Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Urgent Appeal to Change the Mindset
Reflection Group on Global Development Perspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development – Rio 2012, must change the dominant mindset by restoring public rights over corporate privileges.
→ read full articleLet the Truth Be Known About the Fukushima Nuclear Plants
People's Plan Study Group – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
An Urgent Demand to the Mass Media and the Government of Japan
→ read full articleNoam Chomsky Answers Six Questions from Well Known Personalities
Frank Barat, Vimeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
Frank Barat asks Prof Noam Chomsky six questions that were sent by Alice Walker, John Berger, Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, Amira Hass and Chris Hedges.
→ read full article(Galego) Declaracion Institucional do Seminario Galego de Educacion para a Paz en Relación co Ataque Militar a Libia
Fundacion Cultura de Paz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
O Seminario Galego de Educación para a Paz apoiará todas as mobilizacións pacíficas e nonviolentas convocadas para manifestar a oposición á intervención militar en Libia e convocará á Coordinadora Galega pola Paz co fin de acordar accións unitarias nesta dirección.
→ read full articleWhat They’re Covering Up at Fukushima
Hirose Takashi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
After reading his account, you will wonder, why do they keep on sprinkling water on the reactors, rather than accept the sarcophagus solution [ie., entombing the reactors in concrete. Editors.] I think there are a couple of answers.
→ read full articleLibya: The War Is On
Johan Galtung, 28 Mar 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
As someone on National Public Radio quipped, “President Obama has fired more cruise missiles than all other Nobel Peace Prize winners combined”, and they have hit all kinds of targets: flying, driving, walking, being. What is next?
→ read full articleTwo Human Made Disasters: Japan and Libya
Johan Galtung, 21 Mar 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
(Japan) We pray, we hope: no Chernobyl 1986. Stop! this is enough. We know enough to end all nuclear plants. There are alternatives. (Libya) BRIC + Germany are now called upon. Abstention is not good enough. Be on the side of history, and that means: be on the side of the Arab liberation from Western European-US-Israeli dominance, and an economy causing ever more inequality-misery, and autocracy. The Abstaining Five have experience in fighting such pathologies. BRIC+G, A5: The ball is in your court. Play it well.
→ read full articleBreaking Australia’s Silence: WikiLeaks and Freedom
John Pilger - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
Public forum held on 16 March 2011 at the Sydney Town Hall. The event was staged by the Sydney Peace Foundation, Amnesty International, Stop the War Coalition, and supported by the City of Sydney.
→ read full articleJulian Assange on 60 Minutes (Part 1)
CBS News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
Julian Assange appeared on 60 Minutes on 30 Jan 2011 in his longest televised interview while in house arrest in England. One of the most interesting aspects of the interview: behind-the-scenes shots of Assange and colleagues, mundanely sitting around a kitchen table on laptops that presumably contain some of the most explosive secrets on earth.
→ read full articleJulian Assange on 60 Minutes (Part 2)
CBS News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
Julian Assange appeared on 60 Minutes on 30 Jan 2011 in his longest televised interview while in house arrest in England. One of the most interesting aspects of the interview: behind-the-scenes shots of Assange and colleagues, mundanely sitting around a kitchen table on laptops that presumably contain some of the most explosive secrets on earth.
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Chossudovsky: New deadly war theater opened in Libya
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
RT talks to Michel Chossudovsky – Director of the Center for Research on Globalization in Canada.
→ read full articleExperts Help to Rebrand Burma’s Failed Dictatorship
Dr. Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
Every time Burma’s military dictatorship is framed as “new,” it is being rebranded, to use the lingo of corporate advertising. The spoils of the positive public relations are shared as it were between the experts and their organizations that prostitute themselves by spinning for their neo-liberal governmental patrons and corporate “donors” in the West and Burma’s despotic regime, the former’s actual and potential business partner.
→ read full articleA Dirty Word
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
On Thursday evening I could not think of anything except Libya.
→ read full articleWorld Citizens Call For a Cease Fire in Libya and Start of Negotiations on a Broadly-Based New Libyan Republic
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
Historically in Libya, there were sixteen marabtin tribes renouned for their religious wisdom who served as mediators and arbiters within the political structures of tribal, pre-colonial Libya. The tradition of reconciliatory mediation may still exist, and traditional avenues of mediation should be explored. A cease fire must be a first step, and the United Nations the most appropriate institution for maintaining a cease fire while constitutional discussions start.
