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How Switzerland Ended Its Involvement in War
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
For the first 200 years of its history, Switzerland was involved in many wars, first to defend itself against repeated attempts by the German emperor to reconquer the cantons that had declared themselves independent in 1291, and later to acquire more territory. Two events brought an end to this involvement in war.
→ read full articleWilfred Burchett: The Atomic Plague
Wilfred Burchett, Fair Observer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Wilfred Burchett was the first reporter to enter the city of Hiroshima after the bombing. “I Write This as a Warning to the World” – The Daily Express, London, September 5, 1945
→ read full articleWartime Journalism: Mohammed Omer on Gaza
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Omer’s prior reporting earned him the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in 2007, recognizing the excellence of his reportage on Gaza (‘a voice for the voiceless’). After receiving the award in The Netherlands, Omer on his return home received a brutal reception at the Gaza border by Israeli security guards being beaten so severely as to endure serious injury that required specialized surgery.
→ read full article70 Years of Korean War
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
I’m inclined to think that August 10th should be formally recognized as Gulf of Tonkin War Fraud Day. But I’m not sure, because another event is in even more need of remembrance. It was the day after the death blow to Nagasaki, 70 years ago, that the victors of the most awesomest war ever chose to create a division of Korea along the 38th parallel.
→ read full articleNorway Revisited: Two Crises-An Oil Slick-And?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Norway, on top of the UN indicator of good life for years, is now hit by two different crises; one for the less developed aspect and one for the more developed. Yet the citizens are protected by a massive oil slick, the biggest sovereign fund in the world, the Government Pension Fund for an aging population when oil dries out.
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Should Palestinians Visit Nazi Concentration Camps?
MoralCourageChannel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
A Palestinian professor takes his students to visit Auschwitz – not to adopt the Zionist narrative, but to learn more about the conflict’s roots. Upon their return, the professor’s car is blown up. See why he persists, how one student was affected by the trip and, most surprising, who else wants to go.
→ read full article(Português) Dinamarca – O primeiro país que, por lei, só terá agricultura orgânica
Alice Branco – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Agosto 6, 2015 – A Dinamarca está se preparando para ter uma agricultura totalmente sustentável. Este é um dos projetos que o atual governo tem intenção de por em prática a de transformar a agricultura dinamarquesa em 100% orgânica.
→ read full articleHiroshima Spring
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Under the flush of cherry,
in air as mild as breath,
by the Ota’s tributary–
five crooked fingers reaching
into the Inland Sea–
In Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
The heat of summer is oppressive.
Children pass by in groups, chattering.
The Need for a New Economic System – Part 3: Climate Change and the Urgent Need for Renewable Energy
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
These considerations point to a battle that will have to be fought by the people of the world who are concerned about the long-term future of human civilization and the biosphere, against the vested interests of our oligarchic rulers. This fight will require wide public discussion of the dangers of runaway climate change. At present, our corporate-controlled mass media hardly mention the long-term dangers, such as the methane hydrate feedback loop, so the battle will have to be fought in the alternative media.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
August 10-16 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam
→ read full articleHiroshima Peace Declaration by Mayor Kazumi Matsui
The Japan Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Below is the full text of the Peace Declaration delivered Thursday [6 Aug 2015] by Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui at the ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the USA.
→ read full article(Français) 25 vérités de l’économiste Thomas Piketty sur la dette grecque
Salim Lamrani, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
3 août 2015 – L’auteur de l’ouvrage Le capital au XXIe siècle dénonce l’hypocrisie de la troïka et du Fonds monétaire international au sujet de la question de la dette.
→ read full articleDr. Walter Palmer’s Crime Must Not Be Forgotten: Killing Cecil the Lion
Captain Paul Watson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Our outrage is having a positive impact. Delta, Air France, Emirates, Air Canada and United have banned the shipment of wildlife trophies. Zimbabwe has banned lion hunting. The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to ban wildlife trophies into the U.S. Botswana has banned big game hunting. We need to keep this outrage alive and we need to focus on destroying the Safari Club International and their 50,000 sadistic members. We need to create an understanding that anyone who puts a head of an animal on the wall as a trophy should be ostracized and publicly shamed.
