Mois : décembre 2007

Linked with United States Institute of Peace USIP, with Comprehensive Peace Agreement CPA, and with When Religion Brings Peace, Not War.

David R. Smock is the vice president of USIP’s Center for Mediation and Conflict Resolution and associate vice president of the Religion and Peacemaking program, one of the Centers of Innovation. Previously he served as director of the USIP’s Grant program and coordinator of Africa activities. He has worked on African issues for over thirty years and lived in Africa for eleven years. As a staff member of the Ford Foundation from 1964 to 1980, he served in Ghana, Kenya, Lebanon, Nigeria, and New York. (full text).

He writes: « Is it true, as some claim, that democracy is basically a western concept and ideology and therefore fundamentally at odds with the values and principles of Islam? If so, then the Muslim world, consisting of 55 countries populated by more than 1.4 billion people, is doomed to dictatorship and oppression. Moreover, Muslims would have to choose between their religion and democracy. In introducing the discussion, Radwan Masmoudi asserted that there is no inherent contradiction between Islam and democracy and that democratic ideals and principles are also Islam’s ideals and principles. Thus, the explanation of why so many Muslim countries are not democratic lies in historical, political, cultural, and economic factors, not religious ones. « Not only must we understand these reasons, but we must also find out what needs to be done to correct this situation. What can we as Americans and especially as American Muslims do to promote democratization in Muslim countries? » (full text).

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David R. Smock – USA

He says:  » … Moderate religious leaders had the responsibility to rein in extremists, and all leaders should educate themselves about the religious “other” … and: « Therefore, political leaders needed to make understanding religion a priority in the same way that they study missiles and munitions. Additionally, religious leaders had a role in conflicted societies, which political leaders could not fill » … (full text).

He writes also: If the Darfur situation is not significantly improved soon, further implementation of the CPA Comprehensive Peace Agreement could be threatened. Without peace in Darfur, the nation-wide elections mandated in the CPA for 2009 could be postponed or cancelled. This would undermine the CPA and would be very destabilizing for the whole country. Consistent with the terms of the CPA, oil revenues have begun to flow to the government of South Sudan, but the CPA’s requirements for oil revenues to be paid to other outlying regions have not been implemented. All international actors need to collaborate in pressuring the GOS to adhere to its earlier agreement about peacekeeping and to renegotiate the DPA. Given the level of its investments in Sudan, China is a critical player. The Chinese have exerted some behind-the-scenes pressure on the GOS but they are unlikely to make strong public statements. Nor are they willing to be as forceful as the United States in pressing Sudan. Overall, the international community needs to increase the pressure on the GOS and the rebel groups, while also being realistic about the leverage it actually has to force them to make the needed concessions. (full text, April 2007).

Read: Ijtihad, Reinterpreting Islamic Principles for the Twenty-first Century, 8 pages.

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Linked with Global Alternatives.

Roger Burbach is director of the Center for the Study of the Americas in Berkeley, California, and a visiting scholar at the Institute of International Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru in the late 1960s, resided in Chile at the time of the military coup by Augusto Pinochet in 1973, and reported on Central America during the revolutionary conflicts of the 1980s. He has written widely on US foreign policy, Latin America and globalization, publishing ten books. His most recent is Imperial Overstretch: George W Bush and the Hubris of Empire, co-authored with Jim Tarbell. The updated Spanish edition of The Pinochet Affair: State Terrorism and Global Justice was released in January in Santiago, Chile. (The Guardian).

Read: The Battle in Bolivia, ‘New Left’ President Evo Morales Faces Opposition to New Constitution, Dec 01, 2007; and: Oil Billions Fuel Venezuela’s ‘Petro Power’ Socialist Dream, Nov. 30, 2007.

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Roger Burbach – USA

Electoral Fraud and Rebellion in Mexico, 2006/07/10.

While international attention is focusing on President Hugo Chavez and the Sunday referendum on the Venezuelan constitution, a conflict that is just as profound is shaking Bolivia. Evo Morales, the first Indian president of the country, is forcing a showdown with the oligarchy and the right wing political parties that have stymied efforts to draft a new constitution to transform the nation. He declares, « Dead or alive I will have a new constitution for the country by December 14, » the mandated date for the specially elected Constituent Assembly to present a constitution for the country to vote on by popular referendum. (full text, Dec. 1, 2007).

Ecuador’s Leftist New Leader Sizes Up the U.S., March 6, 2007.

He writes: … But the real problem of Mexico runs much deeper. The entrenched political classes along with the Electoral Tribunal, and the Federal Electoral Institute before it, will not make any concessions to Lopez Obrador because they are afraid the entire system of privileges will collapse if they make even modest concessions. The campaign slogan of Lopez Obrador was straightforward: « For the good of all, the poor first. » His program during the campaign was actually quite reformist. In a country where half the population lives below the poverty line Lopez Obrador pledged to provide a stipend to the elderly and healthcare for the poor. Millions of jobs would also be created, particularly by undertaking large construction projects to modernize Mexico’s dilapidated transportation system. He also promised to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement with the United States, particularly the clauses that allow the importation of cheap subsidized grains that undermine Mexico’s peasant producers … (full text).

