Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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The Four Horsemen behind the Oil Wars
Dean Henderson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
The Four Horsemen have interlocking directorates with the international mega-banks. Exxon Mobil shares board members with JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Canada and Prudential. Chevron Texaco has interlocks with Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase. BP Amoco shares directors with JP Morgan Chase. RD/Shell has ties with Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, N. M. Rothschild & Sons and Bank of England. Former Citibank chairman Walter Shipley sat on Exxon Mobil’s board, as did Wayne Calloway of Citigroup and Allen Murray of JP Morgan Chase. Willard Butcher of Chase sat on the board of Chevron Texaco. Former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan came from Morgan Guaranty Trust and served on the board of Mobil. BP Amoco director Lewis Preston went on to become president of the World Bank.
→ read full articleSource of Life and Energy in the Industrial World
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
Source may refer to something without which anything that depends on it cannot exist. In other words, when it comes to the solution of a problem, we must try to get first to the source that originates it. Otherwise, it may keep on repeating itself.
→ read full articleThe Guantánamo Papers
The New York Times, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
Innocent men were picked up on the basis of scant or nonexistent evidence and subjected to lengthy detention and often to abuse and torture. Some people were released who later acted against the United States. Inmates who committed suicide were regarded only as a public relations problem. There are seriously dangerous prisoners at Guantánamo who cannot be released but may never get a real trial because the evidence is so tainted. Hampered by ideologues and cowards in Congress, President Obama has made scant progress in healing it.
→ read full articleEgypt Warns Israel: Don’t Interfere With Opening of Gaza Border Crossing
Haaretz Service – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces General Sami Anan warned Israel against interfering with Egypt’s plan to open the Rafah border crossing with Gaza on a permanent basis, saying it was not a matter of Israel’s concern, Army Radio reported on Saturday [30 Apr 2011]. Egypt announced this week that it intended to permanently open the border crossing with Gaza within the next few days.
→ read full articleSorry but it’s not YOUR project
How Matters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
I’m talking about possessive adjectives. MINE – YOURS – ITS – HERS – HIS – OURS – THEIRS – WHOSE. Let’s be honest. How many of you, when talking to a friend, another NGO colleague, or donor refers to “our program” in [insert Country X or District Y or Village Z]? But let me ask you something – Do you live in Country X or District Y or Village Z?
→ read full articleVoyager, the Love Story
Dr. Tony Phillips, Science NASA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
April 28, 2011: NASA’s Voyager probes are at the edge of the solar system carrying a message to possible extraterrestrial civilizations. Highlights include greetings from humans and whales, some of Earth’s greatest music, and the brainwaves of a young woman in love. Rewind to 1977.
→ read full articleOne Word
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
BINYAMIN NETANYAHU is jubilant already. The ink was not yet dry on the preliminary agreement initialed in Cairo, when Netanyahu made a solemn speech on TV, something like an address to the nation after an historic event. “You have to choose between us and Hamas,” he told the Palestinian Authority. That would not be too difficult – one the one side a brutal occupation regime, on the other Palestinian brothers with a different ideology.
→ read full articleThis Modern World: Two Guys Standing on an Incline
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
Award-winning cartoonist Tom Tomorrow depicts America’s slippery slope on Libya.
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ScienceCasts: Voyager
ScienceAtNASA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
More than 30 years after they were launched, NASA’s two Voyager probes have traveled to the edge of the solar system and are on the doorstep of interstellar space.
→ read full articleBurkina Faso: Organic Cotton Under Threat from GM Cotton
Inoussa Maiga, Farm Radio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
Producers and project staff are worried about the future of organic cotton. What concerns them is the jump in plantings of genetically modified or GM cotton. By 2009, genes from GM crops had been found in organic cotton. At that time, only 10% of conventional cotton farmers were growing GM varieties. But with the massive spread of GM cotton in 2010, almost 90% of conventional producers now grow GM cotton.
→ read full articleAn Opportunity for Peace That Must Not Be Squandered
The Independent, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
The EU made a serious mistake five years ago when it refused to recognise Hamas.
→ read full articleGuidelines in Response to Degrees of Anti-social Behaviour: Airline Passengers and Children as a Case Study
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
The argument has implications for those obliged to spend time in closed environments where they are exposed to various levels of disruptive behaviour, including bullying and harassment: prisons, military, schools, work environments, etc. Especially relevant is the disempowerment experienced by those exposed to such behaviour and the rights assumed by those engaging in it — and the complicity of those aware of such behaviour.
