Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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University of Ignorance
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
The possibility of a University of Ignorance merits consideration as a process with which people could engage to unlearn. This would naturally contrast with the worldwide preoccupation with the culmination of intellectual effort in the education and research undertaken so exclusively at conventional universities — framed unquestionably as the advancement of knowledge. Whatever their much acclaimed merits, these tend to obscure the recognition of the potential significance of what is not known, most notably in relation to any transcendent “wisdom” which features so questionably in university preoccupations, if at all.
→ read full articleThinking Mali
Johan Galtung, 11 Feb 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Tuaregs and Muslims have picked up a lot from the West these last hundred years; how about the West trying to learn something from them? Is it obvious that the modern, automated, industrial, financial-speculation state is better than confederate camel nomadism?
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Wesley Clark – America’s Foreign Policy “Coup”
ForaTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Nov 5, 2007 – Retired four-star general and former Democratic Presidential candidate Wesley Clark criticizes the course of U.S. foreign policy in the wake of September 11, 2001.
→ read full articleForget ‘Normal’ Politics
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Political life is filled with policy choices that are made mainly on the basis of calculations of advantage, as well as reflecting priorities and values of those with the power of decision. In a constitutional framework of governance the rule of law sets outer limits as to permissible outcomes.
→ read full articleSyria: An Orderly Transition
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Can there be an orderly transition within Syria toward a new regime which reflects Syria’s pluralistic society? Can this orderly transition process avoid additional violence, and increased hostility among segments of society?
→ read full articleHacker in Chief: Obama Given Right to Launch ‘Preemptive’ Cyberattacks
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
A secret review has concluded that US President Obama has the authority to launch a preemptive cyber attack on any country on the basis that they are considered a ‘cyber threat’ – even if there is no concrete evidence of this threat. It may not be long before the US conducts crippling attacks on foreign soil with little more than a mouse click, thereby sparing itself the effort of sending its military oversees or declaring war.
→ read full articleUN Body “Alarmed” by US Killings of Afghan Children
Channel News Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
A UN committee has expressed “alarm” over reports that hundreds of children have been killed by US military forces in Afghanistan in the past five years. The Geneva-based Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) said the deaths were “due notably to reported lack of precautionary measures and indiscriminate use of force”. The report, received by AFP on Friday [8 Feb 2013], also expressed concern that troops responsible for the killing of children had not always been held accountable and that family grievances had not been redressed.
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Man
Steve Cutts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Animation: Looking at man’s relationship with the natural world.
→ read full articleTribalism and Agreed-Upon Lies
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Truth has the great virtue that it allows us to accurately predict the future. If we ignore truth because it is unfashionable, or painful, or heretical, the future will catch us unprepared.
→ read full articleBDS Better Learn from Its Mistakes
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
It’s almost funny to read the BDS’ leadership’s outraged reactions to top ethnic-cleansing advocate Alan Dershowitz when he tried to stop a discussion with Judith Butler and Omar Barghouti discussing BDS at NYC Brooklyn College [7 Feb 2013]. This power struggle between Dershowitz and BDS should be a wake-up call. BDS should learn from its mistakes.
→ read full articleNATO Rejects UN Report on Death of Afghan Children
Kim Gamel, Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
The U.S.-led international coalition on Friday [8 Feb 2013] rejected a U.N. rights group’s concern about reports that U.S. military strikes have killed hundreds of children in Afghanistan during the past four years, saying they are “categorically unfounded.”
→ read full articleLetter to Rahul Gandhi
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Greetings! We are writing on behalf of several millions of people in Tamil Nadu and Kerala who have been waging a peaceful and nonviolent struggle for almost a quarter century against the Koodankulam nuclear power project (KKNPP).
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CNN Goldman Sachs & the Zio Matrix
David Duke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
This documentary video is the first public expose’ that the same Zio who is the biggest stockholder of the mega Zio media corporation Time Warner, was the biggest stockholder also of Goldman Sachs at the time of the mortgage meltdown. It shows how the biggest economic theft in history, that by Goldman Sachs in the Mortgage meltdown, was covered up by Zio influence in media and government.
