Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Ebola and the Paradox of Human Rights
Ian Ralby – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
We have become so obsessed with romanticized notions of “human rights” that we forget there are boundaries to when and how certain rights may apply.
→ read full articleNew Arrivals
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
A pope arrived at the gate of heaven.
→ read full articleMajor Banks Prepare to Pay Billions for Foreign Exchange Manipulation
Richard Smallteacher, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
1 Nov 2014 – Some 19 investigations of multinational banks in ten different legal jurisdictions are on their way to completion and the final tally may hit $41 billion to settle charges of foreign exchange manipulation.
→ read full articleResource Insights from Plus or Minus 12 People on a Liferaft
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
The argument here arises from the observation that crises involving millions evoke a form of psychic numbing. Suffering on the larger scale does not connect with ordinary comprehension. Disasters involving millions are essentially meaningless to most. When the dilemmas are presented on a more human scale, involving very few, they then become far more comprehensible and meaningful.
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Wave – José André Plays Tom Jobim (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
José André Jazz Trío – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
He is just nine years old… and blind. Jazz prodigy José André Montano Baina takes Bolivia and the world music scene by storm.
→ read full articleCowardly Lions: Missed Opportunities to Prevent Deadly Conflict and State Collapse
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
There are always warning signs before the outbreak of a crisis. But one must be able to read the signs — thus the need for courage, intelligence and heart. In light of the continuing crisis and disintegration of State structures in the Central African Republic, in Libya and elsewhere, this analysis of State collapse remains of value.
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The Art of Symbolism in Peace Building
Kya Kim | TED Talks - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
[Former TMS Resident Journalist], peace activist and Peace Mask Project team member Kya Kim reminds us of the powerful role of symbolism in creating change towards lasting peace. Kya and her team strive to spark this lasting peace across Japan, China and Korea with the current Peace Mast East Asia Project.
→ read full articleThe Basis of It All, H and N: Joy of Humanity and Nature (JoHaN)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
Prof. John Galtung’s Blissful 84th Birthday, 24 Oct 2014
→ read full articleKudankulam Nuclear Power Plant a ‘Stillborn Child’, Says S P Udayakumar
The Times of India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
The Kudankulam nuclear power project is a ‘stillborn child’ and it may never be commissioned to produce electricity, S P Udayakumar, convenor of People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy, said at a protest organised by the Social Democratic Party of India on Saturday [25 Oct 2014].
→ read full articleData Secrecy Company [Whisper] Accused of Sharing Information with Media and Military
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
Whisper – a new social network that claims to provide anonymity – has been accused of secretly tracking users. The allegations were made by the Guardian newspaper, provoking renewed scrutiny of a multitude of data privacy claims made by software companies.
→ read full articleEU Fines JP Morgan 61 Million Euro for Collusion
Xinhua – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
The European Union on Tuesday [21 Oct 2014] fined U.S. banking giant J.P. Morgan more than 61 million euro (about 78 million U.S. dollars) for its participation in an illegal cartel aimed at influencing the benchmark interest rate.
→ read full article(Português) Sotaques Regionais
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
Troquemos a gozação e má vontade face ao diferente, por um olhar positivo quanto à diversidade: variações de pronúncia são riqueza linguística, seja entre os países que usam um mesmo idioma, seja nas diversas regiões de um mesmo país.
→ read full articlePrison Writings: The Roots of Civilization
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
Abdullah Ocalan is a Marxist in the tradition of Antonio Gramsci. For him, ideology is the basis of change. Technology and the means of production come to fill the spaces first opened by ideas. Thus his prison writings are a history of the Middle East as ideology. The next steps in history must come through a new ideological construction.
