Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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(Português) Bispo É Condenado por Pedofilia no Amazonas
Joana Queiroz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Justiça condena, pela primeira vez na história do Amazonas, um bispo da Igreja católica; Piegiorgio Albertini, o italiano conhecido como ‘Padre Jorge’, foi sentenciado a nove anos de reclusão por estupro de três crianças no interior do Estado.
→ read full articleCan Civilization Survive Capitalism?
Noam Chomsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Capitalism as it exists today is radically incompatible with democracy. There is “capitalism” and then there is “really existing capitalism.”
→ read full articleOpenly Gay Black Mayoral Candidate Was Beaten, Set On Fire His Family Say
Emily Le Coz, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
A gay, black mayoral candidate killed last week in Mississippi was beaten, dragged and set on fire before his body was dumped near a river, according to his family. In a statement issued late on Sunday [3 Mar 2013], the family of Marco McMillian said a coroner who performed an autopsy on his body told them about the gruesome manner of death.
→ read full articleThe Money Trap: How Banks Control the World through Debt
BBC Documentary – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Exposing the Truth of Our Devious Financial System
→ read full articleTorture, Inc. – America’s Brutal Prisons
Deborah Davies, Channel 4 Dispatches – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq?
→ read full articleWhy the Free Market Fundamentalists Think 2013 Will Be the Best Year Ever
Slavoj Žižek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
As communists once did, today’s capitalists blame any failures on their system being ‘impurely’ applied. This is how today’s apologists for the market, in an unheard-of ideological kidnapping, explain the crisis of 2008: it was not the failure of the free market that caused it, but the excessive state regulation; the fact that our market economy was not a true one, but was instead in the clutches of the welfare state.
→ read full articleTwo Types of Calcium Deficiency
Dr. Edward F. Group – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
As you may be aware, calcium is integral when it comes to building strong bones, teeth, a normal heart rhythm, powering muscle contractions, enabling the relaxation of your muscles, hormone function, and even blood pressure regulation. There are Two Types of Calcium Deficiency
→ read full article(Português) Por Que os Fundamentalistas de Livre Mercado Acreditam Que 2013 Será o Melhor Ano de Todos
Slavoj Žižek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
É assim que os atuais apologistas do mercado, em um sequestro ideológico sem precedentes, explicam a crise de 2008: não foi o fracasso do livre mercado que a provocou, mas sim a excessiva regulação estatal; o fato de que nossa economia de mercado não foi um verdadeiro Estado de bem-estar social, mas esteve, em vez disso, nas garras desse Estado.
→ read full articleIsrael-Palestine: THE Question
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
THE question arising is this: Why are most Jews unable and/or unwilling to acknowledge the wrong done to the Palestinians? My Gentile answer begins with a short, one-sentence statement that begs another question. Most Jews do not want to know about Zionism’s crimes. The question is – why don’t they want to know?
→ read full articleThe Idinthakarai Experience: Best Practices in Peaceful and Nonviolent Protests
Dr. S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Indefinite hunger strike of a huge group of people including women and youth
Relay hunger strike – every single day 10 am to 5 pm
Inviting a prominent political, religious or cultural leaders for day-long hunger strikes…
Albert Woodfox’s 40 Years of Solitary Confinement
Amy Goodman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Albert Woodfox has been in solitary confinement for 40 years locked up in the maximum-security Louisiana State Penitentiary known as “Angola.” This week federal Judge James Brady agreed that racial bias tainted his trial’s grand-jury selection. “Accordingly, Woodfox’s habeas relief is GRANTED,” ordered Brady. This is the third time his conviction has been overturned. Nevertheless, Woodfox remains imprisoned.
→ read full articleIsraeli Kids Dressed As Burning Twin Towers for Purim
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
On the annual Jewish celebration of the Biblical slaying “of their foes seventy and five thousand,” at least one Israeli family seems to think it’s funny to reenact the murder of 3,000 in New York on September 11, 2001.
→ read full articleSchool Subject Textbook Authors for Nonkilling: A Plea
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
School subject textbook authors,
Globally, you play a very relevant role in Education:
Provide contents to learners` multifaceted preparation
Millions of children, adolescents and adults benefit from the materials you produce
(Castellano) Víctimas de Pederastia Piden Que Cardenal Mexicano No Asista al Cónclave
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Una carta pública argumenta que el cardenal Norberto Rivera guarda relación con algunos casos de pederastia en México, pues habría encubierto, entre otros casos, los abusos sexuales a menores que el cura Nicolás Aguilar Rivera cometió en México y en Estados Unidos.
