Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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(Português) Os Direitos da Criança Sob a Perspectiva do Não Matar: Apelo aos Adultos
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
Em nome das crianças do mundo, estas Reflexões Rimadas são apresentadas:
Como crianças, estamos felizes por saber que temos o direito de brincar.
Por isso, adultos, considerem seriamente o que nós vamos reivindicar
‘Dark Lightning’ Zaps Airline Passengers with Radiation
Charles Choi, LiveScience – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
“Dark lightning” that is almost invisible within clouds may regularly blast airline passengers with large numbers of gamma rays, Worryingly, terrestrial gamma-ray flashes can occur near the same altitudes at which commercial aircraft regularly fly. Past research has also found these flashes hurl beams of antimatter into space. Researchers detailed their findings on April 10, 2013 at a meeting of the European Geosciences Union in Vienna.
→ read full articleUsing the Tenets of Islam for Peace
Jaye Starr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
Lao-Tse wrote of peace at the individual level providing the foundation for peace at the global level. My dream is to help provide the foundation blocks for communities. I’d like to do this by combining my background in theater with my current chaplaincy studies to help bring peace to individuals impacted by disaster and armed conflict.
→ read full article(Français) Dynamique Femmes Forum Social Mondial 2013
Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
Déclaration de la Dynamique Femmes Internationale a l’Assemblée des Mouvements Sociaux du Forum Social Mondial
→ read full articleWould You Believe That the United States Tried To Do Something That Was Not Nice Against Hugo Chávez?
William Blum, The Anti-Empire Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
WikiLeaks has done it again. I guess the US will really have to get tough now with Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. In a secret US cable to the State Department, dated November 9, 2006, and recently published online by WikiLeaks, former US ambassador to Venezuela, William Brownfield, outlines a comprehensive plan to destabilize the government of the late President Hugo Chávez. The cable begins with a Summary:
→ read full articleSouth Africa as an Example of Stability and Diversity after the Apartheid Era
Pierre Célestin Bakunda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
From 1948 to 1994, South Africa witnessed a drastic and violent racial segregation. This has greatly affected and contributed to economic, social and political delays to the country. Let’s observe first the conflict resolution mechanism implemented in the country, as well as the current transformation of the country. Finally, we will briefly conclude on future hopes associated with this region, due to its recent inclusion in BRICS.
→ read full articlePMANE Letter to KKNPP Employees
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
The Koodankulam delay is being blamed on the “corrosion and leakage since sea water was used as the coolant.” If these pipes and parts cannot withstand one year of sea water circulation, how on the Earth are they going to function for 40-60 years? If the pipes leak and corrode within such a short time, the government should order a probe into the quality of these pipes, the quality of the various equipment and spares that were sent by the Russians.
→ read full articleLobby Group Representing Google, Yahoo Backs CISPA
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
12 Apr 2013 – A lobbying organization that counts Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple and other tech giants among its clients has lent support to the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which is lined up for a vote in the US House of Representatives next week.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
A Global Harmony Association (GHA) Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day
→ read full articleCyprus to Sell €400 Million in Gold, About 75% of Its Total Holdings, To Finance Part of Its Bailout
Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
Or about 10 tons of gold. But… the bailout was prefunded and there was no need to provide any additional cash?
→ read full articleUSA-East Asia Looking Into the Abyss
Johan Galtung, 15 Apr 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
North Korea could dismantle its verbal and physical threats, hoping for peace treaty-normalization in return. Like in Cuba 1962, that would not be one good for another, but one wrong for another. Would USA, used to dictate outcomes giving nothing in return, agree? Like in 1962 keeping it secret, with a “profile in courage” narrative? Hopefully, but not very likely, some secret deals are in the making. A change of mentality is needed, like in Europe in 1950. That may take centuries, but could also happen very quickly under enlightened statesmanship.
→ read full articleWhy Journalists Generally Get Their Burma Stories Wrong, Horribly Wrong
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
When it comes to reporting Burma the coverage has been beyond being biased. It is generally horribly inadequate, or downright incorrect. From a Burmese perspective, especially from the perspective of those who have borne the brunt of the half-century of military rule under various and evolving disguises, the way Burma is being reported is like adding insult to injury.
→ read full article“Dark Alliance”: The Federal Reserve, Wall Street and the Laundering of Drug Money
Tom Burghardt, Antifascist Calling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
According to these worthies, the egregious economic disparities between the filthy ruling rich and the rest of us revolve around the salient fact that the “world is dividing into two blocs–the plutonomies where economic growth is powered by and largely consumed by the wealthy few,” and the great mass of proletarians who need to sit down, shut up and worship at the feet of their masters.
