Catégorie : World People

Linked with The West already was, and with Le Sciocchezze di Sofri e Rampoldi, and with Axis for Peace 2005, and with Le Sciocchezze di Sofri e Rampoldi.

… Quando il gioco si fa duro Repubblica non risparmia pagine. Di sciocchezze. Affidandole ai suoi sciocchezzatori di punta. Caratteristica principale dello sciocchezzatore – quando non si libri nel vasto cielo delle bugie – è quella di aggrapparsi al dettaglio per divagare nel grande mare delle analogie.
Specialista di queste virtù è il noto Garton Ash, quello che credette sinceramente a tutte le panzane di Rumsfeld e di Colin Powell prima della guerra irachena, ricamandovi sopra intere vagonate di sciocchezze, per poi riconoscere l’abbaglio, ma anche per accusare contestualmente Saddam Hussein, reo (oltre che novello Hitler) di averci tutti tratti in inganno per non aver dichiarato per tempo che non le aveva, le armi di distruzione di massa … (www.giuliettochiesa.it).

See on the english wikipedia: Giulietto Chiesa (born on 4 September 1940 in Acqui Terme, province of Alessandria) is an Italian journalist and politician, Member of the European Parliament for North-West with the Independent – Di Pietro-Occhetto List Civil Society, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade. He is a substitute for the Committee on Culture and Education and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.

He is member of the European Parliament with the Socialist Group.

Giulietto Chiesa – Italy

He was a speaker on the Axis for Peace 2005 Conference.

Video: Listen to his speach at the Axis for Peace 2005 Conference (in english).

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Linked with Axis for Peace 2005 , and with … Radio France Culture de Février 2004, and with Vichy, Argent et zyklon B en 1940-44

D’abord lisez tout sur wikipedia.

Annie Lacroix-Riz – France

Voir toute la documentation sur ce site d’Amnistia.net. Voir aussi la page Enquete.
The Times of London (October 9, 1996) had the following provocative headline: « French chemical firm is linked to Holocaust gas ». It goes on to speculate that a French chemical company may have played a role in the manufacture of poison gas that had been used, as we have all been told for half a century, « . . . to murder millions of Jews in Nazi death camps ». So says a French university professor who claims that her findings have been « censored » by a government-backed history journal. The person who has discovered this newest wrinkle is Annie Lacroix-Riz, Professor of Modern History at the University of Toulouse. The good professor submitted an article to Etudes et Documents, a history journal published under the aegis of the Finance and Economics Ministry, in which she outlined possible links between the French chemical group Ugine and the manufacture of Zyklon B. The journal refused to publish. Mme Lacroix-Riz had cited Ugine’s role in the creation of a « mixed » Franco-German company, Durferrit-Sofumi, which earned huge profits by manufacturing insecticide between 1941 and 1943. In two years, so her paper claimed, the corporate earnings from this insecticide skyrocketed fifteen-fold.

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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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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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Linked with our presentations of The Copenhagen Consensus Center, and of the
Copenhagen Consensus 2006.

He says: « Environmentalists said Kyoto would be virtually cost-free, most countries are starting to realise that it will be very costly ».

And he says also: « Two hundred years ago, the left was an incredibly rational movement. It believed in encyclopedias, in hard facts, and in the idea that mastery of these basics would help make a better society. Since then, the world’s do-gooders have succumbed to romanticism, they’ve become more dreamy. »

Bjorn Lomborg – Denmark

TWO years ago, a Danish environmentalist called Bjorn Lomborg had an idea. We all want to make the world a better place but, given finite resources, we should look for the most cost-effective ways of doing so. He persuaded a bunch of economists, including three Nobel laureates, to draw up a list of priorities. They found that efforts to fight malnutrition and disease would save many lives at modest expense, whereas fighting global warming would cost a colossal amount and yield distant and uncertain rewards. That conclusion upset a lot of environmentalists. This week, another man who upsets a lot of people embraced it. John Bolton, America’s ambassador to the United Nations, said that Mr Lomborg’s “Copenhagen Consensus” (see articles) provided a useful way for the world body to get its priorities straight. Too often at the UN, said Mr Bolton, “everything is a priority”. The secretary-general is charged with carrying out 9,000 mandates, he said, and when you have 9,000 priorities you have none. So, over the weekend, Mr Bolton sat down with UN diplomats from seven other countries, including China and India but no Europeans, to rank 40 ways of tackling ten global crises.