→ read full articleEnvisioning a World without Nuclear Weapons
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Book Review – Zero: The Case for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, by David Krieger, 2013, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. I have known David Krieger for the past twenty-five years, and he has never wavered, even for a day, from his lifelong journey dedicated to ridding the world of nuclear weapons and the threat of nuclear war.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 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 articleBradley Manning and the Appalling Silence of Gay, Inc.
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
I have never published materials concerning gay issues, but I decide to publish the following CounterPunch’s article because it touches some interesting spots within the context of marginal politics. In the next few days I will try to extend the discourse and discuss the links between LGBT, Palestinian Solidarity and the Jewish progressive voice.
→ read full articleImperium?
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Our nation’s efforts, cruel and chronic,
to reign supreme and hegemonic
impress our allies as moronic, …
Whaling Conflict Near Antarctica Intensifies: Japan Accused of Using Military Ship
The Inquisitr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
25 Feb 2013 – Whaling conservation organization, Sea Shepherd, has accused Japan of bringing a military style ship to the conflict in waters off Antarctica. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that a Japanese military ice breaker approached the Australian Antarctic Territory where Sea Shepherd ships, whaling ships, and a Korean tanker were engaged in an intensifying conflict. Watch spectacular Sea Shepherd Video
→ read full articleProspects of Peace in Syria
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
The Berlin meeting of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the newly appointed US Secretary of State John Kerry on 26 February 2013 appeared propitious for peace in Syria. The likely evolution of a common approach between Russia and the US will not only impact positively the course of the Syrian conflict, but will also have implications for many other international issues.
→ read full articleInvestigate the Death of Arafat Jaradat
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
What follows is a news report prompted by my press release on the shocking treatment of Arafat Jaradat who died while being held in an Israel prison. 27 February 2013 – A United Nations human rights expert today called for an international investigation into the death of Palestinian prisoner Arafat Jaradat, who died in Israeli custody just a few days after his arrest.
→ read full article“Aggressive Nonviolence” – Whale War 2013
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Feb 25, 2013 – The vessel Bob Barker commanded by Capt. Paul Watson gets sandwiched, drenched and assaulted by flash grenades from the Japanese whaling poachers but doesn’t surrender!! Read Accompanying Articles
→ read full articleThe Third Intifada?
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Is this the third intifada? The more people on both sides talk about the Third Intifada, the less it is likely to happen. As the Germans used to say, Revolutions foretold are not going to happen. But if there is no end to the occupation in sight, the Third Intifada will break out one day, quite suddenly, when nobody has been talking about it, when everybody on both sides was thinking about other things.
→ read full articleAgainst the Institution of War
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
For the first time in history, science has given to humans the possibility of a life of comfort, free from hunger and cold, and free from the constant threat of infectious disease. At the same time, science has given us the power to destroy civilization through thermonuclear war, as well as the power to make our planet uninhabitable through pollution and overpopulation. The question of which of these alternatives we choose is a matter of life or death to ourselves and our children.
→ read full articleHuman Rights Watch London Film Festival
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
19 Films Bear Witness, Challenge Viewers to Seek Justice – The 17th edition of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival will be presented in London from March 13 to 22, 2013.
→ read full articleGreenpeace: From Hippies to Lobbyists
Al Jazeera World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Its epic battles are legendary. Its influence is undeniable. And it is hard to imagine that, in 1971, it took just a handful of individuals who were strongly opposed to nuclear testing to give birth to this worldwide organisation. So where did it all begin?
→ read full articleInfantile Conservatism
Pat Buchanan, Creators Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
On Monday [25 Feb 2013], Rubin declared that America’s “greatest national security threat is Iran.” Do conservatives really believe this? How is America, with thousands of strategic and tactical nuclear weapons, scores of warships in the Med, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean, bombers and nuclear subs and land-based missiles able to strike and incinerate Iran within half an hour, threatened by Iran?
