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Gitmo Inmates Claim Being Denied Drinking Water as White House Breaks Silence
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
A group of human rights lawyers filed an emergency motion with a federal court in Washington, describing the alleged mistreatment: “The reality is that these men are slowly withering away and we as a country need to take immediate action,” Denver-based human rights lawyer Mari Newman said, according to AP.
→ read full article(Italiano) Papa Francesco I, Gesuita
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Il primo papa gesuita. La Società di Gesù, fondata da Ignazio di Loyola, fu un movimento di rinnovamento dall’interno nel 1534 dopo l’enorme riforma dall’esterno, il protestantesimo, in particolare Lutero nel 1517. Ci sono voluti più di quattro secoli per arrivare in cima; forse è cambiata la Chiesa, forse papa Francesco è un gesuita morbido. I gesuiti sono noti per essere preti che esercitano il loro ministero, e per avere una seconda professione, spesso come intellettuali, e di alto livello. Papa Francesco ha la stessa doppia reputazione. Promettente.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 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 articleIceland Offers Hard Lessons for Cyprus on Capital Controls
Alistair Scrutton and Robert Robertsson, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
For Iceland, there was a sense of deja vu when Cyprus’s finance minister said capital controls would probably last “a matter of weeks”. Five years after a banking meltdown, the north Atlantic island has just extended its own controls indefinitely… Cyprus, by contrast, cannot devalue because it is a member of the euro zone.
→ read full articleChina and Brazil Sign Agreement to Trade in Their Local Currencies
MercoPress South Atlantic News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
China and Brazil signed an agreement to do billions of dollars of trade in their local currencies, as the five-nation BRICS forum of emerging market powers work to lessen dependence on the US dollar and Euro.
→ read full article(Galego) Malditas Guerras
Manuel Dios Diz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Moitas persoas lembran, non esquecen, a minuciosa preparación propagandística, a sistemática mentira, a reiterada e amplificada mentira, con aquela posta en escena, máis propia da Cortiña de Fume, de Barry Levinson, operación liberdade iraquí, Collin Powell na ONU, coas súas imaxes trucadas, a foto das Azores con Bush, Blair, Aznar e o anfitrión Barroso, a impotencia dos inspectores Blix e El Albaradei, incapaces de frear aquel delirio reiterando a inexistencia de armas de destrución masiva en poder de Saddam Hussein.
→ read full articleIndia, China, Brazil to Surpass Combined GDP of U.S., Western Europe by 2020: UN
Vancouverdesi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
“By 2020, the combined economic output of three leading developing countries alone — Brazil, China and India — will surpass the aggregate production of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the U.K. and the United States,” said the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) 2013 Human Development Report.
→ read full article(Italiano) Hugo Chavez: Un Produttore di Storia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Un genio ci fa pensare, e agire, diversamente, in tal modo facendo la storia. Chávez è stato uno uno di questi. Grazie Hugo – possa tu non riposare in pace.
→ read full articleA Lexicon of “War (Redux):” Does Excessive Word Use Result in a Loss of Meaning?
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
I must admit, as I gathered the terms, I found myself “shocked” by the widespread use of the word “war.” Was it possible that within the context of our global era, replete with its increased inter-dependencies, we had come to find the tensions of competition for resources and survival itself, pushing us toward “wars” at all levels of interactions? In my opinion, a “versus” mentality had arisen that was pitting different people, organizations, nations, and products against one another in a win-lose arena.
→ read full articleIceland’s Grassroots Constitution on Thin Ice
Deutsche Welle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Time is running out, acknowledges parliamentarian Birgitta Jonsdottir with a sigh. She’s hoping that the Icelandic parliament, the “Althing,” will approve the new constitution. The new document has a number of unique features, including the fact that it was drawn up in a process in which every citizen had a chance to participate. The draft represents the first time that a country has tried to write a new constitution in a grassroots fashion. The financial crisis that began five years ago set the unusual project in motion.
→ read full articleIt Is a Matter of Faces
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
It is useless to pour water
To a downward pot
Though it is necessarily critical
In a drought of thirst . . .
Chinua Achebe: A Reflection of When Things Fall Apart
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
The death in a Boston hospital of Chinua Achebe, on 21 March 2013, the Nigerian novelist about whom it was said that his writings were “concerned with universal human communication across racial and cultural boundaries as a means of fostering respect for all people” came just at the start of the UN-sponsored 2013-2022 International Decade for the Rapprochement of Cultures.
