Articles by Pravda
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Portugal Goes Left
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
30 Nov 2015
After four years of austerity, or better, social terrorism, with pensions slashed, salaries reduced, taxation increased and no hope of anything better for the future, the Left Parties united and said a resounding NO! and refused to accept the Government presented by the PP-PSD, which fell in a vote of no confidence with the majority of Parliament against.
→ read full article(Português) Goldman Sachs – OTAN S/A
Manlio Dinucci, Il Manifesto - Pravda,
14 Sep 2015
O mais poderoso banqueiro privado do mundo, Lloyd Blankfein, presidente do Goldman Sachs, disse que “faço o trabalho de Deus” (sic). Para punir os pecadores, recorreu aos serviços de Anders Fogh Rasmussen, ex-secretário-geral da OTAN.
→ read full article(Português) Há Algo de Podre no Reino do Euro
Yanis Varoufakis, Financial Times - Pravda,
3 Aug 2015
Há odiosa restrição à soberania nacional, imposta pela “troika” de credores, se os ministros gregos não têm acesso a departamentos dos próprios ministérios. Quando dívidas oficiais insustentáveis geram perda de soberania, que abre espaço para que se imponham políticas subótimas em nações já estressadas, logo se vê que há algo de podre no reino do euro.
→ read full article(Português) Varoufakis: Por Que a Alemanha Recusa-se a Aliviar a Dívida Grega
Yanis Varoufakis – Pravda,
13 Jul 2015
A Europa não sabe como responder à crise financeira. Deve preparar-se para expulsar um país (“Grexit”), ou para federalizar-se?
→ read full article(Português) Sonhos norte-americanos, do G1 a Bilderberg
Pepe Escobar – Pravda,
15 Jun 2015
11 Jun 2015 – *Qual a conexão entre a reunião do G7 na Alemanha, a visita do presidente Putin à Itália, o clube Bildemberg reunido na Áustria e as negociações do Acordo de Parceria Transatlântica de Comércio e Investimento (APT) [Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)] – o acordo de livre comércio entre EUA e União Europeia -, em Washington?
→ read full articleAnimals: The “Personhood” Issue
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
4 May 2015
29 Apr 2015 – A recent case in the USA concerning the personhood of chimpanzees and therefore bringing into question the legality of their detainment in a laboratory follows on from a ruling in India two years ago about the status of dolphins as “non-human persons” enjoying specific rights. To what extent should this apply to other animals?
→ read full articleCIA, FBI, NSA and All the King’s Men Work to Topple Brazilian President Rousseff
Lyuba Lulko - Pravda,
16 Mar 2015
Over the recent years, BRICS has become the main geopolitical threat to the United States. One of today’s top issues for the Western press is to retrieve balance in the global monetary and financial system. This is a potent threat that BRICS poses to the US and the US dollar.
→ read full article(Português) Alternativas à experimentação animal no Brasil
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
2 Feb 2015
29 jan 2015 ‒ Congresso Nacional se prepara para aprovar R$ 16,7 milhões para alternativas à experimentação animal na próxima semana. A Humane Society International felicita os parlamentares pela alteração do orçamento a favor dos animais, da ciência e dos consumidores.
→ read full articleAmerica Stumbles through another Year, Spreading Chaos and Trivia Everywhere in Its Path
John Chuckman – Pravda,
5 Jan 2015
In another example of chaos mixed with farce, the United States pretends to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and while that charade continues, planes loaded with American weapons keep flying out of Turkey to make the seeming lunatics even stronger.
→ read full articleGoodbye G8, Hello BRICS. Out with the Old, In with the New
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
18 Nov 2014
From one side, a tired, imperialist and arrogant top-down, holier-than-thou approach with political strings attached; on the other, genuine friendship, cooperation, development, the desire for sincere cultural and economic ties. From the former, deployment and military bases; from the latter, development and education.
→ read full article(Português) Cuba: 23ª Votação na ONU Contra Bloqueio Evidencia Isolamento dos EUA
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
3 Nov 2014
As votações na ONU contra o bloqueio econômico que os Estados Unidos mantêm contra Cuba evidenciam o isolamento internacional de Washington. 188 países votam A Favor de levantar o bloqueio. 2 Contra: EUA e Israel. 3 Abstenções: Palau, Ilhas Marshall e Micronesia. Votação idêntica à do ano passado.
→ read full articleThe Dirty Politics of the Nobel Peace Prize
Peter Baofu, Ph.D. - Pravda,
27 Oct 2014
The award of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize to Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai and India’s Kailash Satyarthi raises anew the persistent question concerning the dirty politics of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in the past decades. There are 3 major evidences to back up this claim.
→ read full articleEU Backpedaling on Anti-Russian Sanctions Not to Freeze in Winter
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
According to Russia’s permanent representative to the EU Vladimir Chizhov, the damage from the EU sanctions for EU economies is comparable to the damage that they cause to the Russian economy.
→ read full article(Português) Keynes Está Morto – Viva Marx!
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
22 Sep 2014
Muitos economistas liberais viram uma nova aurora para o keynesianismo no desastre financeiro de 2008. Quase seis anos depois, já é claro que as muito aguardadas prescrições keynesianas foram e são completamente ignoradas. Por quê?
→ read full article9-11, US Global Domination, NATO and Full Spectrum Dominance
John Robles II - Pravda,
15 Sep 2014
The recent growth and developments of organizations such as the Russian led Customs Union, ALBA, UNASUR, MERCOSUR, the BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to the devastated US economy on the verge of complete collapse and waning US influence worldwide, it is clear why the US is growing desperate.
