Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Arriving
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
The director of a prison tells the warden, “Tomorrow, everything has to be perfectly clean, the chief justice is coming.”
→ read full articleCanada Approves Nuclear Waste Site on Great Lakes Shore
Sputinik International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
A Canadian advisory panel on Wednesday [6 May 2015] approved a plan to bury nuclear waste at a site just steps away from Lake Huron, saying it had concluded the project would pose no danger to the environment.
→ read full articleRichard Feynman on Science vs. Religion and Why Uncertainty Is Central to Morality
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
“It is impossible to find an answer which someday will not be found to be wrong. I do not believe that science can disprove the existence of God; I think that is impossible. And if it is impossible, is not a belief in science and in a God — an ordinary God of religion — a consistent possibility?”
→ read full articleProtecting and Restoring Syria’s Trains, Part of Her Cultural Heritage
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
With Daish (ISIS) advancing (5/15/2015) toward the gates of Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra (Tadmur), an irreplaceable treasure for the Syrian people and for the world, where this observer has been honored to spend many inspiring awe-filled hours these past few years observing and contemplating its unique blend of Greco-Roman and Persian influences, another global archeological tragedy may be unfolding.
→ read full articleParodies of Parity: Israel & Palestine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
Peace will come to Israel and Palestine, and be sustained, if and only if the oppressor becomes ready to dismantle its oppressive regime by withdrawing, not merely by disengaging Gaza style. So long as this is not so, direct negotiations and these periodic calls issued by Washington to resume direct talks have one main effect–to free Israel to realize its ambition to establish ‘Greater Israel’ while keeping the Palestinians in chains.
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Microbeads – The Story of Stuff Project
storyofstuffproject – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
In two quick minutes we let viewers know all about microbeads—the tiny bits of plastic increasingly found in everything from facial scrubs and soap to toothpaste and makeup. Microbeads escape most water treatment plants and end up in our rivers, lakes and oceans by the billions.
→ read full articleTargeting Solutions Rather Than Crises, a San Francisco Gathering Asks, “What’s Possible?”
Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
15 May 2015 – At a time of overwhelming discontent with our leaders, our businesses, corporate media, freedom of speech and privacy, health, healthcare and wellness, could there be a brighter light at the end of the tunnel? A gathering of people from around the world at the first ever event known as PossibL, happening later this month in San Francisco, hopes the answer to be Yes.
→ read full article(Français) Partenariat Trans-Pacifique et mort de la République
Ellen Brown, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
La juge Ellen Brown relève comment cet accord ferait passer le droit des multinationales avant celui des citoyens. Un problème qui se pose aussi à travers le TTIP.
→ read full articleNepal’s Enforced Disappearance Commission: Roles of International Community
Dr. Bishnu Pathak - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
Enforced disappearance has been a long, but a neglected history in Nepal. It is derived from the laws of war where a person secretly arrest, detain, torture and disappear either by a State or armed force refusing to acknowledge whereabouts of his/her fate. The force tries hard to decompose the dead body in such a way not to ever be found.
→ read full articleWhy I Teach Evolution to Muslim Students
Rana Dajani, Nature – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
Encouraging students to challenge ideas is crucial to fostering a generation of Muslim scientists who are free thinkers. “As educators, our objective is to help students to become independent thinkers.”
→ read full articleObama Administration Approves Shell’s Plan to Drill in the Arctic
Cole Mellino, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
11 May 2015 – The Obama administration gave conditional approval today to Shell to start drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic Ocean this summer. Shell has been fighting for the right to drill in the Arctic for years, despite a number of botched forays in recent years, and it looks like they are still going to get their way.
→ read full articleVictory! Court Throws Out Nun’s Sabotage Conviction for Nuclear Site Break-In
Carrie Johnson, NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
13 May 2015 – From the moment she was taken into custody in 2012, outside a building that stores enriched uranium, Sister Megan Rice has argued she has been driven by a desire to spread a message. “We all know that nuclear energy is linked inextricably with nuclear weapons.”
→ read full articleThe Blindness of the European Union in the Face of US Military Strategy
Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
EU officials are completely wrong regarding Islamist attacks in Europe and the migration to the Union of people fleeing wars. All this is not the accidental consequence of conflict in the broader Middle East and Africa, but a strategic objective of the United States. Chaos is not an accident, it is the goal.
