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Violence in the Institutional and Cultural DNA of the United States of America
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
The two of the three pillars of the United States were the ethno- and genocide of the native people and the enslavement of African people — yes, the other is honorably the Enlightenment ideals of equality (of property-owning while males). Both as an economic system and as an ideological edifice, USA is one of the most violent places on earth.
→ read full articleElectric Train
TMS Editor,
31 Dec 2012
A few days after Christmas, a mother was working in the kitchen listening to her young son playing with his new electric train in the living room. She heard the train stop and her son said,
→ read full articleMeet the Weeds That Monsanto Can’t Beat
Tom Philpott for Mother Jones – The Guardian,
31 Dec 2012
When Monsanto revolutionised agriculture with a line of genetically engineered seeds, the promise was that the technology would lower herbicide use – because farmers would have to spray less. In fact, as Washington State University researcher Chuch Benbrook has shown, just the opposite happened.
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Matt Taibbi: How Did HSBC Executives Avoid Jail?
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
The banking giant HSBC has escaped indictment for laundering billions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels and groups linked to al-Qaeda. Taibbi says. “Here we have a bank that laundered $800 million dollars of drug money and they can’t find a way to put anybody in jail for that? That sends an incredible message, not just to the financial sector, but to everybody. It’s an obvious, clear double standard where one set of people gets to break the rules as much as they want and another set of people can’t break any rules at all without going to jail.”
→ read full articleCan There Be “Good” Corporations?
Marjorie Kelly – YES! Magazine,
31 Dec 2012
When companies are owned by workers and the community—instead of Wall Street financiers—everything changes.
→ read full articleThe P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2012
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting-FAIR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Recalling Some of the Stinkiest Media Moments of the Year [2012]
→ read full articleA Request to Dissolve the Indian Parliament
The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
We, the following citizens of India, have just completed 500 days of our peaceful protest against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project. Although our people have been struggling peacefully and nonviolently and democratically for 500 days, the Central government and the State government have not given our struggle its due importance or serious consideration to our demands. Instead they persist with their plan of commissioning the project at any cost just to please their Russian, American and French masters.
→ read full articleNile Gathering in Aswan, Egypt, 10-29 Jan 2013
The Nile Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
The world’s longest river runs through 11 countries (Congo DRC, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Sudan and Egypt) and touches the lives of 400 million people. The Project’s mission is to connect the people of the Nile basin through a cultural dialogue that evokes Africa’s iconic river as a shared ecosystem.
→ read full articleWhy Are There So Few Peace Psychology Courses Taught?
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
What Can We Do To Change This? Although we have no exact figures on the number of courses in peace psychology that are taught in undergraduate and graduate psychology departments the United States, it seems to me on the basis of available materials that there it is at best a limited number.
→ read full articleTo Friends All Over: HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013!
Johan and TRANSCEND – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Permit me a little report on where we are in TRANSCEND. So you will pardon me a sense of “mission accomplished”, even if those words were abused by somebody unmentionable.
→ read full articleLosing Faith? Belgium to Charge Church of Scientology with Fraud and Extortion
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
After a long lasting legal battle Belgium prosecutors demand to label the Church of Scientology as a criminal organization and charge it and its leaders with extortion, fraud, privacy breaches, and the illegal practice of medicine.
→ read full articleVerizon Patents Targeted Advertising Method That Determines If Viewers Are Laughing, Cuddling, Sleeping or Singing
Steve Donohue, Fierce Cable – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Verizon has filed a patent application for targeting ads to viewers based on information collected from infrared cameras and microphones that would be able to detect conversations, people, objects and even animals that are near a TV.
→ read full articleThe Paradox of Cuban Agriculture
Miguel Altieri and Fernando Funes-Monzote – Monthly Review,
31 Dec 2012
When Cuba faced the shock of lost trade relations with the Soviet Bloc in the early 1990s, food production initially collapsed due to the loss of imported fertilizers, pesticides, tractors, parts, and petroleum. The situation was so bad that Cuba posted the worst growth in per capita food production in all of Latin America and the Caribbean. But the island rapidly re-oriented its agriculture to depend less on imported synthetic chemical inputs, and became a world-class case of ecological agriculture.
