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“PAX AMERICANA and the Weaponization of Space”
TMS Editor,
19 Apr 2010
Award winner documentary about the US ambition to monopolize space for [more] wars and dominance.
→ read full articleWhat Obama’s Nuclear Weapons Conference Missed
William Pfaff - Truthdig,
19 Apr 2010
The specific inspiration for weapons proliferation among vulnerable Third World states is the desire to have a nuclear deterrent against invasion or attack by the United States (or in the Iran case, Israel), or by some other nation in the future.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear-Weapons Risk
Paul Rogers – Open Democracy,
19 Apr 2010
The Washington-hosted summit on nuclear security heard Barack Obama warn of the fearful prospect of a non-state group using a nuclear weapon. How realistic is it, and how to prevent it?
→ read full articleRabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
Rabindranath Tagore was the Renaissance man of modern India — the bridge from an Indian culture dominated on the one hand by a traditionalism that had long ceased to be creative and on the other by English colonial practice whose reforms were self-interested. He was known worldwide as a poet having received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. His aim was to combine a renewal of local thought, in particular that of his native Bengal, with an appreciation of the cultures of the world. The motto of the educational center he founded, Visva-Bharati, was “Where the world makes its home in a single nest.”
→ read full articleKeeping a Finger on the Nuclear Trigger
Editorial, Socialist Worker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
The U.S. has repackaged its strategy–but the terrible threat of nuclear war remains.
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Ikunga – “Di Bombs”
Ikwunga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
A socially conscious music video by the First Afrobeat Poet Ikwunga. It addresses the ills of war that plagues our beloved African continent.
→ read full articleIsraeli Public’s Support for Dismantling Most Settlements Has Risen to a Five-Year High
Alvin Richman, World Public Opinion – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
A survey of the Israeli general public and Israeli settlers taken in early March shows three-fifths of the Israeli public (60%) support “dismantling most of the settlements in the territories as part of a peace agreement with the Palestinians.”
→ read full articleU.S. Soldiers From WikiLeaks ‘Collateral Murder’ Video Apologize
ICH - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
Two former soldiers from the Army unit responsible for the Wikileaks “Collateral Murder” incident have written an open-letter of “Reconciliation and Responsibility” to those injured in the July 2007 attack, in which U.S. forces wounded two children and killed over a dozen people, including the father of those children and two Reuters employees.
→ read full articleWorld’s Not Falling Apart, These Many Earthquakes Are Normal
Roger Bilham – The China Post, Worldpress,
19 Apr 2010
Is the world falling apart? Surely it isn’t, though this year’s frequent earthquakes and the occasional volcano have left an exceptional path of ruin and misery, raising concerns that something very unusual is occurring.
→ read full articleBlatant Victimisation
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
Australia is often a good place to observe the workings of political agency. There is a blatancy here, in the connection between cause and consequence, and the alacrity with which sectional interests exploit procedures, that is both appalling and, in a perverse kind of a way, simultaneously appealing. Political parties and business lobbies seem to feel little compulsion to concealment: there is not the sense of layers of subtlety having to be peeled back to reveal what is ‘really going on’, that one might encounter in Washington, say, or London, Paris, Delhi or Jakarta.
→ read full articleTransformations: Responsible Journalism
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi – Opinion Sur,
19 Apr 2010
In a context of antagonist confrontation, it is difficult to practice journalism with a certain degree of objectivity. Some media and journalists act intentionally, driven by motivations that could not be openly confessed; the absence of objectivity is deliberate. Others are pillars of democratic life; they may occasionally be wrong, but seek to help channel energies in a constructive manner.
→ read full article(Italian) Su Pedofilia Qualche Modesta Riflessione
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
Qualche libera modesta riflessione sulla pedofilia sotto la generale attenzione.
→ read full articleIsrael: An Outpost of Empire
Michael Fiorentino – Socialist Worker,
19 Apr 2010
Israel’s sense of impunity knows no limits, writes Michael Fiorentino, who recently returned from a two-month stay in the occupied West Bank.
→ read full article(Italian) Babel Latino. Latinoamérica en radio
Silvia Berruto, giornalista contro il razzismo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
Babel Latino è una radio interculturale (a cura) della comunità culturale latino-americana di Milano che ha festeggiato la puntata numero 100 con l’evento-festa “100 MATTONI PER L’INTERCULTURA DELLA TORRE DI BABELE” svoltisi lo scorso 13 aprile a Milano, presso la Caritas Ambrosiana.
→ read full articleAlmodovar Leads Celebrity Protest in Support of Civil War Case Judge
Anita Brooks in Madrid – The Independent,
19 Apr 2010
Spain’s crusading magistrate Baltasar Garzon already enjoys the support of many international human rights advocates as he faces trial for daring to investigate Franco-era crimes. Now he also packs star power.
