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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
A monk and a nun play ping-pong.
→ read full articleUFOs
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
Being an agnostic on UFOs, let me give one justification, and then one metaphor, for a serious exploration of the UFO scenario.
→ read full articleMass Extinction Threat: Earth on Verge of Huge Reset Button?
Jeremy Hsu, LiveScience Senior Writer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
Mass extinctions have served as huge reset buttons that dramatically changed the diversity of species found in oceans all over the world, according to a comprehensive study of fossil records. The findings suggest humans will live in a very different future if they drive animals to extinction, because the loss of each species can alter entire ecosystems.
→ read full articleThree Degrees Is At Least One Too Many
The Independent, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
It is fittingly ominous that 2010, year of the next big climate change conference, has been the hottest in recorded history. The heat rises inexorably yet the world dithers and looks away. None of the excitement that surrounded the opening stages of the climate summit at Copenhagen last year looks like materialising this November at Cancún in Mexico.
→ read full articleFree Abdallah Abu Rahmah!
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
Nobel Peace laureate and TRANSCEND member, Mairead Maguire, calls upon the Israeli government to release human rights defender Abdallah Abu Rahmah and calls on the international community to take concrete steps to defend Abdallah Abu Rahmah and Palestinian human rights activists from Israeli repression and unlawful imprisonment.
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Behind Mexico’s Bloodshed (Part 1)
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
Interview with investigative journalist Bruce Livesey, who recently returned from Ciudad Juárez, scene of some of the most concerning violence in Mexico’s ongoing drug cartel conflict. According to Livesey, the problem has its roots in the free trade agreement that wiped out Mexico’s traditional agriculture economy, after which the drug cartels moved in to fight for each other’s market share.
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How to Be Alone
Tanya Davis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
What can we learn about ourselves when we let go of our fear of loneliness?
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Behind Mexico’s Bloodshed (Part 2)
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
According to investigative journalist Bruce Livesey, in Ciudad Juarez, the murder capital of Mexico, the military is picking winners amongst the cartels.
→ read full article(Italian) “Sa Phrala – Ogni Persona E’ Tuo Fratello “
Silvia Berruto - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
Io Ho Aderito: Sono Con Rom E Sinti
→ read full articleNepali Diaspora in Australia
Bishnu Pathak, PhD, Peace and Conflict Study Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
The author visited Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPACS) at the University of Sydney to participate at the TRANSCEND Global Meeting; “Enabling Peace: Pedagogy and Training”, in early July 2010. The meeting was approved to establish the TRANSCEND Peace University (TPU), South Asia Regional Chapter, the first ever in Nepal. While I visited John Street in Grandville, in the New South Wales Sydney, I found a total of 12 Nepali families.
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Should People Boycott Israel?
Paul Jay interviewing Omar Barghouti - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
Omar Barghouti explains the aims of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.
→ read full articleSustaining a Community of Strange Loops
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2010
Comprehension and Engagement through Aesthetic Ring Transformation
→ read full articlePakistan Floods: Senior UN Figure Criticises Response
BBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2010
A senior United Nations official has called on the global community to urgently step up its response to the floods that have struck Pakistan. Louis-George Arsenault, director of emergency operations for Unicef in New York, described the lack of support as “quite extraordinary”. The humanitarian crisis was the largest “in decades”, he warned.
→ read full article(Italian) Prima Che Sia Troppo Tardi…
Prof. Nanni Salio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2010
Riflettendo amaramente sui tragici eventi della seconda guerra mondiale, Martin Niemöller (Lippstadt, 14 gennaio 1892 – Wiesbaden, 6 marzo 1984) scrisse un testo poetico di grande amarezza che ancora oggi dovrebbe servirci per guidare i nostri pensieri e le nostre azioni di fronte all’arroganza, alla follia e alla mancanza di dignità che in questi tempi caratterizzano gran parte degli uomini politici, dell’industria e della finanza ovunque nel mondo: forti coi deboli, deboli coi forti.
→ read full articleEarth is Our Common Home: UN Desert Decade
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2010
God created lands filled with water as a place for man to live; and the desert so that he can discover his soul.
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Has Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Fled the US?
CODEPINK – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2010
CODEPINK cofounder Medea Benjamin and other DC area activists were detained at the home of Blackwater Founder Erik Prince.
→ read full articleJapan Right Now: What Happens?
