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The Education of a Peacemaker
Philip Grant interviewing Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
“Nationalism is not the same as culture…. This triad of chosenness, glory and trauma produces vicious types of nationalistic ideologies that are constantly threatening world peace…. Nationalism lays claims on land and times…. Education has degenerated into schooling, schooling has mutated into a way of earning degrees, and degrees are seen simply as a ticket to earning a living.”
→ read full articleFBI Wiretapping of Internet Users: “All Your Data Belongs to Us”
Tom Burghardt – Global Research,
6 Dec 2010
A Seamless Global Surveillance Web. In a further sign that Barack Obama’s faux “progressive” regime will soon seek broad new Executive Branch power, The New York Times disclosed last week that FBI chief and cover-up specialist extraordinaire, Robert S. Mueller III, “traveled to Silicon Valley on Tuesday to meet with top executives of several technology firms about a proposal to make it easier to wiretap Internet users.”
→ read full articleMiracle Healer: Scientists Attempt to Crack Secret Code of the Axolotl
Magdalena Hamm – Der Spiegel,
6 Dec 2010
The axolotl is one of a kind in nature: It can regenerate severed limbs, organs and even grow back its spinal column after injuries. At a new research center in Hanover, Germany, researchers are trying to unlock the Mexican salamander’s secrets — and whether they can be applied to humans.
→ read full articleNATO, the World’s Gendarme, a Military Mafia
Fidel Castro Ruz – Granma International,
6 Dec 2010
On Friday, November 19, 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal, the 28 members of that bellicose institution engendered by the United States, decided to create what they cynically describe as “the new NATO.”
→ read full articleFormer WikiLeaks Activists to Launch New Whistleblowing Site
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
A group of former members of WikiLeaks is planning to launch its own whistleblowing platform in mid-December, according to a German newspaper. The activists criticize WikiLeaks for concentrating too much on the US and want to take a broader approach.
→ read full articleAfrica: Food Versus Biofuels Debate Continues
Mantoe Phakathi – Inter Press Service-IPS,
6 Dec 2010
“We’re going to Cancún no better off than we were in Copenhagen,” said Thuli Makama, the director of Friends of the Earth Swaziland, as she prepared to leave for the climate negotiations in Mexico. She feels industrialised countries are promoting the production and use of biofuels to fulfill their energy needs, but this will leave more people in the developing world without food. “We face the danger of growing food for the machines instead of our stomachs,” Makama told IPS. Swaziland faces serious shortages of food, with 170,000 of its million-strong population in need of food aid this year.
→ read full articleStudy Suggests There Are 300 Sextillion Stars in the Universe!
Seth Borenstein, AP Science Writer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
“It’s fun because it gets you thinking about these large numbers,” Conroy said. Conroy looked up how many cells are in the average human body — 50 trillion or so — and multiplied that by the 6 billion people on Earth. And he came up with about 300 sextillion. So the number of stars in the universe “is equal to all the cells in the humans on Earth, a kind of funny coincidence,” Conroy said.
→ read full articleBrazil Recognises Palestine
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
Israel expresses disappointment over Brazil’s decision to recognise a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders.
→ read full articleThree more…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
There is a saying, “no news is good news,”
→ read full articleDiscovery of “Arsenic-bug” Expands Definition of Life
NASA Science News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
Dec. 2, 2010: NASA-supported researchers have discovered the first known microorganism on Earth able to thrive and reproduce using the toxic chemical arsenic. The microorganism, which lives in California’s Mono Lake, substitutes arsenic for phosphorus in the backbone of its DNA and other cellular components.
→ read full articleIsrael Starts Building Barrier on Egypt Border
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
Work is beginning in Israel on a barrier along the border with Egypt, aimed at stemming the flow of illegal immigrants into the country. The barrier, including an electric fence and surveillance technology, will run for 250km (155 miles). Work on the $372m (£232m) project is expected to take up to a year.
→ read full articleThe WikiLeaks Diplomatic Crisis
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
A powerful video roundtable discussion with Amy Goodman, Daniel Ellsberg, Greg Mitchell, Carne Ross and As’ad Abukhalil. Now we’re getting to the real perspectives on the latest WikiLeaks release.
→ read full articleFabricating Terror
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
Why does the FBI orchestrate fake terror plots? The United States of America, “the city upon the hill,” “the light unto the world,” has become Nazi Germany. The Obama regime is in the process of completing Dick Cheney’s dream by legislating the legality of indefinite detention. American law has collapsed to the dungeons of the Dark Ages. This Nazi Gestapo policy is now the declared policy of the US Department of Justice (sic). Anyone who thinks the United States is a free society where people have liberty, “freedom and democracy” is uninformed.
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Inspirational Friendship
TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
Amazing video about a wonderful friendship across species. Please watch.
