Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Why Do We Obey?
Eric Peters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2012
The uniform – and other totems of officialized authority – confer legitimacy upon the illegitimate. It is a startling thing. It reveals that most people are incapable of grasping the concept of a moral principle – that something which is wrong when committed by an unsanctioned individual is just as wrong when committed by a sanctioned individual – or a group of them. If it is wrong to kill, then it is always wrong to kill. If it is wrong to steal, then it is always wrong to steal.
→ read full articleDrone Attacks Generate Enemies for the US
Eric Margolis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2012
While the US hails Pakistan as a key non-NATO ally, the US treats it like a militarily occupied country. The government in Islamabad is left to observe increasing drone attacks and CIA ground operation with deepening embarrassment and helplessness.
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Surviving an Active Shooter Event
US Department of Homeland Security – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2012
RUN… HIDE… FIGHT…! Signs of the Times. Interesting advertisement by the city of Houston, Texas. Apparently mass-shooting has become common place in the Land of the Brave and the Free… The irony is in the ad itself.
→ read full articleParadoxes of Engaging with the Ultimate in any Guise
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2012
Living Life Penultimately – There is a curious dependence on the “ultimate” in a variety of forms. This may be related to anticipation of an ultimate experience, whether in the form of a theory, a spiritual revelation, an encounter with another, a global strategy, or the like. The expectation is that this will be “ultimately” transformative in ways which can only be intuited, but whose consequences are much anticipated.
→ read full articlePMANE Observes Independence Day as Black Day
Dr. S.P. Udayakumar, People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2012
The first anniversary of the current phase of our struggle will be commemorated on August 16, 2012 at Idinthakarai. Several political and social leaders along with writers, artists and activists will be participating in the day-long event.
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Amazing Grace (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Il Divo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2012
Music video by Il Divo performing Amazing Grace at Colosseo di Roma.
→ read full articleWhy Independence Day is a Black Day
Dr. S. P. Udayakumar, PMANE – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2012
The corruption-ridden, anti-Indian, pro-foreign, pro-MNC government of the UPA does not enjoy absolute majority in the Parliament and hence should not be allowed to take crucial national decisions at the far end of their tenure in power. It has lost its credibility, legitimacy, respect and trust among the people of India and it is compromising our independence, sovereignty and the fundamental freedoms.
→ read full articleWith Death, Love Does Not Die…
David Inkey – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2012
With death, love does not die,
we cry tears of deep grief for our own relief,
memory is a bridge cresting on a special ridge,
with death, love does not die…
The Hexagon Map of the Multipolar World
Johan Galtung, 13 Aug 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2012
Some time ago the geopolitical map was based on the direct East-West conflict, the two superpowers USA/USSR with alliances, and the neutral-nonaligned treated as a residual category. The world was Bipolar. The implosion of the USSR made it Unipolar, “the only surviving superpower”, 2-1 = 1. Or so we were told. Today we have four huge states: the three largest in population, China-India-USA, and the largest in area, Russia. And the EU, a region with five middle-range states: UK-France-Germany-Italy-Spain. But there is one more pole on the geopolitical map: Islam.
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U.S. Guns: The Awful, Shocking Truth!
Gunwar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2012
Over the last 5 to 6 years, over 60,000 people have lost their lives in Mexico’s drug-related wave of violence. More than 70% of the weapons seized in Mexico in the last three years and submitted for tracing came from the U.S. Source: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives-ATF.
→ read full article(Italian) Concerto per Elisabetta. La musica e l’eternità della vita
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2012
Dell’eternità della vita attraverso la musica – Il suono – la vibrazione – pare non si fermi mai. Pare che viaggi in eterno. Nello spazio infinito.
→ read full articleThe Two Faces of a Police State: Sheltering Tax Evaders, Financial Swindlers, and Money Launderers while Policing the Citizens
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2012
Never in the history of the United States have we witnessed crimes committed on the scale and scope of the present day by both private and state elites.
→ read full articleReconciliation, Reform and Resilience: Positive Peace for Lebanon
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2012
With the growing intensity of the conflicts in Syria, with the flows of refugees and increased foreign participation, the dangers of serious, negative impact on neighbouring countries is real. This impact is already being felt in Lebanon which has its own multi-level divisions and scars from its own long civil war (1975-1990).
