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Intergovernmental Report: Hate Crime Remains a Serious Problem in Europe and North America
Human Rights First – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) today [17 Nov 2010] released its annual report for 2009 “Hate Crimes in the OSCE Region – Incidents and Responses,” concluding that hate crime continued to be a serious problem in many of the 56 countries in North America, Europe, and the former Soviet Union. This is the first study since the passage of the notable 2009 Ministerial Council Decision 9/09, in which participating countries upheld unanimously their commitment to collect and publicize detailed statistics on hate crime.
→ read full articleCosta Rica-Nicaragua Border Dispute has Makings of an International Crisis
Honduras Weekly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
On October 21, Nicaragua deployed soldiers on Calero Island inside Costa Rican territory along the San Juan River claiming it was only conducting channel deepening work on the river. Costa Rica, which has no army, mobilized its national police and asked the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington, DC to intervene.
→ read full articleOpen Letter for Free Travel to Mordechai Vanunu
TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
Please Grant Mordechai Vanunu Free Departure Out of Israel and Allow Him to Receive the Carl-Von-Ossietzky-Medal 2010 Personally at the Award Ceremony on December 12th this Year in Berlin.
→ read full articleCarl-von-Ossietzky-Medal for Mordechai Vanunu
International League of Human Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
For over a quarter of a century, Mordechai Vanunu has been engaging in the struggle for total nuclear disarmament, for transparent democracy and for peace among nations with outstanding civil courage and fortitude.
→ read full articleThe Hiroshima Peace Summit
The Asahi Shimbum, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize gathered in Hiroshima over the weekend [Nov 12-14, 2010] for an international conference held under the theme: The Legacy of Hiroshima: A World Without Nuclear Weapons.” The participants issued a declaration that called for popularizing the view that the use of nuclear weapons is immoral and illegal, immediately ratifying the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty by the United States and Russia, and deeply cutting the nuclear arsenals of nuclear powers…. The organizers of the conference and the city of Hiroshima invited U.S. President Barack Obama, who won the prize last year, to attend, but to no avail…. The U.S. government’s moves to increase the nuclear arms budget and conduct a subcritical nuclear test in September have caused deep disappointment in Hiroshima, leaving many citizens feeling “betrayed” by Obama.
→ read full articleHitler and the Germans
Johan Galtung, 22 Nov 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
Berlin: The exhibition with that name is on and very much worth visiting. The fact that it exists is laudable in itself, and people come, many, standing in line. There is much expertise behind this effort to explore why Hitler attracted the support he got, including with a coalition party winning an election as free and fair as they come early March 1933, right after what is referred to as the Machtergreifung, grabbing the power and actually was a Machtübergabe, giving the power–to Hitler. And his NSDAP, the national socialist German labor party, Na from National and zi from Sozialist add up to Nazi. Imagine now that they actually stood for both.
→ read full article(Castellano) Espía EU en México
Jorge Carrasco A. y J. Jesús Esquivel, am.com.mx – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
Con el gobierno de Felipe Calderón, Estados Unidos logró lo que siempre ambicionó: establecer en la Ciudad de México un centro de espionaje. Y fue el ascenso del narcotráfico en el país el que abrió la puerta a todas las agencias de inteligencia estadunidenses, predominantemente militares, para que operen desde el Distrito Federal sin necesidad de encubrir a sus agentes como diplomáticos.
→ read full articleDefend Julian Assange
WikiLeaks Staff Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
18 November 2010. Why Our Editor-in-Chief Is Busy and Needs to Be Defended.
→ read full article(French) Un Portugais Ancien de Goldman Sachs à la Tête du Département Europe du FMI
France24 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
Le Fonds monétaire international a annoncé mardi [16 Nov 2010] dans un communiqué la nomination à la tête de son département Europe d’un économiste portugais et ancien dirigeant de la banque Goldman Sachs, Antonio Borges.
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(Italian) Galtung – Intervista a “due”: Medicina Nonviolenta
GUNA TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
Il teorico di fama internazionale degli studi sulla non violenza Johan Galtung e il presidente di GUNA spa Alessandro Pizzoccaro.
