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(Portuguese) Computadores Alugados Fotografaram Secretamente Usuários Fazendo Sexo
BBC Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Uma investigação feita por autoridades americanas com sete companhias que alugam computadores nos Estados Unidos revelou que diversas das máquinas registraram secretamente fotos de seus clientes, alguns deles durante atos sexuais.
→ read full articleReuters and Ahmadinejad: Anatomy of a Dangerous Misquote
News Vandal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Today [25 Sep 2012], Reuters rolled out a headline: In New York, defiant Ahmadinejad says Israel will be “eliminated.” Ahmadinejad’s quote in paragraph eleven comes across a bit differently: “We don’t even count them as any part of any equation for Iran. During a historical phase, they (the Israelis) represent minimal disturbances that come into the picture and are then eliminated.” A few words are not the only thing that might get lost in translation. How unfortunate it would be if tens of thousands of lives were lost as well.
→ read full articleIran: Automatic Escalation to World War III?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
A few days ago Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh , who is in charge of the Revolutionary Guards missile systems told that Iran would deem any Israeli strike to be conducted with US authorisation, so “whether the Zionist regime attacks with or without US knowledge, then we will definitely attack US bases in Bahrain, Qatar and Afghanistan.” US leaders would then be forced to respond despite the danger that Russia, China and Pakistan would be drawn into the conflict on the side of Iran.
→ read full articleReviving My Blog after China
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
While in China the media was dominated by the intense Chinese reaction to the Japanese government decision to purchase the Daioyu Islands (called Senkaku Islands by Japan) from private Japanese owners, which was interpreted as a provocative step toward implementing Japanese disputed sovereignty claims.
→ read full articleFormer US President Carter: Venezuelan Electoral System “Best in the World”
Ewan Robertson, Venezuelanalysis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Speaking at an annual event last week [16 Sep 2012] in Atlanta for his Carter Centre foundation, the politician-turned philanthropist stated, “As a matter of fact, of the 92 elections that we’ve monitored, I would say the election process in Venezuela is the best in the world.”
→ read full articleIsrael Lobbyist Hints That ‘Pearl Harbor’ May Be Needed To Get US into War with Iran
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Intriguingly, he went on to recount a series of controversial incidents in American history — the attack on Pearl Harbor, the sinking of the Lusitania, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, and the blowing up of the USS Maine — that US presidents “had to wait for” before taking America to war.
→ read full articleLiving Under Drones: Death, Injury and Trauma to Civilians from US Drone Practices in Pakistan
Stanford and New York Universities – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
This report is the result of nine months of research by the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic of Stanford Law School (Stanford Clinic) and the Global Justice Clinic at New York University School of Law (NYU Clinic).
→ read full articleBibi’s Crazy UN Speech
Justin Raimondo - AntiWar,
1 Oct 2012
Medievalist Poses As Champion of “Modernity”- It’s no wonder the Israeli Foreign Ministry initially held back from releasing a transcript of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the UN General Assembly: Bibi’s wackiness doesn’t bear close scrutiny.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Ratos Alimentados Com Transgênico Morrem Mais Cedo e Sofrem Mais de Câncer
Daniele Silveira, Radioagência NP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Pesquisa realizada com 200 ratos alimentados com milho geneticamente modificado apontou que esses animais morrem mais cedo e sofrem de câncer com mais freqüência. O estudo foi publicado nesta quarta-feira (19 Set 2012) pela revista científica “Food and Chemical Toxicology”.
→ read full articleMEK Delisting is a Gift to the Regime, a Disaster for the Iranian People and the U.S.
National Iranian American Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) deplores the decision to remove the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) from the U.S. list of foreign terrorist organizations. The decision opens the door to Congressional funding of the MEK to conduct terrorist attacks in Iran, makes war with Iran far more likely, and will seriously damage Iran’s peaceful pro-democracy movement as well as America’s standing among ordinary Iranians.
→ read full articleCracking Your PIN Code: Easy as 1-2-3-4
Lisa Scherzer, Yahoo! Finance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
If you lost your ATM card on the street, how easy would it be for someone to correctly guess your PIN and proceed to clean out your savings account? Not long, according to data scientist, Nick Berry, founder of Data Genetics, a Seattle technology consultancy.
