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WikiLeaks Haiti: The Aristide Files
Kim Ives and Ansel Herz – The Nation,
15 Aug 2011
US officials led a far-reaching international campaign aimed at keeping former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide exiled in South Africa, rendering him a virtual prisoner there for the last seven years, according to secret US State Department cables. The cables show that high-level US and UN officials even discussed a politically motivated prosecution of Aristide to prevent him from “gaining more traction with the Haitian population and returning to Haiti.”
→ read full article(German) Johan Galtung zu den Hintergründen neofaschistischer Gewalt (SB)
Schattenblick – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2011
Interview mit dem Friedensforscher Johan Galtung am 10. August 2011
→ read full articleA Rebellion against Racism and Poverty
James Illingworth – Socialist Worker,
15 Aug 2011
Symbolically, the riots in London broke out as world financial markets were in turmoil over concerns that the American economy is going back into recession and the European debt crisis is spreading to Italy and Spain. The crisis-ridden capitalist system has nothing to offer young people, and it was only a matter of time before their anger exploded into action. These aren’t the first riots of the crisis, and they won’t be the last.
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Chris Hedges: Why I Will Be There (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
October2011org – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2011
“Civil disobedience is the only weapon we have left.”
→ read full articleNorway 7/22 – And What Now?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2011
After more than 50 interviews on the 7/22 events in Norway, here is one as editorial-with Swedish free lance journalist Ditte Lundberg.
→ read full article“How Goodly Are Thy Tents”
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2011
FIRST OF all, a warning. Tent cities are springing up all over Israel. A social protest movement is gathering momentum. At some point in the near future, it may endanger the right-wing government.
→ read full articleBehind the Scenes with the Reporter Who Took Down Murdoch
Media Matters for America – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2011
Nick Davies is a British journalist and filmmaker who began his career in the mid-1970s. An accomplished freelancer and special correspondent for the Guardian, he is the author of five books, including Flat Earth News, a withering and widely-praised critique of the British press. His forthcoming sixth book will concern the latest and arguably most important scoop of his career — the phone hacking scandal that has rocked News Corp. to its foundation.
→ read full articleMainstream Media Ignores S&P Attack on Republicans
Thom Hartmann – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2011
Have you seen, anywhere, in any media, or even heard reported or repeated on NPR, the following sentence? “We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the act.”
→ read full articleImplication of Toroidal Transformation of the Crown of Thorns
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2011
Design Challenge to Enable Integrative Comprehension of Global Dynamics – This is an exercise in identifying a set of threads which might be fruitfully woven together into an unusual pattern of significance of relevance to both the challenge of governance and of individuation.
→ read full articleOslo: Europe, Islam and the Mainstreaming of Racism
Miriyam Aouragh and Richard Seymour – Jadaliyya,
8 Aug 2011
European media coverage of the Norwegian tragedy has led with dangerous and clichéd arguments about ‘Islamic extremism’ and multiculturalism, even after the identity of the killer was confirmed – thus contributing to the mainstreaming of racism that helped make Breivik what he is.
→ read full articleHow Best to Remove Guns from Post-Conflict Zones?
IRIN News (UN) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2011
Cash for guns or buy-back programmes in post-conflict states have fallen out of favour as a method of ridding a society of weapons, and have been replaced by often elaborate schemes designed to remove money from the equation, but the debate continues as to the best way forward.
→ read full articleUS Economic Problems: Result of a Careful Plan
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2011
When a country, like the United States, develops the habit to interfere periodically in the internal affairs of other nations, there are always going to be serious problems. Moreover, this powerful nation has built some 746 military bases in 146 countries. This has stimulated anger in many especially when such military bases are beginning to be viewed as a threat.
→ read full article(Castellano) Si el Autor Fuera del Tercer Mundo
Manuel E. Yepe, aporrea.org – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2011
Behring Anders Breivik, el noruego autor confeso de las horripilantes masacres de Oslo y la isla de Utoya que conmovieron al mundo con un saldo de 76 personas muertas, dejó colocado en Internet un “manifiesto” que define el ideario ultraderechista, anti islámico y anticomunista que movía al repugnante asesino múltiple.
→ read full articleS&P and the USA
Paul Krugman – The New York Times,
8 Aug 2011
On the other hand, it’s hard to think of anyone less qualified to pass judgment on America than the rating agencies. The people who rated subprime-backed securities are now declaring that they are the judges of fiscal policy? Really?
→ read full articleUS Expands Its Presence in Mexico, Ramping Up Drug War
Ginger Thompson - The New York Times News Service,
8 Aug 2011
The United States is expanding its role in Mexico’s bloody fight against drug trafficking organizations, sending new C.I.A. operatives and retired military personnel to the country and considering plans to deploy private security contractors in hopes of turning around a multibillion-dollar effort that so far has shown few results.
→ read full articleCan Humanitarian Intervention Ever Be Humanitarian?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2011
Not since the debate about the Kosovo War of 1999 has there been such widespread discussion of humanitarian intervention, including the semantics of coupling ‘humanitarian’ with the word ‘intervention.’
