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The Reconstruction of Haiti: A Record of Failure
Colette Lespinasse – Pambazuka News,
18 Apr 2011
Last March, donors pledged billions of US dollars for the reconstruction of Haiti, after an earthquake devastated the country. But a year later, a group of 40 Haitian organisations finds that ‘nothing significant has really been undertaken’. Instead Haitian players have been excluded from strategic decision-making and the ‘millions of people affected directly or indirectly by the earthquake continue to face the consequences in destitution, and with no support whatsoever.’
→ read full article(Castellano) EE.UU Instalará Nueva Base Militar en Honduras
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
Estados Unidos (EE.UU.) decidió instalar una nueva base militar en la costa norte de Honduras, tras la reunión entre el ministro hondureño de Defensa, Marlon Pascual, y el jefe estadounidense del Comando Sur, Douglas Fraser, informó un diario local.
→ read full articleThe Most Dangerous Thing You’ll Do All Day
Bill Phillips and the Editors of Men's Health – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
Scientists at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana analyzed the lifestyles of more than 17,000 men and women over about 13 years, and found that people who sit for most of the day are 54 percent more likely to die of heart attacks. That’s right—I said 54 percent!
→ read full article(Portuguese) Mumia Abu-Jamal: Do Corredor da Morte ao Mundo
Glória Muñoz Ramírez – Brasil de Fato,
18 Apr 2011
Durante um ano tentamos uma entrevista com Mumia, um dos presos políticos mais conhecidos do mundo. Enviamos cartas e pedidos através de todos os contatos possíveis que tivemos à mão, entre eles os membros do coletivo Amigos de Mumia México, os quais se ofereceram amavelmente para nos apoiar com uma gestão que tinha como destino o corredor da morte da prisão de Waynesburg, Pensilvania, onde Mumia permanece preso há 29 anos. Até que, certo dia, deslizou por baixo da porta um envelope com o nome de M. A. Jamal como remetente.
→ read full articleBrazil: Tensions Escalate Over Amazon Mega Dam
Benjamin Dangl – Al Jazeera,
18 Apr 2011
Indigenous communities say $10bn reservoir in Brazil’s largest rainforest will destroy their way of life.
→ read full articleBahrain: U.S. Keeps Quiet over Repression
Jim Lobe – Inter Press Service-IPS,
18 Apr 2011
If President Barack Obama wanted to place Washington “on the right side of history” during the ongoing “Arab Spring”, his reaction to recent events in Bahrain will likely make that far more difficult, according to a growing number of analysts and commentators here.
→ read full articleSri Lanka: UN Experts Submit Report
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
The report by a panel of experts to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on April 12, 2011, about laws-of-war violations in Sri Lanka should be used to pave the way for justice, Human Rights Watch said today. Ban commissioned the report in May 2010 after the Sri Lankan government failed to investigate violations committed in the final months of its decades-long conflict with the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
→ read full articleU.N. Diplomat Is Denied Private Meeting with WikiLeaks Suspect Bradley Manning
Ellen Nakashima – The Washington Post,
18 Apr 2011
A United Nations diplomat charged with investigating claims of torture said Monday [11 Apr 2011] that he is “deeply disappointed and frustrated” that U.S. defense officials have refused his request for an unmonitored visit with Pfc. Bradley Manning… Juan E. Mendez, the U.N. special rapporteur on torture, said his request for a private interview with Manning was denied by the Defense Department on Friday. Instead, he has been told that any visit must be supervised.
→ read full articleIs Japan’s Elite Hiding a Weapons Program Inside Nuclear Plants?
Yoichi Shimatsu – New America Media,
18 Apr 2011
The nihilism at the heart of this nuclear threat to humanity lies not inside Fukushima 1, but within the national security mindset. The specter of self-destruction can be ended only with the abrogation of the U.S.-Japan security treaty, the root cause of the secrecy that fatally delayed the nuclear workers’ fight against meltdown.
→ read full article(Castellano) Austeridad, Recortes y Crímenes Contra la Humanidad
Xavier Caño Tamayo – Toma la Palabra, Periodismo Humano,
18 Apr 2011
Quienes han provocado la crisis no temen castigo alguno. Nadie investiga sus responsabilidades ni sus decisiones. Los Gobiernos los protegen y el aparato judicial no los persigue. Pero igual que se crearon instituciones y procedimientos para perseguir los crímenes políticos contra la humanidad, es hora de hacer lo mismo con los crímenes económicos contra la humanidad.
