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OUR GREATEST CHALLENGE: BRINGING POLITICS UNDER CONTROL
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
If we were to study carefully the evolution of events that took place over the past 6,000 years of recorded history, we will discover that most of the world’s problems stemmed out from politics of one kind or another.
→ read full article(ITALIAN) PRIMA ASSOLUTA DELL’OPERA MULTIKULTI “TULLA E LEANDRO” ALLA RICERCA DELLE RADICI
Silvia Berruto, giornalista contro il razzismo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
Un prodotto interculturale e multiculturale dunque.
Multikulti.
In una visione culturale in cui non si parla più di integrazione ma di pari opportunità, di empowerment e di diritti uguali per tutti.
THE ILLUSION AND POWER OF SKIN COLOR
Nina Jablonski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
Differing skin colors are simply our bodies’ adaptation to varied climates and levels of UV exposure. Charles Darwin disagreed with this theory, but Nina explains, that’s because he did not have access to NASA.
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Dietrich Fischer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
To attend the meeting of the communist international, the Tanzanian delegate, the only communist in Tanzania, left six months early.
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SUDAN: VOTE PEACEFULLY
XCHANGEperspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
In this advocacy film, citizens from Magwi, encourage the people of Sudan to go vote peacefully and to contribute to a peaceful Sudan. The video was produced by Xchange Perspectives in March 2010 for Media in Cooperation and Transition (MICT).
→ read full articleIMPLICATION OF PERSONAL DESPAIR IN PLANETARY DESPAIR
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
The argument here is that the very heavy investment in “hope”, especially in public discourse, is increasingly serving as a narcotic to dull such pain and to distract from acting in a more healthy manner in response to it.
→ read full article(A POEM) WE ARE COMING TO GAZA
Naomi Foyle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
We are coming to Gaza
from different places —
some of us were born in the tunnels
that feed Palestine with Irish blood;
others have further to travel.
U.S. COVERING UP REALITY IN HONDURAS
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
While State Department attempts to sell the world that the inauguration of a new president in Honduras has brought an end to the country’s crisis, the continuing assassinations of anti-coup activists and their children stands as sharp evidence to the contrary.
→ read full article“HOLD ME BACK!”
Uri Avnery – Gush Shalom,
12 Apr 2010
When a boy has a scuffle with a bigger and stronger boy, he pretends that he is going to attack him any moment and shouts to the spectators: “Hold me back, or I am going to kill him!”
→ read full articleSOCIAL FAULT LINES: THE DISASTER OF POVERTY IN HAITI
Beverly Bell – Toward Freedom,
12 Apr 2010
Laura Wagner, a U.S. anthropologist who survived – barely – Haiti’s earthquake in January, writes, “Social scientists who study catastrophes say there are no natural disasters. In every calamity, it is inevitably the poor who suffer more, die more, and will continue to suffer and die after the cameras turn their gaze elsewhere. Do not be deceived by claims that everyone was affected equally — fault lines are social as well as geological.”
→ read full articleWIKILEAKS: INSIDE THE GROUP THAT HAS EXPOSED THE SECRETS OF SARAH PALIN, SCIENTOLOGY AND THE PENTAGON
David Kushner – Mother Jones,
12 Apr 2010
Since 2006, WikiLeaks has posted more than 1.2 million documents. Governments and corporations have tried to shut them down. They’ve failed.
→ read full articleABSURD TRANSCENDENTAL PRETENSE
Prof. Chung-Yue Chang -TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
Aristotle’s “Square of Opposition” diagrams shows how the four basic categorical propositions can be opposed as “true” or “false”. No middle ground is allowed. The Aristotelian logic is designed for a dynamic world made static. In contrast, China’s circular yin-yang diagram shows the moving fields of yin and yang spread out to build each other up toward a new unity of dynamic harmony. This is possible because within the yin there is a trace of yang, and within the yang there is a trace of yin. Chinese logic is designed for a dynamic world that moves creatively toward harmony.
→ read full articleDEATH PENALTY DECREASING WORLDWIDE
Andrew Meldrum - GlobalPost,
12 Apr 2010
Amnesty International released its annual survey on the use of the death penalty. The report found 18 countries executed people in 2009. China is estimated to have executed the most people, but refused to release an official figure. In the 17 other countries 714 people were executed.
→ read full articleHEALING BODY AND HEART, CUBAN STYLE
Beverly Bell and Tory Field – YES! Magazine,
12 Apr 2010
Cuban doctors and artists–on the ground in Haiti even before the earthquake–are helping survivors heal.
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EXCLUSIVE: TWO JOURNALISTS RECOUNT THEIR EXPERIENCES REPORTING FROM GAZA
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
12 Apr 2010
We speak with two journalists who have covered Gaza extensively about the dangers and difficulties of reporting from the Occupied Territories: Mohammed Omer, an award-winning Palestinian journalist who was interrogated and beaten by armed Israeli security guards on his way back home to Gaza after receiving the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in London in July of 2008…
→ read full articleTHE FABULOUS LIFE OF THE RAVENOUS VULTURES
COHA Research Associate Evgenij Haperskij – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
Since the mid-90s, the so-called vulture funds have been suing poor countries so that they would fully pay back their debts which they had purchased for pennies on the dollar. In this way, the vulture funds frequently manage to exacerbate the economic situation in the poor countries, most of which are located in Latin America and Africa.
