Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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In Kudankalum under the banyan tree: Aswath Vriksha
Theresa Wolfwood – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2012
A Poem for the Women of Kudankalum Village
“I am Banyan, tree among trees” – Bhagavad Gita
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John Pilger Speaks @ Marxism 2012
marxismconference – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2012
Pilger: “Marxism in Melbourne is now Australia’s premier festival of debate and free speech on issues that are either excluded from or suppressed by the mass media: issues such as the government’s agenda for Indigenous Australians, Palestine and propaganda in its many disguises.”
→ read full articleKoodankulam Protests are Fully Justified
Prashant Bushan, Senior Lawyer Supreme Court of India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2012
The Koodankulam protestors are therefore fully justified in agitating against the plant. It is imperative that the government respects their sentiments and fears and immediately suspends work at the plant. It must constitute a credible independent expert committee to examine all the safety issues which have been raised, in a transparent manner with public hearings and not resume work on the plant till all safety issues have been credibly addressed.
→ read full articlePetition to Save the Koodankulam Protesters URGENT PLEASE SIGN
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2012
Over 6,000 people face prison for their non-violent opposition to the Koodankulam nuclear plant in Tamil Nadu, India. Now, 330 protesters (302 are women) have commenced an indefinite hunger strike in a last-ditch attempt to save their freedom and stop the nuclear plant — and only our added pressure can force the government to stop this illegal persecution of peaceful protesters. They need your help urgent, PLEASE.
→ read full article(German) Gewaltlose Terroristen? Warum die Proteste gegen den Bau eines Atomkraftwerks in Indien uns alle etwas angehen
Elias Bloch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2012
Im Süden Indiens protestieren über 10’000 Menschen gegen den Bau eines neuen Atomkraftwerkes. Sie verfahren dabei nach dem Prinzip des Gewaltlosen Widerstandes von Mahatma Gandhi.
→ read full articleHistoric Hunger Strikes: Lightning in the Skies of Palestine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2012
Recourse to this desperate tactic of courageous self-sacrifice is an extreme form of nonviolence, and should whenever and wherever it occurs be given close attention. We cannot now know whether these hunger strikes will spark Palestinian resistance in new and creative ways. What we can already say with confidence is that these hunger strikers are writing a new chapter in the story line of resistance sumud, and their steadfastness is for me a Gandhian Moment in the Palestinian struggle.
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Imagine – Songs around the World (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
PlayingForChange – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2012
This song is the Playing For Change Foundation’s gift to the world.
→ read full articleOPEN LETTER to Indian PM, Authorities
Jørgen Johansen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2012
A copy of the Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) on liability secretly signed between the governments of India and Russia must be made available to the project-affected public. Complete and truthful information must be given to the local people and the citizens of India about nuclear waste that would be produced at the Koodankulam plants and its management. Our friends who are still languishing in prison, Muhilan and Sathishkumar, must be released immediately. The local people’s right to protest peacefully and nonviolently against the KKNPP and other related issues must be respected and honored.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Gengibre, um Poderoso Anti-Inflamatório Natural
Bombom, Tia Fatima – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2012
Gengibre, um poderoso anti-inflamatório e analgésico natural, que não tem contra indicações, segundo o Dr Al Sears.
→ read full articlePalestinian Prisoner Unity
Stephen Lendman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2012
On May 4 [2012], his [Jonathan S. Tobin’s] Commentary article headlined “Hunger Strikers’ Goal is Not Peace,” saying: “(T)he Palestinian goal is not their own state living in peace beside Israel but the end of the Jewish state and its replacement by one in which Arabs will rule. Palestinians view violence against Israelis as not only a legitimate tactic but also something that is integral to their nation identity.” Tobin wears blinders. History isn’t his long suit.
→ read full articleA Monstrous Proposal
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2012
Why the private sector should be subject to freedom of information laws.
→ read full article(French) Eldorado Blanc, Fièvre Noire – par Rais Neza Boneza
Kimpa Vita Press & Publishers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2012
Communique de Presse – L’auteur Rais Neza Boneza basé en Norvège, est originaire de la région des Grand-Lacs d’Afrique. Il s’ est inspire de ce contexte et son travail en tant que chercheur et praticien sur le question de paix et de la transformation des conflits pour créer une œuvre de fiction et des faits pour amener à la prise de conscience sur le sort des communautés et des simples individus victimes des conflits à l’est du Congo.
