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Nation Editor Stuns ‘Architect of Catastrophe’ Bill Kristol: “Join Iraqi Army if You Want War “
ABC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Jun 29, 2014 – Katrina vanden Heuvel and Bill Kristol tussled over Iraq on ABC’s This Week today when vanden Heuvel lumped in Kristol with the Iraq “architects of catastrophe” and suggested he enlist in the Iraqi army if he’s so serious about fixing the region.
→ read full articleThe Long, Winding History of Prison Camps – Where Does Gitmo Fit In? Infographic
Infographic World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
The U.S. spent US$ 454 Million in 2013 on Gitmo’s detention center. Get a better grasp on Guantánamo–from the history of prison camps to the financial, political and human toll it takes.
→ read full articleWhy Are Most Human Beings So Powerless?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Unless someone lives in a cave secluded from all news, the evidence that human beings are in deep trouble – with violence in its many forms intruding on all aspects of our lives and threatening our very existence – is readily available.
→ read full articleWe Do Not Believe in Violence… We Are the Real Patriots: SP Udayakumar
Jiby J. Kattakayam, DNA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
SP Udayakumar, leader of the anti-nuclear agitation against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, talks about the movement, his name featuring in the Intelligence Bureau report on NGOs harming India’s economic interest, and his foray into politics.
→ read full articleAlan Watts on the Difference between Belief and Faith
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would “lief” or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on the condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown.
→ read full articleRemember Haiti?
Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Four years after the massive earthquake that devastated Haiti, it is time to move from a largely humanitarian approach to a development based drive, a United Nations human rights expert on 4 July 2014 said, while calling for durable solutions for the internally displaced and the vulnerable segments of the population of the island nation.
→ read full articleCNN: Palestinians Want to Die
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
William Westmoreland once remarked on Vietnam, where the United States killed 4 million men, women, children, and infants: “The Oriental doesn’t put the same high price on life as does a Westerner.” Banastre Tarleton stood up in Parliament and defended the slave trade on the grounds that Africans did not object to being slaves. President William McKinley said little brown Filipinos appreciated being conquered and dominated.
→ read full articleJewish Hate of Arabs Proves: Israel Must Undergo Cultural Revolution
Haaretz, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Without a revolution based on humanist values, the Jewish tribe will not be worthy of its own state.
→ read full articleRemembering Fouad Ajami
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
For me Fouad Ajami’s legacy is that of ‘sleeping with the enemy.’ And it is an enemy that is politically, morally, and legally responsible for millions of deaths, displacements, and devastating losses.
→ read full article(Português) Por Uma Pedagogia dos Humilhados
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Uma Reflexão Rimada
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This Land Is Mine
Nina Paley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
It tells the story of the wars in the land called Israel/Palestine/Canaan/the Levant, since the cavemen until today.
→ read full article(Français) Dédollarisation: approche technique ou approche géostratégique
Jean-Paul Baquiast – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Il se constituerait ainsi une zone monétaire (que nous appellerons pour simplifier zone roren) qui constituerait une alternative aux deux grandes zones se partageant aujourd’hui le monde, la zone dollar et la zone euro.
→ read full articleFake Identity
Mahdi Jalili – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
I was beheaded in Africa
My corpse was set on fire in Vietnam
And I was left in pieces in Palestine
Record Levels of Solar Ultraviolet on Earth’s Surface Hit South America
Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
8 Jul 2014 – A team of researchers from the US and Germany has measured the highest level of ultraviolet radiation ever recorded on earth’s surface. The extraordinary UV fluxes, observed in the Bolivian Andes, are far above those normally considered to be harmful to both terrestrial and aquatic life.
→ read full articleHate Crime, Racism on the Rise in Southeast Asia
Abby Seiff, UCANews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Global Minorities Report Highlights Resurgence of ‘Ethno-Religious Nationalism’
→ read full articleClimate Refugees: An Entire Island Nation Is Preparing to Evacuate to Fiji Before They Sink Into the Pacific
Gwynn Guilford, Quartz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
The seas around Kiribati’s 32 atolls are rising 1.2 centimeters a year—about four times faster than the global average—thanks to the flux of ocean currents. Some residents expect the sea to subsume their homes within 20 or 30 years.
