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Names and Ages of 26 Civilians Killed by Rockets Fired from Gaza into Israel IN 12 YEARS
Phan Nguyen, Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
Israeli spokespeople frequently remind the world that a million Israeli citizens are within range of Gaza rockets, twelve thousand of which have been fired into Israel in the last twelve years, inflicting thousands of injuries and several dead. However, only 26 people have been killed throughout this time. Below is a list of all the fatalities of rocket and mortar attacks fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel.
→ read full articleThe Anguish of Being a Jew Now
MJ Rosenberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
In losing the Israel I grew up on, I feel like a wonderful friend has died. I know all about the Nakba and will not deny it or argue about it. But maybe a new friend will take its place. Maybe this war, and the fact that Israel must see that it can never win this way, will lead to a different Israel. The 7 million Israelis aren’t going away. The Palestinians, who never left, are certainly not going away, either. Neither people will get everything it wants. But each can get what it needs.
→ read full articleWhy So Secretive? The Trans-Pacific Partnership as Global Corporate Coup
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the most secretive and “least transparent” trade negotiation in history.
→ read full articleCristiano Ronaldo Reportedly Donates €1.5mn to Children in Gaza
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
The star forward gave his Golden Boot which he earned in 2011 to the Real Madrid foundation. The Spanish giants in their turn sold it at auction and will now donate the funds to schools in Gaza. It’s not the first time Ronaldo has given to charity. Last year he sold most of his sports shoes at a Real Madrid Foundation auction which was also dedicated to raising funds for schools in Gaza.
→ read full article(Italian) Italia e Colombia, Una Relazione Pericolosa
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
A partire dal prossimo anno i militari italiani verranno addestrati nella selva colombiana all’esecuzione di “operazioni speciali”.
→ read full articleDevouring Jackals
Linh Dinh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
Born in blood and maintained through constant bloodletting, Israel has gotten its teeth into its prey, and it won’t let go. If it had a choice, it would have devoured all already. So a truce between Israel and Hamas has been announced, ending a bombardment of Gaza that left 147 dead and 1,155 wounded. Israel, on the other hand, suffered five dead and 235 wounded, a bit higher than usual, proportionally.
→ read full articleGenocide: The Ecology of Pathways to Ending Lives and Life
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
I dislike being a Cassandra, Jeremiah, or any other voice that keeps calling attention to the many challenges ahead for humanity and for the world. And yet, it seems to me that if I do not, then somehow I have betrayed my responsibilities, duties, and obligations as professional psychologist, citizen, and human being. This article is in some ways a lament. But in other ways, it is voice in the wilderness calling for an awakening to what is occurring as we choose silence as others cry in pain and humiliation.
→ read full article(Italian) Il Primo Referendum Propositivo Valido in Italia É Già Storia
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
In Valle d’Aosta il “pirogassificatore” non si costruirà.
→ read full articleBan ‘Killer Robots’ Before It’s Too Late
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
Fully Autonomous Weapons Would Increase Danger to Civilians – These future weapons, sometimes called “killer robots,” would be able to choose and fire on targets without human intervention.
→ read full articleCollective Punishment and the Blockade of Gaza
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
Under the Fourth Geneva Convention, collective punishment is war crime. Article 33 states that “No protected person may be punished for an offense that he or she did not personally commit.” Articles 47-78 also impose substantial obligations on occupying powers, with numerous provisions for the general welfare of the inhabitants of an occupied territory.
→ read full articleIn-Depth: Top 10 Neglected Refugee Crises
UN-IRIN, ReliefWeb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
Below, IRIN takes a look at some of the most neglected refugee and displacement crises around the world.
→ read full articleLatin America’s Left Turn Collides with Indigenous Movements
Nyki Salinas-Duda, In These Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
For a viable model of “21st century socialism,” many progressives look to Latin America’s Leftward surge. But swept up in the continent’s “pink tide” are questions of indigenous land and resource rights, which often clash with state development priorities. From Venezuela to Bolivia to Chile, indigenous communities are charging that they have been betrayed by the populist presidents they helped elect.
→ read full article(Castellano) Israel Intensifica Ofensiva Contra Gaza y Suma Más de 90 Palestinos Muertos
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
19 Nov 2012 – La agencia iraní Press TV destacó que este lunes fueron asesinados al menos una docena de palestinos, los cuales se suman a las 31 muertes contabilizadas el día domingo, siendo la mayoría de las víctimas civiles, mujeres y niños.
