Articles by ICH
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The Black Hole
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
When Johan Galtung, widely recognized as the founder of the academic discipline of peace research, founded the first International Peace Research Institute in Oslo in 1959, he and his colleagues sent copies of their working papers regularly to about 400 social science institutes around the world, including the Institute for World Economy and International Relations in Moscow.
→ read full articleArmenians 1915: The Genocide Controversy
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
According to the great American novelist William Faulkner, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” This year being the centenary of the contested events of 1915 makes it understandable that was simmering through the decades has come to a boil, with the anniversary day of April 24th likely to be the climax of this latest phase of the unresolved drama.
→ read full articleBlessed Ambiguity
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
King Louis XI of France was superstitious. One time, his astrologer predicted nice weather.
→ read full articleSecurity versus Peace Discourse (after Johan Galtung)
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
The prevailing discourse used by governments today is the security discourse, which briefly is the following: “We have a problem, our enemies. Through military superiority we can deter or prevent their evil designs and achieve security–and through this peace.”
→ read full articleFlying Lessons
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2015
A flock of birds that could not fly met in a nice hotel on top of a cliff overlooking the sea for a training workshop on flying.
→ read full articleReplacement
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2015
An attorney telephoned the governor just after midnight, insisting that he talk to him regarding a matter of utmost urgency.
→ read full articleJerusalem
Yehuda Amichai – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2015
The late Israeli poet captured this urban division well.
→ read full articlePeace Journalism
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2015
The time has come for “peace journalists” to write not only about war, but also about its causes, prevention, and ways to restore peace. They need not invent solutions to conflicts themselves–in the same way as health journalists need not invent cures for diseases themselves; they ask specialists.
→ read full articleAmerican Sniper and America’s “War on Terror”
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
The issue I want to emphasize here is how extreme focus, eliminating both breadth and depth, historical context and psychological motivation, afflicts our general approach to the “War on Terror” and effectively rules out conflict resolution.
→ read full articleHow Haiti Abolished Its Military
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
A soft spoken, retired Quaker couple from Troy, New York, took a crucial step that led to the complete abolition of Haiti’s army, which in 1991 had violently overthrown the democratically elected government of President Aristide and arbitrarily arrested, tortured and murdered many Haitian citizens.
→ read full articleChange versus Continuity in the Philippines
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
When I asked how was it possible that the Marcos past has been so cleanly erased from the contemporary blackboard of Filipino awareness, I received various answers: “They have lots of money” “They never lost popularity in their home province where lots of development took place while Marcos governed ” “The past no longer matters; it is the present that counts” “the oligarchy still rules the country and includes all leading families regardless of their political affiliations.”
→ read full articleEaster Dress
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
Towards the end of the Sunday morning service, a pastor invited all the children to come forward for a children’s prayer.
→ read full articleInsurance
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Three retirees were sitting on a bench in Miami.
→ read full articleBuddhist Nationalists Stoke Hatred in Myanmar
Richard Bennett – Al Jazeera,
23 Mar 2015
Myanmar’s Proposed ‘Race and Religion Laws’ Fuel Hatred and Fear – Authorities should work for reconciliation between religious and ethnic groups – not play into hatred and fear, and seek to cement already widespread discrimination.
→ read full articleIran’s Nuclear Program: Diplomacy, War, and (In)Security in the Nuclear Age
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Iran is expected not only to forego the option to acquire nuclear weapons, but to agree to a framework of intrusive inspection if it wants to be treated as a ‘normal’ state after it proves itself worthy. As indicated, this approach seems discriminatory and hypocritical in the extreme.
→ read full articleStalking Netanyahu’s Victory: Palestine and Iran
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
My immediate reaction to the outcome of the Israeli elections is that for Palestinian solidarity purposes, it was desirable for Netanyahu to receive this electoral mandate. It exhibits as clearly as possible that the long discredited Oslo ‘peace process’ is truly ‘discredited.’
