Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Libya: NATO to Hold Emergency Meeting of North Atlantic Council
Eurasia Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen: “It’s a bit pre-mature to go into specifics, but it’s well known that NATO has assets that can be used in a situation like this and NATO can act as an enabler and coordinator, if and when, individual member states want to take action.”
→ read full article‘Groupthink’ IMF Slammed for Mistakes before Crisis
Bretton Woods Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
The Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) found major IMF lapses in judgement before the financial crisis, including the promotion of “light-touch regulation”, casting doubt on the Fund’s ability to contribute to taming global finance. As the banking crisis has been transformed into crises of public finance, and while the financial sector returns to business as usual, the IMF has grown increasingly vocal about the insufficient attention being paid to regulation and reform. Analysts ask if we should be looking elsewhere.
→ read full articlePrimary Global Reserve Currency: The Con?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
Confidence is essentially intangible and it is therefore somewhat extraordinary that it should be so fundamental to what might otherwise be considered the most tangible aspects of the material world — as evident in the world of business and finance, necessarily so economic with the truth. “Confidence” is supposedly not even a matter of consideration in any evaluation of the financial condition of a commercial enterprise or a national economy. This supposition is in fact quite incorrect as the financial crisis of 2008-9 has demonstrated through concern with assumption of risk and “credit ratings”.
→ read full articleSouth-South Trade Booming Despite High Trade Barriers
Loni Prinsloo, TRALAC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
Speaking at a Frontier Advisory seminar at the JSE, OECD Development Centre director Mario
Pezzini said that South-South trade had experienced tremendous growth in recent years, with exports from developing countries now constituting 37 per cent of global trade, of which about 50 per cent related to South-South trade.
Identity: Beyond Self, Culture, Nation, and Humanity to “LIFEISM”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
This article explores the nature and meaning of identity and its personal, cultural, and national nuances and consequences. In this presentation, I note, as have many others, that meaningful personal and social identities are at the core of a meaningful human existence. But this assertion raises critical questions about what is a meaningful identity, and what is a meaningful existence. These questions assume greater importance and consequence in the context of our emerging global era, in which the development, shaping, and assertion of certain personal and social identities can have life-affirming or life-harming consequences for all of us.
→ read full articleThere you go!
Oren Ginzburg, Survival International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
23 slides depicting the historical and contemporary process of D-E-V-E-L-O-P-M-E-N-T. Funny and instructive, highly pedagogical.
→ read full articleThe Salary Theory…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
Dilbert’s “Salary Theorem” states that “Engineers and scientists can never earn as much as business executives and sales people.”
→ read full article(Portuguese) Brasil Começa a Produzir Genéricos para Tratamento de AIDS e Hepatite
Camila Campanerut, UOL Notícias em Brasília – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
“A produção nacional não traz apenas uma economia por ter produção brasileira, mas pressiona os outros laboratórios a diminuir seus preços. A grande vantagem aumenta a competitividade do setor como um todo. Já conseguimos baixar o medicamento de R$4,02 para R$ 3,6 por comprimido”, destacou o diretor do Complexo Industrial e Inovação em Saúde da Secretária de Ciência e Tecnologia do ministério da Saúde, Zichy Moyses.
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One Love | Song around the World
Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
From the award-winning documentary, “Playing for Change: Peace through Music”, comes an incredible rendition of the legendary Bob Marley song “One Love” with Keb’ Mo’ and Manu Chao.
→ read full articleEgypt Decides to Open Gaza Crossing Partially
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
Egyptian authorities decided on Friday [18 Feb 2011] to open the Rafah border crossing into the Gaza Strip for humanitarian cases and to allow Palestinians stuck in Egypt to return to the enclave, state television reported.
→ read full articleTRANSCEND Africa Report 2009-2010
Rais Reza Boneza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
African’s Peaceful means
→ read full articleThink Cosmically Act Globally Eat Locally
Johan Galtung, 21 Feb 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
is the slogan advocated by two University of California Santa Cruz professors, the astrophysicist Joel R. Primack, and his wife, the cultural philosopher (and singer) Nancy Abrams. Their fine book, The New Universe and the Human Future: How a Shared Cosmology Could Transform the World, based on the Terry Lectures at Yale October 2009, will be published by Yale University Press in April.
→ read full articleUS Vetoes UN Draft on Settlements
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
The US has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have condemned Israeli settlements as “illegal” and called for an immediate halt to all settlement building. All 14 other Security Council members voted in favour of the resolution, which was backed by the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), on Friday [18 Feb 2011].