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Peace Train (Music Video of the Week)
Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Oh I’ve been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one
And I believe it could be, some day it’s going to come
Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train
Oh peace train take this country, come take me home again
Silent Circle, the New Encryption App That Is Terrifying the Government
Jacob Sloan, disinformation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
The idea is to “democratize encryption” by making it available to the non-tech-savvy with the push of a button. It’s a game-changer that will almost certainly make life easier and safer for journalists, dissidents, diplomats, and companies trying to evade surveillance. Silent Circle has an explicit policy that it cannot and will not comply with law enforcement eavesdropping requests.
→ read full articleUNHCHR Welcomes Enabling Individual Complaints on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
“The entry into force of the Optional Protocol is a major breakthrough, which will enable victims under the jurisdiction of the States parties to seek justice for violations of their economic, social and cultural rights,” Pillay said. Uruguay triggered the coming into force of the Optional Protocol when, on 5 February, it became the tenth country to ratify, joining Argentina, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mongolia, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain.
→ read full articleAn Indispensable Book on Palestine/Israel
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
I realize that without knowing it, I have long waited for this book, although I could not have imagined its lyric magic in advance of reading. It is a triumph of what I would call ‘intelligent innocence,’ the great benefits of a clear mind, an open and warm heart, and a trustworthy moral compass that draws sharp lines between good and evil while remaining ever sensitive to the contradictory vagaries of lives and geographic destinies.
→ read full articleThe Trillion Dollar Coin: Joke or Game Changer?
Ellen Brown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
The trillion dollar coin actually represents one of the most important principles of popular prosperity ever conceived: the creation of money by sovereign governments, debt-free.
→ read full articleHarmonious Global Community at Work
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Since the early days of human existence virtually all people yearned strongly to live at peace with each other. They viewed harmonious living as their ultimate goal in life. Yet we learn from history that those in power always tended to solve their differences through struggles and wars.
→ read full articleViral Gene in Genetically Engineered Foods Could Promote Disease
Dr. Mercola – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
One way to achieve a genetic modification in a plant is to piggyback a chosen gene on a plant virus, such as the Cauliflower Mosaic virus. Here, they discovered that the most commonly used genetic regulatory sequence (i.e. that which drives the gene expression within the plant), called CaMV 35S promoter, also encodes a gene fragment of the virus, in addition to the desired genetic trait being inserted.
→ read full articleArgentina in the Process of Quitting from World Bank Investment Disputes Centre
South Atlantic News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Argentina says it plans to withdraw from a World Bank body designed to arbitrate between states and foreign investors. This follows similar decisions by several other countries in Latin America like Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela. Eduardo Barcesat, the chief legal advisor to Argentine’s Treasury, says ICSID is “a tribunal of butchers” that only rules in favour of multinational companies. Barcesat believes quitting the Center would be a key move to recover Argentina’s legislative and jurisdictional sovereignty.
→ read full articleHigh Frequency Active Auroral Research Program-HAARP: Weapon of Mass Destruction
Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D., GNSH – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
One of the ways in which HAARP is thought to work is similar to firing a cap gun in an avalanche area. The snow is built up, ready to collapse and even the slightest disturbance causes an avalanche. That’s one way that HAARP works. In key areas where seismic pressures are ready to shift, HAARP bombards the already sensitive area with an incredible amount of energy in the form of a beam that reflects off the ionosphere. The earth’s tectonic plates vibrate and an earthquake results.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Risveglio Arabo-Musulmano – e USA-Israele
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
L’area Mediorientale e Nordafricana (MENA) è arabo-musulmana con un’isola ebraica crescente in mezzo. Ex-territorio coloniale – sotto i turchi ottomani sunniti per oltre quattro secoli, e dell’occidente laico, Inghilterra-Italia-Francia, per mezzo secolo – ora sotto il colonialismo ebreo israeliano e l’imperialismo USA.
→ read full articleAn Actor but Out of the Drama
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
At a certain point
He happened to be a pretender
Deviating the track he came…
It Has Happened Here
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Whether a person believes the official story of 9/11 which rests on unproven government assertions or believes the documented evidence provided by a large number of scientists, first responders, and structural engineers and architects, the result is the same. 9/11 was used to create an open-ended “war on terror” and a police state. It is extraordinary that so many Americans believe that “it can’t happen here” when it already has.
