Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Re-Imagining a World beyond Capitalism and Communism
Arundhati Roy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Here in India, even in the midst of all the violence and greed, there is still hope. If anyone can do it, we can. We still have a population that has not yet been completely colonized by that consumerist dream. If there is any hope for the world at all, it does not live in climate-change conference rooms or in cities with tall buildings. It lives low down on the ground, with its arms around the people who go to battle every day to protect their forests, their mountains and their rivers because they know that the forests, the mountains and the rivers protect them.
→ read full articleDossier: From the Nuclear Armed Race to the Auroral Armed Race?
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
A Web Survey of High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) Weapon Technology in Various Countries – The main purpose of this dossier is to survey HAARP technology in a few major militarily influential countries through an Internet research. What is HAARP? What characterizes a HAARP weapon?
→ read full articleLunch and Dinner with Julian Assange, in Prison
John Keane, The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Julian Assange could be described as the Tom Paine of the early 21st century. Drawing strength from distress, disgusted by the hypocrisy of governments, willing to take on the mighty, he’s reminded the world of a universal political truth: arbitrary power thrives on secrets.
→ read full articleReflections on Teju Cole’s OPEN CITY
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Anyone interested in the world, or for that matter, an affection for the greatest of modern cities—New York—will find Teju Cole’s Open City, a feast for both mind and heart.
→ read full articleEU Rejects Arming Syrian Rebels
The Times of Israel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
European Union foreign ministers announced Monday [18 Feb 2013] that they were keeping current sanctions against Syria in place for three months, rejecting attempts to alter an embargo on the country so that arms could be funneled to rebels fighting President Bashar Assad.
→ read full articleWar Crimes in Sri Lanka: Human Rights Watch Seeks UN Intervention
IBN Live – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
The Human Rights Watch on Tuesday [19 Feb 2013] sought a UN authorised independent, international investigation into war crimes that took place during the final months of the decades-long armed conflict in Sri Lanka. In a letter to members of the United Nations Human Rights Council the organisation said probe should be authorised at the March 2013 session of the UN body.
→ read full article21st Century Biology Refutes Darwinian Abiology
Bhakti Niskama Shanta, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Natural Selection Lost in the Midst of Genetic Forest and Epigenetic Trees – Darwin’s Morphological Tree of Life (TOL) is Replaced with Genetic ‘Forest of Life’
→ read full articleMan-Made Chemicals Cited in Health Scourges: UN Report
Robert Evans, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Man-made chemicals in everyday products are likely to be at least the partial cause of a global surge in birth deformities, hormonal cancers and psychiatric diseases, a U.N.-sponsored research team reported on Tuesday [19 Feb 2013].
→ read full articleAttacks and Death Threats Put Members of the Pastoral Land Commission in Brazil at Risk
The Right Livelihood Award Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
The Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), which has for years campaigned tirelessly to advance social justice and the rights of small farmers and the landless in Brazil, suffered three attacks on its headquarters in the state of Acre this year. The Right Livelihood Award Foundation, which in 1991 recognised the work of the Pastoral Land Commission, condemns the attacks and demands increased security for rural workers.
→ read full article(Italiano) Pensando al Mali
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Tuareg e musulmani hanno preso molto dall’Occidente negli scorsi cent’anni; e se adesso l’Occidente cercasse di imparare qualcosa da loro? È davvero ovvio che lo stato moderno, automatizzato, industriale, finanziario-speculativo sia meglio che il nomadismo confederato da cammellieri?
→ read full articleNation-States, Europe, Regions and …. Macro-Regions: A Look into Regional Integration as a Structure of Euroland Governance
Christel Hahn, Europe 2020 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
The meeting was the “Conference of the Alpine Regions” that happened at the occasion of the regular conference of the “Arge Alp” (an association of alpine regions, that was founded 40 years ago, long before Schengen and the Euro). It adopted a resolution, based on a strategy paper aimed at developing a macro-regional European strategy for the Alps.
→ read full article(Castellano) Obama Aumentó Ataques con Drones en Afganistán un 72% Durante 2012
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
El informe anual sobre la Protección de Civiles en Conflictos Armados de la ONU detalló que un total de dos mil 754 civiles afganos murieron y otros cuatro mil 805 resultaron heridos en 2012, como consecuencia de la operación militar estadounidense en esa nación.
