Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Alkarama Human Rights Award to Shireen Issawi
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
Geneva, 13 December 2014 – A letter written from an Israeli prison by the recipient of the award Ms. Shireen Issawi, a brave, resolute, and inspiring human rights defender who has dedicated her professional career as a lawyer to the long Palestinian national struggle for freedom, human rights, and self-determination.
→ read full articleRussian Roulette: Taxpayers Could Be on the Hook for Trillions in Oil Derivatives
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
19 Dec 2014 – The sudden dramatic collapse in the price of oil appears to be an act of geopolitical warfare against Russia. The result could be trillions of dollars in oil derivative losses; and the FDIC could be liable, following repeal of key portions of the Dodd-Frank Act last weekend.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to Ecuadorian President Correa on Evicting the CONAIE Indigenous Movement
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Upside Down World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
The government of Ecuador called for the CONAIE indigenous movement to leave its Quito headquarters, which they have occupied since 1991. Translation of a letter from Univ. of Coimbra’s sociology professor and analyst of Latin American social movements, Boaventura de Sousa Santos to President Rafael Correa.
→ read full articleDear Dr. Kaslow: I Too Am “Outraged, Saddened and Pained”
Roy J. Eidelson, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
The New York Times does not accept letters-to-the-editor about other letters-to-the-editor. But this is one I would have submitted if I could. Dr. Kaslow’s letter offers no hint of doubt, concern, or regret in regard to any actions or inaction on the part of the American Psychological Association and its leadership. I am also outraged that in 2004, while torture was taking place at CIA black sites, APA Ethics Office Director Stephen Behnke arranged a private meeting with senior CIA and Pentagon officials to “sort out appropriate from inappropriate uses of psychology.”
→ read full article(Português) Brasil: Conheça e Acesse o Relatório Final da Comissão Nacional da Verdade
Carta Maior – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
10 dez 2014 – O relatório aponta as prisões sem base legal, as torturas e as mortes delas decorrentes, as violências sexuais, as execuções e ocultações de cadáveres. O relatório final da Comissão Nacional da Verdade foi entregue hoje em cerimônia oficial no Palácio do Planalto à presidenta Dilma Rousseff.
→ read full articleThe Global Bankers’ Coup: Bail-In and the Shadowy Financial Stability Board
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
For three centuries, private international banking interests have brought governments in line by blocking them from issuing their own currencies and requiring them to borrow banker-issued “banknotes” instead. Under the new FSB guidelines, nations could still be held in feudalistic subservience to foreign masters.
→ read full articleConvention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
UN General Assembly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
10 December 1984 – The General Assembly adopts the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; Calls upon all Governments to consider signing and ratifying the Convention as a matter of priority.
→ read full articleThe Complicity of Psychologists in CIA Torture
Roy Eidelson and Trudy Bond – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
What the American Psychological Association Knew – Other evidence suggests that the abhorrent actions of two highly paid CIA contractors were by no means the only instances in which the profession’s do-no-harm principles were tragically abandoned. So while this week’s grim Senate report provides important answers to crucial questions, for the psychology profession there is much more yet to be illuminated.
→ read full articleFour Years since the Arrest of Julian Assange
Robert Stevens, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
December 7 [2014] marked four years since WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in London and detained without charge. December 5 marked 900 days that he has been holed up inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London after being forced to claim political asylum.
→ read full articleHome-made Spy Drone Hacks WiFi Networks, Listens to Calls
Erin Van der Bellen, WUSA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Long-time friends and former Air Force buddies, Mike Tassey and Rich Perkins, describe their state-of-the-art cyber drone as hard to take down, hard to see and virtually hard to detect. They built it in a garage, using off the shelf electronics to prove a drone can be used to launch cyber-attacks.
→ read full article30 Years of Torture Convention – States Still Failing on Obligations
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
10 Dec 2014 – On the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention against Torture, Amnesty International is calling upon states not to obstruct efforts to prevent the appalling practice. While 156 states have ratified the Convention, a host of nations are still carrying out torture and are obstructing efforts to prevent, monitor, investigate and to bring about prosecutions.
