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What Does “Agree” Mean?
Anthony J. Marsella – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Sometimes words lose their meaning and purpose because we abuse them. I suppose the same can be said for refugees and internally displaced people trying to survive.
→ read full articleBeing a Waveform of Potential as an Experiential Choice
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The variety of disciplines and beliefs suggest a multiplicity of ways through which an individual may choose to be framed and identified — or have experience of life defined. With the explosion of variously available knowledge to which it is only minimally possible to attend, incomprehension and uncertainty become ever more significant experientially.
→ read full articleA Plea for Caution from Russia
Vladimir V. Putin – The New York Times,
16 Sep 2013
World’s reaction: if you cannot count on international law, then you must find other ways to ensure your security. Thus a growing number of countries seek to acquire weapons of mass destruction. This is logical: if you have the bomb, no one will touch you. We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.
→ read full articleMyanmar Peace and Ceasefire-101
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The single most important factor in understanding peace-building and ceasefire negotiations in Myanmar is how the most powerful stakeholder, namely the Burmese generals view peace with the country’s 2 dozen ethnic resistance movements.
→ read full articlePlease Mr. President: “No more “War Tactics.” We want a “Peace Strategy”
Anthony J. Marsella – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Mr. President: Develop a foundation for domestic and global peace. Restore confidence in the USA, not because of its fearful military, political, and economic might, but because of its commitment to the enduring human values, and its constitutional guarantees.
→ read full articleNetherlands Close Eight Prisons Due To Lack of Criminals
Huffington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
As prison populations surge in the UK, with overcrowded cells and repeat offenders, the opposite is happening in the Netherlands where declining crime rates mean that although the country has the capacity for 14,000 prisoners, there are only 12,000 detainees.
→ read full articleThe Happiest (and Saddest) Countries in the World
LiveScience – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2013
The United Nations General Assembly’s second World Happiness Report ranks countries based on several measures of well-being and analyzes the factors that contribute to that well-being.
→ read full articleA Blue Pearl
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2013
It is a tear drop
In the Indian Ocean
Justice is a drop
In the darkness heaven
She is a blue pearl
To the voice of rights
Unilateral US Action in Syria Is Illegal
Karen Pimentel Simbulan, Sharnoff’s Global Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2013
While obtaining US Congress authorization may legalize military strikes that President Obama conducts in Syria within the US legal system, such authorization has no bearing on the legality of US military engagement in Syria from the standpoint of international law.
→ read full articleTaking the Profit Out of War
Peter G Cohen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2013
We now have a huge war machine that dwarfs President Eisenhower’s warning about the undue influence of the military-industrial complex.
→ read full articleBelgian Environmental Study Corroborates Existence and Effects of Weather Modification
Brandon Turbeville, Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2013
Even as the mainstream media and a television-obsessed American public refuse to admit the existence of chemtrails and government-sponsored weather modification programs, the evidence continues to mount with ever-increasing speed that not only do these programs exist, but they are also effective and widespread.
→ read full articleWhales: US Navy Ignores California’s Call to Curb Training Involving Sonar, Underwater Blasts
Maureen Nandini Mitra – Earth Island Journal,
11 Sep 2013
Several new studies show Naval activities are impacting CA’s blue whale and beaked whale populations especially hard.
→ read full articleTruth Test on Syria: Religious Oath — Polygraph — Ouija Board?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Systemic Mapping of the Pattern of Affirmations and Denials – Making sense of complexity. An extraordinary feature of the current crisis regarding Syria is the number and variety of affirmations regarding responsibilities for whatever is deplored — chemical weapons, deaths, strategic implications, suspicions, and the like.
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US Military Contractors Celebrate Record High Profits and Stock Prices
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Sep 4, 2013 – The business of war is more profitable than ever.
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Syrian President Bashar al Assad Charlie Rose Interview
CBS News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
PBS’ Charlie Rose interviews Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday, September 9 in a special presentation. In this global television exclusive, Assad gives his only television interview since President Barack Obama asked Congress to approve the use of force against the Syrian regime for alleged use of chemical weapons against the Syrian people.
