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Goldstone’s Folly: Disappointing and Perverse
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2011
Now on the eve of the third session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine scheduled to be held in Cape Town between November 5-7 Goldstone has again come to the defense of Israel in a highly partisan manner that abandons any pretense of judicious respect for either the legal duties of those with power or the legal rights of those in vulnerable circumstances.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Os Gatos: Mitos e Fatos
Marcela Godoy, bióloga - Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
7 Nov 2011
Eles gostam de dormir empoleirados – às vezes nos incomodamos com esse hábito quando eles resolvem nos incluir nessa maneira peculiar de dormir. Quando em bandos, ou mesmo em dois, os gatos dormem empoleirados. Ficam uns sobre os outros. Se ele quiser dormir na sua cabeça, nas suas pernas ou na sua barriga, é porque ele o considera um igual. Sinta-se honrado.
→ read full articleConcerns Are Raised About Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes
Andrew Pollack – The New York Times,
7 Nov 2011
Researchers on Sunday [30 Oct 2011] reported initial signs of success from the first release into the environment of mosquitoes engineered to pass a lethal gene to their offspring, killing them before they reach adulthood. But the research is arousing concern about possible unintended effects on public health and the environment, because once genetically modified insects are released, they cannot be recalled.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Abaixo ESTA Cultura. Séculos de Touradas: Chega!!!
Marise Jalowitzki – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2011
Falo das touradas, dos toureiros e dos touros. Falo dos povos que assistem a esse espetáculo que se baseia no sofrimento de um ser [dito] irracional, frente a um ser [dito] racional, onde, mais uma vez, o humano escolhe e o outro “parceiro” é escolhido, sem chance de recusa! Como pode o entretenimento estar associado à violência, à dor, à crueldade, à submissão? À morte? E, após a sua morte impiedosa, a carne é repartida entre as “autoridades” que lá estão. A fama do toureiro cresce não só por quantos touros consegue submeter e matar, mas, também, por quanto tempo consegue perpetuar o terrível espetáculo.
→ read full articleActivists on Gaza-Bound Vessels Detained
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2011
Israeli authorities have detained pro-Palestinian activists on board two “Freedom Waves to Gaza” vessels, foiling the latest attempt to break the four-year Israeli blockade of the territory. The ships were forced to sail into the Israeli port of Ashdod, where all 27 passengers were handed over to the authorities and taken to an Israeli detention facility near Tel Aviv. Al Jazeera’s Casey Kauffman was among a group of journalists arrested late Friday [4 Nov 2011] when the Israeli navy boarded two ships sailing toward Gaza, he has since been released.
→ read full articleThe Bad in the Good and the Good in the Bad
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2011
The world is ambiguous, with forces and counter-forces, for good and for bad. Contradiction is the rule, with bad in the good and good in the bad, etc. And there are verbal contradictions; there is the opinion, and the other opinion, as Al Jazeera says, valid and invalid, whether such verbal debates reflect non-verbal contradictions or not. Thus, this column and author reap counter-arguments, and any author should be grateful to opponents. What can I learn? Factual mistakes? Logical? How to be so clear as to avoid misunderstandings? Or state assumptions, like ambiguity?
→ read full articleRogue US Army Unit Leader Saw Afghans as ‘Savages’
Ellis Conklin, AFP – Signs of the Times,
7 Nov 2011
The ringleader of a rogue US army unit accused of killing Afghan civilians for sport treated the locals like “savages,” a court martial heard. Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs also allegedly brandished fingers cut off dead bodies in a failed attempt to silence members of his team. The 26-year-old faces life in prison if convicted on charges including three counts of premeditated murder, in a scandal that has threatened Abu Ghraib-style embarrassment for the US military.
→ read full articleModernisation of Nukes Acquiring Priority
Ramesh Jaura - InDepth News,
7 Nov 2011
In a situation reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’, none of the nuclear weapon states is actively contemplating a future without nukes. On the contrary, the potential for using dreadful atomic arsenal is growing, says a new report.
→ read full articleThe Commonwealth Summit and Human Rights Debate
Dr Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2011
Safeguarding human rights is such a lofty ideal that nation-states with diverse socio-political and economic set ups proclaim that they respect this basic human value. As the term is contested, and as there are divergent interpretations as to what exactly constitute human rights, the debates about it have often pushed the nations towards contestation and conflicts of interests.
→ read full articleUS Condemns UNESCO over Palestine Vote
Gregg Carlstrom – Al Jazeera,
7 Nov 2011
The US government has cut off tens of millions of dollars in annual funding to the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) after it voted to admit Palestine as a full member. Victoria Nuland, the US state department spokeswoman, said payments to the Paris-based organisation would be stopped immediately. She said Washington would refrain from making a $60m payment it planned to deliver in November.
