Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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(Italian) A Proposito di Nonviolenza Evangelica
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
Cristianesimo, violenza, nonviolenza. Mi pare che ci sia una ambivalenza (non ambiguità) nelle interpretazioni del cristianesimo riguardo a violenza e nonviolenza.
→ read full articleStatus of Women in Post Taliban Afghanistan
Maryam Sakeenah – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
This paper attempts to study, investigate and analyse the condition and status of womenfolk in Afghanistan after the United States-led invasion of the country in November-December 2001. It includes information and findings to clearly illustrate the actual state of affairs relating to women in the war-ravaged country. On the basis of data collection and findings, the paper aims at drawing conclusions and making recommendations for the improvement of the situation and status of the women in present-day Afghanistan.
→ read full articleThe Sinking of The Cheonan: Another Gulf Of Tonkin Incident
Stephen Gowans – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
While the South Korean government announced on May 20 that it has overwhelming evidence that one of its warships was sunk by a torpedo fired by a North Korean submarine, there is, in fact, no direct link between North Korea and the sunken ship. And it seems very unlikely that North Korea had anything to do with it.
→ read full articleTao of Engagement — Weaponised Interactions and Beyond
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
Produced in celebration of the United Nations International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures (2010) and the ever increasing development, manufacture and sale of arms by Permanent Members of the UN Security Council following the UN Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations (2001)
→ read full articleWhere Is the World Economy Heading?
Johan Galtung, 31 May 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
Imagine you are ill. A health rating agency, let us call it Moody & Poor, publishes your rating. Somebody bets on your death. Others withdraw life support; what might have been a self-denying becomes a self-fulfilling, demoralizing, prophecy. The betting company cashes in “some serious money”–the expression used in Goldman Sachs when they celebrated the fall of the US housing market (Washington Post 24 April 2010). Remedy: outlaw most, make credit rating–teleconferences by 5 voting experts–transparent. They are paid by the people who issue the debts to be rated.
→ read full article(Italian) Sentenza Diaz: Condannati i vertici della Polizia di Stato. Intervista a Lorenzo Guadagnucci
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
Il 21 luglio 2001 anche dalla Valle d’Aosta sono partiti degli attivisti per partecipare alla manifestazione pacifica del movimento contro il vertice del G8.
→ read full articleThe US Civil Rights Revolution
Johan Galtung, 24 May 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
A research project 1958-60 on school desegregation in Charlottesville VA brought this author close to that abominable century of deliberate delay. Interviewing white segregationists brought up three major factors in their prejudice: they, the blacks, are angry because of slavery and will take revenge, stab us in the back; they are all communists against our society; they are ugly. Hidden in this was a recipe for individual black advance in white society: take history with a smile, be right wing Republican, be pretty-handsome. At least two out of these three may take you there. It is not pigment. Examples are obvious.
→ read full articleAid Convoy sets off for Gaza
AlJazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
The biggest attempt by international aid groups to break the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip has gotten underway.
→ read full articleThe Heresy of the Greeks Offers Hope
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger inverts the perception of Greece as a “junk country” and sees hope in the uprising of ordinary Greeks protesting against the “bailout” of an economy plunged into debt by the tax-evading rich. Greece, he writes, is a microcosm for the developed world, where class war are the words seldom used because they are the truth.
→ read full articleOn Accountability for Violations of International Humanitarian Law in Sri Lanka
HRW – Transcend Media Service,
24 May 2010
Human Rights Watch is calling for a United Nations commission of inquiry to investigate violations of international humanitarian law by both Sri Lankan government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam during the recent fighting. This Q & A addresses various issues relating to accountability for crimes in violation of international law.
→ read full articleFormer Central Bank Head Karl Otto Pöhl: Bailout Plan Is All About ‘Rescuing Banks and Rich Greeks’
Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
The 750 billion euro package the European Union passed last week to prop up the common currency has been heavily criticized in Germany. Former Bundesbank head Karl Otto Pöhl told SPIEGEL that Greece may ultimately have to opt out, and that the foundation of the euro has been fundamentally weakened.
