Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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The Importance of Being Angry
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
If we want obedient and hardworking students, reliable and pliant employees/soldiers and submissive law-abiding citizens, then we must terrorize people out of being angry. Social control is not easy with people who are powerful and you need your anger to be powerful.
→ read full articleHell on Earth: Massacre in Nigeria
Charles P. Pierce, Esquire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
Massacre of somewhere north of 2000 people in the Nigerian fishing village of Baga. The details are horrifying. People fleeing the violence and drowning in a lake. Bodies still littering the streets and bushes. The idea that all of these individual acts of savagery are linked and there is one solution for the infinite facets of the problem — “More NSA spying!” “More torture!” “Immigration quotas!” — is as dangerous as it is fanciful.
→ read full articleImperialist War, the “War on Terror,” And the End of Democracy
Chris Marsden, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
For decades, the US, France and other imperialist powers have rained down bombs on defenceless civilians, carried out assassinations, and committed horrible war crimes.
→ read full article(Français) Une Tribu Guaranis de la Forêt Amazonienne Se Suicide
Center Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
Pourchassés, harcelés, destitués et privés de leurs espaces de vies séculaires, de leurs droits et légitimité, n’acceptant pas le tribut sous forme de Diktat avilissant de la civilisation, ne pouvant plus lutter contre les intérêts des systèmes d’exploitation de la forêt Amazonienne : ils choisissent la Mort !
→ read full articleFaith
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
A mountain climber slipped down a slope and barely got hold of a small branch at the edge of an abyss.
→ read full articleTo Change Everything: Change Anything, Start Everywhere
CrimethInc – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
An Anarchist Appeal – Our private financial and emotional struggles mirror global upheaval and disaster. We could spend the rest of our days trying to douse these fires one by one, but they stem from the same source. No piecemeal solution will serve; we need to rethink everything. All it takes to find each other is to begin acting according to a different logic. The secret is to begin. Don’t cling to the old world.
→ read full articleDenied Visa by Israel, UN Rights Expert Cancels Visit to Palestine
Ma’an News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
An official visit by Rashida Manjoo, UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, was cancelled Friday [16 Jan 2015] after Israeli authorities refused to give her a visa to enter Palestine. She had been invited on a fact-finding mission by the Palestinian Authority.
→ read full article2000 Estimated Dead in Nigeria from Boko Haram Massacre. But Who Is Arming Them?
Cassius Methyl, The Anti Media – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
While recognizing how intense and horrific this event is, the only logical thing to do now is find out why this happened. A good first question might be: Who armed these people? Please keep in mind there is a lot of background information ignored by the mainstream media. It’s much more complicated than it seems.
→ read full articleThe Complete History of Monsanto, “The World’s Most Evil Corporation”
E Hanzai, Waking Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
Of all the mega-corps running amok, Monsanto has consistently outperformed its rivals, earning the crown as “most evil corporation on Earth!” Not content to simply rest upon its throne of destruction, it remains focused on newer, more scientifically innovative ways to harm the planet and its people.
→ read full articleInvestigation – Secret America
Alex Jordanov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
Over 1 million people inhabit the parallel world created by the US Secret Services after September 11.
→ read full articleCountries Ranked by Military Strength: 2014
Global Firepower – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
The Military Powers of the World in Full Perspective – The GFP list makes use of over 50 factors to determine each nation’s Power Index (“PwrIndx”) score.
→ read full articleJe Suis Martin Luther King
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
Today, January 19, 2015, is Martin Luther King Day here in the US. The world has changed quite a bit since our former great civil rights leader was with us.
→ read full articleI Am a Marxist, Dalai Lama Says
The Times of India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
“As far as social-economic theory is concerned, I am still a Marxist,” the spiritual leader said adding that he admires Marxism because of its focus on reducing gap between the rich and the poor.
