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ISIS Is Hiring
Ted Rall – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
The US is scared that ISIS is recruiting young American Muslims.
→ read full article(Português) A Preocupante Expansão do Complexo Industrial Militar
Mairead Maguire, Prêmio Nobel da Paz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Como se pode justificar que no século 21 continuemos treinando milhões para engrossar os exércitos e mandá-los à guerra? Estados Unidos e Grã-Bretanha cometeram genocídio entre 1990 e 2012, que se estima ter custado a vida de 3,3 milhões de iraquianos, incluindo 750 mil crianças. E todos vimos em nossas televisões o horrível espetáculo dos 50 dias de bombardeio pela força militar de Israel sobre Gaza, entre julho e agosto deste ano.
→ read full articleAssange to Open Human Rights Film Festival in Barcelona
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
The WikiLeaks founder will answer questions from an open floor on the first night of the festival, Wednesday [22 Oct 2014], which is comprised of films on humanitarian themes, from transsexuality to international conflicts.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks-Leaked Draft Confirms TPP Will Censor Internet and Stifle Free Expression Worldwide
OpenMedia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
16 October 14 – This morning WikiLeaks published a second leaked draft of the Intellectual Property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. It confirms people’s worst fears about Internet censorship.
→ read full articleEpistemology: On the Use of Dichotomies
Johan Galtung, 20 Oct 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Sometimes the use of dichotomies, simple cuts, male-female, democracy-dictatorship, negative-positive peace is criticized: the world is more complicated. That the organic world with life, individual and collective, is complex, there is no doubt. That a simplistic us-them division of the world in two blocs or poles, polarization, is a step on the way to violence and war, is clear.
→ read full articleUS Army Drafts Blueprint for World War III
Bill Van Auken and David North, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
The Pentagon is preparing for unlimited global warfare and military dictatorship within the United States. The document was formally released at this week’s Association of the United States Army conference.
→ read full articleCycle of Death, Destruction and Rebuilding Continues in Gaza
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon implicitly warned of the futility of the continuing exercise when he said: “We cannot continue to build and destroy – and build and destroy – like this. This should be the last reconstruction conference”. But will it?
→ read full articleThe Criminal Side of Ebola
Ian Ralby – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
The Health Crisis is only one effect of the Ebola outbreak. International efforts should take a holistic approach at addressing the effect Ebola is having on organized crime in West Africa.
→ read full articleChina Contributes Greatly to Global Food Security
Xinhua – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
As the most populous country in the world, China has successfully delivered millions of people from hunger and is helping other countries achieve food security.
→ read full articleCrusade
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Living in this Christian land,
it isn’t hard to understand
our President was not elected,
but was by God himself selected.
Pacific Islanders on Canoes Blockade Australia Coal Export Terminal
Al Jazeera and Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Environmental activists teamed up with Pacific islanders in eastern Australia on Friday [17 Oct 2014] in an attempt to block the world’s largest coal export terminal by forming a blockade of canoes, surfboards and kayaks.
→ read full articleWind Blows Away Fossil Power in the Nordics, the Baltics Next
Nerijus Adomaitis, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
15 Oct 2014 – Wind power is blowing gas and coal-fired turbines out of business in the Nordic countries, and the effects will be felt across the Baltic region as the renewable glut erodes utility margins for thermal power stations.
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(Castellano) Torero arrepentido defensor de los derechos del animal
Álvaro Múnera, ex-torero – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Álvaro Múnera, ex-torero, actual defensor de los derechos del animal y contrario a las corridas de toros:
→ read full articleLatin America’s ‘Made in USA’ 2014 Recession
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Three major economies of Latin America—Brazil, Argentina, and Venezuela—entered recession in 2014. And in all three cases their recessions may be subtitled, ‘Made in the USA’.
→ read full articleRepresentation of Creative Processes through Dynamics in Three Dimensions
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Global Insight from Spherical Reframing of Mandalas, the Zodiac and the Enneagram – The argument developed here derives from an exploration of the creativity of Nikola Tesla (Reimagining Tesla’s Creativity through Technomimicry: psychosocial empowerment by imagining charged conditions otherwise).
