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(Portuguese) Haiti: Camponeses Marcham Contra a Monsanto e pela Soberania Nacional
Thalles Gomes Enche, no Haiti – Brasil de Fato,
14 Jun 2010
A Marcha foi uma resposta à doação de 475 toneladas de milho híbrido que a multinacional Monsanto ofereceu ao governo do Haiti no último mês de maio. Esta doação está sendo encarada pelas famílias e movimentos camponeses como um verdadeiro presente mortal e representa um “ataque muito forte à agricultura camponesa, aos camponeses e às camponesas, à biodiversidade, às sementes crioulas que estamos defendendo, ao que resta de nosso meio ambiente no Haiti”, de acordo com Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, coordenador do MPP (Mouvman Peyizan Papay) e membro da Via Campesina haitiana, responsáveis pela convocação e coordenação da Marcha.
→ read full articleRage after the Raid: Israel’s Voyage into Isolation
Spiegel* – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2010
After last Monday’s raid on a flotilla of peace activists heading toward the Gaza Strip, Israel finds itself on the defensive. Not only has Turkey turned its back on the country, but the US too is angered by the unilateralism of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.
→ read full articleConflict Resolution
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2010
A husband and wife were having dinner at a very fine restaurant when this absolutely stunning young woman comes over to their table, gives the husband a big open mouthed kiss, then says she’ll see him later and walks away. The wife glares at her husband and says,
→ read full article(Italian) Aosta, 2010, June 1. For Freedom Flotilla
Silvia Berruto, amica e persuasa della nonviolenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2010
Tuesday, 17:00 – Italy – Aosta – Piazza Chanoux. Manifestazione nonviolenta a sostegno della missione della Freedom Flotilla. Contro l’attacco in acque internazionali, da parte di un commando dell’esercito israeliano sferrato il 31 maggio scorso alla nave turca Mavi Marmara carica di aiuti umanitari.
→ read full articleEnabling Collective Intelligence in Response to Emergencies
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2010
The response to the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (2010), acknowledged as the greatest recent environmental disaster, is used here to summarize and illustrate the challenge of enabling collective intelligence in response to emergencies. The focus is therefore less on the oil spill disaster and more on how intelligence is gathered of relevance to emergencies for which no immediate solution is found.
→ read full articlePhenomenon of Ambidextrous Individuals Still Startles Scientists
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2010
Leonardo da Vinci could work with his both hands. He used to draw with his right hand and write with his left one. Jimmy Hendricks, the rock musician, could play right-handed guitar with his left hand turning it upside down. He used to place the strings backwards so they would be positioned the same way as on a regular guitar.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Israel e o Terrorismo de Estado
Prof. Dejalma Cremonese – Brasil de Fato,
14 Jun 2010
O que levaria uma nação que outrora sofrera atrocidades sob a perseguição nazista a incorrer no mesmo erro histórico de submeter outros povos às mesmas atrocidades e genocídios?
→ read full articleKill a Turk and Rest
Uri Avnery - Gush-Shalom,
14 Jun 2010
The ship was called “Exodus 1947”. It left France in the hope of breaking the British blockade, which was imposed to prevent ships loaded with Holocaust survivors from reaching the shores of Palestine. If it had been allowed to reach the country, the illegal immigrants would have come ashore and the British would have sent them to detention camps in Cyprus, as they had done before. Nobody would have taken any notice of the episode for more than two days.
→ read full articleReport Says Doctors Helped Refine Harsh Methods
Kimberly Dozier, Associated Press – The Miami Herald,
14 Jun 2010
A prominent physicians group is charging that medical personnel were used to test and refine the effectiveness of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques for terror detainees in U.S. custody under the guise of safeguarding their health.
→ read full article(Castellano) Reflexiones sobre Educación y Paz: Acerca del Campeonato Mundial de Football y la Educación por la Cultura de Paz
Alicia Cabezudo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2010
La comprensión de la diversidad y las diferencias, la multiplicidad de formas de vida y visiones del mundo, las distintas civilizaciones y sus manifestaciones, la riqueza de las diversas culturas que representan estos equipos de futbol, la posibilidad de diálogo que genera, proponen una lección de pluralismo político, religioso y cultural que enriquece el proceso educativo y constituyen ejes fundamentales en la formación cívico democrática de niños, jóvenes y adultos.
→ read full articleJewish Ideology and World Peace
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2010
I am here to announce as loud as I can, there is no need for any ‘International’, ‘impartial’ or ‘independent’ inquiry into the latest Israeli massacre on the high sea. Though the Israeli opposition to such an inquiry is there to suggest that the Israelis have much to hide, the truth of the matter is actually deeper. If you want to grasp what underlies the Israeli deadly barbarism all you have to do is open the Old Testament.
