Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Jesus!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
A burglar broke through a window and entered a pitch-dark room.
→ read full articlePhilosophy of Life: Some Propositions
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
One needs to contribute to society in his own capability. A person who has no food needs to be busy to find means of subsistence. But a person who has no such worry should contribute to society.
→ read full article(English/Portuguese) Ecolinguisticamente Rimando em Português e Inglês
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Ecolinquistical Rhymes in English and Portuguese
→ read full articleMemo on the Evaluation of the Community Work Program
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
This memo stresses the importance of evaluating CWP´s compliance with its mandate to use public employment to catalyse community development. It also underlines the importance of issues in economic theory that bear on CWP´s contribution to society.
→ read full articleGerman TV Shows Nazi Symbols on Helmets of Ukraine Soldiers
NBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Germans were confronted with images of their country’s dark past on Monday [8 Sep 2014] night, when German public broadcaster ZDF showed video of Ukrainian soldiers with Nazi symbols on their helmets in its evening newscast.
→ read full articleNo to US/NATO and Yes to Peace
Mairead Corrigan Maguire , Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
While US/UK/NATO are pushing for war with Russia, it behoves people and their governments around the world to take a clear stand for peace and against violence and war, no matter where it comes from.
→ read full articleExpensive?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
A foreign tourist’s car got stuck in a small Russian village.
→ read full articleCarney Still White House ‘Propagandist’ Now Posing as Tie-Less CNN Analyst
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney is essentially doing the same job since being taken on by CNN – serving as propagandist for the government, award-winning journalist Ben Swann told RT.
→ read full articleIraq: Yazidis’ Genocide?
René Wadlow, UN Geneva Association of Word Citizens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
With the incomplete evidence at hand, I would maintain that the ISIS policy is genocide and not just a control of territory. Although the UN “track record” of dealing with genocide is very mixed, the first immediate step is for a State to raise the issue within the UN.
→ read full article(Italiano) Difetti nel pensiero USA – e qualche rimedio
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Difetto 2. Confondere il conflitto con la violenza. O i “disordini”. Trattare il conflitto diventa gestire la violenza verso una tregua o la capitolazione, poi ripulire la situazione “post- conflittuale”, solo per scoprire che la violenza riappare, forse sotto forma di vendetta. Nulla di risolto. Rimedio: Separare i concetti.
→ read full articleIndia’s PM Modi towards World’s Top Leader Keeping Confidence with Neighbors
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
The principal reason of insecurity to Modi is that he is speeding up his social doctrine to respect, protect, preserve, and promote poor, marginalized, disadvantaged, and vulnerable people, not limiting him within the border, but beyond of it.
→ read full articleOverthrowing Other People’s Governments: The Master List
William Blum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)
→ read full articleBreaking the Last Taboo – Gaza and the Threat of World War
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Nothing has changed since the Zionists’ infamous “Plan D” in 1948 that ethnically cleansed an entire people. Recently, on the Times of Israel were the words: “Genocide is Permissible”. A deputy speaker of the Knesset demands a policy of mass expulsion into concentration camps. An MP, Ayelet Shaked, calls for the extermination of Palestinian mothers to prevent them giving birth to what she calls “little snakes”.
→ read full articleNATO Loses Ukraine
Margaret Kimberley, BAR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Peace is the last thing that the Nobel Peace Prize winning president wants to see. Putin is the winner by any standard but the United States won’t admit what is obvious.
→ read full articleDefeating the Violence of Psychiatry
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
As the movement to abolish psychiatry continues to gather momentum it is worth reviewing its delusional foundation, the history of its violence and its function as a weapon of elite social control. According to research, in the USA ‘prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer’ and it ‘is inescapable that their availability creates more harm than good’.
→ read full article(Português) Qual Português?
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Sei que a Língua é um naipe de possibilidades, mas sei também do que aprendi como sendo certo e errado. Regras para honrar a clareza, coerência, concisão, elegância. Mesmo na linguagem falada, mais solta e rica de desvios.
→ read full articleSteven Salaita and Zionist McCarthyism
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
The outcome of the Salaita case will exhibit the current balance of influence as between Zionist McCarthyism and academic freedom. That such a struggle should be in doubt is itself a national disgrace that suggests the worrisome fragility of academic freedom as reinforced by the potency of money and regressive ideology.