→ read full articleNo to Foreign Military Intervention in Syria
H.B. Gregorios III, Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
The tragic situation that Syria has been experiencing for the last two and a half years is the strongest evidence of the primary importance of seeking the earliest possible peaceful, diplomatic resolution of the crisis. However, dealing with defining the responsibility of this or that side for tragedies, massacres and the use of chemical weapons, though legitimate, is secondary.
→ read full articleA Non-Military Approach to the Syrian Conflict
Paul J. Magnarella – Huntington News,
10 Sep 2013
An ICC strategy should be pursued in conjunction with robust diplomacy and peace negotiations involving the key Syrian parties, the Arab League, the European Union, Turkey, Russia, Iran and the United States. Certainly, such a combined approach is more appropriate for a Nobel Peace Laureate President than one involving cruise missiles. In the long run, it may be much more effective.
→ read full articleNo Economic Espionage? NSA Docs Show US Spied On Brazil Oil Giant Petrobras
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
The Brazilian head of state said that “it is evident that the reason for the attempted espionage is not security or combating terrorism, but economic and strategic interests” adding that Petrobras represented “no threat to the security of any country.” Rousseff concluded her remarks on Monday [9 Sep 2013] by saying that the Brazilian state would take “all measures to protect the country, the government and its companies.”
→ read full articlePsychoanalysing Psychiatrists and Psychologists Who Torture
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Moreover, in a recent article, ‘Hawaiian Mind Games: American Psychological Association Fiddles While Psychology Burns,’ Roy Eidelson and Stephen Soldz again expose the complicity of US psychologists in researching, designing, implementing, supervising and providing ethical cover for torture inflicted by the CIA and the US military on ‘national security’ prisoners at Guantanamo and elsewhere.
→ read full article(Português) EUA e Reino Unido ‘Derrotaram’ Criptografia na Internet
Marcelo Justo, Carta Maior - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Agência Nacional de Segurança Nacional (NSA) e sua correlata britânica, o GCHQ, decifraram uma grande parte dos códigos criptografados na internet que protegem a privacidade de e-mails, registros bancários e médicos de centenas de milhões de pessoas. As agências celebraram o feito em tom triunfalista assinalando em suas mensagens que “derrotaram a segurança e privacidade da rede”.
→ read full article(Italiano) TRANSCEND a 20 anni: e poi?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
TRANSCEND: una Rete per Pace *Sviluppo* Ambiente fondata nel marzo 1993. Transcend, andare oltre, oltre le contraddizioni, le incompatibilità. Tirare fuori proposte creative, concrete, costruttive – possono funzionare. Si associarono [allora] Fumiko Nishimura e Dietrich Fischer; oggi ci sono 522 membri di 80 paesi; il 40% donne.
→ read full article(Italiano) Dove sono finiti tutti i Poteri?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Dove ci condurrebbe la sussidiarietà – il più basso livello possibile? L’alternativa al regionalismo-globalismo non è il localismo, ma tutti i livelli di cui siamo composti, il mondo considerato come un insieme di comunità localmente autonome, una comunità di Stati, una comunità di macroregioni e di amministrazione globale; spingendo il potere verso il basso, verso le persone e la natura, ascoltando la sua voce. E le Nazioni Unite come una confederazione di Stati e macroregioni.
→ read full article(Italiano) Dialogo fra le civilizzazioni come modo di vivere
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Stiamo entrando in un affascinante periodo multi-polare della storia mondiale. Sei civilizzazioni vogliono dire sei modelli di sviluppo; sparsi su otto poli in un mondo ottagonale: USA e UE, entrambi liberali occidentalio; Russia in ricerca (ipotesi ragionevole: per una versione migliorata del marxismo occidentale); India, enorme, ma impacciata col suo hinduismo; Cina in quanto Cina (col Giappone in dolorosa ricerca di stabilità fra USA e Cina); mondo musulmano, l’ Organizzazione della Cooperazione Islamica (OIC), in ricerca di una ummah [comunità di credenti] nella regione dell’OIC, con il conflitto sunniti-sciiti risolto; Africa in cerca di un eclettismo basato su principi secolari occidentali, sull’Islam e su qualcosa della propria cultura; America Latina immersa sin d’ora in un creativo dialogo infra-occidentale.