→ read full articleLetter from Japan
Kimberlye Kowalczyk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
People are running out of food and water, and yet they wait patiently and quietly, in single-file, at supermarkets where they are rationing supplies to 5 items per person. There is no pushing, no yelling, not a single report of looting, anywhere. First of all, can you imagine only being able to pick 5 items after lining up all day, your kids and elderly parents not having eaten a proper meal in two days? It keeps going through my head ~ which 5 items would I chose?
→ read full articleThe Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens?
RSA Animate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
Does the internet actually inhibit, not encourage democracy? In this new RSA Animate, Evgeny Morozov presents an alternative take on ‘cyber-utopianism’ – the seductive idea that the internet plays a largely empancipatory role in global politics.
→ read full articleThe UN Mission in Nepal-UNMIN’s Humiliating Withdrawal
Bishnu Pathak, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
The UNMIN obtained a final four-month extension effective from September 16, 2010 till January 15, 2011. The UNMIN ended its role owing to heavy criticism from non-Maoist parties and returned from Nepal. It withdrew leaving reintegration, rehabilitation and democratization half-way, unlike many other UN missions in the world… A Special Committee (SC) has replaced the UNMIN and implements its mandate against provisional ethics. The UNMIN was established under Nepal’s special circumstances. It was a neutral and common platform while the SC mostly comprises political actors on the basis of a political decision. The role of the SC is neither defined by agreements and accords, nor does it have constitutional authority. There is also no role for neutral experts.
→ read full articleUruguay Recognizes Palestinian State
Ynet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
Uruguay has made its recognition of a Palestinian state official on Tuesday [15 Mar 2011].
→ read full articleThe Dangers of Nuclear Energy
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
Because insurance companies have refused to cover the risks of nuclear accidents, the Price Anderson Act of 1957 commits the US federal government to cover such risks. Other countries have similar legislation. This represents an enormous subsidy by the taxpayers to the nuclear industry… Solar energy is currently more expensive than electricity from nuclear plants. But this is only because of the huge indirect subsidy for nuclear power, and also due to the shortage of research into alternative sources of energy… If insurance companies, the experts in estimating risks, refuse to risk their money, why should people be forced to risk their lives?
→ read full articleEurope Has an Obligation to These Desperate African Refugees
The Independent, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
If Italy needs assistance to deal with migration flows, other EU states should provide it. Fortress Europe has closed its gates.
→ read full articleLibya and the Dilemma of Intervention
The Nation, Editorial - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
Our natural tendency is to want to help end Qaddafi’s despotic rule and to save the lives of those bravely resisting his onslaught. But it is a difficult challenge to take action that has a reasonable chance of success but that does not arouse popular—and well-founded—suspicions of neoimperial intervention.
→ read full articleMother Nature and Nuclear Power
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
The major lessons to be drawn from the tragedy in Japan are: first, nature’s power is far beyond our ability to control; second, the nuclear industry, in Japan and elsewhere, has arrogantly pushed ahead with their dangerous technology, assuring the public there is no reason for concern; third, the reassurances of self-interested nuclear “experts” are not to be trusted; and fourth, the nuclear power plant failures in Japan are a final wake-up call to replace nuclear power with safe, sustainable and renewable forms of energy.
→ read full articleLearning from Disaster? After Sendai
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
Let us fervently hope that this Sendai disaster will not take further turns for the worse, but that the warnings already embedded in such happenings, will awaken enough people to the dangers on this path of hyper-modernity so that a politics of limits can arise to challenge the prevailing politics of limitless growth. Such a challenge must include the repudiation of a neoliberal worldview, insisting without compromise on an economics based on needs and people rather than on profit margins and capital efficiency.
→ read full articleArab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
‘The Beginning of an Epochal Development’ – Amr Moussa is the secretary-general of the Arab League and is a favorite in Egypt’s upcoming presidential election. In a SPIEGEL interview, he discusses the prospects for democracy in the Middle East, the risks of a civil war in Libya and his expectations of the West.
→ read full article‘The Superpower of Technology’
Daisuke Nojima – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
On The Globe, there is a superpower of technology,
About half of the robots in the world working there,
Tremendous amounts of vending machines are selling everything there,
Even disregarding jobless people everywhere,
So, this state is much praised by scholars of futurology.
