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Canada-India Nuclear Deal Moves Forward
Bryn Levy, Saskatoon News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Saskatchewan uranium could soon be bound for India as the federal government wraps up a new trade deal. Canada had halted sales of uranium, reactors and other nuclear materials and equipment to India in the 1970s. This was a response to India’s detonation of a nuclear device in 1974 that was built using a Canadian reactor.
→ read full articleThe Orwellian Warfare State of Carnage and Doublethink
Norman Solomon – Global Research,
22 Apr 2013
After the bombings that killed and maimed so horribly at the Boston Marathon, our country’s politics and mass media are awash in heartfelt compassion — and reflexive “doublethink,” which George Orwell described as willingness “to forget any fact that has become inconvenient.”
→ read full articleMap of the 15 Countries with the Highest Military Expenditure in 2012
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Recent Trends in Military Expenditure – Click on the map to view information on the top 15 military expenditure spenders for 2012.
→ read full articleUS Sending Weapons to Syria
News Day – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Contrary to claims by US officials that they do not deliver weapons to militants in Syria, US Senator Rand Paul said that the US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, not only supervised the shipment of weapons to the Syrian opposition, but also recruited jihadists for them. Paul confirmed that Syrian fighters for the most part are composed of members of the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organisation and have a relationship with al-Qaeda.
→ read full article(Galego) Sen Profes Non Hai Escola
Manuel Dios Diz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Semana Mundial pola Educación 21 a 28 de Abril – Estamos na Semana Mundial pola Educación (SAME), unha actividade que se enmarca nunha campaña, moito máis ampla, de carácter internacional, na que participan ONGs, sindicatos de educadores, centros escolares e movementos sociais comprometidos co dereito á educación en todo o mundo.
→ read full articleBurma: End ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ of Rohingya Muslims
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
The 153-page Human Rights Watch report, “‘All You Can Do is Pray’: Crimes Against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Burma’s Arakan State,” describes the role of the Burmese government and local authorities in the forcible displacement of more than 125,000 Rohingya and other Muslims and the ongoing humanitarian crisis.
→ read full articleSyria’s Civilian Suffering – Western Imperialism Resorts to Medieval Barbarity
Finian Cunningham – Strategic Culture Foundation,
22 Apr 2013
Western imperialism has created a human tsunami of suffering in Syria. And rather than making any effort to mitigate this suffering by delivering on much promised refugee aid, the Western powers seem to exploiting the massive misery for political advantage to further undermine the Syrian state and government. This tactic of enforced human deprivation is straight out of the Middle Ages, when invading armies would hold siege of cities by enforcing starvation on the occupants.
→ read full article(Italiano) Un Futuro Dopo Il Petrolio: 6 Proposte
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
La Cina brucia carbone-petrolio-gas, ma è anche un possente pioniere nelle energie verdi, con pannelli fotovoltaici e solari termici e auto elettriche, prodotti in maniera sempre più ecologica. Negli USA lobby molto efficienti del carbone-petrolio-gas impediscono la conversione ecologica e promuovono tecniche estrattive ecologicamente dannose. Il mondo si sta spostando a Est, e l’Est si sta spostando all’ecologico. E così pure milioni di persone.
→ read full articleBox and Vicious Cycle
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
I live in a box
Up right and
The horizontal position
While I was let in
Farmers and Consumers v. Monsanto: David Meet Goliath
Tory Field and Beverly Bell – Toward Freedom,
22 Apr 2013
Monsanto has filed more than 140 lawsuits against 400 farmers and 56 small businesses for alleged violations of contract or GMO patents. One such case is currently under consideration in the Supreme Court. “Farmers have been sued after their field was contaminated by pollen or seed from someone else’s genetically engineered crop [or] when genetically engineered seed from a previous year’s crop has sprouted,”
→ read full article(Português) Andaluzia Decreta Função Social da Propriedade e Expropria Bancos
Rita Silva, Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
É um acontecimento histórico o que se está neste momento a passar no Estado Espanhol, onde um movimento de massas se organiza para defender o direito à habitação e conseguiu demonstrar que quando se luta, com tenacidade e persistência, se conseguem vitórias.
→ read full article(Português) A Guerra Mundial da Dívida
Juan Torres López – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
No passado dia 18 de março de 2013, o Banco de Pagamentos Internacionais (BIS – Bank for International Settlements) atualizou séries históricas sobre a dívida privada de quarenta países. Os dados referem-se ao sector privado não financeiro que inclui empresas, famílias e instituições sem fins lucrativos e foram tomados a partir de diferentes anos de partida, segundo os casos, e após terem sido homogeneizadas as diferentes formas em que as dívidas foram geradas (a metodologia e os dados de todos os países em formato Excel podem ser acedidos em BIS, Long séries on credit to private non-financial sectors).
