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American Anniversaries from Hell: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch,
1 Apr 2013
It’s true that, last week, few in Congress cared to discuss, no less memorialize, the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Nonetheless, two anniversaries of American disasters and crimes abroad — the “mission accomplished” debacle of 2003 and the 45th anniversary of the My Lai massacre — were at least noted in passing in our world.
→ read full articleKKNPP 3 & 4 Announcement – A Cruel Joke on Indians and Our Democracy
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
There are several cases pending against the Koodankulam project as a whole and the KKNPP units 3-6 in particular at the Delhi High Court, the Supreme Court and the National Green Tribunal (NGT) about the various clearances, waste management, liability and so on. This announcement amounts to a serious contempt of all these courts.
→ read full articleMonsanto Bullies Small Farmers Over Planting Harvested GMO Seeds
Puck Lo, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Does Monsanto own all future generations of genetically modified seeds that it sells? The Missouri-based agribusiness giant wants farmers to pay a royalty to plant any seed that descended from a patented original. The legal decision has ramifications for other patented “inventions” that reproduce themselves like strands of DNA.
→ read full articleBRICS Go Over the Wall
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
1 Apr 2013
The BRICS meet in Durban, South Africa, this Tuesday [26 Mar 2013] to, among other steps, create their own credit rating agency, sidelining the dictatorship – or at least “biased agendas”, in New Delhi’s diplomatic take – of the Moody’s/Standard & Poor’s variety. They will also further advance the idea of the BRICS Development Bank, with a seed capital of US$50 billion (only structural details need to be finalized), helping infrastructure and sustainable development projects.
→ read full articleThe Palestinian Children – Alone and Bewildered in Cell 36
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
This is Cell 36, deep within Al Jalame prison in northern Israel. It is one of a handful of cells where Palestinian children are locked in solitary confinement, tortured for days or even weeks. One 16-year-old claimed that he had been kept in Cell 36 for 65 days.
→ read full articleEvidence Shows [NATO Supported] Syrian Rebels Behind Chemical Attack
Raven Clabough – The New American,
1 Apr 2013
27 Mar 2013 – Reports of a chemical weapon attack in Syria’s Aleppo Province last week provoked leaders and politicians, particularly in the West, to advocate more fiercely for the overthrow of the Assad regime, despite the vague details surrounding the attack. Current data seem to suggest, however, that it was not government forces behind the attack, but rebel forces.
→ read full articleOh, the Places You Won’t Go! World’s 25 Least-Visited Countries
Ryan Lenora Brown – The Christian Science Monitor,
1 Apr 2013
Using UN statistics, travel writer Gunnar Garfors found that top contenders for the least-visited award are often dangerous or remote. But some are just plain boring.
→ read full articleThe Holy Land Gets Skunked
Lawrence Davidson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Something Is Rotten in the State of Israel – Sooner or later everyone possessing a humane conscience, to say nothing of a functioning honest nose, will refuse to have anything to do with this “apartheid-like” state.
→ read full articleMystery Malady Kills More Bees, Heightening Worry on Farms
Michael Wines – The New York Times,
1 Apr 2013
A mysterious malady that has been killing honeybees en masse for several years appears to have expanded drastically in the last year, wiping out 40 percent or even 50 percent of the hives needed to pollinate many of US fruits and vegetables. A conclusive explanation so far has escaped scientists studying the ailment, colony collapse disorder, since it first surfaced around 2005.
→ read full articleThe Washington Post’s Unbridled Arrogance
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
1 Apr 2013
Perhaps more than any news organization, the Washington Post steered the United States into the illegal invasion of Iraq. But a Post editorial, which belatedly takes note of the war’s tenth anniversary, admits to no mistakes and acknowledges no lessons learned.
→ read full articleGenocidal Buddhists?: An Interview with Burmese Dissident Maung Zarni
Alex Caring-Lobel, tricycle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Burmese native Maung Zarni has lent his voice to the Rohingya and other minorities in the predominantly Buddhist nation, advocating for their human rights and distinguishing himself by examining the social and historical causes of the current conflict.
→ read full articleThe Armed Forces Special Powers Act in Northeast India
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
In 1958 the government of India passed the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, which allows soldiers to arrest or shoot “anyone who has committed cognizable offences or is reasonably suspected of having done so”. The act also specifies that “Army officers have legal immunity for their actions. In practice, the AFSPA allows soldiers to terrorize the citizens of the states where it is being applied.
→ read full article(Français) Économie Verte: Marchandiser la Planète Pour la Sauver?