→ read full articleGlobal South Key to African Economies
Global development agencies – Al Jazeera,
8 Aug 2011
“South-south” cooperation will help both African countries and other emerging economies.
→ read full articleSpain’s “Indignados” at the Vanguard of a Global Nonviolent Revolt
Pablo Ouziel, Political Thoughts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2011
In a truly Gandhian manner, a group of Spanish ‘indignados’ is currently walking from Madrid to Brussels in order to make their voices heard by the bureaucrats of the European Union. They aim to get there before the global protest they have called for to be staged on October 15th. Perhaps by the time they get to Brussels, their indignation will have rubbed-off on those in other European nations who have understood the farce of our imperialist representative democracies, and the Spanish ‘indignados’ will not find themselves camping alone in front of the buildings of the European Union.
→ read full articleHow Much Is A trillion?
TMS Editor,
8 Aug 2011
A million seconds is 12 days.
A billion seconds is 31 years.
A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.
In Cuba, the Revolution Continues, Softly, as Times Change
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2011
Radios that crackle, a new airport terminal with birds nesting, the early morning snores of an official at passport control and the palpable ambivalence of pride and frustration belong to a revolution that sends tens of thousands of doctors across the world for the sole purpose of helping other human beings: an epic internationalism.
→ read full articleTruman Lied, Hundreds of Thousands Died
David Swanson – War Is a Crime,
8 Aug 2011
On August 6, 1945, President Harry S Truman announced: “Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of T.N.T. It had more than two thousand times the blast power of the British ‘Grand Slam’ which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare.”
→ read full articleUN Challenges Slavery Conditions for Domestic Workers
Dick Meister - Truthout,
8 Aug 2011
With a lot of luck, we may finally take decisive action to guarantee decent treatment for the world’s highly exploited housekeepers, maids, nannies, and other domestic workers. There are an estimated 100 million of them, working in more than 180 countries. Yes, winning the union rights for domestics worldwide will be very difficult. But we know it can be done. And certainly we know that it should be done.
→ read full articleA Secret War in 120 Countries: The Pentagon’s New Power Elite
Nick Turse - TomDispatch,
8 Aug 2011
Last year, Karen DeYoung and Greg Jaffe of the Washington Post reported that U.S. Special Operations forces were deployed in 75 countries, up from 60 at the end of the Bush presidency. By the end of this year, U.S. Special Operations Command spokesman Colonel Tim Nye told me, that number will likely reach 120. “We do a lot of traveling — a lot more than Afghanistan or Iraq,” he said recently.
→ read full articleCan Africa Develop a Regional Response to ‘Resource Grabbing’?
Rebecca M.E. Pointer – Another countryside,
8 Aug 2011
Evidence that a new wave of massive land (and water and other raw material) grabs are taking place across Africa is now incontrovertible. Estimates range from 32 to 50 million hectares of African land being allocated in long-term leases to foreign private and public companies in the last two years.
→ read full articlePeak Oil: A Chance to Change the World
Richard Heinberg – Yes! Magazine,
8 Aug 2011
For advice about life after graduation, students at Worcester Polytechnic wanted to hear from peak oil scholar Richard Heinberg instead of Exxon’s CEO. Here’s what he told them.
→ read full articleAn Easily Understandable Explanation of Derivative Markets
TMS Editor,
8 Aug 2011
Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Detroit . She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her bar.
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Norwegian Muslish Gunman’s Islam-Esque Atrocity
Colbert Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2011
July 25, 2011
→ read full articleThe Corporatocracy: Bailouts Serve the Creditors; Enslave the Debtors
John Perkins – Information Clearing House,
8 Aug 2011
Bailouts serve the creditors; they enslave the debtors. Although protesters swarm the streets of Athens, objecting to the draconian measures being imposed by the EU and the IMF, the country’s leaders are crumbling; they are accepting the bailouts. It has become evident that bailouts in our own U.S. crisis have only benefited the corporatocracy, with CEO’s paying themselves outrageous bonuses. This method of borrowing against the well-being of a country’s citizens merely serves to increase the power of the central banks, the IMF and corporate CEOs.
→ read full articleCan’t Pay Back, Won’t Pay Back: Iceland’s Loud No
Silla Sigurgeirsdóttir and Robert H Wade – Le Monde Diplomatique,
8 Aug 2011
The small island of Iceland has lessons for the world. It held a referendum in April to decide, more or less, whether ordinary people should pay for the folly of the bankers (and by extension, could governments control the corporate sector if they depended on it for finance). Sixty per cent of the population rejected an agreement negotiated between Iceland, the Netherlands and the UK to pay back the British and Dutch governments for the money they spent to recompense savers with the failed bank Icesave. That was less resistance than the first referendum last spring, when 93% voted no.
