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Protecting the Perpetrators – Pedophiles and Popes: Doing the Vatican Shuffle
Michael Parenti – Common Dreams,
17 May 2010
The church seems determined to learn nothing from its transgressions, preoccupied as it is with avoiding lawsuits and bad publicity. Really Not All that Serious. First, pedophilia is not that serious if it involves only a few isolated and passing incidents. Second, an even more creepy way of downplaying the problem: child molestation is not all that damaging or that important. At worst, it is regrettable and unfortunate; it might greatly upset the child, but it certainly is not significant enough to cause unnecessary scandal and ruin the career of an otherwise splendid padre…. The damage done to sexual victims continues to go unnoticed: the ensuing years of depression, drug addiction, alcoholism, panic attacks, sexual dysfunction, and even mental breakdown and suicide-all these terrible aftereffects of child rape seem to leave popes and bishops more or less unruffled.
→ read full articleWhy the ‘Experts’ Failed to See How Financial Fraud Collapsed the Economy
James K. Galbraith - AlterNet,
17 May 2010
I write to you from a disgraced profession. Economic theory, as widely taught since the 1980s, failed miserably to understand the forces behind the financial crisis.
→ read full articleBye Bye Democracy! Hello Army-State!
Dr. Zarni – The Irrawaddi, Burma,
17 May 2010
Veiled and well-founded skepticism marked the US reaction to the Burmese military government’s announcement last week that “Prime Minister” Gen Thein Sein and 22 other military officers had resigned from their posts in order to contest the general “election”.
→ read full articleOn My Way to Athens
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
QUESTION: What was it that hurt you so much as to state publicly that you fight the Israeli in you? Don’t you feel that this is a harsh statement to make? A statement that shows anger? GILAD: Yes I am indeed angry. Watching 1.5 million Palestinians being starved in Gaza makes me angry. Watching the IDF throw bombs and white phosphorous on elders, women and children who seek shelter in an UNRA compound makes me angry. Watching the Israeli air force flatten Lebanon in 2006 made me angry. Watching the holy land get sliced by a gigantic separation wall makes me angry. Transforming Palestine into a Jewish bunker makes me angry. Meeting dispossessed Palestinian refugees who cannot even visit their land makes me very angry. Realising that 1.5 million Iraqis lost their life because of a Zionist global war designed by Ziocon Wolfowitz makes me furious. Zionists advocating the Killing of Muslims in the name of moral interventionism freaks me out. Watching AIPAC promoting more wars and violence makes my blood boil.
→ read full article7 Things to Stop Doing Now on Facebook
Consumer Reports Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
Tips for your protection on Facebook.
→ read full articleThe Second Debt Storm
Alistair Barr - MarketWatch,
17 May 2010
Who will bail out the countries that bailed out the world’s corporations? The debt mountain that brought down some of the world’s biggest banks and dragged the international financial system to the brink of disaster has simply shifted to governments. Now it’s threatening countries around the globe — and, if left unchecked, could rip the very fabric of Europe’s economic system and wreck economic recoveries in the U.S., China and Latin America.
→ read full articleVanunu Returns to Prison and the End of Israel’s Nuclear Ambiguity
Eileen Fleming - Countercurrents,
17 May 2010
On May 11, 2010, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that Mordechai Vanunu, will “serve a three-month jail sentence handed to him by Jerusalem District Court and not community service.”
→ read full articleModern Saint of Family Unity
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
Ascetical writers tell us that God is so great that He created billions of people each one with a unique personality that they cannot be duplicated. Besides, they add saying that God gave to each person at least one talent that makes that individual superior to the rest of the human race. In other words, each one of us is so important that we cannot ever be duplicated. Our main job in life is to help ourselves, as well as our children and friends, to discover this one superior talent we received as to use it to help change the world for the better.
→ read full articleWhy Privacy on Facebook Is ‘Virtually Impossible’
Erik Hayden - Miller-McCune,
17 May 2010
“Earlier this month, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and 14 other privacy and consumer organizations filed a complaint against Facebook with the Federal Trade Commission, accusing the popular social network of “unfair and deceptive trade practices” and violating users’ expectations of privacy and consumer protection laws. And last month, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., asked the FTC to develop guidelines instructing social networks on how private information can be used.
