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Going Naked
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2011
I’ve seen how groups purporting to be spontaneous gatherings of grassroots activists, fighting the regulation of tobacco or demanding that governments should take no action on climate change, have in fact been created and paid for by corporations: a practice known as astroturfing. A voluntary register is a small step towards transparency. What I would really like to see is a mandatory list of journalists’ financial interests, similar to the House of Commons registry. I believe that everyone who steps into public life should be obliged to show who is paying them, and how much.
→ read full articleOctober 1-8, 2011: Keep Space for Peace Week
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2011
International Week of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space – Keep Space for Peace Week is co-sponsored by the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (UK), Swedish Peace Council, Drone Campaign Network (UK), and United Against Drones (U.S.).
→ read full articleObama’s Speech, Abu Mazen’s Gamble
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2011
A work of art. The art of hypocrisy. Almost every statement in the passage concerning the Israeli-Palestinian issue was a lie. A blatant lie: the speaker knew it was a lie, and so did the audience. It was Obama at his best, Obama at his worst… Israel needs peace. Israel needs to live side by side with the Palestinian people, within the Arab world. Israel cannot rely forever on the unconditional support of the declining United States. Obama knows this full well. He knows what is good for Israel, even if Netanyahu doesn’t. Yet he has handed the keys of the car to the drunken driver.
→ read full articleGoing Rogue: Share Traders More Reckless Than Psychopaths, Study Shows
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2011
What makes individual stockbrokers blow billions in financial markets with criminal trading schemes? According to a new study conducted at a Swiss university, it may be because share traders behave more recklessly and are more manipulative than psychopaths.
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Wall Street Mocks Protesters by Drinking Champagne
The Struggle Video Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2011
Wall Street has shown Americans how they feel about protests. This video shows unidentified occupants watching protests from the balconies of Wall Street in amusement while sipping champagne.
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Hundreds Held In Anti-Wall Street Protests
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2011
New York City police say about 500 protesters have been arrested after they swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge and shut down a lane of traffic for several hours. Police say some demonstrators spilled onto the roadway Saturday night [1 Oct 2011] after being told to stay on the pedestrian pathway.
→ read full articleSmall Price
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2011
A pole goes to a bank with 100 zlotys and asks, “What is the safest thing to do with my money?” “Deposit it in a bank,” the teller says.
→ read full articleSign Our Petition to End Fiesta Cruelty
Humane Society International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2011
Help end the Toro de le Vega fiesta in the Castilla y León region of Spain, where bulls are pursued, taunted and tormented by spear-wielding men and then stabbed to death in an annual spectacle every September.
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Meltdown – The Men Who Crashed the World
AlJazeeraEnglish – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2011
The first of a four-part investigation into a world of greed and recklessness that brought down the financial world.
→ read full articleCrisis Thinkers or Thinkers in Crisis?
Dr. Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2011
Last Friday [23 Sep 2011], the International Crisis Group’s Myanmar: Major Reform Underway made me sit up and read. But once I got past the title I realized the report suffers from multiple shortcomings so fundamental to comprehending Burma’s/Myanmar’s crises – note the plural here – that it lacked a credible basis either for exile excitement or any serious international policy discussions. Here is a shortlist of ICG’s intellectual sins.
→ read full articleUS Consolidated Domination of Global Arms Market In 2010
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2011
The United States consolidated its domination of a shrinking global arms market in 2010, signing 21.3 billion dollars in new weapons orders with foreign countries, according to the latest edition of an annual report on conventional weapons transfers by the Congressional Research Service (CRS). As in previous years, developing countries were the biggest buyers on the international arms market in 2010, accounting for 76 percent of all new arms agreements.
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“Governments don’t rule the world; Goldman Sachs rules the world.”
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2011
In a scary and painfully frank interview a freaked out BBC interviewer is visibly shaken when market trader Alessio Rastani predicts that the “Market is Toast.” Apparently, there is nothing Euro governments can do. “Anyone can make money from a crash,” he affirms. The worst thing to do now is nothing. People should act to protect themselves against an inevitable crisis still approaching.
→ read full articleReflections on the Abbas Statehood/Membership Speech to the UN General Assembly
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2011
There is a natural disposition for supporters of the Palestinian struggle for self-determination to suppose that the Palestinian statehood bid must be a positive initiative because it has generated such a frantic Israel effort to have it rejected.
