Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Ukraine and the Danger of Nuclear War
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
World War I had its roots in the fanatical and quasi-religious nationalist movements that developed in Europe during the 19th century. Nationalism is still a potent force in today’s world, but in an era of all-destroying weapons, instantaneous worldwide communication, and global economic interdependence, fanatical nationalism has become a dangerous anachronism.
→ read full articleAll Give and No Take
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Do those negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership have any interest in democracy? Here’s a test. Nothing threatens democracy as much as corporate power. Nowhere do corporations operate with greater freedom than between nations, for here there is no competition. With the exception of the European parliament there is no transnational democracy, anywhere.
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Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Three Years Later, Who is Responsible?
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Mar 10, 2014 – Nuclear power engineer Arnie Gunderson and journalist Chiho Kaneko discuss a lawsuit to hold General Electric and other reactor manufacturing companies responsible and the Japanese public’s attitude toward nuclear energy.
→ read full article3 Years after Fukushima: How Survivors’ Mental Health Continues Deteriorating
Brandon Baker, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
“After the Chernobyl disaster children were diagnosed many years later,” she told the BBC. “My boys may be fine now, but if there is any risk I need to find out as soon as possible.” She’s not comfortable relying on the government for information. Just two weeks ago, Japanese officials announced plans to restart reactors that were closed after the incident, calling nuclear energy a “vital source” of power.
→ read full articleWashington Has Set the World on a Path to War
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Why is Washington so opposed to Crimean self-determination? The answer is that one of the main purposes of Washington’s coup in Kiev was to have the new puppet government evict Russia from its Black Sea naval base in Crimea. Washington cannot use the government Washington has installed in Ukraine for that purpose if Crimea is no longer part of Ukraine.
→ read full articleInformation on Aspects Related to the Fukushima Nuclear Reactors Three Years after the Accident
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
A great amount of information on “Fukushima” has been released since the day of the accident. The information below is only a few pieces of them, published or broadcasted by Japanese mass media in March 2014.
→ read full articleThe Group of 77 at Fifty. Congratulations!
Johan Galtung, 17 Mar 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
For one who has worked much on the theory and practice of change from systems of hierarchy to systems of equity, June 15 1964 will never be forgotten. Those at the bottom of the world system of states, fragmented away from each other by colonial and imperial structures, marginalized, exploited, came together, 77 of them, and formed–not a very revolutionary word–a Group.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden Full Video Interview 10 Mar 2014
Russia Today - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Speaking remotely from Russia on Monday 10 Mar 2014, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden told attendees at the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, Texas that encryption is still a powerful deterrent against government surveillance. (1:01:23)
→ read full articleBeyond Ukraine: Russia’s Imperial Mess
SPIEGEL Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Russia’s occupation of Crimea has violated international law and created a new crisis among world leaders. Now the EU and the US are fighting over the best means to address Russia’s reawakened expansionary ambitions.
→ read full articleLegal Fund for Academic Boycott of Israel
Jake Lynch, Australians for BDS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
UPDATE March 17, 2014 – Associate Professor Jake Lynch, Director of Sydney University’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies [and TMS advisor], has been taken to the Federal Court of Australia due to his support of the Palestinian call for academic boycott of Israel. The court case is now entering a crucial phase. Over 250 of you have made a donation to the legal fund so far. Please make your donation here—however small. Thank you!
→ read full articleWhy Do I Persist?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
I have been asked recently why do I persist in working hard for the things that I believe in, knowing that I will die in the next several years, and am almost certain not to be around for the catastrophic future that seems to cast its dark shadow across the road ahead, and can only be removed by a major transnational movement of the peoples of the world.
→ read full articleThe Children of Japan’s Fukushima Battle an Invisible Enemy
Toru Hanai and Elaine Lies, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Some of the smallest children in Koriyama, a short drive from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, barely know what it’s like to play outside – fear of radiation has kept them indoors for much of their short lives. Koriyama recommended shortly after the disaster that children up to two years old not spend more than 15 minutes outside each day. Those aged 3 to 5 should limit their outdoor time to 30 minutes or less.
