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Nehru On Gandhi, Views On Political Culture
Prem Misir – The Gandhi Foundation,
1 Nov 2010
Nehru admired Gandhi’s constant focus on the ‘right way’ of doing things; using the correct methods for doing things. Stress on using the right means to achieve ends was one of Gandhi’s great contributions to public life. Where most people think about ends, it seems strange that Gandhi would concentrate on means; but it is an extraordinary way of thinking; thinking linked to the moral law of truth that may have hugely impacted India.
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George Galloway on the Iraq War: Success or Blunder?
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2010
Was toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime worth the enormous cost paid by millions of Iraqis? And where do Iraqis go to seek justice and compensation for this illegal war waged by Bush and Blair?
→ read full articleIsrael and Palestine in True Perspective
Charles Mercieca - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2010
Does believing and responding to these facts make one an anti-Semite in your eyes?
→ read full articleBP Dispersants ‘Causing Sickness’
Dahr Jamail - Aljazeera,
1 Nov 2010
Investigation by Al Jazeera online correspondent finds toxic illnesses linked to BP oil dispersants along Gulf coast.
→ read full articleThe WikiLeaks Iraq Logs: A Protocol of Barbarity
Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2010
Do we now know everything there is to know about this war? Do such attempts to make the war easier to comprehend, with seemingly endless numbers of incident reports and figures, offer us any new insights? Is it even worthwhile to add another 400,000 pages of documents to the existing flood of books, reports and other documentation? Two institutions that are archenemies appear to think that the answer is yes.
→ read full articleMikhail Gorbachev: Victory in Afghanistan is ‘Impossible’
The Telegraph – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2010
Mikhail Gorbachev, the former leader of the Soviet Union, has warned that Afghanistan risks turning into another Vietnam, telling NATO that victory is impossible. Mr. Gorbachev, who pulled Russian troops out of Afghanistan in 1989 after a 10-year war, said the US had no alternative but to withdraw troops.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Press Conference – 1 of 3
Presstv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
WikiLeaks press conference in London, 23 Oct 2010, with Julian Assange, Daniel Ellsberg, Public Interest Lawyers and Iraqi Body Count.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Press Conference – 2 of 3
Presstv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
WikiLeaks press conference in London, 23 Oct 2010, with Julian Assange, Daniel Ellsberg, Public Interest Lawyers and Iraqi Body Count.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Press Conference – 3 of 3
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
WikiLeaks press conference in London, 23 Oct 2010, with Julian Assange, Daniel Ellsberg, Public Interest Lawyers and Iraqi Body Count.
→ read full articleThe UN, Peace and Peace Education
Johan Galtung, 25 Oct 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
Voksenåsen, Oslo: Ladies and gentlemen, what an honor to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the United Nations on my own 80th birthday, this 24 October 2010, being invited to deliver the Dag Hammarskjöld lecture! My own health is good, how about the 15 years younger UN?
→ read full articleHAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR JOHAN!
Antonio C. S. Rosa, Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
On Sunday, Oct 24, 2010, Prof. Johan Galtung celebrated his 80th birthday. In name of de TRANSCEND Network and all TMS readers I would like to greet and congratulate him for a precious, extraordinary life dedicated to peace, nonviolence, social justice and sanity.
→ read full articleThis Peaceful Position Takes Courage
Mel Frykberg – Inter Press Service-IPS,
25 Oct 2010
A former captain in the Israeli Air Force, previously an ardent Zionist who lost many members of his family in the Holocaust, has been labelled a psychopath and denounced by many Israelis for the moral stand he has taken against the Israeli occupation.
→ read full article(Italian) Marchio Legacoop sui Global Hawk delle Forze Armate USA
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
Il 24 settembre 2010, il Comando d’ingegneria navale del Dipartimento della Marina militare degli Stati Uniti d’America ha assegnato alla società ravennate i lavori per realizzare a Sigonella un megacomplesso per le attività di manutenzione dei Global Hawk, i sofisticati aerei di spionaggio telecomandati delle forze armate USA e NATO, buona parte dei quali destinati ad operare dalla base siciliana. La CMC avrà tempo 820 giorni per completare quella che è stata definita dal Pentagono come un’opera d’«importanza strategica» per gli interessi USA in Europa, Africa e Medio oriente.
→ read full articlePeace Research and Peace Activism
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
“When peace research was launched as an academic field… the idea from the beginning was that this should be an applied social science with a value commitment: peace by peaceful means”. So writes Johan Galtung, in Searching for Peace, of the founding of the Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), in 1959.
→ read full articleNobel’s Pro-Military Agenda and the Future World Order
Yoichi Shimatsu – New America Media,
25 Oct 2010
These are chilling words coming from the chairman of the Nobel Peace Committee:
At a NATO-sponsored conference of European parliamentarians last year, Jagland spoke tough words: “When we are not able to stop tyranny, war starts. This is why NATO is indispensable. NATO is the only multilateral military organization rooted in international law. It is an organization that the U.N. can use when necessary—to stop tyranny, like we did in the Balkans.” His reference was to the NATO bombing campaign, invasion and occupation of the now-terminated Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia in the late 1990s. To summarize his message: If, anywhere in the world, tyrants cannot be overthrown by peaceful means, war is inevitable—and NATO will wage that war.
