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On Shyness and Inteligence
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2010
The people of Minas Gerais in Brazil are said to love cheese. A man there met a ferry, and she promised to grant him three wishes.
→ read full articleCommunicating Positive Peace in Australia
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2010
The brightly coloured ute stood out in the traffic crawling through the historic Indonesian city of Yogyakarta. As we drew closer, we could pick out the design, lovingly spray-painted on the side: the all too recognisable face of Osama bin Laden, and the single word, ‘damai’, meaning, of course, ‘peace’.
→ read full articleSarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888—1975)
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 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 article(Castellano) Unión Europea Amenaza con Dictaduras Militares
Heinz Dieterich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2010
José Durão Barroso, ex Primer Ministro de Portugal y actual Presidente de la Comisión Europea ha advertido a los sindicatos y movimientos populares de Europa que si no aceptan los paquetes neoliberales de austeridad, podrían instalarse dictaduras militares en España, Grecia y Portugal…. La burguesía europea plantea, en otras palabras, un ultimátum al movimiento obrero y popular: paguen sumisamente los costos de la crisis que el gran capital ha causado, o se los hacemos pagar por la vía de la bota militar. En lenguaje político: si ofrecen resistencia a la reducción de su nivel de vida pasaremos de la dictadura burguesa velada (democracia representativa) a la dictadura burguesa abierta.
→ read full articlePeru: ‘Don’t Minimize’ Impacts of Amazon Oil Spill
Milagros Salazar – IPS,
5 Jul 2010
Pluspetrol’s Jun. 19 petroleum spill has left the Marañón River, in the Peruvian Amazon, with oil and grease levels thousands of times greater than the maximum allowed for human consumption, affecting more than 4,000 local residents.
→ read full articleVeterans of Current Wars: Some Perspectives
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2010
And these are not good wars, in the sense of clear-cut wars of Good against Evil. The goals of USA-West, beyond suppressing “insurrection”, seem to include revenge, pure paranoia, clear economic interests, getting bases for future wars that may also be far from “good”. The goals of the enemy, defined by the US-West as Evil, are often very badly understood or not at all. These are not winnable wars. Like the English experienced 19 April 1775, being attacked by an invisible American enemy on the Boston-Concord road fighting “like savages”: savages have a tendency to win, even it may take time. “Asymmetric war” is in their favor, fighting for sacred values, freedom, human rights, ready to sacrifice their lives, with unlimited time perspective.
→ read full article(Italian) Impermanenza, Compresenza e Fragilità
Prof. Nanni Salio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2010
Di fronte alla morte di persone più o meno note, più o meno care e a me vicine, mi tornano alla mente i versi di una bella poesia di Vivian Lamarque:
A vacanza conclusa dal treno vedere
chi ancora sulla spiaggia gioca si bagna
la loro vacanza non è ancora finita:
sarà così sarà così lasciare la vita?
Maguire Calls for Israel’s Blockade of Gaza to Be Lifted Completely
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2010
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, who was a passenger on the MV Rachel Corrie ship that tried to break the siege and deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, but whose boat was illegally confiscated by Israeli commandoes in international waters on 5th June 2010, has responded to the news that the Israeli government has eased blockade on Gaza. She stated:
→ read full articleDebunking the War on Terror!!!
Dr. Kevin Barrett – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2010
The forthcoming “Debunking the War on Terror” symposium in London brings together four of the most outspoken and eloquent challengers to the Zio-American imperial order that has emerged post-September 11th. While most of the left and antiwar movements have chosen to remain “loyal opposition,” each of these four individuals has gone one step further, by challenging the very roots of the mainstream Western consensus and accepting the physical, professional or intellectual exile that ensues. If the consensus is starting to shift, it is due in large part to such bold challenges as these.
→ read full articlePeace Civil Interventions: The Nonviolent Peaceforce from a Historical Perspective
Marco Oberosler (Submitted by Antonino Drago) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2010
During the twentieth century a considerable number of civilian interventions has taken place in armed conflicts. Gandhi himself envisioned a Shanti Sena (literally Peace Army). His suggestion was later put into practice in India thanks to Vinoba Bhave and Jayaprakash Narayan; in Western countries it has taken the shape of a recurrent vision that promoted recurrent actions within the Peace Movement.
→ read full articleScrap Dollar as Sole Reserve Currency: U.N. Report
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2010
A new United Nations report released on Tuesday [29 Jun 2010] calls for abandoning the U.S. dollar as the main global reserve currency, saying it has been unable to safeguard value.
