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Observing the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People in Cairo
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
Text of my remarks delivered in Cairo at joint UN/Arab League ceremony marking the observance of the 2012 International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, 29 Nov 2012, some 10 hours prior to the historic vote in the UN General Assembly.
→ read full articleDIA Sending Hundreds More Spies Overseas
Greg Miller – The Washington Post,
3 Dec 2012
The Pentagon will send hundreds of additional spies overseas as part of an ambitious plan to assemble an espionage network that rivals the CIA in size. The project is aimed at transforming the Defense Intelligence Agency, which has been dominated for the past decade by the demands of two wars, into a spy service focused on emerging threats and more closely aligned with the CIA and elite military commando units.
→ read full article‘2 Million Friends of Afghan People for Peace in Afghanistan’
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate and Ann Patterson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
We will be visiting Kabul on 10th December 2012, international day of human rights, on behalf of the Peace People. We have been invited by Afghan peace volunteers to join them in their ‘2 million friends’ and ‘ceasefire’ campaign and we will join the voices for creative nonviolence delegation USA, to Afghanistan. The Afghan peace volunteers have chosen to ask for two million friends around the world remembering that in the last 40 years over 2 million Afghan people have died from violence.
→ read full articleWhy I Am No Longer a Zionist
Wayne Myers – The Independent,
3 Dec 2012
In this highly personal guest contribution, a British and Jewish blogger reflects on his youth membership of Zionist movements, the recent conflict in the Middle East between Israel and Hamas, and how his relationship with faith changes as he gets older.
→ read full articleUN: Two Empires Crumbling – And Then What?
Johan Galtung, 3 Dec 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
There is History in the UN 29 November 2012 vote: 138 YES to giving Palestine the UN status as “nonmember observer state”, only 9 NO, and 41 abstentions. Beyond Middle East politics the vote also mirrors the limits to the US global, and the Israeli regional, empires: 138 defy their grip and favor change, 41+9=50 do not, for various reasons. A crucial vote on a crucial issue is a crucial test. Who wants what?
→ read full articleLiberal Capitalism, Crony Capitalism and Lumpen Development
Samir Amin – Pambazuka News,
26 Nov 2012
Liberalism creates nothing, in the peripheries of the Global South that agree to submit to it, other than a crony capitalism based on a Comprador State in opposition to the National State committed to sustainable economic and social development.
→ read full article(French) Cyberguerre: Comment les Américains Ont Piraté l’Élysée
Charles Haquet et Emmanuel Paquette - L'Express,
26 Nov 2012
EXCLUSIF. En mai [2012], l’équipe de Nicolas Sarkozy a été victime d’une opération d’espionnage informatique hypersophistiquée. Les sources de L’Express concordent : le coup vient de… l’ami américain. Révélations sur une attaque qui s’inscrit dans une bataille planétaire.
→ read full articleWho Is the Terrorist….???
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
On everybody’s tongue, From every media organ, These words common
Listen we like sermon, As from a holy priest, Terrorist, terrorist, terrorist…
Suicide Drones, Mini Blimps and 3D Printers: Inside the New Army Arsenal
Noah Shachtman – Wired magazine,
26 Nov 2012
Flying grenades. Mini spy blimps. Robotic bomb-busters. Suicide-vest spotters. Battlefield 3D printers. The Army is retooling for a very austere, very remote way of war. And the gear that’s required is very different from the hardware that came before.
→ read full articleThe Gaza Ceasefire: An Early Assessment
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
The Gaza Ceasefire, unlike a similar ceasefire achieved after Operation Cast Lead four years ago, is an event that has a likely significance far beyond ending the violence after eight days of murderous attacks. It is just possible that it will be looked back upon as a turning point in the long struggle between Israel and Palestine.
→ read full articleUNHCR Welcomes Brazilian Residency for Angolan and Liberian Refugees
UN High Commission for Refugees – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
The UN refugee agency on Friday [9 Nov 2012] welcomed Brazil’s recent decision to grant permanent residency to nearly 2,000 former Angolan and Liberian refugees. Brazil’s Ministry of Justice issued a decree on October 26 confirming the new status for this group. Brazil is the first country in Latin America and outside of the Africa region to adopt UNHCR’s recommendations.
→ read full articleMiko Peled, the General’s Son – Seattle Oct 1, 2012
Todd Boyle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
Israeli peace activist Miko Peled, author of The General’s Son – Journey of an Israeli in Palestine, spoke last week to audiences at Georgia State University, Spelman College, Kennesaw State University, the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda and Oakhurst Presbyterian Church.