→ read full articleNPCIL, AERB, and KKNPP Dodge the Substandard Equipment Issue
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
There have been persistent reports that substandard equipment and parts have been used in the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP). When the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) asked the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL) and the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) under Right to Information (RTI) Act if they have indeed received equipment and parts from the controversial Russian companies, Zio-Podolsk and Informteck…
→ read full articleMonsanto Protection Act: A Post-Mortem for Our Legal System
Clay Rossi, The Legal Examiner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
Now that President Obama has signed the legislation which included the MPA into law, there are certain facts that need not be forgotten for the next time (and there will be a next time) big business buys itself judicial immunity from Congress.
→ read full articleIs Burma’s Anti-Muslim Violence Led by “Buddhist Neo-Nazis”?
Ray Downs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
When most Westerners think of Buddhism, they think of smiling men with potbellies and inspirational quotes from Phil Jackson. “Buddhist neo-Nazi” sounds like a contradiction in terms. But in Burma, vicious anti-Muslim sentiment has been on the rise, and Buddhist extremists are responsible for attacking Muslims and burning down their houses and mosques, …
→ read full articleSurviving ‘Collateral Murder’: Soldier Relives Infamous WikiLeaks Video
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
“I went back outside and we were told to take pictures and so I started taking pictures of the van,” he says. Then he discovered another child. “That’s me right there,” McCord tells Lopez as he walks her through the now infamous “Collateral Murder” clip. “That is a little boy that I originally thought was dead. I couldn’t stop myself from crying,” he says. “I know that I will never, ever, ever get better,” he says. “I will never get over this.”
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We Are the World – USA for Africa (Music Video of the Week)
Michael Jackson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
An unbelievable constellation of 47 legendary superstars—singers we love– singing together in a historic music video with a message of love from Michael to the world. Recorded in 1985. Michael died on Jun 25, 2009. A few of these artists passed away as well. RIP. (All their names are scrolled down at the end).
→ read full articleTop Swedish Judge Defends WikiLeaks’ Assange
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
A senior Swedish judge has said that the sex-crime allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are “a mess”, and praised him for leaking classified US documents. Speaking on Wednesday [3 Apr 2013] at the University of Adelaide in Australia, Stefan Lindskog, chairman of the Supreme Court of Sweden, also listed legal obstacles to extraditing Assange to the United States.
→ read full articleA Global Look at Gay Rights: ‘The Fight against Discrimination Must Go On’
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
Boris Dittrich, head of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy at Human Rights Watch, discusses the current debates on same-sex marriage in Europe and the United States and virulent homophobia in Russia and Uganda.
→ read full articleChildren`s Rights: A Nonkilling Plea to Adults
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
On behalf of the world`s children, these rhymed reflections are presented:
As children, we are happy to know that we have the right to play
so please, adults, also take seriously what we now want to say . . .
Martin Luther King, We Need Your Voice Today!
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
The son of a southern Baptist minister, Martin Luther King, Jr received his Ph.D. in theology from Boston University in 1955. During his studies, he had admired Thoreau’s essay “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience,” and he had also been greatly moved by the life and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
→ read full articleJapan’s Fukushima Nuclear Plant Leaking Contaminated Water
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
As much as 120 tons of radioactive water may have leaked from a storage tank at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, contaminating the surrounding ground, Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Saturday [6 Apr 2013].
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
A Global Harmony Association (GHA) Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day
→ read full articleThe Spark of Hope
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
Any movement which seeks to challenge the power of the elite needs to ask itself what it takes to shake people out of this state. And the answer seems inescapable: hope. Those who govern on behalf of billionaires are threatened only when confronted by the power of a transformative idea. A century and more ago the idea was communism.
→ read full articleHunger Strike at Guantánamo
The New York Times, Editorial - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
5 Apr 2013 – The hunger strike that has spread since early February [2013] among the 166 detainees still at Guantánamo Bay is again exposing the lawlessness of the system that marooned them there. The government claims that around 40 detainees are taking part. Lawyers for detainees report that their clients say around 130 detainees in one part of the prison have taken part.
→ read full articleLearning from El Salvador’s Ongoing Struggle for Peace, Dignity and Inclusion
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
The words of Monseñor Oscar Romero, who was murdered by US-trained snipers during a mass on March 24, 1980, still ring true today, offering us an ongoing challenge to restructure our society: “If we really want an effective end to violence, we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, exclusion of citizens from the management of the country, repression…”
→ read full articleUN Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty Full Text
UN General Assembly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
New York, 18-28 March 2013 – The States Parties to this Treaty, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, , . .
