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Global Power Project, Part 2: Identifying the Institutions of Control
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
The Global Power Project, an investigative series produced by Occupy.com, aims to identify and connect the worldwide institutions and individuals who comprise today’s global power oligarchy. In Part 1 I provided an overview examining who and what constitute the global ruling elite – often referred to as the Transnational Capitalist Class. In this second part, I will attempt to identify some of the key, dominant institutions that have facilitated and have in turn been supported by the development of this oligarchic class. This is not a study of wealth, but a study of power.
→ read full article(Italiano) Parco Johan Galtung
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
Il 15 giugno scorso Vicente Arques, sindaco di Alfaz, ha inaugurato un monumento, ideato dal famoso scultore basco Augustin Ibarroa in memoria delle vittime degli atroci attacchi terroristici di Oslo e Utoya in Norvegia del 22 Luglio 2011. Il monumento si trova in un parco a cui è stato dato il nome del prof. Johan Galtung , da molti anni residente a Alfaz.
→ read full articleBig Brother, Not Snowden and Greenwald, Is the Story
Sheldon Richman – The Future of Freedom Foundation,
1 Jul 2013
“Instead of being adversaries to government power … [the media of Washington, D.C., are] … servants to it and mouthpieces for it.” Snowden and Greenwald have not “aided the enemy” — unless the American people are the government’s enemy. What they have done is embarrass the Obama administration by exposing criminal activity.
→ read full articleWelcome to the (Don’t Be) Evil Empire: Google Eats the World
Rebecca Solnit - TomDispatch,
1 Jul 2013
Imagine that it’s 1913 and the post office, the phone company, the public library, printing houses, the U.S. Geological Survey mapping operations, movie houses, and all atlases are largely controlled by a secretive corporation unaccountable to the public. Jump a century and see that in the online world that’s more or less where we are. A New York venture capitalist wrote that Google is trying to take over “the entire fucking Internet” and asked the question of the day: “Who will stop Google?”
→ read full article(Italiano) Pensare-Agire, Localmente-Globalmente: Alfaz, Spagna
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
Cooperazione per beneficio mutuo, empatia, risoluzione dei conflitti e riconciliazione dei traumi: compiti fondamentali di pace ovunque, in famiglia, a scuola, al lavoro, in un villaggio-città come Alfaz, come esempio per il paese, per i rapporti Occidente-Islam.
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(Deutsch & Português) “Água – Operação Secreta”: UE Promove a Privatização da Água
Antonio C. S. Rosa - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
German TV programme “ARD MONITOR: Geheimoperation Wasser – EU fördert Wasserprivatisierung”
(Alemão com legendas em português e inglês)
(Deutsch with Portuguese and English subtitles)
Acting, Gaming, Simulating for Peace
Peace Is Sexy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
Who says that violence is cooler and more fun than peace? Sure, with all the violence glorified in movies, TV shows, and video games, by toy guns and action hero dolls it’s easy to see how violence has been made more attractive and why it’s the “easy” alternative to use in case of conflict. But there is actually a growing body of games and activities for peace, whether they are a fun alternative to violent games or teach concrete peacebuilding skills.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 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/.
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New Israeli Law Will See Biggest Ethnic Cleansing of Arabs since 1948
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
Jun 26, 2013 – A highly controversial bill has been passed by a narrow margin in the Israeli Knesset which will lead to the second largest ethnic cleansing of Arab Bedouins since 1948.
→ read full articleThe Task before Us
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
As a result of the Fukushima catastrophe, world public opinion now increasingly rejects nuclear power generation. We can hope that the disaster will also contribute to a rejection of nuclear weapons. We must feel that all of nature is part of the same sacred family; meadow flowers, blowing winds, rocks, trees, birds, animals, and other humans, all these are our brothers and sisters, deserving our care and protection.
→ read full articleThe Anti-Empire Report
William Blum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
Before there was Edward Snowden, William Binney and Thomas Drake … before there was Bradley Manning, Sibel Edmonds and Jesselyn Radack … there was Philip Agee. What Agee revealed is still the most startling and important information about US foreign policy that any American government whistleblower has ever revealed.
