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Gruesome but Necessary: Global Governance in the 21st Century?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2011
Extreme Normality as Indicator of Systemic Negligence – How are people to think of the massacre of less than a hundred Norwegians — in a global society characterized by daily reporting of instances of tragic deaths of every kind and number? What might who do about it and why?
→ read full articleTim DeChristopher Sentenced to 2 Years in Prison, Taken Immediately Into Custody
Peaceful Uprising – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2011
Tim DeChristopher was sentenced to 2 years in prison today [26 Jul 2011] at the Salt Lake City federal courthouse. Author and activist Terry Tempest Williams said, “To think that a young man in an act of conscience might [do any amount of time] in a federal prison for raising a paddle in an already illegal sale of oil and gas leases, compared to the CEO of BP or the financial wizards on Wall Street who have pocketed millions of dollars at our expense – and who will never step into a court of law to even get their hands slapped, let alone go to jail, is an assault on democracy.”
→ read full article(Arabic) Appeal: Association of World Citizens
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2011
اتصل الكاتب العام للأمم المتحدة السيد بان كي مون بالرئيس السّوري بشار الأسد في العشرين من شهر يويليو 2011, قصد التهيئة لحوار عاجل و شامل و ذلك من أجل الرّد الفعلي و الملح بخصوص الضّيم الضاغط منذ فترة طوية على الشعب السوري, و هو نداء استحوذ على اهتمام رابطة مواطني العالم.
→ read full articleUS Department of Defense: Theory versus Practice
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2011
In this presentation, we will concentrate on the US Department of Defense as to understand fully well its proper nature and purpose. It is fully assumed that through this department the US government tries to protect, to the best of its ability, the American nation. This military entity, created to protect the American nation, may be viewed as proper or not so proper. Everything boils down to the real concept we have formulated of the word “nation.”
→ read full article(Arabic) التعاون الإسلامي: خطوة لتحقيق المجموعة الإسلامية
عباس عروة و يوهان غالتونغ, 18 يوليو 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2011
عاشت جزيرة العرب لزمن طويل تحت أنواع من العصبية على أساس العرق العربي والقبيلة والعشيرة، إلخ. وكان ذلك سببًا للعديد من الحروب الطويلة المنهكة. وفي سنة 610 للميلاد نزلت على الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلّم، وقد بلغ سنّ الأربعين، أولى آيات القرآن الكريم الذي جاء متحدّيًا للنظام الاجتماعي والسياسي القائم. فتحوّلت العصبية إلى أخوّة في […]
→ read full articleJapan: Responding Creatively To Crisis
Daisaku Ikeda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2011
Confronted by a disaster of unimaginable scale, the Japanese people are searching for ways to get back on their feet and discover appropriate responses to a series of interlinked problems. Indeed, the greater these challenges, the greater the potential to find creative responses that will inspire people everywhere and contribute to the sum of human wisdom.
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(Français) Rachad TV Accueille Johan Galtung
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2011
Commentaires sur l’actualité : RachadTV accueille Johan Galtung, 13 juillet 2011
→ read full articleEWG Meat Eater’s Guide Spotlights Meat’s Outsize Carbon Footprint
TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2011
July 18 – The Environmental Working Group today released its groundbreaking Meat Eater’s Guide to Climate Change and Health, a powerful, multi-featured tool that allows both consumers and experts to understand easily how food choices affect both their environmental footprint and their health.
→ read full articleNorway 7/22. What? And Then What?
Johan Galtung, 25 Jul 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2011
Why did he not hit an immigration agency, mosques, muslim meetings? His thinking neither reflects nor is reflected by Norway’s political landscape. In Norway a loner, a nazi. But, let us not narrow the interpretation horizon to one point. On one end is the islamophobic loner with links to some groups. If he could be defined as crazy, the political brunt is removed. He becomes a causa sui, his own cause. On the other end is the islamist Helper of the Global Jihad a bankrupt Washington could use to get money for “war against terror”. And in-between is Breivik, at some stage using Libya as a cover, and they at some stage him as a bomber? A tacit cooperation?
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Dr. Alan Sabrosky on 9/11
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2011
Prof. Alan Sabrosky, US Marine Corps veteran, instructor at the War College, an author of 30 books and consultant specializing in national and international security affairs, discloses intriguing facts on the implication of Israel in 9/11 events that are by and large unheard of in mainstream media. His words regarding his loyalty first, foremost and solely to the United States of America are credible and believable, as are the rest of his statements, analyses and presentation of facts and evidence.
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Palestinian Minors Jailed for Throwing Stones
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2011
Palestinian minors are being detained for throwing stones at Israeli forces. Children under the age of fourteen have been jailed for the offence, an Israeli a human rights group, says.
→ read full articleMonkeying with Global Governance
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2011
Emergent Dynamics of Three Wise Monkeys in a Knowledge-Based Society – Worldwide broadcasts on 19 July 2011 provided an unprecedented four hours of coverage of a meeting of the Select Committee for Culture, Media and Sport of the UK Parliament — interviewing those primarily responsible for the governance of the world’s major news organization. Through a subsidiary, this was recently implicated in a phone-hacking scandal of major proportions.
