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Monsanto, 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.
→ read full article“I’m a monster.” – ”I can’t forgive myself.”
AP – Information Clearing House,
25 Feb 2013
U.S. Veterans Suffering Alone in Guilt Over Wartime Events – A veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, former U.S. Marine Capt. Timothy Kudo thinks of himself as a killer – and he carries the guilt every day. “I can’t forgive myself. And the people who can forgive me are dead. There’s no day – whether it’s in the shower or walking down the street … that I don’t think about things that happened over there,” he says.
→ read full articleThe Economy: Under New Ownership
Marjorie Kelly – YES! Magazine,
25 Feb 2013
How cooperatives are leading the way to empowered workers and healthy communities.
→ read full articleCholera and Healthcare in Haiti
Sokari Ekine – Pambazuka News,
25 Feb 2013
The problem with healthcare in Haiti is that there is no system, no structures, no plan – at least not one that has been implemented. The healthcare facilities are wholly inadequate. It is impossible to talk about health care in Haiti without mentioning the 2010 earthquake and the subsequent cholera epidemic which so far has affected 630,000 people and taken the lives of 7,500.
→ read full articleWhy Nonkiling?
Glenn Paige – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Why “nonkilling” rather than peace, nonviolence, conflict resolution, or any other desirable human condition? Because nonkilling is the alpha and omega of life. From birth to natural death no human endeavor can be pursued if we are killed.
→ read full articleFilmmakers for Nonkilling
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Filmmakers,
Creatively, you seek world audiences to entertain
through increasingly varied genres of filmmaking
but sadly, a tradition of violence many movies sustain
and viewers are exposed to cruel forms of killing
What a Wonderful World (Music Video of the Week)
Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Featuring Grandpa Elliott with children’s choirs across the globe. Children and music bring us hope for a better future. Today we celebrate life and change the world — one heart and one song at a time!!
→ read full articleParallelism: What If the Chinese Killed the Dalai Lama with a Drone Strike?
Tom Gallagher – Common Dreams,
25 Feb 2013
It might be absurd to consider the hypothetical, but then again, what has become the reality of US policy, like the extrajudicial killing a US teenager, would have also once been decried as absurd. We know that the Dalai Lama isn’t guilty of terrorism, but then by now we also know that some of America’s drone strike victims weren’t either.
→ read full articleMarrying an Other Whatever the Form
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Reframing and Extending the Understanding of Marriage – The understanding of relationships with an “other” is central to highly controversial debate at this time. The debate focuses in particular on “same-sex marriage”. This is considered especially questionable by various religions, most explicitly those of Abrahamic tradition and most especially by the Catholic Church.
→ read full articlePMANE Opposes the American Nuclear Plant at Mithi Virdi, Gujarat
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy vehemently opposes the American nuclear power park that is being set up at Mithi Virdi, Gujarat. The PMANE appeals to the Government of India and the State Government of Gujarat to put the interests of Indian citizens ahead of foreign governments’ and their MNC’s interests. Let us not think and act like colonized slaves but behave like independent leaders and find alternative solutions for our energy needs.
→ read full articleSpanish Firefighters Refuse To Be ‘Puppets of the Banks’
Revolting Europe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Firefighters in Galicia, Catalonia and the Madrid region have rejected any action that “contributes to inequalities and miseries suffered by the working class,” said the CCOO union. Galician fire crews “have proven to be on the side of social justice” by refusing to participate in the eviction of Aurelia Rey, an 85 year-old woman who had fallen behind on rent by one month.
→ read full articleNepal: Six Years of “Transition”
Johan Galtung, 18 Feb 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Three huge revolts in Asia in the last decades came to an end: the anti-Confucian cultural revolution in China 1967-76, the anti Phnom Penh Khmer Rouge revolution in Cambodia 1975-79, and the anti-feudal monarchy anti-caste maoist People’s War in Nepal that lasted 10 years from 13 February 1996, followed by 18 days of effective nonviolence in the streets of Kathmandu in 6-24 April 2006. The King abdicated.
→ read full article[Tragicomedy] Pentagon Creates New Medal for Cyber, Drone Wars
Lolita C. Baldor, AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
They fight the war from computer consoles and video screens. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced Wednesday [13 Feb 2013] that the Pentagon is creating a medal to troops, even if their actions are physically removed from the fight. Unlike other combat medals, it does not require the recipient risk his or her life to get it.