Bernard Duterme, editorial – Centre Tricontinental,
1 Apr 2013
Définie par l’ONU comme « une manière écologique de faire des affaires », l’économie verte entend réconcilier croissance et nature. Le troisième pilier du développement durable (le social) mis entre parenthèses, le temps de rebooster le premier (l’économique) en valorisant le deuxième (l’environnemental) ? A défaut de protéger les ressources et de partager les richesses, le capitalisme, désormais vert, y sauverait sa peau. La controverse clive les États du Nord et du Sud.
→ read full articleChevron Corporation Upgrades from “C” to “B”
Marilyn Langlois, April 1, 2013 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Richmond, California Refinery to Be Worker-Owned and Operated – “The work of organizations like 350.org made us realize that unless we do something dramatic to slow down climate change, the earth will no longer provide a livable habitat for our great-grandchildren and their descendants”, noted Chevron CEO John Watson in a statement released today. “Consumers are so addicted to oil that we, as producers of fossil fuel products, need to prioritize a rapid transition to renewable energy resources.
→ read full articleDeaf
TMS editor,
1 Apr 2013
A man goes to his doctor and says, “I don’t think my wife’s hearing is as good as it used to be, what should I do?”
→ read full articleWar Crimes and Crimes against Humanity: The Story of U.S. Exceptionalism in Iraq
Ajamu Baraka – Global Research,
1 Apr 2013
This month marks the tenth anniversary of the U.S. attack on Iraq, one of the most egregious expressions of naked power and imperial ambition since the Second World War. The attack defied both an outraged world opinion — expressed by global mass demonstrations — and the United Nations charter. It also marked a change from the previous veiled decorum of supposed adherence to international law that defined post-war international relations.
→ read full articleBuddhist Nationalism in Burma
Maung Zarni, tricycle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
The broadcast images of monks of the “Saffron Revolution” of 2007 are still fresh; these monks were seen calling for an improvement in public well-being in the face of the growing economic hardships afflicting Burma’s Buddhists. But in the past year, the world has been confronted with images of the same robed monks publicly demonstrating against Islamic nations’ distribution of aid to starving Muslim Rohingya, displaced into refugee camps in their own country following Rakhine Buddhist attacks.
→ read full articleMy Neighbourhood: An Israel-Palestine Documentary
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
My Neighbourhood is a short documentary film that records four different stories at crossroads between Israeli West Jerusalem and the occupied Palestinian town of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem. If I were to rename this film, I would call it ‘It is my home; I won’t leave it.’
→ read full article(Pусский-Russian) Истоки расизма
Socialist Worker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Расизм настолько укоренился в нашем обществе, что многие считают, что он существовал всегда. Однако Юрий Прасад утверждает, что это относительно новый феномен, который развился вместе с капитализмом.
→ read full articleThe New Kalladi Bridge
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
In sounds of heavy weapons
And shot notices vibrated
Gods and Brahmas
Gradually praised …
Why Does the West Fail to Understand Reality?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
We are already far into a world economically dominated by BRIC, with S added for South Africa to make the message clear: South-South-South against not even a billion living in the world Northwest+Japan; militarily with only a question of time before the first drones hit the USA, as follow-up to 9/11, and whoever engages in extrajudicial executions; key decisions are taken by BRICS (CELAC for Latin America), one day possibly making a counter-UN without veto; culturally seeing their diversity as a major asset, drawing on all cultures.
→ read full article(Castellano) Banco de Desarrollo del BRICS Será la Nueva Alternativa Financiera Global
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Las potencias emergentes que integran el Grupo BRICS -Brasil, Rusia, India, China y Sudáfrica- acordaron oficialmente este miércoles la creación de un Banco para el Desarrollo, que permita financiar inversiones recíprocas y constituya una alternativa a los organismos financieros multilaterales dominados por Estados Unidos y la Unión Europea.
→ read full articleReading Palestinian Prison Diaries
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
The Prisoners’ Diaries: Palestinian Voices from the Israeli Gulag, Gaza, 2013. What is most compelling is how much the material expresses the shared concerns of these prisoners. A few keywords dominate the texts: pain, God or Allah, love, dream, homeland, steadfastness, tears, freedom, dream, prayer. Survival with as much dignity as possible in a dank and poorly lit circumstances of isolation, humiliation, acute hostility on the part of the prison staff, including abusive neglect by the medical personnel.
→ read full article(Castellano) Pedagogía de la Catástrofe – Depresión
Stefano Caserini & Enrico Euli - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
La depresión generalmente se identifica como un estado patológico, de enfermedad, en el lenguaje común es también el estado del perdedor, de quien no lo ha logrado, del “gafe” diría un joven diputado italiano. En la psicología dinámica, una posición depresiva no es estar deprimido, es aceptar ser parte del problema y no sólo parte de la solución, aceptar que el bien y el mal en nuestras acciones están entrelazados y no pueden ser prescindidos, eliminado.
