Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Alive and Bleeding
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
“We’re killing a lot of them, and we’re going to keep killing more of them. So are the Egyptians, so are the Jordanians — they’re in this fight with us. But we cannot win this war by killing them. We cannot kill our way out of this war. We need in the medium to longer term to go after the root causes that lead people to join these groups, whether it’s a lack of opportunity for jobs, whether…”
→ read full articleGaza Homes Flooded after Israel Unbolts Dam Gates
Falastin News Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Scores of Palestinian family homes east of blockaded Gaza were flooding after the Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) opened dam gates at dawn Sunday [22 Feb 2015]. This is not the first time Israeli occupation authorities have opened the Gaza Valley dams.
→ read full articleAnti What? The Hoax of Rising Antisemitism in Europe
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Anti-Semitism is on the rise. All over Europe it is raising its ugly head. Jews are in danger everywhere. They must make haste and come home to Israel before it is too late. True? Untrue? NONSENSE!
→ read full articleThe Struggle of Venezuela against ‘A Common Enemy’
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
There are straightforward principles and dynamics at work here. Washington wants to get rid of the Venezuelan government because it is independent of US designs for the region and because Venezuela has the greatest proven oil reserves in the world and uses its oil revenue to improve the quality of ordinary lives.
→ read full articleThe Assassination of Greece
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
The Greek government is currently locked in a life and death struggle with the elite which dominate the banks and political decision-making centers of the European Union. What are at stake are the livelihoods of 11 million Greek workers, employees and small business people and the viability of the European Union.
→ read full articleHow to Read Intelligently and Write a Great Essay: Robert Frost’s Letter of Advice to His Young Daughter
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
«Take it easy with the essay whatever you do. Be as concrete as the law allows in it — concrete and experiential. Don’t let it scare you. Don’t strain. Remember that any old thing that happens in your head as you read may be the thing you want. If nothing much seems to happen, perhaps another reading will help.»
→ read full articleUS Imperialism and the Catastrophe in Libya
Joseph Kishore, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Prior to the intervention of NATO, there were no sectarian murders of Christians in Libya and Islamist militias tied to Al Qaeda were small groups with no broader influence. These forces were armed and promoted when, in 2011, the Obama administration and its allies in Europe, led by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, took the decision to topple Gaddafi.
→ read full articleThe Western Freedom of Expression Hypocrisy
Johan Galtung, 23 Feb 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
State-Law, Capital, and Culture. They are at their best when independent of each other. State should not interfere with the market, Capital not with politics, neither with Culture. Just look at how Capital changes such important parts of Culture as sports, arts and science, transforming them into products for buying, selling and investing, demanding of universities to serve Capital, not Truth.
→ read full articleRemember Your Humanity
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
This year, 2015, marks the 60th anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, which contains the following words: “There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we, instead, choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise. If you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death.”
→ read full articleNaive Acquisition of Dual-use Surveillance Technology
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Progressive market-driven transformation of personal appliances into spyware? February 2015 has been witness to worldwide news coverage of the manner in which new “Smart TVs” were designed to listen to, if not visually record, those watching them. The major issue of concern was how the information acquired in this way was used, by whom, and with what constraints.
→ read full articleRussia Creates Its Own Payment System
Ian Welsh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
15 Feb 2015 – Domestic credit institutions have been incorporated into the new Russian financial system, the analogous of SWIFT. The new service will allow Russian banks to communicate through the Central Bank of Russia in response to repeated threats by Moscow’s Western partners to disconnect Russia from SWIFT.
→ read full articleSeed Bombers Can Plant an Entire Forest of 900,000 Trees A Day!
John Vibes, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Here’s a good use for old military planes! Planting trees EVERYWHERE! Seed bombing or aerial reforestation is a farming technique where trees and other crops are planted by being thrown or dropped from an airplane or flying drone.
→ read full articleCrimea: Was It Seized by Russia, or Did Russia Block Its Seizure by the U.S.?
