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Fighting Anti-Semitism–Constructively!
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
To label public intellectuals like Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu, Richard Falk, Günter Grass, Judith Butler, Evelyn Hecht-Galinski, Richard Dawkins, Mairead McGuire, Noam Chomsky and others “anti-Semitic” is false libel of persons in no way anti-Semitic, with important perspectives. The “correct” speech carries us nowhere: [1] Israel is always right; [2] Israel’s critics are always wrong.
→ read full articleScience sans Humanity: India’s Pursuit of Nuclear Energy
Pradeep Kumar S, DiaNuke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
When the USA admits publicly the amount of nuclear waste produced in their plants & discuss with independent experts to come up with a solution to protect their people from the radiation for next 10,000 years, our India is busy in labeling the people who are questioning them as fools, illiterate and anti nationals funded by foreign NGOs.
→ read full articleEuropean Football Players Declare Support for Palestine
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
Sixty two English Premier League and 1st Division European footballers have issued an open letter in solidarity with Palestinians and condemning UEFA’s upcoming hosting of its 2013 Under 21 tournament in Israel.
→ read full articleBurma/Myanmar: Expert Warns of Rohingya Genocide
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
“Warning signs” are in place for a genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, an Al Jazeera investigation has been told by a leading expert in the field. According to Professor William Schabas, until recently President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, the findings of an Al Jazeera documentary reveal that “we’re moving into a zone where the word can be used”.
→ read full articleAnonymous Message: #OpSyria V2.0
AnonInsurrection – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
The United States government is openly creating terrorism alongside NATO and Israel to demonize the Syrian Arab Republic. Terrorism has no religion and will not hesitate to use any means to kill. Mainstream media prostitutes are spreading false claims stating that the “Syrian government” is planning attacks using biological weapons against its own people.
→ read full articleIsrael Rejects UN Call for Nuclear Transparency
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
Israel has rebuffed a UN call to adhere to the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and open itself to international inspectors, calling the suggestion a “meaningless mechanical vote” of a body that “lost all its credibility regarding Israel.” In a 174-6 vote, the United Nations General Assembly demanded in a non-binding call that Tel Aviv join the NPT “without further delay,” in an effort to create a legally binding nuclear-free Middle East.
→ read full articleVisit to Gaza: UN Press Release
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
The Special Rapporteur [Falk] noted that his visit to the region consisted of meetings in Cairo and the Gaza Strip, with Governmental, inter-governmental and civil society representatives, as well as victims and witnesses. He received helpful briefings from UNRWA and other United Nations agencies, which provided an in-depth picture of the magnitude of the challenges in Gaza and the difficulties of addressing such challenges in a situation of occupation and blockade.
→ read full articleBradley Manning: A Window into the American Soul
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
The three branches of our government have united to destroy US civil liberties in the name of a hoax, “the war on terror.” The window into America’s political soul reveals total evil. The US government constitutes Satan’s Chosen People. Nothing else can be said for those who rule and oppress us.
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The Story of Change
StoryOfStuff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
Can shopping save the world? The Story of Change urges viewers to put down their credit cards and start exercising their citizen muscles to build a more sustainable, just and fulfilling world.
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On Meat Eating/Vegetarianism: Phillip Wollen Is Captivating
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
Amazing must-see speech by Phillip Wollen. Cornell and Harvard state that the optimum amount of meat in a healthy diet is precisely zero! – “If slaughter houses had glass walls, we wouldn’t be having this debate.”
→ read full articleMethods of Analysis in Social Sciences and Research for Peace – An Introduction
Alberto L’Abate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
This study deals with its subject in a rather original way if compared with the usual research methodology texts. First of all, it discards the traditional standpoint of research “neutrality”, which according to the author favours the preservation of the “status quo”, since research is increasingly financed by the state, by the army or by important economic entities, which are more concerned in furthering their own power rather than promoting peace.
→ read full articleTruthdiggers of the Week: Iceland’s Leaders
Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
One country refused to bail out its derelict banks and slash social spending amid the financial crisis. And guess what? Unlike the eurozone and the United States, it’s making a sturdy comeback.
→ read full articleDocumenting Dissent: An Australian Film-Maker’s First-Hand Account of Police Brutality in Koodankulam
Dianuke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
27 Nov 2012 – David Bradbury was detained and harassed in Koodankulam when he visited there to make a documentary on the massive anti-nuclear movement. Here is his first-hand account of facing the police brutality in Koodankulam, that he wrote recently for a newspaper in Australia.
