Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Peace Education in Boston
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
That’s what life, and peace education looks like in Boston. It also serves as a stark reminder that the citizens, teachers, and students of any nation are often far removed from the militarism and violence that their federal governments promote in their foreign (and/or domestic) policies.
→ read full article(Italiano) Stati Uniti d’America — Uno stato fallito?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
Dipende, ovviamente, dai criteri. Uno stato ha una politica interna verso i propri cittadini, e una esterna verso il sistema statuale. Dipende dalla politica interna ed estera, in altre parole. Questo vuol dire che può fallire in due modi, col non occuparsi dei propri cittadini e col non venire a patti con altri stati. Effettivamente i due aspetti sono strettamente correlati come sovente è stato fatto notare.
→ read full article15 Plants to Help Save Bees
EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
With spring upon us, it’s a perfect time to think about what we can plant to help save the bees. Here’s a list of 15 plants to consider if you’d like to help.
→ read full articleW.H. Auden: (1907-1973) Poet of the Age of Anxiety
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
Wystan Hugh Auden, is appreciated as a bridge builder by two separate groups of poetry readers. Each group celebrates half of his poetic life and rather tries to forget about the other half, seeing one part of his life as the perfect image of the modern poet who then lost his way.
→ read full articleYOU Can Stop the Slow Burning Genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingya and Muslims!
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
One of the legacies of the 50 years of military rule and societal isolation (from the world) is multifold: ultra-conservative versions of various faiths, particularly Buddhism, thrive there; the high level of public ignorance is matched only by the extremely low level of critical popular thoughts.
→ read full articleBRICS Countries Oppose Ban on Putin Attending G20 Summit
Times of India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
25 Mar 2014 – Brazil, India, China and South Africa today opposed any restrictions on participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit in Australia later this year in the wake of Russia annexing Crimea from Ukraine.
→ read full articleSniper
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
One man, one gun, one shot, one corpse.
That is how Ernie Pyle died on Okinawa,
caught in the crosshairs….
and how many others
in how many wars?
Does the Academy Matter?
Foreign Policy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
Do policymakers listen? Should you get a Ph.D.? And where are all the women? In mid-February, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof kicked over an ivy-covered hornet’s nest when he complained that too many professors sequester themselves in the ivory tower amid “a culture that glorifies arcane unintelligibility while disdaining impact and audience.”
→ read full articleWhat’s the Difference between Force Feeding and Waterboarding?
Zak Newman, ACLU – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
24 Mar 2014 – The Department of Defense this month publicly released its newest rationalization for the abusive force-feeding program at Guantánamo Bay. In this latest memo on hunger strike policies, the abusive force-feeding program is referred to as “medical intervention.” Nothing could be further from the truth.
→ read full articleBanking Union Time Bomb: Eurocrats Authorize Bailouts AND Bail-Ins
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
“As things stand, the banks are the permanent government of the country, whichever party is in power.”
→ read full article(Castellano) Países del BRICS condenan imposición de sanciones contra Rusia
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
Los Gobiernos de BRICS (Brasil, India, China y Sudáfrica) se reunieron este lunes [24 Mar 2014] in La Haya, al oeste de los Países Bajos, y condenaron las amenazas y sanciones unilaterales impuestas por Estados Unidos y sus aliados europeos contra Rusia.
→ read full articleReport Exposes Products Driving International Killing and Trade of Whales
Whale and Dolphin Conservation, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
Whale and Dolphin Conservation released a new report [23 Mar 2014] which highlights the global scale of killing and trade in whales in the twenty-first century. WDC demonstrates that consumption of whale and dolphin meat and by-products is not confined to just a few nations, as many believe.
→ read full articleSwiss Decide Against Russian Sanctions
The Local, Switzerland – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
The Swiss federal government on Wednesday [26 Mar 2014] decided not to impose sanctions against Russia for its seizure of Crimea, claiming it wanted to find a “balance” between international law and Switzerland’s interests.
