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How The New York Times Erases Israel’s Crimes
Robert Ross, The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
The New York Times keeps the American public in the dark about the true nature of Israel’s occupation. According to The New York Times, there is no siege of Gaza, no occupation of the West Bank, and never was there a Nakba (the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine). Three recent articles erase these key Israeli crimes from the historical record.
→ read full articleThe Gravest Threat to World Peace
Noam Chomsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
Who exactly sees Iran as the gravest security threat? The “Iranian threat” is overwhelmingly a Western obsession, shared by Arab dictators, though not Arab populations. As numerous polls have shown, although citizens of Arab countries generally dislike Iran, they do not regard it as a very serious threat. Rather, they perceive the threat to be Israel and the United States; and many, sometimes considerable majorities, regard Iranian nuclear weapons as a counter to these threats.
→ read full articleWelcome 2013
Dr. Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
The more we rise in consciousness, the more we see the world as a part of our family. The expansion of the individual consciousness is a certain remedy not only for the individual, but also for the society. When we say the world is our family and think and act in that spirit, most of the problems we confront and call insurmountable will wither away. One does not need to be a genius to understand this simple dictum of life.
→ read full articlePutin Second to ‘Nobody’ on World’s Most Powerful List – Thinktank
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
International political thinktank Eurasia Group has ranked Russian President Vladimir Putin second on its list of the world’s most powerful people. The first position is held by ‘Nobody,’ reflecting the perception of a world without a clear leader.
→ read full articleApologize Then Call It a Day: Big Banks and Drug Money
Helen Redmond - CounterPunch,
7 Jan 2013
Take responsibility, apologize, pay a fine for your drug crimes and then call it a day. Go home to family who will forgive you for doing business with so-called “narco-terrorists.” Prison time? Felony record? Asset forfeiture? No. Not for drug trafficking executives of laundromat/banks that are “too big to fail” or jail. Ending the war on drugs would not only save human lives and billions of dollars, it would free up law enforcement agencies to investigate and prosecute banks whose real crimes are far worse than laundering drug money.
→ read full articleThe Right to Live Peacefully
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
If the Right to Life and the Right to Peace we combine
a new, deeply humanizing right will be yours and mine…
Hitler Won
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
Hitler won.
He has converted the Jews,
Palestinians, Russians, Chechens,
Iranians, Iraqis, Afghans,
even his nemesis, the
Holy Americans…
Goal of Israel Lobby in America
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
Since this presentation deals with the Israel Lobby in the United States, we need to focus thoroughly on this group, which seems to have developed a strong grip on virtually every senator and congressman, including the US President. This group has one main objective, namely, the welfare and safeguard of the State of Israel. So far the Israeli lobby succeeded to get what it wanted, especially for the USA to let Israel confiscate Palestinian territory.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter of Response to CRIF (Counsèil Représentif des Institutions juives de France)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
I am shocked and saddened that your organization would label me as an anti-Semite and self-hating Jew. It is utterly defamatory, and such allegations are entirely based on distortions of what I believe and what I have done. To confuse my criticisms of Israel with self-hatred of myself as a Jew or with hatred of Jews is a calumny.
→ read full articlePalestine Poems after Operation Pillar of Cloud
David Smith-Ferri – Voices for Creative Nonviolence,
31 Dec 2012
The Israeli military’s eight-day assault
on the people of Gaza
was no downy pillar of cloud
no feathered wing
moving lightly across the landscape…
In Further Memory of Edward Said
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Always, always
That voice
remains
is gone
needed…
For Nonkilling Education: A Plea to Humankind
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Rhymed Reflections
→ read full articleChristmas
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Tinsel around the house
And the fireplace is warm, …
Photo Gallery: The Best of Picture This 2012
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Throughout the year, Spiegel Online sifts through photos taken around the world for its “Picture This” feature. As 2012 draws to an end, here’s a look back at some of the most colorful, humorous and moving images that have been selected.
