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The Journey to Self-Awareness
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
What causes this damage? Terror. And what makes a mind react with terror thus disrupting all other functions simultaneously? Violence. And particularly the unrelenting onslaught of ‘invisible’ violence and ‘utterly invisible’ violence inflicted on children throughout their childhood.
→ read full articleSome Myths about Muslims
Nivedita Menon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
In the context of massive propaganda campaigns, the subtle use of stereotypes, and the fact that both the Western and the Indian media share certain basic biases, many people end up believing in a range of myths about the adherents of the world’s second largest religion. This is a quick attempt at exposing those myths.
→ read full articleThe World Right Now: A Mid-Year Report
Johan Galtung, 30 Jun 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Even mainstream media are today deeply concerned with structural violence, under the heading of inequality, staying away from the numbers dying (140,000/day from hunger and preventable-curable diseases, no money). Calling a country, region or the world peaceful with such atrocities of death and inequity being rampant is cultural violence.
→ read full article60 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Poem-Plea
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Sixty years ago the UDHR was proclaimed
Humankind’s living conditions to improve
The Ethnic Cleansing Going On Right Now You Probably Haven’t Heard About: Burma, aka Myanmar
Joseph Allchin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled their homes, their leaders tortured and killed. Is this what democracy in Burma was supposed to look like?
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Known as IPRA, founded in 1964 in London–and this author, 34 at the time, is the only surviving founder. IPRA rotates every two years from one peace research center to the other, and is now in very competent Turkish hands. And what is more natural than having the 50th anniversary for the hub of peace studies in that hub of the world, Istanbul, 10-14 August this year!! Hurry up, register!!!
→ read full articleHonesty about Lies
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
A reporter asked the mother of Jimmy Carter whether he ever lied. She said, “Maybe once in a while a white lie.”
→ read full articleThe Journey of One Hijab
Daniel Horgan and Hibak Hussein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Hibak is grateful for everything she has in the U.S., but as a young Muslim woman who wears a hijab in a Western society, she strives to have her religion, culture, and identity understood and respected.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden: Former intelligence contractor interviewed in Brazil
ABC News Australia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
6 Jun 2014 – Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, wanted by US authorities and currently living in Russia, has told Brazil’s Globo TV network he would “love to live in Brazil”.
→ read full articleForeign Aid Funding Luxury Hotels in Myanmar
Michelle Tullo, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
New investments from the World Bank’s private-sector investment arm may perpetuate economic inequality rather than alleviate poverty in Myanmar. “A significant factor contributing to the urban versus rural income inequality is that the vast majority of investment in Burma is concentrated in the urban sector, despite the fact that only one-third of the population lives in these areas,”
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Exposed: Killing Dolphins – Dying for Lobsters
Link TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
1-Thousands of dolphins are killed solely for shark bait each year off the coast of Peru. 2-The epidemic of decompression disease or bends suffered by Miskito Indians involved in commercial lobster diving off Nicaragua’s coast. (27:17)
→ read full articleSuccessful Elections
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
President Carter was worried about his prospects for reelection.
→ read full articleA Hard Won Victory… The Story of 68 Palestinian Families in Lebanon
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
Masnaa Border Crossing (Syria/Lebanon)
→ read full articleSpain 2050–Ten Predictions
Johan Galtung, 16 Jun 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
Can we know the future? Rhetorical answer: can we know the past? We rewrite history all the time, not because facts become dubious and new facts appear, but because our angle, perspective, changes.
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An Explanation of Syria’s Nightmarish Situation
Mint Press News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
Based on the World Café Methodology – Written by Mnar A. Muhawesh, editor in chief of Mint Press.
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They Knew Our Secrets. One Year Later, We Know Theirs.
American Civil Liberties Union – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
One year ago, the world had never heard of Edward Snowden, and we knew very little about the breathtaking scope of U.S. government surveillance. One year later, we know more than ever before about our government’s mass surveillance apparatus. We now have the power to rein it in.
→ read full articleLooted
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
I suppose there was looting in 331 B. C.
when Alexander the Great “liberated” Babylon.
I Quit Drinking, Then I Got Addicted to Food
Jenny Chu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
Recovering alcoholics and addicts often become “transfer-addicted” to food: After years of flooding the reward centers of our brains with chemicals, we continue to seek the same kind of high elsewhere.
