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(Português) Limpeza de Fukushima Vai Demorar Mais de 40 Anos, Diz Agência Nuclear
Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
Após vazamentos e invasão de ratos, a Agência Internacional de Energia Atômica pediu para a empresa administradora de Fukushima “melhorar a confiabilidade de sistemas essenciais”, crucial para “a integridade estrutural das instalações do local” e “para melhorar a proteção contra perigos externos”.
→ read full article(Português) O Sonho de Uma Civilização Realmente Planetária
Leonardo Boff – Carta Maior,
29 Apr 2013
Desamparo atual em parte provém de nossa incapacidade de sonhar e de projetar utopias. Não qualquer utopia. Mas aquelas necessárias que podem se transformar em topias, quer dizer, em algo que se realiza nas condições de nossa história.
→ read full articleConflicted Peace Prize for [Burma’s] Thein Sein
William Corliss – Asia Times,
29 Apr 2013
When International Crisis Group grants its “Pursuit of Peace” award to Thein Sein this evening [22 Apor 2013] in New York City, the organization will effectively perpetuate those political and business agendas while raising uncomfortable questions about its own credibility and independence.
→ read full articleNewly Released Tim DeChristopher Finds a Movement Transformed by His Courage
Melanie Jae Martin – YES! Magazine,
29 Apr 2013
Tim DeChristopher, who was released from federal custody yesterday [21 Apr 2013], is best known as the man who disrupted an auction of pristine public lands. This Earth Day, we thank Tim DeChristopher for steering our movement toward the path of courage. With countless lives on the line, it’s the path we need to take.
→ read full article(Italiano) USA-Asia dell’Est: uno sguardo nell’abisso – ?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
La situazione non è mai stata così brutta dalla guerra di Corea del 1950-53.
→ read full articleClarifying Boston Marathon Post
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
I want to offer a brief clarification and an explanation.
→ read full articleLet George W. Bush Discuss His Legacy However He Likes… from The Hague
Jodie Evans and Charles Davis – Common Dreams,
29 Apr 2013
Kill a few, they call you a murderer. Kill tens of thousands, they give you $500 million for a granite vanity project and a glossy 30-page supplement in the local paper.
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Rhapsody in Blue (Music Video of the Week)
Herbie Hancock and Lang Lang – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
Herbie Hancock and Lang Lang play “Rhapsody in Blue” at the Classical Brit Awards.
→ read full articleBabies as Young as Six Months Victims of Rape in War – U.N. Envoy
Michelle Nichols, Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
In her first seven months as U.N. envoy on sexual violence in conflict, Zainab Hawa Bangura has visited a Congolese district where rebels raped babies, and Somalia where a woman was paid $150 (98.4 pounds) restitution for the rape of her 4-year-old daughter.
→ read full articleCISPA, the Fourth Amendment, and You
Scott Bomboy, National Constitution Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Overshadowed by congressional action on guns and immigration is an Internet privacy bill that could affect most Americans, without them knowing it, on a daily basis. Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (or CISPA) is making its way through Congress, and it’s passed a House vote on Thursday [18 Apr 2013].
→ read full articleAbenomics and the State of Japan
Johan Galtung, 22 Apr 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Alternatives: realize that the old golden days are gone, that US-West-Japan are outcompeted by BRICS. Go for acceptable, more modest deals. And, instead of joining the US in increasing the insecurity, join the neighbors in an East Asian Community and revise the TPP for an egalitarian partnership from China to US and from Japan to Latin America.
→ read full articleNearly Half Guantanamo Now On Hunger Strike
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
US official says 77 inmates now on hunger strike over jailing without charge or trial, nearly half of total population.
→ read full articleIceland Signs First European Free Trade Pact with China
Nikolaj Nielsen, EUObserver – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Iceland on Monday (15 April, 2013) became the first European country to sign a free trade agreement with China after six years of negotiations. A joint-statement notes the two sides want “to enhance their exchange and practical co-operation on the Arctic” and “further deepen their mutually beneficial co-operation in the fields of trade and investment.” The agreement will remove tariffs on most goods.
→ read full articleThe Incredible Tale of Gwenyth Todd and the Naïve Neocons
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Given the proliferation of crimes, both foreign and domestic, known to have been committed by the U.S. government in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, there is an understandable willingness among large swathes of the public to believe almost anything told them by someone claiming to be blowing the whistle on an increasingly rogue “world’s policeman.”