→ read full articleThe Libor Swindle
Andre Damon, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
22 Dec 2012 – The latest sweetheart settlement with a major international bank, in this case involving criminal activities that financial regulators describe as “epic,” has once again lifted the lid on the cesspool of corruption otherwise known as the world financial system. UBS, Switzerland’s largest bank, admitted this week to systematically rigging the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor), the benchmark global interest rate to which hundreds of trillions of dollars of financial contracts are tied. It did so to increase its profits and conceal its financial problems.
→ read full articleCelebration of Struggle Starts in Kudankulam on New Year 2013
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
New Year 2013 @ Kudankulam: Celebrating Resistance, Asserting Freedom. Idinthakarai village, which has been the nucleus of the Kudankulam anti-nuclear power plant struggle, welcomed hundreds of people who have come to celebrate New Year with the local communities spearheading the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE).
→ read full articleIn Japan, a Mothers’ Movement against Nuclear Power
Heidi Hutner – YES! Magazine,
31 Dec 2012
The Fukushima disaster has brought a powerful new demographic to Japan’s anti-nuclear movement: mothers. On the one-year anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japanese women in New York City gathered for a rally they called Pregnant With Fear of Radiation. Protestors wore fake pregnant bellies, or carried posters with images of pregnant women wearing face masks.
→ read full articleThe Lie that Prosecuting Bank Fraud Will Destabilize the Economy Is What Is REALLY Destroying the Economy
Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Failing to Prosecute White Collar Crime Guarantees a Weak and Unstable Economy … and Future Financial Crashes – After all, the main driver of economic growth is a strong rule of law.
→ read full articleMulti-phase Weaponisation of Replica Guns for Children
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
It is simply not plausible to understand events in Connecticut this Friday [14 Dec 2012] without having a conversation about guns in a country where more than 84 people a day are killed with guns, and more than twice that number are injured with them…. Americans are no more prone to mental illness or violence than any other people in the world. What they do have is more guns: roughly, 90 for every 100 people.
→ read full articleDrone Warfare: Terrorism with a Bigger Budget
Amanda Mullins, Defiance Citizens for Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
In the last four years, the use of unmanned drones to engage in so-called “targeted killing” has escalated dramatically. In Pakistan alone, US drone strikes have increased fivefold during the Obama administration, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which tracks US drone strikes.
→ read full articleHow Anonymous Got Political
Quinn Norton – New Internationalist Magazine,
31 Dec 2012
A look behind the mask of the hacker network, charting its evolution into a global activist force. Anonymous’ swagger grew with outrageous hacks of companies, governments, and law enforcement. ‘Anonymous was born out of a need to exact retribution,’ said a Chanology anon. ‘Scientology tried to fuck with our internet, attempting to shut down the Cruise video. It was punished, hard, and continues to be punished nearly four years later.’
→ read full articleExecutives at Collapsed Iceland Bank Jailed For Fraud
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Two former executives at an Icelandic bank which collapsed in the 2008 financial meltdown were sentenced to jail on Friday [28 Dec 2012] for fraud which led to a 53 million euro loss, in the first major trial of Icelandic bankers linked to the crisis.
→ read full articleUS Deploying Troops to 35 African Countries
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Soldiers based out of Fort Riley, Kansas’ 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division will begin training in March 2013 in order to prepare for a project that will send troops to as many as 35 African nations, the Associated Press reports.
→ read full articleNeville Alexander, Unbounded Organisation, and the Future of Socialism
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
In the late 1980s, as apartheid neared its end, Neville Alexander called on educators to “…shape consciousness in ways that are looking forward, in ways that are preparing people for a liberated, non-racial, democratic, and socialist South Africa.” Is Neville Alexander’s life’s work a contribution to a revolution that is still happening?
→ read full articleUBS Libor Manipulation Merits a Death Penalty
William D. Cohan, The National Memo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
There is no point in mincing words: UBS AG, the Swiss global bank, has been disgracing the banking profession for years and needs to be shut down.
→ read full articleWashington’s Dilemma: The “Good Terrorists” versus the “Bad Terrorists”
Dr. Ismail Salami – Global Research,
31 Dec 2012
Terrorism is terrorism and it cannot be defined otherwise unless the interests of one party tilt the scale in disfavor of another and the dichotomization of the terrorists in Syria into good and bad by the West casts doubt on its claim on democracy.