Johan Galtung, 30 Aug 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2010
There are reasons for deep concern. Of the countries in the grip of the US alliances Japan may have become the most American. Beaten in its deep cultural foundations, not only militarily, Japan is like a monotheistic country with God residing 7/24 in Washington. Being so different, americanization was not a dialect, a variation on one’s own idiom, like in Germany and Norway, but a new language.
→ read full articleRegional Economic Cooperation as a Key to Solve Afghanistan Problem
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2010
‘Economics is the key to overcoming all problems,’ observed the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov while articulating the main content of quadrilateral meet of Russia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan at the Russian Black Sea resort Sochi on 18 August 2010.
→ read full articleSounds Familiar
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2010
A little boy wanted $100 very badly, he prayed and prayed for two weeks but nothing happened.
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The Big Lie Technique vs. the Reality of Iran’s Nuclear Program
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2010
Antiwar Radio host Scott Horton discusses the Iranian nuclear program on Russia Today.
→ read full articleBurma: Six Reasons to Welcome US Support for War Crimes Probe
Dr. Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2010
On 24 Aug, the United States officially confirmed that it is “exploring how best to proceed” on the initiative to push for “a properly structured international commission of inquiry that would examine allegations of serious violations of international law in Burma”.
→ read full articleThe Un-Disappeared Orientalist Gaze
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2010
Ramanujan’s life was enclosed within the theory of numbers, not only loved by pure mathematicians for its sheer beauty, as believed by Hardy, who lived within the privileged cloisters of Cambridge, but as the recently-held International Congress of Mathematicians proclaimed in Hyderabad, it is intimately involved in several practical applications, and even in elucidating the very nature of the Universe.
→ read full article(Italian) A Jo Pyronnet
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2010
Microtributo a Jo
“On a fêté, on a fêté, nos retrouvailles, nos retrouvailles, ça fait de la peine mais il faut que je m’en aille …”
An Open Letter to Israel
Lauren Booth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2010
This morning I set out to write a piece about the looting of the aid Flotilla to Gaza, by your soldiers. As you may have read, an Israel Defense Forces officer, has been remanded by a military court, suspected of stealing laptop computers from passengers. Interestingly, Haretz newspaper, now refers to the fleet as an ‘aid flotilla.’ Which it was. Rather than the ‘terror’ fleet your leaders would have had you call it. But I digress.
→ read full articleBoats Reach Gaza Despite Blockade
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2010
Human rights activists reach Hamas-ruled strip by sea, despite Israeli blockade.
→ read full articleIceland Set to Become a Press Freedom Haven
RTÉ/Ireland – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2010
After Iceland’s near-economic collapse laid bare deep-seated corruption, the country aims to become a safe haven for journalists and whistleblowers from around the globe by creating the world’s most far-reaching freedom of information legislation. The project is being developed with the help of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
→ read full articleThe Rom: World Citizens Ahead of Time
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2010
There are estimates that there are 10 to 12 million Rom living in the European Union with the largest concentration in Romania — some two million according to unofficial estimates. There are also fairly large Rom groups in the former Soviet Union, in particular the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus, as well as in Turkey. Originally from India, the Rom have spread through Europe probably between the ninth and fourteenth centuries. Why they left northern India is not clear. They seemed to have been from the start a nomadic population living from handicrafts and providing music and dance to settled populations. It is only recently that some Rom intellectuals have become interested in their Indian heritage and have been making contacts with groups which still live in India and which may have had common ancestors.
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Why Isn’t the World Rushing to Rescue Pakistan?
Paul Jay, TRNN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2010
Snehal Shingavi: US has blamed Pakistan for failed policies in region.
→ read full articleWhy WikiLeaks Must Be Protected
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2010
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes the importance of Wikileaks as a new and fearless form of investigative journalism that threatens both the war-makers and their apologists, notably journalists who are state stenographers.
→ read full articleHalf of Niger’s Population Hungry
Press TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2010
Niger is facing the worst hunger crisis in its history, with almost half of the population (or 7.3 million people) in desperate need of food, the UN’s World Food (WFP) Program says. The WFP says 17 percent of the African nation’s children, or one in five, are acutely malnourished.
→ read full articleAssembly Line
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2010
Two people went along a road with pick and shovel.
→ read full articleBin Laden is Dead; Long Live “Bin Laden”
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2010
Who’s keeping the terror myth alive?
