Mois : février 2008

For other persons named Paul Roberts, see Paul Roberts disambiguation.

Linked with The Independent Institute.

Paul Craig Roberts (born April 3, 1939, in Atlanta, Georgia) is an economist and a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration earning fame as the « Father of Reaganomics« . He is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Scripps Howard News Service. He is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology and he holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He was a post-graduate at the University of California, Berkeley, and Oxford University where he was a member of Merton College. In 1992 he received the Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 1993 the Forbes Media Guide ranked him as one of the top seven journalists in the United States.[1] His writings frequently appear on Antiwar.com, VDARE.com, Lew Rockwell’s web site, and CounterPunch … (full text).

What Do We Stand For?

His videos on YouTube.

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Paul Craig Roberts – USA

He is research fellow at The Independent Institute.

He writes: The Brownshirt Party has chosen John “hundred year war” McCain as its presidential candidate. Except for Cheney, Norman Podhoretz, and billy kristol, McCain is America’s greatest warmonger. In a McCain Regime, Cheney will be back in office with another stint as Secretary of War. Norman “Bomb-bomb-bomb-Iran” Podhoretz will be Undersecretary for Nuclear War with General John “Nuke them” Shalikashvili as his deputy. Rudy Giuliani will be the Minister of Interior in charge of Halliburton’s detention centers into which will be herded all critics of war and the police state. billy kristol will be chief White House spokesliar. The whole gang will be back–Wolfowitz, Perle, Wurmster, Feith, Libby, Bolton. America will have a second chance to bomb the world into submission … (full text, Febr. 9, 2008).

Audio: Church Harder interviews Paul Craig Roberts.

Audio: Scott and Paul Craig Roberts discuss the London bombings, the media, the terror war, the Iraq war and the neo-Jacobins, July 9, 2005.

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Linked with Conversation with a Loner.

Born in 1973 (September 13th), Kolkata, Jayati graduated with English honors. Happily married with Rajeeb and mother of Rajat, she lives in Brussels, Belgium. She is an EX School teacher of International Indian School in Middle East. Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life (Mark Twain) that Jayati leads now. (Bolji.com).

She writes: REMEMBER MY LOVE NOW OR NEVER … :

• Eclipsed by impulsiveness,
• Decision without deliberation.
• The fragmented photo frames,
• The broken vase and the wilted rose.
• The hollow emptiness,
• Reverberates, I am with you no more
• … (full text).

A Letter to a Friend.

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Jayati Chowdhury – India & Belgium

Some poems:

• Silent Goodbye.
• Love and Touch.
• Love and Understanding.
• Love is … .
• Anonymous Eyes.
• Baba.

Someone somewhere, a poem by Jayati Chowdhury, page one, and page two.

She captures subtle moments in verse and strongly believes that poetry is like symphony, composed by emotions and perceptions, not by rule. She has also penned few articles. A trained vocalist, Jayati loves to sing ghazals. She is a registered poet with poetsindia.com and her poems are also published in sites like poetry.com, and ndtv.com. Her philosophy in life is: I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires – khalil Gibran. She is selected as Poet of the Week on January 8, 2006 and again on August 26, 2007.(Bolji.com).

Trip to the Rainbow Nation, South Africa, Johannesburg.

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Linked with The Jean Piaget’s Genetic Epistemology, with The Jean Piaget Society JPS, and with The Jean Piaget Archives.

Jean Piaget (August 9, 1896 – September 16, 1980) was a Swiss philosopher, natural scientist and developmental psychologist, well known for his work studying children, his theory of cognitive development and for his epistemological view called « genetic epistemology ». He created in 1955 the International Centre for Genetic Epistemology in Geneva and directed it until 1980. According to Ernst von Glasersfeld, Jean Piaget is « the great pioneer of the constructivist theory of knowing » … (full long text).

He said: « Intelligence is an adaptation…To say that intelligence is a particular instance of biological adaptation is thus to suppose that it is essentially an organization and that its function is to structure the universe just as the organism structures its immediate environment ». (human intelligence).

Scientific & philosophical development, the stages of cognitive development.

His major contributions:

• Genetic Epistemology (J. Piaget);
• the theory of Genetic Epistemology (a branch of philosophy that investigates the origin, nature, methods, and limits of human knowledge).