→ read full articleAFRICOM BACKS BLOODSHED IN CENTRAL AFRICA
Keith Harmon Snow – Dissident Voice,
12 Apr 2010
The eastern Congo remains awash in bloodshed due to western mining companies and their proxy armies, the military regimes of Paul Kagame (Rwanda), Yoweri Museveni (Uganda), and Joseph Kabila (DRC), all hidden behind reams of western newsprint blaming Congolese victims for their own suffering… Meanwhile, AFRICOM under the Obama administration has major base constructions and secret deployments across Central Africa, with NATO, Dyncorp and Special Operations Command shipping Ugandan grunts to the U.S. wars in Somalia, Afghanistan, Darfur and Iraq.
→ read full articleBIG BROTHER AND THE HIDDEN HAND OF THE “FREE MARKET”
Tom Burghardt – Global Research,
12 Apr 2010
As the securitization of daily life increase at near exponential rates (all to keep us “safe,” mind you) the dark contours of an American police state, like a pilot’s last glimpse of an icy peak before a plane crash, wobbles into view.
→ read full articleMINDING THE GAP: JUDAISM BETWEEN LAW AND ETHICS
Ariella Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
Judaic righteousness is motivated not by love but by the fear of a jealous power. The bible commands: In the cities of these nations whose land the Lord is giving you as patrimony, you shall not leave any creature alive. You shall annihilate them all. Among the incompatible groups who resist western thought, Judaism is the most uncompromising. A quest to decipher the triumph of Jewish monotheism over western civilization is yet to come.
→ read full articleSIMPSONS IN ISRAHELL, CHECK IT OUT BEFORE IT IS TAKEN DOWN
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
A comical glimpse into Israeli collective madness. If it wasn’t so tragic, it would be funny. The Simpsons, Gilad.Com Season 21 Episode 12 – Greatest Story Ever D’Ohed CLICK TO VIEW VIDEO CLIP (Join the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) campaign to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of Palestine, the apartheid wall, […]
→ read full articleADAPTIVE HYPERCYCLE OF SUSTAINABLE PSYCHOSOCIAL SELF-ORGANIZATION
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
Designing a Mapping of a Chinese Metaphorical Pattern Language Introduction This is specifically concerned with further possibilities of mapping the interrelationships between the set of conditions of change identified and encoded by the 64 hexagrams of the Chinese classic known variously as the Book of Changes, the I Ching, the Yi Jing or the I […]
→ read full articleUN’S BAN KI-MOON CALLS ARAL SEA ‘SHOCKING DISASTER’
Jim Heintz, AP-Yahoo! News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
Once the world’s fourth-largest lake, Central Asia’s Aral Sea has shrunk by 90 percent. NUKUS, Uzbekistan – The drying up of the Aral Sea is one of the planet’s most shocking environmental disasters, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday as he urged Central Asian leaders to step up efforts to solve the problem. Once the […]
→ read full articleNEW POPE CRITICISM MARS EASTER WEEK
News 24, Worldpress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
Vatican – Pope Benedict XVI faced new criticism on Saturday after his preacher likened attacks on the Catholic Church over the paedophile priest furore to anti-Semitism, further marring Easter Week celebrations. Jewish groups and those representing victims of abuse by Catholic priests denounced the remarks by the pope’s personal preacher during a Good Friday homily. […]
→ read full article“THE EVIL SCOURGE OF TERRORISM”: REALITY, CONSTRUCTION, REMEDY
Noam Chomsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
Erich Fromm Lecture – April 3, 2010 The president could not have been more justified when he condemned “the evil scourge of terrorism.” I am quoting Ronald Reagan, who came into office in 1981 declaring that a focus of his foreign policy would be state-directed international terrorism, “the plague of the modern age” and “a […]
→ read full articleWHY ARE WE AFRAID OF SAYING “SOCIALISM”?
