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Myanmar Journalists on Trial for Reporting Alleged Chemical Weapons Factory
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Myanmar police have charged five journalists with “disclosing state secrets” after their newspaper carried a story about an alleged chemical weapons factory, state media reported Sunday [16 Feb 2014].
→ read full articleCaptain Boycott Rides Again
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
It has always been a secret ambition of mine to have a bagatz ruling bearing my name. Whatever the outcome, the decision in the case of “Uri Avnery and Others v. the State of Israel” will be quoted for a long time. Some satisfaction, at least.
→ read full article(Português) Johan Galtung – Transcender e Transformar: Uma Introdução ao Trabalho de Conflitos
Prof. Rafael Salatini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
São Paulo: Palas Athena, 2006 -Tradução Antonio Carlos Silva Rosa – Um dos autores mais importantes da teoria das relações internacionais no pós-guerra, Johan Galtung, dedicou toda sua profícua carreira intelectual ao estudo da paz e da solução pacífica de conflitos, que divulgou sob o epíteto de peace research, iniciados nos anos 1960.
→ read full articleSoon, the Battle for Venezuela
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
They are already sewing your funeral gown, Venezuela. They are now ready to welcome you back to that world of the lobotomized, destroyed nations that are fully submissive to Western political and economic interests – Indonesia, Philippines, Paraguay, Uganda, Kenya, Qatar, Bahrain, and almost the entire Eastern Europe.
→ read full article9 Shocking Dangers of Fluoride Exposure
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Ingested in high doses, fluoride is indisputably toxic; it was once commonly used in rat poison. So why is it in our drinking water? Using non-fluoride toothpaste can immediately reduce your fluoride exposure. Maintaining healthy iodine levels can help protect the thyroid from fluoride.
→ read full articleDivorcing
Dietrich Fisher – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
An elderly man in Phoenix calls his son in New York and says, “I hate to ruin your day, but I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing; forty five years of misery is enough.”
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Insensatez (Music Video of the Week)
Mariza & Iván "Melón" Lewis– TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Wonderful interpretation of a masterpiece composed by Brazilian legends Antonio Carlos “Tom” Jobim and Vinicius de Morais. Mariza is a Portuguese singer of Fado.
→ read full articleBerlin and Washington Foment Civil War in Ukraine
Peter Schwarz, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Recent events in Ukraine make clear that political leaders in Washington, Berlin and Brussels are prepared to split the country, drive it into civil war and risk a conflagration across the entire region to achieve their geopolitical goals.
→ read full articleUK Ruling against David Miranda Escalates Assault on Democratic Rights
Robert Stevens, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
In what was clearly a politically motivated judgment, the High Court in London ruled Wednesday [19 Feb 2014] that David Miranda, the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald, was detained lawfully when he was held for nine hours last August at London’s Heathrow Airport. The 28-year-old Brazilian was in transit from Germany to Brazil when he was arbitrarily detained by the Metropolitan Police.
→ read full articleDemocracy Murdered by Protest: Ukraine Falls to Intrigue and Violence
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Who’s in charge? Certainly not the bought-and-paid-for-moderates that Washington and the EU hoped to install as the new government of Ukraine. Americans have no idea that the neoconservative regime of the White House Fool is leading them into a Great Power Confrontation that could end in destruction of life on earth.
→ read full articleWhy Do We Fear the Truth?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
The bottom line is this: Can you still hear your inner voice? And do you, like Gandhi, have the courage to follow it ‘whatever the consequences’?
→ read full articleNew Book on Truman & American Zionists
Paul L. Scham – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
John Judis’s Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict is a superbly researched book that succeeds in being remarkably fair and even-handed.
→ read full articleDespite Majority Opposition, GMO Corn Gets Green Light in Europe
John Deike, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
On Feb. 11, 2014 the European Commission gave DuPont Pioneer the green light to freely grow insecticidal corn, also known as TC1507. Nineteen of the European Union’s 28 states voted against the cultivation and openly criticized the commission.