→ read full articleFrom Rabbi Yosef to Marx
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
In case the Goyim cannot find a purpose in their life, Israeli senior Sephardi Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is there to help them out. In his Saturday sermon Rabbi Yosef revealed that the sole purpose of Gentiles is to serve Jews. “Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world.” The Rabbi was also kind enough to provide the Goyim with some precise tasks. “Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat. That is why gentiles were created.”
→ read full article(Italian) Johan Galtung: A Ottant’anni, Innamorato della Pace
Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
Nel corso del convegno che il Centro Studi Sereno Regis ha organizzato in collaborazione con il CISP (Centro Interateneo di Studi per la Pace) presso la Fondazione Einaudi l’8 ottobre scorso, abbiamo festeggiato il traguardo degli ottant’anni che Johan Galtung compie il 24 ottobre. Durante l’intera giornata, Galtung ha avuto modo, ancora una volta, di offrire una lezione di passione, intelligenza, creatività che contraddistinguono il suo lunghissimo percorso di ricerca, educazione e azione per la pace e la nonviolenza.
→ read full articleBolivia: ‘Never Before Have We Seen Such Changes’
Green Left Weekly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
Alina Canaviri Sullcani is a Bolivian indigenous peasant now visiting Australia. Canaviri is active in Santa Cruz as a leader of the National Federation of Indigenous Peasant Women of Bolivia “Bartolina Sisa” and the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party led by President Evo Morales. She spoke at the Latin America solidarity conference in Melbourne over October 8-9, 2010. Green Left Weekly’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Canaviri on the process of change in Bolivia being led by Morales, the country’s first president from the indigenous majority.
→ read full articleMaking Ignorance Chic
Maureen Dowd – The New York Times,
25 Oct 2010
Casanova’s rule for seduction was to tell a beautiful woman she was intelligent and an intelligent woman she was beautiful…. As Palin tweeted in July about her own special language adding examples from W. and Obama: “ ‘Refudiate,’ ‘misunderestimate,’ ‘wee-wee’d up.’ English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!”…. In Marilyn’s America, there were aspirations. The studios tackled literary novels rather than one-liners like “He’s Just Not That Into You” and navel-gazing drivel like “Eat Pray Love.” Walt Disney’s “Fantasia” paired cartoon characters with famous composers. Even Bugs Bunny did Wagner. But in Sarah’s America, we’ve refudiated all that.
→ read full articleUS: The Dishonest Broker
Avi Shlaim – Aljazeera,
25 Oct 2010
There are many reasons for America’s failure to broker a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians but the most fundamental one is that it is a dishonest broker. As a result of its palpable partiality towards Israel, America has lost all credibility in the eyes not only of the Palestinians but of the wider Arab and Muslim worlds. The so-called peace process has been all process and no peace. Peace talks that go nowhere slowly provide Israel with just the cover it needs to pursue its expansionist agenda on the West Bank. The asymmetry of power between Israel and the Palestinians is so great that only a third party can bridge the gap.
→ read full articleCitizen Protests, Government Repression Mount in Haiti
Beverly Bell – Common Dreams,
25 Oct 2010
Activists interviewed say their call for MINUSTAH’s departure is based on the force’s violence, its ineffectiveness in accomplishing its mission, the waste of money, and the undemocratic and colonial nature of the operation in a sovereign nation. The actions have been convened by a coalition including a media network, human rights and housing rights groups, and committees from various camps. Asked what she and others in Haiti’s social movement want, Jetty Jenet said, “We’re calling out for help to make the authorities hear us. We’re all dying.” For nine months, Jetty has had no income and has lived with her children under a plastic tarp in Cité Soleil. “But we’re people, too.”
→ read full articleThe Tide Has Changed in Gaza: A Musical Lesson on Humanity
Ramzy Baroud – Toward Freedom,
25 Oct 2010
If one tried to fit music compositions into an equivalent literary style, Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble’s latest release would come across as a most engaging political essay: persuasive, argumentative, rational, original, imaginative and always unfailingly accessible. But unlike the rigid politicking of politicians and increasingly Machiavellian style of today’s political essayists – so brazen they no longer hide behind illusory moral façades – the band’s latest work is also unapologetically humanistic.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
A Scottish daughter proudly announced to her father, “Today I saved two dollars, I ran after the street car.”
→ read full articleSorry, New York Times: The bee die-off case is not closed
Tom Laskawy – Grist,
25 Oct 2010
Let’s be clear: The study itself makes no conclusive claims about the causes of colony collapse disorder. Eban quotes from the paper that the research does not “clearly define” that the virus/fungus combination is “a marker, a cause, or a consequence of CCD.” A scientist interviewed by Eban very helpfully offers the metaphor of HIV to describe what’s going on with bees. HIV doesn’t kill you — it’s the opportunistic infections and diseases that follow HIV’s dismantling of a sufferer’s immune system that do. In the case of bees, the virus/fungus combo are most likely the follow-on infections that kill off an already weakened hive.