→ read full articlePortugal: Food Aid for “New Poor”, Extra Wealth for Nouveau Riche
Mario Queiroz – TerraViva Europe,
8 Aug 2011
And while vendors of luxury vehicles worry that they cannot fill their customer’ orders as quickly as they would like, the Food Bank against Hunger is facing a similar problem: it cannot keep up with the demand from the hungry knocking at the door. Up until 2009, the food bank only served the poorest families. But now middle class families, swallowing their pride, are coming forward to ask for food, medical assistance and spiritual support.
→ read full articleJustice and the Struggle for Palestine
Socialist Worker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2011
Journalist Ali Abunimah is one of the most important sources of information and analysis of the Israeli war on Palestine and the ongoing struggle for justice. He is cofounder of the invaluable Electronic Intifada website and author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse. He talked to Eric Ruder about the latest developments in the region–and what lies ahead for Palestinians.
→ read full articleA Tainted Water Well, and Concern There May Be More
Ian Urbina – The New York Times,
8 Aug 2011
“There have been over a million wells hydraulically fractured in the history of the industry, and there is not one, not one, reported case of a freshwater aquifer having ever been contaminated from hydraulic fracturing. Not one,” Rex W. Tillerson, the chief executive of ExxonMobil, said last year at a Congressional hearing on drilling. But there is in fact a documented case, and the E.P.A. report that discussed it suggests there may be more. Researchers, however, were unable to investigate many suspected cases because their details were sealed from the public when energy companies settled lawsuits with landowners.
→ read full articleColombia: Pillage, Promise and Peace
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2011
Colombia stands at the crossroads: it can follow in the footsteps of its predecessor, narco-President Alvaro Uribe and remain a military dependency, a lone outpost of the US Empire in South America.
→ read full articleThe Indoctrination of Missile Launch Officers
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2011
The US Air Force has a history of indoctrinating its missile launch officers to assure that these officers will have no moral qualms about following orders to use weapons of mass annihilation. It includes numerous quotations from both the Old and New Testaments to make the case for the morality of war. For example, “Jesus Christ is the mighty warrior.” (Revelation 19:11)
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Johan Galtung: How to Stop Extremism That Fueled Attack (Video of the Week) [1 of 2]
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2011
As Norway mourns the tragedy, Democracy Now! interviews Johan Galtung, a Norwegian sociologist who is considered the father of peace and conflict studies. Galtung’s granddaughter was on the island when Breivik attacked.
→ read full articleFamine in East Africa
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2011
Logistical Nightmare Hinders Aid Efforts in Somalia – Millions are starving and parents are watching their children die. Meanwhile militant groups are terrorizing the region. The situation in the Horn of Africa is becoming increasingly desperate. Aid organizations are facing enormous difficulties in their attempts to help hundreds of thousands of those suffering, but it’s a race against time they seem to be losing.
→ read full article(Italian) OIC: Organizzazione Islamica C = Conferenza-Cooperazione-Comunità?
Abbas Aroua e Johan Galtung, 18 luglio 2011 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2011
L’idea di collettività di stati è inclusa nella Carta delle Nazioni Unite per promuovere una transizione dal mondo del 1945 a quello odierno. Ma ancor meglio sarebbe una democrazia di stati membri “Uniti per la Pace”, con nessun sabotaggio dalle potenze che vivono nel passato.
→ read full articleParadigm Meltdown and Opportunities for Peacebuilding
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2011
A question that it would seem to be reasonable to ask is how to raise wages and employ everyone who wants a job, without raising prices, without militarism, and without damage to the environment.
→ read full articleWhat the USDA Doesn’t Want You to Know About Antibiotics and Factory Farms
Tom Philpott – Mother Jones,
1 Aug 2011
Here is a document the USDA doesn’t want you to see. It’s what the agency calls a “technical review”—nothing more than a USDA-contracted researcher’s simple, blunt summary of recent academic findings on the growing problem of antibiotic-resistant infections and their link with factory animal farms. The topic is a serious one. A single antibiotic-resistant pathogen, MRSA—just one of many now circulating among Americans—now claims more lives each year than AIDS.
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Johan Galtung: How to Stop Extremism That Fueled Attack (Video of the Week) [2 of 2]
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2011
As Norway mourns the tragedy, Democracy Now! interviews Johan Galtung, a Norwegian sociologist who is considered the father of peace and conflict studies. Galtung’s granddaughter was on the island when Breivik attacked.
→ read full articleTim’s Official Statement at His Sentencing Hearing
Tim DeChristopher – Peaceful Uprising,
1 Aug 2011
Tim DeChristopher, who was sentenced Tuesday [26 Jul 2011] to two years in federal prison and a $10,000 fine for ‘disrupting’ a Bureau of Land Management auction in 2008, had an opportunity to address the court and the judge immediately before his sentence was announced. “In these times of a morally bankrupt government that has sold out its principles, this is what patriotism looks like. I do not want mercy; I want you to join me.”
→ read full articleA Poem for Dekha
Emma Leslie, Convener for Southeast Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2011
Dekha was a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment. She was killed in a terrible car accident on July 14, 2011.
