Articles by Al Jazeera
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Why Do Western Media Get Africa Wrong?
Nanjala Nyabola – Al Jazeera,
6 Jan 2014
There are fundamental differences in how Western and African media cover African events. Ask Africans what they think and have them tell their own stories, instead of co-opting them to undermine or reinforce existing narratives among the Western audience.
→ read full articleFun with Chronology: Misreporting the Israeli Assault on Gaza
Belen Fernandez – Al Jazeera,
6 Jan 2014
The media has a habit of using truncated timelines to excuse Israel’s assaults on Gaza. The New York Times’ rendering of recent violence on the border between Gaza and Israel is a shining example of the chronological sleights of hand that have come to characterise mainstream reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
→ read full articleThe Deal of the Year: Why the Iran Nuclear Deal Is Good News for All
Riccardo Alcaro – Al Jazeera,
30 Dec 2013
Opponents of the US-Iran nuclear deal have much to gain from it.
→ read full articleIs BDS Campaign against Israel Reaching a Turning Point?
Omar Barghouti – Al Jazeera,
30 Dec 2013
The movement calling for the boycott, divestiture and sanction of Israel is gaining momentum globally.
→ read full articlePungesti: Romania’s Battlefield against Chevron
Raluca Besliu – Al Jazeera,
16 Dec 2013
13 Dec 2013 – For the past few days, the small village of Pungesti has become a battle scene between protesters opposing US energy giant Chevron’s intention to explore for shale gas in a nearby field and Romanian police forces, sent by the government to protect Chevron in installing its equipment.
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Pathways to Peace: Talk with Johan Galtung
The Stream – Al Jazeera,
9 Dec 2013
Dec 5, 2013 – In a world full of conflict, how does one manage to negotiate peace? Al Jazeera’s “The Stream” talks to the father of peace studies, Prof. Johan Galtung, about the future of peace studies and conflict resolution, US foreign policy, and issues facing the world.
→ read full articleHere Is Why Deconstructing Zionism Is Important
Michael Marder – Al Jazeera,
9 Dec 2013
First, the biggest threat to the wellbeing and security of Israeli Jews (and, often, by implication of Jews who live elsewhere in the world and are assumed to be the supporters of Israeli policies) is neither Iran nor Syria; it is the State of Israel itself.
→ read full articleUS And Iran: Seven Questions beyond the Nuclear Deal
Marwan Bishara – Al Jazeera,
2 Dec 2013
What are the ramifications of Iran’s deal with the West on Middle East politics?
→ read full articleObama, Karzai and the Afghan Labyrinth
Deepak Tripathi – Al Jazeera,
2 Dec 2013
Afghan constitutions have come and gone with the country’s upheavals. The customary role of tribal assemblies in approving a constitution, resolving disputes and considering issues of national importance has remained constant.
→ read full articleChild Soldiers: Passive Victims?
Virginie Ladisch – Al Jazeera,
25 Nov 2013
As a young woman demobilised at age 16 from the FARC in Colombia explained about reintegration programmes, “Many of us possess vast experience in the areas of survival, health, and discipline that we gained as a result of our time in the armed groups. But it’s not appreciated. They force us to push aside these things, to erase them and accept an identity that is not ours, to be bakers and cobblers…”
→ read full articleLibya: On the Brink of Abyss
Solomon Dersso – Al Jazeera,
18 Nov 2013
Libya’s dangerous slip into anarchy will have serious implications for Africa. Overshadowed by the events in Egypt and Syria, Libya’s multidimensional crisis attracts little attention.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Other Silent War
Belen Fernandez – Al Jazeera,
18 Nov 2013
State-sponsored racism and discrimination against African migrants continue amid international media silence. “When Israel rounds up and deports African refugees, it makes a mockery of the millions of Jews who died during World War II because no one would grant them shelter.” — David Sheen, Israeli-Canadian journalist.
→ read full articleBlame It on the French
Khosrow Soltani – Al Jazeera,
18 Nov 2013
What are France’s motives in undermining a crucial deal between Iran and P5+1? Different viewpoints have been expressed on the multiple motives, ranging from commercial to geopolitical interests, to just playing its role as a scapegoat for the US.
→ read full articleUN Climate Change Summit Kicks Off in Poland
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
World leaders launch new round of talks in Warsaw to pave way for 2015 deal to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. The 12-day United Nations Climate Change Conference began on Monday [11 Nov 2013] in Poland’s capital amid a slew of warnings about a potentially disastrous rise in greenhouse-gas emissions.
