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Rohingyas, the Victims of Sustained Genocidal Persecution for Nearly 40 Years
Amine Tuna Ertürk - İHH İnsani ve Sosyal Araştırmalar Merkezi (Turkey),
27 Jul 2015
Interview with Dr Maung Zarni – “Humanitarianism is all well and fine. It plays an ameliorative role. But the root cause is politically and racially driven genocide. In situations of genocide, humanitarianism is woefully inadequate. It is a band-aid, not a cure.”
→ read full article(Português) Presente de Grego – a minha experiência
Quézia Queiroz – ANDA-Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
27 Jul 2015
Cães não são mercadoria. Não tem prazo para troca. Não há devolução, nem garantia de qualidade. Cães ficam doentes, têm anomalias, engordam, são imperfeitos. Como nós. Mas eles são as melhores companhias não humanas que alguém pode ter nesta vida!
→ read full articleEurope’s Vindictive Privatization Plan for Greece
Yanis Varoufakis, Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
20 Jul 2015 – On July 12, the summit of eurozone leaders dictated its terms of surrender to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who, terrified by the alternatives, accepted all of them. One of those terms concerned the disposition of Greece’s remaining public assets.
→ read full articleThe Terms of Greece’s Surrender
Yanis Varoufakis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
The Euro Summit statement (or Terms of Greece’s Surrender – as it will go down in history) follows, annotated by yours truly. The original text is untouched with my notes confined to square brackets. Read and weep…
→ read full articleBaltimore’s Unrest and Social Injustice Hits the Back Page
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
The year 1968 had also seen the assignation of MLK and it touched off racial unrest in over 100 cities in the country. Baltimore did not escape this unfortunate fate. Nor did it escape that fate in this year when yet another case of American police brutality hit on its doorstep. From MLK to Freddie Gray, we have to wonder what has changed in America (and Baltimore)?
→ read full articleDr Schäuble’s Plan for Europe: Do Europeans Approve? – English Version of My Article in Die Zeit
Yanis Varoufakis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
On 15 July 2015 Die Zeit published this piece. Here is the original English language version.
→ read full article(Português) Crueldade Animal: A Venda de Líquido Biliar de Urso
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
11 de julho de 2015 – Subsiste na China antiga prática “medicinal” de se utilizar líquido produzido pela bile de ursos negros (Ursus thibetanus) para tratamento de doenças relacionadas aos olhos e ao fígado de seres humanos, assim como para fabricação de pomadas e xampus.
→ read full article(Português) Varoufakis: Por Que a Alemanha Recusa-se a Aliviar a Dívida Grega
Yanis Varoufakis – Pravda,
13 Jul 2015
A Europa não sabe como responder à crise financeira. Deve preparar-se para expulsar um país (“Grexit”), ou para federalizar-se?
→ read full articleGlobal Governance Reforms: Ufa, Russia Hosts the BRICS, EEU and SCO Summits Simultaneously
Bongani Mbindwane - The BRICS Post,
13 Jul 2015
Among all the groundbreaking decisions made at UFA this year, BRICS nations are moving to discard the dollar and euro on their $500-billion intra-trade. Further, the summits in Ufa, highlighted the geopolitical cross-pollination between BRICS and the SCO, which cannot make decisions that are disadvantageous to each other.
→ read full articleYanis Varoufakis: Germany Won’t Spare Greek Pain – It Has an Interest in Breaking Us
Yanis Varoufakis – The Guardian,
13 Jul 2015
Debt restructuring has always been our aim in negotiations – but for some eurozone leaders Grexit is the goal. The answer cannot be found in economics because it resides deep in Europe’s labyrinthine politics.
→ read full articleAngela Merkel Has a Red and a Yellow Button. One Ends the Crisis. Which Does She Push?
Yanis Varoufakis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
The Global Minotaur of neoliberal capitalism centred on Wall Street held the world to ransom from 1971 to 2008. Now Europe’s surplus countries are trying to prop up its corpse. Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American “invention”.
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2015 Global Peace Index
Vision of Humanity - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
Jun 16, 2015 – The 2015 Global Peace Index reveals a divided world, with the most peaceful countries enjoying increasing levels of peace and prosperity, while the least peaceful countries spiral into violence and conflict. Explore the state of world peace on the interactive Global Peace Index Map.
→ read full article(Português) Negócios com Primatas
Dr. Pedro A. Ynterian - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
29 Jun 2015
Por que esta Faculdade que durante anos torturou chimpanzés inoculando-os com toda uma série de doenças e produtos químicos quer ser benemérita com todos aqueles inocentes torturados anos a fio? No Capitalismo tudo se resume ao custo/ benefício.
