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Hiroshima Day & Postcard Campaign
Dr. S. P. Udayakumar, PMANE – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
Demanding Copy of Indo-Russian Inter-Governmental Liability Agreement on Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plants 1 & 2 – August 6, 2012 – The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy is commemorating the Hiroshima Day 2012 as the “Nuclear-Free Tamil Nadu Day.”
→ read full articleGlenn Paige Nonkilling Schools: A Plea
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
To establish a school aimed at genocide-prevention education
calls for a compassionate, courageous, Nonkilling transformation
In the village of Kazimia, Eastern Congo, a Glenn Paige Nonkilling
School can be found
(Portuguese) O Mercosul na Sua Segunda Geração
Jeferson Miola – Carta Maior,
6 Aug 2012
A entrada da Venezuela coloca o Mercosul em um novo estágio. O bloco fica ampliado nas dimensões econômicas, comerciais, culturais e demográficas. Consolida o domínio sobre as maiores reservas energéticas, minerais, naturais e de recursos hídricos do planeta. A partir de agora, o Mercosul passa a ser a região com a maior reserva mundial de petróleo.
→ read full article‘End of Capitalism’: Bolivia to Expel Coca-Cola
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
In a symbolic rejection of US capitalism, Bolivia announced it will expel the Coca-Cola Company from the country at the end of the Mayan calendar. “December 21 of 2012 will be the end of egoism and division, it should be the end of Coca-Cola,” Bolivian foreign minister David Choquehuanca decreed. Last year, Bolivia became the second Latin American country not to have a single McDonald’s.
→ read full article(Portuguese) A Falácia da Intervenção “Humanitária” na Síria
Larissa Ramina – Carta Maior,
6 Aug 2012
A questão internacional central, e também o principal embate da encruzilhada síria, está na perigosa articulação do conceito de “intervenção humanitária”. O intelectual e escritor belga Jean Bricmont, em recente fala na Unesco, chama a atenção para o que rotulou de “noção falaciosa de guerra humanitária”, e denuncia um condicionamento ideológico proveniente das mídias, que segundo ele visam a tornar uma intervenção militar na Síria aceitável aos olhos da opinião pública mundial.
→ read full articlePreventing another Hiroshima
Rebecca Johnson, Int’l Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
Sixty-seven years ago, on August 6, the first uranium bomb was exploded above Hiroshima with the force of 15 thousand tons of TNT. Three days later, Nagasaki was shattered by a plutonium bomb. Over the next 40 years, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (US, Soviet Union, Britain, France and China) amassed some 70,000 nuclear weapons with a combined explosive force of 15 million tons. Between them Israel, Pakistan and India could have 300-400 nuclear weapons. [Enough to obliterate the planet 12 TIMES OVER]
→ read full articleExtradition Gives America Jurisdiction over the Globe
Wendy McElroy – The Future of Freedom Foundation,
6 Aug 2012
Since June 19 [2012], WikiLeaks whistle-blower Julian Assange has eluded the British authorities by secreting himself within the diplomatically shielded Ecuadorian embassy in London. Given that the embassy is Ecuadorian, the nation is England, and the charges are Swedish, why does America inevitably enter any discussion of Assange? In a word, “extradition.” The U.S. government has had a secret indictment against Assange for more than 12 months that could be produced in a flash should Assange arrive on Swedish soil.
→ read full articleThe Politics of the Economic Crisis
Johan Galtung, 30 Jul 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
The transfer of capital from investment in the real economy to speculation in the finance economy done digitally, in microseconds, is to a labor-free economy. Workers, the plague of industrial capitalists, quarrelsome, on strike, always demanding more, are out. The longer the buying and selling chains in the finance economy, the more commissions-and hence, “economic growth”-, the fewer jobs. A handful can do it; Lehman Brothers taking huge risks that are compensated by huge Goldman Sachs bonuses.
→ read full article(Castellano) Educación para la Paz: Una Propuesta en Cuatro Pasos
Fernando Montiel T. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Crítica sin propuesta conduce a la apatía – Sin importar qué tan bien intencionada, la crítica por sí misma no necesariamente es constructiva, y de hecho, criticar sin ofrecer alternativas puede incluso ser irresponsable. La crítica sin propuesta es destructiva, y la propuesta sin crítica es endeble.
→ read full articlePhysically Handicapped in Perspective
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Those people who are physically handicapped in any way whatsoever, may still perform excellently as everyone else. We have many examples of this reality in the history of our earthly community. Once we become convinced that the handicapped are psychologically normal people in no lesser way that we are, our ability to deal with such situations becomes more natural and more spontaneous.
