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All That Pivots Is Gold
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
4 Feb 2013
What Beijing actually wants is to get rid of the US dollar peg. For that to happen, it needs vast gold reserves. So here’s Beijing pivoting from the US dollar to the yuan – and trying to sway vast swathes of the global economy to follow the path. Oh yes, this is a film noir worthy of Dashiell Hammett – involving the Pentagon, Beijing, shadow wars, pivoting and a lot of gold.
→ read full articleLatin America Flexes Muscles at Joint EU Summit
Marianela Jarroud – TerraViva Europe,
4 Feb 2013
The nations of Latin America and the Caribbean strengthened their position with respect to Europe at the CELAC-EU summit held this weekend [Jan 26-27, 2013] in the Chilean capital, reaching agreements that protect their natural resources from foreign investors and securing a joint condemnation of the United States’ trade embargo against Cuba.
→ read full articleIceland President: Let Banks Go Bankrupt
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Iceland President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson tells Al Jazeera’s Stephen Cole that Europe should let banks that are ran “irresponsibly” go bankrupt. Speaking at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Grimsson also held his country as a model of economic recovery after its near-collapse four years ago. “We didn’t follow the traditional prevailing orthodoxies. And the end result four years later is that Iceland is enjoying progress and recovery.”
→ read full articlePoverty and Progress: Comparing the US and Venezuela
Eric Draitser – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
This is the crisis of advanced, post-industrial capitalism – an economic system which must expand the divide between rich and poor, create extremes of wealth and poverty, and generally perpetuate itself on the misery and poverty of the lower classes.
→ read full articleCondemning the Murder of Cícero Guedes, Leader of the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement MST
The Right Livelihood Award Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
The Right Livelihood Award Foundation strongly condemns the murder of Cícero Guedes, a leader of the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement MST. The MST received the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”) in 1991.
→ read full article2013 World Press Freedom Index: Dashed Hopes after ‘Springs’
Reporters Without Borders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
The ranking of most countries is no longer attributable to dramatic political developments. This year’s index is a better reflection of the attitudes and intentions of governments towards media freedom in the medium or long term. (See full list of countries in the end)
→ read full articleStudy: 22 US Military Veterans Commit Suicide Every Day
CBS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
The results of a new study indicate that suicide rates among veterans in the United States are increasing.
→ read full articleMali: Neo-Colonialism Meets Islamic Fundamentalism… And the People Suffer
Bill Fletcher, Jr., Black Commentator – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
The entrance of the French military into the Malian civil war further complicates a descent into hell. Mainstream media attention has largely focused on the emergence of right-wing Islamists associated with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Yet little background is presented regarding the whole conflict, particularly the circumstances that resulted in the unfolding disaster.
→ read full articleFBI Banned from Iceland
Rixstep – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
FBI agents landed in Reykjavík without prior notification in an attempt to investigate WikiLeaks operations in the country, but Home Secretary Ögmundur Jónasson found out about the visit and forced them to leave the country, with the Icelandic government then issuing a formal protest to US authorities.
→ read full articleUS Department of Defense Non-Lethal Weapons Program
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Report 2012 can be read online. Although not secret it is virtually unknown; never referred to in the media. [According to the website]: Why Non-Lethal Weapons? Non-lethal weapons can provide operating forces with escalation-of-force options that can minimize casualties and collateral damage. [Do you agree?]
→ read full articleAmia Bombing: Argentina and Iran Agree Truth Commission
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Argentina and Iran are to jointly set up a commission to investigate the 1994 bombing of the Israeli-Argentine Mutual Association (Amia) Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires. The commission will be made up of five independent judges, none of whom will be from either Argentina or Iran. The Jewish organisation was reported to be vehemently opposed to the move.
→ read full article(Português) Autoridades Lamentam Assassinato de Coordenador do MST no Rio
Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
28 jan 2013 – A secretaria de Direitos Humanos da Presidência da República, o Ministério do Desenvolvimento Agrário e o Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária (Incra) lamentaram o assassinato do coordenador do MST Cícero Guedes e condenaram a violência do latifúndio, em Campos dos Goytacazes, no norte do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Cícero foi executado com 12 tiros na cabeça, na sexta-feira (25/1/13), em uma emboscada quando saia de uma reunião no acampamento de bicicleta.
→ read full articleVerbal Defecation Buries Truth
William A. Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Having visited Auschwitz twice – once with my family and once with local schools – I am saddened that the Jews, who suffered unbelievable levels of persecution during the Holocaust, could within a few years of liberation from the death camps be inflicting atrocities on Palestinians in the new State of Israel and continue to do so on a daily basis in the West Bank and Gaza.
