Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Indifference to the Suffering of Others
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
The indifference to the pain and suffering of others is a continuing theme of reflection and comment. The culture of comfort makes us live in soap bubbles which, however lovely, are insubstantial; they offer a fleeting and empty illusion which results in indifference to others…In this globalized world, we have fallen into globalized indifference. We have become used to the suffering of others: it doesn’t affect me; it doesn’t concern me; it’s none of my business.
→ read full articleChemical Weapons in Syria Provide an Opportunity for Making Peace
Robin Edward Poulton, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
If Syria pulls back from the chemical red line and accepts some form of sanction, then the Wahabists and Jihadists and Iraqi Sunnis should pull back across the frontiers and accept some form of sanction. It is unclear why NATO forces are supporting extremist Sunni Al-Qaeda look-alikes in Syria, while fighting them in Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen and recently in Mali.
→ read full articleAny Attack on Syria Will Be Counterproductive and Illegal – A Result of Failed Conflict Management
The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Any U.S. attack on Syria will be an indisputable violation of international law, an attack on a sovereign state that has not invaded any other state. An aggression on Syria can only take place in complete defiance of Article 1 of the UN Charter which spells out that peace shall be established by peaceful means and only when every civilian means has been tried and found in vain can an international military action be considered – but then only under command of the UN itself.
→ read full articleNo More Nuclear Tests in India and Everywhere Else!
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy commemorates the International Day Against Nuclear Tests on August 29, 2013 by demanding the government of India to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and to undertake a pledge not to conduct any more nuclear tests in India.
→ read full articleToward An Inclusive Inter-Rwandan Dialogue: Lessons from Other Conflicts
Pierre Bakunda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Will Hutu and Tutsi overcome the legacy of social privileges, power and difference to engage into creating a nation- state for all? I wish I would be part of the actors to reconcile Rwandans to overcome their gloomy differences but being excluded, I believe it will require manoeuvres and maturity from the Rwandan government to accept the process.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 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 articleReligion vs. Humanism: Isaac Asimov on Science and Spirituality
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
“The soft bonds of love are indifferent to life and death.”
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Global Wealth Inequality – What You Never Knew You Never Knew
TheRulesOrg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
The richest 300 people in the world are wealthier than the poorest 3 billion combined, and every year rich countries take over 10 times more money from poor countries than they give in aid.
→ read full article(Italiano) Applicazioni della Nonviolenza. Ahimsa nella vita quotidiana
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
La Rete Pace, Sviluppo, Ambiente – TRANSCEND cominciò con conflitti geopolitici macro e mega; molti dei quali ben noti e drammatici. Ma i conflitti nella vita quotidiana, a scuola, nelle coppie-famiglia, al lavoro, possono essere anche più drammatici; al livello micro nelle persone coinvolte, fra di esse, nel contesto, e al livello meso dei gruppi sociali.
→ read full articleWar
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
What more can be said of war,
That has not already been eulogized
On fields of battle
Where lives were lost, minds seared,
And historians’ crafts polished
With the biased narratives of victors:
Waterloo, Hue, Fallujah?
There is no winner in war!
Let’s Try Everything
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Back then
I was a young and sheltered American,
but I remember the newsreels:
Refugees on broken roads
trod east, or was it west?
The Spreading Wings of Islamophobia in Egypt
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
The Orwellian features of the military takeover in Egypt have received attention, although the use of language to evade unwanted truth continues because incentives to do so persist. What, we might ask, is the el-Sisi concept of inclusiveness? At present, the only plausible answer is ‘my way or the highway.’
→ read full articleSome Peace Education Initiatives in Denmark
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
This paper will discuss some Danish peace education activities, especially those of the Danish Peace Academy, the Danish National Group of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (Nobel Peace Prize, 1995), and the Grundtvigian adult education colleges.