→ read full articleNorway the Victim. Norway the Perpetrator.
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2011
Dialogos, theologos. We are mourning, in churches, some in mosques–how about mourning together? The mezquita in Córdoba, with muslim service on Fridays, christian on Sundays, joint services on Saturdays? And in the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, building on Erdögan-Zapatero Alliance of Civilizations? Whites and blacks worked together in Southern USA at great risks; moving the USA forward. Show islamophobes, like Breivik, in Oslo, in Washington, and islamists, that dialogue and cooperation are possible. Invite them to join. Moving the world forward.
→ read full articleUser Friendly
TMS Editor,
1 Aug 2011
The new employee stood before the paper shredder looking confused.
→ read full articleGround Your Warplanes, Save the Horn of Africa
Ramzy Baroud – Toward Freedom,
1 Aug 2011
“When you are hungry, cold is a killer, and the people here are starving and helpless.”
→ read full articleWarfare without Limits: A Darkening Human Horizon
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2011
There are several pressures that push war in the direction of the absolute, and imperil the human future. Perhaps, the foremost of these is emergence, use, retention, and proliferation of nuclear weapons, as well as the development of biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction.
→ read full articleGruesome but Necessary: Global Governance in the 21st Century?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2011
Extreme Normality as Indicator of Systemic Negligence – How are people to think of the massacre of less than a hundred Norwegians — in a global society characterized by daily reporting of instances of tragic deaths of every kind and number? What might who do about it and why?
→ read full articleQuestions the Media Are Not Asking about Norway
Michael N. Nagler and Stephanie N. Van Hook – Metta Center for Nonviolence,
1 Aug 2011
The law enforcement entities dealing with the appalling massacre in and around Oslo last Friday have been understandably preoccupied with the question, did the perpetrator, Anders Behring Breivik, act alone. That is an important question for them, but it does nothing to help the rest of us understand and respond to this tragedy.
→ read full articleTim DeChristopher Sentenced to 2 Years in Prison, Taken Immediately Into Custody
Peaceful Uprising – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2011
Tim DeChristopher was sentenced to 2 years in prison today [26 Jul 2011] at the Salt Lake City federal courthouse. Author and activist Terry Tempest Williams said, “To think that a young man in an act of conscience might [do any amount of time] in a federal prison for raising a paddle in an already illegal sale of oil and gas leases, compared to the CEO of BP or the financial wizards on Wall Street who have pocketed millions of dollars at our expense – and who will never step into a court of law to even get their hands slapped, let alone go to jail, is an assault on democracy.”
→ read full article(Arabic) Appeal: Association of World Citizens
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2011
اتصل الكاتب العام للأمم المتحدة السيد بان كي مون بالرئيس السّوري بشار الأسد في العشرين من شهر يويليو 2011, قصد التهيئة لحوار عاجل و شامل و ذلك من أجل الرّد الفعلي و الملح بخصوص الضّيم الضاغط منذ فترة طوية على الشعب السوري, و هو نداء استحوذ على اهتمام رابطة مواطني العالم.
→ read full articleUS Department of Defense: Theory versus Practice
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2011
In this presentation, we will concentrate on the US Department of Defense as to understand fully well its proper nature and purpose. It is fully assumed that through this department the US government tries to protect, to the best of its ability, the American nation. This military entity, created to protect the American nation, may be viewed as proper or not so proper. Everything boils down to the real concept we have formulated of the word “nation.”
→ read full article(Arabic) التعاون الإسلامي: خطوة لتحقيق المجموعة الإسلامية
عباس عروة و يوهان غالتونغ, 18 يوليو 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2011
عاشت جزيرة العرب لزمن طويل تحت أنواع من العصبية على أساس العرق العربي والقبيلة والعشيرة، إلخ. وكان ذلك سببًا للعديد من الحروب الطويلة المنهكة. وفي سنة 610 للميلاد نزلت على الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلّم، وقد بلغ سنّ الأربعين، أولى آيات القرآن الكريم الذي جاء متحدّيًا للنظام الاجتماعي والسياسي القائم. فتحوّلت العصبية إلى أخوّة في […]
→ read full articleReading the World in a Loaf of Bread: Soaring Food Prices, Wild Weather, Upheaval, and a Planetful of Trouble
Christian Parenti - TomDispatch,
25 Jul 2011
What can a humble loaf of bread tell us about the world? The answer is: far more than you might imagine. For one thing, that loaf can be “read” as if it were a core sample extracted from the heart of a grim global economy. Looked at another way, it reveals some of the crucial fault lines of world politics, including the origins of the Arab spring that has now become a summer of discontent.
→ read full articleJapan: Responding Creatively To Crisis
Daisaku Ikeda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2011
Confronted by a disaster of unimaginable scale, the Japanese people are searching for ways to get back on their feet and discover appropriate responses to a series of interlinked problems. Indeed, the greater these challenges, the greater the potential to find creative responses that will inspire people everywhere and contribute to the sum of human wisdom.
