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AMERICANS ARE DEEPLY INVOLVED IN AFGHAN DRUG TRADE
Glen Ford – Black Agenda Report,
4 Dec 2009
The U.S. set the stage for the Afghan (and Pakistan) war eight years ago, when it handed out drug dealing franchises to warlords on Washington’s payroll. Now the Americans, acting as Boss of All Bosses, have drawn up hit lists of rival, “Taliban” drug lords. “It is a gangster occupation, in which U.S.-allied drug dealers […]
→ read full articleTHE ARCHITECTURE OF APARTHEID
Sarah Lazare and Clare Bayard - Znet,
30 Nov 2009
The word "Revenge" is scrawled in Hebrew on a Palestinian school in Hebron. The windows are covered with screens and the play yard obstructed with more screens tipped with barbed wire, to obstruct the stones regularly pelted down by Jewish settlers. The space between the school and the neighboring building is blocked off with large, […]
→ read full articlePALESTINIANS WHO SEE NONVIOLENCE AS THEIR WEAPON
Richard Boudreaux – Los Angeles Times,
27 Nov 2009
Mohammed Khatib and his West Bank supporters hope to rally others to a peaceful campaign for statehood. But fellow Palestinians seem largely indifferent, and Israel’s army is not amused.Reporting from Bilin, West Bank – Every Friday, Mohammed Khatib’s forces assemble for battle with the Israeli army and gather their weapons: a bullhorn, banners — and […]
→ read full article(ITALIAN) I PALESTINESI CHE USANO COME ARMA LA NONVIOLENZA
Richard Boudreaux - Los Angeles Times, Osservatorio Iraq,
27 Nov 2009
Bil’in, Cisgiordania – Ogni venerdì, le forze di Mohammed Khatib si radunano per combattere la loro battaglia contro l’esercito israeliano, e preparano le loro armi: un megafono, degli striscioni – e la forte convinzione che la protesta pacifica possa portare alla creazione di uno stato palestinese.A centinaia marciano verso la barriera israeliana che separa la […]
→ read full articleTHE CHILDREN OF FALLUJA
Martin Chulov and Shehani Fernando – The Guardian,
26 Nov 2009
Doctors are dealing with an increase in chronic deformities in infants in Falluja, where heavy munitions were used in 2004. A Video from The Guardian 4:29-Min VideoCLICK TO VIEW – GUARDIAN.CO.UK
→ read full articleUNPREDICTABLE FUTURES: STORIES FROM WORKER-RUN FACTORIES IN ARGENTINA
Benjamin Dangl - Toward Freedom,
25 Nov 2009
Reviewed: Sin Patron: Stories From Argentina’s Worker-Run Factories, edited by Lavaca, 320 pages, Haymarket Books, 2007. Following the social upheaval in Argentina in 2001-2002 a book was published in Spanish that a lot of activists and independent journalists in the country began trying to get their hands on. It wasn’t in all of the bookstores, […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) UMA HISTÓRIA ÉPICA: IRMÃS NEGRAS
Leonardo Boff,
21 Nov 2009
A Casa Grande e a Senzala não foram apenas construções sociais e físicas, dividindo por um lado os brancos, donos do poder e por outro, os negros, feitos escravos. Com a abolição da escravatura exteriormente desapareceram. Mas continuam presentes na mentalidade dos brancos e das elites brasileiras. As hierarquizações, as desigualdades sociais e os preconceitos […]
→ read full articleREBEL WITCHES AND THE CREATION OF CAPITALISM
Alex Knight – Toward Freedom,
20 Nov 2009
Reviewed: Caliban And The Witch: Women, The Body And Primitive Accumulation, by Silvia Federici, 288 pages, Autonomedia, 2004.Silvia Federici’s brilliant Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation, tells the dark saga of the Witch Hunt that consumed Europe for more than 200 years. In uncovering this forgotten history, Federici exposes the origins […]
→ read full articleDEBATE ON THE U.N. GAZA WAR CRIMES REPORT
Justice Richard Goldstone and former Israeli ambassador Dore Gold,
19 Nov 2009
Packed house hears Justice Richard Goldstone, whose name has become synonymous with the U.N. Human Rights Council’s fact-finding report on the conflict, engage in a public forum with a senior Israeli political figure over widespread criticism of the report among supporters of Israel. "Let me be absolutely clear," Goldstone said. "International law allows, and indeed […]
→ read full articleTHE PLIGHT OF THE ROMA: FROM EUROPE TO CANADA
Reuel S. Amdur – Toward Freedom,
13 Nov 2009
The media have not paid enough attention to the plight of the Roma in Europe. The Roma’s living conditions are miserable, and they suffer from serious discrimination in education and employment, and attacks from racists and neo-Nazis. Because of the conditions they face in Europe, a number of Czech Roma fled to Canada in 2008 […]