→ read full articleModernity’s Other and the Transformation of the University – II
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Short Answers to Simple Questions
→ read full articleAnonymous Downs Hundreds of Israeli Sites over Gaza
Sapa-AFP, The Citizen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Online activist group Anonymous said on Saturday [17 Nov 2012] that their operation “OpIsrael” had either damaged or completely erased the sites of more than 650 private and public institutions that included the Bank of Jerusalem — one of the country’s main finance houses. “Bank of Jerusalem database has been deleted,” the group said in a tweet next to a link to the lender’s non-functioning website.
→ read full article(Italian) Bombardamenti Israeliani e il Capovolgimento della Ragione
Angela Lano, InfoPal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Visto che i media occidentali (italiani in testa), come già successe con Piombo Fuso (2008-2009), invertiranno l’ordine di causa ed effetti, dando la colpa ai palestinesi per i massacri israeliani, in un gioco di manipolazione dell’informazione da manuale orwelliano, stabiliamo alcuni punti cardine:
→ read full articleBahrain Uprising Threatens US Hegemony
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Connecting the dots of recent dramatic events in Bahrain spells one unmistakable message — the US-backed Al Khalifa regime is on the political ropes. It is desperately trying to defeat a determined pro-democracy movement that just won’t lie down or go away.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Eleições em Israel, Ataque a Gaza
Nuno Moniz, Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
O Governo de Israel decidiu novamente virar o seu internacionalmente patrocinado poderio militar para a Faixa de Gaza com duas mensagens. Uma para a comunidade internacional e a segunda para os eleitores em Israel: confiem em nós porque não temos medo de fazer chover bombas em Gaza.
→ read full articleWagging the Dog in Gaza: Netanyahu’s Skirmish of Fear
Lior Sternfeld, Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Israel has embarked, with its Gaza attack, on the all-too-well-known elections routine. Netanyahu knows that the way to ensure his victory in the upcoming elections will be by diverting the public discourse from demands of social justice to existential threats imposed on Israel by the bogeyman- Hamas, and the cost of imperiling a third of Israel’s population seems reasonable enough for him.
→ read full articleWhy BP Isn’t a Criminal
Robert Reich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
BP plead guilty to 14 criminal counts, including manslaughter, and agreed to pay $4 billion over the next five years. But it defies logic to make BP itself the criminal. Corporations aren’t people. They can’t know right from wrong. They’re incapable of criminal intent. They have no brains. They’re legal fictions — pieces of paper filed away in a vault in some bank.
→ read full articleWar or Peace in the Sahara?
Robin Edward Poulton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
What Mali needs now is international partners that are ready to study the lessons of the 1990s, and to devise radical actions based on decentralized Malian models that have already been successful.
→ read full articleIsrael Would Have Us Believe That These People Are Terrorists
Information Clearing House – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Pictures of Children Killed and Injured by Israeli Attack on Gaza – November 14, 2012
“A time comes when silence is betrayal.”
— Rev. Martin Luther King
UN Urges End to U.S. Cuba Embargo for 21st Year
Louis Charbonneau, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
A record 188 U.N. members supported resolution on Cuba. Israel, Palau and U.S. only 3 states to vote against. Repeating an annual ritual, the U.N. General Assembly called on Tuesday [13 Nov 2012] for the United States to lift its trade embargo against Cuba, whose foreign minister said the blockade against the communist-run island was tantamount to “genocide.”
→ read full articleBDS, Arab Land and the Custodian of Absentee Property
Paul Larudee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
The 2005 call by more than 170 Palestinian organizations, both within Palestine and without, to boycott Israeli products and services, divest from companies that support and sustain Israel and sanction the Israeli state and its agencies is one of the most important and potentially one of the most effective strategies to end the injustices perpetrated against the Palestinian people.
→ read full article(Italian) Un Cambiamento a Washington?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Da Washington, DC – 6 novembre 2012, notte dell’elezione. La democrazia USA è un sistema bipartitico che sta diventando uno stato monopartitico? Se è così, gli altri paesi stiano attenti! Non imitino. La democrazia è di più che solo elezioni. È anche trasparenza e dialogo. Per un reale cambiamento.