→ read full article(Italiano) Ucraina-Crimea-Georgia: l’Occidente e la Russia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
In modo anche più importante, la linea divisoria dell’Impero romano fin dal 395, confermata dallo scisma fra cristianesimo cattolico e ortodosso nel 1054, si riflette nella storia estremamente complessa dell’Ucraina. Odessa è a ovest, Donets a est, Ucraina a ovest, più russa a est. E Kiev, la capitale – culla della Russia, Rus – nel mezzo. Un paese spaccato in due, due uniti in uno: entrambi veri.
→ read full articleYellowstone Announces End to 2014 Bison Slaughter Following One-Man Blockade
Buffalo Field Campaign, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Comfrey’s action demonstrated strong public opposition to the buffalo slaughter. The day following Jacob’s blockade, Yellowstone National Park issued their only press release for this year’s controversial bison operations, announcing that Yellowstone had no further plans to capture this season. “My action raised enough public awareness that Yellowstone announced a cease to their operations the following day,” Jacobs said.
→ read full article(Français) Le partenariat transatlantique risque d’accentuer les poursuites contre les États
EurActiv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Des investisseurs réclament plus d’1,7 milliard d’euros à la Grèce, à l’Espagne et à Chypre. Le phénomène pourrait s’aggraver si l’accord du partenariat transatlantique avec les Etats-Unis était ratifié en l’état.
→ read full articleWhat We Can Learn from Child Soldiers
Jonathan Rozen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Because he was a child, Moses Otiti was the only one to survive. For the next 12 months, he was forced to serve the LRA as a soldier. “The reason why they didn’t kill me was because they were really [looking for] people who were young…they really wanted to groom them as soldiers who can fight the battle against the government,” he told IPS.
→ read full articleLifeism: Beyond Humanity
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Lifeism is very relevant to our relentless savaging of life across the world. We need to identify with life — this is the most important identity. Identification with gender, ethnicity, race, nations is secondary. We are first and foremost creations of life.
→ read full articleRevisiting Nuclear Industry Failures on Third Anniversary of Fukushima Disaster
Dr. Rianne Teule, Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
The nuclear industry is trying its hardest to make us forget by downplaying the impacts of the accident, ignoring the fact that the Fukushima reactors are still not under control and claiming that lessons have been learned. Nothing is further from the truth. So business continues as usual and in many countries the same mistakes are being made that played a role in Fukushima.
→ read full articleGMOs: Ban Them or Label Them?
Ronnie Cummins, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Since the controversial introduction in the mid-nineties of genetically engineered (GE) food and crops, and the subsequent fast-tracking of those crops by the federal government—with no independent safety-testing or labeling required—there has been a lively debate among activists, both inside and outside the U.S., about how to drive these unhealthy and environmentally destructive “Frankenfoods” off the market.
→ read full articleHuman Security and Human Rights Harmonious to Inharmonious Relations
Dr. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Abstract – Human security and human rights are universal phenomena, poor to rich and individual to all people in the universe. Human security and human rights are harmonious to inharmonious natures. Human security is state to people-centered notion, whereas human rights are human-centered more.
→ read full articleCreativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Crucial Difference Between Success and Mastery
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we don’t use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognate — perfectionism — an inhuman aim motivated by a concern with how others view us. Mastery is also not the same as success — an event-based victory based on a peak point, a punctuated moment in time. Mastery is not merely a commitment to a goal, but to a curved-line, constant pursuit.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Known as IPRA, founded in 1964 in London–and this author, 34 at the time, is the only surviving founder. IPRA rotates every two years from one peace research center to the other, and is now in very competent Turkish hands. And what is more natural than having the 50th anniversary for the hub of peace studies in that hub of the world, Istanbul, 10-14 August this year!! Hurry up, register!!!
→ read full articleDisaster Militarism: Rethinking U.S. Relief in the Asia-Pacific
Foreign Policy In Focus - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Disaster relief has increasingly become part of the justification for increased U.S. troop deployments in the Asia-Pacific region.
