Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Memo to Judge: Really?? – What We Owe the Oak Ridge Three
Ralph Hutchison, OREPA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
On February 18 [2014] we heard it from a federal judge—there are two variations. The first: There are plenty of ways for you to protest and deliver your message without breaking the law. The second: If you people would just put this time and energy into working for the change you want in the political system, you might get the change you seek. Both sentiments are either disingenuous or naïve.
→ read full article(Italiano) Pakistan: e adesso che cosa fare?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Islamabad, Ministero degli Esteri (28 febbraio 2014) – Il punto basilare è che il Pakistan non otterrà quella merce detta “pace” in Kashmir, Afghanistan e Asia Centrale perseguendo solo i finie i mezzi di Washington e di qualche élite locale. Perché sbocci la pace bisogna considerare pure gli obiettivi di altre parti; e sono molti.
→ read full articleGender, Conflict and Peace
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
We celebrate Women’s Day on March 8 every year. Have we really progressed on this front? Is there any real empowerment of women? As I work in areas of conflict transformation and peacebuilding, my focus on women in conflict situations and peacebuilding processes is natural.
→ read full articleSean Byrne and Jessica Senehi – Violence: Analysis, Intervention and Prevention
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Sean Byrne and Jessica Senehi, of the University of Manitoba, have written a useful analysis of approaches to violence and conflict resolution. It is written as a textbook for the increasing number of university-level classes in Peace and Conflict Studies.
→ read full articleNigeria Court Orders Men Whipped for Gay Sex
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Four young men have been convicted of gay sex and whipped publicly as punishment in an Islamic court on Thursday [6 Mar 2014], with 15 strokes. They also face a year’s imprisonment if they cannot pay a fine of $120. They had to prostrate themselves on the floor of the court to be whipped on their bottoms.
→ read full articleBrainwashed: The Indoctrinated West
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Now, please, I am not trying to be funny and I am not trying to play with words: I am honestly wondering… I am humbly asking: “Are people in the West, particularly in Europe… are they pretending that they don’t know what is happening in Syria, Venezuela, Thailand and now, particularly, in Ukraine? Or have they simply turned into a cynical assembly of brainwashed degenerates?
→ read full articleDiplomacy NOT War!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Author, historian, and former U.S. State Dept. employee, William Blum, in his book “Killing Hope” documents U.S. military and/or CIA interventions in 77 countries since WWII. Ukraine makes #78. Today, there is increasing danger of world war and financial collapse by miscalculation or design over the crisis in the Ukraine which the U.S. helped to create.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Known as IPRA, founded in 1964 in London–and this author, 34 at the time, is the only surviving founder. IPRA rotates every two years from one peace research center to the other, and is now in very competent Turkish hands. And what is more natural than having the 50th anniversary for the hub of peace studies in that hub of the world, Istanbul, 10-14 August this year!! Hurry up, register!!!
→ read full articleUnelected Power: Democracy on the Retreat in Europe (and not just in Ukraine)
Neil Clark – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
The hailing of a foreign-backed coup d’état in a country where fresh elections were only 12 months away as a “victory for democracy” was truly Orwellian. The wishes of the 2 million people who marched against the Iraq war in London in February 2003 were arrogantly dismissed, but the protesters in Maidan, though far fewer in number, simply had to have their way.
→ read full article25th IPRA General Conference Call for Papers
Nesrin Kenar, IPRA Secretary General – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
On the occasion of IPRA’S 50th anniversary – Istanbul, Turkey, August 10-14, 2014 – Uniting for Peace: Building Sustainable Peace through Universal Values – Deadline for Proposals: March 15, 2014
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Granada (Music Video of the Week)
Carlos Bonell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Guitar par excellence! Composed by Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)
→ read full articleWorld’s Largest Grid Operator Reveals Why Increased Wind Energy Means Increased Savings
Michael Goggin, American Wind Energy Association – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
The largest grid operator in the world, serving 60 million customers, issued the final results of a major wind integration study on Monday [3 Mar 2014] and they are even better than the preliminary results.
