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The Freedom of the Press Foundation
Daniel Ellsberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Today [23 Dec 2012], I join with a group of colleagues and friends to announce The Freedom of the Press Foundation. This new foundation crowd-sources funding for a number of tireless, courageous and underfunded freedom of press organizations, including WikiLeaks.
→ read full articleThe ICC and Colombia: Massacres under the Looking Glass
Daniel Kovalik - CounterPunch,
17 Dec 2012
The International Criminal Court (ICC) just published [Nov 2012] its Interim Report on Colombia. The ICC’s conclusion in the report is that the worst crimes of the Colombian military – the “false positive” killings in which the military killed around 3,000 innocent civilians and dressed them up to appear as guerillas – “occurred with greatest frequency between 2004 and 2008.”
→ read full articleEncyclopedia of World Problems Has a Big One of Its Own
Daniel Michaels- The Wall Street Journal,
17 Dec 2012
[TRANSCEND member] Anthony Judge’s career has been peppered with problems, from Aarskog Syndrome to Zoonotic bacterial diseases, dandruff, ignorance, kidney disorders and sabotage. He spent more than two decades editing the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential, a 3,000-page tome with almost 20,000 entries. It was Mr. Judge’s brainchild when he helped run the Union of International Associations, a century-old grouping of groups that began in an effort to categorize all human knowledge.
→ read full articleGlobal Terrorism Index
Vision of Humanity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
Impact of Terrorism on World Countries – Interactive Map Country by Country and Ranking
→ read full articleIceland Shows the Way: Reject Austerity
Salim Lamrani – Pravda,
3 Dec 2012
They refused IMF prescriptions, let banks fail and sentenced to prison those responsible for the crisis. The case of Iceland demonstrates that there is a credible alternative to austerity policies that are imposed in Europe. These, besides being economically inefficient, are costly politically and socially unsustainable. By putting the public interest above the interest of markets, Iceland showed the rest of the continent the way to escape the dead end.
→ read full articleGreece Gave Birth to Democracy. Now It Has Been Cast Out by a Powerful Elite
Kostas Vaxevanis – The Guardian,
5 Nov 2012
The case against me and my magazine, Hot Doc, for publishing a list of alleged tax evaders is a symptom of Greece’s corruption. An exclusive club of powerful people engages in illegal practices, then pushes through necessary laws to legalise these practices, granting itself an amnesty, and in the end, there are no media to uncover what really happened.
→ read full articleSuicide Is Epidemic For American Indian Youth: What More Can Be Done?
Stephanie Woodard, 100Reporters – NBC News,
15 Oct 2012
In pockets of the United States, suicide among Native American youth is 9 to 19 times as frequent as among other youths, and rising. From Arizona to Alaska, tribes are declaring states of emergency and setting up crisis-intervention teams. “It feels like wartime,” said Diane Garreau, a child-welfare official on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, in South Dakota. “I’ll see one of our youngsters one day, then find out a couple of days later she’s gone. Our children are self-destructing.”
→ read full article(Portuguese) Ratos Alimentados Com Transgênico Morrem Mais Cedo e Sofrem Mais de Câncer
Daniele Silveira, Radioagência NP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Pesquisa realizada com 200 ratos alimentados com milho geneticamente modificado apontou que esses animais morrem mais cedo e sofrem de câncer com mais freqüência. O estudo foi publicado nesta quarta-feira (19 Set 2012) pela revista científica “Food and Chemical Toxicology”.
→ read full articleMEK Delisting is a Gift to the Regime, a Disaster for the Iranian People and the U.S.
National Iranian American Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) deplores the decision to remove the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) from the U.S. list of foreign terrorist organizations. The decision opens the door to Congressional funding of the MEK to conduct terrorist attacks in Iran, makes war with Iran far more likely, and will seriously damage Iran’s peaceful pro-democracy movement as well as America’s standing among ordinary Iranians.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Sobre Ombros de Gigantes
Marcela Godoy, Consciência Animal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Semana passada [16 Aug 2012], ministrei um mini curso na Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Paraná-Brasil, durante o II Encontro de Ciências Biológicas. Dessa vez, trabalhei o tema Vivissecção no Ensino e na Pesquisa. Obviamente, o mini curso aconteceu pelo viés da anti-vivissecção.
→ read full article(Italian) Animalismo, Specismo, Antispecismo e Diritti degli Animali
Roberto Russo, GraphoMania – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2012
Parliamo spesso di animali: ci stanno particolarmente a cuore e non è un mistero. Ma non vogliamo che sia un discorso sdolcinato: secondo noi è importante guardare agli animali come esseri viventi, al pari nostro, con i loro diritti. Il fatto che noi siamo animali appartenenti alla specie umana non ci autorizza certo a trattare male gli animali non umani.
→ read full articleCelebrating the Olympic Ideal with a Big Mac
Isabelle de Grave and Stephanie Parker – Inter Press Service-IPS,
30 Jul 2012
“London won the right to host the 2012 Games with the promise to deliver a legacy of more active, healthier children across the world,” the Green Party’s Jenny Jones, who recently proposed a motion to exclude McDonald’s, Coca-Coca-Cola and others from the Games, told. ”Yet the International Olympic Committee persists in maintaining sponsorship deals with the purveyors of high-calorie junk that contributes to the threat of an obesity epidemic.”