→ read full articleIndia Snubs US, Hails Iran’s N-Plan
The Times of India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
The growing policy rift between India and the US on how to deal with Iran’s nuclear enrichment plans has come out in the open with foreign minister S M Krishna disagreeing with the American position to welcome Tehran’s decision to send its low enriched uranium stock to Turkey.
→ read full articleGary Snyder: (1930- ) A Zen View of Nature
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 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 articleSo Much for ‘Understanding’
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
The UN. conducted a worldwide survey asking “Would you please give your honest opinion about the solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?”
→ read full articleSecurity for Australia in the ‘Asia Pacific Century’ (Part 2)
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
Let’s cup our ear to some echoes from the past. Andrew Alexander, a journalist on the right- of-centre Daily Mail newspaper in the UK, recounted how his research for a book about the origins of the Cold War confounded his presuppositions: there had, in reality, been “no Soviet military threat”, and wrong-headed western assessments that one existed were responsible for “one of the most unnecessary conflicts of all time, and certainly the most perilous”.
→ read full articleWhy the Times Square Incident Should Be a Turning Point
Dr Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
The fact remains that terrorism is such a menace it can not be contained single handedly by a single country. In fact the nature of terrorism is so complicated and so wide and embedded; it will be difficult to tackle the menace by amending national laws or by punishing few terrorists. A global coalition, with a genuine global agenda, is the imperative of the hour if the world is to become terror-free, stable and peaceful.
→ read full articlePublic Statement – A plea to put an end to massive killing in Bangkok
International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB) - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
The International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB), representing a diversity of socially engaged buddhists from around the world, is gravely concerned about this standoff. We wish for all parties address the conflict with reason and tools of peace, to recognize the ancient Buddhist wisdom that neither the so-called winner nor loser will be contented and happy. We encourage those who do not fall into one of the two camps can help this process wherever possible. Only through peaceful negotiation and dialogue can all parties concerned return the country to its true nature as a flourishing democracy and a peace-loving nation.
→ read full article(Castellano) Todos Contra la Violencia
Equipo de Nación – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
Hace cuatro años, tras una reflexión interna en la sala de Redacción de LPG-La Prensa Gráfica, motivada por la cobertura diaria de homicidios y hechos violentos, el periódico decidió hacer una atrevida apuesta editorial.
→ read full articleIran Accepts Nuclear-Fuel Swap Deal
AlJazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
Iran has signed an agreement brokered by Brazil to ship low-enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for nuclear fuel for its power plant, according to official media.
→ read full articleHung Parliament or Hung Parliamentarism?
Johan Galtung, 17 May 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
Is Anglo-America a conspiracy against conflict resolution, in favor of conflict settlement through victory? Hosting a Karl Marx, yet for those who think class is out look at the composition of the new cabinet in terms of education, family and nation-within-nation.
→ read full articleOn My Way to Athens
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
QUESTION: What was it that hurt you so much as to state publicly that you fight the Israeli in you? Don’t you feel that this is a harsh statement to make? A statement that shows anger? GILAD: Yes I am indeed angry. Watching 1.5 million Palestinians being starved in Gaza makes me angry. Watching the IDF throw bombs and white phosphorous on elders, women and children who seek shelter in an UNRA compound makes me angry. Watching the Israeli air force flatten Lebanon in 2006 made me angry. Watching the holy land get sliced by a gigantic separation wall makes me angry. Transforming Palestine into a Jewish bunker makes me angry. Meeting dispossessed Palestinian refugees who cannot even visit their land makes me very angry. Realising that 1.5 million Iraqis lost their life because of a Zionist global war designed by Ziocon Wolfowitz makes me furious. Zionists advocating the Killing of Muslims in the name of moral interventionism freaks me out. Watching AIPAC promoting more wars and violence makes my blood boil.
→ read full article7 Things to Stop Doing Now on Facebook
Consumer Reports Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
Tips for your protection on Facebook.
