Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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(Castellano) Cigarrillos electrónicos contienen sustancias cancerígenas
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Investigadores del Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública de Japón afirman, en un estudio dado a conocer este jueves [27 nov 2014], que el vapor de algunos cigarrillos electrónicos contiene agentes cancerígenos.
→ read full articleI Support Israel’s National Bill
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Finally Israel has acknowledged its true Jewish nature. Instead of pretending to be a ‘Jewish Democracy” – a contradiction in terms, the Jewish State admits that it is a theocracy guided by Jewish racial supremacist ideology.
→ read full articleOn Ferguson
First Dog on the Moon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Cartoon – Satirical Comic Strip
→ read full articleEdward Snowden Awarded Stuttgart Peace Prize 2014
Iran English Radio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
24 Nov 2014 – Edward Snowden has been awarded Stuttgart Peace Prize 2014, established by citizens’ initiative Die AnStifter, RIA Novosti said.
→ read full articleGaza 2014 Compilation
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
A POMEAS Compilation of Writings Relating to Israel’s 50-Day Attack on Gaza
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Futuro della Mediazione
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Per il miglioramento di sé competere con se stessi, non con altri, per una società di vincitori e sconfitti. Se s’impara il baricentro positivo, auto-miglioramento, buoni rapporti con equità e armonia, capacità di riconciliazione dei traumi e soluzione dei conflitti, si sarà ampiamente ricompensati con felicità e benessere.
→ read full articleNonviolent Action: Minimizing the Risk of Violent Repression
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
I would like to identify ways in which the risk of police or military personnel using illegal and violent tactics can be minimized and, in many cases, thwarted, wherever in the world the nonviolent action takes place. If we are going to take the necessary risks to save our world, we might as well do it strategically.
→ read full articleInternational Arms Transfers in 2013
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute-SIPRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
The volume of international transfers of major weapons grew by 14 per cent between 2004–2008 and 2009–13. The five largest suppliers in 2009–13—the United States, Russia, Germany, China and France—accounted for 74 per cent of the volume of exports.
→ read full articleLaying the Foundations of a World Citizens Movement
Anthony George, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
How can civil society organizations (CSOs) build a broad movement that draws in, represents and mobilises the citizenry, and how can they effect fundamental, systemic transformation, rather than trading in incremental change?
→ read full articleThe Jump
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were watching TV in the evening.
→ read full articleDominique Strauss-Kahn’s Concern for the Poor Got Him Destroyed
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
That Strauss-Kahn was so easily done in with the complicity of the American left-wing demonstrates that it is impossible for anti-elite leadership to rise in the West. Any time anti-establishment leadership shows its head, it is cut off.
→ read full articleRemembering Yoshikazu Sakamoto (1927-2014)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
I am sharing these words of appreciation, and hope that anyone from Japan who comes across this text will contact me, especially if they have a way of putting me in touch with either Yoshi’s family or Japanese media. I would like to believe that ‘an American appreciation’ of Professor Sakamoto, an important public intellectual, would be of interest to those who knew and admired him.
→ read full articleSummit of Failure: How the EU Lost Russia over Ukraine
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
One year ago, negotiations over a Ukraine association agreement with the European Union collapsed. The result has been a standoff with Russia and war in the Donbass. It was an historical failure, and one that German Chancellor Angela Merkel contributed to.
→ read full articleWhistleblowing for Equitable Geopolitics Part 2: Project Camelot
Keil Eggers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
The period between the introduction of Project Camelot and its ultimate demise [1964-65] raises interesting questions about the relationship between government, the military, and social sciences. It exposed many of the U.S. government’s assumptions about the U.S. role in Latin America and the world at large.
→ read full articleSurviving Scarcities in Bulengo: Women’s Trial in Displaced Camps in North Kivu (D. R. Congo)
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
I reflect on the challenge of the Doctors Without Borders staff at the clinic. They are at the frontline of hope, they treat the disabled, do a regular follow up of the AIDS patients, support psychologically the women in distress. They are a group dedicated to provide free health care to everyone. They are also exposed to insecurity.