→ read full articleCondemn Not Just North Korea; Deal with Global Nuclear Hypocrisy
Dr. S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
North Korea has just announced that it has conducted a successful third underground nuclear test, and the world powers are all condemning the act unanimously. According to their reasoning, North Korea, Iran and a few other “rogue” countries they do not like cannot and should not develop nuclear energy or produce nuclear weapons. But they themselves can do both. The United States, Russia, Britain and France can arm themselves to their teeth with thousands of nuclear bombs and all kinds of treacherous missiles.
→ read full article(Castellano) Vientos Africanos
Rais Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Vientos salinos,
Imágenes de ganado y de pastores,
Vida difícil del desierto,
Espejismo de ciudades de sal distantes.
The Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI: Out with God’s Rottweiler
Binoy Kampmark - CounterPunch,
18 Feb 2013
As head of the Doctrine for the Congregation of the Faith, the then Cardinal Ratzinger ordered that Fr. Lawrence Murphy, who had sexually assaulted at least 200 children at St. John’s School for the Deaf in Milwaukee, leave the ministry. All to the good, except that Murphy was not defrocked let alone punished or prosecuted via formal legal channels. Besides, no one was particularly interested in listening to deaf victims.
→ read full articleBeyond the Haunted Imagination
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Ever since atomic bombs were exploded over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the closing days of World War II end of the world forebodings have been present in Western cultural consciousness. In the background of such thinking is the religious anticipation of a day of judgment when life in earth will be replaced by the consignment of everyone then living to either the hell of damnation or the heaven of salvation.
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Tears in Heaven (Music Video of the Week)
The Choir Boys – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Music Video from 2009. Timeless.
→ read full article(Castellano) Bolivia Ha Reducido 60 Veces la Brecha Entre Ricos y Pobres Desde 2006
Agencia Boliviana de Información – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
El ministro de Economía y Finanzas Públicas de Bolivia, Luis Arce, informó este jueves [14 feb 2013] que durante los gobiernos neoliberales, el 10 por ciento más rico de la población boliviana generaba alrededor de 95 veces más dinero que el 10 por ciento más pobre. Hoy esa brecha se acortó a 36 veces, son 60 veces que se ha reducido la brecha entre los más ricos y los más pobres”, aseveró Arce. “Nuestras políticas fructificaron para que nuestros hermanos del campo abandonen la extrema pobreza”, enfatizó.
→ read full articleTel Aviv Is Today’s Sun City
Omar Barghouti – Socialist Worker,
18 Feb 2013
Palestinian author and activist Omar Barghouti spoke at a forum at Brooklyn College February 7, 2013 as planned despite an enormous campaign against the event by pro-Israel advocacy groups. In fact, as an article in Israel’s Ha’aretz newspaper noted dejectedly, the “heavy-handed campaign” against the meeting elevated the gathering into an event that grabbed headlines. “The result of all of this surfeit and excess was a clear-cut, perhaps unprecedented PR coup for BDS and a humiliating defeat for Israel’s interests,” wrote Chemi Shalev.
→ read full articleDrones, Kill Lists and Machiavelli
Desmond M. Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate – The New York Times,
18 Feb 2013
Do the United States and its people really want to tell those of us who live in the rest of the world that our lives are not of the same value as yours? That President Obama can sign off on a decision to kill us with less worry about judicial scrutiny than if the target is an American? Would your Supreme Court really want to tell humankind that we, like the slave Dred Scott in the 19th century, are not as human as you are? I cannot believe it.
→ read full articleUN Kicks Off Year Promoting International Cooperation on Water Management
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
11 February 2013 – The United Nations today launched the International Year of Water Cooperation, which seeks to provide a platform for countries to collaborate in the management of this precious resource in the interest of peace and development.
→ read full articleOur Violent Economy is Hurting Women
Vandana Shiva - Yes! Magazine,
18 Feb 2013
There is a connection between the growth of unjust economic policies and the intensification of crimes against women. The Delhi gang rape has triggered a revolution—one that we must sustain. Violence against Women Is As Old As Patriarchy
→ read full articleUrgent UN Press Statement: Release Palestinian Hunger Strikers Now
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
The following press statement was issued 13 February 2013 under the auspices of the UN Human Rights Council in my capacity as Special Rapporteur for Palestinian Territories Occupied since 1967. This nonviolent resistance to unlawful and abusive detention practices by Israel is a human rights outrage that should be the occasion of media attention and a worldwide outcry. I encourage all who can to exert pressure on Israel before these individuals die in captivity. They are currently reported to be in grave condition. Please use all social networking tools to alert contacts.
