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Peace Education and a Call for Social Dialogue on Nonviolence and Peace
Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Peace education is education of man (humanity). It is the manifestation of an integral culture of body, vitality, mind, intellect and spirit. These elements constitute every man and woman without any discrimination of race, caste, creed, language, nationality and other differences.
→ read full articleWhat Is Economics Good For?
Alex Rosenberg and Tyler Curtain – The New York Times,
10 Sep 2013
It’s easy to understand why economics might be mistaken for science. It uses quantitative expression in mathematics and the succinct statement of its theories in axioms and derived “theorems,” so economics looks a lot like the models of science we are familiar with from physics.
→ read full articleMaking the World Safe for Banksters: Syria in the Cross-hairs
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Iraq and Libya have been taken out, and Iran has been heavily boycotted. Syria is now in the cross-hairs. Why? Here is one overlooked scenario. “The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.”
→ read full articleThe (Farcical) Emperor Is Naked
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
10 Sep 2013
There is nothing tragic about the Obama presidency, capable of drawing the analytical talents of a neo-Plutarch or a neo-Gibbon. This is more like a Pirandello farce, a sort of Character in Search of an Author.
→ read full articleObama’s Rogue State Calls on Other Nations to Abide By the Treaties It Violates
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
The US. You could almost pity these people. For 67 years successive US governments have resisted calls to reform the UN Security Council. They’ve defended a system which grants five nations a veto over world affairs, reducing all others to impotent spectators; abused the powers and trust with which they have been vested; collaborated with the other four permanent members (the UK, Russia, China and France) in a colonial carve-up, through which these nations can pursue their own corrupt interests at the expense of peace and global justice.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize Winner And War Criminal?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
In 1946 the United Nations General Assembly unanimously affirmed “the principles of international law recognized by the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal” and established an International Law Commission to formalize the Nuremberg Principles, and the result was the following list.
→ read full articleWailing Wall
TMS editor,
9 Sep 2013
A CNN reporter goes to Israel to cover the conflict. She is looking for something emotional and positive and of human interest.
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High Ranking US Major General Exposes 9/11 Hoax
Kate Johnston – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2013
On a candid interview, retired US Major General Albert Stubblebine affirms there is proof that what hit the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 was not an airplane. He served on the US military for 32 years.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2013
A Global Harmony Association Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day. PLEASE HELP THE WORLD BY SIGNING THE PETITION http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Global_Disarmament_Now_1/.
→ read full article‘Success Story’: NSA Targeted French Foreign Ministry
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2013
Espionage by the US on France has already strained relations between the two countries, threatening a trans-Atlantic trade agreement. Now a document seen by SPIEGEL reveals that the NSA also spied on the French Foreign Ministry.
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George Galloway’s Speech in British Parliament Debate on Military Action against Syria
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Aug/29/2013 – Parliament Debates Military Action Against Syria. George Galloway speaks as The British House of Commons holds an urgent debate on possible military action against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Prime Minister David Cameron recalled parliament following reports of a chemical weapons attack against Syrian citizens.
→ read full articleU.S. Spy Network’s Successes, Failures and Objectives Detailed in ‘Black Budget’ Summary
Barton Gellman and Greg Miller – The Washington Post,
2 Sep 2013
U.S. spy agencies have built an intelligence-gathering colossus since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but remain unable to provide critical information to the president on a range of national security threats, according to the government’s top-secret budget.
→ read full articleLondon to Host One of the World’s Biggest Arms Fairs and Why It Shouldn’t Happen
Kaye Stearman – Open Democracy,
2 Sep 2013
After being home to several Olympic competitions this summer, London’s ExCel Centre is to host one of the world’s most important arms fairs in 2013. But the event’s past affiliations with autocratic regimes and the nature of the exhibitors and buyers involved should be enough to forbid it from happening.
→ read full articlePeople of the World are Fighting Back
Finian Cunningham – Information Clearing House,
2 Sep 2013
What the deluded Americans do not seem to realize is that they are on their own. The only entities willing to support their aggression on Syria are Saudi Arabia and Israel.