→ read full articleThe Radical Dissent of Helen Keller
Peter Dreier – YES! Magazine,
31 Dec 2012
When the blind-deaf visionary learned that poor people were more likely to be blind than others, she set off down a pacifist, socialist path that broke the boundaries of her time—and continues to challenge ours today. The FBI kept Keller under surveillance for most of her adult life for her radical views. But Keller, who died in 1968, never saw a contradiction between her crusade to address the causes of blindness and her efforts to promote economic and social justice.
→ read full articleThe Mayan Apocalypse and Gell-Mann’s Curve
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
How are we to explain the fact that the population curve is not an exponential? We can turn to Malthus for an answer: According to his model, population does not increase exponentially, except under special circumstances, when the food supply is so ample that the increase of population is entirely unchecked, In his “Essay on the Principle of Population”, population pressure appears as one of the main causes of war.
→ read full article(Italiano) Violenza Strutturale, Pace e Disabilità
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Lo “sviluppo” dai villaggi tradizionali agli stati moderni comporta costruire gerarchie attorno all’ onnipotente logica dello Stato, all’onnipresente logica del Capitale e all’onnisciente logica della Scienza. Tutti successori di Dio, che monopolizzano le sfide. Non per nulla molti migrano nei villaggi.
→ read full articleRevealed: How the FBI Coordinated the Crackdown On Occupy
Naomi Wolf – The Guardian,
31 Dec 2012
New documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall – so mystifying at the time – was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and local police. It involved, as you may recall, violent arrests, group disruption, canister missiles to the skulls of protesters, people held in handcuffs so tight they were injured, people held in bondage till they were forced to wet or soil themselves –was coordinated with the big banks themselves.
→ read full articleMali: The ‘Gentle’ Face of Al-Qaeda
May Ying Welsh – Al Jazeera,
31 Dec 2012
“We are mujahideen in the cause of Allah.” The hair on our necks stands on end. The fighters look like desert military preachers – members of some stoical sect that took a vow of poverty and jihad. They wear austere beige cotton smocks and high cropped pants – like inhabitants of Tatooine, the desert planet in Star Wars. These are not outfits one buys at the market, or inherits from a brother or friend. They are uniforms tailor-made to send a message of simplicity.
→ read full articleViolence in the Institutional and Cultural DNA of the United States of America
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
The two of the three pillars of the United States were the ethno- and genocide of the native people and the enslavement of African people — yes, the other is honorably the Enlightenment ideals of equality (of property-owning while males). Both as an economic system and as an ideological edifice, USA is one of the most violent places on earth.
→ read full articleElectric Train
TMS Editor,
31 Dec 2012
A few days after Christmas, a mother was working in the kitchen listening to her young son playing with his new electric train in the living room. She heard the train stop and her son said,
→ read full articleMeet the Weeds That Monsanto Can’t Beat
Tom Philpott for Mother Jones – The Guardian,
31 Dec 2012
When Monsanto revolutionised agriculture with a line of genetically engineered seeds, the promise was that the technology would lower herbicide use – because farmers would have to spray less. In fact, as Washington State University researcher Chuch Benbrook has shown, just the opposite happened.
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Matt Taibbi: How Did HSBC Executives Avoid Jail?
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
The banking giant HSBC has escaped indictment for laundering billions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels and groups linked to al-Qaeda. Taibbi says. “Here we have a bank that laundered $800 million dollars of drug money and they can’t find a way to put anybody in jail for that? That sends an incredible message, not just to the financial sector, but to everybody. It’s an obvious, clear double standard where one set of people gets to break the rules as much as they want and another set of people can’t break any rules at all without going to jail.”
→ read full articleCan There Be “Good” Corporations?
Marjorie Kelly – YES! Magazine,
31 Dec 2012
When companies are owned by workers and the community—instead of Wall Street financiers—everything changes.
→ read full articleThe P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2012
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting-FAIR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Recalling Some of the Stinkiest Media Moments of the Year [2012]
→ read full articleA Request to Dissolve the Indian Parliament
The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
We, the following citizens of India, have just completed 500 days of our peaceful protest against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project. Although our people have been struggling peacefully and nonviolently and democratically for 500 days, the Central government and the State government have not given our struggle its due importance or serious consideration to our demands. Instead they persist with their plan of commissioning the project at any cost just to please their Russian, American and French masters.