→ read full article(Português) Guerra sem fim no Oriente Médio
Reginaldo Nasser, Fórum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
De certa forma, pode-se argumentar que não houve uma série de guerras no Oriente Médio durante esse período de 40 anos, mas sim uma única e longa guerra.
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The House of Rothschild Money’s Prophets
Prof. Niall Ferguson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
In his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family’s phenomenal economic success. He reveals for the first time the details of the family’s vast political network, which gave it access to and influence over many of the greatest statesmen of the age.
→ read full articleUsing Terrorists for Regime Change Is Unacceptable – Lavrov
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Moscow condemns efforts to overthrow Syria’s political regime using terrorist groups in the region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. “The fight against terrorism should be conducted without ‘double standards.’”
→ read full article(Italiano) Territori malesi: sicurezza e sovranità
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
La Malaysia ha recentemente esperito la massima insicurezza per due territori sovrani extra-territoriali: i voli Malaysian Airlines MH370 per Pechino e MH17 da Amsterdam. Se la Malaysia è stata vittima di un’aggressione, la risposta è la criminalizzazione. Per altri problemi la risposta è la rimozione delle cause di guerra, la soluzione dei conflitti sottostanti, e la costruzione della pace.
→ read full articleFinancial Sector Invests Over US$ 402 Billion in Nuclear Weapons Producers
Wilbert van der Zeijden, Don’t Bank on the Bomb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
The report Don’t Bank on the Bomb, published today [7 Nov 2014] by Dutch peace organization PAX, identifies 411 banks, insurance companies and pension funds with investments in 28 companies involved in the production, maintenance or stockpiling of nuclear weapons.
→ read full article(Castellano) Los contaminadores deben pagar
Naomi Klein, CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
Las empresas de combustibles fósiles, que desde hace tiempo son tóxicas para nuestro entorno natural ¿están volviéndose tóxicas también para el entorno de las relaciones públicas?
→ read full articleMore than 100,000 Libyans Flee Fighting in Oct. 2014 — 400,000 since Last May
Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
The UN refugee agency on 14 Nov 2014 reported that intense fighting among rival armed groups in western, eastern and south-eastern Libya has forced more than 100,000 people to flee their homes in the past month
→ read full articleMH 17: Why Is Malaysia Not Part of the Probe?
Chandra Muzaffar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
Why is Malaysia not in the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) probing the MH 17 crash of July 17 2014? Our participation in the investigation will at least help to check any attempt to conceal or camouflage the real story behind one of the most heinous crimes in recent times.
→ read full articleThe Unholy City
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
In its long and checkered history, Jerusalem has been occupied by dozens of conquerors. Babylonians and Persians, Greeks and Romans, Mamluks and Turks, Britons and Jordanians – to mention just a few. The latest occupier is Israel, which conquered and annexed Jerusalem in 1967.
→ read full articleGrowth: The Destructive, Insatiable God That Can Never Be Appeased
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
The blind pursuit of economic growth stokes a cycle of financial crisis, and wrecks our world. Another crash is coming. We all know it, now even David Cameron acknowledges it. The only questions are what the immediate catalyst will be, and when it begins.
→ read full articleSee Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas through the Lens of Young Residents’ Pinhole Cameras
Fabiano Post, Oximity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
The “Mão na Lata” (Hand on can) project consists of distributing pinhole cameras to teenagers from 12 to 18 years old in Complexo da Maré, a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro comprising of 16 favelas where about 130,000 people live.
→ read full articleInvitation for Nominations to the International Bremen Peace Award 2015 – Crossing Boundaries/Breaking Vicious Circles
Schwelle Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
With this award we want to honour people and organizations that set an example through their work contributing to reconciliation, human rights, overcoming of racism, sustainable handling of nature and environment as well as to intercultural and inter-religious understanding.
→ read full articleBirgitta Jonsdottir, Democracy and Freedom of Information
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
Believing that lack of free information was the main cause of the corruption behind Iceland’s 2008 crisis, Birgitta Jónsdóttir convinced her colleagues in the Althingi, the oldest parliament in the world, to pass unanimously a law calling for complete freedom of information in Iceland. She also worked closely with Julian Assange to produce the video “Collateral Murder”.