→ read full articleAbdul Ghaffar Khan International Peace-Builder Award to Professor Johan Galtung
TMS Editor,
7 Nov 2011
The American Muslim Alliance Foundation-AMA will honour Professor Johan Galtung, the founder of the academic discipline of peace studies, with the Abdul Ghaffar Khan International Peace-Builder Award. Prof. Galtung receives this award for his relentless dedication to deepening the understanding between Islam and The West. Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890-1988), in whose name the prize is awarded, is also known as Sarhaddi Gandhi -the frontier Gandhi- and was a lifelong pacifist, a devout Muslim, and a close friend of Mahatma Gandhi.
→ read full articleIsrael Orders New Building in East Jerusalem
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2011
Binyamin Netanyahu has ordered the building of 2,000 new housing units for Israelis, mainly in illegally occupied East Jerusalem, an area Palestinians claim as the capital of their future state. Israeli settlements built on occupied Palestinian land are considered illegal under international law. Israel also decided on Tuesday [1 Nov 2011] to freeze the transfer of tax revenues owed to the Palestinian Authority, as a punitive measure after Palestine was granted full membership of UNESCO.
→ read full articleOccupy Wall Street’s Elegant Message
Danny Schechter - Consortium News,
7 Nov 2011
One of the most frequently repeated, recycled and dismissive questions about Occupy Wall Street is its supposed lack of an “agenda.” The “what do you people want” question has featured in media interviews almost to the exclusion of all others. It’s as if the movement won’t be taken seriously by some, unless and until, it enunciates a list of “demands” and defines itself in a way that can allow others, especially a cynical media, to label and pigeonhole it. (So, it won’t be taken seriously then either.)
→ read full articleFormer US Chief Prosecutor Condemns ‘Law-Free Zone’ Of Guantánamo
Ed Vulliamy in New York – The Guardian,
7 Nov 2011
The former chief prosecutor for the US government at Guantánamo Bay has accused the administration he served of operating a “law-free zone” there, on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the order to establish the detention camp on Cuba. Retired air force colonel Morris Davis resigned in October 2007 in protest against interrogation methods at Guantánamo, and has made his remarks in the lead-up to 13 November, the anniversary of President George W Bush’s executive order setting up military commissions to try terrorist suspects.
→ read full articleTwo More
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2011
An Indian went with his wife on a trip to Jerusalem.
→ read full article“Hold Me Back!”
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2011
ISRAEL WILL not attack Iran. Period. Since the 1956 Suez adventure, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered an ultimatum that stopped the action, Israel has never undertaken any significant military operation without obtaining American consent in advance. The US is Israel’s only dependable supporter in the world (besides, perhaps, Fiji, Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and Palau.) To destroy this relationship means cutting our lifeline. To do that, you have to be more than just a little crazy. You have to be raving mad.
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Slavery – Child slaves
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2011
There are at least 8.4 million child slaves in the world today, many of them held as forced labour.
→ read full articleJudaism and Zionism Are Not the Same Thing
Neturei Karta, Jews United Against Zionism – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2011
The truth is that the Jewish faith and Zionism are two very different philosophies. They are as opposite as day and night. The Jewish people have existed for thousands of years. The Zionist movement created the Israeli state. The latter is a persuasion less than one hundred years old. Its essential goal was and is to change the nature of the Jewish people from that of a religious entity to a political movement. From Zionism’s inception the spiritual leaders of the Jewish people stood in staunch opposition to it.
→ read full articleMay the Walls of Apartheid Come Tumbling Down
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2011
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine takes place in Cape Town, South Africa, 5-7 Nov 2011. The international jury consists of lawyers, writers, human rights activists. Archbishop Desmond Tutu opens the proceedings. During the two-day hearings, the jury receives many presentations, including ‘The Law and Practice of Apartheid in South Africa and Palestine’, and ‘The Palestinian Right to Self-determination’.
→ read full articleResistance Is Fertile: Palestine’s Eco-War
James Brownsell – Al Jazeeera,
7 Nov 2011
More than half a million olive trees have been uprooted or destroyed by Israeli civil and military forces in the past 10 years, a tree renowned for its symbolism since before the time of Noah. At 7 am on Tuesday, February 22, Abu Latifa got a phone call that Israeli troops were on his family’s farmland taking chainsaws to the trees. When he arrived at the field that his family had cultivated for the past 40 years, soldiers had cut down 150 trees and were poisoning the roots. “Olive trees are holy; what faith, what religion allows this to happen? How does any human being have the heart to kill trees like this?”
→ read full articleHelp People, Not the Eritrean Dictator
Dr. Mirjam van Reisen - InDepth News,
7 Nov 2011
The European Union had better change its policy towards Eritrea. The people would be better off if the EU were to spend its allocated funds for Eritrea on housing and education of the Eritrean refugees in Sudan, South Sudan, Libya, Egypt or Yemen. Should the European Union help a merciless dictator or come to the aid of refugees? I think the answer is obvious. We are talking about Eritrea, the open-air prison in the East of Africa.
