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Good Guinness, Deliver Us! Israel Demolishes Arab Village 38 Times
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
Palestinian villagers have addressed the Guinness Book of World Records to register a ruinous “record”. A Bedouin village in Israel has been demolished 38 times by Israeli authorities, who say people in the village do not have building permits.
→ read full articleAssessing the Israel Palestine Conflict on U.S.S. Liberty Day
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” I think that we need to do our best to avoid such deference to authority to overcome the weight of conventional thinking on these issues, to get around the distortions of government policy, and to do something to correct for the biased media filter that gives us such a selective presentation of the facts as the conflict unfolds.
→ read full article(Italian) Genova G8 e la Diaz. Sentenza Rinviata al 5 Luglio Prossimo
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
La Corte di Cassazione pronuncerà la sentenza il 5 luglio prossimo. Il processo dura da 11 anni. Venerdì 15 giugno la sentenza era molto attesa. Alta la tensione a Roma e grande la disillusione.
→ read full articleThe New Obama Doctrine: A Six-Point Plan for Global War
Nick Turse – TomDispatch,
19 Jun 2012
Special Ops, Drones, Spy Games, Civilian Soldiers, Proxy Fighters, and Cyber Warfare
→ read full articleSyria: No Repeat of Sykes-Picot in Mideast Chaos
M.D. Nalapat – Global Times, China,
19 Jun 2012
On May 16, 1916, in the middle of World War I, Paris and London approved a secret agreement to dismember the Ottoman Empire and divide the Middle East between themselves. The Sykes-Picot agreement set new boundaries for many countries in the region, and began a period of direct control of the Middle East that the West has sought to perpetuate to the present.
→ read full articleManhunt: This is Racism, Pure and Simple
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
“WE SHALL not be a normal people, until we have Jewish whores and Jewish thieves in the Land of Israel,” our national poet, Haim Nahman Bialik, said some 80 years ago. This dream has come true. We have Jewish murder ers, Jewish robbers and Jewish whores.
→ read full articleAmerican Democratic Party in Operation
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
For all practical purposes, the United States is based merely on two major political systems, the Democratic and the Republican parties, each of which may be viewed as autocratic with a façade or garb of democracy.
→ read full articleDrone Me Down On the Killing Floor
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
19 Jun 2012
And the winner of the Humanitarian Oscar for Best Targeted Assassination with No Collateral Damage goes to… the Barack Obama White House death squad.
→ read full articleBusted: Biotech Leader ‘Syngenta’ Charged Over Covering Up Animal Deaths from GM Corn
Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
In a riveting victory against genetically modified creations, a major biotech company known as Syngenta has been criminally charged for denying knowledge that its GM Bt corn actually kills livestock.
→ read full articleThe Mendacity of Hope
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
The summits which promise to save the world keep us dangling, not mobilising. Worn down by hope. That’s the predicament of those who have sought to defend the earth’s living systems. Every time governments meet to discuss the environmental crisis, we are told that this is the “make or break summit”, upon which the future of the world depends.
→ read full articleRio+20 Summit: The Key Issues
South Bulletin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
This issue of the South Bulletin focuses on the Rio Plus 20 Summit to be held in 20-22 June [2012] in Brazil. The meetings actually begin on 13 June.
→ read full articleFukushima Daiichi: From Nuclear Power Plant to Nuclear Weapon #1
Anthony Hall – Veterans Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
Albert Einstein’s Warning and the Ominous Fate of Fukushima Daiichi
→ read full articleUS Should Be Following Iceland’s Model in Dealing with the Financial Crisis
Heather, Crooks and Liars – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
Icelanders who pelted parliament with rocks in 2009 demanding their leaders and bankers answer for the country’s economic and financial collapse are reaping the benefits of their anger. Since the end of 2008, the island’s banks have forgiven loans equivalent to 13 percent of gross domestic product, easing the debt burdens of more than a quarter of the population, according to a report published this month by the Icelandic Financial Services Association. So does the story end there?
→ read full articleBreivik: Living In the Historical Present (Part II)
Johan Galtung, 18 Jun 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jun 2012
The police explores concrete logistic collaborators and-or ideological support; like Peter Mangs in Sweden, the “laser man” who killed what looked like immigrants, wrote a rightwing manifesto and an autobiography; or “Fjordman” with 111 mentions. Breivik was a member of a Norwegian rightwing anti-immigration party, Fremskrittspartiet–a legal stand in a democracy–but left. He also left the Free Masons, with the following Compendium comment:
→ read full articleMigraine Cure
TMS Editor,
18 Jun 2012
A man goes to the doctor with a long history of migraine headaches. When the doctor does his history and physical, he discovers that his poor patient has had practically every therapy known to man for his migraines and STILL no improvement.