→ read full articleThe Entry of Ebola into the US Has Hallmarks of a Planned Happening
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
More information is available that suggests the the government had advance information that ebola was coming to the US and that the government expects a much larger outbreak of the disease in the US than it admits.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’autoproduzione secondo Marinella Correggia alla festa dei Gas valdostani
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
L’autoproduzione come utopia concreta e realizzabile
→ read full articlePeace May Come
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
From what I have seen of the human race
I calculate that peace may come to the world
when about ten people are left,
Is the US Government the Master Criminal of Our Time?
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
The test consists of giving an ebola vaccine and then exposing the unaware person to ebola, an engineered version for bio-warfare. Drs. Boyle and Broderick in their articles below are correct that experimentation with ebola by the US government is underway in Africa.
→ read full articleMuhammad, Where Are You?
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
When the statisticians saw the results, they were flabbergasted. The name that topped the list was Muhammad. Muhammad? The most popular name in the Jewish state? What to do? Simple: you just omit the Arab names. No Muhammad. When this became known, many Israelis laughed. How silly can you get?
→ read full articlePeace and Security through the United Nations
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
On the Eve of United Nations Day, 24 Oct 2014 – The United Nations needs peace education for sustainable peace and security, but not the current one teaching predetermined values through knowledge, attitude and skill. Peace education ought to be based on universally inherent elements: body, vitality, mind, intellect and spirit in all men and women everywhere without any discrimination.
→ read full articleUS Army Withheld Promise from Germany That Ebola Virus Wouldn’t Be Weaponized
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
German High Government Official Seeks Washington’s Reassurance That the US Did Not Weaponize the Species of Ebola That Germany Made Available to Washington
→ read full articleCompetition
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
On the last day of school before summer, when all children were itching to go home and play, a teacher promised that those children who could answer her questions correctly could leave earlier.
→ read full articleNot Only Coal ‛Good for Humanity’
News from Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
“Death is the basic source of jobs in Australia’s funeral industry,” the Prime Minister declared. “My government is determined to protect those jobs against the fantasist-terrorist doctors who are trying to prevent it.”
→ read full articleJames Risen vs. the American Psychological Association
Roy J. Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
Relying on never-before-disclosed emails involving senior officials from the APA and the CIA, Risen makes the case that the two organizations secretly colluded to craft the APA’s ethics policies for psychologists, policies that provided support and cover for the Bush Administration’s “enhanced interrogation” torture program.
→ read full articleFrom Subjects to Citizens: The Great Transition – UN Day 24 October
Federico Mayor Zaragoza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
Article I of the UNESCO Constitution proclaims that education creates people who are “free and responsible”. Education for all throughout life. For all, and not merely for a chosen few. And this all is very dangerous, because people with education will not remain passive, resigned and in subjugation. They will not be spectators, but rather actors.
→ read full articleWhy the USA May Go to War in the South China Sea
Ian Ralby – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
As China seeks to exercise its control over disputed islands and maritime waters it may seek to block US warships and military aircraft from crossing through large swathes of the South China Sea. This restriction will prove unpalatable to the US who considers it a legal right to cross these waters.
→ read full articleAt the Pentagon
First Dog on the Moon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
Cartoon – Comic Strip
→ read full articleTwo Paths in the Wood: “Choice” of Life or War
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
There is an urgent need for new ideological foundations to replace our nation’s historic reliance on war and destruction to achieve ends. Our nation’s history is stained with the blood of indigenous peoples, with the blood of slavery, and with the blood of world wars whose resolutions (victories?) produced a heritage of continued reliance on military solutions and revenge from those who “lost” or from those who now see the intentions of the USA and its allies.
→ read full articleUnderstanding and Defeating Resurgent Fascism
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
As fascism is being intruded more widely and deeply into key areas of world politics, it is important to identify this trend, to explain the psychology of fascism and to nominate key elements of any strategy to defeat it.
→ read full articleThe Sunni-Shia Conflict: Any Solution?
Johan Galtung, 27 Oct 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
Drawing on the rich experiences of all Islams, focusing on the best, weeding violent weeds making some Muslims non-Islamic in their recourse to violence; much directed against each other. Time is there to work from both sides, on the basis and the theology, to go beyond.