→ read full articleSchooling
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
A young cowboy from Wyoming went off to college, but half way through the semester, he had foolishly squandered all his money. He called home. “Dad,” he said, “You won’t believe what modern education is developing! They actually have a program here that will teach our dog, Ol’ Blue how to talk!”
→ read full articleUNESCO Special Envoy Recognises Cuban Humanitarian Work in Haiti
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
Michaelle Jean, Special Envoy for Haiti of the UNESCO, emphasised the support received from Cuba in the matter of health to the Caribbean country, devastated by an earthquake a year ago. “Whenever we talk about health, we cannot forget the support of that country [Cuba] and this brotherly people,” said Jean, former governor general of Canada, while recognizing the importance of maintaining that link, as somewhat fundamental.
→ read full articleEgyptian Riot Gear
TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
Makeshift helmets made by demonstrators during the Egyptian nonviolent uprising on Liberty Square. Very unusual, funny and creative pieces of non-standard armor kit. The last one presents two loaves of bread as ear protectors tied to a plastic container over the head. Some humor amid the initial violent crackdown attempted by the security forces.
→ read full article‘Problem Children’ towards Radicalism
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
One of the WikiLeaks revelations, published recently in The Daily Telegraph of London, brings into picture the worrisome scenario in which a section of the British youth visit to madrassas in Kashmir under Pakistan’s control, and end in the net of extremist and terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda.
→ read full articlePeace-Building in Africa
Adeleye Oyeniyi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
What is Peace-building? The term is used to refer to long-term preventive, pre-hostility strategies, for measures to remove the internal causes of conflict and to strengthen structural stability in a country against the threat of civil war.
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Lies That Launched a War
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
The 2003 invasion of Iraq was sanctioned largely because of claims the country had weapons of mass destruction. The source of some of the alleged intelligence behind the claims was an Iraqi defector living in Germany, someone who has now admitted the evidence he submitted was false.
→ read full articleReport of Special Rapporteur to the UN Human Rights Council on Occupied Palestinian Territories
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
14 Feb 2011 – I am posting the official text of my most recent report to the UN Human Rights Council on Israeli human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The period covered ends in December 2010, and the report will be formally presented to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 21, 2011. Of course, the impact of recent events, especially in Egypt, is not considered. Of primary interest will be the approach taken by the new Egyptian leadership to the Rafah Crossing, especially whether humanitarian goods will be permitted to enter freely and whether Gazans will be allowed to leave and return without difficulty.
→ read full articleRevolutionary Prospects after Mubarak
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
The bravery, discipline, and creativity of the Egyptian revolutionary movement is nothing short of a political miracle, deserving to be regarded as one of the seven political wonders of the modern world! To have achieved these results without violence, despite a series of bloody provocations, and persisting without an iconic leader, without even the clarifying benefit of a revolutionary manifesto, epitomizes the originality and grandeur of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
→ read full articleDeclaration of the Assembly of Social Movements, WSF/Dakar
Assembly of Social Movements - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
The World Social Forum met in Dakar, Senegal, February 7-11. This declaration was adopted by the Assembly of Social Movements.
→ read full articleDemocracy Born in Chains
Naomi Klein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
The inspiring overthrow of Hosni Mubarak is only the first stage of the Egyptian struggle for full liberation. As earlier pro-democracy movements have learned the hard way, much can be lost in the key months and years of transition from one regime to another. In The Shock Doctrine, I investigated how, in the case of post-apartheid South Africa, key demands for economic justice were sacrificed in the name of a smooth transition. Here is that chapter.
→ read full articleCommentary on Events in North Africa
Ramon Lopez-Reyes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
In a paper written in 2007 on “War in the Middle East” I brought attention to the dynamic of convergence (globalization) that is hurling Homo Sapiens toward a common identity. Clearly a concept of ‘convergence’ projects a metaphysical nuance that falls outside the normal span of dialectics, something akin to the Gaia Hypothesis that holds planet Earth to be a self-regulating organism. Although depth psychology contains aspects of metaphysics, I would list the theory of convergence more under evolution than metaphysics. I am of the opinion that nothing can impede convergence other than the demise of the human species itself.
→ read full articleHas The Pro-Israel Lobby Subverted Australian Democracy?
