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5 Shockingly Advanced Ancient Buildings That Shouldn’t Exist… Even If Built Today
Eric Yosomono, Welldone Quibranza & Alaric Penname – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
The achievements of ancient cultures tend to be woefully unappreciated — we think of the people as loincloth-wearing savages, and when we’re proven wrong by some impressive feat of engineering, we just make a bunch of documentaries about aliens. But the engineers of times past were nothing to sneer at, and some of their accomplishments make ours seem slightly embarrassing.
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Chopin “Fantasie” Impromptu (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Yundi Li – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Li Yundi, born Oct 7 1982 in China, was the youngest pianist to win the International Frédéric Chopin Piano Competition in 2000 at the age of 18. He resides in Beijing.
Did you know that Chopin disliked this piece? He composed it when he was 24 years old and regretted it.
War Journalism and News Distortion
Michael Krona – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
For example: what do you think is the conflict from its inception in 1998 has had over five million dead, has had involvement of military forces from nine countries and played out in an area the size of Western Europe, but few in the West even noticed?
→ read full articleMillay’s “Epitaph for the Race of Man”
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
The beautiful red-haired American poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), is known for her lyric poetry. In “Epitaph” she speculates on what will be the final cause of the extinction of the human race and concludes that Man will die by his own hand since nothing has persuaded humankind “to lay aside the lever and the spade, and be as dust among the dusts that blow”.
→ read full articleThe West against Itself
Johan Galtung, 27 Apr 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Take the 70th anniversary demarcation of the victory over nazism… Poland lost 20% of its population; the Soviet Union 27.1 million, 16%, with 1,710 cities and 70,000 villages erased; UK 1.1%; USA 0.4%; Norway 0.32%.
→ read full articleThe Effects of Marijuana on the Body
Healthline – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
When you smoke marijuana, there’s an almost immediate effect on your brain, sense of perception, and heart rate. There may be long-term effects as well.
→ read full article(Italiano) Mare nostrum è di tutti
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Aosta 20 aprile 2015. Fiaccolata per le/i migranti morte/i in mare
→ read full articleThe Least We Can Do for Syria
Lakhdar Brahimi, Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
In a conflict as bitter, protracted, and complex as the war in Syria, it is all too easy to become overwhelmed by despair. And yet, however grim or upsetting the situation becomes, people around the world, rather than tuning out the war, should pressure their governments to protect and shelter Syria’s refugees.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Ukrainekonflikt und kein Ende?
Andreas Zumach, Blätter - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Mit dem Abschluss von „Minsk II“ ist es, wenn auch unter großen Schwierigkeiten, zu einem höchst fragilen Waffenstillstand in der Ostukraine gekommen – inklusive einer Entzerrung der Frontlinien, des Abzugs schwerer Waffen und weiterer Deeskalationsschritte.
→ read full articleGaleano Died. But the Revolution Goes On!
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Eduardo Galeano died. My eyes are full of tears. Personally, I feel devastated. But Revolution is spreading all over the world and that is what matters. Thanks to him, and to others like him, fewer and fewer people will betray the cause. And more and more will dream and fight for the survival of our Planet, more and more will “keep walking”!
→ read full articleGirls, Not Brides
Graça Machel and Mabel van Oranje, Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Urging governments to combat child marriage by setting the minimum age for marriage at 18.
→ read full articleNobel Women Initiative’s Conference – Building Global Support for Women Human Rights Defenders
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Breaking the silence on Israel’s human rights abuse of Palestinians is the best way to help Palestinian women human rights defenders and peacemakers.
→ read full articleAsian, African Nations Challenge ‘Obsolete’ World Order
Eveline Danubrata and Charlotte Greenfield, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Leaders of Asian and African nations called on Wednesday [22 Apr 2015] for a new global order that is open to emerging economic powers and leaves the “obsolete ideas” of Bretton Woods institutions in the past at the opening of a meeting in Jakarta to mark the 60th anniversary of a conference that made a developing-world stand against colonialism and led to the Cold War era’s non-aligned movement.
