Articles by Nel
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Why Do Governing Elites Support Harmful Policies?
Nel | Worldlines - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
29 Mar 2025 – Inside the Social, Economic, and Psychological Drivers of Elite-Driven Militarization in Global Politics
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Gabor Maté: What Leads a People to Violent Resistance
The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
15 Dec 2024 – Victims of Trauma
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The Looming Catastrophe in the Middle East
The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
28 Sep 2024 – The Chris Hedges Report with Gideon Levy
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Western Ambassadors to Skip Nagasaki Memorial after Israel Snub
Channel News Asia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
7 Aug 2024 – Ambassadors from Western countries including the United States will skip a ceremony marking the 79th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki after Israel was snubbed, officials said today.
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Dear Child
ChrisHedgesChannel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
25 Jun 2024 – Written by Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Chris Hedges – The film takes you on a haunting & realistic journey through Gaza today from a child’s perspective imbued with the guilt of a foreign journalist. (Arabic version below)
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Israeli Soldier Speaks Out: Why I Turned against the War on Gaza
Channel 4 News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
23 Apr 2024 – It’s rare to hear from soldiers who’ve served on the ground, but an Israeli soldier says that what he witnessed turned him against the genocide. He’s voiced by an actor to protect his identity. And a warning: you may find some images upsetting.
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Haiti: Stop the Destruction of a Nation
Seth Donnelly | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
6 Jun 2023 – What’s going on in Haiti today–with all historical context. It is truly a disaster and atrocity on a massive scale.
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US Tax Dollars at Work: Neocolonial Dictatorship, Paramilitary and Police Terror in Haiti Today
Seth Donnelly | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
2 Dec 2022 – Sending additional foreign troops into Haiti: it misses the fact that it was subjected to such an intervention culminating in the foreign occupation of Haiti since 2004. Similarly, the call for greater US-funding and training of the Haitian police camouflages the following fundamental realities:
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The Haitian Revolution Today and the Limits of Token Solidarity
Seth Donnelly | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
“Solidarity in the fight for social justice must be international. It’s not acceptable to be in solidarity with the Venezuelan people, but not in solidarity with the Haitian people; it’s not acceptable to be for Iraq, but against Haiti.”
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Women of the World Call for Peace Now!
Nuclear Wake Up Call Channel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
10 May 2022 – Featuring Nobel Peace Laureate (TRANSCEND Member) Mairead Maguire, Ambassador Elayne Whyte Gomez and Dr. Paula Garb – These women are all leading in a new way, showing us a pathway forward to peace and disarmament. They are calling on us to awaken and join together to eliminate nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.
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Nelson Mandela’s Wisdom
Nelson Mandela – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
An Inspiring Message in 3 min.
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Mary’s Room: A Philosophical Thought Experiment
Eleanor Nelsen | TED-Ed - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
Imagine a neuroscientist who has only ever seen black and white things, but she is an expert in color vision and knows everything about its physics and biology. If, one day, she sees color, does she learn anything new? Is there anything about perceiving color that wasn’t captured in her knowledge?
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The Assassination of Jovenel Moise: What Next for Haiti?
Seth Donnelly | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
13 Jul 2021 – Today, the people of Haiti are facing down the US-backed dictatorship of the ruling Haitian Tet Kale Party (PHTK) that came to power through the fraudulent election of Michel Martelly in 2010 and maintained its grip on power through the fraudulent election of Jovenel Moise in 2016, what Haitian activists refer to as electoral coup d’etats.
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A Locust Plague Hit East Africa–The Pesticide Solution May Have Dire Consequences
Tristan McConnell | National Geographic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
24 Mar 2021 – Heavy use of a broad-spectrum pesticide seems to have slowed the desert locust invasion. What the repercussions of that approach are isn’t yet clear. So far, a ground and air spraying campaign over eight East African countries, coordinated by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, has staved off the worst.
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Cornel West’s 2017 Harvard Convocation Address
Cornel West | Harvard Divinity School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
First, we normalize mendacity and naturalize criminality. We make our lies look like the normal order of things. Second, we encourage callousness and reward indifference. We make mean-spiritedness look manly and mature. Third, we trump the moral and spiritual dimensions of our lives and world by applauding our short-term gains and superficial successes.
