Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Selma: Hollywood vs. Reality
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Selma. An intriguing 2015 film about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his push to secure voting rights for African Americans who had been disenfranchised by a post-slavery, Jim Crow segregated society. Powerful. Yes! Moving. Yes! Convincing. Yes! Truthful. Not entirely.
→ read full article(Português) Fantasias de Cidadã
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Este ano, os foliões brincarão como se fosse um carnaval normal. É a grande festa da manutenção das aparências: faz de conta que “as águas vão rolar”, faz de conta que somos felizes, faz de conta que as classes sociais se misturam fraternalmente, faz de conta que não existe calote nem empobrecimento de todos.
→ read full article(Italiano) Una teoria sulla Cina
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Una teoria serve alla comprensione, predizione e identificazione delle condizioni per il cambiamento. Per la Cina si riportano sette indicatori teorici storico-culturali, usando l’Occidente in generale e gli USA in particolare a mo’ di confronto. La presentazione attinge a innumerevoli dialoghi avuti in Cina per oltre 40 anni, dal 1973.
→ read full articleQuick Action Is Needed to Save the Long-Term Future
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
We must save the long-term future of our beautiful planet, not only for ourselves, and our children and grandchildren, but also for all future generations of humans, and for the dazzling diversity of plants and animals with which we share the gift of life.
→ read full articleWhatever Happened to Social Defence?
Brian Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Abstract: A potential alternative to military defence is nonviolent action by civilians, using methods such as protests, strikes, boycotts and winning over opponent troops. In the 1980s there were groups in several countries advocating and promoting this option, but subsequently it faded from view even within the peace movement.
→ read full articleLatin America’s Mass Murderers to Be Tried in Italian Court
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
8 Feb 2015 – Former military chiefs and politicians implicated in the deaths of thousands through Operation Condor will face justice. After decades of impunity, those responsible for the wave of political violence that swept Latin America under the dictatorships of 1970s and 1980s will be tried in court this week in Rome, Italy.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
February 16–22 – Quote of the Week: “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
→ read full articleGood News!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
During Cheney-Bush’s reign of terror in Iraq many many people were taken to Abu Ghraib and to rendition flights never to be seen again.
→ read full articleNon Aligned Movement Backs Venezuela against U.S. Sanctions
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
The group of 120 nations issued a statement Saturday [7 Feb 2015] denouncing the sanctions as an intervention into Venezuelan affairs.
→ read full articleThe Island of Knowledge: How to Live with Mystery in a Culture Obsessed with Certainty and Definitive Answers
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery. “To think of science as separate from spirituality to me is a big mistake… It’s exactly because I feel very spiritually connected with nature that I am a scientist.” –astrophysicist/philosopher Marcelo Gleiser
→ read full articleNouvelles Affaires Africaines
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
Pierre Péan has written a lively book on palace intrigue in Gabon. Péan is considered an “investigative journalist” and has published some 34 books on African and French politics. «Pierre Péan, Nouvelles Affaires Africaines (Paris: Fayard, 2014, 254 pp.)»
→ read full articleWar and Perpetual Adolescence
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
The urgency I feel isn’t any longer to stop a particular war but to interrupt endless war: to interrupt the narrowly focused geopolitical conversation, conveyed to us over and over by media stenographers.
→ read full article(Italiano) “Ricordare vuol dire non morire”
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
Portato e interpretato in italiano da Roberto Contardo, figlio di Ida Desandré, deportata politica nei campi di Ravensbrück, Salgitter e Bergen-Belsen.
→ read full articleMy Tribute to Serena Williams
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
By returning to Indian Wells Serena Williams has made the double point of at once acknowledging the pain of her past victimization and the healing power of forgiveness.
→ read full articleAn Irish Ghost Story
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
This story happened a while ago in Dublin, and even though it sounds like an Alfred Hitchcock tale, it’s true.
→ read full article(Italiano) Le radici della nonviolenza
Lorenzo Guadagnucci, Altreconomia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
Il 30 gennaio cade l’anniversario dell’uccisione di Mohandas Gandhi. L’azione del leader indiano s’ispirò al giainismo, una religione nata nello Stato del Gujarat, di cui è stato governatore l’attuale premier indiano Narendra Modi.
→ read full articleIf Russia Is Ukraine’s Enemy, Why Are 1,2 Million Ukrainian Men Seeking Refuge in Russia?
