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TRANSCEND Peace University Online Courses – 2012
Erika Degortes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
12-Week All-Online Courses
→ read full articleA Blast From the Past: The Non-Aligned Movement
Eric Margolis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
In spite of intense efforts by the US and Israel to deter attendance at the Tehran meeting – backed by a wave of western media attacks on the conclave – over 150 nations and international bodies attended. This big turnout marked a major failure by Washington to further tighten its siege of Iran. Of particular note was the presence of India’s prime minister, Manmohan Singh, and of Egypt’s new president, Mohammed Morsi, who shrugged off threats of a cut in US aid and flew to Tehran.
→ read full articleA Step towards the Dock
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
The prospect of a trial for Tony Blair now starts to look more plausible. When Desmond Tutu wrote that Tony Blair should be treading the path to the Hague, he de-normalised what Blair has done. Tutu broke the protocol of power – the implicit accord between those who flit from one grand meeting to another – and named his crime. I expect that Blair will never recover from it.
→ read full articleIsrael ‘Pillaging’ Palestinian Resources
Jillian Kestler-D'Amours – Inter Press Service-IPS,
10 Sep 2012
By mining natural resources from the occupied Palestinian territories for its own economic purposes, Israel is committing the war crime of pillage in the Dead Sea area, according to a report released Monday [3 Sep 2012] by Palestinian human rights group Al Haq.
→ read full articleA Tale of Two Economies: Skyrocketing Stock Market for the Rich, Devaluation of Work for the Rest
Mark Karlin - Truthout,
10 Sep 2012
The rich are making out like bandits in the booming Wall Street economy that is based on profits squeezed out of firing workers, lowering net wages (adjusted for inflation), and outsourcing jobs to exploited labor overseas. There is no crisis in the top 1%; there is only increasing wealth.
→ read full articleAn All-Clear for Bush’s Torturers
Marjorie Cohn – Comsortium News,
10 Sep 2012
Even as Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu urges a war-crimes trial for George Bush and Tony Blair for invading Iraq, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder gives an all-clear to Bush’s subordinates for homicides that resulted from torture in Afghanistan and Iraq, a repudiation of U.S. law and principles.
→ read full articleTransforming and Interweaving the Ways of Being Stoned
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
“Stone” is used metaphorically and otherwise in a quite disparate range of contexts. Use of “stoned” as a provocative mnemonic device is then arguably appropriate through the distraction it offers, whether through use of drugs by individuals, or collective dependence on oil as a drug. The exorbitant expenditure on the occasion of global summits is also suggestive of the “stoned” conditions under which it is deemed appropriate for decision-makers to envision the future.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Empresas Monitoram Pessoas Que Baixam Vídeos e Músicas Ilegalmente, Diz Estudo
BBC Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Segundo pesquisadores, qualquer download feito pelo BitTorrent pode ser identificado por agência de monitoramento em apenas três horas.
→ read full articleThe Modern US Army: Unfit For Service?
Matt Kennard – The Guardian,
10 Sep 2012
Gone are the days of the all-American army hero. These days, the US military is more like a sanctuary for racists, gang members and the chronically unfit. Overweight. Ex-con. Racist… meet the modern American army.
→ read full articleAvigdor Lieberman: Master of Mischief
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Well, he was born in Soviet Moldavia and speaks Russian fluently. Even though he came to Israel already 34 years ago, just a few days after his 20th birthday, he is still considered by most Israelis as a “Russian”, speaking Hebrew with a heavy Russian accent and looking as foreign as possible. He is an ardent admirer of Vladimir Putin and his Doppelgängers, Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk and Victor Yanukovych in Kiev.
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Playing For Change Day 2012 (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
PFCfoundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
21 September 2012 – International Day of Peace. What if you had one day to change the world with music? On 22 September 2012, musicians and fans will come together on Playing For Change Day with a shared intention of doing something positive for the world and supporting music education for kids everywhere.
→ read full articleRussia Announces Enormous Finds of Radioactive Waste and Nuclear Reactors in Arctic Seas
Charles Digges, Bellona – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Enormous quantities of decommissioned Russian nuclear reactors and radioactive waste were dumped into the Kara Sea in the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia over a course of decades, Bellona is alarmed by the extent of the dumped Soviet waste, which is far greater than was previously known – not only to Bellona, but also to the Russian authorities themselves.