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Tell Me Why (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Genesis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Mothers crying in the street
Children dying at their feet
Tell me why, ooh tell me why
People starving everywhere
There’s too much food, but there’s none to spare
Tell me why, oh tell me why …
Johan Galtung on Goldman Sachs and the Protocols
Al Jazeera, The Stream – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Gilad Atzmon: Johan Galtung confirms that many people believe that Goldman Sachs actions are not that different from the reality described in the Protocols of The Elders of Zion. Protocols also refer to Jews’ control of the press. According to Galtung we see a lack of debate on that matter.
→ read full article(Português) Para Viver Além de Narciso
Entrevista a Inês Castilho – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Lia Diskin [membro da TRANSCEND] disseca ultra-individualismo das sociedade submissas aos mercados, mas aposta nos novos valores da juventude e numa política despartidarizada.
→ read full article(Italiano) Contro una Terza Guerra Mondiale: Costruttivamente!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Da Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany – La probabilità di una devastante Terza Guerra Mondiale non è zero, ma molto lontana dal 100%. Esploriamo perché.
→ read full articleResponding to the Unspeakable Killings at Newtown, Connecticut
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
The template of response has become a national liturgy in light of the dismal pattern of public response: media sensationalism of a totalizing kind, at once enveloping, sentimental, and tasteless (endless interviewing of surviving children and teachers, and even family members of victims), but dutifully avoiding deeper questions relating to guns, violence, and cultural stimulants and conditioning.
→ read full articleImaginative Reconfiguration of a post-Apocalyptic Global Civilization
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Engaging Cognitively With the Illusion of the “End of the World”
→ read full articleThe Freedom of the Press Foundation
Daniel Ellsberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Today [23 Dec 2012], I join with a group of colleagues and friends to announce The Freedom of the Press Foundation. This new foundation crowd-sources funding for a number of tireless, courageous and underfunded freedom of press organizations, including WikiLeaks.
→ read full article‘Bug-Splats’
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Some dead children are mourned; others are dehumanised. Barack Obama’s tears for the children of Newtown are in stark contrast to his silence over the children murdered by his drones.
→ read full articleSwitzerland’s UBS Becomes Second Bank to Settle LIBOR Rate-Rigging Probe
AP-The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Swiss bank UBS agreed Wednesday [19 Dec 2012] to pay $1.5 billion in fines for trying to manipulate a key interest rate that affects borrowers around the world.
→ read full articleOutrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
24 Dec 2012
The banks’ laundering transactions were so brazen that the NSA probably could have spotted them from space. Breuer admitted that drug dealers would sometimes come to HSBC’s Mexican branches and “deposit hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, in a single day, into a single account, using boxes designed to fit the precise dimensions of the teller windows.”
→ read full article(Português) Com Menos Armas, Brasil Tem Três Vezes Mais Mortes a Tiro que os EUA
UOL Notícias – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Apesar do número bem inferior de armas de fogo em circulação na população do que nos Estados Unidos, o Brasil registrou, em 2010, 36 mil vítimas fatais de tiros. O montante é 3,7 vezes o registrado pelos americanos, que tiveram 9.960 mortes, colocando o país no topo dos que mais registram óbitos por arma de fogo no mundo.
→ read full articleThe UK/Swedish/US Governments Are Complicity in Mental Torture of Julian Assange, WikiLeaks Co-Founder
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
I appeal to the Australian government, Human rights defenders, brave media, and people who love freedom and truth to break the ‘silence ‘ and stand up for the rights of Julian Assange to assurance he will get the change to answer all accusations against him in UK or Sweden and the assurance he will not be extradited to USA where he could meet the same ‘cruel and inhuman’ treatment as pt. Bradley Manning.
→ read full articlePerspective of the Most Violent Nation in the Civilized World
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Over the past few decades, the United States has emerged to become the most violent nation in the civilized world. This did not happen overnight. In fact, we can trace this nation’s source of violence to the draft of its Constitution, which has now emerged to become the nation’s dangerous enemy.
→ read full articleHuman Rights: A Letter to Santa Claus?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
On December 10, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 48 nations voted for adoption, while 8 nations abstained from voting. Not a single state voted against the Declaration. Of course we have to earn a living, but in addition, all of us have the duty to work actively, to the best of our abilities, to save humanity’s future and the biosphere.
