Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Pentagon Provocation on Russia’s Border
Bill Van Auken, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
US armored vehicles flying American flags were paraded Tuesday [24 Feb 2015] through the Estonian city of Narva, just a few hundred yards from the Russian border. The provocative action, coming on the heels of the first anniversary of the US-orchestrated coup in Kiev, underscores the potentially catastrophic implications.
→ read full articleWhy the Rise of Fascism Is Again the Issue
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
In a major essay, John Pilger describes a ‘Faustian Pact’ that allows the suppression of a modern fascism in the West and its reliance on propaganda as news, and the beckoning of a war that rarely speaks its name.
→ read full article33 Latin American and Caribbean States Call for a Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Latin American and Caribbean states [CELAC] have once again shown a united front and a clear vision for the future of nuclear disarmament.
→ read full article(Italiano) Diagnosi & Prognosi: Valutazione del conflitto ucraino. Formazione da una prospettiva di pace
Naakow Grant-Hayford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
La riuscita espansione dei codici e delle istituzioni economico-politico-militari dell’UE e della NATO nella direzione generale della Russia sin dalla fine della Guerra Fredda, confligge di nuovo apertamente, come nel caso della Georgia nel 2008, con gli interessi russi nella sua orbita immediata e ha incendiato l’Ucraina orientale.
→ read full article(Italiano) Perché è inevitabile l’estinzione del genere umano a breve termine
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
L’espressione “estinzione umana a breve termine” è relativamente recente nella letteratura scientifica, ma a differenza di altre realtà che le ‘élite’ nazionali e i canali d’informazione dominanti sono riusciti a soffocare, questa continuerà a filtrare finché non inizierete a sentirla regolarmente. Perché?
→ read full articleEnabling Fruitful Multiplication of Global Population
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Eliciting Massive Social Consensus by Unconstrained Reframing of Strategic Priorities – This reflects the strategic adage: ‘If you cannot beat them–then join them’ and is consistent with subtler philosophies of ‘Going with the flow’ or ‘Guiding the canoe, rather than pushing the river.’ It could also be understood as ‘Going for broke.’
→ read full article(Italiano) Quando un terrorista non è un terrorista
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Ciò che la polizia di Chapel Hill, nella Carolina del Nord ha inizialmente pubblicizzato nel mondo come ‘un litigio per un parcheggio’, è stata l’uccisione deliberata di tre giovani e devoti studenti musulmani americani per mano di un assassino, ‘nuovo ateo’ di nome Craig Stephen Hicks, motivato ideologicamente. Quello che The Economist chiama senza esitazione ‘terrorismo a Copenhagen ha implicato il tentativo di sparare a un vignettista danese che ripetutamente deride il Profeta e le convinzioni islamiche e ha implicato anche l’uccisione con arma da fuoco di una guardia di sicurezza ebrea davanti a una sinagoga.
→ read full articlePush Back the Doomsday Clock!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
We Are All Down Winders! March 1st is known as “Nuclear-Free & Independent Pacific Day.” It commemorates the tragic 15 megaton U.S. nuclear bomb test, code named Bravo, at Bikini atoll in the Marshall Islands of Micronesia, on March 1, 1954. Many people died in the Marshall Islands from radiation contamination and fallout downwind of the Bravo blast and the 66 additional U.S. nuclear weapon tests there.
→ read full articleRohingya and National Identities in Burma [Myanmar]
Carlos Sardiña Galache, New Mandala – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Rather than attempting to defend Rohingya claims, I argue that the notion of “national races” itself, and thus the set of assumptions hitherto determining the terms of the debate, are fundamentally false and do not facilitate any understanding of the history and present social realities of Burma.
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Mr. Tambourine Man (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Bob Dylan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Live at the Newport Folk Festival, 1964 – A Classic
→ read full articlePeace and Freedoms for Indian Women in the Digital Era
Dr. Stephen Gill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Happy International Women’s Day on 8 March! On the one hand, women in India are at the peak of their success like Indira Gandhi who became Prime Minister of India. On the other hand, the vast majority is suffering silently. Violence and prejudice against them are dying, but the rate is painfully slow.