→ read full articleMonsanto: A Corporate Profile Sheds Light on GE Seed Giant’s Dark History
EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
From its beginnings as a small chemical company in 1901, Monsanto has grown into the largest biotechnology seed company in the world with net sales of $11.8 billion, 404 facilities in 66 countries across six continents and products grown on more than 282 million acres worldwide. Today, the consumer advocacy nonprofit Food & Water Watch released its report, Monsanto: A Corporate Profile
→ read full articleJapan Confirms Sea Shepherd Success in the Southern Ocean
Sea Shepherd Whale Defence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
Operation Zero Tolerance 2013 has been Sea Shepherd’s most effective campaign to date:
They wanted 50 Humpbacks. They took none.
They wanted 50 Fin whales. They took none.
They wanted 935 Minke whales. They killed 103.
832 Minke whales not slain! 50 Humpbacks and 50 Fins not slaughtered! This translates into 9.96% of their combined quota.
A Bradley Manning Panel Discussion with MP Birgitta Jonsdottir
Bradley Manning Support Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
Friday 5 April, 2013 New York – Video of the discussion panel held with Birgitta Jonsdottir, Kevin Gosztola (of FireDogLake), Alexa O’Brien (independent journalist long covering the Bradley Manning trial), Peter Hart (FAIR media critic). The discussion is moderated by Sam Seder.
→ read full article(Italiano) Iraq: Dieci Anni di Stupidità
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
Ipotizzare solo uno scenario, la guerra – magari dopo sanzioni – rivela povertà intellettuale. L’Iraq aveva problemi ma non le vittime, l’esilio e gli sfollamenti della guerra – che può durare altri 10 anni avendo sconvolto tanti equilibri instabili. Eppure si va incontro alle dipendenze belliciste di USA-RegnoUnito, mandando gli altri all’inferno. Quella gente dovrebbe essere nota per la loro incapacità collaudata di analizzare e prevedere e rimediare. L’accademia dovrebbe essere per gli intellettuali, non per i clercs, l’intelligentsia.
→ read full articleCongress Obsessed with American Muslims, Neglects Real Threat of White Supremacists
Juan Cole, Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
It is not allowed to say this in the corporate media, but some Republican representatives and their constituents are, if not implicated in white supremacist sentiments, at least a little smelly in that regard.
→ read full articlePresident Obama’s Second Term: Selling Death and Buying Assassins in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
As President Obama enters his second term with a new Cabinet, the foreign policy legacy of the past four years weighs heavily on their strategic decisions and their empire-building efforts. Central to the analysis of the next period is an evaluation of the past policies especially in regions where Washington expended its greatest financial and military resources, namely the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa.
→ read full articleEscaped Scientologist Goes Public about “Cult” Brainwashing and Labor Camps
JG Vibes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
3 Apr 2013 – A former Scientologist that was on a compound since childhood is now going public with a book and media appearances to speak about the brainwashing, child labor camps, as well as other horrors that she witnessed and experienced. She was made to sign a billion-year contract that bound her immortal spirit (known as the “Thetan”) to lifetime after lifetime of dedication to the organisation.
→ read full articleBRICS Agrees to Create $100 bn Contingency Fund
Times of India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
In a major achievement for India in its campaign for reforming the international financial architecture, BRICS nations on Wednesday [27 Mar 2013] decided to establish a new development bank to finance infrastructure and to create a USD 100 billion Contingency Reserve Arrangement to tackle any financial crisis in the emerging economies.
→ read full articleCount Leo Tolstoy, We Need Your Voice Today!
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
“…The peoples of the Christian world have solemnly accepted this law, while at the same time they have permitted violence and built their lives on violence; and that is why the whole life of the Christian peoples is a continuous contradiction between what they profess, and the principles on which they order their lives – a contradiction between love accepted as the law of life, and violence which is recognized and praised, acknowledged even as a necessity in different phases of life, such as the power of rulers, courts, and armies…”
→ read full articleWeird Chemtrail Sky
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Chemtrails make crazy-looking skies. HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program)?