→ read full articleNile Gathering in Aswan, Egypt, 10-29 Jan 2013
The Nile Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
The world’s longest river runs through 11 countries (Congo DRC, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Sudan and Egypt) and touches the lives of 400 million people. The Project’s mission is to connect the people of the Nile basin through a cultural dialogue that evokes Africa’s iconic river as a shared ecosystem.
→ read full articleWhy Are There So Few Peace Psychology Courses Taught?
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
What Can We Do To Change This? Although we have no exact figures on the number of courses in peace psychology that are taught in undergraduate and graduate psychology departments the United States, it seems to me on the basis of available materials that there it is at best a limited number.
→ read full articleTo Friends All Over: HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013!
Johan and TRANSCEND – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Permit me a little report on where we are in TRANSCEND. So you will pardon me a sense of “mission accomplished”, even if those words were abused by somebody unmentionable.
→ read full articleLosing Faith? Belgium to Charge Church of Scientology with Fraud and Extortion
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
After a long lasting legal battle Belgium prosecutors demand to label the Church of Scientology as a criminal organization and charge it and its leaders with extortion, fraud, privacy breaches, and the illegal practice of medicine.
→ read full articleThe Paradox of Cuban Agriculture
Miguel Altieri and Fernando Funes-Monzote – Monthly Review,
31 Dec 2012
When Cuba faced the shock of lost trade relations with the Soviet Bloc in the early 1990s, food production initially collapsed due to the loss of imported fertilizers, pesticides, tractors, parts, and petroleum. The situation was so bad that Cuba posted the worst growth in per capita food production in all of Latin America and the Caribbean. But the island rapidly re-oriented its agriculture to depend less on imported synthetic chemical inputs, and became a world-class case of ecological agriculture.
→ read full articleVerizon Patents Targeted Advertising Method That Determines If Viewers Are Laughing, Cuddling, Sleeping or Singing
Steve Donohue, Fierce Cable – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Verizon has filed a patent application for targeting ads to viewers based on information collected from infrared cameras and microphones that would be able to detect conversations, people, objects and even animals that are near a TV.
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Tell Me Why (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Genesis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Mothers crying in the street
Children dying at their feet
Tell me why, ooh tell me why
People starving everywhere
There’s too much food, but there’s none to spare
Tell me why, oh tell me why …
Johan Galtung on Goldman Sachs and the Protocols
Al Jazeera, The Stream – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Gilad Atzmon: Johan Galtung confirms that many people believe that Goldman Sachs actions are not that different from the reality described in the Protocols of The Elders of Zion. Protocols also refer to Jews’ control of the press. According to Galtung we see a lack of debate on that matter.
→ read full article(Português) Para Viver Além de Narciso
Entrevista a Inês Castilho – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Lia Diskin [membro da TRANSCEND] disseca ultra-individualismo das sociedade submissas aos mercados, mas aposta nos novos valores da juventude e numa política despartidarizada.
→ read full article(Italiano) Contro una Terza Guerra Mondiale: Costruttivamente!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Da Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany – La probabilità di una devastante Terza Guerra Mondiale non è zero, ma molto lontana dal 100%. Esploriamo perché.
→ read full articleResponding to the Unspeakable Killings at Newtown, Connecticut
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
The template of response has become a national liturgy in light of the dismal pattern of public response: media sensationalism of a totalizing kind, at once enveloping, sentimental, and tasteless (endless interviewing of surviving children and teachers, and even family members of victims), but dutifully avoiding deeper questions relating to guns, violence, and cultural stimulants and conditioning.
→ read full articleImaginative Reconfiguration of a post-Apocalyptic Global Civilization
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Engaging Cognitively With the Illusion of the “End of the World”
→ read full articleThe Freedom of the Press Foundation
Daniel Ellsberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Today [23 Dec 2012], I join with a group of colleagues and friends to announce The Freedom of the Press Foundation. This new foundation crowd-sources funding for a number of tireless, courageous and underfunded freedom of press organizations, including WikiLeaks.
