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(Portuguese) Brasil: Apoio Chega a 30 Países Latino-Americanos e 38 Africanos
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2011
A cooperação com países das Américas do Sul, Central, do Norte e do Caribe conta com cerca de 390 projetos e atividades isoladas, em diferentes fases de execução, com 30 países em desenvolvimento. Já a cooperação técnica com a África é feita com 38, dos quais 22 fazem parte do grupo de Países de Menor Desenvolvimento Relativo (PMDR). O orçamento da cooperação na África supera US$ 66 milhões.
→ read full article(French) Tragédie Grecque
Guillaume Duval – Alternatives Economiques,
4 Jul 2011
Dans sa chronique pour Radio Nova, Guillaume Duval expose les deux possibilités en discussion pour sauver la Grèce : faire payer les contribuables européens ou faire payer les banques. Deux alternatives qui comportent chacune des risques politiques et économiques.
→ read full articleSacred Mantras
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2011
The Palestinians are planning something thoroughly obnoxious: they intend to apply to the UN for statehood. Why obnoxious? Any Israeli spokesman (not to mention spokeswoman) will tell you readily: because it is a “unilateral” move. How dare they proclaim a state unilaterally? How dare they do so without the consent of the other party to the conflict – us?
→ read full article(Castellano) El Envejecimiento, no la Superpoblación…
Johan Galtung, 13 Junio 2011 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2011
… será la tendencia dominante de la demografía del siglo XXI, escribe Gérard François Dumont en Le Monde Diplomatique, de junio de 2011.
→ read full article(Castellano) Morales Promulga Ley que Garantiza Producción de Alimentos y Prohíbe Importación de Transgénicos
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2011
El presidente de Bolivia, Evo Morales, promulgó este domingo [26 Jun 2011] la ley de Revolución Productiva, Comunitaria y Agropecuaria con la que se garantizará la producción de alimentos en el país y que prohibíbe la importación de transgénicos.
→ read full articleNATO, the Ultimate Transformer
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
27 Jun 2011
NATO has just admitted it was “probably” responsible for the humanitarian liberation of nine Libyan civilians, plus 18 injured, via an early morning strike against an apartment building in a densely populated Tripoli neighborhood. Liberating Northern Africans in their sleep under tons of debris now adds to NATO’s – and the Pentagon’s – routine liberation of Pashtun wedding parties.
→ read full articleA Few Notes on WHAT IS LEFT (or Toward a Manifesto for Revolutionary Emancipation)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2011
These notes are meant as tentative and conversational expressions of an emergent political point of view, and will be revised in response to commentary by others. Obviously, also, there is no pretension on my part of comprehensiveness, or else many other issues would have been addressed.
→ read full articleUS Approves $3.4bn Native American Settlement
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Services,
27 Jun 2011
A US federal judge has approved a $3.4bn settlement over “mismanaged” Native American royalties, in a case that represents the largest settlement ever approved against the US government. The 15-year-old suit claimed that for more than a century, US officials systematically stole or squandered billions in royalties intended for Native Americans in exchange for oil, gas, grazing and other leases.
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The Audacity of Hope: U.S. Peace Activists to Sail to Gaza in Humanitarian Flotilla (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2011
Mon, Jun 20, 2011 – Dozens of Americans hope to set sail this week on a U.S.-flagged ship, “The Audacity of Hope,” as part of an international flotilla which aims to challenge Israel’s embargo of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian solidarity activists are setting sail from a number of ports just over a year after Israeli forces killed nine activists on an aid boat called the Mavi Marmara, which was part of the first such international flotilla.
→ read full articleIt Sure Aids
TMS Editor,
27 Jun 2011
An elderly patient gets a hearing aid from his doctor. After some time he meets the doctor again.
→ read full article(Castellano) México: Guerra Antidrogas, Plan Perverso
Salvador González Briceño – América Latina en Movimiento,
27 Jun 2011
Con datos de la ONU, de 1988 a 2008 el uso de drogas aumentó en 34.5%; la cocaína en 27%; la mariguana en 8.5%. Sólo este año, entre 20 y 25 millones de ciudadanos estadounidenses usarán alguna droga ilícita, unos 10 millones más que en 1970, y cada día suman 8 mil a la cuenta fatal. Otro dato indica que EU destina unos 15 mil millones en la “guerra contra las drogas”, pero cálculos conservadores señalan que la cifra se acerca a los 40 mil millones.
→ read full articleOcean Life ‘Facing Mass Extinction’
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2011
Pollution, global warming and other man-made problems are pushing the world’s oceans to the brink of a mass extinction of marine life unprecedented in tens of millions of years, a consortium of scientists has warned. Dying coral reefs, biodiversity ravaged by invasive species, expanding open-water “dead zones,” toxic algae blooms, and the massive depletion of big fish stocks are all accelerating, according to the report, which is due to be presented at the United Nations on Tuesday [21 Jun 2011].
