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Freedom Flotilla Sets Off To Gaza
AFP, Gulf News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
A Swedish ship with rights activists from several countries aboard has sailed from Naples in the latest bid to break Israel’s blockade against Gaza. A crowd of well-wishers saw off the sailing vessel Estelle on Saturday [6 Oct 2012] as it left the Italian port as part of the “Freedom Flotilla” movement. The Estelle is carrying humanitarian aid and expected to reach Gaza in two weeks.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Moral Degeneracy
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Once upon a time, the Turks were a fierce people. Today they are Washington’s puppets. We have witnessed this during the past week. The Turkish government is permitting the Islamists from outside Syria, organized by the CIA and Israel, to attack Syria from Turkish territory… Muslim countries are incapable of supporting one another. Instead of supporting one another, Muslim governments accept payoffs to support instead the Christian/Zionist forces of the Western bloc.
→ read full articleThe ABC of Harmony
Dr. Bishnu Pathak* - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
This is the first exclusive book to deal scientifically on harmony, harmonious civilization, harmonic education, and cross-cultural dialogues across the world at local, regional, national, and international levels.
→ read full articleThe Big Burst
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Like a ball sinking in water
Life is flowing
The Empire Strikes Back
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Imperialism did almost as much harm to the ruling nations as it did to their subject peoples. Over the gates of Auschwitz were the words “Work Makes You Free”. Over the gates of the Solovetsky camp in Lenin’s gulag: “Through Labour – Freedom!”. Over the gates of the Ngenya detention camp, run by the British in Kenya: “Labour and Freedom”. Dehumanisation appears to follow an almost inexorable course.
→ read full articleRethinking Columbus: Towards a True People’s History
Bill Bigelow – Common Dreams,
15 Oct 2012
In more than 30 years of teaching U.S. history and guest-teaching in others’ classes, I’ve never had a single student say, “Taínos.” So I ask them to think about that fact. “How do we explain that? We all know the name of the man who came here from Europe, but none of us knows the name of the people who were here first—and there were hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of them. Why haven’t you heard of them?” This ignorance is an artifact of historical silencing—rendering invisible the lives and stories of entire peoples.
→ read full articleStay Out of the Syrian Maelstrom
Patrick J. Buchanan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Last year, U.S. planes scrambled to defend Benghazi against the “tanks, helicopters and fighter jets” of Col. Gadhafi. Now we are investigating the murders of our ambassador and three Americans in the city we saved. To bring down helicopters and fighter jets would require U.S. F-16s over Syria or putting surface-to-air missiles in rebel hands. Do we really want to be passing Stingers around a no man’s land where al-Qaida agents could buy up a few to bring down U.S. airliners?
→ read full article(Portuguese) BRICS: Novo Passo Rumo a Outra Ordem Financeira?
Mauro Santaya – Outras Palavras,
15 Oct 2012
Em reunião paralela ao encontro do Banco Mundial, países da antiga “periferia” podem criar Banco de Desenvolvimento próprio e agência de avaliação de riscos independente. Ignorado e desvalorizado pela mídia “ocidental”, que só noticia sua existência quando das cúpulas presidenciais, o grupo BRICS, que reúne o Brasil, a Rússia, a Índia, a China e a África do Sul, se prepara para promover verdadeira revolução no mercado financeiro internacional.
→ read full articleIsrael: Has Our Expiration Date Arrived?
Kobi Niv – Information Clearing House,
15 Oct 2012
The question is not whether Israel will still exist in 10 years, but what kind of Israel will be here in 10 years? Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said not long ago that in 10 years there would be no more Israel. What foolishness, right? Clearly, Israel will survive forever. First of all, because that is what our leaders say. Second, we have a fine army, smart bombs, a stable economy and high tech, too. And third, because God is with us. These are facts.
→ read full articleFormer UN Envoy Jean Ziegler on Third World Hunger: “We Let Them Starve”
Thomas M Blaser, Africa is a Country – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
‘According to the UN World Food Programme, there is enough food in the world for 12 billion people. If today people are still starving, then this is organized crime, mass murder. Every five seconds, one child under the age of ten dies, one billion people are permanently and heavily undernourished.’ Quote from Jean Ziegler, who was (2000-2008) the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and subsequently a member of the Advisory Committee to the UN Human Rights Council.
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Howard Zinn on Columbus, Mark Twain – Honesty in History (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Segment from Democracy NOW! aired May 13, 2009 featuring the great late historian Howard Zinn.
