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Washington’s Hypocrisies
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
The US government is the second worst human rights abuser on the planet and the sole enabler of the worst–Israel. But this doesn’t hamper Washington from pointing the finger elsewhere. The US State Department’s “human rights report” focuses its ire on Iran and Syria, two countries whose real sin is their independence from Washington, and on the bogyman- in-the-making–China, the country selected for the role of Washington’s new Cold War enemy.
→ read full articleGM Crops: Protesters Go Back To the Battlefields
Leo Hickman – The Guardian,
28 May 2012
A decade ago anti-GM protesters tore up fields and Britain roundly rejected so-called ‘Frankenfood’. Now, as researchers trial new crops, activists are once more squaring up to the scientists. But have the arguments changed?
→ read full articleSwastika as Dynamic Pattern Underlying Psychosocial Power Processes
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
This speculative exploration is not about the problematic (neo) Nazi use of the Swastika, nor is it about the use of the Swastika as a traditional symbol much valued in many cultures of the world. However it does suggest further insights into why the Swastika has been recognized in such contexts and why those contrasting uses merit further reflection.
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Cambodia’s Orphan Business
AlJazeeraEnglish – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
Increasing numbers of tourists including well-intentioned volunteers keen to help war-torn Cambodia are volunteering in the country’s orphanages. People & Power investigates the concept of “voluntourism” which is inadvertently doing more harm than good to Cambodian children, as well as the disturbing trend of exploitation by some companies that organise volunteers or run orphanages.
→ read full articleA Last (Chemical) Gasp for Bees?
Shannan Stoll – YES! Magazine,
28 May 2012
Colony collapse disorder threatens food crops valued at $15 billion a year. New research says farm chemicals put our food system at risk. Newly published scientific evidence is bolstering calls for greater regulation of some of the world’s most widely used pesticides and genetically modified crops.
→ read full articleDharma Traditions’ Perspective Enhances Religious Leaders’ Statement to G8
Keshava Sharma, ISKCON News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
Religious leaders gather in Washington, D.C. to issue joint statement to the world’s political leaders. The final statement reflected the shared values of the various religious traditions that were present, including Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Zoroastrian, Sikh, Baha’i, Shinto, Buddhist, Hindu and Jain.
→ read full articleLawyer in Hell
TMS Editor,
28 May 2012
A lawyer died and was delivered into the devil’s hands. “You will be spending eternity here, but I’ll let you pick your own room from three I’ll show you,” the devil said.
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The Myth of the Rich as Job Creators (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
TED Talks, Nick Hanauer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
In the talk, Hanauer, an early investor in Amazon.com and a multimillionaire, argued that income inequality was a detraction to a healthy economy and scoffed at the familiar rightwing talking point that the wealthy are the de-facto ‘job creators’ in the marketplace. “When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it’s a little like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it’s the other way around.”
→ read full articleDr. Robert Spitzer Apologizes to Gay Community for Infamous ‘Ex-Gay’ Study
John M. Becker, Truth Wins Out – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
Today [25 Apr 2012], in a letter to Dr. Ken Zucker obtained exclusively by Truth Wins Out, Dr. Robert Spitzer made an unprecedented apology to the gay community — and victims of reparative therapy in particular — for his infamous, now-repudiated 2001 study that claimed some “highly motivated” homosexuals could go from gay to straight.
→ read full articleSite Evaluation Report – Analysis
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
There is hardly any mention of desalinations plants, the transportation of the nuclear waste and other crucial issues. To sum up, this SER reads like a practical joke being played upon the innocent people of southern Tamil Nadu and southern Kerala. The PMANE rejects this so called SER and demands the NPCIL to share the real, complete and updated Site Evaluation Report with the people of India along with the Safety Analysis Report as per the orders of the CIC.
→ read full articleHundreds of Words to Avoid Using Online if You Don’t Want the Government Spying On You
Daniel Miller – Mail Online,
28 May 2012
(And They Include ‘Pork’, ‘Cloud’ and ‘Mexico’) – Department of Homeland Security forced to release list following freedom of information request. Agency insists it only looks for evidence of genuine threats to the U.S. and not for signs of general dissent.
→ read full articleEthiopia: Are the Islamists Coming?
Alemayehu Fentaw – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
It is imperative to bear in mind that it is the marginalization and suppression of Muslims by the Ethiopian Christian State in the past that bred extremism. The current interference by the secular tyrant in the internal affairs of the Muslim community won’t help if not to exacerbate the situation.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Seguir em Frente…
Paulo Coelho – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
Sempre é preciso saber
quando uma etapa chega ao final.