→ read full articlePakistan – A Disaster of Daunting Magnitude
Miami Herald, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2010
The eyes see. The ears hear. Yet, somehow, the mind struggles to grasp the full dimension of this catastrophe. Almost 20 million people need shelter, food and emergency care. That is more than the entire population hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami, the Kashmir earthquake, Cyclone Nargis and the earthquake in Haiti — combined.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to the Panorama BBC Team
Mairead Maquire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2010
The role of the BBC is not to give credibility to the Israeli military but to report facts and allow the public to make up their own minds. By planting doubts in the minds of the public about the events on board the MV ‘Mavi Marmara’, it has done a grave injustice and further injury to the families of all those who were assassinated by Israeli Navy seals on that terrible morning of 3lst May, 2010.
→ read full articleEducation and Peacebuilding
Johan Galtung, 23 Aug 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2010
Talk at the Japan Education Research Association, Hiroshima
→ read full articleGeronimo’s Remains to Remain with Skull and Bones: Judge Dismisses Lawsuit
Grant Lawrence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2010
It has been reported that George W. Bush’s Yale Skull and Bones Society uses the skull of Geronimo for their college rituals. Skull and Bones, out of respect, should apologize and turn the skull over to the descendants of Geronimo. Instead they refuse to do what is right by hiding behind the law. Recently a judge threw out the lawsuit by the descendants of Geronimo, a great Apache Indian leader, asking for his remains to be returned and buried in New Mexico.
→ read full articleCivilian Peace Service
Johan Galtung, 16 Aug 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2010
Thus, the Nonviolent Peaceforce, and the Civilian Peace Service, are riding on these waves into the future. What could they pick up from past and present? There is a basic problem: now coming from the West, there is always the danger that they could become the continuation of aggressive Western governmental politics by nongovernmental means.
→ read full articleIsrael Again Razes Bedouin Village
CNN Wire Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2010
On the eve of the holy month of Ramadan, Israeli police re-entered a Bedouin village Tuesday [10 Aug 2010] to repeat the demolition of homes they had razed only a few days earlier. Israeli police closed off entrances to Al-Araqeeb, in southern Israel’s Negev Desert, and tore down houses that had been partially rebuilt in the past week, confiscated water tanks, attacked livestock and arrested five people, said Talab El-Sana, an Arab member of the Knesset.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Transgénicos: Nome de Código, “Monsanto”
Bloco de Esquerda, Portugal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2010
(Leitura obrigatória para esclarecer-se e educar-se acerca dos males da Monsanto. –Nota do Editor da TMS). Em causa estão a saúde pública no mundo, a preservação ambiental e a biodiversidade. Trabalhos científicos sobre estes assuntos permitiram estabelecer um decálogo de malfeitorias dos OGM e do controlo de Monsanto sobre a sua produção e comercialização: riscos para a saúde pública; contaminação genética sem controlo; aumento da contaminação química devido ao maior uso de biocidas; perda permanente da biodiversidade agropecuária e florestal; aumento da insegurança e perda da soberania alimentar; grande concentração de poder em poucas empresas; degradação da democracia através das pressões sobre a classe política e a actuação dos lobbies; aumento da desigualdade Norte-Sul; prejuízos para a agricultura ecológica devido à contaminação.
→ read full articleAudio Podcast Interview with Johan Galtung
Panopticon Podcast – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2010
Prof. Galtung discusses the fall of the US empire, its wars, conflict resolution, and more.
→ read full articleWarp and Weft of Future Governance
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2010
Ninefold Interweaving of Incommensurable Threads of Discourse. The purpose here is merely to point to the possibility of combining the threefold weaving explored by Gidley with the quite different weaving explored by Douglas Hofstadter (Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, 1979). The implication this ninefold weaving responds to dimensions of the challenge of governance neglected by the two threefold weavings considered individually.
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Earth Song
Michael Jackson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2010
Michael’s powerful video calling attention to our destruction of the Earth and of each other.
→ read full articleChina-Japan: Senkaku/Diaoyutai Islands Conflict
COVA-Confederation of Voluntary Associations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2010
Through 2009 we had brought to you a series briefly outlining disputes in 188 countries. Now we are happy to announce that we shall be sharing with you, every week, details of some major conflicts in different countries around the world. We hope that an understanding of the genesis and nature of different conflicts we help us in resolving these and making the world what it should be – A Heaven for all!!!