→ read full articlePolitical Infernos: United States, Turkey, Egypt
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
A New Political Inferno: Polarization of Immature Democracies – Most importantly, some forces of opposition despair of ever succeeding by democratic procedures, while others pin their hopes on the next election, or the one after that.
→ read full articleBradley Manning Should Win the Nobel Peace Prize
Mairead Corrigan-Maguire – The Guardian,
1 Jul 2013
As a peace prize winner myself, I am nominating Manning for this honor for his work to help end the Iraq War and other conflicts. I hope American leaders will embrace the U.S. constitution, and base their national and foreign policies on ethical values, human rights and international law.
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Calling All Rebels!
Chris Hedges – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
An amazing and powerful speech by activist and journalist Chris Hedges. We need to dissent through rebellion, civil disobedience, nonviolent actions. Actively!
→ read full articleLatin America: New Coalition of Countries to Take On the Multinationals
Martin Khor - IDN-InDepth News,
1 Jul 2013
Leaders of several Latin American countries have set up a new coalition to coordinate actions to face the growing number of international legal suits being taken against governments by transnational companies. A ministerial meeting of 12 countries held in Guayaquil, Ecuador, decided on several joint actions to counter the threat posed by these law suits, which have claimed millions or even billions of dollars from governments.
→ read full articleUnquestionable Adoration of Obama Is Ludicrous
Clare Daly – Irish Examiner,
1 Jul 2013
What was really so “outrageous” about the points I made regarding the visit of President Obama and the G8 summit on Tuesday morning [18 June 2013]? The Government lackeys are not doing any favours for American people by offering Obama unquestionable adoration. We would serve them better by highlighting the tax havens which Ireland has kindly provided for big US corporations so that they can avoid paying tax in the US.
→ read full articleProtests in Bulgaria: Yet another Early Election?
The Economist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
24 June 2013 – Every day, for the last ten days, at exactly 6.30pm, Independence Square, a busy intersection in the centre of Sofia, has been the starting point for a protest march that passes by the parliament building, the Eagles’ Bridge and the National Palace of Culture. Around 10,000 people participate every evening. They are calling for more transparency, less corruption and an end of the local oligarchs’ rule.
→ read full articleIndia’s Guilt-Free Makeup: Testing Cosmetics on Animals Banned
Janani Sampath – The Times of India,
1 Jul 2013
It may be just the first step, but it certainly has brought smiles to the faces of animal right activists. The Bureau of Indian Standards on Friday [28 June 2013] approved the removal of animal tests from the country’s cosmetics standard. India becomes the first country in Southeast Asia to end the practice.
→ read full articleA Brazilian Autumn?
Miguel Borba de Sa – Jacobin Magazine,
1 Jul 2013
In the course of two weeks, what started as protests against public transit fare hikes has spread into mass demonstrations across Brazil that are presenting a challenge to the Workers Party (PT) government, led by Dilma Rousseff, whose record as a left-wing activist includes time spent in prison under the military dictatorship.
→ read full article6 Causes of Flatulence
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
Just as everyone goes to the bathroom, everyone also passes gas; it’s simply a biological reality. Your body is able to absorb a limited amount of the gas it ingests or produces. The rest has to come out somewhere.
→ read full articleEminem Reveals He Was Two Hours from Death on Prescription Drugs
Irish Examiner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
“When I took my first Vicodin, it was like this feeling of ‘Ahh.’ Xanax, Valium, tomato, it’s same thing … F**k it, take it… They were gonna have to put me on dialysis. They didn’t think I was gonna make it. My bottom was gonna be death.” While the rapper is now clean, he admitted detoxing was a huge struggle.
→ read full articleA Bad Day Indeed
TMS editor,
1 Jul 2013
There was this guy at a bar, just looking at his drink. He stays like that for half of an hour.