→ read full article2015 Global Peace Index
Institute for Economics & Peace, Vision of Humanity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
The 2015 Global Peace Index shows that the world is becoming increasingly divided with some countries enjoying unprecedented levels of peace and prosperity while others spiral further into violence and conflict.
→ read full articlePregnancy at Slaughter: What Happens to the Calves?
Stephanie Ernst, All Creatures – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
What happens when a cow is pregnant at the time of slaughter? I almost wish I didn’t know. From the calves experiencing their mother’s death from inside her, while they too suffer or die their own terrible death, to live calves being cut from their dead mother’s womb, so that their blood can be drained for science while they’re still alive–it’s all horrific, and none of it is ever talked about, even though it’s a part of the dairy and beef industries and a part of how people get their “finest” leather.
→ read full article‘Sea Change’ in Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal
Daniel Burke - CNN,
15 Jun 2015
Pope Francis has created a church tribunal to judge bishops who fail to protect children from sexually abusive priests, the Vatican announced Wednesday [10 Jun 2015], a move long sought by abuse victims and their advocates.
→ read full articleThe Losing War against Ungoverned Spaces
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Nathaniel Barr, Pragati – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
From whatever angle one analyses the war against ungoverned spaces, Western countries and their allies are losing. The truly remarkable thing is how quickly the situation in the Middle East and North Africa was transformed from optimism —at the start of the Arab Spring—to one where the spread of ungoverned space, and indeed jihadism writ large, appears inexorable.
→ read full article(Português) Gravidez no Matadouro: O Horror da Indústria de Laticínios Revelado
Stephanie Ernst - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
15 Jun 2015
10 de junho de 2015 – O que acontece quando uma vaca prenhe é enviada a um matadouro? Eu quase desejaria não saber. De bezerros sentindo as mortes de suas mães, enquanto eles mesmos sofrem e sentem suas próprias mortes horríveis, até bebês vivos sendo arrancados dos úteros de suas mães para que seu sangue possa ser drenado para a ciência, é tudo horrível.
→ read full articleHackers Point Out U.S. Arming, Funding ISIS
Kit Daniels, Infowars – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
8 Jun 2015 – The Syrian Electronic Army has claimed responsibility for hacking the U.S. Army’s website to show that both the Pentagon and the CIA are supporting ISIS to topple Assad.
→ read full articleU.S. Shoots Itself in the Foot by ‘Accidentally’ Arming ISIS
Eric Pianin - The Fiscal Times,
8 Jun 2015
• 2,300 Humvee armored vehicles @ $70,000 per copy. Total: $161 million.
• 40 M1A1 Abram tanks @ $4.3 million per copy. Total: $172 million.
• 52 M198 Howitzer mobile gun systems @ $527,337 per copy. Total: $27.4 million.
• 74,000 Army machine guns @ $4,000 per copy. Total: $296 million.
Rotten Science: How We Got Duped by Fake Chocolate Science
Daniela Hernandez, Fusion – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
On Retraction Watch, a site dedicated to tracking scientific papers that are retracted, newly debunked studies are piling up. The reason we keep getting duped is that science isn’t just science anymore. It’s Big Business. And it’s time we start thinking about it that way because, as in any big industry, there are some disturbing things going on that most people outside of scientific circles don’t know about — but should. After all, these missteps affect our lives.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden: NSA Reform in the US Is Only the Beginning
Alan Rusbridger, Janine Gibson and Ewen MacAskill – The Guardian,
25 May 2015
In an exclusive interview from Moscow, Snowden cautions that more needs to be done to curb NSA surveillance two years after his disclosures.
→ read full article(Português) A controvérsia do zoológico humano
Daniel kirjner - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
25 May 2015
18 maio 2015 – Nos últimos dias os ânimos se exaltaram em uma discussão acerca das intersecções entre racismo e especismo. Um vegano postou uma imagem que mostrava uma criança negra exibida em um zoológico há cerca sessenta anos atrás.
→ read full articleWhy Are the Rohingya Risking Everything to Flee Burma?
Daniel P. Sullivan – The Nation,
25 May 2015
Flight of the Rohingya – Stateless refugees from Burma are risking death, rape, and drowning by the thousands on a risky escape to Malaysia.
→ read full articleWhy I Teach Evolution to Muslim Students
Rana Dajani, Nature – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
Encouraging students to challenge ideas is crucial to fostering a generation of Muslim scientists who are free thinkers. “As educators, our objective is to help students to become independent thinkers.”
