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Hypocrisy: Saudi Arabia Beheads 26 People in 1 Month, Some for ‘Sorcery’ – The West Has Nothing to Say about It (Images)
Richard Rowe, AATP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
We condemn ISIS’ public beheadings, but in 2012-13, our allies in Saudi Arabia cut the heads off of 79 people [in public]. Let’s play “Compare and Contrast” for a moment:
→ read full articleChanging the Political Climate: A Transitional Imperative
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
The most daunting challenging of adapting to the realities of the anthropocene era is achieving a soft transition from state-centric world order to a geo-centric reconfiguring of political community to enable the emergence of effective and humane global governance.
→ read full article4+ Logics of Living Together on Planet Earth
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
It is misleading to describe ‘world order’ as consisting exclusively of sovereign territorial states. This misimpression is further encouraged by the structure of the United Nations, whose members are states, and only states.
→ read full articleThe Real Reason We Are Bombing Syria
Dennis J. Kucinich - Reader Supported News,
29 Sep 2014
This Frankenstein-like experiment of arming the alleged freedom-seeking Syrian opposition created the monster that roams the region. ISIS and the U.S. have a curious relationship — mortal enemies that, at the same time, benefit from some of the same events.
→ read full articleWrong Comparison
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
A mechanic was removing a cylinder head from the motor of a Harley Davidson, when he spotted a world‑famous heart surgeon in his shop.
→ read full articleAnother Independent Study Confirms Monsanto’s RoundUp Chemicals are Lethal, Even in Small Doses
Christina Sarich – Natural Society,
29 Sep 2014
As many scientists have suspected, glyphosate does not reveal its true toxicity alone – but works in tandem with the other chemicals in RoundUp so that the levels of toxicity on human cells becomes catastrophic.
→ read full articleJesus!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
A burglar broke through a window and entered a pitch-dark room.
→ read full articleMemo on the Evaluation of the Community Work Program
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
This memo stresses the importance of evaluating CWP´s compliance with its mandate to use public employment to catalyse community development. It also underlines the importance of issues in economic theory that bear on CWP´s contribution to society.
→ read full articleExpensive?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
A foreign tourist’s car got stuck in a small Russian village.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to Rabbi Ira Youdovin
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Serice,
15 Sep 2014
We have exchanged views frequently in the last few years, most often by way of adversary comments. I write now an ‘open letter’ because of your most recent comment objecting to my support for Steven Salaita in his campaign to have his tenure faculty appointment reinstated at the University of Illinois.
→ read full articleSteven Salaita and Zionist McCarthyism
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
The outcome of the Salaita case will exhibit the current balance of influence as between Zionist McCarthyism and academic freedom. That such a struggle should be in doubt is itself a national disgrace that suggests the worrisome fragility of academic freedom as reinforced by the potency of money and regressive ideology.
→ read full articleI understand why Westerners are joining jihadi movements like ISIS. I was almost one of them.
Michael Muhammad Knight – The Washington Post,
15 Sep 2014
We are raised to love violence and view military conquest as a benevolent act. The American kid who wants to intervene in another nation’s civil war owes his worldview as much to American exceptionalism as to jihadist interpretations of scripture. I grew up in a country that glorifies military sacrifice and feels entitled to rebuild other societies according to its own vision. Before I even knew what a Muslim was, let alone concepts such as “jihad” or an “Islamic state,” my American life had taught me that that’s what brave men do.
→ read full articleJapan Still Hobbled by Racism and Militarism
Michael Walker – Foreign Policy In Focus,
15 Sep 2014
Not only has Japan been unable to face its past, it’s weighed down by a staggering national debt.
→ read full articleIndigenous Indonesians Stand Up Against ‘Silent Genocide’ Promoted by Government
Christina Sarich – Nation of Change,
15 Sep 2014
Tactics such as rape, torture, and ‘disappearing’ are used by the military to suppress dissent.
