Worldwide poverty levels are increasing. Conflicts are increasing. Conflicts are feeding into investment on security. This is again perpetuating the conflict. Meanwhile the social development agenda is lagging behind. Lot more money than required is being spent on defense which is not necessary. There are examples of countries which dont have any defense force and still doing well.
In the case of country like india we have more budget for defense than social development. The investment on Defense is not giving the required results and is corruption prone because of its opaqueness. The cost-benefit analysis of the investment on Defense is not being measured as we do for all development projects.
War situation is perpetuating the insecurity and damaging the social fabric of the region/country. Release of funds earmarked for defense to social development will lead to more development and engagement.
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PPJC-Sponsored Events Tuesday 01-Jun - No Nukes? A Special Report from the United Nations Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Conference
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No Nukes? A Special Report from the United Nations Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Conference
Tuesday, June 01 2010 @ 07:00 PM
Community Media Center
900 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto
A conversation with
Jackie Cabasso
The 2010 Review Conference has an enormous agenda to consider: the universality of the Treaty; nuclear disarmament including specific practical measures; nuclear non-proliferation, including the promoting and strengthening of safeguards; measures to advance the peaceful use of nuclear energy, safety and security; regional disarmament and non-proliferation; implementation of the 1995 resolution on the Middle East; measures to address withdrawal from the Treaty; measures to further strengthen the review process; and ways to promote engagement with civil society in strengthening NPT norms and in promoting disarmament education.
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Free Friday Night Film: Food and the Environment
Friday, May 28 2010 @ 07:30 PM
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2121 Staunton (Behind JJ&F Market), Palo Alto
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Food and the Environment: Friday Night Films
Friday, June 04 2010 @ 07:30 PM
World Centric
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Crude: The Real Price of Oil. Film and discussion
Saturday, June 05 2010 @ 01:30 PM
Fremont Main Library
2400 Stevenson Blvd at Paseo Padre, Fremont
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Admission free.
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Observations on the Bumpy Road of Life
Sunday, June 06 2010 @ 11:00 AM
Palo Alto High School - Student Center
50 Embarcadero Rd., Palo Alto
Don Havis will give a talk based on his 60 years as a Humanist and activist. Havis will discuss his essays, read some of his poems, short stories and favorite "words of wisdom" in a program that promises to be both humorous and profound.
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Water and Climate Coalition launches Statement for Bonn Climate Talks; ‘Water Day’ to take place on 2nd June in Bonn
Water and Climate Coalition Statement
The newly-formed Water and Climate Coalition (www.waterclimatecoalition.org) has launched a statement on water and climate change for the Climate Change negotiations taking place from 1st – 11th June in Bonn. To read the statement click here
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Economist special report on water:
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As you may know, the Alliance for Water Stewardship has been working diligently to craft a water roundtable process that will lead to the development and implementation of credible global water stewardship standards. Our intent is to develop consensus driven, performance-based standards that are anchored in science and have a strong influence in the market place.
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Discuss and improve the stakeholder engagement roadmap, as well as initial framework for draft standards agreement building;
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A recent study by scientists at the Institute of Social Ecology in Austria and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany (Eating the Planet: Feeding and fuelling the world sustainably, fairly and humanely – a scoping study, commissioned by Compassion in World Farming and Friends of the Earth)http://www.ciwf.org.uk/includes/documents/cm_docs/2009/e/eating_the_planet_full_report_nov_2009.pdf
The big fat lie about food production:
http://www.soilassociation.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=qbavgJQPY%2fc%3d&tabid=313
Pilot Workshop: Vulnerability to Climate Change: Mumbai-Thane Coast
Saturday, 29th May, St. Pius College Campus, Goregaon, Mumbai
10.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Dear Friends,
You can watch a live videostream of this workshop on
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http://www.ustream.tv/channel/Vulnerability-to-Climate-Change
Steve Cockburn thinks this might be one of his favourite videos of all time, thank you Tim Gee. Hilarious bunny love. Democracy village urging for peace all over! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBi_SvDX3XM
Climate change summit:
http://www.ethicalcorp.com/climate/?utm_source=Adwords&utm_medium=campaign2&utm_campaign=Adwords%2Bcampaign2
http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/newsletter/archive/?issue=issue019EditThe Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is an international financing institution that invests the world’s money to save lives. To date, it has committed US$ 16 billion in 140 countrie...
http://www.transparency.org/news_room/corruption_news)Editcorruption news/news roomTransparency International is the global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption.
http://www.devex.com/articlesEditInternational Development - News & Analysis News about international development, development business, foreign aid, international relief, and global development. Written and edited by our global team of international development reporters and...
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The title is interesting and may be worth reading as Noam Chomsky is a radical thinker as well as writer! Take a risk!!
Coalition for Justice in the Middle East: CJMEWelcome to the Coalition for Justice in the Middle East Recipient of the 2006 Dean's Award for Outstanding Achievement!