→ read full articleRegulators and HSBC Faulted in Report on Money Laundering
Nathaniel Popper – The New York Times,
23 Jul 2012
The global bank HSBC has been used by Mexican drug cartels looking to get cash back into the United States, by Saudi Arabian banks that needed access to dollars despite their terrorist ties and by Iranians who wanted to circumvent United States sanctions, a Senate report says.
→ read full article‘The Last War Crime’ Debuts at Cannes–but Censored in US.
Jeanine Molloff – Nation of Change,
16 Jul 2012
In spite of strong evidence identifying Dick Cheney as the mastermind behind this torture regime–the subject remains taboo, both in the ‘news’ business and in Hollywood–that is until Hollywood executives watched trailers for the anti-war documentary.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Do Que Um Cão Não Precisa
Marcela Godoy - Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais-ANDA,
16 Jul 2012
Do que um cão não precisa? Essa pergunta pode suscitar discussão, algumas reflexões e um bocado de polêmica. A resposta nem sempre pode ser aquela que desejamos ouvir. O que estamos fazendo com eles no sentido de deformar suas mentes e corpos para adaptá-los à conveniência dos padrões humanos?
→ read full articleGreenwashing the Olympics
Daniel Nelson – CorpWatch,
9 Jul 2012
Rio Tinto, the global mining company, has been named as early front-runner for the Greenwash Gold award for the worst Olympic sponsor, with BP, the oil and gas multinational, in second place and Dow Chemical third. The three corporations are banking on getting a good return on their purchase of the right to stick their names all over Olympic promotional material and activities.
→ read full articleHundreds of Words to Avoid Using Online if You Don’t Want the Government Spying On You
Daniel Miller – Mail Online,
28 May 2012
(And They Include ‘Pork’, ‘Cloud’ and ‘Mexico’) – Department of Homeland Security forced to release list following freedom of information request. Agency insists it only looks for evidence of genuine threats to the U.S. and not for signs of general dissent.
→ read full articleExcuse Me, But Israel Has No Right To Exist
Sharmine Narwani - The Sandbox,
21 May 2012
The phrase “right to exist” entered my consciousness in the 1990s just as the concept of the two-state solution became part of our collective lexicon. In any debate at university, when a Zionist was out of arguments, those three magic words were invoked to shut down the conversation with an outraged, “are you saying Israel doesn’t have the right to exist??” Why are the colonial-settlers prior to 1948 any different from those who colonized and settled after 1967?
→ read full article(Portuguese) Leilão de Ferramentas de Tortura É Suspenso na França após Polêmica
Daniela Fernandes – BBC Brasil,
9 Apr 2012
A venda incluía ainda uma ”pera da angústia”, como era chamado o instrumento colocado na boca e que ia aumentando de volume para sufocar os gritos dos prisioneiros que podiam ”incomodar” os juízes dos tribunais da Inquisição e também era usada nas partes genitais de homossexuais ou de mulheres suspeitas de ter relações com o ”diabo” na Idade Média. Os objetos e documentos pertenciam ao ex-carrasco francês Fernand Meyssonnier, que realizou, sob ordens do governo da França, quase 200 execuções na Argélia entre 1957 e 1962, no período da guerra de independência do país.
→ read full articleRadiation at Fukushima Plant at Lethal Levels
Minoru Matsutani – Japan Times,
2 Apr 2012
Radiation inside the reactor 2 containment vessel at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has reached a lethal 73 sieverts per hour and any attempt to send robots in will require them to have greater resistance than currently available, experts said Wednesday [28 Mar 2012]. Exposure to 73 sieverts for a minute would cause nausea and seven minutes would cause death within a month , Tokyo Electric Power Co. said.
→ read full articleFor Nuclear Security beyond Seoul, Eradicate Land-Based ‘Doomsday’ Missiles
David Krieger and Daniel Ellsberg – The Christian Science Monitor,
2 Apr 2012
America’s 450 launch-ready land-based nuclear-armed ballistic missiles are the opposite of a deterrent to attack. In fact, their very deployment has the potential to launch World War III and precipitate human extinction – as a result of a false alarm. We’re not exaggerating.
→ read full article(Castellano) México DF Abole las Corridas de Toros
Asociación Animalista Libera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2012
Tenemos el placer de informaros de que hace apenas unos minutos, la Comisión de Administración Pública del Distrito Federal (México) acaba de aprobar la iniciativa para abolir las corridas de toros, ciudad donde se encuentra la plaza más grande del mundo.
→ read full article(Castellano) Panamá Prohíbe las Corridas de Toros
AnimaNaturalis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2012
“Quedan prohibidas las peleas de perros, las carreras entre animales, las lidias de toro, ya sean de estilo español o portugués, la creación, entrada, permanencia y funcionamiento en el territorio nacional de todo tipo de circo o espectáculo circense que utilice animales amaestrados de cualquier especie”.
→ read full articleThe WikiLeaks GiFiles: Stratfor Predicts Huge Oil Profits from Attack on Iran
Anissa Haddadi – International Business Times,
5 Mar 2012
WikiLeaks has started publishing more than five million emails hacked by Anonymous from the servers of Stratfor, a US intelligence gathering company. An email sent by Chris Farnham, senior officer for Stratfor, to an internal unnamed source inside the company titled “Israel/Iran Barak Hails Munitions Blast in Iran” provides details about who would benefit from an Israeli attack on Iran, and say such a plan would be motivated by economic factors.
