Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Uganda to Authorise Life Sentence for Homosexuals
Mail & Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni plans to sign a bill into law that prescribes life imprisonment for some homosexual acts, officials said Friday [14 Feb 2014], alarming rights activists who have condemned the bill as draconian in a country where homosexuality already has been criminalized.
→ read full article(Italiano) Studi per la pace e risoluzione dei conflitti: necessità della transdisciplinarietà
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Gli studi per la pace cercano di capire come evitare la violenza attraverso la trasformazione dei conflitti, la cooperazione e l’armonia prendendo spunto da molte discipline, tra cui psicologia, sociologia e antropologia, scienza politica, economia, relazioni internazionali, diritto internazionale e storia.
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World Beyond War
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Feb 3, 2014 – The video is mightier than the hellfire missile. Make this one go viral. Learn more at http://worldbeyondwar.org
→ read full articleWelcome to ‘The Intercept’ [Newest Online Magazine by Star Investigative Journalists]
Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
10 Feb 2014 – Our short-term mission is to provide a platform and an editorial structure in which to aggressively report on the disclosures by our source, Edward Snowden. Our longer-term mission is to provide aggressive and independent adversarial journalism across a wide range of issues.
→ read full article(Italiano) Saddam, Osama, Gheddafi, Chavez – e Obama
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Chi è questo Obama, a proposito? Responsabile, secondo Nick Turse di The Nation, di uccisioni in 134 paesi, e come tale seminatore di 134 contraccolpi (blowbacks)? Un presidente con una retorica da democratico di sinistra e politiche estere da repubblicano di destra, che ha tradito i suoi elettori e la democrazia stessa, senza alcuna visione mondiale.
→ read full articleTen Reasons That I Support Alan Dershowitz, Not
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Ethnic cleansing enthusiast Alan Dershowitz is unhappy with the current BDS efforts (boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel). Earlier today [12 Feb 2013] Haaretz published Dershowitz’ diatribe on the BDS. For the first time, I have to admit, I agree with the elder Zionist mouthpiece.
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia Criminalizes ‘Terrorists’ Defaming State’s Reputation, Disturbing Order
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Actions that threaten Saudi Arabia’s unity, disturb public order, or defame the reputation of the state or the king – will be considered acts of terrorism under a new counterterrorism law which has come into force in the gulf kingdom.
→ read full articleOver Half of Population Opposes Japan Engaging in Collective Self-Defense: Survey
The Japan Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
More than half of the public opposes Japan exercising the right to collective self-defense, or coming to the aid of an ally under attack, compared with more than a third who favor it, a survey said Sunday [26 Jan 2014].
→ read full articleLife-Skill Learning from Animal Shareholders and Collaborators
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Cognitive Opportunity for Engaging Radically With a Complex World in Crisis – The ultimate “authorities” in thriving through systemic crises are however the millions of species in the biosphere — whether plants or animals. It is evident that these have explored and developed every variety of “trick” to adapt to the challenges to which they have been exposed.
→ read full articleAbout Courage: I Am Scared, Therefore I Am Brave!
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
“Many see you as a very courageous person. They would like to imitate you at that, at least a little bit, but they feel they are not courageous, say, ‘by nature’ and they cannot learn courage. What do you think about that? Can people train themselves to be courageous?
→ read full article(Português) Portugal Ajuda a Viabilizar Entrada de Milho Transgénico na Europa
Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
A abstenção de Portugal e de outros três países significou dar luz verde ao cultivo do milho Pioneer TC1507, contra a vontade de 19 países e do Parlamento Europeu.
→ read full articleTranscendental Meditation Significantly Reduces PTSD in African Refugees within 10 Days
Science Codex – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
New research shows that Congolese war refugees who learned the Transcendental Meditation® technique showed a significant reduction in posttraumatic stress disorder in just 10 days, according to a study published today [10 Feb 2014] in the Journal of Traumatic Stress.