→ read full articleThe 2012 Peace Prize is Unlawful and Cannot Be Paid to the EU
Nobel Laureates et al. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
The European Union, announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee as the winner of the peace prize for 2012, clearly is not one of “the champions of peace” Alfred Nobel had in mind when he described the purpose in his will. We ask the Board of the Foundation to clarify that it cannot and will not pay the prize from its funds.
→ read full articleViolent Attacks of Buddhists against Muslim Rohingyas in Burma as Obama Visits Country
Channel 4 News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
President Obama’s historic visit to Burma has been questioned by some as premature following the recent communal violence between Muslims and Buddhists.
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Johan Galtung on Peace Economy, Palestine and More (Video of the Week)
Al Jazeera, The Stream – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
28 Nov 2012 – The Founder of Peace Studies discusses Sociocide, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and building economies of peace.
→ read full articleFighting Recession the Icelandic Way
The Editors, Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
Few countries blew up more spectacularly than Iceland in the 2008 financial crisis. Stock market plunged 90 percent; unemployment rose ninefold; inflation shot to more than 18 percent; the country’s biggest banks all failed. Today, Iceland has repaid IMF rescue loans ahead of schedule, growth this year will be about 2.5 percent, better than most developed economies. Unemployment has fallen by half. In February, Fitch Ratings restored the country’s investment-grade status, approvingly citing its “unorthodox crisis policy response.” Iceland’s approach was the polar opposite of the U.S. and Europe, which rescued their banks and did little to aid indebted homeowners.
→ read full articleThe End of Jewish Power
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
Israel suffered a humiliating defeat at The UN yesterday [29 Nov 2012]. The nations of the world stood up and said NO to the Jewish state – NO to Israeli occupation, NO to Israeli human rights abuse, NO to Jewish racism. In effect, they stood up and confessed to serious Zio-fatigue.
→ read full articleAre Israel’s Jews, Some of Them, on Their Way to Becoming Nazis?
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
Some and perhaps many will regard my headline question as offensive but I make no apology for asking it; and I take comfort from the fact that my decision to pose it is fully supported by one of my very dear Jewish friends – Nazi holocaust survivor Dr. Hajo Meyer. He has said in public that Zionism is seeking to dehumanize the Palestinians in the same way the Nazis sought to dehumanize him in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
→ read full articleThe House of Rothschild – Full Documentary
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
Money’s Prophets, Above Royalty – The secret history of the 19th century International Bearer Bond Market and a historical case study for digital bearer bonds in the 21st century.
→ read full article(Castellano) Intelectuales y Premios Nobel Piden un Boicot Internacional Contra Israel
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
Entre los firmantes están los premios Nobel Mairead Maguire y Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, el académico estadounidense Noam Chomsky y el exdiplomático francés Stéphane Hessel, superviviente del Holocausto y coautor de la Declaración de Derechos Humanos.
→ read full articleAs Gaza Is Savaged Again, Understanding the BBC’s Historical Role Is Vital
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
In Peter Watkins’ remarkable BBC film, The War Game, which foresaw the aftermath of an attack on London with a one-megaton nuclear bomb, the narrator says: “On almost the entire subject of thermo-clear weapons, there is now practically total silence in the press, official publications and on TV. Is there hope to be found in this silence?”
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Interview with Evelin Lindner \ Entrevista com Evelin Lindner
abaontv - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
PORT: O Professor Francisco Gomes de Matos, Presidente do Conselho da Associação Brasil-América-ABA, conversa com Evelin Lindner, médica, psicóloga e fundadora presidente da Rede de Estudos sobre Humilhação e Dignidade.
ENG: Professor Francisco Gomes de Matos, President of ABA (Brazil-America Association), talks with Evelin Lindner, a physician, psychologist and founder president of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies.
5 Persistent Myths about Bipolar Disorder
Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S., Psych Central – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
Bipolar disorder is a serious and difficult illness that affects all facets of a person’s life: their education, work, relationships, health and finances, said Julie A. Fast, author of several bestselling books on bipolar disorder, including Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder and Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder, and a coach who works with partners and families.
→ read full articlePrinciples of Harmony
Bishnu Pathak, PhD- TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
Peace is the process for perfection whereas harmony is a perfect relationship. Peace may be experienced alone by a person whereas harmony is a systematic character between two or more persons or parties; harmony is always a plural condition. Peace may be enjoyed alone; harmony is living together peacefully. Peace implies calmness; harmony requires unity.
