Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Anarchists Are Bad People?
The Daily Bell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2011
Anarchy is a social environment, one that simply seeks a lifestyle without a distant and non-responsive ruling class. It has nothing to do with violence, which is a strategy not a sociopolitical philosophy. One believes in various forms of social organization: communism, socialism, anarcho-capitalism. But one does not believe (as a communal structure) in violence or peace – or jumping jacks or cartwheels for that matter.
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Why Has Cholera Hit Haiti So Hard?
Haiti Grassroots Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2011
For Dossier #4, Haiti Grassroots Watch took a look at cholera, water and sanitation and asked, why has cholera hit the country so hard? What is the real situation of water and sanitation? How did things get this way?
→ read full articleDrug Gang ‘Threatens Guatemala War’
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2011
Group claiming to belong to Zetas cartel issues warning on radio broadcasts after Guatemalan forces launch crackdown.
→ read full articleOpen Letter from Gaza: Two Years after the Massacre, a Demand for Justice
Gazans Seeking Justice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2011
Besieged Gaza, Palestine, 27 December 2010: We, the Palestinians of the Besieged Gaza Strip, on this day, two years on from Israel’s genocidal attack on our families, our houses, our roads, our factories and our schools, are saying enough inaction, enough discussion, enough waiting — the time is now to hold Israel to account for its ongoing crimes against us.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks and World Citizen Diplomacy
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2011
WikiLeaks’ release of a large number of US diplomatic archives gives us a broad vision of the culture of US foreign policy policy-making. Such a vision could also be gained from reading the diplomatic archives as they are published after a “25 or 50 year rule”, but it is more fun to read material of a nearer time, especially if it is classified “Secret”.
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The Happy Planet Index
Nick Marks, TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2011
In the words of Robert F. Kennedy, why does Gross National Product “measure everything […] except that which makes life worthwhile”? Happiness and health are what we really want, but we have the perception that those things can be measured on an economic scale. If happiness is what we want most, why aren’t we measuring it directly? Good news: statistician Nic Marks does just that. Watch as Marks explains the Happy Planet Index, his alternative to GDP, and what it tells us about which countries are really the happiest.
→ read full articleEcuador Recognizes a Palestinian State
CNN Wire Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2010
Ecuador is the latest country to recognize an independent Palestinian state. The government said on Friday [24 Dec 2010] that President Rafael Correa recognized “the Palestine State as free and independent within its borders since 1967.”
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U.S. Gov’t Responds to Questions about Imprisoned Palestinian Nonviolent Protester Abu Rahmah
PopularStruggleCC - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2010
Abu Rahmah was sentenced to one year in Israeli prison on the charge of “incitement” for organizing nonviolent protests against the confiscation of land and Israel’s illegal wall in his West Bank village of Bil’in. One year has since passed and Abu Rahmah is still being held indefinitely by the Israeli military.
→ read full articleUniversal Decriminalization of Homosexuality a Human Rights Imperative — Ban Ki-moon
ILGA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2010
Noting that over 70 countries still consider homosexuality a crime, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today [10 Dec 2010] appealed for its complete and universal decriminalization, stressing that human rights must always trump cultural attitudes and societal strictures.
→ read full articleCold Burn
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2010
Yes, the extreme cold in the UK right now really could be a result of global warming.
→ read full articleNonviolent Peace Force Needs Recruits
FOX – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2010
An organization looking to help with world peace wants to recruit some special people. The Nonviolent Peace Force was co-founded by a Minnesota man in the early 1990’s. There are peace keepers in Sri Lanka, the South Philippines and the Sudan. The peace keepers are unarmed and only go to places where they are invited. The Sudan is expected to possibly have violent outbreaks before a January vote to for independence between Northern and Southern Sudan
→ read full articleWhen Pixels, Bytes and VJs Unite
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2010
Everyone could hear the collective gasp that filled the auditorium – and no one would forget – the very moment when the first signal transporting Aung San Suu Kyi’s animated face to a large screen in London arrived last week.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Portugal: O BPN e a Economia do Crime
José Gusmão, Esquerda.net – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2010
O caso do BPN é exemplar do ponto de vista do papel estratégico que têm os off-shores na promoção da fraude e evasão fiscais, e também na protecção da criminalidade financeira.
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Hollywood and the War Machine
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2010
Empire examines the symbiotic relationship between the movie industry and the military-industrial complex.
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Palestine for Dummies – Nablus
TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2010
6 dicembre 2010. Nablus.