→ read full articleSecurity for Australia in the ‘Asia Pacific Century’ (Part 1)
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
It looked like a raised middle finger. A stark, mocking figure 1 – the number of votes garnered when Australia put itself forward a couple of years ago for membership of the United Nations Security Council. Even Iran found thirty-two supporters when it stood for election in the same round. Australia, apparently, was friendless. So why did the international community shun Kevin Rudd’s ambitions for greater recognition on the world stage?
→ read full articleAn Account of the General Strike in Nepal
Suvrat Raju – Monthly Review,
17 May 2010
While the world media was focused on a boring battle between the Tories and their New Labour cousins in Britain, a historic struggle was underway in Nepal.
→ read full article“The People of Greece Are Fighting for the Whole of Europe”
Democracy Now! - Tariq Ali and Mark Weisbrot,
17 May 2010
The European Union and the International Monetary Fund have approved a nearly $1 trillion package to stop Greece’s debt crisis from spilling beyond its borders into the rest of the eurozone. Stocks surged in Europe, Asia and the United States Monday after EU leaders agreed to a $960 billion package to contain Greece’s financial troubles. Meanwhile, the austerity measures demanded by the IMF and the European Union as a condition of their loan are continuing to exact their toll. Greece’s two main unions have continued to hold protests against the reforms. In a statement, one of the unions said, “The crisis should be paid by…all those who looted public finances.” Last week nearly 100,000 people participated in a mass demonstration and a twenty-four-hour general strike against the austerity measures.
→ read full articleFacebook Takes Flak over Privacy
Omar Chatriwala - AlJazeera,
17 May 2010
The number of Facebook users interested in deleting their accounts on the website, which boasts more than 400 million registered members, has doubled in the past week, according to figures released by the search engine Google. A website has also now been launched, urging those “sick of Facebook’s lack of respect for your data” to quit the website in joint protest on May 31. In the site’s first day, it had garnered more than 680 pledges to do so.
→ read full articleGrowing Outcry over Facebook Privacy Changes
AlJazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
An online backlash against the social website Facebook is gathering strength – and the company’s executives have held an emergency meeting to discuss growing concerns about the privacy of its users. According to Google search results, there’s been a spike in the number of Facebook users looking to delete their accounts.
→ read full articleRacist Joke
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
A crowded lifeboat in the ocean got into a storm, the waves got higher and higher, and the boat was in danger of sinking.
→ read full articleFrom Shas to Hamas: The Group Behind the South Park Controversy
Maidhc Ó Cathail - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
Muslims just can’t seem to take a joke. Or at least that’s what some would have you believe. Like the contrived Danish cartoon controversy, the much-hyped Times Square car bomb incident provided an ideal opportunity for those who seek to make Islam look bad in the eyes of the world.
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Iran-Brazil Ties: Lula hopes to broker Iran deal
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
President Lula hopes to aid nuclear deal.
→ read full articleVelimir Khlebnikov: The Futurian (1895-1922)
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 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 articleBrazil and Cuba Become an Example of Cooperation in Vaccines
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
The news is already circulating around the world of a study that researchers from five developing countries, in collaboration with the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health of Canada (MRC) published today [13 May 2010] in the journal Nature Biotechnology, puts Brazil and Cuba as models in manufacturing low-cost drugs to poor people.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Privatizada há 13 Anos, Vale Viola Direitos em 30 Países
Jorge Américo - Radioagência NP,
17 May 2010
Fundada em 1942 e privatizada em maio de 1997, a mineradora Vale transformou-se em símbolo da política neoliberal implementada pelo governo Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC). A estatal foi adquirida pela iniciativa privada pelo valor de US$ 3,4 bilhões. Atualmente, o valor de mercado passa de US$ 140 bilhões, valor quarenta vezes maior que o preço de sua venda. Somente no ano de 2009, a Vale teve um lucro líquido de mais de US$ 5 bilhões. Em contrapartida, sua ação exploratória em aproximadamente 30 países em que atua está provocando conflitos sociais e ambientais.
→ read full articleNepal’s Peace Process Towards Ambiguity
Bishnu Pathak, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2010
At 2.20 PM on May 1, 2010 at the western gate of the Khula Manch (Martyr Theater), an aged, thin-and-weak man of about 35 fainted. The volunteers of the United Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) made a human chain of 10 meters in circumference around the huge crowd. A few of them tried to cool him down by fanning their caps and papers and throwing their drinking water over him. Both of his legs were buckled from the intense heat, while camera men were eager to snap photos. The crowd members were seeking first aiders to treat him. Two minutes later, he stood up with the help of a man. His face and lips were dried. A woman aiding him grasped his right hand and disappeared with him through the sea of humans.
