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Justifying Assassination
Los Angeles Times, editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon eloquently lamented that “I can find no way around the thicket of laws and precedents that effectively allow the executive branch of our government to proclaim as perfectly lawful certain actions that seem on their face incompatible with our Constitution and laws.” This page has made the same point in urging the administration to release the Office of Legal Counsel memorandum. If it is going to act as judge, jury and executioner, the least it can do is divulge its legal reasoning.
→ read full articleU.S. Arms Sales to Asia Set to Boom on Pacific “Pivot”
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
U.S. sales of warplanes, anti-missile systems and other costly weapons to China’s and North Korea’s neighbors appear set for significant growth amid regional security jitters.
→ read full articleResignation Letter
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
1 January 2013. I believe I was mislead regarding the professional environment at Universiti Brunei Darussalam during the recruitment process, and due to the on-going attempts to gag me on the persecution and slaughter of minorities, including Muslim minorities, in the country of my birth [Burma], I no longer wish to be subject to this level of extreme and unprofessional academic censorship. I need to work at a professional institution where the word ‘politics’ is mentionable, social conscience livable, and compassion honourable.
→ read full articleUS Patriot Missile Battery Crews Arrive in Turkey
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
5 Jan 2013 – A group of 27 US troops has arrived in Turkey to operate NATO Patriot surface-to-air (SAM) missile batteries. At least six of those will be deployed along the country’s border with Syria.
→ read full articleLatvia’s Economic Disaster as a Neoliberal Success Story – A Model for Europe and the US?
Jeffrey Sommers and Michael Hudson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
Today’s most highly celebrated anti-labor success story is Latvia, where labor did not fight back, but simply emigrated politely and quietly. Latvia has a two-part tax on wages and social benefits that are near the highest in the world, while real estate taxes are well below US and EU averages. Meanwhile, capital gains are lightly taxed, and the country has become successful as a capital flight and tax avoidance haven for Russians and other post-Soviet kleptocrats that has permitted Latvia to “afford” de-industrialization, depopulation and de-socialization.
→ read full articleEconomic Predictions for 2013
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
Since the time of Adam Smith, self-interest has been the mainspring of human economic activity. What is required today is a change of values, so that instead of being motivated by selfishness, people throughout the world will work for the common good.
→ read full articleThe Power Principle – III: Apocalypse
Scott Noble, Metanoia Films – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
This documentary is about the foreign policy of the United States. It is the third of three parts that demonstrate the importance of the political economy, the Mafia principle, propaganda, ideology, violence and force. Featured in the films are Noam Chomsky, Michael Parenti, John Stockwell, Christopher Simpson, Ralph McGehee, Philip Agee, [TRANSCEND member] Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, John Perkins, James Petras, John Stauber, Russ Baker, Howard Zinn, William Blum, Nancy Snow, William I. Robinson, Morris Berman, Peter Phillips, Michael Albert, and others.
→ read full articleHow The New York Times Erases Israel’s Crimes
Robert Ross, The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
The New York Times keeps the American public in the dark about the true nature of Israel’s occupation. According to The New York Times, there is no siege of Gaza, no occupation of the West Bank, and never was there a Nakba (the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine). Three recent articles erase these key Israeli crimes from the historical record.
→ read full articleThe Gravest Threat to World Peace
Noam Chomsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
Who exactly sees Iran as the gravest security threat? The “Iranian threat” is overwhelmingly a Western obsession, shared by Arab dictators, though not Arab populations. As numerous polls have shown, although citizens of Arab countries generally dislike Iran, they do not regard it as a very serious threat. Rather, they perceive the threat to be Israel and the United States; and many, sometimes considerable majorities, regard Iranian nuclear weapons as a counter to these threats.
→ read full articleWelcome 2013
Dr. Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
The more we rise in consciousness, the more we see the world as a part of our family. The expansion of the individual consciousness is a certain remedy not only for the individual, but also for the society. When we say the world is our family and think and act in that spirit, most of the problems we confront and call insurmountable will wither away. One does not need to be a genius to understand this simple dictum of life.
