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The War of Lies
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
THIRTY YEARS ago this week [8 Jun 2012], the Israeli army crossed into Lebanon and started the most stupid war in Israel’s history. Almost all wars are based on lies. Lies are considered legitimate instruments of war. Lebanon War I (as it was later called) was a glorious example. From beginning to end (if it has ended yet) it was a war of deceit and deception, falsehoods and fabrications. THE LIES started with the official name: “Operation Peace in Galilee”.
→ read full articleKiller Insect Virus Helping to Decimate World’s Bee Population
Common Dreams staff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
A new study published in the journal Science has revealed that, in addition to the destruction of natural habitats and the widespread use of industrial chemical pesticides, the global bee die-off witnessed in recent years is also caused by a deadly virus carried by bloodsucking parasitic mites.
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Earth’s Most Threatened Tribe
Survival International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Colin Firth Launches Campaign To Save Them. Many Awá are still uncontacted, and they are running for their lives. “One man has the power to stop the loggers: Brazil’s Minister of Justice. But it’s just not his priority. Let’s push it up his list.”
→ read full articleAnother Day, More People Drone-Bombed
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
We now know that, after our leaders decide who should be killed from photos and flimsy evidence, they then follow up by bombing the funerals of those they’ve killed, assuming that whoever shows up for the funeral must also be a terrorist. How low can the U.S. Go? It is unlikely that, from the most powerful nation on earth, the leaders will ever be hauled off to the International Court of Justice for trials, and so we have a world in which the hatreds are compounded daily.
→ read full articleFour Futures
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Although the problems facing the world in the 21st century are both severe and difficult they do have solutions, which are vehemently opposed by the power holders of today, who control both governments and mass media. Indeed this opposition by power holders, who profit from the status quo, is the main reason why rational solutions to global problems have not yet been found.
→ read full articleGermany Sets New Solar Power Record, Institute Says
Erik Kirschbaum, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity – equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity – through the midday hours on Friday and Saturday [25-26 May 2012], the head of a renewable energy think tank said.
→ read full articleKoodankulam: Aruna Roy’s Letter to Sonia Gandhi
Aruna Roy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
May 23, 2012 – Dear Mrs. Gandhi,
I have already forwarded two petitions on 21st January and 20th April 2012 to bring the matter regarding the protests against the non observation of norms in the nuclear plant at Kudankulam; the clamping down on protestors. Place for dissent is shrinking in India, which is a matter of great concern.
The Crash and Burn Future of Robot Warfare
Nick Turse – TomDispatch,
4 Jun 2012
Drones may be effective in terms of generating body counts, but they appear to be even more successful in generating animosity and creating enemies. A decade’s worth of futility suggests that drone warfare itself may already be crashing and burning, yet it seems destined that the skies will fill with drones and that the future will bring more of the same.
→ read full articleEating This Could Turn Your Gut into a Living Pesticide Factory
Dr. Mercola – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
Monsanto’s genetically modified “Bt corn” has been equipped with a gene from soil bacteria that produces the Bt-toxin, a pesticide that breaks open the stomach of insects and kills them. This pesticide-producing corn entered the food supply in the late 1990’s and the horror stories have started piling up. Last year, doctors at Sherbrooke University Hospital in Quebec found Bt-toxin in the blood of 93% of pregnant women tested; 80% of umbilical blood in their babies; and 67% of non-pregnant women.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks, War Crimes and the Pinochet Principle
Amy Goodman – Truthdig,
4 Jun 2012
Judge Garzon and Julian Assange have taken on entrenched power, whether government, military or corporate. Bradley Manning stands accused of the same. In differing degrees, their lives have forever changed, their careers, their freedoms and their reputations threatened or destroyed. This week, Hillary Clinton will be making the first official trip to Sweden in years. Why? What role is the U.S. government playing in Assange’s case?
→ read full articlePeople Struggle for Survival: Nuclear Power Corporation of India Plays Hide and Seek
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
The NPCIL plays hide and seek with the lives and safety of millions of Indian citizens. They argue that the Safety Analysis Report (SAR) “is a ‘third party document’ and therefore, without the prior consent of the third party, the same cannot be shared with anyone.” Although they are holding the SAR in a ‘Fiduciary Capacity,’ they cannot share it with the people of India.
→ read full articleSecret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will
Jo Becker and Scott Shane – The New York Times,
4 Jun 2012
This was the enemy, served up in the latest chart from the intelligence agencies: 15 Qaeda suspects in Yemen with Western ties. The mug shots and brief biographies resembled a high school yearbook layout. Several were Americans. Two were teenagers, including a girl who looked even younger than her 17 years.
