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(Português) Cristiano Ronaldo Nega Troca de Camisas com Jogador de Israel: “Não Troco com Assassinos”
Milton Ribeiro – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
Ao final da partida entre Portugal e Israel pelas Eliminatórias da Copa do Mundo de 2014, em 25 de março 2013 — porque será que a imprensa daqui não deu a devida importância ao fato? O jogador português Cristiano Ronaldo recusou-se a trocar sua camisa com a de um jogador de Israel. Questionado sobre a recusa, afirmou: “Não troco minha camisa com assassinos”.
→ read full articleWar Drugs
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
When we go marching off to war
our need for drugs begins to soar.
Does Current Biology Have the Misfortune of Owning an Unreliable Clock?
Bhakti Niskama Shanta, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
On April 2013, the prestigious Cell Press Journal Current Biology published an article entitled “A Revised Timescale for Human Evolution Based on Ancient Mitochondrial Genomes”. This paper has twenty authors and they are researchers from the world’s top institutes like Max Planck Institute, Harvard, etc. In the present article the author discusses a few significant fallacies of the methodology employed by this paper.
→ read full articleUsing Nuclear Energy Presents Similar Problems to Fossil Fuels
Alternative Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
The environmental impact of nuclear fuels has proven to be much greater than the original estimates of the fledgling industry. The solution to the problem of how to safely store tons and tons of nuclear waste, which remains extremely dangerous to life for hundreds of thousands of years, has still not been discovered after 5 decades of nuclear research.
→ read full articleRisk-enhancing Cognitive Implications of the Basic Mathematical Operations
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
ADD, MULTIPLY, DIVIDE and SUBTRACT – This exploration uses the set of basic mathematical operations as a means of providing a mnemonic framework to highlight weaknesses in comprehension tending to accelerate processes of global civilizational collapse, as variously foreseen (Thomas Homer-Dixon, The Upside of Down: catastrophe, creativity, and the renewal of civilization, 2006; Jared M. Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, 2005; Johan Rockstrom and Anders Wijkman, Bankrupting Nature: Denying our Planetary Boundaries, 2012).
→ read full articleAn Ongoing Liability: The CIA’s Dirty Wars
Michael Brenner - CounterPunch,
13 May 2013
The errant actions of the C.I.A. are by now so evident that they are a staple of Washington conversion. Like the weather, though, it is the topic everybody talks about, but does nothing about.
→ read full articleBuilding a Solar Economy: 4 Lessons from Hawaii
Erin L. McCoy – YES! Magazine,
13 May 2013
Hawaii generates more of its power from the sun than any other state. Here’s what the rest of us can learn from the obstacles that came up along the way and what’s being done to overcome them. The solar industry now accounts for 26 percent of the state’s construction-related spending.
→ read full articleDrones, Sanctions and the Prison Industrial Complex: A Catholic Worker Report
Brian Terrell, warisacrime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
In the final weeks of a six month prison sentence for protesting remote control murder by drones, I can only reflect on my time of captivity in light of the crimes that brought me here. In these ominous times, it is America’s officials and judges and not the anarchists who exhibit the most flagrant contempt for the rule of law.
→ read full articleBail-out Is Out, Bail-in Is In: Time for Some Publicly-Owned Banks
Ellen Brown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
The crossing of the Rubicon into the confiscation of depositor funds was not a one-off emergency measure limited to Cyprus. Similar “bail-in” policies are now appearing in multiple countries. What triggered the new rules may have been a series of game-changing events including the refusal of Iceland to bail out its banks and their depositors.
→ read full articleGagging on Ag-gag Laws: Who Are the Real Animal Farm ‘Terrorists?’
Jim Hightower, Creators – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
The freedom-busting terrorists in this fight are not those who reveal the abuse, but the soulless factory-farm profiteers in the corporate suites and the cynical lawmakers who serve them. Actually, factory farms are not farms at all. They are corporate-run concentration camps for pigs, cows, chickens, turkeys and other food animals.
→ read full article(Português) Como Era Tranquilo Mover Fábricas…
Immanuel Wallerstein – Outras Palavras,
6 May 2013
Por séculos, capitalismo espalhou indústrias, trabalho assalariado e poluição pelo mundo, fugindo de salários altos. Esta ciranda está no fim.
