Mois : mai 2007

Linked with TOWARDS THE RISE OF WOMEN IN THE ARAB WORLD, with Yemeni Federation of Women’s Organizations, and with the Human Rights Information and Training Center HRITC.

She is Minister of Human Rights in the Yemen Government, see the Yemen Embassy, London, and see also the Ministry of Human Rights of the Yemen Gov.

She is also:

• the Dean of the National Institute for Administrative Sciences.
• A professor of Political Sciences in Political Sciences section – Faculty of Commerce and Economics, Sana’a University.
• A vice-Manager of Women Studies Center, Sana’a University.
• A member of censorship on printings and publications in the Ministry of Culture.
• A professor in the following: International Relations, the Principles of Politics, Political Geography, Women and Development in the Faculty of Commerce and Economics and Women Studies Center.
• A coordinator of women and development subject in Women Studies Center.
• A supervisor on special studies and researches on women and development subject in Women Studies Center.
• The first Yemeni lecturer in the Faculty of Command and General Staff in Sana’a (military college).
• A founder member of The Gulf and Arab Island Union in Sana’a.
• A local consultant in the Council of Environment Protection in the Cabinet.
• A member in the Arab Teaching Staff Syndicate of in Sana’a.
• A member in the Council of Olympic Committee Administration and the General Association in Sana’a.
• A member in the National Organization of the Censorship on Elections in Sana’a.

Khadija Al-Haisami (Khadigah Ahmad al-Haisami) – Yemen

She says: “It’s of crucial importance to pay closer attention to public rights and freedoms and it is important to reinforce a culture of human rights culture Yemenis and further social awareness by initiating a partnership between the ministry and civil society organisations in Yemen. To ensure the success of such an initiative the Ministry has signed an agreement with the European Union to initiate a joint project to develop the partnership between the Ministry and civil society organisations » … (Yemen Times).

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Linked with the Social Science Research Council SSRC, and with Economic risk has shifted … .

He is Professor of Political Science and Resident Fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies. He is also a Fellow at the New America Foundation and a former Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows … Currently, he is heading a Social Science Research Council project on the « privatization of risk, » co-chairing the National Academy of Social Insurance’s 2007 conference. (full text).

He says:  » … No matter how well educated and hard working, many Americans fear that bankruptcy could be just one unexpected lay off or health crisis away. In The Great Risk Shift: The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care, and Retirement And How You Can Fight Back, New America Fellow Jacob S. Hacker lays bare the new economic realities facing American families ».

Listen to his conference-video on Google, The Great Risk Shift, duration 1 hr 26 min 57 sec., registered on Oct 31, 2006, by The New America Foundation.

Jacob S. Hacker – USA

About actual HEALTH CARE DEBATE:

• Read: The best won’t be the easiest, April 21, 2007.
• Read: PREVENTION IS THE ONLY REAL HEALTH CARE SOLUTION, April 10, 2007.
• Read: Where Will The Sick Go Now? April 12, 2007.
• Read: Meaningful Reform Requires Thinking Outside the Box, April 11, 2007.
• Read: The Missing Link in the Health Care Debate, by Sara Horowitz … In all the plans we’re seeing from Democrats, which Jacob Hacker has helpfully anatomized, one thing seems to be missing: intermediaries. There’s the single-payer model; the public/private hybrid, which assumes that competition will drive efficiency; … (full text, April 24, 2007).

He says also: ‘(Hacker is the progressive Dems academic guru on health care. At the conference, we asked him – why not single payer? – ) … “I am someone who is quite appreciative of single payer,” Hacker said. “But countervailing that political story, which is certainly a true story, are the political risks of displacing the private insurance of highly paid workers and the fiscal costs of creating the system in one fell swoop.

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Linked with American Theocracy.

Kevin Phillips (born November 30, 1940) is an American writer and commentator, largely on politics, economics, and history. Formerly a Republican Party strategist, Phillips has become disaffected with his former party over the last two decades, and is now one of its harshest critics. He is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio, and is a political analyst on PBS’ NOW with Bill Moyers. (full text).

He says: « Now what I get a sense of from all of this – and then topped obviously by spending all the money in 2000 to basically buy the election – is that this is not a family that has a particularly strong commitment to American democracy. Its sense of how to win elections comes out of a CIA manual, not out of the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution » …

… and: « Few have looked at the facts of the family’s rise, but just as important, commentators have neglected the thread – not the mere occasion – of special interests, biases, scandals (especially those related to arms dealing), and blatant business cronyism. The evidence that accumulates over four generations [of the Bush family dynasty] is really quite damning ». (full text).

Kevin Phillips – USA.

Videos:

• Kevin Phillips speaks in San Diego, 29 minutes.
• Kevin Phillips – What’s Next for the Republican Coalition? 6.36 minutes.
• Revelle Forum: Kevin Phillips on Religion, Oil and Debt, 59 minutes.
• Bush – Signs of the Apocolypse (on CNN), 6.07 minutes.
• Comments on the Forthcoming 2006 Elections, 1 hour 26.03 minutes.

He says also: « Well, the plutocracy … and I think we have one now and we didn’t, 12 years ago when I wrote THE POLITICS OF RICH AND POOR is when money has ceased just entertaining itself with leveraged buyouts and all the stuff they did in the ’80s, and really takes over politics, and takes it over on both sides when money not only talks, money screams. When you start developing philosophies in which giving a check is a First Amendment right. That’s incredible. But what you’ve got is that this is what money has done. It’s produced the fusion of money and government. And that is plutocracy »…

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Linked with The Democratic Left Movement DLM, with A time to rethink, and with ‘Why do many Muslims mistrust secularism?‘.

Samir Kassir (May 5, 1960 – June 2, 2005) was a university professor, journalist and historian born to a Lebanese Palestinian father and a Syrian mother. He held both Lebanese and French nationality. A prominent left-wing activist, he was a strong advocate of freedom for the Palestinians, democracy in Lebanon and Syria and a vocal critic of the Syrian presence in Lebanon. He was assassinated on 2 June 2005 and his assailants remain unknown. A French investigation is currently underway but its results have yet to be released. (full bio, works, sources, links).

He said: « Still, there is space for this secular movement that has become frustrated with the liberal experience. In my opinion, there is a need for an effort that helps he establishment of social justice while taking into consideration all the qualifications and reservations against the welfare state ». (full text).

See his Homepage (english, french, arabic).

Samir Kassir – Liban (May 5, 1960 – June 2, 2005)

There was created a Samir Kassir Award for freedoom of the press, see their Homepage: in english, en français. Read:

• the SAMIR KASSIR AWARDS FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS 2007;
• Enter the Samir Kassir Award contest, March 8, 2007.

Samir Kassir (très exhaustif) dans le wikipedia français.

The work, and the questions, continue:

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