→ read full articleJohn Pilger on the Importance of the Assange Affair
Dagens Nyheter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
On 30 May 2012 Britain’s Supreme Court turned down the final appeal of Julian Assange against his extradition to Sweden. On the eve of the judgment, Sweden’s leading morning newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, interviewed investigative journalist John Pilger, who has closely followed the Assange case. The following is the complete text of the interview, of which only a fraction was published in Sweden.
→ read full articlePsychiatry Giant Sorry for Backing Gay ‘Cure’
Benedict Carey – The New York Times,
4 Jun 2012
A draft of the letter has already leaked online and has been reported. “You know, it’s the only regret I have; the only professional one,” Dr. Spitzer said of the study, near the end of a long interview. “And I think, in the history of psychiatry, I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a scientist write a letter saying that the data were all there but were totally misinterpreted. Who admitted that and who apologized to his readers.” He looked away and back again, his big eyes blurring with emotion. “That’s something, don’t you think?”
→ read full articleBilderberg Meetings Final List of Participants
Bilderberg Meetings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
Chantilly, Virginia, USA, 31 May-3 June 2012
→ read full articleBeyond the Politics of Invisibility: Remembering Not to Forget Palestinian Hunger Strikers
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
With a certain amount of fanfare in Israel and Palestine, although still severely underreported by the world media and relatively ignored by the leading watchdog human rights NGOs, it was observed with contradictory spins that the Palestinian hunger strikes had been brought to an end by agreement between the strikers and Israel.
→ read full articleUnthought as Cognitive Foundation of Global Civilization
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
Implications of God, Debt, Overpopulation, Waste, Negligence, Encroachment and Death? This is an exploration of the possible nature of an immense cognitive “hole” — far “beneath” the conventional thought processes characterizing society, relationships and communication. The approach is partly inspired by the work of John Ralston Saul (The Unconscious Civilization, 1995), partly that of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (The Phenomenology of Perception, 1945), and partly that of Carl Jung on the collective unconscious.
→ read full articleEco Warriors, Arise to Rio’s Earth Summit!
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
A paradigm shift is desperately needed. And it will not come from those who have created the crisis and who are looking for new ways to extend the life of the greed economy by commodifying and privatising all life on earth. They will come to Rio+20 to paint the “greed economy” green, and call it the “green economy”. And they will have powerful governments on their side.
→ read full articleEgypt: Is Democracy Still Possible?
Abdallah Hendawy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
There is no doubt that Egyptians have stepped miles onto the realm of democracy. They struggled and won unprecedented rights and gains but there is also no doubt that the fight for democracy is still far from where present day Egypt stands at the moment.
→ read full articleSave Us from the Saviours
Slavoj Žižek, London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
Europe and the Greeks – In his Notes towards the Definition of Culture, T.S. Eliot remarked that there are moments when the only choice is between heresy and non-belief – i.e., when the only way to keep a religion alive is to perform a sectarian split. This is the position in Europe today. Only a new ‘heresy’ – represented at this moment by Syriza – can save what is worth saving of the European legacy.
→ read full articleBenefits of Aloe Vera
Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
Everybody knows aloe vera is great for cuts and sunburns, even bug bites. It’s been called the “First Aid” plant. But what about the rest of the body: are there benefits for your insides too? Aloe vera is one of the oldest and most popular medicinal plants known to man. It’s mentioned in ancient documents, including the New Testament, where it was used with other herbs for embalming!
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(Portuguese) Causa para a Abolição das Touradas Recebida pelo Primeiro-Ministro de Portugal
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
Pela primeira vez a sociedade portuguesa que não gosta e defende o fim das corridas de touros foi ouvida pelo poder político. A audiência com o Primeiro-Ministro Passos Coelho surgiu na sequência de uma iniciativa do Governo destinada a eleger a causa mais popular em Portugal. A abolição das touradas foi a causa vencedora com a esmagadora maioria dos votos, revelando uma vontade social inequívoca dos portugueses em abolir este espectáculo que implica o sofrimento e o maltrato em público de milhares de animais.
→ read full article(Italian) Torino, 30 Anni di Centro Studi Sereno Regis. Ecologia e Nonviolenza
Giuseppe Iasparra, EcoDalleCittà – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
I vicini di casa di casa di Eco dalle Città compiono 30 anni di attività. Dal 1° al 3 giugno si svolge a Torino, in via Garibaldi 13, la festa per il trentennale del Centro Studi Sereno Regis. On line il programma della festa e la nostra intervista a Nanni Salio, presidente del Centro Studi.
