Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Pentagon Contractors Have Trained the Terrorists in the Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria
Prof Michel Chossudovsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2013
8 May 2013 – CNN just a couple of months ago confirmed that contractors hired by the Pentagon were in fact training the terrorists in the use of chemical weapons. And now we have a statement by a UN Independent Commission, which has confirmed unequivocally – and it was revealed on the same day – that the terrorists who are backed by the United States and its allies, they are in possession of deadly sarin nerve gas, which they are using against the civilian population.”
→ read full articleRefugee Camps as War Zones – How Lebanon’s Palestinians Are Being Pulled into Syria’s War
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2013
Historically, Palestinian refugees, wherever they have sought temporary sanctuary following the ethnic cleansing of their country by the 19th century Zionist colonial enterprise, and pending their return to Palestine, have insisted on avoiding local and international conflicts while seeking a modicum of interim civil rights from the host countries.
→ read full articleBBC Poll: Israel among World’s Least Popular Nations
Haaretz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2013
The annual BBC World Service poll finds Germany most popular; only countries less popular than Israel are North Korea, Pakistan and Iran.
→ read full articleGlobal Wealth Inequality – What You Never Knew You Never Knew
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2013
The extreme truth about how wealth is divided globally.
→ read full articleBrazil to Write Off $900m of African Debt`
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2013
Brasilia pardons debts for 12 African countries after creating agency to support development in continent.
→ read full articlePotential of Feynman Diagrams for Challenging Psychosocial Relationships?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2013
The complexity and subtlety of the arguments and models offered by fundamental physics are widely recognized as one means of comprehending reality. To most they are essentially incomprehensible, if not irrelevant to the experience of daily life. It is of course the case that another form of complexity is evident in psychosocial systems, whether at the macro-level of global modeling or at the micro-level of interpersonal relationships.
→ read full articleMystery Sponsor of Weapons and Money to Syrian Mercenary “Rebels” Revealed
Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2013
The tiny gas-rich state of Qatar has spent as much as $3bn over the past two years supporting the rebellion in Syria, far exceeding any other government.
→ read full articleGlobal Capital and the Nation State
Robert Reich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2013
As global capital becomes ever more powerful, giant corporations are holding governments and citizens up for ransom — eliciting subsidies and tax breaks from countries concerned about their nation’s “competitiveness” — while sheltering their profits in the lowest-tax jurisdictions they can find. Meanwhile, at a time when you’d expect nations to band together to gain bargaining power against global capital, the opposite is occurring: Xenophobia is breaking out all over.
→ read full articleDispatch #1 from the Mussalaha Delegation to Syria: “When can we go back?”
Paul Larudee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
“When can we go back?”
This plaintive question of refugees since time immemorial was asked again of Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire at the United Nations High Commission on Refugees intake center in Zahleh, Lebanon, overlooking the vast Beqaa valley, now dotted with refugee camps wherever we look.
→ read full articleDispatch #2 from the Mussalaha Delegation to Syria
Paul Larudee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
As I begin to compose this, I hear what sounds like artillery and rocket fire in the distance, mixed with occasional small arms and possible explosions. Most of their targets must be far away, because I don’t hear them hit. The explosions may or may not be something else.
→ read full articleSyria Dispatch #3: Prisoner Release; Attack on Mother Agnes; Homs Project
Paul Larudee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
9 May, 2013 – Damascus – the delegation meets with the Minister of Justice and presents a petition for the release of 72 non-violent activists. If the government wants to make a strong impression of its good will, it will release all 72 at one time before the end of the week, in which case it will be big news. If it decides not to release all of them, it will probably do so in stages, without a lot of fanfare. Let us hope.
→ read full articleDispatch #4: Declarations of the Delegation; Prisoner Release
Paul Larudee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Further to the sniper firing at the car transporting Mother Agnes, it apparently happened twice, both coming and going, and as far as she knows, the attack was not directed specifically at her, but rather towards all vehicles, with a view toward making the route impassable. The car was damaged but Mother Agnes is fine.
→ read full articleMali under Indefinite Occupation
Roger Annis, The Bullet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
France Parliament Votes to Extend Combat Mission While UN Security Council Readies a Policing Force
→ read full articleRussia’s Plan for the BRICS to Dismantle the Dollar System
Valentin Mândrăşescu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
A week before the recent BRICS summit in Durban, the Kremlin administration has silently produced a document which describes the Russian strategy in the context of BRICS cooperation. The document makes for a fascinating read for anyone brave enough to plow through the dense Russian legalese. The strategy has been designed in the “inner circle” of Vladimir Putin’s team, so it is safe to assume that it represents the official view on the BRICS future.