→ read full articleCommunicating Peace: Organiser’s Introduction to IPRA Sydney 2010
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2010
Sydney plays host, from July 6-10, to the biennial global conference of IPRA, the International Peace Research Association. The keynote speaker is Johan Galtung. Delegates can register for the whole conference or for one day.
→ read full articleTurkey Goes From Pliable Ally to Thorn for U.S.
Sabrina Tavernise and Michael Slackman – The New York Times,
14 Jun 2010
For decades, Turkey was one of the United States’ most pliable allies, a strategic border state on the edge of the Middle East that reliably followed American policy. But recently, it has asserted a new approach in the region, its words and methods as likely to provoke Washington as to advance its own interests.
→ read full articleThe Real Threat Aboard the Freedom Flotilla
Noam Chomsky – In These Times,
14 Jun 2010
Israel assumes that it can commit such crimes with impunity because the United States tolerates them and Europe generally follows the U.S.’s lead. As the editors of The Guardian rightly observed on June 1, “If an armed group of Somali pirates had yesterday boarded six vessels on the high seas, killing at least 10 passengers and injuring many more, a NATO task force would today be heading for the Somali coast.” In this case, the NATO treaty obligates its members to come to the aid of a fellow NATO country—Turkey—attacked on the high seas.
→ read full articleUN orders Israel to lift Gaza blockade
NineMSN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
Speaking on his return from visits to Brazil, Malawi and Uganda, Ban told reporters on Wednesday that the underlying problem behind Monday’s tragedy was the long-running, crippling Israeli siege of Gaza which he described as “counter-productive, unsustainable and wrong.” The UN secretary general said Israeli authorities must provide a “full and detailed account” of the commando raid on six ships that tried to break the Gaza siege to deliver some 10,000 tonnes of supplies.
→ read full articleDesigning Global Self-governance for the Future
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
This is the development of the argument in an introductory paper (Tao of Engagement — Weaponised Interactions and Beyond: Fibonacci’s magic carpet of games to be played for sustainable global governance, 2010). It continues the exploration of the possibility of providing a common framework for the huge global investment in weaponry — and the binary logic associated with its use — in relation to a variety of other more complex games and non-weaponised modes of interaction.
→ read full articleEnd of Moratorium on Whaling Threatens More Blood in the Seas
Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor – The Independent,
7 Jun 2010
The moratorium on commercial whaling, one of the world’s major environmental achievements, is in danger of being abandoned after 24 years at a meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) which begins this week in Morocco.
→ read full articleCensorship in a Slingshot
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
Israel’s attacks on humanitarian workers heading for Gaza have been called piracy, murder, ‘state terrorism’, even an act of war against the countries whose flags the boats were flying. On the other side has been a massive and cynical campaign of misinformation and misdirection, aimed at muddying the waters and deflecting responsibility.
→ read full articleIsraeli Murders, NATO and Afghanistan
Craig Murray – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
Therefore what is troubling the hearts and souls of non-Americans in NATO HQ is this fundamental question. Is NATO genuinely a mutual defence organisation, or is it just an instrument to carry out US foreign policy? With its unthinking defence of Israel and military occupation of Afghanistan, is US foreign policy really defending Europe, or is it making the World less safe by causing Islamic militancy?
→ read full articleIsraelis Opened Fire before Boarding Gaza Flotilla, Say Released Activists
Dorian Jones in Istanbul and Helena Smith – The Guardian,
7 Jun 2010
First eyewitness accounts of raid contradict version put out by Israeli officials.
→ read full articleChildren in Prison
Mary McAuley – Open Democracy,
7 Jun 2010
The approach to juvenile lawbreakers in Russia and in England & Wales is more punitive than in other European countries. Why do we put young offenders behind bars? In this article Mary McAuley highlights some of the questions she has addressed in her new book ‘Children in Custody’.
→ read full articleBuilding Cultures of Peace
Riane Eisler – Yes! magazine,
7 Jun 2010
If we are to build cultures of peace we have to start talking about something that still makes many people uncomfortable: gender.
→ read full articleNicholas Roerich (1874-1947) The Highest mountains stand as the witnesses of the Great Reality
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the year 2010 as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures. Thus we are pleased to present the creative efforts of individuals who have helped to create bridges of understanding among cultures.
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Conspiracy of Silence: Who are the Bilderberg Group?