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Behind the Lines: Poetry, War, & Peacemaking
Further thoughts on the cultural labor of poetry and art. Not "is it good?," but "what has it accomplished?"...
http://behindthelinespoetry.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.htmlEditBehind the Lines: Poetry, War, & Peacemaking: August 2009
Why World War IV can't sell?
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0330-32.htmEditWhy World War IV Can't Sell
Humanist Manifesto2 - denouncing war as obsolete:
THIRTEENTH: This world community must renounce the resort to violence and force as a method of solving international disputes. We believe in the peaceful adjudication of differences by international courts and by the development of the arts of negotiation and compromise. War is obsolete. So is the use of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. It is a planetary imperative to reduce the level of military expenditures and turn these savings to peaceful and people-oriented uses.
http://www.overlordsofchaos.com/html/humanist_manifestos.htmlEditHumanist Manifestos
Please go through carefully!
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/treaties/CAC/index.htmlEditConvention against CorruptionUnited Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Web Site
http://www.sanjosepeace.org/article.php/20100504094251703EditSan Jose Peace and Justice Center - Tell Condi: Torturers Not Welcome in SJ
Nuclear age peace initiative at Stanford:
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Peace offensive
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Global Connect
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World Bank and Conflict:
http://blogs.worldbank.org/conflict/%3Fcid%3DGS_ConflictBlogWDR2011_1
http://news.in.msn.com/internalsecurity/news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3899234EditNew face of terror: radicalised in US, trained in Pakistan - 1 - 2010: Defence & Internal Security Special on MSN IndiaWashington: Almost nine years after the Sep 11 2001 terror attacks, a worrying number of American citizens and longtime US residents are becoming radical.
Recommend:
http://www.civilsocietyonline.com/EditCivil Society, May 2010 Edition
Home - AidDarfur.orgsupports the UN Refugee Agency's (UNHCR) life saving work with Darfur's refugees. Learn more...
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Fudging of Kargil records:
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RemoveMruthyunjaya Sastry Gabbita http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3943762DRDO fires `swadeshi missile' at armed forces
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New Delhi: The head of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), India’s premier defence research organisation, said that responsibility
A rough translation of a revolutionary poet's (Who is no more)saying: What's proud of any country's history? The entire human history is full of slavery (oppression by others)!
There is no change in the American Defense Policy as of now. They seem be going ahead with their regular war activity!
http://www.defense.gov/releases/Defense.gov News: News Releases
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Obama seems to be planning more war as per 8May report. Is he following Bhagawadgita? Very dangerous. Ask him to read www.waratwhatcost.com:
http://www.alternet.org/world/146787/look_out%2C_obama_seems_to_be_planning_for_a_lot_more_war?page=entire
http://www.hrw.org/newsletter?tr=y&auid=6383330Human Rights Watch | Defending Human Rights Worldwide
RemoveMruthyunjaya Sastry Gabbita http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3930668International Development - News & Analysis
www.devex.com
News about international development, development business, foreign aid, international relief, and global development. Written and edited by our global team of international development reporters and editors.
The title is interesting and may be worth reading as Noam Chomsky is a radical thinker as well as writer! Take a risk!!New World of Indigenous Resistance, Noam Chomsky and Voices from North, South, and Central America
www.citylights.com
New World of Indigenous Resistance. Interviews with Chomsky accompanied by commentaries by indigenous organizers on globalization and resistance in the Americas.
RemoveMruthyunjaya Sastry Gabbita http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=320552106&u=3605576Defusing the Nuclear Threat
ent.groundspring.org
Click on the image above to download a flyer (340 kB PDF) that lists the events in our free, public lecture series at Stanford University. A more detailed description of the series is also available, as is a map showing location and parking.
Behind the Lines: Poetry, War, & Peacemaking
Further thoughts on the cultural labor of poetry and art. Not "is it good?," but "what has it accomplished?"...http://behindthelinespoetry.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html
Display of their ammunition and power by Russia and it allies. Is it necessary- Is the thrird world war in the offing?http://news.in.msn.com/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=3897533Russia's show of power on Victory Day
news.in.msn.com
Russia celebrated its 65th anniversary of victory over Nazi troops in 1945, in Moscow on May 9, 2010. For the first time, the wartime allies of the So
Global Reporting Initiative
http://www.amsterdamgriconference.org/index.php?id=32Amsterdam GRI Conference
www.amsterdamgriconference.org
The Amsterdam conference will convene a debate on how reporting can be used to help build a better future. Thought leaders from business, finance, government and civil society will debate the political, strategic and practical choices confronting us.