→ read full articleHaiti Dispatch: Inside Sean Penn’s Tent City
Mac McClelland – Mother Jones,
25 Oct 2010
First thing I learned: Whatever you do, don’t go near the latrines.
→ read full articleThe Biggest Document Leak in History Exposes Real War
Bureau of Investigative Journalism – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
The data reveals how hundreds of civilians were killed by coalition forces in unreported events. There are numerous claims of prison abuse by coalition forces even after the Abu Ghraib scandal. The files also paint a disturbing portrait of widespread torture in Iraqi detention facilities. As the war progresses the documents record a descent into chaos and horror as the occupation sparked civil war. In case after case, the logs record thousands of bodies, many brutally tortured, dumped on the streets of Iraq.
→ read full articleWhither goes our loyalty: To Italy as Italians, or Israel as Jews?
Bianca Ambrosio - Haareetz,
25 Oct 2010
Jews living in the Diaspora face a controversial dilemma when it comes to national sentiment: Is it better to prioritize the state in which we live or to focus on belonging to the State of Israel? Such a quandary becomes particularly relevant when elections in our countries of residence occur and Jews – as all other citizens – are asked to elect our national leaders. We must consider whether it is more important to choose the government that will best serve the country in which we live, or to vote principally in consideration of how the future government will treat the State of Israel.
→ read full articleTunisia Ratifies International Treaty Banning Cluster Bombs
Cluster Munition Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
The Republic of Tunisia ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 28 September 2010 during the United Nations General Assembly. Tunisia is the first country in the Middle East/North Africa region to formally ratify the treaty, which took effect as binding international law on 1 August 2010.
→ read full articleWhen Banks Are the Robbers
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
25 Oct 2010
The big banks that caused the collapse of the global finance market, and received tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded bailouts, have likely been engaging in wholesale fraud against homeowners and the courts. But in a promising development this week, attorneys general from all 50 states announced a bipartisan joint investigation into foreclosure fraud.
→ read full articleNigeria: Shell Oil’s ‘License to Kill’?
Abena Ampofoa Asare – Pambazuka News,
25 Oct 2010
Following a controversial ruling by US Judge José A. Cabranes of the Manhattan-based federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals that transnational corporations ‘cannot be held responsible for torture, genocide, war crimes and the like’, Abena Ampofoa Asare discusses the challenges for establishing responsibility and valuing human rights over profit.
→ read full articleNew Law Bans Illegal Wood from EU Markets
WWF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
The EU Regulation on Illegal Logging cleared its final legislative hurdle on Monday [18 Oct 2010], following the adoption of the proposed draft by the Council of Ministers, effectively issuing a ban on illegal timber. In July, the European Parliament overwhelmingly approved a crack down on illegal timber, voting 644-25 in favor of the legislation.
→ read full articleMoldova Becomes Latest State Party to International Criminal Court
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
Moldova has become the latest country to ratify the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is tasked with trying people accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
→ read full articleViva Palestina Convoy Reaches Gaza
Aljazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
Pro-Palestinian activists enter Gaza through Rafah crossing with $5m of aid for residents of Israeli-blockaded strip.
→ read full articleNeed to Know | Daniel Ellsberg: The most dangerous man in America | PBS
PBS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
Need to Know’s Jon Meacham speaks with Daniel Ellsberg about his decision to release the Pentagon Papers, the subject of a new documentary on the PBS series POV. Ellsberg talks about the film and his thoughts on Bob Woodward’s recently released book.
→ read full articleThe Weaponization of Space: Corporate Driven Military Unleashes Pre-emptive Wars
Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat – Global Research,
25 Oct 2010
First a brief examination of the backdrop of the political power relations at play today and their impact on forces that are propelling the inductions of weapons in Space that are likely to lead to an arms race in space akin to a cold war in a hitherto ‘sanctuary of peace’ and consequently to a situation of ‘Mutually Assured Destruction’ ( MAD ), of the planet.
→ read full articleReporters Without Borders and Their Junk Index of “Press Freedom”
NameNotFound – Russia Today,
25 Oct 2010
The Paris-based lobby proudly calls itself “an international press freedom organization” but during the 25 years of its existence it has become a symbol of anything but. Today it is a scandal-surrounded outlet funded primarily by the US state budget through USAID and National Endowment for Democracy, accused of having links with (and sponsored by) gung-ho Bush neocons like Otto Reich. Nonetheless, it maintains its innocence and swears to abide by its chartered principles. Let’s look at some of these principles and see how they work in practice.
→ read full article‘Peace hath her Victories…’
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2010
Since the beginning of the Vietnam War, several academic institutions and civil society groups have focused on creating the new discipline of Peace Studies, with varying degrees of clarity, in some places reflecting the urgencies of ‘conflict resolution,’ in others, the needs of communities to arrive at reconciliation.
→ read full articleHonduras: Crisis and Progress
Bill Quigley and Laura Raymond – Common Dreams,
25 Oct 2010
Today, October 21, the democratic resistance in Honduras will celebrate Artists in Resistance Day. This event contrasts directly with today’s official recognition of Honduras Armed Forces day. The resistance, which is working for a truly democratic Honduras, renamed the day and created an alternative celebration because of a brutal police attack on musicians and others last month that left one dead and scores injured.