→ read full articleSpiritual Leaders for Nonkilling
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Spiritual leaders,
Most powerful is what you teach
spiritually you guide and inspire
people East and West you reach
Leo Tolstoy: The Law of Love
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
9 September marks the birth of the multi-dimensional Count Leo Tolstoy, an aristocratic land owner, a young military officer, a distinguished author of War and Peace, a spiritual-moral philosopher, and a champion of non-violent action. It is this last aspect and the link with Mahatma Gandhi that I would like to stress.
→ read full articleMessage from the TMS Editor
Antonio C. S. Rosa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Dear friends, TMS subscribers & readers, on Sep 15, when this edition of TRANSCEND Media Service goes online by default at 12 noon GMT, I will be onboard an airplane heading for Beijing on my way to the WARP-World Alliance of Religions for Peace Summit in Seoul, South Korea.
→ read full articleThe Long Shadows of History
Johan Galtung, 15 Sep 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
USA, our certificate to you says ‘irrelevance.’ You always too quickly resort to violence, no good at deeper causes. We cannot force you to change, you have to will that yourself. But we can take the ball out of your court and play it ourselves. Leadership should be collective, like BRICS; leadership should never be one country, or one person.
→ read full articleReligions for Peace
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Religions for Peace
A mission never to cease
To Recruits
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
You are pawns–
don’t you understand that?
It’s a game
and you aren’t worth much,
Obama and ISIS
David McReynolds – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
The problem is that, as always happens in these cases, there is a certain “selective outrage”, a kind of “willed amnesia” about our own role in such matters. Not all of the sins of America, taken together, justify the beheading of a single journalist – but memory may help us understand the roots of that horror.
→ read full articleU.S. Threatened Hefty Fines to Make Yahoo Hand Over User Data
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
The U.S. government in 2008 threatened to fine Yahoo Inc $250,000 a day if it failed to turn over customer data to intelligence agencies, according to documents unsealed on Thursday [11 Sep 2014].
→ read full articlePeace Ecology
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
With serendipitous timing, as a big march for the climate, and various related events, are planned on and around the International Day of Peace [21 Sep 2014], Randall Amster has just published an important book called Peace Ecology.
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Gitmo Exclusive: An Untold History of Occupation, Torture & Resistance (Part I)
Abby Martin, breakingtheset – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Sep 2, 2014 – Abby Martin Breaks the Set on the History of Gitmo, Methods of Torture, the Remaining Detainees and the Ongoing Hunger Strikes by Prisoners.
→ read full articleWhere Slaughtered Dolphins Go to Be Sold
David Kirby, takepart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
12 Sep 2014 – As the annual dolphin-killing season begins at the cove at Taiji, Japan, the focus will be on the slaughter. Far less attention will be paid, however, to the fate of dolphins captured and sold to marine-mammal entertainment parks worldwide.
→ read full articleUN Human Rights Protection: Small Steps but No Turning Back
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
The effectiveness of United Nations action to promote human rights and prevent massive violations grows by small steps. However, the steps, once taken, serve as precedents and can be cited in future cases. Once the steps taken, it is difficult to refuse such action later.
→ read full articleEcolinguistic Communication
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Rhymed Reflections
→ read full articleIraq Has WMDs and Russia Has Invaded!
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
The U.S. media has repeatedly been claiming that Russia has invaded Ukraine. They claim it for a while, and there’s obviously been no invasion, so they pause. Then they claim it again. Or they claim that a convoy of aid trucks constitutes an invasion.
→ read full articleMilitary Recruiters
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Ghouls troll school halls
preying on the young
who have no better options.
Nuclear Weapons Do Not Make Us Safer
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Rather than continuing to posture with its nuclear weapons in Europe, the United States should be leading the way in convening negotiations to eliminate all nuclear weapons for its own security and that of all the world’s inhabitants.
→ read full articleSeeds of Truth: A Response to Michael Specter’s Article in The New Yorker
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Michael Specter’s piece is poor journalism. I wonder why a journalist who has been Bureau Chief in Moscow for The New York Times and Bureau Chief in New York for the Washington Post, and clearly is an experienced reporter, would submit such a misleading piece. Or why The New Yorker would allow it to be published as honest reporting, with so many fraudulent assertions and deliberate attempts to skew reality.
→ read full articleIn Azerbaijan, ‘Family Is the First Fear’ of LGBT Community
EurasiaNet Correspondents, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
“For his own safety,” a gay man “constantly” has to think about “what to wear so that he does not look different,” or otherwise attract attention. Many Azerbaijanis often presume that men who wear an earring or unusually colourful clothing are homosexual.
→ read full articleGod Wills It!