→ read full articleImplication in Any Strategic Roundtable of Its 12 Knights
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Each Circulating Globally in Quest of Sustainability and Immortality – Use is frequently made of “roundtable” as a metaphor to suggest a configuration of a fruitful diversity of stakeholders and contrasting perspectives — vital to an integrative perspective.
→ read full article25th IPRA General Conference Call for Papers
Nesrin Kenar, IPRA Secretary General – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2014
On the occasion of IPRA’S 50th anniversary – Istanbul, Turkey, August 10-14, 2014 – Uniting for Peace: Building Sustainable Peace through Universal Values – Deadline for Proposals: March 15, 2014
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2014
Known as IPRA, founded in 1964 in London–and this author, 34 at the time, is the only surviving founder. IPRA rotates every two years from one peace research center to the other, and is now in very competent Turkish hands. And what is more natural than having the 50th anniversary for the hub of peace studies in that hub of the world, Istanbul, 10-14 August this year!! Hurry up, register!!!
→ read full articlePakistan – What Now?
Johan Galtung, 3 Mar 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Islamabad, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (28 Feb 2014) – The basic point is that Pakistan will not get that commodity called “peace” in Kashmir, Afghanistan and Central Asia by pursuing the ends and means of Washington and some local elites only. For peace to blossom the goals of other parties also have to be considered; and they are many.
→ read full articleOn The Third Anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi Catastrophe
Karl Grossman, Nuclear News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
3 Mar 2014 – With the third anniversary of the start of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe coming next week, the attempted Giant Lie about the disaster continues—a suppression of information, an effort at dishonesty of historical dimensions.
→ read full article(Português) Civilizados, Bárbaros e Selvagens
Antonio C. S. Rosa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Os ingleses do século XIX classificaram os povos e raças em Civilizados, Bárbaros e Selvagens, com base nas respectivas “evoluções”. Eles baseavam-se primariamente em três factores: a Teoria da Evolução, de Charles Darwin; a Revolução Industrial, nas origens do capitalismo industrial; e a Reforma da Igreja Católica, o cisma de onde surgiu o Protestantismo. Falsas premisas que levaram a falsas conclusões.
→ read full articleFive New Reasons Monsanto’s ‘Science’ Doesn’t Add Up
Katherine Paul and Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
As new studies surface it’s become increasingly clear that among credible physicians and scientists the consensus is that we’d better wake up to the risks and threats posed by a reckless technology that has been allowed to dominate our food and farming systems.
→ read full articleFracking Siberia: Gazprom Teams Up With Shell
Richard Smallteacher, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Gazprom of Russia has begun fracking in western Siberia with Anglo-Dutch giant Shell to tap a reserve of oil under a 2.3 million square kilometer expanse. Ironically Russia Today, a state run television station, has been actively broadcasting protests against the fracking industry in Europe, where companies like Chevron have been aggressively trying to get a toehold in countries like Bulgaria, Poland and Romania.
→ read full article(Castellano) Ovacionan en Sudáfrica documental sobre la amistad entre Mandela y Castro
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
La Fundación Nelson Mandela y la embajada de Cuba en Sudáfrica estrenaron en ese país el más reciente documental de la cineasta estadounidense Estela Bravo: Mandela y Fidel Castro, un homenaje al legado de la amistad entre estos dos líderes.
→ read full articleThe Crisis in Ukraine
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
The moderates have certainly lost control. They cannot protect public monuments, and they are forced to try to pre-empt the neo-nazis by legislating the neo-nazi program. The captive Ukrainian parliament has introduced measures to ban any official use of the Russian language. This, of course, is unacceptable to the Russian provinces.