→ read full articleFrom Changing the Strategic Game to Changing the Strategic Frame
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2010
This is a commentary on the argument of Mexican activist Gustavo Esteva following the United Nations Climate Change Conference, Mexico, 2010 (The Arrogance of Cancún, The Guardian, 16 December 2010; Spanish version). He concludes that the lesson of this feeble climate deal is that “governments have played God and failed. It is up to the activists now”. He cites the alternative Cancún Declaration by the International Forum for Climate Justice — The People’s Dialogue (Foro Internacional de la Justicia Climática — Diálogo de la Pueblos) with its slogan: Let’s change the system, not the planet. Specifically the text of the alternative declaration [original Spanish versions: Declaración de Cancún Foro Internacional de Justicia Climática; Declaración del Foro Alternativo por la Justicia Climática Cancún 2010; Foro Mundial de Alternativas: Declaración de Cancún; Declaración de Cancún – Foro Internacional de Justicia Climática] includes the phrase:
→ read full article(Castellano) Ecuador Reconoció a Palestina como Estado Libre e Independiente con Fronteras de 1967
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2010
El gobierno de Ecuador reconoció este viernes [24 Dic 2010] a Palestina como Estado libre e independiente con las fronteras de 1967, previas a la invasión israelí, informó la Cancillería en un comunicado.
→ read full articleA Human Approach to World Peace
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, 1989 Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2010
When we rise in the morning and listen to the radio or read the newspaper, we are confronted with the same sad news: violence, crime, wars, and disasters. I cannot recall a single day without a report of something terrible happening somewhere. Even in these modern times it is clear that one’s precious life is not safe. No former generation has had to experience so much bad news as we face today; this constant awareness of fear and tension should make any sensitive and compassionate person question seriously the progress of our modern world.
→ read full articleAge Matters
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2010
A 70-year old man told his friend, “I met a fabulous 20-year old girl, I am madly in love with her.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Wikifugas, Novo Site do Esquerda.net
Esquerda.net – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2010
Depois de já ter instalado um “espelho” do site da WikiLeaks, o Esquerda.net lança agora o Wikifugas, o site do nosso portal totalmente dedicado à divulgação das principais revelações do chamado “Cablegate” e à luta em defesa da WikiLeaks e da liberdade e transparência da informação.
→ read full articleCell Phone Security: Mobile Phone Taps
Bill Rounds J.D., HowToVanish – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2010
There has been considerable discussion lately about the ease of eavesdropping on cell phone conversations through mobile phone taps and the lack of cell phone security. There are many products and hacks available which allow for monitoring of cell phone activity. Is your phone bugged and what can you do to keep your private information from being intercepted?
→ read full articleHomophobia Plagues Africa
Pambazuka News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2010
Monday’s [20 Dec 2010] statements by a prominent Ghanaian activist provide further evidence of the alarming homophobia that is sweeping across Africa. Bernice Sam, National Programme Coordinator of WiLDAF (Women in Law and Development) in Ghana argued publicly for the Constitution Review Commission to limit Ghana’s definition of marriage to include heterosexual couples only. Sam then went even further. She was quoted as saying that it will be ‘almost impossible for the act of homosexuality to be considered criminal’ if the constitution is not reworded in this way.
→ read full articleTAPI Pipeline Prospects
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2010
The leaders of four nations Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India (TAPI) met in the second week of December 2010 in the capital of Turkmenistan, Ashgabat to sign two agreements called Inter Governmental Agreement (IGA) and Gas Pipeline Framework Agreement (GPFA) to foster the prospects of TAPI pipeline.
→ read full articleWhy Are Wars Not Being Reported Honestly?
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2010
In the US Army manual on counterinsurgency, the American commander General David Petraeus describes Afghanistan as a “war of perception… conducted continuously using the news media”. What really matters is not so much the day-to-day battles against the Taliban as the way the adventure is sold in America where “the media directly influence the attitude of key audiences”. Reading this, I was reminded of the Venezuelan general who led a coup against the democratic government in 2002. “We had a secret weapon,” he boasted. “We had the media, especially TV. You got to have the media.”
→ read full articleFatherhood
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2010
A girl used to tell everyone, “I am the daughter of Dr. Smith.”
→ read full articleAlleged Breach of UN Treaty Obligations by US
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2010
Press Coverage and Commentary Following WikiLeaks Cable Dissemination: A classified directive which appears to blur the line between diplomacy and spying was issued to US diplomats under Hillary Clinton’s name in July 2009, demanding forensic technical details about the communications systems used by top UN officials, including passwords and personal encryption keys used in private and commercial networks for official communications. It called for detailed biometric information “on key UN officials, to include undersecretaries, heads of specialised agencies and their chief advisers, top SYG [secretary general] aides, heads of peace operations and political field missions, including force commanders” as well as intelligence on Ban’s “management and decision-making style and his influence on the secretariat”.