→ read full articleSafe!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
The head of a Mexican drug cartel recently took three suitcases full of money to a Swiss bank and demanded to see the bank president. He asked him,
→ read full articleWhy You Should Eat Fermented Foods
Delia Quigley, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Every culture in the world has some form of fermented foods they eat with meals to aid in digestion. It isn’t necessary to eat very much, just enough to provide the proper enzymes to help break down food and make the nutrients available for absorption in the small intestine.
→ read full articleWomen, Education and Peace
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
The author dedicates this article to all women of the world on the eve of UN International Day of Peace. Dr. Prasad advises to foster in education and women an essential portion of our perception of life with fearless enthusiasm for improvement of the moral and physical state of mankind by profound and sound education for women’s freedom and against women’s sequestration and war.
→ read full articleArchbishop Tutu Adds Voice to Israeli Apartheid Week
Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
“In South Africa, we could not have achieved our democracy without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the apartheid regime. I associate myself with the objectives of the 10th international Israeli Apartheid Week.”
→ read full article$3 Billion for Ukraine to Go Straight to…Russia
Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, CNBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
As Western leaders prepare a bailout package for embattled Ukraine, they face a startling irony: Thanks to the almost bizarre structure of a bond deal between Ukraine and Russia, billions of those dollars are almost certain to go directly into the coffers of the Putin government.
→ read full articleSpanish Government Abolishes Prosecutions under Universal Jurisdiction Laws
Alejandro López, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Spain’s right-wing Popular Party (PP) government has placed a ban on attempts to pursue justice for crimes under universal jurisdiction laws. PP spokesman Alfonso Alonso declared it was necessary to eliminate universal jurisdiction because it “only brings conflict.”
→ read full article(Português) Amazonas: como os índios vão testar turismo ecológico
Instituto Socioambiental – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Em experimento inédito, comunidades do Rio Negro criam projeto para pesca turística que não devasta nem natureza, nem cultura — mas gera ocupações, serviços e renda compartilhados. Iniciativa nasceu da luta de organizações e lideranças indígenas, com apoio do Ministério Público, para retirar pescadores ilegais da região.
→ read full articleHaiti/Honduras: Same System, Different Players*
Charlie Hinton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Since the days of the Monroe Doctrine, the U.S. has considered all of Latin America its exclusive “back yard.” It’s maintained a regionally consistent imperial policy to guarantee subservient governments and business arrangements that submit fully to the discipline of global financial markets at the expense of democracy and human rights.
→ read full articleThe Taliban Fight for Religious and Cultural Identity
Mathilde Simon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Afghan Women as Symbols of Group Identity and Power Relations – This article studies the Taliban’s emphasis on women bodies as a symbol of their identity, which has been violated several times by foreign occupations imposing their own conception of human rights on Afghan culture.
→ read full articleGod Bless Putin
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Binyamin Netanyahu is very good at making speeches, especially to Jews, neocons and such, who jump up and applaud wildly at everything he says, including that tomorrow the sun will rise in the west. The question is: is he good at anything else?
→ read full articleJulian Assange “We Are Headed Towards a Transnational Dystopian Total Surveillance Society”
Mox News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
March 07, 2014 MSNBC News
→ read full articleHacking Team Spy Software Identified on U.S. Servers
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Two U.S. companies – Linode of New Jersey and Rackspace of Texas – have been hosting surveillance software designed by Hacking Team of Italy, according to a new report. The software was allegedly been used by governments in Ethiopia, Morocco, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates to track dissidents.
→ read full articleZap! Australian Scientists Look at Lasers to Cull Space Junk
Pauline Askin, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
It may sound like science fiction but an Australian team is working on a project to zap orbital debris with lasers from Earth to reduce the growing amount of space junk that threatens to knock out satellites with a “cascade of collisions”.
→ read full articleIndependence of Scotland from a Crimean Perspective
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Emerging Strategic Logic of the New Century Understood Otherwise? – The question is what might be learned from the Crimea situation of relevance to that of Scotland. Is a new mindset being used to frame such situations — one which merits a degree of attention? Is there a case for a more systemic perspective rather consideration of such crises in an ad hoc, fire-fighting mode?