→ read full article“Respect India”
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2012
‘Respect India’ is a call similar to ‘Quit India’ fervently made by the ordinary citizens of India here at Idinthakarai on May 8, 2012. ‘Quit India’ was a civil disobedience movement launched in response to Mahatma Gandhi’s ‘Quit India’ speech delivered on August 8, 1942 at the Gowalia Tank Maidan in Bombay. Gandhiji’s call for determined, but passive resistance appeared in his appeal to “Do or Die.” India is facing a similar “Do or Die” situation today.
→ read full articleBlack Fever, White Eldorado – by Rais Neza Boneza
Kimpa Vita Press & Publishers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2012
PRESS RELEASE-Author Rais Neza Boneza is based in Norway; he is originally from the Great-Lakes region of Africa. Now, he taps that background and work as a peace researcher and practitioner to create a work of fiction and fact to bring in the awareness about the plight of people and simple individuals in the conflict-ridden Eastern-Congo.
→ read full articleKoodankulam’s Reserve Water Requirements
Power Engineering – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
NPCIL did not do its homework regarding the availability of fresh water at or near the reactor site before signing a contract worth Rs 13,000 crore with the Russians. They constructed the KKNPP campus in violation of the terms and conditions laid down by the AERB. NPCIL and elements within the Government of India have been spreading misinformation about the safety of the reactor complex. Since the back-up for coolant water is insufcient, the commissioning of the reactor will be a dangerous gamble.
→ read full articleEmpire of Capital
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
Colonialism Never Ended, It Continues by Different Means – Despite its trumpeted reforms, the IMF remains under the control of the US and the former colonial powers. Belgium still has eight times the votes of Bangladesh, Italy a bigger share than India, and the United Kingdom and France between them more voting power than the 49 African members. The managing director remains, as imperial tradition insists, a European, her deputy an American.
→ read full articleJapan to Be Without Nuclear Power for First Time in 42 Years
Fox News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
Japan will be without nuclear power for the first time in 42 years when the country’s last working commercial reactor is switched off Saturday [5 May 2012]. At 5:00pm local time, the Hokkaido Electric Power Company will begin to reduce power at the No. 3 reactor at Tomari nuclear plant, broadcaster NHK reported. Output from the reactor is scheduled to cease completely at 11:00pm before it is brought to a “cold shutdown” at 2:00am Sunday.
→ read full articleDangers of Nuclear Power Generation
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
The exact number of casualties resulting from the Chernobyl meltdown is a matter of controversy, but according to a United Nations report, as many as 9 million people have been adversely affected by the disaster. Since 1986, the rate of thyroid cancer in affected areas has increased ten-fold. An area of 155,000 square kilometers (almost half the size of Italy) in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia is still severely contaminated.
→ read full articleJohan Galtung an Anti-Semite? I Don’t Think So!
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
I think that Galtung’s main difficulty, in all this brouhaha, has been to speak carelessly and somewhat peremptorily about highly sensitive matters, previously taboo, that require much care and precision of speech in order to avoid arousing post-traumatic fears and giving an impression of insensitivity to people’s basic needs. “An anti-Semite used to be someone who didn’t like Jews. Now it means someone Jews don’t like.”
→ read full articleOPEN LETTER to: Indian PM, Home Affairs Minister, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
We the undersigned are very concerned over the heavy-handed manner in which the governments of India and Tamil Nadu have treated the non-violent struggle against Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant. We understand that just between September and December 2011, complaints were registered against more than 55,000 people in just one police station – the Koodankulam police station.
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Political Correctness Gone Mad
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
RT’s Anastasia Churkina reports on the latest examples of political correctness gone wild in the U.S. We examine cases that could be on their way to turning the land of the free into the “United States of ‘I’m Sorry.'”
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American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein
Baraka Productions, Ridgen Film & Mohawk Films – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
Norman Gary Finkelstein (born December 8, 1953) is an American political scientist, activist and author. His primary fields of research are the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust, an interest motivated by the experiences of his parents who are Jewish Holocaust survivors.
→ read full articleA Putsch against War
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
In some countries, they arrest the president, occupy government offices and TV stations and annul the constitution. They then publish Communique No. 1, explaining the dire need to save the nation. Not in Israel. In our country we are now seeing a kind of verbal uprising against the elected politicians by a group of current and former army generals, foreign intelligence and internal security chiefs who condemn the government’s threat to start a war against Iran, and some of them condemn the government’s failure to negotiate with the Palestinians for peace.
→ read full articleHunger Strikes at ‘Unsafe’ Nukes Reactor
Blanche Tsetong, NewMatilda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) in Tamil Nadu, India, will be operational in less than a month, despite a 23-year long protest from nearby villages, including rolling hunger strikes. The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) claims there has been little transparency or public consultation in the building of the plant.