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Jean Piaget – Switzerland

Listen the video: PIAGET’S DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY, 4.00 min, March 22, 2006.

He said also: « Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society … But for me, education means making creators … You have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists » … (and many more).

J. Piaget’s Genetic Epistemology and the Teaching of Elementary Mathematics.

Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development.

Jean Piaget, the pioneering Swiss philosopher and psychologist, spent much of his professional life listening to children, watching children and poring over reports of researchers around the world who were doing the same. He found, to put it most succinctly, that children don’t think like grownups. After thousands of interactions with young people often barely old enough to talk, Piaget began to suspect that behind their cute and seemingly illogical utterances were thought processes that had their own kind of order and their own special logic. Einstein called it a discovery « so simple that only a genius could have thought of it » … (full text).

(He) elaborated the stages of childhood.

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Linked with Sudanreeves.org, with Genocide prevention: 60 years of abject failure, and with Will 2008 be another year of death in Darfur?

Dr. Eric Reeves is professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He has spent the past seven years working full-time as a Sudan researcher and analyst, publishing extensively both in the United States and internationally. He has testified several times before the Congress, has lectured widely in academic settings, and has served as a consultant to a number of human rights and humanitarian organizations operating in Sudan. Working independently, he has written on all aspects of Sudan’s recent history. He has recently received a generous grant from the Humanity First Initiative of the Omidyar Network to support his research and travel. He is presently at work on a book surveying the international response to ongoing war and human destruction in Sudan. (wikipedia).

His book: A Long Day’s Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide (Paperback).

Eric Reeves will receive an honorary degree from Smith College on March 6, in recognition of the work he’s done to alleviate the suffering from the conflict in the Sudan. « This is a particularly special moment for Smith, » said media relations director Kristen Cole. It is the first time a sitting faculty member has received an honorary degree from Smith College … (full text, Febr. 12, 2008).

Watch the video SWAT HLP, 9.01 min, January 24, 2007.

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Eric Reeves – USA

How many deaths in Darfur? Aug. 20, 2007.

Darfur, counting the deaths, May 26, 2005.

He writes: … What accounts for this unconscionable delay of a UN-authorized peace support mission, with Chapter 7 auspices? Unsurprisingly—and now increasingly publicly acknowledged by UN diplomats—the answer lies in defiant obstructionism by the National Islamic Front (NIF) regime in Khartoum (which has expediently and euphemistically renamed itself the National Congress Party). Though notionally the senior member of a Sudanese “Government of National Unity,” the Khartoum security cabal represents only ruthless survivalism, and is animated only by a determination to retain its stranglehold on Sudanese national wealth and power. But the NIF has extremely limited domestic political support; their confident obstruction of international efforts to halt what has become a grim “genocide by attrition” in Darfur must be explained in other terms. And here the key is Chinese support for the regime—support of longstanding that has taken economic, military, and diplomatic form. To be sure, the Arab League—Egypt in particular—has been supportive of Khartoum, as has the Organization of the Islamic Conference. But to survive international pressure, especially by the US, to flout with disdain Security Council resolutions, and to thrive economically despite the crushing burden of its more than $25 billion in external debt, Khartoum has depended upon Beijing. Beijing has abstained on, or blocked through a threatened veto, virtually every action the Security Council sought to take prior to passage of Resolution 1769. China did finally vote for this resolution, but only after significantly weakening its mandate and insisting that there be no sanctions threat against Khartoum, even in the event of non-compliance with the resolution … (full text, February 8, 2008).

UN inaction persists and Darfur crimes too, January 28, 2008.

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Linked with INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND PHILANTHROPY, Colonialism by other means, and with Articles for Indigenous Peoples on our blogs.

Biographical Highlights: Rebecca L. Adamson, half Cherokee, established and continues to remain president of the First Nations Development Institute as well as the founder of First Peoples Worldwide. With her belief that Native Americans should be in control of their own schools and education, she soon became a promoter of economic independence for tribes as well. She has sought ways to develop sovereignty among the Indigenous People through creating projects that stem from their original cultures and beliefs. Since 1970, Adamson remains working directly with the tribes and assists them in finding the most sufficient ways of developing successful small businesses and economies apart from the Federal Government without compromising their customs. Furthermore, her organization has raised and distributed millions of dollars to help with these ventures. Adamson obtained a Masters of Science in Economic Development from the University of Southern New Hampshire1 where she also teaches a graduate course on Indigenous Economics within the Community Economic Development Program (Indian Country Today) … (full text).

