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‘The Superpower of Technology’
Daisuke Nojima – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
On The Globe, there is a superpower of technology,
About half of the robots in the world working there,
Tremendous amounts of vending machines are selling everything there,
Even disregarding jobless people everywhere,
So, this state is much praised by scholars of futurology.
Anticipating Future Strategic Triple Whammies: In the Light of Earthquake-Tsunami-Nuclear Misconceptions
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
Beyond deploring the horrendous destruction and loss of life and livelihoods in Japan, the question is how to derive insight from the event. Of special relevance is the manner in which the event overwhelmed assiduous provisions in anticipation of any single crisis. The point was originally well made by John Platt:
→ read full articleSatellite Images Reveal True Scale of Japan’s Devastation
The Independent – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
While reports and pictures from on the ground in Japan reveal the human side of the tragedy the tsunami has caused, these before-and-after aerial photographs indicate the sheer scale of devastation that was unleashed upon towns and villages up and down the country’s eastern coast.
→ read full articleFresh Blast at Japan Nuclear Plant
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
Mon 14 Mar 2011 – A second explosion rocked Japan’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex, sending a plume of smoke into the air and touching off fresh concerns of radioactive leak in the quake and tsunami-hit country. The International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] said on Monday the reactor has not been damaged. Tokyo Electric Power Co [TEPCO], the plant operator, in a press release said, it was believed to be a hydrogen explosion at the plant’s No.3 reactor and that 11 workers were injured.
→ read full articleIndia ‘World’s Biggest Arms Buyer’
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
India has overtaken China to become the world’s largest importer of weapons, according to a Swedish think-tank that monitors global arms sales. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute report said India was pushing ahead with plans to modernise its military in an effort to counter China’s influence and gain international clout.
→ read full articleNuclear Melt-Down? The Government to the Rescue
Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers – Lew Rockwell,
14 Mar 2011
14 Mar 2011 – As of the writing of this article, the situation at the nuclear power plants keeps getting worse as it has been reported that after the first nuclear power plant’s dome cracked, exploded and is now experiencing at least a partial nuclear meltdown, a second reactor is now in danger of the same. Interestingly of the writing of this article, there were reports that the Japanese government still has not admitted that there has been an explosion at the first reactor plant even though there is video evidence of the event.
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Rachel Corrie – Last Interview (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
Footage conducted by the Middle East Broadcasting Company on March 14th, 2003, two days before Rachel was murdered by the Israeli Defense Forces that crushed her under a Caterpillar bulldozer in Nablus, Palestine as she tried to prevent it from demolishing a Palestinian home–to create a no-man’s-land around Gaza and keep the siege. She was a 23-year-old American member of the International Solidarity Movement.
→ read full articleHow the So-Called Guardians of Free Speech Are Silencing the Messenger
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
As the United States and Britain look for an excuse to invade another oil-rich Arab country, the hypocrisy is familiar. Colonel Gaddafi is “delusional” and “blood-drenched” while the authors of an invasion that killed a million Iraqis, who have kidnapped and tortured in our name, are entirely sane, never blood-drenched and once again the arbiters of “stability”.
→ read full article“Imaginary Panic”: The WHO Admits That the H1N1 Pandemic Was a Multibillion Dollar Fraud….
Marie-Rose Cavalier, Sophie Meulemans & Muriel Desclée, Initiative Citoyenne – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
The Swine Flu ‘pandemic’ turned out to be nothing more than a storm in a teacup generated by a flurry of conflicts of interest. A majority of European Health Committee MEPs have nonetheless recently approved a report by Anne Delvaux (PPE) endorsing the existence of what was really an imaginary panic and calling for ‘more cooperation between member states’ to deal with future pandemics.
→ read full articleWhat about a No Fly Zone for the Palestinians?
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
I would contend that for a moral interventional argument to be justifiable, it must be primarily grounded on moral integrity. If America and Britain are, indeed, ‘morally driven’ why do they fail to protect the people of Palestine? Why do they allow Israeli airplanes decorated with Jewish symbols to drop bombs in Gaza? Is it because Israeli bombs are kosher somehow?
→ read full articleSuperpower Bypassed by History: The Embarrassments of Empire
David Bromwich - TomDispatch,
14 Mar 2011
Washington Wonders What to Say about Arab Freedom – From Egypt to Pakistan, February 2011 will be remembered as a month unusually full of the embarrassments of empire. Americans were enthralled by a spectacle of liberty in which we felt we should somehow be playing a part. Here were popular movements toward self-government, which might once have looked to the United States as an exemplar, springing up all across North Africa and the Middle East. Why did they not look up to us now?