→ read full articleBlessing the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombs
Father George Zabelka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Father George Zabelka, a Catholic chaplain with the U.S. Air Force, served as a priest for the airmen who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, and gave them his blessing. Over the next twenty years, he gradually came to believe that he had been terribly wrong; that he had denied the very foundations of his faith by lending moral and religious support to the bombings.
→ read full articleThe 70th Anniversary of the Bombing of Nagasaki: Unwelcome Truths for Church and State
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
70 years ago, (August 9, 1945) an all-Christian bomber crew dropped a plutonium bomb over Nagasaki, annihilating tens of thousands of innocent civilians, a disproportionately large number of them Japanese Christians. The bomb exploded directly over the massive Urakami Cathedral, the largest Christian church in the Orient.
→ read full articleCitigroup’s Unchecked Crime Wave Proves that America Is Headed in the Wrong Direction
Pam Martens and Russ Martens, Wall Street on Parade - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Citigroup, the bank that played a central role in bringing America to its knees in 2008; received the largest taxpayer bailout in the history of finance to resuscitate its insolvent carcass; pleaded guilty to a felony count of rigging foreign currency trading in May and was put on a three year probation – is now under a string of manycriminal and civil investigations.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Giappone rivisitato
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Guerra, colonialismo, atrocità sono state considerate l’essenza del Giappone, accidentali in Germania. Ecco all’opera il razzismo occidentale: impunità per i bianchi, non per i gialli. Giudicato dalle potenze coloniali occidentali i cui crimini coloniali gridano al cielo rispetto a quel che fece il Giappone. Me compreso, che ho attribuito il colonialismo occidentale al Giappone. Chiedo scusa.
→ read full articleCitizens of the World: Crisis and Response
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Whenever the structure among States was too small to deal with the socio-economic and political challenges being faced, persons have worked for larger groupings: the United States rather than the Articles of Confederation, the European Union, the African Union, the United Nations. Today, the challenges concern the whole planet.
→ read full articleWorld Welcomes US Border Walls
News From Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
T. Ronald Dump, one of 68 (and counting) contestants for the Republican presidential nomination, proposed a wall only for the border between the US and Mexico. But, as 67 other Republican contenders quickly argued, it would be relatively easy for Mexican rapists and drug dealers to travel to Canada and then invade the US across the northern border, so a northern wall was needed also.
→ read full article(Português) Guerras e Recessão: As Promessas da Pax Norte-Americana
Emir Sader, Carta Maior – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Os países que resistem aos imperativos do capital é que estão no começo de um novo ciclo, de construção de um mundo baseado na solidariedade.
→ read full articleTruthful
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Someone was walking with the devil. The person in front of them bent down and picked something up.
→ read full articlePondering Jonathan Pollard’s Release
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Loyalty to the state continues to be the north star of conventional patriotism. For the citizen pilgrim solidarity with an emergent eco-humanist insurgency is the keystone of 21st century political community and ethical responsibility deserving precedence when in conflict with nationalist and tribal affinities.
→ read full articleThe Bravenhearts of Wadi Al Nasera, Syria
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
The group of Greek Orthodox nuns was kidnapped in Dec 2013 and held for three months by Jabhat al, released three months later in a prisoner exchange. This observer was honored to spend time with this charming, passionate, energetic, group of sisters on Aug/4/2015 and we discussed many subjects.
→ read full articleDivide et Impera
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Binyamin Netanyahu is not known as a classical scholar, but even so he has adopted the Roman maxim Divide et Impera, divide and rule. The main (and perhaps only) goal of his policy is to extend the rule of Israel, as the “Nation-State of the Jewish People”, over all of Eretz Israel, the historical land of Palestine. This means ruling all of the West Bank and covering it with Jewish settlements, while denying any civil rights to its 2.5 million plus Arab inhabitants.
→ read full articleJapan Revisited
Johan Galtung, 3 Aug 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
War, colonialism, atrocities were seen as the essence of Japan, as accidental in Germany. Western racism at work: impunity for white people-not for yellow. Judged by Western colonial powers whose colonial crimes cry to the heavens relative to what Japan did. Including me, attributing Western colonialism to Japan. Sorry.