→ read full articlePutin Second to ‘Nobody’ on World’s Most Powerful List – Thinktank
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
International political thinktank Eurasia Group has ranked Russian President Vladimir Putin second on its list of the world’s most powerful people. The first position is held by ‘Nobody,’ reflecting the perception of a world without a clear leader.
→ read full articleThe Right to Live Peacefully
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
If the Right to Life and the Right to Peace we combine
a new, deeply humanizing right will be yours and mine…
Hitler Won
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
Hitler won.
He has converted the Jews,
Palestinians, Russians, Chechens,
Iranians, Iraqis, Afghans,
even his nemesis, the
Holy Americans…
Goal of Israel Lobby in America
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
Since this presentation deals with the Israel Lobby in the United States, we need to focus thoroughly on this group, which seems to have developed a strong grip on virtually every senator and congressman, including the US President. This group has one main objective, namely, the welfare and safeguard of the State of Israel. So far the Israeli lobby succeeded to get what it wanted, especially for the USA to let Israel confiscate Palestinian territory.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter of Response to CRIF (Counsèil Représentif des Institutions juives de France)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
I am shocked and saddened that your organization would label me as an anti-Semite and self-hating Jew. It is utterly defamatory, and such allegations are entirely based on distortions of what I believe and what I have done. To confuse my criticisms of Israel with self-hatred of myself as a Jew or with hatred of Jews is a calumny.
→ read full articleIn Further Memory of Edward Said
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Always, always
That voice
remains
is gone
needed…
For Nonkilling Education: A Plea to Humankind
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Rhymed Reflections
→ read full articleChristmas
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Tinsel around the house
And the fireplace is warm, …
Photo Gallery: The Best of Picture This 2012
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Throughout the year, Spiegel Online sifts through photos taken around the world for its “Picture This” feature. As 2012 draws to an end, here’s a look back at some of the most colorful, humorous and moving images that have been selected.
→ read full articleThe Libor Swindle
Andre Damon, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
22 Dec 2012 – The latest sweetheart settlement with a major international bank, in this case involving criminal activities that financial regulators describe as “epic,” has once again lifted the lid on the cesspool of corruption otherwise known as the world financial system. UBS, Switzerland’s largest bank, admitted this week to systematically rigging the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor), the benchmark global interest rate to which hundreds of trillions of dollars of financial contracts are tied. It did so to increase its profits and conceal its financial problems.
→ read full articleCelebration of Struggle Starts in Kudankulam on New Year 2013
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
New Year 2013 @ Kudankulam: Celebrating Resistance, Asserting Freedom. Idinthakarai village, which has been the nucleus of the Kudankulam anti-nuclear power plant struggle, welcomed hundreds of people who have come to celebrate New Year with the local communities spearheading the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE).
→ read full articleThe Lie that Prosecuting Bank Fraud Will Destabilize the Economy Is What Is REALLY Destroying the Economy
Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Failing to Prosecute White Collar Crime Guarantees a Weak and Unstable Economy … and Future Financial Crashes – After all, the main driver of economic growth is a strong rule of law.
→ read full articleMulti-phase Weaponisation of Replica Guns for Children
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
It is simply not plausible to understand events in Connecticut this Friday [14 Dec 2012] without having a conversation about guns in a country where more than 84 people a day are killed with guns, and more than twice that number are injured with them…. Americans are no more prone to mental illness or violence than any other people in the world. What they do have is more guns: roughly, 90 for every 100 people.
→ read full articleDrone Warfare: Terrorism with a Bigger Budget
Amanda Mullins, Defiance Citizens for Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
In the last four years, the use of unmanned drones to engage in so-called “targeted killing” has escalated dramatically. In Pakistan alone, US drone strikes have increased fivefold during the Obama administration, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which tracks US drone strikes.
→ read full articleExecutives at Collapsed Iceland Bank Jailed For Fraud
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Two former executives at an Icelandic bank which collapsed in the 2008 financial meltdown were sentenced to jail on Friday [28 Dec 2012] for fraud which led to a 53 million euro loss, in the first major trial of Icelandic bankers linked to the crisis.
