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(Italian) L’Economia Verde È Il Nuovo Colonialismo Per Sottomettere I Nostri Popoli
Evo Morales, Presidente della Bolivia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
Il capitalismo non è una soluzione, mi dispiace molto che si stia creando un seguito alla cosiddetta economia verde, dato che questa è il nuovo colonialismo per sottomettere i popoli e i governi anti-imperialisti e anticapitalisti, per questo vi esorto a riflettere per il bene delle future generazioni, …
→ read full articleVisit to Democratic Republic of Congo
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
On 8th May, 2012, Ann Patterson and I travelled to the Kinshasa, in DRC, to join Yee Htun, Coordinator of the Nobel Womens Initiative International Campaign to Stop Rape in Conflict, and help launch the international campaign, to ‘Stop Rape in Conflict’. This was being launched simultaneously in four countries: Colombia, Kenya, Burma and the DRC in May, 2012.
→ read full articleA Cruel and Unusual Record
Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Laureate – The New York Times,
2 Jul 2012
Revelations that top officials are targeting people to be assassinated abroad, including American citizens, are only the most recent, disturbing proof of how far our nation’s violation of human rights has extended.
→ read full articleLibya: Hounding of Migrants Continues – Preliminary Findings of an Investigation Mission
FIDH, Worldwide Human Rights Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
With rich oil reserves and a small population, Gaddafi’s Libya relied heavily on migrant labour to serve the economy. During the conflict hundreds of thousands of migrants fled to Tunisia, Egypt and neighbouring countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, fearing for their lives. More than six months since the conflict’s end, migrants and refugees in Libya continue to be victims of grave violations of their human rights. FIDH, Migreurop and JWBM make the following recommendations:
→ read full articleOn Human Identity
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
Early in my blog life I wrote about Jewish identity. It was partly an exercise in self-discovery, and partly a response to those who alleged that I was a self-hating Jew, or worse, an anti-Semite. These attacks on my character were hurtful even as I felt their distance from my actual beliefs and worldview.
→ read full articleMiddle East Peace Potential through Dynamics in Spherical Geometry
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
This is an exploration of the hypothesis that unique belief systems depend for their coherence on distinctive patterns typically embodied in geometrical symbols in two dimensions. On the basis of that assumption, the case tentatively explored here is that of the “incommensurability” of the 5-fold Star of Islam and the 6-fold Star of David of Judaism — both symbols appearing on flags of the nations having those distinct faiths.
→ read full articleWhat is WikiLeaks?
TheWikiLeaksChannel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
WikiLeaks: 575 days of banking blockade – no process
Assange: 572 days detainment – no charge
Manning: 769 days in jail – no trial
Grand Jury: 655 days US secret Grand Jury into WikiLeaks – no transparency
WikiLeaks is a not-for-profit media organisation. Our goal is to bring important news and information to the public. We provide an innovative, secure and anonymous way for sources to leak information to our journalists (our electronic drop box).
MERCOSUR Suspends Paraguay from Trade Bloc over Lugo Ouster
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
South American foreign ministers have suspended Paraguay from the regional trade bloc, Mercosur, over last week’s ouster of former President Fernando Lugo.
→ read full articleElectric Train
TMS Editor,
2 Jul 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.
→ read full articleWhy Genetically Engineered Food Is Dangerous
Genetic Engineers, EarthOpenSource – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
Aren’t critics of genetically engineered food anti-science? Isn’t the debate over GMOs (genetically modified organisms) a spat between emotional but ignorant activists on one hand and rational GM-supporting scientists on the other? The initiative for the report came not from campaigners but from two genetic engineers who believe there are good scientific reasons to be wary of GM foods and crops.
→ read full articleLatin America: How the US Has Allied With the Forces of Reaction
Mark Weisbrot – The Guardian,
2 Jul 2012
It was three years ago this week [29 Jun 2012] that the Honduran military launched an assault on the home of President Mel Zelaya, kidnapped him, and flew him out of the country. The Obama administration knew in advance and did not condemn the coup. The US has lost most of its influence in the vast majority of the Americas over the past decade. It is only a matter of time before even poor countries like Honduras and Paraguay gain their rights to democracy and self-determination.
→ read full articleFrom Westphalia to Weltinnenpolitik
Johan Galtung, 2 Jul 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
The world as a state-system, the Westphalia system of 24 October 1648, is coming to an end. A holon filled with contradictions. Thus, war was a right–if declared–and the pursuit of the interests of the dominant nation in each state the rule. European conquered others, as colonies, land and people; and as empires ruling through local elites. A major contradiction with many collapsing after WWII, the Soviet empire in 1990-1, and now there is only the declining US empire left.