→ read full articleThe Dow Jones Index is the Greatest of All Ponzi Schemes
Wim Grommen (with Lorimer Wilson) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Beware: The Dow 30’s Performance Is Being Manipulated! The Dow Jones – the oldest stock exchange in the U.S. and most influential in the world – consists of 30 companies and has an extremely interesting and distressing history regarding its beginnings, transformation and structural development which has all the trappings of what is commonly referred to as pyramid or Ponzi scheme.
→ read full article(Português) Amizade Canina
José Guilherme, Ultrapop – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
À medida que o tempo passa, você vê que ele vive de olho em você, e que ele é um sensitivo sentimental. O coração dele é o coração de um gigante. Ele não conhece mágoa nem rancor. Se acontece de você chorar, por algum motivo, seu cachorro está plantado à sua frente, olhando fixamente para você, raspando uma pata na sua perna.
→ read full articleThe Paradox of Our Age
The 14th Dalai Lama – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
We have bigger houses but smaller families;
more conveniences, but less time.
We have more degrees but less sense;
Still Going Strong – Havana, Where Everyone Can Dance
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Very few can resist falling in love with the country where entire streets; entire neighborhoods, are turned into concert halls and dance floors. One of the iconic phrases symbolizing Latin American revolutions has always been: “Everybody Dances or Nobody Dances!” In Cuba, music and dance are synonymous with life. Here, everybody dances, and that is how the revolution survives.
→ read full articlePeace Proposals Work! – Sometimes
Johan Galtung, 26 Aug 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
To reduce violence we must identify the conflicts, the clash of goals; to identify conflicts we must have dialogue with all parties; to arrive at solutions the method is a mutual search for a new reality, not winning debates and compromises; the more proposals floating in the air the better; sooner or later they will be picked up
→ read full article1982 Citizenship Law of Myanmar and Myanmar’s Popular Racism
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Burma’s military-controlled State rests on the country’s official racism towards Burmese of ‘impure blood’. Scholars and policy analysts of Myanmar need to stop characterizing violence and racism against Muslims, ‘Kalars’ and Tayoke (Chinese) as simply ‘sectarian’ or placing undue emphasis on the society’s role in the unfolding racist mass violence against the Rohingya and all Myanmar Muslims.
→ read full articleSystematic Patterns of Anti-Muslim Violence in Burma
Physicians for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) today [20 Aug 2013] released a report documenting the recent wave of violence against Muslims throughout Burma, whose government has created a culture of impunity for the violators and has failed to protect the Muslim minority.
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Fukushima Radiation Leakage Still Going On
CCTV America – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Anchor Anand Naidoo asks radiation expert Dr. Janette Sherman why the leakage is still going on at Fukushima — and if it will imperil other countries.
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Let the Sunshine In (Music Video of the Week)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
A Classic – Musical scene of the movie Hair where a hippie changes place with a soldier, is sent to the Vietnam War by mistake and dies in battle.
→ read full articleAl Jazeera & Reuters Published the News of Massacre in Syria One Day before It Happened
Intifada-Voice of Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Al Jazeera, Reuters published the news of massacre in East Ghouta, Damascus one day before the massacre happened. Tens of videos were uploaded one day before the massacre. All these evidences show that the terrorists massacred people then recorded the scenes to deceive the world but they were SO FAST that betrayed themselves.
→ read full articleBradley Manning’s letter to President Barack Obama Requesting a Pardon
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
“If you deny my request for a pardon, I will serve my time knowing that sometimes you have to pay a heavy price to live in a free society. I will gladly pay that price if it means we could have a country that is truly conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all women and men are created equal.”
→ read full article‘Private Money’: Bitcoins Gain Ground in Germany
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Bitcoins have rapidly gained popularity, but what is the currency’s legal status? This week Germany revealed that it sees the virtual payment method as “private money,” but its tax status remains unclear.
→ read full articleUS Succumbing to Tyranny of Endless War
Global Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Will Snowden trigger a domino effect into more whistle-blowers? Will US diplomacy continue to be dominated by the Pentagon? Lawrence B. Wilkerson, a retired US Army colonel and the former chief of staff for Colin Powell who served as US secretary of state from 2001 to 2005, shared his ideas on these issues.