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
National conflicts are basically rational. They concern territory. They can usually be solved by compromise. Religious conflicts are irrational. Each side believes in an absolute truth, and automatically considers everybody else as infidels, enemies of the only true God.
→ read full articleLearning for Nonviolence and Better Governance versus Teaching for Violence and Worst Governance
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
I advise the teachers of our nation and the world to consider themselves as learners leading to the formation of sustainable genuine democracy, performance of good governance and practice of nonviolence. , “May we both (the teacher and the taught) attain fame together” as cited in Taittiriyopanishad.
→ read full articleUN Secretary General “Alarmed” at Israel’s Announced Seizure of West Bank Land
Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 1 September 2014 voiced his alarm at the announcement by Israeli authorities to declare nearly 1,000 acres of land in Bethlehem as so-called “state land.”
→ read full articleAs I Age . . . Thoughts on Memory and Cosmos
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
The reality is the omnipresence of memories — as we recall them, as wish to recall them, and as we wish to forget them. Memories are always present — waiting to be released. And with each memory, comes an endless flow of associations. Memories work their way to the surface — the immediacy of the present moment.
→ read full articleClimate Change Means Lifestyle Change
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Scientists are unanimous in warning us that unless we very rapidly reduce CO2 emissions, we risk passing a tipping point beyond which we will be powerless to prevent uncontrollable global warming.
→ read full articleTwo Types of Anti-Semitism
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
This second type of supposed anti-Semitism is a tactic deployed to discredit critics of Israel by insisting that criticism of Israel and hatred of the Jewish people should not be distinguished.
→ read full articleUN Human Rights Council – Opening Statement
Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
My first address to this Council takes place at a time when conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa regions, in particular, are escalating dramatically… My Office will be open to dialogue with all stakeholders; and within the limits of our resources, we will extend every possible assistance to States, to heighten their protection and promotion of human rights.
→ read full articleMysterious Fake Cellphone Towers Are Intercepting Calls All Over the US
Jack Dutton, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
3 Sep 2014 – Every smart phone has a secondary OS, which can be hijacked by high-tech hackers. Seventeen fake cellphone towers were discovered across the U.S. last week, according to a report in Popular Science.
→ read full articleFlaws in US Thought–And Some Remedies
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Flaw #2: Confusing conflict with violence. Or “trouble”. Handling conflict becomes handling violence toward cease-fire or capitulation, then tidying up the “post-conflict” situation, only to discover that the violence reappears, perhaps with a vengeance. Nothing solved. Remedy: Separate the concepts.
→ read full article(Italiano) Da Vicenza e Aviano parà Usa per war games in Ucraina
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
5 Set 2014 – War games: Oltre duecento paracadutisti statunitensi stanno per essere trasferiti in Ucraina per partecipare ad una vasta esercitazione militare multinazionale. I parà appartengono tutti al 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, il reparto d’élite aviotrasportato dell’esercito Usa di stanza a Vicenza.
→ read full articleChild Trafficking Rampant in Underdeveloped Indian Villages
K. S. Harikrishnan, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
“Many families are unable to afford the basic necessities of life, which forces parents to sell their children. Some children are abandoned by families who can’t take care of them. Some run away to escape abuse or unhappy homes. Gangsters and middlemen approach these vulnerable children.”
→ read full articleRussell Tribunal Session on Palestine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
On September 24 [2014] a special session of the Russell Tribunal will examine war crimes allegations against Israel arising from the 50-day Operation Protective Edge military operation that commenced on July 8th.
→ read full articleBeheading versus Befooting
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
In Quest of the Lesser Evil for the Greater Good – Much is currently made of beheading of individuals by ISIS militants as being an act of pure evil. Framed as “pure evil”, such assertions raise the question of other degrees of evil of lesser “purity”. What makes that evil so pure?
→ read full article(Italiano) La caduta dell’Impero USA – e poi che cosa?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Fascismo USA? Sì, indubbio. Un’evoluzione profondamente tragica. Un paese così innovativo con null’altro da offrire che macro-bombardamenti, meso-droneggiamenti e micro-cecchinaggio. Percepiamo il complesso militare-industriale all’opera – l’industria delle bombe in prima fila.
→ read full articleExamining
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Two students went drinking late into the night before an exam.
→ read full articleWashington Piles Lie Upon Lie
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
The latest Washington lie, this one coming from NATO, is that Russia has invaded Ukraine with 1,000 troops and self-propelled artillery. One reason is that Putin has invested heavily in diplomacy backed by unprovocative behavior. He would not risk his bet on diplomacy by sending in troops too few in number to have a decisive effect on the outcome.
