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Flatulence Is a Problem Aired
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2013
The third edition of the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential (1990) was reviewed for The Guardian by John Vidal under the title Flatulence is a Problem Aired (The Guardian, 7 February 1992). The review was introduced by the phrase: John Vidal finds the authors of a definitive guide to all the world’s ills treading an ever thinner line between the sublime and ridiculous. At that time the review could be seen as a highly skillful journalistic exercise in what has since been recognized as characteristic of negative campaigning.
→ read full article2012 Summary of the Cultural Boycott of Israel
Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2013
The year 2012 was an amazing year full of many successes in the campaign for the cultural boycott of Israel. This summary focuses on the cultural boycott with an emphasis on musical artists and groups. The fall of South African apartheid was preceded by the movement by artists of conscience to boycott “Sun City.” A similar anti-apartheid movement is rapidly growing; and musicians increasingly do not want to perform in Israel.
→ read full article(Português) Portugal: O Êxodo dos Diplomados
Mario Queiroz – Inter Press Service-IPS,
14 Jan 2013
Desde a década de 1960, quando as saídas em massa de portugueses eram uma constante, este país não sofria uma emigração de tal magnitude como a atual, com a agravante de que pela primeira vez inclui profissionais altamente qualificados.
→ read full articleRemembering Lasantha: Now They Come For “Everyone”
Nirmanusan Balasundaram, Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2013
Now, more than ever, with the current state of affairs in Sri Lanka, the vacuum left by Lasantha’s death and his importance can be felt by anyone who is concerned about human rights, democracy, rule of law, and, of course, the independence of the judiciary. The Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Sunday Leader newspaper Lasantha Wickrematunge , better known as Lasantha, was brutally assassinated four years ago. Lasantha noted in his last editorial, “I hope my murder will be seen not as a defeat of freedom but an inspiration”.
→ read full article(Português) Brasil É Segundo Maior Consumidor Mundial de Ritalina
Globo News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2013
Chamada a ‘droga da obediência’ para ‘curar’ crianças hiperativas ou com débito de atenção, pode causar morte súbita ou torna-las predispostas à dependência de drogas no futuro. Provoca um ‘efeito zumbi’ nas crianças e não é uma solução mas sim um paliativo com consequências funestas.
→ read full articleAbbas Changes Name of Palestinian Authority to ‘State of Palestine’
Raphael Ahren and AP – The Times of Israel,
7 Jan 2013
Palestinian Authority President Abbas signed a presidential decree changing the name of the Palestinian Authority to the “State of Palestine,” following the Palestinians’ upgraded status at the United Nations as a non-member observer state. According to the decree, reported by the official Palestinian news agency Wafa Thursday [3 Jan 2013] night, all stamps, signs, and official letterheads will be changed to bear the new name.
→ read full articleEmerging From the Shadows: US Covert Drone Strikes in 2012
Chris Woods, Jack Serle and Alice K. Ross – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
7 Jan 2013
In one of the biggest news stories of the year, in May [2012] the New York Times revealed that President Obama was personally deciding whether to kill some individuals. He ‘counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent.’ As the Bureau noted at the time, ‘The revelation helps explain the wide variation between credible reports of civilian deaths in Pakistan by the Bureau and others, and the CIA’s claims that it had killed no ‘non-combatants.’
→ read full articleConstruction Is Complete on Behemoth Airship; First Flight Planned
W.J. Hennigan – Los Angeles Times,
7 Jan 2013
A massive cargo-carrying airship has taken shape inside one of the 17-story wooden blimp hangars at the former military base in Tustin. According to aircraft maker Worldwide Aeros Corp., construction is complete on a 36,000-pound blimp-like aircraft designed for the military to carry tons of cargo to remote areas around the world.
→ read full articleLosing Control: A Blogger’s Nightmare
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
When I started this blog a couple of years ago, the thought never entered my mind that I would need to defend the terrain. Although I knew my views were controversial on some issues, I assumed that those who disagreed strongly would stay away, losing interest, or express their disagreements in a spirit of civility. To a large extent this has been true, with the glaring exception of Israel/Palestine.
→ read full articleTechnology Addiction
Joel S. Hirschhorn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
A survey reported that “addicted” was the word most commonly used by people to describe their relationship to technology. One study found that people had a harder time resisting the allure of social media than they did for sex, sleep, cigarettes, and alcohol. A recent study by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project found that 44 percent of cell phone owners had slept with their phone next to their bed. Worse, 67 percent had experienced “phantom rings,” checking their phone even when it was not ringing or vibrating.
