Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Protective Edge Assault: IDF Soldiers’ Testimony from Gaza
Breaking the Silence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
4 May 2015 – To increase public accessibility to the information we gather, we have developed this Internet database, which allows for keyword searches of testimonies from our archives. The database contains all testimonies that have been verified by our researchers to date, and it continues to be updated daily.
→ read full articleThe Semantics of Struggle
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
What is not helpful, actually diversionary, is to respond as if the struggle was between good and evil, and that is what happens as soon as the insurgent challenger is labeled ‘a terrorist.’ Such language exempts the defenders of the status quo from self-criticism and considering accommodationist tactics, proscribing negotiation and assessment of grievances.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il discorso del primo ministro giapponese Abe al Congress USA – e commenti
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Seguono 18 punti selezionati del discorso di Abe nella seduta parlamentare congiunta USA del 30 aprile 2015, “Verso un’alleanza di speranza”, con relativi commenti.
→ read full articleThe West and Its Self-Assumed Right to Intervene
Roberto Savio, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
The ‘West’ is a concept that flourished during the Cold War. Then it was West against East in the form of the Soviet empire. The East was evil against which all democratic countries – read West – were called on to fight. Led by the United States, in the case of the Arab world, it has created situations that justify subsequent military interventions which have had a high cost in both human and financial terms.
→ read full article(Français) Clôture du Forum social mondial : Les citoyens du monde contre le terrorisme et l’oppression des peuples
Sihem Oubraham, El Moudjahid – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
La 13e édition du Forum social mondial (FMS) 2015, qui s’est déroulée pendant quatre jours dans la capitale tunisienne, a clôturé ses travaux sous le signe d’une «solidarité tous azimuts envers tous les peuples opprimés».
→ read full articleToward a World Pedagogy of Positiveness: A Plea
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Sad to see that in my parts of the world there is increasing negativity,
which calls for educators everywhere to enhance the power of positivity
If we look at Positiveness and Negativity in the History of Languages will be shown?
Will uses of those two concepts in spoken/written vocabulary have grown?
Pro-Capitalist “Anti-Capitalism” – This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Evan Winters, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
When the word “capitalism” appears in her book, it is invariably preceded by “neo-liberal,” or “deregulated” or “predatory.” Klein is calling for a return to some sort of regulated capitalist economy.
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Johan Galtung Speaking at the World Tribunal on Iraq
Deep Dish – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
World Tribunal on Iraq – Istanbul, Turkey – June 24-27, 2005
→ read full article(Français) L’Amérique latine en perspective : entre réussites et nouveau défis
Raffaele Morgantini & Tarik Bouafia, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Les cures d’austérités imposées à certains pays de la région par le Fond Monétaire International et la Banque Mondiale ont été abandonnés au profit de politique de relance où l’Etat a repris avec plus ou moins d’importance un rôle prépondérant dans la gestion de l’économie.
→ read full articleStatues of Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning Unveiled in Berlin
Stefan Steinberg , WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
7 May 2015 – Bronze statues of persecuted whistleblowers Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning were unveiled in Berlin on May Day. The statues are an art project entitled “Anything to Say?”, of Italian artist Davide Dormino. After a month in Berlin, we will move the sculptures to the Ostrale art centre in Dresden. We are also working to organize exhibitions in America, Moscow, Switzerland, Portugal and other countries.
→ read full articleMathematicians
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician were stranded on an island after a shipwreck.
→ read full articleA Destination, Unknown
Ashok T. Chakravarthy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
The clouds rain
Without selfish motives,
Be it an ocean
Or a green land
The Choice before Europe
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Washington continues to drive Europe toward one or the other of the two most likely outcomes of the orchestrated conflict with Russia. Either Europe or some European Union member government will break from Washington over the issue of Russian sanctions, thereby forcing the EU off of the path of conflict with Russia, or Europe will be pushed into military conflict with Russia.
