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Human Rights Council Establishes Working Group to Negotiate a Draft Declaration on the Right to Peace
The UN Office at Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
Also Adopts Text on National Human Rights Institutions – 5 July 2012 The UN Human Rights Council this afternoon decided to establish a working group to negotiate a draft declaration on the right to peace and adopted a resolution on national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights. 34 votes in favor, 12 abstentions, and 1 against, the USA.
→ read full articleSquelching Secrets: Why Are Obama’s Prosecutors Pursuing John Kiriakou?
Dan Froomkin – Huffington Post,
9 Jul 2012
John Kiriakou is a 14-year CIA veteran who, until his indictment, was best known for publicly rejecting the Bush administration’s Orwellian doublespeak about “enhanced interrogation.” In a 2007 ABC News interview, Kiriakou became the first person directly involved in the handling of terror suspects to call waterboarding at the CIA’s hands what it was — torture.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Parlamento Europeu Põe Ponto Final no ACTA
Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
O Acordo Comercial Anticontrafação (ACTA) foi esta quarta feira [4 Julho 2012] rejeitado no Parlamento Europeu com 478 votos contra, 39 votos a favor e 169 abstenções. Vital Moreira foi o único eurodeputado português a votar a favor deste Tratado. O ACTA ficará agora sem efeito no espaço da União Europeia.
→ read full articleWelds on Reactor Pressure Vessel
S.P. Udayakuamr, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
Regarding the welds on Reactor Pressure Vessel being erected at the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project, the Bulletin of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board records that “The original design of RPV did not contemplate welds in the core region. However, the vessel now used has two welds in the core region. The effect of lifetime neutron fluence on these welds was evaluated and found to be acceptable.” Could you please let me know who decided to change the RPV at KKNPP, when it was decided to change it, how was the decision made, and a copy of the evaluation report…
→ read full article(Italian) Diaz. La Cassazione Ha Confermato le 25 Condanne Del 2010
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
Intervista a Lorenzo Guadagnucci – Un’amara, e impossibile, serenità sussiste dalle 19,10 circa del 5 luglio sera in molti Italiani e non nei confronti di una verità giudiziaria che evidenzia ancora responsabilità impunite. Per una sentenza incompleta. O improbabilmente completa.
→ read full articleJews DO Control the Media
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
The following article was published on the popular Zionist site Times Of Israel. It actually confirms everything we say and write about Jewish power, Jewish identity, Jewish left and Jewish AZZ (anti Zionist Zionists). It is also consistent with each and every finding in my latest book The Wandering Who? We are dealing here with a racist chauvinist political identity. Zionist honesty is a rare product, make sure that you read this article carefully and make the most out of it.
→ read full articleMurdoch May Be a Convenient Demon, but the Media Is a Junta
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
Murdoch’s dominance is not as it is often presented. Although he is now one of the West’s accredited demons, thanks to his phone-hackers, he is but part of a media system that will not change when his empire is broken up. The political extremism that is the concentration of the world’s wealth in few hands and the accelerating impoverishment of the majority will ensure this.
→ read full articleKenneth Waltz Is Not Crazy, But He Is Dangerous: Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
It seems surprising that the ultra-establishment journal, Foreign Affairs, would go to the extreme of publishing a lead article by the noted political scientist, Kenneth Waltz, with the title “Why Iran Should Get the Bomb” in its current issue.
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How Barclays Manipulated the Libor Rates (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
The Barclays Bank scandal centres around a key interest rate known as Libor. Al Jazeera’s Dominic Kane reports on exactly what that is. We also speak to Bill Black, a former US banking regulator for more clarity on how this multi-trillion dollar fraud was perpetrated.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to Honduran President Porfirio Lobo Sosa
Robert Shulman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
Re: Alberto Castillo Hyde, pro-bono diplomat, president of Fundacion Vamos Panama, and thief of $1.5 million dollars. The US representative of Fundacion Vamos Panama was Herbert E. Caswell, S and H investment firm of Jacksonville, Florida… I am standing by for your response and you can be certain, I will not go away anytime soon, or in the future for that matter, until justice is served.
→ read full articleDeath of Democracy in America
Terrence Edward Paupp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
Democracy in the United States is completely dead. The American people are living under the tyranny of an oligarchy that is run between the financial sector on Wall Street and its bought-and-paid-for minions in Washington, D.C. With the exception of a few elected officials, the main concern of senators and congressmen is not the welfare of the people but the business interests of US big corporations, generally headed by the weapons industry and the military industrial complex.
