Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Gates Foundation Slammed for Plan to Privatise African Seed Markets
Josh Butler, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
Mar 23 2015 – The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) has been attacked by activists over alleged support of a plan to privatise African agricultural markets.
→ read full articleTorture Dinner: Slave-Caught Seafood Winds Up in US Restaurants, Food Chains
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
25 Mar 2015 – Seafood caught by slaves forced to fish on a tiny island in Indonesia is ending up at major supermarkets, restaurants and even pet stores across the United States, a year-long investigation has revealed.
→ read full articleEaster Dress
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
Towards the end of the Sunday morning service, a pastor invited all the children to come forward for a children’s prayer.
→ read full articleWestern ISIS Adventurism, Israel behind Hamas – New Assange Revelations
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
24 Mar 2015 – Julian Assange has given an interview to an Argentinian paper from his Ecuadorian embassy asylum where he spent more than 1,000 days. He spoke about why US meddling in Ukraine led to civil war, how the West helped ISIS and Israel supported Hamas.
→ read full articleA Poem for the Crossroads
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
I would like to write a poem and nail it
to a stake at humanity’s crossroads.
It would say: choose your path wisely.
Dangerous Disintegration of Yemen
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
The Somalia “solution” may not be a model desired for Yemen. There have been calls for “negotiations” and “political solutions” in the Yemeni conflict, though it is unclear what there is to negotiate or what political solutions mean. The further disintegration of an already highly fractured Yemen is dangerous.
→ read full articleMonsanto Asks World Health Organization to ‘Retract’ Cancer Link
Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
25 Mar 2015 – Just days after the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer released a report publicly declaring the well-known link between Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide and cancer, the GMO leviathan is already calling on the entire agency to issue a ‘retraction.’ Will the WHO Make the Change?
→ read full articleEurope Must Not Be Forced Into a Nuclear War with Russia
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
In an important recent lecture, Institute Professor Noam Chomsky of MIT has pointed out that our leaders act to preserve their own power, and the power of the state. They seem to have little interest in protecting the general population from destruction.
→ read full articleBREAKING: WikiLeaks Leaks TPP Draft!!!
Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
25 Mar 2015 – This is an advanced January 2015 version of the confidential draft treaty chapter from the Investment group of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks between the United States, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, Chile, Singapore, Peru, Vietnam, New Zealand and Brunei Darussalam.
→ read full articleSecrecy and Democracy Are Incompatible
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
Obama, who has proved himself to be a fairly weak character from the start, certainly has given the CIA anything it wants. The dirty business of ISIS in Syria and Iraq is one project. The coup in Ukraine is another. The pushing of NATO’s face right against Russia’s borders is another. Several attempted coups in Venezuela are still more. And the creation of a drone air force for extra-judicial killings in half a dozen countries is yet another.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
Mar 30–Apr 5 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.” – Louise D. Brandeis
→ read full articlePalestine and Zionism: Historic Consequences
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
Only in that context can we understand things ranging from JSIL (Jewish State of Israel in the Levant) to ISIS/Daesh and in between. We can then understand why Saudi Arabia is keen to intervene in domestic affairs of a fellow Arab Country like Yemen with military might while it was silent in foreign invasions by Israel of other Arab Countries (e.g. Syria, Palestine, Lebanon).
→ read full article(Français) France: L’Assemblée vote l’interdiction de produits phytosanitaires réputés toxiques pour les abeilles
Francetv info avec AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
Cette interdiction votée en première lecture porte sur la famille des néonicotinoïdes. Le gouvernement n’y est pas favorable.
→ read full articleCanadian Intelligence Caught Clandestinely Backing Islamic State
Justin King, The Fifth Column – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
22 Mar 2015 – This is just the latest in a string of bizarre incidents that have led many to believe the West is funding, arming, and assisting the Islamic State so the war continues to destabilize regimes in the area.
→ read full articleA Desolate World without GMO Crops: Inside Monsanto’s Demented Spin Campaign
Anna Lappe, Earth Island Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
Fifty years after “Silent Spring” hit bookstores, Big Ag is still trying to win the public’s hearts and minds.
→ read full articleWhat’s Religion Got to Do With It? German Co-Pilot as Terrorist
Juan Cole – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
26 Mar 2015 – Once it became clear that Andreas Lubitz, 28, deliberately crashed Germanwings Flight 9525, a reporter immediately asked “what was his religion?” (Parent company Lufthansa said they didn’t know). Authorities said there was no evidence it was “terrorism.” It isn’t political terrorism, likely, but certainly it was a terroristic act of killing.