→ read full articleChanges to the List of States Supporting Terrorism
News from Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Dear Mr. President, as you will be aware, your decision to remove Cuba from the List of States Supporting Terrorism leaves a depleted List, consisting of only three countries: Iran, Syria, and North Korea.
→ read full articleTechno-Financial Capital and Genocide of the Poorest of the Poor
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Today, the ‘poorest of the poor’ are superfluous to empire and thus the policy of genocide. The current world war between the classes has become a war between exterminators and those who would fight to survive!
→ read full articleThe Year 2015: First Third Report
Johan Galtung, 11 May 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
A third of the year 2015 has now passed; let us take stock.
→ read full articleThe Capitalist Culture Is Contrary to Life and Happiness
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Where is the genius of capitalism found? In the exacerbation of the ego to the maximum possible extent, of the individual and of self-affirmation, neglecting the greater whole, integration and the “we”. In this way it has thrown off balance all of human existence, due to the excess of one force, ignoring the other.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Mitochondrial Collateral Damage Thanks to Big Pharma
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
About the multitude of common iatrogenic (drug- or doctor-caused) diseases that can be caused by the commonly prescribed drugs and/or commonly injected vaccine ingredients that are making many of us highly drugged, malnourished, environmentally-toxic and also thoroughly vaccinated.
→ read full articleA Blueprint for Greece’s Recovery
Yanis Varoufakis, Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Months of negotiations have produced little progress. One reason is that all sides are focusing too much on the strings to be attached to the next liquidity injection and not enough on a vision of how Greece can recover and develop sustainably. If we are to break the current impasse, we must envisage a healthy Greek economy.
→ read full articleLove and Resistance by Theresa Wolfwood
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
The poems by Theresa Wolfwood in ‘Love and Resistance’ are an historic contribution to our art of poetry, which is denied a place in the mainstream discourse on human conflicts, social justice, poverty and the bombing of civilians globally in the name of national security.
→ read full articlePeace Lessons: How to Reduce Violence
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
If you are interested in learning more about the meaning of, and the relationships among, direct, structural and cultural violence–particularly developed by Professor Johan Galtung–and how one peace studies scholar suggests we use the integrative power of nonviolence to address violence constructively, then I suggest you read the new book by historian, playwright and novelist Professor Timothy Braatz called ‘Peace Lessons’.
→ read full articleU.S. Reveals It Has Known About Israel’s Nuclear Program for Over 50 Years
The National Security Archive, George Washington University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
April 15, 2015 – Despite denials for decades, the U.S. has finally declassified information affirming its knowledge of Israel’s Dimona nuclear program since 1960. Included in the report are a myriad of other documents indicating dubious practices on the part of the U.S., Israel, the UK and even international agencies.
→ read full article(Italiano) La strana leggerezza della storia
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, ZNet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Alcune persone sono proprio troppo piccole per essere umane è forse è accaduto sempre così. Ma da quando la modernità occidentale è cresciuta tanto da abbracciare tutto il mondo grazie al colonialismo e al capitalismo, la contraddizione tra l’uguale dignità per tutti gli esseri umani e il trattamento inumano di alcuni gruppi sociali, ha assunto la forma di una frattura abissale dove moltissimo sangue è stato versato e molta ipocrisia è stata distillata.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Finally Brings Back Its Submission System for Your Secrets
Andy Greenberg, Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
It’s taken close to half a decade. But WikiLeaks is back in the business of accepting truly anonymous leaks.
→ read full articleIt Is Time to Call Radio “Liberty” What It Is: Radio Gestapo Amerika
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
6 May 2015 – Radio “Liberty” has always been a propaganda ministry. Formerly its propaganda was directed against the Soviet Union. Today it is directed against distinguished Americans who are known and respected for their allegiance to the truth. It has declared America’s most distinguished Russian scholar, Stephen Cohen, to be “a Putin apologist.” He is a professor of Russian studies at both Princeton University and New York University and was advisor to President George Herbert Walker Bush. Mikhail Gorbachev also trusted Cohen, and little doubt that Cohen helped to bring about the end of the Cold War.