→ read full articleTalking Roles
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Daughter: “Mother, what is an ‘extra’ in the theater?” Mother explains,
→ read full articleWhere Is Thoreau Now That We Need Him?
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
I think it’s time for us to go
and pay a visit to Thoreau.
In times like this we need a sage,
US Drones Reaping Death by SIM Card
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Feb 16, 2014 – Michael Ratner: Eliminating Targets Based on NSA spying but not verified by human intelligence demonstrates Obama’s false promise of oversight.
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Tragedi Rohingya – The Rohingya Tragedy in Burma/Myanmar
Agenda Awani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
The ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya ethnicity explained. Participation of TRANSCEND member Dr. Maung Zarni, Burmese scholar and expert on the issue.
→ read full articleNuke Summit Agenda Circumvents Armed Powers
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
When over 50 world leaders meet in the Netherlands next month [March 2014] for a Nuclear Security Summit (NSS), the primary focus will be on a politically-loaded question: how do we prevent non-state actors and terrorists from getting their hands on nuclear weapons or nuclear materials?
→ read full articleUsurious Returns on Phantom Money: The Credit Card Gravy Train
Ellen Brown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
The credit card business is now the banking industry’s biggest cash cow, and it’s largely due to lucrative hidden fees.
→ read full articleThe Tide Turns against Israel
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rarely been so politically embattled. His travails indicate the Israeli right’s inability to respond to a shifting political landscape, both in the region and globally. The delegitimisation of Israel is truly under way, and the party doing most of the damage is the Israeli leadership itself.
→ read full articleKeeping Your Chocolate Slave-Free
Marianne Perez – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
With a product as good as chocolate, it’s hard to imagine that it can have a part in modern day slavery. But the good news is that there is an industry-wide response to tackle the issue.
→ read full articleFrance’s Aggressive Foreign Policy
Immanuel Wallerstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
France led the way to intervene in Libya, has pushed the hardest line of all Western powers on Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and has intervened unilaterally in Mali. Hollande was received as a hero in Israel because of his hard line on negotiations with Syria and with Iran. And now France has sent troops to try to restore order in the Central African Republic.
→ read full articleWill Thorium Save Us from Climate Change?
Dr. David Suzuki, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
If the choice is between keeping nuclear power running or replacing them with coal-fired power plants, the nuclear option is best for the climate. But, for now, investing in renewable energy and smart-grid technologies is a faster, more cost-effective and safer option than building new nuclear facilities, regardless of type.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung, 17 Feb 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Known as IPRA, founded in 1964 in London–and this author, 34 at the time, is the only surviving founder. IPRA rotates every two years from one peace research center to the other, and is now in very competent Turkish hands. And what is more natural than having the 50th anniversary for the hub of peace studies in that hub of the world, Istanbul, 10-14 August this year!! Hurry up, register!!!
→ read full articleAnglo Irish Bankers on Trial for Scheme That Led to National Collapse
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Three top executives at Anglo Irish bank are on trial for a secret scheme to buy their own bank’s shares that eventually triggered the 2008 collapse of the Irish economy. The bankers allegedly hatched the plan to cover up bets made by Sean Quinn, once Ireland’s richest man.
→ read full articleFour Latin American Countries Agree $85 bn Free-Trade Deal
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Chile, Colombia, Peru and Mexico have signed a treaty to eliminate tariffs on 92 percent of goods and services. The Pacific Alliance is free trade area of some 210 million people, accounting for more than a third of all Latin American and Caribbean GDP.
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Street Piano: Alla Turca Jazz (Music Video of the Week)
Ayse Deniz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
I performed my version of Fazil Say’s Alla Turca Jazz (based on Mozart’s Turkish March) on 50 pianos presented by the City of London Festival.