RussiaToday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
It’s a club where the movers and shakers of the world meet under a veil of secrecy. The notorious Bilderberg group made up of politicians, business leaders and other power-brokers are having their annual meeting in an exclusive Spanish resort. But who is in this Club and what’s on the Bilderbergers agenda? RT is investigating.
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How Israel Planned the Flotilla Attack
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
As the MV Rachel Corrie ship is dragged to Israel,TRNN investigates Israel’s plan for attacking the flotilla.
→ read full articleArmadillo: The Afghanistan War Documentary that Shocked Denmark
Geoffrey Macnab – The Guardian,
7 Jun 2010
In Denmark, the press and public have been stunned by Armadillo, Janus Metz’s documentary about a UK-Danish base in Afghanistan, and the actions of the soldiers based there.
→ read full articleOh, God!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
A very good-hearted young man came to the gates of heaven. He asked God, “Why have you brought me here so early?
→ read full article‘Operation Justified Vengeance’: Israeli Strike on Freedom Flotilla to Gaza is Part of a Broader Military Agenda
Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
7 Jun 2010
Washington was fully aware as to the nature as well as the likely consequences of the IDF naval operation in international waters, including the killings of civilians. There are indications that the decision was taken in consultation with Washington. Obama’s White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was in Israel in the week prior to the launching of the raid on the Freedom Flotilla.
→ read full articleEgypt’s Blockade on Gaza
Ahmad Shokr – ZNet,
7 Jun 2010
The Egyptian government desperately wants to deflect any negative attention away from its own complicity in the blockade. But empty rhetorical gestures and mendacious displays of solidarity with Palestinian suffering do not change the basic fact that Gazans have been victims of a coordinated Israeli-Egyptian siege, for which Mubarak’s government bears its fair share of responsibility.
→ read full articleU.S. Blocks Security Council Criticism of Israeli Raid
The Salt Lake Tribune – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
The Obama administration refused to endorse a statement that singled out Israel, and proposed a broader condemnation of the violence that would include the assault of the Israeli commandos as they landed on the deck of the ship.
→ read full articleIsrael Has Crossed the Rubicon
Lynda Brayer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
The PLO hijacking of the Achille Lauro p in 1986 in an attempt to free Palestinian political prisoners held illegally in Israeli prisons is held up as an act of terrorism. However, it can be argued, and correctly in my legal opinion, that the actual and continuing occupation and colonization of Palestine itself is the original and continuing crime. Resistance to conquest is not, and cannot be defined, as criminal. However, if the West considered that it was an act of terrorism, how should we now describe this latest Israeli attack? It can, and should, be defined as the very epitome of a double terrorism: the first act of terror is the use of military force on the high seas, while the second act of terror is the use of this illegitimate force against hors de combat unarmed civilians!
→ read full articleThe Myth of Israeli Morality
Lamis Andoni – Al Jazeera,
7 Jun 2010
Israel’s reaction to non-violent protests inside and outside the occupied territories is part of its fear of the assertion of Palestinian identity in the historic land of Palestine…. The bullets that pierced the bodies of the activists have boomeranged, shattering the myth of Israeli morality.
→ read full articleIsraeli’s Nuclear Policy: From South Africa to Iran
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
On May 24, 2010, the Guardian (U.K.) published a highly confidential document released by the South African government. The 1975 document reveals a secret military agreement signed by Shimon Peres, Israel’s Foreign Minister at the time (and today Israel’s President) and South Africa’s Defense Minister P. W. Botha. Israel offered to sell the apartheid regime, weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, chemical and conventional weaponry to destroy and defeat the million person African resistance movement.
→ read full articleAustralia Acts over Japan Whaling
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
Australia has launched legal case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague in an effort to halt Japanese whaling in the seas off Antarctica, officials in Tokyo have said.
→ read full articleListening Project Field Visit Report: Myanmar/Burma
submission from Emma Leslie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
The Myanmar Listening Project was a joint venture between CPCS, Nyien/Shalom Foundation of Myanmar and CDA Collaborative Learning Projects of the United States. It sought to listen to recipients and deliverers of international assistance as a means of improving international assistance practices.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Estamos Todos Com MV Rachel Corrie
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
7 Jun 2010
Israel vai cometer outro massacre? Haverá um ato de pirataria no alto mar? Tel Aviv vai torpedear o navio MV Rachel Corrie, um navio irlandês que viaja para Gaza, sob a égide do Direito Internacional das Nações Unidas (Resolução 1860)?
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Interview with Al Jazeera’s Jamal ElShayyal: One of the Passengers on the Mavi Marmara
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
Al Jazeera’s Jamal Elshayyal has been released by Israeli authorities following Monday’s deadly raid on the Mavi Marmara aid ship that was destined for Gaza.