→ read full articleChina Issues Retaliatory Report on US Human Rights
Voice of America – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
February 28, 2014 – China has issued a report documenting alleged human rights abuses in the United States after an annual State Department global rights survey strongly criticized Beijing.
→ read full articleSome Thoughts on Creativity . . . And Life
Anthony J. Marsella – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Diversity, though life itself, is considered too difficult to accommodate, and so they are moving us toward, uniformity and conformity. How easier to control! How much easier to dominate! Consider the pantheon of “Big” in our world today – Big Pharm, Big Ag, Big Energy, Big Transportation, Big Education, Big Auto, Big Med, Big Government, Big Military, and “Banks too Big to Fail,” so they remain in control of our lives and life.
→ read full articleMonsanto’s Roundup Found in 75% of Air and Rain Samples
John Deike, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
A new U.S. Geological Survey has concluded that pesticides can be found in, well, just about anything.
→ read full articleReconciliation, Reform and Resilience: Positive Peace for Lebanon
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Syria and Lebanon have been historically entangled — economically, politically and socially, both having been parts of the Ottoman Empire. At the end of the First World War, the Ottoman Middle East was divided between France and England and placed under the mandate system of the League of Nations.
→ read full articleChannel 4 Refutes Sri Lankan “Propaganda Offensive”
Channel 4, UK – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Channel 4 has today [28 Feb 2014] taken the step of publishing a refutation of “an international propaganda offensive” by supporters of the Sri Lankan government against its reporting. Channel 4 and Current Affairs journalists led the way in exposing the country’s war crimes, culminating in the broadcast of the documentary No Fire Zone – a forensic investigation into the final weeks of the bloody civil war in Sri Lanka.
→ read full article(Italiano) Criminalizzare la guerra di aggressione
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Pochi, o nessuno, lo sostengono con forza oggi come Mahathir Mohammad, quarto primo ministro della Malaysia, da 22 anni. Egli confronta quello che facciamo quando una persona ne uccide un’altra con tutto quello che non facciamo quando milioni ne uccidono milioni in guerre di aggressione.
→ read full articleJohn Scales Avery – Collected Essays, Volume 2
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
The pdf file for “Collected Essays, Volume 2” has been published on the website of the Danish Peace Academy.
→ read full articleAlexandre Marc (1904-2000)
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Marc was a complex man, one of the bridges who helped younger persons to understand the debates which surrounded the Russian Revolution, the rise and decline of Fascism and Nazism, and the post-Second World War hopes for a united Europe.
→ read full articleImelda Marcos Stamp
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
For Imelda’s 50th birthday, President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines ordered as a surprise for her that a postage stamp with her picture be issued.
→ read full articleHow the GDP Measures Everything ‘Except That Which Makes Life Worthwhile’
Dr. David Suzuki, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
“Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.” —Robert F. Kennedy.
→ read full articleSyria: What to Do Now
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
It is not only that the interventionists, and perhaps the anti-interventionists are motivated by a convergence of humanitarian/moral considerations with geostrategic ambitions, but that the nature of these hidden calculations are discussed in governmental circles behind locked doors and transcribed in secret policy memoranda.
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Sabadell Flashmob – Ode to Joy (Music Video of the Week)
Vallès Symphony Orchestra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
100 people from the Vallès Symphony Orchestra, the Lieder, Amics de l’Òpera and Coral Belles Arts choirs.
→ read full articleWorld Bank Postpones Uganda Loan Over Anti-Gay Law
Anna Yukhananov, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
The World Bank on Thursday [27 Feb 2014] postponed a $90 million loan to Uganda’s health system over a law that toughened punishment for gays, an unusual move for an institution that typically avoids wading into politics.
→ read full articleSupport Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions-BDS Until Palestinian Right to Self-Determination Is Recognized by Israel
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
We all know the Jewish Narrative, particularly the story of the holocaust, but our sadness for this one of humanity’s greatest acts of inhumanity, should not stop us from speaking out on Israel’s current policy of a ‘silent genocide’ of the Palestinian people, and currently today of the people in Gaza.
