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The Price of Pacifism: Refusing to Go to War Is Finally Being Recognised As a Brave Act
Holly Williams – The Independent,
20 May 2013
From the Second World War refusenik to the 19-year-old Israeli, Holly Williams talks to five people who risked shame and suffering to take a stand as conscientious objector.
→ read full articleBill Keller Has Completely Misread Syria’s Red Lines
Robin Edward Poulton PhD – The New York Times,
20 May 2013
What makes Bill Keller or John McCain or any other gung-ho armchair warrior in Washington think that an Al Qaeda-related Sunni regime in Damascus led by Al-Nusra or by the militant Muslim Brotherhood would be good for America, or Lebanon, or Israel?
→ read full articleSri Lanka: Four Years after the War’s End, Little Reconciliation, Few Creative Changes
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
In the end, no offer of compromise was ever enough, and all forms of moderation were seen as betrayal. The war continued with the last months being particularly destructive. The psychological wounds are deep, and the healing of individual traumas with psycho-spiritual techniques remains a real priority, for the sufferings of the war may sow the seeds of future unrest and a desire for revenge.
→ read full articleDeclaration of the Mussalaha Delegation to Syria on the Refugee Situation in Lebanon
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Since the cause of this crisis is the widespread violence in Syria, we call for an immediate end of all aid – lethal and nonlethal – to all combatants, an immediate and mutual ceasefire, and immediate negotiations among all the parties without preconditions. Lebanese citizens, Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon, Lebanese charitable institutions and other Lebanese civil society institutions deserve much credit for providing support that the international society has not done. However, a refugee influx of this magnitude is more than any society the size of Lebanon can accommodate without aid from the UN.
→ read full articleSyrian Democratic Party Declaration to the Peace Delegation
SDP General Assembly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
First, we would like to welcome the members of the international committee for the support of reconciliation and solidarity, wishing them a comfortable stay so that they can work on revealing the facts and incidents and the scope of injury that our great nation has undergone on its third year. The SDP is one of the national parties of the opposition. What we greatly fear of is the transformation of the Syrian crisis from a political to a social crisis, sliding into a civil war, entailing a foreign intervention and internationalization of the crisis under the pretext of terrorism to implement foreign agendas.
→ read full article(Italiano) Mussalaha per la Pace e l’Autodeterminazione in Siria
Marinella Correggia – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
20 May 2013
Una delegazione internazionale di pacifisti guidata dalla premio Nobel per la pace irlandese Mairead Maguire sta visitando Damasco e altri luoghi del paese per sostenere il movimento di riconciliazione nazionale Mussalaha e chiedere alla comunità internazionale, spiega Maguire, di rispettare la sovranità della Siria e l’assoluto bisogno di pace e autodeterminazione del popolo siriano.
→ read full articleTurkish Authorities Involved in Stealing Body Organs of Injured Syrians
SANA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
The Lebanese ad-Diyar newspaper revealed that Turkish authorities are involved in traffic of body organs of injured Syrians who reach Turkish territories. In its issue on Saturday [4 May 2013], it said they transport young Syrian injured to hospitals in Antalya and Iskenderun in cars guarded by Turkish police and intelligence. Injured Syrians have their body organs excised after being anesthetized to be later killed and mostly buried in the Turkish lands or sent to the border.
→ read full articleSyrian President Bashar Al Assad’s 18 May, 2013 Interview
Clarin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
(Spanish with English Subtitles) – In an exclusive interview for the Argentine newspaper Clarin, shared with the Observer, Assad says he welcomes attempts at dialogue, but believes that western states are looking for ways to fuel the violence, rather than stop it, and are seeking to topple his regime regardless of the toll.
→ read full articleUN General Assembly Vote Reflects Shift in Syrian Public Opinion
Franklin Lamb - CounterPunch,
20 May 2013
At the UN this past week a US-Qatari-Saudi drafted General Assembly Resolution designed to increase pressure on the Assad government stumbled badly and fell far short of a predicted overwhelming vote in favor. A major diplomatic victory for Syria’s UN Ambassador as public opinion shifts in favor of the Assad government and pressure as well as certain optimism builds in the run-up to the Geneva II conference being organized by the White House and the Kremlin.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Activists Report the Real Situation in Syria
TeleSur TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
(Spanish with English subtitles) – May 10, 2013 – The crisis in Syria and its effect on civil society continues to draw attention of journalists and international peace activists, a delegation led by the Nobel-Peace-Prize Winner Mairead Maguire, arrived in Damascus to witness the situation and report the truth to the world.