— The COVA-Confederation of Voluntary Associations team
Out of Sight, Out of Mind (Even when it’s not out of sight)
Dahr Jamail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2010
New York Times: “The government is expected to announce on Wednesday [11 Aug 2010] that three-quarters of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak has already evaporated, dispersed, been captured or otherwise eliminated — and that much of the rest is so diluted that it does not seem to pose much additional risk of harm.” The Times was accommodating enough to lead the story with a nice photo of a fishing boat motoring across clean water with several birds in the foreground. This message was disseminated far and wide, via other mainstream media outlets like the AP and Reuters, effectively announcing to the masses that despite the Gulf of Mexico suffering the largest marine oil disaster in US history, most of the oil was simply “gone.” This kind of government cover-up is nothing new, of course.
→ read full articleSome of the Last Words of Rachel Corrie to Her Mother
Submitted by Dr. Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2010
This was sent by a retired U.S. Foreign Service officer who was on one of the Turkish vessels boarded by Israeli commandos off Gaza.
→ read full articleActivists Storm Field, Crush GM Maize
ANSA/Italy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2010
Italy: A group of 70 no global activists on Monday [9 Aug 2010] staged a lightning strike against a field of genetically modified (GM) maize, crushing all the plants and effectively preventing their harvest.
→ read full articleGoogle-Verizon Pact Worse than Feared
Free Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2010
They are promising Net Neutrality only for a certain part of the Internet, one that they’ll likely stop investing in. But they are also paving the way for a new ‘Internet’ via fiber and wireless phones where Net Neutrality will not apply and corporations can pick and choose which sites people can easily view on their phones or any other Internet device using these networks. It would open the door to outright blocking of applications, just as Comcast did with BitTorrent, or the blocking of content, just as Verizon did with text messages from NARAL Pro-choice America. It would divide the information superhighway, creating new private fast lanes for the big players while leaving the little guy stranded on a winding dirt road.
→ read full articleSymmetric
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2010
A husband and wife spent their vacation at a lake where he enjoyed fishing.
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CrossTalk: Is Israel a Rogue State?
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2010
Robert Fisk from the Independent debates Dan Diker from the World Jewish Congress. On this edition of Peter Lavelle’s CrossTalk, he asks his guests whether the real problem when finding peace in the Middle East is the US-Israel alliance.
→ read full articleA Prison That Stains US Moral Authority
The Independent, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2010
The first case to be tried under the new commissions is that of child soldier Omar Khadr, who was 15 years old when he was accused of throwing a grenade which killed a US serviceman in Afghanistan in 2002. Mr Khadr’s trial has been condemned by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, who stress that it is America which has led the world in recognising that children caught in war zones in Africa must be treated as victims and not combatants. The Khadr case serves only to confirm the alternative legal universe in which Guantanamo exists.
→ read full articleMalu ‘Aina – Volunteers of All Skills, and No Particular Skills, Needed!
Jim Albertini, Center for Nonviolent Education and Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2010
If you are interested in organic farming and helping a non-profit peace farm to grow food to share with people in need, supporting its work for justice and peace, please email me or give me a call. (Note from TMS Editor Antonio C. S. Rosa: I have lived at Malu Aina when I was doing my Ph.D. work at the University of Hawaii in the 90s. I highly recommend the experience to activists, students, nature lovers, hard workers for peace/social justice/anti-militarism, and all those interested in improving the lot of our planet – and their own lives as human beings. You work in the farm, do research, engage in nonviolent direct actions, connect, learn, make a difference. Simple living, high thinking. No pain, no gain. Making the best of our short lives here).
→ read full articleFrom Church Bulletins
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2010
“Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church.
→ read full articlePress TV Under Attack
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2010
The Guardian and the Jewish Chronicle reported today [3 Aug 2010] that Ofcom, the UK broadcasting standards body, has ruled that Iranian-backed Press TV’s coverage of the Gaza flotilla incident breached guidelines on impartiality…. Ofcom said the show had started with “a pro-Palestinian song set to anti-Israeli/pro-Palestinian imagery”.
→ read full articleThe Thinker: Neighbors Like These
Dr. Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2010
Once again India has rolled out the red carpet for Burma’s aging despot Than Shwe, whose sleep has reportedly been disrupted by his deep-seated fears of being hauled to The Hague for his alleged crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleNuke U: How the University of California Is Helping to Blow Up the World
Norman Solomon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2010
Since the early 1940s, UC has managed the nation’s top laboratories for designing nuclear bombs. Today, California’s public university system is still immersed in the nuclear weapons business. Sixty-five years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945, the University of California imprimatur is an air freshener for the stench of preparations for global annihilation. Nuclear war planners have been pleased to exploit UC’s vast technical expertise and its image of high-minded academic purpose.
