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Scots
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
A Scottish daughter proudly announced to her father, “Today I saved two dollars, I ran after the street car.”
→ read full articleThe Biggest Document Leak in History Exposes Real War
Bureau of Investigative Journalism – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
The data reveals how hundreds of civilians were killed by coalition forces in unreported events. There are numerous claims of prison abuse by coalition forces even after the Abu Ghraib scandal. The files also paint a disturbing portrait of widespread torture in Iraqi detention facilities. As the war progresses the documents record a descent into chaos and horror as the occupation sparked civil war. In case after case, the logs record thousands of bodies, many brutally tortured, dumped on the streets of Iraq.
→ read full articleTunisia Ratifies International Treaty Banning Cluster Bombs
Cluster Munition Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
The Republic of Tunisia ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 28 September 2010 during the United Nations General Assembly. Tunisia is the first country in the Middle East/North Africa region to formally ratify the treaty, which took effect as binding international law on 1 August 2010.
→ read full articleNew Law Bans Illegal Wood from EU Markets
WWF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
The EU Regulation on Illegal Logging cleared its final legislative hurdle on Monday [18 Oct 2010], following the adoption of the proposed draft by the Council of Ministers, effectively issuing a ban on illegal timber. In July, the European Parliament overwhelmingly approved a crack down on illegal timber, voting 644-25 in favor of the legislation.
→ read full articleMoldova Becomes Latest State Party to International Criminal Court
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
Moldova has become the latest country to ratify the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is tasked with trying people accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
→ read full articleViva Palestina Convoy Reaches Gaza
Aljazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
Pro-Palestinian activists enter Gaza through Rafah crossing with $5m of aid for residents of Israeli-blockaded strip.
→ read full articleNeed to Know | Daniel Ellsberg: The most dangerous man in America | PBS
PBS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
Need to Know’s Jon Meacham speaks with Daniel Ellsberg about his decision to release the Pentagon Papers, the subject of a new documentary on the PBS series POV. Ellsberg talks about the film and his thoughts on Bob Woodward’s recently released book.
→ read full article‘Peace hath her Victories…’
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
Since the beginning of the Vietnam War, several academic institutions and civil society groups have focused on creating the new discipline of Peace Studies, with varying degrees of clarity, in some places reflecting the urgencies of ‘conflict resolution,’ in others, the needs of communities to arrive at reconciliation.
→ read full articlePeace as a Way of Life
Johan Galtung, 18 Oct 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Clear the past, move on. Conflicts are waiting for you, embrace them as challenges. Fight to solve them for mutual and equal benefit; no flight, please. Identify the sticky issues, search for a solution beyond the passive co-existence of avoiding violence. Fine goals those, but be more ambitious. Search for an active co-existence where all move on, based on the solution, into challenging futures no doubt filled with new conflicts to take on.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Loyalty Oath: Discriminatory by Design
The Guardian, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
New pledge requires future citizens declare their loyalty to an ideology, one intended to exclude Palestinians.
→ read full article(Italian) Ultimo Saluto all’amico Italo Tibaldi
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Oggi abbiamo accompagnato per l’ultima volta
un AMICO
Deportato politico a Mauthausen e a Ebensee
Matricola 42307
Un MAESTRO.
10/10/10: World’s Biggest Day of Climate Action Unites 7,000 Rallies in 188 Countries
350.org – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Just weeks before elections in the United States and climate talks at the United Nations, citizens from Afghanistan to West Virginia joined 350.org’s “10/10/10 Global Work Party” to issue a unified demand that politicians stop dragging their feet and get to work on climate solutions. Leading by example, citizens in 188 countries joined more than 7,000 climate “work parties” over the weekend to get to work installing solar panels, weatherizing homes, planting trees, and then calling politicians to ask a simple question, “We’re getting to work, what about you?”
→ read full articleNATO Strategy Paper: Nuclear Weapons Likely to Stay in Germany
Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Nuclear weapons, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has long insisted, have no place in Germany. But a new NATO paper seems to indicate that his efforts to get all such weapons removed from German soil will not succeed.
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Nuclear Terrorism: Proof of Concept
vredesactie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Peace activists locate and film nuclear weapon shelters on military base of Kleine Brogel, Belgium. By means of this documentary, the Bombspotters reveal the lack of security found at this site. As shown in the movie, it is possible to walk to all aircraft shelters, including those containing nuclear weapons. If peace activists are able to get so close to nuclear weapon storage shelters, what would happen if people with more destructive intentions were to? An act of terrorism targeting the nuclear bombs cannot be excluded. These nuclear bombs do not guarantee security but pose a security risk themselves. Our security would be better guaranteed without them.
