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Why War: Einstein and Freud’s Little-Known Correspondence on Violence, Peace, and Human Nature
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
“As long as all international conflicts are not subject to arbitration and the enforcement of decisions arrived at by arbitration is not guaranteed, and as long as war production is not prohibited we may be sure that war will follow upon war. Unless our civilization achieves the moral strength to overcome this evil, it is bound to share the fate of former civilizations: decline and decay.” — Einstein
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Apr 20-26 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.” (Quoted from Desiderata) – Max Ehrmann
→ read full article12 Strategic Questions for Europe Regarding Forced Immigration from Africa
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
in the light of the continuing influx and the associated fatalities.
→ read full article‘Fukushima Lessons: Any Notion That Nuclear Power Is Clean Is Obsolete’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
The world must phase out nuclear power because it is absolutely not clean from the mining processing of uranium to the generation of high-level radioactive waste, Kevin Kamps for the radioactive waste watchdog Beyond Nuclear, said.
→ read full articleWeakening and Discrediting the UN: The Mission of Israeli QGOs [Quasi-Government Organizations]
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
This is the full text of my presentation at the conference “The Israeli Lobby: Is it good for US? Is it good for Israel?” National Press Club, April 10, 2015. Although there were many illuminating presentations during the day, I would call particular attention to the memorable remarks of two highly informed Israelis, Gideon Levy and Miko Peled.
→ read full articleYemen Peace Plan Deserves Strong Support and Speedy Action
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
The Yemen Peace Plan in its four steps is similar to an earlier Appeal of the Association of World Citizens (AWC). However, it is unlikely that Iran was influenced by the AWC Appeal; rather independent and objective analysis of the armed conflict leads to the same approach.
→ read full articleThe Google/China Hacking Case: How Many News Outlets Do a Original Reporting on a Big Story?
Jonathan Stray – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
From 800 news stories researched online about the hacking story, all but 121 were identical, 13 contained at least one personal or unique quote, and just seven represented original journalistic work. In other words, 85% of the [800] news articles were verbatim rewrites from other journalists whereas only about 1% constituted original stories.
→ read full articleUS Cops Only Do Bad Things When They’re Being Filmed
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
This Modern World – Satirical Comic Strip
→ read full articleOpen Veins, Healing Wounds, in Latin America [R.I.P. Eduardo Galeano]
Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
20 Apr 2015
As British writer John Berger has said of Eduardo Galeano, “To publish Eduardo Galeano is to publish the enemy: the enemy of lies, indifference, above all of forgetfulness. Thanks to him, our crimes will be remembered. His tenderness is devastating, his truthfulness furious.”
→ read full articleWhy Lincoln Still Matters Today
Allen L. Roland, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
On the anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination on April 14, 1865, 150 years ago, I pause to reflect on this giant of a man and 16th President who represents all the moral qualities we would hope our current Presidents embody ~ and yet we remain so bitterly disappointed when few if any of these Presidential pretenders can approach the moral timbre of our greatest president.
→ read full articleHuman Guinea Pigs
Want to Know – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
How much are government and business risking our lives and health with dangerous technologies like nuclear power, genetically modified foods, inadequately tested vaccines, and other even worse “experiments”? The American Medical Association and many doctors sided with the tobacco industry long after the harmful effects of smoking were proven. Some scientists also once believed radiation had little danger, putting volunteers at risk to prove it.
→ read full articleThe Future of International Law
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Abstract: After the invention of agriculture, roughly 10,000 years ago, humans began to live in progressively larger groups, which were sometimes multi-ethnic. In order to make towns, cities and finally nations function without excessive injustice and violence, both ethical and legal systems were needed. Today, in an era of global economic interdependence, instantaneous worldwide communication and all-destroying thermonuclear weapons, we urgently need new global ethical principles and a just and enforceable system of international laws.
→ read full articleHadi: A Hollow President Whose Masters in Riyadh Are Killing Us
Hossain al-Bokheiti – Middle East Eye,
20 Apr 2015
The self-exiled Yemeni president supports a Saudi-led bombing campaign that is destroying the country that he betrayed and then fled.