→ read full articleSilent Grace: A Film Review
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Silent Grace is an award-winning 2004 film, directed by filmmaker Maeve Murphy. It documents a disturbing chapter of Northern Ireland’s nonviolent dirty protests and hunger strikes by republican female prisoners in 1980 that were never made public.
→ read full article(Castellano) Uruguay: Mujica defiende legalización del aborto y matrimonio igualitario
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
El presidente de Uruguay, José Mujica, concedió una entrevista al diario brasileño O Globo publicada este domingo [9 Mar 2014] en donde aseguró que la legalización de la marihuana, el aborto y el matrimonio entre personas del mismo género son políticas para reconocer la realidad y los hechos en la actualidad.
→ read full articleResisters of Sykes-Picot Land Grab Perform Key Fighting Roles in Syria
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Lots of them were never even religious. They are drug addicts who get high and lose their fear of dying so they are dangerous to confront. The “imported Jihadists” die in high numbers because they ignore the battlefield realities. Their average number of dead is estimated to be five times the number of Hezbollah casualties, three times the number of PFLI fighters, and twice the number of casualties than the regular Syrian army.
→ read full articleThe War on Emotions is Driving Us Insane
Anita McKone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Have you ever been provoked by someone into fear, anger or pain, and then blamed, punished or humiliated for feeling and expressing these feelings? This is a form of psychological torture which has very serious consequences. Here are three stories that demonstrate how commonly this form of torture occurs in human society.
→ read full articlePsychology Association’s Torture Link Fails “Do-No-Harm” Ethics
Roy Eidelson and Trudy Bond – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
As we look to the future, we wonder whether the profound tragedy of Guantanamo might have been diminished if psychologists there had held fast to our profession’s do-no-harm principles and refused to countenance human rights abuses, and if psychology’s leadership had done the same.
→ read full articleThe Economic Cost of Violence Containment
Institute for Economics and Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
One of the major challenges in developing policies aimed at increasing peace is the difficulty of being able to accurately gauge the benefits that result from peace. Recognising this, the Institute for Economics and Peace has developed a new and ground breaking methodology to estimate the cost of violence to the global economy, including calculations for 152 countries that detail the costs of thirteen different types of violence.
→ read full articlePropaganda Rules the News
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Glenn Greenwald points out the independence that RT, a Russian media organization, permits Abby Martin who denounced Russia’s alleged invasion of Ukraine, compared to the fates of Phil Donahue (MSNBC) and Peter Arnett (NBC), both of whom were fired for expressing opposition to the Bush regime’s illegal attack on Iraq.
→ read full articleBreaking Free: Choosing a Better Human Future
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
I have long believed that prospects for a hopeful human future depend on radical and visionary feelings, thought, and action… Citizenship, then, becomes enacted in time and is not conceived only as a dimension of space as, for instance, in opting to be ‘a world citizen.’
→ read full article(Castellano) La OEA se solidarizó con Venezuela en una decisión histórica
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Con 29 votos a favor y tres en contra, de Estados Unidos, Canadá y Panamá, la organización regional abre así el camino para condenar la violencia y descarta de este modo que una comisión observadora vaya a Venezuela para constatar la situación producto de la violencia fascista, como se había propuesto anteriormente.
→ read full articleThank You, Haiti! Thank You, Cuba!
Marilyn Laglois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
It’s time to show some appreciation and support for the people of two neighboring Caribbean islands. January 1, 2014 was the 210th and 55th anniversary of two major revolutions— one in Haiti and the other in Cuba— that can help us wake up and reclaim our humanity.
→ read full articleVegan Myths Debunked
EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
You’ve heard it all before: Vegans are so pasty and unhealthy—they certainly can’t be getting enough protein! And you have to have pockets full of cash to even think about going vegan. Right? Wrong. This infographic explains.
→ read full articleSri Lanka: Bring Up the Bodies
The Economist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Creeping Towards an International Inquiry into War Crimes – Evidence of past atrocities keeps turning up in Sri Lanka.
→ read full article400 Youths Arrested at White House Protesting Keystone XL Pipeline
EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
2 Mar 2014 – Today more than 1,200 youths from across the country marched to the White House to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. 400 youths were arrested while participating in a nonviolent civil disobedience sit-in, the largest youth act of civil disobedience at the White House in a generation.