→ read full articleBarriers to Sustainable Farming Put Burden on World’s Poor
Prof. Vandana Shiva, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
The conflict between “free trade” and food rights came to the fore again at the WTO negotiations in September [2014], when India did not back down from its stance that a permanent solution be found for food security issues before signing the Trade Facilitation Agreement.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize 2014: Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay
The Norwegian Nobel Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 is to be awarded to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.
→ read full articleSyria-to-Ukraine Wars Send U.S. Defense Stocks to Records
Richard Clough, Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Led by Lockheed Martin Corp. the biggest U.S. defense companies are trading at record prices as shareholders reap rewards from escalating military conflicts around the world. Investors see rising sales for makers of missiles, drones and other weapons as the U.S. hits Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq.
→ read full articleThe Love Jihad Nightmare
Vithal Rajan, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Islamophobia is creating anger among Muslims in many nations, anomie in minority pockets, and breeding irrational hatred in a few.
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Friends of Orphans – Free the Children Slave Soldiers
FROchildsoldiers's channel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
[Note from Antonio, TMS editor:] I met Anywar Ricky Richard in Seoul, South Korea in Sep 2014 at the World Alliance of Religions Peace Summit. He is doing an extraordinary, pioneering work with ex-child soldiers in Uganda, himself being one of them. I was deeply impressed as were those in attendance. Anywar is a remarkable human being and deserves all support we can give to his cause.
→ read full articleUS to Deploy 3000 Troops to Ebola Crisis Areas
Jeff Mason and James Harding Giahyue, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
President Barack Obama called West Africa’s deadly Ebola outbreak a looming threat to global security and announced a major expansion of the U.S. role in trying to halt its spread, including deployment of 3,000 troops to the region.
→ read full articleIsrael Is Cautiously Arming Syria’s Rebels — And Has a Fragile Unspoken Truce With an Al Qaeda Affiliate
Ehud Yaari, The Washington Institute For Near East Policy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
The Israeli government has decided against action to repel al-Qaeda affiliates or disrupt their military strength, in light of the U.S. and allied campaign to “degrade and ultimately destroy” ISIS, which has included attacks on Jabhat al-Nusra (JN) targets.
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Cabaret (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Liza Minnelli – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
From the Movie Cabaret – Mein Herr (1972) – A Classic! Lisa Minelli at her best.
→ read full articleSaint Francis and the Sow
Galway Kinnell, Brain Pickings - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
The bud
stands for all things,
even for those things that don’t flower,
for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
Cabaret (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Louis Armstrong – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Louis Armstrong and his All Stars in Antibes – Juan le Pins, France – 1967
→ read full articleNonviolence Charter: Progress Report 5 (Oct 2014)
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D., Anita McKone and Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
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.
→ read full article(Italiano) Hong Kong e oltre
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
A Pechino va una lode non piccola per mantenersi imperturbata. Non c’è stato nulla come la brutalità della polizia militarizzata USA contro il movimento Occupy. La Cina non è sprofondata al livello di “Come Israele zittisce il dissenso”: cantando Morte agli arabi, Morte ai sinistrorsi; picchiando i dimostranti senza protezione della polizia, minacciando assassinii, difendendo lo status quo con ogni mezzo, “fascismo strisciante”.
→ read full article(Português) União Homoafetiva
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Seria sábio manter Igreja e Estado separados, neste e noutros assuntos, porque onde são entremeados, pelo mundo a fora, não dá certo. Infelizmente, ao tratar de gays e lésbicas, certos cristãos tendem a esquecer ensinamentos basilares do cristianismo: o não julgar e a misericórdia.
→ read full articleToxic Fallout from US War Produces Record Child Birth Defect Rates in Iraq
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
A report presented at the University of Michigan last Wednesday [8 Oct 2014], showed that rates of cancer, child cancer and birth defects have reached historically unprecedented levels in Fallujah and other Iraqi cities since the 2003 US invasion.
