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Africa Lost 1.6 Trillion in Capital Flight and Odious Debt Over Forty Years
Paul Jay – The Real News Network,
3 Dec 2012
Léonce Ndikumana says: $619 billion of embezzled capital flight from North Africa with connivance of big banks according to new research.
→ read full articleViolent Attacks of Buddhists against Muslim Rohingyas in Burma as Obama Visits Country
Channel 4 News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
President Obama’s historic visit to Burma has been questioned by some as premature following the recent communal violence between Muslims and Buddhists.
→ read full articleLiberal Capitalism, Crony Capitalism and Lumpen Development
Samir Amin – Pambazuka News,
26 Nov 2012
Liberalism creates nothing, in the peripheries of the Global South that agree to submit to it, other than a crony capitalism based on a Comprador State in opposition to the National State committed to sustainable economic and social development.
→ read full articleBlack Report: Craziness on Three Continents
Paul Jay – The Real News Network,
26 Nov 2012
Bankers Trying To Start a Run on Their Own Banks in Ecuador – Crazy reality.
→ read full articleA ‘Grand Bargain’ or a Grand Uprising?
Carl Gibson - Reader Supported News,
19 Nov 2012
What will we look like a year from today? Will we be another Greece, under the control of greedier banks and a crueler government, or will we take our economy back from the banks like Iceland did? The choice isn’t up to our politicians- it’s up to us. Let’s get to work.
→ read full articleThe 16 Smartest People on Earth
Dina Spector and Shlomo Sprung, Yahoo News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
IQ is a problematic measure of intelligence. Many have never been tested, while others have taken the test many times to improve their scores. Still, psychologists consider it the best measurement of intelligence out there. So who has the highest score?
→ read full articleAfrica: Cooperatives Crucial Allies in Fight against Hunger
Nigeria Daily News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
One of the only chances small-scale food producers have to gain competitive access to local and global markets is by banding together in cooperatives, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva told a meeting of the World Cooperatives Congress in Manchester today [31 Oct 2012]. The International Year of Cooperatives is being observed in 2012.
→ read full articleCameroon: Lawyer Gets Threats for Defending Gays
News24 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Cameroon lawyer Alice Nkom, who is known for defending gays and lesbians in a country where homosexuality is outlawed, said on Tuesday [23 Oct 2012] that she has been receiving death threats from anonymous callers over her stance.
→ read full articleHurricane Sandy: Problems at Five Nuke Plants
Mark Schone – ABC News,
5 Nov 2012
The nation’s oldest nuclear plant declared an alert and a second plant just 40 miles from New York City was forced to shut down power as five different nuke plants in Hurricane Sandy’s path experienced problems during the storm. Indian Point in Buchanan, New York, on the Hudson River north of New York City, automatically shut power to its unit 3 on Monday [29 Oct 2012] night “as a result of an electrical grid disturbance,” according to Entergy, the plant’s operator.
→ read full articleGlobal Warming Systemically Caused Hurricane Sandy
George Lakoff - Reader Supported News,
5 Nov 2012
Yes, global warming systemically caused Hurricane Sandy – and the Midwest droughts and the fires in Colorado and Texas, as well as other extreme weather disasters around the world. Let’s say it out loud, it was causation, systemic causation. Systemic causation is familiar. Smoking is a systemic cause of lung cancer. HIV is a systemic cause of AIDS. Working in coal mines is a systemic cause of black lung disease. Driving while drunk is a systemic cause of auto accidents. Sex without contraception is a systemic cause of unwanted pregnancies.
→ read full articleAFRICOM Preparing For another ‘Humanitarian’ Military Intervention?
Abdi Ali Diriye – Pambazuka News,
5 Nov 2012
Washington’s corporate interests are hidden behind ‘humanitarian interventions’. That is the story of the US involvement in Libya, Uganda, Sudan and other parts of Africa.
→ read full articleUN Relief Agency Estimates 1.8 Million Haitians Have Been Affected By Hurricane Sandy
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
2 November 2012 – Some 1.8 million Haitians have been affected by Hurricane Sandy, the United Nations relief agency said today after its first assessment of the situation in the region, adding that food security remains an urgent concern in the Caribbean nation.
→ read full articleUN Independent Expert Calls For Boycott of Businesses Profiting From Israeli Settlements
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
A United Nations independent expert today [25 Oct 2012] called on the world body’s General Assembly, as well as civil society, to take action against Israeli and international businesses that are profiting from Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory.