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Republican Party’s Corona Big Book
Brett O’Donnel | O’Donnell & Associates – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
17 May 2020 – The book was assembled by Brett O’Donnell, who has worked for and is close to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. It is basically a script for what Republican Senate candidates are to say. O’Donnell currently serves as a message and media strategist for numerous members of congress and for profit and nonprofit corporations. The Republican Party is using the text to deflect their failed COVID-19 leadership. They believe that if you create a set of lies, muddle them in a conspiracy theory, and have every Republican repeat them over and over, they can succeed in framing the political conversation. — Rolf Melheim
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Reconciling Dr. King’s 1968 Dream and Our 2020 Nightmare
Bob Hennelly | Salon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
12 Jan 2020 – Debt servitude, endless wars, and our economic turmoil was all prophesied by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Forget about Water at Your Peril
Rachael McDonnell – Al Jazeera,
9 Dec 2019
4 Dec 2019 – Even by climate change’s destructive standards, water is in an increasingly grim bind. Climate change is gutting global water security. We have solutions but lack the political will to implement them.
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Bolivia in Crisis: How Evo Morales Was Forced Out
Angus McNelly – The Conversation,
18 Nov 2019
12 Nov 2019 – Evo Morales has left Bolivia on a plane for Mexico, a day after he resigned as president. Morales and his vice-president, Álvaro García Linera, stood down from office on November 10, following a ‘suggestion’ by the head of the military, Williams Kaliman.
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Street Pianos – Rondo Alla Turca (Music Video of the Week)
the5brownsmusic's channel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
The 5 Browns playing an arrangement and rift of Mozart’s Alla Turca by Greg Anderson. The video was filmed while playing the international street pianos art called “Play Me, I’m Yours.”
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(বাঙালি-Bengali) রোহিঙ্গাদের আরাম কমানো হবে, যাতে ফিরতে রাজি হয়: পররাষ্ট্রমন্ত্রী
Channel 24 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
২২ আগস্ট, 2019 – পররাষ্ট্রমন্ত্রী ড. এ কে আব্দুল মোমেন বলেছেন, রোহিঙ্গাদের আরাম কমানো হবে, যাতে তারা মিয়ানমারে ফিরতে রাজি হয়। বৃহস্পতিবার (২২ আগস্ট) দুপুর আড়াইটার দিকে পররাষ্ট্র মন্ত্রণালয়ে সাংবাদিকদের এসব কথা বলেন তিনি।
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Gaza: A Documentary Film
Garry Keane and Andrew McConnell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
‘Gaza’, a Canadian-Irish documentary made by Andrew McConnell & Garry Keane, gives an insight into how people try to live their lives in this very difficult environment, whether a taxi-driver and his customers, a cello-playing girl or fishermen restricted by gunships to within 3 miles of the shore.
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The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation
Seth Donnelly | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
“We’re making headway on global poverty,” trills billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates. “Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues,” reports the World Bank. And “How did the global poverty rate halve in 20 years?” inquires The Economist magazine. Seth Donnelly answers: “It didn’t!” In fact, according to Donnelly’s The Lie of Global Prosperity, virtually nothing about these glad tidings proclaiming plummeting global poverty rates is true.
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IPCC Special Report: Climate Change and Land
UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
6 Aug 2019 – An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems.
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Caster Semenya: The Legal and Ethical Issues That Should Concern Us All
Steve Cornelius – The Conversation,
3 Jun 2019
27 May 2019 – The International Association of Athletics Federations introduced regulations requiring South African 800m Olympic champion Caster Semenya to lower her naturally high levels of testosterone. The way in which the IAAF has gone about dealing with her raises serious legal and ethical concerns. Some women are being singled out because they are different. If Semenya was a blonde bombshell or if she didn’t win, we wouldn’t be having this debate today. Effectively coercing a healthy athlete into taking hormone treatment is certainly a compulsory medical intervention.
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US Stops All Aid to Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza
Yolande Knell - BBC News,
4 Feb 2019
1 Feb 2019 – More than US$60m in annual funds for the Palestinian security services has now ended, and – while Israel has backed some previous cuts in US aid for Palestinians – officials have expressed concern about this move. The US has confirmed the step linked to new anti-terrorism legislation.
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Global Warming of 1.5 °C
UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
8 Oct 2018 – An IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty
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Why Do They Hate Us? How the West Creates Its Own Enemies
Marco Carnelos | Middle East Eye – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
From ancient Greece onward, the West has used the Eastern other as an enemy through which to identify itself.
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UN Special Envoy Claims [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi Could Be Guilty of Crimes against Humanity
Jonathan Miller – Channel 4 News,
19 Feb 2018
14 Feb 2018 – Professor Yanghee Lee, who’s now been barred from Burma, said she’d received many death threats and was even warned of a planned assassination attempt.
