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Understanding the Threats of Qur’an Burning
Chaiwat Satha-Anand – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
If one agrees with Dominique Moisi in his recent book The Geopolitics of Emotion (2010) that one cannot fully understand the world today without trying to construe the ways in which emotions such as fear, humiliation and hope shape world politics, and that a clash of emotions between fear in “the West” and humiliation in the Muslim world is going on, then I would argue that what Pastor Jones has done was to show us how vulnerable to global violence the world is.
→ read full article‘Israel Flotilla Raid Was Unlawful’
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
UN Gaza aid probe says the raid of Israeli forces on flotilla was in violation of international law.
→ read full articleIsrael: It’s Against Our Interest to Join Anti-Nuclear Arms Treaty
AFP-Agence France Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Israel Rejects Offer to Join UN Atomic Agency
→ read full articleA Real Test
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Two students went drinking late into the night before an exam.
→ read full articleHaiti: Don’t Give Us Food, Help Us Produce
Beverly Bell and Jonas Deronzil – Toward Freedom,
27 Sep 2010
Since foreign rice has invaded Haiti, we plant our rice but we can’t sell it. The foreigners have all the possibilities: they have water, they have machinery, they have easy access to fertilizer and other inputs. They can grow their rice in quantity. The peasants, poor devils, we spend a lot to grow it, but we can’t sell it. Sometimes we have to go to the loan sharks just to get enough money to survive.
→ read full articleOct 2 – Day for Non-Violence: Middle East Mediation
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
On World Day for Non-violence, 2 October, chosen to mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, it is useful to recall the efforts to have him play a bridge-building role in the Jewish-Arab conflict of 1937 in Palestine. Mahatma Gandhi was a man of dialogue and compromise. A British-trained lawyer, he always knew the limits of the law and knew when not to push too far even in his satyagraha – non-violent campaigns.
→ read full articleIraq to Pay $400 Million for Saddam’s Mistreatment of Americans
Jane Arraf, Correspondent – The Christian Science Monitor,
27 Sep 2010
The money comes out of a roughly $900 million fund in frozen assets held by the US government to settle unresolved contracts under the Oil for Food program…. The settlement is controversial not only because of Iraq’s pressing developmental needs, but because it holds the current government accountable for Saddam Hussein’s actions.“A lot of blood has flowed since then and a lot of it is Iraqi blood. It’s arguable that the suffering was not caused by the current Iraqi government or the Iraqi people,” says one senior Iraqi official. “This is politics, this is not justice.”
→ read full article(Castellano) Entrevista Audio en Español con el Prof. Galtung
Radio Nacional de Colombia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
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Hoy [21 Sep 2010], cuando el mundo entero celebra el Día Internacional de la Paz, institucionalizado por la Organización de las Naciones Unidas en 1981, vale la pena analizar el ejemplo de China, un país que ha logrado grandes avances por la equidad social.
→ read full articleAhmadinejad and the 9/11 Attacks
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Surveys show large segments of the world population agree with the Iranian leader’s “US government involvement” claims.
→ read full articlePuncturing Pomposity
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Proposition: the pomposity of self-satisfied elites serves to normalise the unthinkable. Edward Herman, writing about Hannah Arendt’s concept of the ‘banality of evil’, says: “This is the process whereby ugly, degrading, murderous and unspeakable acts become routine and are accepted as ‘the way things are done’.”
→ read full article(Italian) La grande truffa dei Global Hawk di Sigonella
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Il ministro La Russa non vede, non sente, non parla. Un Global Hawk, il micidiale aereo senza pilota di nuovissima generazione dell’US Air Force, fa bella mostra di sé nella base aereonavale di Sigonella, ma governo e forze armate italiane preferiscono trincerarsi dietro il “no comment”, glissando gli interrogativi di piloti civili e associazioni No War preoccupati per le ripercussioni delle future operazioni del velivolo sulla sicurezza del traffico aereo nei cieli della Sicilia.
→ read full articleChris Hedges on Moral Courage
Toward Freedom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Chris Hedges begins this speech to the Veterans for Peace convention by saying, “Physical courage is something you see on a battlefield. Moral courage you almost never see.”
→ read full article(Italian) Le Tre Riforme di Gandhi
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
“Quando parliamo di nonviolenza come di una scoperta di questo secolo, conviene precisare che non si tratta della rivelazione di un nuovo valore spirituale o di una rivelazione religiosa, ma dell’ingresso, nella storia dei popoli, di una forza rivoluzionaria e innovatrice.