→ read full articleDeep-Sea Mining Adds to Fears of Marine Pollution
Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor – The Independent,
5 Jul 2010
Concerns about large-scale marine pollution, fuelled by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, are set to be heightened by a new development in exploitation of the oceans: deep-sea mining. The Chinese government has just lodged the first application to mine for minerals under the seabed in international waters, in this case on a ridge in the Indian Ocean 1,700 metres (more than 5,000ft) below the surface.
→ read full articleEngaging with the Inexplicable, the Incomprehensible and the Unexpected
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2010
In celebration of the United Nations International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures and the International Year of Biodiversity.
→ read full articleThrough the Wormhole: The Secret State’s Mad Scheme to Control the Internet
Tom Burghardt – Global Research,
5 Jul 2010
Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz once famously wrote that “war is the continuation of politics by other means.” A century later, radical French philosopher Michel Foucault turned Clausewitz on his head and declared that “politics is the continuation of war by other means.” In our topsy-turvy world where truth and lies coexist equally and sociopathic business elites reign supreme, it would hardly be a stretch to theorize that cyber war is the continuation of parapolitical crime by other means.
→ read full articleHonduras Resistance Strong despite US-Supported Coup
Bill Quigley and Laura Raymond - ICH,
5 Jul 2010
One year ago, on June 28, 2009, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was awakened by gunfire. A coup was carried out by US-trained military officers, including graduates of the infamous US Army School of the Americas (WHINSEC) in Georgia. President Zelaya was illegally taken to Costa Rica. Democracy in Honduras ended as a de facto government of the rich and powerful seized control.
→ read full articleGiant Salmon Will Be First GM Animal Available for Eating
Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent – The Telegraph,
5 Jul 2010
A salmon that grows at twice the normal rate is set to be the first genetically modified (GM) animal available for human consumption.
→ read full article“Chuckles” The Sensible Woodchuck
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2010
Award-Winning Cartoonist Tom Tomorrow features “Chuckles” the sensible woodchuck to highlight American liberals who are afraid of critiquing President Barack Obama.
→ read full articleDealing with the Tragic Oil Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2010
In accordance with the Natural Law there is a cause and a purpose behind every disaster that takes place. This includes the tragic oil disaster that took place in the Gulf of Mexico during the spring 2010. Needless to say, the cause of such a tragic disaster was due to a serious drilling leak, which popped up deep down at the bottom of this huge sea that was operated by British Petroleum, commonly known as BP. After more than two months the oil is still leaking amounting to thousands of barrels a day.
→ read full articleViewpoint
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2010
During the German occupation of France, a German soldier entered Picasso’s studio
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West Bank Poor Pay Heavy Price
Bernard Smith – Al Jazeera,
5 Jul 2010
A report by the charity Save the Children has said that living conditions in parts of the West Bank are now so dire that people living there are worse off than in blockaded Gaza. The charity claims that an estimated 40,000 Palestinians living under Israeli control are prevented from performing even the most basic repairs to homes, schools and hospitals.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to President Barack Obama
Prof. Glenn D. Paige – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2010
On the 60th anniversary of the Korean War, as a Korean War veteran, recalling millions of civilian and military dead, I hope you can work with the leaders of all combatant countries and the UN Secretary General to bring the War decisively to an end before all of us surviving veterans are taken away by what Abraham Lincoln called “the silent artillery of time.”
→ read full articleStimulus or Austerity: The People vs. the Banks
Shamus Cooke – Global Research,
5 Jul 2010
What are financial markets? And why must every country be at their mercy? A financial market is anyplace the super-rich invest their money. It can be done through a bank, hedge fund, or a private equity firm, etc. The rich demand that their investments are safe and therefore are especially “skittish” at the slightest hint of inflation or other economic distress. The rich who dominate financial markets advocate only one solution to balancing budgets: reducing or eliminating social programs. They ignore the other solution— a massive public works project— because it directly affects them in a negative way: raising taxes on the wealthy.
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G20 Commits Itself to More “Neoliberalism”
Paul Jay, The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2010
Reporting from Toronto – Leo Panitch, political science professor at York University: “Free movement of capital and strengthening power of global elites is G20 objective.”
→ read full article(Portuguese) Arroz Transgênico – Entenda o que Está em Jogo
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2010
Dentro de poucos dias o Brasil pode se tornar a cobaia do mundo, ao permitir o plantio e o consumo de arroz transgênico não aprovado em nenhum país. O pedido da empresa alemã Bayer está praticamente pronto para ser votado pela Comissão Técnica Nacional de Biossegurança – CTNBio. Tratase do Arroz Liberty Link LL 62, resistente ao herbicida glufosinato de amônio (processo 01200.003386/200379). Neste caso, até os produtores e a Embrapa Arroz e Feijão estão contra. Parece que só a CTNBio está do lado da Bayer. Como vai se posicionar o governo LULA?
→ read full articleBetter Than Facebook?
