Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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The Fragility of Our Complex Civilization
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Science is not competitive. It is cooperative. It is a great monument built by many thousands of hands, each adding a stone to the cairn. This is true not only of scientific knowledge but also of every aspect of our culture, history, art and literature, as well as the skills that produce everyday objects upon which our lives depend. Civilization is cooperative. It is not competitive.
→ read full articleIndia-Japan Nuclear Deal?
Fr. Thomas Kocherry – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
It was in 1986 Chernobyl accident took place in Russia. 3% of the Nuclear Plant only got burst. 97% is still alive. The Russians were not able to kill the plant completely. 90 million children were born deformed. 26 European countries were affected by radiation. It was in this context India entered into nuclear deal with Russia in 1988. In a similar way the Indo-Japanese nuclear deal is in the making. Japan cannot find an answer to Fukushima nuclear disaster.
→ read full articleGandhi: A Political and Spiritual Life
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi on 30 January 1948 – Unfortunately, Gandhi surrounded himself only with “yes men” and more often by “yes women” who were not in touch with the violent movements among the Hindus. There were no representatives of orthodox Hinduism in his entourage nor did orthodox Hindu religious leaders take part in his satyagraha campaigns.
→ read full article85 Richest People Own the Wealth of Half of the World’s Population
OXFAM – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Wealthy elites have co-opted political power to rig the rules of the economic game, undermining democracy and creating a world where the 85 richest people own the wealth of half of the world’s population, worldwide development organization Oxfam warns in a report published today [20 Jan 2014].
→ read full articleCuba Will Propose CELAC to Declare Latin America a Peace Zone
Cuban News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Cuban deputy foreign minister Abelardo Moreno said that his country will propose the Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, to take place January 28 and 29 [2014] in Havana, to declare this region a peace zone.
→ read full articleIsak Svensson and Peter Wallensteen
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
The Go-Between: Jan Eliasson and Styles of Mediation, Washington, DC: US Institute of Peace, 2010 – “The lessons on mediation resources can all be connected to one key word—cooperation.” There is a need for cooperation with local efforts and forces for peace and between official and unofficial mediators.
→ read full articleThe Global Plutocracy
Andre Damon and Barry Grey, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
The impoverishment of the working class and enrichment of the financial elite accelerated since the 2008 Wall Street crash. While the wealth of the world’s billionaires has doubled, there are today over 1 billion people living on less than a dollar per day, and nearly half the world’s population, more than 3 billion people, subsist on less than $2.50 per day.
→ read full articleWorld’s Poorest Suffer from Radioactive Sickness as Areva Mines for Uranium
Brandon Baker, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
More than 60 percent of Niger’s population lives on less than $1 per day, and even more have no electricity. Still, French company Areva keeps contaminating those residents and their environment while mining away for uranium—one of the few resources the world’s poorest country still has.
→ read full articleAn American Idol: The United States Should ‘Govern’ the World?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
This post consists of a much expanded text of an opinion piece that was published by AJE on January 18, 2014; it seeks to discredit imperial and neoliberal claims that the United States is a benevolent hegemon, providing global public goods to the world as a whole, including supposed geopolitical and ideological rivals.
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US Largest Cocaine Smuggler Revealed: The Drug Enforcement Agency-DEA
NextNewsNetwork – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Jan 15, 2014 – For decades, it has been rumored the United States government was secretly sponsoring the smuggling of cocaine into the country. Newly released documents, and testimony from Justice Department and DEA officials now show the stories of government running cocaine are true.
→ read full article(Castellano) Coordinadores de la Celac proclaman a América Latina como zona de paz
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
El documento “deja claro que la América Latina como zona de paz respetará los principios y normas del derecho intrernacional, se compromete a la solución pacífica de controversias, a fin de desterrar para siempre la amenaza y el uso de la fuerza en nuestra región”, explicó el vicecanciller de Cuba.
→ read full articleGeneva Will Fail but Don’t Blame Only the Syrian Parties
Jan Oberg, TFF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
The meeting in Geneva about Syria resumes today [24 Jan 2014]. It is destined to become a historic failure. Most observers will blame either of the armed Syrian parties – the government or the rebels – for adhering unbendingly to their mutually exclusive positions.