→ read full articleWhy I’m Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Michael Moore – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2010
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010. Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that I have put up $20,000 of my own money to help bail Mr. Assange out of jail. Furthermore, I am publicly offering the assistance of my website, my servers, my domain names and anything else I can do to keep WikiLeaks alive and thriving as it continues its work to expose the crimes that were concocted in secret and carried out in our name and with our tax dollars.
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Fareed Zakaria Trashes Glenn Beck’s Affirmation That 10 Percent of All Muslims Are Terrorists
Fareed Zakaria-GPS, CNN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2010
Fareed Zakaria took to his latest show on CNN to rebuff –using common sense and logical arguments– Beck’s insane claim that there are “157 million Muslim terrorists in the world.”
→ read full article(Castellano) Honduras: Campesinos Bajo Ataque de Terratenientes y el Ejército
Red Morazánica de Información – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2010
Helicópteros, vehículos armados con ametralladoras y tanquetas antidisturbios, han sido parte del gran despliegue militar policial a la zona donde campesinos exigen se desmilitarice el departamento y les sean devueltas la tierras que les pertenecen.
→ read full articleReclaim the Cyber-Commons
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2010
The internet is being captured by organised trolls. It’s time we fought back. They are the online equivalent of enclosure riots: the rick-burning, fence-toppling protests by English peasants losing their rights to the land. When MasterCard, Visa, Paypal and Amazon tried to shut WikiLeaks out of the cyber-commons, an army of hackers responded by trying to smash their way into these great estates and pull down their fences.
→ read full articleThe Nobel War Prize
Tariq Ali, London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2010
For the record, Liu Xiaobo has stated publicly that in his view: (a) China’s tragedy is that it wasn’t colonised for at least 300 years by a Western power or Japan. This would apparently have civilised it forever; (b) The Korean and Vietnam wars fought by the US were wars against totalitarianism and enhanced Washington’s ‘moral credibility’; (c) Bush was right to go to war in Iraq and Senator Kerry’s criticisms were ‘slander-mongering’; (d) Afghanistan? No surprises here: Full support for NATO’s war. He has a right to these opinions, but should they get a peace prize?
→ read full article(German) Interview mit Johan Galtung
Schattenblick – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2010
17. September 2010 in Hamburg
→ read full articleBurma Needs Inter-Ethnic and Inter-Class Solidarity
Dr Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2010
The world knows plenty about Aung San Suu Kyi and what she represents. But it knows almost nothing about the generals beyond their international pariah status.
→ read full articleCriminality of Nuclear Weapons and Deterrence
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2010
Speech delivered in Berlin, 12th December, 2010. The International League of Human Rights (Germany) awards the Carl-von-Ossietzky Medal to Mordechai Vanunu and campaigns for his freedom to leave Israel and receive his prize in Berlin. My Dear Friends,
→ read full article(Portuguese) O Prémio Nobel da Guerra
Tariq Ali – TRANSCEND MEDIA SERVICE,
20 Dec 2010
Liu Xiaobo não deveria nunca ter sido detido, mas o Comité quis dar uma lição à China, ignorando os pontos de vista do seu herói.
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There Once Was an Island (trailer)
Briar March – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2010
Award Winning Film: You’ve heard about the islands in the Pacific Ocean that are disappearing due to rising sea levels. But have you heard from the people there? Have you listened and watched as an entire culture faces extinction or mass displacement? Will traditions and identities survive in the face of such a crisis? Briar March spent many months working on a film about one such island community in Papua New Guinea and looking at all these questions.
→ read full articleOperation Avenge Assange as Digital Direct Action
ReadWriteWeb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2010
“Nonviolence (ahimsa) is a philosophy and strategy for social change that rejects the use of violence. Thus, nonviolence is an alternative to passive acceptance of oppression or of armed struggle against it.” And direct action “is activity undertaken by individuals, groups, or governments to achieve political, economic, or social goals outside of normal social/political channels.”
→ read full articleWomen and the 21st Century
Johan Galtung, 20 Dec 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2010
Feminism has made an enormous contribution by identifying patriarchy as a pattern underlying capitalism and militarism…. Making patriarchy visible through brilliant feminist articulation is a transcending contribution, reminiscent of the marxist focus on another deep structure hidden to the unguided eye: the interface of means and modes of production. Or Lenin and others on imperialism, Gandhi and many others on colonialism. Race. And agism: like placing people above 67 etc. in a ghetto called retirement (or children in a ghetto called schools?).
