Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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(Italiano) La Turchia si Sta di Nuovo Bloccando?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
La Turchia ha fatto l’impossibile, passando quasi senza violenza da una dittatura militare laica a una democrazia civile a maggioranza sunnita. La Turchia si è sbloccata.
→ read full articleSensible Thinkers Think about Leaks
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
Satirical Strip – This Modern World
→ read full articleIs Naomi Wolf Working for the NSA?
Dave Lindorff, This Can’t Be Happening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
Just wondering…
I hate to do this, but I feel obligated to share, as the story unfolds, my creeping concern that the writer Naomi Wolf is not whom she purports to be, and that her motive in writing an article on her public Facebook page speculating about whether National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden might actually be still working for the NSA, could be to support the government’s effort to destroy him.
General and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 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 articleA Psychologist’s Guantanamo Nightmare
Roy J. Eidelson, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
The United States has indisputably tortured “war on terror” prisoners – and psychologists and other health professionals played critical roles in the systematic abuse.
→ read full articleWorld Introversion through Paracycling
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
Global Potential for Living Sustainably “Outside-Inside” – Produced on the occasion of the G8 Summit [2013] in Eniskillen (Ireland). The question meriting reflection is whether the courageous protests against the mindset of those who claim capacity to govern society could be set aside to enable exploration of other modalities.
→ read full article(A)tom and Kerry Show: It’s All Money, Stupid!
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
One of the top issues on Kerry’s agenda is to close the India-US nuclear deal on America’s own selfish imperial terms and conditions. They want nuclear business, profit and power to dominate the Indian market but will not offer any liability.
→ read full articleCollected Essays – John Scales Avery
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
This book contains a collection of essays, most of which were first published in Countercurrents and in Professor Johan Galtung’s Transcend Media Service Weekly Digest during 2012 and early 2013. The Editor of Countercurrents, Mr. Binu Mathew, and the Editor of TMS Weekly Digest, Mr. Antonio C.S. Rosa, were kind enough to accept all the articles that I sent to them, and so I wrote more and more.
→ read full articleRewilding Made Simple – An Animated Guide
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
Could the destruction of the natural world be reversed? Could our bare hills once more support a rich and thriving ecosystem, containing wolves, lynx, moose, bison, wolverines and boar? Does our wildlife still bear the marks of the great beasts that once roamed here? George Monbiot narrates an animation on the enchanting subject of rewilding.
→ read full articleHC Notice to Govt for Withdrawal of Cases against Anti-Nuclear Activists
The Hindu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
The Madras High Court on Tuesday [11 June 2013] ordered issue of notice to Tamil Nadu Government asking why steps were not taken to withdraw cases filed against anti-nuclear activists protesting against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project.
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Galtung-Overcoming the Taksim Square Conflict
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
11 June 2013 – Prof. Johan Galtung, in Turkey, presents an analysis and much info directed at peaceful/nonviolent solutions to the standoff in Istanbul.
→ read full article(Castellano) Se Estanca Turquia Nuevamente?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
Turquía hizo lo imposible: pasar casi sin violencia de una dictadura militar secular a una democracia civil mayoritariamente sunní. Turquía despegó. Sarkar y la circulación de las elites en el trabajo: las élites militares, luego los intelectuales religiosos, después las empresas, luego la gente común y una vez más los militares. Segundo ciclo. Los grandes negocios llaman a la puerta, como sucedió en la época de Thatcher y Reagan, en la revolución de mediados de 1980.
→ read full article(Português) Drogas, Equívocos e Soluções
Frei Betto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
O fenômeno das drogas atinge todos nós. Não há exceção. Ainda que você não tenha um dependente químico na família, o perigo reside no assalto. Portugal ensinou muito ao Brasil: o idioma, o prazer do queijo, a religiosidade cristã, a arte sacra, o gosto pela literatura, etc. É hora de aprendermos também com Portugal como lidar com as drogas. Lisboa é a capital europeia com menor índice de homicídios.
