Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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God Wills It!
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
National conflicts are basically rational. They concern territory. They can usually be solved by compromise. Religious conflicts are irrational. Each side believes in an absolute truth, and automatically considers everybody else as infidels, enemies of the only true God.
→ read full articleLearning for Nonviolence and Better Governance versus Teaching for Violence and Worst Governance
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
I advise the teachers of our nation and the world to consider themselves as learners leading to the formation of sustainable genuine democracy, performance of good governance and practice of nonviolence. , “May we both (the teacher and the taught) attain fame together” as cited in Taittiriyopanishad.
→ read full articleUN Secretary General “Alarmed” at Israel’s Announced Seizure of West Bank Land
Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 1 September 2014 voiced his alarm at the announcement by Israeli authorities to declare nearly 1,000 acres of land in Bethlehem as so-called “state land.”
→ read full articleAs I Age . . . Thoughts on Memory and Cosmos
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
The reality is the omnipresence of memories — as we recall them, as wish to recall them, and as we wish to forget them. Memories are always present — waiting to be released. And with each memory, comes an endless flow of associations. Memories work their way to the surface — the immediacy of the present moment.
→ read full articleClimate Change Means Lifestyle Change
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Scientists are unanimous in warning us that unless we very rapidly reduce CO2 emissions, we risk passing a tipping point beyond which we will be powerless to prevent uncontrollable global warming.
→ read full articleTwo Types of Anti-Semitism
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
This second type of supposed anti-Semitism is a tactic deployed to discredit critics of Israel by insisting that criticism of Israel and hatred of the Jewish people should not be distinguished.
→ read full articleMysterious Fake Cellphone Towers Are Intercepting Calls All Over the US
Jack Dutton, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
3 Sep 2014 – Every smart phone has a secondary OS, which can be hijacked by high-tech hackers. Seventeen fake cellphone towers were discovered across the U.S. last week, according to a report in Popular Science.
→ read full articleUN Human Rights Council – Opening Statement
Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
My first address to this Council takes place at a time when conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa regions, in particular, are escalating dramatically… My Office will be open to dialogue with all stakeholders; and within the limits of our resources, we will extend every possible assistance to States, to heighten their protection and promotion of human rights.
→ read full articleFlaws in US Thought–And Some Remedies
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Flaw #2: Confusing conflict with violence. Or “trouble”. Handling conflict becomes handling violence toward cease-fire or capitulation, then tidying up the “post-conflict” situation, only to discover that the violence reappears, perhaps with a vengeance. Nothing solved. Remedy: Separate the concepts.
→ read full article(Italiano) Da Vicenza e Aviano parà Usa per war games in Ucraina
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
5 Set 2014 – War games: Oltre duecento paracadutisti statunitensi stanno per essere trasferiti in Ucraina per partecipare ad una vasta esercitazione militare multinazionale. I parà appartengono tutti al 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, il reparto d’élite aviotrasportato dell’esercito Usa di stanza a Vicenza.
→ read full articleChild Trafficking Rampant in Underdeveloped Indian Villages
K. S. Harikrishnan, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
“Many families are unable to afford the basic necessities of life, which forces parents to sell their children. Some children are abandoned by families who can’t take care of them. Some run away to escape abuse or unhappy homes. Gangsters and middlemen approach these vulnerable children.”
→ read full articleRussell Tribunal Session on Palestine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
On September 24 [2014] a special session of the Russell Tribunal will examine war crimes allegations against Israel arising from the 50-day Operation Protective Edge military operation that commenced on July 8th.
→ read full articleBeheading versus Befooting
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
In Quest of the Lesser Evil for the Greater Good – Much is currently made of beheading of individuals by ISIS militants as being an act of pure evil. Framed as “pure evil”, such assertions raise the question of other degrees of evil of lesser “purity”. What makes that evil so pure?
→ read full article(Italiano) La caduta dell’Impero USA – e poi che cosa?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Fascismo USA? Sì, indubbio. Un’evoluzione profondamente tragica. Un paese così innovativo con null’altro da offrire che macro-bombardamenti, meso-droneggiamenti e micro-cecchinaggio. Percepiamo il complesso militare-industriale all’opera – l’industria delle bombe in prima fila.