→ read full articleTyranny of the One Per Cent
Serge Halimi – Le Monde Diplomatique,
20 May 2013
It’s not really news that some politicians love money and like to spend time with those who have lots of it. Or that they sometimes behave like a caste that is above the law. Or that the tax system favours the affluent, and that the free circulation of capital enables them to stash their cash in tax havens. But de facto dictatorship can count on the mainstream media to come up with diverting subjects to delay, and then misdirect, collective revolt, and to personalise and thereby depoliticise the most shocking scandals.
→ read full articleIndia’s Child Soldiers: Thousands Recruited, Government Defends Record of Terror Groups before UN Child Rights Committee
Asian Centre for Human Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today released its report, “India’s Child Soldiers” (http://achrweb.org/reports/india/JJ-IndiasChildSoldiers2013.pdf), the first ever comprehensive study on the subject in India, and accused the Government of India of defending the records of the armed opposition groups, officially designated as terrorist groups, on the recruitment of child soldiers before the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
→ read full article(Português) Brasil Deveria Seguir Exemplo Chinês, Defende Economista
Marcelo Justo – Carta Maior,
20 May 2013
Mark Weisbrot, co-diretor do Center for Economic and Policy Research, de Washington, fala sobre as perspectivas da economia brasileira no atual cenário internacional. Para Weisbrot, Brasil deveria seguir o exemplo da China que fez um gigantesco investimento para manter aquecida a atividade econômica no país. Exatamente o oposto do que faz a União Europeia, que, na opinião do economista, segue mantendo uma “demente política de austeridade”.
→ read full article(Português) O Que Fazer com o Seu Dinheiro: O Discurso de Autoajuda em Manchetes de Capa de Jornais
Leusa Santos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Dissertação de Mestrado em Letras
→ read full article(Italiano) Siria
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
La ricerca potrebbe riguardare varie soluzioni, anziché la soluzione. Che fioriscano 1.000 dialoghi, in ciascun quartiere, ciascun villaggio, ad arricchire il prodotto nazionale lordo d’idee. Facilitatori sostenuti dall’ONU, con conoscenza della mediazione, anziché con armi e binocoli.
→ read full articleOn Political Preconditions
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
The Netanyahu led government is clearly committed to achieving the political embodiment of Greater Israel, and would not settle for anything less. It is seeking as much legitimation as possible for this expansionist objective, hopeful that adroit diplomacy with American help can yield such a result.
→ read full articleInternet Advocates Say the Trans-Pacific Partnership Is the Biggest Threat Yet to Open Web
Russell Brandom, The Verge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Closed-door meetings mean no one knows for sure how damaging the final treaty will be.
→ read full articleMeeting the Pope
TMS editor,
20 May 2013
A rich American tourist was holidaying in Rome, and was intent on seeing the Pope. There he stood, in a big long line dressed in a rather expensive suit, hoping the Pope would notice how important he was and perhaps talk a few words with him.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 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 articleTen Years after Invasion, Iraq Continues to Import Oil Products
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Former Iraqi oil minister Issam al-Jalabi says that although Iraq is an oil-rich country, it still imports petroleum products from abroad to meet its needs 10 years after the US-led invasion of the country.
→ read full articleMoaz al-Khatib Exposes Roles of Saudi Arabia and Qatar in the Syrian Crisis
Al-Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
May 13, 2013 – Outgoing Syrian National Coalition President Moaz al-Khatib talks about the issues he was facing as the head of the Syrian National Coalition. He said that he felt like a salesman for foreign governments who had their own agendas in Syria rather than representing the Syrian people, as he was being used to sign papers on behalf of Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
→ read full articleMideast Backlashes Yet to Come
Sharmine Narwani – Al Akhbar,
20 May 2013
The Middle East is treading water these days. Two years of rhetoric about ousting dictators, revolution, freedom, honor, dignity, and democracy – without result – has people on edge, their disillusionment now demanding an outlet. The rise of political Islam – once an inevitable byproduct of democratization – arrived too hard, too fast; too aggressively championed, organized, and weaponized by Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
→ read full articleG20 Governments All Agreed to Cyprus-Style Theft of Bank Deposits … In 2010
Colin McKay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
To address the problem of “systemically important” banks, “without exposing the taxpayer to the risk of loss,” our puppet politicians have agreed to confiscate … the savings of taxpayers.
→ read full articlePraying for Peace in Damascus while Surrounded by War
Michael Jansen – Irish Times,
20 May 2013
Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire visiting Syria with other peace activists.