→ read full articleFreedom
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Bishnu Pathak’s introduction to Alberto Portugheis’ book, ‘$$$$$s in Their Hearts,’ which will be launched soon. “Portugheis puts emphasis on the fact that weapons do not exist “for Peace”. They will never bring about Peace. Some of his aims are: to ensure basic support for the needy, (to stop them being “needy”) restrict weapon manufacturing to cover Police needs, abolish the Arms Trade and the disbanding of all armed forces.”
→ read full articleThe Great Human Delusion: All Parents Love Their Children
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Evolution’s great trick was to connect reproduction with intense but transitory sexual pleasure, not love. Many children are conceived outside the loving long-term relationship necessary to nurture a child and even those children who are conceived within this framework will routinely suffer parental violence.
→ read full articleAfter Losing Vote, U.S.-EU Threaten to Undermine Treaty
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Jun 28 2014 – The USA and the 28-member EU have assiduously promoted – and vigorously preached – one of the basic tenets of Western multi-party democracy: majority rules. But at the United Nations, they have frequently abandoned that principle insisting on “consensus” when they are clearly outvoted.
→ read full articleProblems Inspire Ingenious Solutions in Peruvian Amazon Town
Milagros Salazar, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
He may look like a rapper, but 33-year-old José Antonio Bardález is the mayor of Jepelacio, in the Peruvian Amazon. His ingenious innovations in the municipality include transforming waste management into a source of income and making spring water a source of drinking water.
→ read full articleIn Flanders Fields
Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
This remains to this day one of the most memorable war poems ever written. It is a lasting legacy of the terrible battle in the Ypres salient in the spring of 1915.
→ read full articleAnti-NSA “Blackphone” Arrives on Market, Immediately Sells Entire Supply
Waqas, HackRead – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Blackphone is the result of collaboration between Silent Circle, an anti-NSA encryption powerhouse, and Geeksphone a company founded and owned by an ex tech prodigy. The phone is already being shipped around the world and the initial inventory reveals that it is “sold out.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Spagna 2050 – Dieci Predizioni
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Come possiamo gettare un po’ di luce sul futuro? Fondamentalmente ci sono due approcci: quello cartesiano basato su tendenze estensive, e il taoismo basato sull’olismo e la dialettica. Che non si escludono reciprocamente.
→ read full articleSome Deaths Really Matter – The Disproportionate Coverage of Israeli and Palestinian Killings
Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Israeli deaths matter much more than Palestinian deaths. This has long been a distinguishing feature of Western news media reporting on the Middle East. The recent blanket coverage afforded to the brutal killing of three Israeli teenagers highlights this immutable fact.
→ read full articleThe Guns of August – Lowering the Flag on the American Century
Chalmers Johnson | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
I wish I had a crystal ball to peer into and see what historians will make of our own guns of August in 2060. The fog of war, after all, is just a stand-in for what might be called “the fog of the future,” the inability of humans to peer with any accuracy far into the world to come.
→ read full articleThe Soaring Profits of the Military–Industrial Complex and the Soaring Costs of Military Casualties
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
There are two major beneficiaries of the two major wars launched by the US government: one domestic and one foreign. The three major domestic arms manufacturers, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon have delivered record-shattering returns to their investors, CEOs and investment banks during the past decade and a half.
→ read full articleFukushima’s Children Are Dying
Harvey Wasserman, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
More than 48 percent of some 375,000 young people—nearly 200,000 kids—tested by the Fukushima Medical University near the smoldering reactors now suffer from pre-cancerous thyroid abnormalities, primarily nodules and cysts. The rate is accelerating.
→ read full articleOAS Declares Solidarity with Argentina in U.S. Hedge Fund Dispute
Ewan Robertson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
4th July 2014 – The Organization of American States has declared its solidarity with Argentina in its debt repayment dispute with a U.S.-based hedge fund. The only countries in the hemisphere to not support the resolution were the United States and Canada.