→ read full articleTRANSCEND Peace University
Erika Degortes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
– ONLINE and ONSITE COURSES September 2012
→ read full articleConflict Resolution
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
When I perceive I’ve been attacked
there is a virtue that I’ve lacked:
Instead of letting strife abate
I’m eager to retaliate.
Elephants Dying in Epic Frenzy as Ivory Fuels Wars and Profits
Jeffrey Gettleman – The New York Times,
10 Sep 2012
This is the first installment in a series of articles that will explore how the surge in poaching of African elephants both feeds off and fuels instability on the continent. In 30 years of fighting poachers, Paul Onyango had never seen anything like this. Twenty-two dead elephants, including several very young ones, clumped together on the open savanna, many killed by a single bullet to the top of the head.
→ read full articleLetter from the Koodankulam Children to Pres. Obama’s Children
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Dear Malia and Sasha, let us all together, the children of the United States and India and other countries around the world, build a safe future for all of us without nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons. We would very much like to request you to talk to your Mom and Dad and friends and help us close down the Koodankulam nuclear power plant and not start any American plant in our country.
→ read full articleGoldcorp on Trial: First Ever People’s Health Tribunal Shows Commonalities Throughout Mesoamerica
Beth Geglia and Cyril Mychalejko – Toward Freedom,
10 Sep 2012
Our analysis is that mining companies have transnational strategies and we have to coordinate transnational struggles to confront transnational mining,” Gustavo Lozano, representative from the Mexican Anti-mining Network.
→ read full articleInformal US Envoy or US Takeover of UN Secretariat?
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – PressTV,
10 Sep 2012
The calls at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Tehran for reforming the United Nations and democratizing the Security Council were not exactly new. These calls for UN reform were embodied by the conference’s dictum of “lasting peace through joint global governance.”
→ read full articleCalifornia Passes Resolution Defining Criticism of Israel as Anti-Semitism
Tom Carter – World Socialist Web Site,
10 Sep 2012
4 September 2012 – Last month, the California State Assembly passed a resolution urging state educational institutions to crack down on criticism of Israel on campuses, which the resolution defines as “anti-Semitism.”The resolution was drafted by Republican Linda Halderman and passed without public discussion. The vote on the resolution came when most students were between semesters and away from their campuses. The resolution is available here.
→ read full articleBarclays Makes £500m Betting On Food Crisis
Tom Bawden – The Independent,
10 Sep 2012
Barclays has made as much as half a billion pounds in two years from speculating on food staples, prompting allegations that banks are profiting handsomely from the global food crisis. Barclays is the UK bank with the greatest involvement in food commodity trading and is one of the three biggest global players, along with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
→ read full article‘Managing’ the Plaza: America’s Secret Deal with Mexican Drug Cartels
Tom Burghardt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
A series of some five million emails, The Global Intelligence Files, were obtained as a result of last year’s hack by Anonymous of the Texas-based “global intelligence” firm Stratfor. That major financial powerhouses in Europe and the U.S. (can you say Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, HSBC, ING and Wachovia) have been accused of reaping the lions’ share of profits derived from the grim trade, now a veritable Narco-Industrial Complex, the public continues to be regaled with tales that this ersatz war is being “won.”
→ read full articlePopular ‘Buddhist’ Racism and the Generals’ Militarism
Maung Zarni – Democratic Voice of Burma,
10 Sep 2012
As a Mandalay-born dissident with deep roots in Buddhism, I find it revolting that thousands of Buddhist monks, human rights dissidents and the public in my hometown of Mandalay staged an anti-Rohingya rally this past weekend [2 Sep 2012]. Where has the vociferous human rights rhetoric gone when it comes to the persecuted Rohingyas?
→ read full articleWhy America and Israel Are the Greatest Threats to Peace
Noam Chomsky - AlterNet,
10 Sep 2012
Imagine if Iran — or any other country — did a fraction of what America and Israel do at will. It is not easy to escape from one’s skin, to see the world differently from the way it is presented to us day after day. But it is useful to try. Let’s take a few examples. The war drums are beating ever more loudly over Iran. Imagine the situation to be reversed.
→ read full articleOn 9/11, Doubts Were Immediate
Paul Craig Roberts, Journal of 9/11 Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
It is not credible that not only the CIA and FBI failed to detect the plot, but also all 16 US intelligence agencies, including the National Security Agency, which spies on everyone on the planet, and the Defense Intelligence Agency, Israel’s Mossad, and the intelligence agencies of Washington’s NATO allies. There are simply too many watchmen and too much infiltration of terrorist groups for such a complex attack to be prepared undetected and carried out undeterred.