→ read full articleUK: Gay Asylum Seeker Loses Deportation Fight
Scott Roberts – Pink News,
29 Oct 2012
A gay Nigerian asylum seeker who was living in Bradford has been deported from the UK. Olamiekan Ayelokun had argued that he could not return to Nigeria because he was at risk of homophobic persecution. The maximum punishment for same-sex sexual activity in Nigeria is 14 years in jail; in regions under Sharia law this can include a sentence of death by stoning.
→ read full articleOrigin of Syrian Shells into Turkey Unclear, US General Says
Daily News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
“We are not sure if these shells are from the Syrian army, from rebels who want to get Turkey involved in the issue or from the PKK [Kurdish Workers’ Party],” U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army, Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling said.
→ read full articleHow to Avoid Genetically Modified Food
Robin Mather, Mother Earth News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
The only way to avoid GM food is to know which ingredients are likely to be genetically modified and read labels carefully, or to always choose organic foods, which are certified GM-free. Below are estimates of the percentages of GM foods found on store shelves. To learn more about this issue, see The Threats From Genetically Modified Foods.
→ read full articleWhite House Widening Covert War in North Africa
Associated Press, Military News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Small teams of special operations forces arrived at American embassies throughout North Africa in the months before militants launched the fiery attack that killed the U.S. ambassador in Libya. The soldiers’ mission: Set up a network that could quickly strike a terrorist target or rescue a hostage. But the teams had yet to do much counterterrorism work in Libya, though the White House signed off a year ago on the plan to build the new military task force in the region and the advance teams had been there for six months, according to three U.S. counterterror officials and a former intelligence official.
→ read full articleFreedom Flotilla Sets Off To Gaza
AFP, Gulf News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
A Swedish ship with rights activists from several countries aboard has sailed from Naples in the latest bid to break Israel’s blockade against Gaza. A crowd of well-wishers saw off the sailing vessel Estelle on Saturday [6 Oct 2012] as it left the Italian port as part of the “Freedom Flotilla” movement. The Estelle is carrying humanitarian aid and expected to reach Gaza in two weeks.
→ 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 articleGerman State TV Reports: Syrian Rebels Claim Responsibility for Attack on Turkey
R. Teichmann – News Beacon Ireland,
8 Oct 2012
Translation: “Rocket and mortar fire. Turkey takes revenge after an attack from the Syrian side. Yesterday afternoon Syrian rebels fired on a Turkish village close to the border. For weeks Ankara had warned against provoking Turkey. Meanwhile Syrian rebels officially claimed responsibility for the provocation.”
→ read full articleClinton Offers $45 Million to Syrian Rebels, Who Want More Support
Hannah Allam - McClatchy Newspapers,
1 Oct 2012
Hillary Clinton on Friday [28 Sep 2012] announced $45 million in additional aid for Syrian rebels. U.S. aid for Syria now will total more than $132 million this year, though Syrian rebels are more interested in weapons and military training than in ‘nonlethal assistance.’ “The irony of our fear of supplying Islamist groups is that the others who are arming the opposition – the Saudis, the Qataris, the Turks – are doing just that, providing weapons and ammunition to Islamists,” Holliday said.
→ read full articleAsylum Seeking Not Criminal – UNHCR
Africa news – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has said the seeking of asylum is not a criminal act and those who seek it should not be detained. In a statement issued in New York on Sunday [23 Sep 2012], it also called on all states to seek out alternatives to detention when dealing with migrants and refugees.
→ read full articleRhetoric and Reality of AFRICOM: Lessons from Mali
Abena Ampofoa Asare – Pambazuka News,
1 Oct 2012
What is the value of America’s military and humanitarian interventions? Just look at Mali: Its shattered democracy and roving rebel groups are a troubling picture of an AFRICOM partner state.
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Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Market 20 Times Global GDP (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Paul Jay – The Real News Network,
1 Oct 2012
Markus Stanley: Derivative bets not a zero sum game, have far reaching real world consequences.
→ read full articleUS Conducts New Type of Nuclear Test Using Intense X-Ray Beams
Xinhua News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Japan’s southwestern city of Nagasaki expressed its outrage and protest against a new type of nuclear test conducted for the sixth time in August [2012] by the United States, local press reported on Tuesday [25 Sep 2012]. The report said that the United States conducted the nuclear test, which simulated a nuclear blast using intense X-ray beams and checked how plutonium would react, at the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico on August 27 [2012].
→ read full articleReuters and Ahmadinejad: Anatomy of a Dangerous Misquote
News Vandal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Today [25 Sep 2012], Reuters rolled out a headline: In New York, defiant Ahmadinejad says Israel will be “eliminated.” Ahmadinejad’s quote in paragraph eleven comes across a bit differently: “We don’t even count them as any part of any equation for Iran. During a historical phase, they (the Israelis) represent minimal disturbances that come into the picture and are then eliminated.” A few words are not the only thing that might get lost in translation. How unfortunate it would be if tens of thousands of lives were lost as well.