→ read full article(Italiano) Due tipi di antisemitismo
Richard Falk – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
15 Sep 2014
Questo secondo tipo di presunto antisemitismo è una tattica impiegata per screditare i critici di Israele insistendo che non andrebbero distinti la critica di Israele e l’odio del popolo ebraico.
→ read full articleMap of the Stars
Andy Müller-Maguhn, Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, Michael Sontheimer and Christian Grothoff – The Intercept,
15 Sep 2014
The NSA and GCHQ Campaign against German Satellite Companies – “Fuck!” That is the word that comes to the mind of Christian Steffen, the CEO of German satellite communications company Stellar PCS.
→ read full articleISIS, Libya, NATO and Preventing the Next 9/11
Dennis Kucinich - Reader Supported News,
8 Sep 2014
We must resist the illusion that the only “decisive” response to terrorism is bombing. Instead, we should begin to confront ISIS by drying up its sources of revenue from places like Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
→ read full articleKiev’s War against Freedom of Speech – Ukraine: The Ugly Truth
Vladislav Gulevich - CounterPunch,
8 Sep 2014
Western journalists prefer not to speak with the people living in the war zone. They avoid citing any word which could cast doubt on Kiev`s policy. On the other hand, they easily rely on official Ukrainian sources and repeat their false, office-made “news” about Russian aggression and rebels killing their own population.
→ read full articleTwo Types of Anti-Semitism
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
This second type of supposed anti-Semitism is a tactic deployed to discredit critics of Israel by insisting that criticism of Israel and hatred of the Jewish people should not be distinguished.
→ read full articleRussell Tribunal Session on Palestine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
On September 24 [2014] a special session of the Russell Tribunal will examine war crimes allegations against Israel arising from the 50-day Operation Protective Edge military operation that commenced on July 8th.
→ read full articleObama Is a Liar. Fake NATO Evidence. OSCE Confirms That No Russian Troops, No Tanks, Have Crossed the Russia-Ukraine Border
Prof Michel Chossudovsky - Global Research,
8 Sep 2014
Obama confirmed on September 3 that “Russian combat forces with Russian weapons in Russian tanks” had been deployed in Eastern Ukraine. That’s not only a Lie; it is Lie which could potentially precipitate humanity into a Third World War.
→ read full articleExamining
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Two students went drinking late into the night before an exam.
→ read full articleU.S. Identifies Citizens Joining [Mercenary] Rebels in Syria, Including ISIS
Michael S. Schmidt and Eric Schmitt – The New York Times,
1 Sep 2014
American intelligence and law enforcement agencies have identified nearly a dozen Americans who have traveled to Syria to fight for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
→ read full articleAmerican History
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
It was the first day of school and a new student named Yuki entered the fourth grade.
→ read full articleThe Outlaw State of Israel (Part I)
Richard Falk and Akbar Ganji – Al Jazeera,
25 Aug 2014
Since 1948 Israel has drawn a long list of military aggression, human rights violations and war crimes. It has become an outlaw state.
→ read full articleThe Outlaw State of Israel (Part II)
Richard Falk and Akbar Ganji – Al Jazeera,
25 Aug 2014
Unconditional US support for the state of Israel has precluded a peace settlement and destabilised the Middle East. In Part I we described the reasons that Israel has become an outlaw state. In this part we discuss US support for Israel and its consequences.
→ read full articlePlaying Bridge
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
Four women were playing bridge together every Friday afternoon for twenty years.
→ read full articleThree Questions for Hamas
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
Whether wittingly or not, the international diplomacy of the West has produced dispossession, violence, and seemingly irreconcilable conflict with disastrous and tragic consequences for the indigenous population of Palestine ever since the end of World War I.
→ read full articleStalinist Zionism Is No Way to Treat a Friend
Michael Brull – New Matilda,
25 Aug 2014
It is not that these people are nostalgic for Stalin. It is that their style of worship of the state is reminiscent of supporters of Stalin. They display the same intellectual styles. And when people criticise their holy state, the response is lies, vilification, and whatever other means can be used to suppress criticism.