→ read full articleDavid Horowitz’s Distortion of Reality and Truth
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
This week the David Horowitz’s Freedom Center perpetrated the same (foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman’s) historical distortion in its NYT advertisement comparing college professors who advocate Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against the state of Israel to the Nazi government’s persecution of Jews.
→ read full articleIndia, Koodankulam: Hunger Strikers’ Health Deteriorate – Appeal to Return Voter ID Cards
Dr. S.P. Udayakumar, PMANE – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
The indefinite hunger strike has been going on for the past 7 days. Some 25 men have been on the fast since May 1 and 302 women and 10 more men have joined the strike on May 4, 2012. We request all our supporters in Tamil Nadu and the rest of India to return their Voter IDs to the local Tahsildar and express their opposition to the governments and show their solidarity with our campaign. Indians living abroad can return their Voter IDs to the Indian embassies in their respective countries.
→ read full articleStop State Repression against Anti-Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant Activists
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
Tamil Nadu, India, 5 May 2012 – The indefinite hunger strike has been going on for the past 5 days. Some 25 men have been on the fast since May 1 and 302 women and 10 more men have joined the strike on May 4, 2012. PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION – change.org
→ read full articleUN Rights Expert Raises Alarm Over Palestinian Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Israeli Prisons
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
UN Press Release, Human Rights Council, 2 May 2012 – In extraordinary acts of collective nonviolent resistance to abusive conditions connected to Israel’s prolonged occupation of Palestinian territory, more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners began an open-ended hunger strike on 17 April 2012, Palestinian Prisoners Day. This hunger strike is a protest against unjust arrest procedures, arbitrary detention and bad prison conditions.
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Who Is S P Udhayakumar? (Video of the Week)
NDTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
Born in Kanniyakumari district, S P Udhayakumar earned his post-graduation in literature in the US, taught in the university of Minnesota for three years before returning to India in 2001. He runs a school through a trust in his hometown and teaches Peace Studies around the World. A campaigner against nuclear energy for years, the recent Fukushima tragedy struck the right chord with the masses and catapulted him to be the face of the anti-nuclear campaign at Kudankulam. – Kumar is a Convener of the TRANSCEND Network for South Asia.
→ read full articleRemembering Talal Hamseh, Murdered by Wahabbists in Damascus
Robin Edward Poulton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
On April 27 Talal was parking his car when a Syrian terrorist shot him through the head. He was a kind young man, my daughter’s friend. This murder has been proudly displayed on the murderers’ website, a ‘rebel’ trying to overthrow the Syrian regime. Why would we support Sunni Wahabbist terrorists murdering other Muslims, Christians and Alawites?
→ read full articleThe Massive Palestinian Hunger Strike: Traveling below the Western Radar
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
Can anyone doubt that if there were more than 1300 hunger strikers in any country in the world other than Palestine, the media in the West would be obsessed with the story? It would be featured day after day, and reported on from all angles, including the severe medical risks associated with such a lengthy refusal to take food.
→ read full articleThe Spear Head of Justice
Thomas L. Are – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2012
If we can’t see the daily injustice inflicted on the Palestinians then what chance is there for justice anywhere? We might as well give up to a dog eat dog world, every man (and nation) for himself and to hell with the needs and pains of anyone else. The injustice in Palestine is so obvious. In the last two days, Israeli forces have killed at least 15 residents of the Gaza Strip and wounded over 30. Among the dead are two young boys.
→ read full articleThe Plight of Mr. Ordinary Citizen
S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2012
April 22, 2012 (The Earth Day) From Koodankulam Nonviolent Nuclear Protest, India
Listen to my plight; I am a low class low caste Ordinary Citizen;
And I’m running from pillar to post with a public interest petition
That imported and imposed nuclear reactors threaten to jettison
My community’s livelihood, resources and the very existence.
US ‘Expands Yemen Drone Strikes Policy’
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2012
Barack Obama has approved a new policy shift which allows the Central Intelligence Agency and the US military to launch drone attacks in Yemen when the identity of those who could be killed is not known. The Washington Post, quoting administration officials, said on Thursday [26 Apr 2012] that the US president approved the use of “signature” strikes this month.
→ read full articleIndia: Koodankulam Update Apr 27 2012
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2012
Greetings! Please accept our sincere thanks for your keen interest in our struggle and the kind support for our cause. As you know, we have been fighting against the Koodankulam Nuclear power Project (KKNPP) since the late 1980s. To put it all in a nutshell, this is a classic David-Goliath fight between the ‘ordinary citizens’ of India and the powerful Indian government supported by the rich Indian capitalists, MNCs, imperial powers and the global nuclear mafia.
