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The Myth of Israeli Morality
Lamis Andoni – Al Jazeera,
7 Jun 2010
Israel’s reaction to non-violent protests inside and outside the occupied territories is part of its fear of the assertion of Palestinian identity in the historic land of Palestine…. The bullets that pierced the bodies of the activists have boomeranged, shattering the myth of Israeli morality.
→ read full articleIsraeli’s Nuclear Policy: From South Africa to Iran
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
On May 24, 2010, the Guardian (U.K.) published a highly confidential document released by the South African government. The 1975 document reveals a secret military agreement signed by Shimon Peres, Israel’s Foreign Minister at the time (and today Israel’s President) and South Africa’s Defense Minister P. W. Botha. Israel offered to sell the apartheid regime, weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, chemical and conventional weaponry to destroy and defeat the million person African resistance movement.
→ read full articleAustralia Acts over Japan Whaling
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
Australia has launched legal case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague in an effort to halt Japanese whaling in the seas off Antarctica, officials in Tokyo have said.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Estamos Todos Com MV Rachel Corrie
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
7 Jun 2010
Israel vai cometer outro massacre? Haverá um ato de pirataria no alto mar? Tel Aviv vai torpedear o navio MV Rachel Corrie, um navio irlandês que viaja para Gaza, sob a égide do Direito Internacional das Nações Unidas (Resolução 1860)?
→ read full articleListening Project Field Visit Report: Myanmar/Burma
submission from Emma Leslie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
The Myanmar Listening Project was a joint venture between CPCS, Nyien/Shalom Foundation of Myanmar and CDA Collaborative Learning Projects of the United States. It sought to listen to recipients and deliverers of international assistance as a means of improving international assistance practices.
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Interview with Al Jazeera’s Jamal ElShayyal: One of the Passengers on the Mavi Marmara
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
Al Jazeera’s Jamal Elshayyal has been released by Israeli authorities following Monday’s deadly raid on the Mavi Marmara aid ship that was destined for Gaza.
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ICC Accused of Targeting Africa
Mohammed Adow – Al Jazeera,
7 Jun 2010
Its creation was supposed to extend the rule of law to the corners of the world that needed it most. But eight years on, the International Criminal Court stands accused of focusing exclusively on African countries and exacerbating existing conflicts in its refusal to drop charges in exchange for peace deals.
→ read full articleMexico-USA: Drugs-Arms-Money
Johan Galtung & Fernando Montiel T., 7 Jun 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
In 1846-48 the USA conquered 53% of the Mexican territory in a terrible war; the USA says it was 33%. Today a fifth of the Mexicans live in the USA, legally or not; 53% of them would mean 30 million more in the USA. Far too much, says Arizona in the anti-illegal immigration law, denounced by Calderón as threat to human rights and democracy. Obama, to the right of Bush, sends 1,200 soldiers to the border; with 1 million Americans now living in Mexico, mainly close to beaches, to stretch meager pensions…. Meanwhile, Hugo Chávez was on CNN-Español and claimed that during his presidency Venezuelan poverty dropped from 73% to 40%, and misery from 23% to 5%. Given his social policy it might simply be true, or close to it. So much more important than GNP growth. And threatened by Obama’s seven bases in Colombia, and the Fourth Fleet. And yet the voice of the future.
→ read full articleU.S. Defence Spending Far Outpaces Rest of the World
Amanda Bransford - IPS,
7 Jun 2010
The United States continues to lead the world in defence spending, according to a new report released Thursday [27 May 2010] by the Centre for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, a U.S.-based non-partisan research organisation. In fact, the U.S outspends Russia, the next highest spender, by more than 800 percent.
→ read full articleTribute to the People of Gaza
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
This journey, by boat, will be my third with The Free Gaza Movement and it has shown me that people can make a difference. The Free Gaza Movement was started by a few people with an idea and the courage to make it happen. If people wish to support their work and follow us on the boat journey to Gaza visit their website at http://www.freegaza.org/
→ read full articleIsraeli Butchery at Sea
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
For days the Israeli government prepared the Israeli society for the massacre at sea. It said that the Flotilla carried weapons, it had ‘terrorists’ on board. Only yesterday evening it occurred to me that this Israeli malicious media spin was there to prepare the Israeli public for a full scale Israeli deadly military operation in international waters. Make no mistake.
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BREAKING NEWS: Israel Attacks Gaza Aid Fleet in International Waters
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service 31 May 2010,
31 May 2010
Al Jazeera’s report on board the Mavi Marmara before communications were cut.