Algerian MPs Boycott Parliament Session
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
Opposition legislators boycott inaugural session of parliament, claiming fraud in election held earlier this month. For Algeria, the only country in North Africa left largely untouched by last year’s so-called “Arab Spring” revolts, a prolonged boycott by the MPs could complicate a reform of the constitution which President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has promised for this year.
→ read full articleFORUM: Why People in Tamil Nadu Are Protesting Nuclear Energy
Prof. Monisha Dasgupta – Center for South Asian Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa,
28 May 2012
Power Games: Why people in Tamil Nadu are protesting nuclear energy – S.P. Udayakumar is a member of the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy and the National Alliance of Anti-Nuclear Movements. He is one of the leaders of the non-violent protests against the Koodankulam nuclear power project in Tamil Nadu.
→ read full articleReflections on the Great Palestinian Prison Hunger Strikes of 2012
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
Ché Guevara was once asked what was at the root of his revolutionary commitment. His response, which we should all take some moments to reflect upon, “it is about love.” Reading the words of Khader Adnan (‘Open Letter to the People of the World’) and Thaer Halahleh (‘Letter to my Daughter’), or the comments of Hana Shalabi’s mother and sister, or Bilal Diab’s father, led me to recall Guevara’s illuminating comment.
→ read full articleWhat is New in the Palestine/Israel Conflict
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
The Israeli/Palestine conflict has changed its character in fundamental respects during the last couple of years.
→ read full articleLimited Liability – Nuclear Energy’s ‘Mother of all Subsidies’
Stephen Leahy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
The nuclear energy industry only exists thanks to what insurance experts call the “mother of all subsidies”, and the public is largely unaware that every nuclear power plant in the world has a strict cap on how much the industry might have to pay out in case of an accident. In Canada, this liability cap is an astonishingly low 75 million dollars. In India, it is 110 million dollars and in Britain 220 million dollars. If there is an accident, governments – i.e. the public – are on the hook for all costs exceeding those caps.
→ read full articleModernity’s Other and the Transformation of the University – I
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
Society as a whole and the university as a leading part of society need to revive some of the norms of African society prior to European contact. One could say the same about traditional norms in other parts of the world. I mention Africa because we are here.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Parlamento Europeu Vota Contra as Patentes Sobre Plantas e Animais
Sustentabilidade é Acção – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
«O Parlamento Europeu aprovou ontem [12 maio 2012] uma resolução pedindo ao Instituto Europeu de Patentes para parar a concessão de patentes ao melhoramento genético convencional de plantas e animais. A resolução foi apresentada conjuntamente pelos deputados de vários partidos e foi aprovada com ampla maioria.
→ read full articleOn Not Visiting an Orphanage in Cambodia
Jill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
In Cambodia, visiting orphanages is listed as a tourist attraction on Tripadvisor, right up there with temples, museums and restaurants. Imagine if you had been rescued form an abusive or neglectful environment and had to retell (or hear someone else retell) your painful story every night. I don’t think there is any brand of therapy that would recommend daily public rehashing followed by compulsory dancing as a method of recovery.
→ read full articleSupporting Young Syrians Who Say “Stop the Killing”
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
A group of young nonviolent Syrians have created a movement, “Stop the Killing,” not related to a political party or a confessional religious group, but which wishes to unite those of good will to stop the violence and to develop a society in which all can contribute. Therefore, we who are outside Syria, send our support and willingness to cooperate.
→ read full articleWhen the State Seizes Industry
Jason Farbman – Socialist Worker,
28 May 2012
The dynamics that produced a wave of nationalizations in Argentina and Bolivia–and how the process is playing out differently in each country.
→ read full articleA Political Blow to Austerity in Europe
Socialist Worker, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
Europe’s political situation has become more volatile as the economy deteriorates. The rejection of austerity by voters in Greece and France and the deepening turmoil of Spain’s unraveling banks are two faces of Europe’s political and economic crises–and they point to new potential for resistance.
→ read full articleBenefits of Equality
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
Taking advantage of their superior weaponry, Europe, the United States and Japan rapidly carved up the remainder of the world into colonies, which acted as sources of raw materials and food, and as markets for manufactured goods.
→ read full articleWhen the Respectable Become Extremists the Extremists Become Respectable
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
By any historical measure, whether it involves international law, human rights conventions, United Nations protocols, socio economic indicators, the policies and practices of the United States and European Union regimes can be characterized as extremist.
→ read full articleThe Julian Assange Show: Rafael Correa
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
This week, Julian Assange talks to the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa. Correa is a left wing populist who has changed the face of Ecuador. But unlike his predecessors he holds a Ph.D. in economics. According to US embassy cables, Correa is the most popular President in Ecuador’s democratic history.