→ read full article(Italian) La (Dis)Informazione a Senso Unico
Marinella Correggia, Il Manifesto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2012
Si Ripete la Stessa Operazione Mediatica: Come Per la «Guerra Umanitaria» in Libia
→ read full articleThe Future We Want? Between Hope and Despair on the Road to the Rio Earth Summit
Daniel Mittler, Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2012
The lack of spine is clearest in the last paragraph which calls for voluntary commitments announced at Rio to be stapled together in a “registry/compendium that will serve as an accountability framework.” In other words, there will be no enforcement or control. Your word will be taken at face value and the “accountability framework” will be the act of stapling all voluntary commitments together in one document. An invitation to greenwash, if there ever was one.
→ read full articleDoctors Sued For Creating ‘Valium Addicts’
Nina Lakhani – The Independent,
9 Jan 2012
Patients Take Legal Action After Being Damaged By Over-Prescription of Drugs – Doctors are being sued for creating prescription drug addicts amid claims they have failed to follow safety guidelines published more than 20 years ago. Lawyers and medical experts have reported an increase in clinical negligence cases by patients left physically and psychologically broken by “indefensible” long-term prescribing of addictive tranquillisers such as Valium, collectively known as benzodiazepines.
→ read full articleMoving from a War Economy to a Peace Economy
Mary Beth Sullivan – The Humanist,
26 Dec 2011
My partner, Bruce Gagnon, is the coordinator of the Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space and has been organizing around conversion since the 1980s. His typical question to any audience is: “What is the United States’ number one industrial export?” Audiences across the country shout out “weapons.” He then asks them to consider that if weapons are the number one industrial export, what is the global marketing strategy? “Endless war” becomes the refrain.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Passeio ao Zoológico: Sob Outra Ótica, Sob Outra Ética
Marcela Godoy, Agencia de Notícias de Direitos Animais - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2011
“Quando se trata de como os humanos exploram os animais, o reconhecimento de seus direitos requer abolição, não reforma (…) verdade dos direitos animais requer jaulas vazias, não mais espaçosas”. (Tom Regan, Jaulas Vazias)
Como bióloga e educadora, sempre acreditei nos zoológicos como ferramenta deseducativa. Meu repúdio a esse tipo de atividade fez com que eu me afastasse, durante anos, de uma visita a esses verdadeiros redutos de infelicidade animal.
UK: Who Are You Going To Believe? The Media?
Daniel Hind – Al Jazeera,
5 Dec 2011
The Leveson inquiry is asking questions of society that mainstream media must not be allowed to answer. Commentators have paid much less attention to the questions Leveson considers to be central. The media don’t want to host a discussion that is framed in constitutional terms. They don’t want their audiences to think too hard about what is meant by “the public interest” and they are frantic to ensure that any debate about checks and balances leaves their privileges unnoticed and intact.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Mente Animal e Tolerância
Marcela Godoy – ANDA-Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
21 Nov 2011
Descartes [em 1630] defendia a tese de que os animais eram meros autômatos, tal como os relógios, “desprovidos da mente e alma” e “incapazes de ter sensações” (Thomas, 2010 p. 43).
→ read full article(Portuguese) Os Gatos: Mitos e Fatos
Marcela Godoy, bióloga - Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
7 Nov 2011
Eles gostam de dormir empoleirados – às vezes nos incomodamos com esse hábito quando eles resolvem nos incluir nessa maneira peculiar de dormir. Quando em bandos, ou mesmo em dois, os gatos dormem empoleirados. Ficam uns sobre os outros. Se ele quiser dormir na sua cabeça, nas suas pernas ou na sua barriga, é porque ele o considera um igual. Sinta-se honrado.
→ read full articleCreate an Anonymous Website
Bill Rounds – How to Vanish,
24 Oct 2011
Anonymous speech is important, even for more mundane reasons than scathing political criticism. Advocates of medical marijuana, proponents of evolution, gay rights activists, critics of local police, and many others may need the protection of anonymous speech to protect themselves while they voice their opinion. Efforts to censor online speech are doomed to fail because people will find ways to publish unflattering material online without leaving any trace of identity behind.
→ read full article(French) Action et Réaction: Créer des Passerelles Avec Soi-Même
Heshmi Ferjani – UNSpecial,
24 Oct 2011
Chacun réagit à ce qui lui semble ne pas convenir à son mode de pensée, à ses habitudes, parfois à ce qui peut l’interpeler au plus profond de lui-même. La réaction exige de nous une énergie formidable : La force que je mets pour libérer une personne bloquée derrière une porte est incommensurable.
→ read full article(Italian) Libia Scontata
Johan Galtung – Il Manifesto,
3 Oct 2011
La rivolta scatenata dai ribelli di Bengasi contro Gheddafi è parte di un disegno neo-imperiale condotto in prima fila dalla Nato e dall’Europa per assumere il controllo delle risorse del Nordafrica.