→ read full articleAnti-Assad Warmongers Drag in the Holocaust
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
“The irony is that the Nazi holocaust has now become the main ideological weapon for launching wars of aggression,” Norman Finkelstein tells in “Defamation,” the award-winning 2009 documentary on how perceptions of anti-Semitism affect Israeli and U.S. politics.
→ read full article(Italiano) ISIS: Negoziato, non bombardamento
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Altri bombardamenti insensati di musulmani, altre sconfitte per USA-Occidente, altri movimenti di tipo ISIS, altra polarizzazione Occidente-Islam. Qualche via d’uscita?
→ read full article(Italiano) Gabriele Del Grande su “Io sto con la sposa”
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Dopo la proiezione torinese di sabato 11 ottobre presso il cinema Fratelli Marx di Torino, ho incontrato informalmente Gabriele Del Grande.
→ read full articleSystemic Equivalences between Ebola, Alien Invasion and Dissidence
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Strategic Implications of Seemingly Disparate Forms of Terrorism – Current preoccupation with the strategic measures required in the response to the threat of ebola bear a strange similarity to the manner in which the response to terrorism is framed — especially as exemplified in the case of ISIS.
→ read full articleThe Academic Boycott of Israel: A Policy of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Thinking about a Better Conflict Resolution for the Palestine/Israel Conflict in relation to the Centre of Peace and Conflict Studies of the University of Sydney.
→ read full articleFriedrich Nietzsche on Why a Fulfilling Life Requires Embracing Rather than Running from Difficulty
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
A century and a half before our modern fetishism of failure, a seminal philosophical case for its value. “The most fulfilling human projects appeared inseparable from a degree of torment, the sources of our greatest joys lying awkwardly close to those of our greatest pains…”
→ read full articleOslo Is Dead! Long Live Oslo! The UK House of Commons Supports Diplomatic Recognition of Palestine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
On October 13 [2014] the House of Commons by an overwhelming vote of 274-12 urged the British government to extend diplomatic recognition to Palestine. At first glance, it would seem a rather meaningless gesture. It is a non-binding resolution.
→ read full articleThe Paradoxical Consequences of USA Counter-Terrorism Programs
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Jihadist Terrorist Perceived Motives and Successes – “While nothing is easier than to denounce the evil doer, nothing is harder than to understand him.”
Fyodor Mihailovich Dostoevsky, The Possessed, 1872
A Noble Surprise
Vithal Rajan, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Despite the twinning of Pakistan and India by the Nobel Committee, peace between the two countries will remain as illusory as their hope that Obama, America’s first black president, will be more peaceful than the other warlords who have shown their patriotism by bombing hapless people around the world.
→ read full articleBriefing
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Donald Rumsfeld is giving President Bush his daily briefing.
→ read full articleObama Fights Ebola with a Czar and Soldiers
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
17 Oct 2014 – The public continues to be reassured that ebola is not a problem for the US, but CNN reports that Obama has appointed an Ebola Czar. The Czar is not a medical person but an insider lawyer who served as chief of staff to Vice President Biden.
→ read full articleNew Evidence Links CIA to the American Psychological Association’s “War on Terror” Ethics
Roy Eidelson and Trudy Bond – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Based on revelations in James Risen’s new book, ‘Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War.’ The only matter of dispute is the extent to which the APA collaborated with and worked to support the program of torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.
→ read full articleWhy I Can’t Celebrate Malala’s Nobel Peace Prize
Middle East Revised - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Sure, we must acknowledge the efforts of those who are fighting for a better world, but when it is done in a way that feels so calculated, unidimensional, loaded with secret agendas and tons of hypocrisy – I just can’t celebrate it.
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Pacific Islands: “We Are Not Drowning — We Are Fighting!” (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
350.org – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Warriors across 14 Pacific island nations answered a call, brought on by the threat of climate change. “We’re not giving up. We’re going to fight for what is ours – our island homes and cultures.”
