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How to Kill a Democracy
S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Anoint a colonized World Bank clerk as the Chief Executive with American blessings
And have him dance to imperial tunes and MNC notes with Swadeshi songs and swings.
Include all the rogues, rascals and rowdies as coalition partners and co-conspirators;
Make “Loot and Let Loot” the philosophy of governance and principle of administration.
Has Capitalism Lost Its Compass? APEC Panel (Part 1)
Peter Lavelle, Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Has capitalism lost its compass? How should capitalism be defined? How flawed is the system and could it still be revived? And is there any real alternative to capitalism? These issues are discussed with distinguished panelists at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation 2012 summit held in Vladivostok.
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Has Capitalism Lost Its Compass? APEC Panel (Part 2)
Peter Lavelle, Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Jim Rogers and Artyom Volynets are there to defend capitalism in its modern form, while Chandran Nair and Frank-Jurgen Richter are arguing that capitalism has indeed lost its compass.
→ read full article(Castellano) Cancilleres Inauguran Cumbre “América del Sur-Países Árabes” en Perú
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
El Gobierno peruano informó, a través de una comunicado, que los cancilleres tendrán dos sesiones de trabajo para terminar de concertar la Declaración de Lima, texto final del encuentro que firmarán los jefes de Estado y de Gobierno el día martes [2 Octubre 2012].
→ read full articleAt Milestone, US Military Deaths Dwarfed by Afghans Killed
Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
As 2,000th American soldier killed in Afghanistan makes headlines, estimates put Afghan civilian dead at over 20,000.
→ read full articleScientists: No to Genetically Modified Crops, Yes to Paradigm Shift
Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
A group of scientists said that ecological farming and a shift towards a holistic paradigm, not genetically modified (GM) crops, are the answer for India’s future agricultural needs. The scientists made their statements in New Delhi at a media briefing organized by Aruna Rodrigues, lead petitioner in a public interest litigation seeking a moratorium on GM testing in India, the Times of India reports.
→ read full articleLetter from Japanese Anti Nuclear Activists to Tamil Nadu Residents
No Nukes Asia Forum Japan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
A Historic movement is underway in Tamil Nadu-India, against Koodankulam nuclear power station. People across the world are moved by the resistance and want to express solidarity. We tried to visit India to show our solidarity on September 25, 2012 but were denied access at Chennai airport. After an hour-long interrogation, we had our papers written as “Inadmissible persons”, which denied our entrance to India.
→ read full articleIn Quest of a Dynamic Pattern of Transformations
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
The assumption is that greater understanding of transformation in generic terms, as a complex of processes, would enable and sustain new forms of development — especially for the individual in times of crisis. The approach takes its inspiration from the argument of Albert Einstein: “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
→ read full articleAsylum Seeking Not Criminal – UNHCR
Africa news – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has said the seeking of asylum is not a criminal act and those who seek it should not be detained. In a statement issued in New York on Sunday [23 Sep 2012], it also called on all states to seek out alternatives to detention when dealing with migrants and refugees.
→ read full articleAssange to UN: ‘It is time for the US to cease its persecution of WikiLeaks’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
27 Sep 2012 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has called on the United States to move from words to actions, and put an end to its persecution of WikiLeaks, its people and its sources. He made the statement during an address to a panel of UN delegates.
→ read full articleFreedom of Expression = Freedom to Insult?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
There are two key human rights values in this confrontation:
freedom of expression–basic, but not the only value in the world;
freedom from insult and respect for the sacred–basic, but not alone.
Conflicts between two values generally have five outcomes:
The Top 5 Herbs for Controlling Mood Swings
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Whether you have a short temper or just can’t seem to optimize your mental clarity, mood swings and emotional distress can be a serious situation to deal with. Thankfully, a number of herbs can assist you in your fight against mood swings and emotional distress.
→ read full articleSyrian Stalemate: Late in the Day – Are Negotiations Still Possible?
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Paulo S. Pinheiro said that the escalating conflict in which civilians bear the brunt of the killed and wounded now has an increasing presence of “foreign elements”. Some have joined anti-government forces and some operate independently. Pinheiro, who has long experience in UN human rights efforts, went on to add that such foreign elements “tend to push anti-government fighters toward more radical positions.”