→ read full articleU.N. Assembly Slams Syrian Government’s ‘Escalation’ of War
Al Arabiya with Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday [15 May 2013] condemned the Syrian government’s ”escalation” of the country’s war and backed the opposition Syrian National Coalition in transition talks. While the non-binding text has no legal force, resolutions adopted by the 193-nation assembly can carry significant moral and political weight, according to Reuters.
→ read full articleCan Richard Falk Achieve Civil Rights for Palestinians in Lebanon?
Franklin Lamb - CounterPunch,
20 May 2013
Two-Thirds of Palestinian Refugees are Living in Poverty
→ read full articleSyrian Forces Inflict Heavy Losses on US Sponsored Terrorists
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
19 May 2013 – Reports from Syria suggest that the US sponsored Al Nusra mercenary force and affiliated formations have inflicted heavy losses in different part of the country. Press reports confirm that the rebel stronghold of Al Qusayr on the Northern border of Lebanon is now under the control of government forces.
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‘Moonlight’ Sonata (Music Video of the Week)
HJ Lim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Beethoven – Adagio Sostenuto – ”This exceptionally gifted artist ignited an incomparably fiery pianistic space…with super-virtuoso sound images, an incredible enchantment of possibilities of pianistic expressions, subtle and grandiose, magically performed by the phenomenal virtuoso.”
— Basellandschaftlicher Zeitung
The Left vs. the Liberal Media
Neil Clark – The American Conservative,
20 May 2013
Media Lens Debunks the BBC’s Humanitarian Interventionists
→ read full articleTRANSCEND General Assembly in Germany, 16-18 Aug, 2013
Erika Degortes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Usually our general meeting occurs every two years. However, this year marks the twentieth anniversary of TRANSCEND International and we decided to get together for our TRANSCEND General Assembly one year earlier. The Venue that will host us will be the Galtung-Institut for Peace Theory and Peace Practice in Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany, 5 minutes by train from Basel-Switzerland.
→ read full articleFake Commissioning Planned at Koodankulam?
People’s Movemenmt Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Following the Supreme Court’s verdict, the Indian nuclear authorities are announcing various dates to fake-commission the project and trying to protect their own self interests and save the Russians from all the embarrassing and serious charges. Instead of answering the component-related concerns, financial improprieties and liability commitments in an earnest manner, they are spreading irresponsible rumors and conjectures as they have been doing since 2005 about commissioning the Koodankulam project.
→ read full articleU.S. Currently Fighting 74 Different Wars … That It Will Publicly Admit
Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
And Many More Covert Wars Without Congressional Oversight … Let Alone Public Knowledge
→ read full articleFormer Guatemala Dictator Rios Montt Convicted of Genocide
Mike McDonald, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt was found guilty on Friday [10 May 2013] of genocide and crimes against humanity during the bloodiest phase of the country’s 36-year civil war and was sentenced to 80 years in prison. It was the first time a former head of state had been found guilty of genocide in his or her own country.
→ read full articleObama: Walk Your Talk on Guantánamo
The Nation, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
As the hunger strike reaches its 100th day on May 17 [2013], 100 prisoners are refusing food. The Pentagon, which once called prisoner suicides “asymmetric warfare,” has dismissed the hunger strike as a publicity stunt. Rather than “reward bad behavior,” the official response has been to throw the men into solitary confinement and keep the most weakened alive through torturous means.
→ read full articleThe Three Heroines of Guatemala: The Judge, the Attorney General and the Nobel Peace Laureate
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
20 May 2013
Former Guatemalan President Efrain Rios Montt was hauled off to prison last Friday [10 May 2013]. It was a historic moment, the first time in history that a former leader of a country was tried for genocide in a national court. He was given an 80-year prison sentence. The case was inspired and pursued by three brave Guatemalan women: the judge, the attorney general and the Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
→ read full articleTime We Civilize Our Foreign Affairs
Mazher Hussain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Apart from spying, many countries spread misinformation, instigate violence, kidnap or kill people in covert operations, facilitate terrorist attacks and even wage wars against other countries in the name of national interest and security. But if individuals or groups engage in similar things like rumour mongering, acts of violence or rioting, then we declare them to be deviant and criminal.
→ read full articleThe Concluding Declaration of the Mussalaha Peace Delegation to Syria
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Mussalaha Peace Mission to Syria – May 1- 11, 2013. We consider it beyond debate that the Syrian people have the right to determine their own government and their own future. Foreign interference is currently preventing the Syrian people from exercising their right to self-determination. We are concerned that such pernicious intervention is tearing apart the fabric of the country itself, with long-term consequences that can only be imagined. The cautionary example of Iraq serves to remind us of the dire consequences of such international folly.