→ read full articleTerror in the Maximum City
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2011
Indian city Mumbai is famed as the ‘maximum city’ as it is in a sense represents maximum in everything. It represents all contradictions and paradoxes. A casual traveller to the city can find the wealthiest and the poorest co-existing side by side. The most beautiful and the most wretched co-exist in Mumbai. The city provides everything to everybody: daily work to a daily labourer, a job to educated, underworld facilities to mafia, tinsel town to socialites and sophisticated.
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Humpback Whale Shows AMAZING Appreciation after Being Freed From Nets (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
JoinWakeUpWorld – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2011
Michael Fishbach, co-founder of The Great Whale Conservancy (GWC), narrates his encounter with a young humpback whale entangled in local fishing nets. At first, the animal appeared to be dead, yet Fishbach investigated and quickly discovered that the poor creature was tangled in a fishing net. The humans had to act fast; what began as a tragedy soon became a thrilling rescue as Fishbach and his crew labored to free the young whale. The entire encounter was caught on videotape and later narrated by Fishbach himself. This young whale knows how to show appreciation by treating them to a magnificent aerial spectacle after it was finally freed.
→ read full articleWhat Did The Gaza Flotilla Achieve?
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2011
The Isreali navy prevented Freedom Flotilla activists from delivering aid supplies to the Gaza Strip – but the mission has had an unexpected impact on political debate here, writes Jake Lynch.
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Imagine – Playing for Change (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
John Lennon, Songs around the World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
In the beginning of 2010 the Playing for Change crew began work on a new Song around the World, John Lennon’s “Imagine.” It has been an amazing year of production, taking the crew from the favelas of Brazil to the shrines of southern India, from villages in Nepal to the glittering urban landscape of Tokyo and New York, and beyond. This song is the Playing For Change Foundation’s gift to the world.
→ read full article¿Higher Education ∞ Meta-education?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
Transforming Cognitive Enabling Processes Increasingly Unfit For Purpose – The current period is witness to severe inadequacies in response to humanitarian crisis (10 million threatened with starvation in Africa) and in governance of the global financial system (imminent risk of dollar and eurozone defaults). It is curiously significant that the potential dollar default is associated with the most powerful nation, recognized for the merit of its higher education system, whereas the most probable eurozone default is that of a far weaker nation from which understandings of higher education first originated.
→ read full articleMumbai’s Woes and Their Implications
Aurobinda Mahapatra, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
Mumbai is India’s most prosperous as well as most cosmopolitan city. The city’s local trains everyday carry about 7 million diverse people, and to this gigantic fare is everyday added 1200 families who reach city from different corners of India in search of better life.
→ read full articleIsrael Gets Final Permit to Build “Museum of Tolerance” Atop of Muslim Cemetery
Uruknet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
Despite widespread opposition, the Ministry of Interior has provided Jerusalem with the final go ahead to build the “Museum of Tolerance” on top of Mamilla Cemetery. Mamilla has served as a Muslim burial ground since the seventh century. Reputed to contain the tombs of companions of the Prophet Muhammad and soldiers of Saladin, the Muslim ruler who seized Palestine from the hands of the Crusaders in the 12th century.
→ read full articleOIC: Organization of Islamic Conference-Cooperation-Community?
Abbas Aroua & Johan Galtung, 18 Jul 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
The new OIC of cooperation will pose a major challenge to the UN. Of the five present Security Council veto powers, four are christian (one evangelical, one anglican, one catholic-secular, one orthodox), and one daoist-confucian-buddhist. OIC outsizes them all, even China. This is not only totally unfair, taking into account that the borders fragmenting the islamic community were mainly drawn by those Western powers, but also makes UNSC resolutions against muslim countries illegitimate. Muslim veto power could have saved many human lives, and the USA-West against unwise policies, and opened for a more balanced UN and more regional action.
→ read full articleMethodical Insanity at Work
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
Every profession requires a degree of preparation and standards in order to provide a good service in that specific area. However, the political profession, which may be viewed as the most important of all professions, does not have any set of standards or requirements to practice it. This explains why we have so many political problems in the world and why some of these emerge to become very dangerous.
→ read full articleAntidepressant Nation
Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
Nowadays treatment by medical doctors nearly always means psychoactive drugs, that is, drugs that affect the mental state. In fact, most psychiatrists treat only with drugs, and refer patients to psychologists or social workers if they believe psychotherapy is also warranted. The shift from “talk therapy” to drugs as the dominant mode of treatment coincides with the emergence over the past four decades of the theory that mental illness is caused primarily by chemical imbalances in the brain that can be corrected by specific drugs.
→ read full article(Portuguese) “As Farmacêuticas Bloqueiam Medicamentos que Curam, Porque Não São Rentáveis”
Esquerda.net – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
O Prémio Nobel da Medicina Richard J. Roberts denuncia a forma como funcionam as grandes farmacêuticas dentro do sistema capitalista, preferindo os benefícios económicos à saúde, e detendo o progresso científico na cura de doenças, porque a cura não é tão rentável quanto a cronicidade.