→ read full articleA Tale of Two Conferences
Chris Williams – Socialist Worker,
2 Jul 2012
The Rio+20 environmental summit–and why it failed by design. The true priorities of the global elite are on display with the relative importance they assigned to the G20 and Rio+20 summits.
→ read full articleFukushima Radiation at Record High
Common Dreams staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
Levels of radiation at Fukushima’s reactor number 1 were at record levels on Wednesday [27 Jun 2012], Agence France-Presse reports. The lethal levels — 10,300 millisieverts an hour — were 10 times higher than the levels at Fukushima’s numbers two and three reactors. “Workers cannot enter the site and we must use robots for the demolition,” said TEPCO.
→ read full articleThe Failure of Rio+20 is a Wake-Up Call for People Power
Adam Parsons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
Following the ‘hoax summit’ and failure of political leadership at Rio+20, it is clear that the responsibility for change rests with ordinary, engaged citizens to forge a united and informed world public opinion that is stronger than any government or vested interest.
→ read full articleCan the World Survive Washington’s Hubris?
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
The process of surrounding Russia with military bases continued unabated through successor US administrations with various “color revolutions” financed by the US National Endowment for Democracy, regarded by many as a front for the CIA. Washington even attempted to install a Washington-controlled government in Ukraine and did succeed in this effort in former Soviet Georgia, the birthplace of Joseph Stalin.
→ read full articleGreece: What Can Be Done?
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
Greece faces the unenviable choice between accepting the terms of “the Troika” and facing the continuation and deepening of a socio-economic crises, which includes five years of negative growth, over 23% unemployment, an astronomical rise in poverty (from less than 15% to over 40%) and mounting suicides, or a rejection of the “memorandum”, and a likely cut-off of Eurozone funding and capital markets with virtually few reserves to cover salaries, pensions or public services.
→ read full articleKnowledge for/in/through Dignity
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
In this age of digital learning, so much knowledge Humankind can embrace
but humanizingly, dignifyingly knowledge do we know how to trace?
End of an Era
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
So now what do we do to defend life on Earth? Was it too much to have asked of the world’s governments, which performed such miracles in developing stealth bombers and drone warfare, global markets and trillion dollar bail-outs, that they might spend a tenth of the energy and resources they devoted to these projects on defending our living planet? It seems, sadly, that it was.
→ read full articleSoybeans
TMS Editor,
25 Jun 2012
While going through his wife’s dresser drawers, a farmer discovered three soybeans and an envelope containing $30 in cash.
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Playing For Change Day 2012 (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
PFCfoundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2012
What if you had one day to change the world with music?
→ read full articleThe Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
25 Jun 2012
How America’s biggest banks took part in a nationwide bid-rigging conspiracy – until they were caught on tape. Someday, it will go down in history as the first trial of the modern American mafia. Of course, you won’t hear the recent financial corruption case, United States of America v. Carollo, Goldberg and Grimm, called anything like that. If you heard about it at all, you’re probably either in the municipal bond business or married to an antitrust lawyer.
→ read full articleHistory Is the Enemy As ‘Brilliant’ Psy-Ops Become the News
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2012
History is buried with the dead and deformed of Vietnam and Bhopal. And history is the new enemy. On 28 May [2012], President Obama launched a campaign to falsify the history of the war in Vietnam. To Obama, there was no Agent Orange, no free fire zones, no turkey shoots, no cover-ups of massacres, no rampant racism, no suicides (as many Americans took their own lives as died in the war), no defeat by a resistance army drawn from an impoverished society.
→ read full articleCIA Arming Syrian Insurgents
Stephen Lendman – Global Research,
25 Jun 2012
On June 21 [2012], The New York Times headlined “CIA Said to Aid in Steering Arms to Syrian Opposition,” saying: Operating covertly from southern Turkey, CIA operatives are “decid(ing) which Syrian opposition fighters across the border will receive arms to fight the Syrian government, according to American officials and Arab intelligence officers.”
→ read full articleMore Icelandic Bankers Arrested
IceNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2012
Iceland’s special prosecutor into the banking crisis has confirmed that raids have taken place today and that arrests have been made. The Central Bank of Iceland is among the institutions under investigation.
