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(Português) FMI Assume Ter Subestimado os “Estragos” Causados pela Austeridade na Grécia
Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Políticas austeritárias acabaram por conduzir a Grécia a uma recessão sem fim à vista, reconhece o Fundo Monetário Internacional num documento citado pelo The Wall Street Journal. O organismo liderado por Christine Lagarde admite ainda que a dívida grega não era sustentável.
→ read full articleWhose ‘Two State’ Solution? End Game or Intermission?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
In pondering this dismal landscape of peace talk without peace, one wonders what became of ‘the roadmap’ and ‘the Quartet.’ It may be a small blessing that their irrelevance is being tacitly acknowledged. These creations never seemed more than a thin and deceitful veil thrown over a one sided American control over Israel/Palestine diplomacy.
→ read full articleEx Japan Prime Minister Naoto Kan Now Sorry He Pushed Export of Nuclear Plant Technology
Erika Toh – The Asahi Chimbun,
10 Jun 2013
If he could turn the clock back, Naoto Kan says he would never have promoted the export of Japanese nuclear plant technology to India, Turkey and Vietnam. “Before March 11 [2011], I was in favor of the safe usage of nuclear plants, but my thinking has changed 180 degrees after that,” he said.
→ read full articleIs It a Mosquito? No, It Is a Drone!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
This device can be controlled from a great distance and is equipped with a camera and microphone; it can land on you and is equipped with a needle capable of retrieving a DNA sample with the pain of a mosquito bite. It’s also capable of injecting a micro radio frequency identification tracking device under your skin, lethal viruses, etc.
→ read full articleEspionage, Blackmail and Oil—Australian Neo-Colonialism in East Timor
Patrick O’Connor, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
New revelations of illegal Australian government espionage operations during negotiations for the carve up of the oil- and gas-rich Timor Sea have laid bare the neo-colonial character of Canberra’s relations with East Timor.
→ read full articleIsrael Now Has 80 Nuclear Warheads, Report Says
Gavriel Fiske – The Times of Israel,
10 Jun 2013
Of those warheads, 50 are for medium-range ballistic missiles and 30 are for bombs carried by aircraft, the report said. In addition, “Israel may also have produced non-strategic nuclear weapons, including artillery shells and atomic demolition munitions,” the Guardian reported Monday [3 June 2013].
→ read full articleNichts Neues Im Westen
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Back in 1928 Erich Maria Remarque
confronted us with the image
of the beheaded soldier
still running,
Stunt
TMS editor,
10 Jun 2013
A man was sitting at the bar in a watering hole whose selling point was that it was on top of the largest skyscraper in town.
→ read full article(Italiano) Le Americhe: Colombia e USA
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Alcuni anni fa i due paesi erano i leader in ansia mentale nelle Americhe. Ne avevano entrambi buone ragioni: la violenza più persistente in qualunque paese contemporaneo; in Colombia dal 1949 con qualche interruzione, poi di nuovo dal 1964 con le FARC, le famose formazioni guerrigliere. E per gli USA la convinzione che il Male sia dietro ogni angolo, nazionale e globale; meglio avere le armi per trattare a modo quei brutti ceffi.
→ read full articleHow A London Court Repudiated Zionist Abuse of the Anti-Semitism Charge
Mike Marqusee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Taunting and tainting opponents with the charge of anti-semitism is a long-standing Zionist ploy, familiar to everyone involved in the Israel-Palestine issue. As their support weakens in the face of evidence-based argument, Israel’s advocates have stepped up their use of the accusation as a means to close down debate, particularly on proposals for boycott, divestment and sanctions.
→ read full articleMeet the ‘Friends of Jihad’
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
10 Jun 2013
Western politicos love to shed swamps of crocodile tears about “the Syrian people” and congratulate themselves within the “Friends of Syria” framework for defending them from “tyranny”. Well, the “Syrian people” have spoken. Roughly 70% support the government of Bashar al-Assad. Another 20% are neutral. And only 10% are aligned with the Western-supported “rebels”, including those of the kidnapping, lung-eating, beheading jihadi kind.
→ read full article8 June: International Day of the Oceans
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
8 June has been designated by the United Nations General Assembly as the International Day of the Oceans to highlight the important role that the United Nations has played in creating the Law of the Sea and the World Court in facilitating adjudication of maritime delimitations.
→ read full articleSwaziland: Witches Banned From Flying Over 150 Meters
Cora Van Olson, Trutv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
The Civil Aviation Authority’s Marketing and Corporate Affairs Director, Sabelo Dlamini, confirmed the new flight limitations for South Africa’s Times Live, “A witch on a broomstick should not fly above the [150-metre] limit.” Any witches caught violating the altitude limit will be subjected to a fine of R500, 000, about $53,000.