→ read full article(Castellano) La Amenaza Haitiana
Eduardo Galeano, Antimilitarizacion – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
Como de costumbre, el Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas repite que mantendrá la ocupación militar de Haití porque debe actuar “en caso de amenazas a la paz, quebrantamientos de la paz o actos de agresión”. ¿A quién amenaza Haití? ¿A quién agrede? ¿Por qué Haití sigue siendo un país ocupado? ¿Un país condenado a vigilancia perpetua? ¿Obligado a seguir expiando el pecado de su libertad, que humilló a Napoleón Bonaparte y ofendió a toda Europa?
→ read full articleThe Power Principle – I: Empire
Scott Noble, Metanoia Films – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
This documentary is about the foreign policy of the United States. It is the first of three parts that demonstrate the importance of the political economy, the Mafia principle, propaganda, ideology, violence and force. Featured in the films are Noam Chomsky, Michael Parenti, John Stockwell, Christopher Simpson, Ralph McGehee, Philip Agee, [TRANSCEND member] Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, John Perkins, James Petras, John Stauber, Russ Baker, Howard Zinn, William Blum, Nancy Snow, William I. Robinson, Morris Berman, Peter Phillips, Michael Albert, and others.
→ read full articleThe Power Principle – II: Propaganda
Scott Noble, Metanoia Films – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
This documentary is about the foreign policy of the United States. It is the second of three parts that demonstrate the importance of the political economy, the Mafia principle, propaganda, ideology, violence and force. Featured in the films are Noam Chomsky, Michael Parenti, John Stockwell, Christopher Simpson, Ralph McGehee, Philip Agee, [TRANSCEND member] Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, John Perkins, James Petras, John Stauber, Russ Baker, Howard Zinn, William Blum, Nancy Snow, William I. Robinson, Morris Berman, Peter Phillips, Michael Albert, and others.
→ read full articleWhose Side is God, god, g_d On?
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
Lessons from 19th Century Imperialism – The following is a listing of some of the enduring lessons that came to mind as I reflect on the endless mass violence and wars of our times. With Gladstone’s words ringing in my ears, I offer them to you.
→ read full article(Italiano) Un Augurio per l’Anno Nuovo: Andare Oltre!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
Sì, andare oltre, trascendere! – ecco il nostro messaggio, per il nuovo anno o meno. Prendete le sparatorie nelle scuole USA. Il vice-presidente della National Rifle Association (NRA) in TV: “la sola persona che può fermare un cattivo con un’arma è un buono con un’arma”. Affermazione che ha toccato molte corde. C’è conferma dall’alto: questa è la politica estera USA. L’unico modo per fermare un cattivo paese con le armi è un buon paese con le armi; l’unico modo di fermare il cattivo terrorismo dal basso è il buon terrorismo di stato dall’alto. Equilibrio di forze, innumerevoli basi, cercare e distruggere.
→ read full articleDamascus and the Tariqa (The Way by Initiation)
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
The small non-violent movements in Syria such as the “Stop the Killing! We want to build a country for all Syrians” while stressing useful issues are still overshadowed both by the government and the violent opposition forces. Yet could such groups play a larger role if they received more non-governmental support from outside? Governments seem to have resigned themselves to the force of arms or to watch and wait. Can peace groups working together actively strengthen Syrian non-violent alternatives?
→ read full articleNet Worth of World’s Richest Rose by $241B In 2012
Bloomberg News – Chicago Tribune,
7 Jan 2013
The richest people on the planet got richer in 2012, adding $241 billion to their collective net worth, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily ranking of the world’s 100 wealthiest individuals.
→ read full articleSwiss Bank Wegelin to Close After US Tax Evasion Fine
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
Switzerland’s oldest bank is to close permanently after pleading guilty in a New York court to helping Americans evade their taxes. Wegelin, which was established in 1741, has also agreed to pay $57.8m (£36m; 44m euros) in fines to US authorities. It said that once this was completed, it “will cease to operate as a bank”. The bank had admitted to allowing more than 100 American citizens to hide $1.2bn from the Internal Revenue Service for almost 10 years.
→ read full articleJustifying Assassination
Los Angeles Times, editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon eloquently lamented that “I can find no way around the thicket of laws and precedents that effectively allow the executive branch of our government to proclaim as perfectly lawful certain actions that seem on their face incompatible with our Constitution and laws.” This page has made the same point in urging the administration to release the Office of Legal Counsel memorandum. If it is going to act as judge, jury and executioner, the least it can do is divulge its legal reasoning.