→ read full articleEgypt/Serbia/Georgia: Learning From Others’ Mistakes
Eric Walberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
There is a Russian proverb: only a fool learns from his own mistakes. As Georgia’s foreign minister visits his Egyptian counterpart, there are lessons for Egypt in similar revolutions in eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet Union.
→ read full articleDecline of Honey Bees Now a Global Phenomenon, Says United Nations
Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor – The Independent,
14 Mar 2011
The mysterious collapse of honey-bee colonies is becoming a global phenomenon, scientists working for the United Nations have revealed.
→ read full articlePulitzer Prize Winner Seymour Hersh And The Men Who Want Him Committed
Matthew Phelan – WhoWhatWhy,
14 Mar 2011
It seems unusual for a staid, respected publication (one that has received three National Magazine Awards in just this past decade) to start treating a celebrated journalist (who himself has won two National Magazine Awards in just this past decade) as if he were nothing more than a paranoid crank.
→ read full articleOne Man Hurdle on the Road to Democracy
S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali fled Tunis rather swiftly. Hosni Mubarak tried in vain all his tricks including inciting violence with the help of some of his supporters and surrendered. The beleaguered Muammar Qaddafi is trying to halt the democracy train with the active support of his clan and groups of a few tribes, the fear and reluctance of the majority Warfalla tribe, and the relative weakness of the pro-democracy activists.
→ read full article(Castellano) ALBA Inicia Gestiones para Realizar Propuestas de Mediación en Conflicto de Libia
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
La Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América (ALBA) inició este miércoles [9 Mar 2011] la creación el comité de mediaciones que ayude a terminar con la violencia en Libia, el cual además trabajará en propuestas para la solución pacífica al conflicto que inició el pasado 17 de febrero en la nación del norte de África.
→ read full articleThe U.S. Is no Friend to Libya’s Uprising
Socialist Worker, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
The U.S. was perfectly happy to do business with Qaddafi, in spite of his regime’s record of violent repression–for the same reason it’s now posing as Qaddafi’s enemy.
→ read full articleSubtle Racism and Unemployment “Push Gypsies into Marginalisation”
TerraViva Europe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
Bruno Gonçalves wears many hats: he is municipal mediator in this city in central Portugal [Coimbra], a leader of the NGO SOS-Racismo, author of a book on integration in schools, and a human rights activist — but, he stresses, “I never stop being a gypsy.”
→ read full articleDenmark to Upgrade Status of Palestinian Representation to ‘Mission’
Haaretz Service & News Agencies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
Upgrade from third-highest ranking of general delegation mirrors move made recently by number of other countries, including Britain.
→ read full article‘Women Are Shackled During Childbirth’
Mehru Jaffer – Inter Press Service-IPS,
14 Mar 2011
Interview with Fabrizia Falcione, UN Women – Female Palestinian prisoners detained in Israel are often denied legal representation and medical care while being housed in squalid conditions that can include sharing cells with rodents.
→ read full articleA Real Sharia Law Promoter for Peter King to Investigate
Jeremy Scahill – The Nation,
14 Mar 2011
Former Pentagon Inspector General Joseph Schmitz has tried to use Sharia law to fight lawsuits alleging corporate misconduct that led to deaths of US servicemen. As Representative Peter King begins his hunt for Islamic radicals in our midst, including infiltrators of the US government and military, I hope that part of his inquiry focuses on those who really advocate Sharia law in the United States.
→ read full articleBradley Manning ‘Almost Catatonic’
MSNBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
22 New Charges with Possibility of Death Penalty
→ read full article(Italian) Per una Alleanza Mediterranea…
Movimento Nonviolento – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
14 Mar 2011
Una riflessione-proposta aperta del Movimento Nonviolento su ciò che sta avvenendo in Tunisia, Egitto, Libia, ci può aiutare a capire cosa possiamo fare noi per non essere solo spettatori passivi.
→ read full articleUniversal Declaration of the Rights of Human Organization
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
An Experimental Extension of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
→ read full articleSorry, PETA: Undercover Farm Videos May Become Outlawed
Tralee Pearce - Globe and Mail,
14 Mar 2011
Imagine not being able to pull out a camera and take a snapshot of Nelly the cow in a country field or a flock of chickens waddling by. No, it’s not your kid’s worst nightmare at the petting zoo this March Break. It’s a series of proposed laws in the United States that would make it illegal – and punishable by prison time – to take a photo or video of farm animals. Even from the road. The bills are designed to protect farms and agribusinesses from undercover videos and other images used to slam the industry.
→ read full articleInsurrection and Military Intervention: The US-NATO Attempted Coup d’état in Libya?
