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Tell the Nation the Truth about the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
Angered by moral and political corruption, disturbing developments and the overall mismanagement of the body politic, Marcellus tells Horatio in utter disgust and disappointment in Shakespeare’s classic play Hamlet: “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
We, the people of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, who have been fighting against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) are feeling very much like Marcellus.
Burnies versus Greenies ?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
The variant “Greenies” is notably employed as a term of deprecation that carries implications of innocence and ignorance to frame the Greens as misinformed and misguided. The question here is facilitating the promotion of Green policies through identifying such a term in relation with such attitudes. The term of deprecation proposed here is “Burnies” — as a variation of “Burn”, analogous to the deprecatory use of “Greenies”. This gives a focus to what Burnies stand for — effectively naming the problem, from the Green perspective.
→ read full article‘Assange Effectively Denied Opportunity to Enjoy Asylum’ – Ecuadorian FM
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
By not allowing passage to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from London to Latin America, where he was granted asylum, Britain infringes same international documents it vigorously lobbied for, Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino tells RT.
→ read full articleIsraeli Authorities Change Route of Wall to Fully Annex Jerusalem to Israel
Saed Bannoura – International Middle East Media Center,
28 Jan 2013
The Israeli Defense Ministry announced on Sunday [20 Jan 2013] that they will re-route a section of the Wall east of Jerusalem in order to close off an existing gap and fully annex the city of Jerusalem into Israel. The new route means the complete encirclement of the Palestinian village of Al-Zaim, with the Wall to the West and a security fence to the east. Other Palestinian towns are also completely isolated and encircled into ghettoes, including the town of Sheikh Sa’ed and the city of Qalqilya.
→ read full articleThe Arab-Muslim Awakening – And USA-Israel
Johan Galtung, 28 Jan 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia were divided into 15 and 7 states respectively, some now members of NATO and/or EU. States seen as islamist-terrorist are in for the same: Sudan-Somalia broken into 2 and 3 parts. They are both on the list of 7, which the White House ordered the Pentagon to “take out” right after 9/11 (General Wesley Clark, Democracy Now, 2 March 2007): Iraq, Iran, Libya, Lebanon, Syria, Sudan and Somalia; seen as hostile, with state, not private central banks blocking market globalization.
→ read full articleStorm over the Sahara: US, France Creating another Osama?
Eric Margolis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
Belmokhtar was known as a “man of honor,” one of the western-financed jihadists who battled the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980’s and 90’s. He returned to his native Algeria, minus an eye lost in combat, and, with his fellow “Afghani,” sought to overthrow Algeria’s western-backed military regime, a major oil and gas supplier to France. Belmokhtar’s particularly violent Islamist guerilla group, formerly GIC, reformed itself into AQIM – al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, but had nothing to do with Osama bin Laden.
→ read full articleCornel West on Obama vs Luther King
MoxNews – TRANSCEND Media Services,
28 Jan 2013
C-SPAN 19 Jan 2013 – At George Washington University, Washington-DC. Cornel West is a professor at the Union Theological Seminary.
→ read full articleThe Gift
Susan Carew – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
My highest wish is happiness,
It is the gift I give to all,
To see the smiling faces,
To catch them before they fall.
(Italiano) Il Cambiamento Avviene – Ma Come, Perché, Quando, Dove?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
Un secolo fa l’umanità, particolarmente in Occidente, era all’inizio di una grande rivoluzione, dalla cultura del cavallo a quella dell’automobile. Oggi ci sono ancora (FAO-Organizzazione per il cibo e l’agricoltura dell’ONU, 2008) 59 milioni di cavalli, ma (2010) più di un miliardo di auto (nel 1986 solo la metà). In altre parti del mondo, come in Giappone e Cina, c’è stata una rivoluzione verso le auto, ma partendo dalle biciclette – Pechino è passata da 6 milioni di bici a 4 milioni di auto nel giro di 20 anni, solo dal 1990. Dal 1970 al 2010 la quota USA di iscrizioni universitarie su base mondiale è calata dal 26 al 12% mentre la quota cinese è salita da 0 al 18%.
→ read full articleGovernment Persecution, From Aaron Swartz to Bradley Manning
Chase Madar – The Nation,
28 Jan 2013
When 26-year-old Internet prodigy and freedom of information activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide on January 11 [2013], the tragedy was the direct result of US attorneys deciding to throw criminal charges at him for violating a website’s “terms of services” while accessing publicly subsidized academic research.
→ read full articlePalestine-Israel: Enslavement of the False Self
Yago Abeledo interviewing Richard Forer – Redress Information and Analysis,
28 Jan 2013
The real conflict is the inability to integrate the hard-to-believe but inescapable awareness of Israel’s treatment of non-Jews with unquestioned loyalty to the Jewish state. …it is only when the Palestinian people are healed that the Jewish people themselves will be healed.
