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Is This What It Takes?
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
Is this what it takes—
flaming, crumbling tombs on Wall Street,
a burning Pentagon?
Corruption Continues Virtually Unchecked in Greece
Julia Amalia Heyer – Der Spiegel,
22 Oct 2012
How can someone who has declared an annual income of €25,000 ($32,400) transfer €52 million abroad? What kind of supplementary income must an individual have who, according to his tax returns, earned €5,588 in 2010, yet still managed to move €19.8 million abroad? And how can it be that a Greek citizen sequesters €9.7 million abroad although he supposedly earned exactly zero euros?
→ read full articleThe New “Golden Age of Oil” That Wasn’t
Michael T. Klare – TomDispatch,
22 Oct 2012
Forecasts of Abundance Collide with Planetary Realities
→ read full articleIraq Records Huge Rise in Birth Defects
Sarah Morrison – The Independent,
22 Oct 2012
New study links increase with military action by Western forces. High rates of miscarriage, toxic levels of lead and mercury contamination and spiralling numbers of birth defects ranging from congenital heart defects to brain dysfunctions and malformed limbs have been recorded. Even more disturbingly, they appear to be occurring at an increasing rate in children born in Fallujah, about 40 miles west of Baghdad.
→ read full articleLondon: Parasites’ Paradise (Or the Best Criminal Sanctuary Money Can Buy)
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
Whenever financial swindlers prosper at the expense of investors or a bank jiggers interest rates to bugger their competitors or tax evaders flee fiscal crises or rent gouging petrol monarchies recycle profits or oligarchs pillage economies and drive millions to drink, drugs and destitution they find a suitable secure sanctuary in London.
→ read full articleRule by the Rich
Jerry Mander, New Left Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
In an extract from his upcoming book The Capitalism Papers, influential activist Jerry Mander describes the sheer scale of the rich’s control of the global economy and how they are seeking new territory in which to invest their wealth.
→ read full articleBad to the Bone: A Medical Horror Story
Mina Kimes - CNN,
22 Oct 2012
When medical device company Synthes decided to illegally test a bone cement on people, the results were disastrous. A disturbing tale of corporate crime and punishment.
→ read full articleDefective Spiritual Guidance in America
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
In virtually every religion, people tend to look at the spiritual leaders of their community for inner guidance. Deep inside they all tend to be good to the best of their ability in spite of their human frailties. In a number of instances, a variety of viewpoints tend to create unnecessary contradictions.
→ read full articleDrug Legalization in Latin America: Could It Be the Answer?
Gene Bolton - Council on Hemispheric Affairs,
22 Oct 2012
Last March [2012], Central American nations held a drug legalization summit and garnered support for this policy throughout the region. This analysis compares the potential benefits and shortcomings of drug legalization as a policy initiative to reduce overall drug crime.
→ read full articleHomegrown Terrorism and Terrorism by Association
Michael S. Rozeff - LewRockwell,
22 Oct 2012
How misleading can a “news” article get? Try this headline: “Federal Reserve bombing plot foiled in NYC”. There never was a plot independent of the FBI to foil. The plot was of the FBI’s own devising and instigation. There never was an ongoing crime for the FBI to detect and stop.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s Rohingyas: No Help, Please, We’re Buddhists
The Economist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
When Offending the Muslim World Seems a Small Price to Pay – The only thing that might sway Burmese opinion in favour of the [Muslim] Rohingyas, some say, would be the staunch support of Myanmar’s most famous and revered politician, the opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. But she has been largely silent on their plight.
→ read full articleRate-Fixing Bankers to Face Jail Under New EU Rules
Benjamin Fox, EUobserver – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
Bankers caught manipulating the Libor exchange rate could face a minimum five-year jail term under new EU legislation. The provisions included in the proposed market abuse law were adopted by 39 votes to 0 with a single abstention in a vote by the parliament’s economic and monetary affairs committee on Monday (9 October 2012).
→ read full articleA Wave of Anti-U.S. Protests In Okinawa
Khury Petersen-Smith – Socialist Worker,
22 Oct 2012
Unrest in Japan as the U.S. military escalates its weaponry and troop presence in a region vulnerable to war and violence. The decision by the U.S. and Japanese governments to deploy the Osprey MV-22 military warplane to Okinawa has sparked a wave of mass protest.
→ read full articleBeyond Language: Reflections on the Arakan Tragedy
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
Yesterday [14 Oct 2012] I listened to the wife of the Prime Minister, Emine Erdogan, speak about her recent harrowing visit to the Rohingya people in the federal state of Arakan ( mainly known in the West as Rakhine) who are located in northwestern Myanmar (aka Burma). The Rohingya are a Muslim minority numbering over one million, long victimized locally and nationally in Burma and on several occasions over the years their people have been brutally massacred and their villages burned.