→ read full articleDon’t Want NSA to Spy on Your Email? 5 Things You Can Do
Michael Liedtke, Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Pew researchers found that a majority of those surveyed don’t know about online shields that could help boost privacy or believe it would be too difficult to avoid the government’s espionage.
→ read full articleDetail
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
The difference between philosophy and theology…
→ read full articleA Binational Zone
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
We need a UN Agency for Mediation, with several thousand professionals, who can detect emerging conflicts and help transform them peacefully before they lead to war. That would be an excellent and inexpensive investment for a more peaceful world.
→ read full articleWhy We Occupy: Dutch Universities at the Crossroads
Nicholas Vrousalis, Robin Celikates, Johan Hartle, and Enzo Rossi – Open Democracy,
9 Mar 2015
The upshot is the bureaucratic equivalent of a sausage-factory: the production of the knowledge-sausage at minimum cost for the maximum number of consumers. The process by which one arrives at knowing thus becomes insignificant and secondary: means (degrees) and ends (the free pursuit of knowledge) are completely inverted.
→ read full articleFossil Fuel Divestment Movement Pledges Nonviolent Direct Action
Allyson Gross, Miles Goodrich – Common Dreams,
9 Mar 2015
Just as in the struggles against the Vietnam War, for a living wage, and for divestment from apartheid, our movement is powerful because we have risen up together.
→ read full articleMarch 5, 1871: Rosa Luxemburg Is Born
Richard Kreitner and The Almanac – The Nation,
9 Mar 2015
5 Mar 2015 – Rosa Luxemburg, founder of the Spartacus League, brutally murdered by proto-fascists in January 1919, was born on this day in 1871, just two weeks before the Paris Commune took hold.
→ read full articleNetanyahu: The Day After
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
4 Mar 2015 – My reaction to Netanyahu’s theatrical performance yesterday in Congress led me to recall that the deepest thinkers turned against democracy in ancient Greece because of the susceptibility of the Athenian citizenry to demagogic oratory from opportunistic politicians. Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides all became sensitive to the degree to which the rhetoric of demagogues contributed to the decline, and eventual downfall, of ancient Athens.
→ read full articleThe Fantasy World of Benjamin Netanyahu: Responses to His Talk to Congress
Rabbi Michael Lerner – Huffington Post,
9 Mar 2015
3 Mar 2015 – Netanyahu’s speech to Congress was brilliantly deceitful because it played to the fantasies that Israeli propaganda and right wing militarists in the US have been popularizing for the past thirty years.
→ read full articleCommentary on Netanyahu’s Visit to the United States
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
2 Mar 2015 – It is far too simple to be merely outraged by the arrogant presumptuousness of tomorrow’s speech by the Israeli Prime Minister to a joint session of Congress two weeks prior to national elections in Israel. The Netanyahu visit has encouraged various forms of wishful thinking.
→ read full articleFormer Guantanamo Detainee David Hicks Speaks Up
Richard Phillips, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
Hicks, an Australian citizen, was captured in Afghanistan by the Northern Alliance in late 2001, sold to the US military and sent to Guantanamo Bay. He spent five and a half years in the prison hellhole where he was subjected to sleep deprivation, beatings, solitary confinement and was injected with unknown substances.
→ read full articleSheherazade
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
A cruel prince in 8th century Baghdad returned early from hunting and surprised his wife in the company of another man. He ordered both of them executed.
→ read full article‘Lawfare’ and Liberation
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
In opposition to a law-oriented foreign policy for the United States are arguments of ‘American exceptionalism.’ Such arguments condition its applicability to American behavior and insist on the implementation of international law in relation to the alleged unlawful conduct of adversaries (e.g. Russia involvement in eastern Ukraine)
→ read full articleHow Gazan Natural Gas Became the Epicenter of an International Power Struggle
Michael Schwartz – CounterPunch,
2 Mar 2015
The Great Game in the Holy Land – After 25 years and five failed Israeli military efforts, Gaza’s natural gas is still underwater and, after four years, the same can be said for almost all of the Levantine gas.