→ read full articleAlternative Nobel: Fidel Castro Wins China’s Confucius Peace Prize
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
11 Dec 2014 – Cuba’s former leader Fidel Castro has been awarded the Confucius Peace Prize, China’s alternative to the Nobel. Castro was praised for “important contributions on eliminating nuclear war after his retirement,” and will get US$15,000.
→ read full articleUS Senate Votes to Sanction Venezuela over CIA Torture
News from Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
The US Senate passed a bill imposing sanctions on Venezuelan for not having done more to prevent the torture of prisoners by the CIA. “As is well known, we have been trying to straighten out Venezuela for 15 years or more, but the recalcitrant government of that country refuses to be straightened. If it hadn’t been for places like Venezuela, we would have had much more time to keep an eye on the CIA.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Un rapido sguardo a Indonesia-Malaysia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Muhammadiyah University – Yogyakarta, Indonesia
→ read full articleUS Torture Report Summary Released (download full text here)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
9 December, 2014 – US Senator Dianne Feinstein Unveils CIA (Whitewash) Torture Report Summary on Capitol Hill in Washington
→ read full articleUS Senate Approves US$ 585 Billion Defense Bill
Xinhua – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
The U.S. Senate on Friday [12 Dec 2014] passed a sweeping 585-billion-U.S.dollar defense policy bill that will pay for the Pentagon’s activities in fiscal 2015, and give President Barack Obama authority to expand the campaign against the Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq and Syria.
→ read full articlePresentation to Nobel Summit – Rome, Italy
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Appeal to His Holiness Pope Francis to Replace Just War Theory with Theology of Peace, Nonkilling, and Nonviolence
→ read full articleIsrael & Australia Violate UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Dr. Gideon Polya – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Apartheid Israel and Apartheid Australia have appalling, continuing records of violating the human rights of their Indigenous Peoples and must be held to account by the civilized world for currently violating all 46 Articles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
→ read full articleBritain Taught Brazilian Dictatorship to Torture
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Brazilian interrogators learned techniques from the British army, which had mastered their psychological torturing skills on suspected republicans in Northern Ireland.
→ read full articleAntisemitism and Criticism of Israel Not the Same Thing
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
In a submission last month to the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism, JfJfP’s executive committee carefully distinguishes between antisemitism – which has deep roots in Europe and is rising – and criticism of Israeli policies, which is necessary and commonplace in Israel itself.
→ read full articleTorture as a Jus Cogens Norm
Law Teacher – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Everybody Is Doing It! Torture as a Jus Cogens Norm Following the September 11 Attacks – This paper will examine the claims, prior to September 11, that torture prohibition is a jus cogens norm and whether or not the actions of the international community after this date can justifiably support such a contention.
→ read full articleEngaging with Insight of a Higher Order
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
This is an exercise in exploring the limits of what can be said about greater insight — but without presuming to say anything from such a perspective. The value of doing so can be variously indicated.
→ read full articleOnly Half of Global Banks Have Policy to Respect Human Rights
Carey L. Biron, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Public policy to respect human rights is a foundational mandate of the international convention on multinational business practice. Of the global banks examined, none has a process to deal with human rights abuses. None has even created grievance mechanisms by which those impacted can complain to the banks.
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The Architect of the CIA’s Enhanced Interrogation Program [a.k.a. torture]
VICE News Exclusive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Dec 10, 2014 – This is the first time James Mitchell has ever appeared on camera.
→ read full articleMajor BDS Win: Elbit Loses Brazil Deal
The Alternative Information Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
4 Dec 2014 – The Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul has cancelled a major collaboration deal with Israeli military company Elbit Systems in the wake of protests over the firm’s role in oppression of Palestinians.
→ read full articleObama in Ferguson—If…
Latuff Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Satirical Strip – Cartoon
→ read full articleNorwegian Doctor: Israel Used New Type of Weapon in Gaza
Medics Charity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Unknown weapon severs the legs leaving burns around the stump, small punctures in the skin, internal bleeding. Even doctors with previous experience in war zones do not recognize them according to Dr. Erik Fosse, a Norwegian cardiologist who worked at Gaza’s Shifa Hospital during Operation Cast Lead.
