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Moldova Becomes Latest State Party to International Criminal Court
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
Moldova has become the latest country to ratify the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is tasked with trying people accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
→ read full articleViva Palestina Convoy Reaches Gaza
Aljazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
Pro-Palestinian activists enter Gaza through Rafah crossing with $5m of aid for residents of Israeli-blockaded strip.
→ read full articleNeed to Know | Daniel Ellsberg: The most dangerous man in America | PBS
PBS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
Need to Know’s Jon Meacham speaks with Daniel Ellsberg about his decision to release the Pentagon Papers, the subject of a new documentary on the PBS series POV. Ellsberg talks about the film and his thoughts on Bob Woodward’s recently released book.
→ read full articleThe Weaponization of Space: Corporate Driven Military Unleashes Pre-emptive Wars
Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat – Global Research,
25 Oct 2010
First a brief examination of the backdrop of the political power relations at play today and their impact on forces that are propelling the inductions of weapons in Space that are likely to lead to an arms race in space akin to a cold war in a hitherto ‘sanctuary of peace’ and consequently to a situation of ‘Mutually Assured Destruction’ ( MAD ), of the planet.
→ read full articleReporters Without Borders and Their Junk Index of “Press Freedom”
NameNotFound – Russia Today,
25 Oct 2010
The Paris-based lobby proudly calls itself “an international press freedom organization” but during the 25 years of its existence it has become a symbol of anything but. Today it is a scandal-surrounded outlet funded primarily by the US state budget through USAID and National Endowment for Democracy, accused of having links with (and sponsored by) gung-ho Bush neocons like Otto Reich. Nonetheless, it maintains its innocence and swears to abide by its chartered principles. Let’s look at some of these principles and see how they work in practice.
→ read full article‘Peace hath her Victories…’
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
Since the beginning of the Vietnam War, several academic institutions and civil society groups have focused on creating the new discipline of Peace Studies, with varying degrees of clarity, in some places reflecting the urgencies of ‘conflict resolution,’ in others, the needs of communities to arrive at reconciliation.
→ read full articleHonduras: Crisis and Progress
Bill Quigley and Laura Raymond – Common Dreams,
25 Oct 2010
Today, October 21, the democratic resistance in Honduras will celebrate Artists in Resistance Day. This event contrasts directly with today’s official recognition of Honduras Armed Forces day. The resistance, which is working for a truly democratic Honduras, renamed the day and created an alternative celebration because of a brutal police attack on musicians and others last month that left one dead and scores injured.
→ read full articlePeace as a Way of Life
Johan Galtung, 18 Oct 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Clear the past, move on. Conflicts are waiting for you, embrace them as challenges. Fight to solve them for mutual and equal benefit; no flight, please. Identify the sticky issues, search for a solution beyond the passive co-existence of avoiding violence. Fine goals those, but be more ambitious. Search for an active co-existence where all move on, based on the solution, into challenging futures no doubt filled with new conflicts to take on.
→ read full article‘Food Empires Creating Agricultural Crisis’
Frank Mulder – InterPress Service,
18 Oct 2010
Forget speculators, forget biofuel farmers. The real cause behind the permanent food and agricultural crisis is the imperial food regime, squeezing money out of agriculture, a Dutch professor says.
→ read full articleA World Made by War: How Old Will You Be When the American War State Goes Down?
Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch,
18 Oct 2010
I’ve had two mobilized moments in my life. The first was in the Vietnam War years; the second, the one that leaves me as a nine-year-old, began on the morning of September 11, 2001. I turned on the TV while doing my morning exercises, saw a smoking hole in a World Trade Center tower, and thought that, as in 1945 when a B-25 slammed into the Empire State Building, a terrible accident had happened. Later, after the drums of war had begun to beat, after the first headlines had screamed their World-War-II-style messages (“the Pearl Harbor of the 21st century”), I had another thought. And for a reasonably politically sophisticated guy, my second response was not only as off-base as the first, but also remarkably dumb. I thought that this horrific event taking place in my hometown might open Americans up to the pain of the world. No such luck, of course.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Loyalty Oath: Discriminatory by Design
The Guardian, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
New pledge requires future citizens declare their loyalty to an ideology, one intended to exclude Palestinians.
→ read full article(Italian) Ultimo Saluto all’amico Italo Tibaldi
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Oggi abbiamo accompagnato per l’ultima volta
un AMICO
Deportato politico a Mauthausen e a Ebensee
Matricola 42307
Un MAESTRO.
Why the U.S. Has Launched a New Financial World War — And How the Rest of the World Will Fight Back
Michael Hudson – Counterpunch,
18 Oct 2010
“Who Needs an Army When You Can Obtain the Usual Objectives (Monetary Wealth and Asset Appropriation) Simply by Financial Means?”
→ read full article10/10/10: World’s Biggest Day of Climate Action Unites 7,000 Rallies in 188 Countries
350.org – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Just weeks before elections in the United States and climate talks at the United Nations, citizens from Afghanistan to West Virginia joined 350.org’s “10/10/10 Global Work Party” to issue a unified demand that politicians stop dragging their feet and get to work on climate solutions. Leading by example, citizens in 188 countries joined more than 7,000 climate “work parties” over the weekend to get to work installing solar panels, weatherizing homes, planting trees, and then calling politicians to ask a simple question, “We’re getting to work, what about you?”