→ read full article(Italiano) Quando un terrorista non è un terrorista
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Ciò che la polizia di Chapel Hill, nella Carolina del Nord ha inizialmente pubblicizzato nel mondo come ‘un litigio per un parcheggio’, è stata l’uccisione deliberata di tre giovani e devoti studenti musulmani americani per mano di un assassino, ‘nuovo ateo’ di nome Craig Stephen Hicks, motivato ideologicamente. Quello che The Economist chiama senza esitazione ‘terrorismo a Copenhagen ha implicato il tentativo di sparare a un vignettista danese che ripetutamente deride il Profeta e le convinzioni islamiche e ha implicato anche l’uccisione con arma da fuoco di una guardia di sicurezza ebrea davanti a una sinagoga.
→ read full articleNonviolent Communication
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Psychologist Marshall Rosenberg (born 1934) was invited to speak at a meeting of a group of young Palestinians in a refugee camp on the West Bank. The Israeli police had recently entered the camp to quell protests. The ground was strewn with tear gas shells labeled “Made in USA”.
→ read full articleHow to Pay for Social Programmes
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Chapter Eight of: Economic Theory and Community Development – Where we are going with our analysis: What we need is not so much a new economics as a new psychology. We need alignment with the common good. We need community.
→ read full articleFebruary 19, 1942: FDR Orders the Internment of the Japanese
The Almanac and Richard Kreitner – The Nation,
23 Feb 2015
19 Feb 2015 – The Nation’s response to the president’s evacuation, relocation and internment order was not nearly as firmly opposed as one now wishes it had been.
→ read full articleWhen a Terrorist Is Not a Terrorist
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
What the Chapel Hill police in North Carolina initially pitched as ‘a parking dispute’ was the deliberate killing of three young and devout Muslim American students by an ideologically driven ‘new atheist’ killer named Craig Stephen Hicks. What the The Economist unhesitatingly calls ‘terrorism in Copenhagen’ involved the attempted shooting of a Danish cartoonist who repeatedly mocks the Prophet and Islamic beliefs as well as the lethal shooting of a Jewish security guard outside a synagogue.
→ read full articleSaint Francis and the Wolf
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
We must understand the causes of violence, in our own interest, to prevent it in the future. In no way does this justify violence, or blame the victims.
→ read full articleUkraine Agrees To Monsanto Land Grab for $17 Billion IMF Loan
Christina Sarich, Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
The World Bank and International Monetary Fund are helping biotech run the latest war in Ukraine. Make no mistake: what is happening in the Ukraine now is deeply tied to the interests of Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, and other big players in the poison food game.
→ read full articleRetraction
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
A member of the United States Senate, known for his hot temper and acid tongue, exploded one day in midsession and began to shout, “Half of this Senate is made up of cowards and corrupt politicians!”
→ read full articleInterview with William Schabas, Former Chair, UN Commission of Inquiry for 2014 Israeli Attack on Gaza
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Interview with Prof. William Schabas, recently resigned under pressure as Chair of the Commission of Inquiry appointed by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva to Investigate Allegations of State Crimes associated with Israel’s military attack on Gaza, code named Operation Protective Edge.
→ read full articleA Presumption against Intervention
Richard Falk, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
It is important to recall that self-determination remains the most significant anti-intervention norm in a post-colonial global setting, and is so often marginalized in debates for or against intervention.
→ read full articleOn the North Carolina Killings
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
14 Feb 2014 – A short interview on how to interpret the ghastly murder of three young Muslims living in the North Carolina university town of Chapel Hill.
→ read full articleGood News!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
During Cheney-Bush’s reign of terror in Iraq many many people were taken to Abu Ghraib and to rendition flights never to be seen again.