→ read full articleBuilding a Racially Just Society: Psychological Insights
Roy Eidelson, Mikhail Lyubansky, and Kathie Malley-Morrison – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
Racial Injustice Poses a Difficult yet Increasingly Urgent Challenge – As three white psychologists, we offer this brief essay with the awareness that our perspective is necessarily limited by our lived experience as members of the privileged racial class.
→ read full articlePeace Is Possible in a World without Violence, Militarism and War
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
Fondazione Patrizio Paoletti and Commune of Assisi, Italy
→ read full article(Castellano) Cadena Perpetua para Homosexuales en Gambia
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
En el continente africano hay al menos 36 países que condenan la homosexualidad. Este viernes en Gambia fue aprobado un proyecto de ley que podría condenar a cadena perpetua a algunos homosexuales.
→ read full articleNuremberg Trials
History.com – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
20 Nov 2014 – Today marks the 69th anniversary of the start of the famous Nuremberg Trials. 24 Nazis, including the head of the Nazi Air Force, the Nazi party secretary, the chief ideologue and others were put on trial in Nuremberg on 20 November 1945.
→ read full articleBritain Is All Talk and No Action on Human Rights
Andrew Smith, New Internationalist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
Prince Andrew’s visit to Saudi Arabia to ‘reinforce ties’ is only the most recent expression of the extremely close relationship between the British establishment and the Saudi autocrats and a reminder that Britain may talk tough on human rights and democracy, but is all too happy to work closely with one of the most despotic regimes in the world.
→ read full articleWhat Sexual Harassment?
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
This Modern World – Satirical Comic Strip
→ read full articleMyanmar [Burma] Says Plight of Rohingya Minority a Media Fabrication
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
According to the Arakan Project, which plots migration across the Bay of Bengal, about 100,000 Rohingya have left Rakhine since 2012. Violent clashes with ethnic Rakhine Buddhists that year killed hundreds and left 140,000 homeless, most of them Rohingya. Some Rohingya, as Reuters reported last year, are held for ransom by trafficking gangs at jungle camps in Thailand until relatives pay to secure their release.
→ read full articleRethinking Economics: From Scarcity to Abundance
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
The coming crash may be humanity’s golden opportunity to transition to post-economic society. Or it may be the beginning of endless misery, violence, confusion, ignorance parading as technocracy, repression and –what is worse– ecocide.
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(Castellano) El Planeta Tierra Eres Tú
Carlos Chavira – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
Legendado em Português
→ read full articleConstruction of Nicaraguan Canal to Begin in December [2014]
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
The controversial canal will run through Lake Nicaragua, other sensitive ecosystems, and will have adverse effects for many communities.
→ read full article(Castellano) Palestina Agradece Reconocimiento del Congreso Español
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
El documento fue aprobado la víspera por 319 votos a favor, dos en contra y una abstención y sigue a otro similar pasado por la Cámara de los Comunes británica días atrás.
→ read full article(Italiano) Aosta. Quarant’anni sempre per la verità
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
Memorie e attualità della strage di Piazza Loggia (28 maggio 1974- 28 maggio 2014). Seconda Parte
→ read full articleBurma/Myanmar’s Missing Millions [of People]
Guy Horton, DVB – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
The elephant in the room is government policy. Widespread, systematic human rights violations, i.e. crimes against humanity, have been identified and condemned by successive UN Special Rapporteurs and General Assembly Resolutions since 1992. Genocide, we should remind ourselves, involves the physical “Destruction of ethnic, racial, religious or national groups in whole or,” significantly, “In part.”
→ read full article(Português) Ciclo de governos à esquerda continua em toda a América Latina, diz professor
Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
A América Latina passou por diversos processos eleitorais em 2014. Além do Brasil; Bolívia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panamá e Colômbia escolheram seus novos mandatários [de esquerda], faltando apenas o Uruguai, que deve realizar seu segundo turno ainda neste mês.
→ read full articleUS Police Visit Israel to Learn New Strategies
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
Chicago officers attend the third Homeland Security Conference in Tel Aviv to learn on cyber-crime and counterterrorism from one of the most questioned police corps in the world.
