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Are Central and State Governments and Intelligence Agencies Conspiring?
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
March 10, 2013 – The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) would like to bring the following developments to the attention of the people of India, particularly the people of Tamil Nadu, and would request them to be watchful of any quirky turns:
→ read full articlePMANE Asks for KKNPP Financial Audit; Government Blames Us with Foreign Money
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
The central government is clearly not able to answer the people’s questions about the failed Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project and they find it hard to justify the utter waste of public money on the non-performing KKNPP.
→ read full article(Português) Libor: A Gigantesca Transferência de Fundos da Sociedade a Bancos
Marcelo Justo – Carta Maior,
11 Mar 2013
Para o economista grego Costas Lapavitsas, da Universidade de Londres, autor de “Crisis in the Eurozone” (Crise na zona do euro), o escândalo da manipulação da taxa Libor envolve uma gigantesca transferência de fundos em nível mundial da sociedade para os bancos.
→ read full articleContract with the Devil
TMS editor,
11 Mar 2013
An attorney was sitting in his office late one night, when the Devil appeared before him.
→ read full articleRevealed: Pentagon’s Link to Iraqi Torture Centres
Mona Mahmood, Maggie O'Kane, Chavala Madlena and Teresa Smith – The Guardian,
11 Mar 2013
Exclusive: General David Petraeus and ‘dirty wars’ veteran behind commando units implicated in detainee abuse. The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the “dirty wars” in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres. These units conducted some of the worst acts of torture during the US occupation and accelerated the country’s descent into full-scale civil war.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Mondo Visto dal Monte Everest
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Nepal – Il Tibet viene considerato meno come parte repressa della Cina e più come patria del buddhismo tantrico – un forte aggancio al vicino gigantesco del Nord. La maggioranza del Nepal è orientata verso l’India, ma il Weekly Mirror ha una vista del mondo dall’alto, e il picco più alto, l’Everest, è più vicino alla Cina. Qualcuno una volta l’ha scalato, “perché è lì”, per dare uno sguardo più da vicino alla Cina.
→ read full articleFukushima Toxic Waste Swells as Japan Marks March 11 Disaster: 2 Years
Jason Clenfield, Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Every morning, 3,000 cleanup workers at Fukushima don hooded hazard suits, air-filtered face masks and multiple glove layers. Most of the gear is radioactive waste by day’s end. Multiply it by 730 days since the tsunami two years ago and the trash could fill six Olympic swimming pools. Contaminated clothing represents just a fraction of the waste in a cleanup that may take four decades.
→ read full articleThe Privatization of War: Mercenaries, Private Military and Security Companies (PMSC)
Jose L. Gomez del Prado - Global Research,
11 Mar 2013
Private military and security companies (PMSC) are the modern reincarnation of a long lineage of private providers of physical force: corsairs, privateers and mercenaries. Mercenaries, which had practically disappeared during the XIXth and XXth centuries, reappeared in the 1960’s during the decolonization period operating mainly in Africa and Asia. Under the United Nations a convention was adopted which outlaws and criminalizes their activities. Additional Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions also contains a definition of mercenary.
→ read full articleEl Comandante Has Left the Building
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
11 Mar 2013
How enlightening to watch world leaders’ reactions to the death of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez. Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica – a man who shuns 90% of his salary – reminded everyone how he qualified Chavez as “the most generous leader I ever met”, while praising the “fortress of democracy” of which Chavez was a great builder. Compare it with US President Barack Obama – in what sounds like a dormant cut and paste by some White House intern – reaffirming US support for “the Venezuelan people”.
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Vandana Shiva on Int’l Women’s Day: “Capitalist Patriarchy Has Aggravated Violence against Women”
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
11 Mar 2013
TRANSCEND Member Prof. Vandana Shiva is a physicist, ecofeminist, philosopher, activist, and author of more than 20 books and 500 papers. She is the founder of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, and has campaigned for biodiversity, conservation and farmers’ rights, winning the Right Livelihood Award [Alternative Nobel Prize] in 1993. She is executive director of the Navdanya Trust.
→ read full article(Castellano) Pedagogía de la Catástrofe – Apocatástasis
Stefano Caserini & Enrico Euli - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Orígenes, el padre de la Iglesia (como en otros casos, sospechoso de herejía), en el 3er siglo d.C., tal vez cansado de esperar el apocalipsis y el retorno del Mesías, comenzó a hablar de apocatástasis, es decir, una catástrofe que restaura, al final del tiempo, para crear y regenerar nuevas formas.