→ read full articleLawyer Good Samaritan
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
One afternoon a wealthy lawyer was riding in his limousine through the country-side when he saw a man along the roadside eating grass. Disturbed, he ordered his driver to stop and got out of his car.
→ read full articleAdam Curle: Tools for Transformation
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
Adam Curle was the first chair of the School of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, UK in the early 1970s. He had been active in mediation efforts in conflicts in Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe, usually on behalf of the Society of Friends (Quakers). He stressed the need to train mediators, and as he points out, one of the first steps for a potential mediator is to look deeply into one’s self, into one’s values and experiences.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 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 article25th IPRA General Conference LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
Nesrin Kenar, IPRA Secretary General – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
On the occasion of IPRA’S 50th anniversary – Istanbul, Turkey, August 10-14, 2014 – Uniting for Peace: Building Sustainable Peace through Universal Values – Deadline for Proposals: APRIL 30, 2014.
→ read full articleKenneth Roth and “Human Rights Watch”: Campaigners for War and Terror in Syria
Susan Dirgham – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
HRW avoids informing us of the extent of the suffering of ordinary Syrian people at the hands of 1,000 or more militant groups dominated by foreign fighters and Al-Qaeda. Instead it focuses principally on the alleged crimes of the Syrian government, thus fomenting more outrage against the government and the country’s president.
→ read full articleBRICS Rejects Sanctions against Russia over Ukraine
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
27 Mar 2014 – The group of five major emerging national economies known as the BRICS has rejected the Western sanctions against Russia and the “hostile language” being directed at the country over the crisis in Ukraine.
→ read full articleAdam Smith’s Invisible Hand Is at Our Throats
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
As everyone knows, Adam Smith invented the theory that individual self-interest is, and ought to be, the main motivating force of human economic activity, and that, in effect, it serves the wider social interest. He put forward a detailed description of this concept in an immense book, “The Wealth of Nations” (1776).
→ read full articleThe Deep State Hiding in Plain Sight
Bill Moyers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
Mike Lofgren, a congressional staff member for 28 years, joins Bill Moyers to talk about the “Deep State,” in which elected and unelected figures collude to protect and serve powerful vested interests. “It is how we had deregulation, financialization of the economy, the Wall Street bust, the erosion or our civil liberties and perpetual war.” (26:40)
→ read full articleWorld’s First Battery-Powered Bus Transports 135,000 Passengers in 10 Days
Brandon Baker, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
Electric buses have been rolled out at trade shows in recent years, but a suburb of São Paulo, Brazil began picking up riders earlier this month in what officials say is the world’s first battery-powered public transit bus.
→ read full articleUruguay’s Public Transport Goes Electric
Inés Acosta, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
Uruguay plans to gradually replace oil-based fuels with electric energy in its public transport system, and is currently assessing the costs and benefits of the shift. Tests indicate that the running costs of electric buses can be six- to eight-fold lower than for diesel buses.
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Loucura (Music Video of the Week)
Mariza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
Mariza sings the Fado Live at Union Chapel, London. Mariza canta o Fado ao vivo na Union Chapel, em Londres.
→ read full articleDestroyer of Worlds
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
New research suggests there was no state of grace: for two million years humankind has been the natural world’s nemesis.You want to know who we are? Really? This article, if you have any love for the world, will inject you with a venom – a soul-scraping sadness – without an obvious antidote.
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It Doesn’t Make Sense to Buy Bottled Water
Yarra Valley Water – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
Did you know you can get 6,000 glasses of tap water for the same cost as a bottle of water? It’s kinda like buying Bottled Fresh Air.
→ read full articleChina Demands Explanation from U.S. on Huawei Spying Report
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
China wants a clear explanation from Washington over reports that the U.S. National Security Agency infiltrated servers at the headquarters of telecoms giant Huawei Technologies Co HWT.UL, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday [24 Mar 2014].
