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The World’s First Demonstration for Peace Journalism?
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
The theme of the demo is ‘Give Peace a Chance’. It is – as far as we know – a world first, being a demonstration in favour of peace journalism. In our book of the same name, Annabel McGoldrick and I define peace journalism in these terms: “Peace journalism is when editors and reporters make choices – of what stories to report, and how to report them – that create opportunities for society at large to consider and value non-violent responses to conflict”. Such choices are subjugated, in most media, most of the time, by journalistic conventions: conventions that grow out of the economic and political interests of the news industry. This is why, as Richard Keeble argues, “We need to move away from the concept of the audience as a passive consumer of a professional product to seeing the audience as producers of their own (written or visual) media”.
→ read full articleEnacting Transformative Integral Thinking through Playful Elegance
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
A Symposium at the End of the Universe?
→ read full article(Portuguese) Água e Envelhecimento
Dr. Arnaldo Lichtenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
Insisto: Não é brincadeira. Ao nascermos, 90% do nosso corpo é constituído de água. Na adolescência, isso cai para 70%. Na fase adulta, para 60%. Na terceira idade, que começa aos 60 anos, temos pouco mais de 50% de água. Isso faz parte do processo natural de envelhecimento. Mesmo desidratados, eles não sentem vontade de tomar água, pois os seus mecanismos de equilíbrio interno não funcionam muito bem. Portanto, de saída, os idosos têm menor reserva hídrica.
→ read full articleIcons, of Peace
David Inkey – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
I want to tell you a story about The Pieces of Peace in The United Nations.
It is a story that only I know how to tell and it is meant only for peacemakers:
Victory for Anti-Whaling Campaigners
Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor – The Independent,
28 Jun 2010
The controversial attempt to scrap the 24-year-old international moratorium on commercial whaling collapsed yesterday, to the delight of anti-whaling campaigners and the frustration of Japan, Norway and Iceland, the three countries which continue to hunt whales in defiance of world opinion.
→ read full articleThe Global Political Awakening and the New World Order: The Technological Revolution and the Future of Freedom (Part 1)
Andrew Gavin Marshall – Global Research,
28 Jun 2010
For the first time in history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive. Global activism is generating a surge in the quest for cultural respect and economic opportunity in a world scarred by memories of colonial or imperial domination.
→ read full articleSouth of the Border: Oliver Stone Does Chavez
Prairie Miller – Common Dreams,
28 Jun 2010
Cuban leader Fidel Castro was interrogated some years ago by the New York Times, demanding to know why freedom of the press is not allowed in Cuba. Meaning, of course, beyond buzzwords, the inclusion of pro-capitalist reporting. To which Fidel’s checkmate reply was something like, we’ll allow that to happen when you allow a communist reporter on the staff of the New York Times.
→ read full articleLatin America: Impunity in Plan Condor’s Shadows
Marie Trigona – Toward Freedom,
28 Jun 2010
“The precise pain, in the precise place, in the precise amount, for the desired effect.” — Dan Mitrione, United States government security advisor for the CIA in Latin America, and instructor in the art of torture teaching techniques in Uruguay during the nation’s 1973-1985 military dictatorship.
→ read full articleAmong Traitors
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
When relations between the Soviet Union and China soured in the early 1960s, Khrushchev met Chu En Lai and told him,
→ read full article(Portuguese) Bilionários Ficaram Mais Ricos Em 2009
Esquerda.net – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
Segundo um relatório da Merrill Lynch sobre a riqueza mundial, o número de pessoas que, no mundo, tem mais de um milhão de dólares para investir aumentou e a sua riqueza cresceu 18,9%.
→ read full articleVatican Anger over Belgium Raids
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
The Vatican has said it is indignant and astonished at police searches of the graves of two cardinals during Belgian investigations over child sex abuse. Police on Thursday [24 Jun 2010] raided the headquarters of Belgium’s Roman Catholic church, several buildings of the Mechelen-Brussels archdiocese and the offices of a church commission investigating abuse claims.
→ read full articleDaniel Ellsberg and Julian Assange: Whistleblowing, Then and Now
Personal Democracy Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
Renowned whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange discuss the power of transparency in the digital age at the 2010 Personal Democracy Forum conference in New York City. Assange participated by Skype video from Australia. It was the first time the two men had ever talked with each other. PdF curator Micah Sifry hosted the conversation.
→ read full article(Italian) L’Uomo con la Pistola
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
In onore di Lev Tolstoj, nel centenario della morte.