Frances Moore Lappé - Alternet,
5 Apr 2010
Knee-jerk reactions to words like "socialism" and "capitalism" get us nowhere. We need to first define the terms. “Socialist” has become the new favorite term of derision–working its fear-making magic because, for many Americans, socialism equals the great “government takeover.” It’s assumed to be not just un-American but downright anti-American. Tea Partiers at their round […]
→ read full articleHAITI AFTER THE QUAKE: IMPERIALISM WITH A HUMAN FACE (Part 1)
Ashley Smith – International Socialist Review,
5 Apr 2010
THE EARTHQUAKE that shook Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince on January 12 is one of the worst disasters in human history. The quake flattened houses, hotels, and government buildings, including the National Palace and UN headquarters. By some estimates, 60 percent of Port-au-Prince’s buildings collapsed. Even more damage struck some of the smaller towns near the capital […]
→ read full articleHAITI POST-QUAKE: DEVASTATION, DEPRAVATION, EXPLOITATION, AND OPPRESSION
Stephen Lendman – Dissident Voice,
5 Apr 2010
Two and half months post-quake, the major media mostly ignore Haiti, the calamitous conditions on the ground, and the growing desperation of millions forced to largely endure on their own — out of sight, mind, the concern of world leaders, and UN, USAID and other aid organizations diverting most of the $700 million + donated […]
→ read full articleHAITI AFTER THE QUAKE: IMPERIALISM WITH A HUMAN FACE (Part 2)
Ashley Smith – International Socialist Review,
5 Apr 2010
Problems with the NGOs Haiti has approximately 10,000 NGOs operating within its borders, one of the highest numbers per capita in the world. The international NGOs are unaccountable to either the Haitian state or Haitian population. So the aid funneled through them further weakens what little hold Haitians have on their own society. These NGOs […]
→ read full article“WE MADE A DEVIL’S BARGAIN”: FMR. PRESIDENT CLINTON APOLOGIZES FOR TRADE POLICIES THAT DESTROYED HAITIAN RICE FARMING
Democracy Now! – Pressenza International,
5 Apr 2010
President Bill Clinton, now the UN Special Envoy to Haiti, publicly apologized last month for forcing Haiti to drop tariffs on imported, subsidized US rice during his time in office. The policy wiped out Haitian rice farming and seriously damaged Haiti’s ability to be self-sufficient. Journalist Kim Ives of Haiti Liberté questioned Clinton about his […]
→ read full articleARE AMERICANS AS STUPID AS THE MEDIA THINK THEY ARE? (MAYBE)
Marty Kaplan – Alternet,
5 Apr 2010
"Poll numbers that pretty convincingly correlate believing idiotic things with having less education, and not believing idiotic things with having more education." I know some scary smart people who never graduated from high school, and I know some real doofuses with graduate degrees, so I understand that the number of years of formal education that […]
→ read full articleFREE PRESS HAVEN
Samuel Knight – In These Times,
5 Apr 2010
Iceland May Soon Become Utopia for Journalists and Publishers Icelandic members of parliament have plans to transform their crisis-ridden North-Atlantic nation into a sanctuary for publishers, production companies and information technology firms from around the world. “It would free the press from fear,” says Thor Saari, one of the members of parliament spearheading the proposal, […]
→ read full articleFIRST HIGH-ENERGY COLLISIONS CARRIED OUT IN GENEVA
Hannah Devlin – The Times,
5 Apr 2010
The first high-energy collisions between particle beams have taken place at the Large Hadron Collider, ending more than a year of frustration for scientists in Geneva. Collisions occurred just after noon BST, five hours after scheduled, but well within the time frame expected by scientists at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN). "This is […]
→ read full articleABUSE IN THE CHURCH: THE DEMONS OF POPE BENEDICT XVI
Alexander Smoltczyk – Spiegel,
5 Apr 2010
The case of an American priest who abused deaf children for years has shaken the Vatican. Detailed information about the sexual misconduct of the Rev. Lawrence Murphy went across the desk of Cardinal Ratzinger prior to his papacy. Abuse allegations in Italy are also putting the Catholic Church in an increasingly tough spot. It is […]
→ read full articleCARRYING A BACKPACK OF SORROW … SOLDIERS ON THE EDGE OF SUICIDE
Nadya Williams - Truthout,
5 Apr 2010
More of our young soldiers are now killing themselves than are being killed in our wars in the Middle East. The sad statistics are at the end of this article, but the following poem by a 24-year-old former Marine, who slashed his wrists twice after four years of duty and two tours of combat, tells […]
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(SATIRE) FEDS’ DECONFLICTION
florashutterbug - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
"Terrorist? Who, me?" A ‘funny’ clip about an assortment of American national security and intelligence agents going after a "terrorist." Food for thought about their ‘war on terror.’ Pathetic — if tragic– this political inquisition American style. 2:27-Min. VideoCLICK TO VIEW
→ read full articleUN CHIEF SAYS ISRAELI SETTLEMENT ACTIVITIES ILLEGAL
Xinhua – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
UN Secretary General Ban Ki- moon said Israeli settlement activities are illegal and against the international law, stressing that they should come to an end. In a speech at the opening session of the 22nd Arab Summit, the UN chief addressed that the significance of Jerusalem should be respected as a capital for both Israel […]
→ read full articleA GENETIC ENGENEERING-FREE FUTURE
TMS Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
A new initiative allows 1 million EU citizens a unique chance to make official requests of the European Commission. The European Commission has just allowed genetically engineered crops into Europe, ignoring safety concerns of the public interest. Let’s make it official! Add your voice now or pass this along to friends you have in the […]
