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36 Percent of Fukushima Children Have Abnormal Growths from Radiation Exposure
Michael Kelley – Business Insider,
23 Jul 2012
Of more than 38,000 children tested from the Fukushima Prefecture in Japan, 36 percent have abnormal growths – cysts or nodules – on their thyroids a year after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, as reported by ENENews.
→ read full articleOn Writing Peace Poetry
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
When poetry for peace we write
We mean a much deeper might
West’s Mistake: Focus on Al Qaeda
Dr Robin-Edward Poulton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
The Real Big Problem Is Saudi Arabia – One of our really big foreign policy mistakes in the West has been to focus on Al Qaeda, as if it were an isolated phenomenon.
→ read full articleNot Much Peace? Also the Mediators’ Fault
Johan Galtung, 23 Jul 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Most difficult is to argue positive peace: cooperation for mutual and equal benefit and harmony, emotional resonance. Peace studies are not alone in this predicament. Health studies focus much more on absence of disease than on presence of positive health, with only vague efforts to spell it out. Like psychology: long on mental disorders, but still short on positive psychology. There are, say, four explanations, not justifications, around.
→ read full article‘After 9/11 NSA Had Secret Deal with White House’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
RT talks to Andrew Drake, a former National Security Agency executive in the US who sacrificed his career to blow the whistle on wrong-doings inside the NSA. He was sentenced to a year probation on July 2011.
→ read full articleGlobal Banks Are the Financial Services Wing of the Drug Cartels
Ed Vulliamy – The Guardian,
23 Jul 2012
“Steal a little,” wrote Bob Dylan, “they throw you in jail; steal a lot and they make you a king.” These days, he might recraft the line to read: deal a little dope, they throw you in jail; launder the narco billions, they’ll make you apologise to the US Senate.
→ read full articleOn Types of Humiliation: A Checklist
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Who has been subjected to what type of humiliation? A checklist (nouns ending in -ATION)
→ read full article125 Days of Confinement
Dr. S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
July 21, 2012 marked the 125th day of my and Pushparayan’s self-exile here at Idinthakarai. All our comrades who were arrested and lodged in the jails of Cuddalore, Nanguneri and Tiruchirappalli have come back and resumed their routine life. Ever since March 19, 2012, when the Tamil Nadu government changed its stand on the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) issue, we have been protected by the people, mostly women and children. They come in thousands and sleep around the Parish Priest’s Bungalow where Rayan and I stay and sleep.
→ read full article(Portuguese) O Lado Mais Sinistro do Sistema Bancário
Flávio Aguiar – Carta Maior,
23 Jul 2012
De crise em crise, de susto em susto, de revelação em revelação, vem à tona dia após dia o lado mais sinistro do sistema bancário internacional. Semanas atrás foi o caso da manipulação da taxa Libor da banca britânica, promovida pelo banco Barclays. Agora foi a vez do HSBC. Uma investigação de mais de ano, feita pelo Senado norte-americano, concluiu insofismavelmente que a seção norte-americana do banco lavou dinheiro dos cartéis mexicanos de narcotráfico de 2002 a 2009.
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Vandana Shiva on the Problem with Genetically-Modified Seeds (Video of the Week)
Bill Moyers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Bill talks to scientist and philosopher Vandana Shiva, who’s become a rock star in the global battle over genetically modified seeds. These seeds — considered “intellectual property” by the big companies who own the patents — are globally marketed to monopolize food production and profits.
→ read full articleObama’s Scramble for Africa: Secret Wars, Secret Bases, and the Pentagon’s “New Spice Route” in Africa
Nick Turse - TomDispatch,
23 Jul 2012
Unbeknownst to most Americans and people around the world, the US has been steadily increasing its military footprint in Africa. In East African ports, huge metal shipping containers arrive with the everyday necessities for a military on the make. They’re then loaded onto trucks that set off down rutted roads toward dusty bases and distant outposts.
→ read full articleUK: Now the Army Is Giving the Orders
Kim Sengupta & Nigel Morris – The Independent,
23 Jul 2012
As foreign athletes start to arrive, military sends officers to tackle security shambles. Army chiefs have been dispatched to the headquarters of G4S to take a more active role in controlling security for the London Olympics, The Independent has learnt, following the company’s failure to fulfil its £250m contract to guard the Games.
→ read full articleLimits to Growth and Climate Change
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
According to the “empty-world” picture of economics, the limiting factors in the production of food and goods are shortages of capital and labor. The land, forests, fossil fuels, minerals, oceans filled with fish, and other natural resources upon which human labor and capital operate, are assumed to be present in such large quantities that they are not limiting factors
→ read full articleThe Creeping Conquest of Palestine
Socialist Worker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Israel’s illegal settlements in occupied territory–and the U.S. government’s tolerance for them–are shining examples of the might-makes-right principle of colonialism. Israel’s project of colonial expansion has been thrust back onto the international stage by a report from a committee headed by a former Israeli Supreme Court justice recommending the legalization of Jewish-only settlements in the West Bank.
