Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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A Wind Gives Ear
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
It rains
From the sky
To the earth
To have a relief
The Myth of the “Free Market” and How to Make the Economy Work for Us
Robert Reich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
One of the most deceptive ideas continuously sounded by the Right is that the “free market” is natural and inevitable, existing outside and beyond government. So whatever inequality or insecurity it generates is beyond our control.
→ read full articleThe Armageddon Looting Machine: The Looming Mass Destruction from Derivatives
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Five years after the financial collapse precipitated by the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy on September 15, 2008, the risk of another full-blown financial panic is still looming large, despite the Dodd Frank legislation designed to contain it. As noted in a recent Reuters article, the risk has just moved into the shadows.
→ read full articleThe Syria Deal: Dangers and Opportunities
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Commentators tell us that there is a palpable sense of relief in Damascus and in other parts of Syria in the wake of the Russia-US deal over Syria’s chemical weapons. The citizens of Damascus — the world’s oldest, continuously inhabited city — know that they will not be bombed for the time being.
→ read full article(Castellano) Diputados de Brasil Negocian Viaje a Rusia Para Entrevistarse Con Snowden
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
La delegación se reunirá este martes [17 Sep 2013] con el embajador de Rusia en Brasil, Sergey Pogóssovith Akopov, con el fin de concretar las condiciones en las que se reunirán con el exanalista de la CIA, Edward Snowden, para conocer más en detalle el caso de espionaje de EE.UU. contra la nación.
→ read full articleIsrael, Syria and the United States
Stephen Zunes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
For now, US and Israeli policies toward Syria have only allowed Assad to play his nationalist card, strengthen his otherwise dwindling domestic support and weaken democratic Syrian forces hoping to bring down their tyrannical regime.
→ read full articleSeeing Food as a Commons Opens Up Creative New Possibilities
David Bollier – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
What would the world look like if we began to re-conceptualize food as a commons? Jose Luis Vivero Pol of the Centre for Philosophy of Law at Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium has done just that in a recent essay, “Food as a Commons: Reframing the Narrative of the Food System.”
→ read full articleIn an Age of ‘Realists’ and Vigilantes, There Is Cause for Optimism
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Understanding Kissinger’s criminality is vital when trying to fathom what the US calls its “foreign policy”.
→ read full articleLook at ‘Liberated’ Libya and Despair
Abdel Bari Atwan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Welcome to the new Libya, a country ‘liberated’ by NATO which now finds itself without the oil revenues which could make it rich, with no security, no stability and assassinations and corruption at unprecedented levels.
→ read full articleOil and Fracking Chemicals Spill into Colorado’s Floodwaters
John Upton, Grist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
The floods have also triggered other problems that have gotten a lot less media attention: Fracking infrastructure has been inundated and its toxic contents have spilled out. Pipelines that transport fossil fuels are sagging and snapping under pressure. Tanks that store chemicals and polluted water are being overwhelmed and toppling over. Oil and gas wells are flooding.
→ read full articleChaotic Libya Appeals for Help to Restore Security
Marie-Louise Gumuchian and Julia Payne, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Libya’s prime minister on Tuesday [17 Sep 2013] appealed to the outside world to help restore security, as it combats political chaos and tries to restart oil exports crippled by protesters at a cost of $130 million a day in lost income.
→ read full article(Castellano) EE.UU. Acusa a Siria Pero Tiene Uno de los Mayores Arsenales Tóxicos del Mundo
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
El país que más acusa a Siria de poseer armas químicas, es propietario de uno de los mayores arsenales tóxicos del mundo y ha incumplido dos fechas límite para destruir sus reservas. EE.UU. posee tres mil 100 toneladas de armas químicas.
→ read full articleHow Occupation Was Dressed Up As Peace
Socialist Worker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Twenty years this month after the signing of the Oslo Accords, conditions for Palestinians have worsened, and Israel has tightened its colonial domination.
→ read full articleEthics for the Future
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
In the long run, because of the enormously destructive weapons, which have been produced through the misuse of science, the survival of civilization can only be ensured if we are able to abolish the institution of war. The world which we want will be a world of changed values, where human qualities will be valued more than material possessions.
