Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Will Mobocracy Triumph in Ukraine?
Patrick J. Buchanan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Despite our endless blather about democracy, we Americans seem to be able to put our devotion to democratic principles on the shelf, when they get in the way of our New World Order.
→ read full articleWashington Destabilizes Ukraine
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
The control freaks in Washington think that only the decisions that Washington makes and imposes on other sovereign countries are democratic. “Fuck the EU.” So much for Washington’s attitude toward its captive allies and the peoples of the world.
→ read full articleChina Ready to Work with CELAC
Prensa Latina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
China declared today [7 Feb 2014] to be ready to work with the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States to establish, before the end of 2014, the common forum approved at the recent summit of the regional body held in Havana.
→ read full article14 African Countries Forced by France to Pay Colonial Tax for the Benefits of Slavery and Colonization
Mawuna Remarque Koutonin, Silicon Africa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
For historical comparison, France made Haiti pay the modern equivalent of $21 billion from 1804 till 1947 for the losses caused to French slave traders by the abolition of slavery. African countries are paying the colonial tax only for the last 50 years, so I think one century of payment might be left!
→ read full articleThe Continuing Al-Qaeda Threat
Ron Paul – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Why is al-Qaeda as much a threat as it was ten years ago? Perhaps it is that we continue to fight the wrong war in the wrong manner. After ten years of no progress, is it not time to try something new, non-intervention and a strong defense rather than drone strikes and pre-emptive attacks?
→ read full articleNegotiations with Iran Require Mutual Restraint
Jan Oberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Iran is a 7000 year old civilisation that deserves to be treated with respect. The P5+1 and Iran are in this together now. War and sanctions talk is immature.
→ read full articleThe Global Elite is Insane
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
As anyone who pays even the slightest realistic attention to the global elite already knows, the elite’s efforts to maximise its political and economic clout, and hence its wealth, at the expense of everyone else and the Earth itself, are carefully crafted. And this is not going to change on our recommendation or because we talk to them, or even because we listen to them. Moreover, the reason is simple. The global elite is insane. And it is incredibly violent.
→ read full articleUS Increases Pressure on Sri Lankan Government over War Crimes
K. Ratnayake, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
US Assistant Secretary of State for Central and South Asia Nisha Desai Biswal announced in Colombo on Saturday [1 Feb 2014] that Washington will move another resolution—the third in three years—on Sri Lankan war crimes next month in the UN Human Rights Council.
→ read full articleBayer CEO Says Drugs Developed for “Western Patients Who Can Afford It”
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Bayer, the German pharmaceutical giant, is in hot water after CEO Marijn Dekkers told a Financial Times conference that the company designed medicines “for western patients who can afford it” not for the “Indian market.”
→ read full articleHappy 50th Birthday! Kenya is Chronically Sick
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
At independence, they say, you used to be richer than Korea, and there was real hope that you will flourish after getting rid of that brutal British colonial regime. You were never called a ‘rainbow nation’, but you really were, consisting of many different tribes, races, cultures and religions. You were truly ‘multicultural’, long before this expression became iconic and constantly used and abused in the West.
→ read full articleA Meeting with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini 35 Years Ago
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Khomeini by insisting on all or nothing against the Shah did create an Iranian transition to a new political order. In contrast the 2011 militants in Tahrir Square were content with the removal of Mubarak and promises of reforms, and ended up succumbing to a counter-revolutionary tsunami that has reconstituted the repressive Mubarak past in a more extreme form.
→ read full articleSaddam, Osama, Gaddafi, Chavez–And Obama
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Who is this Obama, by the way? Reported, by Nick Turse of The Nation, killing in 134 countries, sowing 134 blowbacks? A president with left wing Democrat rhetoric and right wing Republican foreign policies, betraying his voters and democracy itself, with no world vision.
→ read full articleProtesters Resist an ‘Indian Fukushima’
Ranjit Devraj, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
According to PMANE leader [TRANSCEND member] S.P. Udayakumar, the Kudankulam project built with Russian technology is unsafe and threatens the delicate marine ecology of the Palk straits. “A Fukushima-type accident at this mega plant, which is due to generate 9,200 MW when complete, would be truly catastrophic.”
→ read full articleArms Exports: Berlin Backs Large Defense Deal with Saudi Arabia
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Berlin has often been criticized in recent years for selling weapons to questionable regimes. Now, the German government is backing a billion-euro deal for 100 patrol boats.
