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Human Rights Yes, Bombing No
Pia Figueroa – InDepth News,
27 Jun 2011
Today it is not the state-owned media corporations that form public opinion, but transnational media companies at the service of multinationals in diverse sectors such as banking, industry and the military. In this context and in order to serve the media corporations that control the global information market, “journalistic objectivity” ends up ignoring inequality, unemployment, exploitation, racism, discrimination, intolerance and the day to day violence experienced by millions of human beings.
→ read full articleOf Nuke States, Outliers and Global Security
Jayantha Dhanapala - InDepth News,
27 Jun 2011
One definition of an outlier, in the original field of statistics, is “one that appears to deviate markedly from other members of the sample in which it occurs.” Thus, in a world where the global norm is membership of the Treaty for the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), nuclear weapon armed states outside the NPT have been referred to as the outliers. The use of the term has an undeniably pejorative implication but in modern realpolitik no value judgments hold sway.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Vida nos Oceanos Pode Enfrentar Extinção sem Precedentes, Diz Estudo
Richard Black - BBC News,
27 Jun 2011
Um novo estudo indica que os ecossistemas marinhos enfrentam perigos ainda maiores do que os estimados até agora pelos cientistas e que correm o risco de entrar em uma fase de extinção de espécies sem precedentes na história da humanidade.
→ read full articleWorld Bank Blamed for Fuelling Climate Chaos
Jutta Wolf - InDepth News,
20 Jun 2011
Reflecting profound concerns of developing countries, a new report has strongly criticised the World Bank group for promoting false solutions to climate change, such as carbon trading, megadams, agrofuels and industrial monoculture tree plantations. The report – ‘Catalysing Catastrophic Climate Change’ – also gives vent to anxieties of social movements, environmental and social justice organisations, and affected communities.
→ read full articleNew Insights into Beleaguered Africa
Jaya Ramachandran - InDepth News,
20 Jun 2011
“Africa has gone through a remarkable decade of economic transformation. The continent is abuzz with talk of new investment, new cities, new airports, new refineries: The new African Lions,” says a new study offering an upbeat insight into the continent and expanding South-South relations.
→ read full articleJournalism 101 – How to Avoid Being a Propaganda Tool
Leslie Griffith - Reader Supported News,
20 Jun 2011
It’s been a long, slow slide for CNN. The once-proud cable news pioneer has consistently crawled under the media’s lowering bar, but this week it blazed a new trail to the bottom.
→ read full articleWhy the Pentagon Papers Matter Now
Daniel Ellsberg - Reader Supported News,
20 Jun 2011
“While we go on waging unwinnable wars on false premises, the Pentagon papers tell us we must not wait 40 years for the truth. Don’t wait until thousands more have died, before you go to the press and to Congress to tell the truth with documents that reveal lies or crimes or internal projections of costs and dangers. Don’t wait 40 years for it to be declassified, or seven years as I did for you or someone else to leak it.”
→ read full articleNuclear Energy on the Anvil in Vienna
Ronald Joshua - InDepth News,
13 Jun 2011
When 151 ministers of United Nations’ atomic energy agency gather in Vienna on June 20, for four days, they will be dealing with a world that has changed in the aftermath of Fukushima nuclear disaster, the third after serious accidents in Three Mile Island in 1979 and Chernobyl in 1986, thus imposing a global review of the regulations governing nuclear safety.
→ read full articleTel Aviv: Thousands Rally in Support of Palestine
Boaz Fyler - YNetNews,
6 Jun 2011
[4 Jun 2011] Thousands of people took part in a march in central Tel Aviv in support of a Palestinian state. The protest was held under the banner “Israel says yes to a Palestinian state.” The organizers called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to recognize that the establishment of Palestine serves vital Israel interests. It is estimated some 20,000 people attended the rally. Dozens of rightists staged a counter-protest nearby.
→ read full articleTowards the Eradication of Global Hunger and Undernutrition
Xin-Ying Ren and Fred Dubee, UN MaximsNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2011
While we tend to think in terms of hundreds of millions of deprived and stunted lives, the reality is that each starving child, each malnourished expectant mother, each person who does not have the energy to develop, learn or contribute is a horrible tragedy, and together these individual tragedies add up to an unacceptable loss to the human commonwealth. Simply stated hunger and undernutrition are among the most severe and least addressed challenges facing humanity today.
→ read full articleWho’s Killing the Journalists of Honduras?
Andrew O'Reilly - Latin American News Dispatch,
23 May 2011
While many blame drug-trafficking organizations that use Honduras as a stopover point between South America and Mexico for the spike in violence against media workers, others point a finger at the Honduran government and their crackdown on opposition journalists after the June 2009 coup.
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New Egyptian Stance towards Israel, Hamas and Iran
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2011
Paul Jay interviews Samer Shehata: Egyptian government may not cooperate with siege of Gaza and isolation of Hamas; restoring relations with Iran.