America's war diseaseAmerica’s War Disease - Bill Boyarsky's Columns - Truthdig
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The Afghanistan war, along with Iraq, has become a chronic illness that America has learned to ignore. News of the sick economy, natural and human-made disasters, along with momentary sensations flash across the cable news screens and the Internet, leaving hardly any space for the war. - 2010/05/07
Sowing the Seeds of Fascism in America
http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/200601003_white_supremacism_sexism_militarism/Truthdig - Sowing the Seeds of Fascism in America
www.truthdig.com
Stan Goff is a retired veteran of the U.S. Army Special Forces. During an active-duty career that spanned 1970 to 1996, he served with the elite Delta Force and Rangers, and in Vietnam, Guatemala, Grenada, El Salvador, Colombia, Peru, Somalia and Haiti.
Defense- Long term contributions in USA:
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=D&goButt2.x=8&goButt2.y=6
Strengthening transparency and reducing corruption risks in the ...Corruption in defence and security is a strategic issue ... Using Research: Improving Business Conduct Standards in Defence Ministries and Forceswww.defenceagainstcorruption.org/publications/all-publications/conferences/105-tunis...Publications - Tunis Workshop - Presentation M Pyman - Overview of Building Integrity in defence
www.defenceagainstcorruption.org
UK Defence Industry Anti-corruption Forum - ASDNews( United Kingdom, 12 June, 2006 ) The UK's leading defence companies and defence sector Trade Associations have joined forces to set up the UK Defence Industry Anti-Corruption Forum.www.asdnews.com/news/8215/UK_Defence_Industry_Anti-corruption_Forum.htmUK Defence Industry Anti-corruption Forum - ASDNews
www.asdnews.com
( United Kingdom, 12 June, 2006 ) The UK's leading defence companies and defence sector Trade Associations have joined forces to set up the UK Defence Industry Anti-Corruption Forum. Representatives from 11 companies and two Trade Associations met on 18 May 2006 for the inaugural meeting of the Foru...
Defence scams
http://news.rediff.com/report/2010/apr/20/the-next-big-indian-scam.htmIndia's next big defence scam...: Rediff.com India News
news.rediff.com
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=pSyRgcSQhuIC&pg=PT531&dq=Defense+scandals&ei=SHTeS6-WEJaqkASSjritCA&cd=5#v=onepage&q=Defense%20scandals&f=false
The defense game: an insider explores the astonishing realities of America's . http://books.google.co.in/books?id=fmS5AAAAIAAJ&q=Defense+scandals&dq=Defense+scandals&ei=SHTeS6-WEJaqkASSjritCA&cd=3
The Corruption in Indian Defense and elsewhere:http://www.whatisindia.com/issues/gocorrup/index.html
Corruption in Indian Defese system:http://www.snowcrest.net/sunrise/Medallas.htmE:\Program Files\SOFTQUAD\HoTMetaL PRO 6\gifs\Medallas.htm
www.snowcrest.net
A feisty, year-old Internet media company disguised its reporters as weapons dealers,gave them piles of cash and dispatched them to expose corruption in India's politicaland military establishment.
RemoveMruthyunjaya Sastry Gabbita http://www.globalissues.org/article/75/world-military-spending#Spendingforpeacevsspendingforwar
Corruption in Defence- Defence offsets: book can be downloaded
http://media.transparency.org/fbooks/reports/defence_offsets/Defence Offsets: Adressing the Risks of Corruptioin & Raising Transparency
media.transparency.org
Analysis of FY2008 "Bridge" War Funding Supplemental (Attached to Omnibus Appropriations Bill S. 2764): Cost of Wars Now $700 Billion, Surpasses Vietnam War (December 20, 2007)
http://www.armscontrolcenter.org/policy/securityspending/articles/analysis_c110_s_2764_war_bridge/
"The Three Trillion Dollar War: Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard Economist Linda Bilmes on the True Cost of the US Invasion and Occupation of Iraq". Interview on Democracy Now. ... See More
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/29/exclusive_the_three_trillion_dollar_war
war, peace and the state
http://www.lewrockwell.com/stromberg/stromberg23.htmlWar, Peace, and the State by Joseph Stromberg
www.lewrockwell.com
This essay lists essential historical readings on wars (and related matters) which have involved or affected the United States (plural), starting in 1776. The framework is a Rothbardian one, in which war
Obama speaking on Wara and Peace@Oslo http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/12/10/war-and-peace-oslo
War and peace
http://www.warpeace.org/War & Peace - Working to end militarism, war, and the causes of war...
www.warpeace.org
The War & Peace Foundation's most urgent task is to bring about total nuclear disarmament in the United States and around the world; to phase out nuclear power and promote other forms of renewable energy ...
Direct Action to stop the war:
http://bayareadirectaction.wordpress.com/
How to Stop a War by Monica Benderman http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0211-27.htm
Stop the War Machine:
http://www.stopthewarmachine.org/STOP THE WAR MACHINE
www.stopthewarmachine.org
SWM in Albuquerque, New Mexico is focused on educating people and finding solutions to the truth behind Pres. Eisenhower's statement about the danger of the military-industrial complex.
Have initiated a blogspot on local newspapers. Since Naveen is quite busy I had to it on my own. This will be followed up by continuous postings.
http://localnewspapers.blogspot.com/
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