Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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“Human is as Human Does:” Reflections on Human Nature
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Conventional views of human nature we hold are gradually and rapidly becoming obsolete in the face of scientific, technological, and medical developments. These developments are of such proportion and consequence that they are altering human nature as we one knew it – or thought we knew it?
→ read full article‘Children in Cages’: Human Rights Group Accuses Israel of Torture
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
An Israeli human rights organization has accused the country of torturing Palestinian minors, with reported cases of public caging as well as threats and acts of sexual violence.
→ read full articleLynne Stewart Freed from Prison, Granted “Compassionate Release”
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
31 Dec 2013 – Earlier today, federal Judge John Koeltl ordered the “compassionate release” of [74-year old] Lynne Stewart. He wrote that “Stewart’s “terminal medical condition [cancer] and very limited life expectancy constitute extraordinary and compelling reasons that warrant the requested reduction [of her sentence].
→ read full article2014: International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
In a little noted initiative the General Assembly on November 26, 2013 voted to proclaim 2014 the International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
→ read full article2014 Will Bring More Social Collapse
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
In terms of surveillance technology, we are far beyond Orwell’s imagination. In terms of the unaccountability of government, we exceptional and indispensable people now live a 1984 existence. In America today citizens have become subjects, an indication of social collapse.
→ read full articleInside TAO-Tailored Access Operations: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit
Der Spiegel* – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
The NSA’s TAO hacking unit is considered to be the intelligence agency’s top secret weapon. It maintains its own covert network, infiltrates computers around the world and even intercepts shipping deliveries to plant back doors in electronics ordered by those it is targeting.
→ read full articlePalestinians Have No Partner for Peace in Israel
Haaretz Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Dec. 29, 2013 – Rejection of the Palestinian partner is a deception aimed to delude the public into thinking the Israeli government’s hands are clean.
→ read full articleMandela Is Dead – So, Why Hide the Truth about Apartheid?
Fidel Castro Ruz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Why do they try to hide the fact that the Apartheid regime –that brought so much suffering onto Africa and arouse so much indignation in most nations throughout the world– was the fruit of European colonial powers and was turned into a nuclear power by the United States and Israel, something Cuba, who supported Portuguese colonies in Africa fighting for their independence openly condemned?
→ read full articleEnd the U.S. National Security State!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
The U.S. military has begun to use the phrase “harvest” to describe the killing done by drones. The U.S. has now become a National Security State, a global empire, “harvesting” children – Holy Innocents, at home and abroad. When will it end?
→ read full articleBusiness as Usual
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Luigi (the father) says to his son, “I want you to marry a girl of my choice.”
→ read full articleCivil Disobedience (Part 1 of 3)
Henry David Thoreau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
[Part 2 next week – Part 3 following one] The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. The standing army is only an arm of the standing government.
→ read full articleSamer Issawi, Hunger Strikes, and the Palestinian Struggle
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
For the last three years Palestinian prisoners unlawfully detained in Israeli jails have been engaged in hunger strikes to protest administrative detention, imprisonment without indictment, charges, and access to allegedly incriminating evidence, abusive arrest procedures…
→ read full articleThe Changing Contours of US Imperial Intervention in World Conflicts
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Following the Vietnam War, US imperial intervention passed through several phases: In the immediate aftermath, the US government faced a humiliating military defeat at the hands of the Vietnamese liberation forces and was under pressure from an American public sick and tired of war. Imperial military interventions, domestic espionage against opponents and usual practice of fomenting coups d’état (regime change) declined.
→ read full articleSome Cartoons Aren’t Funny
A. D. McKenzie, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
We can’t talk about political correctness and say cartoonists must draw certain groups only in a certain way. You’ll find someone offended by anything.
→ read full articleJeff Unsicher
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
“Policy advocacy is the process by which individuals, NGOs, other civil society organizations, networks, and coalitions seek to attain political, economic, cultural and environmental rights by influencing policies, policy implementation and policy-making processes of governments, corporations and other powerful institutions.”