→ read full articleMetascience Enabling Upgrades to the Scientific Process
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
In the light of the argument in the main paper, the question is how to extend “science” from its narrow focus to one which encompasses what is implied by the term, namely a particular approach to knowing — irrespective of the domain to which it may be applied. This therefore includes preoccupation with psychosocial intangibles whose very existence is so vigorously challenged by some forms of science.
→ read full article50 Reasons We Should Fear the Worst from Fukushima
Harvey Wasserman, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Fukushima’s missing melted cores and radioactive gushers continue to fester in secret. Japan’s harsh dictatorial censorship has been matched by a global corporate media blackout aimed—successfully—at keeping Fukushima out of the public eye. But that doesn’t keep the actual radiation out of our ecosystem, our markets … or our bodies.
→ read full articleFrom Egypt, Ukraine, the Turkish-Syrian Border, Cuba and Thailand: West Manufactures “Opposition Movements”
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
What is going on? Are popularly elected administrations all over the world becoming irrelevant as the Western regime creates and then supports thuggish ‘opposition movements’ designed to destabilize any state that stands in the way of its desire to fully control the planet?
→ read full articleReturn, Return oh Shulamit
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Pete Seeger touched my life only once. But what a touch.
→ read full articleIsrael-Palestine: 1-2-6-20
Johan Galtung, 3 Feb 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Peace does not come by forcing Palestine into a two-state setting with Israeli military-political-economic control and US intervention in the other neighboring countries. Along this road there is no stable equilibrium, only endless strife.
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The Story of Solutions
storyofstuffproject – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
The Story of Solutions explores how we can move our economy in a more sustainable and just direction, starting with orienting ourselves toward a new goal.
→ read full articleBlow to Obama as Sen. Reid Opposes Trade Authority
The Wall Street Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
“I’m against fast track,” Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters about so-called trade promotion authority legislation. The proposal would ensure an up-or-down vote, speeding up the passage of trade deals.
→ read full articleMiddle East Turmoil and the Disintegration of a Nation State
Prof. William R. Stanley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
What is taking place i is no longer only the response of disaffected Syrians endeavoring to change their country’s leadership. More and more, it is an international effort to disassemble the Syrian state as presently exists and to continue a process that had its seeds in the 1953 Anglo-American orchestrated overthrow of PM Mohammad Mosaddeq of Iran.
→ read full articleThe Missing Monarch Butterflies and Monsanto’s Roundup
Warren Cornwall, Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
The butterfly’s life cycle is exquisitely synchronized to the seasonal growth of milkweed, the only plant its larvae will eat. In a game of hopscotch, successive generations of monarchs follow the springtime emergence of milkweed from Mexico as far north as Canada.
→ read full articleEx-Marlboro Man Dies from Smoking-Related Disease
Daisy Nguyen, AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Eric Lawson, who portrayed the rugged Marlboro man in cigarette ads, has died. He was 72. He died Jan. 10 of respiratory failure due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, his wife, Susan Lawson said Sunday [26 Jan 2014].
→ read full article(Italiano) Ginevra I-II: la cattiva gestione dei conflitti
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Diciamo, semplificando brutalmente, che ci sono sette conflitti, non uno solo, tutti quanti direttamente o indirettamente violenti, che si svolgono in Siria… Per trattare una complessità a tale livello – più complessa che il VietNam – ci vuole una conferenza di lunga durata gestita dall’ONU, con tutti i contendenti, ovviamente con Iran e Israele partecipanti, e solo quelli coinvolti, senza spettatori e senza condizioni.
→ read full articleDebunking the Myth of the 10,000-Hour Rule: What It Actually Takes to Reach Genius-Level Excellence
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
The main predictor of success is deliberate practice — persistent training to which you give your full concentration rather than just your time, often guided by a skilled expert, coach, or mentor. It’s a qualitative difference in how you pay attention, not a quantitative measure of clocking in the hours.
→ read full articleCoup in Western Ukraine: The Arab Spring Unleashed in Europe
Andrew Korybko , Voltaire Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
The Libyan method has apparently been ‘perfected’ to the point where outside actors feel comfortable deploying this Pandora’s Box inside of Europe itself. Gene Sharp is the mastermind of the seemingly innocuous strategies that serve as a prelude and ‘dog whistle’ to this viral outbreak, and George Soros is the financier.