→ read full articleBREAKING NEWS: Israel Attacks Gaza Aid Fleet in International Waters
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service 31 May 2010,
31 May 2010
Israeli forces have attacked a flotilla of aid-carrying ships aiming to break the country’s siege on Gaza. More than 10 people were killed and dozens injured when troops intercepted the convoy of ships dubbed the Freedom Flotilla early on Monday, the Israeli military said.
→ read full articleThe Brazilian/Turkish Initiative: Rebalancing the World
Prof. Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
Instead of welcoming this notable effort to reduce regional tensions, the Brazilian/Turkish initiative was immediately branded as an amateurish irrelevance by the American Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton. She insisted that the concerns about Iranian nuclear enrichment be left exclusively in the hands of the ‘major powers,’ and immediately rallied China and Russia (in addition to France and the United Kingdom) to support a fourth round of punitive sanctions that were to be presented to the UN Security Council in the near future.
→ read full articleAn appeal to Peace Nobelist President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu to free Mordechai Vanunu
TMS Editor,
31 May 2010
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire has written to President Barack Obama, USA, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, asking them to ‘do all they can’ to obtain the release of Mordechai Vanunu and for him to be allowed to leave Israel.
→ read full articleThe 2010 National Security Strategy
Fred Dubee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
Worth reading? I guess it depends on your understanding of the relevance of US policy and strategy on the world stage. On the other hand it is relatively easy to argue that US national security strategy must always be taken into account and give due respect. In these very delicate times, and with increasing polarization in the media and public dialogue a strong point can be made in favor of having a look at the actual text of the strategy document – but as always, actions speak much louder than any policy statement.
→ read full articleSri Lanka War Crimes
TMS Editor,
31 May 2010
Louise Arbour, President and CEO of Crisis Group, on the report “War Crimes in Sri Lanka” and the Sri Lankan government’s response to the report thus far.
→ read full articleFrom Japan to Guam to Hawai’i, Activists Resist Expansion of US Military Presence in the Pacific
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
In Japan, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama sparked outrage this weekend when he announced he has decided to keep an American air base on the island of Okinawa. Before last year’s historic election victory, Hatoyama had vowed to move the base off of Okinawa or even out of Japan.
→ read full articleNuclear Fuel Swap Deal: US Sabotages ‘Unique Opportunity’ for Peaceful Resolution with Iran
Finian Cunningham – Global Research,
31 May 2010
In his inaugural speech in January 2009, US president Barack Obama promised a new beginning in foreign policy towards Iran, saying “we will extend a hand if you are willing to un-clench your fist”. He didn’t actually mention Iran by name then, but everyone knew he was saying that the Bush administration’s confrontational approach to the Islamic Republic was being replaced by a more reasonable policy based on mutual dialogue.
→ read full articleLooking for an Alternative to Capitalism
Alan Maass - Socialist Worker,
31 May 2010
Socialism is back in the news with new evidence of its popularity.
→ read full articleThe US-Russia START Treaty: Just What Does “Arms Control” Really Mean?
Darwin Bond-Graham – Truthout,
31 May 2010
There’s a funny if intimidating gun-nut bumper sticker you may have seen on the road: “Gun control means using both hands.” It’s clever, invoking and mocking gun control at the same time.
→ read full articleEdna St. Vincent Millay (1892 – 1950) The World stands out on either side, no wider than the heart is wide
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 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 articleFraming Pakistan: How the Pro-Israel Media Enables India’s Surrogate Warfare
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
In its bitter rivalry with India, Pakistan is at a fatal disadvantage. Unlike its South Asian neighbour, Islamabad lacks an ally with considerable influence over American mainstream media.
→ read full article(Italian) Alla Ricerca di Consenso
Leo Hoffmann-Axthelm – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
New York, 24 maggio 2010. Senza un potere esecutivo internazionale che abbia un vero monopolio sulla violenza, la legge pubblica internazionale si lascia creare solo dal consenso: qual è infatti il senso di costringere Stati ad adottare certe leggi, se poi non potranno in alcun modo essere costretti a rispettarle?
→ read full articleThe NPT and the Nuclear Power TRAP
Diane Perlman, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
For 40 years, there is virtual, unquestioned acceptance of nuclear energy, with frequent and automatic repetition of the mantras –the “inalienable right” to “peaceful uses” of nuclear energy, the “the third pillar” throughout the speeches. The belief in nuclear power is so deeply and widely held that it may seem outrageous to even question it.
→ read full articleAssessing Maoists Janaandolan III in Theory
Bishnu Pathak, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
Puspa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda, Chairperson of the United Communist Party of Nepal or UCPN (Maoist), has time and again said that the party he represents is being isolated from the mainstream power-politics. Grave connotations can be drawn from this juncture of peace and epoch of constitutional writing.