→ read full article‘Bug-Splats’
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Some dead children are mourned; others are dehumanised. Barack Obama’s tears for the children of Newtown are in stark contrast to his silence over the children murdered by his drones.
→ read full articleSwitzerland’s UBS Becomes Second Bank to Settle LIBOR Rate-Rigging Probe
AP-The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Swiss bank UBS agreed Wednesday [19 Dec 2012] to pay $1.5 billion in fines for trying to manipulate a key interest rate that affects borrowers around the world.
→ read full articleOutrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
24 Dec 2012
The banks’ laundering transactions were so brazen that the NSA probably could have spotted them from space. Breuer admitted that drug dealers would sometimes come to HSBC’s Mexican branches and “deposit hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, in a single day, into a single account, using boxes designed to fit the precise dimensions of the teller windows.”
→ read full article(Português) Com Menos Armas, Brasil Tem Três Vezes Mais Mortes a Tiro que os EUA
UOL Notícias – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Apesar do número bem inferior de armas de fogo em circulação na população do que nos Estados Unidos, o Brasil registrou, em 2010, 36 mil vítimas fatais de tiros. O montante é 3,7 vezes o registrado pelos americanos, que tiveram 9.960 mortes, colocando o país no topo dos que mais registram óbitos por arma de fogo no mundo.
→ read full articleThe UK/Swedish/US Governments Are Complicity in Mental Torture of Julian Assange, WikiLeaks Co-Founder
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
I appeal to the Australian government, Human rights defenders, brave media, and people who love freedom and truth to break the ‘silence ‘ and stand up for the rights of Julian Assange to assurance he will get the change to answer all accusations against him in UK or Sweden and the assurance he will not be extradited to USA where he could meet the same ‘cruel and inhuman’ treatment as pt. Bradley Manning.
→ read full articlePerspective of the Most Violent Nation in the Civilized World
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Over the past few decades, the United States has emerged to become the most violent nation in the civilized world. This did not happen overnight. In fact, we can trace this nation’s source of violence to the draft of its Constitution, which has now emerged to become the nation’s dangerous enemy.
→ read full articleHuman Rights: A Letter to Santa Claus?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
On December 10, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 48 nations voted for adoption, while 8 nations abstained from voting. Not a single state voted against the Declaration. Of course we have to earn a living, but in addition, all of us have the duty to work actively, to the best of our abilities, to save humanity’s future and the biosphere.
→ read full articleAfter Newtown: Shifting the Structure and Culture of Violence towards Peace
Marianne Perez de Fransius – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
A look at the structural and cultural violence underneath the Sandy Hook attack and action steps to move towards peace.
→ read full articleMichael Cremo Brings Vedic Perspectives to the Scientific Table
Madhava Smullen, ISKCON News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
A new book shows that it is possible to present Vedic perspectives on consciousness, human origins and human antiquity in modern scientific discourse. The book is a collection of twenty-four papers that Drutakarma presented at major international scientific conferences, mostly on archeology, from 1994 to 2009.
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Johan Galtung on How to Build a Culture of Empathy and Peace
Edwin Rutsch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
14 Sep 2012 – The Center for Building a Culture of Empathy – This is part of a larger documentary project by Edwin Rutsch on the nature of empathy.
→ read full articleThe Illusion of Democracy
Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
We stand on the verge of one of the bleakest periods in human history, when the bright lights of civilizations will blink out and we will descend for decades, if not centuries, into barbarity. The elites, who successfully convinced us that we no longer possessed the capacity to understand the revealed truths presented before us or to fight back against the chaos caused by economic and environmental catastrophe, will use their resources to create privileged little islands where they will have access to security and goods denied to the rest of us. (p. 197)
→ read full articleGo Back, Mr. Putin. You Are Not Welcome in India!
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
23 Dec 2012 – The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy strongly objects to the visit of Mr. Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, and asks him to go back. The Russian Ambassador to India has been interfering in the internal affairs of India by making unwanted statements and unacceptable comments on our energy policy, development policy, our national futures and our citizens’ right to protest against anti-national policies and projects.