→ read full articleDignity in Charity
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
When, in the media, people boast of their charity
Doesn´t that behavior violate humanitarian dignity?
(Italian) Sociocidio, Israele e Palestina
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Testimonianza per il Tribunale Russell sulla Palestine – NewYork City, 7 ottobre 2012 – Sociocidio è un nuovo concetto che non ha trovato posto nel diritto internazionale positivo. Come Genocidio e Ecocidio, il Sociocidio, l’eliminazione della capacità di una società di sopravvivere e riprodursi, dovrebbe ugualmente diventare un delitto preminente contro l’umanità. La Palestina è dunque vittima di sociocidio da parte di Israele? Decisamente!
→ read full articleWas It Wrong to Support the Iranian Revolution in 1978 (Because It Turned Out Badly)?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
As with the days of the Shah, Iran urgently requires an emancipatory politics that liberates from within, and regenerates the hopes of the Iranian people. What Iran does not need is an Israeli-American military strike or destabilization moves funded and promoted from without. Intervention by way of military attack, or even in the form of strong economic sanctions (as present), stabilize the regime in Tehran and impose added hardships on the Iranian people.
→ read full articleGenetical Engineering’s Dirty Little Secret
Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, Pesticide Action Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
As a scientist at Pesticide Action Network, I am frequently asked these days to explain what genetically engineered (GE) crops have to do with pesticides. When I answer that GE crops both contain and drive up pesticide use, I am often met with earnest incredulity. We seem to need to believe that GE technology is the best thing since sliced bread.
→ read full articleHow the Internet Works
Sarah Wenger & Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Infographic – Engineering the Internet. The Internet is amazing. It allows us to communicate instantly, search for and find information on nearly anything, stay abreast of current events and, of course, watch the latest cute animal video. But how does it actually work?
→ read full articleTransCanada Transforms Tar Sands Blockade Area into Police State
Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Enlisted off-duty police officers are intimidating, harassing and arresting just about anyone they think is trespassing, even if those people happen to be on property they own. And, officers who are acting as armed henchmen for TransCanada have arrested three journalists in the past twenty-four hours for simply being there to report on resistance to the pipeline construction.
→ read full articleA Happy War
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Pacifism’s such a bore—
I’m going to design a war
The Muslim Diaspora in Europe and the USA
Johan Galtung et al* - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
By far the tallest diaspora in the world is Muslim: about 300 million, of them 177 M in India, 19 M in EU, 23 M in China, 16 M in Russia, and 2.6 M in the USA. This paper is about the Muslim social situation in two of the six poles: Europe and the USA.
→ read full articleBringing History to Life: Eric Hobsbawm
Paul Heideman – Socialist Worker,
15 Oct 2012
A Tribute to a Leading Figure in 20th Century Marxism – The international left lost one of its most distinguished intellectual lights when Eric Hobsbawm died on October 1 [2012].
→ read full articleInternational Peace Bureau Critical of Nobel Peace Prize for the European Union
International Peace Bureau, Nobel Peace Laureate (1910) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
The IPB finds the award of the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union surprising in that it awards a prize not to a head of state but to an entire bloc of states, thus making it difficult to identify the real recipient. Is the EU really a ‘champion of peace’, as Nobel conceived it? Or is it a club of states with many contradictory impulses and interests?
→ read full articleNYPD Concern about ‘Iran Terror’ Should Put U.S. Security on Alert
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
On September 25 [2012], The Passionate Attachment broke the story of the Israel lobbyist who suggested that a Pearl Harbor-type attack might be necessary to get a recalcitrant Obama Administration to go to war with Iran. In light of Clawson’s thinly-veiled call for a false flag attack to trigger another Middle East war for Israel, a story in yesterday’s [10 Oct 2012] New York Post entitled “NYPD on alert for Iran terror” should be of major concern to those charged with protecting U.S. national security.
→ read full articleAbuse of Power: Criminal Assault on Humanity
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
One of the worst crimes in human experience is termed to be abuse of power. Those in power of any kind have the opportunity to elevate those around them to a higher level of existence making their lives enjoyable and peaceful, or to sink them to a state of frustration, desolation and suffering.
