Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Coexisting with Our Differences in a Civilized Manner
Pres. Raul Castro – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
Cuban President Raul Castro’s address to the nation on the developments in the Cuba-US relations, broadcast on radio and television on 17 Dec 2014.
→ read full articleIs the World View of a Holy Father Necessarily Full of Holes?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
Mysterious Theological Black Holes Engendering Global Crises – The argument has been variously presented: Which problems currently associated with global crisis would not be significantly reduced if the level of population was much lower? Presented otherwise: Is there every probability that global problems will be significantly aggravated by expected levels of population in the future?
→ read full articleEurope Has Lost Its Compass
Roberto Savio, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
With the fall of the Swedish government orchestrated by the far-right and centre-right opposition, a symbol of civic-mindedness and democracy in Europe has fallen, and the grip of an irrational fear of immigrants tightens as Europe’s politicians seek a scapegoat.
→ read full articleSplendid Isolation
Uri Avnery - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
20 Dec 2014 – A Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with East Jerusalem as its capital, an Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty, the end of the occupation, peace between Israel and the entire Arab and Muslim world. Or a Greater Israel, continuous occupation or annexation, more settlements and ethnic cleansing, permanent war. Israel has to choose. So has the world.
→ read full articleA Life Worth Living: Albert Camus on Our Search for Meaning and Why Happiness Is Our Moral Obligation
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
“To decide whether life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question of philosophy,” Albert Camus wrote in ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’ in 1942. “Everything else … is child’s play; we must first of all answer the question.” If the question abides, it is because it is more than a matter of historical or biographical interest.
→ read full articleFinancial Market Manipulation Is The New Trend: Can It Continue?
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
It is too risky for the US to take on Russia militarily. Instead, Washington is using its unique symbiotic relationship with Western financial institutions to attack an incautious Russia that foolishly opened herself to Western financial predation.
→ read full articleFidel’s Legacy
Stephen Lendman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
At age 88, he’s Cuba’s [and Latin America’s] elder statesman. A legend in his own time and then some. Defying critics. Outwitting them. Outliving them. This article a snapshot of some of his achievements. Impressive by any standard.
→ read full articleHead of Stratfor, the ‘Private CIA’, Says Overthrow of Ukraine’s Yanukovych Was ‘The Most Blatant Coup in History’
Eric Zuesse, OEN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
This statement contradicts the description asserted by the White House, the EU and the Western press that Yanukovych’s overthrow was the result of the U.S. Government’s $5+ billion expense since 1991 to establish ‘democracy’ in Ukraine.
→ read full articleHamas Calls for EU Talks after Court Ruling
Andrew Rettman, EUObserver – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
17 Dec 2014 – Hamas wants the EU foreign relations chief, Federica Mogherini, to come to Gaza to start a new dialogue after the EU court said it should be taken off the terrorist register.
→ read full articleSaving the ICC from African Thugtators
Alemayehu G. Mariam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
When an African president accused of multiple crimes against humanity walks out of court by orchestrating an unprecedented and audacious obstruction of justice, it is not just a flagrant denial of justice to the thousands of victims. It is an outrage against all humanity. It is an affront to the rule of law. It is the triumph of injustice.
→ read full articlePhysicians’ Group Details Psychologists’ Role in CIA’s “Extensive System of Torture”
Matthew MacEgan, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
Health professionals violated a series of international treaties, laws, and ethical codes including the Geneva Conventions, the UN Convention Against Torture, the War Crimes Act of 1996 and the Nuremburg Code. “In certain instances,” the report states, “such as in the crime of unethical research on human subjects, these alleged crimes may rise to the level of crimes against humanity under international law.”
→ read full articlePassword
Baher Kamal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
WINDOWS: Please enter your new password.
USER: cabbage
Haunting Illustrations for Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Introduced by the Courageous Journalist Who Broke the Edward Snowden Story
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
As the full impact of the Snowden revelations sank in, many people made the connection, and Amazon announced a dramatic rise in sales of ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four.’ To some, the young NSA analyst had revealed a world which was near-Orwellian; others thought that he had described a state of affairs that Orwell could barely have imagined.
