Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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A Moment of Silence, Before I Start This Poem
Emmanuel Ortiz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2011
Before I start this poem,
I’d like to ask you to join me
In a moment of silence
Manifesto
Palestinian Youth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2011
I´m sick of The Wall
I´m sick of the checkpoints between Palestinian cities
I´m sick of illegal Israeli settlers and settlements
I´m sick of having the Hebrew language on my ID card
I´m sick of people not knowing anything about our history
but knowing so much about Jewish history
What Happened to the Western Left?
Johan Galtung, 16 May 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2011
The Western right wing is today not challenged by the Western left, but by the subtlety of Chinese capi-communism and yin-yang, far beyond Western thought, right or left. And by islamist terrorism, countered by right wing hard christianist and judeaist state terrorism. The Left fails to understand the former, rejects the latter and is unable to be enriched by the best in the buddhist, muslim, Japanese and Chinese models.
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Blood Bonanza: UK Private Security Firms Eye Libya as New Cash Cow
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2011
Libya might soon turn into a goldmine for private security firms. Reports say that the UK is already hiring mercenaries to protect the interests of the big corporations there, once Colonel Gaddafi goes.
→ read full articleRejoice Not…
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2011
The young men and women of Tahrir Square, with their longing for freedom, have consigned bin Laden to history, months before his physical death. His philosophy has a future only if the Arab Awakening fails completely and leaves behind a profound sense of disappointment and despair.
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New Egyptian Stance towards Israel, Hamas and Iran
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2011
Paul Jay interviews Samer Shehata: Egyptian government may not cooperate with siege of Gaza and isolation of Hamas; restoring relations with Iran.
→ read full articleReport 2011: Amnesty International at 50 says Historic Change on Knife-Edge
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2011
People are rejecting fear. Courageous people, led largely by youth, are standing up and speaking out in the face of bullets, beatings, tear gas and tanks. This bravery – combined with new technology that is helping activists to outflank and expose government suppression of free speech and peaceful protest – is sending a signal to repressive governments that their days are numbered.
→ read full articleHow the Murdoch Press Keeps Australia’s Dirty Secret
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2011
The Australian publishes long articles that present Aboriginal people not unsympathetically, but as perennial victims of each other, “an entire culture committing suicide,” or as noble primitives requiring firm direction: the eugenicist’s view. It promotes Aboriginal “leaders” who, by blaming their own people for their poverty, tell the white elite what it wants to hear. The writer Michael Brull parodied this: “Oh White man, please save us. Take away our rights because we are so backward.”
→ read full articleInsecurity in Security
Bishnu Pathak, PhD, Peace and Conflict Studies Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2011
The burgeoning Chinese, Indian and Pakistani influence raises alarm in transitional Nepal which has an open border with both China and India. Escalating Chinese influence in Nepal has been a grave concern to India. Indeed, a small land-locked country surrounded by two of the world’s most populous and growing superpower nations, Nepal is caught in a unique pull-push insecurity situation as it gropes for true democracy.
→ read full article(Castellano) De Nobel a Nobel: Carta Abierta a Barack Obama
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2011
Un día como hoy, hace 34 años volví a la vida, tuve un vuelo de la muerte durante la dictadura militar argentina apoyada por los EEUU. Gracias a Dios sobreviví y tuve que salir del laberinto por arriba de la desesperación y descubrir en las estrellas el camino para poder decir como el profeta: ”la hora más oscura es cuando comienza el amanecer”.
→ read full articleSchengen Zone Dispute: EU Slams Denmark over Plans to Reintroduce Border Checks
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2011
Denmark’s decision to reintroduce permanent border controls has met with criticism from the European Union, which sees the move as a challenge to the principle of freedom of movement. Copenhagen insists the new checks are compatible with Schengen rules.
→ read full articleA Fatal Addiction to Plastic – Trashing the Oceans and Our Own Health
Stephen Leahy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2011
With 440 participants from 35 countries, including experts from governments, research institutes, corporations like the Coca-Cola Company, and plastics industry associations such as Plastics Europe and the American Chemistry Council, the conference was the first major international effort to tackle the issue in 11 years. The end result was the Honolulu Commitment, which invited everyone to work on “a global platform for the prevention, reduction and management of marine debris” called the Honolulu Strategy.
→ read full articlePeace Studies – For Children Too
Letter of Peace Addressed to the UN, Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2011
Galtung’s assertions lead me to think that maybe we should not only bring peace to universities as a subject but also to schools. Things would be much better if someone explained to children that peace is a valuable asset, that we must care for it, that we can only achieve it together, that we must avoid imposing the will of the all-powerful minority over the majority. If generations had a conceptualization of peace integrated in life and society, it is likely that future citizens would see the world through different eyes, understand differences, appreciate diversity and love peace.