→ read full articleLeo Tolstoy on Finding Meaning in a Meaningless World
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
“For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite… In complete contrast to my ignorance, [they] knew the meaning of life and death, labored quietly, endured deprivations and sufferings, and lived and died seeing therein not vanity but good…”
→ read full articleVodafone Privacy Report Reveals State Access to Its Networks
Mike Ingram, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
The world’s second largest mobile phone group, Vodafone, revealed the existence of secret permanent access to its networks from governments in six of the 29 countries in which it operates. Vodafone did not name the countries, citing fear that they could revoke licenses and pursue legal action.
→ read full articleSaving Threatened Species
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
Current [atmospheric] CO2 values are more than 100 ppm higher than at any time in the last one million years (and maybe higher than at any time in the last 25 million years)… These increases in atmospheric CO2 are causing real, significant changes in the Earth system now, not in some distant future climate, and will continue to be felt for centuries to come.
→ read full article(Português) Como O Reino Unido Ensinou os Militares Brasileiros a Torturar
Emily Buchanan, BBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
A BBC encontrou evidências de que o Reino Unido colaborou ativamente com os generais e os treinou com técnicas sofisticadas de interrogatório.
→ read full articleObama Pledges $1bn for More Troops, Military Drills in Eastern Europe
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
President Obama has announced a plan to invest $1 billion in stepping up its military presence in Eastern Europe amid the Ukrainian crisis. “I cannot think of anything more dangerous in the current circumstances than to have a deployment of UK and US troops alongside Ukrainian troops this summer,” John Rees, British political analyst and national officer at Stop the War Coalition, told RT.
→ read full articleGood for the Jews?
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Seriously, the claim by Binyamin Netanyahu that he has a right to pick and choose the Palestinian government is rather astonishing.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to the Graduates of West Point: Refuting President Obama’s Lies, Omissions and Distortions
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
On May 2014 President Obama delivered the commencement address to the graduates of United States Military Academy at West Point. Beyond the easy banter and eulogy to past and present war heroes, Obama outlined a vision of past military successes and present policies, based on a profoundly misleading diagnosis of the current global position of the United States.
→ read full articleSonia Bridi Entrevista [Interviews] Edward Snowden
Globo News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Portuguese Subtitles – Legendado em Português –
Interview conducted in English with Comments in Portuguese –
Entrevista em inglês com comentários em português
Misogyny, Guns, and Their Lethal Confluence
Tom Tomorrow - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
This Modern World
→ read full articleDeath’s Rainbow
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
I walked upon the battlefield
and saw a grotesque scene revealed:
the corpses there, both friend and foe,
all formed a sort of weird rainbow.
One Year of Edward Snowden’s Revelations
Eric London and Barry Grey, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Thursday [5 Jun 2014] marked one year since evidence of the US government’s mass surveillance programs first began appearing in the Guardian newspaper. The international surveillance apparatus Snowden has uncovered is more powerful than any in history.
→ read full article(Castellano) De la Fiesta del Futbol a la Fiesta de la Tolerancia
Profesora Alicia Cabezudo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
La “fiesta del Mundial” es también una extraordinaria oportunidad en la labor educativa para convertirla en un aprendizaje diferente . Aprendizaje donde la educación para la tolerancia, el respeto hacia el otro, las diferencias culturales y el esfuerzo colectivo como valor social adquieren una dimensión pedagógica actual y necesaria.
→ read full articleChina Leads from the Shadows
Felix Imonti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
While the West tries to preserve the power and the glory of another time, the people with the plans and the determination to reshape the world are in Beijing and Moscow. It has been a gradual, cautious journey from obscurity to the second most important currency in the world. The Chinese yuan achieved that standing at the end of 2013.
→ read full articleObama Advisor Susan Rice: US Providing ‘Lethal’ Aid to Syrian Rebels
Agence France-Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
President Barack Obama’s top foreign policy advisor Susan Rice on Friday [6 Jun 2014] said Washington was providing “lethal and non-lethal” support to select members of the Syrian opposition, offering more detail than usual on US assistance.
→ read full articleThe Enemy Within – Beware of Kicking the Dragon and Bear!
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
The North Americans are the extremists of the capitalist system. We must hope that the skilful diplomacy of both Russia and China, their bilateral cooperation and their steps to achieve multilateral cooperation from Latin American to Africa and Europe and Asia will change the power dynamics of the world.