→ read full articleWall Street Banks and Commodities Fraud
Joseph Kishore, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
On Wednesday [19 Nov 2014], the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released a detailed report documenting yet another aspect of the insider dealing, price-fixing and general criminality that pervades the American financial system.
→ read full articleSurprised?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
A little boy got lost at the gym and found himself in the women’s locker room.
→ read full articleBurma: Tears That Tell Tales
Khaingmar Kyawzaw – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
In a hut used as a hiding spot
Sat a little boy
Who was crying silently
With tears rolling down his cheeks.
(Português) Se Conhecêssemos os Sonhos do Homem Branco
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
A crise econômico-financeira que está afligindo grande parte das econonomias mundiais criou a possibilidade de os muito ricos ficarem tão ricos como jamais na história do capitalismo, logicamente à custa da desgraça de países inteiros como a Grécia, a Espanha, Portugal e outros e de modo geral toda a zona do Euro, talvez com uma pequena exceção, da Alemanha.
→ read full articleFrench Government Will Not Sign TTIP Agreement in 2015
EurActiv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
France will not support the inclusion of the Investor State Dispute Settlement mechanism in a potential TTIP agreement. The ISDS is a point of heated debate between the EU and the United States.
→ read full articleWhere Has All Ukraine’s Gold Gone?
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
20 Nov 2014 – Ukraine’s Central Bank chief has divulged some shocking intel: its gold stockpile has reached a new nadir – almost zero. Since the beginning of the year, gold reserves have dropped nearly 16-fold, which begs the question, where did all of it go?
→ read full article(Italiano) La cristianità fra l’attività bancaria ebraica e quella islamica
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2014
Il capitalismo ha due contraddizioni fondamentali: la classe, capitale vs lavoro, con una diseguaglianza crescente; la finanza vs l’economia reale, con crescente dominanza dell’economia finanziaria. Le alternative? Cooperative che condividano benefici e rischi, non aziende per azioni con compratori di manodopera e venditori di manodopera che (si) procurino “posti di lavoro”. E criminalizzazione dei rapporti puramente monetari, guidata dal sistema bancario islamico.
→ read full articleWine, Blood and Gasoline
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2014
Kafr Kanna, a village near Nazareth, is probably the place where Jesus – according to the New Testament – turned water into wine. Now it is the Arab village where the Israeli police is turning stones into blood.
→ read full articleThe Siege of Julian Assange Is a Farce – A Special Investigation
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2014
John Pilger investigates the rise of WikiLeaks and the Kafkaesque saga that has enveloped its founder, Julian Assange, since he blew the whistle on the dangers and lies of great power and its courtiers.
→ read full articleThe Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Multiplication of Western Walls
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2014
While NATO regimes celebrate the ‘Fall of the Berlin Wall’ as the highest expression of freedom, these same political leaders support, finance and promote Israel’s Separation Wall dividing and caging millions of Palestinians.
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La Gitana (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Tasmin Little – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Tasmin Little (violin) and John Lenehan (piano) play La Gitana by Fritz Kreisler
→ read full article(Português) Amigo – Palavra Séria
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Há amigos de Facebook, amigos sociais, amigos afetivos e amigos profundos. Com os sociais você vai a eventos, enturma para alguma coisa de interesse comum, mas não desabafa nem oferece o ombro, como no caso dos afetivos – categoria mais densa, mais próxima. Amigo profundo é o raro “amigo-irmão”, confidente, diante de quem não temos medo nem vergonha. Sabe ser presença, escutar, falar, calar.
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Dr. Mads Gilbert Speaks Out on Gaza, Israeli Occupation
Truls Lie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
What can now be said about the massive Israeli attacks on Gaza summer 2014? The Norwegian medical doctor Mads Gilbert was there at Al-Shifa hospital. Warning: The film contains graphic images.
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Planet Earth Is You
Carlos Chavira – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
This video was created to raise your awareness on the conservation of our planet. Don’t let your INDIFFERENCE take over you. There’s still time.
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Arundhati Roy: Debunking the Gandhi Myth – Glenn Greenwald: The Intercept
The Laura Flanders Show – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Author/activist Arundhati Roy on the Annihilation of Caste, B.R. Ambedkar and the Western myth of Mahatma Gandhi.
