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16th NAM Summit Concludes
Kantipur (Nepal) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
The 16th summit conference of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) concluded here [Tehran] Friday [31 Aug 2012] with a decision to hold the 17th summit conference in Venezuela. The responsibility was given to Venezuela, a South American country on the basis of suggestions received and conclusion drawn from the discussions from various levels of the conference.
→ read full articleRachel Corrie and the Kosher Legal Stamp
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
Israel is surely a most peculiar state – it is impervious to ethical thinking and humanist thought. Accordingly, Judge Gershon gave this week a kosher stamp to a cold-blooded murder and by so doing, he proved, once again, that Israeli criminal actions are consistent with the most vile interpretations of Old Testament and Talmudic Goy-hating.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Quem É Quem no Comércio Mundial de Armas
Antonio Martins, Outras Palavras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
Estados Unidos já abocanham 78% das exportações mundiais — e são cada vez mais influenciados por seu próprio “complexo industrial-militar”. Por isso, mídia norte-americana prefere falar da China…
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The Gift Economy and the Commons
imMEDIAcyTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
This is a conversation between International Economist, James Quilligan and Charles Eisenstein, author of Sacred Economics.
→ read full articleU.S. Drought Boosts Brazilian Agriculture
Andrew Willis – The Rio Times,
3 Sep 2012
While consumers across the globe are currently struggling with higher food prices caused by the worst U.S. drought in half a century, Brazilian farmers are enjoying bumper sales and a surge up the agricultural league tables.
→ read full articleBritain’s Barbaric ‘Special Relationship’ With Arab Dictators
Finian Cunningham - PressTV,
3 Sep 2012
The image of British Prime Minister David Cameron greeting Bahrain’s King Hamad on the steps of 10 Downing Street on August 23, 2012 conveys a subtle message of Britain’s presumption of global superiority. It also betrays the real role of Britain’s rulers in the suppression of democracy and human rights around the world.
→ read full articleThe Western Onslaught against International Law
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
The lawlessness that now characterizes the US and UK governments is a large threat to humanity’s finest achievement–the rule of law–for which the British fought from the time of Alfred the Great in the ninth century to the Glorious Revolution of the 17th century. Where are the protests over the Anglo-American destruction of the rule of law? Why Aren’t Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and Chatham House on the case?
→ read full articleShas Spiritual Leader Calls on Jews to Pray For Annihilation of Iran
Haaretz and Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
During his weekly sermon, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef says Jews should pray for destruction of the enemies of Israel, with an emphasis on Iran and Hezbollah. In the past, the Baghdad-born Yosef has stirred controversy by likening Palestinians to snakes, calling for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to “perish from this world” and describing non-Jews as “born only to serve us”.
→ read full articleUN: The 1503 Procedure
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
Among various human rights violation complaint procedures within the UN system, the 1503 Procedure is especially unique. This article briefly explores its uniqueness by focusing on several main aspects of this procedure. It was prepared primarily for those who are not familiar with international human rights law, the UN human rights complaint procedures or relevant issues.
→ read full articleLiving in the Gift: On Retreat with Charles Eisenstein
Adam Parsons, Share The World's Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
What would the world look like if money embodied our values, if the best business decision was the best decision for society, and if wealth was defined by how much we give, not how much we have? Charles Eisenstein shared his insights during a workshop. (See: The Gift Economy and the Commons – In-Depth Videos)
→ read full article(Portuguese) Paraolímpicos Revelam Histórias de Guerras, Doenças e Violência ao Redor do Mundo
Camilla Costa – BBC Brasil,
3 Sep 2012
Nas delegações dos 166 países que competem nos Jogos Paraolímpicos de Londres 2012, portadores de deficiência desde o nascimento dividem espaço com vítimas de acidentes, de doenças e de violência que evidenciam problemas geopolíticos, de segurança e de saúde pública de seus países. Delegações têm atletas que foram vítimas de minas terrestres, conflitos internos, polio e acidentes de trânsito.
→ read full articleRemembering Sister Anne Montgomery
Rev. John Dear – Common Dreams,
3 Sep 2012
One of the legends in the U.S. peace movement, Sister Anne Montgomery, died this week [31 Aug 2012] in California. A member of the Religious of the Sacred Heart, she spent over three years in prison for many civil disobedience actions against war, including seven plowshares anti-nuclear disarmament actions; many years teaching in Harlem, and many years living with the Christian Peacemaker Team in Hebron, Palestine-Israel.
→ read full articleWhy I Had No Choice But to Spurn Tony Blair
Bishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate – The Observer,
3 Sep 2012
I couldn’t sit with someone who justified the invasion of Iraq with a lie. Leadership and morality are indivisible. Good leaders are the custodians of morality. The question is not whether Saddam Hussein was good or bad or how many of his people he massacred. The point is that Mr Bush and Mr Blair should not have allowed themselves to stoop to his immoral level.