→ read full articleCosta Rica’s Energy Nearly 100 Percent Clean
Diego Arguedas Ortiz, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
May 5 2015 – Costa Rica has almost reached its goal of an energy mix based solely on renewable sources, harnessing solar, wind and geothermal power, as well as the energy of the country’s rivers. In 2015, 97 percent of the country’s energy supply will come from clean sources.
→ read full articleA Template for Our Global Era: The Lexical Nexus of Proportion, Process, Ideology
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Human survival and wellbeing are now embedded in a complex interdependent global web of economic, political, social, technical, and environmental events, forces, and changes. This article is simply an effort to call attention — increase awareness — to the events, forces, and powers of our time by acknowledging and presenting the lexical nexus of global era ‘proportions,’ ‘processes,’ and ‘ideologies.’
→ read full articleWho Is Responsible for Indian Farmer Suicides?
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
The present spate of farmer suicides in India unquestionably fall in the ‘anomie’ category, linked to moral confusion caused by economic ruin, failed aspirations and crushing disappointment. Many have gambled with their lives and fortunes, and put themselves and their families under tremendous risk by thoughtless borrowing to get out of their families age-old poverty trap.
→ read full articleThe American Psychological Association’s Disappearing History
Roy Eidelson Ph.D., Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
During a period of heightened scrutiny, APA webpages are vanishing. APA’s leaders have some difficult questions to answer. For starters, why has so much information been removed from the APA website at the very time Mr. Hoffman is being promised “full and unfettered access” for his investigation?
→ read full article(Castellano) Los Expertos Advierten de la Necesidad de Reconocer los Resentimientos
Carta de la Paz dirigida a la ONU– TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
“Los resentimientos son fruto del desamor y del desprecio, muchos resentimientos nacen de la comparación y de una visión subjetiva de las cosas y por eso las personas resentidas nunca se sienten satisfechas con la justicia. Para gestionar los resentimientos, en primer lugar hay que reconocerlos; y, en segundo lugar, pasar necesariamente por la justicia. Cuando no hay justicia el mal queda dentro y el resentimiento crece”.
→ read full article3 Reasons Healthy Gut Flora Are Important
Dr. Edward F. Group III, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Your gut should be home to over 100 billion bacteria, but antibiotics, pesticides, stress, and genetically-modified foods are just a few of the things that can weaken that diversity. Your gut’s bacteria needs to stay healthy or problems like irritable bowel syndrome, gluten allergies, and even obesity can be more likely. Let’s look at just 3 reasons that healthy gut flora are so important.
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Катюша [Katusha – Katyusha] (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Ottoman Military Band and Red Army Choir - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
A Russian Classic on Victory Day Celebrations against Nazism/Fascism in Europe, 9 May 1945
→ read full articleReflections from and about Palestine
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
7 May 2015 – I and two colleagues traveled to Jenin to both do field work and attend the conference in Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding. Several speakers at the conference including me highlighted the devastating impact of the Oslo accords (our real Nakba) on almost liquidating the Palestinian struggle and Palestinian cause.
→ read full articleFlying Lessons
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
A flock of birds that could not fly met in a nice hotel on top of a cliff overlooking the sea for a training workshop on flying.
→ read full articleDante and the Eternal Quest for Nonreligious Divinity: Physicist Margaret Wertheim on Science and God
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Centuries after Ada Lovelace, the world’s first computer programmer, contemplated the relationship between science and religion, and decades after Carl Sagan did the same in his exquisite ‘Varieties of Scientific Experience,’ physicist-turned-science-writer Margaret Wertheim offers perhaps the most elegant and emboldening reconciliation of these two frequently contrasted approaches to the human longing for truth and meaning.
→ read full articleUS Sends Hundreds of Troops to Quake-Stricken Nepal
W. A. Sunil, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
4 May 2015 – The United States has significantly increased its military presence in Nepal as part of the relief operations underway following the devastating earthquake that struck the country on April 25. As it has done in previous disasters in other countries, the Pentagon is exploiting the tragedy to forge closer ties and collaboration with its Nepalese counterparts.
