Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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[Grotesquely Pornographic] Sunday Times Rich List: “Astonishing Year” for Britain’s Most Wealthy
Jordan Shilton, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
The headline on May 18 [2014] was that the number of billionaires in Britain had surpassed 100 for the first time. With a total of 104 billionaires, Britain has witnessed the emergence of more than 20 new billionaires over the past year and has the highest concentration of billionaires of any country.
→ read full article(Português) Žižek: A contradição principal da nova ordem mundial
Slavoj Žižek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
Conhecer uma sociedade não é apenas saber suas regras explícitas. É também compreender como funciona sua aplicação: saber quando usar e quando violar as normas, saber quando recusar uma escolha oferecida e saber quando fingir que está se fazendo algo por livre escolha quando trata-se efetivamente de uma obrigação.
→ read full articleWorld Protests Monsanto Grip on Food Supply Chain
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
Activists on five continents around the globe, comprising of 52 nations, joined the March Against Monsanto on May 24. Peaceful family protests spoke out for the need to protect food supply, health, local farms and environment. Last year over 2 million people in 436 cities in 52 countries worldwide joined the March.
→ read full articleNonkilling Peace between East and West: A Plea
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
When will East and West be able to live in Nonkilling Peace?
When all conflicts and wars within or between them will cease.
Rise of Modi and Indian Politics
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
Modi will have a better tool in his hand to lift the nation from the morass of poverty and unemployment – two biggest internal challenges. With a strong determination, and by combining the visions of Patel, Shastri and Vajpayee, Modi will be able to trudge through difficult terrains while keeping his mission high. I wish Modi good luck!
→ read full articleMarching Against Monsanto Is Marching for Freedom and Democracy
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
I send greetings of solidarity for all the people gathered for the March against Monsanto [24 May 2014]. Marching against Monsanto is marching for freedom and democracy, for health and safety, for seed and biodiversity. People often ask me “Why Monsanto”?
→ read full articleFault Lines, The Sixties, The Culture Wars, and The Return of the Divine Feminine
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
The 1960s was the period when the shift to the New Age — the Age of Aquarius — became more obvious to many and manifested in social and political movements. The 1960s was one of the “Great Awakenings” — a period of enhanced social and spiritual concern and increased personal spiritual experience.
→ read full articleOn Citizenship in the 21st Century
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
Reading Robert Paehlke’s carefully crafted essay on global citizenship provides the occasion both for an appreciation of his approach and some doubts about its degree of responsiveness to the urgencies of the present or more specifically its adequacy in relation to the call for ‘transformative vision and praxis’ that lies at the heart of the ‘Great Transition Initiative.’
→ read full articleHuman Intelligence or Human Awareness?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
The Self-aware human being is intelligent because their mind is integrated. In contrast, an ‘intelligent’ individual who is unSelf-aware, because their mind is disintegrated, might engage in activities that are destructive of our species and the planet. I am sure that you can think of many examples.
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Hawking and the Growing Israel Boycott Movement
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
May 12, 2013 – Activists in Gaza consider renowned physicist Stephen Hawking’s decision to cancel his participation in an upcoming conference in Israel as part of an academic boycott “a huge victory for the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanction) movement”.
→ read full articleConcert Review: Anoushka Shankar at The Royal Festival Hall, London
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
The genre of Shankar’s music has roots in ancient Hindu philosophy and Indian culture, but her compositions, positioned in the twenty-first century world, astonishingly connect the inner microcosm of the individual to the expansive macrocosm of the universe.
→ read full articleThe Ukraine in Turmoil
Israel Shamir – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
It is not much fun to be in Kiev these days. The revolutionary excitement is over. The Maidan street revolt and the subsequent coup just reshuffled the same marked deck of cards, forever rotating in power. As Russia procrastinates, as the US doubles the risks, the world draws nearer to the nuclear abyss. Who will chicken out?
→ read full articleEurope: 1, Google: 0 – EU Court Ruling a Victory for Privacy
SPIEGEL – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
20 May 2014 – A ruling by the European Union’s highest court last week ordering Google to provide people with the right to be forgotten has generated fiercely divergent responses in the US and Europe. Germans are celebrating the decision, which buttresses privacy.