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Secret of the Seven Sisters (Shell, Exxon, BP, Mobil, Chevron, Gulf, Texaco) – Desert Storms and Fortunes (1/4)
Sunset Presse, French TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
MUST WATCH Documentary: The Shameful Story of Oil – Exposing the Oil Cartel – Part 1 of 4
Legendado em Portugues
Secret of the Seven Sisters (Shell, Exxon, BP, Mobil, Chevron, Gulf, Texaco) – Safari in a Black Eldorado (2/4)
Sunset Presse, French TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
The Shameful Story of Oil – Exposing the Oil Cartel – Part 2 of 4
Legendado em Portugues
Secret of the Seven Sisters (Shell, Exxon, BP, Mobil, Chevron, Gulf, Texaco) – The Dancing Bear (3/4)
Sunset Presse, French TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
The Shameful Story of Oil – Exposing the Oil Cartel – Part 3 of 4
Legendado em Portugues
Secret of the Seven Sisters (Shell, Exxon, BP, Mobil, Chevron, Gulf, Texaco) – A Time for Lies (4/4)
Sunset Presse, French TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
The Shameful Story of Oil – Exposing the Oil Cartel – Part 4 of 4
Legendado em Portugues
Sociocide, Palestine and Israel
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Testimony for Russell Tribunal on Palestine – NYC, 7 Oct 2012 – Sociocide is a new concept that has not found its place in positive international law. Like Genocide and Ecocide, Sociocide, the killing of a society’s capacity to survive and to reproduce itself, should become equally and prominently a crime against humanity. A society is a self-reproducing social system. Is Palestine the victim of sociocide by Israel? Indeed!
→ read full articleIceland’s Economy Now Growing Faster Than the U.S. And EU after Arresting Corrupt Bankers
American Live Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Iceland didn’t follow the rest of the world by bailing out bankers. Surprisingly, they arrested them instead. Now their economy is recovering faster than the EU and the United States.
→ read full articleConsiderable Conglomeration of “Cons” of Global Concern
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Eightfold Constraint on Constructive Conflict Control? In these strange times there would seem to be a strange preponderance of ways in which problematic conditions are articulated through use of words prefixed by “con”. There is therefore a case for exploring these phenomena more systematically. This is done here by clustering words of that form which are used with greatest frequency. The approach is to endeavour to isolate clusters which are especially important to processes of governance — or to concerns regarding the efficacy of that governance.
→ read full articleBreastfeeding Moms Boot Nestlé from Maternity Wards
Elizabeth Ben-Ishai – YES! Magazine,
8 Oct 2012
If breastfeeding is healthier for babies, why are hospitals pushing corporate infant formula? How a growing number of states and cities are banning marketing in the maternity ward.
→ read full articleBradley Manning Trial: A Mockery of Justice
Nathan Fuller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Bradley Manning’s lawyer, David Coombs, has filed a 117-page motion calling for the dismissal of all charges with prejudice, for lack of a speedy trial. When he argues the motion at Ft. Meade, October 29 – November 2, Bradley will have been in pretrial confinement for nearly 900 days.
→ read full articleCritical Psychology: Critical Links
Prof. Ian Parker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
We must take seriously any and every critique of psychology, any and every challenge to ideology and power, for it is only on that basis that we will be able to link the variety of radical activities inside and outside, in and against the discipline and to construct a field of debate where different theoretical positions and practical initiatives can be developed, discussed and elaborated. Critical activity cannot be carried out by individuals working independently, and that is why critical psychologists need their own institutions.
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Meanwhile, in Brussels… Papy Blues
TMS Editor,
8 Oct 2012
At the Grande Place, an Uplifting Alternative to EU’s Gloominess
→ read full articleBhutan Aims To Be First 100% Organic Nation
Agence France Presse (AFP) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, famed for seeking “happiness” for its citizens, is aiming to become the first nation in the world to turn its home-grown food and farmers 100 percent organic. The tiny Buddhist-majority nation wedged between China and India has an unusual and some say enviable approach to economic development, centred on protecting the environment and focusing on mental well-being.
→ read full articleEinstein’s Letter to ‘Stern Gang Terrorists’
Deir Yassin Remembered – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Prior to the creation of the State of Israel, two Jewish terrorist groups were working to cleanse Palestine of its Arab inhabitants and its British occupiers. The more brutal of these groups was Lohamei Herut Yisrael (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel) also known as the LEHI or the Stern Gang after its founder Avraham Stern.