→ read full articleInterview with Iceland’s Economy Minister: ‘We Reacted Immediately to Symptoms of Crisis’
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
In late 2008 and early 2009, all three of Iceland’s major banks collapsed amid the financial crisis. Now, the country is experiencing economic growth once again and unemployment is falling. Economy Minister Steingrimur Sigfusson explains to SPIEGEL how it was done.
→ read full article(Italiano) La Storia del Passato. E il Futuro?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
Che idea meravigliosa, la storia della pace! Qualcosa su cui quasi tutti vorrebbero imparare, l’arte della pace! Come per la storia della salute, del cibo e dell’amore, anziché la storia delle guerre, delle malattie e della fame, dei generali, dei re e degli imperi. Si tratta della storia di qualcosa che può ispirare le persone, fra cui anche gli/le statisti/e, a far meglio.
→ read full articleKenya Bans Importation of GMO Foods
Occupy Monsanto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
Public Health minister Beth Mugo subsequently directed all Public Health Officers at all ports of entry and all other government regulators to enforce the ban on importation of Genetically Modified Foods in the country.
→ read full articleSpeech at Rally for Gaza and Palestine
Mairead Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
At City Hall, Belfast, N. Ireland, 24 Nov 2012 – Let’s wake up, this is not about Hamas, this is not about the fact that Israel has no partner for peace. I sat with Yasser Arafat in his little compound before he was killed and he cried out for peace. I sat in Gaza with Hamas in 2008 and they cried out for peace. What was Israel’s answer? Israel’s answer was war against them, and not only dropping one or two bombs but the policy of the Israeli government, and look it up, is that when they go to war, they do the utmost damage. They don’t kill one or two, they destroy the whole people.
→ read full articleThe Rise of the Sharing Communities
Cat Johnson, Shareable – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
As the sharing economy picks up momentum, its reach has become global. In cities and towns around the world, people are creating ways to share everything from baby clothes to boats, hardware to vacation homes. There are also groups emerging that consciously identify with the big-picture sharing movement. These groups focus on education, action and community-building, and advocate for a cultural shift toward widespread sharing.
→ read full articleCongo: What the International Community and Media Should Do
Hansueli Homberger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
The DRC-Democratic Republic of Congo is rarely in breaking news, unless armed groups overrun cities on its eastern border. This was the case in 1996, 1998, 2004, 2008, and again on November 20, 2012. Associated Press reporter Melanie Gouby was in the stadium in Goma where the armed group M23 celebrated victory over Joseph Kabila’s government troops, assisted by UN blue helmets.
→ read full article(Italiano) Patto Militare Italia-Israele: Un Accordo Scellerato e Illegale
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
Sempre per l’accordo, le attività si svilupperanno grazie “alle riunioni dei ministri della Difesa, dei Comandanti in Capo e di altri ufficiali autorizzati, lo scambio di esperienze fra gli esperti delle due parti, l’organizzazione e l’attuazione delle attività di addestramento e delle esercitazioni, le visite di navi e aeromobili militari e ad impianti, lo scambio di informazioni, pubblicazioni e hardware, la ricerca, lo sviluppo e la produzione di sistemi d’armamento”.
→ read full articleOvercoming the Scars of Our Caste Past
Anuttama Dasa for The Huffington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
Recently, a religion scholar wrote an article on the Huffington Post questioning the legitimacy of non-Indian converts to Hindu/Vedic traditions. The essence of the Vedic culture, today known as Hinduism, teaches that none of us are white, black, brown, red or yellow. We are spiritual beings, eternally lovers and servants of God, who have forgotten our spiritual nature and are wandering through this material world seeking happiness via money, power, sex, fame and other temporary will-o-wisps.
→ read full articleObserving the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People in Cairo
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
Text of my remarks delivered in Cairo at joint UN/Arab League ceremony marking the observance of the 2012 International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, 29 Nov 2012, some 10 hours prior to the historic vote in the UN General Assembly.
→ read full articleIdinthakarai Women Win Chingari Award for Nonviolent Struggle
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
Eminent environmental activist, Dr.Vandana Shiva, the Chief Guest at the function, said, “The Kudankulam struggle has emerged not merely as the most defining challenge to nuclear power in the country today but is also one of the strongest demonstrations of nonviolent people’s power. The role of the women in the struggle has been critical in ensuring that the energy of the fight remains undiminished. They are truly the ‘chingaris’ of the struggle and it is an honour to be able to present the award to them.”