→ read full articleRealities of the Obama Visit
Dr. Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
The Obama visit to India in this November attracted world wide attention, with analysts pouring appreciations or criticisms or both on the visit. The visit surrounded by grand phrases like ‘natural partners’ could enchant much of the Indian public, and particularly when during the speech at Indian parliament on 8 November 2010 Obama urged Pakistan to dismantle terrorist centers within its borders, supported India’s candidature for the permanent membership of the security council and dropped the Kashmir word in the speeches and deliberations, the symbolism in the bilateral relations could reach its apogee, though these pronouncements will remain mere words till their fruitful realization in ground reality.
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Irish Government Slaves to IMF Terror Machine!
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
If Europe’s single currency fails, so would the Union itself. The warning comes from the EU president, who was speaking ahead of the meeting of the Eurozone’s finance ministers. Portugal has warned it could be forced out of the Eurozone, and Ireland is also being urged to use European bailout money to prevent bankruptcy. But Financial analyst Max Keiser says going to the IMF for help would be even worse…
→ read full articleThe Decline and Fall of Norway
Johan Galtung, 15 Nov 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2010
Then the third revelation. Wars among states decrease as wars among nations increase; the state system going down and the nation system up in salience. What could make young men kill Afghans when Norway is not attacked? Constructing Norway as a killer nation, digging deep down in Norwegian archaeology, to the Vikings, invoking their symbols, helmets and Valhalla, with craniums to boot. Like SS. Quisling, from the Telemark province, also used the Germanic cult of anything old Nordic for his fascist Norwegian Legion. Name of the Norwegian Afghanistan ISAF battalion: Telemark. Ominous.
→ read full articleCanadian Couple Gives Lottery Winnings to Charity
Chronicle of Philanthropy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2010
A couple in Nova Scotia who won $11.2-million in a lottery this summer has decided to give most of their winnings to charity, reports AOL News.
→ read full articleAnti-Nuclear Protesters to Merkel: ‘Enough Is Enough’
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2010
A train loaded with radioactive waste ended its controversial journey through Germany on Monday [8 Nov 2010]. Its path had been blocked by up to 50,000 protesters over the weekend, sparking violent clashes between police and anti-nuclear activists. Commentators on Monday take stock of the political repercussions.
→ read full articleColombia Has the Highest Number of Displaced People in the World
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2010
The Consultancy for Human Rights (CODHES) reported that of 3.7 million displaced Colombians, at least 380,000 have managed to get shelter in 36 countries due to the armed conflict in Colombia for almost five decades. “Unfortunately, many of the displaced people in the world come from Colombia,” said the director of CODHES, Jorge Rojas, based on data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). “In the last two decades, the main flow of internally displaced persons seeking refuge beyond the borders comes from Colombia, where a long conflict persists with a serious humanitarian and human rights impact that affects neighboring countries and has implications for the entire region,” he affirmed.
→ read full article(Italian) “Lačò Drom” Cena
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2010
È morta “Cena” Huseinović. Sopravvissuta alla deportazione nel campo di sterminio di Jasenovac. All’ospedale San Giovanni Bosco di Torino stanotte si è spenta Cena Huseinović, una delle ultime testimoni Rom sopravvissute alle deportazioni nei campi di sterminio.
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Bulldozing Peace
AlternateFocus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2010
Bulldozing Peace, a documentary that researches how Israel acquires Caterpillar bulldozers from the U.S. Government through its foreign aid or military aid and then converts them to war machines to demolish Palestinian homes and olive groves and build roads and walls on Palestinian lands. These activities are against the laws of the U.S.
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Brazil: Peace in the Favelas
Aljazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2010
For decades Brazil’s favelas – or shanty towns – have been a deadly battleground, where thousands died in the turf wars of rival gangsters and drug lords. But two years ago – in anticipation of the football World Cup in 2014 and the 2016 Summer Olympics, the Brazilian government launched a new initiative. Since then the Police Pacifying Units (UPP), have moved into 12 favelas, freeing 150,000 people from the control of the gangs and bringing a new calm to embattled neighbourhoods.
→ read full articleApproaches to Peacebuilding in Nepal: Experiments in Various Dimensions
Bishnu Pathak, Ph.D., Peace & Conflict Study Center, Nepal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2010
During the Cold War, the world was largely divided into two opposing camps, capitalism and communism. Johan Galtung, the father of peace studies, has stated that nationalisms, ethnicities and religious identities in the post-Cold War era have led Western intellectuals to reconsider the role of these factors in the developing world order (Galtung 2008a: 10).