→ read full articleUkraine-Crimea-Georgia–the West and Russia
Johan Galtung, 10 Mar 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
The dividing line of the Roman Empire from 395, confirmed by the schism between Catholic and Orthodox Christianity in 1054, is reflected in Ukraine’s extremely complex history. Odessa is in the West, Donets in the East, Ukrainian in the West, more Russian in the East. And Kiev–origin of Russia, Rus–the capital, in the middle. One split in two, two united in one: both true.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Deported from Egypt En Route to Gaza
Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
On 5th March, 2014 Mairead Maguire and Ann Patterson, members of the Peace People, N. Ireland were deported from Egypt as they attempted to enter the country in order to join an international delegation of 100 women wishing to visit Gaza via the Egyptian Rafah Border.
→ read full articleForbes 400 List of World’s Richest People Highlights Growth of Social Inequality
Ed Hightower, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
* The world’s 85 richest people have more wealth than the poorer half of the world’s population combined. Some 2.4 billion people live on less than $2 per day.
* In the United States, 95 percent of all income gains between 2009 and 2012 went to the wealthiest 1 percent of the population.
Uganda: Scientific Statement from the Ministry of Health on Homosexuality
Pambazuka News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
A team of top scientists appointed by the government to give an opinion on homosexuality is unanimous that this sexual orientation is natural and has existed in Africa and everywhere in the world since time immemorial. It is strange for President Museveni to claim he relied on this expert report to assent to the draconian anti-gay bill.
→ read full articleDecember 2013 – Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Occupied Since 1967
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
5 Mar 2014 – This is my last report as Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestine as my term is coming to an end after six years. The mandate is important as a source of information pertaining to the realities of occupation from the perspective of international humanitarian law and international criminal law
→ read full articlePoverty
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Recently a zoo offered jobs to unemployed workers to disguise themselves as animals and play in the cages.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden’s Written Testimony to the European Parliament
Edward Snowden – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
The NSA granted me the authority to monitor communications world-wide using its mass surveillance systems, including within the United States. I have personally targeted individuals using these systems. I know the good and the bad of these systems, and what they can and cannot do, and I am telling you that without getting out of my chair, I could have read the private communications of any member of this committee, as well as any ordinary citizen. I swear under penalty of perjury that this is true.
→ read full article(Português) Brasil-Europa: Cidadania e Confidencialidade na Internet
Forum Abel Varzim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
O Brasil e a União Europeia concordaram na segunda-feira, 24 de fevereiro de 2014, em lançar um cabo submarino de comunicação em fibra ótica de Lisboa [Portugal] a Fortaleza [Brasil] para reduzir a dependência nos Estados Unidos, depois que Washington espionou Brasília e várias capitais europeias.
→ read full articleMemo to Judge: Really?? – What We Owe the Oak Ridge Three
Ralph Hutchison, OREPA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
On February 18 [2014] we heard it from a federal judge—there are two variations. The first: There are plenty of ways for you to protest and deliver your message without breaking the law. The second: If you people would just put this time and energy into working for the change you want in the political system, you might get the change you seek. Both sentiments are either disingenuous or naïve.
→ read full article(Italiano) Pakistan: e adesso che cosa fare?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Islamabad, Ministero degli Esteri (28 febbraio 2014) – Il punto basilare è che il Pakistan non otterrà quella merce detta “pace” in Kashmir, Afghanistan e Asia Centrale perseguendo solo i finie i mezzi di Washington e di qualche élite locale. Perché sbocci la pace bisogna considerare pure gli obiettivi di altre parti; e sono molti.
→ read full articleGender, Conflict and Peace
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
We celebrate Women’s Day on March 8 every year. Have we really progressed on this front? Is there any real empowerment of women? As I work in areas of conflict transformation and peacebuilding, my focus on women in conflict situations and peacebuilding processes is natural.
→ read full articleSean Byrne and Jessica Senehi – Violence: Analysis, Intervention and Prevention
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Sean Byrne and Jessica Senehi, of the University of Manitoba, have written a useful analysis of approaches to violence and conflict resolution. It is written as a textbook for the increasing number of university-level classes in Peace and Conflict Studies.