→ read full articleWhy Is Guantanamo Still Open?
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
28 Jan 2013
Official US policy pretty much still supports everything that was done and continues to be done at Guantanamo.
→ read full articleWhat is Peace? International SPEAK UP Award
Susan Carew – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
For the author of this proposal, teaching peace as a World Peace Sustainability Clown was a dream and that came true. As a World Peace Sustainability Clown travelling the World in 2010, peace was experienced as service when connecting with people on the streets, teaching in schools, healing in hospitals and communicating with many diverse audiences.
→ read full articleWar on Terror Forever
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
28 Jan 2013
Exit “historical” al-Qaeda, holed up somewhere in the Waziristans, in the Pakistani tribal areas; enter al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). In Dempsey’s words, AQIM “is a threat not only to the country of Mali, but the region, and if… left unaddressed, could in fact become a global threat.” With Mali now elevated to the status of a “threat” to the whole world, GWOT is proven to be really open-ended.
→ read full articleThe Second Anniversary of Tahrir Square Rising
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
What inspired the world was the spontaneous spirit of unity, a movement guided by exhilarating visions of democracy and freedom and hope, generating a new kind of populism that dispensed with ideology and leaders, a sense that the people of Egypt had acted creatively and bravely to recover their country from the clutches of neoliberal predators and their domestic collaborators.
→ read full articleSantiago Summit: Can Latin America Now Lecture Europe About Economics?
Tim Padgett with Anthony Esposito – Time Magazine,
28 Jan 2013
On Jan. 26 and 27, the Chilean capital will play host to a Latin American-European economic summit—and the developing region might be excused for feeling a little smug in the company of First World guests who not long ago looked down their noses when they looked across the Atlantic. Many of Latin America’s economies are sound if not booming today compared to the cash-strapped nightmare gripping European Union (EU) members like Spain and Portugal.
→ read full articleUsing Material Goods for Social Competition
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
There is something ethically wrong with using material goods for the purpose of social competition at a time when excessive consumption is destroying our planet. The voice of Henry David Thoreau is a useful and wise one. “Most of the luxuries”, Thoreau wrote, “and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries, the wisest have ever lived a simpler and meager life than the poor.
→ read full articleThe Debt Owed to Haiti
Nia Imara – Pambazuka News,
28 Jan 2013
Three years after the unprecedented earthquake in Haiti that extinguished at least 300,000 lives and upended millions more, the world is asking the same questions.Today the question ought not be how much debt the world superpowers condescend to forgive Haiti, nor even how many millions they promise for earthquake relief. Genuine rebuilding must take as its premise that the Haitian people are due a justice at least 200-years-old. Their claims for justice are both legally and morally sound and have been ignored for far too long.
→ read full articleHow Washington Helped Foster the Islamist Uprising in Mali
Jeremy Keenan – Pambazuka News,
28 Jan 2013
How the US and Algeria have been sponsoring terror in the Sahara. On 12 October 2012, the UN Security Council voted unanimously in favour of a French-drafted resolution asking Mali’s government to draw up plans for a military mission to re-establish control over the northern part of Mali, an area of the Sahara bigger than France. Known as Azawad by local Tuareg people, northern Mali has been under the control of Islamist extremists following a Tuareg rebellion at the beginning of the year.
→ read full articleFinance, Banking the Least-Trusted Industries, Survey Finds
Andrew Tangel – Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan 2013
Financial services and banks were the least-trusted industries last year, according to a public relations firm’s annual survey. Only 46% of U.S. respondents said they trusted the financial services industry, and only 41% said they trusted banks in 2012, according to PR agency Edelman’s annual survey of consumers’ trust.
→ read full articleChurch Sex Abuse Files Unlikely To Lead To Charges, Experts Say
Harriet Ryan, Ashley Powers and Victoria Kim - Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan 2013
Statute of limitations is the main stumbling block to prosecuting culprits in the sex abuse files from the 1980s released this week [22 Jan 2013]. There is also the issue of whether what Cardinal Roger M. Mahony and Monsignor Thomas J. Curry did constituted a crime in the 1980s. The memos the men wrote made clear that they were aware children had been raped and otherwise assaulted and were attempting to keep authorities in the dark. They discussed giving the abusive priests out-of-state assignments and keeping them from seeing therapists who might have alerted law enforcement.
→ read full article[Official Video] Anonymous Operation Last Resort
Aarons ArkAngel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
Jan 26, 2013 – Anonymous takes down US Dept of Justice and US Sentencing Commission websites.