→ read full articleGerman FM Calls on Israel to Lift Gaza Siege
Haaretz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2010
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle called on Israel on Monday [8 Nov 2010] to lift its siege of the Gaza Strip, saying the blockade of 1.5 million people was “not acceptable.”
→ read full article“US Wants to Return Iran to Its Sphere of Imperialist Influence” — John Pilger
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2010
”Iran was a pillar of the American empire in the Middle East. That was swept away in 1979 when there was an Islamic revolution, and it has been American foreign policy to get that back,” he said.
→ read full articleMyanmar Election Was ‘Categorically Anti-Democratic’
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2010
The constitution also stipulates the commander-in-chief will be above the law, and that the president must have substantial “national security experience”, something which only military officers can claim. Twenty five per cent of parliamentary seats are reserved for the military and any constitutional amendment must have more than 75 per cent of votes, making reform virtually impossible unless, of course, the generals acquiesce. The parliament is required to meet only once a year.
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Michael Moore on Countdown with Keith Olbermann – Nov/9/2010
Antonio C. S. Rosa, Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2010
“My plea if Mr. Immelt or anyone who’s watching here at GE — I will give them, for free, ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ to run on NBC as balance to all this publicity that they’ve been giving President Bush this week and his answers about how the worst thing that happened to him was Kanye West. I hope we never forget what this man did. — Michael Moore
→ read full articleJokes to Be Taken Seriously
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2010
Learn from the mistakes of others…
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What if…
TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2010
A video clip that you won’t see on CNN and Fox news: US Foreign Wars Policies are turning to be Self-Destructive – US Rep. Ron Paul, who ran for the US Presidential nomination on the Republican ticket two years ago, just gave a brief speech in the US House of Representatives showing why the US is in real trouble. It’s because its foreign wars policies are igniting hatred against Americans.
→ read full article(Castellano) Chávez: Cuba y Venezuela Han Creado un Sistema de Integración sin Precedentes
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2010
El presidente Hugo Chávez expresó que Cuba y Venezuela se han convertido en la cuna de un mundo nuevo, gracias a su constante lucha, apoyo e integración para liberarse de las cadenas del capitalismo y seguir las sendas del socialismo para beneficio de sus pueblos.
→ read full article‘Anything but Free and Fair’: West Blasts Burmese Elections
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2010
US President Barack Obama and several other Western leaders have condemned Sunday’s elections in Burma for being neither free nor fair. Early results show widespread success for military backed candidates, but the opposition says manipulation was rampant.
→ read full article‘US World’s Biggest Arms Seller’
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2010
The United States has topped the list of global arms sellers, with Israel, UAE and India purchasing the bulk of arms including fighter jets, says a think tank.
→ read full articleHaitian Anger over Cholera Response
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2010
Haitians accuse government, the UN and aid workers of failing to protect them as water-borne disease claims 700 lives.
→ read full articleCultivating Global Strategic Fantasies of Choice
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2010
Learnings from Islamic Al-Qaida and the Republican Tea Party Movement: Subsequent to the success of the Republican Tea Party movement in the recent US mid-term elections, Gary Younge argued the case that the “Tea Party” does not in fact exist (The Tea Party is not new, or coherent. It’s merely old whine in new bottles, The Guardian, 7 November 2010). This elicited several hundred comments. This argument follows various observations regarding the questionable nature of the “existence” of Al-Qaida (Learning from “al-Qaida” as a source of terrorism, 2005).
→ read full articlePendulum in American Politics
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2010
To turn insult into injury, the US politicians continue to explain to the American people that the US government involvement in these two wars has been to bring freedom and democracy to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. What a way of bringing democracy and freedom to other nations which never made such a request from the outset! Proven statistics tell us that US troops have killed and maimed tens of thousands of innocent people, including women, children, the elderly and the sick exceeding one million in totality.
→ read full articleThe Concept of Strategic Depth: Can the Compass Move?
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2010
Military planners in Pakistan have landed themselves in an existential mess by backing their American allies a few decades ago to convert free-living tribals into the Taliban. They took this dangerous step to help create strategic depth in Afghanistan against any Indian offensive.