→ read full articleMexican Workers Win Ownership of Tire Plant with Three-Year Strike
Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
On the 879th day of their strike, Mexican tire workers sought help in Germany, where the multinational that wanted to close their plant was based. After a determined 1,141-day campaign, the company sold them the plant, which they now run as a cooperative.
→ read full articleCan Worker-Owners Make a Big Factory Run?
Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
TRADOC leaders are now in contact with Goodyear tire workers in France who also want to take over their plant as a cooperative. They are eager to share their ideas and experiences with any workers who are considering a cooperative as an option in an industrial conflict.
→ read full articleDynamic Transformation of Static Reporting of Global Processes
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
Suggestions for Process-Oriented Titles of Global Issue Reports – The main paper discusses the manner in which meaning is widely associated with “states”. This is evident in political efforts to create unions of states, exemplified by the United States, the League of Arab States, or the Commonwealth of Independent States, as well as by the many proposals at the regional level (United States of Europe, United States of Africa, United States of Latin America, United States of Latin Africa.
→ read full articleThe Cult of Killing and the Symbolic Order of Western Barbarism: How the Media Worships Violence and “Ritualized Atrocities”
Jean-Claude Paye and Tülay Umay – Global Research,
15 Apr 2013
The display of the lynching of Mouamar Gaddafi exposes our societies for what they are. It mesmerizes and dismantles our capacity to think and critically assess a historical process. By focusing public attention on what constitutes a “ritualized atrocity” these gruesome images confirm that the US Empire actually represents an unprecedented regression, a step backwards in the history of humanity.
→ read full articleFear Stalks Muslims in Myanmar
Bangkok Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
Eyewitnesses to a massacre at an Islamic school say it was carried out by Buddhists, and many contend it stems from a coordinated effort with ties to the top. Mon Hnin, a 29-year-old Muslim woman from Meiktila, in central Myanmar, spent the night of March 20 with her daughter and mother-in-law hiding in terror in the bushes on the fringes of her neighbourhood.
→ read full article40 Days: Art Exhibition Review
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
On Friday, 12th April 2013, the A.M. Qattan Foundation in London opened doors to a free art exhibition titled ’40 Days’, created by an Israeli-Palestinian artist, Dor Guez. Guez has used photography archives and documentary film-making as means to capture the history, endurance and presence of the Palestinian-Christian community within the Israeli city of Lod, which was previously known by its Arabic name of Al-Lydd.
→ read full articleThe Arms Trade Treaty Opens New Possibilities at the UN
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
On April 2, 2013, an historic victory was won at the United Nations, and the world achieved its first treaty limiting international trade in arms. It is not only the ATT-Arms Trade Treaty that forms a precedent, but also the International Criminal Court, whose establishment was opposed by several militarily powerful states. Nevertheless, the ICC was adopted because a majority of the peoples of the world believed it to be a step forward towards a stable, peaceful and just global society.
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Israeli Journalist Amira Hass Sparks Furor at Home for Defending Palestinian Right to Resist
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
Amira Hass, the only Jewish-Israeli journalist to have spent almost 20 years living in and reporting from Gaza and the West Bank, recently suffered a torrent of hate mail and calls for her prosecution after she wrote an article defending the right of Palestinians to resist violent occupation. In the article, Hass defended the throwing of stones by Palestinian youth at Israeli soldiers, calling it “the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule.”
→ read full articleWikiLeaks’ New Release: The Kissinger Cables and Bradley Manning
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
15 Apr 2013
One cable includes a transcribed conversation where Kissinger displays remarkable candor: “Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings, ‘The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer.’ [laughter] But since the Freedom of Information Act, I’m afraid to say things like that.” While the illegal and the unconstitutional may be a laughing matter for Kissinger, it is deadly serious for Pvt. Bradley Manning.
→ read full articleSeeing in the Dark – with Victoria Brittain
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
As with the best of journalists, Victoria Brittain has spent a lifetime enabling us to see in the dark! Or more accurately, she has shined a bright light on those whose suffering has been hidden by being deliberately situated in one or another shadow land of governmental and societal abuse, whether local, national, or geopolitical in its animus.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Releases Kissinger Cables As Part of 1.7 Million US Diplomatic Records
Tim Walker – The Independent,
15 Apr 2013
At around 700 million words, the Kissinger Cables are almost five times the size of Cablegate, the set of some 250,000 US diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks between 2010 and 2011. Much of the work was done personally by Assange, 41. The Kissinger Cables, he said, represent, “the single most significant body of geopolitical material ever published.”
