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Rhymed Reflections: Dignity in Human Rights, Literature and Spirituality
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Human Rights educators/practitioners,
In your advocacy, efforts, initiatives for/in/through Human Rights, much
more dignity you can bring…
US Authorizes Financial Support to Free Syrian Army
Laura Rozen – Al Monitor,
30 Jul 2012
The waiver was received from the Treasury Department Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) last week, Brian Sayers, of the Syrian Support Group, said Friday [27 Jul 2012]. “The OFAC decision is huge,” Sayers said. “It gets us the leeway to support the Free Syrian Army in broad terms.” The Syrian Support Group hired Sayers, who previously spent six years working in NATO operations in Brussels and Kosovo, four months ago to be the Washington agent for the group.
→ read full articleSyria: Washington’s Latest War Crime
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
One wonders what Syrians are thinking as “rebels” vowing to “free Syria” take the country down the same road to destruction as “rebels” in Libya. Libya, under Gaddafi a well run country whose oil revenues were shared with the Libyan people instead of monopolized by a princely class as in Saudi Arabia, now has no government and is in disarray with contending factions vying for power.
→ read full articleUS Officers Tell Congress That General Blocked Probe of Hospital in Kabul
Karen McVeigh – The Guardian,
30 Jul 2012
The American general who led a NATO training mission in Afghanistan opposed an investigation into corruption and “Auschwitz-like” conditions at a US-funded hospital in Kabul for political reasons, US military officers told Congress on Tuesday [24 Jul 2012]. One active-duty officer testified that the three-star general, Lieutenant General William Caldwell, who headed the training mission in Afghanistan, forced him to retract a request for an inspector general’s investigation into the Dawood national military hospital.
→ read full articleSyrian Blood Etches a New Line in the Sand
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
30 Jul 2012
No matter what militarized Western corporate media spins, there’s no endgame in Syria – yet. On the contrary; the sectarian game is just beginning. There’s no way to understand the Syrian dynamics without learning that most Free Syrian Army-FSA commanders are not Syrians, but Iraqi Sunnis. The over 100 heavily armed gangs engaged in civil war in Syria are overflowing with Gulf Cooperation Council funds. As it stands, the romanticized Syrian “rebels” plus the insurgents formerly known as terrorists cannot win against the Syria military – not even with the Saudis and Qataris showering them with loads of cash and weapons.
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The Story of Change
Story of Stuff Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Can shopping save the world? The Story of Change urges viewers to put down their credit cards and start exercising their citizen muscles to build a more sustainable, just and fulfilling world.
→ read full articleA Brief Further Comment on Syria
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Military intervention rarely succeeds, violates the right of self-determination, and often expands the scope and severity of violence, especially if carried out from the air. Furthermore, we know little about the opposition in Syria, to what extent its governance of the country would be based on the rule of law and human rights. There are confusing reports about rebel atrocities as well as concerning the role of Al Qaeda operatives leading some of the rebel forces, and also indications that Gulf money and weapons have been supplied to these forces ever since the beginning of the anti-Damascus uprising.
→ read full articleBehind Paraguay’s Coup
Benjamin Dangl – Al Jazeera,
30 Jul 2012
At the heart of the nation’s current crisis is an ongoing battle over land. Approximately two per cent of landowners control 80 per cent of Paraguay’s land, and some 87,000 farming families are landless. Lugo and his cabinet resisted the use of Monsanto’s transgenic cotton seeds in Paraguay, a move that likely contributed to his ouster. But now that Franco is in power, negotiations with the Canadian mining company Rio Tinto have moved ahead.
→ read full articleConfiscation of Condoms from Sex Workers Compromises Public Health
Chi Mgbako – Pambazuka News,
30 Jul 2012
Throughout the world, in countries as diverse as Kenya, Namibia, Russia, South Africa, the United States, and Zimbabwe, police often confiscate condoms from sex workers to use as evidence of prostitution, thereby compromising public health interventions aimed at reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS.
→ read full articleParaguay’s Bitter Harvest: Multinational Corporations Reap Benefits from Coup Government
Benjamin Dangl – Toward Freedom,
30 Jul 2012
A look at how the coup government is opening up Paraguay to multinational corporate exploitation, from the Canadian Rio Tinto Alcan mining company to Monsanto’s seeds. As Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano said in an interview regarding the coup in Paraguay, the Lugo government tried “to bring about changes that were aimed at making the country more independent and just, but this was an unpardonable sin for the power brokers.”
→ read full articleFacing a Set of Linked Problems
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Today, a number of serious and interconnected problems are facing human civilization and the biosphere. Because they are linked, we need to look at all of these problems together, and to find holistic solutions.
