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Thousands of Dead Birds Wash Up On Ontario Shores, Botulism Blamed
The Globe and Mail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
Ontario Provincial Police Constable Peter Leon said Saturday [22 Oct 2011] the number of dead waterfowl is estimated to be between 5,000 and 6,000. The dead birds are scattered along a nearly three-kilometre stretch north of the community of Wasaga Beach.
→ read full articleAct Now: Stop Imminent Land Grab That Threatens More Than 162,000 People in Tanzania
TMS Editor,
31 Oct 2011
Investor Bruce Rastetter and AgriSol Energy have their sights on 800,000 acres (325,000 hectares) of land in Tanzania that is home to 162,000 people. Several generations of families who have successfully re-established their lives by developing and farming the land over the last 40 years, will be displaced against their will. They will lose their livelihoods and their community. We fear that this project could move quickly forward unless the Tanzanian government and the US investors realize that the world is watching. We ask that you join the Oakland Institute in holding Bruce Rastetter and AgriSol team accountable and send them the message that proceeding with their plans is not “socially responsible agricultural investment.”
→ read full articleAfrican Charter Belongs To All Regardless of Sexual Orientation
Coalition of African Lesbians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
As we observe the 30th anniversary of the African Charter, there are reports of continuous harassment, arbitrary arrests, rapes and murders of Africans on the basis of their sexual orientation and gender identity. Such is the case in Ghana, Togo, Cameroon, Uganda, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, among others. In many other African states the criminal laws against same sex sexual conduct continues to expose an already marginalized population of people to abuse and violation.
→ read full articleTaking Offense
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
A man had been through a difficult divorce and been taken to the cleaners.
→ read full article(Castellano) Aprobada en la ONU Resolución que Exige Fin del Bloqueo de EE.UU. Contra Cuba
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
Las naciones participantes en la 66° Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas (ONU), rechazaron este martes [25 Oct 2011], de manera contundente y por vigésima vez, el bloqueo económico, comercial y financiero impuesto por Estados Unidos a Cuba con 186 votos a favor, 2 votos en contra y 3 abstenciones.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Ocupações Prosseguem em Todo o Mundo
Esquerda.net – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
O fim de semana contou com mais acções dos movimentos Occupy em muitas cidades, de Sydney a Londres, passando por Nova Iorque. Nos Estados Unidos, a brutalidade da polícia continua em debate.
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Ecological Terror: 6000 Dead Birds Wash Up On Ontario Shores
TheSecretStore – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
October 23, 2011 – Thousands of dead birds wash up on Ontario, Canada shores; botulism blamed.
→ read full articleDemocracy NOW! – A Grass-Roots Newscast Gives a Voice to Struggles
Brian Stelter – The New York Times,
31 Oct 2011
Operated as a nonprofit organization and distributed on a patchwork of stations, channels and Web sites, “Democracy Now!” is proudly independent, in that way appealing to hundreds of thousands of people who are skeptical of the news organizations that are owned by major media companies. The media, Amy Goodman said in an interview last week, can be “the greatest force for peace on earth” for “it is how we come to understand each other.” But she asserted that the views of a majority of Americans had been “silenced by the corporate media.”
→ read full articleSufism Asserting Against Extremism
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
One of the foremost challenges that multiethnic and pluralistic societies confront in 21st century is religious based extremism, which is resented by both state and non-state actors who believe in the values of peaceful coexistence of religions and other pluralistic values practiced by human society.
→ read full articleMexico, te quiero!
Johan Galtung, 31 Oct 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
What a blessed geography; the major bi-oceanic country in Latin America! The winds are blowing from Asia: winds of hope, with a Japanese-Chinese model of how to overcome misery. The winds of the Arab Spring are blowing from the Middle East carrying whispers of an African Spring in a year or two. The winds are blowing from the South, from Latin American brothers and sisters, new winds, with the voices of the indigenous, of Mother Nature, of lifting the poor, of patient work for integration. The “Rest” is coming.
→ read full article(Português) O Aficionado Pablo Picasso
Isabel A. Ferreira | Arco de Almedina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
Muitas vezes os aficionados do Massacre de Touros, para justificar a afición deles, dão-nos exemplos de gente famosa, que foram grandes admiradores desse espectáculo primitivo, pensando com isso livrarem-se do peso de uma culpa que sabem que carregam mas não admitem. Ora eu sempre achei que por detrás de um aficionado estaria algo que não bate certo. Os famosos, lá por serem famosos, também têm as suas taras. Por vezes, taras muito maiores do que o comum dos mortais.
→ read full articleWho Dares to Challenge a 32 Billion-Dollar Business – Human Trafficking?
Baher Kamal – Human Wrongs Watch,
31 Oct 2011
After weapons and drugs, human trafficking is the third most lucrative criminal business in the world – a 32 billion-dollar global industry, which is estimated to be exploiting over 2.4 million people, two-thirds of them women and children. Who dares to challenge such a huge business?