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Laboratory Employees Caught on Tape
PETA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2011
Undercover footage of employees from animal “research” laboratories. Gruesome cruelty.
→ read full article‘Safety Myth’ Left Japan Ripe for Nuclear Crisis
Norimitsu Onishi – The New York Times,
27 Jun 2011
Shika, Japan — Near a nuclear power plant facing the Sea of Japan, a series of exhibitions in a large public relations building here extols the virtues of the energy source with some help from “Alice in Wonderland.” “It’s terrible, just terrible,” the White Rabbit says in the first exhibit. “We’re running out of energy, Alice.”
→ read full articleJapan’s Meltdowns Demand New No-Nukes Thinking
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
27 Jun 2011
Leaders of national nuclear-energy programs are gathering this week in Vienna for the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety. The meeting was called in response to Fukushima. Ironically, the ministers, including U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chairman Gregory Jaczko, held their meeting safely in a country with no nuclear power plants. Austria is at the forefront of Europe’s new anti-nuclear alliance.
→ read full articleTurkey, the Region, and the West after the Elections
Richard Falk & Hilal Elver – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2011
What emerges overall is this American led reluctance to accept Turkey as an independent regional force in the Middle East that has achieved enormous influence in recent years by relying on its own brand of soft power diplomacy. A dramatic indicator of this influence is the great popularity of Erdogan throughout the region, including among the youth who brought about the uprisings against authoritarian rule throughout the Arab world. It is an encouraging sign of the times that these new Arab champions of democracy are coming to Ankara and Istanbul, not Washington, Tel Aviv, or Paris, for guidance and inspiration.
→ read full articleChomsky: ”The West Is Terrified of Arabic Democracies”
Ceyda Nurtsch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2011
There are constant democratic uprisings. They are crushed by the dictators we – mainly the US, Britain, and France – support. So sure, there is no democracy because we crush it all. You could have said the same about Latin America: a long series of dictators, brutal murderers. As long as the US controls the hemisphere, or Europe before it, there is no democracy, because it gets crushed.
→ read full articleLeaked: Mainstream Media’s Dictionary – Letter C (satire)
Imran Garda – Al Jazeera,
27 Jun 2011
caliphate. n.
Future involving Ayman Al-Zawahiri sitting on a throne watching bearded footballers in long shorts contesting the Islamic Cup final in Seville.
Burma: Ethnic Conflicts are the Generals’ Golden Goose
Dr. Zarni – TRANSCEND MEDIA SERVICE,
27 Jun 2011
Maintaining a contrived state of internal conflict with ethnic groups provides Burmese military with an excuse to hold onto power to prevent disintegration.
→ read full articleGreece Prepares to Sell Off State Assets to Get Loans
CNN Wire Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2011
Greece is preparing to sell off billions of dollars worth of state assets including airports, highways and state-owned companies, as well as banks, real estate and gaming licenses, to meet international lenders’ demands that it raise funds.
→ read full articleNonviolence: Negative vs. Positive
Johan Galtung, 27 Jun 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2011
Both are forms of power. Negative nonviolence tries to stop the other side’s direct or structural violence whereas positive nonviolence tries to make the antagonist start being peaceful. Negative nonviolence includes all forms of action against, short of physical violence, like non-cooperation, civil obedience, breaking laws, declaring and practicing autonomy. And positive nonviolence includes clearing the past through conciliation, the present through mediation of dangerous conflicts, and building a future through equitable participation in positive projects. They are not exclusive; a Gandhi, a Martin Luther King did both.
→ read full article‘State Violence & Killing Is Not the Answer’
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2011
Dear Pres. Obama, do you really believe that we have abandoned our sense of decency and ethical values to support your illegal killings of unarmed civilians? Do you really believe we will remain silent whilst under your warrior leadership the US government and its allies dismantle basic human rights and international laws, so long fought for by brave, courageous men and women (including Americans), replacing them with extrajudicial killings, torture and assassinations?
→ read full articleWhat a Book!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2011
Peace Processes: A Sociological Approach by John D. Brewer – From Anglo-America the world is used to books about how what they see as Western attributes–rule of law, human rights, democracy–are not only sufficient to bring about peace, but necessary, indispensable. That the USA, the UK, and Israel have much of that and yet are among the most belligerent countries in the world is handled not by reexamining the thesis, but by claiming self-defense, against the envy of those with deficits.
→ read full articleAttacking Libya — And the Dictionary
Jonathan Schell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2011
If Americans Don’t Get Hurt, War Is No Longer War – For the Obama administration to go ahead with a war lacking any form of Congressional authorization, it had to challenge either law or the common meaning of words. Either the law or language had to give. It chose language.