→ read full articleIt’s the Guns – But We All Know, It’s Not Really the Guns…
Michael Moore – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
The United States is responsible for over 80% of all the gun deaths in the 23 richest countries combined. Both conservatives and liberals in America ceaselessly remind you that a gun cannot fire itself – that “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” Of course, they know they’re being intellectually dishonest. I would just alter that slogan slightly to speak the real truth: “Guns don’t kill people, Americans kill people.”
→ read full articleCelebrated Spanish Judge Garzon to Head Assange Legal Team
Agence France Press-AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Famous Spanish human rights investigator Baltasar Garzon will lead the legal team representing WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, the whistleblower website announced on Tuesday [24 Jul 2012]. Garzon, best known for issuing an international arrest warrant against former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, recently met with Assange at the Ecuadoran embassy to discuss a new legal strategy, according to a statement approved by both men.
→ read full articleSo Much Fun!
TMS Editor,
30 Jul 2012
A suspicious husband hired a private eye to check on the movements of his wife. In addition to a written report, the husband wanted a video of his wife’s activities.
→ read full articleOccupy the Dam: Brazil’s Indigenous Uprising
John Perkins – Toward Freedom,
30 Jul 2012
In the Amazonian backcountry, tribes are challenging construction of the world’s third-largest dam—by dismantling it. Here’s what they can teach us about standing up to power.
→ read full articleBolivia Pushes Back Against Swiss Commodities Giant Glencore
Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero - CorpWatch,
30 Jul 2012
Glencore corporation, the secretive Swiss commodities giant which has become one of the world’s biggest traders of grain, oil and minerals, has hit an unlikely roadblock: On June 22 [2012], the Bolivian government seized the company’s Colquiri tin and zinc mine. Colquiri was the third Glencore operation to be nationalized by Bolivia in the last five years.
→ read full articleRecession Breaks In
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Recession breaks in
grey bar charts in a row fall down
as do computer monitors, file cabinets and screams
from window of sky-high building
like someone threw up after ugly reality;
(French) LIBOR: Le Drapeau Rouge Flotte Sur Bruxelles…
Liberation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
« De vrais salauds ! », s’exclame ce haut fonctionnaire européen qui n’en revient toujours pas. Cinq ans après l’éclatement de la bulle des « subprimes » américaines, quatre ans après l’explosion des bulles immobilières irlandaises et espagnoles, trois ans après le début des attaques spéculatives contre la zone euro, la Commission croyait que les banques ne pourraient plus la surprendre. Loupé!
→ read full articleAs Mining Conglomerates Target Haiti, Latin America Rises Against Them
Roger Annis and Kim Ives – Global Research,
23 Jul 2012
People and governments across Latin America are rising up against foreign mining companies in a wave of revolt that is generating alarm among investors and their political operatives in the imperialist governments.
→ read full articleJustice for Assange!
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
I would add my voice to those of many people of conscience around the world to urge Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa to grant him political asylum. Mr. Assange’s only crime is to care enough about people and their right to the truth. He had the courage and bravery to print many truths that embarrassed powerful governments.
→ read full articleSri Lanka: Militarizing the Land and Terrorizing the Minds
Nirmanusan Balasundaram – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Even three years after a destructive and protracted war, the repressive and intransigent character of the ethnocratic Sri Lankan state remains same and nothing but naked brutality lies at its heart.
→ read full articleWar on All Fronts
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
The Russian government has finally caught on that its political opposition is being financed by the US taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy and other CIA/State Department fronts in an attempt to subvert the Russian government and install an American puppet state in the geographically largest country on earth, the one country with a nuclear arsenal sufficient to deter Washington’s aggression.
→ read full articleThis Global Financial Fraud and Its Gatekeepers
Naomi Wolf – The Guardian,
23 Jul 2012
The media’s ‘bad apple’ thesis no longer works. We’re seeing systemic corruption in banking – and systemic collusion.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Lembrando da Memória de García Márquez
Eric Nepomuceno – Carta Maior,
23 Jul 2012
Gabriel García Márquez sempre foi dono de uma memória sem limites, e, agora, essa memória se desvaneceu. Disse, ao longo da vida, que não há uma só linha, em toda a sua obra, que não tivesse como ponto de partida um dado da realidade. Ou seja: um dado guardado, intacto, em sua memória. Assim ele escreveu tudo que escreveu. Bem: essa memória se acabou. E, com ela, se acabou a escrita mais luminosa das últimas muitas décadas da literatura feita na América de todos nós.
→ read full articleSyria, Late in the Day: Are Negotiations Still Possible?
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
A useful next step would be to explore the possibility of setting an agenda of issues that could be the basis of negotiations. The setting of such an agenda may be more productive than the current proposal of creating by mutual agreement a government of transition: issues before new ministers.