RedPillTimes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
Ukrainian men of conscription age seeking refuge in Russia increased by 20,000 in one week, the Russian Federal Migration Service said on Monday [2 Feb 2015]. 1,193 million Ukrainian men, conscription age, now staying in Russia. 2,5 million Ukrainian refugees currently being taken care of (fed, clothed, etc…) in Russia.
→ read full articlePeacemaker
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
Most people thought by now that I’d at least
have stopped the fighting in the Middle East.
(Italiano) Di fronte alla tragedia di Charlie Hebdo
Jean-Marie Muller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
Un’ultima riflessione che sembrerà forse non corretta. La tragedia di Charlie Hebdo non ha fatto 17, ma 20 vittime. I tre assassini, giovani francesi nati in Francia ma la cui vita era dimenticata, sono anch’essi vittime del terrorismo. Indipendentemente dall’orrore criminale dei loro atti, sono anche loro degli uomini. Al di là della morte, tocca a noi restituire loro la loro umanità. Ci sarà allora possibile piangere anche questi tre uomini nel rispetto della loro persona.
→ read full articleGenocide in Kashmir: India’s Shame
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
Welcome to a nation overrun by the 700,000-strong security forces of the occupying power – India. Welcome to the continuous presence of barbed wire, of military columns, and ‘security checks’. Welcome to a brutality unimaginable almost anywhere else on earth!
→ read full articleBritain Launches ‘Big Brother’ System, Uploads One Third of Population to Facial Recognition Database
21st Century Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
To describe what has happened to British society, one can no longer call it a “slippery slope”, as it’s abundantly clear from this latest news that Britain has already fallen off the edge, and is presently tumbling into an Orwellian canyon.
→ read full articleUniversity of California Approves Boycotting Israel
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
4 Feb 2015 – Pro-Palestinian students at the University of California, Davis, have celebrated after a student government vote to boycott Israel was passed overwhelmingly at the US school.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
February 9–15 – Quote of the Week: “Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?” — Bill Watterson
→ read full articleIsrael’s Insolence to Obama Is Likely to Rebound on It
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
As with any mafia boss, Mr Obama is in trouble if he can no longer inspire fear, let alone respect. But the problem is of his own making. For six years, Mr Netanyahu “spat in our face”, as one White House official memorably observed while referring to his latest attempt to humiliate Mr Obama, but paid no discernible price.
→ read full articleVatican Bank May Be Too Corrupt for Pope Francis to Save
Nicole Goodkind, Yahoo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
The Vatican Bank is one of the most mysterious institutions in the world. This is a bank that doesn’t give out any loans and doesn’t have to turn a profit by its own charter. It is an “offshore bank in the middle of Rome.” Wealthy Italians would only have to find one priest willing to deposit their money in the bank and Italian authorities wouldn’t know about it.
→ read full article(Castellano) Unidos, Jamas Seremos Vencidos: La Victoria de Guatemala En Contra de Monsanto
Cultural Survival – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
A pesar de cientos de años de opresión y marginación, el pueblo de Guatemala se levanto en contra de sus líderes opresivos y exigieron justicia. La victoria sobre Monsanto es una idea de la potencia de este país.
→ read full articleA Pathan Soldier
Stephen Gill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
This story is set in 1971 when the tragic events unfolded in the region known as East Pakistan, now Bangladesh. The barbarous rape seemed unbelievable but it is a fact. Within a few months three million Bengalees were killed and ten million escaped to the neighboring country of India. Out of the atrocities there emerged a new country, called Bangladesh.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’Iberia mille anni fa
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
Può essere utile una macchina del tempo disposta su un lungo periodo nel passato per capire il presente in tale luce. Per esempio la penisola iberica, oggi con due stati, Spagna e Portogallo.
→ read full articleUNRWA: The Situation in Gaza Is Worse Than Ever Before
Falastin News Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
Robert Turner, Director of Operations for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East in Gaza-UNRWA said in a press conference on Wednesday [4 Feb 2015] that the current situation in Gaza Strip is worse than before Israel’s summer offensive.
→ read full articleWhat Colonialism Was About: The Case of Malaya
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
Statement by Cecil Rhodes: “I was in East End London yesterday and attended a meeting of the unemployed… My cherished idea is a solution for the social problem, i.e. in order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population to provide new markets for the goods produced in the factories and the mines. THE EMPIRE–IS A BREAD AND BUTTER QUESTION. IF YOU WANT TO AVOID A CIVIL WAR, YOU JUST BECOME IMPERIALISTS.