→ read full articleI Am Outraged – A Christmas Poem
Rudi Teichmann – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
I am outraged
Because every second children die of hunger by design
Because every second old people die lonely
Because brother fights against brother
UN Votes to Protect Privacy in Digital Age
Edith M. Lederer, AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
The U.N. General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution to protect the right to privacy against unlawful surveillance on Wednesday [18 Dec 2018] in the most vocal global criticism of U.S. eavesdropping. Germany and Brazil introduced the resolution.
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John Lennon – Happy Xmas [War Is Over] – (Music Video of the Week)
John Lennon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Official Video – “An eye for an eye will make us all blind.” – Mahatma Gandhi.
→ read full articleIsrael’s New Settlements Will Coincide with the Release of Palestinian Prisoners
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
28 Dec 2013 – According to Maariv newspaper half of the settlement units will be built in occupied East Jerusalem. Israel is preparing to announce a plan to build 1,400 settlement units by the time the third batch of Palestinian prisoners is released.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden’s 2013 Christmas Message (Video & Transcript)
Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Dec 25, 2013 – Former US NSA contractor Edward Snowden in a televised Christmas message released by British TV Channel 4. (1:35)
→ read full articleSuper- Market
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Beloved customer
Consume! Consume!
As much as open your mouth
As much as move your body
6 Crimes against Nature Perpetrated by the Food Industry
Martha Rosenberg, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Treating animals like heads of lettuce—“forget it’s an animal” says one farming magazine—has created institutionalized ruthlessness toward animals, workers and the environment, harming humans who eat the products thanks to meat-related obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer, and greedy, short-sighted land-use policies.
→ read full articleGlenn Greenwald Calls For Snowden Asylum at Chaos Computer Club Congress
Deutsche Welle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
27 Dec 2013 – Glenn Greenwald delivered the keynote speech at the 30th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg. Organizers attributed record attendance of around 8,000 to revelations from Greenwald’s most famous source, Edward Snowden. Tim Pritlove: “We need to reinvent the Internet. We need to imagine the Internet anew. Now, have fun and go save the world!”
→ read full article(Português) Esgotos Chineses Estão a Alimentar Bactérias Que Nenhum Antibiótico Consegue Matar
Greensavers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Por paradoxal que pareça, com o aumento da administração de antibióticos as bactérias estão a tornar-se mais resistentes, o que pode representar consequências letais. Um exemplo desta resistência é a New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase(NDM-1), uma enzima descoberta em 2010 que faz com que bactérias como a Escherichia coli e as salmonelas proliferem imunes aos antibióticos.
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9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out
911ExpertsSpeakOut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Public Broadcasting Station, Colorado Public Television, have courageously thrust themselves at the forefront of our nation’s public service media network. This is the 1-hour version of our 1 ½ hour groundbreaking documentary.
→ read full articleWho Runs The World? The Subconscious(*)
Johan Galtung, 30 Dec 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Not one or a group of persons, not one or a group of countries. But they may serve as instruments for scripts engraved on the deeper recesses of their minds, not the conscious, easily retrievable ones. Scripts that are too trivial, obvious, too painful/shameful and hence repressed. Jung calls them archetypes; they often come in syndromes.
→ read full articleAmericans Waking Up to Real Nature of US-Israel Relationship
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Political analyst Maidhc Ó Cathail: “A lot of people may have the feeling that America’s change of attitude toward Israel is purely theatrics, but I think that’s a mistake. Americans are beginning to realize that Israel is not and has never been a strategic asset of America [and] that it has always been a liability.”
→ read full article(Português) Snowden Aceitaria Asilo no Brasil, mas Não em Troca de Informação
AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Edward Snowden negou condicionar a entrega de dados à concessão de refúgio: “Nunca vou trocar informações por asilo, e não acredito que o governo brasileiro faria isso”. O programa da Rede Globo, “Fantástico”, disse ter entrevistado o ex-analista por e-mail através de seu advogado em Nova York, para evitar interceptações.