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The Story of Citizens United vs. FEC (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Storyofstuff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
The Story of Citizens United vs. FEC, an exploration of the inordinate power that corporations exercise in our democracy.
→ read full articleThe Two Halves of the Eurozone Are Locked In a Broken Marriage
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – The Daily Telegraph,
31 Oct 2011
One by one, the democracies of Southern Europe are being broken on the wheel of monetary union.
→ read full articleReal Wimps Go To Tehran Via Baghdad
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
31 Oct 2011
The new Holy Trinity mythology peddled by Washington to an unsuspecting world is that the Libya war is over, the Iraq war will be over by New Year’s Eve, and the Afghan war will be over by 2014. Oh yes; and Lindsay Lohan is a reincarnation of the Virgin Mary.
→ read full articleConfronting the Malefactors
Paul Krugman – The New York Times,
31 Oct 2011
There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear, but we may, at long last, be seeing the rise of a popular movement that, unlike the Tea Party, is angry at the right people.
→ read full articleDon’t Diss the Drum Circles: Why Hippie Culture Is Still Important to Our Protests
Danny Goldberg - Dissent Magazine,
31 Oct 2011
It is easy to cherry pick a few idiotic phrases from stoners in the 1970 documentary Woodstock, but what made the event and its legacy meaningful to its fans—aside from the music—was the example of people in the hip community taking care of each other. As Time put it in 1967, “Hippies preach altruism and mysticism, honesty, joy and nonviolence.”
→ read full articlePalestine: UNESCO Becomes a New Battleground
A.D.McKenzie – Inter Press Service-IPS,
31 Oct 2011
Palestine’s bid to become a member of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has created a tense atmosphere here, as the United States threatens to cut financing if the application is approved.
→ read full articleWhy Was Marx a Materialist?
Paul D’Amato – Socialist Worker,
31 Oct 2011
For Marx, materialism was about acknowledging the way the real world impacts on people’s lives, and acknowledging their ability to come together to change society. In the history of the philosophy, idealism and materialism have very different meanings than their popular usage. They represent the two main divergent ways of looking at the world we live in.
→ read full articleU.N. Torture Investigator Says Access to Manning Denied, Condemns Solitary Confinement
The Bradley Manning Support Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
Juan Mendez, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, confirmed yesterday that the Department of Defense has blocked his requests for an unmonitored meeting with PFC Bradley Manning, the accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower. He told reporters gathered at a U.N. General Assembly committee on human rights that he would be issuing a report on Bradley Manning’s case “in the next few weeks.”
→ read full articleLibya after Muammar el Qaddafi’s Execution
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
The death of the despised despot who ruled Libya for forty-two years naturally produced celebrations throughout the country. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s end was bloody and vindictive, but we should remember that his rants against his own people—and his violent repression of what was initially a peaceful uprising—invited a harsh popular response.
→ read full article(Castellano) Comparte Johan Galtung en Monterrey, Mexico, Experiencias sobre el Conflicto, la Violencia y la Cultura de Paz
Realidad Expuesta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
El 24 de octubre, el politólogo noruego Johan Galtung, conocido como el fundador de los estudios sobre la paz visitó la ciudad de Monterrey para impartir una conferencia magistral titulada Educación para la paz: desafío de nuestro tiempo.
→ read full articleThe Greatest Problem of the American People
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
The promotion of wars are viewed, especially by most US politicians, as the Holy Cow, more sacred than God Himself! President Obama has been so much under pressure from Republicans, where their ultimate goal is to oust him from the Whitehouse, that he has compromised his principles beyond comprehension. The Republicans want to continue to protect the rich as to become even richer, while they are literally dumping the poor making them poorer.
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(German) 3sat + Kulturzeit: 911 Kommentar mit Johan Galtung
TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
Sep 2011
→ read full articleCIA Kidnapped, Tortured Wrong Guy
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
A former CIA agent reveals that the agency kidnapped and tortured a man they wrongfully believed to be a top member of al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden’s personal banker.
→ read full articleSucking Out Our Brains through Our Eyes
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
Advertising trashes our happiness and trashes the planet. And my income depends on it. Nor is the problem confined to the commercial media. Even those who write only for their own websites rely on search engines, platforms and programmes ultimately funded by advertising. We’re hooked on a drug that is destroying society. As with all addictions, the first step is to admit to it.
→ read full articleBehind Burma’s Cosmetic Changes
Thelma Young – Waging Nonviolence,
31 Oct 2011
There has been a lot of discussion about whether Burma is finally on the path to reform, now that Aung San Suu Kyi is free, and a parliament is in place. However, it is important to look beyond the facade and see the big picture.
→ read full articleBank Transfer Day: A Guide to Closing Your Account
FearLess Revolution – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
To protest the behavior of big banks, thousands have pledged to switch to small credit unions on November 5. Follow these steps to simplify the process. Bank Transfer Day is gaining some serious steam. Although it’s not technically affiliated with Occupy, it’s being embraced by the movement and is the first specific call to action since the Occupy protests began.