→ read full articleTaliban Butchers Are Pashtun Cowards
Robin Edward Poulton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
If you sit of an evening beside a fire in the Pashtun heartlands, you will hear tales of bravery, honour and generosity. You will hear stories about how the Pashtuns were never defeated by Alexander the Great nor by Genghis Khan nor by the British Empire nor by the Soviet or American imperial armies. If you remind the Taliban about surats from the Holy Koran that tell Muslims never to kill another Muslim, how will your brave Pashtun slaughterer-of-children reply?
→ read full articleProsecute the Torturers!
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
The US elite did the right thing by revealing the dark side of its torture programme. But we must remember that the US commands enormous global power, especially global military power. With massive power come huge responsibilities. It is in the realm of the responsibilities that it has failed miserably. And its torture program is just one of the many examples of its failure to act responsibly
→ read full articleALBA Leaders Reject US Interference as Summit Concludes
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
With the 13th summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) concluding Sunday [14 Dec 2014], the12-member bloc of left-leaning Latin American and Caribbean countries strongly rejected U.S. interference on the region, particularly in light of new sanctions announced against Venezuela this week.
→ read full articleVeritasphobia (Fear of Truth)
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
20th century “heroes” like Helen Keller, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Ho Chi Minh, Nelson Mandela, Ghassan Kanafani, Rosa Parks, and thousands of others follow those who in earlier centuries were called “prophets”. They are common people who shed their Veritasphobia and thus achieved remarkable things.
→ read full articleThe US Feels the Heat on Palestine Vote at UN
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
The floodgates have begun to open across Europe. On Friday [12 Dec 2014] the Portuguese parliament became the latest European legislature to back statehood, joining Sweden, Britain, Ireland, France and Spain. Similar moves are expected in Denmark and the EU. The Swiss government will join the fray too this week.
→ read full article5 Ways to Protect Your Spine at Work
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
Regardless if your job requires heavy lifting or you spend most of your days at a desk, back injuries you want to avoid. They can happen from physical strains and many people don’t realize that they can happen under conditions that don’t appear as strenuous.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Peacebuilding von unten im Südsudan
Stephan Brües, Zivilcourage – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
Er ist das jüngste Land der Welt: Nach dem Friedensabkommen mit dem Sudan 2005, das ihm zunächst eine Autonomie mit eigener Präsidentschaft bescherte, hat sich der Südsudan nach einem Referendum im Januar 2011 endgültig vom Sudan abgespalten und ist nun unabhängig.
→ read full articleMargaret Mead on Myth vs. Deception and What to Tell Kids about Santa Claus
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
How to instill an appreciation of the difference between “fact” and “poetic truth,” in kids and grownups alike. Belief in Santa Claus becomes a problem when parents simultaneously are telling their children a lie and insist on the literal belief in a man in a red suit. Children who have been told the truth about birth and death will know when they hear about Santa Claus that this is a truth of a different kind.
→ read full article(Português) Para Chomsky, na Casa Branca se articula o terror mundial
Noam Chomsky, Outras Palavras - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
Intelectual dissidente analisa campanhas de sabotagem deflagradas pelos EUA contra Angola, Cuba e Nicarágua. E alerta: Washington continua a desestabilizar adversários. “É oficial: os EUA são o maior Estado terrorista do mundo e se orgulham disso”.
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After Duo Created CIA Torture Methods, Did World’s Largest Group of Psychologists Enable Abuses?
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
Dec 16, 2014 – As a psychologist identified as the “architect” of the CIA’s torture program admits he personally waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, we look at allegations that the American Psychological Association — the largest association of psychologists in the world — secretly colluded with U.S. abuses.
→ read full articleWhy is Near Term Human Extinction Inevitable?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
The expression ‘near term human extinction’ is relatively new in the scientific literature but, unlike other truths that have been successfully suppressed by national elites and their corporate media, this one will keep filtering out until you start to hear the expression routinely. Why?
→ read full articleWhat Is in the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on CIA Torture (Part I)
Tom Carter, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
16 Dec 2014 – This is the first of three articles summarizing the contents of the unclassified executive summary of the US Senate Intelligence Committee’s 6,700-page report on the CIA torture program, released last week.