→ read full articleHuman Corpses Harvested in Multimillion-Dollar Trade
Kate Willson, Vlad Lavrov, Martina Keller, Thomas Maier and Gerard Ryle - The Sydney Morning Herald,
23 Jul 2012
A grisly trade in human body parts leaves relatives grieving and some recipients at risk of life-threatening disease. On February 24 [2012], Ukrainian authorities made an alarming discovery: bones and other human tissues crammed into coolers in a grimy white minibus.
→ read full articleWhat About N-Waste from Kudankulam, HC Asks Centre
The Times of India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Where will the nuclear waste from the Kudankulam nuclear power plant be kept and what are the Centre’s plans to process the spent fuel to ensure that it does not damage the environment? This is what the Madras high court, hearing a batch of public interest petitions on the nuclear plant, wants to know from the Centre.
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Chickpeace – Peace vs. War Journalism
Oded LevRan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
This is a visual communication studies final project at the Holon Institute of Technology (HIT), Israel, by Oded LevRan. The video presents the main principles of Peace Journalism using hummus, which is a staple dish for both Israelis and Palestinians, as an analogy to reality.
→ read full articleFor What?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Why am I giving the Palestinians so much more attention and psychic energy than the Kurds, Tibetans, or Kashmiris, and a host of other worthy causes? And how do I explain to myself a preoccupation with the unlawful, immoral, and imprudent foreign policy of the U.S. Government, the sovereign state of my residence upon whose governmental resources I depend upon for security and a range of rights?
→ read full articleArming Civil Society Worldwide
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
This exploration is concerned with the conditions required for comprehension and uptake of American-style democracy worldwide as a basis for the viability of the emergent American empire. The focus is on a unique feature of the American Constitution which ensures that citizens have the right to bear arms. [Plus: Addendum on last week’s mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado-USA (July 2012)]
→ read full articleGates Foundation Pours $10 Million into Genetically Modified Crops
Common Dreams staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Vandana Shiva: Bill Gates “is so totally wrong on this assumption that genetically modified seeds produce more.” In a decision outraging campaigners for food sovereignty and agroecological approaches, the Gates Foundation has awarded a $10 million grant to develop genetically modified (GM) crops for use in sub-Saharan Africa.
→ read full articleDo Business Schools Incubate Criminals?
Luigi Zingales, Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
The recent scandals at Barclays Plc, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and other banks might give the impression that the financial sector has some serious morality problems. Unfortunately, it’s worse than that: We are dealing with a drop in ethical standards throughout the business world, and our graduate schools are partly to blame.
→ read full articleThe Lily-Pad Strategy
David Vine - TomDispatch,
23 Jul 2012
Unknown to most Americans, Washington’s garrisoning of the planet is on the rise, thanks to a new generation of bases the military calls “lily pads” (as in a frog jumping across a pond toward its prey). These are small, secretive, inaccessible facilities with limited numbers of troops, spartan amenities, and prepositioned weaponry and supplies.
→ read full articleQuiet Planning For Post-Assad Syria Has Roots in 2008 Conference
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
For the last six months, 40 senior representatives of various Syrian opposition groups have been meeting quietly in Germany under the tutelage of the U.S. Institute for Peace (USIP) to plan for how to set up a post-Assad Syrian government.
→ read full articleRegulators and HSBC Faulted in Report on Money Laundering
Nathaniel Popper – The New York Times,
23 Jul 2012
The global bank HSBC has been used by Mexican drug cartels looking to get cash back into the United States, by Saudi Arabian banks that needed access to dollars despite their terrorist ties and by Iranians who wanted to circumvent United States sanctions, a Senate report says.
→ read full articleSyria’s Deadly Bomb Attack on Assad Cabinet: Is This ‘The Price’ Clinton Warned Of?
Finian Cunningham – Global Research,
23 Jul 2012
The deadly bomb attack on the top-level meeting of President Bashar Al-Assad’s senior cabinet ministers leaves little doubt that Western intelligence was involved. While two groups claimed responsibility – the Syrian Free Army and a little-known jihadi organisation calling itself the Lord of the Martyrs Brigade – the weight of evidence points to crucial Western military support in executing the strike.
→ read full articleFrom an Unlikely Source, a Serious Challenge to Wall Street
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
23 Jul 2012
There’s something brewing that looks like it might be a blueprint to effectively take on the financial services industry: a plan to allow local governments to take on the problem of neighborhoods blighted by toxic home loans and foreclosures through the use of eminent domain. Cooked up by a small group of businessmen and ex-venture capitalists, the audacious idea falls under the category of “That’s so crazy, it just might work!”
