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How Sexy Is Benghazi?
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
19 Nov 2012
The Love Pentagon – as in the Petraeus-Broadwell-Kelley-Allen-FBI shirtless torso guy – is the farce that keeps on giving. But this should really not be about sex, lies and emails. This should be about Benghazi. With frenemies like the US, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, Syria certainly does not need enemies. As for blowback, brace yourselves; what happened in Benghazi is just the hors d’oeuvres to be offered by increasingly rampaging frenemies of the US.
→ read full articleWagging the Dog in Gaza: Netanyahu’s Skirmish of Fear
Lior Sternfeld, Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Israel has embarked, with its Gaza attack, on the all-too-well-known elections routine. Netanyahu knows that the way to ensure his victory in the upcoming elections will be by diverting the public discourse from demands of social justice to existential threats imposed on Israel by the bogeyman- Hamas, and the cost of imperiling a third of Israel’s population seems reasonable enough for him.
→ read full articleWhy BP Isn’t a Criminal
Robert Reich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
BP plead guilty to 14 criminal counts, including manslaughter, and agreed to pay $4 billion over the next five years. But it defies logic to make BP itself the criminal. Corporations aren’t people. They can’t know right from wrong. They’re incapable of criminal intent. They have no brains. They’re legal fictions — pieces of paper filed away in a vault in some bank.
→ read full articleWar or Peace in the Sahara?
Robin Edward Poulton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
What Mali needs now is international partners that are ready to study the lessons of the 1990s, and to devise radical actions based on decentralized Malian models that have already been successful.
→ read full articleIsrael Would Have Us Believe That These People Are Terrorists
Information Clearing House – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Pictures of Children Killed and Injured by Israeli Attack on Gaza – November 14, 2012
“A time comes when silence is betrayal.”
— Rev. Martin Luther King
UN Urges End to U.S. Cuba Embargo for 21st Year
Louis Charbonneau, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
A record 188 U.N. members supported resolution on Cuba. Israel, Palau and U.S. only 3 states to vote against. Repeating an annual ritual, the U.N. General Assembly called on Tuesday [13 Nov 2012] for the United States to lift its trade embargo against Cuba, whose foreign minister said the blockade against the communist-run island was tantamount to “genocide.”
→ read full articleBDS, Arab Land and the Custodian of Absentee Property
Paul Larudee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
The 2005 call by more than 170 Palestinian organizations, both within Palestine and without, to boycott Israeli products and services, divest from companies that support and sustain Israel and sanction the Israeli state and its agencies is one of the most important and potentially one of the most effective strategies to end the injustices perpetrated against the Palestinian people.
→ read full articleOccupy Sandy – From Relief to Resistance
Yotam Marom – Waging Nonviolence,
19 Nov 2012
13 Nov 2012 – Two weeks ago I was in my hometown of Hoboken, New Jersey, wading waist deep in a murky combination of floodwater, oil and sewage. More than a week later, after finally getting unstuck from New Jersey, I found myself in a van full of Occupy Sandy activists delivering hot meals to housing-project high rises in Coney Island. There is much work to do. But people are doing it — day by day, block by block. Windows of opportunity have opened here in New York, just as they have in other places around the world — from volunteer work to organizing, from emergency response to a genuine recovery, from relief to resistance.
→ read full articleIndia Poised to Supply Free Drugs to 1.2 Billion People
Zofeen Ebrahim – Inter Press Service-IPS,
19 Nov 2012
With India moving towards universal health coverage (UHC) in the next two years, it has budgeted nearly 300 billion rupees (55.9 million dollars) to fund the programme. It hopes to be able to provide free drugs to 52 percent of the population by April 2017. The central government will fund 75 percent of the programme, with states doling out the rest. “It’s not just possible in India, it’s possible all over the world,” said Dr. Nirmal Kumar Gurbani.
→ read full article(Italian) Un Cambiamento a Washington?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Da Washington, DC – 6 novembre 2012, notte dell’elezione. La democrazia USA è un sistema bipartitico che sta diventando uno stato monopartitico? Se è così, gli altri paesi stiano attenti! Non imitino. La democrazia è di più che solo elezioni. È anche trasparenza e dialogo. Per un reale cambiamento.
→ read full articleLGBT Rights: The Global Struggle for Queer Freedom
Peter Tatchell, Global – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Homophobic persecution and discrimination is rife in large parts of the world, and the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are still not recognised or protected by international law. Nonetheless, progress towards equality is being made thanks to the defiance and bravery of activists.