→ read full articleMetta for “Mus”?!! You must be kidding!: A New Myanmar and its “Buddhist” Tales
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
In our Myanmar A-wee-zi (an abode of Buddhist Hell) – He is our national hero in place of your ‘fallen (liberal) idol’. Mighty is he, commanding 3,000-strong Buddhist monastery amongst the Order of 500,000. “Honestly, I felt I wanted to fight weapons with weapons. I am a Burmese bin Laden”.
→ read full articleOccupy Movements Around the World: How Is Brazil’s Different?
Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Michael D. Kennedy - HuffPost,
1 Jul 2013
Spain’s Indignados. Egypt’s Tahrir Square. The U.S.’ Occupy Wall Street. Now, Turkey’s Occupy Gezi and Brazil’s own distinctive movement. “Horizontalist” movements like these, which emphasize direct democracy and collective decision making over specific parties, transcend the political spectrum.
→ read full articleWorld’s Most Evil and Lawless Institution? The Executive Branch of the U.S. Government
Fred Branfman - AlterNet,
1 Jul 2013
America has a secret. It is not discussed in polite company or at the dinner tables of the powerful, rich and famous. The courageous few who do not keep this secret, who try to break through to their fellow citizens about it, are marginalized and ignored by society at large.
→ read full articleCircumventing Invasive Internet Surveillance with Carrier Pigeons
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
Extensive use has been made in the past of carrier pigeons for secure communications, notably in arenas of threat, and most notably in World War I, continuing into World War II, but to a lesser degree. The founder of the news agency Reuters made use of carrier pigeons for the delivery of vital financial data in parallel with introduction of the telegraph. Other little-known examples are cited in what follows.
→ read full articleAfter the NSA Leak: A “National Conversation” Without Information
James B. Rule – Dissent Magazine,
1 Jul 2013
No serious privacy-watcher was surprised, I suspect, at Edward Snowden’s National Security Agency revelations. Major New York Times stories at the end of 2005 had already implied that Washington was monitoring virtually all Americans’ telecommunications traffic—both phone calls and e-mails.
→ read full articleCarl Sagan on Science and Spirituality
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
“The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.”
→ read full articleFull Spectrum Dominance: Weaponising the Weather
Colin Todhunter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is carrying out electromagnetic experimentations with the ionosphere and developing electromagnetic weaponry. It is claimed that HAARP intends to induce ionospheric modifications with a view to altering weather patterns and disrupting communications and radar.
→ read full article(Français) Nous Refusons le Silence Face a l’Apartheid et au Nettoyage Ethnique en Birmanie
Maung Zarni, Noam Chomsky et Lilian Thuram – Le Monde,
1 Jul 2013
Les minorités sont exclues du renouveau démocratique et, pour beaucoup, le calvaire a empiré avec des offensives militaires au nord et à l’Est tandis qu’à l’Ouest des populations sont séquestrées sous un régime d’Apartheid.
→ read full article20 Years of Human Rights Progress – Yet a Long Road Ahead
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
The World Conference on Human Rights was held in Vienna 14-25 June 1993 to look at how well human rights were protected and promoted. These days there is a “Vienna plus 20” conference to review the advances of the past 20 years. It would be wrong to overlook the real progress made.
→ read full articleIron Wings
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
For the residents of London Hounslow who live under constant pollution of Heathrow flight path.
→ read full articleGlobal Power Project, Part 3: The Influence of Individuals and Family Dynasties
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
The Global Power Project, an investigative series produced by Occupy.com, aims to identify and connect the worldwide institutions and individuals who comprise today’s global power oligarchy. In this third part, I examine the dynastic influence wielded by prominent corporate and financial families. This is not a study of wealth, but a study of power.
→ read full articleOn DIGNITechnologizing
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
Since Literacy has been called the Technology of the Intellect
Dignity could be referred to as the Technology of Deep Respect
The Criminal N.S.A.
