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France Says No to Genetically Modified Crops, No to Fracking
Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
France will maintain its ban on genetically modified crops [GMOs] and will ban fracking, politicians announced during an environmental conference held in Paris Friday and Saturday [Sep 14-15, 2012].
→ read full articleLetter to Citizens of Australia by the Koodankulam Children
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Now we hear that The Honorable Prime Minister of Australia, Ms. Julia Gillard, has agreed to sell Uranium to India and visit our country. While we welcome Ms. Gillard to India at any time, we would very much like to request her government and the people of Australia not to sell Uranium to India, to facilitate nuclear arms race among India, Pakistan and China, make South Asia even more dangerous and spoil the futures of us, the children of India and other countries.
→ read full articleMonsanto Corn Causes Tumors, Organ Damage in Rats
Ben Hirschler and Kate Kelland, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Paris Asks Health Body to Investigate French Study Findings – In a study that prompted sharp criticism from other experts, French scientists said on Wednesday [19 Sep 2012] that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn or exposed to its top-selling weedkiller suffered tumours and multiple organ damage.
→ read full articleDrug Giants Fined $11bn for Criminal Wrongdoing
Jeremy Laurance – The Independent,
24 Sep 2012
Fines Are Not Enough to Reform Drug Industry, Warn Lawyers – The global pharmaceutical industry has racked up fines of more than $11bn in the past three years for criminal wrongdoing, including withholding safety data and promoting drugs for use beyond their licensed conditions. In all, 26 companies, including eight of the 10 top players in the global industry, have been found to be acting dishonestly.
→ read full article‘Planetary Emergency’: New Data Elevates Climate Change Alarm
Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Drawing on new data on the rate of melting arctic ice released Wednesday [19 Sep 2012] by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), leading scientific experts and environmental campaigners upped the level of alarm and issued a renewed call to action by calling the growing reality of climate change a “planetary emergency”.
→ read full articleIn Quebec It’s Official: Mass Movement Leads to Victory for Students
Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Naomi Klein: ‘This is why radical movements are mercilessly mocked. They can win.’
→ read full articleA Rare Look at Why the Government Won’t Fight Wall Street
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
24 Sep 2012
The great mystery story in American politics these days is why, over the course of two presidential administrations (one from each party), there’s been no serious federal criminal investigation of Wall Street during a period of what appears to be epic corruption.
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Origins of Israel Palestinian Conflict
CaspianReport – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
The Israeli Arab conflict is the result of interactions of superpowers in the early 20th century. British and French strategic interests in the Middle East were related to the Mediterranean trading route, which went from the Suez channel to Indian markets. But the presence of the Ottoman navy based in the Levant was a direct threat to British interests. So the British and the French decided to divide the Middle East into smaller entities and countries to make it impossible for the Ottoman Empire to control them all. A century later, the legacy of European colonization of the Arab world is reflected by its many ongoing conflicts.
→ read full articleA Significant Leap in Indo-Pak Relations
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Confidence building measures play a significant role towards addressing contentious issues between the nations. This well practiced rule of conduct among nations can be no less than accurate in the context of India and Pakistan, which have fought four wars since their independence.
→ read full articleA Last Request
TMS Editor,
24 Sep 2012
A husband and wife had four boys. The odd part of it was that the older three had red hair, light skin, and were tall, while the youngest son had black hair, dark eyes, and was short.
→ read full articleA Day of Peace: For the Americas
Johan Galtung, 24 Sep 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Straight to the key problem in the theory and practice of peace: Are we thinking of the negative peace of cease-fire and no violence (as distinct from nonviolence), or are we thinking of the positive peace of cooperation for mutual and equal benefit, empathy for emotional harmony, reconciliation of past traumas, and resolution capacity for an endless agenda of future conflicts? Are we thinking of using nonviolence? Or of persuading, or forcing, those with serious grievances to lay down their arms and reintegrate peacefully in civilian life?
→ read full articleEvening Hunger
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
When hunger came
I went to the kitchen
Cooked rice
Made a soup of chicken
Captive of the Taliban
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Jere Van Dyk, an author, Taliban expert, former TV correspondent and ex-captive of the Taliban offers a unique perspective on the roots of the conflict in Afghanistan and Central Asia. He believes the Afghan and Pashtun peoples/cultures/histories/goals are poorly understood in the West (if at all). The Taliban do not accept the Durand Line drawn in 1893 by the British, which arbitrarily divided their Pashtun ancestral lands to artificially create the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
→ read full articleThe Conditions for Human Health and Well Being Reside within the Psychosocial Contexts of Life
Anthony J. Marsella – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
As our concern for human health and well being grows with each day, we too often find ourselves seeking solutions within the limitations of our health-care system. We call for more medical services, lower medical costs, more health professionals, better medical technologies, improvements in medical records, greater accessibility and acceptability of health care, and more and more committees, evaluations, and reports to determine why the system is failing for the elderly, poor, minorities, veterans, and youth.