David Bollier – Yes! Magazine,
5 Jul 2010
Fed up with Facebook’s commercialism, four NYU students have created an open source, peer-to-peer alternative: Diaspora.
→ read full articleGuess Who Wants to Kill the Internet?
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2010
On October 11, 2001, exactly one month after 9/11, Lieberman introduced S. 1534, a bill to establish a Department of Homeland Security. Since then, he has been the main mover behind such draconian legislation as the Protect America Act of 2007, the Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010, and the proposed Terrorist Expatriation Act, which would revoke the citizenship of Americans suspected of terrorism. And now the senator from Connecticut wants to kill the Internet.
→ read full articleEurope-Latin America: Close in Trade, Worlds Apart in News Coverage
Mario Lubetkin - IPS,
5 Jul 2010
While a considerable portion of economic and trade data shows that relations between Europe and Latin America are positive, reinforcing their historic cultural closeness, for some time now news about Latin America has been a low priority for the European media, which is effecting the thinking of the leaders and citizens of the old continent and pushing Latin America in a direction that runs contratry to European interests, writes Mario Lubetkin, director-general of the Inter Press Service news agency.
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Cheat Neutral
TMS Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2010
The idea is a spoof on the current policy of carbon offsetting. In the same way that we shouldn’t be able to pay money to neutralize the damage done to our relationships, the site’s creators argue, we should not be able to pay money to offset our carbon polluting. The website’s satirical purpose is to “make it seem acceptable to cheat on your partner. In the same way, carbon offsetting tries to make it acceptable to carry on emitting excess carbon.”
→ read full articleLeader of Death Squads Wins Colombian Election
Prof. James Petras - ICH,
5 Jul 2010
A Great Victory For Democracy? Juan Manuel Santos, notorious Defense Minister in the regime of outgoing President Alvaro Uribe and closely identified with high crimes against humanity “won” the recent Presidential elections in Colombia, June 2010.
→ read full articlePope Condemns Belgian Raid
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
Pope Benedict XVI has criticised the “deplorable methods” of Belgian police who raided a meeting of bishops as part of a paedophilia probe. In a letter of support to Andre-Joseph Leonbard, the archbishop of Brussels-Malines, Benedict on Sunday expressed anger at the confiscation of phones, computers and other items.
→ read full articleLalon Shah (? – 1890) Men are vessels made for holy uses
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the year 2010 as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures. Thus we are pleased to present the creative efforts of individuals who have helped to create bridges of understanding among cultures.
→ read full articleThe World’s First Demonstration for Peace Journalism?
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
The theme of the demo is ‘Give Peace a Chance’. It is – as far as we know – a world first, being a demonstration in favour of peace journalism. In our book of the same name, Annabel McGoldrick and I define peace journalism in these terms: “Peace journalism is when editors and reporters make choices – of what stories to report, and how to report them – that create opportunities for society at large to consider and value non-violent responses to conflict”. Such choices are subjugated, in most media, most of the time, by journalistic conventions: conventions that grow out of the economic and political interests of the news industry. This is why, as Richard Keeble argues, “We need to move away from the concept of the audience as a passive consumer of a professional product to seeing the audience as producers of their own (written or visual) media”.
→ read full articleEnacting Transformative Integral Thinking through Playful Elegance
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
A Symposium at the End of the Universe?
→ read full articleIcons, of Peace
David Inkey – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
I want to tell you a story about The Pieces of Peace in The United Nations.
It is a story that only I know how to tell and it is meant only for peacemakers:
(Portuguese) Água e Envelhecimento
Dr. Arnaldo Lichtenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
Insisto: Não é brincadeira. Ao nascermos, 90% do nosso corpo é constituído de água. Na adolescência, isso cai para 70%. Na fase adulta, para 60%. Na terceira idade, que começa aos 60 anos, temos pouco mais de 50% de água. Isso faz parte do processo natural de envelhecimento. Mesmo desidratados, eles não sentem vontade de tomar água, pois os seus mecanismos de equilíbrio interno não funcionam muito bem. Portanto, de saída, os idosos têm menor reserva hídrica.
→ read full articleVictory for Anti-Whaling Campaigners
Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor – The Independent,
28 Jun 2010
The controversial attempt to scrap the 24-year-old international moratorium on commercial whaling collapsed yesterday, to the delight of anti-whaling campaigners and the frustration of Japan, Norway and Iceland, the three countries which continue to hunt whales in defiance of world opinion.
→ read full articleThe Global Political Awakening and the New World Order: The Technological Revolution and the Future of Freedom (Part 1)
Andrew Gavin Marshall – Global Research,
28 Jun 2010
For the first time in history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive. Global activism is generating a surge in the quest for cultural respect and economic opportunity in a world scarred by memories of colonial or imperial domination.