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
14 Mar 2011
The US and NATO are supporting an armed insurrection in Eastern Libya, with a view to justifying a “humanitarian intervention”. This is not a non-violent protest movement as in Egypt and Tunisia. Conditions in Libya are fundamentally different. The armed insurgency in Eastern Libya is directly supported by foreign powers.
→ read full articleIsrael Ranked Among Least Popular States
Ynet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
Global poll held for BBC finds just three countries ranked below Israel – Pakistan, North Korea, Iran.
→ read full articlePress Release on Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant
National Alliance of Anti-nuclear Movements (NAAM) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
We will come to know the full and complete details of this worst nuclear disaster in a few more weeks or months. As the world is gearing up to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the deadly nuclear power plant accident at Chernobyl on April 26, 2011, another calamity has stuck the humanity.
→ read full articleWill We Ever Learn? Kicking the Intervention Habit
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
It should be obvious that a no-fly zone in Libyan airspace is an act of war, as would be, of course, contemplated air strikes on fortifications of the Qadaffi forces. The core legal obligation of the UN Charter requires member states to refrain from any use of force unless it can be justified as self-defense after a cross-border armed attack or mandated by a decision of the UN Security Council. Neither of these conditions authorizing a legal use of force is remotely present,…
→ read full articleHow Lukashenko’s Soviet-Style Regime Maintains Its Iron Grip
Jerome Taylor – The Independent,
14 Mar 2011
Alexander Lukashenko rules Europe’s last dictatorship with a vice-like grip that has tolerated little opposition for the past 16 years. When democratic revolutions swept through the former Soviet republics of Eastern Europe in the early 1990s, Belarus steadfastly took a different path. In many ways the country mimicked the Soviets states of central Asia, where local strongmen seized power and crushed any democratic opposition to create brutal police states dominated by bizarre personality cults.
→ read full articleDefense
TMS Editor,
14 Mar 2011
One day, a priest was walking through a forest, when he came upon a pond. On the pond was a lily-pad, and on the lily-pad was the saddest frog the priest had ever seen!
→ read full articleObama’s Guantanamo Policy Condemned by Physicians for Human Rights
Physicians for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
Indefinite detention can cause psychological harm and should not be formal US policy. PHR condemns President Barack Obama’s recent announcement that military trials would resume for detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The decision formalizes the use of indefinite detention and marks a stark reversal from the President’s initial promise to close the controversial prison.
→ read full articleFacebook’s Proposed Privacy Plan Puts Users at Great Risk
Al Franken, U.S. Senator, Minnesota – The Huffington Post,
14 Mar 2011
In January, Facebook made a troubling announcement that it plans to allow third-party developers to request access to the home addresses and phone numbers of users. Despite Facebook’s insistence that it will protect its users, I believe this policy will place users at great risk… And even more alarming, Facebook’s new privacy policy would endanger the privacy and safety of children as young as 13. Under Facebook’s policy, 13 million users under the age of 18 may be allowed to share their personal information just like adult users.
→ read full articlePrisoners Help Build Patriot Missiles
Noah Shachtman, Danger Room - Wired,
14 Mar 2011
This spring, the United Arab Emirates is expected to close a deal for $7 billion dollars’ worth of American arms. Nearly half of the cash will be spent on Patriot missiles, which cost as much as $5.9 million apiece. But what makes those eye-popping sums even more shocking is that some of the workers manufacturing parts for those Patriot missiles are prisoners, earning as little as 23 cents an hour. (Credit Justin Rohrlich with the catch.)
→ read full articleGlobal Food Prices: Panic?
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
14 Mar 2011
That a system that rewards investment in speculative concepts for the bolder members of society creates wealth and income, no problem for those who wish to gamble. Yet that a system which turns the entire macro-economic mechanism into a huge bet, devoid of any fundamentals, in which the real life consequences are tangible and dramatic not for the speculators but for the public at large, wholly and totally unacceptable it is.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Secret Plan to Arm Libya’s Rebels
Robert Fisk, Middle East Correspondent – The Independent,
7 Mar 2011
Desperate to avoid US military involvement in Libya in the event of a prolonged struggle between the Gaddafi regime and its opponents, the Americans have asked Saudi Arabia if it can supply weapons to the rebels in Benghazi.
→ read full article(Portuguese) 8 De Março: Simbolismo ou Luta Permanente?
Mariana Aiveca – Esquerda.net,
7 Mar 2011
A par da luta contra a violência, o direito ao trabalho e à independência económica devem estar no centro das reivindicações das mulheres neste dia 8 de Março de 2011.