→ read full articleGERMANS PRESS FOR REMOVAL OF US NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN EUROPE
Julian Borger, diplomatic editor – The Guardian,
9 Nov 2009
Pressure is growing within Nato for the removal of the remaining US nuclear weapons on European soil, and for a new doctrine for the alliance that would depend less on nuclear deterrence.The initiative is being driven by the new German government coalition, which has called for the removal of American nuclear weapons on its territory […]
→ read full articleCHOMSKY: ‘US FOREIGN POLICY IS STRAIGHT OUT OF THE MAFIA’
Seumas Milne – The Guardian,
8 Nov 2009
Noam Chomsky is the closest thing in the English-speaking world to an intellectual superstar. A philosopher of language and political campaigner of towering academic reputation, who as good as invented modern linguistics, he is entertained by presidents, addresses the United Nations general assembly and commands a mass international audience. When he spoke in London last […]
→ read full articleAMERICA’S NEW CRUSADER CASTLES
Simon Tisdall – The Guardian,
6 Nov 2009
Across the Middle East, the US is building heavily fortified embassies which cut off diplomats and create hostilitiesAfter the US Congress agreed a $7.5bn aid package for Pakistan this autumn, the Obama administration was taken aback by the seemingly ungrateful reaction of its intended recipients. Pakistani opposition politicians fumed about "colonialism" and "imperialism". Military men […]
→ read full articleITALIAN COURT SENTENCES 23 CIA AGENTS OVER RENDITION FLIGHT
Richard Owen in Rome – The Times,
5 Nov 2009
An Italian court sentenced 23 former CIA agents to up to eight years in prison today for their role in the abduction of an Egyptian terrorist suspect in the first trial over “extraordinary renditions”.The Americans were all tried in absentia, but the verdicts were nevertheless hailed by human rights campaigners as an important victory that […]
→ read full articleSAVAGERY AND SILENCE IN THE FIRST WORLD
Sandy Leon Vest – Toward Freedom,
5 Nov 2009
In America – in my country – I fear we are losing the battle for our humanity. Some say we have already lost it.Deep down I think they may be right. Such is the level of violence, voyeurism and detachment displayed this October in Richmond, California, when at least two dozen students cheered, laughed or […]
→ read full articleARRESTING BLAIR
George Monbiot - Published in the Guardian, 26th October 2009,
28 Oct 2009
His bid for the EU presidency gives us the best chance we’ll ever have.Tony Blair’s bid to become president of the European Union has united the left in revulsion. His enemies argue that he divided Europe by launching an illegal war; he kept the UK out of the eurozone and the Schengen agreement; he is […]
→ 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 articleCASHING IN THE WAR DIVIDEND
Jo Comerford,
24 Oct 2009
The Joys of Perpetual WarSo you thought the Pentagon was already big enough? Well, what do you know, especially with the price of the American military slated to grow by at least 25% over the next decade? Forget about the butter. It’s bad for you anyway. And sheer military power, as well as the money […]
→ 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 articleDEFIANT UN BACKS ISRAEL WAR CRIMES REPORT
Gavin Cordon, Press Association,
17 Oct 2009
October 16, 2009 — Britain and France today failed in an attempt to delay a crunch Middle East vote at the UN, amid warnings by Israel that it could derail the peace process. The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva voted by 25 to six to refer a controversial report accusing Israel of war crimes […]
→ read full articleWHERE IS THE GOLD?
Howard Zinn,
14 Oct 2009
Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progressexcerpted from aPeople’s History of the United States Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island’s beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, […]
→ read full articleNOBEL PRIZE FOR PROMISES?
Howard Zinn,
10 Oct 2009
I was dismayed when I heard Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize. A shock, really, to think that a president carrying on wars in two countries and launching military action in a third country (Pakistan), would be given a peace prize. But then I recalled that Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Kissinger had […]
→ read full articleTOWARD A BREAKDOWN OF THE CAPITALIST SUBJECT?
Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval | Le Monde,
3 Oct 2009
Perhaps the economic catastrophe is dissipating the most glaring illusions about the self-regulating market, making global capitalism’s doctrinarians a bit less arrogant, provoking the spectacular conversions of some "leaders" who would urgently like to make us forget their previous blindness. But the catastrophe has not yet brought about the blockage of all the apparatuses, […]
→ read full articleWHILE YOU ARE MINDING YOUR OWN BUSINESS, THE U.S. IS CONSTANTLY MAKING WAR AROUND THE GLOBE
Tom Engelhardt,
23 Sep 2009
As much as it might seem that most of us are going along, living peaceful lives, there’s another kind of America that operates on the same soil — a warfare state."War is peace" was one of the memorable slogans on the facade of the Ministry of Truth, Minitrue in "Newspeak," the language invented by George […]
→ read full articleHUNGER PROBLEM ISN’T REALLY LACK OF FOOD, BUT THE INEQUALITY BETWEEN THE RICH AND POOR
Edgardo Herrera,
22 Sep 2009
After having participated in the Right to Food forum in Mexico, Olivier De Schutter, argued that “taxing food doesn’t seem to be a solution for combating the economic crisis”. He also said that “35 percent of the world’s children who die each year –equivalent to about 6.5 million – die as a result of malnutrition […]
→ read full articleTOXIC ASSETS
George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian, 22nd September 2009,
22 Sep 2009
The Trafigura scandal is just one of thousands of cases of the rich world’s fly-tipping. It was revolting, monstrous, inhumane – and scarcely different from what happens in Africa almost every day. The oil trading company Trafigura has just agreed to pay compensation to 31,0000 people in Cote d’Ivoire, after the Guardian and the BBC’s […]
→ read full articleAMERICA’S ULTIMATE WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION: BIOLOGICAL WARFARE
Tom Burghardt,
5 Aug 2009
Bioweapons Research, Secrecy and Contamination Go Hand in Hand The 2001 anthrax attacks underscore the dangers posed to our health and safety by the Bioweapons-Industrial Complex. The killer(s) employed a military-grade version of the deadly pathogen, a four-mutation blend of anthrax prepared at the government’s test site at the remote Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. […]
→ read full articleAMERICA’S EXPANSIVE BIOWEAPONS INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Tom Burghardt,
1 Aug 2009
The dystopian British sci-fi film 28 Days Later opens with animal rights activists breaking into the Cambridge Primate Research facility to free chimpanzees used in a secret weapons program. Terrified by the intrusion, a scientist warns the raiders that the chimps are infected with a genetically-modified pathogen. Ignoring his admonition, the chimps are let loose […]
→ read full articleDEMOCRA-PHOBIA: FEAR OF CITIZEN POWER IN HONDURAS
Al Giordano,
23 Jul 2009
Strip away all the sensationalism, distortion, simulation, ideological axe-grinding, flotsam and jetsam of media coverage of events in Honduras over the past month and it still boils down to one central conflict:The coup regime fears, and was imposed as a last line of defense against, “Citizen Power.” Citizen Power – “Poder Ciudadano,” in Spanish, which […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) BRASIL DEVOLVE 1400 TONELADAS DE LIXO AOS INGLESES
Esquerda.net,
20 Jul 2009
A descoberta de dezenas de contentores em dois portos brasileiros, provenientes de Inglaterra de forma ilegal e contendo lixo doméstico, vem relançar o debate sobre a exportação de resíduos dos países ricos. Os ingleses vão receber o lixo de volta e accionar judicialmente a empresa responsável. O lixo deverá regressar a Inglaterra nas próximas semanas, […]
→ read full article(SPANISH) AL ASALTO DE BURKINA FASO
Françoise Gérard,
17 Jul 2009
La crisis alimentaria de 2008 relanzó el debate sobre las biotecnologías que supuestamente deberían incrementar la productividad de la agricultura africana. Los campesinos del continente negro desconfían de las consecuencias sanitarias y sociales de los organismos genéticamente modificados. Por esa razón, Monsanto decidió emplear grandes medios para imponerse, con la ayuda del presidente burkinés Blaise […]
→ read full articleTHE LAUNCHING OF U.S. CYBER COMMAND (CYBERCOM)
Tom Burghard,
3 Jul 2009
Offensive Operations in Cyberspace U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates signed a memorandum on June 23 that announced the launch of U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM). A scheme by securocrats in the works for several years, the order specifies that the new office will be a "subordinate unified command" under U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM). According to the […]
→ read full articleHELP ADDICTS, BUT LOCK UP THE CASUAL USERS OF COCAINE
George Monbiot - Published in the Guardian 30th June 2009,
30 Jun 2009
The UN’s Proposal for Decriminalisation is Senseless and DestructiveIt looked like the first drop of rain in the desert of drugs policy. Last week Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said what millions of liberal-minded people have been waiting to hear. “Law enforcement should shift its focus from […]
→ read full article(NORWEGIAN) DROMMEN OM ÉN VERDEN
Kjartan Almenning Leder i Én Verden,
30 Jun 2009
En permanent parlamentarikerforsamling i FN kan være et viktig skritt på veien mot et verdensdemokrati. De av oss som arbeider for globale demokratiske institusjoner blir ofte sett på som drømmere. Og drømmere får sjelden politisk gjennomslagskraft. Da gjelder det å konseptualisere drømmen til noe som folk kan kjenne seg igjen i. Ny Tid har den […]
→ read full articleHIGH-TECH BARBARISM: LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! IT’S A BIRD… IT’S A PLANE… IT’S A RAYTHEON SPY BLIMP!