→ read full articleCommercial News Beats the War Drum
Mark Ash - Reader Supported News,
2 Sep 2013
The New York Times, following in the great tradition of Washington correspondent extraordinaire Judith Miller, is busy rationalizing and explaining the White House’s mind on the upcoming military action. The point of the proposed attack, explains the Times, is to “Restore a ‘Red Line’ That Became Blurred.” Presumably the mission will then be accomplished.
→ read full articleWith Opposition to Monsanto Growing, India’s Farmers Turn to Traditional Bees and Honey
Paromita Pain, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
As India’s government prepares to make the controversial Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India bill a law, enhancing the hold that biotech companies like Monsanto have over the nation’s food production, the tiny bee may be emerging as a potential savior by offering ways to increase crop yields naturally.
→ read full articleNavy: Training, Testing May Kill Whales, Dolphins
Audrey McAvoy - Time,
2 Sep 2013
(Honolulu) — Navy training and testing could inadvertently kill hundreds of whales and dolphins and injure thousands over the next five years, mostly as a result of detonating explosives underwater, according to two environmental impact statements released by the military Friday [30 Aug 2013].
→ read full articleObama’s Syria Plans in Disarray after Britain Rejects Use of Force
Paul Lewis and Spencer Ackerman – The Guardian,
2 Sep 2013
Barack Obama’s plans for air strikes against Syria were thrown into disarray on Thursday [29 Aug 2013] night after the British parliament unexpectedly rejected a motion designed to pave the way to authorising the UK’s participation in military action.
→ read full articleBlack Budget: Funding the Intelligence Program
The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
U.S. intelligence community’s classified “black budget” for fiscal year 2013.
→ read full articleAre Chemical Weapons Reason Enough to Go to War?
Dana Liebelson – Mother Jones,
2 Sep 2013
What are they? How do they work? Where else have they been used?
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Science, Religion, and the Big Bang
Minute Physics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
From the non-beginning to the singularity, by way of belief-muddling misnomers and beneficial ignorance. An energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics — all in a minute!
→ read full articleHot Off the Press: Britain Sold Nerve Gas Chemicals to Syria
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Seemingly, British firms sold Syrian companies the chemical components needed for the production of chemical weapons, long after the beginning of the civil war. “Britain allowed firms to sell chemicals to Syria capable of being used to make nerve gas”
→ read full articleSnowden Document: NSA Spied On Al Jazeera Communications
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Arab news broadcaster Al Jazeera was spied on by the National Security Agency, according to documents seen by SPIEGEL. The US intelligence agency hacked into protected communication, a feat that was considered a particular success.
→ read full article(Castellano) Organizaciones Alemanas Otorgan “Premio Informante” a Edward Snowden
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
La Asociación Alemana de Científicos (VDW, por su sigla en alemán), fue la encargada de patrocinar el galardón de tres mil euros (casi cuatro mil dólares), que fueron entregados por la sección alemana de Transparency Internacional (TI), dedicada a la lucha contra la corrupción y la Asociación Internacional de Abogados contra las Armas Nucleares.
→ read full article(Castellano) La Siguiente Guerra del Nobel por la Paz
Jorge V. Jaime - TeleSur,
2 Sep 2013
Los tambores de guerra que suenan en Washington al parecer no son bien percibidos en Europa. Italia no otorgó permiso para el uso de sus bases militares, mientras que Canadá, Alemania y Holanda recomendaron mucha precaución a la Casa Blanca. En el Reino Unido ocurrió el mayor fiasco este jueves cuando el Parlamento Británico no respaldó los planes castrenses contra Damasco propuestos por el primer ministro David Cameron.
→ read full article(Castellano) Gobierno de Estados Unidos Espió a los Presidentes de Brasil y México
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Un documento titulado “Infiltración inteligente de datos, estudio de caso Brasil y México” expone que la NSA norteamericana aplicó un programa diseñado para abrir y leer correos electrónicos y chats en línea para interceptar las comunicaciones de la Mandataria brasileña.
→ read full articleA View from Tehran
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Truth told, it’s a bit intense these days in Tehran as in most other countries in this region, and this observer fairly soon may be on what just might be the last Tehran-Damascus flight for some time in light of what could occur in the coming days.
