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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.
→ read full articleUN: Nearly 470,000 Cholera Cases Reported In Haiti over the Past Year
UN News Service – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
21 October 2011 –Almost 470,000 cases of cholera, including 6,595 deaths, have been reported in Haiti since an epidemic of the disease erupted in the Caribbean country one year ago, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported today.
→ read full articleIs Time Ripe to Abandon the IMF?
Raúl de Sagastizabal - InDepth News,
17 Oct 2011
Hedging behaviour, a high degree of groupthink, intellectual capture, a general mind-set that excludes contrary views, fiefdom battles, inadequate analytical approaches, and lack of accountability should make governments ask themselves whether the time has not come to withdraw their support for the IMF.
→ read full articleDon’t Sleep Through the Revolution
Rev. Jesse Jackson - Reader Supported News,
17 Oct 2011
Entrenched privilege does not surrender its privilege easily. Occupy Wall Street is taking on the most powerful interests. But nothing, as Victor Hugo wrote, is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. As Dr. King urged, “Don’t sleep through the revolution.” It is time to take a stand. So 99’ers, maintain your disciplined focus, your peaceful nonviolent approach to protest, and demand change. In the end we will win.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Saiba Como o Álcool Afeta Seu Corpo
Philippa Roxby, Repórter de Saúde - BBC News,
10 Oct 2011
Os efeitos do consumo do álcool a curto prazo são conhecidos: ressacas, cansaço, má aparência. A longo prazo, a ingestão da substância está associada a várias condições, entre elas o câncer da mama, câncer oral, doenças cardíacas, derrames e cirrose hepática, entre outras. Pesquisas também associaram o consumo de álcool em doses elevadas à problemas de saúde mental, perda de memória e diminuição da fertilidade.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Centenas de Vítimas de Tráfico Sexual São Resgatadas na Amazônia Peruana
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2011
Quase 300 mulheres foram resgatadas de situação de exploração sexual na Amazônia peruana, informou a polícia do país na última segunda-feira [3 out 2011].
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The Deadliest Place in the World for a Journalist
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2011
Mini-documentary on the critical Honduran journalists that have watched 15 colleagues assassinated in 19 months under the Lobo regime, a government Barack Obama praises for its “strong commitment to democracy”.
→ read full articleEurope Vying with U.S. to Sell Arms
J.C. Suresh - InDepth News,
10 Oct 2011
The United States and its four major European allies – France, Britain, Germany, and Italy – are locked in an “intense” competition for selling arms to affluent developing nations, says a new report prepared for the U.S. Congress.
→ read full articleAnger, Violence and Reconciliation in Mindanao
Ayesah Abubakar - Mindanao News,
3 Oct 2011
While it may be true that anger can translate into physical violence, we have to make the distinction between anger and violence. Anger is a human emotion that finds its source from a person’s sense of desperation and failure. If we want to find peace between the Moros and the Christian settlers in Mindanao, it is crucial that we somehow study this anger and violence that permeate us. Professor Adam Curle supported the idea of “structural violence” by Johan Galtung. He reiterated that the assumptions and impositions of a majority over a minority is in itself the essence of this structural violence that we have in our society.
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“Governments don’t rule the world; Goldman Sachs rules the world.”
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2011
In a scary and painfully frank interview a freaked out BBC interviewer is visibly shaken when market trader Alessio Rastani predicts that the “Market is Toast.” Apparently, there is nothing Euro governments can do. “Anyone can make money from a crash,” he affirms. The worst thing to do now is nothing. People should act to protect themselves against an inevitable crisis still approaching.
→ read full articleIMF’s Forecast Mistakes Are Not Trivial
Raul de Sagastizabal - InDepth News,
3 Oct 2011
The storm that threatens the global economy has been raging ever since the toxic assets crisis started five long years ago. That crisis has not ended, or receded, but transformed into multiple crises: from fiscal deficit and sovereign debt to poverty, unemployment and the rise in food and fuel prices… What makes things worse is that experts are not inclined to admit their mistakes and apologize – not to speak of offering their resignation – as if their blunders were inconsequential, and just a minor oversight in a cooking recipe.
→ read full articlePunching Back at Big Oil
Robert Redford - Reader Supported News,
26 Sep 2011
When you challenge Big Oil in Houston, you can bet the industry is going to punch back. So when I wrote in the Houston Chronicle earlier this month that we should say no to the Keystone XL pipeline, I wasn’t surprised when the project’s chief executive weighed in with a different view. Let’s set the record straight, point by point.