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Nuclear Disarmament Now a ‘Moral Imperative’ as Pope Francis Rejects Deterrence
Gerard O’Connell | America Jesuit Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
In a landmark statement on nuclear arms on 10 Nov 2017, Pope Francis has categorically condemned not only “the threat of their use” but also “their very possession.” Nuclear weapons, he told participants at a Vatican symposium on “integral disarmament,” exist “in the service of a mentality of fear that affects not only the parties in conflict but the entire human race.”
→ read full article4 Million Muslims Killed In Western Wars (Up to 2015 alone): Should We Call It Genocide?
Kit O'Connell – MintPress News,
3 Apr 2017
18 Aug 2015 — It may never be possible to know the true death toll of the modern Western wars on the Middle East, but that figure could be 4 million or higher. Since the vast majority of those killed were of Arab descent, and mostly Muslim, when would it be fair to accuse the United States and its allies of genocide?
→ read full articleMyanmar Army Killed and Raped in Rohingya Ethnic Cleansing: UN
Reuters – Channel News Asia,
6 Feb 2017
Myanmar’s security forces have committed mass killings and gang rapes of Rohingya Muslims and burned their villages since October in a campaign that probably amounts to crimes against humanity and possibly “ethnic cleansing”, the U.N. human rights office said on Friday [3 Feb].
→ read full articleScientists Confirm: Darwinism Is Broken
Paul Nelson and David Klinghoffer | Media Research Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
13 Dec 2016 – Darwinian Theory is broken and may not be fixable. That was the takeaway from a meeting last month organized by the Royal Society in London, the world’s most distinguished and historic scientific organization. The three-day conference–mostly unreported by the media–was remarkable in confirming something that advocates of intelligent design, a controversial scientific alternative to evolution, have said for years.
→ read full articleProtests in Asian Capitals over Violence against Rohingya
Channel News Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Angry protesters took to the streets in cities from Jakarta to Dhaka on Friday (Nov 25, 2016) to denounce Myanmar over allegations of indiscriminate killing and rape in a military crackdown on the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority.
→ read full articleGoodbye, American Neoliberalism. A New Era Is Here
Prof. Cornel West – The Guardian,
21 Nov 2016
Trump’s election was enabled by the policies that overlooked the plight of our most vulnerable citizens. We gird ourselves for a frightening future.
→ read full article(Português) Árvore mais antiga de Portugal tem 2850 anos
Sofia Marques Correia | Noctula Channel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
A árvore mais antiga que se conhece em Portugal é uma oliveira com 2850 anos. Tem 10 metros e 15 centímetros de diâmetro e, apesar da idade, ainda dá azeitonas!
→ read full articleDakota Access Pipeline ‘Water Protectors’ Block Construction despite National Guard Blockade, Police Harassment & Arrests
Kit O'Connell – MintPress News,
10 Oct 2016
4 Oct 2016 — Amid near continuous harassment and frequent arrests by police, members of over 300 Native American tribes gathered on native land in North Dakota continue to block construction on the Dakota Access pipeline. ‘Our intentions are to protect water for the 18 million people downstream. And we’re not protesters, we’re protectors,’ a member of the Navajo Nation living at the encampment told us.
→ read full article“Unruly Equality”: A Brief History of Anarchism
Andrew Cornell | Toward Freedom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
The very terms anarchy, anarchism, and anarchist are so overcoded with meanings and burdened by associations that people frequently talk past one another, or resort to awkward attempts at humor, even when attempting to discuss them in good faith.
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Galway Kinnell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Pulitzer-winning poet Galway Kinnell addressed this elemental question of existence with extraordinary compassion and spiritual grace in a poem he wrote for a student of his who was contemplating suicide after the abrupt end of a romance.
→ read full articleParticipatory Economics and the Next System
Robin Hahnel | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Only when a majority are sufficiently disgusted by capitalism and confident that workers and consumers can manage and coordinate their own economic affairs will it be possible to leave capitalism in the dustbin of history where it belongs.
→ read full articleCampaign for the Removal of the EU Sanctions on Syria
Marinella Correggia | Italian Committee for the End of the UE Sanctions on Syria – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
The renewal of the shameful European Union sanctions against the war-torn Syria is going to be discussed at the end of May by the European Council, as every year since 2011. Note: In 2012, the sanctions were removed from the opposition/armed jihadists-controlled areas (including the now Daesh/ISIS-controlled areas!). The link to the online petition:
→ read full articleRichmond’s People to People Delegation: How Beautiful Is Cuba
Willie Thompson, Tarnel Abbott and Marilyn Langlois – San Francisco Bay View,
16 May 2016
We were gratified by the hospitality extended to us in an atmosphere where, by and large, people do right by each other. As the popular national song declares, “Cuba que linda es Cuba!” “How beautiful is Cuba!”