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Spanish Region Says Adios to Bullfighting
Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2011
Spain’s northeastern region of Catalonia has banned bullfighting. Animal rights activists had pushed for the step, but observers also believe the move fits with the area’s desire to be distinct from the rest of the country.
→ read full articleMy First AK-47: Kids Awarded Guns in Somali Recruitment Game
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2011
Islamists fighting a civil war in Somalia have come up with a new way to find young new recruits. To stir up interest, they have reportedly resorted to using games, offering automatic weapons, hand grenades and cash as prizes to children who call in to take part in the fun.
→ read full articleThe Palestinians Go For Statehood
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service(1),
3 Oct 2011
Both Palestine and Israel claim that the other is denying their right to security. However, the Palestinians have also been denied in some shape or form every other internationally recognized human right, and that is so because the US has monopolized the mediator role, producing no tangible results according to the 1967 guidelines set forth by the UN.
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Introducing the Global Nonviolent Action Database (Video of the Week)
Prof. George Lakey – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2011
George Lakey, renowned peace activist and visiting professor at Swarthmore College, presents the launch of the Global Nonviolent Action Database, which catalogs the successes and failures of nonviolent direct action campaigns across the entire globe, throughout the course of human history.
→ read full articleThe Australian North West Cape Military Base
Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2011
We call on the Committee to reject the reintroduction of the US Navy into North West Cape. We recommend that the base become a centre for tourism and scientific research rather than a military base threatening our regional neighbours and Australia’s security and economy.
→ read full article‘Tears of Gaza’ The Movie (on TMS In-Depth Videos)
Susan Abulhawa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2011
And we should all allow our hearts be broken over Gaza. It’s the least we can do. To hear these three children and ask others to hear them is the very least we can do. Vibeke Lokkeberg has given us a monumentally important record of what happened in December 2009 to January 2010; so no one can ever say “I didn’t know”.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Dez Teses Sobre Dez Anos Perdidos
Johan Galtung, 12 Set 11 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2011
Tese 9: A República dos EUA, pela sua reação ao 11/9, acelerou muito seu processo de auto destruição. Os Patriot Acts I e II, a vigilância implacavel da população americana e outras, torturas e rendições extraordinárias, tudo isto destrói o espírito democrático de dentro para fora, além da destruição da economia por três guerras extremamente caras. (teses 2-4).
→ read full articleActivism Anthem
Bhuchung Sonam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2011
I have principle and no power
You have power and no principle
You being you
And I being I…
New Law Prohibits Practice of Female Genital Mutilation in Guinea-Bissau
Iain Murray, UNICEF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2011
This past June [2011], the National Popular Assembly (ANP) of Guinea-Bissau approved a law prohibiting female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C) nationwide. The controversial law had been on the table for discussion for 16 years, before it was ultimately approved by 64 votes in favour to 1 vote against.
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Recognizing Palestine
AlternateFocus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2011
The Algiers Declaration of 1988 claimed a sovereign Palestinian state. But will this idea take hold? Is it a serious proposal or just a meaningless gesture? And has the reality of Israel’s occupation already made an independent state impossible? We examine these implications as the United Nations decides in September 2011 whether to adopt a resolution recognizing Palestine.
→ read full articlePeace Efforts in Afghanistan Jeopardized
Dr Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2011
The killing of Barhanuddin Rabbani, an ethnic Tajik and leader of High Peace Council to broker peace in the conflict-torn country is certainly a setback to the ongoing peace process in Afghanistan.
→ read full articleIndia to Convene BRICS Finance Ministers’ Meet in Washington
The Hindu - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2011
The BRICS Finance Ministers would explore the manner in which this grouping (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) can coordinate in addressing the evolving economic and financial situation in various countries of the world, the Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, said.
→ read full articleRethinking Afghanistan After a Decade
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2011
This post is a short essay responding to a question about my dramatic change of position on the Afghanistan War with regard to its initial justification and flawed execution. It is both a reconsideration of errors of judgment and reflections on how the world has changed in the course of this decade, focusing on the inability of the United States to grasp either its own decline or the related decline in the historical agency of hard power approaches to security.
→ read full articleStrategic Complexity ∞ Attracting Consensus
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2011
Klein Is Beautiful ∞ Sustaining Identity in Time – Recent events continue to demonstrate that the probability of achieving global agreement on conflict-inducing issues and emergencies is low — within the frameworks and worldviews currently considered appropriate in negotiations to that end. Temporary compromises are primarily conducive to subsequent dysfunctional game-playing and collapse of any consensus.
