Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Review of Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate’ – Extracting Ourselves from the Extractivist Mindset
Robert Jensen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
Naomi Klein has written a brave book that not only confronts the calamity of climate destabilization but also examines the deep roots of the crisis in the perverse logic of capitalism and the dehumanizing values of the “extractivist” high-energy/high-technology world.
→ read full articlePlease Help Us Save the University of Sydney’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
Jake Lynch, Australians for BDS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
I am writing to ask you, who stood with us over our support for the Academic Boycott of Israel, to now write to the University of Sydney to help save the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies in its present form.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’ambiente: molto olistico, molto dialettico
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
Il sottoscritto non è in grado di prendere posizione pro o contro l’ipotesi sulla CO2, o che cosa sia meglio per la vita, se il riscaldamento o il raffreddamento rispetto al livello attuale. La posizione assunta qui è per opinioni più complesse e in particolare più dialettiche.
→ read full articleCall on Pope Francis to Reopen Vatican for Changes in the Church
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
On October 4th we celebrated the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi. When HH the Pope took the name of St. Francis he spoke with passion, calling for justice for the poor, for peace, and an end to violence and war. I hope he will open the windows of the Vatican, let in some fresh air, and let the spirit of love and truth touch the hearts of all people, so that meaningful dialogue and true change can come about.
→ read full articleUS Exploiting West Africa Ebola Outbreak to Establish Military Foothold
Niles Williamson, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
Under the guise of a humanitarian mission aimed at containing the spread of the Ebola virus, the Obama administration is exploiting the outbreak to establish a solid military footing on the African continent.
→ read full articleGandhi, Nonviolence and Peace
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
On the Eve of International Day of Nonviolence – I would like to end my article with the advice my Mahatma Gandhi who himself said, “I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.”
→ read full articleHung Out to Dry
Georg Hodel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
With Hollywood poised to release “Kill the Messenger,” a movie showing how the mainstream U.S. media destroyed journalist Gary Webb for reviving the Contra-cocaine scandal in the mid-1990s, we are reposting Georg Hodel’s 1997 account of how Webb was betrayed by his own editors.
→ read full articleChanging the Political Climate: A Transitional Imperative
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
The most daunting challenging of adapting to the realities of the anthropocene era is achieving a soft transition from state-centric world order to a geo-centric reconfiguring of political community to enable the emergence of effective and humane global governance.
→ read full articleFrom Ukraine to Syria: UN’s Selective Defense of Human Rights
Ulson Gunnar, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
When international law is enforced selectively by certain UN member states, using it as a platform to legitimize otherwise illegal actions, the world teeters on the edge of global lawlessness leaving the remaining members of the UN to ponder alternatives in resolving injustices perpetuated rather than challenged by the UN and its Charter.
→ read full articleOn Writing: A Nonkilling View
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
Writing is not a fight
It is rather a light
Thanks Anyway. A Report on the First World Alliance of Religions Peace Summit
Teresa Langle de Paz, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
We, feminists, want unity above all, because we know that gender marks the lives of all women profoundly. But not all of us are mothers, not all mothers are happy being mothers, not all women who are mothers want their role as peace-builders reduced to motherhood and giving and loving, not all mothers want to be seen as mothers first in their societies and communities.
→ read full articleHonouring Gandhi’s Legacy, UN Reaffirms Power of Peaceful Protest
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
2 October 2014 – UN urges the international community to reaffirm the power and potential of change through peaceful means, following Mahatma Gandhi who inspired today’s International Day of Non-Violence.
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Kill the Messenger Official Trailer (2014)
MovieClips – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA’s role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb.
→ read full articleNos Morituri Te Salutamus
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
Salute of Iraqi Citizens to the Coalition of the Willing–Once Again – Hail and Salaam to your Leaders, to your Senators, and to your Citizens! We who are about to die salute you was the phrase traditionally used by those about to die in the gladiatorial circus arenas of that time. We salute you….