→ read full articleThe NPT Review: Business as Usual Now, Disarmament Perhaps Later
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
The nuclear weapons of Israel and their meaning for Middle East policies have long been “an elephant in the room” of the NPT Reviews — too large not to notice but too dangerous to deal with if anything else in the review process was to be done.
→ read full article(French) Quel Retour à Marx Pour Penser Notre Temps?
Laurent Etre – l’Humanité,
31 May 2010
FACE-À-FACE AVEC : EDGAR MORIN, philosophe et sociologue, directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS et docteur honoris causa de nombreuses universités dans le monde ; ANDRÉ TOSEL, philosophe, spécialiste de Marx et des marxismes, professeur à l’université de Nice.
→ read full articleFormer CIA Officer on Iran: Brazil and Turkey Are Vital Checks and Balances
Graham E. Fuller – The Christian Science Monitor,
31 May 2010
Shouldn’t the world welcome the actions of two significant, responsible, democratic, and rational states to intervene and help check the foolishnesses of decades of US policy on Iran?
→ read full articleConflict and Fragility
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
When you give aid in a context of armed conflict, you become part of that context and also therefore part of the conflict. The aphorism is from Do No Harm, by Mary B Anderson, the book-length account of an approach to development and humanitarian fieldwork that attempts to identify and foster local capacities and resources for peace.
→ read full article(Italian) Interviste a Nanni Salio e Angela Dogliotti Marasso
Giselle Dian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
Faccio parte della redazione di “Viterbo oltre il muro. Spazio di informazione nonviolenta”, un’esperienza nata dagli incontri di formazione nonviolenta che si svolgono settimanalmente a Viterbo con la partecipazione di Peppe Sini. Sto redigendo una tesina per gli esami di maturita’, l’argomento e’ il graffitista americano Keith Haring. Nella tesina ovviamente intendo anche mettere in evidenza tra le altre caratteristiche dell’esperienza di Haring il suo impegno per la pace e contro il nucleare. Peppe mi ha suggerito di farle una intervista su questi temi che vorrei poter eventualmente utilizzare per la mia tesina.
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A Distinctive Contribution: Radio Magwi FM 92.5 – Sudan
Dominik Lehnert, XCHANGEperspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
This clip gives a brief overview on the Rural Youth’s Voices Project, a Community Based Youth Radio Station and Music Production Studio in Magwi, South Sudan. This project was implemented by Xchange Perspectives in cooperation with the German Development Service, DED. Peace is the theme and the objective.
→ read full articleManagers
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts:
→ read full article(Italian) A Proposito di Nonviolenza Evangelica
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
Cristianesimo, violenza, nonviolenza. Mi pare che ci sia una ambivalenza (non ambiguità) nelle interpretazioni del cristianesimo riguardo a violenza e nonviolenza.
→ read full articleTranscend Themes around the World (using Prof. Galtung at 80 as pretext)
TMS Editor,
31 May 2010
The TRANSCEND Network has been around since 1993 and has tried to develop a number of themes related to conflict, development, civilization and peace. Time has come to take stock, where are we, where would we like to be in, say, 2020, what can we learn from failures and, possibly, successes? What are the criteria?
→ read full articleWhen Media Acts Responsibly Everybody Wins
Prof. Parvez Ahmed – Common Ground,
31 May 2010
Instead of the usual criticisms often heard about media providing misinformed coverage of Muslims and Islam, commentator and University of North Florida Professor Parvez Ahmed commends media in his Jacksonville, Florida hometown for the way in which they dealt with two potentially polarising issues.
→ read full articleStatus of Women in Post Taliban Afghanistan
Maryam Sakeenah – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
This paper attempts to study, investigate and analyse the condition and status of womenfolk in Afghanistan after the United States-led invasion of the country in November-December 2001. It includes information and findings to clearly illustrate the actual state of affairs relating to women in the war-ravaged country. On the basis of data collection and findings, the paper aims at drawing conclusions and making recommendations for the improvement of the situation and status of the women in present-day Afghanistan.
→ read full articleThe Sinking of The Cheonan: Another Gulf Of Tonkin Incident
Stephen Gowans – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
While the South Korean government announced on May 20 that it has overwhelming evidence that one of its warships was sunk by a torpedo fired by a North Korean submarine, there is, in fact, no direct link between North Korea and the sunken ship. And it seems very unlikely that North Korea had anything to do with it.
→ read full articleTao of Engagement — Weaponised Interactions and Beyond
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
Produced in celebration of the United Nations International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures (2010) and the ever increasing development, manufacture and sale of arms by Permanent Members of the UN Security Council following the UN Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations (2001)
→ read full articleEnvironment and Food in Haiti: Two Crises, One Solution
Beverly Bell – Toward Freedom,
31 May 2010
In this interview, Chavannes Jean-Baptiste discusses the role that agriculture can play in Haiti in addressing both the environmental and food crises. Jean-Baptiste is the Executive Director of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP by its Creole acronym) and the spokesperson for the National Peasant Movement of the Congress of Papay (MPNKP). Until this year, he also sat on the international coordinating committee of Vía Campesina, a confederation of organizations of peasant, family, indigenous, and landless farmers from more than sixty countries.