→ read full articleRefugee
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Take my land, take
the brook where I caught my first fish,
the field my grandfather
cleared of rocks and stones with . . .
Nessun Dorma (Music Video of the Week)
Blake & Camilla Kerslake – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Celebrating 20 years since Pavarotti first sang Nessun Dorma for the 1990 World Cup, Blake join beautiful Camilla Kerslake to perform a unique version of the anthem at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
→ read full articleSurprised? Monsanto Openly Wrote Own Monsanto Protection Act
Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
It should come as no surprise to many of you to find out that Monsanto actually authored the wording of its own Monsanto Protection Act hidden in the recently passed and signed Continuing Resolution spending bill. How could a major corporation write its own laws and regulations, you ask?
→ read full articleSyria: The Failure of Our So-Called International Community
Desmond Tutu, 1984 Nobel Peace Laureate – The Guardian,
1 Apr 2013
How can the country be abandoned in its hour of need? Power plays have taken priority over the terrible suffering of Syrians. The massacre in Syria rages on and yet we stand idle. We must realise that, to millions of Syrians trapped in the country, the virtual absence of humanitarian relief is nearly as arbitrary and cruel as the war itself.
→ read full articleA Conversation with Dr. Nick Begich about HAARP
PrisonPlanet TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Dr. Begich talks about many controversial science experiments, including the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program-HAARP, mind control technology, compartmentalization within the science community, and how these technologies, which might be used for the progress of all mankind, is currently controlled by secret military industrial complex interests putting all of humanity at risk.
→ read full article(Português) Paredes de Vidro: Fotógrafo Capta Reação das Pessoas ao Testemunharem Sofrimento dos Animais em Matadouro
Michelle Kretzer (PETA) - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
1 Apr 2013
“Eu já arrastei vacas até que seus ossos começassem a quebrar, enquanto elas ainda estavam vivas. Quando as estou trazendo até o canto e elas ficam presas na porta de entrada, puxo até que sua pele seja rasgada, até que o sangue escorra no concreto e ferro. Quebro suas pernas…. E a vaca chora com sua língua pendurada. Eles puxam os animais até que seus pescoços quebrem”.
→ read full article(Português) A Alemanha Contra a Europa – O Artigo Censurado pelo “El País”
Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Publicamos em seguida o artigo do economista Juan Torres López, do Conselho Científico de ATTAC Espanha, que o El País retirou do seu site, alegando que continha afirmações que o jornal considera inapropriadas. No final do artigo, pode ler também a resposta do autor.
→ read full article(Castellano) El Bien Común de la Humanidad: Un Paradigma Post-Capitalista Frente a la Ruptura del Equilibrio del Metabolismo Entre la Naturaleza y el Genero Humano
François Houtart – Forum Mundial de Alternativas,
1 Apr 2013
La reconstrucción del equilibrio del metabolismo entre la naturaleza y los seres humanos por un cambio de paradigma y las transiciones El problema de la ruptura del metabolismo socio-ambiental es el resultado de una lógica más amplia que abarca el modo de acumulación y el predominio del valor de cambio, la organización colectiva al servicio de la reproducción del capital y la visión del mundo orientada por un progreso lineal en un planeta inagotable al servicio de una minoría.
→ read full articleGuantanamo Exposes Reality of US Fascism
Finian Cunningham – PressTV,
1 Apr 2013
They are essentially dead men who just happen to breathe. That is the grim assessment of the legal representative for the inmates in the American concentration camp, otherwise known as Guantanamo Bay. More than 11 years after this penal colony was opened on the American-occupied territory of Cuba, there remains some 166 prisoners who live in a nightmarish world of indefinite detention.
→ read full articleGitmo Inmates Claim Being Denied Drinking Water as White House Breaks Silence
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
A group of human rights lawyers filed an emergency motion with a federal court in Washington, describing the alleged mistreatment: “The reality is that these men are slowly withering away and we as a country need to take immediate action,” Denver-based human rights lawyer Mari Newman said, according to AP.
→ read full articleShh! Will U.S. Navy Turn It Down for Whales and Dolphins?
Peter Pearsall – YES! Magazine,
1 Apr 2013
Human allies of whales and dolphins have long had difficulty reining in the Navy’s use of sonar that harms these animals. But recent developments suggest that may be starting to change.