→ read full articleNiger Gives Green Light to U.S. Drone Deployment
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Niger has given permission for U.S. surveillance drones to be stationed on its territory to improve intelligence on al Qaeda-linked Islamist fighters in northern Mali and the wider Sahara, a senior government source said. The U.S. ambassador to Niger, Bisa Williams, made the request at a meeting on Monday [28 Jan 2013] with President Mahamadou Issoufou, who immediately accepted it, the source said.
→ read full articleIs Islam a Terrorist Religion?
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
You must have a vision
You must peep the reason
Violent why some make decisions
Before blaming its cohesion
Or saying it a terrorist religion
The Real Invasion of Africa Is Not News And a Licence to Lie Is Hollywood’s Gift
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
It is as if Africa’s proud history of liberation, from Patrice Lumumba to Nelson Mandela, is consigned to oblivion by a new master’s black colonial elite whose “historic mission”, warned Frantz Fanon half a century ago, is the promotion of “a capitalism rampant though camouflaged”.
→ read full articleGrimsson: IMF Learned New Lessons in Iceland
Deutsche Welle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
The global financial crisis brought Iceland to the brink of collapse in 2008. Since then, the country has recovered well by doing many things differently from the rest of the world, President Olafur Grimsson tells DW.
→ read full articleU.S. ‘Backed Plan to Launch Chemical Weapon Attack on Syria and Blame It on Assad’s Regime’
Louise Boyle – Daily Mail,
4 Feb 2013
Leaked emails from defense contractor refers to chemical weapons saying ‘the idea is approved by Washington.’ Obama issued warning to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad last month that use of chemical warfare was ‘totally unacceptable.’
→ read full articleReciprocity and Karma
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Reciprocity is the basis of non-market economies, and also the basis of social interactions between family members, friends and colleagues. In hunter-gatherer societies, it is customary to share food among all the members of the group. However, the concept of karma has a broader and more abstract validity beyond the direct return of actions to the actor. When we perform a good action, we increase the total amount of good karma in the world. If all people similarly behave well, the world as a whole will become more pleasant and safer.
→ read full articleCourt: Iceland Doesn’t Need To Repay UK and Dutch Depositors
Agence France-Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Iceland was entitled to refuse to pay immediate deposit guarantees to savers with failed online bank Icesave in Britain and the Netherlands, a European court said Monday [28 Jan 2013]. The Court of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), which covers economic and trading relations between non-EU countries that are a part of the European Economic Area (EEA) single market and their European Union partners, was ruling on Reykjavik’s response to the collapse of the Icelandic banking sector in 2008-9.
→ read full articleJews DO Control the Media
Manny Friedman – The Times of Israel,
4 Feb 2013
Let’s be honest with ourselves, here, fellow Jews. We do control the media. We’ve got so many dudes up in the executive offices in all the big movie production companies it’s almost obscene. We also control the ads that go on those TV shows. And let’s not forget AIPAC, every anti-Semite’s favorite punching bag. We’re talking an organization that’s practically the equivalent of the Elders of Zion. Did you know that all eight major film studios are run by Jews?
→ read full articleCriminals Use Webcams for Spying
Rossen Reports, NBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Authorities are saying criminals can now hack into your webcam remotely, using it to watch your most intimate moments without you ever knowing it.
→ read full articleAnti-Semitism: What It IS and Is NOT
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
“An anti-Semite used to be a person who disliked Jews. Now it is a person who Jews dislike.” Today much (meaning not quite all) of what supporters of Israel right or wrong claim to be anti-Semitism is actually anti-Israelism, which in my view is best described as anti-Zionism. And contrary to the assertions of Zionism’s spin doctors, anti-Zionism is not by definition anti-Semitism. Short or long, any discussion of anti-Semitism should include the fact that Zionism needs it.
→ read full article(Português) Islândia Não Tem de Reembolsar Reino Unido e Holanda
Público – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
A Islândia venceu na segunda-feira [28 jan 2013] a batalha legal com o Reino Unido e a Holanda em torno da falência do Icesave, uma delegação online do banco Landsbanki, e não terá de reembolsar os dois países pela falência.
→ read full articleOpen-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on a Draft United Nations Declaration on the Right to Peace
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
First Session 18-21 February 2013. Informal discussion on 7 February 2013. Reference is made to the Note Verbale dated 17 January 2013, concerning the establishment of an Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group with the mandate of progressively negotiating a draft United Nations Declaration on the Right to Peace.
