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Portugal – Crisis, what crisis?
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
11 Apr 2011
After Prime Minister José Sócrates presented his resignation to President Anibal Silva on Wednesday [23 Mar 2011], the Portuguese mass media indicates a new legislative election at the end of May. However, this is not the only option open to the President. After decades of mismanagement, reality slams Portugal square in the face. What happens now?
→ read full articleTo Libya with God on Our Side
Saul Landau and Nelson Valdes – Information Clearing House,
11 Apr 2011
Grabbing other people’s land and interfering in their affairs became as American as apple pie before the annexation of Texas, and “Manifest Destiny” as the engine of U.S. foreign policy. In 17th Century inspirational moments God sent His chosen from England to found the “city on a hill” (Boston). He had dispatched other select British subjects to settle “the promised land” (Virginia). According to John L. O’Sullivan in 1839, God intended “the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.”
→ read full articleThe Intellectual Crisis of Reporting On Burma by the International Crisis Group
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
When European Union policymakers will meet to review the EU Common Policy on Burma, on 12 April, they will be wise to discard the International Crisis Group’s (ICG) recent call for the unconditional embrace of the country’s military dictatorship… The ICG analysts seem to have chosen only evidence that agrees with a pro-trade, pro-aid policy stance, while critically lacking both conceptual and historical understanding of how dictatorships change.
→ read full articleQuantico Blocks Official Visits by UN, Amnesty, and Rep. Kucinich to Bradley Manning
Michael Whitney, FDL – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
Government officials and Quantico Marine base have blocked official visits to PFC. Bradley Manning by Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Amnesty International, and the UN Special Rappateur on torture.
→ read full articleFukushima: A ‘Nuclear Sacrifice Zone’
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
11 Apr 2011
Some experts believe Japan’s nuclear disaster could become worse than Chernobyl. Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that was heavily damaged by the tsunami from the massive March 11 magnitude 9.0 earthquake continues to spread extremely high levels of radiation into the ocean, ground, and air.
→ read full articleObama’s Libyan Folly: To be or not to be…
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
The outcome in Libya remains uncertain, but what seems clear beyond reasonable doubt is that military intervention has not saved the day for either the shadowy opposition known as ‘the rebels,’ and certainly not for the people of the country.
→ read full articleHiroshima-Nagasaki and Fukushima
Akifumi Fujita - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
A Centennial Appreciation of the Life and Work of Japanese Physicist Mitsuo Taketani
→ read full article(Portuguese) Cúpula do BRICS na China Discute Rumos da Governança Mundial
Secr. de Comunicação Social da Presidencia da República do Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
A Reforma da Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU) e os rumos da governança global com eixo em um reordenamento multipolar mais equilibrado são alguns dos principais assuntos a serem tratados pelo Brasil na Cúpula de chefes de Estado dos Brics. O encontro será realizado em 14 de abril, na Ilha de Sanya, na China, e marcará a entrada da África do Sul como um dos membros do mecanismo internacional.
→ read full articleThe Civil Crime 1861-65
Johan Galtung, 11 Apr 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
“Causes of war” is an academic pursuit for the PhD hungry; “causes of peace” is the serious challenge. How could this crime against humanity [American Civil War] have been avoided, what would conflict solution, even peace, have looked like?.. ‘Welcome to America, home to 5% of the world’s people & 25% of the world’s prisoners,’ says the NAACP. Mainly Blacks. Rented out as labor from privatized prisons on the stock exchange, deploring lower crime rates, bribing judges for longer sentences. Jim Crow II, South and North. USA, wake up, before the republic becomes a victim of its own absurdity.
→ read full articleWhat Liberals and Conservatives Generally Do in Certain Situations
TMS Editor,
11 Apr 2011
If a liberal doesn’t like guns, he doesn’t buy one.
→ read full articlePeace Journalism in Pakistan: Perspective on Taliban Conflict
Shabbir Hussain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
This study aims to analyze the media strategy in reporting the tension between the Taliban and the security forces. Taking cue from the original Galtung model of peace journalism, this study strives to help devise a media strategy to promote peace and conflict transformation between the warring sides.
→ read full articleHow a Big US Bank Laundered Billions from Mexico’s Murderous Drug Gangs
Ed Vulliamy - The Observer,
11 Apr 2011
[Wachovia] Bank paid federal authorities $110m in forfeiture, for allowing transactions later proved to be connected to drug smuggling, and incurred a mere $50m fine for failing to monitor cash used to ship 22 tons of cocaine… and for failing to apply the proper anti-laundering strictures to the transfer of $378.4bn – a sum equivalent to one-third of Mexico’s gross national product – into dollar accounts from so-called casas de cambio (CDCs) in Mexico, currency exchange houses with which the bank did business. It is in the clear now.