→ read full articleWhite on White Violence [SATIRE]
Chris Hayes, MSNBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Chris Hayes Spoofs White Power Structure Has No Clue How to Stop Culture of White on White Violence
→ read full articleProtective Edge Assault: IDF Soldiers’ Testimony from Gaza
Breaking the Silence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
4 May 2015 – To increase public accessibility to the information we gather, we have developed this Internet database, which allows for keyword searches of testimonies from our archives. The database contains all testimonies that have been verified by our researchers to date, and it continues to be updated daily.
→ read full articleContaining Fukushima Is “Beyond Current Technology”. Worldwide Radiation is the Unspoken Consequence
Washington's Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
“The Chief of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Station Has Admitted That the Technology Needed to Decommission Three Melted-Down Reactors Does Not Exist, and He Has No Idea How It Will Be Developed”
→ read full articleThe Semantics of Struggle
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
What is not helpful, actually diversionary, is to respond as if the struggle was between good and evil, and that is what happens as soon as the insurgent challenger is labeled ‘a terrorist.’ Such language exempts the defenders of the status quo from self-criticism and considering accommodationist tactics, proscribing negotiation and assessment of grievances.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il discorso del primo ministro giapponese Abe al Congress USA – e commenti
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Seguono 18 punti selezionati del discorso di Abe nella seduta parlamentare congiunta USA del 30 aprile 2015, “Verso un’alleanza di speranza”, con relativi commenti.
→ read full articleThe West and Its Self-Assumed Right to Intervene
Roberto Savio, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
The ‘West’ is a concept that flourished during the Cold War. Then it was West against East in the form of the Soviet empire. The East was evil against which all democratic countries – read West – were called on to fight. Led by the United States, in the case of the Arab world, it has created situations that justify subsequent military interventions which have had a high cost in both human and financial terms.
→ read full article(Français) Clôture du Forum social mondial : Les citoyens du monde contre le terrorisme et l’oppression des peuples
Sihem Oubraham, El Moudjahid – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
La 13e édition du Forum social mondial (FMS) 2015, qui s’est déroulée pendant quatre jours dans la capitale tunisienne, a clôturé ses travaux sous le signe d’une «solidarité tous azimuts envers tous les peuples opprimés».
→ read full articleToward a World Pedagogy of Positiveness: A Plea
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Sad to see that in my parts of the world there is increasing negativity,
which calls for educators everywhere to enhance the power of positivity
If we look at Positiveness and Negativity in the History of Languages will be shown?
Will uses of those two concepts in spoken/written vocabulary have grown?
Pro-Capitalist “Anti-Capitalism” – This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Evan Winters, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
When the word “capitalism” appears in her book, it is invariably preceded by “neo-liberal,” or “deregulated” or “predatory.” Klein is calling for a return to some sort of regulated capitalist economy.
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Johan Galtung Speaking at the World Tribunal on Iraq
Deep Dish – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
World Tribunal on Iraq – Istanbul, Turkey – June 24-27, 2005
→ read full article(Français) L’Amérique latine en perspective : entre réussites et nouveau défis
Raffaele Morgantini & Tarik Bouafia, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Les cures d’austérités imposées à certains pays de la région par le Fond Monétaire International et la Banque Mondiale ont été abandonnés au profit de politique de relance où l’Etat a repris avec plus ou moins d’importance un rôle prépondérant dans la gestion de l’économie.
→ read full articleStatues of Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning Unveiled in Berlin
Stefan Steinberg , WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
7 May 2015 – Bronze statues of persecuted whistleblowers Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning were unveiled in Berlin on May Day. The statues are an art project entitled “Anything to Say?”, of Italian artist Davide Dormino. After a month in Berlin, we will move the sculptures to the Ostrale art centre in Dresden. We are also working to organize exhibitions in America, Moscow, Switzerland, Portugal and other countries.
→ read full articleMathematicians
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician were stranded on an island after a shipwreck.
→ read full articleA Destination, Unknown
Ashok T. Chakravarthy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
The clouds rain
Without selfish motives,
Be it an ocean
Or a green land
The Choice before Europe
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Washington continues to drive Europe toward one or the other of the two most likely outcomes of the orchestrated conflict with Russia. Either Europe or some European Union member government will break from Washington over the issue of Russian sanctions, thereby forcing the EU off of the path of conflict with Russia, or Europe will be pushed into military conflict with Russia.