→ read full articleDrilling Deep Mistakes in the Arctic
Kumi Naidoo – TerraViva Europe,
27 Jun 2011
I came in defence of the fragile Arctic environment. I became the 22nd Greenpeace activist who in the last few weeks has volunteered to climb the rig in the middle of the Arctic. I came to add my body to the protest and my voice to the call for sanity and an end to dangerous deep water oil drilling in the Arctic. I became the 22nd activist to be arrested and held in a Greenlandic cell. How can it be that in the wake of the 2010 Deep Water Horizon oil spill disaster an oil company can be allowed to drill at a similar depth in the Arctic, where any cleanup operation would be all but impossible.
→ read full articleUK: Victory in the Campaign to Ban Circus Animals
Martin Hickman – The Independent,
27 Jun 2011
MPs voted to ban wild animals in circuses last night [23 Jun 2011] after David Cameron’s attempts to bully Conservative backbenchers into voting against the measure backfired and ended in a humiliating public defeat. In a decision hailed by campaigners as an “historic victory for animal welfare and protection”, MPs of all parties unanimously backed a ban and the Government signalled that it would introduce one, ending forever the days of lions, tigers, elephants and other wild animals in the big top.
→ read full articleThe Road Not Taken: Can Fukushima Put Us on a Path toward Nuclear Transparency?
Kennette Benedict – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
27 Jun 2011
The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station is a sobering reminder that nuclear power relies on the most dangerous technology on Earth. Despite victories like the creation of the Atomic Energy Commission, and later the Nuclear Regular Commission, the secrecy that began with the Manhattan Project has tended to permeate the civilian nuclear program, as well as the military and defense programs.
→ read full articleLibya: Deep Structure and the Surface
Johan Galtung, 20 Jun 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
Killing civilians to save civilian lives, and demolishing the parliament building to promote democracy, do not communicate well the pretended purpose. When only monarchs, emirs, and other dictators favor US-Israel policy, and even Morocco moves to constitutional monarchy? When Tunisia-Egypt-Yemen-Bahrain-Saudi-Syria-Iraq defy the USA? Option: extrajudicial execution of demonized leaders – a sure vote-getter.
→ read full articleImperial War behind a Humanitarian Charade
Socialist Worker, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
The UN-sanctioned intervention, at first supposedly focused on imposing a “no-fly zone,” quickly–and predictably–transformed into what Western leaders now openly say is a war to topple Qaddafi. Rather than a mission that promotes democracy and freedom for the Libyan people, the Western war is about the plan of the U.S. and its allies to put in place a new regime that serves their interests.
→ read full articleNorthern Myanmar: Civil Society Organisations Call for Dialogue and Urgent International Engagement to Support Non-Military Solutions
Submitted by Emma Leslie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
As civil society working for peace and development in Myanmar, we write to express our grave concern over the rapidly deteriorating situation in Northern Myanmar, especially in Kachin State, where recent fighting threatens to escalate into a full-scale conflict with critical consequences.
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Olof Palme Memorial Lecture by Prof. Johan Galtung (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
Lecture delivered at Leeds City Hall, UK, on Jan 23, 2011
→ read full articleFor the Sake of Jewish Sensitivities
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
It occurred to me recently that the Palestinian solidarity discourse is spiritually, ideologically and intellectually driven by some very misleading terminology: crucial notions such as Zionism, colonialism and apartheid (heard in every discussion, and present in every text book about the conflict), are either confusing, or even delusional.
→ read full articleTurkey in Position to Lead Region Out of Tumultuous Century
William Pfaff - Truthdig,
20 Jun 2011
Twenty-seven European states, all at one or another time part of warring dynastic, nationalistic or ethnocentric imperial state systems, have now found peace. Turkey has for years struggled without success to become a member of this European community of peace. Possibly the failure was destiny. There is a Muslim community of peace for Turkey to inspire.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Notas Biográficas dos Países (Sátira)
Hernán Casciari – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
No caso de países, temos que dividir a sua idade histórica por 14 para saber a sua correspondência humana. Confuso? Aqui vão alguns exemplos reveladores. A Argentina nasceu em 1816. Assim sendo, tem 190 anos. Se dividirmos estes anos por 14 veremos que a Argentina tem ‘humanamente’ cerca de 13 anos e meio, ou seja, está na pré-adolescência. É rebelde, não tem memória, responde sem pensar e tem o rosto coberto de acne.
→ read full articleWhy the World’s Big Leaders Lie
Marcelo Barros - Pravda,
20 Jun 2011
The lies of the powerful are of various kinds. There are those of a personal character, as when once elected, politicians forget or deny campaign promises. There are lies with economic content. And there are those who justify or provoke wars, massacres of entire peoples and countries launching into inconceivable and meaningless adventures, as did George Bush and now the governments that coordinate military action in Libya and other countries.
→ read full article(Castellano) Fukushima 11-M – ¿Un punto de inflexión?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
La Zona Cero fue un océano cero, y el país que dio al mundo la palabra “tsunami” fue golpeado por uno de hasta 41 metros de altura. Y Fukushima Dai-ichi, una de las 54 centrales nucleares de Japón, con seis unidades, 1-6; estaba en la playa, ofreciéndose a la furia primordial del tsunami.