→ read full articlePenetrating the Darkness Covering Two Malaysian Airplane Disasters
John Chuckman - Pravda,
8 Sep 2014
The second great mystery is the US silence surrounding the disappearance, despite being the very nation able to offer the best information from the world’s most sophisticated surveillance radars and spy satellites.
→ read full article(Português) Paradigma Mecanicista versus Paradigma Organicista
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
13 Jan 2014
No final da vida, Michel Foucault ministrou um curso no Collège de France manifestando simpatia pelo neoliberalismo. Como anarquista, Foucault vislumbrou no neoliberalismo uma arma de destruição do Estado. Na verdade, o neoliberalismo enfraquece o Estado e o transforma em instrumento para seus objetivos.
→ read full articleEuropean Union Drives Portugal into Third World
Nicolas Bonnal - Pravda,
13 Jan 2014
What did the membership in the European Union bring the countries not belonging to the Anglo-Saxon civilization? What conclusions should be made by neophytes in the post-Soviet area that are so eager to embrace foreign, in geopolitical terms, mentality of Brussels? Famous French philosopher Nicolas Bonnal talked about it using the example of Portugal.
→ read full articleSyria: Who Is the West Supporting?
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
6 Jan 2014
After over a year of anti-Assad hype, lies, fiction peddled as truth, false flag events, manipulation of facts and photographic evidence, the west has gone suddenly silent on Syria. What is going on, and who or what is the west supporting? Those playing soccer with the heads of their victims?
→ read full articleThe West Needs to Bite Ukraine Off from Russia at All Costs
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
12 Dec 2013 – Tension in Kiev seems to be subsiding. The city police are vacating the city and government agencies from activists of another fading color revolution. Ara Stepanyan, the executive secretary of the Academy of Geopolitical Issues, talked about it in a live feed.
→ read full articleThe Story of Malala and Its Misuse for the Western Culture of War
Peter Baofu, Ph.D. - Pravda,
2 Dec 2013
The story of Malala Yousafzai, the 16-year old Pakistani activist, is tragic, not because she endured the assassination attempt by the Taliban in 2012, but because her historical narrative has been “misused” for the Western culture war around the world, especially as a propaganda tool for the “war on terror” in the Muslim World (and beyond).
→ read full articleQatar World Cup: Over How Many Dead Bodies?
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
25 Nov 2013
Qatar, one of the richest countries in the world, just because it sits on massive resources of hydro-carbons, and the pariah of the international community with its alleged funding and aiding of terrorist groups in Chechnya, Libya and Syria, has been accused in a recent report of abusing migrant workers and having a deplorable safety record. Is this what FIFA stands for?
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia, the Hell of Migrant Workers
Giovanni Giacalone - Pravda,
18 Nov 2013
The victims include skilled and unskilled workers of different religion and nationality, mainly from Asia. Christians, Hindus, Muslims, from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Philippines, Indonesia. Young adults leaving their home countries to look for a better future abroad; men and women often with children to support back home.
→ read full articleThe Plight of Benin’s Vidomègon Children
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
18 Nov 2013
Not surprisingly, the name “Vidomègon” will probably only raise an eyebrow among readers who find the word strange, not because it describes the plight of over one hundred thousand children, mainly girls, sold into slavery, prostitution and child pornography rings from Western Africa, undergoing rape, mutilation and murder.
→ read full articleThe Portuguese and the Crisis: An Analysis
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
18 Nov 2013
The key word for the survival of Portugal over all these years is “solidariedade”. In English, it is “solidarity”. This informal manifestation of socialism is endemic in Portuguese society, and persists whatever the social or economic climate. It is self-regulatory, it does not need a top-down approach.
→ read full articleSyria: From Fermenting Uprising to Delivering Polio
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
11 Nov 2013
Sometimes it truly seems as if the demented Armageddonists and George W. Bush’s “Crusaders” have shaped a “New World Order” which has regressed to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Conquest, War, Famine and Death.
→ read full articleSenator John McCain: Russians Deserve Better Than Putin
US Sen. John McCain - Pravda,
23 Sep 2013
“I am pro-Russian, more pro-Russian than the regime that misrules you today. I respect your dignity and your right to self-determination. I believe you should live according to the dictates of your conscience, not your government. I believe you deserve the opportunity to improve your lives in an economy that is built to last and benefits the many, not just the powerful few. You should be governed by a rule of law that is clear, consistently and impartially enforced and just.”
→ read full articleUS To Create Two Major Economic Unions without Russia and China
Yuri Skidanov – Pravda,
29 Jul 2013
By early 2013 a long-term strategic goal of the U.S. foreign policy became clear. The goal is to create two economic unions to confront the growing power of the BRICS member countries and form two large markets under the control of the United States in the Atlantic and Pacific areas without the participation of China and Russia.
→ read full articleHow The G8 Joint Statement Should Read
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
24 Jun 2013
For decades, an evil clique of nations controlled by the corporate elite whose goal was and is hegemony over the world’s resources – its capital – either installed governments or else closed ranks around them, neutering any socially progressive vectors by nipping them in the bud.
→ read full articlePythagoras and His Theory of Reincarnation
Igor Bukker - Pravda,
17 Jun 2013
“According to Pythagoras, the human soul can migrate from one human body to another, but also to the bodies of other creatures, such as animals or even plants. With each new incarnation, the soul loses the memory of the past. So every time we all live our lives as if we live for the first time. He died in 497 BC. in Metapontum, a town in southern Italy.
