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The Social Cost of Capitalism
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Social costs are costs of production that are not born by the producer or included in the price of the product. There are many classic examples: the pollution of air, water, and land from mining, fracking, oil drilling and pipeline spills, chemical fertilizer farming, GMOs, pesticides, radioactivity released from nuclear accidents and the pollution of food by antibiotics and artificial hormones.
→ read full article(Português) Krugman: “O que se está a passar em Portugal é inaceitável”
Pedro Duarte – Economico,
3 Jun 2013
O Prémio Nobel da Economia Paul Krugman considerou hoje [27 maio 2013] que “o que se está a passar em Portugal (e o que os portugueses estão a experienciar) é inaceitável”, sendo vital “fazer alguma coisa”.
→ read full articleUS Policy Weakens Iran’s Pro-Democracy Movement
Stephen Zunes – National Catholic Reporter,
3 Jun 2013
While overt protests are rare, many thousands of tiny acts of resistance occur every day by Iranians who no longer recognize the legitimacy of the regime. It is only a matter of time before the people will again rise up and demand their freedom. Unfortunately, U.S. policy is making things difficult for democratic forces in Iran.
→ read full articleWhy Disinformation Works
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
What I have noticed is that whenever a stunning episode occurs, such as 9/11 or the Boston Marathon bombing, most everyone whether on the right or left goes along with the government’s explanation, because they can hook their agenda to the government’s account.
→ read full articleTRANSCEND General Assembly in Germany, 16-18 Aug, 2013
Erika Degortes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Usually our general meeting occurs every two years. However, this year marks the 20th anniversary of TRANSCEND International so we decided to get together for our General Assembly one year earlier. The Venue will be the Galtung-Institut for Peace Theory and Peace Practice in Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany, 15 minutes by train/bus from Basel-Switzerland.
→ read full article(Português) O Auge do Capitalismo de Estado
Eduardo Crespo – Carta Maior,
3 Jun 2013
Se a América do Sul ainda aspira alcançar o desenvolvimento industrial, a inclusão social e a integração regional como processos duradouros e sustentáveis, a região não terá mais alternativa que subir à nova onda desenvolvimentista e abandonar as premissas privatizadoras do passado.
→ read full articleHawai’i: Military Radiation from Pohakuloa – Blowing in the Wind?
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2013
After years of denial, the military now admits to using Depleted Uranium radiation weapons in Hawaii as early as 1961 for the secret Davy Crockett nuclear weapon system. How much DU has been used in Hawaii over the years is in question. But since the Army says that DU was only banned in training in 1996 the amount of contamination could be extensive.
→ read full articleThe Militant American Empire
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
27 May 2013
The Militant American Empire Doesn’t Need Any More AUMF [authorization to use military force] – The United States has been in a permanent state of war ever since [September 2001]. And on May 16, 2013, the Obama administration’s Pentagon officials testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee that they expected this permanent state of war to last another 10 to 20 years.
→ read full articleGlobal Capital and the Nation State
Robert Reich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2013
As global capital becomes ever more powerful, giant corporations are holding governments and citizens up for ransom — eliciting subsidies and tax breaks from countries concerned about their nation’s “competitiveness” — while sheltering their profits in the lowest-tax jurisdictions they can find. Meanwhile, at a time when you’d expect nations to band together to gain bargaining power against global capital, the opposite is occurring: Xenophobia is breaking out all over.
→ read full article(Português) Brasil Deveria Seguir Exemplo Chinês, Defende Economista
Marcelo Justo – Carta Maior,
20 May 2013
Mark Weisbrot, co-diretor do Center for Economic and Policy Research, de Washington, fala sobre as perspectivas da economia brasileira no atual cenário internacional. Para Weisbrot, Brasil deveria seguir o exemplo da China que fez um gigantesco investimento para manter aquecida a atividade econômica no país. Exatamente o oposto do que faz a União Europeia, que, na opinião do economista, segue mantendo uma “demente política de austeridade”.
→ read full articleNoam Chomsky Helped Lobby Stephen Hawking to Stage Israel Boycott
Robert Booth and Harriet Sherwood – The Guardian,
20 May 2013
Chomsky, a US professor and well-known supporter of the Palestinian cause, joined British academics from the universities of Cambridge, London, Leeds, Southampton, Warwick, Newcastle, York and the Open University to tell Hawking they were “surprised and deeply disappointed” that he had accepted the invitation to speak at next month’s presidential conference in Jerusalem, which will chaired by Shimon Peres and attended by Tony Blair and Bill Clinton.
→ read full articleTRANSCEND General Assembly in Germany, 16-18 Aug, 2013
Erika Degortes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Usually our general meeting occurs every two years. However, this year marks the twentieth anniversary of TRANSCEND International and we decided to get together for our TRANSCEND General Assembly one year earlier. The Venue that will host us will be the Galtung-Institut for Peace Theory and Peace Practice in Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany, 5 minutes by train from Basel-Switzerland.