→ read full articleLGBT Rights: The Global Struggle for Queer Freedom
Peter Tatchell, Global – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Homophobic persecution and discrimination is rife in large parts of the world, and the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are still not recognised or protected by international law. Nonetheless, progress towards equality is being made thanks to the defiance and bravery of activists.
→ read full article(Italian) Il Primo Referendum Propositivo (Valido) Italiano E’ Storia
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Quando la storia dà i brividi
→ read full articleImagining the Ultimate Global Sharing Day
Rajesh Makwana, Share The World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
The growing support for the sharing economy has the potential to change the way we understand and address the many challenges we face. But it is at the national and global level that sharing can have a truly transformative impact in relation to poverty, sustainability and world peace.
→ read full articlePeople Come Into Our Lives . . .
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
People enter our lives at unexpected times
Changing us in profound ways . . .
A glance, a smile or frown,
A word — spoken or written —
Cultivating Peace, Preventing Violence…
Johan Galtung, 19 Nov 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
… was the title of the Symposium at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia-USA 17-19 Nov 2012. How do we cultivate peace? • through cooperation for mutual and equal benefit; • harmony through empathy; • traumas conciliation, clearing the past and building a future; • by solving conflicts through the 3 Cs. Feasible, possible; through peace studies, theory and practice.
→ read full articleKnowledge Processes Neglected by Science
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Insights from the Crisis of Science and Belief – Systemic knowledge processes neglected by science: What are the dimensions of knowledge and information of which science is itself uncritical or unconscious?
→ read full articleIsraeli ‘Operation Pillar of Defence’ – Not Defence but Murder of Unarmed Civilians
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Prime Minister Netanyahu argues that Israel has a ‘right to defend itself’ and the Obama administration continues, yet again, to support this bogus claim, pledging to oppose those who would question Israel’s illegal policies. The Israeli government and military do not have the right to carry out indiscriminate bombing and killing of Palestinian civilians. Third party governments have a legal responsibility to take action and see that Israel does not act with impunity.
→ read full articleThe Latest Gaza Catastrophe: Will They Ever Learn?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Obama was quoted as saying, “There is no country on earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside of its borders. We are fully supportive of Israel’s right to defend itself.” Much is missing from such a sentiment, most glaringly, the absence of any balancing statement along the following line: “and no country would tolerate the periodic assassination of its leaders by missiles fired by a neighboring country, especially during a lull achieved by a mutually agreed truce. It is time for both sides to end the violence, and establish an immediate ceasefire.”
→ read full articleTango with the Tax Man: Multinationals Find Loopholes Galore in Europe
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Large multinationals, many of them based in the United States, are masters at avoiding taxes on profits made abroad. According to data compiled by independent tax experts, US technology giant Apple paid a paltry $130 million (€102 million) in taxes on foreign earnings of about $13 billion in 2010. Microsoft paid only $1.7 billion on $15 billion in foreign earnings, while software giant Cisco paid a tax bill of $400 million on foreign earnings of more than $8 billion.
→ read full articleWhy Gaza Must Suffer Again
Jonathan Cook, The View from Nazareth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
The inciting cause of the latest confrontation between Israel and Hamas has little to do with the firing of rockets, whether by Hamas or the other Palestinian factions. The conflict predates the rockets – and even the creation of Hamas – by decades. It is the legacy of Israel’s dispossession of Palestinians in 1948, forcing many of them from their homes in what is now Israel into the tiny Gaza Strip.
→ read full articleAmerican Popular Culture: Socializing and Homogenizing Mind, Nation, and World
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
It is said that a fish does not know or recognize the water about it until it is caught and raised from the depths of its milieu so necessary for survival. It is then it may understand the essence of its survival. It seems to me that the same analogy may be applied to American citizens. We are embedded in a popular American culture to which we seem to be oblivious. Figure 1: The Socialization of American Culture, Society, and Psyche:
→ read full articleWhere There Is No Time and Nothing Matters
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Cognitive Challenges at the Edge of the World – This commentary was further informed by the publication of a new study by James Boyce (Van Diemen’s Land, 2008) and the historic apology on 13th February 2008 by the Government of Australia to the Aboriginal peoples of Australia.
→ read full articleSouthern Alternatives on Trade and Development
Comhlámh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Tired of being told there’s no other way? There ARE alternatives! In spite of the global crises, the EU insists that free trade and deregulation is the only way for economies to develop, and is pushing this damaging economic approach on its poor trading partners.