→ read full article(Castellano) Expertos Crearon Lista de Alimentos Con Mayor Contenido de Pesticidas
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
El melocotón, la manzana, pimiento, apio, nectarina, fresa, guinda, lechuga, uva, pera, espinaca y papa son las frutas y verduras que destacan en el listado como las más sucias. Entre tanto, el grupo de los limpios está formado por la cebolla, el maíz, la piña, aguacate, berza, mango, berenjena, melón, kiwi, sandía, batata, pomelo, setas y guisantes.
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Be Nice to America…
NeemaSky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
… or we’ll bring democracy to your country!
→ read full articleAustralian Zionists Fear Israeli Group ‘Breaking the Silence’ and Its Message on IDF Immorality
Antony Loewenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
This is an instructive story of how mainstream Australian Jewish groups are petrified that a) the public will hear critical and truthful views about Israeli behaviour in the West Bank and b) a desire to “protect” Jews from even understanding what Israeli occupation means.
→ read full article(Castellano) Grecia Venderá Algunas Islas Para Reducir el Déficit Fiscal
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Mientras la población se enfrenta a graves problemas económicos generados por las drásticas medidas de recortes ejecutadas por el presidente Antonis Samarás, inversores extranjeros se disponen a comprar parte del territorio nacional.
→ read full articleNAM Final Statement
Ahlul Bayt News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
The Final Statement of the 16th Non-Aligned Movement Summit (Tehran/Iran, 26-31 Aug, 2012) focused on the Palestinian issue, nations’ right to peaceful nuclear energy and global sustainable peace.
→ read full article16th NAM Summit Concludes
Kantipur (Nepal) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
The 16th summit conference of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) concluded here [Tehran] Friday [31 Aug 2012] with a decision to hold the 17th summit conference in Venezuela. The responsibility was given to Venezuela, a South American country on the basis of suggestions received and conclusion drawn from the discussions from various levels of the conference.
→ read full articleRachel Corrie and the Kosher Legal Stamp
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
Israel is surely a most peculiar state – it is impervious to ethical thinking and humanist thought. Accordingly, Judge Gershon gave this week a kosher stamp to a cold-blooded murder and by so doing, he proved, once again, that Israeli criminal actions are consistent with the most vile interpretations of Old Testament and Talmudic Goy-hating.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Quem É Quem no Comércio Mundial de Armas
Antonio Martins, Outras Palavras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
Estados Unidos já abocanham 78% das exportações mundiais — e são cada vez mais influenciados por seu próprio “complexo industrial-militar”. Por isso, mídia norte-americana prefere falar da China…
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The Gift Economy and the Commons
imMEDIAcyTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
This is a conversation between International Economist, James Quilligan and Charles Eisenstein, author of Sacred Economics.
→ read full articleU.S. Drought Boosts Brazilian Agriculture
Andrew Willis – The Rio Times,
3 Sep 2012
While consumers across the globe are currently struggling with higher food prices caused by the worst U.S. drought in half a century, Brazilian farmers are enjoying bumper sales and a surge up the agricultural league tables.
→ read full articleBritain’s Barbaric ‘Special Relationship’ With Arab Dictators
Finian Cunningham - PressTV,
3 Sep 2012
The image of British Prime Minister David Cameron greeting Bahrain’s King Hamad on the steps of 10 Downing Street on August 23, 2012 conveys a subtle message of Britain’s presumption of global superiority. It also betrays the real role of Britain’s rulers in the suppression of democracy and human rights around the world.
→ read full articleThe Western Onslaught against International Law
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
The lawlessness that now characterizes the US and UK governments is a large threat to humanity’s finest achievement–the rule of law–for which the British fought from the time of Alfred the Great in the ninth century to the Glorious Revolution of the 17th century. Where are the protests over the Anglo-American destruction of the rule of law? Why Aren’t Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and Chatham House on the case?