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Chopin – Fantasie Impromptu Op 66 (Music Video of the Week)
Rogerio Tutti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
Piano Concerto – Rogerio Tutti is an internationally acclaimed Brazilian pianist.
→ read full articleEverything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
6 May 2013
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. We found this out in recent months, when a series of related corruption stories spilled out of the financial sector, suggesting the world’s largest banks may be fixing the prices of, well, just about everything.
→ read full articleKill for Peace
Tom Greening - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
Some soldiers do not like to kill—
not for the glory or the thrill.
But do not fret—relax, for now
psychologists can teach them how.
Sri Lanka: The Intentions Behind the Land Grabbing Process
Nirmanusan Balasundaram – Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka,
6 May 2013
In the so-called ‘post-war’ Sri Lanka context, land grabbing, Sinhalization and military occupation of the Tamil nation have become pivotal points in the political development discourse. The deep concerns that exist amongst the majority of the Tamils, which are directed towards their present and future existence, are these same issues.
→ read full articleBoston and Venezuela: Terrorism There and Here
Prof. James Petras – Global Research,
6 May 2013
Two major terrorists’ attacks took place almost simultaneously: in Boston, two alleged Chechen terrorists set off bombs during the annual Boston Marathon killing three people and injuring 170; in Venezuela, terrorist-supporters of defeated presidential candidate, Henrique Capriles, assassinated 8 and injured 70 supporters of victorious Socialist Party candidate Nicolas Maduro, in the course of firebombing 8 health clinics and several Party offices and homes.
→ read full articleIt’s Time to Reconsider US Policies That Create Terrorism
MJ Rosenberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
There is one change that the US could make in response to terrorism: the part U.S. policies play in creating and sustaining it. We are not supposed to say this, as if discussing why we are hated justifies the targeting of Americans because of their government. But the fact that nothing justifies terrorism does not mean that nothing causes it. Terrorists (in this case Muslim terrorists) target the US because they perceive us as their enemy. And with good reason.
→ read full article(Português) Quem Resgatará a Indústria Farmacêutica?
Martha Rosenberg - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
Pode ser você: vêm aí testosterona spray, ritalina plus, patologização da insônia, “controle de distúrbuios imunológicos” e outras promessas fármaco-publicitárias…
→ read full articleNuclear Impacts
Alternative Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
Generating nuclear power appears to be an effective way to create dangerous waste garbage that cannot be safely thrown away, though often is. Past operations have resulted in contamination and fatalities throughout almost every step of the mining, refining, and disposal process. Even now we have no idea how to safeguard future generations from radioactive material used to produce today’s electricity.
→ read full articleReport: Sri Lanka’s Assault on Dissent
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
In their attempt to consolidate power, Sri Lanka’s authorities have criminalized freedom of expression, and equated dissent with treason. Those who dare to criticize the authorities are pursued and silenced. As described in this report, Sri Lanka is failing to comply with its international obligations to respect and protect the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association, as well as other rights.
→ read full article(Italiano) Droni: Frontiere Tecnologiche
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
L’uso indiscriminato dei droni rende le guerre sempre più violente e illegittime. Da radar a spie, un utilizzo spietato che vuol coinvolgere anche l’Italia, ponendo una base di controllo del programma Nato a Sigonella.
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MAN
Steve Cutts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
Animation looking at man’s [and women’s] relationship with the natural world.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to International Crisis Group
Maung Zarni – Democratic Voice of Burma,
6 May 2013
If the ICG’s award is about honouring President Thein Sein’s “visionary leadership to effect profound social, economic and political changes” that will “bring us closer to a world free of conflict” then the organisation’s empirical understanding of both Thein Sein’s vision and the ugly realities experienced by the Burmese people, including the Rohingya, can only be characterised as delusional.
→ read full article(Italiano) Si chiamava Danilo Dolci
Noise from Africa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
Qualcuno gli ha dato del comunista miscredente e del sedizioso; altri hanno paragonato la sua vita a quella dei santi capaci di salire sul rogo per coerenza. Ha subito, nel corso della sua vita, ben ventisei processi. Ha ottenuto numerosi riconoscimenti internazionali ed è stato candidato al Premio Nobel per la Pace.