→ read full article(Italiano) Papa Francesco I, Gesuita
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Il primo papa gesuita. La Società di Gesù, fondata da Ignazio di Loyola, fu un movimento di rinnovamento dall’interno nel 1534 dopo l’enorme riforma dall’esterno, il protestantesimo, in particolare Lutero nel 1517. Ci sono voluti più di quattro secoli per arrivare in cima; forse è cambiata la Chiesa, forse papa Francesco è un gesuita morbido. I gesuiti sono noti per essere preti che esercitano il loro ministero, e per avere una seconda professione, spesso come intellettuali, e di alto livello. Papa Francesco ha la stessa doppia reputazione. Promettente.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 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 articleIceland Offers Hard Lessons for Cyprus on Capital Controls
Alistair Scrutton and Robert Robertsson, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
For Iceland, there was a sense of deja vu when Cyprus’s finance minister said capital controls would probably last “a matter of weeks”. Five years after a banking meltdown, the north Atlantic island has just extended its own controls indefinitely… Cyprus, by contrast, cannot devalue because it is a member of the euro zone.
→ read full articleChina and Brazil Sign Agreement to Trade in Their Local Currencies
MercoPress South Atlantic News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
China and Brazil signed an agreement to do billions of dollars of trade in their local currencies, as the five-nation BRICS forum of emerging market powers work to lessen dependence on the US dollar and Euro.
→ read full articleIndia, China, Brazil to Surpass Combined GDP of U.S., Western Europe by 2020: UN
Vancouverdesi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
“By 2020, the combined economic output of three leading developing countries alone — Brazil, China and India — will surpass the aggregate production of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the U.K. and the United States,” said the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) 2013 Human Development Report.
→ read full article(Galego) Malditas Guerras
Manuel Dios Diz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Moitas persoas lembran, non esquecen, a minuciosa preparación propagandística, a sistemática mentira, a reiterada e amplificada mentira, con aquela posta en escena, máis propia da Cortiña de Fume, de Barry Levinson, operación liberdade iraquí, Collin Powell na ONU, coas súas imaxes trucadas, a foto das Azores con Bush, Blair, Aznar e o anfitrión Barroso, a impotencia dos inspectores Blix e El Albaradei, incapaces de frear aquel delirio reiterando a inexistencia de armas de destrución masiva en poder de Saddam Hussein.
→ read full article(Italiano) Hugo Chavez: Un Produttore di Storia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Un genio ci fa pensare, e agire, diversamente, in tal modo facendo la storia. Chávez è stato uno uno di questi. Grazie Hugo – possa tu non riposare in pace.
→ read full articleIceland’s Grassroots Constitution on Thin Ice
Deutsche Welle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Time is running out, acknowledges parliamentarian Birgitta Jonsdottir with a sigh. She’s hoping that the Icelandic parliament, the “Althing,” will approve the new constitution. The new document has a number of unique features, including the fact that it was drawn up in a process in which every citizen had a chance to participate. The draft represents the first time that a country has tried to write a new constitution in a grassroots fashion. The financial crisis that began five years ago set the unusual project in motion.
→ read full articleA Lexicon of “War (Redux):” Does Excessive Word Use Result in a Loss of Meaning?
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
I must admit, as I gathered the terms, I found myself “shocked” by the widespread use of the word “war.” Was it possible that within the context of our global era, replete with its increased inter-dependencies, we had come to find the tensions of competition for resources and survival itself, pushing us toward “wars” at all levels of interactions? In my opinion, a “versus” mentality had arisen that was pitting different people, organizations, nations, and products against one another in a win-lose arena.
→ read full articleIt Is a Matter of Faces
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
It is useless to pour water
To a downward pot
Though it is necessarily critical
In a drought of thirst . . .
BRICS Viewed from Russia
Vladimir Shubin – Pambazuka News,
25 Mar 2013
There are some who see BRICS as ‘the Center’s fifth column’ whilst Russia sees it as an alternative centre of global influence despite the differing ideological viewpoints of its member states. Russia is committed to BRICS as a constraint to the ambitions of the USA, NATO and the world reactionary forces behind them.
→ read full articleChinua Achebe: A Reflection of When Things Fall Apart
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
The death in a Boston hospital of Chinua Achebe, on 21 March 2013, the Nigerian novelist about whom it was said that his writings were “concerned with universal human communication across racial and cultural boundaries as a means of fostering respect for all people” came just at the start of the UN-sponsored 2013-2022 International Decade for the Rapprochement of Cultures.
→ read full articleThe Last Letter
Tomas Young - Truthdig,
25 Mar 2013
A Message to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney from a Dying Veteran: You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans—my fellow veterans—whose future you stole.
–Tomas Young
India-China and the Spirit of Cooperation
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
In one of his candid statements, the Chinese President, Xi Jinping on 19 March 2013 admitted that the border dispute between his country and its neighbour, India, is one of the most difficult problems the two countries confront. “However, as long as we keep up our friendly consultation, we can eventually arrive at a fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable settlement”.