→ read full articleProposal for the Creation of an International Tribunal to Judge Crimes Committed by Economic Agents
Senator Cristovam Buarque - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jun 2012
The last few decades have revealed two new facets of Economics. On the one hand, its power to transform the Planet and Humanity, and, on the other hand, the ushering in of the Anthropocene Era through the conscious power of the economic agents in their decisions.
→ read full articleCommunal/Religious Clashes Threaten Progress in Burma
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jun 2012
What I believe is true is that there have been few efforts of reconciliation and of training for conflict resolution. This is a major need and perhaps, with the greater openness of the Myanmar government, courses in conflict resolution could be organized.
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Rational Conflict Resolution: What Stands in the Way? (Video of the Week)
Johan Galtung | World Peace Academy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jun 2012
Lecture by Prof. Johan Galtung at the World Peace Academy – Basel, Switzerland, 7 Jun 2012
→ read full articleA Stronger ‘Political Europe’ Might Save a Stumbling ‘Economic Europe’
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jun 2012
All is not yet lost, but there is a message beyond that of the obsessive bailout/default dialogue. It is that Europe to ensure its future must renovate its political architecture. This means overcoming the peculiar capitalist brand of economic materialism that seems perversely convinced that if money and banks are the problem, then money and banks must be the solution.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Rio+20: Economia Verde Para Salvar o Planeta Ou o Capitalismo?
Rita Calvário, esquerda.net – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jun 2012
Colocar no centro das soluções a “economia verde” é, em termos gerais, justo. O problema é quando esta transição verde não questiona nem transforma os fundamentos da economia que existe, o capitalismo. Nos dias 20 a 22 de Junho [2012] os líderes mundiais juntam-se na Conferência da ONU sobre “Desenvolvimento Sustentável”, intitulada Rio+20. A sua antecessora ocorreu 20 anos antes sob o lema “Ambiente e Desenvolvimento”, mais conhecida por Cúpula da Terra ou Rio 92.
→ read full article(Italian) Invasione di Droni Nei Cieli Della Sicilia
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jun 2012
Droni, droni e ancora droni. Sarà intensissimo, in estate, il via vai di aerei militari senza pilota sui cieli siciliani. Decine di decolli ed atterraggi nella base USA e NATO di Sigonella che faranno impazzire il traffico aereo nel vicino scalo civile di Catania Fontanarossa.
→ read full article(Portuguese) A Ausência de Uma Nova Narrativa na Rio+20
Leonardo Boff – Carta Maior,
18 Jun 2012
O vazio básico do documento da ONU para a Rio+20 reside numa completa ausência de uma nova narrativa ou de uma nova cosmologia que poderia garantir a esperança de um “futuro que queremos” lema do grande encontro. A narrativa atual é a da conquista do mundo em vista do progresso e do crescimento ilimitado.
→ read full articleAnother Bank Bailout
Paul Krugman, Nobel Economics Laureate – International Herald Tribune-NYT,
18 Jun 2012
Oh, wow — another bank bailout, this time in Spain. Who could have predicted that? The answer, of course, is everybody. In fact, the whole story is starting to feel like a comedy routine: yet again the economy slides, unemployment soars, banks get into trouble, governments rush to the rescue — but somehow it’s only the banks that get rescued, not the unemployed.
→ read full articleThe Environmental and Economic Crises Share the Same Cause
Maurice Strong – The Guatemala Times,
18 Jun 2012
Paradoxically, if we fail to act decisively to combat climate change, the reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions could occur through the collapse of the world economy, warns Maurice Strong in this column. What has happened with the global environment movement? This is a crucial question for Rio+20, the upcoming United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), which will be held Jun. 20-22 [2012] in Brazil.
→ read full articleThe Disaster Management Drama
S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Scene:
Nakkaneri village that is in the middle of nowhere in the Irukkanthurai panchayat in Tirunelveli district with some 100 houses; most of the 300 or so residents had gone to work as daily wage laborers to nearby places. There were hardly 100 women and children in the village who could hardly read or write or understand anything about the nuclear issue. The police surrounded the village and blocked all the roads.
Date and Time:
June 9, 2012, Saturday, 9:30 am – 10:30 am.
Bilderbergers Beware
Patrick Bond - Pambazuka,
11 Jun 2012
The secretive Bilderbergers aren’t normally a protest magnet. But last weekend [3 Jun 2012], protesters hurled creative abuse at the black limousines rolling past towards the Chantilly Marriott Hotel.
