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Bravo – Pope Francis!
Johan Galtung, 23 Sep 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
In an interview to the Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica (IHT, 20 Sep 13), Pope Francis says that the Roman Catholic Church has become “obsessed” with abortion, gay marriage and contraception. The church should become a home for all and not a small chapel. “We have to find a new balance”, the Pope says, “otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the gospel”.
→ read full article(Português) Por Que Controlar os Fluxos de Capitais
Luiz Gonzaga Belluzzo, Carta Capital – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Keynes repetiu seguidamente nos trabalhos preparatórios da Conferência de Bretton Woods: “O controle de capitais deveria ser uma característica permanente da nova ordem econômica mundial”. O Plano Keynes postulava a criação de uma moeda internacional. Perdeu a parada para os interesses do establisment americano.
→ read full articleSpying Scandal Sends US Influence on Latin America into Nosedive
Mauricio – Russia Today,
23 Sep 2013
Democratic leaders from Mexico to Argentina are so resentful of American influence that they are now willing to take action. Spies did the trick. The times are definitely a-changing. America might be on the way to belonging to all Americans, and that includes Latin Americans as well.
→ read full articleThe World Community Must Now Take Charge at Fukushima
Harvey Wasserman – The Free Press,
23 Sep 2013
There is no excuse for not acting. All the resources our species can muster must be focussed on the fuel pool at Fukushima Unit 4. Some 400 tons of spent fuel in a badly damaged pool perched 100 feet in the air and resting on a badly damaged building that is tilting, sinking and could easily come down, could spew out more than 15,000 times as much radiation as was released at Hiroshima.
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President al-Assad Interview with Dennis Kucinich (Part I) مقابلة الرئيس الأسد مع قناة فوكس نيوز الأمريكية – الجزء الأول
Syrian Presidency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
17 Sep 2013 – President Al-Assad’s interview with Dennis Kucinich, former U.S. Congressman, and Greg Palkot, senior foreign affairs correspondent of Fox News.
→ read full articleUS Struggle with Iran’s Peace Offensive
Eric Margolis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Iran’s newly elected president, Hassan Rouhani, has lost no time in trying to end the 34-year old political and economic siege imposed on his nation by the United States and its allies. President Barack Obama, having just been wrong-footed over Syria, now faces a surprise Iranian diplomatic and public relations offensive that will be hard to resist. America’s war party is furious.
→ read full articleUpdating International Nuclear Law
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
For Those Interested in Nuclear Liability Issues in Various Countries – Nuclear research and nuclear industry have managed to grow and survive because of highly favourable structures found in international law and institutions.
→ read full articleWhat Is the Obama-Backed Free Syrian Army?
Alex Newman – New American,
23 Sep 2013
The outfit’s main selling point appears to be that, as opposed to the more effective fighting forces in Syria, the Free Syrian Army is not technically al-Qaeda. But what is the Free Syrian Army, really? Virtually everyone agrees that it is dominated by Islamists, including the Muslim Brotherhood and various other hardline Salafist groups known for violently seeking sharia law and strict enforcement of their interpretation of Islamic doctrine.
→ read full articleU.S. Weapons Reaching Syrian Rebels
Ernesto Londoño and Greg Miller – The Washington Post,
16 Sep 2013
12 Sep 2013 – The CIA has begun delivering weapons to rebels in Syria, ending months of delay in lethal aid that had been promised by the Obama administration. The shipments began streaming into the country over the past two weeks, along with separate deliveries by the State Department of vehicles and other gear — a flow of material that marks a major escalation of the U.S. role in Syria’s civil war.
→ read full articleSnowden Disclosures Finally Hit 12 on a Scale of 1 to 10
Kevin Drum – Mother Jones,
16 Sep 2013
A few days ago, NBC News quoted a former intelligence official about the fallout from Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks. “The damage, on a scale of 1 to 10, is a 12,” he said.
→ read full articleVoyager Probe Reaches Interstellar Space
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The US space probe Voyager 1 has crossed a new frontier, becoming humanity’s first spacecraft ever to leave the solar system, NASA has said. Thirty-six years after it was launched from Earth on a tour of the outer planets, the plutonium-powered spacecraft is more than 11 billion miles from the Sun in interstellar space.