→ read full articleThe Unmourned: Another Mass Killing by the Nobel Peace Prize Prez
Chris Floyd, Empire Burlesque – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
A U.S.-led coalition airstrike killed at least 50 Syrian civilians late last month when it targeted a headquarters of Islamic State extremists in northern Syria, according to an eyewitness and a Syrian opposition human rights organization.
→ read full articleSan Francisco Buses Running Islamophobic Ads
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
Once again, an anti-Islam organization has bought ads on San Francisco buses, this time comparing Islam to Nazis.
→ read full articleU.N. Helpless as Saudi Flogging Flouts Torture Convention
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
“His flogging [1000 lashes, 50/week] and 10-year sentence are testament to the extreme lengths to which the Saudi Arabian authorities will go in order to crush dissent.”
→ read full article(Português) Brasil: Maus Comportamentos
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Educação, palavra mágica onde todo mundo diz que está a solução, mas quase ninguém se importa. Educação não é somente adquirir habilidades. Abrange ética e civilidade. Do contrário, o mau comportamento prevalece no calçadão onde caminho e nos descaminhos do país.
→ read full articleU.N. Confirms Palestinians Will Be ICC Member on April 1, 2015
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has confirmed the Palestinians will formally become a member of the International Criminal Court on April 1 and the court’s registrar said on Wednesday [7 Jan 2015] that jurisdiction would date back to June 13, 2014.
→ read full articleOn Freedom of Speech
David van Mill, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
The discussion moves on from the harm principle to assess the argument that speech can be limited because it causes offense rather than direct harm. [From TMS Editor – Of interest, in view of recent atrocities in Paris: 3.3 HATE SPEECH AND THE OFFENSE PRINCIPLE]
→ read full articleOn Love (from The Prophet)
Kahlil Gibran – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
When love beckons to you follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
Jan 17, 1893: Americans Overthrow Hawai’ian Monarchy
History & Wikipedia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
In January 1893, a revolutionary “Committee of Safety,” organized by Sanford B. Dole, staged a coup against Queen Liliʻuokalani with the tacit support of the United States. The Queen was deposed on January 17, 1893, and temporarily relinquished her throne to “the superior military forces of the United States”.
→ read full articleThe Satyagraha of John Brown
Timothy Braatz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
In popular memory, Brown is known for taking an unwavering stand against the evil of slavery, to the point of killing civilians who stood in his way. In academic circles, Brown serves as the centerpiece of discussions regarding the use of violence for moral ends. As such, the John Brown story can easily become an aspect of cultural violence, meaning those beliefs, ideologies, and cosmologies that legitimize and perpetuate direct and structural (indirect) violence.
→ read full articleCharlie Hebdo Massacre: a Tragic, Universal Failure
Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam-תיקון עולם – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Imagine if Charlie Hebdo drew a big-nosed Moses sitting amid buckets of cash. Does no one understand why if one is wrong the other is as well? In fact, a Hebdo cartoonist derided Nicholas Sarkozy’s son for “doing well” by converting to Judaism to marry a wealthy Jewish heiress. The cartoonist was fired. But cartoonists ridiculing the Prophet are now folk heroes.
→ read full articleBe Like Water: The Philosophy and Origin of Bruce Lee’s Famous Metaphor for Resilience
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
“In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.”
Nothing is weaker than water,
But when it attacks something hard
Or resistant, then nothing withstands it,
And nothing will alter its way.
(Italiano) Pace positiva: che cos’è?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Sì, che cos’è? – cominciamo quest’anno nuovo con una nota positiva. Tenendo a mente che la pace è una parola d’onore, come la salute una salvezza per molti: un centro focale di sogni e desideri, un sommo bene che dev’essere sia molto preciso sia riconducibile a un lavoro di pace professionale e mantenuto aperto, riempito di nuovi sogni ed aspirazioni.