→ read full articleMy Tribute to Serena Williams
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
By returning to Indian Wells Serena Williams has made the double point of at once acknowledging the pain of her past victimization and the healing power of forgiveness.
→ read full articleAn Irish Ghost Story
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
This story happened a while ago in Dublin, and even though it sounds like an Alfred Hitchcock tale, it’s true.
→ read full articleIs It Time to Make Iran Our Friend and Saudi Arabia Our Enemy?
Michael Axworthy – The Guardian,
2 Feb 2015
Far from being a guarantee of stability in the Middle East, the western alliance with the kingdom is an impediment to peace.
→ read full articleThe Imaginary World That Holds the Real World Captive
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
Chapter Six of: Economic Theory and Community Development.
→ read full articleWinston Churchill: The Imperial Monster
Michael Dickinson – CounterPunch,
2 Feb 2015
28 Jan 2015: This week Britain is commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Winston Churchill. “It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr. Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer of the type well-known in the East, now posing as a fakir, striding half naked up the steps of the Viceregal palace to parley on equal terms with the representative of the King-Emperor. I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion, breed like rabbits and will outstrip any available food supply.” — Churchill
→ read full articleViewing American Sniper
Richard Falk, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
To question this American domination project is to antagonize the entrenched bureaucratic, media, and neoliberal forces that benefit from endless war making and its associated expenditures of trillions. In the end it is this grand project of late capitalism that American Sniper indirectly vindicates, thereby burdening the nation and the world, perhaps fatally.
→ read full articleNot Again!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
A wife and husband lived in a third floor apartment. One day, the husband died.
→ read full articleAre We All Lebanese Porn Stars? On Freedom of Speech and Mohammed Cartoons
Michael Brull – New Matilda,
26 Jan 2015
If depicting Mohammed in a cartoon is a noble act of freedom of expression, then why isn’t porn on prime time? And a WARNING. This article contains an image that some readers may find offensive.
→ read full articleExactly!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
A reporter asked an American,
→ read full articlePope Francis, Salman Rushdie, and Charlie Hebdo
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
The Associated Press reports that despite present tensions and the public celebration of free speech the government in Paris has “ordered prosecutors around the country to crack down on hate speech, anti-Semitism, and glorifying terrorism.” But no message by the French government mentioning ‘hate cartooning’ or the surge of ‘Islamophobia’ in the country.
→ read full articleSectarianism Rears Its Head as Asean Launches Community
Michael Vatikiotis - The Straits Times,
19 Jan 2015
Without a doubt, South-east Asia’s traditional models of pluralism and tolerance are under stress. Before Asean can really become a community, its leaders must move fast to shore up and protect long-established traditions of tolerance and coexistence.
→ read full articleEuropean Powers Implement Police State Measures in Wake of Charlie Hebdo Attack
Ulrich Rippert, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
Governments throughout Europe have responded to the attacks on Charlie Hebdo in France by moving quickly to push through a raft of anti-democratic measures that have long been prepared, but that have so far encountered resistance.
→ read full articleFaith
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
A mountain climber slipped down a slope and barely got hold of a small branch at the edge of an abyss.
→ read full articleCharlie Hebdo Massacre: a Tragic, Universal Failure
Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam-תיקון עולם – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Imagine if Charlie Hebdo drew a big-nosed Moses sitting amid buckets of cash. Does no one understand why if one is wrong the other is as well? In fact, a Hebdo cartoonist derided Nicholas Sarkozy’s son for “doing well” by converting to Judaism to marry a wealthy Jewish heiress. The cartoonist was fired. But cartoonists ridiculing the Prophet are now folk heroes.
→ read full articlePope Francis and Religious Cosmopolitanism
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
It has never been more important to counter the widely disseminated view that religion is ‘inherently’ responsible for political extremism, and more destructively, to blame Islam as a religion for sociopathic violence when the culprits are Muslim. True, religious doctrine can be twisted to serve any values, however demonic, as can secularist thinking.