→ read full articleREFLECTIONS ON AN ANNIVERSARY
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
“Everything feels obscene,” a friend said seven years ago, when we carpet-bombed Baghdad, launching the invasion. It still does, but in a dull, chronic, “used to it” way — outrage mixed, these last few years, with “hope,” smearing the war effort with a thick, national ambivalence. Is it still going on? Well, yeah, with a […]
→ read full articleNATO’S AFGHANISTAN: THE CHAMPION OF DRUGS PRODUCTION
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
5 Apr 2010
We really have to take our hats off to NATO. This clique of arms lobbyists and defender of jobs for the boys invaded Afghanistan in 2001 on the pretext that Osama bin Laden was using the country to attack western interests. Almost a decade after the Taleban declared war on drugs production, NATO’s Afghanistan is […]
→ read full articleSTOP FEEDING THE VULTURES
Greg Palast - In These Times,
5 Apr 2010
I get the idea that Eric Hermann doesn’t want to talk to me. When I came to his office suite, his hedge fund’s name plaque had been unbolted from the building’s wall, the suite number removed and all the employees locked in. I’m not surprised. Hermann is a vulture, not the carrion-eating type, but the […]
→ read full articleGAVIOTAS: VILLAGE OF HOPE
Seth Biderman and Christian Casillas – Yes! Magazine,
5 Apr 2010
A search for answers in Colombia leads two activists into the unpredictable world of Gaviotas. We first learned about Gaviotas, the legendary sustainable Colombian village, in 2004, while working in our home state, New Mexico. The two of us helped found a group called La Mesita, “the small table,” composed of three educators, a renewable […]
→ read full articleSTRUGGLING FOR TRUE SOVEREIGNTY
Bishnu Pathak, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
Land-locked Nepal has always existed in giant India’s shadow. However, now that its people have tasted democracy, they want to shake off Indian influence and become masters of their own destiny. Nepal has long historic, strategic, geo-political, commercial and socio-cultural relations with India. There has been a protracted debate and discourse to continuously improve such […]
→ read full articleA GLITCH — NOT A HITCH
Mumia Abu Jamal – Zspace,
5 Apr 2010
Newscasters blare, with an air of gloom and doom, of serious threats to the U.S. ~ Israeli relationship. That’s because it’s almost unprecedented to hear public criticisms by American leaders of Israeli actions. Indeed, even when Israel launches a brutal, wide-ranging attack on one of its neighbors, as it did during the 2006 assault on Lebanon, […]
→ read full articleKILLING TRIBAL AND TIGER TOGETHER
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
Tribal and Tiger killed out of SightLike their Forests burnt down at Night… [with apologies to William Blake] The world is witnessing the last great act of a global tragedy that will end not in victory for any one side, but in the defeat of all. And today, all of us are guilty. The world’s […]
→ read full article(FRENCH) OBJECTEUR DE CROISSANCE
Hervé Kempf – Le Monde,
5 Apr 2010
L’habit ne fait pas le moine, bien sûr, mais une belle apparence inspire le respect. C’est pourquoi il est tout sauf anecdotique que l’idée de décroissance, si allègrement injuriée par les thuriféraires du dogme "croissanciste", ait été accueillie dans un lieu imprégné de pensée. Du 26 au 29 mars s’est tenue dans la belle université […]
→ read full articleA NEW DIMENSION TO DEMILITARIZATION IN KASHMIR
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
In the last week of March 2010 a new dimension hitherto unknown to demilitarization debate in Kashmir came to picture. One of the premier Indian TV channels, NDTV, showed in its news the popular protests in Khurhma village in northern Kashmir against the shifting of the camp of Rashtriya Rifles, a part of paramilitary force […]
→ read full articleCOCA-COLA CAUSES SERIOUS DEPLETION OF WATER RESOURCES IN INDIA
India Resource Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
Liable for US$ 48 Million for Damages New Delhi: In a major development, a High Power Committee established by the state government of Kerala in India has recommended today that Coca-Cola be held liable for Indian Rupees 216 crore (US$ 48 million) for damages caused as a result of the company’s bottling operations in Plachimada. […]
→ read full article(SPANISH) HEINZ DIETERICH: VENEZUELA PODRÍA VOLVERSE INGOBERNABLE
Vladimir Villegas - El Nacional,
5 Apr 2010
El ideólogo del concepto socialismo del siglo XXI asegura que "el discurso anticapitalista del Presidente no tiene aval alguno en los hechos". Advierte que la sociedad está dividida en dos grandes bloques y reconoce la posibilidad de una caída fuerte en el apoyo a Chávez.Heinz Dieterich, creador del concepto que identifica el proceso político venezolano […]
→ read full articleECONOMIC RECOVERY, HAWAIIAN STYLE
Lurline Wailana McGregor – Yes! Magazine,
5 Apr 2010
What indigenous economies can teach us about abundance. There was once enough for everyone. That was before Captain Cook “discovered” our Hawaiian islands on his way to find a northwest passage, before the missionaries came to save our heathen ancestors and before the American businessmen called in the U.S. Navy to protect their land investments. […]
→ read full articleFORGETFULNESS
Dietrich Fischer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
An elderly man went for his annual checkup to the doctor. After examining him, the doctor said, "I have two bad news for you. The first is that you have cancer." The patient asked, "And what is the second bad news?" The doctor said, "You have Alzheimer’s disease." The man said, "It could be worse, […]
→ read full articleDEPLETED URANIUM: A WAR CRIME WITHIN A WAR CRIME
William Bowles – Global Research,
5 Apr 2010