→ read full article(Portuguese) A Questão dos Ómegas!
Centro Vegetariano – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
Muito se tem especulado sobre os ómegas 3 e 6, e sobre a sua importância na saúde humana. Por consequência essa especulação envolve de forma mais ou menos polémica os vegetarianos. Existem diversas afirmações que fazem crer que os vegetarianos não conseguem ingerir as quantidades necessárias destes compostos, uma vez que só consumindo peixe, supostamente as poderiam obter, comprometendo gravemente a sua saúde, especialmente a saúde cardíaca e mental.
→ read full articleThe Son of Africa Claims a Continent’s Crown Jewels
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
On 14 October, President Barack Obama announced he was sending United States special forces troops to Uganda to join the civil war there. In the next few months, US combat troops will be sent to South Sudan, Congo and Central African Republic. They will only “engage” for “self-defence”, says Obama, satirically. With Libya secured, an American invasion of the African continent is under way.
→ read full articleWithout Credit Card Donations, WikiLeaks Facing Funding Crisis
Mark Seibel - McClatchy Newspapers,
24 Oct 2011
WikiLeaks, the whistleblower website that has been at the center of some of the world’s most controversial news for the past 18 months, is facing dire economic times, largely, the website says, because Visa, MasterCard and PayPal have refused for more than 10 months to process donations made on its behalf.
→ read full article(Castellano) La Promesa de Ocupa
Socialist Worker, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
Un movimiento comenzado por algunos cientos en Nueva York está transformando el debate político en todo el mundo–y sentando las bases de las luchas por venir. OCUPA ES el movimiento de una nueva generación–pero también es la voz del pueblo obrero, de todas las edades, harto del incesante descenso de su calidad de vida y del aumento de la desigualdad económica.
→ read full articleMary Gabriel on Love, Capital & Karl Marx’s Family
The Malaysian Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
Veteran journalist and former Reuters editor Mary Gabriel spent eight years poring over the personal lives of Karl Marx and his aristocratic wife Jenny. The result is a revealing portrait of Marx as a husband, father and human being inside a thorough account of the poverty, persecution and death which haunted the family of a man whose political theories would change the world. Gabriel, whose book has been nominated for a National Book Award in the United States, spoke to Reuters about her work: “Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution”.
→ read full articleHuman Rights Groups and Advocates Call for Annulment of APA’s PENS Report
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
Recognizing that the world has been shocked by the specter of abusive interrogations and the torture of national security prisoners by agents of the United States government since 9/11, over a dozen human rights groups and hundreds of advocates – health professionals, social scientists, social justice and human rights scholars and activists, and concerned military and intelligence professionals – have initiated a call for the annulment of the American Psychological Association’s (APA’s) 2005 “PENS Report.”
→ read full articleChange the Burmese Public Can’t Believe In
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
Burma is undergoing top-down changes, we are being told. Norway’s Deputy Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide, after his whirlwind trip to the country, told the Financial Times on Oct 11, “I almost left the country thinking they’re moving a little too fast. I never thought I would say that about Myanmar.”
→ read full articleGM Crops Promote Superweeds, Food Insecurity and Pesticides, Say NGOs
John Vidal, environment editor – The Guardian,
24 Oct 2011
Genetic engineering has failed to increase the yield of any food crop but has vastly increased the use of chemicals and the growth of “superweeds”, according to a report by 20 Indian, south-east Asian, African and Latin American food and conservation groups representing millions of people.
→ read full articleDetail
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
Two girlfriends were married for ten years and still childless.
→ read full articleAfghan and U.S. Troops Forcing Civilians to March Onto Mined Roads?
Quil Lawrence, RAWA News – Human Wrongs Watch,
24 Oct 2011
Villagers from a violent part of southern Afghanistan say that Afghan troops, along with several American mentors, forced civilians to march ahead of soldiers on roads where the Taliban were believed to have planted bombs and land mines.
→ read full articleIn The Bullrings of Portugal, the Horse Is the Star of the Show
The Independent – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
Bullfighting might have been banned in Barcelona, but it is still part of life in Lisbon. Adrian Mourby stayed at a hotel where guests are invited to meet the men behind this controversial spectacle.
→ read full article(French) Action et Réaction: Créer des Passerelles Avec Soi-Même
Heshmi Ferjani – UNSpecial,
24 Oct 2011
Chacun réagit à ce qui lui semble ne pas convenir à son mode de pensée, à ses habitudes, parfois à ce qui peut l’interpeler au plus profond de lui-même. La réaction exige de nous une énergie formidable : La force que je mets pour libérer une personne bloquée derrière une porte est incommensurable.
→ read full articleGreater Israel—or Peace?
The American Conservative – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
Pathbreaking scholars Norman Finkelstein and John Mearsheimer speak out about the precarious future of the Jewish state.