→ read full articleCosta Rica’s Energy Nearly 100 Percent Clean
Diego Arguedas Ortiz, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
May 5 2015 – Costa Rica has almost reached its goal of an energy mix based solely on renewable sources, harnessing solar, wind and geothermal power, as well as the energy of the country’s rivers. In 2015, 97 percent of the country’s energy supply will come from clean sources.
→ read full articleWho Is Responsible for Indian Farmer Suicides?
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
The present spate of farmer suicides in India unquestionably fall in the ‘anomie’ category, linked to moral confusion caused by economic ruin, failed aspirations and crushing disappointment. Many have gambled with their lives and fortunes, and put themselves and their families under tremendous risk by thoughtless borrowing to get out of their families age-old poverty trap.
→ read full articleA Template for Our Global Era: The Lexical Nexus of Proportion, Process, Ideology
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Human survival and wellbeing are now embedded in a complex interdependent global web of economic, political, social, technical, and environmental events, forces, and changes. This article is simply an effort to call attention — increase awareness — to the events, forces, and powers of our time by acknowledging and presenting the lexical nexus of global era ‘proportions,’ ‘processes,’ and ‘ideologies.’
→ read full articleThe American Psychological Association’s Disappearing History
Roy Eidelson Ph.D., Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
During a period of heightened scrutiny, APA webpages are vanishing. APA’s leaders have some difficult questions to answer. For starters, why has so much information been removed from the APA website at the very time Mr. Hoffman is being promised “full and unfettered access” for his investigation?
→ read full article(Castellano) Los Expertos Advierten de la Necesidad de Reconocer los Resentimientos
Carta de la Paz dirigida a la ONU– TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
“Los resentimientos son fruto del desamor y del desprecio, muchos resentimientos nacen de la comparación y de una visión subjetiva de las cosas y por eso las personas resentidas nunca se sienten satisfechas con la justicia. Para gestionar los resentimientos, en primer lugar hay que reconocerlos; y, en segundo lugar, pasar necesariamente por la justicia. Cuando no hay justicia el mal queda dentro y el resentimiento crece”.
→ read full article3 Reasons Healthy Gut Flora Are Important
Dr. Edward F. Group III, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Your gut should be home to over 100 billion bacteria, but antibiotics, pesticides, stress, and genetically-modified foods are just a few of the things that can weaken that diversity. Your gut’s bacteria needs to stay healthy or problems like irritable bowel syndrome, gluten allergies, and even obesity can be more likely. Let’s look at just 3 reasons that healthy gut flora are so important.
→ read full articleReflections from and about Palestine
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
7 May 2015 – I and two colleagues traveled to Jenin to both do field work and attend the conference in Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding. Several speakers at the conference including me highlighted the devastating impact of the Oslo accords (our real Nakba) on almost liquidating the Palestinian struggle and Palestinian cause.
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Катюша [Katusha – Katyusha] (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Ottoman Military Band and Red Army Choir - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
A Russian Classic on Victory Day Celebrations against Nazism/Fascism in Europe, 9 May 1945
→ read full articleFlying Lessons
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
A flock of birds that could not fly met in a nice hotel on top of a cliff overlooking the sea for a training workshop on flying.
→ read full articleDante and the Eternal Quest for Nonreligious Divinity: Physicist Margaret Wertheim on Science and God
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Centuries after Ada Lovelace, the world’s first computer programmer, contemplated the relationship between science and religion, and decades after Carl Sagan did the same in his exquisite ‘Varieties of Scientific Experience,’ physicist-turned-science-writer Margaret Wertheim offers perhaps the most elegant and emboldening reconciliation of these two frequently contrasted approaches to the human longing for truth and meaning.
→ read full articleUS Sends Hundreds of Troops to Quake-Stricken Nepal
W. A. Sunil, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
4 May 2015 – The United States has significantly increased its military presence in Nepal as part of the relief operations underway following the devastating earthquake that struck the country on April 25. As it has done in previous disasters in other countries, the Pentagon is exploiting the tragedy to forge closer ties and collaboration with its Nepalese counterparts.
→ read full articleMother’s Day
Kristin Christman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
A poem about women’s rights, violence against women, equality, economic and political equality, mothering, school, work, environment, and, of course, war. It is about an ideal, truly meaningful Mother’s Day, not an on-the-surface-only Mother’s Day.