→ read full articleReconciliation without Resolution
Anurag Acharya – Nepali Times,
18 Feb 2013
Earlier this week [17 Feb 2013], on the eve of 17th anniversary of the start of the conflict, noted Norwegian peace studies professor Johan Galtung gave a stark warning during a talk at the Peace Museum in Patan: Nepali society will be in perpetual conflict if Kathmandu’s elite continues to betray people’s aspirations for genuine structural change in society.
→ read full articleThe Reality at Jaitapur, Mr. Hollande
Anuj Wankhede and Cressida Morley, Dianuke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
French President Francois Hollande is making his first visit out of Europe and has chosen India as a destination for his visit starting 14th February [2013]. On his radar is to sell Areva’s failed EPR (European Pressurized Reactor) nuclear reactors to India. Even as France has not been able to implement the EPR reactors there or in Finland nor has the US regulator certified it. However, the Indian government is eager to set up these reactors in a huge area in coastal Maharashtra – at Jaitapur – a highly bio-diverse region that needs preservation.
→ read full articleA Key Question: How Do We Make the Economy Work for the Poor?
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
We want to make a case for the claim that “unbounded organization” is a useful concept, indeed a key concept. A key opens doors. We use the word “key” to suggest that the concept of unbounded organization can be said to “open doors.” It helps to answer questions and to resolve problems regarding not just one but several theoretical problems in the social sciences. Similarly the practical question posed in the title of this chapter, “How do we make the economy work for the poor?” can be regarded as a question whose satisfactory answer would “open” answers to other crucial practical questions such as, “How can violent conflicts be transformed into peaceful cooperation?”
→ read full articleA Man and His Money
TMS editor,
18 Feb 2013
There was a man who had worked all of his life and had saved all of his money. He was a real miser and loved money more than anything else.
→ read full article(Português) Historiador Conecta Desinteresse dos EUA pela América Latina a Avanços da Região
Martín Granovsky – Carta Maior,
18 Feb 2013
O historiador Erick Langer, diretor do Centro de Estudos Latino-americanos da Universidade de Georgetown, em Washington, fala nesta entrevista sobre vários temas da história continental, como o populismo, a ascensão e as crises do neoliberalismo, as conexões das terras baixas com os Andes e a influência da China e dos EUA.
→ read full articleArgentina Slams Israel over Interference
Al-Akhbar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Argentina’s top diplomat chastised Israel Wednesday [13 Feb 2013] for interfering in its judicial process over the deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish charities building in Buenos Aires. He added that cooperation with Iran would “bring them closer to the truth.” and, in an apparent snide reference to Israel’s own record, said that Argentina was not in the habit of carrying out extrajudicial punishment. “Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told me that we cannot sign an agreement with Iran. So maybe he wants us to kidnap the suspects or put a bomb below the car of one of them.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Schiavitù, Colonialismo, e la Chiesa
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Parliamo di milioni di schiavi sbarcati nell’arco fra Rio a Washington con baricentro caraibico, e di altri a sud di Rio, a nord di Washington e sulla linea di costa del Pacifico dell’America Latina. Un indicibile crimine contro l’umanità.
→ read full articleAssisting in Lankan Genocide and UNdoing the UN: A Chronological Account
Dr. S.P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
This is the story of how the fence started eating up the crop, and how the watchman plundered the shop. The year 2009 dawned rather badly for the Tamils in Eelam. Some 20 countries including sworn enemies such as India and Pakistan had joined their secret hands in the war against the Tamil people in Tamil Eelam. India, the home of some 8 crore Tamils, was at the forefront doing all it could to help the genocidal government in Colombo.
→ read full articleLetter from a Drone Protester’s Jail
David Swanson, War Is a Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
15 Feb 2013 – Greetings from the Federal Prison Camp in Yankton, South Dakota! As of this writing, I am two months into a six month sentence imposed due to my protest of war crimes committed by remote control from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri against the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 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 articleWikiLeaks Is a Rare Truth-Teller. Smearing Julian Assange Is Shameful.
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Public displays of warmth for Assange are common and seldom reported. Several thousand people packed Sydney Town Hall, with hundreds spilling into the street. In New York recently, Assange was awarded the Yoko Ono Lennon Prize for Courage. In the audience was Daniel Ellsberg, who risked all to leak the truth about the barbarism of the Vietnam War. “The US is out to crush someone who has revealed its dirty secrets.”