→ read full articleHelen Thomas: “You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive.”
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Former White House veteran reporter has criticized the United States for not allowing people to talk about Israeli policies against the Palestinian people. “You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive,” Helen Thomas said in an interview with Ohio station WMRN-AM that aired on Tuesday [12 Oct 2010].
→ read full articleAmong Salesmen
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
A farmer had been ripped off several times by the local car dealer. One day, the car dealer informed the farmer that he was coming over to purchase a cow.
→ read full articleViolence in Perspective
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Over the past 6,000 years of recorded history, violence seems to have been the distinguished characteristic of our earthly community. Violence of one kind or another always promotes animosity, hatred, destruction of the environment and total disregard for the sacredness of human rights. Every kind of violence stems from abuse of individual or collective power. It tends mostly to derive from those in authority who are held accountable for all the struggles and conflicts as well as disasters and wars.
→ read full article(Italian) Stati, Stati Nazione e Legittimità
Giuliano Martignetti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Della ricca relazione tenuta dal prof. Galtung a Torino in occasione della giornata dedicata a festeggiare il suo ottantesimo genetliaco, mi sono annotato due osservazioni particolarmente interessanti. La prima è che oggi nel campo delle relazioni internazionali il diritto di veto deve considerarsi superato. La seconda che in tutti gli stati del mondo (192) ben 176 contengono delle minoranze nazionali più o meno ampie. C’è un nesso tra le due affermazioni? Vediamo.
→ read full articlePentagon Author Exposes Zelikow’s Key Role in 9/11 Cover-Up
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
In an interview on the Fox Business Network, a retired U.S. intelligence officer accused the official in charge of the 9/11 Commission of a cover-up of intelligence failures leading up to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
→ read full articleThe Kashmir Imbroglio: Thinking the Unthinkable
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Back in the bad old days of the Cold War, the heaviest of the backroom hawks of the Pentagon, Herman Kahn, coined the phrase ‘thinking the unthinkable,’ meaning strategies for wiping out the Soviet Union with nukes. Luckily for all of us, Ronald Reagan had a better idea, the same result could be achieved by an undeclared economic war and arms race that would force the communists to scratch themselves out of the tournament.
→ read full articleRe-Emergence of the Language of the Birds through Twitter?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Harmonising the Configuration of Pattern-Breaking Interjections and Expletives. The following exploration is dedicated to Johan Galtung on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
He originally instigated the focus on Forms of Presentation through the Goals, Processes and Indicators of Development project (1978-82) of the United Nations University.
Nominated for the No Bull Peace Prize in 2010, he also plays the flute.
9/11 Coverup Finds a Voice on FOX with Judge Napolitano
Fox News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
‘Operation Dark Heart’ Author Alleges 9/11 Cover Up. Judge Napolitano’s Ground-breaking interview with Lt. Col, Anthony Shaffer and Former CIA Intelligence officer, Michael Scheuer. — Shaffer’s book, “Operation Dark Heart” was essentially “censored” by the Pentagon in order that some classified details could be “redacted”.
→ read full articleSri Lanka: Groups Decline to Testify Before Flawed Commission
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Three leading international organizations will not accept an invitation to testify before a Sri Lankan government commission because it lacks the ability to advance accountability for war crimes, Human Rights Watch, the International Crisis Group, and Amnesty International said in a joint letter to Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission that was released today [14 Oct 2010].
→ read full articleXiaobo – An Awarded Justly Won
Paul D. Scott – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
All of us working with civil society and democratization groups in Asia expected that Liu Xiaobo would be awarded the prize last year. We are overjoyed that he was awarded it this year. That China branded and condemned Liu as a criminal and denounced the Nobel prize Committee speaks volumes.
→ read full articleAmerican Empire and Cold Peace
CNTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
Johan Galtung in Beijing Sep 2010 interviewed by CNTV discusses the American empire and current wars, and about solutions to these.
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TRANSCEND Member Fredrik Reffermehl on Al Jazeera’s ‘Inside Story’: What Nobel Really Wanted
Antonio C. S. Rosa, Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
A jailed Chinese activist is awarded the Nobel Peace prize, and Beijing summons the Norwegian ambassador in protest. Is the Nobel Peace Prize still contributing to world peace in the way Alfred Nobel envisioned? Fredrik Reffermehl is the author of “The Nobel Peace Prize: What Nobel Really Wanted.”
