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Written on May 19th, 2013 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate, Politics - Geopolitics, Society by Heidi
- The Debate that Never Dies: Euthanasia and Ethics, 28.30 min, uploaded by etiskraad, Feb 28, 2012;
- Euthanasia: How has it worked out in Belgium? 76.47 min, with Jan L. Bernheim MD PhD, uploaded by Henrik Thomé, April 16, 2011: Mise en ligne le 16 avril 2011: Belgium introduced legal euthanasia in 2002. What are the experiences so far?
- The Phil’s Euthanasia Debate, 80.23 min, uploaded by TCDPhil, Dec 1, 2011: On 17th November 2011, the University Philosophical Society of Trinity College Dublin held a debate on the motion that this house would Legalise Assisted Suicide for all Adults. Speaking in the debate were Terry Pratchett, Dr. Philip Nietzche, Tom Curran, Kevin O’Sullivan and Maureen Junker-Kenny; Continue Reading…
Written on May 8th, 2013 in Economy, Society by Heidi
Published on People’s World, by Susan Webb, May 6, 2013.
More than 100 leading cancer specialists from around the world have denounced the “astronomical” costs of cancer drugs, suggesting that drug companies are engaged in unethical profiteering.
The doctors, experts in chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), a potentially deadly blood cancer, are from more than 15 countries on every continent, including about 30 from the U.S., led by Hagop Kantarjian, a prominent leukemia specialist at the prestigious MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. They presented their views April 25 in a stinging article in “Blood,” the journal of the American Society of Hematology. It was publicized in a front-page New York Times article the same day, but seems to have dropped off the media radar since then. Continue Reading…
Written on May 7th, 2013 in Politics - Geopolitics, Society by Heidi
Published on Russia Today RT, May 5, 2013.
Maintenance of Guantanamo has been revealed to cost over $150 million each year, with immediate estimates citing it one of the most expensive prisons in the world. This comes as the hunger strike at the detention facility is far from over … // Continue Reading…
Written on May 1st, 2013 in Society by Heidi
Reçu par e-mail d’une amie:
Une bonne blague: Un soir, ma mère et moi étions assis dans le salon et parlions de la vie et de la mort.
Je lui dis : ” Maman, ne me laisse jamais vivre dans un état végétatif, où l’on dépend de machines et de bouteilles. Si tu me vois dans cet état, débranche les machines qui me maintiendraient en vie … Je préfère mourir!
Admirative, ma mère se leva et débrancha la télévision, le lecteur de DVD, le câble INTERNET, l’ordinateur, le MP3/4, la PLAY-2, la PSP, la WII, le Téléphone fixe. Elle me prit mon mobile, mon IPOD, mon BLACKBERRY et jeta toutes mes bouteilles de bière.
J’ai failli mourir!
Written on May 1st, 2013 in Society by Heidi
Published on Pambazuka News, by Ijeoma Ekoh, April 25, 2013.
The question of rape has not received adequate attention in Nigeria. It must be emphasized that women have a right to their own bodies and sexualities. As an academic and activist, engaging in frank and uncomfortable discussions about topical issues is a part of my everyday existence. Yet no political issue has been, for me, the site of sustained frustration, anger, and emotional upheaval as much as the crisis of sexual violence and rape in Nigerian society … // Continue Reading…
Written on April 27th, 2013 in Economy, Politics - Geopolitics, Society by Heidi
… And How To Turn It Back – Published on openDemocracy, by Guy Aitchison, April 22, 2013.
As capitalist corporations have come to dominate the internet, is it possible to fulfil the genuine democratic potential of this technology within the context of the current economic crisis? A review of Robert McChesney’s new book Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy, beyond the stale debate between ‘celebrants’ and ’sceptics’. Continue Reading…
Written on April 25th, 2013 in Politics - Geopolitics, Society by Heidi
Published on WSWS, by Bill Van Auken, April 24, 2013.
Within days of the bombings in Boston, massive contradictions have opened up in the official accounts given by the Obama administration, the FBI and other state agencies as to how this terrorist attack transpired.