→ read full articleHypocrisy: US Arms Al Qaeda in Syria, Mass-Slaughters Civilians in Afghanistan
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
In other words, the very underwriters of the armed militancy that is consuming Syria are sitting along side the head of the UN commission producing reports portraying the Syrian government as guilty of “war crimes and crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleThe Military’s Pandora’s Box: The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program-HAARP
Dr. Nick Begich and Jeane Manning – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
This article was prepared to provide a summary of the contents of a book written in 1995 which describes an entirely new class of weapons. The individuals who are demanding answers about the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program-HAARP are scattered around the planet. As well as bush dwellers in Alaska, they include: a physician in Finland; a scientist in Holland; an anti-nuclear protester in Australia; independent physicists in the United States; a grandmother in Canada, and countless others.
→ read full articleSyria – It Is Illegal to Back Rebels Fighting a Legitimate Government
Dr. Curtis Doebbler, international lawyer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Several countries, mostly from the Arab League (dominated by the Gulf kingdoms) and the West, have recognized the coalition of Syrian opposition militias that was born in Doha (Qatar), under the auspices of the Western and Gulf countries. We asked international lawyer Curtis Doebbler, a peace and human rights activist, whether it could be legal to provide weapons to the this armed opposition as France asks the EU. Here is his answer.
→ read full articleKing without a Crown
Allison Hoffman – Tablet Magazine,
18 Feb 2013
Malcolm Hoenlein has served as the unofficial king of the Jews for the past three decades, but a combination of forces threatens his rule.
→ read full articleTell America Tell
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
What intention is yours after all?
Why so greedy, so thirsty and for what?
What do you want, tell after all
The power, the might, lordship or what?
Tell America tell — What?
The Hubris of the Drones
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Our blind faith in technology combined with a false sense of infallible righteousness continues unabated. Such hubris brought us to grief in Vietnam and Iraq and may do so again with President Obama’s cold-blooded use of drones and his indifference to so-called “collateral damage,” grossly referred to by some in the military as “bug splat,” and otherwise known as innocent bystanders.
→ read full articleGangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
18 Feb 2013
How HSBC hooked up with drug traffickers and terrorists. And got away with it. Its case went miles beyond the usual paper-pushing, keypad-punching¬ sort-of crime, committed by geeks in ties, normally associated¬ with Wall Street. In this case, the bank literally got away with murder – well, aiding and abetting it, anyway. An arrestable class and an unarrestable class. We always suspected it, now it’s admitted. So what do we do?
→ read full articleBolivia Reducing 60 Times the Gap between Rich and Poor Since 2006
Agencia Boliviana de Información-AB I – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
The Bolivian Minister of Economics and Public Finances, Luis Arce reported yesterday [14 Feb 2013] that during the previous neoliberal governments the richest 10% of the population generated around 95 times more income than the poorest 10%. “Today this gap has narrowed with the richest now earning 36 times more than the poorest. The gap between the richest and poorest has narrowed by 60,” he said. “Our policies have resulted in our rural brothers getting out of extreme poverty,” he stressed.
→ read full articleWorker Owned Businesses Point to New Forms of Ownership
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Can co-ops come out of the margins of the economy and be part of a larger political project to transform how things are owned?
→ read full article(Deutsch) Post-2015-Ziele: Spart Euch diese Reise!
Bernd Hamm – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Stell Dir vor, es ist UNO, und keiner geht hin
→ read full article(Português) Os BRICS de Olho na África
Antonio Martins, Outras Palavras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Quinto encontro dos grandes emergentes debaterá criação de um banco de desenvolvimento comum, voltado para continente. Cooperação ou novo imperialismo?
→ read full articleSpielberg vs Tarantino: Hollywood and the Past
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
If Leo Strauss is correct and Western civilization should be seen as an oscillation between Athens and Jerusalem, truth must be said – we can really do with many more Athenians and their essentialist reflections. In short, we are in a desperate need of many more Tarantinos to counter Jerusalem and its ambassadors.
→ read full articleThe Hawks Were Wrong: Iraq Is Worse Off Now
Mehdi Hasan – New Statesman,
18 Feb 2013
So, Saddam is gone – but at what cost? Iraq has been destroyed and hundreds of thousands of innocent people have lost their lives, as the direct result of an unnecessary, unprovoked war that, according to the former chief justice Lord Bingham, was a “serious violation of international law”. “It was worse than a crime,” said the French diplomat Talleyrand, responding to the execution of the Duc d’Enghien by Napoleon; “it was a blunder.” Iraq turned Talleyrand’s aphorism on its head – it was worse than a blunder; it was a crime.
→ read full articleInternyet Nescience?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Self-Referential Upgrading of Obsolete Internet Conference Processes Inhibiting Emergence of Integrative Knowledge – Paper originally envisaged for the 1st International Conference on Internet Science (10-13 April 2013, Brussels) held under the aegis of the European Commission, by the EINS project, the FP7 European Network of Excellence in Internet Science.
