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Written on March 31st, 2012 in Monthly Index by Heidi
Written on March 31st, 2012 in Humanitarian Concerns by Heidi
Published on Global Research.ca (first on Socialist Project), by Alan Sears, March 29, 2012.
Educational struggles are breaking out all over. In March 2012, over 200,000 Quebec students are waging a general strike against tuition increases and have faced brutal police repression. British Columbia teachers just finished a three-day strike against an austerity budget and are set to engage in further strike action. Teacher collective bargaining seems to be headed toward an impasse in Ontario. Faculty members at Dalhousie University in Halifax were on the verge of a strike to resist concessions demanded by their university administration, though a last-minute agreement kept them from the picket lines … //
… Fighting for a Better System: Continue Reading…
Written on March 30th, 2012 in Humanitarian Concerns by Heidi
Find on YouTube:
- Persepolis (fra_eng) = in french, with subtitles in english: Part 1/4, 21.28 min; Part 2/4, 20.45 min; Part 3/4, 28.21 min; Part 4/4, 18.53 min;
- in arabic, 91.32 min;
- en dialecte tunisien: Part 1, 26.40 min; Part 2, 34.19 min; Part 3, 30.34 min;
- in german /auf deutsch, 90.53 min;
- Marjane Satrapi LinkTV, 9.20 min; Continue Reading…
Written on March 29th, 2012 in Humanitarian Concerns by Heidi
Is a concentration of wealth at the top to blame for financial crises? – Published on The Economist, March 17, 2012.
In the search for the villain behind the global financial crisis, some have pointed to inequality as a culprit. In his 2010 book “Fault Lines”, Raghuram Rajan of the University of Chicago argued that inequality was a cause of the crisis, and that the American government served as a willing accomplice. From the early 1980s the wages of working Americans with little or no university education fell ever farther behind those with university qualifications, he pointed out. Under pressure to respond to the problem of stagnating incomes, successive presidents and Congresses opened a flood of mortgage credit. Continue Reading…
Written on March 28th, 2012 in Humanitarian Concerns by Heidi
Watch this video, published on Global Research TV, with Pepe Escobar, 16.17 min, March 26, 2012. (also on YouTube).
As the world recovers from one humanitarian peace bombing in Libya, and braces for another possible intervention in Syria, many are now asking how it is that the so-called liberal left have become cheerleaders for the very wars of aggression they once pretended to deride. As long-time investigate reporter Pepe Escobar explains, an obscure international doctrine called Responsibility To Protect or R2P has been the main tool for shaping this new paradigm for the continuation of NATO’s imperial power grabs around the world … (full text).
Written on March 27th, 2012 in Humanitarian Concerns by Heidi
Viewpoint: As news organisations have cut numbers, charities have availed themselves of the skills of experienced reporters – Published on The Independent, by Ian Burrell, March 26, 2012.
On the borders of Syria they are there, just as they were in the ruins of Misrata in Libya and among the crowds in Cairo’s Tahrir Square last year. Alongside hard-nosed war correspondents are a new breed of researchers from campaigning organisations, just as determined to get the scoop. They are hungry for documents from fallen regimes which might be evidence of human rights abuses. They are looking for eye-witnesses who can give testimony of war crimes. Such material is not only valuable to news organisations for their front pages and bulletins, it is potential gold dust for an NGO too. Continue Reading…
Written on March 26th, 2012 in Humanitarian Concerns by Heidi
Published on openDemocracy, by Mark Lee Hunter, 23 March 2012.
Julian Assange has been a remarkable source for mainstream media. So why has he been so ill-treated in return? There are many accusations levelled at him and his organisation, and whatever their bases, none of them justifies the reactions. And this hurts journalism as a whole … // Continue Reading…
Written on March 25th, 2012 in Humanitarian Concerns by Heidi
Published on Israel loves Iran.
Download a flyer (in pdf or jpg) telling: Iranians, we will never bomb you, We love You.
About: To the Iranian people:
- To all the fathers, mothers, children, brothers and sisters
- For there to be a war between us, first we must be afraid of each other, we must hate.
- I’m not afraid of you, I don’t hate you.