Eric Zuesse, Fort Russ – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Both before and after Crimea left Ukraine and joined Russia in a public referendum on 16 March 2014, the Gallup Organization polled Crimeans on behalf of the U.S. Government, and found them to be extremely pro-Russian and anti-American, and also anti-Ukrainian. (Neither poll was subsequently publicized, because the results of each were the opposite of what the sponsor had wished.)
→ read full articleWorld Press Freedom Index 2015: Decline on All Fronts
Reporters Without Borders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
The Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index ranks the performance of 180 countries according to a range of criteria that include media pluralism and independence, respect for the safety and freedom of journalists, and the legislative, institutional and infrastructural environment in which the media operate.
→ read full articleUS-NATO War Games Prepare Massive Military Escalation in West Africa
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
U.S. and NATO forces launched massive war games Monday [16 Feb 2015] in West Africa. The exercises, known as Operation Flintlock 2015, are to serve as the spearhead for a comprehensive military escalation by the US and European powers and their client regimes throughout the resource-rich Lake Chad Basin.
→ read full article700th Consecutive Weekly Hilo [Hawai’i] Peace Vigil
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Friday, Feb. 20, 2015 marks the 700th consecutive weekly Hilo, Hawaii Peace Vigil held from 3:30-5PM at the downtown Post office/federal building sponsored by Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action based in Kurtistown, Big Island, Hawai’i.
→ read full articleIsrael Killed 108 Preschoolers and 19 Babies Last Year According to New Report
Joe Fletcher – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Feb14, 2015 – “Children younger than 16 made up one-third of the total: 280 killed, including 19 babies and 108 preschoolers between the ages of 1 and 5. In 83 strikes, three or more members of one family died. Among those killed were 96 confirmed or suspected militants — or just over 11 percent of the total.”
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
February 23–March 1 – Quote of the Week: “Nothing is impossible; the word itself says, ‘I’m possible’!” — Audrey Hepburn
→ 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 article(Français) La chasse aux sorcières des ‘’Charlies’’: Dérive ou prélude aux bruits rampants des bottes du fascisme?
Amir M. Maasoumi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
28 janvier 2015, Radio Canada et Médias internationaux : ‘’Un enfant de 8 ans interpellé par la police française’’ pour refuser ”d’être Charlie”. Non. Moi non plus; Je ne suis ni Charlie, ni un Assassin hors-la-loi et sans foi! Je refuse cette dichotomie artificielle, simpliste et réductrice.
→ read full articleTen Enduring Mysteries of the Longyou Caves
April Holloway, Ancient Origins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
In China lies the Longyou caves – an extensive, magnificent and rare ancient underground world considered in China as ‘the 9th wonder of the ancient world’. Despite decades of research, very few answers have emerged to explain its enigma. Our ancient ancestors have achieved many wondrous things, but this truly is an unexplained mystery.
→ 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 article(Português) Morrem Três Jornalistas Que Investigavam a Participação dos EUA na Demolição das Torres Gêmeas
Diário Liberdade – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Três jornalistas que trabalhavam em um documentário sobre o envolvimento do governo norte-americano na demolição das torres gêmeas morreram nos últimos dias. Trata-se do ex-repórter internacional da NBC Ned Colt, o correspondente da CBS News [60 Minutes] Bob Simon, e o jornalista do New York Times David Carr.
→ 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 articleA Pre-History of Boko Haram: The Long Shadow of Usman dan Fodio
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
There has been growing concern with the activities of Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria and its spillover into northern Cameroon, Niger, and in the Lake Chad area.
→ read full article(Português) Por que o ocidente não admite as verdadeiras raízes do terrorismo?
Mediapart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
A violência política se alimenta da violência de Estado e da violência social. O radicalismo se alimenta das presepadas geopolíticas ocidentais.
→ 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 articleExtinct—Extincter—Extinctest
Dmitry Orlov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
The USA is best characterized as a decomposing corpse of a nation lorded over by a tiny clique of oligarchs who control the herd by wielding Orwellian methods of mind control. So far gone is the populace that most of them think that things are just peachy—there is an economic recovery, don’t you know.