→ read full articleOpen Ended Dead End
David Colquhoun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Why did the chicken cross the Möbius strip?
→ read full articleWhy Single Out the Case of the Rohingya Vis-A-Vis Other Unfolding Atrocities Around the World?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
I am singling out the case of the Rohingya, subject to a 35-year state-policy which rests on the INTENT to erase the Rohingya as a group, a memory, an identity and the literal existence.
→ read full articleFrom Galileo to Sagan, Famous Scientists on the Art of Wonder, the Mystery of the Universe, and the Heart of Science
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as all serious endeavor in art and science. He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead, then at least blind. . . . To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious. –- Einstein conversing with Tagore.
→ read full articleMediation in Schools: A Response to New Federal Priorities
Matt Johnson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Benefits of Mediation and Conflict Resolution in Schools
→ read full articleThe Fukushima Secrecy Syndrome – From Japan to America
Ralph Nader – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
24 Jan 2014 – Last month, the ruling Japanese coalition parties quickly rammed through Parliament a state secrets law. Under its provisions the government alone decides what are state secrets and any civil servants who divulge any “secrets” can be jailed for up to 10 years. Journalists caught in the web of this vaguely defined law can be jailed for up to 5 years.
→ read full articleSleep of Fools
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
So will this be the magic, blissful year
when finally all wars will disappear?
Geneva I-II: The Mismanagement of Conflicts
Johan Galtung, 27 Jan 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Let us say, brutally simplified, that there are seven conflicts, not only one, all directly or indirectly violent, unfolding in Syria… To handle a complexity at this level–more complex than Vietnam–a long-lasting UN-managed conference with all parties, of course with Iran and Israel participating, and only those involved, no spectators, and no conditions, is needed.
→ read full articleImperiled Polities: Egypt and Turkey—Two Visions of Democracy
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
The recent disturbing political turmoil in Turkey and Egypt, each in its own way, is illustrative. In both countries there are strong, although quite divergent, traditions of charismatic authoritarian leadership, reinforced by quasi-religious sanctification. Very recently, however, this authoritarian past is being challenged by counter-traditions of populist legitimacy.
→ read full articlePeoples’ Tribunal on Sri Lanka
Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Bremen, Germany, 7-10 December 2013. Organized by International Human Rights Association and Irish Forum for Peace in Sri Lanka. Conducted by Permanent People’s Tribunal – Fondazione Lelio Basso Sezione Internazionale, Roma- Italia.
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Eisenhower Farewell Address – 17 Jan 1961
U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
→ read full articleFive Minutes Is Too Close
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
From: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board.
To: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, members of the UN Security Council.
Re: It is still five minutes to midnight.
Leaked: Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) – Environment Chapter
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
Today, 15 January 2014, WikiLeaks released the secret draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Environment Chapter and the corresponding Chairs’ Report.
→ read full articleThe Siege of Yarmouk
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
Crimes against Humanity Warranting Prosecution of the Guilty, Not Blame for the Victims…
→ read full articleMIT Study of Ghouta Chemical Attack Challenges US Intelligence
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
A new MIT report is challenging the US claim that Assad forces used chemical weapons in an attack last August, highlighting that the range of the improvised rocket was way too short to have been launched from govt controlled areas.
→ read full articleUganda President Blocks Anti-Gay Bill
Agence France-Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said there were better ways to cure the “abnormality” on Friday [17 Jan 2014]. Homosexuality was caused by either “random breeding” or a need to make money. And lesbians, he said, choose female partners because of “sexual starvation” and the failure to marry a man.
→ read full article250 Dolphins Captured, Prepared for Slaughter in Japan
Hawaii Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
17 Jan 2014 – Five separate pods of Bottlenose dolphins were driven into Taiji’s infamous killing cove yesterday and held overnight. This now massive pod of more than 250 dolphins includes babies and juveniles, including a rare albino calf that has been clinging as closely as possible to the mother.
