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Welcome To The United King-Doom
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Dieudonné M’bala M’bala , the genius outspoken French comedian who rebelled against the primacy of Jewish suffering has been banned from entering Britain. Humour is seemingly the last pocket of resistance. They are really afraid of being laughed at, after all, Dieudonne is telling the truth that The Guardians of Zion can no longer suppress.
→ read full articleSentenced to Life at Birth: What Do Palestinian Refugees Want?
Paula Schmitt – +972 Magazine,
10 Feb 2014
For more than 66 years, Palestinian refugees have been languishing in squalid conditions across camps in the Middle East. But do all of them agree that a return to Palestine is necessarily the best solution? Through her extensive research, Paula Schmitt finds that while different refugees may have different desires, hopelessness remains everyone’s worst enemy.
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Imagine / Playing For Change (Music Video of the Week)
John Lennon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Playing for Change Foundation – Music around the World: promoting peace across borders through music.
→ read full articleThe Accessories to War Crimes Are Those Paid to Keep the Record Straight
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
The media cover-up has been a weapon in the crimes of western states since the first world war. But a reckoning is coming for those paid to keep the record straight.
→ read full articleJapanese Government Promotes Militarism in Media and Schools
John Watanabe, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
In line with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s boosting of the military and aggressive stance toward China, his government is seeking to refashion both the media and school curriculum to promote Japanese nationalism and militarism.
→ read full articleBitcoin: Revolutionary Monetary Game-changer or Financial Trojan Horse?
Washington's Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Reddit, Virgin Galactic, and Overstock.com now accept Bitcoin. So do dating site OKCupid and travel site CheapAir.com. Game giant Zynga is now in the testing phase. Two big Las Vegas hotels accept Bitcoin. Congressman Steve Stockman (R-Texas) accepts Bitcoin for 2014 campaign contributions. As does a law firm in Australia. Already, 21,000 merchants are using Coinbase to accept Bitcoin from customers.
→ read full articleThe Moral Cost of Torture
Anthony J. Marsella – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Psychologists for Social Responsibility is a national organisation but it is now establishing an international network. Its members are psychologists around the world who are concerned with issues of peace and social justice. At the moment we are particularly concerned with the use of psychologists in the exercise of torture and the use of psychology in violation of human rights.
→ read full article(Sinhala) Overall Checkup – The Ideological Triangle of Sri Lanka’s Left Politics දෘෂ්ටිවාදී ට්රයියෑංගලයේ සර්වාංග පරීක්ෂාව
Udaya R. Tennakoon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Based on conflict theory and TRANSCEND approach of Johan Galtung.
→ read full articleJewish Groups Condemn New Presbyterian Study Guide on Zionism
The Ugly Truth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
The study guide titled “Zionism Unsettled” posits that a “pathology inherent in Zionism” drives the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and rejects theologies that uphold Zionism. It was released ahead of the church’s biennial General Assembly that will once again consider recommendations that it divest from companies that deal with Israel’s military.
→ read full articleOMAR: Uncovering Occupied Palestine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
OMAR is the second film directed by Hany Alu-Assad to be a finalist among foreign language films nominated to receive an Oscar at the 2014 Academy Awards ceremony on March 2nd.
→ read full article(Italiano) Israele-Palestina: 1-2-6-20
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
La pace non si ottiene costringendo la Palestina in un ambiente bi-statale con controllo israeliano militare-politico-economico e intervento USA negli altri stati vicini. Per tale via non c’è equilibrio stabile, ma solo lotta senza fine.
→ read full articleAIPAC and the Israel Lobby: Down, but Not Yet Out!
Steve Weissman - Reader Supported News,
10 Feb 2014
To this day, Washington has not shown that the horrific use of gas came from Assad’s forces rather than from the Sunni rebels. But, no matter, AIPAC and its pro-Israel allies led a massive campaign to support U.S. military intervention. They pushed and they failed.