→ read full articleGlobally Needed: A Nonkilling Musical Conscience
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
If in a song we hear the life-destructing verb to kill
Does it mean that its composers make life stand still?
Guidelines for Leading a Spiritual Life: Some Resolutions for the New Year
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
The term “spirituality” should not be limited to “ecclesiastical” contexts. “Secular spirituality” has emerged to describe non-materialistic individuals or ways-of-being that are not necessarily associated with membership or belief in a formal religion.
→ read full articleExclusive: Secret Contract Tied NSA and Security Industry Pioneer
Joseph Menn, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
As a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products, the U.S. National Security Agency arranged a secret $10 million contract with RSA, one of the most influential firms in the computer security industry, Reuters has learned.
→ read full articleSyria: Harrowing Torture, Summary Killings in Secret Isis Detention Centres
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
Torture, flogging, and summary killings are rife in secret prisons run by the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, an armed group that controls large areas of northern Syria, said Amnesty International in a briefing published today [19 Dec 2013].
→ read full article(Italiano) Smettere di dare una connotazione negativa all’Occidente!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
Siria ha risposto alla tematica delle armi chimiche dando un premio Nobel per la Pace a una ONG impegnata nella proibizione delle armi chimiche; in linea con il testamento di Nobel, riduzione delle forze permanenti. Ma perché non condiviso con Putin, il politico che ha focalizzato la sua azione sulle armi anziché su “chi l’ha fatto” (con duecandidati validi), e inoltre su tutte le Armi di Distruzione di Massa, quando Obama non aveva altro da offrire che attacchi missilistici alle fortezze di Assad? E invece no; un paese NATO dà il premio all’Occidente, non alla Russia.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Laureates’ Statement: Nuclear Abolition Is a Humanitarian Imperative
World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
The 13th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, meeting in Poland from 21-23 October 2013, adopted a powerful declaration on nuclear abolition as a humanitarian imperative.
→ read full articleMandela and Vanunu – Men of Courage
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
In 1986 Vanunu, the Israeli Nuclear whistle-blower, told the world about Israel’s secret nuclear weapons. For this he served 18 years in an Israeli prison, 12 in solitary confinement, and since his release in 2004 he has been forbidden to leave Israel, speak to foreigners, and is constantly under surveillance.
→ read full articleA Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons – Mexico, Feb 2014
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
On February 13 and 14, 2014, the government of Mexico will host a conference on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons. The global peace movement must think carefully about how best to use the opportunities offered by the Mexico conference and by other recent breakthroughs in the struggle to eliminate the danger of a catastrophic thermonuclear war.
→ read full articleDefeating the Violence in Our Food and Medicine
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
Apart from exposing the medical industry, there has been much effort to expose the way in which the pharmaceutical and agribusiness food industries (particularly the meat industry) have ensured that little in the way of health-enhancing advice and treatment is available to patients who risk all by subjecting themselves to a ‘doctor’.
→ read full articleThat Woman
Mahdi Jalili – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
Dedicated to Syrian Women
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Silent Night (Music Video of the Week)
Libera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
The boys who make up the vocal band Libera have been described as “normal” and “ordinary”. However, as their recordings and performances demonstrate, the music they produce is truly extraordinary. These are truly sounds to lift the soul. The singers are aged seven to sixteen, attend different local schools in South London and come from a variety of backgrounds.
→ read full articleNorthern Ireland and the Israel/Palestine ‘Peace Process’
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
I visited Belfast the last few days during some negotiations about unresolved problems between Unionist and Republican (or Nationalist) political parties, I was struck by the absolute dependence for any kind of credibility of this process upon the unblemished perceived neutrality of the mediating third party.
→ read full article(Português) Pela Dignidade Terminológica: Um Apelo
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
Reflexões rimadas traduzidas-adaptadas do original (inglês) “On terminological dignity for human beings”. A tradução é dedicada aos terminológos que se dedicam à língua portuguesa.