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2011
So, was there an elaborate plot, involving the active connivance of pro-Israel groups, the US embassy, the mining industry and the Right faction of the ALP, and kept successfully secret, to bring Rudd down and install Gillard in his place? To pose the question in those terms is to stretch credulity, but of course there is a way to answer it, which resonates with abundant life experience, and is encapsulated in another question: cui bono? (Or perhaps we could simply say: Go Figure).
→ read full articleDrunks
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2011
Recently, a routine police patrol was parked outside a local neighborhood bar in Minnesota. Late in the evening, the officer noticed a man leaving the bar so intoxicated that he could barely walk.
→ read full articleThe Role of the World Bank in Carbon Markets
Bretton Woods Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2011
This paper outlines the World Bank’s involvement in the carbon market and reviews concerns about its impacts on greenhouse gas emission reductions and development. First, it introduces the role and aims of the Bank’s Carbon Finance Unit and the various funds and facilities that it manages…. The paper then summarises the concerns that have emerged from official evaluations and scrutiny by civil society groups regarding the effectiveness of Bank carbon finance in reducing emissions and generating development benefits, adding new evidence where available.
→ read full articleEthnicity and Indigene/Settler Conflict
Adeleye Oyeniyi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2011
Ethnicity has been one of the regular features of the Third World societies. Africa has had more than lion share in ethnic-induced wars and violence. The issue of ethnicity has become the most viable factor, which explains the social reality of post-colonial Africa. During colonisation of African people, colonialists failed to put the issue of cultural differences of various ethnic groupings into consideration before lumping them together in (colonial) state formation. The oversight has constituted and remained one of the greatest challenges of post-colonial Africa.
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Cairo Intifada
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2011
A report on the nonviolent movements for Mubarak’s ouster.
→ read full articleIsraeli Economy for Beginners
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2011
How is it that Israel is impervious to the global financial disaster? How can Israel be so rich? Wikileaks has revealed lately that “sources in the (Israeli) police estimate that Russian organised crime (Russian Mafia) has laundered as much as US $10 billion through Israeli holdings.” Israel’s economy is booming because mega swindlers such as Bernie Madoff have been channeling their money via Zionists and Israeli institutions for decades. Israel is ‘doing well’ because it is the leading trader in blood diamonds. Far from being surprising, Israel is also the fourth biggest weapon dealer on this planet. As if this is not enough, Israel is also prosperous because, every so often, it is caught engaged in organ trafficking and organ harvesting. In short, Israel is doing better than other countries because it runs one of the dirtiest-non-ethical economies in the world.
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TRANSCEND: Methods and Solutions
Johan Galtung | Alternate Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2011
Galtung’s approach to mediation offers concrete proposals that are intended to give both sides the sense that they are winners. In this interview segment he describes his methodology and offers proposals for peace in the Middle East and other areas of conflict.
→ read full articleWikileaks: The Economic Reasons Behind the Siege on Gaza
Shir Hever, Global Exchange – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2011
This document demonstrates that the Israeli government is in fact strangling the Gazan economy in order to turn Gaza into a captive market for Israeli products and maintain demand for the Israeli shekel — all in the name of “fighting terrorism.” It also demonstrates that the international community — and especially the US — have allowed this policy to continue.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Sondagem Elege o Povo Brasileiro Como o Mais Simpático do Mundo
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2011
Ranking publicado no site da CNN Internacional no dia 21/Jan/2011 elegeu os povos mais afáveis do planeta.
→ read full articleThe Toxic Residue of Colonialism: Protecting Interests, Disregarding Rights
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2011
Here is the crux of the ethical irony. Washington is respectful of the logic of self-determination so long as it converges with American grand strategy, and oblivious to the will of the people whenever its expression is seen as posing a threat to the neoliberal overlords of the globalized world economy or to strategic alignments that seem so dear to State Department or Pentagon planners.
→ read full articleHaiti Issues Passport for Aristide
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2011
Move paves the way for the ousted president to return from exile ahead of a March 20 presidential runoff election.
→ read full articleUK Food Speculation: GM Isn’t the Answer to Hunger
World Development Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2011
“The Beddington report does not accurately reflect the real cause of hunger in developing countries. The current record food prices are down to banks and hedge funds betting on food. The hot speculative inflows of money into commodity markets are dramatically pushing up the price of foods like bread, sugar and corn. GM is not a magic bullet to cure global hunger. If the UK government really wants to reduce hunger in the developing world, they should break free of the grip of the GM and banking lobbyists, and crack down on predatory speculation by banks and hedge funds which will ensure stable and lower food prices.”