→ read full articlePope Francis and Religious Cosmopolitanism
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
It has never been more important to counter the widely disseminated view that religion is ‘inherently’ responsible for political extremism, and more destructively, to blame Islam as a religion for sociopathic violence when the culprits are Muslim. True, religious doctrine can be twisted to serve any values, however demonic, as can secularist thinking.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
January 12–18 – Quote of the Week:
“Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.” — Mahatma Gandhi
Paris–And Then?
Johan Galtung, 12 Jan 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
There is another value, norm, in the land of expression: consideration. Decency. Respect for life. We have libel laws asking not only “is it true?” but “is it relevant?” to cut down nastiness in for instance political “debate”. We rule out hate speech, propaganda for torture, genocide, war, child pornography. Many, unable to understand or argue with converts to Islam in France, overstep norms of decency instead. The easy way out.
→ read full articleTribute to Patrice Lumumba on the 54th Anniversary of His Assassination [17 Jan 1961]
Carlos Martinez – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Malcolm X, speaking at a rally of the Organisation of Afro-American Unity in 1964, described Patrice Emery Lumumba as ’the greatest black man who ever walked the African continent. He didn’t fear anybody. He had those people [the colonialists] so scared they had to kill him. They couldn’t buy him, they couldn’t frighten him, they couldn’t reach him.’
→ read full articlePalestine Recognizes ICC Jurisdiction for Period Covering Gaza War
Ma’an News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
6 Jan 2015 – The International Criminal Court said Palestinian authorities had formally recognized the court’s jurisdiction to investigate crimes allegedly committed during last summer’s Gaza war.
→ read full articleCaptain Paul Watson: If I Were CEO of SeaWorld
Paul Watson, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
There is no justification for the enslavement of animals. None. There never has been and there never can be. Slavery is slavery—unjustifiable, cruel, evil and soul-destroying, both for the victims and the oppressors. Circuses and places like SeaWorld are despicable places, and the only zoos that should exist are those that rehabilitate wildlife, contribute to the conservation of habitat and provide medical facilities for animals in the wild.
→ read full article(Castellano) La Palabra
Pablo Neruda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Nació
la palabra en la sangre,
creció en el cuerpo oscuro, palpitando,
y voló con los labios y la boca.
Their Unpardonable Crime Is That They Are Syrian
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Unlike Jordan and Turkey, Lebanon has rejected the advice of the UN and has refused to create refugee camps, meaning refugees are dispersed throughout the country and setting the stage for a humanitarian nightmare. Lebanon’s complex sectarian make-up also plays a role.
→ read full articleWho Should Be Blamed for Muslim Terrorism?
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Islam is not only a religion; it is also an enormous culture, one of the greatest on Earth, which has enriched our humanity with some of the paramount scientific and architectural achievements, and with countless discoveries in the field of medicine.
→ read full articleChanging Patterns Using Transformation Pathways
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Exploring “Camp-Us” Inspiration by an Alien World View as a Metaphor – As with the Catholic view of Protestants over centuries (duly reciprocated), “they” are considered beyond the pale, lacking any reasonable intelligence, sense of honour, or other values worthy of respect. The savagery of “them” is highlighted by every means, for purposes of propaganda; that of “us” is effectively censored. The basic message of “camp-us” is: Nothing for us to learn; we know all that needs to be known.
→ read full articleLearning from the Taliban: A Message to the Western Anti-War Movement
Rev. Aaron Doncaster – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
By learning from the strategic effectiveness of the Taliban, it does not at all mean that we are accepting their ideology. If this were the case, then I guess I should stop going to marches with theists. Those who refuse to see the differences between tactics, strategies and ideologies deserve to be looked upon with suspicion.
→ read full articlePalestine Joins the International Criminal Court
Falastin News Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
8 Jan 2015 – The ICC has accepted the Palestinian Authority’s request to join the Rome Statute. A statement said that “the deposit of the instruments of accession by the State of Palestine,” effected as of January 2 [2015], had brought the number of state parties to 123.