→ read full articleLords of Disorder: Billions for Wall Street, Sacrifice for Everyone Else
Richard Eskow, Campaign for America’s Future – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
We’re collecting nothing from the big banks in return for our generosity. Instead we’re demanding sacrifice from the elderly, the disabled, the poor, the young, the middle class – pretty much everybody, in fact, who isn’t “too big to fail.”
→ read full articleWholth as Sustaining Dynamic of Health and Wealth
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
The concern here, in a time of increasing chaos, is the possibility that whatever is implied by the elusive sense of “togetherness” and “getting one’s act together”, these call for “new thinking” — and the recognition of the value of deprecated “old thinking”. It is increasingly clear that authoritative coherence is not to be expected, and when it is offered it tends to be part of the problem.
→ read full articlePartyocracy-Technocracy-Autocracy-Bankocracy
Johan Galtung, 4 Mar 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
The merchants, of course demand their share, using their bank capital to buy political power, even to the bailout point should the losses exceed the gains. Bankocracy works through a close relative, corruptocracy, the rule of corruptors over corruptees paid for their services. Corruption is rampant. Why? Because corruption in the political system, converting money into decisions, has a close relative in the economic system, a commission.
→ read full article(Italiano) Nepal: Sei Anni di “Transizione”
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Tre grandi rivolte in Asia negli scorsi decenni sono finite: la rivoluzione culturale anti-confuciana in Cina del 1967-76, la rivoluzione dei Khmer Rossi anti-Phnom Penh in Cambogia del 1975-79, e la guerra del popolo maoista anti-casta e anti-monarchia feudale in Nepal, durata 10 anni dal 13 febbraio 1996, seguita da 18 giorni di effettiva nonviolenza per le strade di Kathmandu il 6-24 aprile 2006. Il re abdicò.
→ read full articleNepal’s Democracy Is Not People-Centric: Galtung
The Weekly Mirror, Nepal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
He said that cease-fire without conflict solution may reopen the violence and conciliation without conflict solution is only pacification. “This may lead to massive instability, general strike, violence. Conflicts must be addressed creatively by the country’s leadership in order to genuinely address the people’s daily sufferings,” he suggested.
→ read full articleInterview with Johan Galtung on Nepal
The Kathmandu Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Feb 17, 2013 – Prof Johan Galtung, the father of peace and conflict studies, has worked as peace mediator in 150 countries. “I was here in Nepal in 1968 and 1986. I was also here mediating in 2003, during the war, and again in 2006. This is my third visit in terms of having dialogue with people. What I hear in all places is this: ‘We’re afraid that if they come up, they’ll treat us the way we treated them.’ That fear is then protected by prejudice—they’re inferior, they don’t have the culture etc. “
→ read full articleHuman Rights and White Magic
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Beating drums and playing trumpets
Gods are called to get down to earth
Brutalized shamans squat at the binary sides. . .
An Argument in Defense of Haredim Jews and Against Secular Zionist Militarism
James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Israel is heading towards a profound internal crisis: a Jew on Jew confrontation, which, however, has major implications for its relations with Palestinians, as well as its Middle East neighbors. The conflict is between the highly militarized Zionist state and the Haredim religious movement over a number of issues, including recent proposals by Netanyahu to end the religious exemption of Haradi youth from serving in Israel’s colonial armed forces.
→ read full articleWhat’s The Problem With Iran?
Transnational Foundation-TFF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
On Tuesday February 26, 2013 in Kazakhstan, a new round of negotiations is due between Iran and the Five Permanent UN Security Council members + Germany. We’d like to bring the following expert statement to your attention.
→ read full articleMadrassa Students Take Part in Polio Eradication Program in Jammu & Kashmir
Rotary Club of Darhal Malikan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
While joining the nation in its fight against Polio Eradication from South Asia, Rotary Club of Darhal Malikan engaged female Madrassa students in polio vaccination programme here on Sunday [24 Feb 2013].
→ read full articleThe World as Seen from Mt Everest
Johan Galtung, 25 Feb 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Nepal – Tibet is seen less as suppressed part of China and more as home of Tantric buddhism–a strong link to the giant neighbor to the North. Nepal’s majority is India-oriented, but the Weekly Mirror takes a world view from high up, and that highest peak, Mt Everest, is closer to China. Somebody once climbed it, “because it is there”, to get a closer look at China. The world becomes more transparent, seen from high up.