→ read full articleGandhi and Nationalism: The Path to Indian Independence
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
The understanding of the ways spiritual concepts are used in political life is made even more complex in the case of Gandhi in that he was not a thinker in terms of systems but in terms of action. “My life is my message.”
→ read full articleKeeping the Peace Profitable in Mozambique
Marianne Perez de Fransius – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Mozambique has profited from its long period of peace, both in terms of tourism and foreign investment, but if they don’t transform the current conflict left over from the civil war, they have a lot to lose. Tourism is already suffering… who knows what will be next.
→ read full articleBe Careful What You Wish…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
A husband and wife, both sixty years old, were walking through a forest.
→ read full articlePalestinians in Israel: Trapped in the Ghetto
Johathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
“We are being choked to death,” said Sawaid, Ramya’s village leader. “They are building on top of us as though we don’t exist. Are we invisible to them?”
→ read full articlePamela Olson – Fast Times in Palestine: A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Pamela Olson has written a lively and personal account of her two years (2004-2006) in the West Bank of Palestine as an editor of the Palestine Monitor and as foreign press coordinator for Dr Mustafa Barghouthi’s 2005 presidential campaign.
→ read full article(Sinhala) ලංකා වාම දේශපාලනයේ මතවාදී ට්රයියෑංගලය (Ideological Triangle of Sri Lankan Left Politics)
Udaya R. Tennakoon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Sri Lankan Left politics based on conflict theory and TRANSCEND approach of Johan Galtung.
→ read full articleUN Slams Israel Destruction of Jordan Valley Homes
AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
The moves came as fresh opinion poll evidence showed that faith in the Middle East peace process has largely evaporated among both Israelis and Palestinians. The demolitions in the Jordan Valley on Thursday [30 Jan 2014] displaced 66 people, including 36 children.
→ read full articleUSA, Greatest Threat to Peace!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
“The U.S. military budget is almost as large as the military spending of all the world’s other nations, combined. Together, the U.S. and its NATO allies account for more than 70 percent of global weapons spending. At last count, the U.S. spent six times more on war than China, and 11 times more than Russia. In fact, if you count up the U.S. and all of its allies, they are probably responsible for about 90 percent of total moneys spent on war.”
→ read full articleOfficial Text: Proclamation of Latin America and Caribbean as a Zone of Peace
CELAC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Official Text Signed by the Heads of Government and State of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States-CELAC, 29 Jan 2014
→ read full articleGroup Condemns APA’s Ethics Decision on Former Guantanamo Psychologist
Jeffrey Kaye – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Indeed, APA has been the biggest backer of psychologist participation in interrogations. APA’s former Chief Scientist, for instance, Susan Brandon, is Chief of Research for the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group.
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Ownership of Washington Post by CIA Contractor Puts U.S. Journalism in Dangerous Terrain
Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Jan 21, 2014 – Norman Solomon: There is a major conflict of interest in the ownership of The Washington Post by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who holds a $600 million contract with the CIA.
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Vida Tão Estranha (Music Video of the Week)
Ana Carolina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Album from Rodrigo Leão, “The Mother”, presented in concert at Casino Estoril, Portugal. On stage, the composer was accompanied by Cinema Ensemble, the Sinfonietta de Lisboa and two international guests.
→ read full articleNew Report Reveals: NSA, GCHQ Mapping “Political Alignment” of Cellphone Users
Eric London, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
28 Jan 2014 – New information made public by Edward Snowden reveals that the governments of the United States and United Kingdom are trawling data from cellphone “apps” to accumulate dossiers on the “political alignments” of millions of smartphone users worldwide.
→ read full articleAnti-War Poetry
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
I scurry around the city
intoning my anti-war poems
at peace rallies and poetry readings,
An Accident Waiting to Happen
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
11 of the officers responsible for launching US nuclear missiles have been fired because of drug addiction, and a larger number of missile launch officers were found to be cheating on competence examinations. Three dozen officers were involved in the cheating ring and an equal number may have known and remained silent. Safety rules were being deliberately ignored and the men involved were said to be “burned out”.
→ read full articleChallenges More Difficult for Science Than Going to Mars…
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Most extraordinary is the recognition that humanity will need to leave Planet Earth in order to occupy the environments in which it can continue to replicate the complex patterns of problems that science has been unable to address on Earth. The purpose here is explore a checklist of priorities and related considerations which science chooses to neglect in favour of associating its image with what is far away and long ago as being vital to the human enterprise.