→ read full articleFrom Pol Pot to ISIS: “Anything That Flies on Everything That Moves”
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
In transmitting Nixon’s orders for a “massive” bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Kissinger said, “Anything that flies on everything that moves”. As Obama ignites his seventh war against the Muslim world since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the orchestrated hysteria and lies make one almost nostalgic for Kissinger’s murderous honesty.
→ read full articleHope for Myanmar Democracy Now Fading
Editorial, The Nation (Thailand) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Crackdowns on ethnic armies and journalists have raised fears that the reform process is going into reverse.
→ read full articleIt’s Not Too Late to Save Syria’s Cultural Heritage
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
As Marcus Aurelius instructs us: “Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.” Our shared global heritage, which has been in the custody of the Syrian people for ten millennia, belongs to all of us and each of us must work to preserve it for our progeny.
→ read full articleA Billion Tons of Food Wasted Yearly While Millions Still Go Hungry
A. D. McKenzie, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
“Even if just one-fourth of the food currently lost or wasted globally could be saved, it would be enough to feed 870 million hungry people in the world” – SAVE FOOD Initiative. Some solutions:
→ read full article(Italiano) IO STO CON LA SPOSA – Torino 11 ottobre 2014
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Frammenti di una storia di extra ordinaria umanità
→ read full articleOn the “Academic Boycott of Israel” Claimed by University of Sydney’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Regarding Prof. Jake Lynch’s article, “Please Help Us Save the University of Sydney’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies,” posted on TMS on 6 Oct 2014, allow me to raise some questions.
→ read full articleThis Country [Germany] Just Abolished College Tuition Fees
Joaquim Moreira Salles, ThinkProgress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
“We got rid of tuition fees because we do not want higher education which depends on the wealth of the parents,” Gabrielle Heinen-Kjajic, the minister for science and culture in Lower Saxony, said in a statement.
→ read full articleDid Israel Commit Genocide in Gaza?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
In a special session of the Russell Tribunal, Israel’s Operation Protective Edge was critically scrutinized from the perspective of international law, including the core allegation of genocide through testimonies by legal and weapons experts, health workers, journalists and others who experienced the 50 days of military assault.
→ read full articleEU Bans Import of Israeli Dairy Products Made in Palestine
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
The ban is expected to have only minimal economic impact, but it is one of the boldest moves taken by western nations to put pressure on the Israeli government to change its policies toward Palestine.
→ read full articleWhither China’s Democracy? Democratization in China since the Tiananmen Incident
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
This review of an in-depth look at democratization in China was written before the recent protests in Hong Kong that highlight shifting attitudes toward governing practices. Democratization is a bumpy but ongoing process.
→ read full articleQuestioning Sweden’s ‘Bold’ Diplomatic Initiative
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
The new center-left Swedish Prime Minister, Stefan Lofven, in his inaugural speech to Parliament indicated on October 3 [2014] the intention of the Swedish government to recognize Palestinian statehood.
→ read full article(Castellano) Refugiados Sirios ya Estarían en Uruguay
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Un total de 42 refugiados sirios, en su mayoría niños habrían llegado este jueves [9 octubre 2014] a Uruguay, indicó una fuente de la Presidencia anónima. Uruguay es el primer país latinoamericano en implementar un plan de reasentamiento de este tipo.
→ read full articleISIS: Negotiation, Not Bombing
Johan Galtung, 13 Oct 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
More senseless bombing of Muslims, more defeats for USA-West, more ISIS-type movements, more West-Islam polarization. Any way out?
→ read full article‘Hostile to Privacy’: Snowden Urges Internet Users to Get Rid of Dropbox
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
12 Oct 2014 – “When you say, ‘I have nothing to hide,’ you’re saying, ‘I don’t care about this right.’ You’re saying, ‘I don’t have this right, because I’ve got to the point where I have to justify it.’ The way rights work is, the government has to justify its intrusion into your rights – you don’t have to justify why you need freedom of speech.”