→ read full article(Italian) Non Molta Pace? Anche Colpa Dei Mediatori
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Più difficile è sostenere una pace positiva: cooperazione per vantaggi reciproci e uguali e armonia, consonanza emotiva. Gli studi per la pace non sono soli in questa difficile situazione. Gli studi sulla sanità si concentrano molto più sull’assenza di malattia che sulla presenza di salute positiva, con solo vaghi sforzi per configurarla esplicitamente. Come la psicologia: profusa sui disordini mentali, ma tuttora carente sull’assetto psicologico positivo. Si possono individuare quattro spiegazioni, non giustificazioni.
→ read full articleWhat Dani Dayan Says and Why It Is Interesting
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Dani Dayan’s article, “Israel’s Settlers Are Here to Stay,” was published by the NY Times on July 26, 2012. Dayan is the chairman of the Yesha Council of Jewish Communities, and has been long known as a leading spokesperson of the settler movement. An obvious response to such a settler screed might be to dismiss it out of hand as an extremist expression of Israeli views, which it certainly is, but it would seem a mistake to do this before taking some account of its content and timing.
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Wall Street Legend Sandy Weill: Break Up Big Banks
CNBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
It’s nothing less than a remarkable about-face. One of the architects of mega banking is now calling for the breakup of the world’s largest banks. Sandy Weill, formerly CEO of Citigroup and Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of NY, told CNBC:
→ read full articleReform and Change, Cuban Style
David Tebaldi – Americas Quarterly,
30 Jul 2012
Cuba’s 53-year-old revolutionary socialist system is in transition. Toward what, though, is anyone’s guess.
→ read full articleHow to Survive Long Haul Flights
Colleen Murphy, International Man - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Four Mandatory Rules
→ read full articleLoading the Climate Dice
Paul Krugman, Nobel Economics Laureate – The New York Times,
30 Jul 2012
Climate change denial is a major industry, lavishly financed by Exxon, the Koch brothers and others with a financial stake in the continued burning of fossil fuels.
→ read full articleHumanitarian Interventionism Brazilian Style?
Matias Spektor – Americas Quarterly,
30 Jul 2012
Brazil tries to strike a balance between sovereignty and preventing atrocities. By November 2011, Brazilian officials began to circulate a concept paper at the UN entitled “Responsibility While Protecting,” or RWP. The paper argued that without limits on what the powerful may do, the emerging ideology of humanitarian intervention could easily become a tool for foreign manipulation.
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(Castellano) Johan Galtung en Argentina – 2009
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Fragmento del ” Seminario Avanzado de Transformación Pacífica de Conflictos” dictado por el profesor Johan Galtung para la carrera de “Especialización en Negociación” en la Facultad de Agronomía de la Universidad de Buenos Aires.
→ read full articleUS Air Force’s Mega-Bunker-Buster Bomb Is Finally Ready
Spencer Ackerman - Wired,
30 Jul 2012
Just as the U.S. returns its attention to concealed weapons of mass destruction programs in Syria and (possibly) Iran, the Air Force is saying its mega-weapon for blowing up hidden factories of death is finally ready. That would be the Massive Ordnance Penetrator — all 30,000 destructive pounds of it. It’s an absolutely ginormous bomb.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Drone Dominance
Jefferson Morley - Salon,
30 Jul 2012
If you want to know how drones will change America, look to the Jewish State — where they’re already widespread. The Israeli influence is not visible but it is real, documented and extremely relevant to the future of drones in America.
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Does The Higgs Boson Rule Out The Existence Of God?
Deepak Chopra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
What is the Higgs Boson and why is it called “the God particle”? Deepak Chopra explains the elusive and ephemeral existence of this newly discovered particle, which imbues other particles with mass.
→ read full articlePutin’s Geopolitical Chess Game With Washington in Syria and Eurasia
F. William Engdahl – Global Research,
30 Jul 2012
Syria itself, contrary to what most western media portray, is a long-standing multi-ethnic and religiously tolerant secular state with an Alawite Muslim President Bashar Al-Assad, married to a Sunni wife. The Alawite sect is an offshoot of Shia Islam which doesn’t force their women to wear head scarves and are liberal by Sunni standards, especially in the fundamentalist places like Saudi Arabia where women are forbidden to even hold a driver’s license.
→ read full articleBlair, Olympic Deals and the Glimpse of another Britain
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
In the New Statesman of 21 June, I reported an urgent appeal to Sebastian Coe, the former athlete who chairs the London Olympics Organising Committee, by the Vietnam Women’s Union that he and his IOC colleagues reconsider their decision to accept sponsorship from Dow Chemical, one of the companies that manufactured Agent Orange, a poison used against the population of Vietnam.
→ read full articleWill Libya Become Another Somalia? Or Worse?