→ read full articleShas Spiritual Leader Calls on Jews to Pray For Annihilation of Iran
Haaretz and Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
During his weekly sermon, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef says Jews should pray for destruction of the enemies of Israel, with an emphasis on Iran and Hezbollah. In the past, the Baghdad-born Yosef has stirred controversy by likening Palestinians to snakes, calling for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to “perish from this world” and describing non-Jews as “born only to serve us”.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Paraolímpicos Revelam Histórias de Guerras, Doenças e Violência ao Redor do Mundo
Camilla Costa – BBC Brasil,
3 Sep 2012
Nas delegações dos 166 países que competem nos Jogos Paraolímpicos de Londres 2012, portadores de deficiência desde o nascimento dividem espaço com vítimas de acidentes, de doenças e de violência que evidenciam problemas geopolíticos, de segurança e de saúde pública de seus países. Delegações têm atletas que foram vítimas de minas terrestres, conflitos internos, polio e acidentes de trânsito.
→ read full articleUN: The 1503 Procedure
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
Among various human rights violation complaint procedures within the UN system, the 1503 Procedure is especially unique. This article briefly explores its uniqueness by focusing on several main aspects of this procedure. It was prepared primarily for those who are not familiar with international human rights law, the UN human rights complaint procedures or relevant issues.
→ read full articleLiving in the Gift: On Retreat with Charles Eisenstein
Adam Parsons, Share The World's Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
What would the world look like if money embodied our values, if the best business decision was the best decision for society, and if wealth was defined by how much we give, not how much we have? Charles Eisenstein shared his insights during a workshop. (See: The Gift Economy and the Commons – In-Depth Videos)
→ read full articleRemembering Sister Anne Montgomery
Rev. John Dear – Common Dreams,
3 Sep 2012
One of the legends in the U.S. peace movement, Sister Anne Montgomery, died this week [31 Aug 2012] in California. A member of the Religious of the Sacred Heart, she spent over three years in prison for many civil disobedience actions against war, including seven plowshares anti-nuclear disarmament actions; many years teaching in Harlem, and many years living with the Christian Peacemaker Team in Hebron, Palestine-Israel.
→ read full articleWhy I Had No Choice But to Spurn Tony Blair
Bishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate – The Observer,
3 Sep 2012
I couldn’t sit with someone who justified the invasion of Iraq with a lie. Leadership and morality are indivisible. Good leaders are the custodians of morality. The question is not whether Saddam Hussein was good or bad or how many of his people he massacred. The point is that Mr Bush and Mr Blair should not have allowed themselves to stoop to his immoral level.
→ read full article(Portuguese) O Imenso Buraco Negro da Economia Global
Sarah Jaffe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
“Vinte e e um trilhões – com “t” – de dólares. Eis o que as pessoas mais ricas do mundo escondem em paraísos fiscais internacionais. Ao mesmo tempo em que os governos cortam o gasto público e demitem os trabalhadores, em prol de uma maior “austeridade” obrigada pela desaceleração da economia, os super-ricos – menos de 10 milhões de pessoas – esconderam longe do alcance do arrecadador de impostos uma quantidade igual às economias japonesa e estadunidense juntas.
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President Eisenhower on the Military Industrial Complex (Video of the Week)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
in 1953, US President Eisenhower said, “Modern weapons take food from the hungry and shelter from the homeless: Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”
→ read full articlePandora or Peru: Resisting the Mining Multinationals
Manuel Barcia – Al Jazeera,
3 Sep 2012
An indigenous group with a millenarian bond to their land are sitting on large reserves of a precious metal. A massive multinational corporation coming from a foreign land with the intention of getting access to the said metal at whatever cost. A conflict that has left people dead and that has the potential to take even more lives – indigenous lives, of course – destroying the environment in the process.
→ read full articleBounty Paid for Blair Arrest Attempt
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
On Tuesday [4 Sep 2012] the Arrest Blair campaign will pay Tom Grundy £2,400 for his attempt to arrest Tony Blair during a public event in Hong Kong. The campaign was established to uphold the principle that no one is above the law. The 2003 invasion of Iraq, commissioned by George W. Bush and Tony Blair, meets the definition of a crime against peace, established by the Nuremberg Principles and described by the Nuremberg Tribunal as “the supreme international crime.”
→ read full article(Portuguese) Brasil Eleva Exportações e É 5º em Ranking de Vendas de Armas de Pequeno Porte
BBC Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
O Brasil aumentou suas exportações de armas de pequeno porte de US$ 273 milhões para US$ 382 milhões em apenas um ano, segundo o recém-divulgado levantamento “Small Arms Survey 2012”. Com isso, de acordo com os dados utilizados pelo estudo, o país se mantém como o quinto maior vendedor desse tipo de armamento no mundo.
