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Dwight 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 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 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 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 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 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.
→ read full articleUnderstanding the Threats of Qur’an Burning
Chaiwat Satha-Anand – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
If one agrees with Dominique Moisi in his recent book The Geopolitics of Emotion (2010) that one cannot fully understand the world today without trying to construe the ways in which emotions such as fear, humiliation and hope shape world politics, and that a clash of emotions between fear in “the West” and humiliation in the Muslim world is going on, then I would argue that what Pastor Jones has done was to show us how vulnerable to global violence the world is.
→ read full article‘Israel Flotilla Raid Was Unlawful’
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
UN Gaza aid probe says the raid of Israeli forces on flotilla was in violation of international law.
→ read full articleIsrael: It’s Against Our Interest to Join Anti-Nuclear Arms Treaty
AFP-Agence France Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Israel Rejects Offer to Join UN Atomic Agency
→ read full articleA Real Test
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Two students went drinking late into the night before an exam.
→ read full articleOct 2 – Day for Non-Violence: Middle East Mediation
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
On World Day for Non-violence, 2 October, chosen to mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, it is useful to recall the efforts to have him play a bridge-building role in the Jewish-Arab conflict of 1937 in Palestine. Mahatma Gandhi was a man of dialogue and compromise. A British-trained lawyer, he always knew the limits of the law and knew when not to push too far even in his satyagraha – non-violent campaigns.
→ read full articleHaiti: Don’t Give Us Food, Help Us Produce
Beverly Bell and Jonas Deronzil – Toward Freedom,
27 Sep 2010
Since foreign rice has invaded Haiti, we plant our rice but we can’t sell it. The foreigners have all the possibilities: they have water, they have machinery, they have easy access to fertilizer and other inputs. They can grow their rice in quantity. The peasants, poor devils, we spend a lot to grow it, but we can’t sell it. Sometimes we have to go to the loan sharks just to get enough money to survive.
→ read full articleIraq to Pay $400 Million for Saddam’s Mistreatment of Americans
Jane Arraf, Correspondent – The Christian Science Monitor,
27 Sep 2010
The money comes out of a roughly $900 million fund in frozen assets held by the US government to settle unresolved contracts under the Oil for Food program…. The settlement is controversial not only because of Iraq’s pressing developmental needs, but because it holds the current government accountable for Saddam Hussein’s actions.“A lot of blood has flowed since then and a lot of it is Iraqi blood. It’s arguable that the suffering was not caused by the current Iraqi government or the Iraqi people,” says one senior Iraqi official. “This is politics, this is not justice.”
→ read full article(Castellano) Entrevista Audio en Español con el Prof. Galtung
Radio Nacional de Colombia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Click aquí para Escuchar la Entrevista Audio en Español con el Prof. Galtung
Hoy [21 Sep 2010], cuando el mundo entero celebra el Día Internacional de la Paz, institucionalizado por la Organización de las Naciones Unidas en 1981, vale la pena analizar el ejemplo de China, un país que ha logrado grandes avances por la equidad social.
→ read full articleAhmadinejad and the 9/11 Attacks
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Surveys show large segments of the world population agree with the Iranian leader’s “US government involvement” claims.
→ read full articlePuncturing Pomposity
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Proposition: the pomposity of self-satisfied elites serves to normalise the unthinkable. Edward Herman, writing about Hannah Arendt’s concept of the ‘banality of evil’, says: “This is the process whereby ugly, degrading, murderous and unspeakable acts become routine and are accepted as ‘the way things are done’.”
→ read full article(Italian) La grande truffa dei Global Hawk di Sigonella
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Il ministro La Russa non vede, non sente, non parla. Un Global Hawk, il micidiale aereo senza pilota di nuovissima generazione dell’US Air Force, fa bella mostra di sé nella base aereonavale di Sigonella, ma governo e forze armate italiane preferiscono trincerarsi dietro il “no comment”, glissando gli interrogativi di piloti civili e associazioni No War preoccupati per le ripercussioni delle future operazioni del velivolo sulla sicurezza del traffico aereo nei cieli della Sicilia.
→ read full articleChris Hedges on Moral Courage
Toward Freedom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Chris Hedges begins this speech to the Veterans for Peace convention by saying, “Physical courage is something you see on a battlefield. Moral courage you almost never see.”