→ read full article(Português) Neonicotinoides: Que São e Como Podem Afetar Você
George Monbiot – Outras Palavras,
16 Sep 2013
Como no caso do DDT, ameaçaram pessoas que se mostraram preocupadas, publicaram argumentos enganosos e fizeram de tudo para ludibriar o público. E, como para garantir que a história segue o velho roteiro, governos colaboraram com esse esforço. Entre os mais (ir)responsáveis está o do Reino Unido.
→ read full article(Castellano) Centro de Arbitraje de UNASUR Promoverá Mediación y Solución de Conflictos
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
El Centro de Solución de Controversias que proyecta crear la Unión de Naciones Suramericanas promoverá también la utilización de mecanismos de solución de contenciosos, como la mediación y la facilitación, con la finalidad de sumar a aquellas naciones que “no aceptan el arbitraje” internacional. La Unasur está integrada por Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Guayana, Paraguay, Perú, Surinam, Uruguay y Venezuela.
→ read full articleRich Man’s Recovery
Paul Krugman, Economics Nobel Laureate – The New York Times,
16 Sep 2013
Basically, while the great majority of Americans are still living in a depressed economy, the rich have recovered just about all their losses and are powering ahead.
→ read full articleThe People Who Break the Rules Have Raked in Huge Profits and Wealth and It’s Sickening Our Politics
Joe Stiglitz, Economics Nobel Laureate - AlterNet,
16 Sep 2013
A hundred and sixty five years ago, Lincoln said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand. ” We have become a house divided against itself – divided between the 99% and the 1%, between the workers, and those who would exploit them. We have to reunite the house, but it won’t happen on its own.
→ read full articleThe Metamorphosis of Colombia’s Medellin: Once Most Dangerous, Now “Most Innovative City”
Andrew Gold, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Medellin has worked hard to negate its former harmful image. Now, tourists flock to the city for the first time in its history.
→ read full articleKerry, Kissinger, Allende, and the Other Sept. 11
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
16 Sep 2013
The Kerry-Kissinger meeting, and the public outcry against the proposed attack on Syria to which both men are publicly committed, should be viewed through the lens of another Sept. 11 … 1973. On that day, 40 years ago, the democratically elected president of Chile, Salvador Allende, was violently overthrown [and killed] in a U.S.-backed coup.
→ read full articleEndless Fukushima Catastrophe: 2020 Olympics under Contamination Threat
Dr Helen Caldicott – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
How can Japanese Prime Minister Abe possibly say that Tokyo will be safe for the Olympics? He actually said that “there is absolutely no problem” and “the situation is under control.” Does he not understand that parts of Tokyo are already radioactively contaminated and that his government is dumping ashes from the incineration of thousands of tons of radioactive debris from the tsunami and earthquake into Tokyo Bay? Is this what the athletes will be swimming in?
→ read full articlePolice Are More Dangerous to the Public Than Are Criminals
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The worse threat every American faces comes from his/her own government. At the federal level the threat is a seventh war (Syria) in 12 years, leading on to the eighth and ninth (Iran and Lebanon) and then on to nuclear war with Russia and China.
→ read full articleMoral Hypocrisy and U.S. Exceptionalism
Ajamu Baraka - Global Research,
16 Sep 2013
In his recent op-ed in the New York Times, Vladimir Putin raised hackles among the talking-heads across the U.S. when he questioned the wisdom of President Obama’s evocation of the narcissistic idea of “American exceptionalism.” After all, the exceptionalism of the U.S. has never been a subject for reasoned discussion or debate in the media or elsewhere.
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Vaccine Pioneer Admits Adding CANCER-CAUSING VIRUS to Vaccine!
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
In this interview Dr. Maurice Hilleman makes some astounding revelations. He admits that Merck drug company vaccines (Polio) had been deliberately contaminated with SV40, a cancer-causing monkey virus from 1953 – 63.
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Robert Gallo: The Man Who Created AIDS
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Where did AIDS come from? Some say it doesn’t matter, as long as we find a cure. But what if the man and money that created it, are still spreading it along with lies and half-truths?
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Five Years after Lehman Brothers Fall, Big Banks Even Larger
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
In contrast to workers and homeowners, banks fully recover from the financial crisis.