→ read full articleWest Provoking Civil War in Syria
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
George Galloway has conducted an interview with Jonathan Steele, former foreign editor of the Guardian and author of Ghosts of Afghanistan.
→ read full articleEscape From Economics
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
The problem is that the discipline both lags an ever-changing world and got some things wrong at the beginning. Consequently, learning economics places one inside a box where some of the tools and understanding provided are outdated and incorrect. My advice to readers who wish to develop economic comprehension is to begin with the outside-the-box economists who are addressing real issues. As Lenin and others predicted, industrial capitalism has turned into finance capitalism.
→ read full articleObama Authorizes Secret US Support for Syrian Rebels
Newsmax – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
Obama’s order, approved earlier this year and known as an intelligence “finding,” broadly permits the CIA and other U.S. agencies to provide support that could help the rebels oust Assad. This and other developments signal a shift toward growing, albeit still circumscribed, support for Assad’s armed opponents.
→ read full articleBeyond Words: Poet’s Lament
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
Poetry at its finest stretches the expressiveness of language beyond its prior limits, not necessarily by its choice of words, but through the magical invocation of feelings embedded deeply within consciousness. When we do not respect the unspeakable by our silence we domesticate the criminality of the horror that human beings are capable of inflicting on one another, and give way to the eventual emergence of normalcy as has happened with nuclear weapons detached from the happenings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
→ read full articleAmerican Dream Evolving into Nightmare
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
In fact, violence breeds violence and more violence breeds more violence. The military is the only agency that performs atrocities with no accountability. Some political scientists described the military as “a terrorist organization sanctioned by the government.” The US huge expenditure on the military has transformed the American dream into a nightmare, which is making millions of Americans suffer for a very long time.
→ read full articleThe Nuremberg Principles and Individual Responsibility
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
The Nuremberg Principles are being used today as the basis for the International Criminal Court’s trials of individuals accused of genocide and war crimes in the former Yugoslavia and elsewhere. According to them, it is not only the right, but also the duty of individuals to make moral and legal judgments concerning wars in which they are asked to fight. All of us are responsible for what our governments do! I personally would like to extend the principle of individual responsibility still further, whether the problems are related to the abolition of war, to the prevention of poverty, the prevention of famine, or to saving the biosphere.
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Pro-Palestinian Ads Ignite Firestorm of Controversy
CBS2 News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
An explosive ad about Israel is now igniting a firestorm of controversy. The display shows shrinking Palestinian territory in Israel over the years and refers to 4.7 million Palestinians there as refugees.
→ read full articleTurkey Provides Surface-to-air Missiles for Syrian Insurgents
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
Rebels fighting to depose Syrian president Bashar al Assad have for the first time acquired a small supply of surface-to-air missiles, according to a news report that a Western official did not dispute. NBC News reported that the rebel Free Syrian Army had obtained nearly two dozen of the weapons, which were delivered to them via neighbouring Turkey
→ read full articleNepal: From Contradictions to Compelling Constructive Visions
Naakow Grant-Hayford, Galtung-Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
Federica Riccadonna is a research associate of the Galtung-Institut for Peace Theory and Peace Practice and currently a visiting researcher at the Asian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Transformation-ASPECT in Kathmandu. She depicts the Nepalese society as one in the throes of a deeply fraught political transition towards a more stable and just future and identifies important contradictions underpinning – and potentially able to undermine – the current constitutional and federal peace-building efforts, going on to suggest plausible progressive ways ahead.
→ read full articleCan Syria be a Zone of Peace?
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
Instead of viewing the Syrian conflict as a national interest crucible, the time has come that it must be seen as an international challenge to be met by international players in a framework of cooperation. Towards this, making Syria a zone of peace may prove a clincher, with no side losing, but all sides gaining, and peace constituency getting stronger.
→ read full articleScorched Earth Economics
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
Neoliberals claim that we are best served by maximising market freedom and minimising the role of the state. The free market, left to its own devices, will deliver efficiency, choice and prosperity. All tasks would be better discharged by private enterprise. The quest for Year Zero market purity was dangerous enough in theory; distorted by the grubby realities of life on earth it is devastating to the welfare of both people and planet.
→ read full articleThe Cartel – Behind the Scenes in the Libor Interest Rate Scandal
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
There have been plenty of banking scandals, but none quite like this: Investigators and political leaders believe that the manipulation of the Libor benchmark interest rate was the result of organized fraud. Institutions that participated could face billions in fines and penalties.