→ read full article‘2 Million Friends of Afghan People for Peace in Afghanistan’
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate and Ann Patterson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
We will be visiting Kabul on 10th December 2012, international day of human rights, on behalf of the Peace People. We have been invited by Afghan peace volunteers to join them in their ‘2 million friends’ and ‘ceasefire’ campaign and we will join the voices for creative nonviolence delegation USA, to Afghanistan. The Afghan peace volunteers have chosen to ask for two million friends around the world remembering that in the last 40 years over 2 million Afghan people have died from violence.
→ read full articleUN: Two Empires Crumbling – And Then What?
Johan Galtung, 3 Dec 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
There is History in the UN 29 November 2012 vote: 138 YES to giving Palestine the UN status as “nonmember observer state”, only 9 NO, and 41 abstentions. Beyond Middle East politics the vote also mirrors the limits to the US global, and the Israeli regional, empires: 138 defy their grip and favor change, 41+9=50 do not, for various reasons. A crucial vote on a crucial issue is a crucial test. Who wants what?
→ read full articleWho Is the Terrorist….???
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
On everybody’s tongue, From every media organ, These words common
Listen we like sermon, As from a holy priest, Terrorist, terrorist, terrorist…
The Gaza Ceasefire: An Early Assessment
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
The Gaza Ceasefire, unlike a similar ceasefire achieved after Operation Cast Lead four years ago, is an event that has a likely significance far beyond ending the violence after eight days of murderous attacks. It is just possible that it will be looked back upon as a turning point in the long struggle between Israel and Palestine.
→ read full articleUNHCR Welcomes Brazilian Residency for Angolan and Liberian Refugees
UN High Commission for Refugees – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
The UN refugee agency on Friday [9 Nov 2012] welcomed Brazil’s recent decision to grant permanent residency to nearly 2,000 former Angolan and Liberian refugees. Brazil’s Ministry of Justice issued a decree on October 26 confirming the new status for this group. Brazil is the first country in Latin America and outside of the Africa region to adopt UNHCR’s recommendations.
→ read full articleMiko Peled, the General’s Son – Seattle Oct 1, 2012
Todd Boyle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
Israeli peace activist Miko Peled, author of The General’s Son – Journey of an Israeli in Palestine, spoke last week to audiences at Georgia State University, Spelman College, Kennesaw State University, the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda and Oakhurst Presbyterian Church.
→ read full articlePuppet State America
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
The German assault on the Warsaw Ghetto is one of the horror stories of Jewish history. Such an event is happening again, only this time Jews are perpetrators instead of victims. No hand has been raised to stay Israel from the goal of the operation declared by Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai to be “to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages.”
→ read full articleCharles Bronfman Prize to Jewish Humanitarians Whose Work Is of Universal Benefit
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
The Charles Bronfman Prize recognizes Jewish humanitarians whose work, while inspired by personal Jewish values, is of universal benefit to all people.
→ read full articleHow Germany Is Getting to 100 Percent Renewable Energy
Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
There is no debate on climate change in Germany, where architects of the clean energy movement estimate that from 80 percent to 100 percent of the country’s electricity will come from renewable sources by 2050.
→ read full articleWolfbane
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
So much for Norway’s eco-friendly image. Canada has mutated from a liberal, pacific, outward-looking values country to a thuggish petro-state, ripping up both international treaties and the fabric of its own nation. Another country, whose green and humanitarian principles were just as well-established as Canada’s, is undergoing a similar transformation. Again, it is not the people who have changed – in both cases they remain as delightful as ever – but the dominant political class and its destruction of both national values and international image. I am talking about Norway.
→ read full articleThe Silent Violence against Women Worldwide
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
November 25th is the UN-proclaimed International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Violence against women is a year-round occurrence globally and continues to an alarming degree.
→ read full article(Italian) Coltivare la Pace, Prevenire la Violenza…
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
… era il titolo del simposio al Virginia Tech di Blacksburg, Virginia-USA, dal 17 al 19.11.2012. Come si coltiva la pace? con la cooperazione a beneficio reciproco e uguale; armonia mediante empatia; conciliazione dei traumi, ripulendo il passato e costruendo un futuro; risolvendo i conflitti mediante le 3 C. Fattibile, possibile; mediante studi per la pace, con teoria e pratica.
→ read full articleA Peace Paradigm
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
Dedicated to Bernard Spolsky
Conflict resolution, Nonviolent resolution, Nonkilling resolution, Peaceful resolution, Peaceful (re)solution, PEACE is the solution!
Myanmar’s Step-By-Step Approach toward Rohingya Genocide and Ethni-cide
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
I would call the military’s policy towards the Rohingya “structural genocide”, a systematic and sustained act of policy maintained and pursued, irrespective of which general or ex-general is in charge. Welcome to our ugly majoritarian neo-Fascist democracy run by militarists!