→ read full article4+ Logics of Living Together on Planet Earth
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
It is misleading to describe ‘world order’ as consisting exclusively of sovereign territorial states. This misimpression is further encouraged by the structure of the United Nations, whose members are states, and only states.
→ read full articleRight Livelihood Awards 2014 – ‘Alternative Nobel’ Goes to Edward Snowden
Society for the Right Livelihood Award – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
25 Sep 2014 – The 2014 Right Livelihood Honorary Award goes to EDWARD SNOWDEN (USA) “for his courage and skill in revealing the unprecedented extent of state surveillance violating basic democratic processes and constitutional rights”.
→ read full articleIndia: Stop Harassing Anti-Nuclear Protesters
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Udayakumar, convener of the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy [and of the TRANSCEND Network], was on his way to Nepal on September 16 [2014] to participate in a United Nations consultation on human rights, but was detained and interrogated at the New Delhi airport for over five hours.
→ read full articlePredatory Capitalism and Poverty, Culprits in the Ebola Catastrophe
Patrick Martin, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
These three countries are among the poorest in the world, ranking 161st (Sierra Leone), 176th (Guinea) and 181st (Liberia) in per capita GDP (185 countries total). Their people live in misery, but the countries themselves are rich in natural resources that have been ruthlessly exploited by major corporations and the governments that enforce their interests.
→ read full articleEdited Text of Mr. Obama’s Speech to the UN Turning Him from an American Cheerleader into a World Peace Statesman
Poka Laenui - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
President Obama: “Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen: We come together at a crossroads between war and peace; between disorder and integration; between fear and hope.”
→ read full articleWEEDS . . . Metaphors . . . WARS
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
I speak here of weeds growing across our land,
Wild, uninvited, unwelcome, festering!
I speak here of weeds inhabiting gardens and lawns,
Growing amidst driveways, sidewalks, curb cracks.
‘US Funded and Trained Jihadists in Syria – And Now It Wants to Fight Them’
Russia Today - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
The US is creating in Syria a perpetual state of war, funding jihadists on one side and then attacking them on the other, while the civilian casualties are just a part of the game, investigative reporter Ben Swann told RT.
→ read full article(Italiano) La pace possa prevalere sulla Terra! — Giornata Internazionale della Pace 2014
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Che buona idea, questa giornata! Per riflettere, fare l’inventario, godersi la pace, deplorare la non-pace.
→ read full article3,000 European Jihadis Now in Syria, Iraq: EU Counterterrorism Head
The Japan Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
In an exclusive interview with AFP, Gilles de Kerchove said the flow of Europeans may have been boosted by the Islamic State militant group’s declaration in June of a caliphate straddling Syria and Iraq.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Day 21/9/2014 – Peace through Disarmament
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
We the Peace Movement are the alternative to militarism and war, and as we want a different world, we must be part of building it. We must not be satisfied with improvements and reform to militarism, which is an aberration and a system of dysfunction which must urgently be abolished and replaced by Law.
→ read full articleIsraeli Occupation’s Dark Underbelly Exposed
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
A letter signed by 43 veterans of an elite intelligence unit has sent shockwaves through Israeli society. The implication of their revelations is that the success of Israel’s near half-century of occupation depends on a vast machinery of surveillance and intimidation, while large numbers of Israelis benefit directly or indirectly from industrial-scale oppression.
→ read full articleUruguay’s Legalization of Marijuana Makes Sense in a Senseless Drug War
Benjamin Dangl, TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
In December of last year [2013], Uruguay became the first country in the world to fully legalize and regulate the cultivation, sale, distribution and use of marijuana.
→ read full articleThe NSA Is Renting Its Technology to U.S. Companies
Kevin Collier – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
26 Sep 2014 – The National Security Agency (NSA), which develops surveillance tools that are both dazzling and terrifying, has been making money on the side by licensing its technology to private businesses for more than two decades.