→ read full articleGerman Newspaper BILD Gets inside US-NATO-Nuland Planning Session
Fort Russ – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Feb 19, 2015 – The Bild headline: “Cold Feet” “Bullshit,” “Angst” – What US Politicians REALLY think about the Germans in the Ukraine Crisis. Nuland set the tone at the prelude to the evening: “We can fight against the Europeans, we can fight with rhetoric against them.”
→ read full article(Svenska-Swedish) Debattartikel: Sverige och EU – stöd demokrati i Burma, inte diktaturen!
Svenska Burmakommittén – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Burma är fortfarande en diktatur. Trots att Sverige och EU har uttalade mål att stödja demokratisering i landet signaleras istället stöd för samma gamla politiska elit, genom tystnad om människorättsbrott, bistånd till statliga myndigheter, handelsavtal och lyfta sanktioner. Omvärlden måste visa att man står på de demokratiska krafternas sida.
→ read full articleChinese Diplomat Tells West to Consider Russia’s Security Concerns over Ukraine
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
27 Feb 2015 – Western powers should take into consideration Russia’s legitimate security concerns over Ukraine, a top Chinese diplomat has said in an unusually frank and open display of support for Moscow. Qu Xing, China’s ambassador to Belgium, was quoted as blaming competition between Russia and the West for the Ukraine crisis, urging Western powers to “abandon the zero-sum mentality” with Russia.
→ read full articleLay Down Your Arms
The Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
The secrecy surrounding the Nobel Peace Prize has been misused and must cease. This is one of several demands that the newly formed association “Lay Down Your Arms” has sent to the three bodies responsible for awarding the Peace Prize: the Nobel Committee in Oslo, the Parliament that chooses the committee, and the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, which has the superior responsibility to ensure that all selections conform with Alfred Nobel’s stipulations.
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Johan Galtung: Transition from a Unipolar to a Multipolar Octagonal World
World Public Forum – Dialogue of Civilizations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Feb 17, 2015
Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is rector of the TRANSCEND Peace University-TPU. He is author of over 160 books on peace and related issues, including ‘50 Years-100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives,’ published by the TRANSCEND University Press-TUP.
→ read full articleWhy Do We Fear Challenging Authority?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
I want to ask you three questions: Are you scared to make your own judgment (irrespective of the number of others, including experts, who make a similar judgment)? Are you scared to be labelled a ‘conspiracy theorist’ if you believe something contrary to the official (that is, the elite) narrative? And why?
→ read full articleAn Expensive Speech
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
President Obama, who is being insulted, humiliated and obstructed in his most cherished policy move, the agreement with Iran, would be superhuman if he did not brood on revenge. Even a movement of his little finger could hurt Israel grievously. Does Netanyahu care? Of course he cares. But he cares more about his reelection. Much, much more.
→ read full articleSlavoj Žižek: A Note on Syriza – Indebted Yes, but Not Guilty!
Slavoj Žižek, Potemkin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
The idea one gets from our media is that the Syriza government in Greece is composed of a bunch of populist extremists who advocate “irrational” and “irresponsible” populist measures. It is, on the contrary, EU politics which have been, and continue to be, obviously irrational.
→ read full articleReview of ‘Confessions of a Terrorist – A Novel’
Anita McKone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
In this novel, Jackson raises the confronting question: Is the fear and insecurity of Western societies and their violent abuse of people of other countries and cultures causing a violent defensive reaction? In which case, are Westerners the ones who need to de-‘radicalise’ their extremist capitalist and militarist ideologies and behaviour in order to reduce fearful extremist responses to these?
→ read full article[Nobel Prize Economic Sciences] Joseph Stiglitz Stands against Trade Agreements
Pressenza Int’l Press Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Feb 25 2015 – The United States is trying to impose a strong investment pact within two big, so-called “partnership” agreements that are now being negotiated, one bridging the Atlantic, the other the Pacific. The TPPs are going to be about regulation. Corporations have an interest at lowering regulatory standards that protect the environment, protect consumers, protect workers, and protect health.