→ read full articleOver 6,000 Foreign Militants Killed in Syria
Shafaqna – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
More than 6,000 foreign militants have been killed in Syria, among them at least 630 from the terrorist Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO). According to the Lebanese Al Manar TV, citing reliable reports from European research centers, more than 40,000 foreign militants are fighting in a massive insurgency in Syria that has torn the country apart for more than two years.
→ read full articleText of White House Statement on Chemical Weapons in Syria
The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
Following is the statement issued by the White House in the name of Benjamin J. Rhodes, deputy national security adviser.
→ read full articleColombia Worries as Troops Join Arab Mercenary Force
UPI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
7 June 2013 – Colombia’s defense ministry is alarmed about an exodus of top soldiers to the United Arab Emirates to join a highly paid U.S.-led mercenary force organized by Erik Prince, billionaire founder of the infamous security firm Blackwater.
→ read full articleThe Arrogance of Power
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
According to testimony given by CIA insider Susan Lindauer, the CIA knew about the planned attack on the World Trade Center as early as April, 2001. According to Lindauer, it was realized that airplanes striking the buildings would not cause their collapse, and so the disaster was deliberately made worse than it otherwise would have been by US government agents, who planted charges of explosives.
→ read full articleIsraeli Death Merchants and Palestinian Guinea Pigs
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
“The Lab” is a new groundbreaking Israeli documentary film that redefines our entire understanding of the Jewish State, its aims, its identity and its global destructive role. I honestly believe that this film is the deepest and most important commentary on Israel.
→ read full articleAfrica’s Worst Drought Tied to West’s Pollution
Becky Oskin, LiveScience – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
The biggest drought to hit the planet in the 20th century, the Sahel drought sucked Central Africa dry from the 1970s to the 1990s. The severe famines that resulted killed hundreds of thousands of people during this period. A new study blames the dry spell on pollution in the Northern Hemisphere, primarily from America and Europe.
→ read full article(Português) Congresso do Equador Aprova Novo Marco Regulatório da Mídia
Página 12 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
Nova lei, entre outras coisas, proíbe a concentração de frequências de rádio e televisão e garante uma distribuição equitativa de frequências: 33% privadas, 33% públicas e 34% comunitárias.
→ read full articleU.N. Chief Opposes U.S. Military Support for Syrian “Rebels”
Eyder Peralta, NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday [14 June 2013] that he opposes the U.S. decision to provide Syrian rebels with military support. “The United Nations, and in particular I, have been making it consistently clear that providing arms to either side would not address this current situation. There is no such military solution.”
→ read full articleGreek Solidarity with Struggling Turks
Vasilis Migkos, Peace Is Sexy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
An update on the Greek reaction to the Turkish upheaval, describing how these traditional rivals are now supporting each other.
→ read full articleWashington and the Breakdown of the Colombia-Venezuela-FARC Peace Process
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
Washington has devised a dual strategy toward Latin America. This involves a new set of ambitious imperial initiatives designed to undermine the principal anti-imperialist governments (Venezuela), social movements and armed insurgency (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), while dismantling Latin America-centered integration and regional alliances, such as ALBA, Petro-Caribe, UNASUR and MERCOSUR.
→ read full articleRapprochement of Cultures and Creative Education
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the Decade 2013-2022 as the International Decade for the Rapprochement of Cultures building on the efforts in the UNESCO General Conference which had called for “the development of a universal global consciousness.”
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to the Mediahouses in India!
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
There has not been one single editorial in any Indian newspaper or an informed debate on any TV debate on the repeated postponement of the KKNPP commission since 2005. Don’t the people of India need to know the reasons behind this constant postponement and continued ducking and dodging by the prime minister, central ministers, chief minister, and nuclear officials?
→ read full articlePretext for a New War: Obama Lies About Syrian Chemical Weapons
Peter Symonds, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
In a statement issued Thursday [13 June 2013], the Obama administration has declared that the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad has violated “international norms” by using chemical weapons on multiple occasions over the past year. The claim is a transparent lie that will be used by the US and its European allies, Britain and France, as the pretext for arming their right-wing Islamist terrorist proxies and for military intervention.