→ read full articleAnimal Overgrowth
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
Every child should visit an abattoir. What can you say about a society whose food production must be hidden from public view? In which the factory farms and slaughterhouses supplying much of our diet must be guarded like arsenals to prevent us from seeing what happens there?
→ read full articleX’mas Spirit
Stephen Gill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
I see her resurrecting in Christmas trees
mistletoe and Santa Claus.
The Germans Rebuilt Dresden and the Syrians Will Rebuild Aleppo!
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
One is distraught over the seeming futility of rebuilding this world heritage site. Would it require half a century as was required in Dresden Germany following three days of firebombing by British and American planes? There are many questions to be answered whether rebuilding would ever restore Aleppo’s old city to what it had been for centuries.
→ 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 articleThe Day Anti-Castro Forces Tried to Bomb the U.N.
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
When Ernesto Che Guevera was at the UN to address the General Assembly in 1964, the U.N. headquarters came under attack – literally. The anti-Castro forces, backed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), mounted an insidious campaign to stop Che Guevera from speaking. A 3.5-inch bazooka was fired at the 39-storeyed glass house by the East River.
→ read full articleChristmas at the War Front Line
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
This is a battlefield,
the war front line
Blue Helmets are standing by,
the UN flags are waving by.
Alkarama 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 articleRussian Roulette: Taxpayers Could Be on the Hook for Trillions in Oil Derivatives
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
19 Dec 2014 – The sudden dramatic collapse in the price of oil appears to be an act of geopolitical warfare against Russia. The result could be trillions of dollars in oil derivative losses; and the FDIC could be liable, following repeal of key portions of the Dodd-Frank Act last weekend.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to Ecuadorian President Correa on Evicting the CONAIE Indigenous Movement
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Upside Down World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
The government of Ecuador called for the CONAIE indigenous movement to leave its Quito headquarters, which they have occupied since 1991. Translation of a letter from Univ. of Coimbra’s sociology professor and analyst of Latin American social movements, Boaventura de Sousa Santos to President Rafael Correa.
→ read full articleDear Dr. Kaslow: I Too Am “Outraged, Saddened and Pained”
Roy J. Eidelson, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
The New York Times does not accept letters-to-the-editor about other letters-to-the-editor. But this is one I would have submitted if I could. Dr. Kaslow’s letter offers no hint of doubt, concern, or regret in regard to any actions or inaction on the part of the American Psychological Association and its leadership. I am also outraged that in 2004, while torture was taking place at CIA black sites, APA Ethics Office Director Stephen Behnke arranged a private meeting with senior CIA and Pentagon officials to “sort out appropriate from inappropriate uses of psychology.”
→ read full article(Português) Brasil: Conheça e Acesse o Relatório Final da Comissão Nacional da Verdade
Carta Maior – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
10 dez 2014 – O relatório aponta as prisões sem base legal, as torturas e as mortes delas decorrentes, as violências sexuais, as execuções e ocultações de cadáveres. O relatório final da Comissão Nacional da Verdade foi entregue hoje em cerimônia oficial no Palácio do Planalto à presidenta Dilma Rousseff.
→ read full articleThe Global Bankers’ Coup: Bail-In and the Shadowy Financial Stability Board
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
For three centuries, private international banking interests have brought governments in line by blocking them from issuing their own currencies and requiring them to borrow banker-issued “banknotes” instead. Under the new FSB guidelines, nations could still be held in feudalistic subservience to foreign masters.
→ read full articleConvention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
UN General Assembly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
10 December 1984 – The General Assembly adopts the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; Calls upon all Governments to consider signing and ratifying the Convention as a matter of priority.
→ read full articleThe Complicity of Psychologists in CIA Torture
Roy Eidelson and Trudy Bond – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
What the American Psychological Association Knew – Other evidence suggests that the abhorrent actions of two highly paid CIA contractors were by no means the only instances in which the profession’s do-no-harm principles were tragically abandoned. So while this week’s grim Senate report provides important answers to crucial questions, for the psychology profession there is much more yet to be illuminated.