→ read full articleUS Deploying Troops to 35 African Countries
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Soldiers based out of Fort Riley, Kansas’ 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division will begin training in March 2013 in order to prepare for a project that will send troops to as many as 35 African nations, the Associated Press reports.
→ read full articleNeville Alexander, Unbounded Organisation, and the Future of Socialism
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
In the late 1980s, as apartheid neared its end, Neville Alexander called on educators to “…shape consciousness in ways that are looking forward, in ways that are preparing people for a liberated, non-racial, democratic, and socialist South Africa.” Is Neville Alexander’s life’s work a contribution to a revolution that is still happening?
→ read full articleUBS Libor Manipulation Merits a Death Penalty
William D. Cohan, The National Memo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
There is no point in mincing words: UBS AG, the Swiss global bank, has been disgracing the banking profession for years and needs to be shut down.
→ read full articleThe Mayan Apocalypse and Gell-Mann’s Curve
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
How are we to explain the fact that the population curve is not an exponential? We can turn to Malthus for an answer: According to his model, population does not increase exponentially, except under special circumstances, when the food supply is so ample that the increase of population is entirely unchecked, In his “Essay on the Principle of Population”, population pressure appears as one of the main causes of war.
→ read full article(Italiano) Violenza Strutturale, Pace e Disabilità
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Lo “sviluppo” dai villaggi tradizionali agli stati moderni comporta costruire gerarchie attorno all’ onnipotente logica dello Stato, all’onnipresente logica del Capitale e all’onnisciente logica della Scienza. Tutti successori di Dio, che monopolizzano le sfide. Non per nulla molti migrano nei villaggi.
→ read full articleViolence in the Institutional and Cultural DNA of the United States of America
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
The two of the three pillars of the United States were the ethno- and genocide of the native people and the enslavement of African people — yes, the other is honorably the Enlightenment ideals of equality (of property-owning while males). Both as an economic system and as an ideological edifice, USA is one of the most violent places on earth.
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Matt Taibbi: How Did HSBC Executives Avoid Jail?
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
The banking giant HSBC has escaped indictment for laundering billions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels and groups linked to al-Qaeda. Taibbi says. “Here we have a bank that laundered $800 million dollars of drug money and they can’t find a way to put anybody in jail for that? That sends an incredible message, not just to the financial sector, but to everybody. It’s an obvious, clear double standard where one set of people gets to break the rules as much as they want and another set of people can’t break any rules at all without going to jail.”
→ read full articleThe P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2012
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting-FAIR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Recalling Some of the Stinkiest Media Moments of the Year [2012]
→ read full articleA Request to Dissolve the Indian Parliament
The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
We, the following citizens of India, have just completed 500 days of our peaceful protest against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project. Although our people have been struggling peacefully and nonviolently and democratically for 500 days, the Central government and the State government have not given our struggle its due importance or serious consideration to our demands. Instead they persist with their plan of commissioning the project at any cost just to please their Russian, American and French masters.
→ read full articleNile Gathering in Aswan, Egypt, 10-29 Jan 2013
The Nile Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
The world’s longest river runs through 11 countries (Congo DRC, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Sudan and Egypt) and touches the lives of 400 million people. The Project’s mission is to connect the people of the Nile basin through a cultural dialogue that evokes Africa’s iconic river as a shared ecosystem.
→ read full articleWhy Are There So Few Peace Psychology Courses Taught?
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
What Can We Do To Change This? Although we have no exact figures on the number of courses in peace psychology that are taught in undergraduate and graduate psychology departments the United States, it seems to me on the basis of available materials that there it is at best a limited number.
→ read full articleTo Friends All Over: HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013!
Johan and TRANSCEND – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Permit me a little report on where we are in TRANSCEND. So you will pardon me a sense of “mission accomplished”, even if those words were abused by somebody unmentionable.