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Jesse Ventura on Piers Morgan (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
CNN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Sept. 17, 2012 – Full Interview, CNN
→ read full articleBarcelona Manifesto for Peace
Fundación Carta de la Paz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
September 21, 2012 – International Day for Peace. On the occasion of the First International Congress on Building Peace in the 21st Century held in Barcelona from 23rd-25th April 2012, the organising committee recognises the contributions, presentations, papers and pre-congress preparatory work and offers the following manifesto:
→ read full articleMyths about Industrial Agriculture
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Reports trying to create doubts about organic agriculture are suddenly flooding the media. The food revolution is the biggest revolution of our times, and the industry is panicking. So it spins propaganda, hoping that in the footsteps of Goebbels, a lie told a hundred times will become the truth. But food is different.
→ read full articleBlood for Oil
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
“Modern warfare particularly depends on oil, because virtually all weapons systems rely on oil-based fuel – tanks, trucks, armored vehicles, self-propelled artillery pieces, airplanes, and naval ships. For this reason, the governments and general staffs of powerful nations seek to ensure a steady supply of oil during wartime, to fuel oil-hungry military forces in far-flung operational theaters.”
→ read full articleTerror and Teargas on the Streets of Bahrain
Jen Marlowe - TomDispatch,
24 Sep 2012
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (in the U.S. at Least) -The lack of coverage of the predominantly Shi’a uprising against a repressive Sunni monarchy can be explained by this: Washington considers that monarchy its close ally; Bahrain is the home of the Navy’s 5th Fleet, and the beneficiary of U.S. arms sales. Most of the opposition leaders were jailed, along with thousands of protesters. Journalists were targeted, as were teachers, health-care professionals, and star Bahraini athletes. Hundreds of cases of torture (some to the death) were reported, and thousands were fired from government jobs for demonstrating, or, in many cases, merely because they were Shi’a.
→ read full articleVirus
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Our species coughs and wheezes,
and we can barely help each other.
The immunization shots
provided by religions
didn’t work, or made us sicker.
A Marriage of Morons: Romney and Netanyahu
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Perhaps the United Morons of America have a right to elect Mitt Romney president. But for the sake of the US and Israel, I hope that this will not happen. Some people say that Israel is the 51st state of the Union. Some say that it is the first among the 51. Whatever, our lives – and perhaps our deaths – depend to a great extent on the man in the White House.
→ read full article(Castellano) Manifiesto Barcelona por la Paz
Fundación Carta de la Paz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
21 de septiembre 2012 – Día Internacional de la Paz. Con motivo del Ier Congreso Internacional Edificar la Paz en el siglo XXI celebrado en Barcelona los días 23, 24 y 25 de abril del 2012, el Comité Científico, recogiendo las aportaciones, las comunicaciones y las ponencias que se han presentado y los trabajos precongresuales, da a conocer el siguiente Manifiesto:
→ read full articleFufu Momo and Kottu
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Noises of different tongues
Occupying stoves in the kitchen
It is not belonged to any one
But belonged to a time
Born Free and Equal
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
The UN Human Rights Office has released a new publication on sexual orientation and gender identity in international human rights law. It sets out the source and scope of some of the core legal obligations that States have to protect the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.
→ read full articleRespect Indians and Indian Democracy
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
The ruling establishment’s message is loud and clear. “We do not give a damn about the Indian citizens, their democratic and nonviolent opposition to harmful policies and projects and the very democratic heritage of our country. We will put the interests of foreign countries and their MNCs ahead of the wishes and wellbeing of the Indian citizens.”
→ read full articleRole of Governments in Promoting Peace
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Governments of all kinds seem to have at least one thing in common. They want to convince everyone that all their actions are performed in the best interest of their respective population. Of course, experience demonstrates that this is not necessarily true in any way whatsoever.
→ read full articleThe Real Battle Is Against U.S. Imperialism
Socialist Worker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
U.S. embassies and military bases in majority Muslim countries around the Middle East and North Africa have been the site of violent protests over a racist film, produced in the U.S. and distributed in various forms on the Internet, which slanders Islam.
→ read full articleThree Principles for Reconstructing the Economy
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
First Principle: The needs of those who need to sell something to live (to sell either their labor or some other saleable item) usually exceed effective demand. There are more sellers than buyers. Therefore, in a green, responsible, plural and caring (or “solidarity”) economy there must be work (or some other source of livelihood) that does not depend on sales.
→ read full articleKoodankulam Is About India’s Hopes
Meera Udayakumar - Dianuke,
24 Sep 2012
The wife of S P Udayakumar, the leading activist of the anti-nuclear protests in Koodankulam, talks about her hopes and fears.
