Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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(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 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 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 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.
Don’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 articleHow 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
→ read full article(Svenska-Swedish) Lay Down Your Arms
The Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
Hemlighetsmakeriet kring Nobels fredspris har missbrukats och måste upphöra. Detta är en av flera krav som den nybildade föreningen “Lay Down Your Arms” har skickats till de tre organ som ansvarar för tilldelning av fredspris: Nobelkommittén i Oslo, parlamentet som väljer kommittén, och Nobelstiftelsen i Stockholm, som har den överlägsna ansvar att se till att alla markeringar överensstämmer med Alfred Nobels krav.
→ read full articleNuclear Notebook, the Interactive Edition
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
At the click of a mouse, our new multimedia presentation tracks world nuclear arsenals over seven decades.
→ read full articleNetanyahu: The Day After
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
4 Mar 2015 – My reaction to Netanyahu’s theatrical performance yesterday in Congress led me to recall that the deepest thinkers turned against democracy in ancient Greece because of the susceptibility of the Athenian citizenry to demagogic oratory from opportunistic politicians. Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides all became sensitive to the degree to which the rhetoric of demagogues contributed to the decline, and eventual downfall, of ancient Athens.
→ read full articleWar, Peace, Justice: An Unfinished Tapestry…
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
War, peace, and justice are the eternal threads of human history – each thread with distinct symbols, colors, and appeals, each thread with its defining events, forces, heroes, and villains. History is the story of efforts to complete our unfinished tapestry. Until such time, we remain, as Bishop Tutu of South Africa poignantly stated in speaking of survival amid violence and oppression, “Prisoners of hope.”
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Turn! Turn! Turn! (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
The Byrds – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
–1960’s the Golden Decade–
A time to gain, a time to lose
A time to rend, a time to sew
A time for love, a time for hate
A time for peace, I swear it’s not too late!
US and Venezuela: Decades of Defeats and Destabilization
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
US policy toward Venezuela is a microcosm of its larger strategy toward Latin America. The intent is to reverse the region’s independent foreign policy and to restore US dominance; to curtail the diversification of trading and investment partners and re-center economic relations to the US; to replace regional integration pacts with US centered economic integration schemes; and to privatize firms partly or wholly nationalized.
→ read full article“Radioactive Cover-Up” at Fukushima — Experts Believe “Other Sources of Contamination” Are Flowing into Ocean
ENENews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
Emergency hearing with plant officials — “TEPCO decided long ago there was no need to monitor” the water with high-level radioactive materials.
→ read full articleU.S. Standing Alone against Children
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
The United States will soon be the only nation on earth that has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child. And why not?
→ read full articleUS War on ISIS a Trojan Horse
Ulson Gunnar, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
ISIS could not be a more effective part of America’s plans to overthrow the Syrian government and destroy the Syrian state if it had an office at the Pentagon. A Hollywood villain this popular and effective is surely destined for a sequel in neighboring Iran or southern Russia, coincidentally where the US would like to create strife and carnage the most.
→ read full articleFifty Years of Imperial Wars: Results and Perspectives
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
1 Mar 2015 – Over the past 50 years the US and European powers have engaged in countless imperial wars throughout the world. The drive for world supremacy has been clothed in the rhetoric of “world leadership”, the consequences have been devastating for the peoples targeted.
→ read full articleShock: Fracking Used to Inject Nuclear Waste Underground for Decades
Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton, Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
5 Mar 2015 – Unearthed articles from the 1960s detail how nuclear waste was buried beneath the Earth’s surface by Halliburton & Co. for decades as a means of disposing the by-products of post-World War II atomic energy production.
→ read full articleCommentary on Netanyahu’s Visit to the United States
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
2 Mar 2015 – It is far too simple to be merely outraged by the arrogant presumptuousness of tomorrow’s speech by the Israeli Prime Minister to a joint session of Congress two weeks prior to national elections in Israel. The Netanyahu visit has encouraged various forms of wishful thinking.
→ read full articleInternational Women’s Day – 8 March
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
2015: Empowering Women – Empowering Humanity: Picture It! – A time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities.
→ read full articleTime Banks: A Tool for Restorative Justice and Community Strength
Beverly Bell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
Timebanking is mutual credit, where whenever somebody provides a service to a member in a timebank, they get credit, which they can redeem for that same amount of time to get something they need from someone else in the network. It’s fluid and flexible. Timebanking doesn’t have to involve a direct exchange between two people, and it doesn’t have to happen in the same span of time.
→ read full articleOhio Students Approve Israel Divestment Vote by Landslide
Nora Barrows-Friedman, Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
On Tuesday [3 Mar 2015] the student government at the University of Toledo in Ohio approved a resolution to divest from companies which profit from Israeli violations of Palestinians’ rights. The resolution passed with 21 student senators in favor and only four against.
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Robert Reich Takes On the Trans-Pacific Partnership
MoveOn.org – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is the largest–and worst–trade deal you’ve never heard of and Republicans in Congress want to work with the Obama administration to “fast track” its passage.
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Breedlove’s Bellicosity – Berlin Alarmed by Aggressive NATO Stance on Ukraine
SPIEGEL Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
US President Obama supports Chancellor Merkel’s efforts at finding a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis. But hawks in Washington seem determined to torpedo Berlin’s approach. And NATO’s top commander in Europe hasn’t been helping either.
→ read full articleInterview: Mildred Aristide, Former First Lady of Haiti
Haiti Solidarity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
Mildred Aristide is an attorney who as former First Lady of Haiti headed the country’s National AIDS Commission and authored a book on the root causes of child domestic service.