Counter Currents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Libya seems well on its way to becoming the next Somalia, with much of the country already ruled by tribal/clan based armed militias. As was the case in Somalia, Libya is in the process of separation, with the eastern, oil rich, Cyrenica region having issued a de facto declaration of independence. Tripoli, the capital of Libya, seems to be headed in the direction of where Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia was 20 years ago, with various well armed militias from outside the city taking up residence and clashing over territory and the spoils of power.
→ read full articleCholera and the Road to Modernity: Lessons from One Latin American Epidemic for Another
Jonathan Weigel and Paul Farmer – Americas Quarterly,
30 Jul 2012
A bold, comprehensive campaign to control cholera in Haiti could save thousands of lives. So why the holdup?
→ read full articleDoes Quantum Physics Make It Easier to Believe in God?
Prof. Stephen M. Barr – Big Questions Online,
30 Jul 2012
Not in any direct way. That is, it doesn’t provide an argument for the existence of God. But it does so indirectly, by providing an argument against the philosophy called materialism (or “physicalism”), which is the main intellectual opponent of belief in God in today’s world. Materialism is an atheistic philosophy that says that all of reality is reducible to matter and its interactions.
→ read full articleNot So Fast: Cosmopolitics and the Higgs Boson
Nicolas Mendoza – Al Jazeera,
30 Jul 2012
Will media reports on the Higgs boson announcement influence the way “modern people” treat all other people? Latour explains how the West built its claim of higher ground over the rest by constructing the idea of a single, neutral, “nature”: “Religion had to become a mere culture so that nature could become a true religion – what brings everyone into assent”. This is precisely what is problematic about the language constructed around the Large Hadron Collider: it is crafted to make unthinkable dissent about the making of the universe.
→ read full articleToward a Gandhian Geopolitics: A Feasible Utopia?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
There is no doubt that I would like to live in a borderless soft power world that was consistently attentive to human suffering, protective of the global commons, and subject to the discipline of global constitutional democracy. As global conditions now confirm, such a benign fantasy lacks political traction at present, and is thus an irresponsible worldview from the perspective of humane problem solving.
→ read full articleWoman with No Gold
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
For the Poverty-Stricken Women in India Who Work as Domestic Maids
→ read full articleRhymed Reflections: Dignity in Human Rights, Literature and Spirituality
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Human Rights educators/practitioners,
In your advocacy, efforts, initiatives for/in/through Human Rights, much
more dignity you can bring…
US Authorizes Financial Support to Free Syrian Army
Laura Rozen – Al Monitor,
30 Jul 2012
The waiver was received from the Treasury Department Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) last week, Brian Sayers, of the Syrian Support Group, said Friday [27 Jul 2012]. “The OFAC decision is huge,” Sayers said. “It gets us the leeway to support the Free Syrian Army in broad terms.” The Syrian Support Group hired Sayers, who previously spent six years working in NATO operations in Brussels and Kosovo, four months ago to be the Washington agent for the group.
→ read full articleUS Officers Tell Congress That General Blocked Probe of Hospital in Kabul
Karen McVeigh – The Guardian,
30 Jul 2012
The American general who led a NATO training mission in Afghanistan opposed an investigation into corruption and “Auschwitz-like” conditions at a US-funded hospital in Kabul for political reasons, US military officers told Congress on Tuesday [24 Jul 2012]. One active-duty officer testified that the three-star general, Lieutenant General William Caldwell, who headed the training mission in Afghanistan, forced him to retract a request for an inspector general’s investigation into the Dawood national military hospital.
→ read full articleSyrian Blood Etches a New Line in the Sand
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
30 Jul 2012
No matter what militarized Western corporate media spins, there’s no endgame in Syria – yet. On the contrary; the sectarian game is just beginning. There’s no way to understand the Syrian dynamics without learning that most Free Syrian Army-FSA commanders are not Syrians, but Iraqi Sunnis. The over 100 heavily armed gangs engaged in civil war in Syria are overflowing with Gulf Cooperation Council funds. As it stands, the romanticized Syrian “rebels” plus the insurgents formerly known as terrorists cannot win against the Syria military – not even with the Saudis and Qataris showering them with loads of cash and weapons.
→ read full articleSyria: Washington’s Latest War Crime
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
One wonders what Syrians are thinking as “rebels” vowing to “free Syria” take the country down the same road to destruction as “rebels” in Libya. Libya, under Gaddafi a well run country whose oil revenues were shared with the Libyan people instead of monopolized by a princely class as in Saudi Arabia, now has no government and is in disarray with contending factions vying for power.
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The Story of Change
Story of Stuff Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Can shopping save the world? The Story of Change urges viewers to put down their credit cards and start exercising their citizen muscles to build a more sustainable, just and fulfilling world.