→ read full articleToward Barbarism: US Imperialism Unleashed
Ben Schreiner, Working Left – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
With signs of a global economic downturn mounting, US aggression across the Middle East and North Africa ratchets up. According to the IMF’s World Economic Outlook report released last week [October 2012], the “risks for a serious global slowdown are alarmingly high.” According to the New York Times, the Pentagon is readying military strikes in Libya in retaliation for the September attack on the US compound in Benghazi in addition to the deployment of troops along the Jordan-Syria border, CIA operatives are presently active along the Syria-Turkey border, facilitating the flow of arms to rebel forces.
→ read full articleHistoric Philippines Peace Agreement – Why This One Is Different
Timmon Wallis, Nonviolent Peaceforce – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
Peace Agreements are a dime a dozen these days. With an average of 25 wars going on around the world at any given time, there are peace agreements about to be signed almost every other week. No wonder the world ceases to take much interest anymore! Another Peace Agreement is signed in the Philippines yesterday – yawn.
→ read full articleBoy Scout Files Give Glimpse into 20 Years of Sex Abuse
Kirk Johnson – The New York Times,
22 Oct 2012
Details of decades of sexual abuse in the Boy Scouts of America, and what child welfare experts say was a corrosive culture of secrecy that compounded the damage, were cast into full public view for the first time on Thursday [18 Oct 2012] with the release of thousands of pages of documents describing abuse accusations across the country. “The secrets are out,” said Kelly Clark, a lawyer whose firm obtained the files as evidence in an $18.5 million civil judgment against the Scouts in 2010.
→ read full articleThe Facts Are In: Nonviolent Resistance Works
John Dear S.J., National Catholic Reporter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
“Nonviolence is fine as long as it works,” Malcolm X once said. Recently, Columbia University Press published an extraordinary scholarly book that proves how nonviolence works far better as a method for social change than violence. This breakthrough book demonstrates that Gandhi was right, that the method of nonviolent resistance as a way to social change usually leads to a more lasting peace while violence usually fails.
→ read full articleTurkey Leads US-Sponsored Military Encirclement of Syria
Chris Marsden – World Socialist Web Site,
22 Oct 2012
Turkey is leading the way, using the pretext of stray mortar fire from Syria that killed five civilians to legitimise the deployment of 250 tanks, jets, helicopter gunships, troops, artillery emplacements and antiaircraft batteries on the border.
→ read full articleIt’s Time to Prioritise the Global Sharing Economy
Rajesh Makwana and Adam Parsons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
As the widespread mobilisation of people power in 2011 demonstrated, only a united people’s voice is stronger than the private interests that obstruct progressive change from taking place. The responsibility for change rests with us – ordinary, engaged citizens – to forge a worldwide popular movement that upholds and strengthens the sharing economy in all its forms.
→ read full articleThe Peace Prize: Nobel or Ignoble?
Johan Galtung, 18 Oct 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2012
Both, of course. Well deserved for EU’s past and for relations within, in the tradition of West rewarding West. But critics are right about relations without and the present; like debt bondage of GIPSI–Greece-Italy-Portugal-Spain-Ireland/EU periphery–to Germany.
→ read full articleHope, Wisdom, Law, Ethics, and Spirituality in Relation to Killing and Dying: Persisting Syrian Dilemmas
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
In appraising political developments most of us rely on trusted sources, our overall political orientation, what we have learned from past experience, and our personal hierarchy of hopes and fears. No matter how careful, and judicious, we are still reaching conclusions in settings of radical uncertainty, which incline our judgments to reflect a priori and interpretative biases.
→ read full articleNonviolence is the Response to Hate Cartoons
Dr. Abbas Aroua – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
In the last weeks we have seen a resurgence of Islamic-Western tensions around the seeming opposition between freedom of expression and respect for religious symbols. The attitudes and behaviors in the West vis-à-vis Islam which are perceived negatively in the Muslim world may be classified into seven categories:
→ read full articleThe Prospects of Intercultural Humanism in the 21st Century
Klaudius Cansczyk, et al. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
The values that the Jewish physicist Albert Einstein and the Christian physicist, philosopher, and peace researcher Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker attribute to the Hindu politician Mahatma Gandhi, point towards an intercultural humanism which we regard as part of a worldwide array of religions and perspectives of the world which could and should survive as an orientation for the 21st century.