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U.S. Christian Right behind Anti-Gay Law Passed in Uganda
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Feb 24, 2014 – Rev. Kapya Kaoma: “New Ugandan law that makes homosexual acts punishable by life imprisonment was modeled after the talking points of right-wing U.S. evangelicals.”
→ read full articleIn the Name of “Peace”, the European Union Readies for War
Jean Shaoul, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
A series of EU discussion papers and meetings made it clear that the European powers are pushing for a more assertive militarist policy. A recent brief, “Why Europe needs a new global strategy,” sets out their military ambitions, not just in former colonial possessions but in areas further afield.
→ read full articleNew Report Details ‘Brutal’ Israeli Policies
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Remember that the defence minister, Moshe Yaalon, said that the army’s job was to ‘burn into the consciousness’ of the Palestinians their defeat. The only aim one can infer from that is that the army’s role is to use force to make the Palestinians weak and compliant.
→ read full articleDoctors Without Borders (MSF) Activities in Myanmar Ordered to Close Down
Médecins Sans Frontières Holland – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
On February 27 [2014], Médecins Sans Frontières received a written order from the Union Government of Myanmar to cease all operations in the country, which led to a full closure of all MSF Holland clinics on February 28. This act left patients confused and desperately concerned across the whole country.
→ read full articleMexico Building Latin America’s Largest Solar Farm to Replace Old, Dirty Oil-Power Plant
Ari Phillips, ThinkProgress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
“Mexico can reduce the environmental impact of old, dirty sources of energy, while taking the long view and building a sustainable future economy.”
→ read full articleFighting Fund for Academic Boycott of Israel
(Jake Lynch) Australians for BDS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
February 2014 – Associate Professor Jake Lynch, Director of Sydney University’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies [and TMS advisor/peace journalist], has been taken to the Federal Court of Australia by the Israel Law Centre, due to his support of the Palestinian call for academic boycott of Israel. We call on our supporters to MAKE A DONATION to support Jake Lynch’s fight for our democratic rights.
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(Castellano) Mandela y Fidel
CubaVisión– TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
La Fundación Nelson Mandela y la embajada de Cuba en Sudáfrica estrenaron en ese país el más reciente documental de la cineasta estadounidense Estela Bravo: Mandela y Fidel Castro, un homenaje al legado de la amistad entre estos dos líderes.
→ read full articleUganda’s Anti-Gay Bill Puts U.S. Aid at Risk
Bryant Harris, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
26 Feb 2014 – Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s authorisation of the so-called “kill the gays” bill has led Washington officials to review U.S. aid to the African country. U.S. evangelicals such as Scott Lively claimed that gays were responsible for the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide, and asserted that they were now targeting Uganda by trying to “convert” Ugandan children.
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God Loves Uganda – Trailer
Ford Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
The feature length documentary God Loves Uganda is a powerful exploration of the evangelical campaign to change African culture with sexuality values imported from America’s fundamentalist Christian Right.
→ read full articleAmnesty International Accuses Israeli Armed Forces of Possible War Crimes
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Human rights group says soldiers have killed dozens of Palestinians with virtual impunity in West Bank.
→ read full articleBrazil and EU Agree to Lay an Undersea Cable to Avoid US Internet Surveillance
MercoPress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Brazil and the European Union agreed on Monday [24 Feb 2014] to lay an undersea communications cable from Lisbon to Fortaleza to reduce Brazil’s reliance on the United States after Washington spied on Brasilia.
→ read full articleThe Most Beautiful and Timelessly Bewitching LGBTQ Love Letters in History
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Virginia Woolf & Vita Sackville-West,
Margaret Mead & Ruth Benedict,
Allen Ginsberg & Peter Orlovsky,
Edna St. Vincent Millay & Edith Wynn Matthison,
Eleanor Roosevelt & Lorena Hickok,
Oscar Wilde & Sir Alfred “Bosie” Taylor.