→ read full articleWorld History Unfolding – What Next?
Johan Galtung, 14 Feb 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2011
And then it happened: Mubarak out. Enormous cheers in Tahrir square; Egypt is Free! A historical deed, triggered by Tunisia, carried by a million heroes. Leaderless of course, as a strategy; leaders can easily be targeted. Everybody rallied around one idea, the ouster of Mubarak–like of Ben Ali in Tunisia. End of Act I…. Sooner or later the Camp David accords and the joint blockade of Gaza–outcomes of autocracy and bribery–will be on the table. Sooner or later the youth wave will hit more dominos; PLO, Syria, Iran, and the Big One–the Saudi Royal House. Maybe even that other Big One–Israel–liberating it from narcissism, paranoia, and generalocracy, to positive judaism. Maybe one day even the Biggest One–the USA–making it less corporate, more democratic.
→ read full articleInvesting in World Peace
Susan Carew (aka Peacefull Clown) - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2011
A Poem
→ read full articleThe West and the Revolution
Vera Macht – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2011
With the revolutionary Egyptians being just a mouse click away, you can bethink yourself again of democracy meaning above all not to divide people in “we” and “them”. Remind yourself that you shouldn’t build up concepts of an enemy because of strangeness, but rather remember that all of us, whether in Europe or in Egypt, share a common humanity. And this is perhaps the time to just close the laptop, stop checking our Facebook pages for the hundredth time of the day for the latest news of virtual friends, and step out into the real world. Because our society also needs the Egyptian spark for the fight for a better tomorrow.
→ read full articleFinancial Interests Dictate Sovereign Policy
Michael Hudson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2011
“Latvia has become a testing ground for how far living standards can be depressed, how steeply an economy can be taxed while removing public social support in the face of a wealthy kleptocratic class at the top.”
→ read full articleThis Modern World | Summarizing Egypt
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2011
In Tom Tomorrow’s latest editorial cartoon “Conservabot” discusses the Egyptian uprising.
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TRANSCEND: Ideas and Insights
Johan Galtung | Alternate Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
In this interview Galtung gives his views on a wide range of topics including the banality of diplomacy, as revealed by WikiLeaks, and the root causes of the 9/11 attacks. With his usual frankness, he offers a critique of Israel’s approach to solving the question of Palestine.
→ read full articleFAQ: The Palestine Papers
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
What are these papers? Why are they in English? We answer the most common questions.
→ read full article(French) Moubarak Degage!
Michel Collon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
Les dictateurs ne dictent pas, ils obéissent aux ordres- Michel Chossudovsky
“Il ne suffit pas d’abattre la marionnette, le problème, c’est le marionnettiste”
Egypt’s Transformative Moment: Revolution, Counterrevolution, or Reform
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 there have been two further transformative events that have reshaped in enduring ways the global setting. When the Soviet empire collapsed two years later, the way was opened for the triumphalist pursuit of the American Imperial Project, seizing the opportunity for geopolitical expansion provided by its self-anointed global leadership as ‘the sole surviving superpower.’ This first rupture in the character of world order…. The second rupture came with the 9/11 attacks, however those events are construed. The impact of the attacks transferred the locus of policymaking authority back to the United States, as state actor, under the rubrics of ‘the war on terror,’ ‘global security,’ and ‘the long war.’
→ read full articleAussie Human Rights Award for Julian Assange
Ryan Witcombe, Pro Bono Australia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
The Sydney Peace Foundation has awarded its gold medal for ‘peace with justice’ to controversial WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange. The citation reads, ‘For exceptional courage and initiative in pursuit of human rights.’ The award is expected to be made to Assange in Sydney in mid May or at a ceremony in London later this year.
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Money as Debt – The Money Masters
TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
Paul Grignon explains in detail the current perverse monetary system based on debt (2006).
→ read full articleOcracy
Clay Bennett – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
Political Cartoon
→ read full articleHis Name Was João
Jordi Cussó Porredón, Letter of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
Letter of Peace Addressed to the UN. Time, many battles and much suffering have taught us that no one person is superior to another. It doesn’t matter if you are a carpenter, gardener, minister, black or white… the only thing that really matters is that we are human beings. Society must provide us all with the same opportunities because we are all equal.