→ read full articleNo Wonder the World Is Terrified of America – We’re the Biggest Threat
Noam Chomsky – AlterNet,
10 Feb 2014
As the year 2013 drew to an end, the BBC reported on the results of the WIN/Gallup International poll on the question: “Which country do you think is the greatest threat to peace in the world today?” The United States was the champion by a substantial margin, winning three times the votes of second-place Pakistan.
→ read full article“Atoms for Peace”?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
It is interesting to review the way in which Israel, South Africa, Pakistan, India and North Korea obtained their nuclear weapons, since in all these cases the weapons were constructed under the guise of “atoms for peace”, a phrase that future generations may someday regard as being tragically self-contradictory.
→ read full articleIndustrial Band Skinny Puppy Demand $666,000 after Music Is Used in Guantánamo Torture
Sean Michaels – The Guardian,
10 Feb 2014
“We sent them an invoice for our musical services considering they had gone ahead and used our music without our knowledge and used it as an actual weapon against somebody,” keyboardist Cevin Key recently told CTV News.
→ read full articleGandhi and the Middle East
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
In the light of continuing tensions in the Middle East, it is useful to recall the efforts to have Mahatma Gandhi play a bridge-building role in the Jewish-Arab conflict of 1937 in Palestine. Mahatma Gandhi was a man of dialogue and compromise.
→ read full articleWhy Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Death Is So Scary
Seth Mnookin, Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
The root causes of addiction are frustratingly elusive, a nebulous mixture of genetics, exposure, and environment. Addiction runs in families, but plenty of addicts come from families with no history of the disease. Availability plays a role, too. The science about recovery is also hazy: Alcoholics Anonymous, the most widely used form of treatment, has no set structure or methodology, which makes it tough to evaluate its effectiveness.
→ read full articleEileen Babbitt and Ellen Luts – “Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Context”
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
To prevent wars and massive human rights violations and rebuild societies in their aftermath, an approach that incorporates the perspectives of both human rights advocates and conflict resolution practitioners is required. This goal is easier to assert than to achieve.
→ read full articleComputers
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
A French teacher in the USA explained to her class that in French every noun is either masculine or feminine. A student asked, “How about a computer?”
→ read full articlePrioritize This: Mediation to Manage School Conflicts
Matt Johnson – Waging Nonviolence,
10 Feb 2014
Administrators and counselors have reported a positive impact on school culture, observing students independently using skills learned in mediation to self-manage conflict. We expect the trend to continue as we strengthen and standardize our program so that it can be easily replicated.
→ read full articleWill Mobocracy Triumph in Ukraine?
Patrick J. Buchanan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Despite our endless blather about democracy, we Americans seem to be able to put our devotion to democratic principles on the shelf, when they get in the way of our New World Order.
→ read full articleTen Principles to Guide the Young Activist
Ramzy Baroud – Toward Freedom,
10 Feb 2014
They say people who live for a higher cause are happier than those who don’t. May you always find your happiness in alleviating the pain of others by standing up for what is right and honorable.
→ read full articleShould David Cameron Be Prosecuted for Recruiting Brits to Fight in Al Qaeda Ranks in Syria?
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky - Global Research,
10 Feb 2014
A top British prosecutor has “warned that Britons who travel to join the Syrian conflict will face prosecution and potential life sentences on their return.” What she fails to address is that the British “freedom fighters” are being recruited with the full support of Prime Minister David Cameron in defiance of UK laws.
→ read full articleWashington Destabilizes Ukraine
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
The control freaks in Washington think that only the decisions that Washington makes and imposes on other sovereign countries are democratic. “Fuck the EU.” So much for Washington’s attitude toward its captive allies and the peoples of the world.
→ read full articleZionist Ultras Tend to See Anti-Semites Everywhere
Eamonn McCann – Irish Times,
10 Feb 2014
Majority in Israel and majority of US Jews seem to dissent from extreme positions. We are all anti-Semites now, including US secretary of state John Kerry.
→ read full articleChina Ready to Work with CELAC
Prensa Latina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
China declared today [7 Feb 2014] to be ready to work with the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States to establish, before the end of 2014, the common forum approved at the recent summit of the regional body held in Havana.