→ read full articleAfter Newtown: Shifting the Structure and Culture of Violence towards Peace
Marianne Perez de Fransius – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
A look at the structural and cultural violence underneath the Sandy Hook attack and action steps to move towards peace.
→ read full articleMichael Cremo Brings Vedic Perspectives to the Scientific Table
Madhava Smullen, ISKCON News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
A new book shows that it is possible to present Vedic perspectives on consciousness, human origins and human antiquity in modern scientific discourse. The book is a collection of twenty-four papers that Drutakarma presented at major international scientific conferences, mostly on archeology, from 1994 to 2009.
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Johan Galtung on How to Build a Culture of Empathy and Peace
Edwin Rutsch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
14 Sep 2012 – The Center for Building a Culture of Empathy – This is part of a larger documentary project by Edwin Rutsch on the nature of empathy.
→ read full articleThe Illusion of Democracy
Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
We stand on the verge of one of the bleakest periods in human history, when the bright lights of civilizations will blink out and we will descend for decades, if not centuries, into barbarity. The elites, who successfully convinced us that we no longer possessed the capacity to understand the revealed truths presented before us or to fight back against the chaos caused by economic and environmental catastrophe, will use their resources to create privileged little islands where they will have access to security and goods denied to the rest of us. (p. 197)
→ read full articleGo Back, Mr. Putin. You Are Not Welcome in India!
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
23 Dec 2012 – The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy strongly objects to the visit of Mr. Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, and asks him to go back. The Russian Ambassador to India has been interfering in the internal affairs of India by making unwanted statements and unacceptable comments on our energy policy, development policy, our national futures and our citizens’ right to protest against anti-national policies and projects.
→ read full articleWhen I was Young
TMS editor,
24 Dec 2012
When I was young I used to pray for a bicycle.
→ read full articleStructural Violence, Peace–And the Handicapped
Johan Galtung, 24 Dec 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
“Development” from traditional villages to modern states means building hierarchies around omnipotent State logic, omnipresent Capital logic and omniscient Science logic. God’s successors all, monopolizing challenges. Not strange that many migrate to villages. First conclusion: Handicapped of all kinds unite! You have only your “normals” to lose. Second: relate to “normal” people on as equal terms as possible. Third: take on the challenge to construct a more inclusive society where your way of being different is an enrichment, a plus.
→ read full articleOnward U. S. Soldiers
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Onward then, ye soldiers, brave and righteous throng,
blend with ours your voices in this insane song.
Show that you are loyal unto Obama our King,
Kill those who oppose him, and his praises sing.
China Is Opening a Confrontation on the Sea
Roberto Savio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
The victory of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the recent Japanese elections, with LDP leader Shinzō Abe coming back as Prime Minister after five years, will probably mean an escalation of tension with China. Both countries are embarking on a fresh burst of nationalism, but for different reasons.
→ read full articleWatch Human Rights Watch – A Tribute to Prof Richard Falk
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
This week [22 Dec 2012] we learned that Human Rights Watch (HRW) has expelled from its ranks top U.N. official Professor Richard Falk.
→ read full articleNonkilling Lessons from the Connecticut Killings
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
The world cries again; innocent lives in Connecticut were sacrificed
and current legislation for gun control and use once more unsufficed…
The US Strategy in Asia
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
Besides the New Silk Road idea, Indo-Pacific corridor too has been increasingly finding mention in policy circles in recent months. The corridor as explained by Blake will link South Asian countries including India and Bangladesh to further east through Myanmar and other Southeast Asian countries. The corridor will link South Asia to the Pacific through Southeast Asia.
→ read full articleBeware of Legality, Accountability, Marketability, Security!
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
The current period highlights concerns with end times scenarios, whether in the form of eschatological predictions, planetary disaster or civilizational. A particular focus is offered by predictions relating to December 2012 and the completion of the Mayan/Aztec long count cycle. As noted by Ed Vulliamy (Mayan ‘death and rebirth’ date marks the perfect time to tackle planet’s crisis, The Observer, 16 December 2012)
→ read full articleWhy Malawi Can’t Just Legalise Homosexuality
Sitinga Kachipande – Pambazuka News,
17 Dec 2012
The debate about decriminalising homosexuality must be strategically taken to Malawian people. One cannot simply change the law on such a sensitive issue without first addressing attendant social and religious concerns.