→ read full articlePeace Education for Protection of Human Rights
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
10 December is celebrated annually across the world to honor the UN General Assembly’s adoption and proclamation, on 10 December 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
→ read full articleJim Crow Laws That Govern Palestinian Life
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Whether they want to attend family gatherings, open a business or visit sick relatives, Palestinians under occupation must adhere to military regulations, the vast majority of which are hidden from public scrutiny.
→ read full articleThe Octagon World: Conflict or Cooperation?
Johan Galtung, 15 Dec 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
They can choose to focus on the worst in others, criticizing, building on paranoia and worst case analysis, “security”. Or choose to focus on the best, with cooperation as dominant mode, conflict as recessive. They can cooperate for mutual and equal benefit like in good trade, exploring each others’ comparative political-cultural advantages. They can do it.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Week of Dec 15-21, 2014
→ read full articleWalt Whitman Returns . . .
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855) – What Walt Whitman would say if he appeared in our time? I know he would recognize the betrayal of history’s lessons – humanity’s continued infatuation with violence and war. He would scold us! Reprimand us! Remind us solutions are to be found in compassion and connection — not metal.
→ read full articleRight-Wing Lessons Learned
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
This Modern World – Comic Strip
→ read full articleUN Urges Israel to Renounce Nuclear Arms, Join Non-Proliferation Treaty
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
5 Dec 2014 – The UN General Assembly has passed a resolution calling on Israel not to develop, produce or possess nuclear arms and criticizing the country for not being part to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Israel rebuffed the call saying that the UN “lost all its credibility regarding Israel with these types of routine votes that are ensured passage by an automatic majority and which single out Israel.”
→ read full articleNuclear Weapons and the International Security Context
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
This statement, signed by over 100 civil society organizations, was delivered at the United Nations General Assembly’s First Committee on October 28, 2014.
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Climate Change and the Yin-Yang of Polar Sea Ice
ScienceAtNASA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
Dec 2, 2014 – Arctic and Antarctic sea ice are both affected by climate change, but the two poles of Earth are behaving in intriguingly different ways.
→ read full articleWhat Happens When Spies Can Eavesdrop on Any Conversation?
Patrick Tucker, Defense One – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
Imagine having access to the all of the world’s recorded conversations, videos that people have posted to YouTube, in addition to chatter collected by random microphones in public places. Then picture the possibility of searching that dataset for clues related to terms that you are interested in the same way you search Google.
→ read full articleWhat Part of Constitutional Rights Do You Not Understand?
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
This Modern World – Comic Satirical Strip
→ read full articleThe 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy
Edward Curtin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
Review of [TRANSCEND Member] Graeme MacQueen’s Book – The anthrax letters were instrumental in getting tyrannical legislation passed by Congress. The US tried to blame Muslim terrorists but the anthrax was a version that only existed in US military labs.
→ read full articleBeyond M.A.D.: Reviving Nuclear War
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
“Some of the key technocrats and scientists of the Cold War say the nation has become overly confident about its nuclear deterrence. The nuclear enterprise, they say, ‘is rusting its way to disarmament.’” Let’s meditate on this irony — that disarmament, finally, means no more than growing old and weak and pathetic.
→ read full articleBoycott Coca-Cola
US Palestinian Community Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
4 Dec 2014 – BDS is now a worldwide movement against Israeli Apartheid, and USPCN wants to work with you to target Coca-Cola, as our contribution to the campaign. Close Coca-Cola Factories in Occupied Palestine NOW!
→ read full article(Italiano) Scontri di civiltà Occidente-Oriente?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
Il conflitto? Diritti storici buddhisti vs diritti umani musulmani. Nessuna conversione religiosa all’altro campo, niente né una cosa né l’altra secolare, nessun compromesso mezzo buddhista / mezzo musulmano, nessun amalgama sia-sia: il buddhism con potere di stato è anch’esso esclusivo. Che prospettive di soluzioni politiche?