→ read full articleMena Revolution and Counter-Revolution
Johan Galtung, 18 Apr 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
Africa. The key to the whole exercise: in 1956 still mainly owned by Anglo-France, Libya becoming an Italian colony in 1911; posing threats of union, independence and ties to China. NATO wants to control it through AFRICOM and EUCOM–three different words for Pentagon–and this is where Libya enters; rejecting AFRICOM with Sudan, Eritrea, Zimbabwe and Cote d’Ivoire (and Sahraoui). No US bases–hence countries to be subdued. The Libya action may put Africa on fire.
→ read full articleThe Link Between War and Big Finance
Kevin Zeese – War Is a Crime.org,
18 Apr 2011
Americans are recognizing the link between the military-industrial complex and the Wall Street oligarchs—a connection that goes back to the beginning of the modern U.S. empire. Banks have always profited from war because the debt created by banks results in ongoing war profit for big finance; and because wars have been used to open countries to U.S. corporate and banking interests.
→ read full articleThe Grand Failure of Conventional Economics
Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
The “fixes” of conventional economics such as Keynesian stimulus will all fail catastrophically within the next 10 years.
→ read full articleWhy This Matters
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
We have to be sure our facts about nuclear power are right, as the latest exchange with Helen Caldicott shows. My request was a simple one: I asked her to give me sources for the claims she had made about the effects of radiation.
→ read full articleThe Ivory Coast: Behind Laurent Gbagbo’s Last Stand
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that what would happen in the Ivory Coast would have an impact on UN policy in the rest of Africa. The follow up to the arrest of Laurent Gbagbo will merit watching.
→ read full articleLet Me Bomb You in Peace
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
11 Apr 2011
If former Pentagon supremo Donald “known unknown” Rumsfeld were still in business, he’d be grumbling that Libya presents no bombable targets – as in Afghanistan in 2001. As far as United States quagmires go, Libya is bigger than Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined. But any possible “targets” concentrate in a few cities along the Mediterranean coast.
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Meet the Shministim – Israeli Conscientious Objectors (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Editor, TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
The Shministim are Israeli high school students who have been imprisoned for refusing to serve in an army that occupies the Palestinian Territories.
→ read full articleWar Is Not Peace
Christa Hillstrom – Yes! Magazine,
11 Apr 2011
It’s known as the School of Assassins among the poor of Latin America; a vessel for the spread of democracy among its U.S. military proponents; and one of the world’s most infamous human rights offenders for the thousands of protesters who gather in Fort Benning, Georgia, each November to honor the names of union leaders, campesinos, priests, and children who have been gunned down by its alumni.
→ read full articleA Hapless Fukushima Clean-Up Effort
Veronika Hackenbroch, Cordula Meyer and Thilo Thielke – Der Spiegel,
11 Apr 2011
The lack of an effective emergency crisis management has underscored how poorly prepared TEPCO and indeed the Japanese authorities were for a nuclear disaster. Engineers seem helpless in their efforts to cope with radioactive water and workers aren’t even getting proper meals.
→ read full articleA Morning at an Israeli Checkpoint
Alain Salomon and Katia Salomon – The New York Times,
11 Apr 2011
As we entered this narrow space I looked at the barbed wire further on. We are Jewish, and began to weep. How was it possible that our own people, who have gone through such suffering, can inflict this ordeal, intended to humiliate and intimidate another people?
→ read full articleClimate Change: Developing Countries Step In Where Richer Nations Fear to Tread
Marwaan Macan-Markar – Inter Press Service-IPS,
11 Apr 2011
Led by countries like Indonesia, 48 developing nations are rolling out a range of pledges to voluntarily cut their respective emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) by 2020, the year climate scientists say the earth’s rising temperature should peak by if an environmental catastrophe is to be avoided.
→ read full articleLatin America Shakes Off the US Yoke
Mark Weisbrot – The Guardian,
11 Apr 2011
The current spat with Ecuador is symptomatic of Washington’s failure to grasp that it no longer exercises regional hegemony.
→ read full articleColombia: Court Documents Reveal Chiquita Paid for Security
Jim Lobe and Aprille Muscara – Inter Press Service-IPS,
11 Apr 2011
Contrary to claims by Chiquita Brands International that its payments to Colombian paramilitary and guerrilla groups over more than a decade were extorted, internal company documents released here Thursday [7 Apr 2011] strongly suggest that the transactions provided specific benefits to the banana giant.
