Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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International Peace Day 21/9/2014 – Peace through Disarmament
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
We the Peace Movement are the alternative to militarism and war, and as we want a different world, we must be part of building it. We must not be satisfied with improvements and reform to militarism, which is an aberration and a system of dysfunction which must urgently be abolished and replaced by Law.
→ read full articleIsraeli Occupation’s Dark Underbelly Exposed
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
A letter signed by 43 veterans of an elite intelligence unit has sent shockwaves through Israeli society. The implication of their revelations is that the success of Israel’s near half-century of occupation depends on a vast machinery of surveillance and intimidation, while large numbers of Israelis benefit directly or indirectly from industrial-scale oppression.
→ read full articleUruguay’s Legalization of Marijuana Makes Sense in a Senseless Drug War
Benjamin Dangl, TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
In December of last year [2013], Uruguay became the first country in the world to fully legalize and regulate the cultivation, sale, distribution and use of marijuana.
→ read full articleThe NSA Is Renting Its Technology to U.S. Companies
Kevin Collier – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
26 Sep 2014 – The National Security Agency (NSA), which develops surveillance tools that are both dazzling and terrifying, has been making money on the side by licensing its technology to private businesses for more than two decades.
→ read full article(Português) ONU diz que racismo no Brasil é estrutural e institucionalizado
Jorge Américo, Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Documento sobre a discriminação racial no país constatou que os negros são maioria entre as vítimas de assassinatos. Também revelou que possuem menor nível de instrução, menores salários e menor acesso a saúde.
→ read full articleUntil the Rulers Obey: Learning from Latin America’s Social Movements
Clifton Ross and Marcy Rein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
A wave of change rolled through Latin America at the turn of the twenty-first century, sweeping away neoliberal two-party governments, bringing calls to re-found the states based on broad participation and democratically drafted constitutions.
→ read full articleThe Agony of Iraq
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
“Modern warfare particularly depends on oil, because virtually all weapons systems rely on oil-based fuel – tanks, trucks, armored vehicles, self-propelled artillery pieces, airplanes, and naval ships. For this reason, the governments and general staffs of powerful nations seek to ensure a steady supply of oil during wartime, to fuel oil-hungry military forces in far-flung operational theaters.”
→ read full articleAh, If I Were 25
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Research shows that one of the most often used words in Hebrew is “Shalom”. It is based on the root “whole” and conveys the sense of wholeness, safety, wellbeing. In Arabic, Salaam has the same meaning. Two weeks ago, on my 91st birthday, I asked myself: if I were 25 and straining for action, how would I go about trying to create a new Left?
→ read full articleThe United Nations Climate Summit
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Throughout the world, peoples of all countries need to act with urgency to switch to an economy that aims at sustainability rather than endless consumption and growth, an economy based on renewable energy rather than fossil fuels, an economy devoted to life rather than to profits.
→ read full articleTackling the Climate Catastrophe Strategically
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
If you like to ask or beg your oppressor to go easy on you, then you do not need to read this article. And if you like to do what makes you feel good at the time, irrespective of its strategic impact, then this article is not for you either. My interest in tackling violence has always been to take action that leaves the perpetrator powerless (but, hopefully, a convert too).
→ read full articleEnduring Territorial Disputes
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
The book is about evenly divided between a general analysis of enduring territorial disputes followed by useful case studies including the ongoing law-of-the-sea delimitation disputes among China, Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam, the border disputes among Israel, Syria and Lebanon concerning the Golan Heights, and the now quieter Sino-Soviet/Russian border dispute.
→ read full articleThe Scots Back Off
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
If the Scots had not backed off they might have helped the English to break away from their imperial past and start living in the present as Europeans. Unfortunately [they] kept the English psychologically locked into a dysfunctional past, losing them a key role in the shaping of new Europe, and making them nothing but a subservient de facto colony of the USA.