→ read full articleObama Terror Drones: CIA Tactics in Pakistan Include Targeting Rescuers and Funerals
Chris Woods and Christina Lamb – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
18 Feb 2013
The CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan has killed dozens of civilians who had gone to help rescue victims or were attending funerals, an investigation by the Bureau for the Sunday Times has revealed. The findings are published just days after President Obama claimed that the drone campaign in Pakistan was a ‘targeted, focused effort’ that ‘has not caused a huge number of civilian casualties.’
→ read full articleTAPI: A Step Closer to Realization
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
On 7 February 2013, the Indian Cabinet approved the formation of a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to study the feasibility and design parameters of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline, originally mooted in 2006.
→ read full articleObama to ‘Bypass Congress’ On CISPA with Cybersecurity Executive Order
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Serviced,
18 Feb 2013
Obama’s first executive order is expected to be issued this week when the president calls for the creation of new standards on what private-sector companies must do to protect their computer systems from a cybersecurity breach. The order is a direct response to Congress’ refusal to pass the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) last year.
→ read full articleLibyan-Style “Democracy”: Two Years without Gaddafi
Andrei Smirnov – The Voice of Russia,
18 Feb 2013
Mass protests are sweeping across Libya as the country marks the second anniversary of the beginning of a civil war that ousted Muammar Gaddafi. Two years after the fall of the Gaddafi regime, no new constitution has been drafted.
→ read full article(Português) Do Que Um Cão Precisa
Marcela Godoy, Consciência Animal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Será que o cão tem espírito? – perguntou-me o filho do meio. Olhei para ele surpreendido. E acabei por responder: – Não sei se nós próprios temos espírito ou se é o espírito que nos tem ou está em nós. – É isso que eu queria dizer. Olha para ele. Era um fim de tarde de Agosto, o cão estava parado em frente ao mar, o pêlo muito luzidio, a cabeça levantada, narinas abertas, sorvendo o ar. – Ele está a cheirar o espírito. O espírito da terra, o espírito do vento, o espírito das águas”. (Manuel Alegre).
→ read full articleUniversity of Ignorance
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
The possibility of a University of Ignorance merits consideration as a process with which people could engage to unlearn. This would naturally contrast with the worldwide preoccupation with the culmination of intellectual effort in the education and research undertaken so exclusively at conventional universities — framed unquestionably as the advancement of knowledge. Whatever their much acclaimed merits, these tend to obscure the recognition of the potential significance of what is not known, most notably in relation to any transcendent “wisdom” which features so questionably in university preoccupations, if at all.
→ read full article(Português) 54 Países, Tortura & CIA Ilimitada
Flávio Aguiar – Carta Maior,
11 Feb 2013
Relatório da Open Society Foundations traz 216 páginas em que se reúnem casos de 136 “cidadãos do mundo” sequestrados a mando da CIA, em diferentes países, levados para diferentes países, neles eventualmente torturados, alguns terminando a trajetória na infame Guantánamo. Para isso, 54 governos colaboraram com a CIA e os EUA.
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Wesley Clark – America’s Foreign Policy “Coup”
ForaTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Nov 5, 2007 – Retired four-star general and former Democratic Presidential candidate Wesley Clark criticizes the course of U.S. foreign policy in the wake of September 11, 2001.
→ read full articleThinking Mali
Johan Galtung, 11 Feb 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Tuaregs and Muslims have picked up a lot from the West these last hundred years; how about the West trying to learn something from them? Is it obvious that the modern, automated, industrial, financial-speculation state is better than confederate camel nomadism?
→ read full articleForget ‘Normal’ Politics
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Political life is filled with policy choices that are made mainly on the basis of calculations of advantage, as well as reflecting priorities and values of those with the power of decision. In a constitutional framework of governance the rule of law sets outer limits as to permissible outcomes.
→ read full articleTargeted Killing and Drone Warfare
Michael Walzer – Dissent,
11 Feb 2013
It is always a hard question whether new technologies require the revision of old arguments. Targeted killing isn’t new, and I am going to repeat an old argument about it. But targeted killing with drones? Here the old arguments, though they still make sense, leave me uneasy. Imagine a world, which we will soon be living in, where everybody has drones.
→ read full articleResource Nationalism: Beyond Ideology
Hal Weitzman – Americas Quarterly,
11 Feb 2013
The hemisphere revives an old policy standby. Latin America’s political Left has displayed symptoms of bipolarity for much of the past decade. One Left had “truly socialist and progressive roots” that was “following pragmatic, sensible and realistic paths.” The other stemmed from “a populist, purely nationalist past” that had “proven much less responsive to modernizing influences.”