→ read full articleCharles Bronfman Prize to Jewish Humanitarians Whose Work Is of Universal Benefit
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
The Charles Bronfman Prize recognizes Jewish humanitarians whose work, while inspired by personal Jewish values, is of universal benefit to all people.
→ read full articleHow Germany Is Getting to 100 Percent Renewable Energy
Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
There is no debate on climate change in Germany, where architects of the clean energy movement estimate that from 80 percent to 100 percent of the country’s electricity will come from renewable sources by 2050.
→ read full articlePuppet State America
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
The German assault on the Warsaw Ghetto is one of the horror stories of Jewish history. Such an event is happening again, only this time Jews are perpetrators instead of victims. No hand has been raised to stay Israel from the goal of the operation declared by Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai to be “to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages.”
→ read full articleWolfbane
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
So much for Norway’s eco-friendly image. Canada has mutated from a liberal, pacific, outward-looking values country to a thuggish petro-state, ripping up both international treaties and the fabric of its own nation. Another country, whose green and humanitarian principles were just as well-established as Canada’s, is undergoing a similar transformation. Again, it is not the people who have changed – in both cases they remain as delightful as ever – but the dominant political class and its destruction of both national values and international image. I am talking about Norway.
→ read full articleThe Silent Violence against Women Worldwide
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
November 25th is the UN-proclaimed International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Violence against women is a year-round occurrence globally and continues to an alarming degree.
→ read full article(Italian) Coltivare la Pace, Prevenire la Violenza…
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
… era il titolo del simposio al Virginia Tech di Blacksburg, Virginia-USA, dal 17 al 19.11.2012. Come si coltiva la pace? con la cooperazione a beneficio reciproco e uguale; armonia mediante empatia; conciliazione dei traumi, ripulendo il passato e costruendo un futuro; risolvendo i conflitti mediante le 3 C. Fattibile, possibile; mediante studi per la pace, con teoria e pratica.
→ read full articleA Peace Paradigm
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
Dedicated to Bernard Spolsky
Conflict resolution, Nonviolent resolution, Nonkilling resolution, Peaceful resolution, Peaceful (re)solution, PEACE is the solution!
Bad Investment
TMS editor,
26 Nov 2012
Shultz, a lawyer, bribed a man on the jury to hold out for a charge of manslaughter, as opposed to the charge of 1st degree murder which was brought by the prosecution.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s Step-By-Step Approach toward Rohingya Genocide and Ethni-cide
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
I would call the military’s policy towards the Rohingya “structural genocide”, a systematic and sustained act of policy maintained and pursued, irrespective of which general or ex-general is in charge. Welcome to our ugly majoritarian neo-Fascist democracy run by militarists!
→ read full articleHow to Blockade a Military Base
Simon Moyle – Waging Nonviolence,
26 Nov 2012
At the end of September [2012] a group of just 40 people demonstrated that small numbers are no barrier to successful nonviolent action by blockading the entrance of one of the main military bases in Australia for two days. Building communities of nonviolent praxis like this demonstrate that it is possible to have significant tactical wins with small groups. We don’t need to wait for mass movements to emerge; we can take actions that make the most of small numbers.
→ read full articleExtraordinary World Phenomena – Photo Gallery
Yahoo! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
The outlandish landscapes might look like something from another planet but they are in fact completely natural eccentricities. And while these mind-blowing quirks of Mother Nature might continue to puzzle scientists, they also continue to draw in tourists fascinated by the surreal spectacles.
→ read full articleOut on the Right: On Being Gay, Conservative and Catholic
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
Jens Spahn is a conservative parliamentarian. He is also gay. In a SPIEGEL interview, the 32-year-old describes how this has informed his political career and assesses how far Germany has come on civil rights for gays and lesbians.
→ read full articleCan U.S. Citizens End Israel’s Legal Impunity?
Stephen Zunes – YES! Magazine,
26 Nov 2012
Each time international law has attempted to censure Israel for its recent violations of human rights, the United States has stepped in to stop the process. If anyone is in a position to do something about this, it’s the U.S. public.
→ read full articleMea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
26 Nov 2012
“Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God,” a new documentary by Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, investigates how a charismatic priest in Milwaukee abused more than 200 deaf children in a Catholic boarding school under his control.
→ read full articleU.S. Government Hacked Nicolas Sarkozy, Former France President’s, Office in 2012, l’Express Claims
Huffington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
The United States government reportedly hacked into the office of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy shortly before he was voted out of office earlier this year [2012], according to French newsmagazine l’Express. France’s cyberwar agency reportedly made the discovery after a major security breach in May, which, l’Express says, was caused by a “very powerful worm” developed jointly by the American and Israeli governments, called “Flame.”