Glenn Greenwald addresses diversity concerns about his new media venture TheIntercept.com.
Betting on Famine: Why the World Still Goes Hungry
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Ziegler also stresses relatively new dangers to a just world food system. In many developing countries, the urban elite have been buying farm land as an investment, not necessarily to increase agricultural production with improved techniques, but to resell later when prices go up.
→ read full articlePeaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention
Christoph Vogel, African Arguments – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Peaceland helps us understand the culture(s) of expatriates and the respectively uneasy relationship between the foreign interveners and the local population. While it does not bring up a new grand theory to analyse external intervention in a larger sense, it is certainly by far the best ‘thick description’ of the expatriate world.
→ read full articleIsrael Refuses to Cooperate with UN Gaza Probe
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
An Israeli spokesperson Wednesay [12 Nov 2014] declared that Israel will not participate in the U.N. inquiry into its 50-day attack on Gaza last summer. Netanyahu refused to allow the investigative team to cross Israeli borders. It had arrived in Amman, Jordan and was originally planning to travel through Israel to reach the Gaza Strip.
→ read full articleSodaStream to Close Illegal Settlement Factory in Response to Growing Boycott Campaign
Palestinian BDS National Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
– SodaStream to benefit from Israel’s displacement of Palestinians in Naqab
– Retailers and investors dropped SodaStream over BDS pressure
Two Interviews [of mine] on Palestine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
14 Nov 2014 – Two recent interviews seek to assess the Palestinian national movement as it is unfolding at this critical time.
→ read full articleIsrael Bans Norwegian Doctor Mads Gilbert from Gaza
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
A Norwegian doctor has been permanently banned from entering the Gaza Strip by the Israeli government. Dr Mads Gilbert says he was stopped trying to cross into Gaza in October. He called the move “totally unacceptable”. Israel cited security reasons for imposing the ban.
→ read full article(Português) Os 5 Muros Que Ainda Dividem Populações no Mundo
Felipe Amorim, Opera Mundi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Israel, EUA, Coreia, Grécia e Ceuta: 25 anos após queda do Muro de Berlim, episódio que simbolizou diminuição de fronteiras, barreiras físicas ainda existem em diversos continentes. Conheça cinco muros que ainda estão de pé.
→ read full articleThe Psychology of Victimhood: Obama, Cameron, Netanyahu, Clinton, Kissinger
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
All children are victims of chronic violence and while a rare individual survives this violence, most acquire a victim status that leaves them psychologically crippled for life, doing a lifetime of soul-destroying work that is far removed from any pursuit that might be described as ‘Self-realizing’.
→ read full articleCorrespondences between Traditional Constellations and Pattern Languages
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Requisite Simplexity for Sustainable Comprehension of Complexity – It is assumed here that people derive more personal meaning and sense of identity from reference to their astrological sign than from any complex pattern of explanation formulated by qualified authority. The appeal of such symbols might be due to the perception that they have “more soul”.
→ read full articleCarnegie/Nobel – Stipend/Prize – US$ 1 500!
Fredrik S. Heffermehl – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Why the similarities? Were Carnegie and Nobel ever in contact? Why is the connection so interesting – and consequential? The best reply to these questions will receive from me a stipend of US$ 1 500.
→ read full articleMainstream Media Silences Debate on US New Wars
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
New analysis finds little opposition in mainstream media to latest US military attacks on Middle East nations. In total, 205 sources appeared on the programs discussing military options in Syria and Iraq. Just six of these guests, or 3 percent, voiced opposition to US military intervention. There were 125 guests (61 percent) who spoke in favor of US war.
→ read full articleISIS Is America’s Dream Rebel Army
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
US policy paper reveals desire for construction of full-scale extraterritorial army to invade Syria. Such an army is being built in Iraq and Turkey and it’s called “ISIS.”
→ read full articleHollywood Takes on Corporate Giants over Bhopal Gas Disaster
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Hollywood movie star Martin Sheen will join Amnesty International’s battle to finally hold Union Carbide accountable for what is widely considered to be one of the world’s worst industrial disasters as he launches his latest film in Los Angeles on Friday [7 Nov 2014].