→ read full articleNigeria Court Orders Men Whipped for Gay Sex
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Four young men have been convicted of gay sex and whipped publicly as punishment in an Islamic court on Thursday [6 Mar 2014], with 15 strokes. They also face a year’s imprisonment if they cannot pay a fine of $120. They had to prostrate themselves on the floor of the court to be whipped on their bottoms.
→ read full articleBrainwashed: The Indoctrinated West
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Now, please, I am not trying to be funny and I am not trying to play with words: I am honestly wondering… I am humbly asking: “Are people in the West, particularly in Europe… are they pretending that they don’t know what is happening in Syria, Venezuela, Thailand and now, particularly, in Ukraine? Or have they simply turned into a cynical assembly of brainwashed degenerates?
→ read full articleDiplomacy NOT War!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Author, historian, and former U.S. State Dept. employee, William Blum, in his book “Killing Hope” documents U.S. military and/or CIA interventions in 77 countries since WWII. Ukraine makes #78. Today, there is increasing danger of world war and financial collapse by miscalculation or design over the crisis in the Ukraine which the U.S. helped to create.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Known as IPRA, founded in 1964 in London–and this author, 34 at the time, is the only surviving founder. IPRA rotates every two years from one peace research center to the other, and is now in very competent Turkish hands. And what is more natural than having the 50th anniversary for the hub of peace studies in that hub of the world, Istanbul, 10-14 August this year!! Hurry up, register!!!
→ read full articleUnelected Power: Democracy on the Retreat in Europe (and not just in Ukraine)
Neil Clark – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
The hailing of a foreign-backed coup d’état in a country where fresh elections were only 12 months away as a “victory for democracy” was truly Orwellian. The wishes of the 2 million people who marched against the Iraq war in London in February 2003 were arrogantly dismissed, but the protesters in Maidan, though far fewer in number, simply had to have their way.
→ read full article25th IPRA General Conference Call for Papers
Nesrin Kenar, IPRA Secretary General – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
On the occasion of IPRA’S 50th anniversary – Istanbul, Turkey, August 10-14, 2014 – Uniting for Peace: Building Sustainable Peace through Universal Values – Deadline for Proposals: March 15, 2014
→ read full article
Granada (Music Video of the Week)
Carlos Bonell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Guitar par excellence! Composed by Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)
→ read full articleWorld’s Largest Grid Operator Reveals Why Increased Wind Energy Means Increased Savings
Michael Goggin, American Wind Energy Association – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
The largest grid operator in the world, serving 60 million customers, issued the final results of a major wind integration study on Monday [3 Mar 2014] and they are even better than the preliminary results.
→ read full articleImplication in Any Strategic Roundtable of Its 12 Knights
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Each Circulating Globally in Quest of Sustainability and Immortality – Use is frequently made of “roundtable” as a metaphor to suggest a configuration of a fruitful diversity of stakeholders and contrasting perspectives — vital to an integrative perspective.
→ read full article25th IPRA General Conference Call for Papers
Nesrin Kenar, IPRA Secretary General – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2014
On the occasion of IPRA’S 50th anniversary – Istanbul, Turkey, August 10-14, 2014 – Uniting for Peace: Building Sustainable Peace through Universal Values – Deadline for Proposals: March 15, 2014
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2014
Known as IPRA, founded in 1964 in London–and this author, 34 at the time, is the only surviving founder. IPRA rotates every two years from one peace research center to the other, and is now in very competent Turkish hands. And what is more natural than having the 50th anniversary for the hub of peace studies in that hub of the world, Istanbul, 10-14 August this year!! Hurry up, register!!!
→ read full articlePakistan – What Now?
Johan Galtung, 3 Mar 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Islamabad, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (28 Feb 2014) – The basic point is that Pakistan will not get that commodity called “peace” in Kashmir, Afghanistan and Central Asia by pursuing the ends and means of Washington and some local elites only. For peace to blossom the goals of other parties also have to be considered; and they are many.