→ read full articleEvil Rules – Guidelines for Engaging in Armageddon Now
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
There is extensive reference to evil in the media, in political declarations, in commentary on the web, and even in academic literature: what is evil or who is evil. It is appropriate to recognize that the prophesied ultimate battle between good and evil, Armageddon, is not some time in the future. It is now, a time clearly characterized by the Biblical reference: (Matthew 10:21).
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
May 11-17 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.” – Joel Brown
→ read full articleA Third of US-Backed Afghan Forces Involved in Drug Trade
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Several reports show the production of opium has sky-rocketed since the 2001 U.S. invasion. According to Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service, a third of Afghan troops have deserted to join the country’s drug trade industry.
→ read full articleDifferent Customs
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
A Chinese man put a bowl of rice on his deceased wife’s grave every day.
→ read full article(Català) Els experts adverteixen de la necessitat de reconèixer els ressentiments
Carta de la Pau dirigida a l'ONU – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
“La gestió dels ressentiments s’ha de fer des del llenguatge i des de les institucions creant relats de reconciliació. Aquest procés demana temps, recursos, dedicació i energies i, en contra de tot això, ara volem perdons express”.
→ read full articleUS “Grand Strategy” for War against China Laid Out
Nick Beams, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
The Council on Foreign Relations report cites a publication produced during World War II defining “grand strategy” as one that “so integrates the policies and armaments of a nation that the resort to war is either rendered unnecessary or is undertaken with the maximum chance of victory.” This is not merely a concept of war but “an inherent element of statecraft at all times.”
→ read full articlePain versus Gain: Argentina, Greece, and Paul Volcker
Center for Economic and Policy Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
NYT Warns Greece Away from Argentina’s Seven-Year Boom – There is no doubt that 2002 was worse for the people of Argentina as a result of the default, but by the second half of the year the economy returned to growth and grew strongly for the next seven years.
→ read full articleWant to Help Nepal Recover from the Quake? Cancel Its Debt
Kanya D’Almeida, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
One possible solution has come from the Jubilee USA Network, an alliance of over 75 U.S.-based organizations and 400 faith communities worldwide, which said that Nepal could qualify under the IMF new Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust.
→ read full articleThe Message of Anzac: Put Out More Flags, Or Shut Up
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
That a journalism professor of long standing, John Henningham, can tweet weasel words that “freedom of speech meant that journalists had the right to speak without breaking the law but did not have the right to keep their job when offending others” is a glimpse of the obstacles faced by aspiring young journalists as they navigate the university mills.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’Occidente contro se stesso
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Si prenda il 70° anniversario demarcazione della vittoria sul nazismo… La Polonia perse il 20% della sua popolazione; l’Unione Sovietica 27,1 milioni, 16%, con 1.710 città e 70.000 villaggi cancellati; il Regno Unito l’1.1%; gli USA 0.4%; la Norvegia 0.32%.
→ read full articleNo Arab Bolivars: As Region Implodes, Arab Socialism Fizzles Out
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
30 Apr 2015 – A student group recently asked me to address socialism in the Arab world, with the assumption that there is indeed such a movement that is capable of overhauling inherently incompetent and utterly corrupt regimes, across the region. No such group or configuration of socialist groups exists today.
→ read full articleSome Notes on the New WikiLeaks Next-Generation Submission System Beta
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
WikiLeaks will continue publishing, as it has since its foundation, full archives of suppressed documents in strategic global partnerships. The 2.0 public-facing submission system is an important new method in our arsenal for recovering subjugated history.
→ read full articleDeutsche Bank Pays $2.5 Billion Fine for Interest Rate Rigging
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
27 Apr 2015 – Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay out a record $2.5 billion fine to settle U.K. and U.S. government investigations into allegations of fixing global interest rates, just months after six other banks paid out $4.3 billion on similar charges. Activists say that the banks should have faced criminal charges.
→ read full article(Castellano) 40 Años de Vietnam: Kissinger, Retrato de un “Nobel de la Paz”
Fernando Montiel T. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
“No veo por qué debemos quedarnos cruzados de brazos y contemplar cómo un país se hace comunista debido a la irresponsabilidad de su propio pueblo.” – Kissinger. Para el Nobel a la Paz de 1973, estos riesgos de la democracia se conjuraban con sangre. Bajo el mismo padrinazgo, a Chile siguió Timor Oriental en 1975 con 200 mil muertos; luego, Argentina en 1976 con 30 mil desaparecidos…. y más.