→ read full articleRighteousness versus Expediency
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Waging wars is never right. They cannot be waged on the assumption of “righteousness.” The only alternative left for such heinous acts is “expediency” that would make the rich become richer and the poor become poorer and fully miserable if they were to survive.
→ read full articleMemo to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Door on a Two-State Solution Was Closed 45 Years Ago
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the General Assembly at the start of this week [27 Sep 2012] that “the door may be closing for good on a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.” The truth of history, which most if not all world leaders know but dare not state, is that the door Ban Ki-moon sees closing, was actually slammed shut 45 years ago. The precise date of the closure was 22 November 1967. What happened on that day?
→ read full articleMichael Sinan, Mr. Gay Denmark 2012, On Being Out and Proud As a Muslim
Huffington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Mr. Gay Denmark, who is also Muslim, says “it’s not easy, but it’s certainly easier” for him than it is for fellow immigrants who must live with a sexual orientation that fits with neither their religious principles nor their families’ values.
→ read full articleUS Conducts New Type of Nuclear Test Using Intense X-Ray Beams
Xinhua News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Japan’s southwestern city of Nagasaki expressed its outrage and protest against a new type of nuclear test conducted for the sixth time in August [2012] by the United States, local press reported on Tuesday [25 Sep 2012]. The report said that the United States conducted the nuclear test, which simulated a nuclear blast using intense X-ray beams and checked how plutonium would react, at the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico on August 27 [2012].
→ read full articleTRANSCENDING Multidimensionally: A rhymed reflection
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
What will happen when politically all Humankind transcend?
To more dignifying political systems we will ascend
A Culture of Delusion
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
A writer’s greatest disappointments are readers who have knee-jerk responses. Not all readers, of course. Some readers are thoughtful and supportive. Others express thanks for opening their eyes. But the majority are happy when a writer tells them what they want to hear and are unhappy when he writes what they don’t want to hear.
→ read full articleApollo’s Curse and Climate Change
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
The sad story of Cassandra is suggestive of the dilemma confronting the climate change scientific community. In modern civilization, interpreting scientific evidence and projecting trends, is as close to trustworthy prophesy as this civilization is likely to get. The culture is supposed to place its highest trust in the scientific community as the voice of reason, and modernity is largely understood as allowing scientific truth and instrumental reason to supersede superstition and religious revelation.
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(Castellano) Entrevista al Dr. Johan Galtung (25 de septiembre de 2012) – Mexico
solorzanoenultra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Javier Solórzano entrevista con el Dr. Johan Galtung, premio nobel de la paz alternativo, sobre la cultura por la paz.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Computadores Alugados Fotografaram Secretamente Usuários Fazendo Sexo
BBC Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Uma investigação feita por autoridades americanas com sete companhias que alugam computadores nos Estados Unidos revelou que diversas das máquinas registraram secretamente fotos de seus clientes, alguns deles durante atos sexuais.
→ read full articleReuters and Ahmadinejad: Anatomy of a Dangerous Misquote
News Vandal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Today [25 Sep 2012], Reuters rolled out a headline: In New York, defiant Ahmadinejad says Israel will be “eliminated.” Ahmadinejad’s quote in paragraph eleven comes across a bit differently: “We don’t even count them as any part of any equation for Iran. During a historical phase, they (the Israelis) represent minimal disturbances that come into the picture and are then eliminated.” A few words are not the only thing that might get lost in translation. How unfortunate it would be if tens of thousands of lives were lost as well.
→ read full articleIran: Automatic Escalation to World War III?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
A few days ago Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh , who is in charge of the Revolutionary Guards missile systems told that Iran would deem any Israeli strike to be conducted with US authorisation, so “whether the Zionist regime attacks with or without US knowledge, then we will definitely attack US bases in Bahrain, Qatar and Afghanistan.” US leaders would then be forced to respond despite the danger that Russia, China and Pakistan would be drawn into the conflict on the side of Iran.
→ read full articleReviving My Blog after China
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
While in China the media was dominated by the intense Chinese reaction to the Japanese government decision to purchase the Daioyu Islands (called Senkaku Islands by Japan) from private Japanese owners, which was interpreted as a provocative step toward implementing Japanese disputed sovereignty claims.