→ read full articleLosing Faith? Belgium to Charge Church of Scientology with Fraud and Extortion
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
After a long lasting legal battle Belgium prosecutors demand to label the Church of Scientology as a criminal organization and charge it and its leaders with extortion, fraud, privacy breaches, and the illegal practice of medicine.
→ read full articleVerizon Patents Targeted Advertising Method That Determines If Viewers Are Laughing, Cuddling, Sleeping or Singing
Steve Donohue, Fierce Cable – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Verizon has filed a patent application for targeting ads to viewers based on information collected from infrared cameras and microphones that would be able to detect conversations, people, objects and even animals that are near a TV.
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Tell Me Why (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Genesis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Mothers crying in the street
Children dying at their feet
Tell me why, ooh tell me why
People starving everywhere
There’s too much food, but there’s none to spare
Tell me why, oh tell me why …
Johan Galtung on Goldman Sachs and the Protocols
Al Jazeera, The Stream – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Gilad Atzmon: Johan Galtung confirms that many people believe that Goldman Sachs actions are not that different from the reality described in the Protocols of The Elders of Zion. Protocols also refer to Jews’ control of the press. According to Galtung we see a lack of debate on that matter.
→ read full article(Português) Para Viver Além de Narciso
Entrevista a Inês Castilho – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Lia Diskin [membro da TRANSCEND] disseca ultra-individualismo das sociedade submissas aos mercados, mas aposta nos novos valores da juventude e numa política despartidarizada.
→ read full article(Italiano) Contro una Terza Guerra Mondiale: Costruttivamente!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Da Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany – La probabilità di una devastante Terza Guerra Mondiale non è zero, ma molto lontana dal 100%. Esploriamo perché.
→ read full articleResponding to the Unspeakable Killings at Newtown, Connecticut
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
The template of response has become a national liturgy in light of the dismal pattern of public response: media sensationalism of a totalizing kind, at once enveloping, sentimental, and tasteless (endless interviewing of surviving children and teachers, and even family members of victims), but dutifully avoiding deeper questions relating to guns, violence, and cultural stimulants and conditioning.
→ read full articleImaginative Reconfiguration of a post-Apocalyptic Global Civilization
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Engaging Cognitively With the Illusion of the “End of the World”
→ read full articleThe Freedom of the Press Foundation
Daniel Ellsberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Today [23 Dec 2012], I join with a group of colleagues and friends to announce The Freedom of the Press Foundation. This new foundation crowd-sources funding for a number of tireless, courageous and underfunded freedom of press organizations, including WikiLeaks.
→ read full article‘Bug-Splats’
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Some dead children are mourned; others are dehumanised. Barack Obama’s tears for the children of Newtown are in stark contrast to his silence over the children murdered by his drones.
→ read full articleSwitzerland’s UBS Becomes Second Bank to Settle LIBOR Rate-Rigging Probe
AP-The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Swiss bank UBS agreed Wednesday [19 Dec 2012] to pay $1.5 billion in fines for trying to manipulate a key interest rate that affects borrowers around the world.
→ read full article(Português) Com Menos Armas, Brasil Tem Três Vezes Mais Mortes a Tiro que os EUA
UOL Notícias – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Apesar do número bem inferior de armas de fogo em circulação na população do que nos Estados Unidos, o Brasil registrou, em 2010, 36 mil vítimas fatais de tiros. O montante é 3,7 vezes o registrado pelos americanos, que tiveram 9.960 mortes, colocando o país no topo dos que mais registram óbitos por arma de fogo no mundo.
→ read full articleThe UK/Swedish/US Governments Are Complicity in Mental Torture of Julian Assange, WikiLeaks Co-Founder
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
I appeal to the Australian government, Human rights defenders, brave media, and people who love freedom and truth to break the ‘silence ‘ and stand up for the rights of Julian Assange to assurance he will get the change to answer all accusations against him in UK or Sweden and the assurance he will not be extradited to USA where he could meet the same ‘cruel and inhuman’ treatment as pt. Bradley Manning.