→ read full articleOops!
TMS Editor,
23 Jul 2012
Every Saturday morning he has an early tee time. He gets up early and eager, golfs all day long, sometimes 36 holes.
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DEA Agents Out Of Control in Honduras
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
The war on terror isn’t the only battle claiming innocent lives: the war on drugs in Latin America continues to rage on. In the past month, officers with the US Drug Enforcement Agency have shot and killed several innocent people in Honduras. To talk more about this, Adrienne Pine, professor at American University, joins us to discuss.
→ read full articleAustralian Aborigines Learn By Cuban Method
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
A total of 10 Australian aborigines between 25 and 53 years of age ended their basic studies of reading and writing through the Cuban literacy method, “Yo sí puedo” (yes I can), José Chala, coordinator of the program in this nation confirmed today [6 Jul 2012].
→ read full articleThere Will Be Hell to Pay for NATO’s Holy War
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
16 Jul 2012
Hillary has just called on “Western powers” and their Arab stooges – the NATOGCC compound that passes for the “international community” – to “make it clear that Russia and China will pay a price because they are holding up progress” regarding weaponized regime change in Syria. In non-newspeak, this means, “If you block our new war, there will be payback”.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Corpo e Alma
Dr. Jorge Carvajal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Entrevista com Dr. Jorge Carvajal, médico cirurgião da Universidade de Andaluzia, Espanha, pioneiro da Medicina Bioenergética. –Qual adoece primeiro: o corpo ou a alma?
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Kucinich Explains “LIBOR”
DJKucinich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Late last month, Barclay’s Bank, a multinational bank and financial institution based in the United Kingdom, admitted to regulators that it tried to manipulate something called “Libor” before and during the financial crisis in 2008. ”Libor” is an acronym for London Interbank Offered Rate. It is a rate used as a benchmark for the cost of lending throughout the financial system, and it is also used as a reference rate for a wide range of financial products like car loans, adjustable-rate mortgages, student loans and credit cards.
→ read full articleGlaxoSmithKline Fraud Case: Does Crime Pay?
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
A business model of criminal activity: Are record fines enough to stop multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical companies from committing fraud? As the pharmaceutical giant is fined a record sum of $3bn, we ask if the move will be a deterrent for others.
→ read full article‘The Last War Crime’ Debuts at Cannes–but Censored in US.
Jeanine Molloff – Nation of Change,
16 Jul 2012
In spite of strong evidence identifying Dick Cheney as the mastermind behind this torture regime–the subject remains taboo, both in the ‘news’ business and in Hollywood–that is until Hollywood executives watched trailers for the anti-war documentary.
→ read full articleCovering Syria: The Information War
Aisling Byrne – Asia Times,
16 Jul 2012
What we are witnessing is a new generation of warfare – an information war where, by using what is in effect propaganda, the aim is to construct a consensual consciousness to provide overwhelming public support for regime change. Paul Pillar, a former CIA official, notes that the neocon case for arming the Syrian opposition “is a continuation of the same patterns of neoconservative thinking that led to [president George W] Bush’s war [on Iraq]. There is the same wishful thinking substituting for careful analysis about consequences.”
→ read full article(Portuguese) Do Que Um Cão Não Precisa
Marcela Godoy - Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais-ANDA,
16 Jul 2012
Do que um cão não precisa? Essa pergunta pode suscitar discussão, algumas reflexões e um bocado de polêmica. A resposta nem sempre pode ser aquela que desejamos ouvir. O que estamos fazendo com eles no sentido de deformar suas mentes e corpos para adaptá-los à conveniência dos padrões humanos?
→ read full articleA 12 inch ___
TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Two friends were playing golf when one pulled out a cigar.
→ read full articleFormer Monsanto Employee Exposes Fraud
Sarah Damian, Food Integrity Campaign – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
“I saw what was really the fraud associated with genetic engineering: My impression, and I think most people’s impression with genetically engineered foods is that it’s just like putting one gene in there and that one gene is expressed. But in reality, the process of genetic engineering changes the cell in such a way that it’s unknown what the effects are going to be.”
→ read full article(Portuguese) O Capitalismo Neoliberal Está Morto; Que Venha o Capitalismo Regulado
J. Carlos de Assis – Carta Maior,
16 Jul 2012
O coração do sistema, os bancos, já não funciona. E não há como fazê-lo voltar segundo a fórmula tradicional, antes da liberação financeira, de captação de recursos no mercado a curto prazo e financiamento do sistema produtivo a longo prazo. Para reconciliar o sistema produtivo com o sistema financeiro, alguém terá de pagar o custo da especulação exacerbada.
→ read full articleThe Great Transformation: From the Welfare State to the Imperial Police State
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
The United States has experienced the biggest political upheaval in its recent history: the transformation of a burgeoning welfare state into a rapidly expanding, highly intrusive and deeply entrenched police state, linked to the most developed technological innovations.