→ read full articleGod’s Divine Maternal Qualities: Buddhism and Christianity in Perspective
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
Ascetical writers tell us that God is both Father and Mother. This means that in God’s essence we find the perfection of all paternal and maternal qualities.
→ read full article(French) Représentants du Mouvement Abolitionniste des Corridas au Portugal Ont Eté Reçus par le Premier Ministre
MACP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Le dernier mardi (8/mai/2012) le mouvement abolitionniste des corridas au Portugal a vécu un jour historique: ses représentants ont été reçus par le Premier Ministre chez sa résidence officielle, le Palais de S. Bento.
→ read full articleExcuse Me, But Israel Has No Right To Exist
Sharmine Narwani - The Sandbox,
21 May 2012
The phrase “right to exist” entered my consciousness in the 1990s just as the concept of the two-state solution became part of our collective lexicon. In any debate at university, when a Zionist was out of arguments, those three magic words were invoked to shut down the conversation with an outraged, “are you saying Israel doesn’t have the right to exist??” Why are the colonial-settlers prior to 1948 any different from those who colonized and settled after 1967?
→ read full articleHow the US Press Lost Its Way
Robert Parry - Comsortium News,
21 May 2012
People often wonder what happened to the American press after it distinguished itself in the 1970s by exposing the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. How did the U.S. news media lose its way over the past four decades, a question addressed by Robert Parry at a conference on information and secrecy.
→ read full articleTraining To Overcome Institutional Racial Bias in Policing
Michael Motto – Tampa Bay Times,
21 May 2012
Police officers in America shoot and kill African-Americans four times more often than whites, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. That figure actually reflects progress from the 1970s, when the ratio was 8 to 1.
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The World Tomorrow: Surviving Guantanamo
Russia Today, Julian Assange – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Julian Assange speaks with Moazzam Begg – former Gitmo prisoner and a rights campaigner fighting for those still trapped behind the wire, and Asim Qureshi – former corporate lawyer, whose human rights organization Cageprisoners Ltd exists solely to raise awareness of the plight of prisoners who remain in Guantanamo Bay.
→ read full articleDire la Guerre, Penser la Paix
Johan Galtung, 21 May 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Important is not only to think peace, but to speak, write and contribute to making, building and keeping it. War is a social evil, causing untold suffering like slavery, colonialism, patriarchy, preventable-curable diseases; soon to join the others in the cemetery for social evils. And talk about “just war” is like talking about just slavery, just colonialism, just patriarchy, and disease as God’s or Nature’s cleansing humanity of those unfit for salvation-survival.
→ read full articleThou Shalt Not Kill
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
It is an interesting fact that Leo Tolstoy, who is generally considered to have been one of the greatest novelists of all time, was deeply aware of ethical problems, especially as an old man. “…The sharpest of all contradictions”, Tolstoy wrote, “can be seen between the government’s professed faith in the Christian law of the brotherhood of all humankind, and the military laws of the state, which force each young man to prepare himself for enmity and murder…”
→ read full articleThe Case of the Missing Terrorists
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
If there were any real terrorists, Jose Rodriguez would be dead. Who is Jose Rodriguez? He is the criminal who ran the CIA torture program. Most of his victims were not terrorists or even insurgents. Most were hapless individuals kidnapped by warlords and sold to the Americans as “terrorists” for the bounty paid.
→ read full article‘Journalists Failed To Tell the Story of War Crimes in Sri Lanka’
Frances Harrison, Journalism.co – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
How is it possible in this world of satellites, rolling news and internet we have no idea how many human beings really perished, even rounded up to the nearest thousand? It is because as journalists we have failed to get close to the truth.
→ read full articleHigh Noon in Koodankulam
Niranjan Ramakrishnan – CounterPunch,
21 May 2012
Many countries are rethinking their nuclear plans post-Fukushima. Some are proceeding to draw down their nuclear power operations… “As the world sleeps, India awakes to freedom”, Jawaharlal Nehru declared as he became free India’s first prime minister. It was the midnight hour of August 14-15, 1947. Today we might be on more solid ground in paraphrasing Nehru’s words: “As the world awakes to its dangers, India sleepwalks into nuclear peril“.
→ read full article(Italian) USA e Italia in Giordania a Provare la Guerra
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Più di 12.000 militari provenienti da 17 paesi daranno vita ad Eager Lion 2012 che – secondo il Comando USA per le operazioni speciali – “avrà come obiettivo il rafforzamento delle relazioni tra le differenti forze armate attraverso un comune approccio multinazionale ed inter-governativo per affrontare tutte le odierne e future sfide per la sicurezza”.