→ read full articleChina in Latin America
Americas Quarterly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2011
Interview – Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Li Jinzhang on his country’s plans as it increases economic and political ties to Latin America.
→ read full articleApplying the Law in Guantanamo: ‘The Government’s Narrative Was a Lie’
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2011
When he arrived at Guantanamo in 2005 as chief prosecutor, Colonel Morris Davis thought that he would be dealing exclusively with fanatical terrorists. But he soon realized that many prisoners shouldn’t have been imprisoned at all. In a contribution for SPIEGEL, he describes his path from idealism to disillusionment.
→ read full articleHazards and Hopes of Limitless Freedom of Expression
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2011
One of the glories of the Western Enlightenment, especially as embodied in the lifeblood of political democracies is freedom of expression, the right to give voice in public spaces to unpopular, tasteless, provocative, and even outrageous ideas, and especially those critical of the prevailing political order without fear of retaliation.
→ read full articleIconic Extrajudicial Execution of Jesus through Osama by US?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2011
Whither a cyclopean global Pax Americana lacking depth perception?
→ read full articleColumbia Journalism School’s Highest Honor Goes to Al Jazeera English
Jim Romenesko, Poynter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2011
Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism will bestow its highest honor, the Columbia Journalism Award, to Al Jazeera English. The award is given annually during the school’s commencement ceremony to recognize an individual or organization for “singular journalism in the public interest.”
→ read full articleLibya-Tunisia: Cross-frontier Conflict and Peace-building
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2011
Tunisia’s deputy foreign minister, Radhouane Nouicer said his government had summoned a Libyan government envoy to complain about the incursions. “We are not a party to the conflict” he said to al Al Jazeera reporter. Whenever there is a spill-over of fighting from one country to another, officials will usually say “We are not a party to the conflict”. However, armed conflict does not respect political or territorial borders. Often there is a spill-over effect through refugee flows, ‘nomadic’ armed groups, small arms flows, narcotic or other criminal networks and sometimes as in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the sale of natural resources.
→ read full articleBrazil Supreme Court Awards Gay Couples New Rights
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2011
5 May, 2011 – Brazil’s Supreme Court has voted overwhelmingly in favour of allowing same-sex couples the same legal rights as married heterosexuals. The decision was approved by 10-0 with one abstention. The ruling will give gay couples in “stable” partnerships the same financial and social rights enjoyed by those in heterosexual relationships.
→ read full article(Castellano) Osama: Insignificante
Fernando Montiel T. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2011
El asesinato de Osama bin Laden es insignificante porque en nada afectará el modo de operar de esa entelequia a la que el mundo conoce como Al Qaeda. Y la razón es simple: Al-Qaeda no es un grupo estructurado y controlado de forma centralizada, es decir, Al-Qaeda no es una organización sino un movimiento. No es monolítico en su estructura ni jerarquizado en su control y comando. Esto es bien sabido desde hace años. “Todos somos Marcos” fue el grito de batalla de todos los simpatizantes de la causa indígena en su momento.
→ read full articleIs the Arab Spring a Black Swan?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2011
Having just visited Egypt for a week I came away with this dual sense that the revolutionary dynamics have produced remarkable results that form a glorious chapter of Egyptian history, but also that there are a variety of dark forces that are working under the radar to contain if not reverse this exhilirating democratizing momentum.
→ read full articlePalestinian Factions in Reconciliation Bid
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
Fatah and Hamas agree to form interim government and fix general election date following talks in Cairo. With the US keeping a distance, Israel not delivering the goods on the peace process and the settlements, it was time for Palestinians to come together and agree on what they basically agreed on almost a year and a half ago. Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, said on Wednesday [27 Apr 2011] that “the Palestinian Authority must choose either peace with Israel or peace with Hamas. There is no possibility for peace with both.”
→ read full articleHuman Rights Record of United States in 2010
China Daily – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
The State Department of the United States released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2010 on April 8, 2011. As in previous years, the reports are full of distortions and accusations of the human rights situation in more than 190 countries and regions including China. However, the United States turned a blind eye to its own terrible human rights situation and seldom mentioned it. The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2010 is prepared to urge the United States to face up to its own human rights issues.
→ read full articleWhat Are They Afraid of?
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
For some peculiar reason, both Zionists and UK Jewish so-called ‘anti Zionists’, insist that discussing ‘Jewishness’ is a taboo which should never be explored, certainly not in public, and definitely never outside of the ghetto. UK Event: Zionism, Jewishness and Israel – Tuesday, May 3 • 6:30pm – 8:30pm – University Of Westminster, Cavendish Campus – A panel discussion examining Israeli Criminality in the wake of the Goldstone Retract – Alan Hart, Gilad Atzmon and others.