→ read full articleWhat Makes a Hero: Joseph Campbell’s Seminal Monomyth Model for the Eleven Stages of the Hero’s Journey, Animated
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
“It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.”
→ read full articleComprehensive Ban on Nuclear Testing, a ‘Stepping Stone’ to a Nuke-Free World
Kanya D'Almeida, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
29 Apr 2015 – Interview with Lassina Zerbo, executive secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation. With the four-week-long review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty underway at the UN, hopes and frustrations are running equally high, as a binding political agreement on the biggest threat to humanity hangs in the balance.
→ read full articleWake up! by David Krieger
Bill Bhaneja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Santa Barbara, Calif: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Book, 2015 – How does one write a review of such a collection where each poem stands out drawing the reader into a vortex of inhumanity of man by man and at the same time wanting to make sense of existential themes like Truth, War, Peace, Nuclear Weapons, and even a section called Imperfection?
→ read full articleThe Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
28 Apr 2015 – The NPT Review Conference is taking place from now until May 22 in New York City. Adam Mount explains what it is and how this year’s conference is likely to be a dismal failure.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
May 4-10 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today… But you must play your part and sing a song, one of your best. ” – Hermann Hesse
→ read full article(Français) La guerre du Vietnam n’est pas finie : les séquelles de l’Agent Orange
Hai Quang Ho, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Certes, la guerre du Vietnam s’est terminée il y a 40 ans. Mais elle continue à tuer aujourd’hui. Selon la Croix Rouge, 3 à 4 millions de Vietnamiens sont actuellement handicapés ou présentent de graves maladies liées à l’Agent Orange.
→ read full articleDrones, Cops, and the Unaccountable Machinery of Death
Editorial, The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
From signature strikes in Pakistan to police violence in Baltimore, the state is seemingly uninterested in even counting how many people it kills.
→ read full articleMoving Indigenous Land Rights from Paper to Reality
Valentina Ieri, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Speaking at U.N. Headquarters on Apr. 27 as part of the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues – which started last week and lasts through Friday [1 May 2015] – the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Victoria Tauli-Corpuz expressed disappointment with the scant efforts to enshrine Indigenous People’s rights in the post-2015 development agenda.
→ read full articleANZAC Day 2015
Kevin Clements – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Please let me be what I was;
A man of my time,
A man who knew no better,
A man killed for no purpose,
A man who died hopeful
That others
will refuse to do the same.
Please do that in my name.
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Galtung Book Launching
Perdana Global Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, former Prime Minister of Malaysia, launches Johan Galtung’s two new books at the closing of the International Conference The ‘New World Order: A Recipe for War or Peace!’ in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia: Lost in the Sands of War
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
The constant violation of the minimum standards of the laws of armed conflict has had some impact on the perception of the conflict with a few in the USA and Western Europe. As the weapons used by Saudi Arabia are largely of foreign production, supplier States have a responsibility − at least morally − in the way the arms are used.
→ read full articleCampaign against Glyphosate Steps Up in Latin America
Fabiana Frayssinet, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
“We can no longer accept the use of these poisons because they destroy biodiversity, aggravate climate change, destroy the soil’s fertility, and contaminate the water and even the air. And above all, they bring more illness, such as cancer. “
→ read full articleMarrying Strategic White Holes with Problematic Black Holes
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Produced in celebration of the encounter of 28 April 2015 between Ban Ki-moon (Secretary-General of the United Nations) and Pope Francis (of the Catholic Church) to discuss climate change and Mediterranean migration.
→ read full articleMaputo Declaration of African Civil Society on Climate Justice
TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
In line with the above and through other considerations, the conference demands as follows:
13. The right to clean water should be enshrined in the constitutions of all African countries.
14. Governments must halt the privatisation of water and restore public control in already privatised ones.
Women, Conflict Resolution, and Peacebuilding
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Given the many forms that violence takes as well as the many different cultures in which armed violence is now ongoing, we can learn from the experience of each peace activity. In particular, we can be encouraged by the past 100 years of peace and conflict resolution efforts.