→ read full articleWomen’s Day: A Historic Opportunity Unveiled
Kanya D'Almeida – TerraViva Europe,
7 Mar 2011
In [8 Mar] 1945, more than half a century ago, the signing of the United Nations Charter in San Francisco wrote women’s equality into its canon, creating an indisputable commitment to gender equity in the post-World War global order.
→ read full articleA Middle East without Borders?
Mohammed Khan - Al Jazeera,
7 Mar 2011
The modern geography of the Middle East was carved out by British and French colonialists whose sole interest was in sharing the spoils of war between themselves and in maintaining their supremacy over the region in the early part of the 20th century. The contours of the region, with its immaculately straight lines (see maps of Algeria, Libya, Egypt and Sudan) are much the same today as when they were first drawn up, despite decades of cross-border encroachment and conflict.
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Addicted to Risk (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Naomi Klein – TED Talks,
7 Mar 2011
Days before this talk [18 Jan 2011], journalist Naomi Klein was on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico, looking at the catastrophic results of BP’s risky pursuit of oil. Our societies have become addicted to extreme risk in finding new energy, new financial instruments and more … and too often, we’re left to clean up a mess afterward. Klein’s question: What’s the backup plan?
→ read full articleDeChristopher Guilty of Placing Bogus Bids
Brandon Loomis & Aaron Falk - The Salt Lake Tribune,
7 Mar 2011
Newly convicted climate activist Tim DeChristopher appreciated the songs, the banners and the hugs outside the courthouse Thursday [3 Mar 2011], but he expects more. “We know that now I’ll have to go to prison,” DeChristopher said. “If we’re going to achieve our vision, many after me will have to join me as well.” The 29-year-old Salt Lake City man said he is prepared to do time after Thursday’s two felony guilty verdicts for misrepresenting himself and placing bogus bids at a federal oil and gas lease auction.
→ read full articleWhy We Need to Divest From the US-Backed Israeli Occupation
Stephen R. Shalom, Israeli Occupation Archive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
28 Feb 2011 – This evening a campaign is being launched at New York University-NYU to “Divest From the US-backed Israeli Occupation Now!” Why is everybody always picking on Israel? Is it anti-Semitism? Hostility to democratic values? Jewish self-hatred? Sympathy for terrorism?
→ read full articleThe Story of Citizens United (Short Video)
Annie Leonard, The Story of Stuff Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
Why have corporations gotten so powerful? And what can we do about it? The Story of Citizens United v. FEC, an exploration of the inordinate power that corporations exercise in our democracy.
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Farm to Fridge – The Truth behind Meat Production (sub español/vietnamese/english)
Antonio C. S. Rosa - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
Disgusting beyond words. Take action and stop feeding on cruelty! Mercy For Animals presents Farm to Fridge. Narrated by Oscar-nominee James Cromwell with music by internationally acclaimed producer Ben Frost, this powerful film takes viewers on an eye-opening exploration behind the closed doors of the nation’s largest industrial farms, hatcheries, and slaughter plants — revealing the often-unseen journey that animals make from Farm to Fridge.
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NATO Invasion of Libya ‘Disgusting Idea’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
RT talks about Libya crisis with Pepe Escobar, who’s a roving correspondent for the Asia Times.
→ read full articleHistory’s Shifting Sands
Mark LeVine – Al Jazeera,
7 Mar 2011
The revolutions sweeping the Arab world indicate a tectonic shift in the global balance of people power. For decades, even centuries, the peoples of the Arab world have been told by Europeans and, later, Americans that their societies were stagnant and backward. According to Lord Cromer, author of the 1908 pseudo-history Modern Egypt, their progress was “arrested” by the very fact of their being Muslim, by virtue of which their minds were as “strange” to that of a modern Western man “as would be the mind of an inhabitant of Saturn”.
→ read full articleTim DeChristopher: Civil Disobedience on Trial
Brooke Jarvis – Yes! Magazine,
7 Mar 2011
How does the United States try cases of civil disobedience? Defendant Tim DeChristopher on how much has changed since the founding fathers.
→ read full articleFreedom, Democracy, Justice: Isolated Nouns or Interwoven Verbs?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
There is a key interpretation of the initial process described in the Book of Genesis, honoured by the three Abrahamic religions — together so significant through their interaction in exacerbating the crises of the world. For the Christian religion, so influential in defining the “values” of the international community, that interpretation is: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1)
→ read full articleMarch 8: Women and the People’s Revolution
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
8 March is the International Day of Women and thus a time to analyse the specific role of women in local, national and the world society. 2011 is the 100th anniversary of the creation of International Women’s Day first proposed by Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) at the Second International Conference of Socialist Women in Copenhagen in 1911.