→ read full articleWhy Coca-Cola’s New Ad Campaign May Be Dangerous to Your Health
Katherine Paul & Ronnie Cummins - AlterNet,
2 Sep 2013
It was laughable when Coca-Cola launched a campaign to fight obesity. And even more laughable when the king of soda’s anti-obesity campaign shifted all the blame for those extra pounds to lack of exercise and chairs (yes, chairs). But now, the company that donated $1.7 million to defeat last year’s GMO labeling initiative in California has gone from laughable to dangerous.
→ read full articleJust Say No to Nuclear Power – From Fukushima to Vermont
Amy Goodman – The Guardian,
2 Sep 2013
Fukushima showed us the intolerable costs of nuclear power. The citizens of Vermont show us the benefits of shutting it down.
→ read full articleFukushima Workers Discover Deadly Spike in Radiation
Scott Martelle - Truthdig,
2 Sep 2013
Workers at the Fukushima nuclear power disaster site have made an uncomfortable discovery: radiation levels 18 times higher than anticipated at the bottom of a holding tank. The levels are high enough to kill a person within four hours.
→ read full articleSyria: Obama’s Surprising (and Confusing) Latest Moves
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
President Obama’s August 31[2013] remarks from the White House Rose Garden will long be remembered for their strangeness, but the final interpretation of their significance will have to await months if not years. There are three dimensions, at least, that are worth pondering.
→ read full articleObama Has Decided That It Is Safer to Buy Congress than to Go It Alone
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
While still claiming dictatorial powers to start a war on his own authority, Obama put his unilateral attack on Syria on hold when he received a letter from more than 160 members of the House of Representatives reminding him that to take the country to war without congressional approval is an impeachable offense and when he saw that no country that could serve as cover for a war crime, not even the puppet British government and the NATO puppet states, would support America’s announced military aggression against Syria.
→ read full articleSyria: Civilians Protection and Invisible Conflict Parties
Zahed Davodi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
In my view, the conflict parties in Syria are not only the government and oppositions. I think oppositions are not led by a single person – named as Ahmad Jarba – but there are many others in other groups who never see or listen to this person. They are all being called as oppositions because they have a common aim for now. And there are many external actors including some members of the international community who fuel the flame of the conflict in Syria.
→ read full articleSyria: A Human Perspective
Susan Dirgham – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Shouldn’t we give ordinary Syrians, men and women who treasure life, a voice? We must ask ourselves: why do millions of decent people continue to support their regular army? To take us closer to the truth and further from war, families of all victims need a voice. Does a Coalition of the Willing plan to devastate another society, so creating millions of victims that no country will take responsibility for?
→ read full articleAn Attack on Syria Will Only Spread the War and Killing
Seumas Milne – The Guardian,
2 Sep 2013
All the signs are they’re going to do it again. The attack on Syria now being planned by the US and its allies will be the ninth direct western military intervention in an Arab or Muslim country in 15 years. Depending how you cut the cake, the looming bombardment follows onslaughts on Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Mali, as well as a string of murderous drone assaults on Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan.
→ read full articleSyrian Agony
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
A bird flying in the Sky
Can be evidence
May be blind
While the justice disappears
Over the point of view
(Italiano) Le proposte di Pace funzionano! …a volte
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Per riassumere: per ridurre la violenza dobbiamo identificare i conflitti, il disaccordo tra obiettivi; per identificare i conflitti dobbiamo dialogare con tutte le parti; per giungere a una soluzione il metodo consiste nella mutua ricerca di una nuova realtà, non in vittoriosi dibattiti e compromessi. Più proposte fluttuano nell’aria meglio è; presto o tardi esse verranno afferrate.
→ read full article(Galego) O SGEP Maniféstase en Contra Dunha Intervención Militar dos EE.UU. en Siria
Fundacion Cultura de Paz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
O Seminario Galego de Educación para a Paz, diante da posibilidade certa de que o goberno norteamericano bombardee Siria nas próximas horas, cos seus aliados máis entusiastas, mesmo sen o respaldo e o aval das Nacións Unidas, e con toda a opinión pública en contra, quere manifestar o que segue:
→ read full articleSyria: Chemical Weapons and Restraints in War
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
The UN investigations and the appropriate responses are yet to be made. More shelling of military installations in Syria is unlikely to bring about the negotiations in good faith needed in the Syrian conflict. Thus there is a short-term need to stop beating the drums of war while at the same time stressing the condemnation of the use of chemical weapons.
