Capitalism in the Second Decade of the 21st Century: From the “Golden” to the Dark Ages of Capitalism By James Petras May 09, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — The economic, political and social outlook for the second decade of the 21st century is profoundly negative. The almost universal consensus, even [...]
Shikshantar: ‘Transforming the Way We Live and Learn‘ by Shilpa Jain At Shikshantar, we are trying to support the shift from a money-dominant globalized culture to a more small-scale, relationship-focused culture. My grandmother never went to school, she never knew how to read or write, and she was such a wise [...]
Making Chemical Giants Happy at Our Expense by Jim Hightower Thanks to the blessings of nature and good farmers, you and I can enjoy such scrumptious delights as fresh corn-on-the-cob, popcorn and many other variations of this truly great grain. And now, thanks to Dow Chemical and federal regulators, we can look forward to “Agent Orange [...]
Israel‘s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem December 25, 2011. (REUTERS/Uriel Sinai/Pool) Netanyahu Crowns Himself King of Israel Will the Israeli left finally stir? by Jonathan Cook Israelis barely had time to absorb the news that they were heading into a summer election when Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu yesterday [...]
LAUREN BOOTH REPORTS FROM KUALA LUMPUR WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2012 AT 8:29AM GILAD ATZMON http://www.deliberation.info/ Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal Day 1 When authority entrusted to further truth and justice betrays that trust, two options remain: one is to throw up your hands in despair and [...]
Naomi Wolf guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 9 May 2012 16.18 BST Comments (85) New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly holds pieces of a pipe bomb confiscated from alleged ‘lone wolf’ terrorist Jose Pimentel. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images The news stories, which quickly surface, long enough to cause scary headlines, then vanish before people can learn how often the [...]
Milly Dowler: police said because the full technical call data was missing, reaching a definitive conclusion may never be possible. Photograph: Surrey police/PA The full truth about the extent of hacking into Milly Dowler‘s phone may never be known, police have admitted. Their report to the Leveson inquiry followed an investigation lasting five months into the [...]
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The national committee to remember the Nakba is planning a protest in Ramallahon Tuesday to mark Nakba day. Ramallah protest planned for Nakba day BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The national committee to remember the Nakba is planning a protest in Ramallah on Tuesday to mark Nakba day. On May 15, Palestinians commemorate the [...]
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities demolished an under-construction house in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina on Wednesday morning, witnesses said. Forces blocked off the Al-Mouroha district and broke into the house, demolishing its foundations, the owner Waleed Sadeq Idkedek said. Idkedek said the demolition took place without prior warning, and called on [...]
Click for more images RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A group of protesters blocked the entrance to the United Nations office in Ramallah Wednesday morning, slamming the UN for not intervening to save hunger-striking prisoners. Around 50 Palestinian youth began the sit-in outside the UN compound at 9 a.m., carrying banners accusing the UN of collusion with [...]
African Union Special Representative to Somalia, along with the UN Special Representative and IGAD Facilitator for Somalia, have threatened sanctions on a peaceful democratic Somali movement [REUTERS] Minneapolis, MN - On May 1, 2012, the UN Special Representative (SR), The African Union Special Representative (AUSR), and IGAD Facilitator for Somalia (IGADF) distributed a press release threatening [...]
Adam Yauch used his celebrity status to speak out against US military action in the Middle East, pointing out that it would only lead to more and more retaliation and that most people there were not terrorists [AP] Brooklyn, NY - In 1998, the Beastie Boys walked up to the VMA mics in matching utilitarian grey [...]
Mahatma Gandhi counselled non-violent resistance to nuclear bombardment [AFP] New York, NY - Not so many decades ago, many around the world hoped that the great civilisations and traditions of the non-European world would do better than the West when it came to nuclear weapons. This was part of a larger idea that the formally colonised [...]
Unpopular austerity measures have often been met with mass demonstrations in Europe [Reuters] New York, New York - This year’s annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund made clear that Europe and the international community remain rudderless when it comes to economic policy. Financial leaders, from finance ministers to leaders of private financial institutions, reiterated the [...]
Greek, French Elections Sound Death Knell for Austerity by Julio Godoy BERLIN – The voting out of conservative governments in France and Greece this weekend heralds the end of harsh European austerity programs and ushers in an era of new economic, investment, and social policies aimed at restoring growth and employment across the continent. In [...]
We Already Grow Enough Food for 10 Billion People… and Still Can’t End Hunger by Eric Holt-Giménez A new a study* from McGill University and the University of Minnesota published in the journal Nature compared organic and conventional yields from 66 studies and over 300 trials. Researchers found that on average, conventional systems out-yielded organic farms [...]