→ read full articleNew Fires Relight in Eastern Congo
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
In a 24 August 2013 message addressed to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the Association of World Citizens highlighted that the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern capital of North Kivu Provence, Goma, had been shelled for the past three days, including Saturday the 24th.
→ read full articleAlan Rusbridger: “I would rather destroy the copied files than hand them back to the NSA and GCHQ”
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, talks about the UK and international law, the future of journalism, and the David Miranda affair.
→ read full article(Italiano) Cinque tesi su Assange-Manning-Snowden
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Quel che Manning e Snowden hanno rivelato sono le convulsioni dell’impero USA; quel che Assange e gli altri hanno rivelato sono le convulsioni del sistema statuale come lo conosciamo. A entrambi i processi ci vorrà tempo; al primo meno che al secondo. Ma non ci si sbagli: tutti e tre gli spifferatori hanno fatto storia. Tre nomi che saranno ricordati dopo che taluni presidenti USA saranno scivolati in un oblio tanto meritato.
→ read full articleGlobalizing Homeland Security
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
It is not just one thing that should worry us about the authoritarian tendencies of the Obama presidency, but one thing after another. The cumulative effect of it all. The latest sign of the times was the August 19th detention of David Miranda, Glenn Greenwald’s partner, at Heathrow Airport under the British anti-terrorist law for nine hours.
→ read full articleArt Review: BP Portrait Award 2013
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Fifty-five of the most outstanding entries, including the winning portraits, from this international competition are currently on exhibit from 20 Jun to 15 Sept 2013. During the judging process, none of the entries received from seventy-seven countries were tagged with the artists’ nationality as a measure of equality, and this ethic is also evident in the exhibit.
→ read full articleOn Bradley Manning & America
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
I am posting on this blog two important texts that deserve the widest public attention and deep reflection in the United States and elsewhere. I would stress the following:
→ read full articleWhen Nationalism and Militarism Become One
Mark A. Ashwill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
“United We Stand,” and “We’re Number One!” are commonplace mantras. “United We Stand” against what, whom, and why? “We’re Number One!,” in what respects?, one is tempted to ask.The assumption that “others” wish to be like “us,” and, by extension, the desire to mold them in our image, by force, if necessary, is the essence of the brand of missionary nationalism that has shaped U.S. foreign policy for generations.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 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 articleRIP, Elmore Leonard: The Beloved Author’s 10 Rules of Writing
Maria Popova – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
“If it sounds like writing … rewrite it.” – How heartbreaking to learn that the wonderful Elmore Leonard (October 11, 1925–August 20, 2013) has died, and what a bittersweet invitation to revisit his timeless contribution.
→ read full articleThe Confidential Memo at the Heart of the Global Financial Crisis
Greg Palast – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
When a little birdie dropped the End Game memo through my window, its content was so explosive, so sick and plain evil, I just couldn’t believe it. The Memo confirmed every conspiracy freak’s fantasy: that in the late 1990s, the top US Treasury officials secretly conspired with a small cabal of banker big-shots to rip apart financial regulation across the planet.
→ read full articleEgypt: Extreme Polarization and Genocidal Politics
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
In these morbid days, there are some home truths that are worth reflecting upon. What Happened After Tahrir Square?
→ read full articleSensing Epiterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Some astronomers continue to express interest in “extraterrestrials” and “life” elsewhere — and maintaining the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). There are no right answers to wrong questions. Assuming that “extraterrestrial life” might be located on other planets may be a consequence of the “wrong question”. It may not be a question of “where” such “life” is located but rather of “how” that “life” is expressed.