→ read full articleNow a Global Player, the South Must Develop Its Media
Mario Lubetkin – Inter Press Service,
10 May 2010
There is a striking asymmetry between the new political and economic world order that has been emerging from the South over the last five years and the relative immobility of the international system of information, which only partially reflects the major transformations of our age.
→ read full articleThe Role of Natural Resources in Civil Wars
Phumlani Majavu – Toward Freedom,
10 May 2010
On the surface, it might look like the Congolese have no one to blame but themselves, since they are the ones doing the killing, and to an extent, this argument seems sensible. However, when we go beyond the facade, the facts tell us that foreign governments and multinational companies, greedy for the natural resources found in the DRC, are in cahoots with the militias and they too, are responsible for the plunder and the killings.
→ read full article(Castellano) Terrorismo de Estado en Nombre de la Paz
Prof. James Petras – TeleSur,
10 May 2010
No cabe duda de que el Presidente Uribe ingresará en el Libro Guinness de los Récords, cuenta con el respaldo de más narco-diputados que cualquier otro Presidente o Primer Ministro del mundo (incluida Afganistán), es responsable del desplazamiento de más personas (4 millones de refugiados) en el plazo más breve (8 años) que cualquier otro Presidente del mundo. (Ha desbancado a Israel en su medio siglo), es responsable de la matanza de más militantes y dirigentes sindicales que cualquier otro líder mundial.
→ read full articleMps Push for Continent-Wide Ban on Female Genital Mutilation
UN IRIN-TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
Parliamentarians from all over Africa are pushing for a continent-wide ban on female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and are calling on the UN to pass a General Assembly resolution appealing for a global FGM/C ban, as it violates human rights, they say.
→ read full articleVoting for War. Take Your Pick
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes how Edwardian notions of war are again being promoted in western democracies, along with the militarising of history, journalism and parliamentary politics. In Britain, the three main candidiates for prime minister are declared warmakers; and yet popular feeling is very different.
→ read full articleCompassion Comes First
Rabbi Ted Falcon – Yes! Magazine,
10 May 2010
The first step toward loving action. “NOW, THEREFORE, be it proclaimed that the Mayor of Seattle and the Seattle City Council affirm the Charter for Compassion, declare Seattle a participant in the Ten Year Campaign for Compassionate Cities, and for the next ten years will establish April and October as compassionate action months in which our citizens, government and institutions work together to embrace and apply compassionate solutions and encourage community service to meet the needs of our families, friends, communities and neighbors.”
→ read full articleBolivia Throws Down Gauntlet, Demands Real Climate Action
Max Ajl – Truthout,
10 May 2010
Is this feasible? Probably, yes. But even if it proves impossible, at least someone is trying, even if they are dreamers. At least the future of the earth is on some leaders’ agendas. At least the future of the earth is on some people’s agenda. The Cochabamba Conference, impelled by a globalized and surging social movement demanding a livable Earth, has thrown down the gauntlet. Hopefully, we will pick it up before gun turrets stud our electrified steel frontier with Mexico, to be built circa 2030 when the Mexican agricultural system collapses under heat stress. That is the world of the future: a dead world of walls. I’m with Morales and Pachamama.
→ read full articleThis Modern World
Tom Tomorrow – Truthout,
10 May 2010
Cartoon: Business Status Quo – If more businesses operated like Goldman Sachs…
→ read full articleThe Rebirth of Regulation
Robert Reich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
What do oil giant BP, the mining company Massey Energy, and Goldman Sachs have in common? They’re all big firms involved in massive plunder. BP’s oil spill is already one of the biggest and most damaging in American history. Massey’s mine disaster, claiming the lives of 29 miners, is one of the worst in recent history. Goldman’s alleged fraud is but a part of the largest financial meltdown in 75 years.
→ read full articleRussia Seriously Concerned about NATO’s Intention to Become Global Gendarme
Vadim Trukhachev – Pravda,
10 May 2010
Russia stands strongly against the development of the North Atlantic Alliance into a global block similar to the UN. However, this is exactly how many NATO officials see their future. “Russia does not consider the present-day NATO as a threat, although we are concerned about its possible development. Russia does not want NATO as a global organization, we do not want NATO to become a global gendarme,” Russia’s ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said.