Destroying Iraq’s Future, Its Children As if destroying a country and its culture ain’t bad enough, how about destroying its future, its children? I want to scream it from the rooftops! We are complicit in crimes of such enormity that I find it difficult to find the words to describe how I feel about this […]
→ read full article(ITALIAN) L’OSSERVATORIO CIVICO ANTIMAFIE di Reggio Emilia
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
Sul Quaderno n.1 – Febbraio 2010"Ciascuno cresce solo se è sognato" così esordisce Daniele Lugli sul palco in Piazza Prampolini, a Reggio Emilia, il 1 marzo 2010. Una stretta al cuore quando Daniele cita le le parole indimenticabili dell’amico e soprattutto del maestro Danilo Dolci. Parole indimenticabili nel senso e nel portato. Immediatamente, come in […]
→ read full articleCRISIS: THE MOTOR OF CAPITALISM
André Orléan - Le Monde,
5 Apr 2010
Capitalism’s history coincides with the history of its crises. Over the 1970-2007 period, there were at least 124 banking crises, 208 exchange rate crises and 63 sovereign debt crises! Even though most of those crises remained restricted to peripheral countries, this nonetheless remains a very alarming fact. In the face of such figures, the idea […]
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POPE BENEDICT ‘NOT INTIMIDATED’ BY SEX SCANDAL ‘GOSSIP’
Tim Friend – AlJazeera,
5 Apr 2010
Pope Benedict XVI has told thousands gathered for prayers on Palm Sunday that the church will not be "intimidated" by the media, as the paedophilia scandal plaguing the Vatican continues. In a service that marks the last days of the life of Jesus Christ at St Peter’s Square, the leader of the world’s Roman Catholics […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) GUERRA NO IRAQUE – URÂNIO EMPOBRECIDO: UM CRIME DE GUERRA DENTRO DE UMA GUERRA CRIMINOSA
William Bowles – Pátria Latina,
5 Apr 2010
Como se destruir um país e a sua cultura não fosse suficientemente mau, o que dizer acerca da destruição do seu futuro, dos seus filhos? Quero bradar isto de cima dos telhados! Somos cúmplices em crimes de tamanha enormidade que acho difícil encontrar as palavras para descrever o que sinto acerca deste crime cometido em […]
→ read full articleTHE TOXIC 100 AIR POLLUTERS
Profs. Michael Ash and James K. Boyce – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
The Political Economy Research Institute released today [Mar 31 2010] a report identifying the top 100 corporate air polluters, including environmental justice report cards.Researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today released the Toxic 100 Air Polluters, an updated list of the top corporate air polluters in the […]
→ read full articlePLEASE SUPPORT THE GANDHIAN-INSPIRED KARAMA PROJECT IN PALESTINE
TMS Editor,
5 Apr 2010
Al-Karameh Pledge (Pledge of Dignity) We, the people of Palestine, of all religions, affiliations, professions, and ages, have all come together to affirm our desire and determination to rise up, and shiver off the effects of settlement contamination in our Palestinian cities, villages, and refugee camps, first and foremost, via replacing settlement products in our […]
→ read full articleOPEN LETTER TO BERKELEY STUDENTS ON THEIR HISTORIC ISRAELI DIVESTMENT BILL
Naomi Klein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
On March 18, continuing a long tradition of pioneering human rights campaigns, the Senate of the Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley (ASUC) passed “A Bill In Support of UC DIVESTMENT FROM WAR CRIMES.” The historic bill resolves to divest ASUC’s assets from two American companies, General Electric and United Technologies, that are […]
→ read full articleNUCLEAR ABOLITION: A NEW START WITH START
Alice Slater – Yes! Magazine,
5 Apr 2010
Does the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty move us any closer to a world free of nuclear weapons?The United States and Russia reached agreement on a new START treaty (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) to lower their count of deployed atomic warheads from 2,200 each to between 1,500 and 1,675. They would also cut their stocks […]
→ read full articleFEARS GONORRHOEA BECOMING UNTREATABLE
Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor – The Independent,
5 Apr 2010
World Health Organisation Concerned About Disease’s Resistance to AntibioticsThe World Health Organisation is to meet next week to consider the growing threat from a sexually transmitted infection which has developed resistance to most known antibiotics. Gonorrhoea is the second most common sexually transmitted disease in the UK after chlamydia with 16,629 cases recorded in 2008. […]
→ read full articleGROWTH OBJECTOR
Hervé Kempf - Le Monde,
5 Apr 2010
Clothes do not make the man, of course, but a fine appearance inspires respect. That’s why it was so critical that the idea of degrowth, so cheerfully reviled by the “growthist” toadies, was hosted in a place imbued by thought. During March 26 to 29, the second conference on economic degrowth was held at the […]
→ read full articleMOVING BEYOND EGO
Sheikh Jamal Rahman – Yes! Magazine,
5 Apr 2010
Why do we prefer to talk about religion, fight over it, even kill for it—everything but live it? In this holy season of Lent and Passover, Rabbi Ted Falcon and Pastor Don Mackenzie have written about the trance patterns we are stuck in and the need to get “out of Egypt.” This reminds me of […]
→ read full articleTHE ILLUSION AND POWER OF SKIN COLOR
Nina Jablonski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2010
Differing skin colors are simply our bodies’ adaptation to varied climates and levels of UV exposure. Charles Darwin disagreed with this theory, but Nina explains, that’s because he did not have access to NASA. The annual TED conference held in Long Beach is a gathering of some of the world’s most innovative thinkers who come […]
→ read full articlePEDOPHILIA IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: COVERUP OPERATION AT THE VATICAN?