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Acrobatic Female Quartet (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Salut Salon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
SPECTACULAR!! – “The Summer”, composed by Antonio Vivaldi, becomes the stage for a musical competition. Salut Salon, a Hamburg quartet, ‘fights’ acrobatically and with a special sense of humor.
→ read full articleSyria’s Twin Jihads
Mona Alami, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Armageddon ideology used in the Syria conflict has fanned Shiite-Sunni fires in Lebanon as well as across the region. Reducing the conflict to a battle within Islam, as portrayed by jihadists on one side and by Hezbollah on the other, could portend a greater conflict that would wreak havoc in region where the Muslim divide runs deep, and religious identities prevail over nationalism.
→ read full articleNew Whistleblower Organization Launched on Anniversary of Snowden Revelations
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Jun 4, 2014 – Former whistleblowers Radack, Wiebe, Coleman-Adebayo and Ellsberg speak out at the launch of ExposeFacts.org a US based independent media organization that encourages whistleblowers to expose government and corporate malfeasance.
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Busted Pilot Forgets to Turn Off CHEMTRAILS while Landing
TruthTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
A pilot of a commercial airliner made a mistake that PROVES the existence of CHEMTRAILS — by forgetting to turn them off before he landed! We have video of the plane landing while still spraying chemtrails as it hits the runway. See for yourself.
→ read full articleUSDA Reports Honeybee Death Rate Too High for Long-Term Survival
EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Honeybees in the U.S. are dying at a rate too high to ensure their long-term survival, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
→ read full articleDemocracy’s Crisis – 10 Points
Jan Oberg, TFF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Democracy requires a reasonable level of knowledge and information, freely available. The “world’s largest democracy” [India] also has the world’s largest population who can’t read and write (26%, 287 million people). In comparison, China illiterate citizens make up about 3% and is regularly called a dictatorship.
→ read full article(Castellano) Portugal, Un País Sin Abrigo
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
La mistificación consiste en hacer creer a alguien una mentira como si fuera verdad. La mentira es que el proceso de la troika terminó con éxito, que Portugal goza hoy de mejores condiciones para desarrollarse como país europeo.
→ read full article(Português) Flaskô, a Fábrica Brasileira Sob Controle Operário
Paloma Rodrigues, Carta Capital – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Quebrada por patrões, recuperada pelos trabalhadores, indústria reduziu jornada, estabeleceu democracia interna e criou centro cultural. Após onze anos, luta entra em nova fase.
→ read full articleNATO Troops and Bases Not Welcome In Slovakia and Czech Republic
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Two Eastern European nations, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, have refused to host foreign troops and military bases. The prime ministers of both countries have consecutively spoken against the proposal voiced by US President Barack Obama.
→ read full articleIsraelis Deny Palestinian Ministers-Elect West Bank Entry
Gulf News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
The Israeli occupation has denied three future Palestinian ministers from the Gaza Strip entry to the West Bank ahead of the unveiling of a new unity government, a senior source said on Sunday [1 Jun 2014].
→ read full articleObama’s Legacy: “Don’t Do Stupid Stuff”
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Cautioning against militarism at West Point President on May 22nd Obama in a speech mostly notable for its reassertion of what might be best understood as imperial nationalism of global scope declared the following:
→ read full articleWe Need the Dissolution of NATO – It Has No Mission”
Karina Boeckmann, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Subrata Ghoshroy, an engineer of Indian descent, describes how sophisticated weapon systems are being used as dominant instruments of U.S. foreign policy. He had worked in the field of high-energy laser before he turned defence analyst and whistleblower against faked ‘Star Wars’ missile defence tests by U.S. government contractors.
→ read full articleRich Getting Richer as the Poor Crawl Slowly Out of Poverty
Diana Cariboni, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Are we returning to the Middle Ages? Gaps in income and wealth are growing wider, including in places with well-established middle classes, like Europe or the United States.
→ read full articlePeace Movements’ Common Vision: The Abolition of Militarism
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
If our common dream is a world without weapons and militarism, why don’t we say so? Why be silent about it? It would make a world of difference if we refused to be ambivalent about the violence of militarism. We should no longer be scattered attempts to modify the military, each one of us would do our thing as part of a global effort. Across all divisions of national borders, religions, races. We must be an alternative, insisting on an end to militarism and violence.