→ read full articleCivilization as a Way of Life
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2010
Right now the West of the West, the USA, is losing not only its empire, but after .com, housing and finance bubbles comes the US$ bubble, with the federal debt increasing 3,2 billion dollars per day since 2006, the unemployed 7,300 per day since 2008 and 1,400 jobs lost in industries per day since 2006. And 2 1/2 times more money circulating, meaning printed, than before the 2008 crash (Der Spiegel, 44-2010). Worse than a failed state: a failed society. Will this make the West less arrogant, learning to pay attention to economic-social rights, to togetherness and sharing, to neither too little nor too much, to spiritual growth, to economic and political eclecticism, and democracy by dialogue? To harmony through mutual and equal benefit? The better a Western country manages to learn from the rest of the world, not only preach, the better the people will fare. And the more a non-Western country develops of its own, independent of the West, the better it will fare; not belittling what it can learn from the West for dynamism, democratic transitions and human rights.
→ read full articlePressure for an Independent Umpire in Sri Lanka
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2010
James Bourne spoke to the Sri Lanka Human Rights Project coordinator, Professor Jake Lynch, about the political situation in Sri Lanka- and how sport can be used as an effective tool of persuasion.
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Joel Burns Tells Gay Teens “It Gets Better”
TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2010
Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns reaches out to GLBT teens with a personal story and a message of hope.
→ read full articleCivil Society and Its Pragmatically Grateful Children (A POEM)
Dr. Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2010
A gift to Burmese voters
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Dietrich Fishcer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2010
A civil servant falls downstairs in the Ministry and is badly wounded.
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CrossTalk: Iran a Good Guy? (participation of Robert Fisk)
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2010
On this edition of Peter Lavelle’s CrossTalk, he asks his guests how we should understand Iran’s “soft power” in the Greater Middle East. Is it under-estimated in western mainstream media?
→ read full articleInciting Mob Anger Against Me
Arundhati Roy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2010
On October 31, 2010 members of the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party, which has links with neo-fascist organizations, gathered outside Roy’s home in New Dehli and chanted slogans for half an hour. The group vandalized property outside a security gate, and then broke onto the grounds of the home. Roy was not present at the time of the attack. Roy, the celebrated author of the novel The God of Small Things and of several non-fiction books, including Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers, issued this statement after the attack, drawing particular attention to the apparent collaboration of the Indian media with the mob that carried out the attack.
→ read full articleA Ghost Agreement
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2010
Everyone agrees that the new declaration on biodiversity is a triumph. Just one snag: it doesn’t appear to exist.
→ read full articleBring on the Learning Revolution!
TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2010
Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence. In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning — creating conditions where kids’ natural talents can flourish..
→ read full articleThe Party Game Is Over. Stand and Fight
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2010
There is no other way now. Direct action. Civil disobedience. Unerring. Read Shelley and do it.
→ read full article(Italian) Brescia. La lotta di Arun, Jimi, Rachid, Sajad, Singh e Abdalla sulla Gru Continua
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2010
Arun, Jimi, Rachid, Sajad, Singh e Abdalla sono ancora sulla gru del cantiere della metropolitana In Piazza Cesare Battisti-Via San Faustino. Dopo cinque notti oggi è il sesto giorno di protesta.
→ read full articlePeace in Business Ventures
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2010
If we were to examine the products of some of the business ventures in the world we would discover that some are meant to lead and preserve peace while others are structured to create and promote war.
→ read full articleMissing the New Renaissance? No Room at the In?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2010
Produced on the occasion of a conference of the Scientific and Medical Network to launch a compilation: A New Renaissance: transforming science, spirit and society (2010).
→ read full articleSmall but Beautiful: Exquisite
Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2010
Far from your typical photography competition, Nikon Small World reveals the hidden beauty of tiny things. The annual shortlist zooms in on the complexities of life under a powerful lens. This year’s collection includes close-up shots of a mosquito heart, a wasp nest and even soy sauce.
→ read full articleDrug Company Whistleblower Wins Big
Aljazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2010
US woman to receive $96m in “biggest whistleblower award ever” after GlaxoSmithKline is fined for selling faulty drugs.
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American War
YoungBrotherMusic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2010
American War is a folk-rock, Americana, classic, anti-war song created in three versions, by John Hart Young of the Young-Brother Band with Richard Del Maestro co-producing and performing.
→ read full articleThe Peace Trinity (A POEM)
S.P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2010
A Birthday Gift for Professor Johan Galtung
→ read full articleOn Luck
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2010
A little girl lived in a small hut in the forest, with a leaking roof that let the rain through, and thin walls where the wind and snow blew through.