→ read full articleIndia: 48,338 Child Rape Cases from 2001 to 2011
Asian Centre for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
336% Increase of Child Rape Cases from 2001 to 2011 – Asian Centre for Human Rights in its report, “India’s Hell Holes: Child Sexual Assault in Juvenile Justice Homes” stated that sexual offences against children in India have reached an epidemic proportion and a large number of them are being committed in the juvenile justice homes run and aided by the Government of India.
→ read full articleStrategic Implications of 12 Unasked Questions in Response to Disaster
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Produced on the occasion of publication of an analysis of What Went Wrong in Afghanistan (Foreign Policy, March/April 2013) and of investigation of the Boston Marathon bombings (April 2013) – Checklist of questions:
→ read full articleAnimals Should Be Off the Menu
Philip Wollen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Philip Wollen, Australian Philanthropist, Former VP of Citibank, Makes Blazing Animal Rights Speech
→ read full articleColumnists Now Are Like Street Performers – Collecting Coins in a Hat and Dodging Angry Racists
Laurie Penny – New Statesman,
22 Apr 2013
To be an Internet columnist today is no longer to stand on a stage alone, reciting marvellous soliloquies while a paying audience waits to applaud. It is more like being a street performer – collecting coins in a battered suitcase, telling stories about a better world and understanding that the audience might change the story. It’s hard work, because you’re competing with everyone else on the block, including the drunk, deranged old racist shouting abuse and the naked exhibitionist who does – n’t ask for money, and you have to move fast to avoid the pelted sandwiches and, occasionally, the police. In other words, it’s an exciting time to be a writer.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
A Global Harmony Association (GHA) Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day
→ read full articleA New Fukushima in the Making? South India’s Kudankulam!
R. C. Camphausen – Digital Journal,
22 Apr 2013
The Kudankulam Nuclear Power plant in the southernmost tip of India has been contentious for years, but now a senior scientist alleges that the use of inferior building materials poses a real threat to its safety.
→ read full articleStatehood and the Problem of Flux: A Case for Interculturalism
Ted Cantle – Open Democracy,
22 Apr 2013
While states attempt to assert their relevance in a global age through both multiculturalism and top-down nationalism, new models of identity and strategies of participation need to be developed to deal with the co-existing phenomena of national experience and cosmopolitanism.
→ read full article“No Blacks or Arabs” for Israeli PM’s Visit: The Latest Example of French State-Sanctioned Discrimination
Myriam Francois-Cerrah – New Statesman,
22 Apr 2013
Hollande’s silence on the alleged discrimination against black and Arab employees is indicative of the president’s recent decision to chase popularity by playing to the centre-right.
→ read full articleA Commentary on the Marathon Murders
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Aside from the tensions of the moment, self-scrutiny and mid-course reflections on America’s global role is long overdue. Such a process is crucial both for the sake of the country’s own future security and also in consideration of the wellbeing of others. Such adjustments will eventually come about either as a result of a voluntary process of self-reflection or through the force of unpleasant events.
→ read full articleUntrustworthy AERB and Its Sloppy Sarkari Reply for the Koodankulam Fiasco
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
April 19, 2013 – The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board has finally woken up, it seems. They have just acknowledged with great awkwardness: “…during testing of thousands of valves installed in the plant, the performances of four valves of a particular type were found deficient.” So, according to the AERB, it is a simple problem of just four valves malfunctioning in the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project. What an irresponsible and disingenuous explanation to a very complex and dangerous problem that is deeply mired in corruption, theft, wastefulness, shoddiness and sheer inefficiency.
→ read full articleIndisputable Torture
The Editorial Board – The New York Times,
22 Apr 2013
The report found that those methods violated international legal obligations with “no firm or persuasive evidence” that they produced valuable information that could not have been obtained by other means. This blunt language should help end a corrosive debate that has broken down on largely partisan lines. The panel further details the ethical lapses of government lawyers in the Bush years who served up “acrobatic” advice to justify brutal interrogations, and of medical professionals who helped oversee them.
→ read full articleA Peace Award to Burma’s Thein Sein from the International Crisis Group
International Crisis Group – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
[Noam Chomsky’s condemnation in the end]
In Pursuit of Peace – International Crisis Group’s goal is as ambitious as it is vital: to mobilise leaders around the globe to prevent and end deadly conflict.
American Culture of Death in Perspective
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
The best way to bring into perspective the culture of death in the United States is to examine what this nation seeks to do in theory and then in practice. Over the years, many statements were formulated to portray this phenomenon with clarity. Let us hope and pray that the American culture of death be replaced by an American culture of life, the sooner the better.