→ read full articleHindu Rashtra and Two-Nation Theory
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
A debate has recently gained momentum in India around the idea of Hindu Rashtra or Hindu nation-state… Hinduism is not dogmatic; it embraces pluralism. It believes in coexistence with other religions. Mahatma Gandhi was a proponent of this coexistence.
→ read full articleSide Effects: Popping Pills and Pop-Up Politicos
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Used to be, when I flipped channels, I’d go from one movie to another, one drama to another, one news show to another, etc. These days, I’m more likely to go from one commercial to another—and more likely than not, it’s a prescription pill commercial! Every third time I flip, I land on a “news” program where there are yakking heads (used to be talking, now they just yak—kind of like real yaks!)—giggling, oohing, ah-ing, laying odds on latest announcements by Hillary Shrillary, Jeb the Bush, Rand the Paul, Ted the Harvard-Hispanic guy, and Marco the Cuban-American guy.
→ read full articleChurch Pushed to Place Itself within BDS Movement
Jews For Justice For Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
The Episcopal church in the USA (nearest relative, the Church of England) has been asked by its new group, the Episcopal Committee for Justice in Israel and Palestine, to adopt a policy of divestment from ‘companies that profit from Israel’s illegal occupation and colonization of Palestinian lands’. This is premised on the fact that Netanyahu has rejected the two-state solution and thus there is a new political landscape.
→ read full articleIPRA 2016 Global Peace Conference to Be Held in Freetown, Sierra Leone
International Peace Research Association – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
The 26th biennial conference of the Interna¬tional Peace Research Association (IPRA) is billed to take place in Freetown, Sierra Leone in November 2016, marking the second time Africa has hosted the conference since the founding of IPRA in 1964.
→ read full articleThe Heart of the Hawaiian Peoples’ Arguments against the Telescope on Mauna Kea
Doug Herman, Smithsonian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
23 Apr 2015 – Native Hawaiians are not protesting science, but instead are seeking respect for sacred places, and our planet. At this moment all over the Hawaiian Islands, but especially atop Mauna Kea volcano, there are protests against the building of a new Thirty-Meter Telescope on this sacred mountain.
→ read full articleMigrants´ Right to Live Should Not Be Killed
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Humankind may boast of many a life-saving technological invention,
but does it succeed, when challenged by migrant death prevention?…
The Now Show – Dr Seuss at Copenhagen
Marcus Brigstocke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
HILARIOUS! Read as you listen to podcast. A Dr Seuss-style take on events at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
→ read full articleThe Oslo Conference to End Myanmar’s Persecution of the Rohingyas
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Venues: The Nobel Institute and Voksenaasen
Oslo, Norway
26-28 May 2015
At this Oslo Conference, global leaders including George Soros and Desmond Tutu will call on the international community, both international investors, European Union and governments with close ties to Myanmar, to help end Myanmar’s Rohingya persecution.
Legacy of War
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Sometimes when we reflect on war, we talk about sacrifice for a good cause. Other times, we talk about the cost, in lives or liberties lost. Occasionally, we talk about the horror. Sometimes we talk about the gains, nationally or internationally, for freedom and democracy. And rarely, we analyse the causes of war and lament that one day we might end it.
→ read full articleThe Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Death of the Republic
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
On April 22, 2015, the Senate Finance Committee approved a bill to fast-track the TPP, a massive trade agreement that would override our republican form of government and hand judicial and legislative authority to a foreign three-person panel of corporate lawyers. The TPP would elevate the rights of investors – also called the rights of “capital” – above the rights of the citizens.
→ read full articleIf Writers Are Necessarily Right…
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Who Are the “Rongers”, So Necessarily Wrong? The focus of this reflection is on the curious phonetic relationship in English between “writer” and “right”. Is the exercise of “writing” surreptitiously assumed to be one which endeavours to make “right”? Can it be readily assumed to have this purpose, as in the sense of “setting things right” — “putting the world to rights”?
→ read full articleA New Deal for Greece
Yanis Varoufakis, Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
None of this means that common ground cannot be achieved immediately. The Greek government wants a fiscal-consolidation path that makes sense, and we want reforms that all sides believe are important. Our task is to convince our partners that our undertakings are strategic, rather than tactical, and that our logic is sound. Their task is to let go of an approach that has failed.