→ read full articleA Blueprint for Greece’s Recovery
Yanis Varoufakis, Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Months of negotiations have produced little progress. One reason is that all sides are focusing too much on the strings to be attached to the next liquidity injection and not enough on a vision of how Greece can recover and develop sustainably. If we are to break the current impasse, we must envisage a healthy Greek economy.
→ read full articleHawaii’s Mauna Kea Protectors Aim to Halt Construction of $1.4 billion, 30-meter telescope on Sacred Mountain
Imani Altemus-Williams – Waging Nonviolence,
11 May 2015
According to 17-year-old protector Kay Ala Kahaulelio, “The sacredness of Mauna Kea is beyond what we can comprehend in the human realm. It is so sacred because it is the portal and the closest temple where we can connect with our akua [god].” In Hawaiian genealogy, the mountain is revered as the piko, or center of one’s being, for Hawaii Island.
→ read full articleAll the President’s Psychologists [Full Report]
Stephen Soldz Ph.D., Nathaniel Raymond and Steven Reisner Ph.D.,
4 May 2015
The American Psychological Association’s complicity in the CIA torture program, by allowing psychologists to administer and calibrate permitted harm, undermines the fundamental ethical standards of the profession. If not carefully understood and rejected by the profession, this may portend a fundamental shift in the profession’s relationship with the people it serves.
→ read full articleWhere Is the World… ?
Imani Michelle Scott, Ph.D. – The Huffington Post,
4 May 2015
I love the black men in my life. They are my brothers, my nephews, my cousins, my best friends. The politics of distraction successfully leads attention away from what occurs in the U.S. to focus on inhumanity in those nations beyond America’s borders. Where is the world when the collective of humanity is so needed to help end police violence against blacks in America?
→ read full article(Português) Um Amigo Que Se Foi
Dr. Pedro A. Ynterian - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
27 Apr 2015
19 de abril de 2015 – Durante várias horas, em silêncio, um grupo de chimpanzés, com aspecto sombrio e olhar entristecido, circula em volta de corpo de um querido amigo que acaba de morrer inesperadamente, fulminado por um ataque cardíaco.
→ read full articleA New Deal for Greece
Yanis Varoufakis, Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
None of this means that common ground cannot be achieved immediately. The Greek government wants a fiscal-consolidation path that makes sense, and we want reforms that all sides believe are important. Our task is to convince our partners that our undertakings are strategic, rather than tactical, and that our logic is sound. Their task is to let go of an approach that has failed.
→ read full articleNonviolence Charter: Progress Report 6 (Apr 2015)
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D., Anita McKone and Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
20 Apr 2015 – Here is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ and a sample of news about, and reports of forthcoming events by, Charter signatories.
→ read full article(Português) A Mídia Está Perdendo a Grande História dos Animais
Peter Fricker - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
20 Apr 2015
Em 2012 um grupo de cientistas proeminentes assinou algo chamado Declaração de Cambridge sobre a Consciência, na qual eles expressam seu apoio à visão de que os animais são conscientes do mesmo modo que os humanos. Enquanto isso, evidências científicas de inteligência e senciência animal continuam a se acumularem.
→ read full articleDeescalating Europe’s Politics of Resentment
Yanis Varoufakis – Project Syndicate,
30 Mar 2015
In 2010, Greece had no right to borrow from German – or any other European – taxpayers, because its public debt was unsustainable. Five years later, the consequences – open animosity toward and from Germany, a humanitarian crisis, and a mountain of unserviceable debt – could not be clearer.
→ read full articleSixty Percent of Global Drone Exports Come from Israel — New Data
Rania Khalek – The Electronic Intifada,
30 Mar 2015
Israel has supplied 60.7 percent of the world’s drones since 1985, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. In second place is the US with 23.9 percent. The besieged Gaza Strip has served as the leading testing ground for both armed and surveillance drones.
→ read full article(Português) Somos todos animais sensíveis [sencientes]
Philippe Regné - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
23 Mar 2015
O psicólogo britânico Richard Ryder, defensor da causa animal, cria o termo “especismo”, que designa “o preconceito que consiste em acordar mais consideração moral ao representante de uma espécie (com frequência a nossa, mas nem sempre) pelo único motivo de pertencer a esta espécie”.