→ read full articleWorld History Unfolding II
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
What a week! And we have no idea how many weeks are ahead of us!! We only know that the process cannot be reversed, and we can watch on CNN+ one reason why. That lack of understanding, picking the wrong discourses.
→ read full articleEarth is Our Common Home: The Forest Year
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
The United Nations General Assembly in Resolution 61/193 has proclaimed 2011 as the International Year of Forests “recognizing that forests and sustainable forest management can contribute significantly to sustainable development, poverty eradication and the achievement of internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals.”
→ read full articleWhy Egypt 2011 is not Iran 1979
Prof. Juan Cole, Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
Egypt is, unlike Iran, not primarily an oil state. Its sources of revenue are tourism, Suez Canal tolls, manufactured and agricultural exports, and strategic rent (the $1.5 bn. or so in aid from the US comes under this heading). Egypt depends on the rest of the world for grain imports. Were it to adopt a radical and defiant ideology like that of Iran, all its major sources of income would suddenly evaporate, and it might have trouble even just getting enough imported food. Moreover, the social forces making the revolution in Egypt have a significantly different profile and different dynamics than in Iran. Let us just go through the same list.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Como É Que o Dinheiro É Criado ?
TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
A maior parte das pessoas acredita que o Governo cria dinheiro cunhando moeda e imprimindo notas. Mas não é bem assim que isto acontece. Nos tempos em que se utilizava dinheiro físico (por exemplo moedas de metal precioso) as pessoas começaram a aceitar as notas de papel emitidas por um Banco em vez do metal precioso.
→ read full articleRemembering Howard Zinn on the Anniversary of His Death and Germinating the Seeds of Truth
Mark Karlin, Buzzflash editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
“You can’t be neutral on a moving train,” Howard Zinn said. Although he died over a year ago (January 27, 2010), no statement could be more timely considering the upheaval in Egypt.
→ read full articleThe Pakistan Domino
Dr. Paul D Scott and Sarwar Bari – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
What has happened in Tunisia has spread to Morocco, the Sudan, Egypt, Algeria, Mauritania, and Saudi Arabia. Though many revolutions had small and spontaneous beginning, early signs of alarm were always there. In all cases the ruling elites felt they were insulated from the flames. Here in Pakistan the elites are out of touch. It is as if the plight of millions in the countryside is happening in a faraway distant land. One only has to listen to know that something is in the making, the air has changed.
→ read full articleShell Annual Profits Double to $18.6bn
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
The oil giant Shell has reported profits almost doubled from $9.8bn to $18.6bn (£11.5bn) for 2010, partly thanks to rising oil prices and output.
→ read full articleJohn Pilger in Conversation with Julian Assange
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
Watch a 70-minute interview with Julian Assange recorded during filming of John Pilger’s latest film ‘The War You Don’t See’.
→ read full articleDisastrous Floods as Indicators of Systemic Risk Neglect
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
Implications for Authoritative Response to Future Surprises. This is an exploration of the level of neglected risk visibly and dramatically highlighted by a number of recent highly publicized floods which have been framed as unforeseeable surprises. At the time of writing the prime example is in Australia on the occasion of the Queensland flood of 2010,which has been followed by flooding in Victoria.
→ read full articleStop Belo Monte—No Mega-Dam in the Amazon
Antonio C. S. Rosa, TMS Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
Belo Monte would be a project bigger than the Panama Canal, flooding at least 400,000 acres of rainforest, displacing 40,000 indigenous and local people, and destroying the priceless habitats of countless unique species — all to create power that could easily be generated through investments in energy efficiency.
→ read full articleHaiti Allows Ex-President’s Return
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
Haiti’s government has said it was ready to issue a new passport to Jean-Bertrand Aristide, former president, to would allow him to return to his country after almost seven years in exile in South Africa. “The government will give assurances that as soon as it receives such a request, it will be swiftly granted,” the information ministry said in a statement on Monday [31 Jan 2011].
→ read full article(Portuguese) Pare Belo Monte: Não à Mega Usina na Amazônia
Antonio C. S. Rosa, TMS Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
A hidrelétrica iria inundar pelo menos 400.000 hectares da floresta, impactar centenas de quilômetros do Rio Xingu e expulsar mais de 40.000 pessoas, incluindo comunidades indígenas de várias etnias que dependem do Xingu para sua sobrevivência. O projeto de R$30 bilhões é tão economicamente arriscado que o governo precisou usar fundos de pensão e financiamento público para pagar a maior parte do investimento. Apesar de ser a terceira maior hidrelétrica do mundo, ela seria a menos produtiva, gerando apenas 10% da sua capacidade no período da seca, de julho a outubro.