→ read full articleOur Lives Are under Threat from Some of the Most Powerful and Richest Entities — Here’s How We Can Fight Back and Win
Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben - AlterNet,
11 Apr 2011
To us, the lesson is pretty clear. Since we’re never going to have as much money as the fossil fuel industry, we need to rebuild the kind of mass movement that marked 1970: bodies, passion, and creativity are the currencies we can compete in. It’s not impossible.
→ read full articleDo Western Strikes in Libya Betray Peaceful Revolt Everywhere?
Michelle Chen – Colorlines,
11 Apr 2011
Is the Arab Spring already coming to an end? The foreign intervention in the rebellion in Libya has clouded the rosy vision of nonviolent, youth-led uprisings that had enchanted activists around the world. Will the surge of grassroots pro-democracy solidarity hit a dead end in the streets of Tripoli, as a nebulous armed insurrection aligns with U.S. and European forces?
→ read full article(Italian) Da Lampedusa. Quei Ragazzini … Occhi Che Scoppiano di Intelligenza
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
4 aprile 2011. Il giornalista e amico Karim Metref, recatosi a Lampedusa per rendersi conto di persona della situazione, risponde ad alcuni miei quesiti.
→ read full articleClimate Policy: RIO+20 – Toward a New Green Economy—Or a Green-Washed Old Economy?
Jim Thomas – Grist,
11 Apr 2011
2012 Rio Earth summit’s focus on a green economy a threat to progress made by the 1992 original. Far from cooking up a plan to save the Earth, what may come out of the summit could instead be a deal to surrender the living world to a small cabal of bankers and engineers — one that will dump the promises of the first Rio summit along the way.
→ read full articleHow to Build A-tomb (A Poem)
S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
To build anything, my dear friend,
You must be clear what it is you want.
(Italian) Quando Gheddafi Piaceva Tanto ai Generali USA
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
Cane furioso, pazzo, sanguinario, assassino. A Washington descrivono così il colonnello Gheddafi, ma alla vigilia della guerra contro la Libia erano tanti gli ufficiali delle forze armate USA a tessere le lodi del leader africano.
→ read full article10 Everyday Acts of Resistance That Changed the World
Steve Crawshaw & John Jackson – Yes! Magazine,
11 Apr 2011
Václav Havel called it “the power of the powerless.” How regular people, from Denmark to Liberia, have stood up to power—and won.
→ read full articleLiberal Imperialism: The History of ‘Humanitarian Intervention’
Adam Curtis - BBC,
11 Apr 2011
Even if one’s instincts are to help those fighting Gadaffi, it is no longer enough just to see it as a struggle of goodies against baddies. For it is precisely that simplification that has led to unreal fantasies about who we are fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.
→ read full articlePortugal – Crisis, what crisis?
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
11 Apr 2011
After Prime Minister José Sócrates presented his resignation to President Anibal Silva on Wednesday [23 Mar 2011], the Portuguese mass media indicates a new legislative election at the end of May. However, this is not the only option open to the President. After decades of mismanagement, reality slams Portugal square in the face. What happens now?
→ read full articleTo Libya with God on Our Side
Saul Landau and Nelson Valdes – Information Clearing House,
11 Apr 2011
Grabbing other people’s land and interfering in their affairs became as American as apple pie before the annexation of Texas, and “Manifest Destiny” as the engine of U.S. foreign policy. In 17th Century inspirational moments God sent His chosen from England to found the “city on a hill” (Boston). He had dispatched other select British subjects to settle “the promised land” (Virginia). According to John L. O’Sullivan in 1839, God intended “the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.”
→ read full articleThe Intellectual Crisis of Reporting On Burma by the International Crisis Group
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
When European Union policymakers will meet to review the EU Common Policy on Burma, on 12 April, they will be wise to discard the International Crisis Group’s (ICG) recent call for the unconditional embrace of the country’s military dictatorship… The ICG analysts seem to have chosen only evidence that agrees with a pro-trade, pro-aid policy stance, while critically lacking both conceptual and historical understanding of how dictatorships change.
→ read full articleQuantico Blocks Official Visits by UN, Amnesty, and Rep. Kucinich to Bradley Manning
Michael Whitney, FDL – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
Government officials and Quantico Marine base have blocked official visits to PFC. Bradley Manning by Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Amnesty International, and the UN Special Rappateur on torture.