→ read full articleSouth of the Border: Oliver Stone Does Chavez
Prairie Miller – Common Dreams,
28 Jun 2010
Cuban leader Fidel Castro was interrogated some years ago by the New York Times, demanding to know why freedom of the press is not allowed in Cuba. Meaning, of course, beyond buzzwords, the inclusion of pro-capitalist reporting. To which Fidel’s checkmate reply was something like, we’ll allow that to happen when you allow a communist reporter on the staff of the New York Times.
→ read full articleLatin America: Impunity in Plan Condor’s Shadows
Marie Trigona – Toward Freedom,
28 Jun 2010
“The precise pain, in the precise place, in the precise amount, for the desired effect.” — Dan Mitrione, United States government security advisor for the CIA in Latin America, and instructor in the art of torture teaching techniques in Uruguay during the nation’s 1973-1985 military dictatorship.
→ read full articleAmong Traitors
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
When relations between the Soviet Union and China soured in the early 1960s, Khrushchev met Chu En Lai and told him,
→ read full article(Portuguese) Bilionários Ficaram Mais Ricos Em 2009
Esquerda.net – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
Segundo um relatório da Merrill Lynch sobre a riqueza mundial, o número de pessoas que, no mundo, tem mais de um milhão de dólares para investir aumentou e a sua riqueza cresceu 18,9%.
→ read full articleVatican Anger over Belgium Raids
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
The Vatican has said it is indignant and astonished at police searches of the graves of two cardinals during Belgian investigations over child sex abuse. Police on Thursday [24 Jun 2010] raided the headquarters of Belgium’s Roman Catholic church, several buildings of the Mechelen-Brussels archdiocese and the offices of a church commission investigating abuse claims.
→ read full articleDaniel Ellsberg and Julian Assange: Whistleblowing, Then and Now
Personal Democracy Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
Renowned whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange discuss the power of transparency in the digital age at the 2010 Personal Democracy Forum conference in New York City. Assange participated by Skype video from Australia. It was the first time the two men had ever talked with each other. PdF curator Micah Sifry hosted the conversation.
→ read full article(Italian) L’Uomo con la Pistola
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
In onore di Lev Tolstoj, nel centenario della morte.
→ read full articleChoose Peace – End the Siege of Gaza and the Occupation of Palestine
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
On Saturday 5th June, 2010, thirty five heavily armed Israeli navy seals commandeered our boat, MV Rachel Corrie, one of the Freedom Flotilla, in international waters (30 miles off the coast of Gaza). As they did so we, nineteen humanitarian activists and crew, were on the deck. We were quietly anxious, aware of the solitary figure in the wheelhouse with his hands held high against the window, in full view of the three Israeli warships, four approaching zodiacs and two commando carriers, whose guns were pointing in his direction. I personally wondered if the courageous Derek Graham would live to tell the tale, conscious of what happened on the Turkish ship, Mavi Marmara, earlier in the week.
→ read full articleThe Runaway General
Michael Hastings – Rolling Stone,
28 Jun 2010
Stanley McChrystal, Obama’s top commander in Afghanistan, has seized control of the war by never taking his eye off the real enemy: The wimps in the White House. The Rolling Stone article that triggered the storm.
→ read full articleGulf Oil Spill’s Wildlife Toll: Sharks Near Shore, Turtles Incinerated
Patrik Jonsson - The Christian Science Monitor,
28 Jun 2010
The Gulf oil spill has killed local wildlife not only with oil but also in cleanup efforts. It may have changed the behavior of some animals, too. But its hard for scientists to draw a direct link.
→ read full articleGulf Oil Spill: A Hole in the World
Naomi Klein – The Guardian,
28 Jun 2010
“Obama cannot order pelicans not to die (no matter whose ass he kicks). And no amount of money – not BP’s $20 billion, not $100 billion – can replace a culture that’s lost its roots.”
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Editor Interview on Censorship
Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
“Privatized Censorship”
WikiLeaks, a publisher of last resort.
→ read full articleOur Earth as Our Common Home
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
The modern means of technology that were developed over the past several decades made our planet Earth become much smaller. Travel between far distant countries is no longer measured in terms of miles or kilometers. It is merely measured in terms of time. Besides, what one nation may do for the better or the worse may eventually affect other nations as well. This explains, in part, why today we ended up facing so many insurmountable problems all of which may be solved if we were to take the appropriate approach.
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Amazing Speech by Iraq War Veteran – Discurso Inspirador de Veterano da Guerra do Iraque
Mike Prysner, Iraq Veterans Against the War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
English with Portuguese subtitles – Legendado em Portugues – “Racism is an important weapon used by this government. It is more powerful than a rifle, a tank, a bomber or a battleship. It is more destructive than artillery shells, a bunk buster or a tomahawk missile… and convincing us to kill or die is based on their ability to make us think that we are somehow superior… without racism soldiers would realize they have more in common with the Iraq people than they do with the billionaires who send us to war.”