At Last! Brazil Begins Long-Awaited Operation to Save Earth’s Most Threatened Tribe
Survival International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Soldiers, field workers from Brazil’s indigenous affairs department FUNAI, Environment Ministry special agents and police officers are being dispatched to notify and remove the illegal settlers, ranchers and loggers – many of whom are heavily armed – from the Awá indigenous territory in the North-Eastern Brazilian Amazon.
→ read full articleExxon CEO Joins Lawsuit against Fracking Project Because It Will Devalue His $5 Million Property
Rebecca Leber, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
As Exxon Mobil’s CEO, it’s Rex Tillerson’s job to promote the hydraulic fracturing and fight regulatory oversight. Yet he has joined a lawsuit that cites fracking’s consequences in order to block the construction of a 160-foot water tower next to his and his wife’s Texas home.
→ read full articleHumane Society Uncovers Unconscionable Animal Cruelty in Kentucky
John Deike, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
The object of posting this undercover exposé isn’t about shock value or sensationalizing an activist cause; rather, it has been published to convey a sad and simple truth—unspeakable animal cruelty heavily permeates America’s food industry.
→ read full articleTamarind Mem
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Tamarind Mem, a Canadian bestseller novel from 1997, written by Indian-born Anita Rau Badami is an infectious and unforgettable story of an extensively engaged childhood, family, identity, culture and its inherent oppression of women, narrated through genius storytelling.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden Elected Rector of Glasgow University
Steve James, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Students at the University of Glasgow in Scotland voted Tuesday [18 Feb 2014] to elect Edward Snowden as Rector of the University, in a powerful display of opposition to attacks on democratic rights by the NSA and Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).
→ read full articleUK Fraud Agency Charges 3 Ex-Barclays Bankers over Libor
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Britain’s fraud agency has started criminal proceedings against three former bankers of Britain’s Barclays Plc for the alleged manipulation of Libor interest rates, it said on Monday [17 Feb 2014].
→ read full articleU.S. Now Bugging German Ministers in Place of Merkel – Report
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
The NSA has stepped up its surveillance of senior German government officials since being ordered by Barack Obama to halt its spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel, Bild am Sonntag paper reported on Sunday [23 Feb 2014].
→ read full articleMonsanto’s Bt-Toxins Found to Kill Human Embryo Cells
Christina Sarich, Natural Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
New research from Canada show that BT toxins are showing up in pregnant women, and low and behold – they are killing human embryo cells.
→ read full articleExposed: Viral “I Am a Ukrainian Video” Produced by PR Company Linked to ‘Regime Change’ NGO
Paul Joseph Watson, InfoWars – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
The video features an attractive woman insistently claiming that the Ukrainian uprising is solely about freedom and democracy. It is typically glib and simplified emotional propaganda which purports to explain that “there is only one reason” behind the protests in Ukraine, a bald faced lie which ignores the multi-faceted geopolitical factors behind the uprising.
→ read full articleFrench Scholar Denounces Coup Attempt in Venezuela
Prensa Latina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
The current violent actions taking place in Venezuela are a troubling reminder of events in April 2002, which turned out to be an attempted coup against President Hugo Chavez, Professor Salim Lamrani charged today [21 Feb 2014].
→ read full articleGlobal Capitalism Has Written Off the Human Race
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Economic theory teaches that free price and profit movements ensure that capitalism produces the greatest welfare for the greatest number. This theory doesn’t work when the US government socializes cost and privatizes profits as it has been doing with the Federal Reserve’s support of “banks too big to fail” and when a handful of financial institutions have concentrated much economic activity.
→ read full articleOutrage over American Psychological Association’s Decision to Exonerate Dr. John Leso
Division 39-Psychoanalysis, APA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
I am writing on behalf of Division 39 to express grave concern over the decision of the Ethics Committee to exonerate Dr. John Leso, despite his role in directing the torture of Mohammed al-Qahtani [in Guantanamo].