→ read full articleFukushima: A ‘Nuclear Sacrifice Zone’
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
11 Apr 2011
Some experts believe Japan’s nuclear disaster could become worse than Chernobyl. Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that was heavily damaged by the tsunami from the massive March 11 magnitude 9.0 earthquake continues to spread extremely high levels of radiation into the ocean, ground, and air.
→ read full articleObama’s Libyan Folly: To be or not to be…
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
The outcome in Libya remains uncertain, but what seems clear beyond reasonable doubt is that military intervention has not saved the day for either the shadowy opposition known as ‘the rebels,’ and certainly not for the people of the country.
→ read full articleHiroshima-Nagasaki and Fukushima
Akifumi Fujita - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
A Centennial Appreciation of the Life and Work of Japanese Physicist Mitsuo Taketani
→ read full article(Portuguese) Cúpula do BRICS na China Discute Rumos da Governança Mundial
Secr. de Comunicação Social da Presidencia da República do Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
A Reforma da Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU) e os rumos da governança global com eixo em um reordenamento multipolar mais equilibrado são alguns dos principais assuntos a serem tratados pelo Brasil na Cúpula de chefes de Estado dos Brics. O encontro será realizado em 14 de abril, na Ilha de Sanya, na China, e marcará a entrada da África do Sul como um dos membros do mecanismo internacional.
→ read full articleThe Civil Crime 1861-65
Johan Galtung, 11 Apr 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
“Causes of war” is an academic pursuit for the PhD hungry; “causes of peace” is the serious challenge. How could this crime against humanity [American Civil War] have been avoided, what would conflict solution, even peace, have looked like?.. ‘Welcome to America, home to 5% of the world’s people & 25% of the world’s prisoners,’ says the NAACP. Mainly Blacks. Rented out as labor from privatized prisons on the stock exchange, deploring lower crime rates, bribing judges for longer sentences. Jim Crow II, South and North. USA, wake up, before the republic becomes a victim of its own absurdity.
→ read full articleWhat Liberals and Conservatives Generally Do in Certain Situations
TMS Editor,
11 Apr 2011
If a liberal doesn’t like guns, he doesn’t buy one.
→ read full articlePeace Journalism in Pakistan: Perspective on Taliban Conflict
Shabbir Hussain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
This study aims to analyze the media strategy in reporting the tension between the Taliban and the security forces. Taking cue from the original Galtung model of peace journalism, this study strives to help devise a media strategy to promote peace and conflict transformation between the warring sides.
→ read full articleHow a Big US Bank Laundered Billions from Mexico’s Murderous Drug Gangs
Ed Vulliamy - The Observer,
11 Apr 2011
[Wachovia] Bank paid federal authorities $110m in forfeiture, for allowing transactions later proved to be connected to drug smuggling, and incurred a mere $50m fine for failing to monitor cash used to ship 22 tons of cocaine… and for failing to apply the proper anti-laundering strictures to the transfer of $378.4bn – a sum equivalent to one-third of Mexico’s gross national product – into dollar accounts from so-called casas de cambio (CDCs) in Mexico, currency exchange houses with which the bank did business. It is in the clear now.
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The Marketing of Madness: The Truth about Psychotropic Drugs (Part 1/2)
Citizens Commission on Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
These drugs do cause addiction, however most “doctors” would call this dependence because you do not have to take an increasing dose over time. They are completely fine with you being addicted to the same amount of any given drug on a daily basis. Over half of the people that commit suicide in the United States are prescribed to psychotropic drugs. (Ex: Paxil, Zoloft, Wellbutrin, Effexor, Seroquil, etc.)
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The Marketing of Madness: The Truth about Psychotropic Drugs (Part 2/2)
Citizens Commission on Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
This video provides the facts about psychotropic drugs and the huge profits they create for the pharmaceutical industry. These drugs are not safe and have not been on the market long enough to provide sufficient long term studies regarding their effects. These drugs do cause addiction, however most “doctors” would call this dependence because you do not have to take an increasing dose over time.
→ read full article10 Best Things We Can Do for Animals
Jane Goodall – Yes! Magazine,
4 Apr 2011
Jane Goodall tells us what we can do in our everyday lives to care for the animals we love.
→ read full articleWho Is Annexing Whom?
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
IN A rare late-night session, the Knesset has finally adopted two obnoxious racist laws. Both are clearly directed against Israel’s Arab citizens, a fifth of the population.
→ read full articleOdyssey Dawn and the Need for Athena
Paul D. Scott – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
“More often than not, when analysts assess African security issues, they do so with a voice reminiscent of the British Colonial Office in the eighteenth century—paternalistic and unaware.” This paternalism continues as conflicts in the region are poorly mapped and/or viewed through lenses that can only be turned one-way.