→ read full article(Castellano) “El Capitalismo Implosiona, Pero No Bajo los Efectos de la Movilización Popular” — Samir Amin
Other News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Según Samir Amin hemos entrado en una nueva fase del capitalismo. Cree que se trata de una etapa cualitativamente nueva. El sistema capitalista no solo está en crisis, -mantiene Amin- sino que lo que se está produciendo en él una autentica implosión, pero que no es el efecto de la lucha popular.
→ read full articleAn All-Clear for Bush’s Torturers
Marjorie Cohn – Comsortium News,
10 Sep 2012
Even as Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu urges a war-crimes trial for George Bush and Tony Blair for invading Iraq, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder gives an all-clear to Bush’s subordinates for homicides that resulted from torture in Afghanistan and Iraq, a repudiation of U.S. law and principles.
→ read full articleNAM Final Statement
Ahlul Bayt News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
The Final Statement of the 16th Non-Aligned Movement Summit (Tehran/Iran, 26-31 Aug, 2012) focused on the Palestinian issue, nations’ right to peaceful nuclear energy and global sustainable peace.
→ read full articleHow the Private Sector Didn’t Solve Ghana’s Water Crisis
Judith Amanthis – Pambazuka News,
27 Aug 2012
Government investment, rather than privatisation or international aid, offers the best solution for water services in Ghana.
→ read full articleIceland’s Recovery Continues, Declared ‘Impressive’
IceNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
Experts continue to praise Iceland’s recovery success after the country’s bank bailouts of 2008. Unlike the US and several countries in the eurozone, Iceland allowed its banking system to fail in the global economic downturn and put the burden on the industry’s creditors rather than taxpayers.
→ read full articleTime for America to Revisit Its Nuclear Policy
Ronnie Dugger – The Dallas Morning News,
20 Aug 2012
In the ongoing media melodrama about Iran’s nuclear program, could we be overlooking profound questions and truths about the again-rising likelihood of the decimation or the end of life on Earth in an H-bomb holocaust? We should be challenging our officials and military for risking our deaths, the lives of our fellow human beings and our national honor by keeping, maintaining and implicitly threatening to use our own weapons of mass murder.
→ read full articleInternational Flotilla Sets Sail to Break Gaza Blockade
Hend Kortam – The Daily News, Egypt,
13 Aug 2012
Estelle, a ship voyaging to break the Gaza blockade has begun its journey from Sweden. It is now in Norway after arriving there on Friday [3 Aug 2012]. The ship is expected to reach Gaza sometime within October. Throughout its journey the ship will raise awareness of the Gaza blockade. Estelle will make several stops on its way to Gaza in which there will be “speakers, concerts and public festivals providing information about the situation in Gaza.”
→ read full articleObama Authorizes Secret US Support for Syrian Rebels
Newsmax – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
Obama’s order, approved earlier this year and known as an intelligence “finding,” broadly permits the CIA and other U.S. agencies to provide support that could help the rebels oust Assad. This and other developments signal a shift toward growing, albeit still circumscribed, support for Assad’s armed opponents.
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Pro-Palestinian Ads Ignite Firestorm of Controversy
CBS2 News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
An explosive ad about Israel is now igniting a firestorm of controversy. The display shows shrinking Palestinian territory in Israel over the years and refers to 4.7 million Palestinians there as refugees.
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Bill Black Reports: LIBOR and HSBC (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Paul Jay – The Real News Network,
30 Jul 2012
William Kurt Black is an American lawyer, academic, author of ‘The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One,’ and a former bank regulator. Black’s expertise is in white-collar crime, public finance, regulation, and other topics in law and economics. He developed the concept of “control fraud”, in which a business or national executive uses the entity he or she controls as a “weapon” to commit fraud.
→ read full articleConfiscation of Condoms from Sex Workers Compromises Public Health
Chi Mgbako – Pambazuka News,
30 Jul 2012
Throughout the world, in countries as diverse as Kenya, Namibia, Russia, South Africa, the United States, and Zimbabwe, police often confiscate condoms from sex workers to use as evidence of prostitution, thereby compromising public health interventions aimed at reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Aborígenes Australianos Aprendem a Ler e Escrever com Método Cubano
Irã News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Um total de 10 aborígenes australianos entre 25 e 53 anos concluíram seus estudos básicos de leitura e escrita através do método cubano de alfabetização“Yo sí puedo” “Sim, eu posso”, confirmou hoje [6 Julho 2012] José Chala, coordenador do programa nesta nação.