→ read full articleNepal’s First Peace Event 2013 with Prof. Dr. Johan Galtung
Dr. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Perhaps an internationally acclaimed person of authority on conflict transformation by peaceful means may ignite the political consensus process amongst the concerned stakeholders and actors of Nepal. In the context, it is natural to have great expectations from the Founding Father of Peace Studies in the world, Professor Dr. Johan Galtung, who is visiting Nepal for the first Peace Event in Kathmandu from February 10th to 18th, 2013.
→ read full articleHuman Rights – World Report 2013
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
This 23rd annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2012. It reflects extensive investigative work that Human Rights Watch staff has undertaken during the year, often in close partnership with domestic human rights activists.
→ read full articleHumanity Beyond Borders
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Oh dear Americans…
We too are humans
Why you kill us often
So mercilessly…
Appeal to the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India
The Catholic Faithful Radhapuram Taluk– TRANSCEND Media Service\,
11 Feb 2013
We have been struggling continuously against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project in peaceful and nonviolent manner for a quarter century and for almost 550 days in a more recent concerted campaign. We have been asking in vain for the basic information about the project such as the Site Evaluation Report, Safety Analysis Report, Emergency Preparedness Plan, the performance report of the reactor, and the India-Russia Inter-Governmental Agreement on Liability and so forth.
→ read full articleGlobalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition
Open Society Justice Initiative – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
Globalizing Torture is the most comprehensive account yet assembled of the human rights abuses associated with CIA secret detention and extraordinary rendition operations. It details for the first time what was done to the 136 known victims, and lists the 54 foreign governments that participated in these operations. It shows that responsibility for the abuses lies not only with the United States but with dozens of foreign governments that were complicit.
→ read full articleUK Sends Hand-Held Helicopter Drones to War Zone
Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
British soldiers in Afghanistan have been issued with surveillance drones so small they can fit in the palm of a man’s hand. The Scandinavian-designed Black Hornet Nano weighs as little as 16 grams (roughly half an ounce). The 4-inch (10-centimeter) -long helicopter is fitted with a tiny camera which relays still images and video to a remote terminal.
→ read full articleSlavery, Colonialism, and the Church
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
From Liverpool-UK, 31 Jan 2013 – We talk about millions of slaves landed in the arch from Rio to Washington with the point of gravity in the Caribbean, and some south of Rio, north of Washington and around the coast to the Pacific side of Latin America. An unspeakable crime against humanity.
→ read full articleOf Delays, Corruption and Half-Truths
Nityanand Jayaraman, Tehelka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
No questions were raised when India’s nuclear regulator has gave nod to repeat the full systems test at the first unit of Koodankulam atomic power project in Tamil Nadu. On January 25 [2013], newspapers reported official statements regarding yet another delay in commissioning the Koodankulam plant. Even a child will tell you that you need to repeat a test only if you have failed in the first instance.
→ read full articleIceland President: Let Banks Go Bankrupt
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Iceland President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson tells Al Jazeera’s Stephen Cole that Europe should let banks that are ran “irresponsibly” go bankrupt. Speaking at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Grimsson also held his country as a model of economic recovery after its near-collapse four years ago. “We didn’t follow the traditional prevailing orthodoxies. And the end result four years later is that Iceland is enjoying progress and recovery.”
→ read full articlePoverty and Progress: Comparing the US and Venezuela
Eric Draitser – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
This is the crisis of advanced, post-industrial capitalism – an economic system which must expand the divide between rich and poor, create extremes of wealth and poverty, and generally perpetuate itself on the misery and poverty of the lower classes.
→ read full articleCondemning the Murder of Cícero Guedes, Leader of the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement MST
The Right Livelihood Award Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
The Right Livelihood Award Foundation strongly condemns the murder of Cícero Guedes, a leader of the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement MST. The MST received the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”) in 1991.
→ read full article2013 World Press Freedom Index: Dashed Hopes after ‘Springs’
Reporters Without Borders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
The ranking of most countries is no longer attributable to dramatic political developments. This year’s index is a better reflection of the attitudes and intentions of governments towards media freedom in the medium or long term. (See full list of countries in the end)
→ read full articleStudy: 22 US Military Veterans Commit Suicide Every Day
CBS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
The results of a new study indicate that suicide rates among veterans in the United States are increasing.