This short video was made in Arizona by a private citizen. Chemtrails – Frequently Asked Questions
KKNPP 3 & 4 Announcement – A Cruel Joke on Indians and Our Democracy
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
There are several cases pending against the Koodankulam project as a whole and the KKNPP units 3-6 in particular at the Delhi High Court, the Supreme Court and the National Green Tribunal (NGT) about the various clearances, waste management, liability and so on. This announcement amounts to a serious contempt of all these courts.
→ read full articleMonsanto Bullies Small Farmers Over Planting Harvested GMO Seeds
Puck Lo, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Does Monsanto own all future generations of genetically modified seeds that it sells? The Missouri-based agribusiness giant wants farmers to pay a royalty to plant any seed that descended from a patented original. The legal decision has ramifications for other patented “inventions” that reproduce themselves like strands of DNA.
→ read full articleThe Palestinian Children – Alone and Bewildered in Cell 36
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
This is Cell 36, deep within Al Jalame prison in northern Israel. It is one of a handful of cells where Palestinian children are locked in solitary confinement, tortured for days or even weeks. One 16-year-old claimed that he had been kept in Cell 36 for 65 days.
→ read full articleThe Holy Land Gets Skunked
Lawrence Davidson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Something Is Rotten in the State of Israel – Sooner or later everyone possessing a humane conscience, to say nothing of a functioning honest nose, will refuse to have anything to do with this “apartheid-like” state.
→ read full articleGenocidal Buddhists?: An Interview with Burmese Dissident Maung Zarni
Alex Caring-Lobel, tricycle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Burmese native Maung Zarni has lent his voice to the Rohingya and other minorities in the predominantly Buddhist nation, advocating for their human rights and distinguishing himself by examining the social and historical causes of the current conflict.
→ read full articleThe Armed Forces Special Powers Act in Northeast India
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
In 1958 the government of India passed the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, which allows soldiers to arrest or shoot “anyone who has committed cognizable offences or is reasonably suspected of having done so”. The act also specifies that “Army officers have legal immunity for their actions. In practice, the AFSPA allows soldiers to terrorize the citizens of the states where it is being applied.
→ read full articleChevron Corporation Upgrades from “C” to “B”
Marilyn Langlois, April 1, 2013 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Richmond, California Refinery to Be Worker-Owned and Operated – “The work of organizations like 350.org made us realize that unless we do something dramatic to slow down climate change, the earth will no longer provide a livable habitat for our great-grandchildren and their descendants”, noted Chevron CEO John Watson in a statement released today. “Consumers are so addicted to oil that we, as producers of fossil fuel products, need to prioritize a rapid transition to renewable energy resources.
→ read full articleBuddhist Nationalism in Burma
Maung Zarni, tricycle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
The broadcast images of monks of the “Saffron Revolution” of 2007 are still fresh; these monks were seen calling for an improvement in public well-being in the face of the growing economic hardships afflicting Burma’s Buddhists. But in the past year, the world has been confronted with images of the same robed monks publicly demonstrating against Islamic nations’ distribution of aid to starving Muslim Rohingya, displaced into refugee camps in their own country following Rakhine Buddhist attacks.
→ read full articleMy Neighbourhood: An Israel-Palestine Documentary
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
My Neighbourhood is a short documentary film that records four different stories at crossroads between Israeli West Jerusalem and the occupied Palestinian town of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem. If I were to rename this film, I would call it ‘It is my home; I won’t leave it.’
→ read full article(Pусский-Russian) Истоки расизма
Socialist Worker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Расизм настолько укоренился в нашем обществе, что многие считают, что он существовал всегда. Однако Юрий Прасад утверждает, что это относительно новый феномен, который развился вместе с капитализмом.
→ read full articleWhy Does the West Fail to Understand Reality?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
We are already far into a world economically dominated by BRIC, with S added for South Africa to make the message clear: South-South-South against not even a billion living in the world Northwest+Japan; militarily with only a question of time before the first drones hit the USA, as follow-up to 9/11, and whoever engages in extrajudicial executions; key decisions are taken by BRICS (CELAC for Latin America), one day possibly making a counter-UN without veto; culturally seeing their diversity as a major asset, drawing on all cultures.
→ read full articleThe New Kalladi Bridge
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
In sounds of heavy weapons
And shot notices vibrated
Gods and Brahmas
Gradually praised …
Reading Palestinian Prison Diaries
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
The Prisoners’ Diaries: Palestinian Voices from the Israeli Gulag, Gaza, 2013. What is most compelling is how much the material expresses the shared concerns of these prisoners. A few keywords dominate the texts: pain, God or Allah, love, dream, homeland, steadfastness, tears, freedom, dream, prayer. Survival with as much dignity as possible in a dank and poorly lit circumstances of isolation, humiliation, acute hostility on the part of the prison staff, including abusive neglect by the medical personnel.