→ read full articleSyria: Ten Points towards Reconciliation and Peace
ISTEAMS-International Support Team for Mussalaha in Syria – Transcend Media Service,
20 May 2013
A focus of the work of AMRIS-Australians for Mussalaha (Reconciliation) In Syria is to support the “Ten Points towards Reconciliation and Peace in Syria”, which were presented to politicians, community groups, leaders of faith groups, and the media by Mother Agnes Mariam when she visited Australia in October 2012.
→ read full articleAusterity: Planned Poverty
Carl Gibson - Reader Supported News,
13 May 2013
If a math textbook that never underwent an official academic review and was proven to contain basic factual inaccuracies were nonetheless used by an entire school to teach math, wouldn’t it be fair to say that all of that school’s graduates were incapable of doing math?
→ read full articleThe Free Market Fundamentalists Are Now in Europe
Roberto Savio – Inter Press Service-IPS,
13 May 2013
For a long time it was a given that while Europe was based on defending a more just society, with social values and solidarity, the United States was based on the glory of individualism and competition, and anything public was considered “socialist”. Well, it’s time for an update – the defenders of market fundamentalism are now in Europe. Share traders [are] both more reckless and more manipulative than psychopaths.
→ read full articleSyria and Sarin Gas: US Claims Have a Very Familiar Ring
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
6 May 2013
It all comes back to that most infantile cliché of all: that the US and Israel fear Assad’s chemical weapons “falling into the wrong hands”. They are frightened, in other words, that these chemicals might end up with the very same rebels, especially the Islamists, that Washington, London, Paris, Qatar and Saudi Arabia are supporting. And if these are the “wrong hands”, then presumably the weapons in Assad’s armoury are in the “right hands”.
→ read full articleWhy NBA Center Jason Collins Is Coming Out Now
Jason Collins with Franz Lidz – Sports Illustrated,
6 May 2013
I’m a 34-year-old National Basketball Association-NBA center-field. I’m black. And I’m gay. The most you can do is stand up for what you believe in. I’m much happier since coming out to my friends and family. Being genuine and honest makes me happy. I’m glad I can stop hiding and refocus on my 13th NBA season.
→ read full article(Português) Quem Resgatará a Indústria Farmacêutica?
Martha Rosenberg - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
Pode ser você: vêm aí testosterona spray, ritalina plus, patologização da insônia, “controle de distúrbuios imunológicos” e outras promessas fármaco-publicitárias…
→ read full articleGoogle’s Spymasters Are Now Worried about Your Secrets
Robert Scheer - Truthdig,
6 May 2013
“Despite the expense, everything a regime would need to build an incredibly intimidating digital police state—including software that facilitates data mining and real-time monitoring of citizens—is commercially available right now. … Companies that sell data-mining software, surveillance cameras and other products will flaunt their work with one government to attract new business. It’s the digital analog to arms sales. …”
→ read full articleIf You Want to Go to Heaven, You Had Better Get Busy Overthrowing Syria
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
The US military destroyed Iraq, leaving the country and millions of lives in ruins and releasing sectarian blood-letting. And now in Syria Washington is at work destroying another stable secular government headed by a British trained eye doctor. Washington’s eleven years of illegal aggression against Muslim countries–war crimes according to the Nuremberg trials of Nazis–have resulted in civilian deaths and the American police state has destroyed the rule of law and the constitutional protections of US citizens.
→ read full article(Português) Países Latino-Americanos Criam Mecanismo de Defesa Contra Multinacionais
Leonardo Wexell Severo – Carta Maior,
29 Apr 2013
1ª Conferência Ministerial dos Países Latino-americanos Afetados por Interesses das Transnacionais, realizada em 22 abril 2013 no Equador, criou um novo mecanismo de coordenação regional para a defesa conjunta dos interesses dos países da América Latina nos processos de arbitragem internacional contra empresas estrangeiras. A América Latina concentra a maior quantidade de processos ilegais e arbitrários contra uma região, sendo que Argentina, Venezuela, Equador, México e Bolívia acumulam 27% do total de casos no mundo.
→ read full articleCountry Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012
U.S. Department of State – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
The pages that follow document the often difficult march forward of human freedom around the world. Significant progress is being made in some places, but in far too many others governments fall short of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ vision of a world where people live “free and equal in dignity and rights.”
→ read full article(Português) O Sonho de Uma Civilização Realmente Planetária
Leonardo Boff – Carta Maior,
29 Apr 2013
Desamparo atual em parte provém de nossa incapacidade de sonhar e de projetar utopias. Não qualquer utopia. Mas aquelas necessárias que podem se transformar em topias, quer dizer, em algo que se realiza nas condições de nossa história.