→ read full articleThe Julian Assange Show: Occupy Movement (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
The Occupy movement has united hundreds of thousands across the world to fight social and economic inequality. In the latest edition of Assange’s very own interview programme Julian Assange meets with prominent Occupy activists who say their collective efforts target global institutions.
→ read full articleNuclear Nirvana
S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
If you do feel like pulling your hair off
when they deprive you of your daily bread,
If you do feel like screaming your head off
when they chip away at your wellbeing,
If you do feel like kicking up a storm
when they deny your identity and freedom,
Trust Deficit: People’s Struggle at Koodankulam
S.G. Vombatkere, CounterCurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
A cursory glance at the Site Evaluation Report shows that its 12 pages are of limited legibility, with no title page, no authorship, no ownership, no publisher, no date, no index, and no names of the site selection committee. With it bearing no authorship, no publisher, no names, etc., could this “orphan” SER be an attempt to dodge responsibility for a haphazard site selection carried out by this highly scientific and technical department staffed by the best brains in India?
→ read full articleJournalist and Educators
Thomás S. Selistre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
The creation of a real and sustainable democracy in Brazil, as in any other mature society, will not be possible without the active role of the media. But now, when I say media, I do not mean the outlets owned by big corporations, which will always filter the information through the interests of the propaganda and the elite. I talk about an alternative journalism, that uses the internet as a tool to express itself and interact with the world.
→ read full articleConsequences and Costs of War (Graphic Illustration)
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
Reflections on the costs and consequences of war and violence.
→ read full articleDiscovering the Most Brutal Enemies of our Earthly Community
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
As the scholastics indicated: Quidquid contingens est causam habet – Whatever comes into being must have a cause. People across every continent are going through crucial pain of one kind or another. Such pain did not pop up from the midst of nowhere. Since in this world only people make things happen for the better or the worse, we may safely conclude that the origin all the problems facing the world could be traced to people.
→ read full articleWhat Can Be Done About Syria? Tragedy and Impotence
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
The dilemma exposes the weakness of empathetic geopolitics in a world that continues to be dominated by territorially supreme sovereign states with insecure and antagonistic minorities. In the Syrian situation this tragic reality is revealed in all its horror, complexity, and contradictions. It is unacceptable to remain a passive spectator in a media wired world where events are reported visually almost as they are occurring, or immediately thereafter.
→ read full articleIt Starts In Quebec: Our Revolution of Love, Hope and Community
Ethan Cox, rabble.ca – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
In almost every report on the social movement now sweeping Quebec, including my own, words like conflict, crisis and stand-off figure prominently. Anger is omnipresent. The anger of protesters, the anger of government, the anger of those supposedly inconvenienced. Pundits scream about mob rule, anarchy in the streets and the dissolution of society as we know it.
→ read full articleThe Houla Massacre: Opposition Terrorists “Killed Families Loyal to the Government”
Marat Musin – Global Research,
4 Jun 2012
“When the rebels seized the lower checkpoint in the center of town and located next to the local police department, they began to sweep all the families loyal to the authorities in neighboring houses, including the elderly, women and children. Several families of the Al-Sayed were killed, including 20 young children and the family of Abdul Razak. Then they presented the murdered [corpses] to the UN and the international community as victims of bombings by the Syrian army, something that was not verified by any marks on their bodies.”
→ read full articleThe Rendition Project
Rendition Research Team, University of Kent – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
Researching the Globalization of Rendition and Secret Detention – Welcome to The Rendition Project website. This site is the product of a collaborative research project between Dr Ruth Blakeley at the University of Kent and Dr Sam Raphael at Kingston University, funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council.
→ read full articleHow to Get Rid of Anti-Semitism!
Gilad Atzmon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
To suggest that anti-Semitism can ever be explained, rather than condemned, is insensitive and, frankly, bizarre.
→ read full articleCelebrate “World Oceans Day” on June 8 and Protect the Mother Ocean
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
PMANE Plans Special Prayers, Floral Tributes and Cultural Programs in Coastal Villages
→ read full articleWithholding Water: Cholera, Prejudice, and the Right to Water in Haiti
Deepa Panchang, Other Worlds – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
Scientists have shown that the cholera pathogen came to Haiti with foreign UN troops who carried the bacteria in their bodies, and whose military base was dumping its sewage into a nearby river. The imported disease has claimed more than 7,000 lives and continues to ravage communities across Haiti… despite billions in post-earthquake aid dollars.