→ read full articleSocialism, Communism…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2011
At a political meeting the chairman asks the audience, “Who is Gomulka?” There is silence.
→ read full articleHomophobia in Africa
Peter Kenworthy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2011
Many African leaders in particular see homosexuality as “un-natural” and “un-African” and do not believe that homosexuals should have any rights at all. Homophobia is therefore not only illegal and punishable in many African countries, but also legitimised by the leaders of these countries, and African homosexuals are frequently assaulted, expelled from their jobs, or chased from their homes.
→ read full articleChina, India, Brazil Doing More to Cut Carbon Emissions Than USA, Canada, Australia
Stephen Leahy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2011
Negotiations over a new international climate agreement are on the brink as new analyses show that carbon emission reduction promises by industrialised nations are actually lower than those made by China, India, Brazil and other developing nations.
→ read full articleA (North) East Asian Community
Johan Galtung, 26 Sep 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2011
Northeast Asia Peace and Development Forum. Dalian, China, 24 Sep 11 – There is the negative peace of reconciliation after the traumas of the past and mediating ongoing conflicts; and the positive peace of cooperation for mutual and equal benefit, harmony, and integration-fusion. Across this diverse geographical-historical-cultural space there is an East Asian similarity: social-economic human rights first, civil-political later–the Chinese “opening up”. Any (N)EAC would search for cooperation with the USA on equal terms, including observer status; but by no stretch of imagination is it a (North)East Asian country. The times when the USA could also claim membership in Latin America, Europe and Asia are gone.
→ read full articleDisintegrating European Diplomacy and the Necessary Rise of NGO Mediators
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2011
Currently the Palestine Liberation Movement (PLO) has an observer status as an “entity” at the UN from the time that the South African African National Congress, another South African movement, a South West African liberation group and the PLO were given “observer entity” status. With the changes in South Africa and what is now Namibia, the status of the other movements disappeared and only the PLO remains.
→ read full article(Castellano) ONU Debatirá por Vigésimo Año Consecutivo el Bloqueo Contra Cuba
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2011
En 2010, el repudio al bloqueo fue respaldado por 187 países frente a los únicos votos en contra de Estados Unidos e Israel y las abstenciones de Islas Marshall, Micronesia y Palau.
→ read full articleErik Byes Memorial Prize to Johan Galtung
Synove Faldalen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2011
On 5 September 2011 Professor Johan Galtung was awarded the Erik Bye Memorial Prize in Norway.
→ read full articleThe Greatest Problem of the American People
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2011
The American people are the backbone of the nation. We have a strong country not when we have a strong military but when we have healthy people that are properly educated and who enjoy living in adequate facilities. Besides, let us keep in mind that honesty is the best policy, which means we should realize that the weapons industry wants to keep in business through the never-ending of wars.
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Tears of Gaza
whereisthejustice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2011
‘Tears of Gaza’ by Vibeke Lokkeberg is a documentary film that should be watched by every American, to see how Israel spends our taxes.
Every European should watch it, to see the true face of Israel.
It should be viewed by every Arab, to renew our resolve not to allow a racist nation to wipe Palestine and her children from the map and from history.
The Next Earth Summit: Rio Plus 20
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2011
The United Nations, member governments, and Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are preparing policies and evaluations for the next Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, June 2012: 20 years after the original 1992 Rio conference that drew up guidelines for ecologically-sound development for the 21st century expressed as Agenda 21.
→ read full articleResisting the Corporate Theft of Seeds
Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2011
But the biggest threat we face is the control of seed and food moving out of the hands of farmers and communities and into a few corporate hands. Monopoly control of cottonseed and the introduction of genetically engineered Bt cotton has already given rise to an epidemic of farmers’ suicides in India.
→ read full articleThe American and Global Experience of 9/10, 9/11, 9/12 +10:
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2011
There is unacknowledged freedom associated with any event inscribed in our individual and collective experience of profoundly disabling and disturbing public occurrences. For most older Americans what is most vividly remembered among such occurrences is likely to have been Pearl Harbor, the assassination of JFK, and the 9/11 attacks, each coming as a shock to a shared societal sense of exceeding the limits of what could be expected to happen.