→ read full articleNewly Released Tim DeChristopher Finds a Movement Transformed by His Courage
Melanie Jae Martin – YES! Magazine,
29 Apr 2013
Tim DeChristopher, who was released from federal custody yesterday [21 Apr 2013], is best known as the man who disrupted an auction of pristine public lands. This Earth Day, we thank Tim DeChristopher for steering our movement toward the path of courage. With countless lives on the line, it’s the path we need to take.
→ read full articleDeadly Sins in the Brazilian Amazon
Bianca Jagger - Reader Supported News,
22 Apr 2013
The trampling of indigenous rights, military force used against protesters, impunity, megadams and environmental destruction. The controversial Belo Monte Dam, which is under construction on the Xingu River, is roughly twenty percent completed. It will displace over 20,000 people, gravely endanger the survival of indigenous peoples and local communities and cause irreparable environmental damage to the Brazilian Amazon.
→ read full articleTales of Reagan’s Guatemala Genocide
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
22 Apr 2013
Guatemala is finally putting ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt on trial for genocide in the extermination of hundreds of Mayan villages in the 1980s, but Ronald Reagan remains an American icon despite new evidence of his complicity in this historic crime.
→ read full articleWould You Believe That the United States Tried To Do Something That Was Not Nice Against Hugo Chávez?
William Blum, The Anti-Empire Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
WikiLeaks has done it again. I guess the US will really have to get tough now with Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. In a secret US cable to the State Department, dated November 9, 2006, and recently published online by WikiLeaks, former US ambassador to Venezuela, William Brownfield, outlines a comprehensive plan to destabilize the government of the late President Hugo Chávez. The cable begins with a Summary:
→ read full article(Français) Mali : Résolument Contre l’Intervention Française
Paul Martial – Forum des Alternatives,
15 Apr 2013
On ne peut pas être contre l’ingérence française au Mali, et plus généralement en Afrique, et être en même temps pour l’intervention militaire française.
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Anarchism, Socialism & Libertarianism: Alternatives for Peace
Abby Martin, Breaking the Set – Russia Today,
15 Apr 2013
Abby Martin highlights the disproportionate nature of the American political and media establishments, and moderates a debate between three people who represent the voices of US growing political alternatives: Anarchism, Socialism & Libertarianism.
→ read full articleRadiating Remnants: Nuclear Waste Barrels Litter English Channel
Nicola Kuhrt – Der Spiegel,
15 Apr 2013
Some 28,500 containers of radioactive waste were dropped into the English Channel between 1950 and 1963. Experts have assumed that the containers had long since rusted open, spreading the radioactivity throughout the ocean and thus rendering it innocuous. But a new investigative report from the joint French-German public broadcaster ARTE has concluded that the waste is still intact at the bottom of the sea.
→ read full articleParanoia Sells
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
8 Apr 2013
North Korean “Threats” to World Peace Can Sell Military Hardware – Which is the more paranoid statement?
1. AMERICAN MEDIA: “North Korea is threatening to attack us with nuclear weapons.”
or:
2. NORTH KOREAN MEDIA: “The United States is threatening to attack us with nuclear weapons.”
Cyprus: Do You Understand What Has Really Happened?
Roberto Savio - Human Wrongs Watch,
8 Apr 2013
The story of Cyprus story is an excellent example of how inadequate media coverage has now become. Very few will have understood what has really happened, and what its implications are. Following events, without any background or placing them in their contexts, is one of the main reasons for the decline of media as windows on the world, and for having informed and therefore active citizens.
→ read full article(Português) A Troika Afunda o Chipre e Ameaça a Europa
Alejandro Inurrieta – Cuarto Poder,
8 Apr 2013
A batalha entre credores, representada fundamentalmente pela Alemanha, e devedores se travou de forma cruenta durante estas longas jornadas, sabendo que a mensagem para o resto de países devedores é clara: a dívida vai ser paga integramente, ainda que na tentativa se possa chegar a destruir boa parte do tecido social e produtivo da UE.
→ read full articleA Bradley Manning Panel Discussion with MP Birgitta Jonsdottir
Bradley Manning Support Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
Friday 5 April, 2013 New York – Video of the discussion panel held with Birgitta Jonsdottir, Kevin Gosztola (of FireDogLake), Alexa O’Brien (independent journalist long covering the Bradley Manning trial), Peter Hart (FAIR media critic). The discussion is moderated by Sam Seder.
→ read full articleWhen George Bush Invaded Iraq, Life Imitated Art
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
8 Apr 2013
Born-again Christians often don’t realise their ‘God-given’ right to invade Iraq destroyed one of the oldest Christian communities in the Middle East.
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Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar | Interview with Independent Journalist Assed Baig
Abby Martin, Breaking the Set – Russia Today,
8 Apr 2013
The ongoing genocidal crisis of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. The UN has coined the Rohingyas one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.