→ read full articleConflict, Conquest and Conversion: Two Thousand Years of Christian Missions in the Middle East
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Proselytization in the Middle East was exceedingly complex. As the authors note “Muslim opposition and the enforcement of regulations against apostasy as well as Jewish disinterest quickly forced the missionaries largely to abandon that goal and to substitute for it the attempt to ‘improve’ the state of the Eastern Christian churches.”
→ read full articleThe Archaeological Heritage in Syria throughout the Crisis 2011-2013
Syrian Ministry of Culture – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
The book sheds light on the current situation of the Syrian antiquities by documenting the extent and nature of the damage affecting the museums and archaeological sites. In addition, it reviews the measures and policies to protect the Syrian heritage based on the paper presented at a meeting held at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris.
→ read full article‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ War – And the Struggle of Memory against Forgetting
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Historians, like journalists, play their most honourable role when they myth-bust. The powerful would like us to believe that the likes of Thompson, Zinn and Galeano are no longer necessary: that we live, as Time magazine put it, “in an eternal present”, in which reflection is limited to Facebook and historical narrative is the preserve of Hollywood. This is a confidence trick.
→ read full articleSyria-Bound Trucks Filled with US Dollars, Says Opposition Party Leader
Today’s Zaman, Istanbul – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
The trucks, which were stopped by the Turkish gendarmerie, were reportedly filled with weapons and ammunition. The Turkish government claimed that the Syria-bound vehicles contained humanitarian aid supplies for Syrian Turkmens. “Within those aid supplies there were dollars; those dollars were being transported to Syria, to al-Qaeda.
→ read full articleThe Five Criminals – In America, the Gestapo Has Replaced the Rule of Law
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Russia Today is the best English language news source available to Americans. On January 29, RT published a photo of 5 presidential appointees lying through their teeth to Congress. All five of these Gestapo wannabes are in violation of their oath of office to protect the Constitution of the United States.
→ read full articleThe Nordic Light – A Poetry Review
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
The Nordic Light is a collection of poetry accompanied by photography, a seldom used combination, but a very impactful and much needed one. All of the poems are contributions from historic or prominent Norwegian poets, with the exception of one Danish and one Finnish poet.
→ read full articleNo to the Recolonization of the Central African Republic
Colonialism Reparation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Currently there is a permanent presence in four new bases (Gao, Niamey, N’Djamena and Ouagadougou) that add to the four historical ones (Dakar, Abidjan, Libreville and Djibouti) thus allowing a full control of the territory of the former French colonial empire.
→ read full articleThe Trillion Dollar Road to Armageddon
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
While asking the non-nuclear weapons states to respect the NPT and refrain from building nuclear weapons, the two main nuclear powers are ignoring their responsibilities under the treaty and expending vast sums of money they cannot afford to make sure they have thousands of nuclear weapons for the foreseeable future.
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Dr Jake Lynch on Peace Journalism
Leeds Metropolitan University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Feb 6, 2014 – Jake Lynch, former BBC newsreader, political correspondent for Sky News and Sydney correspondent for the Independent, is Associate Professor of Peace Journalism and Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment and the advisor for TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS.
→ read full articleTerrorist Groups in Syria Treat over 700 of Their Injured in Israeli Hospital
Al Manar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
The Israeli occupation army established a field hospital on the Golan Heights to treat the Syrian injured militants who belong to the terrorist groups in Syria. The Zionist army prevented the media outlets from broadcasting the activities of the field hospital yet allowed the Second Channel to prepare a report about it in order to promote the “humane Israeli step towards the Syrians.”
→ read full articleSyria: “There are Terrorists from 83 Countries, Armed and Funded by Saudi Arabia”
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Syria Information Minister, Omran al-Zoubi said Saudi Arabia’s decision that Saudi citizens who fight in conflicts outside the Kingdom would face harsh punishment does not mean that the Kingdom will stop funding and arming terrorist groups.
