Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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New Whistleblower Organization Launched on Anniversary of Snowden Revelations
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Jun 4, 2014 – Former whistleblowers Radack, Wiebe, Coleman-Adebayo and Ellsberg speak out at the launch of ExposeFacts.org a US based independent media organization that encourages whistleblowers to expose government and corporate malfeasance.
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Busted Pilot Forgets to Turn Off CHEMTRAILS while Landing
TruthTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
A pilot of a commercial airliner made a mistake that PROVES the existence of CHEMTRAILS — by forgetting to turn them off before he landed! We have video of the plane landing while still spraying chemtrails as it hits the runway. See for yourself.
→ read full articleUSDA Reports Honeybee Death Rate Too High for Long-Term Survival
EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Honeybees in the U.S. are dying at a rate too high to ensure their long-term survival, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
→ read full articleDemocracy’s Crisis – 10 Points
Jan Oberg, TFF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Democracy requires a reasonable level of knowledge and information, freely available. The “world’s largest democracy” [India] also has the world’s largest population who can’t read and write (26%, 287 million people). In comparison, China illiterate citizens make up about 3% and is regularly called a dictatorship.
→ read full article(Castellano) Portugal, Un País Sin Abrigo
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
La mistificación consiste en hacer creer a alguien una mentira como si fuera verdad. La mentira es que el proceso de la troika terminó con éxito, que Portugal goza hoy de mejores condiciones para desarrollarse como país europeo.
→ read full article(Português) Flaskô, a Fábrica Brasileira Sob Controle Operário
Paloma Rodrigues, Carta Capital – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Quebrada por patrões, recuperada pelos trabalhadores, indústria reduziu jornada, estabeleceu democracia interna e criou centro cultural. Após onze anos, luta entra em nova fase.
→ read full articleNATO Troops and Bases Not Welcome In Slovakia and Czech Republic
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Two Eastern European nations, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, have refused to host foreign troops and military bases. The prime ministers of both countries have consecutively spoken against the proposal voiced by US President Barack Obama.
→ read full articleIsraelis Deny Palestinian Ministers-Elect West Bank Entry
Gulf News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
The Israeli occupation has denied three future Palestinian ministers from the Gaza Strip entry to the West Bank ahead of the unveiling of a new unity government, a senior source said on Sunday [1 Jun 2014].
→ read full articleObama’s Legacy: “Don’t Do Stupid Stuff”
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Cautioning against militarism at West Point President on May 22nd Obama in a speech mostly notable for its reassertion of what might be best understood as imperial nationalism of global scope declared the following:
→ read full articleWe Need the Dissolution of NATO – It Has No Mission”
Karina Boeckmann, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Subrata Ghoshroy, an engineer of Indian descent, describes how sophisticated weapon systems are being used as dominant instruments of U.S. foreign policy. He had worked in the field of high-energy laser before he turned defence analyst and whistleblower against faked ‘Star Wars’ missile defence tests by U.S. government contractors.
→ read full articleRich Getting Richer as the Poor Crawl Slowly Out of Poverty
Diana Cariboni, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Are we returning to the Middle Ages? Gaps in income and wealth are growing wider, including in places with well-established middle classes, like Europe or the United States.
→ read full articlePeace Movements’ Common Vision: The Abolition of Militarism
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
If our common dream is a world without weapons and militarism, why don’t we say so? Why be silent about it? It would make a world of difference if we refused to be ambivalent about the violence of militarism. We should no longer be scattered attempts to modify the military, each one of us would do our thing as part of a global effort. Across all divisions of national borders, religions, races. We must be an alternative, insisting on an end to militarism and violence.
→ read full articleU.S. Pledges Millions More in Aid to Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
The United States pledged millions of dollars in additional aid to Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia on Saturday [7 Jun 2014], deepening American support to the Western-leaning countries on Russia’s border.