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Linked with our presentation of ‘Whom has North Korea provoked?‘, and of The Worries of the US Ambassador to Iraq, and also of Major Works by Immanuel Wallerstein.

He says: « Capitalism has been a remarkably successful system, in terms of its fundamental objectives: the endless accumulation of capital. As a consequence of doing it, it has expanded the means of production enormously. Capitalism has simultaneously been an incredibly polarising system, ever more polarising, and ever more impoverishing. Capitalism is in trouble today. It is not in trouble because there are social movements. Social movements are a consequence of the trouble. The processes it has used to accumulate capital have reached certain inbuilt limits. What we’re seeing in the world is not a sign of the success of capital, but the great difficulties of capital … « . (Read all on Al-Ahram).

Immanuel Wallerstein – USA

See his world system theory. This text is part of the Internet Modern History Sourcebook. The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts for introductory level classes in modern European and World history.

Born in 1930 in New York, Wallerstein attended Columbia University, where he received a B.A. in 1951, an M.A. in 1954 and a Ph.D. degree in 1959, and subsequently taught until 1971, when he became professor of sociology at McGill University. As of 1976, he served as distinguished professor of sociology at Binghamton University (SUNY) until his retirement in 1999, and as head of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems and Civilization until 2005. Wallerstein held several positions as visiting professor at universities worldwide, was awarded multiple honorary titles, intermittently served as Directeur d’études associé at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and was president of the International Sociological Association between 1994 and 1998. Since 2000, he has been Senior research Scholar at Yale University. (Read all on wikipedia). See also: one – this disambiguation page of wikipedia, and second: – a description on the german wikipedia.

Read his text: Pax Americana, the eagle has crash landed.

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Linked with our presentation of Coopa Roca – Brazil, and … realities about business and poverty …

Maria Teresa Leal – Brazil

Maria Teresa Leal founded Coopa-Roca, a sewing cooperative located in Rocinha, the largest favela (slum) in Rio de Janeiro, in 1981. Nicknamed « Tetê, » Leal has a college degree in social science and a license to teach elementary school. It is unusual for a middle-class or wealthy Brazilian to set foot in a favela. But when Leal visited the favela with her housekeeper, who lived there, she saw that many poor women in the favela were skilled seamstresses — yet they had no opportunity to use their skills to generate income. So she got the idea to start a co-operative, which would recycle fabric remnants to produce attractive quilts and pillows. Gradually, as the women gained experience and developed skills in manufacturing and marketing, the work grew more professional. In the early 90s Tetê attracted interest from Rio’s fashion world, and in 1994 Coopa-Roca began producing clothes for the catwalk. In order to acquire the luxurious fabrics for high-quality designer clothes, Tetê sought out donations. She also convinced fashion designers to teach the women about production skills and trends. Coopa-Roca started getting media attention, which helped Tetê get more fabric and more contracts. Pieces produced by the co-op are unique, combining a particular type of craftsmanship originated in northern Brazil with luxe fabrics found in couture fashion. Tetê recently signed a contract with the European clothes manufacturer C&A, which she hopes will allow the co-op to expand its offerings and multiply the number of women who benefit from it. (Read more on pbs.org).

Tetê was strongly influenced early in life by three family members. Her father, a leading physician, was one of the first doctors to volunteer every Saturday in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. Her mother, a teacher, encouraged her to broaden her education to understand all of society’s ills and opportunities. Her oldest sister founded Rio’s first Arts Education School, the first school to teach education and the arts to mixed classes of wealthy, middle-class and favela children. The school, which opened in 1960 and still operates today, grew out of her sister’s civic work.

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