→ read full articleMali: Neo-Colonialism Meets Islamic Fundamentalism… And the People Suffer
Bill Fletcher, Jr., Black Commentator – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
The entrance of the French military into the Malian civil war further complicates a descent into hell. Mainstream media attention has largely focused on the emergence of right-wing Islamists associated with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Yet little background is presented regarding the whole conflict, particularly the circumstances that resulted in the unfolding disaster.
→ read full articleFBI Banned from Iceland
Rixstep – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
FBI agents landed in Reykjavík without prior notification in an attempt to investigate WikiLeaks operations in the country, but Home Secretary Ögmundur Jónasson found out about the visit and forced them to leave the country, with the Icelandic government then issuing a formal protest to US authorities.
→ read full articleUS Department of Defense Non-Lethal Weapons Program
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Report 2012 can be read online. Although not secret it is virtually unknown; never referred to in the media. [According to the website]: Why Non-Lethal Weapons? Non-lethal weapons can provide operating forces with escalation-of-force options that can minimize casualties and collateral damage. [Do you agree?]
→ read full articleAmia Bombing: Argentina and Iran Agree Truth Commission
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Argentina and Iran are to jointly set up a commission to investigate the 1994 bombing of the Israeli-Argentine Mutual Association (Amia) Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires. The commission will be made up of five independent judges, none of whom will be from either Argentina or Iran. The Jewish organisation was reported to be vehemently opposed to the move.
→ read full article(Português) Autoridades Lamentam Assassinato de Coordenador do MST no Rio
Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
28 jan 2013 – A secretaria de Direitos Humanos da Presidência da República, o Ministério do Desenvolvimento Agrário e o Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária (Incra) lamentaram o assassinato do coordenador do MST Cícero Guedes e condenaram a violência do latifúndio, em Campos dos Goytacazes, no norte do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Cícero foi executado com 12 tiros na cabeça, na sexta-feira (25/1/13), em uma emboscada quando saia de uma reunião no acampamento de bicicleta.
→ read full articleVerbal Defecation Buries Truth
William A. Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Having visited Auschwitz twice – once with my family and once with local schools – I am saddened that the Jews, who suffered unbelievable levels of persecution during the Holocaust, could within a few years of liberation from the death camps be inflicting atrocities on Palestinians in the new State of Israel and continue to do so on a daily basis in the West Bank and Gaza.
→ read full articleIs Islam a Terrorist Religion?
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
You must have a vision
You must peep the reason
Violent why some make decisions
Before blaming its cohesion
Or saying it a terrorist religion
Niger Gives Green Light to U.S. Drone Deployment
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Niger has given permission for U.S. surveillance drones to be stationed on its territory to improve intelligence on al Qaeda-linked Islamist fighters in northern Mali and the wider Sahara, a senior government source said. The U.S. ambassador to Niger, Bisa Williams, made the request at a meeting on Monday [28 Jan 2013] with President Mahamadou Issoufou, who immediately accepted it, the source said.
→ read full articleThe Real Invasion of Africa Is Not News And a Licence to Lie Is Hollywood’s Gift
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
It is as if Africa’s proud history of liberation, from Patrice Lumumba to Nelson Mandela, is consigned to oblivion by a new master’s black colonial elite whose “historic mission”, warned Frantz Fanon half a century ago, is the promotion of “a capitalism rampant though camouflaged”.
→ read full articleGrimsson: IMF Learned New Lessons in Iceland
Deutsche Welle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
The global financial crisis brought Iceland to the brink of collapse in 2008. Since then, the country has recovered well by doing many things differently from the rest of the world, President Olafur Grimsson tells DW.
→ read full articleReciprocity and Karma
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Reciprocity is the basis of non-market economies, and also the basis of social interactions between family members, friends and colleagues. In hunter-gatherer societies, it is customary to share food among all the members of the group. However, the concept of karma has a broader and more abstract validity beyond the direct return of actions to the actor. When we perform a good action, we increase the total amount of good karma in the world. If all people similarly behave well, the world as a whole will become more pleasant and safer.