→ read full articleHow “Sustainability” Became “Sustained Growth”
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2012
The Rio Declaration rips up the basic principles of environmental action.
→ read full articleNuclear Operator in Japan Exonerates Itself in Report
Hiroko Tabuchi – The New York Times,
25 Jun 2012
The much vilified operator of the tsunami-hit nuclear power plant at Fukushima released a report on Wednesday [20 Jun 2012] that said the company never hid information, never underplayed the extent of fuel meltdown and certainly never considered abandoning the ravaged site. It asserts that government interference in the disaster response created confusion and delays.
→ read full articleIs the Threat of a “Mafia State” Real?
Michael Busch – Foreign Policy in Focus,
25 Jun 2012
Earlier this spring, Moisés Naím provocatively warned against an emerging menace facing our world today—the advent of what he terms the “mafia state.” Analyzing the role of transnational organized crime in the age of globalization has been Naím’s bailiwick for some years now, and familiar readers will find little that catches them off-guard.
→ read full articleIndia’s National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences and the Anti Nuclear Protests at Koodankulam
Indian Doctors for Peace and Development – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2012
No one can ever say with 100% authenticity that there can never be an accident in the nuclear power plant or any other industry so to say anywhere in the world. Who could imagine the disaster at Fukushima in Japan which is known for one of the best technological applications and disaster management? On the contrary the track record of disaster management in India is extremely dismal. We are till date unable to cope up with the Bhopal gas tragedy.
→ read full articleGene Sharp: A Dictator’s Worst Nightmare
Mairi Mackay – CNN,
25 Jun 2012
Now 84, the American academic has dedicated most of his life to the study of the bold, some might say reckless, idea that nonviolence — rather than violence — is the most effective way of overthrowing corrupt, repressive regimes.
→ read full articleExploring the Hidden Mysteries of Oxfam’s Doughnut
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2012
Produced on the occasion of the Rio+20 Earth Summit (Rio de Janeiro, 2012). Oxfam has released a discussion paper. The paper presents a single visual framework – shaped like a doughnut – that represents a space within which humanity can thrive. This doughnut-like area is defined by combining the much-debated set of 9 “planetary boundaries” with a new set of 11 social boundaries, based on the 11 dimensions of human deprivation that emerged from the issues raised by governments in their Rio+20 submissions.
→ read full articleAmerican Republican Party in Perspective
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2012
In spite of the fact that the Republican Party has plenty to offer, its concept of democracy tends to be merely on the surface. A substantial number of Americans do not seem to have a clear concept of the Republican political philosophy.
→ read full articleMonsanto: A Modern Day Plague
Lisa Cerda, CityWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2012
Monsanto’s history is one steeped with controversial products, deadly consequences, massive cover ups, political slight of hand, and culminates as a modern day plague on humanity, a plague that is about to peak to biblical proportions.
→ read full articleTop 6 Workout Recovery Foods
DualFIT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2012
Tired of feeling sore almost every day of the week? Try these foods that fight off the pain.
→ read full articleMaking a Game of Killing
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2012
The mass media are an important part of our educational system. Perhaps it is time to look more closely at the values that they are transmitting. In particular, we should perhaps look at computer games designed for young boys. They often give the strongest imaginable support to a culture of violence.
→ read full articleThe Absurd “Offsite Emergency” Drama and Unanswered Questions
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
The Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project along with Tirunelveli district administration has carried out an “offsite emergency exercise.” Do nuclear disasters affect a large area around the plant or just one or two specific villages? How come the exercise is carried out in an isolated village and not throughout the project affected area?
→ read full articleKudankulam Nuclear Power Plant Commissioning Should Be Deferred
M.G.Devasahayam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
It is famously said: “In public domain, truth is not the truth, perception is the truth”. This adage could be related to the discourse on the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP). While the arguments in favour of the plant is that it will generate electric power essential for ‘development’, People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) say that the plant will be ‘destructive’ to the life and livelihood of the Project Affected People (PAP).
→ read full articleEmergency Preparedness at Koodankulam: A BIG LIE
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
Do we conduct fire drill just in one school in some remote village or in all schools all over the country? Do we conduct safety drill just in one movie theater in an unknown hamlet or in all theaters all over the country? Should we perform nuclear emergency drills only in Nakkanery or in all villages and towns at least in the 30 km radius of the nuclear power plant?