→ read full articleThe Palestinians Go For Statehood
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service(1),
3 Oct 2011
Both Palestine and Israel claim that the other is denying their right to security. However, the Palestinians have also been denied in some shape or form every other internationally recognized human right, and that is so because the US has monopolized the mediator role, producing no tangible results according to the 1967 guidelines set forth by the UN.
→ read full articleUgandan Bishop Calls on Christian America to “Stop Exporting Hate”
Melanie Nathan – Gay USA,
26 Sep 2011
The work of Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, a retired Anglican Bishop from the Diocese of Western Uganda, has become increasingly vital over time, heightened by the intensifying persecution of homosexuals in his country. Taking the courageous step of ministering to LGBT people in his country, the Bishop is calling on America to “stop exporting hatred” as he continues to advocate for the global decriminalization of homosexuality.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to Commonwealth Foreign Ministers
Varios Organizations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2011
At the 2009 CHOGM, Sri Lanka’s candidature for hosting the meeting was deferred from 2011 to 2013 because of concerns about human rights abuses by the Sri Lankan government. While war-time abuses have ended, the situation in Sri Lanka continues to be characterised by serious human rights violations, including assault on democratic institutions, such as the media and trade unions.
→ read full articleFood Emergency: How the World Bank and IMF Have Made African Famine Inevitable
Rania Khalek - Alternet,
12 Sep 2011
Lending policies pushed by the World Bank and IMF transformed a self-sufficient, food-producing Africa into a continent vulnerable to food emergencies and famine. “Why, in a world that produces more than enough food to feed everybody, do so many – one in seven of us – go hungry?” — Oxfam
→ read full articleQuestions the Media Are Not Asking about Norway
Michael N. Nagler and Stephanie N. Van Hook – Metta Center for Nonviolence,
1 Aug 2011
The law enforcement entities dealing with the appalling massacre in and around Oslo last Friday have been understandably preoccupied with the question, did the perpetrator, Anders Behring Breivik, act alone. That is an important question for them, but it does nothing to help the rest of us understand and respond to this tragedy.
→ read full article(Portuguese) WSPA Faz Apelo Mundial Pela Proibição de Animais em Circos
Sociedade Mundial de Proteção Animal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
Animais não são adequados para espetáculos circenses – é o que afirma a WSPA (World Society for the Protection of Animals) ao debater sobre as medidas políticas que estão sendo tomadas no Brasil e no Reino Unido.
→ read full articleWhy the Pentagon Papers Matter Now
Daniel Ellsberg - Reader Supported News,
20 Jun 2011
“While we go on waging unwinnable wars on false premises, the Pentagon papers tell us we must not wait 40 years for the truth. Don’t wait until thousands more have died, before you go to the press and to Congress to tell the truth with documents that reveal lies or crimes or internal projections of costs and dangers. Don’t wait 40 years for it to be declassified, or seven years as I did for you or someone else to leak it.”
→ read full articleRay of Hope in Nepal’s Peace Process
Binaya Devkota - Rajdhani National Daily,
13 Jun 2011
Five years after the beginning of Nepal’s peace process, there’s a new turn. The main task of the peace process, integration of Maoist combatants, has been fixed to start. A meeting of the Special Committee headed by the prime minister on Monday approved a time-framed plan of action that promises to complete the groundwork by June 24 this year.
→ read full article5 WikiLeaks Hits of 2011 That Are Turning the World on Its Head — And That the Media Are Ignoring
Rania Khalek - AlterNet,
13 Jun 2011
Between Collateral Murder, the Iraq War Logs, the Afghan War Diary, and Cablegate, it appeared as though 2010 would go down in history as the most shocking year in WikiLeaks revelations. Is 2011 capable of exceeding 2010’s revelations? And what discoveries in 2011 has WikiLeaks unearthed thus far?
→ read full article(Italian) La Fame nel Mondo: Un Problema Locale e Globale
Giorgio Cingolani – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
23 May 2011
Non possiamo continuare a ignorare che le crisi alimentari, delle risorse energetiche ed economico-finanziarie sono collegate e strettamente in relazione con una crisi ecologica del pianeta senza precedenti.
→ read full article
May 15, 2011: 63 Years of Nakba (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Palestinian Youth Manifesto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2011
That the 15th of May 1948 never be forgot. And that Palestinians may have their freedoms and rights back; especially the right of return to the land of their ancestors, where they were born.
→ read full articleA Fair Wind for Clean Energy in Central America
Danilo Valladares – Inter Press Service-IPS,
25 Apr 2011
Soaring international prices for oil and gas are driving the expansion of renewable energies in Central America, a region that has plenty of untapped potential for producing hydroelectricity, wind power and geothermal energy.
→ read full articleTackling Fake Drugs Needs Technology and Collaboration
David Dickson and Anita Makri – Science & Development Network,
18 Apr 2011
Developing countries must be given all the scientific, technical and legal help they need to counter the growing trade in fake medicines.
→ read full articleThe Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens?
RSA Animate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
Does the internet actually inhibit, not encourage democracy? In this new RSA Animate, Evgeny Morozov presents an alternative take on ‘cyber-utopianism’ – the seductive idea that the internet plays a largely empancipatory role in global politics.