→ read full article(Portuguese) A Urgência da União Sul-Americana
Mauro Santayana – Carta Maior,
21 May 2012
A América do Sul terá que unir-se com urgência, para que não se torne território aberto à disputa feroz pelos seus recursos naturais, no futuro que se apressa a chegar. Ao lado da África, a América Latina sempre foi vista como um território de todos, menos de seus próprios habitantes.
→ read full articleContemporary Slavery: Understanding the New Face to an Old Evil
UNOY – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
On 27 June 2012, Metin Kazak MEP will open a conference in the European Parliament organised in conjunction with UNPO examining the current extent and forms of slavery across the world. Discussing cases from the Haratin in Mauritania to the human trafficking that afflicts Europe, the conference will raise awareness of contemporary slavery and, in bringing together policy makers and experts, posit possible solutions to the mitigation and halting of the practice.
→ read full articleThose Revolting Europeans: How Dare the French and Greeks Reject a Failed Strategy!
Paul Krugman, Economics Nobel Laureate – The New York Times,
21 May 2012
The French are revolting. The Greeks, too. And it’s about time. Both countries held elections Sunday [6 May 2012] that were in effect referendums on the current European economic strategy, and in both countries voters turned two thumbs down. It’s far from clear how soon the votes will lead to changes in actual policy, but time is clearly running out for the strategy of recovery through austerity — and that’s a good thing.
→ read full article(Castellano) Movimiento Para la Abolición de las Corridas de Toros Recibido por el Primer-Ministro de Portugal
MPACT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
El pasado Martes, el 8 de mayo, fue un día histórico para el movimiento para la abolición de las corridas de toros en Portugal al ser recibido por el señor Primer-Ministro de Portugal en su residencia oficial, el Palacio de S. Bento.
→ read full articleNever Forget That Bradley Manning, Not Gay Marriage, Is the Issue
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
The award of the Nobel Prize to the first black president because he “offered hope” was both absurd and an authentic expression of the lifestyle liberalism that controls much of political debate in the west. Same-sex marriage is one such distraction. The truth is that what matters to those who aspire to control our lives is not skin pigment or gender, or whether or not we are gay, but the class we serve. Remember Bradley Manning.
→ read full articleIsrael as Popular as North Korea According to BBC Poll
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Haaretz reported yesterday [16 May 2012] that, “Israel, Iran, Pakistan and North Korea were ranked most negatively by 24,000 people surveyed in an annual BBC poll.” Israel may want to consider changing its path immediately. Rather than investing in Hasbara and extensive Jewish lobbying, it may want to open its eyes to the prospect of humanism and peace because it appears that humanity clearly shows some real signs of fatigue towards the ‘Jews only State’.
→ read full articleAlgeria’s Election Was a Fraud
Jeremy Keenan – Al Jazeera,
21 May 2012
The results of Algeria’s May 10 [2012] legislative elections have been met with such fury by Algerians that some analysts believe that these will be the last elections held under the current regime. If there were any hopes for democracy still remaining in the country, these elections snuffed them out.
→ read full articleLong Live ‘Our’ Gulf Bastards
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
21 May 2012
Life is a golden gift from Allah if you’re a certified member of the Gulf Counter-Revolution Club (GCC), also known as the Gulf Cooperation Council; Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates can torture, kill, repress and demonize their own subjects – in full confidence the “master” will let you get away with it.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to the People of Russia
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Greetings! We, several millions of people from the southernmost tip of India, are writing to you to send our love and seek your support for the peaceful and nonviolent struggle that we have been waging for the past nine months against the Koodankulam nuclear power project (KKNPP). This mega nuclear power park is being built with Russian loan and technology against the will and wishes of the local people.
→ read full articleThe Nakba: 2012
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
The recent parallel hunger strikes in Israeli prisons reignited the political imagination of Palestinians around the world, strengthening bonds of ‘solidarity’ and reinforcing the trend toward grassroots reliance on nonviolent resistance Israeli abuses.
→ read full articleGlad to Be Drunk
TMS Editor,
21 May 2012
A completely inebriated man was stumbling down the street with one foot on the curb and one foot in the gutter.
→ read full articleAfter Austerity
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Economics Nobel Laureate – Project Syndicate,
21 May 2012
It is a little precious to hear such pontifications from those who, at the helm of central banks, finance ministries, and private banks, steered the global financial system to the brink of ruin – and created the ongoing mess. Worse, seldom is it explained how to square the circle. How can confidence be restored as the crisis economies plunge into recession?
