Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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US Appeals Court Strikes Down “Net Neutrality” Rules
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-to-1 Tuesday [14 Jan 2014] that the Federal Communications Commission’s 2010 Open Internet regulations were based on a wrong legal argument and are void. The ruling represents a significant blow against “net neutrality.”
→ read full articleChelsea Manning Awarded Sam Adams Integrity Prize for 2014
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
16 Jan 2014 – The Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence have voted overwhelmingly to present the 2014 Award to Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning. A Nobel Peace Prize nominee, U.S. Army Pvt. Manning is the 25 year-old intelligence analyst who in 2010 provided to WikiLeaks the “Collateral Murder” video.
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El Día Que Me Quieras (Music Video of the Week)
Daniel Barenboim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
From the Album ‘Mi Buenos Aires Querido’
Tango, Sensual Dance
High Levels of Molecular Chlorine Found in Arctic Atmosphere
Science Daily – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
How the sea salt is transformed into molecular chlorine is unknown. “The mechanism is a mystery to us right now. There is definite climate change happening in the Arctic,” Huey said. “That’s changing the nature of the ice, the volume of the ice, the surface area and the chemistry of the ice.”
→ read full articleBrazilian Hacker Creates Twitter-like App Shielded from NSA Gaze
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
In a post-Snowden world where NSA surveillance has been exposed as ubiquitous, one man decided to invent a networking system akin to Twitter, but with one key difference: It would be surveillance-proof and completely decentralized. Meet ‘Twister.’
→ read full article(Português) Youtube Encerra o Maior Canal de Touradas e Promete Combater o Abuso Animal
João Miguel Ribeiro, ptjornal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Um pequeno clique para o Youtube, um avanço gigante na luta contra as touradas. A conta do utilizador PabloLopezRiobo, que detinha aquele que era considerado o maior canal de promoção da tourada, foi encerrada por promover o abuso animal.
→ read full articleModernizing the United Nations System: Civil Society’s Role in Moving from International Relations to Global Governance
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Professor John Trent of the Department of Political Science, University of Ottawa, Canada sets out clearly the framework of this important study of the possible reforms of the United Nations.
→ read full articleKoodankulam: An Unfettered Struggle
Anitha S, People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
We are proud that our dear sister Sundari who lost many months in jail and on conditional bail away from home has penned her thoughts as a book: Unfettered Struggle (Sirai Paadal Porattam). She has lucidly written about her experiences with the police, in jail ,and as a strong fighter for justice and life in this village.
→ read full article(Italiano) Nove Milioni per Una Nuova Politica di Pace Nel Mondo: Quale?
Prof. Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Nella recente legge di stabilità approvata dal Parlamento, sono stati inseriti 9 milioni [euro] in tre anni per “… l’istituzione di un contingente di corpi civili di pace, destinati alla formazione e alla sperimentazione della presenza di 500 giovani volontari da impegnare in azioni di pace non governative nelle aree di conflitto o a rischio di conflitto o nelle aree di emergenza ambientale”.
→ read full articleReturn of Al-Qaida
Eric Margolis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
How did al-Qaida, a tiny anti-Communist group in Afghanistan with no more than 200 members in 2001 become a worldwide threat? The answer is simple. As an organization and threat, al-Qaida barely exists. But as a name, al-Qaida and “terrorism” have become the west’s handy universal term for armed groups fighting western influence, corruption or repression. Al-Qaida is nowhere – but everywhere.
→ read full article(Castellano) Acuerdo Nuclear entre Irán y EE.UU. Entrará en Vigor Este 20 de Enero
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, informó este domingo [12 Enero 2014] que el acuerdo sobre el programa nuclear iraní entre Teherán (capital de Irán) y las grandes potencias se aplicaría a partir del 20 de enero.
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Did You Know the BOOK?
PopularLibros - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Spanish with English Subtitles – Book-Bio Optical Organized Knowledge is a revolutionary device. Take a look at its amazing advantages!