→ read full article(Italian) Aosta 25 Aprile 2010. Lettura Collettiva Della Costituzione Della Repubblica Italiana
Silvia Berruto, antifascista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
Nell’ambito del progetto culturale Collettivamente memoria 2010
→ read full articleThe “Evil Guys List”? “Free Journalism” in the Service of US Foreign Policy
F. William Engdahl – Global Research,
10 May 2010
An organization calling itself Reporters Without Borders (RWB; French: Reporters sans frontières, or RSF) has just named Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, China’s President Hu Jintao, Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kazakhstan’s Nursultan Nazarbayev and Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko to their list of Forty Worst Predators of Press Freedom for 2010. Most significant about their list of ‘bad guys’ is the geopolitical relation of those leaders and those countries to the current ‘enemies list’ of the US State Department. That is no accident, as becomes clear when we look more closely at who funds RWB.
→ read full articleBP: Billionaire Polluter
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
10 May 2010
Less than a week after British Petroleum unleashed what could be the worst industrial environmental disaster in U.S. history, the company announced more than $6 billion in profits.
→ read full articleG.W. Russell (1867-1935): “The highest minds building one upon another”
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 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 articleJapanese
Dietrich Fischer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
A Japanese airline stewardess told the passengers on landing…
→ read full articleNon-Violence Needs Women
Asma Asfour – Common Ground,
10 May 2010
Palestinian women as Palestinian citizens have much to say in this context. They are the ones who raise men. Partly because they are mothers, women are the real partners in building the future state. In addition, women—who are arguably naturally more predisposed to non-violence—could exercise significant pressure to stop internal violence first and then to form a common vision towards the future state.
→ read full articleAnother Battle of Okinawa
Chalmers Johnson – Los Angeles Times,
10 May 2010
Despite protests, the U.S. insists on going ahead with plans for a new military base on the island.
→ read full articleMaking a Difference Makes You Happy
Tim Kasser – Yes! Magazine,
10 May 2010
A series of studies find that activism brings pleasant emotions, greater life satisfaction, and more experiences of freedom, competence, and connection to others.
→ read full articleThe Next 9/11—Made in Israel?
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
Citing the possibility of a terrorist organization getting hold of a nuclear weapon as the greatest threat to U.S. security, Barack Obama persuaded 46 other countries at the recent Nuclear Security Summit to agree to secure the world’s loose nuclear material. Those leaders who came to Washington might have done more to avert a nuclear attack, however, if they had asked the U.S. President to account for America’s own loose nukes.
→ read full articleColombia: State Terror in the Name of Peace
Prof. James Petras - ICH,
10 May 2010
The first casualty of state terror is the corruption of language, the invention of euphemisms, where words mean their opposite and slogans cover great crimes: There is no longer a world consensus that condemns crimes against humanity. This is because mass murder and assassinations secure investor ‘confidence’, because Indians are dispossessed so the mines can be exploited; oil workers disappear so the petroleum will flow; and the international financial press praises the success of el Presidente for “pacifying the country”.
→ read full articleBee Catastrophe: 1/3 of Colonies Died This Winter, Worries Grow About Terminal Decline
Alison Benjamin - The Observer UK,
10 May 2010
Disturbing evidence that honeybees are in terminal decline has emerged from the United States where, for the fourth year in a row, more than a third of colonies have failed to survive the winter.
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Global Food Bubble on the Way?
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
Jayati Ghosh: We have to ban finance speculation that does not physically hold food commodities.
→ read full articleUnited Nations World Press Freedom Day
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
Not a column this week but a podcast, by the UN, to mark World Press Freedom Day, with fellow guests Jenny Manrique, a Colombian journalist, and Brendan O’Malley, journalist and author of UNESCO’s 2010 Education Under Attack report.
→ read full article(Castellano) Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273)
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
La Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas en resolución A/RES 62/90 ha proclamado al año 2010 como Año Internacional para el Acercamiento de Culturas, “para promover el respeto universal y la observancia y protección de todos los derechos humanos y las libertades fundamentales”. Así, nos complacemos en presentar los esfuerzos creativos de personas que han ayudado a crear puentes de comprensión entre culturas.