→ read full articleIMF Bombshell: Age of America Nears End
Brett Arends, MarketWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
The International Monetary Fund has just dropped a bombshell, and nobody noticed: China’s economy will surpass the U.S. in 2016. For the first time, the international organization has set a date for the moment when the “Age of America” will end and the U.S. economy will be overtaken by that of China.
→ read full articleSyria: The Downward Spiral
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
The United Nations has tried to stop the downward spiral of Syria into repression and potential chaos. It has been five weeks that what began as peaceful protests and demands for limited reforms have been increasingly met by government violence. Discussions on what the UN could do to help the Syrian people and to speed up necessary reforms started in both New York and Geneva.
→ read full articleCivil Society Stand In Solidarity with African Negotiators: “Developed Countries, Put Up or Shut Up”
Third World Network Africa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
At a press conference hosted by the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), a network of over 300 organisations from over 45 countries, civil society leaders stood in solidarity with African negotiators. These negotiators were continuing to fight against the EU’s refusal to sign up to a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol and against the United State’s blocking tactics over the adoption of a comprehensive work plan for the negotiations for 2011.
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Seeding Deep Democracy – Vandana Shiva (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Ecological Options Network-EON - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
Member of TRANSCEND scientist, activist, author Vandana Shiva talks about the importance of saving non-GMO seeds and her concept of ‘Earth Democracy.’
→ read full article(Portuguese) A Islândia Põe os Seus Banqueiros na Prisão
Claudi Pérez, El País – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
“A primeira vítima da crise financeira constitui-se como uma valente tentativa de pedir responsabilidades”. Claudi Pérez (El País) conta neste artigo a história da ascensão e da queda da economia islandesa.
→ read full articleWorld Citizens Call For a Thai-Cambodian Peace Zone: From Periodic Flair-Ups to Permanent Cooperation
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
The World Citizens’ proposal for a Thai-Cambodian peace zone is based on a “peace park-condominium zone of peace” between Ecuador and Peru proposed by Professor Johan Galtung at a time of growing military confrontations between the two South American countries and published in his collection of peace proposals: Johan Galtung, 50 Years-100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives (Transcend University Press, 2008, 263 pp.)
→ read full articleThe Fukushima, Japan Mega-Disaster (updated)
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
The Fukushima, Japan Mega-Disaster that occurred on March 11, 2011 (2:45 PM Japan Time) will continue to unfold its tragic consequences for years to come. The tragedy must not pass without extensive public and private discussions and reports of the lessons learned from the disaster.
→ read full articleWhat Future for the Goldstone Report? Beyond the Name
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
Only half satirically, I would think that the Goldstone Report might be time to rename the Goldstone Report as the Chinkin Report or blandly let it be henceforth be known as the ‘Report on Israeli and Hamas War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity during Operation Cast Lead.’ Whatever the name, the main allegations have been confirmed over and over again, and it is now up to the governments making up the UN General Assembly and Security Council to show the world whether international criminal accountability and the International Criminal Court is exclusively reserved for sub-Saharan African wrongdoing!
→ read full articleIslamism, Christianism, Judeaism
Johan Galtung, 25 Apr 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
Right now the ultimate christian mega-empire fights muslim communities with mega-weapons, drones, cruise and other missiles, fighter-bombers, high on cowardice–protected, few casualties–low on accuracy; the muslims with IEDs at $10 a piece, high on courage and devotion up to suicide, high on accuracy. US empire christianism is fighting not only for the economic-political-military-cultural empire, but also for God’s rule on earth via USA, a country under God, invoking his support. And at the root of it all is Cana’an, Zion, Israel; one land for all the chosen ones, bent on defending itself by all means, nuclear included.
→ read full articleMidEast Democracy: Israel’s Diamond in the Rough
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
“The toppling of Egypt’s modern-day pharaoh through peaceful mass protests, aided by Facebook and Twitter, marks a watershed for Egypt and the entire Arab world,” wrote Larry Diamond, in a noteworthy February 14 op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle. “Contrary to widespread anxieties in the U.S. foreign policy establishment,” the prominent advocate of American taxpayer-funded “democracy promotion” maintained, “it will also serve the long-term interests of the United States—and Israel.
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News Media: Rupert Murdoch’s Watergate
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
When a reporter with the British tabloid News of the World was jailed for illegally tapping into the phones of high profile names back in 2007, the newspaper insisted it was the work of a rogue reporter. But as more cases of phone hacking were brought to light and senior News of the World staff members implicated, the company finally conceded that the practice of phone tapping had been widely used within the organisation. It has since publicly apologised to all the victims and has reportedly put around $33mn into a compensation fund. Rupert Murdoch’s Watergate – the phone hacking scandal, the extent of the crime and the implications for News Corp.