→ read full article(Castellano) UNICEF Confirma que Cuba Es el Único País de América Latina sin Desnutrición Infantil
Politica & Medios – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura también ha reconocido a Cuba como la nación con más avances en América Latina en la lucha contra la desnutrición.
→ read full articleHaiti’s ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier Avoids Appearing in Court
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Haiti’s former ruler Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier has been ordered to appear in court in Port-au-Prince after failing to attend a hearing. Relatives of some of those allegedly killed or tortured by his militias in the 1970s and 1980s want him charged with crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleChina to Become South America’s Top Trading Partner by 2015
China Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
China will replace the European Union as South America’s most important trading partner by 2015, according to the Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine online.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
A Global Harmony Association (GHA) Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day
→ read full article[Tragicomic] French President François Hollande Awarded UNESCO Peace Prize
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
The President of France, François Hollande, will receive the United Nations cultural agency’s peace prize this year for his “valuable contribution to peace and stability in Africa,” it was announced today [21 Feb 2013].
→ read full articleWhy Nonkiling?
Glenn Paige – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Why “nonkilling” rather than peace, nonviolence, conflict resolution, or any other desirable human condition? Because nonkilling is the alpha and omega of life. From birth to natural death no human endeavor can be pursued if we are killed.
→ read full articleFilmmakers for Nonkilling
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Filmmakers,
Creatively, you seek world audiences to entertain
through increasingly varied genres of filmmaking
but sadly, a tradition of violence many movies sustain
and viewers are exposed to cruel forms of killing
What a Wonderful World (Music Video of the Week)
Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Featuring Grandpa Elliott with children’s choirs across the globe. Children and music bring us hope for a better future. Today we celebrate life and change the world — one heart and one song at a time!!
→ read full articleMarrying an Other Whatever the Form
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Reframing and Extending the Understanding of Marriage – The understanding of relationships with an “other” is central to highly controversial debate at this time. The debate focuses in particular on “same-sex marriage”. This is considered especially questionable by various religions, most explicitly those of Abrahamic tradition and most especially by the Catholic Church.
→ read full articleSpanish Firefighters Refuse To Be ‘Puppets of the Banks’
Revolting Europe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Firefighters in Galicia, Catalonia and the Madrid region have rejected any action that “contributes to inequalities and miseries suffered by the working class,” said the CCOO union. Galician fire crews “have proven to be on the side of social justice” by refusing to participate in the eviction of Aurelia Rey, an 85 year-old woman who had fallen behind on rent by one month.
→ read full articlePMANE Opposes the American Nuclear Plant at Mithi Virdi, Gujarat
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy vehemently opposes the American nuclear power park that is being set up at Mithi Virdi, Gujarat. The PMANE appeals to the Government of India and the State Government of Gujarat to put the interests of Indian citizens ahead of foreign governments’ and their MNC’s interests. Let us not think and act like colonized slaves but behave like independent leaders and find alternative solutions for our energy needs.
→ read full articleNepal: Six Years of “Transition”
Johan Galtung, 18 Feb 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Three huge revolts in Asia in the last decades came to an end: the anti-Confucian cultural revolution in China 1967-76, the anti Phnom Penh Khmer Rouge revolution in Cambodia 1975-79, and the anti-feudal monarchy anti-caste maoist People’s War in Nepal that lasted 10 years from 13 February 1996, followed by 18 days of effective nonviolence in the streets of Kathmandu in 6-24 April 2006. The King abdicated.
→ read full article[Tragicomedy] Pentagon Creates New Medal for Cyber, Drone Wars
Lolita C. Baldor, AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
They fight the war from computer consoles and video screens. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced Wednesday [13 Feb 2013] that the Pentagon is creating a medal to troops, even if their actions are physically removed from the fight. Unlike other combat medals, it does not require the recipient risk his or her life to get it.
→ read full articleCondemn Not Just North Korea; Deal with Global Nuclear Hypocrisy
Dr. S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
North Korea has just announced that it has conducted a successful third underground nuclear test, and the world powers are all condemning the act unanimously. According to their reasoning, North Korea, Iran and a few other “rogue” countries they do not like cannot and should not develop nuclear energy or produce nuclear weapons. But they themselves can do both. The United States, Russia, Britain and France can arm themselves to their teeth with thousands of nuclear bombs and all kinds of treacherous missiles.