→ read full articleObama Raises American Hypocrisy To A Higher Level
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
“Some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries. The United States of America is different. And as president, I refused to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action.” This from the Great Moral Leader who every day murders civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Yemen and Somalia and now Libya and who turns a blind eye when “the great democracy in the Middle East,” Israel, murders more Palestinians.
→ read full articleThe Lessons of Fukushima
Hugh Gusterson – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
4 Apr 2011
This leaves us with a choice between walking back from a technology that we decide is too dangerous or normalizing the risks of nuclear energy and accepting that an occasional Fukushima is the price we have to pay for a world with less carbon dioxide. It is wishful thinking to believe there is a third choice of nuclear energy without nuclear accidents.
→ read full articleThe Empire Hits Back
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
Then rather treat Gadhafi the way they handled Milosevic: if you do not give in to our demands Beograd–read Tripoli–will be flattened by carpet bombing. The Finn who conveyed that message got a Nobel Peace Prize, maybe he could be called upon again?
→ read full articleCops
TMS Editor,
4 Apr 2011
An old lady was speeding down the highway while she was knitting.
→ read full articleTurkey’s Big Business Opts for Consolidation of Democracy
Sahin Alpay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
The principles now open to public deliberation have been advanced, discussed and broadly agreed upon by liberals and democrats in Turkey in a debate that started in the early 1990s. What the TÜSİAD report suggests is, briefly, that the Constitution based on Kemalism (secular nationalism) drawn by the military in 1982 be replaced by one that is based on the principles of liberal democracy.
→ read full articleWhat’s Best for My Computer: Hibernate, Sleep, or Shut Down?
Morieka Johnson, Mother Nature Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
How to manage your computer depends a lot on your work habits.
→ read full articleNarco Violence in Mexico: Eight Theses and Many Questions
Paco Ignacio Taibo II – Toward Freedom,
4 Apr 2011
Calderón negotiated the launching of this war with President Bush, not with the then newly-arrived Obama. And he agreed in terms of a package deal with absurd conditions. The drug war has never been, nor should it be, a Mexican War. It was, and is an essentially American war generated by increased consumption of drugs on a global scale which initiated in the United States.
→ read full articleExposed: The US-Saudi Libya deal
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
4 Apr 2011
Two diplomatic sources at the United Nations independently confirmed that Washington, via Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, gave the go-ahead for Saudi Arabia to invade Bahrain and crush the pro-democracy movement in their neighbor in exchange for a “yes” vote by the Arab League for a no-fly zone over Libya – the main rationale that led to United Nations Security Council resolution 1973.
→ read full articleReducing Armed Violence the Asian Way
Fred Lubang and Robert Muggah – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
Whilst armed violence affects every country, some societies are more affected than others. In South and Southeast Asia, countries such as Afghanistan, Myanmar, Pakistan, the Philippines and Thailand are affected by on-going armed conflicts within and across their borders. Others such as Cambodia, Nepal, and Sri Lanka are emerging from war. Meanwhile, Bangladesh and Indonesia, along with virtually every other state across both regions, are confronting simmering urban violence due to growing organized crime and gang activity.
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Burning Conscience: Israeli Soldiers Speak Out
Alternate Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
A searing interview with Avichai Sharon and Noam Chayut, both veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces and members of Breaking the Silence. Sharon and Chayut served during the second intifada, an on-going bloodbath that has claimed the lives of over three thousand Palestinians and nine-hundred-fifty Israelis. After thorough introspection, these young men have chosen to speak out about their experiences as self-described “brutal occupiers of a disputed land.”
→ read full articleThe Hypocrisy of the West’s ‘Humanitarian Interventions’
Peter Lavelle – The Moscow News,
4 Apr 2011
Western sponsored “humanitarian intervention” always picks a side – and the winning side does what it pleases. This is one of the unspoken spin-offs of “humanitarian interventionism”.
→ read full articleCreate Space for Peace
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
“But what do you do in practice” was a question often asked of me when I started to represent Peace Brigades International (PBI) shortly after its creation in 1981 at the United Nations in Geneva.4
→ read full articleBoycotting Israel … From Within
Mya Guarnieri – Al Jazeera,
4 Apr 2011
Israelis explain why they joined the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement.
→ read full articleEthics in Business Education
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
If we were to give a rapid glance at the last 6,000 years of recorded history, we would soon discover that most problems in the world stem from the government.