→ read full article(Italian) Le Tre Riforme di Gandhi
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
“Quando parliamo di nonviolenza come di una scoperta di questo secolo, conviene precisare che non si tratta della rivelazione di un nuovo valore spirituale o di una rivelazione religiosa, ma dell’ingresso, nella storia dei popoli, di una forza rivoluzionaria e innovatrice.
→ read full articleOn Jewish Loyalty
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
So here we are : Israel is basically a Western liberal ‘multi cultural’ society where all different ethnicities and minorities are demanded to swear loyalty to the ultimate form of chauvinist Jewish tribal practice…. However, in case you think that Liebermann is alone in his demand for loyalty, you are pretty wrong. Here in Britain, Lord Goldsmith, (yes the same Goldsmith who kindly offered Tony Blair a ‘legal’ green light to invade Iraq in 2003) is also enthusiastic about loyalty…. Lord Goldsmith was quoted by The Independent suggesting that Britain did not face a crisis of shared citizenship, but added that national pride had declined over the past 20 years, particularly among the young. He warned that “one third or more of black people did not identify with their home country.”
→ read full articleCountries Lay Claim to Arctic in Battle for Oil and Gas Reserves
Shaun Walker in Moscow – The Independent,
27 Sep 2010
Nations laid out their claims to territory in the polar North yesterday [22 Sep 2010] and the vast untapped mineral wealth that lies under the Arctic Ocean. Shrinking polar ice has opened up new opportunities, with five nations – Russia, Canada, Denmark, Norway and the US – claiming jurisdiction over parts of the polar region which could contain as much of one quarter of the world’s undiscovered reserves of oil and gas.
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The Int’l Effort to Criminalize War
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Debate about “wars of agression” at conference of jurists from international tribunals.
→ read full articleDaniel Ellsberg Speaks Out on Bradley Manning
MSNBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Ellsberg: “Manning is a patriot and a hero.”
→ read full articleCountdown to Sudan’s Referendum
Lazaro Sumbeiywo and John Danforth – Al Jazeera,
20 Sep 2010
With four months to go until a referendum on self-determination, Africa’s largest country is at an historic crossroads.
→ read full article‘Largest Flotilla Yet’ En-Route to Gaza
Ynet reporters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
Ships from Britain, Morocco, Qatar to rendezvous in Syria, sail toward el-Arish Port in northern Sinai Peninsula; activists plan to enter Gaza through Rafah Crossing, deliver humanitarian aid.
→ read full articleHenri Dunant, Red Cross, What Next?
Johan Galtung, 20 Sep 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
[Henri Dunant’s] moment of truth, as we all know, was the battle of Solferino in Lombardy, 24 June 1859, a little more than 150 years ago, where he witnessed the unspeakable suffering brought about by one more stupid battle, pitting 300,000 soldiers against each other, in one more stupid war, between France and Austria that time; mainly waged by their upper classes sacrificing their underlings.
→ read full articleHomes for 27,000 Constructed During Israeli Settlements Freeze
Nasouh Nazzal, Gulf News - Philippine Times,
20 Sep 2010
The so-called settlement freeze in the Palestinian territories is a myth. No freeze has ever been implemented, in fact the settlements have been expanding dramatically during the moratorium. Additionally, another 13,000 homes have been approved for the West Bank, together with two new colonies near Nablus and the Jordan Valley.
→ read full articlePreparing for South Sudan’s Crucial Referendum
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
In diplomatic language, the UN Human Rights Council’s Independent Expert on the Situation of Human Rights in Sudan, Mohammed Chande Othman, warned the Council, which began its current session on 13 September 2010, that “With the referendum on South Sudan yet to be conducted, it is essential that the Government provide an environment conducive to the exercise of political rights, with firm guarantees of the fundamental freedoms of expression and assembly in accordance with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and the Interim National Constitution..”
→ read full articlePerspectives
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
When the United States Congress passed stricter laws about automobile air pollution, the Japanese car manufacturers…
→ read full articleLos Angeles Launches Nation’s First Israel Divestment Campaign
Linda Milazzo – AlterNet,
20 Sep 2010
On April 1, 2010, in a no-holds-barred interview with the Christian Science Monitor, Israeli peacemaker Jonathan Ben Artzi, a PhD candidate at Brown University and nephew to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, made clear his belief that equality and social justice will prevail in Israel when the government and people of the United States adopt a no-tolerance stance toward Israel’s abuse of Palestinians.