→ read full articleFree Speech and BDS Case: Applicants Wanting to Run!
Jake Lynch, Australians for BDS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
At the Australian Federal Court, four of the five applicants to have me found guilty of racial discrimination applied to pull out of the action. That would leave only Shurat HaDin, the right-wing Israeli law centre. But I still need your help in meeting my legal bills, which are well into six figures.
→ read full articleInternational Whaling Commission to Consider Imminent Extinction of Maui’s Dolphins
Independent News Media – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
In the past two years, the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission had issued urgent recommendations about the need to protect the dolphins’ from fishing nets. With less than 15 breeding females, Maui’s dolphins are amongst the rarest and most endangered mammals on earth.
→ read full articleIn Their Own Juice
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
According to press reports, President Barack Obama has decided to let Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas “stew in their own juice.” What does it mean for “both” to stew in their own juice?
→ read full articleBreak the Silence: A World War Is Beckoning – In Ukraine, the US Is Dragging Us Towards War with Russia
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Washington’s role in Ukraine, and its backing for the regime’s neo-Nazis, has huge implications for the rest of the world.
→ read full articleNorway 2050: An Image
Johan Galtung, 19 May 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Two major contradictions: between ranking as No. 1 on Quality of Life indicators, yet having a high and increasing loneliness and not only at old age; and between having a country but increasingly letting others do the work. How come? Because interaction nets dissolve. Extended families disappeared long time ago.
→ read full article(Italiano) “Va’ pensiero, storie ambulanti.” Collettivamente memoria 2014. Aosta 9 maggio 2014
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
“Va’ pensiero, storie ambulanti” è il racconto, lucido e struggente, di due aggressioni razziste avvenute a Milano e a Firenze e del tentativo di ricostruzione che ognuno degli aggrediti, sopravvissuti, sta tentando di agire su di sé, pur nella difficile convivenza con l’impossibilità di lavorare e con l’incertezza quotidiana, sempre presente, di rivivere, attraverso sguardi o gesti, il momento dell’aggressione.
→ read full article(Português) Anistia Internacional: 80% dos brasileiros têm medo de tortura em prisão
Agência Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
A pesquisa entrevistou 21 mil pessoas de 21 países de todos os continentes e concluiu que o Brasil é o mais atingido por esse temor. A Anistia Internacional pede ainda a criação de mecanismos que facilitem a prevenção e a punição da tortura.
→ read full articleWelcome Modi Sarkar…!!!
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
While forgetting and forgiving old scars
Let’s welcome from heart, Modi sarkar
Let’s give him a chance as a changed man
And help him to change the fate of nation
West Antarctic Glaciers in Irreversible Decline
NASA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
In that region, six glaciers hang in a precarious balance, partially supported by land, and partially floating in waters just offshore.
→ read full article(Castellano) “Europa en su encrucijada”
Francesc P. Baldo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Es cierto que nunca han sido fáciles las cosas para Europa, a quien ya en la mitología se le atribuían unos orígenes convulsos , abducida y ultrajada por Zeus. En su suelo, además, han tenido lugar miles de batallas, algunas decisivas para el futuro de la humanidad, y es posible que se esté librando ya la penúltima, sin que nos hayamos percatado aún de ello..
→ read full articleThe Fate of Animals: Genocide in Indonesian Zoo
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
What is happening in Surabaya is shocking by all standards. Here, massacres in the local zoo do not involve ‘just a few animals’, but half of their entire population. “Originally there were some 4,400 animals. Now there are only approximately 2,100 of them left…”
→ read full articleThe Wall Street Bonanza
Andre Damon, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
The vast redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top that has taken place since the 2008 crash is expressed in the colossal rise in stock prices, which have nearly tripled since March 2009.
→ read full articleThe End of Democracy as We Know It
Bernd Hamm – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Abstract: This paper starts with summarizing the major theoretical elements in the definition of a global ruling class. It then examines how neoconservatives in the US took power and used regime change to create chaos in other regions. A strategy of tension is used to press the population into conformity. But the real revolution is to what extent factual politics escape any attempt to democratic control. Three case studies show how far the Deep State already goes. Democracy is on the brink of survival.