→ read full articleRadical Cognitive Mirroring of Globalization
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Dynamically Inning the Unquestioningly Outed – There is no lack of references to the complexity of global society and to the challenges it faces — nor to the manner in which people experience an increasing sense of disempowerment and uncertainty. The question is whether it is possible to think otherwise about this experience — to reframe it more fruitfully in some way.
→ read full articleUK Referred to International Criminal Court for War Crimes in Iraq
Jean Shaoul, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
ICC prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, has accepted the complaint lodged in January [2014] alleging that UK military personnel committed war crimes against Iraqis in their custody between 2003 and 2008. She has ordered a preliminary investigation.
→ read full articleUS Supreme Court Rejects Appeal by New York Times Reporter James Risen
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
The US Supreme Court on Monday [2 Jun 2014] decided not to intervene in the case of James Risen, an author and reporter who is facing imprisonment for refusing to reveal the identity of one of his sources. He wrote a piece for the New York Times about the NSA’s compiling facial images of hundreds of millions of people in the US and around the world [published on TMS Spotlight today].
→ read full articleIsrael in Political Isolation over New Palestinian Government
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
The United States’ decision to “work with” the new Palestinian government has virtually isolated Israel: the only country so far to have publicly rejected the political alliance between Fatah and Hamas.
→ read full articleGood, Innovative Governance – What Is That?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Today China combines the best of marxism-communism, the focus on basic needs of the most needy, with the best of liberalism-capitalism, the innovative, entrepreneurial spirit. Lifting the bottom up indeed, maybe 400 million from 1991 to 2004, for participation in a blossoming market.
→ read full articleReclaiming the Kellogg-Briand Pact
James Page – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
This was a treaty signed in 1928 by most of the nations of the world and by which the signatory nations pledged to renounce war as an official instrument of national policy and to use peaceful means to resolve disputes. One of the interesting facts about this Treaty is that it is still current.
→ read full articleThe Heavens Declare: Astrological Ages and the Evolution of Consciousness
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
There are a number of currents of thought which hold that humanity is coming to the end of an historical cycle and has entered into a new age with the start of the new millennium. Alice Howell, influenced by the work of C.G. Jung and astrological analysis has written a useful guide to the start of the New Age.
→ read full articleProsecuting Syrians for War Crimes Now
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Is justice served when the authority of the ICC is invoked as a political instrument to influence the outcome of a civil war? Why was there never any initiative to pursue leaders of the United States and the United Kingdom during the course of the Iraq War, which also included many incidents that seemed to qualify as crimes against humanity? Double standards?
→ read full articleBeing a Vegetarian
Brown University Health Education – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Vegetarian foods are a major source of nutrition for most people in the world.
Vegetarians have lower rates of heart disease and some forms of cancer than non-vegetarians.
Vegetarian diets can be simple and easy to prepare.
Good Care
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Vice President Dick Cheney underwent surgery. When he woke up from his anesthesia, all shades were closed.
→ read full articleThe-O Ring and The Bull Ring as Spectacular Archetypes
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Dramatic Correlation of Theatre, Theory, Theorem, Theology, and Theosophy – The argument as a whole might be caricatured by an adaptation of the title of a famed study of psychotherapy: We’ve Had a 1000 Years of Theo — And the World’s Getting Worse.
→ read full articleThe Rise of the European Right: Reaction to the Neoliberal Right
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
The European parliamentary elections witnessed a major breakthrough for the right-wing parties throughout the region. The rise of the Right runs from the Nordic countries, the United Kingdom, the Baltic and Low countries, France, Central and Eastern Europe to the Mediterranean.
→ read full articleGreenwald: ‘I Wanted a Debate about Journalism’
Deutsche Welle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
In an exclusive interview with DW, Edward Snowden ally Glenn Greenwald says one central aim of breaking the NSA story was provoking a discussion about journalists’ tacit deference to government power.