→ read full articleA Middle East Peace That Could Happen (But Won’t)
Noam Chomsky - TomDispatch,
3 May 2010
In Washington-Speak, “Palestinian State” Means “Fried Chicken”
→ read full article(Italian) Amnesty International e Idea Rom
Silvia Berruto, gagé engage – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2010
La conoscenza e il diritto alla base delle idee per una convivenza civile.
→ read full articleThe Future of Palestine: Righteous Jews vs. the New Afrikaners
John J. Mearsheimer – Al Jazeera,
3 May 2010
The following is an excerpt from the The Hisham Sharabi Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor John Mearsheimer at the Palestine Center in Washington D.C. on April 29, 2010. …There is going to be a Greater Israel between the Jordan and the Mediterranean. In fact, I would argue that it already exists. But who will live there and what kind of political system will it have?
→ read full article(Castellano) Un Nuevo Movimiento Sobre el Cambio Climático
Naomi Klein - TeleSur,
3 May 2010
El gobierno boliviano arrancó las discusiones proponiendo cuatro grandes ideas: que se debería otorgar derechos a la naturaleza, que protejan de la aniquilación a los ecosistemas (una declaración universal de los derechos de la madre tierra), (un tribunal de justicia climática), y que debería haber un mecanismo para que la gente en el mundo exprese sus puntos de vista sobre estos temas (un referéndum mundial de los pueblos sobre cambio climático).
→ read full articleBrazil Takes Centre-Stage
Marwan Bishara – Al Jazeera,
3 May 2010
It is rare that you see an optimistic country in these dire times. But Brazil is flying high when many are landing or crashing.
→ read full articleThe Insanities of Our Time
Fidel Castro Ruz – Climate and Capitalism,
3 May 2010
“The greatest contradiction of our time is the ability of our species to destroy itself, and its inability to govern itself.”
→ read full articleCochabamba’s Message: Let the People Speak
Janet Redman – Yes! Magazine,
3 May 2010
The World People’s Conference on Climate Change held last week in Bolivia was an experiment in replacing the less-than-democratic UN process with one that invites public participation. Janet Redman, one of the drafters of the People’s Accord, explains the difference between Copenhagen and Cochabamba.
→ read full articleKenneth Rexroth (1905-1982): The Poetry of Relevance
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 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 articleTony Blair, Very Close to Being Indicted for War Crimes
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
3 May 2010
While on a speaking engagement in Malaysia organized by “Success Resources Company”, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was the object of an articulate protest movement demanding his indictment for war crimes. This was no ordinary protest. Tony Blair has been accused of war crimes in a legal initiative led by the country’s former Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad.
→ read full articleHow the Western Media Promotes a Mistaken View of the World
Ramzy Baroud – Global Research,
3 May 2010
Media channels – especially those dispatching their news from various Western capitals – focus not simply on sensational news, but they also intentionally sensationalize news, and purposely relay the news so as to be understood within Western contexts. Thus ‘democracy’, ‘elections’, ‘government restrictions’ and ‘terrorism’ are the usual buzzwords. Sadly, the south is also stereotyped in the south itself. Newspapers in non-Western societies depend on coverage provided by Western news agencies for their international news. An Indonesian friend recently commended on my ‘bravery’ for going to South Africa. For him, South Africa is just ‘Africa,’ where ‘primitive’ people, along with lions and other wild animals prey on innocent white tourists. Thank you, Hollywood, for perfecting the art of stereotype.
→ read full articleStingy
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2010
A beggar walked up to a well‑dressed woman shopping on Fifth Avenue in New York and said,
→ read full articleGaza’s Calm Determination
Norman Finkelstein – The Electronic Intifada,
3 May 2010
To preserve my sense of purpose, and keep the Palestine struggle from becoming a lifeless abstraction, I need periodically to recharge my moral batteries by reconnecting with the actual people living under occupation and by witnessing firsthand the unfolding tragedy.
→ read full articleIndegenous Peoples’ Declaration – World Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
Many Authors – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2010
Mother Earth can live without us, but we can’t live without her. We, the Indigenous Peoples, nations and organizations from all over the world, gathered at the World Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, from April 19th to 22nd, 2010 in Tiquipaya, Cochabamba, Bolivia, after extensive discussions, express the following:
→ read full articleDeveloping Nations Gain Clout at World Bank – Depending on Your Math
Matthew Berger - IPS,
3 May 2010
Developing countries will have a slightly larger say at the World Bank under an agreement reached at the institution’s spring meetings this weekend. But some groups are challenging whether the shift in voting shares is as large as it should be – or as large as the bank says it is.