→ read full articleU.S. Arms Sales to Asia Set to Boom on Pacific “Pivot”
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
U.S. sales of warplanes, anti-missile systems and other costly weapons to China’s and North Korea’s neighbors appear set for significant growth amid regional security jitters.
→ read full articleResignation Letter
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
1 January 2013. I believe I was mislead regarding the professional environment at Universiti Brunei Darussalam during the recruitment process, and due to the on-going attempts to gag me on the persecution and slaughter of minorities, including Muslim minorities, in the country of my birth [Burma], I no longer wish to be subject to this level of extreme and unprofessional academic censorship. I need to work at a professional institution where the word ‘politics’ is mentionable, social conscience livable, and compassion honourable.
→ read full articleBolivia Nationalizes Electricity Companies in Hopes of Improving Rural Access
Jacob Chamberlain – Common Dreams,
7 Jan 2013
Bolivia President Evo Morales has nationalized two electricity distribution companies owned by Spanish utility company Iberdrola in the latest of several industry nationalizations since Morales took office, which has included oil, mining, telecommunications, and energy generation companies.
→ read full articleUS Patriot Missile Battery Crews Arrive in Turkey
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
5 Jan 2013 – A group of 27 US troops has arrived in Turkey to operate NATO Patriot surface-to-air (SAM) missile batteries. At least six of those will be deployed along the country’s border with Syria.
→ read full articleLatvia’s Economic Disaster as a Neoliberal Success Story – A Model for Europe and the US?
Jeffrey Sommers and Michael Hudson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
Today’s most highly celebrated anti-labor success story is Latvia, where labor did not fight back, but simply emigrated politely and quietly. Latvia has a two-part tax on wages and social benefits that are near the highest in the world, while real estate taxes are well below US and EU averages. Meanwhile, capital gains are lightly taxed, and the country has become successful as a capital flight and tax avoidance haven for Russians and other post-Soviet kleptocrats that has permitted Latvia to “afford” de-industrialization, depopulation and de-socialization.
→ read full articleEconomic Predictions for 2013
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
Since the time of Adam Smith, self-interest has been the mainspring of human economic activity. What is required today is a change of values, so that instead of being motivated by selfishness, people throughout the world will work for the common good.
→ read full articleThe Power Principle – III: Apocalypse
Scott Noble, Metanoia Films – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
This documentary is about the foreign policy of the United States. It is the third of three parts that demonstrate the importance of the political economy, the Mafia principle, propaganda, ideology, violence and force. Featured in the films are Noam Chomsky, Michael Parenti, John Stockwell, Christopher Simpson, Ralph McGehee, Philip Agee, [TRANSCEND member] Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, John Perkins, James Petras, John Stauber, Russ Baker, Howard Zinn, William Blum, Nancy Snow, William I. Robinson, Morris Berman, Peter Phillips, Michael Albert, and others.
→ read full article‘Tsunami Bomb’ Tested Off New Zealand Coast
Jonathan Pearlman – The Telegraph,
7 Jan 2013
The United States and New Zealand conducted secret tests of a “tsunami bomb” designed to destroy coastal cities by using underwater blasts to trigger massive tidal waves.
→ read full articleWhat’s at Stake in the Central African Republic?
Abayomi Azikiwe, editor - Pan-African News Wire,
7 Jan 2013
Neo-Colonial Intrigue, Minerals, Militarism and the Struggle for Sovereignty and Unity
→ read full articleFeel Better
TMS editor,
7 Jan 2013
Mary was having a tough day and had stretched herself out on the couch to do a bit of what she thought to be well-deserved complaining and self- pitying.
→ read full articleHow The New York Times Erases Israel’s Crimes
Robert Ross, The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
The New York Times keeps the American public in the dark about the true nature of Israel’s occupation. According to The New York Times, there is no siege of Gaza, no occupation of the West Bank, and never was there a Nakba (the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine). Three recent articles erase these key Israeli crimes from the historical record.
→ read full articleThe Gravest Threat to World Peace
Noam Chomsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
Who exactly sees Iran as the gravest security threat? The “Iranian threat” is overwhelmingly a Western obsession, shared by Arab dictators, though not Arab populations. As numerous polls have shown, although citizens of Arab countries generally dislike Iran, they do not regard it as a very serious threat. Rather, they perceive the threat to be Israel and the United States; and many, sometimes considerable majorities, regard Iranian nuclear weapons as a counter to these threats.