→ read full articleBritain Silent on Ecuador Assange Proposal
The Australian, AAP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Britain’s Foreign Office is tightlipped over a proposal from Ecuador that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange be transferred from London to Sweden but stay under Quito’s protection. Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said on Saturday [22 Sep 2012] he was weighing such a transfer as a possible alternative for Assange to “remain under our protection while also satisfying the demands of the Swedish justice system”.
→ read full articleA Global Plea for Spiritual Dignity
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Rhymed Reflections
When religious/spiritual systems are communicatively disrespected and violated
Universal spiritual dignity is not only being infected but literally decimated
AP Sources: US to Take Iran Group Off Terror List
Bradley Klapper and Matthew Lee, Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
The decision to remove the MEK list rested on two factors: whether it still had the capacity and intent to commit acts of terror. Several American military officials and defense contractors were killed by the MEK in the 1970s, U.S. officials maintain, and its attacks have killed hundreds of Iranians.
→ read full articleFrance Says No to Genetically Modified Crops, No to Fracking
Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
France will maintain its ban on genetically modified crops [GMOs] and will ban fracking, politicians announced during an environmental conference held in Paris Friday and Saturday [Sep 14-15, 2012].
→ read full articleLetter to Citizens of Australia by the Koodankulam Children
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Now we hear that The Honorable Prime Minister of Australia, Ms. Julia Gillard, has agreed to sell Uranium to India and visit our country. While we welcome Ms. Gillard to India at any time, we would very much like to request her government and the people of Australia not to sell Uranium to India, to facilitate nuclear arms race among India, Pakistan and China, make South Asia even more dangerous and spoil the futures of us, the children of India and other countries.
→ read full articleMonsanto Corn Causes Tumors, Organ Damage in Rats
Ben Hirschler and Kate Kelland, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Paris Asks Health Body to Investigate French Study Findings – In a study that prompted sharp criticism from other experts, French scientists said on Wednesday [19 Sep 2012] that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn or exposed to its top-selling weedkiller suffered tumours and multiple organ damage.
→ read full articleDrug Giants Fined $11bn for Criminal Wrongdoing
Jeremy Laurance – The Independent,
24 Sep 2012
Fines Are Not Enough to Reform Drug Industry, Warn Lawyers – The global pharmaceutical industry has racked up fines of more than $11bn in the past three years for criminal wrongdoing, including withholding safety data and promoting drugs for use beyond their licensed conditions. In all, 26 companies, including eight of the 10 top players in the global industry, have been found to be acting dishonestly.
→ read full article‘Planetary Emergency’: New Data Elevates Climate Change Alarm
Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Drawing on new data on the rate of melting arctic ice released Wednesday [19 Sep 2012] by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), leading scientific experts and environmental campaigners upped the level of alarm and issued a renewed call to action by calling the growing reality of climate change a “planetary emergency”.
→ read full articleIn Quebec It’s Official: Mass Movement Leads to Victory for Students
Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Naomi Klein: ‘This is why radical movements are mercilessly mocked. They can win.’
→ read full articleA Rare Look at Why the Government Won’t Fight Wall Street
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
24 Sep 2012
The great mystery story in American politics these days is why, over the course of two presidential administrations (one from each party), there’s been no serious federal criminal investigation of Wall Street during a period of what appears to be epic corruption.
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Origins of Israel Palestinian Conflict
CaspianReport – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
The Israeli Arab conflict is the result of interactions of superpowers in the early 20th century. British and French strategic interests in the Middle East were related to the Mediterranean trading route, which went from the Suez channel to Indian markets. But the presence of the Ottoman navy based in the Levant was a direct threat to British interests. So the British and the French decided to divide the Middle East into smaller entities and countries to make it impossible for the Ottoman Empire to control them all. A century later, the legacy of European colonization of the Arab world is reflected by its many ongoing conflicts.
→ read full articleA Significant Leap in Indo-Pak Relations
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Confidence building measures play a significant role towards addressing contentious issues between the nations. This well practiced rule of conduct among nations can be no less than accurate in the context of India and Pakistan, which have fought four wars since their independence.
→ read full articleA Last Request
TMS Editor,
24 Sep 2012
A husband and wife had four boys. The odd part of it was that the older three had red hair, light skin, and were tall, while the youngest son had black hair, dark eyes, and was short.