→ read full articleUganda to Authorise Life Sentence for Homosexuals
Mail & Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni plans to sign a bill into law that prescribes life imprisonment for some homosexual acts, officials said Friday [14 Feb 2014], alarming rights activists who have condemned the bill as draconian in a country where homosexuality already has been criminalized.
→ read full article(Italiano) Studi per la pace e risoluzione dei conflitti: necessità della transdisciplinarietà
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Gli studi per la pace cercano di capire come evitare la violenza attraverso la trasformazione dei conflitti, la cooperazione e l’armonia prendendo spunto da molte discipline, tra cui psicologia, sociologia e antropologia, scienza politica, economia, relazioni internazionali, diritto internazionale e storia.
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World Beyond War
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Feb 3, 2014 – The video is mightier than the hellfire missile. Make this one go viral. Learn more at http://worldbeyondwar.org
→ read full articleWelcome to ‘The Intercept’ [Newest Online Magazine by Star Investigative Journalists]
Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
10 Feb 2014 – Our short-term mission is to provide a platform and an editorial structure in which to aggressively report on the disclosures by our source, Edward Snowden. Our longer-term mission is to provide aggressive and independent adversarial journalism across a wide range of issues.
→ read full article(Italiano) Saddam, Osama, Gheddafi, Chavez – e Obama
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Chi è questo Obama, a proposito? Responsabile, secondo Nick Turse di The Nation, di uccisioni in 134 paesi, e come tale seminatore di 134 contraccolpi (blowbacks)? Un presidente con una retorica da democratico di sinistra e politiche estere da repubblicano di destra, che ha tradito i suoi elettori e la democrazia stessa, senza alcuna visione mondiale.
→ read full articleTen Reasons That I Support Alan Dershowitz, Not
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Ethnic cleansing enthusiast Alan Dershowitz is unhappy with the current BDS efforts (boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel). Earlier today [12 Feb 2013] Haaretz published Dershowitz’ diatribe on the BDS. For the first time, I have to admit, I agree with the elder Zionist mouthpiece.
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia Criminalizes ‘Terrorists’ Defaming State’s Reputation, Disturbing Order
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Actions that threaten Saudi Arabia’s unity, disturb public order, or defame the reputation of the state or the king – will be considered acts of terrorism under a new counterterrorism law which has come into force in the gulf kingdom.
→ read full articleOver Half of Population Opposes Japan Engaging in Collective Self-Defense: Survey
The Japan Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
More than half of the public opposes Japan exercising the right to collective self-defense, or coming to the aid of an ally under attack, compared with more than a third who favor it, a survey said Sunday [26 Jan 2014].
→ read full articleLife-Skill Learning from Animal Shareholders and Collaborators
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Cognitive Opportunity for Engaging Radically With a Complex World in Crisis – The ultimate “authorities” in thriving through systemic crises are however the millions of species in the biosphere — whether plants or animals. It is evident that these have explored and developed every variety of “trick” to adapt to the challenges to which they have been exposed.
→ read full articleAbout Courage: I Am Scared, Therefore I Am Brave!
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
“Many see you as a very courageous person. They would like to imitate you at that, at least a little bit, but they feel they are not courageous, say, ‘by nature’ and they cannot learn courage. What do you think about that? Can people train themselves to be courageous?
→ read full article(Português) Portugal Ajuda a Viabilizar Entrada de Milho Transgénico na Europa
Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
A abstenção de Portugal e de outros três países significou dar luz verde ao cultivo do milho Pioneer TC1507, contra a vontade de 19 países e do Parlamento Europeu.
→ read full articleTranscendental Meditation Significantly Reduces PTSD in African Refugees within 10 Days
Science Codex – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
New research shows that Congolese war refugees who learned the Transcendental Meditation® technique showed a significant reduction in posttraumatic stress disorder in just 10 days, according to a study published today [10 Feb 2014] in the Journal of Traumatic Stress.