→ read full articleIndia-China and the Spirit of Cooperation
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
In one of his candid statements, the Chinese President, Xi Jinping on 19 March 2013 admitted that the border dispute between his country and its neighbour, India, is one of the most difficult problems the two countries confront. “However, as long as we keep up our friendly consultation, we can eventually arrive at a fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable settlement”.
→ read full article(Português) Refrigerantes Estão Relacionados com 180 Mil Mortes por Ano em todo o Mundo
Sapo Saúde – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Cientistas de Harvard concluíram que, em 2010, 180 mil pessoas morreram em todo o mundo devido a doenças provocadas pelo consumo de refrigerantes e bebidas açucaradas: 133 mil por diabetes, 43.000 por doenças cardíacas e 6.000 por cancro. O estudo foi apresentado na reunião da American Heart Association’s Epidemiology and Prevention/Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism, na terça-feira [19 mar 2013], em Nova Orleães.
→ read full articleSugary Drinks Linked to 180,000 Annual Deaths around the World
Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
According to a new study presented on Tuesday [19 Mar 2013] at a meeting of the American Heart Association, one out of every 100 obesity-related deaths around the world can be tied to sugary drinks, which directly exacerbate health conditions like diabetes, heart diseases, and cancer. Specifically, the over-consumption of those beverages increased global deaths from diabetes by 133,000, from cardiovascular disease by 44,000 and from cancer by 6,000.
→ read full articleClub Gitmo
Charles P. Pierce, Esquire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
A lot of what we’ve done in our “war” on terror — including extrajudicial assassination, drumhead tribunals, and now this classically brutal response to a hunger strike, which is an act of dedicated non-violent resistance — we learned from the lessons taught by the British in Ireland and especially by Mrs. Thatcher who allowed an elected member of Parliament to starve to death.
→ read full articleCameroon: Rights Abuses in ‘Homosexuality’ Prosecutions
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
No one should be sentenced to prison time because they blurt out a confession to stop torture, or because a judge doesn’t like what they drink, how they dress, or what kind of text messages they send.
→ read full articleCardinal Sins
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
How a modern Inquisition, with the help of Pope Francis, stifled the movement protecting the poor. “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist.” So said the Brazilian archbishop Dom Hélder Câmara. His adage exposes one of the great fissures in the Catholic Church, and the emptiness of the new Pope’s claim to be on the side of the poor.
→ read full articleChina Replaces Britain in World’s Top Five Arms Exporters – Report
Michael Martina, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
China has become the world’s fifth-largest arms exporter, a respected Sweden-based think-tank said on Monday [18 Mar 2013], its highest ranking since the Cold War, with Pakistan the main recipient.
→ read full articleSenate Passes Monsanto Protection Act Granting Monsanto Power over US Govt
Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
This ushers in an entirely new era of activism. Monsanto has decided to push the envelope in a way that is unprecedented, fighting the US federal courts. Sometimes in order to truly have an intellectual revolution on a subject, the people need to see exactly what they are facing. With the truly blatant and downright arrogant Monsanto Protection Act, it’s now clearer than ever.
→ read full article‘I Can Forgive Lesbians but Not Gay Men’, Says Belarus’ Lukashenko
euronews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
“I forgive women for their lesbianism,” he said. “But I will never in my lifetime forgive men for being gay… A woman becomes a lesbian only if we men are so wretched.”
→ read full articleBuddhist Nationalism in Burma
Maung Zarni, Tricycle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
The rise of genocidal Buddhist racism against the Rohingya, a minority community of nearly one million people in the western Burmese province of Rakhine (also known as Arakan), is an international humanitarian crisis. The military-ruled state has been relentless in its attempts to erase Rohingya ethnic identity, which was officially recognized as a distinct ethnic group in 1954 by the democratic government of Prime Minister U Nu.
→ read full article(Français) Cameroun: Violations de Droits Humains Commises dans le Cadre des Poursuites Judiciaires pour «Homosexualité»
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Personne ne devrait être condamné à une peine de prison pour avoir laissé échapper des aveux afin de faire arrêter la torture, ou parce qu’un juge n’aime pas ce qu’ils boivent, la façon dont ils s’habillent ou le type de textos qu’ils envoient. La façon dont la loi est appliquée au Cameroun semble suggérer que si vous êtes soupçonné d’être gay ou lesbienne, les droits humains, par exemple le droit à un procès équitable et le droit à ne pas être torturé, n’ont plus cours.