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The Marketing of Madness: The Truth about Psychotropic Drugs (Part 1/2)
Citizens Commission on Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
These drugs do cause addiction, however most “doctors” would call this dependence because you do not have to take an increasing dose over time. They are completely fine with you being addicted to the same amount of any given drug on a daily basis. Over half of the people that commit suicide in the United States are prescribed to psychotropic drugs. (Ex: Paxil, Zoloft, Wellbutrin, Effexor, Seroquil, etc.)
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The Marketing of Madness: The Truth about Psychotropic Drugs (Part 2/2)
Citizens Commission on Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
This video provides the facts about psychotropic drugs and the huge profits they create for the pharmaceutical industry. These drugs are not safe and have not been on the market long enough to provide sufficient long term studies regarding their effects. These drugs do cause addiction, however most “doctors” would call this dependence because you do not have to take an increasing dose over time.
→ read full article10 Best Things We Can Do for Animals
Jane Goodall – Yes! Magazine,
4 Apr 2011
Jane Goodall tells us what we can do in our everyday lives to care for the animals we love.
→ read full articleWho Is Annexing Whom?
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
IN A rare late-night session, the Knesset has finally adopted two obnoxious racist laws. Both are clearly directed against Israel’s Arab citizens, a fifth of the population.
→ read full articleOdyssey Dawn and the Need for Athena
Paul D. Scott – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
“More often than not, when analysts assess African security issues, they do so with a voice reminiscent of the British Colonial Office in the eighteenth century—paternalistic and unaware.” This paternalism continues as conflicts in the region are poorly mapped and/or viewed through lenses that can only be turned one-way.
→ read full articleObama Raises American Hypocrisy To A Higher Level
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
“Some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries. The United States of America is different. And as president, I refused to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action.” This from the Great Moral Leader who every day murders civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Yemen and Somalia and now Libya and who turns a blind eye when “the great democracy in the Middle East,” Israel, murders more Palestinians.
→ read full articleThe Lessons of Fukushima
Hugh Gusterson – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
4 Apr 2011
This leaves us with a choice between walking back from a technology that we decide is too dangerous or normalizing the risks of nuclear energy and accepting that an occasional Fukushima is the price we have to pay for a world with less carbon dioxide. It is wishful thinking to believe there is a third choice of nuclear energy without nuclear accidents.
→ read full articleThe Empire Hits Back
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
Then rather treat Gadhafi the way they handled Milosevic: if you do not give in to our demands Beograd–read Tripoli–will be flattened by carpet bombing. The Finn who conveyed that message got a Nobel Peace Prize, maybe he could be called upon again?
→ read full articleCops
TMS Editor,
4 Apr 2011
An old lady was speeding down the highway while she was knitting.
→ read full articleTurkey’s Big Business Opts for Consolidation of Democracy
Sahin Alpay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
The principles now open to public deliberation have been advanced, discussed and broadly agreed upon by liberals and democrats in Turkey in a debate that started in the early 1990s. What the TÜSİAD report suggests is, briefly, that the Constitution based on Kemalism (secular nationalism) drawn by the military in 1982 be replaced by one that is based on the principles of liberal democracy.
→ read full articleWhat’s Best for My Computer: Hibernate, Sleep, or Shut Down?
Morieka Johnson, Mother Nature Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
How to manage your computer depends a lot on your work habits.
→ read full articleNarco Violence in Mexico: Eight Theses and Many Questions
Paco Ignacio Taibo II – Toward Freedom,
4 Apr 2011
Calderón negotiated the launching of this war with President Bush, not with the then newly-arrived Obama. And he agreed in terms of a package deal with absurd conditions. The drug war has never been, nor should it be, a Mexican War. It was, and is an essentially American war generated by increased consumption of drugs on a global scale which initiated in the United States.
→ read full articleExposed: The US-Saudi Libya deal
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
4 Apr 2011
Two diplomatic sources at the United Nations independently confirmed that Washington, via Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, gave the go-ahead for Saudi Arabia to invade Bahrain and crush the pro-democracy movement in their neighbor in exchange for a “yes” vote by the Arab League for a no-fly zone over Libya – the main rationale that led to United Nations Security Council resolution 1973.