→ read full articleNew World Order Secrecy: Who Will Be Attending the Bilderberg Meeting? What Will Be Discussed Behind Closed Doors?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky – Global Reseach,
10 Jun 2013
It is An Anglo-Western European-North American Venue with participants from 21 Western countries (i.e Western Europe, US and Canada). With the exception of British born Polish Minister of Finance, Jacek Rostowski, there are no participants from Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East (with the exception of Turkey). There are 14 women out of 140 participants.
→ read full articleAncient Gay History
Frank Rich – New York Magazine,
10 Jun 2013
… is really just yesterday. My surrogate parent Clayton Coots was one of countless closeted men who didn’t live long enough to see this moment.
→ read full articleIMF Admits: We Failed To Realise the Damage Austerity Would Do to Greece
Larry Elliott, Phillip Inman and Helena Smith in Athens – The Guardian,
10 Jun 2013
The International Monetary Fund admitted it had failed to realise the damage austerity would do to Greece as the Washington-based organisation catalogued mistakes made during the bailout of the stricken eurozone country.
→ read full articleLarge US Force Arrives in Jordan for Deployment at Syria Border amid Syria’s Qusayr Victory
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
The Israeli military intelligence website DEBKAfile has reported that 1,000 U.S troops from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Force arrived at the southern Jordanian port of Aqaba on Tuesday [4 June 2013] and made their way to the north of the country under heavy Jordanian military escort.
→ read full articleNaomi Klein: ‘Anti-Shock Doctrines’ Show the Way to Resist
Andrea Germanos – Common Dreams,
10 Jun 2013
“Only when the alternatives look tangible, look real, look credible and inspiring will the fear of saying no, of standing up to the troika begin to fade.” We need to have our ideas ready to move forward in a new way, she said. It’s time to build.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Greatest Affliction: The Presstitute Media
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
When Gerald Celente branded the American media “presstitutes,” he got it right. The US print and TV media (and NPR) whore for Washington and the corporations. Reporting the real news is their last concern. The presstitutes are a Ministry of Propaganda and Coverup. This is true of the entire Western media, a collection of bought-and-paid-for whores.
→ read full articleSearch for an Alternative Paradigm of Life
Thoudam Damodara Singh, Ph.D. (Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja)– Science and Scientist,
10 Jun 2013
Thus it seems that the scientists are not able to generate life by a combination of biomolecules in the laboratory. It suggests that knowledge of DNA or any bio-molecule will not be able to explain what life is. Rather life could be beyond the assembly of biomolecules. According to Vedanta, the brain in developed living beings is an important organ of the body machinery in which the symptom of consciousness is transmitted. The conscious energy is transmitted from the spiritual soul or ‘spiriton’.
→ read full articleSyria’s Fake Sectarian War
Shamus Cooke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Pro-Jihad religious leaders of Qatar and Saudi Arabia are taking a giant gamble in their recent anti-Hezbollah proclamations, and risk triggering political instability in their own already-shaky regimes, which are hugely dependent on the religious leaders for support.
→ read full articleHungry for Justice at Guantanamo
Ramzi Kassem – Al Jazeera,
10 Jun 2013
Much has been written about the ongoing hunger strike undertaken four months ago today [6 June 2013] at the infamous US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, more than 11 years after its establishment. Today, more than 100 of the 166 prisoners refuse to eat.
→ read full articleHere’s How We Built a Movie Theater for the People – And Why the MPAA Says It’s #1 in the World
Michael Moore – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Listed as #1 is the historic State Theatre of Traverse City, Michigan, an incredible movie palace which I restored and now run as a nonprofit theater – along with a few hundred great volunteers!
→ read full articleRefusing to Accept Sexism
Socialist Worker, editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Several articles at CounterPunch criticized Angelina Jolie for her decision to publicize undergoing a double mastectomy. Here, activists and scholars register their disappointment for sexist language and belittling attitudes. The title of Ruth Fowler’s first article, “Angelia Jolie: On Privilege, Tits, and Being Dumb,” reduces Jolie to a pair of “tits,” what we expect a typical male undergraduate student to say when first introduced to the notion of women’s objectification. CounterPunch also uses titles with ‘dick,’ ‘penis,’ and ‘cock’ in them.”
→ read full articleVigorous Application of Derivative Thinking to Derivative Problems
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Transcending Bewailing, Hand-Wringing and Emotional Blackmail – As many remark, the global situation is in a mess — whether in terms of environment, resources, social services, finances, employment, housing, or conflicts. Of greater concern, however, is the extent to which the response to this mess is itself in a mess.