→ read full articleGates of Heaven
TMS editor,
22 Apr 2013
A fellow finds himself in front of the Pearly Gates. St. Peter explains that it’s not so easy to get in heaven. There are some criteria before entry is allowed.
→ read full articleResponding to the Constitution Project Report on Detainee Treatment
Coalition for an Ethical Psychology – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Yesterday [16 Apr 2013] the independent and nonpartisan Constitution Project released its Task Force Report on Detainee Treatment. The Report documents – in no uncertain terms – that psychologists “helped create interrogation techniques for use in questioning detainees” and that many of these techniques “constituted torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.”
→ read full articleKorea: Challenge and Response
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
The Association of World Citizens highlighted that the Tumen River Development Project, now often called the Greater Tuman Initiative, is probably the best framework for rapid cooperative development— a vast free economic zone which would involve parts of Mongolia, China, Russia and the two Korean States as well as Japan as a logical regional development partner.
→ read full articleSportswriter Dave Zirin: Prayers for the People in Boston, Baghdad and Mogadishu
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
“First, prayers for the people in Boston, Baghdad and Mogadishu who are suffering today,” Zirin said. “Second, I think people have to realize that an attack on the Boston Marathon is really an attack not on Boston or the United States, but on the world.”
→ read full articleAbnormal Is the New Normal: Why Will Half of the U.S. Population Have a Diagnosable Mental Disorder?
Robin S. Rosenberg, Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Beware the DSM-5, the soon-to-be-released fifth edition of the “psychiatric bible,” the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. The odds will probably be greater than 50 percent, according to the new manual, that you’ll have a mental disorder in your lifetime.
→ read full articleWhere’s the Money? World Military Expenditure in 2012
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Stockholm, 15 April 2013 – World military expenditure totalled $1.75 trillion in 2012, according to figures released today by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute-SIPRI.
→ read full articleDivestment in the University of California at Santa Barbara
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Moving Toward Divestment from Corporations Profiting from Israeli Militarism, Occupation, and Settlements.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Please allow us to bring the following dangerous developments, difficulties and discrepancies in the Koodankulam nuclear power project (KKNPP) to your kind consideration and immediate action: [1] Shoddy and Substandard Equipment from ZiO-Podolsk
→ read full articleInferior Parts Being Used in Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant: Top Scientist
The Times of India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Chennai 7 Apr 2013: The Centre, speeding up the process to commission the first unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, received a jolt from one of the country’s noted nuclear scientist and former chairman of Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) A Gopalakrishnan, who raised doubts about the quality of equipment in the plant. “Sub-standard materials have come to the Kudankulam plant and they are causing problems,” he alleged.
→ read full articleCreating Subjects in Lavasa: The Private City
Persis Taraporevala – Open Democracy,
22 Apr 2013
Through a process of devolution to private enterprises, a number of private cities are emerging across the Indian landscape. While private cities have been lauded by some as symbolic of a modern, global India, their impact on the nature of democracy and citizenship in the emerging city remains a contentious issue.
→ read full articleThe First BRICS towards a South Bank?
Devaki Jain, SouthViews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
A member of the South Commission (1987-1990) reflects on the moves by the recent Summit of the BRICS to establish a BRICS development bank – an idea that the Commission had promoted.
→ read full articleTales of Reagan’s Guatemala Genocide
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
22 Apr 2013
Guatemala is finally putting ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt on trial for genocide in the extermination of hundreds of Mayan villages in the 1980s, but Ronald Reagan remains an American icon despite new evidence of his complicity in this historic crime.
→ read full articleNuclear Power in India
World Nuclear Association – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
(Updated 10 April 2013) – India’s nuclear industry has been largely without IAEA safeguards, though four nuclear power plants have been under facility-specific arrangements related to India’s INFCIRC/66 safeguards agreement with IAEA. However, in October 2009 India’s safeguards agreement with the IAEA became operational, with the government confirming that 14 reactors will be put under the India Specific Safeguards Agreement by 2014.
→ read full articleCanada-India Nuclear Deal Moves Forward
Bryn Levy, Saskatoon News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Saskatchewan uranium could soon be bound for India as the federal government wraps up a new trade deal. Canada had halted sales of uranium, reactors and other nuclear materials and equipment to India in the 1970s. This was a response to India’s detonation of a nuclear device in 1974 that was built using a Canadian reactor.
→ read full articleThe Orwellian Warfare State of Carnage and Doublethink
Norman Solomon – Global Research,
22 Apr 2013
After the bombings that killed and maimed so horribly at the Boston Marathon, our country’s politics and mass media are awash in heartfelt compassion — and reflexive “doublethink,” which George Orwell described as willingness “to forget any fact that has become inconvenient.”