→ read full articleUS Marines Deploy to Italy Due to Libya Threat: Official
Agence France-Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
The US military has moved a team of marines from Spain to southern Italy as a precautionary step in case the US embassy in Libya comes under threat, officials said Wednesday [14 May 2014].
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Hungarian Dance No. 5 (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Martynas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Virtuoso Martynas on Acordeon – Composition of Johannes Brahms – Martynas Levickis, 24, is one of the brightest young musicians from Lithuania. He has received over 30 prizes and awards.
→ read full articleWhat Does The US Government Want in Ukraine?
Ron Paul – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
We are broke. We cannot even afford to fix our own economy. Yet we want to run Ukraine? Does it really matter who Ukrainians elect to represent them?
→ read full articleChina Signs Mega East Africa Rail Deal
Agence France-Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
China on Sunday [11 May 2014] signed a deal to build a $3.8 billion rail link between Kenya’s Indian Ocean port of Mombasa and Nairobi, the first stage of a line that will eventually link Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan.
→ read full articleChaos in Libya: How the US-NATO War Destabilized North Africa and Now Threatens Europe
Timothy Alexander Guzman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Former Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has warned, “Libya is in danger of becoming an Al-Qaeda terror base for attacks targeting European countries from Italy to Britain, to France, to Spain, to Morocco, to everywhere. Weapons are everywhere, ammunition is everywhere.”
→ read full articleDear Salman
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Years ago I was invited to a UN conference on the Palestinian refugees in Paris.
→ read full articleThe Limits of US Military Power
Lawrence S. Wittner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Perhaps military enthusiasts in the United States and other nations should consider whether military power is a reliable source of influence in world affairs. After all, just because you possess a hammer doesn’t mean that every problem you face is a nail.
→ read full articleOur Duty to Future Generations
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Many traditional agricultural societies have an ethical code that requires them to preserve the fertility of the land for future generations. This recognition of a duty towards the distant future is in strong contrast to the shortsightedness of modern economists.
→ read full articleA Look at the European Court Ruling on Google
Toby Sterling, Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Questions and answers over the European Court ruling on Google and the ‘right to be forgotten.’
→ read full article12 Shocking Facts about the Dangers of Psychiatric Drugs
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
The disorders range from depression and ADHD (attention deficit hyperactive disorder) to bipolar and anxiety disorders. The sordid story behind how these medications work, how they come to market, and how they interfere with the lives of users is a complicated web.
→ read full articleSuccess Story
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
A retired mathematics teacher met the worst student he had ever had during his 40 years of teaching.
→ read full articlePleader
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
I, too, am a pleader,
but insane, groveling,
inarticulate, nearly mute or shrieking,
Uganda Passes another Repressive Law — This Time Criminalising HIV Transmission
Amy Fallon, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Ugandan AIDS bodies and campaigners have warned that the “ugly clauses” of an HIV bill passed by Parliament late Tuesday [13 May 2014], which includes the criminalisation of the “wilful and intentional” transmission of the disease, will see many in this East African country “shun the healthcare system”.
→ read full articleConUNdrum: The Limits of the United Nations and the Search for Alternatives
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
The book is worth reading for a better understanding of a strong, if misguided, current in U.S. politics. These criticisms need to be taken seriously, but, I believe, that reforms must be taken within the U.N. and not in alternative —as yet uncreated— institutions.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Laureates Call For Preemptive Ban on “Killer Robots”
Nobel Women’s Initiative – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
We, the undersigned Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, applaud this new global effort and whole-heartedly embrace its goal of a preemptive ban on fully autonomous weapons that would be able to select and attack targets on their own. It is unconscionable that human beings are expanding research and development of lethal machines that would be able to kill people without human intervention.
→ read full articlePortugal Leaves Bailout Program with 214bn Euro Debt, 4% Lower GDP
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Portugal exited its international bailout program on Saturday [17 May 2014] regaining its economic sovereignty. While many people are struggling with tough austerity measures, a disproportionate amount of people are getting richer and richer. The top 20 percent make six times more than the bottom 20 percent.
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No Turning Back – West Antarctic Glaciers in Irreversible Decline
NASA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Over the years, as temperatures around the world have ratcheted upward, climate change researchers have kept a wary eye on one place perhaps more than any other: The West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and particularly the fastest melting part of it, the glaciers that flow into the Amundsen Sea.
