Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Brazil and Cuba Become an Example of Cooperation in Vaccines
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
The news is already circulating around the world of a study that researchers from five developing countries, in collaboration with the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health of Canada (MRC) published today [13 May 2010] in the journal Nature Biotechnology, puts Brazil and Cuba as models in manufacturing low-cost drugs to poor people.
→ read full articleNepal’s Peace Process Towards Ambiguity
Bishnu Pathak, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2010
At 2.20 PM on May 1, 2010 at the western gate of the Khula Manch (Martyr Theater), an aged, thin-and-weak man of about 35 fainted. The volunteers of the United Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) made a human chain of 10 meters in circumference around the huge crowd. A few of them tried to cool him down by fanning their caps and papers and throwing their drinking water over him. Both of his legs were buckled from the intense heat, while camera men were eager to snap photos. The crowd members were seeking first aiders to treat him. Two minutes later, he stood up with the help of a man. His face and lips were dried. A woman aiding him grasped his right hand and disappeared with him through the sea of humans.
→ read full articleMps Push for Continent-Wide Ban on Female Genital Mutilation
UN IRIN-TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
Parliamentarians from all over Africa are pushing for a continent-wide ban on female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and are calling on the UN to pass a General Assembly resolution appealing for a global FGM/C ban, as it violates human rights, they say.
→ read full articleVoting for War. Take Your Pick
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes how Edwardian notions of war are again being promoted in western democracies, along with the militarising of history, journalism and parliamentary politics. In Britain, the three main candidiates for prime minister are declared warmakers; and yet popular feeling is very different.
→ read full articleThe Rebirth of Regulation
Robert Reich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
What do oil giant BP, the mining company Massey Energy, and Goldman Sachs have in common? They’re all big firms involved in massive plunder. BP’s oil spill is already one of the biggest and most damaging in American history. Massey’s mine disaster, claiming the lives of 29 miners, is one of the worst in recent history. Goldman’s alleged fraud is but a part of the largest financial meltdown in 75 years.
→ read full article(Italian) Aosta 25 Aprile 2010. Lettura Collettiva Della Costituzione Della Repubblica Italiana
Silvia Berruto, antifascista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
Nell’ambito del progetto culturale Collettivamente memoria 2010
→ read full articleG.W. Russell (1867-1935): “The highest minds building one upon another”
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the year 2010 as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures. Thus we are pleased to present the creative efforts of individuals who have helped to create bridges of understanding among cultures.
→ read full articleJapanese
Dietrich Fischer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
A Japanese airline stewardess told the passengers on landing…
→ read full articleThe Next 9/11—Made in Israel?
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
Citing the possibility of a terrorist organization getting hold of a nuclear weapon as the greatest threat to U.S. security, Barack Obama persuaded 46 other countries at the recent Nuclear Security Summit to agree to secure the world’s loose nuclear material. Those leaders who came to Washington might have done more to avert a nuclear attack, however, if they had asked the U.S. President to account for America’s own loose nukes.
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Global Food Bubble on the Way?
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
Jayati Ghosh: We have to ban finance speculation that does not physically hold food commodities.
→ read full article(Castellano) Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273)
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
La Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas en resolución A/RES 62/90 ha proclamado al año 2010 como Año Internacional para el Acercamiento de Culturas, “para promover el respeto universal y la observancia y protección de todos los derechos humanos y las libertades fundamentales”. Así, nos complacemos en presentar los esfuerzos creativos de personas que han ayudado a crear puentes de comprensión entre culturas.
→ read full articleUnited Nations World Press Freedom Day
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
Not a column this week but a podcast, by the UN, to mark World Press Freedom Day, with fellow guests Jenny Manrique, a Colombian journalist, and Brendan O’Malley, journalist and author of UNESCO’s 2010 Education Under Attack report.
→ read full article(Italian) Amnesty International e Idea Rom
Silvia Berruto, gagé engage – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2010
La conoscenza e il diritto alla base delle idee per una convivenza civile.
→ read full articleKenneth Rexroth (1905-1982): The Poetry of Relevance
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2010
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the year 2010 as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures. Thus we are pleased to present the creative efforts of individuals who have helped to create bridges of understanding among cultures.