→ read full articleThis Shameful Abuse of Bradley Manning
Daniel Ellsberg – The Guardian,
14 Mar 2011
The WikiLeaks suspect’s mistreatment amounts to torture. Either President Obama knows this or he should make it his business.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Cercado por Protestos de Todos os Lados, o Japão Desiste da Caça às Baleias, em Plena Meia-Estação
Sociedade Mundial de Proteção Animal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
Após intensas manifestações de repúdio por parte de ativistas, o Japão abriu mão das suas atividades baleeiras no Santuário de Proteção do Oceano Antártico Sul, em plena meia-estação, no momento em que os países latino-americanos exigiram que aquela nação pusesse um fim à matança de baleias.
→ read full article
Changing Education Paradigms
Sir Ken Robinson – RSA Animate,
21 Feb 2011
This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA’s Benjamin Franklin award.
→ read full articleAlcohol Kills More Than AIDS, TB or Violence: WHO
Stephanie Nebehay – Reuters,
21 Feb 2011
Alcohol causes nearly 4 percent of deaths worldwide, more than AIDS, tuberculosis or violence, the World Health Organization warned on Friday [11 Feb 2011]. Rising incomes have triggered more drinking in heavily populated countries in Africa and Asia, including India and South Africa, and binge drinking is a problem in many developed countries, the United Nations agency said.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Brasil: Estudo Mostra Informações Sobre o Trabalho Escravo no Maranhão
Danilo Augusto, Radioagência NP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2011
Segundo dados da Comissão Pastoral da Terra (CPT), somente no Brasil existem aproximadamente 25 mil trabalhadores que vivem em condições semelhantes à de escravos. De acordo com informações do Atlas, o Maranhão é o que mais fornece força de trabalho escravo. A região do município de Açailândia, fronteira com o Pará, é apontada como de maior ocorrência. As atividades que mais utilizam a prática escrava são a pecuária e a indústria carvoeira.
→ read full article(Italian) Lumumba, l’africano che guardava a Rousseau
Daniele Barbieri – LiberAzione,
24 Jan 2011
Ci sono voluti 42 anni perchè il Belgio riconoscesse che dietro l’assassinio di Patrice Lumumba c’erano «alcuni membri del governo di allora». Il 17 gennaio sono 50 anni esatti dalla sua morte. Sarà ricordato in molte città (una porta oggi il suo nome: Lumumbashi) del Congo come in altre parti dell’Africa. La sua storia ha molto da dirci anche oggi perchè il colonialismo e il saccheggio del Terzo Mondo non sono mai cessati, hanno solo mutato volto e metodi…. Frantz Fanon, un grande intellettuale caraibico di nascita e algerino di elezione, aveva scritto: «se l’Africa fosse raffigurata come una pistola, il grilletto si troverebbe in Congo». Una profezia che si è avverata per Lumumba e continua a pesare anche dopo 50 anni.
→ read full articleCuban Medics in Haiti Put the World to Shame
Nina Lakhani, Ezili Dantò – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2011
Castro’s doctors and nurses are the backbone of the fight against cholera. They are the real heroes of the Haitian earthquake disaster, the human catastrophe on America’s doorstep which Barack Obama pledged a monumental US humanitarian mission to alleviate. Except these heroes are from America’s arch-enemy Cuba, whose doctors and nurses have put US efforts to shame.
→ read full article(Italian) Il Tramonto della Democrazia nell’era della Globalizzazione
Danilo Zolo, Jura Gentium – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2011
Il declino dei modelli classici e post-classici della democrazia
→ read full articleHow to Help the Two Koreas Become One
Michael N. Nagler & Stephanie N. Van Hook - Truthout,
27 Dec 2010
Anyone who studies conflict knows that there are two ways to go about resolving one. There is, of course, a violent path, which ultimately leads to war, but there is also a nonviolent route that leads to reconciliation and the resumption of normal ties…. As in any conflict large or small, one has to start with the assumption, so far conspicuously absent here, that the people of North Korea – yes, including their leadership – are rational.
→ read full articleCell Phone Security: Mobile Phone Taps
Bill Rounds J.D., HowToVanish – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2010
There has been considerable discussion lately about the ease of eavesdropping on cell phone conversations through mobile phone taps and the lack of cell phone security. There are many products and hacks available which allow for monitoring of cell phone activity. Is your phone bugged and what can you do to keep your private information from being intercepted?
→ read full article(Castellano) Honduras: Campesinos Bajo Ataque de Terratenientes y el Ejército
Red Morazánica de Información – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2010
Helicópteros, vehículos armados con ametralladoras y tanquetas antidisturbios, han sido parte del gran despliegue militar policial a la zona donde campesinos exigen se desmilitarice el departamento y les sean devueltas la tierras que les pertenecen.
→ read full articleHo’oponopono
Puanani Burgess – Yes! Magazine,
20 Dec 2010
How Hawaiian Tradition Sorts Out Family Disputes. Ho‘oponopono is a traditional Hawaiian way to make peace in families when there’s the kind of conflict that starts with something small and just gets bigger and bigger.
→ read full articleHow Journalists Help to Promote War – And What Can Be Done To Stop It
Daniel Trilling interviewing John Pilger – New Statesman,
13 Dec 2010
The War You Don’t See is about the media’s role in promoting and sanitising contemporary wars. Why make this film at this particular moment?