→ read full articleGandhi’s Death Anniversary: Reflections
Dr. Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
On 30 January 65 years ago Mahatma Gandhi was shot while attending a prayer in New Delhi. Every day he used to attend prayers, which served two purposes: to pray to God for well being of mankind, and to meet visitors and interact with them.
→ read full articleIsrael Boycotts UN Human Rights Council
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Israel has become the first country to boycott a UN Human Rights Council review of its rights situation, sparking heated debate among diplomats on how to respond. Its absence on Tuesday [29 Jan 2013], however, came as no surprise as it cut all ties with the 47-member state council last March after the body announced that it would probe how Israeli illegal settlements may be infringing on the rights of the Palestinians.
→ read full articleIsrael Must Remove All Jewish Settlers from Occupied West Bank – UN Inquiry
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
31 Jan 2013 – A UN human rights inquiry has called on Israel to remove all Jewish settlers from the West Bank and cease expansion. The report said the settlements violate international law, and are an attempt to drive out Palestinians through intimidation.
→ read full articleRepression, Resistance, and Indigenous Rights in Guatemala
Anita Isaacs and Rachel Schwartz – Americas Quarterly,
4 Feb 2013
Can centuries of exploitation be reversed?
→ read full articleTransitional Security
Bishnu Pathak, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Prime Minister of Nepal said, “Peace process is ended completing the integration of the Maoist Army (MA)” . PM counted it as a major achievement. Same sentence was also said by Nepali Congress, CPN (UML), and other political parties every day previously. Such speaking raised several questions.
→ read full articleThe Plan to Invade Seven Countries: U.S. General Wesley Clark (Ret.)
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
In an interview with Amy Goodman on March 2, 2007, U.S. General Wesley Clark (Ret.), explains that the Bush Administration planned to take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran.
→ read full articleAn Economic Alternative to Exploitative Free Market Capitalism
Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
The commons movement protects large resources from privatization and allows collectives to regulate extraction. Exploitation is avoided because no one individual has more of a right to the source than any other.
→ read full articleThe Geopolitics of the Modern Resource Boom
Bernice Lee – Americas Quarterly,
4 Feb 2013
Intensified resource stress, driven in part by the booming demand from emerging economies and a decade of tight commodity markets, is reshaping the global economy. Whether the resources are actually diminishing is a matter of debate, but one thing is clear: the resources sector is increasingly characterized by supply disruptions, volatile prices and rising political tensions over access. In many places, myopic government policies have exacerbated the challenges.
→ read full articleOn a Draft UN Declaration on the Right to Peace
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Of all the many political documents in which Humankind may excel
there is one in which universal human intent is expressed well:
Good Terrorist, Bad Terrorist
Chandra Muzaffar, Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
There is terrorism that is condoned and terrorism that is condemned by Western powers and other states. If violence serves their interests, it is acceptable. If it doesn’t, the militants are targeted. In other words, there are ‘good terrorists’ and ‘bad terrorists’.
→ read full articleEvils of Liquor
Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
A professor of chemistry wanted to teach his fifth grade class a lesson about the evils of liquor, so he produced an experiment that involved a glass of water, a glass of whiskey, and two worms.
→ read full articleMystery of Consciousness: Life versus Non-life
Gaurachandra Das, B. Tech, M.Tech, Electrical Engineer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Albert Einstein says-“I sense these things deeply…the most beautiful and profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power which is revealed in the comprehensible universe forms my idea of God.”
→ read full articleBelgian MP Laurent Louis Talks against War in Mali and Exposes International Neo-Colonial Plot
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Jan 17, 2013 – 32-year old Belgian MP Laurent Louis, one of the country’s most controversial and demonized political figures, explained why he voted against the Belgian support to the military intervention in Mali.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 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 articleAre Humans Created or Evolved?
Muhammad Abdul Bari – Al Jazeera,
28 Jan 2013
Recently there have been impassioned debate on this area on two high-profile TV programmes: one an Al Jazeera interview with atheist Richard Dawkins by Muslim political commentator Mehdi Hasan and the other a BBC Big Questions debate over whether it is time for all religions to accept evolution as fact. Many of my co-religionists are left bemused, if not downright confused, by all this kerfuffle.
→ read full articleTell the Nation the Truth about the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
Angered by moral and political corruption, disturbing developments and the overall mismanagement of the body politic, Marcellus tells Horatio in utter disgust and disappointment in Shakespeare’s classic play Hamlet: “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
We, the people of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, who have been fighting against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) are feeling very much like Marcellus.