→ read full articleDeath Penalty in 2010: Executing Countries Left Isolated After Decade of Progress
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
28 March 2011. Countries which continue to use the death penalty are being left increasingly isolated following a decade of progress towards abolition, Amnesty International has said today in its new report Death Sentences and Executions in 2010.
→ read full articleHumane Meat? No Such Thing
Sunaura Taylor – Yes! Magazine,
4 Apr 2011
Should we eat animals? My disability gives me a unique view on the oxymoron “humane meat.”
→ read full articleThe Dangerous US Game in Yemen
Jeremy Scahill – The Nation,
4 Apr 2011
The day before US missiles began raining down on Muammar el-Qaddafi’s Libya, hundreds of miles away—across the Red Sea—security forces under the control of Yemen’s US-backed president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, massacred more than fifty people who were participating in an overwhelmingly peaceful protest in the capital, Sana. Some of the victims were shot in the head by snipers.
→ read full articleIceland, a Country That Wants to Punish the Bankers Responsible for the Crisis
Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
Since 2008 the vast majority of the Western population dream about saying “no” to the banks, but no one has dared to do so. No one except the Icelanders, who have carried out a peaceful revolution that has managed not only to overthrow a government and draft a new constitution, but also seeks to jail those responsible for the country’s economic debacle.
→ read full articleAmerican Peace Activist Jonathan Schell: ‘Our Most Dangerous Illusion Is that We Can Control Nuclear Energy’
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
In a SPIEGEL interview, peace activist and author Jonathan Schell discusses the lessons of the Fukushima disaster, mankind’s false impression that it can somehow safely produce electricity from the atom, and why he thinks the partial meltdown in Japan could mark a turning point for the world.
→ read full articleJoint Statement on the Japanese Nuclear Disaster
The Right Livelihood Award & World Future Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
Hamburg, Stockholm, 29 March 2011. In a joint statement 50 Laureates of the Right Livelihood Award and members of the World Future Council demand a global nuclear phase out.
→ read full article(Castellano) Libia: El International Peace Bureau Condena el Ataque Militar y Urge por Una Negociación Política para Proteger la Población Civil
International Peace Bureau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
Una nueva era histórica se ha abierto hace tres meses con los levantamientos populares de Túnez y luego el de Egipto, el primero de la denominada “Primavera Arabe”… La revuelta libia se inspiró en estas victorias fundamentalmente no violentas, pero – el mundo lo ha presenciado con consternación – se ha militarizado rápidamente y está ahora envuelta en una guerra civil .
→ read full articleOops!
TMS Editor,
28 Mar 2011
“Just look at that young person with the short hair and blue jeans. Is it a boy or a girl? “
→ read full articleLibya: IPB Condemns Military Strikes and Urges Political Negotiations to Protect the Civilian Population
International Peace Bureau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
A new historical era opened three months ago with the popular uprisings in Tunisia and then Egypt, the first of the ‘Arab spring’ season. These rebellions brought hope to millions and youthful energy to societies suffering decades of repression, injustice, inequality, especially gender inequality, and increasing economic hardship. The Libyan revolt was inspired by these largely nonviolent victories, but, as the world has witnessed with dismay, has rapidly become militarized and is now embroiled in a full-scale civil war.
→ read full articlePartners in Victory! Flags for Peace!!
COVA-Confederation of Voluntary Associations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
India and Pakistan will play the semifinal of the World Cup on 30th March 2011. That the match can be played in Mohali, India is a gift of the peace process that was started in 2004.
→ read full articleThe “Kill Team” Photographs
Seymour M. Hersh – The New Yorker,
28 Mar 2011
It’s the smile. In photographs released by the German weekly Der Spiegel, an American soldier is looking directly at the camera with a wide grin. His hand is on the body of an Afghan whom he and his fellow soldiers appear to have just killed, allegedly for sport… There are also reports of suspected Taliban sympathizers we turn over to Afghan police and soldiers being tortured or worse. This will be a long haul; revenge in Afghan society does not have to come immediately. We could end up not knowing who hit us, or why, a decade or two from now.
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All Banks Should Be Like the Bank of North Dakota
TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
A number of laws and social reforms were implemented in North Dakota in the early 20th century, some of which are still in place today, in an attempt to insulate it from the power of out-of-state banks and corporations.