→ read full articleLa Délégation Internationale de la Paix Participe a Une Prière Pour la Paix en Syrie
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
11 May, 2013 – In Arabic
→ read full articleSri Lanka: Four Years after the War’s End, Little Reconciliation, Few Creative Changes
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
In the end, no offer of compromise was ever enough, and all forms of moderation were seen as betrayal. The war continued with the last months being particularly destructive. The psychological wounds are deep, and the healing of individual traumas with psycho-spiritual techniques remains a real priority, for the sufferings of the war may sow the seeds of future unrest and a desire for revenge.
→ read full articleDeclaration of the Mussalaha Delegation to Syria on the Refugee Situation in Lebanon
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Since the cause of this crisis is the widespread violence in Syria, we call for an immediate end of all aid – lethal and nonlethal – to all combatants, an immediate and mutual ceasefire, and immediate negotiations among all the parties without preconditions. Lebanese citizens, Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon, Lebanese charitable institutions and other Lebanese civil society institutions deserve much credit for providing support that the international society has not done. However, a refugee influx of this magnitude is more than any society the size of Lebanon can accommodate without aid from the UN.
→ read full articleSyrian Democratic Party Declaration to the Peace Delegation
SDP General Assembly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
First, we would like to welcome the members of the international committee for the support of reconciliation and solidarity, wishing them a comfortable stay so that they can work on revealing the facts and incidents and the scope of injury that our great nation has undergone on its third year. The SDP is one of the national parties of the opposition. What we greatly fear of is the transformation of the Syrian crisis from a political to a social crisis, sliding into a civil war, entailing a foreign intervention and internationalization of the crisis under the pretext of terrorism to implement foreign agendas.
→ read full articleTurkish Authorities Involved in Stealing Body Organs of Injured Syrians
SANA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
The Lebanese ad-Diyar newspaper revealed that Turkish authorities are involved in traffic of body organs of injured Syrians who reach Turkish territories. In its issue on Saturday [4 May 2013], it said they transport young Syrian injured to hospitals in Antalya and Iskenderun in cars guarded by Turkish police and intelligence. Injured Syrians have their body organs excised after being anesthetized to be later killed and mostly buried in the Turkish lands or sent to the border.
→ read full articleSyrian President Bashar Al Assad’s 18 May, 2013 Interview
Clarin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
(Spanish with English Subtitles) – In an exclusive interview for the Argentine newspaper Clarin, shared with the Observer, Assad says he welcomes attempts at dialogue, but believes that western states are looking for ways to fuel the violence, rather than stop it, and are seeking to topple his regime regardless of the toll.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Activists Report the Real Situation in Syria
TeleSur TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
(Spanish with English subtitles) – May 10, 2013 – The crisis in Syria and its effect on civil society continues to draw attention of journalists and international peace activists, a delegation led by the Nobel-Peace-Prize Winner Mairead Maguire, arrived in Damascus to witness the situation and report the truth to the world.
→ read full articleIndia’s Child Soldiers: Thousands Recruited, Government Defends Record of Terror Groups before UN Child Rights Committee
Asian Centre for Human Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today released its report, “India’s Child Soldiers” (http://achrweb.org/reports/india/JJ-IndiasChildSoldiers2013.pdf), the first ever comprehensive study on the subject in India, and accused the Government of India of defending the records of the armed opposition groups, officially designated as terrorist groups, on the recruitment of child soldiers before the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
→ read full article(Português) O Que Fazer com o Seu Dinheiro: O Discurso de Autoajuda em Manchetes de Capa de Jornais
Leusa Santos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Dissertação de Mestrado em Letras
→ read full article(Italiano) Siria
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
La ricerca potrebbe riguardare varie soluzioni, anziché la soluzione. Che fioriscano 1.000 dialoghi, in ciascun quartiere, ciascun villaggio, ad arricchire il prodotto nazionale lordo d’idee. Facilitatori sostenuti dall’ONU, con conoscenza della mediazione, anziché con armi e binocoli.
→ read full articleInternet Advocates Say the Trans-Pacific Partnership Is the Biggest Threat Yet to Open Web
Russell Brandom, The Verge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Closed-door meetings mean no one knows for sure how damaging the final treaty will be.