→ read full article(Norsk-Norwegian) Johan Galtung, verdens første fredsforskar om konflikten mellom Vesten og Islam
Jonas Sætre, Uten Filter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
14 Apr 2015 – Nyheitsdekninga det siste året har i svært stor grad vore prega av konflikt mellom Islam og Vesten. Frå terrorangrepa i Paris og København og terrortrugsel på norsk jord, til framveksten av IS, norske framandkrigarar og Vestens krigføring i Midtausten. Sjølv for den verdskjende norske professoren og fredsmeklaren Johan Galtung er dette dramatiske tider i tilhøvet mellom Vesten og Islam.
→ read full articleOn the Historic Role of the Peace Movement
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
One can distinguish between four forms of power: military, economic, cultural and political. Military power says, “If you don’t do what I want, I will hurt you.” Economic power says, “If you do what I want, I will reward you.” Cultural power says, “If you do what I want, I will praise you, and if you don’t do what I want, I will criticize you.” Political power manipulates the other three forms of power to achieve goals.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Günter Grass: Was gesagt werden muss
Günter Grass (Literatur-Nobelpreisträger) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Günter Grass (16 Oktober 1927-13 April 2015) warnt in der “Süddeutschen Zeitung” vor einem Krieg gegen Iran. In seinem Gedicht mit dem Titel “Was gesagt werden muss” fordert der Literaturnobelpreisträger deshalb, Israel dürfe keine deutschen U-Boote mehr bekommen. Dieses Gedicht hat eine hitzige Debatte in Deutschland und Israel.
→ read full articleWhat’s Obama Up to, with His TPP & TTIP?
Eric Zuesse, Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
It is instead to transfer political power away from the public in a democracy. The global aristocratic stockholder votes of the international aristocracy who elect the corporate directors of international companies will then be selecting the members to the international-trade-panels which, in TPP and TTIP, will, in their turn, be determining the rules and enforcements regarding especially workers’ rights, product-safety, and the environment.
→ read full articleThe Myth of ‘Value-Free’ Social Science or The Value of Political Commitments to Social Science
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
For many decades, mainstream social scientists, mostly conservative, have argued that political commitments and scientific research are incompatible. Against this current of opinion, others, mostly politically engaged social scientists, have argued that scientific research and political commitment are not contradictory. For the serious critical academic, in answering the question of ‘knowledge for whom?’: they would do well to follow Karl Marx’s wise adage, ‘The object of philosophy is not only to study the world but to change it.’
→ read full articleMost Europeans ‘Totally Distrust’ Mainstream Media Coverage of Ukraine Crisis – Poll
End the Lie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
21 Apr 2015 – The majority of Europeans – UK, French, German and Greek residents among them – distrust mainstream media coverage of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, a recent poll conducted by the British ICM Research agency for Sputnik News, targeting over 4,000 people, reveals.
→ read full articleSomething’s Happening in Latin America – A Review
Kim Scipes, New Politics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Apr 21, 2015 – With the Middle East in flames, NATO trying to start World War III in Ukraine while the European Union’s economy stagnates, Africa torn by low-level wars, and China re-entering the world stage in an assertive manner, there’s one region of the world that is relatively quiet: South America.
→ read full articleSolution
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
One reverend complained to the other, “I have no people coming to listen to my sermon.”
→ read full articleA Tale of Two Atomic Cities: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Kazumi Matsui and Tomihisa Taue, Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
On April 27 [2015], the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty’s 190 member countries will meet in New York for a review of the 45-year-old pact. The attendees would be wise to consider the important fact that a wide legal gap still remains when it comes to eliminating nuclear weapons: disarmament negotiations. This year also marks the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on August 6 and 9.
Kazumi Matsui is the mayor of Hiroshima, Japan.
Tomihisa Taue is the mayor of Nagasaki, Japan.