→ read full articleThe Washington Post’s Unbridled Arrogance
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
1 Apr 2013
Perhaps more than any news organization, the Washington Post steered the United States into the illegal invasion of Iraq. But a Post editorial, which belatedly takes note of the war’s tenth anniversary, admits to no mistakes and acknowledges no lessons learned.
→ read full article(Castellano) El Bien Común de la Humanidad: Un Paradigma Post-Capitalista Frente a la Ruptura del Equilibrio del Metabolismo Entre la Naturaleza y el Genero Humano
François Houtart – Forum Mundial de Alternativas,
1 Apr 2013
La reconstrucción del equilibrio del metabolismo entre la naturaleza y los seres humanos por un cambio de paradigma y las transiciones El problema de la ruptura del metabolismo socio-ambiental es el resultado de una lógica más amplia que abarca el modo de acumulación y el predominio del valor de cambio, la organización colectiva al servicio de la reproducción del capital y la visión del mundo orientada por un progreso lineal en un planeta inagotable al servicio de una minoría.
→ read full articleIceland Offers Hard Lessons for Cyprus on Capital Controls
Alistair Scrutton and Robert Robertsson, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
For Iceland, there was a sense of deja vu when Cyprus’s finance minister said capital controls would probably last “a matter of weeks”. Five years after a banking meltdown, the north Atlantic island has just extended its own controls indefinitely… Cyprus, by contrast, cannot devalue because it is a member of the euro zone.
→ read full articleWorld Focus: The Eyes of the World Are Trained on Israel – But Will There Be Anything to See?
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
25 Mar 2013
The winner of the Nobel Prize for Public Speech-making will be at least a super-tourist – with 10,000 armed Israeli and American tour guides in Jerusalem alone. Now that, Mr President, is the wall. No, not That Wall, we’re talking about the Ottoman palisade on each side of the city’s Damascus Gate.
→ read full articleFrom Detroit to Cyprus, Banksters in Search of Prey
Glen Ford – Black Agenda Report,
25 Mar 2013
From Nicosia to Detroit the global financial octopus is squeezing the life out of society, stripping away public and individual assets in a vain attempt to fend off its own, inevitable collapse. The bankers “troika” that effectively rules Europe prepares to reach into the individual accounts of ordinary depositors on the island nation of Cyprus to fund the bailout of their local banking brethren.
→ read full articleChina Replaces Britain in World’s Top Five Arms Exporters – Report
Michael Martina, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
China has become the world’s fifth-largest arms exporter, a respected Sweden-based think-tank said on Monday [18 Mar 2013], its highest ranking since the Cold War, with Pakistan the main recipient.
→ read full articleIraq after Ten Years
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
March 19, 2013. Ten years ago today the Bush regime invaded Iraq. It is known that the justification for the invasion was a packet of lies orchestrated by the neoconservative Bush regime in order to deceive the United Nations and the American people.
→ read full articlePowers Seek Influence in Burma’s Conflict
Bertil Lintner, YaleGlobal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Burmese government battles insurgents as China and the US scramble for influence. In Burma, there’s rivalry among peace organizations, often with lack of understanding of the conflicts’ root causes.
→ read full articleAP: Chavez Wasted His Money on Healthcare When He Could Have Built Gigantic Skyscrapers
Jim Naureckas – Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting-FAIR,
25 Mar 2013
One of the more bizarre takes on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s death comes from Associated Press business reporter Pamela Sampson (3/5/13): Chavez squandered his nation’s oil money on healthcare, education and nutrition when he could have been building the world’s tallest building or his own branch of the Louvre. What kind of monster has priorities like that?
→ read full articleNATO Proxies Using WMD’s in Syria – Dozens Dead
Tony Cartalluci, Land Destroyer Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
It is outrageous hypocrisy to see the West arming, funding, and politically backing terrorists in Syria who in fact both possess, and are now using such weapons against the Syrian people.
→ read full articleThe Cost of War Must Be Measured by Human Tragedy, Not Artefacts
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
18 Mar 2013
What does heritage matter in the face of such tragic desolation? What is a child’s life worth against all the antiquities of Syria?
→ read full articleMedia Fakes War Propaganda | Weapons of Mass Distraction
Abby Martin, Breaking the Set – Russia Today,
18 Mar 2013
A look at MSNBC’s recent documentary about the lies leading up the Iraq war, and the closer look at the corporate media’s complicity in selling war to the American people by highlighting multiple staged events.
→ read full articleHugo Chavez
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
On March 5, 2013, Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela and world leader against imperialism, died. Washington imperialists and their media and think tank whores expressed gleeful sighs of relief as did the brainwashed US population. An “enemy of America” was gone. Chavez was not an enemy of America. He was an enemy of Washington’s hegemony over other countries, an enemy of Washington’s alliance with elite ruling cliques who steal from the people they grind down and deny sustenance.