→ read full articlePerspective of the Most Violent Nation in the Civilized World
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Over the past few decades, the United States has emerged to become the most violent nation in the civilized world. This did not happen overnight. In fact, we can trace this nation’s source of violence to the draft of its Constitution, which has now emerged to become the nation’s dangerous enemy.
→ read full articleHuman Rights: A Letter to Santa Claus?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
On December 10, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 48 nations voted for adoption, while 8 nations abstained from voting. Not a single state voted against the Declaration. Of course we have to earn a living, but in addition, all of us have the duty to work actively, to the best of our abilities, to save humanity’s future and the biosphere.
→ read full articleAfter Newtown: Shifting the Structure and Culture of Violence towards Peace
Marianne Perez de Fransius – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
A look at the structural and cultural violence underneath the Sandy Hook attack and action steps to move towards peace.
→ read full articleMichael Cremo Brings Vedic Perspectives to the Scientific Table
Madhava Smullen, ISKCON News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
A new book shows that it is possible to present Vedic perspectives on consciousness, human origins and human antiquity in modern scientific discourse. The book is a collection of twenty-four papers that Drutakarma presented at major international scientific conferences, mostly on archeology, from 1994 to 2009.
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Johan Galtung on How to Build a Culture of Empathy and Peace
Edwin Rutsch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
14 Sep 2012 – The Center for Building a Culture of Empathy – This is part of a larger documentary project by Edwin Rutsch on the nature of empathy.
→ read full articleThe Illusion of Democracy
Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
We stand on the verge of one of the bleakest periods in human history, when the bright lights of civilizations will blink out and we will descend for decades, if not centuries, into barbarity. The elites, who successfully convinced us that we no longer possessed the capacity to understand the revealed truths presented before us or to fight back against the chaos caused by economic and environmental catastrophe, will use their resources to create privileged little islands where they will have access to security and goods denied to the rest of us. (p. 197)
→ read full articleGo Back, Mr. Putin. You Are Not Welcome in India!
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
23 Dec 2012 – The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy strongly objects to the visit of Mr. Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, and asks him to go back. The Russian Ambassador to India has been interfering in the internal affairs of India by making unwanted statements and unacceptable comments on our energy policy, development policy, our national futures and our citizens’ right to protest against anti-national policies and projects.
→ read full articleStructural Violence, Peace–And the Handicapped
Johan Galtung, 24 Dec 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
“Development” from traditional villages to modern states means building hierarchies around omnipotent State logic, omnipresent Capital logic and omniscient Science logic. God’s successors all, monopolizing challenges. Not strange that many migrate to villages. First conclusion: Handicapped of all kinds unite! You have only your “normals” to lose. Second: relate to “normal” people on as equal terms as possible. Third: take on the challenge to construct a more inclusive society where your way of being different is an enrichment, a plus.
→ read full articleOnward U. S. Soldiers
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Onward then, ye soldiers, brave and righteous throng,
blend with ours your voices in this insane song.
Show that you are loyal unto Obama our King,
Kill those who oppose him, and his praises sing.
China Is Opening a Confrontation on the Sea
Roberto Savio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
The victory of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the recent Japanese elections, with LDP leader Shinzō Abe coming back as Prime Minister after five years, will probably mean an escalation of tension with China. Both countries are embarking on a fresh burst of nationalism, but for different reasons.
→ read full articleWatch Human Rights Watch – A Tribute to Prof Richard Falk
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
This week [22 Dec 2012] we learned that Human Rights Watch (HRW) has expelled from its ranks top U.N. official Professor Richard Falk.
→ read full articleNonkilling Lessons from the Connecticut Killings
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
The world cries again; innocent lives in Connecticut were sacrificed
and current legislation for gun control and use once more unsufficed…
The US Strategy in Asia
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
Besides the New Silk Road idea, Indo-Pacific corridor too has been increasingly finding mention in policy circles in recent months. The corridor as explained by Blake will link South Asian countries including India and Bangladesh to further east through Myanmar and other Southeast Asian countries. The corridor will link South Asia to the Pacific through Southeast Asia.
→ read full articleBeware of Legality, Accountability, Marketability, Security!