→ read full articleOn Political Preconditions
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
The Netanyahu led government is clearly committed to achieving the political embodiment of Greater Israel, and would not settle for anything less. It is seeking as much legitimation as possible for this expansionist objective, hopeful that adroit diplomacy with American help can yield such a result.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
A Global Harmony Association Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day. PLEASE HELP THE WORLD BY SIGNING THE PETITION http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Global_Disarmament_Now_1/.
→ read full articleTen Years after Invasion, Iraq Continues to Import Oil Products
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Former Iraqi oil minister Issam al-Jalabi says that although Iraq is an oil-rich country, it still imports petroleum products from abroad to meet its needs 10 years after the US-led invasion of the country.
→ read full articleMoaz al-Khatib Exposes Roles of Saudi Arabia and Qatar in the Syrian Crisis
Al-Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
May 13, 2013 – Outgoing Syrian National Coalition President Moaz al-Khatib talks about the issues he was facing as the head of the Syrian National Coalition. He said that he felt like a salesman for foreign governments who had their own agendas in Syria rather than representing the Syrian people, as he was being used to sign papers on behalf of Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
→ read full articleG20 Governments All Agreed to Cyprus-Style Theft of Bank Deposits … In 2010
Colin McKay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
To address the problem of “systemically important” banks, “without exposing the taxpayer to the risk of loss,” our puppet politicians have agreed to confiscate … the savings of taxpayers.
→ read full articleU.N. Assembly Slams Syrian Government’s ‘Escalation’ of War
Al Arabiya with Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday [15 May 2013] condemned the Syrian government’s ”escalation” of the country’s war and backed the opposition Syrian National Coalition in transition talks. While the non-binding text has no legal force, resolutions adopted by the 193-nation assembly can carry significant moral and political weight, according to Reuters.
→ read full articleSyrian Forces Inflict Heavy Losses on US Sponsored Terrorists
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
19 May 2013 – Reports from Syria suggest that the US sponsored Al Nusra mercenary force and affiliated formations have inflicted heavy losses in different part of the country. Press reports confirm that the rebel stronghold of Al Qusayr on the Northern border of Lebanon is now under the control of government forces.
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‘Moonlight’ Sonata (Music Video of the Week)
HJ Lim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Beethoven – Adagio Sostenuto – ”This exceptionally gifted artist ignited an incomparably fiery pianistic space…with super-virtuoso sound images, an incredible enchantment of possibilities of pianistic expressions, subtle and grandiose, magically performed by the phenomenal virtuoso.”
— Basellandschaftlicher Zeitung
TRANSCEND General Assembly in Germany, 16-18 Aug, 2013
Erika Degortes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Usually our general meeting occurs every two years. However, this year marks the twentieth anniversary of TRANSCEND International and we decided to get together for our TRANSCEND General Assembly one year earlier. The Venue that will host us will be the Galtung-Institut for Peace Theory and Peace Practice in Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany, 5 minutes by train from Basel-Switzerland.
→ read full articleU.S. Currently Fighting 74 Different Wars … That It Will Publicly Admit
Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
And Many More Covert Wars Without Congressional Oversight … Let Alone Public Knowledge
→ read full articleFake Commissioning Planned at Koodankulam?
People’s Movemenmt Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Following the Supreme Court’s verdict, the Indian nuclear authorities are announcing various dates to fake-commission the project and trying to protect their own self interests and save the Russians from all the embarrassing and serious charges. Instead of answering the component-related concerns, financial improprieties and liability commitments in an earnest manner, they are spreading irresponsible rumors and conjectures as they have been doing since 2005 about commissioning the Koodankulam project.
→ read full articleFormer Guatemala Dictator Rios Montt Convicted of Genocide
Mike McDonald, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt was found guilty on Friday [10 May 2013] of genocide and crimes against humanity during the bloodiest phase of the country’s 36-year civil war and was sentenced to 80 years in prison. It was the first time a former head of state had been found guilty of genocide in his or her own country.
→ read full articleObama: Walk Your Talk on Guantánamo
The Nation, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
As the hunger strike reaches its 100th day on May 17 [2013], 100 prisoners are refusing food. The Pentagon, which once called prisoner suicides “asymmetric warfare,” has dismissed the hunger strike as a publicity stunt. Rather than “reward bad behavior,” the official response has been to throw the men into solitary confinement and keep the most weakened alive through torturous means.
