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Argentina 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 articleTracking Cross-Border Weapons Trade with Youtube
Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer – The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,
25 Aug 2014
How German reporters revealed questionable international export practices of a major German arms manufacturer – and how a YouTube video helped break open the case.
→ 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 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.
→ read full articleU.S. Firm Helped the Spyware Industry Build a Potent Digital Weapon for Sale Overseas
Barton Gellman – The Washington Post,
18 Aug 2014
His contact turned out to be a former developer of computer security tools who had long since turned to the darkest side of their profession, built and sold systems to break into computers, seize control clandestinely, and then copy files, listen to Skype calls, record every keystroke and switch on Web cameras and microphones at will; a shadowy world of lucrative spyware tools for sale to foreign security services with records of human rights abuse.
→ read full articleWhy Socialism?
Albert Einstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is.
→ read full articleUK Government to Block Arms Exports to Israel If Military Action Resumes
Rupert Neate – The Guardian,
18 Aug 2014
Announcement comes after lengthy dispute between leading Tories and Liberal Democrats over restriction of arms sales.
→ read full article(Português) Bombardeios dos EUA no Iraque: A Hipocrisia Suprema
Robert Fisk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
A pergunta persiste: os Estados Unidos teriam feito o mesmo se os refugiados do norte do Iraque fossem palestinos? Bombardeariam os agressores?
→ read full articleHow Can We Destroy Love?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
What is love? In essence, love is a feeling. It is not something you experience as a thought, although a thought might arise from the feeling… Self-love is true love. The individual who does not truly love her/himself cannot love another.
→ read full articleThe Universal Abolition of Militarism
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
I was thrilled to read Mairead Maguire’s defence of a demilitarized world, something I’ve been talking about and campaigning for during the last fifty years!!!! However,…
→ read full articleLatin America Closes Ranks in Solidarity with the People of Gaza
Humberto Márquez, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
Latin America is the region whose governments have taken the firmest stance in support of Gaza in face of the battering from Israel, withdrawing a number of ambassadors from Tel Aviv and issuing harsh statements from several presidents against the attacks on the Palestinian people.
→ read full articleBombs Away! US to the Rescue – But Only of Certain Minorities, Not Muslims
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
11 Aug 2014
He wouldn’t bomb Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s bloody caliphate when it was butchering the majority Shia Muslims of Iraq. But Barak Obama is riding to the rescue of the Christian refugees – and the Yazidis – because of “a potential act of genocide”. Bombs away. And thank heavens that the refugees in question are not Palestinian.
→ read full articleGaza Blockade Must End
Jimmy Carter and Mary Robinson – The Guardian,
11 Aug 2014
The UN should mandate an end to the siege of Gaza as a first step towards a settlement. There is no humane or legal justification for how the Israeli Defence Force is conducting this war, pulverising with bombs, missiles and artillery large parts of Gaza, including thousands of homes, schools and hospitals.
→ read full articleBoycotting Israel: The Situation Has Changed and I Have Changed My Mind Too
Martin Shaw – Open Democracy,
11 Aug 2014
Israel’s claim to self-defence is much too easily accepted by western governments and media. The present crisis arises following the murder of Israeli teenagers, which Israeli officials now admit was not carried out by Hamas. The killing is an almost routine police action as the Israeli euphemism “mowing the lawn” suggests. The recent escalation of rocket attacks was a response to these Israeli actions.
→ read full article‘I’m Not a Spy:’ Reporters Reveal Surveillance Fears
Hamish Boland-Rudder - The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,
11 Aug 2014
U.S. government surveillance programs are scaring away sources, making journalists feel like criminals and spies, and impacting the public’s access to quality news reporting, according to a new report released today [28 Jul 2014].
→ read full articleHatred in the Nuclear Era
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
August 6th, 2014 – “Why are we violent but not illiterate?” asked columnist Colman McCarthy. Well, for one thing, we don’t wrap illiteracy in a shroud of glory and call it war or self-defense or national security; nor have we developed a multi-trillion-dollar industry called the Illiteracy Industrial Complex (or maybe we have, and call it television).