→ read full articleComplicity: Psychology and War on Terror Abuses
Roy Eidelson, Trudy Bond, Stephen Soldz, Steven Reisner, Jean Maria Arrigo and Brad Olson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Given that psychologists have been central figures in the abuse and torture of our country’s “war on terror” detainees, and that the American Psychological Association has worked to guarantee psychologists’ positioning in detention and interrogation roles, examining the APA’s involvement is an appropriate starting point for this crucial work.
→ read full articlePalestine – Chronicle of a Foretold Death
Baher Kamal, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
A quick look at the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would suffice to conclude that the process leading to creating a Palestinian State living side by side with Israel had already been sentenced to failure 117 years ago.
→ read full article(Italiano) Omaggio all’International New York Times
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
Perché omaggio? Non per la trattazione delle notizie; di solito, quelle “adatte alla stampa”, che non contraddicono troppo apertamente le visioni del mondo insite nelle politiche estere USA e israeliana. . E neppure per gli editoriali, che sono spesso sulla stessa linea e anche francamente noiosi molte volte. No, l’omaggio è per gli articoli, addirittura i saggi, ad altissimo livello.
→ read full article(Italiano) Cooperazione fra università per l’equità e l’empatia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
Immaginate un seminario cooperativo di quattro settimane con molte università su come pensare (ri-cercare), parlare (anche insegnare) e agire (prassi) nei campi delle relazioni internazionali e dell’epistemologia; una gran NOVITA’!
→ read full articlePalestinians Take the Tough Path towards Unity
Khaled Alashqar, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
The move for reconciliation between Fatah in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip could change the balance in the Middle East – if it were to proceed and deliver as promised. The Israeli government still in shock over this unexpected agreement and the new political calculations it would bring.
→ read full articleNigeria: Boko Haram Kidnappings Used to Justify US Military Build-Up in Africa
Jean Shaoul, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
The kidnapping presents Washington, whose requests to mount military and intelligence operations from Nigeria had repeatedly been rebuffed, with a golden opportunity to secure a foothold in the oil-rich country, now Africa’s largest economy.
→ read full articleIsraeli President Peres: Netanyahu Blocked 2011 Peace Deal with Palestinians
Agence France-Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
“Netanyahu told me to wait a few days because he thought that Tony Blair could get a better offer,” Peres said, referring to the envoy of the peacemaking quartet of the EU, Russia, UN and USA. “The days passed and there was no better offer.”
→ read full articleU.S. Recognizes Syria Opposition Offices as ‘Foreign Mission’
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
The US said on Monday [5 May 2014] it would recognize the main opposition Syrian National Coalition offices as a diplomatic foreign mission and announced a $27 million increase in non-lethal assistance to mercenaries fighting to oust President Bashar al-Assad. Syrian forces have made gains on the battlefield and Damascus announced a presidential election for June 3, expected to be won by Assad.
→ read full articleRevenge
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
The moon is low and casts its shadows long,
and in this gloom what God can say I’m wrong?
“The Russians are coming … again … and they’re still ten feet tall!”
William Blum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
Putting the Ukraine Crisis in Context – When the Ukraine crisis began, the mainstream U.S. media cast aside any pretense of objectivity and joined in the service of State Department propaganda. But – given the emergence of the Internet – a far more honest and nuanced story is possible to detect.
→ read full articleDrug Resistant Superbugs a Serious Threat Worldwide, Says WHO
Kate Kelland, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
The spread of deadly superbugs that evade even the most powerful antibiotics is no longer a prediction but is happening right now across the world, United Nations officials said on Wednesday [April 30 2014].
→ read full articleWar Is Good for Us, Dumb New Book Claims
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
Ian Morris maintains that the only way to peace is to make large societies, and the way to large societies is through war. From peace prosperity follows and from prosperity flows happiness. Therefore, war creates happiness. But if you want peace, prosperity and joy you must never stop engaging in — you guessed it — war.
→ read full articleRecent Trends in Arms Transfers
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
SIPRI – 17 March 2014. South Asia and the Gulf lead rising trend in arms imports. Russian exports grow.