→ read full article(Português) Muito Além do Peso
Maria Farinha Filmes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Obesidade, a maior epidemia infantil da história. Pela primeira vez na história da raça humana, crianças apresentam sintomas de doenças de adultos. Problemas de coração, respiração, depressão e diabetes tipo 2. Todos têm em sua base a obesidade.
→ read full articleUS Border Patrol Selling Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartel
Project Censored – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
A government witness named “Victoria,” a former member of the Sinaloa Cartel’s enforcer group “Gente Nueva” under the “Javelin” subgroup whose job was to execute individuals in rival groups, testified that the Border Patrol was supplying weapons to the Sinaloa Cartel.
→ read full articleWhere Is Thoreau Now That We Need Him?
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
I think it’s time for us to go
and pay a visit to Thoreau.
In times like this we need a sage…
Way Beyond Weight
Maria Farinha Filmes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
There is a problem on human race, a heavy one. Worldwide, kids are heavier than they should. And unhealthy. “Beyond Weight” is a movie that seeks to answer questions in depth. It interviewed families, kids and specialists from all over the world.
→ read full articleCancer Threat from Radioactive Leaks at Hanford
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Hanford Health Information Network reports concluded that residents who lived downwind from Hanford or who used the Columbia River downstream were exposed to elevated doses of radiation that placed them at increased risk for various cancers and other diseases. The most significant challenge at Hanford is stabilizing the 53 million U.S. Gallons (204,000 m3) of high-level radioactive waste stored in 177 underground tanks.
→ read full article9/11 Goes to Court in the UK
Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
On February 25, 2013 in the small town of Horsham in the United Kingdom, there will be a rare and potentially groundbreaking opportunity for the 9/11 truth movement. Three hours of detailed 9/11 evidence is to be presented and considered in a court of law where the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) will be challenged over the inaccurate and biased manner in which it has portrayed the events and evidence of 9/11.
→ read full articleNorth Korea Cites ‘Tragedy’ of Countries That Give Up Nuclear Programs
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
North Korea has bolstered its defenses against a “hostile” United States with its third nuclear test, it said on Thursday [21 Feb 2013], noting that countries that had bowed to U.S. pressure to abandon their nuclear plans had suffered “tragic consequences”. Libya abandoned its nuclear program in 2003 in a bid to mend relations with the United States and later saw leader Muammar Gaddafi overthrown in an uprising that was eventually supported militarily by Washington.
→ read full articleDossier: From the Nuclear Armed Race to the Auroral Armed Race?
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
A Web Survey of High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) Weapon Technology in Various Countries – The main purpose of this dossier is to survey HAARP technology in a few major militarily influential countries through an Internet research. What is HAARP? What characterizes a HAARP weapon?
→ read full articlePalestinian Filmmaker Detained at Los Angeles Airport on Way to Oscars
Alex Dobuzinskis, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
A Palestinian filmmaker on his way to the Academy Awards said on Wednesday [20 Feb 2013] he was held at Los Angeles International Airport and threatened with deportation before being allowed into the United States.
→ read full articleRe-Imagining a World beyond Capitalism and Communism
Arundhati Roy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Here in India, even in the midst of all the violence and greed, there is still hope. If anyone can do it, we can. We still have a population that has not yet been completely colonized by that consumerist dream. If there is any hope for the world at all, it does not live in climate-change conference rooms or in cities with tall buildings. It lives low down on the ground, with its arms around the people who go to battle every day to protect their forests, their mountains and their rivers because they know that the forests, the mountains and the rivers protect them.
→ read full articleLunch and Dinner with Julian Assange, in Prison
John Keane, The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Julian Assange could be described as the Tom Paine of the early 21st century. Drawing strength from distress, disgusted by the hypocrisy of governments, willing to take on the mighty, he’s reminded the world of a universal political truth: arbitrary power thrives on secrets.
→ read full articleReflections on Teju Cole’s OPEN CITY
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Anyone interested in the world, or for that matter, an affection for the greatest of modern cities—New York—will find Teju Cole’s Open City, a feast for both mind and heart.
→ read full articleEU Rejects Arming Syrian Rebels
The Times of Israel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
European Union foreign ministers announced Monday [18 Feb 2013] that they were keeping current sanctions against Syria in place for three months, rejecting attempts to alter an embargo on the country so that arms could be funneled to rebels fighting President Bashar Assad.