→ read full articleFull Text of Alfred Nobel’s Will
Nobelprize.org – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
I, the undersigned, Alfred Bernhard Nobel, do hereby, after mature deliberation, declare the following to be my last Will and Testament with respect to such property as may be left by me at the time of my death:
→ read full articleCrusaders and Zionists
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Lately, the words “Crusaders” and “Zionists” have been appearing more and more often as twins. In a documentary about ISIS I just saw, they appeared together in almost every sentence uttered by the Islamist fighters, including teenagers. Some sixty years ago I wrote an article whose title was just that: “Crusaders and Zionists”.
→ read full articleAre You Doing Your Part to Support Endless War?
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
This Modern World – Comic Strip
→ read full articleFighting Ebola American Style
Ted Rall - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Comic Strip
→ read full articleIsrael’s Occupation Is More Complex Than a Genocide
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
And what to make of a plan just disclosed by the Israeli media indicating that Mr Netanyahu and his allies have been secretly plotting to force many Palestinians into Sinai, with the US arm-twisting the Egyptians into agreement? Such a policy would certainly satisfy Lemkin’s definition of genocide.
→ read full articleIsrael Starts Building 600 New Settlement Houses
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Israel began to build hundreds of new housing units in East Jerusalem and seized land in the West Bank on Saturday [11 Oct 2014], despite international condemnation.
→ read full articleThe Life of the Mind: Hannah Arendt on Thinking vs. Knowing and the Crucial Difference Between Truth and Meaning
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
The questions raised by our thirst for knowledge arise from our curiosity about the world, whatever is given to our sensory apparatus, in principle all answerable by common-sense. But the questions raised by thinking and which it is in reason’s very nature to raise — questions of meaning — are all unanswerable by common sense and the refinement of it we call science.
→ read full articleThe Genie
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
A New Zealander, a South African and an Australian were the only survivors of a shipwreck on a small South Sea island, surviving on coconuts.
→ read full articleMakers of ‘Crush Porn’ Videos in Philippines Sentenced to Life in Prison
PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
Scantily clad girls—one of whom was just 12 years old at the time—were filmed skinning a dog alive and burning another with a clothes iron, cutting off rabbits’ ears and setting the rabbits on fire while they flailed and screamed, hitting a monkey in the eye with the sharp end of a stiletto heel, and crushing puppies until they vomited their own internal organs.
→ read full article(Português) O Retorno de George Orwell
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
Como despolitização, mídia submissa ao Estado e cinismo dos intelectuais estão produzindo, nas antigas democracias ocidentais, um ambiente “1984 high-tech”.
→ read full articleHong Kong and Beyond
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
No small praise goes to Beijing for keeping its cool. There has been nothing like the US militarized police brutality against their Occupy. China has not sunk to “How Israel silences dissent”: chanting Death to Arabs, Death to leftists, beating demonstrators with no police protection, threatening murder, defending status quo by all means , “creeping fascism”.
→ read full articleHypocrisy: Saudi Arabia Beheads 26 People in 1 Month, Some for ‘Sorcery’ – The West Has Nothing to Say about It (Images)
Richard Rowe, AATP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
We condemn ISIS’ public beheadings, but in 2012-13, our allies in Saudi Arabia cut the heads off of 79 people [in public]. Let’s play “Compare and Contrast” for a moment:
→ read full articleRevolutionaries of the Soul: Reflections on Magicians, Philosophers, and Occultists
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
The development of a deeper or higher consciousness has often been compared to a journey toward an ultimate goal with steps along the way and with entries into an inner dimension of the person, called by some ‘the Spirit’, by others ‘the Soul.’
→ read full articleUS Could Topple My Government, Kill Me: Argentina’s Kirchner
Daniel Merolla, AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
2 Oct 2014 – Just hours after the US embassy warned its citizens to take extra safety precautions in Argentina, an aggravated Kirchner said, “When you see what has been coming out of diplomatic offices, they had better not come in here and try to sell some tall tale about ISIS trying to track me down so they can kill me.”
→ read full articleCreating a World Culture That Is Nonviolent
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
As we celebrate Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday on 2 October, the International Day of Nonviolence, we have the chance to reflect on our progress in creating a nonviolent world. Culture is not just something we inherit; it is something we create. It can be violent or nonviolent. What sort of culture do you create? Happy birthday Bapu. We are trying!