Tom Burghardt,
27 Jun 2009
As the American republic’s long death-spiral continues apace, newer and ever more insidious technologies usher us towards an age of high-tech barbarism"At first glance" Newsweek reveals, "there was nothing special about the blimp floating high above the cars and crowd at this year’s Indy 500 on Memorial Day weekend." "Nothing special" that is, until you […]
→ 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 articleSPAIN SIGNALS END TO WAR CRIMES, GENOCIDE HUNTING
Ben Harding,
21 May 2009
MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish judges who tried to extradite ex-Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and investigate Bush administration officials over Guantanamo will likely be barred from doing so again after a parliamentary vote on Tuesday. Under pressure from foreign governments, members of Spain’s congress almost unanimously passed a resolution which, if translated into law, would end […]
→ read full articleCITIES CAN SAVE THE EARTH
Richard Register,
13 May 2009
The climate crisis won’t be solved by changing light bulbs and inflating your tires more, planting a tree and driving a little less. It’s going to require a truly fundamental shift in how we build our cities and live in them. The key to changing our cities involves the car. Cars dominate cities in […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) Petição Força Parlamento a Discutir Proibição dos Animais nos Circos
Esquerda.net,
12 May 2009
A Assembleia da República (AR) discute hoje a proibição do uso de animais nos circos. Enquanto no exterior, defensores dos animais e alguns artistas circenses unidos pela associação Acção Animal vão manifestar-se, ao início da tarde, "por um circo sem crueldade", no hemiciclo os deputados votam um projecto-lei do PCP e outro dos Verdes e […]
→ read full articleBAGHDAD: CITY OF WALLS part 2
The Guardian,
20 Apr 2009
PART 2 – CROSSING THE WALL Eight new ghettos divide Baghdad’s Shia and Sunni neighbourhoods. The Real News Network12:08-Min. VideoCLICK TO VIEW
→ read full articleBAGHDAD: CITY OF WALLS
The Guardian,
19 Apr 2009
PART 1 – SCARS OF WAR Baghdad wears its scars as a series of giant walls dividing its neighbourhoods. The Real News Network12:19-Min. VideoCLICK TO VIEW
→ read full articleFILLING THE SKIES WITH ASSASSINS – TERMINATOR PLANET: LAUNCHING THE DRONE WARS
Tom Engelhardt,
12 Apr 2009
In 1984, Skynet, the supercomputer that rules a future Earth, sent a cyborg assassin, a "terminator," back to our time. His job was to liquidate the woman who would give birth to John Connor, the leader of the underground human resistance of Skynet’s time. You with me so far? That, of course, was the plot […]
→ read full articleAN OPEN LETTER TO BAN KI-MOON
Richard Morse,
2 Apr 2009
Why Haiti Can’t Forget Its Past Dear Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, Thank you for the attention you have brought to the country of Haiti. In response to your New York Times Op Ed piece I wanted to widen your perspective a bit. I don’t pretend to represent anyone. I’ve been living in Haiti since 1985. I […]
→ read full articleSEX TRAFFICKING: THE ABOLITIONIST FALLACY
Ann Jordan,
27 Mar 2009
Economic hardship, discrimination, and violence have driven millions of women to work in the sex sector around the world, and their numbers will increase as a result of the current global economic crisis. Unless the underlying factors pushing women to opt for selling sex to support themselves and their families are remedied, many women will […]
→ read full articleHUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN PALESTINE AND OTHER OCCUPIED ARAB TERRITORIES
Richard Falk – Member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace and Development,
25 Mar 2009
United Nations General Assembly – Human Rights Council 18 February 2009 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.PLEASE CONTINUE READING IN THE ORIGINAL
→ read full articleYOU ARE NOT YOUR BRAIN
Gordy Slack,
25 Mar 2009
We have become too reductive in understanding ourselves, argues philosopher Alva Noe. Our thoughts and desires are shaped by more than neurons firing inside our heads. For a decade or so, brain studies have seemed on the brink of answering questions about the nature of consciousness, the self, thought and experience. But they never do, […]
→ read full articleISRAEL’S WAR CRIMES
Richard Falk,
22 Mar 2009
Israel blamed its earlier wars on the threat to its security, even that against Lebanon in 1982. However, its assault on Gaza was not justified and there are international calls for an investigation. But is there the political will to make Israel account for its war crimes? For the first time since the establishment of […]
→ read full articleCOLERIDGE AT THE G20
Richard Bronk,
22 Mar 2009
The Romantics have much to teach today’s leaders about the limits of rationalist economics Among the briefing notes being prepared for G20 world leaders, I suspect very few are drawing attention to the lessons taught by Romantic poets and philosophers. This is a pity. For they have much to tell us about the limits of […]
→ read full articleBEAWARE THE MADOFF DIVERSION!