→ read full articleThe Proper Response to WikiLeaks
Karen Kwiatkowski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
Government goons, soldiers and bureaucrats in foreign countries will not face a greater threat to their lives, most especially from these cables. What they will face is snickers, chuckles, and outright laughter. And truly, this is as it should be. When one declares that his robes are the most beautiful, made of the finest silk, so glorious that they compete with the sun – sometimes a little blond-haired boy with a most serious look about him declares that it seems to him that the Emperor has no clothes! And we see, slowly at first, then an unstoppable surge of laughter and finger-pointing by the common people who, for all their ignorance and all their flaws, know enough to put on clothes before going out in public.
→ read full articleDid a U.S. Ambassador Accuse Sri Lanka’s President of War Crimes?
Charles Homans – Foreign Policy,
6 Dec 2010
Are we surprised to learn, via WikiLeaks, that American diplomats in Colombo blame Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his top officials for the massacre of tens of thousands (by most estimates) of Tamil civilians during the final months of Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war? The goods are in a Jan. 15 cable sent by U.S. Amb. Patricia A. Butenis on the eve of Sri Lanka’s presidential elections (which Rajapaksa won handily).
→ read full articleA Surge of Truth
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
It is an “attack on the international community,” said US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in reference to the release of 250.000 secret cables by WikiLeaks. Clinton is correct; this is indeed a long overdue, necessary attack on an ‘international community’ of war mongers and war criminals.
→ read full articleTranscending One-eyed Global Modelling Perspectives: Incorporating Under-Currents into Global Circulation of Value
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
The dissemination by WikiLeaks of classified communications of the US military and diplomatic services allows serious attention to be given to systemic phenomena which are typically dismissed as being “unconfirmed” allegations of marginal significance — at worst exceptional incidents. Whilst “everyone” has long acknowledged the extent of secrecy and corruption, this was typically minimized or denied in official communications, establishment media and education systems. More problematic is the degree to which such systemic phenomena have been denied or minimized in academic studies and modelling of the world system.
→ read full articleThe Mysterious “Laptop Documents”: Using Fake Intelligence to Justify a Pre-emptive Nuclear War on Iran
Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
6 Dec 2010
The laptop documents were essential to sustaining America’s position in the UN Security Council…. [They] had depicted the wrong re-entry vehicle being redesigned. … (Gareth Porter, op cit )…. Who was behind the production of fake intelligence? Gareth Porter’s suggests that Israel’s Mossad has been a source of fake intelligence regarding Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program…. We are dealing with a clear case of fake intelligence comparable to that presented by Colin Powell in February 2003 on Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction…. The US has once again used fake intelligence to build a justification to wage war…. Will the US antiwar movement confront Washington’s plans to wage a pre-emptive nuclear war against Iran based on fake intelligence?
→ read full articleWhy WikiLeaks is Good for Democracy
Prof. Bill Quigley – Common Dreams,
6 Dec 2010
Information is the currency of democracy. –Thomas Jefferson. By labeling tens of millions of documents secret, the US government has created a huge vacuum of information…. Wikileaks has the potential to make transparency and accountability more robust in the US. That is good for democracy.
→ read full articleDaniel Ellsberg Says Boycott Amazon
Daniel Ellsberg - Antiwar.com,
6 Dec 2010
Open letter to Amazon.com Customer Service: December 2, 2010 – I’m disgusted by Amazon’s cowardice and servility in abruptly terminating today its hosting of the Wikileaks website, in the face of threats from Senator Joe Lieberman and other Congressional right-wingers. I want no further association with any company that encourages legislative and executive officials to aspire to China’s control of information and deterrence of whistle-blowing.
→ read full articleCanada Enlists in America’s Permanent War for Peace
Gerald Caplan – The Globe and Mail,
6 Dec 2010
Gerald Caplan charts the bloodthirsty history of ‘the most awesome military power the world has ever known’. ‘Look forward to a future of permanent war in the pursuit of peace,’ he writes.
→ read full articleAfrica Is Resisting the Threat of Europe’s Free Trade Agreements
Martin Khor - The China Post, Kuala Lumpur,
6 Dec 2010
The economies of Africa, the world’s poorest region, are under severe threat from free trade agreements that they are under pressure to sign with the European Union, the world’s richest region. Under these economic partnership agreements (EPAs), Europe wants Africa to open up its economies to European goods, services and companies. But the African countries are understandably worried their small industries and service operators will not be able to survive free competition from giant European companies, banks and commercial firms.
→ read full articleIreland’s Debt Servitude
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – The Telegraph,
6 Dec 2010
Stripped to its essentials, the €85bn package imposed on Ireland by the Eurogroup and the European Central Bank is a bail-out for improvident British, German, Dutch, and Belgian bankers and creditors. The Irish taxpayers carry the full burden, and deplete what remains of their reserve pension fund to cover a quarter of the cost. This arrangement – I am not going to grace it with the term deal – was announced in Brussels before the elected Taoiseach of Ireland had been able to tell his own people what their fate would be.