→ read full article(Castellano) Banco de Desarrollo del BRICS Será la Nueva Alternativa Financiera Global
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Las potencias emergentes que integran el Grupo BRICS -Brasil, Rusia, India, China y Sudáfrica- acordaron oficialmente este miércoles la creación de un Banco para el Desarrollo, que permita financiar inversiones recíprocas y constituya una alternativa a los organismos financieros multilaterales dominados por Estados Unidos y la Unión Europea.
→ read full article(Castellano) Pedagogía de la Catástrofe – Depresión
Stefano Caserini & Enrico Euli - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
La depresión generalmente se identifica como un estado patológico, de enfermedad, en el lenguaje común es también el estado del perdedor, de quien no lo ha logrado, del “gafe” diría un joven diputado italiano. En la psicología dinámica, una posición depresiva no es estar deprimido, es aceptar ser parte del problema y no sólo parte de la solución, aceptar que el bien y el mal en nuestras acciones están entrelazados y no pueden ser prescindidos, eliminado.
→ read full articleRefugee
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Take my land, take
the brook where I caught my first fish,
the field my grandfather
cleared of rocks and stones with . . .
Surprised? Monsanto Openly Wrote Own Monsanto Protection Act
Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
It should come as no surprise to many of you to find out that Monsanto actually authored the wording of its own Monsanto Protection Act hidden in the recently passed and signed Continuing Resolution spending bill. How could a major corporation write its own laws and regulations, you ask?
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Nessun Dorma (Music Video of the Week)
Blake & Camilla Kerslake – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Celebrating 20 years since Pavarotti first sang Nessun Dorma for the 1990 World Cup, Blake join beautiful Camilla Kerslake to perform a unique version of the anthem at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
→ read full articleA Conversation with Dr. Nick Begich about HAARP
PrisonPlanet TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Dr. Begich talks about many controversial science experiments, including the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program-HAARP, mind control technology, compartmentalization within the science community, and how these technologies, which might be used for the progress of all mankind, is currently controlled by secret military industrial complex interests putting all of humanity at risk.
→ read full article(Português) A Alemanha Contra a Europa – O Artigo Censurado pelo “El País”
Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Publicamos em seguida o artigo do economista Juan Torres López, do Conselho Científico de ATTAC Espanha, que o El País retirou do seu site, alegando que continha afirmações que o jornal considera inapropriadas. No final do artigo, pode ler também a resposta do autor.
→ read full articleGitmo Inmates Claim Being Denied Drinking Water as White House Breaks Silence
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
A group of human rights lawyers filed an emergency motion with a federal court in Washington, describing the alleged mistreatment: “The reality is that these men are slowly withering away and we as a country need to take immediate action,” Denver-based human rights lawyer Mari Newman said, according to AP.
→ read full article(Italiano) Papa Francesco I, Gesuita
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Il primo papa gesuita. La Società di Gesù, fondata da Ignazio di Loyola, fu un movimento di rinnovamento dall’interno nel 1534 dopo l’enorme riforma dall’esterno, il protestantesimo, in particolare Lutero nel 1517. Ci sono voluti più di quattro secoli per arrivare in cima; forse è cambiata la Chiesa, forse papa Francesco è un gesuita morbido. I gesuiti sono noti per essere preti che esercitano il loro ministero, e per avere una seconda professione, spesso come intellettuali, e di alto livello. Papa Francesco ha la stessa doppia reputazione. Promettente.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
A Global Harmony Association (GHA) Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day
→ read full articleIceland Offers Hard Lessons for Cyprus on Capital Controls
Alistair Scrutton and Robert Robertsson, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
For Iceland, there was a sense of deja vu when Cyprus’s finance minister said capital controls would probably last “a matter of weeks”. Five years after a banking meltdown, the north Atlantic island has just extended its own controls indefinitely… Cyprus, by contrast, cannot devalue because it is a member of the euro zone.
→ read full articleChina 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 articleIndia, China, Brazil to Surpass Combined GDP of U.S., Western Europe by 2020: UN
Vancouverdesi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
“By 2020, the combined economic output of three leading developing countries alone — Brazil, China and India — will surpass the aggregate production of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the U.K. and the United States,” said the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) 2013 Human Development Report.