Anticipating Future Strategic Triple Whammies: In the Light of Earthquake-Tsunami-Nuclear Misconceptions
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
Beyond deploring the horrendous destruction and loss of life and livelihoods in Japan, the question is how to derive insight from the event. Of special relevance is the manner in which the event overwhelmed assiduous provisions in anticipation of any single crisis. The point was originally well made by John Platt:
→ read full articleSatellite Images Reveal True Scale of Japan’s Devastation
The Independent – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
While reports and pictures from on the ground in Japan reveal the human side of the tragedy the tsunami has caused, these before-and-after aerial photographs indicate the sheer scale of devastation that was unleashed upon towns and villages up and down the country’s eastern coast.
→ read full articleFresh Blast at Japan Nuclear Plant
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
Mon 14 Mar 2011 – A second explosion rocked Japan’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex, sending a plume of smoke into the air and touching off fresh concerns of radioactive leak in the quake and tsunami-hit country. The International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] said on Monday the reactor has not been damaged. Tokyo Electric Power Co [TEPCO], the plant operator, in a press release said, it was believed to be a hydrogen explosion at the plant’s No.3 reactor and that 11 workers were injured.
→ read full articleIndia ‘World’s Biggest Arms Buyer’
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
India has overtaken China to become the world’s largest importer of weapons, according to a Swedish think-tank that monitors global arms sales. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute report said India was pushing ahead with plans to modernise its military in an effort to counter China’s influence and gain international clout.
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Rachel Corrie – Last Interview (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
Footage conducted by the Middle East Broadcasting Company on March 14th, 2003, two days before Rachel was murdered by the Israeli Defense Forces that crushed her under a Caterpillar bulldozer in Nablus, Palestine as she tried to prevent it from demolishing a Palestinian home–to create a no-man’s-land around Gaza and keep the siege. She was a 23-year-old American member of the International Solidarity Movement.
→ read full articleHow the So-Called Guardians of Free Speech Are Silencing the Messenger
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
As the United States and Britain look for an excuse to invade another oil-rich Arab country, the hypocrisy is familiar. Colonel Gaddafi is “delusional” and “blood-drenched” while the authors of an invasion that killed a million Iraqis, who have kidnapped and tortured in our name, are entirely sane, never blood-drenched and once again the arbiters of “stability”.
→ read full article“Imaginary Panic”: The WHO Admits That the H1N1 Pandemic Was a Multibillion Dollar Fraud….
Marie-Rose Cavalier, Sophie Meulemans & Muriel Desclée, Initiative Citoyenne – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
The Swine Flu ‘pandemic’ turned out to be nothing more than a storm in a teacup generated by a flurry of conflicts of interest. A majority of European Health Committee MEPs have nonetheless recently approved a report by Anne Delvaux (PPE) endorsing the existence of what was really an imaginary panic and calling for ‘more cooperation between member states’ to deal with future pandemics.
→ read full articleWhat about a No Fly Zone for the Palestinians?
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
I would contend that for a moral interventional argument to be justifiable, it must be primarily grounded on moral integrity. If America and Britain are, indeed, ‘morally driven’ why do they fail to protect the people of Palestine? Why do they allow Israeli airplanes decorated with Jewish symbols to drop bombs in Gaza? Is it because Israeli bombs are kosher somehow?
→ read full articleEgypt/Serbia/Georgia: Learning From Others’ Mistakes
Eric Walberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
There is a Russian proverb: only a fool learns from his own mistakes. As Georgia’s foreign minister visits his Egyptian counterpart, there are lessons for Egypt in similar revolutions in eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet Union.
→ read full articleOne Man Hurdle on the Road to Democracy
S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali fled Tunis rather swiftly. Hosni Mubarak tried in vain all his tricks including inciting violence with the help of some of his supporters and surrendered. The beleaguered Muammar Qaddafi is trying to halt the democracy train with the active support of his clan and groups of a few tribes, the fear and reluctance of the majority Warfalla tribe, and the relative weakness of the pro-democracy activists.
→ read full article(Castellano) ALBA Inicia Gestiones para Realizar Propuestas de Mediación en Conflicto de Libia
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
La Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América (ALBA) inició este miércoles [9 Mar 2011] la creación el comité de mediaciones que ayude a terminar con la violencia en Libia, el cual además trabajará en propuestas para la solución pacífica al conflicto que inició el pasado 17 de febrero en la nación del norte de África.