→ read full articleOn The Third Anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi Catastrophe
Karl Grossman, Nuclear News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
3 Mar 2014 – With the third anniversary of the start of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe coming next week, the attempted Giant Lie about the disaster continues—a suppression of information, an effort at dishonesty of historical dimensions.
→ read full article(Português) Civilizados, Bárbaros e Selvagens
Antonio C. S. Rosa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Os ingleses do século XIX classificaram os povos e raças em Civilizados, Bárbaros e Selvagens, com base nas respectivas “evoluções”. Eles baseavam-se primariamente em três factores: a Teoria da Evolução, de Charles Darwin; a Revolução Industrial, nas origens do capitalismo industrial; e a Reforma da Igreja Católica, o cisma de onde surgiu o Protestantismo. Falsas premisas que levaram a falsas conclusões.
→ read full articleFive New Reasons Monsanto’s ‘Science’ Doesn’t Add Up
Katherine Paul and Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
As new studies surface it’s become increasingly clear that among credible physicians and scientists the consensus is that we’d better wake up to the risks and threats posed by a reckless technology that has been allowed to dominate our food and farming systems.
→ read full articleFracking Siberia: Gazprom Teams Up With Shell
Richard Smallteacher, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Gazprom of Russia has begun fracking in western Siberia with Anglo-Dutch giant Shell to tap a reserve of oil under a 2.3 million square kilometer expanse. Ironically Russia Today, a state run television station, has been actively broadcasting protests against the fracking industry in Europe, where companies like Chevron have been aggressively trying to get a toehold in countries like Bulgaria, Poland and Romania.
→ read full article(Castellano) Ovacionan en Sudáfrica documental sobre la amistad entre Mandela y Castro
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
La Fundación Nelson Mandela y la embajada de Cuba en Sudáfrica estrenaron en ese país el más reciente documental de la cineasta estadounidense Estela Bravo: Mandela y Fidel Castro, un homenaje al legado de la amistad entre estos dos líderes.
→ read full articleThe Crisis in Ukraine
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
The moderates have certainly lost control. They cannot protect public monuments, and they are forced to try to pre-empt the neo-nazis by legislating the neo-nazi program. The captive Ukrainian parliament has introduced measures to ban any official use of the Russian language. This, of course, is unacceptable to the Russian provinces.
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Voice of America – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
February 28, 2014 – China has issued a report documenting alleged human rights abuses in the United States after an annual State Department global rights survey strongly criticized Beijing.
→ read full articleSome Thoughts on Creativity . . . And Life
Anthony J. Marsella – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Diversity, though life itself, is considered too difficult to accommodate, and so they are moving us toward, uniformity and conformity. How easier to control! How much easier to dominate! Consider the pantheon of “Big” in our world today – Big Pharm, Big Ag, Big Energy, Big Transportation, Big Education, Big Auto, Big Med, Big Government, Big Military, and “Banks too Big to Fail,” so they remain in control of our lives and life.
→ read full articleMonsanto’s Roundup Found in 75% of Air and Rain Samples
John Deike, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
A new U.S. Geological Survey has concluded that pesticides can be found in, well, just about anything.
→ read full articleReconciliation, Reform and Resilience: Positive Peace for Lebanon
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Syria and Lebanon have been historically entangled — economically, politically and socially, both having been parts of the Ottoman Empire. At the end of the First World War, the Ottoman Middle East was divided between France and England and placed under the mandate system of the League of Nations.
→ read full articleChannel 4 Refutes Sri Lankan “Propaganda Offensive”
Channel 4, UK – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Channel 4 has today [28 Feb 2014] taken the step of publishing a refutation of “an international propaganda offensive” by supporters of the Sri Lankan government against its reporting. Channel 4 and Current Affairs journalists led the way in exposing the country’s war crimes, culminating in the broadcast of the documentary No Fire Zone – a forensic investigation into the final weeks of the bloody civil war in Sri Lanka.
→ read full article(Italiano) Criminalizzare la guerra di aggressione
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Pochi, o nessuno, lo sostengono con forza oggi come Mahathir Mohammad, quarto primo ministro della Malaysia, da 22 anni. Egli confronta quello che facciamo quando una persona ne uccide un’altra con tutto quello che non facciamo quando milioni ne uccidono milioni in guerre di aggressione.