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Settler Drives into Palestinian Boys
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
Director of settler organisation hits two children after they hurled stones at his vehicle in East Jerusalem.
→ read full articleUN Warns of Global Refugee Crisis
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
Refugees from never-ending conflict in Afghanistan and Somalia face systematic stigmatisation, says UNHCR chief.
→ read full articleAmerican Political Philosophy: Analysis of Immigration Issue
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
One of the major problems people are caught up in lies with the nation’s politicians who seem to act with no principles in general. They often abound in mysterious contradictions. As the Romans used to say: Aliud est theoria, aliud est practica – one thing is theory, another thing is practice. In this respect the Italians have a proverb which runs as follows: Tra il dire e il fare c’e’ in mezzo il mare – between saying and doing there is in between an ocean.
→ read full articleShort Ones
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
“I love farm work…
→ read full articleRobert Fisk: We Preach Democracy Yet Befriend Dictators
New Internationalist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
‘Spreading democracy’ was the rationale for invading Iraq and Afghanistan. Middle East expert Robert Fisk describes how it now looks from his home in Beirut.
→ read full articleThe Western Peace Prize
Johan Galtung, 11 Oct 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
One more abuse of the Nobel Peace Prize to promote Western, read US, foreign policy. Last year a speech prize with no follow-up except scrapping some old-fashioned nuclear monsters paving the way for major US nuclear rearmament of warheads and the weapons carrier tripod, protesting possible UK cuts of the Trident. But, verbally the prize touched the reduction of standing armies in Nobel’s testament–whose money they are handling. This year they give a human rights prize for domestic matters in what USA sees as its major competitor, China, far removed from any reduction of armies or Nobel’s concern for understanding among nations.
→ read full articleAl-Qaeda’s Suspect Humanitarianism
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
AP’s sole source for the 11-minute tape, with the oddly contemplative title “Reflections on the Method of Relief Work,” is SITE Intelligence Group. The U.S.-based group, which purportedly “monitors jihadi forums,” provided AP with a copy of the message that it claims was posted on unnamed “Islamic militant websites.” There are questions, however, about whether SITE Intelligence is the most objective source of information about terrorism. SITE co-founder Rita Katz, an Israeli Defense Forces veteran, is an Iraqi-born Jew, whose father was publicly hanged in Iraq after the 1967 Six-Day War as an Israeli spy. Considering Tel Aviv’s obvious interest in having the world’s only superpower fight a “global war on terror” against the Jewish state’s Muslim neighbours, it somehow never occurred to Associated Press, or other mainstream media outlets, to ask the question, Like father, like daughter?
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John Lennon Give Peace a Chance Live From Toronto Hotel
Antonio C. S. Rosa, Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
John Lennon would have been 70 on 9 October, 2010. “Give Peace a Chance” is a 1969 single by (John Lennon’s) Plastic Ono Band that became an anthem of the American anti-war movement at that time. It still inspires us against the wars of the moment…
→ read full articleBeyond Dualism: Reporting Conflicts in the Post-Electoral Mediascape
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
To ‘hear both sides’ is, of course, the surest way to avoid allegations of bias – but it elevates, to the status of convention, a way of reporting that divides the world around us into dyads: home and abroad (‘boat people’); humanity against nature (Pakistan floods); us and them (‘the Taliban’); Left against Right.
→ read full articleDogs, Migrants, and Daughters-in-Law
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
In my experience of seventy years, daughters-in-law in India get a shabby deal. Suffering, misunderstanding, lack of trust and affection are all everyday features in their lives. Many get badly abused for not bringing in enough dowry, or are constantly threatened for being not well read, or too well read, for being backward or being modern, for being ugly or for being too pretty – the list is endless. Physical torture is also added to routine mental torture. Too many are killed so that their husbands can marry richer women, or just because everyone in the in-laws’ house is tired of them.
→ read full articleScientists: 40 Times More Cancer-Causing Toxics in Gulf than Before Spill … Dispersants to Blame
Washington's Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
Scientists from Oregon State University have found a 40-fold increase in the amount of cancer-causing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) near Louisiana’s Grande Isle between May and June. The Oregon team is looking at “the fraction of PAHs that are bioavailable – that have the potential to move into the food chain.”