→ read full articleU.S. Retailers Look to Limit Pesticides to Help Honeybees
Carey Gillam, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
U.S. companies are working to eliminate or limit use of a type of pesticide suspected of helping cause dramatic declines in honeybee populations needed to pollinate key American crops, officials said on Wednesday [25 Jun 2014].
→ read full articleChile to Build Largest Solar Farm in Latin America
Brandon Baker, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
A large solar power plant is coming to Chile’s Atacama Desert, and the U.S. is providing financial support to make it happen.
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Israeli Government and Press Knew Teenagers Were Dead for Weeks
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
TRNN Middle East Correspondent Lia Tarachansky says Palestinian anger towards the Palestinian Authority has reached unprecedented levels, and that the Israeli government is now trying to instigate a third intifada in order to legitimate military actions in the West Bank and Gaza.
→ read full articleThe Malaysian Link to Terror in Syria
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
We are told that they see themselves as “jihadis” who are fighting for an Islamic cause. A lot of Malaysian Muslims may also harbor some of the misconceptions and prejudices which impelled some of these jihadis to take the road to Damascus.
→ read full articleWashington’s War Crimes Spread from Africa and the Middle East to Ukraine
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
A person might think that revulsion in “the world community” against Washington’s wanton slaughter of civilians in eight countries would have led to War Crimes Tribunal warrants issued for the arrest of presidents Clinton, Bush, Obama and many officials in their regimes… Putin has done what he can to avoid conflict. Now he needs to do the right thing, as he did in Georgia and Crimea.
→ read full articleThe Watch on the Jordan
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
The thousand-year old conflict between Muslim Sunnis and Muslim Shiites is reaching a new climax. A historic drama is unfolding around us. And what is the reaction of our government? Binyamin Netanyahu put it succinctly: “We must defend Israel on the Jordan River, before they reach Tel Aviv.” Simple, concise, idiotic.
→ read full articleArchbishop Desmond Tutu Urges US Presbyterians to Adopt Divestment
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Israel will either end its occupation through a one or two state solution, or live in an apartheid state in perpetuity. The latter option is unsustainable and an offense to justice. We learned in South Africa that the only way to end apartheid peacefully was to force the powerful to the table through economic pressure.
→ read full articleShifts in the Climate Change Debate: Hope and Suspicion
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
The intense lobbying efforts by climate deniers, reinforced in the United States by a right wing anti-government tsunami that has paralyzed Congress, succeeded in blocking even modest market-based steps to induce energy efficiency.
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The Slow Burning Genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingya
Dr Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
London Conference on Decades of Persecution and Destruction of Myanmar’s Rohingya
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Moonlight Rumba (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Gustavo Montesano – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
A Virtuoso Popularizing a Classic – Art Beautiful — Composition: Ludwig van Beethoven
→ read full article(Italiano) Buona Governance, innovativa: che cos’è?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Oggi la Cina combina il meglio del marxismo-comunismo, l’attenzione centrata sui bisogni fondamentali dei più bisognosi, con il meglio del liberalismo-capitalismo, lo spirito imprenditoriale innovativo. Sollevando le sorti delle fasce più misere, forse 400 milioni dal 1991 al 2004, affinché partecipino a un mercato fiorente.
→ read full articleAbsolutely Nothing: A Veteran’s Savage Indictment of the Iraq War
Jim Wright, Americans Against the Tea Party – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
The same old motley cast of characters, the warhawks and the chickenhawks and the billionaires and the simple-minded saber-rattlers and the same old hate-filled pundits, they just can’t wait to jump back into Iraq…. Why? Is it to end terrorism? Is it to enforce peace at the muzzle of a gun? Is it it to make defense contractors rich? Is it for jobs? Or is it for magic flying bunnies who shoot rainbows and cheap gasoline out of their … to the sound of Yankee Doodle Dandy?
→ read full articleIsrael’s SodaStream Closes Main UK Store after 2-Yr Boycott Campaign
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
“The news that SodaStream is closing its main UK store and that John Lewis is taking Soda Stream products off its shelves is a major success for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.”
