Imperial Recipes for a Burnt Planet

[polly7]

by Chris Williams / April 3rd, 2013

At the turn of the 19th century, industrialist and weapons manufacturer par excellence Alfred Nobel, guilt-ridden inventor of dynamite, established the Peace Prize that carries his name, proposing that it go “to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”

Over 100 years later, for the first time ever, a Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to an African woman. The 2004 award was controversial. Politicians from the country responsible for the awards, Norway, wanted to know what this woman from Kenya had done for peace. Carl I. Hagen, leader of Norway’s Progress Party, whose senior political adviser, Inger-Marie Ytterhorn, was a member of the Nobel Committee, sneeringly dismissed giving the prize to a mere environmental activist:

I thought the intention of Alfred Nobel’s will was to focus on a person or organization who had worked actively for peace…It is odd that the committee has completely overlooked the unrest that the world is living with daily, and given the prize to an environmental activist.

What, after all, had the late Wangari Maathai done for peace? Here’s how Maathai described her work, in forming the grassroots organization the Green Belt Movement (GBM) in the 1970’s to empower rural women, by employing over 100,000 of them to plant 15 million trees:

Full Article: http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/04/imperial-recipes-for-a-burnt-planet/

I wish I could have posted more of this, it's excellent, imho.

[niyad]

1. k and r--bookmarking to read in full later. thank you for that very interesting website.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. I wish I could rec more than once.....

thank you for posting this!...

[AdHocSolver]

3. This article is a good read about energy policy as devised by the imperial oligarchies.

It explains why the push is on for the Keystone XL pipeline in spite of the fact that it will likely bring on an ecological and economic disaster for the U.S. and this planet.

[AverageJoe90]

4. Decent article, but the Charles Emmerson article should have been omitted.

.....1913 was a whole different world compared to 2013; brilliant the world of 1913 may have been, but "dynamic" and "interdependent" it most certainly was not, at least nothing in the sense that could even close to matching today's world.....and no, we are not in danger of seeing WWIII either.....

I'll still keep the rec but that was disappointing.