→ read full articleThe U.S. Is no Friend to Libya’s Uprising
Socialist Worker, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
The U.S. was perfectly happy to do business with Qaddafi, in spite of his regime’s record of violent repression–for the same reason it’s now posing as Qaddafi’s enemy.
→ read full articleSubtle Racism and Unemployment “Push Gypsies into Marginalisation”
TerraViva Europe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
Bruno Gonçalves wears many hats: he is municipal mediator in this city in central Portugal [Coimbra], a leader of the NGO SOS-Racismo, author of a book on integration in schools, and a human rights activist — but, he stresses, “I never stop being a gypsy.”
→ read full articleDenmark to Upgrade Status of Palestinian Representation to ‘Mission’
Haaretz Service & News Agencies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
Upgrade from third-highest ranking of general delegation mirrors move made recently by number of other countries, including Britain.
→ read full articleBradley Manning ‘Almost Catatonic’
MSNBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
22 New Charges with Possibility of Death Penalty
→ read full articleUniversal Declaration of the Rights of Human Organization
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
An Experimental Extension of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
→ read full articleIsrael Ranked Among Least Popular States
Ynet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
Global poll held for BBC finds just three countries ranked below Israel – Pakistan, North Korea, Iran.
→ read full articlePress Release on Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant
National Alliance of Anti-nuclear Movements (NAAM) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
We will come to know the full and complete details of this worst nuclear disaster in a few more weeks or months. As the world is gearing up to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the deadly nuclear power plant accident at Chernobyl on April 26, 2011, another calamity has stuck the humanity.
→ read full articleWill We Ever Learn? Kicking the Intervention Habit
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
It should be obvious that a no-fly zone in Libyan airspace is an act of war, as would be, of course, contemplated air strikes on fortifications of the Qadaffi forces. The core legal obligation of the UN Charter requires member states to refrain from any use of force unless it can be justified as self-defense after a cross-border armed attack or mandated by a decision of the UN Security Council. Neither of these conditions authorizing a legal use of force is remotely present,…
→ read full articleObama’s Guantanamo Policy Condemned by Physicians for Human Rights
Physicians for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
Indefinite detention can cause psychological harm and should not be formal US policy. PHR condemns President Barack Obama’s recent announcement that military trials would resume for detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The decision formalizes the use of indefinite detention and marks a stark reversal from the President’s initial promise to close the controversial prison.
→ read full articleWhy We Need to Divest From the US-Backed Israeli Occupation
Stephen R. Shalom, Israeli Occupation Archive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
28 Feb 2011 – This evening a campaign is being launched at New York University-NYU to “Divest From the US-backed Israeli Occupation Now!” Why is everybody always picking on Israel? Is it anti-Semitism? Hostility to democratic values? Jewish self-hatred? Sympathy for terrorism?
→ read full articleThe Story of Citizens United (Short Video)
Annie Leonard, The Story of Stuff Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
Why have corporations gotten so powerful? And what can we do about it? The Story of Citizens United v. FEC, an exploration of the inordinate power that corporations exercise in our democracy.
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Farm to Fridge – The Truth behind Meat Production (sub español/vietnamese/english)
Antonio C. S. Rosa - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
Disgusting beyond words. Take action and stop feeding on cruelty! Mercy For Animals presents Farm to Fridge. Narrated by Oscar-nominee James Cromwell with music by internationally acclaimed producer Ben Frost, this powerful film takes viewers on an eye-opening exploration behind the closed doors of the nation’s largest industrial farms, hatcheries, and slaughter plants — revealing the often-unseen journey that animals make from Farm to Fridge.
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NATO Invasion of Libya ‘Disgusting Idea’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
RT talks about Libya crisis with Pepe Escobar, who’s a roving correspondent for the Asia Times.
→ read full articleFreedom, Democracy, Justice: Isolated Nouns or Interwoven Verbs?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
There is a key interpretation of the initial process described in the Book of Genesis, honoured by the three Abrahamic religions — together so significant through their interaction in exacerbating the crises of the world. For the Christian religion, so influential in defining the “values” of the international community, that interpretation is: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1)
→ read full articleCommentary on Recent Developments: Interview Responses
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
The following Q & A interview consists of my responses to questions put to me by the outstanding Greek journalist, C. J. Polychroniou, and is being published in a Greek newspaper.
