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China and Brazil Sign Agreement to Trade in Their Local Currencies
MercoPress South Atlantic News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
China and Brazil signed an agreement to do billions of dollars of trade in their local currencies, as the five-nation BRICS forum of emerging market powers work to lessen dependence on the US dollar and Euro.
→ read full articleActive Nonviolence, Southern Ocean Style…
Scott Wilkie – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
4 Mar 2013
Right now, Sea Shepherd Australia is running its first annual campaign defending the whale populations of the Southern Oceans from the Japanese Government. Previously controlled by the US based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the fleet has been forced to change its ‘control’ to Australia by continued litigation by Japan in the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Watch Confrontation in Accompanying VIDEO
→ read full articleAfrican Campaign for Education on Nonviolence
Humanist Movement Africa – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
4 Mar 2013
“Let’s begin to lead the hearts and minds to the culture of nonviolence. If you think that the economic and political system is a disaster and both our future and the one of the continent is not assured anymore, then you will have to say ‘’NO’’ to violence and ‘’YES’’ to peace by strongly engaging in this project in order to set this new mechanism of positive conscience in Africa.”
→ read full articleNorth Korea 3 vs USA 1,054 Nuclear Tests
Tony Henderson – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
18 Feb 2013
North Korea (DPRK) has conducted three explosive nuclear tests, compared to the United States’ 1,054! That North Korea is continuing with its nuclear weapons programme, which is clearly and understandably denounced by the UN, meaning by all the nations undersigning the UN charter, tells of North Korea’s situation of desperation and fear.
→ read full article(Español ) Realidad y Utopía
Anna Polo – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
11 Feb 2013
Cada vez que se toca el tema de la locura de los gastos militares, pidiendo su reducción, siempre hay alguno que salta invocando los compromisos internacionales, la situación concreta que “desgraciadamente” impone recurrir a la guerra y otros motivos parecidos que terminan criticando esta idea por utópica. El tono siempre es autosuficiente e irónicamente compasivo respecto de los ingenuos soñadores, idealistas que se obstinan en ignorar la dura realidad de los hechos.
→ read full article(Italiano) Realtà e Utopia
Anna Polo – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
11 Feb 2013
Ogni volta che si tocca il tema della follia delle spese militari, chiedendone la riduzione, c’è sempre qualcuno che salta su invocando gli impegni internazionali, la situazione concreta che “purtroppo” impone di ricorrere alla guerra e altre motivazioni del genere e bolla questa idea come utopistica. Il tono è sempre di sufficienza e compatimento (se non di scherno) nei confronti dei sognatori ingenui e idealisti che si ostinano a ignorare la dura realtà dei fatti.
→ read full articleArgentina in the Process of Quitting from World Bank Investment Disputes Centre
South Atlantic News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Argentina says it plans to withdraw from a World Bank body designed to arbitrate between states and foreign investors. This follows similar decisions by several other countries in Latin America like Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela. Eduardo Barcesat, the chief legal advisor to Argentine’s Treasury, says ICSID is “a tribunal of butchers” that only rules in favour of multinational companies. Barcesat believes quitting the Center would be a key move to recover Argentina’s legislative and jurisdictional sovereignty.
→ read full articleReality and Utopia
Anna Polo – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
11 Feb 2013
Every time that someone talks about the madness of military spending and calls for its reduction there is always someone who leaps to its defence invoking international commitments, the reality that “unfortunately” requires the use of war and other similar reasons that end up criticising this idea as utopian. The tone is always arrogant and ironically compassionate towards the naïve dreamers and idealists that obstinately ignore the hard facts of reality.
→ read full article1st International Active Nonviolence Film Festival
Pressenza Int’l Press Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2013
30 Cities around the World to Take Part – Promoted by the humanist organisation World without Wars and Violence, the festival aims to create a space of coming together, of free creation committed to the culture of nonviolence.
→ read full article(Castellano) Tercer Simposio Mundial: Los Humanistas Proponen Campaña Latinoamericana por la Reducción del Gasto Militar en la Región
Nelsy Lizarazo, Mundo Sin Guerras y Sin Violencia – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
12 Nov 2012
Tomás Hirsch, humanista chileno, lanzó la propuesta humanista para trabajar en una gran campaña latinoamericana para la reducacción del gasto militar en América Latina y Caribe y reorientar ese gasto hacia la salud, la educación y la calidad de vida de nuestras poblaciones. Avanzaremos en esta propuesta y les invitamos a todos y todas a sumar a ella, concluyó Hirsch.