Jennifer Stisa Granick and Christopher Jon Sprigman – The New York Times,
1 Jul 2013
We may never know all the details of the mass surveillance programs, but we know this: The administration has justified them through abuse of language, intentional evasion of statutory protections, secret, unreviewable investigative procedures and constitutional arguments that make a mockery of the government’s professed concern with protecting Americans’ privacy. It’s time to call the N.S.A.’s mass surveillance programs what they are: criminal.
→ read full articleOrigin and Development of Human Security
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
Human security is complementary to human rights. It is a comprehensive, interrelated, and coordinated concept that encompasses freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom to live in dignity, and freedom to inherit pro-nature environment for forthcoming generations as fundamental rights.
→ read full articleObama Called “War Criminal” & “Hypocrite of the Century” in Irish Parliament
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
21 June 2013 – Rep. Clare Daly in the Irish Parliament
→ read full articleNo Good Guys among Syrian Rebels – Paulo Sergio Pinheiro
InSerbia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
It is impossible to choose unequivocally good guys among the groups of Syrian rebels and send weapons to them. This warning was voiced by chairman of the UN independent panel investigating possible violations of human rights in Syria Paulo Sergio Pinheiro on Friday [21 June 2013].
→ read full articleHelen Keller on Optimism
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
“Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.”
→ read full articleThe Last Mystery of the Financial Crisis
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
24 Jun 2013
It’s long been suspected that ratings agencies like Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s helped trigger the meltdown. A new trove of embarrassing documents shows how they did it.
→ read full articleScience vs. Scripture and the Difference between Curiosity and Wonder
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
From Aristotle to St. Paul, or how rational thought and religion battled over knowledge.
→ read full articleStasi in the White House
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
When the Berlin Wall came down, the Stasi Spy State that suffocates the soul moved to Washington. The Stasi is alive and well in the Obama regime.
→ read full article(Português) “Nossos Sonhos Não Cabem no Capitalismo”
Fernando Meirelles – Outras Palavras,
24 Jun 2013
Para Fernando Meirelles, reconstrução da política exige superar lógicas que associam felicidade e sucesso a consumo e acumulação sem fim.
→ read full articleThe Uprising against Brother Erdogan
Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
The Turkish people are not protesting against Recip Tayyeb Erdogan’s autocratic style, but against his policies; in other words, against the Muslim Brotherhood, of which he is the mentor. What started on Taksim Square is not a color revolution over a new building project, but an uprising that has spread across the entire country; in short, it is a revolution that calls the “Arab Spring” into question.
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“Adagio in G Minor” (Music Video of the Week)
Dominic Miller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
Guitar – A delight to the senses! – Composer: Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (8 June 1671 – 17 January 1751)
→ read full articlePerspectives on the Surveillance Scandal
Lawrence Davidson, Ph.D, Brave New World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
The existence of men like Manning, Snowden and a handful of others demonstrates that there are employees of the government who have a superior sense of morality as well as the courage to act on their principles. However, the numbers are very small and they are invariably considered as dangerous mistakes within the system. What of the rest of the government’s personnel?
→ read full articlePentagon Bracing For Public Dissent over Climate and Energy Shocks
Nafeez Ahmed – The Guardian,
24 Jun 2013
Top secret US National Security Agency (NSA) documents disclosed by the Guardian have shocked the world with revelations of a comprehensive US-based surveillance system with direct access to Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft and other tech giants. New Zealand court records suggest that data harvested by the NSA’s Prism system has been fed into the Five Eyes intelligence alliance whose members also include the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
→ read full articleHappiness on the Streets
Nasim Banaei – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
Iran – The streets could be a good place for people to share their happiness and spend time with each other. A government with a wise policy and plan can create this Happiness on the streets.
→ read full articleGulf War Memorial
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
With its 750 oil well fires
burning like giant votive candles
on a vast sand altar,
Firefox Web Browser to Move Ahead Plan to Block Tracking
Craig Timberg – The Washington Post,
24 Jun 2013
The maker of the popular Firefox browser is moving ahead with plans to block the most common forms of Internet tracking, allowing hundreds of millions of users to eventually limit who watches their movements across the Web, company officials said Wednesday [19 June 2013].