→ read full articleWar Crimes in Sri Lanka: Human Rights Watch Seeks UN Intervention
IBN Live – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
The Human Rights Watch on Tuesday [19 Feb 2013] sought a UN authorised independent, international investigation into war crimes that took place during the final months of the decades-long armed conflict in Sri Lanka. In a letter to members of the United Nations Human Rights Council the organisation said probe should be authorised at the March 2013 session of the UN body.
→ read full article21st Century Biology Refutes Darwinian Abiology
Bhakti Niskama Shanta, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Natural Selection Lost in the Midst of Genetic Forest and Epigenetic Trees – Darwin’s Morphological Tree of Life (TOL) is Replaced with Genetic ‘Forest of Life’
→ read full articleMan-Made Chemicals Cited in Health Scourges: UN Report
Robert Evans, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Man-made chemicals in everyday products are likely to be at least the partial cause of a global surge in birth deformities, hormonal cancers and psychiatric diseases, a U.N.-sponsored research team reported on Tuesday [19 Feb 2013].
→ read full articleAttacks and Death Threats Put Members of the Pastoral Land Commission in Brazil at Risk
The Right Livelihood Award Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
The Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), which has for years campaigned tirelessly to advance social justice and the rights of small farmers and the landless in Brazil, suffered three attacks on its headquarters in the state of Acre this year. The Right Livelihood Award Foundation, which in 1991 recognised the work of the Pastoral Land Commission, condemns the attacks and demands increased security for rural workers.
→ read full article(Italiano) Pensando al Mali
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Tuareg e musulmani hanno preso molto dall’Occidente negli scorsi cent’anni; e se adesso l’Occidente cercasse di imparare qualcosa da loro? È davvero ovvio che lo stato moderno, automatizzato, industriale, finanziario-speculativo sia meglio che il nomadismo confederato da cammellieri?
→ read full article(Castellano) Obama Aumentó Ataques con Drones en Afganistán un 72% Durante 2012
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
El informe anual sobre la Protección de Civiles en Conflictos Armados de la ONU detalló que un total de dos mil 754 civiles afganos murieron y otros cuatro mil 805 resultaron heridos en 2012, como consecuencia de la operación militar estadounidense en esa nación.
→ read full articleNation-States, Europe, Regions and …. Macro-Regions: A Look into Regional Integration as a Structure of Euroland Governance
Christel Hahn, Europe 2020 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
The meeting was the “Conference of the Alpine Regions” that happened at the occasion of the regular conference of the “Arge Alp” (an association of alpine regions, that was founded 40 years ago, long before Schengen and the Euro). It adopted a resolution, based on a strategy paper aimed at developing a macro-regional European strategy for the Alps.
→ read full article(Castellano) UNICEF Confirma que Cuba Es el Único País de América Latina sin Desnutrición Infantil
Politica & Medios – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura también ha reconocido a Cuba como la nación con más avances en América Latina en la lucha contra la desnutrición.
→ read full articleHaiti’s ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier Avoids Appearing in Court
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Haiti’s former ruler Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier has been ordered to appear in court in Port-au-Prince after failing to attend a hearing. Relatives of some of those allegedly killed or tortured by his militias in the 1970s and 1980s want him charged with crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleChina to Become South America’s Top Trading Partner by 2015
China Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
China will replace the European Union as South America’s most important trading partner by 2015, according to the Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine online.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
A Global Harmony Association (GHA) Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day
→ read full article[Tragicomic] French President François Hollande Awarded UNESCO Peace Prize
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
The President of France, François Hollande, will receive the United Nations cultural agency’s peace prize this year for his “valuable contribution to peace and stability in Africa,” it was announced today [21 Feb 2013].
→ read full articleWhy Nonkiling?
Glenn Paige – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Why “nonkilling” rather than peace, nonviolence, conflict resolution, or any other desirable human condition? Because nonkilling is the alpha and omega of life. From birth to natural death no human endeavor can be pursued if we are killed.
→ read full articleFilmmakers for Nonkilling
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Filmmakers,
Creatively, you seek world audiences to entertain
through increasingly varied genres of filmmaking
but sadly, a tradition of violence many movies sustain
and viewers are exposed to cruel forms of killing
What a Wonderful World (Music Video of the Week)
Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Featuring Grandpa Elliott with children’s choirs across the globe. Children and music bring us hope for a better future. Today we celebrate life and change the world — one heart and one song at a time!!