→ read full articleA Day of Peace: For the Americas
Johan Galtung, 24 Sep 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Straight to the key problem in the theory and practice of peace: Are we thinking of the negative peace of cease-fire and no violence (as distinct from nonviolence), or are we thinking of the positive peace of cooperation for mutual and equal benefit, empathy for emotional harmony, reconciliation of past traumas, and resolution capacity for an endless agenda of future conflicts? Are we thinking of using nonviolence? Or of persuading, or forcing, those with serious grievances to lay down their arms and reintegrate peacefully in civilian life?
→ read full articleEvening Hunger
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
When hunger came
I went to the kitchen
Cooked rice
Made a soup of chicken
Captive of the Taliban
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Jere Van Dyk, an author, Taliban expert, former TV correspondent and ex-captive of the Taliban offers a unique perspective on the roots of the conflict in Afghanistan and Central Asia. He believes the Afghan and Pashtun peoples/cultures/histories/goals are poorly understood in the West (if at all). The Taliban do not accept the Durand Line drawn in 1893 by the British, which arbitrarily divided their Pashtun ancestral lands to artificially create the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
→ read full articleThe Conditions for Human Health and Well Being Reside within the Psychosocial Contexts of Life
Anthony J. Marsella – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
As our concern for human health and well being grows with each day, we too often find ourselves seeking solutions within the limitations of our health-care system. We call for more medical services, lower medical costs, more health professionals, better medical technologies, improvements in medical records, greater accessibility and acceptability of health care, and more and more committees, evaluations, and reports to determine why the system is failing for the elderly, poor, minorities, veterans, and youth.
→ read full articleJulian Assange to Receive Aboriginal Passport
GreenLeft – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
This Association has worked with the Sydney Support Assange and WikiLeaks Coalition to arrange for Julian Assange to be issued an Aboriginal Nations Passport that his father, John Shipton, will accept on his behalf at The Settlement on 15 September, 2012. The issuing of an Aboriginal Passport to Julian Assange brings further shame on the Australian government. It recognises that Assange’s Australian passport has been completely worthless to him.”
→ read full articleThe March of Folly
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Nothing could be more scary than the thought that this duo – Binyamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak – is in a position to start a war, the dimensions and outcome of which are incalculable. It’s scary not only because of their ideological fixations and mental outlook, but also because of the level of their intelligence.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Projeto de Cidades Privadas Gera Polêmica em Honduras
BBC Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Um polêmico projeto que prevê a construção de cidades privadas com leis, sistema fiscal, polícia e políticas de imigração próprios está causando polêmica em Honduras. Na última semana [7 Set 2012], o governo hondurenho deu sinal verde para a construção da primeira das “cidades-modelo”. As “cidades-modelo” serão construídas por investidores privados e geridas de forma autônoma.
→ read full articleColombia: Extractive Capital and Peace Negotiations
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
In late August 2012, President Santos announced that the Colombian regime was opening peace negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, (FARC), with the aim of ending nearly 50 years of civil war. Several economic, social, political and military changes account for the Santos regimes abrupt shift from a policy of “peace” through extermination of the guerrillas to a policy of a negotiated peace.
→ read full articlePeople’s Siege in Koodankulam: Latest Pictures
Dianuke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
9 Sep 2012 – Siege continues in Koodankulam: At least 20,000 people on the eastern compound wall from the sea side. People refused to talk to the Superintendent of Police (SP); the District Collector of Thirunelveli is expected to arrive. Administration’s demand to talk to the movement leaders – against whom sedition and other charges are slapped – is also refused by the people.
→ read full articleDreaming of the Apocalypse
Mark LeVine – Al Jazeera,
17 Sep 2012
If ever real leadership was needed among American, European and Arab leaders, it’s now. “Disgusting and Reprehensible!” That’s how Secretary of State Hilary Clinton described the “film” Innocence of Muslims in the latest official US comment on the movie that has sparked outrage across the Muslim world.
→ read full articleOur Truth, and Theirs
Justin Raimondo – Antiwar,
17 Sep 2012
What is a 9/11 “truther”? “There is no indication that the Israelis were involved in the 9-11 attacks, but investigators suspect that the Israelis may have gathered intelligence about the attacks in advance, and not shared it. A highly placed investigator said there are ‘tie-ins.’ But when asked for details, he flatly refused to describe them, saying, ‘evidence linking these Israelis to 9-11 is classified.
→ read full articleLet Us Do Some Soul-Searching and Talk Again!