→ read full articleThe Path Not Taken
Paul Krugman – The New York Times,
31 Oct 2011
“But a funny thing happened on the way to economic Armageddon: Iceland’s very desperation made conventional behavior impossible, freeing the nation to break the rules. Where everyone else bailed out the bankers and made the public pay the price, Iceland let the banks go bust and actually expanded its social safety net. And there’s a lesson here for the rest of us: The suffering that so many of our citizens are facing is unnecessary. If this is a time of incredible pain and a much harsher society, that was a choice. It didn’t and doesn’t have to be this way.”
→ read full articleMap of Systemic Interdependencies None Dares Name
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
12-Fold Challenge of Global Life and Death – Produced on the occasion of the world population having reached 7 billion and of publication of the The State of World Population 2011 by the United Nations Population Fund — coincidental with a historic summit on the European sovereign debt crisis to “save Greece”, “save Europe” and “save the world economy.”
→ read full articleBP Gets Gulf Oil Drilling Permit amid 28,000 Unmonitored Abandoned Wells
Rady Ananda – Food Freedom,
31 Oct 2011
Since BP’s catastrophic Macondo Blowout in the Gulf of Mexico last year, the Obama Administration has granted nearly 300 new drilling permits and shirked plans to plug 3,600 of more than 28,000 abandoned wells, which pose significant threats to the severely damaged sea.
→ read full articleThousands of Dead Birds Wash Up On Ontario Shores, Botulism Blamed
The Globe and Mail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
Ontario Provincial Police Constable Peter Leon said Saturday [22 Oct 2011] the number of dead waterfowl is estimated to be between 5,000 and 6,000. The dead birds are scattered along a nearly three-kilometre stretch north of the community of Wasaga Beach.
→ read full articleAct Now: Stop Imminent Land Grab That Threatens More Than 162,000 People in Tanzania
TMS Editor,
31 Oct 2011
Investor Bruce Rastetter and AgriSol Energy have their sights on 800,000 acres (325,000 hectares) of land in Tanzania that is home to 162,000 people. Several generations of families who have successfully re-established their lives by developing and farming the land over the last 40 years, will be displaced against their will. They will lose their livelihoods and their community. We fear that this project could move quickly forward unless the Tanzanian government and the US investors realize that the world is watching. We ask that you join the Oakland Institute in holding Bruce Rastetter and AgriSol team accountable and send them the message that proceeding with their plans is not “socially responsible agricultural investment.”
→ read full articleAfrican Charter Belongs To All Regardless of Sexual Orientation
Coalition of African Lesbians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
As we observe the 30th anniversary of the African Charter, there are reports of continuous harassment, arbitrary arrests, rapes and murders of Africans on the basis of their sexual orientation and gender identity. Such is the case in Ghana, Togo, Cameroon, Uganda, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, among others. In many other African states the criminal laws against same sex sexual conduct continues to expose an already marginalized population of people to abuse and violation.
→ read full articleTaking Offense
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
A man had been through a difficult divorce and been taken to the cleaners.
→ read full article(Castellano) Aprobada en la ONU Resolución que Exige Fin del Bloqueo de EE.UU. Contra Cuba
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
Las naciones participantes en la 66° Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas (ONU), rechazaron este martes [25 Oct 2011], de manera contundente y por vigésima vez, el bloqueo económico, comercial y financiero impuesto por Estados Unidos a Cuba con 186 votos a favor, 2 votos en contra y 3 abstenciones.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Ocupações Prosseguem em Todo o Mundo
Esquerda.net – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
O fim de semana contou com mais acções dos movimentos Occupy em muitas cidades, de Sydney a Londres, passando por Nova Iorque. Nos Estados Unidos, a brutalidade da polícia continua em debate.
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Ecological Terror: 6000 Dead Birds Wash Up On Ontario Shores
TheSecretStore – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
October 23, 2011 – Thousands of dead birds wash up on Ontario, Canada shores; botulism blamed.
→ read full articleDemocracy NOW! – A Grass-Roots Newscast Gives a Voice to Struggles
Brian Stelter – The New York Times,
31 Oct 2011
Operated as a nonprofit organization and distributed on a patchwork of stations, channels and Web sites, “Democracy Now!” is proudly independent, in that way appealing to hundreds of thousands of people who are skeptical of the news organizations that are owned by major media companies. The media, Amy Goodman said in an interview last week, can be “the greatest force for peace on earth” for “it is how we come to understand each other.” But she asserted that the views of a majority of Americans had been “silenced by the corporate media.”
→ read full articleSufism Asserting Against Extremism
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
One of the foremost challenges that multiethnic and pluralistic societies confront in 21st century is religious based extremism, which is resented by both state and non-state actors who believe in the values of peaceful coexistence of religions and other pluralistic values practiced by human society.