→ read full articleDeport the Palestinians to Where They Came From
Ahmed Amr – Palestine Chronicle,
19 Apr 2010
It was bound to happen. The Israelis have decided to opt for outright ethnic cleansing. As of April 13, 2010 – the Israelis military will be accorded the power to deport any Palestinian or any foreigner in the West Bank if their papers ‘aren’t in order.’
→ read full articleTurkey to Challenge Israel, Support Hamas
Maayana Miskin, IsraelNationalNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
Turkey is planning a gesture that will challenge Israel and provide support to Gaza’s Hamas leaders next month. A flotilla of ships funded by Turkey will approach Gaza in May, in an attempt to challenge Israeli control at sea – or, as organizers put it, “break Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza.”
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UN Helps Free Gaza of Israeli Bombs
TMS Editor,
19 Apr 2010
Over a year since Israel’s military offensive, Gazan Palestinians are still being killed/injured by unexploded bombs.
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Evidence of Israel’s Nuclear Weapons (Banned, Censored)
BBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
The story of Mordechai Vanunu… with music from Gilad Atzmon in the background.
→ read full articleThe New U.S. Nuclear Posture Review
David Krieger, TFF & Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
While pausing to celebrate the incremental steps in arms reductions and the limitations on nuclear weapons use that are being made now, we should also recognize that a policy of No First Use and a commitment to negotiate a Nuclear Weapons Convention would move us far more rapidly toward the peace and security of the nuclear weapon-free world envisioned by President Obama.
→ read full articleIsrael Must Denuclearize, Erdogan Says
Press TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
Pointing out that Israel is believed to be the sole possessor of nuclear weapons in the Middle East and is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Erdogan said, “Until now, we haven’t seen any request or intent from the international community with regards to Israel’s (armament). We are going to ask the international community: why haven’t you addressed this issue?”
→ read full articleWHY THERE ARE NO ‘ISRAELIS’ IN THE JEWISH STATE
Jonathan Cook in Nazareth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
A group of Jews and Arabs are fighting in the Israeli courts to be recognised as “Israelis”, a nationality currently denied them, in a case that officials fear may threaten the country’s self-declared status as a Jewish state.
→ read full articleRUSSIA AND USA GIVE START A NEW START
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
12 Apr 2010
The sticky issue here is the planned missile defence shield in territories NATO moved on into after having promised Russia it would not. First the lie, then to rub it in, the insult. Setting up, or planning to set up, missile defence shields, whether in Poland or in the Czech Republic or in Romania or in Bulgaria while negotiating an arms reduction treaty is like shaking the other’s hand with the right hand while the left conceals a knife behind the back.
→ read full articleLEAKED VIDEO SHOWS CIVILIAN KILLINGS IN IRAQ, SIGNIFIES GROWING POWER OF INDEPENDENT WEB JOURNALISM
Brett Michael Dykes, Yahoo! News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
When a nonprofit group this week released video footage, leaked via a source in the Pentagon, showing a 2007 U.S. helicopter attack on a group of civilians in Baghdad, the clip unleashed a viral online sensation and ignited an intense debate about the conduct of U.S. forces in Iraq. But the simple fact of the video’s release also reflects the ongoing revolution in how news gets produced and published.
→ read full article(GERMAN) RÜCKBLICK AUF DEN GAZA FREEDOM MARCH
Vera Hug & Mikael Eriksson – TRANSCEND MEDIA SERVICE,
12 Apr 2010
Der Gaza Freedom March (GFM) begann für uns als Mitkoordinatoren mit einem E-Mail aus Spanien. Eine Freundin schrieb uns ein paar Zeilen über die Idee für ein globales Solidaritäts-Projekt mit dem Ziel zum sofortigen Ende der Blockade des Gazastreifens.
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) CRIME E PECADO
Francisco Louçã – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
Ontem, à saída da missa, uma crente foi entrevistada por uma televisão acerca das palavras do Cardeal Patriarca, e explicou como via os casos de pedofilia: “todos somos pecadores”…
… Não, minha senhora, não foi pecado. Foi mesmo crime.
→ read full articleON OLYMPICS, WORLD CUPS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Am Johal – Znet,
12 Apr 2010
Just after the 2010 Olympic Games closing ceremonies took place, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing Raquel Rolnik, presented a comprehensive report to the UN Human Rights Council in March 2010 on the impacts of mega-events that went largely unnoticed.
→ read full articleWHO’S AFRAID OF 9/11 CONSPIRACY THEORIES?
Maidhc Ó Cathail – Dissident Voice,
12 Apr 2010
In the absence of a proper 9/11 investigation, there remains a broad range of opinion about the precise nature of Israeli complicity. In The Terror Enigma, Justin Raimondo tentatively concludes that the Israeli connection to 9/11 amounts to “foreknowledge and passive collaboration with Bin Laden’s jihad.” Other experts, such as Alan Sabrosky, are less circumspect. Dr. Sabrosky, former director of studies of the Strategic Studies Institute at the US Army War College, has recently stated that “it is 100 percent certain that 9/11 was a Mossad operation. Period.”