→ read full articleUS ConocoPhillips’ China Oil Spill Six Times Size of Singapore
Agence France-Presse (AFP) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
A huge oil spill off the Chinese coast has now contaminated an area around six times the size of Singapore, state media reported Friday [15 Jul 2011], as the government said it may seek compensation for the leak. The spill from the oil field, which the United States’ ConocoPhillips operates with China’s state-run oil giant CNOOC, has polluted a total area of almost 4,250 square kilometres (1,650 square miles), government figures showed.
→ read full articleDilemmas of Sovereignty and Intervention
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
The Arab Spring (and its troublesome, yet still hopeful, aftermath in Egypt), intervention in Libya, nonintervention in Syria and Bahrain, drone military operations in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, the influx of unwanted immigrants and walls of exclusion, and selective applications of international criminal law draw into question the most basic of all ideas of world order: the sovereignty of territorial states, and its limits.
→ read full articleDavid House on Bradley Manning, Secret WikiLeaks Grand Jury, and U.S. Surveillance
Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
On the eve of the extradition hearing for WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange in London, we spend an exclusive hour with David House, who co-founded the Bradley Manning Support Network after U.S. Army Private Manning was arrested for allegedly releasing classified U.S. military documents to WikiLeaks. House refused to testify last month in Alexandria, Virginia, before a grand jury hearing on WikiLeaks and the disclosure of thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic cables.
→ read full article(Portuguese) WSPA Faz Apelo Mundial Pela Proibição de Animais em Circos
Sociedade Mundial de Proteção Animal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
Animais não são adequados para espetáculos circenses – é o que afirma a WSPA (World Society for the Protection of Animals) ao debater sobre as medidas políticas que estão sendo tomadas no Brasil e no Reino Unido.
→ read full articleAppeal to Save Jeju Island – NO TO U.S. NAVAL BASE!
National Network of Korean Civil Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
We, National Network of Korean Civil Society for Opposing to the US Naval Base in Jeju Island, had a press conference and released this statement of appeal on 13th July 2011.
→ read full article(Castellano) Distraido de la Vida
Facundo Cabral – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
Hay tantas cosas para gozar y nuestro paso en la tierra es tan corto, que sufrir es una pérdida de tiempo. Tenemos para gozar la nieve del invierno y la flor de la primavera, el chocolate de la Peruggia, la baguette francesa, los tacos mexicanos, el vino chileno , los mares y los ríos, el fútbol de los brasileros y los cigarros de Davidoff, las mil y una noches, La Divina Comedia, El Quijote, Pedro Páramo, los boleros de Manzanero, la poesía de Whitman… Mahler, Brahms, Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Velásquez, Cézanne, y Picasso… entre tantas maravillas. Si tienes alguna ENFERMEDAD SERIA, pueden pasar dos cosas, las dos son buenas…
→ read full articleA Hippocratic Oath for Journalists
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
What do we do about the power of the corporate media? Here’s one answer.
→ read full articleGenerations of Pork: How Greece’s Political Elite Ruined the Country
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2011
The latest tranche of loans from the EU and the IMF has helped buy debt-ridden Greece some time. But the Greeks will find it hard to get back on their feet. Their country has been ruined by three political dynasties, which created a bloated system of cronyism that is hard to change.
→ read full articleWill the UN Be a Fairy Godmother for the Birth of South Sudan?
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2011
On July 9, 2011, South Sudan became an independent State, six months after the January referendum in which the south Sudan population voted overwhelmingly for independence. However, Sudan is not really structured to be divided in two. There are no natural dividing lines, neither physical nor social. During much of the English colonial period, southern Sudan was administered from Uganda as road communications were easier than from Khartoum, the capital in the north of the country.
→ read full articleWatch: Full Video of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange & Philosopher Slavoj Žižek with Amy Goodman
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2011
In one of his first public events since being held under house arrest, WikiLeaks Editor-In-Chief Julian Assange appeared in London Saturday [2 Jul 2011] for a conversation with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, moderated by Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman. They discussed the impact of WikiLeaks on world politics, the release of the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs, and Cablegate — the largest trove of classified U.S. government records in history.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Israel: O Tsunami Que Está a Chegar
Immanuel Wallerstein, Esquerda.net – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2011
Os palestinianos estão a trabalhar para obter o reconhecimento formal da sua soberania na reunião de Outono da Assembleia Geral das Nações Unidas. A sua intenção é solicitar uma declaração de que o Estado existe dentro das fronteiras de 1967, anteriores à guerra israelo-palestiniana. É quase certo que a votação será favorável. A única questão, no momento, é quão favorável.
→ read full articleAfter the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Toward a Regional Approach
Tatsushi Arai – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2011
One way of enabling a regional process is to launch a Central and South Asian Conference for Peace and Security, modeling after the Helsinki Process of 1972-5 that had facilitated confidence-building among thirty-five European and North American countries divided by the Cold War. The proposed regional process seeks to provide a common platform of problem-solving not only for Afghanistan and Pakistan, but also for Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. PLEASE WATCH PROF. ARAI’S TED TALKS PRESENTATION ON VIDEO OF THE WEEK.