→ read full articleExtraordinary World Phenomena – Photo Gallery
Yahoo! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
The outlandish landscapes might look like something from another planet but they are in fact completely natural eccentricities. And while these mind-blowing quirks of Mother Nature might continue to puzzle scientists, they also continue to draw in tourists fascinated by the surreal spectacles.
→ read full articleOut on the Right: On Being Gay, Conservative and Catholic
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
Jens Spahn is a conservative parliamentarian. He is also gay. In a SPIEGEL interview, the 32-year-old describes how this has informed his political career and assesses how far Germany has come on civil rights for gays and lesbians.
→ read full articleU.S. Government Hacked Nicolas Sarkozy, Former France President’s, Office in 2012, l’Express Claims
Huffington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
The United States government reportedly hacked into the office of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy shortly before he was voted out of office earlier this year [2012], according to French newsmagazine l’Express. France’s cyberwar agency reportedly made the discovery after a major security breach in May, which, l’Express says, was caused by a “very powerful worm” developed jointly by the American and Israeli governments, called “Flame.”
→ read full articleNames and Ages of 170 Civilians Killed in the Israeli Attacks on Gaza LAST WEEK alone
Shahd Abusalama, palestinefrommyeyes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
25 Nov 2012 – Because we are NOT just numbers: names and ages of murdered people, victims of Israeli attacks on Gaza since Wednesday [14 Nov 2012]. The number rises to 170. Keep following this post. I’m going to keep updating it on everything that is happening as much as I can and as long as I’m breathing!
→ read full articleKenya: Push to Meet 2013 Male Circumcision Targets
UN IRIN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
With just over one year left to achieve its target of having some 1.1 million men circumcised as part of HIV-prevention efforts, Kenyan male circumcision programmes are ramping up efforts to bring more men into clinics, compensating them for their time and encouraging them to bring friends in for the procedure.
→ read full articleNames and Ages of 26 Civilians Killed by Rockets Fired from Gaza into Israel IN 12 YEARS
Phan Nguyen, Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
Israeli spokespeople frequently remind the world that a million Israeli citizens are within range of Gaza rockets, twelve thousand of which have been fired into Israel in the last twelve years, inflicting thousands of injuries and several dead. However, only 26 people have been killed throughout this time. Below is a list of all the fatalities of rocket and mortar attacks fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel.
→ read full articleThe Anguish of Being a Jew Now
MJ Rosenberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
In losing the Israel I grew up on, I feel like a wonderful friend has died. I know all about the Nakba and will not deny it or argue about it. But maybe a new friend will take its place. Maybe this war, and the fact that Israel must see that it can never win this way, will lead to a different Israel. The 7 million Israelis aren’t going away. The Palestinians, who never left, are certainly not going away, either. Neither people will get everything it wants. But each can get what it needs.
→ read full articleWhy So Secretive? The Trans-Pacific Partnership as Global Corporate Coup
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the most secretive and “least transparent” trade negotiation in history.
→ read full articleCristiano Ronaldo Reportedly Donates €1.5mn to Children in Gaza
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
The star forward gave his Golden Boot which he earned in 2011 to the Real Madrid foundation. The Spanish giants in their turn sold it at auction and will now donate the funds to schools in Gaza. It’s not the first time Ronaldo has given to charity. Last year he sold most of his sports shoes at a Real Madrid Foundation auction which was also dedicated to raising funds for schools in Gaza.
→ read full article(Italian) Italia e Colombia, Una Relazione Pericolosa
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
A partire dal prossimo anno i militari italiani verranno addestrati nella selva colombiana all’esecuzione di “operazioni speciali”.
→ read full articleDevouring Jackals
Linh Dinh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
Born in blood and maintained through constant bloodletting, Israel has gotten its teeth into its prey, and it won’t let go. If it had a choice, it would have devoured all already. So a truce between Israel and Hamas has been announced, ending a bombardment of Gaza that left 147 dead and 1,155 wounded. Israel, on the other hand, suffered five dead and 235 wounded, a bit higher than usual, proportionally.
→ read full articleGenocide: The Ecology of Pathways to Ending Lives and Life
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
I dislike being a Cassandra, Jeremiah, or any other voice that keeps calling attention to the many challenges ahead for humanity and for the world. And yet, it seems to me that if I do not, then somehow I have betrayed my responsibilities, duties, and obligations as professional psychologist, citizen, and human being. This article is in some ways a lament. But in other ways, it is voice in the wilderness calling for an awakening to what is occurring as we choose silence as others cry in pain and humiliation.