→ read full articleVykom: Strategic Nonviolent Action against Untouchability – A Review
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
King is well qualified to undertake this study of the previously neglected Vykom satyagraha. She participated in the civil rights movement in the United States in the 1960s led by the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr and has been a prominent scholar in the field of nonviolence ever since. Moreover, she is thorough, as the extensive footnotes in her book illustrate.
→ read full articleAnother World Is Possible, Without the 1% – Tunis World Social Forum 2015
Winnie Byanyima, OXFAM – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
23 Mar 2015 – Activists from around the world will defy the terrorists to attend the World Social Forum in Tunis on March 25, determined to make the occasion a beacon for free speech, justice and equality.
→ read full articleHold the Super Rich Accountable, Say OXFAM at the WSF
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
London-based charity Oxfam unveiled a report with an alarming statistic: the world’s richest one percent will own more than 50 percent of the world’s wealth by 2016. And just 80 of the world’s richest will control as much wealth as 3.5 billion people: half the world’s population.
→ read full articleUniversities and the Challenge of Climate Change
Harvard President Drew Faust – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
There is a proverb that the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago—and the second best time is now. When I first visited Tsinghua seven years ago, I planted a tree with President Gu in the Friendship Garden… Universities have the unique capacity and a special responsibility to fulfill the promise of that dream. Let us not waste a moment. It is already the second best time to plant a tree.
→ read full articleReflections by an Arab Jew
Ella Habiba Shohat, Bint Jbeil - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
This piece is written with the intent of opening up the multicultural debate, going beyond the U.S. census’s simplistic categorization of Middle Eastern peoples as “whites.” I am an Arab Jew. Or, more specifically, an Iraqi Israeli woman living, writing and teaching in the U.S. Most members of my family were born and raised in Baghdad, and now live in Iraq, Israel, the U.S., England, and Holland.
→ read full articleHitler and Stalin: Two Europeans
Johan Galtung, 23 Mar 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Hitler was about race, Stalin about class. Two genocidal secularisms poured into old Church bottles.
→ read full articleGrassroots Movement Blocks Water Privatization in Mexico
Alfredo Acedo, Americas Program – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
With this victory of grassroots mobilization, legislators loyal to the Peña Nieto government have been temporarily prevented from formalizing the privatization of water, which would have given large companies broad control of the precious resource, to set rates and boost their profits.
→ read full article2014: USA Leads Upward Trend in Arms Exports – Asian, Gulf States Lead Imports
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute-SIPRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
16 Mar 2015 – The United States has taken a firm lead as the major arms exporter globally according to new data on international arms transfers published today. Overall, the volume of international transfers of major conventional weapons grew by 16 per cent between 2005–2009 and 2010–14.
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(Português/Español) Bilderberg: O Clube Secreto dos Poderosos
Cristina Martín Jiménez – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
“O clube Bilderberg, que se reúne há 61 anos, congrega as individualidades mais poderosas do mundo”, afirma a jornalista sevilhana Cristina Martín Jiménez. Explica que eles “têm o poder como ideologia” e implementam “planos secretos para governar o mundo, destruindo gradualmente as soberanias nacionais e tirando aos países a capacidade de decidir.” A Grécia como teste-piloto.
→ read full article10 Reasons to Eat Cherries
Diana White – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Spring is here, and that means you will soon enjoy cherries and their incredible benefits. In fact, there are many reasons that you should eat more cherries and use them in your recipes, but the major reason is their health benefits.
→ read full articleTransitional Justice for Rank-And-File Combatants in Colombia
Silke Pfeiffer, Norwegian Peace Building Resource Center-NOREF - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
As the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the Colombian government negotiate a viable transitional justice formula, they will need to devise a solution for combatants who do not fall into the category of being most responsible for the most serious crimes, but are involved to a lesser extent with serious crimes.
→ read full articleContradictions Beset U.N. Response to Sexual Abuse by Peacekeepers
Lyndal Rowlands, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
An internal United Nations expert report released Monday [16 Mar 2015] by the non-governmental organisation AIDS-Free World reveals serious contradictions in the U.N.’s reporting of sexual exploitation and abuse by U.N. peacekeepers.