→ read full articleIsrael Withholds Palestinian Cash Transfer
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
Israel will hold up an $89 million cash transfer to the Palestinian Authority [PA] planned for this week because of a new unity deal between rival Palestinian factions. “Israel wants assurances that any money transferred to the Palestinians will not reach the militant Hamas organisation, which is set to become part of the Palestinian government,” Yuval Steinitz, the Israeli finance minister, said on Sunday [1 May 2011].
→ read full article(Italian) Decollano da Sigonella i Predator Contro la Libia
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
Operano da Sigonella gli aerei senza pilota UAV MQ-1 Predator che il Pentagono ha destinato per le operazioni di bombardamento in Libia. La notizia, filtrata nei giorni scorsi su alcuni quotidiani statunitensi, ha trovato l’autorevole conferma dell’International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) di Londra.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Acordo entre a Fatah e o Hamas na Palestina
Esquerda.net – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
Principais facções vão formar um governo transitório de personalidades independentes e realizar eleições presidenciais e legislativas dentro de um ano. Decisão pode facilitar o reconhecimento da ONU ao Estado Palestiniano.
→ read full article(Italian) Aosta. Un 25 Aprile Giovane
Silvia Berruto, antifascista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
Imane El Baladi, 18 anni insieme ad Andrea Lamberti, 19, sono i due giovani studenti protagonisti del 25 aprile 2011 ad Aosta (Italy). Entrambi hanno fatto una scelta di impegno civile. Entrambi, con emozione ed entusiasmo giovanili, sono stati i protagonisti sinceri di un giovane 25 aprile 2011 ad Aosta che la cittadinanza, e non solo, non dimenticherà facilmente.
→ read full articleSource of Life and Energy in the Industrial World
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
Source may refer to something without which anything that depends on it cannot exist. In other words, when it comes to the solution of a problem, we must try to get first to the source that originates it. Otherwise, it may keep on repeating itself.
→ read full articleThe Four Horsemen behind the Oil Wars
Dean Henderson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
The Four Horsemen have interlocking directorates with the international mega-banks. Exxon Mobil shares board members with JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Canada and Prudential. Chevron Texaco has interlocks with Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase. BP Amoco shares directors with JP Morgan Chase. RD/Shell has ties with Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, N. M. Rothschild & Sons and Bank of England. Former Citibank chairman Walter Shipley sat on Exxon Mobil’s board, as did Wayne Calloway of Citigroup and Allen Murray of JP Morgan Chase. Willard Butcher of Chase sat on the board of Chevron Texaco. Former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan came from Morgan Guaranty Trust and served on the board of Mobil. BP Amoco director Lewis Preston went on to become president of the World Bank.
→ read full articleThe Guantánamo Papers
The New York Times, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
Innocent men were picked up on the basis of scant or nonexistent evidence and subjected to lengthy detention and often to abuse and torture. Some people were released who later acted against the United States. Inmates who committed suicide were regarded only as a public relations problem. There are seriously dangerous prisoners at Guantánamo who cannot be released but may never get a real trial because the evidence is so tainted. Hampered by ideologues and cowards in Congress, President Obama has made scant progress in healing it.
→ read full articleEgypt Warns Israel: Don’t Interfere With Opening of Gaza Border Crossing
Haaretz Service – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces General Sami Anan warned Israel against interfering with Egypt’s plan to open the Rafah border crossing with Gaza on a permanent basis, saying it was not a matter of Israel’s concern, Army Radio reported on Saturday [30 Apr 2011]. Egypt announced this week that it intended to permanently open the border crossing with Gaza within the next few days.
→ read full articleSorry but it’s not YOUR project
How Matters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
I’m talking about possessive adjectives. MINE – YOURS – ITS – HERS – HIS – OURS – THEIRS – WHOSE. Let’s be honest. How many of you, when talking to a friend, another NGO colleague, or donor refers to “our program” in [insert Country X or District Y or Village Z]? But let me ask you something – Do you live in Country X or District Y or Village Z?
→ read full articleVoyager, the Love Story
Dr. Tony Phillips, Science NASA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
April 28, 2011: NASA’s Voyager probes are at the edge of the solar system carrying a message to possible extraterrestrial civilizations. Highlights include greetings from humans and whales, some of Earth’s greatest music, and the brainwaves of a young woman in love. Rewind to 1977.
→ read full articleOne Word
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
BINYAMIN NETANYAHU is jubilant already. The ink was not yet dry on the preliminary agreement initialed in Cairo, when Netanyahu made a solemn speech on TV, something like an address to the nation after an historic event. “You have to choose between us and Hamas,” he told the Palestinian Authority. That would not be too difficult – one the one side a brutal occupation regime, on the other Palestinian brothers with a different ideology.