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
The current period highlights concerns with end times scenarios, whether in the form of eschatological predictions, planetary disaster or civilizational. A particular focus is offered by predictions relating to December 2012 and the completion of the Mayan/Aztec long count cycle. As noted by Ed Vulliamy (Mayan ‘death and rebirth’ date marks the perfect time to tackle planet’s crisis, The Observer, 16 December 2012)
→ read full articleEgypt: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
10 Dec 2012 – I have had the opportunity to be in Cairo three times for brief visits in the last 20 months, the first a few weeks after the departure of Hosni Mubarak on February 11, 2011, the second in February of 2012 when the revolutionary process was treading water, and this third one over the course of the previous ten days. What is striking is how drastically the prevailing mood and expectations have changed from visit to visit, how fears, hopes, and perceptions have altered over time, and why they are likely to continue to do so.
→ read full articleWhat ‘Impartial’ Means At the Oz
Jake Lynch, New Matilda - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
Journalist Christian Kerr recently filed a series of critical articles in The Australian about me over my support for an academic boycott of Israel, and then boasted to friends about using the paper to further his own views on the subject.
→ read full articleWhy I Boycott Israel
Jake Lynch, New Matilda - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
Sydney University academic Jake Lynch has come under fire this week [13 Dec 2012] for his stance on Israel. Today he argues his case: Palestinians and dissenting Israelis need international support to achieve justice.
→ read full articleIndia: Let’s Have a National Debate on the Ambitious Nuclear Program
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
If the Congress Party or the BJP or any other party for that matter manages to convince the Indian voters about this full-scale nuclearization of the country and obtains absolute majority in the next Parliament, we will call off the ongoing struggle against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) immediately.
→ read full articleEnd of the World: Hear the Dec 21, 2012 Prophecy … Direct from the Mouths of the Mayan Priests
Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
Ignore Second-Hand Information … Hear the Real Prophecy – Contrary to popular belief the living elders of the Maya do not agree that December 21, 2012 is the end of their calendar. A new “Sun” represents the beginning of a new Long Count cycle in the calendar system of approximately 5,200 years, which they say may not happen for many years.
→ read full articleUK Pays Libyan $3.5m over Rendition
AP, News24 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
13 Dec 2012 – Lawyers say a Libyan military commander and his family have accepted £2.2m from the British government to settle a claim that the UK approved their rendition to face imprisonment by Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
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Oh Holy Night (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Il Divo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
Il Divo “Oh Holy Night” singing with Katherine Jenkins.
→ read full articleWe Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists – Trailer
OfficialAnonymousTV1 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
Anonymous matters! The collective is a counterforce to powers that would control the public’s right to know or right to speak. It can act quickly to send tyrants and censors a strong message. And according to We Are Legion, the cyberbattle has just begun…
→ read full articleAbhorrent Roots & Development of Hugo Boss’ Business & Riches
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
In 1934 Boss became an Reichszeugmeisterei-licensed (official) supplier of uniforms to the Sturmabteilung (Brown Shirts), Schutzstaffel (SS), Hitler Youth, National Socialist Motor Corps, and other party organizations. To meet demand in later years of the war, Boss used about 30 to 40 prisoners of war and about 150 forced laborers, from the Baltic States, Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union. According to German historian Henning Kober, the company managers were “avowed nazis”
→ read full article(Italiano) Combattere l’Antisemitismo – Costruttivamente!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
Definire pubblicamente “antisemiti” intellettuali come Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu, Richard Falk, Günter Grass, Judith Butler, Evelyn Hecht-Galinski, Richard Dawkins, Mairead McGuire, Noam Chomsky e altri è una falsa calunnia di persone per nulla antisemite, con prospettive importanti. Il discorso “corretto” non ci porta da alcuna parte: [1] Israele ha sempre ragione; [2] i critici d’Israele hanno sempre torto.
→ read full articleThe Complex Calculus of the Permanent Unemployment Crisis: Players, Causes and Consequences
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
As I listen to explanations, solutions, and promises from “experts,” economists, financiers, social commentators, politicians, and also lived experiences of the unemployed, underemployed, and hopelessly unemployed, I have become convinced the complex calculus of players, causes and consequences cannot lead to a resolution – a revolution, perhaps, but not a resolution.