→ read full articleMexico, te quiero!
Johan Galtung, 31 Oct 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
What a blessed geography; the major bi-oceanic country in Latin America! The winds are blowing from Asia: winds of hope, with a Japanese-Chinese model of how to overcome misery. The winds of the Arab Spring are blowing from the Middle East carrying whispers of an African Spring in a year or two. The winds are blowing from the South, from Latin American brothers and sisters, new winds, with the voices of the indigenous, of Mother Nature, of lifting the poor, of patient work for integration. The “Rest” is coming.
→ read full article(Português) O Aficionado Pablo Picasso
Isabel A. Ferreira | Arco de Almedina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
Muitas vezes os aficionados do Massacre de Touros, para justificar a afición deles, dão-nos exemplos de gente famosa, que foram grandes admiradores desse espectáculo primitivo, pensando com isso livrarem-se do peso de uma culpa que sabem que carregam mas não admitem. Ora eu sempre achei que por detrás de um aficionado estaria algo que não bate certo. Os famosos, lá por serem famosos, também têm as suas taras. Por vezes, taras muito maiores do que o comum dos mortais.
→ read full article(Portuguese) A Questão dos Ómegas!
Centro Vegetariano – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
Muito se tem especulado sobre os ómegas 3 e 6, e sobre a sua importância na saúde humana. Por consequência essa especulação envolve de forma mais ou menos polémica os vegetarianos. Existem diversas afirmações que fazem crer que os vegetarianos não conseguem ingerir as quantidades necessárias destes compostos, uma vez que só consumindo peixe, supostamente as poderiam obter, comprometendo gravemente a sua saúde, especialmente a saúde cardíaca e mental.
→ read full articleWho Dares to Challenge a 32 Billion-Dollar Business – Human Trafficking?
Baher Kamal – Human Wrongs Watch,
31 Oct 2011
After weapons and drugs, human trafficking is the third most lucrative criminal business in the world – a 32 billion-dollar global industry, which is estimated to be exploiting over 2.4 million people, two-thirds of them women and children. Who dares to challenge such a huge business?
→ read full articleThe Son of Africa Claims a Continent’s Crown Jewels
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
On 14 October, President Barack Obama announced he was sending United States special forces troops to Uganda to join the civil war there. In the next few months, US combat troops will be sent to South Sudan, Congo and Central African Republic. They will only “engage” for “self-defence”, says Obama, satirically. With Libya secured, an American invasion of the African continent is under way.
→ read full articleWithout Credit Card Donations, WikiLeaks Facing Funding Crisis
Mark Seibel - McClatchy Newspapers,
24 Oct 2011
WikiLeaks, the whistleblower website that has been at the center of some of the world’s most controversial news for the past 18 months, is facing dire economic times, largely, the website says, because Visa, MasterCard and PayPal have refused for more than 10 months to process donations made on its behalf.
→ read full article(Castellano) La Promesa de Ocupa
Socialist Worker, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
Un movimiento comenzado por algunos cientos en Nueva York está transformando el debate político en todo el mundo–y sentando las bases de las luchas por venir. OCUPA ES el movimiento de una nueva generación–pero también es la voz del pueblo obrero, de todas las edades, harto del incesante descenso de su calidad de vida y del aumento de la desigualdad económica.
→ read full articleMary Gabriel on Love, Capital & Karl Marx’s Family
The Malaysian Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
Veteran journalist and former Reuters editor Mary Gabriel spent eight years poring over the personal lives of Karl Marx and his aristocratic wife Jenny. The result is a revealing portrait of Marx as a husband, father and human being inside a thorough account of the poverty, persecution and death which haunted the family of a man whose political theories would change the world. Gabriel, whose book has been nominated for a National Book Award in the United States, spoke to Reuters about her work: “Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution”.
→ read full articleHuman Rights Groups and Advocates Call for Annulment of APA’s PENS Report
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
Recognizing that the world has been shocked by the specter of abusive interrogations and the torture of national security prisoners by agents of the United States government since 9/11, over a dozen human rights groups and hundreds of advocates – health professionals, social scientists, social justice and human rights scholars and activists, and concerned military and intelligence professionals – have initiated a call for the annulment of the American Psychological Association’s (APA’s) 2005 “PENS Report.”
→ read full articleChange the Burmese Public Can’t Believe In
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
Burma is undergoing top-down changes, we are being told. Norway’s Deputy Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide, after his whirlwind trip to the country, told the Financial Times on Oct 11, “I almost left the country thinking they’re moving a little too fast. I never thought I would say that about Myanmar.”
→ read full articleGM Crops Promote Superweeds, Food Insecurity and Pesticides, Say NGOs
John Vidal, environment editor – The Guardian,
24 Oct 2011
Genetic engineering has failed to increase the yield of any food crop but has vastly increased the use of chemicals and the growth of “superweeds”, according to a report by 20 Indian, south-east Asian, African and Latin American food and conservation groups representing millions of people.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
Two girlfriends were married for ten years and still childless.