→ read full articleDementia Now Affects over 47 Million People Worldwide, 75 Million by 2030, and Expected to Triple by 2050
UN World Health Organization – Human Wrongs Watch,
23 Mar 2015
Participants in this first ministerial conference on this issue included 80 Member States, 80 philanthropic foundations, 45 NGOs and 4 UN Agencies.
→ read full articleTactical Nuclear Weapons in Europe
John Scales Avery - Danish Pugwash Group – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
A thermonuclear war would be not only genocidal but also omnicidal. It would kill people of all ages, babies, children, young people, mothers, fathers and grandparents. Such a war would be the ultimate ecological catastrophe, destroying not only human civilization but also much of the biosphere. Each of us has a duty to work with dedication to prevent it.
→ read full article(Português) Direitos Animais, uma exclusividade humana?
Sônia T. Felipe - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
16 Mar 2015
Tirar a vida dos animais é considerado um direito humano universal. Dez vezes a população de humanos é o número de animais mortos por ano ao redor do mundo para alimentar pouco mais de cinco bilhões de humanos que consomem, através de seus alimentos animalizados, 80% de toda proteína vegetal nobre cultivada ao redor do planeta e dada de comer aos animais que são mortos para virar bife.
→ read full articleRorschach and Awe – James Elmer Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, the CIA Psychologists Central to America’s ‘Coercive Interrogation’ Methods [aka Torture]
Katherine Eban – Vanity Fair,
16 Mar 2015
America’s coercive interrogation methods were reverse-engineered by two C.I.A. psychologists who had spent their careers training U.S. soldiers to endure Communist-style torture techniques. The spread of these tactics was fueled by a myth about a critical “black site” operation.
→ read full article[Nobel Economics Laureate] Joseph Stiglitz on the Trans Pacific Partnership: “This Is a Big Deal”
Alexandros Orphanides – In These Times,
16 Mar 2015
12 Mar 2015 – Trade agreements are about more than business—they’re about who has final say in the way people around the world live, what they eat, how much they are paid, what medicines they can buy and whether they have jobs. Such agreements shape economic policies that impact billions of people. The discussions surrounding these agreements are far too important to done in secret.
→ read full articleThe Hidden Lives of Chickens
PETA-People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Leading animal behavior scientists from around the globe know that chickens are inquisitive and interesting animals whose cognitive abilities are in some cases more advanced than those of cats, dogs, and even some primates.
→ read full articleA Lifetime Achievement — Destruction of the State of Israel
Niva Lanir – Haaretz,
9 Mar 2015
Netanyahu the coward is sometimes even more dangerous than the diligent fool. After all, his speech to Congress showed he has the ‘courage’ to endanger Israel-U.S. relations.
→ read full article(Português) A Vida Secreta das Galinhas
Gabriel Gasperin - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
9 Mar 2015
Os principais cientistas do comportamento animal do mundo sabem que as galinhas são animais curiosos e interessantes de serem estudados, cujas habilidades cognitivas são, em alguns casos, mais avançadas do que as dos gatos, cães e até mesmo de alguns primatas.
→ read full article(Português) Baleeiras Japonesas: Um Choque para o Sistema
George Monbiot – ANDA-Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
2 Mar 2015
Uma das maiores piadas na área de conservação é a afirmação vinda do governo japonês de que está praticando “pesca científica de baleias”. Todas as mortes causadas por sua frota de lançadores de arpões acontecem sob o pretexto de serem “pesquisa”, já que esta é única justificativa disponível sob regras internacionais.
→ read full articleReview of ‘Confessions of a Terrorist – A Novel’
Anita McKone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
In this novel, Jackson raises the confronting question: Is the fear and insecurity of Western societies and their violent abuse of people of other countries and cultures causing a violent defensive reaction? In which case, are Westerners the ones who need to de-‘radicalise’ their extremist capitalist and militarist ideologies and behaviour in order to reduce fearful extremist responses to these?
→ read full articleYanis Varoufakis: No Time for Games in Europe
Yanis Varoufakis – The New York Times,
23 Feb 2015
Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players. Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece’s new finance minister I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
→ read full articleYanis Varoufakis: How I Became an Erratic Marxist
Yanis Varoufakis – The Guardian,
23 Feb 2015
Before he entered politics, Yanis Varoufakis, the iconoclastic Greek finance minister at the centre of the latest eurozone standoff, wrote this searing account of European capitalism and how the left can learn from Marx’s mistakes.
→ read full articleSelma: Hollywood vs. Reality
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Selma. An intriguing 2015 film about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his push to secure voting rights for African Americans who had been disenfranchised by a post-slavery, Jim Crow segregated society. Powerful. Yes! Moving. Yes! Convincing. Yes! Truthful. Not entirely.
