Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Never Again to Us
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
“Israel regrets every injury to civilians. I call on the residents of Gaza: Don’t stay there. Hamas wants you to die; we want you to be safe.” – Netanyahu. Glenn Greenwald compared this remark to a 1941 comment by Joseph Goebbels: “One suddenly has the impression,” the Nazi propaganda minister wrote, “that the Berlin Jewish population consists only of little babies whose childish helplessness might move us, or else fragile old ladies.”
→ read full articleHannah Arendt: Born in Conflict, Israel Will Degenerate into Sparta, and American Jews Will Need to Back Away
Philip Weiss –TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Zionism Reconsidered, 1944: Note her predictions of the Nakba, of unending conflict, of Zionist dependence on the American Jewish community, of ultimate conflict with that American Jewish community, and the contribution of political Zionism to world anti-semitism.
→ read full articleWe Need a New Understanding of the Security Council
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
The permanent members of the UN Security Council are certifiably sick entities suffering from bouts of psychoses. They are all suffering from imperial syndrome of various versions.
→ read full article‘No Safe Place for Civilians’ in Gaza, U.N. Says
Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Palestinian civilians in densely-populated Gaza have no place to hide from Israel’s military offensive and children are paying the heaviest price, the United Nations said on Tuesday [22 Jul 2014].
→ read full articleBRIC(K)S for a New World Economic Order!
Johan Galtung, 28 Jul 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
They made it, with constructive alternatives–the New Development Bank and the Contingency Reserve Agreement–to the US-dominated World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Those two parts of Bretton Woods were basic pillars in the economic infra-structure of the US Empire in the hands of the US Congress.
→ read full articleFukushima and Cesium
Leslie Corrice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
A summary of the facts concerning the radioactive Cesium at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear station. The synopsis comes from postings in the Fukushima Updates and Commentary blogs of this website. This shows that the Cesium risks have been exaggerated and much contrary “evidence” has been intentionally presented out of context.
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Jon Snow’s Return from Gaza, Palestine – Heartbreaking Account of What He Saw
TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
26 July 2014 – Jon Snow (Channel 4 News, UK anchor) recounts the scene in Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, where doctors struggle to treat adults and children wounded by Israeli attacks.
→ read full articleThe Attack on Gaza
First Dog on the Moon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
How does one respond to a message stating that your house will be destroyed in 10 minutes? asks First Dog on the Moon.
→ read full article“Not Only– “
Dr Kyi Maung Kaung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
A Poem on Burma by a Rightly Angry Poet
→ read full articlePETA’s Undercover Shearing Videos Expose Horrific Sheep Abuse in U.S. and Australia
Brandon Baker, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
It would be tough to think of any disgusting, gutless acts that aren’t featured in new videos about brutal sheep shearing in Australia and the U.S., produced by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
→ read full articlePalestinian Recourse to the International Criminal Court: The Time Has Come
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
The political plausibility of invoking the International Criminal Court to investigate allegations of criminality directed at Israel increases with each passing day.
→ read full articleIsraeli Operation Security Bottom
Gilad Atzmon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Osama Gil-laden in Jerusalem – Avi Dichter, former head of the Israel Security Agency declared earlier this week that “there is no Iron Dome against the terror tunnels.” The bottom front is bare and widely open. The Israeli Gay leaders saved Israel once again. Butt-Plug was their answer. “The Jewish homeland needs to seal its bottom and there is only one cheap method to do so”
→ read full article(Português) Português – Língua Internacional
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Segundo a Linha do Tempo, no Museu da Língua Portuguesa em São Paulo, a história do Português remonta a quatro mil anos antes de Cristo, mas foi tomando jeito de língua distinta lá pelos séculos VI e VII desta era.
→ read full articleThe Bullets Fell in Love with You
Maryam Youshizade – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
You see now?
You were so sweet
You sent kisses to the world
When BBC Calls, Don’t Answer
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
That is, don’t answer, if you are a certified critic of Israeli policies and practices.
→ read full articleShadow Boxing or Filling an Empty Diplomatic Space? Track II and Security in the Middle East
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
The term “Track II” was coined in 1981 by Joseph Montville in an article “Foreign Policy according to Freud” as being “unofficial, informal interaction among members of adversarial groups or nations with the goals of developing strategies, influencing public opinion, and organizing human and material resources in ways that might help resolve the conflict.”