→ read full articleCourt: Iceland Doesn’t Need To Repay UK and Dutch Depositors
Agence France-Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Iceland was entitled to refuse to pay immediate deposit guarantees to savers with failed online bank Icesave in Britain and the Netherlands, a European court said Monday [28 Jan 2013]. The Court of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), which covers economic and trading relations between non-EU countries that are a part of the European Economic Area (EEA) single market and their European Union partners, was ruling on Reykjavik’s response to the collapse of the Icelandic banking sector in 2008-9.
→ read full articleCriminals Use Webcams for Spying
Rossen Reports, NBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Authorities are saying criminals can now hack into your webcam remotely, using it to watch your most intimate moments without you ever knowing it.
→ read full articleAnti-Semitism: What It IS and Is NOT
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
“An anti-Semite used to be a person who disliked Jews. Now it is a person who Jews dislike.” Today much (meaning not quite all) of what supporters of Israel right or wrong claim to be anti-Semitism is actually anti-Israelism, which in my view is best described as anti-Zionism. And contrary to the assertions of Zionism’s spin doctors, anti-Zionism is not by definition anti-Semitism. Short or long, any discussion of anti-Semitism should include the fact that Zionism needs it.
→ read full articleGandhi’s Death Anniversary: Reflections
Dr. Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
On 30 January 65 years ago Mahatma Gandhi was shot while attending a prayer in New Delhi. Every day he used to attend prayers, which served two purposes: to pray to God for well being of mankind, and to meet visitors and interact with them.
→ read full article(Português) Islândia Não Tem de Reembolsar Reino Unido e Holanda
Público – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
A Islândia venceu na segunda-feira [28 jan 2013] a batalha legal com o Reino Unido e a Holanda em torno da falência do Icesave, uma delegação online do banco Landsbanki, e não terá de reembolsar os dois países pela falência.
→ read full articleOpen-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on a Draft United Nations Declaration on the Right to Peace
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
First Session 18-21 February 2013. Informal discussion on 7 February 2013. Reference is made to the Note Verbale dated 17 January 2013, concerning the establishment of an Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group with the mandate of progressively negotiating a draft United Nations Declaration on the Right to Peace.
→ read full articleIsrael Must Remove All Jewish Settlers from Occupied West Bank – UN Inquiry
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
31 Jan 2013 – A UN human rights inquiry has called on Israel to remove all Jewish settlers from the West Bank and cease expansion. The report said the settlements violate international law, and are an attempt to drive out Palestinians through intimidation.
→ read full articleIsrael Boycotts UN Human Rights Council
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Israel has become the first country to boycott a UN Human Rights Council review of its rights situation, sparking heated debate among diplomats on how to respond. Its absence on Tuesday [29 Jan 2013], however, came as no surprise as it cut all ties with the 47-member state council last March after the body announced that it would probe how Israeli illegal settlements may be infringing on the rights of the Palestinians.
→ read full articleTransitional Security
Bishnu Pathak, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Prime Minister of Nepal said, “Peace process is ended completing the integration of the Maoist Army (MA)” . PM counted it as a major achievement. Same sentence was also said by Nepali Congress, CPN (UML), and other political parties every day previously. Such speaking raised several questions.
→ read full articleThe Plan to Invade Seven Countries: U.S. General Wesley Clark (Ret.)
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
In an interview with Amy Goodman on March 2, 2007, U.S. General Wesley Clark (Ret.), explains that the Bush Administration planned to take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran.
→ read full articleAn Economic Alternative to Exploitative Free Market Capitalism
Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
The commons movement protects large resources from privatization and allows collectives to regulate extraction. Exploitation is avoided because no one individual has more of a right to the source than any other.
→ read full articleOn a Draft UN Declaration on the Right to Peace
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Of all the many political documents in which Humankind may excel
there is one in which universal human intent is expressed well:
Evils of Liquor
Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
A professor of chemistry wanted to teach his fifth grade class a lesson about the evils of liquor, so he produced an experiment that involved a glass of water, a glass of whiskey, and two worms.