→ read full articleMINUSTAH In Haiti: Keeping the Peace, or Conspiring Against It?
Harvard School of Public Health – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
Harvard Group Publishes White Paper Reviewing Human Rights Abuses Perpetrated by the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti; Calls for MINUSTAH withdrawal.
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Crisis in the Congo: Uncovering the Truth
CongoFriends – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
Crisis in the Congo: Uncovering the Truth explores the role that the United States allies, Rwanda and Uganda, have played in triggering the greatest humanitarian crisis at the dawn of the 21st century.
→ read full articleColombia Revisited: Ultra-Stability!
Johan Galtung, 24 Oct 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
Ultra-stability: institutionalized structural violence, and ritualized warfare; legitimized by multi-party democracy licensed to exploit and kill if only the parliament agrees. The narco-traffic finances poor and rich. The violence follows the flow of US arms and money, with a counter-flow of drugs, paying good commissions when the drugs change hands. End consumption mainly in the USA. Or destruction, being selling-buying drugs, like derivatives?
→ read full articleEngendering a Psychopter through Biomimicry and Technomimicry
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
The possibility explored here follows from the questions raised at the time of writing by the unprecedented street protests in Wall Street, subsequent to the widespread revolutionary protests of the so-called Arab Spring (Sarah Jaffe, This Is Only Getting Bigger: 20,000 Rally in New York to Support Occupy Wall Street, AlterNet, 5 October 2011).
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Hillary Clinton on Gaddafi: ‘We Came, We Saw, He Died’ (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
CBS News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared a laugh with a television news reporter moments after hearing deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi had been killed. “We came, we saw, he died,” she joked when told of news reports of Qaddafi’s death by an aide in between formal interviews.
→ read full articleDerivatives: The $600 Trillion Time Bomb That’s Set to Explode
Keith Fitz-Gerald, Chief Investment Strategist - Money Morning,
24 Oct 2011
The world’s gross domestic product (GDP) is only about $65 trillion, or roughly 10.83% of the worldwide value of the global derivatives market. In 2009, five banks held 80% of derivatives in America. Now, just four banks hold a staggering 95.9% of U.S. derivatives, according to a recent report from the Office of the Currency Comptroller. The four banks in question: JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C), Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS).
→ read full article(German) Fachzeitschrift “Psychologie in Österreich”
MMag. Corinna Häsele – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
Peace Journalism, a Contribution for Active Peace Effort – Friedensjournalismus, ein Beitrag aktiver Friedensbemühungen
→ read full articleOral Statement Introducing Report on Israeli Violations of Human Rights in Occupied Palestine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
Oral Presentation on 20 October 2011 of Report to the General Assembly by Special Rapporteur on “Situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967,” submitted in 13 September 2011.
→ read full articleJesus of Nazareth: Great Spiritual Power of Peace and Harmony
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
In order for all of us to benefit from the wisdom of Jesus we have to listen to what he said on some occasions. Here is a list of statements Jesus made, which are not enlisted in any specific order.
→ read full articleUN: Nearly 470,000 Cholera Cases Reported In Haiti over the Past Year
UN News Service – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
21 October 2011 –Almost 470,000 cases of cholera, including 6,595 deaths, have been reported in Haiti since an epidemic of the disease erupted in the Caribbean country one year ago, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported today.
→ read full article#OccupyMarines Are Preparing to Occupy America Nationwide
Anomaly 100 – PoliticusUSA,
24 Oct 2011
United States Marine Corps. Sergeant Shamar Thomas in a spectacular moment defended the protesters of Occupy Wall Street while staring into the faces of thirty NYPD officers, and now countless other Marines have organized in an amazing show of solidarity.
→ read full articleRevealed – The Capitalist Network That Runs the World
Andy Coghlan and Debora MacKenzie – New Scientist,
24 Oct 2011
The idea that a few bankers control a large chunk of the global economy might not seem like news to New York’s Occupy Wall Street movement and protesters elsewhere. But the study, by a trio of complex systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, is the first to go beyond ideology to empirically identify such a network of power. It combines the mathematics long used to model natural systems with comprehensive corporate data to map ownership among the world’s transnational corporations (TNCs).
→ read full articleLetter to a Dead Man about the Occupation of Hope
Rebecca Solnit - TomDispatch,
24 Oct 2011
Dear young man who died on the fourth day of this turbulent 2011, dear Mohammed Bouazizi, I wish you could see the way that your small life and large death became a catalyst for the fall of so many dictators in what is known as the Arab Spring. We are now in some sort of an American Fall. Civil society here has suddenly hit the ground running, and we are all headed toward a future no one imagined when you, a young Tunisian vegetable seller capable of giving so much, who instead had so much taken from you, burned yourself to death to protest your impoverished and humiliated state.