→ read full articleLeaked: Mainstream Media’s Dictionary (satire) – Letters A to B
Imran Garda – Al Jazeera,
20 Jun 2011
academic. adj.
Man in bow-tie. Usually represents think-tank or university. Explains the science behind global warming and/or new CERN project while anchor nods pretending to understand.
baggage. n.
Part of travelling entourage left unfondled by the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
(Portuguese) Italianos Votam pela Água Pública, Rejeitam Energia Nuclear e Imunidade de Berlusconi
Esquerda.net – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
Nos quatro referendos realizados em Itália participaram 57% dos eleitores, tendo o “Sim” ganho por largas maiorias, próximas ou superiores a 95%. Assim, os italianos votaram pela água pública e contra o aumento do preço das tarifas, rejeitaram a energia nuclear e a imunidade de Berlusconi.
→ read full articleUN Rights Council Passes ‘Historic’ Gay Rights Bill
Hui Min Neo – Agence France-Presse,
20 Jun 2011
The UN Human Rights Council passed a historic resolution Friday [17 Jun 2011] that seeks equal rights for everyone regardless of their sexual orientation, marking progress for gay rights despite strong Arab and African opposition.
→ read full articleIs the State a Monster? Pro and Contra Nietzsche
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
In Part One of Friederich Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra there is a particularly provocative section entitled ‘Of the New Idol.’ Remembering that this pivotal writing of the great German thinker/philosopher, so often misinterpreted, was written in 1881, it is surprising how relevant and invigorating its strong language remains in 2011.
→ read full articleGorilla Hunting
TMS Editor,
20 Jun 2011
A woman woke up one morning to find a ferocious-looking gorilla in a tree on her African plantation. She quickly phoned the local game warden, which arrived minutes later.
→ read full articleFukushima: It’s Much Worse Than You Think
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
20 Jun 2011
Scientific experts believe Japan’s nuclear disaster to be far worse than governments are revealing to the public. “Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind,” Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, told Al Jazeera.
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Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields
Channel 4 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
UK Channel 4 Full Video – Jon Snow presents a forensic investigation into the final weeks of the quarter-century-long civil war between the government of Sri Lanka and the secessionist rebels, the Tamil Tigers. With disturbing and distressing descriptions and film of executions, atrocities and the shelling of civilians the programme features devastating new video evidence of war crimes – some of the most horrific footage Channel 4 has ever broadcast.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Porque os Grandes do Mundo Mentem
Marcelo Barros – Pátria Latina,
20 Jun 2011
As mentiras dos poderosos são de vários tipos. Há as de caráter pessoal, como quando depois de eleitos, os políticos esquecem ou negam promessas de campanha. Há mentiras de conteúdo econômico. E há as que justificam ou provocam guerras, massacres de povos inteiros e lançam países em aventuras inconcebíveis e inconseqüentes, como fez George Bush e agora fazem os governos que coordenam ações militares na Líbia e em outros países.
→ read full articleDoes Portugal Have the Solution to Our Drug Epidemic?
The Independent, Ireland – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
In 2001 Portugal became the first country in the EU to decriminalise drug use. The leader of the country’s People’s Party, Paulo Portas, said plane-loads of foreign students would head for the Algarve for “sun, beaches and any drug you like”. Yet, 10 years on, Portugal’s drug policy is being held up as the model for other countries to follow. Rather than criminalising people found in possession of drugs, they are sent to a “dissuasion commission” for treatment and the results have been spectacular.
→ read full articleNew Insights into Beleaguered Africa
Jaya Ramachandran - InDepth News,
20 Jun 2011
“Africa has gone through a remarkable decade of economic transformation. The continent is abuzz with talk of new investment, new cities, new airports, new refineries: The new African Lions,” says a new study offering an upbeat insight into the continent and expanding South-South relations.
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New Footage Emerges of ‘Sri Lanka War Crimes’
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
WARNING: Some viewers may find some of the scenes disturbing. 2m:52s clip.
→ read full articleGlobal Harmony: Realization of World Peace
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
In every era of history we notice people everywhere yearning for true peace that makes everyone a winner and no one a loser. The genuine path for a permanent peace has been provided to us by many religious leaders over the centuries.
→ read full articleWar on Drugs: Fast, Furious and Fueled by the U.S.
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
20 Jun 2011
The violent deaths of Brian Terry and Juan Francisco Sicilia, separated by the span of just a few months and by the increasingly bloody U.S.-Mexico border, have sparked separate but overdue examinations of the so-called War on Drugs, and how the U.S. government is ultimately exacerbating the problem.
→ read full articleCall Off the Global Drug War
Jimmy Carter, 2002 Nobel Peace laureate – The New York Times,
20 Jun 2011
In an extraordinary new initiative announced earlier this month, the Global Commission on Drug Policy has made some courageous and profoundly important recommendations in a report on how to bring more effective control over the illicit drug trade.