As in so many previous cases, once again in the Boston bombings the individual said to be the principal organizer of an act of terrorism was well known to the FBI. In 2011, the agency had been tipped off by Russian intelligence that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died last week following a shootout with police, was suspected of being a radical Islamist seeking to link up with armed groups in the Northern Caucasus.
The FBI now claims that it investigated Tsarnaev, a resident alien and Russian citizen, but found no incriminating evidence, learning nothing more about him until after the April 15 bombings … // Continue Reading…
Written on April 23rd, 2013 in Economy, Politics - Geopolitics, Society by Heidi
Published on World Socialist Web Site WSWS, by Nick Beams, April 22, 2013.
Last weekend’s meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the G-20 saw further calls for policies to stimulate global economic growth. There were no concrete measures advanced to implement such a program, however, amid deepening divisions among the major powers … // Continue Reading…
Written on April 21st, 2013 in Economy, Society by Heidi
Published on New Statesman, by Agata Pyzik, April 18, 2013.
The criticism of Femen and their topless protests as “fast-food feminism” ignores the postcommunist macho culture in Ukraine, the country from which the group emerged. Despite both the influence of the West over the impoverished ex-Soviet Bloc, and its westernisation after 1989, eastern Europe often seems worlds apart from its richer counterpart. Continue Reading…
Written on April 17th, 2013 in Politics - Geopolitics, Society by Heidi
Watch this video, 3.35 min, published on Russia Today RT, April 15, 2013:
Turkish pianist Fazil Say being slapped with a suspended 10-month jail term for a controversial tweet is an example of a “clear trend of abusive prosecutions” in Turkey, Amnesty International researcher Andrew Gardner told RT … //
… RT: The musician has many times been critical of the country’s prime minister, is this case personal? Continue Reading…
Written on April 15th, 2013 in Economy, Politics - Geopolitics, Society by Heidi
Published on Spiegel Online International, by Philipp Wittrock, April 12, 2013 (Photo Gallery).
… Applause Coming from the Wrong Side:
Keeping track of new members, though, is no easy task. The party claims that it is reviewing each new member for signs of a right-wing past. At the same time, though, all it takes is a quick scan of the party’s Facebook page to find the kind of language that is often used by right-wing extremists in defining their enemies. They include official entries with loaded terms such as: “state media,” an allusion to a media that supposedly filters out alternative viewpoints; “bloc parties,” the term used by the far-right, neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD) to describe the mainstream parties; and “multicultural re-education.” Little wonder, then, that the NPD itself has praised Alternative for German for the “important function it serves in breaking the ice and opening doors for the NPD’s criticism of the euro and the EU.” Continue Reading…
Written on April 7th, 2013 in Politics - Geopolitics, Society by Heidi
Published on Dissident Voice, by Ron Forthofer, April 5, 2013.
Ancient history sometimes provides guidance for us. Consider that way back in late 2002 and early 2003, the political class, reinforced by the punditry, hyped the threat of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). These groups used weapons of mass deception – newspapers, talk radio and television ‘news’ programs – to build support for an unwarranted and illegal attack on Iraq over non-existent WMDs. Continue Reading…
Written on April 6th, 2013 in Society by Heidi
- Video: Solid Evidence That Giants Are Real, with Klaus Dona, 15.00 min, uploaded by UniverseExplorersTV2, Jan 18, 2013;
- Audio: The SECRET HISTORY of the HUMAN RACE w/ Klaus Dona, 73.28 min, uploaded by Russell Scott, Nov. 7, 2012: Being a specialist in culture and art exhibitions he organized since 1991 over 30 cultural exhibitions in Austria, Japan and Korea. His attention was automatically drawn to a phenomenon called ‘Ooparts’ – out of place artifacts …;
in german / auf deutsch:
Klaus Dona: Artefakte die es nicht geben dürfte, 57.51 min, uploaded by uniomystica1, 1. März 2012; Continue Reading…
Written on March 31st, 2013 in Society by Heidi
dans Cameroon Voice / antenne libre, par Jihane Hindi, le 30 Mars 2013.