→ read full articleParque Johan Galtung in Spain
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
PRESS RELEASE 15 June 2013 – Today Alfaz Mayor Vicente Arques unveiled a monument by the famous Basque sculptor Agustin Ibarrola in memory of the victims of the Oslo and Utoya terrorist attacks. The monument is located in a park named in honor of a long time Alfaz resident, Prof. Johan Galtung, Norwegian by birth and known as ‘the father of peace studies.’
→ read full articleNicaragua Approves China-Backed Atlantic-To-Pacific Canal
Don Knowland, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
The Nicaraguan National Assembly enacted legislation June 13[2013] granting a 50-year concession to a Hong Kong company to plan and build a trans-isthmian shipping channel from the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean Sea that would rival the Panama Canal.
→ read full articleThe New Young Turks
Norman Finkelstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
The Taksim rebellion is his biggest challenge so far. If he can swallow his pride and make real amends, Mr Erdogan could yet repair much of the damage. But polarising the country is in his nature. If that continues, a decade of economic and political stability under the AK party may yet come to a pitiful or even tragic end.
→ read full articleThank NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
Please sign a thank-you note that will be delivered to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
→ read full articleSunni Clerics Call for Jihad against Syria’s Assad, Allies
Reuters, Newsmax – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
Concluding a conference in Cairo at which more than 70 Sunni scholarly organizations were represented, a leading Egyptian preacher issued a call to holy war on Thursday [13 June 2013] against the Damascus government and its Shi’ite allies. He urged the faithful to send money and arms to Syria and pursue “all forms of jihad.”
→ read full articleWhy Obama is Declaring War on Syria
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
“The Syrian army’s victory at al-Qusayr was more than the [Obama] administration could accept given that town’s strategic position in the region. Its capture by the Assad forces has essentially added Syria to Iran’s list of victories starting with Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq, as well as its growing influence in the Gulf.”
→ read full articleIt Won’t Be Easy, But Here’s How You Can Keep All Your Conversations Private
Roberto Baldwin, Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
So how do you communicate without the whole world finding out that you’ve visited the doctor 12 times in the past six months for a mysterious rash? Well it’s not easy, but there are ways to keep your correspondence off the grid.
→ read full articleBetrayed
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
Boyish Soviet soldiers believed
they were being sent to Afghanistan
to build hospitals and plant trees.
Jeremy Scahill Deserves Academy Award, Pulitzer
Tom Hayden – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
After watching Jeremy Scahill’s film, Dirty Wars, and reading his book of the same name, my considered opinion is that he should be nominated for an Academy Award and considered for a Pulitzer Prize. Scahill joins Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzales and MIchael Moore in achieving the successful rise of the alternative media to mainstream impact in the past decade.
→ read full article1,455,590 Iraqis Killed by US War and Occupation
Just Foreign Policy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
The number is shocking and sobering. It is at least 10 times greater than most estimates cited in the US media, yet it is based on a scientific study of violent Iraqi deaths caused by the U.S.-led invasion of March 2003.
→ read full articleThe Whistleblower’s Guide to the Orwellian Galaxy: How to Leak to the Press
Nicholas Weaver, Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this article ran in Wired Opinion last month (“Hear Ye, Future Deep Throats: This Is How to Leak to the Press”). It has been updated given recent events and reflects the author’s new findings about government recording of mail.
→ read full articleUS-Backed “Rebels” Carry Out Sectarian Massacre in Syria
Bill Van Auken, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
At least 60 people, including women, children and the elderly, were killed in a massacre of Shia Muslims by US-backed “rebels” in eastern Syria Tuesday [11 June 2013]. The slaughter in the village of Hatlah was reported by both the Syrian government and by a London-based human rights group that supports the Western-backed terrorist militias trying to overthrow the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
→ read full articleGuide to Your Metadata
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
Below, explore some of the data collected through activities you do every day. What you can tell using metadata – A case study of the Petraeus scandal.