→ read full articleWhere Is the World Economy Heading?
Johan Galtung, 31 May 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
Imagine you are ill. A health rating agency, let us call it Moody & Poor, publishes your rating. Somebody bets on your death. Others withdraw life support; what might have been a self-denying becomes a self-fulfilling, demoralizing, prophecy. The betting company cashes in “some serious money”–the expression used in Goldman Sachs when they celebrated the fall of the US housing market (Washington Post 24 April 2010). Remedy: outlaw most, make credit rating–teleconferences by 5 voting experts–transparent. They are paid by the people who issue the debts to be rated.
→ read full article(Italian) Sentenza Diaz: Condannati i vertici della Polizia di Stato. Intervista a Lorenzo Guadagnucci
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
Il 21 luglio 2001 anche dalla Valle d’Aosta sono partiti degli attivisti per partecipare alla manifestazione pacifica del movimento contro il vertice del G8.
→ read full articleBack to Marx: How Can His Work Help Us to Understand Modern Times?
Laurent Etre – l’Humanité,
31 May 2010
The world economic crisis has ended the taboo on referring to Marx. More and more works are being published on the author of Das Kapital, and the press is publishing special sections on him.
→ read full articleUS Space Weapon Now Circling the Globe
John Lasker – Toward Freedom,
31 May 2010
The US space weapon X-37 is now circling the globe in relative secrecy. It is an unmanned space plane that looks like a smaller version of the Space Shuttle and was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on April 22, 2010. This new weapon poses threats to global peace and risks sparking an arms race in space.
→ read full articleThe US Civil Rights Revolution
Johan Galtung, 24 May 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
A research project 1958-60 on school desegregation in Charlottesville VA brought this author close to that abominable century of deliberate delay. Interviewing white segregationists brought up three major factors in their prejudice: they, the blacks, are angry because of slavery and will take revenge, stab us in the back; they are all communists against our society; they are ugly. Hidden in this was a recipe for individual black advance in white society: take history with a smile, be right wing Republican, be pretty-handsome. At least two out of these three may take you there. It is not pigment. Examples are obvious.
→ read full articleAid Convoy sets off for Gaza
AlJazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
The biggest attempt by international aid groups to break the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip has gotten underway.
→ read full articleHow Flossing Can Save Your Life
Simon Usborne – The Independent,
24 May 2010
We know it helps stop tooth decay – but new research shows that good oral care can prevent heart disease, diabetes and even dementia.
→ read full articleOn Accountability for Violations of International Humanitarian Law in Sri Lanka
HRW – Transcend Media Service,
24 May 2010
Human Rights Watch is calling for a United Nations commission of inquiry to investigate violations of international humanitarian law by both Sri Lankan government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam during the recent fighting. This Q & A addresses various issues relating to accountability for crimes in violation of international law.
→ read full articleThe Heresy of the Greeks Offers Hope
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger inverts the perception of Greece as a “junk country” and sees hope in the uprising of ordinary Greeks protesting against the “bailout” of an economy plunged into debt by the tax-evading rich. Greece, he writes, is a microcosm for the developed world, where class war are the words seldom used because they are the truth.
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One Love – Playing for Change: Peace through Music
Bob Marley - TMS Editor,
24 May 2010
From the award-winning documentary, “Playing for Change: Peace through Music”, comes an incredible rendition of the legendary Bob Marley song “One Love” with Keb’ Mo’ and Manu Chao. Released in celebration of Bob Marley’s birthday on February 6th, this tribute to the legend is performed by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it traveled the globe.
→ read full articleOnline Protest Drives Nestlé to Environmentally Friendly Palm Oil
Martin Hickman – The Independent,
24 May 2010
Food giant bows to Greenpeace campaign and vows to cut its ‘deforestation footprint’.
→ read full articleFormer Central Bank Head Karl Otto Pöhl: Bailout Plan Is All About ‘Rescuing Banks and Rich Greeks’
Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
The 750 billion euro package the European Union passed last week to prop up the common currency has been heavily criticized in Germany. Former Bundesbank head Karl Otto Pöhl told SPIEGEL that Greece may ultimately have to opt out, and that the foundation of the euro has been fundamentally weakened.