→ read full articleI Do Not Support the Nobel Peace Prize 2012 to the European Union
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate (1976) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Whilst the EU imposes severe austerity measures upon many EU countries, it simultaneously supports the growing militarisation of Europe through support for US/NATO (guilty of war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.), continues to support American nuclear weapons deployed to six EU States, supports arms sales from European States (UK, Germany, etc.) to countries around the world. The EU, instead of upholding human rights for countries such as Palestine, has rewarded Israel with a special trading status and huge grants for its military research and weapons thus enabling it to continue its illegal policies of occupation and Apartheid in Palestine.
→ read full articleOne Step Backward Taken
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
On his poem, “One step Backward Taken,” Robert Frost tells us that we can often save ourselves by taking a step backwards, by looking carefully at what has been happening and by avoiding going over the edge.
→ read full articleLexicon of War
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Overwhelmed by the endless violence and wars in our world, I wrote an email to a number of listservs where I listed a number of different adjectives preceding the word “war.” And I added a request to readers to make any additions they felt were appropriate. The email brought many replies that both suggested additions and that acknowledged the implications of the emerging “lexicon of wars.” Thus I share with you an updated and more comprehensive lexicon of wars, with a figure (in the end) that suggests a socialization process for wars.
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Weathergirl Goes Rogue
Deep Rogue Ram - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Arctic ice cover just reached its lowest point in recorded history. Pippa goes off script and drops some science.
→ read full articleHow to Avoid Genetically Modified Food
Robin Mather, Mother Earth News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
The only way to avoid GM food is to know which ingredients are likely to be genetically modified and read labels carefully, or to always choose organic foods, which are certified GM-free. Below are estimates of the percentages of GM foods found on store shelves. To learn more about this issue, see The Threats From Genetically Modified Foods.
→ read full articleIs a Nuclear Deal With Iran Possible?
Pat Buchanan, Creators – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
In diplomacy, always leave your adversary an honorable avenue of retreat. Fifty years ago this October, to resolve a Cuban missile crisis that had brought us to the brink of nuclear war, John F. Kennedy did that. He conveyed to Nikita Khrushchev, secretly, that if the Soviet Union pulled its nuclear missiles out of Cuba, the United States would soon after pull its Jupiter missiles out of Italy and Turkey.
→ read full articleSurprise!
TMS Editor,
15 Oct 2012
A little boy got lost at the YMCA and found himself in the women’s locker room.
→ read full article(French) Face aux Caricatures de la Haine, la Non-Violence s’Impose
Abbas Aroua – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Les dernières semaines ont connu la résurgence des tensions occidento-islamiques autour de l’opposition apparente entre la liberté d’expression et le respect des symboles religieux. On peut classer les attitudes et les comportements en Occident vis-à-vis de l’Islam qui sont perçus négativement dans le monde musulman en sept catégories:
→ read full article(Portuguese) Paz, Direitos Humanos e Desenvolvimento num Mundo Multi-Polar em Evolução
Johan Galtung, Forum Abel Varzim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Palestra proferida no Conselho do Forum Social dos Direitos Humanos em Nova Iorque – 1 de outubro de 2012. O foco está no desenvolvimento centrado nas pessoas – em vez de no crescimento económico centrado no sistema.
→ read full article(Italian) La Nuova “Età Dell’Oro” (Che Non C’È Stata) del Petrolio
Michael T. Klare – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
15 Oct 2012
Le previsioni di abbondanza si scontrano con le realtà del pianeta.
→ read full articleEmpire and Its Consequences
Robert Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
This is the morality of empire, the morality of domination. We didn’t invent it; we just carry on the tradition, which goes back through colonialism and slavery to the Inquisition (“kill them all, let God sort them out”) to Rome (“they create a wasteland and call it peace”) and beyond, to the dawn of civilization. I think the consequences have finally caught up with us.
→ read full article(Castellano) Miles de Indignados Colombianos Reclaman Su Participación en Diálogos de Paz
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Miles de colombianos desean participar en las negociaciones entre el Gobierno nacional y las FARC, para discutir “una agenda de contenido político y económico que compete a las grandes mayorías desfavorecidas y marginadas”.
→ read full articleUNHCR Issues Guidelines on Protection of Male Rape Victims
UN Refugee Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
The UN refugee agency has for the first time issued guidelines for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees staff and other aid workers on how to identify and support male victims of rape and other sexual violence in conflict and displacement situations. Access the guidelines: Working with men and boy survivors of sexual and Gender-based violence in forced displacement.
→ read full articleWhite House Widening Covert War in North Africa
Associated Press, Military News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Small teams of special operations forces arrived at American embassies throughout North Africa in the months before militants launched the fiery attack that killed the U.S. ambassador in Libya. The soldiers’ mission: Set up a network that could quickly strike a terrorist target or rescue a hostage. But the teams had yet to do much counterterrorism work in Libya, though the White House signed off a year ago on the plan to build the new military task force in the region and the advance teams had been there for six months, according to three U.S. counterterror officials and a former intelligence official.