Richard Grossman,
18 Mar 2009
Sure, there are crooks out there. But the overwhelming majority of actions by corporate directors and managers that have created today’s messes have been legal. Not only legal, but also widely regarded as necessary and essential to sustain the American Way of Life. To put food on our tables. To heat our homes. To […]
→ read full articleA FALCON OF PEACE
Tom Engelhardt,
12 Mar 2009
How come they get to be the hawks? And we get to be the doves? A hawk is a noble bird. A dove – well, basically it’s a pigeon. The sort of bird that, in New York City anyway, messes your building’s window sills, is always underfoot, and, along with the city’s rats, makes a […]
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The Guardian, UK - Editorial (Mar 3),
4 Mar 2009
Pledging aid for Gaza is the easy bit. Getting it delivered to Gazans living in tents after Israel’s three-week bombardment is another matter. The $3bn that donors promised in Sharm el-Sheikh yesterday will have to penetrate a labyrinth of barriers and conditions, the complexity of which King Minos of Crete would have been proud. The […]
→ read full articleTHE IMPERIAL UNCONSCIOUS
Tom Engelhardt,
3 Mar 2009
Afghan Faces, Predators, Reapers, Terrorist Stars, Roman Conquerors, Imperial Graveyards, and Other Oddities of the Truncated American CenturySometimes, it’s the everyday things, the ones that fly below the radar, that matter. Here, according to Bloomberg News, is part of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’s recent testimony on the Afghan War before the Senate Foreign […]
→ read full articleTHE WORLD REDESIGNS ITSELF
Bernard Guetta,
13 Feb 2009
So Iran is "ready" for a direct dialogue with the United States. The most radical of its leaders, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said so yesterday [Feb. 10/09]. That means that none of the currents present in the Iranian regime rejects the negotiated pursuit – quid pro quo – of normalization with Washington. The entire […]
→ read full article50 YEARS, 100 PEACE & CONFLICT PERSPECTIVES
Rutagengwa Claude Shema, M.D. - Regional Coordinator, Great Lakes Peace Initiative (GLPI),
10 Feb 2009
Review of book by peace discipline pioneer Pr. Dr. Johan Galtung The world we live today is facing multiple challenges, different kind of disasters, but often the calamities made by human beings. In other words, the conflict issues and wars made by ourselves as humane are more disastrous than any natural disaster. The reason is […]
→ read full articleRAPE AS A WEAPON OF WAR: MISANDRY VS. MISOGYNY
Rutagengwa Claude Shema, M.D. - Regional Coordinator, Great Lakes Peace Initiative (GLPI),
10 Feb 2009
My Opinion about Systematic use of Rape and Torture in the Conflict in the Congo A) Rape Rape in DR Congo (République démocratique du Congo, DRC) has been used as a war weapon in different ways. But the fundamental reasons can vary as well. Military on the front line can spend a long time in […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) “Solução Neokeynesiana e Novo Bretton Woods são Fantasias”
Judith Orr e Patrick Ward,
9 Feb 2009
Numa entrevista à revista inglesa Socialist Review, o marxista István Mészàros analisa a crise económica mundial e critica aqueles que apostam que ela será resolvida trazendo de volta as ideias keynesianas e à regulação. "É uma fantasia que uma solução neo-keynesiana e um novo Bretton Woods resolveriam qualquer dos problemas dos dias atuais", defende Mészàros. […]
→ read full articleISTVÁN MÉSZÁROS ON THE STRUCTURAL CRISIS OF THE SYSTEM
Judith Orr and Patrick Ward,
9 Feb 2009
István Mészáros won the 1971 Deutscher Prize for his book Marx’s Theory of Alienation and has written on Marxism ever since. He talks to Judith Orr and Patrick Ward about the current economic crisis. Q: The ruling classes are always surprised by new economic crises and talk about them as aberrations. Why do you believe […]
→ read full articleOBAMA SEEKS NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT DEAL WITH RUSSIA
Ian Traynor in Munich and Luke Harding in Moscow,
7 Feb 2009
Hillary Clinton to head US efforts to reduce warheads to about 1,000 The Obama administration is looking for a quick deal between the US and Russia to more than halve their nuclear weapons stockpiles, reversing the Bush White House’s refusal to be bound by international treaties. Diplomats and officials say they are optimistic Washington and […]
→ read full articleWHISTLING PAST THE AFGHAN GRAVEYARD
Tom Engelhardt,
6 Feb 2009
Where Empires Go to Die It is now a commonplace — as a lead article in the New York Times’s Week in Review pointed out recently — that Afghanistan is "the graveyard of empires." Given Barack Obama’s call for a greater focus on the Afghan War ("we took our eye off the ball when we […]