→ read full articleThe Purpose and the Pretence – Bombing Isis
Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Traditionally, claims that an Official Enemy is uniquely Evil rise to a deafening crescendo just prior to an attack on that enemy. The USA does not bomb countries for humanitarian objectives. Humanitarianism is the pretense, not the purpose.
→ read full articleHow Did The British Get An Empire?
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
It makes perfect sense then that the sepoys, from the ‘untouchable’ or lower castes, discriminated against by a caste-ridden society, gravitated to a service that treated them honourably. They fought for their own honour, and created an empire for foreigners from kingdoms that gave them little respect or social opportunity.
→ read full articleWrong Comparison
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
A mechanic was removing a cylinder head from the motor of a Harley Davidson, when he spotted a world‑famous heart surgeon in his shop.
→ read full articleEU Backpedaling on Anti-Russian Sanctions Not to Freeze in Winter
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
According to Russia’s permanent representative to the EU Vladimir Chizhov, the damage from the EU sanctions for EU economies is comparable to the damage that they cause to the Russian economy.
→ read full articleIsis’ Letter to the West
First Dog on the Moon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Isis has sent a heartfelt letter of encouragement to the west. We give you the best extracts.
→ read full articleThe West and the Fascist Mindset Within: Romani Folk under Fire
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
The Rom folk face a wide range of often interrelated problems: citizenship, political participation, racially-motivated violence, poverty, unemployment, and an image which arouses ancestral fears of Gypsies.
→ read full articleChilean Art of Civil Disobedience: Review from V&A, London
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
The Disobedient Objects exhibition is on display at the Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, London, until 1st February 2015.
→ read full articleUN Human Rights Council Backs Argentina on US Debt Row
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
26 Sep 2014 – The United Nations Human Rights Council has passed a resolution in Geneva condemning a group of American hedge funds that took Argentina to court.
→ read full articleMayan People’s Movement Defeats Monsanto Law in Guatemala
Christin Sandberg, Intercontinental Cry - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
The unjust neo-liberal law would have given exclusivity on patented seeds to a handful of transnational companies. But Mayans resisted it relentlessly. The success of these protests is an inspiring example of what the people can achieve for themselves when they rise up to confront power in defense of their own interests.
→ read full articleStreet Scenes from a Damascus Neighborhood
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Da’ish (IS), Free Syrian Army and al Nusra Compete for Dwindling Support…
→ read full article(Português) ECOmetaforizando para o BEM
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Um monte de problemas temos que enfrentar ?
Rios de boas soluções saibamos encontrar
The Lesson Hollywood Cannot Teach Us
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Possibly the most insightful statement ever made by a journalist was from Gary Webb, who killed himself in 2004, years after the CIA and media rivals destroyed his career and credibility. Now Hollywood is making a film, called ‘Kill the Messenger’, about the San Jose Mercury News reporter.
→ read full articleOn the Eve of UN International Day of Peace: The Mother of Peace Yet to Be Born
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Here I would like to enlighten the people, especially those who are not aware, about the beginning of the UN Day and Year of Peace before to start to write on the theme of the event – “The Mother of Peace yet to be born”.
→ read full articleFormal Complaint to the Australian Broadcasting Commission
Susan Dirgham – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Breaches on ABC Code of Practice in Accuracy, Impartiality and Diversity of Perspectives. Does a ‘moderate’ rebel kill differently to an ‘extremist’ rebel? – Ahmad Al-Rahal, a ‘moderate rebel’, declared in March 2014, “There is no sectarianism in this revolution. Syria only has two sects: that of the regime and that of the revolution.”
→ read full article32 Years after the Sabra-Shatila Massacre: Tension Mounts in Lebanon’s Camps
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Established during the Nakba 66 years ago, the Palestinian camps in Lebanon—initially intended as “temporary”—have undergone a 400% population increase over the years, and today they are literally overflowing with nearly a quarter of a million desperate Palestinians and Syrians.