→ read full article(Castellano) Vientos Africanos
Rais Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Vientos salinos,
Imágenes de ganado y de pastores,
Vida difícil del desierto,
Espejismo de ciudades de sal distantes.
Beyond the Haunted Imagination
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Ever since atomic bombs were exploded over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the closing days of World War II end of the world forebodings have been present in Western cultural consciousness. In the background of such thinking is the religious anticipation of a day of judgment when life in earth will be replaced by the consignment of everyone then living to either the hell of damnation or the heaven of salvation.
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Tears in Heaven (Music Video of the Week)
The Choir Boys – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Music Video from 2009. Timeless.
→ read full article(Castellano) Bolivia Ha Reducido 60 Veces la Brecha Entre Ricos y Pobres Desde 2006
Agencia Boliviana de Información – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
El ministro de Economía y Finanzas Públicas de Bolivia, Luis Arce, informó este jueves [14 feb 2013] que durante los gobiernos neoliberales, el 10 por ciento más rico de la población boliviana generaba alrededor de 95 veces más dinero que el 10 por ciento más pobre. Hoy esa brecha se acortó a 36 veces, son 60 veces que se ha reducido la brecha entre los más ricos y los más pobres”, aseveró Arce. “Nuestras políticas fructificaron para que nuestros hermanos del campo abandonen la extrema pobreza”, enfatizó.
→ read full articleUN Kicks Off Year Promoting International Cooperation on Water Management
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
11 February 2013 – The United Nations today launched the International Year of Water Cooperation, which seeks to provide a platform for countries to collaborate in the management of this precious resource in the interest of peace and development.
→ read full articleUrgent UN Press Statement: Release Palestinian Hunger Strikers Now
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
The following press statement was issued 13 February 2013 under the auspices of the UN Human Rights Council in my capacity as Special Rapporteur for Palestinian Territories Occupied since 1967. This nonviolent resistance to unlawful and abusive detention practices by Israel is a human rights outrage that should be the occasion of media attention and a worldwide outcry. I encourage all who can to exert pressure on Israel before these individuals die in captivity. They are currently reported to be in grave condition. Please use all social networking tools to alert contacts.
→ read full articleThe Reality at Jaitapur, Mr. Hollande
Anuj Wankhede and Cressida Morley, Dianuke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
French President Francois Hollande is making his first visit out of Europe and has chosen India as a destination for his visit starting 14th February [2013]. On his radar is to sell Areva’s failed EPR (European Pressurized Reactor) nuclear reactors to India. Even as France has not been able to implement the EPR reactors there or in Finland nor has the US regulator certified it. However, the Indian government is eager to set up these reactors in a huge area in coastal Maharashtra – at Jaitapur – a highly bio-diverse region that needs preservation.
→ read full articleA Key Question: How Do We Make the Economy Work for the Poor?
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
We want to make a case for the claim that “unbounded organization” is a useful concept, indeed a key concept. A key opens doors. We use the word “key” to suggest that the concept of unbounded organization can be said to “open doors.” It helps to answer questions and to resolve problems regarding not just one but several theoretical problems in the social sciences. Similarly the practical question posed in the title of this chapter, “How do we make the economy work for the poor?” can be regarded as a question whose satisfactory answer would “open” answers to other crucial practical questions such as, “How can violent conflicts be transformed into peaceful cooperation?”
→ read full articleArgentina Slams Israel over Interference
Al-Akhbar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Argentina’s top diplomat chastised Israel Wednesday [13 Feb 2013] for interfering in its judicial process over the deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish charities building in Buenos Aires. He added that cooperation with Iran would “bring them closer to the truth.” and, in an apparent snide reference to Israel’s own record, said that Argentina was not in the habit of carrying out extrajudicial punishment. “Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told me that we cannot sign an agreement with Iran. So maybe he wants us to kidnap the suspects or put a bomb below the car of one of them.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Schiavitù, Colonialismo, e la Chiesa
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Parliamo di milioni di schiavi sbarcati nell’arco fra Rio a Washington con baricentro caraibico, e di altri a sud di Rio, a nord di Washington e sulla linea di costa del Pacifico dell’America Latina. Un indicibile crimine contro l’umanità.