→ read full articleOne Food Parcel & One Polio Vaccination at a Time – Lifting the Siege of Yarmouk
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
“For the past more than five months I have sold my body for one hour to whoever would give me a kilo of rice which sometimes costs as much as 14,000 s.p. (close to $ 100). I was proud to be a whore for these terrorists in order to keep my parents alive and who are still trapped and I also prevented complete starvation of my children.” She continued, “God did not help me and my family but I promise if I live and ever see one of those dogs I will kill him and he can learn if his God exists or not. None existed for me!” Two young lady volunteers from the PRCS held her, still sobbing, as she and her little ones made their way out to a waiting PRCS ambulance.
→ read full articleJudges Poised to Hand U.S. Spies the Keys to the Internet
Kevin Poulsen, Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
How does the NSA get the private crypto keys that allow it to bulk eavesdrop on some email providers and social networking sites? It’s one of the mysteries yet unanswered by the Edward Snowden leaks.
→ read full articleThe Pope’s Sex Problem – Catholic Survey Reveals Frustrated Flock
SPIEGEL Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
The Vatican last year sent out a survey to Catholics around the world focusing on attitudes to sex and sexuality. The responses are now in — and they show that the Church is badly in need of reform. Can Pope Francis meet such expectations?
→ read full articleWe Are a Cosmic Accident: Alan Lightman on Dark Energy, the Multiverse, and Why We Exist
Maria Popova, BrainPickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Questions like ‘why our world exists’ and ‘what nothing is’ have occupied minds great and ordinary since the dawn of humanity, and yet for all our scientific progress, they continue to do so, yielding only hypotheses rather than concrete answers.
→ read full articleWelcome To The United King-Doom
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Dieudonné M’bala M’bala , the genius outspoken French comedian who rebelled against the primacy of Jewish suffering has been banned from entering Britain. Humour is seemingly the last pocket of resistance. They are really afraid of being laughed at, after all, Dieudonne is telling the truth that The Guardians of Zion can no longer suppress.
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Imagine / Playing For Change (Music Video of the Week)
John Lennon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Playing for Change Foundation – Music around the World: promoting peace across borders through music.
→ read full articleJapanese Government Promotes Militarism in Media and Schools
John Watanabe, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
In line with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s boosting of the military and aggressive stance toward China, his government is seeking to refashion both the media and school curriculum to promote Japanese nationalism and militarism.
→ read full articleThe Accessories to War Crimes Are Those Paid to Keep the Record Straight
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
The media cover-up has been a weapon in the crimes of western states since the first world war. But a reckoning is coming for those paid to keep the record straight.
→ read full articleBitcoin: Revolutionary Monetary Game-changer or Financial Trojan Horse?
Washington's Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Reddit, Virgin Galactic, and Overstock.com now accept Bitcoin. So do dating site OKCupid and travel site CheapAir.com. Game giant Zynga is now in the testing phase. Two big Las Vegas hotels accept Bitcoin. Congressman Steve Stockman (R-Texas) accepts Bitcoin for 2014 campaign contributions. As does a law firm in Australia. Already, 21,000 merchants are using Coinbase to accept Bitcoin from customers.
→ read full articleJewish Groups Condemn New Presbyterian Study Guide on Zionism
The Ugly Truth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
The study guide titled “Zionism Unsettled” posits that a “pathology inherent in Zionism” drives the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and rejects theologies that uphold Zionism. It was released ahead of the church’s biennial General Assembly that will once again consider recommendations that it divest from companies that deal with Israel’s military.
→ read full article(Sinhala) Overall Checkup – The Ideological Triangle of Sri Lanka’s Left Politics දෘෂ්ටිවාදී ට්රයියෑංගලයේ සර්වාංග පරීක්ෂාව
Udaya R. Tennakoon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Based on conflict theory and TRANSCEND approach of Johan Galtung.
→ read full articleThe Moral Cost of Torture
Anthony J. Marsella – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Psychologists for Social Responsibility is a national organisation but it is now establishing an international network. Its members are psychologists around the world who are concerned with issues of peace and social justice. At the moment we are particularly concerned with the use of psychologists in the exercise of torture and the use of psychology in violation of human rights.