→ read full articleWhen I was Young
TMS editor,
24 Dec 2012
When I was young I used to pray for a bicycle.
→ read full articleStructural Violence, Peace–And the Handicapped
Johan Galtung, 24 Dec 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
“Development” from traditional villages to modern states means building hierarchies around omnipotent State logic, omnipresent Capital logic and omniscient Science logic. God’s successors all, monopolizing challenges. Not strange that many migrate to villages. First conclusion: Handicapped of all kinds unite! You have only your “normals” to lose. Second: relate to “normal” people on as equal terms as possible. Third: take on the challenge to construct a more inclusive society where your way of being different is an enrichment, a plus.
→ read full articleOnward U. S. Soldiers
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Onward then, ye soldiers, brave and righteous throng,
blend with ours your voices in this insane song.
Show that you are loyal unto Obama our King,
Kill those who oppose him, and his praises sing.
China Is Opening a Confrontation on the Sea
Roberto Savio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
The victory of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the recent Japanese elections, with LDP leader Shinzō Abe coming back as Prime Minister after five years, will probably mean an escalation of tension with China. Both countries are embarking on a fresh burst of nationalism, but for different reasons.
→ read full articleWatch Human Rights Watch – A Tribute to Prof Richard Falk
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
This week [22 Dec 2012] we learned that Human Rights Watch (HRW) has expelled from its ranks top U.N. official Professor Richard Falk.
→ read full articleNonkilling Lessons from the Connecticut Killings
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
The world cries again; innocent lives in Connecticut were sacrificed
and current legislation for gun control and use once more unsufficed…
The US Strategy in Asia
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
Besides the New Silk Road idea, Indo-Pacific corridor too has been increasingly finding mention in policy circles in recent months. The corridor as explained by Blake will link South Asian countries including India and Bangladesh to further east through Myanmar and other Southeast Asian countries. The corridor will link South Asia to the Pacific through Southeast Asia.
→ read full articleBeware of Legality, Accountability, Marketability, Security!
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
The current period highlights concerns with end times scenarios, whether in the form of eschatological predictions, planetary disaster or civilizational. A particular focus is offered by predictions relating to December 2012 and the completion of the Mayan/Aztec long count cycle. As noted by Ed Vulliamy (Mayan ‘death and rebirth’ date marks the perfect time to tackle planet’s crisis, The Observer, 16 December 2012)
→ read full articleWhy Malawi Can’t Just Legalise Homosexuality
Sitinga Kachipande – Pambazuka News,
17 Dec 2012
The debate about decriminalising homosexuality must be strategically taken to Malawian people. One cannot simply change the law on such a sensitive issue without first addressing attendant social and religious concerns.
→ read full articleEgypt: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
10 Dec 2012 – I have had the opportunity to be in Cairo three times for brief visits in the last 20 months, the first a few weeks after the departure of Hosni Mubarak on February 11, 2011, the second in February of 2012 when the revolutionary process was treading water, and this third one over the course of the previous ten days. What is striking is how drastically the prevailing mood and expectations have changed from visit to visit, how fears, hopes, and perceptions have altered over time, and why they are likely to continue to do so.
→ read full articleWhat ‘Impartial’ Means At the Oz
Jake Lynch, New Matilda - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
Journalist Christian Kerr recently filed a series of critical articles in The Australian about me over my support for an academic boycott of Israel, and then boasted to friends about using the paper to further his own views on the subject.
→ read full articleWhy I Boycott Israel
Jake Lynch, New Matilda - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
Sydney University academic Jake Lynch has come under fire this week [13 Dec 2012] for his stance on Israel. Today he argues his case: Palestinians and dissenting Israelis need international support to achieve justice.
→ read full articleIndia: Let’s Have a National Debate on the Ambitious Nuclear Program
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
If the Congress Party or the BJP or any other party for that matter manages to convince the Indian voters about this full-scale nuclearization of the country and obtains absolute majority in the next Parliament, we will call off the ongoing struggle against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) immediately.