→ read full articleWestern Banks ‘Reaping Billions from Colombian Cocaine Trade’
Ed Vulliamy – Information Clearing House,
11 Jun 2012
While cocaine production ravages countries in Central America, consumers in the US and Europe are helping developed economies grow rich from the profits, a study claims. “It’s taboo to go after the big banks,” added Mejía. “It’s political suicide in this economic climate, because the amounts of money recycled are so high.”
→ read full articleGreece – Syriza’s Proposals: The Exit from the Crisis Is On the Left
The Bullet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Syriza, a coalition of 11 different left-wing organizations along with many individuals, is massively popular because of its stand against the austerity measures that have come as conditions–contained in what is called the “Memorandum”–of the bailout of the Greek financial system by the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund, known together as the “troika.”
→ read full articleUN Alliance of Civilizations, Istanbul Partners Forum, May 31-June 1, 2012
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
The UN Alliance of Civilization (AOC) was initiated by Kofi Annan in 2005 while he was Secretary General of the UN with the joint sponsorship of Turkey and Spain, with its principal center of operations in Istanbul.
→ read full articleIbuprofen Kills More than Pain, So What Is the Alternative?
Sayer Ji, Green Med Info – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Pain and unhealthy levels of inflammation are fast becoming default bodily states in the industrialized world. When we think of taking an alternative pain-killer to ibuprofen, we are still thinking within the palliative, allopathic medical model: suppress the symptom, and go on about our business. It would behoove us to look deeper into what is causing our pain. And when possible, remove the cause(s).
→ read full articleIsrael to Build More West Bank Homes
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has approved construction of hundreds more settler homes on Palestinian land, even after the Israeli parliament rejected a bill to retroactively legalise some existing homes.
→ read full articleSanctions Have Nothing to Do With Human Rights in Burma
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Sanctions have, in the final instance, little or nothing to do with the fact that the Burmese are oppressed and persecuted by the regime in Naypyidaw. There are western allies and/or business partners whose human rights records are equally appalling – Israel, Egypt under Mubarak, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, etc., as well as China and Vietnam – and these countries aren’t subject to any sanctions.
→ read full articleReport of the Jury on the Public Hearing on Koodankulam and State Suppression of Democratic Rights
Chennai Solidarity Group for Koodankulam Struggle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
This report is based on the testimonies of persons who participated in the public hearing on Koodankulam and State Suppression of Democratic Rights, held on 14 May, 2012 in Lawrence Sundaram Hall, Loyola College, Chennai. The public hearing was organised by the Chennai Solidarity Group for Koodankulam Struggle, a coalition of individuals and organisations formed to lend solidarity to the anti-nuclear struggle in Koodankulam.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Uma Reflexão Sobre a Internet e a Democracia no Brasil
Thomás S. Selistre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Uma democracia real e sustentável no Brasil, assim como em qualquer outra sociedade madura, não será possível sem o papel ativo dos meios de comunicação. Quando afirmo isso, no entanto, não me refiro àqueles veículos que pertencem a grandes corporações, que sempre terão filtradas as suas pautas através de interesses de anunciantes e da elite.
→ read full articleThis Is Not Our Way
Meir Margalit – Pressenza International Press Agency,
11 Jun 2012
After the article by Melanie Lidman in The Jerusalem Post on April 30, stating that the Interior Ministry was accusing me of illegally constructing Palestinian homes demolished by the municipality, I wrote an op-ed that appeared on May 8. In it, I explained the motives underlying my behavior, and argued that it was a case of legitimate civil disobedience – required of any person with a conscience, when the state is conducting clearly immoral acts.
→ read full articleTamil Nadu: Independent Panel Finds Human Rights Violations at Kudankulam
India Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
An independent committee formed on the Kudankulam nuclear power plant to probe human rights violations by the Centre and the state government submitting its report on Monday [4 Jun 2012] said that people’s right to freedom of speech and freedom of movement were suppressed.
→ read full articleThe Health Benefits of Sungazing
Dr. Edward Group – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
The practice of sungazing closely resembles its name. At sunrise and/or sunset, when the sun is closest to the earth, sungazers stand barefoot on the earth and look directly at the sun for 10 seconds. The theory is that the sun is the force of all life, and staring at it can infuse the body with large amounts of energy.
→ read full articleGermany Swaps Nuclear for Solar and Wind Power
Oliver Lazenby – YES! Magazine,
11 Jun 2012
Germany, the world’s most aggressive adopter of renewable energy, is taking a bold leap toward a future free from nuclear energy. In March [2012], the German government announced a program to invest 200 billion euros, or approximately $270 billion, in renewables. That’s 8 percent of the country’s GDP, according to the DIW Economic Institute in Berlin.