Dr. S. P. Ukayakumar, PMANE – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Today we are surrounded by police, beaten up, harassed, accused of committing all kinds of crimes, arrested, and above all, mentally, emotionally, spiritually assaulted by police. We are all fisherfolks, shopkeepers, agricultural laborers, beedi-rolling women, and to be brief, working class people. But we are treated like criminals; dangerous, seditious, violent, vicious and wicked lawbreakers. Our leaders, who have been invoking the names and wisdom of Thiruvalluvar, Buddha, Mahavir, Ashoka, Guru Nanak, Mahatma Gandhi, Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan and Mother Teresa, are treated like dreaded terrorists.
→ read full articleJerusalem, Capital of Palestine: Arab-Free by 2015
Maath Musleh – Al-Akhbar,
17 Sep 2012
The Israeli Government is racing against time in a bid to put the finishing touches on its plan to annex and Judaize East Jerusalem. Palestinians represent roughly 58 per cent of the residents of East Jerusalem today. The Israeli plans in place aim to decrease the percentage of Palestinians to about 10 percent.
→ read full articleOccupy Monsanto Stops GMO Seed Distribution
Occupy Monsanto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Nine Arrests Made at GMO Seed Distribution Plant – Today’s [12 Sep 2012] protest is the beginning of a series of over 65 different autonomous actions that officially start on September 17, a year since Occupy Wall Street movement began. Actions are planned throughout the world including the US, Germany, Canada, India, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Argentina, Australia, Spain, Russia, and Japan.
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International Day of Peace 2012 – September 21 (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
RootedInPeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
“The Culture of Peace Initiative serves as a truly integrative cooperative local/global Initiative, an open field for all participants to co-operate, share resources and ideas along diverse pathways subjectively and objectively that enhances the effectiveness of each participant, while simultaneously building a Culture of Peace that benefits All.” ~ Avon Mattison, Pathways To Peace.
→ read full articleNetanyahu, Not Iran, Is An Existential Threat To Israel
M.J. Rosenberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
One ex-Israeli official put it best. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu seems to be “going berserk.” He is demanding that the United States set a “red line” that, once crossed, will automatically initiate a US attack on Iran. He doesn’t even bother to pretend that war with Iran is in US interests.
→ read full articleWhat’s So Scary About a Vegetarian Future?
Dr Victoria Martindale – The Independent,
17 Sep 2012
Scientists predict that global diets will need to change dramatically within the next 40 years to avoid catastrophic food shortages. That almighty bastion of meat culture, McDonalds, has taken heed and spearheaded plans to open vegetarian restaurants in India. OK, McDonalds’s may well be crappy junk food but there will always be people who eat it and at least now it will be crappy vegetarian junk food. And as Burger King, KFC and Pizza Hut follow its example people will soon be eating vegetarian crap everywhere. But hey, whether it’s a Maccy D’s veggie burger, artificial meat grown in a lab or local seasonal vegetables – it’s got to be good news.
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The Other 9/11: Chile – Coup d’état – September 11, 1973
BBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
The BBC made this documentary about the coup. Don’t mind the sometimes dreadful choice of music; the film is actually the only full-length English-language documentary that interviews people from both sides, and provides a number of fascinating insider accounts of the coup that was to unleash the era of Neoliberalism onto Latin America and the world.
→ read full articleA Hot Day
TMS Editor,
17 Sep 2012
It was a stifling hot day and a man fainted in the middle of a busy intersection.
→ read full articleMystery Man Behind the Anti-Muslim Film Blamed For Attacks
Eric Lach, TPM – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
September 12, 2012 – Who is Sam Bacile? So far, the answer depends on who you ask and what you read. Early reports after Tuesday’s [9/11/2012] violence against American diplomatic posts in Egypt and Libya identified Bacile as the producer and director of an absurd anti-Muslim film blamed for inspiring the anger of the mobs.
→ read full articleLetter from the Koodankulam Children to Citizens of Russian Federation
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Greetings! We, several thousands of children from the southernmost tip of India, are writing to you to send our love and seek your support for the peaceful and nonviolent struggle that we and our parents have been waging for the past twelve months against the Koodankulam nuclear power project.
→ read full article(Castellano) “El Capitalismo Implosiona, Pero No Bajo los Efectos de la Movilización Popular” — Samir Amin
Other News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Según Samir Amin hemos entrado en una nueva fase del capitalismo. Cree que se trata de una etapa cualitativamente nueva. El sistema capitalista no solo está en crisis, -mantiene Amin- sino que lo que se está produciendo en él una autentica implosión, pero que no es el efecto de la lucha popular.