→ read full articleThe Fate of the Internet. Decided in a Back Room.
Tim Karr – Save the Internet,
28 Jun 2010
The Wall Street Journal just reported that the Federal Communications Commission is holding “closed-door meetings” with industry to broker a deal on Net Neutrality – the rule that lets users determine their own Internet experience. Given that the corporations at the table all profit from gaining control over information, the outcome won’t be pretty.
→ read full article(Castellano) El Plan para Destruir a Cuba*
Heinz Dieterich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
El plan para destruir a la Revolución Cubana es una combinación del modelo de subversión que se usó para terminar con el “socialismo realmente existente” en Polonia y en la Alemania socialista (RDA). Ese plan, que está en plena ejecución, cuenta con cuatro elementos: la crisis interna de Cuba, la campaña mundial de presión y chantaje, la liberalización mercantil suaversiva de Obama y, la Iglesia Católica.
→ read full articleHail to the Whistleblowers
James Denselow – The Guardian,
28 Jun 2010
Whistleblowers like those at WikiLeaks make huge sacrifices and are a vital last resort to check the powers of government.
→ read full articleDeath by Hamburger?
Kiera Butler – Mother Jones,
28 Jun 2010
Whether you’re a burger lover or a strict vegetarian (I’m somewhere in the middle—more on this in the July/August 2010 issue of Mother Jones), you’ve probably heard that too much meat is definitely not a good thing. Most recently, researchers have linked overconsumption of red meat with early puberty in girls: A University of Brighton study found this month that about half of UK girls who ate 12 or more servings of meat each week at age seven had started their periods by age twelve and a half, compared to about a third of those who ate fewer than four servings. Worrisome, since some research suggests that girls who go through puberty early are at greater risk for breast cancer.
→ read full article(Italian) La Strage e le Minacce Perderanno con il Giornalismo “Non Embedded”
Angela Lano – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
Erano decine e decine di mostri che, dai canotti, salivano a frotte sulla nave. Sparavano, urlavano, si sono lanciati contro tutti noi. Abbiamo cercato di proteggere il capitano, ma i loro taser ci hanno bloccato. Avevano i volti coperti, le teste protette dai caschi e con questi colpivano le fronti di chi si avvicinava loro.
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Prof. Galtung on Democracy NOW! (Part 4)
Amy Goodman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
“I Love the US Republic, and I Hate the US Empire”: Johan Galtung on the War in Afghanistan and How to Get Out.
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Prof. Galtung on Democracy NOW! (Part 3)
Amy Goodman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
“I Love the US Republic, and I Hate the US Empire”: Johan Galtung on the War in Afghanistan and How to Get Out.
→ read full articleThis Modern World
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
Award-winning political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow features the character “Invisible-Hand-of-the-Free-Market-Man,” who explains to taxpayers why they are going to be taking care of BP’s mess.
→ read full articlePolitical Violence: General Overview in Nepalese Context
Devendra Uprety - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
Political violence is characterized by both direct and structural violence used by a state, political party, ethnic or regional group to achieve its objectives. It is conceptualized by Moser and Clark (2001) very succinctly as the collective sphere manifested in “guerrilla conflict, para-military conflict, political assassinations, armed conflict between political parties, rape and sexual abuse as a political act and forced pregnancy/sterilization. It is a collective effort to impose or resist power and it is driven by intention or the will to power of a specific group, class, religion, gender, etc.
→ read full article(Castellano) Che Guevara y la Vía Venezolana al Socialismo
Ernesto Wong Maestre – TeleSur,
21 Jun 2010
Cuanto se escriba del pensamiento de Che Guevara debe hacerse considerando las condiciones histórico-concretas en que se fue forjando, desde las particularidades de su núcleo familiar y de su grupo escolar en interrelación con ese Ernesto, hasta que escribió su último reporte en su diario de guerra, allá en Bolivia, también en esa compleja madeja de vínculos y relaciones con diversas personalidades.
→ read full articleThe Istanbul CICA Summit
Dr. Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
Whether CICA can be termed ‘OSCE of Asia’ it is not much difficult to answer. Also whether there is a need for a comparison between the two is an altogether different issue of concern. However, at the present stage, CICA members need to work in tandem towards playing an active role in the Eurasian space towards building peace and stability. Issues like ‘extremism, terrorism, drug trafficking, the threat of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and maritime piracy’ will likely goad CICA members to play a collective role in tackling these issues of common concern.