→ read full articleFukushima: Precious Time Has Been Lost
Dr. Michel Fernex – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
Since 1959, an agreement signed between the World Health Organization and the International Atomic Energy Agency, and then a number of additional legal texts, prohibit WHO from intervening in nuclear accidents. Researchers have been surprised to find that genetic damage, and above all perigenetic damage, which is responsible for genomic instability, to descendants, is far worse than to parents; and this risk increases from one generation to the next.
→ read full articleThe Nordic Countries in a World in Crisis
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
Knowing that India and China can meet alone the world’s demand for industrial goods at higher quality/price ratios, and that the South is able to fulfill a world demand for resources and agricultural products, one Western approach was to switch from real to finance economy. Building on the old City of London-Wall Street traditions in private banking and using debt bondage as power, cheap credit and speculation has been another approach, but it backfired.
→ read full article12 Mindsets Ensuring Disappearance of Employment Opportunities
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
Towards a Systemic Reframing of the Job Culture – Produced in a period when the proportion of jobless in the Eurozone has reached a record level.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Willy Brandt Vinte Anos Depois
Johan Galtung, Forum Abel Varzim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
Morreu há já vinte anos, o grande estadista alemão. A Alemanha, a Europa e o mundo têm amplos motivos de gratidão e muito a aprender com este mestre da política, em condições de grande tensão e polarização. O que era a sua “Ostpolitik” – uma nova fórmula de política para com o Leste? Ele tornou a Alemanha de Leste razoável, ao ser ele próprio razoável. Brandt tornou possível o Kohl de 1989.
→ read full articleAt Stake in Mali: Refugees at Every Border
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
The humanitarian crisis in Mali is developing at an alarmingly fast pace. Northern Mali promises to be the graveyard of scores of innocent people if African countries don’t collectively challenge Western influence in the region.
→ read full articleTime Clock of Mind
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
For the young men who have been victims of physical abuse, and experienced inner trauma.
→ read full articleHorror: Shocking Photos and Testimony from Afghanistan’s Dawood US Military Hospital Scandal
Rebecca Elliott & Michael Hastings, BuzzFeed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
If you look at only one story about the Afghan War this year, make it this one. An explosive Congressional investigation revealed horrific new details this week [27 Jul 2012] about a U.S. funded military hospital in Afghanistan that kept patients in “Auschwitz-like” conditions. Warning: Graphic images.
→ read full article(French) La Crise de L’Euro Fait Gagner Beaucoup D’Argent à l’Allemagne
L'Expansion – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
L’Allemagne ne fait pas que payer pour régler la crise de la zone euro. Si un éclatement lui coûterait cher, Elle profite en attendant de conséquences très positives pour elle.
→ read full articleHiroshima Day & Postcard Campaign
Dr. S. P. Udayakumar, PMANE – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
Demanding Copy of Indo-Russian Inter-Governmental Liability Agreement on Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plants 1 & 2 – August 6, 2012 – The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy is commemorating the Hiroshima Day 2012 as the “Nuclear-Free Tamil Nadu Day.”
→ read full articleGlenn Paige Nonkilling Schools: A Plea
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
To establish a school aimed at genocide-prevention education
calls for a compassionate, courageous, Nonkilling transformation
In the village of Kazimia, Eastern Congo, a Glenn Paige Nonkilling
School can be found
‘End of Capitalism’: Bolivia to Expel Coca-Cola
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
In a symbolic rejection of US capitalism, Bolivia announced it will expel the Coca-Cola Company from the country at the end of the Mayan calendar. “December 21 of 2012 will be the end of egoism and division, it should be the end of Coca-Cola,” Bolivian foreign minister David Choquehuanca decreed. Last year, Bolivia became the second Latin American country not to have a single McDonald’s.
→ read full articlePreventing another Hiroshima
Rebecca Johnson, Int’l Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
Sixty-seven years ago, on August 6, the first uranium bomb was exploded above Hiroshima with the force of 15 thousand tons of TNT. Three days later, Nagasaki was shattered by a plutonium bomb. Over the next 40 years, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (US, Soviet Union, Britain, France and China) amassed some 70,000 nuclear weapons with a combined explosive force of 15 million tons. Between them Israel, Pakistan and India could have 300-400 nuclear weapons. [Enough to obliterate the planet 12 TIMES OVER]
→ read full articleThe Politics of the Economic Crisis
Johan Galtung, 30 Jul 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
The transfer of capital from investment in the real economy to speculation in the finance economy done digitally, in microseconds, is to a labor-free economy. Workers, the plague of industrial capitalists, quarrelsome, on strike, always demanding more, are out. The longer the buying and selling chains in the finance economy, the more commissions-and hence, “economic growth”-, the fewer jobs. A handful can do it; Lehman Brothers taking huge risks that are compensated by huge Goldman Sachs bonuses.