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Up Up in the Sky (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
StopTheCrime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
Jul 22, 2015 – A song protesting aerosol crime operations in our skies: geoengineering/chemtrails.
→ read full articleVideo Graphic Footage Shows Mass Slaughter of Pilot Whales in the Faroe Islands
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
• All five Sea Shepherd crewmembers who were detained overnight have been arrested.
• Approx. 250 pilot whales were killed yesterday. *111 killed at Bøur *130-150 killed at Tórshavn.
The American Psychological Association’s ‘Independent Review’ on Ethics, National Security and Torture—In Historical Context
Marcie Holmes, Hidden Persuaders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
Our inquiries here chart important chapters in the ‘history of the present’, especially in light of recent revelations that the psychological methods once used to protect against ‘brainwashing’ have been reverse engineered as techniques of ‘enhanced interrogation’ in the ‘War on Terror’.
→ read full articleEuropean Federalism and Missed Opportunities – United States of Europe?
Emma Bonino, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
Emma Bonino, a leading member of the Radical Party, former European Commissioner and a former Italian foreign minister, argues that serious problems affecting Europe, like the Greek crisis and waves of migration, could have been addressed more quickly and efficiently if the European Union had embraced federalism.
→ read full articleNeeded: Political Will . . .
Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
A solution to the problem of global warming is not a technical problem, but rather a political problem. The means are available. The Earth Policy Institute published “Seven Surprising Realities behind the Great Transition to Renewable Energy” showing that the global transition to clean, renewable energy and away from nuclear and fossils is well under way. Their “seven surprising realities:”
→ read full articleSilence Is Complicity
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
31 Jul 2015 – Jewish colonial settler attacked a village near Nablus throwing Molotov cocktails and burning houses. Ali Dawabsheh age 1.5 years baby was burned to death and three family members sustained severe burns. Jewish terrorism is not new.
→ read full articleNGO Open letter to Member States of the General Assembly on the Selection Process of the UN Secretary-General
Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
The selection of the new Secretary-General in 2016 will be one of the most important decisions the General Assembly will make in the next ten years. The new Secretary-General will have to address a world confronted with increasingly dangerous civil wars, humanitarian and environmental disasters, terrorism, regressive development, economic and financial turmoil, and inequality.
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Butterfly
Vishnu Vasu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
A very creative and poetic journey into Sri Lanka’s NO FIRE ZONE to meet with former child soldiers. A very powerful, engaging and insightful film on what terrorist/freedom fighting groups do for their recruitment.
→ read full article(Português) As Crises da Vida e a Autorealização
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
O desafio posto a cada um não é como evitar as crises. Elas são inerentes à nossa condição humana. A questão é como as enfrentamos: que lições tiramos delas e como podemos crescer com elas. Por aí passa o caminho de nossa auto-realização e de nossa maturidade como seres humano ou de nosso fracasso.
→ read full articleRebuilding Nepalese Villages after the 2015 Earthquakes
Dr. Hari Kumar Shrestha – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
This paper highlights some rebuilding plans for the growth and development of Nepalese villages after the earthquakes of 2015. The information included in this article is based on my field observation and available secondary data.
→ read full articleVietnam War Half a Century Later
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
This was the bad war in contrast to which World War II acquired the ridiculous label “good war.” Members of the wonderful organization, Veterans For Peace, have launched their own educational campaign to counter the Pentagon’s at VietnamFullDisclosure.org, and the Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee has done the same at LessonsOfVietnam.com.
→ read full articleWake Up!
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
The alarm is sounding.
Can you hear it?
Can you hear the bells
of Nagasaki
ringing out for peace?
Why Americans Believe That Bombing Hiroshima Was Necessary
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
August 6, 2015, is the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, a civilian city that had minimal military value, despite the claims of President Truman when he announced the event to the American people.
→ read full articleEco-Insurgency, Tribal Vision, and Ultra-Nationalist Geopolitics
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
Thinking hopefully, the Anthropocene Age may soon witness the first species insurgency against the eco-tyrannical elites of the world, who have become the suicidal guardians of our neoliberal market forces joined in an unbreakable alliance with dominant forces of tribalism and nationalism. In moments of despair, the end-time hegemony of this unbreakable alliance are likely to retain control of species destiny.