→ read full article(Italiano) Chi gestisce il mondo? Il subconscio (*)
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Non una persona o un gruppo di persone, non un paese o un gruppo di paesi. Ma essi possono servire come strumenti per copioni incisi nei più profondi recessi delle loro menti, non a livello conscio, facilmente recuperabile. Copioni troppo banali, ovvi, troppo dolorosi/vergognosi e quindi repressi. Jung li chiama archetipi; si presentano sovente come sindromi.
→ read full articleVengeance
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Hatred like a high velocity bullet
pierced my skin, gathered my organs
(heart, brain, the rest)
(Português) Martin Schulz: Capitalismo Selvagem Destruiu Estados e Indivíduos
Guillermo Altares, El País - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Martin Schulz, presidente do Parlamento Europeu desde 2012 e candidato dos socialistas para presidir a Comissão Europeia desde novembro, é um político bastante insólito. Por sua franqueza em discursos e declarações, recebeu a fama de sincero, mas também de duro.
→ read full article[Crise? Austerities?] Jaguar Land Rover Reports Record Sales for 2013
Press Association, The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Britain’s largest car manufacturer, Jaguar Land Rover, owned by India’s biggest carmaker, Tata Motors, has reported record-breaking global sales for 2013. Together the British brands sold 425,006 vehicles in 2013 – up 19% on 2012 – setting new sales records in 38 international markets.
→ read full articleParis Conference on Syria: US, European Allies Renew Push for Regime-Change
Alex Lantier, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Top US and European diplomats assembled Sunday [12 Jan 2014] in Paris for a two-day meeting of the so-called Friends of Syria group amid reports that US officials are preparing renewed shipments of supplies to Syrian Islamist opposition forces.
→ read full articleRecognizing Israel as a Jewish State Is Like Saying the US Is a White State
Juan Cole – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is adding a fifth demand to his negotiations with US Secretary of State John Kerry and Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas: That the Palestinians recognize Israel as a “Jewish state.”
→ read full articleFlowering of Civilization — Deflowering of Culture
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Flow as a Necessarily Complex Experiential Dynamic – Produced in memory of the cut flowers arranged to enhance the quality of the deliberations at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum focused on The Reshaping of the World: Consequences for Society, Politics and Business (Davos, 22-25 January 2014).
→ read full articleAnti-Whaling Activists Stage Season’s 1st Attack against Japanese Fleet
The Asahi Shimbun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Anti-whaling activists from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society tried to disrupt the operations of Japan’s whaling fleet in Antarctic waters on Jan. 10 [2014], the Fisheries Agency said.
→ read full article(ελληνικά-Greek) Πολιτισμική Βία
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Translation from English to Greek of Johan Galtung’s academic paper “Cultural Violence” (1990).
→ read full articleCivil Disobedience (Part 3 of 3)
Henry David Thoreau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
[Parts 1 & 2 in preceding weeks] It is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. I simply wish to refuse allegiance to the State, to withdraw and stand aloof from it effectually. I do not care to trace the course of my dollar, if I could, till it buys a man or a musket to shoot one with — the dollar is innocent — but I am concerned to trace the effects of my allegiance.
→ read full article(Italiano) Una Pace Cristiana?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Che dono natalizio a tutti noi da quel sorprendente papa Francesco, il suo primo Messaggio per la Giornata Mondiale della Pace, Fraternità, fondamento e via per la pace. Un testo rigoroso suddiviso in dieci sezioni. Ecco un tentativo di riassumerne alcuni punti chiave.
→ read full articleThe West Contracting to “Middle Ages”? Fine!
Johan Galtung, 13 Jan 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
The Enlightenment transformed the theologic of an omnipotent-omniscient-omnipresent God to the state logic of an omnipotent State, the capital logic of an omnipresent Market, and the aristotelian logic of an omniscient Science. Predictably, the West, and the USA in particular, try to fuse the three logics and powers more than ever into a copy of divine unity.
→ read full articleToyota’s New Hydrogen Car to Emit Only Water Vapor
AP, msn news – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Toyota said Monday [6 Jan 2014] that a hydrogen-powered vehicle that emits only water vapor as exhaust will go on sale in the U.S. in 2015, a year earlier than it promised just two months ago.
→ read full articleVarieties of Scientific Experience: Carl Sagan on Science and God
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
“If we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.”