→ read full articleUS “Easing Into” War with Syria Using ISIS Boogeyman
Tony Cartalucci, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
As early as June of last year, it was reported that ISIS would be used as a means to incrementally draw in US forces in preparation for a direct military intervention aimed at Damascus itself.
→ read full articleAthenae Delenda Est
Paul Krugman, Nobel Economics Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Rather than give any ground, they prefer to see Greece forced into default and probably out of the euro, with the presumed economic wreckage as an object lesson to anyone else thinking of asking for relief. That is, they’re setting out to impose the economic equivalent of the “Carthaginian peace” France sought to impose on Germany after World War I. The lack of wisdom is astonishing and appalling.
→ 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 article(Português) Atletas de remo britânicos posam sem roupa para combater a homofobia
Estilo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
19 Fev 2015 – Desde 2009, os atletas da Warwick University, umas das principais universidades do Reino Unido, combatem a homofobia com uma série de eventos, projetos e um calendário em que aparecem sem roupa. Este ano, a equipe de remo aceitou o desafio de fazer o calendário para uma nova campanha de crowdfunding. (fotos)
→ read full articleThe Word
Pablo Neruda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
The word was born
in the blood,
it grew in the dark body, pulsing,
and took flight with the lips and mouth.
$$$$$S in Their Hearts
Stefano Manfreo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
This book is an effort to strike at the roots of what is probably the most brutal and devastating way through which evil manifests itself in the world: War. $$$$$S in Their Hearts by Alberto Portugheis, OPUS BOOKS, November 2014
→ read full articleIsrael’s Obsession for Monopoly on Middle East Nuclear Power
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Feb 13 2015 – As the Iranian nuclear talks hurtle towards a Mar. 24 deadline, there is renewed debate about the blatant Western double standards underlying the resurrection of a longstanding proposal for a Middle East free from weapons of mass destruction.
→ read full articleThe Casino Republic
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Who is the ruler of Israel? Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, of course.
WRONG. The real ruler of Israel is one Sheldon Adelson, 81, American Jew, Casino king, who was rated as the world’s tenth richest person, worth 37.2 billion dollars at the latest count. But who is counting?
EU and Russia: No Option but Peace and Coexistence
The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
At the moment of writing, the ink on the second Minsk agreement has not yet dried. Closer EU-Russia relations would create a nightmare scenario for the Washington elite, writes a former Belgian lawmaker.
→ read full articleYour Samsung SmartTV Is Spying on You, Basically
The Daily Beast – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
You may be loving your new Internet-connected television and its convenient voice-command feature—but did you know it’s recording everything you say and sending it to a third party?
→ read full articleTerrorism: Ultimate Weapon of the Global Elite
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
The usual definition of a ‘terrorist’ is simple: a person who uses violence in the pursuit of a political objective. By this definition, the two major categories of terrorist are those political leaders who perpetrate state terror by attacking other countries (ranging from launching a war, perhaps following a false flag operation, to conducting a drone strike).
→ read full articleDiagnosis & Prognosis: The Ukrainian Conflict-Formation
Naakow Grant-Hayford - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
The successful expansion of the economic-political-military codes and institutions of both EU and NATO in the general direction of Russia since the end of the cold war, has again, as in the case of Georgia in 2008, openly clashed with Russian interests in its immediate orbit and set ablaze Eastern Ukraine.
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Radio Morobo: “A Welcome [South Sudan] Community Asset”
Dominik Lehnert, Xchange Perspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Feb 12, 2015 – As community based radio station, it is run by volunteer community reporters from all parts of the county and all walks of life.
→ read full article500 Rabbis Urge Israel to Stop Demolition of Palestinian Homes
Falastin News Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
9 Feb 2015 – Over 500 rabbis from Israel, Britain, the US and Canada have called on the Israeli prime minister to stop demolishing Palestinian homes. Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR) say Benjamin Netanyahu’s stance is against “international law and Jewish tradition.”
→ read full articleThe Witch-hunt Staged by the ‘’Charlies’’: Off the Rails Excess or Prelude to the Marching Boots of Fascism?