→ read full articleThe World is NOT a U.S. Colony!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
In a host of countries around the world the U.S. portrays itself as “the good guy” instead of the problem. It’s a classic colonial attitude. The U.S. must stop intervening in the internal and domestic affairs of independent nations all over the world, including the U.S. occupied Kingdom of Hawai`i.
→ read full articleSri Lankan Minister Confirms Australia’s Handover of Tamil Refugees
Mike Head, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Canberra is forcibly handing over Tamil refugees to the Sri Lankan navy on the treacherous high seas of the Indian Ocean. This operation is a criminal violation of the fundamental legal and democratic rights of asylum seekers, as well as a blatant violation of international law, including the international Refugee Convention and the UN Convention Against Torture.
→ read full articleUNREDACTED: Declassified Documents Given by Biden to Rousseff Detail Secret Dictatorship-Era Executions, “Psychophysical” Torture in Brazil
Peter Kornbluh, National Security Archive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
“One of the most detailed reports of torture ever declassified by the US government,” it was among 43 State Department documents that Vice President Joseph Biden turned over to President Dilma Rousseff during the World Cup competition on June 17 [2014], for use by the Brazilian National Truth Commission.
→ read full articleUS Presbyterian General Assembly Votes to Divest from Israeli Occupation
End the Occupation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
20 Jun 2014– Following a ten-year process, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) has voted 310 to 303 to divest from Caterpillar, Motorola Solutions, and Hewlett Packard as a result of the companies’ involvement in the Israeli military occupation.
→ read full article(Português) Diferenças entre ESCREVER e REDIGIR
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Posso saber escrever, mas redigir, saberei?
As diferenças entre os dois processos, explicar saberei?
(Italiano) Il mondo in questo preciso momento: rapporto di metà anno
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Perfino i media mainstream oggi si preoccupano molto della violenza strutturale, che chiamano disuguaglianza, pur non curandosi del numero dei morenti (140.000 al giorno, di fame e malattie prevenibili-curabili, niente denaro a disposizione). Chiamare un paese, una regione del mondo pacifica con tali atrocità rampanti di morte e disuguaglianza è violenza culturale.
→ read full articleNon-State Actors in International Relations
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
There is a growing interest in the role of non-governmental organizations in the making and the implementation of policies at the international level. A group of international relations scholars from the Netherlands looks at the increasing role of NGOs in day-to-day politics at the United Nations and the European Union.
→ read full articleClimate Change Fact Sheet
Earth Policy Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
COAL, mainly used for electricity generation, accounts for 44 percent of global fossil-fuel-related CO2 emissions.
OIL, used primarily for transportation, accounts for 36 percent of CO2 emissions from fossil fuels.
NATURAL GAS, used for electricity and heating, accounts for the remaining 20 percent of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning.
Obama’s Fickle Gitmo Policy
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
This Modern World – Comic Strip
→ read full article(Italiano) Intervista – Johan Galtung
Al McKay, E-International Relations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Quel che importa è come le macroregioni si rapporteranno fra loro e la lotta contro la violenza del sistema economico – “potere morbido” che uccide ben più che il potere militare – e lo stato, addirittura il mondo, “securitario”, di marca USA – e Cinque Occhi! – la sorveglianza, ora allo stadio NSA.
→ read full articleAnticipating When Blackbirds Sing Chinese
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Conversion from Tweets to Songbites to Ensure Integrity of Communication – Blackbirds are renowned for the imaginative quality and complex variety of their song, as well as their capacity for mimicry. Such song invites speculation on how information could be encoded into it.
→ read full articleHindering Restoration of Global Heritage in Syria – EU Sanctions Target Humanitarian Aid
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Today, a civilization that used to lead the world and for centuries was the beacon of learning, tolerance and trade, and that still protects our global cultural heritage, is damaged—and only the Syrian people can rebuild it for all of us. We need to help them.
→ read full articleSave the Bees, Ban Neonic Pesticides
Dr. David Suzuki, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Bees may be small, but they play a big role in human health and survival. The insects pollinate everything from apples and zucchini to blueberries and almonds. If bees and other pollinators are at risk, entire terrestrial ecosystems are at risk, and so are we.