→ read full articlePreliminary Evidence Indicates that the Syrian Government DID NOT Launch a Chemical Weapon Attack against Its People
Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Michael Rivero asks:
1. Why would Syria’s Assad invite United Nations chemical weapons inspectors to Syria, then launch a chemical weapons attack against women and children on the very day they arrive, just miles from where they are staying?
2. If Assad were going to use chemical weapons, wouldn’t he use them against the hired mercenary army trying to oust him? What does he gain attacking women and children? Nothing! The gain is all on the side of the US Government desperate to get the war agenda going again.
Gangster State US/UK
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Washington’s UK puppets simply kidnapped David Miranda, the Brazilian partner of Glenn Greenwald, who is reporting on the illegal and unconstitutional spying by the National Stasi Agency, threatened him for nine hours, and stole his computer, phones, and all his electronic equipment. As a smug US official told the media, “the purpose was to send a message.”
→ read full articleSyria: No Armaments to Rebels
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire: “Contrary to some foreign governments’ current policies of arming the rebels and pushing for military intervention, the people of Syria are calling out for peace and reconciliation and a political solution to the crisis, which continues to be inflamed by outside forces with thousands of foreign fighters funded and supported by outside countries for their own political ends.”
→ read full articleMerkel and the NSA: A Scandal That Just Won’t Die
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2013
As the election approaches, Chancellor Angela Merkel is working hard to dissipate anger over controversial surveillance by German and US intelligence agencies. But every time Berlin assures voters that all is well, its claims are discredited.
→ read full articleBe Brothers: A Word to Hindus and Muslims
M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2013
Oh my dear Hindu and Muslim brothers
Today you again fought, killed one another
Destroyed a mosque, damaged a temple
World Citizens Call for the Unconditional Respect of the Right to Life, Liberty and Security of Person in Egypt
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2013
The Association of World Citizens is gravely concerned at the human rights violations committed by both the security and armed forces and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights clearly provides that “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person ». This right belongs to everyone, not just to people who think as we do. Democracy and the rule of law should never be a one-way flow.
→ read full articleWhy Are Myanmar’s Rohingya Officially and Popularly Referred to as “Bengali’, a Racist Slur in the Burmese Context?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2013
At the heart of Myanmar’s official and, sadly, popular use of the term ‘Bengali’ is a discursive strategy meant to to illegalize, alien-ize and de-tetorrialize the Rohingya one and the same time. This act is tantamount to the butcher of a verifiable and consequential truth.
→ read full articleYour Portal Into the World of Bitcoin
Weusecoins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2013
Questions & Answers about the Bitcoin Currency
→ read full articleHumanity Is Drowning in Washington’s Criminality
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2013
Americans will soon be locked into an unaccountable police state unless US Representatives and Senators find the courage to ask questions and to sanction the executive branch officials who break the law, violate the Constitution, withhold information from Congress, and give false information about their crimes against law, the Constitution, the American people and those in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Guantanamo, and elsewhere.
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What is Bitcoin?
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2013
This video is a short animated introduction to Bitcoin, made possible with donations from the Bitcoin community.
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Lacrimosa – Mozart’s Requiem (Music Video of the Week)
Moscow Boys' Choir – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2013
Choir school of boys and teenagers “Debut”. Moscow.
The Glinka State Academic Choir of St. Petersburg. Concert dedicated to the 66th anniversary of the lifting of the blockade of Leningrad.
The Rule of Law: Unjust and Violent
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2013
While diverse but eminent historical figures such as Karl Marx, Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas K. Gandhi all wrote critiques exposing the injustice and violence of legal systems, the delusion that the law is a neutral agency that delivers justice still widely prevails.
→ read full articleMarch 16, 1968
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2013
On the day the United States
killed itself
504 Vietnamese also died.
The My Lai peasants
died their deaths in ditches,
General and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 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/.
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‘Rampant Injustice Rules Saudi Arabia’ – Prince Defector
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2013
Aug 12, 2013 – Saudi Arabia, a major supporter of opposition forces in Syria, has increased crackdown on its own dissenters, with 30,000 activists reportedly in jail. In an exclusive interview to RT a Saudi prince defector explained what the monarchy fears most.