→ read full article(Portuguese) O Imenso Buraco Negro da Economia Global
Sarah Jaffe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
“Vinte e e um trilhões – com “t” – de dólares. Eis o que as pessoas mais ricas do mundo escondem em paraísos fiscais internacionais. Ao mesmo tempo em que os governos cortam o gasto público e demitem os trabalhadores, em prol de uma maior “austeridade” obrigada pela desaceleração da economia, os super-ricos – menos de 10 milhões de pessoas – esconderam longe do alcance do arrecadador de impostos uma quantidade igual às economias japonesa e estadunidense juntas.
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President Eisenhower on the Military Industrial Complex (Video of the Week)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
in 1953, US President Eisenhower said, “Modern weapons take food from the hungry and shelter from the homeless: Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”
→ read full articlePandora or Peru: Resisting the Mining Multinationals
Manuel Barcia – Al Jazeera,
3 Sep 2012
An indigenous group with a millenarian bond to their land are sitting on large reserves of a precious metal. A massive multinational corporation coming from a foreign land with the intention of getting access to the said metal at whatever cost. A conflict that has left people dead and that has the potential to take even more lives – indigenous lives, of course – destroying the environment in the process.
→ read full articleBounty Paid for Blair Arrest Attempt
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
On Tuesday [4 Sep 2012] the Arrest Blair campaign will pay Tom Grundy £2,400 for his attempt to arrest Tony Blair during a public event in Hong Kong. The campaign was established to uphold the principle that no one is above the law. The 2003 invasion of Iraq, commissioned by George W. Bush and Tony Blair, meets the definition of a crime against peace, established by the Nuremberg Principles and described by the Nuremberg Tribunal as “the supreme international crime.”
→ read full article(Portuguese) Brasil Eleva Exportações e É 5º em Ranking de Vendas de Armas de Pequeno Porte
BBC Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
O Brasil aumentou suas exportações de armas de pequeno porte de US$ 273 milhões para US$ 382 milhões em apenas um ano, segundo o recém-divulgado levantamento “Small Arms Survey 2012”. Com isso, de acordo com os dados utilizados pelo estudo, o país se mantém como o quinto maior vendedor desse tipo de armamento no mundo.
→ read full articleHey Justice!!!
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
Hey justice!
Why not practice
Events of barbaric
Is it romantic?
(Portuguese) Modelo Econômico Venezuelano Combina Socialismo e Mercado
OperaMundi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
Estratégia de Chávez coloca o Estado como principal instrumento do desenvolvimento econômico, mas abre espaço para alianças com o capital privado e o empreendedorismo.
→ read full articleTo Cut or Not To Cut: The Male Circumcision Question
Naomi Wolf – The Guardian,
3 Sep 2012
To cut or not to cut? That is very personal question, which each parent must decide for him- or herself. But parents deserve real science in making up their minds, as well as transparency from professional bodies offering what is, ostensibly, purely medical advice.
→ read full articleNobody Had the Slightest Idea of What It Would Be Like
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
The total explosive power of today’s weapons is equivalent to roughly half a million Hiroshima bombs. To multiply the tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by a factor of half a million changes the danger qualitatively. What is threatened today is the complete breakdown of human society.
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After Capitalism: ”Beyond Capitalism”
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
Guardian columnist George Monbiot argues that a world after capitalism is not a communist state but an advanced form of social democracy where the distribution of wealth is more stringently regulated.
→ read full articlePower to the Online People
Sarah Wenger, OpenSite – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
Infographic highlights and illustrates the power of the Internet community when its citizens come together.
→ read full articleNetanyahu’s Secret War Plan: Leaked Document Outlines Israel’s “Shock and Awe” Plan to Attack Iran
Richard Silverstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
In the past few days, I received an Israeli briefing document outlining Israel’s war plans against Iran. The document was passed to me by a high-level Israeli source who received it from an IDF officer. My source, in fact, wrote to me that normally he would not leak this sort of document, but:
→ read full articleNo Way to Avoid Global Financial Collapse, Says Predictive Software
Susanne Posel, Occupy Corporatism – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
As the mega-banks face the controlled demolition of the US dollar, they have taken the stance of victim to the implosion and along with insurance companies, finance corporations, hedge and money-market funds are being touted according to the Financial Stability Oversight Council as being important institutions.
→ read full articleAppeal for the International Community to Act Urgently To End Burmese Government Repression against Rohingya Muslims
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
29 August 2012 – Nobel peace laureate Mairead Maguire said today that ‘the stateless Rohingyas of Burma have suffered from persecution and discrimination for decades and are now facing inter-communal violence that has evolved into large scale state-sponsored violence against them.’