→ read full articleRights Groups Slam Bahraini Crackdown
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
“North American and European governments, so vocal recently in espousing the cause of human rights in Libya, Tunisia and Egypt, need also to speak out loudly about what is going on in Bahrain,” said Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International’s director for the Middle East and North Africa. “To avoid the charge of double standards, they must be much more robust in pressing the Bahraini authorities to uphold their international human rights obligations.”
→ read full articleMadagascar: Community Resistance to Corporate Land Theft
Stefan Christoff, farmlandgrab.org – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
In Madagascar grassroots struggles against corporate-driven land grabbing have emerged as a political point of focus in the growing global spotlight on land grabs throughout the global south, a process that the U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food says has “negative effects on the right to food as well as other human rights.” Mass scale corporate land occupations are expanding throughout Africa, and Madagascar is an example of the intensity of the corporate push for national lands but also on the ability for communities to resist such land grabbing.
→ read full articleMeritocracy: A Myth?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
If you are anti-imperialist, ‘Third Worldist’ type – like I unapologetically am – it may warm your heart to know that historically Oxford produced the highest number of folks who gave the rest of the world ‘the British Empire’, which among other things grew opium in India for export to China – as a brilliant economic policy to address the Raj’s trade deficit. (Cambridge was the runner up). Often our own Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is talked about as ‘Oxford-educated’ as if her Oxford education turned her into who she is and what she is made of. As a matter of fact, it was/is her (self-acknowledged) awareness of her parents’ exemplary lives as citizens that was/is her source of inspiration.
→ read full article(Português) Portugal: O Triunfo dos Agiotas – Uma História de Gangsters
Alfredo Barroso, Informação – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
Sovado pelas agências de rating, Portugal atirou a toalha. Quando sairmos das mãos do FMI não teremos à espera os fundos comunitários que foram a alegria do cavaquismo
→ read full articleWorld Bank President: ‘One Shock Away From Crisis’
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
The president of the World Bank has warned that the world is “one shock away from a full-blown crisis”. Robert Zoellick cited rising food prices as the main threat to poor nations who risk “losing a generation”. He was speaking in Washington at the end of the spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
→ read full articleLocal Currencies to Replace Dollar
India Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – the BRICS group of fastest growing economies – Thursday [14 Apr 2011] signed an agreement to use their own currencies instead of the predominant US dollar in issuing credit or grants to each other.
→ read full article(Italian) Stay Human. Riamaniamo Umani. Per Vik
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
Prima della lettura costante del blog di Vittorio, prima ancora della lettura di “Gaza. Restiamo umani”, è dai reportages, dalle schegge o dai frame linguistici inviati da Gaza e pubblicati sulle pagine del Manifesto, che leggo quotidianamente dal 1977, che ho potuto apprezzare il pensiero e l’azione Vittorio.
→ read full articleHow the Wheels of This Misadventure Were Oiled
The Independent, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
Tony Blair has always maintained that Iraq’s oil reserves did not cross his mind in the run-up to the 2003 invasion. But Iraq’s abundant oil supplies had certainly crossed the minds of the British energy giant BP. As this newspaper reported yesterday [19 Apr 2011], documents reveal that the oil company discussed Iraq’s fossil fuel reserves in considerable detail with government officials in late 2002.
→ read full article(Italian) Catania-Fontanarossa per la Guerra Contro la Libia
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
C’è chi chiede più aerei, più missili e più bombe, chi vorrebbe lo sbarco dei marines e l’intervento delle forze terrestri. Tutti in ordine sparso, il coordinamento tra i comandi è scarsissimo e le divisioni in ambito NATO si fanno giorno per giorno sempre più evidenti. E alla fine, la “coalizione dei volenterosi” in guerra contro la Libia rischia di trasformarsi in un’armata Brancaleone alla nuova crociata del XXI secolo.
→ read full articleRussia: NATO Has Overstepped UN Mandate on Libya
Yevgeny Shestakov, Special to Russia Now – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
At a Berlin meeting of NATO foreign ministers, Russia reiterated its stance that the western alliance’s Libya campaign has overstepped its UN mandate through use of excessive force. It also pressed home concerns in the ongoing issue of missile defences in Europe. “We consider that certain actions by NATO in Libya do not correspond to its mandate, and we would like to investigate this,” Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said after Friday’s [22 Apr 2011] talks.