→ read full articleIsrael Plans Largest West-Bank Settlement Expansion in ’30 Years’
Jeffrey Heller, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Israel announced on Sunday [31 Aug 2014] a land appropriation in the occupied West Bank that an anti-settlement group termed the biggest in 30 years. Some 400 hectares (988 acres) near Bethlehem were declared “state land, on the instructions of the political echelon” by the military-run Civil Administration.
→ read full articleThe War for Nothing
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
On the Israeli side: 71 dead, among them 66 soldiers, 1 child. On the Palestinian side: 2,143 dead, 577 of them children, 263 women, 102 elderly. 11,230 injured. 10,800 buildings destroyed. 8,000 partially destroyed. About 40,000 damaged homes. Among the damaged buildings: 277 schools, 10 hospitals, 70 mosques, 2 churches. Also, 12 West Bank demonstrators, mostly children, who were shot. Celebrating a similar triumph long ago, Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, remarked: “Another such victory and we will be lost!”
→ read full articlePresident Mukherjee Rejects 97% of Mercy Pleas as India Gives Two Death Sentences Each Day
Asian Centre for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
The empirical evidence establishes that death penalty does not act as deterrent. ACHR called upon the Government of India to amend all laws that provide death penalty and replace them with imprisonment for life.
→ read full article300 Americans [Terrorists] Fighting Alongside IS
The Nation, Pakistan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
30 Aug 2014 – The US government is tracking and gathering intelligence on as many as 300 Americans who are fighting side by side with the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, according to senior US officials.
→ read full articleMonty Python State Department
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
No actual diplomats were harmed in the making of this production. Scene: A cafe. One table is occupied by a group of Vikings wearing horned helmets.
→ read full articleThe First Taiwan International Queer Film Festival Comes Out
Victor Stevenson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Taiwan International Media and Education Association and Portico Media created ‘The First Taiwan International Queer Film Festival,’ which will be held in Taipei Sep 26 to 30, 2014 and in Kaohsiung Oct 3 to 7. In the inaugural year, the organizers have programmed 60 movies from 30 countries.
→ read full articleColonization by Bankruptcy: The High-stakes Chess Match for Argentina
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Argentina is playing hardball with the vulture funds, which have been trying to force it into an involuntary bankruptcy. The vultures are demanding what amounts to a 600% return on bonds bought for pennies on the dollar.
→ read full articleStop Playing the Anti-Semitism Card & Get Real about the Rise of Fascism in Israel
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Each time the subject of Israel’s on-going genocidal treatment of Palestinians, many Jewish individuals throw around the anti-Semitism card, and non-Jews take a default position: self-censorship, rather than frank and brutally honest look at the empirically genocidal situation.
→ read full articleAmerica Frightens Us
Roman Baudzus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Political Europe Suppressed Under Washington’s Thumb Is Waking Up – In the aftermath of the downing of the Malaysian airliner in Ukraine, the Western media followed Washington’s lead and manipulated reports in order to make Europeans believe that Russia and Russian-supported separatists in eastern Ukraine were responsible for downing the airliner.
→ read full articleThe Fall of the US Empire-And Then What?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
US Fascism? Yes, indeed. A deeply tragic development. Such an innovative country and nothing better to offer than macro bombing, meso droning and micro sniping. We sense the military-industrial complex at work–the bomb industry upfront.
→ read full articleOn Course for Holocaust II…?
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
I believe that what I am going to say needs to be said and should be widely debated if the rising, global tide of “anti-Israelism” (I prefer the term anti-Zionism) is not to be transformed into anti-Semitism on a scale that could lead, in a foreseeable future, to Holocaust II.
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That’s What Friends Are for – Diane Warwick & Friends (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
With Elton John, Gladys Knight & Stevie Wonder – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Kick back, relax, enjoy…
→ read full articleEradication as the Strategic Final Solution of the 21st Century?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Indicative Checklist of Possible Domains of Application – The purpose of this exercise is to collect together the domains in which “eradication” is somehow considered the most appropriate manner of responding to what is framed as a problem.
→ read full articleKilling Civilians
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
In Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions, Articles 51 and 54 outlaw indiscriminate attacks on civilian populations, and destruction of food, water, and other materials needed for survival.
→ read full articleCivil Resistance and Conflict Transformation: Transition from armed to nonviolent struggle
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
What if the original armed violence does not produce results? Can groups move from armed violence to other techniques? Should one modify if armed violence is blocked? TRANSCEND member Manish Thapa is one of the authors featured on this ‘Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution.’