→ read full articleU.S. Pledges Millions More in Aid to Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
The United States pledged millions of dollars in additional aid to Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia on Saturday [7 Jun 2014], deepening American support to the Western-leaning countries on Russia’s border.
→ read full articleRadical Cognitive Mirroring of Globalization
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Dynamically Inning the Unquestioningly Outed – There is no lack of references to the complexity of global society and to the challenges it faces — nor to the manner in which people experience an increasing sense of disempowerment and uncertainty. The question is whether it is possible to think otherwise about this experience — to reframe it more fruitfully in some way.
→ read full articleUK Referred to International Criminal Court for War Crimes in Iraq
Jean Shaoul, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
ICC prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, has accepted the complaint lodged in January [2014] alleging that UK military personnel committed war crimes against Iraqis in their custody between 2003 and 2008. She has ordered a preliminary investigation.
→ read full articleUS Supreme Court Rejects Appeal by New York Times Reporter James Risen
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
The US Supreme Court on Monday [2 Jun 2014] decided not to intervene in the case of James Risen, an author and reporter who is facing imprisonment for refusing to reveal the identity of one of his sources. He wrote a piece for the New York Times about the NSA’s compiling facial images of hundreds of millions of people in the US and around the world [published on TMS Spotlight today].
→ read full articleIsrael in Political Isolation over New Palestinian Government
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
The United States’ decision to “work with” the new Palestinian government has virtually isolated Israel: the only country so far to have publicly rejected the political alliance between Fatah and Hamas.
→ read full articleGood, Innovative Governance – What Is That?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Today China combines the best of marxism-communism, the focus on basic needs of the most needy, with the best of liberalism-capitalism, the innovative, entrepreneurial spirit. Lifting the bottom up indeed, maybe 400 million from 1991 to 2004, for participation in a blossoming market.
→ read full articleReclaiming the Kellogg-Briand Pact
James Page – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
This was a treaty signed in 1928 by most of the nations of the world and by which the signatory nations pledged to renounce war as an official instrument of national policy and to use peaceful means to resolve disputes. One of the interesting facts about this Treaty is that it is still current.
→ read full articleProsecuting Syrians for War Crimes Now
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Is justice served when the authority of the ICC is invoked as a political instrument to influence the outcome of a civil war? Why was there never any initiative to pursue leaders of the United States and the United Kingdom during the course of the Iraq War, which also included many incidents that seemed to qualify as crimes against humanity? Double standards?
→ read full articleThe Heavens Declare: Astrological Ages and the Evolution of Consciousness
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
There are a number of currents of thought which hold that humanity is coming to the end of an historical cycle and has entered into a new age with the start of the new millennium. Alice Howell, influenced by the work of C.G. Jung and astrological analysis has written a useful guide to the start of the New Age.
→ read full articleBeing a Vegetarian
Brown University Health Education – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Vegetarian foods are a major source of nutrition for most people in the world.
Vegetarians have lower rates of heart disease and some forms of cancer than non-vegetarians.
Vegetarian diets can be simple and easy to prepare.
Good Care
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Vice President Dick Cheney underwent surgery. When he woke up from his anesthesia, all shades were closed.
→ read full articleThe-O Ring and The Bull Ring as Spectacular Archetypes
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Dramatic Correlation of Theatre, Theory, Theorem, Theology, and Theosophy – The argument as a whole might be caricatured by an adaptation of the title of a famed study of psychotherapy: We’ve Had a 1000 Years of Theo — And the World’s Getting Worse.
→ read full articleThe Rise of the European Right: Reaction to the Neoliberal Right
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
The European parliamentary elections witnessed a major breakthrough for the right-wing parties throughout the region. The rise of the Right runs from the Nordic countries, the United Kingdom, the Baltic and Low countries, France, Central and Eastern Europe to the Mediterranean.
→ read full articleGreenwald: ‘I Wanted a Debate about Journalism’
Deutsche Welle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
In an exclusive interview with DW, Edward Snowden ally Glenn Greenwald says one central aim of breaking the NSA story was provoking a discussion about journalists’ tacit deference to government power.