→ read full articleCommentary on Recent Developments: Interview Responses
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
The following Q & A interview consists of my responses to questions put to me by the outstanding Greek journalist, C. J. Polychroniou, and is being published in a Greek newspaper.
→ read full articleDiplomat: I Can No Longer Represent Israel
Ynet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
Veteran diplomat Ilan Baruch quits, says he can no longer represent government; Israel’s foreign policy is ‘wrong,’ he says, adds that blaming global anti-occupation views on anti-Semitism is ‘simplistic, artificial’.
→ read full article(Italian) Mondo Arabo/Galtung: Rivolte Moti di Liberazione da Europa
Daily Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
Intervista Dello Studioso Pacifista a Left
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A Historic Moment in the Arab World
TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
Wadah Khanfar – In TED’s first talk of 2011, Al Jazeera’s director-general shares his view on the uprisings sweeping the region.
→ read full articlePetroleum and Empire in North Africa. NATO Invasion of Libya Underway
Keith Harmon Snow – All Things Pass,
7 Mar 2011
Are events unfolding in Libya, Tunisia and Egypt more about petro-terrorism or about freedom and democracy? How much oil is there in North Africa? Who is in control of that oil? What is the relationship between the West and Muamar Gaddafi? Is he really the terrorist we’ve all been led to believe he is? Who is the Libyan “opposition” and who are the “rebels” we read about?
→ read full articleNED Arrives in Egypt
Philip Giraldi – Campaign for Liberty,
7 Mar 2011
Those who are aware of the insidious activities of the National Endowment for Democracy or NED, an ostensibly private foundation that spreads “democracy,” and is largely funded by the government, will not be surprised to learn that it is already active in North Africa. NED, which has a Democratic Party half in its National Democratic Institute, and a Republican Party half in its International Republican Institute, was the driving force behind the series of pastel revolutions that created turmoil in Eastern Europe after the fall of communism.
→ read full articleGuidelines for Living a Spiritual Life
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
1. Awareness
I resolve to be more aware and responsive to the spiritual dimensions of my being and my nature.
The Real US National Security Budget
Christopher Hellman - TomDispatch,
7 Mar 2011
The Figure No One Wants You to See
→ read full articleLessons Learned from Nepal’s People’s Victory 2006
Bishnu Pathak, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
After successfully ousting Tunisian and Egyptian tyrannical regimes, the oppressed masses have taken to the streets of numerous cities in the Arab World with the hope that change for freedom is possible. The Arab world has a long history of frozen conflicts, but from the gravity of events in the first quarter of 2011, it has already been a year of people’s uprising.
→ read full article(Italian) UniCredit, Finmeccanica, i capitali libici e le armi italiane a Gheddafi
Giorgio Beretta - Unimondo,
7 Mar 2011
Pare si sia risolto il mistero della scomparsa del vicepresidente di UniCredit, il libico Farhat Omar Bengdara, governatore della Central Bank of Libya che nei giorni scorsi era stato dato dai vertici della banca come non ritracciabile.
→ read full articleA Little Meditation Goes a Long Way
Jason Marsh – Yes! Magazine,
7 Mar 2011
A new study offers the strongest evidence to date that meditation can change the structure of your brain.
→ read full article(Castellano) La Rebelión Árabe y la Crisis de la Hegemonía Estadounidense
Homar Garcés – TeleSur,
7 Mar 2011
Con gran entusiasmo, muchas personas a nivel mundial celebran lo que está ocurriendo en algunas naciones del Medio Oriente, llegando a concluir que todo es parte de una gran revolución internacional.
→ read full articleNonviolence: The Unconquerable Authority
Winslow Myers – Common Dreams,
7 Mar 2011
The subversive and hopeful message of Egypt’s Tahrir Square is that change does not have to come by violence, just as the message from Tripoli—or Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq—is that violence only cycles into worse violence. If unarmed citizens in Tahrir Square can create positive change, why can’t the most powerful democracy on earth choose to bring about change not with military violence, but with magnanimous humanitarian aid and adherence to international laws and institutions?
→ read full articleQuickies
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
George W. Bush came late to a cabinet meeting.
→ read full article(Italian) Il difficile passaggio dal tecnozoico all’ecozoico
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
Le grandi crisi comportano grandi decisioni. Ci sono decisioni che significano vita o morte per certe società, per una istituzione o per una persona.
→ read full articleThe Emotional Lives of Animals
Marc Bekoff – Yes! Magazine,
7 Mar 2011
Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to the Peoples of Middle East and North Africa
S. P. Udayakumar, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
Dear Sisters and Brothers of the Middle East and North Africa,
As a citizen of the largest democracy (India) and a student of the longest democracy (United States), I, for one, feel obliged to share some of my thoughts and reflections about democracy and elections with you all for your serious consideration. My intention is not to throw cold water on your quest for democracy but to request you to take a hard look at the actual practice of democracy and elections in the United States and India and to find ways and means of overcoming those shortcomings.