→ read full article(Português) No Brasil, Dono da Igreja Universal Lidera Lista dos Pastores Evangélicos Mais Ricos do País
Antonio Carlos Lacerda - Pravda,
18 Feb 2013
Famosa por seus rankings de milionários pelo mundo, a revista norte-americana “Forbes” publicou a lista os pastores evangélicos mais ricos do Brasil. Ela é encabeçada de longe pelo líder da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus, bispo Edir Macedo, com riqueza estimada em US$ 950 milhões (cerca de R$ 1,9 bilhão) e dono de empresas que incluem, entre outras, a Rede Record de Televisão, o jornal “Folha Universal” e uma gravadora de música gospel.
→ read full article[Which version do you choose to believe?] Citizens of Poorest Countries Are Happiest in the World
Sergei Vasilenkov - Pravda,
21 Jan 2013
[From TMS Editor: Gallup’s version shows a strong bias in favor of South American and poorer countries.]
Gallup, The American Institute of Public Opinion, conducted a study to find out which country had the happiest citizens. The survey results were striking as it was discovered that citizens of the poorest countries were the happiest. The list of the happiest countries was topped by El Salvador, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Trinidad and Tobago. What is the secret of Hispanic happiness?
Iceland 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 articleWill Someone Speak Out for the Heroic Libyan People?
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
12 Nov 2012
The heroic people of Libya fight on against the occupation of their beloved country by NATO and by their Islamist terrorists who have visited terror on peaceful communities living together side-by-side for decades. Let us take a look at the situation today and apportion the blame.
→ read full articleAn Important Icelandic Referendum – the Media Remains Silent
Mauro Santayana - Pravda,
5 Nov 2012
The citizens of Iceland voted in a referendum, on Saturday (20 Oct 2012), with about 70% of the voters. The basic text of its new constitution, drafted by 25 delegates, almost all ordinary men, chosen by direct vote of the people, included the nationalization of its natural resources. During these few years, in which the Icelanders resisted against the harassment of large international banks, the international media have been conveniently silent about what is happening in Reykjavik. It is an eloquent sign that Icelanders may be paving the way to a peaceful world revolution of the people.
→ read full articleRussia to Spend Over 100 Billion Rubles on Nuclear Weapons
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2012
Russia plans to spend 101.15 billion rubles on nuclear weapons in 2013-2015, the head of the Defense Committee of the State Duma Vladimir Komoyedov said.
→ read full article9/11: A Geo-political Monster
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
17 Sep 2012
The victims of 9/11 are not only encountered in New York but also in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Libya and today, in Syria; campaigns created and wars waged on the back of the most shocking example of the manipulation of fear in the history of humankind. The legacy of 9/11 is therefore its consequences: torture, rape, murder, illegal detention, war crimes, atrocities, sodomy, urination in food, sleep deprival, setting dogs on detainees, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, racism…the list goes on and on and on and reads like a shopping list for Satan.
→ read full articlePost-Qathafi Libya…Another Fine Mess, NATO
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
27 Aug 2012
Congratulations to William Hague, Hillary Clinton and the sickening little wannabe Napoleons who rule France these days, desperately trying to claw back some international prestige. Let us compare Gaddafi’s Libya with FUKUS [France-UK-US] Libya… Nice one, NATO, nice one… Chuckle smugly and look over your shoulders. Karma time’s a-coming!
→ read full articleBan Ki-moon Ignores U.S. And Israel and Attends the NAM Summit
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
The secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, will attend the 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to be held in Tehran, the Iranian capital. Nearly one hundred members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) have indicated their willingness to take part in the 16th Summit of this entity which will run from 26 to 31 Aug, 2012.
→ read full articleKiller Bug in Cambodia: Latest
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
23 Jul 2012
A joint investigation launched by the WHO-World Health Organization, the Cambodian Health Ministry, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge has drawn up some conclusions on the killer disease with a very high mortality rate in Cambodia. It has been confirmed that the severe illness is a very severe form of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease.
→ read full articleAustralian Aborigines Learn By Cuban Method
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
A total of 10 Australian aborigines between 25 and 53 years of age ended their basic studies of reading and writing through the Cuban literacy method, “Yo sí puedo” (yes I can), José Chala, coordinator of the program in this nation confirmed today [6 Jul 2012].
→ read full articleUNASUR: A Latin American Success Story
Olivia Kroth - Pravda,
16 Jul 2012
Simón Bolívar, El Libertador, who liberated Bolívia, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela from the yoke of Spanish colonialism, had already envisioned a federation of Latin American nations as early as the beginning of the 19th century. Two centuries later, the Liberator’s dream has come true.
→ read full articleThe Grand Prix, Western Hypocrisy and the Gulf States
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
23 Apr 2012
Ahead of the Formula One race this weekend, arrests and cases of torture by the authorities have been rife, the use of shotguns against civilians has been widespread. Illegally detained citizens protesting against the murderous regime in Bahrain are denied access to lawyers and due legal process. Pre-dawn raids, discharging of firearms, detention in medieval conditions, torture chambers… never mind. Bahrain is cool. So, where is the invasion? Where are the special forces? Where is the demonology in the media? Nowhere, of course.
→ read full articleChavez, Morales, Correa: Latin American Power Trio
Olivia Kroth - Pravda,
23 Apr 2012
As a socialist tide sweeps the Latin American continent, three outstanding leaders of the New Left have emerged, the power trio of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, Bolivia’s Evo Morales and Rafael Correa in Ecuador. Twenty-first century socialism in Latin America is founded on strong moral and ethical principles such as fraternity and solidarity. One of Hugo Chavez’s favorite sayings is, “The world needs a new moral architecture.”