→ read full article(Castellano) Siria: Algunas Reflexiones
Fernando Montiel T. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Catchy bloody words o de que no va – Con diferentes matices, la historia que sirve como canción de cuna en la prensa internacional se construye más o menos con los mismos elementos.
→ read full articleCitizens Act and Call to Stop Madness of War
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, Calls for Americans and world citizens to respond to Pope Francis’ call to fast and pray to stop United States war against Syria.
→ read full articleSyria, Democracy and International Law
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
The central purpose of the UN organization, when it was set up in 1945, was to make war illegal. The enormous suffering caused by two world wars had convinced the men and women who drafted the Charter that security based on national military forces had to be replaced by a system of collective security.
→ read full articleMilitary Roots of Racism in Myanmar
Maung Zarni – Asia Times,
10 Sep 2013
At the very heart of Myanmar’s Islamophobic campaign lies the state and its successive senior leaderships, which continue to operate within a concrete set of political economic relations wherein they pursue their typically sinister Machiavellian politics in defense of corporate, clique and personal agendas.
→ read full articleTurning the Table on the Trackers: WikiLeaks Sniffs out Spy Salesmen
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
What was Mostapha Maanna of Hacking Team, an Italian surveillance company, doing on his three trips to Saudi Arabia in the last year? A new data trove from WikiLeaks reveals travel details for salesmen like Maanna who hawk electronic technology to track communications by individuals without their knowledge.
→ read full articleIn-Q-Tel: A Glimpse Inside the CIA’s Venture-Capital Arm
Matt Egan, Fox Business – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
“I’ve found that our technical capabilities often far exceed what you see in Tom Cruise films,” former CIA Director David Petraeus said in March 2012. “But there are a few feats he can accomplish in the movies that we can’t; we haven’t figured out, for example, how to change an individual’s fingerprints or eyeballs just yet — but give us time.”
→ read full articlePeace Education and a Call for Social Dialogue on Nonviolence and Peace
Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Peace education is education of man (humanity). It is the manifestation of an integral culture of body, vitality, mind, intellect and spirit. These elements constitute every man and woman without any discrimination of race, caste, creed, language, nationality and other differences.
→ read full articleWhat Is Economics Good For?
Alex Rosenberg and Tyler Curtain – The New York Times,
10 Sep 2013
It’s easy to understand why economics might be mistaken for science. It uses quantitative expression in mathematics and the succinct statement of its theories in axioms and derived “theorems,” so economics looks a lot like the models of science we are familiar with from physics.
→ read full articleMaking the World Safe for Banksters: Syria in the Cross-hairs
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Iraq and Libya have been taken out, and Iran has been heavily boycotted. Syria is now in the cross-hairs. Why? Here is one overlooked scenario. “The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.”
→ read full articleThe (Farcical) Emperor Is Naked
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
10 Sep 2013
There is nothing tragic about the Obama presidency, capable of drawing the analytical talents of a neo-Plutarch or a neo-Gibbon. This is more like a Pirandello farce, a sort of Character in Search of an Author.
→ read full articleObama’s Rogue State Calls on Other Nations to Abide By the Treaties It Violates
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
The US. You could almost pity these people. For 67 years successive US governments have resisted calls to reform the UN Security Council. They’ve defended a system which grants five nations a veto over world affairs, reducing all others to impotent spectators; abused the powers and trust with which they have been vested; collaborated with the other four permanent members (the UK, Russia, China and France) in a colonial carve-up, through which these nations can pursue their own corrupt interests at the expense of peace and global justice.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize Winner And War Criminal?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
In 1946 the United Nations General Assembly unanimously affirmed “the principles of international law recognized by the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal” and established an International Law Commission to formalize the Nuremberg Principles, and the result was the following list.
→ read full articleWailing Wall
TMS editor,
9 Sep 2013
A CNN reporter goes to Israel to cover the conflict. She is looking for something emotional and positive and of human interest.
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High Ranking US Major General Exposes 9/11 Hoax
Kate Johnston – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2013
On a candid interview, retired US Major General Albert Stubblebine affirms there is proof that what hit the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 was not an airplane. He served on the US military for 32 years.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2013
A Global Harmony Association Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day. PLEASE HELP THE WORLD BY SIGNING THE PETITION http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Global_Disarmament_Now_1/.