→ read full articleCitigroup to Pay $590 Million to Settle Investor Suit
AFP, The Raw Story – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
Citigroup said Wednesday [29 Aug 2012] it had agreed to pay $590 million to settle a suit by investors who accused the bank of misleading them on its subprime mortgage-based security losses in 2007-2008.
→ read full articleWhat about Israel’s Nuclear Weapons?
Patrick B. Pexton, Ombudsman – The Washington Post,
3 Sep 2012
Readers periodically ask me some variation on this question: “Why does the press follow every jot and title of Iran’s nuclear program, but we never see any stories about Israel’s nuclear weapons capability?” I spoke with several experts in the nuclear and nonproliferation fields, and they say that the lack of reporting on Israel’s nuclear weapons is real — and frustrating. There are some obvious reasons for this, and others that are not so obvious.
→ read full articleBurma’s ‘Niggers’
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
President Thein Sein, what really is your analysis of the plight of Burma’s “Bengali Kulars” (or the Burmese equivalent of “niggers”)?
→ read full articleAssassin Job
TMS Editor,
3 Sep 2012
After all of the background checks, interviews, and testing were done there were three finalists for the CIA assassin position — two men and one woman.
→ read full articleI Am Too Poor To Go To War
David Inkey – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
I am too poor to go to war…
Let me tell you the score…
Gangs’ Truce Buys El Salvador a Tenuous Peace
Randal C. Archibold – The New York Times,
3 Sep 2012
They had faced off many times before, on the streets, with guns in their hands. But when top leaders of two of the hemisphere’s most violent street gangs sat across from one another in the stifling air of a maximum security prison here this year, the encounter had a very different aim: peace.
→ read full articleU.S. Arms Sales Make Up Most of Global Market
Thom Shanker – International Herald Tribune-NYT,
3 Sep 2012
Overseas weapons sales by the United States totaled $66.3 billion last year, or more than three-quarters of the global arms market, valued at $85.3 billion in 2011. Russia was a distant second, with $4.8 billion in deals.
→ read full articleConstipation and Cleansing the Colon
Dr. Edward Group – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
Millions of Americans exhibit constipation symptoms on a frequent basis, both minor and severe. Given how many people experience this, and how often, it gives support to the argument that constipation is so prevalent and widespread it should be considered an epidemic.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Por Que Defendemos o WikiLeaks e Assange
Michael Moore e Oliver Stone, Outras Palavras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
Se Assange for extraditado para os Estados Unidos, as consequência repercutirão por anos, em todo o mundo. Assange não é cidadão norte americano, e nenhuma de suas ações aconteceu em solo norte americano. Se Washington puder processar um jornalista nessas circunstâncias, os governos da Rússia ou da China poderão, pela mesma lógica, exigir que repórteres estrangeiros em qualquer lugar do mundo sejam extraditados por violar as suas leis. Criar esse precedente deveria preocupar profundamente a todos, admiradores do WikiLeaks ou não.
→ read full articleDistinctive Features of NONKILLING
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
NONKILLING dignifies personal power
NONKILLING dignifies public power
WikiLeaks and Free Speech
Michael Moore and Oliver Stone – International Herald Tribune-NYT,
27 Aug 2012
If Mr. Assange is extradited to the United States, the consequences will reverberate for years around the world. Mr. Assange is not an American citizen, and none of his actions have taken place on American soil. If the United States can prosecute a journalist in these circumstances, the governments of Russia or China could, by the same logic, demand that foreign reporters anywhere on earth be extradited for violating their laws. The setting of such a precedent should deeply concern everyone, admirers of WikiLeaks or not.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Noam Chomsky: “Querem Vencer Assange pelo Cansaço”
Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
Nesta entrevista ao site equatoriano GkillCity, o linguista e filósofo norte-americano defende que Assange não teria hipóteses de ter um julgamento justo nos Estados Unidos. Chomsky acrescenta que do ponto de vista de quem ama a democracia, o fundador do Wikileaks merecia “uma medalha de honra” em vez de um julgamento.
→ read full articleWar Fever as Seen from Iran
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
27 Aug 2012
So it’s time for something completely different – and totally absent from Western corporate media; sound Iranian minds rationally analyzing what’s really going on behind the drums of war – regarding Iran, Turkey, the Arab world and across Eurasia.
→ read full articleMF’ing Justice
Jim Karger, TDV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
Jon Corzine is a contemporary Richard Nixon: a low rent thief, liar, and American success story. Corzine, you may recall, bet $6.3 billion on the wrong side of European sovereign debt, a wager his own risk department at MF Global told him was nuts, and a wager so big and so wrong that it wiped out the entire firm. Like Nixon, Corzine is a one man epidemic of deceit, a thug with the conscience of a rabid hyena, and like Nixon, he is not going to jail.