→ read full articleMarch 8: Women and the People’s Revolution
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
8 March is the International Day of Women and thus a time to analyse the specific role of women in local, national and the world society. 2011 is the 100th anniversary of the creation of International Women’s Day first proposed by Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) at the Second International Conference of Socialist Women in Copenhagen in 1911.
→ read full articleDiplomat: I Can No Longer Represent Israel
Ynet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
Veteran diplomat Ilan Baruch quits, says he can no longer represent government; Israel’s foreign policy is ‘wrong,’ he says, adds that blaming global anti-occupation views on anti-Semitism is ‘simplistic, artificial’.
→ read full article(Italian) Mondo Arabo/Galtung: Rivolte Moti di Liberazione da Europa
Daily Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
Intervista Dello Studioso Pacifista a Left
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A Historic Moment in the Arab World
TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
Wadah Khanfar – In TED’s first talk of 2011, Al Jazeera’s director-general shares his view on the uprisings sweeping the region.
→ read full articleGuidelines for Living a Spiritual Life
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
1. Awareness
I resolve to be more aware and responsive to the spiritual dimensions of my being and my nature.
Lessons Learned from Nepal’s People’s Victory 2006
Bishnu Pathak, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
After successfully ousting Tunisian and Egyptian tyrannical regimes, the oppressed masses have taken to the streets of numerous cities in the Arab World with the hope that change for freedom is possible. The Arab world has a long history of frozen conflicts, but from the gravity of events in the first quarter of 2011, it has already been a year of people’s uprising.
→ read full article(Italian) Il difficile passaggio dal tecnozoico all’ecozoico
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
Le grandi crisi comportano grandi decisioni. Ci sono decisioni che significano vita o morte per certe società, per una istituzione o per una persona.
→ read full articleQuickies
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
George W. Bush came late to a cabinet meeting.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to the Peoples of Middle East and North Africa
S. P. Udayakumar, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
Dear Sisters and Brothers of the Middle East and North Africa,
As a citizen of the largest democracy (India) and a student of the longest democracy (United States), I, for one, feel obliged to share some of my thoughts and reflections about democracy and elections with you all for your serious consideration. My intention is not to throw cold water on your quest for democracy but to request you to take a hard look at the actual practice of democracy and elections in the United States and India and to find ways and means of overcoming those shortcomings.
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Fall of Empire, End to Wars: Johan Galtung Predictions
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
21 Feb 2011, New York – Some analysts say the US – bogged down in wars and pressed by emerging powers – will have to rethink its role in world affairs. Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, a peace and conflict expert, goes further by predicting the fall of the “US Empire”. “Iraq is not at all turning out the way they hoped, certainly not Afghanistan either. The same will happen in Yemen and Somalia and a number of other countries where they now have undercover operations,” he told RT. Moreover, the sociologist believes what is going to happen in those areas – for instance, in Afghanistan – will not even be decided in Washington.
→ read full articleViolence Always Turns Against Itself
TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
An Appeal – Photo Essay from Finland
“Handguns must be abolished!”
The United States Stands Alone with Israel in the UN Security Council (or How Honest is the Honest Broker)?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
In what appears to be as close to a consensus as the world community can ever hope to achieve, the United States reluctantly stood its ground on behalf of Israel and on February 18, 2011 vetoed a resolution on the Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem that was supported by all 14 of the other members of the UN Security Council. The resolution was also sponsored by 130 member countries before being presented to the Council.
→ read full articleBrazil to Produce Generic Version of Medication for AIDS and Hepatitis
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
Approximately 64,000 patients with AIDS and 1,500 with hepatitis make use of tenofovir in Brazil. The first national batch of the medication will be available for patients in late March. Domestic production will represent a savings of approximately £410 million to the country.
→ read full articleThe Decline of the US Republic?
Johan Galtung, 28 Feb 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
That the US Empire is falling with the structure so laboriously built in the Middle East crumbling is clear even if there will be fall-back positions. But the US Republic is also in bad shape, with the threat of government shutdown March 5, like in 1995. Why? Because the US polity is inadequate to the challenge.