→ read full articleThird World Symposium: Humanists Propose Latin-American Campaign for the Reduction of Regional Military Spending
Tony Robinson, World without Wars and Violence – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
12 Nov 2012
Chilean humanist Tomas Hirsch launched the humanist proposal to work in a big Latin-American campaign to reduce military spending in Latin-America and the Caribbean and redirect this spending towards health, education and the quality of life of our population. “We will advance in this proposal and we invite you all to join us,” Hirsch concluded.
→ read full article(French) II Symposium Mondial: Les Humanistes Proposent Une Campagne en Amérique Latine pour la Réduction des Dépenses Militaires
Nelsy Lizarazo, Monde Sans Guerres et Sans Violence – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
5 Nov 2012
Tomás Hirsch, humaniste chilien, a lancé la proposition humaniste de travailler sur une grande campagne de réduction des dépenses militaires en Amérique Latine et aux Caraïbes. Le but étant de réorienter ces ressources dans la santé, l’éducation et la qualité de vie de nos populations. Nous avancerons sur cette proposition et vous invitons toutes et tous à vous regrouper autour d’elle, conclut Hirsch.
→ read full articleUNHCR Issues Guidelines on Protection of Male Rape Victims
UN Refugee Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
The UN refugee agency has for the first time issued guidelines for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees staff and other aid workers on how to identify and support male victims of rape and other sexual violence in conflict and displacement situations. Access the guidelines: Working with men and boy survivors of sexual and Gender-based violence in forced displacement.
→ read full articleEliminate Atomic Energy – Major Changes Called For
Silvia Swinden – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
1 Oct 2012
We report here a communication from IALANA (International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Weapons) Berlin. Following the annual International Atomic Energy Organization (IEAE) conference in Vienna, Austria, numerous Peace and Scientific organizations in Europe have strongly criticized the nuclear body on its support for the pro- war preparation against Iran. With a strong call to reform the Nuclear body, the Peace initiatives unanimously agreed that the Nuclear body stand on Iran was unacceptable.
→ 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 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 articleThe Many Shades of Regime Change: From the Middle East to Latin America
Silvia Swinden – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
9 Jul 2012
Seemingly unconnected events like the unfolding civil war in Syria and a President deposed by his Parliament in Paraguay are in fact remarkably similar in their ultimate goals, if not in their methods. As the International Financial Empire fears losing its hegemony we witness its attempts to discipline dissenting voices.
→ read full articleFinal Declaration of the People’s Summit Rio+20
Robert Pollard – Pressenza International Press Agency,
2 Jul 2012
Peoples’ Summit Rio +20 for Social and Environmental Justice in defense of the commons, against the commodification of life. The syntheses were approved in plenary integrate and complement this policy document for the people, movements and organizations can continue to converge and deepen their struggles and building alternatives in their territories, regions and countries all over the world.
→ read full articleThis Is Not Our Way
Meir Margalit – Pressenza International Press Agency,
11 Jun 2012
After the article by Melanie Lidman in The Jerusalem Post on April 30, stating that the Interior Ministry was accusing me of illegally constructing Palestinian homes demolished by the municipality, I wrote an op-ed that appeared on May 8. In it, I explained the motives underlying my behavior, and argued that it was a case of legitimate civil disobedience – required of any person with a conscience, when the state is conducting clearly immoral acts.
→ read full articleLocal Currencies Appearing In Greece, Like They Did In Argentina after the 2001 Debacle
Silvia Swinden – Pressenza International Press Agency,
11 Jun 2012
When it becomes clear to everyone that the all-powerful economists have little to offer other than more cuts, more austerity measures, more insults (“go pay your taxes” or “you’re poor because you are lazy”), then people realise it’s up to them, and real human creativity takes over. That’s how a crisis becomes an opportunity.
→ read full articleWe Know Active Nonviolence Works – Because They Are Making It Illegal
Silvia Swinden – Pressenza International Press Agency,
28 May 2012
Americans do it, Spaniards do it, Mexicans do it, Israelis do it, even liberal Canadians do it, let’s do it, let’s criminalise peaceful protest. As many countries hurriedly pass new legislation – or simply apply “antiterrorist” laws – to forbid nonviolent action, this can only strengthen the resolve of the protesters to stick to it.
→ 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 articleUS Senate Debating Law to Censor Internet, Effectively, At World Level – Avaaz Campaign
Silvia Swinden – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
5 Dec 2011
Unlike Internet censorship in China or Iran – which the US denounces vociferously – the fact that the US is such a hub of servers for the whole world means that any censorship to its cyberspace has worldwide repercussions. Under the new law, the US could force Internet providers to block any website on suspicion of violating copyright or trademark legislation, or even failing to sufficiently police their users’ activities. And, because so much of the Internet’s hosts and hardware are located in the US, their blacklist would clamp down on the free web for all of us.