→ read full articleReducing Armed Violence the Asian Way
Fred Lubang and Robert Muggah – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
Whilst armed violence affects every country, some societies are more affected than others. In South and Southeast Asia, countries such as Afghanistan, Myanmar, Pakistan, the Philippines and Thailand are affected by on-going armed conflicts within and across their borders. Others such as Cambodia, Nepal, and Sri Lanka are emerging from war. Meanwhile, Bangladesh and Indonesia, along with virtually every other state across both regions, are confronting simmering urban violence due to growing organized crime and gang activity.
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Burning Conscience: Israeli Soldiers Speak Out
Alternate Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
A searing interview with Avichai Sharon and Noam Chayut, both veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces and members of Breaking the Silence. Sharon and Chayut served during the second intifada, an on-going bloodbath that has claimed the lives of over three thousand Palestinians and nine-hundred-fifty Israelis. After thorough introspection, these young men have chosen to speak out about their experiences as self-described “brutal occupiers of a disputed land.”
→ read full articleThe Hypocrisy of the West’s ‘Humanitarian Interventions’
Peter Lavelle – The Moscow News,
4 Apr 2011
Western sponsored “humanitarian intervention” always picks a side – and the winning side does what it pleases. This is one of the unspoken spin-offs of “humanitarian interventionism”.
→ read full articleCreate Space for Peace
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
“But what do you do in practice” was a question often asked of me when I started to represent Peace Brigades International (PBI) shortly after its creation in 1981 at the United Nations in Geneva.4
→ read full articleBoycotting Israel … From Within
Mya Guarnieri – Al Jazeera,
4 Apr 2011
Israelis explain why they joined the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement.
→ read full articleEthics in Business Education
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
If we were to give a rapid glance at the last 6,000 years of recorded history, we would soon discover that most problems in the world stem from the government.
→ read full articleDeath Penalty in 2010: Executing Countries Left Isolated After Decade of Progress
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
28 March 2011. Countries which continue to use the death penalty are being left increasingly isolated following a decade of progress towards abolition, Amnesty International has said today in its new report Death Sentences and Executions in 2010.
→ read full articleHumane Meat? No Such Thing
Sunaura Taylor – Yes! Magazine,
4 Apr 2011
Should we eat animals? My disability gives me a unique view on the oxymoron “humane meat.”
→ read full articleThe Dangerous US Game in Yemen
Jeremy Scahill – The Nation,
4 Apr 2011
The day before US missiles began raining down on Muammar el-Qaddafi’s Libya, hundreds of miles away—across the Red Sea—security forces under the control of Yemen’s US-backed president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, massacred more than fifty people who were participating in an overwhelmingly peaceful protest in the capital, Sana. Some of the victims were shot in the head by snipers.
→ read full articleIceland, a Country That Wants to Punish the Bankers Responsible for the Crisis
Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
Since 2008 the vast majority of the Western population dream about saying “no” to the banks, but no one has dared to do so. No one except the Icelanders, who have carried out a peaceful revolution that has managed not only to overthrow a government and draft a new constitution, but also seeks to jail those responsible for the country’s economic debacle.
→ read full articleJoint Statement on the Japanese Nuclear Disaster
The Right Livelihood Award & World Future Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
Hamburg, Stockholm, 29 March 2011. In a joint statement 50 Laureates of the Right Livelihood Award and members of the World Future Council demand a global nuclear phase out.
→ read full articleAmerican Peace Activist Jonathan Schell: ‘Our Most Dangerous Illusion Is that We Can Control Nuclear Energy’
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
In a SPIEGEL interview, peace activist and author Jonathan Schell discusses the lessons of the Fukushima disaster, mankind’s false impression that it can somehow safely produce electricity from the atom, and why he thinks the partial meltdown in Japan could mark a turning point for the world.
→ read full article(Castellano) Libia: El International Peace Bureau Condena el Ataque Militar y Urge por Una Negociación Política para Proteger la Población Civil
International Peace Bureau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
Una nueva era histórica se ha abierto hace tres meses con los levantamientos populares de Túnez y luego el de Egipto, el primero de la denominada “Primavera Arabe”… La revuelta libia se inspiró en estas victorias fundamentalmente no violentas, pero – el mundo lo ha presenciado con consternación – se ha militarizado rápidamente y está ahora envuelta en una guerra civil .
→ read full articleOops!