→ read full articleTime We Civilize Our Foreign Affairs
Mazher Hussain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Apart from spying, many countries spread misinformation, instigate violence, kidnap or kill people in covert operations, facilitate terrorist attacks and even wage wars against other countries in the name of national interest and security. But if individuals or groups engage in similar things like rumour mongering, acts of violence or rioting, then we declare them to be deviant and criminal.
→ read full articleThe Concluding Declaration of the Mussalaha Peace Delegation to Syria
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Mussalaha Peace Mission to Syria – May 1- 11, 2013. We consider it beyond debate that the Syrian people have the right to determine their own government and their own future. Foreign interference is currently preventing the Syrian people from exercising their right to self-determination. We are concerned that such pernicious intervention is tearing apart the fabric of the country itself, with long-term consequences that can only be imagined. The cautionary example of Iraq serves to remind us of the dire consequences of such international folly.
→ read full articleHealth Insurance for the Planet
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
An individual has health insurance so that in case of illness or bodily injury he can have insurance benefits. I am inspired by the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Christiana Figueres, who argued passionately at the University Massachusetts Boston that we must think about the health of our planet as we think about health of the individual.
→ read full articleAre Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar Elites Complicit in the Rohingya Ethnocide?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Is Burma’s Aung Suu Kyi herself complicit in this Rohingya ethnnocide? is a valid, empirical question that needs to be raised.
→ read full article(Italiano) ABEconomia e lo Stato del Giappone
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Alternative: rendersi conto che i vecchi tempi d’oro sono finiti, che USA-Occidente-Giappone sono battuti dalla concorrenza BRICS. Agire per accordi più modesti, accettabili. E, invece di associarvi agli USA nell’aumentare l’insicurezza, associatevi ai vostri vicini in una Comunità dell’Asia dell’Est e rivedete la TPP per una partnership egalitaria dalla Cina agli USA e dal Giappone all’America Latina.
→ read full articleSyria: Ten Points towards Reconciliation and Peace
ISTEAMS-International Support Team for Mussalaha in Syria – Transcend Media Service,
20 May 2013
A focus of the work of AMRIS-Australians for Mussalaha (Reconciliation) In Syria is to support the “Ten Points towards Reconciliation and Peace in Syria”, which were presented to politicians, community groups, leaders of faith groups, and the media by Mother Agnes Mariam when she visited Australia in October 2012.
→ read full articleOn the Road to Damascus
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
I participated, May 1-11, 2013 in the Mussalaha International Peace Delegation to Lebanon-Syria alongside fellow TRANSCEND member Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, from Ireland, and 15 others from eight countries. Like Paul meeting the angel Ananias on his way to Damascus experienced a change of heart and became St Paul, so have I met many angels on my own Road to Damascus and, although not gone into sainthood, I have reinterpreted and upgraded my own vision of reality—which I now share with you.
→ read full article(Castellano) ONU Califica de Histórica Condena a Dictador Guatemalteco Ríos Montt
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
La Alta Comisionada de la Organización de Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos, Navi Pillay, calificó de histórica la condena a 80 años de prisión al dictador guatemalteco, José Efraín Ríos Montt. Pillay celebró que Guatemala hizo historia al convertirse en el primer país en condenar a un dictador por genocidio en una corte nacional.
→ read full articleBeyond Theory – the Practice of Building Socialism in Latin America
Jorge Capelan and Toni Solo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
For the imperial propaganda machine, leftist Latin American governments and political leaders are either too leftist, not really leftist, or blind fanatics, as well as being shrewdly machiavellian, capitalists in red clothing, enemies of the market and scores of other contradictory pairs of things all at once.
→ read full articleRethinking ‘Red Lines’
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
What is strange in all this is that Obama talks the talk, but seems unwilling to walk the walk. Such a disjunction invites cynicism about law and morality, and induces despair on the part of those of us who believe the world we inhabit badly needs red lines, but the right red lines.
→ read full articleMine: Story of a Sacred Mountain
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
A documentary produced by Survival International, is a record of the multi-billion pounds FTSE 100-listed British mining giant Vedanta Resources Plc with its ambitions to destroy the breathtaking beauty, culture, forests and tribal life of the Niyamgiri Hills located in eastern India in order to mine millions of tons of bauxite from these hills to produce aluminium.
