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World War III: The Unthinkable Cost of Preserving the Petrodollar (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
CrisisHQ – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
If you want to understand what’s happening in the Mideast, particularly in Libya, Syria and Iran, you must first understand the main driving force behind U.S. foreign policy. The real agenda is to protect the Petrodollar system, because it is the only thing that is currently preventing the total collapse of our fiat currency.
→ read full articleEurope’s Top Health Official Quits, and the Bloc Has a Mystery on Its Hands
James Kanter – The New York Times,
29 Oct 2012
The top health official for the European Union suddenly resigns. His plans to place marketing curbs on tobacco companies are put aside. The offices of antitobacco groups are burglarized. There is talk of cash payments of tens of millions of dollars by Big Tobacco. In his latest public comments, Mr. Dalli said on Wednesday [24 Oct 2012] that the European Commission president, José Manuel Barroso, had given him 30 minutes to resign.
→ read full articleMyanmar Travel Reassurances to Westerners
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
President Thein Sein himself – incidentally, a very sincere, soft-spoken and harmless personality – has assured our Ministries that you will not hear gunshot fires, nor will you see boat loads of fleeing “Kulars or niggers” – much less their social media-circulated doctored images of mutilated corpses, charred belongings, and burnt houses. (Off the record: These damn human rights activists tend to sensationalize stories and exaggerate atrocities – it’s just another case of ethnic cleansing. We have other really important business in Myanmar: BUSINESS).
→ read full articleHow to Launder Money – Swiss Style
Bruce Krasting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
An interesting crime story has come out in France and Switzerland. It may prove to be the nail in the coffin for bank secrecy in Switzerland. The Swiss and French police arrested seventeen individuals a week ago (including an assistant Mayor in Paris). A woman (known only as “M”) is the center of attention of a drug smuggling ring. Apparently she ran a very big operation smuggling marijuana from Morocco into France.
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‘Bailouts’ Are a Means for Total Subjugation of Nation States – Nigel Farage
Europarl – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
European Parliament, Strasbourg, 23 October 2012 – Conclusions of the European Council. UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage speaks truth to the powers that be.
→ read full article(Castellano) Estudio Científico Responsabiliza a la ONU Por Epidemia de Colera en Haití
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
La investigación determinó que la cepa de cólera en Haití es una copia exacta de la cepa de cólera en Nepal. En base a ello, la fuente más probable de introducción del cólera es una persona infectada proveniente de África, asociada a la Misión de la ONU.
→ read full articleGrowing an Alternative Economy One Community at a Time
Thomas Hedges - Center for Study of Responsive Law,
29 Oct 2012
“The best thing about farmers markets is that people talk,” says environmentalist Bill McKibben. “A study found that shoppers at farmers markets had 10 times as many conversations per visit than at supermarkets.” The farmers market is a microcosm of an alternative economy. It is marked by conversation, not by profit.
→ read full articleRed in the Face
TMS editor,
29 Oct 2012
A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood.
→ read full article(Castellano) Indigenas Brasileños Advierten Suicidio Masivo Si los Despojan de Sus Tierras
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
Esta semana [24 Oct 2012], un tribunal brasileño ordenó el desalojo de su granja. Sin embargo, unos 100 adultos y 70 niños amenazan con suicidarse en masa antes de salir de un territorio que ellos llaman “tekoha”, cuyo significado es “cementerio ancestral”.
→ read full articleUN Independent Expert Calls For Boycott of Businesses Profiting From Israeli Settlements
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
A United Nations independent expert today [25 Oct 2012] called on the world body’s General Assembly, as well as civil society, to take action against Israeli and international businesses that are profiting from Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory.
→ read full article(Portuguese) O Referendum Islandês e os Silêncios da Mídia
Mauro Santayana – Carta Maior,
29 Oct 2012
Os cidadãos da Islândia referendaram, ontem [20 Out 2012], com cerca de 70% dos votos, o texto básico de sua nova Constituição, redigido por 25 delegados, quase todos homens comuns, escolhidos pelo voto direto da população, incluindo a estatização de seus recursos naturais. Durante estes poucos anos, nos quais os islandeses resistiram contra o acosso dos grandes bancos internacionais, os meios de comunicação internacional fizeram conveniente silêncio sobre o que vem ocorrendo em Reykjavik.
→ read full articleIsrael‘s Formula for a Starvation Diet
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
How 400 Trucks To Feed Gaza Became Just 67 – Six and a half years go, shortly after Hamas won the Palestinian national elections and took charge of Gaza, a senior Israeli official described Israel’s planned response. “The idea,” he said, “is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger.”