→ read full article14 African Countries Forced by France to Pay Colonial Tax for the Benefits of Slavery and Colonization
Mawuna Remarque Koutonin, Silicon Africa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
For historical comparison, France made Haiti pay the modern equivalent of $21 billion from 1804 till 1947 for the losses caused to French slave traders by the abolition of slavery. African countries are paying the colonial tax only for the last 50 years, so I think one century of payment might be left!
→ read full articleThe Continuing Al-Qaeda Threat
Ron Paul – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Why is al-Qaeda as much a threat as it was ten years ago? Perhaps it is that we continue to fight the wrong war in the wrong manner. After ten years of no progress, is it not time to try something new, non-intervention and a strong defense rather than drone strikes and pre-emptive attacks?
→ read full articleNegotiations with Iran Require Mutual Restraint
Jan Oberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Iran is a 7000 year old civilisation that deserves to be treated with respect. The P5+1 and Iran are in this together now. War and sanctions talk is immature.
→ read full articleThe Global Elite is Insane
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
As anyone who pays even the slightest realistic attention to the global elite already knows, the elite’s efforts to maximise its political and economic clout, and hence its wealth, at the expense of everyone else and the Earth itself, are carefully crafted. And this is not going to change on our recommendation or because we talk to them, or even because we listen to them. Moreover, the reason is simple. The global elite is insane. And it is incredibly violent.
→ read full articleBayer CEO Says Drugs Developed for “Western Patients Who Can Afford It”
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Bayer, the German pharmaceutical giant, is in hot water after CEO Marijn Dekkers told a Financial Times conference that the company designed medicines “for western patients who can afford it” not for the “Indian market.”
→ read full articleUS Increases Pressure on Sri Lankan Government over War Crimes
K. Ratnayake, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
US Assistant Secretary of State for Central and South Asia Nisha Desai Biswal announced in Colombo on Saturday [1 Feb 2014] that Washington will move another resolution—the third in three years—on Sri Lankan war crimes next month in the UN Human Rights Council.
→ read full articleHappy 50th Birthday! Kenya is Chronically Sick
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
At independence, they say, you used to be richer than Korea, and there was real hope that you will flourish after getting rid of that brutal British colonial regime. You were never called a ‘rainbow nation’, but you really were, consisting of many different tribes, races, cultures and religions. You were truly ‘multicultural’, long before this expression became iconic and constantly used and abused in the West.
→ read full articleA Meeting with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini 35 Years Ago
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Khomeini by insisting on all or nothing against the Shah did create an Iranian transition to a new political order. In contrast the 2011 militants in Tahrir Square were content with the removal of Mubarak and promises of reforms, and ended up succumbing to a counter-revolutionary tsunami that has reconstituted the repressive Mubarak past in a more extreme form.
→ read full articleSaddam, Osama, Gaddafi, Chavez–And Obama
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Who is this Obama, by the way? Reported, by Nick Turse of The Nation, killing in 134 countries, sowing 134 blowbacks? A president with left wing Democrat rhetoric and right wing Republican foreign policies, betraying his voters and democracy itself, with no world vision.
→ read full articleProtesters Resist an ‘Indian Fukushima’
Ranjit Devraj, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
According to PMANE leader [TRANSCEND member] S.P. Udayakumar, the Kudankulam project built with Russian technology is unsafe and threatens the delicate marine ecology of the Palk straits. “A Fukushima-type accident at this mega plant, which is due to generate 9,200 MW when complete, would be truly catastrophic.”
→ read full articleArms Exports: Berlin Backs Large Defense Deal with Saudi Arabia
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Berlin has often been criticized in recent years for selling weapons to questionable regimes. Now, the German government is backing a billion-euro deal for 100 patrol boats.
→ read full articleMetascience Enabling Upgrades to the Scientific Process
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
In the light of the argument in the main paper, the question is how to extend “science” from its narrow focus to one which encompasses what is implied by the term, namely a particular approach to knowing — irrespective of the domain to which it may be applied. This therefore includes preoccupation with psychosocial intangibles whose very existence is so vigorously challenged by some forms of science.