→ read full articleMussalaha International Peace Delegation to Syria
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
I participated, May 1-11, 2013, in a Peace Delegation to Lebanon-Syria, along with fellow TRANSCEND member Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire and 15 others from six countries. I shall report next week on what I saw, heard and witnessed along with my own conclusions and insights from interviews (including with armed rebels), audiences (incl. Prime Minister, four others), visits to hospitals, refugee camps, churches and mosques. I talked with a member of the political opposition to Assad’s regime. He was in prison for 24 years (out for 11) and wants changes—but without outside interference.
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Higher Ground (Music Video of the Week)
Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
“Higher Ground” is a song that speaks of the perseverance it takes to reach the higher consciousness. Let’s all keep trying together, one heart and one song at a time, until we all reach the Higher Ground.
→ read full articleIsraeli Football, Racism and Politics: The Ugly Side of the Beautiful Game
Jonathan Cook, The View from Nazareth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
Israel’s increasing integration into European competitions, despite its refusal to revive peace talks with the Palestinians, respect human rights and halt illegal settlement, is, according to critics, contrary to sporting values and should be met with international opposition of the kind faced by apartheid South Africa.
→ read full articleA Clear and Present Danger at Koodankulam: Shoddy Parts, Shabby Leaders, and Shaky Indian Lives!
People’s Movemenmt Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
The Koodankulam reactors present a danger to Indian citizens with many substandard equipment and parts supplied by discredited Russian companies such as ZiO-Podolsk, Informtekh and Izhorskiye Zavody. The PMANE demands a comprehensive, complete, independent inquiry into the financial and technical scams of the Koodankulam project, and the closure of the KKNPP in the larger interests of the people of India.
→ read full articleThe Self-Hating State
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
Devolving policy to “the market” doesn’t solve the problem of power. It makes it worse. States now operate at the behest of others. Deregulation, privatisation, the shrinking of the scope, scale and spending of the state: these are now seen as the only legitimate policies. The corporations and billionaires to whom governments defer will have it no other way.
→ read full articleElephant Poaching On Rise in Chaos-Hit Central African Republic
Bate Felix, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
Elephant poachers are taking advantage of the chaos in CAR to hunt down the animals in protected wildlife areas and openly sell their meat in village markets, campaigners said on Friday [26 Apr 2013]. Rhinos have already been hunted to extinction in the region due to demand for their horns for Asian medicinal concoctions.
→ read full articleUS Lets Swiss Banks, Accused of Aiding Tax Fraud, Avoid Prosecution with Fines
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
“Swiss banks are negotiating fines to avoid prosecution, while billions of dollars continue to be hidden away from taxes.”
→ read full article(Galego) Acoso Escolar, Maltrato entre Iguais, Bulling
Manuel Dios Diz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
Para abordar os casos de maltrato entre iguais, vulgarmente coñecidos como acoso ou co seu termo en inglés “bulling”, o primeiro que debemos fomentar nun centro educativo que ten menores ó seu cargo, é a prevención, é dicir, de acordo cun Plan Integral de Mellora da Convivencia Escolar de referencia, como o que temos vixente en Galicia.
→ read full articleMeanwhile, Manchester United
Johan Galtung, 13 May 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
Libya: a strip of land similar to where the Italian, French etc. invaders-colonizing Africa come from, the rest Berber-Tuareg with their world views and Islam suppressed, attacking a consulate-embassy possibly also a CIA detention center to liberate their friends on 11 Sep 2012 (when Ambassador J.C. Stevens was killed), having attacked the International Committee of the Red Cross 1 km away on 22 May: “the ICRC must take down their flag with the red cross Libya is an Islamic State” (letter to Hillary Clinton from the US Congress 02-10-2013).
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
A Global Harmony Association Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day. PLEASE HELP THE WORLD BY SIGNING THE PETITION http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Global_Disarmament_Now_1/.
→ read full article(Castellano) Acoso Escolar, Maltrato entre Iguales, Bulling
Manuel Dios Diz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
Siempre reitero que dedicamos muchas horas, días, meses, años, a enseñarle al alumnado a resolver complejos problemas matemáticos, físicos, químicos… pero muy pocos minutos a enseñarles a resolver sus propios problemas, los de relación entre iguales, aquellos que encontrarán, con mayor frecuencia, en sus vidas. Y para esto, la educación afectivo emocional resulta imprescindible, en casa y en la escuela.
→ read full articleThe Moon Cries
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
In the backyard of the earth
The solitary moon was sitting
In the dark with a hidden secret . . .
Koodankulam Is Not Russian?
People’s Movemenmt Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
Indian Nukedom Tries to Free up Russia from Liability, Theft and Project Failure!