→ read full articleStingy
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2010
A beggar walked up to a well‑dressed woman shopping on Fifth Avenue in New York and said,
→ read full articleIndegenous Peoples’ Declaration – World Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
Many Authors – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2010
Mother Earth can live without us, but we can’t live without her. We, the Indigenous Peoples, nations and organizations from all over the world, gathered at the World Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, from April 19th to 22nd, 2010 in Tiquipaya, Cochabamba, Bolivia, after extensive discussions, express the following:
→ read full articleHow Do Wars End?
Johan Galtung, 3 May 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2010
Gone are the old days when might was right and unconditional surrender was the end of a 141-year unbroken chain of US wars, from 1812–the final battle in the War of Independence– to 1953, the Korean war armistice. And gone are the days when might was a sign of divine mandate, God is behind. Among christians God may favor the mightiest. Among muslims, perhaps. But certainly not across that divide. Gone are the days of direct battle heroism. Sitting at a computer in the Pentagon directing drones, or in a cockpit at 44,000 feet hitting “coordinates”, in favor of pure cowardice. Or, rather: the risks change with the war. When more commit suicide than are killed in the field reality has changed. Confronted with a choice between a very elusive victory, defeat, and flight, conflict resolution might grow in attractiveness.
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US Military Enforces Attacks on Haitian Unions
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2010
Didier Dominique: US military helping to repress organizing of textile workers’ unions in Haiti.
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Japan’s PM Denies Washington Post Report about US Military in Okinawa
MoxNewsDotCom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Prime Minister Hatoyama denies that an agreement has been reached with US authorities regarding the relocation of the US military base in Okinawa. The base remains unwelcome by the Japanese people and government.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Dia da Terra: Conferência Propõe Referendo Mundial
Esquerda.net – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
A Conferência de Cochabamba vai anunciar uma campanha para um referendo a realizar no dia da Terra, a 22 de Abril de 2011, sobre a criação dum tribunal internacional de justiça climática.
→ read full articleTougher Cap and Trade Legislation
GRIT TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
The Nation magazine Environmental Correspondent Mark Hertsgaard sits down with GRITtv’s Laura Flanders to talk about the environmental movement and the current climate legislation. Flanders is pessimistic that the current bill will actually reduce emissions. Hertsgaard agrees that the loopholes in the bill will make it difficult to actually cap emissions: “Cap and trade could work if you get tough legislation but that is a very big if in the United States of America,” Hertsgaard says.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to the Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley on their courageous Israeli Divestment Bill
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
There is nothing anti-Semitic in taking this stand, and those of us who will continue to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign, until Israel changes its illegal policies, are not anti-Semitic, but pro-peace and advocates for genuine democracy and human rights for all people.
→ read full articleAPRIL 28: Associated Students of UC Berkeley Vote to Divest From Companies That Profit From Israeli Occupation of Palestine
Dana Bergen, Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Every so often, we get a moment when a remarkable future starts to unfold before our eyes. And when it happens, it’s our responsibility to do everything within our power to help it along. One of those moments is happening right now, unbeknownst to most of the world, on the University of California’s Berkeley campus.
→ read full articleInterview with Carlos Latuff
Kourosh Ziabari – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
“I don’t trade ideology for money.” The hero of “freedom of speech”, boycotted by the corporate, mainstream media that are irresistible against the astringent truth: this is the most precise and accurate introduction which I can present about Carlos Latuff.
→ read full article(Castellano) Los Derechos del Hombre y la Tierra
Eduardo Galeano – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Mensaje del autor de Las Venas abiertas de América Latina a los asistentes a la Cumbre de la Madre Tierra que se celebra en Bolivia, como alternativa a la Cumbre sobre el Cambio Climático en Copenhague.
→ read full articleThe BRIC Summit
Dr. Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
BRIC, in spite of its weakness or differences among members, no doubt will play a significant role in international politics. The coming of the countries together is no mean achievement, and on various issues like Iran, United Nations, Bretton Woods structures, climate change, etc. the grouping has already been vociferous. The clout of BRIC as a significant multilateral body is bound to be reckoned with.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Direitos Humanos e Direitos da Terra
Eduardo Galeano – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Mensagem do autor de “As Veias Abertas da América Latina’ aos participantes da Reunião de Cúpula da Mãe Terra que se realiza na Bolívia como alternativa à Reunião de Cúpula sobre a mudanca climática em Copenhagen.