→ read full articleFlotilla Passengers Are Today’s Freedom Riders
Truthout, Staff Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2011
It has been widely reported that 25 percent of the activists on the US boat that was to sail in the Gaza flotilla are Jewish. Six of those 35 activists are Truthout friends, many of long date: Chairman of the Truthout Board Robert Naiman and contributing authors Medea Benjamin, Kathy Kelly, Ray McGovern, Gabriel Schivone and boat leader Ann Wright. Knowing that these friends are putting their lives on the line for what they believe in fills us with pride and anxiety. Our hearts are locked up with their boldly christened boat, The Audacity of Hope.
→ read full articlePortugal Drug Law Show Results Ten Years On, Experts Say
Agence France Press-AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2011
Health experts in Portugal said Friday [2 Jul 2011] that Portugal’s decision 10 years ago to decriminalise drug use and treat addicts rather than punishing them is an experiment that has worked. “There is no doubt that the phenomenon of addiction is in decline in Portugal,” said Joao Goulao, President of the Institute of Drugs and Drugs Addiction, a press conference to mark the 10th anniversary of the law.
→ read full articleSabotaging Flotilla II: Waging War against Civil Society
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2011
It is useful to compare the Flotilla II unfolding experience with the Rainbow Warrior incident. At the time, the French nuclear tests in the Pacific were considered legal, although intensely contested, while the blockade of Israel is widely viewed as a prolonged instance of collective punishment in violation of international humanitarian law, specifically Article 33 of the 4th Geneva Convention.
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Credit Rating Comic Theater: You Want a Triple AAA, Just Give Me Some More Money
Prgrsvs4RspnsblPltcs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2011
Ratigan, Eliot Spitzer and comedian Sherrod Small play a game of credit rating theater. This genre of news comedy is incredibly rare and difficult to execute, live satire. There is extreme truth in this little bit of comedic fiction, including the fact that absolutely nothing has changed.
→ read full article(Castellano) La No-violencia: Negativa vs. Positiva
Johan Galtung, 27 de Junio de 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2011
La no-violencia negativa incluye todas las formas de acción en contra, menos la violencia física, como la no-cooperación, la desobediencia civil, la infracción de las leyes, la declaración y la práctica de la autonomía. Y la no-violencia positiva incluye el esclarecimiento del pasado a través de la conciliación, del presente a través de la mediación de conflictos peligrosos, y la construcción de un futuro a través de la participación equitativa en proyectos positivos. Las dos formas no son exclusivas, un Gandhi, un Martin Luther King hicieron ambas cosas.
→ read full articleHerbicide Tolerance and GM Crops
Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2011
The evidence detailed in this report demonstrates that glyphosate-based products can have adverse impacts on human and animal health, and that a review of their safety for human and animal health is urgently needed. The widespread and increasingly intensive use of glyphosate in association with the use of GM (genetically modified, also called genetically engineered or GE) crops poses further risks to the environment and human health.’
→ read full articleA Newspaper’s Closure Does Not End the Hacking Scandal
The Independent, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2011
The management team that repeatedly covered up evidence of wrongdoing remains in place. Even in the depths of a crisis, Rupert Murdoch’s flair for the dramatic never deserts him. No – the sound that could be heard yesterday [7 Jul 2011] was not of an empire crumbling, but an empire attempting to shore up its defences and protect its key personnel. The purpose of this move is to prevent the rest of the sprawling Murdoch media organisation from contamination.
→ read full articleThe 3 Reasons To Give Up Meat (And 1 Not To)
Ben Ralston, Elephant Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2011
The real vegetarians are people who know what I’m talking about…they eat a wide variety of vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, pulses, grains, seaweeds…and whatever other yummy stuff they can get their hands on (okay, apart from meat – more on that later). They also recognize that in order to really feel their best, some spiritual practice is required. So as well as eating a balanced diet, they live a balanced life: striving always for the proper mix of material and spiritual aspiration.
→ read full article(Castellano) Misión Milagro: Siete Años Devolviendo la Vista a Más de Un Millón 357 Mil Latinoamericanos
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2011
La Misión Milagro, proyecto humanitario creado por los Gobiernos de Cuba y Venezuela para solucionar problemas oftalmológicos de pacientes latinoamericanos y caribeños, cumplió este viernes sus primeros siete años con más de un millón 352 mil 643 personas curadas exitosamente.
→ read full articleHumanitarian Disaster or Act of God — Dangerous Implication in Practice?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2011
Responding Systemically To the Probable Fate of Millions – Given the fundamental importance in practice of religious belief and obedience to divine injunctions, to what extent is disaster to be understood as an Act of God, or rather as a disastrous failure of human civilization — thereby enabled and heralding its final collapse (cf Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive, 2005)
→ read full article(Portuguese) Depósitos de Terras Raras São Descobertos no Pacífico
Fabiano Ávila, CarbonoBrasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2011
Japão encontra recursos em quantidade suficiente para dobrar as reservas mundiais, o que deve evitar uma guerra comercial em escala global que estava ganhando força depois da decisão chinesa de reduzir a exportação dos minerais.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Mercados Começam as Apostas Sobre Qual Será o Próximo País a Cair
Marco Antonio Moreno, Esquerda.net – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2011
O casino está aberto. William Hill, a maior casa de apostas de Londres, vaticina que o próximo país a pedir auxílio será a Espanha. Paga 1,1 euros por cada euro apostado, enquanto que o resgate italiano é pago a 3 por 1, o da Bélgica a 5 por 1 e o hipotético resgate da Alemanha é pago a 500 por 1. Rendida a Grécia, e submetida aos draconianos planos de ajustamento e cortes que a troika UE/BCE/FMI impõe, o apetite dos mercados começa a procurar a próxima vítima. Portugal e a Itália são os favoritos.