→ read full articleAdvocacy from Afar – Towards Human Rights for Victims of Sri Lanka’s Civil War
Nirmanusan Balasundaram – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2010
In 2009, the global media turned its attention to the military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). At the time, many questions were raised on the treatment of the Tamil civilians trapped in the conflict.
→ read full articleCall to President Obama and World Leaders to Help Mordechai Vanunu Get His Freedom
TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2010
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, and Gerry Grehan, Chair, Peace People Northern Ireland, have written to President Obama, other world leaders and prominent personalities, to ask for their help in the lifting of all restrictions and for Vanunu to be allowed to leave Israel.
→ read full articleThe Burma Insurgency
COVA-Confederation of Voluntary Associations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2010
Through 2009 we had brought to you a series briefly outlining disputes in 188 countries. Now we are happy to announce that we shall be sharing with you, every week, details of some major conflicts in different countries around the world. We hope that an understanding of the genesis and nature of different conflicts we help us in resolving these and making the world what it should be – A Heaven for all!!!
— The COVA-Confederation of Voluntary Associations team
Please Sign the Petition to Release Mordechai Vanunu
TMS Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2010
Please express your support for this letter by signing this petition.
http://humanrights.change.org/petitions/view/release_mordechai_vanunu
The following letter has been sent by Mairead Maguire-Nobel Peace Laureate and Gerry Grehan-Chair of the Peace People, Northern Ireland, to President Barak Obama, UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, other world leaders and prominent personalities, to ask for their help in obtaining the lifting of all restrictions on Mordechai Vanunu and for him to be granted freedom to leave Israel.
→ read full articleThe Suffering of Fallujah
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2010
And so it turns out that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, though not until we arrived and started using them. This is the power of language. Call it “war” and along come glory, duty, courage, sacrifice: the best of humanity writ large. The word is impenetrable; it sets the heart in motion; God makes an appearance, blesses the troops, blesses the weapons. Operation Iraqi Freedom: They’ll greet us with open arms. At what point do we learn our lesson, that “war” is a moral cesspool of horrific consequences, especially, and most troublingly, unintended ones?
→ read full articleCluster Bomb Ban Comes Into Effect
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2010
A global treaty banning cluster munitions has gone into force. The Convention on Cluster Munitions, which became binding international law on Sunday [1 Aug 2010], prohibits the use, production and stockpiling of the weapon, which is blamed for killing and maiming tens of thousands of civilians.
→ read full article(Italian) 21 giugno Strage di piazza della Loggia … A quando la verità?
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2010
parte II
Nel 36° Anniversario di Piazza Loggia
In memoria del salodiano Vittorio Zambarda
Children
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2010
“Don’t worry if children don’t listen to you.
→ read full articleThe Shame of the Fourth Estate
Charles Kaiser, Hillman Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2010
“Let me make this utterly clear: What you see on Fox News, what you read on Right Wing websites, is the utter and complete perversion of journalism, and it can have no place in a civilized society. It is words crashed together, never to inform, only to inflame. It is a political guillotine. It is the manipulation of reality to make the racist seem benevolent, and to convict the benevolent as racist – even if her words must be edited, filleted, stripped of all context, rearranged, fabricated, and falsified, to do so.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Espiritualidade, Economia e o Mundo dos Negócios
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2010
O português Paulo Vieira de Castro, consultor de empresas e diretor do Centro de Estudos Aplicados em Marketing do Instituto Superior de Administração e Gestão (Porto) e o economista brasileiro, Marcus Eduardo de Oliveira, professor e especialista em Política Internacional, dialogam sobre espiritualidade, economia social e humana e o mundo dos negócios. Na essência, ambos os especialistas conversam sobre a necessidade de integrar o ser humano numa visão mais abrangente, tanto no contexto da economia, quanto dos negócios, envolvendo desde a busca da felicidade à realização plena de cada um, comungando, nesse aspecto, a vida humana e a espiritualidade.