→ read full articleKudankulam Nuclear Power Plant’s Leaks and Repairs: More Questions and No Answers
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
Jan 23 2013 – Since the NPCIL and DAE authorities are tight-lipped about the current condition of the KKNPP, recurrent rumors are making rounds here in our area that that there have been some 40 deaths, that the contract workers at KKNPP have been asked not to report for duty, and that KKNPP-1 has been completely sealed.
→ read full articleAnonymous ‘Operation Last Resort’ Hacks US Gov’t Websites
CNN, MoxNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
26 Jan 2013 – “Sounds like they want a war” in retaliation for Aaron Swartz’ s death.
→ read full articleObama’s Dirty Wars Exposed at Sundance
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
28 Jan 2013
As President Barack Obama prepared to be sworn in as the next US president, two courageous journalists premiered a documentary at the annual Sundance Film Festival. “Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield” reaffirms the critical role played by independent journalists like the film’s director, Rick Rowley, and its narrator and central figure, Jeremy Scahill.
→ read full article(Português) A Maior Ameaça à Paz Mundial
Noam Chomsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
Recentemente, a Assembleia Geral da ONU aprovou, por 174 votos a seis, uma resolução na qual convida Israel a aderir ao Tratado de Não Proliferação Nuclear. Os Estados Unidos votaram contra. Washington, que tanto fala da ameaça de um Irão nuclear, nada faz para estabelecer uma zona livre de armas nucleares no Médio Oriente.
→ read full articleProfiting Off Hunger: Wall Street Makes Big Gains over Food Price Spikes
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
Powerful firms like Goldman Sachs have made hundreds of millions of dollars in food future trades. Critics accuse them of profiting off starvation and market manipulation, while traders claim their profits are due to increasing consumption in China.
→ read full articleList of Children Killed by Drone Strikes in Pakistan and Yemen (Age & Gender)
Drones Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
Compiled from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports.
→ read full articleBiking to Success in Mozambique
Peace is Profitable – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
The start-up Mozambikes has uncovered an interesting niche market with considerable social impact. By selling high quality bicycles at low prices (999 meticais, or just over $30) it has given the country’s rural population a cost-efficient way of overcoming the scarcity of transportation in this vast country. The firm’s founders describe how the rural population had previously needed to walk several kilometers each with “massive containers of water or bundles of firewood on their heads.”
→ read full articleMali Conflict: A Challenging Assignment
Peter Townson – Doha Centre for Media Freedom,
28 Jan 2013
French military and Malian government forces are restricting access to conflict areas for members of the media, making covering the situation a major challenge.
→ read full articleNO Violence Please – A Word to Muslims
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
You are oppressed
You are depressed
You are stressed
You are distressed
But… NO violence please
The Science of Spiritual Biology
Bhakti Madhava Puri, Ph.D., Science and Scientist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
Applied mathematician, Samuel Arbesman, is an expert in scientometrics, the science of science, or metascience, and he has written a very recent book, The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date, (Sept. 2012), in which he investigates the frequency of changes in scientific facts, paradigms or theories. Knowledge in different fields of science evolves in systematic and predictable ways, and such changes have a powerful impact on our lives.
→ read full articleBeer Festival
Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
After the Great Britain Beer Festival, in London, all the brewery presidents decided to go out for a beer.
→ read full article“Cyberazzi” – Data Mining Companies Investigated for Invasion of Privacy
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
The paparazzi hide in bushes and use telephoto lenses to snap pictures of celebrities. The “cyberazzi” parachute into web browsers and sneak up behind mobile phones to spy on ordinary people. Nine such data mining companies must report to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission by Feb 1, 2013 what personal information they gather for sale.
→ read full articleThe Republic, Sedition, and Koodankulam: An Interview with Dr. S P Udayakumar
Dianuke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
As the missiles and tanks are geared up to be paraded at the India Gate on the country’s 64th Republic Day, people’s faith in the promise they did to themselves is missing. Last year, people in Koodankulam marked 26th January as Black Day. With more than 10 thousand people booked under sedition and war against the Indian state in Koodankulam, it is time we as a country face the issue head-on. We interviewed S P Udayakumar, leader of the massive nonviolent protest in Koodankulam.
→ read full articleWhen I was seven, Jesus cried…
Nahida, the exiled Palestinian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
I used to play
Where Jesus used to pray
I ran up the hills
Where he used to walk
On Syria: What to Do in 2013
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
19 Jan 2013 – I took part last week in an illuminating conference on Syria sponsored by the new Center of Middle East Studies that is part of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. This Center has been recently established, and operates under the excellent leadership of Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel, who previously together edited the best collection of readings on the Green Revolution in Iran published under the title THE PEOPLE RELOADED.