→ read full articleJulian Assange to Receive Aboriginal Passport
GreenLeft – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
This Association has worked with the Sydney Support Assange and WikiLeaks Coalition to arrange for Julian Assange to be issued an Aboriginal Nations Passport that his father, John Shipton, will accept on his behalf at The Settlement on 15 September, 2012. The issuing of an Aboriginal Passport to Julian Assange brings further shame on the Australian government. It recognises that Assange’s Australian passport has been completely worthless to him.”
→ read full articleThe March of Folly
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Nothing could be more scary than the thought that this duo – Binyamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak – is in a position to start a war, the dimensions and outcome of which are incalculable. It’s scary not only because of their ideological fixations and mental outlook, but also because of the level of their intelligence.
→ read full articleColombia: Extractive Capital and Peace Negotiations
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
In late August 2012, President Santos announced that the Colombian regime was opening peace negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, (FARC), with the aim of ending nearly 50 years of civil war. Several economic, social, political and military changes account for the Santos regimes abrupt shift from a policy of “peace” through extermination of the guerrillas to a policy of a negotiated peace.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Projeto de Cidades Privadas Gera Polêmica em Honduras
BBC Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Um polêmico projeto que prevê a construção de cidades privadas com leis, sistema fiscal, polícia e políticas de imigração próprios está causando polêmica em Honduras. Na última semana [7 Set 2012], o governo hondurenho deu sinal verde para a construção da primeira das “cidades-modelo”. As “cidades-modelo” serão construídas por investidores privados e geridas de forma autônoma.
→ read full articlePeople’s Siege in Koodankulam: Latest Pictures
Dianuke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
9 Sep 2012 – Siege continues in Koodankulam: At least 20,000 people on the eastern compound wall from the sea side. People refused to talk to the Superintendent of Police (SP); the District Collector of Thirunelveli is expected to arrive. Administration’s demand to talk to the movement leaders – against whom sedition and other charges are slapped – is also refused by the people.
→ read full articleDreaming of the Apocalypse
Mark LeVine – Al Jazeera,
17 Sep 2012
If ever real leadership was needed among American, European and Arab leaders, it’s now. “Disgusting and Reprehensible!” That’s how Secretary of State Hilary Clinton described the “film” Innocence of Muslims in the latest official US comment on the movie that has sparked outrage across the Muslim world.
→ read full articleOur Truth, and Theirs
Justin Raimondo – Antiwar,
17 Sep 2012
What is a 9/11 “truther”? “There is no indication that the Israelis were involved in the 9-11 attacks, but investigators suspect that the Israelis may have gathered intelligence about the attacks in advance, and not shared it. A highly placed investigator said there are ‘tie-ins.’ But when asked for details, he flatly refused to describe them, saying, ‘evidence linking these Israelis to 9-11 is classified.
→ read full articleLet Us Do Some Soul-Searching and Talk Again!
Dr. S. P. Ukayakumar, PMANE – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Today we are surrounded by police, beaten up, harassed, accused of committing all kinds of crimes, arrested, and above all, mentally, emotionally, spiritually assaulted by police. We are all fisherfolks, shopkeepers, agricultural laborers, beedi-rolling women, and to be brief, working class people. But we are treated like criminals; dangerous, seditious, violent, vicious and wicked lawbreakers. Our leaders, who have been invoking the names and wisdom of Thiruvalluvar, Buddha, Mahavir, Ashoka, Guru Nanak, Mahatma Gandhi, Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan and Mother Teresa, are treated like dreaded terrorists.
→ read full articleJerusalem, Capital of Palestine: Arab-Free by 2015
Maath Musleh – Al-Akhbar,
17 Sep 2012
The Israeli Government is racing against time in a bid to put the finishing touches on its plan to annex and Judaize East Jerusalem. Palestinians represent roughly 58 per cent of the residents of East Jerusalem today. The Israeli plans in place aim to decrease the percentage of Palestinians to about 10 percent.