→ read full articleHome-made Spy Drone Hacks WiFi Networks, Listens to Calls
Erin Van der Bellen, WUSA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Long-time friends and former Air Force buddies, Mike Tassey and Rich Perkins, describe their state-of-the-art cyber drone as hard to take down, hard to see and virtually hard to detect. They built it in a garage, using off the shelf electronics to prove a drone can be used to launch cyber-attacks.
→ read full articleFour Years since the Arrest of Julian Assange
Robert Stevens, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
December 7 [2014] marked four years since WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in London and detained without charge. December 5 marked 900 days that he has been holed up inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London after being forced to claim political asylum.
→ read full article30 Years of Torture Convention – States Still Failing on Obligations
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
10 Dec 2014 – On the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention against Torture, Amnesty International is calling upon states not to obstruct efforts to prevent the appalling practice. While 156 states have ratified the Convention, a host of nations are still carrying out torture and are obstructing efforts to prevent, monitor, investigate and to bring about prosecutions.
→ read full articleAlternative Nobel: Fidel Castro Wins China’s Confucius Peace Prize
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
11 Dec 2014 – Cuba’s former leader Fidel Castro has been awarded the Confucius Peace Prize, China’s alternative to the Nobel. Castro was praised for “important contributions on eliminating nuclear war after his retirement,” and will get US$15,000.
→ read full articleUS Senate Votes to Sanction Venezuela over CIA Torture
News from Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
The US Senate passed a bill imposing sanctions on Venezuelan for not having done more to prevent the torture of prisoners by the CIA. “As is well known, we have been trying to straighten out Venezuela for 15 years or more, but the recalcitrant government of that country refuses to be straightened. If it hadn’t been for places like Venezuela, we would have had much more time to keep an eye on the CIA.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Un rapido sguardo a Indonesia-Malaysia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Muhammadiyah University – Yogyakarta, Indonesia
→ read full articleUS Torture Report Summary Released (download full text here)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
9 December, 2014 – US Senator Dianne Feinstein Unveils CIA (Whitewash) Torture Report Summary on Capitol Hill in Washington
→ read full articleUS Senate Approves US$ 585 Billion Defense Bill
Xinhua – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
The U.S. Senate on Friday [12 Dec 2014] passed a sweeping 585-billion-U.S.dollar defense policy bill that will pay for the Pentagon’s activities in fiscal 2015, and give President Barack Obama authority to expand the campaign against the Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq and Syria.
→ read full articlePresentation to Nobel Summit – Rome, Italy
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Appeal to His Holiness Pope Francis to Replace Just War Theory with Theology of Peace, Nonkilling, and Nonviolence
→ read full articleIsrael & Australia Violate UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Dr. Gideon Polya – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Apartheid Israel and Apartheid Australia have appalling, continuing records of violating the human rights of their Indigenous Peoples and must be held to account by the civilized world for currently violating all 46 Articles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
→ read full articleBritain Taught Brazilian Dictatorship to Torture
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Brazilian interrogators learned techniques from the British army, which had mastered their psychological torturing skills on suspected republicans in Northern Ireland.
→ read full articleAntisemitism and Criticism of Israel Not the Same Thing
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
In a submission last month to the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism, JfJfP’s executive committee carefully distinguishes between antisemitism – which has deep roots in Europe and is rising – and criticism of Israeli policies, which is necessary and commonplace in Israel itself.
→ read full articleTorture as a Jus Cogens Norm
Law Teacher – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Everybody Is Doing It! Torture as a Jus Cogens Norm Following the September 11 Attacks – This paper will examine the claims, prior to September 11, that torture prohibition is a jus cogens norm and whether or not the actions of the international community after this date can justifiably support such a contention.
→ read full articleEngaging with Insight of a Higher Order
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
This is an exercise in exploring the limits of what can be said about greater insight — but without presuming to say anything from such a perspective. The value of doing so can be variously indicated.
→ read full articleOnly Half of Global Banks Have Policy to Respect Human Rights
Carey L. Biron, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Public policy to respect human rights is a foundational mandate of the international convention on multinational business practice. Of the global banks examined, none has a process to deal with human rights abuses. None has even created grievance mechanisms by which those impacted can complain to the banks.