→ read full articleIsaac Asimov on Optimism vs. Cynicism about the Human Spirit
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
It’s insulting to imply that only a system of rewards and punishments can keep you a decent human being. Isn’t it conceivable a person wants to be a decent human being because that way he feels better?
→ read full articleMy Thoughts on Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire’s Speech on 6th June, 2014 in Sarajevo
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
As much as I agree with Mairead Maguire’s emphatic call for a world without weapons and admire her for making this call, I feel that her suggestions for action are insufficient. It is not enough to shout in all directions “I don’t want a militarized world”! whilst the games we buy for our children and grandchildren, the films they watch on television, the teaching at schools of Nationalism, Patriotism, Religious superiority, etc, etc., are all promoting violence and a militarized world.
→ read full articleSyrian Students Restore Our Global Heritage, Tesserae by Tesserae…
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
The Damascus Citadel, Syria
→ read full articleSnowden Gets German Fritz Bauer Award for Exposing US Intelligence
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
21 Jun 2014 – Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has been awarded the Fritz Bauer Prize of the German Humanist Union, a prominent civil rights organization, for exposing the controversial surveillance practices of the NSA and its accomplices.
→ read full articleNew NSA Revelations: Inside Snowden’s Germany File
Der SPIEGEL – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
17 Jun 2014 – The National Security Agency has turned Germany into its most important base of operations in Europe, according to a story published by Der Spiegel this week.
→ read full articleMapping Militarism
World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
World Beyond War has created a set of online interactive maps to help us all see where and how war and preparations for war exist in the world today. We’ll be updating some of these maps with new data every year and displaying animation of the progress away from war or the regress toward more war as the case may be.
→ read full articleThe Devil’s Dynamo
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Why is the military-industrial complex sometimes called “The Devil’s Dynamo”? Today, the US government is taking actions that seem almost insane, risking a nuclear war with Russia and simultaneously alienating China. In the long run, such hubris cannot succeed. Overspending on war will lead to economic collapse.
→ read full articleReflections on Sports, Education and Peace
Prof. Alicia Cabezudo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
On the World Football (Soccer) Cup and Education for a Culture of Peace
→ read full articleComprehension of Numbers Challenging Global Civilization
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Number Games People Play for Survival – It could seem strange to use “numbers” to frame the challenge of global civilization. The obvious arguments for doing so may no longer have adequate traction.
→ read full articleUkraine: The Dogs of the Cold War Are Awakened
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Without a well-organized movement of pan-European peace-green-human rights movements, “Europe from Below” has been unable to act in the Ukraine crisis. Individual governments, in particular Russia and the USA, have taken a highly visible role. The media in both countries dusted off the Cold War vocabulary and political analysis.
→ read full articleZulfiya Tursunova: Women’s Lives and Livelihoods in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan–Ceremonies of Empowerment and Peacebuilding
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Zulfiya Tursunova, a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment, on the basis of extensive field research, has written an important book highlighting the ways in which women deal with socio-economic change in post-USSR Uzbekistan.
→ read full articleUnited Behind So-Called ‘Rohingya” Genocide
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
A poem in memory of the two Rohingya infants who became the well-publicized victims of Myanmar’s “Buddhist” genocide.
→ read full article(Português) Ucrânia e Síria: Eleições de Destruição em Massa
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Eleições avançam na Ucrânia, obstruídas na Síria, para que assassinatos em massa continuem. O armamento ocidental da democracia.
→ read full article(Italiano) Studi per la Pace: dieci punti fondamentali
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Grazie per volere un compendio dei punti chiave nei “Galtung Peace Studies”. Sono appena stato onorato con un “Premio alla carriera” (Lifetime Award) della sociologia mondiale, oltre 60 anni; in breve, tempo sufficiente per un compendio con un avvertimento: non un surrogato alla lettura dei libri.
→ read full article(Italiano) Messico: 50 Pacifiche Politiche di Pace
Johan Galtung & Fernando Montiel T. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Toluca, Stato di México; Seminari su narcotraffico e violenza – Di seguito presentiamo 50 idee su come fare quanto sopra, divise in 10 settori con 5 proposte ciascuno; alcune di esse basate su esperienze positive all’estero.