→ read full articleUS, UK, French Forces Land in Libya
Akhtar Jamal – Pakistan Observer,
7 Mar 2011
The United States, Britain and France have sent several hundred “defence advisors” to train and support the anti-Gadhafi forces in oil-rich Eastern Libya where “rebels armed groups” have apparently taken over.
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Fall of Empire, End to Wars: Johan Galtung Predictions
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
21 Feb 2011, New York – Some analysts say the US – bogged down in wars and pressed by emerging powers – will have to rethink its role in world affairs. Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, a peace and conflict expert, goes further by predicting the fall of the “US Empire”. “Iraq is not at all turning out the way they hoped, certainly not Afghanistan either. The same will happen in Yemen and Somalia and a number of other countries where they now have undercover operations,” he told RT. Moreover, the sociologist believes what is going to happen in those areas – for instance, in Afghanistan – will not even be decided in Washington.
→ read full articleViolence Always Turns Against Itself
TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
An Appeal – Photo Essay from Finland
“Handguns must be abolished!”
Experiments in Democracy: Egypt, Tunisia and the US
Joseph Gainza – Toward Freedom,
28 Feb 2011
Rarely does history present us with events which resemble a scientific experiment. Events in the Middle East over the last nine years, but especially in the last month give us an opportunity to examine how best to establish democracy. Analysis of what has recently taken place in Tunisia and Egypt can be measured against the ongoing tragedies of Iraq and Afghanistan.
→ read full articleThe United States Stands Alone with Israel in the UN Security Council (or How Honest is the Honest Broker)?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
In what appears to be as close to a consensus as the world community can ever hope to achieve, the United States reluctantly stood its ground on behalf of Israel and on February 18, 2011 vetoed a resolution on the Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem that was supported by all 14 of the other members of the UN Security Council. The resolution was also sponsored by 130 member countries before being presented to the Council.
→ read full articleBrazil to Produce Generic Version of Medication for AIDS and Hepatitis
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
Approximately 64,000 patients with AIDS and 1,500 with hepatitis make use of tenofovir in Brazil. The first national batch of the medication will be available for patients in late March. Domestic production will represent a savings of approximately £410 million to the country.
→ read full articleLibya: Is Washington Pushing for Civil War to Justify a US-NATO Military Intervention?
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – Global Research,
28 Feb 2011
Is Tripoli being set up for a civil war to justify U.S. and NATO military intervention in oil-rich Libya? If Qaddafi is not ousted, are the talks about sanctions a prelude to an Iraq-like intervention?
→ read full articleThe Decline of the US Republic?
Johan Galtung, 28 Feb 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
That the US Empire is falling with the structure so laboriously built in the Middle East crumbling is clear even if there will be fall-back positions. But the US Republic is also in bad shape, with the threat of government shutdown March 5, like in 1995. Why? Because the US polity is inadequate to the challenge.
→ read full articleSupporters in Haiti Make Ready for Aristide
Clarens Renois – Mail & Guardian,
28 Feb 2011
Supporters beat drums in the slums while workers spruced up his private villa as Haitians prepared on Tuesday for the possible return of Jean-Bertrand Aristide with feverish anticipation. “Some people are cleaning the streets, others are getting the residence ready, and we are making preparations for a beautiful party,” Rene Civil, a die-hard follower of Haiti’s first democratically elected leader, told Agence France-Presse.
→ read full articleEgypt/Turkey-Israel: ‘A clean break’
Eric Walberg – Middle East Online,
28 Feb 2011
Israel’s plan was still to replace the Ottoman Turks of yore as the local imperial power. The Arab nations (prepared by British imperial divide-and-conquer and local-strongman policies) would be kept divided, weak, dependent now on Israel to ensure safe access to oil. A year and a half ago, an Israel Navy submarine crossed the Suez Canal to the Red Sea, sending a message of deterrence to Iran. Just one week after the fall of Mubarak, Iranian warships cross the canal on their way to Syrian ports.
→ read full articleThe Project for a New Arab Century
Mohammed Khan – Al Jazeera,
28 Feb 2011
The birth pangs of a new Middle East are being felt, but not in the way many outsiders envisioned.