→ read full articleSri Lanka ‘War Crimes’ Is ‘Srebrenica Moment’
Channel 4 News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
The former UN spokesman in Sri Lanka Gordon Weiss tells Channel 4 News that a leaked UN report into “credible allegations” of war crimes represent Sri Lanka’s “Srebrenica moment”. A leaked United Nations report estimates that tens of thousands of civilians were killed during the fighting between Sri Lankan forces and the LTTE – known as the Tamil Tigers in 2009. The document cites “credible allegations” that government forces deliberately shelled civilians and repeatedly targeted hospitals. If proven, the allegations amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleTahrir Square, Tel Aviv
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
Well, there are surprises in history. Sometimes, when the need arises, peoples can surprise themselves. It can happen here [in Israel]. If it does, it will not surprise those of us who believe in our people. True, Rabin Square is not Tahrir Square. But then, neither was it.
→ read full articleMassive Elicitation of Psychosocial Energy: Requisite Technology for Collective Enlightenment
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
Insights arising from the multiple disaster of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan (2011) and from the massive Arab uprisings in the same period. The following discussion is necessarily speculative in an attempt to explore alternative ways of thinking about the “crisis of crises” in all its cognitive complexity — about which there would appear to be a dearth of the much-sought creative “new thinking”.
→ read full articlePerspective on Thai-Cambodia Border Clashes
Emma Leslie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
This is the moment for Thai and Cambodian leaders to rise above politics, and bring together two nations with shared history, culture and religious traditions, putting people first.
→ read full article(Castellano) EE.UU. Rechaza “Declaración Unilateral” de Estado Palestino por Parte de la ONU
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
Estados Unidos (EE.UU.) reiteró este martes [19 Abr 2011] que el pueblo palestino está equivocado si busca que Naciones Unidas (ONU) lo reconozca como Estado independiente sin acuerdo con Israel, esto en el marco del prolongado fracaso en las negociaciones de paz.
→ read full articleFukushima: Openness Can Be the Only Policy
The Independent, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
Panic and nuclear technology go together. But that does not mean the nuclear authorities in Japan, as elsewhere in the world, should withhold information. It means the opposite. The more educated public opinion becomes, the less purchase alarmist scares and inaccurate comparisons will have. Honesty and openness is the best long-term strategy for the nuclear industry if it is to stand any chance of playing a major part in meeting the world’s future energy needs.
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Johan Galtung on Libya: ‘Obama stuck in wars, Sarkozy aims to rule NATO‘ (Video of the Week)
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
A NATO-led international group is meeting in Quatar, to decide how to proceed with its military intervention in Libya. France and the UK want to step up the assault on Colonel Gaddafi, and are considering arming the rebels. For more, RT talks to Johan Galtung, rector of the Transcend Peace University…
→ read full articleRethinking Germany
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
For Germany to stand alone among its Western allies while being in solidarity with the BRIC countries should be a moment of national pride, not a time for solemn soul searching as the German mainstream media has been encouraging.
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American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
American Radical is the probing, definitive documentary about Jewish-American political scientist Norman Finkelstein. A devoted son of holocaust survivors, an ardent critic of Israel and US Middle East policy, Finkelstein has been steadfast at the centre of many intractable controversies, including his denial of tenure at DePaul University. Called a lunatic and self-hating Jew by some and an inspirational street-fighting revolutionary by others, Finkelstein is a deeply polarising figure.
→ read full articleCan Libya Be a Test Case?
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
As the situation demands active diplomacy on parts of responsible powers of the globe, it also provides an opportunity to restore the august international body the United Nations its rightful position. Here lies the crucial barometer for the proponents as well as opponents of military intervention as to whether they can act together.
→ read full articleEU Grants Palestinian Produce Duty-Free Access
Haaretz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
The European Union announced Wednesday [13 Apr 2011] it would grant duty-free access to produce from the West Bank and the Gaza strip in a bid to support Palestinian state building.
→ read full articleWhy Elections in Finland Could Doom Portugal’s Bailout
Der Spiegel Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
Right-wing populism has arrived in Finland. The True Finns stand to gain close to 20 percent of the vote in Sunday’s elections on an anti-Islam, anti-Europe platform. That could be bad news for Portugal.
→ read full articleArab League Calls for No-Fly Zone over Gaza
Morning Star – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
The Arab League called on the United Nations on Sunday [10 Apr 2011] to impose a no-fly zone over Gaza and lift an Israeli siege of the territory after a flare-up of violence that is stoking fears of a wider escalation.
→ read full articlePrediction: 20 Years of War in Libya
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
Johan Galtung, sometimes called the father of peace studies, predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union and the refusal of Egyptian soldiers to attack civilians. His prediction of the collapse of the US empire in 2020 appears to be on schedule. So, it was noteworthy when he predicted on Tuesday [12 Apr 2011] at the University of Virginia that the war in Libya would last 20 years. If, however, NATO and the opposition were to kill Gadaffi, he said, the fighting could go on for more than 20 years.