→ read full articleNATO Strategy Paper: Nuclear Weapons Likely to Stay in Germany
Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Nuclear weapons, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has long insisted, have no place in Germany. But a new NATO paper seems to indicate that his efforts to get all such weapons removed from German soil will not succeed.
→ read full articleHelen Thomas: “You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive.”
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Former White House veteran reporter has criticized the United States for not allowing people to talk about Israeli policies against the Palestinian people. “You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive,” Helen Thomas said in an interview with Ohio station WMRN-AM that aired on Tuesday [12 Oct 2010].
→ read full articleChilean Miners Rescue: This is a Rare Moment of Global Joy
Michael White – The Guardian,
18 Oct 2010
When was the last time this happened? I’ve been racking my brains. I can think of a few happy ones. Unfortunately most such unifying experiences seen around the planet are negative.
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Nuclear Terrorism: Proof of Concept
vredesactie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Peace activists locate and film nuclear weapon shelters on military base of Kleine Brogel, Belgium. By means of this documentary, the Bombspotters reveal the lack of security found at this site. As shown in the movie, it is possible to walk to all aircraft shelters, including those containing nuclear weapons. If peace activists are able to get so close to nuclear weapon storage shelters, what would happen if people with more destructive intentions were to? An act of terrorism targeting the nuclear bombs cannot be excluded. These nuclear bombs do not guarantee security but pose a security risk themselves. Our security would be better guaranteed without them.
→ read full articleAmong Salesmen
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
A farmer had been ripped off several times by the local car dealer. One day, the car dealer informed the farmer that he was coming over to purchase a cow.
→ read full articleViolence in Perspective
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Over the past 6,000 years of recorded history, violence seems to have been the distinguished characteristic of our earthly community. Violence of one kind or another always promotes animosity, hatred, destruction of the environment and total disregard for the sacredness of human rights. Every kind of violence stems from abuse of individual or collective power. It tends mostly to derive from those in authority who are held accountable for all the struggles and conflicts as well as disasters and wars.
→ read full article(Italian) Stati, Stati Nazione e Legittimità
Giuliano Martignetti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Della ricca relazione tenuta dal prof. Galtung a Torino in occasione della giornata dedicata a festeggiare il suo ottantesimo genetliaco, mi sono annotato due osservazioni particolarmente interessanti. La prima è che oggi nel campo delle relazioni internazionali il diritto di veto deve considerarsi superato. La seconda che in tutti gli stati del mondo (192) ben 176 contengono delle minoranze nazionali più o meno ampie. C’è un nesso tra le due affermazioni? Vediamo.
→ read full articleThe Child-Driven Education
Sugata Mitra – TED Talks,
18 Oct 2010
Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education — the best teachers and schools don’t exist where they’re needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.
→ read full articleColumbus Day? True Legacy: Cruelty and Slavery
Eric Kasum - Huffington Post,
18 Oct 2010
Question: Why do we honor a man who, if he were alive today, would almost certainly be sitting on Death Row awaiting execution? If you’d like to know the true story about Christopher Columbus, please read on. But I warn you, it’s not for the faint of heart.
→ read full articlePentagon Author Exposes Zelikow’s Key Role in 9/11 Cover-Up
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
In an interview on the Fox Business Network, a retired U.S. intelligence officer accused the official in charge of the 9/11 Commission of a cover-up of intelligence failures leading up to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
→ read full articleThe Kashmir Imbroglio: Thinking the Unthinkable
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Back in the bad old days of the Cold War, the heaviest of the backroom hawks of the Pentagon, Herman Kahn, coined the phrase ‘thinking the unthinkable,’ meaning strategies for wiping out the Soviet Union with nukes. Luckily for all of us, Ronald Reagan had a better idea, the same result could be achieved by an undeclared economic war and arms race that would force the communists to scratch themselves out of the tournament.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Sérvia: Direitos dos Homossexuais, Direitos Humanos, Tolerância e Homofobia
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
18 Oct 2010
A República da Sérvia é um ponto de encontro de numerosos povos, religiões e culturas ao longo dos séculos, e de modo geral, têm coexistido em paz. Que triste, que este domingo a Parada Orgulho Gay terminou em uma orgia de violência causada por um punhado de fanáticos homofóbicos que deixou mais de cinquenta pessoas feridas. Esta foi a primeira Parada do Orgulho Gay da Sérvia, uma oportunidade para a sociedade fazer uma exibição pública de tolerância no início do Terceiro Milénio, permitindo às pessoas expressarem a sua sexualidade em público, vestidos com as roupas que escolhessem, sentindo-se feliz. Em vez disso, houve um crescendo de violência, insultos, arremesso de mísseis e, finalmente, uma batalha campal entre cerca de mil manifestantes anti-Parada e a polícia, resultando em 57 feridos, sendo 47 policiais, um internado em estado grave. A orgia de violência continuou com a destruição de propriedade do estado.
→ read full articleRe-Emergence of the Language of the Birds through Twitter?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Harmonising the Configuration of Pattern-Breaking Interjections and Expletives. The following exploration is dedicated to Johan Galtung on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
He originally instigated the focus on Forms of Presentation through the Goals, Processes and Indicators of Development project (1978-82) of the United Nations University.