→ read full articleModern Saint of Family Unity
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
Ascetical writers tell us that God is so great that He created billions of people each one with a unique personality that they cannot be duplicated. Besides, they add saying that God gave to each person at least one talent that makes that individual superior to the rest of the human race. In other words, each one of us is so important that we cannot ever be duplicated. Our main job in life is to help ourselves, as well as our children and friends, to discover this one superior talent we received as to use it to help change the world for the better.
→ read full articleSecurity for Australia in the ‘Asia Pacific Century’ (Part 1)
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
It looked like a raised middle finger. A stark, mocking figure 1 – the number of votes garnered when Australia put itself forward a couple of years ago for membership of the United Nations Security Council. Even Iran found thirty-two supporters when it stood for election in the same round. Australia, apparently, was friendless. So why did the international community shun Kevin Rudd’s ambitions for greater recognition on the world stage?
→ read full articleGrowing Outcry over Facebook Privacy Changes
AlJazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
An online backlash against the social website Facebook is gathering strength – and the company’s executives have held an emergency meeting to discuss growing concerns about the privacy of its users. According to Google search results, there’s been a spike in the number of Facebook users looking to delete their accounts.
→ read full articleRacist Joke
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
A crowded lifeboat in the ocean got into a storm, the waves got higher and higher, and the boat was in danger of sinking.
→ read full articleFrom Shas to Hamas: The Group Behind the South Park Controversy
Maidhc Ó Cathail - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
Muslims just can’t seem to take a joke. Or at least that’s what some would have you believe. Like the contrived Danish cartoon controversy, the much-hyped Times Square car bomb incident provided an ideal opportunity for those who seek to make Islam look bad in the eyes of the world.
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Iran-Brazil Ties: Lula hopes to broker Iran deal
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
President Lula hopes to aid nuclear deal.
→ read full articleVelimir Khlebnikov: The Futurian (1895-1922)
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 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 articleBrazil and Cuba Become an Example of Cooperation in Vaccines
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
The news is already circulating around the world of a study that researchers from five developing countries, in collaboration with the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health of Canada (MRC) published today [13 May 2010] in the journal Nature Biotechnology, puts Brazil and Cuba as models in manufacturing low-cost drugs to poor people.
→ read full articleNepal’s Peace Process Towards Ambiguity
Bishnu Pathak, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2010
At 2.20 PM on May 1, 2010 at the western gate of the Khula Manch (Martyr Theater), an aged, thin-and-weak man of about 35 fainted. The volunteers of the United Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) made a human chain of 10 meters in circumference around the huge crowd. A few of them tried to cool him down by fanning their caps and papers and throwing their drinking water over him. Both of his legs were buckled from the intense heat, while camera men were eager to snap photos. The crowd members were seeking first aiders to treat him. Two minutes later, he stood up with the help of a man. His face and lips were dried. A woman aiding him grasped his right hand and disappeared with him through the sea of humans.
→ read full articleMps Push for Continent-Wide Ban on Female Genital Mutilation
UN IRIN-TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
Parliamentarians from all over Africa are pushing for a continent-wide ban on female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and are calling on the UN to pass a General Assembly resolution appealing for a global FGM/C ban, as it violates human rights, they say.
→ read full articleVoting for War. Take Your Pick
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes how Edwardian notions of war are again being promoted in western democracies, along with the militarising of history, journalism and parliamentary politics. In Britain, the three main candidiates for prime minister are declared warmakers; and yet popular feeling is very different.
→ read full articleThe Rebirth of Regulation
Robert Reich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
What do oil giant BP, the mining company Massey Energy, and Goldman Sachs have in common? They’re all big firms involved in massive plunder. BP’s oil spill is already one of the biggest and most damaging in American history. Massey’s mine disaster, claiming the lives of 29 miners, is one of the worst in recent history. Goldman’s alleged fraud is but a part of the largest financial meltdown in 75 years.