→ read full articleMyanmar’s Neo-Nazi Buddhists Get Free Rein
Maung Zarni – Asia Times,
15 Apr 2013
Hatred of Muslims is deeply rooted in Burmese society. One of the regime’s favorite tactics was to spread rumors that Muslims had raped Burmese Buddhist women, and plotted to convert the entire Buddhist population to Islam. The “divide and rule” tactic used by the authorities in the recent past possibly grew out of the British colonial regime’s policy of fostering a “plural society” with minimal national unity.
→ read full articleConference Highlights Fukushima Consequences
Richard Wilcox, Ph.D., Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
The Caldicott conference is a first step toward opening the dungeon door to the dark and unspeakably evil secrets of the nuclear industry, and putting the stake in the heart of the radioactive vampire that is sucking life out of the planet.
→ read full articleHeaven and Hell
TMS editor,
15 Apr 2013
In Heaven:
The cooks are French…
Waiting for War, Again
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
I sit on the edge of my chair,
hold my breath,
wait, pray, fret,
cower and rant.
What Every Parent Should Know About Monsanto
Toni Nagy, Occupy Monsanto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
When President Obama signed the Monsanto Protection Act, many citizens were outraged by this blatant violation of the Constitution. By approving this act, Obama has allowed Monsanto to exist above the law, since genetically modified seeds are now protected from any litigation involving health risks.
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Samba e Amor (Music Video of the Week)
Vitor Araújo, pianist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
PORTUGUÊS: Chamado carinhosamente l’enfant terrible da música erudita, Vitor Araújo é um jovem pianista nascido em 1990 em Recife, no estado de Pernambuco no Brasil. Eclético, suas influencias vao de Radiohead a Villa-Lobos.
ENGLISH: affectionately called l’enfant terrible of classical music, Vitor Araújo is a young pianist born in 1990 in Recife, state of Pernambuco, Brazil. He is very eclectic and influences range from Radiohead to Villa-Lobos.
(Français) Sida: L’Afrique du Sud Lance des Médicaments Antirétroviraux a Prix Record
François Dabis, RFI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
Il y aurait 6 millions de séropositifs en Afrique du Sud, soit plus d’une personne sur 10. Le gouvernement réagit en lançant un programme de distribution de médicaments antirétroviraux à un prix record de 89 rands mensuels soit 7,5 euros.
→ read full article(Italiano) Perché l’Occidente Non Riesce a Capire la Realtà?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
Siamo già piuttosto addentro in un mondo economicamente dominato dai BRIC, aggiungendo la S del Sud-Africa per chiarire il messaggio: Sud-Sud-Sud contro neppure un miliardo di abitanti del NordOvest del mondo + il Giappone; militarmente è solo una questione di tempo prima che i primi droni colpiscano gli USA, come seguito all’11 settembre 2001, e chiunque si dedichi a esecuzioni extragiudiziarie; decisioni cruciali vengono prese dai BRICS (CELAC per l’America Latina), un giorno magari istituendo una contro-ONU senza veto; culturalmente considerando la loro diversità come risorsa essenziale, ispirandosi a tutte le culture.
→ read full articleThe Enemy-Industrial Complex
Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch,
15 Apr 2013
How to Turn a World Lacking in Enemies into the Most Threatening Place in the Universe
→ read full article(Italiano) Dichiarazione Finale delle Donne al Forum Sociale Mondiale
Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
Dichiarazione dell’Iniziativa Internazionale Donne all’Assembla dei Movimenti Sociali al Forum Sociale Mondiale
→ read full article(Português) Os Direitos da Criança Sob a Perspectiva do Não Matar: Apelo aos Adultos
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
Em nome das crianças do mundo, estas Reflexões Rimadas são apresentadas:
Como crianças, estamos felizes por saber que temos o direito de brincar.
Por isso, adultos, considerem seriamente o que nós vamos reivindicar
Chiquita Sues to Block Release of Files on Colombia Terrorist Payments
Michael Evans – The National Security Archive,
15 Apr 2013
Two years ago, the Archive published “The Chiquita Papers,” a declassified collection of more than 5,000 pages of internal Chiquita documents turned over to the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of a criminal investigation of more than $1.7 million in payments to the AUC over six years, and for nearly three years after the group was formally designated as a terrorist organization. That case resulted in a 2007 sentencing agreement in which Chiquita admitted to more than ten years of payments to a variety of Colombian guerrilla and paramilitary groups.