→ read full articleThe Paraguayan Coup: How Agribusiness, Landowning and Media Elite, and the U.S. Are Paving A Way for Regional Destabilization
Francesca Fiorentini – War Times,
9 Jul 2012
Reading articles coming out of South America, I have been trying to wrap my head around not just what happened in Paraguay but what it could mean for the region. And I’m afraid it’s not good. When one connects the dots – many of which require further investigation–it suddenly feels as though the gains that countries in the region have made toward multi-lateral cooperation in order to guarantee economic and political sovereignty and are dangerously vulnerable.
→ read full articleMore Power to Corporations to Attack Nations
Public Citizen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
Extreme Foreign Investor Rights & Private Enforcement Would Promote Offshoring, Attacks Against Our Laws – Under the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) “free trade” agreement, foreign firms would gain an array of privileges:
→ read full articleWhy is Nobody Freaking Out About the LIBOR Banking Scandal?
Matt Taibbi - Rolling Stone,
9 Jul 2012
The LIBOR manipulation story has exploded into a major scandal overseas. The CEO of Barclays, Bob Diamond, has resigned in disgrace. The furor is over revelations that Barclays, the Royal Bank of Scotland, and other banks were monkeying with at least $10 trillion in loans (The Wall Street Journal is calculating that LIBOR affects $800 trillion worth of contracts). “It’s like finding out that the whole world is on quicksand,”
→ read full articleMafia Job
TMS Editor,
9 Jul 2012
The Mafia was looking for a new man to make weekly collections from the private businesses they were “protecting.”
→ read full articleSigns of the Times in Haiti
Nia Imara – Pambazuka News,
9 Jul 2012
The Military, Money, and the Meaning of an Occupation – There are periods in a country’s history when the signs and warnings that that history will soon enter into a dramatically different phase are clear as day. Such is the period today in Haiti, where daily events portend an inauspicious development for the future: the Haitian Army may soon be returning.
→ read full articleIs Our Patriotism Moral?
Gary Gutting – The New York Times,
9 Jul 2012
At the beginning of Plato’s “Republic,” Socrates asks what justice (doing the morally right thing) is, and Polemarchus replies that it’s helping your friends and harming your enemies. Moral behavior was the way you treated those in your “in-group,” as opposed to outsiders. Socrates questioned this ethical exclusivism that led most major moral philosophers (for example, Mill and Kant) to conclude that morality required an impartial, universal viewpoint that treated all human beings as equals.
→ read full articleThe Last ACTA: Intellectual Property Treaty Dies in European Parliament
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
It had been billed as an international effort to protect intellectual property. But on Wednesday [4 Jul 2012], the European Parliament overwhelmingly rejected ACTA following months of protests and claims that the law would infringe on individual rights. It appears doubtful that the treaty can be resurrected.
→ read full articleNo to War in Syria
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
Many may believe that there is a fight going on in Syria for ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom’. We can be seduced into thinking there is a magic wand or instant formula to mix that will create a democratic country, but there are none.
→ read full articleGabriel Garcia Marquez Suffering From Dementia, Says Brother
The National – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
The 85-year-old author’s brother Jaime told El Universal newspaper in Mexico that he speaks to the 1982 Nobel winner nearly every day from their native Colombia, hoping to help keep some of his memories alive. “What he has are some memory issues; in our family, we all end up with senile dementia. I am starting to get some of the onset complications and he already is in the throes of it,” he said.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Declaração Final da Cúpula dos Povos na Rio+20
Cúpula dos Povos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
As sínteses aprovadas nas plenárias integram e complementam este documento político para que os povos, movimentos e organizações possam continuar a convergir e aprofundar suas lutas e construção de alternativas em seus territórios, regiões e países em todos os cantos do mundo.
→ read full articleThe Julian Assange Show: Noam Chomsky & Tariq Ali
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
A surprise Arab drive for freedom, the West’s structural crisis and new hope coming from Latin America. That’s the modern world in the eyes of Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali, two prominent thinkers and this week’s [26 Jun 2012] guests on Julian Assange’s show on RT.
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Honduran Scholars Call on US to Cease Support for Military and Police (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Paul Jay, The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
40 Honduran scholars, supported by 300 academics from 29 countries, sent a letter to President Obama demanding the end of U.S. support for Honduran military and police training—and that the war on drugs is not a rationale for supporting a regime that is violently suppressing its own people.
→ read full articleThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
History of the Document – The Declaration
→ read full articleNew Report to Expose How Corporations ‘Capture’ the U.N.