→ read full articleMarrying an Other Whatever the Form
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Reframing and Extending the Understanding of Marriage – The understanding of relationships with an “other” is central to highly controversial debate at this time. The debate focuses in particular on “same-sex marriage”. This is considered especially questionable by various religions, most explicitly those of Abrahamic tradition and most especially by the Catholic Church.
→ read full articlePMANE Opposes the American Nuclear Plant at Mithi Virdi, Gujarat
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy vehemently opposes the American nuclear power park that is being set up at Mithi Virdi, Gujarat. The PMANE appeals to the Government of India and the State Government of Gujarat to put the interests of Indian citizens ahead of foreign governments’ and their MNC’s interests. Let us not think and act like colonized slaves but behave like independent leaders and find alternative solutions for our energy needs.
→ read full articleSpanish Firefighters Refuse To Be ‘Puppets of the Banks’
Revolting Europe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Firefighters in Galicia, Catalonia and the Madrid region have rejected any action that “contributes to inequalities and miseries suffered by the working class,” said the CCOO union. Galician fire crews “have proven to be on the side of social justice” by refusing to participate in the eviction of Aurelia Rey, an 85 year-old woman who had fallen behind on rent by one month.
→ read full articleNepal: Six Years of “Transition”
Johan Galtung, 18 Feb 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Three huge revolts in Asia in the last decades came to an end: the anti-Confucian cultural revolution in China 1967-76, the anti Phnom Penh Khmer Rouge revolution in Cambodia 1975-79, and the anti-feudal monarchy anti-caste maoist People’s War in Nepal that lasted 10 years from 13 February 1996, followed by 18 days of effective nonviolence in the streets of Kathmandu in 6-24 April 2006. The King abdicated.
→ read full article[Tragicomedy] Pentagon Creates New Medal for Cyber, Drone Wars
Lolita C. Baldor, AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
They fight the war from computer consoles and video screens. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced Wednesday [13 Feb 2013] that the Pentagon is creating a medal to troops, even if their actions are physically removed from the fight. Unlike other combat medals, it does not require the recipient risk his or her life to get it.
→ read full articleCondemn Not Just North Korea; Deal with Global Nuclear Hypocrisy
Dr. S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
North Korea has just announced that it has conducted a successful third underground nuclear test, and the world powers are all condemning the act unanimously. According to their reasoning, North Korea, Iran and a few other “rogue” countries they do not like cannot and should not develop nuclear energy or produce nuclear weapons. But they themselves can do both. The United States, Russia, Britain and France can arm themselves to their teeth with thousands of nuclear bombs and all kinds of treacherous missiles.
→ read full article(Castellano) Vientos Africanos
Rais Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Vientos salinos,
Imágenes de ganado y de pastores,
Vida difícil del desierto,
Espejismo de ciudades de sal distantes.
Beyond the Haunted Imagination
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Ever since atomic bombs were exploded over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the closing days of World War II end of the world forebodings have been present in Western cultural consciousness. In the background of such thinking is the religious anticipation of a day of judgment when life in earth will be replaced by the consignment of everyone then living to either the hell of damnation or the heaven of salvation.
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Tears in Heaven (Music Video of the Week)
The Choir Boys – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Music Video from 2009. Timeless.
→ read full article(Castellano) Bolivia Ha Reducido 60 Veces la Brecha Entre Ricos y Pobres Desde 2006
Agencia Boliviana de Información – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
El ministro de Economía y Finanzas Públicas de Bolivia, Luis Arce, informó este jueves [14 feb 2013] que durante los gobiernos neoliberales, el 10 por ciento más rico de la población boliviana generaba alrededor de 95 veces más dinero que el 10 por ciento más pobre. Hoy esa brecha se acortó a 36 veces, son 60 veces que se ha reducido la brecha entre los más ricos y los más pobres”, aseveró Arce. “Nuestras políticas fructificaron para que nuestros hermanos del campo abandonen la extrema pobreza”, enfatizó.
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UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
11 February 2013 – The United Nations today launched the International Year of Water Cooperation, which seeks to provide a platform for countries to collaborate in the management of this precious resource in the interest of peace and development.