→ read full article(Italiano) Non abbastanza bene, signor Putin!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
La storia conta, non solo il diritto; come il modo in cui Crimea e Abkhazia-SudOssetia – fondamentalmente russo-ortodosse – divennero ucraina-georgiane. Due dittatori sovietici, Khrushchev e Stalin, attaccati rispettivamente all’Ucraina e alla Georgia, decisero così, per editto. Non chiesero alla gente del posto, come neppure agli hawaiiani quando gli USA si annessero il loro regno nel 1898 – per editto.
→ read full articleWhat Do Children Need?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Apart from having its physical needs met, the primary needs of children are for stimulus and attention. The most important form of attention that anyone, including a child, requires is listening. Listening, in this context, has a precise meaning and it is invariably done extremely badly, particularly by parents in relation to their own children.
→ read full articleObama to Putin: Do as I Say Not as I Do
Ralph Nader – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Every day, presidential actions by you violate international law because they infringe upon national sovereignties with deadly drones, flyovers and secret forays by soldiers – to name the most obvious. “Do as I say, not as I do,” is hard to sell to Russians who are interpreting your words of protest as disingenuous.
→ read full articleUS Continues to Militarize Space
Douglas Lyons, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
In its effort to encircle China and control the former states of the Soviet Union, the American military has been increasingly worried about maintaining supremacy over any adversaries who are developing anti-satellite weapons.
→ read full article(Português) O Ressurgimento do Determinismo Biológico na Era Neoliberal
Pankaj Mehta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
A história está repleta de exemplos aterrorizantes sobre o abuso da genética (e da teoria da evolução) para justificar a dominação e a desigualdade: as justificativas evolutivas da escravidão e do colonialismo, as explicações científicas da violação e do patriarcado, e as explicações genéticas da superioridade inerente à elite governante.
→ read full articleTony Benn – The Vegetarian
Nitin Mehta, Gandhi Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Tony was a passionate campaigner for stopping all wars and advocated pacifism. The following quote shows his concern for animals: ‘The case for animal testing is now being directly challenged by scientists and doctors and their judgement must be taken seriously.’
→ read full articleThe Obsolescence of Ideology: Debating Syria and Ukraine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
To insist that the left/right distinction obscures more than it reveals is not the end of the story. To contend that ideology is unhelpful as a guide for action is not the same as saying that it is irrelevant to the public debate.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Überlegungen zum Ukraine-Konflikt – eine Diskussionsvorlage
Prof. Dr. Andreas Buro - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Die Diskussion über den Konflikt um die Ukraine und ihre autonome Provinz die Krim ist voll entbrannt. In der öffentlichen Berichterstattung dominiert die Verurteilung des russischen Vorgehens. Härteres Auftreten gegen Russland als Brecher des Völkerrechts wird gefordert. Eine friedliche Lösung ist möglich, wenn die alten Verhaltensweisen der Konfrontation zugunsten einer Politik der Kooperation und der zivilen Konfliktbearbeitung in Europa aufgegeben werden. Abbau von Misstrauen und Aufbau von Vertrauen sind erforderlich.
→ read full articleArgentina Accuses US, UK of Hypocrisy over Crimea
Thomas Adamson, AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Argentina’s president said Wednesday [19 Mar 2014] that the U.S. and Britain displayed double standards with their positions on Crimea and the Falkland Islands, undermining efforts to preserve Ukraine’s territorial integrity.
→ read full articleFar From Good Enough, Mr. Putin!
Johan Galtung, 24 Mar 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
History matters, not only law; like how Crimea and Abkhazia-South Ossetia–basically Russian-Orthodox–became Ukrainian-Georgian. Two Soviet dictators, Khrushchev and Stalin, attached to Ukraine and Georgia, so decided, by dictate. The local people were not asked, nor were Hawaiians when the USA annexed their Kingdom in 1898–by dictate.