→ read full article(Português) Freio na boca de cavalo serve para quê? Explicações de Alexander Nevzorov: Tortura
Sônia T. Felipe - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
9 Feb 2015
Alexander Nevzorov, em seu livro ‘The Horse Crucified and Risen’, ao alertar para a baba grossa escorrendo da boca de um cavalo com ferro plantado na cavidade bucal, pressionando a língua, refere-se a ele como “um aparato especial para infligir muita dor” ao animal, um “pesadelo” para o cavalo, pois a “causa dessa baba grossa é trágica”.
→ read full article(Português) Brasil: Os Zoológicos Também São Vitrine
Dr. Pedro A. Ynterian - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
26 Jan 2015
25 Jan 2015 – Uma extensa divulgação tem sido dada a uma Resolução do Conselho Federal de Medicina Veterinária, que questiona a exposição de animais domésticos para venda em “PET Shops” com vitrines e similares.
→ read full articleEl Salvador: Pardon Granted for One of 17 Women Jailed for Miscarriage, Accused of Homicide
Danica Jorden – Upside Down World,
26 Jan 2015
Cinthia, who gave birth alone to an infant she says had its cord wrapped around its neck, was denied pardon, ostensibly because she smoked and drank beer on a daily basis. She was 18 when she miscarried was found guilty of aggravated homicide and has been serving a 30-year sentence.
→ read full articleJe Suis Martin Luther King
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
Today, January 19, 2015, is Martin Luther King Day here in the US. The world has changed quite a bit since our former great civil rights leader was with us.
→ read full articleThe ‘Nation-State’ Bill: Jews Should Know Exactly Where It Leads
Daniel Blatman – Information Clearing House,
1 Dec 2014
One need not be a historian to see the resemblance between the controversial bill and nationality laws of in 1930s Europe.
→ read full articleUN Presses Myanmar over Rohingya Rights
ReliefWeb – UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA),
24 Nov 2014
The United Nations adopted a resolution Friday [21 Nov 2014] urging Myanmar to grant citizenship to its Rohingya Muslim minority, ramping up pressure on Yangon to scrap a controversial identity plan.
→ read full articleFrom the Bottom Up: Democracy Works in Haiti
Daniel Raventos and Julie Wark - CounterPunch,
24 Nov 2014
Democracy, the kind the mainstream media ignores, belittles or calls “utopian”, works from the bottom up. If justice is to be achieved in Haiti social change must come from the bottom. The elites aren’t going to build legal systems to favour the poor (and limit their own power).
→ read full articleUS, Canada, and Ukraine Reject Russia’s UN Anti-Nazi Proposal
Josh Paniagua – Mass Report,
24 Nov 2014
22 Nov 2014 – A Russian proposal condemning all glorification of Nazi ideology and denial of Nazi war crimes was passed by the UN General Assembly. Of the 173 countries voting, 115 said yes and 55 abstained. The only three countries to vote against: United States, Canada, and Ukraine.
→ read full article(Português) A Doença Ebola e os Cães
Marcelo Quinzani – ANDA-Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
20 Oct 2014
14 Outubro 2014 – Nesta semana tivemos contato com a primeira notícia sobre um cão supostamente infectado com o vírus Ebola. O caso aconteceu na Espanha, onde um animal de propriedade de uma enfermeira espanhola com a doença teve que ser eutanasiado, causando muita consternação e preocupação com a possibilidade de animais domésticos participarem da disseminação do vírus.
→ read full articleNonviolence Charter: Progress Report 5 (Oct 2014)
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D., Anita McKone and Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Here is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ and a sample of news about, and reports of forthcoming events by, Charter signatories.
→ read full articleMakers of ‘Crush Porn’ Videos in Philippines Sentenced to Life in Prison
PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
Scantily clad girls—one of whom was just 12 years old at the time—were filmed skinning a dog alive and burning another with a clothes iron, cutting off rabbits’ ears and setting the rabbits on fire while they flailed and screamed, hitting a monkey in the eye with the sharp end of a stiletto heel, and crushing puppies until they vomited their own internal organs.
→ read full articleUS Could Topple My Government, Kill Me: Argentina’s Kirchner
Daniel Merolla, AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
2 Oct 2014 – Just hours after the US embassy warned its citizens to take extra safety precautions in Argentina, an aggravated Kirchner said, “When you see what has been coming out of diplomatic offices, they had better not come in here and try to sell some tall tale about ISIS trying to track me down so they can kill me.”