TMS Editor,
28 Mar 2011
“Just look at that young person with the short hair and blue jeans. Is it a boy or a girl? “
→ read full articleLibya: IPB Condemns Military Strikes and Urges Political Negotiations to Protect the Civilian Population
International Peace Bureau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
A new historical era opened three months ago with the popular uprisings in Tunisia and then Egypt, the first of the ‘Arab spring’ season. These rebellions brought hope to millions and youthful energy to societies suffering decades of repression, injustice, inequality, especially gender inequality, and increasing economic hardship. The Libyan revolt was inspired by these largely nonviolent victories, but, as the world has witnessed with dismay, has rapidly become militarized and is now embroiled in a full-scale civil war.
→ read full articlePartners in Victory! Flags for Peace!!
COVA-Confederation of Voluntary Associations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
India and Pakistan will play the semifinal of the World Cup on 30th March 2011. That the match can be played in Mohali, India is a gift of the peace process that was started in 2004.
→ read full articleThe “Kill Team” Photographs
Seymour M. Hersh – The New Yorker,
28 Mar 2011
It’s the smile. In photographs released by the German weekly Der Spiegel, an American soldier is looking directly at the camera with a wide grin. His hand is on the body of an Afghan whom he and his fellow soldiers appear to have just killed, allegedly for sport… There are also reports of suspected Taliban sympathizers we turn over to Afghan police and soldiers being tortured or worse. This will be a long haul; revenge in Afghan society does not have to come immediately. We could end up not knowing who hit us, or why, a decade or two from now.
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All Banks Should Be Like the Bank of North Dakota
TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
A number of laws and social reforms were implemented in North Dakota in the early 20th century, some of which are still in place today, in an attempt to insulate it from the power of out-of-state banks and corporations.
→ read full articleAristide’s Return to Haiti: A Long Night’s Journey Into Day
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
28 Mar 2011
The U.S. continued to prevent Aristide from returning for the next seven years. Just last week, President Barack Obama called South African President Jacob Zuma to express “deep concerns” about Aristide’s potential return, and to pressure Zuma to block the trip. Zuma, to his credit, ignored the warning. U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks reveal a concerted, multiyear drive to hamper the return of Aristide to Haiti, including diplomatically punishing any country that helped Aristide, including threatening to block a U.N. Security Council seat for South Africa.
→ read full articleThe Dark Side of “Comprehensive Soldier Fitness”
Roy Eidelson, Marc Pilisuk & Stephen Soldz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
Why is the world’s largest organization of psychologists so aggressively promoting a new, massive, and untested military program? The APA’s enthusiasm for mandatory “resilience training” for all U.S. soldiers is troubling on many counts.
→ read full article(Castellano) Brasil [BRIC] y Nicaragua Abogan por Una Solución Pacífica a Conflicto en Libia
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
La presidenta de Brasil, Dilma Rousseff afirmó este martes [22 Mar 2011] que su país está a favor de una solución pacífica al conflicto en Libia, mientras que su homólogo de Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, pidió el cese de la agresión contra la nación norteafricana. “No es sólo nuestra posición, también es la de China, la India y Rusia”, [Dilma Rousseff afirmó], naciones que, junto a Brasil, integran el grupo de países con economías emergentes, conocido como BRIC, al que recientemente se integró Sudáfrica.
→ read full article(Castellano) ¿Rearmar a Costa Rica o desarmar al resto?
Adrian Bergmann, El Nuevo Diario - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
La preocupación por la escalante tensión entre Costa Rica y Nicaragua es real. La desigualdad de fuerzas es igualmente real. De allí se puede partir a dos caminos divergentes; ¿habría que rearmar a Costa Rica? o ¿habría que desarmar al resto de Centroamérica?.
→ read full article(Italian) Il Collasso del Vecchio Ordine Petrolifero
Michael T. Klare – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
28 Mar 2011
Qualunque sia l’esito delle proteste, sommosse e ribellioni che stanno ora spazzando il Medio Oriente, una cosa è certa: il mondo del petrolio sarà trasformato in maniera definitiva.
→ read full articleTransnational Capitalism or Collective Imperialism?
Samir Amin – Pambazuka News,
28 Mar 2011
Responding to the work of scholars like William Carroll, Samir Amin considers the evolution and shape of globalised capitalism and the extent to which it might be termed ‘transnational’ or ‘collective imperialism’. He stresses: ‘Globalisation is an inappropriate term. Its popularity is commensurate with the violence of ideological aggression that has prohibited henceforth the utterance of “imperialism.”