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ICC Accused of Targeting Africa
Mohammed Adow – Al Jazeera,
7 Jun 2010
Its creation was supposed to extend the rule of law to the corners of the world that needed it most. But eight years on, the International Criminal Court stands accused of focusing exclusively on African countries and exacerbating existing conflicts in its refusal to drop charges in exchange for peace deals.
→ read full articleMexico-USA: Drugs-Arms-Money
Johan Galtung & Fernando Montiel T., 7 Jun 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
In 1846-48 the USA conquered 53% of the Mexican territory in a terrible war; the USA says it was 33%. Today a fifth of the Mexicans live in the USA, legally or not; 53% of them would mean 30 million more in the USA. Far too much, says Arizona in the anti-illegal immigration law, denounced by Calderón as threat to human rights and democracy. Obama, to the right of Bush, sends 1,200 soldiers to the border; with 1 million Americans now living in Mexico, mainly close to beaches, to stretch meager pensions…. Meanwhile, Hugo Chávez was on CNN-Español and claimed that during his presidency Venezuelan poverty dropped from 73% to 40%, and misery from 23% to 5%. Given his social policy it might simply be true, or close to it. So much more important than GNP growth. And threatened by Obama’s seven bases in Colombia, and the Fourth Fleet. And yet the voice of the future.
→ read full articleU.S. Defence Spending Far Outpaces Rest of the World
Amanda Bransford - IPS,
7 Jun 2010
The United States continues to lead the world in defence spending, according to a new report released Thursday [27 May 2010] by the Centre for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, a U.S.-based non-partisan research organisation. In fact, the U.S outspends Russia, the next highest spender, by more than 800 percent.
→ read full articleTribute to the People of Gaza
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
This journey, by boat, will be my third with The Free Gaza Movement and it has shown me that people can make a difference. The Free Gaza Movement was started by a few people with an idea and the courage to make it happen. If people wish to support their work and follow us on the boat journey to Gaza visit their website at http://www.freegaza.org/
→ read full articleIsraeli Butchery at Sea
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
For days the Israeli government prepared the Israeli society for the massacre at sea. It said that the Flotilla carried weapons, it had ‘terrorists’ on board. Only yesterday evening it occurred to me that this Israeli malicious media spin was there to prepare the Israeli public for a full scale Israeli deadly military operation in international waters. Make no mistake.
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BREAKING NEWS: Israel Attacks Gaza Aid Fleet in International Waters
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service 31 May 2010,
31 May 2010
Al Jazeera’s report on board the Mavi Marmara before communications were cut.
→ read full articleBREAKING NEWS: Israel Attacks Gaza Aid Fleet in International Waters
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service 31 May 2010,
31 May 2010
Israeli forces have attacked a flotilla of aid-carrying ships aiming to break the country’s siege on Gaza. More than 10 people were killed and dozens injured when troops intercepted the convoy of ships dubbed the Freedom Flotilla early on Monday, the Israeli military said.
→ read full articleThe Brazilian/Turkish Initiative: Rebalancing the World
Prof. Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
Instead of welcoming this notable effort to reduce regional tensions, the Brazilian/Turkish initiative was immediately branded as an amateurish irrelevance by the American Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton. She insisted that the concerns about Iranian nuclear enrichment be left exclusively in the hands of the ‘major powers,’ and immediately rallied China and Russia (in addition to France and the United Kingdom) to support a fourth round of punitive sanctions that were to be presented to the UN Security Council in the near future.
→ read full articleAn appeal to Peace Nobelist President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu to free Mordechai Vanunu
TMS Editor,
31 May 2010
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire has written to President Barack Obama, USA, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, asking them to ‘do all they can’ to obtain the release of Mordechai Vanunu and for him to be allowed to leave Israel.
→ read full articleThe 2010 National Security Strategy
Fred Dubee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
Worth reading? I guess it depends on your understanding of the relevance of US policy and strategy on the world stage. On the other hand it is relatively easy to argue that US national security strategy must always be taken into account and give due respect. In these very delicate times, and with increasing polarization in the media and public dialogue a strong point can be made in favor of having a look at the actual text of the strategy document – but as always, actions speak much louder than any policy statement.
→ read full articleSri Lanka War Crimes
TMS Editor,
31 May 2010
Louise Arbour, President and CEO of Crisis Group, on the report “War Crimes in Sri Lanka” and the Sri Lankan government’s response to the report thus far.