→ read full articleVittorio and Israel’s Attack On the Intellectual Intifada
Lauren Booth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
The headline ‘Italian peace activist killed by Palestinian extremists’ is an Israeli propagandists wet dream. A gift as potentially large in its political implications as the now inevitable retraction by the UN of the Goldstone report. Why? Two reasons.
→ read full articlePalestinian PM Hails UN ‘Birth Certificate’
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian prime minister, has said that a United Nations endorsement of his administration’s readiness to govern amounts to “a birth certificate” for Palestinian statehood. Fayyad’s comments on Wednesday [13 Apr 2011] came as diplomats and donors met in Brussels to discuss Palestinian state-building efforts and follow a UN report that assessed the Palestinian Authority as “sufficient for a functioning government of a state”.
→ read full articleThe Fukushima, Japan Mega-Disaster
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
In a global era in which all of our lives and the lives of all living beings, including the environment, has become increasingly interdependent, efforts must be made to promote an understanding of the growing frequency, severity, and consequences of natural and human-made disasters.
→ read full article(Castellano) Países del Grupo BRICS Se Oponen al Uso de la Fuerza Militar Contra Libia
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
Los países del grupo Brics (Brasil, Rusia, India, China y Sudáfrica) o de economías emergentes emitieron un proyecto de declaración este jueves [14 Abr 2011] en el contexto de la cumbre que llevan a cabo en el sur de China, en el cual consideran que el uso de la fuerza debe ser evitado en Libia y en los demás países de Medio Oriente.
→ read full article(Castellano) EE.UU Instalará Nueva Base Militar en Honduras
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
Estados Unidos (EE.UU.) decidió instalar una nueva base militar en la costa norte de Honduras, tras la reunión entre el ministro hondureño de Defensa, Marlon Pascual, y el jefe estadounidense del Comando Sur, Douglas Fraser, informó un diario local.
→ read full articleThe Most Dangerous Thing You’ll Do All Day
Bill Phillips and the Editors of Men's Health – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
Scientists at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana analyzed the lifestyles of more than 17,000 men and women over about 13 years, and found that people who sit for most of the day are 54 percent more likely to die of heart attacks. That’s right—I said 54 percent!
→ read full articleSri Lanka: UN Experts Submit Report
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
The report by a panel of experts to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on April 12, 2011, about laws-of-war violations in Sri Lanka should be used to pave the way for justice, Human Rights Watch said today. Ban commissioned the report in May 2010 after the Sri Lankan government failed to investigate violations committed in the final months of its decades-long conflict with the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
→ read full articleMena Revolution and Counter-Revolution
Johan Galtung, 18 Apr 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
Africa. The key to the whole exercise: in 1956 still mainly owned by Anglo-France, Libya becoming an Italian colony in 1911; posing threats of union, independence and ties to China. NATO wants to control it through AFRICOM and EUCOM–three different words for Pentagon–and this is where Libya enters; rejecting AFRICOM with Sudan, Eritrea, Zimbabwe and Cote d’Ivoire (and Sahraoui). No US bases–hence countries to be subdued. The Libya action may put Africa on fire.
→ read full articleThe Grand Failure of Conventional Economics
Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
The “fixes” of conventional economics such as Keynesian stimulus will all fail catastrophically within the next 10 years.
→ read full articleWhy This Matters
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
We have to be sure our facts about nuclear power are right, as the latest exchange with Helen Caldicott shows. My request was a simple one: I asked her to give me sources for the claims she had made about the effects of radiation.
→ read full articleThe Ivory Coast: Behind Laurent Gbagbo’s Last Stand
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that what would happen in the Ivory Coast would have an impact on UN policy in the rest of Africa. The follow up to the arrest of Laurent Gbagbo will merit watching.
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Meet the Shministim – Israeli Conscientious Objectors (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Editor, TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
The Shministim are Israeli high school students who have been imprisoned for refusing to serve in an army that occupies the Palestinian Territories.
→ read full article(Italian) Da Lampedusa. Quei Ragazzini … Occhi Che Scoppiano di Intelligenza
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
4 aprile 2011. Il giornalista e amico Karim Metref, recatosi a Lampedusa per rendersi conto di persona della situazione, risponde ad alcuni miei quesiti.
→ read full articleHow to Build A-tomb (A Poem)
S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
To build anything, my dear friend,
You must be clear what it is you want.