→ read full article“Muslim Rage” and the Hypocrisy of the Western Liberal Elite
Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
The western liberal élite has a problem with Muslims, in particular with Muslim Rage, as Newsweek’s cover called it. It reminds me of that priceless, old misogynist quotation from Sigmund Freud: women–what do they want? What do Muslims want? They want to be part of the modern world yet they import these age-old hatreds that are so–well, primitive and unmodern. Muslims aren’t ready for civilization-primetime.
→ read full articleStrange Regional Alignments in the Gaza Massacre
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
Neighborly Crimes of Complicity in Gaza – The abysmal failure of the Kerry induced talks showed definitively that Israel has lost all interest in a diplomacy that promises the Palestinians a viable and independent sovereign state at the end of the road.
→ read full articleMilitarization of US Police: Blowback in Ferguson, Missouri
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
[The fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager] This is a short call from informing the mainstream media that the country has been living under pseudo martial law for decades. Regardless of what big media wants us to believe, what we witness is a blowback. Our wars have come home to roost.
→ read full articleName Calling on the Road
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
A man was driving a car along a winding mountain road.
→ read full articleMourning for a Judaism Being Murdered by Israel
Rabbi Michael Lerner – Tikkun,
11 Aug 2014
My heart is broken as I witness the suffering of the Palestinian people and the seeming indifference of Israelis. Israeli behavior toward Palestinians is destroying Judaism and creating a new kind of hatred of Jews by people who never before had any issue with Jews.
→ read full articleWhy the White Americans Got the ‘Secret’ Ebola Serum
Michael Daly – The Daily Beast,
11 Aug 2014
Never mind that there seem to have been no more than eight doses of the serum in existence. The scandal is not that two white people got an untested serum, but that the deaths of so many black people were ignored until two white people got sick.
→ read full articlePalestinian Open Letter to UNSG Ban Ki-moon on Gaza
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
Open letter to Mr. Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon: stand for law and Justice or resign!
→ read full article(Italiano) Dichiarazione congiunta sull’offensiva di Israele contro Gaza da parte di esperti di Diritto Internazionale
Richard Falk – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
11 Aug 2014
La comunità internazionale deve fermare la punizione collettiva che Israele sta riservando alla popolazione civile nella Striscia di Gaza.
→ read full articleCrimes against Humanity in Gaza: Is It Really a ‘Buffer Zone’ – Or a Bigger Plan?
Dennis Kucinich – The Guardian,
11 Aug 2014
5 Aug 2014 – It’s time to step back and ask if we want to support Israel if it wants to eject all Palestinians from their land. Late last week, the White House decried Israel’s attack on a UN school in Gaza as “totally unacceptable” and “totally indefensible”, then proceeded to approve $225m in funding for its Iron Dome.
→ read full articleMay I Come In?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Servie,
11 Aug 2014
After a long illness, a woman died and arrived at the Gates of Heaven.
→ read full articleCruelties of Ceasefire Diplomacy
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Devastation and violence has continued in Gaza, with Palestinians deaths now numbering over 1000 (overwhelmingly civilians) and Israeli deaths latest reported at being 43 (almost all military personnel). Such casualty figures and disparities raise questions of state terrorism in a stark manner.
→ read full articleWe Can Negotiate Peace in Gaza: Here’s How
Dennis J. Kucinich - Reader Supported News,
4 Aug 2014
When our brothers and sisters are killing each other, it is not time for us to take sides, but to take steps, with compassion and clarity, to end the carnage. We must move beyond the pro-Israel, anti-Israel narrative in the Middle East, which can lock us into a position where we must declare support for either Israelis or Palestinians, to the exclusion of the concerns of the other.