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Modern Slavery in Gulf Arab Countries (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Paul Jay – The Real News Network,
19 Sep 2011
Scandalous, Inhuman Exploitation of Migrant Workers in GCC Countries – Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states created a super exploited migrant work force after facing a radicalized Arab working class in the 60’s.
→ read full articleTarred and Feathered: Exxon/Murdoch/Cheney … At It Again
Leslie Griffith - Reader Supported News,
19 Sep 2011
“It is said those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. And, in my experience, to report on it … again and again … as if the failures of the past offer no instruction at all.” That thought slapped me sober while thinking about tar sands and, moments later, when running across this story on Rupert Murdoch’s and Dick Cheney’s forays into the sticky boondoggle of tar sands’ predecessor – oil shale.
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UK: Police Raid Travellers’ Site to Free Men ‘Kept As Slaves’ for 15 Years
ITN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2011
A group of men have been freed by police after being found imprisoned as slaves at a caravan site at Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Memorabilia Auction on eBay to Raise Funds
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2011
The computer, which has a buy it now price of $552,615, was used to “prepare the cables for media partners and releases”. “In this exclusive auction item you will get the full set of WikiLeaks Cables, the WikiLeaks computer and its passwords,” WikiLeaks said in a statement released on Twitter.
→ read full articleResource Rich Arctic Severely Threatened
Devinder Kumar - InDepthNews,
12 Sep 2011
A new study is pleading for the resource rich Arctic located at the northern-most part of the planet Earth to be treated as “a global common and a common heritage of mankind”, in the interest of preserving an important ecosystem and halting morbid militarisation of the region.
→ read full articleItaly Faulted for Xenophobia and Ignoring Human Rights
Jaya Ramachadran - InDepthNews,
12 Sep 2011
The 47-nation Council of Europe has faulted Italy for “the presence of racist and xenophobic political discourse” targeting Roma and Sinti, and the protection of the human rights of migrants, including asylum seekers.
→ read full articleEgypt’s Military Ruler Tantawi and the American Siege of Gaza
Ali Abunimah – Pambazuka News,
12 Sep 2011
Revelations from WikiLeaks – As a WikiLeaks cable reveals, the US was even more actively involved than originally thought in ‘enforcing the siege of Gaza along Egypt’s border’.
→ read full articleOfficial: Some 140 Countries to Vote for Palestinian State
M&C News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2011
‘Around 140 countries would vote in favor of an independent state of Palestine during the United Nations General Assembly meetings due to start on September 23,’ Nabil Shaath, a senior negotiator, told a news conference in Ramallah. He said his estimated number was the result of marathon visits by Palestinian leaders across the globe over the past months.
→ read full articleYou Only Believe the Official 9/11 Story Because You Don’t Know the Official 9/11 Story
Jesse Richard – TV News LIES,
5 Sep 2011
During the past 10 years I have not met a single individual who, after doing research on the subject, switched from questioning the official narrative of the events of 9/11/2001 to believing the official narrative of those events.. It is always the other way around. Why do you think that is?
→ read full articleHow Zenawi ‘Weaponizes’ Famine in Ethiopia
Alemayehu G. Mariam - InDepth News,
29 Aug 2011
“Why are Ethiopians starving again? What should the world do and not do?” These are the two enduring questions Time Magazine of December 21, 1987 asked in a cover story. The reply in short was couched as a question: “Is the latest famine wholly the result of cruel nature, or are other, man-made forces at work that worsen the catastrophe?” Something that should strike as déjà vu 24 years later.
→ read full articleHow Best to Remove Guns from Post-Conflict Zones?
IRIN News (UN) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2011
Cash for guns or buy-back programmes in post-conflict states have fallen out of favour as a method of ridding a society of weapons, and have been replaced by often elaborate schemes designed to remove money from the equation, but the debate continues as to the best way forward.
→ read full articlePakistan Rock Firm against New Nuclear Treaty
J. C. Suresh - InDepth News,
8 Aug 2011
Pakistan is standing like a rock in the surf resisting growing international pressure to endorse a global treaty that would ban production of fissile material used as fuel for nuclear weapons. Reiterating its adamant opposition, Pakistan has warned that it would boycott any process to negotiate a U.S.-backed treaty outside the deadlocked UN Conference on Disarmament (CD), the sole negotiating forum for multilateral disarmament.
→ read full articleUS Expands Its Presence in Mexico, Ramping Up Drug War
Ginger Thompson - The New York Times News Service,
8 Aug 2011
The United States is expanding its role in Mexico’s bloody fight against drug trafficking organizations, sending new C.I.A. operatives and retired military personnel to the country and considering plans to deploy private security contractors in hopes of turning around a multibillion-dollar effort that so far has shown few results.