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Clocks (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Cold Play & Buena Vista Social Club – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Cold Play & Buena Vista Social Club in Cuba
→ read full articleTo Grow or Not to Grow GMO Crops
Silvia Giannelli, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
So far, 129.000 hectares of land – roughly the area covered by a city the size of Rome – are being cultivated with genetically modified corn in Europe, 90 percent of which is in Spain, while the rest is spread across Portugal, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania.
→ read full articlePrepackaged Thought
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
No longer staid and antiquated,
my thinking now is automated.
Why dream up ideas by myself
when I can get them off the shelf?
[More pornography] Hedge Fund Managers Still Making Billions
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
David Tepper was the world’s highest earning hedge fund manager for the second year in a row, according to the Rich List. Tepper earned $3.5 billion in 2013, a major increase on his $2.2 billion take home income in 2012. Critics say that these sky-high salaries are a major cause of increasing poverty.
→ read full articleUS Deploys Special Forces to Train Military Units in North and West Africa
Eric London, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
The Obama administration is establishing new elite military units in Libya, Niger, Mauritania and Mali. Although the ostensible purpose of the program is to combat terrorism, the new detachments are being set up to aid US to gain control of natural resources and establish positions of strategic geopolitical importance on the continent.
→ read full articleChlorine in Your Chicken: Why Poultry Is More Dangerous Than Ever
Tracie McMillan, OnEarth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Whichever part of the bird she happened to be packing on a given shift, the smell was as constant as it was noxious: a combination of raw poultry and chlorine, the latter emanating from the pathogen-killing chemical bath that the carcasses—often contaminated with fecal matter—would receive during processing.
→ read full articleWeather Weapons Have Existed for over 15 Years, Testified U.S. Secretary of Defense
J. D. Heyes, Natural News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
“Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves. So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It’s real, and that’s the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that’s why this is so important.”
→ read full articleUkraine & Syria: Elections of Mass Destruction
Tony Cartalucci, NEO – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Elections pushed ahead in Ukraine, obstructed in Syria, so mass murder can continue. The West’s weaponization of democracy.
→ read full articleRead Snowden’s Comments on 9/11 That NBC Didn’t Broadcast
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Only around a quarter of the recent NBC News interview with former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden made it to broadcast, but unaired excerpts now online show that the network neglected to air critical statements about the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
→ read full articleMexico: 50 Peaceful Peace Policies
Johan Galtung & Fernando Montiel T., 2 Jun 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Toluca, Estado De México; Workshop on Drug Traffic and Violence
→ read full articleGreenpeace Blocks Two Major Oil Rigs to ‘Save the Arctic’
EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
In the early hours of Tuesday [27 May 2014] morning, Greenpeace activists from 12 countries blocked two separate oil rigs destined for offshore drilling in the Arctic Ocean.
→ read full articleIsrael to ‘Evict the Dead’ in Bedouin Village Demolished Over 60 Times
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Israel is trying out a new sort of “flexible evictions” in its quest to root out the “illegal” Bedouin village of Al-Araqib, demolished 63 times to date. Now even those buried in the village cemetery are reportedly receiving eviction orders.
→ read full articleThe Impossibility of Growth
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
The inescapable failure of a society built upon growth and its destruction of the Earth’s living systems are the overwhelming facts of our existence. We live obsessed with fame, fashion and the three dreary staples of middle class conversation: recipes, renovations and resorts. Anything but the topic that demands our attention.
→ read full articleThe Urgent Need for Renewable Energy
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
The Reason for Urgency – The scientific community is unanimous in telling us that if we do not rapidly switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy, there is a danger that global warming will pass a tipping point beyond which uncontrollable feedback loops will lead to drastically increased temperatures. At present, our corporate-controlled mass media refuse to touch the subject. So the battle will have to be fought in the alternative media.
→ read full articlePope Francis Visit to Palestine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Pope Francis’ visit to the Holy Land raises one overwhelming question: ‘what is the nature of religious power in our world of the 21st century?’ ‘Can it have transformative effects’?