→ read full articlePathways to Reconciliation: Between Theory and Practice
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Reconciliation is a process that requires spiritual understanding beyond the pragmatism that rests in the calculation of causes and consequences. It needs to be seen not only as reconciliation between two persons or groups, but for something. It is not merely the repair of the past, but a bridge to the future.
→ read full articleISIS Is Hiring
Ted Rall – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
The US is scared that ISIS is recruiting young American Muslims.
→ read full article(Português) A Preocupante Expansão do Complexo Industrial Militar
Mairead Maguire, Prêmio Nobel da Paz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Como se pode justificar que no século 21 continuemos treinando milhões para engrossar os exércitos e mandá-los à guerra? Estados Unidos e Grã-Bretanha cometeram genocídio entre 1990 e 2012, que se estima ter custado a vida de 3,3 milhões de iraquianos, incluindo 750 mil crianças. E todos vimos em nossas televisões o horrível espetáculo dos 50 dias de bombardeio pela força militar de Israel sobre Gaza, entre julho e agosto deste ano.
→ read full articleAssange to Open Human Rights Film Festival in Barcelona
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
The WikiLeaks founder will answer questions from an open floor on the first night of the festival, Wednesday [22 Oct 2014], which is comprised of films on humanitarian themes, from transsexuality to international conflicts.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks-Leaked Draft Confirms TPP Will Censor Internet and Stifle Free Expression Worldwide
OpenMedia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
16 October 14 – This morning WikiLeaks published a second leaked draft of the Intellectual Property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. It confirms people’s worst fears about Internet censorship.
→ read full articleEpistemology: On the Use of Dichotomies
Johan Galtung, 20 Oct 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Sometimes the use of dichotomies, simple cuts, male-female, democracy-dictatorship, negative-positive peace is criticized: the world is more complicated. That the organic world with life, individual and collective, is complex, there is no doubt. That a simplistic us-them division of the world in two blocs or poles, polarization, is a step on the way to violence and war, is clear.
→ read full articleUS Army Drafts Blueprint for World War III
Bill Van Auken and David North, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
The Pentagon is preparing for unlimited global warfare and military dictatorship within the United States. The document was formally released at this week’s Association of the United States Army conference.
→ read full articleThe Criminal Side of Ebola
Ian Ralby – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
The Health Crisis is only one effect of the Ebola outbreak. International efforts should take a holistic approach at addressing the effect Ebola is having on organized crime in West Africa.
→ read full articleCycle of Death, Destruction and Rebuilding Continues in Gaza
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon implicitly warned of the futility of the continuing exercise when he said: “We cannot continue to build and destroy – and build and destroy – like this. This should be the last reconstruction conference”. But will it?
→ read full articleChina Contributes Greatly to Global Food Security
Xinhua – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
As the most populous country in the world, China has successfully delivered millions of people from hunger and is helping other countries achieve food security.
→ read full articleCrusade
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Living in this Christian land,
it isn’t hard to understand
our President was not elected,
but was by God himself selected.
Pacific Islanders on Canoes Blockade Australia Coal Export Terminal
Al Jazeera and Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Environmental activists teamed up with Pacific islanders in eastern Australia on Friday [17 Oct 2014] in an attempt to block the world’s largest coal export terminal by forming a blockade of canoes, surfboards and kayaks.
→ read full articleWind Blows Away Fossil Power in the Nordics, the Baltics Next
Nerijus Adomaitis, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
15 Oct 2014 – Wind power is blowing gas and coal-fired turbines out of business in the Nordic countries, and the effects will be felt across the Baltic region as the renewable glut erodes utility margins for thermal power stations.