→ read full article(Italiano) L’apocalisse del neoliberismo
Alex Zanotelli, Comune-info – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
“Vidi una bestia salire dal mare …”. È con queste parole che il profeta dell’Apocalisse descrive l’Impero Romano alla fine del primo secolo. Le stesse parole le userei per le nuove bestie che appaiono all’orizzonte: il Partenariato Transatlantico per il Commercio e gli Investimenti, nell’acronimo inglese T-tip.
→ read full articleCorpus Callosum of the Global Brain?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
Locating the integrative function within the world wide web. It is appropriate to ask whether the current challenges to global governance, and any requisite integration of the global brain, could not be fruitfully explored with respect to split-brain pathology, any form of split consciousness, hemispheric specialization, or bipolar disorder.
→ read full article‘Palestine Is Not an Environment Story’
Nafeez Ahmed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
3 Dec 2014 – After writing for The Guardian for over a year, my contract was unilaterally terminated because I wrote a piece on Gaza that was beyond the pale. In doing so, The Guardian breached the very editorial freedom the paper was obligated to protect under my contract. The article now has 68,000 social media shares, and is by far the single most popular article on the Gaza conflict to date.
→ read full articleWar by Media and the Triumph of Propaganda
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
5 Dec 2014 – Why has so much journalism succumbed to propaganda? Why are censorship and distortion standard practice? Why is the BBC so often a mouthpiece of rapacious power? Why do the New York Times and the Washington Post deceive their readers?
→ read full articleNetwork
xkcd - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
→ read full articleEbb and Flow of Privatized Water – From Buenos Aires to Atlanta, from Mozambique to France
Nick Buxton, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
A new report by Transnational Institute unveils a growing tide of cities taking back control of their water. Only a few involved popular rebellions, but all resulted from growing dissatisfaction with corporations’ broken promises.
→ read full articleThe Ethics of Climate Hope
Naomi Klein - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
According to Elizabeth Kolbert’s review of my book, ‘This Changes Everything,’ humans are too selfish to respond effectively to the climate crisis. “When you tell people what it would actually take to radically reduce carbon emissions, they don’t want to give up air travel or air conditioning or HDTV or trips to the mall or the family car.”
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Celebration (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Kool & The Gang – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
The Classic from 1980 LIVE
→ read full articleThe Rise of German Imperialism and the Phony “Russian Threat”
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
The principle Nazi ideological prop that secured massive financial and political support from Germany’s leading industrialists was the Communist and Soviet threat. The main Nazi military drive, absorbing two-thirds of its best troops, was directed eastward at conquering and destroying Russia.
→ read full articleLaunching of Kairos Palestine in Bethlehem – 11 December 2009
Kairos Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
In this historic document, we Palestinian Christians declare that the military occupation of our land is a sin against God and humanity.
→ read full articleNepal’s Gadhimai Animal Slaughter Festival: Never Again
Compassion in World Farming – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
Please note that this picture story contains graphic images of animal slaughter that may cause distress.
→ read full articleNew G20 Rules: Cyprus-style Bail-ins to Hit Depositors AND Pensioners
Ellen Brown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
Warren Buffett called derivatives “weapons of financial mass destruction;” they are a time bomb waiting to explode. When that happens, our deposits, our pensions, and our public investment funds will all be subject to confiscation in a “bail in.” Perhaps it is time to pull our money out of Wall Street and set up our own banks – banks that will serve the people because they are owned by the people.
→ read full articleIsrael Nature Reserve Oil Spill ‘One of Country’s Worst Environmental Disasters’
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
Oil spill floods Israeli nature reserve. Three people hospitalized after inhaling fumes from oil gushing out of a breached pipeline near Evrona reserve.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
Important/relevant dates to observe this week.