→ read full articleHaitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Hybrid Seeds
Beverly Bell – Toward Freedom,
24 May 2010
“A new earthquake” is what peasant farmer leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the news that Monsanto will be donating 60,000 seed sacks (475 tons) of hybrid corn seeds and vegetable seeds, some of them treated with highly toxic pesticides. The MPP has committed to burning Monsanto’s seeds, and has called for a march to protest the corporation’s presence in Haiti on June 4, for World Environment Day.
→ read full articleThe Iran Nuclear Deal and the New Premier League of Global Powers
Simon Tisdall – The Guardian,
24 May 2010
Brazil and Turkey are determined to pursue diplomacy and compromise – even if it means upsetting Washington.
→ read full articleIndia Snubs US, Hails Iran’s N-Plan
The Times of India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
The growing policy rift between India and the US on how to deal with Iran’s nuclear enrichment plans has come out in the open with foreign minister S M Krishna disagreeing with the American position to welcome Tehran’s decision to send its low enriched uranium stock to Turkey.
→ read full articleWhy Humane Meat Is an Oxymoron
Michele Simon - Alternet,
24 May 2010
Niman then proceeded to bury herself even deeper in the ethical morass by making the astonishing claim that animals suffer a lot in the wild, since it’s such a dangerous world out there, and aren’t they better off under the care of humane, kind ranchers like her husband? This sounded chillingly like the arguments for slavery. You know, blacks were really much better off getting free room and board and they weren’t treated all that badly were they?
→ read full articleGary Snyder: (1930- ) A Zen View of Nature
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 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 articleNew Colonialism: Pentagon Carves Africa into Military Zones
Rick Rozoff – Pambazuka News,
24 May 2010
Under its AFRICOM (African Command) initiative, the US Army is becoming ever more deeply involved in African military affairs across the continent, encroaching on the military autonomy of an increasing number of African nations, writes Rick Rozoff. Pulling African countries’ militaries into its network is not based on altruism, Rozoff contends, but simply reflects the concerns of every military power: ‘The threat and use of armed violence to gain economic and geopolitical advantages.’
→ read full articleThe Tragicomedy of Iran Sanctions
Massoud Parsi – AlJazeera,
24 May 2010
The public relations coup scored by Brazil and Turkey was far greater than a search for solutions to the West’s attempted siege of Iran’s economy. In a single move, they not only exposed the intransigence of Obama, they showed themselves to be in tune with world opinion. In throwing a direct challenge to the US, they provided a concrete demonstration of a new world order.
→ read full articleSo Much for ‘Understanding’
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
The UN. conducted a worldwide survey asking “Would you please give your honest opinion about the solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?”
→ read full articleSecurity for Australia in the ‘Asia Pacific Century’ (Part 2)
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
Let’s cup our ear to some echoes from the past. Andrew Alexander, a journalist on the right- of-centre Daily Mail newspaper in the UK, recounted how his research for a book about the origins of the Cold War confounded his presuppositions: there had, in reality, been “no Soviet military threat”, and wrong-headed western assessments that one existed were responsible for “one of the most unnecessary conflicts of all time, and certainly the most perilous”.
→ read full articleWhy the Times Square Incident Should Be a Turning Point
Dr Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
The fact remains that terrorism is such a menace it can not be contained single handedly by a single country. In fact the nature of terrorism is so complicated and so wide and embedded; it will be difficult to tackle the menace by amending national laws or by punishing few terrorists. A global coalition, with a genuine global agenda, is the imperative of the hour if the world is to become terror-free, stable and peaceful.
→ read full articlePublic Statement – A plea to put an end to massive killing in Bangkok
International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB) - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
The International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB), representing a diversity of socially engaged buddhists from around the world, is gravely concerned about this standoff. We wish for all parties address the conflict with reason and tools of peace, to recognize the ancient Buddhist wisdom that neither the so-called winner nor loser will be contented and happy. We encourage those who do not fall into one of the two camps can help this process wherever possible. Only through peaceful negotiation and dialogue can all parties concerned return the country to its true nature as a flourishing democracy and a peace-loving nation.
→ read full article(Castellano) Todos Contra la Violencia
Equipo de Nación – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
Hace cuatro años, tras una reflexión interna en la sala de Redacción de LPG-La Prensa Gráfica, motivada por la cobertura diaria de homicidios y hechos violentos, el periódico decidió hacer una atrevida apuesta editorial.
→ read full articleIran Accepts Nuclear-Fuel Swap Deal
AlJazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
Iran has signed an agreement brokered by Brazil to ship low-enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for nuclear fuel for its power plant, according to official media.
→ read full articleHung Parliament or Hung Parliamentarism?
Johan Galtung, 17 May 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
Is Anglo-America a conspiracy against conflict resolution, in favor of conflict settlement through victory? Hosting a Karl Marx, yet for those who think class is out look at the composition of the new cabinet in terms of education, family and nation-within-nation.