→ read full article11 January: UN-designated Day for Developing Awareness of Human Trafficking
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
The recent interception by the Italian Navy of two ships filled with refugees from Syria and other migrants has highlighted in a dramatic way the ever-growing trade in persons. On both ships, the captain and crew had abandoned the ships which were heading toward a rocky shore when the ships were boarded by the Italian Navy.
→ read full articleBefore & After the Fact
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Before marriage…
→ read full articleAnne Lamott on Writing and Why Perfectionism Kills Creativity
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft.
→ read full article(Castellano) Descubren ciudad de 500 mil años en Turquía
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
La Administración para el Desarrollo Habitacional de Turquía (TOKI) realizó el mayor descubrimiento arqueológico del país este año, una ciudad subterránea de 500 mil años de antigüedad en la región turca de Anatolia Central.
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Refugee Child Prodigy from Damascus Plays Piano for Peace (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Tambi Assad Cimuk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
When 15-year-old Tambi Asaad Cimuk walked into a music store last year he had never played the piano before. The teenager, who left everything behind in Syria when his family fled to Turkey two years ago, says he hopes his music will somehow help foster peace. He will perform at Carnegie Hall in January 2015.
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Johan Galtung on Denmark, Mohammed Cartoons, and Peacework
EnvisionPeaceMuseum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Johan Galtung is widely considered the “Father of Peace and Conflict Studies.” A Norwegian sociologist and mathematician, Galtung has taught around the world, helped found many institutions dedicated to building peace, and been honored with the Right Livelihood Award.
→ read full articleIndia is Building the World’s Largest Solar Plant — And That’s Terrible News
Justin Loiseau, The Motley Fool – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
6 Jan 2015 – India is gearing up to build 20,000 MW of solar farms, including the world’s largest solar plant to date. But are India’s electricity eyes bigger than its solar stomach? Here’s why having the world’s biggest solar facility may not be the best option for India.
→ read full articleJournal of Resistance Studies Is Calling for Papers
Jørgen Johansen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
The articles we want to publish focus on critical understandings of resistance strategies, discourses, tactics, effects, causes, contexts and experiences. Our aim is to advance an understanding of how resistance might undermine repression, injustices and domination of any kind.
→ read full articleReport: Erdogan Trying to Hide Evidence of Supporting ISIS
The Tower – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
6 Jan 2015 – Turkey’s regime is trying to hide any evidence that holds Turkish leaders responsible for the support of terrorist groups, especially the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Turkish media is reporting.
→ read full articleNuclear Power in India
World Nuclear Association – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Updated 31 December 2014 – India’s primary energy consumption more than doubled between 1990 and 2011 to nearly 25,000 PJ. India’s dependence on imported energy resources and the inconsistent reform of the energy sector are challenges to satisfying rising demand.
→ read full articleDoubling Down on Dictatorship in the Middle East
Amanda Ufheil-Somers, Other Words – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Even the collapse of multiple governments failed to upend the decades-long U.S. policy of backing friendly dictators. Washington has doubled down on maintaining a steady supply of weapons and funding to governments willing to support U.S. strategic interests, regardless of how they treat their citizens.
→ read full articleCuba under the Long Shadow of Castro Brothers
Stephan E. Nikolov, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
We are still to see details behind the lofty statements, that are coming just in time both for the unalterable Cuban leadership, and for the incapacitated President Obama. I believe that transition in Cuba will not be that similar to that familiar here in my country, Bulgaria, and in the Eastern Europe after 1989.
→ read full articleParis: A Dastardly Act of Terror
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Was some group sending a warning to the elite that it should not have supported Palestine’s recent failed bid to obtain an independent sovereign state? Was that group the master-mind behind 7th January? Questions of this sort strengthen the case for an independent investigation preferably by the UN.
→ read full articleThe Imperial Collapse Playbook
Dmitry Orlov, Cluborlov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
The largest development of 2014 is, very broadly, this: the Anglo-imperialists are finally being forced out of Eurasia. How can we tell? Well, here is the Big Picture.
