UK Newswire Archive
Brad Will's family visit Oaxaca
23-03-2007 14:19
Public Meeting on DR Congo Deportations
23-03-2007 13:55
The 'Central African Development Action' (CADA) in Birmingham and the 'Congo Support Project' invite you to a Public Meeting on DR Congo Deportations. Saturday, 24 March, 2007 at 4.30pm to 7.30pm. Venue: Ladywood Art Leisure Centre, 316 Monument Road, Ladywood, Birmingham, B16 8TR.Round up of Darfurians in progress?
23-03-2007 13:06
At least 8 Sudanese Darfurians were detained yesterday, 22 March, when they went to report at Loughborough Reporting Centre in the East Midlands. All were served notice that their fresh claims were denied.Demo, Norwegian Embassy, London over Norwegian involvement in Irish gas pipeline
23-03-2007 12:46
International Day of Direct Action against Climate Change and the G8.
23-03-2007 11:39
The 8th of June International Day of Action Against has been called by the International Rising Tide Network. This is a call for autonomous, decentralized actions appropriate for your town, city, or local area.Crooks and Israeli Army running London Underground CCTV
23-03-2007 11:31
And Verint will have had access to the remotest parts of the tube at rhe time of the 7/7 attacks. Gordon Brown pushed through privatation against the wishes of the GLA -Belgian MPs Unanimously Confirm Uranium Weapons Ban
23-03-2007 11:02
I bike MCR bicycle festival and exhibition
23-03-2007 09:50
Students stick together for peace
23-03-2007 09:25
Dialog among Civilizations: Whytalksfail? Part-1
23-03-2007 05:15
This analysis explores why dialogs among civilizations continually fail to produce results by showcasing one short dialog as an illustrative example. The showcased dialog is meant to illustrate the depth of passion, preconceptions, and self-interests that often formulate opposing view points such that if ever they come together for a discussion, they fail to communicate despite all the rationality and compassion they can muster in the best of cases, friends. The Preamble is informally structured into three seamless sections. First section is the narrative that highlights vast disparity in views, emotional affiliations, and cultural attachments, as exemplary of any deeply contentious and dichotomous problem space that is insoluble and irresolute under current best practices among nations and peoples. The second section is the analysis that points towards a rational approach that can potentially make this problem tractable and make contentious dialogs among civilizations actually work despite jealously coddled self-interests. It further examines a snippet from a dialog between former American President Jimmy Carter and his detractors on his own new book "Palestine, Peace not Apartheid" to extend the analysis. The third section develops the rational solution space by proposing a strangely commonsensical algorithm that has hitherto been ignored by nations and statesmen alike, like the proverbial trumpeting elephant in the bridal suite. It further makes suggestions on how to globally deploy this algorithm to validate its premise. The Preamble is followed by a short illustrative dialog in the form of letters and replies to demonstrate how dialogs fail. The illustrative sequence showcasing where it succeeds is left for Part-2. Hopefully that will happen - by employing the commonsensical algorithm developed here - before another civilization is made to hit the dust at the hands of hectoring hegemons!Stop the political repression in the Philippines - 800 killed
23-03-2007 01:37
22/03/07 - Norwegian Embassy/Statoil protest - human rights in Rossport
23-03-2007 01:15
Zimbabwe Protesters arrested for trespassing at their own embassy!
23-03-2007 01:11
Yesterday, Thursday 22nd March, ten Zimbabweans were arrested for trespassing at the Zimbabwean Embassy in London. The protesters, all members of Zimbabwe's main opposition, The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) were refused access to to their ambassador to demand an explanation for the continuing oppression of dissedent voices in the Southern African state.Pete Seeger for Nobel Peace Prize
23-03-2007 00:51
To read and sign the petition to American Friends Service Committee to nominate Pete Seeger for the Nobel Peace Prize go to:
http://www.petitionthem.com/default.asp?sect=detail&pet...=3774
**THIS SUNDAY** Manchester's "ID Day" Demonstration
23-03-2007 00:36
Bristol's Dialect Radio: National ID Database Special
22-03-2007 23:49
ID cards special.
Stop Voting - Stop Supporting Pseudo Democracies: Updated Repost
22-03-2007 23:09
Empire as a Way of Life, Part 3
22-03-2007 21:24
The current imperial slaughter in the Middle East, justified by the "Global War on Terror", that has resulted in at least 600,000 deaths in Iraq, is nothing new — the U.S. Empire has a long and sordid history of genocidal mass murder.
The history of the US imperialism and Empire is the subject of a series of ten monthly seminars from Dr John Marciano, "Empire as a Way of Life". Attached is a recording of the third of these seminars and the text upon which it was based. The first 6 of these seminars have taken place and the intention is to have the whole series published on this site; the last 4 will take place between now and June.
This seminar, recorded on 21th November 2006 by the L.A. Sound Posse, runs for 36 minutes and includes the discussion following. It has been made available under a Creative Commons license. If this recording is broadcast please let the L.A. Sound Posse know. This recording was originally made available on the A-Infos Radio Project site.
The following text has been reproduced here with the kind permission of Dr John Marciano and he can be contacted at johnmarciano@mac.com. He introduced this series of seminars in the following way:
A fundamental purpose of our meetings is to understand the systemic nature of the U.S. Empire and the economic and military imperialism that is its lifeblood. The historian William Appleman Williams argues that empire became "a way of life" in the U.S., a "combination of patterns of thought and action that, as it becomes habitual and institutionalized, defines the thrust and character of a culture and society." This "way of life" has convinced many U.S. "Americans" they have a right or "manifest destiny" to impose their political and economic policies upon others.
Dr John Marciano is Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Cortland, where he taught courses on social and historical foundations of education and class, gender and race.
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