→ read full articleKoodankulam Nuclear Power Plant Faked Emergency Drill
News Service – The New Indian Express,
9 Jul 2012
Sun Jul 8, 2012 – The official claim of having conducted a mandatory three-stage emergency drill at Nakkaneri hamlet, situated within seven km from the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) in Tirunelveli district, on June 9 was termed ‘a blatant lie’ by the People’s Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL), which sent a fact-finding team to the place on June 13 and 20, after the villagers denied the version of the authorities.
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True Cost of Chevron in Ecuador
Paul Jay – The Real News Network,
9 Jul 2012
Robinson Yumbo, President of the National Indigenous Federation of the Cofan People on the multi-billion woes of Chevron in Ecuador.
→ read full articleSigns of the Times in Haiti
Nia Imara – Pambazuka News,
9 Jul 2012
The Military, Money, and the Meaning of an Occupation – There are periods in a country’s history when the signs and warnings that that history will soon enter into a dramatically different phase are clear as day. Such is the period today in Haiti, where daily events portend an inauspicious development for the future: the Haitian Army may soon be returning.
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Honduran Scholars Call on US to Cease Support for Military and Police (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Paul Jay, The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
40 Honduran scholars, supported by 300 academics from 29 countries, sent a letter to President Obama demanding the end of U.S. support for Honduran military and police training—and that the war on drugs is not a rationale for supporting a regime that is violently suppressing its own people.
→ read full articleUNESCO Joins Global Fight against Anti-Gay Bullying
Matthew Jenkin, GayStarNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
A new report by UNESCO has revealed the extent of homophobic bullying worldwide, recognizing the problem as a human rights issue. The UN agency’s first ever international consultation on the issue brought together experts from NGOs, ministries of education and academia from more than 25 countries around the world.
→ read full articleMore Icelandic Bankers Arrested
IceNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2012
Iceland’s special prosecutor into the banking crisis has confirmed that raids have taken place today and that arrests have been made. The Central Bank of Iceland is among the institutions under investigation.
→ read full articleAstronomers Predict Titanic Collision: Milky Way vs. Andromeda
NASA Science News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
May 31, 2012: NASA astronomers say they can now predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our galaxy, sun, and solar system: the titanic collision of our Milky Way galaxy with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.
→ read full articleDharma Traditions’ Perspective Enhances Religious Leaders’ Statement to G8
Keshava Sharma, ISKCON News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
Religious leaders gather in Washington, D.C. to issue joint statement to the world’s political leaders. The final statement reflected the shared values of the various religious traditions that were present, including Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Zoroastrian, Sikh, Baha’i, Shinto, Buddhist, Hindu and Jain.
→ read full articleCentre To Deal Anti-Nuke Mind-Set with NIMHANS
Veena Joshi Datta - Express News Service,
28 May 2012
Having exhausted all options to end opposition to the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant, the Centre now plans to get a peek into the protesters’ minds and remove any fears. For this, it has decided to engage a team of psychiatrists from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS) in Bangalore. The members have planned to chalk out various exercises at the grass-root level to convince protestors that the nuclear power plant is safe and essential for the country.
→ read full articleDan, Rather Outspoken
Leslie Griffith - Reader Supported News,
28 May 2012
In “Rather Outspoken,” one of broadcast journalism’s elder statesmen reflects on the state of the news business, and a career that spans from the glory days to what many of us see as the bitter end. Sadly, Rather’s latest book reminds us that reporters had best be careful when they set about the business of digging up news. And they damn-well better make sure the media corporations for which they work are ready and willing to stand by them.
→ read full articleHow the US Press Lost Its Way
Robert Parry - Comsortium News,
21 May 2012
People often wonder what happened to the American press after it distinguished itself in the 1970s by exposing the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. How did the U.S. news media lose its way over the past four decades, a question addressed by Robert Parry at a conference on information and secrecy.
→ read full articleWhy Tibet Matters
Bianca Jagger - Reader Supported News,
21 May 2012
His Holiness the Dalai Lama is in London today [14 May 2012] to receive the Templeton Prize in recognition of his outstanding achievements and spiritual wisdom. Since Feb 2009, 35 Tibetans have sacrificed themselves, in an act of desperation, which emerges from the anguish of oppression. Tibetans who have self-immolated include monks, nuns, a 19-year old female student, a widowed mother of four, and a Tibetan reincarnate lama in his forties.
→ read full articleIndia Kudankulam Protest: 23,000 Surrender Voter ID Cards
Indo-Asian News Service – Hindustan Times,
14 May 2012
May 9, 2012 – Around 23,000 people belonging to nine villages in Tamil Nadu have surrendered their voter identity cards to draw attention to the continued neglect of the peaceful protest against the Kundankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP). The decision to surrender the voter identity cards was taken by PMANE as the central and the state governments remain silent on the indefinite fast undertaken by round 340 people at Idinthakarai for nine days.