→ read full articleGaza Genocide and Arab Fratricide
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
According to the Convention on the Crime of Genocide, persons committing or in complicity with genocide shall be punished “whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals.” The US supports, funds and replenishes Israel with more weaponry on the ongoing genocide in Gaza; it also uses its political clout to enable Israel to continue its crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleJoint Declaration on International Law & Gaza – Final List of Endorsers
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
With only a voluntary effort the Joint Declaration on International Law in relation to the Gaza Attacks by Israel has elicited an encouraging response from legal experts from around the world, including some of our most distinguished colleagues. Others without formal legal credentials have also indicated their support, and expressed their desire to endorse the Joint Declaration.
→ read full articleIQ
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
A team of psychologists has developed a new measure of intelligence, a metric measure. The basic unit is the tary.
→ read full articlePalestinian Recourse to the International Criminal Court: The Time Has Come
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
The political plausibility of invoking the International Criminal Court to investigate allegations of criminality directed at Israel increases with each passing day.
→ read full articleWhen BBC Calls, Don’t Answer
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
That is, don’t answer, if you are a certified critic of Israeli policies and practices.
→ read full articleLawyers
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
A woman called a lawyer in despair and explained, “I have never called a lawyer in my life.
→ read full articleWhy Is the 2022 World Cup Being Held in a Country That Practices Modern-Day Slavery?
Michelle Chen – The Nation,
28 Jul 2014
Even when migrant contract workers lose their jobs, they may end up stranded indefinitely if their employer does not give permission for them to return home. Workers who run away or are “abandoned” by their bosses might wind up homeless, unemployable and trapped on foreign soil.
→ read full articleGaza Interview
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
[Prefatory note: This is an interview with a knowledgeable Greek journalist covering a range of issues associated with the Gaza ordeal] – “Blood on American Hands”: Richard Falk on Palestine
→ read full articleThe Truth!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
A 10 year old boy asked his recently divorced mother, “How old are you?” The mother told him, “This is not a question you should ask, never ask it again.”
→ read full articleNo Exit from Gaza: A New War Crime?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
As the casualty totals continue to mount while the world looks on in stupefied inaction, the attacks go on; at the very least, from a humanitarian perspective, there should be a global outcry demanding that children, mothers, and those sick and disabled be allowed to leave the Gaza Strip until current hostilities end. Yet this is a gap in international humanitarian law and refugee law.
→ read full articleTormenting Gaza
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
There is so much regional turbulence at present that it is unlikely to hope for anything more than scattered verbal denunciations from authorities in the region preoccupied with other concerns, but given the gravity of the situation, attention needs to be refocused on the Palestinian ordeal.
→ read full articleWhat Is Israel’s End Game in Gaza?
Dennis Kucinich – Consortium News,
21 Jul 2014
Israel can kill, injure, humiliate Palestinians at will, with impunity, which is exactly what gave rise to Hamas and strengthens Hamas’ hold in Gaza, even as the IDF advances… Since the U.S. is helping to pay Israel’s bills, we cannot avoid the consequences of paying the price for Israel’s actions against the Palestinians.
→ read full articleSave Gaza Today – Tomorrow May Be Too Late!
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
With the growing extremism in Israeli military, their “holy wars” and nukes, it is not just Gaza that is burning – this is a war on humanity and perhaps even human race. If we do not stop it today, tomorrow may be too late.
→ read full articleA Tale of Two Cities: Istanbul and Rome
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Symbolically and culturally Istanbul deserves to be privately christened as the global capital of the 21st century. It is only world city that qualifies by virtue of its geographic and civilizational hybridity, Western by history and experience, Eastern by culture and location, Northern by stage of development, modernism, and urban dynamism, Southern by affinities, outreach, and partial identification.
→ read full articleNO to Currency Slavery
Michael Hudson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Western support will allow more IMF and European lending to prop the Ukrainian currency so the Ukrainian oligarchs can move their money safely to British and US banks.
→ read full articleDepends
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
A Chinese businessman arrived on his first flight to the United States.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Creative Extortion
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich – TRANSCEND Media Servicde,
14 Jul 2014
Admittedly, America has always devised creative means to execute its vast array of crimes against other nations – coups, wars, occupation, exploitation, terrorism, genocide, and so forth. One crime often neglected is America’s creative extortion. America has made a legal judgment to rob Iran of $1.75 billion.