→ read full articleA Plea of Pleas for Nonkilling
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2012
Rhymed Reflections Dedicated to the Center for Global Nonkilling
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Prove Your Charge or Quit: Kudankulam Activist to Indian PM (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
INB Live – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2012
Anti-nuclear activist Uday Kumar criticised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over his statement that an NGOs based in the United States are fuelling the Kudankulam nuclear plant protests, and asked the Prime Minister either to prove the charge or step down.
→ read full articleLetter from Swiss Amnesty International to PM of India
Amnesty International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2012
As members of Amnesty International Geneva, Switzerland, we are dismayed by the detainment of the Tamil Nadu nuclear plant protesters, the charges of sedition, conspiracy and rioting lodged against many of them, and by the prospect that some of these protesters continue to remain in jail.
→ read full articleYou Are All Suspects Now. What Are You Going To Do About It?
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2012
You are all potential terrorists. It matters not that you live in Britain, the United States, Australia or the Middle East. Citizenship is effectively abolished. Turn on your computer and the US Department of Homeland Security’s National Operations Center may monitor whether you are typing not merely “al-Qaeda”, but “exercise”, “drill”, “wave”, “initiative” and “organisation”: all proscribed words.
→ read full articleWhat Everyone Who Uses the Internet Needs To Know About CISPA
Annie-Rose Strasser and Scott Keyes, Think Progress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2012
CISPA’s broad language will likely give the government access to anyone’s personal information with few privacy protections – It supersedes all other provisions of the law protecting privacy – The bill completely exempts itself from the Freedom of Information Act – CISPA gives companies blanket immunity from future lawsuits – Citizens have to trust that companies like Facebook won’t share your personal information.
→ read full articleCrucial Dilemma in American Politics
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2012
Although in theory we do have quite a good number of political parties, in practice there are virtually only two for all practical purposes. They are known as Democrats and Republicans, both of which are characterized by extremes. This makes it difficult for the American people in general to really have a clear-cut choice when it comes to elections.
→ read full articleValues for the Future
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2012
In the world of the future, a future of changed values, women will take their places beside men in positions of responsibility; children will be educated rather than exploited; non-material human qualities, such as kindness, politeness, knowledge and musical and artistic ability will be valued more highly; and people will derive a larger part of their pleasure from conversation and from the appreciation of unspoiled nature.
→ read full articleMemories Conscious and Subconscious
Johan Galtung, 30 Apr 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2012
Two kinds of memories serve politics: glories and traumas. The glories–victory, liberation, constitution–are celebrated as the birth of a nation. The traumas–defeat, invasion-occupation, decline and fall–are surrounded with the oath NEVER AGAIN! We are guided not only by future goals, but also by past memories. They set the discourse, the frame for what happens. Anybody attacking the USA on US territory invokes Pearl Harbor; 9/11 is then sedimented on top of that, tripling the response should there ever be one more. Better know the wounds imprinted on the collective soul
→ read full article“There Are Marxists in India?”
Robert Jensen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2012
While there certainly are no shortages of capitalists, there are still lots of Marxists in India, as well as communist parties that have won state elections. Patnaik represents the best thinking and practice of those left traditions — both the academic Marxism that provides a framework for critique of economics, and the political Marxism that proposes public policies — which is why I was so excited to talk with him about lessons to be learned from the current economic crisis.
→ read full articleUS Arms Sales to Latin America by Country
Just the Facts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2012
U.S. Arms and Equipment Sales, All Programs, Entire Region, 2005-2010
→ read full articleIn Support of Ongoing Nuclear Power Satyagraha Protest in Koodankulam-India
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace laureate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2012
Although the world’s media have given it scant attention, it is important for all of us to follow the nonviolent mass resistance movement against the nuclear power plant construction in Koodankulam village, Tamil Nadu, India. It has built up steadily into a nonviolent mass action, with about 10,000 people resisting the imposition of the plant in their backyard. The leader of the movement faces 98 spurious charges including sedition, treason, terrorism and attempted murder.
→ read full articleBlamed for Bee Collapse, Monsanto Buys Leading Bee Research Firm
Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2012
Monsanto, the massive biotechnology company being blamed for contributing to the dwindling bee population, has bought up one of the leading bee collapse research organizations. It appears that when Monsanto cannot answer for their environmental devastation, they buy up a company that may potentially be their ‘experts’ in denying any such link between their crops and the bee decline.
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Johan Galtung: How Do You Define Peace?
Al Jazeera | The Stream – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2012
Is US global dominance in decline? Discussing the future of geopolitics with Johan Galtung.