→ read full article(Português) ONU diz que racismo no Brasil é estrutural e institucionalizado
Jorge Américo, Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Documento sobre a discriminação racial no país constatou que os negros são maioria entre as vítimas de assassinatos. Também revelou que possuem menor nível de instrução, menores salários e menor acesso a saúde.
→ read full articleUntil the Rulers Obey: Learning from Latin America’s Social Movements
Clifton Ross and Marcy Rein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
A wave of change rolled through Latin America at the turn of the twenty-first century, sweeping away neoliberal two-party governments, bringing calls to re-found the states based on broad participation and democratically drafted constitutions.
→ read full articleThe Agony of Iraq
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
“Modern warfare particularly depends on oil, because virtually all weapons systems rely on oil-based fuel – tanks, trucks, armored vehicles, self-propelled artillery pieces, airplanes, and naval ships. For this reason, the governments and general staffs of powerful nations seek to ensure a steady supply of oil during wartime, to fuel oil-hungry military forces in far-flung operational theaters.”
→ read full articleAh, If I Were 25
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Research shows that one of the most often used words in Hebrew is “Shalom”. It is based on the root “whole” and conveys the sense of wholeness, safety, wellbeing. In Arabic, Salaam has the same meaning. Two weeks ago, on my 91st birthday, I asked myself: if I were 25 and straining for action, how would I go about trying to create a new Left?
→ read full articleThe United Nations Climate Summit
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Throughout the world, peoples of all countries need to act with urgency to switch to an economy that aims at sustainability rather than endless consumption and growth, an economy based on renewable energy rather than fossil fuels, an economy devoted to life rather than to profits.
→ read full articleTackling the Climate Catastrophe Strategically
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
If you like to ask or beg your oppressor to go easy on you, then you do not need to read this article. And if you like to do what makes you feel good at the time, irrespective of its strategic impact, then this article is not for you either. My interest in tackling violence has always been to take action that leaves the perpetrator powerless (but, hopefully, a convert too).
→ read full articleEnduring Territorial Disputes
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
The book is about evenly divided between a general analysis of enduring territorial disputes followed by useful case studies including the ongoing law-of-the-sea delimitation disputes among China, Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam, the border disputes among Israel, Syria and Lebanon concerning the Golan Heights, and the now quieter Sino-Soviet/Russian border dispute.
→ read full articleThe Scots Back Off
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
If the Scots had not backed off they might have helped the English to break away from their imperial past and start living in the present as Europeans. Unfortunately [they] kept the English psychologically locked into a dysfunctional past, losing them a key role in the shaping of new Europe, and making them nothing but a subservient de facto colony of the USA.
→ read full articleThe Purpose and the Pretence – Bombing Isis
Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Traditionally, claims that an Official Enemy is uniquely Evil rise to a deafening crescendo just prior to an attack on that enemy. The USA does not bomb countries for humanitarian objectives. Humanitarianism is the pretense, not the purpose.
→ read full articleHow Did The British Get An Empire?
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
It makes perfect sense then that the sepoys, from the ‘untouchable’ or lower castes, discriminated against by a caste-ridden society, gravitated to a service that treated them honourably. They fought for their own honour, and created an empire for foreigners from kingdoms that gave them little respect or social opportunity.
→ read full articleWrong Comparison
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
A mechanic was removing a cylinder head from the motor of a Harley Davidson, when he spotted a world‑famous heart surgeon in his shop.
→ read full articleEU Backpedaling on Anti-Russian Sanctions Not to Freeze in Winter
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
According to Russia’s permanent representative to the EU Vladimir Chizhov, the damage from the EU sanctions for EU economies is comparable to the damage that they cause to the Russian economy.
→ read full articleIsis’ Letter to the West
First Dog on the Moon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Isis has sent a heartfelt letter of encouragement to the west. We give you the best extracts.