→ read full articleIsrael and Palestine
Deena Stryker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2010
In 1988 I visited Israel as the first intifada was gathering steam. I interviewed several political figures sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, and saw from the air how narrow Israel was from East to West, between the Mediterranean and the West Bank. Twenty-two years later, two concepts I imagined then could, I believe, break the continuing deadlock between Israel and the people it displaced. The first is process dynamics.
→ read full articleIsrael Demolishes Bedouin Village
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2010
Israeli authorities have demolished the homes of about 300 Bedouins in a village in the southern Negev desert. The entire village of al-Arakib was bulldozed on Tuesday [27 Jul 2010], with many of the former residents’ cattle, trees and belongings lost. Al-Arakib, which had about 40 homes, is one of 45 Bedouin villages not recognised by Israeli authorities.
→ read full articleSpying for the USA-And for Peace
Johan Galtung, 2 Aug 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2010
To expose war crimes parading as “secrets” is a service for peace. Ellsberg got the alternative Nobel Peace Prize. So will Assange.
→ read full articleThe Angola-Cabinda Conflict
COVA-Confederation of Voluntary Associations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2010
Through 2009 we had brought to you a series briefly outlining disputes in 188 countries. Now we are happy to announce that we shall be sharing with you, every week, details of some major conflicts in different countries around the world. We hope that an understanding of the genesis and nature of different conflicts we help us in resolving these and making the world what it should be – A Heaven for all!!!
— The COVA-Confederation of Voluntary Associations team
Statist India-Pakistan Dialogue
Dr Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2010
India-Pakistan dialogue at foreign ministers level in Islamabad can be justly called statist as it added nothing substantial to bilateral relations except meetings and press conferences bordering acrimony. Anyone who viewed the joint press conference of the ministers on 16 July 2010 could conclude nothing but precisely this: the post-Mumbai terror attack relations are surviving on a vague optimism that relations will get better in due course. Despite this optimism expressed opulently by the political leaders of both the countries, the fact remain unless some substance is added to the relations, South Asia will further plunge into another bout of crisis. In international politics diplomacy and dialogue are good things to salvage bad relations, but these can not sustain long in a vacuum.
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Israeli Soldiers Dancing to Ke$ha – Tik Tok (Rock the Casba in Hebron)
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2010
IDF soldiers are finding time to dance when they are not murdering in the name of ‘Israeli security’.
→ read full article(Italian) Chiudere I Cie Subito 10 Luglio Antirazzista a Torino (Parte II)
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2010
Report. Parte II. Manif. del 10 luglio antirazzista.
→ read full article(Italian) Il Nucleare Non È la Risposta. Ma Qual È il Problema?
Nanni Salio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2010
La produzione e l’utilizzo dell’energia elettronucleare non è che un capitolo, per quanto importante, del più ampio problema energetico. Insieme, possono essere inquadrati nel più generale tema delle questioni globali, complesse e controverse che convenzionalmente indichiamo con PAS, pace, ambiente, sostenibilità. Non dovrebbe stupire che su questi temi si continui a discutere sin dall’inizio dell’ “era nucleare” con argomenti pro e contro che vengono riproposti di tanto in tanto dai cosiddetti “esperti”, che in realtà esperti non sono.
→ read full articleUnited Nations Grants Official Status to US-Based International LGBT Rights Group
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2010
A Victory against Homophobic Silencing of Civil Society
→ read full article(Italian) OGM e Crimine Organizzato
Silvia Ribeiro – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2010
Tutti i semi transgenici esistenti sono controllati da sei imprese: Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont, Dow, Bayer e Basf. Sono multinazionali del settore chimico che si impadroniscono delle compagnie di grani per controllare il mercato agricolo, vendendo semi che si legano ai pesticidi che esse producono (erbicidi, insetticidi, ecc.).
→ read full articleHumanizing Methodologies in Transformation
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2010
Talk at the University of South Africa sponsored by the College of Law – 20 Jul 2010
→ read full articleChoose Peace—End the Siege on Gaza
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2010
It was reported on Monday [12 Jul 2010] that an Israeli military commission found “no failure” on the part of the commandos who took part in the attack. And while the UN Security Council and human rights groups called for an independent and “credible” inquiry into the matter, there are no such plans in the works. Israel has deemed such independent efforts as “anti-Israel” and a threat to the existence of the state. The result? The US and indeed the rest of the international community stand on the sidelines, doing nothing. On June 5, I was aboard the MV Rachel Corrie—a ship named for a young American activist who was bulldozed to death by the Israeli army in 2003—heading to Gaza. Just days earlier, we had heard via satellite phone that Israeli commandos had boarded six ships, including the Turkish MV Mavi Marmara, in international water, and had killed and injured many aboard.