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Will Hunting Had It Right 14 Years Ago
compelled2283 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
My favourite scene from Good Will Hunting and pertinent to the principles of liberty in its condemnation of killing people abroad who have done no harm to you personally. With inspiration from Howard Zinn.
→ read full articleIsrael Places Resources at Suleiman’s Disposal “To Protect the Egyptian Regime”
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
Well-placed Israeli sources have disclosed that the Zionist state has offered to place “all its capabilities” at the disposal of General Omar Suleiman, the recently appointed Vice President of Egypt, for the “protection of the regime in Egypt”. This offer includes the implementation of “various operations to end the popular revolution”. Israel has also asked Suleiman to work on preventing arms being smuggled into the Gaza Strip.
→ read full articleReport: Cyprus Recognizes Palestinian States within 1967 Borders
Haaretz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
Cyprus has recognized a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA said on Sunday [30 Jan 2011], following similar recent declarations coming mostly from South American states.
→ read full articleThe Great Unravelling: Tunisia, Egypt and the Protracted Collapse of the American Empire
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
The toppling of dictator Ben Ali in Tunisia in the wake of mass protests and bloody street clashes has been widely recognized as signifying a major transformation in the future of politics and geopolitics for the major countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). There is little doubt that the Tunisian experience triggered the escalation of unprecedented protests in Egypt against the Mubarak regime. The question on every media pundit’s lips is, ‘Will events in Tunisia and Egypt have a domino effect throughout the Arab world?’
→ read full articleWorld Social Forum 2011 Dakar-Senegal Feb 6-11
TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
1) What is the World Social Forum? The World Social Forum is an open meeting place where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas democratically, for formulate proposals, share their experiences freely and network for effective action.
→ read full articleOmar Suleiman & “Foreign Elements”: A Chronology
Stephen Soldz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
This is the monster the US considers an “acceptable” alternative leader in Egypt.
→ read full articleAge Is Not the Problem
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
A fifty year old man went for his annual health check-up to the doctor.
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Johan Galtung on ‘Breaking the Cycle of Violent Conflict’
UCtelevision – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2011
“Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice Distinguished Lecture Series,” University of California-San Diego, Jan 20 2011 — A noted pioneer in the field of Peace Studies, Johan Galtung makes the case for incorporating human rights as key to successful peace building around the world.
→ read full articleWorld History Unfolding I
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2011
And then it happens, right there, for our eyes. The pattern, above all a product of the US-Israel alliance (inspired by Jesaiah 2:1-5), is unraveling. The pattern was always the same, by force or bribes or both to create “friendly governments”, “allies in the peace process” as VP Joe Biden–Obama’s foreign policy expert–says. These hours, these days. Some process.
→ read full article(Castellano) EEUU: Partido Único
David Brooks, surysur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2011
Gore Vidal, el gran novelista y ensayista, ha repetido durante años: tenemos un solo partido, un partido esencialmente del empresariado estadounidense, con dos alas derechas, una llamada los demócratas, una llamada los republicanos”.
→ read full articleKnowing and Not Knowing
Tom Tomorrow, Truthout – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2011
This Modern World – Political Cartoon
→ read full articleWho Says There’re No Leaders?
Federico Mayor Zaragoza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2011
There is no doubt about what we must do: return to the democratic principles that the globalizers replaced with those of the market; unite together, all different but bound by shared universal values, and “re-found” the United Nations to be able to build this world federation, this coordination that would put us on course and provide momentum, which today is the dream of so many who are aware that our present course is leading us to disaster. People like Johan Galtung are showing us the right path for the future. Let’s follow him.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Quem Roubou a Minha Poluição?
Nelson Peralta, esquerda.net – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2011
O mercado europeu de comércio de emissões de dióxido de carbono (CO2) está fechado há uma semana depois de ter sido detectado o roubo de 475 mil toneladas em licenças de emissão de CO2. Esta bolsa funciona numa plataforma virtual online e as falhas de segurança têm sido uma constante. A Comissão Europeia estima que cerca de dois milhões de licenças avaliadas em 26 milhões de euros possam estar desaparecidas, mas ninguém parece saber ao certo. O mercado deve reabrir hoje [27 Jan 2011], apenas nos países que adoptaram medidas de segurança adicionais.