→ read full article(Português) Zoológicos
Sérgio Greif - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
29 Sep 2014
Um pouco de história: A visão de animais como “coisas” ou “objetos” a serem utilizados para nossos propósitos não é recente na história humana, e como todas as demais “coisas”, animais parecem ter sido sempre colecionados por seres humanos, mesmo no período pré- histórico.
→ read full article(Italiano) USA, il riarmo nucleare del Premio Nobel per la pace
Manlio Dinucci – Il Manifesto,
29 Sep 2014
23 set 2014 – Cinque anni fa, nell’ottobre 2009, il presidente Barack Obama fu insignito del Premio Nobel per la Pace in base alla «sua visione di un mondo libero dalle armi nucleari, e al lavoro da lui svolto in tal senso, che ha potentemente stimolato il disarmo». Motivazione che appare ancora più grottesca alla luce di quanto documenta oggi un ampio servizio del New York Times :
→ read full articleCoalition of the Clueless
Sharmine Narwani – Russia Today,
29 Sep 2014
The airwaves are still heaving with spin two days after US airstrikes against Syria. Undoubtedly they were timed to the eve of the gathering of world leaders at the UN, so ‘Coalition’ partners could cluster behind the decision to bomb a sovereign state, uninvited. The goal this week will be to keep the ‘momentum’ on a ‘narrative’ until it sinks in.
→ read full article(Português) O que há por trás do “desafio do balde de gelo”
Dr Aysha akhtar - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
22 Sep 2014
Por que então, após 7 décadas do corajoso embate de Lou Gehrig contra essa doença, não existe um único tratamento efetivo ou cura à vista para a Esclerose Lateral Amiotrófica? Grande parte do dinheiro de pesquisa tem sido canalizada para os assim chamados “modelos animais” de ELA. Aí está o problema: a ELA é uma doença exclusivamente humana.
→ read full article(Castellano) Fondos Buitre y la ONU
Daniel Kostzer -TeleSur,
8 Sep 2014
En el año 2000 la ONU firmó los denominados Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio a ser alcanzados o cumplidos en el 2015. Meta 8.D: Abordar en todas sus dimensiones los problemas de la deuda de los países en de-sarrollo con medidas nacionales e internacionales a fin de hacer la deuda sostenible a largo plazo.
→ read full article(Português) Banco Mundial: Cuba Tem o Melhor Sistema Educativo da América Latina e do Caribe
Salim Lamrani - Opera Mundi,
8 Sep 2014
As conclusões do relatório são implacáveis. O Banco Mundial enfatiza “a baixa qualidade média dos professores da América Latina e do Caribe”, o que constitui o principal obstáculo para o avanço da educação no continente.
→ read full article(Português) Jihadistas na Casa Branca e os Gasodutos da Eurásia
Nazanín Armanian – Carta Maior,
8 Sep 2014
Um dos objetivos da atual ofensiva lançada contra a Rússia pelos EUA é forçar a Gazprom Germania a suspender cerca de 25 projetos que desenvolve na Europa.
→ read full articleXi, Modi, Jokowi: The Rise of a New Triad
Kishore Mahbubani - The BRICS Post,
8 Sep 2014
Chinese President Xi Jinping, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Indonesia’s President-elect Joko “Jokowi” Widodo could end up ranked among their countries’ greatest modern leaders.
→ read full article(Português) Ratos Demonstram Empatia por Companheiros Torturados e Mortos em Laboratório
Mark Bekoff - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
25 Aug 2014
Aqueles dentre nós que estudam e convivem com animais já sabem muita coisa sobre suas emoções e capacidades mentais, mesmo que a ciência ainda não tenha provado além de uma sombra de dúvida acerca desse conhecimento.
→ read full article(Português) Estudo da legislação europeia referente à proibição da experimentação de cosméticos e seus ingredientes em animais, bem como sua comercialização
Sérgio Greif - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
18 Aug 2014
A legislação europeia referente à proibição dos testes de cosméticos em animais é rebuscada e confusa e tem gerado controvérsia com relação ao seu entendimento. Esboço o presente artigo com vistas a um melhor entendimento sobre a matéria.
→ read full articleObama Should Release Ukraine Evidence
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
We believe you need to seek out honest intelligence analysts now and hear them out. Then, you may be persuaded to take steps to curb the risk that relations with Russia might escalate from “Cold War II” into an armed confrontation. In all candor, we see little reason to believe that Secretary Kerry and your other advisers appreciate the enormity of that danger.