→ read full articleUS Seeks to Establish Naval Base on Jeju Island in Spite of Protests
John Lasker – Toward Freedom,
24 Oct 2011
On beautiful Jeju Island, south of the Korean peninsula, the South Korean Navy is building a base that will soon harbor some of the world’s most advanced weapons. But the mystery is: who inspired the base to be built on this island of pristine waters and stunning volcanic peaks in the first place? Peace activist Bruce Gagnon says all one needs to do is call the South Korean embassy in Washington and ask.
→ read full articleA Model for Macropolitical Crisis Prevention? The Rhodes Dialogue of Civilizations
Erika Degortes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
It should be possible to respond to economic and social changes and it should be made able for civilizations to cope with them locally. The World Public Forum identified the “Dialogue of Civilizations” itself as a possible approach to the current economic crisis, as well as conflict resolution models, as proposed by Prof. Galtung among others, as a method to develop a new growth and distribution model that would act as an alternative to the current ones.
→ read full articleHow the West Won Libya
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
24 Oct 2011
They are fighting over the carcass as vultures. The French Ministry of Defense said they got him with a Rafale fighter jet firing over his convoy. The Pentagon said they got him with a Predator firing a Hellfire missile. After a wounded Colonel Muammar Gaddafi sought refuge in a filthy drain underneath a highway – an eerie echo of Saddam Hussein’s “hole” – he was found by Transitional National Council (TNC) “rebels”. And then duly executed.
→ read full articleWinds of Change
Alexander Smoltczyk – Der Spiegel,
24 Oct 2011
The term “energy revolution” sounds light and airy enough, but how do human beings manage to wrest electricity from the sea? Germany’s largest offshore wind farm, a power plant surrounded by a hostile environment, produces 12 times as much energy as the world’s first nuclear power plant.
→ read full articleThe Economic Crisis: Seven Proposals
Johan Galtung, 17 Oct 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
Lift the bottom up through stimuli, bail-out the worst hit, let incompetent institutions sink. What we are doing is the opposite: not only bailing out but stimulating, rewarding incompetence and greed, letting the bottom sink further. Massive revolts are the optimistic reading. Massive suffering is realistic, and already here. And the most pessimistic reading: the continuation of the same doomed politics.
→ read full articleSome Church
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
At an Irish bar, there was a contest for the best toast.
→ read full articleOccupy Wall Street and “The American Autumn”: Is It a “Colored Revolution”? (Part I)
Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
17 Oct 2011
There is a grassroots protest movement unfolding across America, which includes people from all walks of life, from all age groups, conscious of the need for social change and committed to reversing the tide. The grassroots of this movement constitutes a response to the “Wall Street agenda” of financial fraud and manipulation which has served to trigger unemployment and poverty across the land.
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Amazon Watch: Standing with Indigenous Peoples, Defending the Rainforest
AmazonWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
For over 15 years, Amazon Watch has stood with the indigenous peoples of the Amazon Basin, helping build a global movement of forest guardians, while using creative and effective strategies to confront urgent threats to one of our living planet’s most precious resources.
→ read full articleDrone Attacks: American Citizens and Foreign Civilians
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
The execution of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-Yemeni imam, by a drone attack in Yemen on September 30, 2011 has generated a lively debate among liberally minded lawyers in the United States because al-Awlaki was an American citizen.
→ read full articleThe Fight against Climate Change Is Down To Us – The 99%
Naomi Klein – The Guardian,
17 Oct 2011
If there is one thing I know, it’s that the 1% loves a crisis. When people are panicked and desperate, that is the ideal time to push through their wish list of pro-corporate policies: privatising education and social security, slashing public services, getting rid of the last constraints on corporate power. Amidst the economic crisis, this is happening the world over.
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Jeremy Irons on World Day against the Death Penalty (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
Actor Jeremy Irons outlines arguments against capital punishment in a clip to support Amnesty International’s campaign against the death penalty.
→ read full article(Castellano) 12 de Octubre de 2011: 519 Años de Genocidio y Explotación
Santi Amador – En Lucha,
17 Oct 2011
Como cada 12 de octubre se celebrará en el Estado español la denominada Fiesta Nacional de España o Día de la Hispanidad, en conmemoración del “descubrimiento” de América. Asimismo de los como poco 20 millones (estimaciones a la baja) de nativos americanos anteriores a la llegada de los españoles y demás ocupantes coloniales del continente, se estima que en pocos siglos y debido la brutalidad de los ocupantes y la trasmisión de enfermedades desconocidas para la población nativa, la misna descendió al 3% de la original.
→ read full articleKeynote Speech at the Opening Session of the 2011 International Conference of Asia-Pacific Peace Research Association
Ikuro Anzai, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
Agenda for Peace Research after 3/11
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Pepe Escobar: Iranian Plot Was an Inside Job
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
A US government informant acting as a member of the Zetas, a drug cartel in Mexico, helped thwart an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States on American soil. Now Obama’s top national security aides are seeking new international sanctions against Iran. Pepe Escobar, correspondent for the Asia Times, tells us who’s to gain from the situation.