→ read full articleParaguay’s Bitter Harvest: Multinational Corporations Reap Benefits from Coup Government
Benjamin Dangl – Toward Freedom,
30 Jul 2012
A look at how the coup government is opening up Paraguay to multinational corporate exploitation, from the Canadian Rio Tinto Alcan mining company to Monsanto’s seeds. As Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano said in an interview regarding the coup in Paraguay, the Lugo government tried “to bring about changes that were aimed at making the country more independent and just, but this was an unpardonable sin for the power brokers.”
→ read full articleA Brief Further Comment on Syria
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Military intervention rarely succeeds, violates the right of self-determination, and often expands the scope and severity of violence, especially if carried out from the air. Furthermore, we know little about the opposition in Syria, to what extent its governance of the country would be based on the rule of law and human rights. There are confusing reports about rebel atrocities as well as concerning the role of Al Qaeda operatives leading some of the rebel forces, and also indications that Gulf money and weapons have been supplied to these forces ever since the beginning of the anti-Damascus uprising.
→ read full articleBehind Paraguay’s Coup
Benjamin Dangl – Al Jazeera,
30 Jul 2012
At the heart of the nation’s current crisis is an ongoing battle over land. Approximately two per cent of landowners control 80 per cent of Paraguay’s land, and some 87,000 farming families are landless. Lugo and his cabinet resisted the use of Monsanto’s transgenic cotton seeds in Paraguay, a move that likely contributed to his ouster. But now that Franco is in power, negotiations with the Canadian mining company Rio Tinto have moved ahead.
→ read full articleConfiscation of Condoms from Sex Workers Compromises Public Health
Chi Mgbako – Pambazuka News,
30 Jul 2012
Throughout the world, in countries as diverse as Kenya, Namibia, Russia, South Africa, the United States, and Zimbabwe, police often confiscate condoms from sex workers to use as evidence of prostitution, thereby compromising public health interventions aimed at reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS.
→ read full articleFacing a Set of Linked Problems
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Today, a number of serious and interconnected problems are facing human civilization and the biosphere. Because they are linked, we need to look at all of these problems together, and to find holistic solutions.
→ read full articleIt’s the Guns – But We All Know, It’s Not Really the Guns…
Michael Moore – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
The United States is responsible for over 80% of all the gun deaths in the 23 richest countries combined. Both conservatives and liberals in America ceaselessly remind you that a gun cannot fire itself – that “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” Of course, they know they’re being intellectually dishonest. I would just alter that slogan slightly to speak the real truth: “Guns don’t kill people, Americans kill people.”
→ read full articleCelebrated Spanish Judge Garzon to Head Assange Legal Team
Agence France Press-AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Famous Spanish human rights investigator Baltasar Garzon will lead the legal team representing WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, the whistleblower website announced on Tuesday [24 Jul 2012]. Garzon, best known for issuing an international arrest warrant against former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, recently met with Assange at the Ecuadoran embassy to discuss a new legal strategy, according to a statement approved by both men.
→ read full articleSo Much Fun!
TMS Editor,
30 Jul 2012
A suspicious husband hired a private eye to check on the movements of his wife. In addition to a written report, the husband wanted a video of his wife’s activities.
→ read full articleOccupy the Dam: Brazil’s Indigenous Uprising
John Perkins – Toward Freedom,
30 Jul 2012
In the Amazonian backcountry, tribes are challenging construction of the world’s third-largest dam—by dismantling it. Here’s what they can teach us about standing up to power.
→ read full articleBolivia Pushes Back Against Swiss Commodities Giant Glencore
Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero - CorpWatch,
30 Jul 2012
Glencore corporation, the secretive Swiss commodities giant which has become one of the world’s biggest traders of grain, oil and minerals, has hit an unlikely roadblock: On June 22 [2012], the Bolivian government seized the company’s Colquiri tin and zinc mine. Colquiri was the third Glencore operation to be nationalized by Bolivia in the last five years.
→ read full articleRecession Breaks In
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Recession breaks in
grey bar charts in a row fall down
as do computer monitors, file cabinets and screams
from window of sky-high building
like someone threw up after ugly reality;
(French) LIBOR: Le Drapeau Rouge Flotte Sur Bruxelles…
Liberation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
« De vrais salauds ! », s’exclame ce haut fonctionnaire européen qui n’en revient toujours pas. Cinq ans après l’éclatement de la bulle des « subprimes » américaines, quatre ans après l’explosion des bulles immobilières irlandaises et espagnoles, trois ans après le début des attaques spéculatives contre la zone euro, la Commission croyait que les banques ne pourraient plus la surprendre. Loupé!