→ read full article“Beacon of Freedom & American Exceptionalism?”
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
The U.S. has between 800-1000 military bases around the world in 150 countries. Since WWII: has used military force 120 times; has tried to overthrow governments of 50 countries and grossly interfered in the elections of 30 others; has bombed civilian populations in 30 countries including the use of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. (Source: www.uslaboragainstwar.org) And don’t forget the U.S. illegal overthrow and continuing illegal occupation of the Nation of Hawai’i.
→ read full articleWeaponized Agriculture – GMO Crops: Boon to Humanity or Reckless Science?
Tom Mysiewicz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
As founder and editor of the weekly biotechnology newsletter–BioEngineering News–I was the first journalist allowed to cover the groundbreaking Gordon Research Conference on Plant Genetic Engineering at U.C. Davis in the 1980s. Making foreign countries dependent on externally-supplied GMO seeds leaves them open to the worst sort of extortion and could lead to wars and global instability.
→ read full articleRespected and Protected… Syrians Working to Preserve Jewish Cultural Heritage
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
In Syria today there is much evidence to refute the claims, often politically motivated, that Jewish cultural heritage sites are being singled out for destruction by rabid anti-Semites. One example of this is the Eliyahu Hanabi Synagogue in the neighborhood of Jobar, on the outskirts of Damascus.
→ read full articleThe Greatest Commencement Addresses of All Time
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
The commencement address is the secular sermon of our time — a packet of timeless advice on life, dispensed by a podium-perched patronly or matronly shaman of wisdom to a congregation of eager young minds about to enter the so-called “real world.” But the genre’s finest specimens speak to all of us looking for some guidance on the path to the Good Life, transcending boundaries of age or occupation or life-stage.
→ read full articleSetting the Agenda for Global Peace: Conflict and Consensus Building
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Currently the UN and its Specialized Agencies are involved in a Beijing Plus 20 evaluation of the progress and setbacks in the status of women in advance of the 20th anniversary of the 1995 women’s conference held in Beijing. Much of the planning for the conference had been done by NGO representatives at the UN in Geneva. This book is a good reminder of the process.
→ read full articleChina Asks Banks to Remove US-Made Servers
Press TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
The Chinese government is asking domestic banks to remove their US-made IBM servers amid cyber-espionage concerns and replace them with a local brand.
→ read full articleTRANSCEND Peace University: Africa 2064 – A ‘Reciprocal Development & Basic Human Needs’ Approach
Mark Abdelsayed, et al – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Africa’s current development models tend to echo the priorities of colonialism, perpetuating structural inequalities that hinder development and exacerbate existing contradictions. To remedy this, development reciprocity and African-centred governance that promote franchise, representation and responsiveness to basic needs should be adopted.
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Fukushima – What the Media & Governments Are Not Telling YOU
Anonymous – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Jan 14, 2014 – Governments and mainstream media are covering up Fukushima’s radiation waves hitting the west coast of the U.S. As radiation levels spike and mutated wildlife washes ashore, government and media promote delusion.
→ read full articleInterview – Johan Galtung
Al McKay, E-International Relations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
In 1985, I was amazed by the US inability to learn from the Vietnam disaster about limits to military approaches to politics, and, looking for something deeper than rationality, came up with such Deep Culture concepts as DMA – the Dualism-Manicheism-Armageddon syndrome of archetypes. I am now also working on Deep Nature, a fascinating topic.
→ read full articlePeace Studies: Ten Basic Points
Johan Galtung, 26 May 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
Foreign Policy Studies, University of Malmö, Sweden – “Thanks for wanting a summary of key points in ‘Galtung Peace Studies’. I was just honored with a ‘Lifetime Award’ by world sociology, 60+ years; in short, time for summary with an author’s caveat: no substitute for reading books.