→ read full articleFormer US President Carter: Venezuelan Electoral System “Best in the World”
Ewan Robertson, Venezuelanalysis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Speaking at an annual event last week [16 Sep 2012] in Atlanta for his Carter Centre foundation, the politician-turned philanthropist stated, “As a matter of fact, of the 92 elections that we’ve monitored, I would say the election process in Venezuela is the best in the world.”
→ read full articleIsrael Lobbyist Hints That ‘Pearl Harbor’ May Be Needed To Get US into War with Iran
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Intriguingly, he went on to recount a series of controversial incidents in American history — the attack on Pearl Harbor, the sinking of the Lusitania, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, and the blowing up of the USS Maine — that US presidents “had to wait for” before taking America to war.
→ read full articleLiving Under Drones: Death, Injury and Trauma to Civilians from US Drone Practices in Pakistan
Stanford and New York Universities – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
This report is the result of nine months of research by the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic of Stanford Law School (Stanford Clinic) and the Global Justice Clinic at New York University School of Law (NYU Clinic).
→ read full article(Portuguese) Ratos Alimentados Com Transgênico Morrem Mais Cedo e Sofrem Mais de Câncer
Daniele Silveira, Radioagência NP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Pesquisa realizada com 200 ratos alimentados com milho geneticamente modificado apontou que esses animais morrem mais cedo e sofrem de câncer com mais freqüência. O estudo foi publicado nesta quarta-feira (19 Set 2012) pela revista científica “Food and Chemical Toxicology”.
→ read full articleMEK Delisting is a Gift to the Regime, a Disaster for the Iranian People and the U.S.
National Iranian American Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) deplores the decision to remove the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) from the U.S. list of foreign terrorist organizations. The decision opens the door to Congressional funding of the MEK to conduct terrorist attacks in Iran, makes war with Iran far more likely, and will seriously damage Iran’s peaceful pro-democracy movement as well as America’s standing among ordinary Iranians.
→ read full articleCracking Your PIN Code: Easy as 1-2-3-4
Lisa Scherzer, Yahoo! Finance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
If you lost your ATM card on the street, how easy would it be for someone to correctly guess your PIN and proceed to clean out your savings account? Not long, according to data scientist, Nick Berry, founder of Data Genetics, a Seattle technology consultancy.
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Jesse Ventura on Piers Morgan (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
CNN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Sept. 17, 2012 – Full Interview, CNN
→ read full articleBarcelona Manifesto for Peace
Fundación Carta de la Paz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
September 21, 2012 – International Day for Peace. On the occasion of the First International Congress on Building Peace in the 21st Century held in Barcelona from 23rd-25th April 2012, the organising committee recognises the contributions, presentations, papers and pre-congress preparatory work and offers the following manifesto:
→ read full articleBlood for Oil
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
“Modern warfare particularly depends on oil, because virtually all weapons systems rely on oil-based fuel – tanks, trucks, armored vehicles, self-propelled artillery pieces, airplanes, and naval ships. For this reason, the governments and general staffs of powerful nations seek to ensure a steady supply of oil during wartime, to fuel oil-hungry military forces in far-flung operational theaters.”
→ read full articleMyths about Industrial Agriculture
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Reports trying to create doubts about organic agriculture are suddenly flooding the media. The food revolution is the biggest revolution of our times, and the industry is panicking. So it spins propaganda, hoping that in the footsteps of Goebbels, a lie told a hundred times will become the truth. But food is different.
→ read full articleVirus
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Our species coughs and wheezes,
and we can barely help each other.
The immunization shots
provided by religions
didn’t work, or made us sicker.
(Castellano) Manifiesto Barcelona por la Paz
Fundación Carta de la Paz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
21 de septiembre 2012 – Día Internacional de la Paz. Con motivo del Ier Congreso Internacional Edificar la Paz en el siglo XXI celebrado en Barcelona los días 23, 24 y 25 de abril del 2012, el Comité Científico, recogiendo las aportaciones, las comunicaciones y las ponencias que se han presentado y los trabajos precongresuales, da a conocer el siguiente Manifiesto:
→ read full articleA Marriage of Morons: Romney and Netanyahu
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Perhaps the United Morons of America have a right to elect Mitt Romney president. But for the sake of the US and Israel, I hope that this will not happen. Some people say that Israel is the 51st state of the Union. Some say that it is the first among the 51. Whatever, our lives – and perhaps our deaths – depend to a great extent on the man in the White House.