→ read full articleIt’s the Government, Stupid: Appraising Ethiopia’s Saudi Arabia Policy
Alemayehu F. Weldemariam and Hassen Mohammed - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
Since November 13, 2013, Saudi Arabia has been deporting Ethiopian migrant workers after committing unspeakable atrocities by security forces and vigilantes. The total number of deportees so far has reached a staggering 130,000 and is expected rise up to 150,600 within a few days.
→ read full articleThe Palestinian National Movement Advances
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
The Palestinian shift toward Legitimacy Wars is a recognition that in this kind of conflict the decisive battles are generally not won by the side with the superior weaponry and technology but rather by the side that prevails in the realm of ideas and symbols of just cause.
→ read full articleSettled!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
A mother was preparing pancakes for her sons, Kevin, 5, and Ryan, 3.
→ read full articleFred Halliday
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
It is useful to have an overview of the life and thought of others working in the same vineyards of political analysis and conflict resolution. Fred Halliday was such a co-worker.
→ read full articleLynne Stewart, Our Lady Mandela
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
She is ten feet tall… and dying in her cage.
While Obama and Cameron take “selfies,”
shedding crocodile tears,
our Lady Mandela gazes over
the path she has made by her walking.
Johan Galtung – Russell Tribunal on Palestine, New York
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
What is Sociocide?
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George Galloway Speaks with Mother Agnes of the Cross on Syrian Situation
Gallowayist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
30 Nov 2013 – Episode 3 of Sputnik with George Galloway and Gayatri on Russia Today.
→ read full articleSome Examples of Genocide
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Last Monday [9 Dec 2013], 65 years ago, the United Nations adopted a convention prohibiting genocide. It therefore seems appropriate to recall some examples of genocide, many of which have occurred since 1948.
→ read full articlePeace as a Break between Wars and Preparation for New Wars
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Of course, there should be a reason why wars continue to take place, especially when the population as a whole never wants to experience the tragedies of such events by all means.
→ read full articleThe Nobel for Peace – An Expanding Scandal
Fredrik S. Heffermehl, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
A March 2012 decision by the Swedish authority supervising foundations is a ticking box of dynamite under the Nobel Peace Prize. Even presented in an official, open document, the decision has not reached the general public and become the news story it actually is.
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Mother Agnes: “Nobody is Safe-Foreign Forces Need to Stop Fueling Violence in Syria”
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Dec 10, 2013 – RT’s Meghan Lopez speaks with Mother Agnes-Mariam de la Croix, founder of the James the Mutilated Monastery in Syria, who says that the videos show the chemical weapons were used by Syrian rebels.
→ read full articleIs America’s ‘Passionate Attachment’ to Israel Coming to an End?
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
In an analysis piece entitled “Israel’s New Strategic Position,” Stratfor’s George Friedman claims that Tel Aviv has already lost its stranglehold over the U.S. political system.
→ read full articleWomen Lead to Peace in Syria
CODEPINK – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN and Arab League Special Envoy to Syria, continues to ignore the call by prominent international organizations for women to be fully represented at the peace table. Resolution 1325 states that the UN must recognize the important role of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts.
→ read full articleA Man and an Ant
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
An ant
In a hurry
Runs alone
Syria’s War: The Next Phase
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
While the initial conflict was disingenuously portrayed as the spontaneous militarization of unarmed protesters fighting against a “brutal regime,” in reality Al Nusra was already inside the country and operating on a national scale. The US State Department itself would reveal this in its December 2012.
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Heating Your Home Office Almost for Free
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
[Note from TMS editor: I post this video because I have tested the efficacy of the Flower Pot Heater in my own office/apartment. IT WORKS!]
→ read full articleDealing with the Past in Northern Ireland
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
I personally hope we do not choose to have a truth commission, and hope that we can move on as a people and society to a better future. Perhaps in its place we could deploy the resources into training and job creation to give people opportunities for work.
→ read full articleUN Claims Uruguay Not Allowed to End Marijuana Prohibition
Alex Newman, New American – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
UN narcotics bureaucrats, whose generous tax-funded salaries depend on the perpetuation of the war on various plants and substances, have responded with outrage and concern. The controversial global body is now under fire after claiming that Uruguay’s recent decision to end marijuana prohibition violates “international law.”