→ read full articlePost-Qathafi Libya…Another Fine Mess, NATO
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
27 Aug 2012
Congratulations to William Hague, Hillary Clinton and the sickening little wannabe Napoleons who rule France these days, desperately trying to claw back some international prestige. Let us compare Gaddafi’s Libya with FUKUS [France-UK-US] Libya… Nice one, NATO, nice one… Chuckle smugly and look over your shoulders. Karma time’s a-coming!
→ read full articleArthritis
TMS Editor,
27 Aug 2012
A drunk that smelled like a brewery got on a bus one day. He sat down next to a priest.
→ read full articlePeace Is War: How Israel Induces America into War with Iran
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
On August 17 [2012], America’s two leading newspapers featured strikingly similar opinion pieces, providing further evidence of a coordinated effort by Israel and its American partisans to induce the United States into waging another disastrous Middle East war. In the Washington Post… the New York Times…
→ read full articleNo Crime, No Punishment
The New York Times, editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
When the Justice Department recently closed its criminal investigation of Goldman Sachs, it became all but certain that no major American banks or their top executives would ever face criminal charges for their role in the financial crisis. The shameless pursuit of Wall Street campaign donations by both political parties strengthens this perception, and further undermines confidence in the rule of law.
→ read full articleUS Arms Sales Shoot To Record Levels
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
Congressional report shows that arms exports tripled from previous year, with Gulf Arab states the main customers.
→ read full articlePeace-Building? Are You Kidding!!!
Punam Yadav, Nepali Advocate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
I still have a vivid memory of my interview with a Cabin Restaurant Worker. When people talk about peace process, peace building, conflict resolution, transitional justice, restoration of peace, or the compensation for conflict victims in Nepal, only thing comes to my mind is that woman whom I met in 2006 when I was writing my Masters thesis.
→ read full articleAppeal to Non-Aligned Leaders Meeting in Tehran
Veterans For Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
With the Non-Aligned Movement meeting this week [26 Aug 2012] in Tehran, Veterans For Peace is urging the organization of 120 nations not formally allied with any major power bloc to take steps to deter the Israeli-American threats of war against Iran over its nuclear enrichment program.
→ read full articleGramsci and Nonviolence
Prof. Alberto L’Abate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
Paper presented in Tamilnadu, at the Gandhigram University, and by the “Sarvodaya Talisman” Journal at Madurai. In the years 1955/6, I was working as a voluntary in Danilo Dolci’ project in Sicily. Danilo Dolci is called the”Italian Gandhi” because has used nonviolent action to improve the life of poor peoples, especially peasants, in the area of Palermo, Sicily.
→ read full articleConspiracies: Theories and Hypotheses
Johan Galtung, 27 Aug 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
Conspiracies exist. They are a part of social reality, have always been, and will always be; as confirmed conspiracy theories, as unconfirmed conspiracy hypotheses, as suspicions, as allegations. The conspiracy-labeling carries all the characteristics of a conspiracy, using the cultural power of the media to steer the discourse away from important issues. Unacceptable.
→ read full articleCall for the Immediate Release of Marian Price on Health, Humanitarian and Justice Grounds
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
Open Letter to the British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland – The illegal detention of Marian Price for political offences committed nearly forty years ago, and for which she was pardoned, is a serious violation of her human rights, a blank disregard for due process, and a violation of our ‘Good Friday Agreement’.
→ read full articleIsraeli Settlements and the United Church Boycott: Responding To Three Common Distortions
David Taub Bancroft, Rabble – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
After months of controversy and negative media attention, the United Church of Canada, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, finally made it official. The church’s General Council voted today [21 Aug 2012] to call on its members to avoid buying products coming from Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Presbyterian and Methodist churches in the United States have made similar calls.
→ read full articlePaul Ryan and the Fountainhead
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
I was not interested in Paul Ryan, the man about to be nominated by the Republican party for the office of vice-president, until the name Ayn Rand popped up. Ayn Rand, it was said, was one of the main inspirations for his particular philosophy. Since Ryan is being represented not as an ordinary, run-of-the-mill politician, like Mitt Romney, but as a profound political and economic thinker, the inspiration deserves some scrutiny.
→ read full articleTen Years of AKP Leadership in Turkey
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
It needs to be appreciated that Turkey viewed from outside by most informed observers, especially in the region, remains a shining success story, both economically and politically. Nothing could bring more hope and pride to the region than for the Turkish ascent to be achieved elsewhere, of course, allowing for national variations of culture, history, and resource endowments, but sharing the commitment to build an inclusive democracy in which the military stays in the barracks and the diplomats take pride in resolving and preventing conflicts.
