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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
HAZMAT 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.
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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 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.
→ 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 articleAnonymous Message: #OpSyria V2.0
AnonInsurrection – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
The United States government is openly creating terrorism alongside NATO and Israel to demonize the Syrian Arab Republic. Terrorism has no religion and will not hesitate to use any means to kill. Mainstream media prostitutes are spreading false claims stating that the “Syrian government” is planning attacks using biological weapons against its own people.
→ read full articleZionism and Its Discontents
Susie Linfield – Dissent Magazine,
10 Dec 2012
Books Discussed in this Essay:
The Crisis of Zionism by Peter Beinart
The Unmaking of Israel by Gershom Gorenberg
Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me by Harvey Pekar and JT Waldman Hill and Wang
Underground to Palestine and Reflections Thirty Years Later by I.F. Stone Hutchinson.
Visit to Gaza: UN Press Release
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
The Special Rapporteur [Falk] noted that his visit to the region consisted of meetings in Cairo and the Gaza Strip, with Governmental, inter-governmental and civil society representatives, as well as victims and witnesses. He received helpful briefings from UNRWA and other United Nations agencies, which provided an in-depth picture of the magnitude of the challenges in Gaza and the difficulties of addressing such challenges in a situation of occupation and blockade.
→ read full articleIsrael Rejects UN Call for Nuclear Transparency
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
Israel has rebuffed a UN call to adhere to the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and open itself to international inspectors, calling the suggestion a “meaningless mechanical vote” of a body that “lost all its credibility regarding Israel.” In a 174-6 vote, the United Nations General Assembly demanded in a non-binding call that Tel Aviv join the NPT “without further delay,” in an effort to create a legally binding nuclear-free Middle East.
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The Story of Change
StoryOfStuff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
Can shopping save the world? The Story of Change urges viewers to put down their credit cards and start exercising their citizen muscles to build a more sustainable, just and fulfilling world.
→ read full articleBradley Manning: A Window into the American Soul
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
The three branches of our government have united to destroy US civil liberties in the name of a hoax, “the war on terror.” The window into America’s political soul reveals total evil. The US government constitutes Satan’s Chosen People. Nothing else can be said for those who rule and oppress us.
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On Meat Eating/Vegetarianism: Phillip Wollen Is Captivating
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
Amazing must-see speech by Phillip Wollen. Cornell and Harvard state that the optimum amount of meat in a healthy diet is precisely zero! – “If slaughter houses had glass walls, we wouldn’t be having this debate.”
→ read full articleMethods of Analysis in Social Sciences and Research for Peace – An Introduction
Alberto L’Abate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
This study deals with its subject in a rather original way if compared with the usual research methodology texts. First of all, it discards the traditional standpoint of research “neutrality”, which according to the author favours the preservation of the “status quo”, since research is increasingly financed by the state, by the army or by important economic entities, which are more concerned in furthering their own power rather than promoting peace.
→ read full articleWe Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists
Valerie Schloredt – YES! Magazine,
10 Dec 2012
Film Review: Whether you think the cyberactivists of Anonymous are hooligans or heroes, “We Are Legion” is required viewing. 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 articleGaza: People Need Far More Than a Ceasefire
Saree Makdisi – Al Jazeera,
3 Dec 2012
In bombing Gaza, then, Israel was not striking the territory of another state. It was bombing people for whose welfare it is legally accountable as the only sovereign power that exercises control over their lives – including everything from determining how their names appear on identity cards and in the official population registry, to how much electricity they receive and how much food they are allowed to eat.
→ read full articleHow Israel Lost Europe
Jonathan Schanzer and Benjamin Weinthal – Foreign Policy,
3 Dec 2012
How Benjamin Netanyahu lost friends and Mahmoud Abbas influenced people. The big surprise of the event was that a number of key Western European countries did not join the United States and vote against the resolution. The Czech Republic was the only European country to vote against the upgrade, and shockingly, the normally staunchly pro-Israeli governments of Germany and Britain decided to abstain.
→ read full articleTruthdiggers of the Week: Iceland’s Leaders
Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
One country refused to bail out its derelict banks and slash social spending amid the financial crisis. And guess what? Unlike the eurozone and the United States, it’s making a sturdy comeback.
