Reports from Earth

I am very impressed with the super effec­tive activism of the AVAAZ (mean­ing "Voice") cam­paign net­work. They take on var­i­ous crimes that threaten democ­racy, peace or the envi­ron­ment. It is easy to sup­port them — just go to www.AVAAZ.org. Effec­tive […]

This unlikely event sounds too good to be true. Nev­er­the­less, while the "valid­ity" or rel­e­vance of the Malaysia tri­bunal may be seen as rather sym­bolic given the unchal­lenged global dom­i­nance of the two nations, it does fit the recent "trend" […]

The $50,000 Syd­ney Peace award for 2011 goes to the vet­eran Amer­i­can lin­guist, social sci­en­tist, human rights cam­paigner and polit­i­cal activist for what the Foun­da­tion calls an unfail­ing moral courage and crit­i­cal analy­sis of democ­racy and power. Pre­vi­ous win­ners include Arch­bishop […]

As expected, the ongo­ing and increas­ing anti Wall-Street demon­stra­tions — the anti cor­po­ratism demon­stra­tions also known as "Occupy Wall Street (OWS)" in New York and Boston, remain largely ignored by the main­stream (= cor­po­rate) media in the USA. Even if […]

Why fight cor­po­ratism?   Cor­po­ratism is the orga­ni­za­tion of a soci­ety into  cor­po­ra­tions serv­ing as organs of polit­i­cal rep­re­sen­ta­tion and exer­cis­ing con­trol over per­sons and activ­i­ties. Miriam Web­ster Dic­tio­nary or The first stage of Fas­cism should more appro­pri­ately be called […]

Ok, here is my very first post. I can't help but it has to be about the elec­tions for the US pres­i­dency & the obvi­ous media decep­tion — from a non US and per­sonal point of view. To many in Europe […]