→ read full articleChoose Peace – End the Siege of Gaza and the Occupation of Palestine
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
On Saturday 5th June, 2010, thirty five heavily armed Israeli navy seals commandeered our boat, MV Rachel Corrie, one of the Freedom Flotilla, in international waters (30 miles off the coast of Gaza). As they did so we, nineteen humanitarian activists and crew, were on the deck. We were quietly anxious, aware of the solitary figure in the wheelhouse with his hands held high against the window, in full view of the three Israeli warships, four approaching zodiacs and two commando carriers, whose guns were pointing in his direction. I personally wondered if the courageous Derek Graham would live to tell the tale, conscious of what happened on the Turkish ship, Mavi Marmara, earlier in the week.
→ read full articleThe Runaway General
Michael Hastings – Rolling Stone,
28 Jun 2010
Stanley McChrystal, Obama’s top commander in Afghanistan, has seized control of the war by never taking his eye off the real enemy: The wimps in the White House. The Rolling Stone article that triggered the storm.
→ read full articleGulf Oil Spill’s Wildlife Toll: Sharks Near Shore, Turtles Incinerated
Patrik Jonsson - The Christian Science Monitor,
28 Jun 2010
The Gulf oil spill has killed local wildlife not only with oil but also in cleanup efforts. It may have changed the behavior of some animals, too. But its hard for scientists to draw a direct link.
→ read full articleGulf Oil Spill: A Hole in the World
Naomi Klein – The Guardian,
28 Jun 2010
“Obama cannot order pelicans not to die (no matter whose ass he kicks). And no amount of money – not BP’s $20 billion, not $100 billion – can replace a culture that’s lost its roots.”
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Editor Interview on Censorship
Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
“Privatized Censorship”
WikiLeaks, a publisher of last resort.
→ read full articleOur Earth as Our Common Home
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
The modern means of technology that were developed over the past several decades made our planet Earth become much smaller. Travel between far distant countries is no longer measured in terms of miles or kilometers. It is merely measured in terms of time. Besides, what one nation may do for the better or the worse may eventually affect other nations as well. This explains, in part, why today we ended up facing so many insurmountable problems all of which may be solved if we were to take the appropriate approach.
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Amazing Speech by Iraq War Veteran – Discurso Inspirador de Veterano da Guerra do Iraque
Mike Prysner, Iraq Veterans Against the War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
English with Portuguese subtitles – Legendado em Portugues – “Racism is an important weapon used by this government. It is more powerful than a rifle, a tank, a bomber or a battleship. It is more destructive than artillery shells, a bunk buster or a tomahawk missile… and convincing us to kill or die is based on their ability to make us think that we are somehow superior… without racism soldiers would realize they have more in common with the Iraq people than they do with the billionaires who send us to war.”
→ read full articleThe Fate of the Internet. Decided in a Back Room.
Tim Karr – Save the Internet,
28 Jun 2010
The Wall Street Journal just reported that the Federal Communications Commission is holding “closed-door meetings” with industry to broker a deal on Net Neutrality – the rule that lets users determine their own Internet experience. Given that the corporations at the table all profit from gaining control over information, the outcome won’t be pretty.
→ read full article(Castellano) El Plan para Destruir a Cuba*
Heinz Dieterich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
El plan para destruir a la Revolución Cubana es una combinación del modelo de subversión que se usó para terminar con el “socialismo realmente existente” en Polonia y en la Alemania socialista (RDA). Ese plan, que está en plena ejecución, cuenta con cuatro elementos: la crisis interna de Cuba, la campaña mundial de presión y chantaje, la liberalización mercantil suaversiva de Obama y, la Iglesia Católica.
→ read full articleHail to the Whistleblowers
James Denselow – The Guardian,
28 Jun 2010
Whistleblowers like those at WikiLeaks make huge sacrifices and are a vital last resort to check the powers of government.
→ read full articleDeath by Hamburger?
Kiera Butler – Mother Jones,
28 Jun 2010
Whether you’re a burger lover or a strict vegetarian (I’m somewhere in the middle—more on this in the July/August 2010 issue of Mother Jones), you’ve probably heard that too much meat is definitely not a good thing. Most recently, researchers have linked overconsumption of red meat with early puberty in girls: A University of Brighton study found this month that about half of UK girls who ate 12 or more servings of meat each week at age seven had started their periods by age twelve and a half, compared to about a third of those who ate fewer than four servings. Worrisome, since some research suggests that girls who go through puberty early are at greater risk for breast cancer.
→ read full article(Italian) La Strage e le Minacce Perderanno con il Giornalismo “Non Embedded”
Angela Lano – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
Erano decine e decine di mostri che, dai canotti, salivano a frotte sulla nave. Sparavano, urlavano, si sono lanciati contro tutti noi. Abbiamo cercato di proteggere il capitano, ma i loro taser ci hanno bloccato. Avevano i volti coperti, le teste protette dai caschi e con questi colpivano le fronti di chi si avvicinava loro.