→ read full articleJapan’s New ‘Fukushima Fascism’
Harvey Wasserman, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
The site has been infiltrated by organized crime. There are horrifying signs of ecological disaster in the Pacific and human health impacts in the U.S. But within Japan, a new State Secrets Act makes such talk punishable by up to ten years in prison.
→ read full article(Português) Ninguém É Gay Por Escolha!
Silvana Macedo, Debates Culturais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Esta semana recebi em meu consultório um rapaz de 19 anos que queria se curar de sua homossexualidade.
→ read full articleMetaphors to Die By
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Correspondences between a Collapsing Civilization, Culture or Group, and a Dying Person – Produced on the occasion of the G8 Dementia Summit (London 2013) attended by world leaders after participating in commemoration of the death of Nelson Mandela.
→ read full articleLeaked: Pussy Riot, Greenpeace Activists Will Be Freed Under Amnesty
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
The members of the Pussy Riot punk band, Greenpeace activists and protesters jailed after the May 2012 Bolotnaya demonstration will be freed in an amnesty dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Russian Constitution, Russian media report. Russia celebrates the 20th anniversary of the country’s Constitution on December 12.
→ read full articleUruguay Becomes First Country to Legalize Marijuana Trade
Malena Castaldi and Felipe Llambias, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Uruguay became the first country to legalize the growing, sale and smoking of marijuana on Tuesday [10 Dec 2013], a pioneering social experiment that will be closely watched by other nations debating drug liberalization.
→ read full articleNot Too Bad
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
An elderly man went to the doctor for his annual checkup.
→ read full articleAloha Nelson Mandela!
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Mandela was a political activist and agitator. He did not shy away from controversy and he did not seek — or obtain — universal approval. Before and after his release from prison, he embraced an unabashedly progressive and provocative platform.
→ read full articleThe Earth Dialogues Geneva Declaration on Action for a Peaceful and Sustainable World
Green Cross International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
We, the participants of the Earth Dialogues 2013 are deeply concerned by the failure of the world community to act decisively to avert the mounting risks of ecological, environmental and climatic disaster.
→ read full articleScientists Sign Declaration That Animals Have Conscious Awareness-Just Like Humans
Higher Perspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
An international group of prominent scientists has signed The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness in which they are proclaiming their support for the idea that animals are conscious and aware to the degree that humans are — a list of animals that includes all mammals, birds, and even the octopus.
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O Holy Night (Music Video of the Week)
Libera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
The boys who make up the vocal band Libera have been described as “normal” and “ordinary”. However, as their recordings and performances demonstrate, the music they produce is truly extraordinary. These are truly sounds to lift the soul. The singers are aged seven to sixteen, attend different local schools in South London and come from a variety of backgrounds. Although they are boys and they sing, they do not think of themselves as choirboys, but rather as an alternative kind of boy band.
→ read full article(Português) Veja Como a NSA Acessa Seu Gmail
Alberto Sicilia, Principia Marsupia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Procuramos explicar de maneira simples como funcionam os dois programas do governo dos Estados Unidos que recolhem os nossos dados na Internet.
→ read full articleReports on Syrian Paramilitary Groups
The Carter Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
The reports are part of the Center’s Syria Conflict Mapping Project, which analyzes the unprecedented volume of online citizen-generated information about the conflict in an effort to better inform peace-building efforts.
→ read full articleWashington Drives the World toward War
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Exceptionalism Killing America’s Soul – A person might wonder what is exceptional and indispensable about a government that is a reincarnation of Nazi Germany in every respect. People propagandized into the belief that they are the world’s special people inevitably lose their humanity.
→ read full articleWar No More
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
A poem-plea dedicated to Johan Galtung.
→ read full article(Русский-Russian) Евромайдан – новое слово в цветных революциях
Правда – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
12 декабря 2013 – Напряжение в Киеве, кажется, спадает: милиция освобождает город и государственные учреждения от активистов очередной увядающей цветной революции.