→ read full article(Italian) Willy Brandt 20 Anni Dopo
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
È morto vent’anni fa, il grande statista tedesco. La Germania, l’Europa e il mondo hanno ampi motivi di riconoscenza e molto da imparare da questo maestro di politica in condizioni di gran tensione e polarizzazione. Che cos’era la sua formula di Ostpolitik – una nuova politica verso l’Est? Brandt rese più facile alla Germania dell’Est la resa a quella Ovest quando i tempi furono maturi, l’accettazione dell’articolo 23 della Germania Federale che concepiva l’Est come parte dell’Ovest.
→ read full articleRhymed Reflections
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Mediators, To Conflict Resolution Theory and Practice, more dignity you can bring…
→ read full articleBrazil Set to Unleash Genetically Modified Mosquitoes
Common Dreams staff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Oxitec continues “dangerously misguided” plan to combat dengue fever. Brazil is readying a plan to unleash large numbers of genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes in an effort to combat dengue fever, a plan that environmentalists have previously called “dangerously misguided.”
→ read full articleWaves of Lawsuits Pending: Barclays Affair Rocks European Banking Industry
Martin Hesse – Der Spiegel,
16 Jul 2012
The LIBOR rate-fixing scandal has sent a shock wave through the whole European financial industry. A number of other banks are suspected of having manipulated interest rates, and Deutsche Bank has already suspended two employees. Experts warn of a wave of lawsuits that could ruin some institutions.
→ read full articleAfter MF Global, Another Brokerage Firm Collapses With $200 Million Missing
Azam Ahmed – The New York Times,
16 Jul 2012
After discovering accounting irregularities, regulators on Monday [9 Jul 2012] essentially shut down PFGBest, a prominent player in the small world of futures trading. Now, banks accounts with customer funds appear to be short more than $200 million, regulators said. On Monday [9 Jul 2012] morning, according to a statement to clients, the brokerage firm’s chairman and chief executive, Russell R. Wasendorf Sr., tried to commit suicide.
→ read full articleImplication of Indwelling Intelligence in Global Confidence-building
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Sustaining the Construction and Dynamic of Psychosocial Reality through Questioning – This is a reflection on the meaning that could be associated with “indwelling” and more specifically with “indwelling intelligence” — and what might then be its “global” implications. A primary concern is the increasingly apparent disconnect between words — often characterized as “empty” — and commitments in a political context from which viable global strategies are expected to emerge.
→ read full articleCredit Card Giants Agree On $6bn Settlement
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Credit card companies Visa and MasterCard have agreed to pay more than $6bn to US retailers in a negotiated settlement to resolve a seven-year-old case. Visa agreed to pay $4.03bn to settle the class-action lawsuit while MasterCard and banks that issue cards and were also part of the suit will pay $2.02bn, according to documents filed in federal court in New York on Friday [13 Jul 2012].
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Donations by Visa, MasterCard May Resume, Court Rules
Loek Essers, PCWorld – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Icelandic payments processor Valitor must reopen a gateway handling Visa and MasterCard donations to Wikileaks, a judge ruled Thursday [12 Jul 2012]. However, the gateway will probably remain closed while Valitor appeals the case, an attorney for DataCell, the Icelandic company hosting WikiLeaks’ donations website, said on Friday [13 Jul 2012]. The court ruled that Valitor must resume processing payments for Wikileaks’ partner DataCell within two weeks, according to the ruling.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Aborígenes Australianos Aprendem a Ler e Escrever com Método Cubano
Irã News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Um total de 10 aborígenes australianos entre 25 e 53 anos concluíram seus estudos básicos de leitura e escrita através do método cubano de alfabetização“Yo sí puedo” “Sim, eu posso”, confirmou hoje [6 Julho 2012] José Chala, coordenador do programa nesta nação.
→ read full articleKoodankulam Reactor Vessel: Faulty, Illegal and Dangerous
Dr. V T Padmanabhan, DiaNuke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
A month ago, when our first report was written, we had no information about the quality of the rector pressure vessel (RPV) installed at KKNPP (Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project) during the month of Aug 2006.Vessels of that vintage would not have been allowed in post-Chernobyl Russia after the 1988 updating of pressure vessel standards. Such sub-standard pressure vessels are not permissible in the major markets. In this case, if the reactor is started, it will be next to impossible to inspect it. Hence the emergency.
→ read full articleEngineering Consent for an Attack on Syria: Another Syrian “Civilian Massacre” Story Falls Apart
Alex Newman – The New American,
16 Jul 2012
Yet another alleged “massacre” of “civilians” by the Syrian regime was in the establishment-press headlines this week, supposedly a brutal killing spree by dictator Bashar al-Assad’s forces. Despite hysterical reporting and wild statements by political leaders, however, even “opposition activists” were conceding early on that most of the dead were actually armed [by the West] combatants who had staged attacks on the regime’s military forces.