→ read full article‘Success Story’: NSA Targeted French Foreign Ministry
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2013
Espionage by the US on France has already strained relations between the two countries, threatening a trans-Atlantic trade agreement. Now a document seen by SPIEGEL reveals that the NSA also spied on the French Foreign Ministry.
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George Galloway’s Speech in British Parliament Debate on Military Action against Syria
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Aug/29/2013 – Parliament Debates Military Action Against Syria. George Galloway speaks as The British House of Commons holds an urgent debate on possible military action against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Prime Minister David Cameron recalled parliament following reports of a chemical weapons attack against Syrian citizens.
→ read full articleU.S. Spy Network’s Successes, Failures and Objectives Detailed in ‘Black Budget’ Summary
Barton Gellman and Greg Miller – The Washington Post,
2 Sep 2013
U.S. spy agencies have built an intelligence-gathering colossus since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but remain unable to provide critical information to the president on a range of national security threats, according to the government’s top-secret budget.
→ read full articleLondon to Host One of the World’s Biggest Arms Fairs and Why It Shouldn’t Happen
Kaye Stearman – Open Democracy,
2 Sep 2013
After being home to several Olympic competitions this summer, London’s ExCel Centre is to host one of the world’s most important arms fairs in 2013. But the event’s past affiliations with autocratic regimes and the nature of the exhibitors and buyers involved should be enough to forbid it from happening.
→ read full articlePeople of the World are Fighting Back
Finian Cunningham – Information Clearing House,
2 Sep 2013
What the deluded Americans do not seem to realize is that they are on their own. The only entities willing to support their aggression on Syria are Saudi Arabia and Israel.
→ read full articleCommercial News Beats the War Drum
Mark Ash - Reader Supported News,
2 Sep 2013
The New York Times, following in the great tradition of Washington correspondent extraordinaire Judith Miller, is busy rationalizing and explaining the White House’s mind on the upcoming military action. The point of the proposed attack, explains the Times, is to “Restore a ‘Red Line’ That Became Blurred.” Presumably the mission will then be accomplished.
→ read full articleWith Opposition to Monsanto Growing, India’s Farmers Turn to Traditional Bees and Honey
Paromita Pain, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
As India’s government prepares to make the controversial Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India bill a law, enhancing the hold that biotech companies like Monsanto have over the nation’s food production, the tiny bee may be emerging as a potential savior by offering ways to increase crop yields naturally.
→ read full articleNavy: Training, Testing May Kill Whales, Dolphins
Audrey McAvoy - Time,
2 Sep 2013
(Honolulu) — Navy training and testing could inadvertently kill hundreds of whales and dolphins and injure thousands over the next five years, mostly as a result of detonating explosives underwater, according to two environmental impact statements released by the military Friday [30 Aug 2013].
→ read full articleObama’s Syria Plans in Disarray after Britain Rejects Use of Force
Paul Lewis and Spencer Ackerman – The Guardian,
2 Sep 2013
Barack Obama’s plans for air strikes against Syria were thrown into disarray on Thursday [29 Aug 2013] night after the British parliament unexpectedly rejected a motion designed to pave the way to authorising the UK’s participation in military action.
→ read full articleBlack Budget: Funding the Intelligence Program
The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
U.S. intelligence community’s classified “black budget” for fiscal year 2013.
→ read full articleAre Chemical Weapons Reason Enough to Go to War?
Dana Liebelson – Mother Jones,
2 Sep 2013
What are they? How do they work? Where else have they been used?
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Science, Religion, and the Big Bang
Minute Physics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
From the non-beginning to the singularity, by way of belief-muddling misnomers and beneficial ignorance. An energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics — all in a minute!
→ read full articleHot Off the Press: Britain Sold Nerve Gas Chemicals to Syria
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Seemingly, British firms sold Syrian companies the chemical components needed for the production of chemical weapons, long after the beginning of the civil war. “Britain allowed firms to sell chemicals to Syria capable of being used to make nerve gas”
→ read full articleSnowden Document: NSA Spied On Al Jazeera Communications
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Arab news broadcaster Al Jazeera was spied on by the National Security Agency, according to documents seen by SPIEGEL. The US intelligence agency hacked into protected communication, a feat that was considered a particular success.