→ read full articleReport: Haiti Recovery ‘Paralysed’
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
Refugees International says agencies co-ordinating Haitian relief efforts are “dysfunctional” and “inexperienced”. More than a million Haitians remain in squalid “emergency phase” camps, nearly nine months after January’s earthquake, and security is still a major problem, a new report says. The findings from US-based advocacy group Refugees International said that more than 70 per cent of refugee camps in Haiti face daily threats of violence and intimidation.
→ read full articleWhy Soldiers Don’t Rebel in Than Shwe’s Burma
Dr Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
Besides seeing the generals’ Burma as a world-class disaster of rights abuses and poverty, one fruitful way to understand it would be to view it as a country that is subject to a military-led process of “re-feudalization” of the soldiering class, which is reshaping the country along precolonial feudal lines with adverse domestic and regional consequences.
→ read full articleThe Aliens Are Coming
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
We appear to be incapable of dealing with invasive species while there’s still time. We can sow chaos with a keystroke in an investment bank, with one signal to a Predator drone, a seed dislodged from the sole of a boot, a fish tank emptied into a canal. But when asked to repair the mess we’ve made, we proclaim our impotence. Our challenge this century is to meet our capacity for harm with an equal power for good. We are not, so far, doing very well.
→ read full articleDeathly Silence: Obama’s Letter, Netanyahu’s Rejection, and Media’s Non-response
MediaLens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
Earlier this week, independent journalist Jonathan Cook reported facts that blow a hole through the standard deceit that the United States is an “honest broker” for peace in the Middle East.1 As Cook explains, details were leaked of a letter sent by US President Barack Obama to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister:
→ read full articleMairead Maguire’s 10-Year Deportation from Israel
Mairead Maguire, Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
Nobel Peace Laureate [and TRANSCEND member] Mairead Maguire was deported from Israel at 4 a.m., on Tuesday 5th October, 2010 and arrived back in Belfast later that afternoon. Maguire had arrived in Israel on Tuesday 27th September, to attend a Nobel Women’s Initiative visit, and support those working in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories – particularly women groups – for human rights and justice.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize: The New Age Sun Rises in the East
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
On Christmas Day 2009, a court in Beijing convicted Liu Xiaobo of “inciting subversion of state power” and sentenced him to 11 years in prison and two additional years of deprivation of political rights. The verdict cited as evidence passages from six essays Liu published online between 2005 and 2007 and his role in drafting Charter 08, an online petition for democratic reform issued on December 9; 2008 which has since been co-signed by some 10,000 persons, mostly Chinese in China. This December 2010, Liu Xiaobo will receive the Nobel Prize for Peace, though his presence at the ceremony in Oslo is in doubt.
→ read full articleA Yugoslav Community for a Yugosphere?
Johan Galtung, 4 Oct 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
The countries were born in deep anger, much too quickly, much too violently, traumas being heaped on top of old, and new trauma mountains. Time passes, no wounds are healed, but a new decade has sedimented new events on top of the 1990s horrors. For a new generation this is already history. But history has much to tell.
→ read full articleOn UN World Habitat Day, Oct 4: One Billion Slum Dwellers Cannot Be Ignored
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
Governments cannot celebrate the UN World Habitat Day on 4 October while ignoring one billion people living in slums, Amnesty International said today [1 Oct 2010].
→ read full articleDwight Was Right
Michael Moore – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
So…it turns out President Eisenhower wasn’t making up all that stuff about the military-industrial complex.
→ read full articleEngendering Invagination and Gastrulation of Globalization
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
Reconstructive Insights from the Sciences and the Humanities
→ read full article‘Raj Rule OK’ in Independent India
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
Every Indian political party has devised its own unique selling point. The Congress as the mother of all parties distributes patronage and sucks into its vortex corrupt floods of black money. A pattern that others of course follow but with variations. The BJP as the strongest contender for power is risen as the Hindu answer to the Taliban, while the communist parties are home to lost causes. In Tamil Nadu, the southernmost and arguably the best run state, power is divided between two parties, heirs to the great anti-upper-caste, anti-establishment movement of a hundred years ago.
→ read full articleThe BBC Is on Murdoch’s Side
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger says that while the dangers of Rupert Murdoch’s dominance are understood, the role played by the respectable media, such as the New York Times and the BBC, notably in the promotion of colonial wars, is at least as important.
→ read full articleForecasting the Weather
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
It was autumn, and the Indians on a remote reservation asked their new Chief if the winter was going to be cold or mild.