→ read full articleBefore & After the Fact
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Before marriage…
→ read full articleNew Level: Monsanto Tries Patenting Natural Tomatoes
Christina Sarich, Natural Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Stealing a Tomato with No Biotech Traits
→ read full articleRichard Jackson: Terrorism, Torture, and the Problem of Evil in Our Time
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Richard Jackson, a professor of peace studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, has written a probing political essay that takes the form of an imagined dialogue between a British interrogator and an Egyptian terrorist who is apparently thought at the time of their conversation to be the mastermind of an imminent attack on Great Britain.
→ read full articleMonks & Politicians
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
A politician was campaigning for reelection and visited all kinds of people, trying to be folksy.
→ read full articleWhen Is Civil Society a Force for Social Transformation?
Michael Edwards – Open Democracy,
5 Jan 2015
There are more civil society organizations in the world today than at any other time in history, so why isn’t their impact growing?
→ read full articleThe Irrelevance of Liberal Zionism
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Frustrated by Israeli settlement expansion, excessive violence, AIPAC maximalism, Netanyahu’s arrogance, Israel’s defiant disregard of international law, various Jewish responses claim to seek a middle ground.
→ read full articleRemembering 2014 (Badly)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
A posture of cynical hopelessness or despair worsens prospects for positive future developments, however empirically based such a negative assessment seems. All of us should recall that those who struggle for what seems ‘impossible’ today often turn out to be the heroes of tomorrow.
→ read full articleThree Members of Congress Just Reignited the Cold War While No One Was Looking
Dennis Kucinich - Truthdig,
22 Dec 2014
The Congressional Record will show ONLY THREE of 425 members were present on the floor to consider the sanctions bill. According to the clerk’s records, once the bill was considered under unanimous consent, it was passed in one second, unanimously.
→ read full articleThe Dead End of Post-Oslo Diplomacy: What Next?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
The Oslo framework was an unseemly tacit assumption that the Palestinians would be willing to carry on negotiations without complaining about the Israeli violations of international law, most conspicuously the continued unlawful settlement activity.
→ read full articleAlkarama Human Rights Award to Shireen Issawi
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
Geneva, 13 December 2014 – A letter written from an Israeli prison by the recipient of the award Ms. Shireen Issawi, a brave, resolute, and inspiring human rights defender who has dedicated her professional career as a lawyer to the long Palestinian national struggle for freedom, human rights, and self-determination.
→ read full articleShameless: The Luxury Homes That Torture Built
Michael Daly – The Daily Beast,
15 Dec 2014
The CIA paid torture teachers James Mitchell and Bruce Jesser more than $80 million. Call them the houses that torture built: Two sprawling luxury homes purchased by the CIA-contracted psychologists at the center of the scathing Senate report.
→ read full articleA Eurasian Gas Bombshell
Alexander Sotnichenko - Oriental Review,
8 Dec 2014
At the Dec. 1 joint press conference held by the leaders of Russia and Turkey, Vladimir Putin announced that Russia was abandoning its ambitious South Stream project that would have significantly increased the supply of gas to Europe.
→ read full articleMemoir Sketch: Championing Lost Causes
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
To contemplate death without the metaphysical painkillers of an imagined afterlife is to be finally alone. In a sense learning to die is equivalent to learning to live alone, and takes courage and fortitude.
→ read full articleGaza 2014 Compilation
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
A POMEAS Compilation of Writings Relating to Israel’s 50-Day Attack on Gaza
→ read full articleThe Jump
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were watching TV in the evening.
→ read full articleNew 10 Year Study Finds GMO Corn Contaminates Non-GMO Varieties up to 2.8 Miles Away
Christina Sarich – Nation of Change,
1 Dec 2014
GMO pollen, specifically corn, is contaminating non-GMO crops as far as 2.8 miles away. Won’t this have a ripple effect if nothing is done? This is exactly what organic farmers, and non-GMO supporters warned us about decades ago.