→ read full articleBRICS Nations Thrash Out World Bank Alternative
Xinhua – Global Times (China),
15 Oct 2012
Experts from five emerging world economic powers have told how a two-day think tanks forum this week [2 Oct 2012] reached consensus on creating a BRICS development bank designed to complement existing global financial institutions such as the World Bank.
→ read full articleOverwrought Empire: The Discrediting of U.S. Military Power
Tom Engelhardt – TomDispatch,
15 Oct 2012
The more dominant the U.S. military becomes in its ability to destroy and the more its forces are spread across the globe, the more the defeats and semi-defeats pile up, the more the missteps and mistakes grow, the more the strains show, the more the suicides rise, the more the nation’s treasure disappears down a black hole — and in response to all of this, the more moves the Pentagon makes.
→ read full articleFreedom Flotilla Sets Off To Gaza
AFP, Gulf News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
A Swedish ship with rights activists from several countries aboard has sailed from Naples in the latest bid to break Israel’s blockade against Gaza. A crowd of well-wishers saw off the sailing vessel Estelle on Saturday [6 Oct 2012] as it left the Italian port as part of the “Freedom Flotilla” movement. The Estelle is carrying humanitarian aid and expected to reach Gaza in two weeks.
→ read full articleThe ABC of Harmony
Dr. Bishnu Pathak* - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
This is the first exclusive book to deal scientifically on harmony, harmonious civilization, harmonic education, and cross-cultural dialogues across the world at local, regional, national, and international levels.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Moral Degeneracy
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Once upon a time, the Turks were a fierce people. Today they are Washington’s puppets. We have witnessed this during the past week. The Turkish government is permitting the Islamists from outside Syria, organized by the CIA and Israel, to attack Syria from Turkish territory… Muslim countries are incapable of supporting one another. Instead of supporting one another, Muslim governments accept payoffs to support instead the Christian/Zionist forces of the Western bloc.
→ read full articleThe Big Burst
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Like a ball sinking in water
Life is flowing
The Empire Strikes Back
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Imperialism did almost as much harm to the ruling nations as it did to their subject peoples. Over the gates of Auschwitz were the words “Work Makes You Free”. Over the gates of the Solovetsky camp in Lenin’s gulag: “Through Labour – Freedom!”. Over the gates of the Ngenya detention camp, run by the British in Kenya: “Labour and Freedom”. Dehumanisation appears to follow an almost inexorable course.
→ read full articleRethinking Columbus: Towards a True People’s History
Bill Bigelow – Common Dreams,
15 Oct 2012
In more than 30 years of teaching U.S. history and guest-teaching in others’ classes, I’ve never had a single student say, “Taínos.” So I ask them to think about that fact. “How do we explain that? We all know the name of the man who came here from Europe, but none of us knows the name of the people who were here first—and there were hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of them. Why haven’t you heard of them?” This ignorance is an artifact of historical silencing—rendering invisible the lives and stories of entire peoples.
→ read full articleStay Out of the Syrian Maelstrom
Patrick J. Buchanan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Last year, U.S. planes scrambled to defend Benghazi against the “tanks, helicopters and fighter jets” of Col. Gadhafi. Now we are investigating the murders of our ambassador and three Americans in the city we saved. To bring down helicopters and fighter jets would require U.S. F-16s over Syria or putting surface-to-air missiles in rebel hands. Do we really want to be passing Stingers around a no man’s land where al-Qaida agents could buy up a few to bring down U.S. airliners?
→ read full article(Portuguese) BRICS: Novo Passo Rumo a Outra Ordem Financeira?
Mauro Santaya – Outras Palavras,
15 Oct 2012
Em reunião paralela ao encontro do Banco Mundial, países da antiga “periferia” podem criar Banco de Desenvolvimento próprio e agência de avaliação de riscos independente. Ignorado e desvalorizado pela mídia “ocidental”, que só noticia sua existência quando das cúpulas presidenciais, o grupo BRICS, que reúne o Brasil, a Rússia, a Índia, a China e a África do Sul, se prepara para promover verdadeira revolução no mercado financeiro internacional.
→ read full articleIsrael: Has Our Expiration Date Arrived?
Kobi Niv – Information Clearing House,
15 Oct 2012
The question is not whether Israel will still exist in 10 years, but what kind of Israel will be here in 10 years? Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said not long ago that in 10 years there would be no more Israel. What foolishness, right? Clearly, Israel will survive forever. First of all, because that is what our leaders say. Second, we have a fine army, smart bombs, a stable economy and high tech, too. And third, because God is with us. These are facts.