→ read full articleCitizens versus Subjects in a Democratic Society: The American Case
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
In my understanding silence is passivity as a way of being. Silence can be much more than the avoidance of speech and utterance, and is most poignantly expressed through evasions of body, heart, and soul.
→ read full articleThe Current and Future Consequences of Global Climate Change
NASA-National Aeronautics and Space Administration – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
The potential future effects of global climate change include more frequent wildfires, longer periods of drought in some regions and an increase in the number, duration and intensity of tropical storms. It has already observable effects: Glaciers have shrunk, ice on rivers and lakes is breaking up earlier, plant and animal ranges have shifted and trees are flowering sooner.
→ read full article(Português) As revelações de O Capital no Século XXI
Paul Mason, The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
Sucesso internacional, livro de Thomas Piketty expõe engrenagens que produzem desigualdade e pobreza, sugere alternativas e desafia: elites aceitarão debatê-las?
→ read full articleDesperate Gazans Turn Plastic into Fuel
Khaled Alashqar, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
The fuel crisis in Gaza has been ongoing for eight years now as Israel controls the amount of fuel entering Gaza. Its only power plant also runs on scarce diesel. Blackouts that last hours are a daily feature.
→ read full articleHuman Emotions: Genetically Programmed or Socially Learned?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
It is easy to fall into the trap of assuming that each human being has a more or less identical range of emotions. This is not so. The outcome for each individual is based on the unique genetic potential of that individual and, more importantly, the social terrorisation experience of that individual within its particular culture, community and family.
→ read full article(Português) Linhas vermelhas na Ucrânia e no mundo
Noam Chomsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
A anexação da Crimeia por Putin assusta os líderes dos EUA, porque desafia a sua dominação global. O mundo considera os Estados Unidos um Estado pária e a maior ameaça à paz mundial, sem um competidor que esteja sequer próximo.
→ read full articlePreventing a Human-Initiated 6th Geological Extinction Event
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
In 2012 the World Bank issued a report warning that without quick action to curb CO2 emissions global warming is likely to reach 4 degrees C during the 21st century. This is dangerously close to the temperature which initiated the Permian-Triassic extinction event: 6 degrees C above normal.
→ read full article(Castellano) Celac rechaza que EE.UU. incluya a Cuba en lista de promotores del terrorismo
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
La Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (Celac) repudió este miércoles [7 mayo 2014] la decisión de los EE.UU de incluir nuevamente a Cuba en la lista de Estados Promotores del Terrorismo Internacional e insta a EE.UU. a ponerle fin a esta práctica.
→ read full articleBoko Haram vs. Nigeria’s Crooks
Eric Margolis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
The US wants its troops there before the Chinese arrive. Screaming “Islamic terrorism” won’t defuse Nigeria’s coming explosion. Considered one of the world’s most corrupt nations, Nigeria has to clean up its act – and fast.
→ read full articleWhy the White House is Desperate to Bury Benghazi
Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
The true purpose behind the cover-up is being obfuscated – the fact that an annex near the U.S. embassy was being used by the CIA to transfer surface to air missiles to terrorists in Syria.
→ read full articleInvesting Attention Essential to Viable Growth
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
Radical Self-Reflexive Reappropriation of Financial Skills and Insights – As framed, the question is whether the cognitive skills deployed can be radically re appropriated. The argument is itself an invitation to a speculative investment of attention — potentially offering a valuable return on investment.
→ read full articleTwo Cities, Shared History
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
The book Tales of Two Cities is about the journey of two prominent South Asians – Kuldip Nayar from India and Asif Noorani from Pakistan. Theirs are not simply stories of travel but voyages – physical, emotional and spiritual – deeply embedded in the history of partition of the British India.
→ read full articleThe Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
The Chapter ‘Language, Peace, and Conflict Resolution’ is by TRANSCEND Media Service contributor, Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos, a poet, peace linguist and human rights educator from Recife-Brazil. “This handbook is a classic. It helps connect the research of academia to the practical realities of peacemaking and peacebuilding like no other.” —Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
→ read full articleConflict Assessment and Peacebuilding Planning: Toward a Participatory Approach to Human Security
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
Lisa Schirch sets out clearly the aim of this handbook: “Strategic peacebuilding requires long-term actions at all levels, from local to global, by multiple actors coordinating an approach that is led locally and based on explicit decision making informed by a systems approach.