→ read full articleEnd of the World: Hear the Dec 21, 2012 Prophecy … Direct from the Mouths of the Mayan Priests
Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
Ignore Second-Hand Information … Hear the Real Prophecy – Contrary to popular belief the living elders of the Maya do not agree that December 21, 2012 is the end of their calendar. A new “Sun” represents the beginning of a new Long Count cycle in the calendar system of approximately 5,200 years, which they say may not happen for many years.
→ read full articleUK Pays Libyan $3.5m over Rendition
AP, News24 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
13 Dec 2012 – Lawyers say a Libyan military commander and his family have accepted £2.2m from the British government to settle a claim that the UK approved their rendition to face imprisonment by Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
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Oh Holy Night (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Il Divo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
Il Divo “Oh Holy Night” singing with Katherine Jenkins.
→ read full articleHow the IDF Targeted Civilians: Shattered Lives in Gaza
Eva Lewis and James Marc Leas - CounterPunch,
17 Dec 2012
Eva Lewis and James Marc Leas return from the Occupied Territories having witnessed shattered lives, broken dreams and dead bodies.
→ read full articleWe Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists – Trailer
OfficialAnonymousTV1 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
Anonymous matters! The collective is a counterforce to powers that would control the public’s right to know or right to speak. It can act quickly to send tyrants and censors a strong message. And according to We Are Legion, the cyberbattle has just begun…
→ read full article(Italiano) Giornalismo di Pace
Laurie Mécréant – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
17 Dec 2012
Un giornalismo proattivo orientato alla risoluzione nonviolenta dei conflitti. Per il sociologo Johan Galtung, considerato il fondatore degli studi per la pace, la tradizionale copertura mediatica dei conflitti deforma la realtà e favorisce delle risposte violente in accordo con la propaganda.
→ read full article(Português) Bradley Manning: ‘Estava certo de que ia morrer naquela cela animalesca’.
Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian – Diário do Centro do Mundo,
17 Dec 2012
Durante os últimos dois anos e meio, passados por ele em uma prisão militar, muito foi dito sobre Bradley Manning, mas nada foi ouvido dele. Isso mudou na semana passada quando o jovem recruta de vinte e três anos, acusado de vazar documentos secretos para o WikiLeaks, testemunhou em seu julgamento sobre as condições de sua detenção.
→ read full article(Italiano) Combattere l’Antisemitismo – Costruttivamente!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
Definire pubblicamente “antisemiti” intellettuali come Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu, Richard Falk, Günter Grass, Judith Butler, Evelyn Hecht-Galinski, Richard Dawkins, Mairead McGuire, Noam Chomsky e altri è una falsa calunnia di persone per nulla antisemite, con prospettive importanti. Il discorso “corretto” non ci porta da alcuna parte: [1] Israele ha sempre ragione; [2] i critici d’Israele hanno sempre torto.
→ read full articleAbhorrent Roots & Development of Hugo Boss’ Business & Riches
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
In 1934 Boss became an Reichszeugmeisterei-licensed (official) supplier of uniforms to the Sturmabteilung (Brown Shirts), Schutzstaffel (SS), Hitler Youth, National Socialist Motor Corps, and other party organizations. To meet demand in later years of the war, Boss used about 30 to 40 prisoners of war and about 150 forced laborers, from the Baltic States, Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union. According to German historian Henning Kober, the company managers were “avowed nazis”
→ read full articleBreaking and Entering
TMS editor,
17 Dec 2012
A man went to the Police Station wishing to speak with the burglar who had broken into his house the night before.
→ read full articleThe Complex Calculus of the Permanent Unemployment Crisis: Players, Causes and Consequences
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
As I listen to explanations, solutions, and promises from “experts,” economists, financiers, social commentators, politicians, and also lived experiences of the unemployed, underemployed, and hopelessly unemployed, I have become convinced the complex calculus of players, causes and consequences cannot lead to a resolution – a revolution, perhaps, but not a resolution.
→ read full articleUS Admits Hundreds of Afghan Teens Detained
Peter James Spielmann - Reader Supported News,
17 Dec 2012
The U.S. military has detained more than 200 Afghan teenagers who were captured in the war for about a year at a time at a military prison next to Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, the United States has told the United Nations.