→ read full articleKoodankulam: The Inside Story
Anuj Wankhede, Dianuke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Recently, E Amudhan R.P was in Mumbai for the public screening of ‘Radiation Stories Part 3–Koodankulam’ and shared with me his views on what has made the Koodankulam struggle such a success and the inside details about the struggle. It should serve as a guide for other agitations and for film makers who can learn from the strategies used by the people of Koodankulam and those used by the government in this epic David vs Golaith struggle.
→ read full articleThe NRA’s Dark Gun Culture
Bill Moyers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
The United States has emerged to become the most violent nation on earth where millions are equipped with lethal weapons to massacre brutally as many people as they wish. In spite of its military might, the US government cannot do anything about it since it functions under the ruthless thumb of the National Rifle Association (NRA) whose sole objective is to boost by all means the business of the weapons’ industry.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Por Dentro do Cérebro
Luciana Pessanha – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Você acredita em Deus? PN: Geralmente depois de dez horas de cirurgia, aquele estresse, aquela adrenalina toda, quando acabamos de operar, vai até a família e diz: “Ele está salvo”. Aí, a família olha pra você e diz: “Graças a Deus!”. Então, a gente acredita que não fomos apenas nós.
→ read full articleConvergence of 30 Disabling Global Trends
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
In a period characterized by a global crisis of crises, there is a case for exploring any means of articulating the set of those crises and the possibilities for their comprehension as a system. Of particular concern is the tendency to consider that there is far too much “bad news” and that the quest should be to set it aside as much as possible and focus on the “good news” offering hope for the future.
→ read full articleKiller Bug in Cambodia: Latest
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
23 Jul 2012
A joint investigation launched by the WHO-World Health Organization, the Cambodian Health Ministry, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge has drawn up some conclusions on the killer disease with a very high mortality rate in Cambodia. It has been confirmed that the severe illness is a very severe form of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease.
→ read full articleThe Libor Scandal in Full Perspective
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
The article about the Libor scandal, coauthored with Nomi Prins, received much attention, with Internet repostings, foreign translation, and video interviews. To further clarify the situation, this article brings to the forefront implications that might not be obvious to those without insider experience and knowledge.
→ read full article36 Percent of Fukushima Children Have Abnormal Growths from Radiation Exposure
Michael Kelley – Business Insider,
23 Jul 2012
Of more than 38,000 children tested from the Fukushima Prefecture in Japan, 36 percent have abnormal growths – cysts or nodules – on their thyroids a year after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, as reported by ENENews.
→ read full articleOn Writing Peace Poetry
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
When poetry for peace we write
We mean a much deeper might
West’s Mistake: Focus on Al Qaeda
Dr Robin-Edward Poulton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
The Real Big Problem Is Saudi Arabia – One of our really big foreign policy mistakes in the West has been to focus on Al Qaeda, as if it were an isolated phenomenon.
→ read full articleNot Much Peace? Also the Mediators’ Fault
Johan Galtung, 23 Jul 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Most difficult is to argue positive peace: cooperation for mutual and equal benefit and harmony, emotional resonance. Peace studies are not alone in this predicament. Health studies focus much more on absence of disease than on presence of positive health, with only vague efforts to spell it out. Like psychology: long on mental disorders, but still short on positive psychology. There are, say, four explanations, not justifications, around.
→ read full article‘After 9/11 NSA Had Secret Deal with White House’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
RT talks to Andrew Drake, a former National Security Agency executive in the US who sacrificed his career to blow the whistle on wrong-doings inside the NSA. He was sentenced to a year probation on July 2011.
→ read full articleGlobal Banks Are the Financial Services Wing of the Drug Cartels
Ed Vulliamy – The Guardian,
23 Jul 2012
“Steal a little,” wrote Bob Dylan, “they throw you in jail; steal a lot and they make you a king.” These days, he might recraft the line to read: deal a little dope, they throw you in jail; launder the narco billions, they’ll make you apologise to the US Senate.
→ read full articleOn Types of Humiliation: A Checklist
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Who has been subjected to what type of humiliation? A checklist (nouns ending in -ATION)
→ read full article125 Days of Confinement
Dr. S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
July 21, 2012 marked the 125th day of my and Pushparayan’s self-exile here at Idinthakarai. All our comrades who were arrested and lodged in the jails of Cuddalore, Nanguneri and Tiruchirappalli have come back and resumed their routine life. Ever since March 19, 2012, when the Tamil Nadu government changed its stand on the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) issue, we have been protected by the people, mostly women and children. They come in thousands and sleep around the Parish Priest’s Bungalow where Rayan and I stay and sleep.
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Vandana Shiva on the Problem with Genetically-Modified Seeds (Video of the Week)
Bill Moyers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Bill talks to scientist and philosopher Vandana Shiva, who’s become a rock star in the global battle over genetically modified seeds. These seeds — considered “intellectual property” by the big companies who own the patents — are globally marketed to monopolize food production and profits.