After Pinochet, prosecute Kissinger, Dec. 15, 2004.

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Linked with The Archive of ‘From The Wilderness’ FTW, with jenna orkin’s Act 2: From the Wilderness’ Peak Oil.
And also with Michel Chossudovsky – Canada, with Cynthia McKinney- USA,
and with Center for Research on Globalisation.

Michael Ruppert is the founder and editor of ‘From The Wilderness’, a newsletter and website dedicated to investigating political cover-ups. On August 16, 2006 Ruppert announced that he was leaving the United States permanently, citing years of harassment for his ongoing dissident activities … (full text).

See also: BY THE LIGHT OF A BURNING BRIDGE, his permanent Goodbye to the United States).

He writes: FTW (the newsletter ‘From The Wilderness’) is really screwed up right now. Everybody knows it and I am not going ignore it. I am in bad shape too. I am not going to hide that either. I have been in Caracas for 14-plus weeks and am facing a serious combination of medical ymptoms that were described by Carlos Ruiz in “Living with Mike Ruppert in Caracas. » (full text).

FULL DISCLOSURE – THE LAPD RECORDS OF MICHAEL C. RUPPERT.

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Michael C. Ruppert – USA

More articles on CIA & Drugs.

OPENING REMARKS OF MICHAEL C. RUPPERT for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Michael Ruppert is the author of Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil. Published in September 2004 and is one of the three best-selling books globally and in the US about the attacks of 9/11. Rubicon is the only book to show that Vice President Richard Cheney, the US government and Wall Street had a well-developed awareness of Peak Oil before the 9/11 attacks and that US policy since then has been consistent with Peak Oil imperatives. In May, 2006 Crossing the Rubicon was added to the Harvard School of Business library and released in a French version with distribution throughout all major book stores in France. (‘Outside the box‘, scroll down).

1996 Dark Alliance Investigative Report, Google Scolar-articles about.

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Linked with Made in USA, and with Russian Press Blasts Anglo-Saxon Terrorist Controllers.

Webster Griffin Tarpley is an author, lecturer, and critic of US foreign and domestic policy. He maintains that the events of 9/11 were engineered by the military industrial complex. He envisions a model of false flag terror operated by a rogue network of independent operatives in the privatized military intelligence sector and corporate media … he earned an AB at Princeton University in 1966 in English and Italian, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Fulbright Scholar at University of Turin, Italy. Master of Arts in humanities from Skidmore College.
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He says: « The other aspect is ‘synthesis’, meaning ‘drawing things together’ like bringing elements together that are disparate and don’t seem to belong together, but really do. And that’s the conceptual framework I offer in there, and some charts on the back, and at various points in the book. The question of the moles, patsies, the professional killers, and the command center which coordinates all of that within the framework of a brainwashed world of controlled corporate media. In particular I try to show, in the case of the patsies, leaning on some research by Daniel Hopsicker, who has been delving around in Florida for some years, that in the case of Atta and some of the other pilots training at the airport in Venice, Florida, they are the products of the precise airports that were being used by Oliver North and Secord, and Felix Rodriguez in the Iran/Contra scandal of the 1980s, for gun running into Central America and bringing back crack cocaine and heroin and other lethal narcotics into the United States. That’s what Atta comes from and it’s very interesting that the 9/11 patsies are so closely connected to the Iran/Contra infrastructure. These are the kinds of elements of continuity that I try to show in the book »… (full interview text).

See his website.

Listen his video: 9/11 L.A. Symposium – Webster Griffin Tarpley on 911 Evidence, 1.06 h, 04.08.2006.

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Webster Griffin Tarpley – USA

Read on his website: George Bush, The Unauthorized Biography, by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin, on his website: Table of Contents (Introduction and chapters 1 to 25). Scrolling down of the same page: You can get the entire book at once, by dowloading the following compressed file: bushbook.zip. (The zip file is about one Megabyte. It contains all the chapters in HTML format.)

He says also: « The thing about the anthrax is that 9/11, the Pentagon and the WTC Towers are far away from rural America, the Midwest… there are large parts of the US where people could say, ‘As long as it’s skyscrapers, there’s no skyscraper here…’ and there were tens of millions of people who felt that they were not on the hook. But of course the one thing that just about everybody does is go to a Post Office box or a mail slot at home, or your mailbox, and get out your daily mail. And as you remember, when you did this, you’re always thinking, how many anthrax spores are in this envelope and every unidentified piece of junk mail you opened up you wondered if you were gonna get white powder in it. So this was very effective psy-war, it was also used, very consciously by the FBI to take investigators, who were supposedly looking into 9/11 and to divert them to something completely different. It’s very interesting that the FBI has never solved this crime. I think it’s a key to the bankruptcy of their investigative procedures in general, if that were still needed. The one thing that’s clear is that the anthrax spores that are involved here come from US military labs ». (full interview text).