→ read full articleSyria, Prepare Yourself for Rape!
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Syria is next! She is already marked, cornered, psychologically ravished, and now petrified. She is tied, exposed, and told to expect the worst. She is where we tried to get her for years, where our regime has wanted her to be.
→ read full article(Castellano) Evo Morales Promulgó Ley de Control de Armas en Bolivia
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
El presidente de Bolivia, Evo Morales, promulgó una Ley para el control de armas en Bolivia, a través de la cual se busca regular el porte y tenencia de armas de fuego por parte de civiles y militares en ese país suramericano. La norma establece un nuevo tipo penal que es el tráfico ilícito de armas, que tendrá una pena de hasta 30 años de cárcel según quien lo efectúe, en este caso miembros de las Fuerzas Armadas y la Policía.
→ read full articleStolen Wars
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
This week Israeli TV screened a documentary film about the life of the Israelis in the Shah’s Iran. It was sheer paradise (“paradise” is also a Persian word). The Israelis lived off the fat of the land. They built the Shah’s dreaded secret police (the Savak, not to be confused with Shabak, its Israeli model). They befriended his generals, most of whom were trained in Israel. They built his industries and started to construct his nuclear installations. Sheer nostalgia.
→ read full articleFive Lies Invented to Spin UN Report on Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
A barrage of suspiciously worded headlines attempt to link in the mind of unobservant readers the UN’s “confirmation” of chemical weapons use in Syria and Western claims that it was the Syrian government that used them. The US, British, and French governments have quickly assembled a list of fabrications to spin the UN report to bolster their still-unsubstantiated accusations against the Syrian government.
→ read full article(Italiano) Siria: Tre Livelli di Conflitto. Soluzioni?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Da vari anni, in questa rubrica abbiamo argomentato a favore di un Parlamento di due Camere in Siria, con un Camera Alta rappresentativa di 8 o più nazioni – come i millet ottomani – e un governo di coalizione. Assai lontano dalle “soluzioni progressiste” USA, le nostre si basano sull’incriminare invece che sull’uccidere il regime, con Assad processato dalla Corte Penale Internazionale (escludendo gli americani), etc.
→ read full articlePetition Campaign to Open the Rafah Crossing
Gaza Solidarity Organizations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Open the Rafah Crossing Permanently and Unconditionally. Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine. SIGN THE PETITION HERE!
→ read full articleBravo – Pope Francis!
Johan Galtung, 23 Sep 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
In an interview to the Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica (IHT, 20 Sep 13), Pope Francis says that the Roman Catholic Church has become “obsessed” with abortion, gay marriage and contraception. The church should become a home for all and not a small chapel. “We have to find a new balance”, the Pope says, “otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the gospel”.
→ read full articleOptimism Is Your Choice
Maxim Varfolomeyev, ISKCON News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Optimism is not something emotional. It’s a very practical tool, a mindset. It’s like a morning workout, an exercise. It took you years to train your brain to look at the problems, now start training it to look at the opportunities. It takes time, but as they say, practice makes perfect.
→ read full article(Português) Por Que Controlar os Fluxos de Capitais
Luiz Gonzaga Belluzzo, Carta Capital – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Keynes repetiu seguidamente nos trabalhos preparatórios da Conferência de Bretton Woods: “O controle de capitais deveria ser uma característica permanente da nova ordem econômica mundial”. O Plano Keynes postulava a criação de uma moeda internacional. Perdeu a parada para os interesses do establisment americano.
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President al-Assad Interview with Dennis Kucinich (Part I) مقابلة الرئيس الأسد مع قناة فوكس نيوز الأمريكية – الجزء الأول
Syrian Presidency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
17 Sep 2013 – President Al-Assad’s interview with Dennis Kucinich, former U.S. Congressman, and Greg Palkot, senior foreign affairs correspondent of Fox News.
→ read full articleUS Struggle with Iran’s Peace Offensive
Eric Margolis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Iran’s newly elected president, Hassan Rouhani, has lost no time in trying to end the 34-year old political and economic siege imposed on his nation by the United States and its allies. President Barack Obama, having just been wrong-footed over Syria, now faces a surprise Iranian diplomatic and public relations offensive that will be hard to resist. America’s war party is furious.