→ read full articleUNMIN’s Withdrawal Formally Winds up Maoist Army Cantonment and Barracking of the Nepal Army
Bishnu Pathak, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2010
The Sanskrit adage Buvukshitah kim na karoti papam? (What vice is unthinkable to an empty stomach?) occurred in mind when we (including Freelance Journalist Jibanath Khanal) were deliberating upon the “U-turn” of Nepal’s peace process, wondering whether the successor of UNMIN could take over the monitoring and supervision of the arms and armies. While a full-stomach seeks freedom first, an empty stomach looks for food above all temptations.
→ read full articleLegitimate Civil Disobedience: WikiLeaks and the Layers of Backlash
Deanna Zandt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2010
Anonymous launched a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack against the websites of the companies that took away people’s rights to support a political organization [PayPal, Master Charge, Amazon.] Many, myself included, consider DDoS in this context to be much like a sit-in in the offline world. The point of a sit-in is to render a building/room/service unusable for a temporary period of time. Sit-ins aren’t “legal”– you get arrested, and most activists who participate in them know this ahead of time and prepare for it…. Most of the time, it’s a misdemeanor charge, and you’re issued an ACD.
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Inside the Dark Legacy of the US ‘School of Assassins’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2010
For 62 years, the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia, has trained some of the worst human rights abusers in the hemisphere. From Pinochet’s soldiers in Chile, D’Aubuisson’s death squads in El Salvador, Banzer’s minions in Bolivia, Galtieri’s operatives in Argentina and Rios Montt’s soldiers in Guatemala to the present-day generals responsible for the coup in Honduras and the drug war killings in Colombia, the School of the America has a dark legacy. Renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, the school has graduated 65,000 soldiers from 18 countries.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks and the First Global Condom War
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2010
This is an exploration of the curious mirroring between the role of Julian Assange, as the founder of WikiLeaks, and that of the US as the world’s currently acclaimed sole superpower. As is now typical of any global crisis, many are now focused on who to blame and whether they can be neutralized or eliminated — getting the justice they deserve — whilst others complicit in the process escape with impunity, honours and rewards as the exemplification of the universal values of humanity.
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Professor Johan Galtung on Nuclear Weapons as Theological Statements
TalkWorks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2010
TalkWorksEXTRA Films 2010: A virtual forum of leading experts and policy makers talking about the way forward for nuclear disarmament and sustainable global security
→ read full articleBolivia: Cancun Deal is Hollow and False – Its Cost Will Be Measured in Human Lives
Plurinational State of Bolivia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2010
A so-called victory for multilateralism is really a victory for the rich nations who bullied and cajoled other nations into accepting a deal on their terms. The richest nations offered us nothing new in terms of emission reductions or financing, and instead sought at every stage to backtrack on existing commitments, and include every loophole possible to reduce their obligation to act. While developing nations – those that face the worst consequences of climate change – pleaded for ambition, we were instead offered the “realism” of empty gestures. Proposals by powerful countries like the US were sacrosanct, while ours were disposable.
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Doha Debates: This House Would Prefer Money to Free Elections
Tim Sebastian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2010
The Doha Debates ask whether people prefer to make money and leave politics to the elite.
→ read full articleJeremy Scahill Testifies Before Congress on America’s Secret Wars
The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2010
Editor’s Note: Nation national security correspondent Jeremy Scahill today [9 Dec 2010] testified before the House Judiciary Committee on the US’s shadow wars in Pakistan, Yemen, and elsewhere. His complete testimony is below. – While some of the Special Forces missions are centered around training of militaries in allied nations, that line is often blurred. In some cases, “training” is used as a cover for unilateral, direct action. As a former special ops guy told me: “It’s often done under the auspices of training so that they can go anywhere. It’s brilliant. It is essentially what we did in the 60s. Remember the ‘training mission’ in Vietnam? That’s how it morphs.”
→ read full articleDarwinism Dead at 150
Sripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2010
The concept that natural selection provides the foundation for evolutionary change has long been challenged for its failure to explain how different forms arises in nature, but only how they may be favored once they do arise. Through the work of scientists like Motoo Kimura, Tomoko Ohta [Theoretical aspects of population genetics, Motoo Kimura and Tomoko Ohta (1971)] and others, it has been concluded both theoretically and empirically that natural selection has little or no effect on the vast majority of the genomes of most living organisms…. It was Darwin, himself who explained how he should be buried: “If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.”