She is mentionned as betterworld heroe.

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Rebecca Adamson – USA

Find her Bio on Native-Wiki.

She says: « Economic development, more than any single issue, is the battle line between two competing world views. Tribal people’s fundamental value was sustainability, and they conducted their livelihoods in ways that sustained resources and limited inequalities in their society. What made traditional economies so radically different and so very fundamentally dangerous to Western economies were the traditional principles of prosperity of Creation versus scarcity of resources, of sharing and distribution versus accumulation and greed, of kinship usage rights versus individual exclusive ownership rights, and of sustainability versus growth. In the field of economic development, economists like to think Western economics is value-neutral, but in truth, it is not. Success is defined according to production units or monetary worth. The contrast with successful indigenous development is stark. For example, since they understand the environment to be a living being, the Northern Cheyenne have opposed coal strip mining on their reservation because it kills the water beings. There are no cost measurements of pollution, production, or other elements that can capture this kind of impact. There is an emerging recognition of the need for a spiritual base, not only in our individual lives, but also in our work and in our communities. (betterworld heroes).

Rebecca Adamson selected as 2003 National Women’s History Month Honoree, her work to be archived in the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College.

She writes: … First, we have to peel away the widespread misconception that conservationists speak for Indigenous people. They do not, many of them have a different agenda. They can be complementary but right now they are not, and often they are in opposition. Donors, in particular, have to become much more aware of the unintended consequences of their funding of these kinds of conservation strategies. In many cases NGOs are putting themselves on a track where they have to get so many thousand hectares into protected area status and the clock is ticking. They?’re getting more and more and more aggressive in order to meet the donors’ objectives. So they’re running roughshod over whatever’s in their way to bring these projects in on line … (full text).

Public Women, Public Words: A Documentary History …

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Mehdi Parvizi Amineh studied political sciences and philosophy at the at the University of Amsterdam and holds a PhD in Political Sciences at the university. Since 2002 he is member of the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research ASSR. He is a Adjunct professor of International Relations at the Webster University, and senior lecturer at the International School for Humanities and Social Sciences ISHSS, University of Amsterdam. He is also senior research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies and programme director of the research programme-Energy Programme Asia EPA at the same institute and Associated Fellow in post-Soviet Eurasia, the Middle East and the Caspian Region at the Clingendael International Energy Programme, The Hague, The Netherlands. His current fields of interests are the political economy energy, comparative political economy of successful and failed industrialization in East Asia, the Middle East and Central Eurasia and globalization and (politicized-) Islam. Amineh is Editor-in-Chief of the book-series: International Comparative Social Sciences ICSS, Brill Academic Publishing and a member of the editorial Board of the journals: Perspectives on Global Development and Technology PGDT and Come Sociologyparativ CoSo … (full text).

Caspian Energy: A viable alternative to the Persian Gulf?

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Research Interests: His main fields of study are International Relations, International Political Economy and Social History. His main research topics are politics and society in the Middle East and Central Eurasia in a historical perspective; the rise of political Islam as response to globalisation in a historical perspective; Global energy security and geopolitics; EU-energy security and its impediments and rethinking International Relations theories. (His personal website).

Globalisation, Geopolitics ans Energy Security in Central Eurasia and the Caspian Region, June 19, 2003.

Find him and his publications: on his personal website; on amazon; on e-bay; on Barnes & Noble; on allBookstores; on Google Book-search; on Google Scholar-search;
on Google Group-search; on Google Blog-search; on UNjobs.

Sorry, his texts are not available for free in the internet.

links:

Perspectives on Global Development and Technology;

Selected Academic Publications (scroll down);

The Complexity of Central Eurasia;

Europa e China na Ásia Central: a questão energética II;

The Energy Security in Central Eurasia: the Geopolitical Implications to China’s Energy Strategy.