→ read full articlePeace as a Way of Life
Johan Galtung, 18 Oct 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Clear the past, move on. Conflicts are waiting for you, embrace them as challenges. Fight to solve them for mutual and equal benefit; no flight, please. Identify the sticky issues, search for a solution beyond the passive co-existence of avoiding violence. Fine goals those, but be more ambitious. Search for an active co-existence where all move on, based on the solution, into challenging futures no doubt filled with new conflicts to take on.
→ read full article‘Food Empires Creating Agricultural Crisis’
Frank Mulder – InterPress Service,
18 Oct 2010
Forget speculators, forget biofuel farmers. The real cause behind the permanent food and agricultural crisis is the imperial food regime, squeezing money out of agriculture, a Dutch professor says.
→ read full articleA World Made by War: How Old Will You Be When the American War State Goes Down?
Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch,
18 Oct 2010
I’ve had two mobilized moments in my life. The first was in the Vietnam War years; the second, the one that leaves me as a nine-year-old, began on the morning of September 11, 2001. I turned on the TV while doing my morning exercises, saw a smoking hole in a World Trade Center tower, and thought that, as in 1945 when a B-25 slammed into the Empire State Building, a terrible accident had happened. Later, after the drums of war had begun to beat, after the first headlines had screamed their World-War-II-style messages (“the Pearl Harbor of the 21st century”), I had another thought. And for a reasonably politically sophisticated guy, my second response was not only as off-base as the first, but also remarkably dumb. I thought that this horrific event taking place in my hometown might open Americans up to the pain of the world. No such luck, of course.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Loyalty Oath: Discriminatory by Design
The Guardian, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
New pledge requires future citizens declare their loyalty to an ideology, one intended to exclude Palestinians.
→ read full article(Italian) Ultimo Saluto all’amico Italo Tibaldi
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Oggi abbiamo accompagnato per l’ultima volta
un AMICO
Deportato politico a Mauthausen e a Ebensee
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Un MAESTRO.
Why the U.S. Has Launched a New Financial World War — And How the Rest of the World Will Fight Back
Michael Hudson – Counterpunch,
18 Oct 2010
“Who Needs an Army When You Can Obtain the Usual Objectives (Monetary Wealth and Asset Appropriation) Simply by Financial Means?”
→ read full article10/10/10: World’s Biggest Day of Climate Action Unites 7,000 Rallies in 188 Countries
350.org – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Just weeks before elections in the United States and climate talks at the United Nations, citizens from Afghanistan to West Virginia joined 350.org’s “10/10/10 Global Work Party” to issue a unified demand that politicians stop dragging their feet and get to work on climate solutions. Leading by example, citizens in 188 countries joined more than 7,000 climate “work parties” over the weekend to get to work installing solar panels, weatherizing homes, planting trees, and then calling politicians to ask a simple question, “We’re getting to work, what about you?”
→ read full articleNATO Strategy Paper: Nuclear Weapons Likely to Stay in Germany
Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Nuclear weapons, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has long insisted, have no place in Germany. But a new NATO paper seems to indicate that his efforts to get all such weapons removed from German soil will not succeed.
→ read full articleHelen Thomas: “You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive.”
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Former White House veteran reporter has criticized the United States for not allowing people to talk about Israeli policies against the Palestinian people. “You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive,” Helen Thomas said in an interview with Ohio station WMRN-AM that aired on Tuesday [12 Oct 2010].
→ read full articleChilean Miners Rescue: This is a Rare Moment of Global Joy
Michael White – The Guardian,
18 Oct 2010
When was the last time this happened? I’ve been racking my brains. I can think of a few happy ones. Unfortunately most such unifying experiences seen around the planet are negative.
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Nuclear Terrorism: Proof of Concept
vredesactie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Peace activists locate and film nuclear weapon shelters on military base of Kleine Brogel, Belgium. By means of this documentary, the Bombspotters reveal the lack of security found at this site. As shown in the movie, it is possible to walk to all aircraft shelters, including those containing nuclear weapons. If peace activists are able to get so close to nuclear weapon storage shelters, what would happen if people with more destructive intentions were to? An act of terrorism targeting the nuclear bombs cannot be excluded. These nuclear bombs do not guarantee security but pose a security risk themselves. Our security would be better guaranteed without them.
→ read full articleAmong Salesmen
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
A farmer had been ripped off several times by the local car dealer. One day, the car dealer informed the farmer that he was coming over to purchase a cow.
→ read full articleViolence in Perspective
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Over the past 6,000 years of recorded history, violence seems to have been the distinguished characteristic of our earthly community. Violence of one kind or another always promotes animosity, hatred, destruction of the environment and total disregard for the sacredness of human rights. Every kind of violence stems from abuse of individual or collective power. It tends mostly to derive from those in authority who are held accountable for all the struggles and conflicts as well as disasters and wars.