→ read full articleYemen and World Law: Building from Current Experience
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
The indiscriminate bombing of cities in Yemen by the Saudi-led coalition highlights the need for renewal of the way that humanitarian law is observed in times of armed conflict especially in three areas:
a) the protection of women,
b) the prohibition of starvation of civilian populations as a method of warfare,
c) the protection of cultural heritage.
The Dangerous Rise of Buddhist Chauvinism
Yuriko Koike, Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
The Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, composed no sutta to religious hatred or racial animus. And yet Buddhist chauvinism now threatens the democratic process in both Myanmar (Burma) and Sri Lanka.
→ read full article« New Silk Road »: A Chinese-style New Deal
Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
Historians will remember that the Chinese President Xi Jinping officially launched the new “Silk Road” with a 30-min speech at the Boao Economic Conference on Hainan Island the 28 Mar 2015, in front of 16 heads of State or government and 100 or so ministers from the 65 countries which are on the path, land or sea, of this new trade route.
→ read full articleThe Greek Coup: Liquidity as a Weapon of Coercion
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
‘Let’s have an independent commission look into how on earth it is possible that a cabal of unelected movers and shakers gets full control over the entire financial structure of a democratically elected eurozone member government.’ As Canadian PM William L. M. King warned in 1935: “Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes the nation’s laws. Usury, once in control, will wreck any nation.”
→ read full articleSuccess as Animal Sacrifice Banned at Gadhimai Festival (Nepal)
Compassion in World Farming – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
It’s estimated that more than 500,000 buffalo, goats, chickens and other animals were decapitated at Gadhimai in 2009. In a statement released 28 Jul 2015, the Gadhimai Temple Trust stated: “The Gadhimai Temple Trust hereby declares our formal decision to end animal sacrifice. With your help, we can ensure Gadhimai 2019 is free from bloodshed. Moreover, we can ensure Gadhimai 2019 is a momentous celebration of life. “
→ read full articleCorporate Tribunals Pose Biggest Hurdle to Europe’s Vote on Transatlantic Trade Pact
Tom Lawson, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
So much public concern and controversy has been raised over investor-state dispute settlements that the E.U. suspended talks on the rules in order to open a public consultation.
→ read full articleDr. Apj Abdul Kalam Was India’s President of Uncritical Devotion—A Tribute
Stephen Gill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam was the 11th president of India. Dr. Kalam will be remembered for his life of a harmonious marriage between art and knowledge. His ceaseless struggle in the narrow alleys of the bumpy orbits of bigotries to raise a stage for the goddess of peace to dance has set an example. He died of cardiac arrest on July 27, 2015.
→ read full articleAs Cuba Escalates Call for Guantanamo, Obama Battles Congress
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
26 Jul 2015 – The Cuban government once again demanded the U.S. to lift the 50-year-old economic blockade on the island and to return the occupied territory of Guantanamo at the 62nd anniversary of the Assault on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba.
→ read full articleAdvice to EU: Differentiate Israel from Settlements
Jews For Justice For Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
The EU regards Israeli settlements as outside the law; it cannot trade with them. Israel-EU trading ties are ‘thickening’ says this briefing from the European Council on Foreign Relations. Its recommendation is rigorous ‘differentiation’ between settlement and Israeli goods – for Israel’s sake. A document worth keeping.
→ read full articleThe Need for a New Economic System – Part 2: Entropy and Economics
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
The disorder and statistical probability of the universe is constantly increasing, but because the earth is not a closed system, we are able to create local order, and complex, statistically improbable structures, like the works of Shakespeare, the Mona Lisa and the Internet. The human economy is driven by the free energy that we receive as income from the sun. Money is, in fact, a symbol for free energy, and free energy might be thought of as “negative entropy”. There is also a link between free energy and information.
→ read full articleAssange: The Untold Story of an Epic Struggle for Justice
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
The persecution of Julian Assange is about to flare again as it enters a dangerous stage. From August 20, three quarters of the Swedish prosecutor’s case against Assange regarding sexual misconduct in 2010 will disappear as the statute of limitations expires. At the same time Washington’s obsession with Assange and WikiLeaks has intensified.