→ read full article(Italian) Premio per la Pace: Nobel o Ignobel?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
Entrambi, naturalmente. Ben meritato per il passato e per le relazioni interne, nella tradizione dell’Occidente che premia l’Occidente. Ma i critici hanno ragione per quanto riguarda le relazioni esterne e il presente come la stretta debitoria dei cosiddetti Stati GIPSI –Grecia, Italia, Portogallo, Spagna, Irlanda- Periferia UE- verso la Germania.
→ read full articleTeflon President? Noose Tightens Around Uribe as Former Death Squad Leaders Spill the Beans
Tom Burghardt, Anti-fascist Calling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
Recent arrests by Colombian authorities and revelations by the president’s former allies are beginning to draw a circle around Uribe and the U.S. secret state in some of the hemisphere’s worst human rights abuses of previous decades. As the net tightens, members of the president’s own family are sharply focused in the cross-hairs of investigators.
→ read full articleOf Course Monsanto Says It’s Safe
Tim Schwab, Food and Water Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
Does anyone honestly think that Monsanto is going to fund research about its products that casts them in an unfavorable light, then publish these findings in a journal over which it has financial influence for all to see? The status quo of industry influence over agricultural science means that NK603 remains a pervasive ingredient in our food system – apparently unchallengeable by scientists, unexamined by journalists and unavoidable by consumers because GE foods are unlabeled.
→ read full articleTexas Attorney General Threatens to Arrest Monitors Observing US Election
Chris McGreal – The Guardian,
29 Oct 2012
State attorney general calls international group’s plan to watch for fairness at the polls ‘legally irrelevant in the United States.’ The Texas attorney general, Greg Abbott, has threatened to arrest international election monitors invited by liberal groups to observe the conduct of next month’s presidential vote in states accused of attempting to disenfranchise minorities.
→ read full article(Portuguese) O Maior Escândalo Financeiro da História de Portugal!
Ironia d’Estado – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
Foi a maior burla de sempre em Portugal, qualquer coisa como 9.710.539.940,09 €uros!!! Nunca antes houve um roubo desta dimensão, “tapado” por uma nacionalização que já custou 2.400 milhões de euros delapidados algures entre gestores de fortunas privadas em Gibraltar, empresas do Brasil, offshores de Porto Rico, um oportuno banco de Cabo Verde e a voracidade de uma parte da classe política portuguesa que se aproveitou desta vergonha criada por figuras importantes daquilo que foi o cavaquismo na sua fase executiva”.
→ read full articleGovernment to Argue Speedy Trial Doesn’t Apply to Bradley, Veterans to Rally in Support
Nathan Fuller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
As Army Private First Class Bradley Manning nears 900 days in jail without trial, his lawyer moves to dismiss all charges for lack of a speedy trial. Beginning Tuesday, October 30, the government’s witnesses will try to explain away the prosecution’s extensive delays.
→ read full articlePharma vs India: A Case of Life or Death for the World’s Poor
Nick Harvey - New Internationalist Magazine,
29 Oct 2012
Cases being heard in Indian courts could ‘open the floodgates’ for pharmaceutical companies to challenge generic drug production and keep prices ridiculously high.
→ read full articleEightfold Configuration of Nested Cycles of Cognitive Transformations
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
Meta-Pattern of Connectivity through a Hypersphere? – In a preceding exercise the focus was on identifying the nature and range of cognitive transformations, of which people are commonly aware, in quest of an approach to configuring them together in a meaningful pattern (In Quest of a Dynamic Pattern of Transformations: sensing the strange attractor of an emerging Rosetta Stone, 2012). The following exploration is an effort to weave together these different “threads” using the periodic table as a valuable template.
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(Portuguese) Brasil: 863 Índios Se Suicidam… E Quase Ninguém Viu
Jornaldagazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
Bob Fernandes reporta – Em sua carta-testamento os Kaiowá/Guarani rogam: ”Pedimos ao Governo e à Justiça Federal para não decretar a ordem de despejo/expulsão, mas decretar nossa morte coletiva e enterrar nós todos aqui. Pedimos para decretar nossa extinção/dizimação total, além de enviar vários tratores para cavar um grande buraco para jogar e enterrar nossos corpos. Este é o nosso pedido aos juízes federais”.
→ read full articleAdverse Effects of Globalization
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
Today, economic globalization aims at increased trade throughout the world. At first sight, this might seem to be a benefit. However, laws preventing the exploitation of labor are not universal. The same unspeakable conditions experienced by workers in factories and mines during the early phases of the Industrial Revolution in Europe can be found today among factory workers in Indonesia, or children weaving oriental carpets in Pakistan; and it is estimated that in India alone there are 80,000,000 child laborers.