→ read full articleSyria in Search of a Political Solution: Toward Functional Coexistence
Tatsushi Arai, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The extensive use of chemical weapons in Syria, the commitment and readiness expressed by US President Barak Obama to launch airstrikes against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, and the Russian diplomatic initiative that has led to a US-Russian framework agreement on safeguarding and dismantling Syrian chemical weapons are all important developments in the prolonged war in Syria.
→ read full articleCritical Flaws in UN Report on Syria
Australians for Mussalaha (Reconciliation) in Syria – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Response to the Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic Dated 16 August 2013
→ read full articleContinuity of Agenda: Syria Catastrophe Engineered Under Bush, Executed Verbatim Under Obama
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The rise of Al Qaeda in Syria and the predictable bloodbath that followed is the documented work of US, Israel, & Saudi Arabia.
→ read full articleAmerican Bombing Still Likely – “Go Tell It on the Mountain, From the Peaks of Qasioun!”
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
At the height of the war scare here in early September, a group 9 primarily Sunni, Christian, and Alawite students and activists, led by a charismatic and agnostic pro-Hezbollah Lebanese Shia woman from Hermel in Lebanon’s North Bekaa Valley, set up a Human Shields and Observers camp to protect the Syrian TV channels, radio and communication towers situated at the crest of Mount Qasioun which rises up 1,151 meters (3,776 ft) at its crest.
→ read full articleNSA Masqueraded As Google to Spy on Web Users – Report
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The NSA used ‘man in the middle’ hack attacks to impersonate Google and fool web users, leaks have revealed. The technique circumvents encryption by redirecting users to a copycat site which relays all the data entered to NSA data banks.
→ read full articleDrones
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Drones are fun, so let’s enjoy them,
from safe distance fast deploy them.
Blow up people easily
(Italiano) Il Caucaso lascia la guerra fredda
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Tbilisi, Georgia – Per loro il vecchio pensare-parlare-agire basato sull’egemonia tra stati e e all’interno di singoli stati – nella compensazione di quanto perdono in autonomia nei confronti di un Grande Potere negandolo ad altri all’interno – è fuori questione. Quello che è ammesso –i dettagli non sono chiari in nessun modo – è l’equità fra gli stati all’interno del sistema statale globale, e l’autonomia all’interno degli stati per le nazioni.
→ read full articleResolving the Syrian Chemical Weapons Crisis: Sunlight and Shadows
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Not only did Vladimir Putin exhibit a new constructive role for Russia in 21st statecraft, spare Syria and the Middle East from another cycle of escalating violence, but he articulated this Kremlin initiative in the form of a direct appeal to the American people. For Putin to be so forthcoming, without being belligerent, was particularly impressive.
→ read full articleA Journalist-Agitator Facing Prison over a Link
David Carr – The New York Times,
16 Sep 2013
Barrett Brown makes for a pretty complicated victim. A Dallas-based journalist obsessed with the government’s ties to private security firms, Mr. Brown has been in jail for a year, facing charges that carry a combined penalty of more than 100 years in prison.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
A Global Harmony Association Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day. PLEASE HELP THE WORLD BY SIGNING THE PETITION http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Global_Disarmament_Now_1/.
→ read full articleFairness
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Two colleagues went to a restaurant and ordered fish. The waiter brought a plate with a bigger and a smaller fish.
→ read full articleSyria: Three Conflict Levels, Solutions?
Johan Galtung, 16 Sep 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
This column has for years been arguing for a two-chamber parliament in Syria having an upper house with eight or so nations—like the Ottoman millets–and a coalition government. Very far from US “progressive solutions,” ours are based on criminalizing rather than killing the regime, with Assad for the International Criminal Court (Americans ruled out), etc.
→ read full articleWar May Be Over but Sri Lanka Is Still Far from Peace
UCANews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
“After the war people expected a lot from the government, that there would be reconciliation, peace. But the people have been deceived,” says Father Regno, director of HUDEC Jaffna, the social arm of the Catholic Church of Jaffna. “There has been no sign of reconciliation. Without a political solution, we have no future.”