→ read full articleIs WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange a Hero? Glenn Greenwald Debates Steven Aftergood of Secrecy News
Democracy Now! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
WikiLeaks is coming under attack from all sides. The WikiLeaks website is struggling to stay online just days after Amazon pulled the site from its servers following political pressure. The U.S. State Department has blocked all its employees from accessing the site and is warning all government employees not to read the cables, even at home. “These attacks will not stop our mission, but should be setting off alarm bells about the rule of law in the United States,” said WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. We host a debate between Steven Aftergood, a transparency advocate who has become a leading critic of WikiLeaks, and Glenn Greenwald, a constitutional law attorney and legal blogger for Salon.com.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks and the End of U.S. ‘Diplomacy’
Amy Goodman – Truthdig,
6 Dec 2010
The way the U.S. conducts diplomacy is now getting more exposure than ever—as is the apparent ease with which the U.S. government lives up (or down) to the adage used by pioneering journalist I.F. Stone: “Governments lie.” I asked [Noam] Chomsky about the latest cables released by WikiLeaks. “What this reveals,” he reflected, “is the profound hatred for democracy on the part of our political leadership.”
→ read full articleUK: Labour Put Limits on Iraq Inquiry to Keep the US Happy
Nigel Morris – The Independent,
6 Dec 2010
Gordon Brown’s Government secretly promised to limit the extent of the Iraq war inquiry to prevent damage to the United States, the leaked cables disclosed. The pledge – made last September as the Chilcot inquiry into the war started – threatens to damage the credibility of the investigation, which is due to report in the new year.
→ read full articleWhat of Military Aggression?
Benjamin Ferencz | Radio Netherlands Worldwide - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
Today [20 Nov 2010] marks the 65th anniversary of the Nuremberg war crimes trials — the landmark process that brought top Nazis to justice and established precedents that now underpin international law. “We have come a long way from Nuremberg, and have miles to go before we sleep.”
→ read full articleRep. Peter King’s Dangerous Overreaction to WikiLeaks
Tom Hayden - The Peace and Justice Resource Center,
6 Dec 2010
The current controversy is less about national security than about securing the official reputations of officials conducting secret warfare. As a result of the WikiLeaks documents, the American public has learned, for example, that: () our government is deceiving the public and Congress by denying our secret bombing of Yemen; () our Special Forces are in Pakistan; () the CIA has directed a secret army in Afghanistan; () there is a secret Task Force 373 conducting assassinations in Afghanistan. These revelations do no damage to our national security. Instead, they helpfully add to public and Congressional awareness of improper and arguably illegal behavior undertaken under the cover of secrecy.
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The Chilcot Inquiry: Britain’s 9/11 Commission
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
All too often, official inquiries are conducted by the very people who should themselves be under investigation. In this respect, Britain’s Chilcot Inquiry on the Iraq war bears a distressing similarity to the 9/11 Commission. In a remarkable symmetry, both inquiries involve a Jewish Zionist historian, who not only advised his country’s leader to go to war against Iraq, but actually provided the ideological justification for that unnecessary war.
→ read full articleHaiti: Reclaiming Sovereignty
Senator Jean William Jeanty – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
As Haiti gears up for its forthcoming elections, Jean William Jeanty decries the complete absence of transparency in the country around post-earthquake reconstruction and the ability of foreign companies to usurp Haitian law. With the country gripped by cholera (the ‘natural indicator of underdevelopment’), Jeanty stresses that Haiti’s leaders ‘are trying to rush the elections so that they can perpetuate things the way they are’.
→ read full article‘War Criminal’ Gets a UN Job
Brad Hamilton – New York Post,
29 Nov 2010
A suspected war criminal who allegedly played a key role in the slaughter of 40,000 civilians in Sri Lanka has landed a cushy job at the United Nations — with full diplomatic immunity.
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America: The Silence of a Nation
Chris Hedges - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
The author spoke at the Revolution Books Town Hall Meeting at Ethical Culture Society on January 13, 2009 condemning Israel and USA complicity in Israel’s murderous destruction and genocide of the innocent men, women and children of GAZA and the West Bank.
→ read full article(Italian) Come Costruire Società e Istituzioni Nonviolente
Marina Marrazzi – Soka Gakkai,
29 Nov 2010
Un convegno a Torino organizzato dal Centro Studi Sereno Regis per celebrare Johan Galtung, il noto e autorevole studioso di Peace Research di origine norvegese, e i suoi ottanta anni di ricerca, educazione e azione per la pace.
→ read full articleInsight: International Centre for the Study of Radicatlisation on Al Qaeda’s ‘Inspire’ Magazine
Shiraz Maher – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
The latest edition of Al Qaeda’s ‘Inspire’ reveals more details about the recent airline bomb plot which emanated in Yemen. “Dear friends, I find this quite something. And it confirms my two points: the point is in Arabia, not Afghanistan; and the point with the underwear bomb was to force the West into even more expensive and stupid “security” measures.” –Johan Galtung.
→ read full articleInterview with Gay Theologian David Berger: ‘A Large Proportion of Catholic Clerics and Trainee Priests Are Homosexual’
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
David Berger, a gay theologian who has written a book about his experiences as a senior theologian in the Catholic Church, speaks to SPIEGEL about homophobia and the church’s shift to the right.