→ read full articleRevealed: NSA Pushed 9/11 as Key ‘Sound Bite’ to Justify Surveillance
Jason Leopold – Al Jazeera,
4 Nov 2013
The document, obtained by Al Jazeera through a Freedom of Information Act request, contains talking points and suggested statements for NSA officials responding to the fallout from media revelations that originated with former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
→ read full articleBlackfish: Highlighting the Plight of Captive Orcas
Rose Aguilar – Al Jazeera,
4 Nov 2013
Blackfish, a riveting documentary about the deadly consequences of kidnapping orcas from the ocean and keeping them in captivity, is Sea World’s biggest nightmare. If you want to stop this brutality, refuse to go to water parks. Don’t buy a ticket. See the film and spread the word. We now know too much to allow this to continue.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate} Aung San Suu Kyi and the World of Buddhist Islamophobia
Maung Zarni – Al Jazeera,
4 Nov 2013
The details of this systematic ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya which has been set in motion as a matter of state policy since 1978, and the more recent anti-Muslim mass violence, again with state impunity, generally play second fiddle in the media, to Suu Kyi’s failure to condemn it.
→ read full articleWhere Is the Ethical Leadership over Syria?
Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate – Al Jazeera,
4 Nov 2013
It was tragic to see Western politicians who spoke out against military intervention get slammed for somehow being cowardly. Although their effort would not stop the killing outright, to hold back the war designs of their own leaders was a brave act.
→ read full articleMalala and Nabila: Worlds Apart
Murtaza Hussain – Al Jazeera,
4 Nov 2013
The only people to be recognized for their suffering in this conflict are those who fall victim to the Taliban. Malala for her struggles was to be made the face of the American war effort while innumerable little girls such as Nabila will continue to be terrorized and murdered as part of this war without end. There will be no celebrity appearances or awards ceremonies for Nabila. At her testimony almost no one even bothered to attend [5 congressmen].
→ read full articleCuba to Open Tax Free Special Economic Zone
Chris Arsenault – Al Jazeera,
28 Oct 2013
First development of its kind on the island take effect in November [2013].Communist Cuba is the latest country to plan a “Special Economic Zone”, part of an economic model blasted by critics for creating a “race to the bottom” on wages and corporate taxes.
→ read full articleReport: US and UK Spied on Italian Government
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
U.S. and British intelligence services monitored Italian telecommunications, targeting the government and companies, L’Espresso reported Thursday [24 Oct 2013]. The report, based on evidence from Edward Snowden, is likely to fuel growing anger among Washington’s European allies.
→ read full articleNo Place for Islam? Buddhist Nationalism in Myanmar
Harrison Akins – Al Jazeera,
21 Oct 2013
The continued violence against the broader Muslim community stains any democratic reforms in a country.
→ read full articleTime for the ICC to Act on Palestine
Raji Sourani & Shawan Jabarin – Al Jazeera,
21 Oct 2013
We urge the prosecutor to visit Palestine, to meet with the victims, and to experience the reality on the ground. Justice is not a commodity that can be traded in the name of political progress. The International Criminal Court must not become complicit in the on-going failures of the peace before justice process.
→ read full articleThe Deep Roots beneath 1,000,000 Dead Iraqis
Mark LeVine – Al Jazeera,
21 Oct 2013
Iraq continues to suffer the legacy of two decades of US military intervention and meddling, with little end in sight.
→ read full articleIt’s Time to Put an End to Israel’s Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell Nuclear Policy
Pam Bailey & Medea Benjamin – Al Jazeera,
21 Oct 2013
Israel’s nuclear facility at Dimona, a city in the Negev desert, has six underground floors to plutonium extraction and production of tritium and lithium-6, for use in nuclear weapons. Whereas Iran has signed the Non-proliferation Treaty, giving the international community the right to demand inspections and controls, Israel has not – and is therefore not subject to external oversight.
→ read full articleJapan Asks for World’s Help on Fukushima Leaks
Al Jazeera and The Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday [6 Oct 2013] that Japan is open to receiving overseas help to contain widening disaster at the crippled nuclear plant in Fukushima, where radioactive water leaks and other mishaps are now reported almost daily. “My country needs your knowledge and expertise,” he said.
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Myanmar: Can the Religious Violence Be Ended?