→ read full articleEstablish a UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy
Article 19 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
5 Feb 2015 – The undersigned organisations, a coalition of international non-governmental organisations working to protect human rights, write to encourage your government to support the creation of a new Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy at the Human Rights Council (HRC) 28th ordinary session in March [2015].
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
March 2–8 – Quote of the Week: “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
→ read full articleTesting Nuclear Weapons in the Marshall Islands
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
The islands were alive
with the red-orange fire of sunset
splashed on a billowy sky.
‘100yrs to Repair Gaza’: Oxfam Says Blockade Remains, Aid Almost Non-Existent
Russia Today - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
27 Feb 2015 – Reconstructing Gaza could take an entire century, if Israel doesn’t stop the siege, leading charity Oxfam warned. And that’s just the time frame for essential projects. The NGO’s regional director calls the situation “deplorable.”
→ read full articleAfter Thousands of Years, Earth’s Frozen Life Forms Are Waking Up
Maddie Stone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
What’s happening in Siberia’s thawing permafrost and Greenland’s melting glaciers sounds borderline supernatural. Ancient viruses, bacteria, plants, and even animals have been cryogenically frozen there for millennia—and now, they are waking up.
→ read full articleCitizenFour – Full Documentary
Laura Poitras & Glenn Greenwald, LeakSource – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
The film, which has been hailed as a real-life thriller, chronicles Snowden’s effort to securely contact Poitras and Glenn Greenwald in 2013 and meet them in Hong Kong, where Poitras filmed Snowden discussing the thousands of classified NSA documents he was leaking to them, and his motives for doing so. The film takes its title from the pseudonym Snowden used when he contacted Poitras in encrypted emails that were revealed in her documentary.
→ read full articleSyria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
“Syrians Speak” would be a more accurate title for this valuable collection of essays, poems, drawings, posters, and photos by intellectuals and artists. The artistic response to the Syrian uprising is far more than a litany of turmoil; it illustrates the accelerated experiences of a people, many of whom have been fighting for their survival.
→ read full articleThe Loving Husband
TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
A man had two tickets for the best seats of the Rugby World Cup Final.
→ read full articleBanksy In Gaza: Haunting Images among Ruins of War
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
27 Feb 2015 – The English graffiti artist has taken his politically charged message to the bombed-out neighborhoods of Gaza, where a series of murals amid a backdrop of devastation attempts to give voice to the desperation felt by Palestinians.
→ read full articleHow to Pay for Social Programmes
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Chapter Eight of: Economic Theory and Community Development – Where we are going with our analysis: What we need is not so much a new economics as a new psychology. We need alignment with the common good. We need community.
→ read full articleNonviolent Communication
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Psychologist Marshall Rosenberg (born 1934) was invited to speak at a meeting of a group of young Palestinians in a refugee camp on the West Bank. The Israeli police had recently entered the camp to quell protests. The ground was strewn with tear gas shells labeled “Made in USA”.
→ read full article(Português) Internet de banda larga como ‘bem público’ nos EUA
Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Por três votos contra dois, a neutralidade da rede ganhou uma importante batalha nos EUA contra os grandes distribuidores e produtores de conteúdos online.
→ read full articleFresh Nuclear Leak Detected at Fukushima Plant
OneIndia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Sensors at the Fukushima nuclear plant have detected a fresh leak of highly radioactive water to the sea, the plant’s operator announced on Sunday [22 Feb 2015], highlighting difficulties in decommissioning the crippled plant.
→ read full articleAlive and Bleeding
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
“We’re killing a lot of them, and we’re going to keep killing more of them. So are the Egyptians, so are the Jordanians — they’re in this fight with us. But we cannot win this war by killing them. We cannot kill our way out of this war. We need in the medium to longer term to go after the root causes that lead people to join these groups, whether it’s a lack of opportunity for jobs, whether…”
→ read full articleGaza Homes Flooded after Israel Unbolts Dam Gates
Falastin News Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Scores of Palestinian family homes east of blockaded Gaza were flooding after the Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) opened dam gates at dawn Sunday [22 Feb 2015]. This is not the first time Israeli occupation authorities have opened the Gaza Valley dams.