→ read full articleDocumenting Dissent: An Australian Film-Maker’s First-Hand Account of Police Brutality in Koodankulam
Dianuke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
27 Nov 2012 – David Bradbury was detained and harassed in Koodankulam when he visited there to make a documentary on the massive anti-nuclear movement. Here is his first-hand account of facing the police brutality in Koodankulam, that he wrote recently for a newspaper in Australia.
→ read full article“It’s Mostly Punishment…” Testimonies by Veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces from Gaza and the Occupied Territories
Oded Na’aman, Breaking the Silence - TomDispatch,
3 Dec 2012
The testimonies by Israeli veterans that follow are taken from 145 collected by the nongovernmental organization Breaking the Silence and published in Our Harsh Logic: Israeli Soldiers’ Testimonies From the Occupied Territories, 2000-2010. Those in the book represent every division in the IDF and all locations in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
→ read full articleJob Interview
TMS Editor,
3 Dec 2012
A mathematician, an accountant and an economist apply for the same job. The interviewer calls in the mathematician and asks “What do two plus two equal?”
→ read full articleThe 2012 Peace Prize is Unlawful and Cannot Be Paid to the EU
Nobel Laureates et al. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
The European Union, announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee as the winner of the peace prize for 2012, clearly is not one of “the champions of peace” Alfred Nobel had in mind when he described the purpose in his will. We ask the Board of the Foundation to clarify that it cannot and will not pay the prize from its funds.
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Johan Galtung on Peace Economy, Palestine and More (Video of the Week)
Al Jazeera, The Stream – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
28 Nov 2012 – The Founder of Peace Studies discusses Sociocide, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and building economies of peace.
→ read full articleViolent Attacks of Buddhists against Muslim Rohingyas in Burma as Obama Visits Country
Channel 4 News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
President Obama’s historic visit to Burma has been questioned by some as premature following the recent communal violence between Muslims and Buddhists.
→ read full articleIceland Shows the Way: Reject Austerity
Salim Lamrani – Pravda,
3 Dec 2012
They refused IMF prescriptions, let banks fail and sentenced to prison those responsible for the crisis. The case of Iceland demonstrates that there is a credible alternative to austerity policies that are imposed in Europe. These, besides being economically inefficient, are costly politically and socially unsustainable. By putting the public interest above the interest of markets, Iceland showed the rest of the continent the way to escape the dead end.
→ read full articlePost-US World Born in Phnom Penh
Spengler – Asia Times,
3 Dec 2012
It is symptomatic of the national condition of the United States that the worst humiliation ever suffered by it as a nation, and by a US president personally, passed almost without comment last week. President Barack Obama attended the summit to sell a US-based Trans-Pacific Partnership excluding China. He didn’t. The American led-partnership became a party to which no-one came. Instead, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, plus China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, will form a club and leave out the United States.
→ read full articleFighting Recession the Icelandic Way
The Editors, Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
Few countries blew up more spectacularly than Iceland in the 2008 financial crisis. Stock market plunged 90 percent; unemployment rose ninefold; inflation shot to more than 18 percent; the country’s biggest banks all failed. Today, Iceland has repaid IMF rescue loans ahead of schedule, growth this year will be about 2.5 percent, better than most developed economies. Unemployment has fallen by half. In February, Fitch Ratings restored the country’s investment-grade status, approvingly citing its “unorthodox crisis policy response.” Iceland’s approach was the polar opposite of the U.S. and Europe, which rescued their banks and did little to aid indebted homeowners.
→ read full articleIs Flossing Your Teeth a Waste of Time?
Lucy Elkins – Daily Mail,
3 Dec 2012
Dentists nag us about it. Scientists insist it prevents heart disease. But now an expert says they’ve all got it wrong…
→ read full articleThe End of Jewish Power
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
Israel suffered a humiliating defeat at The UN yesterday [29 Nov 2012]. The nations of the world stood up and said NO to the Jewish state – NO to Israeli occupation, NO to Israeli human rights abuse, NO to Jewish racism. In effect, they stood up and confessed to serious Zio-fatigue.
→ read full articleAre Israel’s Jews, Some of Them, on Their Way to Becoming Nazis?