→ read full articleBradley Manning Deserves Americans’ Support for Military Whistleblowing
Nobel Peace Laureates Desmond Tutu, Mairead Corrigan-Maguire and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel – The Guardian,
19 Nov 2012
16 Nov 2012 – Last week, PFC Bradley Manning offered to accept responsibility for releasing classified documents as an act of conscience – not as charged by the US military. As people who have worked for decades against the increased militarization of societies and for international cooperation to end war, we have been deeply dismayed by his treatment. Thanks to WikiLeaks, US citizens are better informed about wars prosecuted in their name. We owe Manning honour, not jail time.
→ read full articleImagining the Ultimate Global Sharing Day
Rajesh Makwana, Share The World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
The growing support for the sharing economy has the potential to change the way we understand and address the many challenges we face. But it is at the national and global level that sharing can have a truly transformative impact in relation to poverty, sustainability and world peace.
→ read full article(Italian) Il Primo Referendum Propositivo (Valido) Italiano E’ Storia
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Quando la storia dà i brividi
→ read full articleShould Scientists and Engineers Resist Taking Military Money?
John Horgan – Scientific American,
19 Nov 2012
In recent years several professional societies, notably the American Psychological Association and the American Anthropological Association, have been wracked by debates over whether members should consult for the armed forces or other defense agencies. My guess is that such disputes will become more common, as ethical ideals collide with economic realities.
→ read full articleCultivating Peace, Preventing Violence…
Johan Galtung, 19 Nov 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
… was the title of the Symposium at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia-USA 17-19 Nov 2012. How do we cultivate peace? • through cooperation for mutual and equal benefit; • harmony through empathy; • traumas conciliation, clearing the past and building a future; • by solving conflicts through the 3 Cs. Feasible, possible; through peace studies, theory and practice.
→ read full article‘Horrible Citizens’ – The Life of Greece’s One Percent
Julia Amalia Heyer – Der Spiegel,
19 Nov 2012
The Greek economy has been tanking for years now as the country struggles to balance its budget by imposing deep austerity measures. But the country’s richest residents haven’t noticed. Many aren’t taxed at all, and some of those that are prefer to dodge their obligation to the state instead.
→ read full articlePeople Come Into Our Lives . . .
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
People enter our lives at unexpected times
Changing us in profound ways . . .
A glance, a smile or frown,
A word — spoken or written —
Knowledge Processes Neglected by Science
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Insights from the Crisis of Science and Belief – Systemic knowledge processes neglected by science: What are the dimensions of knowledge and information of which science is itself uncritical or unconscious?
→ read full articleBeyond Regulators’ Grasp: How Shadow Banks Rule the World
Martin Hesse and Anne Seith – Der Spiegel,
19 Nov 2012
Beyond the banking world, a parallel universe of shadow banks has grown in the form of hedge funds and money market funds. They’re outside the reach of conventional financial regulation, prompting authorities to plan introducing new rules to prevent the obscure sector from triggering a new financial crisis. But in doing so they risk drying up an important source of funding to banks and firms.
→ read full articleThe Latest Gaza Catastrophe: Will They Ever Learn?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Obama was quoted as saying, “There is no country on earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside of its borders. We are fully supportive of Israel’s right to defend itself.” Much is missing from such a sentiment, most glaringly, the absence of any balancing statement along the following line: “and no country would tolerate the periodic assassination of its leaders by missiles fired by a neighboring country, especially during a lull achieved by a mutually agreed truce. It is time for both sides to end the violence, and establish an immediate ceasefire.”
→ read full articleIsraeli ‘Operation Pillar of Defence’ – Not Defence but Murder of Unarmed Civilians
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Prime Minister Netanyahu argues that Israel has a ‘right to defend itself’ and the Obama administration continues, yet again, to support this bogus claim, pledging to oppose those who would question Israel’s illegal policies. The Israeli government and military do not have the right to carry out indiscriminate bombing and killing of Palestinian civilians. Third party governments have a legal responsibility to take action and see that Israel does not act with impunity.
→ read full articleTango with the Tax Man: Multinationals Find Loopholes Galore in Europe
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Large multinationals, many of them based in the United States, are masters at avoiding taxes on profits made abroad. According to data compiled by independent tax experts, US technology giant Apple paid a paltry $130 million (€102 million) in taxes on foreign earnings of about $13 billion in 2010. Microsoft paid only $1.7 billion on $15 billion in foreign earnings, while software giant Cisco paid a tax bill of $400 million on foreign earnings of more than $8 billion.
→ read full articleWhy Gaza Must Suffer Again
Jonathan Cook, The View from Nazareth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
The inciting cause of the latest confrontation between Israel and Hamas has little to do with the firing of rockets, whether by Hamas or the other Palestinian factions. The conflict predates the rockets – and even the creation of Hamas – by decades. It is the legacy of Israel’s dispossession of Palestinians in 1948, forcing many of them from their homes in what is now Israel into the tiny Gaza Strip.