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(Castellano) Torero arrepentido defensor de los derechos del animal
Álvaro Múnera, ex-torero – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Álvaro Múnera, ex-torero, actual defensor de los derechos del animal y contrario a las corridas de toros:
→ read full articleLatin America’s ‘Made in USA’ 2014 Recession
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Three major economies of Latin America—Brazil, Argentina, and Venezuela—entered recession in 2014. And in all three cases their recessions may be subtitled, ‘Made in the USA’.
→ read full articleRepresentation of Creative Processes through Dynamics in Three Dimensions
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Global Insight from Spherical Reframing of Mandalas, the Zodiac and the Enneagram – The argument developed here derives from an exploration of the creativity of Nikola Tesla (Reimagining Tesla’s Creativity through Technomimicry: psychosocial empowerment by imagining charged conditions otherwise).
→ read full articleBarriers to Sustainable Farming Put Burden on World’s Poor
Prof. Vandana Shiva, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
The conflict between “free trade” and food rights came to the fore again at the WTO negotiations in September [2014], when India did not back down from its stance that a permanent solution be found for food security issues before signing the Trade Facilitation Agreement.
→ read full articleSyria-to-Ukraine Wars Send U.S. Defense Stocks to Records
Richard Clough, Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Led by Lockheed Martin Corp. the biggest U.S. defense companies are trading at record prices as shareholders reap rewards from escalating military conflicts around the world. Investors see rising sales for makers of missiles, drones and other weapons as the U.S. hits Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize 2014: Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay
The Norwegian Nobel Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 is to be awarded to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.
→ read full articleThe Love Jihad Nightmare
Vithal Rajan, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Islamophobia is creating anger among Muslims in many nations, anomie in minority pockets, and breeding irrational hatred in a few.
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Friends of Orphans – Free the Children Slave Soldiers
FROchildsoldiers's channel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
[Note from Antonio, TMS editor:] I met Anywar Ricky Richard in Seoul, South Korea in Sep 2014 at the World Alliance of Religions Peace Summit. He is doing an extraordinary, pioneering work with ex-child soldiers in Uganda, himself being one of them. I was deeply impressed as were those in attendance. Anywar is a remarkable human being and deserves all support we can give to his cause.
→ read full articleUS to Deploy 3000 Troops to Ebola Crisis Areas
Jeff Mason and James Harding Giahyue, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
President Barack Obama called West Africa’s deadly Ebola outbreak a looming threat to global security and announced a major expansion of the U.S. role in trying to halt its spread, including deployment of 3,000 troops to the region.
→ read full articleIsrael Is Cautiously Arming Syria’s Rebels — And Has a Fragile Unspoken Truce With an Al Qaeda Affiliate
Ehud Yaari, The Washington Institute For Near East Policy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
The Israeli government has decided against action to repel al-Qaeda affiliates or disrupt their military strength, in light of the U.S. and allied campaign to “degrade and ultimately destroy” ISIS, which has included attacks on Jabhat al-Nusra (JN) targets.
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Cabaret (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Liza Minnelli – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
From the Movie Cabaret – Mein Herr (1972) – A Classic! Lisa Minelli at her best.
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Cabaret (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Louis Armstrong – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Louis Armstrong and his All Stars in Antibes – Juan le Pins, France – 1967
→ read full articleSaint Francis and the Sow
Galway Kinnell, Brain Pickings - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
The bud
stands for all things,
even for those things that don’t flower,
for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
Nonviolence Charter: Progress Report 5 (Oct 2014)
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D., Anita McKone and Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Here is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ and a sample of news about, and reports of forthcoming events by, Charter signatories.
→ read full article(Italiano) Hong Kong e oltre
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
A Pechino va una lode non piccola per mantenersi imperturbata. Non c’è stato nulla come la brutalità della polizia militarizzata USA contro il movimento Occupy. La Cina non è sprofondata al livello di “Come Israele zittisce il dissenso”: cantando Morte agli arabi, Morte ai sinistrorsi; picchiando i dimostranti senza protezione della polizia, minacciando assassinii, difendendo lo status quo con ogni mezzo, “fascismo strisciante”.