→ read full articleFufu Momo and Kottu
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Noises of different tongues
Occupying stoves in the kitchen
It is not belonged to any one
But belonged to a time
Respect Indians and Indian Democracy
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
The ruling establishment’s message is loud and clear. “We do not give a damn about the Indian citizens, their democratic and nonviolent opposition to harmful policies and projects and the very democratic heritage of our country. We will put the interests of foreign countries and their MNCs ahead of the wishes and wellbeing of the Indian citizens.”
→ read full articleBorn Free and Equal
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
The UN Human Rights Office has released a new publication on sexual orientation and gender identity in international human rights law. It sets out the source and scope of some of the core legal obligations that States have to protect the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.
→ read full articleRole of Governments in Promoting Peace
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Governments of all kinds seem to have at least one thing in common. They want to convince everyone that all their actions are performed in the best interest of their respective population. Of course, experience demonstrates that this is not necessarily true in any way whatsoever.
→ read full articleThe Real Battle Is Against U.S. Imperialism
Socialist Worker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
U.S. embassies and military bases in majority Muslim countries around the Middle East and North Africa have been the site of violent protests over a racist film, produced in the U.S. and distributed in various forms on the Internet, which slanders Islam.
→ read full articleThree Principles for Reconstructing the Economy
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
First Principle: The needs of those who need to sell something to live (to sell either their labor or some other saleable item) usually exceed effective demand. There are more sellers than buyers. Therefore, in a green, responsible, plural and caring (or “solidarity”) economy there must be work (or some other source of livelihood) that does not depend on sales.
→ read full articleBritain Silent on Ecuador Assange Proposal
The Australian, AAP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Britain’s Foreign Office is tightlipped over a proposal from Ecuador that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange be transferred from London to Sweden but stay under Quito’s protection. Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said on Saturday [22 Sep 2012] he was weighing such a transfer as a possible alternative for Assange to “remain under our protection while also satisfying the demands of the Swedish justice system”.
→ read full articleA Global Plea for Spiritual Dignity
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Rhymed Reflections
When religious/spiritual systems are communicatively disrespected and violated
Universal spiritual dignity is not only being infected but literally decimated
AP Sources: US to Take Iran Group Off Terror List
Bradley Klapper and Matthew Lee, Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
The decision to remove the MEK list rested on two factors: whether it still had the capacity and intent to commit acts of terror. Several American military officials and defense contractors were killed by the MEK in the 1970s, U.S. officials maintain, and its attacks have killed hundreds of Iranians.
→ read full articleFrance Says No to Genetically Modified Crops, No to Fracking
Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
France will maintain its ban on genetically modified crops [GMOs] and will ban fracking, politicians announced during an environmental conference held in Paris Friday and Saturday [Sep 14-15, 2012].
→ read full articleLetter to Citizens of Australia by the Koodankulam Children
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Now we hear that The Honorable Prime Minister of Australia, Ms. Julia Gillard, has agreed to sell Uranium to India and visit our country. While we welcome Ms. Gillard to India at any time, we would very much like to request her government and the people of Australia not to sell Uranium to India, to facilitate nuclear arms race among India, Pakistan and China, make South Asia even more dangerous and spoil the futures of us, the children of India and other countries.
→ read full articleMonsanto Corn Causes Tumors, Organ Damage in Rats
Ben Hirschler and Kate Kelland, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Paris Asks Health Body to Investigate French Study Findings – In a study that prompted sharp criticism from other experts, French scientists said on Wednesday [19 Sep 2012] that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn or exposed to its top-selling weedkiller suffered tumours and multiple organ damage.
→ read full article‘Planetary Emergency’: New Data Elevates Climate Change Alarm
Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Drawing on new data on the rate of melting arctic ice released Wednesday [19 Sep 2012] by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), leading scientific experts and environmental campaigners upped the level of alarm and issued a renewed call to action by calling the growing reality of climate change a “planetary emergency”.
→ read full articleIn Quebec It’s Official: Mass Movement Leads to Victory for Students
Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Naomi Klein: ‘This is why radical movements are mercilessly mocked. They can win.’