→ read full articleSovereign State of Palestine: Asset to Middle East Peace
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2010
The struggle in the Middle East between Israelis and Palestinians has been going on for decades. In the spiritual sphere, they both claim by all means to be the descendants of Abraham, viewing God as their Father. The question that needs to be raised here is this: To what extent do they respect and love this divine Father? The deepest sorrow that good parents may possibly experience is to see their children being hurt and deprived from good opportunities in life.
→ read full articleObama’s Israel Policy: Speak Softly and Carry a Very Big Carrot
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2010
Even those familiar with the long and shameful history of America’s appeasement of Israel were taken aback by the Obama administration’s extraordinary offer to Netanyahu. In exchange for a paltry one-off 90 day freeze on illegal settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank (excluding East Jerusalem), Israel will get 20 F-35 stealth fighter jets worth $3 billion and a slew of other goodies. Yet Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reportedly gave up to eight hours with Netanyahu trying to persuade him to accept “one of the most generous bribes ever bestowed by the United States on any foreign power.”
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2010
A father told his young son, “You have gotten a little sister.”
→ read full articleThe Seven Myths of ‘Slums’
Adam Parsons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2010
Conventional thinking on development issues is often characterised by many assumptions, clichés and rationalisations about the residents of slums. In challenging some of these core myths, we can focus on the structural causes of urban poverty that result in the rapid growth of informal settlements.
→ read full articleThe OSCE Looks East
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2010
The OSCE remains very much a governmental organization. Unlike the United Nations where the UN Secretariat members come from a wide range of backgrounds, the OSCE Secretariat is made up of national diplomats or other national civil servants such as the police. Many will return to national posts after serving at the OSCE. There is less a spirit of being world civil servants than there is at the UN.
→ read full articleMr. Fish’s Cartoons
Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
Wanted
Julian Assange wanted for…
Global Domestic Policy – And WikiLeaks
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
Nor is class fading out: the world upper classes enrich themselves in the financial system, greatly aided by the International Monetary Fund–and the world lower classes use the drug system for similar purposes, as acted out in Rio de Janeiro. Two perverse systems coming out of the absurdity of world hyper capitalism, supported by a fading empire. We need and deserve something better, nothing perfect, but much better. We cannot build globalization on such absurdities.
→ read full articleThe Education of a Peacemaker
Philip Grant interviewing Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
“Nationalism is not the same as culture…. This triad of chosenness, glory and trauma produces vicious types of nationalistic ideologies that are constantly threatening world peace…. Nationalism lays claims on land and times…. Education has degenerated into schooling, schooling has mutated into a way of earning degrees, and degrees are seen simply as a ticket to earning a living.”
→ read full articleFormer WikiLeaks Activists to Launch New Whistleblowing Site
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
A group of former members of WikiLeaks is planning to launch its own whistleblowing platform in mid-December, according to a German newspaper. The activists criticize WikiLeaks for concentrating too much on the US and want to take a broader approach.
→ read full articleStudy Suggests There Are 300 Sextillion Stars in the Universe!
Seth Borenstein, AP Science Writer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
“It’s fun because it gets you thinking about these large numbers,” Conroy said. Conroy looked up how many cells are in the average human body — 50 trillion or so — and multiplied that by the 6 billion people on Earth. And he came up with about 300 sextillion. So the number of stars in the universe “is equal to all the cells in the humans on Earth, a kind of funny coincidence,” Conroy said.
→ read full articleBrazil Recognises Palestine
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
Israel expresses disappointment over Brazil’s decision to recognise a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders.
→ read full articleThree more…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
There is a saying, “no news is good news,”
→ read full articleDiscovery of “Arsenic-bug” Expands Definition of Life
NASA Science News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
Dec. 2, 2010: NASA-supported researchers have discovered the first known microorganism on Earth able to thrive and reproduce using the toxic chemical arsenic. The microorganism, which lives in California’s Mono Lake, substitutes arsenic for phosphorus in the backbone of its DNA and other cellular components.
→ read full articleIsrael Starts Building Barrier on Egypt Border
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
Work is beginning in Israel on a barrier along the border with Egypt, aimed at stemming the flow of illegal immigrants into the country. The barrier, including an electric fence and surveillance technology, will run for 250km (155 miles). Work on the $372m (£232m) project is expected to take up to a year.