→ read full article(Português) Bispo É Condenado por Pedofilia no Amazonas
Joana Queiroz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Justiça condena, pela primeira vez na história do Amazonas, um bispo da Igreja católica; Piegiorgio Albertini, o italiano conhecido como ‘Padre Jorge’, foi sentenciado a nove anos de reclusão por estupro de três crianças no interior do Estado.
→ read full articleCan Civilization Survive Capitalism?
Noam Chomsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Capitalism as it exists today is radically incompatible with democracy. There is “capitalism” and then there is “really existing capitalism.”
→ read full articleOpenly Gay Black Mayoral Candidate Was Beaten, Set On Fire His Family Say
Emily Le Coz, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
A gay, black mayoral candidate killed last week in Mississippi was beaten, dragged and set on fire before his body was dumped near a river, according to his family. In a statement issued late on Sunday [3 Mar 2013], the family of Marco McMillian said a coroner who performed an autopsy on his body told them about the gruesome manner of death.
→ read full articleNorth Korea or the United States: Who is a Threat to Global Security?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
11 Mar 2013
North Korea lost thirty percent of its population as a result of US-led bombings in the 1950s. Most people in America consider North Korea as an inherently aggressive nation and a threat to global security. Media disinformation sustains North Korea as a “rogue state”. The history of the Korean War and its devastating consequences are rarely mentioned. America is portrayed as the victim rather than the aggressor.
→ read full articleThe Myths in Power Generation
E. A. S. Sarma – The Hindu,
4 Mar 2013
Denmark’s per capita primary energy use evidently declined between 1500 and 1900, not because of any negative economic growth but on account of the combined effect of a shift in the fuel base and the improvements in efficiency. The increase in the per capita primary energy use between 1900 and 1975 and the decline between 1975 and 2004 were the compound outcomes of the growth in Denmark’s GDP, the fuel shifts and the efficiency improvements.
→ read full article(Português) Franz Kafka e a Segunda-feira
Flávio Ricardo Vassoler – Carta Maior,
4 Mar 2013
Ao contrário do que dizem os apologistas do fim da História, a luta de classes não se calou. No entanto, diante da assepsia publicitária por que passam os discursos contestatórios, a lógica poética de Kafka nos leva a pensar a contrapelo de nós mesmos: se o movimento da contradição histórica não for estancado e reconfigurado, continuaremos a figurar como coadjuvantes da cadeia alimentar que nos coage à frieza, à brutalidade e ao cinismo do entrechoque entre gato e rato, de modo que a “Pequena Fábula” possa receber um título mais adequado aos tempos atuais: “segunda-feira”.
→ read full articleThe Money Trap: How Banks Control the World through Debt
BBC Documentary – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Exposing the Truth of Our Devious Financial System
→ read full articleActing like They Care about Haiti
Mark Schuller - CounterPunch,
4 Mar 2013
The Pretense of Doing Good (While Raising Millions) – On Tuesday [26 Feb 2013], Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn, whose new role is Haiti’s ambassador to the United Nations, extolled the progress in the island nation of almost 10 million people.
→ read full articleThe Happiness Initiative: The Serious Business of Well-Being
Laura Musikanski & John de Graaf – The Solutions Journal,
4 Mar 2013
Happiness: is it just a fad of the day or the wave of the future? On July 19th, 2011, the United Nations (UN) passed a resolution urging governments across the globe to start measuring happiness and well-being “with a view to guiding public policy.” The UN recognizes that gross domestic product (GDP) is an insufficient guide for safeguarding the well-being of people or our future.
→ read full articleOxfam Reveals Global Food Firms’ Gaping Ethical Shortfalls
Damian Carrington – The Guardian,
4 Mar 2013
The world’s largest food companies are failing to meet ethical standards, a report from Oxfam has warned. None of the leading global brands such as Nestlé, Mars and Coca-Cola were given good overall ratings on their commitments to protect farmers, local communities and the environment, while British food giant Associated British Foods (ABF), owner of brands including Kingsmill, Ovaltine and Silverspoon, received the lowest rating.
→ read full articleTorture, Inc. – America’s Brutal Prisons
Deborah Davies, Channel 4 Dispatches – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq?
→ read full articleWhy the Free Market Fundamentalists Think 2013 Will Be the Best Year Ever
Slavoj Žižek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
As communists once did, today’s capitalists blame any failures on their system being ‘impurely’ applied. This is how today’s apologists for the market, in an unheard-of ideological kidnapping, explain the crisis of 2008: it was not the failure of the free market that caused it, but the excessive state regulation; the fact that our market economy was not a true one, but was instead in the clutches of the welfare state.