→ read full articleAssisting in Lankan Genocide and UNdoing the UN: A Chronological Account
Dr. S.P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
This is the story of how the fence started eating up the crop, and how the watchman plundered the shop. The year 2009 dawned rather badly for the Tamils in Eelam. Some 20 countries including sworn enemies such as India and Pakistan had joined their secret hands in the war against the Tamil people in Tamil Eelam. India, the home of some 8 crore Tamils, was at the forefront doing all it could to help the genocidal government in Colombo.
→ read full articleLetter from a Drone Protester’s Jail
David Swanson, War Is a Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
15 Feb 2013 – Greetings from the Federal Prison Camp in Yankton, South Dakota! As of this writing, I am two months into a six month sentence imposed due to my protest of war crimes committed by remote control from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri against the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
A Global Harmony Association (GHA) Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day
→ read full articleHypocrisy: US Arms Al Qaeda in Syria, Mass-Slaughters Civilians in Afghanistan
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
In other words, the very underwriters of the armed militancy that is consuming Syria are sitting along side the head of the UN commission producing reports portraying the Syrian government as guilty of “war crimes and crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleThe Military’s Pandora’s Box: The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program-HAARP
Dr. Nick Begich and Jeane Manning – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
This article was prepared to provide a summary of the contents of a book written in 1995 which describes an entirely new class of weapons. The individuals who are demanding answers about the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program-HAARP are scattered around the planet. As well as bush dwellers in Alaska, they include: a physician in Finland; a scientist in Holland; an anti-nuclear protester in Australia; independent physicists in the United States; a grandmother in Canada, and countless others.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Is a Rare Truth-Teller. Smearing Julian Assange Is Shameful.
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Public displays of warmth for Assange are common and seldom reported. Several thousand people packed Sydney Town Hall, with hundreds spilling into the street. In New York recently, Assange was awarded the Yoko Ono Lennon Prize for Courage. In the audience was Daniel Ellsberg, who risked all to leak the truth about the barbarism of the Vietnam War. “The US is out to crush someone who has revealed its dirty secrets.”
→ read full articleSyria – It Is Illegal to Back Rebels Fighting a Legitimate Government
Dr. Curtis Doebbler, international lawyer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Several countries, mostly from the Arab League (dominated by the Gulf kingdoms) and the West, have recognized the coalition of Syrian opposition militias that was born in Doha (Qatar), under the auspices of the Western and Gulf countries. We asked international lawyer Curtis Doebbler, a peace and human rights activist, whether it could be legal to provide weapons to the this armed opposition as France asks the EU. Here is his answer.
→ read full articleTell America Tell
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
What intention is yours after all?
Why so greedy, so thirsty and for what?
What do you want, tell after all
The power, the might, lordship or what?
Tell America tell — What?
The Hubris of the Drones
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Our blind faith in technology combined with a false sense of infallible righteousness continues unabated. Such hubris brought us to grief in Vietnam and Iraq and may do so again with President Obama’s cold-blooded use of drones and his indifference to so-called “collateral damage,” grossly referred to by some in the military as “bug splat,” and otherwise known as innocent bystanders.
→ read full articleBolivia Reducing 60 Times the Gap between Rich and Poor Since 2006
Agencia Boliviana de Información-AB I – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
The Bolivian Minister of Economics and Public Finances, Luis Arce reported yesterday [14 Feb 2013] that during the previous neoliberal governments the richest 10% of the population generated around 95 times more income than the poorest 10%. “Today this gap has narrowed with the richest now earning 36 times more than the poorest. The gap between the richest and poorest has narrowed by 60,” he said. “Our policies have resulted in our rural brothers getting out of extreme poverty,” he stressed.
→ read full articleWorker Owned Businesses Point to New Forms of Ownership
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Can co-ops come out of the margins of the economy and be part of a larger political project to transform how things are owned?
→ read full article(Deutsch) Post-2015-Ziele: Spart Euch diese Reise!
Bernd Hamm – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Stell Dir vor, es ist UNO, und keiner geht hin
→ read full article(Português) Os BRICS de Olho na África
Antonio Martins, Outras Palavras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Quinto encontro dos grandes emergentes debaterá criação de um banco de desenvolvimento comum, voltado para continente. Cooperação ou novo imperialismo?
→ read full articleSpielberg vs Tarantino: Hollywood and the Past
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
If Leo Strauss is correct and Western civilization should be seen as an oscillation between Athens and Jerusalem, truth must be said – we can really do with many more Athenians and their essentialist reflections. In short, we are in a desperate need of many more Tarantinos to counter Jerusalem and its ambassadors.