→ read full articleThe New York Times and Washington’s “Propaganda Bubble” on Ukraine
Bill Van Auken, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
In 2002–2003, the stable of State Department propagandists at the Times played a crucial role in paving the way for a war that claimed the lives of over a million Iraqis and some 4,500 US troops. Now they are involved in an even more sinister propaganda operation that threatens to ignite a Third World War.
→ read full articlePoliteness in Multi-Ethnic Societies
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
The attack on Charlie Hebdo, in which 10 people were killed, claimed massive media attention worldwide. In Denmark, it was proposed that the offending cartoons of the prophet Mohammad should be reprinted in major newspapers. I believe [that] Denmark has not yet had time to learn that politeness is essential for preventing conflicts in a multi-ethnic society.
→ read full articleThis Doctor Moved Her Clinic to the Middle of the Ocean to Help Women Get Safe Abortions
Think Progress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
“How could we create a space in which the only permission a woman needs is her own?”
→ read full articleChina-CELAC Forum a ‘New Beginning,’ Says Xi
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Chinese President Xi Jinping opened a historic meeting with the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States Thursday [8 Jan 2015]. Representatives of more than 30 countries are meeting in Beijing to discuss South-South cooperation.
→ read full articlePositive Peace – What Is That?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Yes, what is it?–let us start this New Year on a positive note. Keeping in mind that peace is an honor word, like health, salvation for many: a focus of dreams and wishes, a summum bonum that should be both very precise and amenable to professional peace work and kept open, filled with new dreams and aspirations.
→ read full articleU.S. Twists Arms to Help Defeat Resolution on Palestine
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
31 Dec 2014 – The United States re-asserted its political and economic clout – and its ability to twist arms and perhaps metaphorically break kneecaps – when it successfully lobbied to help defeat a crucial Security Council resolution on the future of Palestine this week.
→ read full articleWe Have So Much to Learn From Cuba
Robert F. Kennedy Jr, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
“It seems stupid to pursue a U.S. foreign policy by repeating a strategy that has proved a monumental failure for six decades. The definition of insanity is repeating the same action over and over, and expecting different results. In this sense, the [Cuba] embargo is insane.”
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Michael Büker: What Ever Happened to Nuclear Weapons?
media.ccc.de – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Dec 29, 2014 – An overview of 70 years of nuclear weapons, focusing on some of the underlying physics, the international politics that surround the topic, modern technology for nuclear weapons detection and monitoring, and what everyone can do to help nuclear disarmament.
→ read full articleTorture Reports: Brazil and the United States Release Reports Documenting Systematic Human Rights Abuses
Kara Rochelle Martinez, Upside Down World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
2 Jan 2015 – One day after the U.S. Senate released its Executive Summary of the CIA’s policy of torture, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff unveiled her country’s investigatory National Truth Commission Report, identifying human rights atrocities committed in Brazil during the military dictatorship, 1964-1988. [She was tortured too.]
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
January 5-11 — Quote of the Week: “It isn’t enough to talk about peace; one must believe it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it; one must work for it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
→ read full article(Português) De volta para a Igreja: Cuba restitui templos cristãos
O Globo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
De maneira discreta, as autoridades cubanas vêm acelerando a restituição de antigas propriedades da Igreja Católica, que por muitos anos manteve uma relação conturbada com os Castro.
→ read full articleNew Level: Monsanto Tries Patenting Natural Tomatoes
Christina Sarich, Natural Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Stealing a Tomato with No Biotech Traits
→ read full articleAs Aleppo Goes, So Goes Syria? – A Strategic Area
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Freezing hostilities in Aleppo could possibly achieve the same for Syria. It’s worth a try.
→ read full articleWhy Do Men Stupefy Themselves? Leo Tolstoy on Why We Drink
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Decades before the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous and nearly a century before alcohol abuse was recognized as a disease by the World Health Organization, Tolstoy writes: “What is the explanation of the fact that people use things that stupefy them: vodka, wine, beer, hashish, opium, tobacco, and other things less common: ether, morphia, fly-agaric, etc.?”