(Italian) Quando Gheddafi Piaceva Tanto ai Generali USA
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
Cane furioso, pazzo, sanguinario, assassino. A Washington descrivono così il colonnello Gheddafi, ma alla vigilia della guerra contro la Libia erano tanti gli ufficiali delle forze armate USA a tessere le lodi del leader africano.
→ read full articleThe Intellectual Crisis of Reporting On Burma by the International Crisis Group
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
When European Union policymakers will meet to review the EU Common Policy on Burma, on 12 April, they will be wise to discard the International Crisis Group’s (ICG) recent call for the unconditional embrace of the country’s military dictatorship… The ICG analysts seem to have chosen only evidence that agrees with a pro-trade, pro-aid policy stance, while critically lacking both conceptual and historical understanding of how dictatorships change.
→ read full articleQuantico Blocks Official Visits by UN, Amnesty, and Rep. Kucinich to Bradley Manning
Michael Whitney, FDL – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
Government officials and Quantico Marine base have blocked official visits to PFC. Bradley Manning by Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Amnesty International, and the UN Special Rappateur on torture.
→ read full articleObama’s Libyan Folly: To be or not to be…
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
The outcome in Libya remains uncertain, but what seems clear beyond reasonable doubt is that military intervention has not saved the day for either the shadowy opposition known as ‘the rebels,’ and certainly not for the people of the country.
→ read full articleHiroshima-Nagasaki and Fukushima
Akifumi Fujita - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
A Centennial Appreciation of the Life and Work of Japanese Physicist Mitsuo Taketani
→ read full article(Portuguese) Cúpula do BRICS na China Discute Rumos da Governança Mundial
Secr. de Comunicação Social da Presidencia da República do Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
A Reforma da Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU) e os rumos da governança global com eixo em um reordenamento multipolar mais equilibrado são alguns dos principais assuntos a serem tratados pelo Brasil na Cúpula de chefes de Estado dos Brics. O encontro será realizado em 14 de abril, na Ilha de Sanya, na China, e marcará a entrada da África do Sul como um dos membros do mecanismo internacional.
→ read full articleThe Civil Crime 1861-65
Johan Galtung, 11 Apr 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
“Causes of war” is an academic pursuit for the PhD hungry; “causes of peace” is the serious challenge. How could this crime against humanity [American Civil War] have been avoided, what would conflict solution, even peace, have looked like?.. ‘Welcome to America, home to 5% of the world’s people & 25% of the world’s prisoners,’ says the NAACP. Mainly Blacks. Rented out as labor from privatized prisons on the stock exchange, deploring lower crime rates, bribing judges for longer sentences. Jim Crow II, South and North. USA, wake up, before the republic becomes a victim of its own absurdity.
→ read full articlePeace Journalism in Pakistan: Perspective on Taliban Conflict
Shabbir Hussain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2011
This study aims to analyze the media strategy in reporting the tension between the Taliban and the security forces. Taking cue from the original Galtung model of peace journalism, this study strives to help devise a media strategy to promote peace and conflict transformation between the warring sides.
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The Marketing of Madness: The Truth about Psychotropic Drugs (Part 1/2)
Citizens Commission on Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
These drugs do cause addiction, however most “doctors” would call this dependence because you do not have to take an increasing dose over time. They are completely fine with you being addicted to the same amount of any given drug on a daily basis. Over half of the people that commit suicide in the United States are prescribed to psychotropic drugs. (Ex: Paxil, Zoloft, Wellbutrin, Effexor, Seroquil, etc.)
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The Marketing of Madness: The Truth about Psychotropic Drugs (Part 2/2)
Citizens Commission on Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
This video provides the facts about psychotropic drugs and the huge profits they create for the pharmaceutical industry. These drugs are not safe and have not been on the market long enough to provide sufficient long term studies regarding their effects. These drugs do cause addiction, however most “doctors” would call this dependence because you do not have to take an increasing dose over time.
→ read full articleWho Is Annexing Whom?
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
IN A rare late-night session, the Knesset has finally adopted two obnoxious racist laws. Both are clearly directed against Israel’s Arab citizens, a fifth of the population.
→ read full articleOdyssey Dawn and the Need for Athena
Paul D. Scott – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
“More often than not, when analysts assess African security issues, they do so with a voice reminiscent of the British Colonial Office in the eighteenth century—paternalistic and unaware.” This paternalism continues as conflicts in the region are poorly mapped and/or viewed through lenses that can only be turned one-way.