→ read full articleThe Algerian Insurgency
COVA-Confederation of Voluntary Associations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2010
Through 2009 we had brought to you a series briefly outlining disputes in 188 countries. Now we are happy to announce that we shall be sharing with you, every week, details of some major conflicts in different countries around the world. We hope that an understanding of the genesis and nature of different conflicts we help us in resolving these and making the world what it should be – A Heaven for all!!!
— The COVA-Confederation of Voluntary Associations team
Republican what?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2010
A man went to a pawn shop in San Francisco and discovered a brass rat that intrigued him. He asked the store owner how much it cost. The owner said, “With the story 100 dollars, without the story 10 dollars.”
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Prof. Johan Galtung on Nuclear Weapons and the Underlying Causes of Conflict
TalkWorks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2010
Leading experts and policy makers talk about what needs to be done to move towards a nuclear weapon-free world.
→ read full articleIsrael Braces Itself for a UN Fact Finding Mission
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2010
I guess that in order to complete its job satisfyingly, the UN mission should consider taking advice from some Old Testament experts who can elaborate on the cultural and spiritual heritage that led to the current state of Israeli barbarism. As I’ve mentioned many times before, Zionism is an attempt to revive the ancient Israelite nation. Hence it shouldn’t take us by surprise to discover that this has created a contemporary Israeli who follows the most sinister possible interpretation of the Judaic text.
→ read full articleThe Killing Fields of Multi-National Corporations
Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2010
Pesticides, Pollution and the Economies of Genocide. The Bhopal gas tragedy was the worst industrial disaster in human history. Twenty-five thousand people died, 500,000 were injured, and the injustice done to the victims of Bhopal over the past 25 years will go down as the worst case of jurisprudence ever.
→ read full articleOpen Letter of Appeal to the Jewish People
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
I write to ask for your help in gaining the freedom of a good man, a man of peace, and a man of conscience. In the Jewish scriptures there is great emphasis on justice and freedom and it is for such, for one man, that I write to seek your help. He will not be aware that I am writing this Appeal, but I do so in the hope that, with your help, it will produce his freedom, and not (and this I must risk) cause yet more punishment and cruelty to be inflicted upon him.
→ read full articleI Support Mairead Maguire’s Appeal to Free Mordechai Vanunu
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
Mordechai and I got the Right Livelihood Award, aka the alternative Nobel Peace Prize, the same year, 1987. He embodies the best of Western Civilization: courage, honesty, truth, dedication to peaceful resolution.
→ read full articleLeopold Sedar Senghor (1906-2001) – Who will teach rhythm to the world laid low?
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 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 articleThis Modern World
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
Award-wining political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow focuses on the corporate strain of pretending to care about the environment.
→ read full article(Italian) “21 Giugno. Strage di Piazza Loggia … A Quando la Verità?”
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
36° Anniversario di Piazza Loggia. In memoria del salodiano Vittorio Zambarda.
→ read full articleRevenge of the Weeds
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
We can’t keep playing conquering fool, arrogantly ordering the world to our liking by killing everything that doesn’t fit into it. We can’t keep throwing more of the same at our problems. We can’t keep fighting nature, or one another, and expect somehow to win in the end. We can’t keep buying time at an increasingly horrific price. Time is running out. And petroleum isn’t the only thing we’re addicted to.
→ read full articleHaitian Peasants Say: Monsanto, Get Out of Haiti!
Rainforest Rescue – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
Monsanto is trying to offer the Haitian Ministry of Agriculture a fatal gift. The Haitian peasants will receive 475 tons of its seeds. This worsens the farmers’ situation. The organisations of La Via Campesina have expressed their strong disagreement and have demonstrated during the World Environment Day (Juny 4th) to say “no to Monsanto’s mortal gift which is a new earthquake hitting the agricultural sector”. They are asking your support to protect their food sovereignty. Help them today by signing a personal letter to the Haitian authorities.