→ read full articleRole of Civil Society in Ending Nuclear Weapons and War
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
Presentation at a panel discussion on Japanese TV – 11th Nobel Peace Summit, Hiroshima, Japan, Nov 12-14, 2010
→ read full article(Italian) Stati Uniti, il Dramma Silenzioso dei Reduci
Alberto Tundo, PeaceReporter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
Il numero dei soldati che si suicidano ha superato quello dei militari morti in Afghanistan dal 2001.
→ read full articleGlobal Currency Wars and US Imperialism
Samir Amin – Pambazuka News,
29 Nov 2010
Samir Amin speaks to Pambazuka News on the misleading rhetoric over the so-called currency war. The real problem, he argues, is the disequilibrium in the global integrated monetary and financial system in which the US insists legitimately on the right to control their currency, but denies the same rights to others, such as China, who seek to do the same. The countries of the global South need to leave the US and its allies to sort out their own problems and concentrate on developing regional currencies and exercising strict control over capital flows, Amin argues.
→ read full article(Italian) Il Rifiuto Della Carne Contro la Sofferenza Degli Animali
Marinella Correggia – Il Manifesto,
29 Nov 2010
«Da un punto di vista etico, metafisico e religioso, o tutta la vita souffrante viene salvata, o tutto è privo di senso; come la pietà è indivisibile, così la salvezza a cui dà diritto la sofferenza. È questa la difficoltà più grande del pensiero teologico».
→ read full articleLet Israel Keep Its Freeze
Lamis Andoni – Al Jazeera,
29 Nov 2010
The freeze being negotiated between the US and Israel is ultimately designed to legitimise illegal Jewish settlements.
→ read full articleWhat Does Aung San Suu Kyi’s Release Mean for Burma?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
Since the release of a single dissident Aung San Suu Kyi – while holding 2,100 of her fellow dissidents behind bars who are serving up to 90 years imprisonment – the loud calls for lifting sanctions are repeated by some well-known supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi such as East Timor’s Jose Ramos-Horta, as if pouring more foreign direct investment in Burma’s gas and oil sector and increasing trade with the country’s kleptocratic, dysfunctional State would automatically translate into public welfare.
→ read full articleLiberia: Searching For Solutions to Land Disputes
IRIN (*) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
Having served as the launch-pad for the insurgency led by former President Charles Taylor in December 1989, Nimba was caught up repeatedly in the 14-year conflict that followed. Thousands fled, many into neighbouring Guinea, prompting a series of land and property transfers, forced and voluntary, legal and illegal. The reintegration of returning communities has been complicated by continuing confusion over who rightfully owns what.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Haiti: Cólera, Furacão e Lucro
Thalles Gomes – Brasil de Fato,
29 Nov 2010
60% do PIB haitiano é oriundo de verbas estrangeiras que, assim como os furacões e ciclones, apenas passam pelo território haitiano, mantendo a infra-estrutura e os altos salários dos funcionários da ONU e das milhares de ONGs, sem chegar às mãos da população e sem alterar as condições sócio-econômicas do país. “O Estado haitiano e a comunidade internacional deverão pensar o Haiti sob outra ótica que não a das permanentes tragédias que aqui ocorrem”, aponta José Luis Patrola, para concluir que: “Ou pensamos a ajuda ao Haiti desde um ponto de vista de resolver problemas estruturais ou viveremos grandes espetáculos midiáticos acompanhados de grande propaganda sobre doações para ajudas emergenciais. Dois ou três anos em seguida as catástrofes retornarão e veremos o mesmo espetáculo da tragédia se repetindo”.
→ read full article(Italian) Bori su Tolstoj: Non Resistere al Male
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
Presentiamo qualche appunto dalla lezione di Pier Cesare Bori, e dalla discussione seguitane, il 10 novembre 2010, nel centenario della morte di Lev Tolstoj, avvenuta il 7 novembre 1910, in un incontro organizzato dal Centro Studi Sereno Regis. Bori ha esposto colloquialmente un testo che in seguito pubblicherà.
→ read full articleRethinking the Global Economy: The Case for Sharing
Rajesh Makwana & Adam Parsons – Share the World Resources,
29 Nov 2010
The basic assumptions about human nature that inform economic and political decision-making are long outdated and fundamentally flawed. By acknowledging our interdependence and common ethical values, we can build a more sustainable, cooperative and inclusive global economy.
→ read full articleOn Korea, Here We Go Again!
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
29 Nov 2010
If American journalism should have learned one thing over the years, it is to be cautious and skeptical during the first days of a foreign confrontation like the one now playing out on the Korean Peninsula. Often the initial accounts from the “U.S. side” don’t turn out to be entirely accurate.
→ read full articleWhich Way Sudan?
Horace Campbell – Pambazuka News,
29 Nov 2010
A Pan-African Reflection: Is North and South Sudan’s recent agreement to establish a ‘soft border’ between the two areas ahead of a referendum on southern independence ‘another recipe for war?’
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The Video That Exposes the Truth about the War on Terror!
truthforall01 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
Mandatory viewing for all supporters of the war(s).