→ read full article(Castellano) Educación para la Paz: Una Propuesta en Cuatro Pasos
Fernando Montiel T. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Crítica sin propuesta conduce a la apatía – Sin importar qué tan bien intencionada, la crítica por sí misma no necesariamente es constructiva, y de hecho, criticar sin ofrecer alternativas puede incluso ser irresponsable. La crítica sin propuesta es destructiva, y la propuesta sin crítica es endeble.
→ read full articlePhysically Handicapped in Perspective
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Those people who are physically handicapped in any way whatsoever, may still perform excellently as everyone else. We have many examples of this reality in the history of our earthly community. Once we become convinced that the handicapped are psychologically normal people in no lesser way that we are, our ability to deal with such situations becomes more natural and more spontaneous.
→ read full article(Italian) Non Molta Pace? Anche Colpa Dei Mediatori
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Più difficile è sostenere una pace positiva: cooperazione per vantaggi reciproci e uguali e armonia, consonanza emotiva. Gli studi per la pace non sono soli in questa difficile situazione. Gli studi sulla sanità si concentrano molto più sull’assenza di malattia che sulla presenza di salute positiva, con solo vaghi sforzi per configurarla esplicitamente. Come la psicologia: profusa sui disordini mentali, ma tuttora carente sull’assetto psicologico positivo. Si possono individuare quattro spiegazioni, non giustificazioni.
→ read full articleWhat Dani Dayan Says and Why It Is Interesting
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Dani Dayan’s article, “Israel’s Settlers Are Here to Stay,” was published by the NY Times on July 26, 2012. Dayan is the chairman of the Yesha Council of Jewish Communities, and has been long known as a leading spokesperson of the settler movement. An obvious response to such a settler screed might be to dismiss it out of hand as an extremist expression of Israeli views, which it certainly is, but it would seem a mistake to do this before taking some account of its content and timing.
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Wall Street Legend Sandy Weill: Break Up Big Banks
CNBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
It’s nothing less than a remarkable about-face. One of the architects of mega banking is now calling for the breakup of the world’s largest banks. Sandy Weill, formerly CEO of Citigroup and Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of NY, told CNBC:
→ read full articleHow to Survive Long Haul Flights
Colleen Murphy, International Man - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Four Mandatory Rules
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(Castellano) Johan Galtung en Argentina – 2009
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Fragmento del ” Seminario Avanzado de Transformación Pacífica de Conflictos” dictado por el profesor Johan Galtung para la carrera de “Especialización en Negociación” en la Facultad de Agronomía de la Universidad de Buenos Aires.
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Does The Higgs Boson Rule Out The Existence Of God?
Deepak Chopra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
What is the Higgs Boson and why is it called “the God particle”? Deepak Chopra explains the elusive and ephemeral existence of this newly discovered particle, which imbues other particles with mass.
→ read full articleBlair, Olympic Deals and the Glimpse of another Britain
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
In the New Statesman of 21 June, I reported an urgent appeal to Sebastian Coe, the former athlete who chairs the London Olympics Organising Committee, by the Vietnam Women’s Union that he and his IOC colleagues reconsider their decision to accept sponsorship from Dow Chemical, one of the companies that manufactured Agent Orange, a poison used against the population of Vietnam.
→ read full articleWill Libya Become Another Somalia? Or Worse?
Counter Currents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Libya seems well on its way to becoming the next Somalia, with much of the country already ruled by tribal/clan based armed militias. As was the case in Somalia, Libya is in the process of separation, with the eastern, oil rich, Cyrenica region having issued a de facto declaration of independence. Tripoli, the capital of Libya, seems to be headed in the direction of where Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia was 20 years ago, with various well armed militias from outside the city taking up residence and clashing over territory and the spoils of power.