→ read full articleBreaking the Silence
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Broad Support for Footballer’s Coming Out – Former German national team player Thomas Hitzlsperger on Wednesday [8 Jan 2014] became the first professional footballer in the country to acknowledge his homosexuality. The upcoming Winter Olympics in Russia, he said, was a reason for going public now.
→ read full articleChina Outstrips US as World’s Biggest Goods Trader
Li Anne Wong, CNBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
China’s annual trade in goods topped $4 trillion for the first time last year, surpassing the U.S. as the world’s largest trader.
→ read full articleEurope’s Leaders Visit Athens to Celebrate Their Failure
Apostolis Fotiadis, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
The start of Greece’s six-month presidency of the EU was marked by a ceremony Wednesday [8 Jan 2014] in the Greek capital attended by the EU commissioners. But protests were banned.
→ read full articleGerman Star Footballer Thomas Hitzlsperger Announces He Is Gay
BBC Sport – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
The ex-Aston Villa midfielder, 31, who retired because of injury in September, revealed his sexuality on Wednesday [8 Jan 2014]. “We still have a long way to go before there will be an openly gay man playing in a top league because we fear a reaction and we don’t know what will happen,” Hitzlsperger, who won 52 caps for Germany, said.
→ read full articleFundamentalism: A Psychological Problem
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
While religious fundamentalism is recognisable to most people, fundamentalism has many non-religious manifestations as well. These are widespread, even if they often occur in less readily identifiable ways.
→ read full articleThe Emergent Palestinian Imaginary
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
It is often overlooked that as early as 1988, and possibly earlier, the unified Palestinian leadership has decisively opted for what I would call a ‘sacrificial’ peace. By sacrificial I mean an acceptance of peace and normalization with Israel that is premised upon the relinquishment of significant Palestinian rights under international law.
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia: A Retrograde Rentier Dictatorship and Global Terrorism
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Saudi Arabia has all the vices and none of the virtues of an oil rich state like Venezuela. The country is governed by a family dictatorship which tolerates no opposition and severely punishes human rights advocates and political dissidents. Hundreds of billions in oil revenues are controlled by the royal despotism and fuel speculative investments the world over.
→ read full article(Castellano) Snowden Robó 1.7 Millones de Archivos: Pentágono
Tele SUR tv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Jan 10, 2014 – Un informe clasificado del Pentágono concluyó que el ex contratista de la Agencia de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos, Edward Snowden, descargó 1.7 millones de archivos de inteligencia de las agencias estadounidenses, convirtiéndose en el robo de secretos más grande en la historia de ese país.
→ read full articleBibi & Libie
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Perhaps I am too stupid, but for the heck of me I cannot understand the sense of the Israeli demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
→ read full articleFearless Psychology and Fearful Psychology: Principles and Practice
Anita McKone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Since the mid-1990s, Robert J. Burrowes and I have practised and further researched a form of psychology based on the principle of ‘fearless awareness of the self’. If people wish to know the underlying emotions that have caused me to write this account and critical analysis, they are love and anger. I love the truth and hope that what Robert and I have discovered through our research is useful to others who wish to truly love and understand themselves.
→ read full articleObsession
Richard Wiseman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
A psychoanalyst shows a patient an inkblot, and asks him what he sees. The patient says: “A man and woman making love.”
→ read full articleTransformative Harmony and Inharmony in Nepal’s Peace Process
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Abstract: Two lines of thoughts: ‘first, the Maoist Army integration either into Nepal Army or society is an end of peace process and second, the integration is a part of it’ are available in Nepal. The parties empowered by power, politics and property argue as former and majority of general people and other forces believe on latter.
→ read full articleNeutral – In Whose Favor?
Uri Avnery – Transcend Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Former Israeli army Chief of Staff, a man of limited intelligence, was told that a certain individual was an atheist. “Yes,” he asked, “but a Jewish atheist or a Christian atheist?”
→ read full article(Português) A Revolta de Chiapas, 20 Anos Depois
Carta Maior – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Já se passaram anos, balas e mortos, prisões e injustiças. Ocorreram críticas e zombarias, mas o Subcomandante Marcos e os zapatistas seguem presentes.