→ read full articleJALAL AL-DIN RUMI (1207-1273)
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
“I am neither Christian, nor Jew, nor Gabr, nor Moslem. I am not of the East, nor the West, nor the land, nor the sea… My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless.” — Rumi
→ read full article“WE MUST TAKE PUBLIC CRITICISM INTO ACCOUNT. CRITICISM IS GOOD AND SHOULD HELP THE PROCESS”
Marta Harnecker and Edwin Herrera Salinas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
One of the greatest problems is that we are trying to build an alternative society with an inherited individualistic and clientelistic culture. . . . Even our best cadres are influenced by this culture. So, it’s a process of cultural transformation. Human beings change themselves through practice, not by decrees.
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GOOD JEWS WHO REFUSE TO KILL PALESTINIANS
TMS Editor,
12 Apr 2010
Young Israeli conscientious objectors state their convictions courageously, compassionately: role models for the rest of us. Indeed.
→ read full articleOUR GREATEST CHALLENGE: BRINGING POLITICS UNDER CONTROL
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
If we were to study carefully the evolution of events that took place over the past 6,000 years of recorded history, we will discover that most of the world’s problems stemmed out from politics of one kind or another.
→ read full article(ITALIAN) PRIMA ASSOLUTA DELL’OPERA MULTIKULTI “TULLA E LEANDRO” ALLA RICERCA DELLE RADICI
Silvia Berruto, giornalista contro il razzismo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
Un prodotto interculturale e multiculturale dunque.
Multikulti.
In una visione culturale in cui non si parla più di integrazione ma di pari opportunità, di empowerment e di diritti uguali per tutti.
THE ILLUSION AND POWER OF SKIN COLOR
Nina Jablonski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
Differing skin colors are simply our bodies’ adaptation to varied climates and levels of UV exposure. Charles Darwin disagreed with this theory, but Nina explains, that’s because he did not have access to NASA.
→ read full articleINTERPRETER
Dietrich Fischer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
To attend the meeting of the communist international, the Tanzanian delegate, the only communist in Tanzania, left six months early.
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SUDAN: VOTE PEACEFULLY
XCHANGEperspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
In this advocacy film, citizens from Magwi, encourage the people of Sudan to go vote peacefully and to contribute to a peaceful Sudan. The video was produced by Xchange Perspectives in March 2010 for Media in Cooperation and Transition (MICT).
→ read full articleIMPLICATION OF PERSONAL DESPAIR IN PLANETARY DESPAIR
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
The argument here is that the very heavy investment in “hope”, especially in public discourse, is increasingly serving as a narcotic to dull such pain and to distract from acting in a more healthy manner in response to it.
→ read full article(A POEM) WE ARE COMING TO GAZA
Naomi Foyle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
We are coming to Gaza
from different places —
some of us were born in the tunnels
that feed Palestine with Irish blood;
others have further to travel.
U.S. COVERING UP REALITY IN HONDURAS
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
While State Department attempts to sell the world that the inauguration of a new president in Honduras has brought an end to the country’s crisis, the continuing assassinations of anti-coup activists and their children stands as sharp evidence to the contrary.
→ read full article“HOLD ME BACK!”
Uri Avnery – Gush Shalom,
12 Apr 2010
When a boy has a scuffle with a bigger and stronger boy, he pretends that he is going to attack him any moment and shouts to the spectators: “Hold me back, or I am going to kill him!”
→ read full articleSOCIAL FAULT LINES: THE DISASTER OF POVERTY IN HAITI
Beverly Bell – Toward Freedom,
12 Apr 2010
Laura Wagner, a U.S. anthropologist who survived – barely – Haiti’s earthquake in January, writes, “Social scientists who study catastrophes say there are no natural disasters. In every calamity, it is inevitably the poor who suffer more, die more, and will continue to suffer and die after the cameras turn their gaze elsewhere. Do not be deceived by claims that everyone was affected equally — fault lines are social as well as geological.”
→ read full articleWIKILEAKS: INSIDE THE GROUP THAT HAS EXPOSED THE SECRETS OF SARAH PALIN, SCIENTOLOGY AND THE PENTAGON
David Kushner – Mother Jones,
12 Apr 2010
Since 2006, WikiLeaks has posted more than 1.2 million documents. Governments and corporations have tried to shut them down. They’ve failed.
→ read full articleABSURD TRANSCENDENTAL PRETENSE
Prof. Chung-Yue Chang -TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
Aristotle’s “Square of Opposition” diagrams shows how the four basic categorical propositions can be opposed as “true” or “false”. No middle ground is allowed. The Aristotelian logic is designed for a dynamic world made static. In contrast, China’s circular yin-yang diagram shows the moving fields of yin and yang spread out to build each other up toward a new unity of dynamic harmony. This is possible because within the yin there is a trace of yang, and within the yang there is a trace of yin. Chinese logic is designed for a dynamic world that moves creatively toward harmony.