→ read full articleThe WikiLeaks Diplomatic Crisis
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
A powerful video roundtable discussion with Amy Goodman, Daniel Ellsberg, Greg Mitchell, Carne Ross and As’ad Abukhalil. Now we’re getting to the real perspectives on the latest WikiLeaks release.
→ read full articleFabricating Terror
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
Why does the FBI orchestrate fake terror plots? The United States of America, “the city upon the hill,” “the light unto the world,” has become Nazi Germany. The Obama regime is in the process of completing Dick Cheney’s dream by legislating the legality of indefinite detention. American law has collapsed to the dungeons of the Dark Ages. This Nazi Gestapo policy is now the declared policy of the US Department of Justice (sic). Anyone who thinks the United States is a free society where people have liberty, “freedom and democracy” is uninformed.
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Inspirational Friendship
TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
Amazing video about a wonderful friendship across species. Please watch.
→ read full articleThe Proper Response to WikiLeaks
Karen Kwiatkowski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
Government goons, soldiers and bureaucrats in foreign countries will not face a greater threat to their lives, most especially from these cables. What they will face is snickers, chuckles, and outright laughter. And truly, this is as it should be. When one declares that his robes are the most beautiful, made of the finest silk, so glorious that they compete with the sun – sometimes a little blond-haired boy with a most serious look about him declares that it seems to him that the Emperor has no clothes! And we see, slowly at first, then an unstoppable surge of laughter and finger-pointing by the common people who, for all their ignorance and all their flaws, know enough to put on clothes before going out in public.
→ read full articleA Surge of Truth
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
It is an “attack on the international community,” said US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in reference to the release of 250.000 secret cables by WikiLeaks. Clinton is correct; this is indeed a long overdue, necessary attack on an ‘international community’ of war mongers and war criminals.
→ read full articleTranscending One-eyed Global Modelling Perspectives: Incorporating Under-Currents into Global Circulation of Value
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
The dissemination by WikiLeaks of classified communications of the US military and diplomatic services allows serious attention to be given to systemic phenomena which are typically dismissed as being “unconfirmed” allegations of marginal significance — at worst exceptional incidents. Whilst “everyone” has long acknowledged the extent of secrecy and corruption, this was typically minimized or denied in official communications, establishment media and education systems. More problematic is the degree to which such systemic phenomena have been denied or minimized in academic studies and modelling of the world system.
→ read full articleIs WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange a Hero? Glenn Greenwald Debates Steven Aftergood of Secrecy News
Democracy Now! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
WikiLeaks is coming under attack from all sides. The WikiLeaks website is struggling to stay online just days after Amazon pulled the site from its servers following political pressure. The U.S. State Department has blocked all its employees from accessing the site and is warning all government employees not to read the cables, even at home. “These attacks will not stop our mission, but should be setting off alarm bells about the rule of law in the United States,” said WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. We host a debate between Steven Aftergood, a transparency advocate who has become a leading critic of WikiLeaks, and Glenn Greenwald, a constitutional law attorney and legal blogger for Salon.com.
→ read full articleWhat of Military Aggression?
Benjamin Ferencz | Radio Netherlands Worldwide - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
Today [20 Nov 2010] marks the 65th anniversary of the Nuremberg war crimes trials — the landmark process that brought top Nazis to justice and established precedents that now underpin international law. “We have come a long way from Nuremberg, and have miles to go before we sleep.”
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The Chilcot Inquiry: Britain’s 9/11 Commission
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
All too often, official inquiries are conducted by the very people who should themselves be under investigation. In this respect, Britain’s Chilcot Inquiry on the Iraq war bears a distressing similarity to the 9/11 Commission. In a remarkable symmetry, both inquiries involve a Jewish Zionist historian, who not only advised his country’s leader to go to war against Iraq, but actually provided the ideological justification for that unnecessary war.
→ read full articleHaiti: Reclaiming Sovereignty
Senator Jean William Jeanty – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
As Haiti gears up for its forthcoming elections, Jean William Jeanty decries the complete absence of transparency in the country around post-earthquake reconstruction and the ability of foreign companies to usurp Haitian law. With the country gripped by cholera (the ‘natural indicator of underdevelopment’), Jeanty stresses that Haiti’s leaders ‘are trying to rush the elections so that they can perpetuate things the way they are’.
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America: The Silence of a Nation
Chris Hedges - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
The author spoke at the Revolution Books Town Hall Meeting at Ethical Culture Society on January 13, 2009 condemning Israel and USA complicity in Israel’s murderous destruction and genocide of the innocent men, women and children of GAZA and the West Bank.