→ read full articleComplaint to India’s Atomic Energy Regulatory Board
The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
We, the members of the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy and people of southern districts of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, write to demand immediate halt of the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) at Koodankulam in Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu, and a thorough scrutiny of the following issues before AERB (Atomic Energy Regulatory Board) gives a green signal to the commissioning of the Koodankulam project.
→ read full articleThe One Gay Solution
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
The Moscow City Court upheld last Thursday [7 Jun 2012] a district court’s decision to ban gay parades in the Russian Capital for the next 100 years. Not just one year, two years or even ten years, the court was pretty clear about it all-a century with no gay parades. Pretty sinister I would say.
→ read full articleGood Guinness, Deliver Us! Israel Demolishes Arab Village 38 Times
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
Palestinian villagers have addressed the Guinness Book of World Records to register a ruinous “record”. A Bedouin village in Israel has been demolished 38 times by Israeli authorities, who say people in the village do not have building permits.
→ read full articleAssessing the Israel Palestine Conflict on U.S.S. Liberty Day
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” I think that we need to do our best to avoid such deference to authority to overcome the weight of conventional thinking on these issues, to get around the distortions of government policy, and to do something to correct for the biased media filter that gives us such a selective presentation of the facts as the conflict unfolds.
→ read full article(Italian) Genova G8 e la Diaz. Sentenza Rinviata al 5 Luglio Prossimo
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
La Corte di Cassazione pronuncerà la sentenza il 5 luglio prossimo. Il processo dura da 11 anni. Venerdì 15 giugno la sentenza era molto attesa. Alta la tensione a Roma e grande la disillusione.
→ read full articleThe New Obama Doctrine: A Six-Point Plan for Global War
Nick Turse – TomDispatch,
19 Jun 2012
Special Ops, Drones, Spy Games, Civilian Soldiers, Proxy Fighters, and Cyber Warfare
→ read full articleSyria: No Repeat of Sykes-Picot in Mideast Chaos
M.D. Nalapat – Global Times, China,
19 Jun 2012
On May 16, 1916, in the middle of World War I, Paris and London approved a secret agreement to dismember the Ottoman Empire and divide the Middle East between themselves. The Sykes-Picot agreement set new boundaries for many countries in the region, and began a period of direct control of the Middle East that the West has sought to perpetuate to the present.
→ read full articleManhunt: This is Racism, Pure and Simple
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
“WE SHALL not be a normal people, until we have Jewish whores and Jewish thieves in the Land of Israel,” our national poet, Haim Nahman Bialik, said some 80 years ago. This dream has come true. We have Jewish murder ers, Jewish robbers and Jewish whores.
→ read full articleAmerican Democratic Party in Operation
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
For all practical purposes, the United States is based merely on two major political systems, the Democratic and the Republican parties, each of which may be viewed as autocratic with a façade or garb of democracy.
→ read full articleDrone Me Down On the Killing Floor
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
19 Jun 2012
And the winner of the Humanitarian Oscar for Best Targeted Assassination with No Collateral Damage goes to… the Barack Obama White House death squad.
→ read full articleBusted: Biotech Leader ‘Syngenta’ Charged Over Covering Up Animal Deaths from GM Corn
Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
In a riveting victory against genetically modified creations, a major biotech company known as Syngenta has been criminally charged for denying knowledge that its GM Bt corn actually kills livestock.
→ read full articleThe Mendacity of Hope
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
The summits which promise to save the world keep us dangling, not mobilising. Worn down by hope. That’s the predicament of those who have sought to defend the earth’s living systems. Every time governments meet to discuss the environmental crisis, we are told that this is the “make or break summit”, upon which the future of the world depends.
→ read full articleRio+20 Summit: The Key Issues
South Bulletin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
This issue of the South Bulletin focuses on the Rio Plus 20 Summit to be held in 20-22 June [2012] in Brazil. The meetings actually begin on 13 June.
→ read full articleFukushima Daiichi: From Nuclear Power Plant to Nuclear Weapon #1
Anthony Hall – Veterans Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
Albert Einstein’s Warning and the Ominous Fate of Fukushima Daiichi
→ read full articleUS Should Be Following Iceland’s Model in Dealing with the Financial Crisis
Heather, Crooks and Liars – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
Icelanders who pelted parliament with rocks in 2009 demanding their leaders and bankers answer for the country’s economic and financial collapse are reaping the benefits of their anger. Since the end of 2008, the island’s banks have forgiven loans equivalent to 13 percent of gross domestic product, easing the debt burdens of more than a quarter of the population, according to a report published this month by the Icelandic Financial Services Association. So does the story end there?