→ read full article50 Reasons We Should Fear the Worst from Fukushima
Harvey Wasserman, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Fukushima’s missing melted cores and radioactive gushers continue to fester in secret. Japan’s harsh dictatorial censorship has been matched by a global corporate media blackout aimed—successfully—at keeping Fukushima out of the public eye. But that doesn’t keep the actual radiation out of our ecosystem, our markets … or our bodies.
→ read full articleAs TPP Opposition Soars, Corporate Media Blackout Deafening
Jon Queally – Common Dreams,
10 Feb 2014
Opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership—dubbed ‘NAFTA on steroids’—is receiving unprecedented popular opposition and nearly no news coverage by major outlets.
→ read full articleWar on the Poor in Honduras: Social Control, Gangs and the US’s Role in Remilitarizing Central America
Dawn Paley – Toward Freedom,
10 Feb 2014
Election day in Tegucigalpa kicked off on November 24th last year with the feel of a carnival, a rare sensation in a city where the vast majority of residents are faced with grinding poverty, regular gang extortion and a murder rate that is among the world’s highest.
→ read full articleBulgaria’s ‘Chilly Welcome’ to Syrian Refugees
Rayna Stamboliyska – Open Democracy,
10 Feb 2014
As the civil war in Syria continues, refugees are desperately seeking refuge. It seems that Bulgaria has consistently preferred to engage in exacerbating the situation. Bulgarians have built a wall and are allowing far-right xenophobic rhetoric to prevail.
→ read full articleBig Media Again Pumps for Mideast Wars
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
10 Feb 2014
Official Washington’s neocons still influence U.S. foreign policy despite their Iraq War disaster. Forever pushing what they view as Israel’s strategic needs, the neocons now are stoking fires of war against Iran and Syria by piling on old and new arguments.
→ read full articleFrom Egypt, Ukraine, the Turkish-Syrian Border, Cuba and Thailand: West Manufactures “Opposition Movements”
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
What is going on? Are popularly elected administrations all over the world becoming irrelevant as the Western regime creates and then supports thuggish ‘opposition movements’ designed to destabilize any state that stands in the way of its desire to fully control the planet?
→ read full articleWhy Israel Fears the Boycott
Omar Barghouti – International New York Times,
3 Feb 2014
These days, Israel seems as terrified by the “exponential” growth of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (or B.D.S.) movement as it is by Iran’s rising clout in the region.
→ read full articleReturn, Return oh Shulamit
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Pete Seeger touched my life only once. But what a touch.
→ read full articleIsrael-Palestine: 1-2-6-20
Johan Galtung, 3 Feb 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Peace does not come by forcing Palestine into a two-state setting with Israeli military-political-economic control and US intervention in the other neighboring countries. Along this road there is no stable equilibrium, only endless strife.
→ read full articleHow Kiev Became a Battleground
Charles McPhedran – New Matilda,
3 Feb 2014
High profile European politicians are worried that the skirmishes in the Ukraine are the start of another major revolution. Charles McPhedran explains what led protestors to occupy Kiev.
→ read full articleNationalism Returns to Japanese Politics
Jacob Lynagh – New Matilda,
3 Feb 2014
Nationalism is on the rise around the world, but Japan’s tense relations with China make it a special case. The West needs to tread very carefully, writes Jacob Lynagh.
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The Story of Solutions
storyofstuffproject – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
The Story of Solutions explores how we can move our economy in a more sustainable and just direction, starting with orienting ourselves toward a new goal.
→ read full articleBlow to Obama as Sen. Reid Opposes Trade Authority
The Wall Street Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
“I’m against fast track,” Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters about so-called trade promotion authority legislation. The proposal would ensure an up-or-down vote, speeding up the passage of trade deals.