→ read full articleMother’s Day
Kristin Christman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
A poem about women’s rights, violence against women, equality, economic and political equality, mothering, school, work, environment, and, of course, war. It is about an ideal, truly meaningful Mother’s Day, not an on-the-surface-only Mother’s Day.
→ read full articleEvil Rules – Guidelines for Engaging in Armageddon Now
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
There is extensive reference to evil in the media, in political declarations, in commentary on the web, and even in academic literature: what is evil or who is evil. It is appropriate to recognize that the prophesied ultimate battle between good and evil, Armageddon, is not some time in the future. It is now, a time clearly characterized by the Biblical reference: (Matthew 10:21).
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
May 11-17 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.” – Joel Brown
→ read full articleA Third of US-Backed Afghan Forces Involved in Drug Trade
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Several reports show the production of opium has sky-rocketed since the 2001 U.S. invasion. According to Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service, a third of Afghan troops have deserted to join the country’s drug trade industry.
→ read full articleDifferent Customs
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
A Chinese man put a bowl of rice on his deceased wife’s grave every day.
→ read full article(Català) Els experts adverteixen de la necessitat de reconèixer els ressentiments
Carta de la Pau dirigida a l'ONU – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
“La gestió dels ressentiments s’ha de fer des del llenguatge i des de les institucions creant relats de reconciliació. Aquest procés demana temps, recursos, dedicació i energies i, en contra de tot això, ara volem perdons express”.
→ read full articleUS “Grand Strategy” for War against China Laid Out
Nick Beams, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
The Council on Foreign Relations report cites a publication produced during World War II defining “grand strategy” as one that “so integrates the policies and armaments of a nation that the resort to war is either rendered unnecessary or is undertaken with the maximum chance of victory.” This is not merely a concept of war but “an inherent element of statecraft at all times.”
→ read full articlePain versus Gain: Argentina, Greece, and Paul Volcker
Center for Economic and Policy Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
NYT Warns Greece Away from Argentina’s Seven-Year Boom – There is no doubt that 2002 was worse for the people of Argentina as a result of the default, but by the second half of the year the economy returned to growth and grew strongly for the next seven years.
→ read full articleWant to Help Nepal Recover from the Quake? Cancel Its Debt
Kanya D’Almeida, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
One possible solution has come from the Jubilee USA Network, an alliance of over 75 U.S.-based organizations and 400 faith communities worldwide, which said that Nepal could qualify under the IMF new Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust.
→ read full articleThe Message of Anzac: Put Out More Flags, Or Shut Up
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
That a journalism professor of long standing, John Henningham, can tweet weasel words that “freedom of speech meant that journalists had the right to speak without breaking the law but did not have the right to keep their job when offending others” is a glimpse of the obstacles faced by aspiring young journalists as they navigate the university mills.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’Occidente contro se stesso
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Si prenda il 70° anniversario demarcazione della vittoria sul nazismo… La Polonia perse il 20% della sua popolazione; l’Unione Sovietica 27,1 milioni, 16%, con 1.710 città e 70.000 villaggi cancellati; il Regno Unito l’1.1%; gli USA 0.4%; la Norvegia 0.32%.
→ read full articleNo Arab Bolivars: As Region Implodes, Arab Socialism Fizzles Out
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
30 Apr 2015 – A student group recently asked me to address socialism in the Arab world, with the assumption that there is indeed such a movement that is capable of overhauling inherently incompetent and utterly corrupt regimes, across the region. No such group or configuration of socialist groups exists today.
→ read full articleSome Notes on the New WikiLeaks Next-Generation Submission System Beta
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
WikiLeaks will continue publishing, as it has since its foundation, full archives of suppressed documents in strategic global partnerships. The 2.0 public-facing submission system is an important new method in our arsenal for recovering subjugated history.
→ read full articleDeutsche Bank Pays $2.5 Billion Fine for Interest Rate Rigging
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
27 Apr 2015 – Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay out a record $2.5 billion fine to settle U.K. and U.S. government investigations into allegations of fixing global interest rates, just months after six other banks paid out $4.3 billion on similar charges. Activists say that the banks should have faced criminal charges.