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
3 Oct 2013 – TRANSCEND member Dr. Maung Zarni and Debbie Stothard: A 25-minute analysis of Myanmar’s “Communal or Religious Violence.”
→ read full article(Arabic: Peace and the Islamic Roots of Non Violence) صدر مؤخرا للبروفيسور عباس عروة كتاب عن السلام ومرجعية اللاعنف في الإسلام
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2013
في كتابه الجديد “السعي إلى السلام في الموروث الإسلامي” يواصل البروفيسور عباس عروة مشروعه في تقديم رؤاه الدينية لإيضاح صورة الإسلام الحنيف، وتقديمه للقارئ الغربي وتخليصه مما شابه من عوالق لسوء تأويل مارسه بعض دعاته من جهة، وإغناء مكتبة مسلمي ودعاة الغرب بكتاب دعوي يعود إلى مبادئ الإسلام الأولى تعليما وتثبيتا لهم من جهة أخرى.
(In his new book, “The Quest for Peace in the Islamic Tradition” Professor Abbas Aroua continues his program in providing a clear image of the Islamic religion and presenting it to the Western reader free from the accumulated ill-interpretations.)
Al-Shabab Defends Nairobi Attack
Hamza Mohamed – Al Jazeera,
30 Sep 2013
Military spokesman explains why mall siege was launched, and what will happen next.
→ read full articleTimeline of Edward Snowden’s Revelations
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
In-depth look back at two months of leaks by the ex-NSA contractor who fled from Hawaii to Hong Kong to Russia after releasing loads of documents on surveillance in the U.S. and around the world. The information below is compiled from the news outlets that first reported the data.
→ read full articleSanctions: Cruel and Counterproductive
Jason Ditz – Al Jazeera,
30 Sep 2013
The great sanctions experiment of the late 20th and early 21st centuries has been a disastrous failure, and must be abandoned outright, both on humanitarian grounds as well as a rational measure of its impracticality. Sanctions simply don’t work.
→ read full articleThe Millennium Development Goals and the Courage to Go Further
Paul Kagame – Al Jazeera,
30 Sep 2013
Rwandan President Paul Kagame argues for a post-2015 Millennium Development Goal agenda that goes beyond poverty reduction.
→ read full articleThe Modern Day Heroes of Investigative Journalism
John Pilger – Al Jazeera,
23 Sep 2013
John Pilger discusses the role of the media in the contemporary context of whistleblowers and war.
→ read full articleVoyager Probe Reaches Interstellar Space
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The US space probe Voyager 1 has crossed a new frontier, becoming humanity’s first spacecraft ever to leave the solar system, NASA has said. Thirty-six years after it was launched from Earth on a tour of the outer planets, the plutonium-powered spacecraft is more than 11 billion miles from the Sun in interstellar space.
→ read full articleSyria: The Crucible
Hamid Dabashi – Al Jazeera,
29 Jul 2013
There are officers of various UN agencies who, when you tell them of a child with leishmaniasis (a disease spread by the bite of a sand fly), say they can’t because it is a single child, and they only deal with “childhood” as a whole. Antisthenes is believed once to have said to Plato, regarding the notion of Platonic forms, “A horse I see, but ‘horseness‘ I do not see”. If like those UN officers you cannot see the childhood in that individual Syrian child, then we all have a problem far worse than merely philosophical.
→ read full articleEmerging From Darkness, the Edward Snowden Story
Rebecca Solnit – Al Jazeera,
29 Jul 2013
An Open Letter to Edward Snowden – Pity the country that requires a hero, Bertolt Brecht once remarked, but pity the heroes too. They are the other homeless, who don’t fit in, who see the hardest work and do it, and pay the price we charge those who do what we can’t or won’t. Modern heroes – Nelson Mandela, Cesar Chavez, Rachel Carson, Ella Baker, Martin Luther King, Aung San Suu Kyi – endeavored to save us from ourselves, from our own governments and systems of power.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Tutu Says He Cannot Worship ‘Homophobic’ God
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
South African peace icon Desmond Tutu has said he would rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God, likening the fight against gay prejudice to the anti-apartheid struggle. Tutu made the comments on Friday [26 Jul 2013] at the launch of a United Nations gay equality campaign in Cape Town.