→ read full articleOn Jewish Loyalty
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
So here we are : Israel is basically a Western liberal ‘multi cultural’ society where all different ethnicities and minorities are demanded to swear loyalty to the ultimate form of chauvinist Jewish tribal practice…. However, in case you think that Liebermann is alone in his demand for loyalty, you are pretty wrong. Here in Britain, Lord Goldsmith, (yes the same Goldsmith who kindly offered Tony Blair a ‘legal’ green light to invade Iraq in 2003) is also enthusiastic about loyalty…. Lord Goldsmith was quoted by The Independent suggesting that Britain did not face a crisis of shared citizenship, but added that national pride had declined over the past 20 years, particularly among the young. He warned that “one third or more of black people did not identify with their home country.”
→ read full articleCountries Lay Claim to Arctic in Battle for Oil and Gas Reserves
Shaun Walker in Moscow – The Independent,
27 Sep 2010
Nations laid out their claims to territory in the polar North yesterday [22 Sep 2010] and the vast untapped mineral wealth that lies under the Arctic Ocean. Shrinking polar ice has opened up new opportunities, with five nations – Russia, Canada, Denmark, Norway and the US – claiming jurisdiction over parts of the polar region which could contain as much of one quarter of the world’s undiscovered reserves of oil and gas.
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The Int’l Effort to Criminalize War
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Debate about “wars of agression” at conference of jurists from international tribunals.
→ read full articleDaniel Ellsberg Speaks Out on Bradley Manning
MSNBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
Ellsberg: “Manning is a patriot and a hero.”
→ read full articleCountdown to Sudan’s Referendum
Lazaro Sumbeiywo and John Danforth – Al Jazeera,
20 Sep 2010
With four months to go until a referendum on self-determination, Africa’s largest country is at an historic crossroads.
→ read full article‘Largest Flotilla Yet’ En-Route to Gaza
Ynet reporters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
Ships from Britain, Morocco, Qatar to rendezvous in Syria, sail toward el-Arish Port in northern Sinai Peninsula; activists plan to enter Gaza through Rafah Crossing, deliver humanitarian aid.
→ read full articleHenri Dunant, Red Cross, What Next?
Johan Galtung, 20 Sep 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
[Henri Dunant’s] moment of truth, as we all know, was the battle of Solferino in Lombardy, 24 June 1859, a little more than 150 years ago, where he witnessed the unspeakable suffering brought about by one more stupid battle, pitting 300,000 soldiers against each other, in one more stupid war, between France and Austria that time; mainly waged by their upper classes sacrificing their underlings.
→ read full articleHomes for 27,000 Constructed During Israeli Settlements Freeze
Nasouh Nazzal, Gulf News - Philippine Times,
20 Sep 2010
The so-called settlement freeze in the Palestinian territories is a myth. No freeze has ever been implemented, in fact the settlements have been expanding dramatically during the moratorium. Additionally, another 13,000 homes have been approved for the West Bank, together with two new colonies near Nablus and the Jordan Valley.
→ read full articlePreparing for South Sudan’s Crucial Referendum
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
In diplomatic language, the UN Human Rights Council’s Independent Expert on the Situation of Human Rights in Sudan, Mohammed Chande Othman, warned the Council, which began its current session on 13 September 2010, that “With the referendum on South Sudan yet to be conducted, it is essential that the Government provide an environment conducive to the exercise of political rights, with firm guarantees of the fundamental freedoms of expression and assembly in accordance with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and the Interim National Constitution..”
→ read full articlePerspectives
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
When the United States Congress passed stricter laws about automobile air pollution, the Japanese car manufacturers…
→ read full articleLos Angeles Launches Nation’s First Israel Divestment Campaign
Linda Milazzo – AlterNet,
20 Sep 2010
On April 1, 2010, in a no-holds-barred interview with the Christian Science Monitor, Israeli peacemaker Jonathan Ben Artzi, a PhD candidate at Brown University and nephew to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, made clear his belief that equality and social justice will prevail in Israel when the government and people of the United States adopt a no-tolerance stance toward Israel’s abuse of Palestinians.
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Howard Zinn on Nonviolent Civil Disobedience
BeyondNuclear – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
In 1985, Dr. Howard Zinn testified for the defense in the criminal trial of seven citizens who hammered equipment and poured blood on blueprints for the Cruise Missile and Missile X factory in Wilmington, MA. The video shows Dr. Zinn’s compelling testimony in which he makes the case for nonviolent civil disobedience as instrumental in changing American history and advancing democracy.