→ read full articleOsama bin Laden: Everyone’s Missing the Point
Barry Lando - Reader Supported News,
9 May 2011
Indeed, from the point of view of America and many of its allies, the most menacing symbol in the Arab World today is not Osama bin Laden but another Arab who recently met a violent death – Mohamed Bouazizi, the 26-year-old Tunisian fruit vendor who chose to set himself on fire. His act, of course, ignited the storm that has spread across the Arab World and proven a much more serious threat to America’s allies in the region than al Qaeda ever was. Ironically, his sacrifice probably also dealt a far more devastating blow to al Qaeda’s fortunes than the assassination of Osama bin Laden.
→ read full articleBrazil Supreme Court Awards Gay Couples New Rights
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2011
5 May, 2011 – Brazil’s Supreme Court has voted overwhelmingly in favour of allowing same-sex couples the same legal rights as married heterosexuals. The decision was approved by 10-0 with one abstention. The ruling will give gay couples in “stable” partnerships the same financial and social rights enjoyed by those in heterosexual relationships.
→ read full articlePanamanian Corruption Concealed Amidst Free Trade Negotiations
Eric Jackson, Panama News - Council on Hemispheric Affairs-COHA,
2 May 2011
Obama welcomes Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli in the midst of major scandal and corruption in Panama. Once again, Obama falls short of his commitments to Latin America as he collaborates with Martinelli to negotiate a flawed trade agreement. It’s not possible to have a reliable anti-drug ally in a Panamanian government that is in bed with the mob.
→ read full articleWorld Bank President: ‘One Shock Away From Crisis’
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
The president of the World Bank has warned that the world is “one shock away from a full-blown crisis”. Robert Zoellick cited rising food prices as the main threat to poor nations who risk “losing a generation”. He was speaking in Washington at the end of the spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
→ read full articleSri Lanka ‘War Crimes’ Is ‘Srebrenica Moment’
Channel 4 News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
The former UN spokesman in Sri Lanka Gordon Weiss tells Channel 4 News that a leaked UN report into “credible allegations” of war crimes represent Sri Lanka’s “Srebrenica moment”. A leaked United Nations report estimates that tens of thousands of civilians were killed during the fighting between Sri Lankan forces and the LTTE – known as the Tamil Tigers in 2009. The document cites “credible allegations” that government forces deliberately shelled civilians and repeatedly targeted hospitals. If proven, the allegations amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleLibya: Use of Depleted Uranium, Partition and Regional Risks
Farouk James – Pambazuka News,
25 Apr 2011
In the wake of NATO’s imposition of the ‘no-fly zone’ over Libya on 31 March 2011, there is serious scepticism around the United States Pentagon’s denial of the use of depleted uranium (DU), writes Farouk James. With the US, the UK and France now calling for a full-scale invasion the veto powers of the UN Security Council’s permanent members should be called into question once again.
→ read full articleTime to End Corporate Impunity
Nnimmo Bassey – IDN-InDepthNews,
18 Apr 2011
Think how instructive it would have been to line up the directors of Chevron for the environmental crimes in the Ecuadorian Amazonia or those of Shell, Exxon, Chevron, Agip and the rest for their human rights and ecocide in the Niger Delta. If manslaughter charges are pressed against officials of BP, then the days of companies only being fined and the directors avoiding the dock will soon become history.
→ read full articleThe Reconstruction of Haiti: A Record of Failure
Colette Lespinasse – Pambazuka News,
18 Apr 2011
Last March, donors pledged billions of US dollars for the reconstruction of Haiti, after an earthquake devastated the country. But a year later, a group of 40 Haitian organisations finds that ‘nothing significant has really been undertaken’. Instead Haitian players have been excluded from strategic decision-making and the ‘millions of people affected directly or indirectly by the earthquake continue to face the consequences in destitution, and with no support whatsoever.’
→ read full articleThe Hypocrisy of the West’s ‘Humanitarian Interventions’
Peter Lavelle – The Moscow News,
4 Apr 2011
Western sponsored “humanitarian intervention” always picks a side – and the winning side does what it pleases. This is one of the unspoken spin-offs of “humanitarian interventionism”.
→ read full articleTransnational Capitalism or Collective Imperialism?
Samir Amin – Pambazuka News,
28 Mar 2011
Responding to the work of scholars like William Carroll, Samir Amin considers the evolution and shape of globalised capitalism and the extent to which it might be termed ‘transnational’ or ‘collective imperialism’. He stresses: ‘Globalisation is an inappropriate term. Its popularity is commensurate with the violence of ideological aggression that has prohibited henceforth the utterance of “imperialism.”