→ read full articleIsrael Moving Ahead with 1,000 New Settler Homes
Tia Goldenberg, Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
Israel is moving forward with plans to build more than 1,000 homes in two small isolated Jewish settlements deep in the West Bank, a spokesman said Thursday [13 June 2013], as Palestinian officials complained that Israel is undercutting U.S. peace efforts at a sensitive time. The announcement drew swift U.S. condemnation.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 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 articleWhat is the Government’s Agenda?
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
Germans in the Third Reich and Soviet citizens in the Stalin era had a better idea of their government’s agendas than do “freedom and democracy” Americans today. The American people are the most uninformed people in modern history.
→ read full articleWATCH: John Oliver Hosts the Daily Show for the First Time
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
“With the NSA scandal the Amish must feel really smart right now.”
Hilarious!
My Creeping Concern That the NSA Leaker Is Not Who He Purports To Be…
Naomi Wolf – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
I hate to do this but I feel obligated to share, as the story unfolds, my creeping concern that the NSA leaker is not who he purports to be, and that the motivations involved in the story may be more complex than they appear to be.
→ read full articleGMO and Monsanto: Glyphosate Weed Killer Found in Human Urine across Europe
Friends of the Earth Europe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
People in 18 countries across Europe have been found to have traces of the weed killer glyphosate in their urine, show the results of tests commissioned by Friends of the Earth Europe and released today [13 June 2013].
→ read full articleNONKILLING: A New Force for a Peaceful World
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
Rhymed Reflections
→ read full articleGaza: 7th Year of Unlawful Blockade (UN HRC SR Press Release)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
I am posting a press release of yesterday, 14 June 2013, to take note of the start of the seventh year of the Israeli blockade. After the Mavi Marmara incident, 31 May 2010 and the more recent November ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Gaza government there was an undertaking to ease the blockade with respect to the flow back and forth of people and goods, but the situation remains desperate for the civilian population of Gaza.
→ read full articleSpecial Rapporteur’s Report on Occupied Palestine, 10 June 2013
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
What follows below is the text of the report presented on 10 June 2013 to the Human Rights Council. It offers an overview of the situation from the perspective of human rights and international humanitarian law in occupied Palestine. Both Israel and the United States boycotted the session, presumably to express their displeasure with the report and my role as Special Rapporteur.
→ read full articleIndependent UN Panel Calls for Diplomatic Surge to End ‘Daily Reality’ of War Crimes in Syria
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
4 June 2013 – With Syria engulfed in an escalating and increasingly brutal civil war, a panel of United Nations human rights experts today issued its latest report on the crisis, detailing war crimes it says were committed by both the Syrian Government and opposition forces, and calling for a “diplomatic surge” to end the violence.
→ read full articleThe Path to Peace in Syria
Mother Agnes-Mariam of the Cross – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Response to the UNHRC Report, “Independent UN Panel Calls for Diplomatic Surge to End ‘Daily Reality’ of War Crimes in Syria” – I want first of all to thank Mrs. Navi Pilay, High Commissioner for Human Rights for her valuable presence in this side event. We are sure that this path for peace is first of all interior, between Syrians and Syrians. To stop the foreign interference, to stop fuelling weapons and fighters, to stop the chain of hatred and radicalization is the path.
→ read full article1,000 US Troops Arrive in Jordan for Deployment at Syria Border
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
The Israeli military intelligence website DEBKAfile has reported that 1,000 U.S troops from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Force arrived at the southern Jordanian port of Aqaba on Tuesday [4 June 2013] and made their way to the north of the country under heavy Jordanian military escort.
→ read full article(Português) FMI Assume Ter Subestimado os “Estragos” Causados pela Austeridade na Grécia
Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Políticas austeritárias acabaram por conduzir a Grécia a uma recessão sem fim à vista, reconhece o Fundo Monetário Internacional num documento citado pelo The Wall Street Journal. O organismo liderado por Christine Lagarde admite ainda que a dívida grega não era sustentável.