→ read full articleA Huge Hunger Strike at Guantánamo
Andy Worthington – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
When is a hunger strike not a hunger strike? Apparently, when the government says it doesn’t exist. Despair is entirely appropriate at Guantánamo for the 166 men still held, because, although 86 of them were cleared for release at least three years ago and some were cleared for release under President Bush, between 2004 and 2007, they are still held because of Congressional obstruction.
→ read full articleJohn Kerry wants the Gulf to support the Syrian rebels. But which rebels? The soft, safe ones? Or those horrible, ‘terrorist’ Islamists?
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
11 Mar 2013
John Kerry has had a miserable time of it in the Gulf. He has to love them all – the kings and princes and emirs – and he needs their support against Bashar al-Assad of Syria. Because, of course, they are sending cash and weapons to the rebels. But which rebels? The soft, secular safe guys of the Free Syrian Army or the horrible ‘terrorist’ Islamists who are also fighting Assad and who, give and take a few thousands square yards, have just captured the Syrian provincial capital of Raqa?
→ read full articleThe Green Light for Zionism’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
On this 65th anniversary of the authorization of the ethnic cleaning of Palestine [10 Mar 2013], the questions I would like to see put to our leaders today, President Obama in particular, are the following: Are you aware of Plan Dalet? If not, why not? If you are aware of it, could it not said be said that your refusal to call and hold Zionism to account for its crimes makes you (and your predecessors) complicit in those crimes by default?
→ read full articleHow the Media Sanitize Honduras’s Brutal Regime
Keane Bhatt – North American Congress on Latin America-NACLA,
11 Mar 2013
On the evening of Saturday, September 22 [2012], human rights lawyer Antonio Trejo stepped outside a wedding ceremony to take a phone call. Standing in the church parking lot he was shot six times by unknown assailants. In this insulated world, Honduran victims of economic hardship and state terror remain invisible. Pinochet, the original administrator of shock therapy, distilled the insouciance of today’s intellectual and media culture when, in 1979, he remarked, “I trust the people all right; but they’re not yet ready.”
→ read full article(Português) Libor: A Gigantesca Transferência de Fundos da Sociedade a Bancos
Marcelo Justo – Carta Maior,
11 Mar 2013
Para o economista grego Costas Lapavitsas, da Universidade de Londres, autor de “Crisis in the Eurozone” (Crise na zona do euro), o escândalo da manipulação da taxa Libor envolve uma gigantesca transferência de fundos em nível mundial da sociedade para os bancos.
→ read full article(Português) Franz Kafka e a Segunda-feira
Flávio Ricardo Vassoler – Carta Maior,
4 Mar 2013
Ao contrário do que dizem os apologistas do fim da História, a luta de classes não se calou. No entanto, diante da assepsia publicitária por que passam os discursos contestatórios, a lógica poética de Kafka nos leva a pensar a contrapelo de nós mesmos: se o movimento da contradição histórica não for estancado e reconfigurado, continuaremos a figurar como coadjuvantes da cadeia alimentar que nos coage à frieza, à brutalidade e ao cinismo do entrechoque entre gato e rato, de modo que a “Pequena Fábula” possa receber um título mais adequado aos tempos atuais: “segunda-feira”.
→ read full articleIsrael-Palestine: THE Question
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
THE question arising is this: Why are most Jews unable and/or unwilling to acknowledge the wrong done to the Palestinians? My Gentile answer begins with a short, one-sentence statement that begs another question. Most Jews do not want to know about Zionism’s crimes. The question is – why don’t they want to know?
→ read full article(Português) A Rara Coragem de Bradley Manning
Marjorie Cohn, CounterCurrents – Carta Maior,
4 Mar 2013
As ações de Bradley Manning fazem lembrar o que fez Daniel Ellsberg, que divulgou os “Papéis do Pentágono”, no qual se expunham as mentiras do governo dos EUA e que apressaram o fim da Guerra do Vietname.
→ read full articleTranscend Peace University Online Courses
Erika Degortes – TRANSCEND Peace University,
4 Mar 2013
All-online courses on peace, conflict transformation, mediation, peace education, nonviolence and more. TRANSCEND Peace University (TPU) is pleased to announce its call for applications for the academic year 2013: Certificate Online Courses – First Term of 2013: March 12th – May 30th
→ read full articleAlawite History Reveals the Complexities of Syria That West Does Not Understand
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
4 Mar 2013
Never once has a Western newspaper shown a map of Bradford with Muslim and non-Muslim areas marked off, or a map of Washington divided into black and white people. No, that would suggest that our Western civilisation could be divvied up between tribes or races. Only the Arab world merits our ethnic distinctions. The problem, of course, is that Syria – as secular and assimilated as any Arab nation before its current tragedy – doesn’t lend itself to this neat distribution of religious minorities.