→ read full articleGeorge Galloway, British MP | Full Address
Oxford Union Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
George Galloway gives his address to the Oxford Union Society – October 15th 2012. The Oxford Union Society is the world’s most prestigious debating society, with an unparalleled reputation for bringing international guests and speakers to Oxford. It has been established for 189 years, aiming to promote debate and discussion not just at Oxford University, but across the globe.
→ read full articleMalawi Activists Say Scrapping Sodomy Laws an ‘Uphill Battle’
Agence France-Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Despite the Malawi government’s move to suspend a law banning same-sex relationships, activists say winning a total repeal will be an “uphill battle” in a country where homosexuality is considered a sin. “Malawi culture remains conservative,” Billy Mayaya, a leading rights activist, told AFP just hours after President Joyce Banda’s government announced the suspension of tough anti-gay laws, pending a parliamentary debate.
→ read full articleIran and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Four countries outside the NPT have nuclear weapons: India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel. North Korea had originally joined the NPT, but it withdrew in 2003. Looking at the NPT with the benefit of hindsight, we can see the third “pillar”, the “right to peaceful use of nuclear technology” as a fatal flaw of the treaty. In practice, it has meant encouragement of nuclear power generation, with all the many dangers that go with it.
→ read full articleJapan Appeals to India against Nuclear Power
Nuclear Action Committee Japan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
If you have come to Japan to promote a nuclear power agreement, don’t confine your discussions to the high and mighty in Tokyo, go to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and visit the peace museums there. Listen to the experiences of the hibakusha. And by all means go to Fukushima. Find out how people are trying to live with the 4 reactors emitting radioactive material around them; find out the horrendous conditions of radiation exposure that the thousands of workers trying to contain the accident must endure, and learn what has happened to the seas, the forests and the farm land. If you do that, we think that you will change your mind.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Amizade – Um Poema
Albert Einstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Pode ser que um dia deixemos de nos falar…
Mas, enquanto houver amizade,
Faremos as pazes de novo.
The World Failed Sri Lanka. And Continues to Do So.
Mark Leon Goldberg, UN Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
What we know about those final days is stunningly awful. This International Crisis Group report and this UN Commission of Inquiry report describe a months-long massacre of innocent civilians caught between Tamil Tiger insurgents on one side and government forces on the other. The insurgents used civilians as human shields, and the government decided to shoot through those shields to get to the Tigers. Hundreds of thousands of people were trapped in an area the size of Central Park, subjected to daily mortar fire and indiscriminate killing.
→ read full articleThey Are Hearing Us
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
For the people of Iran who live under Internet and telephone censorship.
→ read full articleLegacy and Re/volution: Talkin’ bout an Evolution
Caridad Svich, Theater Without Borders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
It is perhaps ironic that the last two centuries of cultural turns have focused so much on visual culture and its interpretation, and that science and technology have devoted so much of its research and energy to the development of progressively sophisticated information and entertainment devices (not to mention surveillance and military devices) geared to the visual imagination and its hyperlink-ing strategies. My questions here have less to do with technical advances in the disciplines of design and engineering, and more to do with the philosophical foundations of how we see and how we hear in culture – what we choose to see and hear and not. Ethics again. Yes. Civic responsibility. Spiritual responsibility.
→ read full articleWorld Fisheries Day: 21 November 2012 – Looking for a Nuclear Free World
World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
It has been proved by the Fukushima disaster that there is no safety for nuclear power plants in the world. Nobody knows how to handle the situation in and around Japan, the coast and the sea. The radiation has reached American waters. The Chernobyl accident in Russia, 1986, has created such havoc that the consequences still continue. Within a radius of 150 Km atomic radiation still exists. 97% of the nuclear plant is still ‘alive’ and nobody knows how to ‘kill’ it. Some 9 million children have been born with all kinds of deformities. Since the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in the USA there has not been another plant erected there.
→ read full articleGoodbye to a War
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Binyamin Netanyahu and his patron, Sheldon Adelson, betted on Mitt Romney, with the State of Israel as their chip. They lost. About the Iran war, Israeli hawks can kiss it goodbye. The usual cliché says that US presidents in their second term are free of political pressures and can at long last act according to their conscience. That is certainly true – up to a point. We need an Israeli Obama, who will work with the US Obama for peace.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter on My 82nd Birthday
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Exactly two years ago I wrote my first blog. Throughout this period it has been a bittersweet experience consisting of work, play, challenge, and occasional consternation. Many warm and generous responses have given me an appreciation of the distinctive satisfactions of cyber connectivity.