→ read full articleExamining
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Two students went drinking late into the night before an exam.
→ read full articleWashington Piles Lie Upon Lie
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
The latest Washington lie, this one coming from NATO, is that Russia has invaded Ukraine with 1,000 troops and self-propelled artillery. One reason is that Putin has invested heavily in diplomacy backed by unprovocative behavior. He would not risk his bet on diplomacy by sending in troops too few in number to have a decisive effect on the outcome.
→ read full articleIsrael Plans Largest West-Bank Settlement Expansion in ’30 Years’
Jeffrey Heller, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Israel announced on Sunday [31 Aug 2014] a land appropriation in the occupied West Bank that an anti-settlement group termed the biggest in 30 years. Some 400 hectares (988 acres) near Bethlehem were declared “state land, on the instructions of the political echelon” by the military-run Civil Administration.
→ read full articleThe War for Nothing
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
On the Israeli side: 71 dead, among them 66 soldiers, 1 child. On the Palestinian side: 2,143 dead, 577 of them children, 263 women, 102 elderly. 11,230 injured. 10,800 buildings destroyed. 8,000 partially destroyed. About 40,000 damaged homes. Among the damaged buildings: 277 schools, 10 hospitals, 70 mosques, 2 churches. Also, 12 West Bank demonstrators, mostly children, who were shot. Celebrating a similar triumph long ago, Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, remarked: “Another such victory and we will be lost!”
→ read full articlePresident Mukherjee Rejects 97% of Mercy Pleas as India Gives Two Death Sentences Each Day
Asian Centre for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
The empirical evidence establishes that death penalty does not act as deterrent. ACHR called upon the Government of India to amend all laws that provide death penalty and replace them with imprisonment for life.
→ read full article300 Americans [Terrorists] Fighting Alongside IS
The Nation, Pakistan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
30 Aug 2014 – The US government is tracking and gathering intelligence on as many as 300 Americans who are fighting side by side with the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, according to senior US officials.
→ read full articleMonty Python State Department
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
No actual diplomats were harmed in the making of this production. Scene: A cafe. One table is occupied by a group of Vikings wearing horned helmets.
→ read full articleThe First Taiwan International Queer Film Festival Comes Out
Victor Stevenson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Taiwan International Media and Education Association and Portico Media created ‘The First Taiwan International Queer Film Festival,’ which will be held in Taipei Sep 26 to 30, 2014 and in Kaohsiung Oct 3 to 7. In the inaugural year, the organizers have programmed 60 movies from 30 countries.
→ read full articleColonization by Bankruptcy: The High-stakes Chess Match for Argentina
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Argentina is playing hardball with the vulture funds, which have been trying to force it into an involuntary bankruptcy. The vultures are demanding what amounts to a 600% return on bonds bought for pennies on the dollar.
→ read full articleStop Playing the Anti-Semitism Card & Get Real about the Rise of Fascism in Israel
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Each time the subject of Israel’s on-going genocidal treatment of Palestinians, many Jewish individuals throw around the anti-Semitism card, and non-Jews take a default position: self-censorship, rather than frank and brutally honest look at the empirically genocidal situation.
→ read full articleAmerica Frightens Us
Roman Baudzus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Political Europe Suppressed Under Washington’s Thumb Is Waking Up – In the aftermath of the downing of the Malaysian airliner in Ukraine, the Western media followed Washington’s lead and manipulated reports in order to make Europeans believe that Russia and Russian-supported separatists in eastern Ukraine were responsible for downing the airliner.
→ read full articleThe Fall of the US Empire-And Then What?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
US Fascism? Yes, indeed. A deeply tragic development. Such an innovative country and nothing better to offer than macro bombing, meso droning and micro sniping. We sense the military-industrial complex at work–the bomb industry upfront.
→ read full articleOn Course for Holocaust II…?
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
I believe that what I am going to say needs to be said and should be widely debated if the rising, global tide of “anti-Israelism” (I prefer the term anti-Zionism) is not to be transformed into anti-Semitism on a scale that could lead, in a foreseeable future, to Holocaust II.