→ read full articleMiddle East Turmoil and the Disintegration of a Nation State
Prof. William R. Stanley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
What is taking place i is no longer only the response of disaffected Syrians endeavoring to change their country’s leadership. More and more, it is an international effort to disassemble the Syrian state as presently exists and to continue a process that had its seeds in the 1953 Anglo-American orchestrated overthrow of PM Mohammad Mosaddeq of Iran.
→ read full articleSkipping: Is There Anything Wrong with Taking the Food That Supermarkets Throw Away?
Emine Saner – The Guardian,
3 Feb 2014
Three men will appear in court for allegedly ‘dumpster diving’ – taking food from a supermarket dustbin. But isn’t the crime the vast amount of food being put into skips in the first place?
→ read full articleDark Lands: The Grim Truth behind the ‘Scandinavian Miracle’
Michael Booth – The Guardian,
3 Feb 2014
Television in Denmark is rubbish, Finnish men like a drink – and Sweden is not exactly a model of democracy. Why, asks one expert, does everybody think the Nordic region is a utopia?
→ read full articleThe Missing Monarch Butterflies and Monsanto’s Roundup
Warren Cornwall, Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
The butterfly’s life cycle is exquisitely synchronized to the seasonal growth of milkweed, the only plant its larvae will eat. In a game of hopscotch, successive generations of monarchs follow the springtime emergence of milkweed from Mexico as far north as Canada.
→ read full articleGrowing Concern over Japan’s Dolphin Hunt Leads to Widespread Outcry
Andy Butter – YES! Magazine,
3 Feb 2014
The dolphin massacre depicted in the Oscar-winning film The Cove took place again this year. But the reaction to it shows a changing public mindset toward the rights of sea mammals.
→ read full articleEx-Marlboro Man Dies from Smoking-Related Disease
Daisy Nguyen, AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Eric Lawson, who portrayed the rugged Marlboro man in cigarette ads, has died. He was 72. He died Jan. 10 of respiratory failure due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, his wife, Susan Lawson said Sunday [26 Jan 2014].
→ read full article(Italiano) Ginevra I-II: la cattiva gestione dei conflitti
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Diciamo, semplificando brutalmente, che ci sono sette conflitti, non uno solo, tutti quanti direttamente o indirettamente violenti, che si svolgono in Siria… Per trattare una complessità a tale livello – più complessa che il VietNam – ci vuole una conferenza di lunga durata gestita dall’ONU, con tutti i contendenti, ovviamente con Iran e Israele partecipanti, e solo quelli coinvolti, senza spettatori e senza condizioni.
→ read full articleIsrael Losing the Propaganda War: Apartheid Label Is Beginning to Stick
Hirsh Goodmanjan – International New York Times,
3 Feb 2014
Boycott, divestment and sanctions’ message has started to resonate with trade unions, churches, universities and international companies in Europe and the United States, who see Israel as oppressing Palestinians and violating their human rights.
→ read full articleDebunking the Myth of the 10,000-Hour Rule: What It Actually Takes to Reach Genius-Level Excellence
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
The main predictor of success is deliberate practice — persistent training to which you give your full concentration rather than just your time, often guided by a skilled expert, coach, or mentor. It’s a qualitative difference in how you pay attention, not a quantitative measure of clocking in the hours.
→ read full articleCoup in Western Ukraine: The Arab Spring Unleashed in Europe
Andrew Korybko , Voltaire Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
The Libyan method has apparently been ‘perfected’ to the point where outside actors feel comfortable deploying this Pandora’s Box inside of Europe itself. Gene Sharp is the mastermind of the seemingly innocuous strategies that serve as a prelude and ‘dog whistle’ to this viral outbreak, and George Soros is the financier.
→ read full articleGandhi and Nationalism: The Path to Indian Independence
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
The understanding of the ways spiritual concepts are used in political life is made even more complex in the case of Gandhi in that he was not a thinker in terms of systems but in terms of action. “My life is my message.”
→ read full articleKeeping the Peace Profitable in Mozambique
Marianne Perez de Fransius – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Mozambique has profited from its long period of peace, both in terms of tourism and foreign investment, but if they don’t transform the current conflict left over from the civil war, they have a lot to lose. Tourism is already suffering… who knows what will be next.
