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GAZA FREEDOM MARCH: WHAT WE’VE ACCOMPLISHED SO FAR
Robert Naiman - Sun, 3 Jan 2010,
3 Jan 2010
CAIRO, Egypt – Some of us reached Gaza and particpated in the Gaza Freedom March as planned. All of us significantly raised the profile of dissent – particularly, American dissent – against the blockade of the people of Gaza imposed by Israel and Egypt, with the backing of the United States and the acquiescence of […]
→ read full articleGAZA MUST BE REBUILT NOW
Jimmy Carter,
22 Dec 2009
We can wait no longer to restart the peace process. The human suffering demands urgent relief.It is generally recognised that the Middle East peace process is in the doldrums, almost moribund. Israeli settlement expansion within Palestine continues, and PLO leaders refuse to join in renewed peace talks without a settlement freeze, knowing that no Arab […]
→ read full articleTHE WORLD’S LEAST POWERFUL MAN: THE OBAMA PUPPET
Paul Craig Roberts – Information Clearing House,
20 Dec 2009
It didn’t take the Israel Lobby very long to bring President Obama to heel regarding his prohibition against further illegal Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land. Obama discovered that a mere American president is powerless when confronted by the Israel Lobby and that the United States simply is not allowed a Middle East policy separate […]
→ read full articleRULES OF HUMAN DECENCY APPLY TO ISRAELIS TOO
Stuart Littlewood – Dissident Voice,
13 Dec 2009
A Dose of Their Own (Academic) Medicine Might Help the Message Sink in Poor Berlanty. What did she do to deserve this crushing blow to her hopes and life chances? The Israeli High Court has denied her justice — again — and prevented Berlanty Azzam returning to Bethlehem University for the final few weeks to […]
→ read full articleBARACK OBAMA’S OMINOUS SPEECH
Alberto Portugheis,
10 Dec 2009
Politicians will call it “Education”, but it only is a conditioning of the human mind, to stop it thinking for itself. Before anything, I need to explain that I have nothing personal against Barack Obama. I know he is only the “spokesman” for the elite that runs the world and not the “Commander-in-Chief” he wants […]
→ read full articleENVIRONMENTAL WARFARE: CLIMATE MODIFICATION SCHEMES
Spencer Weart – Global Research,
7 Dec 2009
If human activities could change climate, why not change it on purpose, to suit us better? From 1945 into the 1970s, much effort went into studies of weather modification. American entrepreneurs tried cloud-seeding to enhance local rainfall, Russian scientists offered fabulous schemes of planetary engineering, and military agencies secretly explored "climatological warfare." The hopes and […]
→ read full articleTOLERANCE AND NON-VIOLENCE IN A WORLD THAT NEEDS TO BE TRANSFORMED
François Houtart – Global Research,
7 Dec 2009
François Houtart, Honorary President of the Brussells Tribunal, receives the 2009 UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence. For his life-long commitment to world peace, intercultural dialogue, human rights and the promotion of tolerance, and in recognition of his outstanding efforts to advance the cause of social justice in the world. Acceptance […]
→ read full articleAMERICANS 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 articleCARING AND KILLING: TIME IS RUNNING OUT, MR. PRESIDENT
Robert C. Koehler - Tribune Media Services,
4 Dec 2009
Dear Barack . . . Mr. President . . . brilliant, courageous (I once thought) guy I voted for: You’re great. I mean the way you put words together. As I listened to you on Tuesday night, I thought about the interlocking, dovetail-joint perfection of your language: the crisp-edged certainty of your delivery, the clean […]
→ read full articleWHAT FESTIVE CHEER WILL THE WEST BRING TO THE HOLY LAND THIS CHRISTMAS?
Stuart Littlewood - Dissident Voice,
30 Nov 2009
The UK is now in the grip of festive fever as the nation prepares for the customary annual binge called Christmas. Despite the recession families are being urged to spend, spend, spend on an excess of food and alcohol and extravagant presents. For them there is also the luxury of unrestricted travel to see relatives […]
→ 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 articleBRAZIL’S “SOUTHERN EFFECT” IN FRAGILE COUNTRIES
Robert Muggah and lona Szabó de Carvalho - Open Democracy,
20 Nov 2009
Global preoccupation with fragile environments is on the rise. Can south-south and triangular co-operation help? Brazil thinks so. A reply to Oliver Richmond.Rebuilding "fragile" and "failing" states is a declared priority of most western governments. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has issued a rash of policy statements and guidelines to help donor […]
→ read full article“PIG HELL” AT WAL-MART AND COSTCO SUPPLIER CAPTURED ON VIDEO
Martha Rosenberg - Mercy for Animals (MFA),
18 Nov 2009
“When he bolted her the first time, she didn’t die. She just stood there looking stunned as blood trickled from her forehead. She then got her bearings and tried to turn and run.” “The gas cart was filled to the brim with pigs today, a total of 39, including 9 large pigs that were at […]
→ read full articleSTRATEGIES AND TACTICS AT THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION (WTO)
Umberto Mazzei – Global Research,
16 Nov 2009
Geneva — The WTO is an important multilateral forum because it attempts to negotiate the future. The unacknowledged purpose of creating the WTO was to perpetuate, through international agreements, the pattern of trade imbalances in the international economy. The ploy is to convene a forum to negotiate an equitable amendment. The tactic is to wear […]
→ read full articleIS OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT AID WORKING?