→ read full articleSynesthesia and the Poetry of Numbers: Autistic Savant Daniel Tammet on Literature, Math, and Empathy, by Way of Borges
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2013
Daniel Tammet was born with an unusual mind — he was diagnosed with autistic savant syndrome; his brain’s circuits made possible learning Icelandic in a single week and reciting the number pi to the 22,514th digit. He is also diagnosed with synesthesia — that curious crossing of the senses that causes one to “hear” colors, “smell” sounds, or perceive words and numbers in different hues, shapes, and textures.
→ read full articleGlobal Power Project, Part 9: Banking on Influence with Morgan Stanley
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2013
The bank that has committed a raft of fraud, illegal foreclosures, energy price fixings and food market speculations took in more than $107 billion of U.S. taxpayer funds in the bailouts. Too big to fail. Too big to jail. Too cancerous to care.
→ read full articleSri Lankan Buddhist Extremists Attack Muslim Mosque
W.A. Sunil, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2013
Sinhala extremists led by several Buddhist monks attacked a mosque in Colombo on Saturday [10 Aug 2013] during the evening prayers. According to local residents, more than 150 people came armed with wooden poles, stones and glass bottles.
→ read full articleSnowden’s Post-Asylum Relevance
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2013
The Snowden issues remain important, and it is too soon to turn aside as if the only question was whether the U.S. Government would in the end, through guile and muscle, gain control of Snowden.
→ read full articleBradley Manning’s Statement: A Forced “Confession” Concludes a Drumhead Tribunal
Eric London, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2013
Manning’s comments reflect the element of coercion in the entire proceedings. In all, the episode more closely resembled a Stalinist show trial than a democratic court of law. “First, your honor, I want to start off with an apology. I’m sorry that my actions hurt people, and I’m sorry that it hurt the United States. I understand what I was doing and the decision that I made. I’m sorry for the unintended consequences of my actions.”
→ read full articlePeace Talks: The Perfect Alibi for Settlement Expansion
Mairav Zonszein, +972 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2013
The disingenuous nature of Israeli actions and the nerve of U.S. passivity is at times hard to comprehend. How can anyone take any of it seriously?
→ read full articleInsight – After Disaster, the Deadliest Part of Japan’s Nuclear Clean-Up
Aaron Sheldrick and Antoni Slodkowski, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2013
The operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant is preparing to remove 400 tonnes of highly irradiated spent fuel, a dangerous operation that has never been attempted before on this scale. Containing radiation equivalent to 14,000 times the amount released in the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, more than 1,300 used fuel rods need to be removed from a building that is vulnerable to collapse.
→ read full articleLatin America: Class Struggle and Resistance in the Age of Extractive Capitalism
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
Class struggle is central in framing the issues of political rule, the relations of classes, the economic structures and strategies and the distribution of wealth.
→ read full articleCosta Rica Closes Zoos—Where Will the Animals Go?
Kip Patrick, National Geographic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
Influx of captive animals has wildlife-rescue centers strapped. “We are getting rid of the cages and reinforcing the idea of interacting with biodiversity in botanical parks in a natural way,” Environment Minister René Castro said. “We don’t want animals in captivity or enclosed in any way unless it is to rescue or save them.”
→ read full articleMy Vision for the Future Development of Sociology at the University
Pierre Celestin Bakunda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
Like any individual, I am sensitive as to how society defines and labels me. I am a black, heterosexual middle class male and I have a strong attachment to each of these personal descriptors. However as a social anthropologist, I am able to detach myself from these labels and look objectively at my function within a greater social structure.
→ read full articleGlobal Power Project, Part 8: Banking on Influence with Wells Fargo
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
For a mega-money laundering, drug war profiteering, prison-industry enlarging global bank like Wells Fargo, the evidence is obvious: it helps to have affiliations with individuals and institutions that make up the U.S. and increasingly the international power elite. Like the other big banks, Wells Fargo is too big to fail, too big to jail, too criminal to control — and too tumorous to tolerate.