→ read full articleNames and Ages of 170 Civilians Killed in the Israeli Attacks on Gaza LAST WEEK alone
Shahd Abusalama, palestinefrommyeyes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
25 Nov 2012 – Because we are NOT just numbers: names and ages of murdered people, victims of Israeli attacks on Gaza since Wednesday [14 Nov 2012]. The number rises to 170. Keep following this post. I’m going to keep updating it on everything that is happening as much as I can and as long as I’m breathing!
→ read full articleKenya: Push to Meet 2013 Male Circumcision Targets
UN IRIN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
With just over one year left to achieve its target of having some 1.1 million men circumcised as part of HIV-prevention efforts, Kenyan male circumcision programmes are ramping up efforts to bring more men into clinics, compensating them for their time and encouraging them to bring friends in for the procedure.
→ read full articleNames and Ages of 26 Civilians Killed by Rockets Fired from Gaza into Israel IN 12 YEARS
Phan Nguyen, Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
Israeli spokespeople frequently remind the world that a million Israeli citizens are within range of Gaza rockets, twelve thousand of which have been fired into Israel in the last twelve years, inflicting thousands of injuries and several dead. However, only 26 people have been killed throughout this time. Below is a list of all the fatalities of rocket and mortar attacks fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel.
→ read full articleWhy So Secretive? The Trans-Pacific Partnership as Global Corporate Coup
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the most secretive and “least transparent” trade negotiation in history.
→ read full articleThe Anguish of Being a Jew Now
MJ Rosenberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
In losing the Israel I grew up on, I feel like a wonderful friend has died. I know all about the Nakba and will not deny it or argue about it. But maybe a new friend will take its place. Maybe this war, and the fact that Israel must see that it can never win this way, will lead to a different Israel. The 7 million Israelis aren’t going away. The Palestinians, who never left, are certainly not going away, either. Neither people will get everything it wants. But each can get what it needs.
→ read full articleIs the Cat Out of the Bag on Israel?
Emily Johanson – Foreign Policy in Focus,
26 Nov 2012
In his latest book, ‘Knowing Too Much: The American Jewish Romance with Israel is Coming to An End’, veteran activist Norman Finkelstein argues that the growing international awareness of the Israeli occupation has heralded a perceptible shift among the U.S. Jewish community away from a close identification with Israel. Criticism of Israeli policies from American Jews is growing far stronger than anything American politicians can muster.
→ read full articleThe Drug War Profiteers
Helen Redmond – Socialist Worker,
26 Nov 2012
A new documentary that exposes the racism and greed of the war on drugs–and the politicians and corporations who profit from it. The House I Live In should cause fresh outrage at the 40-year-long war on drugs in the U.S.. Eugene Jarecki, the award-winning director of Why We Fight, has made a gut-punch of a documentary that humanizes the victims of the drug war.
→ read full articleWe in the Gaza Strip Will Not Die in Silence
Musa Abumarzuq – The Guardian,
26 Nov 2012
The latest Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has prompted several European countries and the US to reaffirm their position of unwavering support for the aggressor. If the world will not defend the Palestinians against Israel, we have the right to defend ourselves, writes the deputy head of Hamas’s political bureau.
→ read full articleCristiano Ronaldo Reportedly Donates €1.5mn to Children in Gaza
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
The star forward gave his Golden Boot which he earned in 2011 to the Real Madrid foundation. The Spanish giants in their turn sold it at auction and will now donate the funds to schools in Gaza. It’s not the first time Ronaldo has given to charity. Last year he sold most of his sports shoes at a Real Madrid Foundation auction which was also dedicated to raising funds for schools in Gaza.
→ read full article(Italian) Italia e Colombia, Una Relazione Pericolosa
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
A partire dal prossimo anno i militari italiani verranno addestrati nella selva colombiana all’esecuzione di “operazioni speciali”.
→ read full articleGenocide: The Ecology of Pathways to Ending Lives and Life
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
I dislike being a Cassandra, Jeremiah, or any other voice that keeps calling attention to the many challenges ahead for humanity and for the world. And yet, it seems to me that if I do not, then somehow I have betrayed my responsibilities, duties, and obligations as professional psychologist, citizen, and human being. This article is in some ways a lament. But in other ways, it is voice in the wilderness calling for an awakening to what is occurring as we choose silence as others cry in pain and humiliation.
→ read full article(Italian) Il Primo Referendum Propositivo Valido in Italia É Già Storia
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
In Valle d’Aosta il “pirogassificatore” non si costruirà.