→ read full articleFrom Japan to Guam to Hawai’i, Activists Resist Expansion of US Military Presence in the Pacific
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
In Japan, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama sparked outrage this weekend when he announced he has decided to keep an American air base on the island of Okinawa. Before last year’s historic election victory, Hatoyama had vowed to move the base off of Okinawa or even out of Japan.
→ read full articleNuclear Fuel Swap Deal: US Sabotages ‘Unique Opportunity’ for Peaceful Resolution with Iran
Finian Cunningham – Global Research,
31 May 2010
In his inaugural speech in January 2009, US president Barack Obama promised a new beginning in foreign policy towards Iran, saying “we will extend a hand if you are willing to un-clench your fist”. He didn’t actually mention Iran by name then, but everyone knew he was saying that the Bush administration’s confrontational approach to the Islamic Republic was being replaced by a more reasonable policy based on mutual dialogue.
→ read full articleLooking for an Alternative to Capitalism
Alan Maass - Socialist Worker,
31 May 2010
Socialism is back in the news with new evidence of its popularity.
→ read full articleThe US-Russia START Treaty: Just What Does “Arms Control” Really Mean?
Darwin Bond-Graham – Truthout,
31 May 2010
There’s a funny if intimidating gun-nut bumper sticker you may have seen on the road: “Gun control means using both hands.” It’s clever, invoking and mocking gun control at the same time.
→ read full articleEdna St. Vincent Millay (1892 – 1950) The World stands out on either side, no wider than the heart is wide
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the year 2010 as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures. Thus we are pleased to present the creative efforts of individuals who have helped to create bridges of understanding among cultures.
→ read full articleFraming Pakistan: How the Pro-Israel Media Enables India’s Surrogate Warfare
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
In its bitter rivalry with India, Pakistan is at a fatal disadvantage. Unlike its South Asian neighbour, Islamabad lacks an ally with considerable influence over American mainstream media.
→ read full article(Italian) Alla Ricerca di Consenso
Leo Hoffmann-Axthelm – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
New York, 24 maggio 2010. Senza un potere esecutivo internazionale che abbia un vero monopolio sulla violenza, la legge pubblica internazionale si lascia creare solo dal consenso: qual è infatti il senso di costringere Stati ad adottare certe leggi, se poi non potranno in alcun modo essere costretti a rispettarle?
→ read full articleThe NPT and the Nuclear Power TRAP
Diane Perlman, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
For 40 years, there is virtual, unquestioned acceptance of nuclear energy, with frequent and automatic repetition of the mantras –the “inalienable right” to “peaceful uses” of nuclear energy, the “the third pillar” throughout the speeches. The belief in nuclear power is so deeply and widely held that it may seem outrageous to even question it.
→ read full articleAssessing Maoists Janaandolan III in Theory
Bishnu Pathak, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
Puspa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda, Chairperson of the United Communist Party of Nepal or UCPN (Maoist), has time and again said that the party he represents is being isolated from the mainstream power-politics. Grave connotations can be drawn from this juncture of peace and epoch of constitutional writing.
→ read full articleThe NPT Review: Business as Usual Now, Disarmament Perhaps Later
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
The nuclear weapons of Israel and their meaning for Middle East policies have long been “an elephant in the room” of the NPT Reviews — too large not to notice but too dangerous to deal with if anything else in the review process was to be done.
→ read full article(French) Quel Retour à Marx Pour Penser Notre Temps?
Laurent Etre – l’Humanité,
31 May 2010
FACE-À-FACE AVEC : EDGAR MORIN, philosophe et sociologue, directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS et docteur honoris causa de nombreuses universités dans le monde ; ANDRÉ TOSEL, philosophe, spécialiste de Marx et des marxismes, professeur à l’université de Nice.
→ read full articleFormer CIA Officer on Iran: Brazil and Turkey Are Vital Checks and Balances
Graham E. Fuller – The Christian Science Monitor,
31 May 2010
Shouldn’t the world welcome the actions of two significant, responsible, democratic, and rational states to intervene and help check the foolishnesses of decades of US policy on Iran?
→ read full articleConflict and Fragility
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
When you give aid in a context of armed conflict, you become part of that context and also therefore part of the conflict. The aphorism is from Do No Harm, by Mary B Anderson, the book-length account of an approach to development and humanitarian fieldwork that attempts to identify and foster local capacities and resources for peace.