→ read full articleGood Terrorist, Bad Terrorist
Chandra Muzaffar, Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
There is terrorism that is condoned and terrorism that is condemned by Western powers and other states. If violence serves their interests, it is acceptable. If it doesn’t, the militants are targeted. In other words, there are ‘good terrorists’ and ‘bad terrorists’.
→ read full articleMystery of Consciousness: Life versus Non-life
Gaurachandra Das, B. Tech, M.Tech, Electrical Engineer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Albert Einstein says-“I sense these things deeply…the most beautiful and profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power which is revealed in the comprehensible universe forms my idea of God.”
→ read full articleBelgian MP Laurent Louis Talks against War in Mali and Exposes International Neo-Colonial Plot
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
Jan 17, 2013 – 32-year old Belgian MP Laurent Louis, one of the country’s most controversial and demonized political figures, explained why he voted against the Belgian support to the military intervention in Mali.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 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 articleTell the Nation the Truth about the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
Angered by moral and political corruption, disturbing developments and the overall mismanagement of the body politic, Marcellus tells Horatio in utter disgust and disappointment in Shakespeare’s classic play Hamlet: “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
We, the people of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, who have been fighting against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) are feeling very much like Marcellus.
Burnies versus Greenies ?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
The variant “Greenies” is notably employed as a term of deprecation that carries implications of innocence and ignorance to frame the Greens as misinformed and misguided. The question here is facilitating the promotion of Green policies through identifying such a term in relation with such attitudes. The term of deprecation proposed here is “Burnies” — as a variation of “Burn”, analogous to the deprecatory use of “Greenies”. This gives a focus to what Burnies stand for — effectively naming the problem, from the Green perspective.
→ read full article‘Assange Effectively Denied Opportunity to Enjoy Asylum’ – Ecuadorian FM
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
By not allowing passage to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from London to Latin America, where he was granted asylum, Britain infringes same international documents it vigorously lobbied for, Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino tells RT.
→ read full articleThe Arab-Muslim Awakening – And USA-Israel
Johan Galtung, 28 Jan 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia were divided into 15 and 7 states respectively, some now members of NATO and/or EU. States seen as islamist-terrorist are in for the same: Sudan-Somalia broken into 2 and 3 parts. They are both on the list of 7, which the White House ordered the Pentagon to “take out” right after 9/11 (General Wesley Clark, Democracy Now, 2 March 2007): Iraq, Iran, Libya, Lebanon, Syria, Sudan and Somalia; seen as hostile, with state, not private central banks blocking market globalization.
→ read full articleStorm over the Sahara: US, France Creating another Osama?
Eric Margolis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
Belmokhtar was known as a “man of honor,” one of the western-financed jihadists who battled the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980’s and 90’s. He returned to his native Algeria, minus an eye lost in combat, and, with his fellow “Afghani,” sought to overthrow Algeria’s western-backed military regime, a major oil and gas supplier to France. Belmokhtar’s particularly violent Islamist guerilla group, formerly GIC, reformed itself into AQIM – al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, but had nothing to do with Osama bin Laden.
→ read full articleCornel West on Obama vs Luther King
MoxNews – TRANSCEND Media Services,
28 Jan 2013
C-SPAN 19 Jan 2013 – At George Washington University, Washington-DC. Cornel West is a professor at the Union Theological Seminary.
→ read full articleThe Gift
Susan Carew – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
My highest wish is happiness,
It is the gift I give to all,
To see the smiling faces,
To catch them before they fall.
(Italiano) Il Cambiamento Avviene – Ma Come, Perché, Quando, Dove?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
Un secolo fa l’umanità, particolarmente in Occidente, era all’inizio di una grande rivoluzione, dalla cultura del cavallo a quella dell’automobile. Oggi ci sono ancora (FAO-Organizzazione per il cibo e l’agricoltura dell’ONU, 2008) 59 milioni di cavalli, ma (2010) più di un miliardo di auto (nel 1986 solo la metà). In altre parti del mondo, come in Giappone e Cina, c’è stata una rivoluzione verso le auto, ma partendo dalle biciclette – Pechino è passata da 6 milioni di bici a 4 milioni di auto nel giro di 20 anni, solo dal 1990. Dal 1970 al 2010 la quota USA di iscrizioni universitarie su base mondiale è calata dal 26 al 12% mentre la quota cinese è salita da 0 al 18%.