→ read full articleA Hundred Years Later
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
The majority of the Crimean population is Russian, and undoubtedly wishes now to return to Russia. It expressed this wish in a referendum that, on the whole, seems to be quite authentic. So the annexation may be justified. For this reason I supported the independence of Kosovo and believe that the same principle applies now to Catalonia and Scotland, Tibet and Chechnya.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il cinquantenario del Gruppo dei 77. Congratulazioni!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Per uno che ha lavorato molto sulla teoria e la pratica del cambiamento da sistemi di gerarchia a sistemi di equità, il 15 giugno 1964 non sarà mai dimenticato. Quelli in fondo al sistema mondiale degli stati, frammentati gli uni dagli altri da strutture coloniali e imperiali, marginalizzati, sfruttati, si adunarono, 77 di loro, e formarono un Gruppo – termine non proprio rivoluzionario.
→ read full article(Português) Žižek: O Desejo e o Fascismo Contemporâneos
Slavoj Žižek, Outras Palavras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Assange se auto designa um “espião para o povo”: “espiar para o povo” não é uma negação direta da espionagem (o que seria antes agir como um agente duplo, vendendo nossos segredos para o inimigo) mas sua auto-negação, isto é, ele mina o próprio princípio universal da espionagem, o principio do sigilo, já que seu objetivo é tornar públicos os segredos. Funciona portanto de forma semelhante à forma pela qual a “ditadura do proletariado” marxiana deveria ter funcionado (mas raramente o fez, é claro).
→ read full articleUkraine Coup Lawful, Crimea Referendum Unlawful?
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
For US officials and press to claim that the coup in Ukraine complied with law, while the referendum in Crimea did not, is utter hypocrisy. “Imagine the response from Washington if Russia or China or some other sizable world power had worked hard to build a military and/or political alliance near U.S. borders.” — Norman Solomon
→ read full articleMauna Kea Park & Hawaii Island: Contaminated with Military Radiation
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Regardless of who is liable –federal, state, and/or county governments, there are potentially serious health and safety concerns for residents and visitors with the increased use of Saddle Road, frequent strong winds and occasional flash flooding in the area, and military bombing of a base known to be contaminated with depleted uranium and other military toxins.
→ read full articleUS and Russia Top World Arms Exporters List
RIA Novosti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
17 Mar 2014 – The United States and Russia combined supplied over half of all arms exports worldwide in the past five years, according to new data compiled by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, founded in 1966 as an independent think tank for research on conflicts, weapons, arms control and disarmament.
→ read full articleFlight into Egypt
Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire and Ann Patterson, from Peace People, agreed to join the International Women’s Delegation to Gaza via Egypt. However, we were not allowed to enter Cairo and held for 8 hours in detention at the airport. We were given no reason for being deported except being told that we were ‘blacklisted’ though no reasons given. Medea Benjamin, founder of Code Pink and leader of the delegation, was also refused entry and after being held for many hours had her arm dislocated by Egyptian police and deported.
→ read full articleVictory in Sight for Defend Free Speech and Support BDS
Jake Lynch, Australians for BDS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Tomorrow (March 25th, 2014) is scheduled as a full day in the Australian Federal Court as I defend myself against the application to have my stance on the academic boycott of Israel declared illegal. The court proceedings have been going well up to now, but the case is a complicated one, and the legal bills are rolling in. If you haven’t contributed yet, now would be a good time to do it. Thank you!
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 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 articleFive Myths about the Crimean Referendum
Anatoly Karlin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
16 Mar 2014 – As voting gets underway – and by all accounts, it seems to be overwhelmingly heading for the pro-secession choice – it’s worthwhile to dispel five common but erroneous beliefs about it.
→ read full articleSocial Media: Terms and Conditions May Apply – (Must Watch)
Hyrax Films – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Official Trailer – A documentary about what you’re really agreeing to when you click “I accept”.
→ read full articleUS Proxy Terror War on Venezuela
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Protest, dissent and terrorist wars are obviously very distinct forms of expressing opposition and bringing about change. The Obama-Kerry regime claim that the opposition in Venezuela is a “protest movement” a “peaceful democratic opposition” expressing discontent with economic conditions and that the democratically elected Maduro Administration is an ‘authoritarian regime’ violently repressing dissent.