→ read full articleIraq and the Media: A Critical Timeline
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting-FAIR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
19 Mar 2015 – On 12th Anniversary of Iraq Invasion, Recalling Corporate Media’s Deception – It’s hardly controversial to suggest that the mainstream media’s performance in the lead-up to the Iraq War was a disaster.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
March 23–29 – Quote of the Week: “Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.” – Óscar Romero
→ read full article19th World Congress of International Association of Educators for World Peace Will Be in India
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
May 29-31, 2015 – New Delhi, India – The theme of the congress is “Peace Education for Nonviolence and Solution of Terrorism,” Friends of Our Mother Earth!
→ read full articleNon-Proliferation Treaty: US Attempts to Bully Allies into Inaction
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Mar 18, 2015 – The Norwegian Under Secretary of State admitted that Norway has been ‘demarched’ by the USA to not sign the pledge to fill the legal gap on nuclear weapons. This revelation follows a recent story exposing similar pressures directed towards Japan to prevent them from supporting the pledge.
→ read full articleLetter to Palestinian Women
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
We have dulled our consciences and lost our moral compass. Humanity, for all its new found knowledge, was never more lost for a united purpose and vision than perhaps any generation before us. Without wisdom, moral values and principles, such knowledge could lead to our very destruction.
→ read full articleAustralian PM Attacks “Lifestyle Choice” of Poverty-Stricken Aborigines
Susan Allan, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
To claim that Aborigines are indulging in a “lifestyle choice,” akin to that of layers of the upper middle class moving to an idyllic rural setting, is grotesque. The conditions in remote Aboriginal communities, which lack jobs, proper housing and essential services, are frequently described as “third world” or even “fourth world.”
→ read full articleSwitzerland, Luxembourg Apply for China-Led Infrastructure Bank
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
21 Mar 2015 – Despite negative noises from the US, Switzerland and Luxembourg have become the latest European nations to apply to join the Beijing-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the Chinese Finance Ministry announced.
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The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program-HAARP Weapon
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Short Video covering some of the events that the HAARP Weapon Technology is doing.
→ read full articleThe “Naturalness” of the Commons
David de Ugarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Why so much sudden love for Elinor Ostrom? No, to understand the shared economy, to work together to manage the needs of all in a community economy, we don’t need great treaties or consultation with university technicians. We just need to go back home, back to basics.
→ read full articlePlanet Earth
Dr. Ashok T Chakravarthy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
In the deep woods, stunning and beautiful
The black cuckoo sings a song, remorseful;
The Healing Poison
Yang Jwing Ming – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
A long time ago, a girl named Li Li got married and went to live with her husband and mother in law. In a very short time, Li Li found that she couldn’t get along with her mother in law at all.
→ read full articleInsurance
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Three retirees were sitting on a bench in Miami.
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Hawai’i 78′ (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
The Makaha Sons of Ni'ihau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Hawai’i 78′ by Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwo’ole
Originally titled: Hawai’i 77′
Greece: Memory & Debt
Conn Hallinan, Dispatches from the Edge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
As Germany squeezes Greece, it’s in denial about the skimpy reparations it paid Greece for World War II.
→ read full articleFrom Basic Income to Social Dividends: Sharing the Value of Common Resources
Rajesh Makwana, Sharing the World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
18 Mar2015 – It’s time to broaden the debate on how to fund a universal basic income by including options for sharing resource rents, which is a model that can be applied internationally to reform unjust economic systems, reduce extreme poverty and protect the global commons.
→ read full articleTactical Nuclear Weapons in Europe
John Scales Avery - Danish Pugwash Group – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
A thermonuclear war would be not only genocidal but also omnicidal. It would kill people of all ages, babies, children, young people, mothers, fathers and grandparents. Such a war would be the ultimate ecological catastrophe, destroying not only human civilization but also much of the biosphere. Each of us has a duty to work with dedication to prevent it.
→ read full article(Português) Obra completa de Paulo Freire grátis para download
Luis Soares, Pragmatismo Político – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Acervo digital disponibiliza toda a obra de Paulo Freire. Estão disponíveis para download gratuito vídeos de aulas, conferências, palestras, entrevistas, artigos e livros do educador.
→ read full articleStatement from the Family of Rachel Corrie on the Twelfth Anniversary of Her Murder by Israelis in Gaza
Rachel Corrie Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Rachel was crushed to death March 16, 2003 by an Israeli military, US-funded, Caterpillar D9R bulldozer in Rafah, Gaza, while nonviolently protesting the impending demolition of the home of a Palestinian family.