→ read full articleWhy Sport Hunting Is Cruel and Unnecessary
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals-PETA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Although it was a crucial part of humans’ survival 100,000 years ago, hunting is now nothing more than a violent form of recreation that the vast majority of hunters do not need for subsistence. It has contributed to the extinction of animal species all over the world, including the Tasmanian tiger and the great auk.
→ read full article‘No Safe Place for Civilians’ in Gaza, U.N. Says
Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Palestinian civilians in densely-populated Gaza have no place to hide from Israel’s military offensive and children are paying the heaviest price, the United Nations said on Tuesday [22 Jul 2014].
→ read full articleBoth Israelis and Palestinians Are Losers in This Conflict
Daniel Barenboim – The Guardian,
28 Jul 2014
There can be no military solution. Both sides need to acknowledge the other’s suffering and their rights.
→ read full article(Português) Cientistas fazem macacos ter AIDS [SIDA] pela primeira vez: vitória ou derrota?
Sérgio Greif - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
21 Jul 2014
Após 30 anos do início da pandemia de AIDS em todo o mundo e milhões gastos em pesquisa, finalmente cientistas comemoram a noticia . . . não de que conseguiram a cura para a doença em seres humanos, mas que conseguiram criar a doença em outros primatas. Há algo de tolo e irracional na ciência tal como a entendemos hoje.
→ 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 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 articleThe Journey of One Hijab
Daniel Horgan and Hibak Hussein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Hibak is grateful for everything she has in the U.S., but as a young Muslim woman who wears a hijab in a Western society, she strives to have her religion, culture, and identity understood and respected.
→ read full articleHow Not to Pay the Price for Free Wi-Fi
Stephanie Rosenbloom – The New York Times,
16 Jun 2014
Part of globe-trotting nowadays is flitting from one free Wi-Fi network to the next. From hotel lobby to coffee shop to subway platform to park, each time we join a public network we put our personal information and privacy at risk.
→ read full article(Português) Sustentabilidade para Santuários de Animais
Sérgio Greif – ANDA-Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
26 May 2014
Santuários de animais são instituições e/ou pessoas que mantêm animais sob sua custódia, nas melhores condições possíveis e pelo tempo de suas vidas, mas não permitem sua reprodução, e não exploram esses animais de forma alguma (seja negociando animais ou suas partes, seja exibindo os animais ou entretendo pessoas à sua custa).
→ read full article(Português) É preciso fechar os zoológicos
Ivan santos – ANDA-Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
5 May 2014
Confinar animais em zoológicos foi e continua a ser um massacre irracional e sádico. Vários cientistas e biólogos em todo o mundo, após atentas pesquisas, concluíram que um zoológico não oferece condições adequadas para abrigar as espécies animais que têm direito a viver em liberdade em ambientes naturais.
→ read full articleAntimicrobial Resistance: Global Report on Surveillance 2014
World Health Organization – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
Antimicrobial resistance threatens the prevention and treatment of an ever-increasing range of infections caused by bacteria, parasites, viruses and fungi. Governments around the world are devoting efforts to a problem so serious that it threatens the achievements of modern medicine.
→ read full articleA People’s War in East Ukraine
Daniel Patrick Welch – Consortium News,
5 May 2014
Ukraine’s Western-backed coup regime in Kiev has launched an offensive against ethnic Russians in the east while a pro-regime mob used fire to kill some 31 anti-regime protesters in Odessa. Virtually all U.S. pundits favor the coup regime. Here is a different view of the conflict.
→ read full article(Português) Reflexões sobre a morte induzida a animais
Juan Agustín Gómez, Ánima – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Apr 2014
Depois de alguns anos de prática na clínica de pequenos animais, foi-se desenvolvendo em mim uma crescente inquietude acerca deste tema. Sempre achei necessário ter uma posição, uma atitude coerente e sobretudo honesta frente a esta situação onde tantas vezes me vi envolvido.
→ read full article(Português) No Limite da Senciência
Sérgio Greif - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
7 Apr 2014
De tempos em tempos somos surpreendidos por “novas descobertas científicas” no que diz respeito ao sentimento de dor em animais. Recente estudo da Universidade do Texas demonstrou o que qualquer pessoa que já tenha manipulado ou observado cefalópodes deveria saber: Polvos e lulas são capazes de sentir dor.
→ read full articlePeace Education in Boston
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
That’s what life, and peace education looks like in Boston. It also serves as a stark reminder that the citizens, teachers, and students of any nation are often far removed from the militarism and violence that their federal governments promote in their foreign (and/or domestic) policies.