→ read full articleFood Speculation: ‘People Die From Hunger While Banks Make a Killing on Food’
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2011
It’s not just bad harvests and climate change – it’s also speculators that are behind record prices. And it’s the planet’s poorest who pay.
→ read full articleWhy ‘Colour’ Revolutions are Multi-shaded
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2011
Adding to the galaxy of ‘colour’ revolutions such as rose, tulip, orange, and many others is the recent jasmine revolution in Tunisia. The North African country suddenly gained worldwide attention in the second week of January as the ruler of country for the last 23 years fled to Saudi Arabia after massive protests. The perplexity of the matter revolved around the question how the immolation of a 26 year old could trigger such a massive unrest in Tunisia and consequently in the almost whole Arab world with protests in countries like Algeria, Syria, Yemen, Jordan are gaining shape.
→ read full articleComplex Answers
Mark Fonseca Rendeiro – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2011
One of the great dangers of our time, as I have seen in my short life and extensive travels, is this push to simplify everything so that it all fits in a box or a category and we don’t have to learn and appreciate the complexity of what is happening around us.
→ read full articleVenezuela-Cuba Undersea Cable Link Work Starts
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2011
Work has begun on laying an underwater fibre-optic cable to link Venezuela and Cuba. It will stretch 1,600km (1,000m) and considerably improve telephone and internet services to Cuba, which currently relies on a costly and slow internet connection via satellite.
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CrossTalk: American Exceptionalism
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2011
On this edition of Peter Lavelle’s CrossTalk, he asks his guests whether American exceptionalism is a self-serving myth.
→ read full articleMahatma Gandhi: Freedom Is Our Goal; Our Lives the Price We Pay
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2011
There is a certain irony that two of the most violent and dangerous conflicts which face us as peacemakers today are conflicts which Gandhi also faced but left unresolved. The first is violence within the Muslim community of what is now Pakistan. The second is violence and the political status of the Pathan (Pushtun) area that is on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghanistan frontier.
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It’s the Occupation, Stupid
Maidhc Ó Cathail - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2011
It’s the Occupation, Stupid features, in order of appearance, Eliot Spitzer, Ben Stein, Irving Kristol, Ron Paul, Michael Scheuer, Richard Curtiss, Eric Margolis, Loretta Alper, Scott Horton, Alison Weir, Glenn Greenwald, Paul Findley, Ilan Pappé, Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush. The narrator’s words are from Maidhc Ó Cathail’s “Ben Stein: America is an underarmed country!” and “Kristol Clear: The Source of America’s Wars.”
→ read full article(Portuguese) Brasil: Estudo Mostra Informações Sobre o Trabalho Escravo no Maranhão
Danilo Augusto, Radioagência NP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2011
Segundo dados da Comissão Pastoral da Terra (CPT), somente no Brasil existem aproximadamente 25 mil trabalhadores que vivem em condições semelhantes à de escravos. De acordo com informações do Atlas, o Maranhão é o que mais fornece força de trabalho escravo. A região do município de Açailândia, fronteira com o Pará, é apontada como de maior ocorrência. As atividades que mais utilizam a prática escrava são a pecuária e a indústria carvoeira.
→ read full articleMubarak’s Dictatorship Must End Now
Guardian-Observer Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2011
Sun Jan 30 2011 – Fittingly, Egypt’s youth led the way against the old order, using not guns or bombs but the arsenal of 21st-century information technology: social media, mobiles, texts and emails. The Paris mob of Bastille notoriety became, through peaceful evolution, the flash mob of Tahrir Square. They espoused no leaders. They wrote no plans. In fast-moving, separate but interconnected street offensives, they out-thought, outfoxed and outran the police.
→ read full articleAnalogy
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2011
The following analogy characterizes a typical Congress member’s attitude about the looming energy crisis: A young man decided that he wanted to become a switching specialist with a railroad.
→ read full articleOlof Palme and World Interests
Johan Galtung, 24 Jan 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2011
Leeds City Hall, UK – Jan 23, 2011. To Palme the two superpowers and their hideous arms were more than a problem to each other. Together they were a world problem and it was in the world interest to sort it out…. Olof Palme’s crime, even treason, was very clear and unpardonable: he defined the waiting room-recovery home as normalcy, and created a new concept of Sweden as a Great Power, based on the welfare state and neutrality.
