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Monsanto Protection Act: A Post-Mortem for Our Legal System
Clay Rossi, The Legal Examiner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
Now that President Obama has signed the legislation which included the MPA into law, there are certain facts that need not be forgotten for the next time (and there will be a next time) big business buys itself judicial immunity from Congress.
→ read full articleIs Burma’s Anti-Muslim Violence Led by “Buddhist Neo-Nazis”?
Ray Downs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
When most Westerners think of Buddhism, they think of smiling men with potbellies and inspirational quotes from Phil Jackson. “Buddhist neo-Nazi” sounds like a contradiction in terms. But in Burma, vicious anti-Muslim sentiment has been on the rise, and Buddhist extremists are responsible for attacking Muslims and burning down their houses and mosques, …
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We Are the World – USA for Africa (Music Video of the Week)
Michael Jackson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
An unbelievable constellation of 47 legendary superstars—singers we love– singing together in a historic music video with a message of love from Michael to the world. Recorded in 1985. Michael died on Jun 25, 2009. A few of these artists passed away as well. RIP. (All their names are scrolled down at the end).
→ read full articleWhy the Most Powerful Thing in the World is a Seed
Abby Quillen – YES! Magazine,
8 Apr 2013
“The Seed Underground” is a love letter to the quiet revolutionaries who are saving our food heritage.
→ read full articleSurviving ‘Collateral Murder’: Soldier Relives Infamous WikiLeaks Video
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
“I went back outside and we were told to take pictures and so I started taking pictures of the van,” he says. Then he discovered another child. “That’s me right there,” McCord tells Lopez as he walks her through the now infamous “Collateral Murder” clip. “That is a little boy that I originally thought was dead. I couldn’t stop myself from crying,” he says. “I know that I will never, ever, ever get better,” he says. “I will never get over this.”
→ read full articleTop Swedish Judge Defends WikiLeaks’ Assange
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
A senior Swedish judge has said that the sex-crime allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are “a mess”, and praised him for leaking classified US documents. Speaking on Wednesday [3 Apr 2013] at the University of Adelaide in Australia, Stefan Lindskog, chairman of the Supreme Court of Sweden, also listed legal obstacles to extraditing Assange to the United States.
→ read full articleA Global Look at Gay Rights: ‘The Fight against Discrimination Must Go On’
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
Boris Dittrich, head of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy at Human Rights Watch, discusses the current debates on same-sex marriage in Europe and the United States and virulent homophobia in Russia and Uganda.
→ read full articleWorld Social Forum: 50,000 Gather in Tunisia
Signe Predmore – YES! Magazine,
8 Apr 2013
Tens of thousands of people from around the world gathered in Tunisia Mar 26-30, 2013 to talk about creating a fairer world. Here are some of the hottest topics from the panels in Tunis.
→ read full articleChildren`s Rights: A Nonkilling Plea to Adults
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
On behalf of the world`s children, these rhymed reflections are presented:
As children, we are happy to know that we have the right to play
so please, adults, also take seriously what we now want to say . . .
12 April 1968: “The Country Has Lost Not Just Dr King But the King”
Alan Brien – New Statesman,
8 Apr 2013
Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated forty-five years ago today. Here, Alan Brien reports from a grief-stricken New York.
→ read full articleMartin Luther King, We Need Your Voice Today!
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
The son of a southern Baptist minister, Martin Luther King, Jr received his Ph.D. in theology from Boston University in 1955. During his studies, he had admired Thoreau’s essay “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience,” and he had also been greatly moved by the life and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
→ read full articleJapan’s Fukushima Nuclear Plant Leaking Contaminated Water
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
As much as 120 tons of radioactive water may have leaked from a storage tank at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, contaminating the surrounding ground, Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Saturday [6 Apr 2013].
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 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 articleThe Spark of Hope
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
Any movement which seeks to challenge the power of the elite needs to ask itself what it takes to shake people out of this state. And the answer seems inescapable: hope. Those who govern on behalf of billionaires are threatened only when confronted by the power of a transformative idea. A century and more ago the idea was communism.
→ read full articleHunger Strike at Guantánamo
The New York Times, Editorial - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
5 Apr 2013 – The hunger strike that has spread since early February [2013] among the 166 detainees still at Guantánamo Bay is again exposing the lawlessness of the system that marooned them there. The government claims that around 40 detainees are taking part. Lawyers for detainees report that their clients say around 130 detainees in one part of the prison have taken part.
→ read full articleParanoia Sells
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
8 Apr 2013
North Korean “Threats” to World Peace Can Sell Military Hardware – Which is the more paranoid statement?