→ read full articleWelcome 2013
Dr. Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
The more we rise in consciousness, the more we see the world as a part of our family. The expansion of the individual consciousness is a certain remedy not only for the individual, but also for the society. When we say the world is our family and think and act in that spirit, most of the problems we confront and call insurmountable will wither away. One does not need to be a genius to understand this simple dictum of life.
→ read full articlePutin Second to ‘Nobody’ on World’s Most Powerful List – Thinktank
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
International political thinktank Eurasia Group has ranked Russian President Vladimir Putin second on its list of the world’s most powerful people. The first position is held by ‘Nobody,’ reflecting the perception of a world without a clear leader.
→ read full articleApologize Then Call It a Day: Big Banks and Drug Money
Helen Redmond - CounterPunch,
7 Jan 2013
Take responsibility, apologize, pay a fine for your drug crimes and then call it a day. Go home to family who will forgive you for doing business with so-called “narco-terrorists.” Prison time? Felony record? Asset forfeiture? No. Not for drug trafficking executives of laundromat/banks that are “too big to fail” or jail. Ending the war on drugs would not only save human lives and billions of dollars, it would free up law enforcement agencies to investigate and prosecute banks whose real crimes are far worse than laundering drug money.
→ read full articleThe Right to Live Peacefully
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
If the Right to Life and the Right to Peace we combine
a new, deeply humanizing right will be yours and mine…
Hitler Won
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
Hitler won.
He has converted the Jews,
Palestinians, Russians, Chechens,
Iranians, Iraqis, Afghans,
even his nemesis, the
Holy Americans…
Goal of Israel Lobby in America
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
Since this presentation deals with the Israel Lobby in the United States, we need to focus thoroughly on this group, which seems to have developed a strong grip on virtually every senator and congressman, including the US President. This group has one main objective, namely, the welfare and safeguard of the State of Israel. So far the Israeli lobby succeeded to get what it wanted, especially for the USA to let Israel confiscate Palestinian territory.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter of Response to CRIF (Counsèil Représentif des Institutions juives de France)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
I am shocked and saddened that your organization would label me as an anti-Semite and self-hating Jew. It is utterly defamatory, and such allegations are entirely based on distortions of what I believe and what I have done. To confuse my criticisms of Israel with self-hatred of myself as a Jew or with hatred of Jews is a calumny.
→ read full articlePalestine Poems after Operation Pillar of Cloud
David Smith-Ferri – Voices for Creative Nonviolence,
31 Dec 2012
The Israeli military’s eight-day assault
on the people of Gaza
was no downy pillar of cloud
no feathered wing
moving lightly across the landscape…
In Further Memory of Edward Said
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Always, always
That voice
remains
is gone
needed…
For Nonkilling Education: A Plea to Humankind
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Rhymed Reflections
→ read full articleChristmas
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Tinsel around the house
And the fireplace is warm, …
Photo Gallery: The Best of Picture This 2012
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Throughout the year, Spiegel Online sifts through photos taken around the world for its “Picture This” feature. As 2012 draws to an end, here’s a look back at some of the most colorful, humorous and moving images that have been selected.
→ read full articleThe Libor Swindle
Andre Damon, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
22 Dec 2012 – The latest sweetheart settlement with a major international bank, in this case involving criminal activities that financial regulators describe as “epic,” has once again lifted the lid on the cesspool of corruption otherwise known as the world financial system. UBS, Switzerland’s largest bank, admitted this week to systematically rigging the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor), the benchmark global interest rate to which hundreds of trillions of dollars of financial contracts are tied. It did so to increase its profits and conceal its financial problems.
→ read full articleCelebration of Struggle Starts in Kudankulam on New Year 2013
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
New Year 2013 @ Kudankulam: Celebrating Resistance, Asserting Freedom. Idinthakarai village, which has been the nucleus of the Kudankulam anti-nuclear power plant struggle, welcomed hundreds of people who have come to celebrate New Year with the local communities spearheading the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE).
→ read full articleIn Japan, a Mothers’ Movement against Nuclear Power
Heidi Hutner – YES! Magazine,
31 Dec 2012
The Fukushima disaster has brought a powerful new demographic to Japan’s anti-nuclear movement: mothers. On the one-year anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japanese women in New York City gathered for a rally they called Pregnant With Fear of Radiation. Protestors wore fake pregnant bellies, or carried posters with images of pregnant women wearing face masks.