→ read full article(Castellano) Los países de Colombia: violencia(s), conflicto(s), lo rural y lo urbano
Adriana Roque, Hoja Blanca – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
9 Jun 2014 – Desde Amsterdam, Adriana Roque inicia una serie de reflexiones sobre los diferentes países que Colombia es para ella. En esta primera entrega, previa a las elecciones presidenciales, un oportuno texto sobre la violencia y el conflicto armado.
→ read full articleThe Syrian Election and ISIS in Iraq
Judy Bello, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
ISIS (The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), a violent, fanatical organization of religious extremists, supposedly a breakaway from al-Qaeda, is not new to Iraq. It was born there during the US occupation. The man who currently leads ISIS spent several years in the US prison camp at Bucca.
→ read full articleISIS (DAASH) Now Recruiting in Palestinian Camps in Lebanon–Who Are Those Guys?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
As Washington and London were affirming the past few days their intentions to continue to arm “moderate rebel factions” in Syria, Tel Aviv just announced it would like to be helpful by joining with “moderate Arab nations” to battle their mutual Muslim enemies.
→ read full articleThe “Just Enough” Policy: Behavioral Control of Collective Protest through Minimum Reward
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
“A society can assume unlimited diversity, as long as it provides equal access to opportunity.” It is the disproportion in opportunity, rights, and freedoms that lead to resentment, struggle, and violence.
→ read full articleThe Journey to Self-Awareness
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
What causes this damage? Terror. And what makes a mind react with terror thus disrupting all other functions simultaneously? Violence. And particularly the unrelenting onslaught of ‘invisible’ violence and ‘utterly invisible’ violence inflicted on children throughout their childhood.
→ read full articleSome Myths about Muslims
Nivedita Menon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
In the context of massive propaganda campaigns, the subtle use of stereotypes, and the fact that both the Western and the Indian media share certain basic biases, many people end up believing in a range of myths about the adherents of the world’s second largest religion. This is a quick attempt at exposing those myths.
→ read full articleThe World Right Now: A Mid-Year Report
Johan Galtung, 30 Jun 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Even mainstream media are today deeply concerned with structural violence, under the heading of inequality, staying away from the numbers dying (140,000/day from hunger and preventable-curable diseases, no money). Calling a country, region or the world peaceful with such atrocities of death and inequity being rampant is cultural violence.
→ read full article60 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Poem-Plea
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Sixty years ago the UDHR was proclaimed
Humankind’s living conditions to improve
The Ethnic Cleansing Going On Right Now You Probably Haven’t Heard About: Burma, aka Myanmar
Joseph Allchin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled their homes, their leaders tortured and killed. Is this what democracy in Burma was supposed to look like?
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Known as IPRA, founded in 1964 in London–and this author, 34 at the time, is the only surviving founder. IPRA rotates every two years from one peace research center to the other, and is now in very competent Turkish hands. And what is more natural than having the 50th anniversary for the hub of peace studies in that hub of the world, Istanbul, 10-14 August this year!! Hurry up, register!!!
→ read full articleHonesty about Lies
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
A reporter asked the mother of Jimmy Carter whether he ever lied. She said, “Maybe once in a while a white lie.”
→ read full articleThe Journey of One Hijab
Daniel Horgan and Hibak Hussein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Hibak is grateful for everything she has in the U.S., but as a young Muslim woman who wears a hijab in a Western society, she strives to have her religion, culture, and identity understood and respected.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden: Former intelligence contractor interviewed in Brazil
ABC News Australia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
6 Jun 2014 – Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, wanted by US authorities and currently living in Russia, has told Brazil’s Globo TV network he would “love to live in Brazil”.
→ read full articleForeign Aid Funding Luxury Hotels in Myanmar
Michelle Tullo, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
New investments from the World Bank’s private-sector investment arm may perpetuate economic inequality rather than alleviate poverty in Myanmar. “A significant factor contributing to the urban versus rural income inequality is that the vast majority of investment in Burma is concentrated in the urban sector, despite the fact that only one-third of the population lives in these areas,”
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Exposed: Killing Dolphins – Dying for Lobsters
Link TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
1-Thousands of dolphins are killed solely for shark bait each year off the coast of Peru. 2-The epidemic of decompression disease or bends suffered by Miskito Indians involved in commercial lobster diving off Nicaragua’s coast. (27:17)
→ read full articleSuccessful Elections
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
President Carter was worried about his prospects for reelection.