→ read full articleAs Mining Conglomerates Target Haiti, Latin America Rises Against Them
Roger Annis and Kim Ives – Global Research,
23 Jul 2012
People and governments across Latin America are rising up against foreign mining companies in a wave of revolt that is generating alarm among investors and their political operatives in the imperialist governments.
→ read full articleJustice for Assange!
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
I would add my voice to those of many people of conscience around the world to urge Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa to grant him political asylum. Mr. Assange’s only crime is to care enough about people and their right to the truth. He had the courage and bravery to print many truths that embarrassed powerful governments.
→ read full articleSri Lanka: Militarizing the Land and Terrorizing the Minds
Nirmanusan Balasundaram – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Even three years after a destructive and protracted war, the repressive and intransigent character of the ethnocratic Sri Lankan state remains same and nothing but naked brutality lies at its heart.
→ read full articleWar on All Fronts
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
The Russian government has finally caught on that its political opposition is being financed by the US taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy and other CIA/State Department fronts in an attempt to subvert the Russian government and install an American puppet state in the geographically largest country on earth, the one country with a nuclear arsenal sufficient to deter Washington’s aggression.
→ read full articleThis Global Financial Fraud and Its Gatekeepers
Naomi Wolf – The Guardian,
23 Jul 2012
The media’s ‘bad apple’ thesis no longer works. We’re seeing systemic corruption in banking – and systemic collusion.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Lembrando da Memória de García Márquez
Eric Nepomuceno – Carta Maior,
23 Jul 2012
Gabriel García Márquez sempre foi dono de uma memória sem limites, e, agora, essa memória se desvaneceu. Disse, ao longo da vida, que não há uma só linha, em toda a sua obra, que não tivesse como ponto de partida um dado da realidade. Ou seja: um dado guardado, intacto, em sua memória. Assim ele escreveu tudo que escreveu. Bem: essa memória se acabou. E, com ela, se acabou a escrita mais luminosa das últimas muitas décadas da literatura feita na América de todos nós.
→ read full articleSyria, Late in the Day: Are Negotiations Still Possible?
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
A useful next step would be to explore the possibility of setting an agenda of issues that could be the basis of negotiations. The setting of such an agenda may be more productive than the current proposal of creating by mutual agreement a government of transition: issues before new ministers.
→ read full articleKoodankulam: The Inside Story
Anuj Wankhede, Dianuke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Recently, E Amudhan R.P was in Mumbai for the public screening of ‘Radiation Stories Part 3–Koodankulam’ and shared with me his views on what has made the Koodankulam struggle such a success and the inside details about the struggle. It should serve as a guide for other agitations and for film makers who can learn from the strategies used by the people of Koodankulam and those used by the government in this epic David vs Golaith struggle.
→ read full articleThe NRA’s Dark Gun Culture
Bill Moyers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
The United States has emerged to become the most violent nation on earth where millions are equipped with lethal weapons to massacre brutally as many people as they wish. In spite of its military might, the US government cannot do anything about it since it functions under the ruthless thumb of the National Rifle Association (NRA) whose sole objective is to boost by all means the business of the weapons’ industry.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Por Dentro do Cérebro
Luciana Pessanha – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Você acredita em Deus? PN: Geralmente depois de dez horas de cirurgia, aquele estresse, aquela adrenalina toda, quando acabamos de operar, vai até a família e diz: “Ele está salvo”. Aí, a família olha pra você e diz: “Graças a Deus!”. Então, a gente acredita que não fomos apenas nós.
→ read full articleConvergence of 30 Disabling Global Trends
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
In a period characterized by a global crisis of crises, there is a case for exploring any means of articulating the set of those crises and the possibilities for their comprehension as a system. Of particular concern is the tendency to consider that there is far too much “bad news” and that the quest should be to set it aside as much as possible and focus on the “good news” offering hope for the future.
→ read full articleKiller Bug in Cambodia: Latest
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
23 Jul 2012
A joint investigation launched by the WHO-World Health Organization, the Cambodian Health Ministry, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge has drawn up some conclusions on the killer disease with a very high mortality rate in Cambodia. It has been confirmed that the severe illness is a very severe form of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease.
→ read full articleThe Libor Scandal in Full Perspective
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
The article about the Libor scandal, coauthored with Nomi Prins, received much attention, with Internet repostings, foreign translation, and video interviews. To further clarify the situation, this article brings to the forefront implications that might not be obvious to those without insider experience and knowledge.
→ read full article36 Percent of Fukushima Children Have Abnormal Growths from Radiation Exposure
Michael Kelley – Business Insider,
23 Jul 2012
Of more than 38,000 children tested from the Fukushima Prefecture in Japan, 36 percent have abnormal growths – cysts or nodules – on their thyroids a year after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, as reported by ENENews.