→ read full articleWalking the Road of War and Death toward Peace and Life
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
One of the main purposes of the Peace March Srebrenica 2012 is to provide the participants with the similar experience that internal displaced persons in Bosnia experienced during the War in Bosnia in 1995. In this program, the participants are to walk from Tuzla to Srebrenica (approximately 120 km or 75 miles) for three days through woods in hills and mountains.
→ read full articleThe Origin of Cooperation
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
The Mystery of Self-Sacrifice in War – Tribalism involves passionate attachment to one’s own group, self-sacrifice for the sake of the group, willingness both to die and to kill if necessary to defend the group from its enemies, and belief that in case of a conflict, one’s own group is always in the right. Unfortunately these emotions make war possible…
→ read full articleThe Real LIBOR Scandal
Paul Craig Roberts and Nomi Prins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
According to news reports, UK banks fixed the London interbank borrowing rate (Libor) with the complicity of the Bank of England (UK central bank) at a low rate in order to obtain a cheap borrowing cost. The way this scandal is playing out is that the banks benefitted from borrowing at these low rates. Whereas this is true, it also strikes us as simplistic and as a diversion from the deeper, darker scandal.
→ read full articlePros and Cons of Solidarity with the Palestinian Struggle
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
The posture of solidarity with the struggle of ‘the other’ is more complex than it might appear at first glance… As Alsaafin powerfully reminds us who attempt to act in solidarity, while she is addressing a related message to the Palestinians, it is for the Palestinians to exert leadership and find inspiration, and for the rest of us to step to one side.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Uma Pausa Para o Luto
Flávio Aguiar – Carta Maior,
16 Jul 2012
O irmão mais moço, Jaime, de Gabriel Garcia Marquez (84 anos) confirma: o escritor está perdendo a memória, e não consegue mais escrever. É uma perda imensurável, para a literatura e para o jornalismo. Como se isso não bastasse, no fim de semana que passou morreu, aos 95 anos, Ernest Borgnine.
→ read full articleTwo Faces: The Most Successful Terrorist Of The 20th Century
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Yitzhak Shamir died two weeks ago and was buried in the cemetery of the “Great of the Nation” in Jerusalem. He was 97 years old and had been vegetating for years in a state of dementia. Most Israelis did not know that he was still alive. When I described him on TV as “the most successful terrorist of the 20th century”, the interviewer raised his eyebrows. But it was an accurate description. Shamir, the dead honest fanatic, has many followers. Olmert, the living corrupt pragmatist, has very few. Netanyahu, their current successor, has the vices of both and the virtues of neither.
→ read full articleBreivik: A Part of Norwegian Reality (Part III)
Johan Galtung, 16 Jul 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
The court gave him a podium to broadcast his views, nationally and internationally. Of course he had his right to tell his version, the ‘what’ and ‘why’. But he had confessed and horrible details added little to the worst misdeed in Norwegian history. The open court process could have been limited to one week. And the incapability of both sides of the psychiatric divide to reflect what political conflict polarization does to people is not a court issue. And Norway has to come to grips with what happened.
→ read full articleOccupy Buddhism – Or Why the Dalai Lama is a Marxist
Stuart Smithers, Tricycle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
When the Dalai Lama announced his Marxist leanings last summer in Minneapolis, the only surprise was how surprising it was. The blogosphere was once again astir with this nonrevelation, which came by way of an Indian-born Tibetan journalist, Tsering Namgyal, who had tagged along when the Dalai Lama held a nearly three-hour meeting with 150 Chinese students.
→ read full articleA Gift for Santa
David Inkey, UN Poet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
I want to live in a world where the past tense, the present tense,
and the future tense–all avoid pre-tense.
Press Statement by Julian Assange Defense Fund outside the Ecuadorian Embassy
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
The United States Government has instigated a grand jury investigation against Julian Assange and other “founders or managers” of WikiLeaks. Australian diplomats have described this investigation as being of “unprecedented scale and nature”. There is irrefutable evidence in the public record of subpoenas being issued and witnesses being compelled to testify against Mr. Assange.
→ read full articleGlaxoSmithKline Settles Healthcare Fraud Case for $3 Billion
David Ingram, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
GlaxoSmithKline Plc agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor criminal charges and pay $3 billion to settle what government officials on Monday [2 Jul 2012] described as the largest case of healthcare fraud in U.S. history. GSK targeted the antidepressant Paxil to patients under age 18 when it was approved for adults only, and it pushed the drug Wellbutrin for uses it was not approved for.