→ read full article(SPANISH) LA FUERZA CURATIVA DE LA ECOLOGÍA INTERIOR
Leonardo Boff,
5 Feb 2009
En tiempos de crisis como el nuestro buscamos fuentes de inspiración allí donde se encuentren Una de ellas es la ecología interior. Para evaluar su importancia debemos concienciarnos de que nuestra relación con la Tierra, por lo menos en los últimos siglos, está basada en falsas premisas éticas y espirituales: antropocentrismo, negación del valor intrínseco […]
→ read full articleMUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE – SEARCHING FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER
Gerhard Spoerl - SPIEGEL,
1 Feb 2009
The closely watched Munich security conference, which starts next week (Feb 6), has become a large-scale summit for world leaders. This year the US is sending a high-ranking delegation, led by Vice President Joe Biden, which may seek informal dialogue with Iran on the event’s sidelines. President Barack Obama’s advisers spent days puzzling over the […]
→ 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 article(PORTUGUESE) CEM MIL NA MARCHA DE ABERTURA DO FÓRUM SOCIAL MUNDIAL
João Romão, de Belém do Pará, Brasil, para o Esquerda.net,
29 Jan 2009
Os cem mil participantes no Fórum atravessaram a cidade de Belém, bloquearam o trânsito, trouxeram para as janelas a população local e mobilizaram um enorme aparato policial, intimidativo mas que se limitou a observar um extraordinário desfile com todas as reivindicações sociais do planeta, todos os sons da militância solidária, toda a alegria do desejo […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) BARGHOUTI: “NÃO QUERO CRIAR ILUSÕES SOBRE OBAMA”
Esquerda.net,
25 Jan 2009
Nesta entrevista ao jornal egípcio Al-Ahram, dada antes do início da trégua em Gaza, o secretário-geral da Iniciativa Nacional Palestiniana, Mustafa Barghouti, duvida que Obama rompa com o lóbi judeu e observa que a administração Bush fez tudo para que o novo presidente se veja incapaz de operar mudanças na política americana em relação ao […]
→ read full article‘ISRAEL HAS A HABIT OF CLOSING ITS EYES TO HARD FACTS’
Volkhard Windfuhr,
14 Jan 2009
SPIEGEL Online interview with former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali The Israeli military strike in Gaza will have "unforeseeable consequences" for the region, warns former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. In an interview with SPIEGEL Online, he discusses the short-sightedness of Israeli politicians, Egypt’s role and his muted hopes for peace. SPIEGEL ONLINE: Has Israel’s current offensive […]
→ 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 articleTHE U.S. HAS 761 MILITARY BASES ACROSS THE PLANET, AND WE SIMPLY NEVER TALK ABOUT IT
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com,
4 Jan 2009
Here it is, as simply as I can put it: In the course of any year, there must be relatively few countries on this planet on which U.S. soldiers do not set foot, whether with guns blazing, humanitarian aid in hand, or just for a friendly visit. In startling numbers of countries, our soldiers not […]
→ read full articleISRAEL’S WAR CRIMES
Richard Falk,
1 Jan 2009
Editor’s Note: This statement was issued December 27 in response to Israel’s attack in Gaza by Professor Richard Falk, United Nations special rapporteur for human rights in the Occupied Territories and a longtime member of The Nation’s editorial board. The Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip represent severe and massive violations of international humanitarian law […]
→ read full articleBUSH PUSHES PERSIAN GULF NUCLEAR AGREEMENT
Howard Lafranchi,
23 Dec 2008
But critics say the US should go slowly on a deal that would help an ally of Iran. The Bush administration is quietly advancing a nuclear cooperation agreement with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), raising concerns in Congress and among nonproliferation experts about the deal’s repercussions in a volatile region. The deal to […]
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Richard Falk,
21 Dec 2008
When I arrived in Israel as a UN representative I knew there might be problems at the airport. And there were. On December 14, I arrived at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, Israel to carry out my UN role as special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories. I was leading a mission that had intended […]
→ read full articleMOOD MIXED AS CLIMATE SUMMIT ENDS
Richard Black - BBC News Environment Correspondent,
14 Dec 2008
Poznan – The UN climate summit has ended with delegates taking very different views on how much it has achieved. Western delegates said progress here had been encouraging, but environment groups said rich countries had not shown enough ambition. Developing nations were angry that more money was not put forward to […]