→ read full articleThe Illegality of NATO
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
In recent years, participation in NATO has made European countries accomplices in US efforts to achieve global hegemony by means of military force, in violation of international law, and especially in violation of the UN Charter, the Nuremberg Principles.
→ read full articleThe Social Cost of GMOs
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
When Purdue University plant pathologist and soil microbiologist Don Huber pointed out unintended consequences of GMOs, other scientists did not support him because their careers are dependent on research grants from agribusiness. Monsanto controls the research on its own products.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to Cecily McMillan
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
It is apparent that our strategy to remake society in accord with principles of justice and love must include recognition of the fact that the legal system is part of what must be removed. More sophisticated methods for dealing with conflict and violence – ranging from listening and needs-based processes to truth and reconciliation commissions as well as nonviolent action – have long existed.
→ read full article(Italiano) Norvegia 2050: un’immagine
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
Due importanti contraddizioni: fra l’essere al primo posto per gli indicatori di qualità della vita, eppure con una gran solitudine in aumento e non solo degli anziani; e inoltre fra avere un paese ma lasciare sempre più che altri facciano il lavoro. Come mai? Perché le reti d’interazione si dissolvono.
→ read full article(Sinhala-සිංහල) පශ්චාත් යුද සංහිඳියාවේ ව්යුහාත්මක කෘත්යවාදය සහ අනාගත සුසමාදර්ශය (Structural Functionalism of Post War Reconciliation and Future Paradigm)
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
In conflict theory, reconciliation can be considered as an entrance to achieve peace and also it is a long way of dedicative process. Johan Galtung, who is one of the pioneer researchers and intellectuals about conflict study and peace research, introduces 12 creative ways to ascertain reconciliation. ගැටුම් න්යායේ දී සංහිඳියාව යන්න සාමය අත් කර ගැනීමට ඇති පිවිසුම් දොරටුවක් ලෙස සැලකිය හැකි අතර එය දීර්ඝ කැපකිරීම් සහිත ක්රියාවලියක් වන්නේය. ගැටුම් අධ්යයනය හා සාමය පිළිබඳ පර්යේෂණ කරන්නා වූ ප්රමුක පෙළේ විද්වතෙකු වන්නා වූ යොහාන් ගල්තුන් විසින් සංහිඳියාවකට පැමිණිම සඳහා නිර්මාණාත්මක මාරග 12ක් පෙන්වා දෙමින් ගැටුම නිමාවට පත්කර ගතහැකි ආකාරය පෙන්වා දෙනු ඇත.
→ read full articleSyria: Back to Square One for Good-Faith Negotiations
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
I am not sure that anyone in Syria has an overall policy framework, but lacking face-to-face negotiations, we might see if graduated reciprocation might work.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Giornalismo di Pace indica la strada dalla Terra Santa al BDS
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
‘Stone Cold Justice’, come spesso fa un articolo di Giornalismo di Pace, termina con un punto interrogativo. Israele può essere forte in questo momento, osserva John, ma cosa succederà quando l’attuale giovane generazione di palestinesi – in molti casi brutalizzati e traumatizzati – diventeranno adulti?
→ read full articleCommon Questions on BDS & the Academic Boycott of Israel
Sydney Staff for BDS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
The call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions is a Palestinian-initiated response to Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territory, its siege of Gaza, and its systematic oppression of Palestinian citizens of Israel.
→ read full articleTransgenics Prosper Amidst Pragmatism and Collateral Damage
Fabiana Frayssinet, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta published a map that dubbed a large area of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay the “United Republic of Soy”. In this “republic” more than 46 million hectares of transgenic soy are sprayed with 600 million litres of the herbicide glyphosate and are largely responsible for the deforestation of 500,000 hectares a year in the past decade.
→ read full articleFrom Prophecy to Reality: Join the Consciousness Revolution
John Perkins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
Participating in the consciousness revolution can no longer be ignored as simply a nice, feel-good choice for those who might care enough or find it convenient. It is now imperative for all of us who share this tiny, fragile space station as our only home.