→ read full articleInternyet Nescience?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Self-Referential Upgrading of Obsolete Internet Conference Processes Inhibiting Emergence of Integrative Knowledge – Paper originally envisaged for the 1st International Conference on Internet Science (10-13 April 2013, Brussels) held under the aegis of the European Commission, by the EINS project, the FP7 European Network of Excellence in Internet Science.
→ read full articleTAPI: A Step Closer to Realization
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
On 7 February 2013, the Indian Cabinet approved the formation of a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to study the feasibility and design parameters of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline, originally mooted in 2006.
→ read full articleObama to ‘Bypass Congress’ On CISPA with Cybersecurity Executive Order
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Serviced,
18 Feb 2013
Obama’s first executive order is expected to be issued this week when the president calls for the creation of new standards on what private-sector companies must do to protect their computer systems from a cybersecurity breach. The order is a direct response to Congress’ refusal to pass the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) last year.
→ read full article(Português) Do Que Um Cão Precisa
Marcela Godoy, Consciência Animal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Será que o cão tem espírito? – perguntou-me o filho do meio. Olhei para ele surpreendido. E acabei por responder: – Não sei se nós próprios temos espírito ou se é o espírito que nos tem ou está em nós. – É isso que eu queria dizer. Olha para ele. Era um fim de tarde de Agosto, o cão estava parado em frente ao mar, o pêlo muito luzidio, a cabeça levantada, narinas abertas, sorvendo o ar. – Ele está a cheirar o espírito. O espírito da terra, o espírito do vento, o espírito das águas”. (Manuel Alegre).
→ read full articleUniversity of Ignorance
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
The possibility of a University of Ignorance merits consideration as a process with which people could engage to unlearn. This would naturally contrast with the worldwide preoccupation with the culmination of intellectual effort in the education and research undertaken so exclusively at conventional universities — framed unquestionably as the advancement of knowledge. Whatever their much acclaimed merits, these tend to obscure the recognition of the potential significance of what is not known, most notably in relation to any transcendent “wisdom” which features so questionably in university preoccupations, if at all.
→ read full articleThinking Mali
Johan Galtung, 11 Feb 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Tuaregs and Muslims have picked up a lot from the West these last hundred years; how about the West trying to learn something from them? Is it obvious that the modern, automated, industrial, financial-speculation state is better than confederate camel nomadism?
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Wesley Clark – America’s Foreign Policy “Coup”
ForaTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Nov 5, 2007 – Retired four-star general and former Democratic Presidential candidate Wesley Clark criticizes the course of U.S. foreign policy in the wake of September 11, 2001.
→ read full articleForget ‘Normal’ Politics
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Political life is filled with policy choices that are made mainly on the basis of calculations of advantage, as well as reflecting priorities and values of those with the power of decision. In a constitutional framework of governance the rule of law sets outer limits as to permissible outcomes.
→ read full articleSyria: An Orderly Transition
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Can there be an orderly transition within Syria toward a new regime which reflects Syria’s pluralistic society? Can this orderly transition process avoid additional violence, and increased hostility among segments of society?
→ read full articleUN Body “Alarmed” by US Killings of Afghan Children
Channel News Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
A UN committee has expressed “alarm” over reports that hundreds of children have been killed by US military forces in Afghanistan in the past five years. The Geneva-based Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) said the deaths were “due notably to reported lack of precautionary measures and indiscriminate use of force”. The report, received by AFP on Friday [8 Feb 2013], also expressed concern that troops responsible for the killing of children had not always been held accountable and that family grievances had not been redressed.
→ read full articleHacker in Chief: Obama Given Right to Launch ‘Preemptive’ Cyberattacks
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
A secret review has concluded that US President Obama has the authority to launch a preemptive cyber attack on any country on the basis that they are considered a ‘cyber threat’ – even if there is no concrete evidence of this threat. It may not be long before the US conducts crippling attacks on foreign soil with little more than a mouse click, thereby sparing itself the effort of sending its military oversees or declaring war.
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Man
Steve Cutts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Animation: Looking at man’s relationship with the natural world.
→ read full articleTribalism and Agreed-Upon Lies
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Truth has the great virtue that it allows us to accurately predict the future. If we ignore truth because it is unfashionable, or painful, or heretical, the future will catch us unprepared.