→ read full articleGeneva II: «A Modest Beginning On Which We Can Build»
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
There is only a short time for private discussions to reach an agreement before the 10 February public restart. In any case, humanitarian aid is needed to limit the current heavy suffering. Thus we must use the influence we have in the next few days to push for an accord on relief supplies.
→ read full articleVictory! India Ends Tests on Animals for Household Products
PETA-People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
A skin sensitization test that is currently performed by rubbing harsh chemicals into guinea pigs’ shaved skin was replaced with non-animal testing methods. This move will end all animal-poisoning tests for cleaners, detergents, and other common household products in India.
→ read full articlePsychologists for Social Responsibility Letter to American Psychological Association Raising Questions on Decision in Leso Case
Psychologists for Social Responsibility – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Evidence clearly exists that Dr. Leso and other psychologists have utterly failed to ensure that detention and interrogation operations at Guantánamo and elsewhere were kept “safe, legal, ethical, and effective.” By closing this case it is reasonable to assume that APA will never sanction any psychologist participating in government-sanctioned abuses.
→ read full articleNothing New Under the Sun
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
And here came the Zionists, mostly atheists, and wanted to bring the Jews to the Land of Israel without God’s permission, indeed abolishing God altogether. They built a secular society. Their founding father, Theodor Herzl, held that after the foundation of the Jewish State, no one outside it would be considered a Jew anymore.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’economia: un brutto aspetto
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Come risultato il pianeta è ora ostaggio di debiti non rimborsabili: il PIL mondiale è già più basso del debito combinato mondiale dovuto alle banche. Il debito è superiore alla somma di denaro sul pianeta. Ma che cosa si può fare con i bankster al comando? Non granché; donde la cattiva prospettiva. I decisori delle multinazionali dominanti e delle banche, combatteranno qualunque controllo, non uccidendo ma corrompendo. I decisori degli stati dominanti, anglo-americani, combatteranno qualunque controllo uccidendo, corrompendo e spiando.
→ read full articleJane Goodall on Spirit and Science
Bill Moyers’ Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
The Iconic Primatologist Talks to Bill Moyers and Reads Her Poem “The Old Wisdom” – “As human beings, we can encompass a vague feeling of what the universe is, and all in this funny little brain here — so there has to be something more than just brain, it has to be something to do with spirit as well.” – Jane Goodall (4:36)
→ read full articleUS Feigns “Horror” Over Cooked-Up Report on Syrian War They Engineered
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Qatar – chief financier of Al Qaeda in Syria – commissions “report” on atrocities published just ahead of Geneva conference.
→ read full articleU.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy “Deeply Concerned” About Japanese Dolphin Hunt
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
20 Jan 2014 – In an unusual move, U.S. ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy has expressed deep concern over the traditional dolphin hunt in western Japan, where local fisherman corral dolphins in a secluded bay before killing many for meat.
→ read full articleQuantum Wampum Essential to Navigating Ragnarok
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Thrival in Crisis through Embodying Turbulent Flow – Collapse of confidence: The recent global financial crisis, its current unresolved instabilities, and uncertainty regarding its future stability, all suggest the merit of continuing reflection on alternatives.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to Soldiers with ‘Mental Health’ Issues
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Are you a soldier or veteran who is supposed to have a ‘mental health’ issue such as anxiety, depression, schizophrenia or PTSD? If you are, then I have some suggestions for you to consider.
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Carmina Burana (Music Video of the Week)
Carl Orff ~ André Rieu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
May 5, 2010: Oh Fortuna | Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi – 13,360,498 YouTube Hits
→ read full articleUganda’s Anti-Gay Bill, Unsigned but Still Effective
Faith Lokens, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Uganda’s president has reportedly refused to sign a controversial anti-gay bill that would mean life in prison for people convicted of homosexual acts. But many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual and intersex people, and NGOs trying to help them, say many have been suffering discrimination for years and it is getting worse.
→ read full article(ελληνικά-Greek) Βία, Ειρήνη και Έρευνα της Ειρήνης
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Translation to Greek by Mariana Kapetanidou of Johan Galtung’s paper “Violence, Peace, and Peace Research” (1969).