→ read full articleThe Growing Global Movement against Austerity
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
19 Nov 2012
The general strike that swept across Europe Nov. 14 [2012] had its genesis in the deepening crisis in Spain, Portugal and Greece. As a result of the global economic collapse in 2008, Spain is in a deep financial crisis. Unemployment has surpassed 25 percent, and among young people is estimated at 50 percent. Large banks have enjoyed bailouts while they enforce mortgages that an increasing number of Spaniards are unable to meet, provoking increasing numbers of foreclosures and attempted evictions [suicides].
→ read full articleAmerican Popular Culture: Socializing and Homogenizing Mind, Nation, and World
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
It is said that a fish does not know or recognize the water about it until it is caught and raised from the depths of its milieu so necessary for survival. It is then it may understand the essence of its survival. It seems to me that the same analogy may be applied to American citizens. We are embedded in a popular American culture to which we seem to be oblivious. Figure 1: The Socialization of American Culture, Society, and Psyche:
→ read full articleWhere There Is No Time and Nothing Matters
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Cognitive Challenges at the Edge of the World – This commentary was further informed by the publication of a new study by James Boyce (Van Diemen’s Land, 2008) and the historic apology on 13th February 2008 by the Government of Australia to the Aboriginal peoples of Australia.
→ read full articleSouthern Alternatives on Trade and Development
Comhlámh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Tired of being told there’s no other way? There ARE alternatives! In spite of the global crises, the EU insists that free trade and deregulation is the only way for economies to develop, and is pushing this damaging economic approach on its poor trading partners.
→ read full articleGeorge Galloway, British MP | Full Address
Oxford Union Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
George Galloway gives his address to the Oxford Union Society – October 15th 2012. The Oxford Union Society is the world’s most prestigious debating society, with an unparalleled reputation for bringing international guests and speakers to Oxford. It has been established for 189 years, aiming to promote debate and discussion not just at Oxford University, but across the globe.
→ read full articleMalawi Activists Say Scrapping Sodomy Laws an ‘Uphill Battle’
Agence France-Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Despite the Malawi government’s move to suspend a law banning same-sex relationships, activists say winning a total repeal will be an “uphill battle” in a country where homosexuality is considered a sin. “Malawi culture remains conservative,” Billy Mayaya, a leading rights activist, told AFP just hours after President Joyce Banda’s government announced the suspension of tough anti-gay laws, pending a parliamentary debate.
→ read full articleIran and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Four countries outside the NPT have nuclear weapons: India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel. North Korea had originally joined the NPT, but it withdrew in 2003. Looking at the NPT with the benefit of hindsight, we can see the third “pillar”, the “right to peaceful use of nuclear technology” as a fatal flaw of the treaty. In practice, it has meant encouragement of nuclear power generation, with all the many dangers that go with it.
→ read full articleJapan Appeals to India against Nuclear Power
Nuclear Action Committee Japan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
If you have come to Japan to promote a nuclear power agreement, don’t confine your discussions to the high and mighty in Tokyo, go to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and visit the peace museums there. Listen to the experiences of the hibakusha. And by all means go to Fukushima. Find out how people are trying to live with the 4 reactors emitting radioactive material around them; find out the horrendous conditions of radiation exposure that the thousands of workers trying to contain the accident must endure, and learn what has happened to the seas, the forests and the farm land. If you do that, we think that you will change your mind.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Amizade – Um Poema
Albert Einstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Pode ser que um dia deixemos de nos falar…
Mas, enquanto houver amizade,
Faremos as pazes de novo.
The World Failed Sri Lanka. And Continues to Do So.
Mark Leon Goldberg, UN Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
What we know about those final days is stunningly awful. This International Crisis Group report and this UN Commission of Inquiry report describe a months-long massacre of innocent civilians caught between Tamil Tiger insurgents on one side and government forces on the other. The insurgents used civilians as human shields, and the government decided to shoot through those shields to get to the Tigers. Hundreds of thousands of people were trapped in an area the size of Central Park, subjected to daily mortar fire and indiscriminate killing.
→ read full articleLegacy and Re/volution: Talkin’ bout an Evolution
Caridad Svich, Theater Without Borders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
It is perhaps ironic that the last two centuries of cultural turns have focused so much on visual culture and its interpretation, and that science and technology have devoted so much of its research and energy to the development of progressively sophisticated information and entertainment devices (not to mention surveillance and military devices) geared to the visual imagination and its hyperlink-ing strategies. My questions here have less to do with technical advances in the disciplines of design and engineering, and more to do with the philosophical foundations of how we see and how we hear in culture – what we choose to see and hear and not. Ethics again. Yes. Civic responsibility. Spiritual responsibility.