→ read full articleBreivik: Living In the Historical Present (Part II)
Johan Galtung, 18 Jun 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jun 2012
The police explores concrete logistic collaborators and-or ideological support; like Peter Mangs in Sweden, the “laser man” who killed what looked like immigrants, wrote a rightwing manifesto and an autobiography; or “Fjordman” with 111 mentions. Breivik was a member of a Norwegian rightwing anti-immigration party, Fremskrittspartiet–a legal stand in a democracy–but left. He also left the Free Masons, with the following Compendium comment:
→ read full articleMigraine Cure
TMS Editor,
18 Jun 2012
A man goes to the doctor with a long history of migraine headaches. When the doctor does his history and physical, he discovers that his poor patient has had practically every therapy known to man for his migraines and STILL no improvement.
→ read full articleProposal for the Creation of an International Tribunal to Judge Crimes Committed by Economic Agents
Senator Cristovam Buarque - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jun 2012
The last few decades have revealed two new facets of Economics. On the one hand, its power to transform the Planet and Humanity, and, on the other hand, the ushering in of the Anthropocene Era through the conscious power of the economic agents in their decisions.
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Rational Conflict Resolution: What Stands in the Way? (Video of the Week)
Johan Galtung | World Peace Academy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jun 2012
Lecture by Prof. Johan Galtung at the World Peace Academy – Basel, Switzerland, 7 Jun 2012
→ read full articleCommunal/Religious Clashes Threaten Progress in Burma
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jun 2012
What I believe is true is that there have been few efforts of reconciliation and of training for conflict resolution. This is a major need and perhaps, with the greater openness of the Myanmar government, courses in conflict resolution could be organized.
→ read full articleA Stronger ‘Political Europe’ Might Save a Stumbling ‘Economic Europe’
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jun 2012
All is not yet lost, but there is a message beyond that of the obsessive bailout/default dialogue. It is that Europe to ensure its future must renovate its political architecture. This means overcoming the peculiar capitalist brand of economic materialism that seems perversely convinced that if money and banks are the problem, then money and banks must be the solution.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Rio+20: Economia Verde Para Salvar o Planeta Ou o Capitalismo?
Rita Calvário, esquerda.net – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jun 2012
Colocar no centro das soluções a “economia verde” é, em termos gerais, justo. O problema é quando esta transição verde não questiona nem transforma os fundamentos da economia que existe, o capitalismo. Nos dias 20 a 22 de Junho [2012] os líderes mundiais juntam-se na Conferência da ONU sobre “Desenvolvimento Sustentável”, intitulada Rio+20. A sua antecessora ocorreu 20 anos antes sob o lema “Ambiente e Desenvolvimento”, mais conhecida por Cúpula da Terra ou Rio 92.
→ read full article(Italian) Invasione di Droni Nei Cieli Della Sicilia
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jun 2012
Droni, droni e ancora droni. Sarà intensissimo, in estate, il via vai di aerei militari senza pilota sui cieli siciliani. Decine di decolli ed atterraggi nella base USA e NATO di Sigonella che faranno impazzire il traffico aereo nel vicino scalo civile di Catania Fontanarossa.
→ read full article(Portuguese) A Ausência de Uma Nova Narrativa na Rio+20
Leonardo Boff – Carta Maior,
18 Jun 2012
O vazio básico do documento da ONU para a Rio+20 reside numa completa ausência de uma nova narrativa ou de uma nova cosmologia que poderia garantir a esperança de um “futuro que queremos” lema do grande encontro. A narrativa atual é a da conquista do mundo em vista do progresso e do crescimento ilimitado.
→ read full articleAnother Bank Bailout
Paul Krugman, Nobel Economics Laureate – International Herald Tribune-NYT,
18 Jun 2012
Oh, wow — another bank bailout, this time in Spain. Who could have predicted that? The answer, of course, is everybody. In fact, the whole story is starting to feel like a comedy routine: yet again the economy slides, unemployment soars, banks get into trouble, governments rush to the rescue — but somehow it’s only the banks that get rescued, not the unemployed.
→ read full articleThe Environmental and Economic Crises Share the Same Cause
Maurice Strong – The Guatemala Times,
18 Jun 2012
Paradoxically, if we fail to act decisively to combat climate change, the reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions could occur through the collapse of the world economy, warns Maurice Strong in this column. What has happened with the global environment movement? This is a crucial question for Rio+20, the upcoming United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), which will be held Jun. 20-22 [2012] in Brazil.