→ read full articleJohan Galtung Is Awarded the Korean Peace Prize
Prof. Dietrich Fischer, Nov 1 2010 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2010
Johan Galtung, born in Oslo, Norway, on 24 October 1930 has been awarded the Korean DMZ Peace Prize for 2010, “for his long-lasting work for world peace and Korean reunification”, as the selection committee stated.
→ read full articleHaiti Was Forgotten Too Soon
The Independent, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2010
It was only 10 months ago that the international spotlight was focused on the misery of Haiti after an earthquake killed at least 200,000 people. But 10 months is a long time in the aid world. Recent reports of an outbreak of cholera, which has already killed more than 250 people, are a reminder that once the spotlight of attention shifts, disaster-stricken countries are too often left more or less to their own devices. That this contagious disease has already moved into the overcrowded capital, Port-au-Prince, claiming several lives there, is another ominous development.
→ read full articleEthics in Business Education
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2010
If we were to give a rapid glance at the last 6,000 years of recorded history, we would soon discover that most problems in the world stem from the government. Needless to say, the source of such problems may vary from one country to another. The most common one could be easily traced to questionable behavior in business transactions.
→ read full articleDaniel Ellsberg: Secrets – Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
UCtelevision – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2010
University of California Santa Barbara – Oct 25, 2002 — In 1971 Defense Department analyst, former U.S. Marine company commander and anti-Communist Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to the media. In this talk, Ellsberg presents an explosive inside account of how and why he helped bring an end to the Vietnam War and Richard Nixon’s presidency. He also talks about the current potential for war with Iran and why he feels that would be a major mistake for the United States.
→ read full articleA Green Light for Atomic Power: German Parliament Extends Nuclear Plant Lifespans
Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2010
Opponents of nuclear powered suffered a setback in Berlin on Thursday [28 Oct 2010] as the federal parliament approved legislation that would effectively repeal Germany’s planned withdrawal from atomic power. Now nuclear plants can stay open an average of 12 years longer than originally planned.
→ read full articleFrom Quantitative Easing (QE) to Moral Easing (ME)
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2010
A Stimulus Package to Avert Moral Bankruptcy? Commentary on the release via WikiLeaks of 400,000 documents regarding the reality on the ground in Iraq — as reported by troops in the field — has called into question the moral foundation of the intervention by the coalition forces in their various incarnations and manifestations in the Iraq-Afghanistan area (Multi-National Force – Iraq, Combined Joint Task Force 7 , NATO Training Mission – Iraq, Coalition of the Willing, International Security Assistance Force).
→ read full articleIsrael and Palestine in True Perspective
Charles Mercieca - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2010
Does believing and responding to these facts make one an anti-Semite in your eyes?
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George Galloway on the Iraq War: Success or Blunder?
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2010
Was toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime worth the enormous cost paid by millions of Iraqis? And where do Iraqis go to seek justice and compensation for this illegal war waged by Bush and Blair?
→ read full articleThe WikiLeaks Iraq Logs: A Protocol of Barbarity
Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2010
Do we now know everything there is to know about this war? Do such attempts to make the war easier to comprehend, with seemingly endless numbers of incident reports and figures, offer us any new insights? Is it even worthwhile to add another 400,000 pages of documents to the existing flood of books, reports and other documentation? Two institutions that are archenemies appear to think that the answer is yes.
→ read full articleMikhail Gorbachev: Victory in Afghanistan is ‘Impossible’
The Telegraph – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2010
Mikhail Gorbachev, the former leader of the Soviet Union, has warned that Afghanistan risks turning into another Vietnam, telling NATO that victory is impossible. Mr. Gorbachev, who pulled Russian troops out of Afghanistan in 1989 after a 10-year war, said the US had no alternative but to withdraw troops.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Press Conference – 1 of 3
Presstv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
WikiLeaks press conference in London, 23 Oct 2010, with Julian Assange, Daniel Ellsberg, Public Interest Lawyers and Iraqi Body Count.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Press Conference – 2 of 3
Presstv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
WikiLeaks press conference in London, 23 Oct 2010, with Julian Assange, Daniel Ellsberg, Public Interest Lawyers and Iraqi Body Count.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Press Conference – 3 of 3
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
WikiLeaks press conference in London, 23 Oct 2010, with Julian Assange, Daniel Ellsberg, Public Interest Lawyers and Iraqi Body Count.