→ read full articleOpening the Other Eye: Charles Taylor and Selective Criminal Accountability
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2012
From all that we know Charles Taylor deserves to be held criminally accountable for his role in the atrocities committed in Sierra Leone during the period 1998-2002. But there are some elements of this conviction that feed the suspicion that the West is up to its old tricks of seizing the high moral ground while pursuing economic and geopolitical goals that obstruct the political independence and sovereignty of countries that were once their colonies.
→ read full articleA New Mali Federation?
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2012
Since the fall of northern Mali to the forces of the Tuareg at the end of March 2012, the situation has grown in complexity. Can a new Mali Federation of the two sections of the current Mali work better than the earlier Federation of Mali? With good will and imagination, federalist structures should be able to be worked out. Yet there are times when good will and imagination are in short supply.
→ read full articleCreativity
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2012
Where is Creativity?
→ read full articleChoosing a President for the World Bank: West Centrism Prevails over Global Democracy
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2012
This post seeks to use the selection of an American as the new President of the World Bank both to expose the fraudulent claim of a merit-based selection process and to insist indirectly that the future peace and justice of the world requires a more democratic and legitimate structure of global governance that reflects the post-colonial rise of the non-West, a rise that is not reflected in antiquated structures that persist despite changed conditions.
→ read full articleNobel Laureate Not Attending World Summit of Peace Laureates in the US
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2012
I cannot, in good conscience, be part of a partnership with the US government and by association with NATO. I also believe that my participation in such an event would compromise my position and put in jeopardy my work in the Middle East and other countries.
→ read full articleTranscending Simplistic Binary Contractual Relationships
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2012
What Is Hindering Their Exploration? – There are numerous examples of territorial and boundary disputes around the globe. These are readily described in the simplest binary form — “that land belongs to us” and “not true, it belongs to us” (Us and Them: Relating to Challenging Others, 2009). The debates on these matters may last for years, typically highlighted by sporadic bouts of violence and threats of violence.
→ read full articleUnplugging Americans from the Matrix
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2012
Americans, the British, and Western Europeans are accustomed to thinking of themselves as the representatives of freedom, democracy, and morality in the world. The West passes judgment on the rest of the world as if the West is God and the rest of the world are barbarians in need of chastisement, invasion, and occupation.
→ read full articleIndia: PMANE Announces Indefinite Hunger Strike from May 1, 2012
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2012
The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy-PMANE plans to resume indefinite hunger strike from May 1, 2012, International Workers’ Day, in protest to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project-KKNPP in Tamil Nadu. More than 56,000 people have been charged with false cases until December 31, 2011 including some 6,000 sedition cases. No step has been taken to withdraw all the false charges; instead, fresh murder charges are framed against the leaders of the PMANE falsely.
→ read full articleUS-Israel War on Iran: The Myth of Limited Warfare
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2012
Washington and Tel Aviv claim and appear to believe that their planned assault on Iran will be a “limited war”, targeting limited objectives and lasting a few days or weeks – with no serious consequences.
→ read full articleThe Titanic as an Allegory
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2012
On top are the enormously rich, enjoying a life of unprecedented luxury; below, the poor. But rich and poor alike are in the same boat, headed for disaster – surrounded by the miracles of our technology, but headed for a disastrous collision with environmental forces, the forces of nature that we have neglected in our pride and arrogance.
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(Spanish with English subtitles) Iceland Forgives Mortgage Debt of Its Population
telesurenglish – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2012
The government of Iceland has forgiven the mortgage debt for much of its population. This nation chose a very different way of stopping the crisis from the rest of European countries. It decided to hear the requests of the population and to put politicians and bankers on the bench of the accused three years after their financial excesses would sank one of the most prosperous economies in 2008.
→ read full articleGetting Away With Murder
Committee to Protect Journalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2012
Special Report – CPJ’s 2012 Impunity Index Spotlights Countries Where Journalists Are Slain and Killers Go Free
→ read full articleWomen Power vs Nuclear Power in Kudankulam
NDTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2012
Despite prohibitory orders, hundreds of women gathered at the Kudankulam nuclear plant site to protest against the plant. Many protesters were arrested. The women say they fear for the lives of their children and will not allow any work at the nuclear plant.
→ read full articleJulian Assange’s “The World Tomorrow” Premiere: Hassan Nasrallah
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2012
Hezbollah urged the Syrian opposition to engage in dialogue with Assad’s regime, but they refused. Hezbollah leader Sayyid Nasrallah confirmed this in his first interview in six years, the world premiere of Julian Assange’s ‘The World Tomorrow’ on RT.