→ read full articleSyria: An Orderly Transition
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Can there be an orderly transition within Syria toward a new regime which reflects Syria’s pluralistic society? Can this orderly transition process avoid additional violence, and increased hostility among segments of society?
→ read full articleUN Body “Alarmed” by US Killings of Afghan Children
Channel News Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
A UN committee has expressed “alarm” over reports that hundreds of children have been killed by US military forces in Afghanistan in the past five years. The Geneva-based Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) said the deaths were “due notably to reported lack of precautionary measures and indiscriminate use of force”. The report, received by AFP on Friday [8 Feb 2013], also expressed concern that troops responsible for the killing of children had not always been held accountable and that family grievances had not been redressed.
→ read full articleHacker in Chief: Obama Given Right to Launch ‘Preemptive’ Cyberattacks
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
A secret review has concluded that US President Obama has the authority to launch a preemptive cyber attack on any country on the basis that they are considered a ‘cyber threat’ – even if there is no concrete evidence of this threat. It may not be long before the US conducts crippling attacks on foreign soil with little more than a mouse click, thereby sparing itself the effort of sending its military oversees or declaring war.
→ read full articleDisaster Capitalism in the Maghreb: War, Refugees and Profit in West Africa
Ramzy Baroud – Toward Freedom,
11 Feb 2013
From Libya to Mali a typical story is forming, coupled with lucrative contracts and massive opportunities of all sorts. When private security firms speak of an emerging market in Africa, one is to safely assume that the continent is once more falling prey to growing military ambitions and unfair business conduct.
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Man
Steve Cutts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Animation: Looking at man’s relationship with the natural world.
→ read full articleTribalism and Agreed-Upon Lies
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Truth has the great virtue that it allows us to accurately predict the future. If we ignore truth because it is unfashionable, or painful, or heretical, the future will catch us unprepared.
→ read full articleBDS Better Learn from Its Mistakes
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
It’s almost funny to read the BDS’ leadership’s outraged reactions to top ethnic-cleansing advocate Alan Dershowitz when he tried to stop a discussion with Judith Butler and Omar Barghouti discussing BDS at NYC Brooklyn College [7 Feb 2013]. This power struggle between Dershowitz and BDS should be a wake-up call. BDS should learn from its mistakes.
→ read full articleNATO Rejects UN Report on Death of Afghan Children
Kim Gamel, Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
The U.S.-led international coalition on Friday [8 Feb 2013] rejected a U.N. rights group’s concern about reports that U.S. military strikes have killed hundreds of children in Afghanistan during the past four years, saying they are “categorically unfounded.”
→ read full articleLetter to Rahul Gandhi
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Greetings! We are writing on behalf of several millions of people in Tamil Nadu and Kerala who have been waging a peaceful and nonviolent struggle for almost a quarter century against the Koodankulam nuclear power project (KKNPP).
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CNN Goldman Sachs & the Zio Matrix
David Duke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
This documentary video is the first public expose’ that the same Zio who is the biggest stockholder of the mega Zio media corporation Time Warner, was the biggest stockholder also of Goldman Sachs at the time of the mortgage meltdown. It shows how the biggest economic theft in history, that by Goldman Sachs in the Mortgage meltdown, was covered up by Zio influence in media and government.
→ read full articleEliminating the Scourge of Female Genital Mutilation
Ruth Njeng’ere – Pambazuka News,
11 Feb 2013
Recent Successes Inspire Hope – A world without FGM is within sight. But more efforts are needed to ensure worldwide legislation against the practice and increased education to attain that goal.
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Peace Train (Music Video of the Week)
Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Oh I’ve been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one
And I believe it could be, some day it’s going to come
Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train
Oh peace train take this country, come take me home again
UNHCHR Welcomes Enabling Individual Complaints on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
“The entry into force of the Optional Protocol is a major breakthrough, which will enable victims under the jurisdiction of the States parties to seek justice for violations of their economic, social and cultural rights,” Pillay said. Uruguay triggered the coming into force of the Optional Protocol when, on 5 February, it became the tenth country to ratify, joining Argentina, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mongolia, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain.
→ read full articleSilent Circle, the New Encryption App That Is Terrifying the Government
Jacob Sloan, disinformation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
The idea is to “democratize encryption” by making it available to the non-tech-savvy with the push of a button. It’s a game-changer that will almost certainly make life easier and safer for journalists, dissidents, diplomats, and companies trying to evade surveillance. Silent Circle has an explicit policy that it cannot and will not comply with law enforcement eavesdropping requests.