→ read full articleNeoliberalism and Public Unrest: Time to Make the Connection
Mandeep Tiwana – Al Jazeera,
15 Jul 2013
While the power of transnational corporations expands, income and wealth disparities are threatening societies. Neo-liberalism, using a dictionary definition, as a “modern politico-economic theory favouring free trade, privatisation, minimal government intervention, reduced public expenditure on social services etc.,” reduces the responsibility of the state while promoting privatisation to favour those with access to resources and influence.
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Guantanamo Inmate Accuses Military of Rape
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
A detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison is accusing the US military of sexual assault under the guise of maintaining security. In a letter to his lawyers, the inmate claims the practice is widespread.
→ read full articleBulgaria: A New Face for European Dissent
Julian Popov – Al Jazeera,
15 Jul 2013
Bulgaria’s peaceful protests might provide a new model for discontented Europeans seeking to engage their governments.
→ read full articleMy Life at Guantanamo
Moath al-Alwi – Al Jazeera,
8 Jul 2013
A detainee at the US prison explains that hunger striking is the only way left to cry out for life, freedom and dignity. This article was translated from Arabic by his attorney, Ramzi Kassem.
→ read full articleInfographic: The United Kingdom’s Tax Havens – Interactive
Simon Hooper and Ben Willers – Al Jazeera,
24 Jun 2013
About one-fifth of the world’s tax-free shelters are UK territories and crown dependencies.
→ read full articleThe International Criminal Court’s Africa Problem
Solomon Dersso – Al Jazeera,
17 Jun 2013
The ICC’s current list of cases puts into question the international character of the ICC, giving credence to descriptions of the court as being the “International Criminal Court for Africa”. “Its name notwithstanding, the ICC is rapidly turning into a Western court to try African crimes against humanity”.
→ read full articleHonduras: When Will the US Stop Funding Death Squads?
Lauren Carasik – Al Jazeera,
10 Jun 2013
As documented in a series of AP investigative reports, it is increasingly apparent that US-funded Honduran National Police are dispatching summary justice to gang members, in a policy of “social cleansing”, with complete impunity.
→ read full articleHungry for Justice at Guantanamo
Ramzi Kassem – Al Jazeera,
10 Jun 2013
Much has been written about the ongoing hunger strike undertaken four months ago today [6 June 2013] at the infamous US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, more than 11 years after its establishment. Today, more than 100 of the 166 prisoners refuse to eat.
→ read full articleRival Honduras Gangs Declare Truce
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Two of the most violent gangs apologise for their crimes and seek talks with the government on rehabilitation and jobs under a church-brokered drive to stem a tide of violence that has turned Honduras into the world’s most murderous country.
→ read full articleBrazil to Write Off $900m of African Debt`
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2013
Brasilia pardons debts for 12 African countries after creating agency to support development in continent.
→ read full articleReport: Canada Could See Indigenous Uprising
Chris Arsenault – Al Jazeera,
20 May 2013
Living standards for indigenous people on par with “third world” countries, buttressed by a large population of unemployed young men in a “warrior cohort”, and easy-to-target economic infrastructure, all mean Canada has conditions for a potential indigenous “insurgency”.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s Conflicting Narratives
Veronica Pedrosa – Al Jazeera,
6 May 2013
This is the best of bad scenarios, and there’s a strategic dividend for Washington and its allies: however distant the regime moves away from Beijing is the West’s gain. –Dr Maung Zarni, exiled activist.
→ read full articleNearly Half Guantanamo Now On Hunger Strike
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
US official says 77 inmates now on hunger strike over jailing without charge or trial, nearly half of total population.
→ read full articleThe Truth about Extreme Global Inequality
Jason Hickel – Al Jazeera,
22 Apr 2013
The richest 300 people on earth have more wealth than the poorest 3bn – almost half the world’s population. We chose those numbers because it makes for a clear and memorable comparison, but in truth the situation is even worse: the richest 200 people have about $2.7 trillion, which is more than the poorest 3.5bn people, who have only $2.2 trillion combined. It is very difficult to wrap one’s mind around such extreme figures.
→ read full articleTop Swedish Judge Defends WikiLeaks’ Assange
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
A senior Swedish judge has said that the sex-crime allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are “a mess”, and praised him for leaking classified US documents. Speaking on Wednesday [3 Apr 2013] at the University of Adelaide in Australia, Stefan Lindskog, chairman of the Supreme Court of Sweden, also listed legal obstacles to extraditing Assange to the United States.