→ read full article(Castellano) 40 Años de Vietnam: Kissinger, Retrato de un “Nobel de la Paz”
Fernando Montiel T. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
“No veo por qué debemos quedarnos cruzados de brazos y contemplar cómo un país se hace comunista debido a la irresponsabilidad de su propio pueblo.” – Kissinger. Para el Nobel a la Paz de 1973, estos riesgos de la democracia se conjuraban con sangre. Bajo el mismo padrinazgo, a Chile siguió Timor Oriental en 1975 con 200 mil muertos; luego, Argentina en 1976 con 30 mil desaparecidos…. y más.
→ read full articleWhat Makes a Hero: Joseph Campbell’s Seminal Monomyth Model for the Eleven Stages of the Hero’s Journey, Animated
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
“It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.”
→ read full articleComprehensive Ban on Nuclear Testing, a ‘Stepping Stone’ to a Nuke-Free World
Kanya D'Almeida, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
29 Apr 2015 – Interview with Lassina Zerbo, executive secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation. With the four-week-long review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty underway at the UN, hopes and frustrations are running equally high, as a binding political agreement on the biggest threat to humanity hangs in the balance.
→ read full articleWake up! by David Krieger
Bill Bhaneja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Santa Barbara, Calif: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Book, 2015 – How does one write a review of such a collection where each poem stands out drawing the reader into a vortex of inhumanity of man by man and at the same time wanting to make sense of existential themes like Truth, War, Peace, Nuclear Weapons, and even a section called Imperfection?
→ read full articleThe Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
28 Apr 2015 – The NPT Review Conference is taking place from now until May 22 in New York City. Adam Mount explains what it is and how this year’s conference is likely to be a dismal failure.
→ read full article(Français) La guerre du Vietnam n’est pas finie : les séquelles de l’Agent Orange
Hai Quang Ho, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Certes, la guerre du Vietnam s’est terminée il y a 40 ans. Mais elle continue à tuer aujourd’hui. Selon la Croix Rouge, 3 à 4 millions de Vietnamiens sont actuellement handicapés ou présentent de graves maladies liées à l’Agent Orange.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
May 4-10 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today… But you must play your part and sing a song, one of your best. ” – Hermann Hesse
→ read full articleDrones, Cops, and the Unaccountable Machinery of Death
Editorial, The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
From signature strikes in Pakistan to police violence in Baltimore, the state is seemingly uninterested in even counting how many people it kills.
→ read full articleMoving Indigenous Land Rights from Paper to Reality
Valentina Ieri, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Speaking at U.N. Headquarters on Apr. 27 as part of the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues – which started last week and lasts through Friday [1 May 2015] – the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Victoria Tauli-Corpuz expressed disappointment with the scant efforts to enshrine Indigenous People’s rights in the post-2015 development agenda.
→ read full articleANZAC Day 2015
Kevin Clements – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Please let me be what I was;
A man of my time,
A man who knew no better,
A man killed for no purpose,
A man who died hopeful
That others
will refuse to do the same.
Please do that in my name.
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Galtung Book Launching
Perdana Global Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, former Prime Minister of Malaysia, launches Johan Galtung’s two new books at the closing of the International Conference The ‘New World Order: A Recipe for War or Peace!’ in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia: Lost in the Sands of War
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
The constant violation of the minimum standards of the laws of armed conflict has had some impact on the perception of the conflict with a few in the USA and Western Europe. As the weapons used by Saudi Arabia are largely of foreign production, supplier States have a responsibility − at least morally − in the way the arms are used.
→ read full articleCampaign against Glyphosate Steps Up in Latin America
Fabiana Frayssinet, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
“We can no longer accept the use of these poisons because they destroy biodiversity, aggravate climate change, destroy the soil’s fertility, and contaminate the water and even the air. And above all, they bring more illness, such as cancer. “
→ read full articleMarrying Strategic White Holes with Problematic Black Holes
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Produced in celebration of the encounter of 28 April 2015 between Ban Ki-moon (Secretary-General of the United Nations) and Pope Francis (of the Catholic Church) to discuss climate change and Mediterranean migration.