→ read full articleConventional Prompt Global Strike Weapons
Amy F. Woolf, Congressional Research Service – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
CPGS weapons represent Washington’s preparation for military aggression for maintenance of world hegemony. They would allow the United States to strike targets anywhere on Earth in as little as an hour.
→ read full articleFor the Occupied and Oppressed Palestinians UN Means Useless Nations
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
What President Truman feared could happen did happen. On dealing with the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel the Security Council was put out of business by Zionism.
→ read full articleAfghanistan: Skulking Away from a Failed War
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
The ceremony, commemorating the war’s shutdown, was secret because authorities feared the possibility of a Taliban attack. The USA and NATO, as everyone knows, are the losers, despite the bloated enormity of their military superiority. What a mockery the reality of war makes of the rhetoric that blesses it.
→ read full articleRichard Jackson: Terrorism, Torture, and the Problem of Evil in Our Time
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Richard Jackson, a professor of peace studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, has written a probing political essay that takes the form of an imagined dialogue between a British interrogator and an Egyptian terrorist who is apparently thought at the time of their conversation to be the mastermind of an imminent attack on Great Britain.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to Arundhati Roy by an American
P.K. Willey Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
I now see that a misinformed view of his thought and action has led you to misrepresent Gandhi unfairly to the public around the planet. Churchill said, “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” Thoughts are another type of food, and our food, both mental and physical, determines our health, as individuals and as a society.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Stellungnahme des friedenspolitischen Sprechers des Komitees für Grundrechte und Demokratie zur Situation der deutschen Friedensbewegung
Prof. Dr. Andreas Buro – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Zum Jahreswechsel werden viele Fragen zur Situation und Zukunft der deutschen Friedensbewegung gestellt. Hier der Versuch zu antworten.
→ read full articleMonks & Politicians
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
A politician was campaigning for reelection and visited all kinds of people, trying to be folksy.
→ read full articleDeliberation on Post MDG (2015) Development Agenda
Centre for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development-CSEND – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
CSEND, a think tank focusing on the development nexus of trade, poverty, employment and social equity, is contributing to these deliberations through its engagement in both the global, national and regional levels.
→ read full articleThe Limitations of Strategic Nonviolence
Timothy Braatz, Peace Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
If the goal is to reduce violence of all types, to create a society where tomorrow is less violent than today, strategic nonviolence is insufficient and, thus, not pragmatic. For such a transformation, the principled approach—identifying and rejecting any and all forms of violence—is also the pragmatic one.
→ read full article(Italiano) 2014 nulla di buono. 2015 meglio?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
La tragedia del 2014 è stata la mancanza di autentici amici degli USA che gli dicessero: guarda, questo non funzionerà – meglio cambiare; prendetevi miglior cura della vostra meravigliosa società e dei vostri vicini, ritrattate. La speranza per il 2015 è che molti alleati lo facciano.
→ read full articleUN Security Council Rejects Resolution on Palestinian State
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Bid to end Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories by 2017 garners eight votes, one short of total needed to pass:
YES: Jordan, China, France, Russia, Luxembourg, Chad, Chile, Argentina.
NO: United States, Australia.
ABSTAINED: United Kingdom, Lithuania, Nigeria, South Korea, Rwanda.
2015: Defending Humanity by Reason or Force
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Ideals are being spat on, dragged through dirt by the omnipotent manufacturers of obedience and by their most powerful tools – the mass media, religious entrepreneurs, the private education system, and the pop entertainment machine. Only consumerism, commercialism, business achievements and loyalty to the regime are glorified. There is nothing that encourages people to dream of a much better world, or to struggle for a new, just and egalitarian society.