→ read full articleLet’s Make Female Genital Mutilation a Part of History
Bernadette Sesay – Pambazuka News,
28 Mar 2011
At age 18, I was told the time had come for me to go through Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). I didn’t want to. It was my mother and maternal grandmother’s idea: they’d also been responsible for the initiation of all of my female siblings. My mother cried and pleaded with me, begging me not to bring shame to my family. She told me it was not going to be hard because I was having it done in a hospital. I didn’t know it could be done in hospital; at the time this came as a shock.
→ read full articleThe Invisible Hand Explains Nuclear Safety
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
Award-winning cartoonist Tom Tomorrow has the invisible hand of the free market explain nuclear safety.
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Johan Galtung on US Radio – Wide Awake News (Video of the Week)
Charlie McGrath and Warren Pollok – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
Charlie McGrath and Warren Pollok, hosts of Wide Awake Radio-Alternate Radio Show in the US, conduct an original interview with Prof. Galtung talking about his recent book “The Fall of the US Empire – And Then What?” Dr. Galtung provides solutions.
→ read full articleContinuing Colonialism: World Bank Funds Mining in Africa
Cyril Mychalejko – Toward Freedom,
28 Mar 2011
Dr. Aaron Tesfaye, a professor of International Political Economy and African Politics at William Paterson University, said he is not surprised by the announcement because of the economic and security implications mining and strategic metals have for industrialized nations.
→ read full articleQaddafi, Moral Interventionism, Libya, and the Arab Revolutionary Moment
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
Recently [Qaddafi] confirmed this assessment, referring to his own people as ‘rats and dogs’ or ‘cockroaches,’ and employing the bloodthirsty and vengeful language of a demented tyrant. Such a tragic imposition of political abuse on the Libyan experience is a painful reality that exists beyond any reasonable doubt, but does it validate a UN authorized military intervention carried out by a revived partnership of those old colonial partners, France and Britain, and their post-colonial American imperial overseer? I think not.
→ read full articleInterplanetary Security Council resolution: No-fly zone on Earth – Resolution 1973
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
This is a translated text of a resolution of the Interplanetary Security Council, apparently leaked by WikiLeaks-Solar.
→ read full articleNews Goo Episode 1
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
In the launch edition of News Goo, Jake Lynch interviews Julian Burnside QC, and the journalist, author and film-maker John Pilger, about the investigative journalism of WikiLeaks.
→ read full articlePlayboy Interview: Helen Thomas
David Hochman – Playboy,
28 Mar 2011
A candid conversation with the disgraced dean of the White House press corps about her rage against Israel, her sympathy for Palestinians and why she was fired.
→ read full articleHuge Payout over US Priests Sex-Scandals
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
The Pacific Northwest chapter of the Roman Catholic Church’s Jesuit order has agreed to pay $166 million to settle more than 500 child sexual abuse claims against priests in five states, attorneys have said.
→ read full article(Italian) Le Rivoluzioni Nonviolente Arabe
Prof. Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
Per meglio comprenderle, partiamo dalle rivoluzioni nonviolente che più hanno (cambiato e) impressionato il mondo, quelle del 1989.
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Exclusive Interview with Jean-Bertrand Aristide during Plane Returning to Haiti
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
28 Mar 2011
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his family were flown on Friday [18 Mar 2011] by the South African government back to their home in Haiti after seven years in exile. Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman was the only reporter to join them on the journey.
→ read full articleEurope Turns Against Israel
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
It seems as if the Holocaust indoctrination that is rallied and utilised by every Jewish and Zionist institution around the world has backfired, and on every possible front: more and more people around regard the Israelis as the Nazis of our time. I must admit that I am uncomfortable with that comparison — I actually believe that Israel is far worse than Nazi Germany, at least from certain perspectives.
→ read full articleUrgent Appeal to Change the Mindset
Reflection Group on Global Development Perspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development – Rio 2012, must change the dominant mindset by restoring public rights over corporate privileges.
→ read full articleLet the Truth Be Known About the Fukushima Nuclear Plants
People's Plan Study Group – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
An Urgent Demand to the Mass Media and the Government of Japan
→ read full articleNoam Chomsky Answers Six Questions from Well Known Personalities
Frank Barat, Vimeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
Frank Barat asks Prof Noam Chomsky six questions that were sent by Alice Walker, John Berger, Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, Amira Hass and Chris Hedges.