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Interview with Johan Galtung (Part 1 of 2)
Mera Szendro Bok | Communicaton is your Right! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2011
In this Dec 9, 2010 interview Johan Galtung talks about his experiences, insights, views, and his new book “The Fall of the US Empire – And Then What?”
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Interview with Johan Galtung (Part 2 of 2)
Mera Szendro Bok | Communicaton is your Right! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2011
In this Dec 9, 2010 interview Johan Galtung talks about his experiences, insights, views, and his new book “The Fall of the US Empire – And Then What?”
→ read full articleUnfaithfulness
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2011
Morris returns from a long business trip and finds out that his wife has been unfaithful during his time away. Who was it!?” he yells.
→ read full article(Italian) Le Campagne d’Africa di US Army Vicenza
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2011
Un anno e mezzo fa erano circa 180 i militari e civili assegnati al Comando di US Army Africa a Vicenza. Adesso lo staff della componente terrestre di AFRICOM, l’organismo militare che sovrintende alle operazioni statunitensi nel continente africano, supera già le 400 unità.
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One Year Later, Life No Better in Haiti
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2011
Nicole Lee: Stability of markets depends on countries like Haiti remaining poor. Europe’s, US’s commitment is to their own subsidies only.
→ read full articleVatican Abuse Cover-Up Bid Revealed
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2011
Irish broadcaster RTE have uncovered a 1997 letter from the Vatican discouraging Ireland’s Catholic bishops from reporting on all suspected child-abuse cases to police. The letter, revealed on Wednesday [19 Jan 2011], documents the church’s emphasis to handle in-house all child-abuse allegations and determine punishments instead of delegating that responsibility over to civil authorities.
→ read full articleAre Corporations People?
Los Angeles Times, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2011
In a case that could erect new barriers to public access to government information, the Supreme Court this week was asked to hold that corporations have a right to “personal privacy.” Fortunately, justices from across the ideological spectrum appeared skeptical that such a counterintuitive concept could be found either in the law or in a dictionary.
→ read full articleWhy Socialism?
Albert Einstein, Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2011
Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Boaventura de Sousa Santos: “Os mercados cometem crimes contra a humanidade”
Filipa Martins, ionline – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2011
Para o sociólogo, Portugal está a ser vitima de um ataque especulativo não justificado dos mercados internacionais.
→ read full articleWelcoming the Tunisian Revolution: Hopes and Fears
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2011
Turning back to North Africa, in 1992 when the FIS in Algeria won hotly contested elections for legislative representation, the military intervened to impose its will, Washington was silent, and remained so during the ‘dark decade’ of strife followed in which at least 60,000 Algerians lost their lives. It is part of the reality in the region that American strategic and ideological goals point one way and the popular will of the people point in the opposite direction. It is thus either hypocritical or a sign of deep confusion for American leadership to advocate democracy in the Middle East without being willing to alter its grand strategy.
→ read full articleGuyana Recognises Palestinian State
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2011
Guyana is latest Latin American country to state a commitment to the “legitimate aspirations” of Palestinians.
→ read full articleWhat Happened When Fundamentalist Christians Tried to “Cure” Me of Homosexuality
James Voss, Truth Wins Out – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2011
I left for North Central University right after high school to become a youth pastor. The one obstacle of graduation was my sexual orientation. According to the university, homosexuals suffer a life controlling disorder that can be overcome through self-discipline, prayer, and by living a life centered in Christ and obeying the N.C.U Way. At a certain point I decided that I needed to love myself enough, and admit that I was gay and leave NCU.
→ read full articlePortugal: The Prospect of a Full Bailout and More Austerity Looms in 2011
Socialist Worker, LeftBanker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2011
Portugal is the latest European country to face a financial crisis, the likelihood of a bailout by the European Union and International Monetary Fund–and savage austerity measures that come with the “rescue.” The cutbacks, layoffs and regressive tax increases are being championed by the center-left Socialist Party government, with the support of the country’s main conservative party, the Social Democratic Party.
→ read full articleOn Jewish Identity
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2011
As someone who is both Jewish and supportive of the Palestinian struggle for a just and sustainable peace, I am often asked about my identity. The harshest critics of my understanding of the Israel/Palestine conflict contend that I am a self-hating Jew, which implies that sharp criticism of Israel and Zionism are somehow incompatible with affirming a Jewish identity. Of course, I deny this.
→ read full articleSpicy…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2011
The women in a town decided that their men gave them too little pocket money. To remedy the situation, they opened a bordello.
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