→ read full articleFukushima: Pacific Ocean Will Not Dilute Dumped Radioactive Water
Washington's Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
The floating debris will likely be carried by currents off of Japan toward Washington, Oregon and California before turning toward Hawaii and back again toward Asia, circulating in what is known as the North Pacific gyre, said Curt Ebbesmeyer, a Seattle oceanographer who has spent decades tracking flotsam.
→ read full articleCorruption Watchdog Says Business and Politics ‘Too Cozy’
Deutsche Welle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
The anti-corruption group Transparency International says close ties between business and government across Europe have undermined economic stability. It singles out southern European countries as especially corrupt. The 63-page document showed a “strong correlation” between failure to rein in public spending and inability to tackle graft.
→ read full articleInteractive: World Nuclear Club
Mohammed Haddad and Ben Piven - Al Jazeera,
11 Jun 2012
While 14 nations host nuclear weapons, 30 countries generate atomic energy, and another 18 are building future reactors.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Rio+20: Em Busca de Um Civismo Planetário
Eduardo Febbro – Carta Maior,
11 Jun 2012
O coordenador executivo da Rio+20, Brice Lalonde analisa, em entrevista especial, os desafios e obstáculos que estão colocados para a conferência. “Uma das grandes dificuldades que temos hoje está em que dentro da cada país há pouquíssimos negociadores que pensam no planeta, na humanidade em seu conjunto. Eles pensam em seus países e em seus interesses nacionais. Há muito civismo nacional e pouco civismo planetário”, diz Lalonde.
→ read full articleMother Nature Doesn’t Quit
Jim Hightower – Other Words,
11 Jun 2012
So much of Monsanto’s poison was spread in the past decade that weeds naturally developed a resistance to it. Rather than find ways to cooperate with the natural world, America’s agribusiness giants reach for the next quick fix in a futile effort to overpower nature. Their attitude is that if brute force isn’t working, they’re probably not using enough of it.
→ read full articleRelay Fast Begins in Support of Kudankulam Protesters
The Hindu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Expressing solidarity with anti-Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project protestors, now observing a relay fast at Idinthakarai, a section of the residents of neighbouring Kooththenkuzhi commenced a similar agitation on Friday [8 Jun 2012]. After showering flower petals in the sea to mark the World Oceans Day, the villagers and their children started the relay fast at Kooththenkuzhi.
→ read full articleAstronomers Predict Titanic Collision: Milky Way vs. Andromeda
NASA Science News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
May 31, 2012: NASA astronomers say they can now predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our galaxy, sun, and solar system: the titanic collision of our Milky Way galaxy with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Humilhação e Dignidade
Tereza Halliday - Diário de Pernambuco,
11 Jun 2012
O quadro de referência de suas pesquisas é a Teoria da Humilhação, segundo a qual diversos tipos de violência na sociedade, têm como causa o humilhar e o ser humilhado. Humilhação tem a ver com dor. A dor de não ter, quando outros têm; a dor de não ser levado em consideração; a dor de não ser respeitado por ser quem é.
→ read full article(Italian) La Repubblica E’ Fondata Sul Lavoro e Non Sulle Armi
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
A partire dai principi fondamentali della Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana tra i quali l’articolo 1 e dall’articolo 11. Nei loro rispettivi incipit:
ART.1. L’Italia è una Repubblica democratica fondata sul lavoro. […]
ART 11. L’Italia ripudia la guerra come strumento di offesa alla libertà degli altri popoli e come mezzo di risoluzione delle controversie internazionali; […]
(Portuguese) Vandana Shiva: “Financeirização da Economia Está na Raiz da Crise”
Ana Paula Salviatti – Carta Maior,
11 Jun 2012
Em entrevista à Carta Maior, a ativista indiana Vandana Shiva fala sobre suas expectativas em relação a Rio+20. Ela não acredita que a conferência da ONU consiga firmar compromissos de mudanças mais significativas em função da influência das grandes corporações. Neste cenário, defende, o papel da Cúpula dos Povos adquire maior importância.
→ read full articleForgiving Siemens: Unraveling a Tangled Tale of German Corruption in Greece
Lena Mavraka and Vasilis Papatheodorou – CorpWatch,
11 Jun 2012
To understand the pervasive corruption in Greek politics, it is necessary to examine the company that has probably paid the biggest bribes to both major parties: Siemens from Munich, Germany, a company with contracts in practically every ministry from culture to telecommunications. On November 11, 2010, Siemens turned off 35 traffic lights in central Athens in protest against Greek government fines as high as €500 million ($650 million) to settle allegations of bribery to win contracts.