→ read full articleWhy the Future of Journalism Is in the Story of Solutions
Fran Korten – YES! Magazine,
10 Jun 2013
There’s a catch-phrase turning up in the media world. It’s “Solutions Journalism.” Media organizations are recognizing it’s not sufficient to report just on problems. Our world is hungry for solutions.
→ read full articleThe Race to End Violence before We End Life
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Can we take meaningful action to prevent our own extinction without ending human violence first? If you think it is time to end violence before we end life, you can join this movement. You can read and, if you wish, sign the pledge of ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ online at http://thepeoplesnonviolencecharter.wordpress.com/
→ read full articleKaulana Na Pua – (Hawai’ian Music Video of the Week)
ProjectKULEANA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
KULEANA – Written by Ellen Keho’ohiwoakalani Wright Pendergast in 1893. This was a mele of opposition to the annexation of Hawai’i to the United States.
→ read full articleThe Role of Turkey in the US-NATO-Israeli War on Syria
Cem Ertür - Global Research,
10 Jun 2013
When the U.S. and its allies launched the covert war on Syria in 2011, they were expecting that either Syria’s political establishment would collapse within a short duration or they would find a way to ignite an open war. As Syria’s leaders and people proved to be exceptionally resilient, increasingly more brutal means have been deployed to tear the country apart. Being at the forefront of this covert war in every respect, Turkey has been thoroughly complicit in monumental war crimes committed against the neighbouring people of Syria.
→ read full articleSeven Myths about Bradley Manning
Chase Madar – The Nation,
10 Jun 2013
Myth # 1: It is routinely asserted or implied that Manning declassified the field reports and diplomatic cables because he is a nut job, or because he is gay, or because he is a gay nut job. In fact, Manning’s motive was expressly political: “I want people to see the truth…regardless of who they are…because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public.”
→ read full articleWorld Nuclear Forces—Reductions and Modernization Continue
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
3 June 2013 – At the start of 2013 eight states—the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan and Israel—possessed approximately 4400 operational nuclear weapons. Nearly 2000 of these are kept in a state of high operational alert. If all nuclear warheads are counted, these states together possess a total of approximately 17 265 nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleDiscovery of Monsanto GMO Wheat Threatens US Exports
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
The discovery of a Monsanto-created, genetically modified strain of wheat in the US that was never approved by the United States Department of Agriculture has imperiled US exports of a staple world food commodity.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
A Global Harmony Association Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day. PLEASE HELP THE WORLD BY SIGNING THE PETITION http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Global_Disarmament_Now_1/.
→ read full articleAnti-LGBT Rampage in Georgia Exposes Frustrations with the West
Molly Corso – Inter Press Service-IPS,
10 Jun 2013
While most Georgians condemn the violent May 17 [2013] attack on an anti-homophobia rally, many do not see the core issue as having anything to do with a lack of tolerance, a right to freedom of assembly or respect for minority rights.
→ read full articleSaudi Prince Sues Forbes after It Says He’s ‘Only’ Worth $20 Billion
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has sued Forbes for libel alleging its valuation of his wealth was short of the mark by $9.6 billion, The Guardian reported on Friday [7 June 2013]. He owns large stakes in Citigroup, News Corp and Apple Inc among others, and is also owner or part-owner of luxury hotels including the Plaza in New York, the Savoy in London and the George V in Paris.
→ read full articleHumanity Imperiled – The Path to Disaster
Noam Chomsky - TomDispatch,
10 Jun 2013
It’s not that there are no alternatives. The alternatives just aren’t being taken. That’s dangerous. So if you ask what the world is going to look like, it’s not a pretty picture. Unless people do something about it. We always can.
→ read full articlePalestinian Plight Hits UEFA Spotlight
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Desmond Tutu, the leading South African anti-apartheid campaigner and Nobel peace laureate, in a letter to The Guardian argued along with other prominent human rights activists that UEFA was acting to “whitewash” Israeli racism. “We find it shocking that [UEFA] shows total insensitivity to the blatant and entrenched discrimination inflicted on Palestinian sportsmen and women by Israel,” they wrote.
→ read full articleStudent Science Experiment Finds Plants Won’t Grow Near Wi-Fi Router
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
The results were blatantly obvious — the cress seeds placed near the radiation emitter Wi-Fi router had not grown. Many of them were completely dead. While the cress seeds planted in the other room, away from the routers, thrived. The experiment earned the girls top honors in a regional science competition and the interest of scientists around the world.