→ read full article(Castellano) Organizaciones Alemanas Otorgan “Premio Informante” a Edward Snowden
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
La Asociación Alemana de Científicos (VDW, por su sigla en alemán), fue la encargada de patrocinar el galardón de tres mil euros (casi cuatro mil dólares), que fueron entregados por la sección alemana de Transparency Internacional (TI), dedicada a la lucha contra la corrupción y la Asociación Internacional de Abogados contra las Armas Nucleares.
→ read full article(Castellano) La Siguiente Guerra del Nobel por la Paz
Jorge V. Jaime - TeleSur,
2 Sep 2013
Los tambores de guerra que suenan en Washington al parecer no son bien percibidos en Europa. Italia no otorgó permiso para el uso de sus bases militares, mientras que Canadá, Alemania y Holanda recomendaron mucha precaución a la Casa Blanca. En el Reino Unido ocurrió el mayor fiasco este jueves cuando el Parlamento Británico no respaldó los planes castrenses contra Damasco propuestos por el primer ministro David Cameron.
→ read full article(Castellano) Gobierno de Estados Unidos Espió a los Presidentes de Brasil y México
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Un documento titulado “Infiltración inteligente de datos, estudio de caso Brasil y México” expone que la NSA norteamericana aplicó un programa diseñado para abrir y leer correos electrónicos y chats en línea para interceptar las comunicaciones de la Mandataria brasileña.
→ read full articleA View from Tehran
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Truth told, it’s a bit intense these days in Tehran as in most other countries in this region, and this observer fairly soon may be on what just might be the last Tehran-Damascus flight for some time in light of what could occur in the coming days.
→ read full articleWhy Coca-Cola’s New Ad Campaign May Be Dangerous to Your Health
Katherine Paul & Ronnie Cummins - AlterNet,
2 Sep 2013
It was laughable when Coca-Cola launched a campaign to fight obesity. And even more laughable when the king of soda’s anti-obesity campaign shifted all the blame for those extra pounds to lack of exercise and chairs (yes, chairs). But now, the company that donated $1.7 million to defeat last year’s GMO labeling initiative in California has gone from laughable to dangerous.
→ read full articleJust Say No to Nuclear Power – From Fukushima to Vermont
Amy Goodman – The Guardian,
2 Sep 2013
Fukushima showed us the intolerable costs of nuclear power. The citizens of Vermont show us the benefits of shutting it down.
→ read full articleFukushima Workers Discover Deadly Spike in Radiation
Scott Martelle - Truthdig,
2 Sep 2013
Workers at the Fukushima nuclear power disaster site have made an uncomfortable discovery: radiation levels 18 times higher than anticipated at the bottom of a holding tank. The levels are high enough to kill a person within four hours.
→ read full articleSyria: Obama’s Surprising (and Confusing) Latest Moves
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
President Obama’s August 31[2013] remarks from the White House Rose Garden will long be remembered for their strangeness, but the final interpretation of their significance will have to await months if not years. There are three dimensions, at least, that are worth pondering.
→ read full articleObama Has Decided That It Is Safer to Buy Congress than to Go It Alone
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
While still claiming dictatorial powers to start a war on his own authority, Obama put his unilateral attack on Syria on hold when he received a letter from more than 160 members of the House of Representatives reminding him that to take the country to war without congressional approval is an impeachable offense and when he saw that no country that could serve as cover for a war crime, not even the puppet British government and the NATO puppet states, would support America’s announced military aggression against Syria.
→ read full articleSyria: Civilians Protection and Invisible Conflict Parties
Zahed Davodi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
In my view, the conflict parties in Syria are not only the government and oppositions. I think oppositions are not led by a single person – named as Ahmad Jarba – but there are many others in other groups who never see or listen to this person. They are all being called as oppositions because they have a common aim for now. And there are many external actors including some members of the international community who fuel the flame of the conflict in Syria.
