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Turkish-ISIL Oil Trade: Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Russia All Accuse Turkey of Smuggling Oil (Part 1)
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya - Strategic Culture Foundation,
21 Dec 2015
Russia is not alone in accusing Turkey of being involved in the theft of Syrian and Iraqi oil. Turkish opposition politicians, Turkish media, and various governments in the Middle East have also raised their voices about the role of Turkish officials in smuggling from the conflict zones in Syria and Iraq.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – The 101st Anniversary of the Christmas Truce of 1914: Questioning Christian Participation in Aggressive War
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
“…and the ones who call the shots won’t be among the dead and lame;
And on each end of the rifle we’re the same” — John McCutcheon
Burma’s Hard-Line Buddhists Are Waging a Campaign of Hate That Nobody Can Stop
Francis Wade – Time Magazine,
21 Dec 2015
Sectarian hatred shown by Burma’s Buddhist extremists toward the country’s Muslim minority has become so pronounced that activists and politicians appear unable to stop it.
→ read full articleMistaken Identity
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
An old cowboy, dressed in a cowboy shirt, hat, jeans and boots went to a bar, sat down, and ordered a drink.
→ read full articleTurkish-ISIL Oil Trade: Did the Turkish Military Enter Mosul to Protect Its Oil Trade? (Part 2)
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – Strategic Culture Foundation,
21 Dec 2015
The move can be seen as a compensation for the weakening of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL / ISIS / IS / DAESH) and the ISIL’s oil smuggling infrastructure. It can also be viewed as a Turkish preparation for the aftermath of the future defeat of the ISIL in Iraq.
→ read full articleAs the World Debates Syria, Palestine’s Ignominy Continues in Silence
Ben Morris – CounterPunch,
21 Dec 2015
17 Dec 2015 – As the prophetic Orwellian concept of perpetual war is made manifest in Syria and Iraq, and the attention of the planet is understandably diverted towards the apocalyptic scenario currently being played out there, the subjugated and forgotten nation of Palestine limps quietly on under the curse of a media blackout.
→ read full articleClimate Change and the Road Through Paris
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
21 Dec 2015
Author and activist Naomi Klein said the deal will “steamroll over crucial scientific red lines … it is also going to steamroll over equity red lines.” She added, “We know, from doing the math and adding up the targets that the major economies have brought to Paris, that those targets lead us to a very dangerous future. They lead us to a future between 3 and 4 degrees Celsius warming.”
→ read full articleA New World Order? ISIS and the Sykes-Picot Backlash
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
The shaping of world order remains mainly the work of the heavyweight states that act on the basis of geopolitical calculations with respect for international law and morality displayed only as convenient. Yet the political monoculture of territorial states remains formally the exclusive foundation of world order, but its political reality is being challenged in various settings and nowhere more so than in the Middle East.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il clima contro il pianeta
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
Hanno commesso un grosso errore a Parigi, anzi a Le Bourget: un gran parlare a proposito della struttura legale, ben poco rispetto al come. Le innovazioni non arrivano da sole; già molte ne esistono, si utilizzino; si chiedano innovazioni specifiche da condividere con l’umanità; per favore, niente brevetti, niente “forze di mercato” – che in genere rendono i ricchi ancora più ricchi.
→ read full articleEndless War Crimes in Yemen Slowed by Ceasefire
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
21 Dec 2015
Saudi Arabia’s Yemen Has a Fascist Whiff of Franco’s Spain Circa 1936 – The first lie about Yemen’s dirty war in the world of official journalism is that the fighting there has been a “nine-month conflict” and that “the conflict started in March,” as the New York Times put it on December 17. This is simply not true in any meaningful sense.
→ read full articleAmerica Has Been at War 93% of the Time – 222 out of 239 Years – Since 1776
Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
The U.S. Has Only Been at Peace for 21 Years Total since Its Birth – Check Out Full Listing
→ read full articleDilma’s Fall: The Wrecking of an Inspiring Left-Wing Experiment in Brazil
Alfredo Saad Filho, The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
The country’s descent has been turbo-charged by a relentlessly negative media campaign and a succession of corruption scandals orchestrated by overtly partisan judges and a runaway Federal Police seeking to prosecute every instance of bribery and illegal finance touching the PT, however indirectly, as scandals involving the opposition remain un-investigated.