→ read full articleNetanyahu Rolls Out New Roadblock to Peace
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
To the surprise of observers, given the many issues blocking progress in the current Middle East peace talks, Israel and the United States now appear to regard the Palestinian refusal to recognise Israel as a Jewish state as the key obstacle to an agreement.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’Occidente si contrae in un “Medio Evo”? Bene!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
L’Illuminismo trasformò la nozione teologica di un Dio onnipotente-onnisciente-onnipresente nella logica statuale di uno Stato onnipotente, nella logica capitalistica di un Mercato onnipresente, e nella logica aristotelica di una Scienza onnisciente. Come prevedibile, l’Occidente, e gli USA in particolare, cercano di fondere le tre logiche e i tre poteri più che mai in una copia dell’unità divina.
→ read full articleClimate Activists Slapped With Terrorism Charges for Devon Energy Protest
Richard Smallteacher, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
10 Jan 2014 – Two climate activists who staged a protest at the headquarters of Devon Energy, a Fortune 500 company based in Oklahoma city, have been charged with a “terrorism hoax” after black powder drifted down from a banner that they unfurled.
→ read full articleNigerian Leader Signs Anti-Gay Law, Drawing U.S. Fire
Felix Onuah, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan signed a bill on Monday [13 Jan 2014] that criminalizes same-sex relationships, contains penalties of up to 14 years in prison and bans gay marriage, same-sex “amorous relationships” and membership of gay rights groups.
→ read full articleSpeech in La Habana, Cuba
Nelson Mandela – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
We admire the sacrifices of the Cuban people in maintaining their independence and sovereignty in the face of a vicious imperialist-orchestrated campaign to destroy the impressive gains made in the Cuban revolution. You are with us because both of our organizations, the Communist Party of Cuba and the ANC, are fighting for the oppressed masses, to ensure that those who make the wealth enjoy its fruits.
→ read full articleGreen Parties in Transition
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
With the campaign for the 2014 elections to the European Parliament starting, it is useful to look at the ways political parties structure themselves for pan-European elections.
→ read full article(Italiano) 2014: Dieci conflitti, soluzioni, conciliazione
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
Gli USA si auto-ingannano costruendo magazzini anziché fabbriche. Il punto non è la clemenza per Snowden bensì mollare la NSA e punire i trasgressori ai diritti umani, anche alleati. L’Occidente tenta di guadagnare terreno propizio a livello morale cambiando il discorso su qualcosa che ritiene di possedere che altri non hanno: la democrazia. Che gestisca un enorme sistema colonial-imperiale contro la propria volontà? Un po’ di democrazia!
→ read full articleIn Honor of the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
Answering ML King’s call, and the call of the thousands of others who have responded to injustice in our time, will not be easy! It will add burdens to your conscience, responsibilities to your daily rounds, and threats to your safety. In answering the call, your life will not be the same.
→ read full articleSupreme Court Hands Monsanto Victory over Farmers on GMO Seed Patents, Ability to Sue
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
The US Supreme Court upheld biotech giant Monsanto’s claims on genetically-engineered seed patents and the company’s ability to sue farmers whose fields are inadvertently contaminated with Monsanto materials.
→ read full articleRelax!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
On a flight from New York to Sydney, the pilot announced that they had engine trouble and would have to make an emergency landing at sea near a small uninhabited South Pacific island.
→ read full articleA Day of Infamy!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
On January 17, 1893 U.S. Marines assisted wealthy sugar barons to illegally overthrow the independent nation and lawful Hawaiian government of Queen Lili’uokalani. 120 years of continuous illegal U.S. occupation of Hawai’i does not make the occupation legal.
→ read full articlePlastic Waste: EU Parliament Sounds the Alarm
European Parliament – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
The most hazardous plastics and certain plastic bags should be banned by 2020, as part of an EU strategy to reduce plastic waste in the environment, says the European Parliament in a resolution voted on Tuesday [14 Jan 2014]. The EU should also introduce binding plastic waste recycling targets, MEPs add.
→ read full articleInvisible Borders
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
For Aya, my friend from Israel.
How can I forget
the words we have exchanged?
Violence, Infectious Disease and Climate Change Contributed to Indus Civilization Collapse
Science Daily – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
A new study on the human skeletal remains from the ancient Indus city of Harappa provides evidence that inter-personal violence and infectious diseases played a role in the demise of the Indus, or Harappan Civilization around 4,000 years ago.