→ read full articleSyria: UN Report Reveals Opposition Crimes
Johannes Stern, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
A UN report presented yesterday [4 June 2013] by the International Commission of Inquiry on Syria in Geneva represents a devastating indictment of the United States and Europe and their regional allies, who have fueled a sectarian-based civil war in Syria for more than two years to topple the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
→ read full articleWhose ‘Two State’ Solution? End Game or Intermission?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
In pondering this dismal landscape of peace talk without peace, one wonders what became of ‘the roadmap’ and ‘the Quartet.’ It may be a small blessing that their irrelevance is being tacitly acknowledged. These creations never seemed more than a thin and deceitful veil thrown over a one sided American control over Israel/Palestine diplomacy.
→ read full articleIs It a Mosquito? No, It Is a Drone!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
This device can be controlled from a great distance and is equipped with a camera and microphone; it can land on you and is equipped with a needle capable of retrieving a DNA sample with the pain of a mosquito bite. It’s also capable of injecting a micro radio frequency identification tracking device under your skin, lethal viruses, etc.
→ read full articleEspionage, Blackmail and Oil—Australian Neo-Colonialism in East Timor
Patrick O’Connor, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
New revelations of illegal Australian government espionage operations during negotiations for the carve up of the oil- and gas-rich Timor Sea have laid bare the neo-colonial character of Canberra’s relations with East Timor.
→ read full articleNichts Neues Im Westen
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Back in 1928 Erich Maria Remarque
confronted us with the image
of the beheaded soldier
still running,
(Italiano) Le Americhe: Colombia e USA
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Alcuni anni fa i due paesi erano i leader in ansia mentale nelle Americhe. Ne avevano entrambi buone ragioni: la violenza più persistente in qualunque paese contemporaneo; in Colombia dal 1949 con qualche interruzione, poi di nuovo dal 1964 con le FARC, le famose formazioni guerrigliere. E per gli USA la convinzione che il Male sia dietro ogni angolo, nazionale e globale; meglio avere le armi per trattare a modo quei brutti ceffi.
→ read full articleHow A London Court Repudiated Zionist Abuse of the Anti-Semitism Charge
Mike Marqusee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Taunting and tainting opponents with the charge of anti-semitism is a long-standing Zionist ploy, familiar to everyone involved in the Israel-Palestine issue. As their support weakens in the face of evidence-based argument, Israel’s advocates have stepped up their use of the accusation as a means to close down debate, particularly on proposals for boycott, divestment and sanctions.
→ read full article8 June: International Day of the Oceans
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
8 June has been designated by the United Nations General Assembly as the International Day of the Oceans to highlight the important role that the United Nations has played in creating the Law of the Sea and the World Court in facilitating adjudication of maritime delimitations.
→ read full articleSwaziland: Witches Banned From Flying Over 150 Meters
Cora Van Olson, Trutv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
The Civil Aviation Authority’s Marketing and Corporate Affairs Director, Sabelo Dlamini, confirmed the new flight limitations for South Africa’s Times Live, “A witch on a broomstick should not fly above the [150-metre] limit.” Any witches caught violating the altitude limit will be subjected to a fine of R500, 000, about $53,000.
→ read full articleLarge US Force Arrives in Jordan for Deployment at Syria Border amid Syria’s Qusayr Victory
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
The Israeli military intelligence website DEBKAfile has reported that 1,000 U.S troops from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Force arrived at the southern Jordanian port of Aqaba on Tuesday [4 June 2013] and made their way to the north of the country under heavy Jordanian military escort.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Greatest Affliction: The Presstitute Media
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
When Gerald Celente branded the American media “presstitutes,” he got it right. The US print and TV media (and NPR) whore for Washington and the corporations. Reporting the real news is their last concern. The presstitutes are a Ministry of Propaganda and Coverup. This is true of the entire Western media, a collection of bought-and-paid-for whores.
→ read full articleSyria’s Fake Sectarian War
Shamus Cooke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Pro-Jihad religious leaders of Qatar and Saudi Arabia are taking a giant gamble in their recent anti-Hezbollah proclamations, and risk triggering political instability in their own already-shaky regimes, which are hugely dependent on the religious leaders for support.
→ read full articleHere’s How We Built a Movie Theater for the People – And Why the MPAA Says It’s #1 in the World
Michael Moore – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Listed as #1 is the historic State Theatre of Traverse City, Michigan, an incredible movie palace which I restored and now run as a nonprofit theater – along with a few hundred great volunteers!