→ read full articleI Am Not a Jew
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
A poem in honor of the indomitable spirit of fellow humans who are being killed by Israel while being locked up in the Zionist concentration camp – called Gaza.
→ read full articleUS Navy Thanks Ukrainian Rebels
News From Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
US Navy Admiral Boris K. Orloff, head of the Navy’s Department of Shortening Memories (formerly Public Relations) today announced the intention to present a medal to whomever among the Ukrainian rebels was responsible for the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17. “We have been waiting for something like this for 26 years now,” he explained.
→ read full articleVital Collective Learning from Biased Media Coverage
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
This is an exploration of exposure to media reports on the Israeli military ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, ordered on 17 July 2014 — only hours after the destruction over Ukraine of the Malaysian Ariines flight MH17 by missile. Both cases have given rise to conflicting, unconfirmed reports by a variety of authorities. Justifications for any interpretation are readily — even assertively — offered.
→ read full articleLawyers
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
A woman called a lawyer in despair and explained, “I have never called a lawyer in my life.
→ read full articleOnce And For All!
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
To put an end to the launching of rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip, Once And For All! To put an end to the blockade of the Gaza Strip by Israel and Egypt, Once And For All! So why don’t the two sides come together without foreign interference and agree on tit for tat? Once And For All?
→ read full articleThe Court of World Opinion
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Israel, an apartheid regime far more evil than it South African counterpart ever was, justifies its genocidal atrocities by claiming that it “has a right to self-defense”; and the clarity of the situation is lost. I believe that even in an era such as ours, where the mainstream media are so thoroughly failing us, Gandhi’s nonviolence is still relevant.
→ read full articleC.S. Lewis on Suffering and What It Means to Have Free Will in a Universe of Fixed Laws
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
If the universe operates by fixed physical laws, what does it mean for us to have free will? That’s what C.S. Lewis considers with an elegant sidewise gleam in an essay titled “Divine Omnipotence” from his altogether fascinating 1940 book The Problem of Pain.
→ read full articleBrazil Recalls Ambassador from Israel over Gaza Assault
The Daily Star – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Brazilian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Wednesday [23 Jul 2014], “We strongly condemn the disproportionate use of force by Israel in the Gaza Strip, from which large numbers of civilian casualties, including women and children resulted.”
→ read full articleAs Western Power Diminishes, BRICS Rises
The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
July 21, 2014 – The 6th BRICS Summit was a resounding success. While major Western newspapers had consistently neglected the yearly gatherings in the past (or generally described it as a misguided idea), leading global voices such as The Economist and The Financial Times both reported on last week’s meeting.
→ read full article(Castellano) El 30% de los candidatos a elecciones en Brasil son mujeres
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
El Partido de los Trabajadores, liderado por la actual presidenta brasileña, Dilma Roussef, es el que presenta un mayor número de candidaturas entre hombres y mujeres. En segundo lugar se encuentra el Partido Socialista Brasileño (PSB).
→ read full articleBangladesh Sending Its Death Squads for the UN Peacekeeping Missions
Asian Centre for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Serving in a UN peacekeeping mission is deemed so lucrative [as a Bangladesh Army officer earn upwards of US $2,200 a month in addition to other allowances and parks for an officer against Taka 15,000 (about US $200) for an officer in the country and US $1,100 for a soldier, against Taka 7,717 (about US $100)] that Bangladesh Army has systematically monopolised the UN postings.
→ read full articleSolidarity with Palestinians in Gaza Begins in Lebanon’s Camps
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Gaza isn’t the only open air prison; Lebanon has 12 of its own. And the people there are denied the most elementary right to apply for a job in more than 50 professions. Solidarity—credible, genuine solidarity—is within our grasp; let us reach for it.
→ read full articleInterview with Johan Galtung: The Pioneering International Peace Research Association He Founded in 1964
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Interview conducted on the occasion of IPRA’s 50th anniversary celebration at the Istanbul Conference, Turkey, August 11-15, 2014.
→ read full article(Italiano) La violenza strutturale riesaminata
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Il saggio “Galtung’s Structural Violence and the Sierra Leone Civil War c. 1985-1992″ Philip Leech pubblicato nella newsletter di TRANSCEND del 14 luglio 2014 tra tutti i commenti il più profondo, è un’ottima opportunità per chiarire e sviluppare ulteriormente alcune delle premesse teoriche.