→ read full article(Galego) Declaracion Institucional do Seminario Galego de Educacion para a Paz en Relación co Ataque Militar a Libia
Fundacion Cultura de Paz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
O Seminario Galego de Educación para a Paz apoiará todas as mobilizacións pacíficas e nonviolentas convocadas para manifestar a oposición á intervención militar en Libia e convocará á Coordinadora Galega pola Paz co fin de acordar accións unitarias nesta dirección.
→ read full articleFumbling Toward Fukushima: Japanese Nuclear Plant Operator Plagued by Scandal
Markus Becker – Der Spiegel,
28 Mar 2011
For years, Tepco, the operator of the Fukushima power plant, has been widely criticized for deadly accidents and improper inspections. The Fukushima disaster is the tragic nadir in a history of poor management at the company’s nuclear facilities.
→ read full articleWhere Is the Voice of the African Union?
Wangari Maathai – Deccan Herald,
28 Mar 2011
Many Africans, in both north and south, have for years moved in darkness, fear, and desperation. Surely the AU should have been among the first international organisations consulted as internal conflict engulfed AU member states in North Africa. Why wasn’t it? If such conflicts were taking place in Europe, surely the EU would be central to a resolution.
→ read full articleWhat They’re Covering Up at Fukushima
Hirose Takashi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
After reading his account, you will wonder, why do they keep on sprinkling water on the reactors, rather than accept the sarcophagus solution [ie., entombing the reactors in concrete. Editors.] I think there are a couple of answers.
→ read full articleNo Laws, No Secrets: The Anarchist Creed of Julian Assange
Christopher Ketcham - Truthdig,
28 Mar 2011
Assange is undermining the system by which we don’t cooperate at all, or pretend to cooperate, or force cooperation by bombing, killing, lying, cheating, smiling and smiling while villainous—all in service of “solving regional challenges,” which is to say in service of the imperial state… What commentators on Assange don’t seem to get is that he is channeling Thomas Paine.
→ read full articleA System Designed to Crash
David Korten – Yes! Magazine,
28 Mar 2011
Why a Money System Dependent on Constant Growth Can’t Last – The problem appears to be a lack of money, even though the total money in circulation is far more than enough to cover real-wealth exchanges in a rational real-wealth economy. The money, however, is locked up in the Wall Street casino economy rather than circulating in the real Main Street economy. Pouring public bailout money into Wall Street serves only to reflate the bubble. It does nothing to revive the real economy.
→ read full articleIs the US Ruled by a Military Junta?
Eric Margolis – Lew Rockwell,
28 Mar 2011
The finest strategic thinker of the 20th century, Britain’s Maj. Gen. J.F.C. Fuller, wrote the object of war is achieving political goals, not military victory. Politicians keep forgetting Fuller’s dictum. The last examples of wars without defined political objectives were Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Welcome a fourth: Libya.
→ read full articleLibya: The War Is On
Johan Galtung, 28 Mar 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
As someone on National Public Radio quipped, “President Obama has fired more cruise missiles than all other Nobel Peace Prize winners combined”, and they have hit all kinds of targets: flying, driving, walking, being. What is next?
→ read full articleTwo Human Made Disasters: Japan and Libya
Johan Galtung, 21 Mar 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
(Japan) We pray, we hope: no Chernobyl 1986. Stop! this is enough. We know enough to end all nuclear plants. There are alternatives. (Libya) BRIC + Germany are now called upon. Abstention is not good enough. Be on the side of history, and that means: be on the side of the Arab liberation from Western European-US-Israeli dominance, and an economy causing ever more inequality-misery, and autocracy. The Abstaining Five have experience in fighting such pathologies. BRIC+G, A5: The ball is in your court. Play it well.
→ read full articleBreaking Australia’s Silence: WikiLeaks and Freedom
John Pilger - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
Public forum held on 16 March 2011 at the Sydney Town Hall. The event was staged by the Sydney Peace Foundation, Amnesty International, Stop the War Coalition, and supported by the City of Sydney.
→ read full articleJulian Assange on 60 Minutes (Part 1)
CBS News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
Julian Assange appeared on 60 Minutes on 30 Jan 2011 in his longest televised interview while in house arrest in England. One of the most interesting aspects of the interview: behind-the-scenes shots of Assange and colleagues, mundanely sitting around a kitchen table on laptops that presumably contain some of the most explosive secrets on earth.
→ read full articleJulian Assange on 60 Minutes (Part 2)
CBS News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
Julian Assange appeared on 60 Minutes on 30 Jan 2011 in his longest televised interview while in house arrest in England. One of the most interesting aspects of the interview: behind-the-scenes shots of Assange and colleagues, mundanely sitting around a kitchen table on laptops that presumably contain some of the most explosive secrets on earth.