→ read full articleThe Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Global Coalition of Big Business Actors
Mark Vorpahl – Global Research,
9 Jul 2012
During the week of July 1st – 7th an international cabal of corporate lobbyists will be meeting behind closed doors in San Diego. Their aim is moving the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) towards completion. For over two years TPP negotiations have been in process, yet the proposals and agreements made so far have been carefully kept from public view, until recently.
→ read full articlePeace Journalism and Journalism for Peace
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
Understanding the Differences and Relationships between Peace Journalism and Journalism for Peace
→ read full articleCitizens to Monsanto: ‘Get Out of Hawaii’
EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
Monsanto operates about 8,000 acres in Hawaii for GE seed production. According to organizers, these operations use the most valuable agricultural lands and water in food production, as well as large amounts of chemicals and pesticides that are required to grow these crops. Hawaii is a global center for the open-air field testing of experimental GE crops, but no impact studies have been conducted.
→ read full article(Italian) Dalla Westphalia alla Weltinnenpolitik
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
Il mondo come sistema di stati, il sistema Vestfalia del 24 ottobre 1684, sta giungendo al termine. Un holon pieno di contraddizioni. Per cui la guerra era un diritto (se dichiarata) e il perseguimento degli interessi della nazione dominante in ciascuno stato era la regola. Con le colonie gli europei conquistarono terre e persone; e come imperi comandarono attraverso le elite locali.
→ read full articleThe Wall Street Scandal of all Scandals
Robert Reich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
“Yes, just when you thought the Street had hit bottom, an even deeper level of public-be-damned greed and corruption is revealed. Sit down and hold on to your chair.”
→ read full articlePoisoning Arafat
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
For me, there was no surprise. From the very first day, I was convinced that Yasser Arafat had been poisoned by Ariel Sharon. I even wrote about it several times. Arafat was the man who was able to make peace with Israel, willing to do so, and – more important – to get his people, including the Islamists, to accept it. This would have put an end to the settlement enterprise. That’s why he was poisoned.
→ read full articleThe Lessons Washington Can’t Draw From the Failure of the Military Option
Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch,
9 Jul 2012
The Pentagon is, by now, a world unto itself, with a staggering budget at a moment when no other power or combination of powers comes near to challenging this country’s might. Even the once-civilian CIA has undergone a process of para-militarization and now runs its own “covert” drone wars in Pakistan and elsewhere. In a sense, even the military has been “militarized.” In these last years, a secret army of special operations forces, 60,000 or more strong and still expanding, has grown like an incubus inside the regular armed forces.
→ read full articleHuman Rights Council Establishes Working Group to Negotiate a Draft Declaration on the Right to Peace
The UN Office at Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
Also Adopts Text on National Human Rights Institutions – 5 July 2012 The UN Human Rights Council this afternoon decided to establish a working group to negotiate a draft declaration on the right to peace and adopted a resolution on national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights. 34 votes in favor, 12 abstentions, and 1 against, the USA.
→ read full articleSquelching Secrets: Why Are Obama’s Prosecutors Pursuing John Kiriakou?
Dan Froomkin – Huffington Post,
9 Jul 2012
John Kiriakou is a 14-year CIA veteran who, until his indictment, was best known for publicly rejecting the Bush administration’s Orwellian doublespeak about “enhanced interrogation.” In a 2007 ABC News interview, Kiriakou became the first person directly involved in the handling of terror suspects to call waterboarding at the CIA’s hands what it was — torture.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Parlamento Europeu Põe Ponto Final no ACTA
Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
O Acordo Comercial Anticontrafação (ACTA) foi esta quarta feira [4 Julho 2012] rejeitado no Parlamento Europeu com 478 votos contra, 39 votos a favor e 169 abstenções. Vital Moreira foi o único eurodeputado português a votar a favor deste Tratado. O ACTA ficará agora sem efeito no espaço da União Europeia.
→ read full articleWelds on Reactor Pressure Vessel
S.P. Udayakuamr, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
Regarding the welds on Reactor Pressure Vessel being erected at the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project, the Bulletin of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board records that “The original design of RPV did not contemplate welds in the core region. However, the vessel now used has two welds in the core region. The effect of lifetime neutron fluence on these welds was evaluated and found to be acceptable.” Could you please let me know who decided to change the RPV at KKNPP, when it was decided to change it, how was the decision made, and a copy of the evaluation report…
→ read full article(Italian) Diaz. La Cassazione Ha Confermato le 25 Condanne Del 2010
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
Intervista a Lorenzo Guadagnucci – Un’amara, e impossibile, serenità sussiste dalle 19,10 circa del 5 luglio sera in molti Italiani e non nei confronti di una verità giudiziaria che evidenzia ancora responsabilità impunite. Per una sentenza incompleta. O improbabilmente completa.