→ read full articleOndra Lysohorsky (1905—1989)
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the year 2010 as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures. Thus we are pleased to present the creative efforts of individuals who have helped to create bridges of understanding among cultures.
→ read full articleIndonesia: Lies, Non-Truths and the Path to Peace
ANU News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Lies, non-truths and a corrupt military have all played key roles in Indonesia’s transition from an unstable, violent state to a relatively peaceful democracy. This contradicts the idea that truth and transparency are always vital ingredients in fostering peace. That’s the argument made in the first of a series of books from a 20-year study of global peacebuilding efforts that is being undertaken at The Australian National University.
→ read full articleUS To Launch Secret ‘Space Warplane’
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Since the nature of the project is shrouded in mystery, defense analysts allege that the US military is building the first generation of US ‘space Predator drones’ that will build up the United States’ space armada, the Christian Science Monitor wrote in a recent article.
→ read full articleJapanese Rally against US Air Base
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
On the eve of the protest, the Washington Post said the Japanese government had indicated it would broadly accept the 2006 pact. But the government denied that on Saturday [24 April 2010], with [Prime Minister] Hatoyama repeating his objection to the 2006 plan. “The report is not true … We cannot accept the existing plan,” he said.
→ read full articleCochabamba, the Water Wars and Climate Change
Amy Goodman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Bolivian President Evo Morales calls Cochabamba the heart of Bolivia. It was here, 10 years ago this month, that, as one observer put it, “the first rebellion of the 21st century” took place. In what was dubbed the Water Wars, people from around Bolivia converged on Cochabamba to overturn the privatization of the public water system.
→ read full articleApartheid Is Alive and Well
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
There is a place where indigenous blacks are still being shunted off their land into reservations; where work is rewarded not with wages but with ration cards, to spend in white-owned supermarkets; where public services are lavished on the already wealthy but denied to the poorest unless they agree to hand over their birthright.
→ read full articleUnder the Disguise of Counterterrorism: Obama Expands U.S. Military Ops in Africa
UPI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Amid a surge in big oil strikes in Africa and the threat of growing al-Qaida penetration in the north and east, President Barack Obama is expanding U.S. military involvement across the continent. This has given weight to the U.S. Africa Command inaugurated Oct. 1, 2008, which is viewed with growing suspicion by many in Africa who consider its primary mission is to secure oil supplies that America considers vital as it cuts its reliance on the Middle East.
→ read full articleFacing History for Social Healing
Claude Shema R., M.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
In the past, I was thinking most of the time that I was the only one who thought that “remembering is my right” as a victim of the unspeakable genocide , and day-by-day I learn that I share the same thoughts and feelings with other different victims of violence violent conflict all over the world.
→ read full articleThe Palestinians Are Winning the Legitimacy War: Will It Matter?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
A Palestinian victory in the legitimacy war with Israel would not necessarily produce the desired political results. It is vital that the Palestinians exercise “patience, resolve, leadership and vision, as well as sufficient pressure” if they are to win their just rights.
→ read full article(Castellano) Cumbre Sobre Cambio Climático en Bolivia Supera Nivel Previsto de Participación
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
A la localidad de Tiquipaya, a 15 kilómetros de Cochabamba, han arribado delegaciones compuestas por unas 22 mil personas procedentes de 92 países para participar en la Conferencia.
→ read full article5th Bil’in International Conference on Popular Nonviolent Resistance
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
I thank you for your great spirit of nonviolent love in action and encourage you to keep hope alive and keep on building Palestinian unity – united, the Palestinian people will succeed. Believe passionately in peace and justice and it will come out of the seeds of nonviolence and sacrifice you, and your families, are making on behalf of us all, the human family.
→ read full articleBears vs. Hunters
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Two Canadian hunters were surprised by a bear. They began to run away from him.
→ read full article(Italian) Ti sposo entro l’anno. Prima mondiale al 25 Torino GLBT
Silvia Berruto, probabilmente – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Un documentario sulla lotta per il diritto al matrimonio civile fra persone dello stesso sesso.