→ read full articleIsrael Ranked World’s Most Militarised Nation
Jim Lobe – Inter Press Service-IPS,
19 Nov 2012
Israel tops the list of the world’s most militarised nations, according to the latest Global Militarisation Index released Tuesday [13 Nov 2012]. At number 34, Israel’s main regional rival, Iran, is far behind. In contrast, both sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America are relatively low on the Index. The research is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development.
→ read full articleThey Are Hearing Us
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
For the people of Iran who live under Internet and telephone censorship.
→ read full articleGoodbye to a War
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Binyamin Netanyahu and his patron, Sheldon Adelson, betted on Mitt Romney, with the State of Israel as their chip. They lost. About the Iran war, Israeli hawks can kiss it goodbye. The usual cliché says that US presidents in their second term are free of political pressures and can at long last act according to their conscience. That is certainly true – up to a point. We need an Israeli Obama, who will work with the US Obama for peace.
→ read full articleWorld Fisheries Day: 21 November 2012 – Looking for a Nuclear Free World
World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
It has been proved by the Fukushima disaster that there is no safety for nuclear power plants in the world. Nobody knows how to handle the situation in and around Japan, the coast and the sea. The radiation has reached American waters. The Chernobyl accident in Russia, 1986, has created such havoc that the consequences still continue. Within a radius of 150 Km atomic radiation still exists. 97% of the nuclear plant is still ‘alive’ and nobody knows how to ‘kill’ it. Some 9 million children have been born with all kinds of deformities. Since the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in the USA there has not been another plant erected there.
→ read full articleIran/USA: Who Is Threatening Who? Weapons of Mass Distraction (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Abby Martin – Russia Today,
19 Nov 2012
Iran-US Relations: Reality, History, Causes, Consequences
→ read full articleAn Open Letter on My 82nd Birthday
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Exactly two years ago I wrote my first blog. Throughout this period it has been a bittersweet experience consisting of work, play, challenge, and occasional consternation. Many warm and generous responses have given me an appreciation of the distinctive satisfactions of cyber connectivity.
→ read full articleNobel Foundation – Request for Injunction against EU Prize
Fredrik S. Heffermehl – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
In my letter to Länsstyrelsen on Oct. 7, 2012, I quoted startling remarks from the Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Geir Lundestad, that the Norwegian Committee is not willing to pay attention neither to the will of Alfred Nobel nor to the law and the March 21, 2012, decision of the Länsstyrelsen. Referring to the IPB request of Oct. 5 [2012] I hereby urge the Länsstyrelsen to urgently intervene with an injunctive to stop payment of the prize to the European Union.
→ read full article7 Palestinians, Including 3 Children, Killed and 52 Injured As Israeli Attack on Gaza Continues
Annie Robbins and Adam Horowitz - Mondoweiss,
12 Nov 2012
11 Nov 2012 – Over the past 72 hours, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have escalated their aerial and ground attacks against the Gaza Strip. Five Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, have been killed, and 52 others, including 6 women and 12 children, have been wounded. Four of these deaths and 38 of the injuries resulted from an Israeli attack on a football playground in al-Shoja’iya neighborhood east of Gaza City.
→ read full articleThe 16 Smartest People on Earth
Dina Spector and Shlomo Sprung, Yahoo News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
IQ is a problematic measure of intelligence. Many have never been tested, while others have taken the test many times to improve their scores. Still, psychologists consider it the best measurement of intelligence out there. So who has the highest score?
→ read full articleUK Nuclear Deterrent Plan Triggers Divisions
Simon Hooper – Al Jazeera,
12 Nov 2012
Announcement of an extra $565m for improved nuclear weapons capacity worries critics in an era of austerity. At an unknown location somewhere deep beneath the world’s oceans, a British submarine sits primed to launch up to 40 nuclear warheads with a collective destructive power almost 300 times greater than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
→ read full articlePolicing the Internet
Padraig Reidy, Index on Censorship – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
The more we live our lives online, the greater the temptation for governments and private companies to spy on us. The dark side of our increasing dependence on digital communications. While the internet offers opportunities for mass communication and social interaction unprecedented in human history, the chances for governments to monitor and control how we communicate are also ample.
→ read full articleHaiti’s Misery before Sandy
Ashley Smith – Socialist Worker,
12 Nov 2012
How decades of neoliberalism and imperialist intervention set the stage for a new level of devastation after Hurricane Sandy.
→ read full articleRevelation 3:20
TMS editor,
12 Nov 2012
A new pastor moved into town and went out one Saturday to visit his parishioners.