→ read full articleUpdating International Nuclear Law
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
For Those Interested in Nuclear Liability Issues in Various Countries – Nuclear research and nuclear industry have managed to grow and survive because of highly favourable structures found in international law and institutions.
→ read full articleVoyager Probe Reaches Interstellar Space
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The US space probe Voyager 1 has crossed a new frontier, becoming humanity’s first spacecraft ever to leave the solar system, NASA has said. Thirty-six years after it was launched from Earth on a tour of the outer planets, the plutonium-powered spacecraft is more than 11 billion miles from the Sun in interstellar space.
→ read full article(Castellano) Centro de Arbitraje de UNASUR Promoverá Mediación y Solución de Conflictos
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
El Centro de Solución de Controversias que proyecta crear la Unión de Naciones Suramericanas promoverá también la utilización de mecanismos de solución de contenciosos, como la mediación y la facilitación, con la finalidad de sumar a aquellas naciones que “no aceptan el arbitraje” internacional. La Unasur está integrada por Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Guayana, Paraguay, Perú, Surinam, Uruguay y Venezuela.
→ read full articleThe Metamorphosis of Colombia’s Medellin: Once Most Dangerous, Now “Most Innovative City”
Andrew Gold, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Medellin has worked hard to negate its former harmful image. Now, tourists flock to the city for the first time in its history.
→ read full articleEndless Fukushima Catastrophe: 2020 Olympics under Contamination Threat
Dr Helen Caldicott – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
How can Japanese Prime Minister Abe possibly say that Tokyo will be safe for the Olympics? He actually said that “there is absolutely no problem” and “the situation is under control.” Does he not understand that parts of Tokyo are already radioactively contaminated and that his government is dumping ashes from the incineration of thousands of tons of radioactive debris from the tsunami and earthquake into Tokyo Bay? Is this what the athletes will be swimming in?
→ read full articlePolice Are More Dangerous to the Public Than Are Criminals
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The worse threat every American faces comes from his/her own government. At the federal level the threat is a seventh war (Syria) in 12 years, leading on to the eighth and ninth (Iran and Lebanon) and then on to nuclear war with Russia and China.
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Vaccine Pioneer Admits Adding CANCER-CAUSING VIRUS to Vaccine!
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
In this interview Dr. Maurice Hilleman makes some astounding revelations. He admits that Merck drug company vaccines (Polio) had been deliberately contaminated with SV40, a cancer-causing monkey virus from 1953 – 63.
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Robert Gallo: The Man Who Created AIDS
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Where did AIDS come from? Some say it doesn’t matter, as long as we find a cure. But what if the man and money that created it, are still spreading it along with lies and half-truths?
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Five Years after Lehman Brothers Fall, Big Banks Even Larger
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
In contrast to workers and homeowners, banks fully recover from the financial crisis.
→ read full articleSyria in Search of a Political Solution: Toward Functional Coexistence
Tatsushi Arai, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The extensive use of chemical weapons in Syria, the commitment and readiness expressed by US President Barak Obama to launch airstrikes against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, and the Russian diplomatic initiative that has led to a US-Russian framework agreement on safeguarding and dismantling Syrian chemical weapons are all important developments in the prolonged war in Syria.
→ read full articleCritical Flaws in UN Report on Syria
Australians for Mussalaha (Reconciliation) in Syria – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Response to the Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic Dated 16 August 2013
→ read full articleContinuity of Agenda: Syria Catastrophe Engineered Under Bush, Executed Verbatim Under Obama
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The rise of Al Qaeda in Syria and the predictable bloodbath that followed is the documented work of US, Israel, & Saudi Arabia.
→ read full articleAmerican Bombing Still Likely – “Go Tell It on the Mountain, From the Peaks of Qasioun!”