→ read full articleBasic Human Rights in Perspective
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Over the centuries the topic on basic human rights often served as the center of attention for scholars, humanitarian groups and government officials. In spite of this, violations against basic human rights have taken place periodically to the point of making millions of people suffer immensely and unnecessarily on a global scale. Since this could be traced to manifold sources, we may simply here analyze carefully and concentrate properly on just four aspects as follows: respect, law, taxation, and environment.
→ read full articleA Darkening Scenario in Nepal
Bishnu Pathak, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Nepal may again find itself in the middle of a deep national crisis if a new Constitution is not announced by the stipulated date.
→ read full articleBarak Urges End to Occupation
AlJazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Ehud Barak, Israel’s defence minister, has said that his country must recognise that the world will not put up with decades more of Israeli rule over the Palestinian people.
→ read full articleRecovering From Empathy
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
I remain stuck, churning in my own outrage and despair just as I have –- and so many millions of Americans have –- since the war on terror was launched amid all its lies and cowardly righteousness in 2001. For God’s sake, we’re killing people. We’re doing so in large numbers, with high-tech savagery. We aren’t even defending ourselves. We’ve invented an enemy out of whole cloth.
→ read full articlePutting the Pope on Trial
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
International law presents a radical challenge to the powerful: they could be judged by the same standards as the rest of us.
→ read full articleFrom Church Bulletins
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
“The outreach committee has visited every family that is not afflicted with a church.”
“Don’t let worry kill you–let the church help.”
→ read full articleKolkata – The Legacy of Empire
Jonathan Power, TFF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
I have spent eight months now in the glorious city of Kolkata. You wouldn’t think it is glorious from those who still pedal the story of “The Black Hole” and quote Kipling. Paul Theroux, an exceptional novelist, in his new book, “A Dead Hand, A Crime in Calcutta”, continues the myth. The city “went on growing, yet it still looked rickety and ruinous, and in areas of faded elegance and dramatic misery a bad smell lingered, haunted and human”, he writes.
→ read full articleKeeping a Finger on the Nuclear Trigger
Editorial, Socialist Worker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
The U.S. has repackaged its strategy–but the terrible threat of nuclear war remains.
→ read full articleRabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
Rabindranath Tagore was the Renaissance man of modern India — the bridge from an Indian culture dominated on the one hand by a traditionalism that had long ceased to be creative and on the other by English colonial practice whose reforms were self-interested. He was known worldwide as a poet having received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. His aim was to combine a renewal of local thought, in particular that of his native Bengal, with an appreciation of the cultures of the world. The motto of the educational center he founded, Visva-Bharati, was “Where the world makes its home in a single nest.”
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Ikunga – “Di Bombs”
Ikwunga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
A socially conscious music video by the First Afrobeat Poet Ikwunga. It addresses the ills of war that plagues our beloved African continent.
→ read full articleIsraeli Public’s Support for Dismantling Most Settlements Has Risen to a Five-Year High
Alvin Richman, World Public Opinion – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
A survey of the Israeli general public and Israeli settlers taken in early March shows three-fifths of the Israeli public (60%) support “dismantling most of the settlements in the territories as part of a peace agreement with the Palestinians.”
→ read full articleU.S. Soldiers From WikiLeaks ‘Collateral Murder’ Video Apologize
ICH - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
Two former soldiers from the Army unit responsible for the Wikileaks “Collateral Murder” incident have written an open-letter of “Reconciliation and Responsibility” to those injured in the July 2007 attack, in which U.S. forces wounded two children and killed over a dozen people, including the father of those children and two Reuters employees.
→ read full articleBlatant Victimisation
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
Australia is often a good place to observe the workings of political agency. There is a blatancy here, in the connection between cause and consequence, and the alacrity with which sectional interests exploit procedures, that is both appalling and, in a perverse kind of a way, simultaneously appealing. Political parties and business lobbies seem to feel little compulsion to concealment: there is not the sense of layers of subtlety having to be peeled back to reveal what is ‘really going on’, that one might encounter in Washington, say, or London, Paris, Delhi or Jakarta.
→ read full article(Italian) Su Pedofilia Qualche Modesta Riflessione
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
Qualche libera modesta riflessione sulla pedofilia sotto la generale attenzione.