→ read full articleNoam Chomsky Denied Entry into Israel and West Bank
Amira Hass - Haaretz,
17 May 2010
Left-wing American linguist, who was scheduled to speak at Bir Zeit University, given no reason by Israeli inspectors at Allenby Bridge.
→ read full articleHow One Palestinian Village Started a Movement
Sara Reef – Common Ground,
17 May 2010
Most of the media coverage surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict focuses on stories of violence and despair. Little is known about the growing Palestinian-led non-violent movement that has united rival Palestinian factions, including Fatah and Hamas, and encouraged hundreds of Israelis to cross into the West Bank and Gaza for the first time to join this non-violent effort.
→ read full articleJerusalem Residents Attack Writer Elie Wiesel over Appeal to Barack Obama
Chris McGreal – The Guardian,
17 May 2010
Holocaust survivor accused of ignoring anti-Arab discrimination in Jerusalem.
→ read full articleProtecting the Perpetrators – Pedophiles and Popes: Doing the Vatican Shuffle
Michael Parenti – Common Dreams,
17 May 2010
The church seems determined to learn nothing from its transgressions, preoccupied as it is with avoiding lawsuits and bad publicity. Really Not All that Serious. First, pedophilia is not that serious if it involves only a few isolated and passing incidents. Second, an even more creepy way of downplaying the problem: child molestation is not all that damaging or that important. At worst, it is regrettable and unfortunate; it might greatly upset the child, but it certainly is not significant enough to cause unnecessary scandal and ruin the career of an otherwise splendid padre…. The damage done to sexual victims continues to go unnoticed: the ensuing years of depression, drug addiction, alcoholism, panic attacks, sexual dysfunction, and even mental breakdown and suicide-all these terrible aftereffects of child rape seem to leave popes and bishops more or less unruffled.
→ read full articleWhy the ‘Experts’ Failed to See How Financial Fraud Collapsed the Economy
James K. Galbraith - AlterNet,
17 May 2010
I write to you from a disgraced profession. Economic theory, as widely taught since the 1980s, failed miserably to understand the forces behind the financial crisis.
→ read full articleBye Bye Democracy! Hello Army-State!
Dr. Zarni – The Irrawaddi, Burma,
17 May 2010
Veiled and well-founded skepticism marked the US reaction to the Burmese military government’s announcement last week that “Prime Minister” Gen Thein Sein and 22 other military officers had resigned from their posts in order to contest the general “election”.
→ read full articleOn My Way to Athens
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
QUESTION: What was it that hurt you so much as to state publicly that you fight the Israeli in you? Don’t you feel that this is a harsh statement to make? A statement that shows anger? GILAD: Yes I am indeed angry. Watching 1.5 million Palestinians being starved in Gaza makes me angry. Watching the IDF throw bombs and white phosphorous on elders, women and children who seek shelter in an UNRA compound makes me angry. Watching the Israeli air force flatten Lebanon in 2006 made me angry. Watching the holy land get sliced by a gigantic separation wall makes me angry. Transforming Palestine into a Jewish bunker makes me angry. Meeting dispossessed Palestinian refugees who cannot even visit their land makes me very angry. Realising that 1.5 million Iraqis lost their life because of a Zionist global war designed by Ziocon Wolfowitz makes me furious. Zionists advocating the Killing of Muslims in the name of moral interventionism freaks me out. Watching AIPAC promoting more wars and violence makes my blood boil.
→ read full article7 Things to Stop Doing Now on Facebook
Consumer Reports Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
Tips for your protection on Facebook.
→ read full articleThe Second Debt Storm
Alistair Barr - MarketWatch,
17 May 2010
Who will bail out the countries that bailed out the world’s corporations? The debt mountain that brought down some of the world’s biggest banks and dragged the international financial system to the brink of disaster has simply shifted to governments. Now it’s threatening countries around the globe — and, if left unchecked, could rip the very fabric of Europe’s economic system and wreck economic recoveries in the U.S., China and Latin America.
→ read full articleVanunu Returns to Prison and the End of Israel’s Nuclear Ambiguity
Eileen Fleming - Countercurrents,
17 May 2010
On May 11, 2010, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that Mordechai Vanunu, will “serve a three-month jail sentence handed to him by Jerusalem District Court and not community service.”
→ read full articleModern Saint of Family Unity
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
Ascetical writers tell us that God is so great that He created billions of people each one with a unique personality that they cannot be duplicated. Besides, they add saying that God gave to each person at least one talent that makes that individual superior to the rest of the human race. In other words, each one of us is so important that we cannot ever be duplicated. Our main job in life is to help ourselves, as well as our children and friends, to discover this one superior talent we received as to use it to help change the world for the better.