- I don t even know you. No Iranian ever did me no harm. I never even met an Iranian … Just one in Paris in a museum. Nice dude. Continue Reading…
Written on March 24th, 2012 in Humanitarian Concerns by Heidi
The Religious Right touts homeschooling as the “responsible” educational choice. But what about the kids whose parents opt-out of the system – and out of educating them, as well? – Published on AlterNet, by Kristin Rawls, March 14, 2012.
In recent weeks, homeschooling has received nationwide attention because of Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s homeschooling family. Though Santorum paints a rosy picture of homeschooling in the United States, and calls attention to the “responsibility” all parents have to take their children’s education into their own hands, he fails to acknowledge the very real potential for educational neglect among some homeschooling families – neglect that has been taking place for decades, and continues to this day … // Continue Reading…
Written on March 23rd, 2012 in Humanitarian Concerns by Heidi
à l’attention des enseignantes / enseignants et intervenants en milieu scolaire
Reçu par e-mail, (la Lettre d’information proPhilo Mars 2012), De: Postmaster de pro-philo.ch, Date: 19/03/20
proPhilo propose aux personnes qui s’intéressent à la pratique du dialogue philosophique, qui l’expérimentent déjà ou souhaitent dans un futur proche l’expérimenter, 3 dates de rencontres.
Elles auront lieu :
Written on March 23rd, 2012 in Humanitarian Concerns by Heidi
Published on Pambazuka News, by Sokari Ekine, March 21, 2012.
What is really disturbing about Invisible Children is, if a group of Africans had made the Kony2012 film would it have got the publicity from around the world? Would they have been able to raise the funds to make the video in the first place? … //
… Kony2012 began its public cyber life as a video by the organisation which became viral within hours. But the technologies of social media are not without their own internal vulnerabilities which act on the follower and the followed like balls bouncing randomly against each other in a child’s bouncy castle. Information flows at unimaginable speed, gathering more information each nano-second. Continue Reading…
Written on March 22nd, 2012 in Humanitarian Concerns by Heidi
Published on Dari Blog, by Sayed Naqibullah, March 9, 2012.
In 13th centaury a Muslim Afghan Poet who spoke Dari as his first language wrote and spoke words that speak to the hearts of not only the Dari or Persian speaking people but to the hearts of millions around the world. If you are a learner of Dari language, you are learning and speaking the language of Rumi, one of world’s best poets. Mawlana Jalaludin Balkhi who is known to the western world as Rumi is a 13th century Afghan Muslim poet. He was born in present day Balkh province of Afghanistan. Rumi spoke Dari as his native language. Rumi is famous for his great mystical poetry; his major poetry works are called Masnawe Ma’nawe, and Dewan e Kabeer which are originally written in Dari/Persian and have been translated to many languages of the world. Continue Reading…
Written on March 21st, 2012 in Humanitarian Concerns by Heidi
Papers prepared for President Assad by intelligence and security chiefs throw light on his strategy to quell protests
Watch this video, 3.21 min, published on Al Jazeera, March 19, 2012. / (and on YouTube): Al Jazeera has gained access to confidential documents prepared for the Syrian president by his intelligence and security chiefs on the conflict raging across the nation … //
… Whistleblower: Continue Reading…
Written on March 20th, 2012 in Humanitarian Concerns by Heidi
Published on Global Research.ca, by Washington’s Blog, March 19, 2012.
World Wide Obesity Epidemic:
- Some 68% of all Americans are overweight, and obesity has almost doubled in the last couple of decades worldwide. As International Business Tribune reports:
Studies conducted jointly by researchers at Imperial College London and Harvard University, published in the medical journal The Lancet, show that obesity worldwide almost doubled in the decades between 1980 and 2008.
*** Continue Reading…
Written on March 19th, 2012 in Humanitarian Concerns by Heidi
Published on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Dina Ezzat, 15 – 21 March 2012.