→ read full article(Portuguese) Síria, e os “Nojentos” BRICS
Pepe Escobar, Asia Times - Pravda,
13 Feb 2012
Um coro grego de «incomodados», «repugnados» e «ultrajados» saudou, como bem se poderia prever, o duplo veto dos BRICS China e Rússia ao projeto de resolução do Conselho de Segurança da ONU para impor mudança de regime na Síria. Logo em seguida, em fila, Burhan Ghalyun, fantoche de Paris, chefe do Conselho Nacional Sírio (CNS) – grupo da oposição guarda-chuva – convocou os países «amigos do povo sírio». Todos sabem quem são: EUA, Grã-Bretanha, França, Israel e dois membros do Conselho de Cooperação do Golfo (CCG): o Qatar e a Arábia Saudita. Com amigos como esses, o «povo sírio» não precisa de inimigos.
→ read full articleMcDonald’s Goes Belly Up in Bolivia
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2012
McDonald’s leaves Bolivia healthier forever! It is the first Latin-American country that will remain without any McDonald’s, and the first country in the world where the company has to close because it persists in having their numbers in the red for over a decade.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Bancos Apossam-se da Europa
Adriano Benayon - Pravda,
19 Dec 2011
A oligarquia financeira está empurrando, goela abaixo da União Européia (UE), um “acordo” que estabelece regras rígidas para que a Europa seja governada (ou desgovernada), de forma absoluta, por bancos, liderados pelo Goldman Sachs, de Nova York. Dois poderes caracterizam o Estado-Nação: criar dinheiro e governar a política fiscal. O primeiro já não existia para os europeus, e o segundo está sendo cassado com o presente “acordo”.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Cuba: País Com Melhor Desenvolvimento Humano da América Latina
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2011
O Fundo de População das Nações Unidas (UNFPA em inglês), na apresentação do Informe sobre o Estado da População Mundial 2011, além de analisar o fato de que o mundo chegou aos 7 bilhões de habitantes, assegurou que Cuba é a nação com mais alto desenvolvimento humano latino-americano, chegando a afirmar que conta com um desenvolvimento equivalente a um quarto de século de avanço em relação aos demais países da América Latina e do Caribe.
→ read full articleIsrael Demolished Palestinian Village in the West Bank
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2011
25 Nov 2011 – All the houses of the Bedouin village of Deqeiqa, south of Hebron, received the Military Order of demolition in a another example of the Israeli expulsion policy in the occupied West Bank, according to denouncements by human rights organizations. This village, situated in the impoverished desert hills south of Hebron, is home to about 400 people who live on cattle-raising and have no electricity or even no running water.
→ read full articleThe Kurdish Vicious Circle of Former Ottoman Empire
Vadim Trukhachev - Pravda,
5 Dec 2011
An epoch-making event took place in Turkey. For the first time since the establishment of the Turkish Republic, its prime minister officially apologized for mass killings of the Kurds. At the same time, the Turkish police conducted a raid against the Kurds. What stance does Turkey have on this issue? Will the country recognize the existence of the national minority on its territory? It goes about as many as 20 million people.
→ read full articleAboriginals in Australia
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2011
Aboriginals in Australia, a little-known story. Since 1788, British colonization looted the land of those who over thousands of years were distributed in more than 400 peoples or tribes that lived as hunters and gatherers, without writing their own history, transmission was based on oral history and culture.
→ read full articleTrojan Horse of Goldman Sachs Digs Into Eurozone
Vitaly Salnik - Pravda,
21 Nov 2011
In 2001, when Greece switched to the euro, Goldman Sachs assisted Athens in receiving a multi-billion-dollar loan. The transaction was registered as a currency conversion operation. Manipulations with statistics gave Greece an opportunity to make everyone believe that the country was meeting the EU’s requirements regarding the budget deficit. The Goldman Sachs technologies gave Greece an opportunity not to reflect the real state of affairs in statistics. As for Mario Monti, he had served as a European Commissioner for anti-monopoly policies in 1994-2004. In 2005, he was appointed an international advisor at Goldman Sachs.
→ read full article(Portuguese) No Brasil, Executivos do Banco Panamericano São Banidos do Sistema Financeiro por até 20 Anos
Antonio Carlos Lacerda - Pravda,
14 Nov 2011
No Brasil, o Banco Central (BC) decidiu banir de atuar no Sistema Financeiro Nacional por até 20 anos os principais executivos e conselheiros do Banco PanAmericano, que foram considerados responsáveis ou omissos pelo rombo de R$ 4,3 bilhões.
→ read full article(Portuguese) No Brasil, Máquina Destrói Câncer de Pulmão sem Cortes e sem Dor
Antonio Carlos Lacerda - Pravda,
7 Nov 2011
No procedimento novo, cuja denominação técnica é radioterapia estereotáxica extra-crânio (SDRT, na sigla em inglês), feixes finos e precisos de radiação elevada provocam a necrose das células tumorais. Três sessões de pouco mais de uma hora, aplicadas com intervalo de dois dias, são suficientes para destruir o câncer de pulmão, o tipo de neoplasia que mais mata no Brasil e no mundo, segundo o Instituto Nacional do Câncer (Inca).
→ read full articleBisexual Males Startle Scientists
Natalia Sinitsa Yoki - Pravda,
3 Oct 2011
Society has long refused to recognize male bisexuality. Bisexual men were believed to be gay who from time to time allow an affair with a woman. Science proved that bisexuals do exist in pure form. However, they admit that the society will not soon begin to understand the nuances of sexuality.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Brasil: Apoio Chega a 30 Países Latino-Americanos e 38 Africanos
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2011
A cooperação com países das Américas do Sul, Central, do Norte e do Caribe conta com cerca de 390 projetos e atividades isoladas, em diferentes fases de execução, com 30 países em desenvolvimento. Já a cooperação técnica com a África é feita com 38, dos quais 22 fazem parte do grupo de Países de Menor Desenvolvimento Relativo (PMDR). O orçamento da cooperação na África supera US$ 66 milhões.