→ read full articleElite Insanity on Display in Ukraine
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
There are some standard and frequently repeated dysfunctional behaviours on display here with the usual unconscious emotional drivers of this behaviour hidden from view. Let us then consider some obvious aspects of the conflict and analyse them from a psychological perspective.
→ read full articleGaza Interview
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
[Prefatory note: This is an interview with a knowledgeable Greek journalist covering a range of issues associated with the Gaza ordeal] – “Blood on American Hands”: Richard Falk on Palestine
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Israel and Palestine – A Very Short Introduction
Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Easy to understand, historically accurate. Why Israelis and Palestinians are fighting, why the US-backed peace process has been an impediment to peace, and what you can do to make a difference. This conflict is essentially about land and human rights, not religion and culture.
→ read full articleWashington Is Escalating the Orchestrated Ukrainian “Crisis” to War
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
There we have it again: Russian Aggression. Repeat it enough and it becomes real.
→ read full articleStatement of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar
UN Information Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
The new United Nations Special Rapporteur on Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, undertook her first official visit to the country from 17 to 26 July 2014 to gather first-hand information on the current human rights situation in Myanmar.
→ read full articleThe Truth!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
A 10 year old boy asked his recently divorced mother, “How old are you?” The mother told him, “This is not a question you should ask, never ask it again.”
→ read full articleThe Spanish Town Where People Come Before Profit
Liam Barrington-Bush and Jen Wilton, Contributoria – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
The town of Marinaleda, often called Spain’s “communist utopia,” is proof that an economy built on mutual aid is possible. Manuel Gutierrez Daneri says, “Assembly is a place for people to discuss problems and to find the solutions,” pointing out that even minor crimes are collectively addressed via the assembly, as the town has no police or judicial system since the last local cop retired.
→ read full articleTranscending an Asystemic View of Life
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
A truly remarkable analysis of why things ought to work in theory is provided in a magnum opus by Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi as The Systems View of Life: a unifying vision (2014). It is however also a remarkable example of why the global system is in such dire straits — through failure to apply systemic insights to why they do not work in practice.
→ read full articleAn appeal to BBC and Mainstream Western Media to End Bias against Palestinians: Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Collective punishment, the breaking of the Geneva Convention, and the bombing of Palestinian women and children do not deter US President Obama and UN Ambassador Samantha Fox from assuring Israel that it will always be their good friend and support it to the tune of billions for its military and illegal occupation of Palestinian land.
→ read full article18 Jul 2014 – World Marks 1st Mandela Day since His Death
News24 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
People around the world celebrate “Mandela Day” on Friday [18 Jul 2014] for the first time since the iconic former president’s death, by doing good deeds on what would have been his 96th birthday.
→ read full articleThe UK Ministry of Defence Says Life in 2045 Will Be Unequal and Violent
Victoria Turk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Large private, or semiprivate, companies and non-governmental organisations will grow in number and power. Major changes: an increase in population of three billion, scarcity of resources, increased vulnerability of overpopulated cities. “Inequality will endure, and the world will remain fraught with conflict and complexity.”
→ read full article(Castellano) Bolivia es declarada territorio libre de analfabetismo por la Unesco
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
La nación suramericana alcanzó esta meta tras la aplicación del método Yo Sí Puedo, diseñado por Cuba y empleado en naciones como Venezuela, que fue declarada libre de analfabetismo en 2005.
→ read full articleOperation Bibi Rescue
Gilad Atzmon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
The IDF launched a vast ground operation in Gaza last night [17 Jul 2014]. Until now, Israel has failed to articulate its military objectives or a definition of what a victory would look like. The military objective is obvious: saving Netanyahu’s political career.
→ read full articleBRICS Set Up $100-Bln Bank to Counter West in Global Finance
Today’s Zaman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Leaders of the BRICS emerging market nations launched a $100 billion development bank and a currency reserve pool on Tuesday [15 Jul 2014] in their first concrete step toward reshaping the Western-dominated international financial system.