→ read full articleWhy Is Syriza Demanding Reparations from Germany?
Peter Schwarz, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
The demand for reparations for such crimes resonates amongst sections of the Greek, as well as the German, population. The arrogance with which the media and politicians in Germany are demanding drastic social cuts in Greece plays a role in this. It recalls the ruthless behavior of the Nazis. Moreover, the surviving victims of Nazi crimes are especially hard hit by the austerity measures in Greece.
→ read full articleHow Worker Co-ops are Moving beyond Capitalism
David Morgan, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
11 Apr 2015 – The explosion of worker cooperatives in recent years has social justice organizers talking. Transitioning to a people-powered economy will require the work of many different social movements and worker co-ops have come to the center of the conversation due to their ability to address multiple issues at once.
→ read full articleThe Active Defense of the Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
There are periods in the history of humanity when some great new ideas are introduced, beneficial for all. Such ideas mark the beginning of a new era with far-reaching effects, creating new conditions for cooperation. The Roerich Pact for the protection of the cultural heritage of humanity signed by 21 States in a Pan-American Union ceremony is such a sign of a new era which transcends all obstacles, prejudices and intolerances.
→ read full articleGünter Grass (16 Oct 1927–13 Apr 2015): ‘What Must Be Said’
Günter Grass (Nobel Literature Laureate) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Poem published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung created a heated debate in both Germany and Israel.
→ read full article(Português) Como Reproduzimos a Cultura do Capital
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Quem não tem, quer ter, quem tem, quer ter mais e quem tem mais diz: nunca é suficiente. E para a grande maioria, a competição e não a solidariedade e a supremacia do mais forte prevalecem sobre qualquer outro valor, nas relações sociais, especialmente, nos negócios.
→ read full articleThe Bank of International Settlements: Meet the Secretive Group That Runs the World
Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
When it comes to the historic record, nothing comes closer to the stereotypical, secretive group determining the fate of over 7 billion people, than the Bank of International Settlements, which hides in such plain sight, that few have ever paid much attention. -This Is Their Story-
→ read full articleYou Cannot Bomb Me Anymore
Ada Aharoni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
For International Women’s Day – 8 Mar 2015
Listen, little big man,
you cannot bomb me anymore
because I don’t allow you
to bomb me anymore
China, Russia Coming Closer to Create a New World Order
Vikas Shukla, Value Walk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
China continues to expand its geopolitical influence and military power, challenging the United States’ position as the world’s superpower. Meanwhile, economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. and its allies have prompted Russia to move closer to Asian countries to alleviate the impact of sanctions.
→ read full articleWorld Famous German Author [Nobel Literature Laureate] Günter Grass Dies at Age 87
Peter Schwarz, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
14 April 2015 – German author Günter Grass has died at the age of 87 in Lübeck, Germany following an infection. He is one of the most important German writers of the 20th century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.
→ read full article(Italiano) Di sola andata. Per i migranti morti ieri nel Canale di Sicilia
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Nessuno potrà dire che non sapeva
E che per organizzare una mobilitazione collettiva autoconvocata ci vogliono 48 ore dal naufragio di 700/900 migranti nel Canale di Sicilia
Ad Aosta. In Valle d’Aosta.
La ricca Valle d’Aosta che non può ospitare i migranti. Anzi ne può ospitare solo uno.
The Black Hole
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
When Johan Galtung, widely recognized as the founder of the academic discipline of peace research, founded the first International Peace Research Institute in Oslo in 1959, he and his colleagues sent copies of their working papers regularly to about 400 social science institutes around the world, including the Institute for World Economy and International Relations in Moscow.
→ read full articleMoment of Truth for the Nobel Peace Prize
Fredrik S. Heffermehl and Tomas Magnusson, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
In recent years the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize have not reflected the hope of the award’s founder – Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) – that the world be freed of weapons, warriors and war, or promoted the vision of preventing future war by what Nobel called “creating the brotherhood of nations”.