→ read full articleUrgent UN Press Statement: Release Palestinian Hunger Strikers Now
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
The following press statement was issued 13 February 2013 under the auspices of the UN Human Rights Council in my capacity as Special Rapporteur for Palestinian Territories Occupied since 1967. This nonviolent resistance to unlawful and abusive detention practices by Israel is a human rights outrage that should be the occasion of media attention and a worldwide outcry. I encourage all who can to exert pressure on Israel before these individuals die in captivity. They are currently reported to be in grave condition. Please use all social networking tools to alert contacts.
→ read full articleThe Reality at Jaitapur, Mr. Hollande
Anuj Wankhede and Cressida Morley, Dianuke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
French President Francois Hollande is making his first visit out of Europe and has chosen India as a destination for his visit starting 14th February [2013]. On his radar is to sell Areva’s failed EPR (European Pressurized Reactor) nuclear reactors to India. Even as France has not been able to implement the EPR reactors there or in Finland nor has the US regulator certified it. However, the Indian government is eager to set up these reactors in a huge area in coastal Maharashtra – at Jaitapur – a highly bio-diverse region that needs preservation.
→ read full articleA Key Question: How Do We Make the Economy Work for the Poor?
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
We want to make a case for the claim that “unbounded organization” is a useful concept, indeed a key concept. A key opens doors. We use the word “key” to suggest that the concept of unbounded organization can be said to “open doors.” It helps to answer questions and to resolve problems regarding not just one but several theoretical problems in the social sciences. Similarly the practical question posed in the title of this chapter, “How do we make the economy work for the poor?” can be regarded as a question whose satisfactory answer would “open” answers to other crucial practical questions such as, “How can violent conflicts be transformed into peaceful cooperation?”
→ read full articleArgentina Slams Israel over Interference
Al-Akhbar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Argentina’s top diplomat chastised Israel Wednesday [13 Feb 2013] for interfering in its judicial process over the deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish charities building in Buenos Aires. He added that cooperation with Iran would “bring them closer to the truth.” and, in an apparent snide reference to Israel’s own record, said that Argentina was not in the habit of carrying out extrajudicial punishment. “Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told me that we cannot sign an agreement with Iran. So maybe he wants us to kidnap the suspects or put a bomb below the car of one of them.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Schiavitù, Colonialismo, e la Chiesa
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Parliamo di milioni di schiavi sbarcati nell’arco fra Rio a Washington con baricentro caraibico, e di altri a sud di Rio, a nord di Washington e sulla linea di costa del Pacifico dell’America Latina. Un indicibile crimine contro l’umanità.
→ read full articleAssisting in Lankan Genocide and UNdoing the UN: A Chronological Account
Dr. S.P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
This is the story of how the fence started eating up the crop, and how the watchman plundered the shop. The year 2009 dawned rather badly for the Tamils in Eelam. Some 20 countries including sworn enemies such as India and Pakistan had joined their secret hands in the war against the Tamil people in Tamil Eelam. India, the home of some 8 crore Tamils, was at the forefront doing all it could to help the genocidal government in Colombo.
→ read full articleLetter from a Drone Protester’s Jail
David Swanson, War Is a Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
15 Feb 2013 – Greetings from the Federal Prison Camp in Yankton, South Dakota! As of this writing, I am two months into a six month sentence imposed due to my protest of war crimes committed by remote control from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri against the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
A Global Harmony Association (GHA) Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Is a Rare Truth-Teller. Smearing Julian Assange Is Shameful.
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Public displays of warmth for Assange are common and seldom reported. Several thousand people packed Sydney Town Hall, with hundreds spilling into the street. In New York recently, Assange was awarded the Yoko Ono Lennon Prize for Courage. In the audience was Daniel Ellsberg, who risked all to leak the truth about the barbarism of the Vietnam War. “The US is out to crush someone who has revealed its dirty secrets.”
→ read full articleHypocrisy: US Arms Al Qaeda in Syria, Mass-Slaughters Civilians in Afghanistan
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
In other words, the very underwriters of the armed militancy that is consuming Syria are sitting along side the head of the UN commission producing reports portraying the Syrian government as guilty of “war crimes and crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleThe Military’s Pandora’s Box: The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program-HAARP
Dr. Nick Begich and Jeane Manning – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
This article was prepared to provide a summary of the contents of a book written in 1995 which describes an entirely new class of weapons. The individuals who are demanding answers about the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program-HAARP are scattered around the planet. As well as bush dwellers in Alaska, they include: a physician in Finland; a scientist in Holland; an anti-nuclear protester in Australia; independent physicists in the United States; a grandmother in Canada, and countless others.