→ read full articleTwo Types of Calcium Deficiency
Dr. Edward F. Group – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
As you may be aware, calcium is integral when it comes to building strong bones, teeth, a normal heart rhythm, powering muscle contractions, enabling the relaxation of your muscles, hormone function, and even blood pressure regulation. There are Two Types of Calcium Deficiency
→ read full article(Português) Por Que os Fundamentalistas de Livre Mercado Acreditam Que 2013 Será o Melhor Ano de Todos
Slavoj Žižek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
É assim que os atuais apologistas do mercado, em um sequestro ideológico sem precedentes, explicam a crise de 2008: não foi o fracasso do livre mercado que a provocou, mas sim a excessiva regulação estatal; o fato de que nossa economia de mercado não foi um verdadeiro Estado de bem-estar social, mas esteve, em vez disso, nas garras desse Estado.
→ read full articleIsrael-Palestine: THE Question
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
THE question arising is this: Why are most Jews unable and/or unwilling to acknowledge the wrong done to the Palestinians? My Gentile answer begins with a short, one-sentence statement that begs another question. Most Jews do not want to know about Zionism’s crimes. The question is – why don’t they want to know?
→ read full articleAn Honest Lawyer
TMS editor,
4 Mar 2013
An investment counsellor went out on her own. She was shrewd and diligent, so business kept coming in, and pretty soon she realised she needed an in-house counsel, so she began interviewing young lawyers.
→ read full articleThe Idinthakarai Experience: Best Practices in Peaceful and Nonviolent Protests
Dr. S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Indefinite hunger strike of a huge group of people including women and youth
Relay hunger strike – every single day 10 am to 5 pm
Inviting a prominent political, religious or cultural leaders for day-long hunger strikes…
Albert Woodfox’s 40 Years of Solitary Confinement
Amy Goodman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Albert Woodfox has been in solitary confinement for 40 years locked up in the maximum-security Louisiana State Penitentiary known as “Angola.” This week federal Judge James Brady agreed that racial bias tainted his trial’s grand-jury selection. “Accordingly, Woodfox’s habeas relief is GRANTED,” ordered Brady. This is the third time his conviction has been overturned. Nevertheless, Woodfox remains imprisoned.
→ read full articleIsraeli Kids Dressed As Burning Twin Towers for Purim
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
On the annual Jewish celebration of the Biblical slaying “of their foes seventy and five thousand,” at least one Israeli family seems to think it’s funny to reenact the murder of 3,000 in New York on September 11, 2001.
→ read full articleSchool Subject Textbook Authors for Nonkilling: A Plea
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
School subject textbook authors,
Globally, you play a very relevant role in Education:
Provide contents to learners` multifaceted preparation
Millions of children, adolescents and adults benefit from the materials you produce
(Português) A Rara Coragem de Bradley Manning
Marjorie Cohn, CounterCurrents – Carta Maior,
4 Mar 2013
As ações de Bradley Manning fazem lembrar o que fez Daniel Ellsberg, que divulgou os “Papéis do Pentágono”, no qual se expunham as mentiras do governo dos EUA e que apressaram o fim da Guerra do Vietname.
→ read full article(Castellano) Víctimas de Pederastia Piden Que Cardenal Mexicano No Asista al Cónclave
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Una carta pública argumenta que el cardenal Norberto Rivera guarda relación con algunos casos de pederastia en México, pues habría encubierto, entre otros casos, los abusos sexuales a menores que el cura Nicolás Aguilar Rivera cometió en México y en Estados Unidos.
→ read full articleThe Norwegian Prison Where Inmates Are Treated Like People
Erwin James – The Guardian,
4 Mar 2013
On Bastoy prison island in Norway, the prisoners, some of whom are murderers and rapists, live in conditions that critics brand ‘cushy’ and ‘luxurious’. Yet it has by far the lowest reoffending rate in Europe.
→ read full articleEnvisioning a World without Nuclear Weapons
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Book Review – Zero: The Case for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, by David Krieger, 2013, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. I have known David Krieger for the past twenty-five years, and he has never wavered, even for a day, from his lifelong journey dedicated to ridding the world of nuclear weapons and the threat of nuclear war.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
A Global Harmony Association (GHA) Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day
→ read full articleBradley Manning and the Appalling Silence of Gay, Inc.
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
I have never published materials concerning gay issues, but I decide to publish the following CounterPunch’s article because it touches some interesting spots within the context of marginal politics. In the next few days I will try to extend the discourse and discuss the links between LGBT, Palestinian Solidarity and the Jewish progressive voice.