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Johan Galtung on Democracy NOW! (Part 2)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, TMS Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
September 16, 2010 – Recorded during Right Livelihood Award recipients’ meeting in Bonn. Amy Goodman: We continue speaking with Johan Galtung, known as a founder of the field of peace and conflict studies, he’s spent the past half-century pursuing nonviolent conflict resolution in international relations. Galtung discusses the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Mideast talks, why President Obama is losing his base and much more.
→ read full articleWorld Report on Culture of Peace 2010
Federico Mayor Zaragoza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
The aforementioned report, in which you have participated actively providing data on their activities in the field of culture of peace, will be presented to the General Assembly of the United Nations in the month of October. We appreciate your interest, involvement and participation for this World Report on Culture of Peace 2010 has been possible.
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Eisenhower’s Farewell Address – Jan 17, 1961
Antonio C. S. Rosa, TMS Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
Eisenhower’s farewell address where he warns of a “hostile ideology”, the “military industrial complex,” and “the consequences of too much government-funded research.”
→ read full article(Portuguese) Brasil tem a 3ª Maior População Carcerária do Mundo, Diz CNJ
Redação Terra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
Com 494.598 presos, o Brasil possui a terceira maior população carcerária do mundo, atrás de Estados Unidos e China. O dado foi apresentado nesta quinta-feira [30 Sep 2010] no Seminário Justiça em Números pelo coordenador do Departamento de Monitoramento e Fiscalização do Sistema Carcerário (DMF) do Conselho Nacional de Justiça (CNJ), Luciano Losekann.
→ read full articleUN-Backed Anti-Corruption Academy Inaugurated in Austria
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
2 September 2010 – An anti-corruption academy co-sponsored by the United Nations opened today in Austria with the aim of filling the rising global need for training, research and contemporary measures and techniques in the fight against corruption. The International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA), based in Laxenburg, will educate public and private sector anti-corruption practitioners in more effectively implementing the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC).
→ read full articleJammu and Kashmir: In Search for Unconventional Options
Belgian Association for Solidarity with Jammu and Kashmir – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
Report on the study tour of Beersmans Paul, president of the Belgian Association for Solidarity with J&K to India and the Indian J&K state from 24 June to 21 July 2010. Human Rights Council, Fiftheenth Session, Geneva, September 2010.
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Johan Galtung on Democracy NOW! (Part 1)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, TMS Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
September 16, 2010 – Recorded during Right Livelihood Award recipients’ meeting in Bonn. Amy Goodman: We speak with Johan Galtung, known as a founder of the field of peace and conflict studies, he’s spent the past half-century pursuing nonviolent conflict resolution in international relations. Galtung discusses the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Mideast talks, why President Obama is losing his base and much more.
→ read full article(Italian) 2 Ottobre: Giornata Internazionale Della Nonviolenza
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
“Vivere semplicemente, per permettere agli altri semplicemente di vivere”
→ read full articleChina and World Harmony: Some Ideas
Johan Galtung, 27 Sep 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
China should become better at explaining herself, both in a Western market-growth-democracy-human rights discourse, and in a Chinese discourse of both-and, yin-yang dialectics, distribution and social and world harmony. An oriental Davos in Hong Kong in dialogue with that Western one; and a global TV, more like multi-angle Al Jazeera than BBC-CNN, would give the world a strong, not abrasive, Chinese voice. With very much to say that the world in general, and the West in particular, badly need to hear.
→ read full article(Castellano) Informe Mundial de Cultura de Paz 2010
Federico Mayor Zaragoza, presidente Fundación Cultura de Paz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
El mencionado Informe, en el cual usted ha colaborado activamente mediante el aporte de datos sobre sus actividades en el campo de la cultura de paz, será presentado ante la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas en el próximo mes de octubre. Agradecemos su interés, compromiso y participación para que este Informe Mundial de Cultura de Paz 2010 haya sido posible. Para la elaboración de este informe, un equipo internacional de Jóvenes Voluntarios, logró recopilar y analizar la información proporcionada por más de 1000 organizaciones de todo el mundo, en las que se reflejan sus esfuerzos y actividades para la promoción y fomento de una Cultura de Paz.
→ read full articleIndia’s Commonwealth Ordeal
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Apart from Kashmir, which keeps India in international light in recent days is its preparation for the Commonwealth games in Delhi to be commenced from 3 to 14 October 2010. The event, the first ever in India and perhaps the first showcase of India’s emerging prowess in the evolving world, will likely involve 8,500 athletes from 71 countries competing in 17 events.