→ read full articleA New Bush Era or a Push Era?
Amy Goodman – Truthdig,
17 Oct 2011
Back when Barack Obama was still just a U.S. senator running for president, he told a group of donors in a New Jersey suburb, “Make me do it.” He was borrowing from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who used the same phrase (according to Harry Belafonte, who heard the story directly from Eleanor Roosevelt) when responding to legendary union organizer A. Philip Randolph’s demand for civil rights for African-Americans.
→ read full articleFacebook Can Track Web Browsing Without Cookies
DJ Pangburn - Death and Taxes Magazine,
17 Oct 2011
According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, quoting various posts and papers by hackers and researchers, Facebook has two types of cookies for data collection and one method that works without cookies.
→ read full articleJames C Scott: ‘Making a Pact with the Army’
Francis Wade – Democratic Voice of Burma,
17 Oct 2011
James C Scott’s seminal work on the upland people of Zomia, a region stretching from northern Burma to northern Vietnam and encompassing areas of China, Thailand and Laos, has been the subject of widespread applause and fierce debate. The Yale professor talks to DVB about whether communities can still evade the modern-day state in Burma, and whether recognition of the new Burmese government is well-founded.
→ read full articleLooking for the „Ancient Bosnian Pyramid“ Leads to Friendship
Amir Telibečirović Lunjo in Sarajevo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
Despite all chauvinist propaganda, which is occasionally present in some local media, people of different ethnic backgrounds, faiths, from various cities and villages of Bosnia, spontaneously came here to work together. Bosnian Serbs, bosnian Muslims, bosnian Croats, kids from the so called „mixed marriages“, they all work, sleep, eat, using toilet and laugh together here, against prognoses from international self proclaimed „Balkan experts“ in developed countries, who claim that people here can’t live together any more.
→ read full articleA Farewell to Nuclear Arms
Mikhail Gorbachev – Project Syndicate,
17 Oct 2011
Twenty-five years ago this month, I sat across from Ronald Reagan in Reykjavik, Iceland to negotiate a deal that would have reduced, and could have ultimately eliminated by 2000, the fearsome arsenals of nuclear weapons held by the United States and the Soviet Union. The next few years may well determine if our shared dream of ridding the world of nuclear weapons will ever be realized.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Governo Argentino Quer Mais Marx e Menos Neoliberalismo em Faculdades de Economia
Marcia Carmo de Buenos Aires - BBC Brasil,
17 Oct 2011
O ministro da Economia da Argentina, Amado Boudou, e seu vice, Roberto Feletti, defendem que as faculdades federais de economia do país modifiquem a atual grade escolar para dar “mais espaço” para as teorias do alemão Karl Marx, do inglês John Keynes e do argentino Raul Prebisch (fundador da Cepal), segundo confirmou à BBC Brasil o subsecretário de Coordenação Econômica do Ministério da Economia, Alejandro Robba.
→ read full articleLibya’s Revolution: Tribe, Nation, Politics
Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
The Libyan war is often portrayed through a “tribal” lens that fails to explain how the country’s tribes coexist with a sense of nationhood.
→ read full articleUnderstanding the Changes in Burma
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
All the “dramatic” developments in Burma, including the release of 6,000-plus prisoners, are, as US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell put it, certainly welcome. And yet despite these loud applauses of “changes” in Burma, the Burmese public is finding it very, very difficult to feel hopeful. These changes do not include the change of heart among Burma’s rulers. They are in fact principally related to only two things.
→ read full articleBehind the Story: MoJo’s Investigation of Terrorism Informants
Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery – Mother Jones,
17 Oct 2011
Maybe you’ve wondered, on occasion of a press conference announcing another major terrorism bust: Why does it seem as if the FBI’s undercover operatives actually encouraged—even thought up—the plot? Why do the targets come off as hapless losers unable to organize so much as a poker game? How come it was the government that provided the fake conspiracy, the fake car bomb or missile, even the fake Al Qaeda oath?
→ read full articleWhy No Demands – Occupy Wall Street is a Rebellion, Not a Protest
Michael Levitin – Nation of Change,
17 Oct 2011
Let’s get something straight: this movement has issued no demands. It is not a protest. It’s an occupation. Rebellions don’t have demands.
→ read full articleIs this a Global Gandhian Moment?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
Mahatma Gandhi has been dead for more than 63 years, and yet his relevance to the politics of our time has never been greater. It is a tribute to the power of Gandhi’s inspirational ideas and life that his current influence is far greater than that of any other leader of the past century.