→ read full articleWhen Compassion Is Terrorism: Animal Rights in a Post-911 World
Chad Nelson - CounterPunch,
9 May 2016
They saved the lives of thousands of confined and brutalized animals. Rather than settle for the slow-drip “humane economy” reforms that aim at improving the conditions of animal confinement and reducing the barbarity of their slaughter, Buddenberg and Kissane took the direct route — they staged prison breaks — freeing the inmates and leaving messages for the prison wardens.
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Chad Nelson – Center for a Stateless Society,
25 Apr 2016
The so-called Humane Economy is anything but. Like the criminal who abstains from violence based solely on the fear of being caught and punished, business executives implement “humane” practices in food production and entertainment industries only after having their hands forced, once their corporate balance sheets or forecasts are impacted by gruesome exposés on their practices.
→ read full articlePre-Deciding about Violence
Elizabeth Traubman and Lionel Traubman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
What does smacking your child have in common with the fast-spreading violence we read about in headlines from every continent like terrorist attacks in Paris, Beirut, and Jerusalem, and drone strikes that kill innocent women and children? They all are part of the cycle of cruelty. Yet as today’s headlines clarify for us, violence primarily fuels more flames of hostility.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il mondo dopo la NATO. Che Pace!
Marinella Correggia – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
9 Nov 2015
novembre 2, 2015 – Racconto di una piccola azione diretta nonviolenta davanti al vicesegretario generale NATO Vershbow durante la presentazione dell’esercitazione Trident Juncture.
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Strawberry Fields Forever (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Carlos Bonell's Channel - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Carlos Bonell solo guitar arrangements of Strawberry Fields Forever, a classic from Lennon & McCartney. Enjoy!
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Should Palestinians Visit Nazi Concentration Camps?
MoralCourageChannel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
A Palestinian professor takes his students to visit Auschwitz – not to adopt the Zionist narrative, but to learn more about the conflict’s roots. Upon their return, the professor’s car is blown up. See why he persists, how one student was affected by the trip and, most surprising, who else wants to go.
→ read full articleWhite Phosphorous War Crimes Connect Israel to Monsanto
Kit O'Connell – MintPress News,
22 Jun 2015
16 Jun 2015 — Monsanto Corporation, the agribusiness giant best known for its pesticides and genetically-modified crops, also manufactured white phosphorous for the U.S. government over at least the past 20 years. Used in incendiary military weapons, the United States sold white phosphorous-based weapons to Israel, which used those weapons to commit brutal war crimes against Palestinians living in Gaza in 2009.
→ read full articleLaissez Faire Water Laws Threaten Family Farming in Chile
Marianela Jarroud, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
May 27 2015 – Family farmers in Chile are pushing for the reinstatement of water as a public good, to at least partially solve the shortages caused by the privatisation of water rights by the military dictatorship in 1981.
→ read full articleWhy the Media Ignores Jeremy Hammond While Praising Edward Snowden
Kit O'Connell – Mint Press News,
18 May 2015
Jeremy Hammond’s hack of Stratfor, a corporate intelligence agency, created global solidarity by revealing how the 1% targets activists worldwide.
→ read full articleVictims of Clerical Sex Abuse Join Forces in Latin America
Marianela Jarroud, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
20 Mar 2015 – Victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Latin America are taking the first steps towards grouping together in order to bolster their search for justice – a struggle where they have found a new ally: filmmaking.
→ read full articleEbola’s Grim Original Secret: How Capitalism and Obscene Military Spending Got Us Here
Robert Hennelly – Salon,
27 Oct 2014
It’s time to look at America’s perverted sense of death, health and prevention — and how we’re spending our money. The Obama administration has appointed an Ebola czar and the military is pulling together a kind of infectious disease SWAT team that can helicopter in the next time a “world-class” American hospital fumbles an Ebola case. Glad that’s resolved.
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Friends of Orphans – Free the Children Slave Soldiers
FROchildsoldiers's channel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
[Note from Antonio, TMS editor:] I met Anywar Ricky Richard in Seoul, South Korea in Sep 2014 at the World Alliance of Religions Peace Summit. He is doing an extraordinary, pioneering work with ex-child soldiers in Uganda, himself being one of them. I was deeply impressed as were those in attendance. Anywar is a remarkable human being and deserves all support we can give to his cause.