→ read full articleBahrain’s Dictatorship and the Pentagon
Jacob G. Hornberger – Future of Freedom Foundation,
20 Jun 2011
What distinguishes the Bahrain dictatorship from, say, the Libyan or Syrian dictatorships, is that the U.S. government supports the dictatorship in Bahrain while opposing the Libyan and Syrian dictatorships. Thus, not only does U.S. foreign aid flow into the Bahrain dictatorship, the U.S. military also has a major base there. The Bahrain dictatorship is accusing those 20 doctors of participating in anti-government protests in Bahrain. Guess what type of court the doctors are being tried in. You got it: a military tribunal, just like those employed by the Pentagon at Guantanamo Bay.
→ read full articleI Am Bradley Manning
TMS Editor,
20 Jun 2011
Bradley Manning is the accused WikiLeaks source who allegedly provided the truth about the human cost of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, exposed government corruption and lies around the world, and changed journalism forever. He has been held in punitive pretrial detainment for nearly a year.
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Kumi Naidoo Scales Cairn’s Arctic Oil Rig
Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
In a small boat launched from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza Kumi Naidoo, the Executive Director of Greenpeace International crossed into an exclusion zone and scaled a controversial Arctic oil rig 120 km off the coast of Greenland.
→ read full articleLifting the Lid on Sri Lanka’s War Crimes
Callum Macrae – The Guardian,
20 Jun 2011
My film Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields exposes atrocities committed against civilian Tamils that the UN must not ignore. If the UN fails yet again, the message to every tyrant and repressive government will be clear: if you want to kill your own people with impunity, you will probably get away with it. (Watch a 2-min video clip in SHORT VIDEOS and the full documentary in IN-DEPTH VIDEOS).
→ read full articleGaza’s Hospital Stock Running on Near Empty
Mohammed Omer – Al Jazeera,
20 Jun 2011
Hospitals in Gaza are forced to cancel operations due to lack of medical supplies as the Israeli blockade continues. Human rights groups in Gaza are urgently requesting that international aid groups and donor groups to intervene and deliver urgent medical aid to Palestinian hospitals in Gaza. Palestinian officials say that Gaza’s medicinal stock is nearly empty and is in crisis. This affects first aid care, in addition to all other levels of medical procedures.
→ read full articleThe Financial Road to Serfdom: How Bankers use the Debt Crisis to Roll Back the Progressive Era
Prof. Michael Hudson – Global Research,
20 Jun 2011
At issue is sovereignty itself, when it comes to government responsibility for debts. And in this respect the war being waged against Greece by the European Central Bank (ECB) may best be seen as a dress rehearsal not only for the rest of Europe, but for what financial lobbyists would like to bring about in the United States.
→ read full articleBilderberg 2011: The Rockefeller World Order and the “High Priests of Globalization”
Andrew Gavin Marshall – Global Research,
20 Jun 2011
The Bilderberg Group, formed in 1954, was founded in the Netherlands as a secretive meeting held once a year, drawing roughly 130 of the political-financial-military-academic-media elites from North America and Western Europe as “an informal network of influential people who could consult each other privately and confidentially.”
→ read full articleMind Map of Global Civilizational Collapse: Why Nothing is Happening in Response to Global Challenges
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
Produced on the occasion of the release of a map of a massive cosmic galactic collision 11 million light years from Earth — and massive uprisings in the Mediterranean region on Earth, endangering the European and global economies.
→ read full article“Don’t Look Away—The Siege of Gaza Must End”
Kathy Kelly – Common Dreams,
20 Jun 2011
In late June 2011, I’m going to be a passenger on “The Audacity of Hope,” the USA boat in this summer’s international flotilla to break the illegal and deadly Israeli siege of Gaza. Organizers, supporters and passengers aim to nonviolently end the brutal collective punishment imposed on Gazan residents since 2006 when the Israeli government began a stringent air, naval and land blockade of the Gaza Strip explicitly to punish Gaza’s residents for choosing the Hamas government in a democratic election.
→ read full articleInterpreting the AKP Victory in Turkey
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
The following post was written jointly with Hilal Elver, who is a Turkish scholar and public intellectual. It offers commentary on the recent AKP victory, which is viewed as a significant and hopeful development in Turkish, and regional, politics.
→ read full articleRemote Control Killing Like Sport
Stephen Lendman – Information Clearing House,
20 Jun 2011
It’s America’s newest sport. From distant command centers, far from target sights, sounds, and smells, operators dismissively ignore human carnage showing up as computer screen blips little different from video game images. The difference, of course, is people die, mostly noncombatants. More on that below.
→ read full article(Italian) Economia di Guerra e di Pace (Prima Parte)
Dietrich M. Fischer – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
13 Jun 2011
La teoria economica può contribuire a una migliore comprensione di come possono essere risolti senza violenza i conflitti d’interesse, e di come possiamo costruire un sistema di pace costituito da politiche in reciproco rafforzamento che garantiscano il benessere generale e la trasformazione pacifica dei conflitti.