→ read full articleHealth Insurance for the Planet
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
An individual has health insurance so that in case of illness or bodily injury he can have insurance benefits. I am inspired by the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Christiana Figueres, who argued passionately at the University Massachusetts Boston that we must think about the health of our planet as we think about health of the individual.
→ read full article(Italiano) ABEconomia e lo Stato del Giappone
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Alternative: rendersi conto che i vecchi tempi d’oro sono finiti, che USA-Occidente-Giappone sono battuti dalla concorrenza BRICS. Agire per accordi più modesti, accettabili. E, invece di associarvi agli USA nell’aumentare l’insicurezza, associatevi ai vostri vicini in una Comunità dell’Asia dell’Est e rivedete la TPP per una partnership egalitaria dalla Cina agli USA e dal Giappone all’America Latina.
→ read full articleAre Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar Elites Complicit in the Rohingya Ethnocide?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Is Burma’s Aung Suu Kyi herself complicit in this Rohingya ethnnocide? is a valid, empirical question that needs to be raised.
→ read full articleSyria: Ten Points towards Reconciliation and Peace
ISTEAMS-International Support Team for Mussalaha in Syria – Transcend Media Service,
20 May 2013
A focus of the work of AMRIS-Australians for Mussalaha (Reconciliation) In Syria is to support the “Ten Points towards Reconciliation and Peace in Syria”, which were presented to politicians, community groups, leaders of faith groups, and the media by Mother Agnes Mariam when she visited Australia in October 2012.
→ read full articleOn the Road to Damascus
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
I participated, May 1-11, 2013 in the Mussalaha International Peace Delegation to Lebanon-Syria alongside fellow TRANSCEND member Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, from Ireland, and 15 others from eight countries. Like Paul meeting the angel Ananias on his way to Damascus experienced a change of heart and became St Paul, so have I met many angels on my own Road to Damascus and, although not gone into sainthood, I have reinterpreted and upgraded my own vision of reality—which I now share with you.
→ read full article(Castellano) ONU Califica de Histórica Condena a Dictador Guatemalteco Ríos Montt
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
La Alta Comisionada de la Organización de Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos, Navi Pillay, calificó de histórica la condena a 80 años de prisión al dictador guatemalteco, José Efraín Ríos Montt. Pillay celebró que Guatemala hizo historia al convertirse en el primer país en condenar a un dictador por genocidio en una corte nacional.
→ read full articleBeyond Theory – the Practice of Building Socialism in Latin America
Jorge Capelan and Toni Solo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
For the imperial propaganda machine, leftist Latin American governments and political leaders are either too leftist, not really leftist, or blind fanatics, as well as being shrewdly machiavellian, capitalists in red clothing, enemies of the market and scores of other contradictory pairs of things all at once.
→ read full articleRethinking ‘Red Lines’
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
What is strange in all this is that Obama talks the talk, but seems unwilling to walk the walk. Such a disjunction invites cynicism about law and morality, and induces despair on the part of those of us who believe the world we inhabit badly needs red lines, but the right red lines.
→ read full articleForce Feeding Continues: 2 More Guantanamo Prisoners Join Hunger Strike, Military Says
Carol Rosenberg - The Miami Herald,
20 May 2013
U.S. military medical providers counted 102 Guantanamo prisoners as hunger strikers on Thursday [16 May 2013], the first increase after three weeks when the number seemed to plateau at 100. Navy medical workers were tube-feeding 30 of the hunger strikers, said Army Lt. Col. Samuel House. Three were hospitalized, but none had “life-threatening conditions,” he said.
→ read full articleMine: Story of a Sacred Mountain
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
A documentary produced by Survival International, is a record of the multi-billion pounds FTSE 100-listed British mining giant Vedanta Resources Plc with its ambitions to destroy the breathtaking beauty, culture, forests and tribal life of the Niyamgiri Hills located in eastern India in order to mine millions of tons of bauxite from these hills to produce aluminium.
→ read full articleMussalaha International Peace Delegation to Syria
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
I participated, May 1-11, 2013, in a Peace Delegation to Lebanon-Syria, along with fellow TRANSCEND member Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire and 15 others from six countries. I shall report next week on what I saw, heard and witnessed along with my own conclusions and insights from interviews (including with armed rebels), audiences (incl. Prime Minister, four others), visits to hospitals, refugee camps, churches and mosques. I talked with a member of the political opposition to Assad’s regime. He was in prison for 24 years (out for 11) and wants changes—but without outside interference.
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Higher Ground (Music Video of the Week)
Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
“Higher Ground” is a song that speaks of the perseverance it takes to reach the higher consciousness. Let’s all keep trying together, one heart and one song at a time, until we all reach the Higher Ground.