→ read full articleViolence Against Women Act and the US Catholic Bishops
Cristina LH Traina – Al Jazeera,
25 Mar 2013
Bishops are attacking a major social justice document that does not even threaten the values they are trying to uphold. On the eve of President Obama’s signature on the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013, five leaders of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops earlier last week [6 Mar 2013] attacked the necessary legislation.
→ read full articleIsrael and the Politics of Boycott
Joseph Massad – Al Jazeera,
25 Mar 2013
Zionism and Israel will continue to support any boycott that seeks to institutionalise racism and racial separatism. For Zionism, what mattered most was its commitment to racial separatism, whether in Germany or Palestine, and it supported only those boycotts that would bring it about.
→ read full articleIraq: War’s Legacy of Cancer
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
25 Mar 2013
Two US-led wars in Iraq have left behind hundreds of tonnes of depleted uranium munitions and other toxic wastes. Doctors in Fallujah are continuing to witness a steep rise in severe congenital birth defects, including children being born with two heads, children born with only one eye, multiple tumours.
→ read full articleRobert Fisk on Latest Developments in Syria
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
March 5, 2013 -Veteran journalist Robert Fisk speaks from Beirut about latest developments in Syria.
→ read full articleInfographic: Global South Is Rising Fast
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
Flagship human development report by United Nations Development Programme shows rapid growth in Asia’s middle class.
→ read full articleDo Academics Own the Titles of Their Articles?
Joshua A. Tucker – Al Jazeera,
18 Mar 2013
What happens if someone co-opts someone else’s title in academia without giving due credit?
→ read full articleThe Great Garbage Patch of the Pacific
Rose Aguilar – Al Jazeera,
11 Mar 2013
When you can scoop up in our oceans more plastic than biomass, it’s time to recognise that we may have a problem. If you listen closely, you can hear the oceans, underwater life, and birds crying. Sometimes they’re yelling for help. Plastic is quickly and painfully killing their environment and overall way of life.
→ read full articleIsrael Launches Segregated Bus Service
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Haaretz reported that the ministry opened the lines on Monday [4 Mar 2013], to be used by Palestinian labourers travelling between the West Bank and Israel, after Jewish settlers complained that Palestinians on mixed buses were a security risk.
→ read full articleArab League Offers Syria Seat to Opposition
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Nabil Elaraby, the regional body’s secretary-general, said on Wednesday [6 Mar 2013] that ministers meeting in Cairo had invited the Syrian National Council-SNC to choose a representative to attend the league summit in the Qatari capital, Doha, on March 26 and 27. The Arab League suspended Syria’s membership in 2011 after Assad’s government failed to abide by an Arab peace plan that aimed to end the conflict.
→ read full articleGreenpeace: From Hippies to Lobbyists
Al Jazeera World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Its epic battles are legendary. Its influence is undeniable. And it is hard to imagine that, in 1971, it took just a handful of individuals who were strongly opposed to nuclear testing to give birth to this worldwide organisation. So where did it all begin?
→ read full articleRacism and the Hypocrisy of Israel’s Advocates
Ben White – Al Jazeera,
18 Feb 2013
The vital fight against anti-Semitism is “cynically abused to defend Israel’s institutionalised racism”.
→ read full articleDiscovering Voyager 1’s Interstellar Dragons
Ian O'Neill – Al Jazeera,
18 Feb 2013
After 35 years, Voyager 1 has travelled over 18 billion kilometres (or 123 Astronomical Units – that’s over three times the distance of Pluto to the Sun). To put that another way, Voyager 1 is so distant that it takes over 17 hours for a signal sent from Earth to reach the probe’s antennae. It is therefore over 17 light-hours away. Voyager 1 is the most distant (and fastest) manmade object ever sent into space, but it is still minuscule considering it takes over 4 years for light to travel to our nearest star, Proxima Centauri.
→ read full articleIceland President: Let Banks Go Bankrupt
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Iceland President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson tells Al Jazeera’s Stephen Cole that Europe should let banks that are ran “irresponsibly” go bankrupt. Speaking at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Grimsson also held his country as a model of economic recovery after its near-collapse four years ago. “We didn’t follow the traditional prevailing orthodoxies. And the end result four years later is that Iceland is enjoying progress and recovery.”
→ read full articleIsrael Boycotts UN Human Rights Council
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Israel has become the first country to boycott a UN Human Rights Council review of its rights situation, sparking heated debate among diplomats on how to respond. Its absence on Tuesday [29 Jan 2013], however, came as no surprise as it cut all ties with the 47-member state council last March after the body announced that it would probe how Israeli illegal settlements may be infringing on the rights of the Palestinians.