→ read full articleMerkel Rules Out Further Sanctions on Russia
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
The German official nonetheless plans to extend travel bans to newly elected Ukraine officials.
→ read full articleEU Democratic Deficit: It’s Time to Put Juncker on the Hot Seat
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Can the European Commission be led by a man who transformed his own country into a tax oasis? The debate is long overdue and Jean-Claude Juncker can no longer afford to shirk the question.
→ read full articleLooking Back on WW-I One Hundred Years Later: Four Mixed Messages
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Dorothy Brown Memorial Lecture, Auckland, New Zealand, November 8, 2014
→ read full articleRussia to Launch Alternative to SWIFT Bank Transaction System in Spring 2015
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Russia intends to have its own international inter-bank system up and running by May 2015. The Central of Russia says it needs to speed up preparations for its version of SWIFT in case of possible ”challenges” from the West.
→ read full articleRight!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
A beggar walked up to a well‑dressed heavy woman shopping on Fifth Avenue in New York and said,
→ read full articleFalluja Corpse
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
I will lie here,
buried below Falluja
for a long time.
Being dead,
I am in no hurry.
Svoboda Nazi Apologist Quits Party to Become Head of Security Service Propaganda
Solidarity with the Antifascist Resistance in Ukraine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
One of the most notorious Ukrainian members of parliament for the far-right party ‘Svoboda,’ Yuri Michalchyshyn, quits the party so that he can become head of the propaganda and analysis of the Ukraine Security Service, SBU. Mikhalchyshyn is an open nazi apologist holding an honorary medal of the SS Division Galychna.
→ read full articleEight Dangerous Warning Signs of Genocide in Burma-Myanmar [Infographic]
Rachel Monteagudo, United to End Genocide – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Hundreds have been killed, tens of thousands have fled under the most hazardous conditions, and 140,000 have been forced into horrible, overcrowded camps where they face severe restrictions and are denied basic necessities, including medical care. Many experts are warning of genocide. Here’s why:
→ read full articleMigratory Birds, Fish and Mammals Get New UN Protection
Agence France Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
10 Nov 2014 – Polar bears, whales, sharks and gazelles were among 31 new species granted new protection status by the UN conservation body, following six days of “intense” talks by leading conservationists. A record 21 species of shark, ray and sawfish were added to the list.
→ read full articleBurkina Faso: The (In)Significant Coup
Ian Ralby – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
While it looks as though the political transition is being handled peacefully, concerns remain that the country could descend into violent conflict. It is important, then, to ask what effect such instability could have on neighboring states, particularly Mali and Côte d’Ivoire, and the region at large. The answer, however, is probably “none.”
→ read full articleIllegal Killing of Elephants for Their Ivory Is Now at “Critically High Levels” in Africa
Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
The illegal killing of elephants for their ivory is now at “critically high levels” in Africa with increased involvement by organized crime groups, leading to their possible extinction in parts of the continent, the UN Office for Drugs and Crime said.
→ read full articleSome Very Initial Thoughts on the US-China Deal
Naomi Klein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
The fact that both governments felt the need to make this pledge speaks to the growing power of social movements in China and the US demanding pollutions controls.
→ read full articleA Global House Of Cards
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
As most Americans, if not the financial media, are aware, Quantitative Easing (a euphemism for printing money) has failed to bring back the US economy. The extent of financial corruption involving collusion between the mega-banks and the financial authorities is unfathomable. The Western financial system is a house of cards resting on corruption.
→ read full article(Português) Assim se constrói o Estado Global de Vigilância–e como sabotá-lo
Tom Englehardt entrevista Laura Poitras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Diretora de “Citizenfour”, o documentário sobre denúncias de Edward Snowden, alerta: controle social e esvaziamento da democracia ampliaram-se, após revelações. Esperança é consciência.
→ read full article(Italiano) Aosta. Quarant’anni sempre per la verità. Memorie e attualità della strage di Piazza Loggia (28 maggio 1974-28 maggio 2014)
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Il progetto culturale “Collettivamente memoria” è dedicato ai deportati politici Ida Désandré e Italo Tibaldi e alla partigiana Anna Dati oltre che a tutte le donne e uomini Resistenti, intende riaffermare i valori democratici di un vivere collettivo antifascista che era alla base della manifestazione di piazza Loggia del 28 maggio 1974.