→ read full articleThe Other 9/11: Remembering the Neoliberal Coup in Chile
Jerome Roos, RoarMag – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Today it is 39 years ago that Pinochet launched a bloody CIA-assisted coup against the democratically-elected socialist President Allende of Chile.
→ read full articleMonopolizing War? What America Knows How to Do Best
Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch,
17 Sep 2012
Washington may be mobilized for permanent war. Special operations forces may be operating in up to 120 countries. Drone bases may be proliferating across the planet. We may be building up forces in the Persian Gulf and “pivoting” to Asia. Warrior corporations and rent-a-gun mercenary outfits have mobilized on the country’s disparate battlefronts. The American people, however, are demobilized and detached from the wars, interventions, operations, and other military activities done in their name
→ read full articleBeing Gay
Mr. Fish - Truthdig,
17 Sep 2012
I was determined to be gay, even if I had to sleep with other guys to do it, because, just as it was with racism and sexism, homophobia was not founded in reason so it could not be destroyed by logic. In fact, to merely talk about why it might be wrong to hate gay people made discrimination against homosexuals little more than a matter of opinion, no more substantive than announcing a dislike for argyle or Mexican food or dogs in sunglasses.
→ read full articleOn PEACE: An Artistic Paradigm
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
PEACE can be verbalized
PEACE can be imagined : PEACE universalized !
Growing Up a Proud Racist in Burma
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Like millions of my fellow Buddhist Burmese, I grew up as a proud racist. For much of my life growing up in the heartland of Burma, Mandalay, I mistook what I came to understand years later as racism to be the patriotism of Burmese Buddhists. Our leading and most powerful institutions, schools, media, Buddhist church and, most importantly, the military, have succeeded in turning the bulk of us into proud racists.
→ read full articleNo ‘Red Line’ for Israel
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Israeli news outlets reported today [15 Sep 2012] that President Obama rejected an appeal by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to set a specific “red line” to stop any further Iranian uranium enrichment. It seems that, this time at least, President Obama has decided against launching a world war on behalf of the Jewish State and its powerful lobby.
→ read full articleThe Democrats’ Jerusalem Arithmetic: When Israel Is Concerned, Half = Two-Thirds
Alison Weir, IfAmericansKnew – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
We’re Tired of Pretend Democracy – Not often is a political fix so public. The Democratic committee that develops the party’s campaign platform recently failed to include the apparently obligatory “Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel” pronouncement. In fact, I believe an uprising in the United States may be coming. People are tired of wars and killing, and of being sold a pack of goods by both parties using lies, deception, and manipulation.
→ read full articleThe Montpelier Manifesto
Thomas H. Naylor, Kirkpatrick Sale, James Starkey, and Charles Keil – Lew Rockwell,
17 Sep 2012
Let us therefore consider ways peaceably to withdraw from the American Empire by (1) regaining control of our lives from big government, big business, big cities, big schools, and big computer networks; (2) relearning how to take care of ourselves by decentralizing, downsizing, localizing, demilitarizing, simplifying, and humanizing our lives; and (3) providing democratic and human-scale self-government at those local and regional levels most likely to effect our safety and happiness.
→ read full articleNot Ours
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
I comment to the doctor on
the far worse plight of Afghani civilians
being maimed and killed by mines and bombs.
“Three a day, by the mines,” I remark.
“Not ours,” he replies.
Ah yes—the former Evil Empire’s.
SABONA: From Kindergarten to Geopolitics
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Some global bullies invented a new play: the nuclear game. One child had the monopoly for some time, refusing to give it up to that big kindergarten called the UN. Then other children came, and more, and more. What to do? Give all the weapons to the UN for destruction and then celebrate their demise from earth.
→ read full articleTransforming the Art of Conversation
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Conversing As the Transformative Science of Development – In a period of multiple global crises — with more foreseen — it is worth asking what skills might be usefully cultivated. It is increasingly evident that every form of claim and blame can be formulated.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Microsoft Identifica Computadores Que Já Vêm Infectados por Vírus de Fábricas
BBC Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Cerca de 20% dos computadores comprados em diferentes cidades chinesas foram infectados com programas maliciosos ainda na fábrica, segundo a Microsoft.