→ read full articleAre Humans Created or Evolved?
Muhammad Abdul Bari – Al Jazeera,
28 Jan 2013
Recently there have been impassioned debate on this area on two high-profile TV programmes: one an Al Jazeera interview with atheist Richard Dawkins by Muslim political commentator Mehdi Hasan and the other a BBC Big Questions debate over whether it is time for all religions to accept evolution as fact. Many of my co-religionists are left bemused, if not downright confused, by all this kerfuffle.
→ read full articleTorture Is Trivial
Robert Jensen – Al Jazeera,
28 Jan 2013
The focus on torture in “Zero Dark Thirty” ignores more significant US policies of dubious legality. When I look at the decade since 9/11, torture is hardly the greatest crime of the US war machine. Since 9/11, the United States has helped destroy two countries with, at best, sketchy moral and legal justification.
→ read full articleThe Political Consequences of Academic Paywalls
Sarah Kendzior – Al Jazeera,
21 Jan 2013
Under the current system, academic research is housed in scholarly databases, which charge as much as $50 per article to those without a university affiliation. The only people who profit from this system are academic publishers. Scholars receive no money from the sale of their articles, and are marginalized by a public who cannot afford to read their work.
→ read full articleMonsanto versus the People
Charlotte Silver – Al Jazeera,
21 Jan 2013
14 Jan 2013 – Many farmers have decided to forego growing corn and soybeans due to the “inevitable contamination that will result”. Last week Monsanto announced staggering profits while American farmers filed into Washington, DC to challenge the Biotech giant’s right to sue farmers whose fields have become contaminated with Monsanto’s seeds. Monsanto’s earnings nearly doubled analysts’ projections and its total revenue reached $2.94bn at the end of 2012.
→ read full articleMali: The ‘Gentle’ Face of Al-Qaeda
May Ying Welsh – Al Jazeera,
31 Dec 2012
“We are mujahideen in the cause of Allah.” The hair on our necks stands on end. The fighters look like desert military preachers – members of some stoical sect that took a vow of poverty and jihad. They wear austere beige cotton smocks and high cropped pants – like inhabitants of Tatooine, the desert planet in Star Wars. These are not outfits one buys at the market, or inherits from a brother or friend. They are uniforms tailor-made to send a message of simplicity.
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Johan Galtung on Goldman Sachs and the Protocols
Al Jazeera, The Stream – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Gilad Atzmon: Johan Galtung confirms that many people believe that Goldman Sachs actions are not that different from the reality described in the Protocols of The Elders of Zion. Protocols also refer to Jews’ control of the press. According to Galtung we see a lack of debate on that matter.
→ read full articleWWF Drones Raise Serious Questions for International Security
Eddie Walsh – Al Jazeera,
17 Dec 2012
The World Wildlife Federation’s proposed plans to utilise drones in anti-poaching efforts raise serious concerns. From a normative perspective, one can certainly differentiate between WWF, Anonymous, Green Peace, Executive Outcomes, Volunteer in Policing, Arbakai, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Neighbourhood Watch, and Blackwater. But, from a theoretical perspective, all have challenged the state dominated status quo that has remained largely unchallenged since arguably the nineteenth century (at least in the West).
→ read full articleMulti-Stakeholder Approach to Internet Governance
Jillian C. York – Al Jazeera,
10 Dec 2012
Civil society groups and web companies have joined together in opposing what many perceive to be a takeover of internet governance by the Internet Telecommunications Union-ITU, a UN body. If it were to gain more control, those parties would be the biggest losers.
→ read full articleScholars and Spies: A Disastrous Combination
Mark LeVine – Al Jazeera,
10 Dec 2012
The academic community needs to create a clear firewall between itself and the military and intelligence communities. Buried in a Washington Post exposé on the expansion of spying operations by the Defence Intelligence Agency is a sentence that should send shivers down the spine of any researcher, journalist, student or scholar working in the Muslim world: “Having DIA operatives pose as academics or business executives requires painstaking work to create those false identities, and it means they won’t be protected by diplomatic immunity if caught.”
→ read full articleOpen Access: Stakes Are High At the Debates over the Future of Scholarship
Manuel Barcia – Al Jazeera,
10 Dec 2012
Publishers and academics should look into how to spread the costs and make research outputs more accessible to everybody.