1. AMERICAN MEDIA: “North Korea is threatening to attack us with nuclear weapons.”
or:
2. NORTH KOREAN MEDIA: “The United States is threatening to attack us with nuclear weapons.”
Class Memento
TMS editor,
8 Apr 2013
The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture.
→ read full articleLearning from El Salvador’s Ongoing Struggle for Peace, Dignity and Inclusion
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
The words of Monseñor Oscar Romero, who was murdered by US-trained snipers during a mass on March 24, 1980, still ring true today, offering us an ongoing challenge to restructure our society: “If we really want an effective end to violence, we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, exclusion of citizens from the management of the country, repression…”
→ read full articleHungary Is No Longer a Democracy
Benjamin Abtan – New Statesman,
8 Apr 2013
It is now a fact: Hungary is no longer a democracy. President János Áder has just signed the implementation decrees for new constitutional reforms that wipe out what was left of opposition forces against the government. Europe has been slow to act, but it is not too late.
→ read full articleUN Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty Full Text
UN General Assembly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
New York, 18-28 March 2013 – The States Parties to this Treaty, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, , . .
→ read full articleMap: This Is How Far Those North Korean Missiles Can Actually Reach
Max Fisher – The Washington Post,
8 Apr 2013
It includes Japan and South Korea but not Guam or Hawaii and certainly not the U.S. mainland. The most bullish analysis of the KN-08′s potential threat that I’ve seen this week, published in the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, speculated that North Korea had only moved them to the coast so that, in the event of a test launch, they would be less likely to fall onto North Korean own soil.
→ read full articleCyprus: Do You Understand What Has Really Happened?
Roberto Savio - Human Wrongs Watch,
8 Apr 2013
The story of Cyprus story is an excellent example of how inadequate media coverage has now become. Very few will have understood what has really happened, and what its implications are. Following events, without any background or placing them in their contexts, is one of the main reasons for the decline of media as windows on the world, and for having informed and therefore active citizens.
→ read full articleMonsanto: A Corporate Profile Sheds Light on GE Seed Giant’s Dark History
EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
From its beginnings as a small chemical company in 1901, Monsanto has grown into the largest biotechnology seed company in the world with net sales of $11.8 billion, 404 facilities in 66 countries across six continents and products grown on more than 282 million acres worldwide. Today, the consumer advocacy nonprofit Food & Water Watch released its report, Monsanto: A Corporate Profile
→ read full articleJapan Confirms Sea Shepherd Success in the Southern Ocean
Sea Shepherd Whale Defence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
Operation Zero Tolerance 2013 has been Sea Shepherd’s most effective campaign to date:
They wanted 50 Humpbacks. They took none.
They wanted 50 Fin whales. They took none.
They wanted 935 Minke whales. They killed 103.
832 Minke whales not slain! 50 Humpbacks and 50 Fins not slaughtered! This translates into 9.96% of their combined quota.
A Bradley Manning Panel Discussion with MP Birgitta Jonsdottir
Bradley Manning Support Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
Friday 5 April, 2013 New York – Video of the discussion panel held with Birgitta Jonsdottir, Kevin Gosztola (of FireDogLake), Alexa O’Brien (independent journalist long covering the Bradley Manning trial), Peter Hart (FAIR media critic). The discussion is moderated by Sam Seder.
→ read full article(Italiano) Iraq: Dieci Anni di Stupidità
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
Ipotizzare solo uno scenario, la guerra – magari dopo sanzioni – rivela povertà intellettuale. L’Iraq aveva problemi ma non le vittime, l’esilio e gli sfollamenti della guerra – che può durare altri 10 anni avendo sconvolto tanti equilibri instabili. Eppure si va incontro alle dipendenze belliciste di USA-RegnoUnito, mandando gli altri all’inferno. Quella gente dovrebbe essere nota per la loro incapacità collaudata di analizzare e prevedere e rimediare. L’accademia dovrebbe essere per gli intellettuali, non per i clercs, l’intelligentsia.
→ read full article(Português) Os BRICS Afiam Suas Garras
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
8 Apr 2013
Ao se reunirem na África do Sul, os BRICS deram um passo que pode ter dimensões geopolíticas: montaram um pacote que prevê um banco de desenvolvimento, uma alternativa às agências de classificação de risco e uma opção ao dólar nas transações comerciais.
→ read full articlePresident Obama’s Second Term: Selling Death and Buying Assassins in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
As President Obama enters his second term with a new Cabinet, the foreign policy legacy of the past four years weighs heavily on their strategic decisions and their empire-building efforts. Central to the analysis of the next period is an evaluation of the past policies especially in regions where Washington expended its greatest financial and military resources, namely the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa.