→ read full article(Italian) Babel Latino. Latinoamérica en radio
Silvia Berruto, giornalista contro il razzismo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
Babel Latino è una radio interculturale (a cura) della comunità culturale latino-americana di Milano che ha festeggiato la puntata numero 100 con l’evento-festa “100 MATTONI PER L’INTERCULTURA DELLA TORRE DI BABELE” svoltisi lo scorso 13 aprile a Milano, presso la Caritas Ambrosiana.
→ read full articleTurkey to Challenge Israel, Support Hamas
Maayana Miskin, IsraelNationalNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
Turkey is planning a gesture that will challenge Israel and provide support to Gaza’s Hamas leaders next month. A flotilla of ships funded by Turkey will approach Gaza in May, in an attempt to challenge Israeli control at sea – or, as organizers put it, “break Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza.”
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Evidence of Israel’s Nuclear Weapons (Banned, Censored)
BBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
The story of Mordechai Vanunu… with music from Gilad Atzmon in the background.
→ read full articleThe New U.S. Nuclear Posture Review
David Krieger, TFF & Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
While pausing to celebrate the incremental steps in arms reductions and the limitations on nuclear weapons use that are being made now, we should also recognize that a policy of No First Use and a commitment to negotiate a Nuclear Weapons Convention would move us far more rapidly toward the peace and security of the nuclear weapon-free world envisioned by President Obama.
→ read full articleIsrael Must Denuclearize, Erdogan Says
Press TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
Pointing out that Israel is believed to be the sole possessor of nuclear weapons in the Middle East and is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Erdogan said, “Until now, we haven’t seen any request or intent from the international community with regards to Israel’s (armament). We are going to ask the international community: why haven’t you addressed this issue?”
→ read full articleLEAKED VIDEO SHOWS CIVILIAN KILLINGS IN IRAQ, SIGNIFIES GROWING POWER OF INDEPENDENT WEB JOURNALISM
Brett Michael Dykes, Yahoo! News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
When a nonprofit group this week released video footage, leaked via a source in the Pentagon, showing a 2007 U.S. helicopter attack on a group of civilians in Baghdad, the clip unleashed a viral online sensation and ignited an intense debate about the conduct of U.S. forces in Iraq. But the simple fact of the video’s release also reflects the ongoing revolution in how news gets produced and published.
→ read full articleWHY THERE ARE NO ‘ISRAELIS’ IN THE JEWISH STATE
Jonathan Cook in Nazareth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
A group of Jews and Arabs are fighting in the Israeli courts to be recognised as “Israelis”, a nationality currently denied them, in a case that officials fear may threaten the country’s self-declared status as a Jewish state.
→ read full article(GERMAN) RÜCKBLICK AUF DEN GAZA FREEDOM MARCH
Vera Hug & Mikael Eriksson – TRANSCEND MEDIA SERVICE,
12 Apr 2010
Der Gaza Freedom March (GFM) begann für uns als Mitkoordinatoren mit einem E-Mail aus Spanien. Eine Freundin schrieb uns ein paar Zeilen über die Idee für ein globales Solidaritäts-Projekt mit dem Ziel zum sofortigen Ende der Blockade des Gazastreifens.
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) CRIME E PECADO
Francisco Louçã – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
Ontem, à saída da missa, uma crente foi entrevistada por uma televisão acerca das palavras do Cardeal Patriarca, e explicou como via os casos de pedofilia: “todos somos pecadores”…
… Não, minha senhora, não foi pecado. Foi mesmo crime.
→ read full articleJALAL AL-DIN RUMI (1207-1273)
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
“I am neither Christian, nor Jew, nor Gabr, nor Moslem. I am not of the East, nor the West, nor the land, nor the sea… My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless.” — Rumi
→ read full article“WE MUST TAKE PUBLIC CRITICISM INTO ACCOUNT. CRITICISM IS GOOD AND SHOULD HELP THE PROCESS”
Marta Harnecker and Edwin Herrera Salinas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
One of the greatest problems is that we are trying to build an alternative society with an inherited individualistic and clientelistic culture. . . . Even our best cadres are influenced by this culture. So, it’s a process of cultural transformation. Human beings change themselves through practice, not by decrees.
→ read full articleOUR GREATEST CHALLENGE: BRINGING POLITICS UNDER CONTROL
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
If we were to study carefully the evolution of events that took place over the past 6,000 years of recorded history, we will discover that most of the world’s problems stemmed out from politics of one kind or another.