→ read full articleThein Sein Faces Ethnic Cleansing Charge, Accepts Peace Prize on Same Day
Ty McCormick – Foreign Policy,
6 May 2013
Tonight [22 Apr 2013], at a black-tie gala in New York, the International Crisis Group is scheduled to honor Thein Sein, Burma’s president, with its top peace award. But today also a new report by Human Rights Watch accuses Burma’s government of complicity in the ethnic cleansing of 125,000 Rohingya Muslims in the country’s southwest. Something tells me tonight’s gala is going to be a little awkward.
→ read full articleAn Octagonal World
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
USA sheds half of its bases and the military budget in this administration and the next; using the savings to lift the bottom up so they can participate in the economy and make the wheels turn. China gives up its maritime imperialism–harking back to “When the World was Asia, 500-1500 AD–and forgives 50% of the US debt in return for the 50% disarmament–keeping a policy of no military intervention. SCO cooperates, peacefully.
→ read full articleThe Koodankulam Project Lies under a Heap of Lies!
People’s Movemenmt Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
Like the helpless Desdemona, we, the people of Koodankulam, have been begging the Indian State to let us live, live in peace with our families, Nature and Future. But the haughty, conceited and obtuse men of power in political Delhi, nuclear Mumbai and profiteering Russia are persisting with their Othello-like lies and murders and self-destruction. The Koodankulam handkerchief in this modern Othello is surrounded by, sustained with, and steeped in lies. Lies, lies, and more lies!
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
A Global Harmony Association (GHA) Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day
→ read full article(Castellano) Guerra
Enrico Euli – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
El gasto militar mundial en el 2010 ascendió a 1,63 mil billones de dólares, 236 dólares (186 euros) por persona, aproximadamente el 2,6% del PIB mundial. Del 2001 al 2010, el gasto militar mundial ha crecido en un 50%, con un aumento en Estados Unidos del 81%, mientras en el resto del mundo el aumento ha sido del 32%.
→ read full articleBeer, eh
TMS editor,
6 May 2013
A Canadian is walking down the street with a case of beer under his arm.
→ read full articleIs the Press Too Big to Fail? It’s Dumb Journalism, Stupid!
Todd Gitlin - TomDispatch,
6 May 2013
Everyone knows this story, though fewer and fewer read it on paper. There are barely enough pages left to wrap fish. The second paper in town has shut down. Sometimes the daily delivers only three days a week. Advertising long ago started fleeing to Craigslist and Internet points south. Subscriptions are dwindling. Online versions don’t bring in much ad revenue. Who can avoid the obvious, if little covered question: Is the press too big to fail? Or was it failing long before it began to falter financially?
→ read full article(Português) Novo Estudo Aponta Erros em ‘Base Científica’ das Políticas de Austeridade
Tomas Rotta, Marx21 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
Argumento de que há uma relação perniciosa entre alta dívida pública e crescimento do PIB, encampado por políticos conservadores, começa a ser derrubado na academia. Economistas da Universidade de Massachusetts acabam de publicar estudo que invalida os achados estatísticos de Kenneth Rogoff e Carmen Reinhart, os ‘papas’ daquela teoria.
→ read full articleThe Climb
TMS editor,
29 Apr 2013
Eleven women were clinging precariously to a wildly swinging rope suspended from a crumbling outcropping on Mount Everest. Ten were blonde, one was a brunette.
→ read full articleA Post-History Strip Tease
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
29 Apr 2013
Slavoj Zizek posed the key question in terms of the Decline of the West. The (closet) winner is “capitalism with Asian values’ – which has nothing to do with Asian people but everything with the tendency of contemporary capitalism to suspend democracy”. French philosopher Jean Claude Michea argues that post-modern politics has become a negative art – defining the least bad society possible. That’s how liberalism became, as neoliberalism, the “politics of lesser evil”. Well, “lesser evil” for who’s in control, of course, and damn the rest.
→ read full articleFilling the Empty Battlefield – Jeremy Scahill, Blowback Reporter
Tom Engelhardt – TomDispatch,
29 Apr 2013
There was a secret history of twenty-first-century American war crying out to be written. Now, we have it in the form of Scahill’s latest book, Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield. Scahill has tracked, in particular, the rise of JSOC – Joint Special Operations Command. In Iraq, it grew into a kind of Murder Inc., “an executive assassination wing,” as Seymour Hersh once put it, operating out of Vice President Dick Cheney’s office. It next turned its hunter/killer methods on Afghanistan and then on the planet, as the special operations forces themselves grew into an expansive secret military cocooned inside the U.S. military.