→ read full articleThe Julian Assange Show: Cypherpunks
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Cyber threats, hacker attacks and laws officially aiming to tackle internet piracy, but in fact infringing people’s rights to online privacy. It’s an increasingly topical subject – and the world’s most famous whistleblower is aiming to get to the heart of it.
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We Are the World, We are the Children (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
A constellation of stars singing Michael Jackson’s classic.
→ read full articleThe Arab Spring and the Image of Islam
Johan Galtung, 11 Jun 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Europe has a right to limit its immigration. But once there, as citizens, there is only one way: the rule of law, human rights and democracy. And democracy is more than elections: no discrimination, tolerance, transparency, dialogue of civilizations, based on respect and a minimum of knowledge, engaging in mutual learning.
→ read full articleThe Colors of the Economy
Cristovam Buarque – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Until recently, the idea of “green economy” was seen as an environmentalist fantasy without theoretical basis. With the rapid acceleration of the environmental crisis, the “green economy” gained legitimacy, although traditional economists still do not consider it because, by seeking sustainable alternatives for the process of production, it does not respect the fundamentals of present theory.
→ read full articleSecret Cooperation: Israel Deploys Nuclear Weapons on German-Built Submarines
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
A German shipyard has already built three submarines for Israel, and three more are planned. Now SPIEGEL has learned that Israel is arming the submarines with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. The German government has known about Israel’s nuclear weapons program for decades, despite its official denials.
→ read full articleSeeds of Doubt: Brazilian Farmers Sue Monsanto
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Five million Brazilian farmers are locked in a lawsuit with US-based biotech giant Monsanto, suing for as much as 6.2 billion euros. They say that the genetic-engineering company has been collecting royalties on crops it unfairly claims as its own.
→ read full articleIceland Economy Grows At Fastest Pace in Four Years
Niklas Pollard, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Iceland’s economy expanded in the first quarter at its fastest pace since its near-meltdown, powered by a surge in exports, tourism and domestic consumption. Gross domestic product (GDP) grew 2.4 percent quarter-on-quarter in the first three months of the year to put annual economic growth at 4.5 percent in the period, the highest since the first quarter of 2008, data from the statistics office showed on Friday [8 Jun 2012].
→ read full articleThe US Army’s Flawed Resilience-Training Study: A Call for Retraction
Roy Eidelson and Stephen Soldz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
In a report released today [4 Jun 2012] by the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology, two psychologists call upon the US Army to retract or publicly correct a recent research report that claims the Army’s $140 million Comprehensive Soldier Fitness (CSF) resilience program “works.” The psychologists Roy Eidelson and Stephen Soldz argue that the study design is flawed and that the results do not justify the researchers’ favorable conclusions.
→ read full articleWindmills Play a Big Role in Easing Power Situation in Tamil Nadu
The Hindu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Since May 25 [2012], windmills have contributed 31 to 34 per cent of the total power consumed in the State every day.
→ read full articleSpiritual Cooperation: A Possibility or Farfetched Dream?
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
In international politics, relations of trade and commerce among nations are known, but spiritual cooperation?
→ read full articleQuotes
TMS Editor,
11 Jun 2012
Whenever I’m caught between two evils, I take the one I’ve never tried.
→ read full articleThe War of Lies
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
THIRTY YEARS ago this week [8 Jun 2012], the Israeli army crossed into Lebanon and started the most stupid war in Israel’s history. Almost all wars are based on lies. Lies are considered legitimate instruments of war. Lebanon War I (as it was later called) was a glorious example. From beginning to end (if it has ended yet) it was a war of deceit and deception, falsehoods and fabrications. THE LIES started with the official name: “Operation Peace in Galilee”.
→ read full articleKiller Insect Virus Helping to Decimate World’s Bee Population
Common Dreams staff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
A new study published in the journal Science has revealed that, in addition to the destruction of natural habitats and the widespread use of industrial chemical pesticides, the global bee die-off witnessed in recent years is also caused by a deadly virus carried by bloodsucking parasitic mites.
→ read full articleAnother Day, More People Drone-Bombed
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
We now know that, after our leaders decide who should be killed from photos and flimsy evidence, they then follow up by bombing the funerals of those they’ve killed, assuming that whoever shows up for the funeral must also be a terrorist. How low can the U.S. Go? It is unlikely that, from the most powerful nation on earth, the leaders will ever be hauled off to the International Court of Justice for trials, and so we have a world in which the hatreds are compounded daily.
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Earth’s Most Threatened Tribe
Survival International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Colin Firth Launches Campaign To Save Them. Many Awá are still uncontacted, and they are running for their lives. “One man has the power to stop the loggers: Brazil’s Minister of Justice. But it’s just not his priority. Let’s push it up his list.”