→ read full articleFormer UN Envoy Jean Ziegler on Third World Hunger: “We Let Them Starve”
Thomas M Blaser, Africa is a Country – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
‘According to the UN World Food Programme, there is enough food in the world for 12 billion people. If today people are still starving, then this is organized crime, mass murder. Every five seconds, one child under the age of ten dies, one billion people are permanently and heavily undernourished.’ Quote from Jean Ziegler, who was (2000-2008) the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and subsequently a member of the Advisory Committee to the UN Human Rights Council.
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Howard Zinn on Columbus, Mark Twain – Honesty in History (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Segment from Democracy NOW! aired May 13, 2009 featuring the great late historian Howard Zinn.
→ read full articleDignity in Charity
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
When, in the media, people boast of their charity
Doesn´t that behavior violate humanitarian dignity?
(Italian) Sociocidio, Israele e Palestina
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Testimonianza per il Tribunale Russell sulla Palestine – NewYork City, 7 ottobre 2012 – Sociocidio è un nuovo concetto che non ha trovato posto nel diritto internazionale positivo. Come Genocidio e Ecocidio, il Sociocidio, l’eliminazione della capacità di una società di sopravvivere e riprodursi, dovrebbe ugualmente diventare un delitto preminente contro l’umanità. La Palestina è dunque vittima di sociocidio da parte di Israele? Decisamente!
→ read full articleWas It Wrong to Support the Iranian Revolution in 1978 (Because It Turned Out Badly)?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
As with the days of the Shah, Iran urgently requires an emancipatory politics that liberates from within, and regenerates the hopes of the Iranian people. What Iran does not need is an Israeli-American military strike or destabilization moves funded and promoted from without. Intervention by way of military attack, or even in the form of strong economic sanctions (as present), stabilize the regime in Tehran and impose added hardships on the Iranian people.
→ read full articleGenetical Engineering’s Dirty Little Secret
Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, Pesticide Action Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
As a scientist at Pesticide Action Network, I am frequently asked these days to explain what genetically engineered (GE) crops have to do with pesticides. When I answer that GE crops both contain and drive up pesticide use, I am often met with earnest incredulity. We seem to need to believe that GE technology is the best thing since sliced bread.
→ read full articleHow the Internet Works
Sarah Wenger & Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Infographic – Engineering the Internet. The Internet is amazing. It allows us to communicate instantly, search for and find information on nearly anything, stay abreast of current events and, of course, watch the latest cute animal video. But how does it actually work?
→ read full articleTransCanada Transforms Tar Sands Blockade Area into Police State
Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Enlisted off-duty police officers are intimidating, harassing and arresting just about anyone they think is trespassing, even if those people happen to be on property they own. And, officers who are acting as armed henchmen for TransCanada have arrested three journalists in the past twenty-four hours for simply being there to report on resistance to the pipeline construction.
→ read full articleA Happy War
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Pacifism’s such a bore—
I’m going to design a war
The Muslim Diaspora in Europe and the USA
Johan Galtung et al* - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
By far the tallest diaspora in the world is Muslim: about 300 million, of them 177 M in India, 19 M in EU, 23 M in China, 16 M in Russia, and 2.6 M in the USA. This paper is about the Muslim social situation in two of the six poles: Europe and the USA.
→ read full articleBringing History to Life: Eric Hobsbawm
Paul Heideman – Socialist Worker,
15 Oct 2012
A Tribute to a Leading Figure in 20th Century Marxism – The international left lost one of its most distinguished intellectual lights when Eric Hobsbawm died on October 1 [2012].
→ read full articleInternational Peace Bureau Critical of Nobel Peace Prize for the European Union
International Peace Bureau, Nobel Peace Laureate (1910) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
The IPB finds the award of the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union surprising in that it awards a prize not to a head of state but to an entire bloc of states, thus making it difficult to identify the real recipient. Is the EU really a ‘champion of peace’, as Nobel conceived it? Or is it a club of states with many contradictory impulses and interests?
→ read full articleNYPD Concern about ‘Iran Terror’ Should Put U.S. Security on Alert
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
On September 25 [2012], The Passionate Attachment broke the story of the Israel lobbyist who suggested that a Pearl Harbor-type attack might be necessary to get a recalcitrant Obama Administration to go to war with Iran. In light of Clawson’s thinly-veiled call for a false flag attack to trigger another Middle East war for Israel, a story in yesterday’s [10 Oct 2012] New York Post entitled “NYPD on alert for Iran terror” should be of major concern to those charged with protecting U.S. national security.