→ read full articlePoll: Fox Is the Least-Trusted Name in News
Allison Brito – The National Memo,
11 Feb 2013
The poll found that 39 percent of voters identified Fox News as the news outlet they trust the least — this dwarfs the 14 percent who named MSNBC, followed by CNN at 13 percent, Comedy Central at 12 percent, ABC and CBS at 5 percent, NBC at 3 percent, and the 1 percent who said they least trust PBS.
→ read full articleAn Indispensable Book on Palestine/Israel
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
I realize that without knowing it, I have long waited for this book, although I could not have imagined its lyric magic in advance of reading. It is a triumph of what I would call ‘intelligent innocence,’ the great benefits of a clear mind, an open and warm heart, and a trustworthy moral compass that draws sharp lines between good and evil while remaining ever sensitive to the contradictory vagaries of lives and geographic destinies.
→ read full article(Português) Conheça 10 Transgênicos Que Já Estão na Cadeia Alimentar
Thomas Pappon - BBC Brasil,
11 Feb 2013
Salmão: É a primeira vez que um animal geneticamente modificado é aprovado para consumo humano. Mas muitos consumidores nos Estados Unidos, Europa e Brasil, regiões em que os OGMs em questão de poucos anos avançaram em velocidade surpreendente dos laboratórios aos supermercados, continuam desconfiados da ideia do homem cumprindo um papel reservado à natureza ou à evolução – e guardam na memória os efeitos nocivos, descobertos tarde demais, de “maravilhas” tecnológicas como o DDT e a talidomida.
→ read full articleWe Won’t Be Silenced About Israel’s Crimes
Omar Barghouti – Socialist Worker,
11 Feb 2013
Controversy continues to swirl around a planned forum scheduled to take place on Thursday, February 7 [2013], at Brooklyn College to discuss the growing global boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.
→ read full articleHarmonious Global Community at Work
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Since the early days of human existence virtually all people yearned strongly to live at peace with each other. They viewed harmonious living as their ultimate goal in life. Yet we learn from history that those in power always tended to solve their differences through struggles and wars.
→ read full articleThe Trillion Dollar Coin: Joke or Game Changer?
Ellen Brown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
The trillion dollar coin actually represents one of the most important principles of popular prosperity ever conceived: the creation of money by sovereign governments, debt-free.
→ read full articleGermany’s Drone Conundrum: ‘New Wars’ Demand New Mindsets
Thomas Darnstaedt – Der Spiegel,
11 Feb 2013
Germany’s government recently announced plans to do a 180-degree policy shift by deploying armed drones in combat. It argues that remote-controlled killing machines are no different than any other weapons, but experts say the “new wars” have completely different — and revolutionary — rules.
→ read full articleViral Gene in Genetically Engineered Foods Could Promote Disease
Dr. Mercola – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
One way to achieve a genetic modification in a plant is to piggyback a chosen gene on a plant virus, such as the Cauliflower Mosaic virus. Here, they discovered that the most commonly used genetic regulatory sequence (i.e. that which drives the gene expression within the plant), called CaMV 35S promoter, also encodes a gene fragment of the virus, in addition to the desired genetic trait being inserted.
→ read full articleArgentina in the Process of Quitting from World Bank Investment Disputes Centre
South Atlantic News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Argentina says it plans to withdraw from a World Bank body designed to arbitrate between states and foreign investors. This follows similar decisions by several other countries in Latin America like Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela. Eduardo Barcesat, the chief legal advisor to Argentine’s Treasury, says ICSID is “a tribunal of butchers” that only rules in favour of multinational companies. Barcesat believes quitting the Center would be a key move to recover Argentina’s legislative and jurisdictional sovereignty.
→ read full articleHigh Frequency Active Auroral Research Program-HAARP: Weapon of Mass Destruction
Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D., GNSH – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
One of the ways in which HAARP is thought to work is similar to firing a cap gun in an avalanche area. The snow is built up, ready to collapse and even the slightest disturbance causes an avalanche. That’s one way that HAARP works. In key areas where seismic pressures are ready to shift, HAARP bombards the already sensitive area with an incredible amount of energy in the form of a beam that reflects off the ionosphere. The earth’s tectonic plates vibrate and an earthquake results.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Risveglio Arabo-Musulmano – e USA-Israele
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
L’area Mediorientale e Nordafricana (MENA) è arabo-musulmana con un’isola ebraica crescente in mezzo. Ex-territorio coloniale – sotto i turchi ottomani sunniti per oltre quattro secoli, e dell’occidente laico, Inghilterra-Italia-Francia, per mezzo secolo – ora sotto il colonialismo ebreo israeliano e l’imperialismo USA.