→ read full articleReconciliation in Sri Lanka: Breaking the Myth and Bringing the Truth
Nirmanusan Balasundaram – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
“There cannot be reconciliation without justice. Justice and equity are at the core of reconciliation” -– Professor Hizkias Assefa. The platform for an “genuine reconciliation” should be rooted via the democratic exercises, rights and participation of all citizens throughout a country. But, if people are under fear to express their grievances and aspirations, including opposition political parties, dissident voices, independent media and even some ruling party government ministers how can a national minority discriminated and oppressed for more than five decades practice their rights in Sri Lanka?
→ read full articleNo Bull Prize Nominations
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
This is a contribution to efforts to put the No Bull Prize Award on an appropriate footing in global society.
No Bull Prize for Business
* Naomi Klein, for telling it as it is, and most notably for No Logo: no space, no choice, no jobs (2000), Fences and Windows: dispatches from the front lines of the globalization debate (2002), and The Shock Doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism (2007)
No Bull Prize for Information
* WikiLeaks, for courageous release of documents otherwise withheld from the public
* Inter-Press Service
No Bull Prize for Journalism
* John Pilger, for telling it as it is
* Robert Fisk, for telling it as it is
No Bull Peace Prize
* Johan Galtung, for telling it as it is
* Nonviolent Peaceforce
More…
Understanding the Threats of Qur’an Burning
Chaiwat Satha-Anand – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
If one agrees with Dominique Moisi in his recent book The Geopolitics of Emotion (2010) that one cannot fully understand the world today without trying to construe the ways in which emotions such as fear, humiliation and hope shape world politics, and that a clash of emotions between fear in “the West” and humiliation in the Muslim world is going on, then I would argue that what Pastor Jones has done was to show us how vulnerable to global violence the world is.
→ read full article‘Israel Flotilla Raid Was Unlawful’
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
UN Gaza aid probe says the raid of Israeli forces on flotilla was in violation of international law.
→ read full articleIsrael: It’s Against Our Interest to Join Anti-Nuclear Arms Treaty
AFP-Agence France Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Israel Rejects Offer to Join UN Atomic Agency
→ read full articleA Real Test
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Two students went drinking late into the night before an exam.
→ read full articleOct 2 – Day for Non-Violence: Middle East Mediation
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
On World Day for Non-violence, 2 October, chosen to mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, it is useful to recall the efforts to have him play a bridge-building role in the Jewish-Arab conflict of 1937 in Palestine. Mahatma Gandhi was a man of dialogue and compromise. A British-trained lawyer, he always knew the limits of the law and knew when not to push too far even in his satyagraha – non-violent campaigns.
→ read full article(Castellano) Entrevista Audio en Español con el Prof. Galtung
Radio Nacional de Colombia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Click aquí para Escuchar la Entrevista Audio en Español con el Prof. Galtung
Hoy [21 Sep 2010], cuando el mundo entero celebra el Día Internacional de la Paz, institucionalizado por la Organización de las Naciones Unidas en 1981, vale la pena analizar el ejemplo de China, un país que ha logrado grandes avances por la equidad social.
→ read full articleAhmadinejad and the 9/11 Attacks
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Surveys show large segments of the world population agree with the Iranian leader’s “US government involvement” claims.
→ read full articlePuncturing Pomposity
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Proposition: the pomposity of self-satisfied elites serves to normalise the unthinkable. Edward Herman, writing about Hannah Arendt’s concept of the ‘banality of evil’, says: “This is the process whereby ugly, degrading, murderous and unspeakable acts become routine and are accepted as ‘the way things are done’.”
→ read full article(Italian) La grande truffa dei Global Hawk di Sigonella
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Il ministro La Russa non vede, non sente, non parla. Un Global Hawk, il micidiale aereo senza pilota di nuovissima generazione dell’US Air Force, fa bella mostra di sé nella base aereonavale di Sigonella, ma governo e forze armate italiane preferiscono trincerarsi dietro il “no comment”, glissando gli interrogativi di piloti civili e associazioni No War preoccupati per le ripercussioni delle future operazioni del velivolo sulla sicurezza del traffico aereo nei cieli della Sicilia.
→ read full articleChris Hedges on Moral Courage
Toward Freedom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Chris Hedges begins this speech to the Veterans for Peace convention by saying, “Physical courage is something you see on a battlefield. Moral courage you almost never see.”
→ read full article(Italian) Le Tre Riforme di Gandhi
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
“Quando parliamo di nonviolenza come di una scoperta di questo secolo, conviene precisare che non si tratta della rivelazione di un nuovo valore spirituale o di una rivelazione religiosa, ma dell’ingresso, nella storia dei popoli, di una forza rivoluzionaria e innovatrice.