→ read full articleCorporate Profits Were the Highest on Record Last Quarter
Catherine Rampell – The New York Times,
29 Nov 2010
The nation’s workers may be struggling, but American companies just had their best quarter ever. American businesses earned profits at an annual rate of $1.659 trillion in the third quarter, according to a Commerce Department report released Tuesday [23 Nov 2010]. That is the highest figure recorded since the government began keeping track over 60 years ago, at least in nominal or noninflation-adjusted terms.
→ read full article(Italian) SABONA – “TI VEDO”
Giorgio Barazza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
Come Affrontare I Conflitti Con L’educazione Alla Pace: METODO TRANSCEND
→ read full articleTelling the People’s Story: A Tribute to Chalmers Johnson
Tim Shorrock – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
For Chalmers Johnson, a great man who died this weekend [21 Nov 2010].
→ read full articleUpsurge in Repression Challenges Nonviolent Resistance in Western Sahara
Stephen Zunes – Open Democracy,
29 Nov 2010
Sahrawis have engaged in protests, strikes, cultural celebrations, and other forms of civil resistance focused on such issues as educational policy, human rights, the release of political prisoners, and the right to self-determination. They have also raised the cost of occupation for the Moroccan government and increased the visibility of the Sahrawi cause.
→ read full articleNew Myanmar Is the Hell-Hole Old Burma (Part 1)
[Nobel laureate] Amartya Sen – Democratic Voice of Burma,
29 Nov 2010
The country has steadily fallen in the economic ranking of poor countries in the world and is now one of the absolutely poorest on the globe. Its educational and health services are in tatters; medicine is difficult to get and educational institutions can hardly function. There is viciously strict censorship, combined with heavy punishment for rebellious voices. The shocking litany of different cases of arbitrary imprisonment, terrifying torture, state-directed displacement of people and organized rapes and killings. When the population faces a catastrophe like Hurricane Nargis in May 2008, the government not only does not want to help at all, its first inclination is to ban others in the world from helping the distressed and destitute people in the country.
→ read full articleAxis of Evil Redux
Teymoor Nabili – Al Jazeera,
29 Nov 2010
Another day, another top-level conference to analyse the “Iran threat”, and once again the experts’ conclusion is sharply at variance with the State Department’s preferred narrative.
→ read full articleFairness
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
Taking his seat in his chambers, the judge faced the opposing lawyers. “So,” he said, “I have been presented, by both of you, with a bribe.”
→ read full articleThe Tribulations of the Tuareg
Jeremy Keenan – Al Jazeera,
29 Nov 2010
In fact, the reality of the GWOT in the Sahara-Sahel has not been about fighting ‘terrorists’, but about how the local governments, linked into the GWOT through Washington’s Pan Sahel (PSI) and Trans-Sahara Counter-terrorism initiatives of 2004 and 2005 respectively, have been provoking the Tuareg into taking up arms so that they might be categorised as ‘terrorists’ or, as one US state department analyst argued rather quaintly in the context of the assumed link between terrorism and trafficking, ‘putative terrorists’. What the Tuareg have had to endure in the so-called GWOT is both shocking and shameful.
→ read full articleIslam and the West: Some Differences
Johan Galtung, 29 Nov 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
The three abrahamic religions judaism-christianity-islam are similar in being revealed truths 4,000, 2,000, 1,400 years ago; and different by being revealed into different contexts, and by the latter building on the former. These 16 debatable points are based on themes frequently coming up in dialogues.
→ read full articleEating the Irish
Paul Krugman, Economics Nobel Laureate – The New York Times,
29 Nov 2010
But Ireland is now in its third year of austerity, and confidence just keeps draining away. And you have to wonder what it will take for serious people to realize that punishing the populace for the bankers’ sins is worse than a crime; it’s a mistake.
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[MUST WATCH] NATO: Going Global
Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is the largest military force ever assembled, with a potential armed force of more than seven million. But as its original enemies, communism and the Soviet Union, were defeated two decades ago, what is the alliance’s new identity or new role?
→ read full article(Italian) Mohamed, per tutti “Mimmo” è stato espulso. Deportato in Egitto
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
Giovedì 18 novembre 2010, alle ore 14,30 l’aereo che riporta Mohamed al Cairo è decollato da Malpensa. Oltre ai 9 migranti deportati martedì 16 novembre, giovedì con Mimmo c’era un altro fratello. “L’aereo sta partendo … davanti a me” – dice sconsolato Leòn – “l’aereo è in movimento …”
→ read full articleSuperquestions for Supercomputers
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
This is a reflection on the press release announcing that Supercomputers ramp up to tackle global societal problems (Science and Technology Facilities Council, 17 November 2010). The press release argues that supercomputers of the future, capable of rapidly crunching vast amounts of data way beyond the existing capabilities of current technology, will spearhead the development of new drugs, new sources of energy and environmental monitoring.
