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The Thinker: Neighbors Like These
Dr. Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2010
Once again India has rolled out the red carpet for Burma’s aging despot Than Shwe, whose sleep has reportedly been disrupted by his deep-seated fears of being hauled to The Hague for his alleged crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleWe’re Hot as Hell and We’re Not Going to Take It Any More
Bill McKibben - TomDispatch,
9 Aug 2010
Three Steps to Establish a Politics of Global Warming. Try to fit these facts together:
→ read full articleNuke U: How the University of California Is Helping to Blow Up the World
Norman Solomon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2010
Since the early 1940s, UC has managed the nation’s top laboratories for designing nuclear bombs. Today, California’s public university system is still immersed in the nuclear weapons business. Sixty-five years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945, the University of California imprimatur is an air freshener for the stench of preparations for global annihilation. Nuclear war planners have been pleased to exploit UC’s vast technical expertise and its image of high-minded academic purpose.
→ read full articleAdvocacy from Afar – Towards Human Rights for Victims of Sri Lanka’s Civil War
Nirmanusan Balasundaram – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2010
In 2009, the global media turned its attention to the military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). At the time, many questions were raised on the treatment of the Tamil civilians trapped in the conflict.
→ read full articleSix and a Half Decades after ‘Little Boy’: Hiroshima Fights to Keep Memory of Nuclear Attack Alive
Till Mayer in Hiroshima, Japan - Spiegel,
9 Aug 2010
Hiroshima was largely destroyed 65 years ago in the world’s first attack using a nuclear bomb. The bomb, dropped by a US Air Force plane, killed tens of thousands and destroyed an entire generation in the city. Six decades later, Hiroshima is fighting to keep the memory of the attack alive.
→ read full articleBeyond Violence and Nonviolence: Resistance as a Culture
Ramzy Baroud - Truthout,
9 Aug 2010
Even those who purport to sympathize with resisting nations often contribute to the confusion. Activists from Western countries tend to follow an academic comprehension of what is happening in Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan. Thus, certain ideas are perpetuated: suicide bombings bad, nonviolent resistance good; Hamas rockets bad, slingshots good; armed resistance bad, vigils in front of Red Cross offices good. Many activists will quote Martin Luther King Jr., but not Malcolm X. They will infuse a selective understanding of Gandhi, but never of Guevara. This supposedly “strategic” discourse has robbed many of what could be a precious understanding of resistance – as both concept and culture.
→ read full articleCall to President Obama and World Leaders to Help Mordechai Vanunu Get His Freedom
TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2010
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, and Gerry Grehan, Chair, Peace People Northern Ireland, have written to President Obama, other world leaders and prominent personalities, to ask for their help in the lifting of all restrictions and for Vanunu to be allowed to leave Israel.
→ read full articleBanking on Hunger
Alan Maass – Socialist Worker,
9 Aug 2010
Goldman Sachs and the rest of Wall Street gambled on food. Their bets paid off big time–at the cost of igniting a food crisis that pushed hundreds of millions into the ranks of the hungry.
→ read full articleThe Burma Insurgency
COVA-Confederation of Voluntary Associations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2010
Through 2009 we had brought to you a series briefly outlining disputes in 188 countries. Now we are happy to announce that we shall be sharing with you, every week, details of some major conflicts in different countries around the world. We hope that an understanding of the genesis and nature of different conflicts we help us in resolving these and making the world what it should be – A Heaven for all!!!
— The COVA-Confederation of Voluntary Associations team
Oxpeace – Professor Johan Galtung
Andy Russell - Different Films,
9 Aug 2010
Keynote address by Prof. Johan Galtung at Oxford University’s OxPeace, May 2010.
→ read full articleCrime and Punishment under Capitalism
Paul D’Amato – Socialist Worker,
9 Aug 2010
What if there was a three strikes law for Corporate America’s repeat offenders? As Rosa Luxemburg once wrote, bourgeois justice is “like a net, which allowed the voracious sharks to escape, while the little sardines were caught.”
→ read full articleHaiti’s Colonial Overlord
Ashley Smith – Socialist Worker,
9 Aug 2010
The role of Bill Clinton’s Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission and other institutions that claim to look out for the interests of Haiti’s poor.
→ read full articlePlease Sign the Petition to Release Mordechai Vanunu
TMS Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2010
Please express your support for this letter by signing this petition.
http://humanrights.change.org/petitions/view/release_mordechai_vanunu
The following letter has been sent by Mairead Maguire-Nobel Peace Laureate and Gerry Grehan-Chair of the Peace People, Northern Ireland, to President Barak Obama, UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, other world leaders and prominent personalities, to ask for their help in obtaining the lifting of all restrictions on Mordechai Vanunu and for him to be granted freedom to leave Israel.
→ read full articleTop Secret America: A Washington Post Investigation (PART 1)
Dana Priest and William M. Arkin - The Washington Post,
2 Aug 2010
A Hidden World, Growing Beyond Control. The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.
→ read full articleTop Secret America: A Washington Post Investigation (PART 2)
Dana Priest and William M. Arkin - The Washington Post,
2 Aug 2010
National Security Inc. -To ensure that the country’s most sensitive duties are carried out only by people loyal above all to the nation’s interest, federal rules say contractors may not perform what are called “inherently government functions.” But they do, all the time and in every intelligence and counterterrorism agency, according to a two-year investigation by The Washington Post.