→ read full articleUS And Israel Lobby Reel from Hezbollah Al-Qusayr Victory
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Plenty of adjectives and some clichés are being bandied about from Washington to Beirut to describe the al-Qusayr battle results and significance. Among them are game-changer, mother of all battles, a new regime approach to fighting, altered balance of power, critical turning point in the civil war, and so on. Perhaps less appreciated here in Beirut are al-Qusayr’s effects on the Zionist occupiers of Palestine and their currently traumatized US lobby.
→ read full article(Português) Alysson Mascaro: Uma Crítica Social do Estado
Carta Maior – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
O jurista e professor da USP e do Mackenzie Alysson Mascaro fala à TV Carta Maior e ressalta o caráter revolucionário de uma efetiva crítica social do Estado. Ele acaba de lançar o livro ‘Estado e Forma Política’, apontado por Slavoj Žižek como ‘a obra mais importante do pensamento político marxista nas últimas décadas’.
→ read full articleMerkel and Hollande Call For Full-Time Euro President
Andrew Rettman – EUObserver,
10 Jun 2013
The idea came in a joint text published on Thursday (30 May 2013) during Merkel’s visit to Paris.
→ read full article“The Monsanto Protection Plan”: Monsanto’s Deception Game on GMO in Europe
F. William Engdahl – Global Research,
10 Jun 2013
On May 31 [2013] world media headlines read similar to this from Reuters: “Monsanto backing away from GMO crops in Europe.” But this is what Monsanto says: ”Right now the media is flooded with reports that Monsanto has stopped the marketing of GMO seeds in Germany and the EU. That is not correct… We have a robust business selling high-quality, conventional corn, oilseed rape and vegetable seeds to our farmer customers in Europe.”
→ read full articleHow Democratic Is Turkey?
Steven A. Cook, Michael Koplow – Foreign Policy,
10 Jun 2013
Not as Democratic as Washington Thinks It Is – The ferocity of the protests and police response in Istanbul’s Gezi Park is no doubt a surprise to many in Washington. Turkey, that “excellent model” or “model partner,” repeated ad nauseum, misrepresents the complex and often contradictory political processes underway in Turkey.
→ read full articleNSA Prism Program Taps In to User Data of Apple, Google and Others
Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill – The Guardian,
10 Jun 2013
• Top-secret Prism program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Apple and Facebook
• Companies deny any knowledge of program in operation since 2007
• Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks
Lynne Stewart Must Be Released Now
Alan Maass – Socialist Worker,
10 Jun 2013
Radical civil liberties lawyer Lynne Stewart, 73 years old, and her supporters are continuing their fight to win her immediate release so she can be treated for stage four cancer at a state-of-the-art medical facility.
→ read full articleTears in Taksim Square
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
For the protesters of Taksim square.
→ read full article(Castellano) Presidente Maduro Lamenta Que Colombia Pretenda Unirse a la OTAN
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Servivce,
10 Jun 2013
El jefe del Estado venezolano reiteró que es una amenaza para la paz de la región, la pretensión del Gobierno colombiano de unirse a la Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte (OTAN). Hizo un llamado a debatir en la región en torno al papel de los militares en Suramérica.
→ read full article(Português) Brasil, Mercosul e a Moral Seletiva nos Negócios com Israel
Maren Mantovani – Carta Maior,
10 Jun 2013
A relação comercial atual do Mercosul com Israel viola o direito comercial, os direitos humanos, os estatutos e as práticas do bloco sul-americano, compromissos políticos do Brasil com o povo palestino e tem prejudicado as relações com outros parceiros comerciais. Além de tudo isso, Israel viola as disposições do próprio Tratado de Livre Comércio, exportando ilegalmente os produtos dos assentamentos. O que é preciso para simplesmente tratar Israel como se trataria qualquer outro país?
→ read full articleAnonymous Just Leaked a Trove of NSA Documents
Chris Mills, Gizmodo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
One of the key things Anonymous has highlighted from the documents is the existence of an “intelligence-sharing network” that shares data gleaned from PRISM with “intelligence partners” around the world.
→ read full articleDead Wrong: How Psychiatric Drugs Can Kill Your Child
Citizens Commission on Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Behind the grim statistics of deaths, suicides, birth defects and serious adverse reactions is the human face of this global drugging epidemic—the personal stories of loss and courage of those who paid the real price. Psychiatrists claim their drugs are safe for children?
→ read full articleSyria – Israel Is Losing the Battle
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Sadly enough, it isn’t The Guardian or The New York Times that is there to reveal the latest development in Syria and expose Israeli lethal miscalculations. It is actually a ‘Zionist’ Israeli patriotic outlet that is providing the good.