→ read full articleLet’s Make Female Genital Mutilation a Part of History
Bernadette Sesay – Pambazuka News,
28 Mar 2011
At age 18, I was told the time had come for me to go through Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). I didn’t want to. It was my mother and maternal grandmother’s idea: they’d also been responsible for the initiation of all of my female siblings. My mother cried and pleaded with me, begging me not to bring shame to my family. She told me it was not going to be hard because I was having it done in a hospital. I didn’t know it could be done in hospital; at the time this came as a shock.
→ read full articleJulian Assange on 60 Minutes (Part 1)
CBS News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
Julian Assange appeared on 60 Minutes on 30 Jan 2011 in his longest televised interview while in house arrest in England. One of the most interesting aspects of the interview: behind-the-scenes shots of Assange and colleagues, mundanely sitting around a kitchen table on laptops that presumably contain some of the most explosive secrets on earth.
→ read full articleJulian Assange on 60 Minutes (Part 2)
CBS News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
Julian Assange appeared on 60 Minutes on 30 Jan 2011 in his longest televised interview while in house arrest in England. One of the most interesting aspects of the interview: behind-the-scenes shots of Assange and colleagues, mundanely sitting around a kitchen table on laptops that presumably contain some of the most explosive secrets on earth.
→ read full articleDenmark to Upgrade Status of Palestinian Representation to ‘Mission’
Haaretz Service & News Agencies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
Upgrade from third-highest ranking of general delegation mirrors move made recently by number of other countries, including Britain.
→ read full articleThe World Social Forum and the Battle for COP17
Vishwas Satgar – Pambazuka News,
21 Feb 2011
In a world plunged ever deeper into an uncivilised global capitalist condition, the World Social Forum is a crucial beacon of hope. But while news of Egypt and Tunisia’s revolutions electrified activists at this year’s gathering in Dakar, Vishwas Satgar asks whether progressive civil society is powerful enough to organise for a genuine climate change solution at COP17.
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Cairo Intifada
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2011
A report on the nonviolent movements for Mubarak’s ouster.
→ read full articleUN Falling Apart Under ‘Ban Ki-Who’
Ida Karlsson – IPS News,
7 Feb 2011
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon is under fire again. Inga-Britt Ahlenius – until recently one of the highest-ranking officials at the U.N. – explains to IPS her blistering attacks on Ban’s leadership.
→ read full articleShell Annual Profits Double to $18.6bn
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
The oil giant Shell has reported profits almost doubled from $9.8bn to $18.6bn (£11.5bn) for 2010, partly thanks to rising oil prices and output.
→ read full article(French) Capitalisme Transnational ou Impérialisme Collectif?
Samir Amin – Pambazuka News,
31 Jan 2011
Samir Amin pense que le capitalisme est une réalité historique et sociale – et non seulement économique – qu’il importe d’étudier comme un ensemble de sociétés capitalistes à caractère nationale. Cela en dépit la transnationalisation. Et pour lui, «dans l’analyse de ces capitalismes nationaux, aujourd’hui comme hier, l’accent dans la recherche ne doit sans doute pas négliger l’examen des réalités que les firmes capitalistes représentent».
→ read full articleStakeholders in the Côte d’Ivoire Crisis
Sanou Mbaye – Pambazuka News,
31 Jan 2011
What is at stake in Côte d’Ivoire ‘are the consequences of French ongoing colonisation and ruthless exploitation in connivance with unscrupulous local leaders of swathes of west and central Africa’, writes Sanou Mbaye, in an analysis of the five parties affected by the country’s post-election crisis.
→ read full articleVenezuela-Cuba Undersea Cable Link Work Starts
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2011
Work has begun on laying an underwater fibre-optic cable to link Venezuela and Cuba. It will stretch 1,600km (1,000m) and considerably improve telephone and internet services to Cuba, which currently relies on a costly and slow internet connection via satellite.
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One Year Later, Life No Better in Haiti
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2011
Nicole Lee: Stability of markets depends on countries like Haiti remaining poor. Europe’s, US’s commitment is to their own subsidies only.
→ read full articleTribute to Patrice Lumumba on the 50th Anniversary of His Assassination [17 Jan 1961]
Carlos Martinez – Pambazuka News,
24 Jan 2011
Why was Lumumba killed? Because he was a relentless, dedicated, intelligent, passionate anti-colonialist, Pan-Africanist and Congolese nationalist; because he had the unstinting support of the Congolese masses; because he stood in the way of Belgium’s plan to transform Congo from a colony into a neo-colony.
→ read full articleAfrica: Letter to AU over Homophobia Concerns
AIDS-Free World – Pambazuka News,
17 Jan 2011
We are writing to express our grave concern about the recent escalation of homophobia throughout the African continent. A vocal minority spouting hatred, paranoia, and intolerance is dominating public discourse. In response, increasing numbers of parliaments are attempting to criminalise homosexuality, and increasing numbers of African leaders are publicly endorsing this criminalisation. Currently, over two-thirds of countries in the African Union have legislation that criminalises homosexuality. AIDS-Free World is disturbed by the silence of AU leaders in the face of this discrimination, and we urgently call upon the African Union to hold a special session to address the issue.