→ read full articleKerry Questions What Israel’s Policy Really Is
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
In a recent speech at the Brookings Institute, the US Secretary of State has clearly given up on reaching a two-state agreement. For the Israelis, he says, it is just a ‘slogan’ a ‘throw away remark’ contradicted by their practices of settlements and demolition of Palestinian homes.
→ read full articleA Special Relationship: The United States Is Teaming Up with Al Qaeda. Again
Andrew Cockburn – Harper’s Magazine,
21 Dec 2015
History of US/Saudi Alliance with Al Qaeda (excellent).
→ read full articleThe United States Drifts towards Political Irresponsibility
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
The recent Republican presidential debates were held in the gaudy and luxurious Venetian Casino in Los Vegas, a building whose billionaire Republican-backing owner Sheldon Adelson held a private meeting with fellow-billionaire Donald Trump before the debate.
→ read full articleNorthern Arakan as Rohingya’s Ancestral Land: G.H.Luce Citing the Stone Inscription from Ava Period
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
According to the late Gordon H. Luce, essentially the founder of modern historical studies of the ancient Myanmar or Burma and the mentor of Professor Than Tun, the presence of the Rohinjas in Burma was evidenced in the stone inscriptions from the Ava period (AD 1400).
→ read full articleWhat the Women of Berlin’s Rosenstraße Protest Can Teach Us about Trump
Rivera Sun, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
The parallels between the 1930s-40s in Germany and the United States in 2015 are frightening. It is clear to many citizens that the rise of bigotry and fascism in our nation cannot be allowed to continue unchallenged. Organized resistance is essential. In this effort, revisiting the history of resistance to the Nazis offers us some tantalizing concepts.
→ read full articleMartin Shkreli Arrested for Securities Fraud
Tom Hall, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
Martin Shkreli, the 32-year-old former hedge fund manager who became infamous earlier this year for raising the price of a 62-year-old drug to treat cancer by 4,000 percent, from $13.50 to $750 per pill, was arrested Thursday [17 Dec] on charges of securities fraud stretching back several years.
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Oh Holy Night! (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Il Divo with Katherine Jenkins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
Il Divo sing with Katherine Jenkins in “Steppin’ Out” on ITV.
→ read full articleEducation for Tolerance and Peace
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. - Transcend Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
Executive Vice President of International Association of Educators for World Peace Keynote Speech at the Kerala State Convention on the theme: Education for Tolerance and Peace.
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia’s Execution Spree
Editorial Board – The International New York Times,
21 Dec 2015
Saudi Arabia’s justice system has gone into murderous overdrive. More than 150 people have been executed this year, the most since 1995. More than 50 people are reported to be scheduled for imminent execution on terrorist charges, though some are citizens whose only crime was protesting against the government. This wave of killing has prompted some to compare Saudi Arabia to the Islamic State: both follow Shariah law.
→ read full articleBruce Lee on Self-Actualization and the Crucial Difference between Pride and Self-Esteem
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
“Real self-esteem is an integration of an inner value with things in the world around you,” Anna Deavere Smith wrote. “When, for whatever reason, self-esteem is unattainable, the autonomous individual becomes a highly explosive entity. He turns away from an unpromising self and plunges into the pursuit of pride — the explosive substitute for self-esteem.” –Bruce Lee
→ read full articleReflections on Witnessing the Republican Presidential Candidate Debate
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
At what point do we as a nation acknowledge we have helped create the tragedy of terrorism by our own actions — policies serving our selfish needs and those of a few allies? For this we have thrown the world into chaos and disarray! We cannot continue imposing our will and interests on the world without consequence. Think! Hate begets hate! Nuclear weapons now proliferate.
→ read full articleThe “Saving of Humanity” Framed by “Sinking of the Titanic”
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
The 195 countries that gathered outside Paris… to negotiate a new agreement on climate change declared that the world’s temperature does not climb much more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels; and yet they simultaneously celebrated a new climate agreement that got nowhere close to preventing such a rise.
→ read full articleWhat’s Left of the Latin American Left?
Hisham Aidi – Al Jazeera,
21 Dec 2015
As happens in democracies, Latin American voters are punishing parties of the left for economic mismanagement. That leftist and rightist parties are no longer immune to electoral punishment is a sign of the stability of Latin American democracy.