This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Apr 27–May 3 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Good morning… this is God. I will be handling all of your problems today. I will not need your help. So, have a good day.” – Unknown
→ read full articleAustralia to Authorize Guards to ‘Beat Asylum Seekers to Death’ – Report
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
The new powers, applying to immigration officers, would let them use “reasonable force against any person” to maintain order and security, which in fact could lead to “beating asylum seekers to death.” The immunity from civil and criminal liability will include private contractors – people, who are less trained than police officers.
→ read full articleThe Geopolitical Right of Exception at the United Nations
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Overcoming the geopolitical right of exception would require its repudiation by the United States, in particular, through a recognition that it is incompatible with a peaceful, just, sustainable, and more participatory world order. This geopolitical right is also a vehicle of influence by private sector corporate and financial interests contrary to the global public interest.
→ read full article[Physics Nobel Laureate] Professor Peter Higgs Backs Anti-Trident Call
Edinburgh News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
12 April 2015 – Nobel Prize winner Professor Peter Higgs has joined leading figures in music, the arts and science to call for the UK to scrap its nuclear deterrent.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Apr 20-26 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.” (Quoted from Desiderata) – Max Ehrmann
→ read full articleU.S. Blocked Declaration of a Right to Health Care, Says Bolivia’s President
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has blamed U.S. President Barack Obama for the failure of the recent Organization of American States Summit of the Americas to issue a final declaration, and he says that a major sticking point was Obama’s opposition to a provision that health care is “a human right.”
→ read full articleWhy War: Einstein and Freud’s Little-Known Correspondence on Violence, Peace, and Human Nature
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
“As long as all international conflicts are not subject to arbitration and the enforcement of decisions arrived at by arbitration is not guaranteed, and as long as war production is not prohibited we may be sure that war will follow upon war. Unless our civilization achieves the moral strength to overcome this evil, it is bound to share the fate of former civilizations: decline and decay.” — Einstein
→ read full article12 Strategic Questions for Europe Regarding Forced Immigration from Africa
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
in the light of the continuing influx and the associated fatalities.
→ read full article‘Fukushima Lessons: Any Notion That Nuclear Power Is Clean Is Obsolete’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
The world must phase out nuclear power because it is absolutely not clean from the mining processing of uranium to the generation of high-level radioactive waste, Kevin Kamps for the radioactive waste watchdog Beyond Nuclear, said.
→ read full articleWeakening and Discrediting the UN: The Mission of Israeli QGOs [Quasi-Government Organizations]
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
This is the full text of my presentation at the conference “The Israeli Lobby: Is it good for US? Is it good for Israel?” National Press Club, April 10, 2015. Although there were many illuminating presentations during the day, I would call particular attention to the memorable remarks of two highly informed Israelis, Gideon Levy and Miko Peled.
→ read full articleYemen Peace Plan Deserves Strong Support and Speedy Action
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
The Yemen Peace Plan in its four steps is similar to an earlier Appeal of the Association of World Citizens (AWC). However, it is unlikely that Iran was influenced by the AWC Appeal; rather independent and objective analysis of the armed conflict leads to the same approach.
→ read full articleUS Cops Only Do Bad Things When They’re Being Filmed
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
This Modern World – Satirical Comic Strip
→ read full articleThe Google/China Hacking Case: How Many News Outlets Do a Original Reporting on a Big Story?
Jonathan Stray – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
From 800 news stories researched online about the hacking story, all but 121 were identical, 13 contained at least one personal or unique quote, and just seven represented original journalistic work. In other words, 85% of the [800] news articles were verbatim rewrites from other journalists whereas only about 1% constituted original stories.
→ read full articleWhy Lincoln Still Matters Today
Allen L. Roland, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
On the anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination on April 14, 1865, 150 years ago, I pause to reflect on this giant of a man and 16th President who represents all the moral qualities we would hope our current Presidents embody ~ and yet we remain so bitterly disappointed when few if any of these Presidential pretenders can approach the moral timbre of our greatest president.
→ read full articleHuman Guinea Pigs
Want to Know – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
How much are government and business risking our lives and health with dangerous technologies like nuclear power, genetically modified foods, inadequately tested vaccines, and other even worse “experiments”? The American Medical Association and many doctors sided with the tobacco industry long after the harmful effects of smoking were proven. Some scientists also once believed radiation had little danger, putting volunteers at risk to prove it.