→ read full articleDevouring Jackals
Linh Dinh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
Born in blood and maintained through constant bloodletting, Israel has gotten its teeth into its prey, and it won’t let go. If it had a choice, it would have devoured all already. So a truce between Israel and Hamas has been announced, ending a bombardment of Gaza that left 147 dead and 1,155 wounded. Israel, on the other hand, suffered five dead and 235 wounded, a bit higher than usual, proportionally.
→ read full articleJimmy Carter: ‘Israelis’ Policy Is to Confiscate Palestinian Territory’
Elisabeth Braw, Metro - Huffington Post,
26 Nov 2012
I think the big change is that the Israeli leaders have decided to abandon the two-state solution. Their policy now is to confiscate Palestinian territory.
→ read full article
UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk Talks About the Slaughter in Gaza (Video of the Week)
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
26 Nov 2012
[TRANSCEND Member] Richard Falk, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, calls on the international community to help defend the people of Gaza from the ongoing U.S.-backed Israeli assault.
→ read full articleCollective Punishment and the Blockade of Gaza
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
Under the Fourth Geneva Convention, collective punishment is war crime. Article 33 states that “No protected person may be punished for an offense that he or she did not personally commit.” Articles 47-78 also impose substantial obligations on occupying powers, with numerous provisions for the general welfare of the inhabitants of an occupied territory.
→ read full articleBan ‘Killer Robots’ Before It’s Too Late
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
Fully Autonomous Weapons Would Increase Danger to Civilians – These future weapons, sometimes called “killer robots,” would be able to choose and fire on targets without human intervention.
→ read full article(Italian) Il Diritto di Israele all’”Autodifesa”: Una Spettacolare Vittoria Propagandistica
Amira Hass – ZNet Italy,
26 Nov 2012
Una delle straordinarie vittorie della propaganda israeliana è che il paese è stato accettato come vittima dei palestinesi, sia agli occhi del pubblico israeliano sia a quelli dei leader dell’occidente che si precipitano a parlare del diritto di Israele a difendersi.
→ read full articleIn-Depth: Top 10 Neglected Refugee Crises
UN-IRIN, ReliefWeb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
Below, IRIN takes a look at some of the most neglected refugee and displacement crises around the world.
→ read full articleWhen Propaganda Masquerades as News
Prof. James F. Tracy – Global Research,
26 Nov 2012
The week-long Israeli onslaught against largely defenseless Palestinians in Gaza that began on November 14 [2012] provides a basis for assessing how Western corporate media whitewash the war crimes of America’s foremost ally in the Middle East. There are three often intertwined techniques consciously applied to such news coverage.
→ read full articleLatin America’s Left Turn Collides with Indigenous Movements
Nyki Salinas-Duda, In These Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
For a viable model of “21st century socialism,” many progressives look to Latin America’s Leftward surge. But swept up in the continent’s “pink tide” are questions of indigenous land and resource rights, which often clash with state development priorities. From Venezuela to Bolivia to Chile, indigenous communities are charging that they have been betrayed by the populist presidents they helped elect.
→ read full articleThe JFK Assassination and the Lost Prospects for Peace
Prof. James F. Tracy - Global Research,
26 Nov 2012
Report From Iron Mountain: On The Possibility and Desirability of Peace is a uniquely important document worthy of careful reconsideration a half-century after JFK’s passing. It points to not only the rationales behind the military industrial complex and its overarching influence, but perhaps more importantly how a very real discussion concerning the nation’s priorities proceeded under Kennedy’s watch—a window of possibility that was violently shut on November 22, 1963.
→ read full articleGaza: Bombed, Wounded, and Celebrating
Mel Frykberg – Inter Press Service-IPS,
26 Nov 2012
As news of the Hudna or ceasefire spread, overjoyed Gazans took to the streets to celebrate. Women ululated, children waved flags and young men handed out sweets and punctured the night air with celebratory gunfire. What is undisputed is that Israel not only failed to break Hamas, but left the organisation politically stronger, still in possession of significant arms caches, and with growing regional support.
→ read full article(Castellano) Israel Intensifica Ofensiva Contra Gaza y Suma Más de 90 Palestinos Muertos
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
19 Nov 2012 – La agencia iraní Press TV destacó que este lunes fueron asesinados al menos una docena de palestinos, los cuales se suman a las 31 muertes contabilizadas el día domingo, siendo la mayoría de las víctimas civiles, mujeres y niños.