→ read full articleGuatemala: Rallying Around a Dictator
Allan Nairn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
18 Apr 2013 – Investigative journalist Allan Nairn was in Guatemala to report on the trial of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt for the massacre of more than 1,700 Mayans during a U.S.-backed scorched-earth campaign against leftist rebels during his reign: For A while it looked like Guatemala was about to deliver justice. But the genocide case has just been suspended, hours before a criminal court was poised to deliver a verdict.
→ read full articleIf You Want to Go to Heaven, You Had Better Get Busy Overthrowing Syria
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
The US military destroyed Iraq, leaving the country and millions of lives in ruins and releasing sectarian blood-letting. And now in Syria Washington is at work destroying another stable secular government headed by a British trained eye doctor. Washington’s eleven years of illegal aggression against Muslim countries–war crimes according to the Nuremberg trials of Nazis–have resulted in civilian deaths and the American police state has destroyed the rule of law and the constitutional protections of US citizens.
→ read full articlePeres to Meet Pope Francis at Vatican, Receive Medal for Peace
Arutz Sheva staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
Israeli President Shimon Peres is set to meet Pope Francis on a three-day visit to Italy that will begin on Monday [29 Apr 2013]. At the ceremony he will receive the Medal of Honor for Peace and will be greeted by “hundreds of Franciscan monks” at the central Basilica, according to an official statement.
→ read full articleOfficial Number of Guantanamo Bay Hunger Strikers Jumps To 100
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
The official number of hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay reached 100 on Saturday [27 Apr 2013]. Twenty of them are receiving enteral feeds, five of whom are being observed in a detainee hospital. Lawyers for the detainees say that some 130 prisoners are actually taking part in the protest. The hunger strike began around February 6, 2013.
→ read full articleMonsanto’s Roundup Linked to Parkinson’s, Infertility and Cancers
Carey Gillam, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
25 Apr 2013 – Heavy use of the world’s most popular herbicide, Roundup, could be linked to a range of health problems and diseases, including Parkinson’s, infertility and cancers, according to a new study.
→ read full article(Português) Países Latino-Americanos Criam Mecanismo de Defesa Contra Multinacionais
Leonardo Wexell Severo – Carta Maior,
29 Apr 2013
1ª Conferência Ministerial dos Países Latino-americanos Afetados por Interesses das Transnacionais, realizada em 22 abril 2013 no Equador, criou um novo mecanismo de coordenação regional para a defesa conjunta dos interesses dos países da América Latina nos processos de arbitragem internacional contra empresas estrangeiras. A América Latina concentra a maior quantidade de processos ilegais e arbitrários contra uma região, sendo que Argentina, Venezuela, Equador, México e Bolívia acumulam 27% do total de casos no mundo.
→ read full articlePray for War
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
Our heroes need good wars to fight,
for that is their God-given right.
Argentina Takes on Vulture Funds in “Debt Trial of the Century”
Eric LeCompte – YES! Magazine,
29 Apr 2013
For years, “vulture funds” have preyed on struggling nations by purchasing their debt for a pittance. Could an upcoming U.S. court decision put an end to the extortion of poor countries?
→ read full articleKoodankulam Is More Dangerous Than Previously Thought
Warna Hettiarachchi, Lankaweb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
India is known for cheap fixing and run operations all over with their highly corrupted social and legal system. Please ask those Indian miscreants the following:
→ read full articleCISPA – Corporations Buy Politicians and Your Privacy
TheYoungTurks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
23 Apr 2013 – CISPA passed overwhelmingly in the house, despite its promise to allow corporations and the government access to your private data, completely unchecked. It’s no wonder after seeing how much money was poured into lobbying for the invasive bill, and who stands to profit.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Wins Case against Visa – Contractor Ordered to Pay ‘$204k per Month if Blockade Not Lifted’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
25 Apr 2013 – Iceland’s Supreme Court has ruled that Valitor (formerly Visa Iceland) must pay WikiLeaks $204,900 per month or $2,494,604 per year in fines if it continues to blockade the whistle-blowing site. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assage thanked the Icelandic people “for showing that they will not be bullied by powerful Washington backed financial services companies like Visa.”