→ read full articleSpeaking for All Bodies (Not Just the “Perfect” Ones)
Sven Eberlein – YES! Magazine,
8 Oct 2012
In “Sins Invalid,” performance artists shatter stereotypes around sex and disabilities to reclaim the body’s redemptive power. In this culture, there’s an aura of sin around our attitudes toward the body. Sex is dirty and disabilities are frightening. So who better to shatter stereotypes and show the redemptive power of reclaiming our bodies than a group of disabled artists who explore disability, sexuality, and social justice through edgy performance.
→ read full article(Castellano) Experiodista de CNN Denuncia Reportajes Manipulados en Favor de Bahréin
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
La exreportera de CNN Amber Lyon aseguró que CNN se encuentra bajo una fuerte presión a la hora de criticar lo que sucede en Arabia Saudita y Bahréin, mientras se demoniza a Irán y Siria a cualquier hora del día.
→ read full article(Portuguese) O Porquê do Ódio a Chávez
Ignacio Ramonet e Jean-Luc Melenchon – Outras Palavras,
8 Oct 2012
Ele cumpriu a promessa de governar para as maiorias e mostrou que História não tinha terminado. Por isso (não por seus erros) oligarquias o detestam…
→ read full articleStudy: The Effects of Weaponized Radiation – Health Effects of Radioactive Materials (1945-1970)
Lisa MartinoTaylor, Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Abstract: This piece analyzes a covert Manhattan Project spin-off organization referred to here as the Manhattan-Rochester Coalition, and an obscure aerosol study in St. Louis, Missouri, conducted under contract by the U.S. military from 1953–1954, and 1963–1965. The military-sponsored studies targeted a segregated, high-density urban area, where low-income persons of color predominantly resided.
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‘Bahrain Buys Favorable CNN Content’ (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Amber Lyon, former CNN journalist – Russia Today,
8 Oct 2012
Amid a violent crackdown on a popular uprising, Bahrain paid CNN to get favorable coverage, says a former reporter who believes her documentary on the protests there was censored by the network.
→ read full articleThe Empire Trapped: The US’ Unpromising Role in the New Middle East
Ramzy Baroud – Toward Freedom,
8 Oct 2012
Empires don’t crumble overnight, however. A fall of an empire can be as agonizingly long as its rise. Signs of that collapse are oftentimes subtle and might not be followed by a big boom of any sort, but can be unambiguous and definite.
→ read full article(French) La méfiance règne dans l’industrie pharmaceutique
EurActiv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Le système des soins de santé européen a des difficultés à gérer le manque de transparence et de confiance dans le secteur pharmaceutique, d’après 97 % des médecins, professionnels du secteur et décideurs politiques présents hier (4 octobre 2012) au Gastein Health Forum. « La Corée du Nord serait fière de vous ! », a déclaré le modérateur de l’atelier, John Bowis.
→ read full articleBut What of Truth
Hal O’Leary – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Poetry can often achieve the same communication with far fewer words than prose. This poem sums it up.
→ read full articleGerman State TV Reports: Syrian Rebels Claim Responsibility for Attack on Turkey
R. Teichmann – News Beacon Ireland,
8 Oct 2012
Translation: “Rocket and mortar fire. Turkey takes revenge after an attack from the Syrian side. Yesterday afternoon Syrian rebels fired on a Turkish village close to the border. For weeks Ankara had warned against provoking Turkey. Meanwhile Syrian rebels officially claimed responsibility for the provocation.”
→ read full articleConstruction versus Destruction
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
It is easier to burn down a house than to build one, easier to kill a human than to raise and educate one, easier to force a species into extinction than to replace it once it is gone, easier to burn the Great Library of Alexandria than to accumulate the knowledge that once filled it, and easier to destroy a civilization in a thermonuclear war than to rebuild it from the radioactive ashes.
→ read full articleMistrust Puts Pharmaceutical Industry in the Spotlight
EurActiv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
The European healthcare system is struggling to cope with low levels of transparency and trust in the pharmaceutical sector, according to 97% of doctors, industry professionals and policymakers attending a workshop at the Gastein Health Forum yesterday (4 October 2012). “North Korea would be proud of you!” said workshop moderator John Bowis, a former MEP.
→ read full articleIraq: Ten Years, a Million Lives and Trillions of Dollars Later
Dennis Kucinich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Ten years ago today [2 Oct 2012] the debate over the Iraq War came to Congress in the form of a resolution promoted by the Bush Administration. The war in Iraq will cost the United States as much as $5 trillion. It played a role in spurring the global financial crisis. Four thousand, four hundred, eighty eight Americans were killed. More than 33,000 were injured. As many as 1,000,000 innocent Iraqi civilians were killed. The monetary cost of the war to Iraq is incalculable. A sectarian civil war has ravaged Iraq for nearly a decade. Iraq has become home to Al Qaeda.