→ read full articleWhat Is Left of Honor
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
After the IED blew
on the bridge over the Tigris River
the medics scraped the body parts
that had once been Jeffrey R. Wallace
Why the Exxon Valdez Spill Was a Eureka Moment for Science
US National Public Radio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
On March 24, 1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez struck a reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil into the pristine water. Twenty-five years of research following the disaster has led to some startling conclusions about the persistent effects of spilled oil.
→ read full article(Português) Ucrânia: como o blefe do Ocidente fracassou
Pepe Escobar, Asia Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Sob influência dos “falcões” neoconservadores, Obama lançou-se a nova aventura arrogante. Nem toda histeria da mídia ocultará sua derrota.
→ read full articleOnce Again, Australia Is Stealing Its Indigenous Children
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
21 Mar 2014 – Today, the theft of Aboriginal children – including babies taken from the birth table – is now more widespread than at any time during the last century. As of June last year, almost 14,000 Aboriginal children had been “removed”. This is five times the number when ‘Bringing Them Home’ was written.
→ read full articleTargeting Huawei: NSA Spied on Chinese Government and Networking Firm
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
According to documents viewed by SPIEGEL, America’s NSA intelligence agency put considerable efforts into spying on Chinese politicians and firms. One major target was Huawei, a company that is fast becoming a major Internet player.
→ read full articleIndia Remains the Biggest Arms Buyer
Business Standard – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
India remains the biggest buyer of arms in the world, importing nearly three times as many weapons as its nearest competitors China and Pakistan over the last five years, a Swedish think tank said on Monday [17 Mar 2014].
→ read full articleViolence and Terror: The Ukrainian and Colombian Road to Empire Building
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
The two paths to 21st century empire-building-via-proxies are illustrated through the violent seizure of power in the Ukraine by a US-backed junta and the electoral gains of the US-backed Colombian war lord, Alvaro Uribe. We will describe the ‘mechanics’ of US intervention in the domestic politics of these two countries and their profound external effects – that is how they enhance imperial power on a continent-wide basis.
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Concierto Aranjuez – Adagio (Music Video of the Week)
Paco de Lucía – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Composición para guitarra y orquesta del compositor español Joaquín Rodrigo.
→ read full articleIsrael Approves 184 New [Illegal] Settlement Homes
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Israel’s Jerusalem municipality approved building plans on Wednesday [19 Mar 204] for 184 new homes in two Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, land that the Palestinians want for a future state.
→ read full articleSuffer the Poor – Shameful, Cowardly European Art
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
I stood in front of bizarre, sick and cold religious artwork, full of adult looking, perverse baby Jesus’s, or of some saints with daggers sticking out grotesquely from their heads. It was mostly total kitsch, created to order from the Christian church – a morally corrupt religious entity responsible for the extermination of entire nations, of entire races, worldwide!
→ read full articleKenya Legalizes Polygamy without Wife’s Consent
Peter Martell, AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Kenya’s parliament has passed a bill allowing men to marry as many women as they want, prompting a furious backlash from female lawmakers who stormed out, reports said Friday [21 Mar 2014].
→ read full articleHow California Will Use Renewables to Replace Massive Nuclear Plant
Sierra Martinez, Natural Resources Defense Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
California took another major and symbolic step this month [Mar 2014] with its decision to rely significantly on energy efficiency and other clean energy resources to help replace electricity once generated by the San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station serving San Diego and the greater Los Angeles area.
→ read full article(Français) L’accord transatlantique menace le modèle éducatif européen
EurActiv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
L’accord commercial UE-États-Unis risque de mettre en concurrence les modèles éducatifs des deux partenaires. Un écueil que veulent à tout prix éviter les représentants européens de l’enseignement, qui exigent que l’éducation soit totalement exclue de l’accord.
→ read full articleTrade and Investment Partnership ‘Threatens’ European Education Quality, Teachers Say
EurActiv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Driven by concerns about privatisation, European students and teachers demand that education be excluded from the EU-US free trade deal.