→ read full articleHamas, Khaled Mashaal and Prospects for a Sustainable Israel/Palestine Peace
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
The most important element of context that needs to be taken into account is the seeming inconsistency between the fiery language used by Mashaal in Gaza and his far more moderate tone in the course of several interviews with Western journalists in recent weeks. In those interviews Mashaal had clearly indicated a readiness for a long-term hudna or truce, provided that Israel ended its occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza, and agreed to uphold Palestinian rights under international law.
→ read full articleLiberated
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
There she lies at midday in the square
as if resting from her errands,
shopping bag in hand, wool gloves, sturdy shoes, …
What Child Is This?
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
What child is this? Whose child is this? Now this child rests amidst the dust and debris of war . . . lifeless . . . torn and shattered… killed by someone whom she or he never knew and would probably never meet. Death from a distance. . . a bomb from a drone or plane, a shell from a mortar, a strap of explosives . . . intentional and willing, calculated and planned, a measured effort to destroy.
→ read full articleValues – USA 2012 [No Joke!]
Andy Singer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
Ends justifying means…
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India Develops USD $1 Vaccine against Deadly Rotavirus
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
In India there is a revolution taking place that could change the world’s approach to public health – and potentially save the lives of 100,000 Indian children every year. An Indian firm is developing a USD $1 vaccine against rotavirus – a disease that causes diarrhea in infants and is deadly in the developing world.
→ read full articleDec 10, 2012 – Human Rights Day
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted on 10 December 1948. The date has since served to mark Human Rights Day worldwide. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has been awarded the Guinness World Record for having collected, translated and disseminated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into more than 380 languages and dialects: from Abkhaz to Zulu. It is thus the most translated document – indeed, the most “universal” one in the world.
→ read full articleEU Receives Nobel Peace Prize Today [10 Dec 2012] – Legal Action Is in Preparation
Fredrik S. Heffermehl – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
A summit of the European Union that today receives a prize that pretends to serve Alfred Nobel´s peace plan, will this coming Friday adopt a military co-operation program that spits in the face of the peace by disarmament ideas Nobel wished to support by his prize for a global demilitarization of international relations.
→ read full articleAll We Can Do
Morton Marcus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
All we can do on this earth is step into the future
with a sense of the many people behind us,
the living and the dead, as if we carried our bodies…
Poetry of the Taliban
Charles Cameron, Books & Culture – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
Regarding the image and likeness – The poet is Dr. Faizullah Saqib, and the poem is taken from an anthology of poetry written by the Taliban, our enemies. Could it not have been written when an earlier generation of mujaheddin, resisting the Soviet occupation, were our friends? What is this thing, enmity?
→ read full articleNuclear Safari in Deutschland: A Waste Story
S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
Most of the nuclear waste from the German nuclear power plants had been stored in the Salt Mine Asse II since 1967. In June 2008, it was found out that the water in the mine was contaminated with Cesium 137. We all know shit happens. But we cannot understand the concept of making nuclear shit for it to happen in the future to unborn generations. Those who make nuclear shit will suffer the shame and stigma. Or, will they?
→ read full articleEnactivating Multiversal Community: Hearing a Pattern of Voices in the Global Wilderness
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
Poetry may be understood as discourse — even dialogue — in its own right. It is readily inferred that the writing of poetry is a mode of discourse and interaction with others — notably other poets. This clearly avoids any face-to-face interaction in the moment, as is suggested by the possibility which is the focus here. It is appropriate to note that the preparation and publication of scientific papers may also be considered as a mode of “discourse”, most notably within the scientific community. Scientific “debate” may well be associated with a succession of rounds of mutually critical paper publication — possibly over years.
→ read full articleThe UN Asks for Control over the World’s Internet
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
6 Dec 2012 – Members of the United Nation’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) have agreed to work towards implementing a standard for the Internet that would allow for eavesdropping on a worldwide scale.