→ read full articleLibya: Two Years after Launching Intervention
Alexander Mezyaev – Strategic Culture Foundation,
25 Mar 2013
Arms From Libya Are Spreading Out Across the Whole Continent – March 19 is the date the NATO intervention against Libya was launched two years ago [in 2011].
→ read full articleMen Who Kick Down Doors – Tyrants at Home and Abroad
Ann Jones - TomDispatch,
25 Mar 2013
Picture this. A man, armored in tattoos, bursts into a living room not his own. He confronts an enemy. He barks orders. He throws that enemy into a chair. Then against a wall. He plants himself in the middle of the room, feet widespread, fists clenched, muscles straining, face contorted in a scream of rage. The tendons in his neck are taut with the intensity of his terrifying performance.
→ read full article(Português) Refrigerantes Estão Relacionados com 180 Mil Mortes por Ano em todo o Mundo
Sapo Saúde – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Cientistas de Harvard concluíram que, em 2010, 180 mil pessoas morreram em todo o mundo devido a doenças provocadas pelo consumo de refrigerantes e bebidas açucaradas: 133 mil por diabetes, 43.000 por doenças cardíacas e 6.000 por cancro. O estudo foi apresentado na reunião da American Heart Association’s Epidemiology and Prevention/Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism, na terça-feira [19 mar 2013], em Nova Orleães.
→ read full articleSri Lanka Accused of Ongoing Torture and Abuse of Tamil Prisoners
Mark Townsend and Hussein Kesvani – The Guardian,
25 Mar 2013
Calls for UK to withdraw from Commonwealth summit in Colombo as report claims brutal human rights violations by state. The torture of Tamil political prisoners is increasingly rife in Sri Lanka with some detainees dying in custody after suffering prolonged abuse, a new investigation claims.
→ read full articleSugary Drinks Linked to 180,000 Annual Deaths around the World
Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
According to a new study presented on Tuesday [19 Mar 2013] at a meeting of the American Heart Association, one out of every 100 obesity-related deaths around the world can be tied to sugary drinks, which directly exacerbate health conditions like diabetes, heart diseases, and cancer. Specifically, the over-consumption of those beverages increased global deaths from diabetes by 133,000, from cardiovascular disease by 44,000 and from cancer by 6,000.
→ read full articleClub Gitmo
Charles P. Pierce, Esquire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
A lot of what we’ve done in our “war” on terror — including extrajudicial assassination, drumhead tribunals, and now this classically brutal response to a hunger strike, which is an act of dedicated non-violent resistance — we learned from the lessons taught by the British in Ireland and especially by Mrs. Thatcher who allowed an elected member of Parliament to starve to death.
→ read full articleCardinal Sins
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
How a modern Inquisition, with the help of Pope Francis, stifled the movement protecting the poor. “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist.” So said the Brazilian archbishop Dom Hélder Câmara. His adage exposes one of the great fissures in the Catholic Church, and the emptiness of the new Pope’s claim to be on the side of the poor.
→ read full articleCameroon: Rights Abuses in ‘Homosexuality’ Prosecutions
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
No one should be sentenced to prison time because they blurt out a confession to stop torture, or because a judge doesn’t like what they drink, how they dress, or what kind of text messages they send.
→ read full articleThe BRICS Come to Durban
Maite Nkoana-Mashabane – Pambazuka News,
25 Mar 2013
Keynote Speech at the BRICS Academic Forum by South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation – The BRICS are catalysts and drivers of a multipolar world, aiming to demolish the hegemony of the West in global affairs.
→ read full articleChina Replaces Britain in World’s Top Five Arms Exporters – Report
Michael Martina, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
China has become the world’s fifth-largest arms exporter, a respected Sweden-based think-tank said on Monday [18 Mar 2013], its highest ranking since the Cold War, with Pakistan the main recipient.
→ read full articleRecord Levels of Radiation Found in Fish near Japan’s Fukushima Plant
Danielle Demetriou – The Telegraph,
25 Mar 2013
Record levels of radiation contamination have been found in fish near Japan’s tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant. One fish, a greenling measuring 38 cm in length, was contaminated with 740,000 becquerels per kg – more than 7,400 times the recommended government limit regarded as safe for human consumption.
→ read full article‘I Can Forgive Lesbians but Not Gay Men’, Says Belarus’ Lukashenko
euronews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
“I forgive women for their lesbianism,” he said. “But I will never in my lifetime forgive men for being gay… A woman becomes a lesbian only if we men are so wretched.”
→ read full articleSenate Passes Monsanto Protection Act Granting Monsanto Power over US Govt
Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
This ushers in an entirely new era of activism. Monsanto has decided to push the envelope in a way that is unprecedented, fighting the US federal courts. Sometimes in order to truly have an intellectual revolution on a subject, the people need to see exactly what they are facing. With the truly blatant and downright arrogant Monsanto Protection Act, it’s now clearer than ever.