→ read full articleAmid Cutbacks, Greek Unemployed Denied Medical Care
Liz Alderman – The New York Times,
29 Oct 2012
Until recently, Greece had a typical European health system, with employers and individuals contributing to a fund that with government assistance financed universal care. Things changed in July 2011, when Greece signed a supplemental loan agreement with international lenders to ward off financial collapse. Now, as stipulated in the deal, Greeks must pay all costs out of pocket after their benefits expire.
→ read full articleBrazilian Indians Threaten Collective Suicide over Loss of Land (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
PressTV – DailyMotion,
29 Oct 2012
Approximately 100 adults and 70 children members of the indigenous tribe Guarani-Kaiow announced this week that they prefer collective death to leave the Cambar’s farm in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, where they are settled for generations, than to accept the Federal Court rule that everyone should leave immediately.
→ read full articleNew York Police Department Informant Says He Was Paid to ‘Bait’ Muslims
Dashiell Bennett, The Atlantic Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
He earned as much as $1,000 a month by surveilling mosques and Islamic study groups, taking pictures and collecting names of innocent people. The 19-year-old was born in Queens to Bengali parents and said he was recruited from jail after a series of minor drug arrests.
→ read full articleEffective Sharing of World Responsibility
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
The real secret to the solution of all problems on a global scale lies in our ability to procure means that are beneficial to all people across every continent without exception. From the early days of human existence, people soon found out that they are fully interdependent for the better or the worse.
→ read full articleA Failed Formula for Worldwide War
Nick Turse – TomDispatch,
29 Oct 2012
Several times this year, Dempsey, the other joint chiefs, and regional war-fighting commanders have assembled at the Marine Corps Base in Quantico to conduct a futuristic war-game-meets-academic-seminar about the needs of the military in 2017. There, a giant map of the world, larger than a basketball court, was laid out so the Pentagon’s top brass could shuffle around the planet.
→ read full articlePentagon Prisons Revealed: WikiLeaks Publishes Terror Detainee Manuals
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks is releasing over 100 classified documents detailing US Department of Defense procedures for running Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, Camp Bucca and other infamous prisons where terror suspects are detained.
→ read full articleBeyond Occupy: A Campaign to Decentralize Wealth and Its Associated Power
Elizabeth Barrett – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
September 17th [2012] was the one-year anniversary of the first Occupy Wall Street protest, which was held in Zuccotti Park in the financial district of New York City. The Occupy movement grew out of the natural rage people felt about the massive transfer of wealth from the public sector to certain people in the private sector during the bailout of the financial industry. The goal should be to decentralize wealth before it is accumulated, rather than after. Contrary to the current thought that also started with Adam Smith in 1776, human beings actually are not a commodity known as “labor” – they are living, breathing people.
→ read full articleEntire Indian Tribe Threatens to Commit Mass Suicide after Brazil Court Rules They Must Leave Sacred Burial Land
Matt Roper – Daily Mail,
29 Oct 2012
An entire tribe of 170 Indians have vowed to commit mass suicide after a court in Brazil ruled they must leave what they believe is sacred land, it was reported today [27 Oct 2012]. The community of 50 men, 50 women and 70 children from the Guarani-kaiowa tribe are camped inside a ranch in Brazil’s southern state of Mato Grosso do Sul.
→ read full articleOrigin of Syrian Shells into Turkey Unclear, US General Says
Daily News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
“We are not sure if these shells are from the Syrian army, from rebels who want to get Turkey involved in the issue or from the PKK [Kurdish Workers’ Party],” U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army, Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling said.
→ read full articleDocumentary on Movement against Kudankulam [India] Nuclear Plant
NDTV (India) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
Exposing the truth about the Koodunkulam [Tamil Nadu] Nuclear Power Plant with its history and the people’s continuous protests. (In English)
→ read full articleRussia’s War on Gays and Lesbians Intensifies
Benjamin Bidder in Moscow – Der Spiegel,
29 Oct 2012
Obscure conservative groups in Russia have intensified their fight against homosexuality, recently going after the pop-singer Madonna as well as an allegedly offensive milk carton label. The developments underscore a growing atmosphere of intolerance in the country.
→ read full articleThe Right to Water
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
To Water all human beings should have the right
but why isn´t that vital right always in sight?
Cooperatives Cushion the Blows of Hunger
Inter Press Service-IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
Millions of small-scale producers, particularly in the developing world, are responding to the triple crises of climate change, food price fluctuations and market instability by organising themselves into cooperatives to join forces. The Food and Agriculture Organizaton sees cooperatives as a major way to lift small-scale farmers out of poverty and hunger, and help them to access markets to sell their products, buy inputs at better prices and obtain financial services.