→ read full articleOccupy Monsanto Stops GMO Seed Distribution
Occupy Monsanto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Nine Arrests Made at GMO Seed Distribution Plant – Today’s [12 Sep 2012] protest is the beginning of a series of over 65 different autonomous actions that officially start on September 17, a year since Occupy Wall Street movement began. Actions are planned throughout the world including the US, Germany, Canada, India, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Argentina, Australia, Spain, Russia, and Japan.
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International Day of Peace 2012 – September 21 (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
RootedInPeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
“The Culture of Peace Initiative serves as a truly integrative cooperative local/global Initiative, an open field for all participants to co-operate, share resources and ideas along diverse pathways subjectively and objectively that enhances the effectiveness of each participant, while simultaneously building a Culture of Peace that benefits All.” ~ Avon Mattison, Pathways To Peace.
→ read full articleNetanyahu, Not Iran, Is An Existential Threat To Israel
M.J. Rosenberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
One ex-Israeli official put it best. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu seems to be “going berserk.” He is demanding that the United States set a “red line” that, once crossed, will automatically initiate a US attack on Iran. He doesn’t even bother to pretend that war with Iran is in US interests.
→ read full articleWhat’s So Scary About a Vegetarian Future?
Dr Victoria Martindale – The Independent,
17 Sep 2012
Scientists predict that global diets will need to change dramatically within the next 40 years to avoid catastrophic food shortages. That almighty bastion of meat culture, McDonalds, has taken heed and spearheaded plans to open vegetarian restaurants in India. OK, McDonalds’s may well be crappy junk food but there will always be people who eat it and at least now it will be crappy vegetarian junk food. And as Burger King, KFC and Pizza Hut follow its example people will soon be eating vegetarian crap everywhere. But hey, whether it’s a Maccy D’s veggie burger, artificial meat grown in a lab or local seasonal vegetables – it’s got to be good news.
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The Other 9/11: Chile – Coup d’état – September 11, 1973
BBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
The BBC made this documentary about the coup. Don’t mind the sometimes dreadful choice of music; the film is actually the only full-length English-language documentary that interviews people from both sides, and provides a number of fascinating insider accounts of the coup that was to unleash the era of Neoliberalism onto Latin America and the world.
→ read full articleA Hot Day
TMS Editor,
17 Sep 2012
It was a stifling hot day and a man fainted in the middle of a busy intersection.
→ read full articleMystery Man Behind the Anti-Muslim Film Blamed For Attacks
Eric Lach, TPM – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
September 12, 2012 – Who is Sam Bacile? So far, the answer depends on who you ask and what you read. Early reports after Tuesday’s [9/11/2012] violence against American diplomatic posts in Egypt and Libya identified Bacile as the producer and director of an absurd anti-Muslim film blamed for inspiring the anger of the mobs.
→ read full articleLetter from the Koodankulam Children to Citizens of Russian Federation
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Greetings! We, several thousands of children 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 and our parents have been waging for the past twelve months against the Koodankulam nuclear power project.
→ read full article(Castellano) “El Capitalismo Implosiona, Pero No Bajo los Efectos de la Movilización Popular” — Samir Amin
Other News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Según Samir Amin hemos entrado en una nueva fase del capitalismo. Cree que se trata de una etapa cualitativamente nueva. El sistema capitalista no solo está en crisis, -mantiene Amin- sino que lo que se está produciendo en él una autentica implosión, pero que no es el efecto de la lucha popular.
→ read full articleThe Other 9/11: Remembering the Neoliberal Coup in Chile
Jerome Roos, RoarMag – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Today it is 39 years ago that Pinochet launched a bloody CIA-assisted coup against the democratically-elected socialist President Allende of Chile.
→ read full articleMonopolizing War? What America Knows How to Do Best
Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch,
17 Sep 2012
Washington may be mobilized for permanent war. Special operations forces may be operating in up to 120 countries. Drone bases may be proliferating across the planet. We may be building up forces in the Persian Gulf and “pivoting” to Asia. Warrior corporations and rent-a-gun mercenary outfits have mobilized on the country’s disparate battlefronts. The American people, however, are demobilized and detached from the wars, interventions, operations, and other military activities done in their name
→ read full articleBeing Gay
Mr. Fish - Truthdig,
17 Sep 2012
I was determined to be gay, even if I had to sleep with other guys to do it, because, just as it was with racism and sexism, homophobia was not founded in reason so it could not be destroyed by logic. In fact, to merely talk about why it might be wrong to hate gay people made discrimination against homosexuals little more than a matter of opinion, no more substantive than announcing a dislike for argyle or Mexican food or dogs in sunglasses.