→ read full articleBuddhist Nationalism in Burma
Maung Zarni, Tricycle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
The rise of genocidal Buddhist racism against the Rohingya, a minority community of nearly one million people in the western Burmese province of Rakhine (also known as Arakan), is an international humanitarian crisis. The military-ruled state has been relentless in its attempts to erase Rohingya ethnic identity, which was officially recognized as a distinct ethnic group in 1954 by the democratic government of Prime Minister U Nu.
→ read full article(Français) Cameroun: Violations de Droits Humains Commises dans le Cadre des Poursuites Judiciaires pour «Homosexualité»
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Personne ne devrait être condamné à une peine de prison pour avoir laissé échapper des aveux afin de faire arrêter la torture, ou parce qu’un juge n’aime pas ce qu’ils boivent, la façon dont ils s’habillent ou le type de textos qu’ils envoient. La façon dont la loi est appliquée au Cameroun semble suggérer que si vous êtes soupçonné d’être gay ou lesbienne, les droits humains, par exemple le droit à un procès équitable et le droit à ne pas être torturé, n’ont plus cours.
→ read full articleBeing Neither a-Waving Nor a-Parting: Considering Both Science And Spirituality
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Produced on the occasion of publication by Science of an inspiring map of the Universe shortly after the Big Bang. Rather than engage in arid exploration of levels of complexity — ironically only comprehensible to the “enlightened” — the question here is whether there is a far more immediate understanding of how the distinction between wave and particle is to be experienced personally. Does such experience offer more radical and richer understandings of the sense of individual identity than is offered by convention?
→ read full articleWar Games
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Children get killed in wars,
which is not good for them.
They should be tickled
and made to laugh,
HSBC Faces New Money Laundering Claims in Argentina
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Banking giant HSBC, which was hit with a US fine for money laundering last year, is facing fresh accusations of illegal activity in Argentina, which has alleged that the bank used “fake receipts” to facilitate money laundering and tax evasion, and launder 392m pesos ($77m; £50m).
→ read full articleAnonymous Leaks Names, Addresses of 35,000 Israeli Officials
Al-Akhbar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
The Internet hacktivist collective Anonymous released the names, addresses and phone numbers of over 35,000 Israeli officials, including politicians, army officers and agents for spy agency Mossad. The Red Hack, a Turkish Internet group that operates as an affiliate of Anonymous, posted spreadsheets with the personal information online late Friday [22 Mar 2013]. Separately, another online hacker group, Sektor 404, attacked the Mossad’s website, temporary shutting it down.
→ read full articleMuslim and Western Nations Agree on UN Landmark Code to Combat Violence Against Women and Girls
MercoPress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Muslim and Western nations late Friday [15 Mar 2013] overcame deep divisions to agree a landmark United Nations declaration setting out a code of conduct for combating violence against women and girls. Iran, Libya, Sudan and other Muslim nations ended threats to block the declaration and agreed to language stating that violence against women could not be justified by “any custom, tradition or religious consideration.”
→ read full articleIraq: Ten Years of Stupidity
Johan Galtung, 25 Mar 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
To assume only one scenario, war, reveals intellectual poverty. Iraq had problems but not the casualties, exile and displacements of the war-which may last 10 more years having upset so many unstable equilibia. They cater to the US-UK war addiction, sending others to hell. Such people should be known for their tested inability to analyze and forecast and remedy. Academia should be for intellectuals, not for clercs, intelligentsia.
→ read full articleUnrest in Bulgaria: New Casualty in Wave of Self-Immolations`
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
A 40-year-old Bulgarian set himself on fire to protest poverty and corruption in his country on Friday [22 Mar 2013], becoming the sixth self-immolation in the EU country in less than a month.
→ read full articleAlcoholics Anonymous Spirituality Cause of Internal Debate
G. Jeffrey Macdonald – Huff Post,
25 Mar 2013
For Alcoholics Anonymous to continue helping addicts find freedom in sobriety, the 75-year-old organization has to reclaim its spiritual roots. That’s the message coming from reformers who say the group has drifted from core principles and is failing addicts who can’t save themselves. But what constitutes the heart of AA spirituality is a matter of spirited debate.
→ read full articleWhat Was Wrong with Obama’s Speech in Jerusalem
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
In retrospect, worse than speech was the visit itself. Obama should never have undertaken such the visit without an accompanying willingness to treat the Palestinian reality with at least equal dignity to that of the Israeli reality and without some indication of how to imagine a just peace based on two states for two peoples given the severe continuing Israeli encroachments on occupied Palestinian territory that give every indication of permanence.