Burnies versus Greenies ?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
The variant “Greenies” is notably employed as a term of deprecation that carries implications of innocence and ignorance to frame the Greens as misinformed and misguided. The question here is facilitating the promotion of Green policies through identifying such a term in relation with such attitudes. The term of deprecation proposed here is “Burnies” — as a variation of “Burn”, analogous to the deprecatory use of “Greenies”. This gives a focus to what Burnies stand for — effectively naming the problem, from the Green perspective.
→ read full articleIsraeli Authorities Change Route of Wall to Fully Annex Jerusalem to Israel
Saed Bannoura – International Middle East Media Center,
28 Jan 2013
The Israeli Defense Ministry announced on Sunday [20 Jan 2013] that they will re-route a section of the Wall east of Jerusalem in order to close off an existing gap and fully annex the city of Jerusalem into Israel. The new route means the complete encirclement of the Palestinian village of Al-Zaim, with the Wall to the West and a security fence to the east. Other Palestinian towns are also completely isolated and encircled into ghettoes, including the town of Sheikh Sa’ed and the city of Qalqilya.
→ read full article‘Assange Effectively Denied Opportunity to Enjoy Asylum’ – Ecuadorian FM
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
By not allowing passage to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from London to Latin America, where he was granted asylum, Britain infringes same international documents it vigorously lobbied for, Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino tells RT.
→ read full articleThe Arab-Muslim Awakening – And USA-Israel
Johan Galtung, 28 Jan 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia were divided into 15 and 7 states respectively, some now members of NATO and/or EU. States seen as islamist-terrorist are in for the same: Sudan-Somalia broken into 2 and 3 parts. They are both on the list of 7, which the White House ordered the Pentagon to “take out” right after 9/11 (General Wesley Clark, Democracy Now, 2 March 2007): Iraq, Iran, Libya, Lebanon, Syria, Sudan and Somalia; seen as hostile, with state, not private central banks blocking market globalization.
→ read full articleStorm over the Sahara: US, France Creating another Osama?
Eric Margolis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
Belmokhtar was known as a “man of honor,” one of the western-financed jihadists who battled the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980’s and 90’s. He returned to his native Algeria, minus an eye lost in combat, and, with his fellow “Afghani,” sought to overthrow Algeria’s western-backed military regime, a major oil and gas supplier to France. Belmokhtar’s particularly violent Islamist guerilla group, formerly GIC, reformed itself into AQIM – al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, but had nothing to do with Osama bin Laden.
→ read full articleCornel West on Obama vs Luther King
MoxNews – TRANSCEND Media Services,
28 Jan 2013
C-SPAN 19 Jan 2013 – At George Washington University, Washington-DC. Cornel West is a professor at the Union Theological Seminary.
→ read full articleThe Gift
Susan Carew – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
My highest wish is happiness,
It is the gift I give to all,
To see the smiling faces,
To catch them before they fall.
(Italiano) Il Cambiamento Avviene – Ma Come, Perché, Quando, Dove?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
Un secolo fa l’umanità, particolarmente in Occidente, era all’inizio di una grande rivoluzione, dalla cultura del cavallo a quella dell’automobile. Oggi ci sono ancora (FAO-Organizzazione per il cibo e l’agricoltura dell’ONU, 2008) 59 milioni di cavalli, ma (2010) più di un miliardo di auto (nel 1986 solo la metà). In altre parti del mondo, come in Giappone e Cina, c’è stata una rivoluzione verso le auto, ma partendo dalle biciclette – Pechino è passata da 6 milioni di bici a 4 milioni di auto nel giro di 20 anni, solo dal 1990. Dal 1970 al 2010 la quota USA di iscrizioni universitarie su base mondiale è calata dal 26 al 12% mentre la quota cinese è salita da 0 al 18%.
→ read full articleGovernment Persecution, From Aaron Swartz to Bradley Manning
Chase Madar – The Nation,
28 Jan 2013
When 26-year-old Internet prodigy and freedom of information activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide on January 11 [2013], the tragedy was the direct result of US attorneys deciding to throw criminal charges at him for violating a website’s “terms of services” while accessing publicly subsidized academic research.
→ read full articlePalestine-Israel: Enslavement of the False Self
Yago Abeledo interviewing Richard Forer – Redress Information and Analysis,
28 Jan 2013
The real conflict is the inability to integrate the hard-to-believe but inescapable awareness of Israel’s treatment of non-Jews with unquestioned loyalty to the Jewish state. …it is only when the Palestinian people are healed that the Jewish people themselves will be healed.
→ read full articleWhy Is Guantanamo Still Open?