→ read full article(Italian) Intervista a Manlio Milani, Presidente dell’Associazione Caduti Strage di Piazza Loggia
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
Ho incontrato Manlio Milani alla conclusione di una serata-ricordo in memoria del salodiano Vittorio Zambarda su Piazza della Loggia svoltasi nella sala dei Provveditori del palazzo municipale di Salò.
→ read full articleArt, Truth & Politics
Harold Pinter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
Harold Pinter’s Nobel Lecture was pre-recorded, and shown on video on 7 December 2005, in Börssalen at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm.
→ read full articleAn Unsettling Protest in Israel
Tony Kushner and Alisa Solomon – The Nation,
20 Sep 2010
Toward the end of August, a group of theater artists in Israel provoked an uproar when they declared that they would not perform at a new stop added to government-funded theatrical tours around the country. That actors, directors and playwrights have sparked controversy is nothing new in a nation where theater has always participated in the feisty public discourse. But this time, with Washington trying to resuscitate Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, their offstage action holds a mirror up to society with especially urgent exactitude.
→ read full articleWhere Has the Hypocrisy Gone?
Amira Hass – Haaretz,
20 Sep 2010
No one thinks to ask about the consensus among the residents of Palestinian cities and villages on whose land the settlements have been built. The millions of Palestinians don’t count at all.
→ read full articleUS Still Top Arms Supplier to South as Record Sale to Saudis Pends
Jim Lobe - InterPress Service-IPS,
20 Sep 2010
Despite an unusual dip in global weapons sales in 2009, the United States retained its spot as the world’s top arms supplier of developing countries, according to an authoritative new report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS).
→ read full articleNever Forget: Bad Wars Aren’t Possible Unless Good People Back Them
Michael Moore - ICH,
20 Sep 2010
I know we’ve been “free” of the Iraq War for two weeks now and our minds have turned to the new football season and Fashion Week in New York. And how exciting that the new fall TV season is just days away! But before we get too far away from something we would all just like to forget, will you please allow me to just say something plain and blunt and necessary:
→ read full articleSudan: Prospect and Lesson
Richard Cockett – Open Democracy,
20 Sep 2010
The forthcoming referendum on independence in south Sudan could lead to the break-up of Africa’s biggest country. But if Sudan has failed as a unitary state its end carries dangers.
→ read full articleDigging Deeper into WikiLeaks Afghan Files
Nick Turse – Asia Times,
20 Sep 2010
In its initial coverage, the Times led with allegations contained in the documents that America’s ally, Pakistan, allowed members of its spy service to meet and conspire with members of the Taliban. The Guardian, instead, primarily focused on the unreported killings of Afghan civilians, beginning its lead article by declaring: “A huge cache of secret US military files today provides a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents.”
→ read full articleBlackwater’s Black Ops
Jeremy Scahill – The Nation,
20 Sep 2010
Over the past several years, entities closely linked to the private security firm Blackwater have provided intelligence, training and security services to US and foreign governments as well as several multinational corporations, including Monsanto, Chevron, the Walt Disney Company, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and banking giants Deutsche Bank and Barclays, according to documents obtained by The Nation.
→ read full articleHamas Marginalisation from the Israel-Palestine ‘Peace Process’
Corinna Mullin – Open Democracy,
20 Sep 2010
In addition to the argument for including a democratically elected party in a process initiated by states and institutions claiming to support democratic development in the region, the recent violence is another argument for talking to Hamas.
→ read full articleHaiti’s Disaster Capitalists Swoop In
Siddhartha Mahanta – Mother Jones,
20 Sep 2010
Refugee evictions, private land grabs, disaster capitalism—you can’t tell the story of Haiti without all this. Eight months after the earthquake, many of the 1.7 million Haitians living under tattered tarps in squalid squatter camps around Port-au-Prince are being forced to abandon the tent cities they’ve set up on privately owned land. Meanwhile, businesses—eager to slurp up the spoils of disaster—are swooping in to score major paydays by moving the refugees to new camps, some set to operate as industrial work zones. And there’s no one stopping it.
→ read full articleUnited States Is the Leading Provider of Arms to Mexican Drug Trade
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
The United States today is one of the largest exporters of weapons and fuel, among others, to the drug cartels in Mexico. At least 62,800 of the 80,000 weapons confiscated from drug trafficking criminal gangs of in the neighboring nation between December 2006 and February 2010 came from U.S. territory, according to a study cited yesterday [16 Sep 2010] by an editorial in The Washington Post. “The armies of Mexican drug traffickers have an external source of funding and weapons … and to our shame, this source is the United States,” said the newspaper.