→ read full articleClimate Change and Agriculture: Biodiverse Ecological Farming is the Answer, not Genetic Engineering
Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
The claim to increased yield is false because yield, like climate resilience is a multi–genetic trait. Introducing toxins into a plant through herbicide resistance or Bt. Toxin increases the “yield” of toxins, not of food or nutrition. Even the nutrition argument is manipulated. Golden rice genetically engineered to increase Vitamin A produces 70 times less Vitamin A than available alternatives such as coriander leaves and curry leaves.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Cercado por Protestos de Todos os Lados, o Japão Desiste da Caça às Baleias, em Plena Meia-Estação
Sociedade Mundial de Proteção Animal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
Após intensas manifestações de repúdio por parte de ativistas, o Japão abriu mão das suas atividades baleeiras no Santuário de Proteção do Oceano Antártico Sul, em plena meia-estação, no momento em que os países latino-americanos exigiram que aquela nação pusesse um fim à matança de baleias.
→ read full articleBehind the Arab Revolt is a Word We Dare Not Speak
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
The revolt in the Arab world is not merely against a resident dictator but a worldwide economic tyranny designed by the US Treasury and imposed by the US Agency for International Development, the IMF and World Bank, which have ensured that rich countries like Egypt are reduced to vast sweatshops, with half the population earning less than $2 a day. The people’s triumph in Cairo was the first blow against what Benito Mussolini called corporatism, a word that appears in his definition of fascism.
→ read full articleConflict and Violence in Africa: Causes, Sources and Types
Adeleye Oyeniyi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
Conflict usually occurs primarily as a result of a clash of interests in the relationship between parties, groups or states, either because they pursuing opposing or incompatible goals. Although the term war is sometimes used as a synonym for conflict, it is more usual to restrict the meaning of war to violent conflict, involving armed forces.
→ read full articleSelf-Liberation: Is There Any Other Kind?
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
The largely non-violent people’s revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt followed by large protest demonstrations throughout the Arab world as well as Iran have drawn attention to the use of non-violent strategies in the process of deep social change. When people want to end oppression and achieve greater freedoms and more justice, there are ways to do this realistically, effectively, self-reliantly and by means that will last.
→ read full articleNATO’s Plan Is to Occupy Libya
Fidel Castro Ruz, CubaDebate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
An honest person will always be against any injustice committed against any nation of the world, and the worst injustice, at this moment, would be to remain silent in the face of the crime that NATO is preparing to commit against the Libyan people. The chief of that military organization is being urged to do so. This must be condemned!
→ read full articleLibya: NATO to Hold Emergency Meeting of North Atlantic Council
Eurasia Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen: “It’s a bit pre-mature to go into specifics, but it’s well known that NATO has assets that can be used in a situation like this and NATO can act as an enabler and coordinator, if and when, individual member states want to take action.”
→ read full article‘Groupthink’ IMF Slammed for Mistakes before Crisis
Bretton Woods Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
The Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) found major IMF lapses in judgement before the financial crisis, including the promotion of “light-touch regulation”, casting doubt on the Fund’s ability to contribute to taming global finance. As the banking crisis has been transformed into crises of public finance, and while the financial sector returns to business as usual, the IMF has grown increasingly vocal about the insufficient attention being paid to regulation and reform. Analysts ask if we should be looking elsewhere.
→ read full articlePrimary Global Reserve Currency: The Con?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
Confidence is essentially intangible and it is therefore somewhat extraordinary that it should be so fundamental to what might otherwise be considered the most tangible aspects of the material world — as evident in the world of business and finance, necessarily so economic with the truth. “Confidence” is supposedly not even a matter of consideration in any evaluation of the financial condition of a commercial enterprise or a national economy. This supposition is in fact quite incorrect as the financial crisis of 2008-9 has demonstrated through concern with assumption of risk and “credit ratings”.
→ read full articleSouth-South Trade Booming Despite High Trade Barriers
Loni Prinsloo, TRALAC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
Speaking at a Frontier Advisory seminar at the JSE, OECD Development Centre director Mario
Pezzini said that South-South trade had experienced tremendous growth in recent years, with exports from developing countries now constituting 37 per cent of global trade, of which about 50 per cent related to South-South trade.