→ read full articleWhat is Andropause?
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
The phenomena of the biological clock isn’t exclusive to women, it seems men also are prone to age related changes in hormone levels, sexual function, physical features, and quality of life. These changes, dubbed “andropause” (and sometimes “male menopause”) are due to a progressive decrease in testosterone production.
→ read full articleThrough the Wall of Fire — Reconciliation
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
Reconciliation is a process which requires spiritual understanding as it goes beyond the type of pragmatism that rests in the careful calculation of causes and consequences. Reconciliation needs to be seen not only as reconciliation between two persons or groups, but as reconciliation for something. It is not merely the repair of the past, but reconciliation is a bridge to the future. Reconciliation has to do with how antagonists construct a new future together.
→ read full articleThe Chimerica Dream: Two Nations, Two Dreams, One Pacific
Pepe Escobar - TomDispatch,
24 Jun 2013
Beijing was very much aware of Washington’s deep plunge into China’s computer networks over the past 15 years. Yet Xi merrily allowed Obama to pontificate on hacking and cyber-theft as if China were alone on such a stage. Enter — with perfect timing — Edward Snowden, the spy who came in from Hawaii and who has been holed up in Hong Kong since May 20th.
→ read full articleYoga for Peace
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
Swami Vivekananda in his book Raja Yoga, first published in 1896, elaborated this Yoga. He argued that Yoga is scientific. Even an atheist by following its rules can sharpen his mind, increase his mental power, develop a healthy body and maintain composure in worst situations.
→ read full articleFrom Times of War to Times of Peace in Syria
Alejandro Bandaña – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
No idea and no ideal, however heroic it might be, can possibly justify the death of thousands of innocent people. Nothing is important enough to justify the fact that millions are fleeing their homes just because they want to survive. And no war should continue if it results in the destruction of one’s own country.
→ read full articleThe War on Crime Is Enforcing Safety or Insecurity?
Federica Riccadonna – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
Comparison between Nepal and Iceland
→ read full articleFormer Enron CEO Skilling’s Sentence Cut to 14 Years
Kristen Hays and Anna Driver, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
A federal judge slashed 10 years off the prison sentence of former Enron Corp Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling on Friday [21 June 2013], a decision that could set him free as early as 2017.
→ read full articlePalestinian Children Tortured, Used As Shields by Israel: U.N
Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
A United Nations human rights body accused Israeli forces on Thursday [20 June 2013] of mistreating Palestinian children, including by torturing those in custody and using others as human shields.
→ read full articleGlobal Power Project, Part 1: Exposing the Transnational Capitalist Class
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
The Global Power Project, an investigative series produced by Occupy.com, aims to identify and connect the worldwide institutions and individuals who comprise today’s global power oligarchy. By studying the relationships and varying levels of leadership that govern our planet’s most influential institutions — from banks, corporations and financial institutions to think tanks, foundations and universities — this project seeks to expose the complex, highly integrated network of influence wielded by relatively few individuals on a national and transnational basis. This is not a study of wealth, but a study of power.
→ read full article(Castellano) Homo Oeconomicus
Enrico Euli – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
“la capacidad de la mente humana para formular y resolver problemas complejos es muy pequeña en comparación con el tamaño de los problemas que debe resolver para obtener un comportamiento objetivamente racional en el mundo real o incluso una aproximación razonable a la racionalidad”.
→ read full articleWhy Do People Lie? And Why Do Other People Believe Them?
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
The purpose of fear is to suppress awareness of the truth. People always lie for the same reason: fear. But the precise fear that makes a person lie in one circumstance might be different from the fear that makes them lie in another.
→ read full articleGod, Guns and Automobiles
MaxMotorsDirect – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
[BEYOND DECADENCE: SURREAL VIOLENCE PROMOTION] On 21 July 2009 TRANSCEND Media Service published this story: Missouri Car Dealer Offers Free Ak-47 with Purchase of New Truck – The president of Max Motors (slogan: “God, Guns, Guts, and American Pick-Up Trucks”) says the response has been very strong. On 8 July 2013 History Channel will launch its newest show: God, Guns and Automobiles. WATCH TRAILER.