→ read full article(Português) Chiapas: Injustiça, Pobreza, Luta e Dignidade
Eduardo Febbro – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
O ano velho se vai em meio a névoa. A garoa e o frio cobrem o local onde o Exército Zapatista de Libertação Nacional celebrou os 20 anos do levante.
→ read full article2014: Ten Conflicts, Solutions, Conciliation
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
USA is cheating itself, building warehouses, not factories. The point is not clemency for Snowden but to drop the NSA and punish those, also allies, who broke human rights. The West tries to get the moral high ground by changing discourse to something they think they have and others not: democracy. Running huge colonial-imperial system against their will? Some democracy!
→ read full articleSorry for Letting Them Snoop? Dell Apologizes for ‘Inconvenience’ Caused by NSA Backdoor
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Dell told an irate customer on Monday [30 Dec 2013] that they “regret the inconvenience” caused by selling to the public for years a number of products that the intelligence community has been able to fully compromise in complete silence up until this week.
→ read full articleAnti-War Demonstration
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Instead of going to Baghdad
I strolled four blocks
to a convenient anti-war demonstration
Civil Disobedience (Part 2 of 3)
Henry David Thoreau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
[Part 2 last week – Part 3 next week] The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur. Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.
→ read full articlePoint of View
Uta Frith – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Psychiatrist to patient: “Don’t worry. You’re not deluded.
→ read full articleNSA’s Secret Toolbox: Unit Offers Spy Gadgets for Every Need
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
The NSA has a secret unit that produces special equipment ranging from spyware for computers and cell phones to listening posts and USB sticks that work as bugging devices. Here are some excerpts from the intelligence agency’s own catalog.
→ read full articleThe Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Necessary cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.
→ read full articleBeholding 2014
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
2013 was not a happy year in the chronicles of human history, yet there were a few moves in the directions of peace and justice. What follows are some notes that respond to the mingling of light and shadows that are flickering on the global stage, with a spotlight placed on the main war zone of the 21st century—the Middle East, recalling that Europe had this negative honor for most of the modern era.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize Nomination 2014: Mother Agnes Mariam and Mussalaha
The Peace People– TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Press Release 4 Jan. 2014 – Mother Agnes Mariam of the Cross (civil name Fadia Laham) and the Mussalaha Reconciliation Initiative in Syria have been nominated by Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.
→ read full article2014 and Beyond: Chaos or Community?
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Nearly 50 years ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. said: “The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.” That choice is becoming ever more profound as we enter the new year of 2014.
→ read full articlePrivacy Rights: Did We Ever Really Have Them?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
The answer to this question is being pondered across America in light to the two seeming mutually contradictory US Federal Court decisions handed down this month from Courts in Washington DC and New York.
→ read full articleHave You Tried the Six Varieties of Love?
Roman Krznaric, Sojourners – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
The Greeks found diverse kinds of love in relationships with a wide range of people — friends, family, spouses, strangers, and even with themselves. This contrasts with our typical focus on a single romantic relationship, where we hope to find all the different loves wrapped into a single person or soul mate.
→ read full articleMuriel Mirak-Weissbach
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Muriel Mirak-Weissbach in her new book Through the Wall of Fire uses a sequence from Dante’s Divine Comedy to stress the need within the wider Middle East for a fundamental revolution in thinking and a far-reaching shift in moral outlook leading from wrath to reconciliation.
→ read full articleAre We Being Driven Like Cattle?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Let us stop being driven like cattle by invented threats. Let us instead look at the very real dangers that threaten human civilization, and do our utmost to avoid them. One can herd cattle, but one cannot herd lions. As Shelly said, “Ye are many. They are few.”
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Those Were the Days (Music Video of the Week)
From Gene Raskin, by Mary Hopkin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
The original Russian song first recorded by Alexander Vertinsky in 1926, “By the Long Road -Дорогой длинною”, was used by Gene Raskin for “Those Were the Days” popularized by Mary Hopkin.