→ read full article(Portuguese) O Lado Mais Sinistro do Sistema Bancário
Flávio Aguiar – Carta Maior,
23 Jul 2012
De crise em crise, de susto em susto, de revelação em revelação, vem à tona dia após dia o lado mais sinistro do sistema bancário internacional. Semanas atrás foi o caso da manipulação da taxa Libor da banca britânica, promovida pelo banco Barclays. Agora foi a vez do HSBC. Uma investigação de mais de ano, feita pelo Senado norte-americano, concluiu insofismavelmente que a seção norte-americana do banco lavou dinheiro dos cartéis mexicanos de narcotráfico de 2002 a 2009.
→ read full articleUK: Now the Army Is Giving the Orders
Kim Sengupta & Nigel Morris – The Independent,
23 Jul 2012
As foreign athletes start to arrive, military sends officers to tackle security shambles. Army chiefs have been dispatched to the headquarters of G4S to take a more active role in controlling security for the London Olympics, The Independent has learnt, following the company’s failure to fulfil its £250m contract to guard the Games.
→ read full articleObama’s Scramble for Africa: Secret Wars, Secret Bases, and the Pentagon’s “New Spice Route” in Africa
Nick Turse - TomDispatch,
23 Jul 2012
Unbeknownst to most Americans and people around the world, the US has been steadily increasing its military footprint in Africa. In East African ports, huge metal shipping containers arrive with the everyday necessities for a military on the make. They’re then loaded onto trucks that set off down rutted roads toward dusty bases and distant outposts.
→ read full articleLimits to Growth and Climate Change
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
According to the “empty-world” picture of economics, the limiting factors in the production of food and goods are shortages of capital and labor. The land, forests, fossil fuels, minerals, oceans filled with fish, and other natural resources upon which human labor and capital operate, are assumed to be present in such large quantities that they are not limiting factors
→ read full articleThe Creeping Conquest of Palestine
Socialist Worker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Israel’s illegal settlements in occupied territory–and the U.S. government’s tolerance for them–are shining examples of the might-makes-right principle of colonialism. Israel’s project of colonial expansion has been thrust back onto the international stage by a report from a committee headed by a former Israeli Supreme Court justice recommending the legalization of Jewish-only settlements in the West Bank.
→ read full articleHuman Corpses Harvested in Multimillion-Dollar Trade
Kate Willson, Vlad Lavrov, Martina Keller, Thomas Maier and Gerard Ryle - The Sydney Morning Herald,
23 Jul 2012
A grisly trade in human body parts leaves relatives grieving and some recipients at risk of life-threatening disease. On February 24 [2012], Ukrainian authorities made an alarming discovery: bones and other human tissues crammed into coolers in a grimy white minibus.
→ read full articleWhat About N-Waste from Kudankulam, HC Asks Centre
The Times of India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Where will the nuclear waste from the Kudankulam nuclear power plant be kept and what are the Centre’s plans to process the spent fuel to ensure that it does not damage the environment? This is what the Madras high court, hearing a batch of public interest petitions on the nuclear plant, wants to know from the Centre.
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Chickpeace – Peace vs. War Journalism
Oded LevRan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
This is a visual communication studies final project at the Holon Institute of Technology (HIT), Israel, by Oded LevRan. The video presents the main principles of Peace Journalism using hummus, which is a staple dish for both Israelis and Palestinians, as an analogy to reality.
→ read full articleFor What?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Why am I giving the Palestinians so much more attention and psychic energy than the Kurds, Tibetans, or Kashmiris, and a host of other worthy causes? And how do I explain to myself a preoccupation with the unlawful, immoral, and imprudent foreign policy of the U.S. Government, the sovereign state of my residence upon whose governmental resources I depend upon for security and a range of rights?
→ read full articleArming Civil Society Worldwide
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
This exploration is concerned with the conditions required for comprehension and uptake of American-style democracy worldwide as a basis for the viability of the emergent American empire. The focus is on a unique feature of the American Constitution which ensures that citizens have the right to bear arms. [Plus: Addendum on last week’s mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado-USA (July 2012)]
→ read full articleGates Foundation Pours $10 Million into Genetically Modified Crops
Common Dreams staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Vandana Shiva: Bill Gates “is so totally wrong on this assumption that genetically modified seeds produce more.” In a decision outraging campaigners for food sovereignty and agroecological approaches, the Gates Foundation has awarded a $10 million grant to develop genetically modified (GM) crops for use in sub-Saharan Africa.
→ read full articleDo Business Schools Incubate Criminals?