→ read full articleJews DO Control the Media
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
The following article was published on the popular Zionist site Times Of Israel. It actually confirms everything we say and write about Jewish power, Jewish identity, Jewish left and Jewish AZZ (anti Zionist Zionists). It is also consistent with each and every finding in my latest book The Wandering Who? We are dealing here with a racist chauvinist political identity. Zionist honesty is a rare product, make sure that you read this article carefully and make the most out of it.
→ read full articleMurdoch May Be a Convenient Demon, but the Media Is a Junta
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
Murdoch’s dominance is not as it is often presented. Although he is now one of the West’s accredited demons, thanks to his phone-hackers, he is but part of a media system that will not change when his empire is broken up. The political extremism that is the concentration of the world’s wealth in few hands and the accelerating impoverishment of the majority will ensure this.
→ read full articleKenneth Waltz Is Not Crazy, But He Is Dangerous: Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
It seems surprising that the ultra-establishment journal, Foreign Affairs, would go to the extreme of publishing a lead article by the noted political scientist, Kenneth Waltz, with the title “Why Iran Should Get the Bomb” in its current issue.
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How Barclays Manipulated the Libor Rates (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
The Barclays Bank scandal centres around a key interest rate known as Libor. Al Jazeera’s Dominic Kane reports on exactly what that is. We also speak to Bill Black, a former US banking regulator for more clarity on how this multi-trillion dollar fraud was perpetrated.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to Honduran President Porfirio Lobo Sosa
Robert Shulman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
Re: Alberto Castillo Hyde, pro-bono diplomat, president of Fundacion Vamos Panama, and thief of $1.5 million dollars. The US representative of Fundacion Vamos Panama was Herbert E. Caswell, S and H investment firm of Jacksonville, Florida… I am standing by for your response and you can be certain, I will not go away anytime soon, or in the future for that matter, until justice is served.
→ read full articleDeath of Democracy in America
Terrence Edward Paupp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
Democracy in the United States is completely dead. The American people are living under the tyranny of an oligarchy that is run between the financial sector on Wall Street and its bought-and-paid-for minions in Washington, D.C. With the exception of a few elected officials, the main concern of senators and congressmen is not the welfare of the people but the business interests of US big corporations, generally headed by the weapons industry and the military industrial complex.
→ read full articleThe Paraguayan Coup: How Agribusiness, Landowning and Media Elite, and the U.S. Are Paving A Way for Regional Destabilization
Francesca Fiorentini – War Times,
9 Jul 2012
Reading articles coming out of South America, I have been trying to wrap my head around not just what happened in Paraguay but what it could mean for the region. And I’m afraid it’s not good. When one connects the dots – many of which require further investigation–it suddenly feels as though the gains that countries in the region have made toward multi-lateral cooperation in order to guarantee economic and political sovereignty and are dangerously vulnerable.
→ read full articleMore Power to Corporations to Attack Nations
Public Citizen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
Extreme Foreign Investor Rights & Private Enforcement Would Promote Offshoring, Attacks Against Our Laws – Under the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) “free trade” agreement, foreign firms would gain an array of privileges:
→ read full articleWhy is Nobody Freaking Out About the LIBOR Banking Scandal?
Matt Taibbi - Rolling Stone,
9 Jul 2012
The LIBOR manipulation story has exploded into a major scandal overseas. The CEO of Barclays, Bob Diamond, has resigned in disgrace. The furor is over revelations that Barclays, the Royal Bank of Scotland, and other banks were monkeying with at least $10 trillion in loans (The Wall Street Journal is calculating that LIBOR affects $800 trillion worth of contracts). “It’s like finding out that the whole world is on quicksand,”
→ read full articleMafia Job
TMS Editor,
9 Jul 2012
The Mafia was looking for a new man to make weekly collections from the private businesses they were “protecting.”
→ read full articleSigns of the Times in Haiti
Nia Imara – Pambazuka News,
9 Jul 2012
The Military, Money, and the Meaning of an Occupation – There are periods in a country’s history when the signs and warnings that that history will soon enter into a dramatically different phase are clear as day. Such is the period today in Haiti, where daily events portend an inauspicious development for the future: the Haitian Army may soon be returning.
→ read full articleIs Our Patriotism Moral?
Gary Gutting – The New York Times,
9 Jul 2012
At the beginning of Plato’s “Republic,” Socrates asks what justice (doing the morally right thing) is, and Polemarchus replies that it’s helping your friends and harming your enemies. Moral behavior was the way you treated those in your “in-group,” as opposed to outsiders. Socrates questioned this ethical exclusivism that led most major moral philosophers (for example, Mill and Kant) to conclude that morality required an impartial, universal viewpoint that treated all human beings as equals.
→ read full articleThe Last ACTA: Intellectual Property Treaty Dies in European Parliament
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
It had been billed as an international effort to protect intellectual property. But on Wednesday [4 Jul 2012], the European Parliament overwhelmingly rejected ACTA following months of protests and claims that the law would infringe on individual rights. It appears doubtful that the treaty can be resurrected.