→ read full articleTop Secret America: A Washington Post Investigation (PART 3)
Dana Priest and William M. Arkin -The Washington Post,
2 Aug 2010
The Secrets Next Door. In suburbs across the nation, the intelligence community goes about its anonymous business. Its work isn’t seen, but its impact is surely felt.
→ read full articleAfghanistan: The War Logs
Simon Rogers – The Guardian,
2 Aug 2010
Key incidents from the Wikileaks Afghanistan war logs selected by Guardian writers. As a spreadsheet, with co-ordinates.
→ read full articleCluster Bomb Ban Comes Into Effect
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2010
A global treaty banning cluster munitions has gone into force. The Convention on Cluster Munitions, which became binding international law on Sunday [1 Aug 2010], prohibits the use, production and stockpiling of the weapon, which is blamed for killing and maiming tens of thousands of civilians.
→ read full articleThe Suffering of Fallujah
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2010
And so it turns out that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, though not until we arrived and started using them. This is the power of language. Call it “war” and along come glory, duty, courage, sacrifice: the best of humanity writ large. The word is impenetrable; it sets the heart in motion; God makes an appearance, blesses the troops, blesses the weapons. Operation Iraqi Freedom: They’ll greet us with open arms. At what point do we learn our lesson, that “war” is a moral cesspool of horrific consequences, especially, and most troublingly, unintended ones?
→ read full articleBrazil: Democracy vs. Poverty
Arthur Ituassu – Open Democracy,
2 Aug 2010
In half a generation, a period that straddles two presidencies, politics has lifted millions of Brazilians from misery. Arthur Ituassu explains how it was done.
→ read full articleDesmond Tutu Backs U.S. Food Co-Op Boycott of Israeli Products
Natasha Mozgovaya – Haaretz,
2 Aug 2010
South African Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu issues statement of support for boycott announced by food co-op in Rachel Corrie’s hometown of Olympia, Washington.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks’ Afghan War Diary
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW! - Truthdig,
2 Aug 2010
Homeland security agents descended on a recent hacker conference in New York where he was scheduled to speak. He had canceled. He said the Obama administration also tried to get the Australian government to arrest him. Speaking to me from London, Assange said: “We are not pacifists. We are transparency activists who understand that transparent government tends to produce just government. That is our modus operandi behind our whole organization: to get out suppressed information into the public where the press and the public and our nations’ politics can work on it to produce better outcomes.”
→ read full article(Italian) 21 giugno Strage di piazza della Loggia … A quando la verità?
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2010
parte II
Nel 36° Anniversario di Piazza Loggia
In memoria del salodiano Vittorio Zambarda
Children
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2010
“Don’t worry if children don’t listen to you.
→ read full articleThe Shame of the Fourth Estate
Charles Kaiser, Hillman Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2010
“Let me make this utterly clear: What you see on Fox News, what you read on Right Wing websites, is the utter and complete perversion of journalism, and it can have no place in a civilized society. It is words crashed together, never to inform, only to inflame. It is a political guillotine. It is the manipulation of reality to make the racist seem benevolent, and to convict the benevolent as racist – even if her words must be edited, filleted, stripped of all context, rearranged, fabricated, and falsified, to do so.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Espiritualidade, Economia e o Mundo dos Negócios
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2010
O português Paulo Vieira de Castro, consultor de empresas e diretor do Centro de Estudos Aplicados em Marketing do Instituto Superior de Administração e Gestão (Porto) e o economista brasileiro, Marcus Eduardo de Oliveira, professor e especialista em Política Internacional, dialogam sobre espiritualidade, economia social e humana e o mundo dos negócios. Na essência, ambos os especialistas conversam sobre a necessidade de integrar o ser humano numa visão mais abrangente, tanto no contexto da economia, quanto dos negócios, envolvendo desde a busca da felicidade à realização plena de cada um, comungando, nesse aspecto, a vida humana e a espiritualidade.
→ read full articleIsrael and Palestine
Deena Stryker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2010
In 1988 I visited Israel as the first intifada was gathering steam. I interviewed several political figures sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, and saw from the air how narrow Israel was from East to West, between the Mediterranean and the West Bank. Twenty-two years later, two concepts I imagined then could, I believe, break the continuing deadlock between Israel and the people it displaced. The first is process dynamics.
→ read full articleIsrael Demolishes Bedouin Village
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2010
Israeli authorities have demolished the homes of about 300 Bedouins in a village in the southern Negev desert. The entire village of al-Arakib was bulldozed on Tuesday [27 Jul 2010], with many of the former residents’ cattle, trees and belongings lost. Al-Arakib, which had about 40 homes, is one of 45 Bedouin villages not recognised by Israeli authorities.
→ read full articleIs Israel a Liability for the US?
Marwan Bishara – Al Jazeera,
2 Aug 2010
The all too predictable pro and con nature of the debate meant repeating same-old same-old selective mantras about the “special relationship”. More importantly, as per usual for such discussions, the debate fell within the ideological limits of US-based mainstream think-tank perspectives. The question of whether US foreign policy is a liability for the Middle East; whether serving Washington’s interests is a liability for Americans, Arabs and Israelis did not arise. And whether US foreign policy is a liability to the future of a Jewish presence in the region was totally discounted.