→ read full articleCongress Obsessed with American Muslims, Neglects Real Threat of White Supremacists
Juan Cole, Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
It is not allowed to say this in the corporate media, but some Republican representatives and their constituents are, if not implicated in white supremacist sentiments, at least a little smelly in that regard.
→ read full articleEscaped Scientologist Goes Public about “Cult” Brainwashing and Labor Camps
JG Vibes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
3 Apr 2013 – A former Scientologist that was on a compound since childhood is now going public with a book and media appearances to speak about the brainwashing, child labor camps, as well as other horrors that she witnessed and experienced. She was made to sign a billion-year contract that bound her immortal spirit (known as the “Thetan”) to lifetime after lifetime of dedication to the organisation.
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Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar | Interview with Independent Journalist Assed Baig
Abby Martin, Breaking the Set – Russia Today,
8 Apr 2013
The ongoing genocidal crisis of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. The UN has coined the Rohingyas one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.
→ read full articleMaking Disaster Pay: From the San Francisco Earthquake to Superstorm Sandy, How Capitalism Stacks the Deck on Disaster
Steve Fraser - TomDispatch,
8 Apr 2013
When it comes to our recent financial implosion, this is easy enough to see, although great efforts have been expended trying to deny the self-evident. ‘Man’ did not bring the system to its knees; the country’s dominant financial institutions and a complicit government did that. They’ve recovered, the rest of us haven’t.
→ read full articleGeopolitical Dimensions of the Syrian Crisis
Jamal Wakim – Foreign Policy Journal,
1 Apr 2013
Regime survival depends on a tight grip on Damascus and a delicate manipulation of regional and international contradictions.
→ read full articleEcuador Auctions Off Amazon to Chinese Oil Firms
Jonathan Kaiman in Beijing – The Guardian,
1 Apr 2013
Indigenous groups claim they have not consented to oil projects, as politicians visit Beijing to publicise bidding process. Ecuador plans to auction off more than three million hectares of pristine Amazonian rainforest to Chinese oil companies, angering indigenous groups and underlining the global environmental toll of China’s insatiable thirst for energy.
→ read full articleHot Money Blues
Paul Krugman, 2008 Nobel Economics Laureate – The New York Times,
1 Apr 2013
Whatever the final outcome in the Cyprus crisis — we know it’s going to be ugly; we just don’t know exactly what form the ugliness will take. The truth, hard as it may be for ideologues to accept, is that unrestricted movement of capital is looking more and more like a failed experiment. Global capitalism is, arguably, on track to become substantially less global.
→ read full article(Português) Os Torturadores do Pentágono
Mauro Santayana - Pátria Latina,
1 Apr 2013
A reportagem do Guardian, com a participação da BBC Arabic, demonstra que o Pentágono determinou e foi cúmplice da prática de tortura no Iraque. Durante sua atuação ali, Steele organizou os grupos xiitas contra os sunitas e supervisionou os centros secretos de detenção de militantes, nos quais a tortura foi sistemática: choques elétricos, extração de unhas, golpes nos órgãos genitais, empalamento, pau-de-arara.
→ read full articleBRICS Agrees to Create $100 bn Contingency Fund
Times of India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
In a major achievement for India in its campaign for reforming the international financial architecture, BRICS nations on Wednesday [27 Mar 2013] decided to establish a new development bank to finance infrastructure and to create a USD 100 billion Contingency Reserve Arrangement to tackle any financial crisis in the emerging economies.
→ read full articleCount Leo Tolstoy, We Need Your Voice Today!
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
“…The peoples of the Christian world have solemnly accepted this law, while at the same time they have permitted violence and built their lives on violence; and that is why the whole life of the Christian peoples is a continuous contradiction between what they profess, and the principles on which they order their lives – a contradiction between love accepted as the law of life, and violence which is recognized and praised, acknowledged even as a necessity in different phases of life, such as the power of rulers, courts, and armies…”
→ read full articleWeird Chemtrail Sky
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Chemtrails make crazy-looking skies. HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program)?
This short video was made in Arizona by a private citizen. Chemtrails – Frequently Asked Questions
State-Wrecked: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
David A. Stockman – The New York times,
1 Apr 2013
The United States is broke — fiscally, morally, intellectually — and the Fed has incited a global currency war (Japan just signed up, the Brazilians and Chinese are angry, and the German-dominated euro zone is crumbling) that will soon overwhelm it. When the latest bubble pops, there will be nothing to stop the collapse. If this sounds like advice to get out of the markets and hide out in cash, it is.