→ read full articleThis Modern World: Two Guys Standing on an Incline
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
Award-winning cartoonist Tom Tomorrow depicts America’s slippery slope on Libya.
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ScienceCasts: Voyager
ScienceAtNASA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
More than 30 years after they were launched, NASA’s two Voyager probes have traveled to the edge of the solar system and are on the doorstep of interstellar space.
→ read full articleBurkina Faso: Organic Cotton Under Threat from GM Cotton
Inoussa Maiga, Farm Radio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
Producers and project staff are worried about the future of organic cotton. What concerns them is the jump in plantings of genetically modified or GM cotton. By 2009, genes from GM crops had been found in organic cotton. At that time, only 10% of conventional cotton farmers were growing GM varieties. But with the massive spread of GM cotton in 2010, almost 90% of conventional producers now grow GM cotton.
→ read full articleAn Opportunity for Peace That Must Not Be Squandered
The Independent, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
The EU made a serious mistake five years ago when it refused to recognise Hamas.
→ read full articleGuidelines in Response to Degrees of Anti-social Behaviour: Airline Passengers and Children as a Case Study
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
The argument has implications for those obliged to spend time in closed environments where they are exposed to various levels of disruptive behaviour, including bullying and harassment: prisons, military, schools, work environments, etc. Especially relevant is the disempowerment experienced by those exposed to such behaviour and the rights assumed by those engaging in it — and the complicity of those aware of such behaviour.
→ read full articleIMF Bombshell: Age of America Nears End
Brett Arends, MarketWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
The International Monetary Fund has just dropped a bombshell, and nobody noticed: China’s economy will surpass the U.S. in 2016. For the first time, the international organization has set a date for the moment when the “Age of America” will end and the U.S. economy will be overtaken by that of China.
→ read full articleCivil Society Stand In Solidarity with African Negotiators: “Developed Countries, Put Up or Shut Up”
Third World Network Africa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
At a press conference hosted by the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), a network of over 300 organisations from over 45 countries, civil society leaders stood in solidarity with African negotiators. These negotiators were continuing to fight against the EU’s refusal to sign up to a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol and against the United State’s blocking tactics over the adoption of a comprehensive work plan for the negotiations for 2011.
→ read full articleSyria: The Downward Spiral
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
The United Nations has tried to stop the downward spiral of Syria into repression and potential chaos. It has been five weeks that what began as peaceful protests and demands for limited reforms have been increasingly met by government violence. Discussions on what the UN could do to help the Syrian people and to speed up necessary reforms started in both New York and Geneva.
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Seeding Deep Democracy – Vandana Shiva (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Ecological Options Network-EON - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
Member of TRANSCEND scientist, activist, author Vandana Shiva talks about the importance of saving non-GMO seeds and her concept of ‘Earth Democracy.’
→ read full article(Portuguese) A Islândia Põe os Seus Banqueiros na Prisão
Claudi Pérez, El País – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
“A primeira vítima da crise financeira constitui-se como uma valente tentativa de pedir responsabilidades”. Claudi Pérez (El País) conta neste artigo a história da ascensão e da queda da economia islandesa.
→ read full articleWorld Citizens Call For a Thai-Cambodian Peace Zone: From Periodic Flair-Ups to Permanent Cooperation
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
The World Citizens’ proposal for a Thai-Cambodian peace zone is based on a “peace park-condominium zone of peace” between Ecuador and Peru proposed by Professor Johan Galtung at a time of growing military confrontations between the two South American countries and published in his collection of peace proposals: Johan Galtung, 50 Years-100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives (Transcend University Press, 2008, 263 pp.)
→ read full articleThe Fukushima, Japan Mega-Disaster (updated)
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
The Fukushima, Japan Mega-Disaster that occurred on March 11, 2011 (2:45 PM Japan Time) will continue to unfold its tragic consequences for years to come. The tragedy must not pass without extensive public and private discussions and reports of the lessons learned from the disaster.
→ read full articleIslamism, Christianism, Judeaism
Johan Galtung, 25 Apr 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
Right now the ultimate christian mega-empire fights muslim communities with mega-weapons, drones, cruise and other missiles, fighter-bombers, high on cowardice–protected, few casualties–low on accuracy; the muslims with IEDs at $10 a piece, high on courage and devotion up to suicide, high on accuracy. US empire christianism is fighting not only for the economic-political-military-cultural empire, but also for God’s rule on earth via USA, a country under God, invoking his support. And at the root of it all is Cana’an, Zion, Israel; one land for all the chosen ones, bent on defending itself by all means, nuclear included.