December 7 (Sunday):
1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
December 8:
A Quick Glance at Indonesia-Malaysia
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
Muhammadiyah University – Yogyakarta, Indonesia
→ read full articleEbola Epidemic Continues to Ravage West Africa
Niles Williamson, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
The Obama administration dispatched several thousand soldiers to Liberia, exploiting the crisis as a means of gaining a military foothold on the African continent. While foreign troops have been deployed to construct Ebola treatment centers, the responsibility for staffing these facilities has been left to an ad hoc grouping of NGOs, missionaries and local workers.
→ read full articleThirty Years On, Bhopal’s Ghost Haunts India
Gulf News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
1 Dec 2014 – Even after three decades, the memory of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster is kept alive by “mini Bhopals” that occur across India.
→ read full articleUN Urges for Rohingya Citizenship in Myanmar
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
UN rights committee urges Myanmar government to scrap its identity plan and grant Rohingya access to citizenship.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Demolition of Palestinian Homes ‘Contrary to International Law,’ UN Experts Warn
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
25 Nov 2014 – The Israeli Government’s use of house demolition as a punitive measure must end immediately, UN experts urged today. The practice – which targets Palestinian homes in both Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory – is a violation of human rights law.
→ read full articleEU Parliament Votes for Break-Up of Google
Deutsche Welle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
EU lawmakers have voted in a favor of a resolution that would force Internet companies to separate search engines from commercial services. Though not named, Internet search giant Google, was the target of the vote.
→ read full articleCould Your Smart Tablet Be Damaging to Your Health?
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
A new report is showing that many tablets and phones are using chemicals that are drastically affecting the health of consumers.
→ read full articleZionists Throw Themselves onto the Messianic Wagon
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
No archaeological evidence for (the first temple’s) existence, let alone its location, has been discovered, and no extra-biblical records of it have survived…In fact there is no archaeological evidence of the modest Second Temple either.
→ read full article(Português) Não Culpem as Telinhas
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Os críticos de smartphones, tablets, ipads, ipods e ipuds têm o direito de lamentar a utilização destes instrumentos como a coisa mais importante na vida de muitas pessoas. O conhecimento de nova técnica (é simplesmente este o significado da palavra “tecnologia”), sempre chega desarrumando o jeito de viver, para depois instituir outro jeito irrevogável, que se torna hábito, saudável ou não.
→ read full articleHow the Pentagon’s Skynet Would Automate War
Nafeez Ahmed, Vice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Pentagon officials are worried that the US military is losing its edge compared to competitors like China, and are willing to explore almost anything to stay on top—including creating watered-down versions of the Terminator.
→ read full articleGambia: Life Sentence for ‘Aggravated Homosexuality’
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
New Law Threatens LGBTI Community – “Arresting and torturing people based on their sexual orientation is shameful, and inventing new crimes with even harsher sentences is scandalous. Gambia’s new law not only flouts African human rights obligations, it violates its own constitution, which says that all people must be equal and free from discrimination before the law.”
→ read full articleUS Intervenes in South China Sea Dispute
Peter Symonds, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
26 Nov 2014 – In a direct intrusion into territorial disputes in the South China Sea, the US has called on China to halt construction activity in the Spratly Islands. The comments, which Beijing has already rejected, will only exacerbate the already sharp tensions between China and its neighbours.
→ read full article“Judeo-Nazism” and the Prospects for a Comprehensive Agreement with Iran
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
If a non-Jew had coined the phrase “Judeo-Nazism” he or she would have been verbally crucified by Zionism’s attack dogs and the mainstream Western media. The actual inventor of it was Yeshavahu Leibowitz, one of the most outspoken and controversial Jewish intellectuals of modern times.
→ read full articleThe Largest Solar Plant in the World Is Now Fully Operational in California
Eric Wesoff , GreenTechMedia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Nov 24, 2014 – Late last month, the Topaz Solar project achieved full commercial operation. This is the first 500-megawatt plus solar farm to come on-line in the U.S. and the largest solar plant on-line in the world.