→ read full articleMali: Refugee Flows and Increased Hunger Point To Need for a Mali Federation
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
The creation of a federation of north and south Mali rather than having the country split into two independent States with uncertain frontiers could be a measure acceptable to both the MNLA and the government of Bamako. A federal constitution could maintain the unity of the country while at the same time providing the needed autonomy to the north and a preservation of the Tuareg way of life.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Democracia, o Novo Fantasma dos Mercados
Slavoj Žižek, London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
Num artigo publicado na London Review of Books, o filósofo esloveno sustenta que “só uma nova ‘heresia’ – representada hoje pela Syriza – pode salvar o que valha a pena do legado europeu: a democracia, a confiança nas pessoas, a solidariedade igualitária”. Recordamos que o Manifesto de Solidariedade com a Grécia continua a receber adesões.
→ read full articleImmemorial Day – No Peace for Militarized U.S.
Bill Quigley - Common Dreams,
28 May 2012
Peace today is a nearly impossible challenge for the United States. The U.S. is far and away the most militarized country in the world and the most aggressive. Unless the U.S. dramatically reduces its emphasis on global military action, there will be many, many more families grieving on future Memorial days.
→ read full articleFrench Ban of Monsanto GM Maize Rejected By EU
Adam Vaughan – The Guardian,
28 May 2012
France’s attempt to ban the planting of a Monsanto strain of genetically modified maize was rejected by the EU’s food safety body on Monday [21 May 2012]. In response to scientific evidence submitted by France backing its bid to ban the GM maize, the European Food Safety Authority ruled that “there is no specific scientific evidence, in terms of risk to human and animal health or the environment” to support a ban.
→ read full articleWashington’s Hypocrisies
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
The US government is the second worst human rights abuser on the planet and the sole enabler of the worst–Israel. But this doesn’t hamper Washington from pointing the finger elsewhere. The US State Department’s “human rights report” focuses its ire on Iran and Syria, two countries whose real sin is their independence from Washington, and on the bogyman- in-the-making–China, the country selected for the role of Washington’s new Cold War enemy.
→ read full articleGM Crops: Protesters Go Back To the Battlefields
Leo Hickman – The Guardian,
28 May 2012
A decade ago anti-GM protesters tore up fields and Britain roundly rejected so-called ‘Frankenfood’. Now, as researchers trial new crops, activists are once more squaring up to the scientists. But have the arguments changed?
→ read full articleSwastika as Dynamic Pattern Underlying Psychosocial Power Processes
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
This speculative exploration is not about the problematic (neo) Nazi use of the Swastika, nor is it about the use of the Swastika as a traditional symbol much valued in many cultures of the world. However it does suggest further insights into why the Swastika has been recognized in such contexts and why those contrasting uses merit further reflection.
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Cambodia’s Orphan Business
AlJazeeraEnglish – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
Increasing numbers of tourists including well-intentioned volunteers keen to help war-torn Cambodia are volunteering in the country’s orphanages. People & Power investigates the concept of “voluntourism” which is inadvertently doing more harm than good to Cambodian children, as well as the disturbing trend of exploitation by some companies that organise volunteers or run orphanages.
→ read full articleA Last (Chemical) Gasp for Bees?
Shannan Stoll – YES! Magazine,
28 May 2012
Colony collapse disorder threatens food crops valued at $15 billion a year. New research says farm chemicals put our food system at risk. Newly published scientific evidence is bolstering calls for greater regulation of some of the world’s most widely used pesticides and genetically modified crops.
→ read full articleDharma Traditions’ Perspective Enhances Religious Leaders’ Statement to G8
Keshava Sharma, ISKCON News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
Religious leaders gather in Washington, D.C. to issue joint statement to the world’s political leaders. The final statement reflected the shared values of the various religious traditions that were present, including Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Zoroastrian, Sikh, Baha’i, Shinto, Buddhist, Hindu and Jain.
→ read full articleLawyer in Hell
TMS Editor,
28 May 2012
A lawyer died and was delivered into the devil’s hands. “You will be spending eternity here, but I’ll let you pick your own room from three I’ll show you,” the devil said.
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The Myth of the Rich as Job Creators (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
TED Talks, Nick Hanauer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
In the talk, Hanauer, an early investor in Amazon.com and a multimillionaire, argued that income inequality was a detraction to a healthy economy and scoffed at the familiar rightwing talking point that the wealthy are the de-facto ‘job creators’ in the marketplace. “When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it’s a little like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it’s the other way around.”