→ read full articleSanctions & the Dollar: A Fall from Grace?
Conn Hallinan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
The recent round of sanctions aimed at Moscow over the crisis in the Ukraine could backfire on Washington by accelerating a move away from the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
→ read full article(Castellano) Islamistas toman embajada de EE.UU. en Trípoli [Libia]
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
31 Ago 2014 – La información fue reseñada por la agencia RT, portal que precisó-citando a un periodista de AP- que aunque las ventanas en el complejo han sido destrozadas, la mayoría del equipo que había sido dejado por los estadounidenses permanecieron intactos.
→ read full articleAmerican History
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
It was the first day of school and a new student named Yuki entered the fourth grade.
→ read full article(Italiano) USA-Israele vs. mondi arabo-musulmano: che succede?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Nulla di buono. Ma diamo uno sguardo con le modalità standard degli studi per la pace: diagnosi-analizzare, prognosi-prevedere, e terapia–rimedi, perfino soluzioni.
→ read full articleRevolutionary Rats
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
You’re a rat in a maze and you can’t get out.
The rats are eating the other rats.
How do you like this luscious rat food?
Let’s Wave the Nonkilling Flag: A Global Plea
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
When the Nonkilling Flag we wave
We show our community how to be brave
(Italiano) Unirsi per la pace, costruire una pace sostenibile con valori universali nel centenario della I guerra mondiale – criminalizzando la guerra
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
La Pace di Westfalia del 1648 stabilizzò due cristianesimi al prezzo di un sistema statuale con il “diritto alla guerra”. Quel mandato istituzionale deve sparire.
→ read full articleGeneva Accords?
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
I must admit that I am bored
by each arcane humane accord.
The Fukushima Nuclear Accident as Told by Plant Manager Masao Yoshida
The Asahi Shimbun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
The document remains the only available official transcript of the testimony by Yoshida, the on-site commander of efforts to bring the situation under control, who died in July 2013 of esophageal cancer without having disclosed much to the media.
→ read full article(Italiano) Galtung: Erdogan dovrebbe concentrarsi sulla politica estera
Yonca Poyraz Dogan intervista Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Galtung ha parlato con noi trattando più ampiamente la tematica durante la sua recente visita a Istanbul per la conferenza biennale dell’ International Peace Research Association (IPRA).
→ read full articleNisteling: The Art of Deep Listening
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
I believe that this is the essential foundation step in any strategy to end human violence (in all of its manifestations).
→ read full articleDutch Intellectuals Apologize to Putin for Lies on MH17, Syria, Ukraine…
Macedonian International News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
27 Aug 2014 – A letter sent by a prominent Dutch Professor to Russian president Vladimir Putin has attracted much media attention in Europe. The letter was written by Professor Cees Hamelink and signed by dozens of Dutch intellectuals and professors. Below is the letter in its entirety.
→ read full articleContinuing Media Silence on the Fate of Flight MH17
Stefan Steinberg, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
With a handful of exceptions, a shroud of silence has been drawn by the international media regarding the fate of Malaysian Airlines MH17, which crashed over Ukraine nearly six weeks ago.
→ read full articleThe Truth about the IS
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Many of those who have condemned the Islamic State (IS) do not want to know how this terrorist outfit came into being in the first instance. It is a direct consequence of the Anglo-American invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003.
→ read full articleA Poem on the 74th Anniversary of Leon Trotsky’s Murder
Kevin Higgins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
Today [21 Aug 2014] is the 74th anniversary of the murder in Mexico City, by an agent of Soviet Military Intelligence, of the exiled co-organiser of the Russian Revolution.
→ read full articleObama Buggers Europe: Sanctions Deepen the Recession
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
By submitting to Washington’s doctrine of permanent wars, Europe eschews the only road out of permanent crisis: peaceful co-existence. The mega-buggers in Washington and the bootlickers in Europe have chosen sanctions over trade and destruction over prosperity.
→ read full article(Português) Acusemos Israel
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
A criação do Estado judaico de Israel configura um crime continuado cujos abismos mais desumanos se revelam nos dias de hoje. Declarada a sua extinção, os cidadãos do mundo propõem a criação na Palestina de um Estado secular, plurinacional e intercultural, onde judeus e palestinos possam viver pacifica e dignamente.