→ read full articleUS Military, Obama Administration Plan Massive Military Escalation in Syria and Iraq
Patrick Martin, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
29 Sep 2014 – The comments this weekend by spokesmen for the White House, the Pentagon and US Congress are part of a carefully orchestrated campaign to prepare public opinion for full-scale war in the Middle East.
→ read full articleEl Salvador: Total Ban on Abortion is Killing Women and Girls and Condemning Others to Decades Behind Bars
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
27 Sep 2014 – The government’s repressive and outdated total ban on abortion is blighting the lives of women and girls, pushing them to unsafe, clandestine abortions or forcing them through dangerous pregnancies. Those terminating their pregnancies could face years in prison.
→ read full articleSpying and Storing: Assange Says ‘Google Works like NSA’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange equated Google with the National Security Agency and GCHQ, saying the tech giant has become “a privatized version of the NSA,” as it collects, stores, and indexes people’s data. He made his remarks to BBC and Sky News.
→ read full articleFrom the Editor’s Desk
Antonio C. S. Rosa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Dear friends, I am still experiencing jetlag from last week’s trip to South Korea; came back yesterday evening. We managed to select and put together the most important and relevant pieces of news, analysis, info, and commentary from around the web–in addition to Johan’s Editorial. Next week we shall return in full force.
→ read full article(Português) E Sem Democracia?
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Prestigiemos a democracia que é “o pior regime com a exceção de todos os outros”, segundo Winston Churchill. Qualquer coisa fora dela é pior do que ela defeituosa e tortuosa.
→ read full articleResponse to Questions at US Presidential Press Conference
News from Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
So, are we at war with the TVBP (those very bad people)? I am glad someone asked that question, because it allows me to make perfectly clear that this is not a new war we are embarking upon. And no, it is not the old war, even though it’s happening in more or less the same place. Because I ended that war.
→ read full articleHannibal ad Portas
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
The last war has come to an end, the next war has not yet started, so let’s use the time to speak of many things. Of Hannibal, for example.
→ read full articleNATO Makes War – NATO Is Not an Alliance for Peace
Robin Edward Poulton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
NATO’s summit in Wales (September 4-5, 2014) was BAD NEWS for peace makers, and bad for all world citizens. Are the NATO Nuts going to invade Ukraine? Do they want to create a new European war? Dangerous rhetoric and dangerous ideas lead to dangerous actions.
→ read full articleUkraine – Truce or Trojan Horse: Retreat, Re-Armament and Relaunch
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
The NATO proxy war in the Ukraine started with the violent US-EU-sponsored overthrow of the elected government via a mob putsch in February 2014. This was well financed at $5 billion, according to President Obama’s Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland.
→ read full articleIndian PM Backs Russia, China Ahead of US Trip
The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
22 Sep 2014 – Days ahead of his US visit, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has backed BRICS members Russia and China, refusing to criticise Moscow for its annexation of Crimea and reiterating trust in China’s handling of territorial disputes in the east and south China seas.
→ read full articleUSA/UK Committed Genocide against Iraq People
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
USA/UK committed genocide against Iraq people between 1990/2012 killing 3.3 million including 750,000 children through sanctions and war.
→ read full articleScotland on the Euphrates: The Obsolescence of the Nation-State
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Two countries competed this week for first place in news programs all over the world: Scotland and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. There could not be a greater difference than between these two countries.
→ read full articleReimagining Tesla’s Creativity through Technomimicry
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
His genius is known to have derived in part from his unusual capacity to imagine models and run them as simulations — mentally — without any need to articulate them in conventional design plans and test prototypes.
→ read full articlePeace and Freedoms for Indian Women in the Digital Era
Dr. Stephen Gill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Democracy has brought a new light for repressed classes, but sorrowfully it has not kept its promise for a promised land for women.
