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(Italiano) Scenari di pace per il 2018
Angela Dogliotti | Gennaio 2018 Editoriale #01 – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
22 Jan 2018
6 gennaio 2018 – Il 2018 si apre su uno scenario inquietante: crescenti diseguaglianze, squilibri, guerre, in un contesto di forte competizione per il controllo economico e politico mondiale tra Occidente e nuove potenze emergenti a Oriente; scarsità delle risorse e cambiamenti climatici che acuiscono le crisi, rivelando la fragilità di sistemi sociali e modelli di sviluppo intrisi di violenza diretta, strutturale, culturale, e insostenibili dal punto di vista ambientale.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! To All Our Readers, Friends, Supporters
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
On behalf of Prof. Johan Galtung and all of us at TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS, I express the sincere desire that 2018 be much better than 2017 to all of you—it will not be that difficult insofar the World is concerned. Thank you for your support, …
→ read full articleMissing Links for Peace, Civility, Social Well-Being
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
We will keep missing out if we insist on relying solely on our intellect, acquired knowledge, reason and intelligence; human potential encompasses much more. The process of living peacefully rests also on degrees of spiritual-emotional [not religious] evolution. It all starts and grows within the individual and then manifests into society in myriad ways. Or not.
→ read full articleSee It, Say It: Climate Change
Editorial Board - The Washington Post,
23 Oct 2017
14 Oct 2017 – No single fire can be specifically linked to climate change, and certainly other factors, such as increased development or logging and grazing activities, are involved. But scientists say there is a clear connection between global warming and the increase in recent years in the severity and frequency of wildfires in the West.
→ read full articleProf. Johan Galtung (Born 24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Galtung was jailed in Norway for six months at age 24 as a Conscientious Objector to serving in the military, after having done 12 months of civilian service, the same time as those doing military service. He agreed to serve an extra 6 months if he could work for peace, but that was refused. In jail he wrote his first book, Gandhi’s Political Ethics, together with his mentor, Arne Næss. This event would trigger a world-changing lifetime work for peace: 170 books, plus.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi Can’t Ignore the People’s Tribunal
Prothom Alo [Bangladesh] | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
24 Sep 2017 – The verdict issued by the International People’s Tribunal in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on Friday [22 Sep], which indicted Myanmar’s military as well as its state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi for war crimes and ethnic persecution in Myanmar, reflected the expectations of the peace-loving people of the world.
→ read full articleFollow Kenya’s Lead on Plastic Bags
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
14 Sep 2017 – Plastic bags are often used for a few minutes before enjoying an eternal afterlife, clogging storm drains, stuffing landfills, killing animals that eat them and contributing to the eight million metric tons of plastic in oceans every year. Kenya and more than 40 other countries have taxed, limited or banned plastic bags. The rest of the world should, too.
→ read full articleThe Guardian View on the Slaughter in Myanmar: A Crime against Humanity
The Guardian | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
4 Sep 2017 – The brutal, bloody, and ultimately pointless mistreatment of a Muslim minority shames [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi who appeared for decades as the epitome of principled and unflinching defence of human rights, now the unfeeling figurehead of a vicious regime.
→ read full articleExporting Chaos to Venezuela
Editorial Board – The New York Times,
21 Aug 2017
President Trump’s recklessness is felt around the world.
→ read full articleBurma Covers Up Its Systematic Abuse of the Rohingya Minority Group
Editorial Board - The Washington Post,
21 Aug 2017
It is becoming increasingly clear that Burma’s partially democratic government bears many similarities to its autocratic predecessor: It is overly sensitive to criticism, repressive toward minorities and willing to go to great lengths to protect the military.
→ read full articleFighting, While Funding, Extremists
Editorial |The New York Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
19 Jun 2017 – Saudi Arabia and some of its neighbors decide to punish Qatar and some of its citizens, ostensibly for fostering and financing Islamist terrorism. But Saudi Arabia itself has been accused of underwriting extremists. No matter: President Trump, captivated by Saudi royalty, sides with the Saudis — even though the United States has two important bases in Qatar. Baffling, right? The biggest loser in all this may turn out to be the fight against the Islamic State.