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
Some and perhaps many will regard my headline question as offensive but I make no apology for asking it; and I take comfort from the fact that my decision to pose it is fully supported by one of my very dear Jewish friends – Nazi holocaust survivor Dr. Hajo Meyer. He has said in public that Zionism is seeking to dehumanize the Palestinians in the same way the Nazis sought to dehumanize him in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
→ read full articleThe House of Rothschild – Full Documentary
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
Money’s Prophets, Above Royalty – The secret history of the 19th century International Bearer Bond Market and a historical case study for digital bearer bonds in the 21st century.
→ read full article(Castellano) Intelectuales y Premios Nobel Piden un Boicot Internacional Contra Israel
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
Entre los firmantes están los premios Nobel Mairead Maguire y Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, el académico estadounidense Noam Chomsky y el exdiplomático francés Stéphane Hessel, superviviente del Holocausto y coautor de la Declaración de Derechos Humanos.
→ read full articleAs Gaza Is Savaged Again, Understanding the BBC’s Historical Role Is Vital
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
In Peter Watkins’ remarkable BBC film, The War Game, which foresaw the aftermath of an attack on London with a one-megaton nuclear bomb, the narrator says: “On almost the entire subject of thermo-clear weapons, there is now practically total silence in the press, official publications and on TV. Is there hope to be found in this silence?”
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Interview with Evelin Lindner \ Entrevista com Evelin Lindner
abaontv - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
PORT: O Professor Francisco Gomes de Matos, Presidente do Conselho da Associação Brasil-América-ABA, conversa com Evelin Lindner, médica, psicóloga e fundadora presidente da Rede de Estudos sobre Humilhação e Dignidade.
ENG: Professor Francisco Gomes de Matos, President of ABA (Brazil-America Association), talks with Evelin Lindner, a physician, psychologist and founder president of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies.
5 Persistent Myths about Bipolar Disorder
Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S., Psych Central – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
Bipolar disorder is a serious and difficult illness that affects all facets of a person’s life: their education, work, relationships, health and finances, said Julie A. Fast, author of several bestselling books on bipolar disorder, including Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder and Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder, and a coach who works with partners and families.
→ read full articlePrinciples of Harmony
Bishnu Pathak, PhD- TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
Peace is the process for perfection whereas harmony is a perfect relationship. Peace may be experienced alone by a person whereas harmony is a systematic character between two or more persons or parties; harmony is always a plural condition. Peace may be enjoyed alone; harmony is living together peacefully. Peace implies calmness; harmony requires unity.
→ read full articleInterview with Iceland’s Economy Minister: ‘We Reacted Immediately to Symptoms of Crisis’
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
In late 2008 and early 2009, all three of Iceland’s major banks collapsed amid the financial crisis. Now, the country is experiencing economic growth once again and unemployment is falling. Economy Minister Steingrimur Sigfusson explains to SPIEGEL how it was done.
→ read full article(Português) Equador Enfrenta a Ditadura dos Bancos
Ana Maria Passos, Diário Liberdade/Carta Maior – Outras Mídias,
3 Dec 2012
O país se mantém na vanguarda democrática da América Latina: desta vez, com lei que aumenta tributação sobre os bancos e reduz poder do sistema financeiro.
→ read full article(Italiano) La Storia del Passato. E il Futuro?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
Che idea meravigliosa, la storia della pace! Qualcosa su cui quasi tutti vorrebbero imparare, l’arte della pace! Come per la storia della salute, del cibo e dell’amore, anziché la storia delle guerre, delle malattie e della fame, dei generali, dei re e degli imperi. Si tratta della storia di qualcosa che può ispirare le persone, fra cui anche gli/le statisti/e, a far meglio.
→ read full articleKenya Bans Importation of GMO Foods
Occupy Monsanto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
Public Health minister Beth Mugo subsequently directed all Public Health Officers at all ports of entry and all other government regulators to enforce the ban on importation of Genetically Modified Foods in the country.
→ read full articleSpeech at Rally for Gaza and Palestine
Mairead Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
At City Hall, Belfast, N. Ireland, 24 Nov 2012 – Let’s wake up, this is not about Hamas, this is not about the fact that Israel has no partner for peace. I sat with Yasser Arafat in his little compound before he was killed and he cried out for peace. I sat in Gaza with Hamas in 2008 and they cried out for peace. What was Israel’s answer? Israel’s answer was war against them, and not only dropping one or two bombs but the policy of the Israeli government, and look it up, is that when they go to war, they do the utmost damage. They don’t kill one or two, they destroy the whole people.