→ read full article(Italian) Economia di Guerra e di Pace (Seconda Parte)
Dietrich M. Fischer – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
13 Jun 2011
La teoria economica può contribuire a una migliore comprensione di come possono essere risolti senza violenza i conflitti d’interesse, e di come possiamo costruire un sistema di pace costituito da politiche in reciproco rafforzamento che garantiscano il benessere generale e la trasformazione pacifica dei conflitti.
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The General’s Son (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Alternate Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
Miko Peled is a peace activist who dares to say in public what others still choose to deny. Born in Jerusalem in 1961 into a well known Zionist family, his grandfather, Dr. Avraham Katsnelson was a Zionist leader and signer of the Israeli Declaration of Independence.
→ read full article(Castellano) ¿HUMANITARIA, o INTERVENCIÓN?
Johan Galtung, 30 de Mayo de 2011 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
El problema está en el término “intervención humanitaria”. “Humanitaria” está bien: proteger a las víctimas de la matanza y de la represión autocrática. Luego viene la parte “intervención”.
→ read full articleAging, Not Overpopulation…
Johan Galtung, 13 Jun 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
…will be the dominant tendency of the 21st century demography. By depriving people of work, forcing them into jobs and retirement, we produce health problems that tax strained economies further. Work is a fine mode of living; jobs may be necessary burdens. Money is used to bribe us into jobs for our livelihood. A rational society would have a living income for all, for food, clothing and housing, free health services, free education from Kindergarten to PhD; making us free to work.
→ read full articleForty Years of Drug War Failure
Helen Redmond – Socialist Worker,
13 Jun 2011
THE WAR on drugs in the U.S. turned 40 years old this year, but there’s nothing to celebrate. No victory has been declared, and there is no exit strategy. The U.S. imprisons 2.3 million people, more than any other country in the world. According to the Sentencing Project, in 2008, drug offenders made up more than half of the inmates in federal prisons.
→ read full article(Castellano) Presidente de Colombia Promulgó Ley de Reparación de Víctimas del Conflicto Armado
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
Con la presencia de su equipo de gobierno y del secretario general de la ONU, Ban Ki- Moon, este viernes fue promulgada por el Presidente de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, la Ley de Reparación a Víctimas del Conflicto Armado y de Restitución de Tierras en Colombia.
→ read full articleVictims’ Law Enacted in Colombia
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
Colombia has enacted a landmark “Victims’ Law” aimed at redressing the estimated four million victims of the country’s long-running internal conflict. The law creates mechanisms for compensating survivors of the tens of thousands of people, mostly civilians, killed since 1985 in Colombia’s civil war. Stolen land is to be returned to hundreds of thousands of displaced.
→ read full articleEconomic Attacks against Arab Democracy
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
In their latest documents and meetings, the G8, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund reacted to the democratic movements in the Arab world: The recipe calls – as it did before the popular ousting of the Tunisian and Egyptian presidents – for privatization, austerity measures and “market liberation”.
→ read full articleHope in the Andes: What Ollanta Humala’s Victory Means for Peru
Benjamin Dangl – Toward Freedom,
13 Jun 2011
Ollanta is an Incan name meaning “the warrior everyone looks to.” Indeed, all eyes were on the leftist president-elect as he greeted the crowd. This election puts Humala among a growing number of leftist presidents in Latin America and offers hope to the poorest sectors of Peruvian society. The poverty rate in Peru is just over 31 percent. In Sunday’s elections, it was the impoverished rural areas that went for Humala over Kieko Fujimori.
→ read full articleThe Great Land Grab: India’s War on Farmers
Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
Land, for most people in the world, is Terra Madre, Mother Earth, Bhoomi, Dharti Ma. The land is people’s identity; it is the ground of culture and economy. The bond with the land is a bond with Bhoomi, our Earth; 75 per cent of the people in the Third World live on the land and are supported by the land. The Earth is the biggest employer on the planet: 75 per cent of the wealth of the people of the global south is in land.
→ read full articleUnderstanding Political Reality in Syria
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
In his OpEd of June 3rd entitled The Depravity Factor, David Brooks writes emotionally about a murdered 13-year-old Syrian boy called Hamza Ali al-Khateeb. The descriptions and internet photographs of Hamza’s tortured body are horrible, but Brooks draws from this story a set of political conclusions that are unjustified by anything we know about Syria or the region we vaguely think of as the ‘Middle East’.
→ read full articleOld Age
TMS Editor,
13 Jun 2011
A woman walks up to an old man sitting in a chair on his porch.
→ read full articleSudan: Half the Horror Remains Untold
Tendai Marima – Al Jazeera,
13 Jun 2011
As the south prepares to declare independence, western media incorrectly frame current violence as entirely one-sided.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Haiti: Let Them Live on $3 a Day
Dan Coughlin and Kim Ives – The Nation,
13 Jun 2011
New revelations from WikiLeaks show how the US micromanaged Haiti’s economy and politics to align it to US interests. The US Embassy aided Fruit of the Loom, Levi’s and Hanes contractors in their fight against an increase in Haiti’s minimum wage. The factory owners refused to pay 62 cents per hour, or $5 per day, as a measure unanimously passed by the Haitian Parliament in June 2009 would have mandated. And they had the vigorous backing of the US Agency for International Development.