→ read full articleUS Terrorist Database Growing at Rapid Rate
Matthew Barakat, Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
The U.S. government is rapidly expanding the number of names it accepts for inclusion on its terrorist watch list, with more than 1.5 million added in the last five years, according to numbers divulged by the government in a civil lawsuit. About 99 percent of the names submitted are accepted, leading to criticism that the government is “wildly loose” in its use of the list.
→ read full article“Buddhists Betray the Teachings” — Jack Kornfield on the Anti-Muslim Violence in Burma
Jack Kornfield, Shambhala SunSpace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
A religion known for nonviolence is being used to fuel a genocidal campaign against the Muslims of Burma. Inside the coming, September 2014 Shambhala Sun, Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield, who recently returned from Burma, urges us to join the call for peace.
→ read full articleThe Political Objective and Strategic Goal of Nonviolent Actions
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Whether or not activists achieve their political objective is strategically irrelevant. This is because an effective nonviolent action is designed to achieve its strategic goal, irrespective of the response of opponents or the authorities to the political objective of the action. Whether or not activists achieve their strategic goal, however, is always strategically determinative.
→ read full articleA Brief History of How Bees Sexed Up Earth and Gave Flowers Their Colors
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
How a striped, winged, six-legged love machine sparked “the longest marketing campaign in history.”
→ read full articleNo Exit from Gaza: A New War Crime?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
As the casualty totals continue to mount while the world looks on in stupefied inaction, the attacks go on; at the very least, from a humanitarian perspective, there should be a global outcry demanding that children, mothers, and those sick and disabled be allowed to leave the Gaza Strip until current hostilities end. Yet this is a gap in international humanitarian law and refugee law.
→ read full articleStructural Violence Re-Explored
Johan Galtung, 21 Jul 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
The essay “Galtung’s Structural Violence and the Sierra Leone Civil War c. 1985-1992” by Philip Leech [TMS-Analysis 14 Jul 2014],–of all the commentators the deepest–is a very welcome opportunity to clarify and develop further some of the underlying thinking.
→ read full articleWho is Winning?
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
What would history look like if it were written in the style of the “Solid Cliff (a.k.a. Protective Edge) operation? For example: Winston Churchill was a scoundrel.
→ read full article100 Years of War-100 Years of Peace and the Peace Movement, 1914-2014
Peter van den Dungen, World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
The West, and the rest of the world, would indeed be a great deal more civilised if war – ‘the foulest blot upon our civilization’ in the words of Andrew Carnegie – was abolished. When he said so, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were still Japanese cities like any other.
→ read full articleSixth BRICS Summit – Fortaleza Declaration
Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
July 15, 2014 – Fortaleza, Brazil – To inaugurate the second cycle of BRICS Summits, the theme chosen for our discussions was “Inclusive Growth: Sustainable Solutions”, in keeping with the inclusive macroeconomic and social policies carried out by our governments and the imperative to address challenges to humankind posed by the need to simultaneously achieve growth, inclusiveness, protection and preservation.
→ read full articleTop Ten Myths about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Jeremy R. Hammond – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Myth #8 – God gave the land to the Jews, so the Arabs are the occupiers.
Myth #10 – The U.S. is an honest broker and has sought to bring about peace in the Middle East.
MH17: World See Tragedy, US Sees “Game Changer”
Tony Cartalucci, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
NATO needed a “game changer,” because it was playing a game it was clearly losing. The dubious circumstances surrounding the downing of MH17 – occurring just as Kiev’s forces were deteriorating across the country and additional US sanctions against Russia fell flat – is more than a mere coincidence.
→ read full article(Italiano) Con che cosa ha che fare la storia – Guardate questa mappa della storia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Tentiamo una spiegazione basata sui concetti di impero e dinastia; gli imperi in espansione e contrazione nello spazio, le dinastie nel tempo. Entrambi si basano su contraddizioni, forze e contro-forze, dialettica; ma negli imperi la dialettica è esterna, nelle dinastie interna.
→ read full articleTormenting Gaza
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
There is so much regional turbulence at present that it is unlikely to hope for anything more than scattered verbal denunciations from authorities in the region preoccupied with other concerns, but given the gravity of the situation, attention needs to be refocused on the Palestinian ordeal.
→ read full article(Italiano) Elicotteri Agusta all’Uganda dei diritti violati
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Nuovi sistemi d’arma italiani per il continente africano.