→ read full articleConflict, Conquest and Conversion: Two Thousand Years of Christian Missions in the Middle East
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Proselytization in the Middle East was exceedingly complex. As the authors note “Muslim opposition and the enforcement of regulations against apostasy as well as Jewish disinterest quickly forced the missionaries largely to abandon that goal and to substitute for it the attempt to ‘improve’ the state of the Eastern Christian churches.”
→ read full articleThe Archaeological Heritage in Syria throughout the Crisis 2011-2013
Syrian Ministry of Culture – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
The book sheds light on the current situation of the Syrian antiquities by documenting the extent and nature of the damage affecting the museums and archaeological sites. In addition, it reviews the measures and policies to protect the Syrian heritage based on the paper presented at a meeting held at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris.
→ read full article‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ War – And the Struggle of Memory against Forgetting
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Historians, like journalists, play their most honourable role when they myth-bust. The powerful would like us to believe that the likes of Thompson, Zinn and Galeano are no longer necessary: that we live, as Time magazine put it, “in an eternal present”, in which reflection is limited to Facebook and historical narrative is the preserve of Hollywood. This is a confidence trick.
→ read full articleSyria-Bound Trucks Filled with US Dollars, Says Opposition Party Leader
Today’s Zaman, Istanbul – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
The trucks, which were stopped by the Turkish gendarmerie, were reportedly filled with weapons and ammunition. The Turkish government claimed that the Syria-bound vehicles contained humanitarian aid supplies for Syrian Turkmens. “Within those aid supplies there were dollars; those dollars were being transported to Syria, to al-Qaeda.
→ read full articleThe Five Criminals – In America, the Gestapo Has Replaced the Rule of Law
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Russia Today is the best English language news source available to Americans. On January 29, RT published a photo of 5 presidential appointees lying through their teeth to Congress. All five of these Gestapo wannabes are in violation of their oath of office to protect the Constitution of the United States.
→ read full articleThe Nordic Light – A Poetry Review
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
The Nordic Light is a collection of poetry accompanied by photography, a seldom used combination, but a very impactful and much needed one. All of the poems are contributions from historic or prominent Norwegian poets, with the exception of one Danish and one Finnish poet.
→ read full articleNo to the Recolonization of the Central African Republic
Colonialism Reparation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Currently there is a permanent presence in four new bases (Gao, Niamey, N’Djamena and Ouagadougou) that add to the four historical ones (Dakar, Abidjan, Libreville and Djibouti) thus allowing a full control of the territory of the former French colonial empire.
→ read full articleThe Trillion Dollar Road to Armageddon
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
While asking the non-nuclear weapons states to respect the NPT and refrain from building nuclear weapons, the two main nuclear powers are ignoring their responsibilities under the treaty and expending vast sums of money they cannot afford to make sure they have thousands of nuclear weapons for the foreseeable future.
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Dr Jake Lynch on Peace Journalism
Leeds Metropolitan University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Feb 6, 2014 – Jake Lynch, former BBC newsreader, political correspondent for Sky News and Sydney correspondent for the Independent, is Associate Professor of Peace Journalism and Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment and the advisor for TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS.
→ read full articleTerrorist Groups in Syria Treat over 700 of Their Injured in Israeli Hospital
Al Manar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
The Israeli occupation army established a field hospital on the Golan Heights to treat the Syrian injured militants who belong to the terrorist groups in Syria. The Zionist army prevented the media outlets from broadcasting the activities of the field hospital yet allowed the Second Channel to prepare a report about it in order to promote the “humane Israeli step towards the Syrians.”
→ read full articleSyria: “There are Terrorists from 83 Countries, Armed and Funded by Saudi Arabia”
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Syria Information Minister, Omran al-Zoubi said Saudi Arabia’s decision that Saudi citizens who fight in conflicts outside the Kingdom would face harsh punishment does not mean that the Kingdom will stop funding and arming terrorist groups.
