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(Italiano) Partitocrazia-Tecnocrazia-Autocrazia-Bancocrazia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
Il terzo livello di quelli sopra delineati, i mercanti, ovviamente esigono la loro parte, usando il proprio capitale bancario per comprare potere politico, addirittura fino all’estremo del salvataggio pubblico qualora le perdite superassero i guadagni. La bancocrazia opera mediante un parente stretto, la corruttocrazia, il governo dei corruttori sui corrotti pagati per i loro servigi. La corruzione è rampante. Perché? Perché la corruzione nel sistema politico, la conversione di denaro in decisioni, ha un parente stretto nel sistema economico, la commissione.
→ read full articleWall Street Banks, Money Laundering and the Drug Trade
Tom Burghardt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
US Department of Justice Urges Federal Court to Approve Sweetheart Deal with Drug-Tainted HSBC – “You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.” — Al Capone
[HSBC used to stand for Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation but today it stands only for another Mafia-organized crime]
Herbicides for GMOs Driving Monarch Butterfly Populations to ‘Ominous’ Brink
Lauren McCauley – Common Dreams,
18 Mar 2013
Released by the Mexican government along with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), a recent survey found a 59% decrease in the area occupied by monarch colonies wintering in the forests of central Mexico, the Los Angeles Times reports. Scientists are attributing the decline of this essential pollinating population to the ongoing drought and the “explosive” increase in the use of genetically modified crops in the American corn belt.
→ read full articleA Death Grip on Our Food Supply: Monsanto’s Death Patents
Randall Amster - CounterPunch,
18 Mar 2013
It increasingly appears that Monsanto is patenting death, perhaps even more so than life. Their patent rights should not trump the rights of people to procure safe, healthy, living foods. We should roundly deem Monsanto a loser in the court of public opinion, and strive to loosen their death grip on our food supply.
→ read full articleBank Money Laundering – Senator Elizabeth Warren vs HSBC
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
”If you’re caught with an ounce of cocaine, the chances are good you’re going to go to jail. If you launder nearly a billion dollars for drug cartels and violate our international sanctions, your company pays a fine and you go home and sleep in your own bed at night.” — Senator Elizabeth Warren
→ read full articleOver 100 Guantanamo Inmates ‘On Hunger Strike,’ Possibly in Grave Condition
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay inmates have claimed “all but a few men” are on a hunger strike over their Qurans being taken away. The condition of the strikers “appears to be rapidly deteriorating and reaching a potentially critical level,” they said. Most of 130 people housed in Camp 6 of Guantanamo Bay may be involved in the strike.
→ read full articleMedia Fakes War Propaganda | Weapons of Mass Distraction
Abby Martin, Breaking the Set – Russia Today,
18 Mar 2013
A look at MSNBC’s recent documentary about the lies leading up the Iraq war, and the closer look at the corporate media’s complicity in selling war to the American people by highlighting multiple staged events.
→ read full articleThe New Propaganda Is Liberal – The New Slavery Is Digital
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
In the 1970s, I met Leni Riefenstahl and asked her about her epic films that glorified the Nazis. She told me that the “messages” of her films were dependent not on “orders from above,” but on the “submissive void” of the German public. Did that include the liberal, educated bourgeoisie? “Everyone,” she said. Today’s “message” of grotesque inequality, social injustice and war is the propaganda of liberal democracies. It is the ultimate means of social control because it is voluntary, addictive and shrouded in illusions of personal freedom.
→ read full articleChávez and Nonviolence
Onwubiko Agozino – Pambazuka News,
18 Mar 2013
Hugo Chavez may have helped to inspire social democratic revolutions across South America in preference to the fruitless decades of violent armed struggles.
→ read full articleSpirituality and Virtue as Corollaries to Peace
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
We are meant by nature, the universe, life itself (let’s leave the gods out of this) to be superior beings, elevated in virtue, goodness, righteousness, integrity, ethics, honesty, morality, uprightness, evolved consciousness, and not merely to get richer, smarter, sexier, more cunning, and more knowledgeable to dominate everything and everybody we contemplate-if possible by force. This is the real danger, the aspect that could prompt these smarter, more aggressive (meaning less civilized) people in power to explode the planet through a nuclear war, thus creating a second asteroid belt.
→ read full articleDeath in the Family
TMS editor,
18 Mar 2013
A man in a bar sees a friend at a table, drinking by himself.
→ read full articleThe Brutally Honest Coca-Cola Obesity Commercial
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
Truth in advertising may be off the table, but at least truth in fake advertising is alive and well.