→ read full article(Italiano) L’International Peace Research Association ha 50 anni
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Nota come IPRA, fondata nel 1964 a Londra, e il sottoscritto, 34enne a quel tempo, unico fondatore ancora in vita. L’IPRA ruota ogni due anni da un centro di ricerche per la pace all’altro, ed è ora in mani turche molto competenti. E che cos’è più naturale che tenere il 50° anniversario del fulcro degli studi per la pace in quel fulcro del mondo, Istanbul, dal 10 al 14 agosto di quest’anno!! Affrettatevi, iscrivetevi!!!
→ read full articleEncycling Problematic Wickedness for Potential Humanity
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Imagining a Future Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential – With the possibilities now offered by technology and the web, the question is how to reframe for the future an “Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential”. What recent instances of “new thinking” can be cited as an inspiration to the world — capable of eliciting collective confidence in the future?
→ read full articleJudaism and Zionism: A Divorce in the Making…?
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
A highly armed regional power, with nearly every kind of weapon at its disposal, economically and scientifically advanced, a member of nearly every important international organization and with global influence that far outstrips its size, an ally of the world’s sole superpower, claims that its existence is under threat. That’s bullshit.”
→ read full articleExtremist Tourists: 250 Jihadists Reportedly Return to UK
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
17 Feb 2014 – Around 250 British jihadists have returned to the UK after training and fighting in Syria, a senior Whitehall security official told the Sunday Times. Security services are monitoring the “extremist tourists”, fearing they might carry out attacks at home.
→ read full articleJapan’s Odd Pro-Western ‘Nationalism’
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Can one be a nationalist, while faithfully serving the interests of a foreign country or an empire? Anywhere else in the world the answer would be resolute and loud “No!” But in Japan, such a pirouette is apparently imaginable, acceptable and for many it is even perfectly ‘normal’.
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Protect Paradise: An Animation about Palm Oil
Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Palm oil has a dirty secret: forest destruction. Every year, thousands of hectares of Indonesian rainforest and peatlands – some of the most biodiverse regions on the planet – are being destroyed to make way for new palm oil plantations. We don’t have to clear forests for palm oil – solutions exist and some companies are on track to supply clean, responsible palm oil.
→ read full articleTruth versus Power
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Henry David Thoreau said
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth”.
Why did Thoreau prefer truth to all else?
It’s the Drugs, Stupid!
Dr. Charles Gant and Greg Lewis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
And where illegal drugs such as cocaine and “speed” are often cited for their negative effects, in fact, among the drugs that are often prescribed for ADHD, Ritalin is chemically similar to cocaine and Adderall is a mix of four powerful amphetamines. We’re addicting more than ten percent of our children — overwhelmingly boys — to these drugs because they have difficulty sitting still and paying attention in class.
→ read full articleConflict Resolution: Dynamics, Process and Structure
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
“One of the most serious global problems facing the world as it lurches into the new millennium is how to manage destructive and protracted conflict between groups with differing identities who are interacting within the same political system…”
→ read full articleWill India Abolish Death Penalty?
Hindustan Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
19 Feb 2014 – After the January 2014 verdict of the Supreme Court laying down guidelines on disposal of mercy pleas, the commutation of death penalty of Rajiv Gandhi’s killers was almost a foregone conclusion.
→ read full article(Castellano) Maduro: No es una campaña de conspiración, es un golpe de Estado continuado
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
El jefe de Estado venezolano sostuvo este domingo [23 feb 2014] que el intento de golpe de Estado continuado, del cual es víctima, es “decidido desde el poder de Estados Unidos, dirigido en la calle por sectores de la derecha venezolana y respaldado por la cúpula empresarial del país”.