→ read full article(Português) O Mel
Sérgio greif – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Ainda que as propriedades medicinais do mel fossem comprovadas cientificamente, ainda assim a exploração apícola não poderia se sustentar pelo ponto de vista ético. Mas a presença de grande número de plantas medicinais que possuem propriedades semelhantes torna o uso do mel e outros produtos apícolas completamente dispensáveis.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’ombra lunga della storia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
USA, vi piace emettere certificati di pariah ai vari paesi; giù e fuori. Il nostro certificato a voi dice irrilevanza – ci è impossibile cooperare con voi. Non possiamo costringervi a cambiare, dovete volerlo voi stessi. Ma possiamo togliervi la palla dal vostro cortile e giocarcela per conto nostro. La leadership dovrebbe essere collettiva, come nei BRICS; la leadership non dovrebbe mai essere di un solo paese, o una sola persona.
→ read full articleGlobal Commission Urges Decriminalisation of Drug Use
Jim Lobe, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
A top-level international panel called Tuesday [9 Sep 2014] for a major shift in global drug-control policies from prohibition to decriminalisation and regulation. In a 43-page report, the Global Commission on Drug Policy denounced what has been known for more than four decades as the “war against drugs” as a failure and argued that new approaches prioritising human rights and health were urgently needed.
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Child Piano Prodigy – Outstanding Natural Talent! (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
4-Year-Old Chinese Boy Plays Piano like a Master
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Gitmo Exclusive: Media Brainwashing, Sham Trials & Closing Gitmo for Good (Part II)
Abby Martin, breakingtheset – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Sep 3, 2014 – On Gitmo ‘Transparency’, Review Board Red Tape, Military Commissions Sham, Zero Dark Thirty Lies and Closing Guantanamo for Good.
→ read full articleWar, Circus and Injustice Down Under
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Australia is awash with knowledge of the “needs” of its first people. Every week, it seems, yet another study adds to the torrent of information about the imposed impoverishment of and vicious discrimination against Indigenous people: apartheid in all but name.
→ read full articleWar
Rifet Bahtijaragić – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
How could you say people deserve war!
Where did you get such a grotesque idea?!
How to Be Alone: An Antidote to One of the Central Anxieties and Greatest Paradoxes of Our Time
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
“We live in a society which sees high self-esteem as a proof of well-being, but we do not want to be intimate with this admirable and desirable person.”
→ read full articleJesus!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
A burglar broke through a window and entered a pitch-dark room.
→ read full articleThe NGO-ization of Resistance
Arundhati Roy, Massalijn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.
→ read full articlePhilosophy of Life: Some Propositions
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
One needs to contribute to society in his own capability. A person who has no food needs to be busy to find means of subsistence. But a person who has no such worry should contribute to society.
→ read full article(English/Portuguese) Ecolinguisticamente Rimando em Português e Inglês
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Ecolinquistical Rhymes in English and Portuguese
→ read full articleMemo on the Evaluation of the Community Work Program
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
This memo stresses the importance of evaluating CWP´s compliance with its mandate to use public employment to catalyse community development. It also underlines the importance of issues in economic theory that bear on CWP´s contribution to society.
→ read full articleGerman TV Shows Nazi Symbols on Helmets of Ukraine Soldiers
NBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Germans were confronted with images of their country’s dark past on Monday [8 Sep 2014] night, when German public broadcaster ZDF showed video of Ukrainian soldiers with Nazi symbols on their helmets in its evening newscast.
→ read full articleNo to US/NATO and Yes to Peace
Mairead Corrigan Maguire , Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
While US/UK/NATO are pushing for war with Russia, it behoves people and their governments around the world to take a clear stand for peace and against violence and war, no matter where it comes from.
→ read full articleExpensive?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
A foreign tourist’s car got stuck in a small Russian village.
→ read full articleCarney Still White House ‘Propagandist’ Now Posing as Tie-Less CNN Analyst
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney is essentially doing the same job since being taken on by CNN – serving as propagandist for the government, award-winning journalist Ben Swann told RT.