→ read full articleToward a Gandhian Geopolitics: A Feasible Utopia?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
There is no doubt that I would like to live in a borderless soft power world that was consistently attentive to human suffering, protective of the global commons, and subject to the discipline of global constitutional democracy. As global conditions now confirm, such a benign fantasy lacks political traction at present, and is thus an irresponsible worldview from the perspective of humane problem solving.
→ read full articleWoman with No Gold
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
For the Poverty-Stricken Women in India Who Work as Domestic Maids
→ read full articleRhymed Reflections: Dignity in Human Rights, Literature and Spirituality
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Human Rights educators/practitioners,
In your advocacy, efforts, initiatives for/in/through Human Rights, much
more dignity you can bring…
Syria: Washington’s Latest War Crime
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
One wonders what Syrians are thinking as “rebels” vowing to “free Syria” take the country down the same road to destruction as “rebels” in Libya. Libya, under Gaddafi a well run country whose oil revenues were shared with the Libyan people instead of monopolized by a princely class as in Saudi Arabia, now has no government and is in disarray with contending factions vying for power.
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The Story of Change
Story of Stuff Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Can shopping save the world? The Story of Change urges viewers to put down their credit cards and start exercising their citizen muscles to build a more sustainable, just and fulfilling world.
→ read full articleA Brief Further Comment on Syria
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Military intervention rarely succeeds, violates the right of self-determination, and often expands the scope and severity of violence, especially if carried out from the air. Furthermore, we know little about the opposition in Syria, to what extent its governance of the country would be based on the rule of law and human rights. There are confusing reports about rebel atrocities as well as concerning the role of Al Qaeda operatives leading some of the rebel forces, and also indications that Gulf money and weapons have been supplied to these forces ever since the beginning of the anti-Damascus uprising.
→ read full articleFacing a Set of Linked Problems
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Today, a number of serious and interconnected problems are facing human civilization and the biosphere. Because they are linked, we need to look at all of these problems together, and to find holistic solutions.
→ read full articleIt’s the Guns – But We All Know, It’s Not Really the Guns…
Michael Moore – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
The United States is responsible for over 80% of all the gun deaths in the 23 richest countries combined. Both conservatives and liberals in America ceaselessly remind you that a gun cannot fire itself – that “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” Of course, they know they’re being intellectually dishonest. I would just alter that slogan slightly to speak the real truth: “Guns don’t kill people, Americans kill people.”
→ read full articleCelebrated Spanish Judge Garzon to Head Assange Legal Team
Agence France Press-AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Famous Spanish human rights investigator Baltasar Garzon will lead the legal team representing WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, the whistleblower website announced on Tuesday [24 Jul 2012]. Garzon, best known for issuing an international arrest warrant against former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, recently met with Assange at the Ecuadoran embassy to discuss a new legal strategy, according to a statement approved by both men.
→ read full articleRecession Breaks In
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Recession breaks in
grey bar charts in a row fall down
as do computer monitors, file cabinets and screams
from window of sky-high building
like someone threw up after ugly reality;
(French) LIBOR: Le Drapeau Rouge Flotte Sur Bruxelles…
Liberation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
« De vrais salauds ! », s’exclame ce haut fonctionnaire européen qui n’en revient toujours pas. Cinq ans après l’éclatement de la bulle des « subprimes » américaines, quatre ans après l’explosion des bulles immobilières irlandaises et espagnoles, trois ans après le début des attaques spéculatives contre la zone euro, la Commission croyait que les banques ne pourraient plus la surprendre. Loupé!
→ read full articleJustice for Assange!
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
I would add my voice to those of many people of conscience around the world to urge Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa to grant him political asylum. Mr. Assange’s only crime is to care enough about people and their right to the truth. He had the courage and bravery to print many truths that embarrassed powerful governments.
→ read full articleSri Lanka: Militarizing the Land and Terrorizing the Minds
Nirmanusan Balasundaram – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Even three years after a destructive and protracted war, the repressive and intransigent character of the ethnocratic Sri Lankan state remains same and nothing but naked brutality lies at its heart.
→ read full articleWar on All Fronts
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
The Russian government has finally caught on that its political opposition is being financed by the US taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy and other CIA/State Department fronts in an attempt to subvert the Russian government and install an American puppet state in the geographically largest country on earth, the one country with a nuclear arsenal sufficient to deter Washington’s aggression.
→ read full articleSyria, Late in the Day: Are Negotiations Still Possible?