→ read full articleManning Plea Statement: Americans Had a Right to Know ‘True Cost of War’
Ed Pilkington at Fort Meade, Maryland – The Guardian,
4 Mar 2013
After admitting guilt in 10 of 22 charges, soldier reveals how he came to share classified documents with WikiLeaks and talks of ‘bloodlust’ of US helicopter crew. The soldier related that in the video a man who has been hit by the US forces is seen crawling injured through the dust, at which point one of the helicopter crew is heard wishing the man would pick up a weapon so that they could kill him. “For me that was like a child torturing an ant with a magnifying glass.”
→ read full article‘Pervasive’ Fraud by Our ‘Most Reputable’ Banks
Bill Black - Reader Supported News,
4 Mar 2013
The key conclusion of the study is that control fraud was “pervasive.” Finance scholars are not known for their sense of humor, but the irony of calling the world’s largest and most harmful financial control frauds our “most reputable” banks is quite wondrous. The point the financial scholars make is one Edwin Sutherland emphasized from the beginning when he announced the concept of “white-collar” crime.
→ read full articleWar on Terror Is the West’s New Religion
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
25 Feb 2013
But All the Crusading and Invading Simply Plays into Al-Qa’ida’s Hands – Just Ask the French
→ read full articleMan-Made Chemicals Cited in Health Scourges: UN Report
Robert Evans, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Man-made chemicals in everyday products are likely to be at least the partial cause of a global surge in birth deformities, hormonal cancers and psychiatric diseases, a U.N.-sponsored research team reported on Tuesday [19 Feb 2013].
→ read full articleTranscend Peace University Online Courses
Erika Degortes – TRANSCEND Peace University,
25 Feb 2013
All-online courses on peace, conflict transformation, mediation, peace education, nonviolence and more. TRANSCEND Peace University (TPU) is pleased to announce its call for applications for the academic year 2013: Certificate Online Courses – First Term of 2013: March 12th – May 30th
→ read full article‘We Grow, They Bulldoze, We Re-Plant’
Eva Bartlett – Inter Press Service-IPS,
18 Feb 2013
“The Israeli army destroyed my house and my five dunums of land (a dunum is 1,000 square metres), as well as 20 other homes,” he says. With signs reading ‘Boycott Israeli Agricultural Products’ and ‘Support Palestinian Farmers’, Mandil and others protesting Israeli oppression of Palestinian farmers joined together Saturday [9 Feb 2013] to plant olive trees on Israeli-razed farmland and to implore international supporters to join the boycott of Israeli agricultural produce.
→ read full article(Português) Historiador Conecta Desinteresse dos EUA pela América Latina a Avanços da Região
Martín Granovsky – Carta Maior,
18 Feb 2013
O historiador Erick Langer, diretor do Centro de Estudos Latino-americanos da Universidade de Georgetown, em Washington, fala nesta entrevista sobre vários temas da história continental, como o populismo, a ascensão e as crises do neoliberalismo, as conexões das terras baixas com os Andes e a influência da China e dos EUA.
→ read full article[Tragicomic] Pentagon Urges Delay in “Devastating” $46 Billion Budget Cuts
David Alexander and Phil Stewart, Reuters – Chicago Tribune,
18 Feb 2013
The Pentagon’s civilian and military leaders warned in dire terms on Tuesday [12 Feb 2013] that $46 billion in budget cuts due to go into effect in two weeks would erode the nation’s ability to go to war and appealed to Congress to delay the reductions.
→ read full articleHypocrisy: US Arms Al Qaeda in Syria, Mass-Slaughters Civilians in Afghanistan
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
In other words, the very underwriters of the armed militancy that is consuming Syria are sitting along side the head of the UN commission producing reports portraying the Syrian government as guilty of “war crimes and crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleSyria – It Is Illegal to Back Rebels Fighting a Legitimate Government
Dr. Curtis Doebbler, international lawyer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Several countries, mostly from the Arab League (dominated by the Gulf kingdoms) and the West, have recognized the coalition of Syrian opposition militias that was born in Doha (Qatar), under the auspices of the Western and Gulf countries. We asked international lawyer Curtis Doebbler, a peace and human rights activist, whether it could be legal to provide weapons to the this armed opposition as France asks the EU. Here is his answer.
→ read full articleTranscend Peace University Online Courses
Erika Degortes – TRANSCEND Peace University,
18 Feb 2013
All-online courses on peace, conflict transformation, mediation, peace education, nonviolence and more. TRANSCEND Peace University (TPU) is pleased to announce its call for applications for the academic year 2013: Certificate Online Courses – First Term of 2013: March 12th – May 30th
→ read full article(Português) Os BRICS de Olho na África
Antonio Martins, Outras Palavras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Quinto encontro dos grandes emergentes debaterá criação de um banco de desenvolvimento comum, voltado para continente. Cooperação ou novo imperialismo?