→ read full articleMaxine Kaufman-Lacusta
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Refusing to be Enemies: Palestinian and Israeli Nonviolent Resistance to the Israeli Occupation (Reading, UK: Ithaca Press, 2011). The book of Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta comes at an opportune time when the US Secretary of State John Kerry is making a concerted effort to mediate in the Israeli-Palestine tensions.
→ read full articleThe West Needs to Bite Ukraine Off from Russia at All Costs
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
12 Dec 2013 – Tension in Kiev seems to be subsiding. The city police are vacating the city and government agencies from activists of another fading color revolution. Ara Stepanyan, the executive secretary of the Academy of Geopolitical Issues, talked about it in a live feed.
→ read full articleAnalysis of STRATFOR Leaks Misrepresents Nonviolent Movements
Stephen Zunes, WarIsACrime - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Many of us were becoming concerned that, despite some very valuable contributions he and his colleagues at CANVAS have made to the field, Srdja Popovic appeared to be increasingly into self-promotion and lacking much discernment regarding those with whom he was willing to work.
→ read full articleStop Giving the West a Bad Name!
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Syria responded to the chemical arms issue by giving a Nobel Peace Prize to an NGO for the prohibition of chemical weapons; in line with Nobel’s testament, reduction of standing forces. But why not shared with Putin, the politician who focused on the arms not on “who done it” (with two good candidates), and WMD to boot, when Obama had nothing but missile attacks on Assad strongholds to offer? But no; a NATO country gives a prize to the West, not to Russia.
→ read full article(Italiano) Dove vanno gli Stati Uniti d’America?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Da dove possono provenire controforze di rinnovamento capaci di spostare il paese su un’altra rotta? Economicamente: non si riesce a ripeterlo abbastanza: sollevare i ceti più bassi, dando loro speranza e dignità, portandoli dentro l’economia e soprattutto cambiando l’ethos dell’ economia dall’arricchimento dei ricchi all’empowerment dei poveri.
→ read full articleBibi and Bandar Badger Obama: Better Six Billion than Six Trillion!
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates—along with certain Arab League countries, plus Turkey and Israel, have this past week reportedly committed themselves to raising nearly $6 billion to “beef up” the just-hatched Islamic Front (IF) in Syria.
→ read full articleEscaping the Abusive State: After Snowden
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
We can and must do better, above all as citizens engaged in the protection of the sort of society we wish to live in; without civic activism of a militant character we can wave goodbye to the promise of genuine democracy.
→ read full articleOn Nelson Mandela`s Legacy to the History of Dignity
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
Nelson Mandela left us physically
but he is still among us dignifyingly
FBI Can Secretly Turn On Laptop Cameras Without the Indicator Light
Gizmodo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
FBI has had the ability to secretly activate a computer’s camera “without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording” for years now.
→ read full articleIn Memoriam: Howard Clark
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
Howard Clark, long time co-editor of Peace News and “coordinator” of War Resisters International died Nov. 28, 2013. He was more tuned to broader social change — “Nonviolent Revolution” became a subtitle on the Peace News masthead and Making Nonviolent Revolution was Howard’s most widely circulated booklet within WRI.
→ read full articleJapan Enacts Strict State Secrets Law despite Protests
Linda Sieg and Kiyoshi Takenaka, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
Japan enacted a state-secrets law toughening penalties for leaks on Friday [6 Dec 2013]. Media, publishers, lawyers and even entertainers have denounced the bill, which drastically expands the definition of state secrets and for some has echoes of Japan’s harsh authoritarian regime before and during World War Two.
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Remembering Nelson Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it is done.”
350.org – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
Dec 5, 2013 – Nelson Mandela inspired all of us with his courage, his unyielding resistance, and his grace. Inspired by his vision climate activists from around the world helped make this video.
→ read full articleMandela and Gandhi
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
Nelson Rohihlahla Mandela (1918-2013) and Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) were two of human history’s greatest leaders in the struggle against governmental oppression. They are also remembered as great ethical teachers. Their lives had many similarities; but there were also differences.