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That’s What Friends Are for – Diane Warwick & Friends (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
With Elton John, Gladys Knight & Stevie Wonder – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Kick back, relax, enjoy…
→ read full articleEradication as the Strategic Final Solution of the 21st Century?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Indicative Checklist of Possible Domains of Application – The purpose of this exercise is to collect together the domains in which “eradication” is somehow considered the most appropriate manner of responding to what is framed as a problem.
→ read full articleKilling Civilians
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
In Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions, Articles 51 and 54 outlaw indiscriminate attacks on civilian populations, and destruction of food, water, and other materials needed for survival.
→ read full articleCivil Resistance and Conflict Transformation: Transition from armed to nonviolent struggle
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
What if the original armed violence does not produce results? Can groups move from armed violence to other techniques? Should one modify if armed violence is blocked? TRANSCEND member Manish Thapa is one of the authors featured on this ‘Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution.’
→ read full articleSanctions & the Dollar: A Fall from Grace?
Conn Hallinan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
The recent round of sanctions aimed at Moscow over the crisis in the Ukraine could backfire on Washington by accelerating a move away from the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
→ read full article(Castellano) Islamistas toman embajada de EE.UU. en Trípoli [Libia]
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
31 Ago 2014 – La información fue reseñada por la agencia RT, portal que precisó-citando a un periodista de AP- que aunque las ventanas en el complejo han sido destrozadas, la mayoría del equipo que había sido dejado por los estadounidenses permanecieron intactos.
→ read full articleAmerican History
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
It was the first day of school and a new student named Yuki entered the fourth grade.
→ read full article(Italiano) USA-Israele vs. mondi arabo-musulmano: che succede?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Nulla di buono. Ma diamo uno sguardo con le modalità standard degli studi per la pace: diagnosi-analizzare, prognosi-prevedere, e terapia–rimedi, perfino soluzioni.
→ read full articleRevolutionary Rats
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
You’re a rat in a maze and you can’t get out.
The rats are eating the other rats.
How do you like this luscious rat food?
Let’s Wave the Nonkilling Flag: A Global Plea
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
When the Nonkilling Flag we wave
We show our community how to be brave
(Italiano) Unirsi per la pace, costruire una pace sostenibile con valori universali nel centenario della I guerra mondiale – criminalizzando la guerra
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
La Pace di Westfalia del 1648 stabilizzò due cristianesimi al prezzo di un sistema statuale con il “diritto alla guerra”. Quel mandato istituzionale deve sparire.
→ read full articleGeneva Accords?
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
I must admit that I am bored
by each arcane humane accord.
The Fukushima Nuclear Accident as Told by Plant Manager Masao Yoshida
The Asahi Shimbun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
The document remains the only available official transcript of the testimony by Yoshida, the on-site commander of efforts to bring the situation under control, who died in July 2013 of esophageal cancer without having disclosed much to the media.
→ read full article(Italiano) Galtung: Erdogan dovrebbe concentrarsi sulla politica estera
Yonca Poyraz Dogan intervista Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Galtung ha parlato con noi trattando più ampiamente la tematica durante la sua recente visita a Istanbul per la conferenza biennale dell’ International Peace Research Association (IPRA).
→ read full articleNisteling: The Art of Deep Listening
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
I believe that this is the essential foundation step in any strategy to end human violence (in all of its manifestations).
→ read full articleDutch Intellectuals Apologize to Putin for Lies on MH17, Syria, Ukraine…
Macedonian International News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
27 Aug 2014 – A letter sent by a prominent Dutch Professor to Russian president Vladimir Putin has attracted much media attention in Europe. The letter was written by Professor Cees Hamelink and signed by dozens of Dutch intellectuals and professors. Below is the letter in its entirety.
→ read full articleContinuing Media Silence on the Fate of Flight MH17
Stefan Steinberg, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
With a handful of exceptions, a shroud of silence has been drawn by the international media regarding the fate of Malaysian Airlines MH17, which crashed over Ukraine nearly six weeks ago.
→ read full articleThe Truth about the IS
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Many of those who have condemned the Islamic State (IS) do not want to know how this terrorist outfit came into being in the first instance. It is a direct consequence of the Anglo-American invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003.