→ read full article(Português) 54 Países, Tortura & CIA Ilimitada
Flávio Aguiar – Carta Maior,
11 Feb 2013
Relatório da Open Society Foundations traz 216 páginas em que se reúnem casos de 136 “cidadãos do mundo” sequestrados a mando da CIA, em diferentes países, levados para diferentes países, neles eventualmente torturados, alguns terminando a trajetória na infame Guantánamo. Para isso, 54 governos colaboraram com a CIA e os EUA.
→ read full articleTranscend Peace University Online Courses
Erika Degortes – TRANSCEND Peace University,
11 Feb 2013
All-online courses on peace, conflict transformation, mediation, peace education, nonviolence and more. TRANSCEND Peace University (TPU) is pleased to announce its call for applications for the academic year 2013: Certificate Online Courses – First Term of 2013: March 12th – May 30th
→ read full articleResource Nationalism: Beyond Ideology
Hal Weitzman – Americas Quarterly,
11 Feb 2013
The hemisphere revives an old policy standby. Latin America’s political Left has displayed symptoms of bipolarity for much of the past decade. One Left had “truly socialist and progressive roots” that was “following pragmatic, sensible and realistic paths.” The other stemmed from “a populist, purely nationalist past” that had “proven much less responsive to modernizing influences.”
→ read full articleHigh Frequency Active Auroral Research Program-HAARP: Weapon of Mass Destruction
Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D., GNSH – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
One of the ways in which HAARP is thought to work is similar to firing a cap gun in an avalanche area. The snow is built up, ready to collapse and even the slightest disturbance causes an avalanche. That’s one way that HAARP works. In key areas where seismic pressures are ready to shift, HAARP bombards the already sensitive area with an incredible amount of energy in the form of a beam that reflects off the ionosphere. The earth’s tectonic plates vibrate and an earthquake results.
→ read full articleIt Has Happened Here
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Whether a person believes the official story of 9/11 which rests on unproven government assertions or believes the documented evidence provided by a large number of scientists, first responders, and structural engineers and architects, the result is the same. 9/11 was used to create an open-ended “war on terror” and a police state. It is extraordinary that so many Americans believe that “it can’t happen here” when it already has.
→ read full article2013 World Press Freedom Index: Dashed Hopes after ‘Springs’
Reporters Without Borders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
The ranking of most countries is no longer attributable to dramatic political developments. This year’s index is a better reflection of the attitudes and intentions of governments towards media freedom in the medium or long term. (See full list of countries in the end)
→ read full articleCriminals Use Webcams for Spying
Rossen Reports, NBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Authorities are saying criminals can now hack into your webcam remotely, using it to watch your most intimate moments without you ever knowing it.
→ read full articleAnti-Semitism: What It IS and Is NOT
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
“An anti-Semite used to be a person who disliked Jews. Now it is a person who Jews dislike.” Today much (meaning not quite all) of what supporters of Israel right or wrong claim to be anti-Semitism is actually anti-Israelism, which in my view is best described as anti-Zionism. And contrary to the assertions of Zionism’s spin doctors, anti-Zionism is not by definition anti-Semitism. Short or long, any discussion of anti-Semitism should include the fact that Zionism needs it.
→ read full articleRepression, Resistance, and Indigenous Rights in Guatemala
Anita Isaacs and Rachel Schwartz – Americas Quarterly,
4 Feb 2013
Can centuries of exploitation be reversed?
→ read full articleIt’s Good to Be a Goldman
Robert Scheer - Truthdig,
4 Feb 2013
Here’s a get-out-of-jail-free card, and while we’re at it, take this obscenely huge bonus for having wrecked the economy.
→ read full articleThe Geopolitics of the Modern Resource Boom
Bernice Lee – Americas Quarterly,
4 Feb 2013
Intensified resource stress, driven in part by the booming demand from emerging economies and a decade of tight commodity markets, is reshaping the global economy. Whether the resources are actually diminishing is a matter of debate, but one thing is clear: the resources sector is increasingly characterized by supply disruptions, volatile prices and rising political tensions over access. In many places, myopic government policies have exacerbated the challenges.
→ read full articleFrom Algeria, a Lesson in How to Bypass Democracy
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
28 Jan 2013
Our Middle East Correspondent on the Bouteflika regime, Pentagon folly, the many faces of Assad, and precious lessons from an old handbook in his Beirut briefcase.
→ read full articleTorture Is Trivial
Robert Jensen – Al Jazeera,
28 Jan 2013
The focus on torture in “Zero Dark Thirty” ignores more significant US policies of dubious legality. When I look at the decade since 9/11, torture is hardly the greatest crime of the US war machine. Since 9/11, the United States has helped destroy two countries with, at best, sketchy moral and legal justification.
→ read full articleWhy Is Guantanamo Still Open?
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
28 Jan 2013
Official US policy pretty much still supports everything that was done and continues to be done at Guantanamo.