→ read full articleBDS Better Learn from Its Mistakes
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
It’s almost funny to read the BDS’ leadership’s outraged reactions to top ethnic-cleansing advocate Alan Dershowitz when he tried to stop a discussion with Judith Butler and Omar Barghouti discussing BDS at NYC Brooklyn College [7 Feb 2013]. This power struggle between Dershowitz and BDS should be a wake-up call. BDS should learn from its mistakes.
→ read full articleNATO Rejects UN Report on Death of Afghan Children
Kim Gamel, Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
The U.S.-led international coalition on Friday [8 Feb 2013] rejected a U.N. rights group’s concern about reports that U.S. military strikes have killed hundreds of children in Afghanistan during the past four years, saying they are “categorically unfounded.”
→ read full articleLetter to Rahul Gandhi
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Greetings! We are writing on behalf of several millions of people in Tamil Nadu and Kerala who have been waging a peaceful and nonviolent struggle for almost a quarter century against the Koodankulam nuclear power project (KKNPP).
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CNN Goldman Sachs & the Zio Matrix
David Duke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
This documentary video is the first public expose’ that the same Zio who is the biggest stockholder of the mega Zio media corporation Time Warner, was the biggest stockholder also of Goldman Sachs at the time of the mortgage meltdown. It shows how the biggest economic theft in history, that by Goldman Sachs in the Mortgage meltdown, was covered up by Zio influence in media and government.
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Peace Train (Music Video of the Week)
Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Oh I’ve been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one
And I believe it could be, some day it’s going to come
Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train
Oh peace train take this country, come take me home again
Silent Circle, the New Encryption App That Is Terrifying the Government
Jacob Sloan, disinformation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
The idea is to “democratize encryption” by making it available to the non-tech-savvy with the push of a button. It’s a game-changer that will almost certainly make life easier and safer for journalists, dissidents, diplomats, and companies trying to evade surveillance. Silent Circle has an explicit policy that it cannot and will not comply with law enforcement eavesdropping requests.
→ read full articleUNHCHR Welcomes Enabling Individual Complaints on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
“The entry into force of the Optional Protocol is a major breakthrough, which will enable victims under the jurisdiction of the States parties to seek justice for violations of their economic, social and cultural rights,” Pillay said. Uruguay triggered the coming into force of the Optional Protocol when, on 5 February, it became the tenth country to ratify, joining Argentina, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mongolia, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain.
→ read full articleAn Indispensable Book on Palestine/Israel
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
I realize that without knowing it, I have long waited for this book, although I could not have imagined its lyric magic in advance of reading. It is a triumph of what I would call ‘intelligent innocence,’ the great benefits of a clear mind, an open and warm heart, and a trustworthy moral compass that draws sharp lines between good and evil while remaining ever sensitive to the contradictory vagaries of lives and geographic destinies.
→ read full articleThe Trillion Dollar Coin: Joke or Game Changer?
Ellen Brown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
The trillion dollar coin actually represents one of the most important principles of popular prosperity ever conceived: the creation of money by sovereign governments, debt-free.
→ read full articleHarmonious Global Community at Work
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Since the early days of human existence virtually all people yearned strongly to live at peace with each other. They viewed harmonious living as their ultimate goal in life. Yet we learn from history that those in power always tended to solve their differences through struggles and wars.
→ read full articleViral Gene in Genetically Engineered Foods Could Promote Disease
Dr. Mercola – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
One way to achieve a genetic modification in a plant is to piggyback a chosen gene on a plant virus, such as the Cauliflower Mosaic virus. Here, they discovered that the most commonly used genetic regulatory sequence (i.e. that which drives the gene expression within the plant), called CaMV 35S promoter, also encodes a gene fragment of the virus, in addition to the desired genetic trait being inserted.
→ read full articleArgentina in the Process of Quitting from World Bank Investment Disputes Centre
South Atlantic News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Argentina says it plans to withdraw from a World Bank body designed to arbitrate between states and foreign investors. This follows similar decisions by several other countries in Latin America like Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela. Eduardo Barcesat, the chief legal advisor to Argentine’s Treasury, says ICSID is “a tribunal of butchers” that only rules in favour of multinational companies. Barcesat believes quitting the Center would be a key move to recover Argentina’s legislative and jurisdictional sovereignty.