→ read full articleAmerican Anniversaries from Hell: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch,
1 Apr 2013
It’s true that, last week, few in Congress cared to discuss, no less memorialize, the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Nonetheless, two anniversaries of American disasters and crimes abroad — the “mission accomplished” debacle of 2003 and the 45th anniversary of the My Lai massacre — were at least noted in passing in our world.
→ read full articleKKNPP 3 & 4 Announcement – A Cruel Joke on Indians and Our Democracy
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
There are several cases pending against the Koodankulam project as a whole and the KKNPP units 3-6 in particular at the Delhi High Court, the Supreme Court and the National Green Tribunal (NGT) about the various clearances, waste management, liability and so on. This announcement amounts to a serious contempt of all these courts.
→ read full articleMonsanto Bullies Small Farmers Over Planting Harvested GMO Seeds
Puck Lo, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Does Monsanto own all future generations of genetically modified seeds that it sells? The Missouri-based agribusiness giant wants farmers to pay a royalty to plant any seed that descended from a patented original. The legal decision has ramifications for other patented “inventions” that reproduce themselves like strands of DNA.
→ read full articleBRICS Go Over the Wall
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
1 Apr 2013
The BRICS meet in Durban, South Africa, this Tuesday [26 Mar 2013] to, among other steps, create their own credit rating agency, sidelining the dictatorship – or at least “biased agendas”, in New Delhi’s diplomatic take – of the Moody’s/Standard & Poor’s variety. They will also further advance the idea of the BRICS Development Bank, with a seed capital of US$50 billion (only structural details need to be finalized), helping infrastructure and sustainable development projects.
→ read full articleThe Palestinian Children – Alone and Bewildered in Cell 36
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
This is Cell 36, deep within Al Jalame prison in northern Israel. It is one of a handful of cells where Palestinian children are locked in solitary confinement, tortured for days or even weeks. One 16-year-old claimed that he had been kept in Cell 36 for 65 days.
→ read full articleEvidence Shows [NATO Supported] Syrian Rebels Behind Chemical Attack
Raven Clabough – The New American,
1 Apr 2013
27 Mar 2013 – Reports of a chemical weapon attack in Syria’s Aleppo Province last week provoked leaders and politicians, particularly in the West, to advocate more fiercely for the overthrow of the Assad regime, despite the vague details surrounding the attack. Current data seem to suggest, however, that it was not government forces behind the attack, but rebel forces.
→ read full articleOh, the Places You Won’t Go! World’s 25 Least-Visited Countries
Ryan Lenora Brown – The Christian Science Monitor,
1 Apr 2013
Using UN statistics, travel writer Gunnar Garfors found that top contenders for the least-visited award are often dangerous or remote. But some are just plain boring.
→ read full articleThe Holy Land Gets Skunked
Lawrence Davidson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Something Is Rotten in the State of Israel – Sooner or later everyone possessing a humane conscience, to say nothing of a functioning honest nose, will refuse to have anything to do with this “apartheid-like” state.
→ read full articleMystery Malady Kills More Bees, Heightening Worry on Farms
Michael Wines – The New York Times,
1 Apr 2013
A mysterious malady that has been killing honeybees en masse for several years appears to have expanded drastically in the last year, wiping out 40 percent or even 50 percent of the hives needed to pollinate many of US fruits and vegetables. A conclusive explanation so far has escaped scientists studying the ailment, colony collapse disorder, since it first surfaced around 2005.
→ read full articleThe Washington Post’s Unbridled Arrogance
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
1 Apr 2013
Perhaps more than any news organization, the Washington Post steered the United States into the illegal invasion of Iraq. But a Post editorial, which belatedly takes note of the war’s tenth anniversary, admits to no mistakes and acknowledges no lessons learned.
→ read full articleGenocidal Buddhists?: An Interview with Burmese Dissident Maung Zarni
Alex Caring-Lobel, tricycle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Burmese native Maung Zarni has lent his voice to the Rohingya and other minorities in the predominantly Buddhist nation, advocating for their human rights and distinguishing himself by examining the social and historical causes of the current conflict.
→ read full articleThe Armed Forces Special Powers Act in Northeast India
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
In 1958 the government of India passed the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, which allows soldiers to arrest or shoot “anyone who has committed cognizable offences or is reasonably suspected of having done so”. The act also specifies that “Army officers have legal immunity for their actions. In practice, the AFSPA allows soldiers to terrorize the citizens of the states where it is being applied.
→ read full article(Français) Économie Verte: Marchandiser la Planète Pour la Sauver?