→ read full articleThe West and the Fascist Mindset Within: Romani Folk under Fire
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
The Rom folk face a wide range of often interrelated problems: citizenship, political participation, racially-motivated violence, poverty, unemployment, and an image which arouses ancestral fears of Gypsies.
→ read full articleChilean Art of Civil Disobedience: Review from V&A, London
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
The Disobedient Objects exhibition is on display at the Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, London, until 1st February 2015.
→ read full articleUN Human Rights Council Backs Argentina on US Debt Row
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
26 Sep 2014 – The United Nations Human Rights Council has passed a resolution in Geneva condemning a group of American hedge funds that took Argentina to court.
→ read full articleMayan People’s Movement Defeats Monsanto Law in Guatemala
Christin Sandberg, Intercontinental Cry - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
The unjust neo-liberal law would have given exclusivity on patented seeds to a handful of transnational companies. But Mayans resisted it relentlessly. The success of these protests is an inspiring example of what the people can achieve for themselves when they rise up to confront power in defense of their own interests.
→ read full articleStreet Scenes from a Damascus Neighborhood
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Da’ish (IS), Free Syrian Army and al Nusra Compete for Dwindling Support…
→ read full articleThe Lesson Hollywood Cannot Teach Us
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Possibly the most insightful statement ever made by a journalist was from Gary Webb, who killed himself in 2004, years after the CIA and media rivals destroyed his career and credibility. Now Hollywood is making a film, called ‘Kill the Messenger’, about the San Jose Mercury News reporter.
→ read full article(Português) ECOmetaforizando para o BEM
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Um monte de problemas temos que enfrentar ?
Rios de boas soluções saibamos encontrar
On the Eve of UN International Day of Peace: The Mother of Peace Yet to Be Born
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Here I would like to enlighten the people, especially those who are not aware, about the beginning of the UN Day and Year of Peace before to start to write on the theme of the event – “The Mother of Peace yet to be born”.
→ read full articleFormal Complaint to the Australian Broadcasting Commission
Susan Dirgham – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Breaches on ABC Code of Practice in Accuracy, Impartiality and Diversity of Perspectives. Does a ‘moderate’ rebel kill differently to an ‘extremist’ rebel? – Ahmad Al-Rahal, a ‘moderate rebel’, declared in March 2014, “There is no sectarianism in this revolution. Syria only has two sects: that of the regime and that of the revolution.”
→ read full article32 Years after the Sabra-Shatila Massacre: Tension Mounts in Lebanon’s Camps
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Established during the Nakba 66 years ago, the Palestinian camps in Lebanon—initially intended as “temporary”—have undergone a 400% population increase over the years, and today they are literally overflowing with nearly a quarter of a million desperate Palestinians and Syrians.
→ read full articleUS Military, Obama Administration Plan Massive Military Escalation in Syria and Iraq
Patrick Martin, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
29 Sep 2014 – The comments this weekend by spokesmen for the White House, the Pentagon and US Congress are part of a carefully orchestrated campaign to prepare public opinion for full-scale war in the Middle East.
→ read full articleEl Salvador: Total Ban on Abortion is Killing Women and Girls and Condemning Others to Decades Behind Bars
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
27 Sep 2014 – The government’s repressive and outdated total ban on abortion is blighting the lives of women and girls, pushing them to unsafe, clandestine abortions or forcing them through dangerous pregnancies. Those terminating their pregnancies could face years in prison.
→ read full articleSpying and Storing: Assange Says ‘Google Works like NSA’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange equated Google with the National Security Agency and GCHQ, saying the tech giant has become “a privatized version of the NSA,” as it collects, stores, and indexes people’s data. He made his remarks to BBC and Sky News.
→ read full articleFrom the Editor’s Desk
Antonio C. S. Rosa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Dear friends, I am still experiencing jetlag from last week’s trip to South Korea; came back yesterday evening. We managed to select and put together the most important and relevant pieces of news, analysis, info, and commentary from around the web–in addition to Johan’s Editorial. Next week we shall return in full force.
