From Countercurrents.org - 7 October 2007
Climate Change And Entire Landscapes On The
Move
By Stephen
Leahy - Inter Press Service
BROOKLIN, Canada -
The hot breath of global warming has now touched some of the coldest northern
regions of world, turning the frozen landscape into mush as temperatures soar 15
degrees C. above normal.
Entire hillsides, sometimes more
than a kilometre long, simply let go and slid like a vast green carpet into
valleys and rivers on Melville Island in Canada’s northwest Arctic region of
Nunavut this summer, says Scott Lamoureux of Queens University in Canada and
leader of one the of International Polar Year projects.
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From Countercurrents.org - 5 October 2007>
Iraq Body Count: “A Very
Misleading Exercise”
By Media Lens
The mainstream media are continuing to use figures provided
by the website Iraq Body Count (IBC) to sell the public a number for total
post-invasion deaths of Iraqis that is perhaps 5-10% of the true death
toll
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From Countercurrents.org - 29 September 2007
Defending The Cuban Revolution: With Love Or Venom?
By James Petras
Defending the Cuban revolution demands unconditional defense against
imperialism and proposals to rectify its problems. These are acts of love.
Polemical invective and personal attacks against life-long defenders of the
revolution and revolutionary movements will further isolate Cuba and
opportunists like Gonzalez Casanova from reality and the coming social
transformations in Latin America and social changes in Cuba
Cuba: Continuing Revolution and Contemporary Contradictions
James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya - July 2007
Introduction
The Cuban revolution with its socialist economy has demonstrated tremendous resilience
in the face of enormous political obstacles and challenges. It successfully defied a US
orchestrated invasion, naval blockade, hundreds of terrorists’ attacks and half-century boycott.(1)
Cuba was able to withstand the fallout from the collapse of the USSR, the Eastern European
collectivist regimes, China and Indo-China’s transit to capitalism and to construct a new
development model.
As many scholars and political leaders – including adversaries – have noted, Cuba has
developed a very advanced and functioning social welfare program: free, universal, quality health
coverage and free education from kindergarten through advanced university education.(2)
In foreign, as well as domestic, policy Cuba has successfully developed economic and
diplomatic relations with the entire globe, despite US boycotts and pressures. (3)
In questions of national and personal security, Cuba is a world leader. Crime rates are
low and violent offenses are rare. Terrorist threats and acts, (most emanating from the US and its
Cuban exile proxies), have declined and are less a danger to the Cuban population than to the US
or Europe.
It is precisely the successes of the Cuban Revolution, its ability to withstand external
threats, which would have brought down most governments, that now has created a series of
major challenges, which require urgent attention if the revolution, as we know it, is to advance in
the 21st century. These challenges are a result of past external constraints as well as internal
political developments. Some problems were inevitable consequences of emergency measures
but are now pressing for immediate and radical solutions.
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"
Le monde est dangereux à vivre ! Non pas tant à cause de ceux qui font le mal, mais à
cause de ceux qui regardent et laissent faire."
"This world is a dangerous place to live in ! Not because of those who do it wrong
but because of those who just sit and watch."
(Albert Einstein) |
"Déjame
decirte, nena, a riesgo de ser ridículo, que un revolucionario está lleno de grandes
sentimientos de amor".
(Ernesto Guevara - Che)(1966) |
"On
ne combat pas pour être libre, mais parce qu'on l'est déjà".
Jean Cavaillès, fondateur du reseau Cahors, fusillé
par les Nazis en 1944
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"No
tengas hambre ni sed. Súbete a mis alas y cantaremos, y bailaremos, y comeremos pescado
del rio y beberemos el viento".
(Latin American folksong, XV century)(Before the
arrival of the European barbarians) |
"El
honor de la poesía es salir a la calle...la poesía es una insurrección".
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) |
"When
I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they
call me a communist".
(Dom Helder Camera -former archbishop of Olinda,
Recife, Brasil)(1984) |
"The
important thing is not to stop questioning".
(Albert Einstein)(1946) |
"Caminante
no hay camino, se hace camino al andar...".
(Antonio Machado)(1939) |
"Common
sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen"
Albert Einstein (1947) |
"They
who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by
night.".
(Edgar A. Poe)(1839) |
"Quand
un homme rêve seul, c'est un songe. Qu'ils soient plusieurs à rêver, c'est une
réalité. " .
(Armand Gatti)("La Parole Errante",1999) |
"Ce
qui est positif, c'est que vous êtes poète. Il y a bien longtemps que je dis que le
poète est souverainement intelligent, qu'il est l'intelligence par
excellence, - et que l'imagination est la plus scientifique des facultés,
parce que seule elle comprend l'analogie universelle, ou ce qu'une religion
mystique appelle la correspondance. "
Charles Baudelaire, "Lettre a A. Toussenel" (1856) |
"Great
knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many"
Chuang-Tzu (4th Century B.C) |
A good traveller has no fixed plans
and is not intent upon arriving,
A good artist lets his intuition
lead him wherever it wants.
A good scientist has freed himself of concepts
and keeps his mind open to what is.
Thus the Master is available to all people
and doesn't reject anyone.
He is ready to use all situations
and doesn't waste anything.
This is called embodying the light.
What is a good man but a bad man's teacher?
What is a bad man but a good man's job?
If you don't understand this, you will get lost,
however intelligent you are.
It is the great secret.
Ch'iu Ying (1510-1551) |
"I
was a butterfly, flying contentedly.
Then I awoke as Chuang Tzu.
Now I don't know who I really am -
a butterfly who dreams he is Chuang Tzu
or Chuang Tzu who dreamed he was a butterfly."
Chuang-Tzu (4th Century B.C) |
"Hay
hombres que luchan un día
Y son buenos.
Hay otros que luchan un año
Y son mejores.
Hay quienes luchan muchos años
Y son muy buenos.
Pero hay los que luchan toda la vida:
Esos son los imprescindibles. "
Bertold Brecht (1898-1956) |
"Communism
is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality
will have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the
present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from premises now in
existence."
"The German Ideology", K.Marx and F.Engels
(1845) |
"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of
what we are doing to ourselves and to one another"
Mahatma Gandi |
"We have to see individual freedom as a social commitment"
Amartya Sen |
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