→ read full articleVenezuelan Prison Humanization Program Initiates New Educational Project
James Suggett – Venezuelanalysis,
21 Jun 2010
The Venezuelan Ministry for Internal Affairs and Justice signed an inter-institutional cooperation accord with the National Experimental Polytechnical University of the Armed Forces (UNEFA) this week to provide vocational training, including cooperative business management, to the nation’s prisoners as well as training in human rights for prison personnel.
→ read full article(Italian) Per “I Diritti Sono Il Nostro Pride”. Il Mio Contributo. Un Felice As-Solo
Silvia Berruto, antifascista e giornalista contro il razzismo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
Dedicato alle spose Antonella D’Annibale e Debora Galbiati Ventrella e alla regista Cristi Amione.
→ read full articleIceland’s Economic Downturn Is a ”Freedom of Speech” Upturn
Kim Andersen – Open Democracy,
21 Jun 2010
Iceland approves bill that turns the recession-plagued island into a “new media heaven”.
→ read full articleIs Blackwater’s Erik Prince Moving to the United Arab Emirates?
Jeremy Scahill – Common Dreams,
21 Jun 2010
With Blackwater’s top deputies indicted on federal charges and the company up for sale, rumors are swirling that Prince is preparing to bolt to a country with no extradition treaty with the US.
→ read full articleAimé Césaire: (1913 – 2008) A Black Orpheus
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the year 2010 as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures. Thus we are pleased to present the creative efforts of individuals who have helped to create bridges of understanding among cultures.
→ read full articleIs the U.S. Paying for Attacks on U.S. Troops?
Congressman Dennis Kucinich,
21 Jun 2010
After the New York Times reported that investigators in Afghanistan and Washington D.C. believe that private Afghan security companies, with close connections to the Karzai government and family, may have bribed insurgents to attack American and NATO convoy lines in order to demonstrate their companies’ value to the security of U.S. and NATO forces, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) released the following statement:
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Prof. Galtung on Democracy NOW! (Part 1)
Amy Goodman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
“I Love the US Republic, and I Hate the US Empire”: Johan Galtung on the War in Afghanistan and How to Get Out.
→ read full article(Castellano) El Milagro Económico Chino y la Educación del Partido
Heinz Dieterich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
El milagro económico y de poder que ha producido el pueblo chino bajo la conducción del Partido Comunista se manifiesta de múltiples formas: un crecimiento económico anual del diez por ciento durante treinta años, sin ninguna recesión, ni siquiera durante la crisis capitalista mundial, y aumentos constantes de salarios que han sacado a cientos de millones de personas de la pobreza; el aumento de la expectativa de vida de 40.8 años en 1955, a 71.0 años en el 2005; la creación de una alianza militar defensiva (SCO) que abarca al 61% de Eurasia y la autosuficiencia bélica; la exitosa transición desde la experiencia de Mao al modelo actual, sin terrorismo de Estado y eliminación stalinista de los disidentes; la ascensión al rango de una de las dos potencias dominantes del sistema mundial de poder, sin que Occidente lo pudiera impedir; el desarrollo de algunas de las ciudades más bellas del mundo, como Suzhou y Beijing y, last but not least, el apoyo de 80% de los ciudadanos del país.
→ read full articleMerging with Rachel Corrie – A Dedication to Non-violence
Matthias Chang – Global Research,
21 Jun 2010
Sailing on MV Rachel Corrie has changed my life and my perspective on many issues that I hold dear. I am humbled by the experience and have learned so much from everyone on board the ship.
→ read full articleThe Perils of Protest
Stephen Keim & Ann Cunningham - Justinian,
21 Jun 2010
The aid flotilla attempting to breach the Israeli blockade is just the latest in the Gaza protest movement … Australian lawyers Ann Cunningham and Stephen Keim report on the Cairo protests earlier this year … US Embassy showed it has the muscle to halt violence by Egyptian security forces.
→ read full articleListening to Voices from Inside: People’s Perspectives on Myanmar’s 2010 Election
submission from Emma Leslie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
Given the elections are widely debated in the ‘international community’, it is critical that the voices of ‘ordinary’ citizens be heard. Given the wide range of views this report may not simplify the debate, and if anything reflects the increasing diversity of opinion inside Myanmar about future directions, possibilities for change and the development of their nation. This report does not intend to draw any conclusions, but simply to amplify what has been recorded from a series of 87 interviews conducted across Myanmar. However if the international community is to accompany a process towards democracy in Myanmar, it must come to terms with the complexity and myriad of perspectives held by its citizens.