Nominated for the No Bull Peace Prize in 2010, he also plays the flute.
The Ecuadorian Coup: Its Larger Meaning
Prof. James Petras – Global Research,
18 Oct 2010
The abortive military-police coup in Ecuador, which took place on September 30, has raised numerous questions about the role of the US and its allies among the traditional oligarchy and the leftist social movements, Indian organizations and their political parties.
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9/11 Coverup Finds a Voice on FOX with Judge Napolitano
Fox News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
‘Operation Dark Heart’ Author Alleges 9/11 Cover Up. Judge Napolitano’s Ground-breaking interview with Lt. Col, Anthony Shaffer and Former CIA Intelligence officer, Michael Scheuer. — Shaffer’s book, “Operation Dark Heart” was essentially “censored” by the Pentagon in order that some classified details could be “redacted”.
→ read full articleSri Lanka: Groups Decline to Testify Before Flawed Commission
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Three leading international organizations will not accept an invitation to testify before a Sri Lankan government commission because it lacks the ability to advance accountability for war crimes, Human Rights Watch, the International Crisis Group, and Amnesty International said in a joint letter to Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission that was released today [14 Oct 2010].
→ read full articleChile’s Ghosts Are Not Being Rescued
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
In his latest column for the New Statesman, written as the 33 Chilean miners are brought to the surface after ther epic rescue, John Pilger describes the unspoken life in Chile behind the media facade that the government of President Sebastion Pinera has skilfully exploited.
→ read full articleXiaobo – An Awarded Justly Won
Paul D. Scott – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
All of us working with civil society and democratization groups in Asia expected that Liu Xiaobo would be awarded the prize last year. We are overjoyed that he was awarded it this year. That China branded and condemned Liu as a criminal and denounced the Nobel prize Committee speaks volumes.
→ read full article€34bn Question: Will Banks Sink Republic or Just Its Government?
Eamonn McCann – Belfast Telegraph,
18 Oct 2010
The Irish government just handed Allied Irish Bank five times more than the bank is worth–and the government won’t even own it afterwards.
→ read full articleSerbia: Gay Rights, Human Rights, Tolerance and Homophobia
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
18 Oct 2010
The Republic of Serbia is a meeting point of numerous peoples, religions and cultures and over the centuries, by and large, they have coexisted in peace. How sad it is that this Sunday’s Gay Pride Parade ended in an orgy of violence caused by a handful of homophobic bigots which left over fifty people injured.
→ read full articleAmerican Empire and Cold Peace
CNTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
Johan Galtung in Beijing Sep 2010 interviewed by CNTV discusses the American empire and current wars, and about solutions to these.
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TRANSCEND Member Fredrik Reffermehl on Al Jazeera’s ‘Inside Story’: What Nobel Really Wanted
Antonio C. S. Rosa, Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
A jailed Chinese activist is awarded the Nobel Peace prize, and Beijing summons the Norwegian ambassador in protest. Is the Nobel Peace Prize still contributing to world peace in the way Alfred Nobel envisioned? Fredrik Reffermehl is the author of “The Nobel Peace Prize: What Nobel Really Wanted.”
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Settler Drives into Palestinian Boys
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
Director of settler organisation hits two children after they hurled stones at his vehicle in East Jerusalem.
→ read full articleUN Warns of Global Refugee Crisis
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
Refugees from never-ending conflict in Afghanistan and Somalia face systematic stigmatisation, says UNHCR chief.
→ read full article(French) Retour sur l’Émergence du Mouvement pour la Justice Climatique
Michael Hardt & Nicolas Haeringer, Entretien avec Michael Hardt – CETRI,
11 Oct 2010
Pour Michael Hardt, Copenhague pourrait bien être une étincelle qui débouche sur un nouveau cycle de luttes – des luttes plurielles, non dénuées de contradictions. Les penser, et éventuellement les dépasser, implique un travail de théorisation, autour, entre autres, de la question des “communs” : pour sauver le climat, sortir de la propriété ?
→ read full articleAmerican Political Philosophy: Analysis of Immigration Issue
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
One of the major problems people are caught up in lies with the nation’s politicians who seem to act with no principles in general. They often abound in mysterious contradictions. As the Romans used to say: Aliud est theoria, aliud est practica – one thing is theory, another thing is practice. In this respect the Italians have a proverb which runs as follows: Tra il dire e il fare c’e’ in mezzo il mare – between saying and doing there is in between an ocean.
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‘The US Has Gone Mad’
John le Carré - Democracy Now!,
11 Oct 2010
While John le Carré is famous for his spy novels, he wrote a widely read antiwar essay in 2003 titled “The United States of America Has Gone Mad.” He reads an excerpt. “America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.”
→ read full article(Castellano) Sobre el Cuasi Golpe Ecuatoriano
Guillermo Almeyra – Centre Tricontinental,
11 Oct 2010
Si se quiere evitar un próximo golpe de Estado en serio y hasta con base indígena o popular que esté dirigido por la derecha, la llamada Revolución Ciudadana debe profundizarse y radicalizarse, golpeando a las fuerzas de derecha en el aparato del Estado y debe entablar una discusión seria, democrática y profunda con la CONAIE y el movimiento indígena, que es su aliado natural, pero del cual está ahora separado en buena medida por la confusión y el sectarismo de la dirección indígena pero también, aunque en menor medida, por su propia falta de claridad y sus torpezas.