→ read full articleVictim Blinded In a Post-9/11 Hate Crime Now Fights For His Attacker’s Life
Daily Mail Reporter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2011
Mr Bhuiyan, a devout Muslim who says he learned to forgive Stroman years ago, told MSNBC: ‘I’m trying to do my best not to allow the loss of another human life.’ He was a 26-year old recent immigrant when he encountered Stroman. It took him years to recover from the gun shot, and he still carries bits of metal embedded in his face. Mr Bhuiyan lost the sight in one of his eyes, but did not suffer brain damage. He did lose a fiancé in the ordeal but earned a degree in aeronautical engineering and works as a technology professional in Dallas, although he says he wants to go to journalism school and study human rights, after trying to save Stroman’s life.
→ read full articleRussia, Iceland & Afghanistan Stand Alone as the Only Nations with International Arrest Warrants out for Bankers Who Committed Fraud
stacyherbert, maxkeiser.com – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2011
This is our single most urgent concern in all the banking disasters around the world – justice. Without justice, these banking crime waves will not stop. The Bank of Moscow fraudster is hiding out in London and will no doubt live it large there thanks to London’s safe haven status. Icelandic bankers are also hiding out in London after fleecing their country with ‘loans’ to close friends and family.
→ read full articleDRC: Children Still in Prison despite Law
IRIN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2011
The law, which came into effect in January 2009, replaced a 1950 colonial law on juvenile delinquency that set the age of criminal responsibility at 16, leading to a number of severe penalties against children, including life imprisonment and the death sentence.
→ read full articleThe Invasion of Australia – Official, At Last
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2011
The City of Sydney has voted to replace the words “European arrival” in the official record with “invasion”. The deputy lord mayor, Marcelle Hoff, says it is intellectually dishonest to use any other word in describing how Aboriginal Australia was dispossessed by the British. “We were invaded,” said Paul Morris, an Aboriginal adviser to the council. “It is the truth and it shouldn’t be watered down. We wouldn’t expect Jewish people to accept a watered-down version of the Holocaust, so why should we?”
→ read full articleUngovernability of Sustainable Global Democracy?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2011
Towards Engaging Appropriately With Time – Prepared on the occasion of political upheaval in Arab countries, potential destabilization of Europe through default on public debt in Greece and other eurozone countries, problematic military outcomes in Afghanistan and Libya, and failed response to climate change challenges.
→ read full articleRule of Law vs. Rule of Mediation
Johan Galtung, 4 Jul 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2011
A fresh wind of a culture of mediation is blowing all over Latin America, more than in any other continent. All over there are huge conferences, workshops and training in family mediation, between neighbors, communal mediation, in work relations; less so at the inter-nation and inter-state levels. Judicial mediation is on everybody’s lips. This is great! A culture of mediation is a key part of a culture of conflict transformation–transforming conflicts so that they become manageable without violence–in turn a key part of the general culture of peace called for by UNESCO. Why so important?
→ read full articleEgypt Declines World Bank Loan as Incompatible with National Interest
Al-Masry Al-Youm – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2011
The government has declined a loan from the World Bank because it found the terms of the loan incompatible with the national interest, Egyptian Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Fayza Abul Naga said on Monday [27 Jun 2011].
→ read full articleInstances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2010
Richard F. Grimmett, Congressional Research Service – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2011
March 10, 2011 – This report lists hundreds of instances in which the United States has used its armed forces abroad in situations of military conflict or potential conflict or for other than normal peacetime purposes.
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Harvard, Vanderbuilt, Spelman Take Part in African Land Grab
Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2011
A new report raises questions about the connection of Harvard, Vanderbilt and other U.S. universities to European financial interests buying or leasing vast areas of African farmland.
→ read full articlePalestinian Status at the UN: Breaking the Logjam
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2011
There is a good deal of discussion in the halls of the UN, both in New York and Geneva, concerning a possible application of full membership in the UN by the Palestinian Authority. The discussions reflect similar discussions within Foreign Ministries in the hope that there can be an agreed-upon program of action (or non-action) by September when the new General Assembly meets.
→ read full articleGreek Tragedy
Guillaume Duval – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2011
In his spot for Radio Nova, Guillaume Duval lays out two possibilities under discussion for saving Greece: Make european taxpayers pay or make banks pay. Two alternatives that each entails political and economic risks.
→ read full articleThe International Criminal Court Plays Politics? The Qaddafi Arrest Warrants
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2011
This politicized use of the ICC in the course of the Libyan War offers an opportunity for those dedicated to global justice, especially in the Arab world, to insist that international law should no longer serve as a plaything for those who intervene with hard power in their region from the comfort zone of NATO headquarters.