→ read full articleJohn Scales Avery – Collected Essays, Volume 2
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
The pdf file for “Collected Essays, Volume 2” has been published on the website of the Danish Peace Academy.
→ read full articleAlexandre Marc (1904-2000)
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Marc was a complex man, one of the bridges who helped younger persons to understand the debates which surrounded the Russian Revolution, the rise and decline of Fascism and Nazism, and the post-Second World War hopes for a united Europe.
→ read full articleImelda Marcos Stamp
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
For Imelda’s 50th birthday, President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines ordered as a surprise for her that a postage stamp with her picture be issued.
→ read full articleHow the GDP Measures Everything ‘Except That Which Makes Life Worthwhile’
Dr. David Suzuki, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
“Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.” —Robert F. Kennedy.
→ read full articleSyria: What to Do Now
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
It is not only that the interventionists, and perhaps the anti-interventionists are motivated by a convergence of humanitarian/moral considerations with geostrategic ambitions, but that the nature of these hidden calculations are discussed in governmental circles behind locked doors and transcribed in secret policy memoranda.
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Sabadell Flashmob – Ode to Joy (Music Video of the Week)
Vallès Symphony Orchestra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
100 people from the Vallès Symphony Orchestra, the Lieder, Amics de l’Òpera and Coral Belles Arts choirs.
→ read full articleWorld Bank Postpones Uganda Loan Over Anti-Gay Law
Anna Yukhananov, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
The World Bank on Thursday [27 Feb 2014] postponed a $90 million loan to Uganda’s health system over a law that toughened punishment for gays, an unusual move for an institution that typically avoids wading into politics.
→ read full articleSupport Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions-BDS Until Palestinian Right to Self-Determination Is Recognized by Israel
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
We all know the Jewish Narrative, particularly the story of the holocaust, but our sadness for this one of humanity’s greatest acts of inhumanity, should not stop us from speaking out on Israel’s current policy of a ‘silent genocide’ of the Palestinian people, and currently today of the people in Gaza.
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U.S. Christian Right behind Anti-Gay Law Passed in Uganda
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Feb 24, 2014 – Rev. Kapya Kaoma: “New Ugandan law that makes homosexual acts punishable by life imprisonment was modeled after the talking points of right-wing U.S. evangelicals.”
→ read full articleIn the Name of “Peace”, the European Union Readies for War
Jean Shaoul, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
A series of EU discussion papers and meetings made it clear that the European powers are pushing for a more assertive militarist policy. A recent brief, “Why Europe needs a new global strategy,” sets out their military ambitions, not just in former colonial possessions but in areas further afield.
→ read full articleNew Report Details ‘Brutal’ Israeli Policies
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Remember that the defence minister, Moshe Yaalon, said that the army’s job was to ‘burn into the consciousness’ of the Palestinians their defeat. The only aim one can infer from that is that the army’s role is to use force to make the Palestinians weak and compliant.
→ read full articleDoctors Without Borders (MSF) Activities in Myanmar Ordered to Close Down
Médecins Sans Frontières Holland – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
On February 27 [2014], Médecins Sans Frontières received a written order from the Union Government of Myanmar to cease all operations in the country, which led to a full closure of all MSF Holland clinics on February 28. This act left patients confused and desperately concerned across the whole country.
→ read full articleMexico Building Latin America’s Largest Solar Farm to Replace Old, Dirty Oil-Power Plant
Ari Phillips, ThinkProgress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
“Mexico can reduce the environmental impact of old, dirty sources of energy, while taking the long view and building a sustainable future economy.”
→ read full articleFighting Fund for Academic Boycott of Israel
(Jake Lynch) Australians for BDS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
February 2014 – Associate Professor Jake Lynch, Director of Sydney University’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies [and TMS advisor/peace journalist], has been taken to the Federal Court of Australia by the Israel Law Centre, due to his support of the Palestinian call for academic boycott of Israel. We call on our supporters to MAKE A DONATION to support Jake Lynch’s fight for our democratic rights.
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