→ read full article(Portuguese) A Presença da Opus Dei na Política no Brasil e na América Latina
Henrique Júdice Magalhães – Pátria Latina,
12 Nov 2012
Mas o que é afinal, a Opus Dei (em latim, Obra de Deus)? Obscurantismo e misoginia. Denúncias de Jean Lauand, professor da Universidade de São Paulo, que escreveu com outros ex-membros, o juiz Márcio Fernandes e o médico Dário Fortes Ferreira, o livro “Opus Dei – os bastidores”. Entranhas mafiosas: ” Que membros numerários e supernumerários saibam que devem observar sempre um prudente silêncio sobre os nomes dos outros associados e que não deverão revelar nunca a ninguém que eles próprios pertencem à Opus Dei.”
→ read full articleBad News for Africa: 3,000 More U.S. Soldiers Are on the Way
Mark P. Fancher, World Mathaba – TRANSCEND Media Servivce,
12 Nov 2012
The Obvious Mission Is to Lock Down the Entire Continent – 31 Oct 2012-The United States plans to permanently station a U.S. Army brigade on African soil, beginning next year [2013]. Is this the start of something big – and ominous – or “only a benign creeping U.S. military presence in Africa?”
→ read full articleAnti-Depressant
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
I’m depressed and hallucinating again,
and need my doctor’s help.
I see things on TV
that aren’t really there,
Are You Man Enough To Go Vegan?
Victoria Martindale – The Independent,
12 Nov 2012
As we enter World Vegan Month it’s time to reconsider the vegan stereotype. Admittedly, veganism has been given a bad name over the years, it’s very mention conjuring up images of pale hirsute hippies who zip about on their bikes to spread the love. I remember the only vegan on my course (and quite probably in the whole university) turned up at our graduation ball dressed in sackcloth and sandals.
→ read full articleBurma’s Buddhism: A Tale of “Form without Substance”
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Do not mistake Myanma’s thousands of Golden Temples and Pagodas and thousands of Saffron Robed men, that is, form, for the real practice of Buddhism, that is, the practice of Metta or universal loving kindness for all sentient beings. That, of course, is except Rohingya and Muslims.
→ read full article(Castellano) Haiti: El Poder de la Calle
Centre Tricontinental – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
La oposición haitiana y el gobierno buscan presentar pruebas de adhesión popular. La escalada del costo de la vida y las irrefutables acusaciones de corrupción suman opositores en todas las clases sociales.
→ read full articleAn Appeal to the Political Leaders of India
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Protests against corruption in India or other parts of the world are not new. History shows enough evidence of such kinds of protests from time to time. In case of India, there appears a mismatch between concept of public service and political power as a means to realize that goal.
→ read full articleIndia: Why We Don’t Talk About Inequality—And How to Start Again
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Centre Tricontinental – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Equality is forged in the crucible of politics; it would be presumptuous to prescribe solutions. But the politics of equality will have to cut more insistently through the culture of avoidance; this is easier said than done, because this culture has become deeply embedded in everyday sites and practices. Economically, growth is not everything; in many ways, it will pose new and serious challenges.
→ read full articleGreed, Reckless Behaviour and the Financial Crisis: A Timeline
Transparency International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
This crisis was not just the result of a few rogue traders placing reckless bets. Corruption, in the form of fraud and a ‘no holds barred’ pursuit of profits, bonuses and growth, infected the whole financial system. Transparency International believes that not enough has been done to change the culture of greed and reckless risk-taking.
→ read full articleCall for Civil Society Submissions for Report on Peaceful Protests
International Service for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Civil society organisations are requested to submit information for a report being prepared by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, on ‘effective measures and best practices to ensure the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of peaceful protests’. The deadline for these submissions is 15 November [2012].
→ read full articleLetter to Delegates of 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Only our two countries, China and India, are going for major expansion of nuclear power with no concrete plans to decommission the plants or to store and safeguard the nuclear waste. Both our countries also go for major nuclear arms build-up which is not in the best interests of our peoples, regional harmony and world peace.
→ read full articleWorld Fisheries Day – 21 Nov 2012: Call for a Nuclear Free World
National Fishworkers' Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
The World Forum For Fisher People (WFFP) has issued the call for ‘Nuclear Free World’ on the occasion of the World Fisheries Day 2012.
→ read full articleWater: From Privatisation to Corporatisation and the Need for a Counter-Strategy
FIVAS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
The report explores the development from privatisation to corporatisation, within neoliberal policy on urban water services in developing countries. It calls for the water justice movement to update and adjust its strategy, in order to counter the neoliberal tactical shift towards corporatisation. Corporatisation reform entails the implementation of commercial neoliberal management principles within public sector water utilities.