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
A useful next step would be to explore the possibility of setting an agenda of issues that could be the basis of negotiations. The setting of such an agenda may be more productive than the current proposal of creating by mutual agreement a government of transition: issues before new ministers.
→ read full articleKoodankulam: The Inside Story
Anuj Wankhede, Dianuke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Recently, E Amudhan R.P was in Mumbai for the public screening of ‘Radiation Stories Part 3–Koodankulam’ and shared with me his views on what has made the Koodankulam struggle such a success and the inside details about the struggle. It should serve as a guide for other agitations and for film makers who can learn from the strategies used by the people of Koodankulam and those used by the government in this epic David vs Golaith struggle.
→ read full articleThe NRA’s Dark Gun Culture
Bill Moyers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
The United States has emerged to become the most violent nation on earth where millions are equipped with lethal weapons to massacre brutally as many people as they wish. In spite of its military might, the US government cannot do anything about it since it functions under the ruthless thumb of the National Rifle Association (NRA) whose sole objective is to boost by all means the business of the weapons’ industry.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Por Dentro do Cérebro
Luciana Pessanha – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Você acredita em Deus? PN: Geralmente depois de dez horas de cirurgia, aquele estresse, aquela adrenalina toda, quando acabamos de operar, vai até a família e diz: “Ele está salvo”. Aí, a família olha pra você e diz: “Graças a Deus!”. Então, a gente acredita que não fomos apenas nós.
→ read full articleConvergence of 30 Disabling Global Trends
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
In a period characterized by a global crisis of crises, there is a case for exploring any means of articulating the set of those crises and the possibilities for their comprehension as a system. Of particular concern is the tendency to consider that there is far too much “bad news” and that the quest should be to set it aside as much as possible and focus on the “good news” offering hope for the future.
→ read full articleThe Libor Scandal in Full Perspective
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
The article about the Libor scandal, coauthored with Nomi Prins, received much attention, with Internet repostings, foreign translation, and video interviews. To further clarify the situation, this article brings to the forefront implications that might not be obvious to those without insider experience and knowledge.
→ read full articleOn Writing Peace Poetry
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
When poetry for peace we write
We mean a much deeper might
West’s Mistake: Focus on Al Qaeda
Dr Robin-Edward Poulton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
The Real Big Problem Is Saudi Arabia – One of our really big foreign policy mistakes in the West has been to focus on Al Qaeda, as if it were an isolated phenomenon.
→ read full articleNot Much Peace? Also the Mediators’ Fault
Johan Galtung, 23 Jul 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Most difficult is to argue positive peace: cooperation for mutual and equal benefit and harmony, emotional resonance. Peace studies are not alone in this predicament. Health studies focus much more on absence of disease than on presence of positive health, with only vague efforts to spell it out. Like psychology: long on mental disorders, but still short on positive psychology. There are, say, four explanations, not justifications, around.
→ read full article‘After 9/11 NSA Had Secret Deal with White House’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
RT talks to Andrew Drake, a former National Security Agency executive in the US who sacrificed his career to blow the whistle on wrong-doings inside the NSA. He was sentenced to a year probation on July 2011.
→ read full article125 Days of Confinement
Dr. S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
July 21, 2012 marked the 125th day of my and Pushparayan’s self-exile here at Idinthakarai. All our comrades who were arrested and lodged in the jails of Cuddalore, Nanguneri and Tiruchirappalli have come back and resumed their routine life. Ever since March 19, 2012, when the Tamil Nadu government changed its stand on the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) issue, we have been protected by the people, mostly women and children. They come in thousands and sleep around the Parish Priest’s Bungalow where Rayan and I stay and sleep.
→ read full articleOn Types of Humiliation: A Checklist
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Who has been subjected to what type of humiliation? A checklist (nouns ending in -ATION)
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Vandana Shiva on the Problem with Genetically-Modified Seeds (Video of the Week)
Bill Moyers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Bill talks to scientist and philosopher Vandana Shiva, who’s become a rock star in the global battle over genetically modified seeds. These seeds — considered “intellectual property” by the big companies who own the patents — are globally marketed to monopolize food production and profits.