→ read full articleJapan to Be Without Nuclear Power for First Time in 42 Years
Fox News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
Japan will be without nuclear power for the first time in 42 years when the country’s last working commercial reactor is switched off Saturday [5 May 2012]. At 5:00pm local time, the Hokkaido Electric Power Company will begin to reduce power at the No. 3 reactor at Tomari nuclear plant, broadcaster NHK reported. Output from the reactor is scheduled to cease completely at 11:00pm before it is brought to a “cold shutdown” at 2:00am Sunday.
→ read full articleThe Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Is Far From Over
Robert Alvarez - Reader Supported News,
23 Apr 2012
Spent reactor fuel, containing roughly 85 times more long-lived radioactivity than released at Chernobyl, still sits in pools vulnerable to earthquakes.
→ read full articleBelene Nuclear Power Plant Canceled, Bulgarian PM Confirms
Sofia News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2012
Bulgaria has quit the Belene Nuclear Power Plant project, the country’s Prime Minister has confirmed. “During today’s [28 Mar 2012] Council of Ministers Sitting, we decided to terminate the Belene Nuclear Power Plant project,” Borisov told reporters. “We cannot afford to pay for it, and there is no way we can make future generations pay,” the Prime Minister declared.
→ read full articleThe South Challenges Globalization
Samir Amin – Pambazuka News,
9 Apr 2012
The increased strength of emerging countries of the South confronts the challenges of contemporary globalization.
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Germany and Europe’s Path to the 19th Century (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Paul Jay, The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2012
Francisco Louçã: European elite wants to undo the “social contract”; Germany wants more control.
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Banking “Technocrats” Undermine Democracy
Paul Jay, The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2012
Gerry Epstein: In Europe and the US, bankers take control of the political process.
→ read full articleAl Jazeera Journalist Explains Resignation over Syria and Bahrain Coverage
Paul Jay, The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2012
Ali Hashem: Al Jazeera has become a “media war machine” and is “committing journalistic suicide”.
→ read full articleNorth Korea’s Planned Satellite Launch Causes Concern
Angus Walker, China Correspondent – ITV News,
26 Mar 2012
North Korea’s planned launch of a satellite to mark the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung, the country’s first and eternal president is threatening to overshadow the forthcoming nuclear security conference in Seoul, which begins this weekend [26 Mar 2012]. The North Koreans insist launching the rocket they will use to put the satellite in orbit is not a long-range missile test. An official statement said the “working satellite” will put the country’s space technology to peaceful use.
→ read full articleHoneybee Deaths Linked to Corn Insecticides
Alexandra Ludka - ABC News,
26 Mar 2012
The study, titled “Assessment of the Environmental Exposure of Honeybees to Particulate Matter Containing Neonicotinoid Insecticides Coming from Corn Coated Seeds,” was published in the American Chemical Society’s Environmental Science & Technology journal, and provides insight into colony collapse disorder.
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Japan Plays Down Fukushima as Questions about Nuclear Energy Remain
Paul Jay – The Real News Network,
19 Mar 2012
“Experts told us that reactors in earthquake zones were safe but computer models can’t reproduce reality.” Masaki Oshikawa is a theoretical physicist and a physics professor at the University of Tokyo who was interviewed for the journal Science about the Fukushima nuclear accident and is engaged in a local Japanese community movement to tackle the nuclear contamination problem.
→ read full articleGoldman Stunned by Op-Ed Loses $2.2 Billion for Shareholders
Christine Harper, Bloomberg News – San Francisco Chronicle,
19 Mar 2012
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. saw $2.15 billion of its market value wiped out after an employee assailed Chief Executive Officer Lloyd C. Blankfein’s management and the firm’s treatment of clients, sparking debate across Wall Street. The shares dropped 3.4 percent in New York trading yesterday [14 Mar 2012], the third-biggest decline in the 81-company Standard & Poor’s 500 Financials Index, after London-based Greg Smith made the accusations in a New York Times op-ed piece.
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The Greek Experiment
Paul Jay - The Real News Network,
27 Feb 2012
Greek crisis used to find out how far finance can drive down wages and privatize.
→ read full articleBan Ki-moon Hails Latin American Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone on 45th Anniversary
UN News Centre- TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2012
14 February 2012 – On the 45th anniversary of the treaty that created a nuclear-weapon-free zone in Latin America and the Caribbean, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today hailed the pact as an example of how regional initiatives can advance global norms on nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and the peaceful use of atomic energy.