→ read full articleHamas, Khaled Mashaal and Prospects for a Sustainable Israel/Palestine Peace
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
The most important element of context that needs to be taken into account is the seeming inconsistency between the fiery language used by Mashaal in Gaza and his far more moderate tone in the course of several interviews with Western journalists in recent weeks. In those interviews Mashaal had clearly indicated a readiness for a long-term hudna or truce, provided that Israel ended its occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza, and agreed to uphold Palestinian rights under international law.
→ read full articleHSBC to Pay $1.92 Billion to Settle Charges of Money Laundering
Ben Protess and Jessica Silver-Greenberg – The New York Times,
17 Dec 2012
US authorities decided against indicting HSBC in a money-laundering case over concerns that it could jeopardize one of the world’s largest banks and destabilize the global financial system. Instead, HSBC announced on Tuesday [11 Dec 2012] that it had agreed to a record $1.92 billion settlement over accusations that it transferred billions of dollars for nations like Iran and enabled Mexican drug cartels to move money illegally through its American subsidiaries.
→ read full articleLiberated
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
There she lies at midday in the square
as if resting from her errands,
shopping bag in hand, wool gloves, sturdy shoes, …
What Child Is This?
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
What child is this? Whose child is this? Now this child rests amidst the dust and debris of war . . . lifeless . . . torn and shattered… killed by someone whom she or he never knew and would probably never meet. Death from a distance. . . a bomb from a drone or plane, a shell from a mortar, a strap of explosives . . . intentional and willing, calculated and planned, a measured effort to destroy.
→ read full articleEuropean Court of Human Rights Finds Against CIA Abuse of Khaled el-Masri
Amrit Singh – The Guardian,
17 Dec 2012
The CIA stripped, hooded, shackled, and sodomized el-Masri. America must now apologise to the German citizen, a victim of mistaken identity who was kidnapped and beaten by the CIA.
→ read full articleValues – USA 2012 [No Joke!]
Andy Singer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
Ends justifying means…
→ read full article
India Develops USD $1 Vaccine against Deadly Rotavirus
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
In India there is a revolution taking place that could change the world’s approach to public health – and potentially save the lives of 100,000 Indian children every year. An Indian firm is developing a USD $1 vaccine against rotavirus – a disease that causes diarrhea in infants and is deadly in the developing world.
→ read full articleEncyclopedia of World Problems Has a Big One of Its Own
Daniel Michaels- The Wall Street Journal,
17 Dec 2012
[TRANSCEND member] Anthony Judge’s career has been peppered with problems, from Aarskog Syndrome to Zoonotic bacterial diseases, dandruff, ignorance, kidney disorders and sabotage. He spent more than two decades editing the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential, a 3,000-page tome with almost 20,000 entries. It was Mr. Judge’s brainchild when he helped run the Union of International Associations, a century-old grouping of groups that began in an effort to categorize all human knowledge.
→ read full articleDec 10, 2012 – Human Rights Day
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted on 10 December 1948. The date has since served to mark Human Rights Day worldwide. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has been awarded the Guinness World Record for having collected, translated and disseminated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into more than 380 languages and dialects: from Abkhaz to Zulu. It is thus the most translated document – indeed, the most “universal” one in the world.
→ read full articleEU Receives Nobel Peace Prize Today [10 Dec 2012] – Legal Action Is in Preparation
Fredrik S. Heffermehl – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
A summit of the European Union that today receives a prize that pretends to serve Alfred Nobel´s peace plan, will this coming Friday adopt a military co-operation program that spits in the face of the peace by disarmament ideas Nobel wished to support by his prize for a global demilitarization of international relations.
→ read full articleUS Military Facing Fresh Questions Over Targeting of Children in Afghanistan
Karen McVeigh – The Guardian,
10 Dec 2012
The US military is facing fresh questions over its targeting policy in Afghanistan after a senior army officer suggested that troops were on the lookout for “children with potential hostile intent”. There have been more than 200 children killed in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen by the CIA and Joint Special Operating Command, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
→ read full articleAll We Can Do
Morton Marcus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
All we can do on this earth is step into the future
with a sense of the many people behind us,
the living and the dead, as if we carried our bodies…