→ read full articleCases against Koodankulam Protestors a Parody of Law: Fact Finding Team
Battleground Koodankulam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2012
Just between 10 Sep 2011 and 23 Dec 2011, the Police had filed 107 FIRs against 55,795 people. Of this, 6,800 have been charged with “sedition” and/or “waging war against the State,” perhaps the largest ever number in British or independent India for one police station. The recent FIR alleging “attempt to murder” by S.P. Udayakumar, V. Pushparayan and other leaders was fabricated and designed to malign the peaceful movement and its leaders.
→ read full articleNo Magic Solutions for the Extinction of Species that Produce Our Air, Water and Water
Stephen Leahy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2012
Is There a Middle Ground Between Economic Interests, Livelihoods and Conservation? An exclusive interview with Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, executive secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.
→ read full articleIs Big Pharma Peddling Narcotics? Take Oxycontin, For Instance
Mark Karlin, Buzzflash – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2012
It is difficult to believe that Big Pharma is not aware of this growing abuse of legal drugs. It is difficult to fathom that their actuarial predictions of profit don’t take into account the addictive and widespread abuse of narcotics. Perhaps they are indeed innocent bystanders to this spreading problem, but then the companies that make such effective medications would have to be deaf, blind, and dumb, because there is no way to ignore the “legal” drugs that are decimating sections of America.
→ read full articleDoes Microwaving Veggies Kill the Nutrients?
SHAPE magazine, Healthy Living – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2012
Despite what you might read on the Internet, microwaving your food does not “kill” nutrients. In fact, it can make certain nutrients more available to your body .
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India: Kudankulam Protests – Am I A Terrorist? Asks Anti-Nuclear Activist Udayakumar (Video of the Week)
NDTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2012
An uneasy calm prevails at Idinthakarai in Tamil Nadu – Ground Zero of the protests against the Kudankulam nuclear plant – ahead of an imminent arrest of Dr S P Udhayakumar, the man who has led the charge against the controversial power project. – Dr. SP Udayakumar is a Convener of the TRANSCEND Network for South Asia.
→ read full articleNuclear Weapons Are Not Instruments Of Peace!
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2012
To witness otherwise perceptive and morally motivated scholars succumbing to the demons of nuclearism is a bad omen; for me this nuclearist complacency is an unmistakable sign of cultural decadence that can only bring on disaster for the society, the species, and the world at some indeterminate future point. We cannot count on our geopolitical luck lasting forever! And we Americans, cannot possibly retain the dubious advantages of targeting the entire world with these weapons of mass destruction without experiencing the effects of a profound spiritual decline.
→ read full articlePro-Palestinian Activists Detained In Israel
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2012
More than 40 pro-Palestinian activists reached Tel Aviv’s international airport as part of an attempted “fly-in” only to be detained by Israeli authorities. On Sunday [15 Apr 2012] 41 people had been refused entry at Ben Gurion airport by early afternoon and would be deported. The Welcome to Palestine campaign, now in its third consecutive year, aims to gather activists from over 15 countries in Israel from April 15 to 21 to “challenge the Israeli siege of the occupied territories”, it says on its website.
→ read full articleAFRICOM Overheard by Lacville
Robert Lacville – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2012
The neocolonial scramble for Africa has led to a declaration of the Independent Republic of Azawad – According to the National Intelligence Council, “the United States is likely to draw 25% of its oil from West Africa by 2015. The interests of the USA could be assured by using local allies to fight American battles.” During a recent virtual trip he did not make to Stuttgart, writer Robert Lacville virtually overheard the following briefing of a senior U.S. army general by Senior C.I.A. Agent Jack and a certain Colonel W.:
→ read full articleScience, Ethics and Social Responsibility
Jennifer Allen Simons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2012
We are confronted with a situation in which the realistic destiny of civilization is nuclear genocide; the death of millions through accidental or malicious release of deathly biological agents; through ecological degradation; and climate change – causing deaths of millions from famines on grand scales – unless we find the ways and means to divert the course established by science, technology and its rationale in the name of progress.
→ read full articleBread and Circuses
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2012
Modern science has, for the first time in history, offered humankind the possibility of a life of comfort, free from hunger and cold, and free from the constant threat of death through infectious disease. At the same time, science has given humans the power to obliterate their civilization with nuclear weapons, or to make the earth uninhabitable through overpopulation and pollution. The question of which of these paths we choose is literally a matter of life or death for ourselves and our children.
→ read full articlePolitical Revolution in Germany: Pirates Country’s Third Strongest Party in New Poll
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2012
Germany’s Pirate Party may still be hammering out their platform, but that doesn’t seem to bother voters. Riding a wave of new popularity following a recent state election success, the Internet freedom advocates have gained record support in a national poll.