→ read full articleMap of the 15 Countries with the Highest Military Expenditure in 2012
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Recent Trends in Military Expenditure – Click on the map to view information on the top 15 military expenditure spenders for 2012.
→ read full articleUS Sending Weapons to Syria
News Day – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Contrary to claims by US officials that they do not deliver weapons to militants in Syria, US Senator Rand Paul said that the US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, not only supervised the shipment of weapons to the Syrian opposition, but also recruited jihadists for them. Paul confirmed that Syrian fighters for the most part are composed of members of the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organisation and have a relationship with al-Qaeda.
→ read full article(Galego) Sen Profes Non Hai Escola
Manuel Dios Diz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Semana Mundial pola Educación 21 a 28 de Abril – Estamos na Semana Mundial pola Educación (SAME), unha actividade que se enmarca nunha campaña, moito máis ampla, de carácter internacional, na que participan ONGs, sindicatos de educadores, centros escolares e movementos sociais comprometidos co dereito á educación en todo o mundo.
→ read full articleBurma: End ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ of Rohingya Muslims
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
The 153-page Human Rights Watch report, “‘All You Can Do is Pray’: Crimes Against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Burma’s Arakan State,” describes the role of the Burmese government and local authorities in the forcible displacement of more than 125,000 Rohingya and other Muslims and the ongoing humanitarian crisis.
→ read full articleSyria’s Civilian Suffering – Western Imperialism Resorts to Medieval Barbarity
Finian Cunningham – Strategic Culture Foundation,
22 Apr 2013
Western imperialism has created a human tsunami of suffering in Syria. And rather than making any effort to mitigate this suffering by delivering on much promised refugee aid, the Western powers seem to exploiting the massive misery for political advantage to further undermine the Syrian state and government. This tactic of enforced human deprivation is straight out of the Middle Ages, when invading armies would hold siege of cities by enforcing starvation on the occupants.
→ read full article(Italiano) Un Futuro Dopo Il Petrolio: 6 Proposte
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
La Cina brucia carbone-petrolio-gas, ma è anche un possente pioniere nelle energie verdi, con pannelli fotovoltaici e solari termici e auto elettriche, prodotti in maniera sempre più ecologica. Negli USA lobby molto efficienti del carbone-petrolio-gas impediscono la conversione ecologica e promuovono tecniche estrattive ecologicamente dannose. Il mondo si sta spostando a Est, e l’Est si sta spostando all’ecologico. E così pure milioni di persone.
→ read full articleBox and Vicious Cycle
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
I live in a box
Up right and
The horizontal position
While I was let in
Farmers and Consumers v. Monsanto: David Meet Goliath
Tory Field and Beverly Bell – Toward Freedom,
22 Apr 2013
Monsanto has filed more than 140 lawsuits against 400 farmers and 56 small businesses for alleged violations of contract or GMO patents. One such case is currently under consideration in the Supreme Court. “Farmers have been sued after their field was contaminated by pollen or seed from someone else’s genetically engineered crop [or] when genetically engineered seed from a previous year’s crop has sprouted,”
→ read full article(Português) Andaluzia Decreta Função Social da Propriedade e Expropria Bancos
Rita Silva, Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
É um acontecimento histórico o que se está neste momento a passar no Estado Espanhol, onde um movimento de massas se organiza para defender o direito à habitação e conseguiu demonstrar que quando se luta, com tenacidade e persistência, se conseguem vitórias.
→ read full article(Português) A Guerra Mundial da Dívida
Juan Torres López – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
No passado dia 18 de março de 2013, o Banco de Pagamentos Internacionais (BIS – Bank for International Settlements) atualizou séries históricas sobre a dívida privada de quarenta países. Os dados referem-se ao sector privado não financeiro que inclui empresas, famílias e instituições sem fins lucrativos e foram tomados a partir de diferentes anos de partida, segundo os casos, e após terem sido homogeneizadas as diferentes formas em que as dívidas foram geradas (a metodologia e os dados de todos os países em formato Excel podem ser acedidos em BIS, Long séries on credit to private non-financial sectors).
→ read full articleMexican Workers Win Ownership of Tire Plant with Three-Year Strike
Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
On the 879th day of their strike, Mexican tire workers sought help in Germany, where the multinational that wanted to close their plant was based. After a determined 1,141-day campaign, the company sold them the plant, which they now run as a cooperative.
→ read full articleCan Worker-Owners Make a Big Factory Run?
Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
TRADOC leaders are now in contact with Goodyear tire workers in France who also want to take over their plant as a cooperative. They are eager to share their ideas and experiences with any workers who are considering a cooperative as an option in an industrial conflict.
→ read full articleDynamic Transformation of Static Reporting of Global Processes
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
Suggestions for Process-Oriented Titles of Global Issue Reports – The main paper discusses the manner in which meaning is widely associated with “states”. This is evident in political efforts to create unions of states, exemplified by the United States, the League of Arab States, or the Commonwealth of Independent States, as well as by the many proposals at the regional level (United States of Europe, United States of Africa, United States of Latin America, United States of Latin Africa.
→ read full articleThe Cult of Killing and the Symbolic Order of Western Barbarism: How the Media Worships Violence and “Ritualized Atrocities”
Jean-Claude Paye and Tülay Umay – Global Research,
15 Apr 2013
The display of the lynching of Mouamar Gaddafi exposes our societies for what they are. It mesmerizes and dismantles our capacity to think and critically assess a historical process. By focusing public attention on what constitutes a “ritualized atrocity” these gruesome images confirm that the US Empire actually represents an unprecedented regression, a step backwards in the history of humanity.
→ read full articleFear Stalks Muslims in Myanmar
Bangkok Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
Eyewitnesses to a massacre at an Islamic school say it was carried out by Buddhists, and many contend it stems from a coordinated effort with ties to the top. Mon Hnin, a 29-year-old Muslim woman from Meiktila, in central Myanmar, spent the night of March 20 with her daughter and mother-in-law hiding in terror in the bushes on the fringes of her neighbourhood.
→ read full article40 Days: Art Exhibition Review
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
On Friday, 12th April 2013, the A.M. Qattan Foundation in London opened doors to a free art exhibition titled ’40 Days’, created by an Israeli-Palestinian artist, Dor Guez. Guez has used photography archives and documentary film-making as means to capture the history, endurance and presence of the Palestinian-Christian community within the Israeli city of Lod, which was previously known by its Arabic name of Al-Lydd.
→ read full articleThe Arms Trade Treaty Opens New Possibilities at the UN
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
On April 2, 2013, an historic victory was won at the United Nations, and the world achieved its first treaty limiting international trade in arms. It is not only the ATT-Arms Trade Treaty that forms a precedent, but also the International Criminal Court, whose establishment was opposed by several militarily powerful states. Nevertheless, the ICC was adopted because a majority of the peoples of the world believed it to be a step forward towards a stable, peaceful and just global society.
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Israeli Journalist Amira Hass Sparks Furor at Home for Defending Palestinian Right to Resist
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
Amira Hass, the only Jewish-Israeli journalist to have spent almost 20 years living in and reporting from Gaza and the West Bank, recently suffered a torrent of hate mail and calls for her prosecution after she wrote an article defending the right of Palestinians to resist violent occupation. In the article, Hass defended the throwing of stones by Palestinian youth at Israeli soldiers, calling it “the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule.”
→ read full articleWikiLeaks’ New Release: The Kissinger Cables and Bradley Manning
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
15 Apr 2013
One cable includes a transcribed conversation where Kissinger displays remarkable candor: “Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings, ‘The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer.’ [laughter] But since the Freedom of Information Act, I’m afraid to say things like that.” While the illegal and the unconstitutional may be a laughing matter for Kissinger, it is deadly serious for Pvt. Bradley Manning.
→ read full articleSeeing in the Dark – with Victoria Brittain
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
As with the best of journalists, Victoria Brittain has spent a lifetime enabling us to see in the dark! Or more accurately, she has shined a bright light on those whose suffering has been hidden by being deliberately situated in one or another shadow land of governmental and societal abuse, whether local, national, or geopolitical in its animus.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Releases Kissinger Cables As Part of 1.7 Million US Diplomatic Records
Tim Walker – The Independent,
15 Apr 2013
At around 700 million words, the Kissinger Cables are almost five times the size of Cablegate, the set of some 250,000 US diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks between 2010 and 2011. Much of the work was done personally by Assange, 41. The Kissinger Cables, he said, represent, “the single most significant body of geopolitical material ever published.”
→ read full articleMyanmar’s Neo-Nazi Buddhists Get Free Rein
Maung Zarni – Asia Times,
15 Apr 2013
Hatred of Muslims is deeply rooted in Burmese society. One of the regime’s favorite tactics was to spread rumors that Muslims had raped Burmese Buddhist women, and plotted to convert the entire Buddhist population to Islam. The “divide and rule” tactic used by the authorities in the recent past possibly grew out of the British colonial regime’s policy of fostering a “plural society” with minimal national unity.