→ read full article(ITALIAN) PRIMA ASSOLUTA DELL’OPERA MULTIKULTI “TULLA E LEANDRO” ALLA RICERCA DELLE RADICI
Silvia Berruto, giornalista contro il razzismo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
Un prodotto interculturale e multiculturale dunque.
Multikulti.
In una visione culturale in cui non si parla più di integrazione ma di pari opportunità, di empowerment e di diritti uguali per tutti.
THE ILLUSION AND POWER OF SKIN COLOR
Nina Jablonski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
Differing skin colors are simply our bodies’ adaptation to varied climates and levels of UV exposure. Charles Darwin disagreed with this theory, but Nina explains, that’s because he did not have access to NASA.
→ read full articleINTERPRETER
Dietrich Fischer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
To attend the meeting of the communist international, the Tanzanian delegate, the only communist in Tanzania, left six months early.
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SUDAN: VOTE PEACEFULLY
XCHANGEperspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
In this advocacy film, citizens from Magwi, encourage the people of Sudan to go vote peacefully and to contribute to a peaceful Sudan. The video was produced by Xchange Perspectives in March 2010 for Media in Cooperation and Transition (MICT).
→ read full articleIMPLICATION OF PERSONAL DESPAIR IN PLANETARY DESPAIR
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
The argument here is that the very heavy investment in “hope”, especially in public discourse, is increasingly serving as a narcotic to dull such pain and to distract from acting in a more healthy manner in response to it.
→ read full article(A POEM) WE ARE COMING TO GAZA
Naomi Foyle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
We are coming to Gaza
from different places —
some of us were born in the tunnels
that feed Palestine with Irish blood;
others have further to travel.
U.S. COVERING UP REALITY IN HONDURAS
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
While State Department attempts to sell the world that the inauguration of a new president in Honduras has brought an end to the country’s crisis, the continuing assassinations of anti-coup activists and their children stands as sharp evidence to the contrary.
→ read full articleABSURD TRANSCENDENTAL PRETENSE
Prof. Chung-Yue Chang -TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
Aristotle’s “Square of Opposition” diagrams shows how the four basic categorical propositions can be opposed as “true” or “false”. No middle ground is allowed. The Aristotelian logic is designed for a dynamic world made static. In contrast, China’s circular yin-yang diagram shows the moving fields of yin and yang spread out to build each other up toward a new unity of dynamic harmony. This is possible because within the yin there is a trace of yang, and within the yang there is a trace of yin. Chinese logic is designed for a dynamic world that moves creatively toward harmony.
→ read full articleTHE FABULOUS LIFE OF THE RAVENOUS VULTURES
COHA Research Associate Evgenij Haperskij – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
Since the mid-90s, the so-called vulture funds have been suing poor countries so that they would fully pay back their debts which they had purchased for pennies on the dollar. In this way, the vulture funds frequently manage to exacerbate the economic situation in the poor countries, most of which are located in Latin America and Africa.
→ read full articleMINDING THE GAP: JUDAISM BETWEEN LAW AND ETHICS
Ariella Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
Judaic righteousness is motivated not by love but by the fear of a jealous power. The bible commands: In the cities of these nations whose land the Lord is giving you as patrimony, you shall not leave any creature alive. You shall annihilate them all. Among the incompatible groups who resist western thought, Judaism is the most uncompromising. A quest to decipher the triumph of Jewish monotheism over western civilization is yet to come.