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Prof. Galtung on Democracy NOW! (Part 4)
Amy Goodman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
“I Love the US Republic, and I Hate the US Empire”: Johan Galtung on the War in Afghanistan and How to Get Out.
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Prof. Galtung on Democracy NOW! (Part 3)
Amy Goodman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
“I Love the US Republic, and I Hate the US Empire”: Johan Galtung on the War in Afghanistan and How to Get Out.
→ read full articleThis Modern World
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
Award-winning political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow features the character “Invisible-Hand-of-the-Free-Market-Man,” who explains to taxpayers why they are going to be taking care of BP’s mess.
→ read full articlePolitical Violence: General Overview in Nepalese Context
Devendra Uprety - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
Political violence is characterized by both direct and structural violence used by a state, political party, ethnic or regional group to achieve its objectives. It is conceptualized by Moser and Clark (2001) very succinctly as the collective sphere manifested in “guerrilla conflict, para-military conflict, political assassinations, armed conflict between political parties, rape and sexual abuse as a political act and forced pregnancy/sterilization. It is a collective effort to impose or resist power and it is driven by intention or the will to power of a specific group, class, religion, gender, etc.
→ read full article(Castellano) Che Guevara y la Vía Venezolana al Socialismo
Ernesto Wong Maestre – TeleSur,
21 Jun 2010
Cuanto se escriba del pensamiento de Che Guevara debe hacerse considerando las condiciones histórico-concretas en que se fue forjando, desde las particularidades de su núcleo familiar y de su grupo escolar en interrelación con ese Ernesto, hasta que escribió su último reporte en su diario de guerra, allá en Bolivia, también en esa compleja madeja de vínculos y relaciones con diversas personalidades.
→ read full articleThe Istanbul CICA Summit
Dr. Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
Whether CICA can be termed ‘OSCE of Asia’ it is not much difficult to answer. Also whether there is a need for a comparison between the two is an altogether different issue of concern. However, at the present stage, CICA members need to work in tandem towards playing an active role in the Eurasian space towards building peace and stability. Issues like ‘extremism, terrorism, drug trafficking, the threat of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and maritime piracy’ will likely goad CICA members to play a collective role in tackling these issues of common concern.
→ read full articleVenezuelan Prison Humanization Program Initiates New Educational Project
James Suggett – Venezuelanalysis,
21 Jun 2010
The Venezuelan Ministry for Internal Affairs and Justice signed an inter-institutional cooperation accord with the National Experimental Polytechnical University of the Armed Forces (UNEFA) this week to provide vocational training, including cooperative business management, to the nation’s prisoners as well as training in human rights for prison personnel.
→ read full article(Italian) Per “I Diritti Sono Il Nostro Pride”. Il Mio Contributo. Un Felice As-Solo
Silvia Berruto, antifascista e giornalista contro il razzismo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
Dedicato alle spose Antonella D’Annibale e Debora Galbiati Ventrella e alla regista Cristi Amione.
→ read full articleIceland’s Economic Downturn Is a ”Freedom of Speech” Upturn
Kim Andersen – Open Democracy,
21 Jun 2010
Iceland approves bill that turns the recession-plagued island into a “new media heaven”.
→ read full articleIs Blackwater’s Erik Prince Moving to the United Arab Emirates?
Jeremy Scahill – Common Dreams,
21 Jun 2010
With Blackwater’s top deputies indicted on federal charges and the company up for sale, rumors are swirling that Prince is preparing to bolt to a country with no extradition treaty with the US.
→ read full articleAimé Césaire: (1913 – 2008) A Black Orpheus
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 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 articleIs the U.S. Paying for Attacks on U.S. Troops?
Congressman Dennis Kucinich,
21 Jun 2010
After the New York Times reported that investigators in Afghanistan and Washington D.C. believe that private Afghan security companies, with close connections to the Karzai government and family, may have bribed insurgents to attack American and NATO convoy lines in order to demonstrate their companies’ value to the security of U.S. and NATO forces, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) released the following statement:
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Prof. Galtung on Democracy NOW! (Part 1)
Amy Goodman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
“I Love the US Republic, and I Hate the US Empire”: Johan Galtung on the War in Afghanistan and How to Get Out.