→ read full article9 IS NOT 11
Arundhati Roy and Tom Engelhardt,
13 Dec 2008
The single omnipresent historical reference in the American media immediately in the wake of September 11, 2001, was, of course, "Pearl Harbor" – and those code words for it, "infamy" and "day of infamy," splashed in mile-high letters across the front pages of papers. What we had experienced, it was commonly said then, was "the […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) MARIE-MONIQUE ROBIN: “O MUNDO SEGUNDO A MONSANTO”
Esquerda.net,
2 Dec 2008
Com uma eminente presença em mais de 46 países e com lucros impressionantes, a Monsanto converteu-se na empresa líder dos organismos geneticamente modificados (OGM), assim como numa das companhias mais controversas da indústria mundial devido à fabricação de PCB (piraleno), devastadores herbicidas (como o agente laranja usado durante a guerra do Vietname) ou a hormona […]
→ read full articleFLIGHT PATH TO DISASTER IN AFGHANISTAN
Tom Engelhardt,
17 Nov 2008
One of the eerier reports on the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan appeared recently in the New York Times. Journalist John Burns visited the Russian ambassador in Kabul, Zamir N. Kabulov, who, back in the 1980s, when the Russians were the Americans in Afghanistan, and the Americans were launching the jihad that would eventually wend its […]
→ read full articleDO UNTO OTHERS
Karen Armstrong – The Guardian,
15 Nov 2008
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 religions – but sometimes you would never know it. Instead, religion is associated with violence, intolerance and seems more preoccupied by dogmatic or sexual orthodoxy. People don’t […]
→ read full articleCLUSTER BOMB ‘SOON TO BE THING OF THE PAST’
Angus Crawford - BBC News Germany,
15 Nov 2008
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 explosives. The UK does not have the facilities, so they are being exported to Germany for disposal. "I feel good to work for a […]
→ read full articleSELF-EVIDENT TRUTHS
The Guardian - Editorial,
14 Nov 2008
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 one to do so, Darrel Vandeveld, could become a defence witness. He claimed the US government was not providing lawyers […]
→ read full article(SPANISH) OJALÁ
Eduardo Galeano,
9 Nov 2008
¿Obama probará, desde el gobierno, que sus amenazas guerreras contra Irán y Pakistán fueron no más que palabras, proclamadas para seducir oídos difíciles durante la campaña electoral? Ojalá. Y ojalá no caiga ni por un momento en la tentación de repetir las hazañas de George W. Bush. Al fin y al cabo, Obama tuvo la […]
→ read full articleSUFFERING WITHOUT END
The Guardian - Editorial,
31 Oct 2008
If the words humanitarian catastrophe and eastern Congo have a familiar ring to them, it is because the fundamental causes of a conflict that has claimed five million lives and continues to kill 45,000 a month through starvation and disease remain unaddressed. And this despite the world’s largest peacekeeping force, with the strongest mandate […]
→ read full articleECONOMIC PEACE
Garda Ghista,
20 Oct 2008
President, World Prout Assembly, Kentucky, USA Economic peace can be defined as that state wherein people are provided the minimum necessities of life – food, water, clothing, health care and education. In tandem with this provision, people must be guaranteed adequate purchasing power. This definition correlates with numerous treaties and conventions of international law. In […]
→ read full articleHOW TO SAVE THE U.S. ECONOMY
Richard C. Cook,
17 Oct 2008
The crashing stock market has given its verdict. The financial rescue plan currently being implemented by the U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve System will fail to revitalize the producing economy, even with continued interest rate cuts. This is because the banking system is essentially a supply-side, trickle-down mechanism with a currency based on […]
→ read full articleHORIZONS OF A GRAND THEORY OF PEACE
Richard Falk,
12 Oct 2008
Presented at a conference at ICU-International Christian University, Tokyo, earlier this year. I. Introduction My approach to such a daunting challenge seeks to be attentive to the urgings of Professor Shin Chiba that “..our quest for a grand theory of peace should be made in response to the crisis of the present age as it […]
→ read full articleFROM EMPIRE TO DEMOCRACY
Howard Zinn,
6 Oct 2008
Let’s not waste $700bn on a bail-out, but use ‘big government’ for what it’s best at – shaping a society that is fair and peaceable. This current financial crisis is a major way-station on the way to the collapse of the American empire. The first important sign was 9/11, with the most heavily-armed nation in […]
→ read full articleDOES THE ECONOMIC MELTDOWN NEED A NEW WAR?