→ read full article10 October: Abolition of the Death Penalty
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
10 October is the International Day against the Death Penalty, set by the United Nations General Assembly. Since the end of World War II, there has been a gradual abolition of the death penalty with the rather obvious recognition that death is not justice. In some countries, executions have been suspended in practice but laws allowing executions remain; in other cases there has been a legal abolition.
→ read full articleHow the Government’s Lies Become Truth
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
In my last column, “A Culture of Delusion,” I wrote that “Americans live in a matrix of lies. Lies dominate every policy discussion, every political decision.” This column will use two top news stories, Iranian nukes and Julian Assange, to illustrate how lies become “truth.”
→ read full articleDrone Warfare: Obama’s Idea of a “Just War”
Drone Wars UK – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
This is an edited version of an article by US Catholic theologians Tobias L. Winright and Mark J. Allman that first appeared in the 18th August 2012 edition of the international Catholic weekly, The Tablet, as ‘Obama’s drone wars: a case to answer.
→ read full articleFrom Persuasion to Coercion: PsychoPharma’s “Priesthood of the Mind”
Prof. James F. Tracy – Global Research,
8 Oct 2012
Since the 1950s psychotropic drugs comprise the psychiatric-pharmaceutical complex’s lucrative masterstroke of public relations and marketing. Heretofore the prevalence and use of such substances have been constructed in the public mind through a conditioned cultural obeisance toward professional expertise and its amplification in advertising and related promotional discourse.
→ read full articleBy the Way…
TMS Editor,
8 Oct 2012
My 4 year old son came screaming out of the bathroom to tell me he’d dropped his toothbrush in the toilet.
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There She Goes Again: Hillary Clinton Laughs about Possible War against Iran
LiveLeak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Remember the ‘We Came, We Saw, He Died’ Gaddafi affair? She is at it again! Hillary Clinton (while laughing about it) and James Baker discuss the prospect of war with Iran while suggesting that the United States of America needs to instigate the war with a false flag attack.
→ read full articleThe ‘Koodankulam’ Conflict Map
S.P. Udayakumar, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Mapping the Conflict – A Graphic Representation
→ read full articleWhy the US Demonises Venezuela’s Democracy
Mark Weisbrot – The Guardian,
8 Oct 2012
Venezuela is about to hold impeccably free and fair elections [7 Oct 2012]. Yet the US treats it as a dictatorship. Here is what Jimmy Carter said about Venezuela’s “dictatorship” a few weeks ago: “As a matter of fact, of the 92 elections that we’ve monitored, I would say that the election process in Venezuela is the best in the world.” Washington is still spending millions of dollars within the country in addition to unknown covert funds – to undermine, delegitimise, and destabilise democracy in Venezuela.
→ read full articleSpeaking out against Prof. Ian Parker’s Suspension
China Mills – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Prof. Ian Parker has been suspended from Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He had raised concerns within the university about the problem of secrecy and control in the department and was suspended for doing so. Ian helped to set up the principle aims of ‘Psychology, Politics, Resistance’ in 1994 to oppose the abusive uses and oppressive consequences of psychology, to support individuals to challenge exploitation, to develop a collective active opposition to oppression, and to make this a key element in the education of all psychologists.
→ read full article‘The American Dream Has Become a Myth’
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
The finance industry is to blame for the growing divide between the rich and poor in the United States, says Nobel Prize-winning economics professor Joseph Stiglitz. In an interview with SPIEGEL, he accuses the industry of preying on the poor and buying government policies that help them get richer.
→ read full articleOf Bombs and Comics
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
My first reaction to Binyamin Netanyahu’s exhibition of comics at the UN General Assembly was shame. Shame that the supreme elected representative of my country would stoop to such a primitive rhetorical device, bordering on the childish. (One Israeli commentator suggested putting him on a rug with a lot of paper and Indian ink, and letting him play to his heart’s content.)
→ read full articleBurma/Myanmar: Did the Government Incite the Racial Violence Targeting the Rohingya?
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Truthful reports by various inquiry commissions and missions can and will go a long way towards restoring a glimmer of hope in the world’s most persecuted minority community, if the investigators are able to get to the bottom of the recent large-scale racial violence, which left nearly 100,000 both homeless and hopeless.