→ read full articleWhy Privacy on Facebook Is ‘Virtually Impossible’
Erik Hayden - Miller-McCune,
17 May 2010
“Earlier this month, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and 14 other privacy and consumer organizations filed a complaint against Facebook with the Federal Trade Commission, accusing the popular social network of “unfair and deceptive trade practices” and violating users’ expectations of privacy and consumer protection laws. And last month, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., asked the FTC to develop guidelines instructing social networks on how private information can be used.
→ read full articleSecurity for Australia in the ‘Asia Pacific Century’ (Part 1)
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
It looked like a raised middle finger. A stark, mocking figure 1 – the number of votes garnered when Australia put itself forward a couple of years ago for membership of the United Nations Security Council. Even Iran found thirty-two supporters when it stood for election in the same round. Australia, apparently, was friendless. So why did the international community shun Kevin Rudd’s ambitions for greater recognition on the world stage?
→ read full articleAn Account of the General Strike in Nepal
Suvrat Raju – Monthly Review,
17 May 2010
While the world media was focused on a boring battle between the Tories and their New Labour cousins in Britain, a historic struggle was underway in Nepal.
→ read full articleFacebook Takes Flak over Privacy
Omar Chatriwala - AlJazeera,
17 May 2010
The number of Facebook users interested in deleting their accounts on the website, which boasts more than 400 million registered members, has doubled in the past week, according to figures released by the search engine Google. A website has also now been launched, urging those “sick of Facebook’s lack of respect for your data” to quit the website in joint protest on May 31. In the site’s first day, it had garnered more than 680 pledges to do so.
→ read full article“The People of Greece Are Fighting for the Whole of Europe”
Democracy Now! - Tariq Ali and Mark Weisbrot,
17 May 2010
The European Union and the International Monetary Fund have approved a nearly $1 trillion package to stop Greece’s debt crisis from spilling beyond its borders into the rest of the eurozone. Stocks surged in Europe, Asia and the United States Monday after EU leaders agreed to a $960 billion package to contain Greece’s financial troubles. Meanwhile, the austerity measures demanded by the IMF and the European Union as a condition of their loan are continuing to exact their toll. Greece’s two main unions have continued to hold protests against the reforms. In a statement, one of the unions said, “The crisis should be paid by…all those who looted public finances.” Last week nearly 100,000 people participated in a mass demonstration and a twenty-four-hour general strike against the austerity measures.
→ read full articleGrowing Outcry over Facebook Privacy Changes
AlJazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
An online backlash against the social website Facebook is gathering strength – and the company’s executives have held an emergency meeting to discuss growing concerns about the privacy of its users. According to Google search results, there’s been a spike in the number of Facebook users looking to delete their accounts.
→ read full articleRacist Joke
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
A crowded lifeboat in the ocean got into a storm, the waves got higher and higher, and the boat was in danger of sinking.
→ read full articleFrom Shas to Hamas: The Group Behind the South Park Controversy
Maidhc Ó Cathail - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
Muslims just can’t seem to take a joke. Or at least that’s what some would have you believe. Like the contrived Danish cartoon controversy, the much-hyped Times Square car bomb incident provided an ideal opportunity for those who seek to make Islam look bad in the eyes of the world.
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Iran-Brazil Ties: Lula hopes to broker Iran deal
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
President Lula hopes to aid nuclear deal.
→ read full articleVelimir Khlebnikov: The Futurian (1895-1922)
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 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 articleBrazil and Cuba Become an Example of Cooperation in Vaccines
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
The news is already circulating around the world of a study that researchers from five developing countries, in collaboration with the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health of Canada (MRC) published today [13 May 2010] in the journal Nature Biotechnology, puts Brazil and Cuba as models in manufacturing low-cost drugs to poor people.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Privatizada há 13 Anos, Vale Viola Direitos em 30 Países
Jorge Américo - Radioagência NP,
17 May 2010
Fundada em 1942 e privatizada em maio de 1997, a mineradora Vale transformou-se em símbolo da política neoliberal implementada pelo governo Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC). A estatal foi adquirida pela iniciativa privada pelo valor de US$ 3,4 bilhões. Atualmente, o valor de mercado passa de US$ 140 bilhões, valor quarenta vezes maior que o preço de sua venda. Somente no ano de 2009, a Vale teve um lucro líquido de mais de US$ 5 bilhões. Em contrapartida, sua ação exploratória em aproximadamente 30 países em que atua está provocando conflitos sociais e ambientais.