→ read full articleDr. Robert Spitzer Apologizes to Gay Community for Infamous ‘Ex-Gay’ Study
John M. Becker, Truth Wins Out – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
Today [25 Apr 2012], in a letter to Dr. Ken Zucker obtained exclusively by Truth Wins Out, Dr. Robert Spitzer made an unprecedented apology to the gay community — and victims of reparative therapy in particular — for his infamous, now-repudiated 2001 study that claimed some “highly motivated” homosexuals could go from gay to straight.
→ read full articleSite Evaluation Report – Analysis
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
There is hardly any mention of desalinations plants, the transportation of the nuclear waste and other crucial issues. To sum up, this SER reads like a practical joke being played upon the innocent people of southern Tamil Nadu and southern Kerala. The PMANE rejects this so called SER and demands the NPCIL to share the real, complete and updated Site Evaluation Report with the people of India along with the Safety Analysis Report as per the orders of the CIC.
→ read full articleHundreds of Words to Avoid Using Online if You Don’t Want the Government Spying On You
Daniel Miller – Mail Online,
28 May 2012
(And They Include ‘Pork’, ‘Cloud’ and ‘Mexico’) – Department of Homeland Security forced to release list following freedom of information request. Agency insists it only looks for evidence of genuine threats to the U.S. and not for signs of general dissent.
→ read full articleEthiopia: Are the Islamists Coming?
Alemayehu Fentaw – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
It is imperative to bear in mind that it is the marginalization and suppression of Muslims by the Ethiopian Christian State in the past that bred extremism. The current interference by the secular tyrant in the internal affairs of the Muslim community won’t help if not to exacerbate the situation.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Seguir em Frente…
Paulo Coelho – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
Sempre é preciso saber
quando uma etapa chega ao final.
Algerian MPs Boycott Parliament Session
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
Opposition legislators boycott inaugural session of parliament, claiming fraud in election held earlier this month. For Algeria, the only country in North Africa left largely untouched by last year’s so-called “Arab Spring” revolts, a prolonged boycott by the MPs could complicate a reform of the constitution which President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has promised for this year.
→ read full articleFORUM: Why People in Tamil Nadu Are Protesting Nuclear Energy
Prof. Monisha Dasgupta – Center for South Asian Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa,
28 May 2012
Power Games: Why people in Tamil Nadu are protesting nuclear energy – S.P. Udayakumar is a member of the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy and the National Alliance of Anti-Nuclear Movements. He is one of the leaders of the non-violent protests against the Koodankulam nuclear power project in Tamil Nadu.
→ read full articleReflections on the Great Palestinian Prison Hunger Strikes of 2012
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
Ché Guevara was once asked what was at the root of his revolutionary commitment. His response, which we should all take some moments to reflect upon, “it is about love.” Reading the words of Khader Adnan (‘Open Letter to the People of the World’) and Thaer Halahleh (‘Letter to my Daughter’), or the comments of Hana Shalabi’s mother and sister, or Bilal Diab’s father, led me to recall Guevara’s illuminating comment.
→ read full articleLimited Liability – Nuclear Energy’s ‘Mother of all Subsidies’
Stephen Leahy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
The nuclear energy industry only exists thanks to what insurance experts call the “mother of all subsidies”, and the public is largely unaware that every nuclear power plant in the world has a strict cap on how much the industry might have to pay out in case of an accident. In Canada, this liability cap is an astonishingly low 75 million dollars. In India, it is 110 million dollars and in Britain 220 million dollars. If there is an accident, governments – i.e. the public – are on the hook for all costs exceeding those caps.
→ read full articleWhat is New in the Palestine/Israel Conflict
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
The Israeli/Palestine conflict has changed its character in fundamental respects during the last couple of years.
→ read full articleModernity’s Other and the Transformation of the University – I
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
Society as a whole and the university as a leading part of society need to revive some of the norms of African society prior to European contact. One could say the same about traditional norms in other parts of the world. I mention Africa because we are here.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Parlamento Europeu Vota Contra as Patentes Sobre Plantas e Animais
Sustentabilidade é Acção – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
«O Parlamento Europeu aprovou ontem [12 maio 2012] uma resolução pedindo ao Instituto Europeu de Patentes para parar a concessão de patentes ao melhoramento genético convencional de plantas e animais. A resolução foi apresentada conjuntamente pelos deputados de vários partidos e foi aprovada com ampla maioria.
→ read full articleOn Not Visiting an Orphanage in Cambodia
Jill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
In Cambodia, visiting orphanages is listed as a tourist attraction on Tripadvisor, right up there with temples, museums and restaurants. Imagine if you had been rescued form an abusive or neglectful environment and had to retell (or hear someone else retell) your painful story every night. I don’t think there is any brand of therapy that would recommend daily public rehashing followed by compulsory dancing as a method of recovery.
