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SCHOOL OF COUPS
Father Roy Bourgeois and Margaret Knapke,
28 Jul 2009
The day after Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was deposed, President Barack Obama cautioned against repeating Latin America’s "dark past," decades when military coups regularly overrode the results of democratic elections. Obama went on to acknowledge, in his understated way, "The United States has not always stood as it should with some of these fledgling democracies." […]
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VivaPalestina,
20 Jul 2009
The Viva Palestina delegation of solidarity activists from the U.S. was allowed to enter Gaza on July 15 with truckloads of desperately needed humanitarian supplies–but under the condition that the convoy leave again within 24 hours. The delegation, led by British Member of Parliament and antiwar activist George Galloway, met one bureaucratic obstacle after another […]
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Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra,
6 Jul 2009
The prospects of peace in the Indian subcontinent post-26/11 appear bleak. The meeting of the top leaders of India and Pakistan at the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on 16 June 2009 did not bring any respite to the peace seekers in the subcontinent as the pronouncements […]
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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 […]
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Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra,
31 May 2009
The first decade of the 21st century has witnessed horrendous incidents of terror. While its beginning witnessed the attack on the twin trade towers in New York, towards its end another horrible attack occurred in the Indian commercial centre Mumbai. The attack further reinforced that terrorism has no religion, terrorists are not humans, and […]
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Frances Moore Lappé,
3 May 2009
A city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: end hunger. “To search for solutions to hunger means to act within the principle that the status of a citizen surpasses that of a mere consumer.”CITY OF BELO HORIZONTE, BRAZILIn writing Diet for a Small Planet, I learned one […]
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Stephanie Nebehay – REUTERS April 21, 2009,
22 Apr 2009
Geneva – Up to 50,000 civilians trapped on a tiny strip in northern Sri Lanka are enduring dire hardship, suffering from a lack of food, water and medical care, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Tuesday. Hundreds of civilians have been killed or injured in the past 48 hours and more […]
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Charles J. Hanley - AP Special Correspondent,
18 Apr 2009
ROME (AP) – President Barack Obama’s call for a nuclear weapons-free world is welcome, but the huge U.S. defense budget may prove an "insurmountable obstacle" to reaching that goal, former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev said Thursday [Apr 16 2009]. Talk of nuclear disarmament would be "just rhetorical" if other nations were asked to give […]
→ read full articleONE COUNTRY, THREE FUTURES
Pratap Chatterjee,
18 Mar 2009
The Afghanistan Americans Seldom Notice Want a billion dollars in development aid? If you happen to live in Afghanistan, the two quickest ways to attract attention and so aid from the U.S. authorities are: Taliban attacks or a flourishing opium trade. For those with neither, the future could be bleak. In November 2008, during […]
→ read full articleCRISIS OF CAPITALISM OR DEATH WISH?
Sylvain lapoix,
20 Feb 2009
Born of the meeting of economists Gilles Dostaler and Bernard Maris, "Capitalism and Death Wish" (published in French by Albin Michel) synthesizes Freud and Keynes’s conclusions concerning the modern economy based on accumulation, destruction … and the pleasure they provide! A brilliant work on the profoundly human drives behind the crisis. Who remembers that […]
→ read full articleACKNOWLEDGE SOLDIER’S RIGHT TO OBJECT
Evan Knappenberger,
10 Feb 2009
When I joined the Army shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, my friends and family raised many serious questions that, after almost four years on active duty and two years of college, I have only now started addressing. As an 18-year old, I deferred answering morally charged questions like "are you ready to […]
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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 […]
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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 articleNEW INDICATIONS OF WARMTH BETWEEN CHINA, TAIWAN
AP,
20 Dec 2008
China offered Saturday to help Taiwan boost its economy if it needs assistance to weather the world economic slowdown. The statement at a meeting between China’s Communist Party and Taiwan’s ruling Nationalists in Shanghai comes amid new indications of warmth between the longtime rivals. Earlier in the week, the two sides initiated daily air and […]
→ read full articleEXXON MOBIL POSTS BIGGEST US QUARTERLY PROFIT EVER
John Porretto, AP Business Writer,
31 Oct 2008
Exxon Mobil Corp., the world’s largest publicly traded oil company, reported income Thursday that shattered its own record for the biggest profit from operations by a U.S. corporation, earning $14.83 billion in the third quarter. Yet numbers contained within the company’s most recent financial report revealed production numbers that continue to sag, and shares slipped […]
→ read full articleISLAMIC BANKING ESCAPES FALLOUT
The Straits Times-Singapore,
22 Oct 2008
Islamic banking has largely escaped the fallout from the global financial crisis, thanks to rules that forbid the sort of risky business that is felling mainstream institutions. But experts say that because of its heavy reliance on property investments and private equity, the booming 1.0 trillion dollar global industry could be hit if the turmoil […]
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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 […]
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