→ read full articleUS Appeals Court Strikes Down “Net Neutrality” Rules
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-to-1 Tuesday [14 Jan 2014] that the Federal Communications Commission’s 2010 Open Internet regulations were based on a wrong legal argument and are void. The ruling represents a significant blow against “net neutrality.”
→ read full articleChelsea Manning Awarded Sam Adams Integrity Prize for 2014
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
16 Jan 2014 – The Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence have voted overwhelmingly to present the 2014 Award to Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning. A Nobel Peace Prize nominee, U.S. Army Pvt. Manning is the 25 year-old intelligence analyst who in 2010 provided to WikiLeaks the “Collateral Murder” video.
→ read full articleHigh Levels of Molecular Chlorine Found in Arctic Atmosphere
Science Daily – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
How the sea salt is transformed into molecular chlorine is unknown. “The mechanism is a mystery to us right now. There is definite climate change happening in the Arctic,” Huey said. “That’s changing the nature of the ice, the volume of the ice, the surface area and the chemistry of the ice.”
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El Día Que Me Quieras (Music Video of the Week)
Daniel Barenboim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
From the Album ‘Mi Buenos Aires Querido’
Tango, Sensual Dance
Brazilian Hacker Creates Twitter-like App Shielded from NSA Gaze
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
In a post-Snowden world where NSA surveillance has been exposed as ubiquitous, one man decided to invent a networking system akin to Twitter, but with one key difference: It would be surveillance-proof and completely decentralized. Meet ‘Twister.’
→ read full article(Português) Youtube Encerra o Maior Canal de Touradas e Promete Combater o Abuso Animal
João Miguel Ribeiro, ptjornal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Um pequeno clique para o Youtube, um avanço gigante na luta contra as touradas. A conta do utilizador PabloLopezRiobo, que detinha aquele que era considerado o maior canal de promoção da tourada, foi encerrada por promover o abuso animal.
→ read full articleKoodankulam: An Unfettered Struggle
Anitha S, People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
We are proud that our dear sister Sundari who lost many months in jail and on conditional bail away from home has penned her thoughts as a book: Unfettered Struggle (Sirai Paadal Porattam). She has lucidly written about her experiences with the police, in jail ,and as a strong fighter for justice and life in this village.
→ read full articleModernizing the United Nations System: Civil Society’s Role in Moving from International Relations to Global Governance
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Professor John Trent of the Department of Political Science, University of Ottawa, Canada sets out clearly the framework of this important study of the possible reforms of the United Nations.
→ read full article(Italiano) Nove Milioni per Una Nuova Politica di Pace Nel Mondo: Quale?
Prof. Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Nella recente legge di stabilità approvata dal Parlamento, sono stati inseriti 9 milioni [euro] in tre anni per “… l’istituzione di un contingente di corpi civili di pace, destinati alla formazione e alla sperimentazione della presenza di 500 giovani volontari da impegnare in azioni di pace non governative nelle aree di conflitto o a rischio di conflitto o nelle aree di emergenza ambientale”.
→ read full article(Castellano) Acuerdo Nuclear entre Irán y EE.UU. Entrará en Vigor Este 20 de Enero
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, informó este domingo [12 Enero 2014] que el acuerdo sobre el programa nuclear iraní entre Teherán (capital de Irán) y las grandes potencias se aplicaría a partir del 20 de enero.
→ read full articleReturn of Al-Qaida
Eric Margolis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
How did al-Qaida, a tiny anti-Communist group in Afghanistan with no more than 200 members in 2001 become a worldwide threat? The answer is simple. As an organization and threat, al-Qaida barely exists. But as a name, al-Qaida and “terrorism” have become the west’s handy universal term for armed groups fighting western influence, corruption or repression. Al-Qaida is nowhere – but everywhere.
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Did You Know the BOOK?
PopularLibros - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Spanish with English Subtitles – Book-Bio Optical Organized Knowledge is a revolutionary device. Take a look at its amazing advantages!