→ read full articleThe UN, Peace and Peace Education
Johan Galtung, 25 Oct 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
Voksenåsen, Oslo: Ladies and gentlemen, what an honor to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the United Nations on my own 80th birthday, this 24 October 2010, being invited to deliver the Dag Hammarskjöld lecture! My own health is good, how about the 15 years younger UN?
→ read full articleHAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR JOHAN!
Antonio C. S. Rosa, Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
On Sunday, Oct 24, 2010, Prof. Johan Galtung celebrated his 80th birthday. In name of de TRANSCEND Network and all TMS readers I would like to greet and congratulate him for a precious, extraordinary life dedicated to peace, nonviolence, social justice and sanity.
→ read full article(Italian) Marchio Legacoop sui Global Hawk delle Forze Armate USA
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
Il 24 settembre 2010, il Comando d’ingegneria navale del Dipartimento della Marina militare degli Stati Uniti d’America ha assegnato alla società ravennate i lavori per realizzare a Sigonella un megacomplesso per le attività di manutenzione dei Global Hawk, i sofisticati aerei di spionaggio telecomandati delle forze armate USA e NATO, buona parte dei quali destinati ad operare dalla base siciliana. La CMC avrà tempo 820 giorni per completare quella che è stata definita dal Pentagono come un’opera d’«importanza strategica» per gli interessi USA in Europa, Africa e Medio oriente.
→ read full articlePeace Research and Peace Activism
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
“When peace research was launched as an academic field… the idea from the beginning was that this should be an applied social science with a value commitment: peace by peaceful means”. So writes Johan Galtung, in Searching for Peace, of the founding of the Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), in 1959.
→ read full articleFrom Rabbi Yosef to Marx
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
In case the Goyim cannot find a purpose in their life, Israeli senior Sephardi Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is there to help them out. In his Saturday sermon Rabbi Yosef revealed that the sole purpose of Gentiles is to serve Jews. “Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world.” The Rabbi was also kind enough to provide the Goyim with some precise tasks. “Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat. That is why gentiles were created.”
→ read full article(Italian) Johan Galtung: A Ottant’anni, Innamorato della Pace
Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
Nel corso del convegno che il Centro Studi Sereno Regis ha organizzato in collaborazione con il CISP (Centro Interateneo di Studi per la Pace) presso la Fondazione Einaudi l’8 ottobre scorso, abbiamo festeggiato il traguardo degli ottant’anni che Johan Galtung compie il 24 ottobre. Durante l’intera giornata, Galtung ha avuto modo, ancora una volta, di offrire una lezione di passione, intelligenza, creatività che contraddistinguono il suo lunghissimo percorso di ricerca, educazione e azione per la pace e la nonviolenza.
→ read full articleBolivia: ‘Never Before Have We Seen Such Changes’
Green Left Weekly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
Alina Canaviri Sullcani is a Bolivian indigenous peasant now visiting Australia. Canaviri is active in Santa Cruz as a leader of the National Federation of Indigenous Peasant Women of Bolivia “Bartolina Sisa” and the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party led by President Evo Morales. She spoke at the Latin America solidarity conference in Melbourne over October 8-9, 2010. Green Left Weekly’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Canaviri on the process of change in Bolivia being led by Morales, the country’s first president from the indigenous majority.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
A Scottish daughter proudly announced to her father, “Today I saved two dollars, I ran after the street car.”
→ read full articleThe Biggest Document Leak in History Exposes Real War
Bureau of Investigative Journalism – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
The data reveals how hundreds of civilians were killed by coalition forces in unreported events. There are numerous claims of prison abuse by coalition forces even after the Abu Ghraib scandal. The files also paint a disturbing portrait of widespread torture in Iraqi detention facilities. As the war progresses the documents record a descent into chaos and horror as the occupation sparked civil war. In case after case, the logs record thousands of bodies, many brutally tortured, dumped on the streets of Iraq.
→ read full articleTunisia Ratifies International Treaty Banning Cluster Bombs
Cluster Munition Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
The Republic of Tunisia ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 28 September 2010 during the United Nations General Assembly. Tunisia is the first country in the Middle East/North Africa region to formally ratify the treaty, which took effect as binding international law on 1 August 2010.