→ read full articleMyanmar Leaders and Their 34 Concrete Ways of Control, Deception, and Manipulation
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Here is MY list of concrete, empirically verifiable acts the Burmese generals and ex-generals have been engaged in over the past 50 years since General Ne Win introduced the military rule on 2 March 1962. These acts are a given, irrespective of which general is in charge. They are getting worse.
→ read full articleDavos Billionaires: Oblivious to the Coming Revolution
Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
You guys already own half the planet. In fact, a cultural revolution is creating a new global collective conscience between capitalism and inequality, the Haves and the Have-nots. A powerful virus is spreading.
→ read full articleThe Fragility of Our Complex Civilization
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Science is not competitive. It is cooperative. It is a great monument built by many thousands of hands, each adding a stone to the cairn. This is true not only of scientific knowledge but also of every aspect of our culture, history, art and literature, as well as the skills that produce everyday objects upon which our lives depend. Civilization is cooperative. It is not competitive.
→ read full articleIndia-Japan Nuclear Deal?
Fr. Thomas Kocherry – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
It was in 1986 Chernobyl accident took place in Russia. 3% of the Nuclear Plant only got burst. 97% is still alive. The Russians were not able to kill the plant completely. 90 million children were born deformed. 26 European countries were affected by radiation. It was in this context India entered into nuclear deal with Russia in 1988. In a similar way the Indo-Japanese nuclear deal is in the making. Japan cannot find an answer to Fukushima nuclear disaster.
→ read full articleGandhi: A Political and Spiritual Life
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi on 30 January 1948 – Unfortunately, Gandhi surrounded himself only with “yes men” and more often by “yes women” who were not in touch with the violent movements among the Hindus. There were no representatives of orthodox Hinduism in his entourage nor did orthodox Hindu religious leaders take part in his satyagraha campaigns.
→ read full article85 Richest People Own the Wealth of Half of the World’s Population
OXFAM – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Wealthy elites have co-opted political power to rig the rules of the economic game, undermining democracy and creating a world where the 85 richest people own the wealth of half of the world’s population, worldwide development organization Oxfam warns in a report published today [20 Jan 2014].
→ read full articleCuba Will Propose CELAC to Declare Latin America a Peace Zone
Cuban News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Cuban deputy foreign minister Abelardo Moreno said that his country will propose the Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, to take place January 28 and 29 [2014] in Havana, to declare this region a peace zone.
→ read full articleIsak Svensson and Peter Wallensteen
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
The Go-Between: Jan Eliasson and Styles of Mediation, Washington, DC: US Institute of Peace, 2010 – “The lessons on mediation resources can all be connected to one key word—cooperation.” There is a need for cooperation with local efforts and forces for peace and between official and unofficial mediators.
→ read full articleThe Global Plutocracy
Andre Damon and Barry Grey, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
The impoverishment of the working class and enrichment of the financial elite accelerated since the 2008 Wall Street crash. While the wealth of the world’s billionaires has doubled, there are today over 1 billion people living on less than a dollar per day, and nearly half the world’s population, more than 3 billion people, subsist on less than $2.50 per day.
→ read full articleWorld’s Poorest Suffer from Radioactive Sickness as Areva Mines for Uranium
Brandon Baker, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
More than 60 percent of Niger’s population lives on less than $1 per day, and even more have no electricity. Still, French company Areva keeps contaminating those residents and their environment while mining away for uranium—one of the few resources the world’s poorest country still has.
→ read full articleAn American Idol: The United States Should ‘Govern’ the World?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
This post consists of a much expanded text of an opinion piece that was published by AJE on January 18, 2014; it seeks to discredit imperial and neoliberal claims that the United States is a benevolent hegemon, providing global public goods to the world as a whole, including supposed geopolitical and ideological rivals.
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US Largest Cocaine Smuggler Revealed: The Drug Enforcement Agency-DEA
NextNewsNetwork – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Jan 15, 2014 – For decades, it has been rumored the United States government was secretly sponsoring the smuggling of cocaine into the country. Newly released documents, and testimony from Justice Department and DEA officials now show the stories of government running cocaine are true.
→ read full article(Castellano) Coordinadores de la Celac proclaman a América Latina como zona de paz
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
El documento “deja claro que la América Latina como zona de paz respetará los principios y normas del derecho intrernacional, se compromete a la solución pacífica de controversias, a fin de desterrar para siempre la amenaza y el uso de la fuerza en nuestra región”, explicó el vicecanciller de Cuba.