→ read full article[MUST READ] USB ‘Critically Flawed’ after Bug Discovery, Researchers Say
Dave Lee, Technology reporter - BBC News,
11 Aug 2014
8 Aug 2014 – Cyber-security experts have dramatically called into question the safety and security of using USB. Most famously, the Stuxnet attack on Iranian nuclear centrifuges was believed to have been caused by an infected USB stick. “Basically, you can never trust anything anymore after plugging in a USB stick.” A USB device that appears completely empty can still contain malware, even when formatted.
→ read full articleThey Made Them Do It…. – What If the Children Dying in Gaza Were Jews?
Robert Bonomo - CounterPunch,
11 Aug 2014
Assume for a moment that instead of Palestinians, over 1.8 million Jews were crammed into the 11 mile Gaza strip and the state of Palestine, subsidized and supported by a superpower, was administering the calories to the Jews in Gaza, keeping them to a limit of 2,300 a day. Imagine that instead of Palestinian children, it was Jewish children being denied toys, books, music and until a few years ago, even pasta.
→ read full articleThe Syrian War Spills into Lebanon
Jonathan Woodrow Martin - CounterPunch,
11 Aug 2014
Security Council’s Hollow Warning: “Don’t Get Involved” – This was the message delivered to the Lebanese government by the UN Security Council, do not get involved in the conflict in Syria. Anyone with even a basic grasp of the Syrian conflict and the entwined history of Lebanon and Syria will know that this is unrealistic at best and already a moot point.
→ read full articleNote to UK Airport Police: An Israeli Terrorist Is the Same as a Syrian One
Robert Fisk – Belfast Telegraph,
4 Aug 2014
Now, I think it’s a good idea that the lads in blue are keeping their eyes open at Heathrow for British citizens who’ve been fighting in the Middle East. I don’t want to bump into a chap who’s been firing missiles at Christian families in Syria or into a chap who’s been firing tank shells into the homes of Palestinians in Gaza.
→ read full articleLatin American States Use Security Council Seats to Show Strong Support for the ICC and International Justice
Coalition for the International Criminal Court – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
With its mandate to oversee peace and security in the world, the UN Security Council is a prime forum for states to promote justice and accountability. A look at the different votes and initiatives put forward by Latin American Council members over the past few years bears witness to the region’s commitment to justice.
→ read full articleDress the Gaza Situation up All You Like, but the Truth Hurts: The World Is Starting to Turn against Israel
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
4 Aug 2014
There was a time when our politicians and media had one principal fear when covering Middle East wars: that no one should ever call them anti-Semitic. That has changed dramatically.
→ read full articleWe Can Negotiate Peace in Gaza: Here’s How
Dennis J. Kucinich - Reader Supported News,
4 Aug 2014
When our brothers and sisters are killing each other, it is not time for us to take sides, but to take steps, with compassion and clarity, to end the carnage. We must move beyond the pro-Israel, anti-Israel narrative in the Middle East, which can lock us into a position where we must declare support for either Israelis or Palestinians, to the exclusion of the concerns of the other.
→ read full articlePenelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Pedro Almodovar and Others Denounce Israeli ‘Genocide’ in Open Letter
Ben Jones – The Hollywood Reporter,
4 Aug 2014
29 Jul 2014 – Dozens of Spanish film stars, directors, musicians and writers, led by Oscar winners Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Pedro Almodovar, have denounced Israel’s incursion into Gaza.
→ read full articleModern-Day Slavery – Qatar World Cup: Migrants Wait a Year to Be Paid for Building Offices
Robert Booth, and Pete Pattisson in Doha – The Guardian,
4 Aug 2014
Monday 28 July 2014 – Migrant workers who built luxury offices used by Qatar’s 2022 football World Cup organisers have told the Guardian they have not been paid for more than a year and are now working illegally from cockroach-infested lodgings.
→ read full article(Français) Le BRICS, l’UNASUR et la CELAC dessinent une nouvelle carte du monde multipolaire
Alberto Cova– TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Le 22 juillet 1944, il y a exactement 70 ans, s’achevait la réunion dans un hôtel du New Hampshire dans laquelle les Etats-Unis firent prévaloir leurs intérêts devant les délégués de 44 pays et imposèrent la planche à billet illimitée du dollar pour remplacer l’or en tant qu’étalon de la valeur de chaque monnaie dans le monde.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Losing Narrative
Lawrence Davidson – Consortium News,
4 Aug 2014
The Israel government still has most U.S. politicians and pundits under its thumb, but the Zionist narrative – excusing the latest slaughter of Palestinians – is losing the hearts and minds of millions of others around the world.