→ read full articleWar in the Hundred Acre Woods
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
“To renounce aggression is not enough,” writes Milne. “We must also renounce defence.” What do we replace it with? Milne depicts a world of nonviolent dispute resolution, arbitration, and a changed conception of honor or prestige that finds war shameful rather than honorable. And not just shameful, but mad.
→ read full articleU.N. Prepares for Overhaul of Arms Trade Reporting
Joel Jaeger, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
18 Aug 2014 – The Arms Trade Treaty is about to provide the biggest shake-up to conventional arms trade transparency since the end of the Cold War.
→ read full articleU.S., Brazil Nearing Approval of Genetically Engineered Trees
Carey L. Biron, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
Aug 20 2014 – The U.S. and Brazilian governments are moving into the final stages of weighing approval for the commercialisation of genetically engineered eucalyptus trees, moves that would mark the first such permits anywhere in the world.
→ read full articleNot a War Criminal
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
Like Julius Streicher,
I’ve never killed anyone.
He was a Nazi newspaperman
hanged at Nuremburg
for portraying Jews as evil.
Why Are You Dressed Like Darth Vader?
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
Comic Strip – This Modern World
→ read full article‘Common Dreams’ Website Traps Hasbara Troll Spewing Anti-Semitism
Annie Robbins, Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
A Jewish student posting virulently anti-Semitic comments at various internet forums, allegedly “to gauge how pervasive anti-Semitism” is online, has been busted by the progressive website Common Dreams.
→ read full articleInternational Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
In 2013 the UN General Assembly declared 26 September International Day for Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. The first ever event will take place a month from now on 26 Sep 2014. What can you, as an individual, do?
→ read full articleBank of America to Pay $16.65 Billion to Settle Mortgage Fraud Charges
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
Bank of America has agreed to pay the government $9.65 billion to settle charges of misleading investors over mortgage lending in the run up to the 2008 financial crisis. The bank will also pay out an additional $7 billion to help borrowers and communities affected by the loans.
→ read full articleCaliphate of Fear – The Curse of the Islamic State
SPIEGEL Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
Images of Yazidis fleeing parts of Iraq and Syria have shocked the world and the battle against the jihadists with the Islamic State has united Americans, Europeans, Kurds and Iranians. Can the Islamists be stopped?
→ read full articleIs Burma’s Anti-Muslim Violence Led by “Buddhist Neo-Nazis”?
Ray Downs, Vice –TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
According to Dr. Muang Zarni, a Burmese human rights activist and research fellow at the London School of Economics, much of the blame for the current situation in Burma can be laid at the feet of the 969 group, which he describes as an neo-Nazi organization of hatemongers who are using Hitlerian tactics to “purify” the country by getting rid of the Muslims—it’s also, he says, one of the fastest-growing movements in the country.
→ read full articleWhy We Hurt Each Other: Tolstoy’s Letters to Gandhi on Love, Violence, and the Truth of the Human Spirit
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
The exchange sparked an ongoing correspondence between the two that lasted until Tolstoy’s death — a meeting of two great minds and spirits, eventually collected in Letters from One: Correspondence (and more) of Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi and rivaled only by Einstein’s correspondence with Freud on violence and human nature.
→ read full articleDoes Iceland Gain From Whaling?
Lowana Veal, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
The story of what then happens to the whales once they have been taken back to Iceland is part mystery and part an economic balancing act between the country’s economic interests and its international image.
→ read full articleNo One Wants You to Know How Bad Fukushima Might Still Be
Johnny Magdaleno | Vice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
When I asked past Nobel Peace Prize nominee Dr. Helen Caldicott these questions, she was quick to respond: “Because money matters more than people.” Dr. Caldicott was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School when she became president of Physicians for Social Responsibility.
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Street Pianos – Rondo Alla Turca (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
the5brownsmusic's channel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
The 5 Browns playing an arrangement and rift of Mozart’s Alla Turca by Greg Anderson.
→ read full articlePlaying Bridge
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
Four women were playing bridge together every Friday afternoon for twenty years.
→ read full articleThree Questions for Hamas
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
Whether wittingly or not, the international diplomacy of the West has produced dispossession, violence, and seemingly irreconcilable conflict with disastrous and tragic consequences for the indigenous population of Palestine ever since the end of World War I.
→ read full articleThe Russian Appeal to Germany
Egor Prosvirnin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
If we were to recall recent history, we would remember that a vast army of 300,000 Soviet troops along with 5,000 tanks, 1,500 aircraft and 10,000 artillery pieces (including tactical nuclear weapons) simply left the then just-united Germany without firing a shot. For what? For hope.
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