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Howard Zinn on Nonviolent Civil Disobedience
BeyondNuclear – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
In 1985, Dr. Howard Zinn testified for the defense in the criminal trial of seven citizens who hammered equipment and poured blood on blueprints for the Cruise Missile and Missile X factory in Wilmington, MA. The video shows Dr. Zinn’s compelling testimony in which he makes the case for nonviolent civil disobedience as instrumental in changing American history and advancing democracy.
→ read full article(Italian) Intervista a Manlio Milani, Presidente dell’Associazione Caduti Strage di Piazza Loggia
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
Ho incontrato Manlio Milani alla conclusione di una serata-ricordo in memoria del salodiano Vittorio Zambarda su Piazza della Loggia svoltasi nella sala dei Provveditori del palazzo municipale di Salò.
→ read full articleArt, Truth & Politics
Harold Pinter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
Harold Pinter’s Nobel Lecture was pre-recorded, and shown on video on 7 December 2005, in Börssalen at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm.
→ read full articleAn Unsettling Protest in Israel
Tony Kushner and Alisa Solomon – The Nation,
20 Sep 2010
Toward the end of August, a group of theater artists in Israel provoked an uproar when they declared that they would not perform at a new stop added to government-funded theatrical tours around the country. That actors, directors and playwrights have sparked controversy is nothing new in a nation where theater has always participated in the feisty public discourse. But this time, with Washington trying to resuscitate Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, their offstage action holds a mirror up to society with especially urgent exactitude.
→ read full articleWhere Has the Hypocrisy Gone?
Amira Hass – Haaretz,
20 Sep 2010
No one thinks to ask about the consensus among the residents of Palestinian cities and villages on whose land the settlements have been built. The millions of Palestinians don’t count at all.
→ read full articleUS Still Top Arms Supplier to South as Record Sale to Saudis Pends
Jim Lobe - InterPress Service-IPS,
20 Sep 2010
Despite an unusual dip in global weapons sales in 2009, the United States retained its spot as the world’s top arms supplier of developing countries, according to an authoritative new report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS).
→ read full articleNever Forget: Bad Wars Aren’t Possible Unless Good People Back Them
Michael Moore - ICH,
20 Sep 2010
I know we’ve been “free” of the Iraq War for two weeks now and our minds have turned to the new football season and Fashion Week in New York. And how exciting that the new fall TV season is just days away! But before we get too far away from something we would all just like to forget, will you please allow me to just say something plain and blunt and necessary:
→ read full articleDigging Deeper into WikiLeaks Afghan Files
Nick Turse – Asia Times,
20 Sep 2010
In its initial coverage, the Times led with allegations contained in the documents that America’s ally, Pakistan, allowed members of its spy service to meet and conspire with members of the Taliban. The Guardian, instead, primarily focused on the unreported killings of Afghan civilians, beginning its lead article by declaring: “A huge cache of secret US military files today provides a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents.”
→ read full articleSudan: Prospect and Lesson
Richard Cockett – Open Democracy,
20 Sep 2010
The forthcoming referendum on independence in south Sudan could lead to the break-up of Africa’s biggest country. But if Sudan has failed as a unitary state its end carries dangers.
→ read full articleBlackwater’s Black Ops
Jeremy Scahill – The Nation,
20 Sep 2010
Over the past several years, entities closely linked to the private security firm Blackwater have provided intelligence, training and security services to US and foreign governments as well as several multinational corporations, including Monsanto, Chevron, the Walt Disney Company, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and banking giants Deutsche Bank and Barclays, according to documents obtained by The Nation.
→ read full articleHaiti’s Disaster Capitalists Swoop In
Siddhartha Mahanta – Mother Jones,
20 Sep 2010
Refugee evictions, private land grabs, disaster capitalism—you can’t tell the story of Haiti without all this. Eight months after the earthquake, many of the 1.7 million Haitians living under tattered tarps in squalid squatter camps around Port-au-Prince are being forced to abandon the tent cities they’ve set up on privately owned land. Meanwhile, businesses—eager to slurp up the spoils of disaster—are swooping in to score major paydays by moving the refugees to new camps, some set to operate as industrial work zones. And there’s no one stopping it.
→ read full articleHamas Marginalisation from the Israel-Palestine ‘Peace Process’
Corinna Mullin – Open Democracy,
20 Sep 2010
In addition to the argument for including a democratically elected party in a process initiated by states and institutions claiming to support democratic development in the region, the recent violence is another argument for talking to Hamas.
