Auteur/autrice : Heidi Barathieu-Brun

Linked with our presentation of Message from Chief Arvol Looking Horse, and of The Wolakota Foundation, Facing the Winds of Change, and of Peacemessage from Chief Arvol Looking Horse, Sioux Nation.

He says: « On your decision depends the fate of the entire world. »

Read first his Summer 2004 Message.

Arvol Looking Horse was born on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota in 1954 and was raised by his grandparents Lucy and Thomas Looking Horse. While growing up on the reservation, he learned the language, history, and spiritual ways of his people. At age twelve, Arvol was given a great responsibility. He became the nineteenth-generation keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe. Since then, and due to his understanding of the tragic history of his people, the Lakota, Nakota, and Dakota, Arvol has committed his life to working for freedom, peace, and the cultural revival and healing of his people. Arvol’s degree of commitment to helping not only his own people, his sharing of the Native Prophecies, as well as creating awareness and understanding throughout the world, has placed him along with other great leaders in the forefront of the quest for world peace. (Read more on this Harvard.edu page).

Chief Arvol Looking Horse – Sioux Nation USA

Read his speach of Novermber 2001: we are at the crossroads!

Chief Arvol Looking Horse offers plea for peace: He spoke to members of the University community during a March 17 gathering at the Michigan League, sponsored by Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs, the Native American Student Association and the Native American Studies Department. A spiritual leader of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe, a part of the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Great Sioux Nation, Looking Horse carried a message of concern for the well-being of the planet and for all living things upon it. (Read the whole article on University of Michigan).

Read his speach: The people in this hoc’okas.

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Linked with our presentation of The Plutocrats go wild, and of The University of Texas’ Inequality Project UTIP, and of Economists for Peace and Security.

James K. Galbraith is a progressive American economist who writes frequently for mainstream and liberal publications on economic topics. He is the son of renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith.

James K. Galbraith – USA

Read his article Hanging Chads a la Mexicana, July 28, 2006

He earned his BA from Harvard in 1974 and Ph.D from Yale in 1981, both in economics. From 1974 to 1975, Galbraith studied at King’s College, Cambridge. From 1981 to 1982, Galbraith served on the staff of the Congress of the United States, eventually as Executive Director of the Joint Economic Committee. In 1985, he was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution. He is currently a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and at the Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin. He is the Chair of Economists for Peace and Security, formerly known as Economists Against the Arms Race and later Economists Allied for Arms Reduction (ECAAR), an international association of professional economists concerned with peace and security issues. He is also a Senior Scholar with the Jerome Levy Economics Institute and Director of the University of Texas Inequality Project. Galbraith’s books include Balancing Acts: Technology, Finance and the American Future (1989), Created Unequal: The Crisis in American Pay (1998), and Industrial Change: A Global View, co-edited with Maureen Bemer, (2001).

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• 2006-07-01: Irene Morada Santiago – Philippines;
• 2006-07-02: Margarita Assenova – USA & Bulgaria;
• 2006-07-03: Blanca Campoverde – Ecuador;
• 2006-07-04: Anica Mikus Kos – Slovenia;
• 2006-07-05: Sir Bill Morris – England;
• 2006-07-06: Aïssata Kane – Mauritania;
• 2006-07-07: Howard Zinn – USA;
• 2006-07-08: Rosalina Tuyuc Velásquez – Guatemala;
• 2006-07-09: Jessica García – Honduras;
• 2006-07-10: Amsatou Sow Sidibé – Senegal;
• 2006-07-11: Oronto Douglas – Nigeria;
• 2006-07-12: Paddy Walker – Cook Islands;
• 2006-07-13: Eva Hoffmann – USA-Canada-Poland;
• 2006-07-14: Stella Cornelius – Australia.;
• 2006-07-15: Chahla Beski-Chafiq – Iran & France;
• 2006-07-16: Stanislavka Zajovic – Serbia and (now independent) Montenegro;
• 2006-07-17: Anonyma – International;
• 2006-07-18: Katrin Rohde – Burkina Faso & Germany;
• 2006-07-19: Salima Hashmi – Pakistan;
• 2006-07-20: Antonio Jacanamijoy – Colombia;
• 2006-07-21: Maria Teresa Leal – Brazil;
• 2006-07-22: Immanuel Wallerstein – USA;
• 2006-07-23: Bjorn Lomborg – Denmark;
• 2006-07-24: Maria Manuela Perreira – Timor East;
• 2006-07-25: Luisa Morgantini – Italy;
• 2006-07-26: Michel Chossudovsky – Canada;
• 2006-07-27: Swanee Hunt – USA;
• 2006-07-28: Ayorinde, or Ayo Ajayi – Ghana;
• 2006-07-29: Kundan Lal Chowdhury MD – India / Kashmir;
• 2006-07-30: Valentyna Dovzhenko – Ukraine;
• 2006-07-31: Dawan Chantarahassadee – Thailand;

Linked with the articles Shirya Bhatt Mission Hospital, Jammu/India, and with ‘Of Gods, Men and Militants‘, and also with Reconciliation. Read also The Political Economy of the Kashmir Conflict.