→ read full articleFormer Guantanamo Detainee David Hicks Speaks Up
Richard Phillips, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
Hicks, an Australian citizen, was captured in Afghanistan by the Northern Alliance in late 2001, sold to the US military and sent to Guantanamo Bay. He spent five and a half years in the prison hellhole where he was subjected to sleep deprivation, beatings, solitary confinement and was injected with unknown substances.
→ read full articleThe Cultural Heritage of Iraq and Syria: “Destroyed by Human Ignorance − Rebuilt by Human Hope”
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
There have been iconoclastic movements in the past, especially among Muslims and early Protestants holding that the spiritual world cannot (and thus should not) be represented in forms. The iconoclastic reasoning can be defended, but not the destruction of objects which represented other philosophies, cultures and levels of understanding.
→ read full articleKnow the Enemy
Jon Taylor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
A terrorist is someone
who opposes the dictates of imperialism;
an extremist is someone who defends
his country against foreign invasion.
Saudi Arabia Becomes World’s Biggest Arms Importer amid Regional Concerns
I24News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
8 Mar 2015 – Saudi Arabia has become the world’s largest arms importer, surpassing India, amid increased tensions in the Middle East. Spending rose to $6.5 billion, rising 54 percent as compared to last year.
→ read full articleStudents Occupy University of Amsterdam (De Nieuwe Universiteit)
De Nieuwe Universiteit – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
The general motivation behind all these demands is discontent with the current ways of management. Top-down, efficiency-oriented management damages the very thing a university should revolve around: research and education.
→ read full articleSyria, Lebanon, and the Middle East: Enabling a War-to-Peace Transition
Tatsushi Arai, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
A key to realizing these measures is a sustained, systematic effort to build public awareness and capacity. Developing Arabic instruction materials on peace building and using them to train capable trainers who can effectively disseminate relevant skills and knowledge are two of the most urgent immediate tasks to enable the rest of the suggested measures to unfold.
→ read full articleRadicalisation versus Demonisation?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
Enabling Radical Initiatives under Conditions of Strategic Stalemate – In a period in which radicalisation is upheld as a matter of ever increasing political concern, there is seemingly little understanding of the condition of being a radical — other than as perceived and labelled by others according to some convention of normality.
→ read full article(Português) Amnistia Internacional denuncia desrespeito pelos Direitos Humanos em Portugal
Visão Solidária – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
3 Mar 2015 – O relatório anual da organização de defesa dos Direitos Humanos Amnistia Internacional (AI) alerta Portugal para persistência de problemas em áreas como as condições prisionais, a discriminação de comunidades ciganas ou a violência contra as mulheres.
→ read full articleSheherazade
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
A cruel prince in 8th century Baghdad returned early from hunting and surprised his wife in the company of another man. He ordered both of them executed.
→ read full articleA Tribute to Professor Yasuhiro Okudaira (1929–2015)
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
An Academic Defender of the Peace Constitution of Japan – This coming Sunday, on 15 March 2015, will mark the 49th day after Professor Yasuhiro Okudaira’s death.
→ read full articleWhat BRICS Plus Germany Are Really Up To?
Pepe Escobar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
Winston Churchill once said, “I feel lonely without a war.” He also badly missed the loss of empire. Churchill’s successor – the ‘Empire of Chaos’ – now faces the same quandary. Some wars – as in Ukraine, by proxy – are not going so well.
→ read full articleEngineering the Perfect Baby
Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
Scientists are developing ways to edit the DNA of tomorrow’s children. Should they stop before it’s too late? “You can do it. But there really isn’t a medical reason. People say, well, we don’t want children born with this, or born with that—but it’s a completely false argument and a slippery slope toward much more unacceptable uses.”
→ read full articleChildren of South Africa’s Liberation Icons Condemn Israeli Apartheid
Pambazuka News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
It is the Israeli Apartheid Week in South Africa. The children of celebrated liberation heroes have come out to support the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel, denouncing the Jewish state’s brutal colonial occupation of Palestine. The campaign is supported by 85 South African organizations and institutions.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’ipocrisia occidentale della libertà d’espressione
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Stato-Legge, Capitale, e Cultura. Che sono al loro meglio quando indipendenti l’uno dall’altro. Lo Stato non dovrebbe interferire con il mercato, il Capitale non con la politica, né con la Cultura. Guardiamo anche solo come il Capitale cambi parti importanti della Cultura come gli sport, le arti e la scienza, trasformandoli in prodotti d’acquisto, vendita e investimento, esigendo dalle università che servano il Capitale, non la Verità.
→ read full article‘Lawfare’ and Liberation
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
In opposition to a law-oriented foreign policy for the United States are arguments of ‘American exceptionalism.’ Such arguments condition its applicability to American behavior and insist on the implementation of international law in relation to the alleged unlawful conduct of adversaries (e.g. Russia involvement in eastern Ukraine)
→ read full articleThe Von Weizsäckers, Germany’s Kennedys
Johan Galtung, 2 Mar 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
President Richard von Weizsäcker passed away 31 January and was very much celebrated in Germany for his brilliant presidency to normalize a Germany with a troubled past, even divided on top of that. But, by and large leaving out his global perspectives mentioned below.
→ read full articleThe Neoconservative Threat to World Order
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
26 Feb 2015 – This week I was invited to address an important conference of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Scholars from Russia and from around the world, Russian government officials, and the Russian people seek an answer as to why Washington destroyed during the past year the friendly relations between America and Russia that President Reagan and President Gorbachev succeeded in establishing.
→ read full articlePentagon 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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