→ read full articleMemo to Ireland: “Tell the EU and the IMF to ‘Shove It'”
Mike Whitney – Information Clearing House,
29 Nov 2010
The Irish people are left with no choice but to resist. Presently the Cowen government is collapsing. Bravo…. Economist Dean Baker sums it up like this in an article in The Guardian: “Even a relatively small country like Ireland has options. Specifically, they could drop out of the euro and default on their debt….Like Ireland, Argentina had also been a poster child of the neoliberal crew before it ran into difficulties…. The Irish people didn’t struggle through centuries of famine and foreign occupation so they could be debt-peons in the EU’s corporate Uberstate.
→ read full article(Italian) L’influenza di Tolstoj su Gandhi
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
1- Alcuni caratteri del pensiero di Tolstoj 2- Come Gandhi conosce Tolstoj 3- La Lettera a un indù, di Tolstoj, conquista Gandhi 4- Carteggio Gandhi – Tolstoj 5- Che cosa Gandhi deve a Tolstoj 6 – Gandhi dice le differenze tra lui e Tolstoj 7 – Differenze oggettive Tolstoj-Gandhi
→ read full articleCambodia’s National Day of Mourning
Emma Leslie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
The Water Festival is a time of great celebration in Cambodia. It is always celebrated around November but the dates are dependent on the moon. Some say it’s a chance to honour the rivers which replenish the soil for the harvest. Others say it’s to honour the spirits which make the river miraculous change direction and flow in the other direction. Mostly it’s the time where the people from Cambodia’s countryside take over the capital! Phnom Penh is theirs. They sleep along the streets, they cheer on the boat of their district, they stay up all night and enjoy the myriad of free entertainment from fireworks to concerts and traditional dancing. It’s a grand celebration of life!
→ read full articleMusicians
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
Ben Zanders, the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic, led an audience of 1000 at a conference where he spoke, to sing “happy birthday to you” for one of the participants.
→ read full articleThe Legacy of Hiroshima
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
Presented at the 11th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Nov 12, 2010, Hiroshima, Japan. Criminality and Delegitimation of Nuclear Weapons
→ read full article“Put the Palestinians on a Diet”
Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
Media Bury Documents Revealing Israel’s Deliberate Policy of Near Starvation for Gaza: Israel has been forced to reveal what Palestinians and other observers on the ground have known for a long time: that the blockade of Gaza is state policy intended to inflict collective punishment, not to bolster Israeli “security”…. The released documents, whose existence Israel had denied for eighteen months, reveal that the state approved “a policy of deliberate reduction” of basic goods, including food and fuel, in the Gaza Strip.
→ read full articleEducation: Build a Tower, Build a Team
Tom Wujec – TED Talks,
22 Nov 2010
Tom Wujec presents some surprisingly deep research into the “marshmallow problem” — a simple team-building exercise that involves dry spaghetti, one yard of tape and a marshmallow. Who can build the tallest tower with these ingredients? And why does a surprising group always beat the average?
→ read full articleEast Timor Extends a Hand to Troubled Portugal
Mario de Queiroz – Inter Press Service,
22 Nov 2010
With the announcement that his country is ready to buy Portuguese debt, the president of East Timor, José Ramos-Horta, set a precedent in international economic relations that was universally praised in political and financial circles in this southern European country.
→ read full articleChina Has Tied Bernanke’s Hands
Mike Whitney - ICH,
22 Nov 2010
The Least We Can Do Is Be Grateful. Bernanke went on and on about how mean China is and how they manipulate their currency to gain competitive advantage. It was surreal; like listening to a serial arsonist complain about his wife smoking in bed…. If the last 10 years have taught us anything, it’s that the unipolar world–where one country dominates politically, economically and militarily–is not good for anyone. It’s time for a change. “Let a thousand flowers bloom,” as Mao would say.
→ read full article(Italian) Brescia 6 Novembre 2010: Una Manifestazione Noviolenta
Silvia Berruto, giornalista contro il razzismo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
E’ stata una manifestazione a tutti gli effetti nonviolenta.
A supporto di una resistenza civile nonviolenta.
Da manuale.
AIPAC: Fighting for Survival
MJ Rosenberg – Al Jazeera,
22 Nov 2010
The latest Aipac (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) scandal has not found its way into the mainstream media, although the Jewish media has done a great job in highlighting this very explosive story. (LATE UPDATE: The Washington Post is now reporting on the story.) The good news is that it does not much matter whether the New York Times runs the story or not. The Rosen vs. Aipac case is grinding its way through the courts and could well destroy the lobby without ever making its way on to the front page. Aipac is under siege, and is spending millions to stay alive. But that will not be easy – even if Steve Rosen ultimately accepts a payoff from the organisation and refrains from telling what he knows.
→ read full articleNorth American Union – “U.S. Super Spy Center” Uncovered in Mexico
Jorge Carrasco and Jesus Esquivel, DeadlineLive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
With the approval of Felipe Calderón’s Administration, the U.S. Government finally got what it always wanted: To set up a super spy center in Mexico City. It was the escalation of the drug war in the country what opened the door to all U.S. intelligence agencies, including the military, to operate out of the Federal District without having to disguise their agents as diplomats.