→ read full articleDEATH PENALTY DECREASING WORLDWIDE
Andrew Meldrum - GlobalPost,
12 Apr 2010
Amnesty International released its annual survey on the use of the death penalty. The report found 18 countries executed people in 2009. China is estimated to have executed the most people, but refused to release an official figure. In the 17 other countries 714 people were executed.
→ read full articleHEALING BODY AND HEART, CUBAN STYLE
Beverly Bell and Tory Field – YES! Magazine,
12 Apr 2010
Cuban doctors and artists–on the ground in Haiti even before the earthquake–are helping survivors heal.
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EXCLUSIVE: TWO JOURNALISTS RECOUNT THEIR EXPERIENCES REPORTING FROM GAZA
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
12 Apr 2010
We speak with two journalists who have covered Gaza extensively about the dangers and difficulties of reporting from the Occupied Territories: Mohammed Omer, an award-winning Palestinian journalist who was interrogated and beaten by armed Israeli security guards on his way back home to Gaza after receiving the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in London in July of 2008…
→ read full articleTHE FABULOUS LIFE OF THE RAVENOUS VULTURES
COHA Research Associate Evgenij Haperskij – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
Since the mid-90s, the so-called vulture funds have been suing poor countries so that they would fully pay back their debts which they had purchased for pennies on the dollar. In this way, the vulture funds frequently manage to exacerbate the economic situation in the poor countries, most of which are located in Latin America and Africa.
→ read full articleAFRICOM BACKS BLOODSHED IN CENTRAL AFRICA
Keith Harmon Snow – Dissident Voice,
12 Apr 2010
The eastern Congo remains awash in bloodshed due to western mining companies and their proxy armies, the military regimes of Paul Kagame (Rwanda), Yoweri Museveni (Uganda), and Joseph Kabila (DRC), all hidden behind reams of western newsprint blaming Congolese victims for their own suffering… Meanwhile, AFRICOM under the Obama administration has major base constructions and secret deployments across Central Africa, with NATO, Dyncorp and Special Operations Command shipping Ugandan grunts to the U.S. wars in Somalia, Afghanistan, Darfur and Iraq.
→ read full articleBIG BROTHER AND THE HIDDEN HAND OF THE “FREE MARKET”
Tom Burghardt – Global Research,
12 Apr 2010
As the securitization of daily life increase at near exponential rates (all to keep us “safe,” mind you) the dark contours of an American police state, like a pilot’s last glimpse of an icy peak before a plane crash, wobbles into view.
→ read full articleMINDING THE GAP: JUDAISM BETWEEN LAW AND ETHICS
Ariella Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
Judaic righteousness is motivated not by love but by the fear of a jealous power. The bible commands: In the cities of these nations whose land the Lord is giving you as patrimony, you shall not leave any creature alive. You shall annihilate them all. Among the incompatible groups who resist western thought, Judaism is the most uncompromising. A quest to decipher the triumph of Jewish monotheism over western civilization is yet to come.
→ read full articleSIMPSONS IN ISRAHELL, CHECK IT OUT BEFORE IT IS TAKEN DOWN
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
A comical glimpse into Israeli collective madness. If it wasn’t so tragic, it would be funny. The Simpsons, Gilad.Com Season 21 Episode 12 – Greatest Story Ever D’Ohed CLICK TO VIEW VIDEO CLIP (Join the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) campaign to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of Palestine, the apartheid wall, […]
→ read full articleADAPTIVE HYPERCYCLE OF SUSTAINABLE PSYCHOSOCIAL SELF-ORGANIZATION
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
Designing a Mapping of a Chinese Metaphorical Pattern Language Introduction This is specifically concerned with further possibilities of mapping the interrelationships between the set of conditions of change identified and encoded by the 64 hexagrams of the Chinese classic known variously as the Book of Changes, the I Ching, the Yi Jing or the I […]
→ read full articleUN’S BAN KI-MOON CALLS ARAL SEA ‘SHOCKING DISASTER’
Jim Heintz, AP-Yahoo! News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
Once the world’s fourth-largest lake, Central Asia’s Aral Sea has shrunk by 90 percent. NUKUS, Uzbekistan – The drying up of the Aral Sea is one of the planet’s most shocking environmental disasters, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday as he urged Central Asian leaders to step up efforts to solve the problem. Once the […]
→ read full articleNEW POPE CRITICISM MARS EASTER WEEK
News 24, Worldpress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
Vatican – Pope Benedict XVI faced new criticism on Saturday after his preacher likened attacks on the Catholic Church over the paedophile priest furore to anti-Semitism, further marring Easter Week celebrations. Jewish groups and those representing victims of abuse by Catholic priests denounced the remarks by the pope’s personal preacher during a Good Friday homily. […]
→ read full article“THE EVIL SCOURGE OF TERRORISM”: REALITY, CONSTRUCTION, REMEDY