→ read full articleSanctuary for Refugees: André Trocmé and Le Chambon-sur-Lignon
Rivera Sun, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
What are we going to do? The moral obligation of compassion is clear. U.S. governors, like the officials in Europe, like the Vichy government and the Nazis, and all the cruel oppressors throughout history, must be resisted nonviolently. Like André Trocmé and Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, we must make our communities havens for those fleeing violence and death.
→ read full articleStingrays: A Secret Catalogue of Government Gear for Spying on Your Cellphone
Jeremy Scahill and Margot Williams – The Intercept,
21 Dec 2015
17 Dec 2015 – The intercept has obtained a secret, internal U.S. government catalogue of dozens of cellphone surveillance devices used by the military and by intelligence agencies.
→ read full article(Castellano) Medio Oriente: Toneladas de tinta y millones de palabras pero…
Baher Kamal, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
Este es un análisis de Baher Kamal, periodista de nacionalidad española y origen egipcio, donde desmitifica alguno de los estereotipos más comunes sobre los árabes, la región de Medio Oriente, los musulmanes y el islam.
→ read full article(Português) Violência Contra Qualquer Espécie É Inaceitável
Malu Nunes - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
21 Dec 2015
Animais, plantas e micro-organismos silvestres estão desaparecendo em um ritmo avassalador, em decorrência de atividades humanas; e essa perda de biodiversidade também é uma forma de violência, que jamais poderia ser encarada como natural. A taxa de extinção atual é mil vezes superior ao ritmo normal da natureza, ou seja, a sociedade contemporânea é mais perigosa que o meteoro que dizimou os dinossauros em uma das outras cinco ondas históricas de extinções em massa.
→ read full articleFrom Taiji to Tanks: The Barren Life of Captive Dolphins
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
16 Dec 2015 – The slaughter of dolphins and small whales that takes place in Taiji, Japan’s infamous cove is a horrific and inhumane massacre of highly intelligent and socially complex cetaceans. It is sad to say, though, that as they are taken from their ocean home to be sold for captivity, an even worse fate is soon to come, because their suffering is just beginning.
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia and the “War on Terror”
Bill Van Auken, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
A more fundamental question is what does the Saudi regime mean by “terrorism”? Clearly, it is not referring to the various Al Qaeda-linked groups fighting in Syria, all of which get substantial funding as well as large numbers of fighters and their religious-ideological inspiration from the Wahhabist Saudi kingdom.
→ read full articleU.S. Air Force Hires Private Companies to Fly Drones in War Zones
Chris Thompson, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
The unprecedented move is in response to demands from the Obama administration to dramatically expand the drone war just as the Pentagon faces a critical shortage of military pilots. As a result, civilian pilots will directly participate in military operations for the first time since the drone wars began about a decade ago.
→ read full articleIndia Declares Dolphins “Non-Human Persons” – Dolphin Shows Banned
EWAO – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests have made a groundbreaking decision, to completely forbid the keeping of captive dolphins for public entertainment in the entire country. A statement about their new policy was released Friday [30 Oct 2015],
→ read full articleImperialism and Capitalism: Rethinking an Intimate Relationship
Prof. James Petras and Prof. Henry Veltmeyer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
16 Dec 2015 – The literature on imperialism suffers from a fundamental confusion about the relationship between capitalism and imperialism. The aim of this paper is to remove this confusion.
→ read full article(Português) A Vida de Fraudes do Homem que Aumentou Um Comprimido para a SIDA [AIDS] de 13,5 para 750 Dólares: Foi Preso
Luís M. Faria – Expresso,
21 Dec 2015
As acusações têm a ver com uma fraude anterior, mas é possível que o ato que levou Martin Shkreli a ser odiado na internet tenha a ver com as suas dívidas pessoais.
→ read full article(Italiano) “Da Piazza Fontana a Piazza della Loggia. Tra violenza e verità”
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
Parte seconda – Il processo d’Appello bis di Piazza della Loggia è l’unico processo per strage ancora aperto in Italia.
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Empire Files
Abby Martin, TheRealNews - TeleSur,
21 Dec 2015
Abby Martin debuts teleSUR’s The Empire Files exploring the U.S. Empire and its rise to world hegemony.