→ read full article‘World Bank Projects Serve for Industrial Ambitions, Not Alleviate Poverty’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
World Bank projects in developing countries have had a dramatic impact, forced displacement and the impoverishment of local communities and indigenous people, political analyst Josh Klemm from International Rivers said.
→ read full articleGermany is the Tell-Tale Heart of America’s Drone War
Jeremy Scahill – The Intercept,
20 Apr 2015
A top-secret U.S. intelligence document obtained by The Intercept reveals that the sprawling U.S. military base in Ramstein, Germany plays a critical role in the American drone program, relaying commands from drone operators to their remote aircraft in Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan and other targeted countries.
→ read full articleNonviolence Charter: Progress Report 6 (Apr 2015)
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D., Anita McKone and Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
20 Apr 2015 – Here is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ and a sample of news about, and reports of forthcoming events by, Charter signatories.
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DARPA Building Real Life Terminators, Military Robots
Documentary & Discovery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technologies for use by the military.
→ read full articleHow a Gay Man Saved 14 Million Lives – Alan Turing
Captain Paul Watson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
This gay atheist man saved the lives of over 14 million people in World War II. He broke the “unbreakable” Nazi ‘Enigma Code.’ And yet in 1952 he was sentenced to two years in prison. His crime: he was a homosexual. He was offered an alternative to prison – chemical castration. It destroyed his health and caused depression. In 1954 he was dead at 41 of suspected suicide.
→ read full articlePope Francis’ Latest Mission: Stopping Nuclear Weapons
Elizabeth Dias – Time,
20 Apr 2015
April 10, 2015 – The Vatican has long opposed nuclear weapons, but Pope Francis is making the cause one of the top diplomatic priorities of his two-year-old papacy. The U.S. State Department is revving up its efforts to work with the Holy See.
→ read full articleFukushima Storage Facility Drone Video – Nuclear Waste in Bags Near Ocean
Jennifer Baker, Revolution News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Drone footage captured by Ruptly shows millions of tons of radioactive soil and debris packed in black bags in a temporary storage site at Tomioka, Fukushima prefecture. This incredible video shows the haphazard manner in which this temporary storage facility is stacking up nuclear waste in what appears to be less than 100 yards from the Pacific Ocean.
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Clair De Lune (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Annling Wang – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Recorded at home in 2007. Seven-year-old girl plays one of the most beautiful compositions of Claude Debussy. A classic.
→ read full articleChinese Logic
Baher Kamal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Henry Kissinger once asked Chou En-Lai to theorize on what might have happened if Nikita Khrushchev had been assassinated instead of John F. Kennedy.
→ read full articleDrone Victims Take Germany to Court for Abetting U.S. Murders
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Their suit argues that it is illegal under German law for the German government to allow the U.S. air base at Ramstein to be used for drone murders abroad. The suit comes after the passage of a resolution in the European Parliament urging European nations to “oppose and ban the practice of extrajudicial targeted killings.”
→ read full articleArmenians 1915: The Genocide Controversy
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
According to the great American novelist William Faulkner, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” This year being the centenary of the contested events of 1915 makes it understandable that was simmering through the decades has come to a boil, with the anniversary day of April 24th likely to be the climax of this latest phase of the unresolved drama.
→ read full article(Português) A Mídia Está Perdendo a Grande História dos Animais
Peter Fricker - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
20 Apr 2015
Em 2012 um grupo de cientistas proeminentes assinou algo chamado Declaração de Cambridge sobre a Consciência, na qual eles expressam seu apoio à visão de que os animais são conscientes do mesmo modo que os humanos. Enquanto isso, evidências científicas de inteligência e senciência animal continuam a se acumularem.
→ read full article(Italiano) Gandhi e Mandela: due sudafricani
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Il SudAfrica offrì ai due avvocati un tirocinio per mutare la legge in uno strumento di libertà trasgredendola – implicito anche nel concetto di Legge – operando contro l’aspetto del castigo che diede a tutti e due l’aura di icone sofferenti per la propria causa.
