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Life as Commerce: Criticizing Market-Based Conservation
Written by Simone Lovera & Orin Langelle   
Thursday, 09 October 2008
Simone Lovera (center) Photo: Langelle
Simone Lovera (Center) Photo: Langelle
Barcelona, Spain - As the international financial and food crisis worsens, Global Forest Coalition critiques the unreliability of market-based conservation mechanisms like ecotourism, forest certification, biodiversity offsets and carbon trade on Indigenous Peoples, local communities and women. Market-based mechanisms are often seen as solutions to the lack of funding for public conservation, but they are false solutions. 
Old Days of the Radical Jews: How American Yiddish Theater Survived Through Satire
Written by Paul Buhle   
Wednesday, 08 October 2008
ImageThe world of Yiddish theater in its glory days on Second Avenue in Manhattan of the 1910s-1940s seems like one more leftwing Jewish tale of another faraway universe. However, the productions have not ceased entirely and various forms of translations bring the theater to new audiences. What we’ve lost more than anything is the vernacular qualities, the ways in which this theater drew upon various forms of entertainment and edification from the shtetl to the immigrant ghetto, and how fully it engaged an excited and sometimes infuriated Jewish public.
Are Pakistan and the United States on the Brink of War?
Written by Mustafa Qadri   
Monday, 06 October 2008
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Explosion at Pakistan-Afghan Border
As the United States steps up border raids into Pakistan, troops from both countries have commenced a deadly game of brinksmanship. Although aimed at asserting each other's military presence along the Pakistan-Afghan border, the skirmishes risk outright hostilities. U.S. strikes in Pakistan are nothing new. Washington has conducted unilateral missile strikes since soon after its invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001. But the tone of the U.S. presence changed this year.
This Toxic Life: Our World is Awash With Petro-Chemicals
Written by Wayne Ellwood   
Monday, 06 October 2008

Photo by Wayne Ellwood
A Bale of Plastic Bottles
‘Every time I come here my body gets sad and angry at the same time,’ says Ron Plain. ‘You can’t put into words what it means to me.’ We’ve just tumbled out of Ron’s jeep near the end of a three-hour tour of Sarnia, Ontario’s ‘chemical valley’. Ron calls it his ‘toxic tour’. He’s done it dozens of times so the patter is easy and familiar. Sarnia is a gritty blue-collar community of 70,000 people at the top of the St Clair River, on the Canadian side, about a 100 kilometres north of Detroit.
New Zealand: The Maori Struggle for Land and Life
Written by John Schertow   
Thursday, 02 October 2008
ImageThe Maori People of Aotearoa (New Zealand) are now standing at a crossroads, forced to choose between sovereignty and colonialism. Within the recent Maori settlement program, the government offers large sums of money and small fragments of land. In exchange, the Maori are expected to give up their independence and become New Zealand citizens. Recent history shows that the New Zealand government is more than willing to use intimidation and violence to control and assimilate the Maori.
Latin America Censored: Toward Freedom Editor Receives Project Censored Award
Written by Toward Freedom & Project Censored   
Wednesday, 01 October 2008

ImageA number of recent developments have dramatically changed the military and political landscape of Latin America. While some electoral victories in Latin America signal a regional shift to the left, Washington continues to expand its military and navy presence throughout the hemisphere. This year Toward Freedom editor Benjamin Dangl received a Project Censored Award for his coverage of Washington's intervention in Latin America. Each year Project Censored selects the top 25 most important censored news stories chosen out of hundreds of articles.

Non-Violent Peace Brigades: How Fast Can We Move?
Written by René Wadlow   
Tuesday, 30 September 2008
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Mahatma Gandhi
The United Nations General Assembly has designated October 2 as the International Day of Nonviolence. October 2 is the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. For Gandhi, non-violence was at the center of his philosophy and actions. Thus it is appropriate to mark the day with an analysis of one aspect of non-violent action: the role of peace teams as observers in conflict situations.
Bad Samaritans: How Rich Country "Help" Hurts the Developing World
Written by Ha-Joon Chang   
Monday, 29 September 2008

ImageIn theory the world's wealthiest countries and supra-national institutions like the IMF, World Bank and WTO want to see all nations developing into modern industrial societies. In practice, though, those at the top are 'kicking away the ladder' to wealth that they themselves climbed. Why? Self-interest certainly plays a part. But, more often, rich and powerful governments and institutions are actually being 'Bad Samaritans': their intentions are worthy but their simplistic free-market ideology and poor understanding of history leads them to inflict policy errors on others.

Cooperation as Rebellion: Creating Sustainable Agriculture in Paraguay
Written by April Howard   
Thursday, 25 September 2008
Photo Source: La Soja Mata
Campesino Removes Soy Crops
In Paraguay, where 1 percent of the population owns 77 percent of all arable land, corrupt agrarian reform and the booming soybean industry is leading the country towards an industrial agricultural export model that leaves no room for small food producers. While many Paraguayan campesino families have moved into urban peripheries, tenacious farmers have fought not only for their right to land, but also to redefine and recreate the agricultural model based on cooperative, organic and people-friendly alternatives.
The Final Failure of Reaganomics
Written by Greg Guma   
Thursday, 25 September 2008
Photo from Wikio.com The government is currently debating a $700 billion bailout of distressed banks under a plan that initially proposed to give Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and the Bush administration unprecedented power. How did all this happen? The root of the problem can be traced back to the deregulation era that began during the Reagan administration.
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