Phil Vernon – International Alert,
15 Nov 2009
It is time to reform overseas development aid.These are extraordinary times for those who work in overseas development. We are living through a recession of historic proportions, and yet thus far there are few overt calls for a reduction in overseas development aid. The main questions for the 2010 election will be about public spending: […]
→ read full articleMORALITY VS. MATERIAL INTERESTS
Paul Craig Roberts – Information Clearing House,
15 Nov 2009
Myths of Our TimeHumanity has endeavored for millennia to control evil with morality. In the American "superpower," this effort has collapsed and failed. It is conventional wisdom that it was the draft that ended the Vietnam war. According to this explanation, cowardly college students subject to the draft and their unpatriotic families, forced an end […]
→ read full articleGORBACHEV’S SERMON ON THE MOUNT
Robert Scheer, Truthdig,
13 Nov 2009
On the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, it’s worthwhile to remember that ending a stupid, harmful war is the most admirable thing a great leader can do.“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.” That biblical quotation certainly applies to Mikhail Gorbachev, a man not honored enough […]
→ read full articleNOSTALGIA FOR THE OTTOMANS: DISILLUSIONED WITH EUROPE, TURKEY LOOKS EAST
Daniel Steinvorth in Istanbul - SPIEGEL,
12 Nov 2009
As European opposition to EU membership for Turkey grows, Ankara is looking to forge closer ties to its neighbors. Turkey wants to once again become a leading power in the Middle East — but its relationship with Israel may suffer as a result.He was the last heir to the throne of the Ottoman Empire, a […]
→ read full articleGOLDSTONE AND GAZA
Jimmy Carter – The New York Times,
8 Nov 2009
Knowing of the ability of Israeli forces, often using U.S. weapons, to strike targets with pinpoint accuracy, it was difficult to understand or explain the destruction of hospitals, schools, prisons, United Nations facilities, small factories and repair shops, agricultural processing plants and almost 40,000 homes.Judge Richard Goldstone and the United Nations fact-finding mission on the […]
→ read full articleTHE EVIL EMPIRE
Paul Craig Roberts – Information Clearing House,
8 Nov 2009
Obama’s credibility is shot. And so is Congress’s, assuming it ever had any. The US House of Representatives has just voted to show the entire world that the US House of Representatives is nothing but the servile, venal, puppet of the Israel Lobby.The US government is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest […]
→ read full articleAMERICA IS PERFORMING ITS FAMILIAR ROLE OF PROPPING UP A DICTATOR
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
5 Nov 2009
As in Vietnam, Karzai is going to rule over an equally tiny island of corruption.Could there be a more accurate description of the Obama-Brown message of congratulations to the fraudulently elected Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan? First the Palestinians held fair elections in 2006, voted for Hamas and were brutally punished for it – they still […]
→ read full articleBRAZIL’S NEW POLITICAL IDENTITY
Arthur Ituassu - Open Democracy,
4 Nov 2009
Brazil’s social and economic achievements during President Lula’s period in office is the foundation of its rising international status. But to ensure its future Brazil needs to pass two major tests.A number of events has projected Brazil into the headlines of international news, besides the traditional stories about violence, natural catastrophes or environmental issues. Behind […]
→ read full articleProf. Johan Galtung on his latest book, ‘The Fall of the US Empire-And Then What? Successors, Regionalization or Globalization? US Fascism or US Blossoming?’