→ read full articleA Poem on the 74th Anniversary of Leon Trotsky’s Murder
Kevin Higgins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
Today [21 Aug 2014] is the 74th anniversary of the murder in Mexico City, by an agent of Soviet Military Intelligence, of the exiled co-organiser of the Russian Revolution.
→ read full articleObama Buggers Europe: Sanctions Deepen the Recession
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
By submitting to Washington’s doctrine of permanent wars, Europe eschews the only road out of permanent crisis: peaceful co-existence. The mega-buggers in Washington and the bootlickers in Europe have chosen sanctions over trade and destruction over prosperity.
→ read full article(Português) Acusemos Israel
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
A criação do Estado judaico de Israel configura um crime continuado cujos abismos mais desumanos se revelam nos dias de hoje. Declarada a sua extinção, os cidadãos do mundo propõem a criação na Palestina de um Estado secular, plurinacional e intercultural, onde judeus e palestinos possam viver pacifica e dignamente.
→ read full articleWar in the Hundred Acre Woods
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
“To renounce aggression is not enough,” writes Milne. “We must also renounce defence.” What do we replace it with? Milne depicts a world of nonviolent dispute resolution, arbitration, and a changed conception of honor or prestige that finds war shameful rather than honorable. And not just shameful, but mad.
→ read full articleU.N. Prepares for Overhaul of Arms Trade Reporting
Joel Jaeger, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
18 Aug 2014 – The Arms Trade Treaty is about to provide the biggest shake-up to conventional arms trade transparency since the end of the Cold War.
→ read full articleU.S., Brazil Nearing Approval of Genetically Engineered Trees
Carey L. Biron, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
Aug 20 2014 – The U.S. and Brazilian governments are moving into the final stages of weighing approval for the commercialisation of genetically engineered eucalyptus trees, moves that would mark the first such permits anywhere in the world.
→ read full articleNot a War Criminal
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
Like Julius Streicher,
I’ve never killed anyone.
He was a Nazi newspaperman
hanged at Nuremburg
for portraying Jews as evil.
‘Common Dreams’ Website Traps Hasbara Troll Spewing Anti-Semitism
Annie Robbins, Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
A Jewish student posting virulently anti-Semitic comments at various internet forums, allegedly “to gauge how pervasive anti-Semitism” is online, has been busted by the progressive website Common Dreams.
→ read full articleWhy Are You Dressed Like Darth Vader?
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
Comic Strip – This Modern World
→ read full articleInternational Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
In 2013 the UN General Assembly declared 26 September International Day for Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. The first ever event will take place a month from now on 26 Sep 2014. What can you, as an individual, do?
→ read full articleBank of America to Pay $16.65 Billion to Settle Mortgage Fraud Charges
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
Bank of America has agreed to pay the government $9.65 billion to settle charges of misleading investors over mortgage lending in the run up to the 2008 financial crisis. The bank will also pay out an additional $7 billion to help borrowers and communities affected by the loans.
→ read full articleCaliphate of Fear – The Curse of the Islamic State
SPIEGEL Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
Images of Yazidis fleeing parts of Iraq and Syria have shocked the world and the battle against the jihadists with the Islamic State has united Americans, Europeans, Kurds and Iranians. Can the Islamists be stopped?
→ read full articleIs Burma’s Anti-Muslim Violence Led by “Buddhist Neo-Nazis”?
Ray Downs, Vice –TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
According to Dr. Muang Zarni, a Burmese human rights activist and research fellow at the London School of Economics, much of the blame for the current situation in Burma can be laid at the feet of the 969 group, which he describes as an neo-Nazi organization of hatemongers who are using Hitlerian tactics to “purify” the country by getting rid of the Muslims—it’s also, he says, one of the fastest-growing movements in the country.
→ read full articleWhy We Hurt Each Other: Tolstoy’s Letters to Gandhi on Love, Violence, and the Truth of the Human Spirit
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
The exchange sparked an ongoing correspondence between the two that lasted until Tolstoy’s death — a meeting of two great minds and spirits, eventually collected in Letters from One: Correspondence (and more) of Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi and rivaled only by Einstein’s correspondence with Freud on violence and human nature.