→ read full articleEgypt: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
10 Dec 2012 – I have had the opportunity to be in Cairo three times for brief visits in the last 20 months, the first a few weeks after the departure of Hosni Mubarak on February 11, 2011, the second in February of 2012 when the revolutionary process was treading water, and this third one over the course of the previous ten days. What is striking is how drastically the prevailing mood and expectations have changed from visit to visit, how fears, hopes, and perceptions have altered over time, and why they are likely to continue to do so.
→ read full articleWhat ‘Impartial’ Means At the Oz
Jake Lynch, New Matilda - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
Journalist Christian Kerr recently filed a series of critical articles in The Australian about me over my support for an academic boycott of Israel, and then boasted to friends about using the paper to further his own views on the subject.
→ read full articleWhy I Boycott Israel
Jake Lynch, New Matilda - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
Sydney University academic Jake Lynch has come under fire this week [13 Dec 2012] for his stance on Israel. Today he argues his case: Palestinians and dissenting Israelis need international support to achieve justice.
→ read full articleIndia: Let’s Have a National Debate on the Ambitious Nuclear Program
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
If the Congress Party or the BJP or any other party for that matter manages to convince the Indian voters about this full-scale nuclearization of the country and obtains absolute majority in the next Parliament, we will call off the ongoing struggle against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) immediately.
→ read full articleEnd of the World: Hear the Dec 21, 2012 Prophecy … Direct from the Mouths of the Mayan Priests
Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
Ignore Second-Hand Information … Hear the Real Prophecy – Contrary to popular belief the living elders of the Maya do not agree that December 21, 2012 is the end of their calendar. A new “Sun” represents the beginning of a new Long Count cycle in the calendar system of approximately 5,200 years, which they say may not happen for many years.
→ read full articleUK Pays Libyan $3.5m over Rendition
AP, News24 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
13 Dec 2012 – Lawyers say a Libyan military commander and his family have accepted £2.2m from the British government to settle a claim that the UK approved their rendition to face imprisonment by Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
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Oh Holy Night (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Il Divo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
Il Divo “Oh Holy Night” singing with Katherine Jenkins.
→ read full articleHow the IDF Targeted Civilians: Shattered Lives in Gaza
Eva Lewis and James Marc Leas - CounterPunch,
17 Dec 2012
Eva Lewis and James Marc Leas return from the Occupied Territories having witnessed shattered lives, broken dreams and dead bodies.
→ read full articleWe Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists – Trailer
OfficialAnonymousTV1 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
Anonymous matters! The collective is a counterforce to powers that would control the public’s right to know or right to speak. It can act quickly to send tyrants and censors a strong message. And according to We Are Legion, the cyberbattle has just begun…
→ read full article(Italiano) Giornalismo di Pace
Laurie Mécréant – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
17 Dec 2012
Un giornalismo proattivo orientato alla risoluzione nonviolenta dei conflitti. Per il sociologo Johan Galtung, considerato il fondatore degli studi per la pace, la tradizionale copertura mediatica dei conflitti deforma la realtà e favorisce delle risposte violente in accordo con la propaganda.
→ read full article(Português) Bradley Manning: ‘Estava certo de que ia morrer naquela cela animalesca’.
Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian – Diário do Centro do Mundo,
17 Dec 2012
Durante os últimos dois anos e meio, passados por ele em uma prisão militar, muito foi dito sobre Bradley Manning, mas nada foi ouvido dele. Isso mudou na semana passada quando o jovem recruta de vinte e três anos, acusado de vazar documentos secretos para o WikiLeaks, testemunhou em seu julgamento sobre as condições de sua detenção.