Luigi Zingales, Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
The recent scandals at Barclays Plc, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and other banks might give the impression that the financial sector has some serious morality problems. Unfortunately, it’s worse than that: We are dealing with a drop in ethical standards throughout the business world, and our graduate schools are partly to blame.
→ read full articleQuiet Planning For Post-Assad Syria Has Roots in 2008 Conference
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
For the last six months, 40 senior representatives of various Syrian opposition groups have been meeting quietly in Germany under the tutelage of the U.S. Institute for Peace (USIP) to plan for how to set up a post-Assad Syrian government.
→ read full articleThe Lily-Pad Strategy
David Vine - TomDispatch,
23 Jul 2012
Unknown to most Americans, Washington’s garrisoning of the planet is on the rise, thanks to a new generation of bases the military calls “lily pads” (as in a frog jumping across a pond toward its prey). These are small, secretive, inaccessible facilities with limited numbers of troops, spartan amenities, and prepositioned weaponry and supplies.
→ read full articleRegulators and HSBC Faulted in Report on Money Laundering
Nathaniel Popper – The New York Times,
23 Jul 2012
The global bank HSBC has been used by Mexican drug cartels looking to get cash back into the United States, by Saudi Arabian banks that needed access to dollars despite their terrorist ties and by Iranians who wanted to circumvent United States sanctions, a Senate report says.
→ read full articleSyria’s Deadly Bomb Attack on Assad Cabinet: Is This ‘The Price’ Clinton Warned Of?
Finian Cunningham – Global Research,
23 Jul 2012
The deadly bomb attack on the top-level meeting of President Bashar Al-Assad’s senior cabinet ministers leaves little doubt that Western intelligence was involved. While two groups claimed responsibility – the Syrian Free Army and a little-known jihadi organisation calling itself the Lord of the Martyrs Brigade – the weight of evidence points to crucial Western military support in executing the strike.
→ read full articleFrom an Unlikely Source, a Serious Challenge to Wall Street
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
23 Jul 2012
There’s something brewing that looks like it might be a blueprint to effectively take on the financial services industry: a plan to allow local governments to take on the problem of neighborhoods blighted by toxic home loans and foreclosures through the use of eminent domain. Cooked up by a small group of businessmen and ex-venture capitalists, the audacious idea falls under the category of “That’s so crazy, it just might work!”
→ read full articleOops!
TMS Editor,
23 Jul 2012
Every Saturday morning he has an early tee time. He gets up early and eager, golfs all day long, sometimes 36 holes.
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DEA Agents Out Of Control in Honduras
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
The war on terror isn’t the only battle claiming innocent lives: the war on drugs in Latin America continues to rage on. In the past month, officers with the US Drug Enforcement Agency have shot and killed several innocent people in Honduras. To talk more about this, Adrienne Pine, professor at American University, joins us to discuss.
→ read full articleAustralian Aborigines Learn By Cuban Method
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
A total of 10 Australian aborigines between 25 and 53 years of age ended their basic studies of reading and writing through the Cuban literacy method, “Yo sí puedo” (yes I can), José Chala, coordinator of the program in this nation confirmed today [6 Jul 2012].
→ read full articleThere Will Be Hell to Pay for NATO’s Holy War
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
16 Jul 2012
Hillary has just called on “Western powers” and their Arab stooges – the NATOGCC compound that passes for the “international community” – to “make it clear that Russia and China will pay a price because they are holding up progress” regarding weaponized regime change in Syria. In non-newspeak, this means, “If you block our new war, there will be payback”.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Corpo e Alma
Dr. Jorge Carvajal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Entrevista com Dr. Jorge Carvajal, médico cirurgião da Universidade de Andaluzia, Espanha, pioneiro da Medicina Bioenergética. –Qual adoece primeiro: o corpo ou a alma?
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Kucinich Explains “LIBOR”
DJKucinich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Late last month, Barclay’s Bank, a multinational bank and financial institution based in the United Kingdom, admitted to regulators that it tried to manipulate something called “Libor” before and during the financial crisis in 2008. ”Libor” is an acronym for London Interbank Offered Rate. It is a rate used as a benchmark for the cost of lending throughout the financial system, and it is also used as a reference rate for a wide range of financial products like car loans, adjustable-rate mortgages, student loans and credit cards.
→ read full articleGlaxoSmithKline Fraud Case: Does Crime Pay?
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
A business model of criminal activity: Are record fines enough to stop multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical companies from committing fraud? As the pharmaceutical giant is fined a record sum of $3bn, we ask if the move will be a deterrent for others.
→ read full article‘The Last War Crime’ Debuts at Cannes–but Censored in US.
Jeanine Molloff – Nation of Change,
16 Jul 2012
In spite of strong evidence identifying Dick Cheney as the mastermind behind this torture regime–the subject remains taboo, both in the ‘news’ business and in Hollywood–that is until Hollywood executives watched trailers for the anti-war documentary.