→ read full articleCameron Uses Turkish Visit to Launch Ferocious Attack on Israel
Catrina Stewart in Jerusalem – The Independent,
2 Aug 2010
David Cameron signalled a toughening stance on Israel yesterday [27 Jul 2010] by comparing the besieged Gaza Strip to “a prison camp” and urging Israel to end its three-year blockade. Mr Cameron’s comments will carry additional diplomatic weight because they were made in Turkey, which has threatened to sever ties with Israel after its deadly assault on a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza.
→ read full articleThe End of (Military) History?: The United States, Israel, and the Failure of the Western Way of War
Andrew J. Bacevich - TomDispatch,
2 Aug 2010
“In watching the flow of events over the past decade or so, it is hard to avoid the feeling that something very fundamental has happened in world history.” This sentiment, introducing the essay that made Francis Fukuyama a household name, commands renewed attention today, albeit from a different perspective.
→ read full article(Castellano) El Oprobio del Colonialismo y los Hijos de la Tierra
Por Mauro Altezor, analista – La Republica, Uruguay,
2 Aug 2010
Ha sido una constante -a la hora de tratar la Cuestión Palestina- apuntar a la culpabilidad de las víctimas y a su sin razón de ser, en este caso, a no confundir, los palestinos. Ya lo señalaba en los años 70 Edward W. Said, los palestinos no sólo han tenido que lidiar con un enemigo poderosísimo militar y logísticamente, sino además con el enorme aparato propagandístico que amplifica las heridas recibidas pero, sobre todo, fabrica las más grandes tergiversaciones históricas, y antropológicas, a fin de lavar la conciencia del gatillo fácil israelí.
→ read full articleThe Whistleblowers: Is WikiLeaks a Blessing or Curse for Democracy?
John Goetz and Marcel Rosenbach - Spiegel,
2 Aug 2010
The whistleblowing organization WikiLeaks, which posted the Afghanistan war logs this week, has made publishing government secrets its mission. Many see founder Julian Assange as a hero, but others, including the Pentagon, consider him a threat to national security. Five agents from the United States Department of Homeland Security tried to pay him a visit two weeks ago, just before he was scheduled to speak at a conference in New York. But their efforts were in vain. Assange decided to stay in England after his attorney had told him that various other US government agencies were also very interested in speaking with him. US Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently characterized Assange and his work as “irresponsible.”
→ read full articleSpying for the USA-And for Peace
Johan Galtung, 2 Aug 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2010
To expose war crimes parading as “secrets” is a service for peace. Ellsberg got the alternative Nobel Peace Prize. So will Assange.
→ read full articleThe Angola-Cabinda Conflict
COVA-Confederation of Voluntary Associations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2010
Through 2009 we had brought to you a series briefly outlining disputes in 188 countries. Now we are happy to announce that we shall be sharing with you, every week, details of some major conflicts in different countries around the world. We hope that an understanding of the genesis and nature of different conflicts we help us in resolving these and making the world what it should be – A Heaven for all!!!
— The COVA-Confederation of Voluntary Associations team
Who Cooked the Planet?
Paul Krugman – The New York Times,
2 Aug 2010
There will be no climate bill. Greed, aided by cowardice, has triumphed. And the whole world will pay the price.
→ read full articleLobbyists Push Use of Deadly Asbestos in Developing Nations
Jim Morris - International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,
26 Jul 2010
A global network of lobby groups has spent nearly $100 million since the mid-1980s to preserve the international market for asbestos, a known carcinogen that’s taken millions of lives and is banned or restricted in 52 countries, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has found in a nine-month investigation. Backed by public and private money and aided by scientists and friendly governments, the groups helped facilitate the sale of 2.2 million tons of asbestos last year, mostly in developing nations. Anchored by the Montreal-based Chrysotile Institute, the network stretches from New Delhi to Mexico City to the city of Asbest in Russia’s Ural Mountains. Its message is that asbestos can be used safely under “controlled” conditions.
→ read full articleStatist India-Pakistan Dialogue
Dr Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2010
India-Pakistan dialogue at foreign ministers level in Islamabad can be justly called statist as it added nothing substantial to bilateral relations except meetings and press conferences bordering acrimony. Anyone who viewed the joint press conference of the ministers on 16 July 2010 could conclude nothing but precisely this: the post-Mumbai terror attack relations are surviving on a vague optimism that relations will get better in due course. Despite this optimism expressed opulently by the political leaders of both the countries, the fact remain unless some substance is added to the relations, South Asia will further plunge into another bout of crisis. In international politics diplomacy and dialogue are good things to salvage bad relations, but these can not sustain long in a vacuum.
→ read full articleBlessed Are the Peacemakers … But Not in America
James E. Jennings - Truthout,
26 Jul 2010
Last month’s 6-3 Supreme Court decision in the case of Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project found that humanitarian groups can be judged guilty of aiding and abetting terrorism merely by holding peaceful dialog and engaging in political discussions with proscribed organizations. Those convicted may be sentenced to up 15 years in prison. On its face, this is an infringement of the constitutional right of free speech.
→ read full articleMilitarization of Central America and the Caribbean: The U.S. Military Moves Into Costa Rica
Mark Vorpahl – Global Research,
26 Jul 2010
Nestled between Panama to its south and Nicaragua to its north, Costa Rica is a Central American nation roughly the size of Rhode Island. If another nation were to send Rhode Island a force of 7,000 troops, 200 helicopters, and 46 warships in an effort to eradicate drug trafficking, it is doubtful that the residents of Rhode Island would consider this offer “on-the-level.” Such a massive military force could hardly be efficiently used to combat drug cartels. The only logical conclusion is that the nation whose troops now are occupying this other country had another agenda in mind that it didn’t want to share.