→ read full articleAbuse of Power: Criminal Assault on Humanity
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
One of the worst crimes in human experience is termed to be abuse of power. Those in power of any kind have the opportunity to elevate those around them to a higher level of existence making their lives enjoyable and peaceful, or to sink them to a state of frustration, desolation and suffering.
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Secret of the Seven Sisters (Shell, Exxon, BP, Mobil, Chevron, Gulf, Texaco) – Desert Storms and Fortunes (1/4)
Sunset Presse, French TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
MUST WATCH Documentary: The Shameful Story of Oil – Exposing the Oil Cartel – Part 1 of 4
Legendado em Portugues
Secret of the Seven Sisters (Shell, Exxon, BP, Mobil, Chevron, Gulf, Texaco) – Safari in a Black Eldorado (2/4)
Sunset Presse, French TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
The Shameful Story of Oil – Exposing the Oil Cartel – Part 2 of 4
Legendado em Portugues
Secret of the Seven Sisters (Shell, Exxon, BP, Mobil, Chevron, Gulf, Texaco) – The Dancing Bear (3/4)
Sunset Presse, French TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
The Shameful Story of Oil – Exposing the Oil Cartel – Part 3 of 4
Legendado em Portugues
Secret of the Seven Sisters (Shell, Exxon, BP, Mobil, Chevron, Gulf, Texaco) – A Time for Lies (4/4)
Sunset Presse, French TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
The Shameful Story of Oil – Exposing the Oil Cartel – Part 4 of 4
Legendado em Portugues
Sociocide, Palestine and Israel
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Testimony for Russell Tribunal on Palestine – NYC, 7 Oct 2012 – Sociocide is a new concept that has not found its place in positive international law. Like Genocide and Ecocide, Sociocide, the killing of a society’s capacity to survive and to reproduce itself, should become equally and prominently a crime against humanity. A society is a self-reproducing social system. Is Palestine the victim of sociocide by Israel? Indeed!
→ read full articleIceland’s Economy Now Growing Faster Than the U.S. And EU after Arresting Corrupt Bankers
American Live Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Iceland didn’t follow the rest of the world by bailing out bankers. Surprisingly, they arrested them instead. Now their economy is recovering faster than the EU and the United States.
→ read full articleConsiderable Conglomeration of “Cons” of Global Concern
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Eightfold Constraint on Constructive Conflict Control? In these strange times there would seem to be a strange preponderance of ways in which problematic conditions are articulated through use of words prefixed by “con”. There is therefore a case for exploring these phenomena more systematically. This is done here by clustering words of that form which are used with greatest frequency. The approach is to endeavour to isolate clusters which are especially important to processes of governance — or to concerns regarding the efficacy of that governance.
→ read full articleBreastfeeding Moms Boot Nestlé from Maternity Wards
Elizabeth Ben-Ishai – YES! Magazine,
8 Oct 2012
If breastfeeding is healthier for babies, why are hospitals pushing corporate infant formula? How a growing number of states and cities are banning marketing in the maternity ward.
→ read full articleBradley Manning Trial: A Mockery of Justice
Nathan Fuller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Bradley Manning’s lawyer, David Coombs, has filed a 117-page motion calling for the dismissal of all charges with prejudice, for lack of a speedy trial. When he argues the motion at Ft. Meade, October 29 – November 2, Bradley will have been in pretrial confinement for nearly 900 days.
→ read full articleCritical Psychology: Critical Links
Prof. Ian Parker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
We must take seriously any and every critique of psychology, any and every challenge to ideology and power, for it is only on that basis that we will be able to link the variety of radical activities inside and outside, in and against the discipline and to construct a field of debate where different theoretical positions and practical initiatives can be developed, discussed and elaborated. Critical activity cannot be carried out by individuals working independently, and that is why critical psychologists need their own institutions.
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Meanwhile, in Brussels… Papy Blues
TMS Editor,
8 Oct 2012
At the Grande Place, an Uplifting Alternative to EU’s Gloominess
→ read full articleBhutan Aims To Be First 100% Organic Nation
Agence France Presse (AFP) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, famed for seeking “happiness” for its citizens, is aiming to become the first nation in the world to turn its home-grown food and farmers 100 percent organic. The tiny Buddhist-majority nation wedged between China and India has an unusual and some say enviable approach to economic development, centred on protecting the environment and focusing on mental well-being.
→ read full articleEinstein’s Letter to ‘Stern Gang Terrorists’
Deir Yassin Remembered – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Prior to the creation of the State of Israel, two Jewish terrorist groups were working to cleanse Palestine of its Arab inhabitants and its British occupiers. The more brutal of these groups was Lohamei Herut Yisrael (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel) also known as the LEHI or the Stern Gang after its founder Avraham Stern.