→ read full articleHey Justice!!!
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
Hey justice!
Why not practice
Events of barbaric
Is it romantic?
(Portuguese) Modelo Econômico Venezuelano Combina Socialismo e Mercado
OperaMundi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
Estratégia de Chávez coloca o Estado como principal instrumento do desenvolvimento econômico, mas abre espaço para alianças com o capital privado e o empreendedorismo.
→ read full articleTo Cut or Not To Cut: The Male Circumcision Question
Naomi Wolf – The Guardian,
3 Sep 2012
To cut or not to cut? That is very personal question, which each parent must decide for him- or herself. But parents deserve real science in making up their minds, as well as transparency from professional bodies offering what is, ostensibly, purely medical advice.
→ read full articleNobody Had the Slightest Idea of What It Would Be Like
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
The total explosive power of today’s weapons is equivalent to roughly half a million Hiroshima bombs. To multiply the tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by a factor of half a million changes the danger qualitatively. What is threatened today is the complete breakdown of human society.
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After Capitalism: ”Beyond Capitalism”
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
Guardian columnist George Monbiot argues that a world after capitalism is not a communist state but an advanced form of social democracy where the distribution of wealth is more stringently regulated.
→ read full articlePower to the Online People
Sarah Wenger, OpenSite – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
Infographic highlights and illustrates the power of the Internet community when its citizens come together.
→ read full articleNetanyahu’s Secret War Plan: Leaked Document Outlines Israel’s “Shock and Awe” Plan to Attack Iran
Richard Silverstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
In the past few days, I received an Israeli briefing document outlining Israel’s war plans against Iran. The document was passed to me by a high-level Israeli source who received it from an IDF officer. My source, in fact, wrote to me that normally he would not leak this sort of document, but:
→ read full articleNo Way to Avoid Global Financial Collapse, Says Predictive Software
Susanne Posel, Occupy Corporatism – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
As the mega-banks face the controlled demolition of the US dollar, they have taken the stance of victim to the implosion and along with insurance companies, finance corporations, hedge and money-market funds are being touted according to the Financial Stability Oversight Council as being important institutions.
→ read full articleAppeal for the International Community to Act Urgently To End Burmese Government Repression against Rohingya Muslims
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
29 August 2012 – Nobel peace laureate Mairead Maguire said today that ‘the stateless Rohingyas of Burma have suffered from persecution and discrimination for decades and are now facing inter-communal violence that has evolved into large scale state-sponsored violence against them.’
→ read full articleCitigroup to Pay $590 Million to Settle Investor Suit
AFP, The Raw Story – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
Citigroup said Wednesday [29 Aug 2012] it had agreed to pay $590 million to settle a suit by investors who accused the bank of misleading them on its subprime mortgage-based security losses in 2007-2008.
→ read full articleWhat about Israel’s Nuclear Weapons?
Patrick B. Pexton, Ombudsman – The Washington Post,
3 Sep 2012
Readers periodically ask me some variation on this question: “Why does the press follow every jot and title of Iran’s nuclear program, but we never see any stories about Israel’s nuclear weapons capability?” I spoke with several experts in the nuclear and nonproliferation fields, and they say that the lack of reporting on Israel’s nuclear weapons is real — and frustrating. There are some obvious reasons for this, and others that are not so obvious.
→ read full articleBurma’s ‘Niggers’
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
President Thein Sein, what really is your analysis of the plight of Burma’s “Bengali Kulars” (or the Burmese equivalent of “niggers”)?
→ read full articleAssassin Job
TMS Editor,
3 Sep 2012
After all of the background checks, interviews, and testing were done there were three finalists for the CIA assassin position — two men and one woman.
→ read full articleI Am Too Poor To Go To War
David Inkey – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
I am too poor to go to war…
Let me tell you the score…
Gangs’ Truce Buys El Salvador a Tenuous Peace
Randal C. Archibold – The New York Times,
3 Sep 2012
They had faced off many times before, on the streets, with guns in their hands. But when top leaders of two of the hemisphere’s most violent street gangs sat across from one another in the stifling air of a maximum security prison here this year, the encounter had a very different aim: peace.
→ read full articleU.S. Arms Sales Make Up Most of Global Market
Thom Shanker – International Herald Tribune-NYT,
3 Sep 2012
Overseas weapons sales by the United States totaled $66.3 billion last year, or more than three-quarters of the global arms market, valued at $85.3 billion in 2011. Russia was a distant second, with $4.8 billion in deals.