→ read full articleTraitor or Whistleblower? The Divided Life of Bradley Manning
Marcel Rosenbach – Der Spiegel,
25 Jul 2011
Chat transcripts by Bradley Manning, the alleged source of secret US government documents for WikiLeaks, will be used as evidence in his military trial. They reveal a conflicted and lonely young soldier who felt strongly about revealing “almost criminal” behavior. He’s spent 14 months in jail, but there is still no date for his trial.
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(Français) Rachad TV Accueille Johan Galtung
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2011
Commentaires sur l’actualité : RachadTV accueille Johan Galtung, 13 juillet 2011
→ read full articleEWG Meat Eater’s Guide Spotlights Meat’s Outsize Carbon Footprint
TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2011
July 18 – The Environmental Working Group today released its groundbreaking Meat Eater’s Guide to Climate Change and Health, a powerful, multi-featured tool that allows both consumers and experts to understand easily how food choices affect both their environmental footprint and their health.
→ read full articleDifficult Test?
TMS Editor,
25 Jul 2011
A new guy in town walks into a bar and reads a sign that hangs over the bar… FREE BEER! FREE BEER FOR THE PERSON WHO PASSES THE TEST! So the guy asks the bartender what the test is.
→ read full articleCrocodile Tears As Food Aid Blockade Continues in Horn of Africa
Thomas C. Mountain – Foreign Policy Journal,
25 Jul 2011
As predicted here in Foreign Policy Journal, crocodile tears have begun to run down the faces of the likes of Anthony Lake, CIA director nominee turned Executive Director of UNICEF, as some 15 million people starve in the Horn of Africa. Tony Lake appeals to the world for tens, no, hundreds of millions of dollars to save the starving people of Ethiopia and Somalia, never once telling you that the majority, some 10 million, are in the Ogaden and Oromia regions and being subjected to a Western-funded food aid blockade by the Ethiopian military.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Submarino Nuclear Pode Alterar Equilíbrio da Região e Fomentar Sentimento Anti-Brasil em Populistas
Maurício Moraes - BBC Brasil,
25 Jul 2011
A construção de quatro submarinos nucleares no Brasil, iniciada nesta semana, coloca o país na antesala do seleto grupo das cinco nações detentoras de uma das mais avançadas tecnologias militares do mundo. O avanço, no entanto, deve aprofundar diferenças com os vizinhos sul-americanos e eventualmente fomentar o discurso antibrasileiro por parte de setores populistas da região, segundo especialistas.
→ read full articleNorway 7/22. What? And Then What?
Johan Galtung, 25 Jul 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2011
Why did he not hit an immigration agency, mosques, muslim meetings? His thinking neither reflects nor is reflected by Norway’s political landscape. In Norway a loner, a nazi. But, let us not narrow the interpretation horizon to one point. On one end is the islamophobic loner with links to some groups. If he could be defined as crazy, the political brunt is removed. He becomes a causa sui, his own cause. On the other end is the islamist Helper of the Global Jihad a bankrupt Washington could use to get money for “war against terror”. And in-between is Breivik, at some stage using Libya as a cover, and they at some stage him as a bomber? A tacit cooperation?
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Palestinian Minors Jailed for Throwing Stones
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2011
Palestinian minors are being detained for throwing stones at Israeli forces. Children under the age of fourteen have been jailed for the offence, an Israeli a human rights group, says.
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Dr. Alan Sabrosky on 9/11
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2011
Prof. Alan Sabrosky, US Marine Corps veteran, instructor at the War College, an author of 30 books and consultant specializing in national and international security affairs, discloses intriguing facts on the implication of Israel in 9/11 events that are by and large unheard of in mainstream media. His words regarding his loyalty first, foremost and solely to the United States of America are credible and believable, as are the rest of his statements, analyses and presentation of facts and evidence.
→ read full articleMonkeying with Global Governance
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2011
Emergent Dynamics of Three Wise Monkeys in a Knowledge-Based Society – Worldwide broadcasts on 19 July 2011 provided an unprecedented four hours of coverage of a meeting of the Select Committee for Culture, Media and Sport of the UK Parliament — interviewing those primarily responsible for the governance of the world’s major news organization. Through a subsidiary, this was recently implicated in a phone-hacking scandal of major proportions.
→ read full articleTerror in the Maximum City
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2011
Indian city Mumbai is famed as the ‘maximum city’ as it is in a sense represents maximum in everything. It represents all contradictions and paradoxes. A casual traveller to the city can find the wealthiest and the poorest co-existing side by side. The most beautiful and the most wretched co-exist in Mumbai. The city provides everything to everybody: daily work to a daily labourer, a job to educated, underworld facilities to mafia, tinsel town to socialites and sophisticated.
→ read full articleNorway, Islam and the Threat of the West
Ibrahim Hewitt – Al Jazeera,
25 Jul 2011
Dismissing this murderous act as the work of “a lone madman” ignores a more detailed study of the killer’s motivation.