→ read full articleIraq: Yazidis’ Genocide?
René Wadlow, UN Geneva Association of Word Citizens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
With the incomplete evidence at hand, I would maintain that the ISIS policy is genocide and not just a control of territory. Although the UN “track record” of dealing with genocide is very mixed, the first immediate step is for a State to raise the issue within the UN.
→ read full article(Italiano) Difetti nel pensiero USA – e qualche rimedio
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Difetto 2. Confondere il conflitto con la violenza. O i “disordini”. Trattare il conflitto diventa gestire la violenza verso una tregua o la capitolazione, poi ripulire la situazione “post- conflittuale”, solo per scoprire che la violenza riappare, forse sotto forma di vendetta. Nulla di risolto. Rimedio: Separare i concetti.
→ read full articleIndia’s PM Modi towards World’s Top Leader Keeping Confidence with Neighbors
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
The principal reason of insecurity to Modi is that he is speeding up his social doctrine to respect, protect, preserve, and promote poor, marginalized, disadvantaged, and vulnerable people, not limiting him within the border, but beyond of it.
→ read full articleOverthrowing Other People’s Governments: The Master List
William Blum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)
→ read full articleBreaking the Last Taboo – Gaza and the Threat of World War
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Nothing has changed since the Zionists’ infamous “Plan D” in 1948 that ethnically cleansed an entire people. Recently, on the Times of Israel were the words: “Genocide is Permissible”. A deputy speaker of the Knesset demands a policy of mass expulsion into concentration camps. An MP, Ayelet Shaked, calls for the extermination of Palestinian mothers to prevent them giving birth to what she calls “little snakes”.
→ read full articleNATO Loses Ukraine
Margaret Kimberley, BAR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Peace is the last thing that the Nobel Peace Prize winning president wants to see. Putin is the winner by any standard but the United States won’t admit what is obvious.
→ read full articleDefeating the Violence of Psychiatry
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
As the movement to abolish psychiatry continues to gather momentum it is worth reviewing its delusional foundation, the history of its violence and its function as a weapon of elite social control. According to research, in the USA ‘prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer’ and it ‘is inescapable that their availability creates more harm than good’.
→ read full article(Português) Qual Português?
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Sei que a Língua é um naipe de possibilidades, mas sei também do que aprendi como sendo certo e errado. Regras para honrar a clareza, coerência, concisão, elegância. Mesmo na linguagem falada, mais solta e rica de desvios.
→ read full articleSteven Salaita and Zionist McCarthyism
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
The outcome of the Salaita case will exhibit the current balance of influence as between Zionist McCarthyism and academic freedom. That such a struggle should be in doubt is itself a national disgrace that suggests the worrisome fragility of academic freedom as reinforced by the potency of money and regressive ideology.
→ read full articleSpiritual Leaders for Nonkilling
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Spiritual leaders,
Most powerful is what you teach
spiritually you guide and inspire
people East and West you reach
Leo Tolstoy: The Law of Love
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
9 September marks the birth of the multi-dimensional Count Leo Tolstoy, an aristocratic land owner, a young military officer, a distinguished author of War and Peace, a spiritual-moral philosopher, and a champion of non-violent action. It is this last aspect and the link with Mahatma Gandhi that I would like to stress.
→ read full articleMessage from the TMS Editor
Antonio C. S. Rosa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Dear friends, TMS subscribers & readers, on Sep 15, when this edition of TRANSCEND Media Service goes online by default at 12 noon GMT, I will be onboard an airplane heading for Beijing on my way to the WARP-World Alliance of Religions for Peace Summit in Seoul, South Korea.
→ read full articleTo Recruits
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
You are pawns–
don’t you understand that?
It’s a game
and you aren’t worth much,
The Long Shadows of History
Johan Galtung, 15 Sep 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
USA, our certificate to you says ‘irrelevance.’ You always too quickly resort to violence, no good at deeper causes. We cannot force you to change, you have to will that yourself. But we can take the ball out of your court and play it ourselves. Leadership should be collective, like BRICS; leadership should never be one country, or one person.