→ read full articleGeneva Will Fail but Don’t Blame Only the Syrian Parties
Jan Oberg, TFF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
The meeting in Geneva about Syria resumes today [24 Jan 2014]. It is destined to become a historic failure. Most observers will blame either of the armed Syrian parties – the government or the rebels – for adhering unbendingly to their mutually exclusive positions.
→ read full articleOpen Ended Dead End
David Colquhoun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Why did the chicken cross the Möbius strip?
→ read full articleWhy Single Out the Case of the Rohingya Vis-A-Vis Other Unfolding Atrocities Around the World?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
I am singling out the case of the Rohingya, subject to a 35-year state-policy which rests on the INTENT to erase the Rohingya as a group, a memory, an identity and the literal existence.
→ read full articleFrom Galileo to Sagan, Famous Scientists on the Art of Wonder, the Mystery of the Universe, and the Heart of Science
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as all serious endeavor in art and science. He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead, then at least blind. . . . To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious. –- Einstein conversing with Tagore.
→ read full articleMediation in Schools: A Response to New Federal Priorities
Matt Johnson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Benefits of Mediation and Conflict Resolution in Schools
→ read full articleThe Fukushima Secrecy Syndrome – From Japan to America
Ralph Nader – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
24 Jan 2014 – Last month, the ruling Japanese coalition parties quickly rammed through Parliament a state secrets law. Under its provisions the government alone decides what are state secrets and any civil servants who divulge any “secrets” can be jailed for up to 10 years. Journalists caught in the web of this vaguely defined law can be jailed for up to 5 years.
→ read full articleSleep of Fools
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
So will this be the magic, blissful year
when finally all wars will disappear?
Geneva I-II: The Mismanagement of Conflicts
Johan Galtung, 27 Jan 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Let us say, brutally simplified, that there are seven conflicts, not only one, all directly or indirectly violent, unfolding in Syria… To handle a complexity at this level–more complex than Vietnam–a long-lasting UN-managed conference with all parties, of course with Iran and Israel participating, and only those involved, no spectators, and no conditions, is needed.
→ read full articleImperiled Polities: Egypt and Turkey—Two Visions of Democracy
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
The recent disturbing political turmoil in Turkey and Egypt, each in its own way, is illustrative. In both countries there are strong, although quite divergent, traditions of charismatic authoritarian leadership, reinforced by quasi-religious sanctification. Very recently, however, this authoritarian past is being challenged by counter-traditions of populist legitimacy.
→ read full articlePeoples’ Tribunal on Sri Lanka
Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Bremen, Germany, 7-10 December 2013. Organized by International Human Rights Association and Irish Forum for Peace in Sri Lanka. Conducted by Permanent People’s Tribunal – Fondazione Lelio Basso Sezione Internazionale, Roma- Italia.
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Eisenhower Farewell Address – 17 Jan 1961
U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
→ read full articleFive Minutes Is Too Close
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
From: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board.
To: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, members of the UN Security Council.
Re: It is still five minutes to midnight.
Leaked: Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) – Environment Chapter
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
Today, 15 January 2014, WikiLeaks released the secret draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Environment Chapter and the corresponding Chairs’ Report.
→ read full articleThe Siege of Yarmouk
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
Crimes against Humanity Warranting Prosecution of the Guilty, Not Blame for the Victims…
→ read full articleMIT Study of Ghouta Chemical Attack Challenges US Intelligence
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
A new MIT report is challenging the US claim that Assad forces used chemical weapons in an attack last August, highlighting that the range of the improvised rocket was way too short to have been launched from govt controlled areas.
→ read full articleUganda President Blocks Anti-Gay Bill
Agence France-Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said there were better ways to cure the “abnormality” on Friday [17 Jan 2014]. Homosexuality was caused by either “random breeding” or a need to make money. And lesbians, he said, choose female partners because of “sexual starvation” and the failure to marry a man.
→ read full article250 Dolphins Captured, Prepared for Slaughter in Japan
Hawaii Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
17 Jan 2014 – Five separate pods of Bottlenose dolphins were driven into Taiji’s infamous killing cove yesterday and held overnight. This now massive pod of more than 250 dolphins includes babies and juveniles, including a rare albino calf that has been clinging as closely as possible to the mother.