→ read full articleWar Games
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Children get killed in wars,
which is not good for them.
They should be tickled
and made to laugh,
Being Neither a-Waving Nor a-Parting: Considering Both Science And Spirituality
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Produced on the occasion of publication by Science of an inspiring map of the Universe shortly after the Big Bang. Rather than engage in arid exploration of levels of complexity — ironically only comprehensible to the “enlightened” — the question here is whether there is a far more immediate understanding of how the distinction between wave and particle is to be experienced personally. Does such experience offer more radical and richer understandings of the sense of individual identity than is offered by convention?
→ read full articleHSBC Faces New Money Laundering Claims in Argentina
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Banking giant HSBC, which was hit with a US fine for money laundering last year, is facing fresh accusations of illegal activity in Argentina, which has alleged that the bank used “fake receipts” to facilitate money laundering and tax evasion, and launder 392m pesos ($77m; £50m).
→ read full articleMuslim and Western Nations Agree on UN Landmark Code to Combat Violence Against Women and Girls
MercoPress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Muslim and Western nations late Friday [15 Mar 2013] overcame deep divisions to agree a landmark United Nations declaration setting out a code of conduct for combating violence against women and girls. Iran, Libya, Sudan and other Muslim nations ended threats to block the declaration and agreed to language stating that violence against women could not be justified by “any custom, tradition or religious consideration.”
→ read full articleAnonymous Leaks Names, Addresses of 35,000 Israeli Officials
Al-Akhbar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
The Internet hacktivist collective Anonymous released the names, addresses and phone numbers of over 35,000 Israeli officials, including politicians, army officers and agents for spy agency Mossad. The Red Hack, a Turkish Internet group that operates as an affiliate of Anonymous, posted spreadsheets with the personal information online late Friday [22 Mar 2013]. Separately, another online hacker group, Sektor 404, attacked the Mossad’s website, temporary shutting it down.
→ read full articleIraq: Ten Years of Stupidity
Johan Galtung, 25 Mar 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
To assume only one scenario, war, reveals intellectual poverty. Iraq had problems but not the casualties, exile and displacements of the war-which may last 10 more years having upset so many unstable equilibia. They cater to the US-UK war addiction, sending others to hell. Such people should be known for their tested inability to analyze and forecast and remedy. Academia should be for intellectuals, not for clercs, intelligentsia.
→ read full articleUnrest in Bulgaria: New Casualty in Wave of Self-Immolations`
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
A 40-year-old Bulgarian set himself on fire to protest poverty and corruption in his country on Friday [22 Mar 2013], becoming the sixth self-immolation in the EU country in less than a month.
→ read full articleWhat Was Wrong with Obama’s Speech in Jerusalem
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
In retrospect, worse than speech was the visit itself. Obama should never have undertaken such the visit without an accompanying willingness to treat the Palestinian reality with at least equal dignity to that of the Israeli reality and without some indication of how to imagine a just peace based on two states for two peoples given the severe continuing Israeli encroachments on occupied Palestinian territory that give every indication of permanence.
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Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 (Music Video of the Week)
Jan Lisiecki – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Reluctant prodigy, 17-year old pianist Jan Lisiecki interpreting the Andante from Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 21 in C major.
→ read full articleThe Times Eviscerates the Occupation
MJ Rosenberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
On Sunday [17 Mar 2013], the New York Times ran an extraordinary magazine piece (it was the cover story) on West Bank Palestinians who are resisting the Israeli occupation through non-violence. For those who follow the issue closely, the extraordinary aspect of the piece was not so much anything author Ben Ehreneich revealed as it was that the article appeared in the New York Times at all.
→ read full articleIraq after Ten Years
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
March 19, 2013. Ten years ago today the Bush regime invaded Iraq. It is known that the justification for the invasion was a packet of lies orchestrated by the neoconservative Bush regime in order to deceive the United Nations and the American people.
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Forbes Billionaires List Growing
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Corporate profits at record levels – as austerity hits and unemployment remains high. US still leads as many new billionaires emerging in China and Russia.
→ read full article(Castellano) Pedagogía de la Catástrofe – Decisión
Stefano Caserini & Enrico Euli - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Tomar decisiones es una elección compleja y difícil, sobre todo en una sociedad de masas. Hasta el momento en que se encuentran para tomar decisiones en núcleos reducidos, las personas pueden, al menos en teoría, estar presentes para contar: para escuchar y ser escuchadas, practicar una buena consulta, participar en las decisiones, actuar de manera colectiva y conscientemente.