Noam Chomsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
Erich Fromm Lecture – April 3, 2010 The president could not have been more justified when he condemned “the evil scourge of terrorism.” I am quoting Ronald Reagan, who came into office in 1981 declaring that a focus of his foreign policy would be state-directed international terrorism, “the plague of the modern age” and “a […]
→ read full articleFEARS GONORRHOEA BECOMING UNTREATABLE
Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor – The Independent,
5 Apr 2010
World Health Organisation Concerned About Disease’s Resistance to AntibioticsThe World Health Organisation is to meet next week to consider the growing threat from a sexually transmitted infection which has developed resistance to most known antibiotics. Gonorrhoea is the second most common sexually transmitted disease in the UK after chlamydia with 16,629 cases recorded in 2008. […]
→ read full articleGROWTH OBJECTOR
Hervé Kempf - Le Monde,
5 Apr 2010
Clothes do not make the man, of course, but a fine appearance inspires respect. That’s why it was so critical that the idea of degrowth, so cheerfully reviled by the “growthist” toadies, was hosted in a place imbued by thought. During March 26 to 29, the second conference on economic degrowth was held at the […]
→ read full articleMOVING BEYOND EGO
Sheikh Jamal Rahman – Yes! Magazine,
5 Apr 2010
Why do we prefer to talk about religion, fight over it, even kill for it—everything but live it? In this holy season of Lent and Passover, Rabbi Ted Falcon and Pastor Don Mackenzie have written about the trance patterns we are stuck in and the need to get “out of Egypt.” This reminds me of […]
→ read full articleWHY ARE WE AFRAID OF SAYING “SOCIALISM”?
Frances Moore Lappé - Alternet,
5 Apr 2010
Knee-jerk reactions to words like "socialism" and "capitalism" get us nowhere. We need to first define the terms. “Socialist” has become the new favorite term of derision–working its fear-making magic because, for many Americans, socialism equals the great “government takeover.” It’s assumed to be not just un-American but downright anti-American. Tea Partiers at their round […]
→ read full articleHAITI AFTER THE QUAKE: IMPERIALISM WITH A HUMAN FACE (Part 1)
Ashley Smith – International Socialist Review,
5 Apr 2010
THE EARTHQUAKE that shook Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince on January 12 is one of the worst disasters in human history. The quake flattened houses, hotels, and government buildings, including the National Palace and UN headquarters. By some estimates, 60 percent of Port-au-Prince’s buildings collapsed. Even more damage struck some of the smaller towns near the capital […]
→ read full articleHAITI POST-QUAKE: DEVASTATION, DEPRAVATION, EXPLOITATION, AND OPPRESSION
Stephen Lendman – Dissident Voice,
5 Apr 2010
Two and half months post-quake, the major media mostly ignore Haiti, the calamitous conditions on the ground, and the growing desperation of millions forced to largely endure on their own — out of sight, mind, the concern of world leaders, and UN, USAID and other aid organizations diverting most of the $700 million + donated […]
→ read full articleHAITI AFTER THE QUAKE: IMPERIALISM WITH A HUMAN FACE (Part 2)
Ashley Smith – International Socialist Review,
5 Apr 2010
Problems with the NGOs Haiti has approximately 10,000 NGOs operating within its borders, one of the highest numbers per capita in the world. The international NGOs are unaccountable to either the Haitian state or Haitian population. So the aid funneled through them further weakens what little hold Haitians have on their own society. These NGOs […]
→ read full article“WE MADE A DEVIL’S BARGAIN”: FMR. PRESIDENT CLINTON APOLOGIZES FOR TRADE POLICIES THAT DESTROYED HAITIAN RICE FARMING
Democracy Now! – Pressenza International,
5 Apr 2010
President Bill Clinton, now the UN Special Envoy to Haiti, publicly apologized last month for forcing Haiti to drop tariffs on imported, subsidized US rice during his time in office. The policy wiped out Haitian rice farming and seriously damaged Haiti’s ability to be self-sufficient. Journalist Kim Ives of Haiti Liberté questioned Clinton about his […]
→ read full articleARE AMERICANS AS STUPID AS THE MEDIA THINK THEY ARE? (MAYBE)
Marty Kaplan – Alternet,
5 Apr 2010
"Poll numbers that pretty convincingly correlate believing idiotic things with having less education, and not believing idiotic things with having more education." I know some scary smart people who never graduated from high school, and I know some real doofuses with graduate degrees, so I understand that the number of years of formal education that […]
→ read full articleFREE PRESS HAVEN
Samuel Knight – In These Times,
5 Apr 2010
Iceland May Soon Become Utopia for Journalists and Publishers Icelandic members of parliament have plans to transform their crisis-ridden North-Atlantic nation into a sanctuary for publishers, production companies and information technology firms from around the world. “It would free the press from fear,” says Thor Saari, one of the members of parliament spearheading the proposal, […]
→ read full articleFIRST HIGH-ENERGY COLLISIONS CARRIED OUT IN GENEVA
Hannah Devlin – The Times,