→ read full articleA Zen Master Explains Death and the Life-Force to a Child and Outlines the Three Essential Principles of Zen Mind
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
“Zen practice … requires great faith, great courage, and great questioning.” If death is so enormous a mystery that we remain unable to wrap our grownup minds around it, despite comfort from our great poets and consolation from our great philosophers, how are tiny humans to make sense of it all?
→ read full articleEliciting Memorable Spheres and Polyhedra from Hyperspace
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
Integrative Connectivity of Problems, Strategies, Themes, Groups or People – Much is made of the recognition that everything is now connected to everything, especially as reflected in patterns of links in cyberspace. The particular focus here is on using analytical data on triangles of relationships in such a way as to construct memorable networks of these triangles based on any shared edges.
→ read full article(Italiano) Dalla sicurezza alla pace: un cambiamento di paradigm
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
L’accordo è stato fra un Iran con 0 bombe e i 5 membri del Consiglio di Sicurezza ONU+1 + l’UE con 16,565 bombe (con altre 20 bombe USA in Germania, 240 nell’UE, e 80? in Israele). In un accordo c’è in genere un dare e prendere da entrambe le parti; l’Iran ha dato, dall’altra hanno smesso di picchiare con le sanzioni, dando nulla. Ci diranno che “le sanzioni funzionano” e ci proporranno altre dosi di quest’approccio molto negativo.
→ read full articleRevolting World
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
‘The World Order and Revolution! Essays from the Resistance’ – Using a combination of political, legal and economic analyses [in their new book], Vltchek, Black and Koenig carefully strip away the façade that the corporate media presents to us, and which the imperial elite wants us to believe, so that we can see some of the ugly, underlying truth about our world.
→ read full articleThe Tiger’s Whisker
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
A Korean Folktale – A woman came to seek help from a famous herbalist.
→ read full articleSome Charity
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
After the church service a little boy told the pastor, “When I grow up, I’m going to give you some money.”
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
August 3–9 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “It’s never too late to start over. If you weren’t happy with yesterday, try something different today. Don’t stay stuck. Do better.” – Alex Elle
→ read full articleTarget Tokyo: US Spied on Japanese Government and Corporations Since 2006
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
Today, Friday 31 July 2015, 9am CEST, WikiLeaks publishes “Target Tokyo”, 35 Top Secret NSA targets in Japan including the Japanese cabinet and Japanese companies such as Mitsubishi, together with intercepts relating to US-Japan relations, trade negotiations and sensitive climate change strategy.
→ read full articleReturn to Ma’loula
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
1 Aug 2015 – As of today, approximately 900 Christians and 50 Muslims from the pre-2011 population of 5000 have returned to Ma’loula, their 90 AD ancient village. Ma’loula, is among the nearly 7000 historic places in Syria that have been looted, burned, bulldozed or subjected to mindless jihadist iconoclasm as being ‘un-Islamic,” or which have sustained war damage from more than one source.
→ read full articleThe Dublin-Doha Nexus: Ireland’s Key Role in the Muslim Brotherhood’s Global Jihad
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
A CNN study published in September 2014 surprisingly found that Ireland is second only to Finland among countries with the greatest percentage of Muslims who have gone to fight in Syria.
→ read full articleThe News Media as a Masterful Means of Multiple Meaning-Making
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
A Rhymed Reflection
→ read full articleEU’s Greek Debt Austerity Plan Rejected by the IMF
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
I have maintained that the imposition of austerity on Greece could not possibly work and that the only solution was to write down the debt and introduce reforms that loosen the hold the oligarchs have on the Greek economy. The current Greek government has taken the same position, and now the IMF has joined us.
→ read full articleObama Walks Fine Line in Kenya on LGBTI Rights
Aruna Dutt, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
But LGBTI [Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex] Kenyans are not in agreement about whether Obama’s presence will help or hurt their struggle, according to the Executive Director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, Jessica Stern.