Identity: Beyond Self, Culture, Nation, and Humanity to “LIFEISM”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
This article explores the nature and meaning of identity and its personal, cultural, and national nuances and consequences. In this presentation, I note, as have many others, that meaningful personal and social identities are at the core of a meaningful human existence. But this assertion raises critical questions about what is a meaningful identity, and what is a meaningful existence. These questions assume greater importance and consequence in the context of our emerging global era, in which the development, shaping, and assertion of certain personal and social identities can have life-affirming or life-harming consequences for all of us.
→ read full articleThere you go!
Oren Ginzburg, Survival International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
23 slides depicting the historical and contemporary process of D-E-V-E-L-O-P-M-E-N-T. Funny and instructive, highly pedagogical.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
Dilbert’s “Salary Theorem” states that “Engineers and scientists can never earn as much as business executives and sales people.”
→ read full article(Portuguese) Brasil Começa a Produzir Genéricos para Tratamento de AIDS e Hepatite
Camila Campanerut, UOL Notícias em Brasília – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
“A produção nacional não traz apenas uma economia por ter produção brasileira, mas pressiona os outros laboratórios a diminuir seus preços. A grande vantagem aumenta a competitividade do setor como um todo. Já conseguimos baixar o medicamento de R$4,02 para R$ 3,6 por comprimido”, destacou o diretor do Complexo Industrial e Inovação em Saúde da Secretária de Ciência e Tecnologia do ministério da Saúde, Zichy Moyses.
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One Love | Song around the World
Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
From the award-winning documentary, “Playing for Change: Peace through Music”, comes an incredible rendition of the legendary Bob Marley song “One Love” with Keb’ Mo’ and Manu Chao.
→ read full articleEgypt Decides to Open Gaza Crossing Partially
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
Egyptian authorities decided on Friday [18 Feb 2011] to open the Rafah border crossing into the Gaza Strip for humanitarian cases and to allow Palestinians stuck in Egypt to return to the enclave, state television reported.
→ read full articleTRANSCEND Africa Report 2009-2010
Rais Reza Boneza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
African’s Peaceful means
→ read full articleThink Cosmically Act Globally Eat Locally
Johan Galtung, 21 Feb 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
is the slogan advocated by two University of California Santa Cruz professors, the astrophysicist Joel R. Primack, and his wife, the cultural philosopher (and singer) Nancy Abrams. Their fine book, The New Universe and the Human Future: How a Shared Cosmology Could Transform the World, based on the Terry Lectures at Yale October 2009, will be published by Yale University Press in April.
→ read full articleUS Vetoes UN Draft on Settlements
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
The US has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have condemned Israeli settlements as “illegal” and called for an immediate halt to all settlement building. All 14 other Security Council members voted in favour of the resolution, which was backed by the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), on Friday [18 Feb 2011].
→ read full articleSchooling
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
A young cowboy from Wyoming went off to college, but half way through the semester, he had foolishly squandered all his money. He called home. “Dad,” he said, “You won’t believe what modern education is developing! They actually have a program here that will teach our dog, Ol’ Blue how to talk!”
→ read full articleUNESCO Special Envoy Recognises Cuban Humanitarian Work in Haiti
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
Michaelle Jean, Special Envoy for Haiti of the UNESCO, emphasised the support received from Cuba in the matter of health to the Caribbean country, devastated by an earthquake a year ago. “Whenever we talk about health, we cannot forget the support of that country [Cuba] and this brotherly people,” said Jean, former governor general of Canada, while recognizing the importance of maintaining that link, as somewhat fundamental.
→ read full articleEgyptian Riot Gear
TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
Makeshift helmets made by demonstrators during the Egyptian nonviolent uprising on Liberty Square. Very unusual, funny and creative pieces of non-standard armor kit. The last one presents two loaves of bread as ear protectors tied to a plastic container over the head. Some humor amid the initial violent crackdown attempted by the security forces.
→ read full article‘Problem Children’ towards Radicalism
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
One of the WikiLeaks revelations, published recently in The Daily Telegraph of London, brings into picture the worrisome scenario in which a section of the British youth visit to madrassas in Kashmir under Pakistan’s control, and end in the net of extremist and terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda.
→ read full articlePeace-Building in Africa
Adeleye Oyeniyi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
What is Peace-building? The term is used to refer to long-term preventive, pre-hostility strategies, for measures to remove the internal causes of conflict and to strengthen structural stability in a country against the threat of civil war.