→ read full articleFrozen Assets
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
Why are we exploiting unconventional gas when we can’t afford to burn existing supplies?
→ read full articleHugo Chavez
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
On March 5, 2013, Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela and world leader against imperialism, died. Washington imperialists and their media and think tank whores expressed gleeful sighs of relief as did the brainwashed US population. An “enemy of America” was gone. Chavez was not an enemy of America. He was an enemy of Washington’s hegemony over other countries, an enemy of Washington’s alliance with elite ruling cliques who steal from the people they grind down and deny sustenance.
→ read full articlePsychosocial Implication in Gamma Animation: Epimemetics for a Brave New World
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
The much cited novel by Aldous Huxley (Brave New World, 1931) is recognized as having anticipated many more recent problematic developments in society and its technologies. As social satire, the novel envisages a world in which the population of Gammas, and the lower castes, is deliberately accelerated by genetic engineering — consistent with continuing approaches to unconstrained population increase.
→ read full articleA Tale of Two NGOs: In Haiti, Disaster Aid or Aid Disaster?
Beverly Bell – Toward Freedom,
18 Mar 2013
Three years after the deadly earthquake in Haiti, what has become of the commitments made on Red Cross billboards, the promises from telethon hosts, the moving declarations of Presidents Obama and Clinton? What has happened to the nearly $10 billion that was pledged to assist survivors and to rebuild, most of which was entrusted to the large non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that Professor Mark Schuller terms “non-profiteers”?
→ read full articleFukushima Two Years Later: Lessons for India
Nityanand Jayaraman - CounterCurrents,
18 Mar 2013
The Independent Commission appointed by the Japanese parliament to investigate the accident observed that while natural disasters may have triggered the nuclear events, the meltdown itself was “profoundly manmade.” The Commission concluded that “The. . .accident was the result of collusion between the government, the regulators and TEPCO, and the lack of governance by said parties.”
→ read full articleKorea: Crisis and Opportunity
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
Tensions on the Korean Peninsula have recently increased, highlighted by the nuclear weapon test of North Korea and the subsequent reactions. An UN-sponsored Korean Peace Settlement Conference can build upon past partial measures and especially meet the new challenges of security and cooperation in Asia.
→ read full articleInternational Day of Happiness, 20 March 2013
United Nations Academic Impact – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
The General Assembly has proclaimed 20 March as the International Day of Happiness. The resolution recognizes the “relevance of happiness and well-being as universal goals … and the importance of their recognition in public policy objectives; and the need for ”a more inclusive, equitable and balanced approach to economic growth that promotes sustainable development, poverty eradication, happiness and the well-being of all peoples.”
→ read full article(Castellano) Pedagogía de la Catástrofe – Catastrofismo
Stefano Caserini & Enrico Euli - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
La palabra catástrofe es ahora presente con frecuencia en los titulares de los periódicos y las editoriales. Casi siempre, la cuestión es cómo evitar la catástrofe, pero la impresión que se tiene es de unos anti-catastrofistas al borde de una crisis de catastrofismo, hablamos de gente que por educación ideológica y cultural se inclina a rechazar la posibilidad de una evolución catastrófica de la situación actual (el clima, el estado de la economía y las relaciones sociales) y la consiguiente necesidad de cambiar de dirección.
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Libertango (Music Video of the Week)
Yo-Yo Ma – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
Music video by Yo-Yo Ma performing Piazzola: Libertango (from “Soul of the Tango”).
→ read full articleSex Abuse Victims List ‘Dirty Dozen’ Papal Candidates
Mira Oberman, Agence France-Presse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
“We want to urge Catholic prelates to stop pretending that the worst is over regarding the clergy sex abuse and cover up crisis,” said David Clohessy, director of the US-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP. “Tragically, the worst is almost certainly ahead,” he said, adding that the truth of “widespread, longstanding and deeply-rooted” abuse and coverups has “yet to surface in most nations.”
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 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 articleThe Iraq War: 10 Years Later
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
After a decade of combat, casualties, massive displacement, persisting violence, enhanced sectarian tension and violence between Shi’ias and Sunnis, periodic suicide bombings, and autocratic governance, a negative assessment of the Iraq War as a strategic move by the United States, United Kingdom, and a few of their secondary allies, including Japan, seems near universal.
→ read full articleRobert Fisk on Latest Developments in Syria
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
March 5, 2013 -Veteran journalist Robert Fisk speaks from Beirut about latest developments in Syria.