→ read full articleAnti What? The Hoax of Rising Antisemitism in Europe
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Anti-Semitism is on the rise. All over Europe it is raising its ugly head. Jews are in danger everywhere. They must make haste and come home to Israel before it is too late. True? Untrue? NONSENSE!
→ read full articleThe Struggle of Venezuela against ‘A Common Enemy’
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
There are straightforward principles and dynamics at work here. Washington wants to get rid of the Venezuelan government because it is independent of US designs for the region and because Venezuela has the greatest proven oil reserves in the world and uses its oil revenue to improve the quality of ordinary lives.
→ read full articleThe Assassination of Greece
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
The Greek government is currently locked in a life and death struggle with the elite which dominate the banks and political decision-making centers of the European Union. What are at stake are the livelihoods of 11 million Greek workers, employees and small business people and the viability of the European Union.
→ read full articleHow to Read Intelligently and Write a Great Essay: Robert Frost’s Letter of Advice to His Young Daughter
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
«Take it easy with the essay whatever you do. Be as concrete as the law allows in it — concrete and experiential. Don’t let it scare you. Don’t strain. Remember that any old thing that happens in your head as you read may be the thing you want. If nothing much seems to happen, perhaps another reading will help.»
→ read full articleUS Imperialism and the Catastrophe in Libya
Joseph Kishore, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Prior to the intervention of NATO, there were no sectarian murders of Christians in Libya and Islamist militias tied to Al Qaeda were small groups with no broader influence. These forces were armed and promoted when, in 2011, the Obama administration and its allies in Europe, led by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, took the decision to topple Gaddafi.
→ read full articleThe Western Freedom of Expression Hypocrisy
Johan Galtung, 23 Feb 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
State-Law, Capital, and Culture. They are at their best when independent of each other. State should not interfere with the market, Capital not with politics, neither with Culture. Just look at how Capital changes such important parts of Culture as sports, arts and science, transforming them into products for buying, selling and investing, demanding of universities to serve Capital, not Truth.
→ read full articleRemember Your Humanity
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
This year, 2015, marks the 60th anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, which contains the following words: “There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we, instead, choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise. If you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death.”
→ read full articleRussia Creates Its Own Payment System
Ian Welsh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
15 Feb 2015 – Domestic credit institutions have been incorporated into the new Russian financial system, the analogous of SWIFT. The new service will allow Russian banks to communicate through the Central Bank of Russia in response to repeated threats by Moscow’s Western partners to disconnect Russia from SWIFT.
→ read full articleNaive Acquisition of Dual-use Surveillance Technology
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Progressive market-driven transformation of personal appliances into spyware? February 2015 has been witness to worldwide news coverage of the manner in which new “Smart TVs” were designed to listen to, if not visually record, those watching them. The major issue of concern was how the information acquired in this way was used, by whom, and with what constraints.
→ read full articleSeed Bombers Can Plant an Entire Forest of 900,000 Trees A Day!
John Vibes, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Here’s a good use for old military planes! Planting trees EVERYWHERE! Seed bombing or aerial reforestation is a farming technique where trees and other crops are planted by being thrown or dropped from an airplane or flying drone.
→ read full articleCrimea: Was It Seized by Russia, or Did Russia Block Its Seizure by the U.S.?
Eric Zuesse, Fort Russ – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Both before and after Crimea left Ukraine and joined Russia in a public referendum on 16 March 2014, the Gallup Organization polled Crimeans on behalf of the U.S. Government, and found them to be extremely pro-Russian and anti-American, and also anti-Ukrainian. (Neither poll was subsequently publicized, because the results of each were the opposite of what the sponsor had wished.)
→ read full articleWorld Press Freedom Index 2015: Decline on All Fronts
Reporters Without Borders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
The Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index ranks the performance of 180 countries according to a range of criteria that include media pluralism and independence, respect for the safety and freedom of journalists, and the legislative, institutional and infrastructural environment in which the media operate.