→ read full articleThe Truth about Tech
Jenica Rhee, mastersdegree.net – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2012
After explosions at an Apple supplier plant in China last year, many of the company’s factories came under scrutiny, and now other tech-producing companies are being similarly examined. You may be familiar with the Apple production scandals, but lesser known factories around the world are employing similarly damaging manufacturing tactics. After all, the cell phone in your pocket, computer on your desk, and television in your living room all came from somewhere, and chances are it wasn’t pretty.
→ read full article10 Demands for Concrete Proof by We the Peoples of the World
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2012
Produced in a period when the USA is demanding concrete evidence from Iran that it is halting efforts to produce nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleWhich is the Biggest Drug Cartel in the World? Big Pharma
Mark Karlin, Buzzflash – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2012
Big Pharma has not lost the opportunity to push pain-killing drugs, and off-label use of many drugs, both of which result in “collateral damage” injury and death. Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, told Truthout that more US citizens die from opiate overdoses due to legally prescribed pharmaceuticals than from heroin.
→ read full articleElections Long Over in Koodankulam
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2012
In support of ‘people of Koodakulam’ whose voices and rights have been suppressed.
→ read full articleBig Brother ‘Legal’ In US: Mumia Abu-Jamal Exclusive to RT
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2012
Full Interview – RT has become the first TV channel in the world to speak to former journalist and Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal since he was removed from death row in January [2012].
→ read full articleKenya: Restoring Hope in Kawangware
Xchange Perspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2012
On the 12th of April, a number of organisations rallied to support the street children of Kawangware in Nairobi, in having a voice to loudly express their dreams, hopes and fears. Hundreds of street children in Kawangware and their champions poured into the streets in a peaceful demonstration to mark the International Day for Street Children.
→ read full article(Italian) Some Like It Hot
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2012
Segnalo una buona pratica dal basso che, in dissenso nei confronti della costruzione di un pirogassificatore in Valle d’Aosta, ha visto il costituirsi di parte della società civile in associazione e costruire la lotta culturale dal basso a tutela della salute dei singoli e collettiva.
→ read full articleA Dangerous Idea
Kirk Anderson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2012
To read the comic fable please click. Waging Nonviolence.
→ read full articleOn TRANSCENDING: Rhymed Reflections
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2012
1. When will humankind be able to peacefully TRANSCEND?
When to all forms of violence and killing we will put AN END.
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Extreme Weather is the New Normal
Stephen Leahy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2012
Extreme weather is fast becoming the new normal. Canada and much of the United States experienced summer temperatures during winter this year, confirming the findings of a new report on extreme weather.
→ read full articleThe Real Costs of Nuclear Energy
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2012
The only reason that nuclear energy now looks relatively cheap compared to other energy sources is that it receives huge subsidies from governments (that is from the people, without being asked). The operators of nuclear power plants are not held liable for accidents.
→ read full articleJohnson & Johnson Fined $1.2 billion for Drug Labeling Failure
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2012
Johnson & Johnson has been fined $1.2 billion in Arkansas over the sales of Risperdal, an antipsychotic drug. A circuit judge ruled that the company did not warn patients that the drug places elderly patients with dementia at an increased risk of major weight gain, possible diabetes and potential death.
→ read full articleEnabling Wisdom Dynamically within Intertwined Tori
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2012
Requisite Resonance in Global Knowledge Architecture – The theme emerged from consideration of how wisdom could be rendered into more compact form for dissemination on Twitter, constrained by the 140 character limitation on any tweet message. The example explored was the set of 48 Zen koan assembled in a classic collection compiled in 1228 by the Chinese Zen master Wumen Hui-k’ai.
→ read full articleWorsening Trends in Global Arms Transfers
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2012
Translating it into reality we realise is a monumental challenge which goes beyond the cessation of the production and consumption of conventional weapons. But let the citizens of the world at least demand that those who rule in their name put disarmament on the global agenda as an urgent item that requires immediate attention.
→ read full articleBelene Nuclear Power Plant Canceled, Bulgarian PM Confirms
Sofia News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2012
Bulgaria has quit the Belene Nuclear Power Plant project, the country’s Prime Minister has confirmed. “During today’s [28 Mar 2012] Council of Ministers Sitting, we decided to terminate the Belene Nuclear Power Plant project,” Borisov told reporters. “We cannot afford to pay for it, and there is no way we can make future generations pay,” the Prime Minister declared.