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(Portuguese) Dilma Instala a Comissão da Verdade
PalaciodoPlanalto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Cerimônia de Instalação da Comissão da Verdade – Brasília, 16 de maio de 2012
→ read full articleAfghanistan’s’ Chicago Resistance
Malalai Joya – The Guardian,
21 May 2012
Thousands of protesters are expected to descend on Chicago this weekend [20-21 May 2012] for Nato’s annual summit where Afghanistan will be top of the agenda. It promises to be one of the most important anti-war demonstrations of our generation.
→ read full articleBelo Monte: Brazil’s Damned Democracy
Manuela Picq – Al Jazeera,
21 May 2012
The Belo Monte dam project shows the government’s failure to respect indigenous rights and reform energy policy.
→ read full articleDaniel Ellsberg Accepts Human Rights Award on Behalf of Bradley Manning (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers whistle-blower) accepts the “People’s Choice Human Rights Award” on behalf of accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower Army PFC Bradley Manning at Global Exchange’s ceremony at the San Francisco War Memorial Building on May 10, 2012.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Audiência do Movimento para a Abolição das Touradas com o Primeiro Ministro de Portugal
Movimento para a Abolição das Touradas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
PRESS RELEASE – Na passada terça-feira (8/maio/2012] o movimento abolicionista das corridas de touros em Portugal viveu um dia histórico ao ser recebido pelo senhor Primeiro-Ministro na sua residência oficial.
→ read full articleEngendering 2052 through Re-imagining the Present
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Review of 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years As Presented To the Club of Rome
→ read full article(Castellano) Planeando Dominación Mundial
Socialist Worker, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Aquellos manifestándose contra la cumbre de la OTAN presentarán una visión diferente para nuestra sociedad. En las calles de Chicago este fin de semana [20-21 mayo 2012], activistas anti-bélicos, el movimiento Ocupa, sindicatos y grupos comunitarios tendrán la oportunidad de exigir otras prioridades, en lugar del gasto militar y la rebaja de los niveles de vida.
→ read full articleSri Lanka: Mu’l’livaaykkaal – The Slaughter Unheard and Unpunished
Nirmanusan Balasundaram – Colombo Telegraph,
21 May 2012
Criminal goals of ethnically cleansing as many Tamils by orchestrating the slaughter of at-least 40,000 unarmed Tamils in Mullivaaykaal during the finals day of the war. The denial of food and medicine prior to the final assault was intentionally and strategically coordinated by the regime.
→ read full articlePlastic in ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ Has Increased 100-Fold
Common Dreams staff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Plastic garbage in the ocean has increased 100-fold in the past 40 years and could have ecosystem-wide impacts, according to a study released Tuesday [8 May 2012].
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Norman Finkelstein – Political Scientist
BBC HARD Talk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
May 2012 – What happens if American Jews fall out of love with Israel? That’s what the Jewish American academic Norman Finkelstein claims is happening. He says they are now so unhappy with what Israel is doing that they want to distance themselves from the country.
→ read full articleScientific Gerrymandering of Boundaries of Overpopulation Debate
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Review of the Royal Society Report – The Royal Society has published the results of a study, by a very distinguished group, on the population challenge of humanity (People and the Planet, 2012). The approach is introduced as follows:
→ read full articleAfrica Human Development Report 2012: Towards a Food Secure Future
United Nations Development Programme – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
The 2012 Human Development Report for Africa explores why dehumanizing hunger remains pervasive in the region, despite abundant agricultural resources, a favorable growing climate, and rapid economic growth rates. It also emphasizes that food security – the ability to consistently acquire enough calories and nutrients for a healthy and productive life – is essential for human development.
→ read full articleMeeting of the Portuguese Movement for the Abolition of Bullfighting with the Prime Minister
MFAB – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Last Tuesday, May 8th, the Portuguese movement for the abolition of bullfighting lived an historic moment when it was received by the Portuguese Prime-Minister at the headquarters of the Portuguese Government, the Palace of S. Bento.
→ read full articleIndia: End Intimidation of Peaceful Protesters at Nuclear Site
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Indian authorities should drop sedition cases against peaceful protesters opposed to the construction of a nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu state. At least 3,500 people are facing police investigations into allegations of sedition and “waging war” against the state for protesting against the plant in Kudankulam. Human Rights Watch urged the Indian parliament to repeal the colonial-era sedition law, which has frequently been used by authorities around the country to silence dissent.
→ read full articleAn Urgent Appeal to the Conscience of the Nation on Koodankulam
Many – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
This appeal is a reflection of our collective frustration and instead of being sent to the Govt, it will be presented before people of India.