→ read full article(Castellano) El Milagro Económico Chino y la Educación del Partido
Heinz Dieterich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
El milagro económico y de poder que ha producido el pueblo chino bajo la conducción del Partido Comunista se manifiesta de múltiples formas: un crecimiento económico anual del diez por ciento durante treinta años, sin ninguna recesión, ni siquiera durante la crisis capitalista mundial, y aumentos constantes de salarios que han sacado a cientos de millones de personas de la pobreza; el aumento de la expectativa de vida de 40.8 años en 1955, a 71.0 años en el 2005; la creación de una alianza militar defensiva (SCO) que abarca al 61% de Eurasia y la autosuficiencia bélica; la exitosa transición desde la experiencia de Mao al modelo actual, sin terrorismo de Estado y eliminación stalinista de los disidentes; la ascensión al rango de una de las dos potencias dominantes del sistema mundial de poder, sin que Occidente lo pudiera impedir; el desarrollo de algunas de las ciudades más bellas del mundo, como Suzhou y Beijing y, last but not least, el apoyo de 80% de los ciudadanos del país.
→ read full articleMerging with Rachel Corrie – A Dedication to Non-violence
Matthias Chang – Global Research,
21 Jun 2010
Sailing on MV Rachel Corrie has changed my life and my perspective on many issues that I hold dear. I am humbled by the experience and have learned so much from everyone on board the ship.
→ read full articleThe Perils of Protest
Stephen Keim & Ann Cunningham - Justinian,
21 Jun 2010
The aid flotilla attempting to breach the Israeli blockade is just the latest in the Gaza protest movement … Australian lawyers Ann Cunningham and Stephen Keim report on the Cairo protests earlier this year … US Embassy showed it has the muscle to halt violence by Egyptian security forces.
→ read full articleListening to Voices from Inside: People’s Perspectives on Myanmar’s 2010 Election
submission from Emma Leslie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
Given the elections are widely debated in the ‘international community’, it is critical that the voices of ‘ordinary’ citizens be heard. Given the wide range of views this report may not simplify the debate, and if anything reflects the increasing diversity of opinion inside Myanmar about future directions, possibilities for change and the development of their nation. This report does not intend to draw any conclusions, but simply to amplify what has been recorded from a series of 87 interviews conducted across Myanmar. However if the international community is to accompany a process towards democracy in Myanmar, it must come to terms with the complexity and myriad of perspectives held by its citizens.
→ read full articleNew Jake Lynch and Johan Galtung book launched at IPRA Sydney, July 8 2010
TMS Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
Jake Lynch and Johan Galtung will launch their new book, Reporting Conflict: New Directions in Peace Journalism, in Sydney, on July 8th at Gleebooks. The launch is part of the Fringe programme of the International Peace Research Association biennial conference, taking place at the University of Sydney from July 6-10.
→ read full articleRed Cross: Gaza Blockade Illegal
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has described Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip as a violation of the Geneva Conventions and called on the Israeli government to lift it.
→ read full articleThirteen Religious Views of Life
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
Taoism: Shit happens.
→ read full articleIceland Safe Haven for Press Freedom: Wikileaks Insider
AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
Iceland is becoming an offshore safe haven for information, an insider with whistleblower website WikiLeaks said Friday [18 Jun 2010]. Iceland’s parliament, the Altingi, voted Tuesday to task government with finding ways to increase information freedom and to provide stronger protections for media sources and whistleblowers to make Iceland a leader in freedom of expression.
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Prof. Galtung on Democracy NOW! (Part 2)
Amy Goodman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
“I Love the US Republic, and I Hate the US Empire”: Johan Galtung on the War in Afghanistan and How to Get Out.
→ read full articleEngaging with the Future with Insights of the Past
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
In a world much characterized by denial in many forms, distinct cases may be made for exploring “undersides” or the “unconscious”, as variously argued (Elise Boulding, The Underside of History: a view of women through time, 1976; John Ralston Saul, The Unconscious Civilization, 1995), most notably by Carl Jung with respect to the collective unconscious and the individual “shadow”, as previously argued (Global Strategic Implications of the Unsaid: from myth-making towards a wisdom society, 2003). The case may be extended to various forms of “Omertà”, perhaps most recently and dramatically illustrated by the policies of the Catholic Church with respect to sexual abuse by clergy, widespread concern with the secrecy of tax havens, or the scientific neglect of a particular factor in consideration of climate change policy (Mapping the Global Underground: articulating Insightful Population Constraint Consideration, 2010; Sins of Hot Air Emission, Omission, Commission and Promission, 2009).
→ read full articleThe Meaning of Strangulation
Mark LeVine – Al Jazeera,
21 Jun 2010
The remarks were not made in anger or haste, as were the now infamous, flippant and ill-conceived comments that cost White House reporter Helen Thomas her job, if not her legacy. Instead, they were made quite deliberately, with an air of thoughtfulness, while leaning over a lectern, as if lecturing to a class. Thomas was forced into retirement for declaring that Jews “should get the hell out of Palestine,” but New York Senator Chuck Schumer, one of the most powerful politicians in the US, has avoided any criticism or even major press coverage for remarks he made only days later that supported the continued “economic strangulation” of Gaza; in part, because, he essentially argues, the inhabitants of the benighted Strip are not Jewish.