→ read full articleThe Future of International Law
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Abstract: After the invention of agriculture, roughly 10,000 years ago, humans began to live in progressively larger groups, which were sometimes multi-ethnic. In order to make towns, cities and finally nations function without excessive injustice and violence, both ethical and legal systems were needed. Today, in an era of global economic interdependence, instantaneous worldwide communication and all-destroying thermonuclear weapons, we urgently need new global ethical principles and a just and enforceable system of international laws.
→ read full articleWhy Is Syriza Demanding Reparations from Germany?
Peter Schwarz, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
The demand for reparations for such crimes resonates amongst sections of the Greek, as well as the German, population. The arrogance with which the media and politicians in Germany are demanding drastic social cuts in Greece plays a role in this. It recalls the ruthless behavior of the Nazis. Moreover, the surviving victims of Nazi crimes are especially hard hit by the austerity measures in Greece.
→ read full articleHow Worker Co-ops are Moving beyond Capitalism
David Morgan, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
11 Apr 2015 – The explosion of worker cooperatives in recent years has social justice organizers talking. Transitioning to a people-powered economy will require the work of many different social movements and worker co-ops have come to the center of the conversation due to their ability to address multiple issues at once.
→ read full articleThe Active Defense of the Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
There are periods in the history of humanity when some great new ideas are introduced, beneficial for all. Such ideas mark the beginning of a new era with far-reaching effects, creating new conditions for cooperation. The Roerich Pact for the protection of the cultural heritage of humanity signed by 21 States in a Pan-American Union ceremony is such a sign of a new era which transcends all obstacles, prejudices and intolerances.
→ read full articleGünter Grass (16 Oct 1927–13 Apr 2015): ‘What Must Be Said’
Günter Grass (Nobel Literature Laureate) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Poem published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung created a heated debate in both Germany and Israel.
→ read full article(Português) Como Reproduzimos a Cultura do Capital
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Quem não tem, quer ter, quem tem, quer ter mais e quem tem mais diz: nunca é suficiente. E para a grande maioria, a competição e não a solidariedade e a supremacia do mais forte prevalecem sobre qualquer outro valor, nas relações sociais, especialmente, nos negócios.
→ read full articleThe Bank of International Settlements: Meet the Secretive Group That Runs the World
Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
When it comes to the historic record, nothing comes closer to the stereotypical, secretive group determining the fate of over 7 billion people, than the Bank of International Settlements, which hides in such plain sight, that few have ever paid much attention. -This Is Their Story-
→ read full articleYou Cannot Bomb Me Anymore
Ada Aharoni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
For International Women’s Day – 8 Mar 2015
Listen, little big man,
you cannot bomb me anymore
because I don’t allow you
to bomb me anymore
China, Russia Coming Closer to Create a New World Order
Vikas Shukla, Value Walk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
China continues to expand its geopolitical influence and military power, challenging the United States’ position as the world’s superpower. Meanwhile, economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. and its allies have prompted Russia to move closer to Asian countries to alleviate the impact of sanctions.
→ read full articleWorld Famous German Author [Nobel Literature Laureate] Günter Grass Dies at Age 87
Peter Schwarz, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
14 April 2015 – German author Günter Grass has died at the age of 87 in Lübeck, Germany following an infection. He is one of the most important German writers of the 20th century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.
→ read full article(Italiano) Di sola andata. Per i migranti morti ieri nel Canale di Sicilia
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Nessuno potrà dire che non sapeva
E che per organizzare una mobilitazione collettiva autoconvocata ci vogliono 48 ore dal naufragio di 700/900 migranti nel Canale di Sicilia
Ad Aosta. In Valle d’Aosta.
La ricca Valle d’Aosta che non può ospitare i migranti. Anzi ne può ospitare solo uno.
Moment of Truth for the Nobel Peace Prize
Fredrik S. Heffermehl and Tomas Magnusson, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
In recent years the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize have not reflected the hope of the award’s founder – Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) – that the world be freed of weapons, warriors and war, or promoted the vision of preventing future war by what Nobel called “creating the brotherhood of nations”.