→ read full articleSyria and Iran: The Danger of Escalation
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
The parallel with the start of World War I is particularly disturbing because the intervening century has witnessed the development of thermonuclear weapons with the capacity to destroy human civilization and much of the biosphere. Must we allow the actions of a few power-blinded politicians to start a conflict that could lead to the deaths of ourselves and our children?
→ read full articleIndifference to the Suffering of Others
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
The indifference to the pain and suffering of others is a continuing theme of reflection and comment. The culture of comfort makes us live in soap bubbles which, however lovely, are insubstantial; they offer a fleeting and empty illusion which results in indifference to others…In this globalized world, we have fallen into globalized indifference. We have become used to the suffering of others: it doesn’t affect me; it doesn’t concern me; it’s none of my business.
→ read full articleChemical Weapons in Syria Provide an Opportunity for Making Peace
Robin Edward Poulton, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
If Syria pulls back from the chemical red line and accepts some form of sanction, then the Wahabists and Jihadists and Iraqi Sunnis should pull back across the frontiers and accept some form of sanction. It is unclear why NATO forces are supporting extremist Sunni Al-Qaeda look-alikes in Syria, while fighting them in Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen and recently in Mali.
→ read full articleAny Attack on Syria Will Be Counterproductive and Illegal – A Result of Failed Conflict Management
The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Any U.S. attack on Syria will be an indisputable violation of international law, an attack on a sovereign state that has not invaded any other state. An aggression on Syria can only take place in complete defiance of Article 1 of the UN Charter which spells out that peace shall be established by peaceful means and only when every civilian means has been tried and found in vain can an international military action be considered – but then only under command of the UN itself.
→ read full articleA “Three Insecurities Perspective” for the Changing Myanmar
Maung Zarni – Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia,
2 Sep 2013
Maung Zarni, a research fellow at the London School of Economics, argues that the best way to look at the current changes in Myanmar is through his “Three Insecurity Paradigms”, namely, national security, global security and human security. Zarni denounces the Thein Sein reforms as crude responses to the regime’s own needs and to the expectation of the world, with little account for the security of ordinary Myanmar people.
→ read full articleJust Because Science Can Genetically Engineer Foods, Doesn’t Mean We Should
Beth Hoffman - Forbes,
2 Sep 2013
The basic answer is simple: trust. Science has a credibility problem. It has for too long been used to distort food and twist the natural into long lasting Twinkies and nutritionally void Lunchables. Tobacco was good for us, we were told, and DDT was fine to spray on our fields.
→ read full articleNo More Nuclear Tests in India and Everywhere Else!
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy commemorates the International Day Against Nuclear Tests on August 29, 2013 by demanding the government of India to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and to undertake a pledge not to conduct any more nuclear tests in India.
→ read full articleToward An Inclusive Inter-Rwandan Dialogue: Lessons from Other Conflicts
Pierre Bakunda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Will Hutu and Tutsi overcome the legacy of social privileges, power and difference to engage into creating a nation- state for all? I wish I would be part of the actors to reconcile Rwandans to overcome their gloomy differences but being excluded, I believe it will require manoeuvres and maturity from the Rwandan government to accept the process.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
A Global Harmony Association Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day. PLEASE HELP THE WORLD BY SIGNING THE PETITION http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Global_Disarmament_Now_1/.
→ read full articleReligion vs. Humanism: Isaac Asimov on Science and Spirituality
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
“The soft bonds of love are indifferent to life and death.”
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Global Wealth Inequality – What You Never Knew You Never Knew
TheRulesOrg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
The richest 300 people in the world are wealthier than the poorest 3 billion combined, and every year rich countries take over 10 times more money from poor countries than they give in aid.