→ read full article(Galego) Malditas Guerras
Manuel Dios Diz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Moitas persoas lembran, non esquecen, a minuciosa preparación propagandística, a sistemática mentira, a reiterada e amplificada mentira, con aquela posta en escena, máis propia da Cortiña de Fume, de Barry Levinson, operación liberdade iraquí, Collin Powell na ONU, coas súas imaxes trucadas, a foto das Azores con Bush, Blair, Aznar e o anfitrión Barroso, a impotencia dos inspectores Blix e El Albaradei, incapaces de frear aquel delirio reiterando a inexistencia de armas de destrución masiva en poder de Saddam Hussein.
→ read full articleIceland’s Grassroots Constitution on Thin Ice
Deutsche Welle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Time is running out, acknowledges parliamentarian Birgitta Jonsdottir with a sigh. She’s hoping that the Icelandic parliament, the “Althing,” will approve the new constitution. The new document has a number of unique features, including the fact that it was drawn up in a process in which every citizen had a chance to participate. The draft represents the first time that a country has tried to write a new constitution in a grassroots fashion. The financial crisis that began five years ago set the unusual project in motion.
→ read full article(Italiano) Hugo Chavez: Un Produttore di Storia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Un genio ci fa pensare, e agire, diversamente, in tal modo facendo la storia. Chávez è stato uno uno di questi. Grazie Hugo – possa tu non riposare in pace.
→ read full articleA Lexicon of “War (Redux):” Does Excessive Word Use Result in a Loss of Meaning?
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
I must admit, as I gathered the terms, I found myself “shocked” by the widespread use of the word “war.” Was it possible that within the context of our global era, replete with its increased inter-dependencies, we had come to find the tensions of competition for resources and survival itself, pushing us toward “wars” at all levels of interactions? In my opinion, a “versus” mentality had arisen that was pitting different people, organizations, nations, and products against one another in a win-lose arena.
→ read full articleIt Is a Matter of Faces
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
It is useless to pour water
To a downward pot
Though it is necessarily critical
In a drought of thirst . . .
Chinua Achebe: A Reflection of When Things Fall Apart
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
The death in a Boston hospital of Chinua Achebe, on 21 March 2013, the Nigerian novelist about whom it was said that his writings were “concerned with universal human communication across racial and cultural boundaries as a means of fostering respect for all people” came just at the start of the UN-sponsored 2013-2022 International Decade for the Rapprochement of Cultures.
→ read full articleIndia-China and the Spirit of Cooperation
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
In one of his candid statements, the Chinese President, Xi Jinping on 19 March 2013 admitted that the border dispute between his country and its neighbour, India, is one of the most difficult problems the two countries confront. “However, as long as we keep up our friendly consultation, we can eventually arrive at a fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable settlement”.
→ read full article(Português) Refrigerantes Estão Relacionados com 180 Mil Mortes por Ano em todo o Mundo
Sapo Saúde – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Cientistas de Harvard concluíram que, em 2010, 180 mil pessoas morreram em todo o mundo devido a doenças provocadas pelo consumo de refrigerantes e bebidas açucaradas: 133 mil por diabetes, 43.000 por doenças cardíacas e 6.000 por cancro. O estudo foi apresentado na reunião da American Heart Association’s Epidemiology and Prevention/Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism, na terça-feira [19 mar 2013], em Nova Orleães.
→ read full articleClub Gitmo
Charles P. Pierce, Esquire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
A lot of what we’ve done in our “war” on terror — including extrajudicial assassination, drumhead tribunals, and now this classically brutal response to a hunger strike, which is an act of dedicated non-violent resistance — we learned from the lessons taught by the British in Ireland and especially by Mrs. Thatcher who allowed an elected member of Parliament to starve to death.
→ read full articleSugary Drinks Linked to 180,000 Annual Deaths around the World
Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
According to a new study presented on Tuesday [19 Mar 2013] at a meeting of the American Heart Association, one out of every 100 obesity-related deaths around the world can be tied to sugary drinks, which directly exacerbate health conditions like diabetes, heart diseases, and cancer. Specifically, the over-consumption of those beverages increased global deaths from diabetes by 133,000, from cardiovascular disease by 44,000 and from cancer by 6,000.
→ read full articleCardinal Sins
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
How a modern Inquisition, with the help of Pope Francis, stifled the movement protecting the poor. “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist.” So said the Brazilian archbishop Dom Hélder Câmara. His adage exposes one of the great fissures in the Catholic Church, and the emptiness of the new Pope’s claim to be on the side of the poor.