→ read full article(Castellano) Mi Diario en la Flotilla a Gaza
Henning Mankell – TeleSur,
21 Jun 2010
El “Barco a Gaza” tiene un objetivo claro y bien definido: romper el bloqueo ilegal que Israel está imponiendo a la Franja de Gaza. Después de la guerra de hace un año, la vida se ha vuelto más y más insoportable para todos los palestinos que viven allí. Hay una escasez enorme de los suministros básicos para vivir de un modo digno.
→ read full articleNo Nukes/No Empire: The Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Requires the End of the U.S. Empire
Robert Jensen – Common Dreams,
21 Jun 2010
[A version of this essay was delivered to the “Think outside the Bomb” event in Austin, TX, on June 14, 2010.] If we are serious about the abolition of nuclear weapons, we have to place the abolition of the U.S. empire at the center of our politics.
→ read full articleICC Adds Aggression to List of Crimes Despite US Opposition
Jenna Greene – Legal Times,
21 Jun 2010
In a move that international lawyers describe as “a giant leap,” members of the International Criminal Court agreed to add aggression to the court’s short list of prosecutable crimes. The United States opposed the resolution, but as a non-member of the eight-year old court, had no ability to block the adoption. Still, it was notable that the United States even showed up for the debate.
→ read full articleRowley, McGovern and Ellsberg — Statement on Wikileaks, June 18 2010
Institute for Public Accuracy-IPA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
The following statement was released today by Coleen Rowley, an FBI whistleblower who was one of Time Magazine’s people of the year in 2002; Ray McGovern, CIA analyst for 27 years; and Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers (top-secret government documents that showed a pattern of governmental deceit about the Vietnam War):
→ read full articleNPT: Challenging the Nuclear Powers’ Fiefdom
Rebecca Johnson – Open Democracy,
21 Jun 2010
The NPT Review provided a bridge between the partial non-proliferation approach of the NPT and the comprehensive abolition objectives of a nuclear weapons convention. It will no longer be possible for governments to dismiss calls for a comprehensive nuclear abolition treaty.
→ read full articleI Am Too Poor to Go to War…
David Inkey - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
A Poem
→ read full article“Leaking This Information is the Act of a Hero”
Mike Gogulski – Help Bradley Manning,
21 Jun 2010
How sad it is to see the climate in the United States today — the majority is still lock-step in line with the military-industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned us about so many decades ago. I want to make the following points:
→ read full articleTale of Two Nuclear Whistleblowers
David Krieger – Common Dreams,
21 Jun 2010
What are we to learn from this tale of two whistleblowers, one fictitious, one real? One important lesson is the danger of nuclear double standards. We cannot be content to make a hero of a fictional Iranian nuclear whistleblower, while turning a blind eye to the treatment of a real-life Israeli nuclear whistleblower and to the Israeli nuclear arsenal.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Palestina, um Povo em Marcha pela Libertação
Editorial, Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2010
Não se derrota 62 anos de colonialismo israelense com duas semanas de mobilizações, mas as lutas de agora vão se transformando numa onda.
→ read full articleMedia-Israel: Beatings, Abuse, Doctored Evidence Emerge
Mel Frykberg – IPS,
14 Jun 2010
Although Israel successfully controlled news of its deadly commando raid on the Free Gaza (FG) flotilla during the first crucial 48 hours of media coverage, emerging evidence from witnesses and survivors is challenging the Israeli government’s version of events.
→ read full articleThe Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Framing the Narrative
Amy Goodman – Truthdig,
14 Jun 2010
I caught up with two veteran journalists who were covering the Gaza Freedom Flotilla for Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald, chief correspondent Paul McGeough and his photographer, Kate Geraghty. They were in Istanbul, where they had been deported from Israel. They had spent time on most of the ships of the flotilla, but were aboard the smaller, U.S.-flagged Challenger 1 when the raid occurred.
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Johan Galtung on ‘The Fall of the US Empire’
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
14 Jun 2010
The amount of money the United States has spent on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq surpassed the $1 trillion mark last week, according to the National Priorities Project Cost of War counter. To date over $747 billion has been appropriated for the war in Iraq and $299 billion for the war in Afghanistan. The US is spending over $136 billion on the wars this year. I’m joined now by Johan Galtung, who has spent the past half century pursuing non-violent conflict resolution in international relations. He’s known as a founder of the field of peace and conflict studies.