→ read full articleA 700-Member Time Bank in Central Vermont
Olivier Asselin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
A time bank where members exchange goods and services instead of money. Exchanges are not reciprocal, meaning that one hour spent baking, cleaning, doing plumbing work or driving someone to the airport, can be exchanged for an hour of service provided by any other member of the time bank.
→ read full articleDoes the American Jewish Community Really Want a Large-Scale General War in the Middle East?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
A large-scale general war in the Middle East would be a catastrophe for Syria, Iraq and Iran; a catastrophe for the other Islamic states of the Middle East; a catastrophe for Pakistan and Russia, should they become involved; and a catastrophe for Israel and the United States. In fact, all of the peoples of the world would suffer. How could such a general war come about? Several paths are possible.
→ read full article(Português) Cristiano Ronaldo Nega Troca de Camisas com Jogador de Israel: “Não Troco com Assassinos”
Milton Ribeiro – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
Ao final da partida entre Portugal e Israel pelas Eliminatórias da Copa do Mundo de 2014, em 25 de março 2013 — porque será que a imprensa daqui não deu a devida importância ao fato? O jogador português Cristiano Ronaldo recusou-se a trocar sua camisa com a de um jogador de Israel. Questionado sobre a recusa, afirmou: “Não troco minha camisa com assassinos”.
→ read full articleWar Drugs
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
When we go marching off to war
our need for drugs begins to soar.
Does Current Biology Have the Misfortune of Owning an Unreliable Clock?
Bhakti Niskama Shanta, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
On April 2013, the prestigious Cell Press Journal Current Biology published an article entitled “A Revised Timescale for Human Evolution Based on Ancient Mitochondrial Genomes”. This paper has twenty authors and they are researchers from the world’s top institutes like Max Planck Institute, Harvard, etc. In the present article the author discusses a few significant fallacies of the methodology employed by this paper.
→ read full articleUsing Nuclear Energy Presents Similar Problems to Fossil Fuels
Alternative Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
The environmental impact of nuclear fuels has proven to be much greater than the original estimates of the fledgling industry. The solution to the problem of how to safely store tons and tons of nuclear waste, which remains extremely dangerous to life for hundreds of thousands of years, has still not been discovered after 5 decades of nuclear research.
→ read full articleRisk-enhancing Cognitive Implications of the Basic Mathematical Operations
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
ADD, MULTIPLY, DIVIDE and SUBTRACT – This exploration uses the set of basic mathematical operations as a means of providing a mnemonic framework to highlight weaknesses in comprehension tending to accelerate processes of global civilizational collapse, as variously foreseen (Thomas Homer-Dixon, The Upside of Down: catastrophe, creativity, and the renewal of civilization, 2006; Jared M. Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, 2005; Johan Rockstrom and Anders Wijkman, Bankrupting Nature: Denying our Planetary Boundaries, 2012).
→ read full articleDrones, Sanctions and the Prison Industrial Complex: A Catholic Worker Report
Brian Terrell, warisacrime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
In the final weeks of a six month prison sentence for protesting remote control murder by drones, I can only reflect on my time of captivity in light of the crimes that brought me here. In these ominous times, it is America’s officials and judges and not the anarchists who exhibit the most flagrant contempt for the rule of law.
→ read full articleBail-out Is Out, Bail-in Is In: Time for Some Publicly-Owned Banks
Ellen Brown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
The crossing of the Rubicon into the confiscation of depositor funds was not a one-off emergency measure limited to Cyprus. Similar “bail-in” policies are now appearing in multiple countries. What triggered the new rules may have been a series of game-changing events including the refusal of Iceland to bail out its banks and their depositors.
→ read full articleGagging on Ag-gag Laws: Who Are the Real Animal Farm ‘Terrorists?’
Jim Hightower, Creators – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
The freedom-busting terrorists in this fight are not those who reveal the abuse, but the soulless factory-farm profiteers in the corporate suites and the cynical lawmakers who serve them. Actually, factory farms are not farms at all. They are corporate-run concentration camps for pigs, cows, chickens, turkeys and other food animals.
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Chopin – Fantasie Impromptu Op 66 (Music Video of the Week)
Rogerio Tutti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
Piano Concerto – Rogerio Tutti is an internationally acclaimed Brazilian pianist.
→ read full articleKill for Peace
Tom Greening - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
Some soldiers do not like to kill—
not for the glory or the thrill.