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
At the height of the war scare here in early September, a group 9 primarily Sunni, Christian, and Alawite students and activists, led by a charismatic and agnostic pro-Hezbollah Lebanese Shia woman from Hermel in Lebanon’s North Bekaa Valley, set up a Human Shields and Observers camp to protect the Syrian TV channels, radio and communication towers situated at the crest of Mount Qasioun which rises up 1,151 meters (3,776 ft) at its crest.
→ read full articleNSA Masqueraded As Google to Spy on Web Users – Report
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The NSA used ‘man in the middle’ hack attacks to impersonate Google and fool web users, leaks have revealed. The technique circumvents encryption by redirecting users to a copycat site which relays all the data entered to NSA data banks.
→ read full articleDrones
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Drones are fun, so let’s enjoy them,
from safe distance fast deploy them.
Blow up people easily
(Italiano) Il Caucaso lascia la guerra fredda
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Tbilisi, Georgia – Per loro il vecchio pensare-parlare-agire basato sull’egemonia tra stati e e all’interno di singoli stati – nella compensazione di quanto perdono in autonomia nei confronti di un Grande Potere negandolo ad altri all’interno – è fuori questione. Quello che è ammesso –i dettagli non sono chiari in nessun modo – è l’equità fra gli stati all’interno del sistema statale globale, e l’autonomia all’interno degli stati per le nazioni.
→ read full articleResolving the Syrian Chemical Weapons Crisis: Sunlight and Shadows
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Not only did Vladimir Putin exhibit a new constructive role for Russia in 21st statecraft, spare Syria and the Middle East from another cycle of escalating violence, but he articulated this Kremlin initiative in the form of a direct appeal to the American people. For Putin to be so forthcoming, without being belligerent, was particularly impressive.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
A Global Harmony Association Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day. PLEASE HELP THE WORLD BY SIGNING THE PETITION http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Global_Disarmament_Now_1/.
→ read full articleFairness
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Two colleagues went to a restaurant and ordered fish. The waiter brought a plate with a bigger and a smaller fish.
→ read full articleSyria: Three Conflict Levels, Solutions?
Johan Galtung, 16 Sep 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
This column has for years been arguing for a two-chamber parliament in Syria having an upper house with eight or so nations—like the Ottoman millets–and a coalition government. Very far from US “progressive solutions,” ours are based on criminalizing rather than killing the regime, with Assad for the International Criminal Court (Americans ruled out), etc.
→ read full article“Humanitarian” Missile Strikes against Syria?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The issue of chemical weapons is obscuring the more important issues of legality and the question of whether an attack on Syria would not greatly increase the suffering of the people of that region because of escalation. A large-scale war in the Middle East would cause immense suffering to the people of the region, and it might turn into a Third World War. It would be a criminal act to initiate such a war, violating both the United Nations Charter and the Nuremberg Principles.
→ read full articleWar May Be Over but Sri Lanka Is Still Far from Peace
UCANews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
“After the war people expected a lot from the government, that there would be reconciliation, peace. But the people have been deceived,” says Father Regno, director of HUDEC Jaffna, the social arm of the Catholic Church of Jaffna. “There has been no sign of reconciliation. Without a political solution, we have no future.”
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Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata (Music Video of the Week)
Wilhelm Kempff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Just listen… and enjoy your senses.
→ read full articleHow PPP Helped Stop a War!
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Overwhelming public opinion and people-power protest action, both in the U.S. and around the world, against a U.S. attack on Syria, including an appeal by the Pope, and a diplomatic proposal from the Russians all helped to call off the planned illegal U.S. military attack on Syria in the 11th hour.
→ read full articleTEPCO Official Denies Abe’s Claim That Nuclear Crisis Is ‘Under Control’
The Asahi Shimbun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
“We regard the current situation as not being under control,” Kazuhiko Yamashita, an executive officer of Tokyo Electric Power Co., told a meeting in Fukushima Prefecture. The comment contradicts the well-publicized assurance that Abe gave at an IOC general meeting in Buenos Aires on Sep. 7, before Tokyo was selected as the host city for the 2020 Olympic Games.
→ read full articleWhat Does “Agree” Mean?
Anthony J. Marsella – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Sometimes words lose their meaning and purpose because we abuse them. I suppose the same can be said for refugees and internally displaced people trying to survive.