Pourtant connu pour son système de sécurité sociale, de santé, de bien-être et de qualité de vie, le continent le plus riche du monde glisse, peu à peu, vers la pauvreté. Les derniers chiffres indiquent que 120 millions de personnes, soit 25% de la population de l’UE, sont pauvres ou socialement défavorisées … //
… Au Sud, surtout: Continue Reading…
Written on March 30th, 2013 in Society by Heidi
Feminism almost always needs a modifier – Published on Portside.org, by Linda Burnham, March 26, 2013.
Since Sheryl Sandberg has taken it upon herself to jump-start the stalled feminist revolution it’s worth taking a look at the brand of feminism she espouses.
Sandberg’s book, Lean In, together with her plan to re-launch the feminist movement on the scaffolding of Lean In Circles, has drawn an enormous amount of media attention. This flows from both Sandberg’s prominence as the COO of Facebook and the media’s ongoing enchantment with a specific gender story: whether or not women at the top of their professions or careers can ‘have it all.’ Continue Reading…
Written on March 27th, 2013 in Politics - Geopolitics, Society by Heidi
Published on new Socialist Webzine, by Glen Coulthard, March 23, 2013.
… Over the last 30 years, the self-determination efforts and objectives of indigenous peoples in Canada have increasingly been cast in the language of “recognition.” Consider, for example, the latest policy position on self-determination published by the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) in the spring of 2005. According to the AFN document, “a consensus has emerged [...] around a vision of the relationship between First Nations and Canada which would lead to strengthening recognition and implementation of First Nations’ governments.” Continue Reading…
Written on March 23rd, 2013 in Politics - Geopolitics, Society by Heidi
Watch the video, 13.44 min, published on Russia Today RT, March 21, 2013.
Ten-years on, the lessons of Iraq have been lost with the drive for militarily intervention in Syria and Iran akin to a modern-day Crusade, John Prescott, the former Deputy Prime Minister under Tony Blair, told RT in an exclusive interview.
Looking back on the drive that led to the invasion of Iraq, Prescott says regime change was never on the government’s agenda.
Saddam was an evil man, there’s no doubt about that, but we’re not the believer in regime change. You can’t just go into another country and decide: I don’t like its leader, he said. Continue Reading…
Written on March 22nd, 2013 in Economy, Politics - Geopolitics, Society by Heidi
Published on Worker’s Action (first on CounterPunch), by John Stauber, March 20, 2013.
There is good news in the Boston Globe today for the managers, development directors, visionaries, political hacks and propaganda flacks who run “the Progressive Movement.” More easy-to-earn and easy-to-hide soft money, millions of dollars, will be flowing to them from super rich Democrats and business corporations. It will come clean, pressed and laundered through Organizing for Action, the latest incarnation of the Obama Money Machine which has recently morphed into a “nonpartisan non-profit corporation” that will ‘‘strengthen the progressive movement and train our next generation of leaders.’’ Continue Reading…
Written on March 20th, 2013 in Society by Heidi
Die Amerikaner hinterlassen im Irak einen Scherbenhaufen: Video auf Schweizer Fernsehen SRF/Reporter, 22.13 min, mit Ulrich Tilgner, 17./18. März 2013: Vor zehn Jahren griffen Truppen der USA und Grossbritanniens den Irak an. Mitten drin: SRF-Korrespondent Ulrich Tilgner. Im Interview gibt er Einblick in die schwierige Arbeit eines Journalisten im Kriegsgebiet. Und zieht eine erschreckende Bilanz über die Lage im ölreichen Zweistromland …; Continue Reading…
Written on March 19th, 2013 in Politics - Geopolitics, Society by Heidi
Undocumented youth and parents are still waiting for the Obama administration to keep its promises – Published on Socialist Worker, by Crystal Stella Becerril and Mario Cardenas, March 18, 2013.