→ read full articleUndoing All the Good Work on Cuba
Editorial – The New York Times,
5 Jun 2017
5 Jun 2017 – To spite his predecessor, the president will further isolate America, hurt business interests and impede the push for greater democracy.
→ read full articleDemocratic World Federalists and the San Francisco Promise
Roger Kotila, Editor | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
The truth is that the UN Charter itself is so badly designed that it is in reality the main part of a geopolitical war system. A global peace system will require replacing the UN Charter with a genuine world federal union constitution such as the Earth Constitution. The Charter is undemocratically rigged in favor of only five nations of the UN Security Council: U.S., Russia, China, France, and UK.
→ read full articleTrump Has Scientists Mad Enough to March on Earth Day
The Philadelphia Inquirer | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
5 Apr 2017 – It’s not every day that scientists plan to head out of the laboratory and into the streets to protest, but on Earth Day, April 22, U.S. scientists have good reason to do exactly that. The protesters believe President Trump has no respect for the truth when it comes to well-settled science on some of the most critical questions facing the country.
→ read full articleCongress Says, Let the Mentally Ill Buy Guns
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
16 Feb 2017 – For all their dysfunction, the Republican Senate and House have managed to act with lightning speed in striking down a sensible Obama administration rule designed to stop people with severe mental problems from buying guns. They did the gun lobby’s bidding in passing a regressive measure that President Trump is expected to sign.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s Shameful Denial
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
10 Jan 2017 – Last month, President Obama lifted sanctions against Myanmar, citing “substantial progress in improving human rights” following the historic election victory of the Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in November 2015. Tragically, that praise is proving premature.
→ read full articleChina Joins the Fight to Save Elephants
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
3 Jan 2017 – It is great news for elephants that China has declared a halt to commercial ivory trade by the end of 2017. The many governmental and nongovernmental organizations that have worked to protect the magnificent animals must now ensure that neither China nor the United States backslides on the bans, and that other nations will not try surreptitiously to move in.
→ read full articleFake News about “Fake News”: The Media Performance Pyramid
Media Lens | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
5 Dec 2016 – In the wake of Brexit and Trump, “mainstream” media have done the formerly unthinkable by focusing on media bias. The intensity of focus has been such that the Oxford Dictionaries have announced that ‘post-truth’ is their ‘Word of the Year 2016’.
→ read full articlePentagon: Looking for a Few Good Hackers
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
The last thing the Pentagon would seem to need is more hackers. But Defense Department officials are inviting them in.
→ read full articleRelentless Persecution
The Statesman | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
24 Nov 2016 – The irony is cruel. The persecution of the Rohingyas has intensified in Myanmar with the change of guard — from the junta to a democratic dispensation under [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi. The democratic world had expected quite the contrary.
→ read full articleNo Country for the Rohingyas
The Hindu | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
25 Nov 2016 – A new humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Myanmar after the military crackdown on “Islamist jihadists” in the Rakhine State, home to more than one million Rohingya Muslims… The army denies targeting civilians, but satellite images taken after the start of the crackdown indicate that hundreds of buildings were burnt down; reports suggest that even those who tried to flee the country were shot dead. The migrants are not welcome in Myanmar’s neighbourhood either.
→ read full articlePower Imbalance at the Pipeline Protest
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
When injustice aligns with cruelty, and heavy weaponry is involved, the results can be shameful and bloody. Witness what happened on Sunday [20 Nov] in North Dakota, when law enforcement officers escalated their tactics against unarmed American Indians and allies who have waged months of protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s War on the Rohingya
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
To preserve her reputation as a human rights champion, [Nobel Peace Laureate] Daw Aung San Suu Kyi needs to allow an impartial investigation into the violence.
→ read full articleFiltering the Election
Media Lens | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
When the likes of Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Bashar Assad, and now Donald Trump, are declared the latest ‘New Hitler’, we learn little except that they are enemies of the establishment. It means the ‘On’ button has been pressed on a propaganda machine designed for maximal demonisation, leaving no room for public doubt.
→ read full articleProject for the New American Century
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
The Project for the New American Century was a neoconservative think-tank that focused on US foreign policy founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan. Its stated goal was “to promote American global leadership.” The PNAC ceased to function in 2006 and was replaced by a new think-tank named the Foreign Policy Initiative, co-founded by Kristol and Kagan in 2009.