→ read full articleRemembering Yoshikazu Sakamoto (1927-2014)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
I am sharing these words of appreciation, and hope that anyone from Japan who comes across this text will contact me, especially if they have a way of putting me in touch with either Yoshi’s family or Japanese media. I would like to believe that ‘an American appreciation’ of Professor Sakamoto, an important public intellectual, would be of interest to those who knew and admired him.
→ read full articleRethinking Economics: From Scarcity to Abundance
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
The coming crash may be humanity’s golden opportunity to transition to post-economic society. Or it may be the beginning of endless misery, violence, confusion, ignorance parading as technocracy, repression and –what is worse– ecocide.
→ read full articleMainstream Media Blackout of the Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement
Christina Sarich – Nation of Change,
24 Nov 2014
Why won’t Fox, NBC, CNN, or ABC cover the TTP? These media empires (even Facebook has boosted news feeds of the top 100 media outlets, owned by only six mega-corporations to control public opinion) have decided that the public should be kept in the dark about ‘NAFTA on steroids’ so that biotech corporations can completely take over ‘free-trade’ with Pacific Rim nations.
→ read full articleSurprised?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
A little boy got lost at the gym and found himself in the women’s locker room.
→ read full articleTwo Interviews [of mine] on Palestine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
14 Nov 2014 – Two recent interviews seek to assess the Palestinian national movement as it is unfolding at this critical time.
→ read full articleLooking Back on WW-I One Hundred Years Later: Four Mixed Messages
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Dorothy Brown Memorial Lecture, Auckland, New Zealand, November 8, 2014
→ read full articleRight!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
A beggar walked up to a well‑dressed heavy woman shopping on Fifth Avenue in New York and said,
→ read full articleA Minor Footnote to Australia’s Shameless Persecution of Asylum Seekers
Michael Brull – New Matilda,
17 Nov 2014
When it comes to Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers, I think it is impossible to overstate the sadism of government policy. From the savagery of the conditions in offshore processing, to the cruelty of onshore indefinite mandatory detention, we destroy people.
→ read full article(Français) LuxLeaks : L’évasion fiscale, un sport national pour les géants américains
Anne Michel - Le Monde,
10 Nov 2014
Luxembourg, Pays-Bas: Profitant d’une législation fiscale souple aux Etats-Unis, et poussées par des actionnaires avides de rentabilité, elles franchissent l’Atlantique, pour dissimuler une partie de leurs juteux profits, réalisés hors des Etats-Unis, dans ce paradis fiscal pour grandes entreprises.
→ read full article[Obscene] US Sends ‘Lessons Learned’ Team to Model Israel Tactics in Gaza Operation
Michael Wilner – The Jerusalem Post,
10 Nov 2014
The United States sent a team of senior officers to Israel to learn from tactics in Operation Protective Edge in Gaza last Summer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey said on Thursday [6 Nov 2014]. He praised the Israel Defense Forces for taking “extraordinary lengths to limit collateral damage and civilian casualties” in its war against Hamas.
→ read full articleRelativity
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Albert Einstein asked the conductor,
→ read full articleDiscovering Iran
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
As Khalil Gibran rightly observed: “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” With every wrong policy, America adds to the scars, strengthens the character and spirit of this unbreakable nation. This is what Washington is not able to grasp.
→ read full articleSegregating the Evening Commute to the West Bank
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man - +972 Magazine,
3 Nov 2014
It’s not really segregation. Not on paper at least. Or at least the paper doesn’t use the word “segregation.” In practice, however, people of one national origin will not be allowed to ride on the same bus lines as people of another national origin — for the benefit and at the request of one group, at the expense and against the desires of the other. Call that what you will.
→ read full articleIn Cold War, U.S. Spy Agencies Used 1,000 Nazis
Eric Lichtblau – The New York Times,
3 Nov 2014
CIA Allen Dulles believed “moderate” Nazis might “be useful” to America, records show. J. Edgar Hoover, for his part, personally approved some ex-Nazis as informants and dismissed accusations of their wartime atrocities as Soviet propaganda.