→ read full articleConstipation and Cleansing the Colon
Dr. Edward Group – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
Millions of Americans exhibit constipation symptoms on a frequent basis, both minor and severe. Given how many people experience this, and how often, it gives support to the argument that constipation is so prevalent and widespread it should be considered an epidemic.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Por Que Defendemos o WikiLeaks e Assange
Michael Moore e Oliver Stone, Outras Palavras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
Se Assange for extraditado para os Estados Unidos, as consequência repercutirão por anos, em todo o mundo. Assange não é cidadão norte americano, e nenhuma de suas ações aconteceu em solo norte americano. Se Washington puder processar um jornalista nessas circunstâncias, os governos da Rússia ou da China poderão, pela mesma lógica, exigir que repórteres estrangeiros em qualquer lugar do mundo sejam extraditados por violar as suas leis. Criar esse precedente deveria preocupar profundamente a todos, admiradores do WikiLeaks ou não.
→ read full articleDistinctive Features of NONKILLING
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
NONKILLING dignifies personal power
NONKILLING dignifies public power
WikiLeaks and Free Speech
Michael Moore and Oliver Stone – International Herald Tribune-NYT,
27 Aug 2012
If Mr. Assange is extradited to the United States, the consequences will reverberate for years around the world. Mr. Assange is not an American citizen, and none of his actions have taken place on American soil. If the United States can prosecute a journalist in these circumstances, the governments of Russia or China could, by the same logic, demand that foreign reporters anywhere on earth be extradited for violating their laws. The setting of such a precedent should deeply concern everyone, admirers of WikiLeaks or not.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Noam Chomsky: “Querem Vencer Assange pelo Cansaço”
Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
Nesta entrevista ao site equatoriano GkillCity, o linguista e filósofo norte-americano defende que Assange não teria hipóteses de ter um julgamento justo nos Estados Unidos. Chomsky acrescenta que do ponto de vista de quem ama a democracia, o fundador do Wikileaks merecia “uma medalha de honra” em vez de um julgamento.
→ read full articleWar Fever as Seen from Iran
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
27 Aug 2012
So it’s time for something completely different – and totally absent from Western corporate media; sound Iranian minds rationally analyzing what’s really going on behind the drums of war – regarding Iran, Turkey, the Arab world and across Eurasia.
→ read full articleMF’ing Justice
Jim Karger, TDV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
Jon Corzine is a contemporary Richard Nixon: a low rent thief, liar, and American success story. Corzine, you may recall, bet $6.3 billion on the wrong side of European sovereign debt, a wager his own risk department at MF Global told him was nuts, and a wager so big and so wrong that it wiped out the entire firm. Like Nixon, Corzine is a one man epidemic of deceit, a thug with the conscience of a rabid hyena, and like Nixon, he is not going to jail.
→ read full articlePost-Qathafi Libya…Another Fine Mess, NATO
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
27 Aug 2012
Congratulations to William Hague, Hillary Clinton and the sickening little wannabe Napoleons who rule France these days, desperately trying to claw back some international prestige. Let us compare Gaddafi’s Libya with FUKUS [France-UK-US] Libya… Nice one, NATO, nice one… Chuckle smugly and look over your shoulders. Karma time’s a-coming!
→ read full articleArthritis
TMS Editor,
27 Aug 2012
A drunk that smelled like a brewery got on a bus one day. He sat down next to a priest.
→ read full articlePeace Is War: How Israel Induces America into War with Iran
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
On August 17 [2012], America’s two leading newspapers featured strikingly similar opinion pieces, providing further evidence of a coordinated effort by Israel and its American partisans to induce the United States into waging another disastrous Middle East war. In the Washington Post… the New York Times…
→ read full articleNo Crime, No Punishment
The New York Times, editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
When the Justice Department recently closed its criminal investigation of Goldman Sachs, it became all but certain that no major American banks or their top executives would ever face criminal charges for their role in the financial crisis. The shameless pursuit of Wall Street campaign donations by both political parties strengthens this perception, and further undermines confidence in the rule of law.
→ read full articleUS Arms Sales Shoot To Record Levels
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
Congressional report shows that arms exports tripled from previous year, with Gulf Arab states the main customers.
→ read full articlePeace-Building? Are You Kidding!!!