→ read full article‘Dark Lightning’ Zaps Airline Passengers with Radiation
Charles Choi, LiveScience – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
“Dark lightning” that is almost invisible within clouds may regularly blast airline passengers with large numbers of gamma rays, Worryingly, terrestrial gamma-ray flashes can occur near the same altitudes at which commercial aircraft regularly fly. Past research has also found these flashes hurl beams of antimatter into space. Researchers detailed their findings on April 10, 2013 at a meeting of the European Geosciences Union in Vienna.
→ read full articleUsing the Tenets of Islam for Peace
Jaye Starr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
Lao-Tse wrote of peace at the individual level providing the foundation for peace at the global level. My dream is to help provide the foundation blocks for communities. I’d like to do this by combining my background in theater with my current chaplaincy studies to help bring peace to individuals impacted by disaster and armed conflict.
→ read full article(Français) Dynamique Femmes Forum Social Mondial 2013
Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
Déclaration de la Dynamique Femmes Internationale a l’Assemblée des Mouvements Sociaux du Forum Social Mondial
→ read full articleWould You Believe That the United States Tried To Do Something That Was Not Nice Against Hugo Chávez?
William Blum, The Anti-Empire Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
WikiLeaks has done it again. I guess the US will really have to get tough now with Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. In a secret US cable to the State Department, dated November 9, 2006, and recently published online by WikiLeaks, former US ambassador to Venezuela, William Brownfield, outlines a comprehensive plan to destabilize the government of the late President Hugo Chávez. The cable begins with a Summary:
→ read full articleSouth Africa as an Example of Stability and Diversity after the Apartheid Era
Pierre Célestin Bakunda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
From 1948 to 1994, South Africa witnessed a drastic and violent racial segregation. This has greatly affected and contributed to economic, social and political delays to the country. Let’s observe first the conflict resolution mechanism implemented in the country, as well as the current transformation of the country. Finally, we will briefly conclude on future hopes associated with this region, due to its recent inclusion in BRICS.
→ read full articleLobby Group Representing Google, Yahoo Backs CISPA
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
12 Apr 2013 – A lobbying organization that counts Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple and other tech giants among its clients has lent support to the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which is lined up for a vote in the US House of Representatives next week.
→ read full articleTaping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime
Richard A. Oppel Jr. – The New York Times,
15 Apr 2013
Several states have placed restrictions on undercover investigations into cruelty. On one covert video, farm workers illegally burn the ankles of Tennessee walking horses with chemicals. Another captures workers in Wyoming punching and kicking pigs and flinging piglets into the air. Now “The Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act” prohibits filming or taking pictures on livestock farms to “defame the facility or its owner.” Violators would be placed on a “terrorist registry.”
→ read full articleThe Struggle to Reclaim Paradise [Hawai’i]
Imani Altemus-Williams – Waging Nonviolence,
15 Apr 2013
Monsanto has a long history of making chemicals that bring about devastation. The company participated in the Manhattan Project to help produce the atomic bomb during World War II. It developed the herbicide “Agent Orange” used by U.S. military forces during the Vietnam War, which caused an estimated half-million birth deformities. Most recently, Monsanto has driven thousands of farmers in India to take their own lives, often by drinking chemical insecticide, after the high cost of the company’s seeds forced them into unpayable debt.
→ read full articlePMANE Letter to KKNPP Employees
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
The Koodankulam delay is being blamed on the “corrosion and leakage since sea water was used as the coolant.” If these pipes and parts cannot withstand one year of sea water circulation, how on the Earth are they going to function for 40-60 years? If the pipes leak and corrode within such a short time, the government should order a probe into the quality of these pipes, the quality of the various equipment and spares that were sent by the Russians.
→ read full articleTwo Deaths: Hugo Chavez and Margaret Thatcher
Alan MacLeod - Countercurrents.org,
15 Apr 2013
Hugo Chavez and Margaret Thatcher, two great statespeople of our age, representing fundamentally opposing world views, have died. Just as contrasting as their ideologies was the reaction to their deaths, from both the media and the public.
→ read full articleChávez, Internationalism, and Socialism
Beverly Bell – Pambazuka News,
15 Apr 2013
Economist Camille Chalmers is a leader in Latin American social movements and executive secretary of the Platform for Alternative Development in Haiti (PAPDA) and was interviewed by Beverly Bell. He shares his views on Chávez’s vision of a revolutionary Latin America that sought internationalist solidarity with Haiti, Africa and Asia among other issues.
→ read full articleCyprus to Sell €400 Million in Gold, About 75% of Its Total Holdings, To Finance Part of Its Bailout
Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
Or about 10 tons of gold. But… the bailout was prefunded and there was no need to provide any additional cash?
→ read full articleDoes Obama Want More War?