→ read full articleInsight: International Centre for the Study of Radicatlisation on Al Qaeda’s ‘Inspire’ Magazine
Shiraz Maher – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
The latest edition of Al Qaeda’s ‘Inspire’ reveals more details about the recent airline bomb plot which emanated in Yemen. “Dear friends, I find this quite something. And it confirms my two points: the point is in Arabia, not Afghanistan; and the point with the underwear bomb was to force the West into even more expensive and stupid “security” measures.” –Johan Galtung.
→ read full articleInterview with Gay Theologian David Berger: ‘A Large Proportion of Catholic Clerics and Trainee Priests Are Homosexual’
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
David Berger, a gay theologian who has written a book about his experiences as a senior theologian in the Catholic Church, speaks to SPIEGEL about homophobia and the church’s shift to the right.
→ read full articleRole of Civil Society in Ending Nuclear Weapons and War
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
Presentation at a panel discussion on Japanese TV – 11th Nobel Peace Summit, Hiroshima, Japan, Nov 12-14, 2010
→ read full article(Italian) Stati Uniti, il Dramma Silenzioso dei Reduci
Alberto Tundo, PeaceReporter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
Il numero dei soldati che si suicidano ha superato quello dei militari morti in Afghanistan dal 2001.
→ read full articleWhat Does Aung San Suu Kyi’s Release Mean for Burma?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
Since the release of a single dissident Aung San Suu Kyi – while holding 2,100 of her fellow dissidents behind bars who are serving up to 90 years imprisonment – the loud calls for lifting sanctions are repeated by some well-known supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi such as East Timor’s Jose Ramos-Horta, as if pouring more foreign direct investment in Burma’s gas and oil sector and increasing trade with the country’s kleptocratic, dysfunctional State would automatically translate into public welfare.
→ read full articleLiberia: Searching For Solutions to Land Disputes
IRIN (*) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
Having served as the launch-pad for the insurgency led by former President Charles Taylor in December 1989, Nimba was caught up repeatedly in the 14-year conflict that followed. Thousands fled, many into neighbouring Guinea, prompting a series of land and property transfers, forced and voluntary, legal and illegal. The reintegration of returning communities has been complicated by continuing confusion over who rightfully owns what.
→ read full article(Italian) Bori su Tolstoj: Non Resistere al Male
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
Presentiamo qualche appunto dalla lezione di Pier Cesare Bori, e dalla discussione seguitane, il 10 novembre 2010, nel centenario della morte di Lev Tolstoj, avvenuta il 7 novembre 1910, in un incontro organizzato dal Centro Studi Sereno Regis. Bori ha esposto colloquialmente un testo che in seguito pubblicherà.
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The Video That Exposes the Truth about the War on Terror!
truthforall01 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
Mandatory viewing for all supporters of the war(s).
→ read full articleTelling the People’s Story: A Tribute to Chalmers Johnson
Tim Shorrock – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
For Chalmers Johnson, a great man who died this weekend [21 Nov 2010].
→ read full article(Italian) SABONA – “TI VEDO”
Giorgio Barazza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
Come Affrontare I Conflitti Con L’educazione Alla Pace: METODO TRANSCEND
→ read full articleFairness
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
Taking his seat in his chambers, the judge faced the opposing lawyers. “So,” he said, “I have been presented, by both of you, with a bribe.”
→ read full articleIslam and the West: Some Differences
Johan Galtung, 29 Nov 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
The three abrahamic religions judaism-christianity-islam are similar in being revealed truths 4,000, 2,000, 1,400 years ago; and different by being revealed into different contexts, and by the latter building on the former. These 16 debatable points are based on themes frequently coming up in dialogues.
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[MUST WATCH] NATO: Going Global
Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is the largest military force ever assembled, with a potential armed force of more than seven million. But as its original enemies, communism and the Soviet Union, were defeated two decades ago, what is the alliance’s new identity or new role?
→ read full article(Italian) Mohamed, per tutti “Mimmo” è stato espulso. Deportato in Egitto
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
Giovedì 18 novembre 2010, alle ore 14,30 l’aereo che riporta Mohamed al Cairo è decollato da Malpensa. Oltre ai 9 migranti deportati martedì 16 novembre, giovedì con Mimmo c’era un altro fratello. “L’aereo sta partendo … davanti a me” – dice sconsolato Leòn – “l’aereo è in movimento …”
→ read full articleSuperquestions for Supercomputers
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
This is a reflection on the press release announcing that Supercomputers ramp up to tackle global societal problems (Science and Technology Facilities Council, 17 November 2010). The press release argues that supercomputers of the future, capable of rapidly crunching vast amounts of data way beyond the existing capabilities of current technology, will spearhead the development of new drugs, new sources of energy and environmental monitoring.