Punam Yadav, Nepali Advocate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
I still have a vivid memory of my interview with a Cabin Restaurant Worker. When people talk about peace process, peace building, conflict resolution, transitional justice, restoration of peace, or the compensation for conflict victims in Nepal, only thing comes to my mind is that woman whom I met in 2006 when I was writing my Masters thesis.
→ read full articleAppeal to Non-Aligned Leaders Meeting in Tehran
Veterans For Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
With the Non-Aligned Movement meeting this week [26 Aug 2012] in Tehran, Veterans For Peace is urging the organization of 120 nations not formally allied with any major power bloc to take steps to deter the Israeli-American threats of war against Iran over its nuclear enrichment program.
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Prof. Alberto L’Abate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
Paper presented in Tamilnadu, at the Gandhigram University, and by the “Sarvodaya Talisman” Journal at Madurai. In the years 1955/6, I was working as a voluntary in Danilo Dolci’ project in Sicily. Danilo Dolci is called the”Italian Gandhi” because has used nonviolent action to improve the life of poor peoples, especially peasants, in the area of Palermo, Sicily.
→ read full articleConspiracies: Theories and Hypotheses
Johan Galtung, 27 Aug 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
Conspiracies exist. They are a part of social reality, have always been, and will always be; as confirmed conspiracy theories, as unconfirmed conspiracy hypotheses, as suspicions, as allegations. The conspiracy-labeling carries all the characteristics of a conspiracy, using the cultural power of the media to steer the discourse away from important issues. Unacceptable.
→ read full articleCall for the Immediate Release of Marian Price on Health, Humanitarian and Justice Grounds
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
Open Letter to the British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland – The illegal detention of Marian Price for political offences committed nearly forty years ago, and for which she was pardoned, is a serious violation of her human rights, a blank disregard for due process, and a violation of our ‘Good Friday Agreement’.
→ read full articleBan Ki-moon Ignores U.S. And Israel and Attends the NAM Summit
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
The secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, will attend the 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to be held in Tehran, the Iranian capital. Nearly one hundred members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) have indicated their willingness to take part in the 16th Summit of this entity which will run from 26 to 31 Aug, 2012.
→ read full articleIsraeli Settlements and the United Church Boycott: Responding To Three Common Distortions
David Taub Bancroft, Rabble – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
After months of controversy and negative media attention, the United Church of Canada, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, finally made it official. The church’s General Council voted today [21 Aug 2012] to call on its members to avoid buying products coming from Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Presbyterian and Methodist churches in the United States have made similar calls.
→ read full articlePaul Ryan and the Fountainhead
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
I was not interested in Paul Ryan, the man about to be nominated by the Republican party for the office of vice-president, until the name Ayn Rand popped up. Ayn Rand, it was said, was one of the main inspirations for his particular philosophy. Since Ryan is being represented not as an ordinary, run-of-the-mill politician, like Mitt Romney, but as a profound political and economic thinker, the inspiration deserves some scrutiny.
→ read full articleTen Years of AKP Leadership in Turkey
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
It needs to be appreciated that Turkey viewed from outside by most informed observers, especially in the region, remains a shining success story, both economically and politically. Nothing could bring more hope and pride to the region than for the Turkish ascent to be achieved elsewhere, of course, allowing for national variations of culture, history, and resource endowments, but sharing the commitment to build an inclusive democracy in which the military stays in the barracks and the diplomats take pride in resolving and preventing conflicts.
→ read full articleHow the Private Sector Didn’t Solve Ghana’s Water Crisis
Judith Amanthis – Pambazuka News,
27 Aug 2012
Government investment, rather than privatisation or international aid, offers the best solution for water services in Ghana.
→ read full articleAnonymous Releases How-To Instructions on Fooling Facial Recognition
Erictronik Page – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
Here’s a predicament: you don’t want the government using high-tech face scanning technology to track every inch of your walk to the post office, but you also don’t want to take a sledgehammer to your neighborhood surveillance camera. What do you do?
→ read full article(Castellano) Sudáfrica Boicoteará Productos Israelíes Hechos en Territorios Palestinos
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
El portavoz del Gobierno, Jimmy Manyi, explicó que la medida de boicot tiene como objeto evitar que los consumidores sean engañados y piensen que dichos bienes fueron hechos en Israel, cuando en realidad se produjeron en territorios palestinos.