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The Story of Electronics
Annie Leonard, Story of Stuff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
Why “designed for the dump” electronics are toxic to people and the planet … and what to do about it.
→ read full article(Castellano) ¿Cómo Pelear como Buenos Vecinos?
Adrián Bergmann – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
Lo que se ha venido desarrollando entre Costa Rica y Nicaragua – no desde octubre, sino desde hace mucho tiempo – es una relación de vecinos que no está como debería estar. No sólo entre gobiernos, sino entre pueblos.
→ read full articleMajor Spy Scandal As Five Scandinavian Governments Catch the U.S. Watching Their Citizens
Daily Mail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
America has been accused of illegally spying on hundreds of people in Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Iceland. Officials in the five countries expressed their unhappiness at surveillance tactics that were conducted without the knowledge of the individual nations’ governments.
→ read full article11th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
The Summit Final Declaration on the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
→ read full articleCosta Rica Lawmakers Vote to Ban Open-Pit Mining
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
Costa Rica’s congress voted on Tuesday [9 Nov 2010] to ban all new open-pit mining projects, citing environmental concerns, without blocking the development of the country’s only major gold mine.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Touro Ataca Aficionados na Espanha: 40 Feridos (Fotos)
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
(Nota do Editor da TMS): A violencia virou-se contra os violentos. Os verdadeiros animais selvagens sao aqueles que se encontram na plateia. Se todos os touros se rebelassem desta forma as touradas possivelmente deixariam de existir. Civilizados, nós, nem de longe…
→ read full articleWhite House Says Child Soldiers Are OK, if They Fight Terrorists
Michelle Chen – ColorLines,
22 Nov 2010
The administration stunned human rights groups last month by sidestepping a commitment to help countries curb the military exploitation of children. Josh Rogin at Foreign Policy reported that President Obama issued a presidential memorandum granting waivers from the Child Soldiers Prevention Act to four countries: Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan and Yemen. The memo instructed Secretary of State Hilary Clinton that it is in our “national interest” to continue extending military aid to those countries, despite their failure to comply with the rules Congress passed and George W. Bush signed in 2008.
→ read full articleIntergovernmental Report: Hate Crime Remains a Serious Problem in Europe and North America
Human Rights First – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) today [17 Nov 2010] released its annual report for 2009 “Hate Crimes in the OSCE Region – Incidents and Responses,” concluding that hate crime continued to be a serious problem in many of the 56 countries in North America, Europe, and the former Soviet Union. This is the first study since the passage of the notable 2009 Ministerial Council Decision 9/09, in which participating countries upheld unanimously their commitment to collect and publicize detailed statistics on hate crime.
→ read full articleFake Anti-war Activism: The “Humanitarian Road” Towards an all out Nuclear War?
Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
22 Nov 2010
Some of America’s wars are condemned outright, while others are heralded as “humanitarian interventions”. A significant segment of the US antiwar movement condemns the war but endorses the campaign against international terrorism, which constitutes the backbone of US military doctrine. The “Just War” theory has served to camouflage the nature of US foreign policy, while providing a human face to the invaders.
→ read full articleCosta Rica-Nicaragua Border Dispute has Makings of an International Crisis
Honduras Weekly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
On October 21, Nicaragua deployed soldiers on Calero Island inside Costa Rican territory along the San Juan River claiming it was only conducting channel deepening work on the river. Costa Rica, which has no army, mobilized its national police and asked the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington, DC to intervene.
→ read full articleOpen Letter for Free Travel to Mordechai Vanunu
TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
Please Grant Mordechai Vanunu Free Departure Out of Israel and Allow Him to Receive the Carl-Von-Ossietzky-Medal 2010 Personally at the Award Ceremony on December 12th this Year in Berlin.
→ read full articleInsanity and Robotisation: Militarisation and US Society
Horace Campbell – Pambazuka News,
22 Nov 2010
A rally to restore sanity was held in the Washington Mall on 30 October 2010. Called by two comedians, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, the rally drew over 200,000 persons (CBS News: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20021284-503544.html). Another 4 million persons watched this rally on cable television. The escalation of intolerance and use of violent language by the conservative forces gave this rally tremendous importance in the politics of the USA.
→ read full articleCarl-von-Ossietzky-Medal for Mordechai Vanunu
International League of Human Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
For over a quarter of a century, Mordechai Vanunu has been engaging in the struggle for total nuclear disarmament, for transparent democracy and for peace among nations with outstanding civil courage and fortitude.
→ read full articleThe Hiroshima Peace Summit
The Asahi Shimbum, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize gathered in Hiroshima over the weekend [Nov 12-14, 2010] for an international conference held under the theme: The Legacy of Hiroshima: A World Without Nuclear Weapons.” The participants issued a declaration that called for popularizing the view that the use of nuclear weapons is immoral and illegal, immediately ratifying the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty by the United States and Russia, and deeply cutting the nuclear arsenals of nuclear powers…. The organizers of the conference and the city of Hiroshima invited U.S. President Barack Obama, who won the prize last year, to attend, but to no avail…. The U.S. government’s moves to increase the nuclear arms budget and conduct a subcritical nuclear test in September have caused deep disappointment in Hiroshima, leaving many citizens feeling “betrayed” by Obama.