→ read full articleChristmas Greetings 2015
Stephen Gill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
I see the spirit resurrecting
in Christmas trees,
mistletoe and Santa Claus.
I see her appearing
within the decoration in churches,
homes and offices
in parties, family reunions
and drinks.
Paris: We Need System Change!
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
Our entire system is leading us towards disaster, and this includes both economic and governmental establishments. To save human civilization, the biosphere and the future, the people of the world must take matters into their own hands and change the system.
→ read full articleWe Wish You a MERRY CHRISTMAS
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
Magnificent Orchestra & Choir – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
→ read full articleChina vs. Russia vs. USA; Xi vs. Putin vs. Obama
Johan Galtung, 21 Dec 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
China, the most populous; Russia, the largest; USA, the most military. And here is the key hypothesis, presumably more right than wrong: China-Xi: positive peace; Russia-Putin: negative peace; USA-Obama: war. It takes at least two to make wars, and two to make peace. The other side has to play the same role. The question is: who will yield to the other, China-Russia to major wars, or the USA to major peace?
→ read full articleUniversity of Barcelona Announces Official Boycott of Israeli Occupation
The Palestinian Information Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
20 Dec 2015 – The Central University of Barcelona (UAB) announced its decision to boycott Israeli universities and institutions that have ties, whether direct or indirect, with the occupation of Palestine.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
Dec 21-27 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Always remember to slow down in life; live, breathe, and learn; take a look around you whenever you have time and never forget everything and every person that has the least place within your heart.” — Unattributed
→ read full articleTehran’s Damascene Moment?
James Denselow – Al Jazeera,
14 Dec 2015
14 Dec 2015 – The wider regional conflict between Riyadh and Tehran has influenced much of the machinations of the Middle East over the past decade. The fact that the two countries are sitting at the same table discussing Syria rather than negotiating through violence on the ground is a significant – and under-reported – success of the Vienna process to date.
→ read full articleWe Are Going Backwards; COP21 Is the Opposite of Progress
Frank Barat interviews Naomi Klein – New Internationalist Magazine,
14 Dec 2015
10 Dec 2015 – Naomi Klein speaks with Frank Barat about the limits of the Paris climate talks and how climate change is an accelerator that makes pre-existing problems worse.
→ read full articleWorld Leaders Agree to Historic Global Climate Agreement
Stefanie Spear, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
12 Dec 2015 – World leaders from 195 countries adopted an historic international climate accord Saturday [12 Dec] in Paris. The 31-page pact, which comes after two weeks of negotiations at the COP21 climate summit, is the first-ever agreement that commits almost every country in the world to fight climate change.
→ read full articleWhy the World’s Most Powerful Telescope Has Just Been Ruled Unlawful
Maddie Stone, Gizmodo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
7 Dec 2015 – Last week, Hawaii’s Supreme Court voided a construction permit for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), a $1.4 billion observatory that would peer into distant corners of our universe and back in time, exploring new cosmic landscapes with a resolution twelve times sharper than that of Hubble.
→ read full articleThe Five Key Decisions Made in the UN Climate Deal in Paris
Ewa Krukowska and Alex Morales - Bloomberg,
14 Dec 2015
12 Dec 2015 – Envoys to the United Nations climate talks handed down a 31-page document on Saturday [12 Dec] outlining their boldest steps yet to rein in global warming. Here are the key points of the text, along with comment on why the decisions made in Paris matter.
• Envoys set goal to cap temperature rise below 2 degrees C
• Climate finance for poor nations to be scaled up by 2025
Eight Lessons from the Climate Disaster and Why Paris Worked
Alex Morales - Bloomberg,
14 Dec 2015
13 Dec 2015 – It took years of careful planning by the United Nations and the 195 countries involved to reach the historic deal on climate change agreed in Paris on Saturday [12 Dec].
• Envoys from 195 nations labored six years on global accord
• Mouton Cadet wines, Venezuela critic helped the process
100 Years of General Relativity (Part 1 of 3)
Don Barrett, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Produced in a revolutionary epoch, general relativity continues to be regarded as one of the momentous achievements of physics, yet its implications are far from exhausted. Even after the passage of a century, new insights connecting the theory and observed phenomena appear each year in the publications of thousands of physicists across the globe. It was the capstone to a century of intellectual struggle and the catalyst to a deeper understanding of the material world.