→ read full article(Italian) Aosta 25 Aprile 2010. Lettura Collettiva Della Costituzione Della Repubblica Italiana
Silvia Berruto, antifascista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
Nell’ambito del progetto culturale Collettivamente memoria 2010
→ read full articleG.W. Russell (1867-1935): “The highest minds building one upon another”
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 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 articleJapanese
Dietrich Fischer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
A Japanese airline stewardess told the passengers on landing…
→ read full articleThe Next 9/11—Made in Israel?
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
Citing the possibility of a terrorist organization getting hold of a nuclear weapon as the greatest threat to U.S. security, Barack Obama persuaded 46 other countries at the recent Nuclear Security Summit to agree to secure the world’s loose nuclear material. Those leaders who came to Washington might have done more to avert a nuclear attack, however, if they had asked the U.S. President to account for America’s own loose nukes.
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Global Food Bubble on the Way?
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
Jayati Ghosh: We have to ban finance speculation that does not physically hold food commodities.
→ read full articleUnited Nations World Press Freedom Day
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
Not a column this week but a podcast, by the UN, to mark World Press Freedom Day, with fellow guests Jenny Manrique, a Colombian journalist, and Brendan O’Malley, journalist and author of UNESCO’s 2010 Education Under Attack report.
→ read full article(Castellano) Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273)
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
La Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas en resolución A/RES 62/90 ha proclamado al año 2010 como Año Internacional para el Acercamiento de Culturas, “para promover el respeto universal y la observancia y protección de todos los derechos humanos y las libertades fundamentales”. Así, nos complacemos en presentar los esfuerzos creativos de personas que han ayudado a crear puentes de comprensión entre culturas.
→ read full article(Italian) Amnesty International e Idea Rom
Silvia Berruto, gagé engage – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2010
La conoscenza e il diritto alla base delle idee per una convivenza civile.
→ read full articleKenneth Rexroth (1905-1982): The Poetry of Relevance
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 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 articleStingy
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2010
A beggar walked up to a well‑dressed woman shopping on Fifth Avenue in New York and said,
→ read full articleIndegenous Peoples’ Declaration – World Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
Many Authors – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2010
Mother Earth can live without us, but we can’t live without her. We, the Indigenous Peoples, nations and organizations from all over the world, gathered at the World Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, from April 19th to 22nd, 2010 in Tiquipaya, Cochabamba, Bolivia, after extensive discussions, express the following:
→ read full articleHow Do Wars End?
Johan Galtung, 3 May 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2010
Gone are the old days when might was right and unconditional surrender was the end of a 141-year unbroken chain of US wars, from 1812–the final battle in the War of Independence– to 1953, the Korean war armistice. And gone are the days when might was a sign of divine mandate, God is behind. Among christians God may favor the mightiest. Among muslims, perhaps. But certainly not across that divide. Gone are the days of direct battle heroism. Sitting at a computer in the Pentagon directing drones, or in a cockpit at 44,000 feet hitting “coordinates”, in favor of pure cowardice. Or, rather: the risks change with the war. When more commit suicide than are killed in the field reality has changed. Confronted with a choice between a very elusive victory, defeat, and flight, conflict resolution might grow in attractiveness.
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US Military Enforces Attacks on Haitian Unions
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2010
Didier Dominique: US military helping to repress organizing of textile workers’ unions in Haiti.
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Japan’s PM Denies Washington Post Report about US Military in Okinawa
MoxNewsDotCom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Prime Minister Hatoyama denies that an agreement has been reached with US authorities regarding the relocation of the US military base in Okinawa. The base remains unwelcome by the Japanese people and government.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Dia da Terra: Conferência Propõe Referendo Mundial
Esquerda.net – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
A Conferência de Cochabamba vai anunciar uma campanha para um referendo a realizar no dia da Terra, a 22 de Abril de 2011, sobre a criação dum tribunal internacional de justiça climática.