Amir M. Maasoumi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
28 January 2015, Radio Canada et Médias internationaux : ‘’An eight year old kid questioned by the French police’’ for refusing “to be Charlie”. No. Count me out. I’m neither Charlie, nor a lawless faithless Assassin! I reject this artificial, simplistic, crude dichotomy.
→ read full articleIceland Convicts Bad Bankers and Says Other Nations Can Act
Alistair Scrutton and Ragnhildur Sigurdardottir, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
13 Feb 2015 – Iceland’s Supreme Court has upheld convictions of market manipulation for four former executives of the failed Kaupthing bank in a landmark case that the country’s special prosecutor said showed it was possible to crack down on fraudulent bankers.
→ read full articleEmbodying Global Hegemony through a Sustaining Pattern of Discourse
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Cognitive Challenge of Dominion over All One Surveys – This is an exploration of possible global organization of the pattern of value-based polarities by which discourse is significantly characterized: big-small, win-lose, nice-nasty, hot-cold, friend-enemy, clean-dirty, expensive-cheap, and the like.
→ read full article(Italiano) Che cosa comportava il colonialismo: il caso della Malesia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Uno sguardo a questa dichiarazione di Cecil Rhodes: La mia idea favorita è una soluzione al problema sociale, vale a dire, al fine di salvare i 40.000.000 d’abitanti del Regno Unito da una sanguinosa guerra civile, noi statisti coloniali dobbiamo acquisire nuove terre per insediarvi la popolazione di troppo che fornisca nuovi mercati per le merci prodotte nelle fabbriche e nelle miniere. L’IMPERO: È UNA QUESTIONE PANE E BURRO. SE SI VUOLE EVITARE UNA GUERRA CIVILE, BASTA DIVENTARE IMPERIALISTI.
→ read full articleKamikaze
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
they win every war, even when
they explode babies and grandmothers,
whilst their tanks play songs, inspire them,
“kill the motherf**, kill…!”
Payback Time? Greek PM Seeks Reparations over Nazi Occupation & War-Time Loan
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
10 Feb 2015 – Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, referring to Nazi Germany’s four-year occupation of Greece and a forced war-time loan during World War II that saddled the Greek economy in huge debt, wants Berlin to pay reparations.
→ read full articleLynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror
Equal Justice Initiative – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
The 27-page report published on 10 Feb 2015 is fruit of the multi-year investigation into lynching in twelve Southern states during the period between Reconstruction and World War II.
→ read full article700 British Artists Pledge to Boycott Israel
Falastin News Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
15 Feb 2015 – A group of over 700 British artists signed a pledge to culturally and professionally boycott Israel to pressure an end to its aggressive and discriminatory practices against the Palestinians.
→ read full articleFull Text of the Minsk-II Agreement on Ukraine
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Marathon negotiations in Minsk, the Belarusian capital, resulted in a new ceasefire for eastern Ukraine.
→ read full articleNuclear-Weapon Free Zones: Delegitimizing Nuclear Weapons at a Regional Level
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
It is an unfortunate aspect of world politics that constructive, institution-building action is usually undertaken only because of a crisis. The Treaty of Tlatelolco is a fine example of the necessary team work between political advocacy and expert knowledge.
→ read full articleEducation Has Little to Do with Knowledge
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Together, in unison, openly or anonymously, we should give a hand to the outspoken Chinese education minister, Yuan Guiren, and write about this appalling but taboo (in the West) topic: “How education became yet another weapon of war, used by the West.”
→ 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 article(Italiano) L’arte della Pace (Review-Recensione)
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
“L’arte della Pace” di Alberto L’Abate, ovvero la crescita dei movimenti di base dallo spirituale al politico. Come sostituto del sostituto (Rocco Altieri) dell’autore (Alberto L’Abate) del libro da presentare, occorre che innanzitutto mi presenti.
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Manhã de Carnaval (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Baden Powell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Virtuoso Brazilian Guitarist
→ read full articleA Shock to the System
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
One of the biggest jokes in conservation is the Japanese government’s claim to be engaged in “scientific whaling”. All the killing by its harpoon fleet takes place under the guise of “research”, as this is the only justification available, under international rules.