→ read full articlePeace Education: Source of National Unity and Global Harmony
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
The Webster Dictionary of the English Language describes peace as a “state of tranquility; freedom from war; cessation of hostilities; and harmony.” In a peaceful community, we notice a great serenity radiating in the hearts of its members. Genuine peace emanates from the inside.
→ read full article(Castellano) Los Piratas Somalíes: Pescadores en Lucha Contra el Saqueo Occidental
Johann Hari, Mohamed Abshirwaldo & Najad Abdullahi - TeleSur,
13 Jun 2011
La prensa comercial en los países del norte sólo hablan de ellos cada vez que un occidental es secuestrado. Nunca han contado le verdadera historia de los «piratas» somalíes ni las condiciones de vida de sus compatriotas. Esta gente está en lucha contra el pillaje de pesca occidental y la descarga de basura tóxica en sus aguas de los países industrializados, principalmente a cargo de las mafias europeas.
→ read full article‘Anonymous’ Warns NATO: ‘This Is No Longer Your World’
Graeme McMillan - Time,
13 Jun 2011
Anthropomorphic confusion aside, a NATO security report about “Anonymous”—the mysterious “hacktivist” group responsible for attacks on MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, Amazon and, most recently, Sony—has led the underground group to respond by cautioning NATO, “This is no longer your world. It is our world – the people’s world.”
→ read full articleA Fatally Flawed Recovery Plan: Greece Back on the Brink
Manfred Ertel, Christian Reiermann and Anne Seith – Der Spiegel,
13 Jun 2011
Greece needs even more money — EU officials estimate that a new bailout will cost over 100 billion euros rather than the previously assumed 60 billion. It will get the aid, even though the rescue strategy adopted so far seems doomed. The economy is shrinking, and ambitious privatization plans are illusory.
→ read full article‘Lasting Peace Only Possible with Hamas on Board’
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
It is time for the European Union to rethink its policy in the Middle East. That is the demand being made by 24 former heads of government, foreign ministers and peace negotiators. A Hamas recognition of Israel should be the goal rather than the precondition of the peace process, the leaders write in an open letter.
→ read full articleBlame the ’60s? The Catholic Church’s Latest Shameless Ploy
Jim Hightower - AlterNet,
13 Jun 2011
Pedophilia isn’t a social habit that one adopts. It’s a sickness. Deal with it. Honestly.
→ read full articleIMF Financial Terrorism
Stephen Lendman - Activist Post,
13 Jun 2011
Under a new post-war monetary system, the IMF was created to stabilize exchange rates linked to the dollar and bridge temporary payment imbalances. The World Bank was to provide credit to war-torn developing countries. Both bodies, in fact, proved hugely exploitive, using debt entrapment to transfer public wealth to Western bankers and other corporate predators. On a grander scale today, the scheme destructively obligates indebted nations to take new loans to service old ones, assuring rising indebtedness and structural adjustment harshness.
→ read full articleBit of [belated] Friendly Advice, Portugal
The Independent – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
Dear Portugal, this is Ireland here. I know we don’t know each other very well, though I hear some of our developers are down with you riding out the recession. They could be there for a while. Anyway, I don’t mean to intrude but I’ve been reading about you in the papers and it strikes me that I might be able to offer you a bit of advice on where you are at and what lies ahead. As the joke now goes, what’s the difference between Portugal and Ireland? Five letters and six months.
→ read full articleReframing the Dynamics of Engaging with Otherness
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
Triadic Correspondences between Topology, Kama Sutra and I Ching – Produced on the occasion of the open solicitation for proposals for the The Metaphor Program of the US Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity with participation of the US Army Research Laboratory. The challenge of engaging with “others” and their “otherness” is fundamental to the difficulties of governance at every level of society — from the global to the individual.
→ read full articleFormula One Race in Bahrain Cancelled
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
Bahrain Grand Prix organisers cancel race amid accusations of human rights abuses in government crackdown on protesters. Last week’s postponement triggered outrage among human rights campaigners, who had organised more than 455,000 people to sign an online petition calling on sponsors to boycott the Bahrain race.
→ read full articleUN Sends Discouraging Word to Second Freedom Flotilla
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
Freedom Flotilla II Activists reject UN call to discourage initiative “Road to Gaza.” The second Freedom Flotilla sails the third week of June bound for the Gaza Strip. The UN Secretary-General last week called on Israel to “act responsibly” and avoid engaging in violence in this new attempt to break the blockade, but urged the leaders in Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Belgium, Holland, Ireland, Sweden and Germany to convince the pro-Palestinian organizations not to participate in Freedom Flotilla II.