→ read full articleLimits to Growth and Climate Change
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
According to the “empty-world” picture of economics, the limiting factors in the production of food and goods are shortages of capital and labor. The land, forests, fossil fuels, minerals, oceans filled with fish, and other natural resources upon which human labor and capital operate, are assumed to be present in such large quantities that they are not limiting factors
→ read full articleThe Creeping Conquest of Palestine
Socialist Worker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Israel’s illegal settlements in occupied territory–and the U.S. government’s tolerance for them–are shining examples of the might-makes-right principle of colonialism. Israel’s project of colonial expansion has been thrust back onto the international stage by a report from a committee headed by a former Israeli Supreme Court justice recommending the legalization of Jewish-only settlements in the West Bank.
→ read full articleWhat About N-Waste from Kudankulam, HC Asks Centre
The Times of India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Where will the nuclear waste from the Kudankulam nuclear power plant be kept and what are the Centre’s plans to process the spent fuel to ensure that it does not damage the environment? This is what the Madras high court, hearing a batch of public interest petitions on the nuclear plant, wants to know from the Centre.
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Chickpeace – Peace vs. War Journalism
Oded LevRan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
This is a visual communication studies final project at the Holon Institute of Technology (HIT), Israel, by Oded LevRan. The video presents the main principles of Peace Journalism using hummus, which is a staple dish for both Israelis and Palestinians, as an analogy to reality.
→ read full articleArming Civil Society Worldwide
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
This exploration is concerned with the conditions required for comprehension and uptake of American-style democracy worldwide as a basis for the viability of the emergent American empire. The focus is on a unique feature of the American Constitution which ensures that citizens have the right to bear arms. [Plus: Addendum on last week’s mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado-USA (July 2012)]
→ read full articleFor What?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Why am I giving the Palestinians so much more attention and psychic energy than the Kurds, Tibetans, or Kashmiris, and a host of other worthy causes? And how do I explain to myself a preoccupation with the unlawful, immoral, and imprudent foreign policy of the U.S. Government, the sovereign state of my residence upon whose governmental resources I depend upon for security and a range of rights?
→ read full articleDo Business Schools Incubate Criminals?
Luigi Zingales, Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
The recent scandals at Barclays Plc, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and other banks might give the impression that the financial sector has some serious morality problems. Unfortunately, it’s worse than that: We are dealing with a drop in ethical standards throughout the business world, and our graduate schools are partly to blame.
→ read full articleGates Foundation Pours $10 Million into Genetically Modified Crops
Common Dreams staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Vandana Shiva: Bill Gates “is so totally wrong on this assumption that genetically modified seeds produce more.” In a decision outraging campaigners for food sovereignty and agroecological approaches, the Gates Foundation has awarded a $10 million grant to develop genetically modified (GM) crops for use in sub-Saharan Africa.
→ read full articleQuiet Planning For Post-Assad Syria Has Roots in 2008 Conference
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
For the last six months, 40 senior representatives of various Syrian opposition groups have been meeting quietly in Germany under the tutelage of the U.S. Institute for Peace (USIP) to plan for how to set up a post-Assad Syrian government.
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DEA Agents Out Of Control in Honduras
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
The war on terror isn’t the only battle claiming innocent lives: the war on drugs in Latin America continues to rage on. In the past month, officers with the US Drug Enforcement Agency have shot and killed several innocent people in Honduras. To talk more about this, Adrienne Pine, professor at American University, joins us to discuss.
→ read full articleAustralian Aborigines Learn By Cuban Method
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
A total of 10 Australian aborigines between 25 and 53 years of age ended their basic studies of reading and writing through the Cuban literacy method, “Yo sí puedo” (yes I can), José Chala, coordinator of the program in this nation confirmed today [6 Jul 2012].
→ read full article(Portuguese) Corpo e Alma
Dr. Jorge Carvajal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Entrevista com Dr. Jorge Carvajal, médico cirurgião da Universidade de Andaluzia, Espanha, pioneiro da Medicina Bioenergética. –Qual adoece primeiro: o corpo ou a alma?
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Kucinich Explains “LIBOR”
DJKucinich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Late last month, Barclay’s Bank, a multinational bank and financial institution based in the United Kingdom, admitted to regulators that it tried to manipulate something called “Libor” before and during the financial crisis in 2008. ”Libor” is an acronym for London Interbank Offered Rate. It is a rate used as a benchmark for the cost of lending throughout the financial system, and it is also used as a reference rate for a wide range of financial products like car loans, adjustable-rate mortgages, student loans and credit cards.
→ read full articleGlaxoSmithKline Fraud Case: Does Crime Pay?