→ read full articleSyria: A Human Perspective
Susan Dirgham – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Shouldn’t we give ordinary Syrians, men and women who treasure life, a voice? We must ask ourselves: why do millions of decent people continue to support their regular army? To take us closer to the truth and further from war, families of all victims need a voice. Does a Coalition of the Willing plan to devastate another society, so creating millions of victims that no country will take responsibility for?
→ read full articleAn Attack on Syria Will Only Spread the War and Killing
Seumas Milne – The Guardian,
2 Sep 2013
All the signs are they’re going to do it again. The attack on Syria now being planned by the US and its allies will be the ninth direct western military intervention in an Arab or Muslim country in 15 years. Depending how you cut the cake, the looming bombardment follows onslaughts on Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Mali, as well as a string of murderous drone assaults on Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan.
→ read full articleSyrian Agony
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
A bird flying in the Sky
Can be evidence
May be blind
While the justice disappears
Over the point of view
(Italiano) Le proposte di Pace funzionano! …a volte
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Per riassumere: per ridurre la violenza dobbiamo identificare i conflitti, il disaccordo tra obiettivi; per identificare i conflitti dobbiamo dialogare con tutte le parti; per giungere a una soluzione il metodo consiste nella mutua ricerca di una nuova realtà, non in vittoriosi dibattiti e compromessi. Più proposte fluttuano nell’aria meglio è; presto o tardi esse verranno afferrate.
→ read full article(Galego) O SGEP Maniféstase en Contra Dunha Intervención Militar dos EE.UU. en Siria
Fundacion Cultura de Paz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
O Seminario Galego de Educación para a Paz, diante da posibilidade certa de que o goberno norteamericano bombardee Siria nas próximas horas, cos seus aliados máis entusiastas, mesmo sen o respaldo e o aval das Nacións Unidas, e con toda a opinión pública en contra, quere manifestar o que segue:
→ read full articleSyria: Chemical Weapons and Restraints in War
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
The UN investigations and the appropriate responses are yet to be made. More shelling of military installations in Syria is unlikely to bring about the negotiations in good faith needed in the Syrian conflict. Thus there is a short-term need to stop beating the drums of war while at the same time stressing the condemnation of the use of chemical weapons.
→ read full articleSyria and Iran: The Danger of Escalation
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
The parallel with the start of World War I is particularly disturbing because the intervening century has witnessed the development of thermonuclear weapons with the capacity to destroy human civilization and much of the biosphere. Must we allow the actions of a few power-blinded politicians to start a conflict that could lead to the deaths of ourselves and our children?
→ read full articleIndifference to the Suffering of Others
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
The indifference to the pain and suffering of others is a continuing theme of reflection and comment. The culture of comfort makes us live in soap bubbles which, however lovely, are insubstantial; they offer a fleeting and empty illusion which results in indifference to others…In this globalized world, we have fallen into globalized indifference. We have become used to the suffering of others: it doesn’t affect me; it doesn’t concern me; it’s none of my business.
→ read full articleChemical Weapons in Syria Provide an Opportunity for Making Peace
Robin Edward Poulton, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
If Syria pulls back from the chemical red line and accepts some form of sanction, then the Wahabists and Jihadists and Iraqi Sunnis should pull back across the frontiers and accept some form of sanction. It is unclear why NATO forces are supporting extremist Sunni Al-Qaeda look-alikes in Syria, while fighting them in Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen and recently in Mali.
→ read full articleAny Attack on Syria Will Be Counterproductive and Illegal – A Result of Failed Conflict Management
The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Any U.S. attack on Syria will be an indisputable violation of international law, an attack on a sovereign state that has not invaded any other state. An aggression on Syria can only take place in complete defiance of Article 1 of the UN Charter which spells out that peace shall be established by peaceful means and only when every civilian means has been tried and found in vain can an international military action be considered – but then only under command of the UN itself.
→ read full articleA “Three Insecurities Perspective” for the Changing Myanmar
Maung Zarni – Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia,
2 Sep 2013
Maung Zarni, a research fellow at the London School of Economics, argues that the best way to look at the current changes in Myanmar is through his “Three Insecurity Paradigms”, namely, national security, global security and human security. Zarni denounces the Thein Sein reforms as crude responses to the regime’s own needs and to the expectation of the world, with little account for the security of ordinary Myanmar people.