→ read full articleThe Lie that Prosecuting Bank Fraud Will Destabilize the Economy Is What Is REALLY Destroying the Economy
Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Failing to Prosecute White Collar Crime Guarantees a Weak and Unstable Economy … and Future Financial Crashes – After all, the main driver of economic growth is a strong rule of law.
→ read full articleMulti-phase Weaponisation of Replica Guns for Children
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
It is simply not plausible to understand events in Connecticut this Friday [14 Dec 2012] without having a conversation about guns in a country where more than 84 people a day are killed with guns, and more than twice that number are injured with them…. Americans are no more prone to mental illness or violence than any other people in the world. What they do have is more guns: roughly, 90 for every 100 people.
→ read full articleDrone Warfare: Terrorism with a Bigger Budget
Amanda Mullins, Defiance Citizens for Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
In the last four years, the use of unmanned drones to engage in so-called “targeted killing” has escalated dramatically. In Pakistan alone, US drone strikes have increased fivefold during the Obama administration, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which tracks US drone strikes.
→ read full articleHow Anonymous Got Political
Quinn Norton – New Internationalist Magazine,
31 Dec 2012
A look behind the mask of the hacker network, charting its evolution into a global activist force. Anonymous’ swagger grew with outrageous hacks of companies, governments, and law enforcement. ‘Anonymous was born out of a need to exact retribution,’ said a Chanology anon. ‘Scientology tried to fuck with our internet, attempting to shut down the Cruise video. It was punished, hard, and continues to be punished nearly four years later.’
→ read full articleExecutives at Collapsed Iceland Bank Jailed For Fraud
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Two former executives at an Icelandic bank which collapsed in the 2008 financial meltdown were sentenced to jail on Friday [28 Dec 2012] for fraud which led to a 53 million euro loss, in the first major trial of Icelandic bankers linked to the crisis.
→ read full articleUS Deploying Troops to 35 African Countries
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Soldiers based out of Fort Riley, Kansas’ 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division will begin training in March 2013 in order to prepare for a project that will send troops to as many as 35 African nations, the Associated Press reports.
→ read full articleNeville Alexander, Unbounded Organisation, and the Future of Socialism
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
In the late 1980s, as apartheid neared its end, Neville Alexander called on educators to “…shape consciousness in ways that are looking forward, in ways that are preparing people for a liberated, non-racial, democratic, and socialist South Africa.” Is Neville Alexander’s life’s work a contribution to a revolution that is still happening?
→ read full articleUBS Libor Manipulation Merits a Death Penalty
William D. Cohan, The National Memo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
There is no point in mincing words: UBS AG, the Swiss global bank, has been disgracing the banking profession for years and needs to be shut down.
→ read full articleWashington’s Dilemma: The “Good Terrorists” versus the “Bad Terrorists”
Dr. Ismail Salami – Global Research,
31 Dec 2012
Terrorism is terrorism and it cannot be defined otherwise unless the interests of one party tilt the scale in disfavor of another and the dichotomization of the terrorists in Syria into good and bad by the West casts doubt on its claim on democracy.
→ read full articleThe Radical Dissent of Helen Keller
Peter Dreier – YES! Magazine,
31 Dec 2012
When the blind-deaf visionary learned that poor people were more likely to be blind than others, she set off down a pacifist, socialist path that broke the boundaries of her time—and continues to challenge ours today. The FBI kept Keller under surveillance for most of her adult life for her radical views. But Keller, who died in 1968, never saw a contradiction between her crusade to address the causes of blindness and her efforts to promote economic and social justice.
→ read full articleThe Mayan Apocalypse and Gell-Mann’s Curve
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
How are we to explain the fact that the population curve is not an exponential? We can turn to Malthus for an answer: According to his model, population does not increase exponentially, except under special circumstances, when the food supply is so ample that the increase of population is entirely unchecked, In his “Essay on the Principle of Population”, population pressure appears as one of the main causes of war.
→ read full article(Italiano) Violenza Strutturale, Pace e Disabilità
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Lo “sviluppo” dai villaggi tradizionali agli stati moderni comporta costruire gerarchie attorno all’ onnipotente logica dello Stato, all’onnipresente logica del Capitale e all’onnisciente logica della Scienza. Tutti successori di Dio, che monopolizzano le sfide. Non per nulla molti migrano nei villaggi.