→ read full articleNew Jake Lynch and Johan Galtung book launched at IPRA Sydney, July 8 2010
TMS Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
Jake Lynch and Johan Galtung will launch their new book, Reporting Conflict: New Directions in Peace Journalism, in Sydney, on July 8th at Gleebooks. The launch is part of the Fringe programme of the International Peace Research Association biennial conference, taking place at the University of Sydney from July 6-10.
→ read full articleThirteen Religious Views of Life
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
Taoism: Shit happens.
→ read full articleRed Cross: Gaza Blockade Illegal
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has described Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip as a violation of the Geneva Conventions and called on the Israeli government to lift it.
→ read full articleIceland Safe Haven for Press Freedom: Wikileaks Insider
AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
Iceland is becoming an offshore safe haven for information, an insider with whistleblower website WikiLeaks said Friday [18 Jun 2010]. Iceland’s parliament, the Altingi, voted Tuesday to task government with finding ways to increase information freedom and to provide stronger protections for media sources and whistleblowers to make Iceland a leader in freedom of expression.
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Prof. Galtung on Democracy NOW! (Part 2)
Amy Goodman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
“I Love the US Republic, and I Hate the US Empire”: Johan Galtung on the War in Afghanistan and How to Get Out.
→ read full articleEngaging with the Future with Insights of the Past
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
In a world much characterized by denial in many forms, distinct cases may be made for exploring “undersides” or the “unconscious”, as variously argued (Elise Boulding, The Underside of History: a view of women through time, 1976; John Ralston Saul, The Unconscious Civilization, 1995), most notably by Carl Jung with respect to the collective unconscious and the individual “shadow”, as previously argued (Global Strategic Implications of the Unsaid: from myth-making towards a wisdom society, 2003). The case may be extended to various forms of “Omertà”, perhaps most recently and dramatically illustrated by the policies of the Catholic Church with respect to sexual abuse by clergy, widespread concern with the secrecy of tax havens, or the scientific neglect of a particular factor in consideration of climate change policy (Mapping the Global Underground: articulating Insightful Population Constraint Consideration, 2010; Sins of Hot Air Emission, Omission, Commission and Promission, 2009).
→ read full article(Castellano) Mi Diario en la Flotilla a Gaza
Henning Mankell – TeleSur,
21 Jun 2010
El “Barco a Gaza” tiene un objetivo claro y bien definido: romper el bloqueo ilegal que Israel está imponiendo a la Franja de Gaza. Después de la guerra de hace un año, la vida se ha vuelto más y más insoportable para todos los palestinos que viven allí. Hay una escasez enorme de los suministros básicos para vivir de un modo digno.
→ read full articleThe Meaning of Strangulation
Mark LeVine – Al Jazeera,
21 Jun 2010
The remarks were not made in anger or haste, as were the now infamous, flippant and ill-conceived comments that cost White House reporter Helen Thomas her job, if not her legacy. Instead, they were made quite deliberately, with an air of thoughtfulness, while leaning over a lectern, as if lecturing to a class. Thomas was forced into retirement for declaring that Jews “should get the hell out of Palestine,” but New York Senator Chuck Schumer, one of the most powerful politicians in the US, has avoided any criticism or even major press coverage for remarks he made only days later that supported the continued “economic strangulation” of Gaza; in part, because, he essentially argues, the inhabitants of the benighted Strip are not Jewish.
→ read full articleNo Nukes/No Empire: The Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Requires the End of the U.S. Empire
Robert Jensen – Common Dreams,
21 Jun 2010
[A version of this essay was delivered to the “Think outside the Bomb” event in Austin, TX, on June 14, 2010.] If we are serious about the abolition of nuclear weapons, we have to place the abolition of the U.S. empire at the center of our politics.
→ read full articleICC Adds Aggression to List of Crimes Despite US Opposition
Jenna Greene – Legal Times,
21 Jun 2010
In a move that international lawyers describe as “a giant leap,” members of the International Criminal Court agreed to add aggression to the court’s short list of prosecutable crimes. The United States opposed the resolution, but as a non-member of the eight-year old court, had no ability to block the adoption. Still, it was notable that the United States even showed up for the debate.
→ read full articleRowley, McGovern and Ellsberg — Statement on Wikileaks, June 18 2010
Institute for Public Accuracy-IPA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
The following statement was released today by Coleen Rowley, an FBI whistleblower who was one of Time Magazine’s people of the year in 2002; Ray McGovern, CIA analyst for 27 years; and Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers (top-secret government documents that showed a pattern of governmental deceit about the Vietnam War):
→ read full articleI Am Too Poor to Go to War…
David Inkey - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
A Poem
→ read full articleNPT: Challenging the Nuclear Powers’ Fiefdom
Rebecca Johnson – Open Democracy,
21 Jun 2010
The NPT Review provided a bridge between the partial non-proliferation approach of the NPT and the comprehensive abolition objectives of a nuclear weapons convention. It will no longer be possible for governments to dismiss calls for a comprehensive nuclear abolition treaty.