Stansfield Smith – CounterPunch,
15 Apr 2013
The corporate media reduces the DPRK (North Korea) to the Kim family and prefaces their names with the terms “madman”, “evil” and “brutal”. Such vilifications of foreign leaders are used here not only to signify they are target for US overthrow. They are meant to intimidate and isolate anti-war activists as being out in left field for ever wanting to oppose a war against countries ruled by “madmen” – be they Saddam, Fidel, Hugo Chavez, Ahmadinejad, Qaddaffi.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 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 article(Français) Mali : Résolument Contre l’Intervention Française
Paul Martial – Forum des Alternatives,
15 Apr 2013
On ne peut pas être contre l’ingérence française au Mali, et plus généralement en Afrique, et être en même temps pour l’intervention militaire française.
→ read full articleUSA-East Asia Looking Into the Abyss
Johan Galtung, 15 Apr 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
North Korea could dismantle its verbal and physical threats, hoping for peace treaty-normalization in return. Like in Cuba 1962, that would not be one good for another, but one wrong for another. Would USA, used to dictate outcomes giving nothing in return, agree? Like in 1962 keeping it secret, with a “profile in courage” narrative? Hopefully, but not very likely, some secret deals are in the making. A change of mentality is needed, like in Europe in 1950. That may take centuries, but could also happen very quickly under enlightened statesmanship.
→ read full article“Dark Alliance”: The Federal Reserve, Wall Street and the Laundering of Drug Money
Tom Burghardt, Antifascist Calling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
According to these worthies, the egregious economic disparities between the filthy ruling rich and the rest of us revolve around the salient fact that the “world is dividing into two blocs–the plutonomies where economic growth is powered by and largely consumed by the wealthy few,” and the great mass of proletarians who need to sit down, shut up and worship at the feet of their masters.
→ read full articleWhy Journalists Generally Get Their Burma Stories Wrong, Horribly Wrong
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
When it comes to reporting Burma the coverage has been beyond being biased. It is generally horribly inadequate, or downright incorrect. From a Burmese perspective, especially from the perspective of those who have borne the brunt of the half-century of military rule under various and evolving disguises, the way Burma is being reported is like adding insult to injury.
→ read full articleIcelandic Lawmaker Birgitta Jonsdottir on Bradley Manning and More
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
15 Apr 2013
Icelandic Parliamentarian Birgitta Jonsdottir played a critical role in WikiLeaks’ release of the “Collateral Murder” video. She joins us on her first trip to the United States since a secret grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, began its investigation of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.
→ read full article(Castellano) Los Asesinatos Científicos Son Parte del Prontuario de la CIA
Wayne Madsen – La Haine,
15 Apr 2013
La CIA es pionera en el empleo de agentes cancerígenos que pueden infectar a sus víctimas a través de inyecciones, inhalaciones, contacto epidérmico a través de ropa contaminada, especialmente ropa interior lo cual resulta pertinente con respecto a la formación de una agresiva formación cancerígena en la región pelviana; y contacto con su sistema digestivo a través del consumo de alimentos, bebidas e incluso crema dental contaminados.
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Anarchism, Socialism & Libertarianism: Alternatives for Peace
Abby Martin, Breaking the Set – Russia Today,
15 Apr 2013
Abby Martin highlights the disproportionate nature of the American political and media establishments, and moderates a debate between three people who represent the voices of US growing political alternatives: Anarchism, Socialism & Libertarianism.
→ read full articleNPCIL, AERB, and KKNPP Dodge the Substandard Equipment Issue
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
There have been persistent reports that substandard equipment and parts have been used in the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP). When the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) asked the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL) and the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) under Right to Information (RTI) Act if they have indeed received equipment and parts from the controversial Russian companies, Zio-Podolsk and Informteck…
→ read full articleOn ‘Loving Thy Neighbors’ Only if They’re Jewish
Rabbi Ron Kronish – The Times of Israel,
15 Apr 2013
Indeed, one of the central problems in Israeli society is that many of the children who attend orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools are actually taught to disrespect and to hate the “other,” who is not a member of their religion.
→ read full articleLand Mines Still Victimizing the Vietnamese 37 Years after War End
Hong Minh – Viet Nam News,
8 Apr 2013
Over 20 per cent of the entire country has been contaminated with bombs and mines and over 100,000 people, mostly children and breadwinners, have been killed or injured so far. Of the 15 million tonnes of bombs and mines dropped by the US in Viet Nam during the war, there are still 800,000 unexploded across the country.
→ read full articleBurma/Myanmar: Its Conflicts, Western Advocacy, and Country Impact
Maung Zarni – World Peace Foundation,
8 Apr 2013
Burma’s conflicts are neither new nor are they singular. Conflicts along multiple-lines – class and ideology, civil society and the military, and ethnic groups– have been going on for nearly 65 years, that is, since Burma’s independence from Britain in 1947/1948.