→ read full articleSIMPSONS IN ISRAHELL, CHECK IT OUT BEFORE IT IS TAKEN DOWN
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
A comical glimpse into Israeli collective madness. If it wasn’t so tragic, it would be funny. The Simpsons, Gilad.Com Season 21 Episode 12 – Greatest Story Ever D’Ohed CLICK TO VIEW VIDEO CLIP (Join the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) campaign to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of Palestine, the apartheid wall, […]
→ read full articleADAPTIVE HYPERCYCLE OF SUSTAINABLE PSYCHOSOCIAL SELF-ORGANIZATION
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
Designing a Mapping of a Chinese Metaphorical Pattern Language Introduction This is specifically concerned with further possibilities of mapping the interrelationships between the set of conditions of change identified and encoded by the 64 hexagrams of the Chinese classic known variously as the Book of Changes, the I Ching, the Yi Jing or the I […]
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Jim Heintz, AP-Yahoo! News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
Once the world’s fourth-largest lake, Central Asia’s Aral Sea has shrunk by 90 percent. NUKUS, Uzbekistan – The drying up of the Aral Sea is one of the planet’s most shocking environmental disasters, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday as he urged Central Asian leaders to step up efforts to solve the problem. Once the […]
→ read full articleNEW POPE CRITICISM MARS EASTER WEEK
News 24, Worldpress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
Vatican – Pope Benedict XVI faced new criticism on Saturday after his preacher likened attacks on the Catholic Church over the paedophile priest furore to anti-Semitism, further marring Easter Week celebrations. Jewish groups and those representing victims of abuse by Catholic priests denounced the remarks by the pope’s personal preacher during a Good Friday homily. […]
→ read full article“THE EVIL SCOURGE OF TERRORISM”: REALITY, CONSTRUCTION, REMEDY
Noam Chomsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
Erich Fromm Lecture – April 3, 2010 The president could not have been more justified when he condemned “the evil scourge of terrorism.” I am quoting Ronald Reagan, who came into office in 1981 declaring that a focus of his foreign policy would be state-directed international terrorism, “the plague of the modern age” and “a […]
→ read full articleA NEW DIMENSION TO DEMILITARIZATION IN KASHMIR
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
In the last week of March 2010 a new dimension hitherto unknown to demilitarization debate in Kashmir came to picture. One of the premier Indian TV channels, NDTV, showed in its news the popular protests in Khurhma village in northern Kashmir against the shifting of the camp of Rashtriya Rifles, a part of paramilitary force […]
→ read full articleTHE TOXIC 100 AIR POLLUTERS
Profs. Michael Ash and James K. Boyce – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
The Political Economy Research Institute released today [Mar 31 2010] a report identifying the top 100 corporate air polluters, including environmental justice report cards.Researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today released the Toxic 100 Air Polluters, an updated list of the top corporate air polluters in the […]
→ read full articleCOCA-COLA CAUSES SERIOUS DEPLETION OF WATER RESOURCES IN INDIA
India Resource Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
Liable for US$ 48 Million for Damages New Delhi: In a major development, a High Power Committee established by the state government of Kerala in India has recommended today that Coca-Cola be held liable for Indian Rupees 216 crore (US$ 48 million) for damages caused as a result of the company’s bottling operations in Plachimada. […]
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(SATIRE) FEDS’ DECONFLICTION
florashutterbug - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
"Terrorist? Who, me?" A ‘funny’ clip about an assortment of American national security and intelligence agents going after a "terrorist." Food for thought about their ‘war on terror.’ Pathetic — if tragic– this political inquisition American style. 2:27-Min. VideoCLICK TO VIEW
→ read full articleA GENETIC ENGENEERING-FREE FUTURE
TMS Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
A new initiative allows 1 million EU citizens a unique chance to make official requests of the European Commission. The European Commission has just allowed genetically engineered crops into Europe, ignoring safety concerns of the public interest. Let’s make it official! Add your voice now or pass this along to friends you have in the […]
→ read full article(ITALIAN) L’OSSERVATORIO CIVICO ANTIMAFIE di Reggio Emilia
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
Sul Quaderno n.1 – Febbraio 2010"Ciascuno cresce solo se è sognato" così esordisce Daniele Lugli sul palco in Piazza Prampolini, a Reggio Emilia, il 1 marzo 2010. Una stretta al cuore quando Daniele cita le le parole indimenticabili dell’amico e soprattutto del maestro Danilo Dolci. Parole indimenticabili nel senso e nel portato. Immediatamente, come in […]
→ read full articleOPEN LETTER TO BERKELEY STUDENTS ON THEIR HISTORIC ISRAELI DIVESTMENT BILL
Naomi Klein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
On March 18, continuing a long tradition of pioneering human rights campaigns, the Senate of the Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley (ASUC) passed “A Bill In Support of UC DIVESTMENT FROM WAR CRIMES.” The historic bill resolves to divest ASUC’s assets from two American companies, General Electric and United Technologies, that are […]