→ read full articleAristide’s Return to Haiti: A Long Night’s Journey Into Day
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
28 Mar 2011
The U.S. continued to prevent Aristide from returning for the next seven years. Just last week, President Barack Obama called South African President Jacob Zuma to express “deep concerns” about Aristide’s potential return, and to pressure Zuma to block the trip. Zuma, to his credit, ignored the warning. U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks reveal a concerted, multiyear drive to hamper the return of Aristide to Haiti, including diplomatically punishing any country that helped Aristide, including threatening to block a U.N. Security Council seat for South Africa.
→ read full articleThe Dark Side of “Comprehensive Soldier Fitness”
Roy Eidelson, Marc Pilisuk & Stephen Soldz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
Why is the world’s largest organization of psychologists so aggressively promoting a new, massive, and untested military program? The APA’s enthusiasm for mandatory “resilience training” for all U.S. soldiers is troubling on many counts.
→ read full article(Castellano) Brasil [BRIC] y Nicaragua Abogan por Una Solución Pacífica a Conflicto en Libia
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
La presidenta de Brasil, Dilma Rousseff afirmó este martes [22 Mar 2011] que su país está a favor de una solución pacífica al conflicto en Libia, mientras que su homólogo de Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, pidió el cese de la agresión contra la nación norteafricana. “No es sólo nuestra posición, también es la de China, la India y Rusia”, [Dilma Rousseff afirmó], naciones que, junto a Brasil, integran el grupo de países con economías emergentes, conocido como BRIC, al que recientemente se integró Sudáfrica.
→ read full article(Castellano) ¿Rearmar a Costa Rica o desarmar al resto?
Adrian Bergmann, El Nuevo Diario - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
La preocupación por la escalante tensión entre Costa Rica y Nicaragua es real. La desigualdad de fuerzas es igualmente real. De allí se puede partir a dos caminos divergentes; ¿habría que rearmar a Costa Rica? o ¿habría que desarmar al resto de Centroamérica?.
→ read full article(Italian) Il Collasso del Vecchio Ordine Petrolifero
Michael T. Klare – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
28 Mar 2011
Qualunque sia l’esito delle proteste, sommosse e ribellioni che stanno ora spazzando il Medio Oriente, una cosa è certa: il mondo del petrolio sarà trasformato in maniera definitiva.
→ read full articleTransnational Capitalism or Collective Imperialism?
Samir Amin – Pambazuka News,
28 Mar 2011
Responding to the work of scholars like William Carroll, Samir Amin considers the evolution and shape of globalised capitalism and the extent to which it might be termed ‘transnational’ or ‘collective imperialism’. He stresses: ‘Globalisation is an inappropriate term. Its popularity is commensurate with the violence of ideological aggression that has prohibited henceforth the utterance of “imperialism.”
→ read full articleLet’s Make Female Genital Mutilation a Part of History
Bernadette Sesay – Pambazuka News,
28 Mar 2011
At age 18, I was told the time had come for me to go through Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). I didn’t want to. It was my mother and maternal grandmother’s idea: they’d also been responsible for the initiation of all of my female siblings. My mother cried and pleaded with me, begging me not to bring shame to my family. She told me it was not going to be hard because I was having it done in a hospital. I didn’t know it could be done in hospital; at the time this came as a shock.
→ read full articleThe Invisible Hand Explains Nuclear Safety
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
Award-winning cartoonist Tom Tomorrow has the invisible hand of the free market explain nuclear safety.
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Johan Galtung on US Radio – Wide Awake News (Video of the Week)
Charlie McGrath and Warren Pollok – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
Charlie McGrath and Warren Pollok, hosts of Wide Awake Radio-Alternate Radio Show in the US, conduct an original interview with Prof. Galtung talking about his recent book “The Fall of the US Empire – And Then What?” Dr. Galtung provides solutions.
→ read full articleContinuing Colonialism: World Bank Funds Mining in Africa
Cyril Mychalejko – Toward Freedom,
28 Mar 2011
Dr. Aaron Tesfaye, a professor of International Political Economy and African Politics at William Paterson University, said he is not surprised by the announcement because of the economic and security implications mining and strategic metals have for industrialized nations.
→ read full articleQaddafi, Moral Interventionism, Libya, and the Arab Revolutionary Moment
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
Recently [Qaddafi] confirmed this assessment, referring to his own people as ‘rats and dogs’ or ‘cockroaches,’ and employing the bloodthirsty and vengeful language of a demented tyrant. Such a tragic imposition of political abuse on the Libyan experience is a painful reality that exists beyond any reasonable doubt, but does it validate a UN authorized military intervention carried out by a revived partnership of those old colonial partners, France and Britain, and their post-colonial American imperial overseer? I think not.