Bernard Duterme, editorial – Centre Tricontinental,
1 Apr 2013
Définie par l’ONU comme « une manière écologique de faire des affaires », l’économie verte entend réconcilier croissance et nature. Le troisième pilier du développement durable (le social) mis entre parenthèses, le temps de rebooster le premier (l’économique) en valorisant le deuxième (l’environnemental) ? A défaut de protéger les ressources et de partager les richesses, le capitalisme, désormais vert, y sauverait sa peau. La controverse clive les États du Nord et du Sud.
→ read full articleChevron Corporation Upgrades from “C” to “B”
Marilyn Langlois, April 1, 2013 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Richmond, California Refinery to Be Worker-Owned and Operated – “The work of organizations like 350.org made us realize that unless we do something dramatic to slow down climate change, the earth will no longer provide a livable habitat for our great-grandchildren and their descendants”, noted Chevron CEO John Watson in a statement released today. “Consumers are so addicted to oil that we, as producers of fossil fuel products, need to prioritize a rapid transition to renewable energy resources.
→ read full articleDeaf
TMS editor,
1 Apr 2013
A man goes to his doctor and says, “I don’t think my wife’s hearing is as good as it used to be, what should I do?”
→ read full articleBuddhist Nationalism in Burma
Maung Zarni, tricycle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
The broadcast images of monks of the “Saffron Revolution” of 2007 are still fresh; these monks were seen calling for an improvement in public well-being in the face of the growing economic hardships afflicting Burma’s Buddhists. But in the past year, the world has been confronted with images of the same robed monks publicly demonstrating against Islamic nations’ distribution of aid to starving Muslim Rohingya, displaced into refugee camps in their own country following Rakhine Buddhist attacks.
→ read full articleWar Crimes and Crimes against Humanity: The Story of U.S. Exceptionalism in Iraq
Ajamu Baraka – Global Research,
1 Apr 2013
This month marks the tenth anniversary of the U.S. attack on Iraq, one of the most egregious expressions of naked power and imperial ambition since the Second World War. The attack defied both an outraged world opinion — expressed by global mass demonstrations — and the United Nations charter. It also marked a change from the previous veiled decorum of supposed adherence to international law that defined post-war international relations.
→ read full articleMy Neighbourhood: An Israel-Palestine Documentary
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
My Neighbourhood is a short documentary film that records four different stories at crossroads between Israeli West Jerusalem and the occupied Palestinian town of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem. If I were to rename this film, I would call it ‘It is my home; I won’t leave it.’
→ read full article(Pусский-Russian) Истоки расизма
Socialist Worker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Расизм настолько укоренился в нашем обществе, что многие считают, что он существовал всегда. Однако Юрий Прасад утверждает, что это относительно новый феномен, который развился вместе с капитализмом.
→ read full articleThe New Kalladi Bridge
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
In sounds of heavy weapons
And shot notices vibrated
Gods and Brahmas
Gradually praised …
Why Does the West Fail to Understand Reality?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
We are already far into a world economically dominated by BRIC, with S added for South Africa to make the message clear: South-South-South against not even a billion living in the world Northwest+Japan; militarily with only a question of time before the first drones hit the USA, as follow-up to 9/11, and whoever engages in extrajudicial executions; key decisions are taken by BRICS (CELAC for Latin America), one day possibly making a counter-UN without veto; culturally seeing their diversity as a major asset, drawing on all cultures.
→ read full article(Castellano) Banco de Desarrollo del BRICS Será la Nueva Alternativa Financiera Global
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Las potencias emergentes que integran el Grupo BRICS -Brasil, Rusia, India, China y Sudáfrica- acordaron oficialmente este miércoles la creación de un Banco para el Desarrollo, que permita financiar inversiones recíprocas y constituya una alternativa a los organismos financieros multilaterales dominados por Estados Unidos y la Unión Europea.
→ read full articleReading Palestinian Prison Diaries
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
The Prisoners’ Diaries: Palestinian Voices from the Israeli Gulag, Gaza, 2013. What is most compelling is how much the material expresses the shared concerns of these prisoners. A few keywords dominate the texts: pain, God or Allah, love, dream, homeland, steadfastness, tears, freedom, dream, prayer. Survival with as much dignity as possible in a dank and poorly lit circumstances of isolation, humiliation, acute hostility on the part of the prison staff, including abusive neglect by the medical personnel.
→ read full article(Castellano) Pedagogía de la Catástrofe – Depresión
Stefano Caserini & Enrico Euli - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
La depresión generalmente se identifica como un estado patológico, de enfermedad, en el lenguaje común es también el estado del perdedor, de quien no lo ha logrado, del “gafe” diría un joven diputado italiano. En la psicología dinámica, una posición depresiva no es estar deprimido, es aceptar ser parte del problema y no sólo parte de la solución, aceptar que el bien y el mal en nuestras acciones están entrelazados y no pueden ser prescindidos, eliminado.