→ read full articleHouse Approves Sweeping, Warrantless Electronic Spy Powers
David Kravets,Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
The House on Wednesday [12 Sep 2012] reauthorized for five years broad electronic eavesdropping powers that legalized and expanded the George W. Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program. The National Security Agency told lawmakers that it would be a violation of Americans’ privacy to disclose how the measure is being used in practice.
→ read full articleParadoxes of Turkish Pride
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Turkey is now an important middle power at the United Nations. It provides a diplomatic venue for many international events that used to be held in Europe. Its courageous Somalia initiative has given Turkey a post-colonial identity in Africa that no other non-African government has been able to achieve. It is my belief that Turkey more than any other country in the 21st century has increased its relevance to the conduct of regional and global politics.
→ read full articleThe Libya Fiasco and the Folly of Intervention
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.), The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
There is danger in the belief we can remake the world by bribing some countries and bombing others. But that is precisely what the interventionists – be they liberal or conservative – seem to believe.
→ read full articleHundreds of Refugees Sent Back to Sri Lanka to Face Torture
Jerome Taylor – The Independent,
17 Sep 2012
14 Sep 2012 – The Government is planning to forcibly remove hundreds of Sri Lankan asylum seekers next week despite mounting evidence that many are tortured on their return. The Independent has learnt that the Border and Immigration Agency has commissioned as many as three separate charter flights to remove more than 300 people next week. Returning Tamils would find themselves interrogated and tortured for information.
→ read full articleThe Future of International Law
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
It is becoming increasingly clear that the concept of the absolutely sovereign nation-state is a dangerous anachronism in a world of thermonuclear weapons, instantaneous communication, and economic interdependence. Probably our best hope for the future lies in developing the United Nations into a World Federation.
→ read full articleThe Mind Thieves
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
The evidence linking Alzheimer’s disease to the food industry is strong and growing.
→ read full article9/11: A Geo-political Monster
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
17 Sep 2012
The victims of 9/11 are not only encountered in New York but also in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Libya and today, in Syria; campaigns created and wars waged on the back of the most shocking example of the manipulation of fear in the history of humankind. The legacy of 9/11 is therefore its consequences: torture, rape, murder, illegal detention, war crimes, atrocities, sodomy, urination in food, sleep deprival, setting dogs on detainees, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, racism…the list goes on and on and on and reads like a shopping list for Satan.
→ read full articleIran’s Strategic Diplomatic Victory over the Washington-Israeli Axis: Its Larger Political Consequences
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Iran chaired, hosted and led the recently rejuvenated Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Teheran, attended by delegates from 120 countries, including 31 heads of state and 29 foreign secretaries of state. Even the United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon, notorious mouthpiece of Washington, felt obligated to address, a forum attended by two-thirds of the member countries of the UN, despite State Department and Israeli objections.
→ read full articleA Tale of Two Asylums: Assange, Palacio, and Media Hypocrisy
Keane Bhatt, NACLA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Every so often, world affairs offer us paired examples—two nearly identical instances through which we can better understand the role of powerful institutions, like the media. So when Ecuador granted asylum to Australian journalist Julian Assange in mid-August [2012], and then, two weeks later, the United States provided asylum to Ecuadorian journalist Emilio Palacio, the two cases laid bare the hypocrisy of the establishment press.
→ read full articleWhen the Addiction Cure Is Another Addiction
Chelsea Carmona – Al Jazeera,
10 Sep 2012
Addiction manifests itself in different compulsions and behaviours, which is critical to recognise during the treatment.
→ read full articleWe Eat by the Grace of Nature, Not by the Grace of Monsanto
Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez – Common Dreams,
10 Sep 2012
“Organic, schmorganic,” fumes New York Times columnist Roger Cohen sarcastically in an article entitled “The Organic Fable.” He bases his sweeping dismissal of the organic foods movement on a new Stanford University study claiming that “fruits and vegetables labeled organic are, on average, no more nutritious than their cheaper conventional counterparts.”
→ read full article(Portuguese) Sobre Ombros de Gigantes
Marcela Godoy, Consciência Animal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Semana passada [16 Aug 2012], ministrei um mini curso na Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Paraná-Brasil, durante o II Encontro de Ciências Biológicas. Dessa vez, trabalhei o tema Vivissecção no Ensino e na Pesquisa. Obviamente, o mini curso aconteceu pelo viés da anti-vivissecção.