→ read full articleYemeni Tells Senators about ‘Fear and Terror’ Caused by U.S. Drones
Spencer Ackerman, Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
For the first time, the Senate heard from someone who lives in a village where U.S. drone strikes are believed to have killed civilians. A “psychological fear and terror” has now taken ahold of his old neighbors, al-Muslimi said. “The drone strikes are the face of America to many.”
→ read full articleFrom Housing to Health Care, 7 Co-ops That Are Changing Our Economy
Claudie Rowe – YES! Magazine,
29 Apr 2013
How manufacturers, retailers, restaurants, and others are doing business the cooperative way.
→ read full articleInternational Standards, Guides, & Codes
International Atomic Energy Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
International Codes – Standards cover nuclear safety, radiation protection, radioactive waste management, the transport of radioactive materials, the safety of nuclear fuel cycle facilities and quality assurance.
→ read full articleThe FBI Boston-Chechnya Charade
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
29 Apr 2013
The Boston bombing was major blowback. That much is certain. The question is, what level of blowback? The FBI, predictably, sticks to a convoluted screenplay worthy of those cocaine-fueled Hollywood nights in the 1980s; a couple of bad guys who ”hate our freedoms” because… they do. Welcome to the sweet abyss of an Orwellian vortex. 2013 increasingly looks like 1984.
→ read full articleEliciting a Universe of Meaning Within a Global Information Society of Fragmenting Knowledge and Relationships
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
What is valued as meaningful in states, such as those configured within the the United States or the United Nations? How is meaning experienced in the case of other “states” as presented in a state of health? A civil or social status? The state of the environment? With respect to what universe is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to be considered meaningful?
→ read full articleCountry Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012
U.S. Department of State – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
The pages that follow document the often difficult march forward of human freedom around the world. Significant progress is being made in some places, but in far too many others governments fall short of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ vision of a world where people live “free and equal in dignity and rights.”
→ read full articleLetter to China on Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
We would also seek some pertinent information for the peaceful and nonviolent struggle that we have been waging against the Koodankulam nuclear power project in the southern tip of India. We understand that Russians have built two nuclear power plants with VVER-1000 reactors at Tianwan in China. Would you answer the following questions for us please:
→ read full articleChemical Weapons Charade in Syria
Sharmine Narwani, Al Akhbar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
Let us be clear. The United States can verify absolutely nothing about the use of chemical weapons (CWs) in Syria. Any suggestion to the contrary is entirely false. Don’t take it from me – here is what US officials have to say about the subject:
→ read full articleInternational Crisis Group Makes a Mockery of ‘Peace’ in Burma
Francis Wade, Asian Correspondent – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
At a glitzy dinner tonight [22 Apr 2013] in New York, where the cover charge for a table can reach heady six figure sums, Burma’s President Thein Sein will be honoured with the International Crisis Group’s top peace award. Across the pond he will receive additional applause from the EU in the form of a termination of all sanctions on Burma, except for its arms embargo.
→ read full articleU.S. Gives Big, Secret Push to Internet Surveillance
Declan McCullagh, CNET – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
Justice Department agreed to issue “2511 letters” immunizing AT&T and other companies participating in a cybersecurity program from criminal prosecution under the Wiretap Act, according to new documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
A Global Harmony Association (GHA) Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day
→ read full article40 Years
GreenpeaceVideo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
Some friends made this video for us for our 40th anniversary… [in 2011]. Funny and to the point.
→ read full articleHuman Rights Record of the United States in 2012 [by the People’s Republic of China]
China Daily – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
The US Department of State recently released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012, posing as “the world judge of human rights” again. As in previous years, the reports are full of carping and irresponsible remarks on the human rights situation in more than 190 countries and regions including China. However, it turned a blind eye to its own woeful human rights situation. Therefore, the Human Rights Record of the U.S. in 2012 is hereby prepared.
→ read full articleBoston Marathon
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
My views may not match with the views of the others including experts in the area, but I think as a conscientious individual I should express them.
→ read full article(Português) O Sonho de Uma Civilização Realmente Planetária
Leonardo Boff – Carta Maior,
29 Apr 2013
Desamparo atual em parte provém de nossa incapacidade de sonhar e de projetar utopias. Não qualquer utopia. Mas aquelas necessárias que podem se transformar em topias, quer dizer, em algo que se realiza nas condições de nossa história.