→ read full articleThe Epic Ideological Struggle of Our Global Era: Multiculturalism versus Homogenization
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
In contrast to homogenization, the preferred ideology of those in power and position seeking control and domination, Multiculturalism embraces the reality of life’s diversity and differences – the beauty of variation. All other ideologies “pale” in complexion, complexity, and comparison.
→ read full articleIn Praise of Buffer States
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Buffer states keep armies apart and allow important countries to trade in peace.
→ read full articleMemoir Sketch: Championing Lost Causes
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
To contemplate death without the metaphysical painkillers of an imagined afterlife is to be finally alone. In a sense learning to die is equivalent to learning to live alone, and takes courage and fortitude.
→ read full articleGreat Number of Animals Killed in Hindu Festival in Nepal
PressTV- TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Starting on Friday [28 Nov 2014], tens of thousands of birds and other animals are killed during a Hindu festival in Nepal, where worshippers believe the act brings them good luck.
→ read full articleMyanmar and Its Manufacturing Genocidal Racism towards Rohingya
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
There was inter-ethnic solidarity for the Rohingya/Muslims of Arakan dating back to 17 May 1978. Now in 2014, even the Kachin Independence Organization’s spokesperson ex-Colonel James L. based in BKK denied any knowledge of Rohingya and denied showing any sympathy for the Rohingya.
→ read full articleIn the Awesome World of the Future
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Satirical Comic Strip – This Modern World
→ read full articleA Vision for Nature
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
As governments tear down the rules that defend our wildlife from extinction, here’s a positive attempt to stop the wreckage.
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Paganini – Variations for 2 Pianos (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Rosey Chan & Grace Fong – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Two of the Most Exciting Female Pianists of Our Generation
→ read full articleBurma’s Struggle for Democracy: A Critical Appraisal (DRAFT)
Maung Zarni with Trisha Taneja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Reclaiming Activism – Drawn upon the author’s direct political engagement in Burma’s pro-change opposition, and on his own research, to reflect critically on the struggle of the last twenty-five years between the ruling military and the opposition movements.
→ read full articleRussia’s Biggest Bank Launches Financing in Chinese Yuan
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Sberbank, Russia’s largest lender, will be the first bank in the country to start issuing credit guarantees denominated in Chinese yuan. The new yuan-based letters of credit ensure payments between buyers and sellers, with the bank acting as a router.
→ read full articleAdhering to God’s Plan in a Global Society
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
The concern here is whether the Christian perspective from which the Pontiff and the President of the European Commission choose to offer strategic guidance to the peoples of the world is as appropriate or legitimate as many would like to assume. Potentially more challenging is the possibility that the Pope is unknowingly addressing the “haggard” condition of the Catholic Church for which he considers wider society to be a mirror.
→ read full articleDemand from the Nepalese Government That the Terrible Gadhimai Animal Slaughter Festival Must Never Happen Again
Compassion in World Farming – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
‘The scale of the suffering is vast – before me lie the bodies of thousands of buffalo, staining the earth, and the soles of the slaughtermen’s feet, red. What I’ve seen can only be described as a massacre. These animals have suffered great pain at the hands of an army of unskilled men and this is just the start….thousands of chickens, goats and other animals are next up in this 48 hour frenzy of killing [500.000 this year].
→ read full articleCivilization Clashes Occident-Orient?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
The conflict? Buddhist historical rights vs Muslim human rights. No religious conversion to the other, no secular neither-nor, no half-Buddhist/half Muslim compromise, no both-and amalgam: Buddhism with State power is also exclusive . How about political solutions?
→ read full articleThe Mobilization of Nonkilling: A Needed Global Effort
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
When terrorists kill people who are praying,
It is also Humankind that those killers are slaying.
Germany’s Deutsche Welle Reports ISIS Supply Lines Originate in NATO’s Turkey
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Nov 28, 2014 – Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) published a video report of immense implications – possibly the first national broadcaster in the West to admit that the so-called “Islamic State” (ISIS) is supplied not by “black market oil” or “hostage ransoms” but billions of dollars worth of supplies carried into Syria across NATO member Turkey’s borders via hundreds of trucks a day.