→ read full articleInfographic: Global South Is Rising Fast
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
Flagship human development report by United Nations Development Programme shows rapid growth in Asia’s middle class.
→ read full articleStarving for Justice at Guantanamo
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
18 Mar 2013
Reports are emerging from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay that a majority of the prisoners are on a hunger strike. One hundred sixty-six remain locked up, although more than half of them have been cleared by the Obama administration for release. Yet there they languish (in some cases now in their second decade) in a hellish legal limbo, uncharged yet imprisoned.
→ read full articleNihilist Eyes
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
After the heavy rain of bloodiest war
Broken directions are in front where to go
Nihilist eyes of visionary screen of boo …
President Chavez: A 21st Century Renaissance Man
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
President Hugo Chavez was unique in multiple areas of political, social and economic life. He made significant contributions to the advancement of humanity. The depth, scope and popularity of his accomplishments mark President Chavez as the ‘Renaissance President of the 21st Century’.
→ read full articleA Huge Hunger Strike at Guantánamo
Andy Worthington – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
When is a hunger strike not a hunger strike? Apparently, when the government says it doesn’t exist. Despair is entirely appropriate at Guantánamo for the 166 men still held, because, although 86 of them were cleared for release at least three years ago and some were cleared for release under President Bush, between 2004 and 2007, they are still held because of Congressional obstruction.
→ read full articleAmplified Greenhouse Effect Shifts North’s Growing Seasons
NASA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Vegetation growth at Earth’s northern latitudes increasingly resembles lusher latitudes to the south, according to a NASA-funded study based on a 30-year record of ground-based and satellite data sets.
→ read full articleThe Green Light for Zionism’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
On this 65th anniversary of the authorization of the ethnic cleaning of Palestine [10 Mar 2013], the questions I would like to see put to our leaders today, President Obama in particular, are the following: Are you aware of Plan Dalet? If not, why not? If you are aware of it, could it not said be said that your refusal to call and hold Zionism to account for its crimes makes you (and your predecessors) complicit in those crimes by default?
→ read full articleRachel Corrie: Zionists in Gaza
theevilofthezionists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Rachel Corrie was run over and murdered by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza on March 16, 2003 as she defended the house of a medical doctor, his wife and 3 children from being demolished. Today, the whole neighborhood has been flattened, all houses destroyed. Israeli brutality surpasses that of Hitler.
→ read full articleIch bin ein Bil’iner! – “5 Broken Cameras’” Strange Trip to the Oscars
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
8 Mar 2013 – This does not happen every day: a Minister of Culture publicly rejoices because a film from her country has not been awarded an Oscar. It happened this week. Limor Livnat, still Minister of Culture in the outgoing government, told Israeli TV she was happy that Israel’s two entries for Oscars in the category of documentary films, which made it to the final four, did lose in the end.
→ read full articleCyborgs, Legaborgs, Finaborgs, Mediborgs
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
This is an exploration of how the human being has already been effectively transformed into a cyborg through immediate dependence on technology in daily life — with the technology becoming an extension of that identity. As argued here, similar transformations of identity are associated with human dependence on legislation, finance and medicine — through which identity is effectively defined.
→ read full articleComplicit Americans: The Mass Psychology of Torture
William Manson – CounterPunch,
11 Mar 2013
In its most heinous forms, torture consists of confining a helpless victim, who is subjected to physical pain and torment, emotional abuse, and various other degrading humiliations. Prohibited by both international and domestic laws, the torture of suspected “terrorists” is nonetheless now widely condoned by most American citizens (or so it seems).
→ read full articleNeuroscience, Special Forces, and Ethics at Yale
Roy J. Eidelson, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Last month [Feb 2013], a proposal to establish a U.S. Special Operations Command Center for Excellence in Operational Neuroscience at Yale University died a not-so-quiet death. The broad goal of “operational neuroscience” is to use research on the human brain and nervous system to protect and give tactical advantage to U.S. warfighters in the field. Crucial questions remain unanswered about the proposed center’s mission and the unusual circumstances surrounding its demise. But just as importantly, this episode brings much needed attention to the morally fraught and murky terrain where partnerships between university researchers and national security agencies lie.
→ read full articleOperation Condor Trial Tackles Coordinated Campaign by Latin American Dictatorships to Kill Leftists
Amy Goodman & Juan González – Democracy NOW!,
11 Mar 2013
A historic trial underway in Argentina is set to reveal new details about how Latin American countries coordinated with each other in the 1970s and ’80s to eliminate political dissidents. The campaign was launched by the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, and evidence shows the CIA and former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger were complicit from its outset. We’re joined by John Dinges, author of “The Condor Years: How Pinochet and his Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents.”