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Humpback Whale Shows AMAZING Appreciation after Being Freed From Nets (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
JoinWakeUpWorld – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2011
Michael Fishbach, co-founder of The Great Whale Conservancy (GWC), narrates his encounter with a young humpback whale entangled in local fishing nets. At first, the animal appeared to be dead, yet Fishbach investigated and quickly discovered that the poor creature was tangled in a fishing net. The humans had to act fast; what began as a tragedy soon became a thrilling rescue as Fishbach and his crew labored to free the young whale. The entire encounter was caught on videotape and later narrated by Fishbach himself. This young whale knows how to show appreciation by treating them to a magnificent aerial spectacle after it was finally freed.
→ read full articleWhat Did The Gaza Flotilla Achieve?
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2011
The Isreali navy prevented Freedom Flotilla activists from delivering aid supplies to the Gaza Strip – but the mission has had an unexpected impact on political debate here, writes Jake Lynch.
→ read full articleThe Silent Humanitarian Crises beyond East Africa
Rajesh Makwana and Adam Parsons – Share the World’s Resources,
25 Jul 2011
The international response to the East African crisis is far short of urgent needs, yet the extreme deprivation being reported is only the tip of the iceberg. A massively upscaled redistribution of resources from North to South is needed if we are to prevent needless poverty-related deaths worldwide, write Rajesh Makwana and Adam Parsons.
→ read full articleHaiti: The Shelters That Clinton Built
Isabel Macdonald and Isabeau Doucet - The Nation,
25 Jul 2011
In the wake of Haiti’s earthquake, the Clinton Foundation promised hurricane shelters that would double as classrooms. But they delivered shoddy, formaldehyde-ridden trailers from the same company that supplied FEMA after Hurricane Katrina.
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Imagine – Playing for Change (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
John Lennon, Songs around the World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
In the beginning of 2010 the Playing for Change crew began work on a new Song around the World, John Lennon’s “Imagine.” It has been an amazing year of production, taking the crew from the favelas of Brazil to the shrines of southern India, from villages in Nepal to the glittering urban landscape of Tokyo and New York, and beyond. This song is the Playing For Change Foundation’s gift to the world.
→ read full articleCalifornia: Gov. Brown Signs Law Requiring Teaching of Gay History
David Siders – The Sacramento Bee,
18 Jul 2011
The bill was cheered by gay rights advocates, and Brown said in a written statement Thursday [14 July 2011] that it “represents an important step forward for our state.” The legislation requires instruction in the social sciences to include the role and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans, as well as people with disabilities and members of other cultural groups.
→ read full article¿Higher Education ∞ Meta-education?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
Transforming Cognitive Enabling Processes Increasingly Unfit For Purpose – The current period is witness to severe inadequacies in response to humanitarian crisis (10 million threatened with starvation in Africa) and in governance of the global financial system (imminent risk of dollar and eurozone defaults). It is curiously significant that the potential dollar default is associated with the most powerful nation, recognized for the merit of its higher education system, whereas the most probable eurozone default is that of a far weaker nation from which understandings of higher education first originated.
→ read full article(Castellano) La Crisis Ideológica del Capitalismo Occidental
Joseph Stiglitz – Los Tiempos,
18 Jul 2011
Mientras Grecia y otros países enfrentan crisis, la medicina en boga consiste simplemente en paquetes de austeridad y privatización desgastados por el tiempo, los cuales meramente dejarán a los países que los adoptan más pobres y vulnerables. Esta medicina fracasó en el Este de Asia, América Latina, y en otros lugares, y fracasará también en Europa en esta ronda. De hecho, ya ha fracasado en Irlanda, Letonia y Grecia.
→ read full articleBreaking the Power of the ‘Big Three’
Peter Müller, Michael Sauga and Christoph Schult – Der Spiegel,
18 Jul 2011
German Firm Wants to Set Up New Rating Agency – European politicians are blaming the escalation of the euro crisis on the major rating agencies, and are determined to break the monopoly of the “Big Three.” Supporters of an intiative by a German consulting firm to set up a European rival agency believe that their time has come.
→ read full articleNew Born South Sudan Has Ambitious Goals
Jerome Mwanda - InDepth News,
18 Jul 2011
While top government leaders of the world’s newest nation, South Sudan, have announced plans to make the country not only the “hub” of Africa but also the bread basket for the Eastern African region, the Civil Society Taskforce is stressing the need for creating a just, peaceful and equitable society.
→ read full articleMumbai’s Woes and Their Implications
Aurobinda Mahapatra, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
Mumbai is India’s most prosperous as well as most cosmopolitan city. The city’s local trains everyday carry about 7 million diverse people, and to this gigantic fare is everyday added 1200 families who reach city from different corners of India in search of better life.
→ read full articleNeocons Fume over US Boat to Gaza
Ray McGovern – Consortium News,
18 Jul 2011
My co-passengers and I of the U.S. Boat to Gaza have now gone from “High-Seas Hippies,” according to the right-wing Washington Times, to participants in a flotilla full of “fools, knaves, hypocrites, bigots, and supporters of terrorism,” says Alan Dershowitz in his usual measured prose.