→ read full articleMonsanto Protection Act: A Post-Mortem for Our Legal System
Clay Rossi, The Legal Examiner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
Now that President Obama has signed the legislation which included the MPA into law, there are certain facts that need not be forgotten for the next time (and there will be a next time) big business buys itself judicial immunity from Congress.
→ read full articleIs Burma’s Anti-Muslim Violence Led by “Buddhist Neo-Nazis”?
Ray Downs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
When most Westerners think of Buddhism, they think of smiling men with potbellies and inspirational quotes from Phil Jackson. “Buddhist neo-Nazi” sounds like a contradiction in terms. But in Burma, vicious anti-Muslim sentiment has been on the rise, and Buddhist extremists are responsible for attacking Muslims and burning down their houses and mosques, …
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We Are the World – USA for Africa (Music Video of the Week)
Michael Jackson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
An unbelievable constellation of 47 legendary superstars—singers we love– singing together in a historic music video with a message of love from Michael to the world. Recorded in 1985. Michael died on Jun 25, 2009. A few of these artists passed away as well. RIP. (All their names are scrolled down at the end).
→ read full articleWhy the Most Powerful Thing in the World is a Seed
Abby Quillen – YES! Magazine,
8 Apr 2013
“The Seed Underground” is a love letter to the quiet revolutionaries who are saving our food heritage.
→ read full articleSurviving ‘Collateral Murder’: Soldier Relives Infamous WikiLeaks Video
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
“I went back outside and we were told to take pictures and so I started taking pictures of the van,” he says. Then he discovered another child. “That’s me right there,” McCord tells Lopez as he walks her through the now infamous “Collateral Murder” clip. “That is a little boy that I originally thought was dead. I couldn’t stop myself from crying,” he says. “I know that I will never, ever, ever get better,” he says. “I will never get over this.”
→ read full articleTop Swedish Judge Defends WikiLeaks’ Assange
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
A senior Swedish judge has said that the sex-crime allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are “a mess”, and praised him for leaking classified US documents. Speaking on Wednesday [3 Apr 2013] at the University of Adelaide in Australia, Stefan Lindskog, chairman of the Supreme Court of Sweden, also listed legal obstacles to extraditing Assange to the United States.
→ read full articleA Global Look at Gay Rights: ‘The Fight against Discrimination Must Go On’
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
Boris Dittrich, head of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy at Human Rights Watch, discusses the current debates on same-sex marriage in Europe and the United States and virulent homophobia in Russia and Uganda.
→ read full articleWorld Social Forum: 50,000 Gather in Tunisia
Signe Predmore – YES! Magazine,
8 Apr 2013
Tens of thousands of people from around the world gathered in Tunisia Mar 26-30, 2013 to talk about creating a fairer world. Here are some of the hottest topics from the panels in Tunis.
→ read full articleChildren`s Rights: A Nonkilling Plea to Adults
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
On behalf of the world`s children, these rhymed reflections are presented:
As children, we are happy to know that we have the right to play
so please, adults, also take seriously what we now want to say . . .
12 April 1968: “The Country Has Lost Not Just Dr King But the King”
Alan Brien – New Statesman,
8 Apr 2013
Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated forty-five years ago today. Here, Alan Brien reports from a grief-stricken New York.
→ read full articleMartin Luther King, We Need Your Voice Today!
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
The son of a southern Baptist minister, Martin Luther King, Jr received his Ph.D. in theology from Boston University in 1955. During his studies, he had admired Thoreau’s essay “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience,” and he had also been greatly moved by the life and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
→ read full articleJapan’s Fukushima Nuclear Plant Leaking Contaminated Water
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
As much as 120 tons of radioactive water may have leaked from a storage tank at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, contaminating the surrounding ground, Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Saturday [6 Apr 2013].
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 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 articleThe Spark of Hope
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
Any movement which seeks to challenge the power of the elite needs to ask itself what it takes to shake people out of this state. And the answer seems inescapable: hope. Those who govern on behalf of billionaires are threatened only when confronted by the power of a transformative idea. A century and more ago the idea was communism.
→ read full articleHunger Strike at Guantánamo
The New York Times, Editorial - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
5 Apr 2013 – The hunger strike that has spread since early February [2013] among the 166 detainees still at Guantánamo Bay is again exposing the lawlessness of the system that marooned them there. The government claims that around 40 detainees are taking part. Lawyers for detainees report that their clients say around 130 detainees in one part of the prison have taken part.
→ read full articleParanoia Sells
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
8 Apr 2013
North Korean “Threats” to World Peace Can Sell Military Hardware – Which is the more paranoid statement?