→ read full article(Castellano) Cigarrillos electrónicos contienen sustancias cancerígenas
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Investigadores del Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública de Japón afirman, en un estudio dado a conocer este jueves [27 nov 2014], que el vapor de algunos cigarrillos electrónicos contiene agentes cancerígenos.
→ read full articleI Support Israel’s National Bill
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Finally Israel has acknowledged its true Jewish nature. Instead of pretending to be a ‘Jewish Democracy” – a contradiction in terms, the Jewish State admits that it is a theocracy guided by Jewish racial supremacist ideology.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden Awarded Stuttgart Peace Prize 2014
Iran English Radio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
24 Nov 2014 – Edward Snowden has been awarded Stuttgart Peace Prize 2014, established by citizens’ initiative Die AnStifter, RIA Novosti said.
→ read full articleOn Ferguson
First Dog on the Moon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Cartoon – Satirical Comic Strip
→ read full articleGaza 2014 Compilation
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
A POMEAS Compilation of Writings Relating to Israel’s 50-Day Attack on Gaza
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Futuro della Mediazione
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Per il miglioramento di sé competere con se stessi, non con altri, per una società di vincitori e sconfitti. Se s’impara il baricentro positivo, auto-miglioramento, buoni rapporti con equità e armonia, capacità di riconciliazione dei traumi e soluzione dei conflitti, si sarà ampiamente ricompensati con felicità e benessere.
→ read full articleNonviolent Action: Minimizing the Risk of Violent Repression
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
I would like to identify ways in which the risk of police or military personnel using illegal and violent tactics can be minimized and, in many cases, thwarted, wherever in the world the nonviolent action takes place. If we are going to take the necessary risks to save our world, we might as well do it strategically.
→ read full articleInternational Arms Transfers in 2013
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute-SIPRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
The volume of international transfers of major weapons grew by 14 per cent between 2004–2008 and 2009–13. The five largest suppliers in 2009–13—the United States, Russia, Germany, China and France—accounted for 74 per cent of the volume of exports.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were watching TV in the evening.
→ read full articleDominique Strauss-Kahn’s Concern for the Poor Got Him Destroyed
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
That Strauss-Kahn was so easily done in with the complicity of the American left-wing demonstrates that it is impossible for anti-elite leadership to rise in the West. Any time anti-establishment leadership shows its head, it is cut off.
→ read full articleLaying the Foundations of a World Citizens Movement
Anthony George, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
How can civil society organizations (CSOs) build a broad movement that draws in, represents and mobilises the citizenry, and how can they effect fundamental, systemic transformation, rather than trading in incremental change?
→ read full articleRemembering Yoshikazu Sakamoto (1927-2014)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
I am sharing these words of appreciation, and hope that anyone from Japan who comes across this text will contact me, especially if they have a way of putting me in touch with either Yoshi’s family or Japanese media. I would like to believe that ‘an American appreciation’ of Professor Sakamoto, an important public intellectual, would be of interest to those who knew and admired him.
→ read full articleSummit of Failure: How the EU Lost Russia over Ukraine
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
One year ago, negotiations over a Ukraine association agreement with the European Union collapsed. The result has been a standoff with Russia and war in the Donbass. It was an historical failure, and one that German Chancellor Angela Merkel contributed to.
→ read full articleSurviving Scarcities in Bulengo: Women’s Trial in Displaced Camps in North Kivu (D. R. Congo)
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
I reflect on the challenge of the Doctors Without Borders staff at the clinic. They are at the frontline of hope, they treat the disabled, do a regular follow up of the AIDS patients, support psychologically the women in distress. They are a group dedicated to provide free health care to everyone. They are also exposed to insecurity.
→ read full articleWhistleblowing for Equitable Geopolitics Part 2: Project Camelot
Keil Eggers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
The period between the introduction of Project Camelot and its ultimate demise [1964-65] raises interesting questions about the relationship between government, the military, and social sciences. It exposed many of the U.S. government’s assumptions about the U.S. role in Latin America and the world at large.
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