Rev. Richard Skaff,
6 Oct 2008
Historically, the US has gone to war every time the value of the greenbacks plummeted or the economy drastically slumped. Is today’s economic disaster and weakened dollar a symptom for a new war? The US government/the military industrial complex plans to sell once again Israel 1,000 buster-bunker bombs which Israeli experts said last Monday could […]
→ read full articleTHE END OF US BIPARTISANSHIP?
Robert Reynolds in Oxford, Mississippi,
6 Oct 2008
Aljazeera.net POLITICIAN, (noun): An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organised society is reared. When he wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive. (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary) What we are witnessing […]
→ read full articleLATIN AMERICA CENSORED: TOWARD FREEDOM EDITOR RECEIVES PROJECT CENSORED AWARD
Toward Freedom & Project Censored,
6 Oct 2008
A number of recent developments have dramatically changed the military and political landscape of Latin America. While some electoral victories in Latin America signal a regional shift to the left, Washington continues to expand its military and navy presence throughout the hemisphere. This year Toward Freedom editor Benjamin Dangl received a Project Censored Award for […]
→ 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 […]
→ read full articleThank You, Ladies and Gentlemen
Richard C. Cook,
30 Sep 2008
Satire Te purpose of this brief statement is publicly to express my admiration and amazement at the way the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, The Honorable Ben Shalom Bernanke, the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, The Honorable Timothy F. Geithner, and the Secretary of the Treasury, The Honorable Henry M. Paulson, […]
→ read full article? o fim do Capitalismo?
esquerda.net - Portugal,
30 Sep 2008
Esta pergunta circulou nos últimos dias na imprensa financeira respeitável. Assim colocada, a pergunta não tem grande sentido. Todos conhecemos a correlação das forças sociais e políticas. E todos sabemos que uma transição sistémica desejável deverá ser o resultado de um longo processo de acumulação de forças democráticas e de vitórias socialistas no campo das […]
→ read full articleREFUSING TO OPPRESS
Neve Gordon,
16 Sep 2008
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→ read full articleRICH COUNTRIES ONCE USED GUNBOATS TO SEIZE FOOD:
George Monbiot, Guardian UK,
16 Sep 2008
Now They Use Trade DealsRead more
→ read full articleNEW SPY SOFTWARE COMING ON-LINE
Tom Burghardt,
16 Sep 2008
"Surveillance in a Box" Makes its DebutRead more
→ read full articleGOING ON AN IMPERIAL BENDER HOW THE U.S. GARRISONS THE PLANET AND DOESN’T EVEN NOTICE
Tom Engelhardt,
14 Sep 2008
At the height of the Roman Empire, the Romans had an estimated 37 majormilitary bases scattered around their dominions. At the height of theBritish Empire, the British had 36 of them planetwide. Depending onjust who you listen to and how you count, we have hundreds of bases.According to Pentagon records, in fact, there are 761 […]
→ read full articleTHE BUSH REGIME’S IMPERIAL AFFIRMATION: ENDLESS WAR, ENDLESS CONQUEST, ENDLESS REPRESSION
Tom Burghardt,
14 Sep 2008
While people around the world begin to celebrate George W. Bush’sJanuary 20, 2009 departure from the White House, senior administrationofficials are crafting legislation, rule changes and executive ordersthat will make permanent the worst excesses of this criminal regime. Read more
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