→ read full article(Italian) L’influenza di Tolstoj su Gandhi
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
1- Alcuni caratteri del pensiero di Tolstoj 2- Come Gandhi conosce Tolstoj 3- La Lettera a un indù, di Tolstoj, conquista Gandhi 4- Carteggio Gandhi – Tolstoj 5- Che cosa Gandhi deve a Tolstoj 6 – Gandhi dice le differenze tra lui e Tolstoj 7 – Differenze oggettive Tolstoj-Gandhi
→ read full articleCambodia’s National Day of Mourning
Emma Leslie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
The Water Festival is a time of great celebration in Cambodia. It is always celebrated around November but the dates are dependent on the moon. Some say it’s a chance to honour the rivers which replenish the soil for the harvest. Others say it’s to honour the spirits which make the river miraculous change direction and flow in the other direction. Mostly it’s the time where the people from Cambodia’s countryside take over the capital! Phnom Penh is theirs. They sleep along the streets, they cheer on the boat of their district, they stay up all night and enjoy the myriad of free entertainment from fireworks to concerts and traditional dancing. It’s a grand celebration of life!
→ read full articleMusicians
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
Ben Zanders, the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic, led an audience of 1000 at a conference where he spoke, to sing “happy birthday to you” for one of the participants.
→ read full articleThe Legacy of Hiroshima
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
Presented at the 11th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Nov 12, 2010, Hiroshima, Japan. Criminality and Delegitimation of Nuclear Weapons
→ read full article“Put the Palestinians on a Diet”
Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
Media Bury Documents Revealing Israel’s Deliberate Policy of Near Starvation for Gaza: Israel has been forced to reveal what Palestinians and other observers on the ground have known for a long time: that the blockade of Gaza is state policy intended to inflict collective punishment, not to bolster Israeli “security”…. The released documents, whose existence Israel had denied for eighteen months, reveal that the state approved “a policy of deliberate reduction” of basic goods, including food and fuel, in the Gaza Strip.
→ read full article(Italian) Brescia 6 Novembre 2010: Una Manifestazione Noviolenta
Silvia Berruto, giornalista contro il razzismo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
E’ stata una manifestazione a tutti gli effetti nonviolenta.
A supporto di una resistenza civile nonviolenta.
Da manuale.
North American Union – “U.S. Super Spy Center” Uncovered in Mexico
Jorge Carrasco and Jesus Esquivel, DeadlineLive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
With the approval of Felipe Calderón’s Administration, the U.S. Government finally got what it always wanted: To set up a super spy center in Mexico City. It was the escalation of the drug war in the country what opened the door to all U.S. intelligence agencies, including the military, to operate out of the Federal District without having to disguise their agents as diplomats.
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The Story of Electronics
Annie Leonard, Story of Stuff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
Why “designed for the dump” electronics are toxic to people and the planet … and what to do about it.
→ read full article(Castellano) ¿Cómo Pelear como Buenos Vecinos?
Adrián Bergmann – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
Lo que se ha venido desarrollando entre Costa Rica y Nicaragua – no desde octubre, sino desde hace mucho tiempo – es una relación de vecinos que no está como debería estar. No sólo entre gobiernos, sino entre pueblos.
→ read full articleMajor Spy Scandal As Five Scandinavian Governments Catch the U.S. Watching Their Citizens
Daily Mail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
America has been accused of illegally spying on hundreds of people in Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Iceland. Officials in the five countries expressed their unhappiness at surveillance tactics that were conducted without the knowledge of the individual nations’ governments.
→ read full article11th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
The Summit Final Declaration on the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
→ read full articleCosta Rica Lawmakers Vote to Ban Open-Pit Mining
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
Costa Rica’s congress voted on Tuesday [9 Nov 2010] to ban all new open-pit mining projects, citing environmental concerns, without blocking the development of the country’s only major gold mine.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Touro Ataca Aficionados na Espanha: 40 Feridos (Fotos)
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
(Nota do Editor da TMS): A violencia virou-se contra os violentos. Os verdadeiros animais selvagens sao aqueles que se encontram na plateia. Se todos os touros se rebelassem desta forma as touradas possivelmente deixariam de existir. Civilizados, nós, nem de longe…
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