→ read full articleThe Black Hole
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
When Johan Galtung, widely recognized as the founder of the academic discipline of peace research, founded the first International Peace Research Institute in Oslo in 1959, he and his colleagues sent copies of their working papers regularly to about 400 social science institutes around the world, including the Institute for World Economy and International Relations in Moscow.
→ read full article‘World Bank Projects Serve for Industrial Ambitions, Not Alleviate Poverty’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
World Bank projects in developing countries have had a dramatic impact, forced displacement and the impoverishment of local communities and indigenous people, political analyst Josh Klemm from International Rivers said.
→ read full articleNonviolence Charter: Progress Report 6 (Apr 2015)
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D., Anita McKone and Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
20 Apr 2015 – Here is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ and a sample of news about, and reports of forthcoming events by, Charter signatories.
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DARPA Building Real Life Terminators, Military Robots
Documentary & Discovery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technologies for use by the military.
→ read full articleFukushima Storage Facility Drone Video – Nuclear Waste in Bags Near Ocean
Jennifer Baker, Revolution News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Drone footage captured by Ruptly shows millions of tons of radioactive soil and debris packed in black bags in a temporary storage site at Tomioka, Fukushima prefecture. This incredible video shows the haphazard manner in which this temporary storage facility is stacking up nuclear waste in what appears to be less than 100 yards from the Pacific Ocean.
→ read full articleHow a Gay Man Saved 14 Million Lives – Alan Turing
Captain Paul Watson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
This gay atheist man saved the lives of over 14 million people in World War II. He broke the “unbreakable” Nazi ‘Enigma Code.’ And yet in 1952 he was sentenced to two years in prison. His crime: he was a homosexual. He was offered an alternative to prison – chemical castration. It destroyed his health and caused depression. In 1954 he was dead at 41 of suspected suicide.
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Clair De Lune (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Annling Wang – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Recorded at home in 2007. Seven-year-old girl plays one of the most beautiful compositions of Claude Debussy. A classic.
→ read full articleDrone Victims Take Germany to Court for Abetting U.S. Murders
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Their suit argues that it is illegal under German law for the German government to allow the U.S. air base at Ramstein to be used for drone murders abroad. The suit comes after the passage of a resolution in the European Parliament urging European nations to “oppose and ban the practice of extrajudicial targeted killings.”
→ read full articleChinese Logic
Baher Kamal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Henry Kissinger once asked Chou En-Lai to theorize on what might have happened if Nikita Khrushchev had been assassinated instead of John F. Kennedy.
→ read full articleArmenians 1915: The Genocide Controversy
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
According to the great American novelist William Faulkner, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” This year being the centenary of the contested events of 1915 makes it understandable that was simmering through the decades has come to a boil, with the anniversary day of April 24th likely to be the climax of this latest phase of the unresolved drama.
→ read full article(Italiano) Gandhi e Mandela: due sudafricani
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Il SudAfrica offrì ai due avvocati un tirocinio per mutare la legge in uno strumento di libertà trasgredendola – implicito anche nel concetto di Legge – operando contro l’aspetto del castigo che diede a tutti e due l’aura di icone sofferenti per la propria causa.
→ read full articleNot Fit to Print: When Good Design Goes Bad
Anna Flagg and Moiz Syed, AJ+ On the News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
A Lesson from The New York Times on How to Mislead with Numbers – What follows is a breakdown of some ways that design can be misused to tell a biased story. This New York Times article reminds us that design is just as much an editorial tool.
→ read full articleWho’s Afraid of the Big Bad Bomb?
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
4 Apr 2015 – I must start with a shocking confession: I am not afraid of the Iranian nuclear bomb. I know that this makes me an abnormal person, almost a freak. But what can I do? I am unable to work up fear, like a real Israeli. Try as I may, the Iranian bomb does not make me hysterical.
→ read full articleSummary of False Flag Operations and False Flag Terrorism
Want to Know – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
“False Flag Terrorism” occurs when elements within a government stage a secret operation whereby government forces pretend to be a targeted enemy while attacking their own forces or people. The attack is then falsely blamed on the enemy in order to justify going to war against that enemy.