→ read full articlePowers Seek Influence in Burma’s Conflict
Bertil Lintner, YaleGlobal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Burmese government battles insurgents as China and the US scramble for influence. In Burma, there’s rivalry among peace organizations, often with lack of understanding of the conflicts’ root causes.
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The Corporation
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
The documentary examines the modern-day corporation, considering its legal status as a class of person and evaluating its behavior towards society and the world at large as a psychiatrist might evaluate an ordinary person. This is explored through specific examples.
→ read full article(Português) Os Ultramultimilionários
Alfredo Zaiat, Página/12 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
A relação de ultramultimilionários do mundo voltou a alcançar máximas históricas, informa a ‘Forbes’: agora essa lista é formada por 1426 nomes com um valor patrimonial líquido de aproximadamente 5,4 trilhões de dólares. É algo inquietante. A pior crise econômica global desde a Depressão de 1930 segue sem horizonte de terminar, enquanto aumenta a concentração de riqueza.
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Sea Shepherd Shut Down Japanese Whaling 2013
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Aggressive Nonviolence on High Seas – The Bob Barker and the Steve Irwin Sea Shepherd ships block the slipway of the whale processor Nisshin Maru, preventing a whale from being loaded, the only one believed to have been killed this season. The harpoon ships have now stopped whaling, as the whales cannot be processed.
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(Castellano) Es Tiempo de Vivir Sin Miedo
Eduardo Galeano – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
(Legendado em Portugues)
ES: Escritor uruguayo habla de la persistencia humana para luchar por un mundo que es el hogar de todos y no de unos pocos.
POR: Escritor uruguaio fala da persistência humana de lutar por um mundo que seja a casa de todos e não de uns poucos.
Henry David Thoreau, We Need Your Voice Today!
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Thoreau refused to pay his poll tax because of his opposition to the Mexican War and to the institution of slavery. Because of his refusal to pay the tax (which was in fact a very small amount) he spent a night in prison. To Thoreau’s irritation, his family paid the poll tax for him and he was released. He then wrote down his ideas on the subject in an essay entitled The Duty of Civil Disobedience, where he maintains that each person has a duty to follow his own individual conscience even when it conflicts with the orders of his government.
→ read full articleVictorious Return for Sea Shepherd Fleet
Sea Shepherd Whale Defence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
March 21, 2013 – Sea Shepherd Australia is proud to welcome home the 110 strong international crew and three ships, the Steve Irwin, Sam Simon and Bob Barker. Their return marks an end to the most successful campaign to date, with the Japanese whalers returning home with the lowest kill ever. However, it is all with a heavy heart as the man that started it all, Captain Paul Watson, cannot be stepping a shore because the Australian Government will not announce his safe passage into Australia.
→ read full articleKudankulam Atomic Power Project
Nuclear Power Corporation of India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Please click on the link to check the progress report, construction detail, in the original.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s Religious Violence against the Muslims Is Military-Backed and Buddhist Order-Organzied
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
The violence against Muslims in Burma is not SIMPLY sectarian or communal as is typically and incorrectly framed by the mainstream media. It is mobilized by the skin-head elements within the Buddhist Sangha and tacitly backed by the military state, both working in close collaboration and in a symbiosis.
→ read full articleNATO Proxies Using WMD’s in Syria – Dozens Dead
Tony Cartalluci, Land Destroyer Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
It is outrageous hypocrisy to see the West arming, funding, and politically backing terrorists in Syria who in fact both possess, and are now using such weapons against the Syrian people.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 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 articleNos Morituri Te Salutamus – Salute of Iraqi Citizens to the Coalition of the Willing
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
10 March 2003 – We, the Citizens of Iraq, are gathered here for your entertainment in the first 21st century media circus, to celebrate once again the tradition inaugurated by your forefathers during the time of the Roman Empire — an empire that your current Leader aspires to emulate. We who are about to die salute you was the phrase traditionally used by those about to die in the gladiatorial circus arenas of that time. Nos Morituri Te Salutamus!
→ read full articlePope Francis I, a Jesuit
Johan Galtung, 18 Mar 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
The first Jesuit pope. The Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius de Loyola, was a renewal movement from the inside in 1534 after the huge outside reforma, the protestantisms, Luther-1517 in particular. More than four centuries was needed to reach the top; maybe the Church changed, maybe Pope Francis is a soft Jesuit. Jesuits are known for being priests exercising their ministry, and for having a second profession, often as intellectuals, and high level ones. Pope Francis has the same double reputation. Promising.