→ read full articleReligions for Peace
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Religions for Peace
A mission never to cease
Obama and ISIS
David McReynolds – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
The problem is that, as always happens in these cases, there is a certain “selective outrage”, a kind of “willed amnesia” about our own role in such matters. Not all of the sins of America, taken together, justify the beheading of a single journalist – but memory may help us understand the roots of that horror.
→ read full articleU.S. Threatened Hefty Fines to Make Yahoo Hand Over User Data
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
The U.S. government in 2008 threatened to fine Yahoo Inc $250,000 a day if it failed to turn over customer data to intelligence agencies, according to documents unsealed on Thursday [11 Sep 2014].
→ read full articlePeace Ecology
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
With serendipitous timing, as a big march for the climate, and various related events, are planned on and around the International Day of Peace [21 Sep 2014], Randall Amster has just published an important book called Peace Ecology.
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Gitmo Exclusive: An Untold History of Occupation, Torture & Resistance (Part I)
Abby Martin, breakingtheset – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Sep 2, 2014 – Abby Martin Breaks the Set on the History of Gitmo, Methods of Torture, the Remaining Detainees and the Ongoing Hunger Strikes by Prisoners.
→ read full articleWhere Slaughtered Dolphins Go to Be Sold
David Kirby, takepart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
12 Sep 2014 – As the annual dolphin-killing season begins at the cove at Taiji, Japan, the focus will be on the slaughter. Far less attention will be paid, however, to the fate of dolphins captured and sold to marine-mammal entertainment parks worldwide.
→ read full articleUN Human Rights Protection: Small Steps but No Turning Back
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
The effectiveness of United Nations action to promote human rights and prevent massive violations grows by small steps. However, the steps, once taken, serve as precedents and can be cited in future cases. Once the steps taken, it is difficult to refuse such action later.
→ read full articleEcolinguistic Communication
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Rhymed Reflections
→ read full articleIraq Has WMDs and Russia Has Invaded!
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
The U.S. media has repeatedly been claiming that Russia has invaded Ukraine. They claim it for a while, and there’s obviously been no invasion, so they pause. Then they claim it again. Or they claim that a convoy of aid trucks constitutes an invasion.
→ read full articleMilitary Recruiters
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Ghouls troll school halls
preying on the young
who have no better options.
Nuclear Weapons Do Not Make Us Safer
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Rather than continuing to posture with its nuclear weapons in Europe, the United States should be leading the way in convening negotiations to eliminate all nuclear weapons for its own security and that of all the world’s inhabitants.
→ read full articleSeeds of Truth: A Response to Michael Specter’s Article in The New Yorker
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Michael Specter’s piece is poor journalism. I wonder why a journalist who has been Bureau Chief in Moscow for The New York Times and Bureau Chief in New York for the Washington Post, and clearly is an experienced reporter, would submit such a misleading piece. Or why The New Yorker would allow it to be published as honest reporting, with so many fraudulent assertions and deliberate attempts to skew reality.
→ read full articleIn Azerbaijan, ‘Family Is the First Fear’ of LGBT Community
EurasiaNet Correspondents, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
“For his own safety,” a gay man “constantly” has to think about “what to wear so that he does not look different,” or otherwise attract attention. Many Azerbaijanis often presume that men who wear an earring or unusually colourful clothing are homosexual.
→ read full articleGod Wills It!
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
National conflicts are basically rational. They concern territory. They can usually be solved by compromise. Religious conflicts are irrational. Each side believes in an absolute truth, and automatically considers everybody else as infidels, enemies of the only true God.