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The Architect of the CIA’s Enhanced Interrogation Program [a.k.a. torture]
VICE News Exclusive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Dec 10, 2014 – This is the first time James Mitchell has ever appeared on camera.
→ read full articleMajor BDS Win: Elbit Loses Brazil Deal
The Alternative Information Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
4 Dec 2014 – The Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul has cancelled a major collaboration deal with Israeli military company Elbit Systems in the wake of protests over the firm’s role in oppression of Palestinians.
→ read full articleObama in Ferguson—If…
Latuff Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Satirical Strip – Cartoon
→ read full articleNorwegian Doctor: Israel Used New Type of Weapon in Gaza
Medics Charity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Unknown weapon severs the legs leaving burns around the stump, small punctures in the skin, internal bleeding. Even doctors with previous experience in war zones do not recognize them according to Dr. Erik Fosse, a Norwegian cardiologist who worked at Gaza’s Shifa Hospital during Operation Cast Lead.
→ read full articlePeace Education for Protection of Human Rights
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
10 December is celebrated annually across the world to honor the UN General Assembly’s adoption and proclamation, on 10 December 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
→ read full articleJim Crow Laws That Govern Palestinian Life
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Whether they want to attend family gatherings, open a business or visit sick relatives, Palestinians under occupation must adhere to military regulations, the vast majority of which are hidden from public scrutiny.
→ read full articleThe Octagon World: Conflict or Cooperation?
Johan Galtung, 15 Dec 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
They can choose to focus on the worst in others, criticizing, building on paranoia and worst case analysis, “security”. Or choose to focus on the best, with cooperation as dominant mode, conflict as recessive. They can cooperate for mutual and equal benefit like in good trade, exploring each others’ comparative political-cultural advantages. They can do it.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Week of Dec 15-21, 2014
→ read full articleWalt Whitman Returns . . .
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855) – What Walt Whitman would say if he appeared in our time? I know he would recognize the betrayal of history’s lessons – humanity’s continued infatuation with violence and war. He would scold us! Reprimand us! Remind us solutions are to be found in compassion and connection — not metal.
→ read full articleRight-Wing Lessons Learned
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
This Modern World – Comic Strip
→ read full articleUN Urges Israel to Renounce Nuclear Arms, Join Non-Proliferation Treaty
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
5 Dec 2014 – The UN General Assembly has passed a resolution calling on Israel not to develop, produce or possess nuclear arms and criticizing the country for not being part to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Israel rebuffed the call saying that the UN “lost all its credibility regarding Israel with these types of routine votes that are ensured passage by an automatic majority and which single out Israel.”
→ read full articleNuclear Weapons and the International Security Context
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
This statement, signed by over 100 civil society organizations, was delivered at the United Nations General Assembly’s First Committee on October 28, 2014.
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Climate Change and the Yin-Yang of Polar Sea Ice
ScienceAtNASA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
Dec 2, 2014 – Arctic and Antarctic sea ice are both affected by climate change, but the two poles of Earth are behaving in intriguingly different ways.
→ read full articleWhat Happens When Spies Can Eavesdrop on Any Conversation?
Patrick Tucker, Defense One – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
Imagine having access to the all of the world’s recorded conversations, videos that people have posted to YouTube, in addition to chatter collected by random microphones in public places. Then picture the possibility of searching that dataset for clues related to terms that you are interested in the same way you search Google.
→ read full articleWhat Part of Constitutional Rights Do You Not Understand?
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
This Modern World – Comic Satirical Strip
→ read full articleThe 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy
Edward Curtin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
Review of [TRANSCEND Member] Graeme MacQueen’s Book – The anthrax letters were instrumental in getting tyrannical legislation passed by Congress. The US tried to blame Muslim terrorists but the anthrax was a version that only existed in US military labs.
→ read full articleBeyond M.A.D.: Reviving Nuclear War
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
“Some of the key technocrats and scientists of the Cold War say the nation has become overly confident about its nuclear deterrence. The nuclear enterprise, they say, ‘is rusting its way to disarmament.’” Let’s meditate on this irony — that disarmament, finally, means no more than growing old and weak and pathetic.