→ read full articleNelson Mandela’s “I am Prepared to Die” Speech on Being Sentenced to Life Imprisonment with Hard Labor
The History Place – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
In 1962 Mandela was arrested for his opposition to the white government and its apartheid policies against the nonwhite majority. In 1964 the government brought further charges including sabotage, high treason and conspiracy to overthrow the government. This is Mandela’s statement from the dock at the opening of his defense in the 1964 trial.
→ read full articleLobbying Elites: The Fast Track to Extinction
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
The evidence teaches us that elites want us to lobby (or vote for) them so that they can ignore us, and that mobilizations of people in one place provide easy targets for repression. So we need to develop strategies that primarily allow us to organise collectively in small local groups, to work with people whose values we share and to minimize the opportunities for military and police repression.
→ read full articleNelson Mandela’s Inspiration
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
Fifteen years ago I had the extraordinary pleasure of meeting Nelson Mandela in Cape Town while he was serving as President of South Africa. His journey, like that of Gandhi, was not without its major disappointments.
→ read full articleThe Lies behind This Transatlantic Trade Deal – Managing Transparency
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
* Politicians and officials are desperately seeking to justify their transatlantic assault on democracy.
* Plans to create an EU-US single market will allow corporations to sue governments using secretive panels, bypassing courts and parliaments.
Ivana Milojevic – Breathing: Violence In, Peace Out
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
Ivana Milojevic analyses the long-term impact of trans-generational trauma by looking at the personal experience of her family over three generations caught up in the Stalinist repression in the Soviet Union, the Second World War, especially in Yugoslavia, and the 1990s breakup of the Yugoslav federation.
→ read full articleLaziness
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
A foreman at a construction site told a new worker, “Your two colleagues carry two buckets of cement at a time…
→ read full articleConfronting the Nuke-Colonization of India
People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
National Convention of Anti-Nuclear Movements – The PMANE and the Idinthakarai Village will host this convention on January 4-5, 2014 (Saturday & Sunday) here at Idinthakarai. We can make arrangements for everyone’s room and board. Please make your own travel arrangements as soon as possible.
→ read full articleUN Launches Its Own Spy Drone Program
Allen McDuffee, Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
The United Nations has turned to spy drones for the first time in its history in an effort to increase pressure in militias in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, marking both a major technological advancement in the organization’s peacekeeping arsenal as well as a shift in how it views the use of unmanned aerial vehicles.
→ read full articleThe Jason Bourne Strategy: CIA Contractors Do Hollywood
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
Global Response Staff is a new unit set up by the CIA to hire private security contractors to accompany dangerous spying missions. Unlike Jason Bourne – the fictional character on which they appear to be modeled on – this gang cannot shoot straight.
→ read full articleTransforming the Cycle of Violence in Rakhine State: Toward Inter-Communal Peace in Myanmar
Tatsushi Arai, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
The inter-communal violence we have seen in Myanmar’s Rakhine State since 2012 is a manifestation of the deep-rooted structural inequity and unhealed traumas that have continuously grown in scope and intensity over generations.
→ read full articleThe Surprising Republican Civil War That Erupted Over Nelson Mandela and Apartheid
Sagar Jethani, Policymic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
Ronald Reagan appeared on TV to warn Americans against the Anti-Apartheid Act, decrying it as “immoral” and “utterly repugnant.” Congress disagreed, and one month later it overrode Reagan and passed tough new measures against South Africa’s Apartheid government.
→ read full articleDefeated by the Taliban, Washington Decides to Take on Russia and China
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
It is a good bet that the Ukrainian protests are a CIA organized event, using the Washington and EU funded NGOs and manipulating the hatred of Ukrainian nationalists for Russia. The protests are directed against Russia.
→ read full articleEurope Sending Armies to Stop Immigrants
Apostolis Fotiadis, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
A Nov. 19 [2013] paper by the European External Action Service, the EU diplomatic corps, considers the possibility of the European military getting involved in the south Mediterranean in an effort to curb the influx of irregular migrants and refugees into Europe.
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