DESPITE CLOUDY skies and a cold rain, an animated crowd of about more than 500 people rallied March 10, chanting “Born in the USA, don’t take my mommy and daddy away!” to draw attention to the plight of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Carrying signs that read, “Obama, keep your promise” and “No more deportations,” people gathered at Chicago’s Federal Plaza to demand that the federal government stop ripping families apart with its program of mass deportations. Continue Reading…
Written on March 18th, 2013 in Economy, Politics - Geopolitics, Society by Heidi
Published on Toward Freedom (Source: In These Times), by Noam Chomsky, March 14, 2013.
… The fact that the public is influenced by science is deeply troubling to those who dominate the economy and state policy.
One current illustration of their concern is the “Environmental Literacy Improvement Act” proposed to state legislatures by ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, a corporate-funded lobby that designs legislation to serve the needs of the corporate sector and extreme wealth. Continue Reading…
Written on March 16th, 2013 in Politics - Geopolitics, Society by Heidi
Published on ZNet (first on New Jersey Education Association), by Stan Karp, March 14, 2013.
Somewhere along the way, nearly every teacher dreams of starting a school. I know I did. More than once during the 30 years I taught English and journalism to high school students in Paterson, I imagined that creating my own school would open the door to everything I wanted as a teacher:
- Colleagues with a shared vision of teaching and learning
- Freedom from central office bureaucracy
- A welcoming school culture that reflected the lives of our students and families
- Professional autonomy that nourished innovation and individual and collective growth
- School-based decision-making that pushed choices about resources, priorities, time and staffing closer to the classrooms where it matters the most. Continue Reading…
Written on March 13th, 2013 in Politics - Geopolitics, Society by Heidi
The Collateral Murder Video, 17.47 min, (he released it through wikileaks and then was put to prison), 17.46 min;
Video: Collateral Murder? 24.28 min, uploaded by AlJazeeraEnglish, Apr 19, 2010 … (AlJazeeraEnglish has more than 36′800 uploaded videos on YouTube) … ;
Inside Story America – Bradley Manning: a whistleblowing hero? 25.00 min, uploaded by AlJazeeraEnglish, March 5, 2013: What can we learn from Private Bradley Manning’s explanation for leaking US documents? Is Manning a hero or a villain? To discuss this on Inside Story Americas, with presenter Shihab Rattansi, are guests: Chase Madar, an attorney and author of The Passion of Bradley Manning; Joe Glenton, a British army Afghanistan veteran, writer and filmmaker; Jesselyn Radack, a national security and human rights director at Government Accountability Project; and JD Gordon, the former defence department spokesman; Continue Reading…
Written on March 12th, 2013 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate, Society by Heidi
From Rumors to Reuters – Published on Stop FGM Kurdistan, by Arvid Vormann, WADI Anti-FGM Program Coordinator, Feb 6, 2013 (see also the article in french: La longue route vers les premiers villages sans excision en Irak).
According to a large survey conducted in 2009, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is prevalent in all provinces of Kurdish Northern Iraq, except in the far northern Duhok region. More than 72% are affected, in villages and cities alike, among illiterates and, to a lesser extent, among academics. FGM is almost everywhere. Continue Reading…
Written on March 12th, 2013 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate, Society by Heidi
Publié dans l’Excision, parlons-en.org, par Camilles Arret, le 2 mars 2013 (et d’abord par Arvid Vormann, UN Special – voir aussi l’article en anglais (sur ce blog): UN SPECIAL, The long road to the first FGM-free villages in Iraq – From Rumors to Reuters: l’article d’Arvid Vormann publié en anglais sur le site UN Special, le magazine en ligne des Nations unies, et traduit en français par nos soins. L’excision ne frappe pas que le continent africain. Elle se pratique bien au-delà et parfois dans des zones méconnues comme le Kurdistan irakien. Selon l’ONG Wadi qui a mené une étude en 2010 dans cette région, plus de 72 % des femmes (hors province de Dohouk) y sont excisées. Pour en savoir plus, voir l’article en anglais plus haut). Continue Reading…
Written on March 12th, 2013 in Economy, Society by Heidi
Making the Web accessible to people with disabilities is the right thing to do. For a business, it can also mean added revenue and protection from lawsuits – Published on International Labour Organization ILO, March 11, 2013.