→ read full article(Italiano) Chi gestisce il mondo? Il subconscio (*)
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Non una persona o un gruppo di persone, non un paese o un gruppo di paesi. Ma essi possono servire come strumenti per copioni incisi nei più profondi recessi delle loro menti, non a livello conscio, facilmente recuperabile. Copioni troppo banali, ovvi, troppo dolorosi/vergognosi e quindi repressi. Jung li chiama archetipi; si presentano sovente come sindromi.
→ read full articleVengeance
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Hatred like a high velocity bullet
pierced my skin, gathered my organs
(heart, brain, the rest)
(Português) Martin Schulz: Capitalismo Selvagem Destruiu Estados e Indivíduos
Guillermo Altares, El País - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Martin Schulz, presidente do Parlamento Europeu desde 2012 e candidato dos socialistas para presidir a Comissão Europeia desde novembro, é um político bastante insólito. Por sua franqueza em discursos e declarações, recebeu a fama de sincero, mas também de duro.
→ read full article[Crise? Austerities?] Jaguar Land Rover Reports Record Sales for 2013
Press Association, The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Britain’s largest car manufacturer, Jaguar Land Rover, owned by India’s biggest carmaker, Tata Motors, has reported record-breaking global sales for 2013. Together the British brands sold 425,006 vehicles in 2013 – up 19% on 2012 – setting new sales records in 38 international markets.
→ read full articleParis Conference on Syria: US, European Allies Renew Push for Regime-Change
Alex Lantier, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Top US and European diplomats assembled Sunday [12 Jan 2014] in Paris for a two-day meeting of the so-called Friends of Syria group amid reports that US officials are preparing renewed shipments of supplies to Syrian Islamist opposition forces.
→ read full articleRecognizing Israel as a Jewish State Is Like Saying the US Is a White State
Juan Cole – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is adding a fifth demand to his negotiations with US Secretary of State John Kerry and Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas: That the Palestinians recognize Israel as a “Jewish state.”
→ read full articleFlowering of Civilization — Deflowering of Culture
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Flow as a Necessarily Complex Experiential Dynamic – Produced in memory of the cut flowers arranged to enhance the quality of the deliberations at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum focused on The Reshaping of the World: Consequences for Society, Politics and Business (Davos, 22-25 January 2014).
→ read full articleAnti-Whaling Activists Stage Season’s 1st Attack against Japanese Fleet
The Asahi Shimbun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Anti-whaling activists from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society tried to disrupt the operations of Japan’s whaling fleet in Antarctic waters on Jan. 10 [2014], the Fisheries Agency said.
→ read full articleCivil Disobedience (Part 3 of 3)
Henry David Thoreau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
[Parts 1 & 2 in preceding weeks] It is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. I simply wish to refuse allegiance to the State, to withdraw and stand aloof from it effectually. I do not care to trace the course of my dollar, if I could, till it buys a man or a musket to shoot one with — the dollar is innocent — but I am concerned to trace the effects of my allegiance.
→ read full article(Italiano) Una Pace Cristiana?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Che dono natalizio a tutti noi da quel sorprendente papa Francesco, il suo primo Messaggio per la Giornata Mondiale della Pace, Fraternità, fondamento e via per la pace. Un testo rigoroso suddiviso in dieci sezioni. Ecco un tentativo di riassumerne alcuni punti chiave.
→ read full article(ελληνικά-Greek) Πολιτισμική Βία
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Translation from English to Greek of Johan Galtung’s academic paper “Cultural Violence” (1990).
→ read full articleToyota’s New Hydrogen Car to Emit Only Water Vapor
AP, msn news – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Toyota said Monday [6 Jan 2014] that a hydrogen-powered vehicle that emits only water vapor as exhaust will go on sale in the U.S. in 2015, a year earlier than it promised just two months ago.
→ read full articleThe West Contracting to “Middle Ages”? Fine!
Johan Galtung, 13 Jan 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
The Enlightenment transformed the theologic of an omnipotent-omniscient-omnipresent God to the state logic of an omnipotent State, the capital logic of an omnipresent Market, and the aristotelian logic of an omniscient Science. Predictably, the West, and the USA in particular, try to fuse the three logics and powers more than ever into a copy of divine unity.
→ read full articleVarieties of Scientific Experience: Carl Sagan on Science and God
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
“If we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.”