→ read full articleArendt and Einstein Warned of ‘Fascism’ Rising in Israel 60 Years Ago
Philip Weiss, MondoWeiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the “Freedom Party” (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine.
→ read full articleCalifornia Law Bans Gay Teen ‘Conversion’ Therapy
Associated Press (AP) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
California has become the first state to ban a controversial form of psychotherapy aimed at making gay teenagers straight.
→ read full articleInk of Failed Conscience
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Once up on a time
Among some other men and women
Called human rights activists…
‘Suppliers of Arms to Opposition Want to Destroy the Syrian People’ – Iraqi PM
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
States that send arms to Syria face upheavals and unrest due to sectarian violence, their stability will be in jeopardy and the state of affairs will be no better than in Syria, warned Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki in an interview to RT [5 Oct 2012]. “He who starts a fire will be destroyed by fire in the end,” Al-Maliki stated, predicting that sponsorship of the Syrian opposition will backfire on supporting states.
→ read full articleThe Life and Death of an Australian Hero, Whose Skin Was The Wrong Colour
John Pilger –TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
I first met Arthur a generation ago and knew he was the best kind of trouble. He objected to the cruelty and hypocrisy of white society in a country where his people had lived longer than human beings had lived anywhere.
→ read full articleThe Era of Conventional Wars is Over
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Over the past 65 years this has been evidenced with tangible clarity. The only tragedy lies here. The so called super powers cannot see it and cannot accept it. They keep on wasting money and energy on something that is now a fiction of their imagination.
→ read full articlePrerequisites to Planetary Peace: A Nonkilling Checklist
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
In a critical perspective, all current political systems would be taught
Their peace-nonviolence-nonkilling common denominators would be sought
(Portuguese) A Luta Democrática no Oriente Médio
Emir Sader – Carta Maior,
8 Oct 2012
A chamada primavera árabe propriamente dita, se limitou, até aqui, à Tunisia e ao Egito. Os outros processos estão sobredeterminados pelo contexto geopolítico internacional. Quem pode dizer que hoje a Líbia se democratiza?
→ read full articleHow to Kill a Democracy
S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Anoint a colonized World Bank clerk as the Chief Executive with American blessings
And have him dance to imperial tunes and MNC notes with Swadeshi songs and swings.
Include all the rogues, rascals and rowdies as coalition partners and co-conspirators;
Make “Loot and Let Loot” the philosophy of governance and principle of administration.
Has Capitalism Lost Its Compass? APEC Panel (Part 1)
Peter Lavelle, Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Has capitalism lost its compass? How should capitalism be defined? How flawed is the system and could it still be revived? And is there any real alternative to capitalism? These issues are discussed with distinguished panelists at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation 2012 summit held in Vladivostok.
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Has Capitalism Lost Its Compass? APEC Panel (Part 2)
Peter Lavelle, Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Jim Rogers and Artyom Volynets are there to defend capitalism in its modern form, while Chandran Nair and Frank-Jurgen Richter are arguing that capitalism has indeed lost its compass.
→ read full article(Castellano) Cancilleres Inauguran Cumbre “América del Sur-Países Árabes” en Perú
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
El Gobierno peruano informó, a través de una comunicado, que los cancilleres tendrán dos sesiones de trabajo para terminar de concertar la Declaración de Lima, texto final del encuentro que firmarán los jefes de Estado y de Gobierno el día martes [2 Octubre 2012].
→ read full articleAt Milestone, US Military Deaths Dwarfed by Afghans Killed
Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
As 2,000th American soldier killed in Afghanistan makes headlines, estimates put Afghan civilian dead at over 20,000.
→ read full articleClinton Offers $45 Million to Syrian Rebels, Who Want More Support
Hannah Allam - McClatchy Newspapers,
1 Oct 2012
Hillary Clinton on Friday [28 Sep 2012] announced $45 million in additional aid for Syrian rebels. U.S. aid for Syria now will total more than $132 million this year, though Syrian rebels are more interested in weapons and military training than in ‘nonlethal assistance.’ “The irony of our fear of supplying Islamist groups is that the others who are arming the opposition – the Saudis, the Qataris, the Turks – are doing just that, providing weapons and ammunition to Islamists,” Holliday said.