GENEVA (ILO News) – For most of us, surfing the Web has become almost second nature. But for millions of people with disabilities, the Internet remains inhospitable territory. Continue Reading…
Written on March 9th, 2013 in Society by Heidi
Published on RWER Blog, by Dean Baker, March 6, 2013.
The Wall Street crew has been in high gear trying to convince the public that our children’s well-being is going to be threatened by their parents’ and grandparents’ Social Security. This story would be laughable except that it is endlessly repeated by people in positions of power and responsibility. For this reason it is worth going over the basic numbers yet again so that everyone knows that the people making these assertions are either ignorant or dishonest. Continue Reading…
Written on March 8th, 2013 in Politics - Geopolitics, Society by Heidi
How the War on Terror in England Became a War on Women and Children – Published on ZNet (first on TomDispatch), by Victoria Brittain, March 06, 2013.
Once, as a reporter, I covered wars, conflicts, civil wars, and even a genocide in places like Vietnam, Angola, Eritrea, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, keeping away from official briefings and listening to the people who were living the war. In the years since the Bush administration launched its Global War on Terror, I’ve done the same thing without ever leaving home. Continue Reading…
Written on March 7th, 2013 in Economy, Politics - Geopolitics, Society, comments by Heidi
Published on The Killing Train/Blog, by Justin Podur, March 3, 2013. (My comment: yes, I am publishing many more articles around this event as I normally do. Look, the mainstream media are so quickly and so definitively demolishing his memory, that some counterbalance is really needed).
… The welfare and the democratization, the regional and international diplomacy, are all huge achievements, a tremendous legacy. But for many of these years I have thought of Chavez’s legacy in terms of avoided losses. Thousands of people *not* massacred, millions *not* displaced, thousands *not* dying from preventable diseases, tens of thousands of opportunities for education *not* wasted, for fourteen years. Almost a generation.
Greg Grandin, in his article On The Legacy of Hugo Chavez, wrote something that I really felt: Continue Reading…
Written on March 3rd, 2013 in Society by Heidi
Watch this videos, 18.15 min, von WissensmanufakturNET am 3. April 2012 hochgeladen: Stellungnahme der Wissensmanufaktur zur Rede von Gregor Gysi am 29.03.2012 über die Verfassungswidrigkeit des Europäischen Stabilitätsmechanismus und Fiskalpakts:
Diese Rede von Gregor Gysi hat es als erste Bundestagsrede verdient, von der Wissensmanufaktur empfohlen zu werden. Offenbar erkennen immer mehr Personen der Politik, was wir seit Jahren erklären.
Die Wissensmanufaktur distanziert sich dennoch ausdrücklich von sämtlichen Parteien und Politikern. Gysi kommt den tieferen Hintergründen inzwischen jedoch sehr nahe und analysiert auf brillante Weise die Rechtswidrigkeit von ESM und Fiskalpakt … (ganzer Text).
Written on March 3rd, 2013 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate, Society by Heidi
publié dans YouTube, mise en ligne par nvpstream le 8 févr. 2013:
Le 19 janvier 2013, Laurie Bracher, revenue de Sierra Leone, raconte comment un village accepte de renoncer à l’excision, grâce à l’initiative de l’association MEA fondée par Michèle Moreau. Bien que la communauté internationale condamne la mutilation du sexe des femmes, cette coutume cruelle perdure en de nombreux endroits de la planète, de l’Afrique à l’Indonésie.
Written on March 3rd, 2013 in Economy, Society by Heidi
Published on Spiegel Online International, by SPIEGEL Staff, February 28, 2013 (Photo Gallery).