→ read full articleNew Law Bans Illegal Wood from EU Markets
WWF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
The EU Regulation on Illegal Logging cleared its final legislative hurdle on Monday [18 Oct 2010], following the adoption of the proposed draft by the Council of Ministers, effectively issuing a ban on illegal timber. In July, the European Parliament overwhelmingly approved a crack down on illegal timber, voting 644-25 in favor of the legislation.
→ read full articleMoldova Becomes Latest State Party to International Criminal Court
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
Moldova has become the latest country to ratify the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is tasked with trying people accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
→ read full articleViva Palestina Convoy Reaches Gaza
Aljazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
Pro-Palestinian activists enter Gaza through Rafah crossing with $5m of aid for residents of Israeli-blockaded strip.
→ read full articleNeed to Know | Daniel Ellsberg: The most dangerous man in America | PBS
PBS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
Need to Know’s Jon Meacham speaks with Daniel Ellsberg about his decision to release the Pentagon Papers, the subject of a new documentary on the PBS series POV. Ellsberg talks about the film and his thoughts on Bob Woodward’s recently released book.
→ read full article‘Peace hath her Victories…’
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
Since the beginning of the Vietnam War, several academic institutions and civil society groups have focused on creating the new discipline of Peace Studies, with varying degrees of clarity, in some places reflecting the urgencies of ‘conflict resolution,’ in others, the needs of communities to arrive at reconciliation.
→ read full articlePeace as a Way of Life
Johan Galtung, 18 Oct 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Clear the past, move on. Conflicts are waiting for you, embrace them as challenges. Fight to solve them for mutual and equal benefit; no flight, please. Identify the sticky issues, search for a solution beyond the passive co-existence of avoiding violence. Fine goals those, but be more ambitious. Search for an active co-existence where all move on, based on the solution, into challenging futures no doubt filled with new conflicts to take on.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Loyalty Oath: Discriminatory by Design
The Guardian, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
New pledge requires future citizens declare their loyalty to an ideology, one intended to exclude Palestinians.
→ read full article(Italian) Ultimo Saluto all’amico Italo Tibaldi
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Oggi abbiamo accompagnato per l’ultima volta
un AMICO
Deportato politico a Mauthausen e a Ebensee
Matricola 42307
Un MAESTRO.
10/10/10: World’s Biggest Day of Climate Action Unites 7,000 Rallies in 188 Countries
350.org – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Just weeks before elections in the United States and climate talks at the United Nations, citizens from Afghanistan to West Virginia joined 350.org’s “10/10/10 Global Work Party” to issue a unified demand that politicians stop dragging their feet and get to work on climate solutions. Leading by example, citizens in 188 countries joined more than 7,000 climate “work parties” over the weekend to get to work installing solar panels, weatherizing homes, planting trees, and then calling politicians to ask a simple question, “We’re getting to work, what about you?”
→ read full articleNATO Strategy Paper: Nuclear Weapons Likely to Stay in Germany
Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Nuclear weapons, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has long insisted, have no place in Germany. But a new NATO paper seems to indicate that his efforts to get all such weapons removed from German soil will not succeed.
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Nuclear Terrorism: Proof of Concept
vredesactie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Peace activists locate and film nuclear weapon shelters on military base of Kleine Brogel, Belgium. By means of this documentary, the Bombspotters reveal the lack of security found at this site. As shown in the movie, it is possible to walk to all aircraft shelters, including those containing nuclear weapons. If peace activists are able to get so close to nuclear weapon storage shelters, what would happen if people with more destructive intentions were to? An act of terrorism targeting the nuclear bombs cannot be excluded. These nuclear bombs do not guarantee security but pose a security risk themselves. Our security would be better guaranteed without them.
→ read full articleHelen Thomas: “You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive.”
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Former White House veteran reporter has criticized the United States for not allowing people to talk about Israeli policies against the Palestinian people. “You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive,” Helen Thomas said in an interview with Ohio station WMRN-AM that aired on Tuesday [12 Oct 2010].
→ read full articleAmong Salesmen
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
A farmer had been ripped off several times by the local car dealer. One day, the car dealer informed the farmer that he was coming over to purchase a cow.
→ read full articleViolence in Perspective
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Over the past 6,000 years of recorded history, violence seems to have been the distinguished characteristic of our earthly community. Violence of one kind or another always promotes animosity, hatred, destruction of the environment and total disregard for the sacredness of human rights. Every kind of violence stems from abuse of individual or collective power. It tends mostly to derive from those in authority who are held accountable for all the struggles and conflicts as well as disasters and wars.