→ read full articleInterplanetary Security Council resolution: No-fly zone on Earth – Resolution 1973
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
This is a translated text of a resolution of the Interplanetary Security Council, apparently leaked by WikiLeaks-Solar.
→ read full articleNews Goo Episode 1
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
In the launch edition of News Goo, Jake Lynch interviews Julian Burnside QC, and the journalist, author and film-maker John Pilger, about the investigative journalism of WikiLeaks.
→ read full articleHuge Payout over US Priests Sex-Scandals
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
The Pacific Northwest chapter of the Roman Catholic Church’s Jesuit order has agreed to pay $166 million to settle more than 500 child sexual abuse claims against priests in five states, attorneys have said.
→ read full articlePlayboy Interview: Helen Thomas
David Hochman – Playboy,
28 Mar 2011
A candid conversation with the disgraced dean of the White House press corps about her rage against Israel, her sympathy for Palestinians and why she was fired.
→ read full articleEurope Turns Against Israel
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
It seems as if the Holocaust indoctrination that is rallied and utilised by every Jewish and Zionist institution around the world has backfired, and on every possible front: more and more people around regard the Israelis as the Nazis of our time. I must admit that I am uncomfortable with that comparison — I actually believe that Israel is far worse than Nazi Germany, at least from certain perspectives.
→ read full article(Italian) Le Rivoluzioni Nonviolente Arabe
Prof. Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
Per meglio comprenderle, partiamo dalle rivoluzioni nonviolente che più hanno (cambiato e) impressionato il mondo, quelle del 1989.
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Exclusive Interview with Jean-Bertrand Aristide during Plane Returning to Haiti
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
28 Mar 2011
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his family were flown on Friday [18 Mar 2011] by the South African government back to their home in Haiti after seven years in exile. Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman was the only reporter to join them on the journey.
→ read full articleUrgent Appeal to Change the Mindset
Reflection Group on Global Development Perspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development – Rio 2012, must change the dominant mindset by restoring public rights over corporate privileges.
→ read full articleLet the Truth Be Known About the Fukushima Nuclear Plants
People's Plan Study Group – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
An Urgent Demand to the Mass Media and the Government of Japan
→ read full articleNoam Chomsky Answers Six Questions from Well Known Personalities
Frank Barat, Vimeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
Frank Barat asks Prof Noam Chomsky six questions that were sent by Alice Walker, John Berger, Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, Amira Hass and Chris Hedges.
→ read full article(Galego) Declaracion Institucional do Seminario Galego de Educacion para a Paz en Relación co Ataque Militar a Libia
Fundacion Cultura de Paz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
O Seminario Galego de Educación para a Paz apoiará todas as mobilizacións pacíficas e nonviolentas convocadas para manifestar a oposición á intervención militar en Libia e convocará á Coordinadora Galega pola Paz co fin de acordar accións unitarias nesta dirección.
→ read full articleFumbling Toward Fukushima: Japanese Nuclear Plant Operator Plagued by Scandal
Markus Becker – Der Spiegel,
28 Mar 2011
For years, Tepco, the operator of the Fukushima power plant, has been widely criticized for deadly accidents and improper inspections. The Fukushima disaster is the tragic nadir in a history of poor management at the company’s nuclear facilities.
→ read full articleWhere Is the Voice of the African Union?
Wangari Maathai – Deccan Herald,
28 Mar 2011
Many Africans, in both north and south, have for years moved in darkness, fear, and desperation. Surely the AU should have been among the first international organisations consulted as internal conflict engulfed AU member states in North Africa. Why wasn’t it? If such conflicts were taking place in Europe, surely the EU would be central to a resolution.
→ read full articleWhat They’re Covering Up at Fukushima
Hirose Takashi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
After reading his account, you will wonder, why do they keep on sprinkling water on the reactors, rather than accept the sarcophagus solution [ie., entombing the reactors in concrete. Editors.] I think there are a couple of answers.
→ read full articleNo Laws, No Secrets: The Anarchist Creed of Julian Assange
Christopher Ketcham - Truthdig,
28 Mar 2011
Assange is undermining the system by which we don’t cooperate at all, or pretend to cooperate, or force cooperation by bombing, killing, lying, cheating, smiling and smiling while villainous—all in service of “solving regional challenges,” which is to say in service of the imperial state… What commentators on Assange don’t seem to get is that he is channeling Thomas Paine.
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