→ read full articleWhat Is Peace Journalism?
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
Profs. Jake Lynch and Dietrich Fischer reply to the question.
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Prof. Johan Galtung (24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
Johan Vincent Galtung was born in Oslo, Norway on the same day that the UN would come to existence 15 years later. He was jailed for six months at age 24 as a Conscientious Objector to military service. In jail he wrote his first book, Gandhi’s Political Ethics, together with his mentor, Arne Næss. This event would trigger a world-changing lifetime work for peace: 167 books, plus.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Moral Duty in Yemen
Editorial Board – The New York Times,
17 Oct 2016
11 Oct 2016 – President Obama must cut off military aid to Saudi Arabia unless it ends the carnage and returns to peace talks. Yemen is near collapse, with 80 percent of the country in need of humanitarian aid. Al Qaeda’s affiliate there is becoming stronger and the population more radicalized. The longer the war goes on, the harder it will be to end.
→ read full articleOctober 2: Nonviolence Day, Gandhi’s Birthday
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
It doesn’t matter the amount or prevalence of violence employed or practiced anywhere anytime. It was from within a violent environment, which oppressed him both in South Africa and in India, that the Mahatma, born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, gave birth to his philosophy of nonviolence. Yin-Yang. The world is readier than ever for it. Nevertheless, besides a philosophy NV can be many things for many people depending on contexts.
→ read full articlePolice Do Nothing as Armed Mercenaries Attack Native American Dakota Pipeline Protesters with Dogs and Pepper Spray
Counter Current | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
3 Sep 2016 – Police stood idly by as private security guards who were working on behalf of the corporations building the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline turned attack dogs on peaceful protesters.
→ read full article2,500 Native Americans Successfully Block Oil Pipeline Construction — State of Emergency Declared
Counter Current News Editorial Team – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
22 Aug 2016 – The Camp of the Sacred Stones has swelled from a few dozen to more than 2,500, according to Standing Rock Sioux Tribe officials. They are calling for further review of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, approved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at the end of July without a full environmental assessment.
→ read full articleThe Declassified ’28 Pages’ on the 9/11 Attacks
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
15 Jul 2016 – Today the US Congress declassified 28 pages of documents from the first Congressional inquiry into the 9/11 attacks with information about a possible Saudi government connection. Download and read the full report in pdf here.
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Prof. Haunani Kay Trask: Hawai’ian Islands Stolen from Hawai’ians by the USA
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
May 29, 2016 – “You caller, need to learn about Hawai’ian history and about where you are.” Haunani-Kay Trask was featured on an episode of Island Issues discussing racism in Hawai’i. Here she responds to one of many “woefully ignorant” callers.
→ read full articleCan Suu Kyi Bring Change for Myanmar Expats?
The Nation | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
14 Jun 2016 – Aung San Suu Kyi’s stated readiness to discuss migrant issues with her counterparts here when she visits Thailand next week as state counsellor and foreign minister of Myanmar is welcome news. Optimism must be tempered, however, unless she arrives with a comprehensive plan covering not just migrant labourers but also refugees – and the benighted Rohingya in particular.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi’s Cowardly Stance on the Rohingya
Editorial Board – The New York Times,
16 May 2016
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi — Myanmar’s leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate — does not want to call them Rohingya, the name they use, because nationalist Buddhists want to perpetuate the myth that they are “Bengalis” who don’t belong in Myanmar. She has also asked the United States ambassador not to use the term.
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Charlie Chaplin’s Famous Speech Still Holds True Today
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
One of the most inspirational speeches in recorded history was given by a silent comedian by the name of Charlie Chaplin in his famous movie: ‘The Dictator’.
→ read full articleEnding the Horror of Myanmar’s Abuse of Muslims
Editorial Board – International New York Times,
1 Feb 2016
By the hundreds of thousands, Muslims in Myanmar have been stripped of their citizenship, sent to concentration camps where they are deprived of basic medical care, jobs and even food, and held prisoners in villages they are not allowed to leave. Thousands more have fled the camps by risking their lives at the hands of criminal syndicates that traffic them to Malaysia and Bangladesh or force them into servitude on fishing boats.