→ read full articleBoycott Coca-Cola
US Palestinian Community Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
4 Dec 2014 – BDS is now a worldwide movement against Israeli Apartheid, and USPCN wants to work with you to target Coca-Cola, as our contribution to the campaign. Close Coca-Cola Factories in Occupied Palestine NOW!
→ read full article(Italiano) Scontri di civiltà Occidente-Oriente?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
Il conflitto? Diritti storici buddhisti vs diritti umani musulmani. Nessuna conversione religiosa all’altro campo, niente né una cosa né l’altra secolare, nessun compromesso mezzo buddhista / mezzo musulmano, nessun amalgama sia-sia: il buddhism con potere di stato è anch’esso esclusivo. Che prospettive di soluzioni politiche?
→ read full article(Italiano) L’apocalisse del neoliberismo
Alex Zanotelli, Comune-info – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
“Vidi una bestia salire dal mare …”. È con queste parole che il profeta dell’Apocalisse descrive l’Impero Romano alla fine del primo secolo. Le stesse parole le userei per le nuove bestie che appaiono all’orizzonte: il Partenariato Transatlantico per il Commercio e gli Investimenti, nell’acronimo inglese T-tip.
→ read full articleCorpus Callosum of the Global Brain?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
Locating the integrative function within the world wide web. It is appropriate to ask whether the current challenges to global governance, and any requisite integration of the global brain, could not be fruitfully explored with respect to split-brain pathology, any form of split consciousness, hemispheric specialization, or bipolar disorder.
→ read full article‘Palestine Is Not an Environment Story’
Nafeez Ahmed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
3 Dec 2014 – After writing for The Guardian for over a year, my contract was unilaterally terminated because I wrote a piece on Gaza that was beyond the pale. In doing so, The Guardian breached the very editorial freedom the paper was obligated to protect under my contract. The article now has 68,000 social media shares, and is by far the single most popular article on the Gaza conflict to date.
→ read full articleWar by Media and the Triumph of Propaganda
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
5 Dec 2014 – Why has so much journalism succumbed to propaganda? Why are censorship and distortion standard practice? Why is the BBC so often a mouthpiece of rapacious power? Why do the New York Times and the Washington Post deceive their readers?
→ read full articleNetwork
xkcd - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
→ read full articleEbb and Flow of Privatized Water – From Buenos Aires to Atlanta, from Mozambique to France
Nick Buxton, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
A new report by Transnational Institute unveils a growing tide of cities taking back control of their water. Only a few involved popular rebellions, but all resulted from growing dissatisfaction with corporations’ broken promises.
→ read full articleThe Ethics of Climate Hope
Naomi Klein - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
According to Elizabeth Kolbert’s review of my book, ‘This Changes Everything,’ humans are too selfish to respond effectively to the climate crisis. “When you tell people what it would actually take to radically reduce carbon emissions, they don’t want to give up air travel or air conditioning or HDTV or trips to the mall or the family car.”
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Celebration (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Kool & The Gang – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
The Classic from 1980 LIVE
→ read full articleThe Rise of German Imperialism and the Phony “Russian Threat”
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
The principle Nazi ideological prop that secured massive financial and political support from Germany’s leading industrialists was the Communist and Soviet threat. The main Nazi military drive, absorbing two-thirds of its best troops, was directed eastward at conquering and destroying Russia.
→ read full articleLaunching of Kairos Palestine in Bethlehem – 11 December 2009
Kairos Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
In this historic document, we Palestinian Christians declare that the military occupation of our land is a sin against God and humanity.
→ read full articleNepal’s Gadhimai Animal Slaughter Festival: Never Again
Compassion in World Farming – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
Please note that this picture story contains graphic images of animal slaughter that may cause distress.
→ read full articleNew G20 Rules: Cyprus-style Bail-ins to Hit Depositors AND Pensioners
Ellen Brown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
Warren Buffett called derivatives “weapons of financial mass destruction;” they are a time bomb waiting to explode. When that happens, our deposits, our pensions, and our public investment funds will all be subject to confiscation in a “bail in.” Perhaps it is time to pull our money out of Wall Street and set up our own banks – banks that will serve the people because they are owned by the people.