→ read full articleThe Rise of the Sharing Communities
Cat Johnson, Shareable – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
As the sharing economy picks up momentum, its reach has become global. In cities and towns around the world, people are creating ways to share everything from baby clothes to boats, hardware to vacation homes. There are also groups emerging that consciously identify with the big-picture sharing movement. These groups focus on education, action and community-building, and advocate for a cultural shift toward widespread sharing.
→ read full articleCongo: What the International Community and Media Should Do
Hansueli Homberger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
The DRC-Democratic Republic of Congo is rarely in breaking news, unless armed groups overrun cities on its eastern border. This was the case in 1996, 1998, 2004, 2008, and again on November 20, 2012. Associated Press reporter Melanie Gouby was in the stadium in Goma where the armed group M23 celebrated victory over Joseph Kabila’s government troops, assisted by UN blue helmets.
→ read full article(Italiano) Patto Militare Italia-Israele: Un Accordo Scellerato e Illegale
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
Sempre per l’accordo, le attività si svilupperanno grazie “alle riunioni dei ministri della Difesa, dei Comandanti in Capo e di altri ufficiali autorizzati, lo scambio di esperienze fra gli esperti delle due parti, l’organizzazione e l’attuazione delle attività di addestramento e delle esercitazioni, le visite di navi e aeromobili militari e ad impianti, lo scambio di informazioni, pubblicazioni e hardware, la ricerca, lo sviluppo e la produzione di sistemi d’armamento”.
→ read full articleObserving the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People in Cairo
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
Text of my remarks delivered in Cairo at joint UN/Arab League ceremony marking the observance of the 2012 International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, 29 Nov 2012, some 10 hours prior to the historic vote in the UN General Assembly.
→ read full articleDIA Sending Hundreds More Spies Overseas
Greg Miller – The Washington Post,
3 Dec 2012
The Pentagon will send hundreds of additional spies overseas as part of an ambitious plan to assemble an espionage network that rivals the CIA in size. The project is aimed at transforming the Defense Intelligence Agency, which has been dominated for the past decade by the demands of two wars, into a spy service focused on emerging threats and more closely aligned with the CIA and elite military commando units.
→ read full articleIdinthakarai Women Win Chingari Award for Nonviolent Struggle
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
Eminent environmental activist, Dr.Vandana Shiva, the Chief Guest at the function, said, “The Kudankulam struggle has emerged not merely as the most defining challenge to nuclear power in the country today but is also one of the strongest demonstrations of nonviolent people’s power. The role of the women in the struggle has been critical in ensuring that the energy of the fight remains undiminished. They are truly the ‘chingaris’ of the struggle and it is an honour to be able to present the award to them.”
→ read full articleOvercoming the Scars of Our Caste Past
Anuttama Dasa for The Huffington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
Recently, a religion scholar wrote an article on the Huffington Post questioning the legitimacy of non-Indian converts to Hindu/Vedic traditions. The essence of the Vedic culture, today known as Hinduism, teaches that none of us are white, black, brown, red or yellow. We are spiritual beings, eternally lovers and servants of God, who have forgotten our spiritual nature and are wandering through this material world seeking happiness via money, power, sex, fame and other temporary will-o-wisps.
→ read full article‘2 Million Friends of Afghan People for Peace in Afghanistan’
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate and Ann Patterson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
We will be visiting Kabul on 10th December 2012, international day of human rights, on behalf of the Peace People. We have been invited by Afghan peace volunteers to join them in their ‘2 million friends’ and ‘ceasefire’ campaign and we will join the voices for creative nonviolence delegation USA, to Afghanistan. The Afghan peace volunteers have chosen to ask for two million friends around the world remembering that in the last 40 years over 2 million Afghan people have died from violence.
→ read full articleWhy I Am No Longer a Zionist
Wayne Myers – The Independent,
3 Dec 2012
In this highly personal guest contribution, a British and Jewish blogger reflects on his youth membership of Zionist movements, the recent conflict in the Middle East between Israel and Hamas, and how his relationship with faith changes as he gets older.
→ read full articleUN: Two Empires Crumbling – And Then What?