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Clocks (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Cold Play & Buena Vista Social Club – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Cold Play & Buena Vista Social Club in Cuba
→ read full articleTo Grow or Not to Grow GMO Crops
Silvia Giannelli, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
So far, 129.000 hectares of land – roughly the area covered by a city the size of Rome – are being cultivated with genetically modified corn in Europe, 90 percent of which is in Spain, while the rest is spread across Portugal, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania.
→ read full articlePrepackaged Thought
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
No longer staid and antiquated,
my thinking now is automated.
Why dream up ideas by myself
when I can get them off the shelf?
[More pornography] Hedge Fund Managers Still Making Billions
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
David Tepper was the world’s highest earning hedge fund manager for the second year in a row, according to the Rich List. Tepper earned $3.5 billion in 2013, a major increase on his $2.2 billion take home income in 2012. Critics say that these sky-high salaries are a major cause of increasing poverty.
→ read full articleUS Deploys Special Forces to Train Military Units in North and West Africa
Eric London, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
The Obama administration is establishing new elite military units in Libya, Niger, Mauritania and Mali. Although the ostensible purpose of the program is to combat terrorism, the new detachments are being set up to aid US to gain control of natural resources and establish positions of strategic geopolitical importance on the continent.
→ read full articleWeather Weapons Have Existed for over 15 Years, Testified U.S. Secretary of Defense
J. D. Heyes, Natural News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
“Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves. So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It’s real, and that’s the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that’s why this is so important.”
→ read full articleChlorine in Your Chicken: Why Poultry Is More Dangerous Than Ever
Tracie McMillan, OnEarth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Whichever part of the bird she happened to be packing on a given shift, the smell was as constant as it was noxious: a combination of raw poultry and chlorine, the latter emanating from the pathogen-killing chemical bath that the carcasses—often contaminated with fecal matter—would receive during processing.
→ read full articleUkraine & Syria: Elections of Mass Destruction
Tony Cartalucci, NEO – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Elections pushed ahead in Ukraine, obstructed in Syria, so mass murder can continue. The West’s weaponization of democracy.
→ read full articleRead Snowden’s Comments on 9/11 That NBC Didn’t Broadcast
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Only around a quarter of the recent NBC News interview with former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden made it to broadcast, but unaired excerpts now online show that the network neglected to air critical statements about the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
→ read full articleMexico: 50 Peaceful Peace Policies
Johan Galtung & Fernando Montiel T., 2 Jun 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Toluca, Estado De México; Workshop on Drug Traffic and Violence
→ read full articleGreenpeace Blocks Two Major Oil Rigs to ‘Save the Arctic’
EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
In the early hours of Tuesday [27 May 2014] morning, Greenpeace activists from 12 countries blocked two separate oil rigs destined for offshore drilling in the Arctic Ocean.
→ read full articleIsrael to ‘Evict the Dead’ in Bedouin Village Demolished Over 60 Times
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Israel is trying out a new sort of “flexible evictions” in its quest to root out the “illegal” Bedouin village of Al-Araqib, demolished 63 times to date. Now even those buried in the village cemetery are reportedly receiving eviction orders.
→ read full articleThe Impossibility of Growth
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
The inescapable failure of a society built upon growth and its destruction of the Earth’s living systems are the overwhelming facts of our existence. We live obsessed with fame, fashion and the three dreary staples of middle class conversation: recipes, renovations and resorts. Anything but the topic that demands our attention.
→ read full articleThe Urgent Need for Renewable Energy
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
The Reason for Urgency – The scientific community is unanimous in telling us that if we do not rapidly switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy, there is a danger that global warming will pass a tipping point beyond which uncontrollable feedback loops will lead to drastically increased temperatures. At present, our corporate-controlled mass media refuse to touch the subject. So the battle will have to be fought in the alternative media.
→ read full articlePope Francis Visit to Palestine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Pope Francis’ visit to the Holy Land raises one overwhelming question: ‘what is the nature of religious power in our world of the 21st century?’ ‘Can it have transformative effects’?
→ read full article“Beacon of Freedom & American Exceptionalism?”
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
The U.S. has between 800-1000 military bases around the world in 150 countries. Since WWII: has used military force 120 times; has tried to overthrow governments of 50 countries and grossly interfered in the elections of 30 others; has bombed civilian populations in 30 countries including the use of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. (Source: www.uslaboragainstwar.org) And don’t forget the U.S. illegal overthrow and continuing illegal occupation of the Nation of Hawai’i.