→ read full article(Português) Limpeza de Fukushima Vai Demorar Mais de 40 Anos, Diz Agência Nuclear
Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
Após vazamentos e invasão de ratos, a Agência Internacional de Energia Atômica pediu para a empresa administradora de Fukushima “melhorar a confiabilidade de sistemas essenciais”, crucial para “a integridade estrutural das instalações do local” e “para melhorar a proteção contra perigos externos”.
→ read full articleNewly Released Tim DeChristopher Finds a Movement Transformed by His Courage
Melanie Jae Martin – YES! Magazine,
29 Apr 2013
Tim DeChristopher, who was released from federal custody yesterday [21 Apr 2013], is best known as the man who disrupted an auction of pristine public lands. This Earth Day, we thank Tim DeChristopher for steering our movement toward the path of courage. With countless lives on the line, it’s the path we need to take.
→ read full articleConflicted Peace Prize for [Burma’s] Thein Sein
William Corliss – Asia Times,
29 Apr 2013
When International Crisis Group grants its “Pursuit of Peace” award to Thein Sein this evening [22 Apor 2013] in New York City, the organization will effectively perpetuate those political and business agendas while raising uncomfortable questions about its own credibility and independence.
→ read full article(Italiano) USA-Asia dell’Est: uno sguardo nell’abisso – ?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
La situazione non è mai stata così brutta dalla guerra di Corea del 1950-53.
→ read full articleLet George W. Bush Discuss His Legacy However He Likes… from The Hague
Jodie Evans and Charles Davis – Common Dreams,
29 Apr 2013
Kill a few, they call you a murderer. Kill tens of thousands, they give you $500 million for a granite vanity project and a glossy 30-page supplement in the local paper.
→ read full articleClarifying Boston Marathon Post
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
I want to offer a brief clarification and an explanation.
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Rhapsody in Blue (Music Video of the Week)
Herbie Hancock and Lang Lang – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
Herbie Hancock and Lang Lang play “Rhapsody in Blue” at the Classical Brit Awards.
→ read full articleBabies as Young as Six Months Victims of Rape in War – U.N. Envoy
Michelle Nichols, Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
In her first seven months as U.N. envoy on sexual violence in conflict, Zainab Hawa Bangura has visited a Congolese district where rebels raped babies, and Somalia where a woman was paid $150 (98.4 pounds) restitution for the rape of her 4-year-old daughter.
→ read full articleCISPA, the Fourth Amendment, and You
Scott Bomboy, National Constitution Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Overshadowed by congressional action on guns and immigration is an Internet privacy bill that could affect most Americans, without them knowing it, on a daily basis. Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (or CISPA) is making its way through Congress, and it’s passed a House vote on Thursday [18 Apr 2013].
→ read full articleAbenomics and the State of Japan
Johan Galtung, 22 Apr 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Alternatives: realize that the old golden days are gone, that US-West-Japan are outcompeted by BRICS. Go for acceptable, more modest deals. And, instead of joining the US in increasing the insecurity, join the neighbors in an East Asian Community and revise the TPP for an egalitarian partnership from China to US and from Japan to Latin America.
→ read full articleNearly Half Guantanamo Now On Hunger Strike
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
US official says 77 inmates now on hunger strike over jailing without charge or trial, nearly half of total population.
→ read full articleIceland Signs First European Free Trade Pact with China
Nikolaj Nielsen, EUObserver – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Iceland on Monday (15 April, 2013) became the first European country to sign a free trade agreement with China after six years of negotiations. A joint-statement notes the two sides want “to enhance their exchange and practical co-operation on the Arctic” and “further deepen their mutually beneficial co-operation in the fields of trade and investment.” The agreement will remove tariffs on most goods.
→ read full articleThe Incredible Tale of Gwenyth Todd and the Naïve Neocons
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Given the proliferation of crimes, both foreign and domestic, known to have been committed by the U.S. government in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, there is an understandable willingness among large swathes of the public to believe almost anything told them by someone claiming to be blowing the whistle on an increasingly rogue “world’s policeman.”