→ read full article(Italiano) Esercitazioni di Guerra nell’Isola dei Droni
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Pericolo droni anche per l’aeroporto di Comiso (Ragusa), l’ex base missilistica nucleare Nato riconvertita in scalo passeggeri ma non ancora entrato in funzione. Ancora peggio per l’aeroporto di Catania-Fontanarossa, il terzo più grande in Italia come volume-passeggeri. Qui le “restrizioni” e i “ritardi” generati dai droni sono sempre più pesanti e frequenti.
→ read full articleDaughter of Mossad Chief: I Refuse to Enlist in the Israeli Military
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
First Prison Sentence: 22 Sep-10 Oct, 2008 (18 days)
Second Prison Sentence: 12-24 Oct, 2008 (10 days)
Omer Goldman, has had to confront the values of her own family. She is the daughter of the former deputy head of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service and who is still considered one of the most powerful men in the Israeli security system.
How Nuts is This?
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is preparing to issue a “License” for military bombing of radiation contaminated bases in Hawaii and elsewhere. The major public health danger of DU radiation is inhalation of small alpha particles. Hawaii retired Army MD and MPH Dr. Lorrin W. Pang said “alpha particle emitters within your body is the most deadly form of radiation of all. It will mutate your DNA more than any other type of radiation.” DU has been linked to a wide range of health problems, including certain cancers.
→ read full articleWar Dialogue
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
3 June 2013 – In the last two weeks there have been articles on Syria, first by TRANSCEND Media Service editor Antonio C. S. Rosa and then by Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire. Both excellent articles, where we learnt a lot about the suffering of millions of Syrians. However, I’d just like add one detail: “Weapons and Money have No Political Colour.” This means mixing the subject of War and Peace with Right or Left politics, is an utter waste of time.
→ read full articleShould Memorial Day Include Commemoration of Thoreau?
Juan Cole, Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Thoreau was saying that in times of an unjust law and an unjust war, honorable persons will likely be in jail. Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” went on to influence Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King (which is how we got the Civil Rights movement and an end to Jim Crow segregation.)
→ read full article(Italiano) La Domanda di Yara
Marinella Correggia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Ma non avrei notato Yara – che non avevo mai visto prima – se non fosse stato per una sua domanda, forse era retorica o forse un po’ provocatoria. Aveva alzato la mano e aveva chiesto: “Arrivano diverse delegazioni internazionali, qui. Ma mi pare che al ritorno nei vostri paesi, a livello di informazione sulla Siria non cambi nulla. Come mai secondo voi?”.
→ read full article(Castellano) Los Movimientos Sociales Latinoamericanos y la Alternativa
Guillermo Almeyra – Centre Tricontinental-CETRI,
3 Jun 2013
El repudio a la putrefacción de los partidos e instituciones políticas capitalistas ha dado pie a un reflejo negativo y primitivo, el llamado “apoliticismo” neoanárquico (los anarquistas verdaderos, en España, por ejemplo, eran políticos, defendían la República, eran antifranquistas e integrantes de una izquierda plural y le daban gran importancia al estudio, a la teoría y a la solidaridad de clase en el terreno nacional e internacional).
→ read full articleBad News
TMS editor,
3 Jun 2013
A man walks into a bar and asks for six shots of vodka. The bartender says, “Six shots? What’s wrong?”
→ read full articleTop 1% Now Controls 39% of World’s Wealth
Robert Frank, CNBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
The world’s total private wealth grew 7.8 percent last year to $135 trillion, according to Global Wealth report. The top 1 percent controls $52.8 trillion, and those worth $5 million or more control nearly a quarter of the world’s wealth. That concentration is likely to increase in the coming years as the wealth of the wealthy grows faster than overall global wealth.
→ read full article“The True Story of the Bilderberg Group” And What They May Be Planning Now
Stephen Lendman – Global Research,
3 Jun 2013
A Review of Daniel Estulin’s Book – For over 14 years, Daniel Estulin has investigated and researched the Bilderberg Group’s far-reaching influence on business and finance, global politics, war and peace, and control of the world’s resources and its money.
→ read full articleLaw and Order vs. Lore and Orders
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Imagining Otherwise the Forceful Engagement of Singularity with Plurality – Produced in a period when the forces of the international community are complicit in bloody fantasies in Syria.
→ read full articleBeyond Militarism and War toward a Nonviolent World
Mairead Maguire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Many acknowledge the corporate media military industrial complex is now so much in control that it seems a colossal task to try to change it; but try we must if there is to be a future for our children. We are becoming more enlightened; as we abolished slavery so too we can abolish armies and base our human security not on force, or threat of force, but on compassion, human rights and international law.