→ read full articleMinnesotans vs. McDonald’s Toxic Taters
EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
McDonald’s french fries are suspected of killing farm animals and poisoning wildlife and Minnesotans, including students and farmers.
→ read full article(Castellano) El terrorismo en el mundo, según el Departamento de Estado
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
El gobierno estadounidense desprecio por la opinión pública doméstica e internacional es tan grande como su adicción al “doble standard moral”: junto con la condena de Cuba y a los otros países el Informe erige a la teocracia gobernante en Arabia Saudita como un ejemplar bastión de la lucha contra el terrorismo y exalta su colaboración con Washington en este terreno.
→ read full articleWhy You Should Eat More Cucumber
Monica Bologna, Eco News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
The cucumber is a fruit that often gets overlooked. Like its friend the tomato, it isn’t sweet, it isn’t fancy, but it can do amazing things for your body. Cucumbers contain an incredible amount of vitamins and minerals that are essential for optimal health.
→ read full articleFollow the Honey: 7 Ways Pesticide Companies Are Spinning the Bee Crisis
Michele Simon, Friends of the Earth - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
As my new report with Friends of the Earth details, three of the leading pesticide corporations — Bayer, Syngenta, and Monsanto — are engaged in a massive public relations disinformation campaign to distract the public and policymakers from thinking that pesticides might have something to do with bee death and destruction.
→ read full article2014 Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling — Edward Snowden & Laura Poitras
The Nation Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras receive the ‘Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling,’ with introduction by James Bamford – April 30, 2014.
→ read full articleGangster State America – Where Is America’s Democracy?
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
Government is used to impose agendas that result from the symbiotic relationship between the neoconservative ideology of US world hegemony and the economic interests of powerful private interest groups, such as Wall Street, the military/security complex, the Israel Lobby, agribusiness, and extractive industries (energy, mining, and timber).
→ read full articleSyria: “Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently”
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
Since 2013 the area has been under the control of “the Islamic state in Iraq and the Levant,” also referred to as “ISIL.”Public crucifixions are warnings to anyone who challenges Islamic rule because they are the enemies of Allah.
→ read full articleBattleground Ukraine
Andrei Fursov, WikiSpooks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
A wide ranging analysis of the 2013-2014 happenings in Ukraine, its antecedents and consequences from the perspective of a senior Russian academic. A must-read for westerners seeking to understand what is really happening in both the Ukraine and the wider Anglo-US-NATO globalisation drive which it brings into sharp focus.
→ read full articleDoing Math
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
A little boy was doing his math homework. He said to himself, “Two plus five, that son of a bitch is seven.
→ read full articleObama in Talks with “Rebel” Leader on Escalating Syrian War
Bill Van Auken, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
9 May 2014 – The Obama administration has entered into direct talks with the leader of the political front for Syria’s Western-backed “rebels” on arming them with US surface-to-air missiles, amid fresh confirmation that these forces are dominated by Al Qaeda-linked militias.
→ read full articleBRICS – Quiet Revolution of the Emerging Countries
Deutsche Welle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
As the Ukraine crisis heightens, the so-called BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – are becoming less willing to accept US world supremacy.
→ read full articleVeterans Oppose US Troop Deployments near Ukraine
Veterans for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
The veterans are reacting to a decision by the Obama administration to send US troops to Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as the crisis in Ukraine heats up and Russia conducts military exercises on its border with Ukraine.
→ read full articleArmenian Grievances, Turkey, United States and 1915 (I)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
The Turkish government has reiterated its offer to establish a joint commission composed of Armenian, Turkish and international historians to establish an authoritative narrative. The idea that core concern is ‘historical’ misses a main point that such a traumatic series of events need to be interpreted from multiple perspectives, including that of international criminal law.
→ read full article‘Genocide’ in 1915: Law, Language, and Politics (II)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
I am arguing that the historical argument should be put to rest, and that the issues that need to be resolved relate to the legal questions surrounding the applicability of genocide, as well as the related semiotic and political questions associated what be called ‘the politics of genocide.’