Mike Whitney – Global Research,
2 Apr 2010
Pope Ratzinger’s Swan Song Pope Benedict should do everyone a favor and resign. By hanging on, he’s just making matters worse. Who does he think he’s fooling anyway? Everyone knows that he was involved in the sex-scandal cover up. Does he really think that a few papal apologies will make a difference? He was in […]
→ read full articleThe Cocoyoc Declaration
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2010
October 8-12, 1974 a symposium on “Patterns of Resource Use, Environment and Development Strategies” was convened in Cocoyoc, Mexico by the directors of United Nations Environment Programme and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Maurice Strong and Gamani Corea. The rapporteurs were Barbara Ward for resource use and the environment and Johan Galtung […]
→ read full articleLULA PLANS IRAN VISIT TO PREVENT A REPEAT OF IRAQ WAR
Trend - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he planned to visit Iran next month to prevent a "mistake" like the one that led to the invasion of Iraq, dpa reported. "I am going there because I do not want the mistake that was made in Iraq to be repeated in Iran," he said, in […]
→ read full articleTOP 10 PLACES YOU DON’T WANT TO VISIT
Listverse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
In previous lists we have looked at amazing holiday destinations – today we are looking at the bottom ten; these are ten places you don’t want to visit! Having said that, maybe the curious would get a thrill from visiting some of these strange and dangerous places, but for most of us, reading about it […]
→ read full articleSAMSON AND THE 2ND NAKBA – A SHORT STUDY OF THE JEWISH HERCULES
Gilad Atzmon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
As much as many of us enjoyed watching the humiliation of Israel and PM Netanyahu in Washington this week, I am reluctant to suggest that the emerging crisis between America and Israel may also be a red light warning for all of us. The current crisis may lead to some devastating consequences as far as […]
→ read full articleANTI-SEMITISM: ZIONISM’S INDISPENSABLE ALIBI
Maidhc Ó Cathail – Dissident Voice,
28 Mar 2010
Although Zionism typically represents itself as the solution to anti-Semitism, the truth is less flattering. In fact, hostility toward Jews is indispensable to the cause of Jewish nationalism. If anti-Semitism didn’t exist, Zionists would have to invent it. And in many cases that is precisely what they have done. Contrary to the widespread perception that […]
→ read full articleNOTES ON THE STATE OF CAPITAL
Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan – Dissident Voice,
28 Mar 2010
Sean Starrs claims that we need to discard our notion of the ‘state of capital’. The gist of his argument is simple enough. Capitalist societies, he says, involve a myriad of power relations, many of them very important. These relationships, although often linked to the logic of capital, are distinct from that logic and therefore […]
→ read full articleSYSTEM DYNAMICS, HYPERCYCLES AND PSYCHOSOCIAL SELF-ORGANIZATION
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
Exploration of Chinese Correlative Understanding Introduction This document develops commentary in Club of Rome Reports and Bifurcations: a 40-year overview (2010). It is specifically concerned with how interrelated initiatives, such as those indicated there, might be understood as effectively mapping the territory of preoccupations with global governance — especially given their problematic relation to each […]
→ read full articleMAKING SENSE OF LIFE
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
People everywhere have many things in common, one of which is to enjoy life to the maximum possible. If it were possible, everyone would love to live forever, to explore and enjoy the mysteries of the universe, and to be productive in accordance with one’s talents and capabilities. This has been the focus of attention […]
→ read full articleDISARMAMENT, DEMOBILIZATION AND REINTEGRATION, AND SECURITY SECTOR REFORM IN NEPAL: A PRELIMINARY SOCIOLOGICAL OBSERVATION
Bishnu Pathak, PhD & Devendra Uprety – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
1. Setting Security Sector Reform (SSR) is a continuous process to all countries and regions, including politically stable states, fragile states, and post-conflict countries. However, it is widely understood that there need to be urgent SSR priorities in countries emerging from large-scale violent conflict. Over the years, Nepalese society has undergone deep structural […]
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THE STORY OF BOTTLED WATER
Annie Leonard, Story of Stuff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day), employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over five minutes, the film explores the […]
→ read full article(ITALIAN) LETTURA COLLETTIVA DELLA COSTITUZIONE DELLA REPUBBLICA ITALIANA
Silvia Berruto, antifascista - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
In "Collettivamente memoria 2010"Non è mai troppo presto per leggere la Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana. Una lettura che è Leitmotiv e canto d’amore per una terra libera come deve essere l’Italia. Non è mai troppo presto per una lettura collettiva, trasversale, intergenerazionale e informale, del testo più importante per i cittadini italiani. Una lettura collettiva […]
→ read full articleTHAT VISION THING
James Keye – Dissident Voice,
28 Mar 2010
The human species, and because of our penetration into all ecosystems, almost all other species, require a new vision to avoid the most disastrous consequences of our present vision: human dominion over all the earth and the various subordinate visions associated with this major one. A long established deeply integrated, utterly accepted belief doesn’t replace […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) OS 10 LUGARES QUE VOCÊ NÃO VAI QUERER VISITAR DE JEITO NENHUM
Redação Yahoo! Brasil - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