→ read full articleOn Writing Peace Poetry
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
When poetry for peace we write
We mean a much deeper might
West’s Mistake: Focus on Al Qaeda
Dr Robin-Edward Poulton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
The Real Big Problem Is Saudi Arabia – One of our really big foreign policy mistakes in the West has been to focus on Al Qaeda, as if it were an isolated phenomenon.
→ read full articleNot Much Peace? Also the Mediators’ Fault
Johan Galtung, 23 Jul 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Most difficult is to argue positive peace: cooperation for mutual and equal benefit and harmony, emotional resonance. Peace studies are not alone in this predicament. Health studies focus much more on absence of disease than on presence of positive health, with only vague efforts to spell it out. Like psychology: long on mental disorders, but still short on positive psychology. There are, say, four explanations, not justifications, around.
→ read full article‘After 9/11 NSA Had Secret Deal with White House’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
RT talks to Andrew Drake, a former National Security Agency executive in the US who sacrificed his career to blow the whistle on wrong-doings inside the NSA. He was sentenced to a year probation on July 2011.
→ read full articleGlobal Banks Are the Financial Services Wing of the Drug Cartels
Ed Vulliamy – The Guardian,
23 Jul 2012
“Steal a little,” wrote Bob Dylan, “they throw you in jail; steal a lot and they make you a king.” These days, he might recraft the line to read: deal a little dope, they throw you in jail; launder the narco billions, they’ll make you apologise to the US Senate.
→ read full articleOn Types of Humiliation: A Checklist
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Who has been subjected to what type of humiliation? A checklist (nouns ending in -ATION)
→ read full article125 Days of Confinement
Dr. S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
July 21, 2012 marked the 125th day of my and Pushparayan’s self-exile here at Idinthakarai. All our comrades who were arrested and lodged in the jails of Cuddalore, Nanguneri and Tiruchirappalli have come back and resumed their routine life. Ever since March 19, 2012, when the Tamil Nadu government changed its stand on the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) issue, we have been protected by the people, mostly women and children. They come in thousands and sleep around the Parish Priest’s Bungalow where Rayan and I stay and sleep.
→ read full article(Portuguese) O Lado Mais Sinistro do Sistema Bancário
Flávio Aguiar – Carta Maior,
23 Jul 2012
De crise em crise, de susto em susto, de revelação em revelação, vem à tona dia após dia o lado mais sinistro do sistema bancário internacional. Semanas atrás foi o caso da manipulação da taxa Libor da banca britânica, promovida pelo banco Barclays. Agora foi a vez do HSBC. Uma investigação de mais de ano, feita pelo Senado norte-americano, concluiu insofismavelmente que a seção norte-americana do banco lavou dinheiro dos cartéis mexicanos de narcotráfico de 2002 a 2009.
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Vandana Shiva on the Problem with Genetically-Modified Seeds (Video of the Week)
Bill Moyers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Bill talks to scientist and philosopher Vandana Shiva, who’s become a rock star in the global battle over genetically modified seeds. These seeds — considered “intellectual property” by the big companies who own the patents — are globally marketed to monopolize food production and profits.
→ read full articleUK: Now the Army Is Giving the Orders
Kim Sengupta & Nigel Morris – The Independent,
23 Jul 2012
As foreign athletes start to arrive, military sends officers to tackle security shambles. Army chiefs have been dispatched to the headquarters of G4S to take a more active role in controlling security for the London Olympics, The Independent has learnt, following the company’s failure to fulfil its £250m contract to guard the Games.
→ read full articleObama’s Scramble for Africa: Secret Wars, Secret Bases, and the Pentagon’s “New Spice Route” in Africa
Nick Turse - TomDispatch,
23 Jul 2012
Unbeknownst to most Americans and people around the world, the US has been steadily increasing its military footprint in Africa. In East African ports, huge metal shipping containers arrive with the everyday necessities for a military on the make. They’re then loaded onto trucks that set off down rutted roads toward dusty bases and distant outposts.
→ read full articleLimits to Growth and Climate Change
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
According to the “empty-world” picture of economics, the limiting factors in the production of food and goods are shortages of capital and labor. The land, forests, fossil fuels, minerals, oceans filled with fish, and other natural resources upon which human labor and capital operate, are assumed to be present in such large quantities that they are not limiting factors
→ read full articleThe Creeping Conquest of Palestine
Socialist Worker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Israel’s illegal settlements in occupied territory–and the U.S. government’s tolerance for them–are shining examples of the might-makes-right principle of colonialism. Israel’s project of colonial expansion has been thrust back onto the international stage by a report from a committee headed by a former Israeli Supreme Court justice recommending the legalization of Jewish-only settlements in the West Bank.