→ read full article“Humanitarian” Missile Strikes against Syria?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The issue of chemical weapons is obscuring the more important issues of legality and the question of whether an attack on Syria would not greatly increase the suffering of the people of that region because of escalation. A large-scale war in the Middle East would cause immense suffering to the people of the region, and it might turn into a Third World War. It would be a criminal act to initiate such a war, violating both the United Nations Charter and the Nuremberg Principles.
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Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata (Music Video of the Week)
Wilhelm Kempff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Just listen… and enjoy your senses.
→ read full articleHow PPP Helped Stop a War!
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Overwhelming public opinion and people-power protest action, both in the U.S. and around the world, against a U.S. attack on Syria, including an appeal by the Pope, and a diplomatic proposal from the Russians all helped to call off the planned illegal U.S. military attack on Syria in the 11th hour.
→ read full articleTEPCO Official Denies Abe’s Claim That Nuclear Crisis Is ‘Under Control’
The Asahi Shimbun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
“We regard the current situation as not being under control,” Kazuhiko Yamashita, an executive officer of Tokyo Electric Power Co., told a meeting in Fukushima Prefecture. The comment contradicts the well-publicized assurance that Abe gave at an IOC general meeting in Buenos Aires on Sep. 7, before Tokyo was selected as the host city for the 2020 Olympic Games.
→ read full articleWhat Does “Agree” Mean?
Anthony J. Marsella – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Sometimes words lose their meaning and purpose because we abuse them. I suppose the same can be said for refugees and internally displaced people trying to survive.
→ read full articleBeing a Waveform of Potential as an Experiential Choice
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The variety of disciplines and beliefs suggest a multiplicity of ways through which an individual may choose to be framed and identified — or have experience of life defined. With the explosion of variously available knowledge to which it is only minimally possible to attend, incomprehension and uncertainty become ever more significant experientially.
→ read full articleA Plea for Caution from Russia
Vladimir V. Putin – The New York Times,
16 Sep 2013
World’s reaction: if you cannot count on international law, then you must find other ways to ensure your security. Thus a growing number of countries seek to acquire weapons of mass destruction. This is logical: if you have the bomb, no one will touch you. We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.
→ read full articleMyanmar Peace and Ceasefire-101
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The single most important factor in understanding peace-building and ceasefire negotiations in Myanmar is how the most powerful stakeholder, namely the Burmese generals view peace with the country’s 2 dozen ethnic resistance movements.
→ read full articlePlease Mr. President: “No more “War Tactics.” We want a “Peace Strategy”
Anthony J. Marsella – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Mr. President: Develop a foundation for domestic and global peace. Restore confidence in the USA, not because of its fearful military, political, and economic might, but because of its commitment to the enduring human values, and its constitutional guarantees.
→ read full articleNetherlands Close Eight Prisons Due To Lack of Criminals
Huffington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
As prison populations surge in the UK, with overcrowded cells and repeat offenders, the opposite is happening in the Netherlands where declining crime rates mean that although the country has the capacity for 14,000 prisoners, there are only 12,000 detainees.
→ read full articleThe Happiest (and Saddest) Countries in the World
LiveScience – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2013
The United Nations General Assembly’s second World Happiness Report ranks countries based on several measures of well-being and analyzes the factors that contribute to that well-being.
→ read full articleA Blue Pearl
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2013
It is a tear drop
In the Indian Ocean
Justice is a drop
In the darkness heaven
She is a blue pearl
To the voice of rights
Unilateral US Action in Syria Is Illegal
Karen Pimentel Simbulan, Sharnoff’s Global Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2013
While obtaining US Congress authorization may legalize military strikes that President Obama conducts in Syria within the US legal system, such authorization has no bearing on the legality of US military engagement in Syria from the standpoint of international law.
→ read full articleTaking the Profit Out of War
Peter G Cohen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2013
We now have a huge war machine that dwarfs President Eisenhower’s warning about the undue influence of the military-industrial complex.
→ read full articleBelgian Environmental Study Corroborates Existence and Effects of Weather Modification
Brandon Turbeville, Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2013
Even as the mainstream media and a television-obsessed American public refuse to admit the existence of chemtrails and government-sponsored weather modification programs, the evidence continues to mount with ever-increasing speed that not only do these programs exist, but they are also effective and widespread.