→ read full articlePalestinians in Israel: Trapped in the Ghetto
Johathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
“We are being choked to death,” said Sawaid, Ramya’s village leader. “They are building on top of us as though we don’t exist. Are we invisible to them?”
→ read full articleBe Careful What You Wish…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
A husband and wife, both sixty years old, were walking through a forest.
→ read full article“Big Brother Is Watching You”. Beyond Orwell’s Worst Nightmare
Marjorie Cohn - Global Research,
3 Feb 2014
“Big Brother is Watching You,” George Orwell wrote in his disturbing book 1984. But, as Mikko Hypponen points out, Orwell “was an optimist.” Orwell never could have imagined that the National Security Agency (NSA) would amass metadata on billions of our phone calls and 200 million of our text messages every day.
→ read full article(Português) A América Latina da Celac
Alfredo Serrano Mancilla – Pagina 12 (Argentina),
3 Feb 2014
Não faltou (quase) ninguém em Havana para participar da II Cúpula da Comunidade de Estados Latinoamericanos e Caribenhos (Celac). Ninguém pode negar este espaço emergente na América Latina para América Latina e da América Latina, liderada apenas por latino-americanos.
→ read full articlePamela Olson – Fast Times in Palestine: A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Pamela Olson has written a lively and personal account of her two years (2004-2006) in the West Bank of Palestine as an editor of the Palestine Monitor and as foreign press coordinator for Dr Mustafa Barghouthi’s 2005 presidential campaign.
→ read full article(Sinhala) ලංකා වාම දේශපාලනයේ මතවාදී ට්රයියෑංගලය (Ideological Triangle of Sri Lankan Left Politics)
Udaya R. Tennakoon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Sri Lankan Left politics based on conflict theory and TRANSCEND approach of Johan Galtung.
→ read full articlePhilippines – The Women in the Bangsamoro Peace Process: History, Herstory
Carolyn O. Arguillas – Minda News,
3 Feb 2014
[Note from TMS editor: TRANSCEND member Emma Leslie is featured prominently on this report.] When the history of the peace process between the Philippine government and the Bangsamoro is written, the story of the women who helped make it possible will certainly be one of the highlights of this 40-year journey to peace.
→ read full articleUN Slams Israel Destruction of Jordan Valley Homes
AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
The moves came as fresh opinion poll evidence showed that faith in the Middle East peace process has largely evaporated among both Israelis and Palestinians. The demolitions in the Jordan Valley on Thursday [30 Jan 2014] displaced 66 people, including 36 children.
→ read full articleUSA, Greatest Threat to Peace!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
“The U.S. military budget is almost as large as the military spending of all the world’s other nations, combined. Together, the U.S. and its NATO allies account for more than 70 percent of global weapons spending. At last count, the U.S. spent six times more on war than China, and 11 times more than Russia. In fact, if you count up the U.S. and all of its allies, they are probably responsible for about 90 percent of total moneys spent on war.”
→ read full articleCitizenship Revoked: UK Home Secretary Pushes Through ‘Controversial’ Powers to Make People Stateless
Alice K Ross and Patrick Galey – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
3 Feb 2014
Currently [Home Secretary] May cannot revoke a person’s citizenship if it would make them stateless, so the power can only be used on dual nationals who would still have another nationality even if they lost their British citizenship.
→ read full articleOfficial Text: Proclamation of Latin America and Caribbean as a Zone of Peace
CELAC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Official Text Signed by the Heads of Government and State of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States-CELAC, 29 Jan 2014
→ read full articleGroup Condemns APA’s Ethics Decision on Former Guantanamo Psychologist
Jeffrey Kaye – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Indeed, APA has been the biggest backer of psychologist participation in interrogations. APA’s former Chief Scientist, for instance, Susan Brandon, is Chief of Research for the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group.