→ read full articleThe Art of Dissuasion
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
A letter to the editors of Media Lens. As you know, journalists whose politics are broadly in line with yours, and who are hostile to big business and the corporate domination of politics and the media, have become, following your attempts to engage with them, not your allies but your sworn enemies. I think it’s time for you to take stock and ask why this has been happening.
→ read full articleJapan Struggling To Store Radioactive Water
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
Leading nuclear worker says space is running out for contaminated water cooling the Fukushima plant.
→ read full articleRohingya Unrest Continues – 100 killed
Mabrur Ahmed, RestlessBeings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
Burma/Myanmar – The situation in Arakan state this morning [23 Oct 2012] is dire. Renewed arson attacks took place on the villages of Minbya and Mro Haung at around 4.30pm local time. More than 100 are feared dead. Furthermore reports have come through of the rape of at least 26 young girls by security forces in the Rathadaung Township.
→ read full articleProposing a Vision of a New Earth
Rajesh Makwana, Sharing the World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
The earth’s ecological problems stem largely from our collective failure to share. That might seem like an overly simplistic statement, but it is now increasingly evident that only by sharing the world’s resources more equitably and sustainably will we be able to address both the ecological and social crisis we face as a global community.
→ read full articlePreparing for COP III
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
If scam-ridden governments of third world countries, like India, continue their environmentally destructive polices in the real interests of their own ruling elites, the leaders of the West, and their corporate movers and shakers deliberately collude in the process of creating regional instability and concomitant dependency on themselves.
→ read full article(Italian) Guerre Balcaniche a 100: Quattro Strade Per Un Buon Vicinato
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
Discorso programmatico, Istanbul, Università di Hacettepe, 4 ottobre 2012 – Gli imperi vanno e vengono. L’Impero musulmano Ottomano fu fra i migliori mentre quello cattolico iberico e quello protestante europeo furono fra i peggiori.
→ read full articleFlaws in the Concept of Nuclear Deterrence
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
Before discussing other defects in the concept of deterrence, it must be said very clearly that the idea of “massive nuclear retaliation” is completely unacceptable from an ethical point of view. The doctrine of retaliation, performed on a massive scale, violates not only the principles of common human decency and common sense, but also the ethical principles of every major religion.
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Gaza-Bound Ship ‘Attacked By Israel Forces’ (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
20 Oct 2012 – Mikael Löfgren, media coordinator spokesman for the Estelle, spoke to Al Jazeera.
→ read full articleMahatma Gandhi Speaks to the Australian Prime Minister?
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy as well as our sympathizers all over India would like to apologize to Ms. Julia Gillard, the Honorable Prime Minister of Australia, for the dangerous fall she suffered at the Raj Ghat. Madam Prime Minister, this whole Raj Ghat episode reflects the authorities’ utter lack of safety precautions and emergency preparedness. And your government is seriously considering selling Uranium to these folks. Maybe, Madam Prime Minister, Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of our Nation, is trying to say something to you and please listen to him.
→ read full articleTurkey’s Conflict Trinity
Ali E. Erol – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
A recent piece written by Johan Galtung for TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS (2012) titled Turkey-Cyprus -Kurds -Armenia -SYRIA is an important representation of the close inspection Turkey is going though in this process of international recognition. My aim in this piece is to focus on Galtung’s article and talk about Turkey’s conflict trinity using some of the claims and suggestions he puts forth.
→ read full article‘Recipe for Disaster’: Group Says No Financialization of Nature!
Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
Friends of the Earth International warns against corporate approach as UN biodiversity conference meets. The “financialization of nature” is a flawed approach to saving biodiversity, an environmental group warns as representatives from over 170 countries meet at a United Nations biodiversity conference.
→ read full articleWhy Is NATO Supporting This Syrian War?
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
No one has been able – or willing – to explain to me why the US administration and its NATO allies are supporting the Sunni destruction of Syria. The people we decry as ‘Terrorists’ and ‘Al Qaeda’ are in fact the very same Sunni Muslim Extremists – supported by Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States – whom we are apparently funding and arming in Syria. Why?
→ read full article(Italian) Turchia-Cipro-Kurdi-Armenia-SIRIA*
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
Questo non vuol dire affatto che la Turchia sia scevra di problemi; nessun paese lo è. Il punto focale qui è su quattro problemi che coinvolgono altre nazioni: i greci, i kurdi, gli armeni e le molte nazioni presenti in Siria. Una politica come al solito in paesi omogenei, senza soluzioni contemplanti le nazionalità, equivale a corteggiare il disastro. Va su una minoranza, conquista nicchie economiche-culturali e le maggioranze la metteranno a tacere con mezzi politico-militari; come gli armeni in Turchia, gli ebrei in Germania, i cinesi nel SudEst asiatico; Tutsi-Hutu.