→ read full articleTougher Cap and Trade Legislation
GRIT TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
The Nation magazine Environmental Correspondent Mark Hertsgaard sits down with GRITtv’s Laura Flanders to talk about the environmental movement and the current climate legislation. Flanders is pessimistic that the current bill will actually reduce emissions. Hertsgaard agrees that the loopholes in the bill will make it difficult to actually cap emissions: “Cap and trade could work if you get tough legislation but that is a very big if in the United States of America,” Hertsgaard says.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to the Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley on their courageous Israeli Divestment Bill
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
There is nothing anti-Semitic in taking this stand, and those of us who will continue to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign, until Israel changes its illegal policies, are not anti-Semitic, but pro-peace and advocates for genuine democracy and human rights for all people.
→ read full articleAPRIL 28: Associated Students of UC Berkeley Vote to Divest From Companies That Profit From Israeli Occupation of Palestine
Dana Bergen, Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Every so often, we get a moment when a remarkable future starts to unfold before our eyes. And when it happens, it’s our responsibility to do everything within our power to help it along. One of those moments is happening right now, unbeknownst to most of the world, on the University of California’s Berkeley campus.
→ read full articleInterview with Carlos Latuff
Kourosh Ziabari – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
“I don’t trade ideology for money.” The hero of “freedom of speech”, boycotted by the corporate, mainstream media that are irresistible against the astringent truth: this is the most precise and accurate introduction which I can present about Carlos Latuff.
→ read full article(Castellano) Los Derechos del Hombre y la Tierra
Eduardo Galeano – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Mensaje del autor de Las Venas abiertas de América Latina a los asistentes a la Cumbre de la Madre Tierra que se celebra en Bolivia, como alternativa a la Cumbre sobre el Cambio Climático en Copenhague.
→ read full articleThe BRIC Summit
Dr. Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
BRIC, in spite of its weakness or differences among members, no doubt will play a significant role in international politics. The coming of the countries together is no mean achievement, and on various issues like Iran, United Nations, Bretton Woods structures, climate change, etc. the grouping has already been vociferous. The clout of BRIC as a significant multilateral body is bound to be reckoned with.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Direitos Humanos e Direitos da Terra
Eduardo Galeano – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Mensagem do autor de “As Veias Abertas da América Latina’ aos participantes da Reunião de Cúpula da Mãe Terra que se realiza na Bolívia como alternativa à Reunião de Cúpula sobre a mudanca climática em Copenhagen.
→ read full articleOndra Lysohorsky (1905—1989)
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 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 articleUS To Launch Secret ‘Space Warplane’
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Since the nature of the project is shrouded in mystery, defense analysts allege that the US military is building the first generation of US ‘space Predator drones’ that will build up the United States’ space armada, the Christian Science Monitor wrote in a recent article.
→ read full articleIndonesia: Lies, Non-Truths and the Path to Peace
ANU News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Lies, non-truths and a corrupt military have all played key roles in Indonesia’s transition from an unstable, violent state to a relatively peaceful democracy. This contradicts the idea that truth and transparency are always vital ingredients in fostering peace. That’s the argument made in the first of a series of books from a 20-year study of global peacebuilding efforts that is being undertaken at The Australian National University.
→ read full articleJapanese Rally against US Air Base
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
On the eve of the protest, the Washington Post said the Japanese government had indicated it would broadly accept the 2006 pact. But the government denied that on Saturday [24 April 2010], with [Prime Minister] Hatoyama repeating his objection to the 2006 plan. “The report is not true … We cannot accept the existing plan,” he said.
→ read full articleCochabamba, the Water Wars and Climate Change
Amy Goodman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Bolivian President Evo Morales calls Cochabamba the heart of Bolivia. It was here, 10 years ago this month, that, as one observer put it, “the first rebellion of the 21st century” took place. In what was dubbed the Water Wars, people from around Bolivia converged on Cochabamba to overturn the privatization of the public water system.
→ read full articleApartheid Is Alive and Well
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
There is a place where indigenous blacks are still being shunted off their land into reservations; where work is rewarded not with wages but with ration cards, to spend in white-owned supermarkets; where public services are lavished on the already wealthy but denied to the poorest unless they agree to hand over their birthright.