→ read full article2012 Corruption Perceptions Index
Transparency International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
Governments Must Prioritise the Fight against Corruption – The Corruption Perceptions Index ranks countries and territories based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be. A country or territory’s score indicates the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale of 0 – 100, where 0 means that a country is perceived as highly corrupt and 100 means it is perceived as very clean.
→ read full articleWhat Will UN Recognition Mean for Palestine?
Socialist Worker, editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
The upheavals across the Middle East have helped the cause of Palestinian liberation. The potential for Palestinians to achieve much more than “nonmember observer status” at the UN is much clearer today–and should inspire all our struggles for justice and freedom, in the Middle East and around the world.
→ read full article“Legal Imperialism” and International Law: Legal Foundations for War Crimes, Debt Collection and Colonization
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
By now we are familiar with imperial states using their military power to attack, destroy and occupy independent countries. Boatloads of important studies have documented how imperial countries have seized and pillaged the resources of mineral-rich and agriculturally productive countries, in consort with multi-national corporations.
→ read full articleGlobal Terrorism Index
Vision of Humanity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
Impact of Terrorism on World Countries – Interactive Map Country by Country and Ranking
→ read full articleUN Calls on Israel to Open Nuclear Facilities
Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
The resolution, approved Monday [3 Dec 2012] by a vote of 174-6 with 6 abstentions, calls on Israel to join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty “without further delay” and open its nuclear facilities to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Those voting “no” were Israel, the U.S., Canada, Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau.
→ read full articleIsrael Must Halt Construction of West Bank Settlements
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
The Israeli government’s announcement that it is to expand settlements in the West Bank in response to the UN vote on Palestinian statehood violates human rights and international humanitarian law, Amnesty International said today [3 Dec 2012].
→ read full articleLand to the Tiller
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
Cracked and clef soil of tolerated native mother
Beaten halo, attacked by the sun
Being friend and enemy to the end
Monsoon rain drops cried tears
It’s Time for the Media to Talk about Zionism
Philip Weiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
American media are not talking to their readers about Zionism, the ideology that is at the heart of the problem in Israel and Palestine. The media are honest about other movements of a religious character, from evangelism to opposition to stem-cell research to radical Islam. So they should be honest with them about Zionism.
→ read full articleI love my Family
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
Of galaxies, stars, planets
Is an earth hamlet
Where lives a small family
Of humans
HAZMAT and Kismet: Dangerous Cargo and Dispassionate People
S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
The Indian Supreme Court is trying to find out the Indian government’s and the Department of Atomic Energy-DAE’s plans to store the Koodankulam spent-fuel, transport this dangerous cargo to reprocessing plants, and to safe-keep the radioactive wastes. The government and the DAE clearly have no plans or preparations for any of these important steps.
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What Really Happened In Gaza 14-22 November 2012
Owen Jones, BBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
On BBC’s Question Time on 22 Nov 2012, journalist Owen Jones described the reality– largely ignored by the mainstream media — of Israel’s brutal attack on Gaza, 14-22 November 2012, that left over 170 killed, more than 30 of them children.
→ read full article(Italiano) ONU: Due Imperi in Crollo – E Poi Che Cosa?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
C’è la Storia nel voto ONU del 29 novembre 2012: 138 SÌ all’attribuzione di status di “stato osservatore non-membro ONU”, solo 9 NO, e 41 astensioni. Oltre la politica del Medio Oriente, il voto rispecchia i limiti dell’impero globale USA e di quello regionale d’Israele: 138 paesi ne sfidano la morsa e favoriscono il cambiamento, 41+9=50 no, per varie ragioni. Un voto cruciale su un tema cruciale è un test cruciale. Chi vuole che cosa?
→ read full articleDiversity as a Source of Conflicts
Solomon Marcus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
The Simplest Diversity: A Binary Distinction – Diversity is unavoidable. It is a preliminary condition of complexity. Could the world be perceived as an amorphous, i.e., totally non-structured mass? Maybe in the eyes of a baby in its first period of life.
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