→ read full articleWhy Geoengineering is “Untested and Untestable”
Naomi Klein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
Right now there are all kinds of geoengineering experiments going on in labs and with computer modeling but “outdoor tests” are still frowned upon. Geoengineering in one part of the world will impact the climate on the other side of the planet. Those questions can only be answered through planetary scale deployment.
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Spanish Romance [Romanza] (Music Video of the Week)
Miloš Karadaglić – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
Author Unknown – Guitarist Extraordinaire. The style of the piece is that of the Parlour music of the late 19th century in Spain or South America. A classic.
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Greece Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Speaks Truth to Hostile Interviewer
BBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
Jan 30, 2015 – Greece’s new Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis interview on BBC’s Newsnight.
→ read full articleBrazilian Indians Secure Nationwide Land Victory
Survival International – TRANSCEND Media Serviced,
2 Feb 2015
Tribes across Brazil have secured a historic victory, preventing Congress from seizing control of the future of their lands. Brazilian Indians continue to fight against the invasion of their lands by loggers, miners, ranchers and others, and against a series of Amazon mega-dams which threaten to destroy their livelihoods and wipe out some uncontacted tribes.
→ read full articleSchool Day of Nonviolence and Peace – 30 January
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
Its basic and permanent message is: “Universal Love, Nonviolence and Peace – Universal love is better than egoism, nonviolence is better than violence, and peace is better than war.”
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Teach Your Children (Music Video of the Week)
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
From the 1970 Album “Déjà Vu” – A classic for teachers & parents.
→ read full articleThe High Cost of Capitalism: The Destructive Component in Capitalism’s ‘Creative Destruction’ Is Very High
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
External or social costs are associated with production that are not incurred by the producer but are inflicted on outside third parties, most often the environment, such as land, air, and water resources on which humanity is dependent.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’anno 2015: che cosa dobbiamo aspettarci?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
Stanno dispiegandosi tre, forse quattro drammatici processi globali. E poi questo: il Treno-Merci della Ferrovia della Seta Yiwu dalla Cina costiera a Madrid, 8.111 miglia [13.053 km], che connette tutti i mercati in Eurasia da un’estremità all’altra – e da Madrid all’America Latina, ovviamente.
→ read full articleAyotzinapa Parents Reject Government’s Decision to Close Case
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
Parents of the 43 Mexican students forcibly disappeared on Sep 26 offered a press conference Tuesday [27 Jan 2015] categorically rejecting the Attorney General’s conclusion that the students were kidnapped, killed, burned and thrown into a river.
→ read full articleThe NFL’s Anarchist Success Story
Matt Peppe, Just the Facts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
The Green Bay Packers prove that there is no reason for private ownership of sports teams. They are essentially an anarchist organization. Everybody involved has a stake. No one’s voice is dominant. The Packers model closely resembles anarcho-syndicalism, an anarchist theory concerned with workers’ freedom from exploitative labor conditions.
→ read full articleWhy Do We Fear Love?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
Why do human beings fear love? That is, why do we fear loving ourselves and others, and why do we fear being fully loved ourselves? Where does obedience fit into all of this? It doesn’t. Those who require obedience are frightened. And fear is the opposite of love. If you want someone to do what you want, you are frightened, not loving.
→ read full articleThe Imaginary World That Holds the Real World Captive
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
Chapter Six of: Economic Theory and Community Development.
→ read full articleHybrid Political Orders: In the case of Somaliland
Nubar Piriyeva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
The Concept of Hybrid Political Orders vs. the Concept of Failing or Fragile States – First of all, we should analyze and understand an ideal type of statehood based on Weberian concept and a real type of statehood.
→ read full article(русский-Russian) Россия может проиграть новую холодную войну — сначала внутри России
Владимир Дегоев, Regnum Information Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
Жизнь имеет обыкновение сама подводить черту под логически более или менее завершенными эпохами. И делает это так наглядно, что самые компетентные аналитические выкладки кажутся скучными копиями «веселой» заоконной реальности. Через два года исполнится четверть века с момента развала СССР.