→ read full articleGrowing Up a Proud Racist in Burma
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Like millions of my fellow Buddhist Burmese, I grew up as a proud racist. For much of my life growing up in the heartland of Burma, Mandalay, I mistook what I came to understand years later as racism to be the patriotism of Burmese Buddhists. Our leading and most powerful institutions, schools, media, Buddhist church and, most importantly, the military, have succeeded in turning the bulk of us into proud racists.
→ read full articleOn PEACE: An Artistic Paradigm
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
PEACE can be verbalized
PEACE can be imagined : PEACE universalized !
No ‘Red Line’ for Israel
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Israeli news outlets reported today [15 Sep 2012] that President Obama rejected an appeal by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to set a specific “red line” to stop any further Iranian uranium enrichment. It seems that, this time at least, President Obama has decided against launching a world war on behalf of the Jewish State and its powerful lobby.
→ read full articleThe Democrats’ Jerusalem Arithmetic: When Israel Is Concerned, Half = Two-Thirds
Alison Weir, IfAmericansKnew – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
We’re Tired of Pretend Democracy – Not often is a political fix so public. The Democratic committee that develops the party’s campaign platform recently failed to include the apparently obligatory “Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel” pronouncement. In fact, I believe an uprising in the United States may be coming. People are tired of wars and killing, and of being sold a pack of goods by both parties using lies, deception, and manipulation.
→ read full articleThe Montpelier Manifesto
Thomas H. Naylor, Kirkpatrick Sale, James Starkey, and Charles Keil – Lew Rockwell,
17 Sep 2012
Let us therefore consider ways peaceably to withdraw from the American Empire by (1) regaining control of our lives from big government, big business, big cities, big schools, and big computer networks; (2) relearning how to take care of ourselves by decentralizing, downsizing, localizing, demilitarizing, simplifying, and humanizing our lives; and (3) providing democratic and human-scale self-government at those local and regional levels most likely to effect our safety and happiness.
→ read full articleNot Ours
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
I comment to the doctor on
the far worse plight of Afghani civilians
being maimed and killed by mines and bombs.
“Three a day, by the mines,” I remark.
“Not ours,” he replies.
Ah yes—the former Evil Empire’s.
SABONA: From Kindergarten to Geopolitics
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Some global bullies invented a new play: the nuclear game. One child had the monopoly for some time, refusing to give it up to that big kindergarten called the UN. Then other children came, and more, and more. What to do? Give all the weapons to the UN for destruction and then celebrate their demise from earth.
→ read full articleTransforming the Art of Conversation
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Conversing As the Transformative Science of Development – In a period of multiple global crises — with more foreseen — it is worth asking what skills might be usefully cultivated. It is increasingly evident that every form of claim and blame can be formulated.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Microsoft Identifica Computadores Que Já Vêm Infectados por Vírus de Fábricas
BBC Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Cerca de 20% dos computadores comprados em diferentes cidades chinesas foram infectados com programas maliciosos ainda na fábrica, segundo a Microsoft.
→ read full articleHouse Approves Sweeping, Warrantless Electronic Spy Powers
David Kravets,Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
The House on Wednesday [12 Sep 2012] reauthorized for five years broad electronic eavesdropping powers that legalized and expanded the George W. Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program. The National Security Agency told lawmakers that it would be a violation of Americans’ privacy to disclose how the measure is being used in practice.
→ read full articleParadoxes of Turkish Pride
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Turkey is now an important middle power at the United Nations. It provides a diplomatic venue for many international events that used to be held in Europe. Its courageous Somalia initiative has given Turkey a post-colonial identity in Africa that no other non-African government has been able to achieve. It is my belief that Turkey more than any other country in the 21st century has increased its relevance to the conduct of regional and global politics.
→ read full articleHundreds of Refugees Sent Back to Sri Lanka to Face Torture
Jerome Taylor – The Independent,
17 Sep 2012
14 Sep 2012 – The Government is planning to forcibly remove hundreds of Sri Lankan asylum seekers next week despite mounting evidence that many are tortured on their return. The Independent has learnt that the Border and Immigration Agency has commissioned as many as three separate charter flights to remove more than 300 people next week. Returning Tamils would find themselves interrogated and tortured for information.
→ read full articleThe Future of International Law
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
It is becoming increasingly clear that the concept of the absolutely sovereign nation-state is a dangerous anachronism in a world of thermonuclear weapons, instantaneous communication, and economic interdependence. Probably our best hope for the future lies in developing the United Nations into a World Federation.