→ read full articleUS-NATO War Games Prepare Massive Military Escalation in West Africa
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
U.S. and NATO forces launched massive war games Monday [16 Feb 2015] in West Africa. The exercises, known as Operation Flintlock 2015, are to serve as the spearhead for a comprehensive military escalation by the US and European powers and their client regimes throughout the resource-rich Lake Chad Basin.
→ read full article700th Consecutive Weekly Hilo [Hawai’i] Peace Vigil
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Friday, Feb. 20, 2015 marks the 700th consecutive weekly Hilo, Hawaii Peace Vigil held from 3:30-5PM at the downtown Post office/federal building sponsored by Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action based in Kurtistown, Big Island, Hawai’i.
→ read full articleIsrael Killed 108 Preschoolers and 19 Babies Last Year According to New Report
Joe Fletcher – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Feb14, 2015 – “Children younger than 16 made up one-third of the total: 280 killed, including 19 babies and 108 preschoolers between the ages of 1 and 5. In 83 strikes, three or more members of one family died. Among those killed were 96 confirmed or suspected militants — or just over 11 percent of the total.”
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
February 23–March 1 – Quote of the Week: “Nothing is impossible; the word itself says, ‘I’m possible’!” — Audrey Hepburn
→ read full articleWhen a Terrorist Is Not a Terrorist
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
What the Chapel Hill police in North Carolina initially pitched as ‘a parking dispute’ was the deliberate killing of three young and devout Muslim American students by an ideologically driven ‘new atheist’ killer named Craig Stephen Hicks. What the The Economist unhesitatingly calls ‘terrorism in Copenhagen’ involved the attempted shooting of a Danish cartoonist who repeatedly mocks the Prophet and Islamic beliefs as well as the lethal shooting of a Jewish security guard outside a synagogue.
→ read full article(Français) La chasse aux sorcières des ‘’Charlies’’: Dérive ou prélude aux bruits rampants des bottes du fascisme?
Amir M. Maasoumi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
28 janvier 2015, Radio Canada et Médias internationaux : ‘’Un enfant de 8 ans interpellé par la police française’’ pour refuser ”d’être Charlie”. Non. Moi non plus; Je ne suis ni Charlie, ni un Assassin hors-la-loi et sans foi! Je refuse cette dichotomie artificielle, simpliste et réductrice.
→ read full articleTen Enduring Mysteries of the Longyou Caves
April Holloway, Ancient Origins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
In China lies the Longyou caves – an extensive, magnificent and rare ancient underground world considered in China as ‘the 9th wonder of the ancient world’. Despite decades of research, very few answers have emerged to explain its enigma. Our ancient ancestors have achieved many wondrous things, but this truly is an unexplained mystery.
→ read full articleSaint Francis and the Wolf
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
We must understand the causes of violence, in our own interest, to prevent it in the future. In no way does this justify violence, or blame the victims.
→ read full articleUkraine Agrees To Monsanto Land Grab for $17 Billion IMF Loan
Christina Sarich, Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
The World Bank and International Monetary Fund are helping biotech run the latest war in Ukraine. Make no mistake: what is happening in the Ukraine now is deeply tied to the interests of Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, and other big players in the poison food game.
→ read full article(Português) Morrem Três Jornalistas Que Investigavam a Participação dos EUA na Demolição das Torres Gêmeas
Diário Liberdade – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Três jornalistas que trabalhavam em um documentário sobre o envolvimento do governo norte-americano na demolição das torres gêmeas morreram nos últimos dias. Trata-se do ex-repórter internacional da NBC Ned Colt, o correspondente da CBS News [60 Minutes] Bob Simon, e o jornalista do New York Times David Carr.
→ read full articleA Pre-History of Boko Haram: The Long Shadow of Usman dan Fodio
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
There has been growing concern with the activities of Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria and its spillover into northern Cameroon, Niger, and in the Lake Chad area.
→ read full article(Português) Por que o ocidente não admite as verdadeiras raízes do terrorismo?
Mediapart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
A violência política se alimenta da violência de Estado e da violência social. O radicalismo se alimenta das presepadas geopolíticas ocidentais.