→ read full articleObama Raises American Hypocrisy To A Higher Level
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
“Some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries. The United States of America is different. And as president, I refused to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action.” This from the Great Moral Leader who every day murders civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Yemen and Somalia and now Libya and who turns a blind eye when “the great democracy in the Middle East,” Israel, murders more Palestinians.
→ read full articleThe Empire Hits Back
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
Then rather treat Gadhafi the way they handled Milosevic: if you do not give in to our demands Beograd–read Tripoli–will be flattened by carpet bombing. The Finn who conveyed that message got a Nobel Peace Prize, maybe he could be called upon again?
→ read full articleTurkey’s Big Business Opts for Consolidation of Democracy
Sahin Alpay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
The principles now open to public deliberation have been advanced, discussed and broadly agreed upon by liberals and democrats in Turkey in a debate that started in the early 1990s. What the TÜSİAD report suggests is, briefly, that the Constitution based on Kemalism (secular nationalism) drawn by the military in 1982 be replaced by one that is based on the principles of liberal democracy.
→ read full articleWhat’s Best for My Computer: Hibernate, Sleep, or Shut Down?
Morieka Johnson, Mother Nature Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
How to manage your computer depends a lot on your work habits.
→ read full articleReducing Armed Violence the Asian Way
Fred Lubang and Robert Muggah – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
Whilst armed violence affects every country, some societies are more affected than others. In South and Southeast Asia, countries such as Afghanistan, Myanmar, Pakistan, the Philippines and Thailand are affected by on-going armed conflicts within and across their borders. Others such as Cambodia, Nepal, and Sri Lanka are emerging from war. Meanwhile, Bangladesh and Indonesia, along with virtually every other state across both regions, are confronting simmering urban violence due to growing organized crime and gang activity.
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Burning Conscience: Israeli Soldiers Speak Out
Alternate Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
A searing interview with Avichai Sharon and Noam Chayut, both veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces and members of Breaking the Silence. Sharon and Chayut served during the second intifada, an on-going bloodbath that has claimed the lives of over three thousand Palestinians and nine-hundred-fifty Israelis. After thorough introspection, these young men have chosen to speak out about their experiences as self-described “brutal occupiers of a disputed land.”
→ read full articleCreate Space for Peace
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
“But what do you do in practice” was a question often asked of me when I started to represent Peace Brigades International (PBI) shortly after its creation in 1981 at the United Nations in Geneva.4
→ read full articleEthics in Business Education
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
If we were to give a rapid glance at the last 6,000 years of recorded history, we would soon discover that most problems in the world stem from the government.
→ read full articleDeath Penalty in 2010: Executing Countries Left Isolated After Decade of Progress
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
28 March 2011. Countries which continue to use the death penalty are being left increasingly isolated following a decade of progress towards abolition, Amnesty International has said today in its new report Death Sentences and Executions in 2010.
→ read full articleIceland, a Country That Wants to Punish the Bankers Responsible for the Crisis
Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
Since 2008 the vast majority of the Western population dream about saying “no” to the banks, but no one has dared to do so. No one except the Icelanders, who have carried out a peaceful revolution that has managed not only to overthrow a government and draft a new constitution, but also seeks to jail those responsible for the country’s economic debacle.
→ read full articleJoint Statement on the Japanese Nuclear Disaster
The Right Livelihood Award & World Future Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
Hamburg, Stockholm, 29 March 2011. In a joint statement 50 Laureates of the Right Livelihood Award and members of the World Future Council demand a global nuclear phase out.
→ read full articleAmerican Peace Activist Jonathan Schell: ‘Our Most Dangerous Illusion Is that We Can Control Nuclear Energy’
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2011
In a SPIEGEL interview, peace activist and author Jonathan Schell discusses the lessons of the Fukushima disaster, mankind’s false impression that it can somehow safely produce electricity from the atom, and why he thinks the partial meltdown in Japan could mark a turning point for the world.
→ read full article(Castellano) Libia: El International Peace Bureau Condena el Ataque Militar y Urge por Una Negociación Política para Proteger la Población Civil
International Peace Bureau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
Una nueva era histórica se ha abierto hace tres meses con los levantamientos populares de Túnez y luego el de Egipto, el primero de la denominada “Primavera Arabe”… La revuelta libia se inspiró en estas victorias fundamentalmente no violentas, pero – el mundo lo ha presenciado con consternación – se ha militarizado rápidamente y está ahora envuelta en una guerra civil .