→ read full articleWhat Future for the Goldstone Report? Beyond the Name
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
Only half satirically, I would think that the Goldstone Report might be time to rename the Goldstone Report as the Chinkin Report or blandly let it be henceforth be known as the ‘Report on Israeli and Hamas War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity during Operation Cast Lead.’ Whatever the name, the main allegations have been confirmed over and over again, and it is now up to the governments making up the UN General Assembly and Security Council to show the world whether international criminal accountability and the International Criminal Court is exclusively reserved for sub-Saharan African wrongdoing!
→ read full articleMidEast Democracy: Israel’s Diamond in the Rough
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
“The toppling of Egypt’s modern-day pharaoh through peaceful mass protests, aided by Facebook and Twitter, marks a watershed for Egypt and the entire Arab world,” wrote Larry Diamond, in a noteworthy February 14 op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle. “Contrary to widespread anxieties in the U.S. foreign policy establishment,” the prominent advocate of American taxpayer-funded “democracy promotion” maintained, “it will also serve the long-term interests of the United States—and Israel.
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News Media: Rupert Murdoch’s Watergate
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
When a reporter with the British tabloid News of the World was jailed for illegally tapping into the phones of high profile names back in 2007, the newspaper insisted it was the work of a rogue reporter. But as more cases of phone hacking were brought to light and senior News of the World staff members implicated, the company finally conceded that the practice of phone tapping had been widely used within the organisation. It has since publicly apologised to all the victims and has reportedly put around $33mn into a compensation fund. Rupert Murdoch’s Watergate – the phone hacking scandal, the extent of the crime and the implications for News Corp.
→ read full articleRights Groups Slam Bahraini Crackdown
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
“North American and European governments, so vocal recently in espousing the cause of human rights in Libya, Tunisia and Egypt, need also to speak out loudly about what is going on in Bahrain,” said Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International’s director for the Middle East and North Africa. “To avoid the charge of double standards, they must be much more robust in pressing the Bahraini authorities to uphold their international human rights obligations.”
→ read full articleMadagascar: Community Resistance to Corporate Land Theft
Stefan Christoff, farmlandgrab.org – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
In Madagascar grassroots struggles against corporate-driven land grabbing have emerged as a political point of focus in the growing global spotlight on land grabs throughout the global south, a process that the U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food says has “negative effects on the right to food as well as other human rights.” Mass scale corporate land occupations are expanding throughout Africa, and Madagascar is an example of the intensity of the corporate push for national lands but also on the ability for communities to resist such land grabbing.
→ read full articleMeritocracy: A Myth?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
If you are anti-imperialist, ‘Third Worldist’ type – like I unapologetically am – it may warm your heart to know that historically Oxford produced the highest number of folks who gave the rest of the world ‘the British Empire’, which among other things grew opium in India for export to China – as a brilliant economic policy to address the Raj’s trade deficit. (Cambridge was the runner up). Often our own Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is talked about as ‘Oxford-educated’ as if her Oxford education turned her into who she is and what she is made of. As a matter of fact, it was/is her (self-acknowledged) awareness of her parents’ exemplary lives as citizens that was/is her source of inspiration.
→ read full article(Português) Portugal: O Triunfo dos Agiotas – Uma História de Gangsters
Alfredo Barroso, Informação – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
Sovado pelas agências de rating, Portugal atirou a toalha. Quando sairmos das mãos do FMI não teremos à espera os fundos comunitários que foram a alegria do cavaquismo
→ read full articleLocal Currencies to Replace Dollar
India Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – the BRICS group of fastest growing economies – Thursday [14 Apr 2011] signed an agreement to use their own currencies instead of the predominant US dollar in issuing credit or grants to each other.
→ read full articleWorld Bank President: ‘One Shock Away From Crisis’
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
The president of the World Bank has warned that the world is “one shock away from a full-blown crisis”. Robert Zoellick cited rising food prices as the main threat to poor nations who risk “losing a generation”. He was speaking in Washington at the end of the spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
→ read full article(Italian) Stay Human. Riamaniamo Umani. Per Vik
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
Prima della lettura costante del blog di Vittorio, prima ancora della lettura di “Gaza. Restiamo umani”, è dai reportages, dalle schegge o dai frame linguistici inviati da Gaza e pubblicati sulle pagine del Manifesto, che leggo quotidianamente dal 1977, che ho potuto apprezzare il pensiero e l’azione Vittorio.
→ read full articleHow the Wheels of This Misadventure Were Oiled
The Independent, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
Tony Blair has always maintained that Iraq’s oil reserves did not cross his mind in the run-up to the 2003 invasion. But Iraq’s abundant oil supplies had certainly crossed the minds of the British energy giant BP. As this newspaper reported yesterday [19 Apr 2011], documents reveal that the oil company discussed Iraq’s fossil fuel reserves in considerable detail with government officials in late 2002.