→ read full article(Português) Brasil: O Preço da Gota d’Água
Luís Leiria, Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
Vinte centavos de aumento fizeram transbordar “um pote até aqui de mágoa”, como diz a canção do Chico Buarque. Mas o Brasil não é agora um país rico? De que se queixam, então? De 20 centavos? Não, não é de 20 centavos (apenas), tal como os turcos não se queixam (só) da destruição do Parque Gezi de Istambul.
→ read full articleUnderstanding the Latest Prism Leaks Is Understanding the Rise of a New Fascism
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
The director of Google Ideas, Jared Cohen, was an adviser to Condoleezza Rice, who lied that Saddam Hussein could attack the US with nuclear weapons. Cohen and Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt – they met in the ruins of Iraq – have co-authored a book, The New Digital Age, endorsed as visionary by the former CIA director Michael Hayden and the war criminals Henry Kissinger and Tony Blair.
→ read full articleSpy Drone Can See What You Are Wearing From 17,500 Feet (5,334 Meters)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
A new camera developed by the Pentagon’s research arm was highlighted in a recent special on PBS’ “Nova” in an episode called “Rise of the Drones.” It is a camera system so detailed it can discern specific movements and even what a subject is wearing.
→ read full articleInfographic: The United Kingdom’s Tax Havens – Interactive
Simon Hooper and Ben Willers – Al Jazeera,
24 Jun 2013
About one-fifth of the world’s tax-free shelters are UK territories and crown dependencies.
→ read full articleCircumcision
TMS Editor,
24 Jun 2013
Two five year old boys are sitting in a hospital waiting room. One leans over to the other and says, “What are you in here for?”
→ read full article(Italiano) La Turchia si Sta di Nuovo Bloccando?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
La Turchia ha fatto l’impossibile, passando quasi senza violenza da una dittatura militare laica a una democrazia civile a maggioranza sunnita. La Turchia si è sbloccata.
→ read full articleSensible Thinkers Think about Leaks
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
Satirical Strip – This Modern World
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 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 articleIs Naomi Wolf Working for the NSA?
Dave Lindorff, This Can’t Be Happening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
Just wondering…
I hate to do this, but I feel obligated to share, as the story unfolds, my creeping concern that the writer Naomi Wolf is not whom she purports to be, and that her motive in writing an article on her public Facebook page speculating about whether National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden might actually be still working for the NSA, could be to support the government’s effort to destroy him.
A Psychologist’s Guantanamo Nightmare
Roy J. Eidelson, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
The United States has indisputably tortured “war on terror” prisoners – and psychologists and other health professionals played critical roles in the systematic abuse.
→ read full articleHow The G8 Joint Statement Should Read
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
24 Jun 2013
For decades, an evil clique of nations controlled by the corporate elite whose goal was and is hegemony over the world’s resources – its capital – either installed governments or else closed ranks around them, neutering any socially progressive vectors by nipping them in the bud.
→ read full articleWorld Introversion through Paracycling
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
Global Potential for Living Sustainably “Outside-Inside” – Produced on the occasion of the G8 Summit [2013] in Eniskillen (Ireland). The question meriting reflection is whether the courageous protests against the mindset of those who claim capacity to govern society could be set aside to enable exploration of other modalities.
→ read full article(A)tom and Kerry Show: It’s All Money, Stupid!
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
One of the top issues on Kerry’s agenda is to close the India-US nuclear deal on America’s own selfish imperial terms and conditions. They want nuclear business, profit and power to dominate the Indian market but will not offer any liability.
→ read full articleCollected Essays – John Scales Avery
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
This book contains a collection of essays, most of which were first published in Countercurrents and in Professor Johan Galtung’s Transcend Media Service Weekly Digest during 2012 and early 2013. The Editor of Countercurrents, Mr. Binu Mathew, and the Editor of TMS Weekly Digest, Mr. Antonio C.S. Rosa, were kind enough to accept all the articles that I sent to them, and so I wrote more and more.