→ read full articleBan Ki-moon Ignores U.S. And Israel and Attends the NAM Summit
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
The secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, will attend the 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to be held in Tehran, the Iranian capital. Nearly one hundred members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) have indicated their willingness to take part in the 16th Summit of this entity which will run from 26 to 31 Aug, 2012.
→ read full articleHow the Private Sector Didn’t Solve Ghana’s Water Crisis
Judith Amanthis – Pambazuka News,
27 Aug 2012
Government investment, rather than privatisation or international aid, offers the best solution for water services in Ghana.
→ read full articleAnonymous Releases How-To Instructions on Fooling Facial Recognition
Erictronik Page – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
Here’s a predicament: you don’t want the government using high-tech face scanning technology to track every inch of your walk to the post office, but you also don’t want to take a sledgehammer to your neighborhood surveillance camera. What do you do?
→ read full article(Castellano) Sudáfrica Boicoteará Productos Israelíes Hechos en Territorios Palestinos
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
El portavoz del Gobierno, Jimmy Manyi, explicó que la medida de boicot tiene como objeto evitar que los consumidores sean engañados y piensen que dichos bienes fueron hechos en Israel, cuando en realidad se produjeron en territorios palestinos.
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How to Be Alone
Andrea Dorfman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
A video by fiilmaker, Andrea Dorfman, and poet/singer/songwriter, Tanya Davis.
→ read full articlePrime Minister, Crime Minister!
S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
Prime Minister, Prime Minister, why did you keep coal
When none of your predecessors ever had this foal?
Did you sell non-players and new ones all the Black Gold
So thermal power goes down and nuclear becomes bold?
Iceland’s Recovery Continues, Declared ‘Impressive’
IceNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
Experts continue to praise Iceland’s recovery success after the country’s bank bailouts of 2008. Unlike the US and several countries in the eurozone, Iceland allowed its banking system to fail in the global economic downturn and put the burden on the industry’s creditors rather than taxpayers.
→ read full articleThe Invisible Majority: Married Girls in the Somali Refugee Camps
Ashley Lackovich-van Gorp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
Marriage does not turn a 12-year-old girl into a woman. The 2003 World Health Organization, United Nations Population Fund and Population Council report, “Married Adolescents: An Overview,” reveals that in comparison with unmarried peers, married girls have less education, less mobility, less exposure to the media and less access to social networks and basic services (25-34).
→ read full articleHelp Me To Sew Life’s Quilt
David Inkey – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
“Inkey appreciates the TMS publication of his with death poem, but he suggests the TMS coverage would not be complete without also including his sewing life poem.”
→ read full articlePMANE Sues NPCIL at Delhi High Court
Dr. S.P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
August 25, 2012 – The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) is suing the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL) and its parent body the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) for not giving copies of the Site Evaluation Report (SER) and the Safety Analysis Report (SAR) as directed by the Central Information Commission back in April 2012.
→ read full articleNotes on Globalization and Class Struggle: Latin America, Europe and Asia
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
Introduction: The principle axes of the class struggle are found in Latin America, Europe and Asia, each following its own trajectory.
→ read full articleWall Street Tightens Grip on Public Water as Local Residents Suffer
Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
Vulture capitalists are increasingly facilitating the privatization of public infrastructure, taking control of public utilities while skimping on services and causing steep price hikes — all the while making massive profits. According to the report, private equity firms show up to hurting municipalities as hired financial advisers and subsequently push through privatization deals. Massive profits are made in the process, as such advisers stand to make great financial gains through these deals.
→ read full articleThe Pursuit of Julian Assange Is an Assault on Freedom and a Mockery of Journalism
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
The British government’s threat to invade the Ecuadorean embassy in London and seize Julian Assange is of historic significance. The same brave newspapers and broadcasters that have supported Britain’s part in epic bloody crimes, from the genocide in Indonesia to the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, now attack the “human rights record” of Ecuador, whose real crime is to stand up to the bullies in London and Washington.
→ read full article(Italian) Marina Italiana per le Campagne di Guerra USA in Africa
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
Il prossimo anno verranno coinvolte le marine da guerra di Australia, Belgio, Benin, Camerun, Canada, Finlandia, Francia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Gibuti, Kenya, Mauritania, Mauritius, Marocco, Mozambico, Nigeria, Repubblica del Congo, Sao Tomé e Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Spagna, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda e dell’immancabile Italia.
→ read full articleDon’t Lose Sight of Why the US Is Out To Get Julian Assange
Seumas Milne – The Guardian,
27 Aug 2012
Ecuador is pressing for a deal that offers justice to Assange’s accusers – and essential protection for whistleblowers. Considering he made his name with the biggest leak of secret government documents in history, you might imagine there would be at least some residual concern for Julian Assange among those trading in the freedom of information business. But the virulence of British media hostility towards the WikiLeaks founder is now unrelenting.