→ read full articleOn Jewish Loyalty
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
So here we are : Israel is basically a Western liberal ‘multi cultural’ society where all different ethnicities and minorities are demanded to swear loyalty to the ultimate form of chauvinist Jewish tribal practice…. However, in case you think that Liebermann is alone in his demand for loyalty, you are pretty wrong. Here in Britain, Lord Goldsmith, (yes the same Goldsmith who kindly offered Tony Blair a ‘legal’ green light to invade Iraq in 2003) is also enthusiastic about loyalty…. Lord Goldsmith was quoted by The Independent suggesting that Britain did not face a crisis of shared citizenship, but added that national pride had declined over the past 20 years, particularly among the young. He warned that “one third or more of black people did not identify with their home country.”
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The Int’l Effort to Criminalize War
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Debate about “wars of agression” at conference of jurists from international tribunals.
→ read full articleDaniel Ellsberg Speaks Out on Bradley Manning
MSNBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Ellsberg: “Manning is a patriot and a hero.”
→ read full article‘Largest Flotilla Yet’ En-Route to Gaza
Ynet reporters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
Ships from Britain, Morocco, Qatar to rendezvous in Syria, sail toward el-Arish Port in northern Sinai Peninsula; activists plan to enter Gaza through Rafah Crossing, deliver humanitarian aid.
→ read full articleHenri Dunant, Red Cross, What Next?
Johan Galtung, 20 Sep 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
[Henri Dunant’s] moment of truth, as we all know, was the battle of Solferino in Lombardy, 24 June 1859, a little more than 150 years ago, where he witnessed the unspeakable suffering brought about by one more stupid battle, pitting 300,000 soldiers against each other, in one more stupid war, between France and Austria that time; mainly waged by their upper classes sacrificing their underlings.
→ read full articlePreparing for South Sudan’s Crucial Referendum
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
In diplomatic language, the UN Human Rights Council’s Independent Expert on the Situation of Human Rights in Sudan, Mohammed Chande Othman, warned the Council, which began its current session on 13 September 2010, that “With the referendum on South Sudan yet to be conducted, it is essential that the Government provide an environment conducive to the exercise of political rights, with firm guarantees of the fundamental freedoms of expression and assembly in accordance with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and the Interim National Constitution..”
→ read full articlePerspectives
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
When the United States Congress passed stricter laws about automobile air pollution, the Japanese car manufacturers…
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Howard Zinn on Nonviolent Civil Disobedience
BeyondNuclear – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
In 1985, Dr. Howard Zinn testified for the defense in the criminal trial of seven citizens who hammered equipment and poured blood on blueprints for the Cruise Missile and Missile X factory in Wilmington, MA. The video shows Dr. Zinn’s compelling testimony in which he makes the case for nonviolent civil disobedience as instrumental in changing American history and advancing democracy.
→ read full article(Italian) Intervista a Manlio Milani, Presidente dell’Associazione Caduti Strage di Piazza Loggia
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
Ho incontrato Manlio Milani alla conclusione di una serata-ricordo in memoria del salodiano Vittorio Zambarda su Piazza della Loggia svoltasi nella sala dei Provveditori del palazzo municipale di Salò.
→ read full articleArt, Truth & Politics
Harold Pinter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
Harold Pinter’s Nobel Lecture was pre-recorded, and shown on video on 7 December 2005, in Börssalen at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm.
→ read full articleUnited States Is the Leading Provider of Arms to Mexican Drug Trade
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
The United States today is one of the largest exporters of weapons and fuel, among others, to the drug cartels in Mexico. At least 62,800 of the 80,000 weapons confiscated from drug trafficking criminal gangs of in the neighboring nation between December 2006 and February 2010 came from U.S. territory, according to a study cited yesterday [16 Sep 2010] by an editorial in The Washington Post. “The armies of Mexican drug traffickers have an external source of funding and weapons … and to our shame, this source is the United States,” said the newspaper.
→ read full articleC’mon, Time to Rebrand Your Life!
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger continues his examination of the effect of ‘extreme corporatism’ – money – on sport. He contrasts the last of the great sporting stars who were not celebrities in the modern sense with the enrichment of Rupert Murdoch and the corruption of sports like cricket.