→ read full articleAbhorrent Roots & Development of Hugo Boss’ Business & Riches
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
In 1934 Boss became an Reichszeugmeisterei-licensed (official) supplier of uniforms to the Sturmabteilung (Brown Shirts), Schutzstaffel (SS), Hitler Youth, National Socialist Motor Corps, and other party organizations. To meet demand in later years of the war, Boss used about 30 to 40 prisoners of war and about 150 forced laborers, from the Baltic States, Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union. According to German historian Henning Kober, the company managers were “avowed nazis”
→ read full article(Italiano) Combattere l’Antisemitismo – Costruttivamente!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
Definire pubblicamente “antisemiti” intellettuali come Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu, Richard Falk, Günter Grass, Judith Butler, Evelyn Hecht-Galinski, Richard Dawkins, Mairead McGuire, Noam Chomsky e altri è una falsa calunnia di persone per nulla antisemite, con prospettive importanti. Il discorso “corretto” non ci porta da alcuna parte: [1] Israele ha sempre ragione; [2] i critici d’Israele hanno sempre torto.
→ read full articleBreaking and Entering
TMS editor,
17 Dec 2012
A man went to the Police Station wishing to speak with the burglar who had broken into his house the night before.
→ read full articleThe Complex Calculus of the Permanent Unemployment Crisis: Players, Causes and Consequences
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
As I listen to explanations, solutions, and promises from “experts,” economists, financiers, social commentators, politicians, and also lived experiences of the unemployed, underemployed, and hopelessly unemployed, I have become convinced the complex calculus of players, causes and consequences cannot lead to a resolution – a revolution, perhaps, but not a resolution.
→ read full articleUS Admits Hundreds of Afghan Teens Detained
Peter James Spielmann - Reader Supported News,
17 Dec 2012
The U.S. military has detained more than 200 Afghan teenagers who were captured in the war for about a year at a time at a military prison next to Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, the United States has told the United Nations.
→ read full articleHamas, Khaled Mashaal and Prospects for a Sustainable Israel/Palestine Peace
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
The most important element of context that needs to be taken into account is the seeming inconsistency between the fiery language used by Mashaal in Gaza and his far more moderate tone in the course of several interviews with Western journalists in recent weeks. In those interviews Mashaal had clearly indicated a readiness for a long-term hudna or truce, provided that Israel ended its occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza, and agreed to uphold Palestinian rights under international law.
→ read full articleHSBC to Pay $1.92 Billion to Settle Charges of Money Laundering
Ben Protess and Jessica Silver-Greenberg – The New York Times,
17 Dec 2012
US authorities decided against indicting HSBC in a money-laundering case over concerns that it could jeopardize one of the world’s largest banks and destabilize the global financial system. Instead, HSBC announced on Tuesday [11 Dec 2012] that it had agreed to a record $1.92 billion settlement over accusations that it transferred billions of dollars for nations like Iran and enabled Mexican drug cartels to move money illegally through its American subsidiaries.
→ read full articleLiberated
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
There she lies at midday in the square
as if resting from her errands,
shopping bag in hand, wool gloves, sturdy shoes, …
What Child Is This?
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
What child is this? Whose child is this? Now this child rests amidst the dust and debris of war . . . lifeless . . . torn and shattered… killed by someone whom she or he never knew and would probably never meet. Death from a distance. . . a bomb from a drone or plane, a shell from a mortar, a strap of explosives . . . intentional and willing, calculated and planned, a measured effort to destroy.
→ read full articleEuropean Court of Human Rights Finds Against CIA Abuse of Khaled el-Masri
Amrit Singh – The Guardian,
17 Dec 2012
The CIA stripped, hooded, shackled, and sodomized el-Masri. America must now apologise to the German citizen, a victim of mistaken identity who was kidnapped and beaten by the CIA.
→ read full articleValues – USA 2012 [No Joke!]
Andy Singer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
Ends justifying means…
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India Develops USD $1 Vaccine against Deadly Rotavirus
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
In India there is a revolution taking place that could change the world’s approach to public health – and potentially save the lives of 100,000 Indian children every year. An Indian firm is developing a USD $1 vaccine against rotavirus – a disease that causes diarrhea in infants and is deadly in the developing world.
→ read full articleEncyclopedia of World Problems Has a Big One of Its Own
Daniel Michaels- The Wall Street Journal,
17 Dec 2012
[TRANSCEND member] Anthony Judge’s career has been peppered with problems, from Aarskog Syndrome to Zoonotic bacterial diseases, dandruff, ignorance, kidney disorders and sabotage. He spent more than two decades editing the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential, a 3,000-page tome with almost 20,000 entries. It was Mr. Judge’s brainchild when he helped run the Union of International Associations, a century-old grouping of groups that began in an effort to categorize all human knowledge.