→ read full articleObama’s Double-Standard on Russia
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
For Ukraine to become anti-Russian would be like for Mexico to become anti-American: even worse than when Cuba became anti-American in 1959. During Barack Obama’s second term, Ukraine did, indeed, become anti-Russian. It happened not via any democratic revolution (such as American propaganda pretended), but via a bloody coup. Here is how it transpired.
→ read full article(Italiano) Churchill e Hitler: due europei
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
La Germania è diventata filosemita, combatte il razzismo, non ha colonialismo residuo, nega la guerra come strumento (salvo che a scopo difensivo), e cerca la cooperazione con la Russia. L’Inghilterra, con gli USA, sfida la Russia. L ’Anglo-America è la più belligerante nel mondo d’oggi, un colonialismo residuo sopravvive nel Commonwealth e nell’uso dell’inglese per la conquista; il razzismo è rampante in Inghilterra.
→ read full articleIran’s Nuclear Program: Diplomacy, War, and (In)Security in the Nuclear Age
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Iran is expected not only to forego the option to acquire nuclear weapons, but to agree to a framework of intrusive inspection if it wants to be treated as a ‘normal’ state after it proves itself worthy. As indicated, this approach seems discriminatory and hypocritical in the extreme.
→ read full articleStalking Netanyahu’s Victory: Palestine and Iran
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
My immediate reaction to the outcome of the Israeli elections is that for Palestinian solidarity purposes, it was desirable for Netanyahu to receive this electoral mandate. It exhibits as clearly as possible that the long discredited Oslo ‘peace process’ is truly ‘discredited.’
→ read full articleRadicalisation of Existence and Identity
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Recognizing the Global Emergence and Influence of Daimonic Dynamics – This follows from previous exploration of the condition of “radical” as being increasingly considered highly problematic for society — and the consequent demonisation of radical action (Radicalisation versus Demonisation? Enabling radical initiatives under conditions of strategic stalemate, 2015).
→ read full articleThe 10 Happiest Countries Are All in Latin America
Laura Geggel, Live Science – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
20 Mar 2015 – For the first time in a decade, the top 10 happiest countries in the world are all in Latin America, according to the 2014 Gallup Positive Experience Index.
→ read full articleBrazil: The Dictatorship’s Perfect Crime
Marcelo Pellegrini, Upside Down World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
11 Mar 2015 – Discovered in 1990, the clandestine grave contained 1,049 remains, all unidentified. Among the unidentified skeletons are disappeared political activists, victims of the Esquadrão da Morte—the infamous Death Squad of rogue police active in the 1960s and 1970s—, and children who died from an outbreak of meningitis in the early 1970s, suppressed by the dictatorship.
→ read full articleWealth and Power May Have Played a Stronger Role than ‘Survival of the Fittest’
Science Daily – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Study led by scientists from Arizona State University, the University of Cambridge, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, and published March 13 [2015] in an online issue of the journal Genome Research.
→ read full articleThreats Everywhere
News from Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
The President: Well, now that we’ve dealt with the Venezuelan threat, I guess the world is a safe place for the Homeland again? Or are there any other dangers?
The Secretary of State: Well, there are some threats in Iraq. And Syria – those ISIS terrorists. Perhaps we should impose sanctions on their leaders.
The Chief NSB Advisor: We’re already bombing them. That’s stronger than sanctions.
How Exciting: The Birth of a New Official Enemy!
Jacob G. Hornberger, The Future of Freedom Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Through an official decree by President Obama declaring that Venezuela now poses a grave threat to the “national security” of the United States, a new official enemy — Venezuela — was brought into existence as the latest Official Enemy of the U.S. Empire. How exciting is that!
→ read full articleDon’t Want NSA to Spy on Your Email? 5 Things You Can Do
Michael Liedtke, Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Pew researchers found that a majority of those surveyed don’t know about online shields that could help boost privacy or believe it would be too difficult to avoid the government’s espionage.
→ read full articleChurchill and Hitler–Two Europeans
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Germany has become philo-semitic, fights racism, no residual colonialism, rejection of war as instrument (except defensive), and seeks cooperation with Russia. England, with the USA, challenges Russia. Anglo-America is the most belligerent party in today’s world, residual colonialism survives in the Commonwealth and in the use of English for conquest; racism is rampant inside England.