→ read full articleOn Dignity in Democracy
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
A Rhymed Reflection Dedicated to Litang Cui
→ read full articleSouth Sudan: Uprising in a State That Cannot Afford Independence
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
For days, the Kenyan capital of Nairobi has been on edge over the carnage in South Sudan.
→ read full article“Human is as Human Does:” Reflections on Human Nature
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Conventional views of human nature we hold are gradually and rapidly becoming obsolete in the face of scientific, technological, and medical developments. These developments are of such proportion and consequence that they are altering human nature as we one knew it – or thought we knew it?
→ read full article‘Children in Cages’: Human Rights Group Accuses Israel of Torture
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
An Israeli human rights organization has accused the country of torturing Palestinian minors, with reported cases of public caging as well as threats and acts of sexual violence.
→ read full articleLynne Stewart Freed from Prison, Granted “Compassionate Release”
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
31 Dec 2013 – Earlier today, federal Judge John Koeltl ordered the “compassionate release” of [74-year old] Lynne Stewart. He wrote that “Stewart’s “terminal medical condition [cancer] and very limited life expectancy constitute extraordinary and compelling reasons that warrant the requested reduction [of her sentence].
→ read full article2014: International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
In a little noted initiative the General Assembly on November 26, 2013 voted to proclaim 2014 the International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
→ read full article2014 Will Bring More Social Collapse
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
In terms of surveillance technology, we are far beyond Orwell’s imagination. In terms of the unaccountability of government, we exceptional and indispensable people now live a 1984 existence. In America today citizens have become subjects, an indication of social collapse.
→ read full articleInside TAO-Tailored Access Operations: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit
Der Spiegel* – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
The NSA’s TAO hacking unit is considered to be the intelligence agency’s top secret weapon. It maintains its own covert network, infiltrates computers around the world and even intercepts shipping deliveries to plant back doors in electronics ordered by those it is targeting.
→ read full articlePalestinians Have No Partner for Peace in Israel
Haaretz Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Dec. 29, 2013 – Rejection of the Palestinian partner is a deception aimed to delude the public into thinking the Israeli government’s hands are clean.
→ read full articleMandela Is Dead – So, Why Hide the Truth about Apartheid?
Fidel Castro Ruz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Why do they try to hide the fact that the Apartheid regime –that brought so much suffering onto Africa and arouse so much indignation in most nations throughout the world– was the fruit of European colonial powers and was turned into a nuclear power by the United States and Israel, something Cuba, who supported Portuguese colonies in Africa fighting for their independence openly condemned?
→ read full articleEnd the U.S. National Security State!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
The U.S. military has begun to use the phrase “harvest” to describe the killing done by drones. The U.S. has now become a National Security State, a global empire, “harvesting” children – Holy Innocents, at home and abroad. When will it end?
→ read full articleBusiness as Usual
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Luigi (the father) says to his son, “I want you to marry a girl of my choice.”
→ read full articleCivil Disobedience (Part 1 of 3)
Henry David Thoreau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
[Part 2 next week – Part 3 following one] The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. The standing army is only an arm of the standing government.
→ read full articleSamer Issawi, Hunger Strikes, and the Palestinian Struggle
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
For the last three years Palestinian prisoners unlawfully detained in Israeli jails have been engaged in hunger strikes to protest administrative detention, imprisonment without indictment, charges, and access to allegedly incriminating evidence, abusive arrest procedures…
→ read full articleThe Changing Contours of US Imperial Intervention in World Conflicts
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Following the Vietnam War, US imperial intervention passed through several phases: In the immediate aftermath, the US government faced a humiliating military defeat at the hands of the Vietnamese liberation forces and was under pressure from an American public sick and tired of war. Imperial military interventions, domestic espionage against opponents and usual practice of fomenting coups d’état (regime change) declined.
→ read full articleSome Cartoons Aren’t Funny
A. D. McKenzie, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
We can’t talk about political correctness and say cartoonists must draw certain groups only in a certain way. You’ll find someone offended by anything.