→ read full articleWhales: US Navy Ignores California’s Call to Curb Training Involving Sonar, Underwater Blasts
Maureen Nandini Mitra – Earth Island Journal,
11 Sep 2013
Several new studies show Naval activities are impacting CA’s blue whale and beaked whale populations especially hard.
→ read full articleTruth Test on Syria: Religious Oath — Polygraph — Ouija Board?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Systemic Mapping of the Pattern of Affirmations and Denials – Making sense of complexity. An extraordinary feature of the current crisis regarding Syria is the number and variety of affirmations regarding responsibilities for whatever is deplored — chemical weapons, deaths, strategic implications, suspicions, and the like.
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US Military Contractors Celebrate Record High Profits and Stock Prices
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Sep 4, 2013 – The business of war is more profitable than ever.
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Syrian President Bashar al Assad Charlie Rose Interview
CBS News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
PBS’ Charlie Rose interviews Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday, September 9 in a special presentation. In this global television exclusive, Assad gives his only television interview since President Barack Obama asked Congress to approve the use of force against the Syrian regime for alleged use of chemical weapons against the Syrian people.
→ read full articleNo to Foreign Military Intervention in Syria
H.B. Gregorios III, Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
The tragic situation that Syria has been experiencing for the last two and a half years is the strongest evidence of the primary importance of seeking the earliest possible peaceful, diplomatic resolution of the crisis. However, dealing with defining the responsibility of this or that side for tragedies, massacres and the use of chemical weapons, though legitimate, is secondary.
→ read full articleA Non-Military Approach to the Syrian Conflict
Paul J. Magnarella – Huntington News,
10 Sep 2013
An ICC strategy should be pursued in conjunction with robust diplomacy and peace negotiations involving the key Syrian parties, the Arab League, the European Union, Turkey, Russia, Iran and the United States. Certainly, such a combined approach is more appropriate for a Nobel Peace Laureate President than one involving cruise missiles. In the long run, it may be much more effective.
→ read full articleNo Economic Espionage? NSA Docs Show US Spied On Brazil Oil Giant Petrobras
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
The Brazilian head of state said that “it is evident that the reason for the attempted espionage is not security or combating terrorism, but economic and strategic interests” adding that Petrobras represented “no threat to the security of any country.” Rousseff concluded her remarks on Monday [9 Sep 2013] by saying that the Brazilian state would take “all measures to protect the country, the government and its companies.”
→ read full articlePsychoanalysing Psychiatrists and Psychologists Who Torture
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Moreover, in a recent article, ‘Hawaiian Mind Games: American Psychological Association Fiddles While Psychology Burns,’ Roy Eidelson and Stephen Soldz again expose the complicity of US psychologists in researching, designing, implementing, supervising and providing ethical cover for torture inflicted by the CIA and the US military on ‘national security’ prisoners at Guantanamo and elsewhere.
→ read full article(Português) EUA e Reino Unido ‘Derrotaram’ Criptografia na Internet
Marcelo Justo, Carta Maior - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Agência Nacional de Segurança Nacional (NSA) e sua correlata britânica, o GCHQ, decifraram uma grande parte dos códigos criptografados na internet que protegem a privacidade de e-mails, registros bancários e médicos de centenas de milhões de pessoas. As agências celebraram o feito em tom triunfalista assinalando em suas mensagens que “derrotaram a segurança e privacidade da rede”.
→ read full article(Italiano) TRANSCEND a 20 anni: e poi?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
TRANSCEND: una Rete per Pace *Sviluppo* Ambiente fondata nel marzo 1993. Transcend, andare oltre, oltre le contraddizioni, le incompatibilità. Tirare fuori proposte creative, concrete, costruttive – possono funzionare. Si associarono [allora] Fumiko Nishimura e Dietrich Fischer; oggi ci sono 522 membri di 80 paesi; il 40% donne.
→ read full article(Italiano) Dove sono finiti tutti i Poteri?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Dove ci condurrebbe la sussidiarietà – il più basso livello possibile? L’alternativa al regionalismo-globalismo non è il localismo, ma tutti i livelli di cui siamo composti, il mondo considerato come un insieme di comunità localmente autonome, una comunità di Stati, una comunità di macroregioni e di amministrazione globale; spingendo il potere verso il basso, verso le persone e la natura, ascoltando la sua voce. E le Nazioni Unite come una confederazione di Stati e macroregioni.