→ read full articleUnder the Disguise of Counterterrorism: Obama Expands U.S. Military Ops in Africa
UPI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Amid a surge in big oil strikes in Africa and the threat of growing al-Qaida penetration in the north and east, President Barack Obama is expanding U.S. military involvement across the continent. This has given weight to the U.S. Africa Command inaugurated Oct. 1, 2008, which is viewed with growing suspicion by many in Africa who consider its primary mission is to secure oil supplies that America considers vital as it cuts its reliance on the Middle East.
→ read full articleFacing History for Social Healing
Claude Shema R., M.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
In the past, I was thinking most of the time that I was the only one who thought that “remembering is my right” as a victim of the unspeakable genocide , and day-by-day I learn that I share the same thoughts and feelings with other different victims of violence violent conflict all over the world.
→ read full articleThe Palestinians Are Winning the Legitimacy War: Will It Matter?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
A Palestinian victory in the legitimacy war with Israel would not necessarily produce the desired political results. It is vital that the Palestinians exercise “patience, resolve, leadership and vision, as well as sufficient pressure” if they are to win their just rights.
→ read full article(Castellano) Cumbre Sobre Cambio Climático en Bolivia Supera Nivel Previsto de Participación
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
A la localidad de Tiquipaya, a 15 kilómetros de Cochabamba, han arribado delegaciones compuestas por unas 22 mil personas procedentes de 92 países para participar en la Conferencia.
→ read full article5th Bil’in International Conference on Popular Nonviolent Resistance
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
I thank you for your great spirit of nonviolent love in action and encourage you to keep hope alive and keep on building Palestinian unity – united, the Palestinian people will succeed. Believe passionately in peace and justice and it will come out of the seeds of nonviolence and sacrifice you, and your families, are making on behalf of us all, the human family.
→ read full articleBears vs. Hunters
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Two Canadian hunters were surprised by a bear. They began to run away from him.
→ read full article(Italian) Ti sposo entro l’anno. Prima mondiale al 25 Torino GLBT
Silvia Berruto, probabilmente – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Un documentario sulla lotta per il diritto al matrimonio civile fra persone dello stesso sesso.
→ read full articleBasic Human Rights in Perspective
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Over the centuries the topic on basic human rights often served as the center of attention for scholars, humanitarian groups and government officials. In spite of this, violations against basic human rights have taken place periodically to the point of making millions of people suffer immensely and unnecessarily on a global scale. Since this could be traced to manifold sources, we may simply here analyze carefully and concentrate properly on just four aspects as follows: respect, law, taxation, and environment.
→ read full articleA Darkening Scenario in Nepal
Bishnu Pathak, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Nepal may again find itself in the middle of a deep national crisis if a new Constitution is not announced by the stipulated date.
→ read full articleBarak Urges End to Occupation
AlJazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Ehud Barak, Israel’s defence minister, has said that his country must recognise that the world will not put up with decades more of Israeli rule over the Palestinian people.
→ read full articleRecovering From Empathy
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
I remain stuck, churning in my own outrage and despair just as I have –- and so many millions of Americans have –- since the war on terror was launched amid all its lies and cowardly righteousness in 2001. For God’s sake, we’re killing people. We’re doing so in large numbers, with high-tech savagery. We aren’t even defending ourselves. We’ve invented an enemy out of whole cloth.
→ read full articlePutting the Pope on Trial
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
International law presents a radical challenge to the powerful: they could be judged by the same standards as the rest of us.
→ read full articleFrom Church Bulletins
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
“The outreach committee has visited every family that is not afflicted with a church.”
“Don’t let worry kill you–let the church help.”
→ read full articleKolkata – The Legacy of Empire
Jonathan Power, TFF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
I have spent eight months now in the glorious city of Kolkata. You wouldn’t think it is glorious from those who still pedal the story of “The Black Hole” and quote Kipling. Paul Theroux, an exceptional novelist, in his new book, “A Dead Hand, A Crime in Calcutta”, continues the myth. The city “went on growing, yet it still looked rickety and ruinous, and in areas of faded elegance and dramatic misery a bad smell lingered, haunted and human”, he writes.