→ read full article(Português) E Sem Democracia?
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Prestigiemos a democracia que é “o pior regime com a exceção de todos os outros”, segundo Winston Churchill. Qualquer coisa fora dela é pior do que ela defeituosa e tortuosa.
→ read full articleResponse to Questions at US Presidential Press Conference
News from Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
So, are we at war with the TVBP (those very bad people)? I am glad someone asked that question, because it allows me to make perfectly clear that this is not a new war we are embarking upon. And no, it is not the old war, even though it’s happening in more or less the same place. Because I ended that war.
→ read full articleHannibal ad Portas
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
The last war has come to an end, the next war has not yet started, so let’s use the time to speak of many things. Of Hannibal, for example.
→ read full articleNATO Makes War – NATO Is Not an Alliance for Peace
Robin Edward Poulton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
NATO’s summit in Wales (September 4-5, 2014) was BAD NEWS for peace makers, and bad for all world citizens. Are the NATO Nuts going to invade Ukraine? Do they want to create a new European war? Dangerous rhetoric and dangerous ideas lead to dangerous actions.
→ read full articleUkraine – Truce or Trojan Horse: Retreat, Re-Armament and Relaunch
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
The NATO proxy war in the Ukraine started with the violent US-EU-sponsored overthrow of the elected government via a mob putsch in February 2014. This was well financed at $5 billion, according to President Obama’s Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland.
→ read full articleIndian PM Backs Russia, China Ahead of US Trip
The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
22 Sep 2014 – Days ahead of his US visit, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has backed BRICS members Russia and China, refusing to criticise Moscow for its annexation of Crimea and reiterating trust in China’s handling of territorial disputes in the east and south China seas.
→ read full articleUSA/UK Committed Genocide against Iraq People
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
USA/UK committed genocide against Iraq people between 1990/2012 killing 3.3 million including 750,000 children through sanctions and war.
→ read full articleScotland on the Euphrates: The Obsolescence of the Nation-State
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Two countries competed this week for first place in news programs all over the world: Scotland and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. There could not be a greater difference than between these two countries.
→ read full articleReimagining Tesla’s Creativity through Technomimicry
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
His genius is known to have derived in part from his unusual capacity to imagine models and run them as simulations — mentally — without any need to articulate them in conventional design plans and test prototypes.
→ read full articlePeace and Freedoms for Indian Women in the Digital Era
Dr. Stephen Gill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Democracy has brought a new light for repressed classes, but sorrowfully it has not kept its promise for a promised land for women.
→ read full article(Português) O Mel
Sérgio greif – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Ainda que as propriedades medicinais do mel fossem comprovadas cientificamente, ainda assim a exploração apícola não poderia se sustentar pelo ponto de vista ético. Mas a presença de grande número de plantas medicinais que possuem propriedades semelhantes torna o uso do mel e outros produtos apícolas completamente dispensáveis.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’ombra lunga della storia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
USA, vi piace emettere certificati di pariah ai vari paesi; giù e fuori. Il nostro certificato a voi dice irrilevanza – ci è impossibile cooperare con voi. Non possiamo costringervi a cambiare, dovete volerlo voi stessi. Ma possiamo togliervi la palla dal vostro cortile e giocarcela per conto nostro. La leadership dovrebbe essere collettiva, come nei BRICS; la leadership non dovrebbe mai essere di un solo paese, o una sola persona.
→ read full articleGlobal Commission Urges Decriminalisation of Drug Use
Jim Lobe, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
A top-level international panel called Tuesday [9 Sep 2014] for a major shift in global drug-control policies from prohibition to decriminalisation and regulation. In a 43-page report, the Global Commission on Drug Policy denounced what has been known for more than four decades as the “war against drugs” as a failure and argued that new approaches prioritising human rights and health were urgently needed.