→ read full article(Italian) Catania-Fontanarossa per la Guerra Contro la Libia
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
C’è chi chiede più aerei, più missili e più bombe, chi vorrebbe lo sbarco dei marines e l’intervento delle forze terrestri. Tutti in ordine sparso, il coordinamento tra i comandi è scarsissimo e le divisioni in ambito NATO si fanno giorno per giorno sempre più evidenti. E alla fine, la “coalizione dei volenterosi” in guerra contro la Libia rischia di trasformarsi in un’armata Brancaleone alla nuova crociata del XXI secolo.
→ read full articleRussia: NATO Has Overstepped UN Mandate on Libya
Yevgeny Shestakov, Special to Russia Now – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
At a Berlin meeting of NATO foreign ministers, Russia reiterated its stance that the western alliance’s Libya campaign has overstepped its UN mandate through use of excessive force. It also pressed home concerns in the ongoing issue of missile defences in Europe. “We consider that certain actions by NATO in Libya do not correspond to its mandate, and we would like to investigate this,” Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said after Friday’s [22 Apr 2011] talks.
→ read full articleSri Lanka ‘War Crimes’ Is ‘Srebrenica Moment’
Channel 4 News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
The former UN spokesman in Sri Lanka Gordon Weiss tells Channel 4 News that a leaked UN report into “credible allegations” of war crimes represent Sri Lanka’s “Srebrenica moment”. A leaked United Nations report estimates that tens of thousands of civilians were killed during the fighting between Sri Lankan forces and the LTTE – known as the Tamil Tigers in 2009. The document cites “credible allegations” that government forces deliberately shelled civilians and repeatedly targeted hospitals. If proven, the allegations amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleTahrir Square, Tel Aviv
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
Well, there are surprises in history. Sometimes, when the need arises, peoples can surprise themselves. It can happen here [in Israel]. If it does, it will not surprise those of us who believe in our people. True, Rabin Square is not Tahrir Square. But then, neither was it.
→ read full articleMassive Elicitation of Psychosocial Energy: Requisite Technology for Collective Enlightenment
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
Insights arising from the multiple disaster of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan (2011) and from the massive Arab uprisings in the same period. The following discussion is necessarily speculative in an attempt to explore alternative ways of thinking about the “crisis of crises” in all its cognitive complexity — about which there would appear to be a dearth of the much-sought creative “new thinking”.
→ read full articlePerspective on Thai-Cambodia Border Clashes
Emma Leslie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
This is the moment for Thai and Cambodian leaders to rise above politics, and bring together two nations with shared history, culture and religious traditions, putting people first.
→ read full article(Castellano) EE.UU. Rechaza “Declaración Unilateral” de Estado Palestino por Parte de la ONU
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
Estados Unidos (EE.UU.) reiteró este martes [19 Abr 2011] que el pueblo palestino está equivocado si busca que Naciones Unidas (ONU) lo reconozca como Estado independiente sin acuerdo con Israel, esto en el marco del prolongado fracaso en las negociaciones de paz.
→ read full articleFukushima: Openness Can Be the Only Policy
The Independent, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
Panic and nuclear technology go together. But that does not mean the nuclear authorities in Japan, as elsewhere in the world, should withhold information. It means the opposite. The more educated public opinion becomes, the less purchase alarmist scares and inaccurate comparisons will have. Honesty and openness is the best long-term strategy for the nuclear industry if it is to stand any chance of playing a major part in meeting the world’s future energy needs.
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Johan Galtung on Libya: ‘Obama stuck in wars, Sarkozy aims to rule NATO‘ (Video of the Week)
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
A NATO-led international group is meeting in Quatar, to decide how to proceed with its military intervention in Libya. France and the UK want to step up the assault on Colonel Gaddafi, and are considering arming the rebels. For more, RT talks to Johan Galtung, rector of the Transcend Peace University…
→ read full articleRethinking Germany
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
For Germany to stand alone among its Western allies while being in solidarity with the BRIC countries should be a moment of national pride, not a time for solemn soul searching as the German mainstream media has been encouraging.
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American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
American Radical is the probing, definitive documentary about Jewish-American political scientist Norman Finkelstein. A devoted son of holocaust survivors, an ardent critic of Israel and US Middle East policy, Finkelstein has been steadfast at the centre of many intractable controversies, including his denial of tenure at DePaul University. Called a lunatic and self-hating Jew by some and an inspirational street-fighting revolutionary by others, Finkelstein is a deeply polarising figure.
→ read full articleCan Libya Be a Test Case?
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
As the situation demands active diplomacy on parts of responsible powers of the globe, it also provides an opportunity to restore the august international body the United Nations its rightful position. Here lies the crucial barometer for the proponents as well as opponents of military intervention as to whether they can act together.