→ read full articleThe History of Humankind Is Also a History of Dignification
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
A Rhymed Reflection
If, on the one hand, the history of Humankind is a history of edification
On the other hand, the history of Humankind is also a history of humiliation
The Protection Racket
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
One is reminded of the feudal system of the Middle Ages, in which industrious peasants paid for “protection” with a large fraction of their produce. Their gangster-like protectors, the knights and barons, did no useful work. All they did was to fight with each other. How much is it exactly that we pay today for “protection”? The total world military budgets cost us 1.7 trillion dollars each year, that is to say, 1,700,000,000,000 dollars, an amount of money almost too large to be imagined. What do we get for this? We do not get anything useful. We get war, a universal source of poverty, destruction of infrastructure, and human suffering.
→ read full articleMosaddegh and the Legacy of Non-Aligned Movement
Hamid Dabashi – Al Jazeera,
27 Aug 2012
The Islamists and the monarchists might distort the image of Mosaddegh, but not his memory in the hearts of people. As fate would have it, the 16th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) will take place in Tehran from August 26 to 31, 2012 almost a week after the 59th anniversary of the notorious CIA (USA) and MI6 (UK)-engineered coup that on August 19, 1953, toppled the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh (1882-1967) – the champion of Iranian anti-colonial nationalism.
→ read full articleWe’ll Make A Killing Out of Food Crisis, Glencore Trading Boss Chris Mahoney Boasts
James Cusick – The Independent,
27 Aug 2012
Drought is good for business, says world’s largest commodities trading company.
→ read full articleGulf Seafood Deformities Alarm Scientists
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
27 Aug 2012
Eyeless shrimp and fish with lesions are becoming common, with BP oil pollution believed to be the likely cause. “The fishermen have never seen anything like this,” Dr Jim Cowan said. “And in my 20 years working on red snapper, looking at somewhere between 20 and 30,000 fish, I’ve never seen anything like this either.” Dr Cowan, with Louisiana State University’s Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences started hearing about fish with sores and lesions from fishermen in November 2010.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Carta às Esquerdas: As Últimas Trincheiras
Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Carta Maior,
27 Aug 2012
Faço um apelo aos governos brasileiro, equatoriano, venezuelano e argentino para que abandonem o projeto da reforma da Comissão Interamericana de Direitos Humanos (CIDH). E o apelo é especialmente dirigido ao Brasil dada a influência que tem na região.
→ read full articleDaniel Ellsberg: I Congratulate Ecuador for Standing Up to British Empire to Protect Julian Assange
Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez – Democracy NOW!,
21 Aug 2012
Daniel Ellsberg, the most famous whistleblower in the United States, praises Ecuador for granting political asylum to Julian Assange to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning over sex crime accusations. “I congratulate Ecuador of course for standing up to the British Empire here, for insisting that they are not a British colony, and acting as a sovereign state ought to act,” said Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, the secret history of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
→ read full articlePalestinian Hunger Strikes: Why Still Invisible?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2012
When it is realized that Mahatma Gandhi shook the British Empire with a series of hunger strikes, none lasting more than 21 days, it is shameful that Palestinian hunger strikers ever since last December continue to exhibit their extreme courage by refusing food for periods ranging between 40 and over 90 days, and yet these exploits are unreported by the media and generally ignored by relevant international institutions.
→ read full articleWhat’s Gone Wrong At The Guardian?
Ali Abunimah – Al Jazeera,
21 Aug 2012
Hiring Joshua Trevino, who endorsed the killing of Gaza flotilla members, is a worrying step for journalism. Treviño is a Republican Party operative, paid political consultant and ideologue for hire. But while some may not like those attributes, they would not make him unique among columnists. What does distinguish Treviño is his propensity to call for violence. Endorsing the killing of unarmed civilians…
→ read full articleNobody’s People in a No-Man’s Land
Subir Bhaumik – Al Jazeera,
21 Aug 2012
Nearly a million Rohingya living in Myanmar are unwanted at home and shunned by neighbouring countries.
→ read full article(Castellano) Ecuador Otorga Asilo a Fundador de WikiLeaks Julian Assange
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2012
El Gobierno de Ecuador decidió este jueves [16 Ago 2012] otorgar el asilo al fundador de WikiLeaks, el australiano Julian Assange, quien se encuentra en la embajada de la nación sudamericana en Londres. El Canciller ecuatoriano, Ricardo Patiño, hizo el anuncio durante en una entrevista ofrecida a la televisora estatal Ecuador TV, luego que recibiera una comunicación de parte de las autoridades británicas que amenaza con intervenir la embajada de Ecuador en Londres para arrestar al australiano.
→ read full articleIs Washington Deaf As Well as Criminal?