VANDANA SHIVA to release the appeal in New Delhi: India Gate, Sunday May 20th, 2012 at 6 pm.
BINAYAK SEN, ANAND PATWARDHAN to release the appeal in Mumbai: Chaityabhoomi, Dadar, Mumbai, Sunday May 20th, 2012 at 6:30 pm.
(Italian) Brindisi. Una bomba contro la cultura nonviolenta
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Bomba a Brindisi
Contro studentesse, contro la scuola e contro la cultura delle libertà nonviolente
Learning from the Irish Hunger Strikes of 1981 and the Palestinian Challenge
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
John Hurson in Ireland has been keenly conscious of the affinities between the historic Irish hunger strike of 1981 and the ongoing Palestinian hunger strikes. He has travelled to Gaza on several occasions on humanitarian aid convoys, and is the founder of the on line Gaza TV News service. I suggested that we collaborate on an article that might recall the Irish experience, especially the parallels and the potential implications for the future of the Palestinian struggle.
→ read full articleIn Kudankalum under the banyan tree: Aswath Vriksha
Theresa Wolfwood – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2012
A Poem for the Women of Kudankalum Village
“I am Banyan, tree among trees” – Bhagavad Gita
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John Pilger Speaks @ Marxism 2012
marxismconference – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2012
Pilger: “Marxism in Melbourne is now Australia’s premier festival of debate and free speech on issues that are either excluded from or suppressed by the mass media: issues such as the government’s agenda for Indigenous Australians, Palestine and propaganda in its many disguises.”
→ read full articleKoodankulam Protests are Fully Justified
Prashant Bushan, Senior Lawyer Supreme Court of India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2012
The Koodankulam protestors are therefore fully justified in agitating against the plant. It is imperative that the government respects their sentiments and fears and immediately suspends work at the plant. It must constitute a credible independent expert committee to examine all the safety issues which have been raised, in a transparent manner with public hearings and not resume work on the plant till all safety issues have been credibly addressed.
→ read full articlePetition to Save the Koodankulam Protesters URGENT PLEASE SIGN
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2012
Over 6,000 people face prison for their non-violent opposition to the Koodankulam nuclear plant in Tamil Nadu, India. Now, 330 protesters (302 are women) have commenced an indefinite hunger strike in a last-ditch attempt to save their freedom and stop the nuclear plant — and only our added pressure can force the government to stop this illegal persecution of peaceful protesters. They need your help urgent, PLEASE.
→ read full article(German) Gewaltlose Terroristen? Warum die Proteste gegen den Bau eines Atomkraftwerks in Indien uns alle etwas angehen
Elias Bloch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2012
Im Süden Indiens protestieren über 10’000 Menschen gegen den Bau eines neuen Atomkraftwerkes. Sie verfahren dabei nach dem Prinzip des Gewaltlosen Widerstandes von Mahatma Gandhi.
→ read full articleHistoric Hunger Strikes: Lightning in the Skies of Palestine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2012
Recourse to this desperate tactic of courageous self-sacrifice is an extreme form of nonviolence, and should whenever and wherever it occurs be given close attention. We cannot now know whether these hunger strikes will spark Palestinian resistance in new and creative ways. What we can already say with confidence is that these hunger strikers are writing a new chapter in the story line of resistance sumud, and their steadfastness is for me a Gandhian Moment in the Palestinian struggle.
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Imagine – Songs around the World (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
PlayingForChange – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2012
This song is the Playing For Change Foundation’s gift to the world.
→ read full articleOPEN LETTER to Indian PM, Authorities
Jørgen Johansen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2012
A copy of the Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) on liability secretly signed between the governments of India and Russia must be made available to the project-affected public. Complete and truthful information must be given to the local people and the citizens of India about nuclear waste that would be produced at the Koodankulam plants and its management. Our friends who are still languishing in prison, Muhilan and Sathishkumar, must be released immediately. The local people’s right to protest peacefully and nonviolently against the KKNPP and other related issues must be respected and honored.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Gengibre, um Poderoso Anti-Inflamatório Natural
Bombom, Tia Fatima – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2012
Gengibre, um poderoso anti-inflamatório e analgésico natural, que não tem contra indicações, segundo o Dr Al Sears.
→ read full articlePalestinian Prisoner Unity
Stephen Lendman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2012
On May 4 [2012], his [Jonathan S. Tobin’s] Commentary article headlined “Hunger Strikers’ Goal is Not Peace,” saying: “(T)he Palestinian goal is not their own state living in peace beside Israel but the end of the Jewish state and its replacement by one in which Arabs will rule. Palestinians view violence against Israelis as not only a legitimate tactic but also something that is integral to their nation identity.” Tobin wears blinders. History isn’t his long suit.