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Origins of Israel Palestinian Conflict
CaspianReport – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
The Israeli Arab conflict is the result of interactions of superpowers in the early 20th century. British and French strategic interests in the Middle East were related to the Mediterranean trading route, which went from the Suez channel to Indian markets. But the presence of the Ottoman navy based in the Levant was a direct threat to British interests. So the British and the French decided to divide the Middle East into smaller entities and countries to make it impossible for the Ottoman Empire to control them all. A century later, the legacy of European colonization of the Arab world is reflected by its many ongoing conflicts.
→ read full articleA Significant Leap in Indo-Pak Relations
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Confidence building measures play a significant role towards addressing contentious issues between the nations. This well practiced rule of conduct among nations can be no less than accurate in the context of India and Pakistan, which have fought four wars since their independence.
→ read full articleA Day of Peace: For the Americas
Johan Galtung, 24 Sep 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Straight to the key problem in the theory and practice of peace: Are we thinking of the negative peace of cease-fire and no violence (as distinct from nonviolence), or are we thinking of the positive peace of cooperation for mutual and equal benefit, empathy for emotional harmony, reconciliation of past traumas, and resolution capacity for an endless agenda of future conflicts? Are we thinking of using nonviolence? Or of persuading, or forcing, those with serious grievances to lay down their arms and reintegrate peacefully in civilian life?
→ read full articleEvening Hunger
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
When hunger came
I went to the kitchen
Cooked rice
Made a soup of chicken
Captive of the Taliban
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Jere Van Dyk, an author, Taliban expert, former TV correspondent and ex-captive of the Taliban offers a unique perspective on the roots of the conflict in Afghanistan and Central Asia. He believes the Afghan and Pashtun peoples/cultures/histories/goals are poorly understood in the West (if at all). The Taliban do not accept the Durand Line drawn in 1893 by the British, which arbitrarily divided their Pashtun ancestral lands to artificially create the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
→ read full articleThe Conditions for Human Health and Well Being Reside within the Psychosocial Contexts of Life
Anthony J. Marsella – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
As our concern for human health and well being grows with each day, we too often find ourselves seeking solutions within the limitations of our health-care system. We call for more medical services, lower medical costs, more health professionals, better medical technologies, improvements in medical records, greater accessibility and acceptability of health care, and more and more committees, evaluations, and reports to determine why the system is failing for the elderly, poor, minorities, veterans, and youth.
→ read full articleJulian Assange to Receive Aboriginal Passport
GreenLeft – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
This Association has worked with the Sydney Support Assange and WikiLeaks Coalition to arrange for Julian Assange to be issued an Aboriginal Nations Passport that his father, John Shipton, will accept on his behalf at The Settlement on 15 September, 2012. The issuing of an Aboriginal Passport to Julian Assange brings further shame on the Australian government. It recognises that Assange’s Australian passport has been completely worthless to him.”
→ read full articleThe March of Folly
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Nothing could be more scary than the thought that this duo – Binyamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak – is in a position to start a war, the dimensions and outcome of which are incalculable. It’s scary not only because of their ideological fixations and mental outlook, but also because of the level of their intelligence.
→ read full articleColombia: Extractive Capital and Peace Negotiations
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
In late August 2012, President Santos announced that the Colombian regime was opening peace negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, (FARC), with the aim of ending nearly 50 years of civil war. Several economic, social, political and military changes account for the Santos regimes abrupt shift from a policy of “peace” through extermination of the guerrillas to a policy of a negotiated peace.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Projeto de Cidades Privadas Gera Polêmica em Honduras
BBC Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Um polêmico projeto que prevê a construção de cidades privadas com leis, sistema fiscal, polícia e políticas de imigração próprios está causando polêmica em Honduras. Na última semana [7 Set 2012], o governo hondurenho deu sinal verde para a construção da primeira das “cidades-modelo”. As “cidades-modelo” serão construídas por investidores privados e geridas de forma autônoma.
→ read full articlePeople’s Siege in Koodankulam: Latest Pictures
Dianuke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
9 Sep 2012 – Siege continues in Koodankulam: At least 20,000 people on the eastern compound wall from the sea side. People refused to talk to the Superintendent of Police (SP); the District Collector of Thirunelveli is expected to arrive. Administration’s demand to talk to the movement leaders – against whom sedition and other charges are slapped – is also refused by the people.