→ read full articleInstitutional and Cultural Inertia
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Today we are faced with multiple interrelated crises, for example the threat of catastrophic climate change or equally catastrophic thermonuclear war, and the threat of widespread famine. These threats to human existence and to the biosphere demand a prompt and rational response; but because of institutional and cultural inertia, we are failing to take the steps that are necessary to avoid disaster.
→ read full article(Italiano) AOSTA. “ANTEPRIMA ASSOLUTA de IO STO CON LA SPOSA all’ Espace Populaire”
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Il loro passaporto nelle ambasciate europee vale carta straccia. Così ogni mese, migliaia di Siriani e Palestinesi si affidano ai contrabbandieri libici ed egiziani, per attraversare il Mediterraneo su imbarcazioni di fortuna. Fuggono dalla guerra in Siria e vengono a chiedere asilo politico in Europa.
→ read full article5,000 Year Old Subterranean City Found in Turkey
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
A massive 5,000 year old underground city has been discovered in Turkey according to reports Sunday [28 Dec 2014]. The finding has been regarded as the biggest archeological discovery of 2014.
→ read full articleThe Rock of Our Existence
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
On the connection between Archeology and Ideology. The Bible is not real history. It is a monumental religious and literary document, that has inspired untold millions throughout the centuries. It has formed the minds of many generation of Jews, Christians and Muslims. But history is something else. History tells us what really happened. Archeology is a tool of history, an invaluable tool for the understanding of what took place.
→ read full articleCuban Province Records World’s Lowest Infant Mortality Rate
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
The central province of Cienfuegos, Cuba, ended 2014 with a rate of infant mortality of three deaths per thousand live births, the lowest in the world, local health authorities reported Friday [2 Jan 2015].
→ read full articleOn the New Year
Stephen Gill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
What then
if it is a New Year.
This day is the same
as any other day of last week
even last year.
Obama’s Lists: A Dubious History of Targeted Killings in Afghanistan
SPIEGEL Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Combat operations in Afghanistan may be coming to an end, but a look at secret NATO documents reveals that the US and the UK were far less scrupulous in choosing targets for killing than previously believed. Drug dealers were also on the lists.
→ read full articleLeonardo’s Brain: What a Posthumous Brain Scan Six Centuries Later Reveals about the Source of Da Vinci’s Creativity
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
An astonishing intellectual, and at times spiritual, journey into the particular brain of one undereducated, left-handed, nearly ambidextrous, vegetarian, pacifist, gay, singularly creative Renaissance male who was able to attain a different state of consciousness than “practically all other humans.”
→ read full article(Português) Ecolinguagem
Francisco Gomes de Matos, Elza Kioko N. N. do Couto, Adilson Marques & Hildo Honório do Couto, A Arvinha – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
A primeira ideia que vem à mente quando ouvimos a palavra ‘ecolinguagem’ é a de que ela seria a “linguagem ecologicamente correta”. Essa é a opinião do leigo. Porém, ela é apenas parcialmente correta e pode levar a interpretações equivocadas, como sói acontecer. Usar ecolinguagem é admitir e assimilar a visão ecológica do mundo.
→ read full articleThe Irrelevance of Liberal Zionism
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Frustrated by Israeli settlement expansion, excessive violence, AIPAC maximalism, Netanyahu’s arrogance, Israel’s defiant disregard of international law, various Jewish responses claim to seek a middle ground.
→ read full article2015, Conversion to Hinduism
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
India currently has witnessed intense debates on religious conversion particularly after some people converted into Hinduism. I am against forceful conversion. I apply this principle to all religions. Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Jains, Jews, and people without religion, have all called India their home. This is the beauty of India.
→ read full articleIs Cancer Risk Mostly Affected by Genes, Lifestyle, or Just Plain Bad Luck?
Jenna Birch, Yahoo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
While cancer can strike anyone — young or old, unhealthy and healthy — we do have some idea of what can affect risk.