Friends of the Earth International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
The report presents a number of cases that clearly expose how UN policies and agencies have been excessively influenced by the corporate sector. It also shows how this damages the ability of the UN to solve the various problems it is tasked with, removing its willingness to address the role of major corporations in causing many of the environmental, social, food and economic problems that the world faces today.
→ read full articleThe Silent and Telling Emergency in India
Dr. S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
Today [26 Jun 2012] is the 37the anniversary of the infamous emergency that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed on the people of India. Today is the 100th day of my and Pushparayan’s self-exile here at Idinthakarai. So far, more than 300 false cases have been filed against us, the leaders of the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE), and the struggling people of southern Tamil Nadu.
→ read full articleSinking Into Murky Water with Russia
Raminder Kaur - Countercurrents,
2 Jul 2012
Now that nuclear relationships have broadened to encompass US and French corporates in the aftermath of the Indo-US deal, Indian authorities are not just having an affair, but pimping Mother India in the pursuit of profits. Koodankulam has become a region of civil war fought on non-violent grounds led by the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy against a venal state that threatens with violence.
→ read full articleUNESCO Joins Global Fight against Anti-Gay Bullying
Matthew Jenkin, GayStarNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
A new report by UNESCO has revealed the extent of homophobic bullying worldwide, recognizing the problem as a human rights issue. The UN agency’s first ever international consultation on the issue brought together experts from NGOs, ministries of education and academia from more than 25 countries around the world.
→ read full articlePeace Journalism in Mexico
Jake Lynch, New Matilda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
There’s a concentration on arrests of alleged “kingpins” of the drug cartels, and on the death and destruction they leave in their wake as they scrabble for control of key smuggling routes. There is much less space for exploring why some people join the gangs in the first place, and what could be done — and is being done — to offer them a route to a better future.
→ read full article(Castellano) Paraguay: ¿Por Qué Cayó Lugo? La Conexión del Agronegocios
Atilio A. Boron, CETRI-Centre Tricontinental – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
El Congreso del Paraguay consumó este viernes [22 jun 2012] uno de los fraudes más descarados de la historia política latinoamericana: destituyó, en un juicio sumarísimo que se asemejó mucho más a un linchamiento político que a un proceso constitucional, al presidente Fernando Lugo. Con una rapidez proporcional a su ilegitimidad, el Senado más corrupto de las Américas -¡y eso es mucho decir!- lo halló culpable de “mal desempeño” de sus funciones.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Falando Um Pouco Sobre “A Economia da Natureza”
Marcus Eduardo de Oliveira – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
Enquanto as leis da Economia continuarem ignorando, por completo, as leis da Natureza, o futuro (o nosso futuro!) estará mais e mais comprometido, expondo todos nós em sério risco. Somente quando o colapso ambiental se fizer evidente, é que nos lembraremos das sábias palavras do cacique Seattle: “Quando a última árvore for abatida, quando o último rio for envenenado, quando o último peixe for capturado, somente então nos daremos conta de que não se pode comer dinheiro”.
→ read full article(Italian) L’Economia Verde È Il Nuovo Colonialismo Per Sottomettere I Nostri Popoli
Evo Morales, Presidente della Bolivia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
Il capitalismo non è una soluzione, mi dispiace molto che si stia creando un seguito alla cosiddetta economia verde, dato che questa è il nuovo colonialismo per sottomettere i popoli e i governi anti-imperialisti e anticapitalisti, per questo vi esorto a riflettere per il bene delle future generazioni, …
→ read full articleVisit to Democratic Republic of Congo
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
On 8th May, 2012, Ann Patterson and I travelled to the Kinshasa, in DRC, to join Yee Htun, Coordinator of the Nobel Womens Initiative International Campaign to Stop Rape in Conflict, and help launch the international campaign, to ‘Stop Rape in Conflict’. This was being launched simultaneously in four countries: Colombia, Kenya, Burma and the DRC in May, 2012.
→ read full articleA Cruel and Unusual Record
Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Laureate – The New York Times,
2 Jul 2012
Revelations that top officials are targeting people to be assassinated abroad, including American citizens, are only the most recent, disturbing proof of how far our nation’s violation of human rights has extended.