O site listverse, que se propõe a reunir as listas mais interessantes dos mais diversos assuntos que você possa imaginar, elegeu os 10 piores lugares do mundo para serem visitados. E deu Brasil na cabeça! A Ilha de Queimada Grande, que fica a 35km de Itanhaém, litoral sul de São Paulo, foi apontada como o […]
→ read full articleHELEN THOMAS ON WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS
The Real News Network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
Thomas: “Most press rolled over and played dead during Bush years, press was gung-ho to go to war.” Helen Thomas is an American News reporter, member of the White House Press Corps and author. She was the first female officer of the National Press Club and the first female member and president of the White […]
→ read full articleSOLIDARITY AS ECONOMIC SYSTEM
Beverly Bell – Yes! Magazine,
28 Mar 2010
In Haiti, sharing communities are proving more shock-proof in the wake of disaster than market-based economies.“If it weren’t for solidarity, Haiti wouldn’t be alive today,” is an expression commonly heard here since the earthquake of January 12. Haiti’s history is based on sharing and cooperation—expressed with gifts and solidarity toward those surviving on the margins. […]
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Johan Galtung Conscientious Objector at 21
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2010
JOHAN GALTUNG, leading figure in international peace, born in Oslo-Norway in 1930, refused the military service, jailed as a conscientious objector at 21. At age twelve witnesses the Nazis take his father to a concentration camp. More… httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJf0m-Nz35E
→ read full articleENGLAND: MINISTER SIGNALS BAN ON CIRCUS WILD ANIMALS
Martin Hickman – The Independent,
26 Mar 2010
Wild animals are to be banned from circuses, ending hundreds of years of performing elephants, tigers and lions in the big top, the Government will say today. In response to a public consultation. Environment minister Jim Fitpatrick said he was ‘minded’ to bring in a ban after 94 per cent of people backed the idea. […]
→ read full articleHAITI: WHERE SOLIDARITY MEANS SURVIVAL
Beverly Bell – Toward Freedom,
26 Mar 2010
Perhaps more than anything today, Haiti needs a new macro-economy, one based above all on meeting the needs of its citizens. Post-earthquake economic restructuring could include equitable distribution of resources, high levels of employment with fair compensation, local production, and provision of social services. In the meantime, what saved many during the earthquake, and what is […]
→ read full articleU.S. BASES IN COLOMBIA RATTLE THE REGION
Benjamin Dangl – The Progressive,
26 Mar 2010
On the shores of the Magdalena River, in a lush green valley dotted with cattle ranches and farms, sits the Palanquero military base, an outpost equipped with Colombia’s longest runway, housing for 2,000 troops, a theater, a supermarket, and a casino. Palanquero is at the heart of a ten-year, renewable military agreement signed between the […]
→ read full articleTRIVIALIZING WAR
Cesar Chelala – Information Clearing House,
26 Mar 2010
"Drones are currently killing people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. It should be noted that the United States is not at war with any of those countries, which should mean in a sane world that the killing is illegal under both international law and the US Constitution," states Philip Girald, a former CIA officer […]
→ read full articleHITLER AND THE CHALLENGE OF NON-VIOLENCE
Jorgen Johansen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2010
What was done to counter the ’rise and rise’ of Adolf Hitler, fascist German leader, in the 1930’s? What could have been done?”What effect could nonviolence have had against Hitler?” This is one of the most frequent questions I get when I lecture on nonviolence. And it is a good one. To answer we need […]
→ read full articleON THE DUTY TO CONSCIENTIOUSLY OBJECT
Camillo "Mac" Bica - Truthout,
26 Mar 2010
Moral values and norms are the means through which we define ourselves as persons, structure our world and render our relationship to it and to other human beings comprehensible. That is, moral values and norms provide the parameters of our being – what I term our “moral identity.” I submit that the moral principle of […]
→ read full articleRE-VISITING GANDHI’S IDEAL OF TRUSTEESHIP
Vithal Rajan - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2010
A great hobby with literate Indians is following their statistics on growth. However much rents and fuel prices may go up, however unaffordable vegetables and milk may get, they feel cheered with good news about growth statistics. Particularly heartwarming is news that since a year ago Indian billionaires have doubled in number with 50 on […]
→ read full articleCANCER-FIGHTING PROPERTIES OF PAPAYA
Journal of Ethnopharmacology - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2010
Researchers said Tuesday [23 Mar 2010] that papaya leaf extract and its tea have dramatic cancer-fighting properties against a broad range of tumors, backing a belief held in a number of folk traditions. University of Florida researcher Nam Dang and colleagues in Japan, in a report published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, documented papaya’s anticancer […]
→ read full articleOBAMA’S BAD PRESCRIPTION FOR INDONESIA
Amy Goodman – Truthdig,
24 Mar 2010
President Barack Obama dedicated the signing of health care legislation to a number of people, including his mother, S. Ann Dunham Soetoro, who, he said, “argued with insurance companies even as she battled cancer in her final days.” The health care legislative process and its frenetic endgame prompted the president to postpone a trip to […]
→ read full articleMILITARIZING LATIN AMERICA
Noam Chomsky - ZMagazine,
24 Mar 2010
The United States was founded as an "infant empire," in George Washington’s words. The conquest of the national territory was a grand imperial venture, much like the vast expansion of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. From the earliest days, control over the Western Hemisphere was a critical goal. Ambitions expanded during World War II, as […]
→ read full articleWHO IS THE BRITISH DOG?