→ read full articleKeeping a Finger on the Nuclear Trigger
Editorial, Socialist Worker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
The U.S. has repackaged its strategy–but the terrible threat of nuclear war remains.
→ read full articleRabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
Rabindranath Tagore was the Renaissance man of modern India — the bridge from an Indian culture dominated on the one hand by a traditionalism that had long ceased to be creative and on the other by English colonial practice whose reforms were self-interested. He was known worldwide as a poet having received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. His aim was to combine a renewal of local thought, in particular that of his native Bengal, with an appreciation of the cultures of the world. The motto of the educational center he founded, Visva-Bharati, was “Where the world makes its home in a single nest.”
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Ikunga – “Di Bombs”
Ikwunga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
A socially conscious music video by the First Afrobeat Poet Ikwunga. It addresses the ills of war that plagues our beloved African continent.
→ read full articleIsraeli Public’s Support for Dismantling Most Settlements Has Risen to a Five-Year High
Alvin Richman, World Public Opinion – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
A survey of the Israeli general public and Israeli settlers taken in early March shows three-fifths of the Israeli public (60%) support “dismantling most of the settlements in the territories as part of a peace agreement with the Palestinians.”
→ read full articleU.S. Soldiers From WikiLeaks ‘Collateral Murder’ Video Apologize
ICH - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
Two former soldiers from the Army unit responsible for the Wikileaks “Collateral Murder” incident have written an open-letter of “Reconciliation and Responsibility” to those injured in the July 2007 attack, in which U.S. forces wounded two children and killed over a dozen people, including the father of those children and two Reuters employees.
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Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
Australia is often a good place to observe the workings of political agency. There is a blatancy here, in the connection between cause and consequence, and the alacrity with which sectional interests exploit procedures, that is both appalling and, in a perverse kind of a way, simultaneously appealing. Political parties and business lobbies seem to feel little compulsion to concealment: there is not the sense of layers of subtlety having to be peeled back to reveal what is ‘really going on’, that one might encounter in Washington, say, or London, Paris, Delhi or Jakarta.
→ read full article(Italian) Su Pedofilia Qualche Modesta Riflessione
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
Qualche libera modesta riflessione sulla pedofilia sotto la generale attenzione.
→ read full article(Italian) Babel Latino. Latinoamérica en radio
Silvia Berruto, giornalista contro il razzismo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
Babel Latino è una radio interculturale (a cura) della comunità culturale latino-americana di Milano che ha festeggiato la puntata numero 100 con l’evento-festa “100 MATTONI PER L’INTERCULTURA DELLA TORRE DI BABELE” svoltisi lo scorso 13 aprile a Milano, presso la Caritas Ambrosiana.
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Maayana Miskin, IsraelNationalNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
Turkey is planning a gesture that will challenge Israel and provide support to Gaza’s Hamas leaders next month. A flotilla of ships funded by Turkey will approach Gaza in May, in an attempt to challenge Israeli control at sea – or, as organizers put it, “break Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza.”
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Evidence of Israel’s Nuclear Weapons (Banned, Censored)
BBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
The story of Mordechai Vanunu… with music from Gilad Atzmon in the background.
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David Krieger, TFF & Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
While pausing to celebrate the incremental steps in arms reductions and the limitations on nuclear weapons use that are being made now, we should also recognize that a policy of No First Use and a commitment to negotiate a Nuclear Weapons Convention would move us far more rapidly toward the peace and security of the nuclear weapon-free world envisioned by President Obama.
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Press TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
Pointing out that Israel is believed to be the sole possessor of nuclear weapons in the Middle East and is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Erdogan said, “Until now, we haven’t seen any request or intent from the international community with regards to Israel’s (armament). We are going to ask the international community: why haven’t you addressed this issue?”