→ read full article(Italian) Interviste a Nanni Salio e Angela Dogliotti Marasso
Giselle Dian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
Faccio parte della redazione di “Viterbo oltre il muro. Spazio di informazione nonviolenta”, un’esperienza nata dagli incontri di formazione nonviolenta che si svolgono settimanalmente a Viterbo con la partecipazione di Peppe Sini. Sto redigendo una tesina per gli esami di maturita’, l’argomento e’ il graffitista americano Keith Haring. Nella tesina ovviamente intendo anche mettere in evidenza tra le altre caratteristiche dell’esperienza di Haring il suo impegno per la pace e contro il nucleare. Peppe mi ha suggerito di farle una intervista su questi temi che vorrei poter eventualmente utilizzare per la mia tesina.
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A Distinctive Contribution: Radio Magwi FM 92.5 – Sudan
Dominik Lehnert, XCHANGEperspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
This clip gives a brief overview on the Rural Youth’s Voices Project, a Community Based Youth Radio Station and Music Production Studio in Magwi, South Sudan. This project was implemented by Xchange Perspectives in cooperation with the German Development Service, DED. Peace is the theme and the objective.
→ read full articleManagers
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts:
→ read full article(Italian) A Proposito di Nonviolenza Evangelica
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
Cristianesimo, violenza, nonviolenza. Mi pare che ci sia una ambivalenza (non ambiguità) nelle interpretazioni del cristianesimo riguardo a violenza e nonviolenza.
→ read full articleTranscend Themes around the World (using Prof. Galtung at 80 as pretext)
TMS Editor,
31 May 2010
The TRANSCEND Network has been around since 1993 and has tried to develop a number of themes related to conflict, development, civilization and peace. Time has come to take stock, where are we, where would we like to be in, say, 2020, what can we learn from failures and, possibly, successes? What are the criteria?
→ read full articleWhen Media Acts Responsibly Everybody Wins
Prof. Parvez Ahmed – Common Ground,
31 May 2010
Instead of the usual criticisms often heard about media providing misinformed coverage of Muslims and Islam, commentator and University of North Florida Professor Parvez Ahmed commends media in his Jacksonville, Florida hometown for the way in which they dealt with two potentially polarising issues.
→ read full articleStatus of Women in Post Taliban Afghanistan
Maryam Sakeenah – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
This paper attempts to study, investigate and analyse the condition and status of womenfolk in Afghanistan after the United States-led invasion of the country in November-December 2001. It includes information and findings to clearly illustrate the actual state of affairs relating to women in the war-ravaged country. On the basis of data collection and findings, the paper aims at drawing conclusions and making recommendations for the improvement of the situation and status of the women in present-day Afghanistan.
→ read full articleThe Sinking of The Cheonan: Another Gulf Of Tonkin Incident
Stephen Gowans – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
While the South Korean government announced on May 20 that it has overwhelming evidence that one of its warships was sunk by a torpedo fired by a North Korean submarine, there is, in fact, no direct link between North Korea and the sunken ship. And it seems very unlikely that North Korea had anything to do with it.
→ read full articleWhere Is the World Economy Heading?
Johan Galtung, 31 May 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
Imagine you are ill. A health rating agency, let us call it Moody & Poor, publishes your rating. Somebody bets on your death. Others withdraw life support; what might have been a self-denying becomes a self-fulfilling, demoralizing, prophecy. The betting company cashes in “some serious money”–the expression used in Goldman Sachs when they celebrated the fall of the US housing market (Washington Post 24 April 2010). Remedy: outlaw most, make credit rating–teleconferences by 5 voting experts–transparent. They are paid by the people who issue the debts to be rated.
→ read full articleTao of Engagement — Weaponised Interactions and Beyond
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
Produced in celebration of the United Nations International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures (2010) and the ever increasing development, manufacture and sale of arms by Permanent Members of the UN Security Council following the UN Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations (2001)
→ read full articleEnvironment and Food in Haiti: Two Crises, One Solution
Beverly Bell – Toward Freedom,
31 May 2010
In this interview, Chavannes Jean-Baptiste discusses the role that agriculture can play in Haiti in addressing both the environmental and food crises. Jean-Baptiste is the Executive Director of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP by its Creole acronym) and the spokesperson for the National Peasant Movement of the Congress of Papay (MPNKP). Until this year, he also sat on the international coordinating committee of Vía Campesina, a confederation of organizations of peasant, family, indigenous, and landless farmers from more than sixty countries.
→ read full articleBack to Marx: How Can His Work Help Us to Understand Modern Times?
Laurent Etre – l’Humanité,
31 May 2010
The world economic crisis has ended the taboo on referring to Marx. More and more works are being published on the author of Das Kapital, and the press is publishing special sections on him.