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Data and Goliath: Bruce Schneier on the Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Mar 13, 2015 – Leading security and privacy researcher Bruce Schneier talks about the golden age of surveillance and how governments and corporation have built an unprecedented surveillance state. While the leaks of Edward Snowden have shed light on the National Security Agency’s surveillance practices, less attention has been paid to other forms of everyday surveillance.
→ read full articleHow The Guardian Told Me to Steer Clear of Palestine
David Cronin, Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
11 Mar 2015 – When I started out as a journalist in the 1980s, I asked an experienced Irish reporter for advice. “Read The Guardian,” he told me. The message that there was no better newspaper had a lasting effect. For years, I wanted to write for The Guardian. Eventually, this desire was realized.
→ read full articleThe ECB’s Noose around Greece: How Central Banks Harness Governments
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Remember when the infamous Goldman Sachs delivered a threat to the Greek Parliament in December, warning them to elect a pro-austerity prime minister or have central bank liquidity cut off to their banks? The European Central Bank (headed by Mario Draghi, former managing director of Goldman Sachs) has now made good on the threat. ECB goons are demonstrating once again that toxic central banking is a mortal enemy of democracy.
→ read full articleLo! What Can I Do
Dr. Ashok T Chakravarthy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
The night spreads a carpet of darkness
Over the far off hillock, the moon rises,
The eerie silence is intermittently broken
By the barking dogs from a far-off den.
(Português) Festas de Primeiro Aniversário
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Sendo de outra geração, celebrei todos os aniversários do meu filho com festa pequena e alegria grande. Em casa. Não faltava o bolo ritual com velinhas, nem as fotos documentais, sem precisar de pau de selfie, pois um amigo sempre se oferecia para bater foto onde pai, mãe e aniversariante pudessem sair juntos.
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Kenyan Boys Choir – Homeless (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Kenyan Boys Choir – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
The Kenyan Boys Choir is a youth group that performs traditional and contemporary African music. It is composed of 25 students aged 13 to 24 from different high schools, colleges and universities, and various Kenyan backgrounds and tribes. Enjoy their virtuosity and grace.
→ read full articleObama’s War in Our Hemisphere and Venezuela’s National Liberation Struggle
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Why did Obama declare a ‘national emergency’, claim that Venezuela represents a threat to US national security and foreign policy, assume executive prerogatives and decree sanctions against top Venezuelan officials in charge of national security, AT THIS TIME?
→ read full articleWorld at a Crossroads: Stop the Fast Track to a Future of Global Corporate Rule
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Humankind is proceeding on a path to global corporate rule where transnational corporations would not just influence public policy, they would write the policies and vote on them. The power of nation-states and people to determine their futures would be weakened in a system of corporate rule.
→ read full articleCNN Is Beating the Drums of War
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Wolf Blitzer (CNN, March 13) used the cover of a news program to broadcast a propaganda performance straight out of the Third Reich or perhaps from George Orwell’s 1984. The orchestration presented Russia as a massive, aggressive military threat. The screen was filled with missiles firing and an assortment of American General Strangeloves urging provocative measures to be deployed against the Russian Threat.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il “Nuovo Ordine Mondiale”
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
…è il titolo della nostra conferenza. Non ci sarà mai qualcosa del genere. “Nuovo”, sì; “Mondiale”, sì; “Ordine”, no. Dovunque ci sia vita, c’è contraddizione, dialettica, forze e contro-forze. A livello quanto mai ovvio, si pone la domanda: Ordine, nell’interesse di chi, contro chi?
→ read full article(Italiano) La Grecia può salvare l’Europa?
Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel per l'economia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Chi pensava che l’euro non avrebbe potuto sopravvivere si è sbagliato. Ma i critici hanno ragione su una cosa: o ci sarà l’Europa politica – gli Stati uniti d’Europa – o non ci sarà l’euro. Un articolo del premio Nobel per l’economia.
→ read full articleUN: Millions of Children Subjected to Sexual Abuse, Sold and Trafficked for Prostitution, Forced Labor, Illegal Adoption or Organ Theft
Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Millions of children are subjected to sexual abuse and exploitation, an independent UN expert on 11 March 2015 told the Human Rights Council, calling for a real breakthrough to end such crimes.