→ read full articleRewilding Made Simple – An Animated Guide
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
Could the destruction of the natural world be reversed? Could our bare hills once more support a rich and thriving ecosystem, containing wolves, lynx, moose, bison, wolverines and boar? Does our wildlife still bear the marks of the great beasts that once roamed here? George Monbiot narrates an animation on the enchanting subject of rewilding.
→ read full articleHC Notice to Govt for Withdrawal of Cases against Anti-Nuclear Activists
The Hindu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
The Madras High Court on Tuesday [11 June 2013] ordered issue of notice to Tamil Nadu Government asking why steps were not taken to withdraw cases filed against anti-nuclear activists protesting against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project.
→ read full articleMonsanto Refuses to Testify on Genetically Modified Crops in Puerto Rico
Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero – CorpWatch,
24 Jun 2013
Monsanto has refused to testify at a major government hearing about the development and sale of seeds in Puerto Rico. At stake is the research that the company conducts into genetic engineering on the island that critics say threaten the environment and can cause serious human health problems.
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Galtung-Overcoming the Taksim Square Conflict
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
11 June 2013 – Prof. Johan Galtung, in Turkey, presents an analysis and much info directed at peaceful/nonviolent solutions to the standoff in Istanbul.
→ read full article(Português) Drogas, Equívocos e Soluções
Frei Betto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
O fenômeno das drogas atinge todos nós. Não há exceção. Ainda que você não tenha um dependente químico na família, o perigo reside no assalto. Portugal ensinou muito ao Brasil: o idioma, o prazer do queijo, a religiosidade cristã, a arte sacra, o gosto pela literatura, etc. É hora de aprendermos também com Portugal como lidar com as drogas. Lisboa é a capital europeia com menor índice de homicídios.
→ read full article(Castellano) Se Estanca Turquia Nuevamente?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
Turquía hizo lo imposible: pasar casi sin violencia de una dictadura militar secular a una democracia civil mayoritariamente sunní. Turquía despegó. Sarkar y la circulación de las elites en el trabajo: las élites militares, luego los intelectuales religiosos, después las empresas, luego la gente común y una vez más los militares. Segundo ciclo. Los grandes negocios llaman a la puerta, como sucedió en la época de Thatcher y Reagan, en la revolución de mediados de 1980.
→ read full articleOver 6,000 Foreign Militants Killed in Syria
Shafaqna – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
More than 6,000 foreign militants have been killed in Syria, among them at least 630 from the terrorist Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO). According to the Lebanese Al Manar TV, citing reliable reports from European research centers, more than 40,000 foreign militants are fighting in a massive insurgency in Syria that has torn the country apart for more than two years.
→ read full articleWestern Military Intervention Will Leave Syria in Permanent Ruins Say Two Former NATO Secretary Generals
Javier Solana & Jaap de Hoop Scheffer – New York Times,
17 Jun 2013
13 June 2013 – Rather than secure humanitarian space and empower a political transition, Western military engagement is likely to provoke further escalation on all sides, deepening the civil war.
→ read full articleText of White House Statement on Chemical Weapons in Syria
The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
Following is the statement issued by the White House in the name of Benjamin J. Rhodes, deputy national security adviser.
→ read full articleThree Shots Please
TMS editor,
17 Jun 2013
A man walked into a bar, sat down, ordered 3 shots of whiskey, drank them, then left. This continued daily for several weeks.
→ read full articleColombia Worries as Troops Join Arab Mercenary Force
UPI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
7 June 2013 – Colombia’s defense ministry is alarmed about an exodus of top soldiers to the United Arab Emirates to join a highly paid U.S.-led mercenary force organized by Erik Prince, billionaire founder of the infamous security firm Blackwater.