→ read full articleLet Us Do Some Soul-Searching and Talk Again!
Dr. S. P. Ukayakumar, PMANE – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Today we are surrounded by police, beaten up, harassed, accused of committing all kinds of crimes, arrested, and above all, mentally, emotionally, spiritually assaulted by police. We are all fisherfolks, shopkeepers, agricultural laborers, beedi-rolling women, and to be brief, working class people. But we are treated like criminals; dangerous, seditious, violent, vicious and wicked lawbreakers. Our leaders, who have been invoking the names and wisdom of Thiruvalluvar, Buddha, Mahavir, Ashoka, Guru Nanak, Mahatma Gandhi, Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan and Mother Teresa, are treated like dreaded terrorists.
→ read full articleOccupy Monsanto Stops GMO Seed Distribution
Occupy Monsanto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Nine Arrests Made at GMO Seed Distribution Plant – Today’s [12 Sep 2012] protest is the beginning of a series of over 65 different autonomous actions that officially start on September 17, a year since Occupy Wall Street movement began. Actions are planned throughout the world including the US, Germany, Canada, India, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Argentina, Australia, Spain, Russia, and Japan.
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International Day of Peace 2012 – September 21 (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
RootedInPeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
“The Culture of Peace Initiative serves as a truly integrative cooperative local/global Initiative, an open field for all participants to co-operate, share resources and ideas along diverse pathways subjectively and objectively that enhances the effectiveness of each participant, while simultaneously building a Culture of Peace that benefits All.” ~ Avon Mattison, Pathways To Peace.
→ read full articleNetanyahu, Not Iran, Is An Existential Threat To Israel
M.J. Rosenberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
One ex-Israeli official put it best. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu seems to be “going berserk.” He is demanding that the United States set a “red line” that, once crossed, will automatically initiate a US attack on Iran. He doesn’t even bother to pretend that war with Iran is in US interests.
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The Other 9/11: Chile – Coup d’état – September 11, 1973
BBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
The BBC made this documentary about the coup. Don’t mind the sometimes dreadful choice of music; the film is actually the only full-length English-language documentary that interviews people from both sides, and provides a number of fascinating insider accounts of the coup that was to unleash the era of Neoliberalism onto Latin America and the world.
→ read full articleLetter from the Koodankulam Children to Citizens of Russian Federation
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Greetings! We, several thousands of children from the southernmost tip of India, are writing to you to send our love and seek your support for the peaceful and nonviolent struggle that we and our parents have been waging for the past twelve months against the Koodankulam nuclear power project.
→ read full articleMystery Man Behind the Anti-Muslim Film Blamed For Attacks
Eric Lach, TPM – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
September 12, 2012 – Who is Sam Bacile? So far, the answer depends on who you ask and what you read. Early reports after Tuesday’s [9/11/2012] violence against American diplomatic posts in Egypt and Libya identified Bacile as the producer and director of an absurd anti-Muslim film blamed for inspiring the anger of the mobs.
→ read full article(Castellano) “El Capitalismo Implosiona, Pero No Bajo los Efectos de la Movilización Popular” — Samir Amin
Other News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Según Samir Amin hemos entrado en una nueva fase del capitalismo. Cree que se trata de una etapa cualitativamente nueva. El sistema capitalista no solo está en crisis, -mantiene Amin- sino que lo que se está produciendo en él una autentica implosión, pero que no es el efecto de la lucha popular.
→ read full articleThe Other 9/11: Remembering the Neoliberal Coup in Chile
Jerome Roos, RoarMag – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Today it is 39 years ago that Pinochet launched a bloody CIA-assisted coup against the democratically-elected socialist President Allende of Chile.
→ read full articleGrowing Up a Proud Racist in Burma
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Like millions of my fellow Buddhist Burmese, I grew up as a proud racist. For much of my life growing up in the heartland of Burma, Mandalay, I mistook what I came to understand years later as racism to be the patriotism of Burmese Buddhists. Our leading and most powerful institutions, schools, media, Buddhist church and, most importantly, the military, have succeeded in turning the bulk of us into proud racists.