→ read full article(Italiano) Applicazioni della Nonviolenza. Ahimsa nella vita quotidiana
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
La Rete Pace, Sviluppo, Ambiente – TRANSCEND cominciò con conflitti geopolitici macro e mega; molti dei quali ben noti e drammatici. Ma i conflitti nella vita quotidiana, a scuola, nelle coppie-famiglia, al lavoro, possono essere anche più drammatici; al livello micro nelle persone coinvolte, fra di esse, nel contesto, e al livello meso dei gruppi sociali.
→ read full articleWar
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
What more can be said of war,
That has not already been eulogized
On fields of battle
Where lives were lost, minds seared,
And historians’ crafts polished
With the biased narratives of victors:
Waterloo, Hue, Fallujah?
There is no winner in war!
Texan Student
TMS editor,
2 Sep 2013
A Texan student was in his the college campus bookstore.
→ read full articleLet’s Try Everything
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Back then
I was a young and sheltered American,
but I remember the newsreels:
Refugees on broken roads
trod east, or was it west?
The Spreading Wings of Islamophobia in Egypt
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
The Orwellian features of the military takeover in Egypt have received attention, although the use of language to evade unwanted truth continues because incentives to do so persist. What, we might ask, is the el-Sisi concept of inclusiveness? At present, the only plausible answer is ‘my way or the highway.’
→ read full articleFrom the Lion’s Den: An Open Letter (and Invitation) to Vietnam Veterans
Mark A. Ashwill – Huffington Post,
2 Sep 2013
When all was said and done, the U.S. government scurried away, leaving behind a legacy of death, destruction and human suffering on a Draconian scale that haunts Vietnam to this day. The ghosts of the Vietnam War continue to haunt the U.S by the number of veteran suicides, considerably more than those killed in action, the broken lives of survivors, and the country’s costly inability to come to terms with its past as prologue.
→ read full articleCodename ‘Apalachee’ – How America Spies on Europe and the UN
Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark – Der Spiegel,
26 Aug 2013
President Obama promised that NSA surveillance activities were aimed exclusively at preventing terrorist attacks. But secret documents from the intelligence agency show that the Americans spy on Europe, the UN and other countries.
→ read full articleSome Peace Education Initiatives in Denmark
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
This paper will discuss some Danish peace education activities, especially those of the Danish Peace Academy, the Danish National Group of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (Nobel Peace Prize, 1995), and the Grundtvigian adult education colleges.
→ read full articleThe Dow Jones Index is the Greatest of All Ponzi Schemes
Wim Grommen (with Lorimer Wilson) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Beware: The Dow 30’s Performance Is Being Manipulated! The Dow Jones – the oldest stock exchange in the U.S. and most influential in the world – consists of 30 companies and has an extremely interesting and distressing history regarding its beginnings, transformation and structural development which has all the trappings of what is commonly referred to as pyramid or Ponzi scheme.
→ read full articleThe Paradox of Our Age
The 14th Dalai Lama – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
We have bigger houses but smaller families;
more conveniences, but less time.
We have more degrees but less sense;
Still Going Strong – Havana, Where Everyone Can Dance
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Very few can resist falling in love with the country where entire streets; entire neighborhoods, are turned into concert halls and dance floors. One of the iconic phrases symbolizing Latin American revolutions has always been: “Everybody Dances or Nobody Dances!” In Cuba, music and dance are synonymous with life. Here, everybody dances, and that is how the revolution survives.
→ read full article(Português) Amizade Canina
José Guilherme, Ultrapop – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
À medida que o tempo passa, você vê que ele vive de olho em você, e que ele é um sensitivo sentimental. O coração dele é o coração de um gigante. Ele não conhece mágoa nem rancor. Se acontece de você chorar, por algum motivo, seu cachorro está plantado à sua frente, olhando fixamente para você, raspando uma pata na sua perna.