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Israeli Soldiers Dancing to Ke$ha – Tik Tok (Rock the Casba in Hebron)
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2010
IDF soldiers are finding time to dance when they are not murdering in the name of ‘Israeli security’.
→ read full articleA New Generation of Muslim Peace Educators
Amina Rasul and Qamar-ul Huda – Common Ground,
26 Jul 2010
In this age of widespread misperceptions that Islam is a religion of violence and intolerance, an Islamic peace education curriculum, addressing peacebuilding from an authentic Islamic perspective, is essential.
→ read full article(Italian) Chiudere I Cie Subito 10 Luglio Antirazzista a Torino (Parte II)
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2010
Report. Parte II. Manif. del 10 luglio antirazzista.
→ read full articleThe Genocide behind Your Smart Phone
Alan Mascarenhas - Newsweek,
26 Jul 2010
Our biggest gadget makers—including HP and Apple—may inadvertently get their raw ingredients from murderous Congolese militias. A new movement wants them to trace rare metals from ‘conflict mines.’
→ read full articleBP in the Persian Gulf: How an Oil Company Helped Destroy Democracy in Iran
Stephen Kinzer – TomDispatch,
26 Jul 2010
Does boycotting BP really make sense? Perhaps not. After all, many BP filling stations are actually owned by local people, not the corporation itself. Besides, when you’re filling up at a Shell or ExxonMobil station, it’s hard to feel much sense of moral triumph. Nonetheless, I reserve my right to drive by BP stations. I started doing it long before this year’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. My decision not to give this company my business came after I learned about its role in another kind of “spill” entirely — the destruction of Iran’s democracy more than half a century ago.
→ read full article(Italian) Il Nucleare Non È la Risposta. Ma Qual È il Problema?
Nanni Salio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2010
La produzione e l’utilizzo dell’energia elettronucleare non è che un capitolo, per quanto importante, del più ampio problema energetico. Insieme, possono essere inquadrati nel più generale tema delle questioni globali, complesse e controverse che convenzionalmente indichiamo con PAS, pace, ambiente, sostenibilità. Non dovrebbe stupire che su questi temi si continui a discutere sin dall’inizio dell’ “era nucleare” con argomenti pro e contro che vengono riproposti di tanto in tanto dai cosiddetti “esperti”, che in realtà esperti non sono.
→ read full articleMoney Laundering and the Global Drug Trade Fueled by Capitalist Elites
Tom Burghardt – Global Research,
26 Jul 2010
When investigative journalist Daniel Hopsicker broke the story four years ago that a DC-9 (N900SA) “registered to a company which once used as its address the hangar of Huffman Aviation, the flight school at the Venice, Florida Airport which trained both terrorist pilots who crashed planes into the World Trade Center, was caught in Campeche by the Mexican military … carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine destined for the U.S.,” it elicited a collective yawn from corporate media. And when authorities searched the plane and found its cargo consisted solely of 128 identical black suitcases marked “private,” packed with cocaine valued at more than $100 million, the silence was deafening.
→ read full articleUnited Nations Grants Official Status to US-Based International LGBT Rights Group
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2010
A Victory against Homophobic Silencing of Civil Society
→ read full article(Italian) OGM e Crimine Organizzato
Silvia Ribeiro – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2010
Tutti i semi transgenici esistenti sono controllati da sei imprese: Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont, Dow, Bayer e Basf. Sono multinazionali del settore chimico che si impadroniscono delle compagnie di grani per controllare il mercato agricolo, vendendo semi che si legano ai pesticidi che esse producono (erbicidi, insetticidi, ecc.).
→ read full articleHumanizing Methodologies in Transformation
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2010
Talk at the University of South Africa sponsored by the College of Law – 20 Jul 2010
→ read full articleDoubts Surface on North Korea’s Role in Ship Sinking
Barbara Demick and John M. Glionna – The Los Angeles Times,
26 Jul 2010
The critics, mostly but not all from the opposition, say it is unlikely that the impoverished North Korean regime could have pulled off a perfectly executed hit against a superior military power, sneaking a submarine into the area and slipping away without detection. They also wonder whether the evidence of a torpedo attack was misinterpreted, or even fabricated. “I couldn’t find the slightest sign of an explosion,” said Shin Sang-chul, a former shipbuilding executive-turned-investigative journalist. “The sailors drowned to death. Their bodies were clean. We didn’t even find dead fish in the sea.”
→ read full articleAnimal Rights Activists Win Dissent Victory
Bill Quigley and Rachel Meeropol - Truthout,
26 Jul 2010
Police reports state that on October 21, 2007, a group of about 20 people trespassed onto the front lawn of the home of a Berkeley professor involved in bio-medical research on animals. According to the US government, some of the protesters had bandanas covering the lower half of their faces and they made “a lot of noise, chanting animal rights slogans” like “1,2,3,4, open up the cage door; 5,6,7,8, smash the locks and liberate, 9,10,11,12, vivisectors go to hell.” A year and a half later, four young activists were indicted in California federal court under the little known and rarely used “Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act” (AETA) for their alleged involvement in this and others pickets.