→ read full articleAfrica: Cooperatives Crucial Allies in Fight against Hunger
Nigeria Daily News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
One of the only chances small-scale food producers have to gain competitive access to local and global markets is by banding together in cooperatives, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva told a meeting of the World Cooperatives Congress in Manchester today [31 Oct 2012]. The International Year of Cooperatives is being observed in 2012.
→ read full articleOur Words Are Our Weapons against the Destruction of the World by Greed
Rebecca Solnit - TomDispatch,
12 Nov 2012
We should call it how it is and no longer hide behind the doublespeak that permeates throughout America.
→ read full article
Johan Galtung at the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (Video of the Weel)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
New York, NY – October 2012 – Prof. Galtung defines and explains the notion of Sociocide, a concept parallel to Genocide and Ecocide, in the context of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
→ read full article(Italian) La Crisi Finanziaria Europea: Germania/GIPSI
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Una crisi così massiccia – con il sistema sanitario in Grecia al collasso e il 50% della gioventù spagnola disoccupata – richiede grandi cause.
→ read full article(Castellano) Tercer Simposio Mundial: Los Humanistas Proponen Campaña Latinoamericana por la Reducción del Gasto Militar en la Región
Nelsy Lizarazo, Mundo Sin Guerras y Sin Violencia – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
12 Nov 2012
Tomás Hirsch, humanista chileno, lanzó la propuesta humanista para trabajar en una gran campaña latinoamericana para la reducacción del gasto militar en América Latina y Caribe y reorientar ese gasto hacia la salud, la educación y la calidad de vida de nuestras poblaciones. Avanzaremos en esta propuesta y les invitamos a todos y todas a sumar a ella, concluyó Hirsch.
→ read full articleThe United States of America: A “Culture of Violence”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Charting a “Culture of Violence:” Causes and Consequences – As Figure 1 demonstrates, the manifestations and consequences of violent acts are extensive. This suggests the existence of a “culture of violence” that is generated, sustained, and promoted by acts that arise from individual and collective impulse and intent, and that too often find tier tolerance and approval across political, economic, educational, military, and moral policies of institutions.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Uma Nova Era das Cooperativas?
Robin Murray – Outras Palavras,
12 Nov 2012
Relegadas pelo capitalismo e socialismo do século 20, elas estão ressurgindo, favorecidas pelo economia imaterial. Quais seus novos desafios?
→ read full articleOsprey Outrage on Okinawa
Seamus Murphy – Foreign Policy in Focus,
12 Nov 2012
The outrage shows no signs of waning, with Okinawans claiming their government is treating them like second-class citizens, breaking a promise to remove the U.S. military presence at Futenma. With the pace of Osprey operations increasing, so too is the catastrophic disparity between the U.S. military and the people of Okinawa.
→ read full articleWisconsin’s Tammy Baldwin Is First Openly Gay Person Elected to Senate
Emanuella Grinberg - CNN,
12 Nov 2012
Tammy Baldwin made history Tuesday [6 Nov 2012] night — twice. She became the first openly gay politician, and first Wisconsin woman, elected to the U.S. Senate.
→ read full articleWhy We Should All Be Talking About Global Sharing
Adam Parsons, Share The World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Understanding how the principle of sharing relates to economic policy might be simpler than we imagine. In STWR’s recent report, we expanded the existing notion of the sharing economy to include modern systems of social welfare and public service provision, which we argue is perhaps the most advanced form of sharing on a nationwide level that exists in the modern world.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Deplorable Human Rights Record
Stephen Lendman – Information Clearing House,
12 Nov 2012
Far and away, America’s human rights record is the world’s worst. No other nation approaches its unprincipled history. Earlier crimes against humanity were largely internal and regional.
→ read full articleProject Aims to Transfer Brazilian Know-How in Support of Cotton Farmers
UN Food and Agriculture Administration (FAO) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
South-South cooperation for rural development, stronger agricultural livelihoods. Brazil and FAO signed a new South-South cooperation agreement today [17 Oct 2012] worth $20 million that aims to channel Brazilian expertise in cotton production to other developing countries.
→ read full articleChemtrails. The Realities of Geoengineering and Weather Modification
Prof. James F. Tracy – Global Research,
12 Nov 2012
For over a decade military and private jet aircraft have been spraying our skies with what an admixture of aluminum, barium, strontium, and other dangerous heavy metals. Such substances distributed into the atmosphere as microscopic subparticulates eventually descend to earth where they are breathed by living things and absorbed by the soil and plant life. By drawing attention away from actually existing efforts of atmospheric experimentation and manipulation, such coordinated efforts are complicit in the impending environmental catastrophe they profess to be rallying against.