5 Apr 2010
The first high-energy collisions between particle beams have taken place at the Large Hadron Collider, ending more than a year of frustration for scientists in Geneva. Collisions occurred just after noon BST, five hours after scheduled, but well within the time frame expected by scientists at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN). "This is […]
→ read full articleABUSE IN THE CHURCH: THE DEMONS OF POPE BENEDICT XVI
Alexander Smoltczyk – Spiegel,
5 Apr 2010
The case of an American priest who abused deaf children for years has shaken the Vatican. Detailed information about the sexual misconduct of the Rev. Lawrence Murphy went across the desk of Cardinal Ratzinger prior to his papacy. Abuse allegations in Italy are also putting the Catholic Church in an increasingly tough spot. It is […]
→ read full articleCARRYING A BACKPACK OF SORROW … SOLDIERS ON THE EDGE OF SUICIDE
Nadya Williams - Truthout,
5 Apr 2010
More of our young soldiers are now killing themselves than are being killed in our wars in the Middle East. The sad statistics are at the end of this article, but the following poem by a 24-year-old former Marine, who slashed his wrists twice after four years of duty and two tours of combat, tells […]
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(SATIRE) FEDS’ DECONFLICTION
florashutterbug - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
"Terrorist? Who, me?" A ‘funny’ clip about an assortment of American national security and intelligence agents going after a "terrorist." Food for thought about their ‘war on terror.’ Pathetic — if tragic– this political inquisition American style. 2:27-Min. VideoCLICK TO VIEW
→ read full articleUN CHIEF SAYS ISRAELI SETTLEMENT ACTIVITIES ILLEGAL
Xinhua – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
UN Secretary General Ban Ki- moon said Israeli settlement activities are illegal and against the international law, stressing that they should come to an end. In a speech at the opening session of the 22nd Arab Summit, the UN chief addressed that the significance of Jerusalem should be respected as a capital for both Israel […]
→ read full articleA GENETIC ENGENEERING-FREE FUTURE
TMS Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
A new initiative allows 1 million EU citizens a unique chance to make official requests of the European Commission. The European Commission has just allowed genetically engineered crops into Europe, ignoring safety concerns of the public interest. Let’s make it official! Add your voice now or pass this along to friends you have in the […]
→ read full articleREFLECTIONS ON AN ANNIVERSARY
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
“Everything feels obscene,” a friend said seven years ago, when we carpet-bombed Baghdad, launching the invasion. It still does, but in a dull, chronic, “used to it” way — outrage mixed, these last few years, with “hope,” smearing the war effort with a thick, national ambivalence. Is it still going on? Well, yeah, with a […]
→ read full articleNATO’S AFGHANISTAN: THE CHAMPION OF DRUGS PRODUCTION
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
5 Apr 2010
We really have to take our hats off to NATO. This clique of arms lobbyists and defender of jobs for the boys invaded Afghanistan in 2001 on the pretext that Osama bin Laden was using the country to attack western interests. Almost a decade after the Taleban declared war on drugs production, NATO’s Afghanistan is […]
→ read full articleSTOP FEEDING THE VULTURES
Greg Palast - In These Times,
5 Apr 2010
I get the idea that Eric Hermann doesn’t want to talk to me. When I came to his office suite, his hedge fund’s name plaque had been unbolted from the building’s wall, the suite number removed and all the employees locked in. I’m not surprised. Hermann is a vulture, not the carrion-eating type, but the […]
→ read full articleGAVIOTAS: VILLAGE OF HOPE
Seth Biderman and Christian Casillas – Yes! Magazine,
5 Apr 2010
A search for answers in Colombia leads two activists into the unpredictable world of Gaviotas. We first learned about Gaviotas, the legendary sustainable Colombian village, in 2004, while working in our home state, New Mexico. The two of us helped found a group called La Mesita, “the small table,” composed of three educators, a renewable […]
→ read full articleSTRUGGLING FOR TRUE SOVEREIGNTY
Bishnu Pathak, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
Land-locked Nepal has always existed in giant India’s shadow. However, now that its people have tasted democracy, they want to shake off Indian influence and become masters of their own destiny. Nepal has long historic, strategic, geo-political, commercial and socio-cultural relations with India. There has been a protracted debate and discourse to continuously improve such […]
→ read full articleA GLITCH — NOT A HITCH
Mumia Abu Jamal – Zspace,
5 Apr 2010
Newscasters blare, with an air of gloom and doom, of serious threats to the U.S. ~ Israeli relationship. That’s because it’s almost unprecedented to hear public criticisms by American leaders of Israeli actions. Indeed, even when Israel launches a brutal, wide-ranging attack on one of its neighbors, as it did during the 2006 assault on Lebanon, […]
→ read full articleKILLING TRIBAL AND TIGER TOGETHER