→ read full articleJust Because Science Can Genetically Engineer Foods, Doesn’t Mean We Should
Beth Hoffman - Forbes,
2 Sep 2013
The basic answer is simple: trust. Science has a credibility problem. It has for too long been used to distort food and twist the natural into long lasting Twinkies and nutritionally void Lunchables. Tobacco was good for us, we were told, and DDT was fine to spray on our fields.
→ read full articleNo More Nuclear Tests in India and Everywhere Else!
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy commemorates the International Day Against Nuclear Tests on August 29, 2013 by demanding the government of India to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and to undertake a pledge not to conduct any more nuclear tests in India.
→ read full articleToward An Inclusive Inter-Rwandan Dialogue: Lessons from Other Conflicts
Pierre Bakunda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Will Hutu and Tutsi overcome the legacy of social privileges, power and difference to engage into creating a nation- state for all? I wish I would be part of the actors to reconcile Rwandans to overcome their gloomy differences but being excluded, I believe it will require manoeuvres and maturity from the Rwandan government to accept the process.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
A Global Harmony Association Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day. PLEASE HELP THE WORLD BY SIGNING THE PETITION http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Global_Disarmament_Now_1/.
→ read full articleReligion vs. Humanism: Isaac Asimov on Science and Spirituality
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
“The soft bonds of love are indifferent to life and death.”
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Global Wealth Inequality – What You Never Knew You Never Knew
TheRulesOrg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
The richest 300 people in the world are wealthier than the poorest 3 billion combined, and every year rich countries take over 10 times more money from poor countries than they give in aid.
→ read full article(Italiano) Applicazioni della Nonviolenza. Ahimsa nella vita quotidiana
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
La Rete Pace, Sviluppo, Ambiente – TRANSCEND cominciò con conflitti geopolitici macro e mega; molti dei quali ben noti e drammatici. Ma i conflitti nella vita quotidiana, a scuola, nelle coppie-famiglia, al lavoro, possono essere anche più drammatici; al livello micro nelle persone coinvolte, fra di esse, nel contesto, e al livello meso dei gruppi sociali.
→ read full articleWar
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
What more can be said of war,
That has not already been eulogized
On fields of battle
Where lives were lost, minds seared,
And historians’ crafts polished
With the biased narratives of victors:
Waterloo, Hue, Fallujah?
There is no winner in war!
Texan Student
TMS editor,
2 Sep 2013
A Texan student was in his the college campus bookstore.
→ read full articleLet’s Try Everything
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Back then
I was a young and sheltered American,
but I remember the newsreels:
Refugees on broken roads
trod east, or was it west?
The Spreading Wings of Islamophobia in Egypt
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
The Orwellian features of the military takeover in Egypt have received attention, although the use of language to evade unwanted truth continues because incentives to do so persist. What, we might ask, is the el-Sisi concept of inclusiveness? At present, the only plausible answer is ‘my way or the highway.’
→ read full articleFrom the Lion’s Den: An Open Letter (and Invitation) to Vietnam Veterans
Mark A. Ashwill – Huffington Post,
2 Sep 2013
When all was said and done, the U.S. government scurried away, leaving behind a legacy of death, destruction and human suffering on a Draconian scale that haunts Vietnam to this day. The ghosts of the Vietnam War continue to haunt the U.S by the number of veteran suicides, considerably more than those killed in action, the broken lives of survivors, and the country’s costly inability to come to terms with its past as prologue.
→ read full articleCodename ‘Apalachee’ – How America Spies on Europe and the UN
Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark – Der Spiegel,
26 Aug 2013
President Obama promised that NSA surveillance activities were aimed exclusively at preventing terrorist attacks. But secret documents from the intelligence agency show that the Americans spy on Europe, the UN and other countries.
→ read full articleSome Peace Education Initiatives in Denmark
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
This paper will discuss some Danish peace education activities, especially those of the Danish Peace Academy, the Danish National Group of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (Nobel Peace Prize, 1995), and the Grundtvigian adult education colleges.