1. AMERICAN MEDIA: “North Korea is threatening to attack us with nuclear weapons.”
or:
2. NORTH KOREAN MEDIA: “The United States is threatening to attack us with nuclear weapons.”
Class Memento
TMS editor,
8 Apr 2013
The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture.
→ read full articleLearning from El Salvador’s Ongoing Struggle for Peace, Dignity and Inclusion
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
The words of Monseñor Oscar Romero, who was murdered by US-trained snipers during a mass on March 24, 1980, still ring true today, offering us an ongoing challenge to restructure our society: “If we really want an effective end to violence, we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, exclusion of citizens from the management of the country, repression…”
→ read full articleHungary Is No Longer a Democracy
Benjamin Abtan – New Statesman,
8 Apr 2013
It is now a fact: Hungary is no longer a democracy. President János Áder has just signed the implementation decrees for new constitutional reforms that wipe out what was left of opposition forces against the government. Europe has been slow to act, but it is not too late.
→ read full articleUN Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty Full Text
UN General Assembly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
New York, 18-28 March 2013 – The States Parties to this Treaty, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, , . .
→ read full articleMap: This Is How Far Those North Korean Missiles Can Actually Reach
Max Fisher – The Washington Post,
8 Apr 2013
It includes Japan and South Korea but not Guam or Hawaii and certainly not the U.S. mainland. The most bullish analysis of the KN-08′s potential threat that I’ve seen this week, published in the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, speculated that North Korea had only moved them to the coast so that, in the event of a test launch, they would be less likely to fall onto North Korean own soil.
→ read full articleCyprus: Do You Understand What Has Really Happened?
Roberto Savio - Human Wrongs Watch,
8 Apr 2013
The story of Cyprus story is an excellent example of how inadequate media coverage has now become. Very few will have understood what has really happened, and what its implications are. Following events, without any background or placing them in their contexts, is one of the main reasons for the decline of media as windows on the world, and for having informed and therefore active citizens.
→ read full articleMonsanto: A Corporate Profile Sheds Light on GE Seed Giant’s Dark History
EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
From its beginnings as a small chemical company in 1901, Monsanto has grown into the largest biotechnology seed company in the world with net sales of $11.8 billion, 404 facilities in 66 countries across six continents and products grown on more than 282 million acres worldwide. Today, the consumer advocacy nonprofit Food & Water Watch released its report, Monsanto: A Corporate Profile
→ read full articleJapan Confirms Sea Shepherd Success in the Southern Ocean
Sea Shepherd Whale Defence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
Operation Zero Tolerance 2013 has been Sea Shepherd’s most effective campaign to date:
They wanted 50 Humpbacks. They took none.
They wanted 50 Fin whales. They took none.
They wanted 935 Minke whales. They killed 103.
832 Minke whales not slain! 50 Humpbacks and 50 Fins not slaughtered! This translates into 9.96% of their combined quota.
A Bradley Manning Panel Discussion with MP Birgitta Jonsdottir
Bradley Manning Support Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
Friday 5 April, 2013 New York – Video of the discussion panel held with Birgitta Jonsdottir, Kevin Gosztola (of FireDogLake), Alexa O’Brien (independent journalist long covering the Bradley Manning trial), Peter Hart (FAIR media critic). The discussion is moderated by Sam Seder.
→ read full article(Italiano) Iraq: Dieci Anni di Stupidità
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
Ipotizzare solo uno scenario, la guerra – magari dopo sanzioni – rivela povertà intellettuale. L’Iraq aveva problemi ma non le vittime, l’esilio e gli sfollamenti della guerra – che può durare altri 10 anni avendo sconvolto tanti equilibri instabili. Eppure si va incontro alle dipendenze belliciste di USA-RegnoUnito, mandando gli altri all’inferno. Quella gente dovrebbe essere nota per la loro incapacità collaudata di analizzare e prevedere e rimediare. L’accademia dovrebbe essere per gli intellettuali, non per i clercs, l’intelligentsia.
→ read full article(Português) Os BRICS Afiam Suas Garras
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
8 Apr 2013
Ao se reunirem na África do Sul, os BRICS deram um passo que pode ter dimensões geopolíticas: montaram um pacote que prevê um banco de desenvolvimento, uma alternativa às agências de classificação de risco e uma opção ao dólar nas transações comerciais.
→ read full articleEscaped Scientologist Goes Public about “Cult” Brainwashing and Labor Camps
JG Vibes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
3 Apr 2013 – A former Scientologist that was on a compound since childhood is now going public with a book and media appearances to speak about the brainwashing, child labor camps, as well as other horrors that she witnessed and experienced. She was made to sign a billion-year contract that bound her immortal spirit (known as the “Thetan”) to lifetime after lifetime of dedication to the organisation.