→ read full articleNobel Foundation – Request for Injunction against EU Prize
Fredrik S. Heffermehl – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
In my letter to Länsstyrelsen on Oct. 7, 2012, I quoted startling remarks from the Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Geir Lundestad, that the Norwegian Committee is not willing to pay attention neither to the will of Alfred Nobel nor to the law and the March 21, 2012, decision of the Länsstyrelsen. Referring to the IPB request of Oct. 5 [2012] I hereby urge the Länsstyrelsen to urgently intervene with an injunctive to stop payment of the prize to the European Union.
→ read full articleThe 16 Smartest People on Earth
Dina Spector and Shlomo Sprung, Yahoo News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
IQ is a problematic measure of intelligence. Many have never been tested, while others have taken the test many times to improve their scores. Still, psychologists consider it the best measurement of intelligence out there. So who has the highest score?
→ read full articlePolicing the Internet
Padraig Reidy, Index on Censorship – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
The more we live our lives online, the greater the temptation for governments and private companies to spy on us. The dark side of our increasing dependence on digital communications. While the internet offers opportunities for mass communication and social interaction unprecedented in human history, the chances for governments to monitor and control how we communicate are also ample.
→ read full articleAnti-Depressant
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
I’m depressed and hallucinating again,
and need my doctor’s help.
I see things on TV
that aren’t really there,
Burma’s Buddhism: A Tale of “Form without Substance”
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Do not mistake Myanma’s thousands of Golden Temples and Pagodas and thousands of Saffron Robed men, that is, form, for the real practice of Buddhism, that is, the practice of Metta or universal loving kindness for all sentient beings. That, of course, is except Rohingya and Muslims.
→ read full articleAn Appeal to the Political Leaders of India
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Protests against corruption in India or other parts of the world are not new. History shows enough evidence of such kinds of protests from time to time. In case of India, there appears a mismatch between concept of public service and political power as a means to realize that goal.
→ read full article(Castellano) Haiti: El Poder de la Calle
Centre Tricontinental – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
La oposición haitiana y el gobierno buscan presentar pruebas de adhesión popular. La escalada del costo de la vida y las irrefutables acusaciones de corrupción suman opositores en todas las clases sociales.
→ read full articleIndia: Why We Don’t Talk About Inequality—And How to Start Again
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Centre Tricontinental – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Equality is forged in the crucible of politics; it would be presumptuous to prescribe solutions. But the politics of equality will have to cut more insistently through the culture of avoidance; this is easier said than done, because this culture has become deeply embedded in everyday sites and practices. Economically, growth is not everything; in many ways, it will pose new and serious challenges.
→ read full articleGreed, Reckless Behaviour and the Financial Crisis: A Timeline
Transparency International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
This crisis was not just the result of a few rogue traders placing reckless bets. Corruption, in the form of fraud and a ‘no holds barred’ pursuit of profits, bonuses and growth, infected the whole financial system. Transparency International believes that not enough has been done to change the culture of greed and reckless risk-taking.
→ read full articleCall for Civil Society Submissions for Report on Peaceful Protests
International Service for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Civil society organisations are requested to submit information for a report being prepared by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, on ‘effective measures and best practices to ensure the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of peaceful protests’. The deadline for these submissions is 15 November [2012].
→ read full articleLetter to Delegates of 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Only our two countries, China and India, are going for major expansion of nuclear power with no concrete plans to decommission the plants or to store and safeguard the nuclear waste. Both our countries also go for major nuclear arms build-up which is not in the best interests of our peoples, regional harmony and world peace.
→ read full articleWorld Fisheries Day – 21 Nov 2012: Call for a Nuclear Free World
National Fishworkers' Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
The World Forum For Fisher People (WFFP) has issued the call for ‘Nuclear Free World’ on the occasion of the World Fisheries Day 2012.
→ read full articleWater: From Privatisation to Corporatisation and the Need for a Counter-Strategy
FIVAS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
The report explores the development from privatisation to corporatisation, within neoliberal policy on urban water services in developing countries. It calls for the water justice movement to update and adjust its strategy, in order to counter the neoliberal tactical shift towards corporatisation. Corporatisation reform entails the implementation of commercial neoliberal management principles within public sector water utilities.