→ read full articleThe Barriers to Iranian–American Rapprochement: Israel and Saudi Arabia
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya - Global Research,
3 Feb 2014
The Saudi-controlled media and its propagandists went into overdrive frantically deriding and lamenting Washington’s decision to engage Tehran in direct and public high-level diplomatic dialogue whereas Israeli leaders said that the agreement should be rescinded.
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Vida Tão Estranha (Music Video of the Week)
Ana Carolina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Album from Rodrigo Leão, “The Mother”, presented in concert at Casino Estoril, Portugal. On stage, the composer was accompanied by Cinema Ensemble, the Sinfonietta de Lisboa and two international guests.
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Ownership of Washington Post by CIA Contractor Puts U.S. Journalism in Dangerous Terrain
Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Jan 21, 2014 – Norman Solomon: There is a major conflict of interest in the ownership of The Washington Post by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who holds a $600 million contract with the CIA.
→ read full articleNew Report Reveals: NSA, GCHQ Mapping “Political Alignment” of Cellphone Users
Eric London, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
28 Jan 2014 – New information made public by Edward Snowden reveals that the governments of the United States and United Kingdom are trawling data from cellphone “apps” to accumulate dossiers on the “political alignments” of millions of smartphone users worldwide.
→ read full articleObama’s NSA Blind Spot
Bruce Ackerman – Los Angeles Times,
3 Feb 2014
The president has no right to sit on the sidelines waiting for the Supreme Court to tell him what the Constitution means. As a former professor of constitutional law, he is in a good position to explain why the NSA isn’t violating the amendment’s demand that the government describe the persons and things involved in its data grabs.
→ read full articleAnti-War Poetry
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
I scurry around the city
intoning my anti-war poems
at peace rallies and poetry readings,
An Accident Waiting to Happen
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
11 of the officers responsible for launching US nuclear missiles have been fired because of drug addiction, and a larger number of missile launch officers were found to be cheating on competence examinations. Three dozen officers were involved in the cheating ring and an equal number may have known and remained silent. Safety rules were being deliberately ignored and the men involved were said to be “burned out”.
→ read full articleChallenges More Difficult for Science Than Going to Mars…
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Most extraordinary is the recognition that humanity will need to leave Planet Earth in order to occupy the environments in which it can continue to replicate the complex patterns of problems that science has been unable to address on Earth. The purpose here is explore a checklist of priorities and related considerations which science chooses to neglect in favour of associating its image with what is far away and long ago as being vital to the human enterprise.
→ read full articlePete Seeger: Troubadour of Truth and Justice
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
3 Feb 2014
Pete sang truth to power through the epic struggles of most of the last century, for social justice, for civil rights, for workers, for the environment and for peace. His songs, his wise words, his legacy will resonate for generations.
→ read full articleGeneva II: «A Modest Beginning On Which We Can Build»
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
There is only a short time for private discussions to reach an agreement before the 10 February public restart. In any case, humanitarian aid is needed to limit the current heavy suffering. Thus we must use the influence we have in the next few days to push for an accord on relief supplies.
→ read full articleVictory! India Ends Tests on Animals for Household Products
PETA-People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
A skin sensitization test that is currently performed by rubbing harsh chemicals into guinea pigs’ shaved skin was replaced with non-animal testing methods. This move will end all animal-poisoning tests for cleaners, detergents, and other common household products in India.
→ read full articleMarx Was Right: Five Surprising Ways Karl Marx Predicted 2014
Sean McElwee – Rolling Stone,
3 Feb 2014
From the iPhone 5S to corporate globalization, modern life is full of evidence of Marx’s foresight.
→ read full articlePsychologists for Social Responsibility Letter to American Psychological Association Raising Questions on Decision in Leso Case
Psychologists for Social Responsibility – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Evidence clearly exists that Dr. Leso and other psychologists have utterly failed to ensure that detention and interrogation operations at Guantánamo and elsewhere were kept “safe, legal, ethical, and effective.” By closing this case it is reasonable to assume that APA will never sanction any psychologist participating in government-sanctioned abuses.