→ read full articleModernity’s Other and the Transformation of the University – II
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Short Answers to Simple Questions
→ read full articleAnonymous Downs Hundreds of Israeli Sites over Gaza
Sapa-AFP, The Citizen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Online activist group Anonymous said on Saturday [17 Nov 2012] that their operation “OpIsrael” had either damaged or completely erased the sites of more than 650 private and public institutions that included the Bank of Jerusalem — one of the country’s main finance houses. “Bank of Jerusalem database has been deleted,” the group said in a tweet next to a link to the lender’s non-functioning website.
→ read full article(Italian) Bombardamenti Israeliani e il Capovolgimento della Ragione
Angela Lano, InfoPal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Visto che i media occidentali (italiani in testa), come già successe con Piombo Fuso (2008-2009), invertiranno l’ordine di causa ed effetti, dando la colpa ai palestinesi per i massacri israeliani, in un gioco di manipolazione dell’informazione da manuale orwelliano, stabiliamo alcuni punti cardine:
→ read full articleLatin America’s Middle Class in Global Perspective
Jamele Rigolini – Americas Quarterly,
19 Nov 2012
Different patterns of economic growth in BRIC countries have brought different social changes. Comparing the middle class in Latin America to the new middle classes in the BRIC countries.
→ read full articleStanding At the Gates of Heaven
TMS editor,
19 Nov 2012
Three men were standing in line to get into heaven one day.
→ read full articleWhy U.S. Attorneys and FBI Brass Support Washington’s Marijuana Law
Mark Cooke, Doug Honig – YES! Magazine,
19 Nov 2012
The state of Washington is expecting to generate more than $500,000 a year from taxation of legal marijuana sales to adults. And that’s not counting the savings from no longer arresting people for possession. Voters in Washington state, along with those in Colorado, made history on Election Day by passing laws that legalize, tax, and regulate marijuana for adults age 21 and over.
→ read full articleBahrain Uprising Threatens US Hegemony
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Connecting the dots of recent dramatic events in Bahrain spells one unmistakable message — the US-backed Al Khalifa regime is on the political ropes. It is desperately trying to defeat a determined pro-democracy movement that just won’t lie down or go away.
→ read full articleNoam Chomsky on Gaza
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
19 Nov 2012
“It’s kind of amazing and inspiring to see people managing somehow to survive, as essentially caged animals, and subject to constant, random, sadistic punishment only to humiliate them”
→ read full article(Portuguese) Eleições em Israel, Ataque a Gaza
Nuno Moniz, Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
O Governo de Israel decidiu novamente virar o seu internacionalmente patrocinado poderio militar para a Faixa de Gaza com duas mensagens. Uma para a comunidade internacional e a segunda para os eleitores em Israel: confiem em nós porque não temos medo de fazer chover bombas em Gaza.
→ read full articleHow Sexy Is Benghazi?
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
19 Nov 2012
The Love Pentagon – as in the Petraeus-Broadwell-Kelley-Allen-FBI shirtless torso guy – is the farce that keeps on giving. But this should really not be about sex, lies and emails. This should be about Benghazi. With frenemies like the US, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, Syria certainly does not need enemies. As for blowback, brace yourselves; what happened in Benghazi is just the hors d’oeuvres to be offered by increasingly rampaging frenemies of the US.
→ read full articleWagging the Dog in Gaza: Netanyahu’s Skirmish of Fear
Lior Sternfeld, Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Israel has embarked, with its Gaza attack, on the all-too-well-known elections routine. Netanyahu knows that the way to ensure his victory in the upcoming elections will be by diverting the public discourse from demands of social justice to existential threats imposed on Israel by the bogeyman- Hamas, and the cost of imperiling a third of Israel’s population seems reasonable enough for him.
→ read full articleWhy BP Isn’t a Criminal
Robert Reich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
BP plead guilty to 14 criminal counts, including manslaughter, and agreed to pay $4 billion over the next five years. But it defies logic to make BP itself the criminal. Corporations aren’t people. They can’t know right from wrong. They’re incapable of criminal intent. They have no brains. They’re legal fictions — pieces of paper filed away in a vault in some bank.
→ read full articleWar or Peace in the Sahara?
Robin Edward Poulton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
What Mali needs now is international partners that are ready to study the lessons of the 1990s, and to devise radical actions based on decentralized Malian models that have already been successful.
→ read full articleIsrael Would Have Us Believe That These People Are Terrorists
Information Clearing House – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Pictures of Children Killed and Injured by Israeli Attack on Gaza – November 14, 2012
“A time comes when silence is betrayal.”
— Rev. Martin Luther King
UN Urges End to U.S. Cuba Embargo for 21st Year
Louis Charbonneau, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
A record 188 U.N. members supported resolution on Cuba. Israel, Palau and U.S. only 3 states to vote against. Repeating an annual ritual, the U.N. General Assembly called on Tuesday [13 Nov 2012] for the United States to lift its trade embargo against Cuba, whose foreign minister said the blockade against the communist-run island was tantamount to “genocide.”