→ read full article(Italiano) Dialogo fra le civilizzazioni come modo di vivere
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Stiamo entrando in un affascinante periodo multi-polare della storia mondiale. Sei civilizzazioni vogliono dire sei modelli di sviluppo; sparsi su otto poli in un mondo ottagonale: USA e UE, entrambi liberali occidentalio; Russia in ricerca (ipotesi ragionevole: per una versione migliorata del marxismo occidentale); India, enorme, ma impacciata col suo hinduismo; Cina in quanto Cina (col Giappone in dolorosa ricerca di stabilità fra USA e Cina); mondo musulmano, l’ Organizzazione della Cooperazione Islamica (OIC), in ricerca di una ummah [comunità di credenti] nella regione dell’OIC, con il conflitto sunniti-sciiti risolto; Africa in cerca di un eclettismo basato su principi secolari occidentali, sull’Islam e su qualcosa della propria cultura; America Latina immersa sin d’ora in un creativo dialogo infra-occidentale.
→ read full article(Castellano) Siria: Algunas Reflexiones
Fernando Montiel T. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Catchy bloody words o de que no va – Con diferentes matices, la historia que sirve como canción de cuna en la prensa internacional se construye más o menos con los mismos elementos.
→ read full articleCitizens Act and Call to Stop Madness of War
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, Calls for Americans and world citizens to respond to Pope Francis’ call to fast and pray to stop United States war against Syria.
→ read full articleSyria, Democracy and International Law
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
The central purpose of the UN organization, when it was set up in 1945, was to make war illegal. The enormous suffering caused by two world wars had convinced the men and women who drafted the Charter that security based on national military forces had to be replaced by a system of collective security.
→ read full articleMilitary Roots of Racism in Myanmar
Maung Zarni – Asia Times,
10 Sep 2013
At the very heart of Myanmar’s Islamophobic campaign lies the state and its successive senior leaderships, which continue to operate within a concrete set of political economic relations wherein they pursue their typically sinister Machiavellian politics in defense of corporate, clique and personal agendas.
→ read full articleTurning the Table on the Trackers: WikiLeaks Sniffs out Spy Salesmen
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
What was Mostapha Maanna of Hacking Team, an Italian surveillance company, doing on his three trips to Saudi Arabia in the last year? A new data trove from WikiLeaks reveals travel details for salesmen like Maanna who hawk electronic technology to track communications by individuals without their knowledge.
→ read full articleIn-Q-Tel: A Glimpse Inside the CIA’s Venture-Capital Arm
Matt Egan, Fox Business – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
“I’ve found that our technical capabilities often far exceed what you see in Tom Cruise films,” former CIA Director David Petraeus said in March 2012. “But there are a few feats he can accomplish in the movies that we can’t; we haven’t figured out, for example, how to change an individual’s fingerprints or eyeballs just yet — but give us time.”
→ read full articlePeace Education and a Call for Social Dialogue on Nonviolence and Peace
Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Peace education is education of man (humanity). It is the manifestation of an integral culture of body, vitality, mind, intellect and spirit. These elements constitute every man and woman without any discrimination of race, caste, creed, language, nationality and other differences.
→ read full articleWhat Is Economics Good For?
Alex Rosenberg and Tyler Curtain – The New York Times,
10 Sep 2013
It’s easy to understand why economics might be mistaken for science. It uses quantitative expression in mathematics and the succinct statement of its theories in axioms and derived “theorems,” so economics looks a lot like the models of science we are familiar with from physics.
→ read full articleMaking the World Safe for Banksters: Syria in the Cross-hairs
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Iraq and Libya have been taken out, and Iran has been heavily boycotted. Syria is now in the cross-hairs. Why? Here is one overlooked scenario. “The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.”
→ read full articleThe (Farcical) Emperor Is Naked
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
10 Sep 2013
There is nothing tragic about the Obama presidency, capable of drawing the analytical talents of a neo-Plutarch or a neo-Gibbon. This is more like a Pirandello farce, a sort of Character in Search of an Author.