→ read full articleWhy Qatar Wants to Invade Syria
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
1 Oct 2012
He stressed Arab countries had a “military duty” to invade. So let’s assume the Emir is not exactly interested in turning Syria into Scandinavia. That opens the way to an inevitable motive – connected to, what else, Pipelineistan. It’s clear what Qatar is aiming at; to kill the US$10 billion Iran-Iraq-Syria gas pipeline, a deal that was clinched even as the Syria uprising was already underway.
→ read full articleScientists: No to Genetically Modified Crops, Yes to Paradigm Shift
Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
A group of scientists said that ecological farming and a shift towards a holistic paradigm, not genetically modified (GM) crops, are the answer for India’s future agricultural needs. The scientists made their statements in New Delhi at a media briefing organized by Aruna Rodrigues, lead petitioner in a public interest litigation seeking a moratorium on GM testing in India, the Times of India reports.
→ read full articleNestlé: Malevolent Corporation Capitalizes on Global Water Crisis
Maude Barlow – Toward Freedom,
1 Oct 2012
Nestlé’s goal is to shift government policy away from providing public municipal water supplies to people, and toward a dependency on bottled water to provide basic drinking water. And of course, it is about capitalizing on the global water crisis.
→ read full articleLetter from Japanese Anti Nuclear Activists to Tamil Nadu Residents
No Nukes Asia Forum Japan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
A Historic movement is underway in Tamil Nadu-India, against Koodankulam nuclear power station. People across the world are moved by the resistance and want to express solidarity. We tried to visit India to show our solidarity on September 25, 2012 but were denied access at Chennai airport. After an hour-long interrogation, we had our papers written as “Inadmissible persons”, which denied our entrance to India.
→ read full articleIn Quest of a Dynamic Pattern of Transformations
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
The assumption is that greater understanding of transformation in generic terms, as a complex of processes, would enable and sustain new forms of development — especially for the individual in times of crisis. The approach takes its inspiration from the argument of Albert Einstein: “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
→ read full articleAsylum Seeking Not Criminal – UNHCR
Africa news – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has said the seeking of asylum is not a criminal act and those who seek it should not be detained. In a statement issued in New York on Sunday [23 Sep 2012], it also called on all states to seek out alternatives to detention when dealing with migrants and refugees.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Brasil: Comissão da Verdade Institui Grupo para Investigar Operação Condor
Najla Passos e Rafael Santos – Carta Maior,
1 Oct 2012
Apontada como a maior operação de terrorismo de Estado já praticada na América Latina, a Condor envolveu as ditaduras de Chile, Argentina, Paraguai, Uruguai, Bolívia e Brasil que, mesmo não tendo assinado a ata de fundação, participou da primeira reunião oficial do grupo, realizada em Santiago do Chile, em 1975.
→ read full articleThe Tender Tyranny of American Liberalism Redux
Prof. James F. Tracy – Global Research,
1 Oct 2012
Liberalism itself is a synthetic creation of the power structure, a humanitarian facade behind which the dirty work of policing the world can go on uninterrupted by idealistic spasms in the body politic.
→ read full articleRhetoric and Reality of AFRICOM: Lessons from Mali
Abena Ampofoa Asare – Pambazuka News,
1 Oct 2012
What is the value of America’s military and humanitarian interventions? Just look at Mali: Its shattered democracy and roving rebel groups are a troubling picture of an AFRICOM partner state.
→ read full articleAssange to UN: ‘It is time for the US to cease its persecution of WikiLeaks’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
27 Sep 2012 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has called on the United States to move from words to actions, and put an end to its persecution of WikiLeaks, its people and its sources. He made the statement during an address to a panel of UN delegates.
→ read full articleFreedom of Expression = Freedom to Insult?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
There are two key human rights values in this confrontation:
freedom of expression–basic, but not the only value in the world;
freedom from insult and respect for the sacred–basic, but not alone.
Conflicts between two values generally have five outcomes:
The Top 5 Herbs for Controlling Mood Swings
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Whether you have a short temper or just can’t seem to optimize your mental clarity, mood swings and emotional distress can be a serious situation to deal with. Thankfully, a number of herbs can assist you in your fight against mood swings and emotional distress.
→ read full articleAn Interview with Noam Chomsky
Ricardo Lezama – CounterPunch,
1 Oct 2012
Obama, Campus Activism, Mexico, the Middle East
→ read full articleUniversity of California to Pay Nearly $1 Million in UC Davis Pepper-Spray Settlement
Stephen Ceasar – Los Angeles Times,
1 Oct 2012
The University of California will pay damages of $30,000 to each of the 21 UC Davis students and alumni who were pepper-sprayed by campus police during an otherwise peaceful protest 10 months ago, the university system announced Wednesday [26 Sep 2012].