→ read full articleRevealed: How the FBI Coordinated the Crackdown On Occupy
Naomi Wolf – The Guardian,
31 Dec 2012
New documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall – so mystifying at the time – was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and local police. It involved, as you may recall, violent arrests, group disruption, canister missiles to the skulls of protesters, people held in handcuffs so tight they were injured, people held in bondage till they were forced to wet or soil themselves –was coordinated with the big banks themselves.
→ read full articleMali: The ‘Gentle’ Face of Al-Qaeda
May Ying Welsh – Al Jazeera,
31 Dec 2012
“We are mujahideen in the cause of Allah.” The hair on our necks stands on end. The fighters look like desert military preachers – members of some stoical sect that took a vow of poverty and jihad. They wear austere beige cotton smocks and high cropped pants – like inhabitants of Tatooine, the desert planet in Star Wars. These are not outfits one buys at the market, or inherits from a brother or friend. They are uniforms tailor-made to send a message of simplicity.
→ read full articleViolence in the Institutional and Cultural DNA of the United States of America
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
The two of the three pillars of the United States were the ethno- and genocide of the native people and the enslavement of African people — yes, the other is honorably the Enlightenment ideals of equality (of property-owning while males). Both as an economic system and as an ideological edifice, USA is one of the most violent places on earth.
→ read full articleElectric Train
TMS Editor,
31 Dec 2012
A few days after Christmas, a mother was working in the kitchen listening to her young son playing with his new electric train in the living room. She heard the train stop and her son said,
→ read full articleMeet the Weeds That Monsanto Can’t Beat
Tom Philpott for Mother Jones – The Guardian,
31 Dec 2012
When Monsanto revolutionised agriculture with a line of genetically engineered seeds, the promise was that the technology would lower herbicide use – because farmers would have to spray less. In fact, as Washington State University researcher Chuch Benbrook has shown, just the opposite happened.
→ read full article
Matt Taibbi: How Did HSBC Executives Avoid Jail?
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
The banking giant HSBC has escaped indictment for laundering billions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels and groups linked to al-Qaeda. Taibbi says. “Here we have a bank that laundered $800 million dollars of drug money and they can’t find a way to put anybody in jail for that? That sends an incredible message, not just to the financial sector, but to everybody. It’s an obvious, clear double standard where one set of people gets to break the rules as much as they want and another set of people can’t break any rules at all without going to jail.”
→ read full articleCan There Be “Good” Corporations?
Marjorie Kelly – YES! Magazine,
31 Dec 2012
When companies are owned by workers and the community—instead of Wall Street financiers—everything changes.
→ read full articleThe P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2012
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting-FAIR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Recalling Some of the Stinkiest Media Moments of the Year [2012]
→ read full articleA Request to Dissolve the Indian Parliament
The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
We, the following citizens of India, have just completed 500 days of our peaceful protest against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project. Although our people have been struggling peacefully and nonviolently and democratically for 500 days, the Central government and the State government have not given our struggle its due importance or serious consideration to our demands. Instead they persist with their plan of commissioning the project at any cost just to please their Russian, American and French masters.
→ read full articleNile Gathering in Aswan, Egypt, 10-29 Jan 2013
The Nile Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
The world’s longest river runs through 11 countries (Congo DRC, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Sudan and Egypt) and touches the lives of 400 million people. The Project’s mission is to connect the people of the Nile basin through a cultural dialogue that evokes Africa’s iconic river as a shared ecosystem.
→ read full articleWhy Are There So Few Peace Psychology Courses Taught?
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
What Can We Do To Change This? Although we have no exact figures on the number of courses in peace psychology that are taught in undergraduate and graduate psychology departments the United States, it seems to me on the basis of available materials that there it is at best a limited number.
→ read full articleTo Friends All Over: HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013!
Johan and TRANSCEND – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Permit me a little report on where we are in TRANSCEND. So you will pardon me a sense of “mission accomplished”, even if those words were abused by somebody unmentionable.
→ read full articleLosing Faith? Belgium to Charge Church of Scientology with Fraud and Extortion
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
After a long lasting legal battle Belgium prosecutors demand to label the Church of Scientology as a criminal organization and charge it and its leaders with extortion, fraud, privacy breaches, and the illegal practice of medicine.
→ read full articleThe Paradox of Cuban Agriculture
Miguel Altieri and Fernando Funes-Monzote – Monthly Review,
31 Dec 2012
When Cuba faced the shock of lost trade relations with the Soviet Bloc in the early 1990s, food production initially collapsed due to the loss of imported fertilizers, pesticides, tractors, parts, and petroleum. The situation was so bad that Cuba posted the worst growth in per capita food production in all of Latin America and the Caribbean. But the island rapidly re-oriented its agriculture to depend less on imported synthetic chemical inputs, and became a world-class case of ecological agriculture.