→ read full articlePresident Obama’s Second Term: Selling Death and Buying Assassins in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
As President Obama enters his second term with a new Cabinet, the foreign policy legacy of the past four years weighs heavily on their strategic decisions and their empire-building efforts. Central to the analysis of the next period is an evaluation of the past policies especially in regions where Washington expended its greatest financial and military resources, namely the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa.
→ read full articleCongress Obsessed with American Muslims, Neglects Real Threat of White Supremacists
Juan Cole, Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
It is not allowed to say this in the corporate media, but some Republican representatives and their constituents are, if not implicated in white supremacist sentiments, at least a little smelly in that regard.
→ read full article
Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar | Interview with Independent Journalist Assed Baig
Abby Martin, Breaking the Set – Russia Today,
8 Apr 2013
The ongoing genocidal crisis of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. The UN has coined the Rohingyas one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.
→ read full articleMaking Disaster Pay: From the San Francisco Earthquake to Superstorm Sandy, How Capitalism Stacks the Deck on Disaster
Steve Fraser - TomDispatch,
8 Apr 2013
When it comes to our recent financial implosion, this is easy enough to see, although great efforts have been expended trying to deny the self-evident. ‘Man’ did not bring the system to its knees; the country’s dominant financial institutions and a complicit government did that. They’ve recovered, the rest of us haven’t.
→ read full articleGeopolitical Dimensions of the Syrian Crisis
Jamal Wakim – Foreign Policy Journal,
1 Apr 2013
Regime survival depends on a tight grip on Damascus and a delicate manipulation of regional and international contradictions.
→ read full articleEcuador Auctions Off Amazon to Chinese Oil Firms
Jonathan Kaiman in Beijing – The Guardian,
1 Apr 2013
Indigenous groups claim they have not consented to oil projects, as politicians visit Beijing to publicise bidding process. Ecuador plans to auction off more than three million hectares of pristine Amazonian rainforest to Chinese oil companies, angering indigenous groups and underlining the global environmental toll of China’s insatiable thirst for energy.
→ read full articleBRICS Agrees to Create $100 bn Contingency Fund
Times of India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
In a major achievement for India in its campaign for reforming the international financial architecture, BRICS nations on Wednesday [27 Mar 2013] decided to establish a new development bank to finance infrastructure and to create a USD 100 billion Contingency Reserve Arrangement to tackle any financial crisis in the emerging economies.
→ read full articleHot Money Blues
Paul Krugman, 2008 Nobel Economics Laureate – The New York Times,
1 Apr 2013
Whatever the final outcome in the Cyprus crisis — we know it’s going to be ugly; we just don’t know exactly what form the ugliness will take. The truth, hard as it may be for ideologues to accept, is that unrestricted movement of capital is looking more and more like a failed experiment. Global capitalism is, arguably, on track to become substantially less global.
→ read full article(Português) Os Torturadores do Pentágono
Mauro Santayana - Pátria Latina,
1 Apr 2013
A reportagem do Guardian, com a participação da BBC Arabic, demonstra que o Pentágono determinou e foi cúmplice da prática de tortura no Iraque. Durante sua atuação ali, Steele organizou os grupos xiitas contra os sunitas e supervisionou os centros secretos de detenção de militantes, nos quais a tortura foi sistemática: choques elétricos, extração de unhas, golpes nos órgãos genitais, empalamento, pau-de-arara.
→ read full articleState-Wrecked: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
David A. Stockman – The New York times,
1 Apr 2013
The United States is broke — fiscally, morally, intellectually — and the Fed has incited a global currency war (Japan just signed up, the Brazilians and Chinese are angry, and the German-dominated euro zone is crumbling) that will soon overwhelm it. When the latest bubble pops, there will be nothing to stop the collapse. If this sounds like advice to get out of the markets and hide out in cash, it is.
→ read full articleCount Leo Tolstoy, We Need Your Voice Today!
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
“…The peoples of the Christian world have solemnly accepted this law, while at the same time they have permitted violence and built their lives on violence; and that is why the whole life of the Christian peoples is a continuous contradiction between what they profess, and the principles on which they order their lives – a contradiction between love accepted as the law of life, and violence which is recognized and praised, acknowledged even as a necessity in different phases of life, such as the power of rulers, courts, and armies…”
→ read full articleWeird Chemtrail Sky
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Chemtrails make crazy-looking skies. HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program)?
This short video was made in Arizona by a private citizen. Chemtrails – Frequently Asked Questions