→ read full articleConference Highlights Fukushima Consequences
Richard Wilcox, Ph.D., Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
The Caldicott conference is a first step toward opening the dungeon door to the dark and unspeakably evil secrets of the nuclear industry, and putting the stake in the heart of the radioactive vampire that is sucking life out of the planet.
→ read full articleHeaven and Hell
TMS editor,
15 Apr 2013
In Heaven:
The cooks are French…
Waiting for War, Again
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
I sit on the edge of my chair,
hold my breath,
wait, pray, fret,
cower and rant.
What Every Parent Should Know About Monsanto
Toni Nagy, Occupy Monsanto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
When President Obama signed the Monsanto Protection Act, many citizens were outraged by this blatant violation of the Constitution. By approving this act, Obama has allowed Monsanto to exist above the law, since genetically modified seeds are now protected from any litigation involving health risks.
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Samba e Amor (Music Video of the Week)
Vitor Araújo, pianist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
PORTUGUÊS: Chamado carinhosamente l’enfant terrible da música erudita, Vitor Araújo é um jovem pianista nascido em 1990 em Recife, no estado de Pernambuco no Brasil. Eclético, suas influencias vao de Radiohead a Villa-Lobos.
ENGLISH: affectionately called l’enfant terrible of classical music, Vitor Araújo is a young pianist born in 1990 in Recife, state of Pernambuco, Brazil. He is very eclectic and influences range from Radiohead to Villa-Lobos.
(Français) Sida: L’Afrique du Sud Lance des Médicaments Antirétroviraux a Prix Record
François Dabis, RFI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
Il y aurait 6 millions de séropositifs en Afrique du Sud, soit plus d’une personne sur 10. Le gouvernement réagit en lançant un programme de distribution de médicaments antirétroviraux à un prix record de 89 rands mensuels soit 7,5 euros.
→ read full article(Italiano) Perché l’Occidente Non Riesce a Capire la Realtà?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
Siamo già piuttosto addentro in un mondo economicamente dominato dai BRIC, aggiungendo la S del Sud-Africa per chiarire il messaggio: Sud-Sud-Sud contro neppure un miliardo di abitanti del NordOvest del mondo + il Giappone; militarmente è solo una questione di tempo prima che i primi droni colpiscano gli USA, come seguito all’11 settembre 2001, e chiunque si dedichi a esecuzioni extragiudiziarie; decisioni cruciali vengono prese dai BRICS (CELAC per l’America Latina), un giorno magari istituendo una contro-ONU senza veto; culturalmente considerando la loro diversità come risorsa essenziale, ispirandosi a tutte le culture.
→ read full articleThe Enemy-Industrial Complex
Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch,
15 Apr 2013
How to Turn a World Lacking in Enemies into the Most Threatening Place in the Universe
→ read full article(Italiano) Dichiarazione Finale delle Donne al Forum Sociale Mondiale
Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
Dichiarazione dell’Iniziativa Internazionale Donne all’Assembla dei Movimenti Sociali al Forum Sociale Mondiale
→ read full article(Português) Os Direitos da Criança Sob a Perspectiva do Não Matar: Apelo aos Adultos
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
Em nome das crianças do mundo, estas Reflexões Rimadas são apresentadas:
Como crianças, estamos felizes por saber que temos o direito de brincar.
Por isso, adultos, considerem seriamente o que nós vamos reivindicar
Chiquita Sues to Block Release of Files on Colombia Terrorist Payments
Michael Evans – The National Security Archive,
15 Apr 2013
Two years ago, the Archive published “The Chiquita Papers,” a declassified collection of more than 5,000 pages of internal Chiquita documents turned over to the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of a criminal investigation of more than $1.7 million in payments to the AUC over six years, and for nearly three years after the group was formally designated as a terrorist organization. That case resulted in a 2007 sentencing agreement in which Chiquita admitted to more than ten years of payments to a variety of Colombian guerrilla and paramilitary groups.
→ read full article‘Dark Lightning’ Zaps Airline Passengers with Radiation
Charles Choi, LiveScience – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
“Dark lightning” that is almost invisible within clouds may regularly blast airline passengers with large numbers of gamma rays, Worryingly, terrestrial gamma-ray flashes can occur near the same altitudes at which commercial aircraft regularly fly. Past research has also found these flashes hurl beams of antimatter into space. Researchers detailed their findings on April 10, 2013 at a meeting of the European Geosciences Union in Vienna.