→ read full articleMother Teresa of Calcutta: Essence of Global Harmony
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
Mother Teresa was born in Skopje in Macedonia under the name of Agnes Gonxha, Bojaxhiu. She was born on August 26, 1910 and passed away on September 5, 1997. She spent her lifetime bringing peace and joy in the hearts of many that she soon began to be viewed by spiritual writers as the essence of global harmony. Although she was small in physical stature, yet in the spiritual sphere she proved to be a gigantic figure, standing high above others.
→ read full articleMissing the Point Twice: International Law as Empire’s Sunday Suit
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
In effect, post-9/11 American ideas of self-defense incorporate by stealth the Bush Doctrine of preemptive war used to justify aggression against Iraq in 2003, which had seemed discredited in international until quietly revived by the Obama presidency.
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Meltdown – Paying the Price
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
As the toll of the financial crisis continues to mount, many are looking for its true causes – and finding a crime.
→ read full articleHappy Genocide Day!
Thom Hartmann - Truthout,
17 Oct 2011
If you fly over the country of Haiti on the island of Hispaniola, the island on which Columbus landed, it looks like somebody took a blowtorch and burned away anything green. Even the ocean around the port capital of Port au Prince is choked for miles with the brown of human sewage and eroded topsoil. From the air, it looks like a lava flow spilling out into the sea. The history of this small island is, in many ways, a microcosm for what’s happening in the whole world.
→ read full articleTargeting Syria – The ‘Bad News’ For The Guardian
Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
Afghanistan and Iraq may still be in flames. A bloodbath may continue to flow from Nato’s ‘humanitarian intervention’ in Libya. No matter, mainstream journalists are appalled that a double Russian and Chinese veto at the UN has thwarted Western efforts to do more good in Syria. The two powers rejected the latest draft of a UN Security Council resolution condemning the Syrian government and preparing the way for international sanctions. In the Guardian, Middle East editor Ian Black wrote last week:
→ read full articleThe World Moves South and East
Johan Galtung, 17 Oct 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
Please join me in a spiritual West-South-East move. We know the landscapes: the abrahamic religions (judaism-christianity-islam) in the Occident, the hindu conglomerate in the middle, and the buddhist space spanning the Orient, as buddhism alone or with daoism and confucianism in East Asia. What are some key messages?
→ read full articleFrom Tahrir Square to Times Square: Demonstrations Erupt in Over 1,500 Cities Worldwide
OccupyWallStreet.org – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
Thousands Flood the Streets of Global Financial Centers, Capitol Cities and Small Towns to “Occupy Together” Against Wall Street Mid-Town Manhattan Jammed as Marches Converge in Times Square
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‘The Invisible Machine’ – Electromagnetic Warfare
Forbidden Knowledge TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
Directed Energy Weapons – Electronic warfare (EW) refers to any action involving the use of the electromagnetic spectrum or directed energy to control the spectrum, attack an enemy, or impede enemy assaults via the spectrum. EW can be applied from air, sea, land, and space by manned and unmanned systems, and can target communication, radar, or other services.
→ read full articleThe First NARPI Summer Peace Training
Kyoko Okumoto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
The Northeast Asia Regional Peacebuilding Institute (NARPI), as a civil society peacebuilding group representing voices from throughout Northeast Asia, was born out of the following idea. In this region where the Cold War still remains, there is a critical need for the implementation of measures which will prevent future military action and loss, and for peaceful resolution for historical and political conflict.
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De Gaulle Predicted the US Monetary Crisis in 1965 (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
TMS Editor,
10 Oct 2011
In February 1965, then French President General Charles De Gaulle predicted in a press conference the monetary crisis and the disaster that the dollar and the USA are imposing on the rest of the world. And he offered a solution…
→ read full articleThe ‘Getting’ of Assange and the Smearing of a Revolution
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2011
The High Court in London will soon to decide whether Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct. However, it is not the Swedish judicial system that presents a “grave danger” to Assange, say his lawyers, but a legal device known as a Temporary Surrender, under which he can be sent on from Sweden to the United States secretly and quickly.
→ read full article(Italian) Il Discorso ai Neolaureati di Stanford: “Siate Affamati, Siate Folli”
Steve Jobs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2011
Sono onorato di essere qui con voi oggi, nel giorno della vostra laurea presso una delle migliori università del mondo. Io non mi sono mai laureato. A dir la verità, questa è l’occasione in cui mi sono di più avvicinato ad un conferimento di titolo accademico. Oggi voglio raccontarvi tre episodi della mia vita. Tutto qui, nulla di speciale. Solo tre storie.
→ read full articleThe Threat of Warships on an “Island of World Peace”
Noam Chomsky - Truthout,
10 Oct 2011
Jeju Island, 50 miles southeast of South Korea’s mainland, has been called the most idyllic place on the planet. The pristine, 706-square-mile volcanic island comprises three UNESCO World Natural Heritage sites. Today Jeju Island is once again threatened by joint U.S.-South Korean militarization and violence: the construction of a naval base on what many consider to be Jeju’s most beautiful coastline. For more than four years, island residents and peace activists have engaged in determined resistance to the base, risking their lives and freedom.