→ read full articleNot Fit to Print: When Good Design Goes Bad
Anna Flagg and Moiz Syed, AJ+ On the News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
A Lesson from The New York Times on How to Mislead with Numbers – What follows is a breakdown of some ways that design can be misused to tell a biased story. This New York Times article reminds us that design is just as much an editorial tool.
→ read full articleWho’s Afraid of the Big Bad Bomb?
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
4 Apr 2015 – I must start with a shocking confession: I am not afraid of the Iranian nuclear bomb. I know that this makes me an abnormal person, almost a freak. But what can I do? I am unable to work up fear, like a real Israeli. Try as I may, the Iranian bomb does not make me hysterical.
→ read full articleSummary of False Flag Operations and False Flag Terrorism
Want to Know – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
“False Flag Terrorism” occurs when elements within a government stage a secret operation whereby government forces pretend to be a targeted enemy while attacking their own forces or people. The attack is then falsely blamed on the enemy in order to justify going to war against that enemy.
→ read full articleOur SecureDrop System for Leaks Now Uses HTTPS
Micah Lee – The Intercept,
13 Apr 2015
The new setup helps assure leakers they are connecting with the authentic Intercept SecureDrop and not an impostor.
→ read full articleWar on Yemen: Where Oil and Geopolitics Mix
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – Russia Today,
13 Apr 2015
9 Apr 2015 – Everything about the war on Yemen is a smokescreen. Concealed behind the smoke is a tale of geopolitics and petro-politics that aims to control the Gulf of Aden. The irony should not be lost on observers that the Saudi-led coalition is comprised of an unhealthy mixture of backward family dictatorships and corrupt governments that essentially are the antithesis of democracy.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi Plays Down Role as Myanmar’s Conscience
Nathan Vanderklippe - The Globe and Mail,
13 Apr 2015
Ms. Suu Kyi has faced withering disapproval over her unwillingness to offer a strong repudiation of Myanmar’s treatment of the Rohingya, a Muslim group the country does not recognize as citizens and which the United Nations has called one of the most persecuted minorities on earth. Some have called for her Nobel Prize to be rescinded, while others have accused her of trading her moral standing for calculated politics.
→ read full article(Italiano) Un rapporto ONU: il 2014 ha visto il maggior numero di palestinesi uccisi dall’esercito israeliano dal 1967
Amira Hass – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
7 apr 2015 – Le forze di sicurezza israeliane hanno ucciso 2.312 palestinesi, la maggiore parte dei quali l’estate [scorsa] nella guerra di Gaza. Circa due terzi erano civili.
→ read full articleNew Spring in Russia-Greek Ties: Tsipras
The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Putin and Greek Prime Minister Tsipras discussed bilateral trade, economic, investment ties. Tsipras on Wednesday [8 Apr 2015] said Greece “openly disapproves” of European anti-Russian sanctions, because the EU economic war against Russia could lead to a new Cold War.
→ read full articleWhat Can Be Done to Abolish War?
International Peace Bureau - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Photography and Essay Competitions – £100 prize for the winners. Write an essay answering the following question: WHAT CAN BE DONE TO ABOLISH WAR? Or: Take an original photograph that interprets the question: WHAT DOES PEACE MEAN TO YOU?
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Piano Recital: Launching of ‘Universal Abolition of Militarism’
Alberto Portugheis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
TRANSCEND Member, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and world renowned international pianist Alberto Portugheis will perform a recital to launch his International Peace Campaign. 30 May 2015, at 5pm, Wesley Centre, Harrogate, England.
→ read full article290 Million-Year-Old Human Footprint Has Researchers Scratching Their Heads
Ivan Petricevic, Ancient Code – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Is it possible that we have history all wrong? That the dates that conventional history is giving us regarding mankind are all incorrect? That humans lived on Earth much sooner that science originally thought so?