→ read full article(Português) União Homoafetiva
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Seria sábio manter Igreja e Estado separados, neste e noutros assuntos, porque onde são entremeados, pelo mundo a fora, não dá certo. Infelizmente, ao tratar de gays e lésbicas, certos cristãos tendem a esquecer ensinamentos basilares do cristianismo: o não julgar e a misericórdia.
→ read full articleFrom Pol Pot to ISIS: “Anything That Flies on Everything That Moves”
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
In transmitting Nixon’s orders for a “massive” bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Kissinger said, “Anything that flies on everything that moves”. As Obama ignites his seventh war against the Muslim world since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the orchestrated hysteria and lies make one almost nostalgic for Kissinger’s murderous honesty.
→ read full articleToxic Fallout from US War Produces Record Child Birth Defect Rates in Iraq
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
A report presented at the University of Michigan last Wednesday [8 Oct 2014], showed that rates of cancer, child cancer and birth defects have reached historically unprecedented levels in Fallujah and other Iraqi cities since the 2003 US invasion.
→ read full articleHope for Myanmar Democracy Now Fading
Editorial, The Nation (Thailand) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Crackdowns on ethnic armies and journalists have raised fears that the reform process is going into reverse.
→ read full articleIt’s Not Too Late to Save Syria’s Cultural Heritage
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
As Marcus Aurelius instructs us: “Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.” Our shared global heritage, which has been in the custody of the Syrian people for ten millennia, belongs to all of us and each of us must work to preserve it for our progeny.
→ read full articleA Billion Tons of Food Wasted Yearly While Millions Still Go Hungry
A. D. McKenzie, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
“Even if just one-fourth of the food currently lost or wasted globally could be saved, it would be enough to feed 870 million hungry people in the world” – SAVE FOOD Initiative. Some solutions:
→ read full articleThis Country [Germany] Just Abolished College Tuition Fees
Joaquim Moreira Salles, ThinkProgress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
“We got rid of tuition fees because we do not want higher education which depends on the wealth of the parents,” Gabrielle Heinen-Kjajic, the minister for science and culture in Lower Saxony, said in a statement.
→ read full articleOn the “Academic Boycott of Israel” Claimed by University of Sydney’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Regarding Prof. Jake Lynch’s article, “Please Help Us Save the University of Sydney’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies,” posted on TMS on 6 Oct 2014, allow me to raise some questions.
→ read full article(Italiano) IO STO CON LA SPOSA – Torino 11 ottobre 2014
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Frammenti di una storia di extra ordinaria umanità
→ read full articleDid Israel Commit Genocide in Gaza?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
In a special session of the Russell Tribunal, Israel’s Operation Protective Edge was critically scrutinized from the perspective of international law, including the core allegation of genocide through testimonies by legal and weapons experts, health workers, journalists and others who experienced the 50 days of military assault.
→ read full articleEU Bans Import of Israeli Dairy Products Made in Palestine
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
The ban is expected to have only minimal economic impact, but it is one of the boldest moves taken by western nations to put pressure on the Israeli government to change its policies toward Palestine.
→ read full articleWhither China’s Democracy? Democratization in China since the Tiananmen Incident
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
This review of an in-depth look at democratization in China was written before the recent protests in Hong Kong that highlight shifting attitudes toward governing practices. Democratization is a bumpy but ongoing process.
→ read full articleQuestioning Sweden’s ‘Bold’ Diplomatic Initiative
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
The new center-left Swedish Prime Minister, Stefan Lofven, in his inaugural speech to Parliament indicated on October 3 [2014] the intention of the Swedish government to recognize Palestinian statehood.
→ read full article(Castellano) Refugiados Sirios ya Estarían en Uruguay
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Un total de 42 refugiados sirios, en su mayoría niños habrían llegado este jueves [9 octubre 2014] a Uruguay, indicó una fuente de la Presidencia anónima. Uruguay es el primer país latinoamericano en implementar un plan de reasentamiento de este tipo.