→ read full articleSupporting Young Syrians Who Say “Stop the Killing”
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
A group of young nonviolent Syrians have created a movement, “Stop the Killing,” not related to a political party or a confessional religious group, but which wishes to unite those of good will to stop the violence and to develop a society in which all can contribute. Therefore, we who are outside Syria, send our support and willingness to cooperate.
→ read full articleWhen the State Seizes Industry
Jason Farbman – Socialist Worker,
28 May 2012
The dynamics that produced a wave of nationalizations in Argentina and Bolivia–and how the process is playing out differently in each country.
→ read full articleA Political Blow to Austerity in Europe
Socialist Worker, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
Europe’s political situation has become more volatile as the economy deteriorates. The rejection of austerity by voters in Greece and France and the deepening turmoil of Spain’s unraveling banks are two faces of Europe’s political and economic crises–and they point to new potential for resistance.
→ read full articleBenefits of Equality
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
Taking advantage of their superior weaponry, Europe, the United States and Japan rapidly carved up the remainder of the world into colonies, which acted as sources of raw materials and food, and as markets for manufactured goods.
→ read full articleWhen the Respectable Become Extremists the Extremists Become Respectable
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
By any historical measure, whether it involves international law, human rights conventions, United Nations protocols, socio economic indicators, the policies and practices of the United States and European Union regimes can be characterized as extremist.
→ read full articleThe Julian Assange Show: Rafael Correa
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
This week, Julian Assange talks to the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa. Correa is a left wing populist who has changed the face of Ecuador. But unlike his predecessors he holds a Ph.D. in economics. According to US embassy cables, Correa is the most popular President in Ecuador’s democratic history.
→ read full articleGod’s Divine Maternal Qualities: Buddhism and Christianity in Perspective
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
Ascetical writers tell us that God is both Father and Mother. This means that in God’s essence we find the perfection of all paternal and maternal qualities.
→ read full article(French) Représentants du Mouvement Abolitionniste des Corridas au Portugal Ont Eté Reçus par le Premier Ministre
MACP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Le dernier mardi (8/mai/2012) le mouvement abolitionniste des corridas au Portugal a vécu un jour historique: ses représentants ont été reçus par le Premier Ministre chez sa résidence officielle, le Palais de S. Bento.
→ read full articleExcuse Me, But Israel Has No Right To Exist
Sharmine Narwani - The Sandbox,
21 May 2012
The phrase “right to exist” entered my consciousness in the 1990s just as the concept of the two-state solution became part of our collective lexicon. In any debate at university, when a Zionist was out of arguments, those three magic words were invoked to shut down the conversation with an outraged, “are you saying Israel doesn’t have the right to exist??” Why are the colonial-settlers prior to 1948 any different from those who colonized and settled after 1967?
→ read full articleHow the US Press Lost Its Way
Robert Parry - Comsortium News,
21 May 2012
People often wonder what happened to the American press after it distinguished itself in the 1970s by exposing the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. How did the U.S. news media lose its way over the past four decades, a question addressed by Robert Parry at a conference on information and secrecy.
→ read full articleTraining To Overcome Institutional Racial Bias in Policing
Michael Motto – Tampa Bay Times,
21 May 2012
Police officers in America shoot and kill African-Americans four times more often than whites, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. That figure actually reflects progress from the 1970s, when the ratio was 8 to 1.
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The World Tomorrow: Surviving Guantanamo
Russia Today, Julian Assange – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Julian Assange speaks with Moazzam Begg – former Gitmo prisoner and a rights campaigner fighting for those still trapped behind the wire, and Asim Qureshi – former corporate lawyer, whose human rights organization Cageprisoners Ltd exists solely to raise awareness of the plight of prisoners who remain in Guantanamo Bay.
→ read full articleDire la Guerre, Penser la Paix
Johan Galtung, 21 May 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Important is not only to think peace, but to speak, write and contribute to making, building and keeping it. War is a social evil, causing untold suffering like slavery, colonialism, patriarchy, preventable-curable diseases; soon to join the others in the cemetery for social evils. And talk about “just war” is like talking about just slavery, just colonialism, just patriarchy, and disease as God’s or Nature’s cleansing humanity of those unfit for salvation-survival.