→ read full articleAfghan and U.S. Troops Forcing Civilians to March Onto Mined Roads?
Quil Lawrence, RAWA News – Human Wrongs Watch,
24 Oct 2011
Villagers from a violent part of southern Afghanistan say that Afghan troops, along with several American mentors, forced civilians to march ahead of soldiers on roads where the Taliban were believed to have planted bombs and land mines.
→ read full articleIn The Bullrings of Portugal, the Horse Is the Star of the Show
The Independent – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
Bullfighting might have been banned in Barcelona, but it is still part of life in Lisbon. Adrian Mourby stayed at a hotel where guests are invited to meet the men behind this controversial spectacle.
→ read full article(French) Action et Réaction: Créer des Passerelles Avec Soi-Même
Heshmi Ferjani – UNSpecial,
24 Oct 2011
Chacun réagit à ce qui lui semble ne pas convenir à son mode de pensée, à ses habitudes, parfois à ce qui peut l’interpeler au plus profond de lui-même. La réaction exige de nous une énergie formidable : La force que je mets pour libérer une personne bloquée derrière une porte est incommensurable.
→ read full articleGreater Israel—or Peace?
The American Conservative – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
Pathbreaking scholars Norman Finkelstein and John Mearsheimer speak out about the precarious future of the Jewish state.
→ read full articleMINUSTAH In Haiti: Keeping the Peace, or Conspiring Against It?
Harvard School of Public Health – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
Harvard Group Publishes White Paper Reviewing Human Rights Abuses Perpetrated by the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti; Calls for MINUSTAH withdrawal.
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Crisis in the Congo: Uncovering the Truth
CongoFriends – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
Crisis in the Congo: Uncovering the Truth explores the role that the United States allies, Rwanda and Uganda, have played in triggering the greatest humanitarian crisis at the dawn of the 21st century.
→ read full articleColombia Revisited: Ultra-Stability!
Johan Galtung, 24 Oct 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
Ultra-stability: institutionalized structural violence, and ritualized warfare; legitimized by multi-party democracy licensed to exploit and kill if only the parliament agrees. The narco-traffic finances poor and rich. The violence follows the flow of US arms and money, with a counter-flow of drugs, paying good commissions when the drugs change hands. End consumption mainly in the USA. Or destruction, being selling-buying drugs, like derivatives?
→ read full articleEngendering a Psychopter through Biomimicry and Technomimicry
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
The possibility explored here follows from the questions raised at the time of writing by the unprecedented street protests in Wall Street, subsequent to the widespread revolutionary protests of the so-called Arab Spring (Sarah Jaffe, This Is Only Getting Bigger: 20,000 Rally in New York to Support Occupy Wall Street, AlterNet, 5 October 2011).
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Hillary Clinton on Gaddafi: ‘We Came, We Saw, He Died’ (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
CBS News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared a laugh with a television news reporter moments after hearing deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi had been killed. “We came, we saw, he died,” she joked when told of news reports of Qaddafi’s death by an aide in between formal interviews.
→ read full articleDerivatives: The $600 Trillion Time Bomb That’s Set to Explode
Keith Fitz-Gerald, Chief Investment Strategist - Money Morning,
24 Oct 2011
The world’s gross domestic product (GDP) is only about $65 trillion, or roughly 10.83% of the worldwide value of the global derivatives market. In 2009, five banks held 80% of derivatives in America. Now, just four banks hold a staggering 95.9% of U.S. derivatives, according to a recent report from the Office of the Currency Comptroller. The four banks in question: JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C), Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS).
→ read full article(German) Fachzeitschrift “Psychologie in Österreich”
MMag. Corinna Häsele – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
Peace Journalism, a Contribution for Active Peace Effort – Friedensjournalismus, ein Beitrag aktiver Friedensbemühungen
→ read full articleOral Statement Introducing Report on Israeli Violations of Human Rights in Occupied Palestine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
Oral Presentation on 20 October 2011 of Report to the General Assembly by Special Rapporteur on “Situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967,” submitted in 13 September 2011.
→ read full articleJesus of Nazareth: Great Spiritual Power of Peace and Harmony
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
In order for all of us to benefit from the wisdom of Jesus we have to listen to what he said on some occasions. Here is a list of statements Jesus made, which are not enlisted in any specific order.
→ read full articleUN: Nearly 470,000 Cholera Cases Reported In Haiti over the Past Year
UN News Service – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
21 October 2011 –Almost 470,000 cases of cholera, including 6,595 deaths, have been reported in Haiti since an epidemic of the disease erupted in the Caribbean country one year ago, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported today.
→ read full article#OccupyMarines Are Preparing to Occupy America Nationwide
Anomaly 100 – PoliticusUSA,
24 Oct 2011
United States Marine Corps. Sergeant Shamar Thomas in a spectacular moment defended the protesters of Occupy Wall Street while staring into the faces of thirty NYPD officers, and now countless other Marines have organized in an amazing show of solidarity.