→ read full articleOn PEACE: An Artistic Paradigm
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
PEACE can be verbalized
PEACE can be imagined : PEACE universalized !
No ‘Red Line’ for Israel
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Israeli news outlets reported today [15 Sep 2012] that President Obama rejected an appeal by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to set a specific “red line” to stop any further Iranian uranium enrichment. It seems that, this time at least, President Obama has decided against launching a world war on behalf of the Jewish State and its powerful lobby.
→ read full articleThe Democrats’ Jerusalem Arithmetic: When Israel Is Concerned, Half = Two-Thirds
Alison Weir, IfAmericansKnew – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
We’re Tired of Pretend Democracy – Not often is a political fix so public. The Democratic committee that develops the party’s campaign platform recently failed to include the apparently obligatory “Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel” pronouncement. In fact, I believe an uprising in the United States may be coming. People are tired of wars and killing, and of being sold a pack of goods by both parties using lies, deception, and manipulation.
→ read full articleNot Ours
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
I comment to the doctor on
the far worse plight of Afghani civilians
being maimed and killed by mines and bombs.
“Three a day, by the mines,” I remark.
“Not ours,” he replies.
Ah yes—the former Evil Empire’s.
SABONA: From Kindergarten to Geopolitics
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Some global bullies invented a new play: the nuclear game. One child had the monopoly for some time, refusing to give it up to that big kindergarten called the UN. Then other children came, and more, and more. What to do? Give all the weapons to the UN for destruction and then celebrate their demise from earth.
→ read full articleTransforming the Art of Conversation
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Conversing As the Transformative Science of Development – In a period of multiple global crises — with more foreseen — it is worth asking what skills might be usefully cultivated. It is increasingly evident that every form of claim and blame can be formulated.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Microsoft Identifica Computadores Que Já Vêm Infectados por Vírus de Fábricas
BBC Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Cerca de 20% dos computadores comprados em diferentes cidades chinesas foram infectados com programas maliciosos ainda na fábrica, segundo a Microsoft.
→ read full articleHouse Approves Sweeping, Warrantless Electronic Spy Powers
David Kravets,Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
The House on Wednesday [12 Sep 2012] reauthorized for five years broad electronic eavesdropping powers that legalized and expanded the George W. Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program. The National Security Agency told lawmakers that it would be a violation of Americans’ privacy to disclose how the measure is being used in practice.
→ read full articleParadoxes of Turkish Pride
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Turkey is now an important middle power at the United Nations. It provides a diplomatic venue for many international events that used to be held in Europe. Its courageous Somalia initiative has given Turkey a post-colonial identity in Africa that no other non-African government has been able to achieve. It is my belief that Turkey more than any other country in the 21st century has increased its relevance to the conduct of regional and global politics.
→ read full articleThe Future of International Law
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
It is becoming increasingly clear that the concept of the absolutely sovereign nation-state is a dangerous anachronism in a world of thermonuclear weapons, instantaneous communication, and economic interdependence. Probably our best hope for the future lies in developing the United Nations into a World Federation.
→ read full articleThe Libya Fiasco and the Folly of Intervention
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.), The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
There is danger in the belief we can remake the world by bribing some countries and bombing others. But that is precisely what the interventionists – be they liberal or conservative – seem to believe.
→ read full articleThe Mind Thieves
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
The evidence linking Alzheimer’s disease to the food industry is strong and growing.
→ read full articleIran’s Strategic Diplomatic Victory over the Washington-Israeli Axis: Its Larger Political Consequences
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Iran chaired, hosted and led the recently rejuvenated Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Teheran, attended by delegates from 120 countries, including 31 heads of state and 29 foreign secretaries of state. Even the United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon, notorious mouthpiece of Washington, felt obligated to address, a forum attended by two-thirds of the member countries of the UN, despite State Department and Israeli objections.
→ read full articleA Tale of Two Asylums: Assange, Palacio, and Media Hypocrisy
Keane Bhatt, NACLA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Every so often, world affairs offer us paired examples—two nearly identical instances through which we can better understand the role of powerful institutions, like the media. So when Ecuador granted asylum to Australian journalist Julian Assange in mid-August [2012], and then, two weeks later, the United States provided asylum to Ecuadorian journalist Emilio Palacio, the two cases laid bare the hypocrisy of the establishment press.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Sobre Ombros de Gigantes
Marcela Godoy, Consciência Animal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Semana passada [16 Aug 2012], ministrei um mini curso na Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Paraná-Brasil, durante o II Encontro de Ciências Biológicas. Dessa vez, trabalhei o tema Vivissecção no Ensino e na Pesquisa. Obviamente, o mini curso aconteceu pelo viés da anti-vivissecção.