→ read full articleNepal’s Peace Process Towards Ambiguity
Bishnu Pathak, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2010
At 2.20 PM on May 1, 2010 at the western gate of the Khula Manch (Martyr Theater), an aged, thin-and-weak man of about 35 fainted. The volunteers of the United Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) made a human chain of 10 meters in circumference around the huge crowd. A few of them tried to cool him down by fanning their caps and papers and throwing their drinking water over him. Both of his legs were buckled from the intense heat, while camera men were eager to snap photos. The crowd members were seeking first aiders to treat him. Two minutes later, he stood up with the help of a man. His face and lips were dried. A woman aiding him grasped his right hand and disappeared with him through the sea of humans.
→ read full articleNow a Global Player, the South Must Develop Its Media
Mario Lubetkin – Inter Press Service,
10 May 2010
There is a striking asymmetry between the new political and economic world order that has been emerging from the South over the last five years and the relative immobility of the international system of information, which only partially reflects the major transformations of our age.
→ read full articleThe Role of Natural Resources in Civil Wars
Phumlani Majavu – Toward Freedom,
10 May 2010
On the surface, it might look like the Congolese have no one to blame but themselves, since they are the ones doing the killing, and to an extent, this argument seems sensible. However, when we go beyond the facade, the facts tell us that foreign governments and multinational companies, greedy for the natural resources found in the DRC, are in cahoots with the militias and they too, are responsible for the plunder and the killings.
→ read full article(Castellano) Terrorismo de Estado en Nombre de la Paz
Prof. James Petras – TeleSur,
10 May 2010
No cabe duda de que el Presidente Uribe ingresará en el Libro Guinness de los Récords, cuenta con el respaldo de más narco-diputados que cualquier otro Presidente o Primer Ministro del mundo (incluida Afganistán), es responsable del desplazamiento de más personas (4 millones de refugiados) en el plazo más breve (8 años) que cualquier otro Presidente del mundo. (Ha desbancado a Israel en su medio siglo), es responsable de la matanza de más militantes y dirigentes sindicales que cualquier otro líder mundial.
→ read full articleMps Push for Continent-Wide Ban on Female Genital Mutilation
UN IRIN-TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
Parliamentarians from all over Africa are pushing for a continent-wide ban on female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and are calling on the UN to pass a General Assembly resolution appealing for a global FGM/C ban, as it violates human rights, they say.
→ read full articleVoting for War. Take Your Pick
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes how Edwardian notions of war are again being promoted in western democracies, along with the militarising of history, journalism and parliamentary politics. In Britain, the three main candidiates for prime minister are declared warmakers; and yet popular feeling is very different.
→ read full articleBolivia Throws Down Gauntlet, Demands Real Climate Action
Max Ajl – Truthout,
10 May 2010
Is this feasible? Probably, yes. But even if it proves impossible, at least someone is trying, even if they are dreamers. At least the future of the earth is on some leaders’ agendas. At least the future of the earth is on some people’s agenda. The Cochabamba Conference, impelled by a globalized and surging social movement demanding a livable Earth, has thrown down the gauntlet. Hopefully, we will pick it up before gun turrets stud our electrified steel frontier with Mexico, to be built circa 2030 when the Mexican agricultural system collapses under heat stress. That is the world of the future: a dead world of walls. I’m with Morales and Pachamama.
→ read full articleCompassion Comes First
Rabbi Ted Falcon – Yes! Magazine,
10 May 2010
The first step toward loving action. “NOW, THEREFORE, be it proclaimed that the Mayor of Seattle and the Seattle City Council affirm the Charter for Compassion, declare Seattle a participant in the Ten Year Campaign for Compassionate Cities, and for the next ten years will establish April and October as compassionate action months in which our citizens, government and institutions work together to embrace and apply compassionate solutions and encourage community service to meet the needs of our families, friends, communities and neighbors.”
→ read full articleThis Modern World
Tom Tomorrow – Truthout,
10 May 2010
Cartoon: Business Status Quo – If more businesses operated like Goldman Sachs…
→ read full articleThe Rebirth of Regulation
Robert Reich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
What do oil giant BP, the mining company Massey Energy, and Goldman Sachs have in common? They’re all big firms involved in massive plunder. BP’s oil spill is already one of the biggest and most damaging in American history. Massey’s mine disaster, claiming the lives of 29 miners, is one of the worst in recent history. Goldman’s alleged fraud is but a part of the largest financial meltdown in 75 years.
→ read full articleRussia Seriously Concerned about NATO’s Intention to Become Global Gendarme
Vadim Trukhachev – Pravda,
10 May 2010
Russia stands strongly against the development of the North Atlantic Alliance into a global block similar to the UN. However, this is exactly how many NATO officials see their future. “Russia does not consider the present-day NATO as a threat, although we are concerned about its possible development. Russia does not want NATO as a global organization, we do not want NATO to become a global gendarme,” Russia’s ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said.
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