→ read full articleRemembering Fouad Ajami
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
For me Fouad Ajami’s legacy is that of ‘sleeping with the enemy.’ And it is an enemy that is politically, morally, and legally responsible for millions of deaths, displacements, and devastating losses.
→ read full articleCountries Spending the Most on the Military
Thomas C. Frohlich and Alexander Kent – USA Today,
14 Jul 2014
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the U.S. spent $618 billion on its military last year, more than three times the $171 billion budget of second place China. Based on SIPRI’s 2013 data, these are the countries with the largest military budgets.
→ read full articleWhat Is Israel’s Shurat Hadin and Why Is It Suing a Sydney University Academic?
Michael Brull - Crikey,
7 Jul 2014
Shurat HaDin, a pro-Israel law centre, is taking legal action over an Australian academic’s support for the boycott, divestment, sanctions movement against Israel. Juris doctor student Michael Brull takes a look at the case.
→ read full articleShifts in the Climate Change Debate: Hope and Suspicion
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
The intense lobbying efforts by climate deniers, reinforced in the United States by a right wing anti-government tsunami that has paralyzed Congress, succeeded in blocking even modest market-based steps to induce energy efficiency.
→ read full articleThe World’s Most Important Spectator
David Bromwich – London Review of Books,
30 Jun 2014
‘If we have to use force,’ Madeleine Albright said, ‘it is because we are America; we are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future.’ Very much in that spirit, Obama told the graduating West Point cadets that the US must lead the world even though it cannot police the world.
→ read full articleHonesty about Lies
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
A reporter asked the mother of Jimmy Carter whether he ever lied. She said, “Maybe once in a while a white lie.”
→ read full articleForeign Aid Funding Luxury Hotels in Myanmar
Michelle Tullo, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
New investments from the World Bank’s private-sector investment arm may perpetuate economic inequality rather than alleviate poverty in Myanmar. “A significant factor contributing to the urban versus rural income inequality is that the vast majority of investment in Burma is concentrated in the urban sector, despite the fact that only one-third of the population lives in these areas,”
→ read full articleSuccessful Elections
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
President Carter was worried about his prospects for reelection.
→ read full articleUkraine’s Kiev Regime Is Not “Officially” a Neo-Nazi Government
Prof Michel Chossudovsky - Global Research,
16 Jun 2014
There are “ultra-conservatives” in the Kiev government but “they are not Neo-Nazis,” says the Western media. The alternative media says that the Kiev regime is integrated by two Neo-Nazi parties (Svoboda and Right Sector) “but it is not a Neo-Nazi government”. When the Kiev regime “officially” displays Nazi emblems to identify entities of their National Security and Military apparatus one would normally assume that it is a Neo-Nazi government.
→ read full articleThere’s a Kind of Hush
Nicholas Kristof - The New York Times,
16 Jun 2014
Aung San Suu Kyi should be one of the heroes of modern times. Instead, as her country imposes on the Rohingya Muslim minority an apartheid that would have made white supremacists in South Africa blush, she bites her tongue. It seems as though she aspires to become president of Myanmar, and speaking up for a reviled minority could be fatal to her prospects. The moral giant has become a calculating politician.
→ read full articleObama Success, or Global Shame?
Nicholas Kristof – The New York Times,
9 Jun 2014
What’s odious about what is happening here is that the suffering is deliberately inflicted as government policy. The authorities are stripping members of one ethnic group of citizenship, then interning them in camps or villages, depriving them of education, refusing them medical care — and even expelling humanitarians who seek to save their lives.
→ read full articleObama’s Legacy: “Don’t Do Stupid Stuff”
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Cautioning against militarism at West Point President on May 22nd Obama in a speech mostly notable for its reassertion of what might be best understood as imperial nationalism of global scope declared the following:
→ read full articleProsecuting Syrians for War Crimes Now
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Is justice served when the authority of the ICC is invoked as a political instrument to influence the outcome of a civil war? Why was there never any initiative to pursue leaders of the United States and the United Kingdom during the course of the Iraq War, which also included many incidents that seemed to qualify as crimes against humanity? Double standards?