→ read full articleMaputo Declaration of African Civil Society on Climate Justice
TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
In line with the above and through other considerations, the conference demands as follows:
13. The right to clean water should be enshrined in the constitutions of all African countries.
14. Governments must halt the privatisation of water and restore public control in already privatised ones.
Women, Conflict Resolution, and Peacebuilding
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Given the many forms that violence takes as well as the many different cultures in which armed violence is now ongoing, we can learn from the experience of each peace activity. In particular, we can be encouraged by the past 100 years of peace and conflict resolution efforts.
→ read full articleThe Rendition Project
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, et al. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
The Rendition Project is a collaborative research initiative by the University of Kent, Kingston University, the legal action charity Reprieve, and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism aiming to bring academic expertise to research the CIA’s rendition, detention and interrogation programme.
→ read full articleApartheid and the Palestinian National Struggle
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
American citizens have a special responsibility for the long ordeal of the Palestinian people. The Jewish philosopher, Abraham Heschel observed “[f]ew are guilty, but all are responsible.” The Legitimacy War scenario gives each of us ample opportunities to exercise our individual responsibility. We owe the Palestinian people and ourselves nothing less.
→ read full articleDiscussing Islam: Western Logic Is Flawed
Sufyan Bin Uzayr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
I decided to dig deeper, and reflect on what exactly such viewpoints are trying to convey. Is Islam really at war with everyone? Or is Islam having a crisis within itself? Do Muslims need to react?
→ read full articleEinstein on the Common Language of Science in a Rare 1941 Recording
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
“Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem — in my opinion — to characterize our age.”
→ read full articleA Hole in the [Capitalist] System
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
The outrageous, untold story of how big business dumps its costs on us. Corporations ream the land with giant holes, extract a stack of money, then clear out, leaving other people with the costs. There’s a briefer description: legalised theft.
→ read full articleBolivia: 15 Years after the Cochabamba Water Revolt, Echoes in New Cases of Corporate Abuse
Philippa de Boissière, Upside Down World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
27 Apr 2015 – Fifteen years ago this month the people of Cochabamba, Bolivia were victorious in their now-famous showdown with one of the most powerful multinational corporations in the world, in what has come to be known as the Cochabamba Water Revolt. Fast forward to South America 2015.
→ read full articleIdiots of the World, Unite!
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
“Sir, you are an idiot.” Wow, an insult wrapped in such old-fashioned politeness. I let the words hover and reach, as I always do, for peace: that is to say, for clarity, connection, common humanity. Last week I raised the idea of unarmed policing [in the US], as practiced in half a dozen countries around the world.
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Against the Wind (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Against the Wind is a composition of Bob Seger from 1980 “about trying to move ahead, keeping your sanity and integrity at the same time.”
→ read full articleToo Proud?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Most American politicians talk as if they had been born in a log cabin…
→ read full article(Français) Hymne a l’Amour Humain [Un Poème]
Guy Crequie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Pour L’harmonie De Nos Vies
→ read full articleDoonesbury Cartoonist Attacked for Criticizing Charlie Hebdo
Patrick Martin, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
27 Apr 2015 – Garry Trudeau, the creator of the Doonesbury comic strip, has come under attack for publicly criticizing anti-Muslim cartoons appearing in Charlie Hebdo, calling them a form of hate speech. The central point made by Trudeau is that Charlie Hebdo was engaged, not in satirizing the powerful, but in vilifying the most oppressed section of the French population, Muslim immigrants, who face the highest levels of unemployment, poverty, police harassment and imprisonment.
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Introducing “Liberate Hawai’i”
Jon D. Olsen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
A focused examination of the unfounded US claim to the sovereignty of Hawai’i.