→ read full articleCyberPeace Demands from Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility
Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility-FifF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Political Measures Demanded by FIfF:
1) Renouncement of first strikes and offensive acts in cyberspace: States should publicly abandon the preventive use of cyber weapons to attack.
Burma [Myanmar] Genocide: Case of Burmese Rohingyas Presented at Harvard
Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Burma’s Rohingya people are being slowly squeezed from their homeland by decades-long government policies that critics say deny them citizenship, health care, work, and schooling, with such tactics punctuated by killings, destroyed homes, and tens of thousands sent to camps.
→ read full article“Death to Iran” Over Airline Passenger Safety
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
OFAC Jeopardizes Air Traffic Safety While Congress Prepares Sanctions Coup de Grâce on Iran
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TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
The use of nuclear coercion by the US and its allies has long roots, going right back to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
→ read full articleThe Day LBJ Ordered Cover-Up of Israeli Attack on US Ship
Jews For Justice For Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Having seriously damaged the ship and killed 34 of its crew, the Israelis said it was an accident. President Johnson accepted what he knew was not true, thus ditching the surviving crew in favour of keeping the USSR out of the conflict and of maintaining US support for Israel.
→ read full articleChristianity between Jewish and Islamic Banking
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Capitalism has two major contradictions: class, capital vs labor, with increasing inequality; finance vs real economy, with increasing finance economy dominance. The alternatives? Cooperatives sharing benefits and risks, not companies with labor-buyers and labor-sellers getting “jobs”. And criminalization of purely monetary relations, guided by Islamic banking.
→ read full articleICC: Israel Committed ‘War Crimes’ but It’s Not Our Problem
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
According to court papers seen by Reuters on Wednesday [5 Nov 2014] and to lawyers, the court’s decision confirms that Israel has a ‘special status’ in regards to international law.
→ read full articleTransatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership-TTIP: A Gunpowder Plot against Democracy
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
This bill of rights for corporations will blow up the sovereignty of parliaments. So outrageous is this arrangement that even the Economist, usually the champion of corporate power and trade treaties, has now come out against calling its investor-state dispute settlement “a way to let multinational companies get rich at the expense of ordinary people”.
→ read full articleUN Report Condemns US Government’s “International Criminal Program of Torture”
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
The report, prepared by the “Advocates for US Torture Prosecutions” and The International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School, states unequivocally that entire sections of the state apparatus are responsible for “breathtaking” crimes against international law.
→ read full article(Português) O Funil da Desigualdade
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi, OpinionSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
A desigualdade de poder (econômico, político, midiático, judicial, repressivo) opera como um tipo de funil que, sem descanso, extrai e concentra riqueza e renda nas mãos de uma ínfima fração da população mundial. Vale revisar como e porquê se gera o funil da desigualdade e a diversidade de medidas que existem para desarmá-lo.
→ read full articlePeace as a Human Right
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
In the beginning was the word. OK. This is the beginning, and these are the words, but they haven’t arrived yet — at least not officially, with full force of meaning. It’s our job, not God’s, to create the new story of who we are, and millions — billions — of people fervently wish we could do so. The problem is that the worst of our nature is better organized than the best of it.
→ read full articleIs ISIS Coming?
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Israelis, like Americans, are practical people. They don’t appreciate the power of ideas. They think like Stalin who, when warned of the Pope, asked: “How many divisions does he have?” It is ideas that change the world. Like those of the legendary Moses. Of Jesus of Nazareth. Of Muhammad. Of Karl Marx.
→ read full articleLooking for a Leader in the Caribbean to End Discrimination against Homosexuals
Robin Guittard, CPNN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Trinidad and Tobago’s laws prohibit entry of “homosexuals” into the country and consensual same-sex relationships can be punished with prison sentences of up to 25 years… Positive change on the island could reverberate across the region.
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Breaking the Cycle of Violent Conflict: Johan Galtung
University of California Television (UCTV) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
A noted pioneer in the field of Peace Studies, Johan Galtung makes the case for incorporating human rights as key to successful peace building around the world. University of San Diego.
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