→ read full articleSyrian Stalemate: Late in the Day – Are Negotiations Still Possible?
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Paulo S. Pinheiro said that the escalating conflict in which civilians bear the brunt of the killed and wounded now has an increasing presence of “foreign elements”. Some have joined anti-government forces and some operate independently. Pinheiro, who has long experience in UN human rights efforts, went on to add that such foreign elements “tend to push anti-government fighters toward more radical positions.”
→ read full articleRighteousness versus Expediency
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Waging wars is never right. They cannot be waged on the assumption of “righteousness.” The only alternative left for such heinous acts is “expediency” that would make the rich become richer and the poor become poorer and fully miserable if they were to survive.
→ read full articleMemo to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Door on a Two-State Solution Was Closed 45 Years Ago
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the General Assembly at the start of this week [27 Sep 2012] that “the door may be closing for good on a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.” The truth of history, which most if not all world leaders know but dare not state, is that the door Ban Ki-moon sees closing, was actually slammed shut 45 years ago. The precise date of the closure was 22 November 1967. What happened on that day?
→ read full articleI Won The Lottery!
TMS Editor,
1 Oct 2012
A man gets home, screeches his car into the driveway, runs into the house, slams the door and shouts at the top of his lungs, “Honey, pack your bags. I won the damn lottery!”
→ read full articleThe China Japan Dispute Over Diaoyu Islands: Historical Analysis
Chandra Muzaffar – Global Research,
1 Oct 2012
It is not a coincidence that the Japanese Right has become more vocal— especially vis-a-vis China— at a time when the United States is seeking to re-assert its presence and its power in the Asia-Pacific region. Even on the Diaoyu dispute, the US government, while professing to remain neutral, has through the Pentagon made it clear that the Japan-US Security Treaty would come into force in the event of a military conflict between Japan and China.
→ read full articleMichael Sinan, Mr. Gay Denmark 2012, On Being Out and Proud As a Muslim
Huffington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Mr. Gay Denmark, who is also Muslim, says “it’s not easy, but it’s certainly easier” for him than it is for fellow immigrants who must live with a sexual orientation that fits with neither their religious principles nor their families’ values.
→ read full articleUS Conducts New Type of Nuclear Test Using Intense X-Ray Beams
Xinhua News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Japan’s southwestern city of Nagasaki expressed its outrage and protest against a new type of nuclear test conducted for the sixth time in August [2012] by the United States, local press reported on Tuesday [25 Sep 2012]. The report said that the United States conducted the nuclear test, which simulated a nuclear blast using intense X-ray beams and checked how plutonium would react, at the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico on August 27 [2012].
→ read full articleA Culture of Delusion
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
A writer’s greatest disappointments are readers who have knee-jerk responses. Not all readers, of course. Some readers are thoughtful and supportive. Others express thanks for opening their eyes. But the majority are happy when a writer tells them what they want to hear and are unhappy when he writes what they don’t want to hear.
→ read full articleTRANSCENDING Multidimensionally: A rhymed reflection
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
What will happen when politically all Humankind transcend?
To more dignifying political systems we will ascend
Apollo’s Curse and Climate Change
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
The sad story of Cassandra is suggestive of the dilemma confronting the climate change scientific community. In modern civilization, interpreting scientific evidence and projecting trends, is as close to trustworthy prophesy as this civilization is likely to get. The culture is supposed to place its highest trust in the scientific community as the voice of reason, and modernity is largely understood as allowing scientific truth and instrumental reason to supersede superstition and religious revelation.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Gay Conta Ter Gasto Mais de US$ 30.000,00 Para Tentar ‘Conversão’ à Heterossexualidade
Karen Millington – BBC Brasil,
1 Oct 2012
O americano Peteson Toscano conta ter gasto US$ 30 mil (cerca de R$ 60.500), recorrido a três tentativas de exorcismo e passado por um casamento fracassado até conseguir superar seus dilemas pessoais e aceitar que era gay.
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(Castellano) Entrevista al Dr. Johan Galtung (25 de septiembre de 2012) – Mexico
solorzanoenultra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Javier Solórzano entrevista con el Dr. Johan Galtung, premio nobel de la paz alternativo, sobre la cultura por la paz.
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