→ read full articleWhy Foreign Military Intervention Usually Fails in the 21st Century
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
We have reached a stage in the political development of life on the planet where civilizational and species survival itself depends on the urgency of building an effective movement against the war system that remains indispensable to sustain hierarchy and exploitation, wastes huge amounts of resources, and dangerously diverts problem-solving priorities.
→ read full articleNew Arrivals
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
A pope arrived at the gate of heaven.
→ read full articleMajor Banks Prepare to Pay Billions for Foreign Exchange Manipulation
Richard Smallteacher, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
1 Nov 2014 – Some 19 investigations of multinational banks in ten different legal jurisdictions are on their way to completion and the final tally may hit $41 billion to settle charges of foreign exchange manipulation.
→ read full articleResisting U.S. Bases in Okinawa
Ayano Ginoza, Michiko Hase and Gwyn Kirk – Foreign Policy In Focus,
27 Oct 2014
Despite intense crackdowns, activists on the Japanese island of Okinawa continue to resist the construction of new U.S. military bases.
→ read full articleAmish Farmers Study Plant Immunology, Avoid Using Pesticides Completely
Christina Sarich – Nation of Change,
27 Oct 2014
Amish farmers are studying plant immunology in order to grow healthy organic produce free of harmful chemicals.
→ read full articleCompetition
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
On the last day of school before summer, when all children were itching to go home and play, a teacher promised that those children who could answer her questions correctly could leave earlier.
→ read full articleVictory: Judge Deprives Monsanto of GM Planting Permit in Mexico, Protects the Bees
Christina Sarich – Natural Society,
27 Oct 2014
Honoring the complaints of a small group of beekeepers in the state of Yucatán, who complained that Monsanto’s planned planting of thousands of hectares of GM soybeans made to withstand RoundUp would demolish their honey industry by decimating bees – a judge in Mexico has removed Monsanto’s planting permit.
→ read full articleThe Zombie System – How Capitalism Has Gone Off the Rails
Michael Sauga – Der Spiegel,
27 Oct 2014
Six years after the Lehman disaster, the industrialized world is suffering from Japan Syndrome. Growth is minimal, another crash may be brewing and the gulf between rich and poor continues to widen. Can the global economy reinvent itself?
→ read full articleOslo Is Dead! Long Live Oslo! The UK House of Commons Supports Diplomatic Recognition of Palestine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
On October 13 [2014] the House of Commons by an overwhelming vote of 274-12 urged the British government to extend diplomatic recognition to Palestine. At first glance, it would seem a rather meaningless gesture. It is a non-binding resolution.
→ read full articleBriefing
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Donald Rumsfeld is giving President Bush his daily briefing.
→ read full articleSyria-to-Ukraine Wars Send U.S. Defense Stocks to Records
Richard Clough, Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Led by Lockheed Martin Corp. the biggest U.S. defense companies are trading at record prices as shareholders reap rewards from escalating military conflicts around the world. Investors see rising sales for makers of missiles, drones and other weapons as the U.S. hits Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq.
→ read full articleDid Israel Commit Genocide in Gaza?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
In a special session of the Russell Tribunal, Israel’s Operation Protective Edge was critically scrutinized from the perspective of international law, including the core allegation of genocide through testimonies by legal and weapons experts, health workers, journalists and others who experienced the 50 days of military assault.
→ read full articleQuestioning Sweden’s ‘Bold’ Diplomatic Initiative
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
The new center-left Swedish Prime Minister, Stefan Lofven, in his inaugural speech to Parliament indicated on October 3 [2014] the intention of the Swedish government to recognize Palestinian statehood.
→ read full articleThe Genie
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
A New Zealander, a South African and an Australian were the only survivors of a shipwreck on a small South Sea island, surviving on coconuts.
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