→ read full articleA U.S. Double-Standard for Bahrain?
John Bentley – CBS News,
27 Feb 2012
At least 35 people were killed during protests in February-March 2011, according to Amnesty International. More than 20 have died since then in the ongoing protests; dozens of people have been reportedly tortured. Bahrain has cracked down on allowing foreign and independent journalists in the country, recently detaining reporters from CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, Reuters, the Associated Press, and the BBC for several hours before letting them into the country. Unlike the rulers in Egypt, Libya and Syria, the U.S. has not called for King al Khalifa to step down. The State Department has instead issued a much milder rebuke, asking Bahrain to “exercise restraint and operate within the rule of law and international judicial standards.”
→ read full articleMali’s Plan to Probe Child Labour in Gold Mines
Africa News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2012
‘Our research found that children in Mali start working as young as six years old. Many child laborers are denied an education or drop out of school. Some children come to the mines without their parents and suffer economic or sexual exploitation,’ Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the Minister of Mines, Amadou Cisse.
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Exposed: Scientology’s Secret Child Labour Camp
7 News, Australia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2012
The true Australian headquarters of the Church of Scientology are located in the Sydney suburb of Dundas. The RPF base – which stands for Rehabilitation Project Force – is where Scientologists are sent for punishment and training, for crimes that most of us would regard as trivial.
→ read full articleIn Vietnam: Monsanto’s GM Crop Debate Reopens Agent Orange Wounds
An Dien - Thanh Nien News,
13 Feb 2012
No biotech company has yet got the official green light for selling genetically modified organisms (GMOs), but it does not assuage the fears that Vietnam could end up with another tragic legacy from a company that once caused many deaths in the country, environmental activists say. It would be ironic if Vietnam becomes a willing party to a “lethal” product made by the same US company that manufactured Agent Orange, the toxic defoliant used during the Vietnam War, they pointed out.
→ read full articleArgentina Appeals to UN over British Military Buildup in South Atlantic
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2012
On February 7 [2012] Argentine President Cristina Fernandez accused Britain of militarizing the South Atlantic Ocean by deploying a cutting-edge warship and a nuclear-powered submarine off the coast of the Falklands Islands, known to Argentina and the rest of Latin America as Las Malvinas. The deployment of Prince William on a military mission to the islands late last week further antagonized Argentina, with President Fernandez describing the royal scion as being garbed in the “uniform of a conquistador.”
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Ecuador Creating Alternative to Neo-Liberal Model
Paul Jay – The Real News Network,
6 Feb 2012
Ecuador raising taxes on wealthy, higher royalties on oil companies and making large social investments.
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Spain’s ‘Indignados’ and the Globalization of Dissent (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2012
The Occupy Movement has taken much of its inspiration from Spain’s “Outraged” Movement: what lessons does Spain have for Occupy now?
→ read full articleMonsanto to Face Biopiracy Charges in India
Sayer Ji, OpEdNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2012
In an unprecedented decision, India’s National Biodiversity Authority(NBA), a government agency, declared legal action against Monsanto (and their collaborators) for accessing and using local eggplant varieties (known as brinjal) to develop their Bt genetically engineered version without prior approval of the competent authorities, which is considered an act of “biopiracy.”
→ read full articleCuba Launches World’s First Vaccine against Lung Cancer
ZeitNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2012
From the island nation known for the quality of its cigars comes some pretty big news today [3 Jan 2012]: Xinhua reports that Cuban medical authorities have released the first therapeutic vaccine for lung cancer. CimaVax-EGF is the result of a 25-year research project at Havana’s Center for Molecular Immunology, and it could make a life or death difference for those facing late-stage lung cancers, researchers there say.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Filhotes Deixados na Neve Ilustram Campanha Contra Abandono de Cães Após Natal
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2012
Dois cãezinhos abandonados na neve e no frio no fim do ano passado, e readotados em seguida, foram usados por uma fundação britânica em uma campanha para que os animais não sejam dados de presente de Natal, para evitar o seu abandono depois do período de festas.
→ read full articleHIV Vaccine Trial Approved By FDA
CBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2011
Canadian-developed vaccine to start human clinical trials in January 2012.
→ read full articleMedical Journal Article: 14,000 U.S. Deaths Tied to Fukushima Reactor Disaster Fallout
PRNewswire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2011
An estimated 14,000 excess deaths in the United States are linked to the radioactive fallout from the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan, according to a major new article in the December 2011 edition of the International Journal of Health Services. This is the first peer-reviewed study published in a medical journal documenting the health hazards of Fukushima.