→ read full articleWhy the World’s Big Leaders Lie
Marcelo Barros - Pravda,
20 Jun 2011
The lies of the powerful are of various kinds. There are those of a personal character, as when once elected, politicians forget or deny campaign promises. There are lies with economic content. And there are those who justify or provoke wars, massacres of entire peoples and countries launching into inconceivable and meaningless adventures, as did George Bush and now the governments that coordinate military action in Libya and other countries.
→ read full articleUN Sends Discouraging Word to Second Freedom Flotilla
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
Freedom Flotilla II Activists reject UN call to discourage initiative “Road to Gaza.” The second Freedom Flotilla sails the third week of June bound for the Gaza Strip. The UN Secretary-General last week called on Israel to “act responsibly” and avoid engaging in violence in this new attempt to break the blockade, but urged the leaders in Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Belgium, Holland, Ireland, Sweden and Germany to convince the pro-Palestinian organizations not to participate in Freedom Flotilla II.
→ read full articleU.S. Militarization in Latin America Condemned
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
Conference condemns the militarization of Latin America by U.S. It is now necessary to consider the military bases, the actions of paramilitaries in Colombia, the different forms of state terrorism employed, the presence of U.S. troops in Haiti and the situation of Mexico, facing a war between drug trafficking cartels, which has left over 37,000 dead since December 2006.
→ read full articleMladic Arrest: What about the NATO War Criminals?
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
30 May 2011
Ratko Mladic has been arrested and his extradition to the International Penal Court is under way. As the NATO leaders make their victory speeches, let us ask this question: When is NATO going to stand in the dock and when are its leaders going to answer for their crimes? The answer in a world without international law is very simple: Never.
→ read full articleAre We in The Presence of the Fourth Reich?
Basem Tajeldine - Pravda,
30 May 2011
William I. Robinson says: “You cannot currently qualify the U.S. regime as fascist. However, all the conditions and processes are present and being propagated.” But it can be said that the conditions for revolutionary possibilities in the capitalist centers of the world are being created. The popular uprisings in Europe have begun to spread to Greece, Spain, Portugal, and possibly to France and Britain. The idea is correct that capitalism in crisis becomes more violent. It resembles a cornered and wounded animal that attacks because of fear and the instinct for survival. The violence of capital in crisis is the act of survival.
→ read full articleThe Tragic Fate of the Baghdad Museum
Enrique Gonzalez-Manet - Pravda,
2 May 2011
Only the memory remains of the creations, mostly carvings and sculptures, which were left by the primary creators from the times of the Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians and Hittites, almost 3,000 years BC. This has been one of the consequences of the invasion and conquest of Iraq by the Empire a few years ago. They left nothing of value except the winged lions of granite because they weigh 25 tons each. Pieces that are real jewels of the most remote antiquity have begun to appear in Los Angeles and New York.
→ read full articlePortugal – Crisis, what crisis?
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
11 Apr 2011
After Prime Minister José Sócrates presented his resignation to President Anibal Silva on Wednesday [23 Mar 2011], the Portuguese mass media indicates a new legislative election at the end of May. However, this is not the only option open to the President. After decades of mismanagement, reality slams Portugal square in the face. What happens now?
→ read full articleGypsies: The Mystical Tribe
Igor Bukker - Pravda,
11 Apr 2011
The International Roma, (Gypsy) Day was founded at the first World Gypsy Congress, which took place in London on April 8, 1971. The congress gathered representatives from 30 countries. The national symbols of the gypsies – the flag and the anthem – were approved at the congress. The gypsies of the whole world became one single nation.
→ read full articleGlobal Food Prices: Panic?
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
14 Mar 2011
That a system that rewards investment in speculative concepts for the bolder members of society creates wealth and income, no problem for those who wish to gamble. Yet that a system which turns the entire macro-economic mechanism into a huge bet, devoid of any fundamentals, in which the real life consequences are tangible and dramatic not for the speculators but for the public at large, wholly and totally unacceptable it is.
→ read full articleLibya: The Rest of the Story
Tony Cartalucci - Pravda,
7 Mar 2011
Libyan opposition literally running protests from Washington.
→ read full articleBrazil to Produce Generic Version of Medication for AIDS and Hepatitis
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
Approximately 64,000 patients with AIDS and 1,500 with hepatitis make use of tenofovir in Brazil. The first national batch of the medication will be available for patients in late March. Domestic production will represent a savings of approximately £410 million to the country.
→ read full articleCemetery Attack on Children: Israelis Cross the Red Line
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
28 Feb 2011
16 Feb 2011 – An Israeli bulldozer at the gate of a Bedouin cemetery at Al-Araqib in the Negev Desert advanced against children, injuring some of them. The source is credible, and historically accompanies its accusations with photographs. Where on this planet would a bulldozer be deployed to injure children at a cemetery? Why, Israel, where else?
→ read full articleBelgium: It’s the French Fries Revolution
Timofei Belov – Pravda,
21 Feb 2011
Belgium overtakes Iraq as holding the record for the longest period without a Government. The population, fed up with the bickering among the politicians, is to launch a Revolution this Thursday [17 Feb 2011] … not a Red Revolution, or a colour revolution, but a Revolution in honour of the country’s national dish – pommes frites, or French Fries…
→ read full articleUNESCO Special Envoy Recognises Cuban Humanitarian Work in Haiti
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
Michaelle Jean, Special Envoy for Haiti of the UNESCO, emphasised the support received from Cuba in the matter of health to the Caribbean country, devastated by an earthquake a year ago. “Whenever we talk about health, we cannot forget the support of that country [Cuba] and this brotherly people,” said Jean, former governor general of Canada, while recognizing the importance of maintaining that link, as somewhat fundamental.