→ read full articleNo to War in Syria
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
Many may believe that there is a fight going on in Syria for ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom’. We can be seduced into thinking there is a magic wand or instant formula to mix that will create a democratic country, but there are none.
→ read full articleGabriel Garcia Marquez Suffering From Dementia, Says Brother
The National – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
The 85-year-old author’s brother Jaime told El Universal newspaper in Mexico that he speaks to the 1982 Nobel winner nearly every day from their native Colombia, hoping to help keep some of his memories alive. “What he has are some memory issues; in our family, we all end up with senile dementia. I am starting to get some of the onset complications and he already is in the throes of it,” he said.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Declaração Final da Cúpula dos Povos na Rio+20
Cúpula dos Povos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
As sínteses aprovadas nas plenárias integram e complementam este documento político para que os povos, movimentos e organizações possam continuar a convergir e aprofundar suas lutas e construção de alternativas em seus territórios, regiões e países em todos os cantos do mundo.
→ read full articleThe Julian Assange Show: Noam Chomsky & Tariq Ali
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
A surprise Arab drive for freedom, the West’s structural crisis and new hope coming from Latin America. That’s the modern world in the eyes of Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali, two prominent thinkers and this week’s [26 Jun 2012] guests on Julian Assange’s show on RT.
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Honduran Scholars Call on US to Cease Support for Military and Police (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Paul Jay, The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
40 Honduran scholars, supported by 300 academics from 29 countries, sent a letter to President Obama demanding the end of U.S. support for Honduran military and police training—and that the war on drugs is not a rationale for supporting a regime that is violently suppressing its own people.
→ read full articleThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
History of the Document – The Declaration
→ read full articleNew Report to Expose How Corporations ‘Capture’ the U.N.
Friends of the Earth International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
The report presents a number of cases that clearly expose how UN policies and agencies have been excessively influenced by the corporate sector. It also shows how this damages the ability of the UN to solve the various problems it is tasked with, removing its willingness to address the role of major corporations in causing many of the environmental, social, food and economic problems that the world faces today.
→ read full articleThe Silent and Telling Emergency in India
Dr. S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
Today [26 Jun 2012] is the 37the anniversary of the infamous emergency that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed on the people of India. Today is the 100th day of my and Pushparayan’s self-exile here at Idinthakarai. So far, more than 300 false cases have been filed against us, the leaders of the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE), and the struggling people of southern Tamil Nadu.
→ read full articleSinking Into Murky Water with Russia
Raminder Kaur - Countercurrents,
2 Jul 2012
Now that nuclear relationships have broadened to encompass US and French corporates in the aftermath of the Indo-US deal, Indian authorities are not just having an affair, but pimping Mother India in the pursuit of profits. Koodankulam has become a region of civil war fought on non-violent grounds led by the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy against a venal state that threatens with violence.
→ read full articleUNESCO Joins Global Fight against Anti-Gay Bullying
Matthew Jenkin, GayStarNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
A new report by UNESCO has revealed the extent of homophobic bullying worldwide, recognizing the problem as a human rights issue. The UN agency’s first ever international consultation on the issue brought together experts from NGOs, ministries of education and academia from more than 25 countries around the world.
→ read full articlePeace Journalism in Mexico
Jake Lynch, New Matilda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
There’s a concentration on arrests of alleged “kingpins” of the drug cartels, and on the death and destruction they leave in their wake as they scrabble for control of key smuggling routes. There is much less space for exploring why some people join the gangs in the first place, and what could be done — and is being done — to offer them a route to a better future.
→ read full article(Castellano) Paraguay: ¿Por Qué Cayó Lugo? La Conexión del Agronegocios
Atilio A. Boron, CETRI-Centre Tricontinental – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
El Congreso del Paraguay consumó este viernes [22 jun 2012] uno de los fraudes más descarados de la historia política latinoamericana: destituyó, en un juicio sumarísimo que se asemejó mucho más a un linchamiento político que a un proceso constitucional, al presidente Fernando Lugo. Con una rapidez proporcional a su ilegitimidad, el Senado más corrupto de las Américas -¡y eso es mucho decir!- lo halló culpable de “mal desempeño” de sus funciones.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Falando Um Pouco Sobre “A Economia da Natureza”
Marcus Eduardo de Oliveira – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
Enquanto as leis da Economia continuarem ignorando, por completo, as leis da Natureza, o futuro (o nosso futuro!) estará mais e mais comprometido, expondo todos nós em sério risco. Somente quando o colapso ambiental se fizer evidente, é que nos lembraremos das sábias palavras do cacique Seattle: “Quando a última árvore for abatida, quando o último rio for envenenado, quando o último peixe for capturado, somente então nos daremos conta de que não se pode comer dinheiro”.
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