→ read full articleWhat is Peace? International SPEAK UP Award
Susan Carew – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
For the author of this proposal, teaching peace as a World Peace Sustainability Clown was a dream and that came true. As a World Peace Sustainability Clown travelling the World in 2010, peace was experienced as service when connecting with people on the streets, teaching in schools, healing in hospitals and communicating with many diverse audiences.
→ read full articleThe Second Anniversary of Tahrir Square Rising
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
What inspired the world was the spontaneous spirit of unity, a movement guided by exhilarating visions of democracy and freedom and hope, generating a new kind of populism that dispensed with ideology and leaders, a sense that the people of Egypt had acted creatively and bravely to recover their country from the clutches of neoliberal predators and their domestic collaborators.
→ read full articleUsing Material Goods for Social Competition
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
There is something ethically wrong with using material goods for the purpose of social competition at a time when excessive consumption is destroying our planet. The voice of Henry David Thoreau is a useful and wise one. “Most of the luxuries”, Thoreau wrote, “and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries, the wisest have ever lived a simpler and meager life than the poor.
→ read full article[Official Video] Anonymous Operation Last Resort
Aarons ArkAngel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
Jan 26, 2013 – Anonymous takes down US Dept of Justice and US Sentencing Commission websites.
→ read full articleKudankulam Nuclear Power Plant’s Leaks and Repairs: More Questions and No Answers
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
Jan 23 2013 – Since the NPCIL and DAE authorities are tight-lipped about the current condition of the KKNPP, recurrent rumors are making rounds here in our area that that there have been some 40 deaths, that the contract workers at KKNPP have been asked not to report for duty, and that KKNPP-1 has been completely sealed.
→ read full articleAnonymous ‘Operation Last Resort’ Hacks US Gov’t Websites
CNN, MoxNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
26 Jan 2013 – “Sounds like they want a war” in retaliation for Aaron Swartz’ s death.
→ read full article(Português) A Maior Ameaça à Paz Mundial
Noam Chomsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
Recentemente, a Assembleia Geral da ONU aprovou, por 174 votos a seis, uma resolução na qual convida Israel a aderir ao Tratado de Não Proliferação Nuclear. Os Estados Unidos votaram contra. Washington, que tanto fala da ameaça de um Irão nuclear, nada faz para estabelecer uma zona livre de armas nucleares no Médio Oriente.
→ read full articleProfiting Off Hunger: Wall Street Makes Big Gains over Food Price Spikes
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
Powerful firms like Goldman Sachs have made hundreds of millions of dollars in food future trades. Critics accuse them of profiting off starvation and market manipulation, while traders claim their profits are due to increasing consumption in China.
→ read full articleList of Children Killed by Drone Strikes in Pakistan and Yemen (Age & Gender)
Drones Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
Compiled from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports.
→ read full articleBiking to Success in Mozambique
Peace is Profitable – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
The start-up Mozambikes has uncovered an interesting niche market with considerable social impact. By selling high quality bicycles at low prices (999 meticais, or just over $30) it has given the country’s rural population a cost-efficient way of overcoming the scarcity of transportation in this vast country. The firm’s founders describe how the rural population had previously needed to walk several kilometers each with “massive containers of water or bundles of firewood on their heads.”
→ read full articleNO Violence Please – A Word to Muslims
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
You are oppressed
You are depressed
You are stressed
You are distressed
But… NO violence please
The Science of Spiritual Biology
Bhakti Madhava Puri, Ph.D., Science and Scientist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
Applied mathematician, Samuel Arbesman, is an expert in scientometrics, the science of science, or metascience, and he has written a very recent book, The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date, (Sept. 2012), in which he investigates the frequency of changes in scientific facts, paradigms or theories. Knowledge in different fields of science evolves in systematic and predictable ways, and such changes have a powerful impact on our lives.
→ read full articleBeer Festival
Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
After the Great Britain Beer Festival, in London, all the brewery presidents decided to go out for a beer.