Johan Galtung, 3 Dec 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
There is History in the UN 29 November 2012 vote: 138 YES to giving Palestine the UN status as “nonmember observer state”, only 9 NO, and 41 abstentions. Beyond Middle East politics the vote also mirrors the limits to the US global, and the Israeli regional, empires: 138 defy their grip and favor change, 41+9=50 do not, for various reasons. A crucial vote on a crucial issue is a crucial test. Who wants what?
→ read full articleLiberal Capitalism, Crony Capitalism and Lumpen Development
Samir Amin – Pambazuka News,
26 Nov 2012
Liberalism creates nothing, in the peripheries of the Global South that agree to submit to it, other than a crony capitalism based on a Comprador State in opposition to the National State committed to sustainable economic and social development.
→ read full article(French) Cyberguerre: Comment les Américains Ont Piraté l’Élysée
Charles Haquet et Emmanuel Paquette - L'Express,
26 Nov 2012
EXCLUSIF. En mai [2012], l’équipe de Nicolas Sarkozy a été victime d’une opération d’espionnage informatique hypersophistiquée. Les sources de L’Express concordent : le coup vient de… l’ami américain. Révélations sur une attaque qui s’inscrit dans une bataille planétaire.
→ read full articleWho Is the Terrorist….???
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
On everybody’s tongue, From every media organ, These words common
Listen we like sermon, As from a holy priest, Terrorist, terrorist, terrorist…
The Gaza Ceasefire: An Early Assessment
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
The Gaza Ceasefire, unlike a similar ceasefire achieved after Operation Cast Lead four years ago, is an event that has a likely significance far beyond ending the violence after eight days of murderous attacks. It is just possible that it will be looked back upon as a turning point in the long struggle between Israel and Palestine.
→ read full articleSuicide Drones, Mini Blimps and 3D Printers: Inside the New Army Arsenal
Noah Shachtman – Wired magazine,
26 Nov 2012
Flying grenades. Mini spy blimps. Robotic bomb-busters. Suicide-vest spotters. Battlefield 3D printers. The Army is retooling for a very austere, very remote way of war. And the gear that’s required is very different from the hardware that came before.
→ read full articleUNHCR Welcomes Brazilian Residency for Angolan and Liberian Refugees
UN High Commission for Refugees – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
The UN refugee agency on Friday [9 Nov 2012] welcomed Brazil’s recent decision to grant permanent residency to nearly 2,000 former Angolan and Liberian refugees. Brazil’s Ministry of Justice issued a decree on October 26 confirming the new status for this group. Brazil is the first country in Latin America and outside of the Africa region to adopt UNHCR’s recommendations.
→ read full articleMiko Peled, the General’s Son – Seattle Oct 1, 2012
Todd Boyle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
Israeli peace activist Miko Peled, author of The General’s Son – Journey of an Israeli in Palestine, spoke last week to audiences at Georgia State University, Spelman College, Kennesaw State University, the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda and Oakhurst Presbyterian Church.
→ read full articleCharles Bronfman Prize to Jewish Humanitarians Whose Work Is of Universal Benefit
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
The Charles Bronfman Prize recognizes Jewish humanitarians whose work, while inspired by personal Jewish values, is of universal benefit to all people.
→ read full articleHow Germany Is Getting to 100 Percent Renewable Energy
Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
There is no debate on climate change in Germany, where architects of the clean energy movement estimate that from 80 percent to 100 percent of the country’s electricity will come from renewable sources by 2050.
→ read full articlePuppet State America
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
The German assault on the Warsaw Ghetto is one of the horror stories of Jewish history. Such an event is happening again, only this time Jews are perpetrators instead of victims. No hand has been raised to stay Israel from the goal of the operation declared by Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai to be “to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages.”
→ read full articleWolfbane
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
So much for Norway’s eco-friendly image. Canada has mutated from a liberal, pacific, outward-looking values country to a thuggish petro-state, ripping up both international treaties and the fabric of its own nation. Another country, whose green and humanitarian principles were just as well-established as Canada’s, is undergoing a similar transformation. Again, it is not the people who have changed – in both cases they remain as delightful as ever – but the dominant political class and its destruction of both national values and international image. I am talking about Norway.
→ read full articleThe Silent Violence against Women Worldwide
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
November 25th is the UN-proclaimed International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Violence against women is a year-round occurrence globally and continues to an alarming degree.