→ read full articleThe Dow Jones Index is the Greatest of All Ponzi Schemes
Wim Grommen (with Lorimer Wilson) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Beware: The Dow 30’s Performance Is Being Manipulated! The Dow Jones – the oldest stock exchange in the U.S. and most influential in the world – consists of 30 companies and has an extremely interesting and distressing history regarding its beginnings, transformation and structural development which has all the trappings of what is commonly referred to as pyramid or Ponzi scheme.
→ read full articleThe Paradox of Our Age
The 14th Dalai Lama – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
We have bigger houses but smaller families;
more conveniences, but less time.
We have more degrees but less sense;
Still Going Strong – Havana, Where Everyone Can Dance
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Very few can resist falling in love with the country where entire streets; entire neighborhoods, are turned into concert halls and dance floors. One of the iconic phrases symbolizing Latin American revolutions has always been: “Everybody Dances or Nobody Dances!” In Cuba, music and dance are synonymous with life. Here, everybody dances, and that is how the revolution survives.
→ read full article(Português) Amizade Canina
José Guilherme, Ultrapop – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
À medida que o tempo passa, você vê que ele vive de olho em você, e que ele é um sensitivo sentimental. O coração dele é o coração de um gigante. Ele não conhece mágoa nem rancor. Se acontece de você chorar, por algum motivo, seu cachorro está plantado à sua frente, olhando fixamente para você, raspando uma pata na sua perna.
→ read full articlePeace Proposals Work! – Sometimes
Johan Galtung, 26 Aug 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
To reduce violence we must identify the conflicts, the clash of goals; to identify conflicts we must have dialogue with all parties; to arrive at solutions the method is a mutual search for a new reality, not winning debates and compromises; the more proposals floating in the air the better; sooner or later they will be picked up
→ read full articleNSA Paid Millions to Cover Prism Compliance Costs for Tech Companies
Ewen MacAskill in New York – The Guardian,
26 Aug 2013
• Top-secret files show first evidence of financial relationship
• Prism companies include Google and Yahoo, says NSA
• Costs were incurred after 2011 Fisa court ruling
1982 Citizenship Law of Myanmar and Myanmar’s Popular Racism
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Burma’s military-controlled State rests on the country’s official racism towards Burmese of ‘impure blood’. Scholars and policy analysts of Myanmar need to stop characterizing violence and racism against Muslims, ‘Kalars’ and Tayoke (Chinese) as simply ‘sectarian’ or placing undue emphasis on the society’s role in the unfolding racist mass violence against the Rohingya and all Myanmar Muslims.
→ read full articleWe Have the Means to End Civilization as We Know It—How Revolutionary Pacifism Can Preserve the Species
Noam Chomsky - AlterNet,
26 Aug 2013
Lecture given by Chomsky upon being awarded the Sydney Peace Prize, November 1, 2011. It remains one of the most powerful and persuasive arguments for recognizing the dangers that modern, industrialized warfare pose to the future of humankind.
→ read full articleSystematic Patterns of Anti-Muslim Violence in Burma
Physicians for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) today [20 Aug 2013] released a report documenting the recent wave of violence against Muslims throughout Burma, whose government has created a culture of impunity for the violators and has failed to protect the Muslim minority.
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Fukushima Radiation Leakage Still Going On
CCTV America – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Anchor Anand Naidoo asks radiation expert Dr. Janette Sherman why the leakage is still going on at Fukushima — and if it will imperil other countries.
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Let the Sunshine In (Music Video of the Week)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
A Classic – Musical scene of the movie Hair where a hippie changes place with a soldier, is sent to the Vietnam War by mistake and dies in battle.
→ read full articleWoman’s Work
Francesca Borri – Columbia Journalism Review,
26 Aug 2013
The Twisted Reality of an Italian Freelancer in Syria – People have this romantic image of the freelancer as a journalist who’s exchanged the certainty of a regular salary for the freedom to cover the stories she is most fascinated by. But we aren’t free at all; it’s just the opposite. Journalists have failed to explain Syria’s civil war because editors only want ‘blood.’
→ read full articleBradley Manning’s letter to President Barack Obama Requesting a Pardon
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
“If you deny my request for a pardon, I will serve my time knowing that sometimes you have to pay a heavy price to live in a free society. I will gladly pay that price if it means we could have a country that is truly conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all women and men are created equal.”
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