→ read full articleIsrael Launches Segregated Bus Service
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Haaretz reported that the ministry opened the lines on Monday [4 Mar 2013], to be used by Palestinian labourers travelling between the West Bank and Israel, after Jewish settlers complained that Palestinians on mixed buses were a security risk.
→ read full articleArab League Offers Syria Seat to Opposition
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Nabil Elaraby, the regional body’s secretary-general, said on Wednesday [6 Mar 2013] that ministers meeting in Cairo had invited the Syrian National Council-SNC to choose a representative to attend the league summit in the Qatari capital, Doha, on March 26 and 27. The Arab League suspended Syria’s membership in 2011 after Assad’s government failed to abide by an Arab peace plan that aimed to end the conflict.
→ read full article(Castellano) 50 Verdades sobre Hugo Chávez y la Revolución Bolivariana
Salim Lamrani – Opera Mundi,
11 Mar 2013
El presidente Hugo Chávez, quien falleció el 5 de marzo de 2013 de un cáncer a los 58 años, marcó para siempre la historia de Venezuela y de América Latina. Jamás en la historia de América Latina, un líder político alcanzó una legitimidad democrática tan incontestable. Desde su llegada al poder en 1999, hubo 16 elecciones en Venezuela. Hugo Chávez ganó 15, de las cuales la última el 7 de octubre de 2012.
→ read full article(Castellano) Eduardo Galeano: ‘Chávez, ese extraño dictador’.
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Análisis y comentarios del pensador, periodista y escritor Eduardo Galeano. Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 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 articleMajor Grocer to Label Foods with Gene-Modified Content
Stephanie Strom – The New York Times,
11 Mar 2013
Whole Foods Market, the grocery chain, on Friday [8 Mar 2013] became the first retailer in the United States to require labeling of all genetically modified foods sold in its stores, a move that some experts said could radically alter the food industry.
→ read full articleHugo Chavez: A Maker of History
Johan Galtung, 11 Mar 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
A genius makes us think, and act, differently, thereby making history. Chávez was one. Thank you Hugo–may you not rest in peace.
→ read full articleTwo Years Later, the Battle for Truth Continues: Fukushima’s Nuclear Casualties
Joseph J. Mangano - CounterPunch,
11 Mar 2013
Nuclear watchdog Joseph J. Mangano takes a look at Japan two years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, only to find the truth has been covered up. Perhaps the most crucial issue to be addressed is how many people were harmed by radioactive emissions.
→ read full articleThe Greek Catastrophe: Three Generations of Greek Workers
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
As Greece enters the sixth year of Europe’s worst economic depression, with 30% of its labor force unemployed and over 52% of its youth jobless, the entire social fabric is unraveling; a suicide rate are skyrocketing and close to 80% of the population is downwardly mobile.
→ read full articleGoodbye Blue Sky
Rand Clifford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering,“SAG” for short. Sunlight-scattering particles are being sprayed into the stratosphere right now, have been for years. It involves spraying into the upper atmosphere a “…very fine, white-talcum-like aerosol of aluminum oxide, barium oxide and other oxides…” to reduce global warming. Also of interest is this video from GeoEngineering Watch titled: “Military to Own The Weather In 2025 – Chemtrails HAARP Space Weapons”
→ read full articleBradley Manning Nobel Peace Prize Nomination 2013
Birgitta Jónsdóttir-Member of Parliament, Iceland – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Following is the reasoning we sent to the committee explaining why we felt compelled to nominate Private Bradley Manning for this important recognition of an individual effort to have an impact for peace in our world. The lengthy personal statement to the pre-trial hearing February 28th by Bradley Manning in his own words validate that his motives were for the greater good of humankind.
→ read full articleArt from Iran Exhibition: A Review from Edinburgh
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
In merely seven objects dating between 13th to 21st first century, this exhibition captures volumes of beliefs, mythologies, monarchy, traditions and the poor as well as the riches of a nation where artistic craftsmanship, expression and their advancement was an integral part of society.
→ read full article(Castellano) Chávez: 5 de Marzo
Fernando Montiel T. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Él que tanto luchó por la independencia de América, murió el 5 de Marzo de 2013, exactamente el mismo día en que 243 años antes -en 1770- iniciara la independencia de los Estados Unidos. ¿Una ironía de la historia? No, no es una ironía, es un comienzo.