→ read full articleIndia: 48,338 Child Rape Cases from 2001 to 2011
Asian Centre for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
336% Increase of Child Rape Cases from 2001 to 2011 – Asian Centre for Human Rights in its report, “India’s Hell Holes: Child Sexual Assault in Juvenile Justice Homes” stated that sexual offences against children in India have reached an epidemic proportion and a large number of them are being committed in the juvenile justice homes run and aided by the Government of India.
→ read full articleStrategic Implications of 12 Unasked Questions in Response to Disaster
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Produced on the occasion of publication of an analysis of What Went Wrong in Afghanistan (Foreign Policy, March/April 2013) and of investigation of the Boston Marathon bombings (April 2013) – Checklist of questions:
→ read full articleColumnists Now Are Like Street Performers – Collecting Coins in a Hat and Dodging Angry Racists
Laurie Penny – New Statesman,
22 Apr 2013
To be an Internet columnist today is no longer to stand on a stage alone, reciting marvellous soliloquies while a paying audience waits to applaud. It is more like being a street performer – collecting coins in a battered suitcase, telling stories about a better world and understanding that the audience might change the story. It’s hard work, because you’re competing with everyone else on the block, including the drunk, deranged old racist shouting abuse and the naked exhibitionist who does – n’t ask for money, and you have to move fast to avoid the pelted sandwiches and, occasionally, the police. In other words, it’s an exciting time to be a writer.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
A Global Harmony Association (GHA) Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day
→ read full articleAnimals Should Be Off the Menu
Philip Wollen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Philip Wollen, Australian Philanthropist, Former VP of Citibank, Makes Blazing Animal Rights Speech
→ read full articleA New Fukushima in the Making? South India’s Kudankulam!
R. C. Camphausen – Digital Journal,
22 Apr 2013
The Kudankulam Nuclear Power plant in the southernmost tip of India has been contentious for years, but now a senior scientist alleges that the use of inferior building materials poses a real threat to its safety.
→ read full articleStatehood and the Problem of Flux: A Case for Interculturalism
Ted Cantle – Open Democracy,
22 Apr 2013
While states attempt to assert their relevance in a global age through both multiculturalism and top-down nationalism, new models of identity and strategies of participation need to be developed to deal with the co-existing phenomena of national experience and cosmopolitanism.
→ read full article“No Blacks or Arabs” for Israeli PM’s Visit: The Latest Example of French State-Sanctioned Discrimination
Myriam Francois-Cerrah – New Statesman,
22 Apr 2013
Hollande’s silence on the alleged discrimination against black and Arab employees is indicative of the president’s recent decision to chase popularity by playing to the centre-right.
→ read full articleA Commentary on the Marathon Murders
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Aside from the tensions of the moment, self-scrutiny and mid-course reflections on America’s global role is long overdue. Such a process is crucial both for the sake of the country’s own future security and also in consideration of the wellbeing of others. Such adjustments will eventually come about either as a result of a voluntary process of self-reflection or through the force of unpleasant events.
→ read full articleUntrustworthy AERB and Its Sloppy Sarkari Reply for the Koodankulam Fiasco
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
April 19, 2013 – The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board has finally woken up, it seems. They have just acknowledged with great awkwardness: “…during testing of thousands of valves installed in the plant, the performances of four valves of a particular type were found deficient.” So, according to the AERB, it is a simple problem of just four valves malfunctioning in the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project. What an irresponsible and disingenuous explanation to a very complex and dangerous problem that is deeply mired in corruption, theft, wastefulness, shoddiness and sheer inefficiency.
→ read full articleIndisputable Torture
The Editorial Board – The New York Times,
22 Apr 2013
The report found that those methods violated international legal obligations with “no firm or persuasive evidence” that they produced valuable information that could not have been obtained by other means. This blunt language should help end a corrosive debate that has broken down on largely partisan lines. The panel further details the ethical lapses of government lawyers in the Bush years who served up “acrobatic” advice to justify brutal interrogations, and of medical professionals who helped oversee them.
→ read full articleA Peace Award to Burma’s Thein Sein from the International Crisis Group
International Crisis Group – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
[Noam Chomsky’s condemnation in the end]
In Pursuit of Peace – International Crisis Group’s goal is as ambitious as it is vital: to mobilise leaders around the globe to prevent and end deadly conflict.