→ read full articleShort Ones
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
“I love farm work…
→ read full articleRobert Fisk: We Preach Democracy Yet Befriend Dictators
New Internationalist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
‘Spreading democracy’ was the rationale for invading Iraq and Afghanistan. Middle East expert Robert Fisk describes how it now looks from his home in Beirut.
→ read full articleThe Western Peace Prize
Johan Galtung, 11 Oct 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
One more abuse of the Nobel Peace Prize to promote Western, read US, foreign policy. Last year a speech prize with no follow-up except scrapping some old-fashioned nuclear monsters paving the way for major US nuclear rearmament of warheads and the weapons carrier tripod, protesting possible UK cuts of the Trident. But, verbally the prize touched the reduction of standing armies in Nobel’s testament–whose money they are handling. This year they give a human rights prize for domestic matters in what USA sees as its major competitor, China, far removed from any reduction of armies or Nobel’s concern for understanding among nations.
→ read full articleAl-Qaeda’s Suspect Humanitarianism
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
AP’s sole source for the 11-minute tape, with the oddly contemplative title “Reflections on the Method of Relief Work,” is SITE Intelligence Group. The U.S.-based group, which purportedly “monitors jihadi forums,” provided AP with a copy of the message that it claims was posted on unnamed “Islamic militant websites.” There are questions, however, about whether SITE Intelligence is the most objective source of information about terrorism. SITE co-founder Rita Katz, an Israeli Defense Forces veteran, is an Iraqi-born Jew, whose father was publicly hanged in Iraq after the 1967 Six-Day War as an Israeli spy. Considering Tel Aviv’s obvious interest in having the world’s only superpower fight a “global war on terror” against the Jewish state’s Muslim neighbours, it somehow never occurred to Associated Press, or other mainstream media outlets, to ask the question, Like father, like daughter?
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John Lennon Give Peace a Chance Live From Toronto Hotel
Antonio C. S. Rosa, Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
John Lennon would have been 70 on 9 October, 2010. “Give Peace a Chance” is a 1969 single by (John Lennon’s) Plastic Ono Band that became an anthem of the American anti-war movement at that time. It still inspires us against the wars of the moment…
→ read full articleYemen: The Covert Apparatus of the American Empire
Andrew Gavin Marshall – Global Research,
11 Oct 2010
This is the nature of war of today: during [Luther] King’s time, the pretext for war was to stop the spread of Communism; today, it’s done in the name of stopping the spread of terrorism. Terror has since time immemorial been a tactic used by states and governments to control populations. Al-Qaeda is no exception, as it was created and continues to largely function as a geopolitical extension of the covert apparatus of American empire. In short, al-Qaeda is an arm of the covert world of American intelligence agencies. In particular, the CIA, DIA [Defense Intelligence Agency], US Special Forces, and multinational mercenary companies such as Blackwater [now Xe Services]. Where they go, al-Qaeda goes; where al-Qaeda goes, they accumulate; where they lay the groundwork, the American empire stands behind.[2] Yemen is perhaps an excellent example of America being on the “wrong side of a world revolution,” as the secret war in Yemen being exacerbated in the name of “fighting al-Qaeda” is in actuality, about the expansion and supremacy of American power in the region.
→ read full articleDogs, Migrants, and Daughters-in-Law
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
In my experience of seventy years, daughters-in-law in India get a shabby deal. Suffering, misunderstanding, lack of trust and affection are all everyday features in their lives. Many get badly abused for not bringing in enough dowry, or are constantly threatened for being not well read, or too well read, for being backward or being modern, for being ugly or for being too pretty – the list is endless. Physical torture is also added to routine mental torture. Too many are killed so that their husbands can marry richer women, or just because everyone in the in-laws’ house is tired of them.
→ read full articleBeyond Dualism: Reporting Conflicts in the Post-Electoral Mediascape
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
To ‘hear both sides’ is, of course, the surest way to avoid allegations of bias – but it elevates, to the status of convention, a way of reporting that divides the world around us into dyads: home and abroad (‘boat people’); humanity against nature (Pakistan floods); us and them (‘the Taliban’); Left against Right.
→ read full articleLessons from Honduras
Marcela Valente – IPS News,
11 Oct 2010
With the 2009 coup d’etat in Honduras still a fresh memory, the presidents of the Unasur bloc gathered as quickly as they could to vigorously condemn Thursday’s [30 Sep 2010] attempted coup in Ecuador and warn that they would not tolerate any such assault on democracy in the region.
→ read full articleScientists: 40 Times More Cancer-Causing Toxics in Gulf than Before Spill … Dispersants to Blame
Washington's Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
Scientists from Oregon State University have found a 40-fold increase in the amount of cancer-causing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) near Louisiana’s Grande Isle between May and June. The Oregon team is looking at “the fraction of PAHs that are bioavailable – that have the potential to move into the food chain.”