→ read full articleRetraction
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
A member of the United States Senate, known for his hot temper and acid tongue, exploded one day in midsession and began to shout, “Half of this Senate is made up of cowards and corrupt politicians!”
→ read full articleExtinct—Extincter—Extinctest
Dmitry Orlov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
The USA is best characterized as a decomposing corpse of a nation lorded over by a tiny clique of oligarchs who control the herd by wielding Orwellian methods of mind control. So far gone is the populace that most of them think that things are just peachy—there is an economic recovery, don’t you know.
→ read full articleUS “Easing Into” War with Syria Using ISIS Boogeyman
Tony Cartalucci, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
As early as June of last year, it was reported that ISIS would be used as a means to incrementally draw in US forces in preparation for a direct military intervention aimed at Damascus itself.
→ read full articleAthenae Delenda Est
Paul Krugman, Nobel Economics Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Rather than give any ground, they prefer to see Greece forced into default and probably out of the euro, with the presumed economic wreckage as an object lesson to anyone else thinking of asking for relief. That is, they’re setting out to impose the economic equivalent of the “Carthaginian peace” France sought to impose on Germany after World War I. The lack of wisdom is astonishing and appalling.
→ read full articleInterview with William Schabas, Former Chair, UN Commission of Inquiry for 2014 Israeli Attack on Gaza
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Interview with Prof. William Schabas, recently resigned under pressure as Chair of the Commission of Inquiry appointed by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva to Investigate Allegations of State Crimes associated with Israel’s military attack on Gaza, code named Operation Protective Edge.
→ read full article(Português) Atletas de remo britânicos posam sem roupa para combater a homofobia
Estilo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
19 Fev 2015 – Desde 2009, os atletas da Warwick University, umas das principais universidades do Reino Unido, combatem a homofobia com uma série de eventos, projetos e um calendário em que aparecem sem roupa. Este ano, a equipe de remo aceitou o desafio de fazer o calendário para uma nova campanha de crowdfunding. (fotos)
→ read full articleThe Word
Pablo Neruda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
The word was born
in the blood,
it grew in the dark body, pulsing,
and took flight with the lips and mouth.
$$$$$S in Their Hearts
Stefano Manfreo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
This book is an effort to strike at the roots of what is probably the most brutal and devastating way through which evil manifests itself in the world: War. $$$$$S in Their Hearts by Alberto Portugheis, OPUS BOOKS, November 2014
→ read full articleIsrael’s Obsession for Monopoly on Middle East Nuclear Power
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Feb 13 2015 – As the Iranian nuclear talks hurtle towards a Mar. 24 deadline, there is renewed debate about the blatant Western double standards underlying the resurrection of a longstanding proposal for a Middle East free from weapons of mass destruction.
→ read full articleThe Casino Republic
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Who is the ruler of Israel? Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, of course.
WRONG. The real ruler of Israel is one Sheldon Adelson, 81, American Jew, Casino king, who was rated as the world’s tenth richest person, worth 37.2 billion dollars at the latest count. But who is counting?
EU and Russia: No Option but Peace and Coexistence
The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
At the moment of writing, the ink on the second Minsk agreement has not yet dried. Closer EU-Russia relations would create a nightmare scenario for the Washington elite, writes a former Belgian lawmaker.
→ read full articleYour Samsung SmartTV Is Spying on You, Basically
The Daily Beast – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
You may be loving your new Internet-connected television and its convenient voice-command feature—but did you know it’s recording everything you say and sending it to a third party?
→ read full articleTerrorism: Ultimate Weapon of the Global Elite
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
The usual definition of a ‘terrorist’ is simple: a person who uses violence in the pursuit of a political objective. By this definition, the two major categories of terrorist are those political leaders who perpetrate state terror by attacking other countries (ranging from launching a war, perhaps following a false flag operation, to conducting a drone strike).