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2012
The morons who rule the american sheeple are not only dumb and blind, they are deaf as well. The ears of the american “superpower” only work when the Israeli prime minister, the crazed Netanyahu, speaks. Then Washington hears everything and rushes to comply. Israel is a tiny insignificant state, created by the careless British and the stupid americans. It has no power except what its american protector provides. Yet, despite Israel’s insignificance, it rules Washington.
→ read full articleEcuador Grants Assange’s Request for Asylum, Defying UK Threats
Kim Zetter, Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2012
The Ecuadorean government announced Thursday [16 Aug 2012] that it will grant WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asylum, defying threats from the UK government that authorities would forcibly seize Assange from the embassy if Ecuador granted Assange’s request. “We have decided to grant asylum to Julian Assange,” announced Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino at a press conference in Quito, to the sound of cheers from spectators.
→ read full articleEcuador President Rafael “We Are Not A Colony” Correa Stands Up To The Jackbooted British Gestapo
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2012
The once proud British government, now reduced to Washington’s servile whore, put on its Gestapo Jackboots and declared that if the Ecuadorean Embassy in London did not hand over WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, British storm troopers would invade the embassy with military force and drag Assange out. Ecuador stood its ground. “We want to be very clear, we are not a British colony,” declared Ecuador’s Foreign Minister. Far from being intimidated the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, replied to the threat by granting Assange political asylum.
→ read full articleFukushima: They Knew
Greg Palast - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2012
I’ve seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level. Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the nuclear power plant [in 1986]: “Wiesel was very upset. He seemed very nervous. Very agitated. . . . In fact, the plant was riddled with problems that, no way on earth, could stand an earth- quake. The team of engineers sent in to inspect found that most of these components could ‘completely and utterly fail’ during an earthquake.” And here in Japan was the quake and here is the utter failure.
→ read full articleThe Global 1%: Exposing the Transnational Ruling Class
Peter Phillips and Kimberly Soeiro – Project Censored,
20 Aug 2012
Abstract: This study asks Who are the the world’s 1 percent power elite? And to what extent do they operate in unison for their own private gains over benefits for the 99 percent? We examine a sample of the 1 percent: the extractor sector, whose companies are on the ground extracting material from the global commons, and using low-cost labor to amass wealth…
→ read full article(Italian) La Mappa Esagonale del Mondo Multipolare
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2012
Qualche tempo fa la mappa geopolitica si basava sul conflitto diretto Est-Ovest, sulle due super-potenze USA/URSS e rispettive alleanze, con i neutrali-nonallineati trattati da categoria residuale. Il mondo era bipolare. L’implosione dell’URSS lo rese unipolare, con l’”unica super-potenza sopravvissuta”: 2-1 = 1. O così ci fu raccontato. Oggi abbiamo quattro stati molto grandi: i tre maggiori per popolazione, Cina-India-USA, e il maggiore per superficie, Russia. E la UE, regione con cinque stati di media grandezza: UK-Francia-Germania-Italia-Spagna. Ma c’è un altro polo sulla mappa geopolitica: l’Islam.
→ read full article(Italian) Animalismo, Specismo, Antispecismo e Diritti degli Animali
Roberto Russo, GraphoMania – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2012
Parliamo spesso di animali: ci stanno particolarmente a cuore e non è un mistero. Ma non vogliamo che sia un discorso sdolcinato: secondo noi è importante guardare agli animali come esseri viventi, al pari nostro, con i loro diritti. Il fatto che noi siamo animali appartenenti alla specie umana non ci autorizza certo a trattare male gli animali non umani.
→ read full articleTime for America to Revisit Its Nuclear Policy
Ronnie Dugger – The Dallas Morning News,
20 Aug 2012
In the ongoing media melodrama about Iran’s nuclear program, could we be overlooking profound questions and truths about the again-rising likelihood of the decimation or the end of life on Earth in an H-bomb holocaust? We should be challenging our officials and military for risking our deaths, the lives of our fellow human beings and our national honor by keeping, maintaining and implicitly threatening to use our own weapons of mass murder.
→ read full articleNew Pan-African Nonviolence Network Formed
Matt Meyer – Waging Nonviolence,
20 Aug 2012
Between July 26 and 30 [2012], in Johannesburg, South Africa, peacemakers from 12 countries throughout Africa met to share experiences and birthed a new, continent-wide African Nonviolence and Peacebuilding Network (ANPN). As part of a War Resisters International (WRI) initiated African Nonviolence Trainer’s Exchange, the gathering was hosted by South Africa’s Ceasefire Campaign, an historic anti-war organization which grew out of the mass, anti-apartheid-oriented End Conscription Campaign.