→ read full articleNew Lawyer
TMS Editor,
14 May 2012
Joe grew up in a small town, then moved away to attend college and law school. He decided to come back to the small town because he could be a big man here.
→ read full articleA Monstrous Proposal
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2012
Why the private sector should be subject to freedom of information laws.
→ read full article(French) Eldorado Blanc, Fièvre Noire – par Rais Neza Boneza
Kimpa Vita Press & Publishers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2012
Communique de Presse – L’auteur Rais Neza Boneza basé en Norvège, est originaire de la région des Grand-Lacs d’Afrique. Il s’ est inspire de ce contexte et son travail en tant que chercheur et praticien sur le question de paix et de la transformation des conflits pour créer une œuvre de fiction et des faits pour amener à la prise de conscience sur le sort des communautés et des simples individus victimes des conflits à l’est du Congo.
→ read full article“Respect India”
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2012
‘Respect India’ is a call similar to ‘Quit India’ fervently made by the ordinary citizens of India here at Idinthakarai on May 8, 2012. ‘Quit India’ was a civil disobedience movement launched in response to Mahatma Gandhi’s ‘Quit India’ speech delivered on August 8, 1942 at the Gowalia Tank Maidan in Bombay. Gandhiji’s call for determined, but passive resistance appeared in his appeal to “Do or Die.” India is facing a similar “Do or Die” situation today.
→ read full articleIndia Kudankulam Protest: 23,000 Surrender Voter ID Cards
Indo-Asian News Service – Hindustan Times,
14 May 2012
May 9, 2012 – Around 23,000 people belonging to nine villages in Tamil Nadu have surrendered their voter identity cards to draw attention to the continued neglect of the peaceful protest against the Kundankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP). The decision to surrender the voter identity cards was taken by PMANE as the central and the state governments remain silent on the indefinite fast undertaken by round 340 people at Idinthakarai for nine days.
→ read full articleAction Plan to End Banishing of “Witches” in Burkina Faso
Brahima Ouédraogo – Inter Press Service-IPS,
14 May 2012
It’s called “the bearing of the body” in Burkina Faso: when a death is deemed suspicious and a group of men carry the corpse through the community, believing the deceased will guide them towards the person responsible for the death. The accused – almost always women – are then chased out of their homes. According to the Ministry for Social Action and National Solidarity, some 600 women across the country have fallen victim to this practice. Most have found precarious shelter at one of 11 centres around the country, run by various non-governmental organisations.
→ read full articleBlack Fever, White Eldorado – by Rais Neza Boneza
Kimpa Vita Press & Publishers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2012
PRESS RELEASE-Author Rais Neza Boneza is based in Norway; he is originally from the Great-Lakes region of Africa. Now, he taps that background and work as a peace researcher and practitioner to create a work of fiction and fact to bring in the awareness about the plight of people and simple individuals in the conflict-ridden Eastern-Congo.
→ read full articleKoodankulam’s Reserve Water Requirements
Power Engineering – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
NPCIL did not do its homework regarding the availability of fresh water at or near the reactor site before signing a contract worth Rs 13,000 crore with the Russians. They constructed the KKNPP campus in violation of the terms and conditions laid down by the AERB. NPCIL and elements within the Government of India have been spreading misinformation about the safety of the reactor complex. Since the back-up for coolant water is insufcient, the commissioning of the reactor will be a dangerous gamble.
→ read full articleEmpire of Capital
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
Colonialism Never Ended, It Continues by Different Means – Despite its trumpeted reforms, the IMF remains under the control of the US and the former colonial powers. Belgium still has eight times the votes of Bangladesh, Italy a bigger share than India, and the United Kingdom and France between them more voting power than the 49 African members. The managing director remains, as imperial tradition insists, a European, her deputy an American.
→ read full articleJapan to Be Without Nuclear Power for First Time in 42 Years
Fox News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
Japan will be without nuclear power for the first time in 42 years when the country’s last working commercial reactor is switched off Saturday [5 May 2012]. At 5:00pm local time, the Hokkaido Electric Power Company will begin to reduce power at the No. 3 reactor at Tomari nuclear plant, broadcaster NHK reported. Output from the reactor is scheduled to cease completely at 11:00pm before it is brought to a “cold shutdown” at 2:00am Sunday.
→ read full articleDangers of Nuclear Power Generation
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
The exact number of casualties resulting from the Chernobyl meltdown is a matter of controversy, but according to a United Nations report, as many as 9 million people have been adversely affected by the disaster. Since 1986, the rate of thyroid cancer in affected areas has increased ten-fold. An area of 155,000 square kilometers (almost half the size of Italy) in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia is still severely contaminated.
