[From the Global Peace And Justice Auckland Newsletter] PROTEST: No SAS Troops to Afghanistan – 12 noon Saturday 22nd August outside Papakura Military Camp, Grove Road, Papakura. A car convoy will leave from Unite Union office, 6A Western Springs Road, Morningside. Gather at 11am. Papakura Military Camp is the training […]
Geopolitics
[ … and now here’s Eduardo Galeano with what appears to be some pretty gosh, darn good questions … ] August 13, 2009 I’d like to share with you some questions–some flies that keep buzzing in my head. Is justice right side up? Has world justice been frozen in […]
“Human Universals” is a term used in anthropology and evolutionary psychology to refer to behavioral or cognitive traits common to all neurologically normal humans. The notion of human universals was partially formulated as a challenge to cultural relativism, a predominant view of human nature in the late 20th century, which […]
Source: The Guardian In 2003, at a meeting with a group of senior staff from the US judge advocate general’s office (which deals with criminal trials of military personnel), I was told that as a result of decisions taken in the Bush White House, a long American tradition of compliance […]
By HANAN AWAREKEH Israel seems to be determined to continue its psychological and media warfare against Lebanon, three years on its defeat in the Second Lebanon War. Israeli bullying also seems to be a part of turning the International concern away from building its illegal settlements in occupied Jerusalem and […]
[ Like a clueless bloated tick that’s rammed itself into the neck of a shriveled cow standing in a desiccated field somewhere, the first world creates and perpetuates the third world. End of story. ‘National Interests’ are not ‘National’ Interests. They are ‘International’ Interests. ( And people wonder why there’s […]
“We hear war called murder. It is not: it is suicide.” – Ramsay MacDonald, British prime minister 1931-1935 By Dahr Jamail Wednesday 05 August 2009 www.truthout.org Sergio Kochergin, back home from his second deployment in Iraq, held a gun in his mouth, trying to muster the courage to pull the […]
by Jason Ditz, August 06, 2009 A US military helicopter launched an overnight attack on a group of what it believed were “militants loading munitions into a van,” killing five of them. According to police in the rural district of the Kandahar Province, they weren’t militants, and those weren’t […]
A Flyby Perspective By Jonathan Mark One of the stranger events that happened near the end of the 20th Century was when NASA conducted two “flybys” around Venus on a journey towards Saturn. A flyby is a maneuver in frictionless space using gravity from a planet for a slingshot-acceleration effect. The […]
WRITTEN BY CHRIS FLOYD 07 AUGUST 2009 21:55 There is apparently no path blazed by George W. Bush that Barack Obama will not eagerly follow. Surges, assassinations, indefinite detention, defense of torture, senseless wars and rampant militarism — in just a few short months, we’ve seen it all. To this […]