→ read full articleOne Food Parcel & One Polio Vaccination at a Time – Lifting the Siege of Yarmouk
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
“For the past more than five months I have sold my body for one hour to whoever would give me a kilo of rice which sometimes costs as much as 14,000 s.p. (close to $ 100). I was proud to be a whore for these terrorists in order to keep my parents alive and who are still trapped and I also prevented complete starvation of my children.” She continued, “God did not help me and my family but I promise if I live and ever see one of those dogs I will kill him and he can learn if his God exists or not. None existed for me!” Two young lady volunteers from the PRCS held her, still sobbing, as she and her little ones made their way out to a waiting PRCS ambulance.
→ read full articleJudges Poised to Hand U.S. Spies the Keys to the Internet
Kevin Poulsen, Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
How does the NSA get the private crypto keys that allow it to bulk eavesdrop on some email providers and social networking sites? It’s one of the mysteries yet unanswered by the Edward Snowden leaks.
→ read full articleThe Pope’s Sex Problem – Catholic Survey Reveals Frustrated Flock
SPIEGEL Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
The Vatican last year sent out a survey to Catholics around the world focusing on attitudes to sex and sexuality. The responses are now in — and they show that the Church is badly in need of reform. Can Pope Francis meet such expectations?
→ read full articleWe Are a Cosmic Accident: Alan Lightman on Dark Energy, the Multiverse, and Why We Exist
Maria Popova, BrainPickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Questions like ‘why our world exists’ and ‘what nothing is’ have occupied minds great and ordinary since the dawn of humanity, and yet for all our scientific progress, they continue to do so, yielding only hypotheses rather than concrete answers.
→ read full articleWelcome To The United King-Doom
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Dieudonné M’bala M’bala , the genius outspoken French comedian who rebelled against the primacy of Jewish suffering has been banned from entering Britain. Humour is seemingly the last pocket of resistance. They are really afraid of being laughed at, after all, Dieudonne is telling the truth that The Guardians of Zion can no longer suppress.
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Imagine / Playing For Change (Music Video of the Week)
John Lennon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Playing for Change Foundation – Music around the World: promoting peace across borders through music.
→ read full articleJapanese Government Promotes Militarism in Media and Schools
John Watanabe, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
In line with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s boosting of the military and aggressive stance toward China, his government is seeking to refashion both the media and school curriculum to promote Japanese nationalism and militarism.
→ read full articleThe Accessories to War Crimes Are Those Paid to Keep the Record Straight
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
The media cover-up has been a weapon in the crimes of western states since the first world war. But a reckoning is coming for those paid to keep the record straight.
→ read full articleBitcoin: Revolutionary Monetary Game-changer or Financial Trojan Horse?
Washington's Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Reddit, Virgin Galactic, and Overstock.com now accept Bitcoin. So do dating site OKCupid and travel site CheapAir.com. Game giant Zynga is now in the testing phase. Two big Las Vegas hotels accept Bitcoin. Congressman Steve Stockman (R-Texas) accepts Bitcoin for 2014 campaign contributions. As does a law firm in Australia. Already, 21,000 merchants are using Coinbase to accept Bitcoin from customers.
→ read full articleJewish Groups Condemn New Presbyterian Study Guide on Zionism
The Ugly Truth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
The study guide titled “Zionism Unsettled” posits that a “pathology inherent in Zionism” drives the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and rejects theologies that uphold Zionism. It was released ahead of the church’s biennial General Assembly that will once again consider recommendations that it divest from companies that deal with Israel’s military.
→ read full article(Sinhala) Overall Checkup – The Ideological Triangle of Sri Lanka’s Left Politics දෘෂ්ටිවාදී ට්රයියෑංගලයේ සර්වාංග පරීක්ෂාව
Udaya R. Tennakoon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Based on conflict theory and TRANSCEND approach of Johan Galtung.
→ read full articleThe Moral Cost of Torture
Anthony J. Marsella – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Psychologists for Social Responsibility is a national organisation but it is now establishing an international network. Its members are psychologists around the world who are concerned with issues of peace and social justice. At the moment we are particularly concerned with the use of psychologists in the exercise of torture and the use of psychology in violation of human rights.