→ read full articleBack from the Dead: Astonishing Pictures Show How Japan Is Recovering Just Three Months after Tsunami
Emily Allen – Daily Mail,
13 Jun 2011
Three months on, these images show the Japanese people remain undaunted by the havoc nature has wreaked on their homeland as step by step they rebuild their nation.
→ read full articleU.S. Militarization in Latin America Condemned
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
Conference condemns the militarization of Latin America by U.S. It is now necessary to consider the military bases, the actions of paramilitaries in Colombia, the different forms of state terrorism employed, the presence of U.S. troops in Haiti and the situation of Mexico, facing a war between drug trafficking cartels, which has left over 37,000 dead since December 2006.
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Yom Yerushalayim – Jerusalem Day 2011
TMS Editor,
13 Jun 2011
A State-Supported Display of Racism and Hatred: Jun 1, 2011 – Israelis walking in the Arab neighbourhoud at 4 o’clock in the morning while chanting “Death to the Arabs”. Pure, senseless provocation.
→ read full article‘Sophisticated Cyber Attack’ Targets IMF
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
The International Monetary Fund’s computer system has been targeted in a cyber attack which sought to gain an ‘insider presence’ in the organisation’s network. An IMF spokesperson said on Saturday [11 Jun 2011] that the network was hacked and much information was stolen prior to the May 14 arrest of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, but would not release more details about what was taken. “This was a very major breach,” a senior official with knowledge of the attack told the New York Times.
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(Castellano) Eduardo Galeano en la Acampada Catalunya, Barcelona
TMS Editor,
13 Jun 2011
LEGENDADO EM PORTUGUES – Con los Indignados de Espana: Eduardo Galeano–famoso escritor, jornalista e novelista uruguaio–na Praça Catalunya, Barcelona, transmite uma mensagem inspiradora, penetrante e honesta para a juventude.
→ read full articleThe Rage of the ‘Indignants’: A European Generation Takes to the Streets
Mathieu von Rohr and Helene Zuber - Der Spiegel,
13 Jun 2011
For weeks, hundreds of young people have been camping out in central Madrid. And others across Europe have now begun following their example. Protests in Lisbon, Paris, Athens and elsewhere show that Europe’s lost generation has finally found its voice.
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Economic Hit Men
John Perkins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
An animated presentation by John Perkins, author of ‘Hood Winked’ and ‘Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.’
→ read full articleRewitnessing the Past
P.V. Rajagopal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
Sunday June 5th, 2011 will be remembered as a day of chaos, confusion and shock for the civil society organizations throughout India. While most people were sleeping, 5,000 policemen stormed the premises of Ramlila Maidan fairground of New Delhi –a place where people take up nonviolent protest, and the police practiced the lost art of using sticks to beat human beings while they were sleeping. This short note is to ask all friends and supporters of nonviolent struggles for the rights of marginalized to join hands and express global solidarity for change.
→ read full articleEuropean Opposition to Death Penalty: German Minister Denies US Request for Execution Drugs
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
For months, dozens of US states have been facing shortages of a drug necessary in lethal injections administered to death-row prisoners. But German Economics Minister Philipp Rösler this week declined a request from his counterpart, Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, to help out.
→ read full articleLandmark Agreement on Amazon Oilfields Shows Indigenous Movements’ New Power
Darrin Mortenson - Truthout,
13 Jun 2011
The twist on an otherwise old story was that, after several years of violent protests over resource extraction throughout the Amazon, this group of 18 Quechua Apus, or community chiefs, confidently strode into the government building wearing face paint and headbands, flanked by a team of lawyers, anthropologists and media, and demanded to see the governor. They walked out three days later with a contract for new schools, doctors, and other infrastructure, as well as a government pledge to conduct blood and water tests that could be used as evidence in a possible lawsuit. And, with Gov. Iván Vásquez, they seemed to have made a powerful new friend.
→ read full articleApproaches to Citizen-Centric Policing
Bishnu Pathak, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
Citizen-Centric Policing (CCP) or Neighborhood Policing (NP) is radar of Community Policing (CP). The CP is a policing practice that aims to increase interaction between citizens and police officials for public safety and quality of life in the community. More than tactics, strategy, and technique, it has become the national mantra to spring up in urban, suburban, and even rural police departments or police stations. The CP promises to change relationships progressively to improve the living conditions of neighborhoods.
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Richard Falk on the Golan Clashes
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2011
5 Jun 2011 – Richard Falk is the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories and a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment.
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Despite Intelligence Rejecting Iran Nuclear Threat, US May Be Headed for Iraq Redux (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Seymour Hersh – Democracy NOW!,
6 Jun 2011
Democracy Now! interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh about his latest article for the New Yorker magazine, “Iran and the Bomb: How Real is the Nuclear Threat?”, in which he reports that the United States might attack Iran based on distorted estimates of Iran’s nuclear and military threat—just like it did with Saddam Hussein’s government in Iraq.
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