→ read full articleAcross 100 Miles of Ocean
Akio Tanaka, University of Massachusetts Boston – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
In 1989 the Soviet Union collapsed, and the United States saw it as a victory of Capitalism over Communism. The Democratic Party joined the Republican Party’s full embrace of the corporate agenda, and the corporations felt empowered to seek profits with absolutely no regard for the consequences to Earth and all its life forms. The US became a corporate-military empire using its military to secure oil for its oil based economy.
→ 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 articleCan Syria’s Cultural Heritage Be a Fulcrum for Ending Its Civil War?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
This country is home to some of the world’s first cities, as well as globally important sites from the Akkadian, Sumerian, Hittite, Assyrian, Persian, Greco-Roman, Ummayyad, Crusader, and Ottoman civilizations and to some of the oldest, most advanced civilizations in the world.
→ read full articleAccountability for Armed Contractors
Dr. Ian Ralby, Fletcher Security Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
The proliferation of private armed contractors was followed by a proliferation of initiatives o establish accountability for the industry… Failing to address foreseeable complications may prove detrimental to the industry, to the credibility of governments employing them, and to the overarching aims of international security.
→ read full articleFramework or Fragmentation of Standards for Private Security Providers?
Human Analytics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
A response to ‘Accountability for Armed Contractors,’ by Dr. Ian Ralby [ABOVE]
→ read full articleEarth Charter+15 Kickoff Webinar with Federico Mayor and Alexander Likhotal
Earth Charter International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Please, join us on the 25th of February to hear these great speakers and participate in a question and answer with them afterwards. We look forward to seeing you there!
→ read full articleBanking Giant HSBC Sheltered Murky Cash Linked to Dictators, Traffickers, Criminals, Arms Dealers
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Swiss Leaks is a collaborative investigation that exposes how the Swiss branch of one of the world’s biggest banks, HSBC, profited from doing business with tax dodgers and criminals around the world. Team of journalists from 45 countries unearths secret bank accounts maintained for criminals, traffickers, tax dodgers, politicians and celebrities.
→ read full articleEx-UN Chief Kofi Annan: US War on Iraq Helped Create Islamic State
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Sunday [8 Feb 2015] that the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq helped create the Islamic State group. Annan issued the remarks during a speech at the Munich Security Conference in southern Germany.
→ read full articleOregon’s Kate Brown to Be First Openly Bisexual Governor in U.S. History
Shelby Sebens, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown, set to become the nation’s first openly bisexual governor on Wednesday [18 Feb 2015], is an under-the-radar liberal Democrat known for her struggles to expand voting and her push for greater campaign finance transparency.
→ read full articleSelma: Hollywood vs. Reality
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Selma. An intriguing 2015 film about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his push to secure voting rights for African Americans who had been disenfranchised by a post-slavery, Jim Crow segregated society. Powerful. Yes! Moving. Yes! Convincing. Yes! Truthful. Not entirely.
→ read full article(Português) Fantasias de Cidadã
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Este ano, os foliões brincarão como se fosse um carnaval normal. É a grande festa da manutenção das aparências: faz de conta que “as águas vão rolar”, faz de conta que somos felizes, faz de conta que as classes sociais se misturam fraternalmente, faz de conta que não existe calote nem empobrecimento de todos.
→ read full article(Italiano) Una teoria sulla Cina
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Una teoria serve alla comprensione, predizione e identificazione delle condizioni per il cambiamento. Per la Cina si riportano sette indicatori teorici storico-culturali, usando l’Occidente in generale e gli USA in particolare a mo’ di confronto. La presentazione attinge a innumerevoli dialoghi avuti in Cina per oltre 40 anni, dal 1973.
→ read full articleWhatever Happened to Social Defence?
Brian Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Abstract: A potential alternative to military defence is nonviolent action by civilians, using methods such as protests, strikes, boycotts and winning over opponent troops. In the 1980s there were groups in several countries advocating and promoting this option, but subsequently it faded from view even within the peace movement.