→ read full articleSri Lanka’s War Crimes and the US “Human Rights” Charade
WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
While Rajapakse is undoubtedly implicated in crimes, no credence should be placed in Washington’s bogus “human rights” charade, an ideological banner used by the US for its intrigues, provocations and wars of aggression around the world. The US is no more concerned about war crimes in Sri Lanka than it was in Iraq, or Libya or Syria.
→ read full articleGermany, France to Mastermind European Data Network – Bypassing US
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande will review plans to build up a trustworthy data protection network in Europe. The challenge is to avoid data passing through the US after revelations of mass NSA spying in Germany and France.
→ read full articleMyanmar Journalists on Trial for Reporting Alleged Chemical Weapons Factory
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Myanmar police have charged five journalists with “disclosing state secrets” after their newspaper carried a story about an alleged chemical weapons factory, state media reported Sunday [16 Feb 2014].
→ read full articleCaptain Boycott Rides Again
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
It has always been a secret ambition of mine to have a bagatz ruling bearing my name. Whatever the outcome, the decision in the case of “Uri Avnery and Others v. the State of Israel” will be quoted for a long time. Some satisfaction, at least.
→ read full article(Português) Johan Galtung – Transcender e Transformar: Uma Introdução ao Trabalho de Conflitos
Prof. Rafael Salatini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
São Paulo: Palas Athena, 2006 -Tradução Antonio Carlos Silva Rosa – Um dos autores mais importantes da teoria das relações internacionais no pós-guerra, Johan Galtung, dedicou toda sua profícua carreira intelectual ao estudo da paz e da solução pacífica de conflitos, que divulgou sob o epíteto de peace research, iniciados nos anos 1960.
→ read full articleSoon, the Battle for Venezuela
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
They are already sewing your funeral gown, Venezuela. They are now ready to welcome you back to that world of the lobotomized, destroyed nations that are fully submissive to Western political and economic interests – Indonesia, Philippines, Paraguay, Uganda, Kenya, Qatar, Bahrain, and almost the entire Eastern Europe.
→ read full article9 Shocking Dangers of Fluoride Exposure
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Ingested in high doses, fluoride is indisputably toxic; it was once commonly used in rat poison. So why is it in our drinking water? Using non-fluoride toothpaste can immediately reduce your fluoride exposure. Maintaining healthy iodine levels can help protect the thyroid from fluoride.
→ read full articleDivorcing
Dietrich Fisher – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
An elderly man in Phoenix calls his son in New York and says, “I hate to ruin your day, but I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing; forty five years of misery is enough.”
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Insensatez (Music Video of the Week)
Mariza & Iván "Melón" Lewis– TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Wonderful interpretation of a masterpiece composed by Brazilian legends Antonio Carlos “Tom” Jobim and Vinicius de Morais. Mariza is a Portuguese singer of Fado.
→ read full articleBerlin and Washington Foment Civil War in Ukraine
Peter Schwarz, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Recent events in Ukraine make clear that political leaders in Washington, Berlin and Brussels are prepared to split the country, drive it into civil war and risk a conflagration across the entire region to achieve their geopolitical goals.
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Robert Stevens, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
In what was clearly a politically motivated judgment, the High Court in London ruled Wednesday [19 Feb 2014] that David Miranda, the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald, was detained lawfully when he was held for nine hours last August at London’s Heathrow Airport. The 28-year-old Brazilian was in transit from Germany to Brazil when he was arbitrarily detained by the Metropolitan Police.
→ read full articleDemocracy Murdered by Protest: Ukraine Falls to Intrigue and Violence
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Who’s in charge? Certainly not the bought-and-paid-for-moderates that Washington and the EU hoped to install as the new government of Ukraine. Americans have no idea that the neoconservative regime of the White House Fool is leading them into a Great Power Confrontation that could end in destruction of life on earth.
→ read full articleWhy Do We Fear the Truth?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
The bottom line is this: Can you still hear your inner voice? And do you, like Gandhi, have the courage to follow it ‘whatever the consequences’?