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
A business model of criminal activity: Are record fines enough to stop multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical companies from committing fraud? As the pharmaceutical giant is fined a record sum of $3bn, we ask if the move will be a deterrent for others.
→ read full articleA 12 inch ___
TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Two friends were playing golf when one pulled out a cigar.
→ read full articleFormer Monsanto Employee Exposes Fraud
Sarah Damian, Food Integrity Campaign – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
“I saw what was really the fraud associated with genetic engineering: My impression, and I think most people’s impression with genetically engineered foods is that it’s just like putting one gene in there and that one gene is expressed. But in reality, the process of genetic engineering changes the cell in such a way that it’s unknown what the effects are going to be.”
→ read full articleThe Great Transformation: From the Welfare State to the Imperial Police State
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
The United States has experienced the biggest political upheaval in its recent history: the transformation of a burgeoning welfare state into a rapidly expanding, highly intrusive and deeply entrenched police state, linked to the most developed technological innovations.
→ read full article(Italian) Willy Brandt 20 Anni Dopo
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
È morto vent’anni fa, il grande statista tedesco. La Germania, l’Europa e il mondo hanno ampi motivi di riconoscenza e molto da imparare da questo maestro di politica in condizioni di gran tensione e polarizzazione. Che cos’era la sua formula di Ostpolitik – una nuova politica verso l’Est? Brandt rese più facile alla Germania dell’Est la resa a quella Ovest quando i tempi furono maturi, l’accettazione dell’articolo 23 della Germania Federale che concepiva l’Est come parte dell’Ovest.
→ read full articleRhymed Reflections
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Mediators, To Conflict Resolution Theory and Practice, more dignity you can bring…
→ read full articleBrazil Set to Unleash Genetically Modified Mosquitoes
Common Dreams staff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Oxitec continues “dangerously misguided” plan to combat dengue fever. Brazil is readying a plan to unleash large numbers of genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes in an effort to combat dengue fever, a plan that environmentalists have previously called “dangerously misguided.”
→ read full articleImplication of Indwelling Intelligence in Global Confidence-building
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Sustaining the Construction and Dynamic of Psychosocial Reality through Questioning – This is a reflection on the meaning that could be associated with “indwelling” and more specifically with “indwelling intelligence” — and what might then be its “global” implications. A primary concern is the increasingly apparent disconnect between words — often characterized as “empty” — and commitments in a political context from which viable global strategies are expected to emerge.
→ read full articleCredit Card Giants Agree On $6bn Settlement
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Credit card companies Visa and MasterCard have agreed to pay more than $6bn to US retailers in a negotiated settlement to resolve a seven-year-old case. Visa agreed to pay $4.03bn to settle the class-action lawsuit while MasterCard and banks that issue cards and were also part of the suit will pay $2.02bn, according to documents filed in federal court in New York on Friday [13 Jul 2012].
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Donations by Visa, MasterCard May Resume, Court Rules
Loek Essers, PCWorld – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Icelandic payments processor Valitor must reopen a gateway handling Visa and MasterCard donations to Wikileaks, a judge ruled Thursday [12 Jul 2012]. However, the gateway will probably remain closed while Valitor appeals the case, an attorney for DataCell, the Icelandic company hosting WikiLeaks’ donations website, said on Friday [13 Jul 2012]. The court ruled that Valitor must resume processing payments for Wikileaks’ partner DataCell within two weeks, according to the ruling.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Aborígenes Australianos Aprendem a Ler e Escrever com Método Cubano
Irã News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Um total de 10 aborígenes australianos entre 25 e 53 anos concluíram seus estudos básicos de leitura e escrita através do método cubano de alfabetização“Yo sí puedo” “Sim, eu posso”, confirmou hoje [6 Julho 2012] José Chala, coordenador do programa nesta nação.
→ read full articleKoodankulam Reactor Vessel: Faulty, Illegal and Dangerous
Dr. V T Padmanabhan, DiaNuke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
A month ago, when our first report was written, we had no information about the quality of the rector pressure vessel (RPV) installed at KKNPP (Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project) during the month of Aug 2006.Vessels of that vintage would not have been allowed in post-Chernobyl Russia after the 1988 updating of pressure vessel standards. Such sub-standard pressure vessels are not permissible in the major markets. In this case, if the reactor is started, it will be next to impossible to inspect it. Hence the emergency.
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