→ read full articleDec 10, 2012 – Human Rights Day
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted on 10 December 1948. The date has since served to mark Human Rights Day worldwide. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has been awarded the Guinness World Record for having collected, translated and disseminated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into more than 380 languages and dialects: from Abkhaz to Zulu. It is thus the most translated document – indeed, the most “universal” one in the world.
→ read full articleEU Receives Nobel Peace Prize Today [10 Dec 2012] – Legal Action Is in Preparation
Fredrik S. Heffermehl – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
A summit of the European Union that today receives a prize that pretends to serve Alfred Nobel´s peace plan, will this coming Friday adopt a military co-operation program that spits in the face of the peace by disarmament ideas Nobel wished to support by his prize for a global demilitarization of international relations.
→ read full articleUS Military Facing Fresh Questions Over Targeting of Children in Afghanistan
Karen McVeigh – The Guardian,
10 Dec 2012
The US military is facing fresh questions over its targeting policy in Afghanistan after a senior army officer suggested that troops were on the lookout for “children with potential hostile intent”. There have been more than 200 children killed in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen by the CIA and Joint Special Operating Command, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
→ read full articleAll We Can Do
Morton Marcus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
All we can do on this earth is step into the future
with a sense of the many people behind us,
the living and the dead, as if we carried our bodies…
Poetry of the Taliban
Charles Cameron, Books & Culture – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
Regarding the image and likeness – The poet is Dr. Faizullah Saqib, and the poem is taken from an anthology of poetry written by the Taliban, our enemies. Could it not have been written when an earlier generation of mujaheddin, resisting the Soviet occupation, were our friends? What is this thing, enmity?
→ read full articleNuclear Safari in Deutschland: A Waste Story
S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
Most of the nuclear waste from the German nuclear power plants had been stored in the Salt Mine Asse II since 1967. In June 2008, it was found out that the water in the mine was contaminated with Cesium 137. We all know shit happens. But we cannot understand the concept of making nuclear shit for it to happen in the future to unborn generations. Those who make nuclear shit will suffer the shame and stigma. Or, will they?
→ read full articleWhy Humanitarian Interventionism is a Dead End – Beware the Anti-Anti-War Left
Jean Bricmont - CounterPunch,
10 Dec 2012
The fundamental ambiguity of the anti-anti-war left lies in the question as to who are the “we” who are supposed to intervene and protect. One might ask the Western left, social movements or human rights organizations the same question Stalin addressed to the Vatican, “How many divisions do you have?” A favorite theme of the anti-anti-war left is to accuse those who reject military intervention of “supporting the dictator”, meaning the leader of the currently targeted country.
→ read full articleScholars and Spies: A Disastrous Combination
Mark LeVine – Al Jazeera,
10 Dec 2012
The academic community needs to create a clear firewall between itself and the military and intelligence communities. Buried in a Washington Post exposé on the expansion of spying operations by the Defence Intelligence Agency is a sentence that should send shivers down the spine of any researcher, journalist, student or scholar working in the Muslim world: “Having DIA operatives pose as academics or business executives requires painstaking work to create those false identities, and it means they won’t be protected by diplomatic immunity if caught.”
→ read full articleEnactivating Multiversal Community: Hearing a Pattern of Voices in the Global Wilderness
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
Poetry may be understood as discourse — even dialogue — in its own right. It is readily inferred that the writing of poetry is a mode of discourse and interaction with others — notably other poets. This clearly avoids any face-to-face interaction in the moment, as is suggested by the possibility which is the focus here. It is appropriate to note that the preparation and publication of scientific papers may also be considered as a mode of “discourse”, most notably within the scientific community. Scientific “debate” may well be associated with a succession of rounds of mutually critical paper publication — possibly over years.
→ read full articleThe UN Asks for Control over the World’s Internet
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
6 Dec 2012 – Members of the United Nation’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) have agreed to work towards implementing a standard for the Internet that would allow for eavesdropping on a worldwide scale.