→ read full articleTime for Justice in Sri Lanka
Editorial Board – International New York Times,
1 Feb 2016
The wounds of war cannot be healed until a transitional justice process demanded by the UN in a resolution last October moves forward. On that score, President Maithripala Sirisena says his government will not act “in haste.” This is unacceptable.
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia’s Execution Spree
Editorial Board – The International New York Times,
21 Dec 2015
Saudi Arabia’s justice system has gone into murderous overdrive. More than 150 people have been executed this year, the most since 1995. More than 50 people are reported to be scheduled for imminent execution on terrorist charges, though some are citizens whose only crime was protesting against the government. This wave of killing has prompted some to compare Saudi Arabia to the Islamic State: both follow Shariah law.
→ read full article(Português) Biografia de Fernando Pessoa (13 jun 1888 – 30 nov 1935)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
Fernando Pessoa foi um poeta português, um dos mais importantes da língua portuguesa. Teve diversas profissões: foi editor, astrólogo, publicitário, tradutor técnico, jornalista, empresário, crítico literário e crítico político.
→ read full articleStatement of the 15th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
15 Nov 2015 The Barcelona Declaration – Refugees: Meeting the Challenge to Our Humanity
→ read full articleI offer my sincere apologies for the delay…
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2015
… to the 10-thousand-strong subscribers to our TMS Weekly Digest. In short:
→ read full articleA Milestone for Myanmar’s Democracy
The Editorial Board – International New York Times,
16 Nov 2015
The 2008 Constitution also bars Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate, from becoming president, because her children are foreign nationals. Nobody doubts that this twisted provision was aimed at excluding her from the nation’s top job. Even so, dismissing the Constitution as “very silly,” she has asserted defiantly that she will be “making all the decisions” behind the scenes.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire and Mother Agnès-Mariam of the Cross Visit Syria and Iran
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Insights into the Conflict and Military Catastrophe against Syria, Other Middle East Countries
→ read full articleShady Chocolate – The Dark Side of Chocolate
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
Ever since it was revealed that the chocolate industry is involved with child slavery in the Ivory Coast, the industry has been busy – due to consumer demands – explaining what exactly it does to actively fight trafficking and child labour. But does the industry live up to its own promises?
→ read full articleEurope’s Refugee Crisis Was Made in America
Editorial – The Nation,
14 Sep 2015
Washington helped create the conditions with its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
→ read full articleBurma’s Half-Hearted Commitment to Democracy
Editorial Board – The Washington Post,
31 Aug 2015
The regime of generals and former generals who began the transition away from military rule still exert a heavy hand on the political process. Burma’s regime is aggravating and exploiting ethnic conflicts in the Southeast Asian nation of 56 million people also known as Myanmar. Most egregious has been its treatment of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority that has long been persecuted and that increasingly has been subject to violence and denied citizenship.
→ read full articleExposing Abuse on the Factory Farm
Editorial Board – The New York Times,
17 Aug 2015
8 Aug 2015 – While most Americans enjoy eating meat, it is hard to stomach the often sadistic treatment of factory-farmed cows, pigs and chickens. Farm operators go to great lengths to hide these gruesome images from the public. A popular tactic is the so-called ag-gag law, which makes it a crime to secretly videotape industrial feedlots and slaughterhouses to expose animal mistreatment and abuse.
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Samsung Unveils an Incredible See-through Safety Truck
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
The incredible Safety Truck has a camera fitted to its front, which sends real time footage to a screen on the back of the vehicle- helping car drivers overtake in safety. Samsung claimed its technology would help cut down on road deaths.
→ read full articleDrones, Cops, and the Unaccountable Machinery of Death
Editorial, The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
From signature strikes in Pakistan to police violence in Baltimore, the state is seemingly uninterested in even counting how many people it kills.
→ read full articleThe Oslo Conference to End Myanmar’s Persecution of the Rohingyas
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Venues: The Nobel Institute and Voksenaasen
Oslo, Norway
26-28 May 2015
At this Oslo Conference, global leaders including George Soros and Desmond Tutu will call on the international community, both international investors, European Union and governments with close ties to Myanmar, to help end Myanmar’s Rohingya persecution.