→ read full article(Italian) Stati, Stati Nazione e Legittimità
Giuliano Martignetti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Della ricca relazione tenuta dal prof. Galtung a Torino in occasione della giornata dedicata a festeggiare il suo ottantesimo genetliaco, mi sono annotato due osservazioni particolarmente interessanti. La prima è che oggi nel campo delle relazioni internazionali il diritto di veto deve considerarsi superato. La seconda che in tutti gli stati del mondo (192) ben 176 contengono delle minoranze nazionali più o meno ampie. C’è un nesso tra le due affermazioni? Vediamo.
→ read full articleThe Child-Driven Education
Sugata Mitra – TED Talks,
18 Oct 2010
Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education — the best teachers and schools don’t exist where they’re needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.
→ read full articleColumbus Day? True Legacy: Cruelty and Slavery
Eric Kasum - Huffington Post,
18 Oct 2010
Question: Why do we honor a man who, if he were alive today, would almost certainly be sitting on Death Row awaiting execution? If you’d like to know the true story about Christopher Columbus, please read on. But I warn you, it’s not for the faint of heart.
→ read full articlePentagon Author Exposes Zelikow’s Key Role in 9/11 Cover-Up
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
In an interview on the Fox Business Network, a retired U.S. intelligence officer accused the official in charge of the 9/11 Commission of a cover-up of intelligence failures leading up to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
→ read full articleThe Kashmir Imbroglio: Thinking the Unthinkable
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Back in the bad old days of the Cold War, the heaviest of the backroom hawks of the Pentagon, Herman Kahn, coined the phrase ‘thinking the unthinkable,’ meaning strategies for wiping out the Soviet Union with nukes. Luckily for all of us, Ronald Reagan had a better idea, the same result could be achieved by an undeclared economic war and arms race that would force the communists to scratch themselves out of the tournament.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Sérvia: Direitos dos Homossexuais, Direitos Humanos, Tolerância e Homofobia
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
18 Oct 2010
A República da Sérvia é um ponto de encontro de numerosos povos, religiões e culturas ao longo dos séculos, e de modo geral, têm coexistido em paz. Que triste, que este domingo a Parada Orgulho Gay terminou em uma orgia de violência causada por um punhado de fanáticos homofóbicos que deixou mais de cinquenta pessoas feridas. Esta foi a primeira Parada do Orgulho Gay da Sérvia, uma oportunidade para a sociedade fazer uma exibição pública de tolerância no início do Terceiro Milénio, permitindo às pessoas expressarem a sua sexualidade em público, vestidos com as roupas que escolhessem, sentindo-se feliz. Em vez disso, houve um crescendo de violência, insultos, arremesso de mísseis e, finalmente, uma batalha campal entre cerca de mil manifestantes anti-Parada e a polícia, resultando em 57 feridos, sendo 47 policiais, um internado em estado grave. A orgia de violência continuou com a destruição de propriedade do estado.
→ read full articleRe-Emergence of the Language of the Birds through Twitter?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Harmonising the Configuration of Pattern-Breaking Interjections and Expletives. The following exploration is dedicated to Johan Galtung on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
He originally instigated the focus on Forms of Presentation through the Goals, Processes and Indicators of Development project (1978-82) of the United Nations University.
Nominated for the No Bull Peace Prize in 2010, he also plays the flute.
The Ecuadorian Coup: Its Larger Meaning
Prof. James Petras – Global Research,
18 Oct 2010
The abortive military-police coup in Ecuador, which took place on September 30, has raised numerous questions about the role of the US and its allies among the traditional oligarchy and the leftist social movements, Indian organizations and their political parties.
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9/11 Coverup Finds a Voice on FOX with Judge Napolitano
Fox News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
‘Operation Dark Heart’ Author Alleges 9/11 Cover Up. Judge Napolitano’s Ground-breaking interview with Lt. Col, Anthony Shaffer and Former CIA Intelligence officer, Michael Scheuer. — Shaffer’s book, “Operation Dark Heart” was essentially “censored” by the Pentagon in order that some classified details could be “redacted”.
→ read full articleSri Lanka: Groups Decline to Testify Before Flawed Commission
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Three leading international organizations will not accept an invitation to testify before a Sri Lankan government commission because it lacks the ability to advance accountability for war crimes, Human Rights Watch, the International Crisis Group, and Amnesty International said in a joint letter to Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission that was released today [14 Oct 2010].
→ read full articleChile’s Ghosts Are Not Being Rescued
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
In his latest column for the New Statesman, written as the 33 Chilean miners are brought to the surface after ther epic rescue, John Pilger describes the unspoken life in Chile behind the media facade that the government of President Sebastion Pinera has skilfully exploited.
→ read full articleXiaobo – An Awarded Justly Won
Paul D. Scott – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
All of us working with civil society and democratization groups in Asia expected that Liu Xiaobo would be awarded the prize last year. We are overjoyed that he was awarded it this year. That China branded and condemned Liu as a criminal and denounced the Nobel prize Committee speaks volumes.
→ read full article€34bn Question: Will Banks Sink Republic or Just Its Government?
Eamonn McCann – Belfast Telegraph,
18 Oct 2010
The Irish government just handed Allied Irish Bank five times more than the bank is worth–and the government won’t even own it afterwards.