→ read full articleReport: Haiti Recovery ‘Paralysed’
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
Refugees International says agencies co-ordinating Haitian relief efforts are “dysfunctional” and “inexperienced”. More than a million Haitians remain in squalid “emergency phase” camps, nearly nine months after January’s earthquake, and security is still a major problem, a new report says. The findings from US-based advocacy group Refugees International said that more than 70 per cent of refugee camps in Haiti face daily threats of violence and intimidation.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Se Não É de Portugal, Então Deve Ser da União Europeia
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
11 Oct 2010
E não é porque eles são portugueses. Vá ao Luxemburgo, que lidera todos os indicadores sócio-econômicos, e você vai descobrir que doze por cento da população é português, o povo que construiu um império que se estendia por quatro continentes e que controlava o litoral desde Ceuta, na costa atlântica, tornando a costa africana até ao Cabo da Boa Esperança, a costa oriental da África, no Oceano Índico, o Mar Arábico, o Golfo da Pérsia, a costa ocidental da Índia e Sri Lanka. E foi o primeiro povo europeu a chegar ao Japão….e Austrália.
→ read full article(Italian) Quale Sarà la Nuova Scusa per Continuare ad Angariare Cuba?
Gianni Minà – Latinoamerica,
11 Oct 2010
Recentemente Amnesty International ha reso noto che alla data del 15 agosto 2010, a Cuba i prigionieri politici [o “di coscienza”, come li definisce la stessa organizzazione] erano soltanto 27. Poi, dopo una successiva liberazione, in osservanza degli accordi raggiunti a giugno dal governo de l’Avana con la mediazione della Chiesa cattolica e del Ministro degli esteri spagnolo Moratinos, era rimasto un unico recluso anti-sistema, Rolando Jiménez Pozada, in carcere “per disobbedienza e per aver rivelato segreti di Stato”. Una realtà clamorosa, accolta con un silenzio assordante dai media occidentali e perfino dal governo di Washington.
→ read full articleWhy Soldiers Don’t Rebel in Than Shwe’s Burma
Dr Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
Besides seeing the generals’ Burma as a world-class disaster of rights abuses and poverty, one fruitful way to understand it would be to view it as a country that is subject to a military-led process of “re-feudalization” of the soldiering class, which is reshaping the country along precolonial feudal lines with adverse domestic and regional consequences.
→ read full articleMedia Disinformation: Washington’s “Regime-Change Hit-List” – Iran vs. Honduras (Part 1)
Edward S. Herman and David Peterson – Monthly Review,
11 Oct 2010
It would be hard to find a better test of the integrity of the establishment U.S. media than in their comparative treatment of Iran and Honduras over the past couple of years (2009-2010).
→ read full article“Everyone Just Wants to Kill People at any Cost”
Mark Benjamin - Salon,
11 Oct 2010
What Adam Winfield, one of the U.S. soldiers accused of killing civilians in Afghanistan, told his father.”The Army really let me down when I thought I would come out here to do good maybe make some change in this country I find out that its all a lie (sic).”
→ read full articleThe Aliens Are Coming
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
We appear to be incapable of dealing with invasive species while there’s still time. We can sow chaos with a keystroke in an investment bank, with one signal to a Predator drone, a seed dislodged from the sole of a boot, a fish tank emptied into a canal. But when asked to repair the mess we’ve made, we proclaim our impotence. Our challenge this century is to meet our capacity for harm with an equal power for good. We are not, so far, doing very well.
→ read full articleMairead Maguire’s 10-Year Deportation from Israel
Mairead Maguire, Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
Nobel Peace Laureate [and TRANSCEND member] Mairead Maguire was deported from Israel at 4 a.m., on Tuesday 5th October, 2010 and arrived back in Belfast later that afternoon. Maguire had arrived in Israel on Tuesday 27th September, to attend a Nobel Women’s Initiative visit, and support those working in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories – particularly women groups – for human rights and justice.
→ read full articleDeathly Silence: Obama’s Letter, Netanyahu’s Rejection, and Media’s Non-response
MediaLens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
Earlier this week, independent journalist Jonathan Cook reported facts that blow a hole through the standard deceit that the United States is an “honest broker” for peace in the Middle East.1 As Cook explains, details were leaked of a letter sent by US President Barack Obama to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister:
→ read full article(French) Equateur: Parc Yasuní – Articuler Justice Sociale et Urgence Écologique
Matthieu Le Quang - CETRI,
11 Oct 2010
L’Equateur est un pays pauvre doté d’une immense biodiversité mais dépendant des ressources générées par l’exploitation pétrolière. Ce petit pays est en train de faire un appel au reste du monde afin d’avoir l’appui d’Etats et de citoyens responsables pour réussir la transition vers un modèle de développement plus soutenable et une économie post-pétrolière.
→ read full articleGlaxo’s Avandia Cover-Up
Paul D. Thacker – Mother Jones,
11 Oct 2010
An ex-Senate investigator reveals how GlaxoSmithKline sought to conceal evidence linking its blockbuster diabetes drug to heart attacks.