→ read full articleWhile Israel Kills and Maims …
Alison Weir – If Americans Knew,
14 Jun 2010
The Outrage at Helen Thomas. Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene.
→ read full articleUsing the Internet to Save the Rainforest: How an Amazonian Tribe Is Mastering the Modern World
Juliane von Mittelstaedt - Spiegel,
14 Jun 2010
The Surui people from the Brazilian rainforest are fighting to stop the destruction of their homeland. But instead of bows and arrows, they are using the Internet, GPS and Google Earth. Next they plan to start carbon emissions trading.
→ read full articleJoint Statement on the Armed Assault on Ships to Gaza
Prof. Ernesto Kahan, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2010
The Palestinian Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (PPPNW) and the Israeli Physicians for Peace and the Preservation of the Environment (IPPPE), affiliates of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, agree as follows:
→ read full articleThis Modern World
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2010
Obama the Far-Left Radical and a Few of the Far-Left Radical Things He Has Done
→ read full articleKashmir: The Hidden Occupation
Yasmin Qureshi – Socialist Worker,
14 Jun 2010
The author grew up as a member of India’s Muslim minority before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a social justice activist who traveled to Palestine in 2007 and to Kashmir last year. This article is a reflection on her trip to Kashmir. The extent of India’s military occupation of Kashmir is incredible and appalling, yet the voice of Kashmiris is often lost.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Violência de Israel Faz Parte do Dia-a-Dia do Povo Palestino
Dafne Melo, enviada a Ni’lin (Palestina) – Brasil de Fato,
14 Jun 2010
Todas as sextas-feiras, cidades palestinas da Cisjordânia realizam manifestações em frente ao muro construído por Israel.
→ read full articleW.H. Auden: (1907-1973) Poet of the Age of Anxiety
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 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 articleGaza ‘Peace Activists’: A Closer Look at Israel’s Terror Accusations
Yassin Musharbash - Spiegel,
14 Jun 2010
Were they peaceful activists or supporters of terrorism? Israel claims that some participants and organizers of the Gaza aid convoy attacked by the Israeli navy on May 31 had links with terrorist groups — but they have offered no evidence. SPIEGEL ONLINE takes a closer look at the accusations.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Haiti: Camponeses Marcham Contra a Monsanto e pela Soberania Nacional
Thalles Gomes Enche, no Haiti – Brasil de Fato,
14 Jun 2010
A Marcha foi uma resposta à doação de 475 toneladas de milho híbrido que a multinacional Monsanto ofereceu ao governo do Haiti no último mês de maio. Esta doação está sendo encarada pelas famílias e movimentos camponeses como um verdadeiro presente mortal e representa um “ataque muito forte à agricultura camponesa, aos camponeses e às camponesas, à biodiversidade, às sementes crioulas que estamos defendendo, ao que resta de nosso meio ambiente no Haiti”, de acordo com Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, coordenador do MPP (Mouvman Peyizan Papay) e membro da Via Campesina haitiana, responsáveis pela convocação e coordenação da Marcha.
→ read full articleRage after the Raid: Israel’s Voyage into Isolation
Spiegel* – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2010
After last Monday’s raid on a flotilla of peace activists heading toward the Gaza Strip, Israel finds itself on the defensive. Not only has Turkey turned its back on the country, but the US too is angered by the unilateralism of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.
→ read full articleConflict Resolution
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2010
A husband and wife were having dinner at a very fine restaurant when this absolutely stunning young woman comes over to their table, gives the husband a big open mouthed kiss, then says she’ll see him later and walks away. The wife glares at her husband and says,
→ read full article(Italian) Aosta, 2010, June 1. For Freedom Flotilla
Silvia Berruto, amica e persuasa della nonviolenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2010
Tuesday, 17:00 – Italy – Aosta – Piazza Chanoux. Manifestazione nonviolenta a sostegno della missione della Freedom Flotilla. Contro l’attacco in acque internazionali, da parte di un commando dell’esercito israeliano sferrato il 31 maggio scorso alla nave turca Mavi Marmara carica di aiuti umanitari.
→ read full articleEnabling Collective Intelligence in Response to Emergencies
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2010
The response to the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (2010), acknowledged as the greatest recent environmental disaster, is used here to summarize and illustrate the challenge of enabling collective intelligence in response to emergencies. The focus is therefore less on the oil spill disaster and more on how intelligence is gathered of relevance to emergencies for which no immediate solution is found.