→ read full articleThe Money Delusion: The Ultimate WMD (as Saddam and Gaddafi painfully learned)
Silvia Swinden – Pressenza International Press Agency,
3 Oct 2011
The crisis in the economic system has been well anticipated by those who noticed the complex and esoteric way in which modern Monetarism creates scarcity through taking money out of a hat to lend it, but not making enough to repay with interests. Speculation then concentrates it. Challenges to such bizarre and poverty creating system are not tolerated. Oct 15th Wake Up Day.
→ read full articleWho the Hell Are Standard and Poor!?
Silvia Swinden – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
22 Aug 2011
Credit Rating Agencies are at it again. If the hole in the real economy, the one in which real people live, created by the virtual economy, where the speculators live, aka “rescuing the Banks during the subprime crisis”, were not big enough, Standard and Poor, has “downgraded” the US Credit Rating sending the world economy into a deeper hole. So who are they?
→ read full articleChile: Von Baer Privatises Quinoa
Pía Figueroa – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
23 May 2011
The privatisation of Chilean seed has become a scandal and paves the way for the arrival of genetically modified products. After the realisation that, as well as the North American company Monsanto, the patents for Chilean crops are in the hands of people linked to the government who will now benefit from the privatisation of seed, as in the case of Ena Von Baer’s father.
→ read full article15-M in Spain: Nonviolence Is Now On the Streets
Rafael De la Rubia – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
23 May 2011
The important thing about the events that are happening is that they mark a before and an after in demonstrations. They are driven by “indignation”—like almost all rebellions—but they have a quality and a form of development which are totally new because they are based on the methodology of nonviolence. For the first time this is happening spontaneously, without leaders, without doctrines, in a totally new way.
→ read full articleOf Libya, France and Western Hypocrisy
Julio Godoy – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
28 Mar 2011
To avoid misunderstandings: Gaddafi is a brutal, cynical, corrupt dictator, who obviously considers Libya as his personal property. His sons were forged in the same furnace. And yet, to try to justify, as many do, especially the French government of Sarkozy, the international military mission against the Libyan regime as a matter of morality and values, is simply hypocritical.
→ read full articleIn Egypt and Tunisia Nonviolence Has Been the Motor of Transformation
Rafael De la Rubia – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
21 Feb 2011
The most important thing to happen in these weeks, hasn’t been the departure of Presidents Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak, the most important thing has been the union of the people in non-violent protest, the most important thing has been to resist the violence of agents provocateurs, to resist the violence of their own institutions, to resist the violence of the police. The Egyptian and Tunisian armies were not defeated with weapons or confrontation, but rather with hugs and open hands.
→ read full articleFoundations for the Economy of a New Civilisation
Guillermo Sullings – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
27 Dec 2010
The challenge of thinking about how a new civilisation would be, can be very attractive because one could get carried away with ones imagination and in theory design a new utopia, like the one imagined by Thomas More, author of the book [Utopia] which gave a name to social ideals. This literary exercise is valid in itself, though it could not go any further than the events shaped on the page with all the naïveté and incongruence of the writer and his era.
→ read full articleUnited Nations Emits Report of “Harmony with Nature” Bolivia’s Initiative
Pía Figueroa – Pressenza International Press Agency,
6 Sep 2010
“The present technological era has meant an impoverishment of the relationship of human beings with nature”. This is one of the conclusions of the report “Harmony with Nature” that United Nations General Secretary will present to the General Assembly as a Bolivian initiative, that counts with the sponsorship of other 61 countries.
→ read full articleThe Whale-Saving Petition
Pía Figueroa – Pressenza International Press Agency,
5 Jul 2010
The proposal to legalize whale killing went down in flames in recent Morocco meeting. In a few short weeks, the biggest whale-saving petition in history, signed by an extraordinary number of 1.2 million of worldwide people, will be delivered directly to the key delegates at the International Whaling Commission meeting.
→ read full articleHONDURAS, U.S. NORMALIZE DIPLOMATIC TIES
FOCUS News Agency,
31 Jan 2010
Honduras and the United States normalized on Friday [Jan 29 2010] their diplomatic ties which were affected by the political crisis caused by the coup against then president Manuel Zelaya in June last year, Xinhua News Agency informed.Honduran President Porfirio Lobo said on Friday that "I am happy that with the visit of U.S. ambassador […]
→ read full articleCONCLUSION OF 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE TO ABOLISH FOREIGN MILITARY BASES
Nicolás Blanco - Pressenza Int'l Press Agency,
13 Dec 2009
The conference was held from Monday November 30th to Wednesday December 2nd in the Centro Cultural de la Cooperación (Cultural Center of Cooperation) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The speakers, hailing from the spheres of academia, politics, and culture, gave talks on various aspects of the issue of foreign military bases in Latin America.This 2nd International […]
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