→ read full articleNew Book on Truman & American Zionists
Paul L. Scham – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
John Judis’s Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict is a superbly researched book that succeeds in being remarkably fair and even-handed.
→ read full articleDespite Majority Opposition, GMO Corn Gets Green Light in Europe
John Deike, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
On Feb. 11, 2014 the European Commission gave DuPont Pioneer the green light to freely grow insecticidal corn, also known as TC1507. Nineteen of the European Union’s 28 states voted against the cultivation and openly criticized the commission.
→ read full articleTalking Roles
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Daughter: “Mother, what is an ‘extra’ in the theater?” Mother explains,
→ read full articleWhere Is Thoreau Now That We Need Him?
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
I think it’s time for us to go
and pay a visit to Thoreau.
In times like this we need a sage,
US Drones Reaping Death by SIM Card
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Feb 16, 2014 – Michael Ratner: Eliminating Targets Based on NSA spying but not verified by human intelligence demonstrates Obama’s false promise of oversight.
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Tragedi Rohingya – The Rohingya Tragedy in Burma/Myanmar
Agenda Awani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
The ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya ethnicity explained. Participation of TRANSCEND member Dr. Maung Zarni, Burmese scholar and expert on the issue.
→ read full articleNuke Summit Agenda Circumvents Armed Powers
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
When over 50 world leaders meet in the Netherlands next month [March 2014] for a Nuclear Security Summit (NSS), the primary focus will be on a politically-loaded question: how do we prevent non-state actors and terrorists from getting their hands on nuclear weapons or nuclear materials?
→ read full articleUsurious Returns on Phantom Money: The Credit Card Gravy Train
Ellen Brown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
The credit card business is now the banking industry’s biggest cash cow, and it’s largely due to lucrative hidden fees.
→ read full articleThe Tide Turns against Israel
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rarely been so politically embattled. His travails indicate the Israeli right’s inability to respond to a shifting political landscape, both in the region and globally. The delegitimisation of Israel is truly under way, and the party doing most of the damage is the Israeli leadership itself.
→ read full articleKeeping Your Chocolate Slave-Free
Marianne Perez – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
With a product as good as chocolate, it’s hard to imagine that it can have a part in modern day slavery. But the good news is that there is an industry-wide response to tackle the issue.
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Immanuel Wallerstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
France led the way to intervene in Libya, has pushed the hardest line of all Western powers on Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and has intervened unilaterally in Mali. Hollande was received as a hero in Israel because of his hard line on negotiations with Syria and with Iran. And now France has sent troops to try to restore order in the Central African Republic.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung, 17 Feb 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 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 articleWill Thorium Save Us from Climate Change?
Dr. David Suzuki, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
If the choice is between keeping nuclear power running or replacing them with coal-fired power plants, the nuclear option is best for the climate. But, for now, investing in renewable energy and smart-grid technologies is a faster, more cost-effective and safer option than building new nuclear facilities, regardless of type.
→ read full articleAnglo Irish Bankers on Trial for Scheme That Led to National Collapse
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Three top executives at Anglo Irish bank are on trial for a secret scheme to buy their own bank’s shares that eventually triggered the 2008 collapse of the Irish economy. The bankers allegedly hatched the plan to cover up bets made by Sean Quinn, once Ireland’s richest man.
→ read full articleFour Latin American Countries Agree $85 bn Free-Trade Deal
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Chile, Colombia, Peru and Mexico have signed a treaty to eliminate tariffs on 92 percent of goods and services. The Pacific Alliance is free trade area of some 210 million people, accounting for more than a third of all Latin American and Caribbean GDP.
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Street Piano: Alla Turca Jazz (Music Video of the Week)
Ayse Deniz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
I performed my version of Fazil Say’s Alla Turca Jazz (based on Mozart’s Turkish March) on 50 pianos presented by the City of London Festival.
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