→ read full articleThe Liberal Way to Run the World – ‘Improve’ or We’ll Kill You
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
In his 1859 essay On Liberty, to which modern liberals pay homage, John Stuart Mill described the power of empire. “Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians,” he wrote, “provided the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end.” The “barbarians” were large sections of humanity of whom “implicit obedience” was required.
→ read full articleCNN International’s Response to the Guardian
CNN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Here is CNN International’s response to Glenn Greenwald’s story in the Guardian about Amber Lyon’s documentary, iRevolution: Online Warriors of the Arab Spring.
→ read full articleIs Amnesty International Abandoning Human Rights?
Bev Cotton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
“Amnesty International is primarily motivated not by human rights but by publicity. Second comes money… To be sure, if you are dealing with a human rights situation in a country that is at odds with the United States or Britain, it gets an awful lot of attention… But if it’s dealing with violations of human rights by the United States, Britain, Israel, then it’s like pulling teeth to get them to really do something on the situation”.
→ read full article16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement
Antonio C. S. Rosa - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
The 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement was held from 26 to 31 August 2012 in Tehran, Iran. The summit was attended by leaders of 120 countries, including 24 presidents, 3 kings, 8 prime ministers and 50 foreign ministers. The summit’s framework was the “Final Document” adopted during the Ministerial Meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement Coordinating Bureau which was held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt from 7 to 10 May [2012].
→ read full articleDr. Frankenstein and the American Psychological Association’s Decade of Monstrosities
Roy Eidelson, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
The betrayal of psychological ethics will not make the world safer.
→ read full articleTop Natural Remedies For Depression
Dr. Edward Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
The experience of emotional and psychological depression has been noted and subjected to various explanations since the dawn of recorded history and quite probably before. The current model, which reduces all depression to a deficiency in serotonin, seems as overly simplistic and inadequate as those before it.
→ read full articleSave Jeju Island
Robert Redford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
From September 6-15 [2012], some 10,000 environmentalists gather in Jeju Island for the International Union of the Conservation of Nature’s World Conservation Congress. It will take place where the construction of a naval base is threatening coral forests, assaulting endangered species and destroying a 400-year old community of farmers and fishers. But instead of condemning the South Korean government’s actions, IUCN Director-General Julia Marton-Lafevre praised its seriously flawed “Environmental Impact Assessment.” This naval base is being built just 0.13 miles from a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Tiger Island.
→ read full articleThe Driver
TMS Editor,
10 Sep 2012
A passenger in a taxi tapped the driver on the shoulder to ask him something.
→ read full articleThe Dark Side of the “Green Economy”
Jeff Conant – YES! Magazine,
10 Sep 2012
Why some indigenous groups and environmentalists are saying no to the “green economy.”
→ read full articleTargeting Civilians
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Much was destroyed during World War II, and among the casualties of the war were the ethical principles that Roosevelt and Chamberlain announced at its outset. We live at a special time in history, a time of crisis for civilization. We did not ask to be born at a moment of crisis, but such is our fate. Every person now alive has a special responsibility: We owe it, both to our ancestors and to future generations, to build a stable and cooperative future world.
→ read full article(Portuguese) O Mapa Hexagonal do Mundo Multipolar
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Como é que enfrentamos, intelectualmente, o mundo de hoje?
→ read full articleFormer CIA Head: Iran Attack Will Push Iranians Toward A Bomb
Ben Armbruster, ThinkProgress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Former Bush administration National Security Agency head and CIA director Michael Hayden told the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz that Israel may not have the military capacity to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities and reiterated his belief that any attack would only delay the Iranian program and perhaps push it toward obtaining nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleUS: Torture and Rendition to Gaddafi’s Libya
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
New Accounts of Waterboarding, Other Water Torture, Abuses in Secret Prisons – The United States government during the Bush administration tortured opponents of Muammar Gaddafi, then transferred them to mistreatment in Libya, according to accounts by former detainees and recently uncovered CIA and UK Secret Service documents, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today [6 Sep 2012].
→ read full articleDefining DIGNITY Didactically through Rhymed Reflections
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
DIGNITY has to do with character elevation
It also refers to one`s wisdom in conversation
How Genetically Modified Corn Is Creating Super Worms
Aviva Shen, ThinkProgress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
5 Sep 2012 – There is mounting evidence raising concerns that insect resistance is developing in parts of the corn belt,” where Monsanto’s corn dominates the fields. Root worms exposed to the corn’s toxin seem to have become immune to it, breeding an unprecedented colony of superworms.
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