→ read full articleWeaponized Agriculture – GMO Crops: Boon to Humanity or Reckless Science?
Tom Mysiewicz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
As founder and editor of the weekly biotechnology newsletter–BioEngineering News–I was the first journalist allowed to cover the groundbreaking Gordon Research Conference on Plant Genetic Engineering at U.C. Davis in the 1980s. Making foreign countries dependent on externally-supplied GMO seeds leaves them open to the worst sort of extortion and could lead to wars and global instability.
→ read full articleRespected and Protected… Syrians Working to Preserve Jewish Cultural Heritage
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
In Syria today there is much evidence to refute the claims, often politically motivated, that Jewish cultural heritage sites are being singled out for destruction by rabid anti-Semites. One example of this is the Eliyahu Hanabi Synagogue in the neighborhood of Jobar, on the outskirts of Damascus.
→ read full articleThe Greatest Commencement Addresses of All Time
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
The commencement address is the secular sermon of our time — a packet of timeless advice on life, dispensed by a podium-perched patronly or matronly shaman of wisdom to a congregation of eager young minds about to enter the so-called “real world.” But the genre’s finest specimens speak to all of us looking for some guidance on the path to the Good Life, transcending boundaries of age or occupation or life-stage.
→ read full articleSetting the Agenda for Global Peace: Conflict and Consensus Building
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Currently the UN and its Specialized Agencies are involved in a Beijing Plus 20 evaluation of the progress and setbacks in the status of women in advance of the 20th anniversary of the 1995 women’s conference held in Beijing. Much of the planning for the conference had been done by NGO representatives at the UN in Geneva. This book is a good reminder of the process.
→ read full articleChina Asks Banks to Remove US-Made Servers
Press TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
The Chinese government is asking domestic banks to remove their US-made IBM servers amid cyber-espionage concerns and replace them with a local brand.
→ read full articleTRANSCEND Peace University: Africa 2064 – A ‘Reciprocal Development & Basic Human Needs’ Approach
Mark Abdelsayed, et al – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Africa’s current development models tend to echo the priorities of colonialism, perpetuating structural inequalities that hinder development and exacerbate existing contradictions. To remedy this, development reciprocity and African-centred governance that promote franchise, representation and responsiveness to basic needs should be adopted.
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Fukushima – What the Media & Governments Are Not Telling YOU
Anonymous – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Jan 14, 2014 – Governments and mainstream media are covering up Fukushima’s radiation waves hitting the west coast of the U.S. As radiation levels spike and mutated wildlife washes ashore, government and media promote delusion.
→ read full articleInterview – Johan Galtung
Al McKay, E-International Relations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
In 1985, I was amazed by the US inability to learn from the Vietnam disaster about limits to military approaches to politics, and, looking for something deeper than rationality, came up with such Deep Culture concepts as DMA – the Dualism-Manicheism-Armageddon syndrome of archetypes. I am now also working on Deep Nature, a fascinating topic.
→ read full articlePeace Studies: Ten Basic Points
Johan Galtung, 26 May 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
Foreign Policy Studies, University of Malmö, Sweden – “Thanks for wanting a summary of key points in ‘Galtung Peace Studies’. I was just honored with a ‘Lifetime Award’ by world sociology, 60+ years; in short, time for summary with an author’s caveat: no substitute for reading books.
→ read full articleThe Illegality of NATO
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
In recent years, participation in NATO has made European countries accomplices in US efforts to achieve global hegemony by means of military force, in violation of international law, and especially in violation of the UN Charter, the Nuremberg Principles.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to Cecily McMillan
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
It is apparent that our strategy to remake society in accord with principles of justice and love must include recognition of the fact that the legal system is part of what must be removed. More sophisticated methods for dealing with conflict and violence – ranging from listening and needs-based processes to truth and reconciliation commissions as well as nonviolent action – have long existed.
→ read full articleThe Social Cost of GMOs
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
When Purdue University plant pathologist and soil microbiologist Don Huber pointed out unintended consequences of GMOs, other scientists did not support him because their careers are dependent on research grants from agribusiness. Monsanto controls the research on its own products.