→ read full articleClimate Change and Agriculture: Biodiverse Ecological Farming is the Answer, not Genetic Engineering
Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
The claim to increased yield is false because yield, like climate resilience is a multi–genetic trait. Introducing toxins into a plant through herbicide resistance or Bt. Toxin increases the “yield” of toxins, not of food or nutrition. Even the nutrition argument is manipulated. Golden rice genetically engineered to increase Vitamin A produces 70 times less Vitamin A than available alternatives such as coriander leaves and curry leaves.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Cercado por Protestos de Todos os Lados, o Japão Desiste da Caça às Baleias, em Plena Meia-Estação
Sociedade Mundial de Proteção Animal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
Após intensas manifestações de repúdio por parte de ativistas, o Japão abriu mão das suas atividades baleeiras no Santuário de Proteção do Oceano Antártico Sul, em plena meia-estação, no momento em que os países latino-americanos exigiram que aquela nação pusesse um fim à matança de baleias.
→ read full articleBehind the Arab Revolt is a Word We Dare Not Speak
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
The revolt in the Arab world is not merely against a resident dictator but a worldwide economic tyranny designed by the US Treasury and imposed by the US Agency for International Development, the IMF and World Bank, which have ensured that rich countries like Egypt are reduced to vast sweatshops, with half the population earning less than $2 a day. The people’s triumph in Cairo was the first blow against what Benito Mussolini called corporatism, a word that appears in his definition of fascism.
→ read full articleConflict and Violence in Africa: Causes, Sources and Types
Adeleye Oyeniyi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
Conflict usually occurs primarily as a result of a clash of interests in the relationship between parties, groups or states, either because they pursuing opposing or incompatible goals. Although the term war is sometimes used as a synonym for conflict, it is more usual to restrict the meaning of war to violent conflict, involving armed forces.
→ read full articleSelf-Liberation: Is There Any Other Kind?
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
The largely non-violent people’s revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt followed by large protest demonstrations throughout the Arab world as well as Iran have drawn attention to the use of non-violent strategies in the process of deep social change. When people want to end oppression and achieve greater freedoms and more justice, there are ways to do this realistically, effectively, self-reliantly and by means that will last.
→ read full articleNATO’s Plan Is to Occupy Libya
Fidel Castro Ruz, CubaDebate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
An honest person will always be against any injustice committed against any nation of the world, and the worst injustice, at this moment, would be to remain silent in the face of the crime that NATO is preparing to commit against the Libyan people. The chief of that military organization is being urged to do so. This must be condemned!
→ read full article(Portuguese) Colombia: Uma Oportunidade Para a Paz
Marcela Valente em Buenos Aires, Argentina – Brasil de Fato,
28 Feb 2011
Participantes do fórum Fazendo a Paz na Colômbia consideram o momento propício para avançar em uma saída política ao conflito armado de mais de 50 anos
→ read full articleWe Take Risks, Others Pay the Price
Naomi Klein - CNN,
28 Feb 2011
When I met George Awudi, a leader of Friends of the Earth Ghana, he was wearing a bright red T-shirt that said “Do Not Incinerate Africa.” We were both attending the World Social Forum, a sprawling gathering of tens of thousands of activists held earlier this month [Feb 7-11, 2011] in Dakar, Senegal.
→ read full articleRestorative Justice after Mass Violence: Opportunities and Risks for Children and Youth
Laura Stovel and Marta Valiñas – UNICEF,
28 Feb 2011
There is growing interest in the role that restorative justice can play in addressing mass atrocities. This UNICEF paper describes the associated principles and practices within juvenile justice systems and in societies emerging from mass violence. It also examines the meaning, opportunities and limitations of restorative justice in transitional societies, particularly in relation to the needs of young victims and offenders.
→ read full articleLex Duvalier: A Corrupt Politician’s Worst Nightmare
Gonzalo Turdera – Council on Hemispheric Affairs,
28 Feb 2011
On February 1, 2011, the Swiss Restitution of Illicit Assets Act (RIAA), commonly referred to as “Lex Duvalier,” came into effect. This law provides for the freezing, forfeiture, and restitution of assets of politically exposed persons or their close associates. It applies in cases where a request for mutual assistance in criminal law matters cannot produce an outcome owing to the failure of state structures in the requesting state (the politically exposed person’s country of origin).
→ read full articleLibya: NATO to Hold Emergency Meeting of North Atlantic Council
Eurasia Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen: “It’s a bit pre-mature to go into specifics, but it’s well known that NATO has assets that can be used in a situation like this and NATO can act as an enabler and coordinator, if and when, individual member states want to take action.”
→ read full article(Italian) Leggere Gandhi al Cairo
Ramin Jahanbegloo – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
28 Feb 2011
Quasi due anni dopo l’emergere di un “Movimento Verde” che protestava contro i risultati elettorali a Tehran, si vanno diffondendo nuove sollevazioni nonviolente contro i regimi repressivi della regione fra la Tunisia e lo Yemen, compreso l’Egitto, paese quanto mai importante.