→ read full articleObama’s Rogue State Calls on Other Nations to Abide By the Treaties It Violates
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
The US. You could almost pity these people. For 67 years successive US governments have resisted calls to reform the UN Security Council. They’ve defended a system which grants five nations a veto over world affairs, reducing all others to impotent spectators; abused the powers and trust with which they have been vested; collaborated with the other four permanent members (the UK, Russia, China and France) in a colonial carve-up, through which these nations can pursue their own corrupt interests at the expense of peace and global justice.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize Winner And War Criminal?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
In 1946 the United Nations General Assembly unanimously affirmed “the principles of international law recognized by the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal” and established an International Law Commission to formalize the Nuremberg Principles, and the result was the following list.
→ read full articleWailing Wall
TMS editor,
9 Sep 2013
A CNN reporter goes to Israel to cover the conflict. She is looking for something emotional and positive and of human interest.
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High Ranking US Major General Exposes 9/11 Hoax
Kate Johnston – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2013
On a candid interview, retired US Major General Albert Stubblebine affirms there is proof that what hit the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 was not an airplane. He served on the US military for 32 years.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2013
A Global Harmony Association Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day. PLEASE HELP THE WORLD BY SIGNING THE PETITION http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Global_Disarmament_Now_1/.
→ read full article‘Success Story’: NSA Targeted French Foreign Ministry
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2013
Espionage by the US on France has already strained relations between the two countries, threatening a trans-Atlantic trade agreement. Now a document seen by SPIEGEL reveals that the NSA also spied on the French Foreign Ministry.
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George Galloway’s Speech in British Parliament Debate on Military Action against Syria
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Aug/29/2013 – Parliament Debates Military Action Against Syria. George Galloway speaks as The British House of Commons holds an urgent debate on possible military action against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Prime Minister David Cameron recalled parliament following reports of a chemical weapons attack against Syrian citizens.
→ read full articleU.S. Spy Network’s Successes, Failures and Objectives Detailed in ‘Black Budget’ Summary
Barton Gellman and Greg Miller – The Washington Post,
2 Sep 2013
U.S. spy agencies have built an intelligence-gathering colossus since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but remain unable to provide critical information to the president on a range of national security threats, according to the government’s top-secret budget.
→ read full articleLondon to Host One of the World’s Biggest Arms Fairs and Why It Shouldn’t Happen
Kaye Stearman – Open Democracy,
2 Sep 2013
After being home to several Olympic competitions this summer, London’s ExCel Centre is to host one of the world’s most important arms fairs in 2013. But the event’s past affiliations with autocratic regimes and the nature of the exhibitors and buyers involved should be enough to forbid it from happening.
→ read full articlePeople of the World are Fighting Back
Finian Cunningham – Information Clearing House,
2 Sep 2013
What the deluded Americans do not seem to realize is that they are on their own. The only entities willing to support their aggression on Syria are Saudi Arabia and Israel.
→ read full articleCommercial News Beats the War Drum
Mark Ash - Reader Supported News,
2 Sep 2013
The New York Times, following in the great tradition of Washington correspondent extraordinaire Judith Miller, is busy rationalizing and explaining the White House’s mind on the upcoming military action. The point of the proposed attack, explains the Times, is to “Restore a ‘Red Line’ That Became Blurred.” Presumably the mission will then be accomplished.
→ read full articleWith Opposition to Monsanto Growing, India’s Farmers Turn to Traditional Bees and Honey
Paromita Pain, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
As India’s government prepares to make the controversial Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India bill a law, enhancing the hold that biotech companies like Monsanto have over the nation’s food production, the tiny bee may be emerging as a potential savior by offering ways to increase crop yields naturally.
→ read full articleNavy: Training, Testing May Kill Whales, Dolphins
Audrey McAvoy - Time,
2 Sep 2013
(Honolulu) — Navy training and testing could inadvertently kill hundreds of whales and dolphins and injure thousands over the next five years, mostly as a result of detonating explosives underwater, according to two environmental impact statements released by the military Friday [30 Aug 2013].
→ read full articleObama’s Syria Plans in Disarray after Britain Rejects Use of Force
Paul Lewis and Spencer Ackerman – The Guardian,
2 Sep 2013
Barack Obama’s plans for air strikes against Syria were thrown into disarray on Thursday [29 Aug 2013] night after the British parliament unexpectedly rejected a motion designed to pave the way to authorising the UK’s participation in military action.