→ read full articleOMAR: Uncovering Occupied Palestine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
OMAR is the second film directed by Hany Alu-Assad to be a finalist among foreign language films nominated to receive an Oscar at the 2014 Academy Awards ceremony on March 2nd.
→ read full article(Italiano) Israele-Palestina: 1-2-6-20
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
La pace non si ottiene costringendo la Palestina in un ambiente bi-statale con controllo israeliano militare-politico-economico e intervento USA negli altri stati vicini. Per tale via non c’è equilibrio stabile, ma solo lotta senza fine.
→ read full articleGandhi and the Middle East
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
In the light of continuing tensions in the Middle East, it is useful to recall the efforts to have Mahatma Gandhi play a bridge-building role in the Jewish-Arab conflict of 1937 in Palestine. Mahatma Gandhi was a man of dialogue and compromise.
→ read full article“Atoms for Peace”?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
It is interesting to review the way in which Israel, South Africa, Pakistan, India and North Korea obtained their nuclear weapons, since in all these cases the weapons were constructed under the guise of “atoms for peace”, a phrase that future generations may someday regard as being tragically self-contradictory.
→ read full articleWhy Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Death Is So Scary
Seth Mnookin, Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
The root causes of addiction are frustratingly elusive, a nebulous mixture of genetics, exposure, and environment. Addiction runs in families, but plenty of addicts come from families with no history of the disease. Availability plays a role, too. The science about recovery is also hazy: Alcoholics Anonymous, the most widely used form of treatment, has no set structure or methodology, which makes it tough to evaluate its effectiveness.
→ read full articleEileen Babbitt and Ellen Luts – “Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Context”
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
To prevent wars and massive human rights violations and rebuild societies in their aftermath, an approach that incorporates the perspectives of both human rights advocates and conflict resolution practitioners is required. This goal is easier to assert than to achieve.
→ read full articleComputers
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
A French teacher in the USA explained to her class that in French every noun is either masculine or feminine. A student asked, “How about a computer?”
→ read full articleWill Mobocracy Triumph in Ukraine?
Patrick J. Buchanan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Despite our endless blather about democracy, we Americans seem to be able to put our devotion to democratic principles on the shelf, when they get in the way of our New World Order.
→ read full articleWashington Destabilizes Ukraine
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
The control freaks in Washington think that only the decisions that Washington makes and imposes on other sovereign countries are democratic. “Fuck the EU.” So much for Washington’s attitude toward its captive allies and the peoples of the world.
→ read full articleChina Ready to Work with CELAC
Prensa Latina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
China declared today [7 Feb 2014] to be ready to work with the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States to establish, before the end of 2014, the common forum approved at the recent summit of the regional body held in Havana.
→ read full article14 African Countries Forced by France to Pay Colonial Tax for the Benefits of Slavery and Colonization
Mawuna Remarque Koutonin, Silicon Africa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
For historical comparison, France made Haiti pay the modern equivalent of $21 billion from 1804 till 1947 for the losses caused to French slave traders by the abolition of slavery. African countries are paying the colonial tax only for the last 50 years, so I think one century of payment might be left!
→ read full articleThe Continuing Al-Qaeda Threat
Ron Paul – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Why is al-Qaeda as much a threat as it was ten years ago? Perhaps it is that we continue to fight the wrong war in the wrong manner. After ten years of no progress, is it not time to try something new, non-intervention and a strong defense rather than drone strikes and pre-emptive attacks?
→ read full articleNegotiations with Iran Require Mutual Restraint
Jan Oberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Iran is a 7000 year old civilisation that deserves to be treated with respect. The P5+1 and Iran are in this together now. War and sanctions talk is immature.
→ read full articleThe Global Elite is Insane
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
As anyone who pays even the slightest realistic attention to the global elite already knows, the elite’s efforts to maximise its political and economic clout, and hence its wealth, at the expense of everyone else and the Earth itself, are carefully crafted. And this is not going to change on our recommendation or because we talk to them, or even because we listen to them. Moreover, the reason is simple. The global elite is insane. And it is incredibly violent.