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2009
Interview with Prof. Johan Galtung about his latest book, ‘The Fall of the US Empire-And Then What? Successors, Regionalization or Globalization? US Fascism or US Blossoming?’ – Washington-DC, Oct 30 2009 (http://www.transcend.org/tup/) httpv://www.youtube.com/v/SfcoNlhxRow&hl=en&fs=1
→ read full articleRAINFOREST TREATY ‘FATALLY FLAWED’
Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor,
28 Oct 2009
Climate Summit Loophole Lets Palm Oil Producers Cull Vital Wilderness A vital safeguard to protect the world’s rainforests from being cut down has been dropped from a global deforestation treaty due to be signed at the climate summit in Copenhagen in December. Under proposals due to be ratified at the summit, countries which cut down […]
→ read full articleWAR CRIMINALS ARE BECOMING THE ARBITERS OF LAW
Paul Craig Roberts,
13 Oct 2009
"This is the Israeli notion of a fair deal: We’re entitled to do whatever the hell we want to the Palestinians because, by definition, whatever we do to them is self-defense. They, however, are not entitled to lift a finger against us because, by definition, whatever they do to us is terrorism.The double standard under […]
→ read full articleMARX AND LENIN REVISITED
Paul Craig Roberts,
9 Oct 2009
If Karl Marx and V. I. Lenin were alive today, they would be leading contenders for the Nobel Prize in economics. “Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.” Karl Marx Marx predicted the growing misery of working people, and Lenin foresaw […]
→ read full articleMANIFESTO: GLOBAL ECONOMIC ETHIC – CONSEQUENCES FOR GLOBAL BUSINESSES
UN Headquarters, New York,
9 Oct 2009
6 October 2009 Preamble For the globalization of economic activity to lead to universal and sustainable prosperity, all those who either take part in or are affected by economic activities are dependent on a values-based commercial exchange and cooperation. This is one of the fundamental lessons of today’s worldwide crisis of the financial and product […]
→ read full article‘RETHINKING AFGHANISTAN’
Robert Greenwald (documentary) & Jeremy Scahill (article),
9 Oct 2009
Destroys Failed Logic of WarNew Video Documentary & Article Americans should stop and rethink support for a war that worsens by the day, costs billions of dollars, causes the deaths of U.S. soldiers and countless Afghan civilians and which, ultimately, will make the U.S. less safe. CLICK TO VIEW – ICH
→ read full articleTHE DEMISE OF THE DOLLAR
Robert Fisk,
9 Oct 2009
In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading. In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end […]
→ read full articleBRAZILIAN FAVELAS IN THE MEDIA
Martim S Silveira,
4 Oct 2009
A History of Stereotyping 1. Introduction“Favela” is the generic name by which slums and shantytowns are known in Brazil. They are a national social phenomenon, spread throughout all the biggest urban centers in the country, inhabited by some of the poorest Brazilian families, and receiving little or no attention from the State in what concerns […]
→ read full articleEXORCISING AMERICA’S DIPLOMATIC DEMONS
Robert Scheer,
3 Oct 2009
Communism once was, as the Islamic terrorist threat is today, presented as an undifferentiated revolutionary impulse that could never be diplomatically accommodated without sacrificing our own security or, indeed, our freedom. The various communist nations and movements, like those currently led by a polyglot collection of Islamist radicals, were stripped of any complexity, be it […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) FAVELAS BRASILEIRAS NA MÍDIA
Martim S Silveira,
28 Sep 2009
Uma História de Estereótipos1. IntroduçãoA palavra “favela”, no Brasil, não é somente usada para indicar os bairros mais pobres dos centros urbanos do país. Ela tem em si uma conotação negativa, já que serve também para descrever qualquer lugar “de mau aspecto” ou uma “situação que se considera desagradável ou desorganizada”, conforme definição do Dicionário […]
→ read full articleMORE LIES, MORE DECEPTION
Paul Craig Roberts,
28 Sep 2009
“What does imperialism mean? It means the assertion of absolute force over others.” Robert Lowe 1878 Iran is insisting that the US government abide by the non-proliferation treaty that the US originated and pushed and that Iran signed. But the US government, which is currently engaged in three wars of aggression and has occupying troops […]
→ read full articleSOUTH AMERICA-AFRICA: COMING TOGETHER TO FIGHT POVERTY
Humberto Márquez,
28 Sep 2009
A declaration that puts an accent on the positions of the developing South and expresses a renewed commitment to cooperation in the fight against poverty and for development was signed by the leaders who met over the weekend in the second South America-Africa summit, on the Venezuelan island of Margarita. Eight South American and 20 […]
→ read full articleTHE TOSSED SHOE AWARD
Robert C. Koehler,
26 Sep 2009
“Businesses exist to serve the general welfare. Profit is the means, not the end. It is the reward a business receives for serving the general welfare. When a business fails to serve the general welfare, it forfeits its right to exist.” Do Adam Smith’s famously forgotten words of caution for capitalists apply to journalism? Is […]
→ read full articleHOW LOW WILL ISRAEL STOOP TO WIN THE PROPAGANDA WAR?