→ read full articleHuman Corpses Harvested in Multimillion-Dollar Trade
Kate Willson, Vlad Lavrov, Martina Keller, Thomas Maier and Gerard Ryle - The Sydney Morning Herald,
23 Jul 2012
A grisly trade in human body parts leaves relatives grieving and some recipients at risk of life-threatening disease. On February 24 [2012], Ukrainian authorities made an alarming discovery: bones and other human tissues crammed into coolers in a grimy white minibus.
→ read full articleWhat About N-Waste from Kudankulam, HC Asks Centre
The Times of India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Where will the nuclear waste from the Kudankulam nuclear power plant be kept and what are the Centre’s plans to process the spent fuel to ensure that it does not damage the environment? This is what the Madras high court, hearing a batch of public interest petitions on the nuclear plant, wants to know from the Centre.
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Chickpeace – Peace vs. War Journalism
Oded LevRan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
This is a visual communication studies final project at the Holon Institute of Technology (HIT), Israel, by Oded LevRan. The video presents the main principles of Peace Journalism using hummus, which is a staple dish for both Israelis and Palestinians, as an analogy to reality.
→ read full articleArming Civil Society Worldwide
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
This exploration is concerned with the conditions required for comprehension and uptake of American-style democracy worldwide as a basis for the viability of the emergent American empire. The focus is on a unique feature of the American Constitution which ensures that citizens have the right to bear arms. [Plus: Addendum on last week’s mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado-USA (July 2012)]
→ read full articleFor What?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Why am I giving the Palestinians so much more attention and psychic energy than the Kurds, Tibetans, or Kashmiris, and a host of other worthy causes? And how do I explain to myself a preoccupation with the unlawful, immoral, and imprudent foreign policy of the U.S. Government, the sovereign state of my residence upon whose governmental resources I depend upon for security and a range of rights?
→ read full articleGates Foundation Pours $10 Million into Genetically Modified Crops
Common Dreams staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Vandana Shiva: Bill Gates “is so totally wrong on this assumption that genetically modified seeds produce more.” In a decision outraging campaigners for food sovereignty and agroecological approaches, the Gates Foundation has awarded a $10 million grant to develop genetically modified (GM) crops for use in sub-Saharan Africa.
→ read full articleDo Business Schools Incubate Criminals?
Luigi Zingales, Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
The recent scandals at Barclays Plc, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and other banks might give the impression that the financial sector has some serious morality problems. Unfortunately, it’s worse than that: We are dealing with a drop in ethical standards throughout the business world, and our graduate schools are partly to blame.
→ read full articleQuiet Planning For Post-Assad Syria Has Roots in 2008 Conference
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
For the last six months, 40 senior representatives of various Syrian opposition groups have been meeting quietly in Germany under the tutelage of the U.S. Institute for Peace (USIP) to plan for how to set up a post-Assad Syrian government.
→ read full articleThe Lily-Pad Strategy
David Vine - TomDispatch,
23 Jul 2012
Unknown to most Americans, Washington’s garrisoning of the planet is on the rise, thanks to a new generation of bases the military calls “lily pads” (as in a frog jumping across a pond toward its prey). These are small, secretive, inaccessible facilities with limited numbers of troops, spartan amenities, and prepositioned weaponry and supplies.
→ read full articleRegulators and HSBC Faulted in Report on Money Laundering
Nathaniel Popper – The New York Times,
23 Jul 2012
The global bank HSBC has been used by Mexican drug cartels looking to get cash back into the United States, by Saudi Arabian banks that needed access to dollars despite their terrorist ties and by Iranians who wanted to circumvent United States sanctions, a Senate report says.
→ read full articleFrom an Unlikely Source, a Serious Challenge to Wall Street
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
23 Jul 2012
There’s something brewing that looks like it might be a blueprint to effectively take on the financial services industry: a plan to allow local governments to take on the problem of neighborhoods blighted by toxic home loans and foreclosures through the use of eminent domain. Cooked up by a small group of businessmen and ex-venture capitalists, the audacious idea falls under the category of “That’s so crazy, it just might work!”
→ read full articleSyria’s Deadly Bomb Attack on Assad Cabinet: Is This ‘The Price’ Clinton Warned Of?
Finian Cunningham – Global Research,
23 Jul 2012
The deadly bomb attack on the top-level meeting of President Bashar Al-Assad’s senior cabinet ministers leaves little doubt that Western intelligence was involved. While two groups claimed responsibility – the Syrian Free Army and a little-known jihadi organisation calling itself the Lord of the Martyrs Brigade – the weight of evidence points to crucial Western military support in executing the strike.
→ read full articleOops!
TMS Editor,
23 Jul 2012
Every Saturday morning he has an early tee time. He gets up early and eager, golfs all day long, sometimes 36 holes.