Gilad Atzmon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2010
Israeli officials and politicians sharply criticized the intention of the UK government to expel an ‘unnamed’ Israeli ‘diplomat’ in response to its passports being used in the Dubai assassination of Hamas Freedom Fighter Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. MK Aryeh Eldad (Israel National Union) doesn’t show much respect to the Brits whom he compares to dogs: "I think […]
→ read full articleLATIN AMERICAN GAYS: THE POST-LEFT LEFTISTS
Prof. Javier Corrales – Americas Quarterly,
23 Mar 2010
When most straight people are forced to think about gay people, they usually think of one thing first, sex. A political scientist might focus instead on a different question: how do gays perform in politics? Judged from their political achievements this past decade, the answer is, at least for Latin American gays: they’re pretty good. […]
→ read full articleBID TO REOPEN ELEPHANT IVORY TRADE REJECTED
Paul Armstrong - CNN,
23 Mar 2010
Conservationists have welcomed the decision to reject a bid from Tanzania and Zambia to temporarily suspend a worldwide ban on trading in African elephant ivory so they can offload legal stockpiles in a one-off sale. The 175-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), meeting in Doha, Qatar, on Monday, voted to reject the […]
→ read full articleWHALING: THE GREAT BETRAYAL
Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor – The Independent,
23 Mar 2010
Outrage as Secret Deal Set to Sweep Away International MoratoriumThe moratorium on commercial whaling, one of the environmental movement’s greatest achievements, looks likely to be swept away this summer by a new international deal being negotiated behind closed doors. The new arrangement would legitimise the whaling activities of the three countries which have continued to […]
→ read full articleMONKEY BUSINESS ALRIGHT
Dietrich Fischer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2010
Once upon a time a man appeared in a village and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each. The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and, as supply started to diminish, the villagers […]
→ read full articleTHE BLACK MARKET ANIMAL BUSINESS – US customs agents say smuggling of protected wildlife is becoming a multi-billion dollar business, generated by a huge demand. Mike Kirsch – Aljazeera
TMS Editor,
21 Mar 2010
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→ read full articleWOMEN IN THE VENEZUELAN REVOLUTION: `WE’RE NOT INVISIBLE BUT INVINCIBLE’
Tamara Pearson - ZNet,
21 Mar 2010
“I’m a woman with a new life since the Bolivarian Revolution knocked on my door”, said Pielrroc Montenegro, Maracaiban[i] by birth and Andean by tradition, with eyes full of nostalgia and gratitude. She described herself as a “dignified mother of the neighborhood” since the mission of that name[ii] enabled her to realize one of her […]
→ read full articleTHE “WILD MAN” OF ANIMAL PROTECTION, STEVE HINDI
Martha Rosenberg – Dissident Voice,
21 Mar 2010
Martha Rosenberg: Here in Chicago, you are known as the “Wild Man” who staged alternative whale shows with inflatable orcas outside the Shedd Aquarium in the 1990s and who went to jail for disrupting a bird shoot with a powered paraglider. Now, both issues are back in the news. Steve Hindi: At the time we […]
→ read full article(ITALIAN) IL BRASILE VINCE NELLA OMC: SANZIONI CONTRO GLI STATI UNITI
Gianni Minà – LatinoAmerica e tutti i sud del mondo,
20 Mar 2010
Alzando la bandiera dell’uguaglianza di condizioni commerciali il Brasile sconfigge gli Stati Uniti nell’Organizzazione mondiale per il commercio (OMC) che stabilisce il pieno diritto di Brasilia ad applicare sanzioni commerciali contro gli Stati Uniti, rei da sempre di assistere indebitamente la propria industria e la propria agricoltura. Senza risalire a Mar del Plata e all’impallinamento […]
→ read full articleA MORAL VEST
Dr. June Terpstra – Information Clearing House,
20 Mar 2010
In the film, Fidel, The Untold Story, there is an interview with Fidel Castro where he says he does not need a Kevlar vest to protect him from countless CIA assassination attempts because he wears a moral vest. I am back in Havana, Cuba today after visiting a natural medicine clinic in Santa Clara, Cuba; […]
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