→ read full articleAustralia: The Secret Country Again Wages War on Its Own People
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Australia’s Racist Assault on Aboriginal People – They are to be driven from homelands where their communities have lived for thousands of years. In Western Australia, where mining companies make billion dollar profits exploiting Aboriginal land, the state government says it can no longer afford to “support” the homelands.
→ read full articleOklahoma Mysterious Iron Cup Embedded in Million-Year-Old Coal
Universe Explorers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
It’s a perfect piece of metal and it was discovered in 1912 in a mine in Wilburton, Oklahoma. The coal that originated from those mines is estimated to be around 300 million years old. This is where the story ignites and goes cold according to some.
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Chopin “Fantasie” Impromptu (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Yundi Li – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Li Yundi, born Oct 7 1982 in China, was the youngest pianist to win the International Frédéric Chopin Piano Competition in 2000 at the age of 18. He resides in Beijing.
Did you know that Chopin disliked this piece? He composed it when he was 24 years old and regretted it.
(Castellano) Honrando a Eduardo Galeano
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Premio Nobel de la Paz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Cuando un amigo se va… Nos deja su abrazo solidario y la alegría de la resistencia en construir nuevos amaneceres junto a los pueblos. Así partió Eduardo Galeano hacedor de la palabra que camina, abriendo sendas de luces y esperanza a contrapelo del sistema de dominación.
→ read full article5 Shockingly Advanced Ancient Buildings That Shouldn’t Exist… Even If Built Today
Eric Yosomono, Welldone Quibranza & Alaric Penname – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
The achievements of ancient cultures tend to be woefully unappreciated — we think of the people as loincloth-wearing savages, and when we’re proven wrong by some impressive feat of engineering, we just make a bunch of documentaries about aliens. But the engineers of times past were nothing to sneer at, and some of their accomplishments make ours seem slightly embarrassing.
→ read full articleWar Journalism and News Distortion
Michael Krona – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
For example: what do you think is the conflict from its inception in 1998 has had over five million dead, has had involvement of military forces from nine countries and played out in an area the size of Western Europe, but few in the West even noticed?
→ read full articleMillay’s “Epitaph for the Race of Man”
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
The beautiful red-haired American poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), is known for her lyric poetry. In “Epitaph” she speculates on what will be the final cause of the extinction of the human race and concludes that Man will die by his own hand since nothing has persuaded humankind “to lay aside the lever and the spade, and be as dust among the dusts that blow”.
→ read full articleThe West against Itself
Johan Galtung, 27 Apr 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Take the 70th anniversary demarcation of the victory over nazism… Poland lost 20% of its population; the Soviet Union 27.1 million, 16%, with 1,710 cities and 70,000 villages erased; UK 1.1%; USA 0.4%; Norway 0.32%.
→ read full articleThe Effects of Marijuana on the Body
Healthline – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
When you smoke marijuana, there’s an almost immediate effect on your brain, sense of perception, and heart rate. There may be long-term effects as well.
→ read full article(Italiano) Mare nostrum è di tutti
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Aosta 20 aprile 2015. Fiaccolata per le/i migranti morte/i in mare
→ read full articleThe Least We Can Do for Syria
Lakhdar Brahimi, Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
In a conflict as bitter, protracted, and complex as the war in Syria, it is all too easy to become overwhelmed by despair. And yet, however grim or upsetting the situation becomes, people around the world, rather than tuning out the war, should pressure their governments to protect and shelter Syria’s refugees.
→ read full articleGaleano Died. But the Revolution Goes On!
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Eduardo Galeano died. My eyes are full of tears. Personally, I feel devastated. But Revolution is spreading all over the world and that is what matters. Thanks to him, and to others like him, fewer and fewer people will betray the cause. And more and more will dream and fight for the survival of our Planet, more and more will “keep walking”!
→ read full article(Deutsch) Ukrainekonflikt und kein Ende?
Andreas Zumach, Blätter - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Mit dem Abschluss von „Minsk II“ ist es, wenn auch unter großen Schwierigkeiten, zu einem höchst fragilen Waffenstillstand in der Ostukraine gekommen – inklusive einer Entzerrung der Frontlinien, des Abzugs schwerer Waffen und weiterer Deeskalationsschritte.