→ read full articleRefugee
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Take my land, take
the brook where I caught my first fish,
the field my grandfather
cleared of rocks and stones with . . .
Nessun Dorma (Music Video of the Week)
Blake & Camilla Kerslake – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Celebrating 20 years since Pavarotti first sang Nessun Dorma for the 1990 World Cup, Blake join beautiful Camilla Kerslake to perform a unique version of the anthem at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
→ read full articleSurprised? Monsanto Openly Wrote Own Monsanto Protection Act
Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
It should come as no surprise to many of you to find out that Monsanto actually authored the wording of its own Monsanto Protection Act hidden in the recently passed and signed Continuing Resolution spending bill. How could a major corporation write its own laws and regulations, you ask?
→ read full articleSyria: The Failure of Our So-Called International Community
Desmond Tutu, 1984 Nobel Peace Laureate – The Guardian,
1 Apr 2013
How can the country be abandoned in its hour of need? Power plays have taken priority over the terrible suffering of Syrians. The massacre in Syria rages on and yet we stand idle. We must realise that, to millions of Syrians trapped in the country, the virtual absence of humanitarian relief is nearly as arbitrary and cruel as the war itself.
→ read full articleA Conversation with Dr. Nick Begich about HAARP
PrisonPlanet TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Dr. Begich talks about many controversial science experiments, including the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program-HAARP, mind control technology, compartmentalization within the science community, and how these technologies, which might be used for the progress of all mankind, is currently controlled by secret military industrial complex interests putting all of humanity at risk.
→ read full article(Português) Paredes de Vidro: Fotógrafo Capta Reação das Pessoas ao Testemunharem Sofrimento dos Animais em Matadouro
Michelle Kretzer (PETA) - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
1 Apr 2013
“Eu já arrastei vacas até que seus ossos começassem a quebrar, enquanto elas ainda estavam vivas. Quando as estou trazendo até o canto e elas ficam presas na porta de entrada, puxo até que sua pele seja rasgada, até que o sangue escorra no concreto e ferro. Quebro suas pernas…. E a vaca chora com sua língua pendurada. Eles puxam os animais até que seus pescoços quebrem”.
→ read full article(Português) A Alemanha Contra a Europa – O Artigo Censurado pelo “El País”
Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Publicamos em seguida o artigo do economista Juan Torres López, do Conselho Científico de ATTAC Espanha, que o El País retirou do seu site, alegando que continha afirmações que o jornal considera inapropriadas. No final do artigo, pode ler também a resposta do autor.
→ read full article(Castellano) El Bien Común de la Humanidad: Un Paradigma Post-Capitalista Frente a la Ruptura del Equilibrio del Metabolismo Entre la Naturaleza y el Genero Humano
François Houtart – Forum Mundial de Alternativas,
1 Apr 2013
La reconstrucción del equilibrio del metabolismo entre la naturaleza y los seres humanos por un cambio de paradigma y las transiciones El problema de la ruptura del metabolismo socio-ambiental es el resultado de una lógica más amplia que abarca el modo de acumulación y el predominio del valor de cambio, la organización colectiva al servicio de la reproducción del capital y la visión del mundo orientada por un progreso lineal en un planeta inagotable al servicio de una minoría.
→ read full articleGuantanamo Exposes Reality of US Fascism
Finian Cunningham – PressTV,
1 Apr 2013
They are essentially dead men who just happen to breathe. That is the grim assessment of the legal representative for the inmates in the American concentration camp, otherwise known as Guantanamo Bay. More than 11 years after this penal colony was opened on the American-occupied territory of Cuba, there remains some 166 prisoners who live in a nightmarish world of indefinite detention.
→ read full articleGitmo Inmates Claim Being Denied Drinking Water as White House Breaks Silence
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
A group of human rights lawyers filed an emergency motion with a federal court in Washington, describing the alleged mistreatment: “The reality is that these men are slowly withering away and we as a country need to take immediate action,” Denver-based human rights lawyer Mari Newman said, according to AP.
→ read full articleShh! Will U.S. Navy Turn It Down for Whales and Dolphins?
Peter Pearsall – YES! Magazine,
1 Apr 2013
Human allies of whales and dolphins have long had difficulty reining in the Navy’s use of sonar that harms these animals. But recent developments suggest that may be starting to change.