→ read full articleHiroshima, Fukushima, and the Global Crisis of Violence: Where Do We Go from Here?
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
There are now 9 countries with nuclear weapons –the U.S., Russia, Great Britain, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea. Add to this the violence of climate change, the plundering of the earth resources, and even the genetic modification of our very food supply. All for what? Ever increasing short-term profits? Ever increasing consumption, energy demands? Addictions eventually kill. And greed and our addiction to war may prove to be the worst addictions of all.
→ read full article“Big Brother” Crying “Wolf”?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
But them “wolves” are a-changin’ — them’s becomin’ “werewolves”! In commentary on CNN (4 August 2013), in response to questioning, Robert Baer, a former CIA case officer, indicated that “They’re coming after us”. The challenge for the world would appear to be how to evaluate the claims for the credibility of such warnings — given the source and the potential strategic agendas.
→ read full articleCharles Bukowski’s “Friendly Advice to a Lot of Young Men,”
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
“The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.”
→ read full articleEthiopia: Rapid Development Destroys Lives
Graham Peebles – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
A term overflowing with contradictions, development is often employed to dignify corporate activities, which are commonly no more than exploitation and profiteering, as in the case of the worldwide appropriation of land, usually to irresponsible, profit-driven foreign corporations and private hedge funds and equity fund managers, who boast of returns between, 20% to 40% on investments.
→ read full articleHey man!
Mahdi Jalili – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
A fire doesn’t burn if it’s turned into ashes
Take a look at yourself, unfaithful!
You’re a horse with a broken leg
Why run?
Why race?
CIA Assassin Application
TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
After all of the background checks, interviews, and testing were done there were three finalists for the CIA assasin position — two men and one woman.
→ read full articleWhy No Revolution Exists in Syria
Shamus Cooke, Workers Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
This watered down definition of a revolution would qualify the U.S. Occupy Movement as a revolution, which of course it was not. A nation can be inhabited by entirely revolutionary-minded people, but there is no revolution unless people are massively asserting their power in the streets, workplaces, and neighborhoods. This is not the situation in Syria, where no revolution exists at this time.
→ read full articleFederal Judge Sentences Lynne Stewart to Death
Stephen Lendman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
On August 9 [2013], The New York Times headlined “Dying Lawyer’s Request for Release From Prison Is Turned Down,” saying: “A federal judge in Manhattan declined on Friday to order the release of Lynne F. Stewart, an outspoken former defense lawyer who is dying from cancer in a federal prison in Texas.”
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Amazing Grace (Music Video of the Week)
Il Divo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
Il Divo performing Amazing Grace at the magnificent Coliseum in Rome.
→ read full article120 Children Slaughtered in Syria’s Tal Abyad
Fars News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
Terrorists affiliated to the al-Nusra Front massacred 120 children and 330 men and women in Syria’s Northern district of Tal Abyad on Monday [5 Aug 2013]. As the foreign-backed insurgency in Syria continues without an end in sight, the US government has boosted its political and military support to Takfiri extremists. Washington has remained indifferent about warnings by Russia and other world powers about the consequences of arming militant groups.
→ read full articleWe Are All Connected: Hearing the Message of Indigenous Tribes
Deni Leonard, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
In the current United States, from the Indigenous point of view, it is as though a chief can have 99 buffalos for himself while he looks down at the community trying to live on one buffalo. This is a model for community or Tribal extinction.
→ read full articleLooking at My Fingers
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
In my room
I saw my fingers
That I have never thought of
General and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 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 articleObama’s Diplomatic Blunder, the Cowardice of Western Democracies and What Sweden Should Do
Board Members, The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research-TFF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
President Obama’s decision to cancel the meeting with Putin is yet another indicator of Washington’s intellectual weakness and the U.S. empire’s future dissolution. People like Assange, Manning and Snowden should be seen as heroes and treated with respect. Before the Swedish prime minister meets Obama he should announce that Sweden is willing to host Snowden.