→ read full articleMaking Sense of Syria
Father Dave Smith – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
So the world’s power-brokers play their games (and I hear on the news tonight that both Britain and France are now champing at the bit to pour more ammunition into the fray) while the Syrian people pay the price with their blood. The big oil and arms manufacturers are (quite literally) making a killing in Syria. It is entirely demonic! We don’t see this side of the story, of course. Indeed, we don’t see much of the story at all in this country. It seems that all ‘Western’ media have been extracted from Damascus (with the curious exception of CNN)!
→ read full articleHammond, Manning, Assange and Obama’s Sledgehammer against Dissent
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
3 Jun 2013
One cyberactivist’s federal case wrapped up this week, and another’s is set to begin. While these two young men, Jeremy Hammond and Bradley Manning, are the two who were charged, it is the growing menace of government and corporate secrecy that should be on trial. The job of journalists is to hold those in power accountable. Our job is to be the fourth estate, not “for the state.” Let us be.
→ read full articleResponding to the Syrian Challenge
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
My essential argument is that until the parties engaged in hostilities on both sides recognize their inability to achieve a political victory by way of the battlefield, and external actors acquiesce in this recognition, there can only take place an unproductive and wrongheaded coercive diplomacy of partisanship, supporting the claims of the anti-Assad side.
→ read full article
Ave Maria (Music Video of the Week)
Joshua Bell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Often referred to as the “poet of the violin,” Joshua Bell is one of the world’s most celebrated violinists. He continues to enchant audiences with his breathtaking virtuosity, tone of sheer beauty, and charismatic stage presence.
→ read full articleMyanmar: Sectarian Strife and Universal Compassion
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
The current tensions with the Muslim community are an important challenge. Will Buddhist groups within Myanmar and its neighbours be able to respond creatively to this wave of violence?
→ read full articleRival Honduras Gangs Declare Truce
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Two of the most violent gangs apologise for their crimes and seek talks with the government on rehabilitation and jobs under a church-brokered drive to stem a tide of violence that has turned Honduras into the world’s most murderous country.
→ read full articleYara Abbas – In Her Own Words
Sharmine Narwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
“I went with the army and knocked at the door of one woman. She started to cry – please take me out of here. They removed her and took her to her brother’s home. The militias make holes in the walls of homes to go from building to building to avoid being out in the open. Seventy percent of the destruction there is from militias. I saw 12 big bombs and 35 small ones in a home they had taken over.”
→ read full articleExtremists Point to Western Foreign Policy to Explain Their Acts – Why Do We Ignore Them?
Mehdi Hasan – New Statesman,
3 Jun 2013
Often, the likes of Michael Adebowale and Michael Adebolajo, who used violence to make “points” about the Muslim world in Woolwich-UK, aren’t “religious fanatics”. The trigger we refuse to see is our foreign policy.
→ read full articleNoam Chomsky — ‘Everyday Anarchist’
Michael S. Wilson, Modern Success – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
The Modern Success Interview – If workers are more insecure, they won’t do things, like asking for better wages and better benefits. And that’s healthy for the economy from a certain point of view, a point of view that says workers ought to be oppressed and controlled, and that wealth ought to be concentrated in a very few pockets.
→ read full articleColombia, FARC Rebels Reach Agreement on Agrarian Reform
Jeff Franks in Havana, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Colombia and the Marxist-led FARC rebels have reached agreement on the critical issue of agrarian reform, the two sides said on Sunday [26 May 2013] in a major step forward for the peace process aimed at ending their long war.
→ read full articleListen to All Syrian Voices
Susan Dirgham, Peace x Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
One Catholic priest was quoted as saying “The Syrian war is not a crisis between Muslims and Christians or Muslims and other Muslims and it’s not a Syrian civil war from and for Syrians.. This is a war imported from outside and we have traitors who have sold themselves to outsiders for a bit of money.”
→ read full articleNightmare in Portugal
Paul Krugman – The New York Times,
3 Jun 2013
Don’t tell me that Portugal has had bad policies in the past and has deep structural problems. Of course it has; so does everyone. How can it possibly make sense to “deal” with these problems by condemning vast numbers of willing workers to unemployment? The answer to the kind of problems Portugal now faces, as we’ve known for many decades, is expansionary monetary and fiscal policy.
→ read full articleSyria Will ‘Strategically’ Respond to New Israeli Strikes – Assad
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
30 May 2013 – Syria will react to any future act of Israeli aggression with a response of “strategic significance,” President Bashar Assad said in an interview to Lebanon’s Al-Manar TV. Assad also said that the Syrian army is battling up to 100,000 foreign mercenaries.