→ read full articleC’mon, Time to Rebrand Your Life!
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger continues his examination of the effect of ‘extreme corporatism’ – money – on sport. He contrasts the last of the great sporting stars who were not celebrities in the modern sense with the enrichment of Rupert Murdoch and the corruption of sports like cricket.
→ read full articleWomen Make Their Mark on South American Politics
Marcela Valente – IPS-InterPress Service,
20 Sep 2010
If Brazilian voters elect a woman president next month, what might have appeared to be isolated developments in Chile and Argentina would start to look more like a trend in the southern countries of South America.
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Standing Army – A Documentary (2010) – Trailer
TMS Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
The US has encircled the world with a web of military bases that today amount to more than 700, in 40 countries. It’s one of the most powerful forces at play in the world, yet one of the less talked-about. Why do countries like Germany, Italy, Japan still host hundreds of US military bases and thousands US soldiers? What stance has president Obama taken on this subject? This documentary answers these and other questions both through the words of experts Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal and Chalmers Johnson, and through those directly affected by US bases in Italy, Japan and in the Indian Ocean.
→ read full articleTibet: The Gandhi Way
Anupma Kaushik – The Gandhi Foundation,
20 Sep 2010
The Tibetan leadership claims that they are pursuing a nonviolent struggle to gain meaningful autonomy but their efforts are clearly not bearing the desired results. Can the Gandhian method show the way forward?
→ read full articleU.S. Holding 324 Metric Tons of Bomb-Grade Uranium, Report Says
Ralph Vartabedian – Los Angeles Times,
20 Sep 2010
The Obama administration, which is urging other nations to reduce their stores of the material, should declare part of the U.S. inventory surplus, a watchdog group says.
→ read full articlePeople’s Initiative on Jammu & Kashmir: Visit of Civil Society Delegation
COVA-Confederation of Voluntary Associations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
A Delegation of Civil Society comprising Swami Agnivesh, Admiral L. Ramdas, Ms. Mohini Giri, Fr. Dominic Emmanuel and Dr. Mazher Hussain visited Kashmir Valley from 30th August to 2nd September 2010. The objective of the visit was to gain first hand knowledge of the prevailing ground situation in the valley and to commiserate with the people of Kashmir for their suffering and loss of life. Over 65 youth and children have lost their lives in the past three months, besides many hundreds have been injured. The team visited the homes of some families to share our concern and condole with them.
→ read full articleTorture Is a Crime, Not a Secret
The New York Times, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
All too often in the past, the judges pointed out, secrecy privileges have been used to avoid embarrassing the government, not to protect real secrets. In this case, the embarrassment and the shame to America’s reputation are already too well known.
→ read full article…Meanwhile, over in Ghana
Mark LeVine – Al Jazeera,
13 Sep 2010
Ghana maybe championed for its political stability, but life for the average Ghanaian is defined by crippling poverty.
→ read full articleHenry Steel Olcott (1832-1907): The Buddhist Bridge
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the year 2010 as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures. Thus we are pleased to present the creative efforts of individuals who have helped to create bridges of understanding among cultures.
→ read full articleFractured Justice: The UN Secretary-General’s Gaza Flotilla Enquiry
Bob Rigg – Open Democracy,
13 Sep 2010
The UN Secretary General has promised to investigate the Gaza flotilla incident in a manner which is “prompt, impartial, credible and transparent” and “conforming to international standards”. But it looks as if politics is triumphing over justice.
→ read full articleIndia: Buoyed by Growing Market, More Farmers Go Organic
Manipadma Jena – InterPress Service-IPS,
13 Sep 2010
“Certainly easier to pop open a can of chemical pesticide, mix water in proportion, spray, and be done,” admits Narayana. But since the 42-year-old farmer went organic, he has cheerfully gotten rid of shortcuts like using store-bought pesticides and now spends hours mixing anti-pest brews with ingredients that can be found at home or even in the fields. That means Narayana’s land and produce will no longer have the kind of toxins they were subjected to when he was still using chemicals to grow crops. Narayana himself will also escape being exposed to toxins that are commonly found in manufactured pesticides.
→ read full articleHAWAII: Garden Isle Missile Site Will Expand
William Cole – Honolulu Star-Advertiser,
13 Sep 2010
Testing for a Land-Based Defense System Would Bring a New Complex to the Island
→ read full articleDisappearing Amazon: Congratulations to Brazil’s Cattle Ranchers
João Moreira - Pravda,
13 Sep 2010
The Amazon rainforest belongs to Brazil and nobody else. That being said, despite the fact that the rate of deforestation has slowed considerably in recent years, fifteen per cent of the area once covered by the rainforest has now disappeared, according to research undertaken by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics.