→ read full articleBook Review: Love and Resistance, by Theresa Wolfwood
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Her poems at times are so powerful that if they were printed in the next morning’s newspapers in some parts of the world, civil disobedience movements would rally to press for justice.
→ read full articleThe Real Nuclear Threat
Robert C. Koehler, Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Three privatized nuclear laboratories — Los Alamos, Sandia and Livermore — are behind the immense investment (as much as $1 trillion over 30 years) in upgraded, more destructive nuclear warheads. This aggressive pressure from the American business sector is a lot more frightening than any aggression emanating from Iran, and may indicate where the real push for war comes from.
→ read full articleWhy Are We Planning to Walk Across the Demilitarized Zone That Separates North and South Korea?
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Seventy years ago, as the Cold War was being waged, the USA unilaterally drew the line across the 38th parallel—later with the former USSR’s agreement—dividing an ancient country that had just suffered 35 years of Japanese colonial occupation. Now the conflict on the Korean peninsula threatens peace in the Asia Pacific and throughout our world.
→ read full articleMy Missing Family in Syria: Naming and Shaming in Yarmouk
Ramzy Baroud – Middle East Eye,
13 Apr 2015
10 Apr 2015 – We must remember that there are still 18,000 people trapped in Yarmouk, and even if it is untimely, we must do something – anything. The refugees of Yarmouk – whose population once exceeded 250,000 – is a microcosm of the story of a whole nation, whose perpetual pain shames us all, none excluded.
→ read full articleThe Pentagon Plan to ‘Divide and Rule’ the Muslim World
Nafeez Ahmed, Ph.D. – Middle East Eye,
13 Apr 2015
Yemen is the latest casualty of a neoconservative strategy commissioned by the US Army to ‘capitalise on Sunni-Shia conflict’ in the Middle East – the goal is nothing short of ‘Western dominance’.
→ read full articleBlessed Ambiguity
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
King Louis XI of France was superstitious. One time, his astrologer predicted nice weather.
→ read full articleLatin America and the Anglo-American Booby-Left
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Numerous prominent progressive US pundits, whose political pronouncements carry great weight in the alternative media, have proclaimed ‘Latin America’s decisive break’ with US domination and have gone on to announce the beginning of a new ‘post-imperial epoch’.
→ read full articleSaving Passengers of the Good Ship Titan… Earth
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
So what can we learn from the sinking of the Titanic and its huge death toll that can help us to avert sinking the Good Ship Earth and killing off most, if not all, humans and many other species besides? Let me consider each item above in turn.
→ read full articleCounteracting Extremes Enabling Normal Flying
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Insights for Global Governance from Birds on the Wing and the Dodo – I wish the eagle had not been chosen as the representative of this country. He is a bird of bad moral character; he does not get his living honestly. Too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the fishing hawk and, when that diligent bird has taken a fish and is bearing it for his young ones, the bald eagle pursues him and takes the fish. With all this injustice, he is never in good case.
→ read full article(Italiano) Criminalizzare la guerra: venti raccomandazioni
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
La criminalizzazione è ambigua e può anche inasprire e prolungare le guerre; dovrebbe accompagnarsi agli approcci positivi al diritto alla pace, alla rimozione delle cause di guerra e alla rimozione della guerra quale mala istituzione in termini sociali.
→ read full article(Italiano) Stalin il comunista e Mao il comunitarista
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Churchill e Hitler fecero la storia ma non la cambiarono; dopo la guerra le loro società ritrovarono le proprie vecchie forme. Stalin e Mao cambiarono sostanzialmente le loro società molto più grandi, e conferirono nuove linee di faglia e alleanze al sistema statuale westfalico.
→ read full articleExplaining the Saudi-Iranian Rivalry in Yemen
Shahir Shahidsaless – Middle East Eye,
13 Apr 2015
While many observers view the conflict in Yemen as rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia, this view may not reflect the entire picture.