→ read full article(Italiano) Un rapporto ONU: il 2014 ha visto il maggior numero di palestinesi uccisi dall’esercito israeliano dal 1967
Amira Hass – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
7 apr 2015 – Le forze di sicurezza israeliane hanno ucciso 2.312 palestinesi, la maggiore parte dei quali l’estate [scorsa] nella guerra di Gaza. Circa due terzi erano civili.
→ read full articleNew Spring in Russia-Greek Ties: Tsipras
The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Putin and Greek Prime Minister Tsipras discussed bilateral trade, economic, investment ties. Tsipras on Wednesday [8 Apr 2015] said Greece “openly disapproves” of European anti-Russian sanctions, because the EU economic war against Russia could lead to a new Cold War.
→ read full articleWhat Can Be Done to Abolish War?
International Peace Bureau - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Photography and Essay Competitions – £100 prize for the winners. Write an essay answering the following question: WHAT CAN BE DONE TO ABOLISH WAR? Or: Take an original photograph that interprets the question: WHAT DOES PEACE MEAN TO YOU?
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Piano Recital: Launching of ‘Universal Abolition of Militarism’
Alberto Portugheis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
TRANSCEND Member, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and world renowned international pianist Alberto Portugheis will perform a recital to launch his International Peace Campaign. 30 May 2015, at 5pm, Wesley Centre, Harrogate, England.
→ read full article290 Million-Year-Old Human Footprint Has Researchers Scratching Their Heads
Ivan Petricevic, Ancient Code – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Is it possible that we have history all wrong? That the dates that conventional history is giving us regarding mankind are all incorrect? That humans lived on Earth much sooner that science originally thought so?
→ read full articleBook Review: Love and Resistance, by Theresa Wolfwood
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Her poems at times are so powerful that if they were printed in the next morning’s newspapers in some parts of the world, civil disobedience movements would rally to press for justice.
→ read full articleThe Real Nuclear Threat
Robert C. Koehler, Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Three privatized nuclear laboratories — Los Alamos, Sandia and Livermore — are behind the immense investment (as much as $1 trillion over 30 years) in upgraded, more destructive nuclear warheads. This aggressive pressure from the American business sector is a lot more frightening than any aggression emanating from Iran, and may indicate where the real push for war comes from.
→ read full articleWhy Are We Planning to Walk Across the Demilitarized Zone That Separates North and South Korea?
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Seventy years ago, as the Cold War was being waged, the USA unilaterally drew the line across the 38th parallel—later with the former USSR’s agreement—dividing an ancient country that had just suffered 35 years of Japanese colonial occupation. Now the conflict on the Korean peninsula threatens peace in the Asia Pacific and throughout our world.
→ read full articleBlessed Ambiguity
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
King Louis XI of France was superstitious. One time, his astrologer predicted nice weather.
→ read full articleLatin America and the Anglo-American Booby-Left
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Numerous prominent progressive US pundits, whose political pronouncements carry great weight in the alternative media, have proclaimed ‘Latin America’s decisive break’ with US domination and have gone on to announce the beginning of a new ‘post-imperial epoch’.
→ read full articleSaving Passengers of the Good Ship Titan… Earth
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
So what can we learn from the sinking of the Titanic and its huge death toll that can help us to avert sinking the Good Ship Earth and killing off most, if not all, humans and many other species besides? Let me consider each item above in turn.
→ read full articleCounteracting Extremes Enabling Normal Flying
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Insights for Global Governance from Birds on the Wing and the Dodo – I wish the eagle had not been chosen as the representative of this country. He is a bird of bad moral character; he does not get his living honestly. Too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the fishing hawk and, when that diligent bird has taken a fish and is bearing it for his young ones, the bald eagle pursues him and takes the fish. With all this injustice, he is never in good case.
→ read full article(Italiano) Criminalizzare la guerra: venti raccomandazioni
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
La criminalizzazione è ambigua e può anche inasprire e prolungare le guerre; dovrebbe accompagnarsi agli approcci positivi al diritto alla pace, alla rimozione delle cause di guerra e alla rimozione della guerra quale mala istituzione in termini sociali.