→ read full articleWind Supplied 98% of Scotland’s Household Power in 2014 and Other Amazing Green Energy Stories
Juan Cole, Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Scotland is well on its way to getting 100% of its energy from renewable sources by 2022. Germany is rapidly replacing nuclear and coal with wind and solar, so much so that coal use was down 11% last year.
→ read full article(Português) Passagem de Ano
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
O fim do ano e o começo do outro deve ter a marca de uma alegria interior, que dispensa agitação e multidão, embora a presença das pessoas queridas seja coisa boa. A celebração da mudança de ano não precisa conter amargor de desejos não realizados ou cenários irreais.
→ read full articlePeru Is Now Giving Free Solar Power to Its 2 Million Poorest Citizens
Bill Ottman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
Dec 21, 2014 – The National Photovoltaic Household Electrification Program will cost about $200 million, which is basically nothing in the scheme of most international budgets. Peru also leads the way in national dedication to organic food and doesn’t allow GMO.
→ read full article(Castellano) Decir Todo, Decir Nada (LA Guerra Que No Es)
Fernando Montiel T. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
En la novela clásica del más importante ensayista inglés del siglo XX el Ministerio del Amor era el encargado de torturar a los disidentes, el Ministerio de la Verdad escondía los hechos y tergiversaba la información y el Ministerio de la Paz se encargaba de hacer la guerra. Las fantasías del literato devinieron en realidad cuando se normalizaron conceptos como comunidad internacional, terrorismo y comunismo. ¿Qué significan estas palabras?
→ read full articlePalestinians Granted Observer Status at International Criminal Court
JNS-Jewish and Israel News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
The ICC upgraded the Palestinians’ status to “non-state observer” at its summit meeting in New York on Monday [8 Dec 2014]. While largely symbolic, the move gives the Palestinians the right to ratify the Rome Statue, the founding treaty of the ICC.
→ read full articleHow Laws Restricting Tech Actually Expose Us to Greater Harm
Cory Doctorow, Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
The Internet isn’t just the world’s most perfect video-on-demand service. It’s not simply a better way to get pornography. It’s not merely a tool for planning terrorist attacks. Those are only use cases for the net; what the net is, is the nervous system of the 21st century. It’s time we started acting like it.
→ read full articleThe NY Court of Appeals Granted the Vulture Funds Request of Information on Argentine Assets
Télam - Agencia Nacional de Noticias de la República Argentina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
28 Dec 2014 – The New York Second Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed Judge Thomas Griesa’s ruling, which had granted to vulture funds their request of seeking official information (discovery) on Argentine assets in the United States, as part of their litigation against the Argentine Republic.
→ read full articleFox Affiliate Apologizes to Editing Protesters’ Chants to Say ‘Kill a Cop’
Walter Einenkel, Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
23 Dec 2014 – A Baltimore Fox station had to apologize to Black Lives Matter protester, Tawanda Jones, after they were busted for deceptively editing a protest chant to say “Kill a cop.”
→ read full articleDisdain and Belligerence Define IDF Leaders’ View of Palestinians
Jews For Justice For Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
Palestinians may feel anger and hatred towards their oppressors – but those oppressors regard them as contemptible sub-humans who can be ignored – if not rushed. Ya’alon in particular regards all filmed evidence of police and IDF brutality as faked. The refusal to deal with reality infects the whole country.
→ read full articleChina’s Second ‘Cultural Revolution’
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
China is in the midst of its second ‘cultural revolution’ in a half century. While the first (under Chairman Mao Tse Tung) was intended to ‘revitalize socialism’; the current is directed to ‘moralizing’ capitalism.
→ read full articleDoublespeak – Unpleasant Reckoning Looming for America’s Current Syrian Strategy
Prof. William R. Stanley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
Washington and its European allies have known for at least three years of the flow of their nationals to the Middle East to join jihadist groups fighting against the Syrian regime. Only recently have these same governments expressed alarm at the prospects for domestic violence at such time that battle hardened jihadists return home.
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