→ read full articleUN Atomic Agency Curtails Probe of Israel’s Nuclear Capability
Jonathan Tirone – Bloomberg,
13 Sep 2010
United Nations investigators, ordered to write a report about Israel’s atomic capabilities, said they couldn’t compile enough information to assess the extent of the country’s nuclear program…. Countries including Canada, the U.K. and U.S. opposed the probe, saying that the inquiry risked turning the IAEA into a political battleground, according to the documents. Others, including China, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Turkey, supported the investigation…. Israel has refused to open its nuclear facility in Dimona to UN inspectors. It says the site is a research facility.
→ read full articleCNN Report: IDF Sexually Abused Palestinian Children
Ynetnews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
Damning CNN report cites uncorroborated sexual abuse charges of Palestinian children detained by IDF; army says detention of minors undertaken in line with international law, cannot respond to abuse charges as no details provided.
→ read full articleWhat’s Melting Greenland’s Glaciers?
Nazanine Moshiri – Al Jazeera,
13 Sep 2010
Well, climate change is one of the issues I am looking at while I am here. Just last month a giant iceberg four times the size of Manhattan snapped away from the Petermann ice shelf in the North West of Greenland. It was the largest Arctic break off in half a century and has got scientist around the world worried about what is going to happen next.
→ read full articleBrazilian Officials Rescue Workers in Slave-Like Conditions
Helena de Moura - CNN,
13 Sep 2010
Brazilian officials have said they will continue to crack down on farms accused of forcing workers into slave-like conditions, the country’s labor ministry said after authorities rescued nearly 150 workers.
→ read full articleThe Jews of Iran are Far Better off than Palestinians of Gaza
Mike Whitney - Pravda,
13 Sep 2010
There are 25,000 Jews in Iran, which is the largest Jewish population in the Middle East outside Israel. Iranian Jews are not persecuted or abused, in fact, they are protected under the Iranian constitution. They are free to practice their religion and to vote in elections. They are not stopped and searched at checkpoints, are not brutalized by an army of occupation and are not confined in a densely populated penal colony (Gaza) where they are deprived of the basic means of subsistence. Iranian Jews live in dignity and enjoy the benefits of citizenship.
→ read full article9/11 Analysis: From Ronald Reagan and the Soviet-Afghan War to George W Bush and September 11, 2001
Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
13 Sep 2010
In the Pashtun language, the word “Taliban” means “Students”, or graduates of the madrasahs (places of learning or coranic schools) set up by the Wahhabi missions from Saudi Arabia, with the support of the CIA. Education in the years preceding the Soviet-Afghan war war largely secular in Afghanistan. The number of CIA sponsored religious schools (madrasahs) increased from 2,500 in 1980 to over 39,000. The Soviet-Afghan war was part of a CIA covert agenda initiated during the Carter administration, which consisted in actively supporting and financing the Islamic brigades, later known as Al Qaeda. President Ronald Reagan met the leaders of the Islamic Jihad at the White House in 1983. Under the Reagan administration, US foreign policy evolved towards the unconditional support and endorsement of the Islamic “freedom fighters”. In today’s World, the “freedom fighters” are labeled “Islamic terrorists”.
→ read full articleHow Much “Success” Can Afghans Stand?
Nick Turse - TomDispatch,
13 Sep 2010
With the arrival of General David Petraeus as Afghan War commander, there has been ever more talk about the meaning of “success” in Afghanistan. At the end of July, USA Today ran an article titled, “In Afghanistan, Success Measured a Step at a Time.” Days later, Stephen Biddle, a Senior Fellow for Defense Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, held a conference call with the media to speak about “Defining Success in Afghanistan.” A mid-August editorial in the Washington Postwas titled: “Making the Case for Success in Afghanistan.” And earlier this month, an Associated Press article appeared under the headline, “Petraeus Talks Up Success in Afghan War.”
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BBC Bias: The Gaza Freedom Flotilla
Anthony Lawson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
Debunking BBC’s “Panorama: Death in the Med” TV Propaganda. An invaluable film by the master documentary maker Anthony Lawson. Whatever happened on the Mavi Marmara on the morning of May 31st, 2010, the BBC’s Panorama team failed to give a balanced view of it in its so-called documentary, Death in the Med. Even the title sounds more like that of a paperback mystery, rather than a serious analysis of Israel’s worst atrocity since Operation Cast Lead.