→ read full articleMauritania: Activists’ Trial Puts Spotlight on Anti-Slavery Law
IRIN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2011
Six anti-slavery activists are in prison in Mauritania in a case rights experts say points to the challenges of ensuring a 2007 law criminalizing slavery is more than just words on paper.
→ read full articleThe US Media Hit on Helen Thomas
Danny Schechter – ConsortiumNews,
3 Jan 2011
Editor’s Note: Last June when the mainstream Washington press corps rode the 89-year-old journalistic icon Helen Thomas out of the news business on a rail, a key count in the professional “indictment” against her was that she lacked “objectivity” with her impertinent questions to U.S. presidents and in her criticism of Israel. However, for years among big-time U.S. journalists, “objectivity” has been a principle most noticeable in its absence, especially on the sensitive issue of Israel, the topic that touched off the furor that ended Thomas’s career, as Danny Schechter notes in this guest essay.
→ read full articleHomophobia Plagues Africa
Pambazuka News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2010
Monday’s [20 Dec 2010] statements by a prominent Ghanaian activist provide further evidence of the alarming homophobia that is sweeping across Africa. Bernice Sam, National Programme Coordinator of WiLDAF (Women in Law and Development) in Ghana argued publicly for the Constitution Review Commission to limit Ghana’s definition of marriage to include heterosexual couples only. Sam then went even further. She was quoted as saying that it will be ‘almost impossible for the act of homosexuality to be considered criminal’ if the constitution is not reworded in this way.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize 2010: Norwegian Dynamite
Annar Cassam – Pambazuka News,
20 Dec 2010
New head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Thorbjorn Jagland, one-time leader of the Labour Party, one-time prime minister, one-time foreign minister of Norway and currently secretary general of the Council of Europe, is bit of a national joke…. Furthermore, [Wen Huibao, writing in Le Monde 10 December 2010] explains that [Liu Xiaobo] caused a second scandal by publicly supporting George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq in 2003, an act of war which was condemned in China, Scandinavia and all over the globe. So the question has to be asked, what links the Nobel Peace Prize with its current laureate’s support for this illegal war in Iraq?
→ read full articleHaitian Diary: SOPUDEP and Local Organisation
Sokari Ekine – Pambazuka News,
13 Dec 2010
As she visits Haiti, Sokari Ekine writes of the history behind the community-run SOPUDEP school, the efforts of local organisations to organise in response to the devastation of the country’s earthquake, a micro-credit scheme and people’s broad lack of faith in the power of the current elections to promote change.
→ read full articleDiscovery of “Arsenic-bug” Expands Definition of Life
NASA Science News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
Dec. 2, 2010: NASA-supported researchers have discovered the first known microorganism on Earth able to thrive and reproduce using the toxic chemical arsenic. The microorganism, which lives in California’s Mono Lake, substitutes arsenic for phosphorus in the backbone of its DNA and other cellular components.
→ read full articleIsrael Starts Building Barrier on Egypt Border
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
Work is beginning in Israel on a barrier along the border with Egypt, aimed at stemming the flow of illegal immigrants into the country. The barrier, including an electric fence and surveillance technology, will run for 250km (155 miles). Work on the $372m (£232m) project is expected to take up to a year.
→ read full articleGlobal Currency Wars and US Imperialism
Samir Amin – Pambazuka News,
29 Nov 2010
Samir Amin speaks to Pambazuka News on the misleading rhetoric over the so-called currency war. The real problem, he argues, is the disequilibrium in the global integrated monetary and financial system in which the US insists legitimately on the right to control their currency, but denies the same rights to others, such as China, who seek to do the same. The countries of the global South need to leave the US and its allies to sort out their own problems and concentrate on developing regional currencies and exercising strict control over capital flows, Amin argues.
→ read full articleOn Korea, Here We Go Again!
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
29 Nov 2010
If American journalism should have learned one thing over the years, it is to be cautious and skeptical during the first days of a foreign confrontation like the one now playing out on the Korean Peninsula. Often the initial accounts from the “U.S. side” don’t turn out to be entirely accurate.
→ read full articleWhich Way Sudan?
Horace Campbell – Pambazuka News,
29 Nov 2010
A Pan-African Reflection: Is North and South Sudan’s recent agreement to establish a ‘soft border’ between the two areas ahead of a referendum on southern independence ‘another recipe for war?’
→ read full articleInsanity and Robotisation: Militarisation and US Society
Horace Campbell – Pambazuka News,
22 Nov 2010
A rally to restore sanity was held in the Washington Mall on 30 October 2010. Called by two comedians, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, the rally drew over 200,000 persons (CBS News: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20021284-503544.html). Another 4 million persons watched this rally on cable television. The escalation of intolerance and use of violent language by the conservative forces gave this rally tremendous importance in the politics of the USA.