→ read full articleNetanyahu Rolls Out New Roadblock to Peace
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
To the surprise of observers, given the many issues blocking progress in the current Middle East peace talks, Israel and the United States now appear to regard the Palestinian refusal to recognise Israel as a Jewish state as the key obstacle to an agreement.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’Occidente si contrae in un “Medio Evo”? Bene!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
L’Illuminismo trasformò la nozione teologica di un Dio onnipotente-onnisciente-onnipresente nella logica statuale di uno Stato onnipotente, nella logica capitalistica di un Mercato onnipresente, e nella logica aristotelica di una Scienza onnisciente. Come prevedibile, l’Occidente, e gli USA in particolare, cercano di fondere le tre logiche e i tre poteri più che mai in una copia dell’unità divina.
→ read full articleClimate Activists Slapped With Terrorism Charges for Devon Energy Protest
Richard Smallteacher, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
10 Jan 2014 – Two climate activists who staged a protest at the headquarters of Devon Energy, a Fortune 500 company based in Oklahoma city, have been charged with a “terrorism hoax” after black powder drifted down from a banner that they unfurled.
→ read full articleNigerian Leader Signs Anti-Gay Law, Drawing U.S. Fire
Felix Onuah, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan signed a bill on Monday [13 Jan 2014] that criminalizes same-sex relationships, contains penalties of up to 14 years in prison and bans gay marriage, same-sex “amorous relationships” and membership of gay rights groups.
→ read full articleSpeech in La Habana, Cuba
Nelson Mandela – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
We admire the sacrifices of the Cuban people in maintaining their independence and sovereignty in the face of a vicious imperialist-orchestrated campaign to destroy the impressive gains made in the Cuban revolution. You are with us because both of our organizations, the Communist Party of Cuba and the ANC, are fighting for the oppressed masses, to ensure that those who make the wealth enjoy its fruits.
→ read full articleGreen Parties in Transition
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
With the campaign for the 2014 elections to the European Parliament starting, it is useful to look at the ways political parties structure themselves for pan-European elections.
→ read full article(Italiano) 2014: Dieci conflitti, soluzioni, conciliazione
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
Gli USA si auto-ingannano costruendo magazzini anziché fabbriche. Il punto non è la clemenza per Snowden bensì mollare la NSA e punire i trasgressori ai diritti umani, anche alleati. L’Occidente tenta di guadagnare terreno propizio a livello morale cambiando il discorso su qualcosa che ritiene di possedere che altri non hanno: la democrazia. Che gestisca un enorme sistema colonial-imperiale contro la propria volontà? Un po’ di democrazia!
→ read full articleIn Honor of the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
Answering ML King’s call, and the call of the thousands of others who have responded to injustice in our time, will not be easy! It will add burdens to your conscience, responsibilities to your daily rounds, and threats to your safety. In answering the call, your life will not be the same.
→ read full articleSupreme Court Hands Monsanto Victory over Farmers on GMO Seed Patents, Ability to Sue
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
The US Supreme Court upheld biotech giant Monsanto’s claims on genetically-engineered seed patents and the company’s ability to sue farmers whose fields are inadvertently contaminated with Monsanto materials.
→ read full articleRelax!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
On a flight from New York to Sydney, the pilot announced that they had engine trouble and would have to make an emergency landing at sea near a small uninhabited South Pacific island.
→ read full articleA Day of Infamy!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
On January 17, 1893 U.S. Marines assisted wealthy sugar barons to illegally overthrow the independent nation and lawful Hawaiian government of Queen Lili’uokalani. 120 years of continuous illegal U.S. occupation of Hawai’i does not make the occupation legal.
→ read full articlePlastic Waste: EU Parliament Sounds the Alarm
European Parliament – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
The most hazardous plastics and certain plastic bags should be banned by 2020, as part of an EU strategy to reduce plastic waste in the environment, says the European Parliament in a resolution voted on Tuesday [14 Jan 2014]. The EU should also introduce binding plastic waste recycling targets, MEPs add.
→ read full articleInvisible Borders
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
For Aya, my friend from Israel.
How can I forget
the words we have exchanged?
Violence, Infectious Disease and Climate Change Contributed to Indus Civilization Collapse
Science Daily – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
A new study on the human skeletal remains from the ancient Indus city of Harappa provides evidence that inter-personal violence and infectious diseases played a role in the demise of the Indus, or Harappan Civilization around 4,000 years ago.
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