→ read full articleTomas Young and the End of the Body of War
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
25 Mar 2013
Tomas Young was in the fifth day of his first deployment to Iraq when he was struck by a sniper’s bullet in Baghdad’s Sadr City. The single bullet paralyzed him from the chest down, and changed his life forever. Now, nine years later, at the age of 33, Tomas has decided to end his life. He announced recently that he will soon stop his nourishment, which comes in the form of liquid through a feeding tube.
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Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 (Music Video of the Week)
Jan Lisiecki – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Reluctant prodigy, 17-year old pianist Jan Lisiecki interpreting the Andante from Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 21 in C major.
→ read full articleIntroducing BRICS from above and BRICS-from-below
Patrick Bond – Pambazuka News,
25 Mar 2013
There seem to be three narratives about BRICS. The first is promotional and mainly comes from government and allied intellectuals; the second perspective is uncertainty, typical of fence-sitting scholars and NGOs; and the third is highly critical, from forces sometimes termed the ‘independent left.’
→ read full articleThe Times Eviscerates the Occupation
MJ Rosenberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
On Sunday [17 Mar 2013], the New York Times ran an extraordinary magazine piece (it was the cover story) on West Bank Palestinians who are resisting the Israeli occupation through non-violence. For those who follow the issue closely, the extraordinary aspect of the piece was not so much anything author Ben Ehreneich revealed as it was that the article appeared in the New York Times at all.
→ read full articleIraq after Ten Years
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
March 19, 2013. Ten years ago today the Bush regime invaded Iraq. It is known that the justification for the invasion was a packet of lies orchestrated by the neoconservative Bush regime in order to deceive the United Nations and the American people.
→ read full articleChenney’s Halliburton Received $39.5 Billion in Iraq War Contracts over the Past Decade
Angelo Young - International Business Times,
25 Mar 2013
The accounting of the financial cost of the nearly decade-long Iraq War will go on for years, but a recent analysis has shed light on the companies that made money off the war by providing support services as the privatization of what were former U.S. military operations rose to unprecedented levels.
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Forbes Billionaires List Growing
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Corporate profits at record levels – as austerity hits and unemployment remains high. US still leads as many new billionaires emerging in China and Russia.
→ read full article(Castellano) Pedagogía de la Catástrofe – Decisión
Stefano Caserini & Enrico Euli - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Tomar decisiones es una elección compleja y difícil, sobre todo en una sociedad de masas. Hasta el momento en que se encuentran para tomar decisiones en núcleos reducidos, las personas pueden, al menos en teoría, estar presentes para contar: para escuchar y ser escuchadas, practicar una buena consulta, participar en las decisiones, actuar de manera colectiva y conscientemente.
→ read full articleIsrael and the Politics of Boycott
Joseph Massad – Al Jazeera,
25 Mar 2013
Zionism and Israel will continue to support any boycott that seeks to institutionalise racism and racial separatism. For Zionism, what mattered most was its commitment to racial separatism, whether in Germany or Palestine, and it supported only those boycotts that would bring it about.
→ read full articlePowers Seek Influence in Burma’s Conflict
Bertil Lintner, YaleGlobal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Burmese government battles insurgents as China and the US scramble for influence. In Burma, there’s rivalry among peace organizations, often with lack of understanding of the conflicts’ root causes.
→ read full article(Português) Os Ultramultimilionários
Alfredo Zaiat, Página/12 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
A relação de ultramultimilionários do mundo voltou a alcançar máximas históricas, informa a ‘Forbes’: agora essa lista é formada por 1426 nomes com um valor patrimonial líquido de aproximadamente 5,4 trilhões de dólares. É algo inquietante. A pior crise econômica global desde a Depressão de 1930 segue sem horizonte de terminar, enquanto aumenta a concentração de riqueza.
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The Corporation
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
The documentary examines the modern-day corporation, considering its legal status as a class of person and evaluating its behavior towards society and the world at large as a psychiatrist might evaluate an ordinary person. This is explored through specific examples.
→ read full articleIraq: War’s Legacy of Cancer
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
25 Mar 2013
Two US-led wars in Iraq have left behind hundreds of tonnes of depleted uranium munitions and other toxic wastes. Doctors in Fallujah are continuing to witness a steep rise in severe congenital birth defects, including children being born with two heads, children born with only one eye, multiple tumours.
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Sea Shepherd Shut Down Japanese Whaling 2013
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Aggressive Nonviolence on High Seas – The Bob Barker and the Steve Irwin Sea Shepherd ships block the slipway of the whale processor Nisshin Maru, preventing a whale from being loaded, the only one believed to have been killed this season. The harpoon ships have now stopped whaling, as the whales cannot be processed.