→ read full article(Italian) Il Primo Referendum Propositivo Valido in Italia É Già Storia
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
In Valle d’Aosta il “pirogassificatore” non si costruirà.
→ read full articleCollective Punishment and the Blockade of Gaza
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
Under the Fourth Geneva Convention, collective punishment is war crime. Article 33 states that “No protected person may be punished for an offense that he or she did not personally commit.” Articles 47-78 also impose substantial obligations on occupying powers, with numerous provisions for the general welfare of the inhabitants of an occupied territory.
→ read full articleBan ‘Killer Robots’ Before It’s Too Late
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
Fully Autonomous Weapons Would Increase Danger to Civilians – These future weapons, sometimes called “killer robots,” would be able to choose and fire on targets without human intervention.
→ read full articleIn-Depth: Top 10 Neglected Refugee Crises
UN-IRIN, ReliefWeb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
Below, IRIN takes a look at some of the most neglected refugee and displacement crises around the world.
→ read full articleLatin America’s Left Turn Collides with Indigenous Movements
Nyki Salinas-Duda, In These Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
For a viable model of “21st century socialism,” many progressives look to Latin America’s Leftward surge. But swept up in the continent’s “pink tide” are questions of indigenous land and resource rights, which often clash with state development priorities. From Venezuela to Bolivia to Chile, indigenous communities are charging that they have been betrayed by the populist presidents they helped elect.
→ read full article(Castellano) Israel Intensifica Ofensiva Contra Gaza y Suma Más de 90 Palestinos Muertos
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
19 Nov 2012 – La agencia iraní Press TV destacó que este lunes fueron asesinados al menos una docena de palestinos, los cuales se suman a las 31 muertes contabilizadas el día domingo, siendo la mayoría de las víctimas civiles, mujeres y niños.
→ read full articleModernity’s Other and the Transformation of the University – II
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Short Answers to Simple Questions
→ read full articleAnonymous Downs Hundreds of Israeli Sites over Gaza
Sapa-AFP, The Citizen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Online activist group Anonymous said on Saturday [17 Nov 2012] that their operation “OpIsrael” had either damaged or completely erased the sites of more than 650 private and public institutions that included the Bank of Jerusalem — one of the country’s main finance houses. “Bank of Jerusalem database has been deleted,” the group said in a tweet next to a link to the lender’s non-functioning website.
→ read full article(Italian) Bombardamenti Israeliani e il Capovolgimento della Ragione
Angela Lano, InfoPal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Visto che i media occidentali (italiani in testa), come già successe con Piombo Fuso (2008-2009), invertiranno l’ordine di causa ed effetti, dando la colpa ai palestinesi per i massacri israeliani, in un gioco di manipolazione dell’informazione da manuale orwelliano, stabiliamo alcuni punti cardine:
→ read full articleBahrain Uprising Threatens US Hegemony
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Connecting the dots of recent dramatic events in Bahrain spells one unmistakable message — the US-backed Al Khalifa regime is on the political ropes. It is desperately trying to defeat a determined pro-democracy movement that just won’t lie down or go away.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Eleições em Israel, Ataque a Gaza
Nuno Moniz, Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
O Governo de Israel decidiu novamente virar o seu internacionalmente patrocinado poderio militar para a Faixa de Gaza com duas mensagens. Uma para a comunidade internacional e a segunda para os eleitores em Israel: confiem em nós porque não temos medo de fazer chover bombas em Gaza.
→ read full articleWagging the Dog in Gaza: Netanyahu’s Skirmish of Fear
Lior Sternfeld, Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Israel has embarked, with its Gaza attack, on the all-too-well-known elections routine. Netanyahu knows that the way to ensure his victory in the upcoming elections will be by diverting the public discourse from demands of social justice to existential threats imposed on Israel by the bogeyman- Hamas, and the cost of imperiling a third of Israel’s population seems reasonable enough for him.
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Robert Reich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
BP plead guilty to 14 criminal counts, including manslaughter, and agreed to pay $4 billion over the next five years. But it defies logic to make BP itself the criminal. Corporations aren’t people. They can’t know right from wrong. They’re incapable of criminal intent. They have no brains. They’re legal fictions — pieces of paper filed away in a vault in some bank.
→ read full articleWar or Peace in the Sahara?
Robin Edward Poulton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
What Mali needs now is international partners that are ready to study the lessons of the 1990s, and to devise radical actions based on decentralized Malian models that have already been successful.