→ read full articleSecrecy and National Security Whistleblowing
Daniel Ellsberg - Reader Supported News,
21 Jan 2013
The mystique of secrecy in the universe of national security…is a compelling deterrent to whistleblowing and thus to effective resistance to gravely wrongful or dangerous policies.
→ read full articleDifferent Rules for Plutocrats
Carl Gibson - Reader Supported News,
21 Jan 2013
26-year-old Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz faced up to 35 years in federal prison for the ‘crime’ of downloading academic files from the JSTOR database for anyone to have, free of charge. Contrast that with recent news of JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, who gambled and lost $6 billion in other people’s money in a high-risk trading scheme. Jail wasn’t even considered, despite their open complicity in bilking millions of people out of their money, and aiding criminals.
→ read full articleAlgeria, Mali, and Why This Week Has Looked Like an Obscene Remake of Earlier Western Interventions
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
21 Jan 2013
We are outraged not by the massacre of the innocents, but because the hostages killed were largely white, blue-eyed chaps rather than darker, brown-eyed chaps. Odd, isn’t it, how our “collateral damage” is different from their “collateral damage”.
→ read full articleBy Design: French Mali Invasion Spills into Algeria
Tony Cartalucci – Global Research,
21 Jan 2013
Al Qaeda is both a casus belli and mercenary force, deployed by the West against targeted nations. French operations seek to trigger armed conflict in Algeria as well as a possible Western military intervention there as well, with the Mali conflict serving as a pretense.
→ read full articleThe Master as “Guest”: The U.S. Military Swarms over Africa
Glen Ford – Black Agenda Report,
14 Jan 2013
A long-planned U.S. escalation of its military presence in Africa will soon get underway, with the permanent deployment of a 3,500-strong brigade. The heavy combat team will make itself at home in African bases in 35 countries. “This is a very different kind of invasion – more like an infiltration-in-force.”
→ read full articleOil and War
Robert Newman, Brasscheck TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2013
Robert Newman gets to grips with the wars and politics of the last hundred years – but rather than adhering to the history we were fed at school, he places oil centre stage as the cause of all commotion.
→ read full articleA Feel-Good Movie about Fracking?
Fran Korten – YES! Magazine,
14 Jan 2013
Chris Moore, who co-produced “Good Will Hunting,” has a new film starring Matt Damon as a corporate salesman trying to open up a small town to fracking. Moore’s take on the ideas behind the film.
→ read full articleCould Saudi Arabia Be Next?
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
7 Jan 2013
Nobody can predict which way the ‘Arab Awakening’ will turn this year. But Robert Fisk has ventured a very tentative punt or two…
→ read full articleHow The New York Times Erases Israel’s Crimes
Robert Ross, The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
The New York Times keeps the American public in the dark about the true nature of Israel’s occupation. According to The New York Times, there is no siege of Gaza, no occupation of the West Bank, and never was there a Nakba (the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine). Three recent articles erase these key Israeli crimes from the historical record.
→ read full articleHow Anonymous Got Political
Quinn Norton – New Internationalist Magazine,
31 Dec 2012
A look behind the mask of the hacker network, charting its evolution into a global activist force. Anonymous’ swagger grew with outrageous hacks of companies, governments, and law enforcement. ‘Anonymous was born out of a need to exact retribution,’ said a Chanology anon. ‘Scientology tried to fuck with our internet, attempting to shut down the Cruise video. It was punished, hard, and continues to be punished nearly four years later.’
→ read full articleThe P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2012
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting-FAIR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Recalling Some of the Stinkiest Media Moments of the Year [2012]
→ read full articleChina Is Opening a Confrontation on the Sea
Roberto Savio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
The victory of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the recent Japanese elections, with LDP leader Shinzō Abe coming back as Prime Minister after five years, will probably mean an escalation of tension with China. Both countries are embarking on a fresh burst of nationalism, but for different reasons.
→ read full articleThe Shameful Exploitation of Bradley Manning
Robert Scheer - Truthdig,
17 Dec 2012
The major news outlets that were thrilled to profit from the information that Bradley Manning uncovered are deeply afraid of being associated with the brave whistle-blower himself. Keep an American soldier locked up naked in a cage and driven half mad while deprived of all basic rights, and you will be instantly condemned as a barbaric terrorist. Unless the jailer is an authorized agent of the U.S. government, in which case even treatment approaching torture will go largely unnoticed.
→ read full articleUS Admits Hundreds of Afghan Teens Detained
Peter James Spielmann - Reader Supported News,
17 Dec 2012
The U.S. military has detained more than 200 Afghan teenagers who were captured in the war for about a year at a time at a military prison next to Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, the United States has told the United Nations.
→ read full articleAll We Can Do
Morton Marcus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
All we can do on this earth is step into the future
with a sense of the many people behind us,
the living and the dead, as if we carried our bodies…