→ read full articleThe Libya Fiasco and the Folly of Intervention
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.), The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
There is danger in the belief we can remake the world by bribing some countries and bombing others. But that is precisely what the interventionists – be they liberal or conservative – seem to believe.
→ read full articleThe Mind Thieves
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
The evidence linking Alzheimer’s disease to the food industry is strong and growing.
→ read full article9/11: A Geo-political Monster
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
17 Sep 2012
The victims of 9/11 are not only encountered in New York but also in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Libya and today, in Syria; campaigns created and wars waged on the back of the most shocking example of the manipulation of fear in the history of humankind. The legacy of 9/11 is therefore its consequences: torture, rape, murder, illegal detention, war crimes, atrocities, sodomy, urination in food, sleep deprival, setting dogs on detainees, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, racism…the list goes on and on and on and reads like a shopping list for Satan.
→ read full articleIran’s Strategic Diplomatic Victory over the Washington-Israeli Axis: Its Larger Political Consequences
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Iran chaired, hosted and led the recently rejuvenated Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Teheran, attended by delegates from 120 countries, including 31 heads of state and 29 foreign secretaries of state. Even the United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon, notorious mouthpiece of Washington, felt obligated to address, a forum attended by two-thirds of the member countries of the UN, despite State Department and Israeli objections.
→ read full articleA Tale of Two Asylums: Assange, Palacio, and Media Hypocrisy
Keane Bhatt, NACLA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Every so often, world affairs offer us paired examples—two nearly identical instances through which we can better understand the role of powerful institutions, like the media. So when Ecuador granted asylum to Australian journalist Julian Assange in mid-August [2012], and then, two weeks later, the United States provided asylum to Ecuadorian journalist Emilio Palacio, the two cases laid bare the hypocrisy of the establishment press.
→ read full articleWhen the Addiction Cure Is Another Addiction
Chelsea Carmona – Al Jazeera,
10 Sep 2012
Addiction manifests itself in different compulsions and behaviours, which is critical to recognise during the treatment.
→ read full articleWe Eat by the Grace of Nature, Not by the Grace of Monsanto
Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez – Common Dreams,
10 Sep 2012
“Organic, schmorganic,” fumes New York Times columnist Roger Cohen sarcastically in an article entitled “The Organic Fable.” He bases his sweeping dismissal of the organic foods movement on a new Stanford University study claiming that “fruits and vegetables labeled organic are, on average, no more nutritious than their cheaper conventional counterparts.”
→ read full article(Portuguese) Sobre Ombros de Gigantes
Marcela Godoy, Consciência Animal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Semana passada [16 Aug 2012], ministrei um mini curso na Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Paraná-Brasil, durante o II Encontro de Ciências Biológicas. Dessa vez, trabalhei o tema Vivissecção no Ensino e na Pesquisa. Obviamente, o mini curso aconteceu pelo viés da anti-vivissecção.
→ read full articleThe Liberal Way to Run the World – ‘Improve’ or We’ll Kill You
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
In his 1859 essay On Liberty, to which modern liberals pay homage, John Stuart Mill described the power of empire. “Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians,” he wrote, “provided the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end.” The “barbarians” were large sections of humanity of whom “implicit obedience” was required.
→ read full articleCNN International’s Response to the Guardian
CNN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Here is CNN International’s response to Glenn Greenwald’s story in the Guardian about Amber Lyon’s documentary, iRevolution: Online Warriors of the Arab Spring.
→ read full articleIs Amnesty International Abandoning Human Rights?
Bev Cotton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
“Amnesty International is primarily motivated not by human rights but by publicity. Second comes money… To be sure, if you are dealing with a human rights situation in a country that is at odds with the United States or Britain, it gets an awful lot of attention… But if it’s dealing with violations of human rights by the United States, Britain, Israel, then it’s like pulling teeth to get them to really do something on the situation”.
→ read full article16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement
Antonio C. S. Rosa - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
The 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement was held from 26 to 31 August 2012 in Tehran, Iran. The summit was attended by leaders of 120 countries, including 24 presidents, 3 kings, 8 prime ministers and 50 foreign ministers. The summit’s framework was the “Final Document” adopted during the Ministerial Meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement Coordinating Bureau which was held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt from 7 to 10 May [2012].
→ read full articleDr. Frankenstein and the American Psychological Association’s Decade of Monstrosities
Roy Eidelson, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
The betrayal of psychological ethics will not make the world safer.