→ read full articleVerizon Patents Targeted Advertising Method That Determines If Viewers Are Laughing, Cuddling, Sleeping or Singing
Steve Donohue, Fierce Cable – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Verizon has filed a patent application for targeting ads to viewers based on information collected from infrared cameras and microphones that would be able to detect conversations, people, objects and even animals that are near a TV.
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Tell Me Why (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Genesis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Mothers crying in the street
Children dying at their feet
Tell me why, ooh tell me why
People starving everywhere
There’s too much food, but there’s none to spare
Tell me why, oh tell me why …
Johan Galtung on Goldman Sachs and the Protocols
Al Jazeera, The Stream – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Gilad Atzmon: Johan Galtung confirms that many people believe that Goldman Sachs actions are not that different from the reality described in the Protocols of The Elders of Zion. Protocols also refer to Jews’ control of the press. According to Galtung we see a lack of debate on that matter.
→ read full article(Português) Para Viver Além de Narciso
Entrevista a Inês Castilho – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Lia Diskin [membro da TRANSCEND] disseca ultra-individualismo das sociedade submissas aos mercados, mas aposta nos novos valores da juventude e numa política despartidarizada.
→ read full article(Italiano) Contro una Terza Guerra Mondiale: Costruttivamente!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Da Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany – La probabilità di una devastante Terza Guerra Mondiale non è zero, ma molto lontana dal 100%. Esploriamo perché.
→ read full articleResponding to the Unspeakable Killings at Newtown, Connecticut
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
The template of response has become a national liturgy in light of the dismal pattern of public response: media sensationalism of a totalizing kind, at once enveloping, sentimental, and tasteless (endless interviewing of surviving children and teachers, and even family members of victims), but dutifully avoiding deeper questions relating to guns, violence, and cultural stimulants and conditioning.
→ read full articleImaginative Reconfiguration of a post-Apocalyptic Global Civilization
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Engaging Cognitively With the Illusion of the “End of the World”
→ read full articleThe Freedom of the Press Foundation
Daniel Ellsberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Today [23 Dec 2012], I join with a group of colleagues and friends to announce The Freedom of the Press Foundation. This new foundation crowd-sources funding for a number of tireless, courageous and underfunded freedom of press organizations, including WikiLeaks.
→ read full article‘Bug-Splats’
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Some dead children are mourned; others are dehumanised. Barack Obama’s tears for the children of Newtown are in stark contrast to his silence over the children murdered by his drones.
→ read full articleSwitzerland’s UBS Becomes Second Bank to Settle LIBOR Rate-Rigging Probe
AP-The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Swiss bank UBS agreed Wednesday [19 Dec 2012] to pay $1.5 billion in fines for trying to manipulate a key interest rate that affects borrowers around the world.
→ read full articleOutrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
24 Dec 2012
The banks’ laundering transactions were so brazen that the NSA probably could have spotted them from space. Breuer admitted that drug dealers would sometimes come to HSBC’s Mexican branches and “deposit hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, in a single day, into a single account, using boxes designed to fit the precise dimensions of the teller windows.”
→ read full article(Português) Com Menos Armas, Brasil Tem Três Vezes Mais Mortes a Tiro que os EUA
UOL Notícias – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Apesar do número bem inferior de armas de fogo em circulação na população do que nos Estados Unidos, o Brasil registrou, em 2010, 36 mil vítimas fatais de tiros. O montante é 3,7 vezes o registrado pelos americanos, que tiveram 9.960 mortes, colocando o país no topo dos que mais registram óbitos por arma de fogo no mundo.
→ read full articleThe UK/Swedish/US Governments Are Complicity in Mental Torture of Julian Assange, WikiLeaks Co-Founder
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
I appeal to the Australian government, Human rights defenders, brave media, and people who love freedom and truth to break the ‘silence ‘ and stand up for the rights of Julian Assange to assurance he will get the change to answer all accusations against him in UK or Sweden and the assurance he will not be extradited to USA where he could meet the same ‘cruel and inhuman’ treatment as pt. Bradley Manning.
→ read full articlePerspective of the Most Violent Nation in the Civilized World
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Over the past few decades, the United States has emerged to become the most violent nation in the civilized world. This did not happen overnight. In fact, we can trace this nation’s source of violence to the draft of its Constitution, which has now emerged to become the nation’s dangerous enemy.