→ read full articlePlease Help Us Save the University of Sydney’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
Jake Lynch, Australians for BDS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
I am writing to ask you, who stood with us over our support for the Academic Boycott of Israel, to now write to the University of Sydney to help save the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies in its present form.
→ read full articleReview of Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate’ – Extracting Ourselves from the Extractivist Mindset
Robert Jensen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
Naomi Klein has written a brave book that not only confronts the calamity of climate destabilization but also examines the deep roots of the crisis in the perverse logic of capitalism and the dehumanizing values of the “extractivist” high-energy/high-technology world.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’ambiente: molto olistico, molto dialettico
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
Il sottoscritto non è in grado di prendere posizione pro o contro l’ipotesi sulla CO2, o che cosa sia meglio per la vita, se il riscaldamento o il raffreddamento rispetto al livello attuale. La posizione assunta qui è per opinioni più complesse e in particolare più dialettiche.
→ read full articleCall on Pope Francis to Reopen Vatican for Changes in the Church
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
On October 4th we celebrated the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi. When HH the Pope took the name of St. Francis he spoke with passion, calling for justice for the poor, for peace, and an end to violence and war. I hope he will open the windows of the Vatican, let in some fresh air, and let the spirit of love and truth touch the hearts of all people, so that meaningful dialogue and true change can come about.
→ read full articleUS Exploiting West Africa Ebola Outbreak to Establish Military Foothold
Niles Williamson, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
Under the guise of a humanitarian mission aimed at containing the spread of the Ebola virus, the Obama administration is exploiting the outbreak to establish a solid military footing on the African continent.
→ read full articleGandhi, Nonviolence and Peace
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
On the Eve of International Day of Nonviolence – I would like to end my article with the advice my Mahatma Gandhi who himself said, “I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.”
→ read full articleHung Out to Dry
Georg Hodel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
With Hollywood poised to release “Kill the Messenger,” a movie showing how the mainstream U.S. media destroyed journalist Gary Webb for reviving the Contra-cocaine scandal in the mid-1990s, we are reposting Georg Hodel’s 1997 account of how Webb was betrayed by his own editors.
→ read full articleChanging the Political Climate: A Transitional Imperative
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
The most daunting challenging of adapting to the realities of the anthropocene era is achieving a soft transition from state-centric world order to a geo-centric reconfiguring of political community to enable the emergence of effective and humane global governance.
→ read full articleFrom Ukraine to Syria: UN’s Selective Defense of Human Rights
Ulson Gunnar, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
When international law is enforced selectively by certain UN member states, using it as a platform to legitimize otherwise illegal actions, the world teeters on the edge of global lawlessness leaving the remaining members of the UN to ponder alternatives in resolving injustices perpetuated rather than challenged by the UN and its Charter.
→ read full articleOn Writing: A Nonkilling View
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
Writing is not a fight
It is rather a light
Thanks Anyway. A Report on the First World Alliance of Religions Peace Summit
Teresa Langle de Paz, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
We, feminists, want unity above all, because we know that gender marks the lives of all women profoundly. But not all of us are mothers, not all mothers are happy being mothers, not all women who are mothers want their role as peace-builders reduced to motherhood and giving and loving, not all mothers want to be seen as mothers first in their societies and communities.
→ read full articleHonouring Gandhi’s Legacy, UN Reaffirms Power of Peaceful Protest
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
2 October 2014 – UN urges the international community to reaffirm the power and potential of change through peaceful means, following Mahatma Gandhi who inspired today’s International Day of Non-Violence.
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Kill the Messenger Official Trailer (2014)
MovieClips – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA’s role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb.
→ read full articleNos Morituri Te Salutamus
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
Salute of Iraqi Citizens to the Coalition of the Willing–Once Again – Hail and Salaam to your Leaders, to your Senators, and to your Citizens! We who are about to die salute you was the phrase traditionally used by those about to die in the gladiatorial circus arenas of that time. We salute you….