→ read full articleImperium?
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Our nation’s efforts, cruel and chronic,
to reign supreme and hegemonic
impress our allies as moronic, …
Whaling Conflict Near Antarctica Intensifies: Japan Accused of Using Military Ship
The Inquisitr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
25 Feb 2013 – Whaling conservation organization, Sea Shepherd, has accused Japan of bringing a military style ship to the conflict in waters off Antarctica. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that a Japanese military ice breaker approached the Australian Antarctic Territory where Sea Shepherd ships, whaling ships, and a Korean tanker were engaged in an intensifying conflict. Watch spectacular Sea Shepherd Video
→ read full articleProspects of Peace in Syria
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
The Berlin meeting of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the newly appointed US Secretary of State John Kerry on 26 February 2013 appeared propitious for peace in Syria. The likely evolution of a common approach between Russia and the US will not only impact positively the course of the Syrian conflict, but will also have implications for many other international issues.
→ read full article“Aggressive Nonviolence” – Whale War 2013
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Feb 25, 2013 – The vessel Bob Barker commanded by Capt. Paul Watson gets sandwiched, drenched and assaulted by flash grenades from the Japanese whaling poachers but doesn’t surrender!! Read Accompanying Articles
→ read full articleInvestigate the Death of Arafat Jaradat
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
What follows is a news report prompted by my press release on the shocking treatment of Arafat Jaradat who died while being held in an Israel prison. 27 February 2013 – A United Nations human rights expert today called for an international investigation into the death of Palestinian prisoner Arafat Jaradat, who died in Israeli custody just a few days after his arrest.
→ read full articleThe Third Intifada?
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Is this the third intifada? The more people on both sides talk about the Third Intifada, the less it is likely to happen. As the Germans used to say, Revolutions foretold are not going to happen. But if there is no end to the occupation in sight, the Third Intifada will break out one day, quite suddenly, when nobody has been talking about it, when everybody on both sides was thinking about other things.
→ read full articleAgainst the Institution of War
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
For the first time in history, science has given to humans the possibility of a life of comfort, free from hunger and cold, and free from the constant threat of infectious disease. At the same time, science has given us the power to destroy civilization through thermonuclear war, as well as the power to make our planet uninhabitable through pollution and overpopulation. The question of which of these alternatives we choose is a matter of life or death to ourselves and our children.
→ read full articleHuman Rights Watch London Film Festival
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
19 Films Bear Witness, Challenge Viewers to Seek Justice – The 17th edition of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival will be presented in London from March 13 to 22, 2013.
→ read full articleMonsanto University
Darwin Bond-Graham - CounterPunch,
4 Mar 2013
The University of California: a University, or a Biotech Company?- Last month [Jan 2013] the University of California intervened in a high stakes U.S. Supreme Court case on the side of the agribusiness giant Monsanto Company by filing an amicus brief stating that the university would be materially harmed if Monsanto doesn’t prevail.
→ read full articleGreenpeace: From Hippies to Lobbyists
Al Jazeera World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Its epic battles are legendary. Its influence is undeniable. And it is hard to imagine that, in 1971, it took just a handful of individuals who were strongly opposed to nuclear testing to give birth to this worldwide organisation. So where did it all begin?
→ read full articleInfantile Conservatism
Pat Buchanan, Creators Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
On Monday [25 Feb 2013], Rubin declared that America’s “greatest national security threat is Iran.” Do conservatives really believe this? How is America, with thousands of strategic and tactical nuclear weapons, scores of warships in the Med, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean, bombers and nuclear subs and land-based missiles able to strike and incinerate Iran within half an hour, threatened by Iran?
→ read full articleLords of Disorder: Billions for Wall Street, Sacrifice for Everyone Else
Richard Eskow, Campaign for America’s Future – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
We’re collecting nothing from the big banks in return for our generosity. Instead we’re demanding sacrifice from the elderly, the disabled, the poor, the young, the middle class – pretty much everybody, in fact, who isn’t “too big to fail.”
→ read full articleWholth as Sustaining Dynamic of Health and Wealth
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
The concern here, in a time of increasing chaos, is the possibility that whatever is implied by the elusive sense of “togetherness” and “getting one’s act together”, these call for “new thinking” — and the recognition of the value of deprecated “old thinking”. It is increasingly clear that authoritative coherence is not to be expected, and when it is offered it tends to be part of the problem.