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DEA Agents Out Of Control in Honduras
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
The war on terror isn’t the only battle claiming innocent lives: the war on drugs in Latin America continues to rage on. In the past month, officers with the US Drug Enforcement Agency have shot and killed several innocent people in Honduras. To talk more about this, Adrienne Pine, professor at American University, joins us to discuss.
→ read full articleAustralian Aborigines Learn By Cuban Method
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
A total of 10 Australian aborigines between 25 and 53 years of age ended their basic studies of reading and writing through the Cuban literacy method, “Yo sí puedo” (yes I can), José Chala, coordinator of the program in this nation confirmed today [6 Jul 2012].
→ read full articleThere Will Be Hell to Pay for NATO’s Holy War
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
16 Jul 2012
Hillary has just called on “Western powers” and their Arab stooges – the NATOGCC compound that passes for the “international community” – to “make it clear that Russia and China will pay a price because they are holding up progress” regarding weaponized regime change in Syria. In non-newspeak, this means, “If you block our new war, there will be payback”.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Corpo e Alma
Dr. Jorge Carvajal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Entrevista com Dr. Jorge Carvajal, médico cirurgião da Universidade de Andaluzia, Espanha, pioneiro da Medicina Bioenergética. –Qual adoece primeiro: o corpo ou a alma?
→ read full article
Kucinich Explains “LIBOR”
DJKucinich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Late last month, Barclay’s Bank, a multinational bank and financial institution based in the United Kingdom, admitted to regulators that it tried to manipulate something called “Libor” before and during the financial crisis in 2008. ”Libor” is an acronym for London Interbank Offered Rate. It is a rate used as a benchmark for the cost of lending throughout the financial system, and it is also used as a reference rate for a wide range of financial products like car loans, adjustable-rate mortgages, student loans and credit cards.
→ read full articleGlaxoSmithKline Fraud Case: Does Crime Pay?
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
A business model of criminal activity: Are record fines enough to stop multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical companies from committing fraud? As the pharmaceutical giant is fined a record sum of $3bn, we ask if the move will be a deterrent for others.
→ read full article‘The Last War Crime’ Debuts at Cannes–but Censored in US.
Jeanine Molloff – Nation of Change,
16 Jul 2012
In spite of strong evidence identifying Dick Cheney as the mastermind behind this torture regime–the subject remains taboo, both in the ‘news’ business and in Hollywood–that is until Hollywood executives watched trailers for the anti-war documentary.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Do Que Um Cão Não Precisa
Marcela Godoy - Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais-ANDA,
16 Jul 2012
Do que um cão não precisa? Essa pergunta pode suscitar discussão, algumas reflexões e um bocado de polêmica. A resposta nem sempre pode ser aquela que desejamos ouvir. O que estamos fazendo com eles no sentido de deformar suas mentes e corpos para adaptá-los à conveniência dos padrões humanos?
→ read full articleCovering Syria: The Information War
Aisling Byrne – Asia Times,
16 Jul 2012
What we are witnessing is a new generation of warfare – an information war where, by using what is in effect propaganda, the aim is to construct a consensual consciousness to provide overwhelming public support for regime change. Paul Pillar, a former CIA official, notes that the neocon case for arming the Syrian opposition “is a continuation of the same patterns of neoconservative thinking that led to [president George W] Bush’s war [on Iraq]. There is the same wishful thinking substituting for careful analysis about consequences.”
→ read full articleFormer Monsanto Employee Exposes Fraud
Sarah Damian, Food Integrity Campaign – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
“I saw what was really the fraud associated with genetic engineering: My impression, and I think most people’s impression with genetically engineered foods is that it’s just like putting one gene in there and that one gene is expressed. But in reality, the process of genetic engineering changes the cell in such a way that it’s unknown what the effects are going to be.”
→ read full articleA 12 inch ___
TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Two friends were playing golf when one pulled out a cigar.
→ read full article(Portuguese) O Capitalismo Neoliberal Está Morto; Que Venha o Capitalismo Regulado
J. Carlos de Assis – Carta Maior,
16 Jul 2012
O coração do sistema, os bancos, já não funciona. E não há como fazê-lo voltar segundo a fórmula tradicional, antes da liberação financeira, de captação de recursos no mercado a curto prazo e financiamento do sistema produtivo a longo prazo. Para reconciliar o sistema produtivo com o sistema financeiro, alguém terá de pagar o custo da especulação exacerbada.
→ read full articleThe Great Transformation: From the Welfare State to the Imperial Police State
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
The United States has experienced the biggest political upheaval in its recent history: the transformation of a burgeoning welfare state into a rapidly expanding, highly intrusive and deeply entrenched police state, linked to the most developed technological innovations.
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