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Operation Gladio: The Cold War ‘Black Op’ Continues
Darrin McBreen, InfoWars – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
15 Jan 2013 – What is NATO? What is the CIA? Author Richard Cottrell tells the story of mayhem, murder and subversion behind the “alliance for peace.” The CIA as the major terrorist organization on the planet.
→ read full article(Italiano) Ricognizione Sui Corpi Civili di Pace e Proposta di Riconoscimento nel Trattato di Lisbona
Gianmarco Pisa – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
21 Jan 2013
Il Corpo Civile di Pace si configura come strumento civile permanente, composto di volontari e professionisti della società civile, finanziato e gestito da un’autorità centrale legittima (nel caso europeo una commissione esecutiva, nel caso nazionale un’agenzia pubblica), con compiti di:
→ read full articleInternational Essay Contest for Young People
Goi Peace Foundation, Japan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
Organized by The Goi Peace Foundation and UNESCO – Theme: “The Power of Culture to Create a Better Future”
→ read full articleAll Lawyers Are Crooks
Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
A guy in a bar stands up and says, “All lawyers are crooks.”
→ read full articleThe World’s Deadliest Drone: MQ-9 REAPER
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
The MQ-9 Reaper (originally the Predator B) is an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) also known as a Remotely Piloted Vehicle (RPV)) developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) for use by the United States Air Force, the United States Navy, Italian Air Force, and the Royal Air Force. It is the first hunter-killer UAV designed for long-endurance, high-altitude surveillance (see photo).
→ read full articleWhat Is Anti-Semitism?
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
Just how strongly are Germans allowed to criticize Israel? Accusations of anti-Semitism against SPIEGEL columnist Jakob Augstein have brought the question to the fore. He debates the issue with Dieter Graumann, the leader of Germany’s Jewish community.
→ read full article(Português) Cuba Tem a Menor Taxa de Mortalidade Infantil nas Américas
Caros Amigos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
Após 54 anos de revolução e quase 53 de embargo, o índice cubano é melhor que o de países como os Estados Unidos, Canadá e Brasil.
→ read full article(Italiano) Collettivamente Memoria 2013_l’idea e l’impianto
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
Dedicato a Italo Tibaldi e Ida Desandré deportati politici e a Anna Dati staffetta partigiana.
→ read full article“It’s the culture, stupid!”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
I would like to build on this iconic utterance, that captures so much in so few words, by calling attention to the dominate sources of continued mass violence that exists in the USA today. Even as well intentioned public and private response to the Sandy Hook massacre seek solutions in highly specific policies, laws, and practices (e.g., background checks, gun registration, armed guards), these will ultimately prove insufficient, and acts of mass violence will continue. “When you go forward for revenge, dig two graves.” It “trickles down.”
→ read full article(Castellano) VI. La Democracia de Altares
Fernando Montiel T. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
En el Cáucaso las guerras del pasado y del futuro vuelven a todos geopolitólogos: en Bakú todos saben que sus compatriotas al sur de la frontera –los 35 millones en los que Fakhrinur deposita su esperanza– podrían ser la infantería de un ataque estadounidense contra Irán a cambio de que la “comunidad internacional” –es decir, Washington y sus amigos– consienta una ofensiva azerí contra Armenia por Nagorno-Karabaj.
→ read full articleSanctions as Collective Punishment
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
At present, we treat nations as though they were persons: We punish entire nations by sanctions, even when only the leaders are guilty, even though the burdens of the sanctions fall most heavily on the poorest and least guilty of the citizens, and even though sanctions often have the effect of uniting the citizens of a country behind the guilty leaders.
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Time to Say Goodbye (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Katherine Jenkins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
No comment necessary. Just watch… and be touched.
→ read full article(Português) Bhakti Yoga: Em Busca de Um Amor Perdido
Radhanath Swami – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
O aroma de almíscar é tão sedutor que quando o nariz sensível do cervo-almiscarado macho o sente no vento, ele percorre a floresta dia e noite em busca da sua fonte e esgota-se numa busca infrutífera, sem perceber a ironia amarga: a doce fragrância que ele estava perseguindo não residia em nenhum lugar, mas dentro de si. O almíscar é produzido por uma glândula no umbigo do próprio veado: ele estava procurando fora, o que estava sempre dentro de si mesmo. Os sábios da Índia encontraram no cervo-almiscarado uma descrição apropriada da condição humana.
→ read full articleAaron Swartz and the Freedom to Connect
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
21 Jan 2013
Aaron Swartz wanted nothing more than to change the world. He was doing just that until he ended his own life, at the age of 26, on Jan. 11 [2013]. He took a lead role in defeating SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, a federal law that would have granted corporations sweeping online censorship powers. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, responded to the sad news with a tweet: “Aaron dead. World wanderers, we have lost a wise elder. Hackers for right, we are one down. Parents all, we have lost a child. Let us weep.”