→ read full articlePhenomenon of Ambidextrous Individuals Still Startles Scientists
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2010
Leonardo da Vinci could work with his both hands. He used to draw with his right hand and write with his left one. Jimmy Hendricks, the rock musician, could play right-handed guitar with his left hand turning it upside down. He used to place the strings backwards so they would be positioned the same way as on a regular guitar.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Israel e o Terrorismo de Estado
Prof. Dejalma Cremonese – Brasil de Fato,
14 Jun 2010
O que levaria uma nação que outrora sofrera atrocidades sob a perseguição nazista a incorrer no mesmo erro histórico de submeter outros povos às mesmas atrocidades e genocídios?
→ read full articleKill a Turk and Rest
Uri Avnery - Gush-Shalom,
14 Jun 2010
The ship was called “Exodus 1947”. It left France in the hope of breaking the British blockade, which was imposed to prevent ships loaded with Holocaust survivors from reaching the shores of Palestine. If it had been allowed to reach the country, the illegal immigrants would have come ashore and the British would have sent them to detention camps in Cyprus, as they had done before. Nobody would have taken any notice of the episode for more than two days.
→ read full articleReport Says Doctors Helped Refine Harsh Methods
Kimberly Dozier, Associated Press – The Miami Herald,
14 Jun 2010
A prominent physicians group is charging that medical personnel were used to test and refine the effectiveness of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques for terror detainees in U.S. custody under the guise of safeguarding their health.
→ read full article(Castellano) Reflexiones sobre Educación y Paz: Acerca del Campeonato Mundial de Football y la Educación por la Cultura de Paz
Alicia Cabezudo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2010
La comprensión de la diversidad y las diferencias, la multiplicidad de formas de vida y visiones del mundo, las distintas civilizaciones y sus manifestaciones, la riqueza de las diversas culturas que representan estos equipos de futbol, la posibilidad de diálogo que genera, proponen una lección de pluralismo político, religioso y cultural que enriquece el proceso educativo y constituyen ejes fundamentales en la formación cívico democrática de niños, jóvenes y adultos.
→ read full articleJewish Ideology and World Peace
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2010
I am here to announce as loud as I can, there is no need for any ‘International’, ‘impartial’ or ‘independent’ inquiry into the latest Israeli massacre on the high sea. Though the Israeli opposition to such an inquiry is there to suggest that the Israelis have much to hide, the truth of the matter is actually deeper. If you want to grasp what underlies the Israeli deadly barbarism all you have to do is open the Old Testament.
→ read full articleCommunicating Peace: Organiser’s Introduction to IPRA Sydney 2010
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2010
Sydney plays host, from July 6-10, to the biennial global conference of IPRA, the International Peace Research Association. The keynote speaker is Johan Galtung. Delegates can register for the whole conference or for one day.
→ read full articleTurkey Goes From Pliable Ally to Thorn for U.S.
Sabrina Tavernise and Michael Slackman – The New York Times,
14 Jun 2010
For decades, Turkey was one of the United States’ most pliable allies, a strategic border state on the edge of the Middle East that reliably followed American policy. But recently, it has asserted a new approach in the region, its words and methods as likely to provoke Washington as to advance its own interests.
→ read full articleThe Real Threat Aboard the Freedom Flotilla
Noam Chomsky – In These Times,
14 Jun 2010
Israel assumes that it can commit such crimes with impunity because the United States tolerates them and Europe generally follows the U.S.’s lead. As the editors of The Guardian rightly observed on June 1, “If an armed group of Somali pirates had yesterday boarded six vessels on the high seas, killing at least 10 passengers and injuring many more, a NATO task force would today be heading for the Somali coast.” In this case, the NATO treaty obligates its members to come to the aid of a fellow NATO country—Turkey—attacked on the high seas.
→ read full articleUN orders Israel to lift Gaza blockade
NineMSN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
Speaking on his return from visits to Brazil, Malawi and Uganda, Ban told reporters on Wednesday that the underlying problem behind Monday’s tragedy was the long-running, crippling Israeli siege of Gaza which he described as “counter-productive, unsustainable and wrong.” The UN secretary general said Israeli authorities must provide a “full and detailed account” of the commando raid on six ships that tried to break the Gaza siege to deliver some 10,000 tonnes of supplies.
→ read full articleDesigning Global Self-governance for the Future
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
This is the development of the argument in an introductory paper (Tao of Engagement — Weaponised Interactions and Beyond: Fibonacci’s magic carpet of games to be played for sustainable global governance, 2010). It continues the exploration of the possibility of providing a common framework for the huge global investment in weaponry — and the binary logic associated with its use — in relation to a variety of other more complex games and non-weaponised modes of interaction.