→ read full articleLearning for Nonviolence and Better Governance versus Teaching for Violence and Worst Governance
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
I advise the teachers of our nation and the world to consider themselves as learners leading to the formation of sustainable genuine democracy, performance of good governance and practice of nonviolence. , “May we both (the teacher and the taught) attain fame together” as cited in Taittiriyopanishad.
→ read full articleUN Secretary General “Alarmed” at Israel’s Announced Seizure of West Bank Land
Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 1 September 2014 voiced his alarm at the announcement by Israeli authorities to declare nearly 1,000 acres of land in Bethlehem as so-called “state land.”
→ read full articleAs I Age . . . Thoughts on Memory and Cosmos
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
The reality is the omnipresence of memories — as we recall them, as wish to recall them, and as we wish to forget them. Memories are always present — waiting to be released. And with each memory, comes an endless flow of associations. Memories work their way to the surface — the immediacy of the present moment.
→ read full articleClimate Change Means Lifestyle Change
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Scientists are unanimous in warning us that unless we very rapidly reduce CO2 emissions, we risk passing a tipping point beyond which we will be powerless to prevent uncontrollable global warming.
→ read full articleTwo Types of Anti-Semitism
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
This second type of supposed anti-Semitism is a tactic deployed to discredit critics of Israel by insisting that criticism of Israel and hatred of the Jewish people should not be distinguished.
→ read full articleMysterious Fake Cellphone Towers Are Intercepting Calls All Over the US
Jack Dutton, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
3 Sep 2014 – Every smart phone has a secondary OS, which can be hijacked by high-tech hackers. Seventeen fake cellphone towers were discovered across the U.S. last week, according to a report in Popular Science.
→ read full articleUN Human Rights Council – Opening Statement
Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
My first address to this Council takes place at a time when conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa regions, in particular, are escalating dramatically… My Office will be open to dialogue with all stakeholders; and within the limits of our resources, we will extend every possible assistance to States, to heighten their protection and promotion of human rights.
→ read full articleFlaws in US Thought–And Some Remedies
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Flaw #2: Confusing conflict with violence. Or “trouble”. Handling conflict becomes handling violence toward cease-fire or capitulation, then tidying up the “post-conflict” situation, only to discover that the violence reappears, perhaps with a vengeance. Nothing solved. Remedy: Separate the concepts.
→ read full article(Italiano) Da Vicenza e Aviano parà Usa per war games in Ucraina
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
5 Set 2014 – War games: Oltre duecento paracadutisti statunitensi stanno per essere trasferiti in Ucraina per partecipare ad una vasta esercitazione militare multinazionale. I parà appartengono tutti al 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, il reparto d’élite aviotrasportato dell’esercito Usa di stanza a Vicenza.
→ read full articleChild Trafficking Rampant in Underdeveloped Indian Villages
K. S. Harikrishnan, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
“Many families are unable to afford the basic necessities of life, which forces parents to sell their children. Some children are abandoned by families who can’t take care of them. Some run away to escape abuse or unhappy homes. Gangsters and middlemen approach these vulnerable children.”
→ read full articleRussell Tribunal Session on Palestine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
On September 24 [2014] a special session of the Russell Tribunal will examine war crimes allegations against Israel arising from the 50-day Operation Protective Edge military operation that commenced on July 8th.
→ read full articleBeheading versus Befooting
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
In Quest of the Lesser Evil for the Greater Good – Much is currently made of beheading of individuals by ISIS militants as being an act of pure evil. Framed as “pure evil”, such assertions raise the question of other degrees of evil of lesser “purity”. What makes that evil so pure?
→ read full article(Italiano) La caduta dell’Impero USA – e poi che cosa?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Fascismo USA? Sì, indubbio. Un’evoluzione profondamente tragica. Un paese così innovativo con null’altro da offrire che macro-bombardamenti, meso-droneggiamenti e micro-cecchinaggio. Percepiamo il complesso militare-industriale all’opera – l’industria delle bombe in prima fila.
→ read full articleExamining
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Two students went drinking late into the night before an exam.
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