→ read full articleAfrica: Cooperatives Crucial Allies in Fight against Hunger
Nigeria Daily News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
One of the only chances small-scale food producers have to gain competitive access to local and global markets is by banding together in cooperatives, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva told a meeting of the World Cooperatives Congress in Manchester today [31 Oct 2012]. The International Year of Cooperatives is being observed in 2012.
→ read full article(Italian) La Crisi Finanziaria Europea: Germania/GIPSI
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Una crisi così massiccia – con il sistema sanitario in Grecia al collasso e il 50% della gioventù spagnola disoccupata – richiede grandi cause.
→ read full article
Johan Galtung at the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (Video of the Weel)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
New York, NY – October 2012 – Prof. Galtung defines and explains the notion of Sociocide, a concept parallel to Genocide and Ecocide, in the context of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
→ read full articleThe United States of America: A “Culture of Violence”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Charting a “Culture of Violence:” Causes and Consequences – As Figure 1 demonstrates, the manifestations and consequences of violent acts are extensive. This suggests the existence of a “culture of violence” that is generated, sustained, and promoted by acts that arise from individual and collective impulse and intent, and that too often find tier tolerance and approval across political, economic, educational, military, and moral policies of institutions.
→ read full articleWhy We Should All Be Talking About Global Sharing
Adam Parsons, Share The World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Understanding how the principle of sharing relates to economic policy might be simpler than we imagine. In STWR’s recent report, we expanded the existing notion of the sharing economy to include modern systems of social welfare and public service provision, which we argue is perhaps the most advanced form of sharing on a nationwide level that exists in the modern world.
→ read full article(Italian) Studi per la Pace Con Mezzi Pacifici
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Gli studi per la pace sono importanti, tanto quanto quelli sulla salute. Nasciamo inclini a rifiutare la sofferenza, sia essa dovuta a violenza o a malattia, e a cercare il benessere, lo si chiami pace, o salute. Ma non nasciamo con la conoscenza e la competenza, la teoria e la pratica.
→ read full articleProject Aims to Transfer Brazilian Know-How in Support of Cotton Farmers
UN Food and Agriculture Administration (FAO) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
South-South cooperation for rural development, stronger agricultural livelihoods. Brazil and FAO signed a new South-South cooperation agreement today [17 Oct 2012] worth $20 million that aims to channel Brazilian expertise in cotton production to other developing countries.
→ read full articleColorado and Washington Vote To Become First US States To Legalize Marijuana
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Marijuana is now legal in Colorado and Washington for recreational use, and possibly in Oregon as well. Proponents of the initiative argued that pot is safer than alcohol, and that the legal sale of marijuana could rake in $45 to 100 billion in tax revenue, according to Bloomberg. The government will also save an estimated $14 billion in cannabis-related costs in fighting the war on drugs.
→ read full articleThe 2012 Peace Prize Is Unlawful and Cannot Be Paid to the EU
International Peace Bureau, 1910 Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
The European Union, announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee as the winner of the peace prize for 2012, clearly is not one of “the champions of peace” Alfred Nobel had in mind and described in his will as “the person who (Swedish original: “Den som…”) shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”
→ read full article(Portuguese) EUA: Primeira Senadora Abertamente Gay É Eleita Sem Levantar Bandeira do Movimento
BBC Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
A democrata Tammy Baldwin tornou-se na terça-feira [6 nov 2012] a primeira senadora americana abertamente gay, embora as bandeiras do movimento GLBT (Gays, Lésbicas, Bissexuais e Transgêneros) não tenham sido temas centrais nem em sua campanha, nem no discurso de agradecimento feito após o anúncio da vitória.
→ read full articleThe Buzz about Pesticides
Charlotte Stoddart, Nature – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Common pesticides affect bumblebee foraging.
→ read full articleSuspension of Anti-Homosexuality Laws in Malawi a Historic Step Forward
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Laws criminalising same sex sexual conduct in Malawi are suspended pending a decision on whether or not to repeal them is a historic step in the fight against discrimination in the country.
→ read full article2012 – International Year of Cooperatives
United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Cooperatives are not just an economic phenomenon but also a philosophy. It is an entrepreneurial model which is based on values such as equality, solidarity and reciprocity – and democracy, “a model which brings market logic together with social inclusion, making solidarity the focus of concern.”