→ read full articleDaniel Ellsberg Says Boycott Amazon
Daniel Ellsberg - Antiwar.com,
6 Dec 2010
Open letter to Amazon.com Customer Service: December 2, 2010 – I’m disgusted by Amazon’s cowardice and servility in abruptly terminating today its hosting of the Wikileaks website, in the face of threats from Senator Joe Lieberman and other Congressional right-wingers. I want no further association with any company that encourages legislative and executive officials to aspire to China’s control of information and deterrence of whistle-blowing.
→ read full article(Italian) Il Rifiuto Della Carne Contro la Sofferenza Degli Animali
Marinella Correggia – Il Manifesto,
29 Nov 2010
«Da un punto di vista etico, metafisico e religioso, o tutta la vita souffrante viene salvata, o tutto è privo di senso; come la pietà è indivisibile, così la salvezza a cui dà diritto la sofferenza. È questa la difficoltà più grande del pensiero teologico».
→ read full articleWashington Post: War with Iran Would Rescue US Economy
Daniel Tencer – The Raw Story,
15 Nov 2010
Washington Post political correspondent David Broder has kind words for President Barack Obama in in his opinion column Sunday [7 Nov 2010], arguing that it isn’t the president’s fault the economy is stuck in reverse…. The president, who is “much smarter” and “more inspirational” than any of his opponents, could benefit from a confrontation with Iran because it would strike up a war machine that would pull the US out of economic stagnation, Broder argues.
→ read full article(Castellano) 12 de Octubre: ¿Cuándo Pedirá España Perdón?
Anibal Garzón – TeleSur,
18 Oct 2010
Alemania, Australia, Japón, Italia, El vaticano,… han pedido perdón por sus genocidios históricos. Mientras el estado español sigue celebrando el 12 de octubre, dia de invasión, como día nacional.
→ read full articleIndia: Buoyed by Growing Market, More Farmers Go Organic
Manipadma Jena – InterPress Service-IPS,
13 Sep 2010
“Certainly easier to pop open a can of chemical pesticide, mix water in proportion, spray, and be done,” admits Narayana. But since the 42-year-old farmer went organic, he has cheerfully gotten rid of shortcuts like using store-bought pesticides and now spends hours mixing anti-pest brews with ingredients that can be found at home or even in the fields. That means Narayana’s land and produce will no longer have the kind of toxins they were subjected to when he was still using chemicals to grow crops. Narayana himself will also escape being exposed to toxins that are commonly found in manufactured pesticides.
→ read full articleWhat’s Melting Greenland’s Glaciers?
Nazanine Moshiri – Al Jazeera,
13 Sep 2010
Well, climate change is one of the issues I am looking at while I am here. Just last month a giant iceberg four times the size of Manhattan snapped away from the Petermann ice shelf in the North West of Greenland. It was the largest Arctic break off in half a century and has got scientist around the world worried about what is going to happen next.
→ read full articleCatalonia Votes to Ban All Forms of Bullfighting in Nationalist Move
Anita Brooks – The Independent,
2 Aug 2010
Animal rights groups are celebrating, but fans say the ruling is nothing but a desire to be un-Spanish. In a tense, historic vote, Catalonia’s regional parliament yesterday banned Spain’s “national fiesta” – bullfighting, handing a victory to animal rights activists, who predicted the start of a bloodless era across the country.
→ read full articleOliver Stone Tells the Real Story of the Leftist Latin American Leaders Transforming the Continent
Daniela Perdomo - ICH,
19 Jul 2010
Stone’s new film traces the rise of Chávez, Lula, Evo, and others who see participatory democracy and cooperation between Latin American countries as the future.
→ read full article(French) Quel Retour à Marx Pour Penser Notre Temps?
Laurent Etre – l’Humanité,
31 May 2010
FACE-À-FACE AVEC : EDGAR MORIN, philosophe et sociologue, directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS et docteur honoris causa de nombreuses universités dans le monde ; ANDRÉ TOSEL, philosophe, spécialiste de Marx et des marxismes, professeur à l’université de Nice.
→ read full articleBack to Marx: How Can His Work Help Us to Understand Modern Times?
Laurent Etre – l’Humanité,
31 May 2010
The world economic crisis has ended the taboo on referring to Marx. More and more works are being published on the author of Das Kapital, and the press is publishing special sections on him.
→ 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 articleVisible from Space, Deadly on Earth: The Gas Flares of Nigeria
Daniel Howden in Yenagoa – The Independent,
3 May 2010
Shell’s activities in the West African country are under scrutiny.
→ read full articleLatin America Feels the “Garzón Effect”
Daniela Estrada – IPS,
26 Apr 2010
Latin America owes Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón, who is facing prosecution in his country for trying to investigate Franco-era abuses, for the groundbreaking invocation of legal principles that have led to trials for crimes against humanity in Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, Peru and Uruguay, human rights lawyers say.