→ read full articleGood Care
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Vice President Dick Cheney underwent surgery. When he woke up from his anesthesia, all shades were closed.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s Appalling Apartheid
Nicholas Kristof - The New York Times,
2 Jun 2014
Welcome to Myanmar, where tremendous democratic progress is being swamped by crimes against humanity toward the Rohingya, a much-resented Muslim minority in this Buddhist country. Budding democracy seems to aggravate the persecution, for ethnic cleansing of an unpopular minority appears to be a popular vote-getting strategy.
→ read full articlePope Francis Visit to Palestine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Pope Francis’ visit to the Holy Land raises one overwhelming question: ‘what is the nature of religious power in our world of the 21st century?’ ‘Can it have transformative effects’?
→ read full articleThe Struggle to Ban Killer Robots
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, Nicholas Marsh and Maral Mirshahi – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
26 May 2014
The campaign must balance technical expert conversations with active participation in public debate. Identifying and arguing for broad ethical principles while keeping the objective narrow appears to be the most feasible strategy, along with insisting that the development of lethal autonomous weapons is not inevitable.
→ read full articleRussia, China Sign Deal to Bypass U.S. Dollar
Michael Pizzi – Al Jazeera America,
26 May 2014
In a blow to U.S. global financial hegemony, Russia and China on Tuesday [20 May 20114] signed a deal to pay each other in domestic currencies, followed by the announcement on Wednesday of a $100 billion annual trade on natural gas, 10 years in the making.
→ read full articlePhilantrocapitalism: Gates, the World’s Largest and Most Powerful Foundation
Jacob Levich - Global Research,
26 May 2014
Wielding “huge power that could reshape nations according to their will,”5 billionaire donors would now openly embrace not only the market-based theory, but also the practices and organizational norms, of corporate capitalism. Yet the overall thrust of their charitable interventions would remain consistent with longstanding traditions of Big Philanthropy, as discussed below:
→ read full articleOn Citizenship in the 21st Century
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
Reading Robert Paehlke’s carefully crafted essay on global citizenship provides the occasion both for an appreciation of his approach and some doubts about its degree of responsiveness to the urgencies of the present or more specifically its adequacy in relation to the call for ‘transformative vision and praxis’ that lies at the heart of the ‘Great Transition Initiative.’
→ read full articleSuccess Story
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
A retired mathematics teacher met the worst student he had ever had during his 40 years of teaching.
→ read full articleCitizens versus Subjects in a Democratic Society: The American Case
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
In my understanding silence is passivity as a way of being. Silence can be much more than the avoidance of speech and utterance, and is most poignantly expressed through evasions of body, heart, and soul.
→ read full articleHumor but Not Humiliation: Finding the Sweet Spot in Nonviolent Conflict Resolution
Michael Nagler and Karen Ridd – Open Democracy,
12 May 2014
Humor is a time-honored strategy in the repertoire of nonviolence, but we must learn to use it properly. Poke fun at the problem not the person.
→ read full articleFollow the Honey: 7 Ways Pesticide Companies Are Spinning the Bee Crisis
Michele Simon, Friends of the Earth - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
As my new report with Friends of the Earth details, three of the leading pesticide corporations — Bayer, Syngenta, and Monsanto — are engaged in a massive public relations disinformation campaign to distract the public and policymakers from thinking that pesticides might have something to do with bee death and destruction.
→ read full articleDoing Math
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
A little boy was doing his math homework. He said to himself, “Two plus five, that son of a bitch is seven.
→ read full articleArmenian Grievances, Turkey, United States and 1915 (I)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
The Turkish government has reiterated its offer to establish a joint commission composed of Armenian, Turkish and international historians to establish an authoritative narrative. The idea that core concern is ‘historical’ misses a main point that such a traumatic series of events need to be interpreted from multiple perspectives, including that of international criminal law.