→ read full articleIsrael: An Obstacle to World Peace
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
The nation yesterday we over empowered
Today is out of control of any super power
Neither any law works there, nor any order
The US, UN, NATO, EU, all are now weaker
The Gaza Massacre: The Underlying Motives
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Massacre has become a habit. Every two or three years, Israel launches a massive military assault upon largely unarmed Palestinians in Gaza. Every time, Israel claims the moral high ground for its brutal, barbaric action. It blames Hamas, an important component of the Palestinian liberation movement, for the present cycle of violence.
→ read full articleSanctions and Airliners
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Before you say Washington is too sophisticated to mistake one airliner for another, keep in mind that when Washington shot down an Iranian airliner over Iranian air space, the US Navy claimed that it thought the 290 civilians that it murdered were in an Iranian fighter jet, a F-14 Tomcat fighter, a US-made fighter that was a mainstay of the US Navy.
→ read full articleBRICS Forges Ahead With Two New Power Drivers – India and China
Shastri Ramachandaran, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Two external groups defined by divergent interests closely watched proceedings: on the one hand, emerging economies and developing countries, and on the other, a group comprising the United States, Japan and other Western countries thriving on the Washington Consensus and the Bretton Woods twins (the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund).
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(Castellano) Dónde Jugarán los Niños (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Maná – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Maná es una banda mexicana de rock en español que ha obtenido múltiples premios por su labor a favor de la ecología. [En Vivo]
→ read full articleForget or Forgive or Fight
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
If I would ask
Just to forget the past
Who I am and
Who will I be?
30th Anniversary! Hilo Bay Nuclear Warship Blockade (Hawai’i)
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
For three years the Navy repeatedly violated the law. In June of 1984 peace activists announced a nonviolent blockade of the next nuclear ship visiting Hilo. Three people entered the water and held their hands up in a symbolic message to the ship –”STOP.” Jim Snyder, Warren Wineman and Jim Albertini were imprisoned and/or fined for their nonviolent protest.
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Nobel Economist Joseph Stiglitz Hails New BRICS Bank Challenging U.S.-Dominated World Bank & IMF
Democracy Now – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
“The BRICS countries today are richer than the advanced countries were when the World Bank and the IMF were founded. We’re in a different world — but the old institutions haven’t kept up.”
→ read full articleDeploying Drones to Get an Overview of Factory Farms
Peggy Lowe, NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
An independent journalist says he’s found a way around the so-called “ag-gag” laws by flying drones over large livestock operations to document animal welfare problems and pollution.
→ read full articleCould the Use of Rockets Be Banned in the Middle East?
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
The use of rockets by Islamic groups from Gaza toward Israel and the more deadly use of rockets and bombs by Israeli forces toward Gaza have raised in a dramatic way the possibility of banning rocket use in the Middle East. Arms control in the ME has always been difficult as there is no equivalent of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe there.
→ read full articleTime for BDS to Oppose Israeli War Crimes
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
16 Jul 2014 – I have spent the last year defending my right, through Australia’s Federal Court, not to take part in fellowship schemes that link the University of Sydney, where I direct the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, and two institutions from Israel. This week, Judge Alan Robertson dismissed the case against me and awarded costs.
→ read full articleClimate Change: Will a Disaster Wake Us Up?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
In a 2011 interview in The Guardian, Sir David Attenborough was asked: “What will it take to wake people up about climate change?” He replied “Disaster. It’s a terrible thing to say, isn’t it? And even disaster doesn’t always do it.
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“Evacuate to Where?” – Report from Gaza and Israel
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Jul 17, 2014 – Gaza-based blogger Nalan al Sarraj and TRNN’s Lia Tarachansky report on the mood of the people in Gaza and Israel as Israeli ground troops join the attack.
→ read full articleThe Oxymoron of Peace
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Austerity is for losers. There’s always money to wage war and build weapons, indeed, to continue developing weapons, generation after generation after generation. The contractors are adept at playing the game. Jobs link arms with fear and patriotism and the next war is always inevitable.