→ read full articleChina Alone Abides by Commitments to World’s Poorest
Raúl de Sagastizabal - InDepth News,
8 Aug 2011
The WTO agreed, back in 2001, to grant to the LDC a special and differential treatment, which includes a more flexible and faster mechanism to open the markets of developed countries and/or developing to products from LDCs and technical assistance to help them increase their production and trade. To date, unfortunately, after ten years of negotiations, such commitments have yet to be translated into practice.
→ read full articleConcern about U.S. Plan to Cut UN Funding
S J Chandler - InDepth News,
25 Jul 2011
A 25 percent cut in contributions to the cash strapped United Nations, embargo on funding for the UN Human Rights Council and making assistance conditional on countries’ voting behaviour at the UN are some of the salient features of a new U.S. legislation. Called the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of Financial Year 2012, the bill was passed by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on July 21.
→ read full articleNew Born South Sudan Has Ambitious Goals
Jerome Mwanda - InDepth News,
18 Jul 2011
While top government leaders of the world’s newest nation, South Sudan, have announced plans to make the country not only the “hub” of Africa but also the bread basket for the Eastern African region, the Civil Society Taskforce is stressing the need for creating a just, peaceful and equitable society.
→ read full articleNeocons Fume over US Boat to Gaza
Ray McGovern – Consortium News,
18 Jul 2011
My co-passengers and I of the U.S. Boat to Gaza have now gone from “High-Seas Hippies,” according to the right-wing Washington Times, to participants in a flotilla full of “fools, knaves, hypocrites, bigots, and supporters of terrorism,” says Alan Dershowitz in his usual measured prose.
→ read full articleHaiti 18 Months After Devastating Quake
Ashley Smith – InDepth News,
18 Jul 2011
Some eighteen months after the disastrous earthquake that killed 300,000 people and drove 2 million into temporary camps, Haiti’s crisis remains as difficult as ever. Ashley Smith talked to Kim Ives, a journalist and editor with Haiti Liberté, a weekly newspaper published in Port-au-Prince and New York City, about what the Caribbean country could expect from the U.S.-backed Michel Martelly, who won a presidential runoff election in March 2011. He was sworn in as president on May 14, 2011.
→ read full articleAnti-Zionism Growing Among Jews
As'ad Abdul Rahman - Gulf News,
11 Jul 2011
Pro-Palestine Jewish activists and organisations blame Israel for ‘crimes against humanity’.
→ read full articleOn Flotillas and the Law
Lawrence Davidson - Reader Supported News,
11 Jul 2011
Civil Society Movements vs. Corrupt Politics – Most of us are unaware of the potential of organized civil society because we have resigned the public sphere to professional politicians and bureaucrats and retreated into a private sphere of everyday life, which we see as separate from politics. This is a serious mistake. Politics shapes our lives whether we pay attention to it or not. By ignoring it we allow the power of the state to respond not so much to the citizenry as to special interests.
→ read full articleFragile Peace Greets Independent South Sudan
Jerome Mwanda - InDepth News,
11 Jul 2011
South Sudan declaring its independence, forming the world’s newest state, and initiating a new era for North Sudan on July 9, 2011, is a historic moment for Sudan and the surrounding region, and a vital opportunity to promote peace and stability in a volatile territory. But this historic moment looks set to be scarred by violence, a group of civil society organisations has warned.
→ read full articleDRC: Children Still in Prison despite Law
IRIN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2011
The law, which came into effect in January 2009, replaced a 1950 colonial law on juvenile delinquency that set the age of criminal responsibility at 16, leading to a number of severe penalties against children, including life imprisonment and the death sentence.
→ read full articleAmericans Now Questioning Israeli Apartheid Policies
Sherry Wolf - InDepth News,
27 Jun 2011
Opinion polls in the U.S. regarding Israel-Palestine are a mixed bag. On the one hand, they reflect the dominant narrative in the West that at turns defends and denies Israel’s racist policies toward Palestinians. On the other, they show disgust with the periodic mass killings of the virtually imprisoned Palestinians, punctuated in people’s minds by last year’s massacre of nine humanitarian aid activists — murdered at sea in cold blood.
→ read full articleNo Impunity for Killing by Drones
Richard Johnson, Oxford Research Group - InDepth News,
27 Jun 2011
“If you use drones you must confirm and report who they killed,” international lawyers say, adding: “Drones don’t allow hit and run.” In fact, states that authorize or use armed drones as well as those who launch and control them are obliged to identify the deceased so as to provide reparations or compensation for possible wrongful killing, injury and other offences.
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