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Cabaret (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Liza Minnelli – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
From the Movie Cabaret – Mein Herr (1972) – A Classic! Lisa Minelli at her best.
→ read full articleSaint Francis and the Sow
Galway Kinnell, Brain Pickings - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
The bud
stands for all things,
even for those things that don’t flower,
for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
Recurring Nightmares: Genocide and the Long Shadow of Colonialism in Burma
Steven Kiersons, MA – The Sentinel Project,
8 Sep 2014
Why countries with a history of Western colonial influence are at a higher risk of genocide.
→ read full articleStreet Pianos – Rondo Alla Turca (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
the5brownsmusic's channel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
The 5 Browns playing an arrangement and rift of Mozart’s Alla Turca by Greg Anderson.
→ read full articleChile Taps Solar Thermal Energy with Latin America’s First Plant
Marianela Jarroud, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
“Thermal solar plants are capable of generating and storing energy, and in practice that means they can operate around the clock for most of the year, solely based on energy from the sun.” — Professor Roberto Román
→ read full articleThe Boomerang Effect: Sanctions on Russia Hit German Economy Hard
Matthias Schepp and Cornelia Schmergal – Der Spiegel,
28 Jul 2014
21 Jul 2014 – The United States and Europe last week announced the imposition of stronger sanctions against Russia in response to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. German industry may be among the losers.
→ read full articleIn Flanders Fields
Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
This remains to this day one of the most memorable war poems ever written. It is a lasting legacy of the terrible battle in the Ypres salient in the spring of 1915.
→ read full articleTo Grow or Not to Grow GMO Crops
Silvia Giannelli, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
So far, 129.000 hectares of land – roughly the area covered by a city the size of Rome – are being cultivated with genetically modified corn in Europe, 90 percent of which is in Spain, while the rest is spread across Portugal, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania.
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Granada (Music Video of the Week)
Carlos Bonell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Guitar par excellence! Composed by Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)
→ read full articleChannel 4 Refutes Sri Lankan “Propaganda Offensive”
Channel 4, UK – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Channel 4 has today [28 Feb 2014] taken the step of publishing a refutation of “an international propaganda offensive” by supporters of the Sri Lankan government against its reporting. Channel 4 and Current Affairs journalists led the way in exposing the country’s war crimes, culminating in the broadcast of the documentary No Fire Zone – a forensic investigation into the final weeks of the bloody civil war in Sri Lanka.
→ read full articleSpeech in La Habana, Cuba
Nelson Mandela – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
We admire the sacrifices of the Cuban people in maintaining their independence and sovereignty in the face of a vicious imperialist-orchestrated campaign to destroy the impressive gains made in the Cuban revolution. You are with us because both of our organizations, the Communist Party of Cuba and the ANC, are fighting for the oppressed masses, to ensure that those who make the wealth enjoy its fruits.
→ read full articleStrawberry Fields Forever (Music Video of the Week)
Carlos Bonell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
Carlos Bonell – Guitar. Masterpiece by John Lennon & Paul McCartney
→ read full articleIsrael Issues 1,859 Settler Home Tenders ahead of Kerry Visit
Channel NewsAsia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Israel issued tenders to build 1,859 settler homes on Sunday [3 Nov 2013], angering Palestinians ahead of a visit by US Secretary of State John Kerry aimed at pushing the peace process forward.
→ read full articleHuman Influence on Climate Clear, IPCC Report Says
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
IPCC Press Release. Stockholm, 27 Sep 2013 – Human influence on the climate system is clear. This is evident in most regions of the globe, a new assessment concludes.
→ read full articleNew Report: High Risk of Genocide in Burma
Steven Kiersons – The Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention,
16 Sep 2013
The Sentinel Project has released a report assessing the risk of genocide against Muslim minorities in Burma and has found the risk level to be high in light of intensified persecution.
→ read full article(Italiano) Fidel. Auguri, e grazie anche per la Pace
Marinella Correggia – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
26 Aug 2013
13 agosto 2013 – Buon compleanno a Fidel Castro! Fra i tanti aspetti del suo agire politico, ricordiamo il suo ruolo di attore internazionale contro le guerre infinite; anzitutto per prevenirle. Come è stato per Hugo Chavez.
→ read full articleNightmare Island Where Traffickers Imprison Burma’s Rohingya
John Sparks – Channel 4 News, UK,
19 Aug 2013
Beaten, imprisoned and sold into slavery – Channel 4 News reveals the fate of Burma’s Muslim Rohingya refugees, who flee conflict only to end up in the clutches of brutal human traffickers.