→ read full articleJerusalem Man Forced to Demolish His Own Home
Ma’an News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
A Palestinian was forced to demolish his own home in East Jerusalem on Monday [4 Mar 2013]. Daoud Eseid demolished his home to avoid paying the fees charged by Israeli authorities if Israeli forces had carried out the demolition, he told Ma’an. “I am unemployed at the moment and have seven children. We suffer daily from Israeli brutality,” the Old City resident told Ma’an.
→ read full articleRTI Petition for AERB
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
We, the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy, would like to request the following information under the RTI Act 2005 please…. Looking forward to hearing from you soon, I send you my best personal regards and all peaceful wishes.
→ read full articleNuclear Weapons Must Be Eradicated for All Our Sakes
Desmond Tutu – The Guardian,
11 Mar 2013
Why would a proliferating state pay heed to the exhortations of the US and Russia, which retain thousands of their nuclear warheads on high alert? How can Britain, France and China expect a hearing on non-proliferation while they squander billions modernising their nuclear forces? What standing has Israel to urge Iran not to acquire the bomb when it harbours its own atomic arsenal?
→ read full articleWhy Unions Are Going Into the Co-op Business
Amy Dean – YES! Magazine,
11 Mar 2013
“Too often we have seen Wall Street hollow out companies by draining their cash and assets and hollow out communities by shedding jobs and shuttering plants,” said United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard in 2009. “We need a new business model that invests in workers and invests in communities.” Gerard was announcing a formal partnership between his 1.2-million-member union and Mondragon, a cluster of cooperatives in the Basque region of Spain.
→ read full articleJust Staying Alive
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
It is clear that the 21st century will be a period of crisis for civilization. With the world’s human population growing at the rate of 200,000 people each day, or 80,000,000 people each year, our environment is under great stress.
→ read full articleDomesticated and Wild Bees Are Both in Trouble
Susie Cagle, Grist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
It’s tough times for bees. Over the past few years, colony collapse disorder has wiped out some entire beekeeping operations, and scientists don’t understand or agree on the cause. In Europe, respected scientists and agencies are declaring some popular pesticides too dangerous for bees. Stateside, it’s another story. On Tuesday [5 Mar 2013], the U.S. EPA hosted a bee summit to talk about the problem.
→ read full articleIs Palestinian Solidarity an Occupied Zone?
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Once involved with Palestinian Solidarity you have to accept that Jews are special and so is their suffering; Jews are like no other people, their Holocaust is like no other genocide and anti Semitism, is the vilest form of racism the world has ever known and so on and so forth. But when it comes to the Palestinians, the exact opposite is the case.
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Ave Maria (Music Video of the Week)
Linda Brava – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Violin – J S Bach / Gounod
→ read full articleHow the Media Sanitize Honduras’s Brutal Regime
Keane Bhatt – North American Congress on Latin America-NACLA,
11 Mar 2013
On the evening of Saturday, September 22 [2012], human rights lawyer Antonio Trejo stepped outside a wedding ceremony to take a phone call. Standing in the church parking lot he was shot six times by unknown assailants. In this insulated world, Honduran victims of economic hardship and state terror remain invisible. Pinochet, the original administrator of shock therapy, distilled the insouciance of today’s intellectual and media culture when, in 1979, he remarked, “I trust the people all right; but they’re not yet ready.”
→ read full articleAre Central and State Governments and Intelligence Agencies Conspiring?
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
March 10, 2013 – The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) would like to bring the following developments to the attention of the people of India, particularly the people of Tamil Nadu, and would request them to be watchful of any quirky turns:
→ read full articlePMANE Asks for KKNPP Financial Audit; Government Blames Us with Foreign Money
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
The central government is clearly not able to answer the people’s questions about the failed Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project and they find it hard to justify the utter waste of public money on the non-performing KKNPP.
→ read full article(Português) Libor: A Gigantesca Transferência de Fundos da Sociedade a Bancos
Marcelo Justo – Carta Maior,
11 Mar 2013
Para o economista grego Costas Lapavitsas, da Universidade de Londres, autor de “Crisis in the Eurozone” (Crise na zona do euro), o escândalo da manipulação da taxa Libor envolve uma gigantesca transferência de fundos em nível mundial da sociedade para os bancos.
→ read full articleContract with the Devil
TMS editor,
11 Mar 2013
An attorney was sitting in his office late one night, when the Devil appeared before him.