Stuart Littlewood,
20 Sep 2009
The Israel Project, a US media advocacy group, has produced a revised training manual to help the worldwide Zionist movement win the propaganda war, keep their ill-gotten territorial gains and persuade international audiences to accept that their crimes are necessary and conform to “shared values” between Israel and the civilised West. It’s a clever document […]
→ read full articleTOXIC SHAME: THOUSANDS INJURED IN AFRICAN CITY
Cahal Milmo, Chief Reporter,
19 Sep 2009
British trading giant agrees to pay millions to victims maimed and scarred by dumping of polluted sludge. A British oil trading giant has agreed to a multimillion-pound payout to settle a huge damages claim from thousands of Africans who fell ill from tonnes of toxic waste dumped illegally in one of the worst pollution incidents […]
→ read full article(ITALIAN) COSTA RICA, DEBUTTO MONDIALE DEL MINISTERO DELLA PACE
Peace Reporter,
17 Sep 2009
La Costa Rica è il primo paese al mondo a avere un ministero di questo tipo. Novità in vista nella Costa Rica: il piccolo Paese centro americano, infatti, sarà il primo Stato al mondo ad avere un ministero quasi esclusivamente dedicato alla Pace. Il testo della proposta di legge approvata dalla commissione parlamentare ora dovrà […]
→ read full articleTHE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS ACTUALLY INCREASING THE US PRESENCE IN IRAQ
Michael Schwartz,
14 Sep 2009
US Presence in Iraq is Actually Growing Believe it or not, the U.S. presence in Iraq is growing under the leadership of ‘antiwar ‘president Barack Obama. A recent Washington Post by reporter Walter Pincus explains that when U.S. troops are "withdrawn," their jobs are taken over by……mercenaries — the notorious "contractors," who are hired for […]
→ read full article9/11: 8 YEARS AND COUNTING
Jim Albertini, from Hawaii,
11 Sep 2009
Unanswered questions suggest that people within the Bush administration may have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, or were directly involved in it to create a pretext for a new perpetual war against "terrorism" to replace the cold war against "communism."We want truthful answers to questions such as: 1. Why were standard operating procedures for dealing […]
→ read full articleEUROPE’S COMPLICITY IN EVIL
Paul Craig Roberts,
10 Sep 2009
Address to Mut zur Ethik Conference, “Sovereignty or Imperialism,” Feldkirch, Austria, September 5, 2009 There is a widespread supposition that Obama, being black and a member of an oppressed race, will imbue US foreign policy with a higher morality than the world experienced from Bush and Clinton. This is a delusion. Obama represents the same ideology of […]
→ read full articleWHY NOT CRIPPLING SANCTIONS FOR ISRAEL AND THE US?
Paul Craig Roberts,
10 Sep 2009
In Israel, a country stolen from the Palestinians, fanatics control the government. One of the fanatics is the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Last week Netanyahu called for “crippling sanctions” against Iran. The kind of blockade that Netanyahu wants qualifies as an act of war. Israel has long threatened to attack Iran on its own but […]
→ read full articleU.S. HYPOCRISY ASTONISHES THE WORLD
Paul Craig Roberts,
10 Sep 2009
Americans have lost their ability for introspection, thereby revealing their astounding hypocrisy to the world. US War Secretary Robert Gates has condemned the Associated Press and a reporter, Julie Jacobson, embedded with US troops in Afghanistan, for taking and releasing a photo of a US Marine who was wounded in action and died from his […]
→ read full articleA 9/11 REALITY CHECK
Robert Scheer,
10 Sep 2009
What if eight years ago the World Trade Center had been leveled by a small nuclear bomb that took out most of lower Manhattan as well? How many millions of innocent civilians would we have killed in retaliation? Would we still be a free society, or would Dick Cheney have attained the power of a […]
→ read full articleWE SHALL NOT BE MOVED
Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Media Services,
24 Aug 2009
“A fight, a fight . . .” Oh Lord. From what depths did this story come? This was the power of the peace circle, pulling something out of me beyond any known zone of emotional safety. There were five or six of us, in a small breakout group, challenging one another with the deepest […]
→ read full articleWAR WITHOUT END
Robert Templer,
22 Jul 2009
The guns have fallen silent in Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war, but the deep wounds of ethnic animosity have not even begun to heal. An estimated 300,000 Tamil civilians remain essentially prisoners in internment camps run by a Sinhalese-dominated government. To begin easing the deep mistrust between the communities, donor countries will have to pressure […]
→ read full articleIN AN IMPOTENT WORLD EVEN THE BANKRUPT CAN PREVAIL
Paul Craig Roberts,
21 Jul 2009
When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Japan did not spend years preparing her public case and demonstrating her deployment of forces for the attack. Japan did not make a world issue out of her view that the US was denying Japan her role in the Pacific by hindering Japan’s access to raw materials and energy. Similarly, […]
→ read full articleBEHIND THE HONDURAN COUP: WHY ZELAYA’S ACTIONS WERE LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL
Alberto Vallente Thorensen,
2 Jul 2009
Zelaya attempted to give Hondurans the gift of participatory democracy. It was the coup leaders who violated the constitution. Those who say otherwise are wrong. EDITOR’S NOTE: RebelReports is publishing this original article as a response to those who claim that the coup in Honduras was legal and/or constitutional and to the reporting by those […]
→ read full articleTHE “SPIRIT OF HUMANITY”
Paul Craig Roberts,
2 Jul 2009
On June 30, the government of Israel committed an act of piracy when the Israeli Navy in international waters illegally boarded the “Spirit of Humanity,” kidnapped its 21-person crew from 11 countries, including former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and Nobel Laureate Mairead MaGuire, and confiscated the cargo of medical supplies, olive trees, reconstruction materials, and […]
→ read full articleHOW LONG IS LONG ENOUGH?