→ read full articleNormalising Death: The Business of Drones
Charlotte Silver – Al Jazeera,
10 Dec 2012
As the leading suppliers, users and developers of drones, the US and Israel have defined the landscape of the industry. While families bury and mourn loved ones struck dead by US and Israeli drone attacks and pundits examine casus belli, US drone manufacturers are hard at work strategising their industry’s business plans.
→ read full articleNeoliberal Plague: AIDS and Global Capitalism
Jason Hickel – Al Jazeera,
10 Dec 2012
Battling AIDS means challenging the power of rich nations over the world’s resources. If you’re like me, you’re probably tired of the whole show at this point. After all, it’s 2012; we were supposed to have this epidemic licked by now. Why, despite billions of dollars’ worth of interventions and three decades of high-profile messaging, does AIDS remain such a pressing problem?
→ read full articleBurma/Myanmar: Expert Warns of Rohingya Genocide
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
“Warning signs” are in place for a genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, an Al Jazeera investigation has been told by a leading expert in the field. According to Professor William Schabas, until recently President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, the findings of an Al Jazeera documentary reveal that “we’re moving into a zone where the word can be used”.
→ read full articleGaza: People Need Far More Than a Ceasefire
Saree Makdisi – Al Jazeera,
3 Dec 2012
In bombing Gaza, then, Israel was not striking the territory of another state. It was bombing people for whose welfare it is legally accountable as the only sovereign power that exercises control over their lives – including everything from determining how their names appear on identity cards and in the official population registry, to how much electricity they receive and how much food they are allowed to eat.
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Johan Galtung on Peace Economy, Palestine and More (Video of the Week)
Al Jazeera, The Stream – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
28 Nov 2012 – The Founder of Peace Studies discusses Sociocide, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and building economies of peace.
→ read full articleThe Greek Resistance
Barnaby Phillips - Al Jazeera,
26 Nov 2012
Tied together by a painful history, Greece and Germany are locked into a new conflict that has reawakened old ghosts. Why has the European vision, designed to heal the wounds of the past, instead brought them back to the surface? And who is to blame – the Greeks themselves, the EU or the old enemy, Germany?
→ read full articleThe Greek Resistance
Barnaby Philips – Al Jazeera,
26 Nov 2012
Al Jazeera correspondent Barnaby Phillips travels to Greece to discover why these two countries, tied by history and culture, are now locked into a conflict. Why has the European vision, designed to heal the wounds of the past, instead brought them back to the surface? And who is to blame – the Greeks themselves, the EU or the old enemy, Germany?
→ read full articleThe United Nations’ Role in Haiti Cholera Outbreak
Lauren Carasik – Al Jazeera,
26 Nov 2012
Just over two years have passed since the cholera epidemic started its deadly march in Haiti, exacting a staggering toll. Cholera has left 600,885 sick and taken 7,568 lives, with 76,981 new cases diagnosed in 2012. As details emerged about the origin of the cholera epidemic, a disease not seen in Haiti in almost a century prior to the outbreak, it became clear that the UN stabilisation force, known by its French acronym, MINUSTAH, was to blame.
→ read full articleUK Nuclear Deterrent Plan Triggers Divisions
Simon Hooper – Al Jazeera,
12 Nov 2012
Announcement of an extra $565m for improved nuclear weapons capacity worries critics in an era of austerity. At an unknown location somewhere deep beneath the world’s oceans, a British submarine sits primed to launch up to 40 nuclear warheads with a collective destructive power almost 300 times greater than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
→ read full articleKurdish Hunger-Strikers Fight for Rights
Berza Simsek – Al Jazeera,
12 Nov 2012
Nearly 700 prisoners demanding greater recognition for Kurds in Turkey have refused food, some for nearly two months. Death by starvation or long-term health damage are what Mazlum Dikmen and hundreds of other Kurdish prisoners in Turkey are now facing.
→ read full articleIndia’s Nuclear Programme: Trust Abroad but Not At Home
Catherine Mei Ling Wong – Al Jazeera,
12 Nov 2012
The protests in Kudankulam will continue if the government doesn’t reassess the root cause of public unrest. Even as trust in India’s nuclear power programme in the international arena grows steadily, trust on its domestic front has been eroding over the last few decades.
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Chile’s Most Wanted
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
Branded a ‘terrorist’ at an early age by the government of Chile, Pascual Pichun is a man on a mission. Pascual is a symbol of the indigenous Mapuche resistance movement, which is trying to protect and reclaim its ancestral lands from the government and foreign companies. The movement is accused of attacks on forestry company property, destroying bulldozers and burning down a helicopter.