→ read full articleLibya: IPB Condemns Military Strikes and Urges Political Negotiations to Protect the Civilian Population
International Peace Bureau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
A new historical era opened three months ago with the popular uprisings in Tunisia and then Egypt, the first of the ‘Arab spring’ season. These rebellions brought hope to millions and youthful energy to societies suffering decades of repression, injustice, inequality, especially gender inequality, and increasing economic hardship. The Libyan revolt was inspired by these largely nonviolent victories, but, as the world has witnessed with dismay, has rapidly become militarized and is now embroiled in a full-scale civil war.
→ read full articlePartners in Victory! Flags for Peace!!
COVA-Confederation of Voluntary Associations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
India and Pakistan will play the semifinal of the World Cup on 30th March 2011. That the match can be played in Mohali, India is a gift of the peace process that was started in 2004.
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All Banks Should Be Like the Bank of North Dakota
TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
A number of laws and social reforms were implemented in North Dakota in the early 20th century, some of which are still in place today, in an attempt to insulate it from the power of out-of-state banks and corporations.
→ read full articleThe Dark Side of “Comprehensive Soldier Fitness”
Roy Eidelson, Marc Pilisuk & Stephen Soldz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
Why is the world’s largest organization of psychologists so aggressively promoting a new, massive, and untested military program? The APA’s enthusiasm for mandatory “resilience training” for all U.S. soldiers is troubling on many counts.
→ read full article(Castellano) Brasil [BRIC] y Nicaragua Abogan por Una Solución Pacífica a Conflicto en Libia
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
La presidenta de Brasil, Dilma Rousseff afirmó este martes [22 Mar 2011] que su país está a favor de una solución pacífica al conflicto en Libia, mientras que su homólogo de Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, pidió el cese de la agresión contra la nación norteafricana. “No es sólo nuestra posición, también es la de China, la India y Rusia”, [Dilma Rousseff afirmó], naciones que, junto a Brasil, integran el grupo de países con economías emergentes, conocido como BRIC, al que recientemente se integró Sudáfrica.
→ read full article(Castellano) ¿Rearmar a Costa Rica o desarmar al resto?
Adrian Bergmann, El Nuevo Diario - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
La preocupación por la escalante tensión entre Costa Rica y Nicaragua es real. La desigualdad de fuerzas es igualmente real. De allí se puede partir a dos caminos divergentes; ¿habría que rearmar a Costa Rica? o ¿habría que desarmar al resto de Centroamérica?.
→ read full articleThe Invisible Hand Explains Nuclear Safety
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
Award-winning cartoonist Tom Tomorrow has the invisible hand of the free market explain nuclear safety.
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Johan Galtung on US Radio – Wide Awake News (Video of the Week)
Charlie McGrath and Warren Pollok – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
Charlie McGrath and Warren Pollok, hosts of Wide Awake Radio-Alternate Radio Show in the US, conduct an original interview with Prof. Galtung talking about his recent book “The Fall of the US Empire – And Then What?” Dr. Galtung provides solutions.
→ read full articleQaddafi, Moral Interventionism, Libya, and the Arab Revolutionary Moment
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
Recently [Qaddafi] confirmed this assessment, referring to his own people as ‘rats and dogs’ or ‘cockroaches,’ and employing the bloodthirsty and vengeful language of a demented tyrant. Such a tragic imposition of political abuse on the Libyan experience is a painful reality that exists beyond any reasonable doubt, but does it validate a UN authorized military intervention carried out by a revived partnership of those old colonial partners, France and Britain, and their post-colonial American imperial overseer? I think not.
→ read full articleNews Goo Episode 1
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
In the launch edition of News Goo, Jake Lynch interviews Julian Burnside QC, and the journalist, author and film-maker John Pilger, about the investigative journalism of WikiLeaks.
→ read full articleInterplanetary Security Council resolution: No-fly zone on Earth – Resolution 1973
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
This is a translated text of a resolution of the Interplanetary Security Council, apparently leaked by WikiLeaks-Solar.
→ read full articleHuge Payout over US Priests Sex-Scandals
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
The Pacific Northwest chapter of the Roman Catholic Church’s Jesuit order has agreed to pay $166 million to settle more than 500 child sexual abuse claims against priests in five states, attorneys have said.
→ read full article(Italian) Le Rivoluzioni Nonviolente Arabe
Prof. Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
Per meglio comprenderle, partiamo dalle rivoluzioni nonviolente che più hanno (cambiato e) impressionato il mondo, quelle del 1989.
→ read full articleEurope Turns Against Israel
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
It seems as if the Holocaust indoctrination that is rallied and utilised by every Jewish and Zionist institution around the world has backfired, and on every possible front: more and more people around regard the Israelis as the Nazis of our time. I must admit that I am uncomfortable with that comparison — I actually believe that Israel is far worse than Nazi Germany, at least from certain perspectives.
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