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Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide Returns Home (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
21 Mar 2011
In defiance of the Obama administration, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is headed back to Haiti today for the first time since being ousted in a 2004 U.S.-backed coup. Hours ago, Aristide, his family, and a delegation of supporters boarded a plane in South Africa bound for Port-au-Prince. Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman is with the Aristides to document their journey home. She filed this report.
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Chossudovsky: New deadly war theater opened in Libya
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
RT talks to Michel Chossudovsky – Director of the Center for Research on Globalization in Canada.
→ read full articleHow Will the Arab Spring Reshape the Middle East?
Patrick Martin – The Globe and Mail,
21 Mar 2011
The Islam-is-down, secularism-is-up theme is one of three common notions about what the aftermath of the upheavals will bring. The second assumption is that greater democracy will emerge. The third is that, as far as the two non-Arab states that compete for influence in the region are concerned, the Iranian regime’s fortunes are looking brighter, and Israel’s much darker. It’s too soon to tell what exactly will emerge from this remarkable revolutionary period, but it’s not too soon to question some of these popular notions.
→ read full articleExperts Help to Rebrand Burma’s Failed Dictatorship
Dr. Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
Every time Burma’s military dictatorship is framed as “new,” it is being rebranded, to use the lingo of corporate advertising. The spoils of the positive public relations are shared as it were between the experts and their organizations that prostitute themselves by spinning for their neo-liberal governmental patrons and corporate “donors” in the West and Burma’s despotic regime, the former’s actual and potential business partner.
→ read full articleLawyers
TMS Editor,
21 Mar 2011
How do you make a group of lawyers to smile for a photo?
→ read full articleA Dirty Word
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
On Thursday evening I could not think of anything except Libya.
→ read full articleWorld Citizens Call For a Cease Fire in Libya and Start of Negotiations on a Broadly-Based New Libyan Republic
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
Historically in Libya, there were sixteen marabtin tribes renouned for their religious wisdom who served as mediators and arbiters within the political structures of tribal, pre-colonial Libya. The tradition of reconciliatory mediation may still exist, and traditional avenues of mediation should be explored. A cease fire must be a first step, and the United Nations the most appropriate institution for maintaining a cease fire while constitutional discussions start.
→ read full articleOur Animal Selves
Linda Hogan – Yes! Magazine,
21 Mar 2011
All around us are radiant species. What can the first peoples teach us about restoring our relationship with animals?
→ read full articleLetter from Japan
Kimberlye Kowalczyk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
People are running out of food and water, and yet they wait patiently and quietly, in single-file, at supermarkets where they are rationing supplies to 5 items per person. There is no pushing, no yelling, not a single report of looting, anywhere. First of all, can you imagine only being able to pick 5 items after lining up all day, your kids and elderly parents not having eaten a proper meal in two days? It keeps going through my head ~ which 5 items would I chose?
→ read full articleThe Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens?
RSA Animate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
Does the internet actually inhibit, not encourage democracy? In this new RSA Animate, Evgeny Morozov presents an alternative take on ‘cyber-utopianism’ – the seductive idea that the internet plays a largely empancipatory role in global politics.
→ read full articleOil and Trouble
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
Why western governments won’t support democracy in Saudi Arabia. Did you hear it? The clamour from western governments for democracy in Saudi Arabia? The howls of outrage from the White House and Number 10 about the shootings on Thursday, the suppression of protests on Friday, the arrival of Saudi troops in Bahrain on Monday? No? Nor did I. Did we miss it, or do they believe that change is less necessary in Saudi Arabia than it is in Libya? If so, on what grounds?
→ read full articleBreaking Out of the Programmed Society
Caroline Hargeaves – Generation C Magazine,
21 Mar 2011
The technology systems know your friends, your interests, where you live, countries you have visited and the places you dream about visiting. How? Because you told them… When discussing this topic, one can refer to mind control in George Orwell’s 1984 and pro-active prosecution in Minority Report. Sociologist Alain Tourain described as early as 1981 the emergence of a ‘programmed society’, under the control of a technocratic elite in which information and knowledge superseded material production as the key source of social power.