→ read full articleRevealed: Pentagon’s Link to Iraqi Torture Centres
Mona Mahmood, Maggie O'Kane, Chavala Madlena and Teresa Smith – The Guardian,
11 Mar 2013
Exclusive: General David Petraeus and ‘dirty wars’ veteran behind commando units implicated in detainee abuse. The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the “dirty wars” in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres. These units conducted some of the worst acts of torture during the US occupation and accelerated the country’s descent into full-scale civil war.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Mondo Visto dal Monte Everest
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Nepal – Il Tibet viene considerato meno come parte repressa della Cina e più come patria del buddhismo tantrico – un forte aggancio al vicino gigantesco del Nord. La maggioranza del Nepal è orientata verso l’India, ma il Weekly Mirror ha una vista del mondo dall’alto, e il picco più alto, l’Everest, è più vicino alla Cina. Qualcuno una volta l’ha scalato, “perché è lì”, per dare uno sguardo più da vicino alla Cina.
→ read full articleFukushima Toxic Waste Swells as Japan Marks March 11 Disaster: 2 Years
Jason Clenfield, Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Every morning, 3,000 cleanup workers at Fukushima don hooded hazard suits, air-filtered face masks and multiple glove layers. Most of the gear is radioactive waste by day’s end. Multiply it by 730 days since the tsunami two years ago and the trash could fill six Olympic swimming pools. Contaminated clothing represents just a fraction of the waste in a cleanup that may take four decades.
→ read full articleThe Privatization of War: Mercenaries, Private Military and Security Companies (PMSC)
Jose L. Gomez del Prado - Global Research,
11 Mar 2013
Private military and security companies (PMSC) are the modern reincarnation of a long lineage of private providers of physical force: corsairs, privateers and mercenaries. Mercenaries, which had practically disappeared during the XIXth and XXth centuries, reappeared in the 1960’s during the decolonization period operating mainly in Africa and Asia. Under the United Nations a convention was adopted which outlaws and criminalizes their activities. Additional Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions also contains a definition of mercenary.
→ read full articleEl Comandante Has Left the Building
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
11 Mar 2013
How enlightening to watch world leaders’ reactions to the death of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez. Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica – a man who shuns 90% of his salary – reminded everyone how he qualified Chavez as “the most generous leader I ever met”, while praising the “fortress of democracy” of which Chavez was a great builder. Compare it with US President Barack Obama – in what sounds like a dormant cut and paste by some White House intern – reaffirming US support for “the Venezuelan people”.
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Vandana Shiva on Int’l Women’s Day: “Capitalist Patriarchy Has Aggravated Violence against Women”
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
11 Mar 2013
TRANSCEND Member Prof. Vandana Shiva is a physicist, ecofeminist, philosopher, activist, and author of more than 20 books and 500 papers. She is the founder of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, and has campaigned for biodiversity, conservation and farmers’ rights, winning the Right Livelihood Award [Alternative Nobel Prize] in 1993. She is executive director of the Navdanya Trust.
→ read full article(Castellano) Pedagogía de la Catástrofe – Apocatástasis
Stefano Caserini & Enrico Euli - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Orígenes, el padre de la Iglesia (como en otros casos, sospechoso de herejía), en el 3er siglo d.C., tal vez cansado de esperar el apocalipsis y el retorno del Mesías, comenzó a hablar de apocatástasis, es decir, una catástrofe que restaura, al final del tiempo, para crear y regenerar nuevas formas.
→ read full article(Português) Bispo É Condenado por Pedofilia no Amazonas
Joana Queiroz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Justiça condena, pela primeira vez na história do Amazonas, um bispo da Igreja católica; Piegiorgio Albertini, o italiano conhecido como ‘Padre Jorge’, foi sentenciado a nove anos de reclusão por estupro de três crianças no interior do Estado.
→ read full articleCan Civilization Survive Capitalism?
Noam Chomsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Capitalism as it exists today is radically incompatible with democracy. There is “capitalism” and then there is “really existing capitalism.”
→ read full articleOpenly Gay Black Mayoral Candidate Was Beaten, Set On Fire His Family Say
Emily Le Coz, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
A gay, black mayoral candidate killed last week in Mississippi was beaten, dragged and set on fire before his body was dumped near a river, according to his family. In a statement issued late on Sunday [3 Mar 2013], the family of Marco McMillian said a coroner who performed an autopsy on his body told them about the gruesome manner of death.