Bob Herbert, The New York Times,
1 Jul 2009
No one seems to know how old Mohammed Jawad was when he was seized by Afghan forces in Kabul six and a half years ago and turned over to American custody. Some reports say he was 14. Some say 16. The Afghan government believes he was 12.What is not in dispute is that he was […]
→ read full articleSRI LANKA: CAMPS, MEDIA… GENOCIDE?
Martin Shaw,
30 Jun 2009
What kind of violence has the Sri Lankan state been committing against its Tamil civilian population as the island‘s civil war ended; on what scale and with what intentions? Martin Shaw explores the difficult terrain where war, atrocity and genocide meet. The civil war in Sri Lanka is receding from the international headlines, as crises […]
→ 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 articleWHO ARE WE?
Bob Herbert - The New York Times,
26 Jun 2009
Proof of guilt? In 21st-century America, there is no longer any need for such annoyances. Human rights? Ha-ha. That’s a good one. Policies that were wrong under George W. Bush are no less wrong because Barack Obama is in the White House. One of the most disappointing aspects of the early months of the Obama […]
→ read full articleHOPE FOR GAZA: ADDRESS TO THE UN RELIEF WORKS AGENCY’S HUMAN RIGHTS GRADUATING CLASS
Jimmy Carter, 2002 Nobel Peace Laureate - in Gaza, 16 Jun 09,
20 Jun 2009
Director of UNRWA operations John Ging, thank you for inviting me to Gaza. Distinguished guests, children of Gaza, I am grateful for your warm reception. I first visited Gaza 36 years ago and returned during the 1980s and later for the very successful Palestinian elections. Although under occupation, this community was relatively peaceful and prosperous. […]
→ read full articleMcCARTNEY URGES ‘MEAT-FREE DAYS’ TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE
Martin Hickman, Consumer Affairs Correspondent,
15 Jun 2009
Chargrilled asparagus and lemon tart – that’s the vegetarian menu for a glamorous cast of musicians, actors, writers and artists starting a mass movement today to limit meat eating and combat climate change. With his daughters, Stella and Mary, Sir Paul McCartney is behind Meat Free Monday, which aims to persuade people to go veggie […]
→ read full articleWHO WILL STAND UP TO AMERICA AND ISRAEL?
Paul Craig Roberts,
8 Jun 2009
"No countries on earth rival the US and Israel for barbaric murderous violence." "Obama Calls on World to ‘Stand Up To’ North Korea" read the headline. The United States, Obama said, was determined to protect "the peace and security of the world." Shades of doublespeak, doublethink, 1984. North Korea is a small place. China alone […]
→ read full articleFORGET “NEGOTIATIONS” OBAMA
Stuart Littlewood,
8 Jun 2009
The Situation Cries for Law and Justice Whenever western leaders lecture us about a solution to the Israel-Palestine problem, they rely on those comfortable, woolly words “negotiation” and “peace process”… it’s a convenient crutch. Kick away the crutch and they’d finally have to grasp the nettle of justice, something they have always avoided. Justice is […]
→ read full articleBRITAIN’S WEAPONS’ EXPORTS: IT’S THRIVING, BUT LETHAL
Mark Curtis,
2 Jun 2009
Britain’s decade of arms exports puts the lie to any notion of an ethical foreign policy under Blair. Three months before his election in 1997, Tony Blair wrote in BAE Systems’ newsletter that his government would champion arms exports and a "strong defence industry". That, despite the hoopla surrounding the idea of an "ethical" foreign […]
→ read full articleMEETING A “MONSTER”
Robert Nugent,
24 May 2009
Visiting a Priest Behind Bars Matthew’s Gospel, the source of the Catholic “corporal works of mercy,” includes “visiting the imprisoned,” probably the least practiced of them all. I have only visited prisons a few times. Years ago, I visited Fr. Carl Kabat on Thanksgiving Day when I was home from the seminary. He had been […]
→ read full articleXSTRATA DREAMING: THE STRUGGLE OF ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AGAINST A SWISS MINING GIANT
Michael Deibert,
15 May 2009
The McArthur River winds through Australia’s remote Northern Territory creating lush floodplains that sustain vast herds of kangaroos, wallabies and cattle. Above them, finches, wild turkeys, and flocks of migratory birds fill an endless sky. The area around the river, which runs 300 kilometers before emptying into the Gulf of Carpentaria, also provides spiritual sustenance […]
→ read full article400 WEEKS AGO TODAY, ON SEPTEMBER 12, 200l…
Jim Albertini in Hilo, Hawai’i, USA,
15 May 2009
… we began our HILO FRIDAY PEACE VIGIL, with a new leaflet prepared each week for local and international circulation. Four hundred leaflets later, the five points at the bottom of the page remain the same. Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet (May l5, 2009 – 400th week) – Friday 3:30-5:00 p.m. downtown Hilo Post Office […]
→ 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 articleRIGHT TO THE VERY END IN IRAQ, OUR MASTERS DENIED US THE TRUTH
Robert Fisk,
12 May 2009
The sentence ‘millions of Iraqis now live free of oppression’ is pure public relations. ‘We acknowledge," the letter says, "that violence has claimed the lives of many thousands of Iraqi civilians over the last five years, either through terrorism or sectarian violence. Any loss of innocent lives is tragic and the Government is committed to […]