→ read full articleRefusing to Accept Sexism
Socialist Worker, editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Several articles at CounterPunch criticized Angelina Jolie for her decision to publicize undergoing a double mastectomy. Here, activists and scholars register their disappointment for sexist language and belittling attitudes. The title of Ruth Fowler’s first article, “Angelia Jolie: On Privilege, Tits, and Being Dumb,” reduces Jolie to a pair of “tits,” what we expect a typical male undergraduate student to say when first introduced to the notion of women’s objectification. CounterPunch also uses titles with ‘dick,’ ‘penis,’ and ‘cock’ in them.”
→ read full articleVigorous Application of Derivative Thinking to Derivative Problems
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Transcending Bewailing, Hand-Wringing and Emotional Blackmail – As many remark, the global situation is in a mess — whether in terms of environment, resources, social services, finances, employment, housing, or conflicts. Of greater concern, however, is the extent to which the response to this mess is itself in a mess.
→ read full articleThe Race to End Violence before We End Life
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Can we take meaningful action to prevent our own extinction without ending human violence first? If you think it is time to end violence before we end life, you can join this movement. You can read and, if you wish, sign the pledge of ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ online at http://thepeoplesnonviolencecharter.wordpress.com/
→ read full articleKaulana Na Pua – (Hawai’ian Music Video of the Week)
ProjectKULEANA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
KULEANA – Written by Ellen Keho’ohiwoakalani Wright Pendergast in 1893. This was a mele of opposition to the annexation of Hawai’i to the United States.
→ read full articleWorld Nuclear Forces—Reductions and Modernization Continue
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
3 June 2013 – At the start of 2013 eight states—the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan and Israel—possessed approximately 4400 operational nuclear weapons. Nearly 2000 of these are kept in a state of high operational alert. If all nuclear warheads are counted, these states together possess a total of approximately 17 265 nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleDiscovery of Monsanto GMO Wheat Threatens US Exports
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
The discovery of a Monsanto-created, genetically modified strain of wheat in the US that was never approved by the United States Department of Agriculture has imperiled US exports of a staple world food commodity.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 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 articleSaudi Prince Sues Forbes after It Says He’s ‘Only’ Worth $20 Billion
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has sued Forbes for libel alleging its valuation of his wealth was short of the mark by $9.6 billion, The Guardian reported on Friday [7 June 2013]. He owns large stakes in Citigroup, News Corp and Apple Inc among others, and is also owner or part-owner of luxury hotels including the Plaza in New York, the Savoy in London and the George V in Paris.
→ read full articlePalestinian Plight Hits UEFA Spotlight
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Desmond Tutu, the leading South African anti-apartheid campaigner and Nobel peace laureate, in a letter to The Guardian argued along with other prominent human rights activists that UEFA was acting to “whitewash” Israeli racism. “We find it shocking that [UEFA] shows total insensitivity to the blatant and entrenched discrimination inflicted on Palestinian sportsmen and women by Israel,” they wrote.
→ read full articleStudent Science Experiment Finds Plants Won’t Grow Near Wi-Fi Router
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
The results were blatantly obvious — the cress seeds placed near the radiation emitter Wi-Fi router had not grown. Many of them were completely dead. While the cress seeds planted in the other room, away from the routers, thrived. The experiment earned the girls top honors in a regional science competition and the interest of scientists around the world.
→ read full articleUS And Israel Lobby Reel from Hezbollah Al-Qusayr Victory
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Plenty of adjectives and some clichés are being bandied about from Washington to Beirut to describe the al-Qusayr battle results and significance. Among them are game-changer, mother of all battles, a new regime approach to fighting, altered balance of power, critical turning point in the civil war, and so on. Perhaps less appreciated here in Beirut are al-Qusayr’s effects on the Zionist occupiers of Palestine and their currently traumatized US lobby.