→ read full articleModern-Day Slavery – Trapped in Qatar: The Migrants Who Helped Build the ‘Tower of Football’
Robert Booth, and Pete Pattisson in Doha – The Guardian,
4 Aug 2014
Despite World Cup host’s promises to improve life for foreign labourers, many still live desperate lives in the shadow of unimaginable riches.
→ read full articleThe NSA’s New Partner in Spying: Saudi Arabia’s Brutal State Police
Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
28 Jul 2014
25 Jul 2014 – The NSA last year significantly expanded its cooperative relationship with the Saudi Ministry of Interior, one of the world’s most repressive and abusive government agencies. An April 2013 top secret memo provided by Edward Snowden details the agency’s plans “to provide direct analytic and technical support” to the Saudis on “internal security” matters.
→ read full articleNever Again to Us
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
“Israel regrets every injury to civilians. I call on the residents of Gaza: Don’t stay there. Hamas wants you to die; we want you to be safe.” – Netanyahu. Glenn Greenwald compared this remark to a 1941 comment by Joseph Goebbels: “One suddenly has the impression,” the Nazi propaganda minister wrote, “that the Berlin Jewish population consists only of little babies whose childish helplessness might move us, or else fragile old ladies.”
→ read full articleWhat If It Had Been 35 Palestinian Dead, and 800 Israeli?
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
28 Jul 2014
Sunday 27 July 2014 – Many hundreds of thousands of people – I wish I could say millions – around the world want an end to this impunity. Impunity is the word that comes to mind. Eight hundred dead Palestinians. Eight hundred. That’s infinitely more than twice the total dead of flight MH17 over Ukraine.
→ read full article{MUST READ} Letter from Gaza by a Norwegian Doctor
Dr. Mads Gilbert – Middle East Monitor,
28 Jul 2014
17 Jul 2014 – The last night was extreme. The “ground invasion” of Gaza resulted in scores and carloads with maimed, torn apart, bleeding, shivering, dying – all sorts of injured Palestinians, all ages, all civilians, all innocent. The heroes in the ambulances and in all of Gaza’s hospitals are working 12-24 hour shifts, grey from fatigue and inhuman workloads, they care, triage, try to understand the incomprehensible chaos of bodies, sizes, limbs, walking, not walking, breathing, not breathing, bleeding, not bleeding humans. HUMANS!
→ read full articleElite Insanity on Display in Ukraine
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
There are some standard and frequently repeated dysfunctional behaviours on display here with the usual unconscious emotional drivers of this behaviour hidden from view. Let us then consider some obvious aspects of the conflict and analyse them from a psychological perspective.
→ read full articleWashington Is Escalating the Orchestrated Ukrainian “Crisis” to War
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
There we have it again: Russian Aggression. Repeat it enough and it becomes real.
→ read full article(Português) Voo MH-17: Um “Atentado” Suspeito Demais
Paul Craig Roberts – Outras Palavras,
21 Jul 2014
Tentativa de culpar Rússia sem evidências sugere o pior: isolados e em declínio, EUA tentariam manter supremacia por meio de provocação e guerra permanentes.
→ read full articleFacts Needed on Malaysian Plane Shoot-Down
Ray McGovern – Consortium News,
21 Jul 2014
As usual, the mainstream U.S. media is rushing to judgment over the crash of a Malaysian airliner in war-torn eastern Ukraine, but the history of U.S. government’s deceptions might be reason to pause and let a careful investigation uncover the facts, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
→ read full articleThe Political Objective and Strategic Goal of Nonviolent Actions
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Whether or not activists achieve their political objective is strategically irrelevant. This is because an effective nonviolent action is designed to achieve its strategic goal, irrespective of the response of opponents or the authorities to the political objective of the action. Whether or not activists achieve their strategic goal, however, is always strategically determinative.
→ read full articleMH17: World See Tragedy, US Sees “Game Changer”
Tony Cartalucci, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
NATO needed a “game changer,” because it was playing a game it was clearly losing. The dubious circumstances surrounding the downing of MH17 – occurring just as Kiev’s forces were deteriorating across the country and additional US sanctions against Russia fell flat – is more than a mere coincidence.