→ read full articleI Am Outraged – A Christmas Poem
Rudi Teichmann – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
I am outraged
Because every second children die of hunger by design
Because every second old people die lonely
Because brother fights against brother
Jeff Unsicher
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
“Policy advocacy is the process by which individuals, NGOs, other civil society organizations, networks, and coalitions seek to attain political, economic, cultural and environmental rights by influencing policies, policy implementation and policy-making processes of governments, corporations and other powerful institutions.”
→ read full articleUN Votes to Protect Privacy in Digital Age
Edith M. Lederer, AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
The U.N. General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution to protect the right to privacy against unlawful surveillance on Wednesday [18 Dec 2018] in the most vocal global criticism of U.S. eavesdropping. Germany and Brazil introduced the resolution.
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John Lennon – Happy Xmas [War Is Over] – (Music Video of the Week)
John Lennon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Official Video – “An eye for an eye will make us all blind.” – Mahatma Gandhi.
→ read full articleIsrael’s New Settlements Will Coincide with the Release of Palestinian Prisoners
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
28 Dec 2013 – According to Maariv newspaper half of the settlement units will be built in occupied East Jerusalem. Israel is preparing to announce a plan to build 1,400 settlement units by the time the third batch of Palestinian prisoners is released.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden’s 2013 Christmas Message (Video & Transcript)
Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Dec 25, 2013 – Former US NSA contractor Edward Snowden in a televised Christmas message released by British TV Channel 4. (1:35)
→ read full articleSuper- Market
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Beloved customer
Consume! Consume!
As much as open your mouth
As much as move your body
6 Crimes against Nature Perpetrated by the Food Industry
Martha Rosenberg, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Treating animals like heads of lettuce—“forget it’s an animal” says one farming magazine—has created institutionalized ruthlessness toward animals, workers and the environment, harming humans who eat the products thanks to meat-related obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer, and greedy, short-sighted land-use policies.
→ read full articleGlenn Greenwald Calls For Snowden Asylum at Chaos Computer Club Congress
Deutsche Welle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
27 Dec 2013 – Glenn Greenwald delivered the keynote speech at the 30th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg. Organizers attributed record attendance of around 8,000 to revelations from Greenwald’s most famous source, Edward Snowden. Tim Pritlove: “We need to reinvent the Internet. We need to imagine the Internet anew. Now, have fun and go save the world!”
→ read full article(Português) Esgotos Chineses Estão a Alimentar Bactérias Que Nenhum Antibiótico Consegue Matar
Greensavers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Por paradoxal que pareça, com o aumento da administração de antibióticos as bactérias estão a tornar-se mais resistentes, o que pode representar consequências letais. Um exemplo desta resistência é a New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase(NDM-1), uma enzima descoberta em 2010 que faz com que bactérias como a Escherichia coli e as salmonelas proliferem imunes aos antibióticos.
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9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out
911ExpertsSpeakOut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Public Broadcasting Station, Colorado Public Television, have courageously thrust themselves at the forefront of our nation’s public service media network. This is the 1-hour version of our 1 ½ hour groundbreaking documentary.
→ read full articleWho Runs The World? The Subconscious(*)
Johan Galtung, 30 Dec 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Not one or a group of persons, not one or a group of countries. But they may serve as instruments for scripts engraved on the deeper recesses of their minds, not the conscious, easily retrievable ones. Scripts that are too trivial, obvious, too painful/shameful and hence repressed. Jung calls them archetypes; they often come in syndromes.
→ read full articleAmericans Waking Up to Real Nature of US-Israel Relationship
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Political analyst Maidhc Ó Cathail: “A lot of people may have the feeling that America’s change of attitude toward Israel is purely theatrics, but I think that’s a mistake. Americans are beginning to realize that Israel is not and has never been a strategic asset of America [and] that it has always been a liability.”
→ read full article(Português) Snowden Aceitaria Asilo no Brasil, mas Não em Troca de Informação
AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Edward Snowden negou condicionar a entrega de dados à concessão de refúgio: “Nunca vou trocar informações por asilo, e não acredito que o governo brasileiro faria isso”. O programa da Rede Globo, “Fantástico”, disse ter entrevistado o ex-analista por e-mail através de seu advogado em Nova York, para evitar interceptações.
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Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
If in a song we hear the life-destructing verb to kill
Does it mean that its composers make life stand still?