→ read full articleAfrican Campaign for Education on Nonviolence
Humanist Movement Africa – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
4 Mar 2013
“Let’s begin to lead the hearts and minds to the culture of nonviolence. If you think that the economic and political system is a disaster and both our future and the one of the continent is not assured anymore, then you will have to say ‘’NO’’ to violence and ‘’YES’’ to peace by strongly engaging in this project in order to set this new mechanism of positive conscience in Africa.”
→ read full articleNow Six – Not One – Hanford Tanks Leaking Radioactive Waste
Craig Brown – Common Dreams,
4 Mar 2013
Six aging, single-walled underground storage tanks are leaking radioactive waste, threatening groundwater below the Hanford nuclear site, Washington state Governor Jay Inslee announced on Friday [22 Feb, 2013] afternoon.
→ read full articlePartyocracy-Technocracy-Autocracy-Bankocracy
Johan Galtung, 4 Mar 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
The merchants, of course demand their share, using their bank capital to buy political power, even to the bailout point should the losses exceed the gains. Bankocracy works through a close relative, corruptocracy, the rule of corruptors over corruptees paid for their services. Corruption is rampant. Why? Because corruption in the political system, converting money into decisions, has a close relative in the economic system, a commission.
→ read full article(Italiano) Nepal: Sei Anni di “Transizione”
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Tre grandi rivolte in Asia negli scorsi decenni sono finite: la rivoluzione culturale anti-confuciana in Cina del 1967-76, la rivoluzione dei Khmer Rossi anti-Phnom Penh in Cambogia del 1975-79, e la guerra del popolo maoista anti-casta e anti-monarchia feudale in Nepal, durata 10 anni dal 13 febbraio 1996, seguita da 18 giorni di effettiva nonviolenza per le strade di Kathmandu il 6-24 aprile 2006. Il re abdicò.
→ read full articleNepal’s Democracy Is Not People-Centric: Galtung
The Weekly Mirror, Nepal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
He said that cease-fire without conflict solution may reopen the violence and conciliation without conflict solution is only pacification. “This may lead to massive instability, general strike, violence. Conflicts must be addressed creatively by the country’s leadership in order to genuinely address the people’s daily sufferings,” he suggested.
→ read full articleManning Plea Statement: Americans Had a Right to Know ‘True Cost of War’
Ed Pilkington at Fort Meade, Maryland – The Guardian,
4 Mar 2013
After admitting guilt in 10 of 22 charges, soldier reveals how he came to share classified documents with WikiLeaks and talks of ‘bloodlust’ of US helicopter crew. The soldier related that in the video a man who has been hit by the US forces is seen crawling injured through the dust, at which point one of the helicopter crew is heard wishing the man would pick up a weapon so that they could kill him. “For me that was like a child torturing an ant with a magnifying glass.”
→ read full articleInterview with Johan Galtung on Nepal
The Kathmandu Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Feb 17, 2013 – Prof Johan Galtung, the father of peace and conflict studies, has worked as peace mediator in 150 countries. “I was here in Nepal in 1968 and 1986. I was also here mediating in 2003, during the war, and again in 2006. This is my third visit in terms of having dialogue with people. What I hear in all places is this: ‘We’re afraid that if they come up, they’ll treat us the way we treated them.’ That fear is then protected by prejudice—they’re inferior, they don’t have the culture etc. “
→ read full article24 Nails Dug Into Body, Luckily
Amantha Perera – Inter Press Service-IPS,
4 Mar 2013
Ariyawathie, 52, from Sri Lanka, left to work as a domestic worker in Saudi Arabia in early 2011. She worked only five months and returned home with oozing wounds after burning iron rods were inserted into her skin by her employers. She has reason to feel lucky. On Jan 10 [2013] Rizana Nafeek, a 25-year-old maid jailed in Saudi Arabia for the accidental death of an infant was beheaded without notification to the family or Sri Lankan authorities.
→ read full articleHuman Rights and White Magic
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Beating drums and playing trumpets
Gods are called to get down to earth
Brutalized shamans squat at the binary sides. . .
An Argument in Defense of Haredim Jews and Against Secular Zionist Militarism
James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Israel is heading towards a profound internal crisis: a Jew on Jew confrontation, which, however, has major implications for its relations with Palestinians, as well as its Middle East neighbors. The conflict is between the highly militarized Zionist state and the Haredim religious movement over a number of issues, including recent proposals by Netanyahu to end the religious exemption of Haradi youth from serving in Israel’s colonial armed forces.
→ read full articleWhat’s The Problem With Iran?