→ read full article(Português) Em sua primeira aparição ao vivo desde as delações, Snowden faz um “chamado às armas”
Lauren McCauley, Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
De acordo com a programação do evento, a plataforma serve para “encorajar os empreendedores, inovadores, fabricantes, hackers, nerds, fundadores, investidores e pensadores que estejam assistindo à videoconferência do SXSW para construir sistemas mais eficientes na proteção da privacidade do usuário”.
→ read full articleWelcome to Sweden
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Condoleezza Rice was going to come to Sweden for a state visit. The Swedish foreign minister, who had to go and greet her on arrival at the airport, did not speak English.
→ read full articleIn Contrast to Huffington Post, the New York Times Misleads the Readers on Myanmar Government’s Central Role in the Rohingya Pogroms
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
It is in fact Burma or Myanmar military leadership that has self-consciously pursued what amounts to genocidal policies towards the Rohingya, in fact, a borderland people of Burma like Karen, Chin, Kachin, Rakhine, etc, whose roots spread across new boundaries of the post-WWII nation-states.
→ read full articleASEAN and the New Orwellianism
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Human rights harm Asean harmony.
Profits unite, human rights divide.
Thank you, Mr. Orwell.
“War is Peace”, no more.
The Rich Complain That We Do Not Love Them
Roberto Savio, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said “The rich are different from you or me”, yet in his days, in the early years of the 20th century, the rich were not subject to public scrutiny, and were generally an object of envy, not resentment. Fast forward to the 21st century and the Occupy Wall Street movement.
→ read full articleSwiss Step Up Arms Exports, Peacefully
Ray Smith, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Switzerland’s army doesn’t go to war – but its military equipment does. In 2011, Saudi Arabia used Swiss Piranha tanks to crack down on protests in Bahrain. Libyan rebels used Swiss ammunition against Muammar Gaddafi’s troops, and Syrian rebels have been throwing Swiss hand grenades against President Bashar Assad’s soldiers. Swiss assault rifles were exported to Ukraine and have now been used against civilians.
→ read full articleUkraine and the Danger of Nuclear War
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
World War I had its roots in the fanatical and quasi-religious nationalist movements that developed in Europe during the 19th century. Nationalism is still a potent force in today’s world, but in an era of all-destroying weapons, instantaneous worldwide communication, and global economic interdependence, fanatical nationalism has become a dangerous anachronism.
→ read full articleAll Give and No Take
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Do those negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership have any interest in democracy? Here’s a test. Nothing threatens democracy as much as corporate power. Nowhere do corporations operate with greater freedom than between nations, for here there is no competition. With the exception of the European parliament there is no transnational democracy, anywhere.
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Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Three Years Later, Who is Responsible?
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Mar 10, 2014 – Nuclear power engineer Arnie Gunderson and journalist Chiho Kaneko discuss a lawsuit to hold General Electric and other reactor manufacturing companies responsible and the Japanese public’s attitude toward nuclear energy.
→ read full article3 Years after Fukushima: How Survivors’ Mental Health Continues Deteriorating
Brandon Baker, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
“After the Chernobyl disaster children were diagnosed many years later,” she told the BBC. “My boys may be fine now, but if there is any risk I need to find out as soon as possible.” She’s not comfortable relying on the government for information. Just two weeks ago, Japanese officials announced plans to restart reactors that were closed after the incident, calling nuclear energy a “vital source” of power.
→ read full articleWashington Has Set the World on a Path to War
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Why is Washington so opposed to Crimean self-determination? The answer is that one of the main purposes of Washington’s coup in Kiev was to have the new puppet government evict Russia from its Black Sea naval base in Crimea. Washington cannot use the government Washington has installed in Ukraine for that purpose if Crimea is no longer part of Ukraine.
→ read full articleInformation on Aspects Related to the Fukushima Nuclear Reactors Three Years after the Accident
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
A great amount of information on “Fukushima” has been released since the day of the accident. The information below is only a few pieces of them, published or broadcasted by Japanese mass media in March 2014.
→ read full articleThe Group of 77 at Fifty. Congratulations!