→ read full articleU.S. With Corporate Media Tries to Lead Iran Protests
Iroel Sánchez, Rebellion - Pravda,
21 Feb 2011
Hillary Clinton referred to them as the Iranian “opposition”: “We continue talking with them and supporting the opposition.” The same government that had so many ups and downs against the protests against the government of Hosni Mubarak, throw themselves into the effort to support those who are allegedly fighting the government in Tehran.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Não-eleitos Eduardo dos Santos e Teodoro Obiang Dirigem CPLP e UA
Orlando Castro – Pravda,
14 Feb 2011
Enquanto há países que estão a “decapitar” os ditadores, outros há onde eles continuam – perante a criminosa indiferença da comunidade internacional – de pedra e cal. E se isso acontece nos países, o mesmo se passa nas organizações. A Comunidade de Países de Língua Portuguesa, CPLP, é presidida pelo dirigente máximo de Angola, José Eduardo dos Santos, que está no poder há 31 anos sem nunca ter sido eleito, e a União Africana tem na presidência a Guiné-Equatorial, cujo chefe de Estado, Teodoro Obiang, está no poder há mais de 31 anos, onde chegou através de um golpe de Estado.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Sondagem Elege o Povo Brasileiro Como o Mais Simpático do Mundo
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2011
Ranking publicado no site da CNN Internacional no dia 21/Jan/2011 elegeu os povos mais afáveis do planeta.
→ read full articleThe Forgotten One: Bradley Manning
Lisa Karpova - Pravda,
3 Jan 2011
Throughout the decades since the Great Patriotic War, we have been shown the images of the Nuremberg Tribunal, wondering about what kind of men are soldiers who blindly follow orders, never questioning them, no matter how evil or immoral they are. The words of the prosecutors expressed this concern, as did the final verdicts. Learn from history, or you are doomed to repeat it. Smugly, the west moved on, confident the message had been delivered to everyone but themselves. A solider does not blindly follow orders.
→ read full articleVanunu’s Perseverance Drives Them Crazy
Rafael Poch - Pravda,
20 Dec 2010
The International League for Human Rights, one of the organizations in this area with the greatest tradition, held its annual award ceremony in Berlin with half a century of tradition, awarded this year to the Israeli peace dissident Mordechai Vanunu. Like the Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize, Liu Xiaobo, Vanunu has not been able to collect the prize in Berlin, which bears the name of Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist and journalist of the thirties.
→ read full articleU.S. Military Suicides Kill More Than the Battles
Alberto Tundo, PeaceReporter - Pravda,
29 Nov 2010
The number of soldiers committing suicide is higher than that of the soldiers killed in Afghanistan since 2001. The list continues to grow inexorably. It contains the names of those who returned home from the trenches of the war against terrorism, but lost control of themselves, a war that has left more dead than the U.S. mission in Afghanistan.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Touro Ataca Aficionados na Espanha: 40 Feridos (Fotos)
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
(Nota do Editor da TMS): A violencia virou-se contra os violentos. Os verdadeiros animais selvagens sao aqueles que se encontram na plateia. Se todos os touros se rebelassem desta forma as touradas possivelmente deixariam de existir. Civilizados, nós, nem de longe…
→ read full articleBrazil and Cluster Bombs: When Hypocrisy Wins Over Hope
Gustavo Barreto - Pravda,
22 Nov 2010
The United Nations is coordinating a new convention to ban cluster bombs worldwide. This is a deadly, destructive nuisance from the hands of warmongers who have created 85,000 victims in at least 18 countries – official figures say only 16,000, because there is a chronic problem of under-reporting. According to calculations of Handicap International, an NGO that defends the ban on arms and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997, 98% of victims of cluster bombs are civilians and 27% children. All in poor countries.
→ read full articleColombia Has the Highest Number of Displaced People in the World
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2010
The Consultancy for Human Rights (CODHES) reported that of 3.7 million displaced Colombians, at least 380,000 have managed to get shelter in 36 countries due to the armed conflict in Colombia for almost five decades. “Unfortunately, many of the displaced people in the world come from Colombia,” said the director of CODHES, Jorge Rojas, based on data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). “In the last two decades, the main flow of internally displaced persons seeking refuge beyond the borders comes from Colombia, where a long conflict persists with a serious humanitarian and human rights impact that affects neighboring countries and has implications for the entire region,” he affirmed.
→ read full articleAtheism [as opposed to intelligent design] Mathematically Impossible
Babu G. Ranganathan - Pravda,
25 Oct 2010
Mathematicians have said that any event with odds of 10 to the 50th power or over is impossible even within the entire time frame of the supposed billions of years popularly assigned for the age of the universe. The odds of an average protein molecule coming into existence by chance are 10 to the 65th power. That’s just one protein molecule! Even the simplest cell is composed of millions of them. Protein molecules are made of smaller molecules known as amino acids. In order for a protein molecule to work the amino acids have to be together in a precise sequence, just like the letters in a sentence. If they are not in the right sequence then the protein molecule won’t work.