→ read full articleHigh Frequency Active Auroral Research Program-HAARP: Weapon of Mass Destruction
Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D., GNSH – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
One of the ways in which HAARP is thought to work is similar to firing a cap gun in an avalanche area. The snow is built up, ready to collapse and even the slightest disturbance causes an avalanche. That’s one way that HAARP works. In key areas where seismic pressures are ready to shift, HAARP bombards the already sensitive area with an incredible amount of energy in the form of a beam that reflects off the ionosphere. The earth’s tectonic plates vibrate and an earthquake results.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Risveglio Arabo-Musulmano – e USA-Israele
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
L’area Mediorientale e Nordafricana (MENA) è arabo-musulmana con un’isola ebraica crescente in mezzo. Ex-territorio coloniale – sotto i turchi ottomani sunniti per oltre quattro secoli, e dell’occidente laico, Inghilterra-Italia-Francia, per mezzo secolo – ora sotto il colonialismo ebreo israeliano e l’imperialismo USA.
→ read full articleIt Has Happened Here
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Whether a person believes the official story of 9/11 which rests on unproven government assertions or believes the documented evidence provided by a large number of scientists, first responders, and structural engineers and architects, the result is the same. 9/11 was used to create an open-ended “war on terror” and a police state. It is extraordinary that so many Americans believe that “it can’t happen here” when it already has.
→ read full articleAn Actor but Out of the Drama
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
At a certain point
He happened to be a pretender
Deviating the track he came…
Nepal’s First Peace Event 2013 with Prof. Dr. Johan Galtung
Dr. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Perhaps an internationally acclaimed person of authority on conflict transformation by peaceful means may ignite the political consensus process amongst the concerned stakeholders and actors of Nepal. In the context, it is natural to have great expectations from the Founding Father of Peace Studies in the world, Professor Dr. Johan Galtung, who is visiting Nepal for the first Peace Event in Kathmandu from February 10th to 18th, 2013.
→ read full articleHuman Rights – World Report 2013
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
This 23rd annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2012. It reflects extensive investigative work that Human Rights Watch staff has undertaken during the year, often in close partnership with domestic human rights activists.
→ read full articleHumanity Beyond Borders
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Oh dear Americans…
We too are humans
Why you kill us often
So mercilessly…
Appeal to the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India
The Catholic Faithful Radhapuram Taluk– TRANSCEND Media Service\,
11 Feb 2013
We have been struggling continuously against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project in peaceful and nonviolent manner for a quarter century and for almost 550 days in a more recent concerted campaign. We have been asking in vain for the basic information about the project such as the Site Evaluation Report, Safety Analysis Report, Emergency Preparedness Plan, the performance report of the reactor, and the India-Russia Inter-Governmental Agreement on Liability and so forth.
→ read full articleUK Sends Hand-Held Helicopter Drones to War Zone
Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
British soldiers in Afghanistan have been issued with surveillance drones so small they can fit in the palm of a man’s hand. The Scandinavian-designed Black Hornet Nano weighs as little as 16 grams (roughly half an ounce). The 4-inch (10-centimeter) -long helicopter is fitted with a tiny camera which relays still images and video to a remote terminal.
→ read full articleGlobalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition
Open Society Justice Initiative – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Globalizing Torture is the most comprehensive account yet assembled of the human rights abuses associated with CIA secret detention and extraordinary rendition operations. It details for the first time what was done to the 136 known victims, and lists the 54 foreign governments that participated in these operations. It shows that responsibility for the abuses lies not only with the United States but with dozens of foreign governments that were complicit.
→ read full articleSlavery, Colonialism, and the Church
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
From Liverpool-UK, 31 Jan 2013 – We talk about millions of slaves landed in the arch from Rio to Washington with the point of gravity in the Caribbean, and some south of Rio, north of Washington and around the coast to the Pacific side of Latin America. An unspeakable crime against humanity.
→ read full articleOf Delays, Corruption and Half-Truths
Nityanand Jayaraman, Tehelka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
No questions were raised when India’s nuclear regulator has gave nod to repeat the full systems test at the first unit of Koodankulam atomic power project in Tamil Nadu. On January 25 [2013], newspapers reported official statements regarding yet another delay in commissioning the Koodankulam plant. Even a child will tell you that you need to repeat a test only if you have failed in the first instance.