→ read full articleUS Increases Pressure on Sri Lankan Government over War Crimes
K. Ratnayake, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
US Assistant Secretary of State for Central and South Asia Nisha Desai Biswal announced in Colombo on Saturday [1 Feb 2014] that Washington will move another resolution—the third in three years—on Sri Lankan war crimes next month in the UN Human Rights Council.
→ read full articleBayer CEO Says Drugs Developed for “Western Patients Who Can Afford It”
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Bayer, the German pharmaceutical giant, is in hot water after CEO Marijn Dekkers told a Financial Times conference that the company designed medicines “for western patients who can afford it” not for the “Indian market.”
→ read full articleHappy 50th Birthday! Kenya is Chronically Sick
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
At independence, they say, you used to be richer than Korea, and there was real hope that you will flourish after getting rid of that brutal British colonial regime. You were never called a ‘rainbow nation’, but you really were, consisting of many different tribes, races, cultures and religions. You were truly ‘multicultural’, long before this expression became iconic and constantly used and abused in the West.
→ read full articleA Meeting with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini 35 Years Ago
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Khomeini by insisting on all or nothing against the Shah did create an Iranian transition to a new political order. In contrast the 2011 militants in Tahrir Square were content with the removal of Mubarak and promises of reforms, and ended up succumbing to a counter-revolutionary tsunami that has reconstituted the repressive Mubarak past in a more extreme form.
→ read full articleSaddam, Osama, Gaddafi, Chavez–And Obama
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Who is this Obama, by the way? Reported, by Nick Turse of The Nation, killing in 134 countries, sowing 134 blowbacks? A president with left wing Democrat rhetoric and right wing Republican foreign policies, betraying his voters and democracy itself, with no world vision.
→ read full articleProtesters Resist an ‘Indian Fukushima’
Ranjit Devraj, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
According to PMANE leader [TRANSCEND member] S.P. Udayakumar, the Kudankulam project built with Russian technology is unsafe and threatens the delicate marine ecology of the Palk straits. “A Fukushima-type accident at this mega plant, which is due to generate 9,200 MW when complete, would be truly catastrophic.”
→ read full articleArms Exports: Berlin Backs Large Defense Deal with Saudi Arabia
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Berlin has often been criticized in recent years for selling weapons to questionable regimes. Now, the German government is backing a billion-euro deal for 100 patrol boats.
→ read full articleMetascience Enabling Upgrades to the Scientific Process
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
In the light of the argument in the main paper, the question is how to extend “science” from its narrow focus to one which encompasses what is implied by the term, namely a particular approach to knowing — irrespective of the domain to which it may be applied. This therefore includes preoccupation with psychosocial intangibles whose very existence is so vigorously challenged by some forms of science.
→ read full article50 Reasons We Should Fear the Worst from Fukushima
Harvey Wasserman, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Fukushima’s missing melted cores and radioactive gushers continue to fester in secret. Japan’s harsh dictatorial censorship has been matched by a global corporate media blackout aimed—successfully—at keeping Fukushima out of the public eye. But that doesn’t keep the actual radiation out of our ecosystem, our markets … or our bodies.
→ read full articleFrom Egypt, Ukraine, the Turkish-Syrian Border, Cuba and Thailand: West Manufactures “Opposition Movements”
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
What is going on? Are popularly elected administrations all over the world becoming irrelevant as the Western regime creates and then supports thuggish ‘opposition movements’ designed to destabilize any state that stands in the way of its desire to fully control the planet?
→ read full articleReturn, Return oh Shulamit
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Pete Seeger touched my life only once. But what a touch.
→ read full articleIsrael-Palestine: 1-2-6-20
Johan Galtung, 3 Feb 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Peace does not come by forcing Palestine into a two-state setting with Israeli military-political-economic control and US intervention in the other neighboring countries. Along this road there is no stable equilibrium, only endless strife.