→ read full article(Castellano) 11 de Septiembre de 1973
Rebelión – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2011
A muchos les incomoda la sola mención de la fecha. Mediante el expediente hipócrita de las “responsabilidades compartidas”, se omiten datos tan innegables y contundentes como la traición de los altos mandos castrenses, la conspiración de las derechas política y económica y, sobre todo, el decisivo accionar del imperialismo, personificado en la siniestra pareja Nixon-Kissinger.
→ read full article(Italian) Il Lavoro Quotidiano Della Nonviolenza
Angela Dogliotti Marasso, Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2011
Nel preparare il breve intervento di questa sera riflettevo, nei giorni scorsi, sull’approssimarsi del decimo anniversario dell’attacco alle Torri Gemelle, l’11 settembre prossimo, tra tre giorni.
→ read full articlePreliminary Libyan Scorecard: Acting Beyond the UN Mandate
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2011
If the governments will not act to uphold agreed and fundamental limits on state violence, especially directed at vulnerable countries and peoples, then as citizens of the world, ‘we the peoples of the United Nations,’ as proclaimed by the Preamble to the Charter need to raise our voices. We have the residual responsibility to act on behalf of international law and morality when the UN falters or when states act beyond the law.
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UK: Police Raid Travellers’ Site to Free Men ‘Kept As Slaves’ for 15 Years
ITN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2011
A group of men have been freed by police after being found imprisoned as slaves at a caravan site at Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire.
→ read full articleHuman Rights in Sri Lanka: Impunity against Accountability and Justice
Nirmanusan Balasundaram, Groundviews - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2011
“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth…not going all the way, and not starting.” – Lord Buddha.
→ read full articleLast Wishes
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2011
A dying man asked his wife, “Are you going to marry again?” “If you wish, I will,” she said.
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Sloppy Journalism or War Propaganda? Fake Images from Tripoli
Michel Chossudovsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2011
Tripoli’s Greeen Square in India: BBC 24 Aug 2011 Hoax Report – It’s not Green Square and it’s not the King Idris Flag (red, black green) of the Rebels. It’s the Indian flag (orange, white and green) and the people at the rally are Indians. Sloppy journalism at the BBC or outright Lies and Fabrications? Image manipulation seems to be a routine practice of the mainstream media.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to Commonwealth Foreign Ministers
Varios Organizations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2011
At the 2009 CHOGM, Sri Lanka’s candidature for hosting the meeting was deferred from 2011 to 2013 because of concerns about human rights abuses by the Sri Lankan government. While war-time abuses have ended, the situation in Sri Lanka continues to be characterised by serious human rights violations, including assault on democratic institutions, such as the media and trade unions.
→ read full articleThe Observer
Tom Tomorrow, Truthout – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2011
Award-winning cartoonist Tom Tomorrow on the process by which the USA elects its leader.
→ read full articleObama, the Palestinian State & Zionist Schizophrenia
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2011
It is clear by now that President Obama is not going to be saved by any of the so- called ‘America’s best friends’. For AIPAC and the Lobby, Obama is an instrument. By now the Lobby is used to regarding American politicians as their subservient puppets. Israel, on the other hand, is too suspicious of the current administration. It will be happy to see Obama beaten. The time is certainly right for America, Britain and the West to find the strength to oppose Zionist Lobbying and the power of Jerusalem.
→ read full article(Italian) I Guarani del Brasile Chiedono alla Shell di Lasciare la Loro Terra
Survival International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2011
I Guarani del Brasile hanno chiesto al gigante dell’energia Shell di non utilizzare più la loro terra ancestrale per produrre etanolo. “La Shell deve lasciare la nostra terra” ha detto a Survival International Ambrosio Vilhalva, un Guarani di una delle comunità interessate. “…La compagnia deve smettere di utilizzare la terra indigena. Vogliamo giustizia, e chiediamo che la nostra terra sia demarcata e protetta”.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Memorabilia Auction on eBay to Raise Funds
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2011
The computer, which has a buy it now price of $552,615, was used to “prepare the cables for media partners and releases”. “In this exclusive auction item you will get the full set of WikiLeaks Cables, the WikiLeaks computer and its passwords,” WikiLeaks said in a statement released on Twitter.
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‘unLawful Access’ – Battle for the Net
PressForTruth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2011
Unlawful “lawful access” that would allow government’s surveillance of everything you do on the Internet — not only in Canada but everywhere. All the powers that be need is a precedent. Every citizen is a suspect – Preposterous!
