Red Pepper - It is possible to conceive of all manner of climate disasters, it seems, but not to think outside the box of the economic systems that have contributed to their happening in the first place.
When political historians look back on 2007, there is a fair chance they will see it as the year that the climate change threat was finally taken seriously. For the evidence that the climate is changing is ‘unequivocal’, according to the recent Fourth Assessment Report of the (…)
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The Price of Climate Change
Oscar Reyes, Red Pepper
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UNITED STATES-IRAN - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Speaks at Columbia University Amid Protests, Univ. President Excoriates Iran Leader from Podium
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
2 October 2007, by John MaloneTuesday, September 25th, 2007 - Democracy Now! News Program - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke at Columbia University on Monday, ahead of his address before the United Nations. Hundreds gathered to protest for and against the visit. Meanwhile, Columbia University President Lee Bollinger excoriated Ahmadinejad in his introductory remarks. AMY GOODMAN:World leaders are gathering in New York this week for the annual opening session of the UN General Assembly. With the ongoing (…)
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Address to the 99th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association
Tide? Or Ivory Snow? Public Power in the Age of EmpireArundhati Roy, Democracy Now!
24 September 2007, by John MaloneAugust 16th, 2004 - San Francisco, California.
I’ve been asked to speak about "Public Power in the Age of Empire." I’m not used to doing as I’m told, but by happy coincidence, it’s exactly what I’d like to speak about tonight.
When language has been butchered and bled of meaning, how do we understand "public power"? When freedom means occupation, when democracy means neo-liberal capitalism, when reform means repression, when words like "empowerment" and "peacekeeping" make your blood run (…) -
NGOs and Imperialism
Yves Engler, ZNET
17 September 2007, by John MaloneSeptember 02, 2007 - ZNet.
Foreign Affairs 501, Take Home Exam
Any individual working for an aid organization is required to pass this exam and a B+ or higher must be achieved to attain “left wing” status.
Please write 500 words answering each of three of the following questions.
1) Do people really feel better when their elected government is destroyed by democracy promotion rather than subversion?
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Naomi Klein: From Think Tanks to Battle Tanks, “The Quest to Impose a Single World Market Has Casualties Now in the Millions”
Amy Goodman & Naomi Klein, Democracy Now!
16 August 2007, by DialWednesday, August 15th, 2007 - Democracy Now! News Program.
AMY GOODMAN: The State Department is coming under criticism this week for refusing to allow a prominent South African social scientist to enter the country. Adam Habib was scheduled to speak at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York this past weekend, but the government refused to give him a visa.
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Global Campaign Calls for Tackling the Roots of Poverty
Diana Cariboni, IPS
7 May 2007, by Manuela Garza AscencioIPS - The Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) made a commitment in Uruguay Saturday to extend their campaign until 2015, and to emphasise the structural causes that determine that over one billion people in the world are living in extreme poverty.
GCAP was launched in 2005, at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Its component organisations have committed themselves to continue the campaign until the 2015 deadline established by United Nations member countries to halve (…) -
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The World Social Forum: From Defense to OffenseImmanuel Wallerstein
7 February 2007, by DialFebruary 1, 2007 - The World Social Forum (WSF) met in Nairobi, Kenya from January 20-25. The organization, founded as a sort of anti-Davos, has matured and evolved more than even its participants realize. From the beginning, the WSF has been a meeting of a wide range of organizations and movements from around the world who defined themselves as opposed to neo-liberal globalization and imperialism in all its forms. Its slogan has been "another world is possible" and its structure has been (…)
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Opinion
The Third AgeMichael Hogan
5 January 2007, by Michael HoganA few days before Christmas a colleague sent me an unsolicited email cartoon with the note: “This should cheer you up!” The single frame showed a bent-over, sunken-chested, balding man in his seventies as a doctor examined him with a stethoscope. The caption said, “Remember those twenty extra years I told you you’d have if you followed a healthy life style? Well, now you’re living them.”
Having recently been turned down by the search committee at a New England university because of age, I (…) -
Rush to Judgment
OPINION - Human Rights Watch Must Retract Its Shameful Press Release on Palestine (by Norman G. Finkelstein, Counterpunch) 1 December 2006, by MikaNovember 29, 2006 - Counterpunch - Even by the grim standards of Gaza, the past five months have been cruel ones.
Some four hundred Palestinians, mostly unarmed civilians, have been killed during Israeli attacks. (Four Israeli soldiers and two civilians have been killed.) Israel has sealed off Gaza from the outside world while the international community has imposed brutal sanctions, ravaging Gaza’s already impoverished economy.
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Open Budget Index: Nine in Ten Countries Fail to Provide Budget Information Needed for Government Accountability
23 October 2006, by Manuela Garza Ascencio
First time ever Budget Transparency Ranking released simultaneously in 59 countries.
To view the International Budget Project’s full press release (in English or Spanish), key findings and summary click on the links below.