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
28 Jan 2013
Official US policy pretty much still supports everything that was done and continues to be done at Guantanamo.
→ read full articleWhat is Peace? International SPEAK UP Award
Susan Carew – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
For the author of this proposal, teaching peace as a World Peace Sustainability Clown was a dream and that came true. As a World Peace Sustainability Clown travelling the World in 2010, peace was experienced as service when connecting with people on the streets, teaching in schools, healing in hospitals and communicating with many diverse audiences.
→ read full articleWar on Terror Forever
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
28 Jan 2013
Exit “historical” al-Qaeda, holed up somewhere in the Waziristans, in the Pakistani tribal areas; enter al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). In Dempsey’s words, AQIM “is a threat not only to the country of Mali, but the region, and if… left unaddressed, could in fact become a global threat.” With Mali now elevated to the status of a “threat” to the whole world, GWOT is proven to be really open-ended.
→ read full articleSantiago Summit: Can Latin America Now Lecture Europe About Economics?
Tim Padgett with Anthony Esposito – Time Magazine,
28 Jan 2013
On Jan. 26 and 27, the Chilean capital will play host to a Latin American-European economic summit—and the developing region might be excused for feeling a little smug in the company of First World guests who not long ago looked down their noses when they looked across the Atlantic. Many of Latin America’s economies are sound if not booming today compared to the cash-strapped nightmare gripping European Union (EU) members like Spain and Portugal.
→ read full articleThe Second Anniversary of Tahrir Square Rising
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
What inspired the world was the spontaneous spirit of unity, a movement guided by exhilarating visions of democracy and freedom and hope, generating a new kind of populism that dispensed with ideology and leaders, a sense that the people of Egypt had acted creatively and bravely to recover their country from the clutches of neoliberal predators and their domestic collaborators.
→ read full articleUsing Material Goods for Social Competition
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
There is something ethically wrong with using material goods for the purpose of social competition at a time when excessive consumption is destroying our planet. The voice of Henry David Thoreau is a useful and wise one. “Most of the luxuries”, Thoreau wrote, “and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries, the wisest have ever lived a simpler and meager life than the poor.
→ read full articleThe Debt Owed to Haiti
Nia Imara – Pambazuka News,
28 Jan 2013
Three years after the unprecedented earthquake in Haiti that extinguished at least 300,000 lives and upended millions more, the world is asking the same questions.Today the question ought not be how much debt the world superpowers condescend to forgive Haiti, nor even how many millions they promise for earthquake relief. Genuine rebuilding must take as its premise that the Haitian people are due a justice at least 200-years-old. Their claims for justice are both legally and morally sound and have been ignored for far too long.
→ read full articleHow Washington Helped Foster the Islamist Uprising in Mali
Jeremy Keenan – Pambazuka News,
28 Jan 2013
How the US and Algeria have been sponsoring terror in the Sahara. On 12 October 2012, the UN Security Council voted unanimously in favour of a French-drafted resolution asking Mali’s government to draw up plans for a military mission to re-establish control over the northern part of Mali, an area of the Sahara bigger than France. Known as Azawad by local Tuareg people, northern Mali has been under the control of Islamist extremists following a Tuareg rebellion at the beginning of the year.
→ read full articleFinance, Banking the Least-Trusted Industries, Survey Finds
Andrew Tangel – Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan 2013
Financial services and banks were the least-trusted industries last year, according to a public relations firm’s annual survey. Only 46% of U.S. respondents said they trusted the financial services industry, and only 41% said they trusted banks in 2012, according to PR agency Edelman’s annual survey of consumers’ trust.
→ read full articleChurch Sex Abuse Files Unlikely To Lead To Charges, Experts Say
Harriet Ryan, Ashley Powers and Victoria Kim - Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan 2013
Statute of limitations is the main stumbling block to prosecuting culprits in the sex abuse files from the 1980s released this week [22 Jan 2013]. There is also the issue of whether what Cardinal Roger M. Mahony and Monsignor Thomas J. Curry did constituted a crime in the 1980s. The memos the men wrote made clear that they were aware children had been raped and otherwise assaulted and were attempting to keep authorities in the dark. They discussed giving the abusive priests out-of-state assignments and keeping them from seeing therapists who might have alerted law enforcement.
→ read full article[Official Video] Anonymous Operation Last Resort
Aarons ArkAngel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
Jan 26, 2013 – Anonymous takes down US Dept of Justice and US Sentencing Commission websites.