→ read full articleDirty Truths
Michael Parenti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2011
The history of the United States has been one of territorial and economic expansionism, with the benefits going mostly to the U.S. business class in the form of growing investments and markets, access to rich natural resources and cheap labor, and the accumulation of enormous profits. The American people have had to pay the costs of empire, supporting a huge military establishment with their taxes, while suffering the loss of jobs, the neglect of domestic services, and the loss of tens of thousands of American lives in overseas military ventures.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Brasil: Apoio Chega a 30 Países Latino-Americanos e 38 Africanos
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2011
A cooperação com países das Américas do Sul, Central, do Norte e do Caribe conta com cerca de 390 projetos e atividades isoladas, em diferentes fases de execução, com 30 países em desenvolvimento. Já a cooperação técnica com a África é feita com 38, dos quais 22 fazem parte do grupo de Países de Menor Desenvolvimento Relativo (PMDR). O orçamento da cooperação na África supera US$ 66 milhões.
→ read full articleSacred Mantras
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2011
The Palestinians are planning something thoroughly obnoxious: they intend to apply to the UN for statehood. Why obnoxious? Any Israeli spokesman (not to mention spokeswoman) will tell you readily: because it is a “unilateral” move. How dare they proclaim a state unilaterally? How dare they do so without the consent of the other party to the conflict – us?
→ read full article(Castellano) El Envejecimiento, no la Superpoblación…
Johan Galtung, 13 Junio 2011 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2011
… será la tendencia dominante de la demografía del siglo XXI, escribe Gérard François Dumont en Le Monde Diplomatique, de junio de 2011.
→ read full article(Castellano) Morales Promulga Ley que Garantiza Producción de Alimentos y Prohíbe Importación de Transgénicos
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2011
El presidente de Bolivia, Evo Morales, promulgó este domingo [26 Jun 2011] la ley de Revolución Productiva, Comunitaria y Agropecuaria con la que se garantizará la producción de alimentos en el país y que prohibíbe la importación de transgénicos.
→ read full articleA Few Notes on WHAT IS LEFT (or Toward a Manifesto for Revolutionary Emancipation)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2011
These notes are meant as tentative and conversational expressions of an emergent political point of view, and will be revised in response to commentary by others. Obviously, also, there is no pretension on my part of comprehensiveness, or else many other issues would have been addressed.
→ read full articleUS Approves $3.4bn Native American Settlement
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Services,
27 Jun 2011
A US federal judge has approved a $3.4bn settlement over “mismanaged” Native American royalties, in a case that represents the largest settlement ever approved against the US government. The 15-year-old suit claimed that for more than a century, US officials systematically stole or squandered billions in royalties intended for Native Americans in exchange for oil, gas, grazing and other leases.
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The Audacity of Hope: U.S. Peace Activists to Sail to Gaza in Humanitarian Flotilla (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2011
Mon, Jun 20, 2011 – Dozens of Americans hope to set sail this week on a U.S.-flagged ship, “The Audacity of Hope,” as part of an international flotilla which aims to challenge Israel’s embargo of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian solidarity activists are setting sail from a number of ports just over a year after Israeli forces killed nine activists on an aid boat called the Mavi Marmara, which was part of the first such international flotilla.
→ read full articleOcean Life ‘Facing Mass Extinction’
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2011
Pollution, global warming and other man-made problems are pushing the world’s oceans to the brink of a mass extinction of marine life unprecedented in tens of millions of years, a consortium of scientists has warned. Dying coral reefs, biodiversity ravaged by invasive species, expanding open-water “dead zones,” toxic algae blooms, and the massive depletion of big fish stocks are all accelerating, according to the report, which is due to be presented at the United Nations on Tuesday [21 Jun 2011].
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Laboratory Employees Caught on Tape
PETA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2011
Undercover footage of employees from animal “research” laboratories. Gruesome cruelty.
→ read full articleTurkey, the Region, and the West after the Elections
Richard Falk & Hilal Elver – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2011
What emerges overall is this American led reluctance to accept Turkey as an independent regional force in the Middle East that has achieved enormous influence in recent years by relying on its own brand of soft power diplomacy. A dramatic indicator of this influence is the great popularity of Erdogan throughout the region, including among the youth who brought about the uprisings against authoritarian rule throughout the Arab world. It is an encouraging sign of the times that these new Arab champions of democracy are coming to Ankara and Istanbul, not Washington, Tel Aviv, or Paris, for guidance and inspiration.
→ read full articleChomsky: ”The West Is Terrified of Arabic Democracies”
Ceyda Nurtsch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2011
There are constant democratic uprisings. They are crushed by the dictators we – mainly the US, Britain, and France – support. So sure, there is no democracy because we crush it all. You could have said the same about Latin America: a long series of dictators, brutal murderers. As long as the US controls the hemisphere, or Europe before it, there is no democracy, because it gets crushed.
→ read full articleBurma: Ethnic Conflicts are the Generals’ Golden Goose
Dr. Zarni – TRANSCEND MEDIA SERVICE,
27 Jun 2011
Maintaining a contrived state of internal conflict with ethnic groups provides Burmese military with an excuse to hold onto power to prevent disintegration.