→ read full articleTop Natural Remedies For Depression
Dr. Edward Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
The experience of emotional and psychological depression has been noted and subjected to various explanations since the dawn of recorded history and quite probably before. The current model, which reduces all depression to a deficiency in serotonin, seems as overly simplistic and inadequate as those before it.
→ read full articleSave Jeju Island
Robert Redford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
From September 6-15 [2012], some 10,000 environmentalists gather in Jeju Island for the International Union of the Conservation of Nature’s World Conservation Congress. It will take place where the construction of a naval base is threatening coral forests, assaulting endangered species and destroying a 400-year old community of farmers and fishers. But instead of condemning the South Korean government’s actions, IUCN Director-General Julia Marton-Lafevre praised its seriously flawed “Environmental Impact Assessment.” This naval base is being built just 0.13 miles from a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Tiger Island.
→ read full articleThe Driver
TMS Editor,
10 Sep 2012
A passenger in a taxi tapped the driver on the shoulder to ask him something.
→ read full articleThe Dark Side of the “Green Economy”
Jeff Conant – YES! Magazine,
10 Sep 2012
Why some indigenous groups and environmentalists are saying no to the “green economy.”
→ read full article(Portuguese) O Mapa Hexagonal do Mundo Multipolar
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Como é que enfrentamos, intelectualmente, o mundo de hoje?
→ read full articleTargeting Civilians
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Much was destroyed during World War II, and among the casualties of the war were the ethical principles that Roosevelt and Chamberlain announced at its outset. We live at a special time in history, a time of crisis for civilization. We did not ask to be born at a moment of crisis, but such is our fate. Every person now alive has a special responsibility: We owe it, both to our ancestors and to future generations, to build a stable and cooperative future world.
→ read full articleFormer CIA Head: Iran Attack Will Push Iranians Toward A Bomb
Ben Armbruster, ThinkProgress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Former Bush administration National Security Agency head and CIA director Michael Hayden told the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz that Israel may not have the military capacity to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities and reiterated his belief that any attack would only delay the Iranian program and perhaps push it toward obtaining nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleUS: Torture and Rendition to Gaddafi’s Libya
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
New Accounts of Waterboarding, Other Water Torture, Abuses in Secret Prisons – The United States government during the Bush administration tortured opponents of Muammar Gaddafi, then transferred them to mistreatment in Libya, according to accounts by former detainees and recently uncovered CIA and UK Secret Service documents, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today [6 Sep 2012].
→ read full articleDefining DIGNITY Didactically through Rhymed Reflections
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
DIGNITY has to do with character elevation
It also refers to one`s wisdom in conversation
How Genetically Modified Corn Is Creating Super Worms
Aviva Shen, ThinkProgress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
5 Sep 2012 – There is mounting evidence raising concerns that insect resistance is developing in parts of the corn belt,” where Monsanto’s corn dominates the fields. Root worms exposed to the corn’s toxin seem to have become immune to it, breeding an unprecedented colony of superworms.
→ read full articleTRANSCEND Peace University Online Courses – 2012
Erika Degortes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
12-Week All-Online Courses
→ read full articleA Blast From the Past: The Non-Aligned Movement
Eric Margolis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
In spite of intense efforts by the US and Israel to deter attendance at the Tehran meeting – backed by a wave of western media attacks on the conclave – over 150 nations and international bodies attended. This big turnout marked a major failure by Washington to further tighten its siege of Iran. Of particular note was the presence of India’s prime minister, Manmohan Singh, and of Egypt’s new president, Mohammed Morsi, who shrugged off threats of a cut in US aid and flew to Tehran.
→ read full articleA Step towards the Dock
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
The prospect of a trial for Tony Blair now starts to look more plausible. When Desmond Tutu wrote that Tony Blair should be treading the path to the Hague, he de-normalised what Blair has done. Tutu broke the protocol of power – the implicit accord between those who flit from one grand meeting to another – and named his crime. I expect that Blair will never recover from it.
→ read full articleIsrael ‘Pillaging’ Palestinian Resources
Jillian Kestler-D'Amours – Inter Press Service-IPS,
10 Sep 2012
By mining natural resources from the occupied Palestinian territories for its own economic purposes, Israel is committing the war crime of pillage in the Dead Sea area, according to a report released Monday [3 Sep 2012] by Palestinian human rights group Al Haq.