→ read full article(Italiano) La Domanda di Yara
Marinella Correggia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Ma non avrei notato Yara – che non avevo mai visto prima – se non fosse stato per una sua domanda, forse era retorica o forse un po’ provocatoria. Aveva alzato la mano e aveva chiesto: “Arrivano diverse delegazioni internazionali, qui. Ma mi pare che al ritorno nei vostri paesi, a livello di informazione sulla Siria non cambi nulla. Come mai secondo voi?”.
→ read full article(Italiano) Appello della Premio Nobel Mairead Maguire all’Italia: “Non boicottate la pace”
Marinella Correggia – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
27 May 2013
Damasco – La nord-irlandese Mairead Maguire, premio Nobel per la pace nel 1976, ha guidato una delegazione internazionale a sostegno del movimento siriano Mussalaha (Riconciliazione). Occhi come il cielo d’Irlanda e sorriso buono, al termine della missione Mairead è lieta di rivolgere un appello all’Italia, mentre i tamburi di guerra della no-fly zone risuonano da Roma a Doha, da Istanbul a Parigi e rischiano di ipotecare la prossima conferenza internazionale sulla Siria.
→ read full article(Italiano) Siria. Mussalaha Contro Musallahin (I puntata)
Marinella Correggia – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
27 May 2013
Nei giorni in cui Israele attacca la Siria con raid aerei, in cui il magistrato Carla Del Ponte membro della Commissione d’inchiesta dell’Onu sulla Siria (Coi) a sorpresa dichiara che le famigerate armi chimiche – nella fattispecie il gas sarin- sono state probabilmente usate in Siria dai gruppi armati antigovernativi.
→ read full article(Italiano) Siria: La «Riconciliazione» Che Sfida la Guerra
Marinella Correggia – Il Manifesto,
27 May 2013
Viaggio a Homs con una delegazione internazionale che appoggia l’esperimento di «Mussalah», contro le armi e per il dialogo tra le parti in conflitto. Autorità religiose e attivisti laici insieme per trovare soluzioni senza ingerenze esterne.
→ read full article(Italiano) Mussalaha per la Pace e l’Autodeterminazione in Siria
Marinella Correggia – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
20 May 2013
Una delegazione internazionale di pacifisti guidata dalla premio Nobel per la pace irlandese Mairead Maguire sta visitando Damasco e altri luoghi del paese per sostenere il movimento di riconciliazione nazionale Mussalaha e chiedere alla comunità internazionale, spiega Maguire, di rispettare la sovranità della Siria e l’assoluto bisogno di pace e autodeterminazione del popolo siriano.
→ read full article54 Years of Stupidity and Counting – Cuba Policy: Fruitless, Mean and Cruel
Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdés - CounterPunch,
6 May 2013
In their 54-year-old effort to bring down Cuba’s revolutionary government and restore obedience in our Caribbean neighbor, U.S. officials have compiled a spectacular record of failure, overshadowed only by the determination to persist in their pursuit of wrongheaded polices, further damaging U.S. interests.
→ read full articleBurmese Neo-Nazi Movement Rising against Muslims
Kosak Tuscangate – Asia Sentinel,
25 Mar 2013
When Dr. Maung Zarni, an outspoken activist academic, labeled the ongoing anti-Rohingya and anti-Muslim movement in Burma as neo-Nazi, some Burmese said Zarni was exaggerating. But Zarni has been proven right by emerging photos of an anti-Muslim riot in Meiktila in central Myanmar that broke out on March 20 [2013]. The riot has taken more than 30 lives, and more than 10 mosques, Islamic schools and houses have been destroyed.
→ read full articleTorture, Inc. – America’s Brutal Prisons
Deborah Davies, Channel 4 Dispatches – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq?
→ read full articleUN Body “Alarmed” by US Killings of Afghan Children
Channel News Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
A UN committee has expressed “alarm” over reports that hundreds of children have been killed by US military forces in Afghanistan in the past five years. The Geneva-based Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) said the deaths were “due notably to reported lack of precautionary measures and indiscriminate use of force”. The report, received by AFP on Friday [8 Feb 2013], also expressed concern that troops responsible for the killing of children had not always been held accountable and that family grievances had not been redressed.
→ read full articleLatin America Flexes Muscles at Joint EU Summit
Marianela Jarroud – TerraViva Europe,
4 Feb 2013
The nations of Latin America and the Caribbean strengthened their position with respect to Europe at the CELAC-EU summit held this weekend [Jan 26-27, 2013] in the Chilean capital, reaching agreements that protect their natural resources from foreign investors and securing a joint condemnation of the United States’ trade embargo against Cuba.