→ read full articleCentral Banking with “Other People’s Gold”: A Multi-billion Treasure Trove in Lower Manhattan
Prof Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
13 May 2013
Germany is repatriating its gold reserves from the New York Federal Reserve, what has created a frenzy in the gold market. But that is just the tip of the iceberg. According to the NY Fed, there are 530,000 gold bars, with a combined weight of circa 6,700 metric tonnes stashed in the Fed’s Lower Manhattan vaults. But according to them, “We do not own the gold. We are mere custodians.”
→ read full articleIsraeli Football, Racism and Politics: The Ugly Side of the Beautiful Game
Jonathan Cook, The View from Nazareth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
Israel’s increasing integration into European competitions, despite its refusal to revive peace talks with the Palestinians, respect human rights and halt illegal settlement, is, according to critics, contrary to sporting values and should be met with international opposition of the kind faced by apartheid South Africa.
→ read full articleMyanmar: Defeating the Preachers of Hate
Benedict Rogers - Maw Kun Magazine,
13 May 2013
The men were drawn from all religious backgrounds – in this instance Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus – working together to defend each other. I asked how long they expected to have to do this. “We don’t know, but we will do this for as long as necessary”. That is the spirit the people of Burma should turn to, to defeat the preachers of hatred.
→ read full articleCristiano Ronaldo Versus Israel: Backing Palestine
Ewan Palmer – International Business Times,
13 May 2013
After Portugal’s World Cup qualifier against Israel in Tel Aviv earlier this week [26 Mar 2013], Cristiano Ronaldo refused to swap shirts with an Israeli player to demonstrate his support for Palestine. In 2011 he gave away his Golden Boot award – worth £1m – to the Real Madrid Foundation to be subsequently sold at an auction to help build schools in Palestine.
→ read full articleA Clear and Present Danger at Koodankulam: Shoddy Parts, Shabby Leaders, and Shaky Indian Lives!
People’s Movemenmt Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
The Koodankulam reactors present a danger to Indian citizens with many substandard equipment and parts supplied by discredited Russian companies such as ZiO-Podolsk, Informtekh and Izhorskiye Zavody. The PMANE demands a comprehensive, complete, independent inquiry into the financial and technical scams of the Koodankulam project, and the closure of the KKNPP in the larger interests of the people of India.
→ read full articleThe Self-Hating State
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
Devolving policy to “the market” doesn’t solve the problem of power. It makes it worse. States now operate at the behest of others. Deregulation, privatisation, the shrinking of the scope, scale and spending of the state: these are now seen as the only legitimate policies. The corporations and billionaires to whom governments defer will have it no other way.
→ read full articleElephant Poaching On Rise in Chaos-Hit Central African Republic
Bate Felix, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
Elephant poachers are taking advantage of the chaos in CAR to hunt down the animals in protected wildlife areas and openly sell their meat in village markets, campaigners said on Friday [26 Apr 2013]. Rhinos have already been hunted to extinction in the region due to demand for their horns for Asian medicinal concoctions.
→ read full articleUS Lets Swiss Banks, Accused of Aiding Tax Fraud, Avoid Prosecution with Fines
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
“Swiss banks are negotiating fines to avoid prosecution, while billions of dollars continue to be hidden away from taxes.”
→ read full articleImpressive Hunting Dog
TMS editor,
13 May 2013
An avid duck hunter was in the market for a new bird dog. His search ended when he found a dog that could actually walk on water to retrieve a duck.
→ read full article(Galego) Acoso Escolar, Maltrato entre Iguais, Bulling
Manuel Dios Diz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
Para abordar os casos de maltrato entre iguais, vulgarmente coñecidos como acoso ou co seu termo en inglés “bulling”, o primeiro que debemos fomentar nun centro educativo que ten menores ó seu cargo, é a prevención, é dicir, de acordo cun Plan Integral de Mellora da Convivencia Escolar de referencia, como o que temos vixente en Galicia.
→ read full articleThe 1 Percent’s Solution
Paul Krugman – The New York Times,
13 May 2013
Two big questions remain. First, how did austerity doctrine become so influential in the first place? Second, will policy change at all now that crucial austerian claims have become fodder for late-night comics?
→ read full articleTop Ten Myths about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Jeremy R. Hammond – Foreign Policy Journal,
13 May 2013
Although Arabs were a majority in Palestine prior to the creation of the state of Israel, there had always been a Jewish population, as well. For the most part, Jewish Palestinians got along with their Arab neighbors. This began to change with the onset of the Zionist movement, because the Zionists rejected the right of the Palestinians to self-determination and wanted Palestine for their own, to create a “Jewish State” in a region where Arabs were the majority and owned most of the land.