→ read full articleThe Disaster Management Drama
S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Scene:
Nakkaneri village that is in the middle of nowhere in the Irukkanthurai panchayat in Tirunelveli district with some 100 houses; most of the 300 or so residents had gone to work as daily wage laborers to nearby places. There were hardly 100 women and children in the village who could hardly read or write or understand anything about the nuclear issue. The police surrounded the village and blocked all the roads.
Date and Time:
June 9, 2012, Saturday, 9:30 am – 10:30 am.
Bilderbergers Beware
Patrick Bond - Pambazuka,
11 Jun 2012
The secretive Bilderbergers aren’t normally a protest magnet. But last weekend [3 Jun 2012], protesters hurled creative abuse at the black limousines rolling past towards the Chantilly Marriott Hotel.
→ read full articleWestern Banks ‘Reaping Billions from Colombian Cocaine Trade’
Ed Vulliamy – Information Clearing House,
11 Jun 2012
While cocaine production ravages countries in Central America, consumers in the US and Europe are helping developed economies grow rich from the profits, a study claims. “It’s taboo to go after the big banks,” added Mejía. “It’s political suicide in this economic climate, because the amounts of money recycled are so high.”
→ read full articleGreece – Syriza’s Proposals: The Exit from the Crisis Is On the Left
The Bullet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Syriza, a coalition of 11 different left-wing organizations along with many individuals, is massively popular because of its stand against the austerity measures that have come as conditions–contained in what is called the “Memorandum”–of the bailout of the Greek financial system by the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund, known together as the “troika.”
→ read full articleUN Alliance of Civilizations, Istanbul Partners Forum, May 31-June 1, 2012
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
The UN Alliance of Civilization (AOC) was initiated by Kofi Annan in 2005 while he was Secretary General of the UN with the joint sponsorship of Turkey and Spain, with its principal center of operations in Istanbul.
→ read full articleIbuprofen Kills More than Pain, So What Is the Alternative?
Sayer Ji, Green Med Info – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Pain and unhealthy levels of inflammation are fast becoming default bodily states in the industrialized world. When we think of taking an alternative pain-killer to ibuprofen, we are still thinking within the palliative, allopathic medical model: suppress the symptom, and go on about our business. It would behoove us to look deeper into what is causing our pain. And when possible, remove the cause(s).
→ read full articleIsrael to Build More West Bank Homes
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has approved construction of hundreds more settler homes on Palestinian land, even after the Israeli parliament rejected a bill to retroactively legalise some existing homes.
→ read full articleReport of the Jury on the Public Hearing on Koodankulam and State Suppression of Democratic Rights
Chennai Solidarity Group for Koodankulam Struggle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
This report is based on the testimonies of persons who participated in the public hearing on Koodankulam and State Suppression of Democratic Rights, held on 14 May, 2012 in Lawrence Sundaram Hall, Loyola College, Chennai. The public hearing was organised by the Chennai Solidarity Group for Koodankulam Struggle, a coalition of individuals and organisations formed to lend solidarity to the anti-nuclear struggle in Koodankulam.
→ read full articleSanctions Have Nothing to Do With Human Rights in Burma
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Sanctions have, in the final instance, little or nothing to do with the fact that the Burmese are oppressed and persecuted by the regime in Naypyidaw. There are western allies and/or business partners whose human rights records are equally appalling – Israel, Egypt under Mubarak, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, etc., as well as China and Vietnam – and these countries aren’t subject to any sanctions.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Uma Reflexão Sobre a Internet e a Democracia no Brasil
Thomás S. Selistre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Uma democracia real e sustentável no Brasil, assim como em qualquer outra sociedade madura, não será possível sem o papel ativo dos meios de comunicação. Quando afirmo isso, no entanto, não me refiro àqueles veículos que pertencem a grandes corporações, que sempre terão filtradas as suas pautas através de interesses de anunciantes e da elite.
→ read full articleThis Is Not Our Way
Meir Margalit – Pressenza International Press Agency,
11 Jun 2012
After the article by Melanie Lidman in The Jerusalem Post on April 30, stating that the Interior Ministry was accusing me of illegally constructing Palestinian homes demolished by the municipality, I wrote an op-ed that appeared on May 8. In it, I explained the motives underlying my behavior, and argued that it was a case of legitimate civil disobedience – required of any person with a conscience, when the state is conducting clearly immoral acts.