→ read full articleThou Shalt Not Kill
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
It is an interesting fact that Leo Tolstoy, who is generally considered to have been one of the greatest novelists of all time, was deeply aware of ethical problems, especially as an old man. “…The sharpest of all contradictions”, Tolstoy wrote, “can be seen between the government’s professed faith in the Christian law of the brotherhood of all humankind, and the military laws of the state, which force each young man to prepare himself for enmity and murder…”
→ read full articleThe Case of the Missing Terrorists
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
If there were any real terrorists, Jose Rodriguez would be dead. Who is Jose Rodriguez? He is the criminal who ran the CIA torture program. Most of his victims were not terrorists or even insurgents. Most were hapless individuals kidnapped by warlords and sold to the Americans as “terrorists” for the bounty paid.
→ read full article‘Journalists Failed To Tell the Story of War Crimes in Sri Lanka’
Frances Harrison, Journalism.co – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
How is it possible in this world of satellites, rolling news and internet we have no idea how many human beings really perished, even rounded up to the nearest thousand? It is because as journalists we have failed to get close to the truth.
→ read full articleHigh Noon in Koodankulam
Niranjan Ramakrishnan – CounterPunch,
21 May 2012
Many countries are rethinking their nuclear plans post-Fukushima. Some are proceeding to draw down their nuclear power operations… “As the world sleeps, India awakes to freedom”, Jawaharlal Nehru declared as he became free India’s first prime minister. It was the midnight hour of August 14-15, 1947. Today we might be on more solid ground in paraphrasing Nehru’s words: “As the world awakes to its dangers, India sleepwalks into nuclear peril“.
→ read full article(Italian) USA e Italia in Giordania a Provare la Guerra
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Più di 12.000 militari provenienti da 17 paesi daranno vita ad Eager Lion 2012 che – secondo il Comando USA per le operazioni speciali – “avrà come obiettivo il rafforzamento delle relazioni tra le differenti forze armate attraverso un comune approccio multinazionale ed inter-governativo per affrontare tutte le odierne e future sfide per la sicurezza”.
→ read full article(Portuguese) A Urgência da União Sul-Americana
Mauro Santayana – Carta Maior,
21 May 2012
A América do Sul terá que unir-se com urgência, para que não se torne território aberto à disputa feroz pelos seus recursos naturais, no futuro que se apressa a chegar. Ao lado da África, a América Latina sempre foi vista como um território de todos, menos de seus próprios habitantes.
→ read full articleContemporary Slavery: Understanding the New Face to an Old Evil
UNOY – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
On 27 June 2012, Metin Kazak MEP will open a conference in the European Parliament organised in conjunction with UNPO examining the current extent and forms of slavery across the world. Discussing cases from the Haratin in Mauritania to the human trafficking that afflicts Europe, the conference will raise awareness of contemporary slavery and, in bringing together policy makers and experts, posit possible solutions to the mitigation and halting of the practice.
→ read full articleThose Revolting Europeans: How Dare the French and Greeks Reject a Failed Strategy!
Paul Krugman, Economics Nobel Laureate – The New York Times,
21 May 2012
The French are revolting. The Greeks, too. And it’s about time. Both countries held elections Sunday [6 May 2012] that were in effect referendums on the current European economic strategy, and in both countries voters turned two thumbs down. It’s far from clear how soon the votes will lead to changes in actual policy, but time is clearly running out for the strategy of recovery through austerity — and that’s a good thing.
→ read full article(Castellano) Movimiento Para la Abolición de las Corridas de Toros Recibido por el Primer-Ministro de Portugal
MPACT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
El pasado Martes, el 8 de mayo, fue un día histórico para el movimiento para la abolición de las corridas de toros en Portugal al ser recibido por el señor Primer-Ministro de Portugal en su residencia oficial, el Palacio de S. Bento.
→ read full articleNever Forget That Bradley Manning, Not Gay Marriage, Is the Issue
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
The award of the Nobel Prize to the first black president because he “offered hope” was both absurd and an authentic expression of the lifestyle liberalism that controls much of political debate in the west. Same-sex marriage is one such distraction. The truth is that what matters to those who aspire to control our lives is not skin pigment or gender, or whether or not we are gay, but the class we serve. Remember Bradley Manning.
→ read full articleIsrael as Popular as North Korea According to BBC Poll
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Haaretz reported yesterday [16 May 2012] that, “Israel, Iran, Pakistan and North Korea were ranked most negatively by 24,000 people surveyed in an annual BBC poll.” Israel may want to consider changing its path immediately. Rather than investing in Hasbara and extensive Jewish lobbying, it may want to open its eyes to the prospect of humanism and peace because it appears that humanity clearly shows some real signs of fatigue towards the ‘Jews only State’.