→ read full articleA CENTURY OF GENOCIDE, 1915-2009
Martin Shaw,
24 Apr 2009
The Ottoman-era massacres of the Armenians also belong to a century of "mass-death" episodes forged in war, state rivalry, ethnic targeting and expulsion. When Armenian leaders in Constantinople (now Istanbul) were massacred on 24 April 1915, it was the signal for killings and deportations of Armenians across eastern Anatolia, then the heartland of the Ottoman […]
→ read full article(ITALIAN) L’IMPORTANZA DEI CORPI CIVILI DI PACE OGGI
Prof. Alberto L’Abate – Member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace and Development,
2 Apr 2009
L’Opinione di Quattro Generali Il secolo passato è stato quello nel quale sono morte più persone a causa delle guerre che in tutti secoli precedenti messi insieme, ma anche nel quale questi morti, che in precedenza erano in gran parte militari, sono stati in grande maggioranza civili. Si parla del 97% di morti civili nelle […]
→ read full articleGOLD FOR HUMANITY
Robert Koehler,
31 Mar 2009
When exactly did it happen — that "blinding flash of the obvious"? It may have been during lunch — outside, in a park in the nation’s capital on a beautiful, cherry-blossom afternoon — as public health theorist Ari Cowan held forth about working with maximum security prisoners in Washington state. Having described a program that […]
→ read full articleAFGHANISTAN: THE FOUR QUESTIONS
Robert Naiman,
28 Mar 2009
President Obama announced his new Afghanistan strategy on Friday – the traditional Washington day for burying things. But there weren’t any big surprises. The administration had been dribbling details out through the news media: more troops, more civilians, narrower goals. As for "narrowing the goals" in his speech, Obama had it both ways: He asserted, […]
→ read full articleBACK TO BASICS: WHAT ARE WE ALL ABOUT?
Jim Albertini, from Hawaii,
27 Mar 2009
After 7 years of war and occupation in Afghanistan, six years of war and occupation in Iraq, an increasing loss of civil liberties at home, and now growing economic collapse, no wonder more and more people are feeling fearful and desperate. In such times it’s important to return to core principles of non-violence. […]
→ read full articleA CONVERSATION WITH MAURICIO FUNES
Roberto Lovato & Josue Rojas,
19 Mar 2009
On March 15, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) became the first leftist party to clinch a presidential election in the history of El Salvador. By 10 pm, it became clear to Salvadorans and to the world that the former guerrillas had ended more than 130 years of oligarchy and military rule over this […]
→ read full articleFATE OF THE RAINFOREST IS ‘IRREVERSIBLE’
Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor,
12 Mar 2009
A third of the Amazonian ‘carbon sink’ is doomed whether or not emissions are cut, Copenhagen conference is told The impact of climate change on the Amazon rainforest could be much worse than previously predicted, new research suggests. Even if emissions were reduced and governments managed to limit temperature rises to 2C – the current […]
→ read full articleFORMER GITMO GUARD RECALLS ABUSE, CLIMATE OF FEAR
Scott Horton,
17 Feb 2009
Army Private Brandon Neely served as a prison guard at Guantánamo in the first years the facility was in operation. With the Bush Administration, and thus the threat of retaliation against him, now gone, Neely decided to step forward and tell his story. “The stuff I did and the stuff I saw was just wrong,” […]
→ read full articleUSES OF GENOCIDE: KENYA, GEORGIA, ISRAEL, SRI LANKA
Martin Shaw,
10 Feb 2009
The concept of genocide has become a weapon of political polemic. But the violence inflicted on civilians in four conflicts shows how it is also rooted in the logic of modern wars. The accusation of "genocide" nowadays seems to accompany almost any episode of political violence and armed conflict around the world. In the last […]
→ read full articleWAR REPORTERS USED TO PREFER MORALITY OVER IMPARTIALITY
Robert Fisk,
8 Feb 2009
I wonder whether we show the same power and passion as the earlier generations. The "normality" of war, part two. We had a great storm in Beirut this week, thunder-cracks like gunfire, great green waves crashing below my balcony, rain like hail. So I curled up on my balcony sofa – coat and red scarf […]
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Robert Naiman,
8 Feb 2009
When President Obama told al-Arabiya, "if countries like Iran are willing to unclench their fist, they will find an extended hand from us," the most widely reported Iranian response was President Ahmedinijad’s suggestion that if the U.S. truly wants good relations with Iran, it should begin by apologizing for U.S. "crimes" against Iran, including U.S. […]
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Michael McCarthy, Environment editor,
2 Feb 2009
Brazil’s attempt to double its share of the global market for beef will carry a heavy environmental cost, report warns. Scenes like this, with vast tracts of Amazonian rainforest razed to make way for cattle, are to become more common in Brazil as it continues its drive to expand its beef export industry, according to […]
→ read full articleWHEN DID WE STOP CARING ABOUT CIVILIAN DEATHS DURING WARTIME?