→ read full article(Italian) Sentenza Diaz: Condannati i vertici della Polizia di Stato. Intervista a Lorenzo Guadagnucci
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
Il 21 luglio 2001 anche dalla Valle d’Aosta sono partiti degli attivisti per partecipare alla manifestazione pacifica del movimento contro il vertice del G8.
→ read full articleUS Space Weapon Now Circling the Globe
John Lasker – Toward Freedom,
31 May 2010
The US space weapon X-37 is now circling the globe in relative secrecy. It is an unmanned space plane that looks like a smaller version of the Space Shuttle and was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on April 22, 2010. This new weapon poses threats to global peace and risks sparking an arms race in space.
→ read full articleThe US Civil Rights Revolution
Johan Galtung, 24 May 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
A research project 1958-60 on school desegregation in Charlottesville VA brought this author close to that abominable century of deliberate delay. Interviewing white segregationists brought up three major factors in their prejudice: they, the blacks, are angry because of slavery and will take revenge, stab us in the back; they are all communists against our society; they are ugly. Hidden in this was a recipe for individual black advance in white society: take history with a smile, be right wing Republican, be pretty-handsome. At least two out of these three may take you there. It is not pigment. Examples are obvious.
→ read full articleAid Convoy sets off for Gaza
AlJazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
The biggest attempt by international aid groups to break the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip has gotten underway.
→ read full articleHow Flossing Can Save Your Life
Simon Usborne – The Independent,
24 May 2010
We know it helps stop tooth decay – but new research shows that good oral care can prevent heart disease, diabetes and even dementia.
→ read full articleOn Accountability for Violations of International Humanitarian Law in Sri Lanka
HRW – Transcend Media Service,
24 May 2010
Human Rights Watch is calling for a United Nations commission of inquiry to investigate violations of international humanitarian law by both Sri Lankan government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam during the recent fighting. This Q & A addresses various issues relating to accountability for crimes in violation of international law.
→ read full articleThe Heresy of the Greeks Offers Hope
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger inverts the perception of Greece as a “junk country” and sees hope in the uprising of ordinary Greeks protesting against the “bailout” of an economy plunged into debt by the tax-evading rich. Greece, he writes, is a microcosm for the developed world, where class war are the words seldom used because they are the truth.
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One Love – Playing for Change: Peace through Music
Bob Marley - TMS Editor,
24 May 2010
From the award-winning documentary, “Playing for Change: Peace through Music”, comes an incredible rendition of the legendary Bob Marley song “One Love” with Keb’ Mo’ and Manu Chao. Released in celebration of Bob Marley’s birthday on February 6th, this tribute to the legend is performed by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it traveled the globe.
→ read full articleOnline Protest Drives Nestlé to Environmentally Friendly Palm Oil
Martin Hickman – The Independent,
24 May 2010
Food giant bows to Greenpeace campaign and vows to cut its ‘deforestation footprint’.
→ read full articleFormer Central Bank Head Karl Otto Pöhl: Bailout Plan Is All About ‘Rescuing Banks and Rich Greeks’
Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
The 750 billion euro package the European Union passed last week to prop up the common currency has been heavily criticized in Germany. Former Bundesbank head Karl Otto Pöhl told SPIEGEL that Greece may ultimately have to opt out, and that the foundation of the euro has been fundamentally weakened.
→ read full articleHaitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Hybrid Seeds
Beverly Bell – Toward Freedom,
24 May 2010
“A new earthquake” is what peasant farmer leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the news that Monsanto will be donating 60,000 seed sacks (475 tons) of hybrid corn seeds and vegetable seeds, some of them treated with highly toxic pesticides. The MPP has committed to burning Monsanto’s seeds, and has called for a march to protest the corporation’s presence in Haiti on June 4, for World Environment Day.
→ read full articleThe Iran Nuclear Deal and the New Premier League of Global Powers
Simon Tisdall – The Guardian,
24 May 2010
Brazil and Turkey are determined to pursue diplomacy and compromise – even if it means upsetting Washington.
→ read full articleIndia Snubs US, Hails Iran’s N-Plan
The Times of India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
The growing policy rift between India and the US on how to deal with Iran’s nuclear enrichment plans has come out in the open with foreign minister S M Krishna disagreeing with the American position to welcome Tehran’s decision to send its low enriched uranium stock to Turkey.
→ read full articleGary Snyder: (1930- ) A Zen View of Nature
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the year 2010 as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures. Thus we are pleased to present the creative efforts of individuals who have helped to create bridges of understanding among cultures.