→ read full articlePeace Proposals Work! – Sometimes
Johan Galtung, 26 Aug 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
To reduce violence we must identify the conflicts, the clash of goals; to identify conflicts we must have dialogue with all parties; to arrive at solutions the method is a mutual search for a new reality, not winning debates and compromises; the more proposals floating in the air the better; sooner or later they will be picked up
→ read full articleNSA Paid Millions to Cover Prism Compliance Costs for Tech Companies
Ewen MacAskill in New York – The Guardian,
26 Aug 2013
• Top-secret files show first evidence of financial relationship
• Prism companies include Google and Yahoo, says NSA
• Costs were incurred after 2011 Fisa court ruling
1982 Citizenship Law of Myanmar and Myanmar’s Popular Racism
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Burma’s military-controlled State rests on the country’s official racism towards Burmese of ‘impure blood’. Scholars and policy analysts of Myanmar need to stop characterizing violence and racism against Muslims, ‘Kalars’ and Tayoke (Chinese) as simply ‘sectarian’ or placing undue emphasis on the society’s role in the unfolding racist mass violence against the Rohingya and all Myanmar Muslims.
→ read full articleSystematic Patterns of Anti-Muslim Violence in Burma
Physicians for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) today [20 Aug 2013] released a report documenting the recent wave of violence against Muslims throughout Burma, whose government has created a culture of impunity for the violators and has failed to protect the Muslim minority.
→ read full articleWe Have the Means to End Civilization as We Know It—How Revolutionary Pacifism Can Preserve the Species
Noam Chomsky - AlterNet,
26 Aug 2013
Lecture given by Chomsky upon being awarded the Sydney Peace Prize, November 1, 2011. It remains one of the most powerful and persuasive arguments for recognizing the dangers that modern, industrialized warfare pose to the future of humankind.
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Fukushima Radiation Leakage Still Going On
CCTV America – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Anchor Anand Naidoo asks radiation expert Dr. Janette Sherman why the leakage is still going on at Fukushima — and if it will imperil other countries.
→ read full articleWoman’s Work
Francesca Borri – Columbia Journalism Review,
26 Aug 2013
The Twisted Reality of an Italian Freelancer in Syria – People have this romantic image of the freelancer as a journalist who’s exchanged the certainty of a regular salary for the freedom to cover the stories she is most fascinated by. But we aren’t free at all; it’s just the opposite. Journalists have failed to explain Syria’s civil war because editors only want ‘blood.’
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Let the Sunshine In (Music Video of the Week)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
A Classic – Musical scene of the movie Hair where a hippie changes place with a soldier, is sent to the Vietnam War by mistake and dies in battle.
→ read full articleAl Jazeera & Reuters Published the News of Massacre in Syria One Day before It Happened
Intifada-Voice of Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Al Jazeera, Reuters published the news of massacre in East Ghouta, Damascus one day before the massacre happened. Tens of videos were uploaded one day before the massacre. All these evidences show that the terrorists massacred people then recorded the scenes to deceive the world but they were SO FAST that betrayed themselves.
→ read full articleBradley Manning’s letter to President Barack Obama Requesting a Pardon
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
“If you deny my request for a pardon, I will serve my time knowing that sometimes you have to pay a heavy price to live in a free society. I will gladly pay that price if it means we could have a country that is truly conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all women and men are created equal.”
→ read full articleBradley Manning’s Excessive Sentence
Editorial Board – The New York Times,
26 Aug 2013
35 years is far too long a sentence. Government lawyers presented vague and largely speculative claims that Private Manning’s leaks had endangered lives and “chilled” diplomatic relations. Much of what he released was of public value, including a video of a military helicopter shooting at two vans and killing civilians, including two Reuters journalists.
→ read full article‘Private Money’: Bitcoins Gain Ground in Germany
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Bitcoins have rapidly gained popularity, but what is the currency’s legal status? This week Germany revealed that it sees the virtual payment method as “private money,” but its tax status remains unclear.
→ read full articleUS Succumbing to Tyranny of Endless War
Global Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Will Snowden trigger a domino effect into more whistle-blowers? Will US diplomacy continue to be dominated by the Pentagon? Lawrence B. Wilkerson, a retired US Army colonel and the former chief of staff for Colin Powell who served as US secretary of state from 2001 to 2005, shared his ideas on these issues.