→ read full articleNATO in Libya a ‘Model’ For Euro-US Cooperation: US Official
The Telegraph – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2011
The operation in Libya was “in many ways a model on how the United States can lead the way that allows allies to support,” Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Philip Gordon said at an event in Washington.
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9/11: BBC Reported Building 7 Collapse Twenty Minutes Before It Fell (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
BBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2011
Evidence of a planned event – An astounding video uncovered from the archives shows the BBC reporting on the collapse of WTC Building 7 over twenty minutes before it fell at 5:20pm on the afternoon of 9/11. The incredible footage shows a BBC reporter talking about the collapse of the Salomon Brothers Building while it remains standing in the live shot behind her head.
→ read full article9/11 Did Not Start or End At Midnight
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2011
All too often we view 9/11 from the perspective of the nation-state rather than from a global standpoint.
→ read full articleVann Nath Personified Cambodian Reconciliation
Emma Leslie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2011
This week Cambodia bids farewell to Vann Nath, well-known as one of the seven survivors of the Khmer Rouge prison facility S21 or Tuol Sleng. But for me he will always personify the Cambodian capacity to remember, heal and reconcile their past. It was his abilities as a painter, which in effect saved him from execution, and later enabled him to portray vividly the horrors he had witnessed and heard about in Tuol Sleng prison. Vann Nath was indeed a survivor, but more than that, he was a great Cambodian peace builder, who chose not to live a bitter, angry life, but took a unique moment to transform his personal story, so as to teach future generations and, in some small way, break the victim-perpetrator cycle.
→ read full articleHail to the True Victors of Rupert’s Revolution
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2011
NATO is raining fragmentation bombs on civilian-populated Sirte and other “Gaddafi strongholds” where, says a Channel 4 News reporter, “until they cut off the head of the snake, Libyans will not feel safe”. I quote that not so much for its Orwellian quality but as a model of journalism’s role in justifying “our” bloodbaths in advance. This is Rupert’s Revolution, after all. Gone from the Murdoch press are pejorative “insurgents”. The action in Libya, says The Times, is “a revolution… as revolutions used to be”.
→ read full articleKeystone XL: A Pipeline to Europe?
Stephen Leahy, Tierramérica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2011
The promoters of Keystone XL, a huge new oil pipeline from northern Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast, claim that it will reduce U.S. reliance on oil imports from unfriendly countries. But based on falling U.S. oil demand, the controversial Keystone XL pipeline may simply allow tar sands oil currently landlocked in Alberta, Canada to be exported to Europe, say U.S. and Canadian environmental activists.
→ read full articleAgainst Our Principles
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2011
A Rabbi, a Hindu and a lawyer are riding down the road when their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere.
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9/11: US Abuses Power It No Longer Has
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2011
Interview with Lawrence Wilkerson, Ex-Chief of Staff to US Secretary of State Colin Powell – “We seem to think that we are exceptional, so exceptional that we don’t have to think about other people,” he says. “Ends never justify the means.” He believes some of the Bush administration members deserve to be put on trial, and he would be ready to testify against them.
→ read full articleUNHCR Launches Campaign to Combat Statelessness
UN High Commissioner for Refugees – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2011
Around the world today there are millions of people who are not recognized as citizens of any country. On paper they don’t exist anywhere. They are people without a nationality, stateless. Statelessness may be caused by gender, when countries do not recognize the nationality of a woman due to discriminatory laws. Statelessness may be inherited, by children born to stateless parents. It may be created in newly formed states, such as South Sudan, by intentional or unintentional legislative exclusion of any ethnic groups.
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Colin Powell Regrets Iraq War Intelligence
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2011
Former US secretary of state says information he provided leading to the invasion of Iraq is a “blot” on his record and regrets providing misleading intelligence that led the US to invade Iraq, believing it had weapons of mass destruction.
→ read full articleWomen and DDR-Disarmament, Demobilization, Reintegration
Bishnu Pathak, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2011
The paper provides an overview of the Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) practices existing in the world. It researches when and for what purposes the United Nations initiate DDR programs in post-conflict countries. It examines the scale and consequences of the various roles of ex-combatants, particularly the women ex-combatants in a transitional society. It aims to compare and explore some of the best and worst practices of DDR and militarized masculinity before, during, and after the violence. Secondary literatures mostly draw on to learn from yesterday, analyze to live for today, and encourage to hope for tomorrow.
→ read full articleUN Secretary General: Palestinian Statehood Is ‘Long Overdue’
Haaretz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2011
The Palestinian people are “long overdue” in their quest for an independent state, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday [9 Sep 2011], ahead of a Palestinian push for statehood in the UN planned for later this month.