→ read full article(Português) A Verdadeira Agenda e os Interesses da Revista “The Economist”
Dario Pignotti – Carta Maior,
17 Jun 2013
Na verdade, essa publicação é um órgão ideológico e um instrumento político do capital transnacional que busca ficar com a maior parte dos excedentes da sétima economia mundial. O mais recente “capricho” da The Economist é querer derrubar o ministro [brasileiro] Guido Mantega.
→ read full articleThe Arrogance of Power
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
According to testimony given by CIA insider Susan Lindauer, the CIA knew about the planned attack on the World Trade Center as early as April, 2001. According to Lindauer, it was realized that airplanes striking the buildings would not cause their collapse, and so the disaster was deliberately made worse than it otherwise would have been by US government agents, who planted charges of explosives.
→ read full articleAfrica’s Worst Drought Tied to West’s Pollution
Becky Oskin, LiveScience – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
The biggest drought to hit the planet in the 20th century, the Sahel drought sucked Central Africa dry from the 1970s to the 1990s. The severe famines that resulted killed hundreds of thousands of people during this period. A new study blames the dry spell on pollution in the Northern Hemisphere, primarily from America and Europe.
→ read full articleIsraeli Death Merchants and Palestinian Guinea Pigs
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
“The Lab” is a new groundbreaking Israeli documentary film that redefines our entire understanding of the Jewish State, its aims, its identity and its global destructive role. I honestly believe that this film is the deepest and most important commentary on Israel.
→ read full article(Português) Congresso do Equador Aprova Novo Marco Regulatório da Mídia
Página 12 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
Nova lei, entre outras coisas, proíbe a concentração de frequências de rádio e televisão e garante uma distribuição equitativa de frequências: 33% privadas, 33% públicas e 34% comunitárias.
→ read full articleU.N. Chief Opposes U.S. Military Support for Syrian “Rebels”
Eyder Peralta, NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday [14 June 2013] that he opposes the U.S. decision to provide Syrian rebels with military support. “The United Nations, and in particular I, have been making it consistently clear that providing arms to either side would not address this current situation. There is no such military solution.”
→ read full articleEdward Snowden: The Whistleblower behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations
Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras in Hong Kong – The Guardian,
17 Jun 2013
The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA’s history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended on hiding in the shadows.
→ read full articleGreek Solidarity with Struggling Turks
Vasilis Migkos, Peace Is Sexy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
An update on the Greek reaction to the Turkish upheaval, describing how these traditional rivals are now supporting each other.
→ read full articleThe West to Pay a High Price for Targeting the Syrian Government, Security Experts Claim
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Sevice,
17 Jun 2013
This is one subjects that is reportedly being analyzed by the by US Intelligence Community. It is to be hoped that Washington and Brussels listen and act appropriately. If so they will avoid a steep price for their currently flawed policy.
→ read full articleWashington and the Breakdown of the Colombia-Venezuela-FARC Peace Process
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
Washington has devised a dual strategy toward Latin America. This involves a new set of ambitious imperial initiatives designed to undermine the principal anti-imperialist governments (Venezuela), social movements and armed insurgency (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), while dismantling Latin America-centered integration and regional alliances, such as ALBA, Petro-Caribe, UNASUR and MERCOSUR.
→ read full articleRapprochement of Cultures and Creative Education
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the Decade 2013-2022 as the International Decade for the Rapprochement of Cultures building on the efforts in the UNESCO General Conference which had called for “the development of a universal global consciousness.”
→ read full articleGlenn Greenwald on How NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Helped Expose a “Massive Surveillance Apparatus”
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
17 Jun 2013
10 June 2013 – Speaking from Hong Kong where he broke the story of Edward Snowden outing himself as the NSA whistleblower, Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald joins us to discuss Snowden’s actions and the multiple disclosures he’s revealed about government surveillance.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to the Mediahouses in India!
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
There has not been one single editorial in any Indian newspaper or an informed debate on any TV debate on the repeated postponement of the KKNPP commission since 2005. Don’t the people of India need to know the reasons behind this constant postponement and continued ducking and dodging by the prime minister, central ministers, chief minister, and nuclear officials?
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