→ read full articleKudankulam Nuclear Power Plant’s Leaks and Repairs: More Questions and No Answers
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
Jan 23 2013 – Since the NPCIL and DAE authorities are tight-lipped about the current condition of the KKNPP, recurrent rumors are making rounds here in our area that that there have been some 40 deaths, that the contract workers at KKNPP have been asked not to report for duty, and that KKNPP-1 has been completely sealed.
→ read full articleAnonymous ‘Operation Last Resort’ Hacks US Gov’t Websites
CNN, MoxNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
26 Jan 2013 – “Sounds like they want a war” in retaliation for Aaron Swartz’ s death.
→ read full articleObama’s Dirty Wars Exposed at Sundance
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
28 Jan 2013
As President Barack Obama prepared to be sworn in as the next US president, two courageous journalists premiered a documentary at the annual Sundance Film Festival. “Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield” reaffirms the critical role played by independent journalists like the film’s director, Rick Rowley, and its narrator and central figure, Jeremy Scahill.
→ read full articleProfiting Off Hunger: Wall Street Makes Big Gains over Food Price Spikes
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
Powerful firms like Goldman Sachs have made hundreds of millions of dollars in food future trades. Critics accuse them of profiting off starvation and market manipulation, while traders claim their profits are due to increasing consumption in China.
→ read full article(Português) A Maior Ameaça à Paz Mundial
Noam Chomsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
Recentemente, a Assembleia Geral da ONU aprovou, por 174 votos a seis, uma resolução na qual convida Israel a aderir ao Tratado de Não Proliferação Nuclear. Os Estados Unidos votaram contra. Washington, que tanto fala da ameaça de um Irão nuclear, nada faz para estabelecer uma zona livre de armas nucleares no Médio Oriente.
→ read full articleList of Children Killed by Drone Strikes in Pakistan and Yemen (Age & Gender)
Drones Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
Compiled from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports.
→ read full articleBiking to Success in Mozambique
Peace is Profitable – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
The start-up Mozambikes has uncovered an interesting niche market with considerable social impact. By selling high quality bicycles at low prices (999 meticais, or just over $30) it has given the country’s rural population a cost-efficient way of overcoming the scarcity of transportation in this vast country. The firm’s founders describe how the rural population had previously needed to walk several kilometers each with “massive containers of water or bundles of firewood on their heads.”
→ read full articleNO Violence Please – A Word to Muslims
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
You are oppressed
You are depressed
You are stressed
You are distressed
But… NO violence please
Mali Conflict: A Challenging Assignment
Peter Townson – Doha Centre for Media Freedom,
28 Jan 2013
French military and Malian government forces are restricting access to conflict areas for members of the media, making covering the situation a major challenge.
→ read full articleThe Science of Spiritual Biology
Bhakti Madhava Puri, Ph.D., Science and Scientist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
Applied mathematician, Samuel Arbesman, is an expert in scientometrics, the science of science, or metascience, and he has written a very recent book, The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date, (Sept. 2012), in which he investigates the frequency of changes in scientific facts, paradigms or theories. Knowledge in different fields of science evolves in systematic and predictable ways, and such changes have a powerful impact on our lives.
→ read full articleBeer Festival
Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
After the Great Britain Beer Festival, in London, all the brewery presidents decided to go out for a beer.
→ read full article“Cyberazzi” – Data Mining Companies Investigated for Invasion of Privacy
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
The paparazzi hide in bushes and use telephoto lenses to snap pictures of celebrities. The “cyberazzi” parachute into web browsers and sneak up behind mobile phones to spy on ordinary people. Nine such data mining companies must report to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission by Feb 1, 2013 what personal information they gather for sale.
→ read full articleThe Republic, Sedition, and Koodankulam: An Interview with Dr. S P Udayakumar
Dianuke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
As the missiles and tanks are geared up to be paraded at the India Gate on the country’s 64th Republic Day, people’s faith in the promise they did to themselves is missing. Last year, people in Koodankulam marked 26th January as Black Day. With more than 10 thousand people booked under sedition and war against the Indian state in Koodankulam, it is time we as a country face the issue head-on. We interviewed S P Udayakumar, leader of the massive nonviolent protest in Koodankulam.
→ read full articleWhen I was seven, Jesus cried…
Nahida, the exiled Palestinian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
I used to play
Where Jesus used to pray
I ran up the hills
Where he used to walk
On Syria: What to Do in 2013
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
19 Jan 2013 – I took part last week in an illuminating conference on Syria sponsored by the new Center of Middle East Studies that is part of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. This Center has been recently established, and operates under the excellent leadership of Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel, who previously together edited the best collection of readings on the Green Revolution in Iran published under the title THE PEOPLE RELOADED.