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
Tribal and Tiger killed out of SightLike their Forests burnt down at Night… [with apologies to William Blake] The world is witnessing the last great act of a global tragedy that will end not in victory for any one side, but in the defeat of all. And today, all of us are guilty. The world’s […]
→ read full article(FRENCH) OBJECTEUR DE CROISSANCE
Hervé Kempf – Le Monde,
5 Apr 2010
L’habit ne fait pas le moine, bien sûr, mais une belle apparence inspire le respect. C’est pourquoi il est tout sauf anecdotique que l’idée de décroissance, si allègrement injuriée par les thuriféraires du dogme "croissanciste", ait été accueillie dans un lieu imprégné de pensée. Du 26 au 29 mars s’est tenue dans la belle université […]
→ read full articleA NEW DIMENSION TO DEMILITARIZATION IN KASHMIR
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
In the last week of March 2010 a new dimension hitherto unknown to demilitarization debate in Kashmir came to picture. One of the premier Indian TV channels, NDTV, showed in its news the popular protests in Khurhma village in northern Kashmir against the shifting of the camp of Rashtriya Rifles, a part of paramilitary force […]
→ read full articleCOCA-COLA CAUSES SERIOUS DEPLETION OF WATER RESOURCES IN INDIA
India Resource Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
Liable for US$ 48 Million for Damages New Delhi: In a major development, a High Power Committee established by the state government of Kerala in India has recommended today that Coca-Cola be held liable for Indian Rupees 216 crore (US$ 48 million) for damages caused as a result of the company’s bottling operations in Plachimada. […]
→ read full article(SPANISH) HEINZ DIETERICH: VENEZUELA PODRÍA VOLVERSE INGOBERNABLE
Vladimir Villegas - El Nacional,
5 Apr 2010
El ideólogo del concepto socialismo del siglo XXI asegura que "el discurso anticapitalista del Presidente no tiene aval alguno en los hechos". Advierte que la sociedad está dividida en dos grandes bloques y reconoce la posibilidad de una caída fuerte en el apoyo a Chávez.Heinz Dieterich, creador del concepto que identifica el proceso político venezolano […]
→ read full articleECONOMIC RECOVERY, HAWAIIAN STYLE
Lurline Wailana McGregor – Yes! Magazine,
5 Apr 2010
What indigenous economies can teach us about abundance. There was once enough for everyone. That was before Captain Cook “discovered” our Hawaiian islands on his way to find a northwest passage, before the missionaries came to save our heathen ancestors and before the American businessmen called in the U.S. Navy to protect their land investments. […]
→ read full articleFORGETFULNESS
Dietrich Fischer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
An elderly man went for his annual checkup to the doctor. After examining him, the doctor said, "I have two bad news for you. The first is that you have cancer." The patient asked, "And what is the second bad news?" The doctor said, "You have Alzheimer’s disease." The man said, "It could be worse, […]
→ read full articleDEPLETED URANIUM: A WAR CRIME WITHIN A WAR CRIME
William Bowles – Global Research,
5 Apr 2010
Destroying Iraq’s Future, Its Children As if destroying a country and its culture ain’t bad enough, how about destroying its future, its children? I want to scream it from the rooftops! We are complicit in crimes of such enormity that I find it difficult to find the words to describe how I feel about this […]
→ read full article(ITALIAN) L’OSSERVATORIO CIVICO ANTIMAFIE di Reggio Emilia
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
Sul Quaderno n.1 – Febbraio 2010"Ciascuno cresce solo se è sognato" così esordisce Daniele Lugli sul palco in Piazza Prampolini, a Reggio Emilia, il 1 marzo 2010. Una stretta al cuore quando Daniele cita le le parole indimenticabili dell’amico e soprattutto del maestro Danilo Dolci. Parole indimenticabili nel senso e nel portato. Immediatamente, come in […]
→ read full articleCRISIS: THE MOTOR OF CAPITALISM
André Orléan - Le Monde,
5 Apr 2010
Capitalism’s history coincides with the history of its crises. Over the 1970-2007 period, there were at least 124 banking crises, 208 exchange rate crises and 63 sovereign debt crises! Even though most of those crises remained restricted to peripheral countries, this nonetheless remains a very alarming fact. In the face of such figures, the idea […]
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POPE BENEDICT ‘NOT INTIMIDATED’ BY SEX SCANDAL ‘GOSSIP’
Tim Friend – AlJazeera,
5 Apr 2010
Pope Benedict XVI has told thousands gathered for prayers on Palm Sunday that the church will not be "intimidated" by the media, as the paedophilia scandal plaguing the Vatican continues. In a service that marks the last days of the life of Jesus Christ at St Peter’s Square, the leader of the world’s Roman Catholics […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) GUERRA NO IRAQUE – URÂNIO EMPOBRECIDO: UM CRIME DE GUERRA DENTRO DE UMA GUERRA CRIMINOSA
William Bowles – Pátria Latina,
5 Apr 2010
Como se destruir um país e a sua cultura não fosse suficientemente mau, o que dizer acerca da destruição do seu futuro, dos seus filhos? Quero bradar isto de cima dos telhados! Somos cúmplices em crimes de tamanha enormidade que acho difícil encontrar as palavras para descrever o que sinto acerca deste crime cometido em […]