→ read full articleThe Cold Shoulder to Climate Change
Hilal Elver – Al Jazeera,
5 Nov 2012
Neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney mentioned climate change in three TV debates, despite a summer of record temperatures, historic drought and wildfires in the US. More surprisingly, none of the moderators asked a question about climate change or environmental protection. The American public seems eager to discuss climate change, at least in relation to extreme weather events, as they are living with its impacts on their lives.
→ read full articleInequality: The Silly Tales Economists Like To Tell
Dean Baker – Al Jazeera,
5 Nov 2012
Some economists don’t get paid to know about the economy, but to justify the trickle-up of wealth. Hence we can look forward to many more people telling us that all the money going to the rich was just the natural workings of the economy. When it comes to all the government rules and regulations that shifted income upward, they just don’t know what you’re talking about.
→ read full articleIsrael Is an Apartheid State (No Poll Required)
Ben White – Al Jazeera,
5 Nov 2012
A new Ha’aretz poll indicates a majority of Jewish Israelis favour apartheid – but that’s nothing new. There is no need for such a poll in order to reach the conclusion that Israel is guilty of apartheid: The facts speak for themselves.
→ read full articleGreek Editor Acquitted Over Swiss Bank List
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
A Greek journalist who published the names of more than 2,000 Greeks with Swiss bank accounts has been acquitted of breaking data privacy laws. Costas Vaxevanis’s acquittal on Thursday [1 Nov 2012] came hours after he went on trial in a case analysts said was a test for press freedom in Greece.
→ read full articleJapan Struggling To Store Radioactive Water
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
Leading nuclear worker says space is running out for contaminated water cooling the Fukushima plant.
→ read full articleIsrael: Ethnic Cleansing in the Negev
Ben White – Al Jazeera,
22 Oct 2012
The forced relocation of Bedouins in southern Israel fits Foreign Affairs’ definition of ethnic cleansing.
→ read full articleThreats of Cyber War, Realities of Cyber Censorship
Danny Schechter – Al Jazeera,
22 Oct 2012
Cyber war is already underway, not just between some countries, but within countries and against cyber-active citizens.
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Gaza-Bound Ship ‘Attacked By Israel Forces’ (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
20 Oct 2012 – Mikael Löfgren, media coordinator spokesman for the Estelle, spoke to Al Jazeera.
→ read full articleWhy We Won and How We Are Losing
Robert Jensen – Al Jazeera,
1 Oct 2012
“[A]part from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Consequences. Our brains are extraordinary mechanisms, and they have allowed us to accomplish truly amazing things; but we are still only good at anticipating – or at least of paying attention to – highly immediate consequences. We are notably bad at assessing risk, especially long-term risk. We believe crazy things, such as that human sacrifice will propitiate the gods, or that people are kidnapped by space aliens, or that endless economic expansion is possible in a finite world, or that if we just ignore climate change we won’t have to face its consequences. Or at the very least, we act as if we do.”
→ read full articleRemembering the Sabra-Shatila Massacre
Habib Battah – Al Jazeera,
24 Sep 2012
Knowing the Phalangists sought revenge for Gemayel’s death, an Israeli government inquiry held the country’s defence minister, Ariel Sharon, “personally responsible” for the atrocities the militiamen carried out at Shatila on the evening of September 16 [1982]… Chamas himself was shot twice. He was shielded from additional rounds when the bodies of others collapsed on top of him. “I hid under the dead bodies for two days,” he says.
→ read full articleDreaming of the Apocalypse
Mark LeVine – Al Jazeera,
17 Sep 2012
If ever real leadership was needed among American, European and Arab leaders, it’s now. “Disgusting and Reprehensible!” That’s how Secretary of State Hilary Clinton described the “film” Innocence of Muslims in the latest official US comment on the movie that has sparked outrage across the Muslim world.
→ read full articleDesigning Food Systems to Protect Nature and Get Rid of Hunger
Vandana Shiva – Al Jazeera,
10 Sep 2012
Industrialisation of agriculture creates hunger and malnutrition, destroying the food web to which we all belong. Hunger and malnutrition is manmade. It is in the design of the industrial chemical model of agriculture. And just as hunger has been created by design, producing healthy and nutritious food for all can be designed through food democracy.
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