→ read full articleBeing a Waveform of Potential as an Experiential Choice
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The variety of disciplines and beliefs suggest a multiplicity of ways through which an individual may choose to be framed and identified — or have experience of life defined. With the explosion of variously available knowledge to which it is only minimally possible to attend, incomprehension and uncertainty become ever more significant experientially.
→ read full articleMyanmar Peace and Ceasefire-101
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The single most important factor in understanding peace-building and ceasefire negotiations in Myanmar is how the most powerful stakeholder, namely the Burmese generals view peace with the country’s 2 dozen ethnic resistance movements.
→ read full articlePlease Mr. President: “No more “War Tactics.” We want a “Peace Strategy”
Anthony J. Marsella – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Mr. President: Develop a foundation for domestic and global peace. Restore confidence in the USA, not because of its fearful military, political, and economic might, but because of its commitment to the enduring human values, and its constitutional guarantees.
→ read full articleNetherlands Close Eight Prisons Due To Lack of Criminals
Huffington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
As prison populations surge in the UK, with overcrowded cells and repeat offenders, the opposite is happening in the Netherlands where declining crime rates mean that although the country has the capacity for 14,000 prisoners, there are only 12,000 detainees.
→ read full articleThe Happiest (and Saddest) Countries in the World
LiveScience – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2013
The United Nations General Assembly’s second World Happiness Report ranks countries based on several measures of well-being and analyzes the factors that contribute to that well-being.
→ read full articleA Blue Pearl
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2013
It is a tear drop
In the Indian Ocean
Justice is a drop
In the darkness heaven
She is a blue pearl
To the voice of rights
Unilateral US Action in Syria Is Illegal
Karen Pimentel Simbulan, Sharnoff’s Global Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2013
While obtaining US Congress authorization may legalize military strikes that President Obama conducts in Syria within the US legal system, such authorization has no bearing on the legality of US military engagement in Syria from the standpoint of international law.
→ read full articleTaking the Profit Out of War
Peter G Cohen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2013
We now have a huge war machine that dwarfs President Eisenhower’s warning about the undue influence of the military-industrial complex.
→ read full articleBelgian Environmental Study Corroborates Existence and Effects of Weather Modification
Brandon Turbeville, Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2013
Even as the mainstream media and a television-obsessed American public refuse to admit the existence of chemtrails and government-sponsored weather modification programs, the evidence continues to mount with ever-increasing speed that not only do these programs exist, but they are also effective and widespread.
→ read full articleTruth Test on Syria: Religious Oath — Polygraph — Ouija Board?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Systemic Mapping of the Pattern of Affirmations and Denials – Making sense of complexity. An extraordinary feature of the current crisis regarding Syria is the number and variety of affirmations regarding responsibilities for whatever is deplored — chemical weapons, deaths, strategic implications, suspicions, and the like.
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US Military Contractors Celebrate Record High Profits and Stock Prices
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Sep 4, 2013 – The business of war is more profitable than ever.
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Syrian President Bashar al Assad Charlie Rose Interview
CBS News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
PBS’ Charlie Rose interviews Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday, September 9 in a special presentation. In this global television exclusive, Assad gives his only television interview since President Barack Obama asked Congress to approve the use of force against the Syrian regime for alleged use of chemical weapons against the Syrian people.
→ read full articleNo to Foreign Military Intervention in Syria
H.B. Gregorios III, Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
The tragic situation that Syria has been experiencing for the last two and a half years is the strongest evidence of the primary importance of seeking the earliest possible peaceful, diplomatic resolution of the crisis. However, dealing with defining the responsibility of this or that side for tragedies, massacres and the use of chemical weapons, though legitimate, is secondary.
→ read full articleNo Economic Espionage? NSA Docs Show US Spied On Brazil Oil Giant Petrobras
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
The Brazilian head of state said that “it is evident that the reason for the attempted espionage is not security or combating terrorism, but economic and strategic interests” adding that Petrobras represented “no threat to the security of any country.” Rousseff concluded her remarks on Monday [9 Sep 2013] by saying that the Brazilian state would take “all measures to protect the country, the government and its companies.”