But do not fret—relax, for now
psychologists can teach them how.
It’s Time to Reconsider US Policies That Create Terrorism
MJ Rosenberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
There is one change that the US could make in response to terrorism: the part U.S. policies play in creating and sustaining it. We are not supposed to say this, as if discussing why we are hated justifies the targeting of Americans because of their government. But the fact that nothing justifies terrorism does not mean that nothing causes it. Terrorists (in this case Muslim terrorists) target the US because they perceive us as their enemy. And with good reason.
→ read full article(Português) Quem Resgatará a Indústria Farmacêutica?
Martha Rosenberg - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
Pode ser você: vêm aí testosterona spray, ritalina plus, patologização da insônia, “controle de distúrbuios imunológicos” e outras promessas fármaco-publicitárias…
→ read full articleReport: Sri Lanka’s Assault on Dissent
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
In their attempt to consolidate power, Sri Lanka’s authorities have criminalized freedom of expression, and equated dissent with treason. Those who dare to criticize the authorities are pursued and silenced. As described in this report, Sri Lanka is failing to comply with its international obligations to respect and protect the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association, as well as other rights.
→ read full articleNuclear Impacts
Alternative Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
Generating nuclear power appears to be an effective way to create dangerous waste garbage that cannot be safely thrown away, though often is. Past operations have resulted in contamination and fatalities throughout almost every step of the mining, refining, and disposal process. Even now we have no idea how to safeguard future generations from radioactive material used to produce today’s electricity.
→ read full article(Italiano) Droni: Frontiere Tecnologiche
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
L’uso indiscriminato dei droni rende le guerre sempre più violente e illegittime. Da radar a spie, un utilizzo spietato che vuol coinvolgere anche l’Italia, ponendo una base di controllo del programma Nato a Sigonella.
→ read full article
MAN
Steve Cutts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
Animation looking at man’s [and women’s] relationship with the natural world.
→ read full article(Italiano) Si chiamava Danilo Dolci
Noise from Africa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
Qualcuno gli ha dato del comunista miscredente e del sedizioso; altri hanno paragonato la sua vita a quella dei santi capaci di salire sul rogo per coerenza. Ha subito, nel corso della sua vita, ben ventisei processi. Ha ottenuto numerosi riconoscimenti internazionali ed è stato candidato al Premio Nobel per la Pace.
→ read full articleAn Octagonal World
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
USA sheds half of its bases and the military budget in this administration and the next; using the savings to lift the bottom up so they can participate in the economy and make the wheels turn. China gives up its maritime imperialism–harking back to “When the World was Asia, 500-1500 AD–and forgives 50% of the US debt in return for the 50% disarmament–keeping a policy of no military intervention. SCO cooperates, peacefully.
→ read full articleThe Koodankulam Project Lies under a Heap of Lies!
People’s Movemenmt Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
Like the helpless Desdemona, we, the people of Koodankulam, have been begging the Indian State to let us live, live in peace with our families, Nature and Future. But the haughty, conceited and obtuse men of power in political Delhi, nuclear Mumbai and profiteering Russia are persisting with their Othello-like lies and murders and self-destruction. The Koodankulam handkerchief in this modern Othello is surrounded by, sustained with, and steeped in lies. Lies, lies, and more lies!
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 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(Castellano) Guerra
Enrico Euli – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
El gasto militar mundial en el 2010 ascendió a 1,63 mil billones de dólares, 236 dólares (186 euros) por persona, aproximadamente el 2,6% del PIB mundial. Del 2001 al 2010, el gasto militar mundial ha crecido en un 50%, con un aumento en Estados Unidos del 81%, mientras en el resto del mundo el aumento ha sido del 32%.
→ read full article(Português) Novo Estudo Aponta Erros em ‘Base Científica’ das Políticas de Austeridade
Tomas Rotta, Marx21 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
Argumento de que há uma relação perniciosa entre alta dívida pública e crescimento do PIB, encampado por políticos conservadores, começa a ser derrubado na academia. Economistas da Universidade de Massachusetts acabam de publicar estudo que invalida os achados estatísticos de Kenneth Rogoff e Carmen Reinhart, os ‘papas’ daquela teoria.
→ read full articleGuatemala: Rallying Around a Dictator
Allan Nairn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
18 Apr 2013 – Investigative journalist Allan Nairn was in Guatemala to report on the trial of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt for the massacre of more than 1,700 Mayans during a U.S.-backed scorched-earth campaign against leftist rebels during his reign: For A while it looked like Guatemala was about to deliver justice. But the genocide case has just been suspended, hours before a criminal court was poised to deliver a verdict.