→ read full articleGirls, Not Brides
Graça Machel and Mabel van Oranje, Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Urging governments to combat child marriage by setting the minimum age for marriage at 18.
→ read full articleNobel Women Initiative’s Conference – Building Global Support for Women Human Rights Defenders
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Breaking the silence on Israel’s human rights abuse of Palestinians is the best way to help Palestinian women human rights defenders and peacemakers.
→ read full articleAsian, African Nations Challenge ‘Obsolete’ World Order
Eveline Danubrata and Charlotte Greenfield, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Leaders of Asian and African nations called on Wednesday [22 Apr 2015] for a new global order that is open to emerging economic powers and leaves the “obsolete ideas” of Bretton Woods institutions in the past at the opening of a meeting in Jakarta to mark the 60th anniversary of a conference that made a developing-world stand against colonialism and led to the Cold War era’s non-aligned movement.
→ read full articleHindu Rashtra and Two-Nation Theory
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
A debate has recently gained momentum in India around the idea of Hindu Rashtra or Hindu nation-state… Hinduism is not dogmatic; it embraces pluralism. It believes in coexistence with other religions. Mahatma Gandhi was a proponent of this coexistence.
→ read full articleSide Effects: Popping Pills and Pop-Up Politicos
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Used to be, when I flipped channels, I’d go from one movie to another, one drama to another, one news show to another, etc. These days, I’m more likely to go from one commercial to another—and more likely than not, it’s a prescription pill commercial! Every third time I flip, I land on a “news” program where there are yakking heads (used to be talking, now they just yak—kind of like real yaks!)—giggling, oohing, ah-ing, laying odds on latest announcements by Hillary Shrillary, Jeb the Bush, Rand the Paul, Ted the Harvard-Hispanic guy, and Marco the Cuban-American guy.
→ read full articleChurch Pushed to Place Itself within BDS Movement
Jews For Justice For Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
The Episcopal church in the USA (nearest relative, the Church of England) has been asked by its new group, the Episcopal Committee for Justice in Israel and Palestine, to adopt a policy of divestment from ‘companies that profit from Israel’s illegal occupation and colonization of Palestinian lands’. This is premised on the fact that Netanyahu has rejected the two-state solution and thus there is a new political landscape.
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International Peace Research Association – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
The 26th biennial conference of the Interna¬tional Peace Research Association (IPRA) is billed to take place in Freetown, Sierra Leone in November 2016, marking the second time Africa has hosted the conference since the founding of IPRA in 1964.
→ read full articleThe Heart of the Hawaiian Peoples’ Arguments against the Telescope on Mauna Kea
Doug Herman, Smithsonian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
23 Apr 2015 – Native Hawaiians are not protesting science, but instead are seeking respect for sacred places, and our planet. At this moment all over the Hawaiian Islands, but especially atop Mauna Kea volcano, there are protests against the building of a new Thirty-Meter Telescope on this sacred mountain.
→ read full articleMigrants´ Right to Live Should Not Be Killed
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Humankind may boast of many a life-saving technological invention,
but does it succeed, when challenged by migrant death prevention?…
The Now Show – Dr Seuss at Copenhagen
Marcus Brigstocke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
HILARIOUS! Read as you listen to podcast. A Dr Seuss-style take on events at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
→ read full articleThe Oslo Conference to End Myanmar’s Persecution of the Rohingyas
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Venues: The Nobel Institute and Voksenaasen
Oslo, Norway
26-28 May 2015
At this Oslo Conference, global leaders including George Soros and Desmond Tutu will call on the international community, both international investors, European Union and governments with close ties to Myanmar, to help end Myanmar’s Rohingya persecution.
Legacy of War
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Sometimes when we reflect on war, we talk about sacrifice for a good cause. Other times, we talk about the cost, in lives or liberties lost. Occasionally, we talk about the horror. Sometimes we talk about the gains, nationally or internationally, for freedom and democracy. And rarely, we analyse the causes of war and lament that one day we might end it.