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Child Piano Prodigy – Outstanding Natural Talent! (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
4-Year-Old Chinese Boy Plays Piano like a Master
→ read full articleWar, Circus and Injustice Down Under
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Australia is awash with knowledge of the “needs” of its first people. Every week, it seems, yet another study adds to the torrent of information about the imposed impoverishment of and vicious discrimination against Indigenous people: apartheid in all but name.
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Gitmo Exclusive: Media Brainwashing, Sham Trials & Closing Gitmo for Good (Part II)
Abby Martin, breakingtheset – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Sep 3, 2014 – On Gitmo ‘Transparency’, Review Board Red Tape, Military Commissions Sham, Zero Dark Thirty Lies and Closing Guantanamo for Good.
→ read full articleWar
Rifet Bahtijaragić – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
How could you say people deserve war!
Where did you get such a grotesque idea?!
How to Be Alone: An Antidote to One of the Central Anxieties and Greatest Paradoxes of Our Time
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
“We live in a society which sees high self-esteem as a proof of well-being, but we do not want to be intimate with this admirable and desirable person.”
→ read full articleJesus!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
A burglar broke through a window and entered a pitch-dark room.
→ read full articleThe NGO-ization of Resistance
Arundhati Roy, Massalijn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.
→ read full articlePhilosophy of Life: Some Propositions
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
One needs to contribute to society in his own capability. A person who has no food needs to be busy to find means of subsistence. But a person who has no such worry should contribute to society.
→ read full article(English/Portuguese) Ecolinguisticamente Rimando em Português e Inglês
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Ecolinquistical Rhymes in English and Portuguese
→ read full articleMemo on the Evaluation of the Community Work Program
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
This memo stresses the importance of evaluating CWP´s compliance with its mandate to use public employment to catalyse community development. It also underlines the importance of issues in economic theory that bear on CWP´s contribution to society.
→ read full articleGerman TV Shows Nazi Symbols on Helmets of Ukraine Soldiers
NBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Germans were confronted with images of their country’s dark past on Monday [8 Sep 2014] night, when German public broadcaster ZDF showed video of Ukrainian soldiers with Nazi symbols on their helmets in its evening newscast.
→ read full articleNo to US/NATO and Yes to Peace
Mairead Corrigan Maguire , Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
While US/UK/NATO are pushing for war with Russia, it behoves people and their governments around the world to take a clear stand for peace and against violence and war, no matter where it comes from.
→ read full articleExpensive?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
A foreign tourist’s car got stuck in a small Russian village.
→ read full articleCarney Still White House ‘Propagandist’ Now Posing as Tie-Less CNN Analyst
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney is essentially doing the same job since being taken on by CNN – serving as propagandist for the government, award-winning journalist Ben Swann told RT.
→ read full articleIraq: Yazidis’ Genocide?
René Wadlow, UN Geneva Association of Word Citizens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
With the incomplete evidence at hand, I would maintain that the ISIS policy is genocide and not just a control of territory. Although the UN “track record” of dealing with genocide is very mixed, the first immediate step is for a State to raise the issue within the UN.
→ read full article(Italiano) Difetti nel pensiero USA – e qualche rimedio
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Difetto 2. Confondere il conflitto con la violenza. O i “disordini”. Trattare il conflitto diventa gestire la violenza verso una tregua o la capitolazione, poi ripulire la situazione “post- conflittuale”, solo per scoprire che la violenza riappare, forse sotto forma di vendetta. Nulla di risolto. Rimedio: Separare i concetti.
→ read full articleIndia’s PM Modi towards World’s Top Leader Keeping Confidence with Neighbors
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
The principal reason of insecurity to Modi is that he is speeding up his social doctrine to respect, protect, preserve, and promote poor, marginalized, disadvantaged, and vulnerable people, not limiting him within the border, but beyond of it.