→ read full articleA Tale of Two Economies: Skyrocketing Stock Market for the Rich, Devaluation of Work for the Rest
Mark Karlin - Truthout,
10 Sep 2012
The rich are making out like bandits in the booming Wall Street economy that is based on profits squeezed out of firing workers, lowering net wages (adjusted for inflation), and outsourcing jobs to exploited labor overseas. There is no crisis in the top 1%; there is only increasing wealth.
→ read full articleAn All-Clear for Bush’s Torturers
Marjorie Cohn – Comsortium News,
10 Sep 2012
Even as Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu urges a war-crimes trial for George Bush and Tony Blair for invading Iraq, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder gives an all-clear to Bush’s subordinates for homicides that resulted from torture in Afghanistan and Iraq, a repudiation of U.S. law and principles.
→ read full articleTransforming and Interweaving the Ways of Being Stoned
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
“Stone” is used metaphorically and otherwise in a quite disparate range of contexts. Use of “stoned” as a provocative mnemonic device is then arguably appropriate through the distraction it offers, whether through use of drugs by individuals, or collective dependence on oil as a drug. The exorbitant expenditure on the occasion of global summits is also suggestive of the “stoned” conditions under which it is deemed appropriate for decision-makers to envision the future.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Empresas Monitoram Pessoas Que Baixam Vídeos e Músicas Ilegalmente, Diz Estudo
BBC Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Segundo pesquisadores, qualquer download feito pelo BitTorrent pode ser identificado por agência de monitoramento em apenas três horas.
→ read full articleThe Modern US Army: Unfit For Service?
Matt Kennard – The Guardian,
10 Sep 2012
Gone are the days of the all-American army hero. These days, the US military is more like a sanctuary for racists, gang members and the chronically unfit. Overweight. Ex-con. Racist… meet the modern American army.
→ read full articleAvigdor Lieberman: Master of Mischief
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Well, he was born in Soviet Moldavia and speaks Russian fluently. Even though he came to Israel already 34 years ago, just a few days after his 20th birthday, he is still considered by most Israelis as a “Russian”, speaking Hebrew with a heavy Russian accent and looking as foreign as possible. He is an ardent admirer of Vladimir Putin and his Doppelgängers, Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk and Victor Yanukovych in Kiev.
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Playing For Change Day 2012 (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
PFCfoundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
21 September 2012 – International Day of Peace. What if you had one day to change the world with music? On 22 September 2012, musicians and fans will come together on Playing For Change Day with a shared intention of doing something positive for the world and supporting music education for kids everywhere.
→ read full articleRussia Announces Enormous Finds of Radioactive Waste and Nuclear Reactors in Arctic Seas
Charles Digges, Bellona – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Enormous quantities of decommissioned Russian nuclear reactors and radioactive waste were dumped into the Kara Sea in the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia over a course of decades, Bellona is alarmed by the extent of the dumped Soviet waste, which is far greater than was previously known – not only to Bellona, but also to the Russian authorities themselves.
→ read full articleTRANSCEND Peace University
Erika Degortes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
– ONLINE and ONSITE COURSES September 2012
→ read full articleConflict Resolution
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
When I perceive I’ve been attacked
there is a virtue that I’ve lacked:
Instead of letting strife abate
I’m eager to retaliate.
Elephants Dying in Epic Frenzy as Ivory Fuels Wars and Profits
Jeffrey Gettleman – The New York Times,
10 Sep 2012
This is the first installment in a series of articles that will explore how the surge in poaching of African elephants both feeds off and fuels instability on the continent. In 30 years of fighting poachers, Paul Onyango had never seen anything like this. Twenty-two dead elephants, including several very young ones, clumped together on the open savanna, many killed by a single bullet to the top of the head.
→ read full articleLetter from the Koodankulam Children to Pres. Obama’s Children
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Dear Malia and Sasha, let us all together, the children of the United States and India and other countries around the world, build a safe future for all of us without nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons. We would very much like to request you to talk to your Mom and Dad and friends and help us close down the Koodankulam nuclear power plant and not start any American plant in our country.
→ read full articleGoldcorp on Trial: First Ever People’s Health Tribunal Shows Commonalities Throughout Mesoamerica
Beth Geglia and Cyril Mychalejko – Toward Freedom,
10 Sep 2012
Our analysis is that mining companies have transnational strategies and we have to coordinate transnational struggles to confront transnational mining,” Gustavo Lozano, representative from the Mexican Anti-mining Network.
→ read full articleInformal US Envoy or US Takeover of UN Secretariat?
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – PressTV,
10 Sep 2012
The calls at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Tehran for reforming the United Nations and democratizing the Security Council were not exactly new. These calls for UN reform were embodied by the conference’s dictum of “lasting peace through joint global governance.”