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Standing Army – A Documentary (2010) – Trailer
TMS Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
The US has encircled the world with a web of military bases that today amount to more than 700, in 40 countries. It’s one of the most powerful forces at play in the world, yet one of the less talked-about. Why do countries like Germany, Italy, Japan still host hundreds of US military bases and thousands US soldiers? What stance has president Obama taken on this subject? This documentary answers these and other questions both through the words of experts Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal and Chalmers Johnson, and through those directly affected by US bases in Italy, Japan and in the Indian Ocean.
→ read full articlePeople’s Initiative on Jammu & Kashmir: Visit of Civil Society Delegation
COVA-Confederation of Voluntary Associations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
A Delegation of Civil Society comprising Swami Agnivesh, Admiral L. Ramdas, Ms. Mohini Giri, Fr. Dominic Emmanuel and Dr. Mazher Hussain visited Kashmir Valley from 30th August to 2nd September 2010. The objective of the visit was to gain first hand knowledge of the prevailing ground situation in the valley and to commiserate with the people of Kashmir for their suffering and loss of life. Over 65 youth and children have lost their lives in the past three months, besides many hundreds have been injured. The team visited the homes of some families to share our concern and condole with them.
→ read full articleTorture Is a Crime, Not a Secret
The New York Times, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
All too often in the past, the judges pointed out, secrecy privileges have been used to avoid embarrassing the government, not to protect real secrets. In this case, the embarrassment and the shame to America’s reputation are already too well known.
→ read full articleHenry Steel Olcott (1832-1907): The Buddhist Bridge
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the year 2010 as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures. Thus we are pleased to present the creative efforts of individuals who have helped to create bridges of understanding among cultures.
→ read full articleCNN Report: IDF Sexually Abused Palestinian Children
Ynetnews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
Damning CNN report cites uncorroborated sexual abuse charges of Palestinian children detained by IDF; army says detention of minors undertaken in line with international law, cannot respond to abuse charges as no details provided.
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BBC Bias: The Gaza Freedom Flotilla
Anthony Lawson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
Debunking BBC’s “Panorama: Death in the Med” TV Propaganda. An invaluable film by the master documentary maker Anthony Lawson. Whatever happened on the Mavi Marmara on the morning of May 31st, 2010, the BBC’s Panorama team failed to give a balanced view of it in its so-called documentary, Death in the Med. Even the title sounds more like that of a paperback mystery, rather than a serious analysis of Israel’s worst atrocity since Operation Cast Lead.
→ read full articlePakistan and America: Costs of Militarism
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
Pakistan’s immense problems can begin to be solved only when powerful interests in Islamabad and Washington end their commitment to armed solutions.
→ read full articleGive History a Chance
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
A talk by Gilad Atzmon given at Debunking ‘The War on Terror’ Symposium, London, 14th July 2010 (dealing with history, Zionism, Revisionism, Temporality, Palestine and Israeli barbarism).
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Resisting Hegemony
Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
Excerpt of TRANSCEND member Prof. Vandana Shiva speaking about ‘food and seed sovereignty’ at the International Meeting on Resisting Hegemony held 2-5 August 2010 in Penang, Malaysia.
→ read full articleEnabling Governance through the Dynamics of Nature
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
Exemplified by Cognitive Implication of Vortices and Helicoidal Flow. This follows from the case previously made for exploring “toroidal governance” to compensate for the evident inadequacies of “global governance” (From global governance to toroidal governance, 2010). Of particular interest in that respect are the vortex dynamics by which toroidal forms are sustained, as commonly illustrated by the smoke ring. Vortex rings have been acknowledged by many investigators as one of the most fundamental and fascinating phenomena in fluid dynamics (Feliks Kaplanski, Dynamics of Vortex Rings, SciTopics, 12 July 2010).
→ read full articleUnderstanding Burma’s Military Reshuffle
Dr. Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
A lot seems to be happening lately in the world of senior and junior generals in Burma. The reports of the recent military reshuffle involving dozens of senior regime officials cannot be understood fully without taking into account a number of developments both at home and abroad.
→ read full articleMeanwhile in the Soviet Union…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
Stalin claimed he was the greatest philosopher of all times.
→ read full articleFlying the Flag, Faking the News
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger traces the history of propaganda to Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, who invented the term “public relations”. Bernays believed in “engineering public consent” and creating “false realties” as news. Here are examples of how this works today.
→ read full articleJean Giono (1895-1970): The Energies of the Earth
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the year 2010 as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures. Thus we are pleased to present the creative efforts of individuals who have helped to create bridges of understanding among cultures.
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