→ read full articleLibya: Hounding of Migrants Continues – Preliminary Findings of an Investigation Mission
FIDH, Worldwide Human Rights Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
With rich oil reserves and a small population, Gaddafi’s Libya relied heavily on migrant labour to serve the economy. During the conflict hundreds of thousands of migrants fled to Tunisia, Egypt and neighbouring countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, fearing for their lives. More than six months since the conflict’s end, migrants and refugees in Libya continue to be victims of grave violations of their human rights. FIDH, Migreurop and JWBM make the following recommendations:
→ read full articleOn Human Identity
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
Early in my blog life I wrote about Jewish identity. It was partly an exercise in self-discovery, and partly a response to those who alleged that I was a self-hating Jew, or worse, an anti-Semite. These attacks on my character were hurtful even as I felt their distance from my actual beliefs and worldview.
→ read full articleMiddle East Peace Potential through Dynamics in Spherical Geometry
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
This is an exploration of the hypothesis that unique belief systems depend for their coherence on distinctive patterns typically embodied in geometrical symbols in two dimensions. On the basis of that assumption, the case tentatively explored here is that of the “incommensurability” of the 5-fold Star of Islam and the 6-fold Star of David of Judaism — both symbols appearing on flags of the nations having those distinct faiths.
→ read full articleWhat is WikiLeaks?
TheWikiLeaksChannel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
WikiLeaks: 575 days of banking blockade – no process
Assange: 572 days detainment – no charge
Manning: 769 days in jail – no trial
Grand Jury: 655 days US secret Grand Jury into WikiLeaks – no transparency
WikiLeaks is a not-for-profit media organisation. Our goal is to bring important news and information to the public. We provide an innovative, secure and anonymous way for sources to leak information to our journalists (our electronic drop box).
MERCOSUR Suspends Paraguay from Trade Bloc over Lugo Ouster
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
South American foreign ministers have suspended Paraguay from the regional trade bloc, Mercosur, over last week’s ouster of former President Fernando Lugo.
→ read full articleElectric Train
TMS Editor,
2 Jul 2012
A few days after Christmas, a mother was working in the kitchen listening to her young son playing with his new electric train in the living room.
→ read full articleWhy Genetically Engineered Food Is Dangerous
Genetic Engineers, EarthOpenSource – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
Aren’t critics of genetically engineered food anti-science? Isn’t the debate over GMOs (genetically modified organisms) a spat between emotional but ignorant activists on one hand and rational GM-supporting scientists on the other? The initiative for the report came not from campaigners but from two genetic engineers who believe there are good scientific reasons to be wary of GM foods and crops.
→ read full articleLatin America: How the US Has Allied With the Forces of Reaction
Mark Weisbrot – The Guardian,
2 Jul 2012
It was three years ago this week [29 Jun 2012] that the Honduran military launched an assault on the home of President Mel Zelaya, kidnapped him, and flew him out of the country. The Obama administration knew in advance and did not condemn the coup. The US has lost most of its influence in the vast majority of the Americas over the past decade. It is only a matter of time before even poor countries like Honduras and Paraguay gain their rights to democracy and self-determination.
→ read full articleFrom Westphalia to Weltinnenpolitik
Johan Galtung, 2 Jul 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
The world as a state-system, the Westphalia system of 24 October 1648, is coming to an end. A holon filled with contradictions. Thus, war was a right–if declared–and the pursuit of the interests of the dominant nation in each state the rule. European conquered others, as colonies, land and people; and as empires ruling through local elites. A major contradiction with many collapsing after WWII, the Soviet empire in 1990-1, and now there is only the declining US empire left.
→ read full articleA Tale of Two Conferences
Chris Williams – Socialist Worker,
2 Jul 2012
The Rio+20 environmental summit–and why it failed by design. The true priorities of the global elite are on display with the relative importance they assigned to the G20 and Rio+20 summits.
→ read full articleFukushima Radiation at Record High
Common Dreams staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
Levels of radiation at Fukushima’s reactor number 1 were at record levels on Wednesday [27 Jun 2012], Agence France-Presse reports. The lethal levels — 10,300 millisieverts an hour — were 10 times higher than the levels at Fukushima’s numbers two and three reactors. “Workers cannot enter the site and we must use robots for the demolition,” said TEPCO.
→ read full articleThe Failure of Rio+20 is a Wake-Up Call for People Power
Adam Parsons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
Following the ‘hoax summit’ and failure of political leadership at Rio+20, it is clear that the responsibility for change rests with ordinary, engaged citizens to forge a united and informed world public opinion that is stronger than any government or vested interest.
→ read full articleCan the World Survive Washington’s Hubris?
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
The process of surrounding Russia with military bases continued unabated through successor US administrations with various “color revolutions” financed by the US National Endowment for Democracy, regarded by many as a front for the CIA. Washington even attempted to install a Washington-controlled government in Ukraine and did succeed in this effort in former Soviet Georgia, the birthplace of Joseph Stalin.