A new generation of highly qualified immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe is seeking a future in Germany. Young, well-educated and multilingual, they are precisely what the German economy needs to ensure success in the future. The country has its work cut out if it wants these “godsends” to stay. Continue Reading…
Written on February 27th, 2013 in Politics - Geopolitics, Society by Heidi
If China wants respect abroad, it must rein in its hackers – Published on The Economist, Feb 23, 2013.
FOREIGN governments and companies have long suspected that the Chinese hackers besieging their networks have links to the country’s armed forces. On February 19th Mandiant, an American security company, offered evidence that this is indeed so. A report, the fruit of six years of investigations, tracks individual members of one Chinese hacker group, with aliases such as Ugly Gorilla and SuperHard, to a nondescript district in residential Shanghai that is home to Unit 61398 of the People’s Liberation Army. Continue Reading…
Written on February 25th, 2013 in Politics - Geopolitics, Society by Heidi
(with PHOTOS) – Published on Russia Today RT, February 23, 2013.
Rallies, marches and performances in some 70 cities worldwide marked Bradley Manning’s 1,000th day in jail. They come days before his pretrial hearing, where the defense will seek to dismiss the charges against him due to lack of a speedy trial. Continue Reading…
Written on February 23rd, 2013 in Politics - Geopolitics, Society by Heidi
Interview mit Michael Schmidt-Salomon auf Humanistischer Pressedienst h/pd, am 13. Februar 2013.
hpd: Herr Schmidt-Salomon, hat Sie der Rücktritt des Papstes überrascht?
- Schmidt-Salomon: Ja und nein. Historisch betrachtet war der Rücktritt natürlich überraschend. Immerhin ist es in der Geschichte der katholischen Kirche nur ein einziges Mal vorgekommen, dass ein Papst freiwillig auf das Amt verzichtete. Andererseits: Continue Reading…
Written on February 19th, 2013 in Society by Heidi
- Meditation (Zen Music), 60.33 min, uploaded by fearless2435, March 4, 2012;
- Tibetan Singing Bowl Meditation, Session 7, 90.06 min, uploaded by BrianWilliamGreen, May 5, 2012;
- CT 70: Guitar Chillout, 44.29 min, uploaded by QuasarSt, March 4, 2012;
- Klaus Schulze: Moondawn, 74.03 min, uploaded by SirPrancelot1, Oct. 26, 2012;
- Hans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard: Injection, 3.54 min,
- Relaxing Music, 76.08 min, uploaded by sara marco, May 21, 2012.
Written on February 17th, 2013 in Politics - Geopolitics, Society by Heidi
Published on Spiegel Online International, by Alexander Kühn, Christoph Reuter and Gregor Peter Schmitz, February 15, 2013 (Photo Gallery – Translated from the German by Paul Cohen).
For over a decade, the Arab television broadcaster Al-Jazeera was widely respected for providing an independent voice from the Middle East. Recently, however, several top journalists have left, saying the station has developed a clear political agenda … //
… Objectivity in a World of Censorship: Continue Reading…
Written on February 16th, 2013 in Politics - Geopolitics, Society by Heidi
Watch this video, 64.35 min, uploaded by Doug Greene, April 17, 2012: 5th Annual New England Socialist Conference on Marxism and Anarchism (Workshop).
Written on February 6th, 2013 in Politics - Geopolitics, Society by Heidi
Published on Dissident Voice, by Burkely Hermann, February 2, 2013.
I was doing some research for the ‘origins’ section of the Occupy Wall Street page on Wikipedia which I have had free rein on for a while now. Doing that research gave me an idea. In my Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies class, a visiting professor came in and told us how the women’s right movement is viewed as three waves, one starting in 1920, another that included the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and the third one that has lasted since the 1980s. Continue Reading…
Written on February 5th, 2013 in Society by Heidi
Published on Intrepid Report, by John Stanton, February 1, 2013.
… What’s a nation-state to do?
So you want to privatize, corporatize, and decentralize the US education industry? You want to end formalized education at 18 years of age, as Brezezinski said in 1970? Is this the best way to get more competent American engineers, scientists, warfighters, buyers, and sellers? You want to make the US education industry more efficient and effective? Continue Reading…