Oslo Principles on Global Climate Change Obligations
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
On March 1, 2015, a group of experts in international law, human rights law, environmental law, and other law adopted the Oslo Principles on Global Obligations to Reduce Climate Change. Based on extensive legal research and discussions over a period of several years the undersigned experts adopted the following principles:
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(Português) Espiritualidade e Virtude como Corolários para a Paz
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2015
Quando conheci o autor de O Tao da Física, Fritjof Capra, na Universidade do Havaí nos anos 80, ele me disse, sorrindo: “Quando nós, os físicos, chegarmos ao cume da montanha, seremos recebidos por místicos e espiritualistas que dirão: ‘porque demoraram tanto‘”? Estudos de Paz e de Conflito, entre outros fatores civilizadores para os seres humanos, representam a receita, o mapa para o cume da montanha. Tudo tem início e cresce dentro do indivíduo, manifestando-se depois na sociedade. Ou não.
→ read full articleAbout This Issue of the TMS Weekly Digest
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2015
Last week I was abroad working practically around the clock with Johan Galtung. It proved impossible to do the usual selection for our readers and 10,000 subscribers; please accept our apologies…
→ read full article19th World Congress of International Association of Educators for World Peace Will Be in India
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
May 29-31, 2015 – New Delhi, India – The theme of the congress is “Peace Education for Nonviolence and Solution of Terrorism,” Friends of Our Mother Earth!
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The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program-HAARP Weapon
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Short Video covering some of the events that the HAARP Weapon Technology is doing.
→ read full articleFull Text of the Minsk-II Agreement on Ukraine
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Marathon negotiations in Minsk, the Belarusian capital, resulted in a new ceasefire for eastern Ukraine.
→ read full articleSchool Day of Nonviolence and Peace – 30 January
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
Its basic and permanent message is: “Universal Love, Nonviolence and Peace – Universal love is better than egoism, nonviolence is better than violence, and peace is better than war.”
→ read full articleHappy New Year of 2015!
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
I would like to take this opportunity—change of year, New Year—to wish you, esteemed TMS reader, happiness, prosperity, health, peace in 2015.
→ read full articleUS Torture Report Summary Released (download full text here)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
9 December, 2014 – US Senator Dianne Feinstein Unveils CIA (Whitewash) Torture Report Summary on Capitol Hill in Washington
→ 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 article(Castellano) Tiempo de Acabar el Embargo de Cuba
Editorial – The New York Times,
27 Oct 2014
Cuando mira un mapa del mundo, el Presidente Obama debe sentir angustia al contemplar el lamentable estado de las relaciones bilaterales que su administración ha intentado reparar. Sería sensato que el líder estadounidense reflexione seriamente sobre Cuba, donde un giro de política podría representar un gran triunfo para su gobierno.
→ read full articleObama Should End the Embargo on Cuba
Editorial – The New York Times,
20 Oct 2014
Scanning a map of the world must give President Obama a sinking feeling as he contemplates the dismal state of troubled bilateral relationships his administration has sought to turn around. He would be smart to take a hard look at Cuba, where a major policy shift could yield a significant foreign policy success.
→ 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 articleBacksliding on Nuclear Promises
The Editorial Board – The New York Times,
29 Sep 2014
The administration is making a foolish trade-off — pouring money into modernization while reducing funds that help improve security at nuclear sites in Russia and other countries where terrorists or criminals could get their hands on nuclear materials.
→ read full article1984 by George Orwell – Full Movie
Antonio C. S. Rosa, Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
A film from 1956 based on the novel Nineteen-Eighty-Four by George Orwell. This is the first cinema rendition of the story, directed by Michael Anderson. Big Brother Is Watching You! – Ring any bells? The book and the movie were supposed to be warnings, NOT GUIDELINES!
→ read full articleInterview with Johan Galtung: The Pioneering International Peace Research Association He Founded in 1964
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Interview conducted on the occasion of IPRA’s 50th anniversary celebration at the Istanbul Conference, Turkey, August 11-15, 2014.
→ read full articleJewish Hate of Arabs Proves: Israel Must Undergo Cultural Revolution
Haaretz, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Without a revolution based on humanist values, the Jewish tribe will not be worthy of its own state.