→ read full articleA Hard Won Victory… The Story of 68 Palestinian Families in Lebanon
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
Masnaa Border Crossing (Syria/Lebanon)
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An Explanation of Syria’s Nightmarish Situation
Mint Press News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
Based on the World Café Methodology – Written by Mnar A. Muhawesh, editor in chief of Mint Press.
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Spain 2050–Ten Predictions
Johan Galtung, 16 Jun 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
Can we know the future? Rhetorical answer: can we know the past? We rewrite history all the time, not because facts become dubious and new facts appear, but because our angle, perspective, changes.
→ read full articleThey Knew Our Secrets. One Year Later, We Know Theirs.
American Civil Liberties Union – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
One year ago, the world had never heard of Edward Snowden, and we knew very little about the breathtaking scope of U.S. government surveillance. One year later, we know more than ever before about our government’s mass surveillance apparatus. We now have the power to rein it in.
→ read full articleLooted
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
I suppose there was looting in 331 B. C.
when Alexander the Great “liberated” Babylon.
I Quit Drinking, Then I Got Addicted to Food
Jenny Chu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
Recovering alcoholics and addicts often become “transfer-addicted” to food: After years of flooding the reward centers of our brains with chemicals, we continue to seek the same kind of high elsewhere.
→ read full articleLeo Tolstoy on Finding Meaning in a Meaningless World
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
“For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite… In complete contrast to my ignorance, [they] knew the meaning of life and death, labored quietly, endured deprivations and sufferings, and lived and died seeing therein not vanity but good…”
→ read full articleVodafone Privacy Report Reveals State Access to Its Networks
Mike Ingram, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
The world’s second largest mobile phone group, Vodafone, revealed the existence of secret permanent access to its networks from governments in six of the 29 countries in which it operates. Vodafone did not name the countries, citing fear that they could revoke licenses and pursue legal action.
→ read full articleSaving Threatened Species
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
Current [atmospheric] CO2 values are more than 100 ppm higher than at any time in the last one million years (and maybe higher than at any time in the last 25 million years)… These increases in atmospheric CO2 are causing real, significant changes in the Earth system now, not in some distant future climate, and will continue to be felt for centuries to come.
→ read full article(Português) Como O Reino Unido Ensinou os Militares Brasileiros a Torturar
Emily Buchanan, BBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
A BBC encontrou evidências de que o Reino Unido colaborou ativamente com os generais e os treinou com técnicas sofisticadas de interrogatório.
→ read full articleObama Pledges $1bn for More Troops, Military Drills in Eastern Europe
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
President Obama has announced a plan to invest $1 billion in stepping up its military presence in Eastern Europe amid the Ukrainian crisis. “I cannot think of anything more dangerous in the current circumstances than to have a deployment of UK and US troops alongside Ukrainian troops this summer,” John Rees, British political analyst and national officer at Stop the War Coalition, told RT.
→ read full articleGood for the Jews?
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Seriously, the claim by Binyamin Netanyahu that he has a right to pick and choose the Palestinian government is rather astonishing.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to the Graduates of West Point: Refuting President Obama’s Lies, Omissions and Distortions
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
On May 2014 President Obama delivered the commencement address to the graduates of United States Military Academy at West Point. Beyond the easy banter and eulogy to past and present war heroes, Obama outlined a vision of past military successes and present policies, based on a profoundly misleading diagnosis of the current global position of the United States.
→ read full articleSonia Bridi Entrevista [Interviews] Edward Snowden
Globo News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Portuguese Subtitles – Legendado em Português –
Interview conducted in English with Comments in Portuguese –
Entrevista em inglês com comentários em português
Misogyny, Guns, and Their Lethal Confluence
Tom Tomorrow - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
This Modern World
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