→ read full articleHaiti’s Decision to Rearm Is an Obstacle to Peace, Development, and Freedom
Oscar Arias Sanchez, Nobel Peace laureate – Other News,
26 Dec 2011
After the announcement that the government of Haiti had decided to reconstitute its army, I asked President Michel Martelly to reconsider his decision, pointing out a lesson written clearly into human history: in Latin America, the majority of armies have been enemies of progress, of peace, and of freedom.
→ read full articleBradley Manning Heads for Trial; No One Charged for Murdered Civilians
Paul Jay – The Real News Network,
19 Dec 2011
Retired CIA agent Ray McGovern introduces a short documentary deconstructing events revealed by WikiLeaks. Bradley Manning’s 24th birthday was on 17 Dec 2011 as he remained in his nightmare of being imprisoned incommunicado at Quantico accused of treason and facing the death penalty by a court martial — for disclosing the TRUTH. A True Hero of Our Times!
→ read full articleFanon, Coloniality and Emancipation
Eunice N. Sahle – Pambazuka News,
12 Dec 2011
Fifty years after his death, Fanon remains ‘the entry point in any project geared to the realisation of substantive emancipation, as opposed to elite-led projects,’ writes Eunice N. Sahle.
→ read full articleDemocracy Is More Than Voting and Elections
Horace Campbell – Pambazuka News,
12 Dec 2011
From Egypt to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the people are finding out that the entire process of voting and elections is stacked against change,’ writes Horace Campbell. We need ‘new forms of politics’ to transform our social system.
→ read full articleFrantz Fanon in Africa and Asia
Samir Amin – Pambazuka News,
12 Dec 2011
Frantz Fanon is a loved and respected figure all over Africa and Asia. Samir Amin argues that his writing and the choice to join the liberation struggle in Algeria show Fanon was a genuine revolutionary.
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Activists Challenge COP17 Climate Talks
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2011
Environmentalists chant “Down with Canada” as expectations are low for COP17 climate talks.
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Palestinian “Freedom Riders” Challenge Segregation (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2011
On Tuesday [15 Nov 2011] six Palestinian activists boarded Israeli busses in an attempt to challenge the system of segregation in the West Bank. They were arrested at Hizmeh checkpoint, interrogated by Israel’s internal intelligence agency, the Shabak, and released. In the West Bank, segregation is both visible with the separation wall, fence, and separate cities for Israelis and Palestinians and invisible with separate legal and security systems for the two peoples.
→ read full articleVulture Funds Holding Argentina to Ransom
Raul de Sagastizabal - InDepth News,
28 Nov 2011
In 2002, Anne Krueger, First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), floated the idea that countries can go bust, advanced her opinion about a possible international mechanism of sovereign debt restructuring, and when considering the obstacles to an orderly debt restructuring, explicitly mentioned the behaviour of vulture funds in the following terms:
→ read full articleRemilitarisation of Africa Set to Fail
Horace Campbell - InDepth News,
21 Nov 2011
Kenya’s foray into Somalia, led from behind by U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), represents a heightened threat to peace and reconstruction in Africa, especially East Africa. This Western-supported incursion is more against the Kenyan people than against the forces of Al-Shabaab, or whatever name that will be given to the musical chairs of military entrepreneurs in Somalia.
→ read full articleUS Africa Command a Tool to Recolonise Continent
Motsoko Pheko – Pambazuka News,
21 Nov 2011
Africa does not need an American military base on its soil. Would Americans welcome such a foreign base in their land? Motsoko Pheko urges African countries to resist this imperialist move, which is intended to facilitate plunder of their resources.
→ read full articleA History of US-Sponsored Violence in Haiti
Nia Imara – Pambazuka News,
21 Nov 2011
The US has once again succeeded in imposing an illegal and repressive puppet government in Haiti in blatant disregard of the will of the people. But there is still hope that, with collective struggle and a vision, change can occur.
→ read full articleBhutan Holds a 4-Nation Climate Summit
Rahul Bhatia - InDepth News,
21 Nov 2011
Keen to guard its ranking as Asia’s happiest country, Bhutan has hosted a climate summit and an international symposium accompanied by an exhibition in the Kingdom’s capital Thimphu – far away from the hustle and bustle of world’s metropolitan cities – in run-up to a landmark UN conference in Durban, South Africa, from November 28 to December 9, 2011.
→ read full articleBlack, Asian Teens Less Likely Than Whites to Abuse Drugs, Duke Study Concludes
Jay Price - McClatchy Newspapers,
14 Nov 2011
Black and Asian adolescents are much less likely than their white peers to abuse or become dependent on drugs and alcohol, according to a Duke University-led study based on an unusually large sample from all 50 states. “There is certainly still a myth out there that black kids are more likely to have problems with drugs than white kids, and this documents as clearly as any study we’re aware of that the rate of . . . substance-related disorders among African American youths is significantly lower,” said Dr. Dan Blazer of Duke’s Department of Psychiatry, a senior author of the study.