→ read full articleFurther Reflections on Istanbul as Global Capital
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
My proposal that we consider the possibility of treating Istanbul as the world capital attracted a broad range of responses. I tried to make clear in my revised text that Istanbul could not hope to have this kind of recognition until Turkey had addressed some serious issues, especially the Kurdish grievances that have induced a massive hunger strike in Turkish jails (with over 600 prisoners now taking part, and more threatening to do so).
→ read full articleWays to Eliminate Body Odor
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
If body odor is a product of poor hygiene, new behaviors simply must be learned and adequate tools must be used. One thing we need to be clear of though is that toxic antiperspirant and deodorant sprays are not the answer. When body odor is indicative of a problem from within, detoxifying your body is the answer. There are a variety of cleansing routines that may be appropriate and regularly incorporating detox foods may help.
→ read full articleKill or Be Killed (Or Both)
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
The doctrines of nuclear deterrence and massive retaliation are still based on the Stone Age maxim: “Kill or be killed”, and the voice at the back of the hall is still right in adding “Or both!” We have to remember that the total explosive power of the nuclear weapons in the world today is 500,000 times as great as the power of the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What is threatened by a nuclear war today is the complete breakdown of human civilization.
→ read full articleWalnuts Are Top Nut for Heart-Healthy Antioxidants
Science Daily – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
A new scientific study positions walnuts in the number one slot among a family of foods that lay claim to being among Mother Nature’s most nearly perfect packaged foods: Tree and ground nuts.
→ read full articleRestoring Democracy in the United States
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
The United States is no longer a democracy, since neither the economic system nor the government serve the will and needs of the people. They serve instead the interests of the wealthy and powerful 1%, who control not only the mass media and the financial system, but also the politicians of both major parties. The situation in many other countries is very similar.
→ read full articleCameroon: Lawyer Gets Threats for Defending Gays
News24 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Cameroon lawyer Alice Nkom, who is known for defending gays and lesbians in a country where homosexuality is outlawed, said on Tuesday [23 Oct 2012] that she has been receiving death threats from anonymous callers over her stance.
→ read full articleBanned
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Dedicated to the freedom and dignity of young men who choose to have boyfriends.
→ read full articleThe Failed War on Drugs
TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Infographic – “Let’s be blunt: It’s time to end the drug war.”
→ read full articleWhat Does the World Bank Have to Do with Burma’s Wars, Conflicts and Atrocities?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
The war in Kachin State has everything to do with the World Bank which funded and promoted the idea of “cross-border energy free market”.
→ read full articleThe Universe Unraveling
William Blum, Killing Hope – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
On October 7 [2012] Hugo Chávez won his fourth term in office as president of Venezuela. The feeling of frustration that must have descended upon the Venezuelan and American power elite is likely reminiscent of Chile, March 1973, when the party of another socialist and American bête noire, Salvador Allende — despite the best intentions and dollars without end of the CIA — won about 44 percent of the vote in congressional elections, compared to some 36 percent in 1970.
→ read full articlePerpetual War
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
Because the world spends roughly 1.7 trillion dollars each year on armaments, it follows that very many people make their living from war. This is the reason why it is correct to speak of war as a social, political and economic institution, and also one of the main reasons why war persists, although everyone realizes that it is the cause of much of the suffering of humanity.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Portugal: A Universidade-Mercado – Sete Exemplos da Mercadorização do Ensino Superior
João Mineiro, Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
As universidades foram sempre um espaço de debate, crítica e movimento. Foram sempre uma pedra no sapato do sistema, porque nelas se exprimiram com imensa intensidade a liberdade, a subversão, a rebeldia e a crítica. Nos últimos anos fomos assistindo a estratégias de transformação da universidade pelo mercado, com o objetivo de amenizar o seu potencial crítico e emancipatório. Vejamos sete exemplos.
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Chile’s Most Wanted
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
Branded a ‘terrorist’ at an early age by the government of Chile, Pascual Pichun is a man on a mission. Pascual is a symbol of the indigenous Mapuche resistance movement, which is trying to protect and reclaim its ancestral lands from the government and foreign companies. The movement is accused of attacks on forestry company property, destroying bulldozers and burning down a helicopter.