→ read full articleCameroon: Rights Abuses in ‘Homosexuality’ Prosecutions
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
No one should be sentenced to prison time because they blurt out a confession to stop torture, or because a judge doesn’t like what they drink, how they dress, or what kind of text messages they send.
→ read full articleChina Replaces Britain in World’s Top Five Arms Exporters – Report
Michael Martina, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
China has become the world’s fifth-largest arms exporter, a respected Sweden-based think-tank said on Monday [18 Mar 2013], its highest ranking since the Cold War, with Pakistan the main recipient.
→ read full article‘I Can Forgive Lesbians but Not Gay Men’, Says Belarus’ Lukashenko
euronews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
“I forgive women for their lesbianism,” he said. “But I will never in my lifetime forgive men for being gay… A woman becomes a lesbian only if we men are so wretched.”
→ read full articleSenate Passes Monsanto Protection Act Granting Monsanto Power over US Govt
Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
This ushers in an entirely new era of activism. Monsanto has decided to push the envelope in a way that is unprecedented, fighting the US federal courts. Sometimes in order to truly have an intellectual revolution on a subject, the people need to see exactly what they are facing. With the truly blatant and downright arrogant Monsanto Protection Act, it’s now clearer than ever.
→ read full articleBuddhist Nationalism in Burma
Maung Zarni, Tricycle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
The rise of genocidal Buddhist racism against the Rohingya, a minority community of nearly one million people in the western Burmese province of Rakhine (also known as Arakan), is an international humanitarian crisis. The military-ruled state has been relentless in its attempts to erase Rohingya ethnic identity, which was officially recognized as a distinct ethnic group in 1954 by the democratic government of Prime Minister U Nu.
→ read full article(Français) Cameroun: Violations de Droits Humains Commises dans le Cadre des Poursuites Judiciaires pour «Homosexualité»
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Personne ne devrait être condamné à une peine de prison pour avoir laissé échapper des aveux afin de faire arrêter la torture, ou parce qu’un juge n’aime pas ce qu’ils boivent, la façon dont ils s’habillent ou le type de textos qu’ils envoient. La façon dont la loi est appliquée au Cameroun semble suggérer que si vous êtes soupçonné d’être gay ou lesbienne, les droits humains, par exemple le droit à un procès équitable et le droit à ne pas être torturé, n’ont plus cours.
→ read full articleBeing Neither a-Waving Nor a-Parting: Considering Both Science And Spirituality
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Produced on the occasion of publication by Science of an inspiring map of the Universe shortly after the Big Bang. Rather than engage in arid exploration of levels of complexity — ironically only comprehensible to the “enlightened” — the question here is whether there is a far more immediate understanding of how the distinction between wave and particle is to be experienced personally. Does such experience offer more radical and richer understandings of the sense of individual identity than is offered by convention?
→ read full articleWar Games
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Children get killed in wars,
which is not good for them.
They should be tickled
and made to laugh,
HSBC Faces New Money Laundering Claims in Argentina
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Banking giant HSBC, which was hit with a US fine for money laundering last year, is facing fresh accusations of illegal activity in Argentina, which has alleged that the bank used “fake receipts” to facilitate money laundering and tax evasion, and launder 392m pesos ($77m; £50m).
→ read full articleMuslim and Western Nations Agree on UN Landmark Code to Combat Violence Against Women and Girls
MercoPress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Muslim and Western nations late Friday [15 Mar 2013] overcame deep divisions to agree a landmark United Nations declaration setting out a code of conduct for combating violence against women and girls. Iran, Libya, Sudan and other Muslim nations ended threats to block the declaration and agreed to language stating that violence against women could not be justified by “any custom, tradition or religious consideration.”
→ read full articleAnonymous Leaks Names, Addresses of 35,000 Israeli Officials
Al-Akhbar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
The Internet hacktivist collective Anonymous released the names, addresses and phone numbers of over 35,000 Israeli officials, including politicians, army officers and agents for spy agency Mossad. The Red Hack, a Turkish Internet group that operates as an affiliate of Anonymous, posted spreadsheets with the personal information online late Friday [22 Mar 2013]. Separately, another online hacker group, Sektor 404, attacked the Mossad’s website, temporary shutting it down.
→ read full articleIraq: Ten Years of Stupidity
Johan Galtung, 25 Mar 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
To assume only one scenario, war, reveals intellectual poverty. Iraq had problems but not the casualties, exile and displacements of the war-which may last 10 more years having upset so many unstable equilibia. They cater to the US-UK war addiction, sending others to hell. Such people should be known for their tested inability to analyze and forecast and remedy. Academia should be for intellectuals, not for clercs, intelligentsia.