→ read full articleThe Art of War Journalism
Mwaura Kaara – Pambazuka News,
22 Nov 2010
Reflecting on how the media and war industries often feed off each other for political and commercial ends, Mwaura Kaara considers the prospects for ‘peace journalism’ that ‘captures the truths as they are without bias or favour’.
→ read full articleHitler and the Germans
Johan Galtung, 22 Nov 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
Berlin: The exhibition with that name is on and very much worth visiting. The fact that it exists is laudable in itself, and people come, many, standing in line. There is much expertise behind this effort to explore why Hitler attracted the support he got, including with a coalition party winning an election as free and fair as they come early March 1933, right after what is referred to as the Machtergreifung, grabbing the power and actually was a Machtübergabe, giving the power–to Hitler. And his NSDAP, the national socialist German labor party, Na from National and zi from Sozialist add up to Nazi. Imagine now that they actually stood for both.
→ read full article(Castellano) Espía EU en México
Jorge Carrasco A. y J. Jesús Esquivel, am.com.mx – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
Con el gobierno de Felipe Calderón, Estados Unidos logró lo que siempre ambicionó: establecer en la Ciudad de México un centro de espionaje. Y fue el ascenso del narcotráfico en el país el que abrió la puerta a todas las agencias de inteligencia estadunidenses, predominantemente militares, para que operen desde el Distrito Federal sin necesidad de encubrir a sus agentes como diplomáticos.
→ read full articleDefend Julian Assange
WikiLeaks Staff Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
18 November 2010. Why Our Editor-in-Chief Is Busy and Needs to Be Defended.
→ read full articleBush Can’t Travel Abroad Without Risking Arrest
Matthew Rothschild – The Progressive,
22 Nov 2010
George W. Bush better stay at home. The confessed waterboarder is a marked man. If he travels abroad, other countries can—and should—nab him and try him for the crime of torture. In his memoir and in last week’s NBC interview, Bush acknowledged ordering waterboarding.
→ read full article(French) Un Portugais Ancien de Goldman Sachs à la Tête du Département Europe du FMI
France24 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
Le Fonds monétaire international a annoncé mardi [16 Nov 2010] dans un communiqué la nomination à la tête de son département Europe d’un économiste portugais et ancien dirigeant de la banque Goldman Sachs, Antonio Borges.
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(Italian) Galtung – Intervista a “due”: Medicina Nonviolenta
GUNA TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
Il teorico di fama internazionale degli studi sulla non violenza Johan Galtung e il presidente di GUNA spa Alessandro Pizzoccaro.
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Irish Government Slaves to IMF Terror Machine!
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
If Europe’s single currency fails, so would the Union itself. The warning comes from the EU president, who was speaking ahead of the meeting of the Eurozone’s finance ministers. Portugal has warned it could be forced out of the Eurozone, and Ireland is also being urged to use European bailout money to prevent bankruptcy. But Financial analyst Max Keiser says going to the IMF for help would be even worse…
→ read full articleRealities of the Obama Visit
Dr. Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
The Obama visit to India in this November attracted world wide attention, with analysts pouring appreciations or criticisms or both on the visit. The visit surrounded by grand phrases like ‘natural partners’ could enchant much of the Indian public, and particularly when during the speech at Indian parliament on 8 November 2010 Obama urged Pakistan to dismantle terrorist centers within its borders, supported India’s candidature for the permanent membership of the security council and dropped the Kashmir word in the speeches and deliberations, the symbolism in the bilateral relations could reach its apogee, though these pronouncements will remain mere words till their fruitful realization in ground reality.
→ read full articleThe Decline and Fall of Norway
Johan Galtung, 15 Nov 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2010
Then the third revelation. Wars among states decrease as wars among nations increase; the state system going down and the nation system up in salience. What could make young men kill Afghans when Norway is not attacked? Constructing Norway as a killer nation, digging deep down in Norwegian archaeology, to the Vikings, invoking their symbols, helmets and Valhalla, with craniums to boot. Like SS. Quisling, from the Telemark province, also used the Germanic cult of anything old Nordic for his fascist Norwegian Legion. Name of the Norwegian Afghanistan ISAF battalion: Telemark. Ominous.
→ read full articleProf. Johan Galtung’s Papers, Books and Publications Online
Antonio C. S. Rosa – TMS Editor,
15 Nov 2010
Some of Prof. Galtung’s writings can now be accessed online. Please click on the links below to browse, read, download.
→ read full articleAnti-Nuclear Protesters to Merkel: ‘Enough Is Enough’
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2010
A train loaded with radioactive waste ended its controversial journey through Germany on Monday [8 Nov 2010]. Its path had been blocked by up to 50,000 protesters over the weekend, sparking violent clashes between police and anti-nuclear activists. Commentators on Monday take stock of the political repercussions.
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