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founder of Awra Amba

Linked with Awra Amba, and with Zumra’s new lifestyle perception.

He can’t read or write, but Zumra Nuru created a society that would have made Karl Marx proud. The 60-year-old Ethiopian farmer founded and cochairs Awra Amba, a commune where men cook, women plow, and religion has no place. His inspiration came from his childhood: He was sent to the fields instead of to school and beaten for eating meat at his Christian neighbor’s home. His mother had to work much more than his father … In the 1980s, Nuru finally launched the egalitarian society he dreamed of with 19 other people who adopted his vision. Today Awra Amba has some 400 members and is lauded as a model to alleviate poverty and promote gender equality in a country where women generally hold a subservient status to men. (full text).

He says: « It made me sad, when I asked my parents about it … they acted as if I were foolish » … and: “Everybody I ask tells me that mankind has one root some say that it started from Adam and Eve and others prefer to say it was Adem and Hawa,” … and: “I decided then to ignore such lines, which create differences among human beings, and establish a heaven that has a place for all by giving love to each other and avoid all causes of conflict among themselves”.

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Zumra Nuru Mohammad – Ethiopia

Father of the village.

Bio, exerpt: … In 1972 when he first settled in Awramba, there were 66 households who agreed to live according to his new lifestyle. As other people in the surrounding districts politicized his activities and began accusing him, he began to realize what he dreamed of since childhood wasn’t going to be easily realized … and: In the final days of the Derg regime in 1989 when they heard that the neighborhood is going to massacre Zumra and all of his followers, the whole Awaramba community left their homes in the middle of the night and descended on Bonga town in southern Ethiopia, to save their lives. (full text).

Den Karl Marx cung phai u hao.

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Linked with Questions About the Financial Crisis, and with The neocons’ crazy dream of World War III.

Rodrigue Tremblay (born October 13, 1939) is a Canadian-born economist, humanist and political figure. He teaches economics at the Université de Montréal. He specializes in macroeconomics, international trade and finance, and public finance. He is a prolific author of books in economics and politics. Born in Matane, Québec, Canada, he has a B.A. from the Université Laval (1961), a B.Sc. in Economics from the Université de Montréal (1963). Tremblay did his graduate work at Stanford University where he obtained a M.A. in Economics (1965) and a Ph.D. in Economics (1968) … He is a rare and versatile economist whose accomplishments touch many fields of economics and economic policy. He is known for his contributions in three areas of economics … He is also a public intellectual who is known for his contributions to the understanding of international, Canadian and Quebec politics. His blog on world geopolitics is read in fifty countries and in seven languages. His book The New American Empire was published in English, in French under the title « Le nouvel empire américain » and in Turkish under the title of « Yeni Amerikan †mparatorlu›u ». His political analyses have been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Globe and Mail and numerous French-language newspapers such as Le Devoir, La Presse (Canada), Le Soleil, and several other publications … (full text).

A Fed Panic and a Massive Bailout of American Banks Paid for by the Entire World, September 22nd, 2007.

He writes: The global dollar-based financial system is in crisis and is threatening the prosperity and stability of many economies. Financial excesses of all kinds have undermined its legitimacy and its efficiency. The U.S. dollar is losing its preeminence as the main international reserve currency while many banks are caught in the turmoil of the subprime credit crisis … (full text, Nov 16, 2007).

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Rodrigue Tremblay – Canada

Listen to his video: The deconstruction of Iraq, 2 min., October 4, 2007.

He writes also: When religious extremists use their tax-free access to TV to openly call for a nuclear confrontation between America and Iran, and when they try to demonize the European Union by calling it « the Antichrist », it is time to ask what’s going on in the U.S. —Is this wind of collective madness subsiding or getting up steam? Are the Armageddonite fanatics calling for the end of the world and the Second Coming of Christ, in an Armageddon war supposed to kill two billion people, turning the U. S. into a madhouse, where the inmates seem to be in charge? There are, indeed, as many as 30 million Armageddonite Americans—ten percent of the population—most of them members of the evangelical religious fundamentalist movement, to which GWB subscribes as an evangelical born-again Christian, and from which he borrows his religious language in defense of his policies. (In the 2004 elections, exit polls showed that more than three-quarters of white evangelical Christians voted for President Bush.) Many among the evangelicals are known to nurture the crazy idea that if their preachers’ end-of-the-world scenario were to be accomplished, they would be ‘raptured’ and would enter into some ‘Heaven’, without going through a ‘Judgment Day’. Since the leaders of this movement are frequently invited to the White House for off-the-record policy sessions, and since many congressmen attend their meetings, it might not be so foolish after all to look at what these delusional characters have in store for the world. (full text).

Canada and Bushs North American Union.

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