→ read full articleFour Futures
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Although the problems facing the world in the 21st century are both severe and difficult they do have solutions, which are vehemently opposed by the power holders of today, who control both governments and mass media. Indeed this opposition by power holders, who profit from the status quo, is the main reason why rational solutions to global problems have not yet been found.
→ read full articleGermany Sets New Solar Power Record, Institute Says
Erik Kirschbaum, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity – equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity – through the midday hours on Friday and Saturday [25-26 May 2012], the head of a renewable energy think tank said.
→ read full articleKoodankulam: Aruna Roy’s Letter to Sonia Gandhi
Aruna Roy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
May 23, 2012 – Dear Mrs. Gandhi,
I have already forwarded two petitions on 21st January and 20th April 2012 to bring the matter regarding the protests against the non observation of norms in the nuclear plant at Kudankulam; the clamping down on protestors. Place for dissent is shrinking in India, which is a matter of great concern.
The Crash and Burn Future of Robot Warfare
Nick Turse – TomDispatch,
4 Jun 2012
Drones may be effective in terms of generating body counts, but they appear to be even more successful in generating animosity and creating enemies. A decade’s worth of futility suggests that drone warfare itself may already be crashing and burning, yet it seems destined that the skies will fill with drones and that the future will bring more of the same.
→ read full articleEating This Could Turn Your Gut into a Living Pesticide Factory
Dr. Mercola – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
Monsanto’s genetically modified “Bt corn” has been equipped with a gene from soil bacteria that produces the Bt-toxin, a pesticide that breaks open the stomach of insects and kills them. This pesticide-producing corn entered the food supply in the late 1990’s and the horror stories have started piling up. Last year, doctors at Sherbrooke University Hospital in Quebec found Bt-toxin in the blood of 93% of pregnant women tested; 80% of umbilical blood in their babies; and 67% of non-pregnant women.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks, War Crimes and the Pinochet Principle
Amy Goodman – Truthdig,
4 Jun 2012
Judge Garzon and Julian Assange have taken on entrenched power, whether government, military or corporate. Bradley Manning stands accused of the same. In differing degrees, their lives have forever changed, their careers, their freedoms and their reputations threatened or destroyed. This week, Hillary Clinton will be making the first official trip to Sweden in years. Why? What role is the U.S. government playing in Assange’s case?
→ read full articlePeople Struggle for Survival: Nuclear Power Corporation of India Plays Hide and Seek
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
The NPCIL plays hide and seek with the lives and safety of millions of Indian citizens. They argue that the Safety Analysis Report (SAR) “is a ‘third party document’ and therefore, without the prior consent of the third party, the same cannot be shared with anyone.” Although they are holding the SAR in a ‘Fiduciary Capacity,’ they cannot share it with the people of India.
→ read full articleJohn Pilger on the Importance of the Assange Affair
Dagens Nyheter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
On 30 May 2012 Britain’s Supreme Court turned down the final appeal of Julian Assange against his extradition to Sweden. On the eve of the judgment, Sweden’s leading morning newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, interviewed investigative journalist John Pilger, who has closely followed the Assange case. The following is the complete text of the interview, of which only a fraction was published in Sweden.
→ read full articleSecret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will
Jo Becker and Scott Shane – The New York Times,
4 Jun 2012
This was the enemy, served up in the latest chart from the intelligence agencies: 15 Qaeda suspects in Yemen with Western ties. The mug shots and brief biographies resembled a high school yearbook layout. Several were Americans. Two were teenagers, including a girl who looked even younger than her 17 years.
→ read full articlePsychiatry Giant Sorry for Backing Gay ‘Cure’
Benedict Carey – The New York Times,
4 Jun 2012
A draft of the letter has already leaked online and has been reported. “You know, it’s the only regret I have; the only professional one,” Dr. Spitzer said of the study, near the end of a long interview. “And I think, in the history of psychiatry, I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a scientist write a letter saying that the data were all there but were totally misinterpreted. Who admitted that and who apologized to his readers.” He looked away and back again, his big eyes blurring with emotion. “That’s something, don’t you think?”
→ read full articleBilderberg Meetings Final List of Participants
Bilderberg Meetings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
Chantilly, Virginia, USA, 31 May-3 June 2012
→ read full articleUnthought as Cognitive Foundation of Global Civilization
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
Implications of God, Debt, Overpopulation, Waste, Negligence, Encroachment and Death? This is an exploration of the possible nature of an immense cognitive “hole” — far “beneath” the conventional thought processes characterizing society, relationships and communication. The approach is partly inspired by the work of John Ralston Saul (The Unconscious Civilization, 1995), partly that of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (The Phenomenology of Perception, 1945), and partly that of Carl Jung on the collective unconscious.