→ read full articleEconomics: Doing Business As If People Mattered
Robert Jensen – Common Dreams,
11 Oct 2010
When politicians talk economics these days, they argue a lot about the budget deficit. That’s crucial to our economic future, but in the contemporary workplace there’s an equally threatening problem — the democracy deficit.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize: The New Age Sun Rises in the East
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
On Christmas Day 2009, a court in Beijing convicted Liu Xiaobo of “inciting subversion of state power” and sentenced him to 11 years in prison and two additional years of deprivation of political rights. The verdict cited as evidence passages from six essays Liu published online between 2005 and 2007 and his role in drafting Charter 08, an online petition for democratic reform issued on December 9; 2008 which has since been co-signed by some 10,000 persons, mostly Chinese in China. This December 2010, Liu Xiaobo will receive the Nobel Prize for Peace, though his presence at the ceremony in Oslo is in doubt.
→ read full articleIn Kenya, Farmers Grow Their Own Way
Heather Day & Travis English – Yes! Magazine,
11 Oct 2010
Thousands of grassroots, African-led efforts are building locally rooted alternatives to the chemical agriculture promoted by the Gates Foundation and Monsanto.
→ read full articleFrom Tuskegee to Guatemala via Nuremberg
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
11 Oct 2010
The U.S. government has frequently conducted experiments without the informed consent of the subjects. Women in Puerto Rico were given estrogen, at dangerous levels, when testing birth control pills. Researchers injected unwitting hospital patients with plutonium to study its effects on the human body. Dow Chemical, Johnson & Johnson and Pennsylvania prison authorities exposed inmates to chemicals, including dioxin, to test their effects. Subjects of a number of these experiments and others have died or had their lives indelibly harmed, all in the name of progress or profit.
→ read full articleA Yugoslav Community for a Yugosphere?
Johan Galtung, 4 Oct 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
The countries were born in deep anger, much too quickly, much too violently, traumas being heaped on top of old, and new trauma mountains. Time passes, no wounds are healed, but a new decade has sedimented new events on top of the 1990s horrors. For a new generation this is already history. But history has much to tell.
→ read full articleOn UN World Habitat Day, Oct 4: One Billion Slum Dwellers Cannot Be Ignored
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
Governments cannot celebrate the UN World Habitat Day on 4 October while ignoring one billion people living in slums, Amnesty International said today [1 Oct 2010].
→ read full articleDwight Was Right
Michael Moore – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
So…it turns out President Eisenhower wasn’t making up all that stuff about the military-industrial complex.
→ read full articleEngendering Invagination and Gastrulation of Globalization
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
Reconstructive Insights from the Sciences and the Humanities
→ read full articleThe Neoliberal Experiment and Europe’s anti-Austerity Strikes: Governments must Lower Wages or Suffer Financial Blackmail
Michael Hudson – Global Research,
4 Oct 2010
Most of the press has described Wednesday’s [29 Sep 2010] European-wide labor demonstrations and strikes across in terms of the familiar exercise by transport workers irritating travelers with work slowdowns, and large throngs letting off steam by setting fires. But the story goes much deeper than merely a reaction against unemployment and economic recession conditions. At issue are proposals to drastically change the laws and structures of how European society will function for the next generation. The neoliberals are fully in control of the bureaucracy, and they are reviving Margaret Thatcher’s slogan, TINA: There Is No Alternative. But there is, of course.
→ read full article‘Raj Rule OK’ in Independent India
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
Every Indian political party has devised its own unique selling point. The Congress as the mother of all parties distributes patronage and sucks into its vortex corrupt floods of black money. A pattern that others of course follow but with variations. The BJP as the strongest contender for power is risen as the Hindu answer to the Taliban, while the communist parties are home to lost causes. In Tamil Nadu, the southernmost and arguably the best run state, power is divided between two parties, heirs to the great anti-upper-caste, anti-establishment movement of a hundred years ago.
→ read full articleThe BBC Is on Murdoch’s Side
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger says that while the dangers of Rupert Murdoch’s dominance are understood, the role played by the respectable media, such as the New York Times and the BBC, notably in the promotion of colonial wars, is at least as important.
→ read full articleU.S. Apologizes for ‘Abhorrent’ Guatemala Syphilis Study in 1940s
Tim Johnson - McClatchy Newspapers,
4 Oct 2010
Exposing a dark page in its history, the U.S. government acknowledged Friday [1 Oct 2010] that government scientists had infected some 1,500 Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea in experiments from 1946 to 1948 in “appalling violations” of medical ethics. U.S. scientists infected prostitutes with syphilis or gonorrhea and sent them to have unprotected sex with soldiers or prison inmates, later testing them for possible cures, U.S. officials said. When few became infected, scientists turned to patients at a mental health hospital, exposing them to infection by rubbing it on their genitals. None of the subjects were informed about the study or offered consent, U.S. officials said. At least one patient is known to have died.
→ read full articleThe Real Pirates in Somalia: Washington, Paris and Oslo
Abdulkadir Salad Elmi – Somali Talk,
4 Oct 2010
Many people seem not to understand, or refuse to understand, that more than half of Somalia consists of the seas around the country. This makes the oceans vital to the survival of the Somali people.
→ read full articleForecasting the Weather
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
It was autumn, and the Indians on a remote reservation asked their new Chief if the winter was going to be cold or mild.
→ read full articleEcuador’s Correa Haunted by Honduras
Mark Weisbrot – The Guardian,
4 Oct 2010
This was a coup attempt – encouraged by Washington’s shameful support for the overthrow of Manuel Zelaya last year. In June of last year, when the Honduran military overthrew the social-democratic government of Manuel Zelaya, President Rafael Correa of Ecuador took it personally. “We have intelligence reports that say that after Zelaya, I’m next,” said Correa.