→ read full articleIf You Want to Go to Heaven, You Had Better Get Busy Overthrowing Syria
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
The US military destroyed Iraq, leaving the country and millions of lives in ruins and releasing sectarian blood-letting. And now in Syria Washington is at work destroying another stable secular government headed by a British trained eye doctor. Washington’s eleven years of illegal aggression against Muslim countries–war crimes according to the Nuremberg trials of Nazis–have resulted in civilian deaths and the American police state has destroyed the rule of law and the constitutional protections of US citizens.
→ read full articlePeres to Meet Pope Francis at Vatican, Receive Medal for Peace
Arutz Sheva staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
Israeli President Shimon Peres is set to meet Pope Francis on a three-day visit to Italy that will begin on Monday [29 Apr 2013]. At the ceremony he will receive the Medal of Honor for Peace and will be greeted by “hundreds of Franciscan monks” at the central Basilica, according to an official statement.
→ read full articleOfficial Number of Guantanamo Bay Hunger Strikers Jumps To 100
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
The official number of hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay reached 100 on Saturday [27 Apr 2013]. Twenty of them are receiving enteral feeds, five of whom are being observed in a detainee hospital. Lawyers for the detainees say that some 130 prisoners are actually taking part in the protest. The hunger strike began around February 6, 2013.
→ read full articleMonsanto’s Roundup Linked to Parkinson’s, Infertility and Cancers
Carey Gillam, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
25 Apr 2013 – Heavy use of the world’s most popular herbicide, Roundup, could be linked to a range of health problems and diseases, including Parkinson’s, infertility and cancers, according to a new study.
→ read full articlePray for War
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
Our heroes need good wars to fight,
for that is their God-given right.
Koodankulam Is More Dangerous Than Previously Thought
Warna Hettiarachchi, Lankaweb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
India is known for cheap fixing and run operations all over with their highly corrupted social and legal system. Please ask those Indian miscreants the following:
→ read full articleCISPA – Corporations Buy Politicians and Your Privacy
TheYoungTurks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
23 Apr 2013 – CISPA passed overwhelmingly in the house, despite its promise to allow corporations and the government access to your private data, completely unchecked. It’s no wonder after seeing how much money was poured into lobbying for the invasive bill, and who stands to profit.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Wins Case against Visa – Contractor Ordered to Pay ‘$204k per Month if Blockade Not Lifted’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
25 Apr 2013 – Iceland’s Supreme Court has ruled that Valitor (formerly Visa Iceland) must pay WikiLeaks $204,900 per month or $2,494,604 per year in fines if it continues to blockade the whistle-blowing site. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assage thanked the Icelandic people “for showing that they will not be bullied by powerful Washington backed financial services companies like Visa.”
→ read full articleYemeni Tells Senators about ‘Fear and Terror’ Caused by U.S. Drones
Spencer Ackerman, Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
For the first time, the Senate heard from someone who lives in a village where U.S. drone strikes are believed to have killed civilians. A “psychological fear and terror” has now taken ahold of his old neighbors, al-Muslimi said. “The drone strikes are the face of America to many.”
→ read full articleInternational Standards, Guides, & Codes
International Atomic Energy Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
International Codes – Standards cover nuclear safety, radiation protection, radioactive waste management, the transport of radioactive materials, the safety of nuclear fuel cycle facilities and quality assurance.
→ read full articleEliciting a Universe of Meaning Within a Global Information Society of Fragmenting Knowledge and Relationships
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
What is valued as meaningful in states, such as those configured within the the United States or the United Nations? How is meaning experienced in the case of other “states” as presented in a state of health? A civil or social status? The state of the environment? With respect to what universe is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to be considered meaningful?
→ read full articleLetter to China on Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
We would also seek some pertinent information for the peaceful and nonviolent struggle that we have been waging against the Koodankulam nuclear power project in the southern tip of India. We understand that Russians have built two nuclear power plants with VVER-1000 reactors at Tianwan in China. Would you answer the following questions for us please:
→ read full articleCountry Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012
U.S. Department of State – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
The pages that follow document the often difficult march forward of human freedom around the world. Significant progress is being made in some places, but in far too many others governments fall short of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ vision of a world where people live “free and equal in dignity and rights.”
→ read full article