→ read full articleHi, I’m Your New Axis of Evil
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
26 Aug 2013
The winner, as it stands, is the House of Saud/Israel/ Pentagon axis. How did they pull it off? With Israel possibly mulling another invasion of Lebanon; the Kerry “peace process” an excuse for more settlements in Palestine; Bandar Bush back practicing the dark arts; the pre-empting of any possible solution to the Iranian nuclear dossier; Egypt in civil war; Syria and also Iraq bleeding to death, what’s left is the certified proliferation of all kinds of axes, and all kinds of evil.
→ read full articleIn Latvia, Riga Has Become a Ghost Town
Agata Pyzik – New Statesman,
26 Aug 2013
The third-poorest country in the EU, Latvia punitive welfare conditions and the exclusion of Russian-speakers from surrounding nations has lead to a depopulation of 30,000 a year.
→ read full articleNew Fires Relight in Eastern Congo
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
In a 24 August 2013 message addressed to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the Association of World Citizens highlighted that the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern capital of North Kivu Provence, Goma, had been shelled for the past three days, including Saturday the 24th.
→ read full articleAlan Rusbridger: “I would rather destroy the copied files than hand them back to the NSA and GCHQ”
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, talks about the UK and international law, the future of journalism, and the David Miranda affair.
→ read full article(Italiano) Cinque tesi su Assange-Manning-Snowden
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Quel che Manning e Snowden hanno rivelato sono le convulsioni dell’impero USA; quel che Assange e gli altri hanno rivelato sono le convulsioni del sistema statuale come lo conosciamo. A entrambi i processi ci vorrà tempo; al primo meno che al secondo. Ma non ci si sbagli: tutti e tre gli spifferatori hanno fatto storia. Tre nomi che saranno ricordati dopo che taluni presidenti USA saranno scivolati in un oblio tanto meritato.
→ read full articleGlobalizing Homeland Security
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
It is not just one thing that should worry us about the authoritarian tendencies of the Obama presidency, but one thing after another. The cumulative effect of it all. The latest sign of the times was the August 19th detention of David Miranda, Glenn Greenwald’s partner, at Heathrow Airport under the British anti-terrorist law for nine hours.
→ read full articleArt Review: BP Portrait Award 2013
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Fifty-five of the most outstanding entries, including the winning portraits, from this international competition are currently on exhibit from 20 Jun to 15 Sept 2013. During the judging process, none of the entries received from seventy-seven countries were tagged with the artists’ nationality as a measure of equality, and this ethic is also evident in the exhibit.
→ read full articleOn Bradley Manning & America
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
I am posting on this blog two important texts that deserve the widest public attention and deep reflection in the United States and elsewhere. I would stress the following:
→ read full articleWhen Nationalism and Militarism Become One
Mark A. Ashwill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
“United We Stand,” and “We’re Number One!” are commonplace mantras. “United We Stand” against what, whom, and why? “We’re Number One!,” in what respects?, one is tempted to ask.The assumption that “others” wish to be like “us,” and, by extension, the desire to mold them in our image, by force, if necessary, is the essence of the brand of missionary nationalism that has shaped U.S. foreign policy for generations.
→ read full articleNSA Spying Leaves Washington Lonelier than Ever
Emma Lo – Foreign Policy in Focus,
26 Aug 2013
NSA spying is sullying Washington’s relationship with nearly every one of its global partners and competitors.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
A Global Harmony Association Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day. PLEASE HELP THE WORLD BY SIGNING THE PETITION http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Global_Disarmament_Now_1/.
→ read full articleMatter of Fact
TMS editor,
26 Aug 2013
A couple go on holiday to a fishing resort in northern Minnesota.
→ read full articleHow to Keep the NSA Out of Your Computer
Clive Thompson – Mother Jones,
26 Aug 2013
Joseph Bonicioli mostly uses the same internet you and I do. He pays a service provider a monthly fee to get him online. But to talk to his friends and neighbors in Athens, Greece, he’s also got something much weirder and more interesting: a private, parallel internet.
→ read full articleRIP, Elmore Leonard: The Beloved Author’s 10 Rules of Writing
Maria Popova – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
“If it sounds like writing … rewrite it.” – How heartbreaking to learn that the wonderful Elmore Leonard (October 11, 1925–August 20, 2013) has died, and what a bittersweet invitation to revisit his timeless contribution.