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(Castellano) Es Tiempo de Vivir Sin Miedo
Eduardo Galeano – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
(Legendado em Portugues)
ES: Escritor uruguayo habla de la persistencia humana para luchar por un mundo que es el hogar de todos y no de unos pocos.
POR: Escritor uruguaio fala da persistência humana de lutar por um mundo que seja a casa de todos e não de uns poucos.
Don’t Argue with Children
TMS editor,
25 Mar 2013
My 4 year old son came screaming out of the bathroom to tell me he’d dropped his toothbrush in the toilet.
→ read full articleHenry David Thoreau, We Need Your Voice Today!
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Thoreau refused to pay his poll tax because of his opposition to the Mexican War and to the institution of slavery. Because of his refusal to pay the tax (which was in fact a very small amount) he spent a night in prison. To Thoreau’s irritation, his family paid the poll tax for him and he was released. He then wrote down his ideas on the subject in an essay entitled The Duty of Civil Disobedience, where he maintains that each person has a duty to follow his own individual conscience even when it conflicts with the orders of his government.
→ read full articleVictorious Return for Sea Shepherd Fleet
Sea Shepherd Whale Defence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
March 21, 2013 – Sea Shepherd Australia is proud to welcome home the 110 strong international crew and three ships, the Steve Irwin, Sam Simon and Bob Barker. Their return marks an end to the most successful campaign to date, with the Japanese whalers returning home with the lowest kill ever. However, it is all with a heavy heart as the man that started it all, Captain Paul Watson, cannot be stepping a shore because the Australian Government will not announce his safe passage into Australia.
→ read full articleKudankulam Atomic Power Project
Nuclear Power Corporation of India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Please click on the link to check the progress report, construction detail, in the original.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s Religious Violence against the Muslims Is Military-Backed and Buddhist Order-Organzied
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
The violence against Muslims in Burma is not SIMPLY sectarian or communal as is typically and incorrectly framed by the mainstream media. It is mobilized by the skin-head elements within the Buddhist Sangha and tacitly backed by the military state, both working in close collaboration and in a symbiosis.
→ read full articleAP: Chavez Wasted His Money on Healthcare When He Could Have Built Gigantic Skyscrapers
Jim Naureckas – Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting-FAIR,
25 Mar 2013
One of the more bizarre takes on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s death comes from Associated Press business reporter Pamela Sampson (3/5/13): Chavez squandered his nation’s oil money on healthcare, education and nutrition when he could have been building the world’s tallest building or his own branch of the Louvre. What kind of monster has priorities like that?
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 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 articleNATO Proxies Using WMD’s in Syria – Dozens Dead
Tony Cartalluci, Land Destroyer Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
It is outrageous hypocrisy to see the West arming, funding, and politically backing terrorists in Syria who in fact both possess, and are now using such weapons against the Syrian people.
→ read full articleNos Morituri Te Salutamus – Salute of Iraqi Citizens to the Coalition of the Willing
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
10 March 2003 – We, the Citizens of Iraq, are gathered here for your entertainment in the first 21st century media circus, to celebrate once again the tradition inaugurated by your forefathers during the time of the Roman Empire — an empire that your current Leader aspires to emulate. We who are about to die salute you was the phrase traditionally used by those about to die in the gladiatorial circus arenas of that time. Nos Morituri Te Salutamus!
→ read full articlePope Francis I, a Jesuit
Johan Galtung, 18 Mar 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
The first Jesuit pope. The Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius de Loyola, was a renewal movement from the inside in 1534 after the huge outside reforma, the protestantisms, Luther-1517 in particular. More than four centuries was needed to reach the top; maybe the Church changed, maybe Pope Francis is a soft Jesuit. Jesuits are known for being priests exercising their ministry, and for having a second profession, often as intellectuals, and high level ones. Pope Francis has the same double reputation. Promising.
→ read full article(Português) Carne de Cavalo e Especismo
Marcela Godoy, Consciência Animal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
The Horsemeat scandal, ou o escândalo da carne de cavalo, começou no mês passado quando carne de cavalo foi descoberta em hambúrgueres congelados à venda no Reino Unido e na República da Irlanda. Desde então, vestígios foram descobertos em produtos de carne processados e refeições prontas em toda a União Européia. Os olhos e ouvidos abolicionistas já detectam, de primeira, especismo explícito.
→ read full articleMahatma Gandhi, We Need Your Voice Today!
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
If humans are ever to achieve a stable global society in the future, they will have to become much more modest in their economic behavior and much more peaceful in their politics. For both modesty and peace, Gandhi is a useful source of ideas. The problems with which he struggled during his lifetime are extremely relevant to us in the 21st Century, when both nuclear and ecological catastrophes threaten the world.
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