→ read full articleGreece Prepares to Sell Off State Assets to Get Loans
CNN Wire Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2011
Greece is preparing to sell off billions of dollars worth of state assets including airports, highways and state-owned companies, as well as banks, real estate and gaming licenses, to meet international lenders’ demands that it raise funds.
→ read full articleNonviolence: Negative vs. Positive
Johan Galtung, 27 Jun 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2011
Both are forms of power. Negative nonviolence tries to stop the other side’s direct or structural violence whereas positive nonviolence tries to make the antagonist start being peaceful. Negative nonviolence includes all forms of action against, short of physical violence, like non-cooperation, civil obedience, breaking laws, declaring and practicing autonomy. And positive nonviolence includes clearing the past through conciliation, the present through mediation of dangerous conflicts, and building a future through equitable participation in positive projects. They are not exclusive; a Gandhi, a Martin Luther King did both.
→ read full article‘State Violence & Killing Is Not the Answer’
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2011
Dear Pres. Obama, do you really believe that we have abandoned our sense of decency and ethical values to support your illegal killings of unarmed civilians? Do you really believe we will remain silent whilst under your warrior leadership the US government and its allies dismantle basic human rights and international laws, so long fought for by brave, courageous men and women (including Americans), replacing them with extrajudicial killings, torture and assassinations?
→ read full articleWhat a Book!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2011
Peace Processes: A Sociological Approach by John D. Brewer – From Anglo-America the world is used to books about how what they see as Western attributes–rule of law, human rights, democracy–are not only sufficient to bring about peace, but necessary, indispensable. That the USA, the UK, and Israel have much of that and yet are among the most belligerent countries in the world is handled not by reexamining the thesis, but by claiming self-defense, against the envy of those with deficits.
→ read full articleAttacking Libya — And the Dictionary
Jonathan Schell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2011
If Americans Don’t Get Hurt, War Is No Longer War – For the Obama administration to go ahead with a war lacking any form of Congressional authorization, it had to challenge either law or the common meaning of words. Either the law or language had to give. It chose language.
→ read full articleLibya: Deep Structure and the Surface
Johan Galtung, 20 Jun 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
Killing civilians to save civilian lives, and demolishing the parliament building to promote democracy, do not communicate well the pretended purpose. When only monarchs, emirs, and other dictators favor US-Israel policy, and even Morocco moves to constitutional monarchy? When Tunisia-Egypt-Yemen-Bahrain-Saudi-Syria-Iraq defy the USA? Option: extrajudicial execution of demonized leaders – a sure vote-getter.
→ read full articleImperial War behind a Humanitarian Charade
Socialist Worker, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
The UN-sanctioned intervention, at first supposedly focused on imposing a “no-fly zone,” quickly–and predictably–transformed into what Western leaders now openly say is a war to topple Qaddafi. Rather than a mission that promotes democracy and freedom for the Libyan people, the Western war is about the plan of the U.S. and its allies to put in place a new regime that serves their interests.
→ read full articleNorthern Myanmar: Civil Society Organisations Call for Dialogue and Urgent International Engagement to Support Non-Military Solutions
Submitted by Emma Leslie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
As civil society working for peace and development in Myanmar, we write to express our grave concern over the rapidly deteriorating situation in Northern Myanmar, especially in Kachin State, where recent fighting threatens to escalate into a full-scale conflict with critical consequences.
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Olof Palme Memorial Lecture by Prof. Johan Galtung (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
Lecture delivered at Leeds City Hall, UK, on Jan 23, 2011
→ read full articleFor the Sake of Jewish Sensitivities
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
It occurred to me recently that the Palestinian solidarity discourse is spiritually, ideologically and intellectually driven by some very misleading terminology: crucial notions such as Zionism, colonialism and apartheid (heard in every discussion, and present in every text book about the conflict), are either confusing, or even delusional.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Notas Biográficas dos Países (Sátira)
Hernán Casciari – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
No caso de países, temos que dividir a sua idade histórica por 14 para saber a sua correspondência humana. Confuso? Aqui vão alguns exemplos reveladores. A Argentina nasceu em 1816. Assim sendo, tem 190 anos. Se dividirmos estes anos por 14 veremos que a Argentina tem ‘humanamente’ cerca de 13 anos e meio, ou seja, está na pré-adolescência. É rebelde, não tem memória, responde sem pensar e tem o rosto coberto de acne.
→ read full article(Castellano) Fukushima 11-M – ¿Un punto de inflexión?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
La Zona Cero fue un océano cero, y el país que dio al mundo la palabra “tsunami” fue golpeado por uno de hasta 41 metros de altura. Y Fukushima Dai-ichi, una de las 54 centrales nucleares de Japón, con seis unidades, 1-6; estaba en la playa, ofreciéndose a la furia primordial del tsunami.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Italianos Votam pela Água Pública, Rejeitam Energia Nuclear e Imunidade de Berlusconi
Esquerda.net – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
Nos quatro referendos realizados em Itália participaram 57% dos eleitores, tendo o “Sim” ganho por largas maiorias, próximas ou superiores a 95%. Assim, os italianos votaram pela água pública e contra o aumento do preço das tarifas, rejeitaram a energia nuclear e a imunidade de Berlusconi.