→ read full articleCovering Syria: The Information War
Aisling Byrne – Asia Times,
16 Jul 2012
What we are witnessing is a new generation of warfare – an information war where, by using what is in effect propaganda, the aim is to construct a consensual consciousness to provide overwhelming public support for regime change. Paul Pillar, a former CIA official, notes that the neocon case for arming the Syrian opposition “is a continuation of the same patterns of neoconservative thinking that led to [president George W] Bush’s war [on Iraq]. There is the same wishful thinking substituting for careful analysis about consequences.”
→ read full article(Portuguese) Do Que Um Cão Não Precisa
Marcela Godoy - Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais-ANDA,
16 Jul 2012
Do que um cão não precisa? Essa pergunta pode suscitar discussão, algumas reflexões e um bocado de polêmica. A resposta nem sempre pode ser aquela que desejamos ouvir. O que estamos fazendo com eles no sentido de deformar suas mentes e corpos para adaptá-los à conveniência dos padrões humanos?
→ read full articleFormer Monsanto Employee Exposes Fraud
Sarah Damian, Food Integrity Campaign – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
“I saw what was really the fraud associated with genetic engineering: My impression, and I think most people’s impression with genetically engineered foods is that it’s just like putting one gene in there and that one gene is expressed. But in reality, the process of genetic engineering changes the cell in such a way that it’s unknown what the effects are going to be.”
→ read full articleA 12 inch ___
TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Two friends were playing golf when one pulled out a cigar.
→ read full article(Portuguese) O Capitalismo Neoliberal Está Morto; Que Venha o Capitalismo Regulado
J. Carlos de Assis – Carta Maior,
16 Jul 2012
O coração do sistema, os bancos, já não funciona. E não há como fazê-lo voltar segundo a fórmula tradicional, antes da liberação financeira, de captação de recursos no mercado a curto prazo e financiamento do sistema produtivo a longo prazo. Para reconciliar o sistema produtivo com o sistema financeiro, alguém terá de pagar o custo da especulação exacerbada.
→ read full articleThe Great Transformation: From the Welfare State to the Imperial Police State
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
The United States has experienced the biggest political upheaval in its recent history: the transformation of a burgeoning welfare state into a rapidly expanding, highly intrusive and deeply entrenched police state, linked to the most developed technological innovations.
→ read full articleWaves of Lawsuits Pending: Barclays Affair Rocks European Banking Industry
Martin Hesse – Der Spiegel,
16 Jul 2012
The LIBOR rate-fixing scandal has sent a shock wave through the whole European financial industry. A number of other banks are suspected of having manipulated interest rates, and Deutsche Bank has already suspended two employees. Experts warn of a wave of lawsuits that could ruin some institutions.
→ read full articleAfter MF Global, Another Brokerage Firm Collapses With $200 Million Missing
Azam Ahmed – The New York Times,
16 Jul 2012
After discovering accounting irregularities, regulators on Monday [9 Jul 2012] essentially shut down PFGBest, a prominent player in the small world of futures trading. Now, banks accounts with customer funds appear to be short more than $200 million, regulators said. On Monday [9 Jul 2012] morning, according to a statement to clients, the brokerage firm’s chairman and chief executive, Russell R. Wasendorf Sr., tried to commit suicide.
→ read full article(Italian) Willy Brandt 20 Anni Dopo
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
È morto vent’anni fa, il grande statista tedesco. La Germania, l’Europa e il mondo hanno ampi motivi di riconoscenza e molto da imparare da questo maestro di politica in condizioni di gran tensione e polarizzazione. Che cos’era la sua formula di Ostpolitik – una nuova politica verso l’Est? Brandt rese più facile alla Germania dell’Est la resa a quella Ovest quando i tempi furono maturi, l’accettazione dell’articolo 23 della Germania Federale che concepiva l’Est come parte dell’Ovest.
→ read full articleRhymed Reflections
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Mediators, To Conflict Resolution Theory and Practice, more dignity you can bring…
→ read full articleBrazil Set to Unleash Genetically Modified Mosquitoes
Common Dreams staff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Oxitec continues “dangerously misguided” plan to combat dengue fever. Brazil is readying a plan to unleash large numbers of genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes in an effort to combat dengue fever, a plan that environmentalists have previously called “dangerously misguided.”
→ read full articleImplication of Indwelling Intelligence in Global Confidence-building
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Sustaining the Construction and Dynamic of Psychosocial Reality through Questioning – This is a reflection on the meaning that could be associated with “indwelling” and more specifically with “indwelling intelligence” — and what might then be its “global” implications. A primary concern is the increasingly apparent disconnect between words — often characterized as “empty” — and commitments in a political context from which viable global strategies are expected to emerge.