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The Story of Solutions
storyofstuffproject – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
The Story of Solutions explores how we can move our economy in a more sustainable and just direction, starting with orienting ourselves toward a new goal.
→ read full articleBlow to Obama as Sen. Reid Opposes Trade Authority
The Wall Street Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
“I’m against fast track,” Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters about so-called trade promotion authority legislation. The proposal would ensure an up-or-down vote, speeding up the passage of trade deals.
→ read full articleMiddle East Turmoil and the Disintegration of a Nation State
Prof. William R. Stanley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
What is taking place i is no longer only the response of disaffected Syrians endeavoring to change their country’s leadership. More and more, it is an international effort to disassemble the Syrian state as presently exists and to continue a process that had its seeds in the 1953 Anglo-American orchestrated overthrow of PM Mohammad Mosaddeq of Iran.
→ read full articleThe Missing Monarch Butterflies and Monsanto’s Roundup
Warren Cornwall, Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
The butterfly’s life cycle is exquisitely synchronized to the seasonal growth of milkweed, the only plant its larvae will eat. In a game of hopscotch, successive generations of monarchs follow the springtime emergence of milkweed from Mexico as far north as Canada.
→ read full articleEx-Marlboro Man Dies from Smoking-Related Disease
Daisy Nguyen, AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Eric Lawson, who portrayed the rugged Marlboro man in cigarette ads, has died. He was 72. He died Jan. 10 of respiratory failure due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, his wife, Susan Lawson said Sunday [26 Jan 2014].
→ read full article(Italiano) Ginevra I-II: la cattiva gestione dei conflitti
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Diciamo, semplificando brutalmente, che ci sono sette conflitti, non uno solo, tutti quanti direttamente o indirettamente violenti, che si svolgono in Siria… Per trattare una complessità a tale livello – più complessa che il VietNam – ci vuole una conferenza di lunga durata gestita dall’ONU, con tutti i contendenti, ovviamente con Iran e Israele partecipanti, e solo quelli coinvolti, senza spettatori e senza condizioni.
→ read full articleDebunking the Myth of the 10,000-Hour Rule: What It Actually Takes to Reach Genius-Level Excellence
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
The main predictor of success is deliberate practice — persistent training to which you give your full concentration rather than just your time, often guided by a skilled expert, coach, or mentor. It’s a qualitative difference in how you pay attention, not a quantitative measure of clocking in the hours.
→ read full articleCoup in Western Ukraine: The Arab Spring Unleashed in Europe
Andrew Korybko , Voltaire Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
The Libyan method has apparently been ‘perfected’ to the point where outside actors feel comfortable deploying this Pandora’s Box inside of Europe itself. Gene Sharp is the mastermind of the seemingly innocuous strategies that serve as a prelude and ‘dog whistle’ to this viral outbreak, and George Soros is the financier.
→ read full articleGandhi and Nationalism: The Path to Indian Independence
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
The understanding of the ways spiritual concepts are used in political life is made even more complex in the case of Gandhi in that he was not a thinker in terms of systems but in terms of action. “My life is my message.”
→ read full articleKeeping the Peace Profitable in Mozambique
Marianne Perez de Fransius – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Mozambique has profited from its long period of peace, both in terms of tourism and foreign investment, but if they don’t transform the current conflict left over from the civil war, they have a lot to lose. Tourism is already suffering… who knows what will be next.
→ read full articleBe Careful What You Wish…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
A husband and wife, both sixty years old, were walking through a forest.
→ read full articlePalestinians in Israel: Trapped in the Ghetto
Johathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
“We are being choked to death,” said Sawaid, Ramya’s village leader. “They are building on top of us as though we don’t exist. Are we invisible to them?”
→ read full articlePamela Olson – Fast Times in Palestine: A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Pamela Olson has written a lively and personal account of her two years (2004-2006) in the West Bank of Palestine as an editor of the Palestine Monitor and as foreign press coordinator for Dr Mustafa Barghouthi’s 2005 presidential campaign.