Linked also with his 3 blogs: Blog of the Shirya Bhatt Mission Hospital, the Socio-political & Cultural Blog, his Personal & Literary Blog.

Kundan Lal Chowdhury MD – India / Kashmir.

He is Advisor of our Asian-Eurasian Human Rights Forum AEHRF.

He is a lifelong medical professional, practicing medicine since 1963, involved in teaching, research and humanitarian activities.

• Joined Medical College, Srinagar, Kashmir (India) as a faculty member and rose to the level of Professor of Medicine. Published papers in several national and international journals.

• Career as a professor of medicine cut short when forced to leave his native land of Kashmir in the wake of terrorism in 1990. The ethnic population of Kashmiri Pandits numbering more than three and a half thousand along with a few thousand of Muslims and Sikhs, was driven out from the valley of Kashmir.

• Deeply affected by the alarming rise in the incidence of various diseases and the appearance of new medical syndromes in the displaced population, founded the Displaced Doctors Association, and set up the charitable Shriya Bhat Mission Hospital for community health and welfare of the displaced population.

• Presently Medical Director, Shirya Bhatt Mission Hospital, Durga Nagar Jammu, India 180013.

• Widely known for pioneering work on The health trauma of displaced Kashmiris . Credited with drawing worldwide attention to this tragedy.

• Identified syndromes like ‘Stress Diabetes’ and ‘Psychological Syndromes in Exiled Populations’ and highlighted the adverse effects of environmental and lifestyle changes on a displaced population.

• Conducted extensive surveys in the Kashmiri Pandit Diaspora and wrote about premature menopause, reduced birthrates and rising death rates in the exiles leading to population depletion.
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• Has written extensively on various subjects – medical and scientific, social and cultural.

• Has a passion for poetry and his poems have appeared in numerous journals.

• Has to his credit two volume of published verse:
1- “Of Gods, Men and Militants” Minerva Press (India) Private. Ltd. 2000.
2- “A Thousand-Petalled garland and other poems”, Writers workshop, Calcutta, India, 2003.

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Linked with our presentation of Population Council’s International.

Ayorinde Ajayi is the regional director for sub-Saharan Africa. He manages seven Population Council offices (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Senegal, South Africa, and Zambia) and oversees the organization’s research portfolio in the sub-Saharan region. Ajayi’s areas of expertise are capacity building and developing culturally appropriate service-delivery models for Africa.

Ayorinde, or Ayo Ajayi MD – Ghana

Prior to joining the Council in 1990, he was the regional vice president for the Pathfinder Fund. He has also taught and worked at Boston University and served as a government health officer in Nigeria. Ajayi has been a consultant to the US Agency for International Development, the World Health Organization, and several United Nations agencies.

Ajayi’s professional activities include serving as a board member for the Africa Health and Population Research Center, which he helped found, and as chairman of the advisory committee on access for the International Partnership for Microbicides. He completed his medical training at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and received a masters in public health from Boston University. (Read more on this page of the Population Council).

In ‘members of the Committee of Microbicides’, see his first name written in this way: Ayo Ajayi, Population Council, Ghana.

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Linked with our presentation of The use of 9/11 … , and of The Center for Research on Globalisation. Also with ‘Is The U.S. Planning A Horrific Global Nuclear War? with North American Integration and the Militarization of the Arctic, and with 9/11 and the American Inquisition.

Michel Chossudovsky is a Canadian economist. He is a professor of economics at the University of Ottawa.

He says: « The evidence confirms that al-Qaeda did not play a role in 9/11. But in fact, that in itself is a red herring, because al-Qaeda is a U.S.-sponsored intelligence asset ». And: « What I’ve done in my writings is to show that the official narrative or explanation regarding 9/11 can be refuted, namely that the official narrative is a lie ».

Michel Chossudovsky – Canada

Chossudovsky has taught as visiting professor at academic institutions in Western Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia, has acted as economic adviser to governments of developing countries and has worked as a consultant for international organizations including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the African Development Bank, the United Nations African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (AIEDEP), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the World Health Organisation (WHO), the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). In 1999, Chossudovsky joined the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research as an adviser.

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