→ read full articleOn The Dignity of Being Forgetful
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
Rhymed Reflection
→ read full articleWhales
TMS Editor,
22 Oct 2012
A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales.
→ read full article“If You Want Peace, Abolish Hunger”
Federica Riccadonna - Nepali Times,
22 Oct 2012
Professor Johan Galtung speaks on the importance of federalism in Nepal and how the new constitution should be shaped.
→ read full article(Italian) Guida ai musei della Resistenza e della lotta di Liberazione in Italia
Silvia Berruto, antifascista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
La memoria di compagne e compagni che ricordano, con una perseveranza e con una pazienza speciali, a futura e imperitura memoria, di aver lottato per tutte e per tutti.
→ read full articleThe Lexicon of Madness
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
My purpose in writing this commentary is to call attention to the perils of language use and abuse that characterize the “mental” health professions and the public. As the introduction of the DSM V approaches, it is essential we understand the many underlying issues that exist at this time regarding the terms professionals and the public use when referring to “mental” health problems, especially with regard to their denotative and connotative meanings.
→ read full articleAnother Numerologist Gets the Idiot Award
Ed Burgos, The Dollar Vigilante – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
On the Nobel Prize in “economics.”
→ read full articleUp To 100 Norwegians Join Syrian War
The Norway Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
Around 100 young men with Norwegian citizenship have travelled to Syria to participate in the civil war, NRK reports, quoting Muslim sources. They have estimated that more than 20 radical Norwegian Islamists are in Syria at this time, and that at least seven of them are fighting on the side of Al Qaida.
→ read full article(Italian) Intervista a Leonardo Boff
Altramente – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
La Teologia é seria quando si prende sul serio la testimonianza degli invisibili, dei disprezzati, di quelli che non contano niente. Ogni persona è unica al mondo, ha qualcosa da dire, da mostrare. Ignorante é quello che pensa che il popolo é ignorante.
→ read full articlePrivatization Pushback: Civil Society Slams Water Privatization Conditions for EU Bailouts
Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
Civil society groups Wednesday [17 Oct 2012] are slamming the European Commission’s continued insistence that privatization of municipal water systems be a condition for receiving rescue funds, a plan the groups describe as “economically, socially and democratically flawed.”
→ read full article(Portuguese) Orçamento Austero de Portugal Privilegia Interesse da Banca
Maurício Hashizume – Carta Maior,
22 Oct 2012
Os atuais governantes portugueses apresentaram à nação um pacote combinado de aumento expressivo e generalizado de vários impostos (com especial foco na retenção dos rendimentos do trabalho) e de redução de garantias sociais (seja por meio de cortes em pensões e na ajuda aos desempregados, pela demissão de servidores ou da ampliação da idade mínima para a aposentadoria no serviço público, que passou de 63,5 para 65 anos).
→ read full articlePeace Utopias
Rosa Luxemburg – Socialist Worker,
22 Oct 2012
Polish socialist Rosa Luxemburg explained the impossibility of achieving peace under the system of capitalism… “How is it possible to speak of tendencies toward peace in bourgeois development that are supposed to neutralize and overcome its tendencies toward war? Wherein are they expressed?”
→ read full articleRussia to Spend Over 100 Billion Rubles on Nuclear Weapons
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
Russia plans to spend 101.15 billion rubles on nuclear weapons in 2013-2015, the head of the Defense Committee of the State Duma Vladimir Komoyedov said.
→ read full articleIs This What It Takes?
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
Is this what it takes—
flaming, crumbling tombs on Wall Street,
a burning Pentagon?
Corruption Continues Virtually Unchecked in Greece
Julia Amalia Heyer – Der Spiegel,
22 Oct 2012
How can someone who has declared an annual income of €25,000 ($32,400) transfer €52 million abroad? What kind of supplementary income must an individual have who, according to his tax returns, earned €5,588 in 2010, yet still managed to move €19.8 million abroad? And how can it be that a Greek citizen sequesters €9.7 million abroad although he supposedly earned exactly zero euros?
→ read full articleThe New “Golden Age of Oil” That Wasn’t
Michael T. Klare – TomDispatch,
22 Oct 2012
Forecasts of Abundance Collide with Planetary Realities
→ read full articleLondon: Parasites’ Paradise (Or the Best Criminal Sanctuary Money Can Buy)
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
Whenever financial swindlers prosper at the expense of investors or a bank jiggers interest rates to bugger their competitors or tax evaders flee fiscal crises or rent gouging petrol monarchies recycle profits or oligarchs pillage economies and drive millions to drink, drugs and destitution they find a suitable secure sanctuary in London.