→ read full articleOverthrowing Other People’s Governments: The Master List
William Blum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)
→ read full articleBreaking the Last Taboo – Gaza and the Threat of World War
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Nothing has changed since the Zionists’ infamous “Plan D” in 1948 that ethnically cleansed an entire people. Recently, on the Times of Israel were the words: “Genocide is Permissible”. A deputy speaker of the Knesset demands a policy of mass expulsion into concentration camps. An MP, Ayelet Shaked, calls for the extermination of Palestinian mothers to prevent them giving birth to what she calls “little snakes”.
→ read full articleNATO Loses Ukraine
Margaret Kimberley, BAR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Peace is the last thing that the Nobel Peace Prize winning president wants to see. Putin is the winner by any standard but the United States won’t admit what is obvious.
→ read full articleDefeating the Violence of Psychiatry
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
As the movement to abolish psychiatry continues to gather momentum it is worth reviewing its delusional foundation, the history of its violence and its function as a weapon of elite social control. According to research, in the USA ‘prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer’ and it ‘is inescapable that their availability creates more harm than good’.
→ read full article(Português) Qual Português?
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Sei que a Língua é um naipe de possibilidades, mas sei também do que aprendi como sendo certo e errado. Regras para honrar a clareza, coerência, concisão, elegância. Mesmo na linguagem falada, mais solta e rica de desvios.
→ read full articleSteven Salaita and Zionist McCarthyism
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
The outcome of the Salaita case will exhibit the current balance of influence as between Zionist McCarthyism and academic freedom. That such a struggle should be in doubt is itself a national disgrace that suggests the worrisome fragility of academic freedom as reinforced by the potency of money and regressive ideology.
→ read full articleSpiritual Leaders for Nonkilling
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Spiritual leaders,
Most powerful is what you teach
spiritually you guide and inspire
people East and West you reach
Leo Tolstoy: The Law of Love
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
9 September marks the birth of the multi-dimensional Count Leo Tolstoy, an aristocratic land owner, a young military officer, a distinguished author of War and Peace, a spiritual-moral philosopher, and a champion of non-violent action. It is this last aspect and the link with Mahatma Gandhi that I would like to stress.
→ read full articleMessage from the TMS Editor
Antonio C. S. Rosa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Dear friends, TMS subscribers & readers, on Sep 15, when this edition of TRANSCEND Media Service goes online by default at 12 noon GMT, I will be onboard an airplane heading for Beijing on my way to the WARP-World Alliance of Religions for Peace Summit in Seoul, South Korea.
→ read full articleTo Recruits
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
You are pawns–
don’t you understand that?
It’s a game
and you aren’t worth much,
The Long Shadows of History
Johan Galtung, 15 Sep 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
USA, our certificate to you says ‘irrelevance.’ You always too quickly resort to violence, no good at deeper causes. We cannot force you to change, you have to will that yourself. But we can take the ball out of your court and play it ourselves. Leadership should be collective, like BRICS; leadership should never be one country, or one person.
→ read full articleReligions for Peace
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Religions for Peace
A mission never to cease
Obama and ISIS
David McReynolds – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
The problem is that, as always happens in these cases, there is a certain “selective outrage”, a kind of “willed amnesia” about our own role in such matters. Not all of the sins of America, taken together, justify the beheading of a single journalist – but memory may help us understand the roots of that horror.
→ read full articleU.S. Threatened Hefty Fines to Make Yahoo Hand Over User Data
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
The U.S. government in 2008 threatened to fine Yahoo Inc $250,000 a day if it failed to turn over customer data to intelligence agencies, according to documents unsealed on Thursday [11 Sep 2014].
→ read full articlePeace Ecology
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
With serendipitous timing, as a big march for the climate, and various related events, are planned on and around the International Day of Peace [21 Sep 2014], Randall Amster has just published an important book called Peace Ecology.
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Gitmo Exclusive: An Untold History of Occupation, Torture & Resistance (Part I)
Abby Martin, breakingtheset – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Sep 2, 2014 – Abby Martin Breaks the Set on the History of Gitmo, Methods of Torture, the Remaining Detainees and the Ongoing Hunger Strikes by Prisoners.
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