→ read full articlePakistan and America: Costs of Militarism
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
Pakistan’s immense problems can begin to be solved only when powerful interests in Islamabad and Washington end their commitment to armed solutions.
→ read full articleGive History a Chance
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
A talk by Gilad Atzmon given at Debunking ‘The War on Terror’ Symposium, London, 14th July 2010 (dealing with history, Zionism, Revisionism, Temporality, Palestine and Israeli barbarism).
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Resisting Hegemony
Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
Excerpt of TRANSCEND member Prof. Vandana Shiva speaking about ‘food and seed sovereignty’ at the International Meeting on Resisting Hegemony held 2-5 August 2010 in Penang, Malaysia.
→ read full articleEnabling Governance through the Dynamics of Nature
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
Exemplified by Cognitive Implication of Vortices and Helicoidal Flow. This follows from the case previously made for exploring “toroidal governance” to compensate for the evident inadequacies of “global governance” (From global governance to toroidal governance, 2010). Of particular interest in that respect are the vortex dynamics by which toroidal forms are sustained, as commonly illustrated by the smoke ring. Vortex rings have been acknowledged by many investigators as one of the most fundamental and fascinating phenomena in fluid dynamics (Feliks Kaplanski, Dynamics of Vortex Rings, SciTopics, 12 July 2010).
→ read full articleGuide to the Most Crucial Bank Meeting You Never Heard of
Kevin G. Hall - McClatchy Newspapers,
13 Sep 2010
International bank regulators from around the globe will meet in the Swiss town of Basel on Sunday [12 Sep 2010] to finalize an important agreement that most Americans have never heard of: one to redraw rules so that banks can’t bring the world economy to the brink of collapse again.
→ read full articleRoubini and Bremmer: Financial Crisis Ended the Era of Free-Market Capitalism
Matthew Scott – DailyFinance,
13 Sep 2010
The global financial crisis just might give those in the U.S. who advanced the idea of a “new world order” their wish – but not exactly in the way they wanted.
→ read full articleUnderstanding Burma’s Military Reshuffle
Dr. Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
A lot seems to be happening lately in the world of senior and junior generals in Burma. The reports of the recent military reshuffle involving dozens of senior regime officials cannot be understood fully without taking into account a number of developments both at home and abroad.
→ read full articleMeanwhile in the Soviet Union…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
Stalin claimed he was the greatest philosopher of all times.
→ read full articleDuring War There Are No Civilians
Nora Barrows-Friedman – Al Jazeera,
13 Sep 2010
Sitting in on the Rachel Corrie trial alarmingly reveals an open Israeli policy of indiscrimination towards civilians.
→ read full article“The Militarization of Hollywood”: Unlocking “The Hurt Locker”
Jack A. Smith – Global Research,
13 Sep 2010
War Propaganda wins the Academy Award.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Empire and Endless Wars Are Destroying the World, and Ruining Our Great Country
Terrence McNally and Andrew Bacevich - AlterNet,
13 Sep 2010
Andrew Bacevich speaks with a fairly unique mix of experience, authority, passion and wisdom in questioning our nation’s priorities: specifically our willingness to place so much of our national identity, wealth, attention, moral practice, and finally the life and blood of many thousands of our citizens and millions of those of other countries in the hands of our military. A professor of history and international relations at Boston University, Bacevich served twenty-three years in the U.S. Army, retiring with the rank of colonel. He lost his son in Iraq. A graduate of the U. S. Military Academy, he received his Ph. D. in American Diplomatic History from Princeton University. He is the author of several books, including The New American Militarism; The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism; and his newest, Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War.
→ read full articleThe Poodle Speaks
Maureen Dowd – The New York Times,
6 Sep 2010
Even in the thick of a historical tragedy, Tony Blair never seemed like a Shakespearean character. He’s too rabbity brisk, too doggedly modern. The most proficient spinner since Rumpelstiltskin lacks introspection. The self-described “manipulator” is still in denial about being manipulated. The Economist’s review of “A Journey,” the new autobiography of the former British prime minister, says it sounds less like Disraeli and Churchill and more like “the memoirs of a transatlantic business tycoon.”
→ read full articleFlying the Flag, Faking the News
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger traces the history of propaganda to Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, who invented the term “public relations”. Bernays believed in “engineering public consent” and creating “false realties” as news. Here are examples of how this works today.