→ read full articleThe Republic, Sedition, and Koodankulam: An Interview with Dr. S P Udayakumar
Dianuke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
As the missiles and tanks are geared up to be paraded at the India Gate on the country’s 64th Republic Day, people’s faith in the promise they did to themselves is missing. Last year, people in Koodankulam marked 26th January as Black Day. With more than 10 thousand people booked under sedition and war against the Indian state in Koodankulam, it is time we as a country face the issue head-on. We interviewed S P Udayakumar, leader of the massive nonviolent protest in Koodankulam.
→ read full article“Cyberazzi” – Data Mining Companies Investigated for Invasion of Privacy
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
The paparazzi hide in bushes and use telephoto lenses to snap pictures of celebrities. The “cyberazzi” parachute into web browsers and sneak up behind mobile phones to spy on ordinary people. Nine such data mining companies must report to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission by Feb 1, 2013 what personal information they gather for sale.
→ read full articleWhen I was seven, Jesus cried…
Nahida, the exiled Palestinian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
I used to play
Where Jesus used to pray
I ran up the hills
Where he used to walk
On Syria: What to Do in 2013
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
19 Jan 2013 – I took part last week in an illuminating conference on Syria sponsored by the new Center of Middle East Studies that is part of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. This Center has been recently established, and operates under the excellent leadership of Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel, who previously together edited the best collection of readings on the Green Revolution in Iran published under the title THE PEOPLE RELOADED.
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Operation Gladio: The Cold War ‘Black Op’ Continues
Darrin McBreen, InfoWars – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
15 Jan 2013 – What is NATO? What is the CIA? Author Richard Cottrell tells the story of mayhem, murder and subversion behind the “alliance for peace.” The CIA as the major terrorist organization on the planet.
→ read full articleAll Lawyers Are Crooks
Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
A guy in a bar stands up and says, “All lawyers are crooks.”
→ read full articleInternational Essay Contest for Young People
Goi Peace Foundation, Japan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
Organized by The Goi Peace Foundation and UNESCO – Theme: “The Power of Culture to Create a Better Future”
→ read full articleThe World’s Deadliest Drone: MQ-9 REAPER
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
The MQ-9 Reaper (originally the Predator B) is an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) also known as a Remotely Piloted Vehicle (RPV)) developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) for use by the United States Air Force, the United States Navy, Italian Air Force, and the Royal Air Force. It is the first hunter-killer UAV designed for long-endurance, high-altitude surveillance (see photo).
→ read full articleWhat Is Anti-Semitism?
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
Just how strongly are Germans allowed to criticize Israel? Accusations of anti-Semitism against SPIEGEL columnist Jakob Augstein have brought the question to the fore. He debates the issue with Dieter Graumann, the leader of Germany’s Jewish community.
→ read full article(Português) Cuba Tem a Menor Taxa de Mortalidade Infantil nas Américas
Caros Amigos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
Após 54 anos de revolução e quase 53 de embargo, o índice cubano é melhor que o de países como os Estados Unidos, Canadá e Brasil.
→ read full article(Italiano) Collettivamente Memoria 2013_l’idea e l’impianto
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
Dedicato a Italo Tibaldi e Ida Desandré deportati politici e a Anna Dati staffetta partigiana.
→ read full article“It’s the culture, stupid!”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
I would like to build on this iconic utterance, that captures so much in so few words, by calling attention to the dominate sources of continued mass violence that exists in the USA today. Even as well intentioned public and private response to the Sandy Hook massacre seek solutions in highly specific policies, laws, and practices (e.g., background checks, gun registration, armed guards), these will ultimately prove insufficient, and acts of mass violence will continue. “When you go forward for revenge, dig two graves.” It “trickles down.”
→ read full article(Castellano) VI. La Democracia de Altares
Fernando Montiel T. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
En el Cáucaso las guerras del pasado y del futuro vuelven a todos geopolitólogos: en Bakú todos saben que sus compatriotas al sur de la frontera –los 35 millones en los que Fakhrinur deposita su esperanza– podrían ser la infantería de un ataque estadounidense contra Irán a cambio de que la “comunidad internacional” –es decir, Washington y sus amigos– consienta una ofensiva azerí contra Armenia por Nagorno-Karabaj.
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