→ read full article100 Years of General Relativity (Part 2 of 3)
Will Morrow, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
The History, Science and Implications of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity
→ read full articleClimate Deal Requires $16.5 Trillion Investment to Cut Pollution
Alex Morales and Ewa Krukowska - Bloomberg,
14 Dec 2015
13 Dec 2015 – The deal struck at United Nations climate talks requires an overhaul of historic proportions for energy policies worldwide and a huge investment in cleaning up the pollution now damaging the Earth’s atmosphere.
• UN deal in Paris would require much deeper fossil fuel cuts
• Envoys from 187 nations submit action plans to cut emissions
Alright then…
Submitted by Robin Poulton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Bloke comes down to breakfast and says to his wife, “Honey, what would you do if I won the lottery?”
→ read full articleIsraeli Army Launches Limited Incursion into Blockaded Gaza
The Palestinian Information Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
9 Dec 2015 — Four Israeli army bulldozers raked through the area and leveled Palestinian lands amid intermittent discharge of gunfire. The incursions are the latest in a series of Israeli violations of the Cairo-brokered ceasefire accord signed in the wake of the 2014 offensive on the besieged coastal enclave.
→ read full articleLatin America: The Aborted Neo-Liberal Offensive
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Progressive social legislation has come to a virtual halt even before the recent political advances of the US-backed right-wing parties with their neo-liberal economic agenda. Any attempt to ‘unmake and reverse’ the social advances of the past decade will be met with (1) militant resistance, if not open class warfare; (2) institutional and political constraints; (3) and low commodity prices drastically limiting export revenues.
→ read full articleReinventing Banking: From Russia to Iceland to Ecuador
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
11 Dec 2015 – Global developments in finance and geopolitics are prompting a rethinking of the structure of banking and of the nature of money itself. Among other interesting news items:
→ read full articleCorporations Will Never Solve Climate Change
Naomi Oreskes and Auden Schendler – Harvard Business Review,
14 Dec 2015
The facts about VW — combined with recent revelations about Exxon-Mobil’s long history of misrepresenting what they understood about climate change, as well as BP’s failure to get “Beyond Petroleum” — spell the end of the old notion of green business, the idea that a big piece of the environmental fix might come voluntarily from the corporate world.
→ read full articleExtinction is Forever
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
it is two things that drive species over the edge: our systematic destruction of land habitat – forests, grasslands, wetlands, peatlands, mangroves… – in our endless effort to capture more of the Earth’s wild places for human use (whether it be residential, commercial, mining, farming or military) and our destruction of waterways and the ocean habitat by dumping into them radioactive contaminants, carbon dioxide, a multitude of poisons and chemical pollutants, and even plastic.
→ read full articleFive Years since the Arrest of Julian Assange
Robert Stevens, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
8 Dec 2015 – On December 7, 2010 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was detained in London under a European Arrest Warrant issued by Sweden. His sole crime was to bring to global attention the heinous war crimes committed by the US and other imperialist powers in Iraq and Afghanistan—crimes authorised at the highest levels of government.
→ read full articlePentagon Announces Worldwide Expansion of US Military Bases
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
11 Dec 2015 – The US Defense Department is preparing to expand its global network of military bases by establishing a new “string” of bases in countries stretching from Africa to East Asia, unnamed Pentagon officials told the New York Times Wednesday [9 Dec].
→ read full articleHow U.S. Interventions Dismembered the Middle East
Adil E. Shamoo – Foreign Policy In Focus,
14 Dec 2015
Despite everything, hawks are still pushing President Obama to send ground troops to Syria. He would be wise to reject their advice.
→ read full article100 Years of General Relativity (Part 3 of 3)
Bryan Dyne, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
The History, Science and Implications of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity
→ read full articleBanksy’s ‘Steve Jobs the Son of Syrian Migrant’ Pops Up in Calais Camp
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
11 Dec 2015 – The picture of the late pioneer of the microcomputer revolution, Steve Jobs, carrying a rucksack appears on the wall in infamous Jungle refugee camp in the French port of Calais. “The son of a migrant from Syria,” the description under the picture reads.
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My Way (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Frank Sinatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Celebrating 100 Years of Frank Sinatra, Born 12 Dec 1915 – The Voice of the 20th Century!