→ read full articleOMAR: Uncovering Occupied Palestine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
OMAR is the second film directed by Hany Alu-Assad to be a finalist among foreign language films nominated to receive an Oscar at the 2014 Academy Awards ceremony on March 2nd.
→ read full article(Italiano) Israele-Palestina: 1-2-6-20
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
La pace non si ottiene costringendo la Palestina in un ambiente bi-statale con controllo israeliano militare-politico-economico e intervento USA negli altri stati vicini. Per tale via non c’è equilibrio stabile, ma solo lotta senza fine.
→ read full articleGandhi and the Middle East
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
In the light of continuing tensions in the Middle East, it is useful to recall the efforts to have Mahatma Gandhi play a bridge-building role in the Jewish-Arab conflict of 1937 in Palestine. Mahatma Gandhi was a man of dialogue and compromise.
→ read full article“Atoms for Peace”?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
It is interesting to review the way in which Israel, South Africa, Pakistan, India and North Korea obtained their nuclear weapons, since in all these cases the weapons were constructed under the guise of “atoms for peace”, a phrase that future generations may someday regard as being tragically self-contradictory.
→ read full articleWhy Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Death Is So Scary
Seth Mnookin, Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
The root causes of addiction are frustratingly elusive, a nebulous mixture of genetics, exposure, and environment. Addiction runs in families, but plenty of addicts come from families with no history of the disease. Availability plays a role, too. The science about recovery is also hazy: Alcoholics Anonymous, the most widely used form of treatment, has no set structure or methodology, which makes it tough to evaluate its effectiveness.
→ read full articleEileen Babbitt and Ellen Luts – “Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Context”
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
To prevent wars and massive human rights violations and rebuild societies in their aftermath, an approach that incorporates the perspectives of both human rights advocates and conflict resolution practitioners is required. This goal is easier to assert than to achieve.
→ read full articleComputers
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
A French teacher in the USA explained to her class that in French every noun is either masculine or feminine. A student asked, “How about a computer?”
→ read full articleWill Mobocracy Triumph in Ukraine?
Patrick J. Buchanan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Despite our endless blather about democracy, we Americans seem to be able to put our devotion to democratic principles on the shelf, when they get in the way of our New World Order.
→ read full articleWashington Destabilizes Ukraine
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
The control freaks in Washington think that only the decisions that Washington makes and imposes on other sovereign countries are democratic. “Fuck the EU.” So much for Washington’s attitude toward its captive allies and the peoples of the world.
→ read full articleChina Ready to Work with CELAC
Prensa Latina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
China declared today [7 Feb 2014] to be ready to work with the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States to establish, before the end of 2014, the common forum approved at the recent summit of the regional body held in Havana.
→ read full article14 African Countries Forced by France to Pay Colonial Tax for the Benefits of Slavery and Colonization
Mawuna Remarque Koutonin, Silicon Africa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
For historical comparison, France made Haiti pay the modern equivalent of $21 billion from 1804 till 1947 for the losses caused to French slave traders by the abolition of slavery. African countries are paying the colonial tax only for the last 50 years, so I think one century of payment might be left!
→ read full articleThe Continuing Al-Qaeda Threat
Ron Paul – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Why is al-Qaeda as much a threat as it was ten years ago? Perhaps it is that we continue to fight the wrong war in the wrong manner. After ten years of no progress, is it not time to try something new, non-intervention and a strong defense rather than drone strikes and pre-emptive attacks?
→ read full articleNegotiations with Iran Require Mutual Restraint
Jan Oberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Iran is a 7000 year old civilisation that deserves to be treated with respect. The P5+1 and Iran are in this together now. War and sanctions talk is immature.