→ read full article‘Groupthink’ IMF Slammed for Mistakes before Crisis
Bretton Woods Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
The Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) found major IMF lapses in judgement before the financial crisis, including the promotion of “light-touch regulation”, casting doubt on the Fund’s ability to contribute to taming global finance. As the banking crisis has been transformed into crises of public finance, and while the financial sector returns to business as usual, the IMF has grown increasingly vocal about the insufficient attention being paid to regulation and reform. Analysts ask if we should be looking elsewhere.
→ read full articlePrimary Global Reserve Currency: The Con?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
Confidence is essentially intangible and it is therefore somewhat extraordinary that it should be so fundamental to what might otherwise be considered the most tangible aspects of the material world — as evident in the world of business and finance, necessarily so economic with the truth. “Confidence” is supposedly not even a matter of consideration in any evaluation of the financial condition of a commercial enterprise or a national economy. This supposition is in fact quite incorrect as the financial crisis of 2008-9 has demonstrated through concern with assumption of risk and “credit ratings”.
→ read full articleGoverning by Obeying the People: Bolivia’s Politics of the Street
Benjamin Dangl – Toward Freedom,
28 Feb 2011
From across North Africa to Wisconsin, activists are navigating a new terrain of global protest and relationships with their governments. Whether in ousting old tyrants or dealing with new allies in office, the example of Bolivia holds many lessons for social movements. An illustrative dynamic is now unfolding in this Andean country where the movements hold sway over the government palace, and the leftist President Evo Morales says he “governs by obeying the people.” But sometimes the people don’t give him any other choice.
→ read full articleSouth-South Trade Booming Despite High Trade Barriers
Loni Prinsloo, TRALAC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
Speaking at a Frontier Advisory seminar at the JSE, OECD Development Centre director Mario
Pezzini said that South-South trade had experienced tremendous growth in recent years, with exports from developing countries now constituting 37 per cent of global trade, of which about 50 per cent related to South-South trade.
Identity: Beyond Self, Culture, Nation, and Humanity to “LIFEISM”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
This article explores the nature and meaning of identity and its personal, cultural, and national nuances and consequences. In this presentation, I note, as have many others, that meaningful personal and social identities are at the core of a meaningful human existence. But this assertion raises critical questions about what is a meaningful identity, and what is a meaningful existence. These questions assume greater importance and consequence in the context of our emerging global era, in which the development, shaping, and assertion of certain personal and social identities can have life-affirming or life-harming consequences for all of us.
→ read full articleThere you go!
Oren Ginzburg, Survival International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
23 slides depicting the historical and contemporary process of D-E-V-E-L-O-P-M-E-N-T. Funny and instructive, highly pedagogical.
→ read full articleThe Salary Theory…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
Dilbert’s “Salary Theorem” states that “Engineers and scientists can never earn as much as business executives and sales people.”
→ read full articleMonsanto Shifts ALL Liability to Farmers
Cassandra Anderson – MORPHcity,
28 Feb 2011
Farmers who plant Monsanto’s GM crops probably don’t realize what they bargain for when they sign the Monsanto Technology Stewardship Agreement contract. One farmer reportedly ‘went crazy’ when he discovered the scope of the contract because it transfers ALL liability to the farmer or grower.
→ read full articleCemetery Attack on Children: Israelis Cross the Red Line
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
28 Feb 2011
16 Feb 2011 – An Israeli bulldozer at the gate of a Bedouin cemetery at Al-Araqib in the Negev Desert advanced against children, injuring some of them. The source is credible, and historically accompanies its accusations with photographs. Where on this planet would a bulldozer be deployed to injure children at a cemetery? Why, Israel, where else?
→ read full article(Portuguese) Brasil Começa a Produzir Genéricos para Tratamento de AIDS e Hepatite
Camila Campanerut, UOL Notícias em Brasília – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
“A produção nacional não traz apenas uma economia por ter produção brasileira, mas pressiona os outros laboratórios a diminuir seus preços. A grande vantagem aumenta a competitividade do setor como um todo. Já conseguimos baixar o medicamento de R$4,02 para R$ 3,6 por comprimido”, destacou o diretor do Complexo Industrial e Inovação em Saúde da Secretária de Ciência e Tecnologia do ministério da Saúde, Zichy Moyses.
→ read full articleBanks Just Too Big To Fail? Iceland Shows Otherwise
Yalman Onaran – NZHerald,
28 Feb 2011
Decision to let banks go under looks smarter by the day, in contrast to Ireland’s costly bailout.
→ read full article