→ read full articleRevealed – The Capitalist Network That Runs the World
Andy Coghlan and Debora MacKenzie – New Scientist,
24 Oct 2011
The idea that a few bankers control a large chunk of the global economy might not seem like news to New York’s Occupy Wall Street movement and protesters elsewhere. But the study, by a trio of complex systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, is the first to go beyond ideology to empirically identify such a network of power. It combines the mathematics long used to model natural systems with comprehensive corporate data to map ownership among the world’s transnational corporations (TNCs).
→ read full articleLetter to a Dead Man about the Occupation of Hope
Rebecca Solnit - TomDispatch,
24 Oct 2011
Dear young man who died on the fourth day of this turbulent 2011, dear Mohammed Bouazizi, I wish you could see the way that your small life and large death became a catalyst for the fall of so many dictators in what is known as the Arab Spring. We are now in some sort of an American Fall. Civil society here has suddenly hit the ground running, and we are all headed toward a future no one imagined when you, a young Tunisian vegetable seller capable of giving so much, who instead had so much taken from you, burned yourself to death to protest your impoverished and humiliated state.
→ read full articleUS Seeks to Establish Naval Base on Jeju Island in Spite of Protests
John Lasker – Toward Freedom,
24 Oct 2011
On beautiful Jeju Island, south of the Korean peninsula, the South Korean Navy is building a base that will soon harbor some of the world’s most advanced weapons. But the mystery is: who inspired the base to be built on this island of pristine waters and stunning volcanic peaks in the first place? Peace activist Bruce Gagnon says all one needs to do is call the South Korean embassy in Washington and ask.
→ read full articleA Model for Macropolitical Crisis Prevention? The Rhodes Dialogue of Civilizations
Erika Degortes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
It should be possible to respond to economic and social changes and it should be made able for civilizations to cope with them locally. The World Public Forum identified the “Dialogue of Civilizations” itself as a possible approach to the current economic crisis, as well as conflict resolution models, as proposed by Prof. Galtung among others, as a method to develop a new growth and distribution model that would act as an alternative to the current ones.
→ read full articleHow the West Won Libya
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
24 Oct 2011
They are fighting over the carcass as vultures. The French Ministry of Defense said they got him with a Rafale fighter jet firing over his convoy. The Pentagon said they got him with a Predator firing a Hellfire missile. After a wounded Colonel Muammar Gaddafi sought refuge in a filthy drain underneath a highway – an eerie echo of Saddam Hussein’s “hole” – he was found by Transitional National Council (TNC) “rebels”. And then duly executed.
→ read full articleWinds of Change
Alexander Smoltczyk – Der Spiegel,
24 Oct 2011
The term “energy revolution” sounds light and airy enough, but how do human beings manage to wrest electricity from the sea? Germany’s largest offshore wind farm, a power plant surrounded by a hostile environment, produces 12 times as much energy as the world’s first nuclear power plant.
→ read full articleThe Economic Crisis: Seven Proposals
Johan Galtung, 17 Oct 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
Lift the bottom up through stimuli, bail-out the worst hit, let incompetent institutions sink. What we are doing is the opposite: not only bailing out but stimulating, rewarding incompetence and greed, letting the bottom sink further. Massive revolts are the optimistic reading. Massive suffering is realistic, and already here. And the most pessimistic reading: the continuation of the same doomed politics.
→ read full articleSome Church
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
At an Irish bar, there was a contest for the best toast.
→ read full articleOccupy Wall Street and “The American Autumn”: Is It a “Colored Revolution”? (Part I)
Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
17 Oct 2011
There is a grassroots protest movement unfolding across America, which includes people from all walks of life, from all age groups, conscious of the need for social change and committed to reversing the tide. The grassroots of this movement constitutes a response to the “Wall Street agenda” of financial fraud and manipulation which has served to trigger unemployment and poverty across the land.
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Amazon Watch: Standing with Indigenous Peoples, Defending the Rainforest
AmazonWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
For over 15 years, Amazon Watch has stood with the indigenous peoples of the Amazon Basin, helping build a global movement of forest guardians, while using creative and effective strategies to confront urgent threats to one of our living planet’s most precious resources.
→ read full articleDrone Attacks: American Citizens and Foreign Civilians
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
The execution of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-Yemeni imam, by a drone attack in Yemen on September 30, 2011 has generated a lively debate among liberally minded lawyers in the United States because al-Awlaki was an American citizen.