→ read full articleJohan Galtung an Anti-Semite? I Don’t Think So!
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
I think that Galtung’s main difficulty, in all this brouhaha, has been to speak carelessly and somewhat peremptorily about highly sensitive matters, previously taboo, that require much care and precision of speech in order to avoid arousing post-traumatic fears and giving an impression of insensitivity to people’s basic needs. “An anti-Semite used to be someone who didn’t like Jews. Now it means someone Jews don’t like.”
→ read full article(Italian) Non Siamo Soli Sul Pianeta
Jonathan Metzger – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
7 May 2012
L’uomo non è solo nell’universo. Questo è uno slogan diffuso tra gli appassionati di ufologia. Di solito viene pronunciato con un vago tono di biasimo, probabilmente per instillare la sensazione inquietante che lassù, da qualche parte, si nasconda un mondo sconosciuto. Un mondo che incombe minaccioso sulle nostre vite, mentre noi, o almeno la maggior parte di noi, non ce ne rendiamo conto.
→ read full articleKeyboard Cops: CISPA
Naomi Wolf – Project Syndicate,
7 May 2012
CISPA is the successor to SOPA, the “anti-piracy” bill that was recently defeated after an outcry from citizens and Internet companies. SOPA, framed by its proponents in terms of protecting America’s entertainment industry from theft, would have shackled content providers and users, and spawned copycat legislation around the world.
→ read full articleOPEN LETTER to: Indian PM, Home Affairs Minister, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
We the undersigned are very concerned over the heavy-handed manner in which the governments of India and Tamil Nadu have treated the non-violent struggle against Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant. We understand that just between September and December 2011, complaints were registered against more than 55,000 people in just one police station – the Koodankulam police station.
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Political Correctness Gone Mad
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
RT’s Anastasia Churkina reports on the latest examples of political correctness gone wild in the U.S. We examine cases that could be on their way to turning the land of the free into the “United States of ‘I’m Sorry.'”
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American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein
Baraka Productions, Ridgen Film & Mohawk Films – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
Norman Gary Finkelstein (born December 8, 1953) is an American political scientist, activist and author. His primary fields of research are the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust, an interest motivated by the experiences of his parents who are Jewish Holocaust survivors.
→ read full articleA Putsch against War
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
In some countries, they arrest the president, occupy government offices and TV stations and annul the constitution. They then publish Communique No. 1, explaining the dire need to save the nation. Not in Israel. In our country we are now seeing a kind of verbal uprising against the elected politicians by a group of current and former army generals, foreign intelligence and internal security chiefs who condemn the government’s threat to start a war against Iran, and some of them condemn the government’s failure to negotiate with the Palestinians for peace.
→ read full articleHunger Strikes at ‘Unsafe’ Nukes Reactor
Blanche Tsetong, NewMatilda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) in Tamil Nadu, India, will be operational in less than a month, despite a 23-year long protest from nearby villages, including rolling hunger strikes. The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) claims there has been little transparency or public consultation in the building of the plant.
→ read full articleJustice Requires Action to Stop Subjugation of Palestinians
Bishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace laureate – Tampa Bay Times,
7 May 2012
These are among the hardest words I have ever written. But they are vitally important. Not only is Israel harming Palestinians, but it is harming itself. A quarter-century ago I barnstormed around the United States encouraging Americans, particularly students, to press for divestment from South Africa. Today, regrettably, the time has come for similar action to force an end to Israel’s long-standing occupation of Palestinian territory and refusal to extend equal rights to Palestinian citizens who suffer from some 35 discriminatory laws.
→ read full articleDavid Horowitz’s Distortion of Reality and Truth
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
This week the David Horowitz’s Freedom Center perpetrated the same (foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman’s) historical distortion in its NYT advertisement comparing college professors who advocate Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against the state of Israel to the Nazi government’s persecution of Jews.
→ read full articleIndia, Koodankulam: Hunger Strikers’ Health Deteriorate – Appeal to Return Voter ID Cards
Dr. S.P. Udayakumar, PMANE – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
The indefinite hunger strike has been going on for the past 7 days. Some 25 men have been on the fast since May 1 and 302 women and 10 more men have joined the strike on May 4, 2012. We request all our supporters in Tamil Nadu and the rest of India to return their Voter IDs to the local Tahsildar and express their opposition to the governments and show their solidarity with our campaign. Indians living abroad can return their Voter IDs to the Indian embassies in their respective countries.
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