→ read full articleGaza: Médecins Sans Frontières Official Likens Job to ‘Patching Up Torture Victims in an Open-Air Prison’
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
21 Jul 2014
Comments by Senior Médecins Sans Frontières Official Expose Ethical Dilemma of Humanitarian Work in Conflict Zones.
→ read full articleSanctions and Airliners
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Before you say Washington is too sophisticated to mistake one airliner for another, keep in mind that when Washington shot down an Iranian airliner over Iranian air space, the US Navy claimed that it thought the 290 civilians that it murdered were in an Iranian fighter jet, a F-14 Tomcat fighter, a US-made fighter that was a mainstay of the US Navy.
→ read full article30th Anniversary! Hilo Bay Nuclear Warship Blockade (Hawai’i)
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
For three years the Navy repeatedly violated the law. In June of 1984 peace activists announced a nonviolent blockade of the next nuclear ship visiting Hilo. Three people entered the water and held their hands up in a symbolic message to the ship –”STOP.” Jim Snyder, Warren Wineman and Jim Albertini were imprisoned and/or fined for their nonviolent protest.
→ read full articleSri Lanka’s Downward Spiral
Taylor Dibbert – Foreign Policy,
21 Jul 2014
Sometimes it takes time, but the truth has a way of finding people. Let’s hope it finds President Mahinda Rajapaksa — sooner rather than later.
→ read full articleThe Oxymoron of Peace
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Austerity is for losers. There’s always money to wage war and build weapons, indeed, to continue developing weapons, generation after generation after generation. The contractors are adept at playing the game. Jobs link arms with fear and patriotism and the next war is always inevitable.
→ read full articleWhat Is Israel’s End Game in Gaza?
Dennis Kucinich – Consortium News,
21 Jul 2014
Israel can kill, injure, humiliate Palestinians at will, with impunity, which is exactly what gave rise to Hamas and strengthens Hamas’ hold in Gaza, even as the IDF advances… Since the U.S. is helping to pay Israel’s bills, we cannot avoid the consequences of paying the price for Israel’s actions against the Palestinians.
→ read full articleParis’s Return to Public Water Supplies Makes Waves beyond France
Geert De Clercq, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Nearly five years after Paris took the management of its water supply back into its own hands, the move is inspiring other cities at home and abroad and hurting profits at private water firms Veolia and Suez Environnement.
→ read full article(Castellano) Lo que la independencia de Cataluña representa y lo que debemos aprender de ella
Daniel Marty, TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
¿quién se beneficia de la independencia política y económica? ¿Será el pueblo en general o una pequeña élite? ¿será la independencia del Estado de Cataluña otorgada y protegida? ¿quién se beneficia de la división, no solamente de los catalanes, pero de los españoles también?
→ read full articleWhy Are Most Human Beings So Powerless?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Unless someone lives in a cave secluded from all news, the evidence that human beings are in deep trouble – with violence in its many forms intruding on all aspects of our lives and threatening our very existence – is readily available.
→ read full articleNSA-Intercepted Data of Innocent Bystanders Far Outnumber Targeted Names
Barton Gellman, Julie Tate and Ashkan Soltani – The Washington Post,
14 Jul 2014
Files provided by Snowden show extent to which ordinary Web users are caught in the net.
→ read full articleFacts All US Citizens Need to Know About Israel and Palestine
Robert Barsocchini – Washington’s Blog,
14 Jul 2014
Germany, Japan, and South Africa went from being the most reviled countries on Earth to being some of the most admired. Maybe Israel could undergo the same transformation, but not unless we, US citizens, help by ceasing to enable Israeli terrorism and war crimes by illegally supporting them.
→ read full articleThe True Gaza Back-Story That the Israelis Aren’t Telling This Week
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
14 Jul 2014
OK, so by this afternoon [9 Jul 2014], the exchange rate of death in two days was 40-0 in favour of Israel. But now for the Gaza story you won’t be hearing from anyone else in the next few hours. It’s about land.
→ read full articleOn US TV, Israel Is ‘Striking Back’
Peter Hart – Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting,
7 Jul 2014
This disparity is meaningful. The term “retaliation” suggests a defensive stance undertaken in response to someone else’s aggression. It also lays responsibility for the cycle of violence at the doorstep of the party being “retaliated” against, since they presumably initiated the conflict.