→ read full articleDalai Lama Slams China’s ‘Immoral Censorship’
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2011
Statement comes as Chinese government is accused of blocking him from traveling to South Africa.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Centenas de Vítimas de Tráfico Sexual São Resgatadas na Amazônia Peruana
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2011
Quase 300 mulheres foram resgatadas de situação de exploração sexual na Amazônia peruana, informou a polícia do país na última segunda-feira [3 out 2011].
→ read full article(Galego) Obama, o Executor
Manuel Dios Diz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2011
Pouco importa que estas actuacións vulneren a legalidade internacional ou que provoquen con frecuencia graves danos colaterais… Dereito á autodefensa, loita contra do terrorismo internacional, guerra contra Al Qaeda… conceptos e consignas -mil veces repetidas- que ampararían crimes horrendos… Mágoa de Obama, un Nobel das Paz reconvertido en executor. Mágoa. Para a maioría dos medios de comunicación, esta execución criminal acadou a categoría de “breve”. Cousas da liberdade de expresión, que diría o Sr. Murdoch. Mágoa tamén.
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Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
Stanford University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2011
Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life’s setbacks — including death itself — at the university’s 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005.
→ read full articleClass Warfare Indeed
Michael Parenti – Toward Freedom,
10 Oct 2011
And who knows, once we learn to talk about the realities of class power, we are on our way to talking critically about capitalism, another verboten word in the public realm. And once we start a critical discourse about capitalism, we will be vastly better prepared to act against it and defend our own democratic and communal interests.
→ read full articleSystemic Biomimicry of Dinosaurs by Multinational Corporations
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2011
Clearing the Ground for Future Psychosocial Evolution – Comparisons have long been made between the pattern of behaviour of multinational corporations and that of dinosaurs. At the time of writing some 440,000 such references were indicated by Google. Typically the comparison is merely for rhetorical purposes, avoiding the possibility that more might be derived from this widespread “pattern recognition”.
→ read full articleFaceBook’s Privacy Lie: Aussie Exposes ‘Tracking’ As New Patent Uncovered
Asher Moses – The Sydney Morning Herald,
10 Oct 2011
Facebook’s assurances that “we have no interest in tracking people” have been laid bare by a new Facebook patent, dated this month, that describes a method “for tracking information about the activities of users of a social networking system while on another domain”. Nik Cubrilovic’s blog post, which revealed that tracking cookies monitor Facebook users whenever they surf websites with a Facebook ‘like’ button, has led to political outrage in the US and Europe.
→ read full articleEmpires Strike Hard, Nations Die Hard: Behind the Libyan Fake Revolution and the Re-colonization of Africa
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2011
After six months of fierce bombings on Libya by NATO and their TNC cronies; the mainstream media is painting the conflict as a natural consequence of the previous disillusioned revolution in North Africa.
→ read full articleRadio Inspiration Movement
Dylan Bradley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2011
Kids are constantly exposed to music, and it has an enormous impact on their attitudes and identities. I want to help make a better place for the youth of the world by increasing the positive messages in songs and decreasing those that encourage hate and cruelty. Imagine that change. My dream is that the user-made resources provided by the Radio Inspiration Movement will inspire people to work through their problems. I hope to create a community for co-inspiration through accessible positive music. As the movement grows, so will its ability to reach out to the stars of the music industry and effect real change.
→ read full articleNearly 700,000 Attend Gay Pride Parade in Rio on Sunday, 9 Oct 2011
Boston Globe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2011
Authorities in Brazil say nearly 700,000 people have celebrated in a gay pride parade at Copacabana beach. Many participants waved rainbow flags and wore lavish Carnival costumes as loud music blasted from more than 15 sound trucks in Sunday’s [9 Oct 2011] festivities.
→ read full articleThe Right to Exist: Why Kosovo But Not Palestine?
Zoltan Grossman - ConterPunch,
10 Oct 2011
The United Nations has not d Kosovo because it would set a negative precedent for unilateral secession around the world. Many states in the Arab League and European Union, on the other hand, view Kosovo as a positive precedent for Palestine. Some governments may oppose sovereignty for both Kosovo and Palestine. But the US is virtually alone in its backing for the State of Kosovo, while at the same time hypocritically blocking a State of Palestine.
→ read full articleOccupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now
Naomi Klein – The Nation,
10 Oct 2011
I was honored to be invited to speak at Occupy Wall Street on Thursday night [6 Oct 2011]. Since amplification is (disgracefully) banned, and everything I say will have to be repeated by hundreds of people so others can hear (a k a “the human microphone”), what I actually say at Liberty Plaza will have to be very short. With that in mind, here is the longer, uncut version of the speech.