→ read full articleUsing the Tenets of Islam for Peace
Jaye Starr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
Lao-Tse wrote of peace at the individual level providing the foundation for peace at the global level. My dream is to help provide the foundation blocks for communities. I’d like to do this by combining my background in theater with my current chaplaincy studies to help bring peace to individuals impacted by disaster and armed conflict.
→ read full article(Français) Dynamique Femmes Forum Social Mondial 2013
Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
Déclaration de la Dynamique Femmes Internationale a l’Assemblée des Mouvements Sociaux du Forum Social Mondial
→ read full articleWould You Believe That the United States Tried To Do Something That Was Not Nice Against Hugo Chávez?
William Blum, The Anti-Empire Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
WikiLeaks has done it again. I guess the US will really have to get tough now with Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. In a secret US cable to the State Department, dated November 9, 2006, and recently published online by WikiLeaks, former US ambassador to Venezuela, William Brownfield, outlines a comprehensive plan to destabilize the government of the late President Hugo Chávez. The cable begins with a Summary:
→ read full articleSouth Africa as an Example of Stability and Diversity after the Apartheid Era
Pierre Célestin Bakunda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
From 1948 to 1994, South Africa witnessed a drastic and violent racial segregation. This has greatly affected and contributed to economic, social and political delays to the country. Let’s observe first the conflict resolution mechanism implemented in the country, as well as the current transformation of the country. Finally, we will briefly conclude on future hopes associated with this region, due to its recent inclusion in BRICS.
→ read full articleTaping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime
Richard A. Oppel Jr. – The New York Times,
15 Apr 2013
Several states have placed restrictions on undercover investigations into cruelty. On one covert video, farm workers illegally burn the ankles of Tennessee walking horses with chemicals. Another captures workers in Wyoming punching and kicking pigs and flinging piglets into the air. Now “The Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act” prohibits filming or taking pictures on livestock farms to “defame the facility or its owner.” Violators would be placed on a “terrorist registry.”
→ read full articleThe Struggle to Reclaim Paradise [Hawai’i]
Imani Altemus-Williams – Waging Nonviolence,
15 Apr 2013
Monsanto has a long history of making chemicals that bring about devastation. The company participated in the Manhattan Project to help produce the atomic bomb during World War II. It developed the herbicide “Agent Orange” used by U.S. military forces during the Vietnam War, which caused an estimated half-million birth deformities. Most recently, Monsanto has driven thousands of farmers in India to take their own lives, often by drinking chemical insecticide, after the high cost of the company’s seeds forced them into unpayable debt.
→ read full articlePMANE Letter to KKNPP Employees
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
The Koodankulam delay is being blamed on the “corrosion and leakage since sea water was used as the coolant.” If these pipes and parts cannot withstand one year of sea water circulation, how on the Earth are they going to function for 40-60 years? If the pipes leak and corrode within such a short time, the government should order a probe into the quality of these pipes, the quality of the various equipment and spares that were sent by the Russians.
→ read full articleLobby Group Representing Google, Yahoo Backs CISPA
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
12 Apr 2013 – A lobbying organization that counts Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple and other tech giants among its clients has lent support to the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which is lined up for a vote in the US House of Representatives next week.
→ read full articleTwo Deaths: Hugo Chavez and Margaret Thatcher
Alan MacLeod - Countercurrents.org,
15 Apr 2013
Hugo Chavez and Margaret Thatcher, two great statespeople of our age, representing fundamentally opposing world views, have died. Just as contrasting as their ideologies was the reaction to their deaths, from both the media and the public.
→ read full articleChávez, Internationalism, and Socialism
Beverly Bell – Pambazuka News,
15 Apr 2013
Economist Camille Chalmers is a leader in Latin American social movements and executive secretary of the Platform for Alternative Development in Haiti (PAPDA) and was interviewed by Beverly Bell. He shares his views on Chávez’s vision of a revolutionary Latin America that sought internationalist solidarity with Haiti, Africa and Asia among other issues.
→ read full articleCyprus to Sell €400 Million in Gold, About 75% of Its Total Holdings, To Finance Part of Its Bailout
Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
Or about 10 tons of gold. But… the bailout was prefunded and there was no need to provide any additional cash?
→ read full articleDoes Obama Want More War?