→ read full article(Italiano) Papa Francesco I, Gesuita
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Il primo papa gesuita. La Società di Gesù, fondata da Ignazio di Loyola, fu un movimento di rinnovamento dall’interno nel 1534 dopo l’enorme riforma dall’esterno, il protestantesimo, in particolare Lutero nel 1517. Ci sono voluti più di quattro secoli per arrivare in cima; forse è cambiata la Chiesa, forse papa Francesco è un gesuita morbido. I gesuiti sono noti per essere preti che esercitano il loro ministero, e per avere una seconda professione, spesso come intellettuali, e di alto livello. Papa Francesco ha la stessa doppia reputazione. Promettente.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
A Global Harmony Association (GHA) Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day
→ read full articleIceland Offers Hard Lessons for Cyprus on Capital Controls
Alistair Scrutton and Robert Robertsson, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
For Iceland, there was a sense of deja vu when Cyprus’s finance minister said capital controls would probably last “a matter of weeks”. Five years after a banking meltdown, the north Atlantic island has just extended its own controls indefinitely… Cyprus, by contrast, cannot devalue because it is a member of the euro zone.
→ read full articleChina and Brazil Sign Agreement to Trade in Their Local Currencies
MercoPress South Atlantic News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
China and Brazil signed an agreement to do billions of dollars of trade in their local currencies, as the five-nation BRICS forum of emerging market powers work to lessen dependence on the US dollar and Euro.
→ read full articleIndia, China, Brazil to Surpass Combined GDP of U.S., Western Europe by 2020: UN
Vancouverdesi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
“By 2020, the combined economic output of three leading developing countries alone — Brazil, China and India — will surpass the aggregate production of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the U.K. and the United States,” said the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) 2013 Human Development Report.
→ read full article(Galego) Malditas Guerras
Manuel Dios Diz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Moitas persoas lembran, non esquecen, a minuciosa preparación propagandística, a sistemática mentira, a reiterada e amplificada mentira, con aquela posta en escena, máis propia da Cortiña de Fume, de Barry Levinson, operación liberdade iraquí, Collin Powell na ONU, coas súas imaxes trucadas, a foto das Azores con Bush, Blair, Aznar e o anfitrión Barroso, a impotencia dos inspectores Blix e El Albaradei, incapaces de frear aquel delirio reiterando a inexistencia de armas de destrución masiva en poder de Saddam Hussein.
→ read full articleIceland’s Grassroots Constitution on Thin Ice
Deutsche Welle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Time is running out, acknowledges parliamentarian Birgitta Jonsdottir with a sigh. She’s hoping that the Icelandic parliament, the “Althing,” will approve the new constitution. The new document has a number of unique features, including the fact that it was drawn up in a process in which every citizen had a chance to participate. The draft represents the first time that a country has tried to write a new constitution in a grassroots fashion. The financial crisis that began five years ago set the unusual project in motion.
→ read full articleA Lexicon of “War (Redux):” Does Excessive Word Use Result in a Loss of Meaning?
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
I must admit, as I gathered the terms, I found myself “shocked” by the widespread use of the word “war.” Was it possible that within the context of our global era, replete with its increased inter-dependencies, we had come to find the tensions of competition for resources and survival itself, pushing us toward “wars” at all levels of interactions? In my opinion, a “versus” mentality had arisen that was pitting different people, organizations, nations, and products against one another in a win-lose arena.
→ read full article(Italiano) Hugo Chavez: Un Produttore di Storia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Un genio ci fa pensare, e agire, diversamente, in tal modo facendo la storia. Chávez è stato uno uno di questi. Grazie Hugo – possa tu non riposare in pace.
→ read full articleIt Is a Matter of Faces
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
It is useless to pour water
To a downward pot
Though it is necessarily critical
In a drought of thirst . . .
BRICS Viewed from Russia
Vladimir Shubin – Pambazuka News,
25 Mar 2013
There are some who see BRICS as ‘the Center’s fifth column’ whilst Russia sees it as an alternative centre of global influence despite the differing ideological viewpoints of its member states. Russia is committed to BRICS as a constraint to the ambitions of the USA, NATO and the world reactionary forces behind them.
→ read full articleChinua Achebe: A Reflection of When Things Fall Apart
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
The death in a Boston hospital of Chinua Achebe, on 21 March 2013, the Nigerian novelist about whom it was said that his writings were “concerned with universal human communication across racial and cultural boundaries as a means of fostering respect for all people” came just at the start of the UN-sponsored 2013-2022 International Decade for the Rapprochement of Cultures.
→ read full articleThe Last Letter
Tomas Young - Truthdig,
25 Mar 2013
A Message to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney from a Dying Veteran: You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans—my fellow veterans—whose future you stole.