→ read full articleLEAKED VIDEO SHOWS CIVILIAN KILLINGS IN IRAQ, SIGNIFIES GROWING POWER OF INDEPENDENT WEB JOURNALISM
Brett Michael Dykes, Yahoo! News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
When a nonprofit group this week released video footage, leaked via a source in the Pentagon, showing a 2007 U.S. helicopter attack on a group of civilians in Baghdad, the clip unleashed a viral online sensation and ignited an intense debate about the conduct of U.S. forces in Iraq. But the simple fact of the video’s release also reflects the ongoing revolution in how news gets produced and published.
→ read full articleWHY THERE ARE NO ‘ISRAELIS’ IN THE JEWISH STATE
Jonathan Cook in Nazareth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
A group of Jews and Arabs are fighting in the Israeli courts to be recognised as “Israelis”, a nationality currently denied them, in a case that officials fear may threaten the country’s self-declared status as a Jewish state.
→ read full article(GERMAN) RÜCKBLICK AUF DEN GAZA FREEDOM MARCH
Vera Hug & Mikael Eriksson – TRANSCEND MEDIA SERVICE,
12 Apr 2010
Der Gaza Freedom March (GFM) begann für uns als Mitkoordinatoren mit einem E-Mail aus Spanien. Eine Freundin schrieb uns ein paar Zeilen über die Idee für ein globales Solidaritäts-Projekt mit dem Ziel zum sofortigen Ende der Blockade des Gazastreifens.
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) CRIME E PECADO
Francisco Louçã – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
Ontem, à saída da missa, uma crente foi entrevistada por uma televisão acerca das palavras do Cardeal Patriarca, e explicou como via os casos de pedofilia: “todos somos pecadores”…
… Não, minha senhora, não foi pecado. Foi mesmo crime.
→ read full articleJALAL AL-DIN RUMI (1207-1273)
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
“I am neither Christian, nor Jew, nor Gabr, nor Moslem. I am not of the East, nor the West, nor the land, nor the sea… My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless.” — Rumi
→ read full article“WE MUST TAKE PUBLIC CRITICISM INTO ACCOUNT. CRITICISM IS GOOD AND SHOULD HELP THE PROCESS”
Marta Harnecker and Edwin Herrera Salinas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
One of the greatest problems is that we are trying to build an alternative society with an inherited individualistic and clientelistic culture. . . . Even our best cadres are influenced by this culture. So, it’s a process of cultural transformation. Human beings change themselves through practice, not by decrees.
→ read full articleOUR GREATEST CHALLENGE: BRINGING POLITICS UNDER CONTROL
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
If we were to study carefully the evolution of events that took place over the past 6,000 years of recorded history, we will discover that most of the world’s problems stemmed out from politics of one kind or another.
→ read full article(ITALIAN) PRIMA ASSOLUTA DELL’OPERA MULTIKULTI “TULLA E LEANDRO” ALLA RICERCA DELLE RADICI
Silvia Berruto, giornalista contro il razzismo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
Un prodotto interculturale e multiculturale dunque.
Multikulti.
In una visione culturale in cui non si parla più di integrazione ma di pari opportunità, di empowerment e di diritti uguali per tutti.
THE ILLUSION AND POWER OF SKIN COLOR
Nina Jablonski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
Differing skin colors are simply our bodies’ adaptation to varied climates and levels of UV exposure. Charles Darwin disagreed with this theory, but Nina explains, that’s because he did not have access to NASA.
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Dietrich Fischer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
To attend the meeting of the communist international, the Tanzanian delegate, the only communist in Tanzania, left six months early.
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SUDAN: VOTE PEACEFULLY
XCHANGEperspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
In this advocacy film, citizens from Magwi, encourage the people of Sudan to go vote peacefully and to contribute to a peaceful Sudan. The video was produced by Xchange Perspectives in March 2010 for Media in Cooperation and Transition (MICT).
→ read full articleIMPLICATION OF PERSONAL DESPAIR IN PLANETARY DESPAIR
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
The argument here is that the very heavy investment in “hope”, especially in public discourse, is increasingly serving as a narcotic to dull such pain and to distract from acting in a more healthy manner in response to it.
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