→ read full articleHuman Rights: A Letter to Santa Claus?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
On December 10, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 48 nations voted for adoption, while 8 nations abstained from voting. Not a single state voted against the Declaration. Of course we have to earn a living, but in addition, all of us have the duty to work actively, to the best of our abilities, to save humanity’s future and the biosphere.
→ read full articleAfter Newtown: Shifting the Structure and Culture of Violence towards Peace
Marianne Perez de Fransius – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
A look at the structural and cultural violence underneath the Sandy Hook attack and action steps to move towards peace.
→ read full articleMichael Cremo Brings Vedic Perspectives to the Scientific Table
Madhava Smullen, ISKCON News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
A new book shows that it is possible to present Vedic perspectives on consciousness, human origins and human antiquity in modern scientific discourse. The book is a collection of twenty-four papers that Drutakarma presented at major international scientific conferences, mostly on archeology, from 1994 to 2009.
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Johan Galtung on How to Build a Culture of Empathy and Peace
Edwin Rutsch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
14 Sep 2012 – The Center for Building a Culture of Empathy – This is part of a larger documentary project by Edwin Rutsch on the nature of empathy.
→ read full articleThe Illusion of Democracy
Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
We stand on the verge of one of the bleakest periods in human history, when the bright lights of civilizations will blink out and we will descend for decades, if not centuries, into barbarity. The elites, who successfully convinced us that we no longer possessed the capacity to understand the revealed truths presented before us or to fight back against the chaos caused by economic and environmental catastrophe, will use their resources to create privileged little islands where they will have access to security and goods denied to the rest of us. (p. 197)
→ read full articleGo Back, Mr. Putin. You Are Not Welcome in India!
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
23 Dec 2012 – The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy strongly objects to the visit of Mr. Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, and asks him to go back. The Russian Ambassador to India has been interfering in the internal affairs of India by making unwanted statements and unacceptable comments on our energy policy, development policy, our national futures and our citizens’ right to protest against anti-national policies and projects.
→ read full articleWhen I was Young
TMS editor,
24 Dec 2012
When I was young I used to pray for a bicycle.
→ read full articleStructural Violence, Peace–And the Handicapped
Johan Galtung, 24 Dec 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
“Development” from traditional villages to modern states means building hierarchies around omnipotent State logic, omnipresent Capital logic and omniscient Science logic. God’s successors all, monopolizing challenges. Not strange that many migrate to villages. First conclusion: Handicapped of all kinds unite! You have only your “normals” to lose. Second: relate to “normal” people on as equal terms as possible. Third: take on the challenge to construct a more inclusive society where your way of being different is an enrichment, a plus.
→ read full articleOnward U. S. Soldiers
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Onward then, ye soldiers, brave and righteous throng,
blend with ours your voices in this insane song.
Show that you are loyal unto Obama our King,
Kill those who oppose him, and his praises sing.
China Is Opening a Confrontation on the Sea
Roberto Savio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
The victory of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the recent Japanese elections, with LDP leader Shinzō Abe coming back as Prime Minister after five years, will probably mean an escalation of tension with China. Both countries are embarking on a fresh burst of nationalism, but for different reasons.
→ read full articleWatch Human Rights Watch – A Tribute to Prof Richard Falk
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
This week [22 Dec 2012] we learned that Human Rights Watch (HRW) has expelled from its ranks top U.N. official Professor Richard Falk.
→ read full articleNonkilling Lessons from the Connecticut Killings
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
The world cries again; innocent lives in Connecticut were sacrificed
and current legislation for gun control and use once more unsufficed…
The US Strategy in Asia
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
Besides the New Silk Road idea, Indo-Pacific corridor too has been increasingly finding mention in policy circles in recent months. The corridor as explained by Blake will link South Asian countries including India and Bangladesh to further east through Myanmar and other Southeast Asian countries. The corridor will link South Asia to the Pacific through Southeast Asia.
→ read full articleBeware of Legality, Accountability, Marketability, Security!
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
The current period highlights concerns with end times scenarios, whether in the form of eschatological predictions, planetary disaster or civilizational. A particular focus is offered by predictions relating to December 2012 and the completion of the Mayan/Aztec long count cycle. As noted by Ed Vulliamy (Mayan ‘death and rebirth’ date marks the perfect time to tackle planet’s crisis, The Observer, 16 December 2012)
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