→ read full article(Italian) Spirito e Scienza nel Vedanta
Michael Nagler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
Ma questo avvenne allora. Adesso le grandi conquiste di Einstein e Bohr hanno dato un bello shock al paradigma della scienza occidentale e, come disse nel 1986 un eminente fisico indiano passato a un ordine religioso come Swami Jitatmananda, “solo il Vedanta sembra essere in grado di assorbire il tremendo impatto della nuova scienza.” Il Vedanta, termine generale per la cultura spirituale dell’India antica, sviluppò una teoria quantistica 5000 anni prima che Planck scoprisse che l’energia arriva in pacchetti discreti (o quanti).
→ read full articleVenezuela, Chile to Head New Latin American Bloc
RNW – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
Venezuela and Chile will head a new regional bloc that will include all countries in the Americas except Canada and the United States to be inaugurated in July 2011, Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry said. The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC, its Spanish-language acronym), will have among its goals tightening trade and institutional cooperation in the region, in step with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s so-called “Plan Caracas.”
→ read full articlePolitics
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
Socialism: You have two cows, and you give one to your neighbor.
→ read full articleHaitians Cry: Show Me the Money
Rob Reynolds - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
Certainly the international workers who have come to Haiti are genuinely motivated by a desire to help the desperately poor country rebuild. It’s unfair, even preposterous, to suggest that they are here to enrich themselves. Yet a perception exists, says Marilyn Allein, the Haiti representative of the anti-corruption watchdog group Transparency International, that the aid agencies’ activity is “much ado about nothing”. Haitians “see these luxury cars going by with the air conditioning on”, she said, “and they see lots of foreigners, but they don’t see much yet in terms of results”.
→ read full articleU.S. Provides Millions in Bulletproof Vests, Rifle Scopes to West Bank Settlers
AlterNet Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
… As the American government seeks to end the four-decade Jewish settlement enterprise and foster a Palestinian state in the West Bank, the American Treasury helps sustain the settlements through tax breaks on donations to support them.A New York Times examination of public records in the United States and Israel identified at least 40 American groups that have collected more than $200 million in tax-deductible gifts for Jewish settlement in the West Bank and East Jerusalem over the last decade. The money goes mostly to schools, synagogues, recreation centers and the like, legitimate expenditures under the tax law. But it has also paid for more legally questionable commodities: housing as well as guard dogs, bulletproof vests, rifle scopes and vehicles to secure outposts deep in occupied areas.
→ read full articleCirculation of the Light: Essential Metaphor of Global Sustainability?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
Does civilizational collapse become probable when the resources of the cognitive geometry on which a civilization chooses to live are exhausted — as an extension of the argument of Jared Diamond (Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, 2005)?
→ read full article(Italian) Conflitto Israelo-Palestinese: L’Esperienza Nonviolenta di At-Tuwani e di Operazione Colomba
Davide Ziveri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
Sabato 12 giugno una trentina di coloni mascherati hanno attaccato con sassi e spranghe la casa del villaggio palestinese di At-Tuwani più prossima all’avamposto di Havat Ma’on, nelle colline a sud di Hebron, in Cisgiordania. Nell’abitazione in quel momento si trovavano solo donne e bambini. Da allora, ogni notte, i coloni si sono organizzati in ronde e non hanno cessato di lanciare intimidazioni agli abitanti del villaggio. Solo un altro aneddoto del mitico conflitto mediorientale?
→ read full articleThe Charge of the Media Brigade
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes how an all-pervasive corporate media culture in the United States prepares the way for a permanent state of war. And yet for all the column inches and broadcast hours filled, the brainwashing is not succeeding. And this, he suggests, is ‘America’s greatest virtue’.
→ read full article(Italian) Chiudere I Cie Subito. 10 Luglio Antirazzista a Torino
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
Torino 10 luglio 2010
ore 16.00 – Corteo da Piazza Sabotino al CIE di corso Brunelleschi
no-cie.noblogs.org
Iniziativa organizzata dal coordinamento 10 luglio antirazzista
The National Interest Has Gone Missing
Lawrence Davidson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
It does not take a genius to observe that the pursuit of national interests, defined in common sense terms, would have led to very different behavior by the U.S. and Israeli governments. But both failed to pursue such a course. Their doors remained locked. The question why is a seminal one. It touches on war and peace and thus the lives of millions. So let’s look at some of the factors that might go into an answer to this question–why was national interest not pursued?
→ read full articleDeadlock in Afghanistan?
RachadTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2010
Dr. Abbas Aroua hosts Prof. Johan Galtung for a discussion about the situation in Afghnistan, following the resignation of General Mac Chrystal.
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