→ read full article(Italian) Stati, Stati Nazione e Legittimità
Giuliano Martignetti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Della ricca relazione tenuta dal prof. Galtung a Torino in occasione della giornata dedicata a festeggiare il suo ottantesimo genetliaco, mi sono annotato due osservazioni particolarmente interessanti. La prima è che oggi nel campo delle relazioni internazionali il diritto di veto deve considerarsi superato. La seconda che in tutti gli stati del mondo (192) ben 176 contengono delle minoranze nazionali più o meno ampie. C’è un nesso tra le due affermazioni? Vediamo.
→ read full articlePentagon Author Exposes Zelikow’s Key Role in 9/11 Cover-Up
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
In an interview on the Fox Business Network, a retired U.S. intelligence officer accused the official in charge of the 9/11 Commission of a cover-up of intelligence failures leading up to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
→ read full articleThe Kashmir Imbroglio: Thinking the Unthinkable
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Back in the bad old days of the Cold War, the heaviest of the backroom hawks of the Pentagon, Herman Kahn, coined the phrase ‘thinking the unthinkable,’ meaning strategies for wiping out the Soviet Union with nukes. Luckily for all of us, Ronald Reagan had a better idea, the same result could be achieved by an undeclared economic war and arms race that would force the communists to scratch themselves out of the tournament.
→ read full articleRe-Emergence of the Language of the Birds through Twitter?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Harmonising the Configuration of Pattern-Breaking Interjections and Expletives. The following exploration is dedicated to Johan Galtung on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
He originally instigated the focus on Forms of Presentation through the Goals, Processes and Indicators of Development project (1978-82) of the United Nations University.
Nominated for the No Bull Peace Prize in 2010, he also plays the flute.
9/11 Coverup Finds a Voice on FOX with Judge Napolitano
Fox News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
‘Operation Dark Heart’ Author Alleges 9/11 Cover Up. Judge Napolitano’s Ground-breaking interview with Lt. Col, Anthony Shaffer and Former CIA Intelligence officer, Michael Scheuer. — Shaffer’s book, “Operation Dark Heart” was essentially “censored” by the Pentagon in order that some classified details could be “redacted”.
→ read full articleSri Lanka: Groups Decline to Testify Before Flawed Commission
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Three leading international organizations will not accept an invitation to testify before a Sri Lankan government commission because it lacks the ability to advance accountability for war crimes, Human Rights Watch, the International Crisis Group, and Amnesty International said in a joint letter to Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission that was released today [14 Oct 2010].
→ read full articleXiaobo – An Awarded Justly Won
Paul D. Scott – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
All of us working with civil society and democratization groups in Asia expected that Liu Xiaobo would be awarded the prize last year. We are overjoyed that he was awarded it this year. That China branded and condemned Liu as a criminal and denounced the Nobel prize Committee speaks volumes.
→ read full articleAmerican Empire and Cold Peace
CNTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
Johan Galtung in Beijing Sep 2010 interviewed by CNTV discusses the American empire and current wars, and about solutions to these.
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TRANSCEND Member Fredrik Reffermehl on Al Jazeera’s ‘Inside Story’: What Nobel Really Wanted
Antonio C. S. Rosa, Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
A jailed Chinese activist is awarded the Nobel Peace prize, and Beijing summons the Norwegian ambassador in protest. Is the Nobel Peace Prize still contributing to world peace in the way Alfred Nobel envisioned? Fredrik Reffermehl is the author of “The Nobel Peace Prize: What Nobel Really Wanted.”
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Settler Drives into Palestinian Boys
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
Director of settler organisation hits two children after they hurled stones at his vehicle in East Jerusalem.
→ read full articleUN Warns of Global Refugee Crisis
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
Refugees from never-ending conflict in Afghanistan and Somalia face systematic stigmatisation, says UNHCR chief.
→ read full articleAmerican Political Philosophy: Analysis of Immigration Issue
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
One of the major problems people are caught up in lies with the nation’s politicians who seem to act with no principles in general. They often abound in mysterious contradictions. As the Romans used to say: Aliud est theoria, aliud est practica – one thing is theory, another thing is practice. In this respect the Italians have a proverb which runs as follows: Tra il dire e il fare c’e’ in mezzo il mare – between saying and doing there is in between an ocean.
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