→ read full article(Italian) Studi per la Pace Con Mezzi Pacifici
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Gli studi per la pace sono importanti, tanto quanto quelli sulla salute. Nasciamo inclini a rifiutare la sofferenza, sia essa dovuta a violenza o a malattia, e a cercare il benessere, lo si chiami pace, o salute. Ma non nasciamo con la conoscenza e la competenza, la teoria e la pratica.
→ read full articleCalifornia: Prop 37 Fails – Why We Can’t Rely on Policy to Change Our Food System
Kristin Wartman and Erika Lade – Huffington Post,
12 Nov 2012
On Tuesday [6 Nov 2012], Californians voted on Proposition 37, which if passed, would have required the mandatory labeling of genetically-modified foods (GMOs). According to public health lawyer Michele Simon, Big Food companies like Monsanto, Coca-Cola, ConAgra, Nestle, and Kraft, which donated funds to “No on 37” engaged in lying, scare tactics, misrepresentation, and various dirty tricks to protect their profits and keep California voters uninformed about their food choices.
→ read full articleColorado and Washington Vote To Become First US States To Legalize Marijuana
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Marijuana is now legal in Colorado and Washington for recreational use, and possibly in Oregon as well. Proponents of the initiative argued that pot is safer than alcohol, and that the legal sale of marijuana could rake in $45 to 100 billion in tax revenue, according to Bloomberg. The government will also save an estimated $14 billion in cannabis-related costs in fighting the war on drugs.
→ read full articleKurdish Hunger-Strikers Fight for Rights
Berza Simsek – Al Jazeera,
12 Nov 2012
Nearly 700 prisoners demanding greater recognition for Kurds in Turkey have refused food, some for nearly two months. Death by starvation or long-term health damage are what Mazlum Dikmen and hundreds of other Kurdish prisoners in Turkey are now facing.
→ read full article(Portuguese) EUA: Primeira Senadora Abertamente Gay É Eleita Sem Levantar Bandeira do Movimento
BBC Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
A democrata Tammy Baldwin tornou-se na terça-feira [6 nov 2012] a primeira senadora americana abertamente gay, embora as bandeiras do movimento GLBT (Gays, Lésbicas, Bissexuais e Transgêneros) não tenham sido temas centrais nem em sua campanha, nem no discurso de agradecimento feito após o anúncio da vitória.
→ read full articleThe 2012 Peace Prize Is Unlawful and Cannot Be Paid to the EU
International Peace Bureau, 1910 Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
The European Union, announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee as the winner of the peace prize for 2012, clearly is not one of “the champions of peace” Alfred Nobel had in mind and described in his will as “the person who (Swedish original: “Den som…”) shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”
→ read full articleThe Buzz about Pesticides
Charlotte Stoddart, Nature – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Common pesticides affect bumblebee foraging.
→ read full articleSuspension of Anti-Homosexuality Laws in Malawi a Historic Step Forward
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Laws criminalising same sex sexual conduct in Malawi are suspended pending a decision on whether or not to repeal them is a historic step in the fight against discrimination in the country.
→ read full article2012 – International Year of Cooperatives
United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Cooperatives are not just an economic phenomenon but also a philosophy. It is an entrepreneurial model which is based on values such as equality, solidarity and reciprocity – and democracy, “a model which brings market logic together with social inclusion, making solidarity the focus of concern.”
→ read full articleFurther Reflections on Istanbul as Global Capital
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
My proposal that we consider the possibility of treating Istanbul as the world capital attracted a broad range of responses. I tried to make clear in my revised text that Istanbul could not hope to have this kind of recognition until Turkey had addressed some serious issues, especially the Kurdish grievances that have induced a massive hunger strike in Turkish jails (with over 600 prisoners now taking part, and more threatening to do so).
→ read full articleIndia’s Nuclear Programme: Trust Abroad but Not At Home
Catherine Mei Ling Wong – Al Jazeera,
12 Nov 2012
The protests in Kudankulam will continue if the government doesn’t reassess the root cause of public unrest. Even as trust in India’s nuclear power programme in the international arena grows steadily, trust on its domestic front has been eroding over the last few decades.
→ read full articleWays to Eliminate Body Odor
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
If body odor is a product of poor hygiene, new behaviors simply must be learned and adequate tools must be used. One thing we need to be clear of though is that toxic antiperspirant and deodorant sprays are not the answer. When body odor is indicative of a problem from within, detoxifying your body is the answer. There are a variety of cleansing routines that may be appropriate and regularly incorporating detox foods may help.