→ read full article2012 Corruption Perceptions Index
Transparency International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
Governments Must Prioritise the Fight against Corruption – The Corruption Perceptions Index ranks countries and territories based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be. A country or territory’s score indicates the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale of 0 – 100, where 0 means that a country is perceived as highly corrupt and 100 means it is perceived as very clean.
→ read full articleLipstick
TMS Editor,
10 Dec 2012
A school was faced with a unique problem. A number of teenage girls were beginning to use lipsticks and used to put them on in the bathroom.
→ read full articleWhat Will UN Recognition Mean for Palestine?
Socialist Worker, editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
The upheavals across the Middle East have helped the cause of Palestinian liberation. The potential for Palestinians to achieve much more than “nonmember observer status” at the UN is much clearer today–and should inspire all our struggles for justice and freedom, in the Middle East and around the world.
→ read full article“Legal Imperialism” and International Law: Legal Foundations for War Crimes, Debt Collection and Colonization
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
By now we are familiar with imperial states using their military power to attack, destroy and occupy independent countries. Boatloads of important studies have documented how imperial countries have seized and pillaged the resources of mineral-rich and agriculturally productive countries, in consort with multi-national corporations.
→ read full articleA Carbon Tsunami in Doha
Amy Goodman – Truthdig,
10 Dec 2012
The 18th U.N. climate-change summit is taking place in the small but immensely wealthy Gulf emirate of Qatar, the largest per capita emitter of greenhouse gases in the world. Delegates, press, dignitaries and the legions of low-paid, foreign guest workers here at the opulent Qatar National Convention Center all pass under an enormous spider, a 30-foot-high cast-bronze statue chosen by the emir’s wife for a reported $10 million.
→ read full articleGlobal Terrorism Index
Vision of Humanity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
Impact of Terrorism on World Countries – Interactive Map Country by Country and Ranking
→ read full articleUN Calls on Israel to Open Nuclear Facilities
Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
The resolution, approved Monday [3 Dec 2012] by a vote of 174-6 with 6 abstentions, calls on Israel to join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty “without further delay” and open its nuclear facilities to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Those voting “no” were Israel, the U.S., Canada, Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau.
→ read full articleOpen Access: Stakes Are High At the Debates over the Future of Scholarship
Manuel Barcia – Al Jazeera,
10 Dec 2012
Publishers and academics should look into how to spread the costs and make research outputs more accessible to everybody.
→ read full articleEverything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest
Prof. Vandana Shiva – YES! Magazine,
10 Dec 2012
Today, at a time of multiple crises, we need to move away from thinking of nature as dead matter to valuing her biodiversity, clean water, and seeds. For this, nature herself will be the best teacher.
→ read full articleIsrael Must Halt Construction of West Bank Settlements
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
The Israeli government’s announcement that it is to expand settlements in the West Bank in response to the UN vote on Palestinian statehood violates human rights and international humanitarian law, Amnesty International said today [3 Dec 2012].
→ read full articleWhat the American Media Won’t Tell You about Israel
Noam Chomsky - Alternet,
10 Dec 2012
An old man in Gaza held a placard that read: ‘You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all, but I am to blame: I shot a rocket back.’
→ read full articleLand to the Tiller
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
Cracked and clef soil of tolerated native mother
Beaten halo, attacked by the sun
Being friend and enemy to the end
Monsoon rain drops cried tears
It’s Time for the Media to Talk about Zionism
Philip Weiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
American media are not talking to their readers about Zionism, the ideology that is at the heart of the problem in Israel and Palestine. The media are honest about other movements of a religious character, from evangelism to opposition to stem-cell research to radical Islam. So they should be honest with them about Zionism.
→ read full articleMr. President, Tear Down This Wall
Pepe Escobar – TomDispatch,
10 Dec 2012
On entering the Oval Office in Jan 2009, President Obama inherited a seemingly impregnable three-decade-long “Wall of Mistrust” in Iran-U.S. relations. To his credit, that March he directly addressed all Iranians in a message for Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, calling for an “engagement that is honed and grounded in mutual respect.” Now, with the campaign Sturm und Drang behind us but the threats still around, the question is: Can Obama 2.0 bridge the gap between current U.S. policy and Persian optics?