→ read full articleThe Liberal Way to Run the World – ‘Improve’ or We’ll Kill You
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
In his 1859 essay On Liberty, to which modern liberals pay homage, John Stuart Mill described the power of empire. “Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians,” he wrote, “provided the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end.” The “barbarians” were large sections of humanity of whom “implicit obedience” was required.
→ read full articleCNN International’s Response to the Guardian
CNN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Here is CNN International’s response to Glenn Greenwald’s story in the Guardian about Amber Lyon’s documentary, iRevolution: Online Warriors of the Arab Spring.
→ read full articleIs Amnesty International Abandoning Human Rights?
Bev Cotton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
“Amnesty International is primarily motivated not by human rights but by publicity. Second comes money… To be sure, if you are dealing with a human rights situation in a country that is at odds with the United States or Britain, it gets an awful lot of attention… But if it’s dealing with violations of human rights by the United States, Britain, Israel, then it’s like pulling teeth to get them to really do something on the situation”.
→ read full article16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement
Antonio C. S. Rosa - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
The 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement was held from 26 to 31 August 2012 in Tehran, Iran. The summit was attended by leaders of 120 countries, including 24 presidents, 3 kings, 8 prime ministers and 50 foreign ministers. The summit’s framework was the “Final Document” adopted during the Ministerial Meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement Coordinating Bureau which was held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt from 7 to 10 May [2012].
→ read full articleDr. Frankenstein and the American Psychological Association’s Decade of Monstrosities
Roy Eidelson, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
The betrayal of psychological ethics will not make the world safer.
→ read full articleTop Natural Remedies For Depression
Dr. Edward Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
The experience of emotional and psychological depression has been noted and subjected to various explanations since the dawn of recorded history and quite probably before. The current model, which reduces all depression to a deficiency in serotonin, seems as overly simplistic and inadequate as those before it.
→ read full articleSave Jeju Island
Robert Redford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
From September 6-15 [2012], some 10,000 environmentalists gather in Jeju Island for the International Union of the Conservation of Nature’s World Conservation Congress. It will take place where the construction of a naval base is threatening coral forests, assaulting endangered species and destroying a 400-year old community of farmers and fishers. But instead of condemning the South Korean government’s actions, IUCN Director-General Julia Marton-Lafevre praised its seriously flawed “Environmental Impact Assessment.” This naval base is being built just 0.13 miles from a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Tiger Island.
→ read full articleTargeting Civilians
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Much was destroyed during World War II, and among the casualties of the war were the ethical principles that Roosevelt and Chamberlain announced at its outset. We live at a special time in history, a time of crisis for civilization. We did not ask to be born at a moment of crisis, but such is our fate. Every person now alive has a special responsibility: We owe it, both to our ancestors and to future generations, to build a stable and cooperative future world.
→ read full article(Portuguese) O Mapa Hexagonal do Mundo Multipolar
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Como é que enfrentamos, intelectualmente, o mundo de hoje?
→ read full articleFormer CIA Head: Iran Attack Will Push Iranians Toward A Bomb
Ben Armbruster, ThinkProgress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Former Bush administration National Security Agency head and CIA director Michael Hayden told the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz that Israel may not have the military capacity to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities and reiterated his belief that any attack would only delay the Iranian program and perhaps push it toward obtaining nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleUS: Torture and Rendition to Gaddafi’s Libya
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
New Accounts of Waterboarding, Other Water Torture, Abuses in Secret Prisons – The United States government during the Bush administration tortured opponents of Muammar Gaddafi, then transferred them to mistreatment in Libya, according to accounts by former detainees and recently uncovered CIA and UK Secret Service documents, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today [6 Sep 2012].
→ read full articleDefining DIGNITY Didactically through Rhymed Reflections
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
DIGNITY has to do with character elevation
It also refers to one`s wisdom in conversation