→ read full articleDoes Iceland Gain From Whaling?
Lowana Veal, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
The story of what then happens to the whales once they have been taken back to Iceland is part mystery and part an economic balancing act between the country’s economic interests and its international image.
→ read full articleNo One Wants You to Know How Bad Fukushima Might Still Be
Johnny Magdaleno | Vice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
When I asked past Nobel Peace Prize nominee Dr. Helen Caldicott these questions, she was quick to respond: “Because money matters more than people.” Dr. Caldicott was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School when she became president of Physicians for Social Responsibility.
→ read full articlePlaying Bridge
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
Four women were playing bridge together every Friday afternoon for twenty years.
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Street Pianos – Rondo Alla Turca (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
the5brownsmusic's channel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
The 5 Browns playing an arrangement and rift of Mozart’s Alla Turca by Greg Anderson.
→ read full articleThree Questions for Hamas
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
Whether wittingly or not, the international diplomacy of the West has produced dispossession, violence, and seemingly irreconcilable conflict with disastrous and tragic consequences for the indigenous population of Palestine ever since the end of World War I.
→ read full articleThe Russian Appeal to Germany
Egor Prosvirnin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
If we were to recall recent history, we would remember that a vast army of 300,000 Soviet troops along with 5,000 tanks, 1,500 aircraft and 10,000 artillery pieces (including tactical nuclear weapons) simply left the then just-united Germany without firing a shot. For what? For hope.
→ read full articleHackers Successfully Crack US Nuclear Facilities for the First Time… Twice
The Huffington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
19 Aug 2014 – The United States has admitted that hackers attacking its nuclear power plants have already succeeded. Twice.
→ read full article(Français) Comment Moscou et Pékin vont évincer le dollar de leurs transactions
La Voix de la Russie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
La Banque centrale de Russie et la Banque populaire de Chine se sont mises d’accord sur l’organisation des échanges financiers (des swaps) en roubles et en yuans. Il s’agit des transactions qui prévoient simultanément l’achat et la vente d’une monnaie en échange de la monnaie d’un autre pays.
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All Christian Supporters of Israel Need to Watch These
Lior Shlein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
This was broadcast on Israeli State TV as part of a nightly comedy show – mocking Jesus, Christianity, and calling Mary a whore.
→ read full articleArgentina Is “in the Mood of Tango”
TRT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
The Tango World Championship has turned the streets of Buenos Aires into dance floors packed with tango dancers. As festival’s organizers call it “the world’s biggest tango extravaganza,” most of Buenos Aires has tango fever now. In 2009, tango was recognized by UNESCO as an “Intangible Cultural Heritage.”
→ read full articleConversations with Ban Ki-moon: What the United Nations is Really Like – The View from the Top
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
Ban Ki-moon comes from a Confucian tradition kept alive in certain Korean milieu: a leader leads by example in the hope that others will follow his example of hard work, honesty, concern for others. Can such a management style work in an organization such as the United Nations with people from many different cultures?
→ read full articleThe End of the Israeli-American Alliance
William Pfaff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
The alliance of the United States with Israel has become internationally seen as an alliance of international lawbreakers, which literally is true because of the indifference both states demonstrate to the established norms and conventions of international justice. “There is some confusion in Israel borne of an exaggerated sense of self-importance. The strategic asset in this equation is the U.S. for Israel, not the other way around.”
→ read full article(Français) L’Afrique bénéficiera de la banque des BRICS, selon Prétoria
Star Africa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
La nouvelle banque de développement récemment créée les BRICS a pour vocation de mobiliser des ressources pour des projets d’infrastructure de développement en Afrique, a rassuré la ministre sud-africaine des Relations internationales et de la Coopération.
→ read full articleReport: US Exerting Pressure on ICC Not to Open War Crimes Probe against Israel
The Jerusalem Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
‘The Guardian’ quotes lawyers and former court officials as saying that western pressure has influenced decision not to open probe.