→ read full articleSerbia: Gay Rights, Human Rights, Tolerance and Homophobia
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
18 Oct 2010
The Republic of Serbia is a meeting point of numerous peoples, religions and cultures and over the centuries, by and large, they have coexisted in peace. How sad it is that this Sunday’s Gay Pride Parade ended in an orgy of violence caused by a handful of homophobic bigots which left over fifty people injured.
→ read full articleAmerican Empire and Cold Peace
CNTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
Johan Galtung in Beijing Sep 2010 interviewed by CNTV discusses the American empire and current wars, and about solutions to these.
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TRANSCEND Member Fredrik Reffermehl on Al Jazeera’s ‘Inside Story’: What Nobel Really Wanted
Antonio C. S. Rosa, Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
A jailed Chinese activist is awarded the Nobel Peace prize, and Beijing summons the Norwegian ambassador in protest. Is the Nobel Peace Prize still contributing to world peace in the way Alfred Nobel envisioned? Fredrik Reffermehl is the author of “The Nobel Peace Prize: What Nobel Really Wanted.”
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Settler Drives into Palestinian Boys
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
Director of settler organisation hits two children after they hurled stones at his vehicle in East Jerusalem.
→ read full articleUN Warns of Global Refugee Crisis
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
Refugees from never-ending conflict in Afghanistan and Somalia face systematic stigmatisation, says UNHCR chief.
→ read full article(French) Retour sur l’Émergence du Mouvement pour la Justice Climatique
Michael Hardt & Nicolas Haeringer, Entretien avec Michael Hardt – CETRI,
11 Oct 2010
Pour Michael Hardt, Copenhague pourrait bien être une étincelle qui débouche sur un nouveau cycle de luttes – des luttes plurielles, non dénuées de contradictions. Les penser, et éventuellement les dépasser, implique un travail de théorisation, autour, entre autres, de la question des “communs” : pour sauver le climat, sortir de la propriété ?
→ read full articleAmerican Political Philosophy: Analysis of Immigration Issue
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
One of the major problems people are caught up in lies with the nation’s politicians who seem to act with no principles in general. They often abound in mysterious contradictions. As the Romans used to say: Aliud est theoria, aliud est practica – one thing is theory, another thing is practice. In this respect the Italians have a proverb which runs as follows: Tra il dire e il fare c’e’ in mezzo il mare – between saying and doing there is in between an ocean.
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‘The US Has Gone Mad’
John le Carré - Democracy Now!,
11 Oct 2010
While John le Carré is famous for his spy novels, he wrote a widely read antiwar essay in 2003 titled “The United States of America Has Gone Mad.” He reads an excerpt. “America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.”
→ read full article(Castellano) Sobre el Cuasi Golpe Ecuatoriano
Guillermo Almeyra – Centre Tricontinental,
11 Oct 2010
Si se quiere evitar un próximo golpe de Estado en serio y hasta con base indígena o popular que esté dirigido por la derecha, la llamada Revolución Ciudadana debe profundizarse y radicalizarse, golpeando a las fuerzas de derecha en el aparato del Estado y debe entablar una discusión seria, democrática y profunda con la CONAIE y el movimiento indígena, que es su aliado natural, pero del cual está ahora separado en buena medida por la confusión y el sectarismo de la dirección indígena pero también, aunque en menor medida, por su propia falta de claridad y sus torpezas.
→ read full articleShort Ones
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
“I love farm work…
→ read full articleRobert Fisk: We Preach Democracy Yet Befriend Dictators
New Internationalist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
‘Spreading democracy’ was the rationale for invading Iraq and Afghanistan. Middle East expert Robert Fisk describes how it now looks from his home in Beirut.
→ read full articleThe Western Peace Prize
Johan Galtung, 11 Oct 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
One more abuse of the Nobel Peace Prize to promote Western, read US, foreign policy. Last year a speech prize with no follow-up except scrapping some old-fashioned nuclear monsters paving the way for major US nuclear rearmament of warheads and the weapons carrier tripod, protesting possible UK cuts of the Trident. But, verbally the prize touched the reduction of standing armies in Nobel’s testament–whose money they are handling. This year they give a human rights prize for domestic matters in what USA sees as its major competitor, China, far removed from any reduction of armies or Nobel’s concern for understanding among nations.
→ read full articleAl-Qaeda’s Suspect Humanitarianism
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
AP’s sole source for the 11-minute tape, with the oddly contemplative title “Reflections on the Method of Relief Work,” is SITE Intelligence Group. The U.S.-based group, which purportedly “monitors jihadi forums,” provided AP with a copy of the message that it claims was posted on unnamed “Islamic militant websites.” There are questions, however, about whether SITE Intelligence is the most objective source of information about terrorism. SITE co-founder Rita Katz, an Israeli Defense Forces veteran, is an Iraqi-born Jew, whose father was publicly hanged in Iraq after the 1967 Six-Day War as an Israeli spy. Considering Tel Aviv’s obvious interest in having the world’s only superpower fight a “global war on terror” against the Jewish state’s Muslim neighbours, it somehow never occurred to Associated Press, or other mainstream media outlets, to ask the question, Like father, like daughter?