→ read full articleNorth Korea or the United States: Who is a Threat to Global Security?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
11 Mar 2013
North Korea lost thirty percent of its population as a result of US-led bombings in the 1950s. Most people in America consider North Korea as an inherently aggressive nation and a threat to global security. Media disinformation sustains North Korea as a “rogue state”. The history of the Korean War and its devastating consequences are rarely mentioned. America is portrayed as the victim rather than the aggressor.
→ read full articleThe Myths in Power Generation
E. A. S. Sarma – The Hindu,
4 Mar 2013
Denmark’s per capita primary energy use evidently declined between 1500 and 1900, not because of any negative economic growth but on account of the combined effect of a shift in the fuel base and the improvements in efficiency. The increase in the per capita primary energy use between 1900 and 1975 and the decline between 1975 and 2004 were the compound outcomes of the growth in Denmark’s GDP, the fuel shifts and the efficiency improvements.
→ read full article(Português) Franz Kafka e a Segunda-feira
Flávio Ricardo Vassoler – Carta Maior,
4 Mar 2013
Ao contrário do que dizem os apologistas do fim da História, a luta de classes não se calou. No entanto, diante da assepsia publicitária por que passam os discursos contestatórios, a lógica poética de Kafka nos leva a pensar a contrapelo de nós mesmos: se o movimento da contradição histórica não for estancado e reconfigurado, continuaremos a figurar como coadjuvantes da cadeia alimentar que nos coage à frieza, à brutalidade e ao cinismo do entrechoque entre gato e rato, de modo que a “Pequena Fábula” possa receber um título mais adequado aos tempos atuais: “segunda-feira”.
→ read full articleThe Money Trap: How Banks Control the World through Debt
BBC Documentary – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Exposing the Truth of Our Devious Financial System
→ read full articleActing like They Care about Haiti
Mark Schuller - CounterPunch,
4 Mar 2013
The Pretense of Doing Good (While Raising Millions) – On Tuesday [26 Feb 2013], Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn, whose new role is Haiti’s ambassador to the United Nations, extolled the progress in the island nation of almost 10 million people.
→ read full articleThe Happiness Initiative: The Serious Business of Well-Being
Laura Musikanski & John de Graaf – The Solutions Journal,
4 Mar 2013
Happiness: is it just a fad of the day or the wave of the future? On July 19th, 2011, the United Nations (UN) passed a resolution urging governments across the globe to start measuring happiness and well-being “with a view to guiding public policy.” The UN recognizes that gross domestic product (GDP) is an insufficient guide for safeguarding the well-being of people or our future.
→ read full articleOxfam Reveals Global Food Firms’ Gaping Ethical Shortfalls
Damian Carrington – The Guardian,
4 Mar 2013
The world’s largest food companies are failing to meet ethical standards, a report from Oxfam has warned. None of the leading global brands such as Nestlé, Mars and Coca-Cola were given good overall ratings on their commitments to protect farmers, local communities and the environment, while British food giant Associated British Foods (ABF), owner of brands including Kingsmill, Ovaltine and Silverspoon, received the lowest rating.
→ read full articleTorture, Inc. – America’s Brutal Prisons
Deborah Davies, Channel 4 Dispatches – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq?
→ read full articleWhy the Free Market Fundamentalists Think 2013 Will Be the Best Year Ever
Slavoj Žižek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
As communists once did, today’s capitalists blame any failures on their system being ‘impurely’ applied. This is how today’s apologists for the market, in an unheard-of ideological kidnapping, explain the crisis of 2008: it was not the failure of the free market that caused it, but the excessive state regulation; the fact that our market economy was not a true one, but was instead in the clutches of the welfare state.
→ read full articleTwo Types of Calcium Deficiency
Dr. Edward F. Group – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
As you may be aware, calcium is integral when it comes to building strong bones, teeth, a normal heart rhythm, powering muscle contractions, enabling the relaxation of your muscles, hormone function, and even blood pressure regulation. There are Two Types of Calcium Deficiency
→ read full article(Português) Por Que os Fundamentalistas de Livre Mercado Acreditam Que 2013 Será o Melhor Ano de Todos
Slavoj Žižek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
É assim que os atuais apologistas do mercado, em um sequestro ideológico sem precedentes, explicam a crise de 2008: não foi o fracasso do livre mercado que a provocou, mas sim a excessiva regulação estatal; o fato de que nossa economia de mercado não foi um verdadeiro Estado de bem-estar social, mas esteve, em vez disso, nas garras desse Estado.