Stansfield Smith – CounterPunch,
15 Apr 2013
The corporate media reduces the DPRK (North Korea) to the Kim family and prefaces their names with the terms “madman”, “evil” and “brutal”. Such vilifications of foreign leaders are used here not only to signify they are target for US overthrow. They are meant to intimidate and isolate anti-war activists as being out in left field for ever wanting to oppose a war against countries ruled by “madmen” – be they Saddam, Fidel, Hugo Chavez, Ahmadinejad, Qaddaffi.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
A Global Harmony Association (GHA) Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day
→ read full article(Français) Mali : Résolument Contre l’Intervention Française
Paul Martial – Forum des Alternatives,
15 Apr 2013
On ne peut pas être contre l’ingérence française au Mali, et plus généralement en Afrique, et être en même temps pour l’intervention militaire française.
→ read full articleUSA-East Asia Looking Into the Abyss
Johan Galtung, 15 Apr 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
North Korea could dismantle its verbal and physical threats, hoping for peace treaty-normalization in return. Like in Cuba 1962, that would not be one good for another, but one wrong for another. Would USA, used to dictate outcomes giving nothing in return, agree? Like in 1962 keeping it secret, with a “profile in courage” narrative? Hopefully, but not very likely, some secret deals are in the making. A change of mentality is needed, like in Europe in 1950. That may take centuries, but could also happen very quickly under enlightened statesmanship.
→ read full article“Dark Alliance”: The Federal Reserve, Wall Street and the Laundering of Drug Money
Tom Burghardt, Antifascist Calling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
According to these worthies, the egregious economic disparities between the filthy ruling rich and the rest of us revolve around the salient fact that the “world is dividing into two blocs–the plutonomies where economic growth is powered by and largely consumed by the wealthy few,” and the great mass of proletarians who need to sit down, shut up and worship at the feet of their masters.
→ read full articleWhy Journalists Generally Get Their Burma Stories Wrong, Horribly Wrong
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
When it comes to reporting Burma the coverage has been beyond being biased. It is generally horribly inadequate, or downright incorrect. From a Burmese perspective, especially from the perspective of those who have borne the brunt of the half-century of military rule under various and evolving disguises, the way Burma is being reported is like adding insult to injury.
→ read full articleIcelandic Lawmaker Birgitta Jonsdottir on Bradley Manning and More
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
15 Apr 2013
Icelandic Parliamentarian Birgitta Jonsdottir played a critical role in WikiLeaks’ release of the “Collateral Murder” video. She joins us on her first trip to the United States since a secret grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, began its investigation of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.
→ read full article(Castellano) Los Asesinatos Científicos Son Parte del Prontuario de la CIA
Wayne Madsen – La Haine,
15 Apr 2013
La CIA es pionera en el empleo de agentes cancerígenos que pueden infectar a sus víctimas a través de inyecciones, inhalaciones, contacto epidérmico a través de ropa contaminada, especialmente ropa interior lo cual resulta pertinente con respecto a la formación de una agresiva formación cancerígena en la región pelviana; y contacto con su sistema digestivo a través del consumo de alimentos, bebidas e incluso crema dental contaminados.
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Anarchism, Socialism & Libertarianism: Alternatives for Peace
Abby Martin, Breaking the Set – Russia Today,
15 Apr 2013
Abby Martin highlights the disproportionate nature of the American political and media establishments, and moderates a debate between three people who represent the voices of US growing political alternatives: Anarchism, Socialism & Libertarianism.
→ read full articleNPCIL, AERB, and KKNPP Dodge the Substandard Equipment Issue
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
There have been persistent reports that substandard equipment and parts have been used in the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP). When the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) asked the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL) and the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) under Right to Information (RTI) Act if they have indeed received equipment and parts from the controversial Russian companies, Zio-Podolsk and Informteck…
→ read full articleOn ‘Loving Thy Neighbors’ Only if They’re Jewish
Rabbi Ron Kronish – The Times of Israel,
15 Apr 2013
Indeed, one of the central problems in Israeli society is that many of the children who attend orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools are actually taught to disrespect and to hate the “other,” who is not a member of their religion.
→ read full articleLand Mines Still Victimizing the Vietnamese 37 Years after War End
Hong Minh – Viet Nam News,
8 Apr 2013
Over 20 per cent of the entire country has been contaminated with bombs and mines and over 100,000 people, mostly children and breadwinners, have been killed or injured so far. Of the 15 million tonnes of bombs and mines dropped by the US in Viet Nam during the war, there are still 800,000 unexploded across the country.
→ read full articleBurma/Myanmar: Its Conflicts, Western Advocacy, and Country Impact
Maung Zarni – World Peace Foundation,
8 Apr 2013
Burma’s conflicts are neither new nor are they singular. Conflicts along multiple-lines – class and ideology, civil society and the military, and ethnic groups– have been going on for nearly 65 years, that is, since Burma’s independence from Britain in 1947/1948.
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