→ read full articleFormer Ambassador: 40 Years Ago, US Handed Cambodia to ‘Butcher’
Denis D. Gray, AP, Stars and Stripes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
John Gunther Dean recalls what he describes as one of the most tragic days of his life: April 12, 1975, the day the United States “abandoned Cambodia and handed it over to the butcher. We’d accepted responsibility for Cambodia and then walked out without fulfilling our promise. That’s the worst thing a country can do,” he says in an interview in Paris. “And I cried because I knew what was going to happen.”
→ read full articleDeir Yassin to Yarmouk and Beyond: Reflections in a Flight to Paris
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
The scientist in me wants to find logical explanations for why people kill each other and do not simply share and care for one another. I try to convince myself with my own words to visitors to Palestine: lighting a candle better than cursing the darkness, first do no harm, travel the path of your conscience even if few are doing it, etc. Maybe lack of sleep makes my mind wonder into Buddhist philosophies (Joyful participation in the sorrows of this world) and to mystic philosophies (Rumi’s words come slushing around my brain).
→ read full articlePower and Resistance at the World Social Forum in Tunisia
Hamza Hamouchene – Middle East Eye,
13 Apr 2015
The World Social Forum, held between 24 and 28 March, succeeded in gathering around 50,000 people from 125 countries representing all continents. That the anti-globalisation forum was vibrant, youthful and dynamic was a testimony to the still-burning flame of hope for a better world. But attempts by regional states to hijack this unique political gathering again expose how governments seek to co-opt the global justice movement.
→ read full articleThe State of The World’s Human Rights 2014/15
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Amnesty International’s Annual Report provides a comprehensive overview of the state of human rights in 160 countries and territories during 2014. It also celebrates those who stand up for human rights across the world, often in difficult and dangerous circumstances.
→ read full articleWhen Free Speech Becomes Dead Silence – The Israel Lobby and a Cowed Academia
Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
8 Apr 2015 – The sudden cancellation of an academic conference on Israel, as well as the lack of outcry from ‘mainstream’ media, demonstrates once again the skewed limits to ‘free speech’ in ‘advanced’ Western democracies. ‘Je suis Charlie’ already feels like ancient history. It certainly does not apply when it comes to scrutiny of the state of Israel.
→ read full articleSecurity versus Peace Discourse (after Johan Galtung)
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
The prevailing discourse used by governments today is the security discourse, which briefly is the following: “We have a problem, our enemies. Through military superiority we can deter or prevent their evil designs and achieve security–and through this peace.”
→ read full articlePassphrases That You Can Memorize — But That Even the NSA Can’t Guess
Micah Lee – The Intercept,
13 Apr 2015
It’s getting easier to secure your digital privacy. iPhones now encrypt a great deal of personal information; hard drives on Mac and Windows 8.1 computers are now automatically locked down. But none of this technology offers as much protection as you may think if you don’t know how to come up with a good passphrase.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
April 13-19 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now–always.” – Albert Schweitzer
→ read full articleThe American Psychological Association and Guantanamo: Actions, Not Words
Roy Eidelson and Dan Aalbers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Yet again the APA fails to honor its commitments. It is time for the APA to devote as much energy to getting psychologists out of Guantanamo as it has devoted to getting psychologists into the halls of power.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to University of Sydney to Reject Calls to Punish Palestine-Justice Supporters
Jake Lynch, Sydney Staff for BDS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Calls are principally focussed on having Associate Professor Jake Lynch and Dr Nick Riemer dismissed from the university. In Lynch’s case, this is the demand explicitly being made by the Australasian Union of Jewish Students. We call on you, Dr Spence, not to allow yourself to be made the agent of the Israel lobby’s persecution of those committed to a just peace in the Middle East.
→ read full articleOslo Principles on Global Climate Change Obligations
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
On March 1, 2015, a group of experts in international law, human rights law, environmental law, and other law adopted the Oslo Principles on Global Obligations to Reduce Climate Change. Based on extensive legal research and discussions over a period of several years the undersigned experts adopted the following principles:
→ read full articleIran Accord and Momentum-Building
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
A steady, systematic momentum is needed in everything. Now, motion is needed to develop a broad security and cooperation system for the Middle East, somewhat on the lines of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
→ read full articleUN Report: 2014 Saw the Most Palestinians Killed by Israel’s Military Since ‘67
Amira Hass – Haaretz,
13 Apr 2015
27 Mar 2015 – Israeli security forces killed 2,312 Palestinians, most in the Gaza war over the summer. Roughly two-thirds were civilians.