→ read full articleNothing New Under the Sun
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
And here came the Zionists, mostly atheists, and wanted to bring the Jews to the Land of Israel without God’s permission, indeed abolishing God altogether. They built a secular society. Their founding father, Theodor Herzl, held that after the foundation of the Jewish State, no one outside it would be considered a Jew anymore.
→ read full articlePatterns of Impunity and Deceit in Myanmar
Emanuel Stoakes - Al Jazeera,
27 Jan 2014
A UN supervised investigation is needed before more atrocities are committed against the Rohingya Muslims.
→ read full articleCorporation Carte Blanche: Will US-EU Trade Become Too Free?
Michaela Schiessl – Der Spiegel,
27 Jan 2014
Opposition to the planned new trans-Atlantic free trade agreement is growing. So far, criticism has focused on the fact that the deal seems directed exclusively at economic interests. Now fears are growing that corporations will be given too much power.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’economia: un brutto aspetto
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Come risultato il pianeta è ora ostaggio di debiti non rimborsabili: il PIL mondiale è già più basso del debito combinato mondiale dovuto alle banche. Il debito è superiore alla somma di denaro sul pianeta. Ma che cosa si può fare con i bankster al comando? Non granché; donde la cattiva prospettiva. I decisori delle multinazionali dominanti e delle banche, combatteranno qualunque controllo, non uccidendo ma corrompendo. I decisori degli stati dominanti, anglo-americani, combatteranno qualunque controllo uccidendo, corrompendo e spiando.
→ read full articleJane Goodall on Spirit and Science
Bill Moyers’ Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
The Iconic Primatologist Talks to Bill Moyers and Reads Her Poem “The Old Wisdom” – “As human beings, we can encompass a vague feeling of what the universe is, and all in this funny little brain here — so there has to be something more than just brain, it has to be something to do with spirit as well.” – Jane Goodall (4:36)
→ read full articleWatchdog Report Says N.S.A. Program Is Illegal and Should End
Charlie Savage – International New York Times,
27 Jan 2014
The findings are laid out in a 238-page report, scheduled for release by Thursday [23 Jan 2014] and obtained by The New York Times, that represent the first major public statement by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, which Congress made an independent agency in 2007 and only recently became fully operational.
→ read full articleDrone Warfare: More Than 2,400 Dead as Obama’s Drone Campaign Marks Five Years
Jack Serle – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
27 Jan 2014
Obama has launched over 390 covert drone strikes in his first five years in office. Drones have come to dominate Obama’s war in Yemen as much as in Pakistan.
→ read full articleUS Feigns “Horror” Over Cooked-Up Report on Syrian War They Engineered
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Qatar – chief financier of Al Qaeda in Syria – commissions “report” on atrocities published just ahead of Geneva conference.
→ read full articleU.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy “Deeply Concerned” About Japanese Dolphin Hunt
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
20 Jan 2014 – In an unusual move, U.S. ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy has expressed deep concern over the traditional dolphin hunt in western Japan, where local fisherman corral dolphins in a secluded bay before killing many for meat.
→ read full articleWhy the Washington Post’s New Ties to the CIA Are So Ominous
Norman Solomon - Global Research,
27 Jan 2014
Washington Post refuses to face up to a conflict of interest involving Jeff Bezos — who’s now the sole owner of the newspaper at the same time he remains Amazon’s CEO and main stakeholder. The Post is supposed to expose CIA secrets. But Amazon is under contract to keep them. Amazon has a new $600 million “cloud” computing deal with the CIA.
→ read full articleAaron Swartz: The Life We Lost and the Day We Fight Back
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
27 Jan 2014
A year after Internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz’s suicide at the age of 26, a film about this remarkable young man has premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film, titled “The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz,” directed by Brian Knappenberger, follows the sadly short arc of Aaron’s life.
→ read full articleQuantum Wampum Essential to Navigating Ragnarok
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Thrival in Crisis through Embodying Turbulent Flow – Collapse of confidence: The recent global financial crisis, its current unresolved instabilities, and uncertainty regarding its future stability, all suggest the merit of continuing reflection on alternatives.
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