→ read full articleCredit Card Giants Agree On $6bn Settlement
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Credit card companies Visa and MasterCard have agreed to pay more than $6bn to US retailers in a negotiated settlement to resolve a seven-year-old case. Visa agreed to pay $4.03bn to settle the class-action lawsuit while MasterCard and banks that issue cards and were also part of the suit will pay $2.02bn, according to documents filed in federal court in New York on Friday [13 Jul 2012].
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Donations by Visa, MasterCard May Resume, Court Rules
Loek Essers, PCWorld – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Icelandic payments processor Valitor must reopen a gateway handling Visa and MasterCard donations to Wikileaks, a judge ruled Thursday [12 Jul 2012]. However, the gateway will probably remain closed while Valitor appeals the case, an attorney for DataCell, the Icelandic company hosting WikiLeaks’ donations website, said on Friday [13 Jul 2012]. The court ruled that Valitor must resume processing payments for Wikileaks’ partner DataCell within two weeks, according to the ruling.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Aborígenes Australianos Aprendem a Ler e Escrever com Método Cubano
Irã News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Um total de 10 aborígenes australianos entre 25 e 53 anos concluíram seus estudos básicos de leitura e escrita através do método cubano de alfabetização“Yo sí puedo” “Sim, eu posso”, confirmou hoje [6 Julho 2012] José Chala, coordenador do programa nesta nação.
→ read full articleKoodankulam Reactor Vessel: Faulty, Illegal and Dangerous
Dr. V T Padmanabhan, DiaNuke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
A month ago, when our first report was written, we had no information about the quality of the rector pressure vessel (RPV) installed at KKNPP (Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project) during the month of Aug 2006.Vessels of that vintage would not have been allowed in post-Chernobyl Russia after the 1988 updating of pressure vessel standards. Such sub-standard pressure vessels are not permissible in the major markets. In this case, if the reactor is started, it will be next to impossible to inspect it. Hence the emergency.
→ read full articleEngineering Consent for an Attack on Syria: Another Syrian “Civilian Massacre” Story Falls Apart
Alex Newman – The New American,
16 Jul 2012
Yet another alleged “massacre” of “civilians” by the Syrian regime was in the establishment-press headlines this week, supposedly a brutal killing spree by dictator Bashar al-Assad’s forces. Despite hysterical reporting and wild statements by political leaders, however, even “opposition activists” were conceding early on that most of the dead were actually armed [by the West] combatants who had staged attacks on the regime’s military forces.
→ read full articleThe Origin of Cooperation
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
The Mystery of Self-Sacrifice in War – Tribalism involves passionate attachment to one’s own group, self-sacrifice for the sake of the group, willingness both to die and to kill if necessary to defend the group from its enemies, and belief that in case of a conflict, one’s own group is always in the right. Unfortunately these emotions make war possible…
→ read full articleWalking the Road of War and Death toward Peace and Life
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
One of the main purposes of the Peace March Srebrenica 2012 is to provide the participants with the similar experience that internal displaced persons in Bosnia experienced during the War in Bosnia in 1995. In this program, the participants are to walk from Tuzla to Srebrenica (approximately 120 km or 75 miles) for three days through woods in hills and mountains.
→ read full articleThe Real LIBOR Scandal
Paul Craig Roberts and Nomi Prins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
According to news reports, UK banks fixed the London interbank borrowing rate (Libor) with the complicity of the Bank of England (UK central bank) at a low rate in order to obtain a cheap borrowing cost. The way this scandal is playing out is that the banks benefitted from borrowing at these low rates. Whereas this is true, it also strikes us as simplistic and as a diversion from the deeper, darker scandal.
→ read full articlePros and Cons of Solidarity with the Palestinian Struggle
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
The posture of solidarity with the struggle of ‘the other’ is more complex than it might appear at first glance… As Alsaafin powerfully reminds us who attempt to act in solidarity, while she is addressing a related message to the Palestinians, it is for the Palestinians to exert leadership and find inspiration, and for the rest of us to step to one side.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Uma Pausa Para o Luto
Flávio Aguiar – Carta Maior,
16 Jul 2012
O irmão mais moço, Jaime, de Gabriel Garcia Marquez (84 anos) confirma: o escritor está perdendo a memória, e não consegue mais escrever. É uma perda imensurável, para a literatura e para o jornalismo. Como se isso não bastasse, no fim de semana que passou morreu, aos 95 anos, Ernest Borgnine.
→ read full articleTwo Faces: The Most Successful Terrorist Of The 20th Century
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Yitzhak Shamir died two weeks ago and was buried in the cemetery of the “Great of the Nation” in Jerusalem. He was 97 years old and had been vegetating for years in a state of dementia. Most Israelis did not know that he was still alive. When I described him on TV as “the most successful terrorist of the 20th century”, the interviewer raised his eyebrows. But it was an accurate description. Shamir, the dead honest fanatic, has many followers. Olmert, the living corrupt pragmatist, has very few. Netanyahu, their current successor, has the vices of both and the virtues of neither.