→ read full articleIsrael Would Have Us Believe That These People Are Terrorists
Information Clearing House – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Pictures of Children Killed and Injured by Israeli Attack on Gaza – November 14, 2012
“A time comes when silence is betrayal.”
— Rev. Martin Luther King
UN Urges End to U.S. Cuba Embargo for 21st Year
Louis Charbonneau, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
A record 188 U.N. members supported resolution on Cuba. Israel, Palau and U.S. only 3 states to vote against. Repeating an annual ritual, the U.N. General Assembly called on Tuesday [13 Nov 2012] for the United States to lift its trade embargo against Cuba, whose foreign minister said the blockade against the communist-run island was tantamount to “genocide.”
→ read full articleBDS, Arab Land and the Custodian of Absentee Property
Paul Larudee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
The 2005 call by more than 170 Palestinian organizations, both within Palestine and without, to boycott Israeli products and services, divest from companies that support and sustain Israel and sanction the Israeli state and its agencies is one of the most important and potentially one of the most effective strategies to end the injustices perpetrated against the Palestinian people.
→ read full articleLGBT Rights: The Global Struggle for Queer Freedom
Peter Tatchell, Global – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Homophobic persecution and discrimination is rife in large parts of the world, and the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are still not recognised or protected by international law. Nonetheless, progress towards equality is being made thanks to the defiance and bravery of activists.
→ read full article(Italian) Un Cambiamento a Washington?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Da Washington, DC – 6 novembre 2012, notte dell’elezione. La democrazia USA è un sistema bipartitico che sta diventando uno stato monopartitico? Se è così, gli altri paesi stiano attenti! Non imitino. La democrazia è di più che solo elezioni. È anche trasparenza e dialogo. Per un reale cambiamento.
→ read full article(Italian) Il Primo Referendum Propositivo (Valido) Italiano E’ Storia
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Quando la storia dà i brividi
→ read full articleImagining the Ultimate Global Sharing Day
Rajesh Makwana, Share The World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
The growing support for the sharing economy has the potential to change the way we understand and address the many challenges we face. But it is at the national and global level that sharing can have a truly transformative impact in relation to poverty, sustainability and world peace.
→ read full articlePeople Come Into Our Lives . . .
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
People enter our lives at unexpected times
Changing us in profound ways . . .
A glance, a smile or frown,
A word — spoken or written —
Cultivating Peace, Preventing Violence…
Johan Galtung, 19 Nov 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
… was the title of the Symposium at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia-USA 17-19 Nov 2012. How do we cultivate peace? • through cooperation for mutual and equal benefit; • harmony through empathy; • traumas conciliation, clearing the past and building a future; • by solving conflicts through the 3 Cs. Feasible, possible; through peace studies, theory and practice.
→ read full articleKnowledge Processes Neglected by Science
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Insights from the Crisis of Science and Belief – Systemic knowledge processes neglected by science: What are the dimensions of knowledge and information of which science is itself uncritical or unconscious?
→ read full articleIsraeli ‘Operation Pillar of Defence’ – Not Defence but Murder of Unarmed Civilians
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Prime Minister Netanyahu argues that Israel has a ‘right to defend itself’ and the Obama administration continues, yet again, to support this bogus claim, pledging to oppose those who would question Israel’s illegal policies. The Israeli government and military do not have the right to carry out indiscriminate bombing and killing of Palestinian civilians. Third party governments have a legal responsibility to take action and see that Israel does not act with impunity.
→ read full articleThe Latest Gaza Catastrophe: Will They Ever Learn?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Obama was quoted as saying, “There is no country on earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside of its borders. We are fully supportive of Israel’s right to defend itself.” Much is missing from such a sentiment, most glaringly, the absence of any balancing statement along the following line: “and no country would tolerate the periodic assassination of its leaders by missiles fired by a neighboring country, especially during a lull achieved by a mutually agreed truce. It is time for both sides to end the violence, and establish an immediate ceasefire.”
→ read full articleWhy Gaza Must Suffer Again
Jonathan Cook, The View from Nazareth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
The inciting cause of the latest confrontation between Israel and Hamas has little to do with the firing of rockets, whether by Hamas or the other Palestinian factions. The conflict predates the rockets – and even the creation of Hamas – by decades. It is the legacy of Israel’s dispossession of Palestinians in 1948, forcing many of them from their homes in what is now Israel into the tiny Gaza Strip.