Guidelines for Leading a Spiritual Life: Some Resolutions for the New Year
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
The term “spirituality” should not be limited to “ecclesiastical” contexts. “Secular spirituality” has emerged to describe non-materialistic individuals or ways-of-being that are not necessarily associated with membership or belief in a formal religion.
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Joseph Menn, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
As a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products, the U.S. National Security Agency arranged a secret $10 million contract with RSA, one of the most influential firms in the computer security industry, Reuters has learned.
→ read full articleSyria: Harrowing Torture, Summary Killings in Secret Isis Detention Centres
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
Torture, flogging, and summary killings are rife in secret prisons run by the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, an armed group that controls large areas of northern Syria, said Amnesty International in a briefing published today [19 Dec 2013].
→ read full article(Italiano) Smettere di dare una connotazione negativa all’Occidente!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
Siria ha risposto alla tematica delle armi chimiche dando un premio Nobel per la Pace a una ONG impegnata nella proibizione delle armi chimiche; in linea con il testamento di Nobel, riduzione delle forze permanenti. Ma perché non condiviso con Putin, il politico che ha focalizzato la sua azione sulle armi anziché su “chi l’ha fatto” (con duecandidati validi), e inoltre su tutte le Armi di Distruzione di Massa, quando Obama non aveva altro da offrire che attacchi missilistici alle fortezze di Assad? E invece no; un paese NATO dà il premio all’Occidente, non alla Russia.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Laureates’ Statement: Nuclear Abolition Is a Humanitarian Imperative
World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
The 13th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, meeting in Poland from 21-23 October 2013, adopted a powerful declaration on nuclear abolition as a humanitarian imperative.
→ read full articleMandela and Vanunu – Men of Courage
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
In 1986 Vanunu, the Israeli Nuclear whistle-blower, told the world about Israel’s secret nuclear weapons. For this he served 18 years in an Israeli prison, 12 in solitary confinement, and since his release in 2004 he has been forbidden to leave Israel, speak to foreigners, and is constantly under surveillance.
→ read full articleA Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons – Mexico, Feb 2014
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
On February 13 and 14, 2014, the government of Mexico will host a conference on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons. The global peace movement must think carefully about how best to use the opportunities offered by the Mexico conference and by other recent breakthroughs in the struggle to eliminate the danger of a catastrophic thermonuclear war.
→ read full articleDefeating the Violence in Our Food and Medicine
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
Apart from exposing the medical industry, there has been much effort to expose the way in which the pharmaceutical and agribusiness food industries (particularly the meat industry) have ensured that little in the way of health-enhancing advice and treatment is available to patients who risk all by subjecting themselves to a ‘doctor’.
→ read full articleThat Woman
Mahdi Jalili – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
Dedicated to Syrian Women
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Silent Night (Music Video of the Week)
Libera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
The boys who make up the vocal band Libera have been described as “normal” and “ordinary”. However, as their recordings and performances demonstrate, the music they produce is truly extraordinary. These are truly sounds to lift the soul. The singers are aged seven to sixteen, attend different local schools in South London and come from a variety of backgrounds.
→ read full articleNorthern Ireland and the Israel/Palestine ‘Peace Process’
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
I visited Belfast the last few days during some negotiations about unresolved problems between Unionist and Republican (or Nationalist) political parties, I was struck by the absolute dependence for any kind of credibility of this process upon the unblemished perceived neutrality of the mediating third party.
→ read full article(Português) Pela Dignidade Terminológica: Um Apelo
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
Reflexões rimadas traduzidas-adaptadas do original (inglês) “On terminological dignity for human beings”. A tradução é dedicada aos terminológos que se dedicam à língua portuguesa.
→ read full articleIt’s the Government, Stupid: Appraising Ethiopia’s Saudi Arabia Policy
Alemayehu F. Weldemariam and Hassen Mohammed - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
Since November 13, 2013, Saudi Arabia has been deporting Ethiopian migrant workers after committing unspeakable atrocities by security forces and vigilantes. The total number of deportees so far has reached a staggering 130,000 and is expected rise up to 150,600 within a few days.
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