→ read full articleThe Art of War Journalism
Mwaura Kaara – Pambazuka News,
22 Nov 2010
Reflecting on how the media and war industries often feed off each other for political and commercial ends, Mwaura Kaara considers the prospects for ‘peace journalism’ that ‘captures the truths as they are without bias or favour’.
→ read full articleThe US, the AU and the New Scramble for Africa
Jason Hickel – Pambazuka News,
8 Nov 2010
The past few years have seen a dramatic up-tick in American diplomatic efforts in Africa, which has coincided with a decisive shift in political rhetoric about the continent. At first glance this might seem like a positive development, reflecting a more progressive attitude toward what has long been considered an unimportant global backwater. But a closer look reveals that American diplomacy in Africa is less about serving the good of African people than it is about securing the interests of private American capital. Nowhere has this been more flagrantly clear than on the lips of Michael Battle, the US ambassador to the AU.
→ read full articleNigeria: Shell Oil’s ‘License to Kill’?
Abena Ampofoa Asare – Pambazuka News,
25 Oct 2010
Following a controversial ruling by US Judge José A. Cabranes of the Manhattan-based federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals that transnational corporations ‘cannot be held responsible for torture, genocide, war crimes and the like’, Abena Ampofoa Asare discusses the challenges for establishing responsibility and valuing human rights over profit.
→ read full articleMoldova Becomes Latest State Party to International Criminal Court
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
Moldova has become the latest country to ratify the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is tasked with trying people accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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9/11 Coverup Finds a Voice on FOX with Judge Napolitano
Fox News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
‘Operation Dark Heart’ Author Alleges 9/11 Cover Up. Judge Napolitano’s Ground-breaking interview with Lt. Col, Anthony Shaffer and Former CIA Intelligence officer, Michael Scheuer. — Shaffer’s book, “Operation Dark Heart” was essentially “censored” by the Pentagon in order that some classified details could be “redacted”.
→ read full articleHaiti: Finding Butterflies among the Rubble
Judith Scherr – IPS News,
11 Oct 2010
Michele Garlin had massive headaches after Haiti’s 7.0 earthquake killed some 230,000 people and left 1.3 million others, like herself, homeless. “I also had insomnia and, even if there was no aftershock, I thought my bed was shaking all the time,” Garlin said, speaking in the shade of an open-air community tent, in the Bon Repos camp for displaced people she now calls home. Along with some 2,000 others in four different camps, Garlin has found relief in a mental health programme called Soulaje Lespri Moun or Relief for the Spirit.
→ read full articleLessons from Honduras
Marcela Valente – IPS News,
11 Oct 2010
With the 2009 coup d’etat in Honduras still a fresh memory, the presidents of the Unasur bloc gathered as quickly as they could to vigorously condemn Thursday’s [30 Sep 2010] attempted coup in Ecuador and warn that they would not tolerate any such assault on democracy in the region.
→ read full articleU.S. Apologizes for ‘Abhorrent’ Guatemala Syphilis Study in 1940s
Tim Johnson - McClatchy Newspapers,
4 Oct 2010
Exposing a dark page in its history, the U.S. government acknowledged Friday [1 Oct 2010] that government scientists had infected some 1,500 Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea in experiments from 1946 to 1948 in “appalling violations” of medical ethics. U.S. scientists infected prostitutes with syphilis or gonorrhea and sent them to have unprotected sex with soldiers or prison inmates, later testing them for possible cures, U.S. officials said. When few became infected, scientists turned to patients at a mental health hospital, exposing them to infection by rubbing it on their genitals. None of the subjects were informed about the study or offered consent, U.S. officials said. At least one patient is known to have died.
→ read full articleUN-Backed Anti-Corruption Academy Inaugurated in Austria
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
2 September 2010 – An anti-corruption academy co-sponsored by the United Nations opened today in Austria with the aim of filling the rising global need for training, research and contemporary measures and techniques in the fight against corruption. The International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA), based in Laxenburg, will educate public and private sector anti-corruption practitioners in more effectively implementing the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC).
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The Int’l Effort to Criminalize War
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Debate about “wars of agression” at conference of jurists from international tribunals.
→ read full articleHomes for 27,000 Constructed During Israeli Settlements Freeze
Nasouh Nazzal, Gulf News - Philippine Times,
20 Sep 2010
The so-called settlement freeze in the Palestinian territories is a myth. No freeze has ever been implemented, in fact the settlements have been expanding dramatically during the moratorium. Additionally, another 13,000 homes have been approved for the West Bank, together with two new colonies near Nablus and the Jordan Valley.