→ read full articlePsychoanalysing Psychiatrists and Psychologists Who Torture
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Moreover, in a recent article, ‘Hawaiian Mind Games: American Psychological Association Fiddles While Psychology Burns,’ Roy Eidelson and Stephen Soldz again expose the complicity of US psychologists in researching, designing, implementing, supervising and providing ethical cover for torture inflicted by the CIA and the US military on ‘national security’ prisoners at Guantanamo and elsewhere.
→ read full article(Português) EUA e Reino Unido ‘Derrotaram’ Criptografia na Internet
Marcelo Justo, Carta Maior - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Agência Nacional de Segurança Nacional (NSA) e sua correlata britânica, o GCHQ, decifraram uma grande parte dos códigos criptografados na internet que protegem a privacidade de e-mails, registros bancários e médicos de centenas de milhões de pessoas. As agências celebraram o feito em tom triunfalista assinalando em suas mensagens que “derrotaram a segurança e privacidade da rede”.
→ read full article(Italiano) TRANSCEND a 20 anni: e poi?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
TRANSCEND: una Rete per Pace *Sviluppo* Ambiente fondata nel marzo 1993. Transcend, andare oltre, oltre le contraddizioni, le incompatibilità. Tirare fuori proposte creative, concrete, costruttive – possono funzionare. Si associarono [allora] Fumiko Nishimura e Dietrich Fischer; oggi ci sono 522 membri di 80 paesi; il 40% donne.
→ read full article(Italiano) Dove sono finiti tutti i Poteri?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Dove ci condurrebbe la sussidiarietà – il più basso livello possibile? L’alternativa al regionalismo-globalismo non è il localismo, ma tutti i livelli di cui siamo composti, il mondo considerato come un insieme di comunità localmente autonome, una comunità di Stati, una comunità di macroregioni e di amministrazione globale; spingendo il potere verso il basso, verso le persone e la natura, ascoltando la sua voce. E le Nazioni Unite come una confederazione di Stati e macroregioni.
→ read full article(Italiano) Dialogo fra le civilizzazioni come modo di vivere
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Stiamo entrando in un affascinante periodo multi-polare della storia mondiale. Sei civilizzazioni vogliono dire sei modelli di sviluppo; sparsi su otto poli in un mondo ottagonale: USA e UE, entrambi liberali occidentalio; Russia in ricerca (ipotesi ragionevole: per una versione migliorata del marxismo occidentale); India, enorme, ma impacciata col suo hinduismo; Cina in quanto Cina (col Giappone in dolorosa ricerca di stabilità fra USA e Cina); mondo musulmano, l’ Organizzazione della Cooperazione Islamica (OIC), in ricerca di una ummah [comunità di credenti] nella regione dell’OIC, con il conflitto sunniti-sciiti risolto; Africa in cerca di un eclettismo basato su principi secolari occidentali, sull’Islam e su qualcosa della propria cultura; America Latina immersa sin d’ora in un creativo dialogo infra-occidentale.
→ read full article(Castellano) Siria: Algunas Reflexiones
Fernando Montiel T. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Catchy bloody words o de que no va – Con diferentes matices, la historia que sirve como canción de cuna en la prensa internacional se construye más o menos con los mismos elementos.
→ read full articleCitizens Act and Call to Stop Madness of War
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, Calls for Americans and world citizens to respond to Pope Francis’ call to fast and pray to stop United States war against Syria.
→ read full articleSyria, Democracy and International Law
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
The central purpose of the UN organization, when it was set up in 1945, was to make war illegal. The enormous suffering caused by two world wars had convinced the men and women who drafted the Charter that security based on national military forces had to be replaced by a system of collective security.
→ read full articleTurning the Table on the Trackers: WikiLeaks Sniffs out Spy Salesmen
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
What was Mostapha Maanna of Hacking Team, an Italian surveillance company, doing on his three trips to Saudi Arabia in the last year? A new data trove from WikiLeaks reveals travel details for salesmen like Maanna who hawk electronic technology to track communications by individuals without their knowledge.