→ read full articleBritish Ex-Envoy Told the Truth (for a change)
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
Peter Jenkins, Britain’s former representative on the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaking in a debate at Warwick University on nuclear proliferation in Iran, said that “Israelis don’t practise an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth; they practise ten eyes for an eye and ten teeth for a tooth.” He also added that “the idea that a just war requires the use of force to be proportionate seems to be a Christian notion and not a Jewish notion.”
→ read full articleConvention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
UN General Assembly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
Adopted by Resolution 260 (III) A of the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948
→ read full article(Italian) Aerei da Trasporto Alenia per le Future Guerre Africane
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
“Il governo del Ciad ha mantenuto in vigore la pena di morte”, denuncia Amnesty International nel suo ultimo rapporto annuale sui diritti umani. “Nel paese sono aumentati i casi di arresti e detenzioni illegali, così come di tortura, aggressioni ai danni di difensori dei diritti umani, giornalisti e sindacalisti. Stupri e altre violenze nei confronti di donne e ragazze sono stati frequenti. Le condizioni nelle carceri sono difficili ed equiparabili a trattamento o pena crudele, disumana o degradante.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to the Heads of States of the World
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
We, several millions of people from India, are seeking your support for the peaceful and nonviolent struggle that we have been waging for almost a quarter century against the Koodankulam nuclear power project. It is being built with Russian loan and technology against the will and wishes of the local people. As Indian authorities charge us with sedition and waging war on the state, imprisonment, curfew and prohibitory orders, intimidation campaigns, home searches, physical attacks on us and our properties, and other such police atrocities, we are forced to seek justice from the international community.
→ read full articleLet’s Not Forget! Hurricane Sandy Ravaged the Caribbean First (PHOTOS)
Global Grind – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
We must not forget that before Hurricane Sandy touched down in New York City and New Jersey, Caribbean nations such as Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica took the brunt of the superstorm days before it hit the Tri-State area.
→ read full article9 Ways to Reduce Symptoms of Pet Allergies
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
Pets bring a lot of joy and are usually considered a true member of the family. Petting a cat or dog has been shown to lower blood pressure and decrease feelings of loneliness and isolation. It’s not hard to understand why we have a real emotional connection to our pets. However, for people with allergies to animal dander, pets can pose a problem.
→ read full articleHSBC Caught in New Drug Money Laundering Scandal
Tom Burghardt, Antifascist Calling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
While HSBC’s Canary Wharf masters are back-peddling furiously over charges that they gave a leg up to terrorist financiers and drug traffickers as a recent U.S. Senate report charged, new evidence emerged that its business as usual for the multinational banking giant founded by Hong Kong-based British opium merchants.
→ read full articlePeace Studies by Peaceful Means
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
Peace studies matter; same as health studies. We are born with the inclination to reject suffering, be it from violence or disease, and to seek wellbeing, call it peace, call it health. But we are not born with the knowledge and skills, theory and practice
→ read full articleHow a Group of Christians Smearing Muslims Benefits the Jewish State
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
In the course of his much-ridiculed albeit deadly serious ACME bomb speech to the U.N. General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu asserted that “the medieval forces of radical Islam” stand in the way of Israel’s desire for “a Middle East of progress and peace.” As evidence of these freedom-hating, anti-modern forces supposedly “bent on world conquest,” Netanyahu cited the Sept. 11 besieging of U.S. embassies throughout the region.
→ read full articleANC International Solidarity Conference Supports Boycott of Israel
BDS South Africa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
BDS South Africa welcomes the position adopted by the African National Congress (ANC) International Solidarity Conference to support the international boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel campaign.
→ read full article(Portuguese) A Política e a Ética da Fome
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
Existem técnicas de produção de extraordinária eficácia. A produção de alimentos é superior ao crescimento da população mundial. Mas eles estão pessimamente distribuídos. 20% da humanidade dispõe para seu desfrute 80% dos meios de vida. Aqui reside a injustiça. Continua válida a crítica de Gandhi: ”A fome é um insulto; ela avilta, desumaniza e destrói o corpo e o espírito…senão a própria alma; é a forma de violência mais assassina que existe”.
→ read full articleVictims of the Future
Paul Rios, Lokarri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
October 20 [2012] marked one year of the end of ETA violence and these words have taken on a new meaning: “Alec Reid, when talking about the worst years of the conflict in Northern Ireland, said that he started to carry out the role of mediator and tried to represent the victims of the future; he wanted to represent them precisely with the objective that they would never become victims”.
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