→ read full articleISIS: Negotiation, Not Bombing
Johan Galtung, 13 Oct 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
More senseless bombing of Muslims, more defeats for USA-West, more ISIS-type movements, more West-Islam polarization. Any way out?
→ read full articleCrusaders and Zionists
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Lately, the words “Crusaders” and “Zionists” have been appearing more and more often as twins. In a documentary about ISIS I just saw, they appeared together in almost every sentence uttered by the Islamist fighters, including teenagers. Some sixty years ago I wrote an article whose title was just that: “Crusaders and Zionists”.
→ read full article‘Hostile to Privacy’: Snowden Urges Internet Users to Get Rid of Dropbox
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
12 Oct 2014 – “When you say, ‘I have nothing to hide,’ you’re saying, ‘I don’t care about this right.’ You’re saying, ‘I don’t have this right, because I’ve got to the point where I have to justify it.’ The way rights work is, the government has to justify its intrusion into your rights – you don’t have to justify why you need freedom of speech.”
→ read full articleFull Text of Alfred Nobel’s Will
Nobelprize.org – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
I, the undersigned, Alfred Bernhard Nobel, do hereby, after mature deliberation, declare the following to be my last Will and Testament with respect to such property as may be left by me at the time of my death:
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Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
This Modern World – Comic Strip
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Ted Rall - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Comic Strip
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TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Israel began to build hundreds of new housing units in East Jerusalem and seized land in the West Bank on Saturday [11 Oct 2014], despite international condemnation.
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Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
And what to make of a plan just disclosed by the Israeli media indicating that Mr Netanyahu and his allies have been secretly plotting to force many Palestinians into Sinai, with the US arm-twisting the Egyptians into agreement? Such a policy would certainly satisfy Lemkin’s definition of genocide.
→ read full articleThe Life of the Mind: Hannah Arendt on Thinking vs. Knowing and the Crucial Difference Between Truth and Meaning
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
The questions raised by our thirst for knowledge arise from our curiosity about the world, whatever is given to our sensory apparatus, in principle all answerable by common-sense. But the questions raised by thinking and which it is in reason’s very nature to raise — questions of meaning — are all unanswerable by common sense and the refinement of it we call science.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
A New Zealander, a South African and an Australian were the only survivors of a shipwreck on a small South Sea island, surviving on coconuts.
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PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
Scantily clad girls—one of whom was just 12 years old at the time—were filmed skinning a dog alive and burning another with a clothes iron, cutting off rabbits’ ears and setting the rabbits on fire while they flailed and screamed, hitting a monkey in the eye with the sharp end of a stiletto heel, and crushing puppies until they vomited their own internal organs.
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John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
Como despolitização, mídia submissa ao Estado e cinismo dos intelectuais estão produzindo, nas antigas democracias ocidentais, um ambiente “1984 high-tech”.
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Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
No small praise goes to Beijing for keeping its cool. There has been nothing like the US militarized police brutality against their Occupy. China has not sunk to “How Israel silences dissent”: chanting Death to Arabs, Death to leftists, beating demonstrators with no police protection, threatening murder, defending status quo by all means , “creeping fascism”.
→ read full articleHypocrisy: Saudi Arabia Beheads 26 People in 1 Month, Some for ‘Sorcery’ – The West Has Nothing to Say about It (Images)
Richard Rowe, AATP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
We condemn ISIS’ public beheadings, but in 2012-13, our allies in Saudi Arabia cut the heads off of 79 people [in public]. Let’s play “Compare and Contrast” for a moment:
→ read full articleRevolutionaries of the Soul: Reflections on Magicians, Philosophers, and Occultists
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
The development of a deeper or higher consciousness has often been compared to a journey toward an ultimate goal with steps along the way and with entries into an inner dimension of the person, called by some ‘the Spirit’, by others ‘the Soul.’
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