→ read full article(Italiano) TAP+TPP = “Tutti salvo la Cina” = Colpetto + Ribaltamento?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
Washington sta lavorando sodo per riconquistare l’egemonia mondiale sfuggente; supponendo nella tradizione anglo-americana che il n° 2 – quest’anno forse n° 1 economicamente – sia un nemico, invece di intensificare la cooperazione.
→ read full articleAlan Lightman on Our Yearning for Immortality and Why We Long for Permanence in a Universe of Constant Change
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
A heartening perspective on mortality by way of the physics of the cosmos and the poetics of the night-blooming cereus cactus.
→ read full articleKidnapped Girls Become Tools of U.S. Imperial Policy in Africa
Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
The “humanitarian” U.S. military occupation of Africa has been very successful, thus far. Imagine: the superpower that financed the genocide of six million in Congo, claims to be a defender of teenage girls and human rights on the continent.
→ read full articleThe-O ring: Theory, Theorem, Theology, Theosophy?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
A Playful Intercultural Quest for Fruitful Complementarity – Curiously the prefix “theo” is effectively central to one of the most divisive debates in the current global civilization, namely that between science and religion.
→ read full article[Grotesquely Pornographic] Sunday Times Rich List: “Astonishing Year” for Britain’s Most Wealthy
Jordan Shilton, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
The headline on May 18 [2014] was that the number of billionaires in Britain had surpassed 100 for the first time. With a total of 104 billionaires, Britain has witnessed the emergence of more than 20 new billionaires over the past year and has the highest concentration of billionaires of any country.
→ read full article(Português) Žižek: A contradição principal da nova ordem mundial
Slavoj Žižek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
Conhecer uma sociedade não é apenas saber suas regras explícitas. É também compreender como funciona sua aplicação: saber quando usar e quando violar as normas, saber quando recusar uma escolha oferecida e saber quando fingir que está se fazendo algo por livre escolha quando trata-se efetivamente de uma obrigação.
→ read full articleWorld Protests Monsanto Grip on Food Supply Chain
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
Activists on five continents around the globe, comprising of 52 nations, joined the March Against Monsanto on May 24. Peaceful family protests spoke out for the need to protect food supply, health, local farms and environment. Last year over 2 million people in 436 cities in 52 countries worldwide joined the March.
→ read full articleNonkilling Peace between East and West: A Plea
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
When will East and West be able to live in Nonkilling Peace?
When all conflicts and wars within or between them will cease.
Rise of Modi and Indian Politics
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
Modi will have a better tool in his hand to lift the nation from the morass of poverty and unemployment – two biggest internal challenges. With a strong determination, and by combining the visions of Patel, Shastri and Vajpayee, Modi will be able to trudge through difficult terrains while keeping his mission high. I wish Modi good luck!
→ read full articleMarching Against Monsanto Is Marching for Freedom and Democracy
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
I send greetings of solidarity for all the people gathered for the March against Monsanto [24 May 2014]. Marching against Monsanto is marching for freedom and democracy, for health and safety, for seed and biodiversity. People often ask me “Why Monsanto”?
→ read full articleFault Lines, The Sixties, The Culture Wars, and The Return of the Divine Feminine
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
The 1960s was the period when the shift to the New Age — the Age of Aquarius — became more obvious to many and manifested in social and political movements. The 1960s was one of the “Great Awakenings” — a period of enhanced social and spiritual concern and increased personal spiritual experience.
→ read full articleOn Citizenship in the 21st Century
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
Reading Robert Paehlke’s carefully crafted essay on global citizenship provides the occasion both for an appreciation of his approach and some doubts about its degree of responsiveness to the urgencies of the present or more specifically its adequacy in relation to the call for ‘transformative vision and praxis’ that lies at the heart of the ‘Great Transition Initiative.’