→ read full articleBDS, Arab Land and the Custodian of Absentee Property
Paul Larudee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
The 2005 call by more than 170 Palestinian organizations, both within Palestine and without, to boycott Israeli products and services, divest from companies that support and sustain Israel and sanction the Israeli state and its agencies is one of the most important and potentially one of the most effective strategies to end the injustices perpetrated against the Palestinian people.
→ read full articleOccupy Sandy – From Relief to Resistance
Yotam Marom – Waging Nonviolence,
19 Nov 2012
13 Nov 2012 – Two weeks ago I was in my hometown of Hoboken, New Jersey, wading waist deep in a murky combination of floodwater, oil and sewage. More than a week later, after finally getting unstuck from New Jersey, I found myself in a van full of Occupy Sandy activists delivering hot meals to housing-project high rises in Coney Island. There is much work to do. But people are doing it — day by day, block by block. Windows of opportunity have opened here in New York, just as they have in other places around the world — from volunteer work to organizing, from emergency response to a genuine recovery, from relief to resistance.
→ read full articleIndia Poised to Supply Free Drugs to 1.2 Billion People
Zofeen Ebrahim – Inter Press Service-IPS,
19 Nov 2012
With India moving towards universal health coverage (UHC) in the next two years, it has budgeted nearly 300 billion rupees (55.9 million dollars) to fund the programme. It hopes to be able to provide free drugs to 52 percent of the population by April 2017. The central government will fund 75 percent of the programme, with states doling out the rest. “It’s not just possible in India, it’s possible all over the world,” said Dr. Nirmal Kumar Gurbani.
→ read full article(Italian) Un Cambiamento a Washington?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Da Washington, DC – 6 novembre 2012, notte dell’elezione. La democrazia USA è un sistema bipartitico che sta diventando uno stato monopartitico? Se è così, gli altri paesi stiano attenti! Non imitino. La democrazia è di più che solo elezioni. È anche trasparenza e dialogo. Per un reale cambiamento.
→ read full articleLGBT Rights: The Global Struggle for Queer Freedom
Peter Tatchell, Global – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Homophobic persecution and discrimination is rife in large parts of the world, and the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are still not recognised or protected by international law. Nonetheless, progress towards equality is being made thanks to the defiance and bravery of activists.
→ read full articleBradley Manning Deserves Americans’ Support for Military Whistleblowing
Nobel Peace Laureates Desmond Tutu, Mairead Corrigan-Maguire and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel – The Guardian,
19 Nov 2012
16 Nov 2012 – Last week, PFC Bradley Manning offered to accept responsibility for releasing classified documents as an act of conscience – not as charged by the US military. As people who have worked for decades against the increased militarization of societies and for international cooperation to end war, we have been deeply dismayed by his treatment. Thanks to WikiLeaks, US citizens are better informed about wars prosecuted in their name. We owe Manning honour, not jail time.
→ read full articleImagining the Ultimate Global Sharing Day
Rajesh Makwana, Share The World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
The growing support for the sharing economy has the potential to change the way we understand and address the many challenges we face. But it is at the national and global level that sharing can have a truly transformative impact in relation to poverty, sustainability and world peace.
→ read full article(Italian) Il Primo Referendum Propositivo (Valido) Italiano E’ Storia
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Quando la storia dà i brividi
→ read full articleShould Scientists and Engineers Resist Taking Military Money?
John Horgan – Scientific American,
19 Nov 2012
In recent years several professional societies, notably the American Psychological Association and the American Anthropological Association, have been wracked by debates over whether members should consult for the armed forces or other defense agencies. My guess is that such disputes will become more common, as ethical ideals collide with economic realities.
→ read full articleCultivating Peace, Preventing Violence…
Johan Galtung, 19 Nov 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
… was the title of the Symposium at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia-USA 17-19 Nov 2012. How do we cultivate peace? • through cooperation for mutual and equal benefit; • harmony through empathy; • traumas conciliation, clearing the past and building a future; • by solving conflicts through the 3 Cs. Feasible, possible; through peace studies, theory and practice.
→ read full article‘Horrible Citizens’ – The Life of Greece’s One Percent
Julia Amalia Heyer – Der Spiegel,
19 Nov 2012
The Greek economy has been tanking for years now as the country struggles to balance its budget by imposing deep austerity measures. But the country’s richest residents haven’t noticed. Many aren’t taxed at all, and some of those that are prefer to dodge their obligation to the state instead.