→ read full articleKill or Be Killed (Or Both)
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
The doctrines of nuclear deterrence and massive retaliation are still based on the Stone Age maxim: “Kill or be killed”, and the voice at the back of the hall is still right in adding “Or both!” We have to remember that the total explosive power of the nuclear weapons in the world today is 500,000 times as great as the power of the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What is threatened by a nuclear war today is the complete breakdown of human civilization.
→ read full articleWalnuts Are Top Nut for Heart-Healthy Antioxidants
Science Daily – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
A new scientific study positions walnuts in the number one slot among a family of foods that lay claim to being among Mother Nature’s most nearly perfect packaged foods: Tree and ground nuts.
→ read full articleRestoring Democracy in the United States
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
The United States is no longer a democracy, since neither the economic system nor the government serve the will and needs of the people. They serve instead the interests of the wealthy and powerful 1%, who control not only the mass media and the financial system, but also the politicians of both major parties. The situation in many other countries is very similar.
→ read full articleCameroon: Lawyer Gets Threats for Defending Gays
News24 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Cameroon lawyer Alice Nkom, who is known for defending gays and lesbians in a country where homosexuality is outlawed, said on Tuesday [23 Oct 2012] that she has been receiving death threats from anonymous callers over her stance.
→ read full articleWill Someone Speak Out for the Heroic Libyan People?
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
12 Nov 2012
The heroic people of Libya fight on against the occupation of their beloved country by NATO and by their Islamist terrorists who have visited terror on peaceful communities living together side-by-side for decades. Let us take a look at the situation today and apportion the blame.
→ read full articleBanned
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Dedicated to the freedom and dignity of young men who choose to have boyfriends.
→ read full articleThe Failed War on Drugs
TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Infographic – “Let’s be blunt: It’s time to end the drug war.”
→ read full articleWhat Does the World Bank Have to Do with Burma’s Wars, Conflicts and Atrocities?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
The war in Kachin State has everything to do with the World Bank which funded and promoted the idea of “cross-border energy free market”.
→ read full articleThe Universe Unraveling
William Blum, Killing Hope – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
On October 7 [2012] Hugo Chávez won his fourth term in office as president of Venezuela. The feeling of frustration that must have descended upon the Venezuelan and American power elite is likely reminiscent of Chile, March 1973, when the party of another socialist and American bête noire, Salvador Allende — despite the best intentions and dollars without end of the CIA — won about 44 percent of the vote in congressional elections, compared to some 36 percent in 1970.
→ read full articleAn Important Icelandic Referendum – the Media Remains Silent
Mauro Santayana - Pravda,
5 Nov 2012
The citizens of Iceland voted in a referendum, on Saturday (20 Oct 2012), with about 70% of the voters. The basic text of its new constitution, drafted by 25 delegates, almost all ordinary men, chosen by direct vote of the people, included the nationalization of its natural resources. During these few years, in which the Icelanders resisted against the harassment of large international banks, the international media have been conveniently silent about what is happening in Reykjavik. It is an eloquent sign that Icelanders may be paving the way to a peaceful world revolution of the people.
→ read full articlePerpetual War
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
Because the world spends roughly 1.7 trillion dollars each year on armaments, it follows that very many people make their living from war. This is the reason why it is correct to speak of war as a social, political and economic institution, and also one of the main reasons why war persists, although everyone realizes that it is the cause of much of the suffering of humanity.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Portugal: A Universidade-Mercado – Sete Exemplos da Mercadorização do Ensino Superior
João Mineiro, Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
As universidades foram sempre um espaço de debate, crítica e movimento. Foram sempre uma pedra no sapato do sistema, porque nelas se exprimiram com imensa intensidade a liberdade, a subversão, a rebeldia e a crítica. Nos últimos anos fomos assistindo a estratégias de transformação da universidade pelo mercado, com o objetivo de amenizar o seu potencial crítico e emancipatório. Vejamos sete exemplos.
→ read full articleHurricane Sandy: Problems at Five Nuke Plants
Mark Schone – ABC News,
5 Nov 2012
The nation’s oldest nuclear plant declared an alert and a second plant just 40 miles from New York City was forced to shut down power as five different nuke plants in Hurricane Sandy’s path experienced problems during the storm. Indian Point in Buchanan, New York, on the Hudson River north of New York City, automatically shut power to its unit 3 on Monday [29 Oct 2012] night “as a result of an electrical grid disturbance,” according to Entergy, the plant’s operator.
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Chile’s Most Wanted
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
Branded a ‘terrorist’ at an early age by the government of Chile, Pascual Pichun is a man on a mission. Pascual is a symbol of the indigenous Mapuche resistance movement, which is trying to protect and reclaim its ancestral lands from the government and foreign companies. The movement is accused of attacks on forestry company property, destroying bulldozers and burning down a helicopter.
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