→ read full articleGreece: What Can Be Done?
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
Greece faces the unenviable choice between accepting the terms of “the Troika” and facing the continuation and deepening of a socio-economic crises, which includes five years of negative growth, over 23% unemployment, an astronomical rise in poverty (from less than 15% to over 40%) and mounting suicides, or a rejection of the “memorandum”, and a likely cut-off of Eurozone funding and capital markets with virtually few reserves to cover salaries, pensions or public services.
→ read full articleKnowledge for/in/through Dignity
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
In this age of digital learning, so much knowledge Humankind can embrace
but humanizingly, dignifyingly knowledge do we know how to trace?
End of an Era
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
So now what do we do to defend life on Earth? Was it too much to have asked of the world’s governments, which performed such miracles in developing stealth bombers and drone warfare, global markets and trillion dollar bail-outs, that they might spend a tenth of the energy and resources they devoted to these projects on defending our living planet? It seems, sadly, that it was.
→ read full articleSoybeans
TMS Editor,
25 Jun 2012
While going through his wife’s dresser drawers, a farmer discovered three soybeans and an envelope containing $30 in cash.
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Playing For Change Day 2012 (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
PFCfoundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2012
What if you had one day to change the world with music?
→ read full articleThe Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
25 Jun 2012
How America’s biggest banks took part in a nationwide bid-rigging conspiracy – until they were caught on tape. Someday, it will go down in history as the first trial of the modern American mafia. Of course, you won’t hear the recent financial corruption case, United States of America v. Carollo, Goldberg and Grimm, called anything like that. If you heard about it at all, you’re probably either in the municipal bond business or married to an antitrust lawyer.
→ read full articleHistory Is the Enemy As ‘Brilliant’ Psy-Ops Become the News
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2012
History is buried with the dead and deformed of Vietnam and Bhopal. And history is the new enemy. On 28 May [2012], President Obama launched a campaign to falsify the history of the war in Vietnam. To Obama, there was no Agent Orange, no free fire zones, no turkey shoots, no cover-ups of massacres, no rampant racism, no suicides (as many Americans took their own lives as died in the war), no defeat by a resistance army drawn from an impoverished society.
→ read full articleCIA Arming Syrian Insurgents
Stephen Lendman – Global Research,
25 Jun 2012
On June 21 [2012], The New York Times headlined “CIA Said to Aid in Steering Arms to Syrian Opposition,” saying: Operating covertly from southern Turkey, CIA operatives are “decid(ing) which Syrian opposition fighters across the border will receive arms to fight the Syrian government, according to American officials and Arab intelligence officers.”
→ read full articleMore Icelandic Bankers Arrested
IceNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2012
Iceland’s special prosecutor into the banking crisis has confirmed that raids have taken place today and that arrests have been made. The Central Bank of Iceland is among the institutions under investigation.
→ read full articleHow “Sustainability” Became “Sustained Growth”
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2012
The Rio Declaration rips up the basic principles of environmental action.
→ read full articleNuclear Operator in Japan Exonerates Itself in Report
Hiroko Tabuchi – The New York Times,
25 Jun 2012
The much vilified operator of the tsunami-hit nuclear power plant at Fukushima released a report on Wednesday [20 Jun 2012] that said the company never hid information, never underplayed the extent of fuel meltdown and certainly never considered abandoning the ravaged site. It asserts that government interference in the disaster response created confusion and delays.
→ read full articleIs the Threat of a “Mafia State” Real?
Michael Busch – Foreign Policy in Focus,
25 Jun 2012
Earlier this spring, Moisés Naím provocatively warned against an emerging menace facing our world today—the advent of what he terms the “mafia state.” Analyzing the role of transnational organized crime in the age of globalization has been Naím’s bailiwick for some years now, and familiar readers will find little that catches them off-guard.
→ read full articleIndia’s National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences and the Anti Nuclear Protests at Koodankulam
Indian Doctors for Peace and Development – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2012
No one can ever say with 100% authenticity that there can never be an accident in the nuclear power plant or any other industry so to say anywhere in the world. Who could imagine the disaster at Fukushima in Japan which is known for one of the best technological applications and disaster management? On the contrary the track record of disaster management in India is extremely dismal. We are till date unable to cope up with the Bhopal gas tragedy.
→ read full articleGene Sharp: A Dictator’s Worst Nightmare
Mairi Mackay – CNN,
25 Jun 2012
Now 84, the American academic has dedicated most of his life to the study of the bold, some might say reckless, idea that nonviolence — rather than violence — is the most effective way of overthrowing corrupt, repressive regimes.