→ read full articleMyanmar Whitewashes Ethnic Cleansing
Maung Zarni – Asia Times,
13 May 2013
1 May 2013 – An official report into last year’s violence in Rakhine State, launched on April 29 at the government’s foreign donor financed Myanmar Peace Center, is intellectually, ideologically, empirically and analytically flawed, underscoring President Thein Sein’s bid to whitewash the recent ethnic cleansing of Muslim Rohingya in the western state, which borders Bangladesh.
→ read full articleChild Abuse: Can India Afford to Remain in Denial?
Priya Virmani – The New Statesman,
13 May 2013
The mindset that emanates from traditional notions of the Indian family empower family members to commit sex crimes towards children and be well protected. When tradition serves as a veil behind which atrocities can happen without censure, then tradition must be called up, put in the dock and sent to the gallows.
→ read full articleMeanwhile, Manchester United
Johan Galtung, 13 May 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
Libya: a strip of land similar to where the Italian, French etc. invaders-colonizing Africa come from, the rest Berber-Tuareg with their world views and Islam suppressed, attacking a consulate-embassy possibly also a CIA detention center to liberate their friends on 11 Sep 2012 (when Ambassador J.C. Stevens was killed), having attacked the International Committee of the Red Cross 1 km away on 22 May: “the ICRC must take down their flag with the red cross Libya is an Islamic State” (letter to Hillary Clinton from the US Congress 02-10-2013).
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 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 the Tamil Diaspora Against Unity in Sri Lanka?
Nirmanusan Balasundaram – Groundviews,
13 May 2013
The world has already learnt a bitter lesson from Sri Lanka. The question now is: Will the concerned actors grab the opportunity and walk in the right direction? If yes, the Tamil Diaspora will march alongside with them.
→ read full articleThe Moon Cries
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
In the backyard of the earth
The solitary moon was sitting
In the dark with a hidden secret . . .
(Castellano) Acoso Escolar, Maltrato entre Iguales, Bulling
Manuel Dios Diz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
Siempre reitero que dedicamos muchas horas, días, meses, años, a enseñarle al alumnado a resolver complejos problemas matemáticos, físicos, químicos… pero muy pocos minutos a enseñarles a resolver sus propios problemas, los de relación entre iguales, aquellos que encontrarán, con mayor frecuencia, en sus vidas. Y para esto, la educación afectivo emocional resulta imprescindible, en casa y en la escuela.
→ read full articleKoodankulam Is Not Russian?
People’s Movemenmt Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
Indian Nukedom Tries to Free up Russia from Liability, Theft and Project Failure!
→ read full articleA 700-Member Time Bank in Central Vermont
Olivier Asselin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
A time bank where members exchange goods and services instead of money. Exchanges are not reciprocal, meaning that one hour spent baking, cleaning, doing plumbing work or driving someone to the airport, can be exchanged for an hour of service provided by any other member of the time bank.
→ read full articleDoes the American Jewish Community Really Want a Large-Scale General War in the Middle East?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
A large-scale general war in the Middle East would be a catastrophe for Syria, Iraq and Iran; a catastrophe for the other Islamic states of the Middle East; a catastrophe for Pakistan and Russia, should they become involved; and a catastrophe for Israel and the United States. In fact, all of the peoples of the world would suffer. How could such a general war come about? Several paths are possible.
→ read full article(Português) Cristiano Ronaldo Nega Troca de Camisas com Jogador de Israel: “Não Troco com Assassinos”
Milton Ribeiro – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
Ao final da partida entre Portugal e Israel pelas Eliminatórias da Copa do Mundo de 2014, em 25 de março 2013 — porque será que a imprensa daqui não deu a devida importância ao fato? O jogador português Cristiano Ronaldo recusou-se a trocar sua camisa com a de um jogador de Israel. Questionado sobre a recusa, afirmou: “Não troco minha camisa com assassinos”.
→ read full articleWar Drugs
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
When we go marching off to war
our need for drugs begins to soar.
Does Current Biology Have the Misfortune of Owning an Unreliable Clock?
Bhakti Niskama Shanta, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
On April 2013, the prestigious Cell Press Journal Current Biology published an article entitled “A Revised Timescale for Human Evolution Based on Ancient Mitochondrial Genomes”. This paper has twenty authors and they are researchers from the world’s top institutes like Max Planck Institute, Harvard, etc. In the present article the author discusses a few significant fallacies of the methodology employed by this paper.