→ read full article“Leaking This Information is the Act of a Hero”
Mike Gogulski – Help Bradley Manning,
21 Jun 2010
How sad it is to see the climate in the United States today — the majority is still lock-step in line with the military-industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned us about so many decades ago. I want to make the following points:
→ read full articleTale of Two Nuclear Whistleblowers
David Krieger – Common Dreams,
21 Jun 2010
What are we to learn from this tale of two whistleblowers, one fictitious, one real? One important lesson is the danger of nuclear double standards. We cannot be content to make a hero of a fictional Iranian nuclear whistleblower, while turning a blind eye to the treatment of a real-life Israeli nuclear whistleblower and to the Israeli nuclear arsenal.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Palestina, um Povo em Marcha pela Libertação
Editorial, Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2010
Não se derrota 62 anos de colonialismo israelense com duas semanas de mobilizações, mas as lutas de agora vão se transformando numa onda.
→ read full articleThe Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Framing the Narrative
Amy Goodman – Truthdig,
14 Jun 2010
I caught up with two veteran journalists who were covering the Gaza Freedom Flotilla for Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald, chief correspondent Paul McGeough and his photographer, Kate Geraghty. They were in Istanbul, where they had been deported from Israel. They had spent time on most of the ships of the flotilla, but were aboard the smaller, U.S.-flagged Challenger 1 when the raid occurred.
→ read full articleMedia-Israel: Beatings, Abuse, Doctored Evidence Emerge
Mel Frykberg – IPS,
14 Jun 2010
Although Israel successfully controlled news of its deadly commando raid on the Free Gaza (FG) flotilla during the first crucial 48 hours of media coverage, emerging evidence from witnesses and survivors is challenging the Israeli government’s version of events.
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Johan Galtung on ‘The Fall of the US Empire’
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
14 Jun 2010
The amount of money the United States has spent on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq surpassed the $1 trillion mark last week, according to the National Priorities Project Cost of War counter. To date over $747 billion has been appropriated for the war in Iraq and $299 billion for the war in Afghanistan. The US is spending over $136 billion on the wars this year. I’m joined now by Johan Galtung, who has spent the past half century pursuing non-violent conflict resolution in international relations. He’s known as a founder of the field of peace and conflict studies.
→ read full articleWhile Israel Kills and Maims …
Alison Weir – If Americans Knew,
14 Jun 2010
The Outrage at Helen Thomas. Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene.
→ read full articleUsing the Internet to Save the Rainforest: How an Amazonian Tribe Is Mastering the Modern World
Juliane von Mittelstaedt - Spiegel,
14 Jun 2010
The Surui people from the Brazilian rainforest are fighting to stop the destruction of their homeland. But instead of bows and arrows, they are using the Internet, GPS and Google Earth. Next they plan to start carbon emissions trading.
→ read full articleJoint Statement on the Armed Assault on Ships to Gaza
Prof. Ernesto Kahan, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2010
The Palestinian Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (PPPNW) and the Israeli Physicians for Peace and the Preservation of the Environment (IPPPE), affiliates of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, agree as follows:
→ read full articleKashmir: The Hidden Occupation
Yasmin Qureshi – Socialist Worker,
14 Jun 2010
The author grew up as a member of India’s Muslim minority before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a social justice activist who traveled to Palestine in 2007 and to Kashmir last year. This article is a reflection on her trip to Kashmir. The extent of India’s military occupation of Kashmir is incredible and appalling, yet the voice of Kashmiris is often lost.
→ read full articleThis Modern World
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2010
Obama the Far-Left Radical and a Few of the Far-Left Radical Things He Has Done
→ read full article(Portuguese) Violência de Israel Faz Parte do Dia-a-Dia do Povo Palestino
Dafne Melo, enviada a Ni’lin (Palestina) – Brasil de Fato,
14 Jun 2010
Todas as sextas-feiras, cidades palestinas da Cisjordânia realizam manifestações em frente ao muro construído por Israel.
→ read full articleW.H. Auden: (1907-1973) Poet of the Age of Anxiety
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2010
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the year 2010 as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures. Thus we are pleased to present the creative efforts of individuals who have helped to create bridges of understanding among cultures.
→ read full articleGaza ‘Peace Activists’: A Closer Look at Israel’s Terror Accusations
Yassin Musharbash - Spiegel,
14 Jun 2010
Were they peaceful activists or supporters of terrorism? Israel claims that some participants and organizers of the Gaza aid convoy attacked by the Israeli navy on May 31 had links with terrorist groups — but they have offered no evidence. SPIEGEL ONLINE takes a closer look at the accusations.
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