Transnational Foundation-TFF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
On Tuesday February 26, 2013 in Kazakhstan, a new round of negotiations is due between Iran and the Five Permanent UN Security Council members + Germany. We’d like to bring the following expert statement to your attention.
→ read full articleBradley Manning Incarcerated without a Trial: One Thousand Days Too Many
Margaret Flowers – Global Research,
25 Feb 2013
Think of that, count it off . . . 1,000 days; that is how long Bradley Manning has been incarcerated without a trial. Even though he has been incarcerated for nearly three years most Americans have no idea what he did, why he did it or how he has been mistreated coming from the commander-in-chief to the courtroom at Fort Meade.
→ read full articleMadrassa Students Take Part in Polio Eradication Program in Jammu & Kashmir
Rotary Club of Darhal Malikan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
While joining the nation in its fight against Polio Eradication from South Asia, Rotary Club of Darhal Malikan engaged female Madrassa students in polio vaccination programme here on Sunday [24 Feb 2013].
→ read full articleAt the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a Steady Drip of Toxic Trouble
Eric Nusbaum - The Daily Beast,
25 Feb 2013
Largest environmental cleanup operation the United States government has ever undertaken. Here in the American West, we conquered the most powerful forces in the universe—the very forces that set off the Big Bang —and turned them into an industry not so different from coal or steel.
→ read full articleThe World as Seen from Mt Everest
Johan Galtung, 25 Feb 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Nepal – Tibet is seen less as suppressed part of China and more as home of Tantric buddhism–a strong link to the giant neighbor to the North. Nepal’s majority is India-oriented, but the Weekly Mirror takes a world view from high up, and that highest peak, Mt Everest, is closer to China. Somebody once climbed it, “because it is there”, to get a closer look at China. The world becomes more transparent, seen from high up.
→ read full articleEverything We Know So Far About Drone Strikes
Cora Currier – ProPublica-Journalism in the Public Interest,
25 Feb 2013
You might have heard about the “kill list.” You’ve certainly heard about drones. But the details of the U.S. campaign against militants in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia — a centerpiece of the Obama administration’s national security approach – remain shrouded in secrecy. Here’s our guide to what we know—and what we don’t know.
→ read full article(Português) McDonald´s É Alvo de Inquérito da Polícia Federal Brasileira
Michelle Amaral – Brasil de Fato,
25 Feb 2013
15 Fev 2013 – O McDonald´s está sendo investigado pela Polícia Federal por suspeita de submissão de seus funcionários a condições análogas à escravidão. A PF instaurou o inquérito policial após denúncia de não pagamento de salários a uma funcionária durante os oito meses em que ela trabalhou em um dos restaurantes da rede de fast food.
→ read full articleBilling
TMS editor,
25 Feb 2013
A medical doctor and a lawyer were talking at a party.
→ read full article(Português) Muito Além do Peso
Maria Farinha Filmes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Obesidade, a maior epidemia infantil da história. Pela primeira vez na história da raça humana, crianças apresentam sintomas de doenças de adultos. Problemas de coração, respiração, depressão e diabetes tipo 2. Todos têm em sua base a obesidade.
→ read full articleUS Border Patrol Selling Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartel
Project Censored – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
A government witness named “Victoria,” a former member of the Sinaloa Cartel’s enforcer group “Gente Nueva” under the “Javelin” subgroup whose job was to execute individuals in rival groups, testified that the Border Patrol was supplying weapons to the Sinaloa Cartel.
→ read full articleThe Cooperative Way to a Stronger Economy
Sarah van Gelder – YES! Magazine,
25 Feb 2013
Co-ops—just like people—can get more done together than anyone can do alone. They come in many forms, and are more common than you might imagine.
→ read full articleObama’s Wars in Africa: 100 Military Personnel in Niger
Ed Krayewski – Reason Magazine,
25 Feb 2013
President Obama sent about 100 U.S. military personnel to Niger to support the French mission in Mali, he informed Congress today [22 Feb 2013]. George W. Bush spent more on aid to Africa than any president that preceded him. Obama’s legacy may be militarizing U.S. policy toward the continent more than any predecessor.
→ read full articleThe Latin American Exception: How a Washington Global Torture Gulag Was Turned Into the Only Gulag-Free Zone on Earth
Greg Grandin - TomDispatch,
25 Feb 2013
The map tells the story. To illustrate a damning new report, “Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detentions and Extraordinary Rendition,” recently published by the Open Society Institute, the Washington Post put together an equally damning graphic: it’s soaked in red, as if with blood, showing that in the years after 9/11, the CIA turned just about the whole world into a gulag archipelago. No region escapes the stain. No region, that is, except Latin America.