→ read full article‘Genocide’ in 1915: Law, Language, and Politics (II)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
I am arguing that the historical argument should be put to rest, and that the issues that need to be resolved relate to the legal questions surrounding the applicability of genocide, as well as the related semiotic and political questions associated what be called ‘the politics of genocide.’
→ read full articleSchool Compositions
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
Children at school must write a composition about the topic, “When visitors come.”
→ read full articleHow to Keep the Internet Open and Free
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship – Common Dreams,
5 May 2014
Don’t Let Net Neutrality Become another Broken Promise – Barack Obama told us there would be no compromise on Net neutrality. We heard him say it back in 2007, when he first was running for president.
→ read full articlePalestine: Why the Peace Talks Collapsed—And Should Not Be Resumed
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
It is important that world public opinion reject as meaningless the diplomatic charade of peace talks while the fate of a people continues to be daily sacrificed on the altar of geopolitics.
→ read full articleThe New Interventionists: Civil Society Activists
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Apr 2014
Debates about intervention are inevitable in an interdependent world order in which ideals of territorial sovereignty clash with the interests and values of hegemonic political actors. There are no either/or solution for the dilemmas posed. What seems preferable is a contextual assessment tempered by humility arising from the experience of past interventions.
→ read full articleModeling
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Apr 2014
On a cold winter day, a model arrived at the painter’s apartment blue, almost freezing.
→ read full articleNegotiators [not really a joke]
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2014
Albert Einstein compared the disarmament negotiations sponsored by the UN with…
→ read full articleOuch!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2014
Napoleon came to inspect his troops, and every soldier had to appear before him. They were a little nervous and intimidated.
→ read full articleNonviolent Geopolitics: Law, Politics, and 21st Century Security*
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
In this short essay, my attempt will be to articulate a conception of a world order premised on nonviolent geopolitics, as well as to consider some obstacles to its realization.
→ read full articleHuman Life’s Price-Tag for General Motors: 10 Bucks
Michael Moore – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
I am opposed to the death penalty, but to every rule there is usually an exception. If their top people crunch the numbers and can show that they will save more money by NOT fixing or replacing the part, then that is what they are going to goddam well do. F*** you, f*** me, and f*** everybody they sent to their deaths.
→ read full articleWhy Did GM Take So Long to Respond to Deadly Defect? Corporate Culture May Hold Answer
Michael A. Fletcher and Steven Mufson – The Washington Post,
7 Apr 2014
It’s relatively cheap and easy to replace the flawed ignition switch that has been blamed for at least 13 deaths, including a fatal June 2013 crash in Quebec newly linked to the defect. Yet General Motors waited more than a decade before recalling 2.6 million Chevrolet Cobalts and other small cars.
→ read full articleSecret Weapon
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
One day Satan challenged Heaven to a baseball game. Peter took a quick look at the rosters and accepted.
→ read full articleLawyer Good Samaritan
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
One afternoon a wealthy lawyer was riding in his limousine through the country-side when he saw a man along the roadside eating grass. Disturbed, he ordered his driver to stop and got out of his car.
→ read full articleIsraeli Boycott Case: Sydney Academic’s Lawyers Say Claims Are Pumped Up
Michael Safi – The Guardian,
31 Mar 2014
25 Mar 2014 – Lawyers for a Sydney University academic who is accused of unlawful discrimination for his boycott of Israel say the case against [TMS advisor, TRANSCEND member] Jake Lynch is full of “pumped-up claims” that are “embarrassing in the legal sense, and embarrassing in the non-legal sense”.
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Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
To insist that the left/right distinction obscures more than it reveals is not the end of the story. To contend that ideology is unhelpful as a guide for action is not the same as saying that it is irrelevant to the public debate.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Condoleezza Rice was going to come to Sweden for a state visit. The Swedish foreign minister, who had to go and greet her on arrival at the airport, did not speak English.
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