→ read full articleCalifornia Passes Resolution Defining Criticism of Israel as Anti-Semitism
Tom Carter – World Socialist Web Site,
10 Sep 2012
4 September 2012 – Last month, the California State Assembly passed a resolution urging state educational institutions to crack down on criticism of Israel on campuses, which the resolution defines as “anti-Semitism.”The resolution was drafted by Republican Linda Halderman and passed without public discussion. The vote on the resolution came when most students were between semesters and away from their campuses. The resolution is available here.
→ read full articleBarclays Makes £500m Betting On Food Crisis
Tom Bawden – The Independent,
10 Sep 2012
Barclays has made as much as half a billion pounds in two years from speculating on food staples, prompting allegations that banks are profiting handsomely from the global food crisis. Barclays is the UK bank with the greatest involvement in food commodity trading and is one of the three biggest global players, along with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
→ read full article‘Managing’ the Plaza: America’s Secret Deal with Mexican Drug Cartels
Tom Burghardt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
A series of some five million emails, The Global Intelligence Files, were obtained as a result of last year’s hack by Anonymous of the Texas-based “global intelligence” firm Stratfor. That major financial powerhouses in Europe and the U.S. (can you say Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, HSBC, ING and Wachovia) have been accused of reaping the lions’ share of profits derived from the grim trade, now a veritable Narco-Industrial Complex, the public continues to be regaled with tales that this ersatz war is being “won.”
→ read full articlePopular ‘Buddhist’ Racism and the Generals’ Militarism
Maung Zarni – Democratic Voice of Burma,
10 Sep 2012
As a Mandalay-born dissident with deep roots in Buddhism, I find it revolting that thousands of Buddhist monks, human rights dissidents and the public in my hometown of Mandalay staged an anti-Rohingya rally this past weekend [2 Sep 2012]. Where has the vociferous human rights rhetoric gone when it comes to the persecuted Rohingyas?
→ read full articleWhy America and Israel Are the Greatest Threats to Peace
Noam Chomsky - AlterNet,
10 Sep 2012
Imagine if Iran — or any other country — did a fraction of what America and Israel do at will. It is not easy to escape from one’s skin, to see the world differently from the way it is presented to us day after day. But it is useful to try. Let’s take a few examples. The war drums are beating ever more loudly over Iran. Imagine the situation to be reversed.
→ read full article(Castellano) Expertos Crearon Lista de Alimentos Con Mayor Contenido de Pesticidas
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
El melocotón, la manzana, pimiento, apio, nectarina, fresa, guinda, lechuga, uva, pera, espinaca y papa son las frutas y verduras que destacan en el listado como las más sucias. Entre tanto, el grupo de los limpios está formado por la cebolla, el maíz, la piña, aguacate, berza, mango, berenjena, melón, kiwi, sandía, batata, pomelo, setas y guisantes.
→ read full articleOn 9/11, Doubts Were Immediate
Paul Craig Roberts, Journal of 9/11 Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
It is not credible that not only the CIA and FBI failed to detect the plot, but also all 16 US intelligence agencies, including the National Security Agency, which spies on everyone on the planet, and the Defense Intelligence Agency, Israel’s Mossad, and the intelligence agencies of Washington’s NATO allies. There are simply too many watchmen and too much infiltration of terrorist groups for such a complex attack to be prepared undetected and carried out undeterred.
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Be Nice to America…
NeemaSky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
… or we’ll bring democracy to your country!
→ read full articleAustralian Zionists Fear Israeli Group ‘Breaking the Silence’ and Its Message on IDF Immorality
Antony Loewenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
This is an instructive story of how mainstream Australian Jewish groups are petrified that a) the public will hear critical and truthful views about Israeli behaviour in the West Bank and b) a desire to “protect” Jews from even understanding what Israeli occupation means.
→ read full article(Castellano) Grecia Venderá Algunas Islas Para Reducir el Déficit Fiscal
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Mientras la población se enfrenta a graves problemas económicos generados por las drásticas medidas de recortes ejecutadas por el presidente Antonis Samarás, inversores extranjeros se disponen a comprar parte del territorio nacional.
→ read full articleNAM Final Statement
Ahlul Bayt News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
The Final Statement of the 16th Non-Aligned Movement Summit (Tehran/Iran, 26-31 Aug, 2012) focused on the Palestinian issue, nations’ right to peaceful nuclear energy and global sustainable peace.
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