→ read full articleHuman Intelligence or Human Awareness?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
The Self-aware human being is intelligent because their mind is integrated. In contrast, an ‘intelligent’ individual who is unSelf-aware, because their mind is disintegrated, might engage in activities that are destructive of our species and the planet. I am sure that you can think of many examples.
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Hawking and the Growing Israel Boycott Movement
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
May 12, 2013 – Activists in Gaza consider renowned physicist Stephen Hawking’s decision to cancel his participation in an upcoming conference in Israel as part of an academic boycott “a huge victory for the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanction) movement”.
→ read full articleConcert Review: Anoushka Shankar at The Royal Festival Hall, London
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
The genre of Shankar’s music has roots in ancient Hindu philosophy and Indian culture, but her compositions, positioned in the twenty-first century world, astonishingly connect the inner microcosm of the individual to the expansive macrocosm of the universe.
→ read full articleThe Ukraine in Turmoil
Israel Shamir – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
It is not much fun to be in Kiev these days. The revolutionary excitement is over. The Maidan street revolt and the subsequent coup just reshuffled the same marked deck of cards, forever rotating in power. As Russia procrastinates, as the US doubles the risks, the world draws nearer to the nuclear abyss. Who will chicken out?
→ read full articleEurope: 1, Google: 0 – EU Court Ruling a Victory for Privacy
SPIEGEL – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
20 May 2014 – A ruling by the European Union’s highest court last week ordering Google to provide people with the right to be forgotten has generated fiercely divergent responses in the US and Europe. Germans are celebrating the decision, which buttresses privacy.
→ read full articleFree Speech and BDS Case: Applicants Wanting to Run!
Jake Lynch, Australians for BDS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
At the Australian Federal Court, four of the five applicants to have me found guilty of racial discrimination applied to pull out of the action. That would leave only Shurat HaDin, the right-wing Israeli law centre. But I still need your help in meeting my legal bills, which are well into six figures.
→ read full articleInternational Whaling Commission to Consider Imminent Extinction of Maui’s Dolphins
Independent News Media – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
In the past two years, the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission had issued urgent recommendations about the need to protect the dolphins’ from fishing nets. With less than 15 breeding females, Maui’s dolphins are amongst the rarest and most endangered mammals on earth.
→ read full articleIn Their Own Juice
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
According to press reports, President Barack Obama has decided to let Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas “stew in their own juice.” What does it mean for “both” to stew in their own juice?
→ read full articleBreak the Silence: A World War Is Beckoning – In Ukraine, the US Is Dragging Us Towards War with Russia
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Washington’s role in Ukraine, and its backing for the regime’s neo-Nazis, has huge implications for the rest of the world.
→ read full article(Português) Anistia Internacional: 80% dos brasileiros têm medo de tortura em prisão
Agência Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
A pesquisa entrevistou 21 mil pessoas de 21 países de todos os continentes e concluiu que o Brasil é o mais atingido por esse temor. A Anistia Internacional pede ainda a criação de mecanismos que facilitem a prevenção e a punição da tortura.
→ read full articleNorway 2050: An Image
Johan Galtung, 19 May 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Two major contradictions: between ranking as No. 1 on Quality of Life indicators, yet having a high and increasing loneliness and not only at old age; and between having a country but increasingly letting others do the work. How come? Because interaction nets dissolve. Extended families disappeared long time ago.
→ read full article(Italiano) “Va’ pensiero, storie ambulanti.” Collettivamente memoria 2014. Aosta 9 maggio 2014
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
“Va’ pensiero, storie ambulanti” è il racconto, lucido e struggente, di due aggressioni razziste avvenute a Milano e a Firenze e del tentativo di ricostruzione che ognuno degli aggrediti, sopravvissuti, sta tentando di agire su di sé, pur nella difficile convivenza con l’impossibilità di lavorare e con l’incertezza quotidiana, sempre presente, di rivivere, attraverso sguardi o gesti, il momento dell’aggressione.