Johan Galtung, 17 Mar 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
For one who has worked much on the theory and practice of change from systems of hierarchy to systems of equity, June 15 1964 will never be forgotten. Those at the bottom of the world system of states, fragmented away from each other by colonial and imperial structures, marginalized, exploited, came together, 77 of them, and formed–not a very revolutionary word–a Group.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden Full Video Interview 10 Mar 2014
Russia Today - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Speaking remotely from Russia on Monday 10 Mar 2014, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden told attendees at the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, Texas that encryption is still a powerful deterrent against government surveillance. (1:01:23)
→ read full articleBeyond Ukraine: Russia’s Imperial Mess
SPIEGEL Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Russia’s occupation of Crimea has violated international law and created a new crisis among world leaders. Now the EU and the US are fighting over the best means to address Russia’s reawakened expansionary ambitions.
→ read full articleLegal Fund for Academic Boycott of Israel
Jake Lynch, Australians for BDS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
UPDATE March 17, 2014 – Associate Professor Jake Lynch, Director of Sydney University’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies [and TMS advisor], has been taken to the Federal Court of Australia due to his support of the Palestinian call for academic boycott of Israel. The court case is now entering a crucial phase. Over 250 of you have made a donation to the legal fund so far. Please make your donation here—however small. Thank you!
→ read full articleWhy Do I Persist?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
I have been asked recently why do I persist in working hard for the things that I believe in, knowing that I will die in the next several years, and am almost certain not to be around for the catastrophic future that seems to cast its dark shadow across the road ahead, and can only be removed by a major transnational movement of the peoples of the world.
→ read full articleThe Children of Japan’s Fukushima Battle an Invisible Enemy
Toru Hanai and Elaine Lies, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Some of the smallest children in Koriyama, a short drive from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, barely know what it’s like to play outside – fear of radiation has kept them indoors for much of their short lives. Koriyama recommended shortly after the disaster that children up to two years old not spend more than 15 minutes outside each day. Those aged 3 to 5 should limit their outdoor time to 30 minutes or less.
→ read full article(Italiano) Ucraina-Crimea-Georgia: l’Occidente e la Russia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
In modo anche più importante, la linea divisoria dell’Impero romano fin dal 395, confermata dallo scisma fra cristianesimo cattolico e ortodosso nel 1054, si riflette nella storia estremamente complessa dell’Ucraina. Odessa è a ovest, Donets a est, Ucraina a ovest, più russa a est. E Kiev, la capitale – culla della Russia, Rus – nel mezzo. Un paese spaccato in due, due uniti in uno: entrambi veri.
→ read full articleYellowstone Announces End to 2014 Bison Slaughter Following One-Man Blockade
Buffalo Field Campaign, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Comfrey’s action demonstrated strong public opposition to the buffalo slaughter. The day following Jacob’s blockade, Yellowstone National Park issued their only press release for this year’s controversial bison operations, announcing that Yellowstone had no further plans to capture this season. “My action raised enough public awareness that Yellowstone announced a cease to their operations the following day,” Jacobs said.
→ read full article(Français) Le partenariat transatlantique risque d’accentuer les poursuites contre les États
EurActiv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Des investisseurs réclament plus d’1,7 milliard d’euros à la Grèce, à l’Espagne et à Chypre. Le phénomène pourrait s’aggraver si l’accord du partenariat transatlantique avec les Etats-Unis était ratifié en l’état.
→ read full articleLifeism: Beyond Humanity
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Lifeism is very relevant to our relentless savaging of life across the world. We need to identify with life — this is the most important identity. Identification with gender, ethnicity, race, nations is secondary. We are first and foremost creations of life.
→ read full articleWhat We Can Learn from Child Soldiers
Jonathan Rozen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Because he was a child, Moses Otiti was the only one to survive. For the next 12 months, he was forced to serve the LRA as a soldier. “The reason why they didn’t kill me was because they were really [looking for] people who were young…they really wanted to groom them as soldiers who can fight the battle against the government,” he told IPS.