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Operation Gladio: The Cold War ‘Black Op’ Continues
Darrin McBreen, InfoWars – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
15 Jan 2013 – What is NATO? What is the CIA? Author Richard Cottrell tells the story of mayhem, murder and subversion behind the “alliance for peace.” The CIA as the major terrorist organization on the planet.
→ read full article(Italiano) Ricognizione Sui Corpi Civili di Pace e Proposta di Riconoscimento nel Trattato di Lisbona
Gianmarco Pisa – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
21 Jan 2013
Il Corpo Civile di Pace si configura come strumento civile permanente, composto di volontari e professionisti della società civile, finanziato e gestito da un’autorità centrale legittima (nel caso europeo una commissione esecutiva, nel caso nazionale un’agenzia pubblica), con compiti di:
→ read full articleInternational Essay Contest for Young People
Goi Peace Foundation, Japan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
Organized by The Goi Peace Foundation and UNESCO – Theme: “The Power of Culture to Create a Better Future”
→ read full articleAll Lawyers Are Crooks
Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
A guy in a bar stands up and says, “All lawyers are crooks.”
→ read full articleThe World’s Deadliest Drone: MQ-9 REAPER
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
The MQ-9 Reaper (originally the Predator B) is an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) also known as a Remotely Piloted Vehicle (RPV)) developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) for use by the United States Air Force, the United States Navy, Italian Air Force, and the Royal Air Force. It is the first hunter-killer UAV designed for long-endurance, high-altitude surveillance (see photo).
→ read full articleWhat Is Anti-Semitism?
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
Just how strongly are Germans allowed to criticize Israel? Accusations of anti-Semitism against SPIEGEL columnist Jakob Augstein have brought the question to the fore. He debates the issue with Dieter Graumann, the leader of Germany’s Jewish community.
→ read full article(Português) Cuba Tem a Menor Taxa de Mortalidade Infantil nas Américas
Caros Amigos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
Após 54 anos de revolução e quase 53 de embargo, o índice cubano é melhor que o de países como os Estados Unidos, Canadá e Brasil.
→ read full article(Italiano) Collettivamente Memoria 2013_l’idea e l’impianto
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
Dedicato a Italo Tibaldi e Ida Desandré deportati politici e a Anna Dati staffetta partigiana.
→ read full article“It’s the culture, stupid!”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
I would like to build on this iconic utterance, that captures so much in so few words, by calling attention to the dominate sources of continued mass violence that exists in the USA today. Even as well intentioned public and private response to the Sandy Hook massacre seek solutions in highly specific policies, laws, and practices (e.g., background checks, gun registration, armed guards), these will ultimately prove insufficient, and acts of mass violence will continue. “When you go forward for revenge, dig two graves.” It “trickles down.”
→ read full article(Castellano) VI. La Democracia de Altares
Fernando Montiel T. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
En el Cáucaso las guerras del pasado y del futuro vuelven a todos geopolitólogos: en Bakú todos saben que sus compatriotas al sur de la frontera –los 35 millones en los que Fakhrinur deposita su esperanza– podrían ser la infantería de un ataque estadounidense contra Irán a cambio de que la “comunidad internacional” –es decir, Washington y sus amigos– consienta una ofensiva azerí contra Armenia por Nagorno-Karabaj.
→ read full articleSanctions as Collective Punishment
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
At present, we treat nations as though they were persons: We punish entire nations by sanctions, even when only the leaders are guilty, even though the burdens of the sanctions fall most heavily on the poorest and least guilty of the citizens, and even though sanctions often have the effect of uniting the citizens of a country behind the guilty leaders.
→ read full article(Português) Bhakti Yoga: Em Busca de Um Amor Perdido
Radhanath Swami – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
O aroma de almíscar é tão sedutor que quando o nariz sensível do cervo-almiscarado macho o sente no vento, ele percorre a floresta dia e noite em busca da sua fonte e esgota-se numa busca infrutífera, sem perceber a ironia amarga: a doce fragrância que ele estava perseguindo não residia em nenhum lugar, mas dentro de si. O almíscar é produzido por uma glândula no umbigo do próprio veado: ele estava procurando fora, o que estava sempre dentro de si mesmo. Os sábios da Índia encontraram no cervo-almiscarado uma descrição apropriada da condição humana.
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Time to Say Goodbye (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Katherine Jenkins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
No comment necessary. Just watch… and be touched.