→ read full articleBreivik: A Part of Norwegian Reality (Part III)
Johan Galtung, 16 Jul 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
The court gave him a podium to broadcast his views, nationally and internationally. Of course he had his right to tell his version, the ‘what’ and ‘why’. But he had confessed and horrible details added little to the worst misdeed in Norwegian history. The open court process could have been limited to one week. And the incapability of both sides of the psychiatric divide to reflect what political conflict polarization does to people is not a court issue. And Norway has to come to grips with what happened.
→ read full articleOccupy Buddhism – Or Why the Dalai Lama is a Marxist
Stuart Smithers, Tricycle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
When the Dalai Lama announced his Marxist leanings last summer in Minneapolis, the only surprise was how surprising it was. The blogosphere was once again astir with this nonrevelation, which came by way of an Indian-born Tibetan journalist, Tsering Namgyal, who had tagged along when the Dalai Lama held a nearly three-hour meeting with 150 Chinese students.
→ read full articleA Gift for Santa
David Inkey, UN Poet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
I want to live in a world where the past tense, the present tense,
and the future tense–all avoid pre-tense.
Press Statement by Julian Assange Defense Fund outside the Ecuadorian Embassy
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
The United States Government has instigated a grand jury investigation against Julian Assange and other “founders or managers” of WikiLeaks. Australian diplomats have described this investigation as being of “unprecedented scale and nature”. There is irrefutable evidence in the public record of subpoenas being issued and witnesses being compelled to testify against Mr. Assange.
→ read full articleGlaxoSmithKline Settles Healthcare Fraud Case for $3 Billion
David Ingram, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
GlaxoSmithKline Plc agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor criminal charges and pay $3 billion to settle what government officials on Monday [2 Jul 2012] described as the largest case of healthcare fraud in U.S. history. GSK targeted the antidepressant Paxil to patients under age 18 when it was approved for adults only, and it pushed the drug Wellbutrin for uses it was not approved for.
→ read full articleThe Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Global Coalition of Big Business Actors
Mark Vorpahl – Global Research,
9 Jul 2012
During the week of July 1st – 7th an international cabal of corporate lobbyists will be meeting behind closed doors in San Diego. Their aim is moving the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) towards completion. For over two years TPP negotiations have been in process, yet the proposals and agreements made so far have been carefully kept from public view, until recently.
→ read full articlePeace Journalism and Journalism for Peace
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
Understanding the Differences and Relationships between Peace Journalism and Journalism for Peace
→ read full articleCitizens to Monsanto: ‘Get Out of Hawaii’
EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
Monsanto operates about 8,000 acres in Hawaii for GE seed production. According to organizers, these operations use the most valuable agricultural lands and water in food production, as well as large amounts of chemicals and pesticides that are required to grow these crops. Hawaii is a global center for the open-air field testing of experimental GE crops, but no impact studies have been conducted.
→ read full article(Italian) Dalla Westphalia alla Weltinnenpolitik
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
Il mondo come sistema di stati, il sistema Vestfalia del 24 ottobre 1684, sta giungendo al termine. Un holon pieno di contraddizioni. Per cui la guerra era un diritto (se dichiarata) e il perseguimento degli interessi della nazione dominante in ciascuno stato era la regola. Con le colonie gli europei conquistarono terre e persone; e come imperi comandarono attraverso le elite locali.
→ read full articleThe Wall Street Scandal of all Scandals
Robert Reich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
“Yes, just when you thought the Street had hit bottom, an even deeper level of public-be-damned greed and corruption is revealed. Sit down and hold on to your chair.”
→ read full articlePoisoning Arafat
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
For me, there was no surprise. From the very first day, I was convinced that Yasser Arafat had been poisoned by Ariel Sharon. I even wrote about it several times. Arafat was the man who was able to make peace with Israel, willing to do so, and – more important – to get his people, including the Islamists, to accept it. This would have put an end to the settlement enterprise. That’s why he was poisoned.
→ read full articleThe Lessons Washington Can’t Draw From the Failure of the Military Option
Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch,
9 Jul 2012
The Pentagon is, by now, a world unto itself, with a staggering budget at a moment when no other power or combination of powers comes near to challenging this country’s might. Even the once-civilian CIA has undergone a process of para-militarization and now runs its own “covert” drone wars in Pakistan and elsewhere. In a sense, even the military has been “militarized.” In these last years, a secret army of special operations forces, 60,000 or more strong and still expanding, has grown like an incubus inside the regular armed forces.
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