→ read full articleSteak or Veggie Burger: Which is Greener?
Kiera Butler – Mother Jones,
26 Jul 2010
A lifelong vegetarian eats her first hamburger—to find out the truth.
→ read full articleChoose Peace—End the Siege on Gaza
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2010
It was reported on Monday [12 Jul 2010] that an Israeli military commission found “no failure” on the part of the commandos who took part in the attack. And while the UN Security Council and human rights groups called for an independent and “credible” inquiry into the matter, there are no such plans in the works. Israel has deemed such independent efforts as “anti-Israel” and a threat to the existence of the state. The result? The US and indeed the rest of the international community stand on the sidelines, doing nothing. On June 5, I was aboard the MV Rachel Corrie—a ship named for a young American activist who was bulldozed to death by the Israeli army in 2003—heading to Gaza. Just days earlier, we had heard via satellite phone that Israeli commandos had boarded six ships, including the Turkish MV Mavi Marmara, in international water, and had killed and injured many aboard.
→ read full articleThe Algerian Insurgency
COVA-Confederation of Voluntary Associations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2010
Through 2009 we had brought to you a series briefly outlining disputes in 188 countries. Now we are happy to announce that we shall be sharing with you, every week, details of some major conflicts in different countries around the world. We hope that an understanding of the genesis and nature of different conflicts we help us in resolving these and making the world what it should be – A Heaven for all!!!
— The COVA-Confederation of Voluntary Associations team
(Italian) La Filosofia di Gandhi in India Oggi
P.V. Rajagopal e Shannon Moran – Ekta Parishad,
26 Jul 2010
In un mondo sempre più indifferente alle filosofie di Gandhi, esiste ancora in India un luogo piccolo ma sicuro dove sopravvive la sua eredità. È nei movimenti popolari, nelle lotte della gente comune, che resistono tuttora i principi di Gandhi.
→ read full articleCancer Rate in Fallujah Worse than Hiroshima
Tom Eley - WSWS,
26 Jul 2010
The Iraqi city of Fallujah continues to suffer the ghastly consequences of a US military onslaught in late 2004. According to the authors of a new study, “Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005–2009,” the people of Fallujah are experiencing higher rates of cancer, leukemia, infant mortality, and sexual mutations than those recorded among survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the years after those Japanese cities were incinerated by US atomic bomb strikes in 1945.
→ read full articleRepublican what?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2010
A man went to a pawn shop in San Francisco and discovered a brass rat that intrigued him. He asked the store owner how much it cost. The owner said, “With the story 100 dollars, without the story 10 dollars.”
→ read full articleIsrael Gets Brutal With Media
Mel Frykberg – IPS,
26 Jul 2010
Palestinian activists are being jailed, Israeli activists are under surveillance, and the Israeli military is increasingly targeting journalists who cover West Bank protests.
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Prof. Johan Galtung on Nuclear Weapons and the Underlying Causes of Conflict
TalkWorks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2010
Leading experts and policy makers talk about what needs to be done to move towards a nuclear weapon-free world.
→ read full articleIsrael Braces Itself for a UN Fact Finding Mission
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2010
I guess that in order to complete its job satisfyingly, the UN mission should consider taking advice from some Old Testament experts who can elaborate on the cultural and spiritual heritage that led to the current state of Israeli barbarism. As I’ve mentioned many times before, Zionism is an attempt to revive the ancient Israelite nation. Hence it shouldn’t take us by surprise to discover that this has created a contemporary Israeli who follows the most sinister possible interpretation of the Judaic text.
→ read full articleFood Co-Op in Rachel Corrie’s Hometown Boycotts Israeli Goods
Natasha Mozgovaya - Haaretz,
26 Jul 2010
Last week, the board of directors of the Olympia Food Co-op in Washington state decided that no more Israeli products will be sold at its two grocery stores in the city. “We met last Thursday for the board members meeting and a pretty large group – about 40 people – presented the boycott project and answered our questions,” Rob Richards, a board member, told Haaretz. “A couple of board members were concerned about what will be the financial effect on the organization, but it’s minimal. For me personally there is a moral imperative that goes beyond any financial concern. So we decided to adopt the boycott which went into effect the next day.”
→ read full article“Our American Heroes”: Why It’s Wrong to Equate Military Service with Heroism
William J. Astore - TomDispatch.com,
26 Jul 2010
In rejecting the “heroic” label, don’t think we’d be insulting our troops. Quite the opposite: we’d be making common cause with them, for most of our troops undoubtedly already reject the “hero” label, just as the young “heroes” of Germany did in 1917-18. With the typical sardonic humor of front-line soldiers, they preferred the less comforting, if far more realistically descriptive label (given their grim situation in the trenches) of “front pigs.” Whatever nationality they may be, troops at the front know the score. Even as our media and our culture seek to elevate our troops into the pantheon of demi-gods, our “front pigs” carry on, plying an ancient and brutal trade. Most simply want to survive and come home with their bodies, their minds, and their buddies intact. Part of the world’s deadliest war machine, they are naturally concerned first about saving their own skins, and only secondarily worried about the lives of others. This is not beastliness. Nor is it heroism. It’s simply a front pig’s nature.