→ read full articleHow Do Wars End?
Johan Galtung, 3 May 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2010
Gone are the old days when might was right and unconditional surrender was the end of a 141-year unbroken chain of US wars, from 1812–the final battle in the War of Independence– to 1953, the Korean war armistice. And gone are the days when might was a sign of divine mandate, God is behind. Among christians God may favor the mightiest. Among muslims, perhaps. But certainly not across that divide. Gone are the days of direct battle heroism. Sitting at a computer in the Pentagon directing drones, or in a cockpit at 44,000 feet hitting “coordinates”, in favor of pure cowardice. Or, rather: the risks change with the war. When more commit suicide than are killed in the field reality has changed. Confronted with a choice between a very elusive victory, defeat, and flight, conflict resolution might grow in attractiveness.
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US Military Enforces Attacks on Haitian Unions
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2010
Didier Dominique: US military helping to repress organizing of textile workers’ unions in Haiti.
→ read full articleThe NATO Nuisance
William Pfaff - Truthdig,
3 May 2010
Large and firmly implanted bureaucratic organizations are almost impossible to kill, even when they have no reason to continue to exist, as NATO has not since the Soviet Union, communism and the Warsaw Pact all collapsed.
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The Fight against Israeli “Impunity”
TMS Editor,
3 May 2010
How universal jurisdiction is used as a tool to bring to court Israeli leaders accused of war crimes.
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Japan’s PM Denies Washington Post Report about US Military in Okinawa
MoxNewsDotCom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Prime Minister Hatoyama denies that an agreement has been reached with US authorities regarding the relocation of the US military base in Okinawa. The base remains unwelcome by the Japanese people and government.
→ read full articleBolivia’s Fight for Survival Can Help Save Democracy Too
Naomi Klein – The Guardian,
26 Apr 2010
The people’s summit to tackle climate change is a radical, transformative response to the failure of the Copenhagen club.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Dia da Terra: Conferência Propõe Referendo Mundial
Esquerda.net – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
A Conferência de Cochabamba vai anunciar uma campanha para um referendo a realizar no dia da Terra, a 22 de Abril de 2011, sobre a criação dum tribunal internacional de justiça climática.
→ read full articleCochabamba’s New Direction
Jason Negrón-Gonzales – Yes! Magazine,
26 Apr 2010
Leaving Cochabamba, there is a real sense in the air that our real work lies in front of us.
→ read full articleTougher Cap and Trade Legislation
GRIT TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
The Nation magazine Environmental Correspondent Mark Hertsgaard sits down with GRITtv’s Laura Flanders to talk about the environmental movement and the current climate legislation. Flanders is pessimistic that the current bill will actually reduce emissions. Hertsgaard agrees that the loopholes in the bill will make it difficult to actually cap emissions: “Cap and trade could work if you get tough legislation but that is a very big if in the United States of America,” Hertsgaard says.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to the Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley on their courageous Israeli Divestment Bill
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
There is nothing anti-Semitic in taking this stand, and those of us who will continue to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign, until Israel changes its illegal policies, are not anti-Semitic, but pro-peace and advocates for genuine democracy and human rights for all people.
→ read full articleAPRIL 28: Associated Students of UC Berkeley Vote to Divest From Companies That Profit From Israeli Occupation of Palestine
Dana Bergen, Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Every so often, we get a moment when a remarkable future starts to unfold before our eyes. And when it happens, it’s our responsibility to do everything within our power to help it along. One of those moments is happening right now, unbeknownst to most of the world, on the University of California’s Berkeley campus.
→ read full articleInterview with Carlos Latuff
Kourosh Ziabari – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
“I don’t trade ideology for money.” The hero of “freedom of speech”, boycotted by the corporate, mainstream media that are irresistible against the astringent truth: this is the most precise and accurate introduction which I can present about Carlos Latuff.
→ read full articleThe Climate’s Second Chance
Tupac Saavedra and Lauren Rosenfeld - YES! Magazine,
26 Apr 2010
In Bolivia, indigenous people and grassroots groups are creating a second chance to stand up to climate change.