→ read full articleRussia-China Interests Aligned: Putin to Chinese FM
The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
8 Apr 2015 – In a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Sino-Russian ties “meet the demands of the day” and Moscow will support the Chinese Silk Road project. Chinese President Xi Jinping will be in Moscow on May 8 for the 70th anniversary of Russia’s defeat of Nazi Germany. Heads of 26 countries have confirmed their attendance.
→ read full articleSituation Assessment of Yarmouk Refugee Camp: What Happens Next?
Al-Zaytouna Centre for Studies & Consultations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
8 Apr 2015 – Sudden fighting broke out at the Yarmouk Refugee Camp in Damascus between groups affiliated to ISIS and the Aknaf Bayt al-Maqdis group. ISIS took control of nearly 80% of the RC area. While the Palestinian groups remain under siege by ISIS in the south and the regime in the north, the option to withdraw could be unlikely, meaning the Palestinian groups’ options boil down to reaching either settlement or engaging in a suicidal battle with ISIS or the regime.
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John Oliver Interviews Edward Snowden: Government Surveillance
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Apr 5, 2015 – There are very few government checks on what America’s sweeping surveillance programs are capable of doing. John Oliver sits down with Edward Snowden to discuss the NSA, the balance between privacy and security, and dick-pics.
→ read full articleSpiritual Warmth
Dr. Ashok T Chakravarthy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Unifying the bond of human ‘love’
Pulling me from the illusion’s grove;
God! The cradle of dreams You awoke,
And on a spiritual path, I fell awake.
Don’t Arm Pakistan’s Teachers
Maham Javaid – Al Jazeera America,
13 Apr 2015
Distributing guns and weapons training to students and school staffers is the wrong way to fight terrorism. Requiring teachers to defend their schools against attack while awaiting security forces reveals the government’s utter failure to develop effective policies.
→ read full article(Italiano) Mao e Gandhi: due asiatici
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Cominciamo col riassumere. Stiamo considerando sei importanti capi di forze e movimenti che plasmano i secoli – Churchill-Hitler-Stalin-Mao-Gandhi-Mandela – confrontandoli, due alla volta.
→ read full articleUnworthy Victims: Western Wars Have Killed Four Million Muslims Since 1990
Nafeez Ahmed – Middle East Eye,
13 Apr 2015
Landmark research proves that the US-led ‘war on terror’ has killed as many as 2 million people, but this is a fraction of Western responsibility for deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last two decades.
→ read full article(Italiano) Hitler e Stalin: due europei
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Hitler riguardava la razza, Stalin la classe. Due secolarismi genocidi versati in vecchie bottiglie di chiesa.
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Could You Be Loved – Happy 70th Birthday Bob Marley! (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Bob Marley Israel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Could You Be Loved – A capella by Israel artists celebrating Bob Marley’s birthday on Feb 6, 2015.
→ read full articleThe Spiritual Precondition of Peace in Israel-Palestine
Zeki Ergas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
I believe that the conditio sine qua non of a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is taking the higher spiritual road. The Israelis, and their Jewish and other supporters around the world, must accept the reality that the creation of a Greater Israel is unachievable; they must withdraw from the occupied Palestinian land and make peace with the Palestinians even if that means sharing Jerusalem as the capital and a reasonable solution of the refugee problem.
→ read full articleDid Israel Lobby “Bullying and Threats” Push Univ. of Southampton to Cancel Conference?
Ali Abunimah – The Electronic Intifada,
13 Apr 2015
2 Apr 2015 – Organizers of an academic conference on Israel are proceeding with an urgent legal challenge after the UK’s University of Southampton today confirmed that it has canceled the event. More than 900 academics from all over the world have signed on to a statement in support of the conference.