→ read full articleBuddhist Economics: How to Stop Prioritizing Goods Over People and Consumption Over Creative Activity
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
What does it really mean to create wealth for people — for humanity — as opposed to money for governments and corporations? That’s precisely what the influential German-born British economist, statistician, Rhodes Scholar, and economic theorist E. F. Schumacher explores in his seminal 1973 book Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
→ read full articlePositive Thoughts on Dark Times
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Despite this generally gloomy picture, important positive developments have emerged raising the possibility of fundamental changes to reverse the current reactionary wave. I will proceed by outlining these positive developments, taking account of the retrograde context in which they occur.
→ read full articlePope Francis: ‘About 2%’ of Catholic Clergy Paedophiles
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
The Pope said that abuse of children was like “leprosy” infecting the Church, according to the Italian La Repubblica newspaper. He vowed to “confront it with the severity it demands”.
→ read full articleHuman Rights Watch – Murder’s Apologists
Norman G. Finkelstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
It takes considerable talent to describe Hamas’s firing of primitive “rockets” that to date have indirectly killed one person (she died of a heart attack) as a “war crime,” while describing Israel’s killing to date of 120 Palestinians, overwhelmingly civilians, and its systematic targeting of civilian infrastructure, as mere “collective punishment.”
→ read full articleThe Return of George Orwell and Big Brother’s War on Palestine, Ukraine and the Truth
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
In everyday discourse, political language is turned on its head, as Orwell prophesised in ‘1984’. “Democracy” is now a rhetorical device. Peace is “perpetual war”. “Global” is imperial. The once hopeful concept of “reform” now means regression, even destruction. “Austerity” is the imposition of extreme capitalism on the poor and the gift of socialism for the rich: an ingenious system under which the majority service the debts of the few.
→ read full articleSave Gaza Today – Tomorrow May Be Too Late!
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
With the growing extremism in Israeli military, their “holy wars” and nukes, it is not just Gaza that is burning – this is a war on humanity and perhaps even human race. If we do not stop it today, tomorrow may be too late.
→ read full article(Italiano) Sette vie alla felicità
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
• Piaceri negativi: godiamoci i problemi che non abbiamo.
• Piaceri positivi: godiamoci ancor di più quelli che abbiamo.
• Competizione con noi stessi, non con gli altri – ponendoci obiettivi di auto-miglioramento.
Per tutte queste vie la parola chiave è consapevolezza.
Whistleblower: NSA Stores 80% of All Phone Calls, Not Just Metadata – Full Audio
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
“At least 80 percent of fiber-optic cables globally go via the US,” Binney said. “This is no accident and allows the US to view all communication coming in. At least 80 percent of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US. The NSA lies about what it stores.”
→ read full articleBefore the Next ISIS, We Need Nonviolent Counterterrorism Strategies
Erin Niemela, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
All violent counterterrorism-intervention policies have completely failed. We’re sowing and reaping perpetual tragedy with this violence machine and the only people benefitting are sitting on top of a mountain of cash in the conflict industry (I’m looking at you, Lockheed Martin.)
→ read full article(Português) E Assim Está Sendo a Copa…
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Em campo, 22 homens bonitos e feios, pés e panturrilhas maceteados, alguns com penteados carnavalescos, correm atrás de uma bola, empurram-se, cospem, caem (e como caem!), permutam suores em abraços de regozijo, levantam as mãos para o céu quando seu time faz gol, num gesto de “Alá é grande!”.
→ read full articleA Tale of Two Cities: Istanbul and Rome
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Symbolically and culturally Istanbul deserves to be privately christened as the global capital of the 21st century. It is only world city that qualifies by virtue of its geographic and civilizational hybridity, Western by history and experience, Eastern by culture and location, Northern by stage of development, modernism, and urban dynamism, Southern by affinities, outreach, and partial identification.
→ read full article(Castellano) Lo que la independencia de Cataluña representa y lo que debemos aprender de ella
Daniel Marty, TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
¿quién se beneficia de la independencia política y económica? ¿Será el pueblo en general o una pequeña élite? ¿será la independencia del Estado de Cataluña otorgada y protegida? ¿quién se beneficia de la división, no solamente de los catalanes, pero de los españoles también?
→ read full articleParis’s Return to Public Water Supplies Makes Waves beyond France
Geert De Clercq, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Nearly five years after Paris took the management of its water supply back into its own hands, the move is inspiring other cities at home and abroad and hurting profits at private water firms Veolia and Suez Environnement.