→ read full articleDiagnosis & Prognosis: The Ukrainian Conflict-Formation
Naakow Grant-Hayford - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
The successful expansion of the economic-political-military codes and institutions of both EU and NATO in the general direction of Russia since the end of the cold war, has again, as in the case of Georgia in 2008, openly clashed with Russian interests in its immediate orbit and set ablaze Eastern Ukraine.
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Radio Morobo: “A Welcome [South Sudan] Community Asset”
Dominik Lehnert, Xchange Perspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Feb 12, 2015 – As community based radio station, it is run by volunteer community reporters from all parts of the county and all walks of life.
→ read full article500 Rabbis Urge Israel to Stop Demolition of Palestinian Homes
Falastin News Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
9 Feb 2015 – Over 500 rabbis from Israel, Britain, the US and Canada have called on the Israeli prime minister to stop demolishing Palestinian homes. Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR) say Benjamin Netanyahu’s stance is against “international law and Jewish tradition.”
→ read full articleThe Witch-hunt Staged by the ‘’Charlies’’: Off the Rails Excess or Prelude to the Marching Boots of Fascism?
Amir M. Maasoumi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
28 January 2015, Radio Canada et Médias internationaux : ‘’An eight year old kid questioned by the French police’’ for refusing “to be Charlie”. No. Count me out. I’m neither Charlie, nor a lawless faithless Assassin! I reject this artificial, simplistic, crude dichotomy.
→ read full articleIceland Convicts Bad Bankers and Says Other Nations Can Act
Alistair Scrutton and Ragnhildur Sigurdardottir, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
13 Feb 2015 – Iceland’s Supreme Court has upheld convictions of market manipulation for four former executives of the failed Kaupthing bank in a landmark case that the country’s special prosecutor said showed it was possible to crack down on fraudulent bankers.
→ read full articleEmbodying Global Hegemony through a Sustaining Pattern of Discourse
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Cognitive Challenge of Dominion over All One Surveys – This is an exploration of possible global organization of the pattern of value-based polarities by which discourse is significantly characterized: big-small, win-lose, nice-nasty, hot-cold, friend-enemy, clean-dirty, expensive-cheap, and the like.
→ read full article(Italiano) Che cosa comportava il colonialismo: il caso della Malesia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Uno sguardo a questa dichiarazione di Cecil Rhodes: La mia idea favorita è una soluzione al problema sociale, vale a dire, al fine di salvare i 40.000.000 d’abitanti del Regno Unito da una sanguinosa guerra civile, noi statisti coloniali dobbiamo acquisire nuove terre per insediarvi la popolazione di troppo che fornisca nuovi mercati per le merci prodotte nelle fabbriche e nelle miniere. L’IMPERO: È UNA QUESTIONE PANE E BURRO. SE SI VUOLE EVITARE UNA GUERRA CIVILE, BASTA DIVENTARE IMPERIALISTI.
→ read full articleKamikaze
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
they win every war, even when
they explode babies and grandmothers,
whilst their tanks play songs, inspire them,
“kill the motherf**, kill…!”
Payback Time? Greek PM Seeks Reparations over Nazi Occupation & War-Time Loan
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
10 Feb 2015 – Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, referring to Nazi Germany’s four-year occupation of Greece and a forced war-time loan during World War II that saddled the Greek economy in huge debt, wants Berlin to pay reparations.
→ read full articleLynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror
Equal Justice Initiative – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
The 27-page report published on 10 Feb 2015 is fruit of the multi-year investigation into lynching in twelve Southern states during the period between Reconstruction and World War II.
→ read full article700 British Artists Pledge to Boycott Israel
Falastin News Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
15 Feb 2015 – A group of over 700 British artists signed a pledge to culturally and professionally boycott Israel to pressure an end to its aggressive and discriminatory practices against the Palestinians.
→ read full articleFull Text of the Minsk-II Agreement on Ukraine
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Marathon negotiations in Minsk, the Belarusian capital, resulted in a new ceasefire for eastern Ukraine.
→ read full articleNuclear-Weapon Free Zones: Delegitimizing Nuclear Weapons at a Regional Level
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
It is an unfortunate aspect of world politics that constructive, institution-building action is usually undertaken only because of a crisis. The Treaty of Tlatelolco is a fine example of the necessary team work between political advocacy and expert knowledge.