→ read full article(Italian) Coltivare la Pace, Prevenire la Violenza…
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
… era il titolo del simposio al Virginia Tech di Blacksburg, Virginia-USA, dal 17 al 19.11.2012. Come si coltiva la pace? con la cooperazione a beneficio reciproco e uguale; armonia mediante empatia; conciliazione dei traumi, ripulendo il passato e costruendo un futuro; risolvendo i conflitti mediante le 3 C. Fattibile, possibile; mediante studi per la pace, con teoria e pratica.
→ read full articleBad Investment
TMS editor,
26 Nov 2012
Shultz, a lawyer, bribed a man on the jury to hold out for a charge of manslaughter, as opposed to the charge of 1st degree murder which was brought by the prosecution.
→ read full articleA Peace Paradigm
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
Dedicated to Bernard Spolsky
Conflict resolution, Nonviolent resolution, Nonkilling resolution, Peaceful resolution, Peaceful (re)solution, PEACE is the solution!
Myanmar’s Step-By-Step Approach toward Rohingya Genocide and Ethni-cide
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
I would call the military’s policy towards the Rohingya “structural genocide”, a systematic and sustained act of policy maintained and pursued, irrespective of which general or ex-general is in charge. Welcome to our ugly majoritarian neo-Fascist democracy run by militarists!
→ read full articleHow to Blockade a Military Base
Simon Moyle – Waging Nonviolence,
26 Nov 2012
At the end of September [2012] a group of just 40 people demonstrated that small numbers are no barrier to successful nonviolent action by blockading the entrance of one of the main military bases in Australia for two days. Building communities of nonviolent praxis like this demonstrate that it is possible to have significant tactical wins with small groups. We don’t need to wait for mass movements to emerge; we can take actions that make the most of small numbers.
→ read full articleExtraordinary World Phenomena – Photo Gallery
Yahoo! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
The outlandish landscapes might look like something from another planet but they are in fact completely natural eccentricities. And while these mind-blowing quirks of Mother Nature might continue to puzzle scientists, they also continue to draw in tourists fascinated by the surreal spectacles.
→ read full articleOut on the Right: On Being Gay, Conservative and Catholic
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
Jens Spahn is a conservative parliamentarian. He is also gay. In a SPIEGEL interview, the 32-year-old describes how this has informed his political career and assesses how far Germany has come on civil rights for gays and lesbians.
→ read full articleCan U.S. Citizens End Israel’s Legal Impunity?
Stephen Zunes – YES! Magazine,
26 Nov 2012
Each time international law has attempted to censure Israel for its recent violations of human rights, the United States has stepped in to stop the process. If anyone is in a position to do something about this, it’s the U.S. public.
→ read full articleMea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
26 Nov 2012
“Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God,” a new documentary by Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, investigates how a charismatic priest in Milwaukee abused more than 200 deaf children in a Catholic boarding school under his control.
→ read full articleU.S. Government Hacked Nicolas Sarkozy, Former France President’s, Office in 2012, l’Express Claims
Huffington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
The United States government reportedly hacked into the office of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy shortly before he was voted out of office earlier this year [2012], according to French newsmagazine l’Express. France’s cyberwar agency reportedly made the discovery after a major security breach in May, which, l’Express says, was caused by a “very powerful worm” developed jointly by the American and Israeli governments, called “Flame.”
→ read full articleNames and Ages of 170 Civilians Killed in the Israeli Attacks on Gaza LAST WEEK alone
Shahd Abusalama, palestinefrommyeyes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
25 Nov 2012 – Because we are NOT just numbers: names and ages of murdered people, victims of Israeli attacks on Gaza since Wednesday [14 Nov 2012]. The number rises to 170. Keep following this post. I’m going to keep updating it on everything that is happening as much as I can and as long as I’m breathing!
→ read full articleNames and Ages of 26 Civilians Killed by Rockets Fired from Gaza into Israel IN 12 YEARS
Phan Nguyen, Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
Israeli spokespeople frequently remind the world that a million Israeli citizens are within range of Gaza rockets, twelve thousand of which have been fired into Israel in the last twelve years, inflicting thousands of injuries and several dead. However, only 26 people have been killed throughout this time. Below is a list of all the fatalities of rocket and mortar attacks fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel.
→ read full article