→ read full articleIn-Q-Tel: A Glimpse Inside the CIA’s Venture-Capital Arm
Matt Egan, Fox Business – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
“I’ve found that our technical capabilities often far exceed what you see in Tom Cruise films,” former CIA Director David Petraeus said in March 2012. “But there are a few feats he can accomplish in the movies that we can’t; we haven’t figured out, for example, how to change an individual’s fingerprints or eyeballs just yet — but give us time.”
→ read full articlePeace Education and a Call for Social Dialogue on Nonviolence and Peace
Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Peace education is education of man (humanity). It is the manifestation of an integral culture of body, vitality, mind, intellect and spirit. These elements constitute every man and woman without any discrimination of race, caste, creed, language, nationality and other differences.
→ read full articleMaking the World Safe for Banksters: Syria in the Cross-hairs
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Iraq and Libya have been taken out, and Iran has been heavily boycotted. Syria is now in the cross-hairs. Why? Here is one overlooked scenario. “The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.”
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George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
The US. You could almost pity these people. For 67 years successive US governments have resisted calls to reform the UN Security Council. They’ve defended a system which grants five nations a veto over world affairs, reducing all others to impotent spectators; abused the powers and trust with which they have been vested; collaborated with the other four permanent members (the UK, Russia, China and France) in a colonial carve-up, through which these nations can pursue their own corrupt interests at the expense of peace and global justice.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize Winner And War Criminal?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
In 1946 the United Nations General Assembly unanimously affirmed “the principles of international law recognized by the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal” and established an International Law Commission to formalize the Nuremberg Principles, and the result was the following list.
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High Ranking US Major General Exposes 9/11 Hoax
Kate Johnston – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2013
On a candid interview, retired US Major General Albert Stubblebine affirms there is proof that what hit the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 was not an airplane. He served on the US military for 32 years.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2013
A Global Harmony Association Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day. PLEASE HELP THE WORLD BY SIGNING THE PETITION http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Global_Disarmament_Now_1/.
→ read full article‘Success Story’: NSA Targeted French Foreign Ministry
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2013
Espionage by the US on France has already strained relations between the two countries, threatening a trans-Atlantic trade agreement. Now a document seen by SPIEGEL reveals that the NSA also spied on the French Foreign Ministry.
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George Galloway’s Speech in British Parliament Debate on Military Action against Syria
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Aug/29/2013 – Parliament Debates Military Action Against Syria. George Galloway speaks as The British House of Commons holds an urgent debate on possible military action against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Prime Minister David Cameron recalled parliament following reports of a chemical weapons attack against Syrian citizens.
→ read full articleWith Opposition to Monsanto Growing, India’s Farmers Turn to Traditional Bees and Honey
Paromita Pain, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
As India’s government prepares to make the controversial Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India bill a law, enhancing the hold that biotech companies like Monsanto have over the nation’s food production, the tiny bee may be emerging as a potential savior by offering ways to increase crop yields naturally.
→ read full articleBlack Budget: Funding the Intelligence Program
The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
U.S. intelligence community’s classified “black budget” for fiscal year 2013.
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Science, Religion, and the Big Bang
Minute Physics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
From the non-beginning to the singularity, by way of belief-muddling misnomers and beneficial ignorance. An energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics — all in a minute!
→ read full articleHot Off the Press: Britain Sold Nerve Gas Chemicals to Syria
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Seemingly, British firms sold Syrian companies the chemical components needed for the production of chemical weapons, long after the beginning of the civil war. “Britain allowed firms to sell chemicals to Syria capable of being used to make nerve gas”
→ read full articleSnowden Document: NSA Spied On Al Jazeera Communications
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Arab news broadcaster Al Jazeera was spied on by the National Security Agency, according to documents seen by SPIEGEL. The US intelligence agency hacked into protected communication, a feat that was considered a particular success.
→ read full article(Castellano) Organizaciones Alemanas Otorgan “Premio Informante” a Edward Snowden
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
La Asociación Alemana de Científicos (VDW, por su sigla en alemán), fue la encargada de patrocinar el galardón de tres mil euros (casi cuatro mil dólares), que fueron entregados por la sección alemana de Transparency Internacional (TI), dedicada a la lucha contra la corrupción y la Asociación Internacional de Abogados contra las Armas Nucleares.