→ read full articleBlack Budget: Funding the Intelligence Program
The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
U.S. intelligence community’s classified “black budget” for fiscal year 2013.
→ read full articleAre Chemical Weapons Reason Enough to Go to War?
Dana Liebelson – Mother Jones,
2 Sep 2013
What are they? How do they work? Where else have they been used?
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Science, Religion, and the Big Bang
Minute Physics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
From the non-beginning to the singularity, by way of belief-muddling misnomers and beneficial ignorance. An energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics — all in a minute!
→ read full articleHot Off the Press: Britain Sold Nerve Gas Chemicals to Syria
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Seemingly, British firms sold Syrian companies the chemical components needed for the production of chemical weapons, long after the beginning of the civil war. “Britain allowed firms to sell chemicals to Syria capable of being used to make nerve gas”
→ read full articleSnowden Document: NSA Spied On Al Jazeera Communications
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Arab news broadcaster Al Jazeera was spied on by the National Security Agency, according to documents seen by SPIEGEL. The US intelligence agency hacked into protected communication, a feat that was considered a particular success.
→ read full article(Castellano) Organizaciones Alemanas Otorgan “Premio Informante” a Edward Snowden
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
La Asociación Alemana de Científicos (VDW, por su sigla en alemán), fue la encargada de patrocinar el galardón de tres mil euros (casi cuatro mil dólares), que fueron entregados por la sección alemana de Transparency Internacional (TI), dedicada a la lucha contra la corrupción y la Asociación Internacional de Abogados contra las Armas Nucleares.
→ read full article(Castellano) La Siguiente Guerra del Nobel por la Paz
Jorge V. Jaime - TeleSur,
2 Sep 2013
Los tambores de guerra que suenan en Washington al parecer no son bien percibidos en Europa. Italia no otorgó permiso para el uso de sus bases militares, mientras que Canadá, Alemania y Holanda recomendaron mucha precaución a la Casa Blanca. En el Reino Unido ocurrió el mayor fiasco este jueves cuando el Parlamento Británico no respaldó los planes castrenses contra Damasco propuestos por el primer ministro David Cameron.
→ read full article(Castellano) Gobierno de Estados Unidos Espió a los Presidentes de Brasil y México
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Un documento titulado “Infiltración inteligente de datos, estudio de caso Brasil y México” expone que la NSA norteamericana aplicó un programa diseñado para abrir y leer correos electrónicos y chats en línea para interceptar las comunicaciones de la Mandataria brasileña.
→ read full articleA View from Tehran
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Truth told, it’s a bit intense these days in Tehran as in most other countries in this region, and this observer fairly soon may be on what just might be the last Tehran-Damascus flight for some time in light of what could occur in the coming days.
→ read full articleWhy Coca-Cola’s New Ad Campaign May Be Dangerous to Your Health
Katherine Paul & Ronnie Cummins - AlterNet,
2 Sep 2013
It was laughable when Coca-Cola launched a campaign to fight obesity. And even more laughable when the king of soda’s anti-obesity campaign shifted all the blame for those extra pounds to lack of exercise and chairs (yes, chairs). But now, the company that donated $1.7 million to defeat last year’s GMO labeling initiative in California has gone from laughable to dangerous.
→ read full articleJust Say No to Nuclear Power – From Fukushima to Vermont
Amy Goodman – The Guardian,
2 Sep 2013
Fukushima showed us the intolerable costs of nuclear power. The citizens of Vermont show us the benefits of shutting it down.
→ read full articleFukushima Workers Discover Deadly Spike in Radiation
Scott Martelle - Truthdig,
2 Sep 2013
Workers at the Fukushima nuclear power disaster site have made an uncomfortable discovery: radiation levels 18 times higher than anticipated at the bottom of a holding tank. The levels are high enough to kill a person within four hours.
→ read full articleSyria: Obama’s Surprising (and Confusing) Latest Moves
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
President Obama’s August 31[2013] remarks from the White House Rose Garden will long be remembered for their strangeness, but the final interpretation of their significance will have to await months if not years. There are three dimensions, at least, that are worth pondering.
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