→ read full articleWhere Is Thoreau Now That We Need Him?
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
I think it’s time for us to go
and pay a visit to Thoreau.
In times like this we need a sage…
Way Beyond Weight
Maria Farinha Filmes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
There is a problem on human race, a heavy one. Worldwide, kids are heavier than they should. And unhealthy. “Beyond Weight” is a movie that seeks to answer questions in depth. It interviewed families, kids and specialists from all over the world.
→ read full articleCancer Threat from Radioactive Leaks at Hanford
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Hanford Health Information Network reports concluded that residents who lived downwind from Hanford or who used the Columbia River downstream were exposed to elevated doses of radiation that placed them at increased risk for various cancers and other diseases. The most significant challenge at Hanford is stabilizing the 53 million U.S. Gallons (204,000 m3) of high-level radioactive waste stored in 177 underground tanks.
→ read full article9/11 Goes to Court in the UK
Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
On February 25, 2013 in the small town of Horsham in the United Kingdom, there will be a rare and potentially groundbreaking opportunity for the 9/11 truth movement. Three hours of detailed 9/11 evidence is to be presented and considered in a court of law where the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) will be challenged over the inaccurate and biased manner in which it has portrayed the events and evidence of 9/11.
→ read full articleNorth Korea Cites ‘Tragedy’ of Countries That Give Up Nuclear Programs
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
North Korea has bolstered its defenses against a “hostile” United States with its third nuclear test, it said on Thursday [21 Feb 2013], noting that countries that had bowed to U.S. pressure to abandon their nuclear plans had suffered “tragic consequences”. Libya abandoned its nuclear program in 2003 in a bid to mend relations with the United States and later saw leader Muammar Gaddafi overthrown in an uprising that was eventually supported militarily by Washington.
→ read full articlePalestinian Filmmaker Detained at Los Angeles Airport on Way to Oscars
Alex Dobuzinskis, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
A Palestinian filmmaker on his way to the Academy Awards said on Wednesday [20 Feb 2013] he was held at Los Angeles International Airport and threatened with deportation before being allowed into the United States.
→ read full articleRe-Imagining a World beyond Capitalism and Communism
Arundhati Roy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Here in India, even in the midst of all the violence and greed, there is still hope. If anyone can do it, we can. We still have a population that has not yet been completely colonized by that consumerist dream. If there is any hope for the world at all, it does not live in climate-change conference rooms or in cities with tall buildings. It lives low down on the ground, with its arms around the people who go to battle every day to protect their forests, their mountains and their rivers because they know that the forests, the mountains and the rivers protect them.
→ read full articleDossier: From the Nuclear Armed Race to the Auroral Armed Race?
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
A Web Survey of High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) Weapon Technology in Various Countries – The main purpose of this dossier is to survey HAARP technology in a few major militarily influential countries through an Internet research. What is HAARP? What characterizes a HAARP weapon?
→ read full articleLunch and Dinner with Julian Assange, in Prison
John Keane, The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Julian Assange could be described as the Tom Paine of the early 21st century. Drawing strength from distress, disgusted by the hypocrisy of governments, willing to take on the mighty, he’s reminded the world of a universal political truth: arbitrary power thrives on secrets.
→ read full articleIsrael, Palestine and the Oscars
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
25 Feb 2013
“5 Broken Cameras” is in competition at the Oscars with an Israeli documentary, “The Gatekeepers,” a film that features interviews with the six surviving former directors of Israel’s Shin Bet, the country’s secret internal security service, which functions as sort of hybrid of the U.S. FBI and CIA. In the film, all six condemn the current practices of Israeli occupation and settlement expansion.
→ read full articleEU Rejects Arming Syrian Rebels
The Times of Israel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
European Union foreign ministers announced Monday [18 Feb 2013] that they were keeping current sanctions against Syria in place for three months, rejecting attempts to alter an embargo on the country so that arms could be funneled to rebels fighting President Bashar Assad.
→ read full articleReflections on Teju Cole’s OPEN CITY
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Anyone interested in the world, or for that matter, an affection for the greatest of modern cities—New York—will find Teju Cole’s Open City, a feast for both mind and heart.
→ read full articleWar Crimes in Sri Lanka: Human Rights Watch Seeks UN Intervention
IBN Live – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
The Human Rights Watch on Tuesday [19 Feb 2013] sought a UN authorised independent, international investigation into war crimes that took place during the final months of the decades-long armed conflict in Sri Lanka. In a letter to members of the United Nations Human Rights Council the organisation said probe should be authorised at the March 2013 session of the UN body.