→ read full article(Italian) Un Battaglione Logistico per US Army Africa Vicenza
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2011
Il Dipartimento della difesa potenzia US Army Africa, il comando militare statunitense con sede a Vicenza che sovrintende alle operazioni terrestri nel continente africano. Da un mese circa, è stato attivato in Veneto un piccolo battaglione dell’esercito USA, denominato “Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion”, che avrà il compito di fornire servizi e supporto logistico al personale impegnato in Africa.
→ read full articleThe Aftermath of Fukushima in Koodankulam
S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2011
The three-in-one disaster at Fukushima has stirred human consciousness all over the world. On the one hand, it has prompted Germany’s decision of phasing out nuclear energy by the year 2022, Italians’ overwhelming vote against nuclear power in a national referendum, and some 20,000 Swiss citizens’ rallying against nuclear power and so forth. Even the Chinese government put all its nuclear activities on hold and decided to do stocktaking before proceeding any further.
→ read full articleAnother UN Failure: The Palmer Report on the Flotilla Incident of 31 May 2010
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2011
Israel has managed up to now to avoid paying the price for defying international law. For decades it has been building unlawful settlements in occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. It has used excessive violence and relied on state terror on numerous occasions in dealing with Palestinian resistance, and has subjected the people of Gaza to sustained and extreme forms of collective punishment.
→ read full articleEn-joying the World through En-joying Oneself
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2011
Eliciting the Potential of Globalization through Cognitive Radicalization. This is an exploration of the possibility of radical existential coherence in engaging with the otherness of the wider world. It endeavours to distinguish cognitive radicalization from its current primary association with political radicalization — and especially through its violent expressions in religious fundamentalism.
→ read full articleOfficial: Some 140 Countries to Vote for Palestinian State
M&C News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2011
‘Around 140 countries would vote in favor of an independent state of Palestine during the United Nations General Assembly meetings due to start on September 23,’ Nabil Shaath, a senior negotiator, told a news conference in Ramallah. He said his estimated number was the result of marathon visits by Palestinian leaders across the globe over the past months.
→ read full articleUS ‘Campaigns to Avoid’ Palestinian Statehood Vote
France24 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2011
The United States has launched a last ditch diplomatic drive to persuade Palestinians to scrap their plan to seek UN recognition as a state, The New York Times said. But the move may be too late, the newspaper said, citing unnamed senior US officials and foreign diplomats.
→ read full article(Castellano) EE.UU Lanza Campaña Para Evitar Votación de Estado Palestino en ONU
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2011
Estados Unidos (EE.UU.) está haciendo una campaña para inducir a los palestinos a que abandonen la búsqueda de su reconocimiento como Estado independiente ante la Asamblea General de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) para evitar potenciales tensiones diplomáticas con Israel, según lo reveló el diario New York Times.
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TED Talks – Pay Attention to Nonviolence (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Julia Bacha, TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2011
One Story, One Film, Many Changes: Budrus – Originally from Brazil of Lebanese descent, Julia Bacha directed and produced Budrus (2009) and wrote and co-directed the feature documentary Encounter Point (2006) . Julia is Media Director at Just Vision (justvision.org) and an award-winning filmmaker who has worked on films exhibited at the Sundance, Berlin, Jerusalem, and Dubai International Film Festivals, and broadcast on the BBC, HBO, Sundance, CBC and Al Arabiya television channels.
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Fambul Tok, a Documentary about Forgiveness (trailer)
FambulTokProject – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2011
Victims and perpetrators of Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war come together for the first time in an unprecedented program of tradition-based truth-telling and forgiveness ceremonies. Through reviving their ancient practice of fambul tok (family talk), Sierra Leoneans are building sustainable peace at the grass-roots level — succeeding where the international community’s post-conflict efforts failed. Filled with lessons for the West, this film explores the depths of a culture that believes that true justice lies in redemption and healing for individuals — and that forgiveness is the surest path to restoring dignity and building strong communities.
→ read full articleDogs of War
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2011
They have been bred by an ardent admirer of the late “Rabbi” Meir Kahane, who was branded by the Israeli Supreme Court as a fascist. Their task is to protect the settlements and attack Palestinians. They are settler-dogs, or, rather, dog-settlers.