→ read full articleRevisiting Nuclear Industry Failures on Third Anniversary of Fukushima Disaster
Dr. Rianne Teule, Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
The nuclear industry is trying its hardest to make us forget by downplaying the impacts of the accident, ignoring the fact that the Fukushima reactors are still not under control and claiming that lessons have been learned. Nothing is further from the truth. So business continues as usual and in many countries the same mistakes are being made that played a role in Fukushima.
→ read full articleGMOs: Ban Them or Label Them?
Ronnie Cummins, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Since the controversial introduction in the mid-nineties of genetically engineered (GE) food and crops, and the subsequent fast-tracking of those crops by the federal government—with no independent safety-testing or labeling required—there has been a lively debate among activists, both inside and outside the U.S., about how to drive these unhealthy and environmentally destructive “Frankenfoods” off the market.
→ read full articleCreativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Crucial Difference Between Success and Mastery
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we don’t use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognate — perfectionism — an inhuman aim motivated by a concern with how others view us. Mastery is also not the same as success — an event-based victory based on a peak point, a punctuated moment in time. Mastery is not merely a commitment to a goal, but to a curved-line, constant pursuit.
→ read full articleHuman Security and Human Rights Harmonious to Inharmonious Relations
Dr. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Abstract – Human security and human rights are universal phenomena, poor to rich and individual to all people in the universe. Human security and human rights are harmonious to inharmonious natures. Human security is state to people-centered notion, whereas human rights are human-centered more.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 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 articleDisaster Militarism: Rethinking U.S. Relief in the Asia-Pacific
Foreign Policy In Focus - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Disaster relief has increasingly become part of the justification for increased U.S. troop deployments in the Asia-Pacific region.
→ read full articleSafe!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
The head of a Mexican drug cartel recently took three suitcases full of money to a Swiss bank and demanded to see the bank president. He asked him,
→ read full articleWhy You Should Eat Fermented Foods
Delia Quigley, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Every culture in the world has some form of fermented foods they eat with meals to aid in digestion. It isn’t necessary to eat very much, just enough to provide the proper enzymes to help break down food and make the nutrients available for absorption in the small intestine.
→ read full articleWomen, Education and Peace
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
The author dedicates this article to all women of the world on the eve of UN International Day of Peace. Dr. Prasad advises to foster in education and women an essential portion of our perception of life with fearless enthusiasm for improvement of the moral and physical state of mankind by profound and sound education for women’s freedom and against women’s sequestration and war.
→ read full articleArchbishop Tutu Adds Voice to Israeli Apartheid Week
Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
“In South Africa, we could not have achieved our democracy without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the apartheid regime. I associate myself with the objectives of the 10th international Israeli Apartheid Week.”
→ read full articleSpanish Government Abolishes Prosecutions under Universal Jurisdiction Laws
Alejandro López, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Spain’s right-wing Popular Party (PP) government has placed a ban on attempts to pursue justice for crimes under universal jurisdiction laws. PP spokesman Alfonso Alonso declared it was necessary to eliminate universal jurisdiction because it “only brings conflict.”
→ read full article$3 Billion for Ukraine to Go Straight to…Russia
Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, CNBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
As Western leaders prepare a bailout package for embattled Ukraine, they face a startling irony: Thanks to the almost bizarre structure of a bond deal between Ukraine and Russia, billions of those dollars are almost certain to go directly into the coffers of the Putin government.
→ read full article(Português) Amazonas: como os índios vão testar turismo ecológico
Instituto Socioambiental – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Em experimento inédito, comunidades do Rio Negro criam projeto para pesca turística que não devasta nem natureza, nem cultura — mas gera ocupações, serviços e renda compartilhados. Iniciativa nasceu da luta de organizações e lideranças indígenas, com apoio do Ministério Público, para retirar pescadores ilegais da região.
→ read full articleHaiti/Honduras: Same System, Different Players*
Charlie Hinton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Since the days of the Monroe Doctrine, the U.S. has considered all of Latin America its exclusive “back yard.” It’s maintained a regionally consistent imperial policy to guarantee subservient governments and business arrangements that submit fully to the discipline of global financial markets at the expense of democracy and human rights.
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