→ read full articleSpeaking for All Bodies (Not Just the “Perfect” Ones)
Sven Eberlein – YES! Magazine,
8 Oct 2012
In “Sins Invalid,” performance artists shatter stereotypes around sex and disabilities to reclaim the body’s redemptive power. In this culture, there’s an aura of sin around our attitudes toward the body. Sex is dirty and disabilities are frightening. So who better to shatter stereotypes and show the redemptive power of reclaiming our bodies than a group of disabled artists who explore disability, sexuality, and social justice through edgy performance.
→ read full article(Castellano) Experiodista de CNN Denuncia Reportajes Manipulados en Favor de Bahréin
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
La exreportera de CNN Amber Lyon aseguró que CNN se encuentra bajo una fuerte presión a la hora de criticar lo que sucede en Arabia Saudita y Bahréin, mientras se demoniza a Irán y Siria a cualquier hora del día.
→ read full article(Portuguese) O Porquê do Ódio a Chávez
Ignacio Ramonet e Jean-Luc Melenchon – Outras Palavras,
8 Oct 2012
Ele cumpriu a promessa de governar para as maiorias e mostrou que História não tinha terminado. Por isso (não por seus erros) oligarquias o detestam…
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‘Bahrain Buys Favorable CNN Content’ (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Amber Lyon, former CNN journalist – Russia Today,
8 Oct 2012
Amid a violent crackdown on a popular uprising, Bahrain paid CNN to get favorable coverage, says a former reporter who believes her documentary on the protests there was censored by the network.
→ read full articleStudy: The Effects of Weaponized Radiation – Health Effects of Radioactive Materials (1945-1970)
Lisa MartinoTaylor, Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Abstract: This piece analyzes a covert Manhattan Project spin-off organization referred to here as the Manhattan-Rochester Coalition, and an obscure aerosol study in St. Louis, Missouri, conducted under contract by the U.S. military from 1953–1954, and 1963–1965. The military-sponsored studies targeted a segregated, high-density urban area, where low-income persons of color predominantly resided.
→ read full articleThe Empire Trapped: The US’ Unpromising Role in the New Middle East
Ramzy Baroud – Toward Freedom,
8 Oct 2012
Empires don’t crumble overnight, however. A fall of an empire can be as agonizingly long as its rise. Signs of that collapse are oftentimes subtle and might not be followed by a big boom of any sort, but can be unambiguous and definite.
→ read full article(French) La méfiance règne dans l’industrie pharmaceutique
EurActiv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Le système des soins de santé européen a des difficultés à gérer le manque de transparence et de confiance dans le secteur pharmaceutique, d’après 97 % des médecins, professionnels du secteur et décideurs politiques présents hier (4 octobre 2012) au Gastein Health Forum. « La Corée du Nord serait fière de vous ! », a déclaré le modérateur de l’atelier, John Bowis.
→ read full articleBut What of Truth
Hal O’Leary – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Poetry can often achieve the same communication with far fewer words than prose. This poem sums it up.
→ read full articleGerman State TV Reports: Syrian Rebels Claim Responsibility for Attack on Turkey
R. Teichmann – News Beacon Ireland,
8 Oct 2012
Translation: “Rocket and mortar fire. Turkey takes revenge after an attack from the Syrian side. Yesterday afternoon Syrian rebels fired on a Turkish village close to the border. For weeks Ankara had warned against provoking Turkey. Meanwhile Syrian rebels officially claimed responsibility for the provocation.”
→ read full articleConstruction versus Destruction
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
It is easier to burn down a house than to build one, easier to kill a human than to raise and educate one, easier to force a species into extinction than to replace it once it is gone, easier to burn the Great Library of Alexandria than to accumulate the knowledge that once filled it, and easier to destroy a civilization in a thermonuclear war than to rebuild it from the radioactive ashes.
→ read full articleMistrust Puts Pharmaceutical Industry in the Spotlight
EurActiv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
The European healthcare system is struggling to cope with low levels of transparency and trust in the pharmaceutical sector, according to 97% of doctors, industry professionals and policymakers attending a workshop at the Gastein Health Forum yesterday (4 October 2012). “North Korea would be proud of you!” said workshop moderator John Bowis, a former MEP.