→ read full articleViolent Attacks of Buddhists against Muslim Rohingyas in Burma as Obama Visits Country
Channel 4 News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
President Obama’s historic visit to Burma has been questioned by some as premature following the recent communal violence between Muslims and Buddhists.
→ read full article(Castellano) Tercer Simposio Mundial: Los Humanistas Proponen Campaña Latinoamericana por la Reducción del Gasto Militar en la Región
Nelsy Lizarazo, Mundo Sin Guerras y Sin Violencia – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
12 Nov 2012
Tomás Hirsch, humanista chileno, lanzó la propuesta humanista para trabajar en una gran campaña latinoamericana para la reducacción del gasto militar en América Latina y Caribe y reorientar ese gasto hacia la salud, la educación y la calidad de vida de nuestras poblaciones. Avanzaremos en esta propuesta y les invitamos a todos y todas a sumar a ella, concluyó Hirsch.
→ read full article(French) II Symposium Mondial: Les Humanistes Proposent Une Campagne en Amérique Latine pour la Réduction des Dépenses Militaires
Nelsy Lizarazo, Monde Sans Guerres et Sans Violence – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
5 Nov 2012
Tomás Hirsch, humaniste chilien, a lancé la proposition humaniste de travailler sur une grande campagne de réduction des dépenses militaires en Amérique Latine et aux Caraïbes. Le but étant de réorienter ces ressources dans la santé, l’éducation et la qualité de vie de nos populations. Nous avancerons sur cette proposition et vous invitons toutes et tous à vous regrouper autour d’elle, conclut Hirsch.
→ read full articleGreenwashing the Olympics
Daniel Nelson – CorpWatch,
9 Jul 2012
Rio Tinto, the global mining company, has been named as early front-runner for the Greenwash Gold award for the worst Olympic sponsor, with BP, the oil and gas multinational, in second place and Dow Chemical third. The three corporations are banking on getting a good return on their purchase of the right to stick their names all over Olympic promotional material and activities.
→ read full articleWhat is WikiLeaks?
TheWikiLeaksChannel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
WikiLeaks: 575 days of banking blockade – no process
Assange: 572 days detainment – no charge
Manning: 769 days in jail – no trial
Grand Jury: 655 days US secret Grand Jury into WikiLeaks – no transparency
WikiLeaks is a not-for-profit media organisation. Our goal is to bring important news and information to the public. We provide an innovative, secure and anonymous way for sources to leak information to our journalists (our electronic drop box).
(Italian) La (Dis)Informazione a Senso Unico
Marinella Correggia, Il Manifesto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2012
Si Ripete la Stessa Operazione Mediatica: Come Per la «Guerra Umanitaria» in Libia
→ read full article(Portuguese) Pior Que Morrer É Não Pagar
Nelson Peralta – Esquerda.net,
7 Nov 2011
Quando, perante a morte de um povo, a nossa preocupação é que assim não pode pagar a dívida agiota à banca sabemos que chegámos ao grau zero da Humanidade.
→ read full articleWhat’s at Stake in Greece?
Antonis Davanellos – Socialist Worker,
27 Jun 2011
Just this year Greece will pay its lenders in interest alone the equivalent of 30% of all its revenues–or 8 percent of the GDP. By 2015, the equivalent figures will be 39% of government revenues and 10% of GDP. At the same time, Greece’s debt instead of going down will increase. The sacrifices forced on the people were supposed to bring debt down to 350 billion euros by 2015, or 139 percent of annual GDP. Today, the government, EU and IMF all admit that Greece’s debt will exceed 500 billion euros, or almost 200 percent of GDP!
→ read full article
Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields
Channel 4 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
UK Channel 4 Full Video – Jon Snow presents a forensic investigation into the final weeks of the quarter-century-long civil war between the government of Sri Lanka and the secessionist rebels, the Tamil Tigers. With disturbing and distressing descriptions and film of executions, atrocities and the shelling of civilians the programme features devastating new video evidence of war crimes – some of the most horrific footage Channel 4 has ever broadcast.
→ read full articleThree Arrested, Accused of Illegally Feeding Homeless
Susan Jacobson - Orlando Sentinel,
6 Jun 2011
Members of Orlando Food Not Bombs were arrested Wednesday [1 Jun 2011] when police said they violated a city ordinance by feeding the homeless in Lake Eola Park. Arrest papers state that Cross, Markeson and McHenry helped feed 40 people Wednesday night. The ordinance applies to feedings of more than 25 people.