→ read full articleSyria – It Is Illegal to Back Rebels Fighting a Legitimate Government
Dr. Curtis Doebbler, international lawyer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Several countries, mostly from the Arab League (dominated by the Gulf kingdoms) and the West, have recognized the coalition of Syrian opposition militias that was born in Doha (Qatar), under the auspices of the Western and Gulf countries. We asked international lawyer Curtis Doebbler, a peace and human rights activist, whether it could be legal to provide weapons to the this armed opposition as France asks the EU. Here is his answer.
→ read full articleTell America Tell
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
What intention is yours after all?
Why so greedy, so thirsty and for what?
What do you want, tell after all
The power, the might, lordship or what?
Tell America tell — What?
The Hubris of the Drones
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Our blind faith in technology combined with a false sense of infallible righteousness continues unabated. Such hubris brought us to grief in Vietnam and Iraq and may do so again with President Obama’s cold-blooded use of drones and his indifference to so-called “collateral damage,” grossly referred to by some in the military as “bug splat,” and otherwise known as innocent bystanders.
→ read full articleWorker Owned Businesses Point to New Forms of Ownership
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Can co-ops come out of the margins of the economy and be part of a larger political project to transform how things are owned?
→ read full articleBolivia Reducing 60 Times the Gap between Rich and Poor Since 2006
Agencia Boliviana de Información-AB I – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
The Bolivian Minister of Economics and Public Finances, Luis Arce reported yesterday [14 Feb 2013] that during the previous neoliberal governments the richest 10% of the population generated around 95 times more income than the poorest 10%. “Today this gap has narrowed with the richest now earning 36 times more than the poorest. The gap between the richest and poorest has narrowed by 60,” he said. “Our policies have resulted in our rural brothers getting out of extreme poverty,” he stressed.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Post-2015-Ziele: Spart Euch diese Reise!
Bernd Hamm – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Stell Dir vor, es ist UNO, und keiner geht hin
→ read full article(Português) Os BRICS de Olho na África
Antonio Martins, Outras Palavras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Quinto encontro dos grandes emergentes debaterá criação de um banco de desenvolvimento comum, voltado para continente. Cooperação ou novo imperialismo?
→ read full articleSpielberg vs Tarantino: Hollywood and the Past
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
If Leo Strauss is correct and Western civilization should be seen as an oscillation between Athens and Jerusalem, truth must be said – we can really do with many more Athenians and their essentialist reflections. In short, we are in a desperate need of many more Tarantinos to counter Jerusalem and its ambassadors.
→ read full articleInternyet Nescience?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Self-Referential Upgrading of Obsolete Internet Conference Processes Inhibiting Emergence of Integrative Knowledge – Paper originally envisaged for the 1st International Conference on Internet Science (10-13 April 2013, Brussels) held under the aegis of the European Commission, by the EINS project, the FP7 European Network of Excellence in Internet Science.
→ read full articleTAPI: A Step Closer to Realization
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
On 7 February 2013, the Indian Cabinet approved the formation of a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to study the feasibility and design parameters of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline, originally mooted in 2006.
→ read full articleObama to ‘Bypass Congress’ On CISPA with Cybersecurity Executive Order
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Serviced,
18 Feb 2013
Obama’s first executive order is expected to be issued this week when the president calls for the creation of new standards on what private-sector companies must do to protect their computer systems from a cybersecurity breach. The order is a direct response to Congress’ refusal to pass the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) last year.
→ read full article(Português) Do Que Um Cão Precisa
Marcela Godoy, Consciência Animal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Será que o cão tem espírito? – perguntou-me o filho do meio. Olhei para ele surpreendido. E acabei por responder: – Não sei se nós próprios temos espírito ou se é o espírito que nos tem ou está em nós. – É isso que eu queria dizer. Olha para ele. Era um fim de tarde de Agosto, o cão estava parado em frente ao mar, o pêlo muito luzidio, a cabeça levantada, narinas abertas, sorvendo o ar. – Ele está a cheirar o espírito. O espírito da terra, o espírito do vento, o espírito das águas”. (Manuel Alegre).
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