→ read full articleBreaking the Silence
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Broad Support for Footballer’s Coming Out – Former German national team player Thomas Hitzlsperger on Wednesday [8 Jan 2014] became the first professional footballer in the country to acknowledge his homosexuality. The upcoming Winter Olympics in Russia, he said, was a reason for going public now.
→ read full articleChina Outstrips US as World’s Biggest Goods Trader
Li Anne Wong, CNBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
China’s annual trade in goods topped $4 trillion for the first time last year, surpassing the U.S. as the world’s largest trader.
→ read full articleEurope’s Leaders Visit Athens to Celebrate Their Failure
Apostolis Fotiadis, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
The start of Greece’s six-month presidency of the EU was marked by a ceremony Wednesday [8 Jan 2014] in the Greek capital attended by the EU commissioners. But protests were banned.
→ read full articleGerman Star Footballer Thomas Hitzlsperger Announces He Is Gay
BBC Sport – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
The ex-Aston Villa midfielder, 31, who retired because of injury in September, revealed his sexuality on Wednesday [8 Jan 2014]. “We still have a long way to go before there will be an openly gay man playing in a top league because we fear a reaction and we don’t know what will happen,” Hitzlsperger, who won 52 caps for Germany, said.
→ read full articleFundamentalism: A Psychological Problem
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
While religious fundamentalism is recognisable to most people, fundamentalism has many non-religious manifestations as well. These are widespread, even if they often occur in less readily identifiable ways.
→ read full articleThe Emergent Palestinian Imaginary
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
It is often overlooked that as early as 1988, and possibly earlier, the unified Palestinian leadership has decisively opted for what I would call a ‘sacrificial’ peace. By sacrificial I mean an acceptance of peace and normalization with Israel that is premised upon the relinquishment of significant Palestinian rights under international law.
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia: A Retrograde Rentier Dictatorship and Global Terrorism
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Saudi Arabia has all the vices and none of the virtues of an oil rich state like Venezuela. The country is governed by a family dictatorship which tolerates no opposition and severely punishes human rights advocates and political dissidents. Hundreds of billions in oil revenues are controlled by the royal despotism and fuel speculative investments the world over.
→ read full article(Castellano) Snowden Robó 1.7 Millones de Archivos: Pentágono
Tele SUR tv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Jan 10, 2014 – Un informe clasificado del Pentágono concluyó que el ex contratista de la Agencia de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos, Edward Snowden, descargó 1.7 millones de archivos de inteligencia de las agencias estadounidenses, convirtiéndose en el robo de secretos más grande en la historia de ese país.
→ read full articleFearless Psychology and Fearful Psychology: Principles and Practice
Anita McKone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Since the mid-1990s, Robert J. Burrowes and I have practised and further researched a form of psychology based on the principle of ‘fearless awareness of the self’. If people wish to know the underlying emotions that have caused me to write this account and critical analysis, they are love and anger. I love the truth and hope that what Robert and I have discovered through our research is useful to others who wish to truly love and understand themselves.
→ read full articleBibi & Libie
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Perhaps I am too stupid, but for the heck of me I cannot understand the sense of the Israeli demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
→ read full articleObsession
Richard Wiseman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
A psychoanalyst shows a patient an inkblot, and asks him what he sees. The patient says: “A man and woman making love.”
→ read full articleTransformative Harmony and Inharmony in Nepal’s Peace Process
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Abstract: Two lines of thoughts: ‘first, the Maoist Army integration either into Nepal Army or society is an end of peace process and second, the integration is a part of it’ are available in Nepal. The parties empowered by power, politics and property argue as former and majority of general people and other forces believe on latter.
→ read full articleNeutral – In Whose Favor?
Uri Avnery – Transcend Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Former Israeli army Chief of Staff, a man of limited intelligence, was told that a certain individual was an atheist. “Yes,” he asked, “but a Jewish atheist or a Christian atheist?”
→ read full article(Português) A Revolta de Chiapas, 20 Anos Depois
Carta Maior – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Já se passaram anos, balas e mortos, prisões e injustiças. Ocorreram críticas e zombarias, mas o Subcomandante Marcos e os zapatistas seguem presentes.