→ read full articleSri Lanka ‘War Crimes’ Is ‘Srebrenica Moment’
Channel 4 News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
The former UN spokesman in Sri Lanka Gordon Weiss tells Channel 4 News that a leaked UN report into “credible allegations” of war crimes represent Sri Lanka’s “Srebrenica moment”. A leaked United Nations report estimates that tens of thousands of civilians were killed during the fighting between Sri Lankan forces and the LTTE – known as the Tamil Tigers in 2009. The document cites “credible allegations” that government forces deliberately shelled civilians and repeatedly targeted hospitals. If proven, the allegations amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleTo Libya with God on Our Side
Saul Landau and Nelson Valdes – Information Clearing House,
11 Apr 2011
Grabbing other people’s land and interfering in their affairs became as American as apple pie before the annexation of Texas, and “Manifest Destiny” as the engine of U.S. foreign policy. In 17th Century inspirational moments God sent His chosen from England to found the “city on a hill” (Boston). He had dispatched other select British subjects to settle “the promised land” (Virginia). According to John L. O’Sullivan in 1839, God intended “the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.”
→ read full article(Portuguese) Quem Roubou a Minha Poluição?
Nelson Peralta, esquerda.net – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2011
O mercado europeu de comércio de emissões de dióxido de carbono (CO2) está fechado há uma semana depois de ter sido detectado o roubo de 475 mil toneladas em licenças de emissão de CO2. Esta bolsa funciona numa plataforma virtual online e as falhas de segurança têm sido uma constante. A Comissão Europeia estima que cerca de dois milhões de licenças avaliadas em 26 milhões de euros possam estar desaparecidas, mas ninguém parece saber ao certo. O mercado deve reabrir hoje [27 Jan 2011], apenas nos países que adoptaram medidas de segurança adicionais.
→ read full article(Italian) Il Rifiuto Della Carne Contro la Sofferenza Degli Animali
Marinella Correggia – Il Manifesto,
29 Nov 2010
«Da un punto di vista etico, metafisico e religioso, o tutta la vita souffrante viene salvata, o tutto è privo di senso; come la pietà è indivisibile, così la salvezza a cui dà diritto la sofferenza. È questa la difficoltà più grande del pensiero teologico».
→ read full articleNorth American Union – “U.S. Super Spy Center” Uncovered in Mexico
Jorge Carrasco and Jesus Esquivel, DeadlineLive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
With the approval of Felipe Calderón’s Administration, the U.S. Government finally got what it always wanted: To set up a super spy center in Mexico City. It was the escalation of the drug war in the country what opened the door to all U.S. intelligence agencies, including the military, to operate out of the Federal District without having to disguise their agents as diplomats.
→ read full articleButchery Classes and Parties: How Much Do You Want to Know About How Your Meat Gets to Your Plate?
Anneli Rufus - AlterNet,
25 Oct 2010
Does this mean Americans are eating boiled tongue, braised brains and oxtail soup again? “They sure are,” Wilson says with a laugh. Avedano’s offers monthly butchering classes: Students pay $300 each to tackle whole lambs and pigs. “Butcher parties,” where guests throng excitedly around animals being dismembered, are like latter-day raves. Butchery is the new cool.
→ read full articleNINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR CAME A BIT LATE, BUT ITS BRAVE NEW WORLD ARRIVED JUST THE SAME
Justin O'Connell – Dissident Voice,
12 Apr 2010
In this age of social networking, private daily diaries have been replaced by online profiles. On Facebook, where people’s daily actions, thoughts and relationships are catalogued — sometimes on a daily basis — the CIA and FBI use ads, tailored to individual users, to recruit. To think they also aren’t using social networking sites for intelligence gathering purposes would — you know, considering the twentieth century — be really stupid.
→ read full articleCHILDREN OF GAZA
Channel Four TV (U.K.) – Global Research,
12 Apr 2010
For once, this documentary was an opportunity for the children of Gaza themselves to speak out and to tell their own stories instead of it being told on their behalf by propagandists with a vested interest in how these children are portrayed.
→ read full articleEUROPEAN CAPITALISM’S WEAK LINK?
Antonis Davenellos – Socialist Worker,
11 Feb 2010
Sweeping budget cuts by the Greek government have provoked a fightback by labor unions and students. Tax collectors have already called a 48-hour strike, to be followed by a strike by all public sector workers set for February 10, even as the government demands a 5.5 percent wage cut for public employees. The national trade […]
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