A Palestinian man stands amid rubble after Israeli forces demolished a home in Susiya, southern Hebron, in November 2011. (MaanImages/EAPPI, File) By Charlotte Alfred BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A tiny village of Palestinian families in the southern West Bank has had an unwelcome visitor in recent months. “He comes with small weapons and his camera, sometimes [...]
Change Europe can believe in? By Pepe Escobar Europe may just be living a remix of the late 2008 moment when Barack Obama won the presidency in the United States. But this time, will it be real? The election on Sunday of socialist Francois Hollande as president of France comes at [...]
UN Fails to Finalize Rio+20 Plan on Sustainable Future by Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS – After two weeks of closed door negotiations, a U.N. preparatory committee (PrepCom) has failed to reach consensus on a global plan of action, titled “The Future We Want,” to be adopted by a summit meeting of world leaders mid-June in [...]
Supposed Would-Be Underwear Bomber Is CIA Informant Obama officials tried to present this as some successfully foiled terror attack, while it was anything but by John Glaser, May 08, 2012 Print This | Share This U.S. and Yemeni officials have confirmed that the supposed would-be underwear bomber at the heart of [...]
NATO: The New Holy Alliance The Chicago conclave and history’s little ironies by Justin Raimondo, May 09, 2012 Print This | Share This They’re cowering in Chicago, where the NATO summit is scheduled to open on May 20: the security arrangements go well beyond paranoia. They’re telling office workersin buildings adjacent to the site to “dress [...]
The Propaganda Model: An Overview David Cromwell Excerpted from Private Planet, 2002 In their 1988 book ‘Manufacturing Consent – The Political Economy of the Mass Media‘, Edward Herman and Noam Chomskyintroduced their ‘propaganda model’ of the media. The propaganda model argues that there are 5 classes of [...]
Where Did He Go Sometimes people will ask me about a particular homeless person they had gotten to know. They will say they hadn’t seen so-n-so in a while and wondered what happened to him/sher. Here’s the deal. When homeless people decide to leave a place, they just go. Most [...]
Malnutrition is the underlying cause for at least a fifth of maternal mortality and more than a third for child deaths [AP] London, United Kingdom - Tanzanian nutrition expert Professor Joyce Kinabo last week gave a speech to health campaigners from around the world, calling on them to focus on nutrition if they want to save [...]
By RAMZY BAROUD Tumultuous Israeli politics will not bring peace Israel is currently experiencing the kind of turmoil that may or may not affect its political hierarchy following the next general election. However, there is little reason to believe that any major transformations in the Israeli political landscape could be of [...]
A view of a large part of the City of the Arts and Sciences, by architect Santiago Calatrava. Photograph: Heino Kalis/Reuters Architect Santiago Calatrava accused of ‘bleeding Valencia dry’ Leftists accuse top architect of raking in escalating amounts of cash from regional government to build giant cultural park Stunning bridges, airports and daring buildings have [...]
Biography claims David Cameron told Rebekah Brooks that she would get through her difficulties just before she stood down. Photograph: Barry Batchelor/PA David Cameron texted Rebekah Brooks in the week she quit as News International‘s chief executive over the phone-hacking scandal to tell her to keep her head up, it has been claimed in an updated biography [...]
François Hollande, France’s Tony Blair? by PHILIPPE MARLIERE François Hollande, the socialist candidate in the presidential race, wants to be seen by the public as the “Mr. Normal” of French politics: calm, measured and reassuringly honest. In short, he wants to be seen as Nicolas Sarkozy’s antithesis. Hollande’s “normality” is reflected [...]
Scott Horton Interviews Ray McGovern Scott Horton, May 07, 2012 Print This | Share This | Comment Ray McGovern, member of Veterans For Peace and former senior analyst at the CIA, discusses Russian Gen. Nikolai Makarov’s suggestion that a NATO missile-defense shield in Eastern Europe could be the target of a Russian pre-emptive strike; the [...]
An Afghan Okinawa By The Afghan Peace Volunteers http://warisacrime.org/content/afghan-okinawa There is no U.S. troop withdrawal in 2014. We are ordinary Afghans wishing for peace, and we have eyes and ears and feelings of love and despair, so please read on. The Washington Post, in reporting the recent signing of the “U.S. Afghan Enduring Strategic Partnership Agreement“, stated [...]
Waiting for Copernicus By John Feffer It’s happening in Buenos Aires. It’s happening in Paris and in Athens. It’s even happening at the World Bank headquarters. The global economy is finally shifting away from the model that prevailed for the last three decades. Europeans are rejecting austerity. Latin Americans are nationalizing [...]
“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable [...]