→ read full articleIn South America, the Left and Indigenous Movements Are Searching for a Way to Co-Exist
Benjamin Dangl - AlterNet,
6 Sep 2010
At the heart of these conflicts is a question leftist governments and social movements across Latin America are grappling with: what should this “other world that is possible” look like? “Is it one based on constant economic growth, even if this is ‘socialist’ and would raise the real income of people in the global South?” sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein asks about today’s Latin America. “Or is it what some are calling a change in civilizational values, a world of buen vivir [living well]?” This latter philosophy includes living in harmony with others and with nature, rather than accumulating capital and material things while destroying the earth.
→ read full articleJapanese Hunt Dolphins into the Cove, Once More
Ravi Somaiya - Newsweek,
6 Sep 2010
Activists protest start of annual chase, which locals see as a cultural event.
→ read full articleJean Giono (1895-1970): The Energies of the Earth
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the year 2010 as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures. Thus we are pleased to present the creative efforts of individuals who have helped to create bridges of understanding among cultures.
→ read full articleSettlers Reveal Deep Disdain for Events in Washington
Donald Macintyre in Kiryat Arba, West Bank – The Independent,
6 Sep 2010
Yaniv Mor, 30-year-old father of a one-month-old baby girl, and a settler was blunt: “We don’t care about Washington. Nothing will come out of it, like always. This is a war of religions – we want everything, they want everything. There is no way there will ever be agreement. That is the reality.”
→ read full articleAnother False Ending: Contracting Out the Iraq Occupation
Bill Quigley and Laura Raymond – Truthout,
6 Sep 2010
Another false ending to the Iraq war is being declared. Nearly seven years after George Bush’s infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln, President Obama has just given a major address to mark the withdrawal of all but 50,000 combat troops from Iraq. But while thousands of US troops are marching out, thousands of additional private military contractors (PMCs) are marching in. The number of armed security contractors in Iraq will more than double in the coming months.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
A monk and a nun play ping-pong.
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Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
Being an agnostic on UFOs, let me give one justification, and then one metaphor, for a serious exploration of the UFO scenario.
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Jeremy Hsu, LiveScience Senior Writer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
Mass extinctions have served as huge reset buttons that dramatically changed the diversity of species found in oceans all over the world, according to a comprehensive study of fossil records. The findings suggest humans will live in a very different future if they drive animals to extinction, because the loss of each species can alter entire ecosystems.
→ read full articleArmy Downplays Depleted Uranium Risk on Hawaiian Island
William Cole – Honolulu Star-Advertiser,
6 Sep 2010
Radiation levels safe at Pohakuloa, Army says. Jim Albertini with the Malu Aina Center for Nonviolent Education & Action said yesterday [4 Sep 2010] that the Army was “stonewalling community involvement in seeking the truth about DU radiation contamination at Pohakuloa.” Albertini said the Army has made unreliable safety claims based on questionable assumptions and scientific methodology and no peer-reviewed studies.
→ read full articleThree Degrees Is At Least One Too Many
The Independent, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
It is fittingly ominous that 2010, year of the next big climate change conference, has been the hottest in recorded history. The heat rises inexorably yet the world dithers and looks away. None of the excitement that surrounded the opening stages of the climate summit at Copenhagen last year looks like materialising this November at Cancún in Mexico.
→ read full articleWhat an Increase of 3.5C Really Means to the Planet
Mark Lynas – The Independent,
6 Sep 2010
Firstly, the ice cap over the North Pole will have disappeared entirely during the summer months, changing the planet’s energy balance and weather patterns. Secondly, melting permafrost in Siberia and other high-latitude areas will be releasing millions of tonnes of the extra-powerful greenhouse gas methane, and there will be nothing we can do to stop it. And lastly, the world’s most important and biodiverse tropical forest, the Amazon region, will be burning up and transforming into desert.
→ read full articleFree Abdallah Abu Rahmah!
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
Nobel Peace laureate and TRANSCEND member, Mairead Maguire, calls upon the Israeli government to release human rights defender Abdallah Abu Rahmah and calls on the international community to take concrete steps to defend Abdallah Abu Rahmah and Palestinian human rights activists from Israeli repression and unlawful imprisonment.
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Behind Mexico’s Bloodshed (Part 1)
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
Interview with investigative journalist Bruce Livesey, who recently returned from Ciudad Juárez, scene of some of the most concerning violence in Mexico’s ongoing drug cartel conflict. According to Livesey, the problem has its roots in the free trade agreement that wiped out Mexico’s traditional agriculture economy, after which the drug cartels moved in to fight for each other’s market share.
→ read full articleIraq to Spend $13B on U.S. Arms, Equipment
Jim Michaels - USA Today,
6 Sep 2010
Iraq is preparing to buy as much as $13 billion in American arms and military equipment, a huge order of tanks, ships and hardware that U.S. officials say shows Iraqi-U.S. military ties will be tight for years to come.