→ read full articleGod Promised Antisemitism to the Zionists
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
The following is an interesting article by Aaron Dover, a British Jewish peace activist. It offers a critical point of view on Holocaust politics and the primacy of Jewish suffering.
→ read full articleSome Contributions of Islamic Culture
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
At a time when the corporate-controlled media of Europe and the United States are doing everything that they can to fill us with poisonous Islamophobia, it is perhaps a useful antidote to remember the great role that Islamic civilization played in preserving, enlarging and transmitting to us the knowledge and culture of the ancient world.
→ read full articleViewing American Sniper
Richard Falk, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
To question this American domination project is to antagonize the entrenched bureaucratic, media, and neoliberal forces that benefit from endless war making and its associated expenditures of trillions. In the end it is this grand project of late capitalism that American Sniper indirectly vindicates, thereby burdening the nation and the world, perhaps fatally.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Warum der Beschluss zur Lieferung deutscher Kriegswaffen in den Irak fundamental falsch ist und was stattdessen getan werden muss
Jürgen Grässlin, Wissenschaft und Frieden – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
Keine Kriegswaffen in den Irak liefern – sofort humanitär helfen, politisch umsteuern
→ read full article(Português) Plano económico do Syriza é mais realista que o da troika, diz Krugman
Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
Economista Prémio Nobel de 2008 afirma que se há algum defeito no plano do Syriza, é o de não ser suficientemente radical. E defende que “o resto da Europa devia dar-lhe a oportunidade de pôr fim ao pesadelo no seu país”.
→ read full articleZionists All
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
Many times people ask me: “Are you a Zionist?” My stock answer is: “Depends on what you mean by Zionism.” This is quite sincere. The term Zionism can mean many different things. Like the term socialism, for example. Francois Hollande is a socialist. So was Joe Stalin. Any resemblance?
→ read full article(Français) Face à la tragédie de Charlie Hebdo
Jean-Marie Muller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
Une dernière réflexion qui apparaîtra peut-être encore incorrecte ; la tragédie de Charlie Hebdo n’a pas fait 17 mais 20 victimes. Les trois tueurs, jeunes Français nés en France mais dont la vie était en déshérence, sont aussi des victimes du terrorisme. Quelle que soit l’horreur criminelle de leurs actes, ils sont aussi des hommes. Au-delà de la mort, il nous appartient de leur restituer leur humanité. Il nous sera alors possible de prendre le deuil de ces trois hommes dans le respect de leur personne.
→ read full articleMexican Government Rushes to Close Case of Disappeared Students
Bill Van Auken, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
Peña Nieto told Mexicans to get over the fate of the 43 students so he can move ahead with a “reform” agenda backed by Washington.
→ read full articleKashmir is Bleeding and Half of Humanity Now Forms the ‘Resistance’
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
Kashmir is bleeding, from torture and rape, from extra-judicial killings. There, India is conducting joint exercises with both the US and Israel. It is learning how to massacre, control and torture, and it is often outdoing its gurus. I told them, to my friends: “Kashmir is not alone. We will stand by you, we will struggle with you, and if needed, we will risk our lives for you!”
→ read full article1.5M Lifted Out of Poverty in Ecuador under Correa
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
The South American country has made enormous social investments over the last eight years of the Correa government.
→ read full articleA Theory of China
Johan Galtung, 2 Feb 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
A theory serves comprehension, prediction and identification of conditions for change. Seven such historical-cultural pointers will be indicated for China; using the West in general, and the USA in particular, for comparisons. The presentation draws on countless dialogues in China over 40 years, since 1973.
→ read full articleUS AFRICOM Commander Calls for “Huge” Military Campaign in West Africa
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
2 Feb2015 – US Africa Command’s head General David Rodriguez called for a large-scale US-led “counterinsurgency” campaign against groups in West Africa last week.
→ read full articleThe Forum [Davos]
Christos Christidis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
Forum in Davos!
The rich elite
Will repeat
Who is the boss!
Sea Shepherd Receives € 8.3 Million from the Dutch Postcode Lottery for the Protection of the Southern Ocean
Sea Shepherd – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
Sea Shepherd will use the donation to build a new ‘dream’ ship, which will enable the organization to be more effective than ever in the fight against poaching, whaling on the high seas.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
February 2–8
Quote of the Week: “The mind is everything. Every thought you create manifests itself in the world; if you didn’t achieve something you strive for, you simply didn’t believe in it enough.” – Mario Novak
Not Again!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
A wife and husband lived in a third floor apartment. One day, the husband died.