→ read full articleTamil Nadu: Independent Panel Finds Human Rights Violations at Kudankulam
India Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
An independent committee formed on the Kudankulam nuclear power plant to probe human rights violations by the Centre and the state government submitting its report on Monday [4 Jun 2012] said that people’s right to freedom of speech and freedom of movement were suppressed.
→ read full articleThe Health Benefits of Sungazing
Dr. Edward Group – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
The practice of sungazing closely resembles its name. At sunrise and/or sunset, when the sun is closest to the earth, sungazers stand barefoot on the earth and look directly at the sun for 10 seconds. The theory is that the sun is the force of all life, and staring at it can infuse the body with large amounts of energy.
→ read full articleGermany Swaps Nuclear for Solar and Wind Power
Oliver Lazenby – YES! Magazine,
11 Jun 2012
Germany, the world’s most aggressive adopter of renewable energy, is taking a bold leap toward a future free from nuclear energy. In March [2012], the German government announced a program to invest 200 billion euros, or approximately $270 billion, in renewables. That’s 8 percent of the country’s GDP, according to the DIW Economic Institute in Berlin.
→ read full articleFukushima: Pacific Ocean Will Not Dilute Dumped Radioactive Water
Washington's Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
The floating debris will likely be carried by currents off of Japan toward Washington, Oregon and California before turning toward Hawaii and back again toward Asia, circulating in what is known as the North Pacific gyre, said Curt Ebbesmeyer, a Seattle oceanographer who has spent decades tracking flotsam.
→ read full articleCorruption Watchdog Says Business and Politics ‘Too Cozy’
Deutsche Welle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
The anti-corruption group Transparency International says close ties between business and government across Europe have undermined economic stability. It singles out southern European countries as especially corrupt. The 63-page document showed a “strong correlation” between failure to rein in public spending and inability to tackle graft.
→ read full articleInteractive: World Nuclear Club
Mohammed Haddad and Ben Piven - Al Jazeera,
11 Jun 2012
While 14 nations host nuclear weapons, 30 countries generate atomic energy, and another 18 are building future reactors.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Rio+20: Em Busca de Um Civismo Planetário
Eduardo Febbro – Carta Maior,
11 Jun 2012
O coordenador executivo da Rio+20, Brice Lalonde analisa, em entrevista especial, os desafios e obstáculos que estão colocados para a conferência. “Uma das grandes dificuldades que temos hoje está em que dentro da cada país há pouquíssimos negociadores que pensam no planeta, na humanidade em seu conjunto. Eles pensam em seus países e em seus interesses nacionais. Há muito civismo nacional e pouco civismo planetário”, diz Lalonde.
→ read full articleRelay Fast Begins in Support of Kudankulam Protesters
The Hindu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Expressing solidarity with anti-Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project protestors, now observing a relay fast at Idinthakarai, a section of the residents of neighbouring Kooththenkuzhi commenced a similar agitation on Friday [8 Jun 2012]. After showering flower petals in the sea to mark the World Oceans Day, the villagers and their children started the relay fast at Kooththenkuzhi.
→ read full articleMother Nature Doesn’t Quit
Jim Hightower – Other Words,
11 Jun 2012
So much of Monsanto’s poison was spread in the past decade that weeds naturally developed a resistance to it. Rather than find ways to cooperate with the natural world, America’s agribusiness giants reach for the next quick fix in a futile effort to overpower nature. Their attitude is that if brute force isn’t working, they’re probably not using enough of it.
→ read full articleAstronomers Predict Titanic Collision: Milky Way vs. Andromeda
NASA Science News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
May 31, 2012: NASA astronomers say they can now predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our galaxy, sun, and solar system: the titanic collision of our Milky Way galaxy with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Humilhação e Dignidade
Tereza Halliday - Diário de Pernambuco,
11 Jun 2012
O quadro de referência de suas pesquisas é a Teoria da Humilhação, segundo a qual diversos tipos de violência na sociedade, têm como causa o humilhar e o ser humilhado. Humilhação tem a ver com dor. A dor de não ter, quando outros têm; a dor de não ser levado em consideração; a dor de não ser respeitado por ser quem é.