→ read full articleUnrest in Bulgaria: New Casualty in Wave of Self-Immolations`
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
A 40-year-old Bulgarian set himself on fire to protest poverty and corruption in his country on Friday [22 Mar 2013], becoming the sixth self-immolation in the EU country in less than a month.
→ read full articleWhat Was Wrong with Obama’s Speech in Jerusalem
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
In retrospect, worse than speech was the visit itself. Obama should never have undertaken such the visit without an accompanying willingness to treat the Palestinian reality with at least equal dignity to that of the Israeli reality and without some indication of how to imagine a just peace based on two states for two peoples given the severe continuing Israeli encroachments on occupied Palestinian territory that give every indication of permanence.
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Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 (Music Video of the Week)
Jan Lisiecki – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Reluctant prodigy, 17-year old pianist Jan Lisiecki interpreting the Andante from Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 21 in C major.
→ read full articleThe Times Eviscerates the Occupation
MJ Rosenberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
On Sunday [17 Mar 2013], the New York Times ran an extraordinary magazine piece (it was the cover story) on West Bank Palestinians who are resisting the Israeli occupation through non-violence. For those who follow the issue closely, the extraordinary aspect of the piece was not so much anything author Ben Ehreneich revealed as it was that the article appeared in the New York Times at all.
→ read full articleIraq after Ten Years
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
March 19, 2013. Ten years ago today the Bush regime invaded Iraq. It is known that the justification for the invasion was a packet of lies orchestrated by the neoconservative Bush regime in order to deceive the United Nations and the American people.
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Forbes Billionaires List Growing
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Corporate profits at record levels – as austerity hits and unemployment remains high. US still leads as many new billionaires emerging in China and Russia.
→ read full article(Castellano) Pedagogía de la Catástrofe – Decisión
Stefano Caserini & Enrico Euli - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Tomar decisiones es una elección compleja y difícil, sobre todo en una sociedad de masas. Hasta el momento en que se encuentran para tomar decisiones en núcleos reducidos, las personas pueden, al menos en teoría, estar presentes para contar: para escuchar y ser escuchadas, practicar una buena consulta, participar en las decisiones, actuar de manera colectiva y conscientemente.
→ read full articlePowers Seek Influence in Burma’s Conflict
Bertil Lintner, YaleGlobal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Burmese government battles insurgents as China and the US scramble for influence. In Burma, there’s rivalry among peace organizations, often with lack of understanding of the conflicts’ root causes.
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The Corporation
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
The documentary examines the modern-day corporation, considering its legal status as a class of person and evaluating its behavior towards society and the world at large as a psychiatrist might evaluate an ordinary person. This is explored through specific examples.
→ read full article(Português) Os Ultramultimilionários
Alfredo Zaiat, Página/12 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
A relação de ultramultimilionários do mundo voltou a alcançar máximas históricas, informa a ‘Forbes’: agora essa lista é formada por 1426 nomes com um valor patrimonial líquido de aproximadamente 5,4 trilhões de dólares. É algo inquietante. A pior crise econômica global desde a Depressão de 1930 segue sem horizonte de terminar, enquanto aumenta a concentração de riqueza.
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Sea Shepherd Shut Down Japanese Whaling 2013
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Aggressive Nonviolence on High Seas – The Bob Barker and the Steve Irwin Sea Shepherd ships block the slipway of the whale processor Nisshin Maru, preventing a whale from being loaded, the only one believed to have been killed this season. The harpoon ships have now stopped whaling, as the whales cannot be processed.
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(Castellano) Es Tiempo de Vivir Sin Miedo
Eduardo Galeano – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
(Legendado em Portugues)
ES: Escritor uruguayo habla de la persistencia humana para luchar por un mundo que es el hogar de todos y no de unos pocos.
POR: Escritor uruguaio fala da persistência humana de lutar por um mundo que seja a casa de todos e não de uns poucos.
Henry David Thoreau, We Need Your Voice Today!
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Thoreau refused to pay his poll tax because of his opposition to the Mexican War and to the institution of slavery. Because of his refusal to pay the tax (which was in fact a very small amount) he spent a night in prison. To Thoreau’s irritation, his family paid the poll tax for him and he was released. He then wrote down his ideas on the subject in an essay entitled The Duty of Civil Disobedience, where he maintains that each person has a duty to follow his own individual conscience even when it conflicts with the orders of his government.
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