→ read full articleThe Global Elite is Insane
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
As anyone who pays even the slightest realistic attention to the global elite already knows, the elite’s efforts to maximise its political and economic clout, and hence its wealth, at the expense of everyone else and the Earth itself, are carefully crafted. And this is not going to change on our recommendation or because we talk to them, or even because we listen to them. Moreover, the reason is simple. The global elite is insane. And it is incredibly violent.
→ read full articleUS Increases Pressure on Sri Lankan Government over War Crimes
K. Ratnayake, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
US Assistant Secretary of State for Central and South Asia Nisha Desai Biswal announced in Colombo on Saturday [1 Feb 2014] that Washington will move another resolution—the third in three years—on Sri Lankan war crimes next month in the UN Human Rights Council.
→ read full articleBayer CEO Says Drugs Developed for “Western Patients Who Can Afford It”
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Bayer, the German pharmaceutical giant, is in hot water after CEO Marijn Dekkers told a Financial Times conference that the company designed medicines “for western patients who can afford it” not for the “Indian market.”
→ read full articleHappy 50th Birthday! Kenya is Chronically Sick
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
At independence, they say, you used to be richer than Korea, and there was real hope that you will flourish after getting rid of that brutal British colonial regime. You were never called a ‘rainbow nation’, but you really were, consisting of many different tribes, races, cultures and religions. You were truly ‘multicultural’, long before this expression became iconic and constantly used and abused in the West.
→ read full articleA Meeting with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini 35 Years Ago
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Khomeini by insisting on all or nothing against the Shah did create an Iranian transition to a new political order. In contrast the 2011 militants in Tahrir Square were content with the removal of Mubarak and promises of reforms, and ended up succumbing to a counter-revolutionary tsunami that has reconstituted the repressive Mubarak past in a more extreme form.
→ read full articleSaddam, Osama, Gaddafi, Chavez–And Obama
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Who is this Obama, by the way? Reported, by Nick Turse of The Nation, killing in 134 countries, sowing 134 blowbacks? A president with left wing Democrat rhetoric and right wing Republican foreign policies, betraying his voters and democracy itself, with no world vision.
→ read full articleProtesters Resist an ‘Indian Fukushima’
Ranjit Devraj, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
According to PMANE leader [TRANSCEND member] S.P. Udayakumar, the Kudankulam project built with Russian technology is unsafe and threatens the delicate marine ecology of the Palk straits. “A Fukushima-type accident at this mega plant, which is due to generate 9,200 MW when complete, would be truly catastrophic.”
→ read full articleArms Exports: Berlin Backs Large Defense Deal with Saudi Arabia
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Berlin has often been criticized in recent years for selling weapons to questionable regimes. Now, the German government is backing a billion-euro deal for 100 patrol boats.
→ read full articleMetascience Enabling Upgrades to the Scientific Process
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
In the light of the argument in the main paper, the question is how to extend “science” from its narrow focus to one which encompasses what is implied by the term, namely a particular approach to knowing — irrespective of the domain to which it may be applied. This therefore includes preoccupation with psychosocial intangibles whose very existence is so vigorously challenged by some forms of science.
→ read full article50 Reasons We Should Fear the Worst from Fukushima
Harvey Wasserman, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Fukushima’s missing melted cores and radioactive gushers continue to fester in secret. Japan’s harsh dictatorial censorship has been matched by a global corporate media blackout aimed—successfully—at keeping Fukushima out of the public eye. But that doesn’t keep the actual radiation out of our ecosystem, our markets … or our bodies.
→ read full articleFrom Egypt, Ukraine, the Turkish-Syrian Border, Cuba and Thailand: West Manufactures “Opposition Movements”
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
What is going on? Are popularly elected administrations all over the world becoming irrelevant as the Western regime creates and then supports thuggish ‘opposition movements’ designed to destabilize any state that stands in the way of its desire to fully control the planet?
→ read full articleReturn, Return oh Shulamit
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Pete Seeger touched my life only once. But what a touch.