→ read full articleMEPs Agree Credit Rating Agency Crackdown
Benjamin Fox, EUobserver – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
The European Parliament on Wednesday (16 Jan 2013) voted in favour of a cross-party compromise text agreed in November which is aimed at preventing conflicts of interest, increasing competition, and reducing the reliance of businesses and governments on credit ratings.
→ read full articleConflict Resolution: From Gandhi to Galtung
Anupma Kaushik – The Gandhi Foundation,
21 Jan 2013
Johan Galtung clarifies that peace research is based on the assumption that peace is as consensual a value as health. He further states that interdisciplinary and multilevel approaches are needed for peace research besides adoption of symmetry. Peace research needs to draw from all corners of the world and in order to understand an issue the researcher needs to see it from either side but the solution should not be based on the assumptions of one party alone.
→ read full articleEritrea: Hear No Evil
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
Eritrea is a pariah state that crushes repression. It even sends its many people into a forced labor system, often for years. The government attracted international investors with its mineral reserves and its first mine, a joint venture with the Canadian firm Nevsun Resources, has produced hundreds of millions of dollars’ in gold since 2011. Other companies from Canada, Australia, and China are also developing projects in Eritrea. We uncovered evidence that some mine construction workers – supplied by Segun, a government-owned company – were forced laborers.
→ read full articleUNESCO Recognizes Brazilian Friar’s Contribution to Social Justice in Latin America and Caribbean
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
11 Jan 2013 – The United Nations has recognized a Brazilian Dominican friar, Frei Betto, with a leading international prize for his “exceptional contribution” to building a universal culture of peace, social justice and human rights in Latin America and the Caribbean. The author of more than 50 books, Frei Betto was born in 1944 and joined the Dominican Order at the age of 20 while studying journalism, and during the time of military dictatorship in Brazil, he was imprisoned twice, in 1964 and again from 1969 to 1973.
→ read full articleThe Doomsday Clock
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
21 Jan 2013: IT IS FIVE MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT – The Doomsday Clock conveys how close humanity is to catastrophic destruction–the figurative midnight–and monitors the means humankind could use to obliterate itself. First and foremost, these include nuclear weapons, but they also encompass climate-changing technologies and new developments in the life sciences that could inflict irrevocable harm.
→ read full articleChange Happens – But How, Why, When, Where?
Johan Galtung, 21 Jan 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
A century ago humanity, particularly in the West, was at the beginning of a major revolution, from horse culture to car culture. Today there are still 59 million horses, but more than 1 billion cars (in 1986 only half of that). In other parts of the world, like Japan and China, there was a revolution to cars, but from bicycles–Beijing went from 6 million bicycles to 4 million cars over a period of 20 years, only from 1990. From 1970 to 2010 the US share of world college enrollment dropped from 26 to 12 percent whereas the Chinese share went up from 0 to 18 percent.
→ read full article(Italiano) Contro la Rivoluzione Mondiale – Costruttivamente!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
Un paese che reagisce con mini-rivoluzioni, nonviolenza, disobbedienza civile contro tali smaccate ingiustizie. Un paese dove la lotta di classe è sospesa per il momento; ha vinto il capitalismo e più specificamente i banchieri e i loro servitori, i politici, e ancora più specificamente il capitale finanziario-speculativo. E questo in una Spagna prossima a 40 anni di democrazia dopo 40 anni di dittatura di Franco. Costituzione + democrazia + elezioni + diritti umani (anche immobiliari) + parlamento contro il capitalismo finanziario. Deboli contro forti.
→ read full article[Which version do you choose to believe?] The Happiest (and Saddest) Countries in the World
Christopher Helman, Forbes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
[From TMS Editor: Forbes bias is toward developed countries; the ‘saddest’ ones are the poorest.]
British philosopher John Stuart Mill: “It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.”
Boo of Democracy
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
Lament of booing
Jackals in the jungle…
Iran Unable to Get Life-Saving Drugs Due to International Sanctions
Julian Borger and Saeed Kamali Dehghan – The Guardian,
21 Jan 2013
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians with serious illnesses have been put at imminent risk by the unintended consequences of international sanctions, which have led to dire shortages of life-saving medicines such as chemotherapy drugs for cancer and bloodclotting agents for haemophiliacs.
→ read full articleNASA Finds Long-Term Climate Warming Trend
Dr. Tony Phillips, NASA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
NASA scientists say 2012 was the ninth warmest of any year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures. With the exception of 1998, the nine warmest years in the 132-year record all have occurred since 2000, with 2010 and 2005 ranking as the hottest years on record.