→ read full articleNBC’s ‘Stars Earn Stripes’ Continues an Inglorious Tradition of Glorifying War
Nobel Peace Laureates Jody Williams, Desmond Tutu, Mairead Maguire, Shirin Ebadi, José Ramos-Horta, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Oscar Arias Sanchez, Rigoberta Menchú Tum and Betty Williams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2012
As Nobel Peace Prize laureates, we call on NBC to cancel this reality TV show that likens military combat to Olympic athletics.
→ read full articleThe Yinon Thesis Vindicated: Neocons, Israel, and the Fragmentation of Syria
Stephen J. Sniegoski, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2012
It is widely realized now that the fall of President Bashar Assad’s regime would leave Syria riven by bitter ethnic, religious, and ideological conflict that could splinter the country into smaller enclaves. America’s removal of Saddam served to intensify Sunni-Shiite regional hostility and, in a sense, got the destabilization ball rolling. Iran is targeted now, and Israel and its neocon supporters seek to make use of dissatisfied internal elements, political and ethnic—the radical MEK, democratic secularists, monarchists, Kurds, Arabs, Baluchis, and Azeris— to bring down the Islamic regime.
→ read full articleToward a New Geopolitics?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2012
The Chinese proverb is correct in its chilling reminder that ‘it is a curse to live in interesting times,’ but given the changing historical experiences with warfare, the growing sense of great ecological hazard, and the strengthening attachment to global justice agendas, maybe just this once, the fascinations of our age will turn out to be ‘a blessing.’
→ read full articleMutant Butterflies Found Near Fukushima
Tim Newcomb – Time,
20 Aug 2012
According to a study published by Scientific Reports, researchers started looking at butterflies near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant two months after the March 2011 tsunami damaged the reactors, causing a potential radiation leak. Of the initial 100 butterflies studied, 12% had mutations. But as the butterflies mated, the rate of mutation in successive generations increased to 34%, showing that the mutating genes were easily passed along to offspring.
→ read full articleA Message in Blood That No One Wants to Hear
Tom Engelhardt – Al Jazeera,
20 Aug 2012
Foreign troops are dying at the hands of their Afghan “allies” in large numbers, underscoring a lack of trust. Perhaps the sole historical example that comes close might be the Indian Rebellion of 1857. In reality, the American mission in Afghanistan failed years ago. It’s as if we refused to notice, but the Afghans we were training did. Now, they are sending a message that couldn’t be blunter or grimmer from that endlessly war-torn land.
→ read full articleSyria is Only a Pretext
Thierry Meyssan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2012
Looking back, it appears clear that he [Annan] had envisaged his mission from the future perspective of Assad’s overthrow by force and no longer knew what to do in the face of the military reversals suffered by the Free Syrian Army sponsored by the West. Obviously, the resignation of Annan as special envoy is not only an expression of personal disarray but is part and parcel of the Western campaign to signal “a deadlock within the international community” and cast responsibility on Syria, Russia and China.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister
Dr. S. P. Udayakumar (PMANE) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2012
Honorable Madam, Greetings! As we have completed a whole year struggling against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP), we would like to initiate a fresh round of dialogue with you. We request you, Madam, to turn the KKNPP into a pro-people and Nature-friendly project, bring about solar power policy and projects all over our State, rectify the transmission and distribution issues, protect the interests of the Tamil people, and leave a wonderful legacy of visionary leadership and compassionate development with the people of Tamil Nadu and India.
→ read full articleEdinburgh Festival of Spirituality and Peace
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2012
3-27 Aug, 2012 – Edinburgh, Scotland. FoSP is one of Edinburgh’s most exciting and diverse Festivals. It features over 400 activities across 21 venues each year in August. With top-quality speakers, conversations, performances, film, food, exhibitions, family activities, workshops, art, culture and more the festival is now looking forward to its twelfth year.
→ read full articleAyesha Was Killed
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2012
Dedicated to the young men and women executed in Iran for supporting human rights and democracy.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Libor: “É o sistema, estúpido”!
Carta Maior – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2012
Desde o dia 4 de julho [2012], noticia-se um escândalo envolvendo uma coisa chamada Libor. Chamar a manipulação da Libor de escândalo é desviar as atenções do fato de que se trata de mais uma forma normal de acumular capital. Em 1992, James Carville, estrategista da campanha do então candidato Bill Clinton à Presidência dos EUA, saiu-se com um dito que ficou famoso: “É a economia, estúpido”. Frente aos chamados escândalos, deveríamos dizer: “É o sistema, estúpido”!
→ read full articleThe United States and Its Comrade-In-Arms, Al Qaeda – And Other Tales of an Empire Gone Mad
William Blum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2012
Afghanistan in the 1980s and 90s … Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s … Libya 2011 … Syria 2012 … In military conflicts in each of these countries the United States and al Qaeda (or one of its associates) have been on the same side. What does this tell us about the United States’ “War On Terrorism”?
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