→ read full articleIsrael Nature Reserve Oil Spill ‘One of Country’s Worst Environmental Disasters’
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
Oil spill floods Israeli nature reserve. Three people hospitalized after inhaling fumes from oil gushing out of a breached pipeline near Evrona reserve.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
Important/relevant dates to observe this week.
December 7 (Sunday):
1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
December 8:
A Quick Glance at Indonesia-Malaysia
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
Muhammadiyah University – Yogyakarta, Indonesia
→ read full articleEbola Epidemic Continues to Ravage West Africa
Niles Williamson, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
The Obama administration dispatched several thousand soldiers to Liberia, exploiting the crisis as a means of gaining a military foothold on the African continent. While foreign troops have been deployed to construct Ebola treatment centers, the responsibility for staffing these facilities has been left to an ad hoc grouping of NGOs, missionaries and local workers.
→ read full articleThirty Years On, Bhopal’s Ghost Haunts India
Gulf News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
1 Dec 2014 – Even after three decades, the memory of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster is kept alive by “mini Bhopals” that occur across India.
→ read full articleUN Urges for Rohingya Citizenship in Myanmar
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
UN rights committee urges Myanmar government to scrap its identity plan and grant Rohingya access to citizenship.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Demolition of Palestinian Homes ‘Contrary to International Law,’ UN Experts Warn
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
25 Nov 2014 – The Israeli Government’s use of house demolition as a punitive measure must end immediately, UN experts urged today. The practice – which targets Palestinian homes in both Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory – is a violation of human rights law.
→ read full articleEU Parliament Votes for Break-Up of Google
Deutsche Welle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
EU lawmakers have voted in a favor of a resolution that would force Internet companies to separate search engines from commercial services. Though not named, Internet search giant Google, was the target of the vote.
→ read full articleCould Your Smart Tablet Be Damaging to Your Health?
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
A new report is showing that many tablets and phones are using chemicals that are drastically affecting the health of consumers.
→ read full articleZionists Throw Themselves onto the Messianic Wagon
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
No archaeological evidence for (the first temple’s) existence, let alone its location, has been discovered, and no extra-biblical records of it have survived…In fact there is no archaeological evidence of the modest Second Temple either.
→ read full article(Português) Não Culpem as Telinhas
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Os críticos de smartphones, tablets, ipads, ipods e ipuds têm o direito de lamentar a utilização destes instrumentos como a coisa mais importante na vida de muitas pessoas. O conhecimento de nova técnica (é simplesmente este o significado da palavra “tecnologia”), sempre chega desarrumando o jeito de viver, para depois instituir outro jeito irrevogável, que se torna hábito, saudável ou não.
→ read full articleHow the Pentagon’s Skynet Would Automate War
Nafeez Ahmed, Vice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Pentagon officials are worried that the US military is losing its edge compared to competitors like China, and are willing to explore almost anything to stay on top—including creating watered-down versions of the Terminator.
→ read full articleGambia: Life Sentence for ‘Aggravated Homosexuality’
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
New Law Threatens LGBTI Community – “Arresting and torturing people based on their sexual orientation is shameful, and inventing new crimes with even harsher sentences is scandalous. Gambia’s new law not only flouts African human rights obligations, it violates its own constitution, which says that all people must be equal and free from discrimination before the law.”
→ read full articleUS Intervenes in South China Sea Dispute
Peter Symonds, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
26 Nov 2014 – In a direct intrusion into territorial disputes in the South China Sea, the US has called on China to halt construction activity in the Spratly Islands. The comments, which Beijing has already rejected, will only exacerbate the already sharp tensions between China and its neighbours.
→ read full article“Judeo-Nazism” and the Prospects for a Comprehensive Agreement with Iran
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
If a non-Jew had coined the phrase “Judeo-Nazism” he or she would have been verbally crucified by Zionism’s attack dogs and the mainstream Western media. The actual inventor of it was Yeshavahu Leibowitz, one of the most outspoken and controversial Jewish intellectuals of modern times.
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