→ read full articleAaron Swartz and the Freedom to Connect
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
21 Jan 2013
Aaron Swartz wanted nothing more than to change the world. He was doing just that until he ended his own life, at the age of 26, on Jan. 11 [2013]. He took a lead role in defeating SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, a federal law that would have granted corporations sweeping online censorship powers. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, responded to the sad news with a tweet: “Aaron dead. World wanderers, we have lost a wise elder. Hackers for right, we are one down. Parents all, we have lost a child. Let us weep.”
→ read full articleMEPs Agree Credit Rating Agency Crackdown
Benjamin Fox, EUobserver – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
The European Parliament on Wednesday (16 Jan 2013) voted in favour of a cross-party compromise text agreed in November which is aimed at preventing conflicts of interest, increasing competition, and reducing the reliance of businesses and governments on credit ratings.
→ read full articleConflict Resolution: From Gandhi to Galtung
Anupma Kaushik – The Gandhi Foundation,
21 Jan 2013
Johan Galtung clarifies that peace research is based on the assumption that peace is as consensual a value as health. He further states that interdisciplinary and multilevel approaches are needed for peace research besides adoption of symmetry. Peace research needs to draw from all corners of the world and in order to understand an issue the researcher needs to see it from either side but the solution should not be based on the assumptions of one party alone.
→ read full articleEritrea: Hear No Evil
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
Eritrea is a pariah state that crushes repression. It even sends its many people into a forced labor system, often for years. The government attracted international investors with its mineral reserves and its first mine, a joint venture with the Canadian firm Nevsun Resources, has produced hundreds of millions of dollars’ in gold since 2011. Other companies from Canada, Australia, and China are also developing projects in Eritrea. We uncovered evidence that some mine construction workers – supplied by Segun, a government-owned company – were forced laborers.
→ read full articleUNESCO Recognizes Brazilian Friar’s Contribution to Social Justice in Latin America and Caribbean
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
11 Jan 2013 – The United Nations has recognized a Brazilian Dominican friar, Frei Betto, with a leading international prize for his “exceptional contribution” to building a universal culture of peace, social justice and human rights in Latin America and the Caribbean. The author of more than 50 books, Frei Betto was born in 1944 and joined the Dominican Order at the age of 20 while studying journalism, and during the time of military dictatorship in Brazil, he was imprisoned twice, in 1964 and again from 1969 to 1973.
→ read full articleThe Doomsday Clock
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
21 Jan 2013: IT IS FIVE MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT – The Doomsday Clock conveys how close humanity is to catastrophic destruction–the figurative midnight–and monitors the means humankind could use to obliterate itself. First and foremost, these include nuclear weapons, but they also encompass climate-changing technologies and new developments in the life sciences that could inflict irrevocable harm.
→ read full articleChange Happens – But How, Why, When, Where?
Johan Galtung, 21 Jan 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
A century ago humanity, particularly in the West, was at the beginning of a major revolution, from horse culture to car culture. Today there are still 59 million horses, but more than 1 billion cars (in 1986 only half of that). In other parts of the world, like Japan and China, there was a revolution to cars, but from bicycles–Beijing went from 6 million bicycles to 4 million cars over a period of 20 years, only from 1990. From 1970 to 2010 the US share of world college enrollment dropped from 26 to 12 percent whereas the Chinese share went up from 0 to 18 percent.
→ read full article(Italiano) Contro la Rivoluzione Mondiale – Costruttivamente!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
Un paese che reagisce con mini-rivoluzioni, nonviolenza, disobbedienza civile contro tali smaccate ingiustizie. Un paese dove la lotta di classe è sospesa per il momento; ha vinto il capitalismo e più specificamente i banchieri e i loro servitori, i politici, e ancora più specificamente il capitale finanziario-speculativo. E questo in una Spagna prossima a 40 anni di democrazia dopo 40 anni di dittatura di Franco. Costituzione + democrazia + elezioni + diritti umani (anche immobiliari) + parlamento contro il capitalismo finanziario. Deboli contro forti.
→ read full article[Which version do you choose to believe?] The Happiest (and Saddest) Countries in the World
Christopher Helman, Forbes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
[From TMS Editor: Forbes bias is toward developed countries; the ‘saddest’ ones are the poorest.]
British philosopher John Stuart Mill: “It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.”
Iran Unable to Get Life-Saving Drugs Due to International Sanctions
Julian Borger and Saeed Kamali Dehghan – The Guardian,
21 Jan 2013
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians with serious illnesses have been put at imminent risk by the unintended consequences of international sanctions, which have led to dire shortages of life-saving medicines such as chemotherapy drugs for cancer and bloodclotting agents for haemophiliacs.
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