→ read full article(Português) Chiapas: Injustiça, Pobreza, Luta e Dignidade
Eduardo Febbro – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
O ano velho se vai em meio a névoa. A garoa e o frio cobrem o local onde o Exército Zapatista de Libertação Nacional celebrou os 20 anos do levante.
→ read full article2014: Ten Conflicts, Solutions, Conciliation
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
USA is cheating itself, building warehouses, not factories. The point is not clemency for Snowden but to drop the NSA and punish those, also allies, who broke human rights. The West tries to get the moral high ground by changing discourse to something they think they have and others not: democracy. Running huge colonial-imperial system against their will? Some democracy!
→ read full articleSorry for Letting Them Snoop? Dell Apologizes for ‘Inconvenience’ Caused by NSA Backdoor
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Dell told an irate customer on Monday [30 Dec 2013] that they “regret the inconvenience” caused by selling to the public for years a number of products that the intelligence community has been able to fully compromise in complete silence up until this week.
→ read full articleAnti-War Demonstration
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Instead of going to Baghdad
I strolled four blocks
to a convenient anti-war demonstration
Civil Disobedience (Part 2 of 3)
Henry David Thoreau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
[Part 2 last week – Part 3 next week] The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur. Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.
→ read full articlePoint of View
Uta Frith – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Psychiatrist to patient: “Don’t worry. You’re not deluded.
→ read full articleNSA’s Secret Toolbox: Unit Offers Spy Gadgets for Every Need
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
The NSA has a secret unit that produces special equipment ranging from spyware for computers and cell phones to listening posts and USB sticks that work as bugging devices. Here are some excerpts from the intelligence agency’s own catalog.
→ read full articleThe Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Necessary cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.
→ read full articleBeholding 2014
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
2013 was not a happy year in the chronicles of human history, yet there were a few moves in the directions of peace and justice. What follows are some notes that respond to the mingling of light and shadows that are flickering on the global stage, with a spotlight placed on the main war zone of the 21st century—the Middle East, recalling that Europe had this negative honor for most of the modern era.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize Nomination 2014: Mother Agnes Mariam and Mussalaha
The Peace People– TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Press Release 4 Jan. 2014 – Mother Agnes Mariam of the Cross (civil name Fadia Laham) and the Mussalaha Reconciliation Initiative in Syria have been nominated by Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.
→ read full article2014 and Beyond: Chaos or Community?
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Nearly 50 years ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. said: “The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.” That choice is becoming ever more profound as we enter the new year of 2014.
→ read full articlePrivacy Rights: Did We Ever Really Have Them?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
The answer to this question is being pondered across America in light to the two seeming mutually contradictory US Federal Court decisions handed down this month from Courts in Washington DC and New York.
→ read full articleHave You Tried the Six Varieties of Love?
Roman Krznaric, Sojourners – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
The Greeks found diverse kinds of love in relationships with a wide range of people — friends, family, spouses, strangers, and even with themselves. This contrasts with our typical focus on a single romantic relationship, where we hope to find all the different loves wrapped into a single person or soul mate.
→ read full articleMuriel Mirak-Weissbach
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Muriel Mirak-Weissbach in her new book Through the Wall of Fire uses a sequence from Dante’s Divine Comedy to stress the need within the wider Middle East for a fundamental revolution in thinking and a far-reaching shift in moral outlook leading from wrath to reconciliation.
→ read full articleAre We Being Driven Like Cattle?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Let us stop being driven like cattle by invented threats. Let us instead look at the very real dangers that threaten human civilization, and do our utmost to avoid them. One can herd cattle, but one cannot herd lions. As Shelly said, “Ye are many. They are few.”
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Those Were the Days (Music Video of the Week)
From Gene Raskin, by Mary Hopkin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
The original Russian song first recorded by Alexander Vertinsky in 1926, “By the Long Road -Дорогой длинною”, was used by Gene Raskin for “Those Were the Days” popularized by Mary Hopkin.
→ read full articleOn Dignity in Democracy
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
A Rhymed Reflection Dedicated to Litang Cui
→ read full articleSouth Sudan: Uprising in a State That Cannot Afford Independence
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
For days, the Kenyan capital of Nairobi has been on edge over the carnage in South Sudan.
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