→ read full articleClimate Refugees: An Entire Island Nation Is Preparing to Evacuate to Fiji Before They Sink Into the Pacific
Gwynn Guilford, Quartz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
The seas around Kiribati’s 32 atolls are rising 1.2 centimeters a year—about four times faster than the global average—thanks to the flux of ocean currents. Some residents expect the sea to subsume their homes within 20 or 30 years.
→ read full articleThe Great Human Delusion: All Parents Love Their Children
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Evolution’s great trick was to connect reproduction with intense but transitory sexual pleasure, not love. Many children are conceived outside the loving long-term relationship necessary to nurture a child and even those children who are conceived within this framework will routinely suffer parental violence.
→ read full articleCourt Gave NSA Broad Leeway in Surveillance, Documents Show
Ellen Nakashima and Barton Gellman – The Washington Post,
7 Jul 2014
Virtually no foreign government is off-limits for the National Security Agency, which has been authorized to intercept information “concerning” all but four [anglo] countries, according to top-secret documents: Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
→ read full article(Português) E Lenin Tinha Razão: A Grande Guerra Interimperialista
Emir Sader – Carta Maior,
7 Jul 2014
Com a segunda guerra – na realidade o segundo round de uma mesma guerra, com as mesmas características e um intervalo de poucos anos – e a segunda derrota do bloco formado pela Alemanha, a Itália e o Japão – se abria o caminho para a hegemonia imperial norteamericana.
→ read full articleOAS Declares Solidarity with Argentina in U.S. Hedge Fund Dispute
Ewan Robertson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
4th July 2014 – The Organization of American States has declared its solidarity with Argentina in its debt repayment dispute with a U.S.-based hedge fund. The only countries in the hemisphere to not support the resolution were the United States and Canada.
→ read full article7 Weird Things Money Does to Your Brain
Lynn Stuart Parramore – AlterNet,
7 Jul 2014
Money is packed with meaning, and it impacts our personalities, our relationships, and how we think. As you might imagine, a lot of stuff is going on in our brains when we think about money, and some of it is surprising.
→ read full articleWashington’s War Crimes Spread from Africa and the Middle East to Ukraine
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
A person might think that revulsion in “the world community” against Washington’s wanton slaughter of civilians in eight countries would have led to War Crimes Tribunal warrants issued for the arrest of presidents Clinton, Bush, Obama and many officials in their regimes… Putin has done what he can to avoid conflict. Now he needs to do the right thing, as he did in Georgia and Crimea.
→ read full articleAbsolutely Nothing: A Veteran’s Savage Indictment of the Iraq War
Jim Wright, Americans Against the Tea Party – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
The same old motley cast of characters, the warhawks and the chickenhawks and the billionaires and the simple-minded saber-rattlers and the same old hate-filled pundits, they just can’t wait to jump back into Iraq…. Why? Is it to end terrorism? Is it to enforce peace at the muzzle of a gun? Is it it to make defense contractors rich? Is it for jobs? Or is it for magic flying bunnies who shoot rainbows and cheap gasoline out of their … to the sound of Yankee Doodle Dandy?
→ read full articleThe World is NOT a U.S. Colony!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
In a host of countries around the world the U.S. portrays itself as “the good guy” instead of the problem. It’s a classic colonial attitude. The U.S. must stop intervening in the internal and domestic affairs of independent nations all over the world, including the U.S. occupied Kingdom of Hawai`i.
→ read full articleJailing of Al-Jazeera Journalists: A Proxy in the War between Qatar and Saudi Arabia
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
7 Jul 2014
Must journalists endure the threat of imprisonment as well as the threat of death or serious injury? It is not just the outrageous, unfair, trumped-up crudity of the charges against the three Al Jazeera journalists sentenced to years of imprisonment in Cairo.
→ read full articleClimate Change Fact Sheet
Earth Policy Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
COAL, mainly used for electricity generation, accounts for 44 percent of global fossil-fuel-related CO2 emissions.
OIL, used primarily for transportation, accounts for 36 percent of CO2 emissions from fossil fuels.
NATURAL GAS, used for electricity and heating, accounts for the remaining 20 percent of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning.