→ read full articleWelcome Modi Sarkar…!!!
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
While forgetting and forgiving old scars
Let’s welcome from heart, Modi sarkar
Let’s give him a chance as a changed man
And help him to change the fate of nation
West Antarctic Glaciers in Irreversible Decline
NASA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
In that region, six glaciers hang in a precarious balance, partially supported by land, and partially floating in waters just offshore.
→ read full article(Castellano) “Europa en su encrucijada”
Francesc P. Baldo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Es cierto que nunca han sido fáciles las cosas para Europa, a quien ya en la mitología se le atribuían unos orígenes convulsos , abducida y ultrajada por Zeus. En su suelo, además, han tenido lugar miles de batallas, algunas decisivas para el futuro de la humanidad, y es posible que se esté librando ya la penúltima, sin que nos hayamos percatado aún de ello..
→ read full articleThe Fate of Animals: Genocide in Indonesian Zoo
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
What is happening in Surabaya is shocking by all standards. Here, massacres in the local zoo do not involve ‘just a few animals’, but half of their entire population. “Originally there were some 4,400 animals. Now there are only approximately 2,100 of them left…”
→ read full articleThe Wall Street Bonanza
Andre Damon, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
The vast redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top that has taken place since the 2008 crash is expressed in the colossal rise in stock prices, which have nearly tripled since March 2009.
→ read full articleThe End of Democracy as We Know It
Bernd Hamm – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Abstract: This paper starts with summarizing the major theoretical elements in the definition of a global ruling class. It then examines how neoconservatives in the US took power and used regime change to create chaos in other regions. A strategy of tension is used to press the population into conformity. But the real revolution is to what extent factual politics escape any attempt to democratic control. Three case studies show how far the Deep State already goes. Democracy is on the brink of survival.
→ read full articleUS Marines Deploy to Italy Due to Libya Threat: Official
Agence France-Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
The US military has moved a team of marines from Spain to southern Italy as a precautionary step in case the US embassy in Libya comes under threat, officials said Wednesday [14 May 2014].
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Hungarian Dance No. 5 (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Martynas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Virtuoso Martynas on Acordeon – Composition of Johannes Brahms – Martynas Levickis, 24, is one of the brightest young musicians from Lithuania. He has received over 30 prizes and awards.
→ read full articleWhat Does The US Government Want in Ukraine?
Ron Paul – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
We are broke. We cannot even afford to fix our own economy. Yet we want to run Ukraine? Does it really matter who Ukrainians elect to represent them?
→ read full articleChina Signs Mega East Africa Rail Deal
Agence France-Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
China on Sunday [11 May 2014] signed a deal to build a $3.8 billion rail link between Kenya’s Indian Ocean port of Mombasa and Nairobi, the first stage of a line that will eventually link Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan.
→ read full articleChaos in Libya: How the US-NATO War Destabilized North Africa and Now Threatens Europe
Timothy Alexander Guzman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Former Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has warned, “Libya is in danger of becoming an Al-Qaeda terror base for attacks targeting European countries from Italy to Britain, to France, to Spain, to Morocco, to everywhere. Weapons are everywhere, ammunition is everywhere.”
→ read full articleDear Salman
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Years ago I was invited to a UN conference on the Palestinian refugees in Paris.
→ read full articleThe Limits of US Military Power
Lawrence S. Wittner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Perhaps military enthusiasts in the United States and other nations should consider whether military power is a reliable source of influence in world affairs. After all, just because you possess a hammer doesn’t mean that every problem you face is a nail.
→ read full articleOur Duty to Future Generations
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Many traditional agricultural societies have an ethical code that requires them to preserve the fertility of the land for future generations. This recognition of a duty towards the distant future is in strong contrast to the shortsightedness of modern economists.
→ read full articleA Look at the European Court Ruling on Google
Toby Sterling, Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Questions and answers over the European Court ruling on Google and the ‘right to be forgotten.’
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