→ read full articleAn Actor but Out of the Drama
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
At a certain point
He happened to be a pretender
Deviating the track he came…
It Has Happened Here
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Whether a person believes the official story of 9/11 which rests on unproven government assertions or believes the documented evidence provided by a large number of scientists, first responders, and structural engineers and architects, the result is the same. 9/11 was used to create an open-ended “war on terror” and a police state. It is extraordinary that so many Americans believe that “it can’t happen here” when it already has.
→ read full articleA Brief History Of Medicine
TMS editor,
11 Feb 2013
I have a stomachache.
2000 B.C. – Here, eat this root…
Nepal’s First Peace Event 2013 with Prof. Dr. Johan Galtung
Dr. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Perhaps an internationally acclaimed person of authority on conflict transformation by peaceful means may ignite the political consensus process amongst the concerned stakeholders and actors of Nepal. In the context, it is natural to have great expectations from the Founding Father of Peace Studies in the world, Professor Dr. Johan Galtung, who is visiting Nepal for the first Peace Event in Kathmandu from February 10th to 18th, 2013.
→ read full articleHuman Rights – World Report 2013
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
This 23rd annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2012. It reflects extensive investigative work that Human Rights Watch staff has undertaken during the year, often in close partnership with domestic human rights activists.
→ read full articleHumanity Beyond Borders
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Oh dear Americans…
We too are humans
Why you kill us often
So mercilessly…
From the Culture of Aloha, a Path Out of Gun Violence
Poka Laenui – YES! Magazine,
11 Feb 2013
U.S. society tends to deal with violence by treating it as an individual occurrence—focusing on the “perpetrator” and how he is different from us. The more people killed or maimed, the more horrendous the event, the more we separate the actor and event from ourselves—the good people—and individualize responsibility to the “gun-toter.” It is a domination, individualism, and exclusion—or DIE—deep culture that is the essence of modern U.S. society.
→ read full articleAppeal to the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India
The Catholic Faithful Radhapuram Taluk– TRANSCEND Media Service\,
11 Feb 2013
We have been struggling continuously against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project in peaceful and nonviolent manner for a quarter century and for almost 550 days in a more recent concerted campaign. We have been asking in vain for the basic information about the project such as the Site Evaluation Report, Safety Analysis Report, Emergency Preparedness Plan, the performance report of the reactor, and the India-Russia Inter-Governmental Agreement on Liability and so forth.
→ read full articleUK Sends Hand-Held Helicopter Drones to War Zone
Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
British soldiers in Afghanistan have been issued with surveillance drones so small they can fit in the palm of a man’s hand. The Scandinavian-designed Black Hornet Nano weighs as little as 16 grams (roughly half an ounce). The 4-inch (10-centimeter) -long helicopter is fitted with a tiny camera which relays still images and video to a remote terminal.
→ read full articleGlobalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition
Open Society Justice Initiative – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Globalizing Torture is the most comprehensive account yet assembled of the human rights abuses associated with CIA secret detention and extraordinary rendition operations. It details for the first time what was done to the 136 known victims, and lists the 54 foreign governments that participated in these operations. It shows that responsibility for the abuses lies not only with the United States but with dozens of foreign governments that were complicit.
→ read full articleBrennan and Kiriakou, Drones and Torture
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
11 Feb 2013
John Brennan and John Kiriakou worked together years ago, but their careers have dramatically diverged. Brennan is now on track to head the CIA, while Kiriakou is headed off to prison. Each of their fates is tied to the so-called war on terror.
→ read full article“The True Story of the Bilderberg Group” and What They May Be Planning Now
Stephen Lendman – Global Research,
4 Feb 2013
A Review of Daniel Estulin’s Book
→ read full articleSlavery, Colonialism, and the Church
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
From Liverpool-UK, 31 Jan 2013 – We talk about millions of slaves landed in the arch from Rio to Washington with the point of gravity in the Caribbean, and some south of Rio, north of Washington and around the coast to the Pacific side of Latin America. An unspeakable crime against humanity.
→ read full articleOf Delays, Corruption and Half-Truths
Nityanand Jayaraman, Tehelka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
No questions were raised when India’s nuclear regulator has gave nod to repeat the full systems test at the first unit of Koodankulam atomic power project in Tamil Nadu. On January 25 [2013], newspapers reported official statements regarding yet another delay in commissioning the Koodankulam plant. Even a child will tell you that you need to repeat a test only if you have failed in the first instance.
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