→ read full articleIraq Records Huge Rise in Birth Defects
Sarah Morrison – The Independent,
22 Oct 2012
New study links increase with military action by Western forces. High rates of miscarriage, toxic levels of lead and mercury contamination and spiralling numbers of birth defects ranging from congenital heart defects to brain dysfunctions and malformed limbs have been recorded. Even more disturbingly, they appear to be occurring at an increasing rate in children born in Fallujah, about 40 miles west of Baghdad.
→ read full articleRule by the Rich
Jerry Mander, New Left Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
In an extract from his upcoming book The Capitalism Papers, influential activist Jerry Mander describes the sheer scale of the rich’s control of the global economy and how they are seeking new territory in which to invest their wealth.
→ read full articleBad to the Bone: A Medical Horror Story
Mina Kimes - CNN,
22 Oct 2012
When medical device company Synthes decided to illegally test a bone cement on people, the results were disastrous. A disturbing tale of corporate crime and punishment.
→ read full articleDefective Spiritual Guidance in America
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
In virtually every religion, people tend to look at the spiritual leaders of their community for inner guidance. Deep inside they all tend to be good to the best of their ability in spite of their human frailties. In a number of instances, a variety of viewpoints tend to create unnecessary contradictions.
→ read full articleDrug Legalization in Latin America: Could It Be the Answer?
Gene Bolton - Council on Hemispheric Affairs,
22 Oct 2012
Last March [2012], Central American nations held a drug legalization summit and garnered support for this policy throughout the region. This analysis compares the potential benefits and shortcomings of drug legalization as a policy initiative to reduce overall drug crime.
→ read full articleHomegrown Terrorism and Terrorism by Association
Michael S. Rozeff - LewRockwell,
22 Oct 2012
How misleading can a “news” article get? Try this headline: “Federal Reserve bombing plot foiled in NYC”. There never was a plot independent of the FBI to foil. The plot was of the FBI’s own devising and instigation. There never was an ongoing crime for the FBI to detect and stop.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s Rohingyas: No Help, Please, We’re Buddhists
The Economist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
When Offending the Muslim World Seems a Small Price to Pay – The only thing that might sway Burmese opinion in favour of the [Muslim] Rohingyas, some say, would be the staunch support of Myanmar’s most famous and revered politician, the opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. But she has been largely silent on their plight.
→ read full articleRate-Fixing Bankers to Face Jail Under New EU Rules
Benjamin Fox, EUobserver – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
Bankers caught manipulating the Libor exchange rate could face a minimum five-year jail term under new EU legislation. The provisions included in the proposed market abuse law were adopted by 39 votes to 0 with a single abstention in a vote by the parliament’s economic and monetary affairs committee on Monday (9 October 2012).
→ read full articleA Wave of Anti-U.S. Protests In Okinawa
Khury Petersen-Smith – Socialist Worker,
22 Oct 2012
Unrest in Japan as the U.S. military escalates its weaponry and troop presence in a region vulnerable to war and violence. The decision by the U.S. and Japanese governments to deploy the Osprey MV-22 military warplane to Okinawa has sparked a wave of mass protest.
→ read full articleBeyond Language: Reflections on the Arakan Tragedy
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
Yesterday [14 Oct 2012] I listened to the wife of the Prime Minister, Emine Erdogan, speak about her recent harrowing visit to the Rohingya people in the federal state of Arakan ( mainly known in the West as Rakhine) who are located in northwestern Myanmar (aka Burma). The Rohingya are a Muslim minority numbering over one million, long victimized locally and nationally in Burma and on several occasions over the years their people have been brutally massacred and their villages burned.
→ read full articleToward Barbarism: US Imperialism Unleashed
Ben Schreiner, Working Left – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
With signs of a global economic downturn mounting, US aggression across the Middle East and North Africa ratchets up. According to the IMF’s World Economic Outlook report released last week [October 2012], the “risks for a serious global slowdown are alarmingly high.” According to the New York Times, the Pentagon is readying military strikes in Libya in retaliation for the September attack on the US compound in Benghazi in addition to the deployment of troops along the Jordan-Syria border, CIA operatives are presently active along the Syria-Turkey border, facilitating the flow of arms to rebel forces.
→ read full articleHistoric Philippines Peace Agreement – Why This One Is Different
Timmon Wallis, Nonviolent Peaceforce – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
Peace Agreements are a dime a dozen these days. With an average of 25 wars going on around the world at any given time, there are peace agreements about to be signed almost every other week. No wonder the world ceases to take much interest anymore! Another Peace Agreement is signed in the Philippines yesterday – yawn.