→ read full articleIsrael-Palestine: 1-2-6-20
Johan Galtung, 3 Feb 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Peace does not come by forcing Palestine into a two-state setting with Israeli military-political-economic control and US intervention in the other neighboring countries. Along this road there is no stable equilibrium, only endless strife.
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The Story of Solutions
storyofstuffproject – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
The Story of Solutions explores how we can move our economy in a more sustainable and just direction, starting with orienting ourselves toward a new goal.
→ read full articleBlow to Obama as Sen. Reid Opposes Trade Authority
The Wall Street Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
“I’m against fast track,” Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters about so-called trade promotion authority legislation. The proposal would ensure an up-or-down vote, speeding up the passage of trade deals.
→ read full articleMiddle East Turmoil and the Disintegration of a Nation State
Prof. William R. Stanley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
What is taking place i is no longer only the response of disaffected Syrians endeavoring to change their country’s leadership. More and more, it is an international effort to disassemble the Syrian state as presently exists and to continue a process that had its seeds in the 1953 Anglo-American orchestrated overthrow of PM Mohammad Mosaddeq of Iran.
→ read full articleThe Missing Monarch Butterflies and Monsanto’s Roundup
Warren Cornwall, Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
The butterfly’s life cycle is exquisitely synchronized to the seasonal growth of milkweed, the only plant its larvae will eat. In a game of hopscotch, successive generations of monarchs follow the springtime emergence of milkweed from Mexico as far north as Canada.
→ read full articleEx-Marlboro Man Dies from Smoking-Related Disease
Daisy Nguyen, AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Eric Lawson, who portrayed the rugged Marlboro man in cigarette ads, has died. He was 72. He died Jan. 10 of respiratory failure due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, his wife, Susan Lawson said Sunday [26 Jan 2014].
→ read full article(Italiano) Ginevra I-II: la cattiva gestione dei conflitti
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Diciamo, semplificando brutalmente, che ci sono sette conflitti, non uno solo, tutti quanti direttamente o indirettamente violenti, che si svolgono in Siria… Per trattare una complessità a tale livello – più complessa che il VietNam – ci vuole una conferenza di lunga durata gestita dall’ONU, con tutti i contendenti, ovviamente con Iran e Israele partecipanti, e solo quelli coinvolti, senza spettatori e senza condizioni.
→ read full articleDebunking the Myth of the 10,000-Hour Rule: What It Actually Takes to Reach Genius-Level Excellence
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
The main predictor of success is deliberate practice — persistent training to which you give your full concentration rather than just your time, often guided by a skilled expert, coach, or mentor. It’s a qualitative difference in how you pay attention, not a quantitative measure of clocking in the hours.
→ read full articleCoup in Western Ukraine: The Arab Spring Unleashed in Europe
Andrew Korybko , Voltaire Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
The Libyan method has apparently been ‘perfected’ to the point where outside actors feel comfortable deploying this Pandora’s Box inside of Europe itself. Gene Sharp is the mastermind of the seemingly innocuous strategies that serve as a prelude and ‘dog whistle’ to this viral outbreak, and George Soros is the financier.
→ read full articleGandhi and Nationalism: The Path to Indian Independence
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
The understanding of the ways spiritual concepts are used in political life is made even more complex in the case of Gandhi in that he was not a thinker in terms of systems but in terms of action. “My life is my message.”
→ read full articleKeeping the Peace Profitable in Mozambique
Marianne Perez de Fransius – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Mozambique has profited from its long period of peace, both in terms of tourism and foreign investment, but if they don’t transform the current conflict left over from the civil war, they have a lot to lose. Tourism is already suffering… who knows what will be next.
→ read full articleBe Careful What You Wish…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
A husband and wife, both sixty years old, were walking through a forest.
→ read full articlePalestinians in Israel: Trapped in the Ghetto
Johathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
“We are being choked to death,” said Sawaid, Ramya’s village leader. “They are building on top of us as though we don’t exist. Are we invisible to them?”
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