→ read full articleUS Banks Post Record Profits
Nick Barrickman - Global Research,
3 Jun 2013
Profits for the US banking industry rose in the first quarter of 2013 to a record $40.3 billion, according to a report released on Wednesday [29 May 2013]. Profits surged by 15.8 percent. The quarterly profits top the previous record set more than six years ago, prior to the financial meltdown of 2008.
→ read full articleCooperative Economics: Replacing a Capitalism in Collapse
Carl Gibson, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
All it takes to form a co-op is a small group of determined people set on an idea to cooperatively own and operate a facet of the economy and allow them to make decisions in a democratic process. By democratizing society through housing and work, we can start a new revolution in our politics, our economy, and even our environment.
→ read full articleAn Appeal from Daniel Ellsberg to Support Bradley Manning
Daniel Ellsberg - Bradley Manning Support Network,
3 Jun 2013
My decision to reveal the top secret Pentagon Papers to the American public was an act of conscience. Today, a young soldier named Bradley Manning faces trial for a similar act of conscience and faces life in prison — much like I did 40 years ago. And just as I was arrested and called a “traitor” by President Nixon, Bradley’s charges include an accusation of “aiding the enemy.”
→ read full articleSyria and the Middle East: Our Greatest Miscalculation since the Rise of Fascism
Simon Jenkins – The Guardian,
3 Jun 2013
By helping to destroy secular politics in the Middle East, the west has unleashed the Shia/Sunni conflict now tearing it apart.
→ read full articleThe Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’
Julian Assange – The New York Times,
3 Jun 2013
“The New Digital Age” is an attempt by Google to position itself as America’s geopolitical visionary. Without even understanding how, they have updated and seamlessly implemented George Orwell’s prophecy. If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-backed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces — forever. But this is essential reading for anyone caught up in the struggle for the future, in view of one simple imperative: Know your enemy.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
A Global Harmony Association Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day. PLEASE HELP THE WORLD BY SIGNING THE PETITION http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Global_Disarmament_Now_1/.
→ read full articleWhy Sharing News about Solutions Is a Revolutionary Act
Frances Moore Lappé – YES! Magazine,
3 Jun 2013
Remember, what we do and say doesn’t just influence our friends, but also our friends’ friends and our friends’ friends’ friends.
→ read full article(Português) “Europa Vive Catástrofe Social e Esquerda Deve Enfrentar Capital Financeiro”
Marco Aurélio Weissheimer – Carta Maior,
3 Jun 2013
Em entrevista à Carta Maior, o economista português Francisco Louçã adverte para a situação de catástrofe social em vários países europeus que coloca o mundo frente a uma situação perigosa. “A primeira grande depressão, nos anos 30, produziu o fascismo, o nazismo e a guerra. Estamos começando a viver uma segunda grande depressão”. Para Louçã, a luta central da esquerda hoje é contra o capital financeiro que se julga imune à democracia e está escravizando países e povos.
→ read full articleThe Social Cost of Capitalism
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Social costs are costs of production that are not born by the producer or included in the price of the product. There are many classic examples: the pollution of air, water, and land from mining, fracking, oil drilling and pipeline spills, chemical fertilizer farming, GMOs, pesticides, radioactivity released from nuclear accidents and the pollution of food by antibiotics and artificial hormones.
→ read full article(Português) Krugman: “O que se está a passar em Portugal é inaceitável”
Pedro Duarte – Economico,
3 Jun 2013
O Prémio Nobel da Economia Paul Krugman considerou hoje [27 maio 2013] que “o que se está a passar em Portugal (e o que os portugueses estão a experienciar) é inaceitável”, sendo vital “fazer alguma coisa”.
→ read full articleUS Makes Syria an ‘Offer It Can’t Refuse’ – Again
Finian Cunningham – Strategic Culture Foundation,
3 Jun 2013
In Mafia terms, it’s called «making an offer that can’t be refused». The «offer» is not one of free choice between options that may benefit the object party. This is the scenario that Washington and its NATO allies are contriving for the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad…
→ read full articleMalaysia Supported UN General Assembly Resolution on Syria
Chandra Muzaffar - CounterCurrents,
3 Jun 2013
The UN resolution also revealed its bias by recognizing the Syrian National Coalition “as the effective interlocutor needed for a political transition.” That the SNC is just one of many groups in a highly fragmented opposition and commands very little support within Syria itself is conveniently glossed over. Imposing the SNC upon the Syrian people in this manner is a clumsy attempt to effect a regime change of sorts.
→ read full articleJune 6-9: Bilderberg Meeting behind Closed Doors. On the Agenda: Domestic Spying, Diffusing Social Protests, War on Syria and Iran
Stephen Lendman – Global Research,
3 Jun 2013
Its four-day meeting occurs annually. It’s a rite of spring. British political economist Will Hutton calls the group the “high priests of globalization.” Powerful movers and shakers have their own agenda. They plot strategy to exploit the world’s riches. They want them for themselves. They try to keep meeting dates, locations, and issues to be discussed secret. Word gets out.