→ read full articlePyotr Kropotkin (9 Dec 1842 – 8 Feb1921) Sociability as a Law of Nature
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
In 1902, Kropotkin published his most lasting book, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. “We may safely say that mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle, but that as a factor of evolution, mutual aid most probably has a far greater importance, in as much it favors the development of such habits and character as insure the maintenance and future development of the species.”
→ read full articleWhile Left Governments in South America Face Setbacks, Gains of Progressive Period Likely to Endure
Benjamin Dangl, Upside Down World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
The gains of South America’s progressive period, won in the halls of power and in the streets, won’t likely be swept aside anytime soon.
→ read full article‘We Are Human Beings; We Are Not Dogs’
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
14 Dec 2015
On the outskirts of the northern French town of Calais, a massive, makeshift refugee camp called “The Jungle” grows daily, swelling with asylum-seekers fleeing war in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Sudan and beyond. Their countries of origin are a map of the targets of U.S. bombing campaigns. More than 6,000 people here.
→ read full articleThe Art of Self-Culture and the Crucial Difference between Being Educated and Being Cultured
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
“In order to be cultured and not to stand below the level of your surroundings it is not enough to have read ‘The Pickwick Papers’ and learnt a monologue from ‘Faust,’ Anton Chekhov wrote in an 1886 letter to his brother, outlining the eight qualities of cultured people — among them sincerity, “no shallow vanity,” and a compassionate heart that “aches for what the eye does not see.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Le nubi stanno diventando più nere
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Come fa notare Robert Savio, “combattono tutti fino all’ultimo siriano”. La sola speranza fra le grandi potenze: la Russia. Bombardando e reagendo con moderazione, potrebbe far sì che gli sciiti Assad-Iraq-Iran-Bahrain arrivino a una tregua, aprendo a negoziati. Putin l’ha già fatto in passato. Cionondimeno, l’Occidente può preferire la guerra per far sì che sia Putin a risolvergli i problemi.
→ read full articleThe Climate vs. the Planet
Johan Galtung, 14 Dec 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
They made a major mistake in Paris, or Le Bourget rather: much about what to do and the legal framework, too little about how. Innovations do not come by themselves; many already exist, use them; demand specific innovations to be shared with humanity; no patents, no “market forces”–generally for the rich to become richer–please.
→ read full articleRationalism and Piety
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
There are contrasting views about rationalism and empiricism. Indian Rationalist Association is as the name suggests an Indian institution that tries to expose the so-called godmen and other superstitions.
→ read full articleRearranging the Deck on Capitalism’s Sinking Ship
Andrew Smolski - CounterPunch,
14 Dec 2015
We need to consider that any perceived incorporation of ecological rationality is “partially attributable to the growth of carbon-intensive manufacturing in less developed countries via the transnationalization of production.” We are just moving our problems around.
→ read full articleFrank Sinatra (12 Dec 1915 – 14 May 1998)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Francis Albert Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey and died in Los Angeles, California. Frank is often hailed as the greatest American singer of 20th-century; nicknamed The Voice.
→ read full article(Português) Nossos Amigos Animais
Olisomar Pires - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
14 Dec 2015
Ninguém é obrigado a ter um animal doméstico, porém se o tiver, aja com honradez para com ele, a paga recebida é muito maior que qualquer “enorme” sacrifício da nossa parte, se um dia constatar que já não tem condições de cuidar bem, procure alternativas pensando no bem estar do seu amigo, não o abandone jamais à própria sorte, eles são como crianças.
→ read full article(Français) Les Israéliens tuent les civils palestiniens dans une totale impunité
Mazin Qumsiyeh – Info-Palestine,
14 Dec 2015
Les assassinats par les Israéliens de civils palestiniens se répètent dans l’impunité. 108 Palestiniens ont été tués depuis le premier octobre [2015].
→ read full articleHow to Be an Anticapitalist Today
Prof. Erik Olin Wright, Ph.D. – Jacobin Magazine,
14 Dec 2015
Anticapitalism isn’t simply a moral stance against injustice — it’s about building an alternative.
→ read full articleBritish Amputee Soldier Bold Statement Defending Muslims
Chris Herbert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Point is, fuck off. I know who I dislike, and I know who I don’t. I know who I appreciate, and I know who I don’t. If you want to hate an entire race of men and women for the actions of a few dickheads feel free, but don’t push your views on me, thinking I am an easy target because one douchebag decided it was my day to die. Blaming all Muslims for the actions of groups like Daesh and the Taliban, is like blaming all Christians for the actions of the KKK or Westboro Baptist Church.