→ read full articleIceland President: Let Banks Go Bankrupt
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Iceland President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson tells Al Jazeera’s Stephen Cole that Europe should let banks that are ran “irresponsibly” go bankrupt. Speaking at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Grimsson also held his country as a model of economic recovery after its near-collapse four years ago. “We didn’t follow the traditional prevailing orthodoxies. And the end result four years later is that Iceland is enjoying progress and recovery.”
→ read full articlePoverty and Progress: Comparing the US and Venezuela
Eric Draitser – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
This is the crisis of advanced, post-industrial capitalism – an economic system which must expand the divide between rich and poor, create extremes of wealth and poverty, and generally perpetuate itself on the misery and poverty of the lower classes.
→ read full articleCondemning the Murder of Cícero Guedes, Leader of the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement MST
The Right Livelihood Award Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
The Right Livelihood Award Foundation strongly condemns the murder of Cícero Guedes, a leader of the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement MST. The MST received the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”) in 1991.
→ read full article2013 World Press Freedom Index: Dashed Hopes after ‘Springs’
Reporters Without Borders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
The ranking of most countries is no longer attributable to dramatic political developments. This year’s index is a better reflection of the attitudes and intentions of governments towards media freedom in the medium or long term. (See full list of countries in the end)
→ read full articleStudy: 22 US Military Veterans Commit Suicide Every Day
CBS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
The results of a new study indicate that suicide rates among veterans in the United States are increasing.
→ read full articleMali: Neo-Colonialism Meets Islamic Fundamentalism… And the People Suffer
Bill Fletcher, Jr., Black Commentator – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
The entrance of the French military into the Malian civil war further complicates a descent into hell. Mainstream media attention has largely focused on the emergence of right-wing Islamists associated with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Yet little background is presented regarding the whole conflict, particularly the circumstances that resulted in the unfolding disaster.
→ read full articleFBI Banned from Iceland
Rixstep – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
FBI agents landed in Reykjavík without prior notification in an attempt to investigate WikiLeaks operations in the country, but Home Secretary Ögmundur Jónasson found out about the visit and forced them to leave the country, with the Icelandic government then issuing a formal protest to US authorities.
→ read full articleUS Department of Defense Non-Lethal Weapons Program
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Report 2012 can be read online. Although not secret it is virtually unknown; never referred to in the media. [According to the website]: Why Non-Lethal Weapons? Non-lethal weapons can provide operating forces with escalation-of-force options that can minimize casualties and collateral damage. [Do you agree?]
→ read full articleAmia Bombing: Argentina and Iran Agree Truth Commission
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Argentina and Iran are to jointly set up a commission to investigate the 1994 bombing of the Israeli-Argentine Mutual Association (Amia) Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires. The commission will be made up of five independent judges, none of whom will be from either Argentina or Iran. The Jewish organisation was reported to be vehemently opposed to the move.
→ read full article(Português) Autoridades Lamentam Assassinato de Coordenador do MST no Rio
Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
28 jan 2013 – A secretaria de Direitos Humanos da Presidência da República, o Ministério do Desenvolvimento Agrário e o Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária (Incra) lamentaram o assassinato do coordenador do MST Cícero Guedes e condenaram a violência do latifúndio, em Campos dos Goytacazes, no norte do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Cícero foi executado com 12 tiros na cabeça, na sexta-feira (25/1/13), em uma emboscada quando saia de uma reunião no acampamento de bicicleta.
→ read full articleVerbal Defecation Buries Truth
William A. Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Having visited Auschwitz twice – once with my family and once with local schools – I am saddened that the Jews, who suffered unbelievable levels of persecution during the Holocaust, could within a few years of liberation from the death camps be inflicting atrocities on Palestinians in the new State of Israel and continue to do so on a daily basis in the West Bank and Gaza.
→ read full articleNiger Gives Green Light to U.S. Drone Deployment
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Niger has given permission for U.S. surveillance drones to be stationed on its territory to improve intelligence on al Qaeda-linked Islamist fighters in northern Mali and the wider Sahara, a senior government source said. The U.S. ambassador to Niger, Bisa Williams, made the request at a meeting on Monday [28 Jan 2013] with President Mahamadou Issoufou, who immediately accepted it, the source said.
→ read full articleIs Islam a Terrorist Religion?
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
You must have a vision
You must peep the reason
Violent why some make decisions
Before blaming its cohesion
Or saying it a terrorist religion