→ read full articleOptimizing Web Surfing Pathways for the Overloaded
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Polyhedral Insights from the Travelling Salesman Problem of Operations Research – If one is in the habit of visiting 5,10, 20, 50 websites (or more) at various frequencies, the issue is whether there are more fruitful ways to organize such a tour? Given the challenge of information overload, does this provide a more meaningful context to explore the increasing problem of “link fatigue” — namely exposure to yet another link one is encouraged to investigate?
→ read full articleIsrael Sees Nazism in Mirror it Mistakes for Window
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
27 July 2015 – Israel is trying to expel the population of a village for the crime of not being Jewish, the same crime for which Israel bombs the people of Gaza for a month or so every few years and blockades them in between these bursts of violence. Meanwhile, Mike Huckabee declares that making peace with Iran amounts to marching Israelis “to the door of the oven.” Guess which of the two stories will get more coverage!
→ read full articleIsrael, Iran and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Any use of violence against Iran would be both insane and criminal. Such violence would violate both the UN Charter and the Nuremberg Principles. There is no hope at all for the future unless we work for a peaceful world, governed by international law, rather than a fearful world where brutal power holds sway.
→ read full articleThe Agenda behind ISIS’ Cultural Genocide
Maram Susli, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
So far ISIS has destroyed several sites across Iraq, which includes the destruction and looting of Mosul Museum, the destruction of the 3000-year-old Assyrian city of Nimrud and the bulldozing of the 2000-year-old fortress city of Hatra. Recently ISIS militants threatened to destroy Egypt’s Sphinx and pyramids.
→ read full articleMyanmar [Burma]: How the Rohingya and Other Resident Minorities Became Disenfranchised
Luicy Pedroza, European University Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
17 Jul 2015 – Over the past weeks, the plight of Rohingya refugees has caught the eye of the international media. They are emigrants from Myanmar (Burma) who were adrift for weeks in the seas of South-East Asia after having fled from appalling living conditions in their native Myanmar, only to be firmly rebuffed by neighbouring countries who refused to admit them on their shores.
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Fix You (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Coldplay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
From the Album Y&Y Ghost Stories, 2011
→ read full articleJPMorgan Chase Closes at All-Time High – As Financial Crises Sprout Like ‘08
Pam Martens and Russ Martens, Wall Street on Parade – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
JPMorgan Chase is a global bank with over $2 trillion in assets “serving corporations and individuals in over 100 countries.” In February, the U.S. Treasury Office released a report showing staggering levels of interconnected risk among global banks. JPMorgan had the highest overall score for systemic and interconnected risk.
→ read full articleBRICS Bank’s 1st Loan to Be Issued in Yuan Not Dollars
The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
July 24, 2015 – The BRICS New Development Bank will name its first investment in April next year and the first loan will be issued in yuan not dollar, top officials confirmed.
→ read full article(Português) A assombrosa previsão de Fidel Castro em 1973
Revista Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
“Estados Unidos vão dialogar com Cuba quando tiverem um presidente negro e o Papa for latino-americano”, disse o líder cubano em um encontro com jornalistas relatado pelo jornal argentino Clarín.
→ read full articleBest Exercises for Strong Bones
Elizabeth Quinn, Sports Medicine Expert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Build Stronger Bones with the Right Exercises
→ read full articleSheldon’s Stooges
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
In japan in the good old days, Binyamin Netanyahu would by now have committed hara-kiri. In England at that time, the monarch would have appointed him governor of the most remote little island in the Pacific Ocean. In Israel, his popularity rating is bound to go up. Because in our country, the old adage is getting a new twist: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure.
→ read full article(Italiano) Estetica: una strada per la pace?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
La figura centrale è un sultano, Ibrahim Adil Shah II, del regno di Bijapur nell’India Centrale, tra Mumbai e Goa; stiamo parlando dell’inizio del 17° secolo. Il sultano è descritto come “uno studioso erudito, suonatore di liuto, poeta, cantante, calligrafo, maestro di scacchi ed esteta”. Quale differenza rispetto ai governanti occidentali dotati di abilità politico-militari; quale somiglianza con i sovrani cinesi, imperatori, mandarini con poesia, calligrafia e altre arti come parte indelebile della loro legittimità.