→ read full articleBeyond the Politics of Invisibility: Remembering Not to Forget Palestinian Hunger Strikers
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
With a certain amount of fanfare in Israel and Palestine, although still severely underreported by the world media and relatively ignored by the leading watchdog human rights NGOs, it was observed with contradictory spins that the Palestinian hunger strikes had been brought to an end by agreement between the strikers and Israel.
→ read full articleEco Warriors, Arise to Rio’s Earth Summit!
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
A paradigm shift is desperately needed. And it will not come from those who have created the crisis and who are looking for new ways to extend the life of the greed economy by commodifying and privatising all life on earth. They will come to Rio+20 to paint the “greed economy” green, and call it the “green economy”. And they will have powerful governments on their side.
→ read full articleEgypt: Is Democracy Still Possible?
Abdallah Hendawy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
There is no doubt that Egyptians have stepped miles onto the realm of democracy. They struggled and won unprecedented rights and gains but there is also no doubt that the fight for democracy is still far from where present day Egypt stands at the moment.
→ read full articleSave Us from the Saviours
Slavoj Žižek, London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
Europe and the Greeks – In his Notes towards the Definition of Culture, T.S. Eliot remarked that there are moments when the only choice is between heresy and non-belief – i.e., when the only way to keep a religion alive is to perform a sectarian split. This is the position in Europe today. Only a new ‘heresy’ – represented at this moment by Syriza – can save what is worth saving of the European legacy.
→ read full articleBenefits of Aloe Vera
Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
Everybody knows aloe vera is great for cuts and sunburns, even bug bites. It’s been called the “First Aid” plant. But what about the rest of the body: are there benefits for your insides too? Aloe vera is one of the oldest and most popular medicinal plants known to man. It’s mentioned in ancient documents, including the New Testament, where it was used with other herbs for embalming!
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(Portuguese) Causa para a Abolição das Touradas Recebida pelo Primeiro-Ministro de Portugal
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
Pela primeira vez a sociedade portuguesa que não gosta e defende o fim das corridas de touros foi ouvida pelo poder político. A audiência com o Primeiro-Ministro Passos Coelho surgiu na sequência de uma iniciativa do Governo destinada a eleger a causa mais popular em Portugal. A abolição das touradas foi a causa vencedora com a esmagadora maioria dos votos, revelando uma vontade social inequívoca dos portugueses em abolir este espectáculo que implica o sofrimento e o maltrato em público de milhares de animais.
→ read full article(Italian) Torino, 30 Anni di Centro Studi Sereno Regis. Ecologia e Nonviolenza
Giuseppe Iasparra, EcoDalleCittà – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
I vicini di casa di casa di Eco dalle Città compiono 30 anni di attività. Dal 1° al 3 giugno si svolge a Torino, in via Garibaldi 13, la festa per il trentennale del Centro Studi Sereno Regis. On line il programma della festa e la nostra intervista a Nanni Salio, presidente del Centro Studi.
→ read full articleNuclear Nirvana
S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
If you do feel like pulling your hair off
when they deprive you of your daily bread,
If you do feel like screaming your head off
when they chip away at your wellbeing,
If you do feel like kicking up a storm
when they deny your identity and freedom,
The Julian Assange Show: Occupy Movement (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
The Occupy movement has united hundreds of thousands across the world to fight social and economic inequality. In the latest edition of Assange’s very own interview programme Julian Assange meets with prominent Occupy activists who say their collective efforts target global institutions.
→ read full articleTrust Deficit: People’s Struggle at Koodankulam
S.G. Vombatkere, CounterCurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
A cursory glance at the Site Evaluation Report shows that its 12 pages are of limited legibility, with no title page, no authorship, no ownership, no publisher, no date, no index, and no names of the site selection committee. With it bearing no authorship, no publisher, no names, etc., could this “orphan” SER be an attempt to dodge responsibility for a haphazard site selection carried out by this highly scientific and technical department staffed by the best brains in India?
→ read full articleJournalist and Educators
Thomás S. Selistre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
The creation of a real and sustainable democracy in Brazil, as in any other mature society, will not be possible without the active role of the media. But now, when I say media, I do not mean the outlets owned by big corporations, which will always filter the information through the interests of the propaganda and the elite. I talk about an alternative journalism, that uses the internet as a tool to express itself and interact with the world.