→ read full articleHAZMAT and Kismet: Dangerous Cargo and Dispassionate People
S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
The Indian Supreme Court is trying to find out the Indian government’s and the Department of Atomic Energy-DAE’s plans to store the Koodankulam spent-fuel, transport this dangerous cargo to reprocessing plants, and to safe-keep the radioactive wastes. The government and the DAE clearly have no plans or preparations for any of these important steps.
→ read full articleI love my Family
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
Of galaxies, stars, planets
Is an earth hamlet
Where lives a small family
Of humans
What Really Happened In Gaza 14-22 November 2012
Owen Jones, BBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
On BBC’s Question Time on 22 Nov 2012, journalist Owen Jones described the reality– largely ignored by the mainstream media — of Israel’s brutal attack on Gaza, 14-22 November 2012, that left over 170 killed, more than 30 of them children.
→ read full articleRevealed: US and Britain Launched 1,200 Drone Strikes in Recent Wars
Chris Woods and Alice K Ross – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
10 Dec 2012
Covert Drone War – Recent conflicts in Afghanistan, Libya and Iraq have seen almost 1,200 drone strikes over the past five years, according to new data released to the Bureau [4 Dec 2012]. The information, much of it classified until now, shows that US Air Force drones carried out most of the 1,168 attacks. However British crews are also responsible for a significant portion of the strikes in Afghanistan.
→ read full article(Italiano) ONU: Due Imperi in Crollo – E Poi Che Cosa?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
C’è la Storia nel voto ONU del 29 novembre 2012: 138 SÌ all’attribuzione di status di “stato osservatore non-membro ONU”, solo 9 NO, e 41 astensioni. Oltre la politica del Medio Oriente, il voto rispecchia i limiti dell’impero globale USA e di quello regionale d’Israele: 138 paesi ne sfidano la morsa e favoriscono il cambiamento, 41+9=50 no, per varie ragioni. Un voto cruciale su un tema cruciale è un test cruciale. Chi vuole che cosa?
→ read full articleDiversity as a Source of Conflicts
Solomon Marcus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
The Simplest Diversity: A Binary Distinction – Diversity is unavoidable. It is a preliminary condition of complexity. Could the world be perceived as an amorphous, i.e., totally non-structured mass? Maybe in the eyes of a baby in its first period of life.
→ read full articleBradley Manning and Our Decade of Denial
Seamus McKiernan - Reader Supported News,
10 Dec 2012
Manning has been in the dark for more than 900 days — with most of that time spent in solitary confinement. The extreme conditions of Manning’s detention have been widely reported. A Navy psychiatrist who treated Manning testified that his medical recommendations were consistently ignored by commanders. A UN investigation last spring described Manning’s conditions as “cruel” and “inhuman.” But the first rule about denial is that no one talks about denial.
→ read full articleFighting Anti-Semitism–Constructively!
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
To label public intellectuals like Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu, Richard Falk, Günter Grass, Judith Butler, Evelyn Hecht-Galinski, Richard Dawkins, Mairead McGuire, Noam Chomsky and others “anti-Semitic” is false libel of persons in no way anti-Semitic, with important perspectives. The “correct” speech carries us nowhere: [1] Israel is always right; [2] Israel’s critics are always wrong.
→ read full articleBurma/Myanmar: Expert Warns of Rohingya Genocide
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
“Warning signs” are in place for a genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, an Al Jazeera investigation has been told by a leading expert in the field. According to Professor William Schabas, until recently President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, the findings of an Al Jazeera documentary reveal that “we’re moving into a zone where the word can be used”.
→ read full articleScience sans Humanity: India’s Pursuit of Nuclear Energy
Pradeep Kumar S, DiaNuke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
When the USA admits publicly the amount of nuclear waste produced in their plants & discuss with independent experts to come up with a solution to protect their people from the radiation for next 10,000 years, our India is busy in labeling the people who are questioning them as fools, illiterate and anti nationals funded by foreign NGOs.
→ read full articleEuropean Football Players Declare Support for Palestine
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
Sixty two English Premier League and 1st Division European footballers have issued an open letter in solidarity with Palestinians and condemning UEFA’s upcoming hosting of its 2013 Under 21 tournament in Israel.
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