→ read full articleFrom Security to Peace: A Paradigm Shift
Johan Galtung, 27 Jul 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
The deal was between Iran with 0 bombs and the UNSC 5+1 + EU with 16,565 (20 US bombs in Germany, 240 in EU, and Israel, 80? behind). In a deal there is usually give-and-take on both sides; Iran gave, they stopped beating with sanctions, and gave nothing. We will be told that “sanctions work” and get more of that very negative approach.
→ read full articleOnward U. S. Soldiers
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Onward, U. S. soldiers, marching off to war,
with the lure of conquest worth the blood and gore.
Earth’s Most Famous Climate Scientist Issues Bombshell Sea Level Warning
Eric Holthaus, Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
20 Jul 2015 – In what may prove to be a turning point for political action on climate change, a breathtaking new study casts extreme doubt about the near-term stability of global sea levels —written by James Hansen, NASA’s former lead climate scientist, and 16 co-authors, many of whom are considered among the top in their fields.
→ read full articleInternational Election Monitors: Agents of Free Elections
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
The violent presidential election in Burundi highlights the need for UN election-monitoring services. The current UN-based election-monitoring services need to be strengthened. The UNGA should mandate a study on the means by which the UN could provide a universal election-monitoring service drawing upon the rich experience of the OSCE.
→ read full articleA Chance for Arab-Iranian Reconciliation: An Opportunity in the Iran Nuclear Deal
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Both Iran and its Arab foes could, in fact, see this as an opportunity. Instead of waiting for the cunning US to regroup and re-adapt to strike more division, Arabs and Iran should understand that it is, ultimately, their countries and peoples who will continue to suffer the consequences of war, sanctions, divisions and extremism.
→ read full articleNoam Chomsky Says US Turned to Cuba Due to Increasing Isolation
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
The U.S. was on the verge of being completely isolated from its own ‘backyard,’ Latin America, in the 2015 Summit of the Americas.
→ read full articleIran Calls for Universal Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
Sputnik News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
21 Jul 2015 – Nuclear weapons should be completely eliminated worldwide as they are “detrimental to international peace and security,” the Iranian government said in a statement following a passage of the Security Council resolution endorsing the Iran nuclear deal.
→ read full articleThe New “Red Menace” and NATO’s Plans in the Arctic
Oriental Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
NATO’s military-political expansion in Europe is generally targeted to follow a trajectory running from Washington to the Northeast, and thus the Americans’ Arctic policy continues to grow more aggressive. Washington’s increasing pressure on the nonaligned Arctic states (Finland and Sweden) is intended to promote their further rapprochement with the alliance.
→ read full articleFukushima Nuclear Disaster: ‘Radiation Will Wash Down from Mountains, Forests into Other Lands’
Russia Today - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
23 Jul 2015 – It’s impossible to even slightly decontaminate the area damaged by the Fukushima nuclear disaster because of the mountains and dense forests in that region, says Mycle Schneider, independent analyst on energy and nuclear policy.
→ read full articleDesertion: A Long, Proud History
CJ Hinke, World Beyond War - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
There are as many reasons to desert military service as there are deserters. All countries’ militaries like to snatch young men when they are uneducated, inexperienced, and unemployed. You can do no greater good than refusing to kill. If you are in the military, anybody’s military, do the right thing: RUN AWAY!
→ read full articleAlliance Blackmail: Israel’s Opposition to the Iran Nuclear Agreement
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
JCPOA imposes more restrictions on Iranian enrichment capabilities and stockpiles, and on inspection and monitoring of compliance, than has been imposed on any country in the course of the entire nuclear era. Left out of consideration altogether was the nuclear weapons arsenal of Israel acquired with Western complicity and by covert means, as well as through operations outside the Nonproliferation Treaty regime, which is used to tie Iran’s hands and feet.
→ read full article(Italiano) TPP-TTIP-Tisa: la soglia critica per la democrazia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Questo editoriale vede i tre accordi come una soglia critica per la democrazia; ma, verso dove? Lontano dalla democrazia come processo del e da parte del popolo, e lontano dalla democrazia come società per il popolo, eccetto che nel senso di prezzi più bassi. Addio Lincoln.