→ read full articleThe Killing Fields of Multi-National Corporations
Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2010
Pesticides, Pollution and the Economies of Genocide. The Bhopal gas tragedy was the worst industrial disaster in human history. Twenty-five thousand people died, 500,000 were injured, and the injustice done to the victims of Bhopal over the past 25 years will go down as the worst case of jurisprudence ever.
→ read full articleMagazine Exposes ‘Double Life’ of Vatican’s Gay Priests
Paddy Agnew in Rome – Irish Times,
26 Jul 2010
He and his friend were invited to the party by a French priest, referred to as Paul, whom the friend claims he first met in a sauna. After watching two semi-naked, oiled and muscular gay dancers go through their routine, Fr Paul climbed up on stage for what the reporter calls a session of “Dirty Dancing For Three”. That first night ended with Fr Paul spending the night with Abbate’s friend. The Panorama article is accompanied by clandestine photos allegedly depicting the said Fr Paul in striped boxer shorts in the friend’s bedroom on the morning after.
→ read full articleOpen Letter of Appeal to the Jewish People
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
I write to ask for your help in gaining the freedom of a good man, a man of peace, and a man of conscience. In the Jewish scriptures there is great emphasis on justice and freedom and it is for such, for one man, that I write to seek your help. He will not be aware that I am writing this Appeal, but I do so in the hope that, with your help, it will produce his freedom, and not (and this I must risk) cause yet more punishment and cruelty to be inflicted upon him.
→ read full articleI Support Mairead Maguire’s Appeal to Free Mordechai Vanunu
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
Mordechai and I got the Right Livelihood Award, aka the alternative Nobel Peace Prize, the same year, 1987. He embodies the best of Western Civilization: courage, honesty, truth, dedication to peaceful resolution.
→ read full articleFrance (Not) to Repay Debt to Haiti
Brooke Jarvis – YES! Magazine,
19 Jul 2010
A prank website is bringing France’s colonial crimes into the spotlight.
→ read full articleLeopold Sedar Senghor (1906-2001) – Who will teach rhythm to the world laid low?
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 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 articleHaiti, Six Months after the Earthquake
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
19 Jul 2010
July 12 marked the six-month anniversary of the devastating earthquake here in Haiti that killed as many as 300,000 people and left much of the country in ruins. Up to 1.8 million people are living in squalid tent cities, with inadequate sanitation, if any, no electricity and little security, or any respite from the intense heat and the worsening rains. Rape, hunger and despair are constant threats to the people stranded in the camps. Six months ago, the world seemed united with commitments to help Haiti recover. Now, half a year later, the rubble remains in place, and misery blankets the camps, layered with heat, drenched by rain.
→ read full articleSpirit and Science in the Vedanta
Michael Nagler – Tikkun Magazine,
19 Jul 2010
But that was then. Now the great breakthroughs of Einstein and Bohr have delivered a rude shock to the paradigm of Western science, and “only Vedanta,” as a prominent Indian physicist who joined religious orders as Swami Jitatmananda said in 1986, “seems to be in a position to absorb the tremendous impact of the new science.” The Vedanta—a general term for the spiritual culture of ancient India—developed a quantum theory of mind 5,000 years before Planck discovered that energy comes in discrete packets (or quanta).
→ read full articleThe Vatican Closes Ranks: Pope Benedict XVI Lashes Out at Secular Justice
Fiona Ehlers and Hans-Jürgen Schlamp - Spiegel,
19 Jul 2010
This spring, it looked as though the Catholic Church was finally going to confront charges of sexual abuse head on. Following recent police raids in Belgium, however, the Vatican has once again closed ranks. In the internal Holy See debate, the conservatives have regained the upper hand.
→ read full articleExposed: The Truth about Israel’s Land Grab in the West Bank
Catrina Stewart in Jerusalem and David Usborne – The Independent,
19 Jul 2010
As President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet, a report reveals 42 per cent of territory is controlled by settlers.
→ read full articleThis Modern World
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
Award-wining political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow focuses on the corporate strain of pretending to care about the environment.
→ read full article(Italian) “21 Giugno. Strage di Piazza Loggia … A Quando la Verità?”
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
36° Anniversario di Piazza Loggia. In memoria del salodiano Vittorio Zambarda.
→ read full articleManaged News: Inside the US/NATO Military Industrial Media Empire
Prof. Peter Phillips and Prof. Mickey Huff – Global Research,
19 Jul 2010
We face what appears to be a military industrial media empire so powerful and complex that truth is mostly absent or reported in disconnected segments with little historical context. A case in point: The London Times reported on June 5, 2010, that American troops are now operating in 75 countries. Has President Obama secretly sanctioned a huge increase in the number of US Special Forces carrying out search-and-destroy missions against al-Qaeda around the world? If so, this increase is far in excess of special-forces operations under the Bush administration and reflects how aggressively Obama is pursuing al-Qaeda behind his public rhetoric of global engagement and diplomacy. Somehow this information didn’t make it into the US media. The US, in cooperation with NATO, is building global occupation forces for the control of international resources in support of Trilaterialist—US, Europe, Japan— corporate profits. A New York Times report on the availability of a trillion dollars in mineral wealth in Afghanistan, on top of the need for an oil/gas pipeline from the Caspian Sea, suggests other reasons for U.S objectives in the region.