→ read full article(Sinhala) ලංකා වාම දේශපාලනයේ මතවාදී ට්රයියෑංගලය (Ideological Triangle of Sri Lankan Left Politics)
Udaya R. Tennakoon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Sri Lankan Left politics based on conflict theory and TRANSCEND approach of Johan Galtung.
→ read full articleUN Slams Israel Destruction of Jordan Valley Homes
AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
The moves came as fresh opinion poll evidence showed that faith in the Middle East peace process has largely evaporated among both Israelis and Palestinians. The demolitions in the Jordan Valley on Thursday [30 Jan 2014] displaced 66 people, including 36 children.
→ read full articleUSA, Greatest Threat to Peace!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
“The U.S. military budget is almost as large as the military spending of all the world’s other nations, combined. Together, the U.S. and its NATO allies account for more than 70 percent of global weapons spending. At last count, the U.S. spent six times more on war than China, and 11 times more than Russia. In fact, if you count up the U.S. and all of its allies, they are probably responsible for about 90 percent of total moneys spent on war.”
→ read full articleOfficial Text: Proclamation of Latin America and Caribbean as a Zone of Peace
CELAC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Official Text Signed by the Heads of Government and State of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States-CELAC, 29 Jan 2014
→ read full articleGroup Condemns APA’s Ethics Decision on Former Guantanamo Psychologist
Jeffrey Kaye – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Indeed, APA has been the biggest backer of psychologist participation in interrogations. APA’s former Chief Scientist, for instance, Susan Brandon, is Chief of Research for the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group.
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Vida Tão Estranha (Music Video of the Week)
Ana Carolina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Album from Rodrigo Leão, “The Mother”, presented in concert at Casino Estoril, Portugal. On stage, the composer was accompanied by Cinema Ensemble, the Sinfonietta de Lisboa and two international guests.
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Ownership of Washington Post by CIA Contractor Puts U.S. Journalism in Dangerous Terrain
Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Jan 21, 2014 – Norman Solomon: There is a major conflict of interest in the ownership of The Washington Post by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who holds a $600 million contract with the CIA.
→ read full articleNew Report Reveals: NSA, GCHQ Mapping “Political Alignment” of Cellphone Users
Eric London, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
28 Jan 2014 – New information made public by Edward Snowden reveals that the governments of the United States and United Kingdom are trawling data from cellphone “apps” to accumulate dossiers on the “political alignments” of millions of smartphone users worldwide.
→ read full articleAnti-War Poetry
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
I scurry around the city
intoning my anti-war poems
at peace rallies and poetry readings,
An Accident Waiting to Happen
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
11 of the officers responsible for launching US nuclear missiles have been fired because of drug addiction, and a larger number of missile launch officers were found to be cheating on competence examinations. Three dozen officers were involved in the cheating ring and an equal number may have known and remained silent. Safety rules were being deliberately ignored and the men involved were said to be “burned out”.
→ read full articleChallenges More Difficult for Science Than Going to Mars…
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Most extraordinary is the recognition that humanity will need to leave Planet Earth in order to occupy the environments in which it can continue to replicate the complex patterns of problems that science has been unable to address on Earth. The purpose here is explore a checklist of priorities and related considerations which science chooses to neglect in favour of associating its image with what is far away and long ago as being vital to the human enterprise.
→ read full articleGeneva II: «A Modest Beginning On Which We Can Build»
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
There is only a short time for private discussions to reach an agreement before the 10 February public restart. In any case, humanitarian aid is needed to limit the current heavy suffering. Thus we must use the influence we have in the next few days to push for an accord on relief supplies.
→ read full articleVictory! India Ends Tests on Animals for Household Products
PETA-People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
A skin sensitization test that is currently performed by rubbing harsh chemicals into guinea pigs’ shaved skin was replaced with non-animal testing methods. This move will end all animal-poisoning tests for cleaners, detergents, and other common household products in India.