Presidential candidates require the written and officially acknowledged support of either 30,000 citizens or 30 MPs. Until Al-Ahram Weekly went to press on Wednesday none of the key candidates had secured the support of 30 MPs, and everyone complained of having difficulty in officially registering members of the public as supporters. Continue Reading…
Written on March 18th, 2012 in Humanitarian Concerns by Heidi
on YouTube – in greece: μονοπάτι Παλαιάς Καβάλας, in english: Old path Kavala, 29.11 min, by megassavas;
… some more Vangelis on YouTube:
Written on March 17th, 2012 in Humanitarian Concerns by Heidi
How We Cured The Culture of Poverty, Not Poverty Itself – Published on ZNet, by Barbara Ehrenreich (first on TomDispatch.com), March 16, 2012.
It’s been exactly 50 years since Americans, or at least the non-poor among them, “discovered” poverty, thanks to Michael Harrington’s engaging book The Other America. If this discovery now seems a little overstated, like Columbus’s “discovery” of America, it was because the poor, according to Harrington, were so “hidden” and “invisible” that it took a crusading left-wing journalist to ferret them out … // Continue Reading…
Written on March 16th, 2012 in Humanitarian Concerns by Heidi
Published on The Economist, by R.A., Mar 15, 2012. http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2012/03/indias-census-results
UNDER a thatched roof, lit by a full, yellow moon, Shiv Kumari explains how she and her five children survive. She is a widow, 30 years old, living in a home made of packed mud. She works the nearby fields, draws a small pension, some food rations and gets a few days of paid labour each month from a rural make-work scheme. Continue Reading…
Written on March 15th, 2012 in Humanitarian Concerns by Heidi
Published on Global Research.ca, by John Pilger, March 12, 2012.
War by media, says current military doctrine, is as important as the battlefield. This is because the real enemy is the public at home, whose manipulation and deception are essential for starting an unpopular colonial war. Like the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, attacks on Iran and Syria require a steady drip-effect on readers’ and viewers’ consciousness. This is the essence of a propaganda that rarely speaks its name. Continue Reading…
Written on March 14th, 2012 in Humanitarian Concerns by Heidi
… and USDA Bought 7 Million Pounds of the Stuff for School Lunches – Published on Washington’s Blog, by blog owner, March 11, 2012.
First watch 2 videos:
… What Should We Do? Continue Reading…
Written on March 13th, 2012 in Humanitarian Concerns by Heidi
Judges’ anger at what they say is flagrant interference in their work is growing – Published on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Mona El-Nahhas, 8 – 14 March 2012.
… Eighty judges signed a letter of complaint about Ibrahim submitted to the prosecutor- general Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud who on Monday referred their complaints to the Supreme Judiciary Council (SJC).
Cairo Judges Club, headed by Ahmed El-Zend, sent a memorandum to the SJC on Saturday following an urgent meeting of its board, demanding the SJC to conduct an urgent investigation to clarify the facts … // Continue Reading…
Written on March 12th, 2012 in Humanitarian Concerns by Heidi
watch these videos on YouTube:
by Richard Dawkins Foundation.net – On the 30th of September 2007, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens sat down for a first-of-its-kind, unmoderated 2-hour discussion, convened by RDFRS and filmed by Josh Timonen. Continue Reading…
Written on March 11th, 2012 in Humanitarian Concerns by Heidi
Published on Dissident Voice, by Alexander Billet, March 9, 2012.
… Whether a recording artists’ organization can emerge from one of these two unions or from a new one entirely isn’t clear (it bears mentioning, however, that the AFM is fighting for its life as company after company puts its orchestra on the chopping block). But it is absolutely crucial that it happen.
Who Owns Music? Continue Reading…
Written on March 10th, 2012 in Humanitarian Concerns by Heidi
Watch the video, 5.53 min, published on Global Research TV GRTV, by James Corbett, March 1, 2012.
A new report released on Monday by the Pentagon reveals that some of the unidentifiable remains from victims at the Pentagon and Shanksville sites on September 11th were disposed of in a landfill. Continue Reading…
Written on March 9th, 2012 in Humanitarian Concerns by Heidi
Published on Current Concerns, by Moritz Nestor, March 1, 2012.
Fortunately, the Swiss National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics (NEK, President: Otfried Höffe) critically commented on the use of the ADHD drug Ritalin in its opinion of 22 November 2011 titled Human enhancement by means of pharmacological agents1: The consumption of pharmacological agents altered the child’s behavior without any contribution on his or her part. Continue Reading…