→ read full article(Português) Alysson Mascaro: Uma Crítica Social do Estado
Carta Maior – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
O jurista e professor da USP e do Mackenzie Alysson Mascaro fala à TV Carta Maior e ressalta o caráter revolucionário de uma efetiva crítica social do Estado. Ele acaba de lançar o livro ‘Estado e Forma Política’, apontado por Slavoj Žižek como ‘a obra mais importante do pensamento político marxista nas últimas décadas’.
→ read full articleTears in Taksim Square
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
For the protesters of Taksim square.
→ read full articleAnonymous Just Leaked a Trove of NSA Documents
Chris Mills, Gizmodo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
One of the key things Anonymous has highlighted from the documents is the existence of an “intelligence-sharing network” that shares data gleaned from PRISM with “intelligence partners” around the world.
→ read full articleDead Wrong: How Psychiatric Drugs Can Kill Your Child
Citizens Commission on Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Behind the grim statistics of deaths, suicides, birth defects and serious adverse reactions is the human face of this global drugging epidemic—the personal stories of loss and courage of those who paid the real price. Psychiatrists claim their drugs are safe for children?
→ read full articleDaughter of Mossad Chief: I Refuse to Enlist in the Israeli Military
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
First Prison Sentence: 22 Sep-10 Oct, 2008 (18 days)
Second Prison Sentence: 12-24 Oct, 2008 (10 days)
Omer Goldman, has had to confront the values of her own family. She is the daughter of the former deputy head of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service and who is still considered one of the most powerful men in the Israeli security system.
Syria – Israel Is Losing the Battle
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Sadly enough, it isn’t The Guardian or The New York Times that is there to reveal the latest development in Syria and expose Israeli lethal miscalculations. It is actually a ‘Zionist’ Israeli patriotic outlet that is providing the good.
→ read full article(Italiano) Esercitazioni di Guerra nell’Isola dei Droni
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Pericolo droni anche per l’aeroporto di Comiso (Ragusa), l’ex base missilistica nucleare Nato riconvertita in scalo passeggeri ma non ancora entrato in funzione. Ancora peggio per l’aeroporto di Catania-Fontanarossa, il terzo più grande in Italia come volume-passeggeri. Qui le “restrizioni” e i “ritardi” generati dai droni sono sempre più pesanti e frequenti.
→ read full articleHow Nuts is This?
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is preparing to issue a “License” for military bombing of radiation contaminated bases in Hawaii and elsewhere. The major public health danger of DU radiation is inhalation of small alpha particles. Hawaii retired Army MD and MPH Dr. Lorrin W. Pang said “alpha particle emitters within your body is the most deadly form of radiation of all. It will mutate your DNA more than any other type of radiation.” DU has been linked to a wide range of health problems, including certain cancers.
→ read full articleWar Dialogue
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
3 June 2013 – In the last two weeks there have been articles on Syria, first by TRANSCEND Media Service editor Antonio C. S. Rosa and then by Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire. Both excellent articles, where we learnt a lot about the suffering of millions of Syrians. However, I’d just like add one detail: “Weapons and Money have No Political Colour.” This means mixing the subject of War and Peace with Right or Left politics, is an utter waste of time.
→ read full articleShould Memorial Day Include Commemoration of Thoreau?
Juan Cole, Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Thoreau was saying that in times of an unjust law and an unjust war, honorable persons will likely be in jail. Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” went on to influence Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King (which is how we got the Civil Rights movement and an end to Jim Crow segregation.)
→ read full article(Italiano) La Domanda di Yara
Marinella Correggia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Ma non avrei notato Yara – che non avevo mai visto prima – se non fosse stato per una sua domanda, forse era retorica o forse un po’ provocatoria. Aveva alzato la mano e aveva chiesto: “Arrivano diverse delegazioni internazionali, qui. Ma mi pare che al ritorno nei vostri paesi, a livello di informazione sulla Siria non cambi nulla. Come mai secondo voi?”.
→ read full articleTop 1% Now Controls 39% of World’s Wealth
Robert Frank, CNBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
The world’s total private wealth grew 7.8 percent last year to $135 trillion, according to Global Wealth report. The top 1 percent controls $52.8 trillion, and those worth $5 million or more control nearly a quarter of the world’s wealth. That concentration is likely to increase in the coming years as the wealth of the wealthy grows faster than overall global wealth.