→ read full article(Castellano) 12 de Octubre de 2011: 519 Años de Genocidio y Explotación
Santi Amador – En Lucha,
17 Oct 2011
Como cada 12 de octubre se celebrará en el Estado español la denominada Fiesta Nacional de España o Día de la Hispanidad, en conmemoración del “descubrimiento” de América. Asimismo de los como poco 20 millones (estimaciones a la baja) de nativos americanos anteriores a la llegada de los españoles y demás ocupantes coloniales del continente, se estima que en pocos siglos y debido la brutalidad de los ocupantes y la trasmisión de enfermedades desconocidas para la población nativa, la misna descendió al 3% de la original.
→ read full articleThe Fight against Climate Change Is Down To Us – The 99%
Naomi Klein – The Guardian,
17 Oct 2011
If there is one thing I know, it’s that the 1% loves a crisis. When people are panicked and desperate, that is the ideal time to push through their wish list of pro-corporate policies: privatising education and social security, slashing public services, getting rid of the last constraints on corporate power. Amidst the economic crisis, this is happening the world over.
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Jeremy Irons on World Day against the Death Penalty (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
Actor Jeremy Irons outlines arguments against capital punishment in a clip to support Amnesty International’s campaign against the death penalty.
→ read full articleKeynote Speech at the Opening Session of the 2011 International Conference of Asia-Pacific Peace Research Association
Ikuro Anzai, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
Agenda for Peace Research after 3/11
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Pepe Escobar: Iranian Plot Was an Inside Job
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
A US government informant acting as a member of the Zetas, a drug cartel in Mexico, helped thwart an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States on American soil. Now Obama’s top national security aides are seeking new international sanctions against Iran. Pepe Escobar, correspondent for the Asia Times, tells us who’s to gain from the situation.
→ read full articleA New Bush Era or a Push Era?
Amy Goodman – Truthdig,
17 Oct 2011
Back when Barack Obama was still just a U.S. senator running for president, he told a group of donors in a New Jersey suburb, “Make me do it.” He was borrowing from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who used the same phrase (according to Harry Belafonte, who heard the story directly from Eleanor Roosevelt) when responding to legendary union organizer A. Philip Randolph’s demand for civil rights for African-Americans.
→ read full articleFacebook Can Track Web Browsing Without Cookies
DJ Pangburn - Death and Taxes Magazine,
17 Oct 2011
According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, quoting various posts and papers by hackers and researchers, Facebook has two types of cookies for data collection and one method that works without cookies.
→ read full articleJames C Scott: ‘Making a Pact with the Army’
Francis Wade – Democratic Voice of Burma,
17 Oct 2011
James C Scott’s seminal work on the upland people of Zomia, a region stretching from northern Burma to northern Vietnam and encompassing areas of China, Thailand and Laos, has been the subject of widespread applause and fierce debate. The Yale professor talks to DVB about whether communities can still evade the modern-day state in Burma, and whether recognition of the new Burmese government is well-founded.
→ read full articleLooking for the „Ancient Bosnian Pyramid“ Leads to Friendship
Amir Telibečirović Lunjo in Sarajevo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
Despite all chauvinist propaganda, which is occasionally present in some local media, people of different ethnic backgrounds, faiths, from various cities and villages of Bosnia, spontaneously came here to work together. Bosnian Serbs, bosnian Muslims, bosnian Croats, kids from the so called „mixed marriages“, they all work, sleep, eat, using toilet and laugh together here, against prognoses from international self proclaimed „Balkan experts“ in developed countries, who claim that people here can’t live together any more.
→ read full articleA Farewell to Nuclear Arms
Mikhail Gorbachev – Project Syndicate,
17 Oct 2011
Twenty-five years ago this month, I sat across from Ronald Reagan in Reykjavik, Iceland to negotiate a deal that would have reduced, and could have ultimately eliminated by 2000, the fearsome arsenals of nuclear weapons held by the United States and the Soviet Union. The next few years may well determine if our shared dream of ridding the world of nuclear weapons will ever be realized.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Governo Argentino Quer Mais Marx e Menos Neoliberalismo em Faculdades de Economia
Marcia Carmo de Buenos Aires - BBC Brasil,
17 Oct 2011
O ministro da Economia da Argentina, Amado Boudou, e seu vice, Roberto Feletti, defendem que as faculdades federais de economia do país modifiquem a atual grade escolar para dar “mais espaço” para as teorias do alemão Karl Marx, do inglês John Keynes e do argentino Raul Prebisch (fundador da Cepal), segundo confirmou à BBC Brasil o subsecretário de Coordenação Econômica do Ministério da Economia, Alejandro Robba.
→ read full articleLibya’s Revolution: Tribe, Nation, Politics
Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
The Libyan war is often portrayed through a “tribal” lens that fails to explain how the country’s tribes coexist with a sense of nationhood.
→ read full articleUnderstanding the Changes in Burma
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
All the “dramatic” developments in Burma, including the release of 6,000-plus prisoners, are, as US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell put it, certainly welcome. And yet despite these loud applauses of “changes” in Burma, the Burmese public is finding it very, very difficult to feel hopeful. These changes do not include the change of heart among Burma’s rulers. They are in fact principally related to only two things.
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