→ read full articleUnited, We Will Never Be Defeated: Guatemala’s Victory Over Monsanto
Cultural Survival – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
A new law would require all farmers to purchase their corn seeds from Monsanto. Anyone caught cultivating corn from their own seeds would be fined and could even face jail time… The victory over Monsanto is a glimpse of the power of this country. Community radios from all over the country broadcast the event, which will go down in history as the victory over Monsanto.
→ read full articleRejecting the Obama-Cheney Alliance against Torture Prosecutions
Roy Eidelson, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
Following the release of the Senate report on the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation program,” we are drawn to another deceptive distinction: the difference between “torture tolerance” and what might be called “torture tolerance-lite. Torture, regardless of whether it relies on physical pain or psychological torment, is cruel, immoral, misguided, and illegal.
→ read full articleBarrett Brown: Locked Up – My Post Cyberpunk Indentured Servitude
Barrett Brown, The Daily Beast – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
31 Jan 20215 – Not long ago I was a mild-mannered freelance journalist, activist, and satirist, contributing to outlets like the Guardian and Vanity Fair. But last Thursday I was sentenced to 63 months [5+ years] in federal prison. As inconvenient as this is for me, the upside is that for the first time in the two and a half years since I was arrested, I am at last able to speak freely about what has been happening to me.
→ read full article(Português) Tsipras: “O veredicto do povo grego significa o fim da troika”
Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
25 Jan 2015 – No seu discurso de vitória, Alexis Tsipras, líder do Syriza, vencedor das legislativas gregas, afirmou este domingo que “o povo grego escreveu História” e “deixou a austeridade para trás”.
→ read full articleQuit Bamming Us, Obama!
Dr. Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
On India’s Republic Day, Jan 26 2015, Barack Obama will be in Delhi. What is his agenda? As America’s salesman-in-chief he needs to get rid of inventories of defence material, nuclear technology, and other build-ups hurting profit. He will return from India half satisfied with what he achieves, but he has never aimed, nor has been permitted to aim, for much more.
→ read full articleThe Assassination of Gandhi, 30 Jan 1948
Eyewitness to History – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
“Just an old man in a loincloth in distant India: Yet when he died, humanity wept.” Gandhi’s violent death came just months after the realization of his long sought-after goal – the independence of India from Great Britain.
→ read full articleSelma: A Gandhian Critique
Timothy Braatz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
On August 28, 1963, an estimated 250,000 people, from across the country, converged on Washington, DC, to demonstrate their support for the Civil Rights Movement.
→ read full articleIberia a Thousand Years Ago
Johan Galtung, 26 Jan 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
A time machine set on the long haul backward may be useful to understand the present in the light of the past. For instance Iberia, the peninsula, today with two states, Spain and Portugal.
→ read full articleMessenger of the Gods
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
Our ‘Impartial’ Broadcasters Have Become Mouthpieces of the Elite – The illusion of neutrality is one of the reasons for the rotten state of journalism, as those who might have been expected to hold power to account drift thoughtlessly into its arms.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
January 26–February 1
Quote of the Week: “When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.” — Peace Pilgrim
Galant’s Gallant Act
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
There used to be a joke about a sadist and a masochist. “Hit me! Beat me! Kick me!” the masochist pleads with the sadist. The sadist smiles a cruel smile and slowly answers: “No!” That, more or less, reflects the situation on Israel’s northern border at this moment.
→ read full articleDrones and the New Ethics of War
Neve Gordon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
If Guantanamo was the icon of George W. Bush, drones have become the emblem of the Obama presidency. He has adopted a totally different doctrine: kill rather than capture, replace torture with targeted assassinations. Drones change the ethics of war. To kill exposing one’s life to danger is bad; to kill without endangering one’s own is good.
→ read full articleThe Muslim Catch-22
Jen Sorensen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
Not your free speech, buddy. – Satirical Comic Cartoon
→ read full articleTo Strike or Not to Strike: Israel’s Electoral Calculus
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
An Israeli air strike in Syria on Sunday [18 Jan 2015] that killed 12 commanders from Hizballah and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard follows a long and ignoble tradition in Israeli politics. Prime ministers facing poor ratings have been tempted to launch a major military offensive in the middle of an election campaign. The strike was the biggest against Hizballah since summer 2006 and Israel’s first undisguised military clash with Iran.