→ read full articleBeyond Militarism and War toward a Nonviolent World
Mairead Maguire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Many acknowledge the corporate media military industrial complex is now so much in control that it seems a colossal task to try to change it; but try we must if there is to be a future for our children. We are becoming more enlightened; as we abolished slavery so too we can abolish armies and base our human security not on force, or threat of force, but on compassion, human rights and international law.
→ read full articleLaw and Order vs. Lore and Orders
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Imagining Otherwise the Forceful Engagement of Singularity with Plurality – Produced in a period when the forces of the international community are complicit in bloody fantasies in Syria.
→ read full articleMaking Sense of Syria
Father Dave Smith – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
So the world’s power-brokers play their games (and I hear on the news tonight that both Britain and France are now champing at the bit to pour more ammunition into the fray) while the Syrian people pay the price with their blood. The big oil and arms manufacturers are (quite literally) making a killing in Syria. It is entirely demonic! We don’t see this side of the story, of course. Indeed, we don’t see much of the story at all in this country. It seems that all ‘Western’ media have been extracted from Damascus (with the curious exception of CNN)!
→ read full articleResponding to the Syrian Challenge
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
My essential argument is that until the parties engaged in hostilities on both sides recognize their inability to achieve a political victory by way of the battlefield, and external actors acquiesce in this recognition, there can only take place an unproductive and wrongheaded coercive diplomacy of partisanship, supporting the claims of the anti-Assad side.
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Ave Maria (Music Video of the Week)
Joshua Bell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Often referred to as the “poet of the violin,” Joshua Bell is one of the world’s most celebrated violinists. He continues to enchant audiences with his breathtaking virtuosity, tone of sheer beauty, and charismatic stage presence.
→ read full articleRival Honduras Gangs Declare Truce
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Two of the most violent gangs apologise for their crimes and seek talks with the government on rehabilitation and jobs under a church-brokered drive to stem a tide of violence that has turned Honduras into the world’s most murderous country.
→ read full articleMyanmar: Sectarian Strife and Universal Compassion
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
The current tensions with the Muslim community are an important challenge. Will Buddhist groups within Myanmar and its neighbours be able to respond creatively to this wave of violence?
→ read full articleYara Abbas – In Her Own Words
Sharmine Narwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
“I went with the army and knocked at the door of one woman. She started to cry – please take me out of here. They removed her and took her to her brother’s home. The militias make holes in the walls of homes to go from building to building to avoid being out in the open. Seventy percent of the destruction there is from militias. I saw 12 big bombs and 35 small ones in a home they had taken over.”
→ read full articleNoam Chomsky — ‘Everyday Anarchist’
Michael S. Wilson, Modern Success – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
The Modern Success Interview – If workers are more insecure, they won’t do things, like asking for better wages and better benefits. And that’s healthy for the economy from a certain point of view, a point of view that says workers ought to be oppressed and controlled, and that wealth ought to be concentrated in a very few pockets.
→ read full articleColombia, FARC Rebels Reach Agreement on Agrarian Reform
Jeff Franks in Havana, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Colombia and the Marxist-led FARC rebels have reached agreement on the critical issue of agrarian reform, the two sides said on Sunday [26 May 2013] in a major step forward for the peace process aimed at ending their long war.
→ read full articleListen to All Syrian Voices
Susan Dirgham, Peace x Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
One Catholic priest was quoted as saying “The Syrian war is not a crisis between Muslims and Christians or Muslims and other Muslims and it’s not a Syrian civil war from and for Syrians.. This is a war imported from outside and we have traitors who have sold themselves to outsiders for a bit of money.”
→ read full articleSyria Will ‘Strategically’ Respond to New Israeli Strikes – Assad
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
30 May 2013 – Syria will react to any future act of Israeli aggression with a response of “strategic significance,” President Bashar Assad said in an interview to Lebanon’s Al-Manar TV. Assad also said that the Syrian army is battling up to 100,000 foreign mercenaries.
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