→ read full articleA Presumption against Intervention
Richard Falk, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
It is important to recall that self-determination remains the most significant anti-intervention norm in a post-colonial global setting, and is so often marginalized in debates for or against intervention.
→ read full articleEducation Has Little to Do with Knowledge
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Together, in unison, openly or anonymously, we should give a hand to the outspoken Chinese education minister, Yuan Guiren, and write about this appalling but taboo (in the West) topic: “How education became yet another weapon of war, used by the West.”
→ read full article(Italiano) L’arte della Pace (Review-Recensione)
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
“L’arte della Pace” di Alberto L’Abate, ovvero la crescita dei movimenti di base dallo spirituale al politico. Come sostituto del sostituto (Rocco Altieri) dell’autore (Alberto L’Abate) del libro da presentare, occorre che innanzitutto mi presenti.
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Manhã de Carnaval (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Baden Powell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Virtuoso Brazilian Guitarist
→ read full articleA Shock to the System
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
One of the biggest jokes in conservation is the Japanese government’s claim to be engaged in “scientific whaling”. All the killing by its harpoon fleet takes place under the guise of “research”, as this is the only justification available, under international rules.
→ read full articleAcross 100 Miles of Ocean
Akio Tanaka, University of Massachusetts Boston – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
In 1989 the Soviet Union collapsed, and the United States saw it as a victory of Capitalism over Communism. The Democratic Party joined the Republican Party’s full embrace of the corporate agenda, and the corporations felt empowered to seek profits with absolutely no regard for the consequences to Earth and all its life forms. The US became a corporate-military empire using its military to secure oil for its oil based economy.
→ read full articleOn the North Carolina Killings
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
14 Feb 2014 – A short interview on how to interpret the ghastly murder of three young Muslims living in the North Carolina university town of Chapel Hill.
→ read full articleCan Syria’s Cultural Heritage Be a Fulcrum for Ending Its Civil War?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
This country is home to some of the world’s first cities, as well as globally important sites from the Akkadian, Sumerian, Hittite, Assyrian, Persian, Greco-Roman, Ummayyad, Crusader, and Ottoman civilizations and to some of the oldest, most advanced civilizations in the world.
→ read full articleAccountability for Armed Contractors
Dr. Ian Ralby, Fletcher Security Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
The proliferation of private armed contractors was followed by a proliferation of initiatives o establish accountability for the industry… Failing to address foreseeable complications may prove detrimental to the industry, to the credibility of governments employing them, and to the overarching aims of international security.
→ read full articleFramework or Fragmentation of Standards for Private Security Providers?
Human Analytics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
A response to ‘Accountability for Armed Contractors,’ by Dr. Ian Ralby [ABOVE]
→ read full articleEarth Charter+15 Kickoff Webinar with Federico Mayor and Alexander Likhotal
Earth Charter International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Please, join us on the 25th of February to hear these great speakers and participate in a question and answer with them afterwards. We look forward to seeing you there!
→ read full articleBanking Giant HSBC Sheltered Murky Cash Linked to Dictators, Traffickers, Criminals, Arms Dealers
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Swiss Leaks is a collaborative investigation that exposes how the Swiss branch of one of the world’s biggest banks, HSBC, profited from doing business with tax dodgers and criminals around the world. Team of journalists from 45 countries unearths secret bank accounts maintained for criminals, traffickers, tax dodgers, politicians and celebrities.
→ read full articleEx-UN Chief Kofi Annan: US War on Iraq Helped Create Islamic State
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Sunday [8 Feb 2015] that the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq helped create the Islamic State group. Annan issued the remarks during a speech at the Munich Security Conference in southern Germany.
→ read full articleOregon’s Kate Brown to Be First Openly Bisexual Governor in U.S. History
Shelby Sebens, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown, set to become the nation’s first openly bisexual governor on Wednesday [18 Feb 2015], is an under-the-radar liberal Democrat known for her struggles to expand voting and her push for greater campaign finance transparency.
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