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John Lennon Give Peace a Chance Live From Toronto Hotel
Antonio C. S. Rosa, Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
John Lennon would have been 70 on 9 October, 2010. “Give Peace a Chance” is a 1969 single by (John Lennon’s) Plastic Ono Band that became an anthem of the American anti-war movement at that time. It still inspires us against the wars of the moment…
→ read full articleYemen: The Covert Apparatus of the American Empire
Andrew Gavin Marshall – Global Research,
11 Oct 2010
This is the nature of war of today: during [Luther] King’s time, the pretext for war was to stop the spread of Communism; today, it’s done in the name of stopping the spread of terrorism. Terror has since time immemorial been a tactic used by states and governments to control populations. Al-Qaeda is no exception, as it was created and continues to largely function as a geopolitical extension of the covert apparatus of American empire. In short, al-Qaeda is an arm of the covert world of American intelligence agencies. In particular, the CIA, DIA [Defense Intelligence Agency], US Special Forces, and multinational mercenary companies such as Blackwater [now Xe Services]. Where they go, al-Qaeda goes; where al-Qaeda goes, they accumulate; where they lay the groundwork, the American empire stands behind.[2] Yemen is perhaps an excellent example of America being on the “wrong side of a world revolution,” as the secret war in Yemen being exacerbated in the name of “fighting al-Qaeda” is in actuality, about the expansion and supremacy of American power in the region.
→ read full articleBeyond Dualism: Reporting Conflicts in the Post-Electoral Mediascape
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
To ‘hear both sides’ is, of course, the surest way to avoid allegations of bias – but it elevates, to the status of convention, a way of reporting that divides the world around us into dyads: home and abroad (‘boat people’); humanity against nature (Pakistan floods); us and them (‘the Taliban’); Left against Right.
→ read full articleDogs, Migrants, and Daughters-in-Law
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
In my experience of seventy years, daughters-in-law in India get a shabby deal. Suffering, misunderstanding, lack of trust and affection are all everyday features in their lives. Many get badly abused for not bringing in enough dowry, or are constantly threatened for being not well read, or too well read, for being backward or being modern, for being ugly or for being too pretty – the list is endless. Physical torture is also added to routine mental torture. Too many are killed so that their husbands can marry richer women, or just because everyone in the in-laws’ house is tired of them.
→ read full articleScientists: 40 Times More Cancer-Causing Toxics in Gulf than Before Spill … Dispersants to Blame
Washington's Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
Scientists from Oregon State University have found a 40-fold increase in the amount of cancer-causing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) near Louisiana’s Grande Isle between May and June. The Oregon team is looking at “the fraction of PAHs that are bioavailable – that have the potential to move into the food chain.”
→ read full articleLessons from Honduras
Marcela Valente – IPS News,
11 Oct 2010
With the 2009 coup d’etat in Honduras still a fresh memory, the presidents of the Unasur bloc gathered as quickly as they could to vigorously condemn Thursday’s [30 Sep 2010] attempted coup in Ecuador and warn that they would not tolerate any such assault on democracy in the region.
→ read full articleReport: Haiti Recovery ‘Paralysed’
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
Refugees International says agencies co-ordinating Haitian relief efforts are “dysfunctional” and “inexperienced”. More than a million Haitians remain in squalid “emergency phase” camps, nearly nine months after January’s earthquake, and security is still a major problem, a new report says. The findings from US-based advocacy group Refugees International said that more than 70 per cent of refugee camps in Haiti face daily threats of violence and intimidation.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Se Não É de Portugal, Então Deve Ser da União Europeia
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
11 Oct 2010
E não é porque eles são portugueses. Vá ao Luxemburgo, que lidera todos os indicadores sócio-econômicos, e você vai descobrir que doze por cento da população é português, o povo que construiu um império que se estendia por quatro continentes e que controlava o litoral desde Ceuta, na costa atlântica, tornando a costa africana até ao Cabo da Boa Esperança, a costa oriental da África, no Oceano Índico, o Mar Arábico, o Golfo da Pérsia, a costa ocidental da Índia e Sri Lanka. E foi o primeiro povo europeu a chegar ao Japão….e Austrália.
→ read full article(Italian) Quale Sarà la Nuova Scusa per Continuare ad Angariare Cuba?
Gianni Minà – Latinoamerica,
11 Oct 2010
Recentemente Amnesty International ha reso noto che alla data del 15 agosto 2010, a Cuba i prigionieri politici [o “di coscienza”, come li definisce la stessa organizzazione] erano soltanto 27. Poi, dopo una successiva liberazione, in osservanza degli accordi raggiunti a giugno dal governo de l’Avana con la mediazione della Chiesa cattolica e del Ministro degli esteri spagnolo Moratinos, era rimasto un unico recluso anti-sistema, Rolando Jiménez Pozada, in carcere “per disobbedienza e per aver rivelato segreti di Stato”. Una realtà clamorosa, accolta con un silenzio assordante dai media occidentali e perfino dal governo di Washington.
→ read full articleWhy Soldiers Don’t Rebel in Than Shwe’s Burma
Dr Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
Besides seeing the generals’ Burma as a world-class disaster of rights abuses and poverty, one fruitful way to understand it would be to view it as a country that is subject to a military-led process of “re-feudalization” of the soldiering class, which is reshaping the country along precolonial feudal lines with adverse domestic and regional consequences.