→ read full articleArab Village Fears Being Wiped Off Israel’s Map
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
While industrial parks, shopping malls and estates of luxury villas have sprung up all around them, Dahmash’s residents have been treated like “illegal squatters”. What distinguishes Dahmash from the communities around it is that it is Arab, an unwelcome relic from a time when the country was called Palestine.
→ read full articleCivilizations out of Nowhere
Tashi Javed, Ancient Origins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Graham Hancock, in his famous work ‘The Fingerprints of the Gods’ argues that certain civilizations around the globe showed these signs of unusual intelligence in their architecture, science and writing systems. Intelligent human civilization extends much farther than we originally believed. The following is a presentation of some of the strange aspects of humanity that have been long forgotten.
→ read full articleLook Out America: The Venezuelans Are Coming
Matt Carr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Obama’s declarations were inane, dishonest, and devoid of any meaning beyond their usefulness as a marketing strategy for a new campaign of regime change in Venezuela and sanctions to undermine the Maduro government. Obama’s order is deeply hypocritical as well as semantically void, like Reagan before him on Nicaragua.
→ read full articleDetail
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
The difference between philosophy and theology…
→ read full article(Italiano) I Von Weizsäcker, Kennedy di Germania
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Il Presidente Richard von Weizsäcker è deceduto il 31 gennaio u.s., molto celebrato in Germania per la sua brillante presidenza nel normalizzare una Germania con un passato turbolento e per giunta divisa. Escludendo però ampiamente le sue prospettive globali menzionate qui sotto.
→ read full articleFukushima’s 4th Anniversary Brings Hope Amidst Radioactive Ruins as Renewable Energy Revolution Soars
Harvey Wasserman, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
11 Mar 2015 – Fukushima’s Anniversary Should Remind Us Nuclear Power Poses Threat to Human Survival – The catastrophe that began at Fukushima four years ago today is worse than ever. But the good news can ultimately transcend the bad—if we make it so.
→ read full articleA Binational Zone
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
We need a UN Agency for Mediation, with several thousand professionals, who can detect emerging conflicts and help transform them peacefully before they lead to war. That would be an excellent and inexpensive investment for a more peaceful world.
→ read full articleUK Snubs US to Join China-Led Asian Bank
The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
13 Mar 2015 – Overlooking US censure, the UK has announced its decision to join China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, becoming the first “major western country” to apply for membership. China and BRICS have long protested against their limited voice at the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and Asian Development Bank.
→ read full articleIndia’s Daughter: From Nonviolent Demonstrations to People’s Revolution
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
‘India’s Daughter’ invokes, rather than provokes, the ideas and sentiments for people to change their views of women; it is just another signpost in India’s quest for true equality and liberty. In the end, there is no revolution that surpasses a revolution in the hearts and minds of individuals themselves.
→ read full articleMonsanto’s Deep Legacy of Corruption and Cover-Up
Barbara Minton, Natural Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
6 Mar 2015 – The History of a Chemical Company – Monsanto is now instantly recognized as the company dominating the global food supply with its more than 7000 current worldwide patents. But today’s Monsanto is not a corporate newcomer.
→ read full articleA Year of Progress for “Children, Not Soldiers”
Leila Zerrougui, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Mar 7 2015 – One year ago the last governments of the world named for the recruitment and use of children gathered at the UN to declare they would take the steps necessary to be child-free. The countries are Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Myanmar, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Yemen.
→ read full articleChina’s Mega International Payment System Is Ready, Will Launch This Year – Report
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
10 Mar 2015 – The China International Payment System (CIPS) is due to kick off this year, bringing the yuan a step closer to becoming a global trading currency, as the new system will make payment transfers just as easy as in dollars and euro.
→ read full articleU.S. Solar Energy Industry Achieves Record-Shattering Year
Rhone Resch, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
America’s solar energy industry, which continues to grow at a very brisk pace, now has more employees than tech giants Apple, Google, Facebook and Twitter combined. And to top it all off, 2014 turned out to be another record-shattering year!
→ read full articleThe Myth of Religious Violence
Karen Armstrong, tricycle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Modern Society Has Made a Scapegoat of Faith
→ read full articleAndré Gide on Sincerity, Being vs. Appearing, and What It Really Means to Be Yourself
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
‘Dare to be yourself.’ I must underline that in my head too. Don’t ever do anything through affectation or to make people like you or through imitation or for the pleasure of contradicting.