→ read full articleThe Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Death of the Republic
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
On April 22, 2015, the Senate Finance Committee approved a bill to fast-track the TPP, a massive trade agreement that would override our republican form of government and hand judicial and legislative authority to a foreign three-person panel of corporate lawyers. The TPP would elevate the rights of investors – also called the rights of “capital” – above the rights of the citizens.
→ read full articleIf Writers Are Necessarily Right…
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Who Are the “Rongers”, So Necessarily Wrong? The focus of this reflection is on the curious phonetic relationship in English between “writer” and “right”. Is the exercise of “writing” surreptitiously assumed to be one which endeavours to make “right”? Can it be readily assumed to have this purpose, as in the sense of “setting things right” — “putting the world to rights”?
→ read full articleA New Deal for Greece
Yanis Varoufakis, Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
None of this means that common ground cannot be achieved immediately. The Greek government wants a fiscal-consolidation path that makes sense, and we want reforms that all sides believe are important. Our task is to convince our partners that our undertakings are strategic, rather than tactical, and that our logic is sound. Their task is to let go of an approach that has failed.
→ read full article(Norsk-Norwegian) Johan Galtung, verdens første fredsforskar om konflikten mellom Vesten og Islam
Jonas Sætre, Uten Filter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
14 Apr 2015 – Nyheitsdekninga det siste året har i svært stor grad vore prega av konflikt mellom Islam og Vesten. Frå terrorangrepa i Paris og København og terrortrugsel på norsk jord, til framveksten av IS, norske framandkrigarar og Vestens krigføring i Midtausten. Sjølv for den verdskjende norske professoren og fredsmeklaren Johan Galtung er dette dramatiske tider i tilhøvet mellom Vesten og Islam.
→ read full articleOn the Historic Role of the Peace Movement
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
One can distinguish between four forms of power: military, economic, cultural and political. Military power says, “If you don’t do what I want, I will hurt you.” Economic power says, “If you do what I want, I will reward you.” Cultural power says, “If you do what I want, I will praise you, and if you don’t do what I want, I will criticize you.” Political power manipulates the other three forms of power to achieve goals.
→ read full articleThe Myth of ‘Value-Free’ Social Science or The Value of Political Commitments to Social Science
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
For many decades, mainstream social scientists, mostly conservative, have argued that political commitments and scientific research are incompatible. Against this current of opinion, others, mostly politically engaged social scientists, have argued that scientific research and political commitment are not contradictory. For the serious critical academic, in answering the question of ‘knowledge for whom?’: they would do well to follow Karl Marx’s wise adage, ‘The object of philosophy is not only to study the world but to change it.’
→ read full article(Deutsch) Günter Grass: Was gesagt werden muss
Günter Grass (Literatur-Nobelpreisträger) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Günter Grass (16 Oktober 1927-13 April 2015) warnt in der “Süddeutschen Zeitung” vor einem Krieg gegen Iran. In seinem Gedicht mit dem Titel “Was gesagt werden muss” fordert der Literaturnobelpreisträger deshalb, Israel dürfe keine deutschen U-Boote mehr bekommen. Dieses Gedicht hat eine hitzige Debatte in Deutschland und Israel.
→ read full articleWhat’s Obama Up to, with His TPP & TTIP?
Eric Zuesse, Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
It is instead to transfer political power away from the public in a democracy. The global aristocratic stockholder votes of the international aristocracy who elect the corporate directors of international companies will then be selecting the members to the international-trade-panels which, in TPP and TTIP, will, in their turn, be determining the rules and enforcements regarding especially workers’ rights, product-safety, and the environment.
→ read full articleMost Europeans ‘Totally Distrust’ Mainstream Media Coverage of Ukraine Crisis – Poll
End the Lie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
21 Apr 2015 – The majority of Europeans – UK, French, German and Greek residents among them – distrust mainstream media coverage of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, a recent poll conducted by the British ICM Research agency for Sputnik News, targeting over 4,000 people, reveals.
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