→ read full articleFORGETFULNESS
Dietrich Fischer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
An elderly man went for his annual checkup to the doctor. After examining him, the doctor said, "I have two bad news for you. The first is that you have cancer." The patient asked, "And what is the second bad news?" The doctor said, "You have Alzheimer’s disease." The man said, "It could be worse, […]
→ read full articleUN CHIEF SAYS ISRAELI SETTLEMENT ACTIVITIES ILLEGAL
Xinhua – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
UN Secretary General Ban Ki- moon said Israeli settlement activities are illegal and against the international law, stressing that they should come to an end. In a speech at the opening session of the 22nd Arab Summit, the UN chief addressed that the significance of Jerusalem should be respected as a capital for both Israel […]
→ read full articleREFLECTIONS ON AN ANNIVERSARY
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
“Everything feels obscene,” a friend said seven years ago, when we carpet-bombed Baghdad, launching the invasion. It still does, but in a dull, chronic, “used to it” way — outrage mixed, these last few years, with “hope,” smearing the war effort with a thick, national ambivalence. Is it still going on? Well, yeah, with a […]
→ read full articleSTRUGGLING FOR TRUE SOVEREIGNTY
Bishnu Pathak, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
Land-locked Nepal has always existed in giant India’s shadow. However, now that its people have tasted democracy, they want to shake off Indian influence and become masters of their own destiny. Nepal has long historic, strategic, geo-political, commercial and socio-cultural relations with India. There has been a protracted debate and discourse to continuously improve such […]
→ read full articleKILLING TRIBAL AND TIGER TOGETHER
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
Tribal and Tiger killed out of SightLike their Forests burnt down at Night… [with apologies to William Blake] The world is witnessing the last great act of a global tragedy that will end not in victory for any one side, but in the defeat of all. And today, all of us are guilty. The world’s […]
→ read full articleTHE ILLUSION AND POWER OF SKIN COLOR
Nina Jablonski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2010
Differing skin colors are simply our bodies’ adaptation to varied climates and levels of UV exposure. Charles Darwin disagreed with this theory, but Nina explains, that’s because he did not have access to NASA. The annual TED conference held in Long Beach is a gathering of some of the world’s most innovative thinkers who come […]
→ read full articleThe Cocoyoc Declaration
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2010
October 8-12, 1974 a symposium on “Patterns of Resource Use, Environment and Development Strategies” was convened in Cocoyoc, Mexico by the directors of United Nations Environment Programme and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Maurice Strong and Gamani Corea. The rapporteurs were Barbara Ward for resource use and the environment and Johan Galtung […]
→ read full articleSAMSON AND THE 2ND NAKBA – A SHORT STUDY OF THE JEWISH HERCULES
Gilad Atzmon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
As much as many of us enjoyed watching the humiliation of Israel and PM Netanyahu in Washington this week, I am reluctant to suggest that the emerging crisis between America and Israel may also be a red light warning for all of us. The current crisis may lead to some devastating consequences as far as […]
→ read full articleSYSTEM DYNAMICS, HYPERCYCLES AND PSYCHOSOCIAL SELF-ORGANIZATION
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
Exploration of Chinese Correlative Understanding Introduction This document develops commentary in Club of Rome Reports and Bifurcations: a 40-year overview (2010). It is specifically concerned with how interrelated initiatives, such as those indicated there, might be understood as effectively mapping the territory of preoccupations with global governance — especially given their problematic relation to each […]
→ read full articleMAKING SENSE OF LIFE
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
People everywhere have many things in common, one of which is to enjoy life to the maximum possible. If it were possible, everyone would love to live forever, to explore and enjoy the mysteries of the universe, and to be productive in accordance with one’s talents and capabilities. This has been the focus of attention […]
→ read full articleDISARMAMENT, DEMOBILIZATION AND REINTEGRATION, AND SECURITY SECTOR REFORM IN NEPAL: A PRELIMINARY SOCIOLOGICAL OBSERVATION
Bishnu Pathak, PhD & Devendra Uprety – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
1. Setting Security Sector Reform (SSR) is a continuous process to all countries and regions, including politically stable states, fragile states, and post-conflict countries. However, it is widely understood that there need to be urgent SSR priorities in countries emerging from large-scale violent conflict. Over the years, Nepalese society has undergone deep structural […]
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THE STORY OF BOTTLED WATER
Annie Leonard, Story of Stuff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day), employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over five minutes, the film explores the […]
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