→ read full articleExploring the Hidden Mysteries of Oxfam’s Doughnut
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2012
Produced on the occasion of the Rio+20 Earth Summit (Rio de Janeiro, 2012). Oxfam has released a discussion paper. The paper presents a single visual framework – shaped like a doughnut – that represents a space within which humanity can thrive. This doughnut-like area is defined by combining the much-debated set of 9 “planetary boundaries” with a new set of 11 social boundaries, based on the 11 dimensions of human deprivation that emerged from the issues raised by governments in their Rio+20 submissions.
→ read full articleAmerican Republican Party in Perspective
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2012
In spite of the fact that the Republican Party has plenty to offer, its concept of democracy tends to be merely on the surface. A substantial number of Americans do not seem to have a clear concept of the Republican political philosophy.
→ read full articleMonsanto: A Modern Day Plague
Lisa Cerda, CityWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2012
Monsanto’s history is one steeped with controversial products, deadly consequences, massive cover ups, political slight of hand, and culminates as a modern day plague on humanity, a plague that is about to peak to biblical proportions.
→ read full articleTop 6 Workout Recovery Foods
DualFIT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2012
Tired of feeling sore almost every day of the week? Try these foods that fight off the pain.
→ read full articleMaking a Game of Killing
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2012
The mass media are an important part of our educational system. Perhaps it is time to look more closely at the values that they are transmitting. In particular, we should perhaps look at computer games designed for young boys. They often give the strongest imaginable support to a culture of violence.
→ read full articleThe Absurd “Offsite Emergency” Drama and Unanswered Questions
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
The Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project along with Tirunelveli district administration has carried out an “offsite emergency exercise.” Do nuclear disasters affect a large area around the plant or just one or two specific villages? How come the exercise is carried out in an isolated village and not throughout the project affected area?
→ read full articleKudankulam Nuclear Power Plant Commissioning Should Be Deferred
M.G.Devasahayam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
It is famously said: “In public domain, truth is not the truth, perception is the truth”. This adage could be related to the discourse on the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP). While the arguments in favour of the plant is that it will generate electric power essential for ‘development’, People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) say that the plant will be ‘destructive’ to the life and livelihood of the Project Affected People (PAP).
→ read full articleEmergency Preparedness at Koodankulam: A BIG LIE
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
Do we conduct fire drill just in one school in some remote village or in all schools all over the country? Do we conduct safety drill just in one movie theater in an unknown hamlet or in all theaters all over the country? Should we perform nuclear emergency drills only in Nakkanery or in all villages and towns at least in the 30 km radius of the nuclear power plant?
→ read full articleComplaint to India’s Atomic Energy Regulatory Board
The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
We, the members of the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy and people of southern districts of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, write to demand immediate halt of the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) at Koodankulam in Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu, and a thorough scrutiny of the following issues before AERB (Atomic Energy Regulatory Board) gives a green signal to the commissioning of the Koodankulam project.
→ read full articleThe One Gay Solution
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
The Moscow City Court upheld last Thursday [7 Jun 2012] a district court’s decision to ban gay parades in the Russian Capital for the next 100 years. Not just one year, two years or even ten years, the court was pretty clear about it all-a century with no gay parades. Pretty sinister I would say.
→ read full articleGood Guinness, Deliver Us! Israel Demolishes Arab Village 38 Times
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
Palestinian villagers have addressed the Guinness Book of World Records to register a ruinous “record”. A Bedouin village in Israel has been demolished 38 times by Israeli authorities, who say people in the village do not have building permits.
→ read full articleAssessing the Israel Palestine Conflict on U.S.S. Liberty Day
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” I think that we need to do our best to avoid such deference to authority to overcome the weight of conventional thinking on these issues, to get around the distortions of government policy, and to do something to correct for the biased media filter that gives us such a selective presentation of the facts as the conflict unfolds.
→ read full article(Italian) Genova G8 e la Diaz. Sentenza Rinviata al 5 Luglio Prossimo
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
La Corte di Cassazione pronuncerà la sentenza il 5 luglio prossimo. Il processo dura da 11 anni. Venerdì 15 giugno la sentenza era molto attesa. Alta la tensione a Roma e grande la disillusione.