Japan Announces a Military Shift to Thwart China
Martin Fackler and David E. Sanger – The New York Times,
7 Jul 2014
Japan’s prime minister announced a reinterpretation of the country’s pacifist Constitution on Tuesday [1 Jul 2014], freeing its military for the first time in over 60 years to play a more assertive role in the increasingly tense region.
→ read full articleThe Risk of a Ukraine Bloodbath
Ray McGovern – Consortium News,
7 Jul 2014
Pressured by neocons and the mainstream U.S. media, the Obama administration is charting a dangerous course by seeking a military solution to Ukraine’s political crisis and possibly provoking Moscow to intervene to protect ethnic Russians.
→ read full articleMy Thoughts on Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire’s Speech on 6th June, 2014 in Sarajevo
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
As much as I agree with Mairead Maguire’s emphatic call for a world without weapons and admire her for making this call, I feel that her suggestions for action are insufficient. It is not enough to shout in all directions “I don’t want a militarized world”! whilst the games we buy for our children and grandchildren, the films they watch on television, the teaching at schools of Nationalism, Patriotism, Religious superiority, etc, etc., are all promoting violence and a militarized world.
→ read full article(Português) Ucrânia e Síria: Eleições de Destruição em Massa
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Eleições avançam na Ucrânia, obstruídas na Síria, para que assassinatos em massa continuem. O armamento ocidental da democracia.
→ read full articleThe Journey to Self-Awareness
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
What causes this damage? Terror. And what makes a mind react with terror thus disrupting all other functions simultaneously? Violence. And particularly the unrelenting onslaught of ‘invisible’ violence and ‘utterly invisible’ violence inflicted on children throughout their childhood.
→ read full articleChina’s Subversive Propaganda War against the Dalai Lama
Gerardo E. Martinez-Solanas – Open Democracy,
30 Jun 2014
The Chinese government is engaged in an intense propaganda war to disrupt or prevent the Dalai Lama’s visits to every country he travels to.
→ read full articleMass Murderers Brazenly Hold Conference, Discuss Tools of Trade
David Swanson - Reader Supported News,
16 Jun 2014
7 Jun 2014 – A unique conference is planned in Charlottesville, Va., featuring the latest technologies for the practice of large-scale killing. The Daily Progress tells us that, “to allow participants to speak more freely about potentially sensitive topics, the conference is closed to the media and open only to registered participants.”
→ read full articleAn Appeal for More Whistleblowers
Norman Solomon – Consortium News,
16 Jun 2014
As more and more secrecy envelopes the U.S. government – with millions of hidden records concealing both past and present – there is no practical alternative for democracy but to fight back with “unauthorized” disclosures, as Norman Solomon explains in an appeal for more whistleblowers.
→ read full articleThey Knew Our Secrets. One Year Later, We Know Theirs.
American Civil Liberties Union – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
One year ago, the world had never heard of Edward Snowden, and we knew very little about the breathtaking scope of U.S. government surveillance. One year later, we know more than ever before about our government’s mass surveillance apparatus. We now have the power to rein it in.
→ read full article(Português) Flaskô, a Fábrica Brasileira Sob Controle Operário
Paloma Rodrigues, Carta Capital – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Quebrada por patrões, recuperada pelos trabalhadores, indústria reduziu jornada, estabeleceu democracia interna e criou centro cultural. Após onze anos, luta entra em nova fase.
→ read full articleA Message From Edward Snowden, One Year Later
Edward Snowden – American Civil Liberties Union,
9 Jun 2014
4 Jun 2014 – Below is an email ACLU supporters received from Edward Snowden this morning, one year to the day since The Guardian broke the first in a series of revelations exposing the breathtaking scope of U.S. government surveillance.
→ read full articleGrand Geopolitical Project: Russia’s Gazprom Signs Agreement to Abandon the Dollar
Umberto Pascali - Global Research,
9 Jun 2014
Anglo-American Dominance Coming to an End – On June 6, 2014 Russia announced what many were expecting since the beginning of the Ukrainian crisis: Russian main energy company, Gazprom, has “signed agreements with its consumers” [actually signed and not just discussed] to switch from Dollars to Euros “for payments under contracts”.