→ read full articleThe UN Mission in Nepal-UNMIN’s Humiliating Withdrawal
Bishnu Pathak, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
The UNMIN obtained a final four-month extension effective from September 16, 2010 till January 15, 2011. The UNMIN ended its role owing to heavy criticism from non-Maoist parties and returned from Nepal. It withdrew leaving reintegration, rehabilitation and democratization half-way, unlike many other UN missions in the world… A Special Committee (SC) has replaced the UNMIN and implements its mandate against provisional ethics. The UNMIN was established under Nepal’s special circumstances. It was a neutral and common platform while the SC mostly comprises political actors on the basis of a political decision. The role of the SC is neither defined by agreements and accords, nor does it have constitutional authority. There is also no role for neutral experts.
→ read full articleUruguay Recognizes Palestinian State
Ynet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
Uruguay has made its recognition of a Palestinian state official on Tuesday [15 Mar 2011].
→ read full articleAnonymous Hackers Release Bank of America Emails
Dominic Rushe in New York – The Guardian,
21 Mar 2011
The hacker group Anonymous has released a cache of emails obtained from someone said to be a former Bank of America employee.
→ read full articleThis Modern World: The Flustercluck Doctrine
Tom Tomorrow – Truthout,
21 Mar 2011
Award-winning editorial cartoonist Tom Tomorrow on President Obama’s consultation with “General Flustercluck.”
→ read full articleThe Dangers of Nuclear Energy
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
Because insurance companies have refused to cover the risks of nuclear accidents, the Price Anderson Act of 1957 commits the US federal government to cover such risks. Other countries have similar legislation. This represents an enormous subsidy by the taxpayers to the nuclear industry… Solar energy is currently more expensive than electricity from nuclear plants. But this is only because of the huge indirect subsidy for nuclear power, and also due to the shortage of research into alternative sources of energy… If insurance companies, the experts in estimating risks, refuse to risk their money, why should people be forced to risk their lives?
→ read full articleEurope Has an Obligation to These Desperate African Refugees
The Independent, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
If Italy needs assistance to deal with migration flows, other EU states should provide it. Fortress Europe has closed its gates.
→ read full articleAl Franken: ‘They’re coming after the Internet’
Mike Zapler – Politico,
21 Mar 2011
US Sen. Al Franken claimed Monday [14 Mar 2011] that big corporations are “hoping to destroy” the Internet and said Comcast is looking to change the basic architecture of the Web by implementing a pricing scheme that allows moneyed interests to pay for faster speeds, leaving everyone else behind… “Unfortunately one thing these big corporations have that we don’t is the ability to purchase favorable political outcomes,” he said. “Big telecoms have lots of [lobbyists], and good ones, too. … The end of net neutrality would benefit no one but these corporate giants.”
→ read full articleLibya and the Dilemma of Intervention
The Nation, Editorial - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
Our natural tendency is to want to help end Qaddafi’s despotic rule and to save the lives of those bravely resisting his onslaught. But it is a difficult challenge to take action that has a reasonable chance of success but that does not arouse popular—and well-founded—suspicions of neoimperial intervention.
→ read full articleIn Search of Monsters
Maureen Dowd – The New York Times,
21 Mar 2011
The Iraq war hawks urging intervention in Libya are confident that there’s no way Libya could ever be another Iraq. Of course, they never thought Iraq would be Iraq, either. All President Obama needs to do, Paul Wolfowitz asserts, is man up, arm the Libyan rebels, support setting up a no-fly zone and wait for instant democracy. It’s a cakewalk.
→ read full articleMother Nature and Nuclear Power
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
The major lessons to be drawn from the tragedy in Japan are: first, nature’s power is far beyond our ability to control; second, the nuclear industry, in Japan and elsewhere, has arrogantly pushed ahead with their dangerous technology, assuring the public there is no reason for concern; third, the reassurances of self-interested nuclear “experts” are not to be trusted; and fourth, the nuclear power plant failures in Japan are a final wake-up call to replace nuclear power with safe, sustainable and renewable forms of energy.
→ read full articleLearning from Disaster? After Sendai
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
Let us fervently hope that this Sendai disaster will not take further turns for the worse, but that the warnings already embedded in such happenings, will awaken enough people to the dangers on this path of hyper-modernity so that a politics of limits can arise to challenge the prevailing politics of limitless growth. Such a challenge must include the repudiation of a neoliberal worldview, insisting without compromise on an economics based on needs and people rather than on profit margins and capital efficiency.
→ read full articleArab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
‘The Beginning of an Epochal Development’ – Amr Moussa is the secretary-general of the Arab League and is a favorite in Egypt’s upcoming presidential election. In a SPIEGEL interview, he discusses the prospects for democracy in the Middle East, the risks of a civil war in Libya and his expectations of the West.
→ read full article