→ read full articleUnited States Is the Leading Provider of Arms to Mexican Drug Trade
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
The United States today is one of the largest exporters of weapons and fuel, among others, to the drug cartels in Mexico. At least 62,800 of the 80,000 weapons confiscated from drug trafficking criminal gangs of in the neighboring nation between December 2006 and February 2010 came from U.S. territory, according to a study cited yesterday [16 Sep 2010] by an editorial in The Washington Post. “The armies of Mexican drug traffickers have an external source of funding and weapons … and to our shame, this source is the United States,” said the newspaper.
→ read full articleC’mon, Time to Rebrand Your Life!
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger continues his examination of the effect of ‘extreme corporatism’ – money – on sport. He contrasts the last of the great sporting stars who were not celebrities in the modern sense with the enrichment of Rupert Murdoch and the corruption of sports like cricket.
→ read full articleWomen Make Their Mark on South American Politics
Marcela Valente – IPS-InterPress Service,
20 Sep 2010
If Brazilian voters elect a woman president next month, what might have appeared to be isolated developments in Chile and Argentina would start to look more like a trend in the southern countries of South America.
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Standing Army – A Documentary (2010) – Trailer
TMS Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
The US has encircled the world with a web of military bases that today amount to more than 700, in 40 countries. It’s one of the most powerful forces at play in the world, yet one of the less talked-about. Why do countries like Germany, Italy, Japan still host hundreds of US military bases and thousands US soldiers? What stance has president Obama taken on this subject? This documentary answers these and other questions both through the words of experts Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal and Chalmers Johnson, and through those directly affected by US bases in Italy, Japan and in the Indian Ocean.
→ read full articleTibet: The Gandhi Way
Anupma Kaushik – The Gandhi Foundation,
20 Sep 2010
The Tibetan leadership claims that they are pursuing a nonviolent struggle to gain meaningful autonomy but their efforts are clearly not bearing the desired results. Can the Gandhian method show the way forward?
→ read full articleU.S. Holding 324 Metric Tons of Bomb-Grade Uranium, Report Says
Ralph Vartabedian – Los Angeles Times,
20 Sep 2010
The Obama administration, which is urging other nations to reduce their stores of the material, should declare part of the U.S. inventory surplus, a watchdog group says.
→ read full articlePeople’s Initiative on Jammu & Kashmir: Visit of Civil Society Delegation
COVA-Confederation of Voluntary Associations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
A Delegation of Civil Society comprising Swami Agnivesh, Admiral L. Ramdas, Ms. Mohini Giri, Fr. Dominic Emmanuel and Dr. Mazher Hussain visited Kashmir Valley from 30th August to 2nd September 2010. The objective of the visit was to gain first hand knowledge of the prevailing ground situation in the valley and to commiserate with the people of Kashmir for their suffering and loss of life. Over 65 youth and children have lost their lives in the past three months, besides many hundreds have been injured. The team visited the homes of some families to share our concern and condole with them.
→ read full article…Meanwhile, over in Ghana
Mark LeVine – Al Jazeera,
13 Sep 2010
Ghana maybe championed for its political stability, but life for the average Ghanaian is defined by crippling poverty.
→ read full articleTorture Is a Crime, Not a Secret
The New York Times, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
All too often in the past, the judges pointed out, secrecy privileges have been used to avoid embarrassing the government, not to protect real secrets. In this case, the embarrassment and the shame to America’s reputation are already too well known.
→ read full articleHenry Steel Olcott (1832-1907): The Buddhist Bridge
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the year 2010 as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures. Thus we are pleased to present the creative efforts of individuals who have helped to create bridges of understanding among cultures.
→ read full articleFractured Justice: The UN Secretary-General’s Gaza Flotilla Enquiry
Bob Rigg – Open Democracy,
13 Sep 2010
The UN Secretary General has promised to investigate the Gaza flotilla incident in a manner which is “prompt, impartial, credible and transparent” and “conforming to international standards”. But it looks as if politics is triumphing over justice.
→ read full articleIndia: Buoyed by Growing Market, More Farmers Go Organic
Manipadma Jena – InterPress Service-IPS,
13 Sep 2010
“Certainly easier to pop open a can of chemical pesticide, mix water in proportion, spray, and be done,” admits Narayana. But since the 42-year-old farmer went organic, he has cheerfully gotten rid of shortcuts like using store-bought pesticides and now spends hours mixing anti-pest brews with ingredients that can be found at home or even in the fields. That means Narayana’s land and produce will no longer have the kind of toxins they were subjected to when he was still using chemicals to grow crops. Narayana himself will also escape being exposed to toxins that are commonly found in manufactured pesticides.