→ read full articleWhat Stinks in Saudi Ain’t the Camel Dung – ISIS Is a “Saudi Army in Disguise”
F. William Engdahl, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
The Saudi monarchy of King Salman and his hot-headed son, Prince Salman, for decades have financed terrorism under a fake religious disguise to advance their private plutocratic agenda. It has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with money and oil.
→ read full articleBack to Basics: Clearing the Fog of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Sami Al-Arian – CounterPunch,
14 Dec 2015
Oftentimes Israel and its enablers in the political and media arenas try to obfuscate basic facts about the nature and history of the conflict. Despite these attempts, however, the conflict is neither complicated nor has it existed for centuries.
→ read full articleGerry Spence on America Menaced by Impending Police State
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
The book pertains to the situation here in America, but as recent events in Paris, San Bernardino, and Colorado Springs confirm, we are in danger of moving without realizing it toward some kind of ‘global police state,’ all in the name of security, trampling on the rights and self-esteem of billions of people and extinguishing the freedom of all. Such a devastating scenario cannot be separated from the predatory features of global capitalism in its present neoliberal phase.
→ read full articleArms-Control Lessons from the Volkswagen Scandal
Moritz Kütt – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
14 Dec 2015
Volkswagen got away with this legerdemain for years because, like most carmakers, it uses proprietary software to control its engines and other systems, software that still is not available to vehicle inspectors or independent analysts. Arms-control verification relies on similarly complex combinations of software and hardware, and verification tools often use proprietary or export-controlled technology that prevents transparency and independent scrutiny.
→ read full articleThe Destroyer
UNILAD TV - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Powerful 1m47s message on the world environment. The video speaks for itself…
→ read full articleParis and the Long-Term Future
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
The ultimate fate of human civilization and the biosphere is in our hands. What we really have to fear, for the sake of our children and grandchildren and their descendants, is reaching a tipping point, beyond which uncontrollable feedback loops will make catastrophic climate change inevitable despite all human efforts to prevent it.
→ read full articleFour Examples of Mainstream Media Fabricating News to Push for War
Dylan Charles, Waking Times – The Conscious Reporter,
14 Dec 2015
As we inch further into the future and evermore closer to the next, and certainly last, world war, it seems proper to give pause and consider the significance of the fact that much of the information provided on world events is dreadfully compromised by corporate and political propagandists.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Dec 14-20 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Don’t let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don’t like them.” – Stacy London
→ read full articleDestroying Syria to Create Sunnistan
Mike Whitney - CounterPunch,
14 Dec 2015
What is the connection between the US bombing of a Syrian military base in Ayyash, Syria, and the Turkish invasion of northern Iraq? Both of these seemingly isolated events are part of a larger plan to Balkanize the Middle East, to strengthen Washington’s grip on dwindling resources, to draw Russia into a costly and protracted war, and to ensure that ME oil remains denominated in US dollars.
→ read full article(Italiano) “Da Piazza Fontana a Piazza della Loggia. Tra violenza e verità”
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Preciso, dettagliato, senza inutili orpelli e divagazioni, pregno di aspetti sociologici, culturali, ideali e quotidiani di quegli anni e delle due stragi fasciste di Piazza Fontana (Milano) e di Piazza della Loggia (Brescia), è stato il contributo che Milani e Sinicato hanno regalato, con grande generosità, anche al pubblico presente in biblioteca regionale di Aosta la sera prima, per una testimonianza di raro ed alto impegno umano, civile, intellettuale e professionale.
→ read full article“Truth”
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
He had a little truth;
He held it with his might.
Obama, like Bush, Just Makes It All Worse
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
14 Dec 2015
Fear, doubt, uncertainty, confusion, and secrecy all conspire to defeat confidence, calm, proportionality, and reason. Leadership and populace alike embrace a zeitgeist of agitation and over-simplification, lashing out in one-dimensional military responses to misperceived threats that are not even fundamentally military. Anti-terrorism, as practiced by the US, is an oxymoron.