→ read full article4+ Logics of Living Together on Planet Earth
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
It is misleading to describe ‘world order’ as consisting exclusively of sovereign territorial states. This misimpression is further encouraged by the structure of the United Nations, whose members are states, and only states.
→ read full articleRight Livelihood Awards 2014 – ‘Alternative Nobel’ Goes to Edward Snowden
Society for the Right Livelihood Award – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
25 Sep 2014 – The 2014 Right Livelihood Honorary Award goes to EDWARD SNOWDEN (USA) “for his courage and skill in revealing the unprecedented extent of state surveillance violating basic democratic processes and constitutional rights”.
→ read full articleIndia: Stop Harassing Anti-Nuclear Protesters
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Udayakumar, convener of the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy [and of the TRANSCEND Network], was on his way to Nepal on September 16 [2014] to participate in a United Nations consultation on human rights, but was detained and interrogated at the New Delhi airport for over five hours.
→ read full articlePredatory Capitalism and Poverty, Culprits in the Ebola Catastrophe
Patrick Martin, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
These three countries are among the poorest in the world, ranking 161st (Sierra Leone), 176th (Guinea) and 181st (Liberia) in per capita GDP (185 countries total). Their people live in misery, but the countries themselves are rich in natural resources that have been ruthlessly exploited by major corporations and the governments that enforce their interests.
→ read full articleWEEDS . . . Metaphors . . . WARS
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
I speak here of weeds growing across our land,
Wild, uninvited, unwelcome, festering!
I speak here of weeds inhabiting gardens and lawns,
Growing amidst driveways, sidewalks, curb cracks.
Edited Text of Mr. Obama’s Speech to the UN Turning Him from an American Cheerleader into a World Peace Statesman
Poka Laenui - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
President Obama: “Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen: We come together at a crossroads between war and peace; between disorder and integration; between fear and hope.”
→ read full article‘US Funded and Trained Jihadists in Syria – And Now It Wants to Fight Them’
Russia Today - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
The US is creating in Syria a perpetual state of war, funding jihadists on one side and then attacking them on the other, while the civilian casualties are just a part of the game, investigative reporter Ben Swann told RT.
→ read full article(Italiano) La pace possa prevalere sulla Terra! — Giornata Internazionale della Pace 2014
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Che buona idea, questa giornata! Per riflettere, fare l’inventario, godersi la pace, deplorare la non-pace.
→ read full article3,000 European Jihadis Now in Syria, Iraq: EU Counterterrorism Head
The Japan Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
In an exclusive interview with AFP, Gilles de Kerchove said the flow of Europeans may have been boosted by the Islamic State militant group’s declaration in June of a caliphate straddling Syria and Iraq.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Day 21/9/2014 – Peace through Disarmament
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
We the Peace Movement are the alternative to militarism and war, and as we want a different world, we must be part of building it. We must not be satisfied with improvements and reform to militarism, which is an aberration and a system of dysfunction which must urgently be abolished and replaced by Law.
→ read full articleIsraeli Occupation’s Dark Underbelly Exposed
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
A letter signed by 43 veterans of an elite intelligence unit has sent shockwaves through Israeli society. The implication of their revelations is that the success of Israel’s near half-century of occupation depends on a vast machinery of surveillance and intimidation, while large numbers of Israelis benefit directly or indirectly from industrial-scale oppression.
→ read full articleUruguay’s Legalization of Marijuana Makes Sense in a Senseless Drug War
Benjamin Dangl, TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
In December of last year [2013], Uruguay became the first country in the world to fully legalize and regulate the cultivation, sale, distribution and use of marijuana.
→ read full articleThe NSA Is Renting Its Technology to U.S. Companies
Kevin Collier – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
26 Sep 2014 – The National Security Agency (NSA), which develops surveillance tools that are both dazzling and terrifying, has been making money on the side by licensing its technology to private businesses for more than two decades.
→ read full article(Português) ONU diz que racismo no Brasil é estrutural e institucionalizado
Jorge Américo, Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Documento sobre a discriminação racial no país constatou que os negros são maioria entre as vítimas de assassinatos. Também revelou que possuem menor nível de instrução, menores salários e menor acesso a saúde.