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How to Be Alone
Tanya Davis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
What can we learn about ourselves when we let go of our fear of loneliness?
→ read full articleA Speech for Endless War
Norman Solomon – Truthout,
6 Sep 2010
While now trumpeting the nobility of an Iraq war effort that he’d initially disparaged as “dumb,” Barack Obama is polishing a halo over the Afghanistan war, which he touts as very smart. In the process, the Oval Office speech declared that every US war – no matter how mendacious or horrific – is worthy of veneration.
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Behind Mexico’s Bloodshed (Part 2)
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
According to investigative journalist Bruce Livesey, in Ciudad Juarez, the murder capital of Mexico, the military is picking winners amongst the cartels.
→ read full articleRebel Soldiers: Dissent Grows in the British Military
Dan Read – Toward Freedom,
6 Sep 2010
Glenton had spent the last nine months behind bars for refusing to return to Afghanistan and espousing his anti-war views. Addressing a meeting of the Stop the War Coalition after his confinement, he said it was “badge of honor to have gone to prison” and that he has “more in common with the people of Afghanistan than my own political and military leaders.”
→ read full articleNature’s Bottom Line: The Folly of Endless Growth
Wayne Ellwood – New Internationalist magazine,
6 Sep 2010
We’ve been captured by a myth far more alluring than the one that Charles Darwin confronted 150 years ago: the dream of perpetual economic growth. In the North we have been living beyond our ecological means for decades, consuming too much and producing more waste than the environment can absorb, while inequality grows.
→ read full article(Italian) “Sa Phrala – Ogni Persona E’ Tuo Fratello “
Silvia Berruto - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
Io Ho Aderito: Sono Con Rom E Sinti
→ read full articleNepali Diaspora in Australia
Bishnu Pathak, PhD, Peace and Conflict Study Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
The author visited Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPACS) at the University of Sydney to participate at the TRANSCEND Global Meeting; “Enabling Peace: Pedagogy and Training”, in early July 2010. The meeting was approved to establish the TRANSCEND Peace University (TPU), South Asia Regional Chapter, the first ever in Nepal. While I visited John Street in Grandville, in the New South Wales Sydney, I found a total of 12 Nepali families.
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Should People Boycott Israel?
Paul Jay interviewing Omar Barghouti - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
Omar Barghouti explains the aims of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.
→ read full articleSustaining a Community of Strange Loops
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2010
Comprehension and Engagement through Aesthetic Ring Transformation
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BBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2010
A senior United Nations official has called on the global community to urgently step up its response to the floods that have struck Pakistan. Louis-George Arsenault, director of emergency operations for Unicef in New York, described the lack of support as “quite extraordinary”. The humanitarian crisis was the largest “in decades”, he warned.
→ read full article(Italian) Prima Che Sia Troppo Tardi…
Prof. Nanni Salio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2010
Riflettendo amaramente sui tragici eventi della seconda guerra mondiale, Martin Niemöller (Lippstadt, 14 gennaio 1892 – Wiesbaden, 6 marzo 1984) scrisse un testo poetico di grande amarezza che ancora oggi dovrebbe servirci per guidare i nostri pensieri e le nostre azioni di fronte all’arroganza, alla follia e alla mancanza di dignità che in questi tempi caratterizzano gran parte degli uomini politici, dell’industria e della finanza ovunque nel mondo: forti coi deboli, deboli coi forti.
→ read full articleWhat You Will Not Hear About Iraq
Adil E. Shamoo – Foreign Policy in Focus,
30 Aug 2010
Iraq has between 25 and 50 percent unemployment, a dysfunctional parliament, rampant disease, an epidemic of mental illness, and sprawling slums. The killing of innocent people has become part of daily life. What a havoc the United States has wreaked in Iraq.
→ read full articleEarth is Our Common Home: UN Desert Decade
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2010
God created lands filled with water as a place for man to live; and the desert so that he can discover his soul.
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Has Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Fled the US?
CODEPINK – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2010
CODEPINK cofounder Medea Benjamin and other DC area activists were detained at the home of Blackwater Founder Erik Prince.
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Johan Galtung, 30 Aug 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2010
There are reasons for deep concern. Of the countries in the grip of the US alliances Japan may have become the most American. Beaten in its deep cultural foundations, not only militarily, Japan is like a monotheistic country with God residing 7/24 in Washington. Being so different, americanization was not a dialect, a variation on one’s own idiom, like in Germany and Norway, but a new language.
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