→ read full article(Português) Carne de Cavalo e Especismo
Marcela Godoy, Consciência Animal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
The Horsemeat scandal, ou o escândalo da carne de cavalo, começou no mês passado quando carne de cavalo foi descoberta em hambúrgueres congelados à venda no Reino Unido e na República da Irlanda. Desde então, vestígios foram descobertos em produtos de carne processados e refeições prontas em toda a União Européia. Os olhos e ouvidos abolicionistas já detectam, de primeira, especismo explícito.
→ read full articleMahatma Gandhi, We Need Your Voice Today!
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
If humans are ever to achieve a stable global society in the future, they will have to become much more modest in their economic behavior and much more peaceful in their politics. For both modesty and peace, Gandhi is a useful source of ideas. The problems with which he struggled during his lifetime are extremely relevant to us in the 21st Century, when both nuclear and ecological catastrophes threaten the world.
→ read full article(Italiano) Partitocrazia-Tecnocrazia-Autocrazia-Bancocrazia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
Il terzo livello di quelli sopra delineati, i mercanti, ovviamente esigono la loro parte, usando il proprio capitale bancario per comprare potere politico, addirittura fino all’estremo del salvataggio pubblico qualora le perdite superassero i guadagni. La bancocrazia opera mediante un parente stretto, la corruttocrazia, il governo dei corruttori sui corrotti pagati per i loro servigi. La corruzione è rampante. Perché? Perché la corruzione nel sistema politico, la conversione di denaro in decisioni, ha un parente stretto nel sistema economico, la commissione.
→ read full articleWall Street Banks, Money Laundering and the Drug Trade
Tom Burghardt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
US Department of Justice Urges Federal Court to Approve Sweetheart Deal with Drug-Tainted HSBC – “You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.” — Al Capone
[HSBC used to stand for Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation but today it stands only for another Mafia-organized crime]
Bank Money Laundering – Senator Elizabeth Warren vs HSBC
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
”If you’re caught with an ounce of cocaine, the chances are good you’re going to go to jail. If you launder nearly a billion dollars for drug cartels and violate our international sanctions, your company pays a fine and you go home and sleep in your own bed at night.” — Senator Elizabeth Warren
→ read full articleOver 100 Guantanamo Inmates ‘On Hunger Strike,’ Possibly in Grave Condition
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay inmates have claimed “all but a few men” are on a hunger strike over their Qurans being taken away. The condition of the strikers “appears to be rapidly deteriorating and reaching a potentially critical level,” they said. Most of 130 people housed in Camp 6 of Guantanamo Bay may be involved in the strike.
→ read full articleThe New Propaganda Is Liberal – The New Slavery Is Digital
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
In the 1970s, I met Leni Riefenstahl and asked her about her epic films that glorified the Nazis. She told me that the “messages” of her films were dependent not on “orders from above,” but on the “submissive void” of the German public. Did that include the liberal, educated bourgeoisie? “Everyone,” she said. Today’s “message” of grotesque inequality, social injustice and war is the propaganda of liberal democracies. It is the ultimate means of social control because it is voluntary, addictive and shrouded in illusions of personal freedom.
→ read full articleSpirituality and Virtue as Corollaries to Peace
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
We are meant by nature, the universe, life itself (let’s leave the gods out of this) to be superior beings, elevated in virtue, goodness, righteousness, integrity, ethics, honesty, morality, uprightness, evolved consciousness, and not merely to get richer, smarter, sexier, more cunning, and more knowledgeable to dominate everything and everybody we contemplate-if possible by force. This is the real danger, the aspect that could prompt these smarter, more aggressive (meaning less civilized) people in power to explode the planet through a nuclear war, thus creating a second asteroid belt.
→ read full articleThe Brutally Honest Coca-Cola Obesity Commercial
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
Truth in advertising may be off the table, but at least truth in fake advertising is alive and well.
→ read full articleFrozen Assets
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
Why are we exploiting unconventional gas when we can’t afford to burn existing supplies?
→ read full articleHugo Chavez
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
On March 5, 2013, Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela and world leader against imperialism, died. Washington imperialists and their media and think tank whores expressed gleeful sighs of relief as did the brainwashed US population. An “enemy of America” was gone. Chavez was not an enemy of America. He was an enemy of Washington’s hegemony over other countries, an enemy of Washington’s alliance with elite ruling cliques who steal from the people they grind down and deny sustenance.