→ read full articleIraq: Ten Years, a Million Lives and Trillions of Dollars Later
Dennis Kucinich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Ten years ago today [2 Oct 2012] the debate over the Iraq War came to Congress in the form of a resolution promoted by the Bush Administration. The war in Iraq will cost the United States as much as $5 trillion. It played a role in spurring the global financial crisis. Four thousand, four hundred, eighty eight Americans were killed. More than 33,000 were injured. As many as 1,000,000 innocent Iraqi civilians were killed. The monetary cost of the war to Iraq is incalculable. A sectarian civil war has ravaged Iraq for nearly a decade. Iraq has become home to Al Qaeda.
→ read full article10 October: Abolition of the Death Penalty
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
10 October is the International Day against the Death Penalty, set by the United Nations General Assembly. Since the end of World War II, there has been a gradual abolition of the death penalty with the rather obvious recognition that death is not justice. In some countries, executions have been suspended in practice but laws allowing executions remain; in other cases there has been a legal abolition.
→ read full articleDrone Warfare: Obama’s Idea of a “Just War”
Drone Wars UK – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
This is an edited version of an article by US Catholic theologians Tobias L. Winright and Mark J. Allman that first appeared in the 18th August 2012 edition of the international Catholic weekly, The Tablet, as ‘Obama’s drone wars: a case to answer.
→ read full articleHow the Government’s Lies Become Truth
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
In my last column, “A Culture of Delusion,” I wrote that “Americans live in a matrix of lies. Lies dominate every policy discussion, every political decision.” This column will use two top news stories, Iranian nukes and Julian Assange, to illustrate how lies become “truth.”
→ read full articleFrom Persuasion to Coercion: PsychoPharma’s “Priesthood of the Mind”
Prof. James F. Tracy – Global Research,
8 Oct 2012
Since the 1950s psychotropic drugs comprise the psychiatric-pharmaceutical complex’s lucrative masterstroke of public relations and marketing. Heretofore the prevalence and use of such substances have been constructed in the public mind through a conditioned cultural obeisance toward professional expertise and its amplification in advertising and related promotional discourse.
→ read full articleBy the Way…
TMS Editor,
8 Oct 2012
My 4 year old son came screaming out of the bathroom to tell me he’d dropped his toothbrush in the toilet.
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There She Goes Again: Hillary Clinton Laughs about Possible War against Iran
LiveLeak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Remember the ‘We Came, We Saw, He Died’ Gaddafi affair? She is at it again! Hillary Clinton (while laughing about it) and James Baker discuss the prospect of war with Iran while suggesting that the United States of America needs to instigate the war with a false flag attack.
→ read full articleThe ‘Koodankulam’ Conflict Map
S.P. Udayakumar, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Mapping the Conflict – A Graphic Representation
→ read full articleWhy the US Demonises Venezuela’s Democracy
Mark Weisbrot – The Guardian,
8 Oct 2012
Venezuela is about to hold impeccably free and fair elections [7 Oct 2012]. Yet the US treats it as a dictatorship. Here is what Jimmy Carter said about Venezuela’s “dictatorship” a few weeks ago: “As a matter of fact, of the 92 elections that we’ve monitored, I would say that the election process in Venezuela is the best in the world.” Washington is still spending millions of dollars within the country in addition to unknown covert funds – to undermine, delegitimise, and destabilise democracy in Venezuela.
→ read full articleSpeaking out against Prof. Ian Parker’s Suspension
China Mills – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Prof. Ian Parker has been suspended from Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He had raised concerns within the university about the problem of secrecy and control in the department and was suspended for doing so. Ian helped to set up the principle aims of ‘Psychology, Politics, Resistance’ in 1994 to oppose the abusive uses and oppressive consequences of psychology, to support individuals to challenge exploitation, to develop a collective active opposition to oppression, and to make this a key element in the education of all psychologists.
→ read full article‘The American Dream Has Become a Myth’
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
The finance industry is to blame for the growing divide between the rich and poor in the United States, says Nobel Prize-winning economics professor Joseph Stiglitz. In an interview with SPIEGEL, he accuses the industry of preying on the poor and buying government policies that help them get richer.
→ read full articleOf Bombs and Comics
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
My first reaction to Binyamin Netanyahu’s exhibition of comics at the UN General Assembly was shame. Shame that the supreme elected representative of my country would stoop to such a primitive rhetorical device, bordering on the childish. (One Israeli commentator suggested putting him on a rug with a lot of paper and Indian ink, and letting him play to his heart’s content.)
→ read full articleBurma/Myanmar: Did the Government Incite the Racial Violence Targeting the Rohingya?
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Truthful reports by various inquiry commissions and missions can and will go a long way towards restoring a glimmer of hope in the world’s most persecuted minority community, if the investigators are able to get to the bottom of the recent large-scale racial violence, which left nearly 100,000 both homeless and hopeless.
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