→ read full article(Castellano) Los Derechos del Hombre y la Tierra
Eduardo Galeano – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Mensaje del autor de Las Venas abiertas de América Latina a los asistentes a la Cumbre de la Madre Tierra que se celebra en Bolivia, como alternativa a la Cumbre sobre el Cambio Climático en Copenhague.
→ read full articleThe BRIC Summit
Dr. Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
BRIC, in spite of its weakness or differences among members, no doubt will play a significant role in international politics. The coming of the countries together is no mean achievement, and on various issues like Iran, United Nations, Bretton Woods structures, climate change, etc. the grouping has already been vociferous. The clout of BRIC as a significant multilateral body is bound to be reckoned with.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Direitos Humanos e Direitos da Terra
Eduardo Galeano – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Mensagem do autor de “As Veias Abertas da América Latina’ aos participantes da Reunião de Cúpula da Mãe Terra que se realiza na Bolívia como alternativa à Reunião de Cúpula sobre a mudanca climática em Copenhagen.
→ read full articleOndra Lysohorsky (1905—1989)
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 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 articleIndonesia: Lies, Non-Truths and the Path to Peace
ANU News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Lies, non-truths and a corrupt military have all played key roles in Indonesia’s transition from an unstable, violent state to a relatively peaceful democracy. This contradicts the idea that truth and transparency are always vital ingredients in fostering peace. That’s the argument made in the first of a series of books from a 20-year study of global peacebuilding efforts that is being undertaken at The Australian National University.
→ read full article(Portuguese) BRIC: Rumo a Um Mundo Multilateral, Mais Democrático e Justo
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
26 Apr 2010
Os líderes do Brasil, Rússia, Índia e RP China, as quatro maiores economias emergentes, estiveram reunidos esta quinta-feira [15 Apr 2010] para a Segunda Cúpula BRIC em Brasilia. Os assuntos discutidos foram maioritariamente económicos, com as áreas de energia e infra-estruturas de maior relevo.
→ read full articleUS To Launch Secret ‘Space Warplane’
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Since the nature of the project is shrouded in mystery, defense analysts allege that the US military is building the first generation of US ‘space Predator drones’ that will build up the United States’ space armada, the Christian Science Monitor wrote in a recent article.
→ read full articleCochabamba, the Water Wars and Climate Change
Amy Goodman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Bolivian President Evo Morales calls Cochabamba the heart of Bolivia. It was here, 10 years ago this month, that, as one observer put it, “the first rebellion of the 21st century” took place. In what was dubbed the Water Wars, people from around Bolivia converged on Cochabamba to overturn the privatization of the public water system.
→ read full articleJapanese Rally against US Air Base
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
On the eve of the protest, the Washington Post said the Japanese government had indicated it would broadly accept the 2006 pact. But the government denied that on Saturday [24 April 2010], with [Prime Minister] Hatoyama repeating his objection to the 2006 plan. “The report is not true … We cannot accept the existing plan,” he said.
→ read full articleApartheid Is Alive and Well
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
There is a place where indigenous blacks are still being shunted off their land into reservations; where work is rewarded not with wages but with ration cards, to spend in white-owned supermarkets; where public services are lavished on the already wealthy but denied to the poorest unless they agree to hand over their birthright.
→ read full articleUnder the Disguise of Counterterrorism: Obama Expands U.S. Military Ops in Africa
UPI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Amid a surge in big oil strikes in Africa and the threat of growing al-Qaida penetration in the north and east, President Barack Obama is expanding U.S. military involvement across the continent. This has given weight to the U.S. Africa Command inaugurated Oct. 1, 2008, which is viewed with growing suspicion by many in Africa who consider its primary mission is to secure oil supplies that America considers vital as it cuts its reliance on the Middle East.
→ read full articleFacing History for Social Healing
Claude Shema R., M.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
In the past, I was thinking most of the time that I was the only one who thought that “remembering is my right” as a victim of the unspeakable genocide , and day-by-day I learn that I share the same thoughts and feelings with other different victims of violence violent conflict all over the world.
→ read full articleFrom Crisis to Opportunity
Velcrow Ripper – Yes! Magazine,
26 Apr 2010
Will Cochabamba be a turning point in the climate crisis?
→ read full articleThe Palestinians Are Winning the Legitimacy War: Will It Matter?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
A Palestinian victory in the legitimacy war with Israel would not necessarily produce the desired political results. It is vital that the Palestinians exercise “patience, resolve, leadership and vision, as well as sufficient pressure” if they are to win their just rights.