→ 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 articleJOURNALISM’S SERVILITY TO POWER
Tapani Lausti - ZNet,
5 Apr 2010
As the latest NATO "surge" in Afghanistan progresses with the inevitable "regrettable" civilian casualties, the BBC is there following uncritically the military operation. No one critical of the NATO occupation and surge is allowed to appear in front of the cameras. BBC correspondents take everything at face value. They talk earnestly about "winning hearts and […]
→ read full article(SPANISH) EN DEFENSA DE CUBA
Red En defensa de la Humanidad*,
18 Mar 2010
El acoso económico y mediático al que está siendo sometida Cuba, aun antes del deceso del preso común Orlando Zapata, constituye un atentado contra los derechos humanos y políticos de un pueblo que decidió hacer un camino diferente. Exigimos respeto a los procesos internos del pueblo cubano para definir y ejercer su democracia.A propósito de […]
→ read full articlePENTAGON SEES A THREAT FROM ONLINE MUCKRAKERS
Stephanie Strom – The New York Times,
18 Mar 2010
To the list of the enemies threatening the security of the United States, the Pentagon has added WikiLeaks.org, a tiny online source of information and documents that governments and corporations around the world would prefer to keep secret. The Pentagon assessed the danger WikiLeaks.org posed to the Army in a report marked “unauthorized disclosure subject […]
→ read full articleSRI LANKA’S FORGOTTEN TAMILS
Melanie Gouby – Open Democracy,
17 Mar 2010
Rejected by the rest of the Tamil population and ignored by the Sinhalese authorities, tea workers who migrated from Tamil Nadu centuries ago are exploited in the plantations of the Sri Lankan highlands Her hands are cut and swollen from years of hard labour on the steep slopes of the tea plantation. She smiles, but […]
→ read full articleMALAYSIA & THAILAND: CIVIL SOCIETY AND ETHNIC CONFLICT
Daniel Semcesen , Pierre Nikolov – Centre Tricontinental,
5 Feb 2010
The importance of civil society for advancing peace efforts and outcomes generated increased and wide interest after the Cold war. During this era the number of armed intra-state and violent ethnic conflicts also increased dramatically. In Southeast Asia only Malaysia has avoided intra-state conflict and recurring ethnic violence. Thailand constitutes a typical regional case with […]
→ read full articleMOSSADEGH AND AHMADINEJAD: IRAN FACES ALMOST THE SAME DILEMMA AS 1953
Ardeshir Ommani - Iranian,
3 Feb 2010
There is a stark similarity between some aspects of the political atmosphere dominant over Iran today and those under Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh right before the U.S.-led coup of 1953 that resulted in the overthrow of the legitimate government of Iran and the establishment of a U.S.-puppet government of the Shah. In the period between […]
→ read full articleA MEMORY OF HOWARD
Daniel Ellsberg – Truthdig,
28 Jan 2010
I just learned that my friend Howard Zinn died today. Earlier this morning, I was being interviewed by the Boston Phoenix, in connection with the February release of a documentary in which he is featured prominently. The interviewer asked me who my own heroes were, and I had no hesitation in answering, first, “Howard Zinn.” […]
→ read full articleTHE LOVE THAT STILL DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME
Daniel Howden – The Independent,
11 Jan 2010
In the week that two Malawians go on trial for violating anti-gay laws, Daniel Howden finds that their experience is all too common in a continent of legalised homophobia. A whispering campaign is under way in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, accusing Paul Semugoma, a doctor, of being a predatory homosexual, actively recruiting younger men into his […]
→ read full articleNUCLEAR HERO’S ‘CRIME’ WAS MAKING US SAFER
Daniel Ellsberg,
3 Jan 2010
Mordechai Vanunu — my friend, my hero, my brother — has again been arrested in Israel on "suspicion" of the "crime" of "meeting with foreigners." I myself have been complicit in this offense, traveling twice to Israel for the express purpose of meeting with him, openly, and expressing support for the actions for which he […]
→ read full articleEGYPTIAN SECURITY FORCES ATTACK GAZA PROTESTERS
Max Ajl - Gaza Freedom March organizer,
1 Jan 2010
Cairo, Egypt, 31 Dec 2009 – Egyptian security forces were attacking protesters in Tahrir Square, at the core of downtown Cairo, after they sat down in the middle of a busy Cairo street, protesting the imprisonment of the people of Gaza. Others were literally barricaded inside their hotel, the entrance surrounded by steel riot barriers. […]
→ read full articleA MESSAGE FROM THE TALIBAN: WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ANARCHY IN AFGHANISTAN?
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,
7 Dec 2009
Obama’s new strategy which is the result of the same mentality that wants to continue the occupation of Afghanistan by military means, will add to the anarchy prevailing in the country. In fact, Americans are responsible for the chaotic situation. They handed over power to notorious warlords, venal officials and mafia-linked governors; But still, they […]
→ read full articleFROM SEATTLE TO DETROIT
Stephanie Guilloud - Project South Fall Newsletter,
28 Nov 2009
10 Lessons for Movement Building on the 10th Anniversary of the WTO ShutdownFor five days in 1999, 80,000 people from Seattle and from all over the country stopped the World Trade Organization from meeting. Despite extreme police and state violence, students, organizers, workers, and community members participated in a public uprising using direct actions, marches, […]
→ read full articleTHE CHILDREN OF FALLUJA
Martin Chulov and Shehani Fernando – The Guardian,
26 Nov 2009
Doctors are dealing with an increase in chronic deformities in infants in Falluja, where heavy munitions were used in 2004. A Video from The Guardian 4:29-Min VideoCLICK TO VIEW – GUARDIAN.CO.UK
→ read full article“PIG HELL” AT WAL-MART AND COSTCO SUPPLIER CAPTURED ON VIDEO
Martha Rosenberg - Mercy for Animals (MFA),
18 Nov 2009
“When he bolted her the first time, she didn’t die. She just stood there looking stunned as blood trickled from her forehead. She then got her bearings and tried to turn and run.” “The gas cart was filled to the brim with pigs today, a total of 39, including 9 large pigs that were at […]
→ read full articleNOSTALGIA FOR THE OTTOMANS: DISILLUSIONED WITH EUROPE, TURKEY LOOKS EAST
Daniel Steinvorth in Istanbul - SPIEGEL,
12 Nov 2009
As European opposition to EU membership for Turkey grows, Ankara is looking to forge closer ties to its neighbors. Turkey wants to once again become a leading power in the Middle East — but its relationship with Israel may suffer as a result.He was the last heir to the throne of the Ottoman Empire, a […]
→ read full articleCOULD REGULATION EASE FEARS OVER LAND GRABS?