→ read full articleMedia Disinformation: Washington’s “Regime-Change Hit-List” – Iran vs. Honduras (Part 1)
Edward S. Herman and David Peterson – Monthly Review,
11 Oct 2010
It would be hard to find a better test of the integrity of the establishment U.S. media than in their comparative treatment of Iran and Honduras over the past couple of years (2009-2010).
→ read full article“Everyone Just Wants to Kill People at any Cost”
Mark Benjamin - Salon,
11 Oct 2010
What Adam Winfield, one of the U.S. soldiers accused of killing civilians in Afghanistan, told his father.”The Army really let me down when I thought I would come out here to do good maybe make some change in this country I find out that its all a lie (sic).”
→ read full articleThe Aliens Are Coming
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
We appear to be incapable of dealing with invasive species while there’s still time. We can sow chaos with a keystroke in an investment bank, with one signal to a Predator drone, a seed dislodged from the sole of a boot, a fish tank emptied into a canal. But when asked to repair the mess we’ve made, we proclaim our impotence. Our challenge this century is to meet our capacity for harm with an equal power for good. We are not, so far, doing very well.
→ read full articleDeathly Silence: Obama’s Letter, Netanyahu’s Rejection, and Media’s Non-response
MediaLens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
Earlier this week, independent journalist Jonathan Cook reported facts that blow a hole through the standard deceit that the United States is an “honest broker” for peace in the Middle East.1 As Cook explains, details were leaked of a letter sent by US President Barack Obama to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister:
→ read full articleMairead Maguire’s 10-Year Deportation from Israel
Mairead Maguire, Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
Nobel Peace Laureate [and TRANSCEND member] Mairead Maguire was deported from Israel at 4 a.m., on Tuesday 5th October, 2010 and arrived back in Belfast later that afternoon. Maguire had arrived in Israel on Tuesday 27th September, to attend a Nobel Women’s Initiative visit, and support those working in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories – particularly women groups – for human rights and justice.
→ read full article(French) Equateur: Parc Yasuní – Articuler Justice Sociale et Urgence Écologique
Matthieu Le Quang - CETRI,
11 Oct 2010
L’Equateur est un pays pauvre doté d’une immense biodiversité mais dépendant des ressources générées par l’exploitation pétrolière. Ce petit pays est en train de faire un appel au reste du monde afin d’avoir l’appui d’Etats et de citoyens responsables pour réussir la transition vers un modèle de développement plus soutenable et une économie post-pétrolière.
→ read full articleGlaxo’s Avandia Cover-Up
Paul D. Thacker – Mother Jones,
11 Oct 2010
An ex-Senate investigator reveals how GlaxoSmithKline sought to conceal evidence linking its blockbuster diabetes drug to heart attacks.
→ read full articleEconomics: Doing Business As If People Mattered
Robert Jensen – Common Dreams,
11 Oct 2010
When politicians talk economics these days, they argue a lot about the budget deficit. That’s crucial to our economic future, but in the contemporary workplace there’s an equally threatening problem — the democracy deficit.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize: The New Age Sun Rises in the East
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2010
On Christmas Day 2009, a court in Beijing convicted Liu Xiaobo of “inciting subversion of state power” and sentenced him to 11 years in prison and two additional years of deprivation of political rights. The verdict cited as evidence passages from six essays Liu published online between 2005 and 2007 and his role in drafting Charter 08, an online petition for democratic reform issued on December 9; 2008 which has since been co-signed by some 10,000 persons, mostly Chinese in China. This December 2010, Liu Xiaobo will receive the Nobel Prize for Peace, though his presence at the ceremony in Oslo is in doubt.
→ read full articleIn Kenya, Farmers Grow Their Own Way
Heather Day & Travis English – Yes! Magazine,
11 Oct 2010
Thousands of grassroots, African-led efforts are building locally rooted alternatives to the chemical agriculture promoted by the Gates Foundation and Monsanto.
→ read full articleFrom Tuskegee to Guatemala via Nuremberg
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
11 Oct 2010
The U.S. government has frequently conducted experiments without the informed consent of the subjects. Women in Puerto Rico were given estrogen, at dangerous levels, when testing birth control pills. Researchers injected unwitting hospital patients with plutonium to study its effects on the human body. Dow Chemical, Johnson & Johnson and Pennsylvania prison authorities exposed inmates to chemicals, including dioxin, to test their effects. Subjects of a number of these experiments and others have died or had their lives indelibly harmed, all in the name of progress or profit.
→ read full articleA Yugoslav Community for a Yugosphere?
Johan Galtung, 4 Oct 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
The countries were born in deep anger, much too quickly, much too violently, traumas being heaped on top of old, and new trauma mountains. Time passes, no wounds are healed, but a new decade has sedimented new events on top of the 1990s horrors. For a new generation this is already history. But history has much to tell.
→ read full articleOn UN World Habitat Day, Oct 4: One Billion Slum Dwellers Cannot Be Ignored
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
Governments cannot celebrate the UN World Habitat Day on 4 October while ignoring one billion people living in slums, Amnesty International said today [1 Oct 2010].
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