→ read full articleEthiopia: Where is Religious Freedom Headed?
Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
The fear of an Ethiopian Spring has to be factored in the internal security matrix of a dictatorial regime such as Ethiopia’s, since the populist “spring” events in the MENA region have proven to be a potent means of removing dictatorships in North Africa. The lesson is powerful.
→ read full articleAnother Encrypted Internet Service Shutting Down after Lavabit
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
Shortly after the owner of Lavabit.com wrote that his nine-year-old encrypted email service was shutting down to avoid becoming “complicit in crimes against the American people,” Silent Circle said Thursday [8 Aug 2013] they’d be following suit. “We see the writing the wall, and we have decided that it is best for us to shut down Silent Mail now,” founder Jon Callas wrote in a blog post.
→ read full articleWhat Replaces the “Free Market” in a Sharing Economy?
John Spritzler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
The sharing economy as described in Thinking about Revolution is based on sharing, according to need, among those who contribute to the economy reasonably according to ability.
→ read full article(Português) Costa Rica Se Livra de Seus Zoos, Favorecendo a Consciência Ambiental Natural
ElephantVoices Brasil - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
A Costa Rica dá um grande passo com a decisão de transformar seus zoos em jardins botânicos e libertar seus animais. Depois de quase 95 anos, o governo decidiu colocar um fim à exibição de animais enjaulados em zoos.
→ read full articleGreenwald Tells Brazilian Authorities Up To 20,000 Snowden Documents Are in His Possession
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
Glenn Greenwald testified before a Brazilian Senate foreign relations committee on Tuesday [6 Aug 2013]. The Brazil-based American reporter – who was approached by Snowden while the whistleblower still worked as a contractor for the NSA – alleged that Brazilian companies have agreements in place with American telecoms to collect data for the NSA, and stressed that their complicity should be investigated by that country’s government.
→ read full articleWhat If a Russian Snowden?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
‘Political Crimes’ Are Non-Extraditable and Snowden’s Transfer to the United States for Prosecution Would Have Been a Setback for Human Rights and International Law
→ read full articleVows of ‘Occupation until Martyrdom’
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
Seven of Syria’s Thirteen Palestinian Camps Now Controlled by Salafi-Jihadists who are entering the country at an accelerating pace, according to Syrian, UNWRA and Palestinian officials as well as residents in the refugee camps here. For the now-estimated 7000 imported foreign fighters, Palestinian camps are seen as optimal locales for setting up bases across Syria.
→ read full articleAbe Sanctions Government Funding to “Freeze” Fukushima with Giant Ice Wall
Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
Ripped from the pages of Marvel Comics, Japanese Anime, or Game of Thrones; the cunning solution to the ongoing emergency in Fukushima. Now that TEPCO has been shown to be inept, Abe and his government have sanctioned the funding of a 1.4 Km wall of ice to surround the building that holds Reactors 1 to 4.
→ read full articleHawaiian Mind Games: American Psychological Association Fiddles While Psychology Burns
Roy Eidelson and Stephen Soldz, Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
More consequential will be the APA leadership’s latest victory in its long-running campaign: the stubborn obstruction of all efforts to meaningfully address the central role psychologists played in U.S. government torture and abuse of national security detainees.
→ read full articleFive Theses about Assange-Manning-Snowden
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
What Manning and Snowden revealed are the death throes of the US empire; what Assange et al. revealed are the death throes of the state system as we know it. Both processes will take time; the former less than the latter. But make no mistake: the three made history. Three names that will be remembered after some US presidents recede into an oblivion so well deserved.
→ read full articleTop Ten Ways Bradley Manning Changed the World
Juan Cole, Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
Whatever one thinks of Manning’s actions, that we deserved to know some of what he revealed and that his revelations changed the world are undeniable.