→ read full articleRevenge of the Weeds
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
We can’t keep playing conquering fool, arrogantly ordering the world to our liking by killing everything that doesn’t fit into it. We can’t keep throwing more of the same at our problems. We can’t keep fighting nature, or one another, and expect somehow to win in the end. We can’t keep buying time at an increasingly horrific price. Time is running out. And petroleum isn’t the only thing we’re addicted to.
→ read full articleHamas Lawmaker: Gaza Flotilla Did More for Gaza Than 10,000 Rockets
Robert Naiman - Truthout,
19 Jul 2010
Who now doubts that strategic nonviolent action can transform the politics of the Israel/Palestine conflict? The Wall Street Journal reports: “When we use violence, we help Israel win international support,” said Aziz Dweik, a leading Hamas lawmaker in the West Bank. “The Gaza flotilla has done more for Gaza than 10,000 rockets.”
→ read full articleHaitian Peasants Say: Monsanto, Get Out of Haiti!
Rainforest Rescue – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
Monsanto is trying to offer the Haitian Ministry of Agriculture a fatal gift. The Haitian peasants will receive 475 tons of its seeds. This worsens the farmers’ situation. The organisations of La Via Campesina have expressed their strong disagreement and have demonstrated during the World Environment Day (Juny 4th) to say “no to Monsanto’s mortal gift which is a new earthquake hitting the agricultural sector”. They are asking your support to protect their food sovereignty. Help them today by signing a personal letter to the Haitian authorities.
→ read full article(Italian) Spirito e Scienza nel Vedanta
Michael Nagler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
Ma questo avvenne allora. Adesso le grandi conquiste di Einstein e Bohr hanno dato un bello shock al paradigma della scienza occidentale e, come disse nel 1986 un eminente fisico indiano passato a un ordine religioso come Swami Jitatmananda, “solo il Vedanta sembra essere in grado di assorbire il tremendo impatto della nuova scienza.” Il Vedanta, termine generale per la cultura spirituale dell’India antica, sviluppò una teoria quantistica 5000 anni prima che Planck scoprisse che l’energia arriva in pacchetti discreti (o quanti).
→ read full articleVenezuela, Chile to Head New Latin American Bloc
RNW – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
Venezuela and Chile will head a new regional bloc that will include all countries in the Americas except Canada and the United States to be inaugurated in July 2011, Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry said. The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC, its Spanish-language acronym), will have among its goals tightening trade and institutional cooperation in the region, in step with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s so-called “Plan Caracas.”
→ read full articleAnarchism and Nonviolence: Time for a ‘Complementarity of Tactics’
Randall Amster – Waging Nonviolence,
19 Jul 2010
This may not win me any new friends among fellow anarchists, yet it needs to be said: Anarchists ought to publicly and demonstrably proclaim their nonviolence, especially in the context of mass demonstrations. This will make it clear that any violence done in that theater — which time and again is used to legitimize mass arrests, bloated police budgets, and the rest of the fascistic enterprise — is not the product of anarchists but more likely of agents of the state itself. After all, that is the basic notion being advanced, isn’t it? To wit: the state (including its corporate underwriters and beneficiaries) is inherently violent both overtly and structurally; anarchists above all reject the state and thus would do well to highlight the fundamental contrast. “The state is violent, and we are not” would be a very good place to start the discussion.
→ read full articlePolitics
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
Socialism: You have two cows, and you give one to your neighbor.
→ read full articleHaitians Cry: Show Me the Money
Rob Reynolds - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
Certainly the international workers who have come to Haiti are genuinely motivated by a desire to help the desperately poor country rebuild. It’s unfair, even preposterous, to suggest that they are here to enrich themselves. Yet a perception exists, says Marilyn Allein, the Haiti representative of the anti-corruption watchdog group Transparency International, that the aid agencies’ activity is “much ado about nothing”. Haitians “see these luxury cars going by with the air conditioning on”, she said, “and they see lots of foreigners, but they don’t see much yet in terms of results”.
→ read full articleOliver Stone Tells the Real Story of the Leftist Latin American Leaders Transforming the Continent
Daniela Perdomo - ICH,
19 Jul 2010
Stone’s new film traces the rise of Chávez, Lula, Evo, and others who see participatory democracy and cooperation between Latin American countries as the future.
→ read full articleU.S. Provides Millions in Bulletproof Vests, Rifle Scopes to West Bank Settlers
AlterNet Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
… As the American government seeks to end the four-decade Jewish settlement enterprise and foster a Palestinian state in the West Bank, the American Treasury helps sustain the settlements through tax breaks on donations to support them.A New York Times examination of public records in the United States and Israel identified at least 40 American groups that have collected more than $200 million in tax-deductible gifts for Jewish settlement in the West Bank and East Jerusalem over the last decade. The money goes mostly to schools, synagogues, recreation centers and the like, legitimate expenditures under the tax law. But it has also paid for more legally questionable commodities: housing as well as guard dogs, bulletproof vests, rifle scopes and vehicles to secure outposts deep in occupied areas.
→ read full articleCirculation of the Light: Essential Metaphor of Global Sustainability?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
Does civilizational collapse become probable when the resources of the cognitive geometry on which a civilization chooses to live are exhausted — as an extension of the argument of Jared Diamond (Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, 2005)?
→ read full articleGandhi’s Philosophy in India Today
PV Rajagopal and Shannon Moran – Ekta Parishad,
19 Jul 2010
In a world that is becoming increasingly indifferent to the philosophies of Gandhi, a small but sure space still exists in India where his legacy survives. It is in the people’s movements, the struggles of the common man that the principles of Gandhi still endure.