→ read full articleBoy Scout Files Give Glimpse into 20 Years of Sex Abuse
Kirk Johnson – The New York Times,
22 Oct 2012
Details of decades of sexual abuse in the Boy Scouts of America, and what child welfare experts say was a corrosive culture of secrecy that compounded the damage, were cast into full public view for the first time on Thursday [18 Oct 2012] with the release of thousands of pages of documents describing abuse accusations across the country. “The secrets are out,” said Kelly Clark, a lawyer whose firm obtained the files as evidence in an $18.5 million civil judgment against the Scouts in 2010.
→ read full articleThe Facts Are In: Nonviolent Resistance Works
John Dear S.J., National Catholic Reporter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
“Nonviolence is fine as long as it works,” Malcolm X once said. Recently, Columbia University Press published an extraordinary scholarly book that proves how nonviolence works far better as a method for social change than violence. This breakthrough book demonstrates that Gandhi was right, that the method of nonviolent resistance as a way to social change usually leads to a more lasting peace while violence usually fails.
→ read full articleTurkey Leads US-Sponsored Military Encirclement of Syria
Chris Marsden – World Socialist Web Site,
22 Oct 2012
Turkey is leading the way, using the pretext of stray mortar fire from Syria that killed five civilians to legitimise the deployment of 250 tanks, jets, helicopter gunships, troops, artillery emplacements and antiaircraft batteries on the border.
→ read full articleIt’s Time to Prioritise the Global Sharing Economy
Rajesh Makwana and Adam Parsons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
As the widespread mobilisation of people power in 2011 demonstrated, only a united people’s voice is stronger than the private interests that obstruct progressive change from taking place. The responsibility for change rests with us – ordinary, engaged citizens – to forge a worldwide popular movement that upholds and strengthens the sharing economy in all its forms.
→ read full articleThe Peace Prize: Nobel or Ignoble?
Johan Galtung, 18 Oct 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2012
Both, of course. Well deserved for EU’s past and for relations within, in the tradition of West rewarding West. But critics are right about relations without and the present; like debt bondage of GIPSI–Greece-Italy-Portugal-Spain-Ireland/EU periphery–to Germany.
→ read full articleHope, Wisdom, Law, Ethics, and Spirituality in Relation to Killing and Dying: Persisting Syrian Dilemmas
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
In appraising political developments most of us rely on trusted sources, our overall political orientation, what we have learned from past experience, and our personal hierarchy of hopes and fears. No matter how careful, and judicious, we are still reaching conclusions in settings of radical uncertainty, which incline our judgments to reflect a priori and interpretative biases.
→ read full articleNonviolence is the Response to Hate Cartoons
Dr. Abbas Aroua – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
In the last weeks we have seen a resurgence of Islamic-Western tensions around the seeming opposition between freedom of expression and respect for religious symbols. The attitudes and behaviors in the West vis-à-vis Islam which are perceived negatively in the Muslim world may be classified into seven categories:
→ read full articleThe Prospects of Intercultural Humanism in the 21st Century
Klaudius Cansczyk, et al. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
The values that the Jewish physicist Albert Einstein and the Christian physicist, philosopher, and peace researcher Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker attribute to the Hindu politician Mahatma Gandhi, point towards an intercultural humanism which we regard as part of a worldwide array of religions and perspectives of the world which could and should survive as an orientation for the 21st century.
→ read full articleI Do Not Support the Nobel Peace Prize 2012 to the European Union
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate (1976) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Whilst the EU imposes severe austerity measures upon many EU countries, it simultaneously supports the growing militarisation of Europe through support for US/NATO (guilty of war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.), continues to support American nuclear weapons deployed to six EU States, supports arms sales from European States (UK, Germany, etc.) to countries around the world. The EU, instead of upholding human rights for countries such as Palestine, has rewarded Israel with a special trading status and huge grants for its military research and weapons thus enabling it to continue its illegal policies of occupation and Apartheid in Palestine.
→ read full articleOne Step Backward Taken
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
On his poem, “One step Backward Taken,” Robert Frost tells us that we can often save ourselves by taking a step backwards, by looking carefully at what has been happening and by avoiding going over the edge.
→ read full articleLexicon of War
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Overwhelmed by the endless violence and wars in our world, I wrote an email to a number of listservs where I listed a number of different adjectives preceding the word “war.” And I added a request to readers to make any additions they felt were appropriate. The email brought many replies that both suggested additions and that acknowledged the implications of the emerging “lexicon of wars.” Thus I share with you an updated and more comprehensive lexicon of wars, with a figure (in the end) that suggests a socialization process for wars.