→ read full articleThe Pall of Silence around Myanmar’s Fictitious Democracy
Giacomo Tognini – The Jakarta Globe,
9 Jun 2014
The Rohingya are a mainly Sunni Muslim ethnic group that primarily reside in Rakhine, an area they have inhabited for centuries. According to the Myanmar government’s narrative, the roughly one-million-strong group are illegal Bengali immigrants from Bangladesh.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden: Breaking Law Was Only Option, Says Whistleblower
Tom McCarthy – The Guardian,
2 Jun 2014
One year after revealing himself as the source of the biggest intelligence leak in US history, Edward Snowden appeared in a long network television interview on Wednesday [28 May 2013] to describe himself as an American patriot and to make the case that his disclosures were motivated by a desire to help the country.
→ read full articleChlorine in Your Chicken: Why Poultry Is More Dangerous Than Ever
Tracie McMillan, OnEarth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Whichever part of the bird she happened to be packing on a given shift, the smell was as constant as it was noxious: a combination of raw poultry and chlorine, the latter emanating from the pathogen-killing chemical bath that the carcasses—often contaminated with fecal matter—would receive during processing.
→ read full articleUkraine & Syria: Elections of Mass Destruction
Tony Cartalucci, NEO – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Elections pushed ahead in Ukraine, obstructed in Syria, so mass murder can continue. The West’s weaponization of democracy.
→ read full articleWhy Boycotting Israel Is So Important and Necessary
Stuart Littlewood – Dissident Voice,
2 Jun 2014
DePaul students don’t want their tuition dollars invested in weapons manufacturers who supply the Israeli government, army and prison services.
→ read full articleNYT’s One-Sided Ukraine Narrative
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
2 Jun 2014
The U.S. press coverage of the Ukraine crisis has been stunningly biased and one-sided, placing virtually all the blame on Russian President Putin. One of the worst offenders in this journalistic travesty has been the New York Times.
→ read full article“Beacon of Freedom & American Exceptionalism?”
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
The U.S. has between 800-1000 military bases around the world in 150 countries. Since WWII: has used military force 120 times; has tried to overthrow governments of 50 countries and grossly interfered in the elections of 30 others; has bombed civilian populations in 30 countries including the use of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. (Source: www.uslaboragainstwar.org) And don’t forget the U.S. illegal overthrow and continuing illegal occupation of the Nation of Hawai’i.
→ read full article(Português) BRICS: Uma Nova Arquitetura de Finanças e Desenvolvimento
José Carlos Peliano – Carta Maior,
2 Jun 2014
Os BRICS iniciaram tratativas para a criação de alternativas ao FMI e ao Banco Mundial, instituições dominadas hoje pelos EUA e pela União Europeia.
→ read full articleThe Social Cost of GMOs
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
When Purdue University plant pathologist and soil microbiologist Don Huber pointed out unintended consequences of GMOs, other scientists did not support him because their careers are dependent on research grants from agribusiness. Monsanto controls the research on its own products.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to Cecily McMillan
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
It is apparent that our strategy to remake society in accord with principles of justice and love must include recognition of the fact that the legal system is part of what must be removed. More sophisticated methods for dealing with conflict and violence – ranging from listening and needs-based processes to truth and reconciliation commissions as well as nonviolent action – have long existed.
→ read full articleWashington Post Seeks US-Patrolled ‘Safe Zone’ in Syria
Ray McGovern – Consortium News,
26 May 2014
Neocons never blush at their own hypocrisies, demanding Russia respect international law and do nothing to protect eastern Ukrainians, while demanding President Obama ignore international law and create a terrorist/rebel “safe zone” in Syria, writes ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
→ read full articleKidnapped Girls Become Tools of U.S. Imperial Policy in Africa
Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
The “humanitarian” U.S. military occupation of Africa has been very successful, thus far. Imagine: the superpower that financed the genocide of six million in Congo, claims to be a defender of teenage girls and human rights on the continent.
→ read full articleReasons for Intellectual Conformity
Lawrence Davidson – Consortium News,
26 May 2014
Indeed, from a historical perspective most people of high intellect have sought to serve power and not critique or question it. This is quite in line with the fact that most non-intellectuals accept the word of those in power as authoritative and true.
→ read full article(Português) A saída limpa…da Europa
Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Carta Maior,
26 May 2014
Portugal arranjará um lugarzito na soleira da porta da Europa, um país sem-abrigo por onde passarão regularmente os carrinhos da sopa humanitária.