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How to Be Alone
Andrea Dorfman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
A video by fiilmaker, Andrea Dorfman, and poet/singer/songwriter, Tanya Davis.
→ read full articlePrime Minister, Crime Minister!
S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
Prime Minister, Prime Minister, why did you keep coal
When none of your predecessors ever had this foal?
Did you sell non-players and new ones all the Black Gold
So thermal power goes down and nuclear becomes bold?
Iceland’s Recovery Continues, Declared ‘Impressive’
IceNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
Experts continue to praise Iceland’s recovery success after the country’s bank bailouts of 2008. Unlike the US and several countries in the eurozone, Iceland allowed its banking system to fail in the global economic downturn and put the burden on the industry’s creditors rather than taxpayers.
→ read full articleThe Invisible Majority: Married Girls in the Somali Refugee Camps
Ashley Lackovich-van Gorp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
Marriage does not turn a 12-year-old girl into a woman. The 2003 World Health Organization, United Nations Population Fund and Population Council report, “Married Adolescents: An Overview,” reveals that in comparison with unmarried peers, married girls have less education, less mobility, less exposure to the media and less access to social networks and basic services (25-34).
→ read full articleHelp Me To Sew Life’s Quilt
David Inkey – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
“Inkey appreciates the TMS publication of his with death poem, but he suggests the TMS coverage would not be complete without also including his sewing life poem.”
→ read full articlePMANE Sues NPCIL at Delhi High Court
Dr. S.P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
August 25, 2012 – The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) is suing the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL) and its parent body the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) for not giving copies of the Site Evaluation Report (SER) and the Safety Analysis Report (SAR) as directed by the Central Information Commission back in April 2012.
→ read full articleNotes on Globalization and Class Struggle: Latin America, Europe and Asia
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
Introduction: The principle axes of the class struggle are found in Latin America, Europe and Asia, each following its own trajectory.
→ read full articleWall Street Tightens Grip on Public Water as Local Residents Suffer
Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
Vulture capitalists are increasingly facilitating the privatization of public infrastructure, taking control of public utilities while skimping on services and causing steep price hikes — all the while making massive profits. According to the report, private equity firms show up to hurting municipalities as hired financial advisers and subsequently push through privatization deals. Massive profits are made in the process, as such advisers stand to make great financial gains through these deals.
→ read full articleThe Pursuit of Julian Assange Is an Assault on Freedom and a Mockery of Journalism
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
The British government’s threat to invade the Ecuadorean embassy in London and seize Julian Assange is of historic significance. The same brave newspapers and broadcasters that have supported Britain’s part in epic bloody crimes, from the genocide in Indonesia to the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, now attack the “human rights record” of Ecuador, whose real crime is to stand up to the bullies in London and Washington.
→ read full article(Italian) Marina Italiana per le Campagne di Guerra USA in Africa
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
Il prossimo anno verranno coinvolte le marine da guerra di Australia, Belgio, Benin, Camerun, Canada, Finlandia, Francia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Gibuti, Kenya, Mauritania, Mauritius, Marocco, Mozambico, Nigeria, Repubblica del Congo, Sao Tomé e Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Spagna, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda e dell’immancabile Italia.
→ read full articleDon’t Lose Sight of Why the US Is Out To Get Julian Assange
Seumas Milne – The Guardian,
27 Aug 2012
Ecuador is pressing for a deal that offers justice to Assange’s accusers – and essential protection for whistleblowers. Considering he made his name with the biggest leak of secret government documents in history, you might imagine there would be at least some residual concern for Julian Assange among those trading in the freedom of information business. But the virulence of British media hostility towards the WikiLeaks founder is now unrelenting.
→ read full articleThe History of Humankind Is Also a History of Dignification
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
A Rhymed Reflection
If, on the one hand, the history of Humankind is a history of edification
On the other hand, the history of Humankind is also a history of humiliation
The Protection Racket
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
One is reminded of the feudal system of the Middle Ages, in which industrious peasants paid for “protection” with a large fraction of their produce. Their gangster-like protectors, the knights and barons, did no useful work. All they did was to fight with each other. How much is it exactly that we pay today for “protection”? The total world military budgets cost us 1.7 trillion dollars each year, that is to say, 1,700,000,000,000 dollars, an amount of money almost too large to be imagined. What do we get for this? We do not get anything useful. We get war, a universal source of poverty, destruction of infrastructure, and human suffering.
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