→ read full articlePsychologists Have Uncovered a Troubling Feature of People Who Seem Nice All the Time
Eileen Shim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Those who are described as “agreeable, conscientious personalities” are more likely to follow orders and deliver electric shocks that they believe can harm innocent people, while “more contrarian, less agreeable personalities” are more likely to refuse to hurt others.
→ read full articleHow to Distinguish a Genuinely Practising Buddhist Monk from a Nazi with a Shaven Head in Saffron Robe
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Nazi “Monk” Wirathu versus the Good Buddhist Monks of Mandalay – Mandalay Peace Committee meeting, Moe Gaung Monastery, Mandalay, 6 Jul 2014
→ read full articleGaltung’s ‘Structural Violence’ and the Sierra Leone Civil War c.1985-1992
Philip Leech, Globalization Café – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
This paper, however, also notes that no theoretical concept can tell the whole story and while Galtung’s concepts and terminology are useful, awareness and appreciation of their short comings is also fundamental for full appreciation of a case study such as Sierra Leone.
→ read full article(Português) Documentos secretos dos EUA revelam técnicas de tortura durante ditadura militar no Brasil
National Security Archive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Em junho/2014 o Vice Presidente Joseph Biden entregou à presidenta Dilma documentos que revelam técnicas de tortura empregadas durante a ditadura militar brasileira.
→ read full articleChild and Forced Marriage – Manifestation of Gender Discrimination
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
“In the absence of viable legal remedies, discriminatory cultural practices based on stereotypical views of women’s roles and sexuality are among the structural causes of child and forced marriage.”
→ read full articleInfographic: Who Is Who in the 2014-2019 European Parliament?
EurActiv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
After a first plenary session and a series of committee meetings in early July 2014, key positions were distributed in the European Parliament. Find an overview of its key new faces in our infographic.
→ read full articleEmbodying a Hypercomplex of Unhygienic Nescience
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
The argument focuses on the unfruitfulness of global discourse in response to current crises — as exemplified by the political and religious doublespeak enabled by science (Enabling Suffering through Doublespeak and Doublethink, 2013).
→ read full articleNO to Currency Slavery
Michael Hudson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Western support will allow more IMF and European lending to prop the Ukrainian currency so the Ukrainian oligarchs can move their money safely to British and US banks.
→ read full articleBRICS to Open Alternatives to World Bank, IMF
Valentina Pop, EU Observer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
The “New Development Bank” to rival the World Bank will be launched at a BRICS summit in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza next week, with all agreed except where to put the main headquarters, Russian finance minister Anton Siluanov said Wednesday (9 July, 2014).
→ read full articleRussia Proposes Energy Association within BRICS
Xinhua – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Russia plans to establish an energy association within the BRICS countries, the Kremlin said Thursday [10 Jul 2014]. “Russia is going to propose the establishment of the BRICS energy association, which would guarantee energy security of the member countries, conduct integrated research and analysis of global markets.”
→ read full articleBRICS Bank, Ukraine Likely to Dominate 2014 BRICS Summit
The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
The annual BRICS Summit in the Brazilian cities of Brasilia and Fortaleza on July 14-15 [2014] comes at a time in which the global political scene is arguably more unsettled than at any other point in the past 20 years. Given the inherent diversity of the BRICS members, each country will therefore – and understandably – pursue very different goals and agendas at the Summit.
→ read full articleJihadists in Lebanon: Can Hezbollah Prevent DAASH (IS) from Pulling Lebanon into Its Caliphate?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
The answer to that question is—perhaps. But for a number of reasons, some suggested below, it’s not a happy picture, and it won’t be a walk in the park.
→ read full articleWhat Was History About-Look at the Histomap
Johan Galtung, 14 Jul 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Let us try an explanation based on empire and dynasty; empires expanding and contracting in space, dynasties in time. Both are based on contradictions, forces and counter-forces, dialectics; but in the empires the dialectic is external, in the dynasties internal.
→ read full articleKashmir Back in New Delhi’s Radar
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Modi is perhaps the first prime minister of India who visited the conflict-torn state even before completing two months in office. This is an indication of seriousness of the new government to prioritize Kashmir. Modi’s visit to Kashmir and emphasis on peace and prosperity in the region needs to be viewed in a new light.
→ read full articleDepends
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
A Chinese businessman arrived on his first flight to the United States.
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