→ read full articleHow Our Naive Understanding of Violence Helps ISIS
Paul K. Chappell, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
During the era of the Internet revolution, it is naive to believe that we can use violence to defeat the ideologies that sustain terrorism. ISIS and Al Qaida are global movements, and with the Internet and social media, they can recruit people from all over the world, including people on American and European soil. And they only have to recruit a tiny amount of Americans and Europeans, initiate a single attack, and kill a few people to cause the huge overreactions that they want from their opponents.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Radicalizing the Oppressed, Humiliated and Marginalized: There Must Be 50 Ways
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Understanding “radicalization” isn’t rocket science, but in order to understand it, one needs more information than what is spoon-fed to us consumers of inadequate, censored, canned and often fake (“faux”) news. That is fine with the National Rifle Association, the gun lobby, the weapons manufacturers, the Pentagon and Big Pharma, all of whom are beneficiaries of the half-truths with which we are force-fed.
→ read full articleThe Nobel Foundation Taken to Court on the Peace Prize
Jan Oberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
“We are not going to court for our own financial benefit,” says Fredrik Heffermehl, “but to get a court order on Nobel’s purpose and the limits the peace prize must keep within. To this end, we had to sue the board of the Nobel Foundation to restitute to the Foundation the €1 million paid to the EU in 2012. The money was paid to the EU against protests from Peace Prize recipients Desmond Tutu, Mairead Maguire, Perez Esquivel and the International Peace Bureau.”
→ read full articlePeace Researchers Urge Caution over Bombing in Syria
Kevin Clements, Feargal Cochrane and Hugh Miall – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Trying to stop ‘terrorism’ with ‘air strikes’ is like trying to stop a seeding dandelion by hitting it with a golf club. Bombing Syrian towns is likely to increase recruitment to ISIS, both in the Middle East and in Europe. We need more creative and imaginative solutions to the problems we are confronting than those currently on the table.
→ read full article(Français) Contrecarrer le changement démocratique: Etre Palestinien en Israël
Ben White, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Quelques morceaux choisis du livre de Ben White, ‘Etre Palestinien en Israël’. Edité par La Guillotine, cet ouvrage indispensable traite d’une question clé ignorée par le “processus de paix” officiel et par les commentateurs les plus influents : celle de la minorité palestinienne à l’intérieur d’Israël.
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Frank Sinatra Centennial – TMS Editor’s 7 Picks: Kick Back and Enjoy…
Frank Sinatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
New York New York, Got You under My Skin, You Make Me Feel so Young, It Was a Very Good Year, Frank Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim, Come Fly with Me, Young at Heart.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to Myanmar’s Leaders
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
May I, from the bottom of my heart, urge you to use your most precious time, while alive, to endeavor to end the hell of a slow genocide of the Rohingya and to bring about the cessation of all armed conflicts and wars against our own ethnic brethren in Eastern Myanmar, namely the Kachin, the Shan, the Pa-Oo, the Kokant, etc. May the Rohingya be free from the State’s genocidal persecution.
→ read full articleResponding to Megaterrorism after Paris
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
6 Dec 2015 – The post below is based on an opinion piece published by Middle East Eye on December 1, 2015 under the title “A Different Response to ISIS after Paris.” My modified text places its focus on the originality of megaterrorism and its distinctive challenges, suggesting that the choice of response needs to be extended beyond the iron cage of militarism and vengeance.
→ read full articleHow to Deal with Mass Shootings in the USA
Doc Jazz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
Satirical strip
→ read full articleThe Dynamics of Compassion
Robert C. Koehler, Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
We invented written language. The human species is now in the process of inventing something just as crucial: how to love itself, how to engage with itself nonviolently. We’ve been organized for far too long in a state of only partial connection, relying on the presence of enemies to stay in solidarity with our neighbors.
→ read full article(Português) Testes em animais: como as novas tecnologias podem evitar?
Carlos Eduardo Matos - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
7 Dec 2015
3 dez 2015 – Há cerca de dois anos uma notícia repercutiu em toda a imprensa nacional e tomou conta das postagens e comentários em diversas redes sociais: a invasão de ativistas dos direitos animais ao Instituto Royal, na cidade de São Roque, em São Paulo. O grupo resgatou no local animais que eram utilizados como cobaias para testes de medicamentos, incluindo cerca de 200 cachorros da raça Beagle.
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