→ read full article
Israel Dumps Waste on Palestinians
Nisreen El-Shamayleh – Al Jazeera,
19 Jul 2010
Israeli settlements have been dumping untreated waste directly into a sewage canal that runs through the occupied West Bank, affecting Palestinian villages along its banks. The hazard posed is compounded by the dumping of toxic chemical waste on agricultural land, with villagers reporting a rash of skin diseases and respiratory problems. The Israeli government has banned plans by the Palestinian Authority to build pipes and pumps to treat and divert wastewater away from the affected villages.
→ read full article(Italian) Conflitto Israelo-Palestinese: L’Esperienza Nonviolenta di At-Tuwani e di Operazione Colomba
Davide Ziveri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
Sabato 12 giugno una trentina di coloni mascherati hanno attaccato con sassi e spranghe la casa del villaggio palestinese di At-Tuwani più prossima all’avamposto di Havat Ma’on, nelle colline a sud di Hebron, in Cisgiordania. Nell’abitazione in quel momento si trovavano solo donne e bambini. Da allora, ogni notte, i coloni si sono organizzati in ronde e non hanno cessato di lanciare intimidazioni agli abitanti del villaggio. Solo un altro aneddoto del mitico conflitto mediorientale?
→ read full articleThe Charge of the Media Brigade
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes how an all-pervasive corporate media culture in the United States prepares the way for a permanent state of war. And yet for all the column inches and broadcast hours filled, the brainwashing is not succeeding. And this, he suggests, is ‘America’s greatest virtue’.
→ read full article(Italian) Chiudere I Cie Subito. 10 Luglio Antirazzista a Torino
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
Torino 10 luglio 2010
ore 16.00 – Corteo da Piazza Sabotino al CIE di corso Brunelleschi
no-cie.noblogs.org
Iniziativa organizzata dal coordinamento 10 luglio antirazzista
If Only Information Flowed as Freely as Oil
Amy Goodman – Truthdig,
19 Jul 2010
On BP Shutting Out Scientists, Media: “Deep Spill 2” sounds like a sequel to a Hollywood thriller. Unfortunately, it is more of a reality show. “Deep Spill 2” is the name of an ambitious series of proposed scientific experiments that should be happening right now. Scientists from around the globe are ready, literally, to dive in to understand what is happening with the oil and gas that are spewing into the Gulf of Mexico with the force of a volcano. There is one problem, though: BP won’t let them.
→ read full article(Castellano) BP y el Gobierno de los EEUU: Ojalá la Información Fluyera Tan Libremente Como el Petróleo
Amy Goodman – TeleSur,
19 Jul 2010
Las noticias sobre la negación del acceso a los medios se acumulan al igual que las bolas de alquitrán en la playa (que ahora han llegado hasta el Lago Pontchartrain de Louisiana y a las playas de Texas). La periodista de Mother Jones, Mac McClelland describe su experiencia. “Mi problema con el acceso se remonta a hace más de un mes. Las calles estaban bloqueadas por subcomisarios en cualquier lugar que podía ser bloqueado por carretera”.
→ read full articleThe National Interest Has Gone Missing
Lawrence Davidson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
It does not take a genius to observe that the pursuit of national interests, defined in common sense terms, would have led to very different behavior by the U.S. and Israeli governments. But both failed to pursue such a course. Their doors remained locked. The question why is a seminal one. It touches on war and peace and thus the lives of millions. So let’s look at some of the factors that might go into an answer to this question–why was national interest not pursued?
→ read full articleLara Logan, You Suck
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
19 Jul 2010
Anyone who wants to know why network television news hasn’t mattered since the seventies just needs to check out this appearance by Logan. Here’s CBS’s chief foreign correspondent saying out loud on TV that when the man running a war that’s killing thousands of young men and women every year steps on his own dick in front of a journalist, that journalist is supposed to eat the story so as not to embarrass the flag. And the part that really gets me is Logan bitching about how Hastings was dishonest to use human warmth and charm to build up enough of a rapport with his sources that they felt comfortable running their mouths off in front of him. According to Logan, that’s sneaky — and journalists aren’t supposed to be sneaky.
→ read full articleDeadlock in Afghanistan?
RachadTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2010
Dr. Abbas Aroua hosts Prof. Johan Galtung for a discussion about the situation in Afghnistan, following the resignation of General Mac Chrystal.
→ read full articleStrategic Embodiment of Time: Configuring Questions Fundamental to Change
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2010
With respect to the global financial crisis, Sohail Inayatullah has presented a set of seven narratives derived by use of Causal Layered Analysis (Multiple Narratives of the Futures of the Global Financial Crisis, Journal of Futures Studies, 2010). The possibility explored here is that there are implicit questions associated with each of these foundational or generative narratives which could be considered in the light of the classical set of seven WH-questions (when, where, which, what, who, why, how).
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Israeli Boy Campaigns against Border Mines
Nisreen El-Shamayleh - Al Jazeera,
12 Jul 2010
More than 2,600 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli landmines in the past 40 years. This is no surprise considering that more than a million mines remain active. They are scattered along Israel’s borders with Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt. Israel has always refused to remove them, but now an 11-year-old Israeli boy is campaigning to have them cleared.
→ read full articleJames H. Cousins (1873-1956)
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 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 article