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The Deadliest Place in the World for a Journalist
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2011
Mini-documentary on the critical Honduran journalists that have watched 15 colleagues assassinated in 19 months under the Lobo regime, a government Barack Obama praises for its “strong commitment to democracy”.
→ read full articleExclusive: Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet
Noah Shachtman - Wired,
10 Oct 2011
A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones. “We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back,” says a source familiar with the network infection, one of three that told Danger Room about the virus. “It’s getting a lot of attention,” the source says. “But no one’s panicking. Yet.”
→ read full articleAfrica: More Dangerous to Be a Woman than a Soldier
Saaleha Bamjee – Inter Press Service-IPS,
10 Oct 2011
African women who bear the brunt of the continent’s conflicts now demand to play a defining role in peacekeeping.
→ read full articleAfghan and German Deep Cultures at War
Johan Galtung, 10 Oct 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2011
Let Afghans be Afghans. Hold the Swiss model high. Let muslims help muslims. Stop the nonsense about running the world from Central Asia; let central Asians find their own form. Germany has a message, and it is Article 23, unification; by Schengen borders. And Martin Luther’s preface to the first printed Qur’an, in Latin, Basel 1541.
→ read full article(Italian) Le Guerre Segrete dei Marines di Sigonella
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2011
La base siciliana di Sigonella rafforza il proprio ruolo di piattaforma avanzata per le operazioni “anti-terrorismo” degli Stati Uniti d’America nel continente africano. USAFRICOM, il comando delle forze armate Usa per l’Africa, ha annunciato la creazione di una forza speciale dei marines che darà la caccia in Maghreb e in Somalia alle organizzazioni islamiche radicali filo-al Qaeda.
→ read full articleSpeculation in Agricultural Commodities: Driving up the Price of Food Worldwide and Plunging Millions into Hunger
Edward Miller – Global Research,
10 Oct 2011
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has again delayed the introduction of position limits required under the Dodd-Frank Act. These limits are intended to prevent speculation in (among other things) agricultural commodities, speculation that, many critics argue, have driven up the price of food worldwide and plunged millions into hunger.
→ read full articlePolicing the Prophets of Wall Street
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
10 Oct 2011
On Labor Day 2008, the “Democracy Now!” news team and I were covering the first day of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. Thousands protested outside. The riot police had encircled the area. I ran up to the police, my credentials hanging around my neck. It wasn’t seconds before they tore me through the police line, twisted my arms behind my back and handcuffed me, a Secret Service agent came over and ripped the credentials from around our necks. We filed suit. This past week, the St. Paul and Minneapolis police and the Secret Service have settled with us. In addition to paying out $100,000, the St. Paul police department has agreed…
→ read full articleOccupy Comes To Your Town
Socialist Worker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2011
Occupy Sacramento released their own statement about the meaning of the movement: We are preparing to change the world. We are becoming another head on the beast of change. We will stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in over 200 cities around the world…This is global revolution. Civil rights, human rights, freedom, dreams, have all been trampled by those with the money and the power. We demand change. We demand equality! The time has come for us to govern ourselves! We are the 99 percent!”
→ read full articleThe Beltway Mob
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2011
The Beltway Mob is kept good company in the present-day by two of their staunchest allies – though they are mutual enemies – by the Pakistan military who in the name of a merciful and beneficent God exports terror abroad and imports oppression at home, and the Indian political class who though descended from humble, hardworking, and austere Gandhians are among the most rapacious whores in power today.
→ read full articleCitizen Diplomacy: Russia and the Gorbachev Years (1985-1991)
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2011
There is in the Agni Yoga teachings of Helena Roerich, to which Raisa Gorbachev was particularly devoted, a line that says, “Not the new is proclaimed but what is needed for the hour.” This idea became a guideline for Mikhail Gorbachev, whose “new thinking” was not really new. Many of us had been saying the same thing for years before, but none of us was head of state.
→ read full articleAnti-Wall Street Protests Spreading to Cities Large and Small
Erik Eckholm and Timothy Williams – The New York Times,
10 Oct 2011
Publicity surrounding the recent arrests of hundreds in New York, near Wall Street and on the Brooklyn Bridge, has only energized the campaign. This week, new rallies and in some cases urban encampments are planned for cities as disparate as Memphis, Tenn.; Hilo, Hawaii; Minneapolis; Baltimore; and McAllen, Tex., according to Occupy Together, an unofficial hub for the protests that lists dozens of coming demonstrations, including some in Europe and Japan.
→ read full article4th International Music Council World Forum on Music
Olivier Urbain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2011
Tallinn, Estonia, Sept. 26 to Oct. 1, 2011 – I participated in this forum as director of the Toda Institute and founder and director of the TRANSCEND Art and Peace Network, thanks to the recommendation of Dietrich Fischer and Johan Galtung.
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