→ read full article(Castellano) Gobierno de Estados Unidos Espió a los Presidentes de Brasil y México
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Un documento titulado “Infiltración inteligente de datos, estudio de caso Brasil y México” expone que la NSA norteamericana aplicó un programa diseñado para abrir y leer correos electrónicos y chats en línea para interceptar las comunicaciones de la Mandataria brasileña.
→ read full articleA View from Tehran
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Truth told, it’s a bit intense these days in Tehran as in most other countries in this region, and this observer fairly soon may be on what just might be the last Tehran-Damascus flight for some time in light of what could occur in the coming days.
→ read full articleSyria: Obama’s Surprising (and Confusing) Latest Moves
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
President Obama’s August 31[2013] remarks from the White House Rose Garden will long be remembered for their strangeness, but the final interpretation of their significance will have to await months if not years. There are three dimensions, at least, that are worth pondering.
→ read full articleObama Has Decided That It Is Safer to Buy Congress than to Go It Alone
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
While still claiming dictatorial powers to start a war on his own authority, Obama put his unilateral attack on Syria on hold when he received a letter from more than 160 members of the House of Representatives reminding him that to take the country to war without congressional approval is an impeachable offense and when he saw that no country that could serve as cover for a war crime, not even the puppet British government and the NATO puppet states, would support America’s announced military aggression against Syria.
→ read full articleSyria: Civilians Protection and Invisible Conflict Parties
Zahed Davodi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
In my view, the conflict parties in Syria are not only the government and oppositions. I think oppositions are not led by a single person – named as Ahmad Jarba – but there are many others in other groups who never see or listen to this person. They are all being called as oppositions because they have a common aim for now. And there are many external actors including some members of the international community who fuel the flame of the conflict in Syria.
→ read full articleSyria: A Human Perspective
Susan Dirgham – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Shouldn’t we give ordinary Syrians, men and women who treasure life, a voice? We must ask ourselves: why do millions of decent people continue to support their regular army? To take us closer to the truth and further from war, families of all victims need a voice. Does a Coalition of the Willing plan to devastate another society, so creating millions of victims that no country will take responsibility for?
→ read full articleSyrian Agony
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
A bird flying in the Sky
Can be evidence
May be blind
While the justice disappears
Over the point of view
(Italiano) Le proposte di Pace funzionano! …a volte
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Per riassumere: per ridurre la violenza dobbiamo identificare i conflitti, il disaccordo tra obiettivi; per identificare i conflitti dobbiamo dialogare con tutte le parti; per giungere a una soluzione il metodo consiste nella mutua ricerca di una nuova realtà, non in vittoriosi dibattiti e compromessi. Più proposte fluttuano nell’aria meglio è; presto o tardi esse verranno afferrate.
→ read full article(Galego) O SGEP Maniféstase en Contra Dunha Intervención Militar dos EE.UU. en Siria
Fundacion Cultura de Paz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
O Seminario Galego de Educación para a Paz, diante da posibilidade certa de que o goberno norteamericano bombardee Siria nas próximas horas, cos seus aliados máis entusiastas, mesmo sen o respaldo e o aval das Nacións Unidas, e con toda a opinión pública en contra, quere manifestar o que segue:
→ read full articleSyria: Chemical Weapons and Restraints in War
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
The UN investigations and the appropriate responses are yet to be made. More shelling of military installations in Syria is unlikely to bring about the negotiations in good faith needed in the Syrian conflict. Thus there is a short-term need to stop beating the drums of war while at the same time stressing the condemnation of the use of chemical weapons.
→ read full articleSyria and Iran: The Danger of Escalation
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
The parallel with the start of World War I is particularly disturbing because the intervening century has witnessed the development of thermonuclear weapons with the capacity to destroy human civilization and much of the biosphere. Must we allow the actions of a few power-blinded politicians to start a conflict that could lead to the deaths of ourselves and our children?
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