→ read full articleCNN Report: IDF Sexually Abused Palestinian Children
Ynetnews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
Damning CNN report cites uncorroborated sexual abuse charges of Palestinian children detained by IDF; army says detention of minors undertaken in line with international law, cannot respond to abuse charges as no details provided.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Own Christian Taliban: Eat, Pray, Hate
Christopher Dickey - Newsweek,
13 Sep 2010
The threat to burn Qurans in Florida is a perfect example of the way America’s own Christian Taliban are creating, promoting, and exploiting our national paranoia.
→ read full articleGuide to the Most Crucial Bank Meeting You Never Heard of
Kevin G. Hall - McClatchy Newspapers,
13 Sep 2010
International bank regulators from around the globe will meet in the Swiss town of Basel on Sunday [12 Sep 2010] to finalize an important agreement that most Americans have never heard of: one to redraw rules so that banks can’t bring the world economy to the brink of collapse again.
→ read full articleJapanese Hunt Dolphins into the Cove, Once More
Ravi Somaiya - Newsweek,
6 Sep 2010
Activists protest start of annual chase, which locals see as a cultural event.
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Behind Mexico’s Bloodshed (Part 1)
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
Interview with investigative journalist Bruce Livesey, who recently returned from Ciudad Juárez, scene of some of the most concerning violence in Mexico’s ongoing drug cartel conflict. According to Livesey, the problem has its roots in the free trade agreement that wiped out Mexico’s traditional agriculture economy, after which the drug cartels moved in to fight for each other’s market share.
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Behind Mexico’s Bloodshed (Part 2)
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
According to investigative journalist Bruce Livesey, in Ciudad Juarez, the murder capital of Mexico, the military is picking winners amongst the cartels.
→ read full articleHarvard University Fund Sells All Israel Holdings
Hillel Koren - Globes Israel's Business News,
23 Aug 2010
No reason for the sale was mentioned in the report to the SEC. In another blow to Israeli shares, the Harvard Management Company notified the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday [13 Aug 2010] that it had sold all its holdings in Israeli companies during the second quarter of 2010. No reason for the sale was mentioned. The Harvard Management Company manages Harvard University’s endowment.
→ read full articleOmar Khadr, Bradley Manning and Our National Psyche
Lawrence Davidson - Reader Supported News,
16 Aug 2010
At present there are two men sitting in prison who have never met but are nonetheless intimately connected. One is 23-year-old Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen who was with a group of Afghan resistance fighters attacked by US troops in 2002 (when he was 15). The second is PFC Bradley Manning, the man who blew the whistle on the barbaric tactics used by the US in both Iraq and Afghanistan. It is their different forms of resistance to a war sold to the US public as “necessary” and defensive that binds their fate.
→ read full articleVanunu upon Release from Jail: Let Me Leave This Country
Raanan Ben-Zur, AFP – YNetNews,
16 Aug 2010
Israeli nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu was freed from jail on Sunday [8 Aug 2010] after serving 11 weeks behind bars for breaking the terms of his release and meeting a foreigner, a prison official said…. He said it was time Israeli authorities allow him to leave the country, and accused the media of not fighting for his human rights and freedom.
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The Fall of the US Empire – And Then What? (Part 1)
Paul Jay interviewing Johan Galtung and Dennis Kucinich -The Real News Network,
2 Aug 2010
Johan Galtung and Dennis Kucinich discuss the proposal for a Department of Peace.
→ read full articleThe Fall of the US Empire – And Then What? (Part 2)
Paul Jay interviewing Johan Galtung and Dennis Kucinich - The Real News Network,
2 Aug 2010
Dennis Kucinich and Johan Galtung discuss the proposal for a Department of Peace.
→ read full articleThe Genocide behind Your Smart Phone
Alan Mascarenhas - Newsweek,
26 Jul 2010
Our biggest gadget makers—including HP and Apple—may inadvertently get their raw ingredients from murderous Congolese militias. A new movement wants them to trace rare metals from ‘conflict mines.’
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The Missing Words at the G20
Paul Jay – The Real News Network,
26 Jul 2010
Paul Jay on the G20 declaration – an absurd plan for the global economic crisis.
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The Boycott Israel Movement
Paul Jay, interviewing Shir Hever – The Real News Network,
19 Jul 2010
Political Economy of Israel’s Occupation – Shir Hever is an economic researcher in the Alternative Information Center, a Palestinian-Israeli organization active in Jerusalem and Beit-Sahour. Researching the economic aspect of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, some of his research topics include international aid to the Palestinians and Israel, the effects of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories on the Israeli economy, and the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaigns against Israel. He is a frequent speaker on the topic of the economy of the Israeli occupation.
→ read full articleThe Death of the Fourth Estate
Rodolfo F. Acuna - Reader Supported News,
5 Jul 2010
The press, in theory, is supposed to safeguard democratic principles. During a parliamentary debate in 1787, Edmund Burke supposedly referred to the press corps reporting the activities of the House of Commons as the Fourth Estate. Hypothetically, the press was the champion of the public…. Hence, the journalist’s foremost duty was to tell the truth. But, over the years there has been an erosion of the public trust in the Fourth Estate, as the media has been monopolized by those President Franklin Roosevelt in 1936 called “economic royalists” that control the country.