→ read full articleIsrael-Palestine: THE Question
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
THE question arising is this: Why are most Jews unable and/or unwilling to acknowledge the wrong done to the Palestinians? My Gentile answer begins with a short, one-sentence statement that begs another question. Most Jews do not want to know about Zionism’s crimes. The question is – why don’t they want to know?
→ read full articleAn Honest Lawyer
TMS editor,
4 Mar 2013
An investment counsellor went out on her own. She was shrewd and diligent, so business kept coming in, and pretty soon she realised she needed an in-house counsel, so she began interviewing young lawyers.
→ read full articleThe Idinthakarai Experience: Best Practices in Peaceful and Nonviolent Protests
Dr. S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Indefinite hunger strike of a huge group of people including women and youth
Relay hunger strike – every single day 10 am to 5 pm
Inviting a prominent political, religious or cultural leaders for day-long hunger strikes…
Albert Woodfox’s 40 Years of Solitary Confinement
Amy Goodman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Albert Woodfox has been in solitary confinement for 40 years locked up in the maximum-security Louisiana State Penitentiary known as “Angola.” This week federal Judge James Brady agreed that racial bias tainted his trial’s grand-jury selection. “Accordingly, Woodfox’s habeas relief is GRANTED,” ordered Brady. This is the third time his conviction has been overturned. Nevertheless, Woodfox remains imprisoned.
→ read full articleIsraeli Kids Dressed As Burning Twin Towers for Purim
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
On the annual Jewish celebration of the Biblical slaying “of their foes seventy and five thousand,” at least one Israeli family seems to think it’s funny to reenact the murder of 3,000 in New York on September 11, 2001.
→ read full articleSchool Subject Textbook Authors for Nonkilling: A Plea
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
School subject textbook authors,
Globally, you play a very relevant role in Education:
Provide contents to learners` multifaceted preparation
Millions of children, adolescents and adults benefit from the materials you produce
(Português) A Rara Coragem de Bradley Manning
Marjorie Cohn, CounterCurrents – Carta Maior,
4 Mar 2013
As ações de Bradley Manning fazem lembrar o que fez Daniel Ellsberg, que divulgou os “Papéis do Pentágono”, no qual se expunham as mentiras do governo dos EUA e que apressaram o fim da Guerra do Vietname.
→ read full article(Castellano) Víctimas de Pederastia Piden Que Cardenal Mexicano No Asista al Cónclave
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Una carta pública argumenta que el cardenal Norberto Rivera guarda relación con algunos casos de pederastia en México, pues habría encubierto, entre otros casos, los abusos sexuales a menores que el cura Nicolás Aguilar Rivera cometió en México y en Estados Unidos.
→ read full articleThe Norwegian Prison Where Inmates Are Treated Like People
Erwin James – The Guardian,
4 Mar 2013
On Bastoy prison island in Norway, the prisoners, some of whom are murderers and rapists, live in conditions that critics brand ‘cushy’ and ‘luxurious’. Yet it has by far the lowest reoffending rate in Europe.
→ read full articleEnvisioning a World without Nuclear Weapons
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Book Review – Zero: The Case for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, by David Krieger, 2013, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. I have known David Krieger for the past twenty-five years, and he has never wavered, even for a day, from his lifelong journey dedicated to ridding the world of nuclear weapons and the threat of nuclear war.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 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 articleImperium?
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Our nation’s efforts, cruel and chronic,
to reign supreme and hegemonic
impress our allies as moronic, …
Bradley Manning and the Appalling Silence of Gay, Inc.
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
I have never published materials concerning gay issues, but I decide to publish the following CounterPunch’s article because it touches some interesting spots within the context of marginal politics. In the next few days I will try to extend the discourse and discuss the links between LGBT, Palestinian Solidarity and the Jewish progressive voice.
→ read full articleWhaling Conflict Near Antarctica Intensifies: Japan Accused of Using Military Ship
The Inquisitr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
25 Feb 2013 – Whaling conservation organization, Sea Shepherd, has accused Japan of bringing a military style ship to the conflict in waters off Antarctica. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that a Japanese military ice breaker approached the Australian Antarctic Territory where Sea Shepherd ships, whaling ships, and a Korean tanker were engaged in an intensifying conflict. Watch spectacular Sea Shepherd Video
→ read full articleProspects of Peace in Syria
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
The Berlin meeting of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the newly appointed US Secretary of State John Kerry on 26 February 2013 appeared propitious for peace in Syria. The likely evolution of a common approach between Russia and the US will not only impact positively the course of the Syrian conflict, but will also have implications for many other international issues.
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