→ read full articleAll This Talk of an ‘Apocalyptic’ Threat Is Simply Childish
Robert Fisk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
The word movie is the clue. Chuck Hagel and Martin Dempsey were pure Hollywood. It only needed Tom Cruise at their press conference to utter the words “Mission impossible”. Who writes this God-awful script? Can’t the US Defence Secretary and his joint chiefs chairman do better than this?
→ read full articlePentagon Funds New Data-Mining Tools to Track and Kill Activists (Part III)
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
The U.S. Department of Defense’s multimillion dollar university research program, the Minerva Research Initiative, is developing new data mining and analysis tools for the U.S. military intelligence community to capture and analyze social media posts.
→ read full articleFIA Formula E[lectric] Championship
Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
Formula E is a new FIA-Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile championship featuring single-seater cars powered exclusively by electric energy. It represents a vision for the future of the motor industry over the coming decades.
→ read full articleAge: Choices for Being-in-the-World
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
There are many ages! Some are objective (i.e., quantifiable, legal), and some are subjective (i.e., private, perception, personal, psychological). We need to recognize the full range of age choices to avoid stereotypes and categorical conclusions. Obviously, physical and mental limitations and disabilities impose constraints.
→ read full articleCuba Sees Its Future in Mariel Port, Hand in Hand with Brazil
Patricia Grogg, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
The Mariel special economic development zone, the biggest construction project undertaken in decades in Cuba, emerged thanks to financial support from Brazil, which was based on political goodwill, a strategy of integration, and business vision.
→ read full articleDemand Swells for Straight Answers on Plane in Ukraine
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
22 Aug 2014 – A long list of prominent individuals has signed, a number of organizations will be promoting next week, and you can be one of the first to sign right now, a petition titled “Call For Independent Inquiry of the Airplane Crash in Ukraine and its Catastrophic Aftermath.”
→ read full article(Português) Woodstock Foi Há 45 Anos
António José André – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
No dia 18 de agosto de 1969, chegou ao fim o Festival de Woodstock. A grande vitória da Geração Woodstock [hippies] foi ter contribuído para o fim da guerra do Vietname. O seu exemplo repercutiu-se posteriormente nos ativismos em defesa do meio ambiente e alguns dos modismos que ainda hoje são evidentes: o ioga, a macrobiótica, a não-violência, a agricultura biológica…
→ read full article“Muslim Rage” and the Hypocrisy of the Western Liberal Elite
Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
The western liberal élite has a problem with Muslims, in particular with Muslim Rage, as Newsweek’s cover called it. It reminds me of that priceless, old misogynist quotation from Sigmund Freud: women–what do they want? What do Muslims want? They want to be part of the modern world yet they import these age-old hatreds that are so–well, primitive and unmodern. Muslims aren’t ready for civilization-primetime.
→ read full articleSOS! – Hospital Ships Needed to Save Gaza’s Children
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
Middle East analysts point out that it is difficult to recall a time in modern history when there has been so much sustained slaughter of this region’s civilian population, with more than two-thirds of the victims being women and children. Five Hospital ships are urgently needed along Gaza’s shoreline at the following locations: opposite Jabaliya and North Gaza, Gaza City, Deir al-Balah, Khan Younis, and Rafah.
→ read full articleEyeless in Gaza
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
The trouble with war is that it has two sides. Everything would be so much easier if war had only one side. Ours, of course. “We” – Israelis and Palestinians, locked forever in an embrace of war. Or do what Samson did: commit suicide.
→ read full articlePlanned U.S. Cyber Warfare Program Could Hurt Innocent Countries: Snowden
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
In an interview with WIRED magazine made public Wednesday [13 Aug 2014], Snowden said the program – MonsterMind – could hurt countries caught in the middle as hackers could disguise the origin of their attacks by routing them through computers in other nations.
→ read full articleAn Evaluation of Indian PM’s Independence Speech
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
I listened to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech on India’s 68th Independence Day. Here I elaborate some of the points in the speech which I find inspiring for India’s growth.
→ read full article225 Jewish Survivors and Descendents of Survivors of Nazi Genocide Condemn the Massacre of Palestinians
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
They have signed this letter condemning Israel’s massacre on Gaza and calling for an end to the genocide of the Palestinian people. They also speak out against the abuse of their histories to promote the dehumanization of Palestinians advanced by Elie Wiesel and others.