→ read full article(Italiano) Fidel. Auguri, e grazie anche per la Pace
Marinella Correggia – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
26 Aug 2013
13 agosto 2013 – Buon compleanno a Fidel Castro! Fra i tanti aspetti del suo agire politico, ricordiamo il suo ruolo di attore internazionale contro le guerre infinite; anzitutto per prevenirle. Come è stato per Hugo Chavez.
→ read full articleThe Confidential Memo at the Heart of the Global Financial Crisis
Greg Palast – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
When a little birdie dropped the End Game memo through my window, its content was so explosive, so sick and plain evil, I just couldn’t believe it. The Memo confirmed every conspiracy freak’s fantasy: that in the late 1990s, the top US Treasury officials secretly conspired with a small cabal of banker big-shots to rip apart financial regulation across the planet.
→ read full articleEgypt: Extreme Polarization and Genocidal Politics
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
In these morbid days, there are some home truths that are worth reflecting upon. What Happened After Tahrir Square?
→ read full articleSensing Epiterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Some astronomers continue to express interest in “extraterrestrials” and “life” elsewhere — and maintaining the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). There are no right answers to wrong questions. Assuming that “extraterrestrial life” might be located on other planets may be a consequence of the “wrong question”. It may not be a question of “where” such “life” is located but rather of “how” that “life” is expressed.
→ read full articleHorror of North Korean Prison Camps Exposed at U.N. Panel Hearing
Ju-min Park and Michelle Kim, Reuters – Townhall,
26 Aug 2013
Public executions and torture are daily occurrences in North Korea’s prisons, according to dramatic testimony from former inmates at a U.N. Commission of Inquiry that opened in South Korea’s capital on Tuesday [20 Aug 2013].
→ read full article(Português) Vaticano Ocupa 8º Lugar Global em Lavagem de Dinheiro
Dermi Azevedo – Carta Maior,
26 Aug 2013
A pesquisa foi realizada pela rede de organizações sociais francesas Voltaire, com base em dados fornecidos por autoridades alemãs e suíças. No ano passado, o Instituto de Obras da Religião (IOR), nome oficial do Banco do Vaticano, epicentro do problema, teria lavado cerca de 33 bilhões de dólares.
→ read full articlePreliminary Evidence Indicates that the Syrian Government DID NOT Launch a Chemical Weapon Attack against Its People
Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Michael Rivero asks:
1. Why would Syria’s Assad invite United Nations chemical weapons inspectors to Syria, then launch a chemical weapons attack against women and children on the very day they arrive, just miles from where they are staying?
2. If Assad were going to use chemical weapons, wouldn’t he use them against the hired mercenary army trying to oust him? What does he gain attacking women and children? Nothing! The gain is all on the side of the US Government desperate to get the war agenda going again.
Gangster State US/UK
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Washington’s UK puppets simply kidnapped David Miranda, the Brazilian partner of Glenn Greenwald, who is reporting on the illegal and unconstitutional spying by the National Stasi Agency, threatened him for nine hours, and stole his computer, phones, and all his electronic equipment. As a smug US official told the media, “the purpose was to send a message.”
→ read full articleChina Takes Aim at Western Ideas
Chris Buckley – The New York Times,
26 Aug 2013
Communist Party cadres have filled meeting halls around China to hear a somber, secretive warning issued by senior leaders. Power could escape their grip, they have been told, unless the party eradicates seven subversive currents coursing through Chinese society.
→ read full articleSyria: No Armaments to Rebels
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire: “Contrary to some foreign governments’ current policies of arming the rebels and pushing for military intervention, the people of Syria are calling out for peace and reconciliation and a political solution to the crisis, which continues to be inflamed by outside forces with thousands of foreign fighters funded and supported by outside countries for their own political ends.”
→ read full articleMerkel and the NSA: A Scandal That Just Won’t Die
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2013
As the election approaches, Chancellor Angela Merkel is working hard to dissipate anger over controversial surveillance by German and US intelligence agencies. But every time Berlin assures voters that all is well, its claims are discredited.
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