→ read full articleHow Thailand Is Contributing to the Misery of Burma’s Persecuted Rohingya
Editorial Board – The Washington Post,
19 May 2014
This is a sad case of Thailand’s navy attempting to extinguish reporting rather than the misery that the reporting exposed. It is wrong to punish the journalists. But this misguided attempt at coercion is doubly wrong because it attempts to hide the shameful treatment of a people, the Rohingya, who are already suffering far too much.
→ read full articleThe Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
The Chapter ‘Language, Peace, and Conflict Resolution’ is by TRANSCEND Media Service contributor, Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos, a poet, peace linguist and human rights educator from Recife-Brazil. “This handbook is a classic. It helps connect the research of academia to the practical realities of peacemaking and peacebuilding like no other.” —Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
→ read full articleAbe Taking Pacifist Constitution Away from the People
The Asahi Shimbun, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
May 3, 2014 – Japan’s Constitution cannot be revised with a simple majority vote in the Diet. Any constitutional amendment must first be initiated through a vote of two-thirds or more of all members of each house in the Diet and then approved by the public with a majority vote in a special referendum.
→ read full articleMessage from TMS Editor
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2014
Dear TMS readers, subscribers and writers, unfortunately my computer crashed out and I was not able to upload the usual selection of materials to this Weekly Digest…
→ read full articleWhat to Celebrate in Rwanda’s Genocide Anniversary
Editorial Board – The Christian Science Monitor,
7 Apr 2014
April 3, 2014 – The 20th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide should focus as much on how the African nation worked toward reconciliation through forgiveness as on the mass slaughter itself.
→ read full articleFukushima’s Shameful Cleanup
The Editorial Board - International New York Times,
24 Mar 2014
A pattern of shirking responsibility permeates the decommissioning work at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. An increasing proportion of the 3,000 contract laborers at Fukushima are poorly trained, with little technical expertise or knowledge of radiation.
→ read full articleThe Plight of Myanmar’s Rohingya
Editorial Board – Los Angeles Times,
17 Mar 2014
The U.N. says the Rohingya, a Muslim minority in an overwhelmingly Buddhist country, are one of the most persecuted groups in the world. Recently violence has escalated according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Two attacks in January left an estimated four dozen Rohingya dead in a village in Rakhine. Myanmar’s response has been to deny that it happened.
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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 articleThe President on Mass Surveillance
Editorial – The New York Times,
20 Jan 2014
Jan. 17, 2014 – The collection of all this data may not be making us any safer, concluded the president’s review panel, as a federal judge ruled the program unconstitutional, and an extensive report by the New America Foundation found that the program “has had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism.”
→ read full articleEdward Snowden, Whistle-Blower
Editorial Board - The New York Times,
6 Jan 2014
When someone reveals that government officials have routinely and deliberately broken the law, that person should not face life in prison at the hands of the same government.
→ read full articleSnowden Affair: The Case for a Pardon
Editorial Board – The Guardian,
6 Jan 2014
We hope that calm heads within the present administration are working on a strategy to allow Mr Snowden to return to the US with dignity, and the president to use his executive powers to treat him humanely and in a manner that would be a shining example about the value of whistleblowers and of free speech itself.
→ read full articlePalestinians Have No Partner for Peace in Israel
Haaretz Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Dec. 29, 2013 – Rejection of the Palestinian partner is a deception aimed to delude the public into thinking the Israeli government’s hands are clean.
→ read full articleBusiness as Usual
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Luigi (the father) says to his son, “I want you to marry a girl of my choice.”
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Johan Galtung – Russell Tribunal on Palestine, New York
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
What is Sociocide?
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Heating Your Home Office Almost for Free
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
[Note from TMS editor: I post this video because I have tested the efficacy of the Flower Pot Heater in my own office/apartment. IT WORKS!]
→ read full articleRevealed: UK Government’s Radical Plan to ‘Burn Up’ UK’s Mountain of Plutonium
Steve Connor , Science Editor – The Independent,
2 Dec 2013
A radical plan to dispose of Britain’s huge store of civil plutonium – the biggest in the world – by “burning” it in a new type of fast reactor is now officially one of three “credible options” being considered by the Government, The Independent understands.