→ read full articleThe Religious and Social Crises and Political Consequences
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
The opening long decade of the 21st century (2000-2012) has been a period of repeated and profound economic and social crises, of serial and prolonged wars and declining living standards for the vast majority of Americans. How have people responded to this crisis?
→ read full articleBurn, burn – Africa’s Afghanistan
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
21 Jan 2013
Forget about spotting any Americans; these are – what else – contractors who do not wear military uniforms.
→ read full articleSolar-Powered Water Pumps Struggle to See the Light
Manipadma Jena – Inter Press Service-IPS,
21 Jan 2013
When twenty-nine-year-old Kartik Wahi graduated from the Kellogg School of Management in Chicago, Illinois in 2010, he wasted no time in returning to India to self-finance a start-up company to market solar-powered irrigation pumps. Working on a shoestring budget together with two partners, the young entrepreneur was convinced that the benefits of this renewable energy initiative would make a huge difference in some of India’s largest agricultural regions.
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Self-Immolations in Tibet
China Central TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
Facts about the Self-Immolations in Tibetan Areas of Ngapa
→ read full articleThe Gravest of Allegations: Conflating Critique of Israel with Anti-Semitism
Ronen Bergman – Der Spiegel,
21 Jan 2013
In recent years, Israeli Jews have often confused anti-Israel rhetoric with anti-Semitism, argues journalist Ronen Bergman, who has himself been subjected to verbal attacks for his reporting in SPIEGEL.
→ read full articleBhakti Yoga: In Search of a Lost Love
Radhanath Swami – The Huffington Post,
21 Jan 2013
The aroma of musk is so alluring that when the stag’s sensitive nose catches wind of it he roams the forest day and night in pursuit of its source. He exhausts himself in a fruitless quest, never realizing the bitter irony: the sweet fragrance he was chasing resided nowhere but within himself. Musk, you see, is produced by a gland in the stag’s very own navel: it was searching without for what was all along lying within. The sages of India found in the musk deer an apt description of the human condition.
→ read full articleGoing Nowhere through Not-knowing Where to Go
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
Whether for the individual, for factional interests, or for global governance, it is becoming increasingly clear that many experience a sense of “going nowhere”. Part of the issue lies in not knowing “where to go” in quest of whatever might have been imagined as desirable. The issue has been highlighted with respect to the young — as challenged by unemployment in an increasingly complex society — and with the long-term unemployed. It is also implicit in the situation of the terminally ill and the elderly, especially those confined to hospice care.
→ read full articleAccidents at Nuclear Power Plants in India
Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
India currently has twenty nuclear reactors in operation and their safety record is far from clean.
→ read full articleUS Playing Strategic Arms Game
Hu Yumin – China Daily,
14 Jan 2013
The US could cut its defense spending because of the fiscal cliff. But it would be wrong to assume that such a cut will weaken the US military. It has allocated more funds for the development of Prompt Global Strike, a system that can deliver a precision non-nuclear weapon strike anywhere in the world within 1 hour.
→ read full articleDrones Are Fool’s Gold: They Prolong Wars We Can’t Win
Simon Jenkins – The Guardian,
14 Jan 2013
New appointments in the White House hail an era of hands-free warfare. Yet these weapons induce not defeat, but retaliation. The greatest threat to world peace is not from nuclear weapons and their possible proliferation. It is from drones and their certain proliferation. Drones are now sweeping the global arms market. There are some 10,000 said to be in service, of which a thousand are armed and mostly American.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Dirupo, la Palude, il Pantano USA
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2013
C’è altro oltre il dirupo fiscale che risalta a occhio nudo… Introduciamo la sofferenza della gente, la crescita mancante e il fardello del debito, espandendo il discorso per visioni nuove… Potrebbe invece far prodigi un enorme programma ingegnoso che faccia sì che quel 16% si tiri su da solo (bootstraps), con crediti per piccole società-cooperative progettate per produrre cibo e acqua, vestiario e alloggi, sanità e istruzione, tutto a prezzi alla portata.
→ read full articleOscar Worthy Propaganda – Zero Dark Thirty: Torturing the Facts
Majorie Cohn - CounterPunch,
14 Jan 2013
Law professor Marjorie Cohn writes of the two disturbing characteristics of Zero Dark Thirty, the latest pro-CIA, pro-torture film to roll out of Hollywood.
→ read full articleBe Human
M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2013
Sip by sip
Drop by drop
Drink we life’s wine…
The Empire’s New Clothes
Socialist Worker, editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2013
Obama’s nominees to run the Pentagon and CIA underline how a Democratic president, once seen as antiwar, has rebranded U.S. imperialism.