→ read full articleQuick Action Is Needed to Save the Long-Term Future
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
We must save the long-term future of our beautiful planet, not only for ourselves, and our children and grandchildren, but also for all future generations of humans, and for the dazzling diversity of plants and animals with which we share the gift of life.
→ read full articleLatin America’s Mass Murderers to Be Tried in Italian Court
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
8 Feb 2015 – Former military chiefs and politicians implicated in the deaths of thousands through Operation Condor will face justice. After decades of impunity, those responsible for the wave of political violence that swept Latin America under the dictatorships of 1970s and 1980s will be tried in court this week in Rome, Italy.
→ 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 articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
February 16–22 – Quote of the Week: “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
→ read full articleNon Aligned Movement Backs Venezuela against U.S. Sanctions
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
The group of 120 nations issued a statement Saturday [7 Feb 2015] denouncing the sanctions as an intervention into Venezuelan affairs.
→ read full articleThe Island of Knowledge: How to Live with Mystery in a Culture Obsessed with Certainty and Definitive Answers
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery. “To think of science as separate from spirituality to me is a big mistake… It’s exactly because I feel very spiritually connected with nature that I am a scientist.” –astrophysicist/philosopher Marcelo Gleiser
→ read full articleNouvelles Affaires Africaines
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
Pierre Péan has written a lively book on palace intrigue in Gabon. Péan is considered an “investigative journalist” and has published some 34 books on African and French politics. «Pierre Péan, Nouvelles Affaires Africaines (Paris: Fayard, 2014, 254 pp.)»
→ read full articleWar and Perpetual Adolescence
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
The urgency I feel isn’t any longer to stop a particular war but to interrupt endless war: to interrupt the narrowly focused geopolitical conversation, conveyed to us over and over by media stenographers.
→ read full article(Italiano) “Ricordare vuol dire non morire”
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
Portato e interpretato in italiano da Roberto Contardo, figlio di Ida Desandré, deportata politica nei campi di Ravensbrück, Salgitter e Bergen-Belsen.
→ 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 article(Italiano) Le radici della nonviolenza
Lorenzo Guadagnucci, Altreconomia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
Il 30 gennaio cade l’anniversario dell’uccisione di Mohandas Gandhi. L’azione del leader indiano s’ispirò al giainismo, una religione nata nello Stato del Gujarat, di cui è stato governatore l’attuale premier indiano Narendra Modi.
→ read full articleIf Russia Is Ukraine’s Enemy, Why Are 1,2 Million Ukrainian Men Seeking Refuge in Russia?
RedPillTimes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
Ukrainian men of conscription age seeking refuge in Russia increased by 20,000 in one week, the Russian Federal Migration Service said on Monday [2 Feb 2015]. 1,193 million Ukrainian men, conscription age, now staying in Russia. 2,5 million Ukrainian refugees currently being taken care of (fed, clothed, etc…) in Russia.
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Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
Most people thought by now that I’d at least
have stopped the fighting in the Middle East.
(Italiano) Di fronte alla tragedia di Charlie Hebdo
Jean-Marie Muller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
Un’ultima riflessione che sembrerà forse non corretta. La tragedia di Charlie Hebdo non ha fatto 17, ma 20 vittime. I tre assassini, giovani francesi nati in Francia ma la cui vita era dimenticata, sono anch’essi vittime del terrorismo. Indipendentemente dall’orrore criminale dei loro atti, sono anche loro degli uomini. Al di là della morte, tocca a noi restituire loro la loro umanità. Ci sarà allora possibile piangere anche questi tre uomini nel rispetto della loro persona.
→ read full articleGenocide in Kashmir: India’s Shame
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
Welcome to a nation overrun by the 700,000-strong security forces of the occupying power – India. Welcome to the continuous presence of barbed wire, of military columns, and ‘security checks’. Welcome to a brutality unimaginable almost anywhere else on earth!
→ read full articleBritain Launches ‘Big Brother’ System, Uploads One Third of Population to Facial Recognition Database
21st Century Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
To describe what has happened to British society, one can no longer call it a “slippery slope”, as it’s abundantly clear from this latest news that Britain has already fallen off the edge, and is presently tumbling into an Orwellian canyon.