→ read full articleUN and Brazil Launch Initiative to Combat Hunger Among School Children
UN News Service – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2011
7 November 2011 –The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Brazilian Government today launched a new initiative to help countries run their own national school meal programmes to advance the nutrition and education of children. “As a world champion in the fight against hunger, Brazil has a wealth of experience that can be shared with governments eager to learn how they achieved that success and adapt it to their own countries,” said WFP Executive Director, Josette Sheeran, who is on an official visit to the country.
→ read full articleYet Another Report Lambasts Shell Nigeria
Jerome Mwanda - InDepth News,
14 Nov 2011
A new report titled ‘Counting the Cost,’ implicates Shell in cases of serious violence in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta region from 2000 to 2010, detailing how Shell’s routine payments to armed militants exacerbated conflicts and led to the destruction of Rumuekpe town, triggering devastating oil spills, indulging in the illegal practice of gas flaring, and crassly violating human rights.
→ read full articleCan Revolutionary Pacifism Deliver Peace?
Noam Chomsky - Reader Supported News,
7 Nov 2011
Not to be overlooked, however, is that Europeans came to realize that the next time they indulge in their favorite pastime of slaughtering one another, the game will be over: civilisation has developed means of destruction that can only be used against those too weak to retaliate in kind, a large part of the appalling history of the post-World War II years.
→ read full articleModernisation of Nukes Acquiring Priority
Ramesh Jaura - InDepth News,
7 Nov 2011
In a situation reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’, none of the nuclear weapon states is actively contemplating a future without nukes. On the contrary, the potential for using dreadful atomic arsenal is growing, says a new report.
→ read full articleOccupy Wall Street’s Elegant Message
Danny Schechter - Consortium News,
7 Nov 2011
One of the most frequently repeated, recycled and dismissive questions about Occupy Wall Street is its supposed lack of an “agenda.” The “what do you people want” question has featured in media interviews almost to the exclusion of all others. It’s as if the movement won’t be taken seriously by some, unless and until, it enunciates a list of “demands” and defines itself in a way that can allow others, especially a cynical media, to label and pigeonhole it. (So, it won’t be taken seriously then either.)
→ read full articleHelp People, Not the Eritrean Dictator
Dr. Mirjam van Reisen - InDepth News,
7 Nov 2011
The European Union had better change its policy towards Eritrea. The people would be better off if the EU were to spend its allocated funds for Eritrea on housing and education of the Eritrean refugees in Sudan, South Sudan, Libya, Egypt or Yemen. Should the European Union help a merciless dictator or come to the aid of refugees? I think the answer is obvious. We are talking about Eritrea, the open-air prison in the East of Africa.
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The Legal Basis to Reject Odious Debt
Paul Jay – The Real News Network,
31 Oct 2011
Léonce Ndikumana and James K. Boyce: International law supports Africa rejecting debts that did not benefit the people.
→ read full articleWithout Credit Card Donations, WikiLeaks Facing Funding Crisis
Mark Seibel - McClatchy Newspapers,
24 Oct 2011
WikiLeaks, the whistleblower website that has been at the center of some of the world’s most controversial news for the past 18 months, is facing dire economic times, largely, the website says, because Visa, MasterCard and PayPal have refused for more than 10 months to process donations made on its behalf.
→ read full articleAfghan and U.S. Troops Forcing Civilians to March Onto Mined Roads?
Quil Lawrence, RAWA News – Human Wrongs Watch,
24 Oct 2011
Villagers from a violent part of southern Afghanistan say that Afghan troops, along with several American mentors, forced civilians to march ahead of soldiers on roads where the Taliban were believed to have planted bombs and land mines.
→ read full articleFacebook Ireland Accused of Creating ‘Shadow Profiles’ On Users, Nonusers
Laura Locke – CNET News,
24 Oct 2011
The startling charges against the social-networking giant come from the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (IDC), which is launching a “comprehensive” investigation against Facebook Ireland for extracting data from current users–without their consent or knowledge. Names, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, work information, and perhaps even more sensitive information such as sexual orientation, political affiliations, and religious beliefs are being collected and could possibly be misused, Irish authorities claim.
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Hillary Clinton on Gaddafi: ‘We Came, We Saw, He Died’ (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
CBS News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared a laugh with a television news reporter moments after hearing deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi had been killed. “We came, we saw, he died,” she joked when told of news reports of Qaddafi’s death by an aide in between formal interviews.
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