→ read full articleIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report: ‘No One Will Be Untouched by Climate Change’
Danielle Demetriou in Yokohama – The Telegraph,
31 Mar 2014
Flooding, storm surges, droughts and heatwaves are among key risks of global warming. The warnings were published by the IPCC Working Group II report on Monday [31 Mar 2014], which was compiled by more than 300 authors from 70 countries and thousands of global experts.
→ read full articleNSA Surveillance Program Reaches ‘Into the Past’ to Retrieve, Replay Phone Calls
Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani – The Washington Post,
24 Mar 2014
The NSA has built a surveillance system capable of recording “100 percent” of a foreign country’s telephone calls according to people with direct knowledge of the effort and documents supplied by former contractor Edward Snowden.
→ read full articleThe Geopolitics of Gay Rights in Uganda
Daniel Wagner and Giorgio Cafiero – Huffington Post,
17 Mar 2014
6 Mar 2014 – Last week’s passage into law of the controversial anti-gay bill in Uganda puts the country among an elite club of nations noteworthy for their backpedaling on human and civil rights.
→ read full articleOn the Ukraine: Three Awkward Questions for Western Liberals
Yanis Varoufakis – International Policy Digest,
17 Mar 2014
Awkward question no. 2: On what principle does a western liberal deny the right of Chechens to independence from Russia, but is prepared to defend to the hilt the Georgians’ or the Ukrainians’ right to self-determination?
→ read full articleThe War on Emotions is Driving Us Insane
Anita McKone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Have you ever been provoked by someone into fear, anger or pain, and then blamed, punished or humiliated for feeling and expressing these feelings? This is a form of psychological torture which has very serious consequences. Here are three stories that demonstrate how commonly this form of torture occurs in human society.
→ read full article(Português) Brasil – Experiência com animais: Opinião contrária
Laerte fernando levai – ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
3 Mar 2014
O resgate de quase duzentos cães beagles no Instituto Royal de São Roque/SP, realizado por ativistas, surge como divisor de águas de um tema ainda considerado tabu no direito brasileiro: a experimentação animal.
→ read full articleFive New Reasons Monsanto’s ‘Science’ Doesn’t Add Up
Katherine Paul and Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
As new studies surface it’s become increasingly clear that among credible physicians and scientists the consensus is that we’d better wake up to the risks and threats posed by a reckless technology that has been allowed to dominate our food and farming systems.
→ read full article(Português) Os Animais Têm Emoções?
Marc Bekoff - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
24 Feb 2014
Quando comecei meus estudos há três décadas atrás, a pergunta era: “Qual é a sensação de ser um cão ou um lobo?” Pesquisadores, quase todos céticos, passavam o tempo se perguntando se os cães, gatos, chimpanzés e outros animais sentiam, mas sentimentos não se encaixam sob um microscópio.
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Tragedi Rohingya – The Rohingya Tragedy in Burma/Myanmar
Agenda Awani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
The ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya ethnicity explained. Participation of TRANSCEND member Dr. Maung Zarni, Burmese scholar and expert on the issue.
→ read full articleGMOs Are Killing the Bees, Butterflies, Birds, and . . . ?
Katherine Paul and Ronnie Cummins - Organic Consumers Association,
17 Feb 2014
“It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.” – Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
→ read full articleBitcoin is a Flawed Currency but a Potentially Useful Application for the Eurozone
Yanis Varoufakis – International Policy Digest,
17 Feb 2014
While Bitcoin is too deflationary by nature to act as a widespread currency alternative to the dollar or the euro, its design can be used profitably in order to help the Eurozone’s member-states create euro-denominated electronic payment systems that help them, at least in the medium term, overcome the asphyxiating deflationary pressures imposed upon them by the Eurozone’s Gold Standard-like (and, indeed, Bitcoin-like) austerian design.
→ read full articleSyria: At Least 50 Americans Have Joined Terrorist Units, US Says
Ken Dilanian - McClatchy,
10 Feb 2014
At least 50 Americans have joined the mix of extremist groups that are fighting to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad, and some could try to mount terrorist attacks at home, U.S. intelligence officials said Tuesday [4 Feb 2014].
→ read full articleVictory! India Ends Tests on Animals for Household Products
PETA-People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
A skin sensitization test that is currently performed by rubbing harsh chemicals into guinea pigs’ shaved skin was replaced with non-animal testing methods. This move will end all animal-poisoning tests for cleaners, detergents, and other common household products in India.
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