→ read full article(Italian) La Repubblica E’ Fondata Sul Lavoro e Non Sulle Armi
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
A partire dai principi fondamentali della Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana tra i quali l’articolo 1 e dall’articolo 11. Nei loro rispettivi incipit:
ART.1. L’Italia è una Repubblica democratica fondata sul lavoro. […]
ART 11. L’Italia ripudia la guerra come strumento di offesa alla libertà degli altri popoli e come mezzo di risoluzione delle controversie internazionali; […]
(Portuguese) Vandana Shiva: “Financeirização da Economia Está na Raiz da Crise”
Ana Paula Salviatti – Carta Maior,
11 Jun 2012
Em entrevista à Carta Maior, a ativista indiana Vandana Shiva fala sobre suas expectativas em relação a Rio+20. Ela não acredita que a conferência da ONU consiga firmar compromissos de mudanças mais significativas em função da influência das grandes corporações. Neste cenário, defende, o papel da Cúpula dos Povos adquire maior importância.
→ read full articleForgiving Siemens: Unraveling a Tangled Tale of German Corruption in Greece
Lena Mavraka and Vasilis Papatheodorou – CorpWatch,
11 Jun 2012
To understand the pervasive corruption in Greek politics, it is necessary to examine the company that has probably paid the biggest bribes to both major parties: Siemens from Munich, Germany, a company with contracts in practically every ministry from culture to telecommunications. On November 11, 2010, Siemens turned off 35 traffic lights in central Athens in protest against Greek government fines as high as €500 million ($650 million) to settle allegations of bribery to win contracts.
→ read full articleThe Julian Assange Show: Cypherpunks
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Cyber threats, hacker attacks and laws officially aiming to tackle internet piracy, but in fact infringing people’s rights to online privacy. It’s an increasingly topical subject – and the world’s most famous whistleblower is aiming to get to the heart of it.
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We Are the World, We are the Children (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
A constellation of stars singing Michael Jackson’s classic.
→ read full articleThe Arab Spring and the Image of Islam
Johan Galtung, 11 Jun 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Europe has a right to limit its immigration. But once there, as citizens, there is only one way: the rule of law, human rights and democracy. And democracy is more than elections: no discrimination, tolerance, transparency, dialogue of civilizations, based on respect and a minimum of knowledge, engaging in mutual learning.
→ read full articleThe Colors of the Economy
Cristovam Buarque – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Until recently, the idea of “green economy” was seen as an environmentalist fantasy without theoretical basis. With the rapid acceleration of the environmental crisis, the “green economy” gained legitimacy, although traditional economists still do not consider it because, by seeking sustainable alternatives for the process of production, it does not respect the fundamentals of present theory.
→ read full articleSecret Cooperation: Israel Deploys Nuclear Weapons on German-Built Submarines
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
A German shipyard has already built three submarines for Israel, and three more are planned. Now SPIEGEL has learned that Israel is arming the submarines with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. The German government has known about Israel’s nuclear weapons program for decades, despite its official denials.
→ read full articleSeeds of Doubt: Brazilian Farmers Sue Monsanto
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Five million Brazilian farmers are locked in a lawsuit with US-based biotech giant Monsanto, suing for as much as 6.2 billion euros. They say that the genetic-engineering company has been collecting royalties on crops it unfairly claims as its own.
→ read full articleIceland Economy Grows At Fastest Pace in Four Years
Niklas Pollard, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Iceland’s economy expanded in the first quarter at its fastest pace since its near-meltdown, powered by a surge in exports, tourism and domestic consumption. Gross domestic product (GDP) grew 2.4 percent quarter-on-quarter in the first three months of the year to put annual economic growth at 4.5 percent in the period, the highest since the first quarter of 2008, data from the statistics office showed on Friday [8 Jun 2012].
→ read full articleSpiritual Cooperation: A Possibility or Farfetched Dream?
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
In international politics, relations of trade and commerce among nations are known, but spiritual cooperation?
→ read full articleThe US Army’s Flawed Resilience-Training Study: A Call for Retraction
Roy Eidelson and Stephen Soldz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
In a report released today [4 Jun 2012] by the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology, two psychologists call upon the US Army to retract or publicly correct a recent research report that claims the Army’s $140 million Comprehensive Soldier Fitness (CSF) resilience program “works.” The psychologists Roy Eidelson and Stephen Soldz argue that the study design is flawed and that the results do not justify the researchers’ favorable conclusions.
→ read full articleWindmills Play a Big Role in Easing Power Situation in Tamil Nadu
The Hindu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Since May 25 [2012], windmills have contributed 31 to 34 per cent of the total power consumed in the State every day.
→ read full articleQuotes
TMS Editor,
11 Jun 2012
Whenever I’m caught between two evils, I take the one I’ve never tried.
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