→ read full articleDiscovering the Most Brutal Enemies of our Earthly Community
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
As the scholastics indicated: Quidquid contingens est causam habet – Whatever comes into being must have a cause. People across every continent are going through crucial pain of one kind or another. Such pain did not pop up from the midst of nowhere. Since in this world only people make things happen for the better or the worse, we may safely conclude that the origin all the problems facing the world could be traced to people.
→ read full articleConsequences and Costs of War (Graphic Illustration)
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
Reflections on the costs and consequences of war and violence.
→ read full articleWhat Can Be Done About Syria? Tragedy and Impotence
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
The dilemma exposes the weakness of empathetic geopolitics in a world that continues to be dominated by territorially supreme sovereign states with insecure and antagonistic minorities. In the Syrian situation this tragic reality is revealed in all its horror, complexity, and contradictions. It is unacceptable to remain a passive spectator in a media wired world where events are reported visually almost as they are occurring, or immediately thereafter.
→ read full articleIt Starts In Quebec: Our Revolution of Love, Hope and Community
Ethan Cox, rabble.ca – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
In almost every report on the social movement now sweeping Quebec, including my own, words like conflict, crisis and stand-off figure prominently. Anger is omnipresent. The anger of protesters, the anger of government, the anger of those supposedly inconvenienced. Pundits scream about mob rule, anarchy in the streets and the dissolution of society as we know it.
→ read full articleThe Houla Massacre: Opposition Terrorists “Killed Families Loyal to the Government”
Marat Musin – Global Research,
4 Jun 2012
“When the rebels seized the lower checkpoint in the center of town and located next to the local police department, they began to sweep all the families loyal to the authorities in neighboring houses, including the elderly, women and children. Several families of the Al-Sayed were killed, including 20 young children and the family of Abdul Razak. Then they presented the murdered [corpses] to the UN and the international community as victims of bombings by the Syrian army, something that was not verified by any marks on their bodies.”
→ read full articleThe Rendition Project
Rendition Research Team, University of Kent – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
Researching the Globalization of Rendition and Secret Detention – Welcome to The Rendition Project website. This site is the product of a collaborative research project between Dr Ruth Blakeley at the University of Kent and Dr Sam Raphael at Kingston University, funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council.
→ read full articleCelebrate “World Oceans Day” on June 8 and Protect the Mother Ocean
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
PMANE Plans Special Prayers, Floral Tributes and Cultural Programs in Coastal Villages
→ read full articleHow to Get Rid of Anti-Semitism!
Gilad Atzmon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
To suggest that anti-Semitism can ever be explained, rather than condemned, is insensitive and, frankly, bizarre.
→ read full articleWithholding Water: Cholera, Prejudice, and the Right to Water in Haiti
Deepa Panchang, Other Worlds – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
Scientists have shown that the cholera pathogen came to Haiti with foreign UN troops who carried the bacteria in their bodies, and whose military base was dumping its sewage into a nearby river. The imported disease has claimed more than 7,000 lives and continues to ravage communities across Haiti… despite billions in post-earthquake aid dollars.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Democracia, o Novo Fantasma dos Mercados
Slavoj Žižek, London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
Num artigo publicado na London Review of Books, o filósofo esloveno sustenta que “só uma nova ‘heresia’ – representada hoje pela Syriza – pode salvar o que valha a pena do legado europeu: a democracia, a confiança nas pessoas, a solidariedade igualitária”. Recordamos que o Manifesto de Solidariedade com a Grécia continua a receber adesões.
→ read full articleMali: Refugee Flows and Increased Hunger Point To Need for a Mali Federation
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
The creation of a federation of north and south Mali rather than having the country split into two independent States with uncertain frontiers could be a measure acceptable to both the MNLA and the government of Bamako. A federal constitution could maintain the unity of the country while at the same time providing the needed autonomy to the north and a preservation of the Tuareg way of life.
→ read full articleImmemorial Day – No Peace for Militarized U.S.
Bill Quigley - Common Dreams,
28 May 2012
Peace today is a nearly impossible challenge for the United States. The U.S. is far and away the most militarized country in the world and the most aggressive. Unless the U.S. dramatically reduces its emphasis on global military action, there will be many, many more families grieving on future Memorial days.
→ read full articleFrench Ban of Monsanto GM Maize Rejected By EU
Adam Vaughan – The Guardian,
28 May 2012
France’s attempt to ban the planting of a Monsanto strain of genetically modified maize was rejected by the EU’s food safety body on Monday [21 May 2012]. In response to scientific evidence submitted by France backing its bid to ban the GM maize, the European Food Safety Authority ruled that “there is no specific scientific evidence, in terms of risk to human and animal health or the environment” to support a ban.
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