→ read full articleWhy Humane Meat Is an Oxymoron
Michele Simon - Alternet,
24 May 2010
Niman then proceeded to bury herself even deeper in the ethical morass by making the astonishing claim that animals suffer a lot in the wild, since it’s such a dangerous world out there, and aren’t they better off under the care of humane, kind ranchers like her husband? This sounded chillingly like the arguments for slavery. You know, blacks were really much better off getting free room and board and they weren’t treated all that badly were they?
→ read full articleNew Colonialism: Pentagon Carves Africa into Military Zones
Rick Rozoff – Pambazuka News,
24 May 2010
Under its AFRICOM (African Command) initiative, the US Army is becoming ever more deeply involved in African military affairs across the continent, encroaching on the military autonomy of an increasing number of African nations, writes Rick Rozoff. Pulling African countries’ militaries into its network is not based on altruism, Rozoff contends, but simply reflects the concerns of every military power: ‘The threat and use of armed violence to gain economic and geopolitical advantages.’
→ read full articleThe Tragicomedy of Iran Sanctions
Massoud Parsi – AlJazeera,
24 May 2010
The public relations coup scored by Brazil and Turkey was far greater than a search for solutions to the West’s attempted siege of Iran’s economy. In a single move, they not only exposed the intransigence of Obama, they showed themselves to be in tune with world opinion. In throwing a direct challenge to the US, they provided a concrete demonstration of a new world order.
→ read full articleSo Much for ‘Understanding’
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
The UN. conducted a worldwide survey asking “Would you please give your honest opinion about the solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?”
→ read full articleSecurity for Australia in the ‘Asia Pacific Century’ (Part 2)
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
Let’s cup our ear to some echoes from the past. Andrew Alexander, a journalist on the right- of-centre Daily Mail newspaper in the UK, recounted how his research for a book about the origins of the Cold War confounded his presuppositions: there had, in reality, been “no Soviet military threat”, and wrong-headed western assessments that one existed were responsible for “one of the most unnecessary conflicts of all time, and certainly the most perilous”.
→ read full articleWhy the Times Square Incident Should Be a Turning Point
Dr Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
The fact remains that terrorism is such a menace it can not be contained single handedly by a single country. In fact the nature of terrorism is so complicated and so wide and embedded; it will be difficult to tackle the menace by amending national laws or by punishing few terrorists. A global coalition, with a genuine global agenda, is the imperative of the hour if the world is to become terror-free, stable and peaceful.
→ read full articlePublic Statement – A plea to put an end to massive killing in Bangkok
International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB) - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
The International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB), representing a diversity of socially engaged buddhists from around the world, is gravely concerned about this standoff. We wish for all parties address the conflict with reason and tools of peace, to recognize the ancient Buddhist wisdom that neither the so-called winner nor loser will be contented and happy. We encourage those who do not fall into one of the two camps can help this process wherever possible. Only through peaceful negotiation and dialogue can all parties concerned return the country to its true nature as a flourishing democracy and a peace-loving nation.
→ read full article(Castellano) Todos Contra la Violencia
Equipo de Nación – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
Hace cuatro años, tras una reflexión interna en la sala de Redacción de LPG-La Prensa Gráfica, motivada por la cobertura diaria de homicidios y hechos violentos, el periódico decidió hacer una atrevida apuesta editorial.
→ read full articleIran Accepts Nuclear-Fuel Swap Deal
AlJazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
Iran has signed an agreement brokered by Brazil to ship low-enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for nuclear fuel for its power plant, according to official media.
→ read full articleHung Parliament or Hung Parliamentarism?
Johan Galtung, 17 May 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
Is Anglo-America a conspiracy against conflict resolution, in favor of conflict settlement through victory? Hosting a Karl Marx, yet for those who think class is out look at the composition of the new cabinet in terms of education, family and nation-within-nation.
→ read full articleNoam Chomsky Denied Entry into Israel and West Bank
Amira Hass - Haaretz,
17 May 2010
Left-wing American linguist, who was scheduled to speak at Bir Zeit University, given no reason by Israeli inspectors at Allenby Bridge.
→ read full articleHow One Palestinian Village Started a Movement
Sara Reef – Common Ground,
17 May 2010
Most of the media coverage surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict focuses on stories of violence and despair. Little is known about the growing Palestinian-led non-violent movement that has united rival Palestinian factions, including Fatah and Hamas, and encouraged hundreds of Israelis to cross into the West Bank and Gaza for the first time to join this non-violent effort.
→ read full articleJerusalem Residents Attack Writer Elie Wiesel over Appeal to Barack Obama
Chris McGreal – The Guardian,
17 May 2010
Holocaust survivor accused of ignoring anti-Arab discrimination in Jerusalem.
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