→ read full articleUsing Nuclear Energy Presents Similar Problems to Fossil Fuels
Alternative Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
The environmental impact of nuclear fuels has proven to be much greater than the original estimates of the fledgling industry. The solution to the problem of how to safely store tons and tons of nuclear waste, which remains extremely dangerous to life for hundreds of thousands of years, has still not been discovered after 5 decades of nuclear research.
→ read full articleRisk-enhancing Cognitive Implications of the Basic Mathematical Operations
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
ADD, MULTIPLY, DIVIDE and SUBTRACT – This exploration uses the set of basic mathematical operations as a means of providing a mnemonic framework to highlight weaknesses in comprehension tending to accelerate processes of global civilizational collapse, as variously foreseen (Thomas Homer-Dixon, The Upside of Down: catastrophe, creativity, and the renewal of civilization, 2006; Jared M. Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, 2005; Johan Rockstrom and Anders Wijkman, Bankrupting Nature: Denying our Planetary Boundaries, 2012).
→ read full articleAn Ongoing Liability: The CIA’s Dirty Wars
Michael Brenner - CounterPunch,
13 May 2013
The errant actions of the C.I.A. are by now so evident that they are a staple of Washington conversion. Like the weather, though, it is the topic everybody talks about, but does nothing about.
→ read full articleBuilding a Solar Economy: 4 Lessons from Hawaii
Erin L. McCoy – YES! Magazine,
13 May 2013
Hawaii generates more of its power from the sun than any other state. Here’s what the rest of us can learn from the obstacles that came up along the way and what’s being done to overcome them. The solar industry now accounts for 26 percent of the state’s construction-related spending.
→ read full articleDrones, Sanctions and the Prison Industrial Complex: A Catholic Worker Report
Brian Terrell, warisacrime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
In the final weeks of a six month prison sentence for protesting remote control murder by drones, I can only reflect on my time of captivity in light of the crimes that brought me here. In these ominous times, it is America’s officials and judges and not the anarchists who exhibit the most flagrant contempt for the rule of law.
→ read full articleBail-out Is Out, Bail-in Is In: Time for Some Publicly-Owned Banks
Ellen Brown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
The crossing of the Rubicon into the confiscation of depositor funds was not a one-off emergency measure limited to Cyprus. Similar “bail-in” policies are now appearing in multiple countries. What triggered the new rules may have been a series of game-changing events including the refusal of Iceland to bail out its banks and their depositors.
→ read full articleGagging on Ag-gag Laws: Who Are the Real Animal Farm ‘Terrorists?’
Jim Hightower, Creators – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
The freedom-busting terrorists in this fight are not those who reveal the abuse, but the soulless factory-farm profiteers in the corporate suites and the cynical lawmakers who serve them. Actually, factory farms are not farms at all. They are corporate-run concentration camps for pigs, cows, chickens, turkeys and other food animals.
→ read full article(Português) Como Era Tranquilo Mover Fábricas…
Immanuel Wallerstein – Outras Palavras,
6 May 2013
Por séculos, capitalismo espalhou indústrias, trabalho assalariado e poluição pelo mundo, fugindo de salários altos. Esta ciranda está no fim.
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Chopin – Fantasie Impromptu Op 66 (Music Video of the Week)
Rogerio Tutti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
Piano Concerto – Rogerio Tutti is an internationally acclaimed Brazilian pianist.
→ read full articleEverything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
6 May 2013
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. We found this out in recent months, when a series of related corruption stories spilled out of the financial sector, suggesting the world’s largest banks may be fixing the prices of, well, just about everything.
→ read full articleKill for Peace
Tom Greening - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
Some soldiers do not like to kill—
not for the glory or the thrill.
But do not fret—relax, for now
psychologists can teach them how.
Sri Lanka: The Intentions Behind the Land Grabbing Process
Nirmanusan Balasundaram – Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka,
6 May 2013
In the so-called ‘post-war’ Sri Lanka context, land grabbing, Sinhalization and military occupation of the Tamil nation have become pivotal points in the political development discourse. The deep concerns that exist amongst the majority of the Tamils, which are directed towards their present and future existence, are these same issues.
→ read full articleBoston and Venezuela: Terrorism There and Here
Prof. James Petras – Global Research,
6 May 2013
Two major terrorists’ attacks took place almost simultaneously: in Boston, two alleged Chechen terrorists set off bombs during the annual Boston Marathon killing three people and injuring 170; in Venezuela, terrorist-supporters of defeated presidential candidate, Henrique Capriles, assassinated 8 and injured 70 supporters of victorious Socialist Party candidate Nicolas Maduro, in the course of firebombing 8 health clinics and several Party offices and homes.