–Tomas Young
India-China and the Spirit of Cooperation
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
In one of his candid statements, the Chinese President, Xi Jinping on 19 March 2013 admitted that the border dispute between his country and its neighbour, India, is one of the most difficult problems the two countries confront. “However, as long as we keep up our friendly consultation, we can eventually arrive at a fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable settlement”.
→ read full articleLibya: Two Years after Launching Intervention
Alexander Mezyaev – Strategic Culture Foundation,
25 Mar 2013
Arms From Libya Are Spreading Out Across the Whole Continent – March 19 is the date the NATO intervention against Libya was launched two years ago [in 2011].
→ read full articleMen Who Kick Down Doors – Tyrants at Home and Abroad
Ann Jones - TomDispatch,
25 Mar 2013
Picture this. A man, armored in tattoos, bursts into a living room not his own. He confronts an enemy. He barks orders. He throws that enemy into a chair. Then against a wall. He plants himself in the middle of the room, feet widespread, fists clenched, muscles straining, face contorted in a scream of rage. The tendons in his neck are taut with the intensity of his terrifying performance.
→ read full article(Português) Refrigerantes Estão Relacionados com 180 Mil Mortes por Ano em todo o Mundo
Sapo Saúde – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Cientistas de Harvard concluíram que, em 2010, 180 mil pessoas morreram em todo o mundo devido a doenças provocadas pelo consumo de refrigerantes e bebidas açucaradas: 133 mil por diabetes, 43.000 por doenças cardíacas e 6.000 por cancro. O estudo foi apresentado na reunião da American Heart Association’s Epidemiology and Prevention/Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism, na terça-feira [19 mar 2013], em Nova Orleães.
→ read full articleSri Lanka Accused of Ongoing Torture and Abuse of Tamil Prisoners
Mark Townsend and Hussein Kesvani – The Guardian,
25 Mar 2013
Calls for UK to withdraw from Commonwealth summit in Colombo as report claims brutal human rights violations by state. The torture of Tamil political prisoners is increasingly rife in Sri Lanka with some detainees dying in custody after suffering prolonged abuse, a new investigation claims.
→ read full articleSugary Drinks Linked to 180,000 Annual Deaths around the World
Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
According to a new study presented on Tuesday [19 Mar 2013] at a meeting of the American Heart Association, one out of every 100 obesity-related deaths around the world can be tied to sugary drinks, which directly exacerbate health conditions like diabetes, heart diseases, and cancer. Specifically, the over-consumption of those beverages increased global deaths from diabetes by 133,000, from cardiovascular disease by 44,000 and from cancer by 6,000.
→ read full articleClub Gitmo
Charles P. Pierce, Esquire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
A lot of what we’ve done in our “war” on terror — including extrajudicial assassination, drumhead tribunals, and now this classically brutal response to a hunger strike, which is an act of dedicated non-violent resistance — we learned from the lessons taught by the British in Ireland and especially by Mrs. Thatcher who allowed an elected member of Parliament to starve to death.
→ read full articleCardinal Sins
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
How a modern Inquisition, with the help of Pope Francis, stifled the movement protecting the poor. “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist.” So said the Brazilian archbishop Dom Hélder Câmara. His adage exposes one of the great fissures in the Catholic Church, and the emptiness of the new Pope’s claim to be on the side of the poor.
→ read full articleCameroon: Rights Abuses in ‘Homosexuality’ Prosecutions
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
No one should be sentenced to prison time because they blurt out a confession to stop torture, or because a judge doesn’t like what they drink, how they dress, or what kind of text messages they send.
→ read full articleThe BRICS Come to Durban
Maite Nkoana-Mashabane – Pambazuka News,
25 Mar 2013
Keynote Speech at the BRICS Academic Forum by South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation – The BRICS are catalysts and drivers of a multipolar world, aiming to demolish the hegemony of the West in global affairs.
→ read full articleChina Replaces Britain in World’s Top Five Arms Exporters – Report
Michael Martina, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
China has become the world’s fifth-largest arms exporter, a respected Sweden-based think-tank said on Monday [18 Mar 2013], its highest ranking since the Cold War, with Pakistan the main recipient.
→ read full articleRecord Levels of Radiation Found in Fish near Japan’s Fukushima Plant
Danielle Demetriou – The Telegraph,
25 Mar 2013
Record levels of radiation contamination have been found in fish near Japan’s tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant. One fish, a greenling measuring 38 cm in length, was contaminated with 740,000 becquerels per kg – more than 7,400 times the recommended government limit regarded as safe for human consumption.
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