Busani Bafana - IPS,
28 Oct 2009
The ‘land rush’ across Africa by international investors should be regulated to protect smallholder farmers from deals that could leave them landless and hungry.Farmer organisations, civil society representatives and researchers at a debate at the European Development Days expressed concern about the impact of selling or leasing large tracts of land to foreign governments and […]
→ read full articleCUBA FACES OBAMA ADMINISTRATION CONTRADICTONS
Salim Lamrani,
28 Oct 2009
On September 23, 2009, President Barack Obama addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations for the first time in a speech hailed by the entire international community. Obama acknowledged that the hyper-interventionism of the U.S. in the internal affairs of other countries was a serious mistake. "No nation should be forced to accept the […]
→ read full article“PEACEMAKERS” PROGRAM PROVIDES TRAINING TO VOLUNTEERS AND PROFESSIONALS
Daniela Silva,
23 Oct 2009
The project is the result of a partnership among several internationally known organizations working in Brazil, including institutions such as the International University for Peace (UNIPAZ), Afro Reggae, and UNESCO, among others. The program aims to train people who are engaged in areas such as education for peace, citizenship campaigns, conflict mediation, and human rights.The […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) ‘LE MONDE’: LULA INVENTA UNIVERSIDADE DO SÉCULO 21
Daniela Fernandes,
15 Oct 2009
Na edição desta quarta-feira, o jornal francês Le Monde publica uma elogiosa reportagem sobre educação no Brasil, na qual afirma que, com sua política para a área, o presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva "inventa a universidade brasileira do século 21". Em um caderno especial sobre educação, o correspondente do jornal em São Paulo, Philippe […]
→ read full articleMILITARY COUP IN HONDURAS: IS IT AGAINST OBAMA TOO?
Antonio Jarquin (TRANSCEND Member), Wim Dierckxsens, Paulo Nakatani, Paulo Campanario, Reinaldo Carcanholo & Remy Herrera,
22 Jul 2009
Two Events, Three Contexts, the Answer, Two Premises, Two Questions, Two Consequences, and Five Conclusions and Actions Events (1): Honduras (Central America): It is inhabited by 7.5 million people. It is one of the smallest and poorest countries in Latin America (poverty rate is 60 percent). It was called "Banana Republic" because it was absolutely […]
→ read full article(SPANISH) GOLPE MILITAR EN HONDURAS: ¿ES TAMBIÉN CONTRA OBAMA?
Dr. Wim Dierckxsens (Holanda), Dr. Antonio Jarquin T (Nicaragua), Dr. Reinaldo Carcanholo (Brasil), Dr. Paulo Campanario (Brasil), Dr. Paulo Nakatani (Brasil),
22 Jul 2009
Dos Hechos, Tres Escenarios, la Respuesta, Dos Premisas, Dos Preguntas, Dos Consecuencias y Cinco ConclusionesHechos: Honduras, 7.5 millones de habitantes, uno de los países más pequeños y pobres de A. Latina (60 % de pobreza), llamada “Banana Republic” por el control absoluto que ejerció la “United Fruit Company” de USA. Base de lanzamiento de operaciones […]
→ read full articleTHE G20 OUGHT TO BE INCREASED TO 6 BILLION
Daniele Archibugi,
8 Jul 2009
The G20 is important in the eyes of the world. Its pronouncements could decide whether you can get a job, refinance a mortgage, get a loan if you are a small company and, in the poorer parts of the world, even put your kids to bed with a full stomach. Is the G20 really the […]
→ read full articleEXPOSÉ – ANIMALS SKINNED ALIVE: A SHOCKING LOOK INSIDE CHINESE FUR FARMS
PETA-People for Ethical Treatment of Animals,
3 Jul 2009
Undercover investigators from Swiss Animal Protection/EAST International recently toured fur farms in China’s Hebei Province, and it quickly became clear why outsiders are banned from visiting. They found that many animals are still alive and struggling desperately when workers flip them onto their backs or hang them up by their legs or tails to skin […]
→ read full articleEXCLUSIVE: THE RETURN OF BLOOD DIAMONDS
Daniel Howden, Africa Correspondent,
26 Jun 2009
Six years ago, the world came together to stop a trade in gems that was fuelling civil war in Africa. Now the architect of the deal has quit, warning that jewels ‘have blood all over them’ again. The leading architect of the international system to stop the trade in blood diamonds has warned that the […]
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