→ read full articleIt’s Time to Reconsider US Policies That Create Terrorism
MJ Rosenberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
There is one change that the US could make in response to terrorism: the part U.S. policies play in creating and sustaining it. We are not supposed to say this, as if discussing why we are hated justifies the targeting of Americans because of their government. But the fact that nothing justifies terrorism does not mean that nothing causes it. Terrorists (in this case Muslim terrorists) target the US because they perceive us as their enemy. And with good reason.
→ read full article(Português) Quem Resgatará a Indústria Farmacêutica?
Martha Rosenberg - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
Pode ser você: vêm aí testosterona spray, ritalina plus, patologização da insônia, “controle de distúrbuios imunológicos” e outras promessas fármaco-publicitárias…
→ read full articleReport: Sri Lanka’s Assault on Dissent
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
In their attempt to consolidate power, Sri Lanka’s authorities have criminalized freedom of expression, and equated dissent with treason. Those who dare to criticize the authorities are pursued and silenced. As described in this report, Sri Lanka is failing to comply with its international obligations to respect and protect the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association, as well as other rights.
→ read full articleNuclear Impacts
Alternative Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
Generating nuclear power appears to be an effective way to create dangerous waste garbage that cannot be safely thrown away, though often is. Past operations have resulted in contamination and fatalities throughout almost every step of the mining, refining, and disposal process. Even now we have no idea how to safeguard future generations from radioactive material used to produce today’s electricity.
→ read full article(Italiano) Droni: Frontiere Tecnologiche
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
L’uso indiscriminato dei droni rende le guerre sempre più violente e illegittime. Da radar a spie, un utilizzo spietato che vuol coinvolgere anche l’Italia, ponendo una base di controllo del programma Nato a Sigonella.
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MAN
Steve Cutts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
Animation looking at man’s [and women’s] relationship with the natural world.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to International Crisis Group
Maung Zarni – Democratic Voice of Burma,
6 May 2013
If the ICG’s award is about honouring President Thein Sein’s “visionary leadership to effect profound social, economic and political changes” that will “bring us closer to a world free of conflict” then the organisation’s empirical understanding of both Thein Sein’s vision and the ugly realities experienced by the Burmese people, including the Rohingya, can only be characterised as delusional.
→ read full article(Italiano) Si chiamava Danilo Dolci
Noise from Africa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
Qualcuno gli ha dato del comunista miscredente e del sedizioso; altri hanno paragonato la sua vita a quella dei santi capaci di salire sul rogo per coerenza. Ha subito, nel corso della sua vita, ben ventisei processi. Ha ottenuto numerosi riconoscimenti internazionali ed è stato candidato al Premio Nobel per la Pace.
→ read full articleThein Sein Faces Ethnic Cleansing Charge, Accepts Peace Prize on Same Day
Ty McCormick – Foreign Policy,
6 May 2013
Tonight [22 Apr 2013], at a black-tie gala in New York, the International Crisis Group is scheduled to honor Thein Sein, Burma’s president, with its top peace award. But today also a new report by Human Rights Watch accuses Burma’s government of complicity in the ethnic cleansing of 125,000 Rohingya Muslims in the country’s southwest. Something tells me tonight’s gala is going to be a little awkward.
→ read full articleAn Octagonal World
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
USA sheds half of its bases and the military budget in this administration and the next; using the savings to lift the bottom up so they can participate in the economy and make the wheels turn. China gives up its maritime imperialism–harking back to “When the World was Asia, 500-1500 AD–and forgives 50% of the US debt in return for the 50% disarmament–keeping a policy of no military intervention. SCO cooperates, peacefully.
→ read full articleThe Koodankulam Project Lies under a Heap of Lies!
People’s Movemenmt Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
Like the helpless Desdemona, we, the people of Koodankulam, have been begging the Indian State to let us live, live in peace with our families, Nature and Future. But the haughty, conceited and obtuse men of power in political Delhi, nuclear Mumbai and profiteering Russia are persisting with their Othello-like lies and murders and self-destruction. The Koodankulam handkerchief in this modern Othello is surrounded by, sustained with, and steeped in lies. Lies, lies, and more lies!
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
A Global Harmony Association (GHA) Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day
→ read full article(Castellano) Guerra
Enrico Euli – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2013
El gasto militar mundial en el 2010 ascendió a 1,63 mil billones de dólares, 236 dólares (186 euros) por persona, aproximadamente el 2,6% del PIB mundial. Del 2001 al 2010, el gasto militar mundial ha crecido en un 50%, con un aumento en Estados Unidos del 81%, mientras en el resto del mundo el aumento ha sido del 32%.
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