→ read full articleUniversity of California Approves Boycotting Israel
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
4 Feb 2015 – Pro-Palestinian students at the University of California, Davis, have celebrated after a student government vote to boycott Israel was passed overwhelmingly at the US school.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
February 9–15 – Quote of the Week: “Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?” — Bill Watterson
→ read full articleIsrael’s Insolence to Obama Is Likely to Rebound on It
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
As with any mafia boss, Mr Obama is in trouble if he can no longer inspire fear, let alone respect. But the problem is of his own making. For six years, Mr Netanyahu “spat in our face”, as one White House official memorably observed while referring to his latest attempt to humiliate Mr Obama, but paid no discernible price.
→ read full articleVatican Bank May Be Too Corrupt for Pope Francis to Save
Nicole Goodkind, Yahoo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
The Vatican Bank is one of the most mysterious institutions in the world. This is a bank that doesn’t give out any loans and doesn’t have to turn a profit by its own charter. It is an “offshore bank in the middle of Rome.” Wealthy Italians would only have to find one priest willing to deposit their money in the bank and Italian authorities wouldn’t know about it.
→ read full article(Castellano) Unidos, Jamas Seremos Vencidos: La Victoria de Guatemala En Contra de Monsanto
Cultural Survival – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
A pesar de cientos de años de opresión y marginación, el pueblo de Guatemala se levanto en contra de sus líderes opresivos y exigieron justicia. La victoria sobre Monsanto es una idea de la potencia de este país.
→ read full articleA Pathan Soldier
Stephen Gill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
This story is set in 1971 when the tragic events unfolded in the region known as East Pakistan, now Bangladesh. The barbarous rape seemed unbelievable but it is a fact. Within a few months three million Bengalees were killed and ten million escaped to the neighboring country of India. Out of the atrocities there emerged a new country, called Bangladesh.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’Iberia mille anni fa
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
Può essere utile una macchina del tempo disposta su un lungo periodo nel passato per capire il presente in tale luce. Per esempio la penisola iberica, oggi con due stati, Spagna e Portogallo.
→ read full articleUNRWA: The Situation in Gaza Is Worse Than Ever Before
Falastin News Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
Robert Turner, Director of Operations for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East in Gaza-UNRWA said in a press conference on Wednesday [4 Feb 2015] that the current situation in Gaza Strip is worse than before Israel’s summer offensive.
→ read full articleWhat Colonialism Was About: The Case of Malaya
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
Statement by Cecil Rhodes: “I was in East End London yesterday and attended a meeting of the unemployed… My cherished idea is a solution for the social problem, i.e. in order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population to provide new markets for the goods produced in the factories and the mines. THE EMPIRE–IS A BREAD AND BUTTER QUESTION. IF YOU WANT TO AVOID A CIVIL WAR, YOU JUST BECOME IMPERIALISTS.
→ read full articleWhy Geoengineering is “Untested and Untestable”
Naomi Klein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
Right now there are all kinds of geoengineering experiments going on in labs and with computer modeling but “outdoor tests” are still frowned upon. Geoengineering in one part of the world will impact the climate on the other side of the planet. Those questions can only be answered through planetary scale deployment.
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Spanish Romance [Romanza] (Music Video of the Week)
Miloš Karadaglić – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
Author Unknown – Guitarist Extraordinaire. The style of the piece is that of the Parlour music of the late 19th century in Spain or South America. A classic.
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Greece Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Speaks Truth to Hostile Interviewer
BBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
Jan 30, 2015 – Greece’s new Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis interview on BBC’s Newsnight.
→ read full articleBrazilian Indians Secure Nationwide Land Victory
Survival International – TRANSCEND Media Serviced,
2 Feb 2015
Tribes across Brazil have secured a historic victory, preventing Congress from seizing control of the future of their lands. Brazilian Indians continue to fight against the invasion of their lands by loggers, miners, ranchers and others, and against a series of Amazon mega-dams which threaten to destroy their livelihoods and wipe out some uncontacted tribes.
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