What is really happening in Lebanon?
(English,
5 minutes,
created about 16 hours ago by
kuros,
broadcast date:2008-05-14)
Pepe Escobar explains clashes between US-backed government and Hezbollah-led opposition
Clashes between supporters of the US-backed government and the Hezbollah-led opposition have shaken Lebanon. Six days of deadly sectarian bloodshed is the worst violence in the country since the end of the 15-year civil war in 1990. The Real News Network analyst Pepe Escobar examines what is happening in Lebanon.
Based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Pepe Escobar writes The Roving Eye for Asia Times Online. He has reported from Iraq, Iran, Central Asia, US and China. He is the author of the recently published Red Zone Blues. Pepe is a regular analyst for The Real News Network.
Limitation, Complexity and Interdependence
(English,
5 minutes,
created about 16 hours ago by
kuros,
broadcast date:2008-05-01)
Parliamentarian and social activist Nirmala Deshpande interprets the ecological principles of limitation, complexity and interdependence according to the political and philosophical principles of Mahatma Gandhi: from this perspective, actions that harm the whole are intrinsically harmful to the individual self.
Legalise Cannabis Ireland March 2008 Dublin
(English,
2 minutes,
created 1 day ago by
revoltvideo,
broadcast date:2008-05-10)
Over 1,500 people marched last Saturday demanding that cannabis be legalised in Ireland immediately and that the hypocrisy of cannabis prohibition end in all countries where it is still in place.
Making a killing from the food crisis
(English,
4 minutes,
created 1 day ago by
kuros,
broadcast date:2008-05-13)
Devlin Kuyek: "Right now Cargill is making approximately $471 000 an hour in profits."
While people around the world are suffering from hunger and protesting the rise in global food prices, major grain traders, such as Cargill, are reporting big profits. Making a Killing from Hunger, a report by international NGO, GRAIN, says that the global food crisis is more than a food shortage or a price blip, it's a structural meltdown, resulting from globalisation and neoliberal policies.
Devlin Kuyek is a researcher on global agribusiness for GRAIN, an international NGO which promotes the sustainable management and use of agricultural biodiversity. He is also the author of The Real Board of Directors: The construction of biotechnology policy in Canada, and Good Crop/Bad Crop: Seed Politics and the Future of Food in Canada .
Henry Kissinger on Relations With Russia
(English,
20 minutes,
created 2 days ago by
kuros,
broadcast date:2008-05-05)
In an exclusive interview with RT, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger talks about relations between Moscow and Washington. A key figure in the Cold War, Kissinger says personnel changes at the top can have a major impact.
Latest On Libanon
(English,
8 minutes,
created 3 days ago by
kuros,
broadcast date:2008-05-13)
This is very much similar to what is happening in Sudan, in Palestine, in Iraq, in Afghanistan and Somalia, [where] the United States is basically instigating and funding civil wars,” says professor As’ad AbuKhalil
Oil, Gas - and Carrots
(English,
2 minutes,
created 5 days ago by
kuros,
broadcast date:2008-05-08)
While oil and natural gas prices are skyrocketing, the world's energy consumers are trying to find ways to reserve oil and gas for themselves. Now, energy rich countries are using their resources as political leverage: Iran is trying to sell it. Venezuela is trying to barter and trade, while oil hungry countries use different strategies to buy into Africa.
US backs eastern secession in Bolivia
(English,
6 minutes,
created 5 days ago by
kuros,
broadcast date:2008-05-09)
Minority landholders vote for independence
Bolivia’s landowning eastern elite voted on Sunday for autonomy from President Evo Morales' central government. According to author Forrest Hylton the US government has spent up to $125 million dollars supporting the secession movement, a movement which has been disregarded by a large percentage of the Bolivian population as well as governments from Bolivia's neighboring countries.