→ read full articlePsychosocial Implication in Gamma Animation: Epimemetics for a Brave New World
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
The much cited novel by Aldous Huxley (Brave New World, 1931) is recognized as having anticipated many more recent problematic developments in society and its technologies. As social satire, the novel envisages a world in which the population of Gammas, and the lower castes, is deliberately accelerated by genetic engineering — consistent with continuing approaches to unconstrained population increase.
→ read full articleKorea: Crisis and Opportunity
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
Tensions on the Korean Peninsula have recently increased, highlighted by the nuclear weapon test of North Korea and the subsequent reactions. An UN-sponsored Korean Peace Settlement Conference can build upon past partial measures and especially meet the new challenges of security and cooperation in Asia.
→ read full articleInternational Day of Happiness, 20 March 2013
United Nations Academic Impact – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
The General Assembly has proclaimed 20 March as the International Day of Happiness. The resolution recognizes the “relevance of happiness and well-being as universal goals … and the importance of their recognition in public policy objectives; and the need for ”a more inclusive, equitable and balanced approach to economic growth that promotes sustainable development, poverty eradication, happiness and the well-being of all peoples.”
→ read full article(Castellano) Pedagogía de la Catástrofe – Catastrofismo
Stefano Caserini & Enrico Euli - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
La palabra catástrofe es ahora presente con frecuencia en los titulares de los periódicos y las editoriales. Casi siempre, la cuestión es cómo evitar la catástrofe, pero la impresión que se tiene es de unos anti-catastrofistas al borde de una crisis de catastrofismo, hablamos de gente que por educación ideológica y cultural se inclina a rechazar la posibilidad de una evolución catastrófica de la situación actual (el clima, el estado de la economía y las relaciones sociales) y la consiguiente necesidad de cambiar de dirección.
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Libertango (Music Video of the Week)
Yo-Yo Ma – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
Music video by Yo-Yo Ma performing Piazzola: Libertango (from “Soul of the Tango”).
→ read full articleSex Abuse Victims List ‘Dirty Dozen’ Papal Candidates
Mira Oberman, Agence France-Presse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
“We want to urge Catholic prelates to stop pretending that the worst is over regarding the clergy sex abuse and cover up crisis,” said David Clohessy, director of the US-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP. “Tragically, the worst is almost certainly ahead,” he said, adding that the truth of “widespread, longstanding and deeply-rooted” abuse and coverups has “yet to surface in most nations.”
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 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 articleRobert Fisk on Latest Developments in Syria
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
March 5, 2013 -Veteran journalist Robert Fisk speaks from Beirut about latest developments in Syria.
→ read full articleThe Iraq War: 10 Years Later
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
After a decade of combat, casualties, massive displacement, persisting violence, enhanced sectarian tension and violence between Shi’ias and Sunnis, periodic suicide bombings, and autocratic governance, a negative assessment of the Iraq War as a strategic move by the United States, United Kingdom, and a few of their secondary allies, including Japan, seems near universal.
→ read full articleInfographic: Global South Is Rising Fast
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
Flagship human development report by United Nations Development Programme shows rapid growth in Asia’s middle class.
→ read full articleNihilist Eyes
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
After the heavy rain of bloodiest war
Broken directions are in front where to go
Nihilist eyes of visionary screen of boo …
President Chavez: A 21st Century Renaissance Man
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
President Hugo Chavez was unique in multiple areas of political, social and economic life. He made significant contributions to the advancement of humanity. The depth, scope and popularity of his accomplishments mark President Chavez as the ‘Renaissance President of the 21st Century’.
→ read full articleA Huge Hunger Strike at Guantánamo
Andy Worthington – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
When is a hunger strike not a hunger strike? Apparently, when the government says it doesn’t exist. Despair is entirely appropriate at Guantánamo for the 166 men still held, because, although 86 of them were cleared for release at least three years ago and some were cleared for release under President Bush, between 2004 and 2007, they are still held because of Congressional obstruction.
→ read full articleAmplified Greenhouse Effect Shifts North’s Growing Seasons
NASA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Vegetation growth at Earth’s northern latitudes increasingly resembles lusher latitudes to the south, according to a NASA-funded study based on a 30-year record of ground-based and satellite data sets.