→ read full article(Castellano) Cumbre Sobre Cambio Climático en Bolivia Supera Nivel Previsto de Participación
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
A la localidad de Tiquipaya, a 15 kilómetros de Cochabamba, han arribado delegaciones compuestas por unas 22 mil personas procedentes de 92 países para participar en la Conferencia.
→ read full articleBears vs. Hunters
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Two Canadian hunters were surprised by a bear. They began to run away from him.
→ read full article5th Bil’in International Conference on Popular Nonviolent Resistance
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
I thank you for your great spirit of nonviolent love in action and encourage you to keep hope alive and keep on building Palestinian unity – united, the Palestinian people will succeed. Believe passionately in peace and justice and it will come out of the seeds of nonviolence and sacrifice you, and your families, are making on behalf of us all, the human family.
→ read full article(Italian) Ti sposo entro l’anno. Prima mondiale al 25 Torino GLBT
Silvia Berruto, probabilmente – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Un documentario sulla lotta per il diritto al matrimonio civile fra persone dello stesso sesso.
→ read full articleBetting on Change
Clive Thompson – Mother Jones,
26 Apr 2010
Is the planet really warming up? Just ask the corporations that stand to make—or lose—billions due to “climate exposure.”
→ read full articleA Darkening Scenario in Nepal
Bishnu Pathak, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Nepal may again find itself in the middle of a deep national crisis if a new Constitution is not announced by the stipulated date.
→ read full articleBasic Human Rights in Perspective
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Over the centuries the topic on basic human rights often served as the center of attention for scholars, humanitarian groups and government officials. In spite of this, violations against basic human rights have taken place periodically to the point of making millions of people suffer immensely and unnecessarily on a global scale. Since this could be traced to manifold sources, we may simply here analyze carefully and concentrate properly on just four aspects as follows: respect, law, taxation, and environment.
→ read full articleBarak Urges End to Occupation
AlJazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Ehud Barak, Israel’s defence minister, has said that his country must recognise that the world will not put up with decades more of Israeli rule over the Palestinian people.
→ read full articleRecovering From Empathy
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
I remain stuck, churning in my own outrage and despair just as I have –- and so many millions of Americans have –- since the war on terror was launched amid all its lies and cowardly righteousness in 2001. For God’s sake, we’re killing people. We’re doing so in large numbers, with high-tech savagery. We aren’t even defending ourselves. We’ve invented an enemy out of whole cloth.
→ read full article(Castellano) Transformaciones: Periodismo Responsable
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi – Opinion Sur,
19 Apr 2010
En un contexto de confrontación antagónica es difícil practicar periodismo con cierto grado de objetividad. Algunos medios y periodistas actúan intencionadamente con motivaciones que no podrían confesarse abiertamente; la ausencia de objetividad es deliberada. Otros son pilares de la vida democrática; pueden ocasionalmente equivocarse pero buscan ayudar a encauzar constructivamente las energías.
→ read full articlePutting the Pope on Trial
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
International law presents a radical challenge to the powerful: they could be judged by the same standards as the rest of us.
→ read full articleFrom Church Bulletins
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
“The outreach committee has visited every family that is not afflicted with a church.”
“Don’t let worry kill you–let the church help.”
→ read full article(Portuguese) Transformações: Jornalismo Responsável
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi – Opinion Sur,
19 Apr 2010
Em um contexto de confrontação antagônica, é difícil praticar o jornalismo com certo grau de objetividade. Alguns veículos e jornalistas atuam intencionalmente com motivações que não se poderia confessar abertamente; a ausência de objetividade é deliberada. Outros são pilares da vida democrática; podem ocasionalmente equivocar-se, porém buscam ajudar a canalizar construtivamente as energias.
→ read full articleKolkata – The Legacy of Empire
Jonathan Power, TFF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
I have spent eight months now in the glorious city of Kolkata. You wouldn’t think it is glorious from those who still pedal the story of “The Black Hole” and quote Kipling. Paul Theroux, an exceptional novelist, in his new book, “A Dead Hand, A Crime in Calcutta”, continues the myth. The city “went on growing, yet it still looked rickety and ruinous, and in areas of faded elegance and dramatic misery a bad smell lingered, haunted and human”, he writes.
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