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G20 Commits Itself to More “Neoliberalism”
Paul Jay, The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2010
Reporting from Toronto – Leo Panitch, political science professor at York University: “Free movement of capital and strengthening power of global elites is G20 objective.”
→ read full articleChe, an Extraordinary Human Being
Jayatilleke de Silva – Daily News,
21 Jun 2010
Today [14 June 2010] marks the 82nd birth anniversary of an extraordinary human being, one whose name will live through centuries and generations. He is none other than Ernesto Che Guevara, the legendary guerilla, statesman, thinker and revolutionary.
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How Israel Planned the Flotilla Attack
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
As the MV Rachel Corrie ship is dragged to Israel,TRNN investigates Israel’s plan for attacking the flotilla.
→ read full articleAmnesty: U.S., Europe Shielding Israel over Gaza War Crimes
Haaretz Service and News Agencies,
31 May 2010
In its annual report, the rights group accuses Israel of continually violating human rights in Gaza with its ongoing economic siege.
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Abbas Al Lawati – Gulf News,
31 May 2010
Canadian-Palestinian lawyer Diana Buttu, a former legal adviser to the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, said Israel “confuses” occupation with colonization.
→ read full articleNew Colonialism: Pentagon Carves Africa into Military Zones
Rick Rozoff – Pambazuka News,
24 May 2010
Under its AFRICOM (African Command) initiative, the US Army is becoming ever more deeply involved in African military affairs across the continent, encroaching on the military autonomy of an increasing number of African nations, writes Rick Rozoff. Pulling African countries’ militaries into its network is not based on altruism, Rozoff contends, but simply reflects the concerns of every military power: ‘The threat and use of armed violence to gain economic and geopolitical advantages.’
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Global Food Bubble on the Way?
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
Jayati Ghosh: We have to ban finance speculation that does not physically hold food commodities.
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US Military Enforces Attacks on Haitian Unions
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2010
Didier Dominique: US military helping to repress organizing of textile workers’ unions in Haiti.
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Japan’s PM Denies Washington Post Report about US Military in Okinawa
MoxNewsDotCom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Prime Minister Hatoyama denies that an agreement has been reached with US authorities regarding the relocation of the US military base in Okinawa. The base remains unwelcome by the Japanese people and government.
→ read full articleIndonesia: Lies, Non-Truths and the Path to Peace
ANU News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Lies, non-truths and a corrupt military have all played key roles in Indonesia’s transition from an unstable, violent state to a relatively peaceful democracy. This contradicts the idea that truth and transparency are always vital ingredients in fostering peace. That’s the argument made in the first of a series of books from a 20-year study of global peacebuilding efforts that is being undertaken at The Australian National University.
→ read full articleWorld Poll: Only 19% See Israel in Positive Light
Ynet - Israel News,
26 Apr 2010
Survey conducted in 28 countries on 29,000 respondents reveals that only Iran, Pakistan, North Korea have more negative perception than Israel. Most ‘loved’ country is Germany. ‘Obama effect’ has resulted in improvement in relations towards US for first time since 2005.
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Maayana Miskin, IsraelNationalNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
Turkey is planning a gesture that will challenge Israel and provide support to Gaza’s Hamas leaders next month. A flotilla of ships funded by Turkey will approach Gaza in May, in an attempt to challenge Israeli control at sea – or, as organizers put it, “break Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza.”
→ read full articleLEAKED VIDEO SHOWS CIVILIAN KILLINGS IN IRAQ, SIGNIFIES GROWING POWER OF INDEPENDENT WEB JOURNALISM
Brett Michael Dykes, Yahoo! News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
When a nonprofit group this week released video footage, leaked via a source in the Pentagon, showing a 2007 U.S. helicopter attack on a group of civilians in Baghdad, the clip unleashed a viral online sensation and ignited an intense debate about the conduct of U.S. forces in Iraq. But the simple fact of the video’s release also reflects the ongoing revolution in how news gets produced and published.
→ read full articleU.S. COVERING UP REALITY IN HONDURAS
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
While State Department attempts to sell the world that the inauguration of a new president in Honduras has brought an end to the country’s crisis, the continuing assassinations of anti-coup activists and their children stands as sharp evidence to the contrary.
→ read full articleIRAN’S CALLS FOR N-FREE MIDEAST SHOULD BE BACKED
Linda Heard – Arab News,
12 Apr 2010
From April 17-18, Iran intends to host a nuclear disarmament summit just four days after Washington concludes a nuclear security summit to which Tehran was not invited. Under the banner “Nuclear energy for everyone, nuclear arms for no one”, Iran calls for a nuclear-free Middle East and an end to nuclear proliferation globally.