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Matt Damon on Howard Zinn’s Civil (dis)Obedience
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
Matt Damon, a lifelong friend of Howard Zinn and his family, read excerpts from a speech Howard Zinn gave in 1970 as part of a debate on civil disobedience. He is not asking you to participate and be proactive but when you hear this you might anyway. The problem is not Civil Disobedience, but Civil Obedience.
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☢ Fukushima: Beyond Urgent ☢ (Must Watch 11 min. Video)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
Oct 29, 2013 – What experts say about the Fukushima nuclear accident.
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Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Sevice,
4 Nov 2013
The NSA whistleblower’s letter to chancellor Angela Merkel, the German Parliament and to federal prosecutors, according to Hans-Christian Ströebele, a German opposition lawmaker from the Green Party who visited him in Moscow.
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Frank Sinatra – My Way (Music Video of the Week)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
Composed by Paul Anka in 1974 – Insightful, Powerful Lyrics
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Michio Kaku on War, Peace, and the All-Powerful Will of the People
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
Dr. Michio Kaku is an American thinker, physicist, professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York, futurist, and communicator. He has written several books and made frequent appearances on radio, television and film worldwide.
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Palestine before 1948
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
The video contains pictures of different Palestinian cities during the 1920’s and 1930’s, before the creation of the state of Israel by the Zionists in 1948.
→ read full articleWhistleblowing: A Practical Guide – By Brian Martin
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
You may be not a Snowden or Manning, but you discover some wrongdoing such as corruption, injustice or danger to the public. What should you do? If you do nothing, the problem will continue. If you speak out, you become a target for attack. Whistleblowing: A Practical Guide tells how to assess your options, prepare for action, use low-profile operations, negotiate official channels, leak, build support and survive the experience.
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Allegro Molto Appassionato (Music Video of the Week)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
Nicola Benedetti – Violin
Author: Felix Mendelssohn
Israel & BDS – A Note from Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
On Sep 7, 2013 Roger was interviewed by Alon Hadar for the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. Below is an open letter to the editor from Roger. -“Without wishing to fan the flames, I feel I owe it to my fans in Israel to correct the record on a number of points. The article was a serious distortion of the actual interview I gave. Both questions and answers were changed. I can only assume to suit an editorial agenda.”
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Editorial Board – The New York Times,
7 Oct 2013
It could be disastrous if Mr. Netanyahu and his supporters in Congress were so blinded by distrust of Iran that they exaggerate the threat, block President Obama from taking advantage of new diplomatic openings and sabotage the best chance to establish a new relationship since the 1979 Iranian revolution sent American-Iranian relations into the deep freeze.
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Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2013
Sep 30, 2013 – Government Accountability Project’s Jesselyn Radack reads Edward Snowden’s statement before the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs in Brussels (with transcript).
→ read full article(Português) Discurso da Presidenta Dilma Rousseff na 68a Reunião da ONU em Nova York
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
Sep 24, 2013 – Além de pedir ações pela proteção de dados nas redes, a presidenta Dilma Rousseff defendeu hoje, na 68ª Assembleia Geral das Nações Unidas, as reformas do Fundo Monetário Internacional (FMI) e do Conselho de Segurança das Nações Unidas.
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Tango Adagio (Music Video of the Week)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
Guitar – Gustavo Montesano
Composer: Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (1671– 1751)
Japan: Anti-Democratic Secrecy Bill
Editorial – The Japan Times,
23 Sep 2013
The Abe administration plans to submit to the Diet a bill to protect state secrets that the government deems vital to national security. It carries a danger of expanding the scope of special secrets ad infinitum and could undermine the fundamental democratic principles of freedom of information and freedom of the press.
→ read full articleUpdating International Nuclear Law
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
For Those Interested in Nuclear Liability Issues in Various Countries – Nuclear research and nuclear industry have managed to grow and survive because of highly favourable structures found in international law and institutions.
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Vaccine Pioneer Admits Adding CANCER-CAUSING VIRUS to Vaccine!
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
In this interview Dr. Maurice Hilleman makes some astounding revelations. He admits that Merck drug company vaccines (Polio) had been deliberately contaminated with SV40, a cancer-causing monkey virus from 1953 – 63.
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