→ read full article(Italiano) Norvegia 2050: un’immagine
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
Due importanti contraddizioni: fra l’essere al primo posto per gli indicatori di qualità della vita, eppure con una gran solitudine in aumento e non solo degli anziani; e inoltre fra avere un paese ma lasciare sempre più che altri facciano il lavoro. Come mai? Perché le reti d’interazione si dissolvono.
→ read full article(Sinhala-සිංහල) පශ්චාත් යුද සංහිඳියාවේ ව්යුහාත්මක කෘත්යවාදය සහ අනාගත සුසමාදර්ශය (Structural Functionalism of Post War Reconciliation and Future Paradigm)
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
In conflict theory, reconciliation can be considered as an entrance to achieve peace and also it is a long way of dedicative process. Johan Galtung, who is one of the pioneer researchers and intellectuals about conflict study and peace research, introduces 12 creative ways to ascertain reconciliation. ගැටුම් න්යායේ දී සංහිඳියාව යන්න සාමය අත් කර ගැනීමට ඇති පිවිසුම් දොරටුවක් ලෙස සැලකිය හැකි අතර එය දීර්ඝ කැපකිරීම් සහිත ක්රියාවලියක් වන්නේය. ගැටුම් අධ්යයනය හා සාමය පිළිබඳ පර්යේෂණ කරන්නා වූ ප්රමුක පෙළේ විද්වතෙකු වන්නා වූ යොහාන් ගල්තුන් විසින් සංහිඳියාවකට පැමිණිම සඳහා නිර්මාණාත්මක මාරග 12ක් පෙන්වා දෙමින් ගැටුම නිමාවට පත්කර ගතහැකි ආකාරය පෙන්වා දෙනු ඇත.
→ read full articleSyria: Back to Square One for Good-Faith Negotiations
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
I am not sure that anyone in Syria has an overall policy framework, but lacking face-to-face negotiations, we might see if graduated reciprocation might work.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Giornalismo di Pace indica la strada dalla Terra Santa al BDS
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
‘Stone Cold Justice’, come spesso fa un articolo di Giornalismo di Pace, termina con un punto interrogativo. Israele può essere forte in questo momento, osserva John, ma cosa succederà quando l’attuale giovane generazione di palestinesi – in molti casi brutalizzati e traumatizzati – diventeranno adulti?
→ read full articleCommon Questions on BDS & the Academic Boycott of Israel
Sydney Staff for BDS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
The call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions is a Palestinian-initiated response to Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territory, its siege of Gaza, and its systematic oppression of Palestinian citizens of Israel.
→ read full articleTransgenics Prosper Amidst Pragmatism and Collateral Damage
Fabiana Frayssinet, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta published a map that dubbed a large area of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay the “United Republic of Soy”. In this “republic” more than 46 million hectares of transgenic soy are sprayed with 600 million litres of the herbicide glyphosate and are largely responsible for the deforestation of 500,000 hectares a year in the past decade.
→ read full articleFrom Prophecy to Reality: Join the Consciousness Revolution
John Perkins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
Participating in the consciousness revolution can no longer be ignored as simply a nice, feel-good choice for those who might care enough or find it convenient. It is now imperative for all of us who share this tiny, fragile space station as our only home.
→ read full article(Italiano) TAP+TPP = “Tutti salvo la Cina” = Colpetto + Ribaltamento?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
Washington sta lavorando sodo per riconquistare l’egemonia mondiale sfuggente; supponendo nella tradizione anglo-americana che il n° 2 – quest’anno forse n° 1 economicamente – sia un nemico, invece di intensificare la cooperazione.
→ read full articleAlan Lightman on Our Yearning for Immortality and Why We Long for Permanence in a Universe of Constant Change
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
A heartening perspective on mortality by way of the physics of the cosmos and the poetics of the night-blooming cereus cactus.
→ read full articleKidnapped Girls Become Tools of U.S. Imperial Policy in Africa
Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
The “humanitarian” U.S. military occupation of Africa has been very successful, thus far. Imagine: the superpower that financed the genocide of six million in Congo, claims to be a defender of teenage girls and human rights on the continent.
→ read full articleThe-O ring: Theory, Theorem, Theology, Theosophy?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
A Playful Intercultural Quest for Fruitful Complementarity – Curiously the prefix “theo” is effectively central to one of the most divisive debates in the current global civilization, namely that between science and religion.
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