→ read full articleTHE TOXIC 100 AIR POLLUTERS
Profs. Michael Ash and James K. Boyce – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
The Political Economy Research Institute released today [Mar 31 2010] a report identifying the top 100 corporate air polluters, including environmental justice report cards.Researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today released the Toxic 100 Air Polluters, an updated list of the top corporate air polluters in the […]
→ read full articlePLEASE SUPPORT THE GANDHIAN-INSPIRED KARAMA PROJECT IN PALESTINE
TMS Editor,
5 Apr 2010
Al-Karameh Pledge (Pledge of Dignity) We, the people of Palestine, of all religions, affiliations, professions, and ages, have all come together to affirm our desire and determination to rise up, and shiver off the effects of settlement contamination in our Palestinian cities, villages, and refugee camps, first and foremost, via replacing settlement products in our […]
→ read full articleOPEN LETTER TO BERKELEY STUDENTS ON THEIR HISTORIC ISRAELI DIVESTMENT BILL
Naomi Klein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
On March 18, continuing a long tradition of pioneering human rights campaigns, the Senate of the Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley (ASUC) passed “A Bill In Support of UC DIVESTMENT FROM WAR CRIMES.” The historic bill resolves to divest ASUC’s assets from two American companies, General Electric and United Technologies, that are […]
→ read full articleNUCLEAR ABOLITION: A NEW START WITH START
Alice Slater – Yes! Magazine,
5 Apr 2010
Does the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty move us any closer to a world free of nuclear weapons?The United States and Russia reached agreement on a new START treaty (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) to lower their count of deployed atomic warheads from 2,200 each to between 1,500 and 1,675. They would also cut their stocks […]
→ read full articleTHE ILLUSION AND POWER OF SKIN COLOR
Nina Jablonski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2010
Differing skin colors are simply our bodies’ adaptation to varied climates and levels of UV exposure. Charles Darwin disagreed with this theory, but Nina explains, that’s because he did not have access to NASA. The annual TED conference held in Long Beach is a gathering of some of the world’s most innovative thinkers who come […]
→ read full articlePEDOPHILIA IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: COVERUP OPERATION AT THE VATICAN?
Mike Whitney – Global Research,
2 Apr 2010
Pope Ratzinger’s Swan Song Pope Benedict should do everyone a favor and resign. By hanging on, he’s just making matters worse. Who does he think he’s fooling anyway? Everyone knows that he was involved in the sex-scandal cover up. Does he really think that a few papal apologies will make a difference? He was in […]
→ read full articleThe Cocoyoc Declaration
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2010
October 8-12, 1974 a symposium on “Patterns of Resource Use, Environment and Development Strategies” was convened in Cocoyoc, Mexico by the directors of United Nations Environment Programme and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Maurice Strong and Gamani Corea. The rapporteurs were Barbara Ward for resource use and the environment and Johan Galtung […]
→ read full articleHELEN THOMAS ON WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS
The Real News Network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
Thomas: “Most press rolled over and played dead during Bush years, press was gung-ho to go to war.” Helen Thomas is an American News reporter, member of the White House Press Corps and author. She was the first female officer of the National Press Club and the first female member and president of the White […]
→ read full articleSOLIDARITY AS ECONOMIC SYSTEM
Beverly Bell – Yes! Magazine,
28 Mar 2010
In Haiti, sharing communities are proving more shock-proof in the wake of disaster than market-based economies.“If it weren’t for solidarity, Haiti wouldn’t be alive today,” is an expression commonly heard here since the earthquake of January 12. Haiti’s history is based on sharing and cooperation—expressed with gifts and solidarity toward those surviving on the margins. […]
→ read full articleLULA PLANS IRAN VISIT TO PREVENT A REPEAT OF IRAQ WAR
Trend - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he planned to visit Iran next month to prevent a "mistake" like the one that led to the invasion of Iraq, dpa reported. "I am going there because I do not want the mistake that was made in Iraq to be repeated in Iran," he said, in […]
→ read full articleTOP 10 PLACES YOU DON’T WANT TO VISIT
Listverse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
In previous lists we have looked at amazing holiday destinations – today we are looking at the bottom ten; these are ten places you don’t want to visit! Having said that, maybe the curious would get a thrill from visiting some of these strange and dangerous places, but for most of us, reading about it […]
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