→ read full article21st Century Biology Refutes Darwinian Abiology
Bhakti Niskama Shanta, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Natural Selection Lost in the Midst of Genetic Forest and Epigenetic Trees – Darwin’s Morphological Tree of Life (TOL) is Replaced with Genetic ‘Forest of Life’
→ read full articleMan-Made Chemicals Cited in Health Scourges: UN Report
Robert Evans, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Man-made chemicals in everyday products are likely to be at least the partial cause of a global surge in birth deformities, hormonal cancers and psychiatric diseases, a U.N.-sponsored research team reported on Tuesday [19 Feb 2013].
→ read full articleAttacks and Death Threats Put Members of the Pastoral Land Commission in Brazil at Risk
The Right Livelihood Award Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
The Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), which has for years campaigned tirelessly to advance social justice and the rights of small farmers and the landless in Brazil, suffered three attacks on its headquarters in the state of Acre this year. The Right Livelihood Award Foundation, which in 1991 recognised the work of the Pastoral Land Commission, condemns the attacks and demands increased security for rural workers.
→ read full article(Italiano) Pensando al Mali
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Tuareg e musulmani hanno preso molto dall’Occidente negli scorsi cent’anni; e se adesso l’Occidente cercasse di imparare qualcosa da loro? È davvero ovvio che lo stato moderno, automatizzato, industriale, finanziario-speculativo sia meglio che il nomadismo confederato da cammellieri?
→ read full articleNation-States, Europe, Regions and …. Macro-Regions: A Look into Regional Integration as a Structure of Euroland Governance
Christel Hahn, Europe 2020 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
The meeting was the “Conference of the Alpine Regions” that happened at the occasion of the regular conference of the “Arge Alp” (an association of alpine regions, that was founded 40 years ago, long before Schengen and the Euro). It adopted a resolution, based on a strategy paper aimed at developing a macro-regional European strategy for the Alps.
→ read full article(Castellano) Obama Aumentó Ataques con Drones en Afganistán un 72% Durante 2012
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
El informe anual sobre la Protección de Civiles en Conflictos Armados de la ONU detalló que un total de dos mil 754 civiles afganos murieron y otros cuatro mil 805 resultaron heridos en 2012, como consecuencia de la operación militar estadounidense en esa nación.
→ read full article(Castellano) UNICEF Confirma que Cuba Es el Único País de América Latina sin Desnutrición Infantil
Politica & Medios – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura también ha reconocido a Cuba como la nación con más avances en América Latina en la lucha contra la desnutrición.
→ read full articleAbyss of Uncertainty: Germany’s Homemade Nuclear Waste Disaster
Michael Fröhlingsdorf, Udo Ludwig and Alfred Weinzierl – Der Spiegel,
25 Feb 2013
Some 126,000 barrels of nuclear waste have been dumped in the Asse II salt mine over the last 50 years. German politicians are pushing for a law promising their removal. But the safety, technical and financial hurdles are enormous, and experts warn that removal is more dangerous than leaving them put.
→ read full articleHaiti’s ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier Avoids Appearing in Court
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Haiti’s former ruler Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier has been ordered to appear in court in Port-au-Prince after failing to attend a hearing. Relatives of some of those allegedly killed or tortured by his militias in the 1970s and 1980s want him charged with crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleChina to Become South America’s Top Trading Partner by 2015
China Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
China will replace the European Union as South America’s most important trading partner by 2015, according to the Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine online.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 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 articleFrench Imperialism Moves Deeper Into Mali
Abayomi Azikiwe – Pambazuka News,
25 Feb 2013
Despite French military intervention and claims of success in fighting Islamist militias, the conflict in Mali is getting worse. There is also some evidence of imperialist propaganda about the course of events.
→ read full article[Tragicomic] French President François Hollande Awarded UNESCO Peace Prize
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
The President of France, François Hollande, will receive the United Nations cultural agency’s peace prize this year for his “valuable contribution to peace and stability in Africa,” it was announced today [21 Feb 2013].
→ read full articleMonsanto, the Court and the Seeds of Dissent
George Kimbrell and Debbie Barker – Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb 2013
Should Monsanto, or any corporation, have rights to a self-replicating natural product? On Tuesday [19 Feb 2013], attorneys for the largest agrochemical corporation in the world, Monsanto, presented arguments before the Supreme Court asserting the company’s rights to the generations of seeds that naturally reproduce from its genetically modified strains.
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