→ read full articleAgainst World Revolution – Constructively!
Johan Galtung, 14 Jan 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2013
A country rapidly de-developing, into low Third World levels, even in health. A country not only saving banks rather than people but also letting the banks get away with crimes. A country reacting with mini-revolutions, nonviolence, civil disobedience against such glaring injustices. A country where the class war is over for the time being; capitalism won and more particularly the bankers and their servants, the politicians, and even more particularly the finance-speculation capital. And this in a Spain close to 40 years into democracy after 40 years of Franco dictatorship. Constitution + democracy + elections + human rights (also to property) + parliament vs finance capitalism. Weak vs strong.
→ read full articleIdle No More: Indigenous Uprising Sweeps North America
Kristin Moe – YES! Magazine,
14 Jan 2013
Idle No More has organized the largest mass mobilizations of indigenous people in recent history. What sparked it off and what’s coming next? For Canadians—and potentially all North Americans—this is a moment of reckoning. Just as Chief Spence’s hunger strike forced the issue with Harper, Idle No More forces us all to confront the ugliness of our collective colonial history, and to recognize that colonization continues today.
→ read full articleScientist: Top Selling Weed Killer – Monsanto’s Roundup – Linked to Infertility
Lisa Garber, Natural Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2013
Roundup’s key ingredient glyphosate has ravaged the earth, our food chain, and our bodies, and is even causing infertility among the masses.
→ read full articleSorry, Darwin: – Chemistry Never Made the Transition to Biology
Bhakti Niskama Shanta Swami, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2013
At various times in its history, ‘spontaneous generation’ has been identified by two different concepts. They are: (a) abiogenesis, and (b) heterogenesis. Abiogenesis is the field of science dedicated to study how life might have arisen spontaneously for the first time from inorganic chemicals. On the other hand, the notion that life can arise from dead organic matter, such as the appearance of maggots from decaying meat is known as heterogenesis. For a long time major western thinkers like Newton, Harvey, Descartes and von Helmont accepted heterogenesis with full confidence.
→ read full articleWe Have Created a World of ‘Civilised Savages’
Hussein Tahiri – The Sydney Morning Herald,
14 Jan 2013
Civilisation is about collective humanity, caring, forgiveness, respect and love for one’s kind in which advanced culture, industry and technology are employed to achieve this purpose. Alas, a brief look at the way we human beings conduct ourselves entitles us to be seen as no more than ”civilised savages” who have achieved modernity without the underlying moral compass of civilisation itself.
→ read full articleMy Guns Are Less Regulated Than My Uterus
Shannyn Moore – The Huffington Post,
14 Jan 2013
Birth control and reproductive health services are harder to get than bullets. What is that about? Guns don’t kill people – vaginas do?
→ read full articleOil and War
Robert Newman, Brasscheck TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2013
Robert Newman gets to grips with the wars and politics of the last hundred years – but rather than adhering to the history we were fed at school, he places oil centre stage as the cause of all commotion.
→ read full articleJohn Brennan, Sami Al-Hajj and the Blight of Guantanamo
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
14 Jan 2013
Dec, 2001: Shackled and hooded, he was pushed off the transport plane [at Kandahar airport], when he fell and broke his kneecap. He was forced to march anyway, into a building where people were screaming. He was put in the middle of a circle of U.S. soldiers who held guns to his head. On June 13, 2002, al-Hajj was shackled, hooded and flown to Guantanamo. En route they were denied food, water and toilets, and were beaten if they tried to sleep. At Guantanamo, the interrogations continued.
→ read full article6 Habits of Highly Empathetic People
Roman Krznaric – YES! Magazine,
14 Jan 2013
According to new research, empathy is a habit we can cultivate to improve the quality of our own lives. But what is empathy? And how can you expand your own empathetic potential?
→ read full articleDemocracy and the Secret State: The Deception and Terrorisation of Populaces from the Era of Gladio to the War on Terror
Adeyinka Makinde – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2013
“You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, unknown people far from any political game. The reason was quite simple – to force the people to turn to the state for greater security.” — Vincenzo Vinciguerra
The nature, necessity and scope of the miscellany of powers exercised by the state over the nation is in one sense arguably as contentious in the contemporary circumstances of the Western world as it was in the distant pre-democratic medieval past.
Optimum Population in the Future
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2013
What is the optimum population of the world? It is certainly not the maximum number that can be squeezed onto the globe by eradicating every species of plant and animal that cannot be eaten. As we strive to achieve peace throughout the world, and to eliminate the suffering caused by poverty, hunger and preventable disease, we should remember that all these goals will be more attainable with a global population of moderate size.