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Lies That Launched a War
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
The 2003 invasion of Iraq was sanctioned largely because of claims the country had weapons of mass destruction. The source of some of the alleged intelligence behind the claims was an Iraqi defector living in Germany, someone who has now admitted the evidence he submitted was false.
→ read full articleReport of Special Rapporteur to the UN Human Rights Council on Occupied Palestinian Territories
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
14 Feb 2011 – I am posting the official text of my most recent report to the UN Human Rights Council on Israeli human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The period covered ends in December 2010, and the report will be formally presented to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 21, 2011. Of course, the impact of recent events, especially in Egypt, is not considered. Of primary interest will be the approach taken by the new Egyptian leadership to the Rafah Crossing, especially whether humanitarian goods will be permitted to enter freely and whether Gazans will be allowed to leave and return without difficulty.
→ read full articleRevolutionary Prospects after Mubarak
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
The bravery, discipline, and creativity of the Egyptian revolutionary movement is nothing short of a political miracle, deserving to be regarded as one of the seven political wonders of the modern world! To have achieved these results without violence, despite a series of bloody provocations, and persisting without an iconic leader, without even the clarifying benefit of a revolutionary manifesto, epitomizes the originality and grandeur of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
→ read full articleDeclaration of the Assembly of Social Movements, WSF/Dakar
Assembly of Social Movements - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
The World Social Forum met in Dakar, Senegal, February 7-11. This declaration was adopted by the Assembly of Social Movements.
→ read full articleDemocracy Born in Chains
Naomi Klein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
The inspiring overthrow of Hosni Mubarak is only the first stage of the Egyptian struggle for full liberation. As earlier pro-democracy movements have learned the hard way, much can be lost in the key months and years of transition from one regime to another. In The Shock Doctrine, I investigated how, in the case of post-apartheid South Africa, key demands for economic justice were sacrificed in the name of a smooth transition. Here is that chapter.
→ read full articleCommentary on Events in North Africa
Ramon Lopez-Reyes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2011
In a paper written in 2007 on “War in the Middle East” I brought attention to the dynamic of convergence (globalization) that is hurling Homo Sapiens toward a common identity. Clearly a concept of ‘convergence’ projects a metaphysical nuance that falls outside the normal span of dialectics, something akin to the Gaia Hypothesis that holds planet Earth to be a self-regulating organism. Although depth psychology contains aspects of metaphysics, I would list the theory of convergence more under evolution than metaphysics. I am of the opinion that nothing can impede convergence other than the demise of the human species itself.
→ read full articleHas The Pro-Israel Lobby Subverted Australian Democracy?
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2011
So, was there an elaborate plot, involving the active connivance of pro-Israel groups, the US embassy, the mining industry and the Right faction of the ALP, and kept successfully secret, to bring Rudd down and install Gillard in his place? To pose the question in those terms is to stretch credulity, but of course there is a way to answer it, which resonates with abundant life experience, and is encapsulated in another question: cui bono? (Or perhaps we could simply say: Go Figure).
→ read full articleDrunks
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2011
Recently, a routine police patrol was parked outside a local neighborhood bar in Minnesota. Late in the evening, the officer noticed a man leaving the bar so intoxicated that he could barely walk.
→ read full articleEthnicity and Indigene/Settler Conflict
Adeleye Oyeniyi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2011
Ethnicity has been one of the regular features of the Third World societies. Africa has had more than lion share in ethnic-induced wars and violence. The issue of ethnicity has become the most viable factor, which explains the social reality of post-colonial Africa. During colonisation of African people, colonialists failed to put the issue of cultural differences of various ethnic groupings into consideration before lumping them together in (colonial) state formation. The oversight has constituted and remained one of the greatest challenges of post-colonial Africa.
→ read full articleThe Role of the World Bank in Carbon Markets
Bretton Woods Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2011
This paper outlines the World Bank’s involvement in the carbon market and reviews concerns about its impacts on greenhouse gas emission reductions and development. First, it introduces the role and aims of the Bank’s Carbon Finance Unit and the various funds and facilities that it manages…. The paper then summarises the concerns that have emerged from official evaluations and scrutiny by civil society groups regarding the effectiveness of Bank carbon finance in reducing emissions and generating development benefits, adding new evidence where available.
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Cairo Intifada
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2011
A report on the nonviolent movements for Mubarak’s ouster.
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