→ read full articleThe New Obama Doctrine: A Six-Point Plan for Global War
Nick Turse – TomDispatch,
19 Jun 2012
Special Ops, Drones, Spy Games, Civilian Soldiers, Proxy Fighters, and Cyber Warfare
→ read full articleSyria: No Repeat of Sykes-Picot in Mideast Chaos
M.D. Nalapat – Global Times, China,
19 Jun 2012
On May 16, 1916, in the middle of World War I, Paris and London approved a secret agreement to dismember the Ottoman Empire and divide the Middle East between themselves. The Sykes-Picot agreement set new boundaries for many countries in the region, and began a period of direct control of the Middle East that the West has sought to perpetuate to the present.
→ read full articleManhunt: This is Racism, Pure and Simple
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
“WE SHALL not be a normal people, until we have Jewish whores and Jewish thieves in the Land of Israel,” our national poet, Haim Nahman Bialik, said some 80 years ago. This dream has come true. We have Jewish murder ers, Jewish robbers and Jewish whores.
→ read full articleAmerican Democratic Party in Operation
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
For all practical purposes, the United States is based merely on two major political systems, the Democratic and the Republican parties, each of which may be viewed as autocratic with a façade or garb of democracy.
→ read full articleDrone Me Down On the Killing Floor
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
19 Jun 2012
And the winner of the Humanitarian Oscar for Best Targeted Assassination with No Collateral Damage goes to… the Barack Obama White House death squad.
→ read full articleBusted: Biotech Leader ‘Syngenta’ Charged Over Covering Up Animal Deaths from GM Corn
Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
In a riveting victory against genetically modified creations, a major biotech company known as Syngenta has been criminally charged for denying knowledge that its GM Bt corn actually kills livestock.
→ read full articleThe Mendacity of Hope
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
The summits which promise to save the world keep us dangling, not mobilising. Worn down by hope. That’s the predicament of those who have sought to defend the earth’s living systems. Every time governments meet to discuss the environmental crisis, we are told that this is the “make or break summit”, upon which the future of the world depends.
→ read full articleRio+20 Summit: The Key Issues
South Bulletin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
This issue of the South Bulletin focuses on the Rio Plus 20 Summit to be held in 20-22 June [2012] in Brazil. The meetings actually begin on 13 June.
→ read full articleFukushima Daiichi: From Nuclear Power Plant to Nuclear Weapon #1
Anthony Hall – Veterans Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
Albert Einstein’s Warning and the Ominous Fate of Fukushima Daiichi
→ read full articleUS Should Be Following Iceland’s Model in Dealing with the Financial Crisis
Heather, Crooks and Liars – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
Icelanders who pelted parliament with rocks in 2009 demanding their leaders and bankers answer for the country’s economic and financial collapse are reaping the benefits of their anger. Since the end of 2008, the island’s banks have forgiven loans equivalent to 13 percent of gross domestic product, easing the debt burdens of more than a quarter of the population, according to a report published this month by the Icelandic Financial Services Association. So does the story end there?
→ read full articleBreivik: Living In the Historical Present (Part II)
Johan Galtung, 18 Jun 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jun 2012
The police explores concrete logistic collaborators and-or ideological support; like Peter Mangs in Sweden, the “laser man” who killed what looked like immigrants, wrote a rightwing manifesto and an autobiography; or “Fjordman” with 111 mentions. Breivik was a member of a Norwegian rightwing anti-immigration party, Fremskrittspartiet–a legal stand in a democracy–but left. He also left the Free Masons, with the following Compendium comment:
→ read full articleMigraine Cure
TMS Editor,
18 Jun 2012
A man goes to the doctor with a long history of migraine headaches. When the doctor does his history and physical, he discovers that his poor patient has had practically every therapy known to man for his migraines and STILL no improvement.
→ read full articleProposal for the Creation of an International Tribunal to Judge Crimes Committed by Economic Agents
Senator Cristovam Buarque - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jun 2012
The last few decades have revealed two new facets of Economics. On the one hand, its power to transform the Planet and Humanity, and, on the other hand, the ushering in of the Anthropocene Era through the conscious power of the economic agents in their decisions.
→ read full articleCommunal/Religious Clashes Threaten Progress in Burma
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jun 2012
What I believe is true is that there have been few efforts of reconciliation and of training for conflict resolution. This is a major need and perhaps, with the greater openness of the Myanmar government, courses in conflict resolution could be organized.
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Rational Conflict Resolution: What Stands in the Way? (Video of the Week)
Johan Galtung | World Peace Academy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jun 2012
Lecture by Prof. Johan Galtung at the World Peace Academy – Basel, Switzerland, 7 Jun 2012
→ read full articleA Stronger ‘Political Europe’ Might Save a Stumbling ‘Economic Europe’
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jun 2012
All is not yet lost, but there is a message beyond that of the obsessive bailout/default dialogue. It is that Europe to ensure its future must renovate its political architecture. This means overcoming the peculiar capitalist brand of economic materialism that seems perversely convinced that if money and banks are the problem, then money and banks must be the solution.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Rio+20: Economia Verde Para Salvar o Planeta Ou o Capitalismo?