Robert Fisk,
2 Feb 2009
The mere monitoring of bloody conflict assumes precedence over human suffering. I wonder if we are "normalising" war. It’s not just that Israel has yet again got away with the killing of hundreds of children in Gaza. And after its own foreign minister said that Israel’s army had been allowed to "go wild" there, it […]
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Oliver Thränert – SPIEGEL Online International,
1 Feb 2009
A world without nuclear weapons is not only possible, it is at the top of the global agenda. The new American administration could give the initiative for a non-nuclear world a decisive push in the right direction. But the US and other major nuclear powers have to get serious about scrapping their own arsenals. Despite […]
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Robert Fisk,
25 Jan 2009
It would have helped if Obama had the courage to talk about what everyone in the Middle East was talking about. No, it wasn’t the US withdrawal from Iraq. They knew about that. They expected the beginning of the end of Guantanamo and the probable appointment of George Mitchell as a Middle East envoy was […]
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Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor,
25 Jan 2009
Auction House Agrees to Stop Sale of Whale Tusks After Pressure from Campaigners It’s the "other" ivory. And this week, conservationists in London stepped in to stop its sale. It might not be as well known as the stuff that comes from elephants, but the ivory from the narwhal, the tusked whale of the northern […]
→ read full articleOBAMA: DECLARE AN END TO ‘THE WAR ON TERROR’
Robert Dreyfuss,
14 Jan 2009
The Middle East looms large for Barack Obama, and in Washington it’s clear that the seething arc of crises from Gaza and Lebanon through Iraq and Iran into Afghanistan and Pakistan won’t let Obama ignore the region from Day One. Starting today, and continuing for the rest of this week, I’m presenting a series of […]
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Paul Craig Roberts,
12 Jan 2009
Why does Israel have a right to exist, but Palestine doesn’t? This is the question of our time. For sixty years Israelis have been stealing Palestine from Palestinians. There are maps available on the Internet and in Israeli publications showing the shrinkage over time of what was once Palestine into what Palestine is today–a small […]
→ read full articleWHEREVER I GO, I HEAR THE SAME TIRED MIDDLE EAST COMPARISONS
Robert Fisk,
11 Jan 2009
On both sides of the Atlantic the experience has been weirdly repetitive It all depends where you live. That was the geography of Israel’s propaganda, designed to demonstrate that we softies – we little baby-coddling liberals living in our secure Western homes – don’t realise the horror of 12 (now 20) Israeli deaths in 10 […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) EXTERMÍNIO JUDEU: CRIME OU GLÓRIA?
José Roberto Orquiza – port/pravda.ru,
10 Jan 2009
Quantos precisam morrer? Quantos precisam ser dilacerados em Gaza para a humanidade acordar? Mais que mulheres, crianças, velhos, civis quaisquer os judeus estão provando uma insensatez extraordinária. Contra os militantes do Hamas matam, destroem, assassinam, exterminam como se a ação programada fosse compreensível. Se a insanidade tivesse lugar em tempos bárbaros, no meio de manifestações […]
→ read full articleAMERICA’S SOUL SICKNESS & PERMANENT WAR – OBAMA’S RUDE AWAKENING
Roberto Rodriguez,
9 Jan 2009
Obama’s first challenge will not be the unresolved Middle East crisis. Nor will it be Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo or the economy. His primary challenge will come in coming face to face with the Bush/Cheney doctrine of permanent worldwide war. Unless Obama renounces it on inauguration day, this doctrine will continue to be U.S. policy. Beyond […]
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Gareth Porter,
9 Jan 2009
Until mid-2007, there was a serious political obstacle to a massive conventional war by Israel against Hamas in Gaza: the fact that Hamas had won free and fair elections for the Palestinian parliament and was still the leading faction in a fully legitimate government. But the George W Bush administration helped Israel eliminate that obstacle, […]
→ read full articleWHY DO THEY HATE THE WEST SO MUCH, WE WILL ASK
Robert Fisk,
7 Jan 2009
So once again, Israel has opened the gates of hell to the Palestinians. Forty civilian refugees dead in a United Nations school, three more in another. Not bad for a night’s work in Gaza by the army that believes in "purity of arms". But why should we be surprised? Have we forgotten the 17,500 dead […]
→ read full articleWHY BOMBING ASHKELON IS THE MOST TRAGIC IRONY
Robert Fisk,
7 Jan 2009
How easy it is to snap off the history of the Palestinians, to delete the narrative of their tragedy, to avoid a grotesque irony about Gaza which – in any other conflict – journalists would be writing about in their first reports: that the original, legal owners of the Israeli land on which Hamas rockets […]
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Dr. Mads Gilbert – In Gaza,
7 Jan 2009
“This is an all-out war against the civilian Palestinian population” Dr . Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor in Gaza, tells Sky News that the number of civilians injured and killed in Gaza proves that Israel is deliberately attacking the population. 2:45-Min VideoCLICK TO VIEW
→ read full articleWE MUST ADJUST OUR DISTORTED IMAGE OF HAMAS
William Sieghart,
4 Jan 2009
Gaza is a secular society where people listen to pop music, watch TV and many women walk the streets unveiled. Last week I was in Gaza. While I was there I met a group of 20 or so police officers who were undergoing a course in conflict management. They were eager to know whether foreigners […]
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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 articleALTERNATIVE THEORY OF 9/11?