→ read full articleIsrael is Fighting a Regional War in Syria
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya - Global Research,
3 Jun 2013
Not only have the US and its allies been trying to militarily buttress the retreating anti-government militias, but now they aim to create a new phase in the conflict where states start asserting leverage against Syria in place of the weakening anti-government forces. In other words, external pressure is being applied to replace the declining internal pressure.
→ read full articleLifting the Fake EU Arms Embargo: Weapons for Al Qaeda in Syria
Stephen Lendman - Global Research,
3 Jun 2013
On May 27 [2013], the so-called one-year EU arms embargo on Syria’s opposition ended. Officially it does so on June 1. EU nations agreed to end what never existed. Since Washington’s war on Syria began in early 2011, arms flowed freely. Western-enlisted death squads get them. At issue is replacing Assad with a subservient pro-Western puppet.
→ read full articleIsraeli Soldiers Breaking The Silence on the Occupation of Palestine
GreenLeftTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Former Israeli paratrooper Avner Gvaryahu, now an activist with Breaking The Silence explains to Green Left Weekly’s Peter Boyle how 850 former Israeli soldiers have given testimony about the gross injustices against the Palestinian people they have witnessed and made to participate in as part of Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
→ read full articleMedia Coverage of the Bilderberg Group Adopts a Tone of Desperation
Orwellwasright's Weblog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
This year’s annual Bilderberg conference is set to meet in Watford, UK. Global elite power brokers from the world of politics, finance, business and media will once again meet to discuss their agenda for the coming years and, much like the secretive Bohemian Grove gathering, many are more than a little concerned as to what exactly these powerful public figures discuss behind closed doors, away from the prying eyes and ears of the public.
→ read full article(Português) Mia Couto: “Não há outro caminho que não seja a insubordinação”
Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
O escritor moçambicano venceu a 25ª edição do Prémio Camões no Rio de Janeiro. “É preciso sair à rua, é preciso revoltarmo-nos, é precisa esta insubordinação. As pessoas, acho que todas, se compenetraram, principalmente nos últimos anos, que isto não é uma crise localizada, não é uma falha, nem é um erro de um certo sistema, mas que é o próprio sistema que tem que ser radicalmente questionado”.
→ read full articleServices Collapsing in Syrian Rebel-Controlled Areas
The Media Line, Ynetnews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Ravaged Aleppo sees food, fuel prices skyrocket, staples like medicine, baby formula non-existent; ‘We’ve nothing to feed babies,’ says resident. The streets in the Aleppo neighborhood of Hannano are piled high with garbage. Flies buzz around putrid bags that extend farther than the eye can see.
→ read full articleWhy Disinformation Works
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
What I have noticed is that whenever a stunning episode occurs, such as 9/11 or the Boston Marathon bombing, most everyone whether on the right or left goes along with the government’s explanation, because they can hook their agenda to the government’s account.
→ read full articleTRANSCEND General Assembly in Germany, 16-18 Aug, 2013
Erika Degortes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Usually our general meeting occurs every two years. However, this year marks the 20th anniversary of TRANSCEND International so we decided to get together for our General Assembly one year earlier. The Venue will be the Galtung-Institut for Peace Theory and Peace Practice in Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany, 15 minutes by train/bus from Basel-Switzerland.
→ read full article(Italiano) Mono- Multi- Inter- Trasversal- Trans-Disciplinare
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
La mia introduzione al taoismo è avvenuta tramite Joseph Needham e filosofi cinesi di Pechino. Essi considerano la scienza occidentale molto preconcetta con il suo atomismo, la sua deduzione – l’aristotelico tertium non datur – i suoi valori, che conducono a false dicotomie. Il taoismo ispira la ricerca del sia-sia, come nell’attuale capi-comunismo cinese. O comu-capitalismo.
→ read full articleIf the Syrian Dictator Must Go… Why Not the Dictators in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain?
Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
If We Are “Fighting for Democracy”, Then Why Are We Arming and Financially Supporting Dictatorships Throughout the Middle East?
→ read full articleIt’s Not China That Should Be Feared – It’s the West
Adam Chimienti – Dissident Voice,
3 Jun 2013
An Interview with Andre Vltchek – There is no doubt that the People’s Republic of China has become a major international force in economic and diplomatic terms. While many analysts have taken to evaluating whether or not this is a good development, others balk at such a question, arguing that it has clear racist undertones and willfully ignores the brutal history of Western terror.
→ read full article