Rita Calvário, esquerda.net – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jun 2012
Colocar no centro das soluções a “economia verde” é, em termos gerais, justo. O problema é quando esta transição verde não questiona nem transforma os fundamentos da economia que existe, o capitalismo. Nos dias 20 a 22 de Junho [2012] os líderes mundiais juntam-se na Conferência da ONU sobre “Desenvolvimento Sustentável”, intitulada Rio+20. A sua antecessora ocorreu 20 anos antes sob o lema “Ambiente e Desenvolvimento”, mais conhecida por Cúpula da Terra ou Rio 92.
→ read full article(Italian) Invasione di Droni Nei Cieli Della Sicilia
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jun 2012
Droni, droni e ancora droni. Sarà intensissimo, in estate, il via vai di aerei militari senza pilota sui cieli siciliani. Decine di decolli ed atterraggi nella base USA e NATO di Sigonella che faranno impazzire il traffico aereo nel vicino scalo civile di Catania Fontanarossa.
→ read full article(Portuguese) A Ausência de Uma Nova Narrativa na Rio+20
Leonardo Boff – Carta Maior,
18 Jun 2012
O vazio básico do documento da ONU para a Rio+20 reside numa completa ausência de uma nova narrativa ou de uma nova cosmologia que poderia garantir a esperança de um “futuro que queremos” lema do grande encontro. A narrativa atual é a da conquista do mundo em vista do progresso e do crescimento ilimitado.
→ read full articleAnother Bank Bailout
Paul Krugman, Nobel Economics Laureate – International Herald Tribune-NYT,
18 Jun 2012
Oh, wow — another bank bailout, this time in Spain. Who could have predicted that? The answer, of course, is everybody. In fact, the whole story is starting to feel like a comedy routine: yet again the economy slides, unemployment soars, banks get into trouble, governments rush to the rescue — but somehow it’s only the banks that get rescued, not the unemployed.
→ read full articleThe Environmental and Economic Crises Share the Same Cause
Maurice Strong – The Guatemala Times,
18 Jun 2012
Paradoxically, if we fail to act decisively to combat climate change, the reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions could occur through the collapse of the world economy, warns Maurice Strong in this column. What has happened with the global environment movement? This is a crucial question for Rio+20, the upcoming United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), which will be held Jun. 20-22 [2012] in Brazil.
→ read full articleThe Disaster Management Drama
S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Scene:
Nakkaneri village that is in the middle of nowhere in the Irukkanthurai panchayat in Tirunelveli district with some 100 houses; most of the 300 or so residents had gone to work as daily wage laborers to nearby places. There were hardly 100 women and children in the village who could hardly read or write or understand anything about the nuclear issue. The police surrounded the village and blocked all the roads.
Date and Time:
June 9, 2012, Saturday, 9:30 am – 10:30 am.
Bilderbergers Beware
Patrick Bond - Pambazuka,
11 Jun 2012
The secretive Bilderbergers aren’t normally a protest magnet. But last weekend [3 Jun 2012], protesters hurled creative abuse at the black limousines rolling past towards the Chantilly Marriott Hotel.
→ read full articleWestern Banks ‘Reaping Billions from Colombian Cocaine Trade’
Ed Vulliamy – Information Clearing House,
11 Jun 2012
While cocaine production ravages countries in Central America, consumers in the US and Europe are helping developed economies grow rich from the profits, a study claims. “It’s taboo to go after the big banks,” added Mejía. “It’s political suicide in this economic climate, because the amounts of money recycled are so high.”
→ read full articleGreece – Syriza’s Proposals: The Exit from the Crisis Is On the Left
The Bullet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Syriza, a coalition of 11 different left-wing organizations along with many individuals, is massively popular because of its stand against the austerity measures that have come as conditions–contained in what is called the “Memorandum”–of the bailout of the Greek financial system by the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund, known together as the “troika.”
→ read full articleUN Alliance of Civilizations, Istanbul Partners Forum, May 31-June 1, 2012
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
The UN Alliance of Civilization (AOC) was initiated by Kofi Annan in 2005 while he was Secretary General of the UN with the joint sponsorship of Turkey and Spain, with its principal center of operations in Istanbul.
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