→ read full articlePeople Come Into Our Lives . . .
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
People enter our lives at unexpected times
Changing us in profound ways . . .
A glance, a smile or frown,
A word — spoken or written —
Knowledge Processes Neglected by Science
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Insights from the Crisis of Science and Belief – Systemic knowledge processes neglected by science: What are the dimensions of knowledge and information of which science is itself uncritical or unconscious?
→ read full articleBeyond Regulators’ Grasp: How Shadow Banks Rule the World
Martin Hesse and Anne Seith – Der Spiegel,
19 Nov 2012
Beyond the banking world, a parallel universe of shadow banks has grown in the form of hedge funds and money market funds. They’re outside the reach of conventional financial regulation, prompting authorities to plan introducing new rules to prevent the obscure sector from triggering a new financial crisis. But in doing so they risk drying up an important source of funding to banks and firms.
→ read full articleThe Latest Gaza Catastrophe: Will They Ever Learn?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Obama was quoted as saying, “There is no country on earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside of its borders. We are fully supportive of Israel’s right to defend itself.” Much is missing from such a sentiment, most glaringly, the absence of any balancing statement along the following line: “and no country would tolerate the periodic assassination of its leaders by missiles fired by a neighboring country, especially during a lull achieved by a mutually agreed truce. It is time for both sides to end the violence, and establish an immediate ceasefire.”
→ read full articleIsraeli ‘Operation Pillar of Defence’ – Not Defence but Murder of Unarmed Civilians
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Prime Minister Netanyahu argues that Israel has a ‘right to defend itself’ and the Obama administration continues, yet again, to support this bogus claim, pledging to oppose those who would question Israel’s illegal policies. The Israeli government and military do not have the right to carry out indiscriminate bombing and killing of Palestinian civilians. Third party governments have a legal responsibility to take action and see that Israel does not act with impunity.
→ read full articleTango with the Tax Man: Multinationals Find Loopholes Galore in Europe
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Large multinationals, many of them based in the United States, are masters at avoiding taxes on profits made abroad. According to data compiled by independent tax experts, US technology giant Apple paid a paltry $130 million (€102 million) in taxes on foreign earnings of about $13 billion in 2010. Microsoft paid only $1.7 billion on $15 billion in foreign earnings, while software giant Cisco paid a tax bill of $400 million on foreign earnings of more than $8 billion.
→ read full articleWhy Gaza Must Suffer Again
Jonathan Cook, The View from Nazareth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
The inciting cause of the latest confrontation between Israel and Hamas has little to do with the firing of rockets, whether by Hamas or the other Palestinian factions. The conflict predates the rockets – and even the creation of Hamas – by decades. It is the legacy of Israel’s dispossession of Palestinians in 1948, forcing many of them from their homes in what is now Israel into the tiny Gaza Strip.
→ read full articleThe Growing Global Movement against Austerity
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
19 Nov 2012
The general strike that swept across Europe Nov. 14 [2012] had its genesis in the deepening crisis in Spain, Portugal and Greece. As a result of the global economic collapse in 2008, Spain is in a deep financial crisis. Unemployment has surpassed 25 percent, and among young people is estimated at 50 percent. Large banks have enjoyed bailouts while they enforce mortgages that an increasing number of Spaniards are unable to meet, provoking increasing numbers of foreclosures and attempted evictions [suicides].
→ read full articleAmerican Popular Culture: Socializing and Homogenizing Mind, Nation, and World
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
It is said that a fish does not know or recognize the water about it until it is caught and raised from the depths of its milieu so necessary for survival. It is then it may understand the essence of its survival. It seems to me that the same analogy may be applied to American citizens. We are embedded in a popular American culture to which we seem to be oblivious. Figure 1: The Socialization of American Culture, Society, and Psyche:
→ read full articleWhere There Is No Time and Nothing Matters
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Cognitive Challenges at the Edge of the World – This commentary was further informed by the publication of a new study by James Boyce (Van Diemen’s Land, 2008) and the historic apology on 13th February 2008 by the Government of Australia to the Aboriginal peoples of Australia.
→ read full articleSouthern Alternatives on Trade and Development
Comhlámh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Tired of being told there’s no other way? There ARE alternatives! In spite of the global crises, the EU insists that free trade and deregulation is the only way for economies to develop, and is pushing this damaging economic approach on its poor trading partners.
→ read full articleGeorge Galloway, British MP | Full Address
Oxford Union Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
George Galloway gives his address to the Oxford Union Society – October 15th 2012. The Oxford Union Society is the world’s most prestigious debating society, with an unparalleled reputation for bringing international guests and speakers to Oxford. It has been established for 189 years, aiming to promote debate and discussion not just at Oxford University, but across the globe.