→ read full articleThe Rendition Project
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, et al. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
The Rendition Project is a collaborative research initiative by the University of Kent, Kingston University, the legal action charity Reprieve, and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism aiming to bring academic expertise to research the CIA’s rendition, detention and interrogation programme.
→ read full articleApartheid and the Palestinian National Struggle
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
American citizens have a special responsibility for the long ordeal of the Palestinian people. The Jewish philosopher, Abraham Heschel observed “[f]ew are guilty, but all are responsible.” The Legitimacy War scenario gives each of us ample opportunities to exercise our individual responsibility. We owe the Palestinian people and ourselves nothing less.
→ read full articleDiscussing Islam: Western Logic Is Flawed
Sufyan Bin Uzayr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
I decided to dig deeper, and reflect on what exactly such viewpoints are trying to convey. Is Islam really at war with everyone? Or is Islam having a crisis within itself? Do Muslims need to react?
→ read full articleEinstein on the Common Language of Science in a Rare 1941 Recording
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
“Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem — in my opinion — to characterize our age.”
→ read full articleA Hole in the [Capitalist] System
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
The outrageous, untold story of how big business dumps its costs on us. Corporations ream the land with giant holes, extract a stack of money, then clear out, leaving other people with the costs. There’s a briefer description: legalised theft.
→ read full articleBolivia: 15 Years after the Cochabamba Water Revolt, Echoes in New Cases of Corporate Abuse
Philippa de Boissière, Upside Down World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
27 Apr 2015 – Fifteen years ago this month the people of Cochabamba, Bolivia were victorious in their now-famous showdown with one of the most powerful multinational corporations in the world, in what has come to be known as the Cochabamba Water Revolt. Fast forward to South America 2015.
→ read full articleIdiots of the World, Unite!
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
“Sir, you are an idiot.” Wow, an insult wrapped in such old-fashioned politeness. I let the words hover and reach, as I always do, for peace: that is to say, for clarity, connection, common humanity. Last week I raised the idea of unarmed policing [in the US], as practiced in half a dozen countries around the world.
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Against the Wind (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Against the Wind is a composition of Bob Seger from 1980 “about trying to move ahead, keeping your sanity and integrity at the same time.”
→ read full articleToo Proud?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Most American politicians talk as if they had been born in a log cabin…
→ read full article(Français) Hymne a l’Amour Humain [Un Poème]
Guy Crequie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Pour L’harmonie De Nos Vies
→ read full articleDoonesbury Cartoonist Attacked for Criticizing Charlie Hebdo
Patrick Martin, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
27 Apr 2015 – Garry Trudeau, the creator of the Doonesbury comic strip, has come under attack for publicly criticizing anti-Muslim cartoons appearing in Charlie Hebdo, calling them a form of hate speech. The central point made by Trudeau is that Charlie Hebdo was engaged, not in satirizing the powerful, but in vilifying the most oppressed section of the French population, Muslim immigrants, who face the highest levels of unemployment, poverty, police harassment and imprisonment.
→ read full articleAustralia: The Secret Country Again Wages War on Its Own People
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Australia’s Racist Assault on Aboriginal People – They are to be driven from homelands where their communities have lived for thousands of years. In Western Australia, where mining companies make billion dollar profits exploiting Aboriginal land, the state government says it can no longer afford to “support” the homelands.
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Introducing “Liberate Hawai’i”
Jon D. Olsen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
A focused examination of the unfounded US claim to the sovereignty of Hawai’i.
→ read full articleOklahoma Mysterious Iron Cup Embedded in Million-Year-Old Coal
Universe Explorers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
It’s a perfect piece of metal and it was discovered in 1912 in a mine in Wilburton, Oklahoma. The coal that originated from those mines is estimated to be around 300 million years old. This is where the story ignites and goes cold according to some.
→ read full article(Castellano) Honrando a Eduardo Galeano
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Premio Nobel de la Paz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Cuando un amigo se va… Nos deja su abrazo solidario y la alegría de la resistencia en construir nuevos amaneceres junto a los pueblos. Así partió Eduardo Galeano hacedor de la palabra que camina, abriendo sendas de luces y esperanza a contrapelo del sistema de dominación.
→ read full article5 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”.
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