→ read full articleIs the State a Monster? Pro and Contra Nietzsche
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
In Part One of Friederich Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra there is a particularly provocative section entitled ‘Of the New Idol.’ Remembering that this pivotal writing of the great German thinker/philosopher, so often misinterpreted, was written in 1881, it is surprising how relevant and invigorating its strong language remains in 2011.
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Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields
Channel 4 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
UK Channel 4 Full Video – Jon Snow presents a forensic investigation into the final weeks of the quarter-century-long civil war between the government of Sri Lanka and the secessionist rebels, the Tamil Tigers. With disturbing and distressing descriptions and film of executions, atrocities and the shelling of civilians the programme features devastating new video evidence of war crimes – some of the most horrific footage Channel 4 has ever broadcast.
→ read full articleDoes Portugal Have the Solution to Our Drug Epidemic?
The Independent, Ireland – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
In 2001 Portugal became the first country in the EU to decriminalise drug use. The leader of the country’s People’s Party, Paulo Portas, said plane-loads of foreign students would head for the Algarve for “sun, beaches and any drug you like”. Yet, 10 years on, Portugal’s drug policy is being held up as the model for other countries to follow. Rather than criminalising people found in possession of drugs, they are sent to a “dissuasion commission” for treatment and the results have been spectacular.
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New Footage Emerges of ‘Sri Lanka War Crimes’
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
WARNING: Some viewers may find some of the scenes disturbing. 2m:52s clip.
→ read full articleGlobal Harmony: Realization of World Peace
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
In every era of history we notice people everywhere yearning for true peace that makes everyone a winner and no one a loser. The genuine path for a permanent peace has been provided to us by many religious leaders over the centuries.
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Kumi Naidoo Scales Cairn’s Arctic Oil Rig
Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
In a small boat launched from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza Kumi Naidoo, the Executive Director of Greenpeace International crossed into an exclusion zone and scaled a controversial Arctic oil rig 120 km off the coast of Greenland.
→ read full articleMind Map of Global Civilizational Collapse: Why Nothing is Happening in Response to Global Challenges
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
Produced on the occasion of the release of a map of a massive cosmic galactic collision 11 million light years from Earth — and massive uprisings in the Mediterranean region on Earth, endangering the European and global economies.
→ read full articleInterpreting the AKP Victory in Turkey
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
The following post was written jointly with Hilal Elver, who is a Turkish scholar and public intellectual. It offers commentary on the recent AKP victory, which is viewed as a significant and hopeful development in Turkish, and regional, politics.
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The General’s Son (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Alternate Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
Miko Peled is a peace activist who dares to say in public what others still choose to deny. Born in Jerusalem in 1961 into a well known Zionist family, his grandfather, Dr. Avraham Katsnelson was a Zionist leader and signer of the Israeli Declaration of Independence.
→ read full article(Castellano) ¿HUMANITARIA, o INTERVENCIÓN?
Johan Galtung, 30 de Mayo de 2011 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
El problema está en el término “intervención humanitaria”. “Humanitaria” está bien: proteger a las víctimas de la matanza y de la represión autocrática. Luego viene la parte “intervención”.
→ read full articleAging, Not Overpopulation…
Johan Galtung, 13 Jun 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
…will be the dominant tendency of the 21st century demography. By depriving people of work, forcing them into jobs and retirement, we produce health problems that tax strained economies further. Work is a fine mode of living; jobs may be necessary burdens. Money is used to bribe us into jobs for our livelihood. A rational society would have a living income for all, for food, clothing and housing, free health services, free education from Kindergarten to PhD; making us free to work.
→ read full article(Castellano) Presidente de Colombia Promulgó Ley de Reparación de Víctimas del Conflicto Armado
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
Con la presencia de su equipo de gobierno y del secretario general de la ONU, Ban Ki- Moon, este viernes fue promulgada por el Presidente de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, la Ley de Reparación a Víctimas del Conflicto Armado y de Restitución de Tierras en Colombia.
→ read full articleVictims’ Law Enacted in Colombia
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
Colombia has enacted a landmark “Victims’ Law” aimed at redressing the estimated four million victims of the country’s long-running internal conflict. The law creates mechanisms for compensating survivors of the tens of thousands of people, mostly civilians, killed since 1985 in Colombia’s civil war. Stolen land is to be returned to hundreds of thousands of displaced.
→ read full articleEconomic Attacks against Arab Democracy
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
In their latest documents and meetings, the G8, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund reacted to the democratic movements in the Arab world: The recipe calls – as it did before the popular ousting of the Tunisian and Egyptian presidents – for privatization, austerity measures and “market liberation”.
→ read full articleThe Great Land Grab: India’s War on Farmers
Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
Land, for most people in the world, is Terra Madre, Mother Earth, Bhoomi, Dharti Ma. The land is people’s identity; it is the ground of culture and economy. The bond with the land is a bond with Bhoomi, our Earth; 75 per cent of the people in the Third World live on the land and are supported by the land. The Earth is the biggest employer on the planet: 75 per cent of the wealth of the people of the global south is in land.
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