→ read full articleStrange Regional Alignments in the Gaza Massacre
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
Neighborly Crimes of Complicity in Gaza – The abysmal failure of the Kerry induced talks showed definitively that Israel has lost all interest in a diplomacy that promises the Palestinians a viable and independent sovereign state at the end of the road.
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Gaza Rally in NYC: God’s Covenant in the Promised Land
Chris Hedges – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
On August 9, 2014 a rally supporting the people in Gaza took place at Columbus Circle in NYC. The rally lasted for 2 hours, followed by a march to the United Nations.
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Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
Soliloquy of the Most Powerful Man on the Planet? – Slightly adapted from The Tragedy of Macbeth (2:1), with apologies to William Shakespeare. Barack Obama’s Soliloquy by Willy ShakesUS.
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Why US and Israel Want to Ban This Video…
Anna Baltzer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
Jul 18, 2014 – A Jewish American speaks truth (to power) about her experience in occupied Palestine. “Not believing what I heard, I decided to do some research to prove myself right. Immediately, I was shocked to find how much I didn’t know about the situation on the ground.”
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Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
YALTA, Crimea – President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday [14 Aug 2014] Russia should aim to sell its oil and gas for roubles globally because the dollar monopoly in energy trade was damaging Russia’s economy.
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Walk on the Wild Side: The Warhol Superstars (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Lou Reed and David Bowie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
Lou Reed and David Bowie’s ‘Walk on the Wild Side’ (1972) tells the stories of Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, Joe Dellasandro, Joe Campbell and Jackie Curtis. Before stardom under Warhol’s wing they had lived a life of crime and prostitution to survive in the harsh New York City streets. Lou Reed died on 27 Oct, 2013. RIP
→ read full articleCry for Argentina: Fiscal Mismanagement, Odious Debt or Pillage?
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
Argentina has now taken the US to The Hague for blocking the country’s 2005 settlement with the bulk of its creditors. The issue underscores the need for an international mechanism for nations to go bankrupt. Better yet would be a sustainable global monetary scheme that avoids the need for sovereign bankruptcy.
→ read full articleMilitarization of US Police: Blowback in Ferguson, Missouri
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
[The fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager] This is a short call from informing the mainstream media that the country has been living under pseudo martial law for decades. Regardless of what big media wants us to believe, what we witness is a blowback. Our wars have come home to roost.
→ read full articleThe Tragedy of Great Power: The Massacre of Gaza and the Inevitable Failure of the Arab Spring
Khaled Abou El Fadl, ABC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
After the military coup in Egypt, I braced for the slaughter in Palestine. Sadly, one’s worst possible fears materialized with nightmarish predictability.
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Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
Outside of Israel and its organized supporters in the major Zionist organizations, world public opinion and most experts in international law see the Jewish State’s invasion of Gaza and its systematic attack on civilians and basic infrastructure as a crime against humanity. The purpose of this essay is 4-fold.
→ read full articleSwamped by Rising Seas, Small Islands Seek a Lifeline
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
11 Aug 2014 – The world’s 52 small island developing states (SIDS), some in danger of being wiped off the face of the earth because of sea-level rise triggered by climate change, will be the focus of an international conference in the South Pacific island nation of Samoa next month.
→ read full articleIsrael Furious as UN Unveils Gaza Probe Team
AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
Israel lashed out on Tuesday [12 Aug 2014] after the UN Human Rights Council named the man who will be running an inquiry into its Gaza offensive. “This commission’s anti-Israeli conclusions have already been written, all it needs is a signature,” railed foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor.
→ read full article6 Things You Need to Know about Food and Cancer
EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Servicer,
18 Aug 2014
The notion of using food to prevent or delay the onset of certain ailments is centuries old—Hippocrates himself is famous for saying “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to My Palestinian Friends
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
I wish to acknowledge the sensitivity of some Palestinians to suggestions from those of us who are only Palestinian in the sense that ‘We are all Palestinian’. I did not choose my nationality. I did choose to study, exhaustively, strategic theory and nonviolent strategy so that I could share them with those who might be interested. I have no interest in doing more than offering this suggestion and my help.
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