→ read full articleMali: Hijacked Autonomy, Outsized Ambitions, French Intervention
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2013
It may be fairly easy for the French forces to take the three major cities of the north, much of whose population has already fled. North Mali is roughly the size of France. Much of the rural areas have little or no population. It has always been difficult, even during the colonial period, to create an infrastructure and an administration. There are fears that the Islamic groups will move toward Niger or Burkina Faso, both fragile States. One knows how an armed conflict starts but rarely how it ends.
→ read full articleOn my Soul
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2013
Rhymed Reflection
→ read full article1st International Active Nonviolence Film Festival
Pressenza Int’l Press Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2013
30 Cities around the World to Take Part – Promoted by the humanist organisation World without Wars and Violence, the festival aims to create a space of coming together, of free creation committed to the culture of nonviolence.
→ read full articleRole of Religion in the World Community
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2013
As the saying goes, there are two sides of a coin. On one hand, Religion could be viewed as a blessing and a source of inspiration. On the other hand, Religion could be seen as a source of trouble and confusion that may turn many into becoming prejudiced and skeptical. A careful analysis of this conclusion will enable us to see why Religion is viewed as having one side that is positive and constructive and another other side that is negative and destructive.
→ read full articleMakers of Violent Video Games Marshal Support to Fend Off Regulation
Eric Lichtblau – The New York Times,
14 Jan 2013
With the Newtown, Conn., massacre spurring concern over violent video games, makers of popular games like Call of Duty and Mortal Kombat are rallying Congressional support to try to fend off their biggest regulatory threat in two decades.
→ read full articleWar Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
Institute for Public Accuracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2013
A Media Education Foundation production. Featuring Norman Solomon. Narrated by Sean Penn. War Made Easy cuts through the dense web of spin to probe and scrutinize the key “perception management” techniques that have played huge roles in the promotion of American wars in recent decades. This guide to disinformation analyzes American military adventures past and present to reveal striking similarities in the efforts of various administrations to justify, and retain, public support for war.
→ read full articleMyanmar Activist [TRANSCEND Member], Professor Resigns Over Brunei University ‘Censorship’
Nan Tin Htwe – The Myanmar Times,
14 Jan 2013
Dr Maung Zarni, co-founder of the Free Burma Coalition, quit the Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD), saying it is “impossible to maintain his professionalism” and blaming “extreme and unprofessional academic censorship”. Zarni, a “staunch advocate of unconditional human rights, as well as ethnic and gender equality,” is also a visiting fellow with the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at the London School of Economics, and the author of Life Under the Boot: 50 years of Military Dictatorship in Burma (Yale University Press).
→ read full articleAFRICOM’s Imperialist Quest
Burkely Hermann – Nation of Change,
14 Jan 2013
Under President Obama, in fact, operations in Africa have accelerated far beyond the more limited interventions of the Bush years…To support these mushrooming missions, near-constant training operations, and alliance-building joint exercises, outposts of all sorts are sprouting continent-wide, connected by a sprawling shadow logistics network.
→ read full article(Português) Países Ricos Perdem a Maioria no PIB Mundial em 2013
José Eustáquio Diniz Alves, EcoDebate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2013
O ano de 2013 vai marcar um acontecimento histórico. Pela primeira vez na história, o Produto Interno Bruto (PIB) dos países em desenvolvimento vai ultrapassar o PIB dos países desenvolvidos, segundo dados do Fundo Monetário Internacional (FMI).
→ read full articleSeeing Light: The Blogger’s Delight
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2013
While reflecting on my prior blog lamenting the challenges of sustaining civility amid tumult and controversy, I came to appreciate my own partial captivity in realms of darkness. The negativities I tried to discuss are the shadow land of my blog experience, which is more essentially lived in the sunshine of new and renewed friendship, solidarity, mutuality, and the new emotional and spiritual resonances of our era, what I would call, in the absence of greater precision, the emergence of ‘digital love.’
→ read full articleA Feel-Good Movie about Fracking?
Fran Korten – YES! Magazine,
14 Jan 2013
Chris Moore, who co-produced “Good Will Hunting,” has a new film starring Matt Damon as a corporate salesman trying to open up a small town to fracking. Moore’s take on the ideas behind the film.
→ read full articleCriminal Record
TMS editor,
14 Jan 2013
An applicant was filling out a job application.
→ read full articleSri Lankan Buddhist Chauvinists Provoke Violence against Muslims
Gamini Karunasena and Wasantha Rupasinghe, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2013
President Mahinda Rajapakse’s government is again giving tacit support to communal provocations against Sri Lanka’s minorities in a bid to divide working people amid the country’s deepening economic and social crisis. This time, Muslims have become the main target of chauvinist groups.
→ read full article