→ read full articleEU Grants Palestinian Produce Duty-Free Access
Haaretz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
The European Union announced Wednesday [13 Apr 2011] it would grant duty-free access to produce from the West Bank and the Gaza strip in a bid to support Palestinian state building.
→ read full articleWhy Elections in Finland Could Doom Portugal’s Bailout
Der Spiegel Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
Right-wing populism has arrived in Finland. The True Finns stand to gain close to 20 percent of the vote in Sunday’s elections on an anti-Islam, anti-Europe platform. That could be bad news for Portugal.
→ read full articleArab League Calls for No-Fly Zone over Gaza
Morning Star – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
The Arab League called on the United Nations on Sunday [10 Apr 2011] to impose a no-fly zone over Gaza and lift an Israeli siege of the territory after a flare-up of violence that is stoking fears of a wider escalation.
→ read full articlePrediction: 20 Years of War in Libya
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
Johan Galtung, sometimes called the father of peace studies, predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union and the refusal of Egyptian soldiers to attack civilians. His prediction of the collapse of the US empire in 2020 appears to be on schedule. So, it was noteworthy when he predicted on Tuesday [12 Apr 2011] at the University of Virginia that the war in Libya would last 20 years. If, however, NATO and the opposition were to kill Gadaffi, he said, the fighting could go on for more than 20 years.
→ read full articleVittorio and Israel’s Attack On the Intellectual Intifada
Lauren Booth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
The headline ‘Italian peace activist killed by Palestinian extremists’ is an Israeli propagandists wet dream. A gift as potentially large in its political implications as the now inevitable retraction by the UN of the Goldstone report. Why? Two reasons.
→ read full articlePalestinian PM Hails UN ‘Birth Certificate’
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian prime minister, has said that a United Nations endorsement of his administration’s readiness to govern amounts to “a birth certificate” for Palestinian statehood. Fayyad’s comments on Wednesday [13 Apr 2011] came as diplomats and donors met in Brussels to discuss Palestinian state-building efforts and follow a UN report that assessed the Palestinian Authority as “sufficient for a functioning government of a state”.
→ read full articleThe Fukushima, Japan Mega-Disaster
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
In a global era in which all of our lives and the lives of all living beings, including the environment, has become increasingly interdependent, efforts must be made to promote an understanding of the growing frequency, severity, and consequences of natural and human-made disasters.
→ read full article(Castellano) Países del Grupo BRICS Se Oponen al Uso de la Fuerza Militar Contra Libia
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
Los países del grupo Brics (Brasil, Rusia, India, China y Sudáfrica) o de economías emergentes emitieron un proyecto de declaración este jueves [14 Abr 2011] en el contexto de la cumbre que llevan a cabo en el sur de China, en el cual consideran que el uso de la fuerza debe ser evitado en Libia y en los demás países de Medio Oriente.
→ read full article(Castellano) EE.UU Instalará Nueva Base Militar en Honduras
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
Estados Unidos (EE.UU.) decidió instalar una nueva base militar en la costa norte de Honduras, tras la reunión entre el ministro hondureño de Defensa, Marlon Pascual, y el jefe estadounidense del Comando Sur, Douglas Fraser, informó un diario local.
→ read full articleThe Most Dangerous Thing You’ll Do All Day
Bill Phillips and the Editors of Men's Health – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
Scientists at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana analyzed the lifestyles of more than 17,000 men and women over about 13 years, and found that people who sit for most of the day are 54 percent more likely to die of heart attacks. That’s right—I said 54 percent!
→ read full articleSri Lanka: UN Experts Submit Report
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
The report by a panel of experts to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on April 12, 2011, about laws-of-war violations in Sri Lanka should be used to pave the way for justice, Human Rights Watch said today. Ban commissioned the report in May 2010 after the Sri Lankan government failed to investigate violations committed in the final months of its decades-long conflict with the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
→ read full articleMena Revolution and Counter-Revolution
Johan Galtung, 18 Apr 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
Africa. The key to the whole exercise: in 1956 still mainly owned by Anglo-France, Libya becoming an Italian colony in 1911; posing threats of union, independence and ties to China. NATO wants to control it through AFRICOM and EUCOM–three different words for Pentagon–and this is where Libya enters; rejecting AFRICOM with Sudan, Eritrea, Zimbabwe and Cote d’Ivoire (and Sahraoui). No US bases–hence countries to be subdued. The Libya action may put Africa on fire.
→ read full articleThe Grand Failure of Conventional Economics
Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
The “fixes” of conventional economics such as Keynesian stimulus will all fail catastrophically within the next 10 years.
→ read full articleWhy This Matters
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
We have to be sure our facts about nuclear power are right, as the latest exchange with Helen Caldicott shows. My request was a simple one: I asked her to give me sources for the claims she had made about the effects of radiation.