→ read full articleLet the Sunshine In: A 9/11 Conflict Analysis
Marilyn Langlois, TRANSCEND Convener for USA-West Coast – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2011
Beyond my personal interest as a mother whose daughter’s life was endangered on that day, as a member of the TRANSCEND network of peaceful conflict transformation I approach the tenth anniversary of 9/11 with a conflict analysis that seeks a deeper understanding and sustainable solutions. Johan Galtung, founder of the TRANSCEND network, has defined violence as “an avoidable insult to basic human needs”, and asserts that behind every act of violence there is an unresolved conflict.
→ read full articleIndia: Massive Hunger Strike at Idinthakarai on September 11, 2011
Peoples' Movement against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2011
The people of Koodankulam, Idinthakarai and other neighboring villages decide to withdraw from the ongoing “peace” process and resume their peaceful, nonviolent Gandhian satyagraha by holding a massive hunger strike on September 11, 2011 at Idinthakarai in Tirunelveli district.
→ read full articleOops…!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2011
A Catholic priest was being honored at his retirement dinner after 25 years in the parish.
→ read full articleAlgeria and the Arab Revolutions
Abbas Aroua, 5 Sep 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2011
Many people keep asking why Algeria did not catch the train of revolutions and participate in the 2011 “Arab Spring”. Is it going to be an exception? Is it going to miss this “historic window” to liberate itself? The last country in the region to get rid of a ruthless corrupt military dictatorship? Are Algerians less determined to grasp freedom and decent life than Tunisians, Egyptians, Yemenis and others? To answer those meaningful and legitimate questions, we need a brief historical overview.
→ read full articleLibya: NATO Acquires Military Outpost in Third Continent
Voice of Russia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2011
Libya: Another country for NATO to take root in. Interview conducted by John Robles on Aug 27, 2011 with Rick Rozoff, the manager of the Stop NATO website and a Correspondent of Global Research.
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Tar Sands Action: Come Join Us! (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
StopKeystoneXL – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2011
A short video capturing the first day of a 2-week sit-in at the White House to stop the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline.
→ read full articleOut of Control: The Destructive Power of the Financial Markets
SPIEGEL Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2011
Speculators are betting against the euro, banks are taking incalculable risks and the markets are in turmoil. Three years after the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, the financial industry has become a threat to the global economy again. Governments missed the chance to regulate the industry, and another crash is just a matter of time.
→ read full articleOur Involvement in Saving the World from Complete Destruction
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2011
At this stage of history, the world is going through numerous serious problems, which could be fully brought under control only if we develop the habit of becoming involved.
→ read full articleThe Extreme Israeli Right’s Alliance With Lunatics
Haaretz, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2011
In recent years, the extreme Israeli right has developed an alliance with heads of the evangelical movement, who define themselves as Christian Zionists, some of whom believe that another Holocaust of the Jews will ensure the resurrection of Jesus.
→ read full articleStrategy Lesson at the Soviet War College
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2011
A general is a guest lecturer and tells the class of officers that the session will focus on potential problems and the resulting strategies. One of the officers in the class begins by asking the first question:
→ read full articleLibya without Qaddafi: Decoding an Uncertain Future
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2011
There is so much spin surrounding the Transitional National Council victory in Libya that it is difficult to interpret the outcome, and perhaps premature to do so at this point considering that the fighting continues and the African Union has withheld diplomatic recognition on principled grounds.
→ read full articleChavez: Libya’s Tragedy Begins With Gadhafi’s Fall
The Associated Press-AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2011
Chavez has been a staunch defender of Gadhafi throughout the conflict, and he condemned NATO airstrikes and killings of civilians. “The drama of Libya isn’t ending with the fall of Gadhafi’s government. It’s beginning,” Chavez said. “The tragedy in Libya is just beginning.”
→ read full articleEmpires Strike Hard, Nations Die Hard: Behind the Libyan Fake Revolution, And the Re-Colonization of Africa.
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2011
“Democracy building” in Libya, we are told, requires the extensive bombing of an entire country, under NATO’s”Responsibility to Protect” (R2P). To say we kill the Libyans for their own good is a deceit.
→ read full articleThey Talk the Talk, But Baulk at the Walk
Dr Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2011
Twenty three years since Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the then freshly minted popular dissident, began her impassioned calls for a resolution to the country’s long-standing problems through dialogue, we seem to have been conditioned like a Pavlovian four-limbed creature.