→ read full articleHAWAII: Garden Isle Missile Site Will Expand
William Cole – Honolulu Star-Advertiser,
13 Sep 2010
Testing for a Land-Based Defense System Would Bring a New Complex to the Island
→ read full articleDisappearing Amazon: Congratulations to Brazil’s Cattle Ranchers
João Moreira - Pravda,
13 Sep 2010
The Amazon rainforest belongs to Brazil and nobody else. That being said, despite the fact that the rate of deforestation has slowed considerably in recent years, fifteen per cent of the area once covered by the rainforest has now disappeared, according to research undertaken by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics.
→ read full articleCNN Report: IDF Sexually Abused Palestinian Children
Ynetnews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
Damning CNN report cites uncorroborated sexual abuse charges of Palestinian children detained by IDF; army says detention of minors undertaken in line with international law, cannot respond to abuse charges as no details provided.
→ read full articleUN Atomic Agency Curtails Probe of Israel’s Nuclear Capability
Jonathan Tirone – Bloomberg,
13 Sep 2010
United Nations investigators, ordered to write a report about Israel’s atomic capabilities, said they couldn’t compile enough information to assess the extent of the country’s nuclear program…. Countries including Canada, the U.K. and U.S. opposed the probe, saying that the inquiry risked turning the IAEA into a political battleground, according to the documents. Others, including China, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Turkey, supported the investigation…. Israel has refused to open its nuclear facility in Dimona to UN inspectors. It says the site is a research facility.
→ read full articleWhat’s Melting Greenland’s Glaciers?
Nazanine Moshiri – Al Jazeera,
13 Sep 2010
Well, climate change is one of the issues I am looking at while I am here. Just last month a giant iceberg four times the size of Manhattan snapped away from the Petermann ice shelf in the North West of Greenland. It was the largest Arctic break off in half a century and has got scientist around the world worried about what is going to happen next.
→ read full articleBrazilian Officials Rescue Workers in Slave-Like Conditions
Helena de Moura - CNN,
13 Sep 2010
Brazilian officials have said they will continue to crack down on farms accused of forcing workers into slave-like conditions, the country’s labor ministry said after authorities rescued nearly 150 workers.
→ read full articleThe Jews of Iran are Far Better off than Palestinians of Gaza
Mike Whitney - Pravda,
13 Sep 2010
There are 25,000 Jews in Iran, which is the largest Jewish population in the Middle East outside Israel. Iranian Jews are not persecuted or abused, in fact, they are protected under the Iranian constitution. They are free to practice their religion and to vote in elections. They are not stopped and searched at checkpoints, are not brutalized by an army of occupation and are not confined in a densely populated penal colony (Gaza) where they are deprived of the basic means of subsistence. Iranian Jews live in dignity and enjoy the benefits of citizenship.
→ read full article9/11 Analysis: From Ronald Reagan and the Soviet-Afghan War to George W Bush and September 11, 2001
Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
13 Sep 2010
In the Pashtun language, the word “Taliban” means “Students”, or graduates of the madrasahs (places of learning or coranic schools) set up by the Wahhabi missions from Saudi Arabia, with the support of the CIA. Education in the years preceding the Soviet-Afghan war war largely secular in Afghanistan. The number of CIA sponsored religious schools (madrasahs) increased from 2,500 in 1980 to over 39,000. The Soviet-Afghan war was part of a CIA covert agenda initiated during the Carter administration, which consisted in actively supporting and financing the Islamic brigades, later known as Al Qaeda. President Ronald Reagan met the leaders of the Islamic Jihad at the White House in 1983. Under the Reagan administration, US foreign policy evolved towards the unconditional support and endorsement of the Islamic “freedom fighters”. In today’s World, the “freedom fighters” are labeled “Islamic terrorists”.
→ read full articleHow Much “Success” Can Afghans Stand?
Nick Turse - TomDispatch,
13 Sep 2010
With the arrival of General David Petraeus as Afghan War commander, there has been ever more talk about the meaning of “success” in Afghanistan. At the end of July, USA Today ran an article titled, “In Afghanistan, Success Measured a Step at a Time.” Days later, Stephen Biddle, a Senior Fellow for Defense Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, held a conference call with the media to speak about “Defining Success in Afghanistan.” A mid-August editorial in the Washington Postwas titled: “Making the Case for Success in Afghanistan.” And earlier this month, an Associated Press article appeared under the headline, “Petraeus Talks Up Success in Afghan War.”