→ read full articleThe Ivory Coast: Behind Laurent Gbagbo’s Last Stand
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that what would happen in the Ivory Coast would have an impact on UN policy in the rest of Africa. The follow up to the arrest of Laurent Gbagbo will merit watching.
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Meet the Shministim – Israeli Conscientious Objectors (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Editor, TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
The Shministim are Israeli high school students who have been imprisoned for refusing to serve in an army that occupies the Palestinian Territories.
→ read full article(Italian) Da Lampedusa. Quei Ragazzini … Occhi Che Scoppiano di Intelligenza
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
4 aprile 2011. Il giornalista e amico Karim Metref, recatosi a Lampedusa per rendersi conto di persona della situazione, risponde ad alcuni miei quesiti.
→ read full articleHow to Build A-tomb (A Poem)
S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
To build anything, my dear friend,
You must be clear what it is you want.
(Italian) Quando Gheddafi Piaceva Tanto ai Generali USA
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
Cane furioso, pazzo, sanguinario, assassino. A Washington descrivono così il colonnello Gheddafi, ma alla vigilia della guerra contro la Libia erano tanti gli ufficiali delle forze armate USA a tessere le lodi del leader africano.
→ read full articleThe Intellectual Crisis of Reporting On Burma by the International Crisis Group
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
When European Union policymakers will meet to review the EU Common Policy on Burma, on 12 April, they will be wise to discard the International Crisis Group’s (ICG) recent call for the unconditional embrace of the country’s military dictatorship… The ICG analysts seem to have chosen only evidence that agrees with a pro-trade, pro-aid policy stance, while critically lacking both conceptual and historical understanding of how dictatorships change.
→ read full articleQuantico Blocks Official Visits by UN, Amnesty, and Rep. Kucinich to Bradley Manning
Michael Whitney, FDL – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
Government officials and Quantico Marine base have blocked official visits to PFC. Bradley Manning by Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Amnesty International, and the UN Special Rappateur on torture.
→ read full articleObama’s Libyan Folly: To be or not to be…
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
The outcome in Libya remains uncertain, but what seems clear beyond reasonable doubt is that military intervention has not saved the day for either the shadowy opposition known as ‘the rebels,’ and certainly not for the people of the country.
→ read full articleHiroshima-Nagasaki and Fukushima
Akifumi Fujita - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
A Centennial Appreciation of the Life and Work of Japanese Physicist Mitsuo Taketani
→ read full article(Portuguese) Cúpula do BRICS na China Discute Rumos da Governança Mundial
Secr. de Comunicação Social da Presidencia da República do Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
A Reforma da Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU) e os rumos da governança global com eixo em um reordenamento multipolar mais equilibrado são alguns dos principais assuntos a serem tratados pelo Brasil na Cúpula de chefes de Estado dos Brics. O encontro será realizado em 14 de abril, na Ilha de Sanya, na China, e marcará a entrada da África do Sul como um dos membros do mecanismo internacional.
→ read full articleThe Civil Crime 1861-65
Johan Galtung, 11 Apr 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
“Causes of war” is an academic pursuit for the PhD hungry; “causes of peace” is the serious challenge. How could this crime against humanity [American Civil War] have been avoided, what would conflict solution, even peace, have looked like?.. ‘Welcome to America, home to 5% of the world’s people & 25% of the world’s prisoners,’ says the NAACP. Mainly Blacks. Rented out as labor from privatized prisons on the stock exchange, deploring lower crime rates, bribing judges for longer sentences. Jim Crow II, South and North. USA, wake up, before the republic becomes a victim of its own absurdity.
→ read full articlePeace Journalism in Pakistan: Perspective on Taliban Conflict
Shabbir Hussain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
This study aims to analyze the media strategy in reporting the tension between the Taliban and the security forces. Taking cue from the original Galtung model of peace journalism, this study strives to help devise a media strategy to promote peace and conflict transformation between the warring sides.
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The Marketing of Madness: The Truth about Psychotropic Drugs (Part 1/2)
Citizens Commission on Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
These drugs do cause addiction, however most “doctors” would call this dependence because you do not have to take an increasing dose over time. They are completely fine with you being addicted to the same amount of any given drug on a daily basis. Over half of the people that commit suicide in the United States are prescribed to psychotropic drugs. (Ex: Paxil, Zoloft, Wellbutrin, Effexor, Seroquil, etc.)
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The Marketing of Madness: The Truth about Psychotropic Drugs (Part 2/2)
Citizens Commission on Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
This video provides the facts about psychotropic drugs and the huge profits they create for the pharmaceutical industry. These drugs are not safe and have not been on the market long enough to provide sufficient long term studies regarding their effects. These drugs do cause addiction, however most “doctors” would call this dependence because you do not have to take an increasing dose over time.
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