→ read full articleAfter Charlie Hebdo Attack, France Announces Draconian Anti-Terror Law
Alex Lantier, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
After a cabinet meeting yesterday [21 Jan 2015] morning at the Elysée presidential palace, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls unveiled a draconian new anti-terror law.
→ read full articleWhy Myanmar Is Committing a Slow Genocide against Nearly 2 Million Rohingya Muslims
Maung Zarni, Rohingya Blogger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
Jan 18, 2015 – Myanmar’s slow Rohingya genocide is a brilliant strategy that kills several birds with a single stone – as far as the country’s ruling military Bama regimes.
→ read full articleCanadian Expert: What Occurred in Paris Was Theater on a Grand Scale
Tehran Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
“Extremists groups are the instrument with which the West and its closest allies seek to transform the Middle East without violating international law or asking the UN Security Council to approve military incursions on sovereign countries to achieve desired political outcomes.” — Leader of Human Rights Party of Canada, Kevin Galalae.
→ read full articleExactly!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
A reporter asked an American,
→ read full articleCharlie Hebdo Fired ‘Anti-Semitic’ Cartoonist for Ridiculing Judaism in 2009
We Are Anonymous – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
The cartoon world’s double standards on freedom of speech… 80-year-old Maurice Sinet, political cartoonist with Charlie Hebdo for 20 years, was fired in 2009 for his ‘anti-Semitic’ cartoons mocking the relationship of former French President Sarkozy’s son with a wealthy Jewish woman.
→ read full articleSyria Strike Caps Israel’s Provocations in Middle East
Chris Marsden, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
21 Jan 2015 – Israel’s strike on leading Hezbollah figures near the occupied Golan Heights is the latest move in a campaign to escalate Middle East tensions. It has been accompanied by a series of provocative actions against the Palestinians and European powers now considered to be too “pro-Palestinian.”
→ read full articleGenocides, Not Wars
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
What followed WWII were not really true wars, anymore, but genocides; holocausts. All perpetrated mainly through carpet-bombing, poisonous chemicals, enlisting corrupt foreign military, US-trained and financed death-squads, and most recently by using ‘smart bombs’, stealth fighters, cruise missiles and drones, as well as ‘Muslim terrorists’ (created in NATO camps).
→ read full articleIt Is 3 Minutes to Midnight in the Doomsday Clock
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
23 Jan 2015: Unchecked climate change and the nuclear arms race have pushed the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock forward to three minutes closer to midnight, announced in Washington DC members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the body behind the calculations and creation of the Clock of Doom in 1947.
→ read full articleFinancial Markets Celebrate European Central Bank Launch of €1 Trillion Quantitative Easing Program
Nick Beams, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
[Quantitative Easing: euphemism for ‘printing more money for benefit of banks, financial vultures.’ – TMS Editor] The measures will have little or no impact on the real economy. Rather, they are aimed at making available further supplies of ultra-cheap cash for financial speculation.
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Falastin News Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
24 Jan 2015 – The UN said in a statement on Friday [23 Jan 2015] that 77 Palestinian families, half of them children, have been rendered homeless in the past three days. Some demolished structures were provided by the international community to shelter poor Palestinian families.
→ read full article$$$$$s in Their Hearts: An Exposé of Wars in All Their Complexity – Highly Recommended
Ronald Stein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
$$$$$s in Their Hearts, by Alberto Portugheis, (Opus, London, Nov 2014) – He has had many years to gather all his data and shows how various situations have developed by considerations of politics, religion, military necessities, and the ever present malignant influence of the now worldwide Military Industrial Complex.
→ read full articlePope Francis, Salman Rushdie, and Charlie Hebdo
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
The Associated Press reports that despite present tensions and the public celebration of free speech the government in Paris has “ordered prosecutors around the country to crack down on hate speech, anti-Semitism, and glorifying terrorism.” But no message by the French government mentioning ‘hate cartooning’ or the surge of ‘Islamophobia’ in the country.
→ read full articleEliciting Insight from Covert Operations by US
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
The argument here therefore explores the dynamic within a reappropriated US, understood as Universal Synthesizer or Universal Sympathizer — aspiring to global organization and expression of identity, through the embodiment of the highest values. This cognitive dynamic is recognized as challenged by the negativity of Terrifying Hypothetical External Mentalities (THEM) seeking to undermine the coherence articulated and sustained so positively by US.