→ read full articleHuman Intelligence or Human Awareness?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
The Self-aware human being is intelligent because their mind is integrated. In contrast, an ‘intelligent’ individual who is unSelf-aware, because their mind is disintegrated, might engage in activities that are destructive of our species and the planet. I am sure that you can think of many examples.
→ read full articleEU Court Backs ‘Right to Be Forgotten’: Google Must Amend Results on Request
Alan Travis and Charles Arthur – The Guardian,
19 May 2014
Individuals have right to control their data and can ask search engines to remove results, says European court.
→ read full article(Português) Leia com exclusividade mais trechos do livro de Glenn Greenwald
Gilberto Scofield – O Globo,
19 May 2014
Na próxima terça-feira [13 maio 2014], o lançamento de um dos livros mais esperados do ano: “Sem lugar para se esconder”, do ex-advogado e jornalista americano Glenn Greenwald, que conta a histórica denúncia sobre como a Agência de Segurança Nacional americana (NSA) espionava de cidadãos e instituições americanas a governos e empresas de outros países.
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Hungarian Dance No. 5 (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Martynas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Virtuoso Martynas on Acordeon – Composition of Johannes Brahms – Martynas Levickis, 24, is one of the brightest young musicians from Lithuania. He has received over 30 prizes and awards.
→ read full article(Português) O determinismo biológico e os interesses do capital
Leandro Módolo P. - Carta Maior,
19 May 2014
De Gobineau e sua teoria eugênica à Spencer e as corridas coloniais, de Charles Davenport e Harry Laughlin e as políticas de esterilização estadunidense à Eugen Fischer e Alfred Ploetz e a Lei de Proteção à Saúde Hereditária do Povo Alemão, ao menos a história ocidental moderna está recheada de ‘cientistas’ que advogaram causas naturais para diferenças e problemas sociais.
→ read full articleQatar Promises to Reform Labour Laws after Outcry over ‘World Cup Slaves’
Ian Black, Owen Gibson and Robert Booth – The Guardian,
19 May 2014
Officials said they would replace the country’s “kafala” sponsorship system, which tethers workers to a single employer, who can therefore treat his workforce with impunity, pending the approval of a draft law.
→ read full articleMichael Sam Is First Openly Gay NFL Player as St Louis Rams Draft Pick
Martin Pengelly – The Guardian,
12 May 2014
Michael Sam, the college defensive end who made headlines earlier this year by coming out, is set to become the first openly gay player to play in the National Football League. Sam was picked in Saturday’s [10 May 2014] final round of the NFL Draft, by the St Louis Rams.
→ read full articleHuman Emotions: Genetically Programmed or Socially Learned?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
It is easy to fall into the trap of assuming that each human being has a more or less identical range of emotions. This is not so. The outcome for each individual is based on the unique genetic potential of that individual and, more importantly, the social terrorisation experience of that individual within its particular culture, community and family.
→ read full article(Português) Augusto Boal e o Teatro do Oprimido: “Vários outros mundos são possíveis”.
Léa Maria Aarão Reis - Carta Maior,
12 May 2014
O Teatro do Oprimido alia teatro e ação social, prepara o ator com esse viés e busca permanentemente a transformação da realidade através do diálogo.
→ read full articleChina, Iran Say They’re ‘Strategic Partners’ as U.S. Watches Warily
Stuart Leavenworth – The Charlotte Observer,
12 May 2014
6 May 2014 – China and Iran announced this week that they’re deepening their military ties, with Tehran going so far as to claim that China now sees Iran as a “strategic partner.”
→ read full articleKagame: Murderer of Millions in Congo and Rwanda
Glen Ford – Black Agenda Report,
12 May 2014
Notables from around the globe pay homage to Rwandan President Paul Kagame as if he were the savior of Africa. “For 20 years, Kagame has posed as the soldier who stopped the Rwandan genocide, when all evidence and logic point to him as the main perpetrator of the crime.”
→ read full articleFollow the Honey: 7 Ways Pesticide Companies Are Spinning the Bee Crisis
Michele Simon, Friends of the Earth - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
As my new report with Friends of the Earth details, three of the leading pesticide corporations — Bayer, Syngenta, and Monsanto — are engaged in a massive public relations disinformation campaign to distract the public and policymakers from thinking that pesticides might have something to do with bee death and destruction.
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