→ read full articleUntil the Rulers Obey: Learning from Latin America’s Social Movements
Clifton Ross and Marcy Rein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
A wave of change rolled through Latin America at the turn of the twenty-first century, sweeping away neoliberal two-party governments, bringing calls to re-found the states based on broad participation and democratically drafted constitutions.
→ read full articleThe Agony of Iraq
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
“Modern warfare particularly depends on oil, because virtually all weapons systems rely on oil-based fuel – tanks, trucks, armored vehicles, self-propelled artillery pieces, airplanes, and naval ships. For this reason, the governments and general staffs of powerful nations seek to ensure a steady supply of oil during wartime, to fuel oil-hungry military forces in far-flung operational theaters.”
→ read full articleAh, If I Were 25
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Research shows that one of the most often used words in Hebrew is “Shalom”. It is based on the root “whole” and conveys the sense of wholeness, safety, wellbeing. In Arabic, Salaam has the same meaning. Two weeks ago, on my 91st birthday, I asked myself: if I were 25 and straining for action, how would I go about trying to create a new Left?
→ read full articleThe United Nations Climate Summit
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Throughout the world, peoples of all countries need to act with urgency to switch to an economy that aims at sustainability rather than endless consumption and growth, an economy based on renewable energy rather than fossil fuels, an economy devoted to life rather than to profits.
→ read full articleTackling the Climate Catastrophe Strategically
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
If you like to ask or beg your oppressor to go easy on you, then you do not need to read this article. And if you like to do what makes you feel good at the time, irrespective of its strategic impact, then this article is not for you either. My interest in tackling violence has always been to take action that leaves the perpetrator powerless (but, hopefully, a convert too).
→ read full articleEnduring Territorial Disputes
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
The book is about evenly divided between a general analysis of enduring territorial disputes followed by useful case studies including the ongoing law-of-the-sea delimitation disputes among China, Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam, the border disputes among Israel, Syria and Lebanon concerning the Golan Heights, and the now quieter Sino-Soviet/Russian border dispute.
→ read full articleThe Scots Back Off
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
If the Scots had not backed off they might have helped the English to break away from their imperial past and start living in the present as Europeans. Unfortunately [they] kept the English psychologically locked into a dysfunctional past, losing them a key role in the shaping of new Europe, and making them nothing but a subservient de facto colony of the USA.
→ read full articleThe Purpose and the Pretence – Bombing Isis
Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Traditionally, claims that an Official Enemy is uniquely Evil rise to a deafening crescendo just prior to an attack on that enemy. The USA does not bomb countries for humanitarian objectives. Humanitarianism is the pretense, not the purpose.
→ read full articleHow Did The British Get An Empire?
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
It makes perfect sense then that the sepoys, from the ‘untouchable’ or lower castes, discriminated against by a caste-ridden society, gravitated to a service that treated them honourably. They fought for their own honour, and created an empire for foreigners from kingdoms that gave them little respect or social opportunity.
→ read full articleWrong Comparison
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
A mechanic was removing a cylinder head from the motor of a Harley Davidson, when he spotted a world‑famous heart surgeon in his shop.
→ read full articleEU Backpedaling on Anti-Russian Sanctions Not to Freeze in Winter
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
According to Russia’s permanent representative to the EU Vladimir Chizhov, the damage from the EU sanctions for EU economies is comparable to the damage that they cause to the Russian economy.
→ read full articleIsis’ Letter to the West
First Dog on the Moon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Isis has sent a heartfelt letter of encouragement to the west. We give you the best extracts.
→ read full articleThe West and the Fascist Mindset Within: Romani Folk under Fire
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
The Rom folk face a wide range of often interrelated problems: citizenship, political participation, racially-motivated violence, poverty, unemployment, and an image which arouses ancestral fears of Gypsies.
→ read full articleChilean Art of Civil Disobedience: Review from V&A, London
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
The Disobedient Objects exhibition is on display at the Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, London, until 1st February 2015.
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