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HELEN THOMAS ON HER ONE QUESTION FOR OBAMA
Real News Network,
7 Apr 2010
White House Press Corps longest-serving member says Obama lost credibility when he dodged her question on Israeli nukes. A Real News Network video httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Oz8M_FnV4
→ read full articleUN’S BAN KI-MOON CALLS ARAL SEA ‘SHOCKING DISASTER’
Jim Heintz, AP-Yahoo! News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
Once the world’s fourth-largest lake, Central Asia’s Aral Sea has shrunk by 90 percent. NUKUS, Uzbekistan – The drying up of the Aral Sea is one of the planet’s most shocking environmental disasters, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday as he urged Central Asian leaders to step up efforts to solve the problem. Once the […]
→ read full articleNEW POPE CRITICISM MARS EASTER WEEK
News 24, Worldpress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
Vatican – Pope Benedict XVI faced new criticism on Saturday after his preacher likened attacks on the Catholic Church over the paedophile priest furore to anti-Semitism, further marring Easter Week celebrations. Jewish groups and those representing victims of abuse by Catholic priests denounced the remarks by the pope’s personal preacher during a Good Friday homily. […]
→ read full articleA PERSONAL ISSUE, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH SCANDAL
John Cory - Reader Supported News,
5 Apr 2010
My views on child abuse and child molestation are harsh and unforgiving and forged by the fires of my own childhood. I give no quarter on this issue. I have no kind words or forgiving thoughts for the Catholic hierarchy or their enablers, which brings me to Bill Donohue’s article on the CNN Opinion web […]
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Lawrence S. Wittner – History News Network,
5 Apr 2010
One of the most popular muckraking American journalists of the late twentieth century, I.F. Stone, once remarked: "All governments lie." Even a prominent government official — Andrei Gromyko, the veteran Soviet diplomat — once admitted, in a weak moment: "Governments are never sincere." This gloomy assessment appears all too true when it comes to national […]
→ read full articleHELEN THOMAS ON WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS
The Real News Network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
Thomas: “Most press rolled over and played dead during Bush years, press was gung-ho to go to war.” Helen Thomas is an American News reporter, member of the White House Press Corps and author. She was the first female officer of the National Press Club and the first female member and president of the White […]
→ read full articleNEPAL’S FORMER PRIME MINISTER DIES
Steve Herman - VOA News, New Delhi,
20 Mar 2010
Nepal’s former five-term prime minister has died. Girija Prasad Koirala, who was in his mid-80’s still headed the country’s Congress Party, playing a critical role in Nepal’s fragile government until just before his death. There are concerns his passing could re-plunge the Himalayan nation into a chaotic period. Nepal’s senior statesman died early Saturday [20 […]
→ read full articleDISTURBING STORY OF FALLUJAH’S BIRTH DEFECTS
John Simpson - BBC News,
5 Mar 2010
Six years after the intense fighting began in the Iraqi town of Fallujah between US forces and Sunni insurgents, there is a disturbingly large number of cases of birth defects in the town.Fallujah is less than 40 miles (65km) from Baghdad, but it can still be dangerous to get to. As a result, there has […]
→ read full articleTRIBE MARKS MASSACRE WITH BURIAL GROUND GATHERING
Jessie L. Bonner - AP, Yahoo! News,
10 Feb 2010
PRESTON, Idaho – Tribal members descend in late January each year to the burial ground near the Bear River where soldiers felled hundreds of their ancestors in one of American history’s bloodiest -but little remembered- massacres. Descendants of the Northwestern Shoshone who were decimated in their winter encampment in a surprise attack 147 years ago, […]
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INSIDE ISRAELI LAND GRABS
The Real News Network,
1 Feb 2010
Real News speak to settlers, Palestinians and experts to understand the process of land confiscation in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel. 9:58-Min. VideoCLICK TO VIEW (Join the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) campaign toprotest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation ofPalestine, the apartheid wall, and its inhuman and degrading treatmentof the […]
→ read full articleUS DRONES KILLED 123 CIVILIANS, THREE AL-QAEDA MEN IN JANUARY
Amir Mir – The News, Lahore,
1 Feb 2010
Afghanistan-based US predators carried out a record number of 12 deadly missile strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan in January 2010, of which 10 went wrong and failed to hit their targets, killing 123 innocent Pakistanis. The remaining two successful drone strikes killed three al-Qaeda leaders, wanted by the Americans. The rapid increase in […]
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Ron Moreau - Newsweek,
31 Jan 2010
Kabul’s Western allies want to pay Taliban fighters to quit the insurgency. Lots of luck. Representatives from nearly 70 countries showed up in London on Jan. 28 for a one-day conference on how to save Afghanistan. President Hamid Karzai was there, gamely offering "peace and reconciliation" to all Afghans, "especially" those "who are not a […]
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