Elizabeth Woodworth,
31 Dec 2008
Joel Brinkley: Does His Article on Richard Falk Demonstrate the Right "Frame of Mind" to Teach Journalism at Stanford? In a companion essay, I discussed the response of some articles in the mainstream press to the claim, made by some defenders of Israel, that Professor Richard Falk should be removed from his current position of […]
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Paul Craig Roberts,
30 Dec 2008
The title of my article comes from the sermon of the Episcopal Bishop of Washington DC, John Bryson Chane, delivered on October 5, 2008, at St. Columba Church. The bishop’s eyes were opened to Israel’s persecution of Palestinians by his recent trip to Palestine. In his sermon he called on “politicians seeking the highest office […]
→ read full articleVENEZUELA: HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH REPORT UNDER FIRE
Humberto Márquez,
24 Dec 2008
A Human Rights Watch report on alleged setbacks in human rights in Venezuela since President Hugo Chávez first took office 10 years ago has been severely questioned by 118 academics from the United States and several other countries. The report, "A Decade Under Chávez: Political Intolerance and Lost Opportunities for Advancing Human Rights in Venezuela", […]
→ read full articleONE MISSING WORD SOWED THE SEEDS OF CATASTROPHE
Robert Fisk,
21 Dec 2008
No One in 1967 Thought the Arab-Israeli Conflict Would Still Be in Progress 41 Years Later A nit-picker this week. And given the fact that we’re all remembering human rights, the Palestinians come to mind since they have precious few of them, and the Israelis because they have the luxury of a lot of them. […]
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Stuart Laidlaw,
18 Dec 2008
Toronto Star – Faith and Ethics Reporter Swedish anti-corruption agents are investigating allegations that pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca influenced the awarding of this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine. "I have formally instigated, or started, a criminal investigation," Swedish anti-corruption prosecutor Nils-Erik Schulz told the Star in a telephone interview from Stockholm yesterday. Schulz’s investigation was sparked […]
→ read full articleGREECE’S MAELSTROM OF VIOLENCE
Manfred Ertel and Daniel Steinvorth,
17 Dec 2008
The Revolt of a Disappointed Generation The violent unrest that followed the shooting of a 15-year-old boy has driven Greece to the brink of a political crisis. The rioting marks an explosion of rage by the country’s young people who have few prospects of carving out a place in a society where all initiative is […]
→ read full articleTHE UNITED STATES: A COUNTRY WITHOUT MERCY
Paul Craig Roberts,
17 Dec 2008
The Christmas season is a time to remember the unfortunate, among whom are those who have been wrongly convicted. In the United States, the country with the largest prison population in the world, the number of wrongly convicted is very large. Hardly any felony charges are resolved with trials. The vast majority of defendants, both […]
→ read full articleTHE LOGIG OF KEYNES IN TODAY’S WORLD
Robert Reich,
17 Dec 2008
Not long ago I was talking to someone who once had been a deficit hawk but the current recession had turned into a full-blooded Keynesian. He wanted a stimulus package in the range of $500 to $700 billion. "Consumers are dead in the water," he said, fervently, "so government has to step in." I […]
→ read full articleTHE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS: THE NEXT SIXTY YEARS
Conor Gearty,
13 Dec 2008
A landmark anniversary is a moment to move beyond complacency and engage in critical self-reflection of the foundation of human rights. There is much natural jubilation over the fact that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is celebrating its sixtieth birthday in 10 December 2008. At one level, it is indeed right to observe […]
→ read full article“REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR!”
John Lamperti,
7 Dec 2008
"Pre-emptive" War, Then and Now The name Pearl Harbor resonates in American history; it is synonymous with the U.S. entry into World War II. It stands for tragedy – and for treachery. On December 7, 1941, Japanese carrier-based aircraft attacked United States naval and air forces in the Hawaiian Islands, and scored a major […]
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