→ read full articleMachines of War: Blackwater, Monsanto, and Bill Gates
Silvia Ribeiro - Pravda,
18 Oct 2010
A report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation (Blackwater’s Black Ops, 9/15/2010) revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (now called Xe Services) clandestine intelligence services was sold to the multinational Monsanto…. Almost simultaneously with the publication of this article in The Nation, the Via Campesina reported the purchase of 500,000 shares of Monsanto, for more than $23 million by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which with this action completed the outing of the mask of “philanthropy.” Another association that is not surprising.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Sérvia: Direitos dos Homossexuais, Direitos Humanos, Tolerância e Homofobia
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
18 Oct 2010
A República da Sérvia é um ponto de encontro de numerosos povos, religiões e culturas ao longo dos séculos, e de modo geral, têm coexistido em paz. Que triste, que este domingo a Parada Orgulho Gay terminou em uma orgia de violência causada por um punhado de fanáticos homofóbicos que deixou mais de cinquenta pessoas feridas. Esta foi a primeira Parada do Orgulho Gay da Sérvia, uma oportunidade para a sociedade fazer uma exibição pública de tolerância no início do Terceiro Milénio, permitindo às pessoas expressarem a sua sexualidade em público, vestidos com as roupas que escolhessem, sentindo-se feliz. Em vez disso, houve um crescendo de violência, insultos, arremesso de mísseis e, finalmente, uma batalha campal entre cerca de mil manifestantes anti-Parada e a polícia, resultando em 57 feridos, sendo 47 policiais, um internado em estado grave. A orgia de violência continuou com a destruição de propriedade do estado.
→ read full articleSerbia: Gay Rights, Human Rights, Tolerance and Homophobia
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
18 Oct 2010
The Republic of Serbia is a meeting point of numerous peoples, religions and cultures and over the centuries, by and large, they have coexisted in peace. How sad it is that this Sunday’s Gay Pride Parade ended in an orgy of violence caused by a handful of homophobic bigots which left over fifty people injured.
→ read full article(Portuguese) No Brasil, pela Primeira Vez, um Deputado Federal É Condenado à Prisão
Antonio Carlos Lacerda, Correspondente no Brasil - Pravda,
11 Oct 2010
O deputado federal do Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro (PTB) do Estado de Goiás, no Centro-Oeste do Brasil, José Fuscaldi Cesílio, o Tatico, foi condenado pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) a sete anos de prisão, em regime semi-aberto, por apropriação indébita e sonegação fiscal. Esta é a primeira vez que no Brasil um deputado federal é condenado à prisão.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Se Não É de Portugal, Então Deve Ser da União Europeia
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
11 Oct 2010
E não é porque eles são portugueses. Vá ao Luxemburgo, que lidera todos os indicadores sócio-econômicos, e você vai descobrir que doze por cento da população é português, o povo que construiu um império que se estendia por quatro continentes e que controlava o litoral desde Ceuta, na costa atlântica, tornando a costa africana até ao Cabo da Boa Esperança, a costa oriental da África, no Oceano Índico, o Mar Arábico, o Golfo da Pérsia, a costa ocidental da Índia e Sri Lanka. E foi o primeiro povo europeu a chegar ao Japão….e Austrália.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Não É Possível Pensar em Desenvolvimento sem Valorizar as Pessoas
Marcus Eduardo de Oliveira - Pravda,
4 Oct 2010
O desenvolvimento, em suas múltiplas manifestações, não é uma questão de ter, mas sim de ser mais. Sábios e filósofos de todos os tempos e de todos os horizontes profetizaram a esse respeito. Gandhi argumentou que o desenvolvimento seria bom e justo somente se elevasse a condição dos mais modestos. Em defesa de uma economia com uma face mais humana, padre Louis Joseph Lebret pontuou que o desenvolvimento não deve ser visto apenas pelo prisma econômico (acúmulo material), mas também pelo social, ético, político, moral. Adam Smith, preocupado em estudar a riqueza das nações, afirmou que a verdadeira riqueza deve ser avaliada pelo padrão de vida das famílias.
→ read full articleUnited States Is the Leading Provider of Arms to Mexican Drug Trade
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
The United States today is one of the largest exporters of weapons and fuel, among others, to the drug cartels in Mexico. At least 62,800 of the 80,000 weapons confiscated from drug trafficking criminal gangs of in the neighboring nation between December 2006 and February 2010 came from U.S. territory, according to a study cited yesterday [16 Sep 2010] by an editorial in The Washington Post. “The armies of Mexican drug traffickers have an external source of funding and weapons … and to our shame, this source is the United States,” said the newspaper.
→ read full articleDisappearing Amazon: Congratulations to Brazil’s Cattle Ranchers
João Moreira - Pravda,
13 Sep 2010
The Amazon rainforest belongs to Brazil and nobody else. That being said, despite the fact that the rate of deforestation has slowed considerably in recent years, fifteen per cent of the area once covered by the rainforest has now disappeared, according to research undertaken by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics.
→ read full articleThe Jews of Iran are Far Better off than Palestinians of Gaza
Mike Whitney - Pravda,
13 Sep 2010
There are 25,000 Jews in Iran, which is the largest Jewish population in the Middle East outside Israel. Iranian Jews are not persecuted or abused, in fact, they are protected under the Iranian constitution. They are free to practice their religion and to vote in elections. They are not stopped and searched at checkpoints, are not brutalized by an army of occupation and are not confined in a densely populated penal colony (Gaza) where they are deprived of the basic means of subsistence. Iranian Jews live in dignity and enjoy the benefits of citizenship.
→ read full article(Portuguese) O Brasil e as Medidas Antidumping
Sergio Dias Teixeira Junior – Pravda,
6 Sep 2010
Com a proximidade do final da 2ª Grande Guerra Mundial os países aliados perceberam a necessidade de se reconstruir a economia mundial. Tal fato fez com que, em 1944, fosse firmado em Bretton Woods – EUA um acordo que visasse criar um ambiente mais favorável à área econômica através do estabelecimento de três organismos internacionais. Nesse sentido foram criados o FMI – Fundo Monetário Internacional, o Banco Mundial e a OIC – Organização Internacional do Comércio.