→ read full articleTango with the Tax Man: Multinationals Find Loopholes Galore in Europe
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Large multinationals, many of them based in the United States, are masters at avoiding taxes on profits made abroad. According to data compiled by independent tax experts, US technology giant Apple paid a paltry $130 million (€102 million) in taxes on foreign earnings of about $13 billion in 2010. Microsoft paid only $1.7 billion on $15 billion in foreign earnings, while software giant Cisco paid a tax bill of $400 million on foreign earnings of more than $8 billion.
→ read full articleAmerican Popular Culture: Socializing and Homogenizing Mind, Nation, and World
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
It is said that a fish does not know or recognize the water about it until it is caught and raised from the depths of its milieu so necessary for survival. It is then it may understand the essence of its survival. It seems to me that the same analogy may be applied to American citizens. We are embedded in a popular American culture to which we seem to be oblivious. Figure 1: The Socialization of American Culture, Society, and Psyche:
→ read full articleWhere There Is No Time and Nothing Matters
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Cognitive Challenges at the Edge of the World – This commentary was further informed by the publication of a new study by James Boyce (Van Diemen’s Land, 2008) and the historic apology on 13th February 2008 by the Government of Australia to the Aboriginal peoples of Australia.
→ read full articleSouthern Alternatives on Trade and Development
Comhlámh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Tired of being told there’s no other way? There ARE alternatives! In spite of the global crises, the EU insists that free trade and deregulation is the only way for economies to develop, and is pushing this damaging economic approach on its poor trading partners.
→ read full articleGeorge Galloway, British MP | Full Address
Oxford Union Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
George Galloway gives his address to the Oxford Union Society – October 15th 2012. The Oxford Union Society is the world’s most prestigious debating society, with an unparalleled reputation for bringing international guests and speakers to Oxford. It has been established for 189 years, aiming to promote debate and discussion not just at Oxford University, but across the globe.
→ read full articleMalawi Activists Say Scrapping Sodomy Laws an ‘Uphill Battle’
Agence France-Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Despite the Malawi government’s move to suspend a law banning same-sex relationships, activists say winning a total repeal will be an “uphill battle” in a country where homosexuality is considered a sin. “Malawi culture remains conservative,” Billy Mayaya, a leading rights activist, told AFP just hours after President Joyce Banda’s government announced the suspension of tough anti-gay laws, pending a parliamentary debate.
→ read full articleIran and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Four countries outside the NPT have nuclear weapons: India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel. North Korea had originally joined the NPT, but it withdrew in 2003. Looking at the NPT with the benefit of hindsight, we can see the third “pillar”, the “right to peaceful use of nuclear technology” as a fatal flaw of the treaty. In practice, it has meant encouragement of nuclear power generation, with all the many dangers that go with it.
→ read full articleJapan Appeals to India against Nuclear Power
Nuclear Action Committee Japan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
If you have come to Japan to promote a nuclear power agreement, don’t confine your discussions to the high and mighty in Tokyo, go to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and visit the peace museums there. Listen to the experiences of the hibakusha. And by all means go to Fukushima. Find out how people are trying to live with the 4 reactors emitting radioactive material around them; find out the horrendous conditions of radiation exposure that the thousands of workers trying to contain the accident must endure, and learn what has happened to the seas, the forests and the farm land. If you do that, we think that you will change your mind.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Amizade – Um Poema
Albert Einstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Pode ser que um dia deixemos de nos falar…
Mas, enquanto houver amizade,
Faremos as pazes de novo.
The World Failed Sri Lanka. And Continues to Do So.
Mark Leon Goldberg, UN Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
What we know about those final days is stunningly awful. This International Crisis Group report and this UN Commission of Inquiry report describe a months-long massacre of innocent civilians caught between Tamil Tiger insurgents on one side and government forces on the other. The insurgents used civilians as human shields, and the government decided to shoot through those shields to get to the Tigers. Hundreds of thousands of people were trapped in an area the size of Central Park, subjected to daily mortar fire and indiscriminate killing.
→ read full articleThey Are Hearing Us
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
For the people of Iran who live under Internet and telephone censorship.
→ read full articleLegacy and Re/volution: Talkin’ bout an Evolution
Caridad Svich, Theater Without Borders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
It is perhaps ironic that the last two centuries of cultural turns have focused so much on visual culture and its interpretation, and that science and technology have devoted so much of its research and energy to the development of progressively sophisticated information and entertainment devices (not to mention surveillance and military devices) geared to the visual imagination and its hyperlink-ing strategies. My questions here have less to do with technical advances in the disciplines of design and engineering, and more to do with the philosophical foundations of how we see and how we hear in culture – what we choose to see and hear and not. Ethics again. Yes. Civic responsibility. Spiritual responsibility.
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