved on into after having promised Russia it would not. First the lie, then to rub it in, the insult. Setting up, or planning to set up, missile defence shields, whether in Poland or in the Czech Republic or in Romania or in Bulgaria while negotiating an arms reduction treaty is like shaking the other’s hand with the right hand while the left conceals a knife behind the back.
→ read full articleNATO’S AFGHANISTAN: THE CHAMPION OF DRUGS PRODUCTION
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
5 Apr 2010
We really have to take our hats off to NATO. This clique of arms lobbyists and defender of jobs for the boys invaded Afghanistan in 2001 on the pretext that Osama bin Laden was using the country to attack western interests. Almost a decade after the Taleban declared war on drugs production, NATO’s Afghanistan is […]
→ read full articleCOLOMBIA’S MASS GRAVES
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
2 Feb 2010
The dark history of President Alvaro Uribe is well known for its seedy connections to narco-traffickers, terrorists and murderers. When Mayor of the City of Medellin, narco-terrorist death squads sent thousands of civilians to the most horrific deaths. Now, mass graves with thousands of bodies have been uncovered. Colombia is covered in a fine white […]
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