→ read full articleCasualty Figures after 10 Years of the “War on Terror” – Body Count
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Nobel Peace Laureates, et al. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Editors:
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Physicians for Global Survival
Destroying the Greek Economy in Order to Save It
Mark Weisbrot – Al Jazeera America,
13 Apr 2015
Blackmail is actually an understatement of what the troika is doing to Greece. It is trying to harm the Greek economy in order to pressure the new Greek government to agree to its demands. Recent European Central Bank actions are not about money or fiscal sustainability but about politics. European authorities are using dirty tactics to bring Greece to heel.
→ read full articleNuclear Talks: Israel Demands Equality
News from Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
The Israeli government yesterday demanded that it receive “equal treatment” to that in any agreement between Iran and the “P5+1” concerning Iran’s nuclear program. A possible further complication is that US agreement with the new Israeli position might lead the Iranian President to demand an invitation to explain to Congress why the Israeli government can’t be trusted.
→ read full articleFlying Lessons
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2015
A flock of birds that could not fly met in a nice hotel on top of a cliff overlooking the sea for a training workshop on flying.
→ read full articleMao and Gandhi: Two Asians
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2015
Gandhism went beyond India, Maoism stopped at the borders of China. Hinduism sees itself as universal whereas China sees itself as unique. What remains from both of them is the fight against oppression-exploitation, the search for horizontality, and from Gandhi nonviolent struggle, satyagraha.
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(Português) Espiritualidade e Virtude como Corolários para a Paz
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2015
Quando conheci o autor de O Tao da Física, Fritjof Capra, na Universidade do Havaí nos anos 80, ele me disse, sorrindo: “Quando nós, os físicos, chegarmos ao cume da montanha, seremos recebidos por místicos e espiritualistas que dirão: ‘porque demoraram tanto‘”? Estudos de Paz e de Conflito, entre outros fatores civilizadores para os seres humanos, representam a receita, o mapa para o cume da montanha. Tudo tem início e cresce dentro do indivíduo, manifestando-se depois na sociedade. Ou não.
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Algarabías (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Vasco Hernández – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2015
From the new album: “Luz de otra manera”
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2015
Apr 6-12 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Whatever you deeply accept this moment as it is – no matter what forms it takes – you are still, you are at peace.” – Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks.
→ read full articleReplacement
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2015
An attorney telephoned the governor just after midnight, insisting that he talk to him regarding a matter of utmost urgency.
→ read full articleJerusalem
Yehuda Amichai – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2015
The late Israeli poet captured this urban division well.
→ read full articlePeace Journalism
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2015
The time has come for “peace journalists” to write not only about war, but also about its causes, prevention, and ways to restore peace. They need not invent solutions to conflicts themselves–in the same way as health journalists need not invent cures for diseases themselves; they ask specialists.
→ read full articleAbout This Issue of the TMS Weekly Digest
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2015
Last week I was abroad working practically around the clock with Johan Galtung. It proved impossible to do the usual selection for our readers and 10,000 subscribers; please accept our apologies…
→ read full articleMiddle East Conflicts Give Hefty Boost to Arms Merchants
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2015
The ongoing conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen have helped spiral arms sales upwards to the Middle East, according to a study released Monday [Mar 16 2015] by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
→ read full articleThe Costs of War, the Price of Peace
Amy Goodman – Truthdig,
30 Mar 2015
What price would you pay not to kill another human being? At what point would you commit the offenses allegedly perpetrated by Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was charged Wednesday [25 Mar 2015] with desertion and “misbehavior before an enemy?”
→ read full articleSecretive and Seedy: How Aid Donors are Opening the Agribusiness Flood Gates
Ian Fitzpatrick - Common Dreams,
30 Mar 2015
When big agribusiness [Syngenta] teams up with international aid organizations [Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, US Agency for International Development] to corner the market on seeds, everyone loses. To give it a more succinct description, this is a meeting where corporations will discuss how to increase their control of the global seed sector.
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