→ read full articleWhen Polarization Becomes Worse than Authoritarianism Defer Democracy
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
We may be living at a historical moment when democracy as the government of choice gives rise to horrifying spectacles of violence and abuse. These difficulties with the practice of democracy are indirectly, and with a heavy dose of irony, legitimizing moderate forms of authoritarian government.
→ read full articleDo We Want School or Education?
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
The tragic reality of human life is that few people value the awesome power of the individual Self with an integrated mind (that is, a mind in which memory, thoughts, feelings, sensing, conscience and other functions work together in an integrated way) because this individual will be decisive in choosing life-enhancing behavioural options (including those at variance with social laws and norms) and will fearlessly resist all efforts to control it or coerce it with violence.
→ read full articleThat Most Charming of Couples: Nationalism and Hypocrisy
William Blum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
It’s not easy being a flag-waving American nationalist. In addition to having to deal with the usual disillusion, anger, and scorn from around the world incited by Washington’s endless bombings and endless wars, the nationalist is assaulted by whistle blowers like Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, who have disclosed a steady stream of human-rights and civil-liberties scandals, atrocities, embarrassing lies, and embarrassing truths.
→ read full articleExtremely High Tritium Level Found in Water in Pit at Fukushima Plant
The Asahi Shimbun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said on July 28 [2013] that an extremely high level of radioactive tritium has been detected in a pit in the compound of its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. The level was 8.7 million becquerels per liter of water, which was 145 times that of the permissible level stipulated under the law.
→ read full articleThe Discredited Prime Minister’s Unloved Visit to Tamil Nadu மதிப்பிழந்த பிரதமரின் விரும்பத்தகாத தமிழக வருகை
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy அணுசக்திக்கு எதிரான மக்கள் இயக்கம் – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy protests against the visit of the Indian Prime Minister to Tamil Nadu on August 2, 2013 to open a multi-crore power plant. The PMANE joins millions and millions of Tamil people in opposing the discredited Prime Minister’s unloved visit to our State. We observe a Black Day on August 2 here at Idinthakarai.
→ read full articleCapital Insecurity in Myanmar
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
The emerging symbiosis between global capitalist forces and the security interests of Myanmar’s ruling military-crony class has not been sufficiently weighed by most Western scholars and other Myanmar watchers. Most have ignored the hard fact that ethnic and religious minorities, 40% of the country’s total population, are being further marginalized and disenfranchised, pushed from their traditional lands or otherwise decimated.
→ read full articleDarfur: A Decade of Agony
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
Spring 2013 marked a decade of violent conflict and agony in Darfur, Sudan. Although the conflict has faded from the headlines, it continues, producing many refugees, internally-displaced persons, unused farmland, and political unrest. It is a classic case of how violence gets out of control and goes beyond the aims for which it was first used.
→ read full articleIs There Never Enough?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
Religious Doublespeak on Population and Poverty – The wording of the title is deliberately ambiguous, inviting various interpretations. Alternatives might have been: There is Never Enough, or Is There Ever Enough? The concern is with the nature of the doublespeak in which religions seemingly engage in order to disguise the life-endangering policies they promote.
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Viva La Vida (Music Video of the Week)
Aston – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
Coldplay Original Composition – Simply delightful!
→ read full articleReviving the Israel-Palestine Negotiations: The Indyk Appointment
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
Appointing Martin Indyk as Special Envoy to the upcoming peace talks was to be expected. It was signaled in advance. And yet it is revealing and distressing.
→ read full articleGreen Light for City-Owned San Francisco Bank
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
Last year, Bank of America and other major banks were caught rigging debt service auctions, for which they had to pay $673 million in restitution. The question is: do taxpayers want to have their public monies in a bank that has been proven to be defrauding them? Compounding the risk is the reason Cyprus “bail in” shocker, in which depositor funds were confiscated to recapitalize two bankrupt Cypriot banks.
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