→ read full articleRachel Corrie: Zionists in Gaza
theevilofthezionists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Rachel Corrie was run over and murdered by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza on March 16, 2003 as she defended the house of a medical doctor, his wife and 3 children from being demolished. Today, the whole neighborhood has been flattened, all houses destroyed. Israeli brutality surpasses that of Hitler.
→ read full articleThe Green Light for Zionism’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
On this 65th anniversary of the authorization of the ethnic cleaning of Palestine [10 Mar 2013], the questions I would like to see put to our leaders today, President Obama in particular, are the following: Are you aware of Plan Dalet? If not, why not? If you are aware of it, could it not said be said that your refusal to call and hold Zionism to account for its crimes makes you (and your predecessors) complicit in those crimes by default?
→ read full articleIch bin ein Bil’iner! – “5 Broken Cameras’” Strange Trip to the Oscars
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
8 Mar 2013 – This does not happen every day: a Minister of Culture publicly rejoices because a film from her country has not been awarded an Oscar. It happened this week. Limor Livnat, still Minister of Culture in the outgoing government, told Israeli TV she was happy that Israel’s two entries for Oscars in the category of documentary films, which made it to the final four, did lose in the end.
→ read full articleCyborgs, Legaborgs, Finaborgs, Mediborgs
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
This is an exploration of how the human being has already been effectively transformed into a cyborg through immediate dependence on technology in daily life — with the technology becoming an extension of that identity. As argued here, similar transformations of identity are associated with human dependence on legislation, finance and medicine — through which identity is effectively defined.
→ read full articleIsrael Launches Segregated Bus Service
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Haaretz reported that the ministry opened the lines on Monday [4 Mar 2013], to be used by Palestinian labourers travelling between the West Bank and Israel, after Jewish settlers complained that Palestinians on mixed buses were a security risk.
→ read full articleNeuroscience, Special Forces, and Ethics at Yale
Roy J. Eidelson, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Last month [Feb 2013], a proposal to establish a U.S. Special Operations Command Center for Excellence in Operational Neuroscience at Yale University died a not-so-quiet death. The broad goal of “operational neuroscience” is to use research on the human brain and nervous system to protect and give tactical advantage to U.S. warfighters in the field. Crucial questions remain unanswered about the proposed center’s mission and the unusual circumstances surrounding its demise. But just as importantly, this episode brings much needed attention to the morally fraught and murky terrain where partnerships between university researchers and national security agencies lie.
→ read full articleArab League Offers Syria Seat to Opposition
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Nabil Elaraby, the regional body’s secretary-general, said on Wednesday [6 Mar 2013] that ministers meeting in Cairo had invited the Syrian National Council-SNC to choose a representative to attend the league summit in the Qatari capital, Doha, on March 26 and 27. The Arab League suspended Syria’s membership in 2011 after Assad’s government failed to abide by an Arab peace plan that aimed to end the conflict.
→ read full article(Castellano) Eduardo Galeano: ‘Chávez, ese extraño dictador’.
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Análisis y comentarios del pensador, periodista y escritor Eduardo Galeano. Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 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 articleHugo Chavez: A Maker of History
Johan Galtung, 11 Mar 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
A genius makes us think, and act, differently, thereby making history. Chávez was one. Thank you Hugo–may you not rest in peace.
→ read full articleGoodbye Blue Sky
Rand Clifford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering,“SAG” for short. Sunlight-scattering particles are being sprayed into the stratosphere right now, have been for years. It involves spraying into the upper atmosphere a “…very fine, white-talcum-like aerosol of aluminum oxide, barium oxide and other oxides…” to reduce global warming. Also of interest is this video from GeoEngineering Watch titled: “Military to Own The Weather In 2025 – Chemtrails HAARP Space Weapons”
→ read full articleThe Greek Catastrophe: Three Generations of Greek Workers
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
As Greece enters the sixth year of Europe’s worst economic depression, with 30% of its labor force unemployed and over 52% of its youth jobless, the entire social fabric is unraveling; a suicide rate are skyrocketing and close to 80% of the population is downwardly mobile.
→ read full articleBradley Manning Nobel Peace Prize Nomination 2013
Birgitta Jónsdóttir-Member of Parliament, Iceland – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Following is the reasoning we sent to the committee explaining why we felt compelled to nominate Private Bradley Manning for this important recognition of an individual effort to have an impact for peace in our world. The lengthy personal statement to the pre-trial hearing February 28th by Bradley Manning in his own words validate that his motives were for the greater good of humankind.