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BBC Bias: The Gaza Freedom Flotilla
Anthony Lawson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
Debunking BBC’s “Panorama: Death in the Med” TV Propaganda. An invaluable film by the master documentary maker Anthony Lawson. Whatever happened on the Mavi Marmara on the morning of May 31st, 2010, the BBC’s Panorama team failed to give a balanced view of it in its so-called documentary, Death in the Med. Even the title sounds more like that of a paperback mystery, rather than a serious analysis of Israel’s worst atrocity since Operation Cast Lead.
→ read full articlePakistan and America: Costs of Militarism
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
Pakistan’s immense problems can begin to be solved only when powerful interests in Islamabad and Washington end their commitment to armed solutions.
→ read full articleGive History a Chance
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
A talk by Gilad Atzmon given at Debunking ‘The War on Terror’ Symposium, London, 14th July 2010 (dealing with history, Zionism, Revisionism, Temporality, Palestine and Israeli barbarism).
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Resisting Hegemony
Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
Excerpt of TRANSCEND member Prof. Vandana Shiva speaking about ‘food and seed sovereignty’ at the International Meeting on Resisting Hegemony held 2-5 August 2010 in Penang, Malaysia.
→ read full articleEnabling Governance through the Dynamics of Nature
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
Exemplified by Cognitive Implication of Vortices and Helicoidal Flow. This follows from the case previously made for exploring “toroidal governance” to compensate for the evident inadequacies of “global governance” (From global governance to toroidal governance, 2010). Of particular interest in that respect are the vortex dynamics by which toroidal forms are sustained, as commonly illustrated by the smoke ring. Vortex rings have been acknowledged by many investigators as one of the most fundamental and fascinating phenomena in fluid dynamics (Feliks Kaplanski, Dynamics of Vortex Rings, SciTopics, 12 July 2010).
→ read full articleGuide to the Most Crucial Bank Meeting You Never Heard of
Kevin G. Hall - McClatchy Newspapers,
13 Sep 2010
International bank regulators from around the globe will meet in the Swiss town of Basel on Sunday [12 Sep 2010] to finalize an important agreement that most Americans have never heard of: one to redraw rules so that banks can’t bring the world economy to the brink of collapse again.
→ read full articleRoubini and Bremmer: Financial Crisis Ended the Era of Free-Market Capitalism
Matthew Scott – DailyFinance,
13 Sep 2010
The global financial crisis just might give those in the U.S. who advanced the idea of a “new world order” their wish – but not exactly in the way they wanted.
→ read full articleUnderstanding Burma’s Military Reshuffle
Dr. Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
A lot seems to be happening lately in the world of senior and junior generals in Burma. The reports of the recent military reshuffle involving dozens of senior regime officials cannot be understood fully without taking into account a number of developments both at home and abroad.
→ read full articleMeanwhile in the Soviet Union…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
Stalin claimed he was the greatest philosopher of all times.
→ read full articleDuring War There Are No Civilians
Nora Barrows-Friedman – Al Jazeera,
13 Sep 2010
Sitting in on the Rachel Corrie trial alarmingly reveals an open Israeli policy of indiscrimination towards civilians.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Empire and Endless Wars Are Destroying the World, and Ruining Our Great Country
Terrence McNally and Andrew Bacevich - AlterNet,
13 Sep 2010
Andrew Bacevich speaks with a fairly unique mix of experience, authority, passion and wisdom in questioning our nation’s priorities: specifically our willingness to place so much of our national identity, wealth, attention, moral practice, and finally the life and blood of many thousands of our citizens and millions of those of other countries in the hands of our military. A professor of history and international relations at Boston University, Bacevich served twenty-three years in the U.S. Army, retiring with the rank of colonel. He lost his son in Iraq. A graduate of the U. S. Military Academy, he received his Ph. D. in American Diplomatic History from Princeton University. He is the author of several books, including The New American Militarism; The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism; and his newest, Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War.
→ read full article“The Militarization of Hollywood”: Unlocking “The Hurt Locker”
Jack A. Smith – Global Research,
13 Sep 2010
War Propaganda wins the Academy Award.
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