→ read full articlePsychologists for Social Responsibility Letter to American Psychological Association Raising Questions on Decision in Leso Case
Psychologists for Social Responsibility – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Evidence clearly exists that Dr. Leso and other psychologists have utterly failed to ensure that detention and interrogation operations at Guantánamo and elsewhere were kept “safe, legal, ethical, and effective.” By closing this case it is reasonable to assume that APA will never sanction any psychologist participating in government-sanctioned abuses.
→ read full articleNothing New Under the Sun
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
And here came the Zionists, mostly atheists, and wanted to bring the Jews to the Land of Israel without God’s permission, indeed abolishing God altogether. They built a secular society. Their founding father, Theodor Herzl, held that after the foundation of the Jewish State, no one outside it would be considered a Jew anymore.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’economia: un brutto aspetto
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Come risultato il pianeta è ora ostaggio di debiti non rimborsabili: il PIL mondiale è già più basso del debito combinato mondiale dovuto alle banche. Il debito è superiore alla somma di denaro sul pianeta. Ma che cosa si può fare con i bankster al comando? Non granché; donde la cattiva prospettiva. I decisori delle multinazionali dominanti e delle banche, combatteranno qualunque controllo, non uccidendo ma corrompendo. I decisori degli stati dominanti, anglo-americani, combatteranno qualunque controllo uccidendo, corrompendo e spiando.
→ read full articleJane Goodall on Spirit and Science
Bill Moyers’ Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
The Iconic Primatologist Talks to Bill Moyers and Reads Her Poem “The Old Wisdom” – “As human beings, we can encompass a vague feeling of what the universe is, and all in this funny little brain here — so there has to be something more than just brain, it has to be something to do with spirit as well.” – Jane Goodall (4:36)
→ read full articleU.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy “Deeply Concerned” About Japanese Dolphin Hunt
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
20 Jan 2014 – In an unusual move, U.S. ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy has expressed deep concern over the traditional dolphin hunt in western Japan, where local fisherman corral dolphins in a secluded bay before killing many for meat.
→ read full articleUS Feigns “Horror” Over Cooked-Up Report on Syrian War They Engineered
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Qatar – chief financier of Al Qaeda in Syria – commissions “report” on atrocities published just ahead of Geneva conference.
→ read full articleQuantum Wampum Essential to Navigating Ragnarok
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Thrival in Crisis through Embodying Turbulent Flow – Collapse of confidence: The recent global financial crisis, its current unresolved instabilities, and uncertainty regarding its future stability, all suggest the merit of continuing reflection on alternatives.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to Soldiers with ‘Mental Health’ Issues
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Are you a soldier or veteran who is supposed to have a ‘mental health’ issue such as anxiety, depression, schizophrenia or PTSD? If you are, then I have some suggestions for you to consider.
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Carmina Burana (Music Video of the Week)
Carl Orff ~ André Rieu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
May 5, 2010: Oh Fortuna | Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi – 13,360,498 YouTube Hits
→ read full article(ελληνικά-Greek) Βία, Ειρήνη και Έρευνα της Ειρήνης
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Translation to Greek by Mariana Kapetanidou of Johan Galtung’s paper “Violence, Peace, and Peace Research” (1969).
→ read full articleMyanmar Leaders and Their 34 Concrete Ways of Control, Deception, and Manipulation
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Here is MY list of concrete, empirically verifiable acts the Burmese generals and ex-generals have been engaged in over the past 50 years since General Ne Win introduced the military rule on 2 March 1962. These acts are a given, irrespective of which general is in charge. They are getting worse.
→ read full articleUganda’s Anti-Gay Bill, Unsigned but Still Effective
Faith Lokens, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Uganda’s president has reportedly refused to sign a controversial anti-gay bill that would mean life in prison for people convicted of homosexual acts. But many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual and intersex people, and NGOs trying to help them, say many have been suffering discrimination for years and it is getting worse.
→ read full articleDavos Billionaires: Oblivious to the Coming Revolution
Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
You guys already own half the planet. In fact, a cultural revolution is creating a new global collective conscience between capitalism and inequality, the Haves and the Have-nots. A powerful virus is spreading.
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