→ read full articleIsrael Gets Final Permit to Build “Museum of Tolerance” Atop of Muslim Cemetery
Uruknet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
Despite widespread opposition, the Ministry of Interior has provided Jerusalem with the final go ahead to build the “Museum of Tolerance” on top of Mamilla Cemetery. Mamilla has served as a Muslim burial ground since the seventh century. Reputed to contain the tombs of companions of the Prophet Muhammad and soldiers of Saladin, the Muslim ruler who seized Palestine from the hands of the Crusaders in the 12th century.
→ read full articleOIC: Organization of Islamic Conference-Cooperation-Community?
Abbas Aroua & Johan Galtung, 18 Jul 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
The new OIC of cooperation will pose a major challenge to the UN. Of the five present Security Council veto powers, four are christian (one evangelical, one anglican, one catholic-secular, one orthodox), and one daoist-confucian-buddhist. OIC outsizes them all, even China. This is not only totally unfair, taking into account that the borders fragmenting the islamic community were mainly drawn by those Western powers, but also makes UNSC resolutions against muslim countries illegitimate. Muslim veto power could have saved many human lives, and the USA-West against unwise policies, and opened for a more balanced UN and more regional action.
→ read full articleMethodical Insanity at Work
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
Every profession requires a degree of preparation and standards in order to provide a good service in that specific area. However, the political profession, which may be viewed as the most important of all professions, does not have any set of standards or requirements to practice it. This explains why we have so many political problems in the world and why some of these emerge to become very dangerous.
→ read full articleThe Full Impact of WikiLeaks Will Be Felt a Few Years Down the Road
Clarinha Glock interviewing WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson – Inter Press Service-IPS,
18 Jul 2011
Even before he was hired as spokesman for the WikiLeaks whistleblower web site in July 2010, 49-year-old investigative journalist Kristinn Hrafnsson realised that the new initiative would have the power to bring about transformations simply by informing society, starting in his own country, Iceland.
→ read full articleAntidepressant Nation
Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
Nowadays treatment by medical doctors nearly always means psychoactive drugs, that is, drugs that affect the mental state. In fact, most psychiatrists treat only with drugs, and refer patients to psychologists or social workers if they believe psychotherapy is also warranted. The shift from “talk therapy” to drugs as the dominant mode of treatment coincides with the emergence over the past four decades of the theory that mental illness is caused primarily by chemical imbalances in the brain that can be corrected by specific drugs.
→ read full articleReport: Prosecute For White House Rights Abuse Crimes or Other Countries Must
Deborah Dupre - Examiner,
18 Jul 2011
After days of United States human rights abuse crimes making international headlines, including 26 top White House and military officials facing trials in Iran for terrorism, the United Nations Human Rights Commission again rebuking United States, this time for illegally executing a foreign national in Texas, and Human Rights alert calling on Congress to impeach a DoJ senior for covering up abuses… “The US has a legal obligation to investigate these crimes. If the US doesn’t act on them, other countries should.”
→ read full articlePFC Bradley Manning: Conscience and Agency
Ethan McCord – Common Dreams,
18 Jul 2011
The following is a response to last week’s New York Magazine article, Bradley Manning’s Army of One. Serving with my unit 2nd battalion 16th infantry in New Baghdad Iraq, I vividly remember the moment in 2007, when our Battalion Commander walked into the room and announced our new rules of engagement: “Listen up, new battalion SOP (standing operating procedure) from now on: Anytime your convoy gets hit by an IED, I want 360 degree rotational fire. You kill every [expletive] in the street!”
→ read full article(Portuguese) “As Farmacêuticas Bloqueiam Medicamentos que Curam, Porque Não São Rentáveis”
Esquerda.net – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
O Prémio Nobel da Medicina Richard J. Roberts denuncia a forma como funcionam as grandes farmacêuticas dentro do sistema capitalista, preferindo os benefícios económicos à saúde, e detendo o progresso científico na cura de doenças, porque a cura não é tão rentável quanto a cronicidade.
→ read full articleUS ConocoPhillips’ China Oil Spill Six Times Size of Singapore
Agence France-Presse (AFP) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
A huge oil spill off the Chinese coast has now contaminated an area around six times the size of Singapore, state media reported Friday [15 Jul 2011], as the government said it may seek compensation for the leak. The spill from the oil field, which the United States’ ConocoPhillips operates with China’s state-run oil giant CNOOC, has polluted a total area of almost 4,250 square kilometres (1,650 square miles), government figures showed.
→ read full articleDilemmas of Sovereignty and Intervention
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
The Arab Spring (and its troublesome, yet still hopeful, aftermath in Egypt), intervention in Libya, nonintervention in Syria and Bahrain, drone military operations in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, the influx of unwanted immigrants and walls of exclusion, and selective applications of international criminal law draw into question the most basic of all ideas of world order: the sovereignty of territorial states, and its limits.