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Weathergirl Goes Rogue
Deep Rogue Ram - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Arctic ice cover just reached its lowest point in recorded history. Pippa goes off script and drops some science.
→ read full articleHow to Avoid Genetically Modified Food
Robin Mather, Mother Earth News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
The only way to avoid GM food is to know which ingredients are likely to be genetically modified and read labels carefully, or to always choose organic foods, which are certified GM-free. Below are estimates of the percentages of GM foods found on store shelves. To learn more about this issue, see The Threats From Genetically Modified Foods.
→ read full articleIs a Nuclear Deal With Iran Possible?
Pat Buchanan, Creators – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
In diplomacy, always leave your adversary an honorable avenue of retreat. Fifty years ago this October, to resolve a Cuban missile crisis that had brought us to the brink of nuclear war, John F. Kennedy did that. He conveyed to Nikita Khrushchev, secretly, that if the Soviet Union pulled its nuclear missiles out of Cuba, the United States would soon after pull its Jupiter missiles out of Italy and Turkey.
→ read full articleSurprise!
TMS Editor,
15 Oct 2012
A little boy got lost at the YMCA and found himself in the women’s locker room.
→ read full article(French) Face aux Caricatures de la Haine, la Non-Violence s’Impose
Abbas Aroua – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Les dernières semaines ont connu la résurgence des tensions occidento-islamiques autour de l’opposition apparente entre la liberté d’expression et le respect des symboles religieux. On peut classer les attitudes et les comportements en Occident vis-à-vis de l’Islam qui sont perçus négativement dans le monde musulman en sept catégories:
→ read full article(Italian) La Nuova “Età Dell’Oro” (Che Non C’È Stata) del Petrolio
Michael T. Klare – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
15 Oct 2012
Le previsioni di abbondanza si scontrano con le realtà del pianeta.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Paz, Direitos Humanos e Desenvolvimento num Mundo Multi-Polar em Evolução
Johan Galtung, Forum Abel Varzim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Palestra proferida no Conselho do Forum Social dos Direitos Humanos em Nova Iorque – 1 de outubro de 2012. O foco está no desenvolvimento centrado nas pessoas – em vez de no crescimento económico centrado no sistema.
→ read full articleEmpire and Its Consequences
Robert Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
This is the morality of empire, the morality of domination. We didn’t invent it; we just carry on the tradition, which goes back through colonialism and slavery to the Inquisition (“kill them all, let God sort them out”) to Rome (“they create a wasteland and call it peace”) and beyond, to the dawn of civilization. I think the consequences have finally caught up with us.
→ read full article(Castellano) Miles de Indignados Colombianos Reclaman Su Participación en Diálogos de Paz
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Miles de colombianos desean participar en las negociaciones entre el Gobierno nacional y las FARC, para discutir “una agenda de contenido político y económico que compete a las grandes mayorías desfavorecidas y marginadas”.
→ read full articleUNHCR Issues Guidelines on Protection of Male Rape Victims
UN Refugee Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
The UN refugee agency has for the first time issued guidelines for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees staff and other aid workers on how to identify and support male victims of rape and other sexual violence in conflict and displacement situations. Access the guidelines: Working with men and boy survivors of sexual and Gender-based violence in forced displacement.
→ read full articleWhite House Widening Covert War in North Africa
Associated Press, Military News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Small teams of special operations forces arrived at American embassies throughout North Africa in the months before militants launched the fiery attack that killed the U.S. ambassador in Libya. The soldiers’ mission: Set up a network that could quickly strike a terrorist target or rescue a hostage. But the teams had yet to do much counterterrorism work in Libya, though the White House signed off a year ago on the plan to build the new military task force in the region and the advance teams had been there for six months, according to three U.S. counterterror officials and a former intelligence official.
→ read full articleBRICS Nations Thrash Out World Bank Alternative
Xinhua – Global Times (China),
15 Oct 2012
Experts from five emerging world economic powers have told how a two-day think tanks forum this week [2 Oct 2012] reached consensus on creating a BRICS development bank designed to complement existing global financial institutions such as the World Bank.
→ read full articleOverwrought Empire: The Discrediting of U.S. Military Power
Tom Engelhardt – TomDispatch,
15 Oct 2012
The more dominant the U.S. military becomes in its ability to destroy and the more its forces are spread across the globe, the more the defeats and semi-defeats pile up, the more the missteps and mistakes grow, the more the strains show, the more the suicides rise, the more the nation’s treasure disappears down a black hole — and in response to all of this, the more moves the Pentagon makes.
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