→ read full articleEnd of Moratorium on Whaling Threatens More Blood in the Seas
Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor – The Independent,
7 Jun 2010
The moratorium on commercial whaling, one of the world’s major environmental achievements, is in danger of being abandoned after 24 years at a meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) which begins this week in Morocco.
→ read full articleCensorship in a Slingshot
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
Israel’s attacks on humanitarian workers heading for Gaza have been called piracy, murder, ‘state terrorism’, even an act of war against the countries whose flags the boats were flying. On the other side has been a massive and cynical campaign of misinformation and misdirection, aimed at muddying the waters and deflecting responsibility.
→ read full articleIsraeli Murders, NATO and Afghanistan
Craig Murray – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
Therefore what is troubling the hearts and souls of non-Americans in NATO HQ is this fundamental question. Is NATO genuinely a mutual defence organisation, or is it just an instrument to carry out US foreign policy? With its unthinking defence of Israel and military occupation of Afghanistan, is US foreign policy really defending Europe, or is it making the World less safe by causing Islamic militancy?
→ read full articleIsraelis Opened Fire before Boarding Gaza Flotilla, Say Released Activists
Dorian Jones in Istanbul and Helena Smith – The Guardian,
7 Jun 2010
First eyewitness accounts of raid contradict version put out by Israeli officials.
→ read full articleChildren in Prison
Mary McAuley – Open Democracy,
7 Jun 2010
The approach to juvenile lawbreakers in Russia and in England & Wales is more punitive than in other European countries. Why do we put young offenders behind bars? In this article Mary McAuley highlights some of the questions she has addressed in her new book ‘Children in Custody’.
→ read full articleBuilding Cultures of Peace
Riane Eisler – Yes! magazine,
7 Jun 2010
If we are to build cultures of peace we have to start talking about something that still makes many people uncomfortable: gender.
→ read full articleNicholas Roerich (1874-1947) The Highest mountains stand as the witnesses of the Great Reality
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 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.
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Conspiracy of Silence: Who are the Bilderberg Group?
RussiaToday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
It’s a club where the movers and shakers of the world meet under a veil of secrecy. The notorious Bilderberg group made up of politicians, business leaders and other power-brokers are having their annual meeting in an exclusive Spanish resort. But who is in this Club and what’s on the Bilderbergers agenda? RT is investigating.
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How Israel Planned the Flotilla Attack
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
As the MV Rachel Corrie ship is dragged to Israel,TRNN investigates Israel’s plan for attacking the flotilla.
→ read full articleArmadillo: The Afghanistan War Documentary that Shocked Denmark
Geoffrey Macnab – The Guardian,
7 Jun 2010
In Denmark, the press and public have been stunned by Armadillo, Janus Metz’s documentary about a UK-Danish base in Afghanistan, and the actions of the soldiers based there.
→ read full articleOh, God!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
A very good-hearted young man came to the gates of heaven. He asked God, “Why have you brought me here so early?
→ read full article‘Operation Justified Vengeance’: Israeli Strike on Freedom Flotilla to Gaza is Part of a Broader Military Agenda
Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
7 Jun 2010
Washington was fully aware as to the nature as well as the likely consequences of the IDF naval operation in international waters, including the killings of civilians. There are indications that the decision was taken in consultation with Washington. Obama’s White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was in Israel in the week prior to the launching of the raid on the Freedom Flotilla.
→ read full articleEgypt’s Blockade on Gaza
Ahmad Shokr – ZNet,
7 Jun 2010
The Egyptian government desperately wants to deflect any negative attention away from its own complicity in the blockade. But empty rhetorical gestures and mendacious displays of solidarity with Palestinian suffering do not change the basic fact that Gazans have been victims of a coordinated Israeli-Egyptian siege, for which Mubarak’s government bears its fair share of responsibility.
→ read full articleU.S. Blocks Security Council Criticism of Israeli Raid
The Salt Lake Tribune – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
The Obama administration refused to endorse a statement that singled out Israel, and proposed a broader condemnation of the violence that would include the assault of the Israeli commandos as they landed on the deck of the ship.
→ read full articleIsrael Has Crossed the Rubicon
Lynda Brayer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
The PLO hijacking of the Achille Lauro p in 1986 in an attempt to free Palestinian political prisoners held illegally in Israeli prisons is held up as an act of terrorism. However, it can be argued, and correctly in my legal opinion, that the actual and continuing occupation and colonization of Palestine itself is the original and continuing crime. Resistance to conquest is not, and cannot be defined, as criminal. However, if the West considered that it was an act of terrorism, how should we now describe this latest Israeli attack? It can, and should, be defined as the very epitome of a double terrorism: the first act of terror is the use of military force on the high seas, while the second act of terror is the use of this illegitimate force against hors de combat unarmed civilians!
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