→ read full articleThe Global Media Dictatorship
Manuel E. Yepe – Pravda,
30 Aug 2010
It would be wrong to presume that these huge consortiums are subordinate to the United States government and therefore abide by the dictates of the White House. The truth is that both Washington and the giants of information, are controlled by the same power elite in the exercise of its world tyranny.
→ read full articlePakistan: Where the International Community Got It Wrong
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
23 Aug 2010
The people of Pakistan have been left to rot by the international community. The scale of the flood disaster has either been wholly misunderstood or else there are forces at play which wish to take advantage of a destabilized Pakistan; the pitifully weak response by the international community moves this country and the region nearer to the abyss of chaos. This week UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the UN General Assembly “Make no mistake: this is a global disaster, a global challenge. It is one of the greatest tests of global solidarity in our times”.
→ read full articleHumanitarian Catastrophe in Niger: Where is This Story?
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
16 Aug 2010
The buzz-words of the moment are Naomi Campbell and blood diamonds, Cristiano Ronaldo and his troupe of girlfriends and the (sickeningly close) new soccer season. However, where is the story about the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Niger? (Where?) where 670,000 children are at risk of starving to death and eight million people need emergency food assistance?
→ read full articleUSA to Establish Genetically Modified Totalitarian Regime on World Food Market
Sergey Nikolayev – Pravda,
16 Aug 2010
The USA will benefit from the restricted export of grains from Russia. Most of the US and Canadian grain is genetically modified. Thus, the world may begin to consume dangerous products. Up to 80 or even 90 percent of soy, corn and cotton growing in the United States is genetically modified.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize Loses Nobility
Ivan Tulyakov – Pravda,
9 Aug 2010
Another scandal broke out in Oslo, Norway, regarding the objectivity of the Nobel Committee’s while choosing candidates for the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize. The initiator was Fredrik Heffermehl, an honorary member of the Norwegian Peace Committee, a famous lawyer and fighter for peace [member of the TRANSCEND nework]. He accused the Nobel Committee of abusing the trust.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Espiritualidade, Economia e o Mundo dos Negócios
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2010
O português Paulo Vieira de Castro, consultor de empresas e diretor do Centro de Estudos Aplicados em Marketing do Instituto Superior de Administração e Gestão (Porto) e o economista brasileiro, Marcus Eduardo de Oliveira, professor e especialista em Política Internacional, dialogam sobre espiritualidade, economia social e humana e o mundo dos negócios. Na essência, ambos os especialistas conversam sobre a necessidade de integrar o ser humano numa visão mais abrangente, tanto no contexto da economia, quanto dos negócios, envolvendo desde a busca da felicidade à realização plena de cada um, comungando, nesse aspecto, a vida humana e a espiritualidade.
→ read full articleCluster Bombs
Anaclara Padilla Estrada – Pravda,
26 Jul 2010
Cluster bombs, which began to be used in Vietnam, affect more civilians than combatants. The conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon are the latest where they have been used. During the 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah, in the summer of 2006, more than 4 million submunitions were dropped in southern Lebanon, causing more casualties and destruction than any other weapons. The forthcoming ratification of the Convention on Cluster Munitions is a big step, not without difficulties and challenges, to eliminate a weapon that does not discriminate between civilian and military targets.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Arroz Transgênico – Entenda o que Está em Jogo
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2010
Dentro de poucos dias o Brasil pode se tornar a cobaia do mundo, ao permitir o plantio e o consumo de arroz transgênico não aprovado em nenhum país. O pedido da empresa alemã Bayer está praticamente pronto para ser votado pela Comissão Técnica Nacional de Biossegurança – CTNBio. Tratase do Arroz Liberty Link LL 62, resistente ao herbicida glufosinato de amônio (processo 01200.003386/200379). Neste caso, até os produtores e a Embrapa Arroz e Feijão estão contra. Parece que só a CTNBio está do lado da Bayer. Como vai se posicionar o governo LULA?
→ read full articleCrimes by Israel, Sanctions for Iran
Kourosh Ziabari – Pravda,
21 Jun 2010
Nobody tried to hold Tel Aviv accountable for what was an evident and undeniable massacre of defenseless civilians who were trying to break an illegal imprisonment of more than 1.5 million people who are in dire need of foodstuff, medicines, fuel, gasoline, wheelchairs, renewed infrastructure and shelter. Over the past 40 years, Israel has demolished more than 9000 Palestinian homes and is now holding some 1.5 million people in an open-air jail which no international body has so far succeeded to unlock. Israel autonomously violates international regulations, defies the calls of UN and human rights organizations and even disregards the calls of its own citizens who sympathize with the subjugated and anguished people of Palestine. UNSC ignores all of these crimes and felonies indifferently and adopts a resolution against Iran to punish the country for its civilian nuclear program, overlooking the 200 nuclear warheads which are accumulated in the arsenals of Israeli regime. That is something which even exceeds double standards. This is the inhumanity of UNSC.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Dando Nome aos Bois: O Que Houve Foi ‘Pirataria’ e ’Sequestro’
Celso Lungaretti – Pravda,
14 Jun 2010
Quase ninguém diz que se tratou de um ato de PIRATARIA. E foi. Não há outro nome para a agressão de um bando armado a embarcações civis em alto mar. O que houve não passou de um SEQUESTRO. Nem mais, nem menos. Então, nunca existiram 700 pessoas detidas, o que há são 700 pessoas sequestradas.
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