→ read full articleSomalia? Which Somalia? Just Some Facts About Everybody’s–Nobody’s Land
Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2011
To begin with, Somalia is situated in the so-called Horn of Africa, bordering with Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and the Indian Ocean. Its territory covers over 637,000 kilometers, hosting around 10 million inhabitants who speak Somali, Arabic, Italian and English, and are mostly Muslim Sunnis.
→ read full articleThirteen Reasons Why We Do Not Want the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project
S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2011
We have been opposing the [Indian] Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) ever since it was conceived in the mid-1980s. The people of Koodankulam village themselves were misled by false promises such as 10,000 jobs, water from Pechiparai dam in Kanyakumari district, and fantastic development of the region.
→ read full articleSomalia Tragedy, Islamist Extremists and Climate Change Skeptics
Hilal Elver and Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2011
The unfolding tragedy in East Africa is a dramatic indicator of what humanity as a whole can expect in the near future ‘if business as usual’ continues to be the phrase that most accurately expresses global climate change policy. The unwillingness of the developed countries to provide adequate humanitarian aid to the most vulnerable peoples in the world also helps explain this worsening regional tragedy has reached such dire extremes.
→ read full articleSyria: Geopolitical Mentoring versus Rehab for Addicted Geopolitical Leaders
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2011
Of course, the future should not be entrusted to the political leaders representing sovereign states. It is up to the peoples of the world to propose and demand better solutions for the unfolding global tragedies that are sidestepped by the egocentric behavioral goals of national governments. Populist complacency is part of what gives this geopolitical posturing a semblance of credibility in our post-colonial era.
→ read full articleThe Decline of the West?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2011
The basic G8-G20 mistake: obsessed with saving the banks through bailouts, they did not save people through stimulus. Learn from China: enter communities with the public-private-civil-technical sectors, jointly making mini-companies for basic needs–food and water, clothes and housing, clinics and schools–employing the most needy. A communist uplift from misery, and an increase in their buying power in the capitalist economy. Capi-communism. Rather decline than learning from China? Then, so be it.
→ read full articleBack in 1967… In Eastern Europe
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2011
Czechoslovakia announced that it was going to create a ministry of the Navy.
→ read full articleAfghanistan: From a Battlefield to a Business-field
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2011
Is it necessary that the interested players will have to wait till the violent atmosphere in the region is subsided completely and then think about business? Or is it possible to initiate commercial ventures in a violent atmosphere, which can only succeed with the cooperation of the national government as well as local warlords and also the Taliban?
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Three Things I Learned While My Plane Crashed (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Ric Elias, TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2011
Ric Elias had a front-row seat on Flight 1549, the plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River in New York in January 2009. What went through his mind as the doomed plane went down? At TED, he tells his story publicly for the first time.
→ read full articleSouth Africa: Russell Tribunal on Palestine
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2011
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine will convene in District Six, Cape Town, site of a brutal apartheid-era forced removal. The land has remained undeveloped on the edge of the city since it was declared “a white group area” and the homes of black residents were demolished in the 1970s. The Cape Town session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine – to be held on 5-6 November 2011 – will consider whether Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian people fits the international legal definitions of the crime of apartheid.
→ read full articleTomorrow, Who Will Govern the World?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2011
The author of Demain, qui gouvernera le monde? (2011), Jacques Attali, has every reason to be considered an authority on the subject of his new book. Aside from having held many positions in relation to national and international governance, as an academic he has been an extremely prolific author on a wide range of relevant subjects, including A Brief History of the Future (2006), La crise, et après? (2008) and Survivre aux crises: 7 stratégies (2009).
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Injured Malaysian Man Mugged in UK Riots
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2011
Online footage of an injured student being brazenly robbed has shocked the nation. A video posted online depicting a group of youths appearing to help a young Malaysian student who was mugged during the London riots, and then stealing the contents of his bag, has been widely circulating. The footage is just one moment captured on video in recent days showing an ugly side to a city often considered as civilised or forward-looking.
→ read full article(Portuguese) A Crise Ambiental Global e a Construção de Alternativas São Tema de Encontro Internacional Indígena
EcoDebate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2011
Para responder a essas e outras questões, centenas de lideranças de Brasil, Bolívia, Peru, Colômbia, Equador, Venezuela, Guiana, Guiana Francesa e Suriname, se reúnem em Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil, de 15 a 18 de agosto, no “Grande Encontro dos Povos – Saberes, Povos e Vida Plena em Harmonia com a Floresta”.
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