→ read full articleMalawi Activists Say Scrapping Sodomy Laws an ‘Uphill Battle’
Agence France-Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Despite the Malawi government’s move to suspend a law banning same-sex relationships, activists say winning a total repeal will be an “uphill battle” in a country where homosexuality is considered a sin. “Malawi culture remains conservative,” Billy Mayaya, a leading rights activist, told AFP just hours after President Joyce Banda’s government announced the suspension of tough anti-gay laws, pending a parliamentary debate.
→ read full articleIran and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Four countries outside the NPT have nuclear weapons: India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel. North Korea had originally joined the NPT, but it withdrew in 2003. Looking at the NPT with the benefit of hindsight, we can see the third “pillar”, the “right to peaceful use of nuclear technology” as a fatal flaw of the treaty. In practice, it has meant encouragement of nuclear power generation, with all the many dangers that go with it.
→ read full articleJapan Appeals to India against Nuclear Power
Nuclear Action Committee Japan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
If you have come to Japan to promote a nuclear power agreement, don’t confine your discussions to the high and mighty in Tokyo, go to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and visit the peace museums there. Listen to the experiences of the hibakusha. And by all means go to Fukushima. Find out how people are trying to live with the 4 reactors emitting radioactive material around them; find out the horrendous conditions of radiation exposure that the thousands of workers trying to contain the accident must endure, and learn what has happened to the seas, the forests and the farm land. If you do that, we think that you will change your mind.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Amizade – Um Poema
Albert Einstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Pode ser que um dia deixemos de nos falar…
Mas, enquanto houver amizade,
Faremos as pazes de novo.
The World Failed Sri Lanka. And Continues to Do So.
Mark Leon Goldberg, UN Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
What we know about those final days is stunningly awful. This International Crisis Group report and this UN Commission of Inquiry report describe a months-long massacre of innocent civilians caught between Tamil Tiger insurgents on one side and government forces on the other. The insurgents used civilians as human shields, and the government decided to shoot through those shields to get to the Tigers. Hundreds of thousands of people were trapped in an area the size of Central Park, subjected to daily mortar fire and indiscriminate killing.
→ read full articleLegacy and Re/volution: Talkin’ bout an Evolution
Caridad Svich, Theater Without Borders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
It is perhaps ironic that the last two centuries of cultural turns have focused so much on visual culture and its interpretation, and that science and technology have devoted so much of its research and energy to the development of progressively sophisticated information and entertainment devices (not to mention surveillance and military devices) geared to the visual imagination and its hyperlink-ing strategies. My questions here have less to do with technical advances in the disciplines of design and engineering, and more to do with the philosophical foundations of how we see and how we hear in culture – what we choose to see and hear and not. Ethics again. Yes. Civic responsibility. Spiritual responsibility.
→ read full articleIsrael Ranked World’s Most Militarised Nation
Jim Lobe – Inter Press Service-IPS,
19 Nov 2012
Israel tops the list of the world’s most militarised nations, according to the latest Global Militarisation Index released Tuesday [13 Nov 2012]. At number 34, Israel’s main regional rival, Iran, is far behind. In contrast, both sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America are relatively low on the Index. The research is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development.
→ read full articleThey Are Hearing Us
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
For the people of Iran who live under Internet and telephone censorship.
→ read full articleGoodbye to a War
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Binyamin Netanyahu and his patron, Sheldon Adelson, betted on Mitt Romney, with the State of Israel as their chip. They lost. About the Iran war, Israeli hawks can kiss it goodbye. The usual cliché says that US presidents in their second term are free of political pressures and can at long last act according to their conscience. That is certainly true – up to a point. We need an Israeli Obama, who will work with the US Obama for peace.
→ read full articleWorld Fisheries Day: 21 November 2012 – Looking for a Nuclear Free World
World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
It has been proved by the Fukushima disaster that there is no safety for nuclear power plants in the world. Nobody knows how to handle the situation in and around Japan, the coast and the sea. The radiation has reached American waters. The Chernobyl accident in Russia, 1986, has created such havoc that the consequences still continue. Within a radius of 150 Km atomic radiation still exists. 97% of the nuclear plant is still ‘alive’ and nobody knows how to ‘kill’ it. Some 9 million children have been born with all kinds of deformities. Since the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in the USA there has not been another plant erected there.
→ read full articleIran/USA: Who Is Threatening Who? Weapons of Mass Distraction (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Abby Martin – Russia Today,
19 Nov 2012
Iran-US Relations: Reality, History, Causes, Consequences
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