→ read full article(Italiano) Stalin il comunista e Mao il comunitarista
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Churchill e Hitler fecero la storia ma non la cambiarono; dopo la guerra le loro società ritrovarono le proprie vecchie forme. Stalin e Mao cambiarono sostanzialmente le loro società molto più grandi, e conferirono nuove linee di faglia e alleanze al sistema statuale westfalico.
→ read full articleFormer Ambassador: 40 Years Ago, US Handed Cambodia to ‘Butcher’
Denis D. Gray, AP, Stars and Stripes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
John Gunther Dean recalls what he describes as one of the most tragic days of his life: April 12, 1975, the day the United States “abandoned Cambodia and handed it over to the butcher. We’d accepted responsibility for Cambodia and then walked out without fulfilling our promise. That’s the worst thing a country can do,” he says in an interview in Paris. “And I cried because I knew what was going to happen.”
→ read full articleDeir Yassin to Yarmouk and Beyond: Reflections in a Flight to Paris
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
The scientist in me wants to find logical explanations for why people kill each other and do not simply share and care for one another. I try to convince myself with my own words to visitors to Palestine: lighting a candle better than cursing the darkness, first do no harm, travel the path of your conscience even if few are doing it, etc. Maybe lack of sleep makes my mind wonder into Buddhist philosophies (Joyful participation in the sorrows of this world) and to mystic philosophies (Rumi’s words come slushing around my brain).
→ read full articleThe State of The World’s Human Rights 2014/15
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Amnesty International’s Annual Report provides a comprehensive overview of the state of human rights in 160 countries and territories during 2014. It also celebrates those who stand up for human rights across the world, often in difficult and dangerous circumstances.
→ read full articleWhen Free Speech Becomes Dead Silence – The Israel Lobby and a Cowed Academia
Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
8 Apr 2015 – The sudden cancellation of an academic conference on Israel, as well as the lack of outcry from ‘mainstream’ media, demonstrates once again the skewed limits to ‘free speech’ in ‘advanced’ Western democracies. ‘Je suis Charlie’ already feels like ancient history. It certainly does not apply when it comes to scrutiny of the state of Israel.
→ read full articleSecurity versus Peace Discourse (after Johan Galtung)
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
The prevailing discourse used by governments today is the security discourse, which briefly is the following: “We have a problem, our enemies. Through military superiority we can deter or prevent their evil designs and achieve security–and through this peace.”
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
April 13-19 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now–always.” – Albert Schweitzer
→ read full articleThe American Psychological Association and Guantanamo: Actions, Not Words
Roy Eidelson and Dan Aalbers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Yet again the APA fails to honor its commitments. It is time for the APA to devote as much energy to getting psychologists out of Guantanamo as it has devoted to getting psychologists into the halls of power.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to University of Sydney to Reject Calls to Punish Palestine-Justice Supporters
Jake Lynch, Sydney Staff for BDS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Calls are principally focussed on having Associate Professor Jake Lynch and Dr Nick Riemer dismissed from the university. In Lynch’s case, this is the demand explicitly being made by the Australasian Union of Jewish Students. We call on you, Dr Spence, not to allow yourself to be made the agent of the Israel lobby’s persecution of those committed to a just peace in the Middle East.
→ read full articleOslo Principles on Global Climate Change Obligations
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
On March 1, 2015, a group of experts in international law, human rights law, environmental law, and other law adopted the Oslo Principles on Global Obligations to Reduce Climate Change. Based on extensive legal research and discussions over a period of several years the undersigned experts adopted the following principles:
→ read full articleIran Accord and Momentum-Building
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
A steady, systematic momentum is needed in everything. Now, motion is needed to develop a broad security and cooperation system for the Middle East, somewhat on the lines of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
→ read full articleRussia-China Interests Aligned: Putin to Chinese FM
The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
8 Apr 2015 – In a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Sino-Russian ties “meet the demands of the day” and Moscow will support the Chinese Silk Road project. Chinese President Xi Jinping will be in Moscow on May 8 for the 70th anniversary of Russia’s defeat of Nazi Germany. Heads of 26 countries have confirmed their attendance.
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