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 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 articleUS Troops Land in Lithuania amid Ukraine Crisis
Agence France-Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
US troops arrived Saturday [26 Apr 2014] in Lithuania, part of a US contingent of 600 sent to the region to reassure NATO allies amid the escalating Ukraine crisis. Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite hailed the arrival of American forces as a “deterrence measure” in the region.
→ read full article15 Weird and Wonderful Facts about Whales
Cherise Udell, Care2 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
Whales are so obviously different from us, yet surprisingly similar in so many ways. They are extremely intelligent and social beings that share our lifespan and often our close-knit family structures. They sing, they play, they nurture, they bond and they cooperate.
→ read full articleReferendums in Ukraine
Peter Emerson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
Democratic rights: the right of self-determination and the right of majority rule. Crimea, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Odessa…
→ read full articleFirst Troops Land in Poland as US Beefs Up Baltic Presence
Agence France-Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
The first American troops arrived in Poland on Wednesday [23 Apr 2014], after Washington said it was sending a force of 600 there and to the Baltic states amid rising tensions with Russia over Ukraine.
→ read full articleGeorge Hewitt – Discordant Neighbours: A Reassessment of the Georgian-Abkhazian and Georgian-South-Ossetian Conflicts
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
Hewitt’s book is a solid, detailed analysis of the events and will be essential reading for those who follow the Caucasus and federal structures.
→ read full articleUS Troops Land in Latvia
Agence France-Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
Latvia on Friday [25 Apr 2014] welcomed American troops on its soil, part of a US force of 600 sent to the region to reassure the Baltic states amid concern over Russia’s actions in Ukraine.
→ read full articleUS Troops Land in Estonia
Agence France-Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
American troops landed in Estonia on Monday [28 Apr 2014] , rounding out the 600-man force sent by Washington to Poland and the Baltic states to allay concerns over the escalating Ukraine crisis.
→ read full articleHomage to International NYT
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
Why homage? Not for the news coverage; usually the news “fit to print” that do not contradict US and Israeli foreign policies. Nor for the editorials, usually on the same line and also, frankly, often boring. The homage is for the articles, essays even, at a very high level, often carrying discourses that are wide ranging, way back into the past, far into the future. We are not talking about agree-disagree but about broadness, openness, even globally.
→ read full articleSchool Compositions
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
Children at school must write a composition about the topic, “When visitors come.”
→ read full articleGeological Extinction Events and Runaway Climate Change
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
The worst consequences of runaway climate change will not occur within our own lifetimes. However, we have a duty to all future human generations, and to the plants and animals with which we share our existence, to give them a future world in which they can survive.
→ read full articleIsrael Approved Record 14,000 Settlements during Peace Talks with Palestine – Report
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
Israeli settlement watchdog, Peace Now, which issued its report on Tuesday [29 Apr 2014], said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “broke all construction records in the settlements” in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. “This is an unprecedented number representing an average of 50 housing units per day or 1,540 per month,” the left-wing NGO said.
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Romance Anonyme (Music Video of the Week)
Andre Rieu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
Andre Rieu, his orchestra choir, and the soprano Carla Maffioletti (Brazil) playing Romance Anonyme in the City of Cortona (Tuscany) Italy.
→ read full articleFree the NATO 3!
Socialist Equality Party – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
1 May 2014 – Jail terms imposed on three young men arrested at an anti-NATO protest in 2012. Last week, a Chicago judge sentenced Brian Church, 22, to five years in prison, Brent Betterly, 26, to six years, and Jared Chase, 28, to eight years. The vindictive prosecution of the three individuals with anarchist views exposes the repression and intimidation of all political opposition to the policies of the ruling class.
→ read full articleLatin America: Class Struggle from Above and Below
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
To approach the role of class struggle in a dynamic mitreux we will focus exclusively on Latin America over the past two and a half decades 1990 – 2014, a period of significant changes in economic models, political regimes and class structure.
→ read full articleIsrael: Anti-Palestinian Arson Attacks on the Rise
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
A wave of violence over the past fortnight, including attacks on two mosques and a church, has shocked Israel’s large Palestinian minority. Growing ever bolder, it seems, Israeli right-wing extremists are shifting attention to Palestinian areas inside Israel. Palestinian leaders, meanwhile, have accused Israeli authorities of repeatedly turning a blind eye to the attacks.
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