→ read full articleAlgeria’s Election Was a Fraud
Jeremy Keenan – Al Jazeera,
21 May 2012
The results of Algeria’s May 10 [2012] legislative elections have been met with such fury by Algerians that some analysts believe that these will be the last elections held under the current regime. If there were any hopes for democracy still remaining in the country, these elections snuffed them out.
→ read full articleLong Live ‘Our’ Gulf Bastards
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
21 May 2012
Life is a golden gift from Allah if you’re a certified member of the Gulf Counter-Revolution Club (GCC), also known as the Gulf Cooperation Council; Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates can torture, kill, repress and demonize their own subjects – in full confidence the “master” will let you get away with it.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to the People of Russia
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Greetings! We, several millions of people from the southernmost tip of India, are writing to you to send our love and seek your support for the peaceful and nonviolent struggle that we have been waging for the past nine months against the Koodankulam nuclear power project (KKNPP). This mega nuclear power park is being built with Russian loan and technology against the will and wishes of the local people.
→ read full articleThe Nakba: 2012
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
The recent parallel hunger strikes in Israeli prisons reignited the political imagination of Palestinians around the world, strengthening bonds of ‘solidarity’ and reinforcing the trend toward grassroots reliance on nonviolent resistance Israeli abuses.
→ read full articleGlad to Be Drunk
TMS Editor,
21 May 2012
A completely inebriated man was stumbling down the street with one foot on the curb and one foot in the gutter.
→ read full articleAfter Austerity
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Economics Nobel Laureate – Project Syndicate,
21 May 2012
It is a little precious to hear such pontifications from those who, at the helm of central banks, finance ministries, and private banks, steered the global financial system to the brink of ruin – and created the ongoing mess. Worse, seldom is it explained how to square the circle. How can confidence be restored as the crisis economies plunge into recession?
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(Portuguese) Dilma Instala a Comissão da Verdade
PalaciodoPlanalto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Cerimônia de Instalação da Comissão da Verdade – Brasília, 16 de maio de 2012
→ read full articleAfghanistan’s’ Chicago Resistance
Malalai Joya – The Guardian,
21 May 2012
Thousands of protesters are expected to descend on Chicago this weekend [20-21 May 2012] for Nato’s annual summit where Afghanistan will be top of the agenda. It promises to be one of the most important anti-war demonstrations of our generation.
→ read full articleBelo Monte: Brazil’s Damned Democracy
Manuela Picq – Al Jazeera,
21 May 2012
The Belo Monte dam project shows the government’s failure to respect indigenous rights and reform energy policy.
→ read full articleDaniel Ellsberg Accepts Human Rights Award on Behalf of Bradley Manning (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers whistle-blower) accepts the “People’s Choice Human Rights Award” on behalf of accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower Army PFC Bradley Manning at Global Exchange’s ceremony at the San Francisco War Memorial Building on May 10, 2012.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Audiência do Movimento para a Abolição das Touradas com o Primeiro Ministro de Portugal
Movimento para a Abolição das Touradas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
PRESS RELEASE – Na passada terça-feira (8/maio/2012] o movimento abolicionista das corridas de touros em Portugal viveu um dia histórico ao ser recebido pelo senhor Primeiro-Ministro na sua residência oficial.
→ read full articleEngendering 2052 through Re-imagining the Present
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Review of 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years As Presented To the Club of Rome
→ read full article(Castellano) Planeando Dominación Mundial
Socialist Worker, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Aquellos manifestándose contra la cumbre de la OTAN presentarán una visión diferente para nuestra sociedad. En las calles de Chicago este fin de semana [20-21 mayo 2012], activistas anti-bélicos, el movimiento Ocupa, sindicatos y grupos comunitarios tendrán la oportunidad de exigir otras prioridades, en lugar del gasto militar y la rebaja de los niveles de vida.
→ read full articleSri Lanka: Mu’l’livaaykkaal – The Slaughter Unheard and Unpunished
Nirmanusan Balasundaram – Colombo Telegraph,
21 May 2012
Criminal goals of ethnically cleansing as many Tamils by orchestrating the slaughter of at-least 40,000 unarmed Tamils in Mullivaaykaal during the finals day of the war. The denial of food and medicine prior to the final assault was intentionally and strategically coordinated by the regime.
→ read full articlePlastic in ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ Has Increased 100-Fold
Common Dreams staff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Plastic garbage in the ocean has increased 100-fold in the past 40 years and could have ecosystem-wide impacts, according to a study released Tuesday [8 May 2012].
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