→ read full articleREDD: The New Beast in the Forest Brings Hope and Threats to Indigenous Peoples
Stephen Leahy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2012
Deforestation gobbles up an area the size of Greece (13 million hectares) every year. It also produces huge amounts of greenhouse gas emissions — a whopping 15 to 20 percent of all global emissions. In an attempt to reverse this, countries in the United Nations have agreed to create a financial value for the carbon stored in forests in a program called REDD: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation. But “REDD will fail if forest peoples are kept out of the negotiations and if states do not ensure that our right to free, prior and informed consent is properly respected,” said Tauli-Corpuz, a member of the indigenous Kankana-ey Igorot community in the Philippines. That includes the right to say ‘no’.
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Death Penalty in 2011
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2012
People were executed or sentenced to death for a range of offences including adultery and sodomy in Iran, blasphemy in Pakistan, sorcery in Saudi Arabia, the trafficking of human bones in the Republic of Congo, and drug offences in more than 10 countries. Methods of execution in 2011 included beheading, hanging, lethal injection and shooting. Some 18,750 people remained under sentence of death at the end of 2011 and at least 676 people were executed worldwide.
→ read full articleWhy Europe Is Not Yet ‘A Culture Of Peace’
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2012
It is undoubtedly true that the greatest unacknowledged achievement of the European Union (EU) is to establish ‘a culture of peace’ within its regional enclosure for the 68 years since 1944. This has meant not only the absence of war in Europe, but also the absence of ‘war talk,’ threats, crises, and sanctions, with the single important exception of the NATO War of 1999 that was part of the fallout from the breakup of former Yugoslavia.
→ read full articleWhat Do You Want USA, Up or Down?
Johan Galtung, 9 Apr 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2012
One wonders what the US political leaders want. The incumbent lives in this world, playing an ultra-realist game: extra-judicial executions in maybe 70 countries, drone attacks; minimizing US losses, maximizing direct hits at what he sees as the problem, concrete identified individuals, not concrete unidentified conflicts. He has neither the moral nor the intellectual courage to do that.
→ read full articleWith the Fall of Timbukutu, Is there an Azawad in Mali’s Future?
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2012
Timbuktu was once a metaphor for the middle of nowhere. Now it is in the middle of a struggle that has important implications for the whole Sahel zone that runs from Senegal to Sudan. Tuareg armed forces coming from further north have taken control of the key towns of northern Mali: Kidal, Gao, and Timbuktu, largely cutting the country in two.
→ read full articleRang de Basanti (Colour My Saffron)
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2012
In support of ‘people of Koodakulam’ whose voices and rights have been suppressed.
→ read full articleFirst Marines in Australia as U.S. Ramps Up Asia-Pacific Focus
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2012
About 200 U.S. Marines began a six month deployment in Australia on Wednesday [4 Apr 2012], in the first wave of a buildup of 2,500 troops due eventually to rotate through a de facto base in Darwin, as the U.S deepens its military presence in the Asia-Pacific.
→ read full articleWar Porn: The New Safe Sex
Pepe Escobar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2012
The early 21st century is addicted to war porn, a prime spectator sport consumed by global couch and digital potatoes. Like porn, war porn cannot exist without being based on a lie – a crude representation. But unlike porn, war porn is the real thing; unlike crude, cheap snuff movies, people in war porn actually die – in droves. Iran is the new Iraq; and whatever the highway, to evoke the neo-con motto, real men go to Tehran via Damascus, or real men go to Tehran non-stop.
→ read full articleWhat Really Explains Thein Sein Regime’s Current Pursuit of ‘Ceasefire’ with the Karens while Killing the Kachins
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2012
Obviously, the Burmese generals and ex-generals have outsourced the business of “strategic peace” to its commercial elements – Burmese commercial interests. Investors from Norway, Germany, etc. are licking their lips while the locals do the foreplay with the ethnic virgin lands (and untapped resources).
→ read full articleTerrorism: Origins, Analysis & Resolution
TRANSCEND Member Prof. Charles Webel - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2012
This course will focus on contemporary international terrorism, including the current “global war on terror.” It will familiarize students with contemporary theories and methods of understanding and preventing terrorism, focusing on international conflicts and conflict resolution.
→ read full articleA Prayer by Indians
S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2012
With Due Apologies to St. Francis, Reinhold Niebuhr and St. Patrick
Oh, Prime Ministerial Lord, make me a sports authority of your games;
where there is common, let me steal wealth;
where there is contract, commission;
where there is agreement, kickbacks; …
Text of Annan’s Six-Point Peace Plan for Syria
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2012
The 15-member United Nations Security Council is expected to endorse a deadline agreed to by Syria for a military withdrawal by April 10 [2012] and a comprehensive ceasefire no more than 48 hours later with rebel forces. The ceasefire is the key part of special envoy Kofi Annan’s six-point peace plan, which was presented to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on March 10 and accepted by him on March 27.
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