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Johan Galtung on Democracy NOW! (Part 2)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, TMS Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
September 16, 2010 – Recorded during Right Livelihood Award recipients’ meeting in Bonn. Amy Goodman: We continue speaking with Johan Galtung, known as a founder of the field of peace and conflict studies, he’s spent the past half-century pursuing nonviolent conflict resolution in international relations. Galtung discusses the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Mideast talks, why President Obama is losing his base and much more.
→ read full articleWorld Report on Culture of Peace 2010
Federico Mayor Zaragoza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
The aforementioned report, in which you have participated actively providing data on their activities in the field of culture of peace, will be presented to the General Assembly of the United Nations in the month of October. We appreciate your interest, involvement and participation for this World Report on Culture of Peace 2010 has been possible.
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Eisenhower’s Farewell Address – Jan 17, 1961
Antonio C. S. Rosa, TMS Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
Eisenhower’s farewell address where he warns of a “hostile ideology”, the “military industrial complex,” and “the consequences of too much government-funded research.”
→ read full article(Portuguese) Brasil tem a 3ª Maior População Carcerária do Mundo, Diz CNJ
Redação Terra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
Com 494.598 presos, o Brasil possui a terceira maior população carcerária do mundo, atrás de Estados Unidos e China. O dado foi apresentado nesta quinta-feira [30 Sep 2010] no Seminário Justiça em Números pelo coordenador do Departamento de Monitoramento e Fiscalização do Sistema Carcerário (DMF) do Conselho Nacional de Justiça (CNJ), Luciano Losekann.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Não É Possível Pensar em Desenvolvimento sem Valorizar as Pessoas
Marcus Eduardo de Oliveira - Pravda,
4 Oct 2010
O desenvolvimento, em suas múltiplas manifestações, não é uma questão de ter, mas sim de ser mais. Sábios e filósofos de todos os tempos e de todos os horizontes profetizaram a esse respeito. Gandhi argumentou que o desenvolvimento seria bom e justo somente se elevasse a condição dos mais modestos. Em defesa de uma economia com uma face mais humana, padre Louis Joseph Lebret pontuou que o desenvolvimento não deve ser visto apenas pelo prisma econômico (acúmulo material), mas também pelo social, ético, político, moral. Adam Smith, preocupado em estudar a riqueza das nações, afirmou que a verdadeira riqueza deve ser avaliada pelo padrão de vida das famílias.
→ read full articleUN-Backed Anti-Corruption Academy Inaugurated in Austria
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
2 September 2010 – An anti-corruption academy co-sponsored by the United Nations opened today in Austria with the aim of filling the rising global need for training, research and contemporary measures and techniques in the fight against corruption. The International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA), based in Laxenburg, will educate public and private sector anti-corruption practitioners in more effectively implementing the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC).
→ read full article(Italian) La Saggezza di Gandhi
Uri Avnery – Come Don Chisciotte,
4 Oct 2010
Facendo zapping alla tv, mi sono imbattuto in un’intervista con il nipote del Mahatma Gandhi su una rete americana (la Fox – pensate!). “Mio nonno ci ha detto di amare il nemico anche quando si lotta contro di lui”, ha detto, “ha combattuto contro gli inglesi risolutamente, ma amava gli inglesi” (cito a memoria). La mia reazione immediata è stata: sono sciocchezze, il pio desiderio dei buonisti!
→ read full articleThe Generals’ Election
Maung Zarni – Himal Southasian,
4 Oct 2010
In the run-up to Burma’s fraught polls, some of the junta’s leading cheerleaders are Western governments who are bending over backwards to justify their stance.
→ read full articleJammu and Kashmir: In Search for Unconventional Options
Belgian Association for Solidarity with Jammu and Kashmir – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
Report on the study tour of Beersmans Paul, president of the Belgian Association for Solidarity with J&K to India and the Indian J&K state from 24 June to 21 July 2010. Human Rights Council, Fiftheenth Session, Geneva, September 2010.
→ read full articleAn Alternative Environmental Future for Haiti
Aldrin Calixte and Beverly Bell – Toward Freedom,
4 Oct 2010
Haiti is famous around the world primarily for its problems, one being advanced ecological destruction. However, as with its other problems, citizens – with international friends and the occasional help of the government – are working to turn this around and create a healthy environment.
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Johan Galtung on Democracy NOW! (Part 1)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, TMS Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
September 16, 2010 – Recorded during Right Livelihood Award recipients’ meeting in Bonn. Amy Goodman: We speak with Johan Galtung, known as a founder of the field of peace and conflict studies, he’s spent the past half-century pursuing nonviolent conflict resolution in international relations. Galtung discusses the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Mideast talks, why President Obama is losing his base and much more.
→ read full articleImperialism and Imperial Barbarism
Prof. James Petras – Global Research,
4 Oct 2010
Imperialism, its character, means and ends has changed over time and place. Historically, western imperialism, has taken the form of tributary, mercantile, industrial, financial and in the contemporary period, a unique ‘militarist-barbaric’ form of empire building. Within each ‘period’, elements of past and future forms of imperial domination and exploitation ‘co-exist’ with the dominant mode. For example , in the ancient Greek and Roman empires, commercial and trade privileges complemented the extraction of tributary payments. Mercantile imperialism, was preceded and accompanied initially by the plunder of wealth and the extraction of tribute, sometimes referred to as “primitive accumulation”, where political and military power decimated the local population and forcibly removed and transferred wealth to the imperial capitals.