→ read full articleDavid House on Bradley Manning, Secret WikiLeaks Grand Jury, and U.S. Surveillance
Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
On the eve of the extradition hearing for WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange in London, we spend an exclusive hour with David House, who co-founded the Bradley Manning Support Network after U.S. Army Private Manning was arrested for allegedly releasing classified U.S. military documents to WikiLeaks. House refused to testify last month in Alexandria, Virginia, before a grand jury hearing on WikiLeaks and the disclosure of thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic cables.
→ read full articleRewriting the “Tragedy of the Commons”
Bill McKibben – Yes! Magazine,
18 Jul 2011
It was two years before the first Earth Day in 1970 when Garrett Hardin penned the famous essay “Tragedy of the Commons.” Since no one owned the oceans or the atmosphere, we would inevitably fish and pollute them into oblivion. We were witnessing a tragedy whose script could not be revised. A decade later his argument fit the privatizing mood of the Reagan years. No one owns the sky or the sea? Well, then, let’s sell them! The race was on to privatize everything, from fishing rights to kids’ playgrounds, on the theory that this was the only way to manage them well. Society was the problem, the individual was the solution.
→ read full articleThe World’s Largest Human Experiment: GMOs, Roundup and the Monsanto Monstrosity
Madison Ruppert - Activist Post,
18 Jul 2011
Informed consent is one of the most basic aspects of patient-physician relations, as well as subject-researcher relations in the case of research studies. This involves making the patient aware of and verifying that they understand the risks, benefits, facts, and the future implications of the procedure or test they are going to be subjected to. In the case of genetically modified organisms we have not been made aware of the risks. In fact, the GMO industry has deliberately hidden the real dangers behind the seeds and herbicides they peddle.
→ read full article(Portuguese) WSPA Faz Apelo Mundial Pela Proibição de Animais em Circos
Sociedade Mundial de Proteção Animal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
Animais não são adequados para espetáculos circenses – é o que afirma a WSPA (World Society for the Protection of Animals) ao debater sobre as medidas políticas que estão sendo tomadas no Brasil e no Reino Unido.
→ read full articleMonsanto and Gates Foundation Push GE Crops on Africa
Mike Ludwig - Truthout,
18 Jul 2011
Biosafety activists in South Africa are calling a program funded by the Gates Foundation a “Trojan horse” to open the door for private agribusiness and genetically engineered (GE) seeds, including a drought-resistant corn that Monsanto hopes to have approved in the United States and abroad.
→ read full articleAppeal to Save Jeju Island – NO TO U.S. NAVAL BASE!
National Network of Korean Civil Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
We, National Network of Korean Civil Society for Opposing to the US Naval Base in Jeju Island, had a press conference and released this statement of appeal on 13th July 2011.
→ read full articleWhy Egypt Ditched the IMF
Mark Engler – Yes! Magazine,
18 Jul 2011
As Egyptians continue their struggle for social justice and full democracy, there’s one institution they don’t want involved: the International Monetary Fund.
→ read full article(Castellano) Distraido de la Vida
Facundo Cabral – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
Hay tantas cosas para gozar y nuestro paso en la tierra es tan corto, que sufrir es una pérdida de tiempo. Tenemos para gozar la nieve del invierno y la flor de la primavera, el chocolate de la Peruggia, la baguette francesa, los tacos mexicanos, el vino chileno , los mares y los ríos, el fútbol de los brasileros y los cigarros de Davidoff, las mil y una noches, La Divina Comedia, El Quijote, Pedro Páramo, los boleros de Manzanero, la poesía de Whitman… Mahler, Brahms, Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Velásquez, Cézanne, y Picasso… entre tantas maravillas. Si tienes alguna ENFERMEDAD SERIA, pueden pasar dos cosas, las dos son buenas…
→ read full articleTroops March in San Diego’s Gay Pride Parade
Associated Press (AP) – The New York Times,
18 Jul 2011
About 200 active-duty troops and veterans wearing T-shirts advertising their branch of service marched Saturday [16 Jul 2011] in San Diego’s gay pride parade with American flags and rainbow banners, marking what is believed to be the first time a military contingent has participated in such an event in the U.S.
→ read full articleA Hippocratic Oath for Journalists
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
What do we do about the power of the corporate media? Here’s one answer.
→ read full articleWashington Urged to Recognise Brazil as Global Power
Jim Lobe – TerraViva Europe,
18 Jul 2011
The United States should recognise Brazil as a global power and treat it accordingly, concluded a major new report issued by the influential Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) here this week [15 Jul 2011]. That treatment should include the full endorsement by the administration of President Barack Obama for Brazil’s permanent membership on an expanded U.N. Security Council, according to the 109-page report entitled “Global Brazil and U.S.-Brazil Relations”.
→ read full articleSouth Sudan Becomes Newest U.N. Member State
Faith Karimi - CNN,
18 Jul 2011
South Sudan officially became the 193rd member of the United Nations on Thursday [14 Jul 2011] morning, capping a flurry of activities that started with its independence last week.
→ read full article