American Culture of Death in Perspective
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
The best way to bring into perspective the culture of death in the United States is to examine what this nation seeks to do in theory and then in practice. Over the years, many statements were formulated to portray this phenomenon with clarity. Let us hope and pray that the American culture of death be replaced by an American culture of life, the sooner the better.
→ read full articleResponding to the Constitution Project Report on Detainee Treatment
Coalition for an Ethical Psychology – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Yesterday [16 Apr 2013] the independent and nonpartisan Constitution Project released its Task Force Report on Detainee Treatment. The Report documents – in no uncertain terms – that psychologists “helped create interrogation techniques for use in questioning detainees” and that many of these techniques “constituted torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.”
→ read full articleGates of Heaven
TMS editor,
22 Apr 2013
A fellow finds himself in front of the Pearly Gates. St. Peter explains that it’s not so easy to get in heaven. There are some criteria before entry is allowed.
→ read full articleSportswriter Dave Zirin: Prayers for the People in Boston, Baghdad and Mogadishu
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
“First, prayers for the people in Boston, Baghdad and Mogadishu who are suffering today,” Zirin said. “Second, I think people have to realize that an attack on the Boston Marathon is really an attack not on Boston or the United States, but on the world.”
→ read full articleKorea: Challenge and Response
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
The Association of World Citizens highlighted that the Tumen River Development Project, now often called the Greater Tuman Initiative, is probably the best framework for rapid cooperative development— a vast free economic zone which would involve parts of Mongolia, China, Russia and the two Korean States as well as Japan as a logical regional development partner.
→ read full articleAbnormal Is the New Normal: Why Will Half of the U.S. Population Have a Diagnosable Mental Disorder?
Robin S. Rosenberg, Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Beware the DSM-5, the soon-to-be-released fifth edition of the “psychiatric bible,” the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. The odds will probably be greater than 50 percent, according to the new manual, that you’ll have a mental disorder in your lifetime.
→ read full articleWhere’s the Money? World Military Expenditure in 2012
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Stockholm, 15 April 2013 – World military expenditure totalled $1.75 trillion in 2012, according to figures released today by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute-SIPRI.
→ read full articleDivestment in the University of California at Santa Barbara
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Moving Toward Divestment from Corporations Profiting from Israeli Militarism, Occupation, and Settlements.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Please allow us to bring the following dangerous developments, difficulties and discrepancies in the Koodankulam nuclear power project (KKNPP) to your kind consideration and immediate action: [1] Shoddy and Substandard Equipment from ZiO-Podolsk
→ read full articleInferior Parts Being Used in Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant: Top Scientist
The Times of India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Chennai 7 Apr 2013: The Centre, speeding up the process to commission the first unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, received a jolt from one of the country’s noted nuclear scientist and former chairman of Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) A Gopalakrishnan, who raised doubts about the quality of equipment in the plant. “Sub-standard materials have come to the Kudankulam plant and they are causing problems,” he alleged.
→ read full articleCreating Subjects in Lavasa: The Private City
Persis Taraporevala – Open Democracy,
22 Apr 2013
Through a process of devolution to private enterprises, a number of private cities are emerging across the Indian landscape. While private cities have been lauded by some as symbolic of a modern, global India, their impact on the nature of democracy and citizenship in the emerging city remains a contentious issue.
→ read full articleThe First BRICS towards a South Bank?
Devaki Jain, SouthViews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
A member of the South Commission (1987-1990) reflects on the moves by the recent Summit of the BRICS to establish a BRICS development bank – an idea that the Commission had promoted.
→ read full articleTales of Reagan’s Guatemala Genocide
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
22 Apr 2013
Guatemala is finally putting ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt on trial for genocide in the extermination of hundreds of Mayan villages in the 1980s, but Ronald Reagan remains an American icon despite new evidence of his complicity in this historic crime.
→ read full articleNuclear Power in India
World Nuclear Association – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
(Updated 10 April 2013) – India’s nuclear industry has been largely without IAEA safeguards, though four nuclear power plants have been under facility-specific arrangements related to India’s INFCIRC/66 safeguards agreement with IAEA. However, in October 2009 India’s safeguards agreement with the IAEA became operational, with the government confirming that 14 reactors will be put under the India Specific Safeguards Agreement by 2014.
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