→ read full articleRussia and US End Collaboration on Nuclear Disarmament
Clara Weiss, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
Russia and the United States ended their collaboration in the disposal of nuclear waste in mid-December, according to a report in the Boston Globe on Monday [19 Jan 2015]. After the US, Russia is the second largest nuclear power in the world. Together Washington and Moscow own 90 percent of global nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleMurdering Journalists … Them and Us
William Blum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
Where has all this Islamic fundamentalism comes from? Most of it comes – trained, armed, financed, indoctrinated – from Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria. These four countries had been the most secular, modern, educated, welfare states in the Middle East. In the 1980s, the USA overthrew the Afghan government that was progressive, with full rights for women, believe it or not , leading to the creation of the Taliban and their taking power.
→ read full articlePrison Trauma
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
In an exercise of
Psychopathology
Students are told
To find
A safe place
And to go in
Post-Sentence Statement: Journalist Barrett Brown – 63 Months [5 Years] Imprisonment for Association with ‘Anonymous’
Sparrow Media Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
22 Jan 2015 – “The U.S. government decided today that because I did such a good job investigating the cyber-industrial complex, they’re now going to send me to investigate the prison-industrial complex. Wish me luck!” — Barrett Brown
→ read full article(Português) A Jaula de Aço, Max Weber e o Marxismo Weberiano
Jorge Costa, Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
No seu novo livro, Michael Löwy aborda a paradoxal influência de Max Weber, pensador pessimista e resignado, sobre a teoria crítica e revolucionária. Um estudo cativante, nesta época de submissão total a forças impessoais – mercados, finança, dívida, austeridade – em que a barbárie moderna identificada por Weber volta a apresentar-se como destino inevitável.
→ read full article#Freespeech, but We Won’t Cover Your Skin or Honor Your God
Maung Zarni, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
A poem in solidarity and honor of persecuted and targeted Muslims, the latest victims of the “Civilization.”
→ read full articleRussia Cuts Off Ukraine Gas Supply to 6 European Countries
Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
14 Jan 2015 – The EU raged that the sudden cut-off to some of its member countries was “completely unacceptable,” but Gazprom later added that Russia plans to shift all its natural gas flows crossing Ukraine to a route via Turkey; and the Russian Energy Minister stated unequivocally, “the decision has been made.”
→ read full articleCalling All Whistleblowers: afriLeaks Offers a Secure Platform
Mail & Guardian Africa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
In the post-Snowden world with government and corporate surveillance a reality, it has become critically important for journalists and whistleblowers to ensure their digital safety. Enter afriLeaks, a joint project of the African Network of Centres for Investigative Reporting and the Hermes Centre for Transparency and Digital Human Rights.
→ read full articleThe Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today… The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.” I frequently worry that being productive is the surest way to lull ourselves into a trance of passivity and busyness the greatest distraction from living, as we coast through our lives day after day, showing up for our obligations but being absent from our selves, mistaking the doing for the being.
→ read full articleMemetic Analogue to the 20 Amino Acids as Vital to Psychosocial Life?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
Number 37 as indicative of fruitful pathways of transformation? With respect to the number 37, as the key feature of the report, Kemp notes the discovery that: “37 recurs frequently within the code. For example, the mass of the molecular ‘core’ shared by all 20 amino acids is 74, namely 37 doubled”.
→ read full articleEuropean Powers Implement Police State Measures in Wake of Charlie Hebdo Attack
Ulrich Rippert, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
Governments throughout Europe have responded to the attacks on Charlie Hebdo in France by moving quickly to push through a raft of anti-democratic measures that have long been prepared, but that have so far encountered resistance.
→ read full articleHow Americans Can Help Preserve Our Shared Cultural Heritage in Syria
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
To date, it has been primarily the Syrian people themselves, without much international and practically no American help, taking the lead to protect and preserve this cradle of civilization which has hosted nearly a dozen empires over ten thousand years.
→ read full articleCast Into the Depths: Perilous Waters for the American Psychological Association
Roy Eidelson, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
The brutal treatment of detainees was not merely the isolated and abhorrent inspiration of two so-called rogue psychologists, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen; indeed, from the start the Office of Legal Counsel “torture memos” were drafted with key roles for psychologists specifically in mind.
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