→ read full articleRough Passage
Noam Sheizaf - Haaretz,
4 Oct 2010
On May 31, former U.S. Marine Kenneth O’Keefe was aboard the Mavi Marmara in the Free Gaza flotilla. He witnessed the passengers’ preparations for a clash and the confused takeover by Israel troops that resulted in nine dead.
→ read full articleTheir Moon Shot and Ours
Thomas L. Friedman – The New York Times,
4 Oct 2010
We’re out of balance — the balance between security and prosperity. We need to be in a race with China, not just Al Qaeda. Let’s start with electric cars.
→ read full article(Italian) 2 Ottobre: Giornata Internazionale Della Nonviolenza
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
“Vivere semplicemente, per permettere agli altri semplicemente di vivere”
→ read full articleRights Activists Share Alternative Nobel
Malin Rising – The Associated Press-AP,
4 Oct 2010
Activists from Nepal, Nigeria, Brazil and Israel were named the winners Thursday [30 Sep 2010] of this year’s Right Livelihood Award, also known as the “alternative Nobel,” for work that includes fighting to save the Amazon rain forest and bringing health care to Palestinians cut off from services.
→ read full articleChina and World Harmony: Some Ideas
Johan Galtung, 27 Sep 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
China should become better at explaining herself, both in a Western market-growth-democracy-human rights discourse, and in a Chinese discourse of both-and, yin-yang dialectics, distribution and social and world harmony. An oriental Davos in Hong Kong in dialogue with that Western one; and a global TV, more like multi-angle Al Jazeera than BBC-CNN, would give the world a strong, not abrasive, Chinese voice. With very much to say that the world in general, and the West in particular, badly need to hear.
→ read full article(Castellano) Informe Mundial de Cultura de Paz 2010
Federico Mayor Zaragoza, presidente Fundación Cultura de Paz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
El mencionado Informe, en el cual usted ha colaborado activamente mediante el aporte de datos sobre sus actividades en el campo de la cultura de paz, será presentado ante la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas en el próximo mes de octubre. Agradecemos su interés, compromiso y participación para que este Informe Mundial de Cultura de Paz 2010 haya sido posible. Para la elaboración de este informe, un equipo internacional de Jóvenes Voluntarios, logró recopilar y analizar la información proporcionada por más de 1000 organizaciones de todo el mundo, en las que se reflejan sus esfuerzos y actividades para la promoción y fomento de una Cultura de Paz.
→ read full articleIndia’s Commonwealth Ordeal
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Apart from Kashmir, which keeps India in international light in recent days is its preparation for the Commonwealth games in Delhi to be commenced from 3 to 14 October 2010. The event, the first ever in India and perhaps the first showcase of India’s emerging prowess in the evolving world, will likely involve 8,500 athletes from 71 countries competing in 17 events.
→ read full articleReconciliation in Sri Lanka: Breaking the Myth and Bringing the Truth
Nirmanusan Balasundaram – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
“There cannot be reconciliation without justice. Justice and equity are at the core of reconciliation” -– Professor Hizkias Assefa. The platform for an “genuine reconciliation” should be rooted via the democratic exercises, rights and participation of all citizens throughout a country. But, if people are under fear to express their grievances and aspirations, including opposition political parties, dissident voices, independent media and even some ruling party government ministers how can a national minority discriminated and oppressed for more than five decades practice their rights in Sri Lanka?
→ read full articleNo Bull Prize Nominations
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
This is a contribution to efforts to put the No Bull Prize Award on an appropriate footing in global society.
No Bull Prize for Business
* Naomi Klein, for telling it as it is, and most notably for No Logo: no space, no choice, no jobs (2000), Fences and Windows: dispatches from the front lines of the globalization debate (2002), and The Shock Doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism (2007)
No Bull Prize for Information
* WikiLeaks, for courageous release of documents otherwise withheld from the public
* Inter-Press Service
No Bull Prize for Journalism
* John Pilger, for telling it as it is
* Robert Fisk, for telling it as it is
No Bull Peace Prize
* Johan Galtung, for telling it as it is
* Nonviolent Peaceforce
More…
(Castellano) Irak Indemniza a Estados Unidos
Carlos Sardiña – Periodismo Humano,
27 Sep 2010
El Gobierno iraquí ha accedido a pagar 400 millones de dólares a varios ciudadanos estadounidenses que fueron prisioneros del régimen de Saddam Hussein durante la primera guerra del Golfo…. Como no podía ser de otra manera, la decisión del Gobierno iraquí ha suscitado una enorme indignación entre la población que ha sufrido y sigue sufriendo una guerra que dura ya siete años y ha destruido el país. Lo más sangrante es que los iraquíes no tienen posibilidad alguna de exigir un mínimo de justicia en Estados Unidos por su responsabilidad en una tragedia mucha mayor que los daños sufridos por varios centenares de estadounidenses hace dos decenios ni a pedir el mismo tipo de compensaciones a las fuerzas de ocupación.
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