→ read full articleArt from Iran Exhibition: A Review from Edinburgh
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
In merely seven objects dating between 13th to 21st first century, this exhibition captures volumes of beliefs, mythologies, monarchy, traditions and the poor as well as the riches of a nation where artistic craftsmanship, expression and their advancement was an integral part of society.
→ read full article(Castellano) Chávez: 5 de Marzo
Fernando Montiel T. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Él que tanto luchó por la independencia de América, murió el 5 de Marzo de 2013, exactamente el mismo día en que 243 años antes -en 1770- iniciara la independencia de los Estados Unidos. ¿Una ironía de la historia? No, no es una ironía, es un comienzo.
→ read full articleJerusalem Man Forced to Demolish His Own Home
Ma’an News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
A Palestinian was forced to demolish his own home in East Jerusalem on Monday [4 Mar 2013]. Daoud Eseid demolished his home to avoid paying the fees charged by Israeli authorities if Israeli forces had carried out the demolition, he told Ma’an. “I am unemployed at the moment and have seven children. We suffer daily from Israeli brutality,” the Old City resident told Ma’an.
→ read full articleRTI Petition for AERB
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
We, the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy, would like to request the following information under the RTI Act 2005 please…. Looking forward to hearing from you soon, I send you my best personal regards and all peaceful wishes.
→ read full articleJust Staying Alive
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
It is clear that the 21st century will be a period of crisis for civilization. With the world’s human population growing at the rate of 200,000 people each day, or 80,000,000 people each year, our environment is under great stress.
→ read full articleDomesticated and Wild Bees Are Both in Trouble
Susie Cagle, Grist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
It’s tough times for bees. Over the past few years, colony collapse disorder has wiped out some entire beekeeping operations, and scientists don’t understand or agree on the cause. In Europe, respected scientists and agencies are declaring some popular pesticides too dangerous for bees. Stateside, it’s another story. On Tuesday [5 Mar 2013], the U.S. EPA hosted a bee summit to talk about the problem.
→ read full articleIs Palestinian Solidarity an Occupied Zone?
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Once involved with Palestinian Solidarity you have to accept that Jews are special and so is their suffering; Jews are like no other people, their Holocaust is like no other genocide and anti Semitism, is the vilest form of racism the world has ever known and so on and so forth. But when it comes to the Palestinians, the exact opposite is the case.
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Ave Maria (Music Video of the Week)
Linda Brava – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Violin – J S Bach / Gounod
→ read full articleAre Central and State Governments and Intelligence Agencies Conspiring?
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
March 10, 2013 – The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) would like to bring the following developments to the attention of the people of India, particularly the people of Tamil Nadu, and would request them to be watchful of any quirky turns:
→ read full articlePMANE Asks for KKNPP Financial Audit; Government Blames Us with Foreign Money
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
The central government is clearly not able to answer the people’s questions about the failed Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project and they find it hard to justify the utter waste of public money on the non-performing KKNPP.
→ read full articleFukushima Toxic Waste Swells as Japan Marks March 11 Disaster: 2 Years
Jason Clenfield, Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Every morning, 3,000 cleanup workers at Fukushima don hooded hazard suits, air-filtered face masks and multiple glove layers. Most of the gear is radioactive waste by day’s end. Multiply it by 730 days since the tsunami two years ago and the trash could fill six Olympic swimming pools. Contaminated clothing represents just a fraction of the waste in a cleanup that may take four decades.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Mondo Visto dal Monte Everest
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Nepal – Il Tibet viene considerato meno come parte repressa della Cina e più come patria del buddhismo tantrico – un forte aggancio al vicino gigantesco del Nord. La maggioranza del Nepal è orientata verso l’India, ma il Weekly Mirror ha una vista del mondo dall’alto, e il picco più alto, l’Everest, è più vicino alla Cina. Qualcuno una volta l’ha scalato, “perché è lì”, per dare uno sguardo più da vicino alla Cina.
→ read full article(Castellano) Pedagogía de la Catástrofe – Apocatástasis
Stefano Caserini & Enrico Euli - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Orígenes, el padre de la Iglesia (como en otros casos, sospechoso de herejía), en el 3er siglo d.C., tal vez cansado de esperar el apocalipsis y el retorno del Mesías, comenzó a hablar de apocatástasis, es decir, una catástrofe que restaura, al final del tiempo, para crear y regenerar nuevas formas.
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