→ read full article(Português) Contra a Legalização da ‘Sorte de Varas’ nos Açores, Portugal
Dr. Rui Silva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Esta prática bárbara e sangrenta, que constitui a parte inicial dos espetáculos tauromáquicos, consiste em perfurar o lombo do touro com uma vara pontiaguda e muito cortante para o sangrar, acto este desenvolvido durante cerca de 15 minutos. Com isto, o touro fica severamente ferido e deixa de conseguir levantar a cabeça.
→ read full articleChina’s Defense Spending: Facts vs Hyperbole
Xu Guangyu, The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
China’s military budget is $142 billion this year, $ 61,800 per capita. The US defense budget is $ 600 billion for its 1.44 million military personnel or $ 416,666 per capita. Japan spent $ 41.5 billion for the 247,000 personnel in its self-defense forces, or $168,016 per capita. So China’s per capita spending on its armed forces is much smaller than both the US and Japan.
→ read full articleAn ‘Obvious and Conspicuous’ Injustice, says Assange on Asylum
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
14 Mar 2014 – In an exclusive interview with teleSUR, Julian Assange talks about why he chose Ecuador for asylum and the ongoing U.S. investigation into WikiLeaks. “They are trying many, many different ways to attack the organization and me using conspiracy on the one hand but also non-espionage charges that make it easier to extradite people.”
→ read full articleViolence against Women: Why We Keep Getting it Wrong
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
So let me briefly explain the fundamental cause of violence in our world, including the cause of violence against women, and invite you to do something very personal and effective about it.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
March 16–22 – Quote of the Week: “Don’t be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone.” – Unknown
→ read full articleWikimedia vs. NSA: Challenge to Mass Surveillance under the FISA Amendments Act
ACLU-American Civil Liberties Union – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are: Wikimedia Foundation, The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International USA, PEN American Center, Global Fund for Women, The Nation Magazine, The Rutherford Institute, and The Washington Office on Latin America.
→ read full articleThe Hidden Lives of Chickens
PETA-People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Leading animal behavior scientists from around the globe know that chickens are inquisitive and interesting animals whose cognitive abilities are in some cases more advanced than those of cats, dogs, and even some primates.
→ read full articleCollusion? Where the APA Investigator Should Look
Roy Eidelson Ph.D., Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Is Accountability and Reform within the APA on the Horizon? – The past decade has witnessed persistent claims that the American Psychological Association crafted its ethics policies in order to support the Bush Administration’s use of psychologists in abusive and torturous detention and interrogation operations.
→ read full articleChinese Premier Backs Russia on Crimea
The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Mar 15, 2015 – China’s premier reiterated Beijing’s backing for Russian interests in Crimea, saying China hopes the Ukraine issue will be settled through dialogue.
→ read full article7 Ways to Reduce Your Risk of Colon Cancer
Dr. Edward F. Group III – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Not only is there a sharply increasing rate in patients under 50, but also advanced stages of the cancer are being developed.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
March 9-15 – Quote of the Week: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead
→ read full articleBiodiversity or GMOs: Will the Future of Nutrition Be in Women’s Hands or under Corporate Control?
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
Declaration for International Women’s Day, 8 March 2015 – Women have been the primary growers of food and nutrition throughout history, but today, food is being taken out of our hands and substituted for toxic commodities controlled by global corporations.
→ read full articleGandhi as an Economist
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
After his death, someone collected and photographed all his worldly goods. These consisted of a pair of glasses, a pair of sandals and a white homespun loincloth. Here, as in the Swadeshi movement, we see Gandhi as a pioneer of economics. He deliberately reduced his possessions to an absolute minimum in order to demonstrate that there is no connection between personal merit and material goods.
→ read full articleTPP, Peace and Conflict – It’s Not about Trade, It’s about How We Trade
Patrick T. Hiller, Ph.D., War Prevention Initiative – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
The current debate on the Trans Pacific Partnership suggests that the agreement will lead to immense social conflict, unrest and instability. Trade is not the issue. People and societies have always traded and will continue to do so. The trade relationships and mechanisms are at the core of whether trade drives violent conflict and war or contributes to peace.
→ read full articleRole of Women for Nonviolence through Peace Education
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
The International Women’s Day started from the activities of labor movements in the beginning of the twentieth century in North America and across Europe. The Socialist Party of America designated 28 February, 1909 to honor the 1908 garment workers’ strike in New York. In 1910, the Socialist International, meeting in Copenhagen, established a Women’s Day, international in character.
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