→ read full articleMideast Arms Build-up Negative Fallout from Iran Nuclear Deal
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Jul 23 2015 – The nuclear agreement concluded last week between Iran and six big powers, the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany, is threatening to trigger a new Middle East military build-up – not with nuclear weapons but with conventional arms, including fighter planes, combat helicopters, warships, missiles, battle tanks and heavy artillery.
→ read full articleGeorge Clooney Opposes War Profiteering—But only in Africa
David Swanson, World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Of the top 100 weapons makers in the world, not a single one is based in Africa. Only 1 is in South or Central America. Fifteen are in Western allies and protectorates in Asia (and China is not included in the list). Three are in Israel, one in Ukraine, and 13 in Russia. Sixty-six are in the United States, Western Europe, and Canada. Forty are in the U.S. alone. Seventeen of the top 30 are in the U.S. Six of the top 10 mega-profiteers are in the U.S. The other four in the top 10 are in Western Europe.
→ read full articleBreaking: Massive Pod of Pilot Whales Slaughtered in the Faroe Islands
Cole Mellino, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
23 Jul 2015 – The people of the Faroe Islands have a tradition of herding whales into a cove and slaughtering them for food and other uses, which, needless to say, draws condemnation from people worldwide who see the custom as archaic, cruel and unnecessary. GRAPHIC VIDEO
→ read full article(Français) Une étude allemande pointe les bénéfices économiques de la migration
Dario Sarmadi, EurActiv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
22 juil 2015 – La République fédérale devrait repenser son aide au développement et sa politique d’asile, estime une nouvelle étude de l’université d’Osnabrück, appelant les responsables politiques à voir la migration comme une opportunité plutôt que comme une menace.
→ read full articleUS and NATO Engage in Unprecedented Military Exercises in Europe
Niles Williamson, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
A review of the ongoing exercises in the run-up to Trident Juncture gives a sense of the size and scope of the war preparations being developed by the United States and its NATO allies.
→ read full articleTurning Enemies into Allies
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
At the 1919 Versailles peace conference after World War I, the French Prime Minister Georges Clémenceau insisted that Germany be held solely responsible for starting World War I, and be forced to pay huge reparations over the next fifty years, to bring Germany to its knees, so that it would never be able again to build up its industrial capacity and become a military threat to its neighbors.
→ read full articleAccuracy
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
The following joke was circulating in Moscow in 1998:
→ read full articleThe Need for a New Economic System – Part 1: Limits to Growth
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
The unsustainable, power-worshiping, consumption-oriented values of western society are so strongly propagandized by television, films and advertising that they overpower and sweep aside the wisdom of older societies. The wisdom of our ancestors, their respect for nature and their hospitable traditions of sharing can help us create a new economic system founded on social and environmental ethics.
→ 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 article(Italiano) T-tip, il nostro futuro greco
Francesco Martone, Comune Info – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
21 luglio 2015 – Per uno paradosso o una significativa coincidenza lo stesso giorno nel quale processava Alexis Tsipras, il parlamento europeo avrebbe votato il rapporto Lange sul Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-tip). Raffigurazioni plastiche ed evidenti di come il progetto europeo di spazio di cittadinanza comune abbia ceduto il passo a quello elitario dell’austerity, e dell’ordoliberismo a tutti i costi, ed agli interessi delle imprese e dei mercati anche a costo della sopravvivenza di uomini e donne in carne ed ossa.
→ read full articleHow Monsanto Wrote and Broke Laws to Enter India
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
21 Jul 2015 – Citizens of the United States are being denied the right to know what they are feeding their families despite the fact that 90% of American citizens want GMO labelling on their food. Decades before there was a “debate” over GMOs and Monsanto’s PR and law firms became the busiest of bees, India was introduced to this corrupting, corporate giant that had no respect for the laws of the land.
→ read full article(Français) Chronique de mots pervers : le “capital humain”
Elisabeth Beague, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
20 juillet 2015 – Le « capital humain » fut précédemment appelé « ressources humaines » et, il y a plus longtemps encore, « personnel ». Pourquoi cette évolution ? Sans prendre le risque de se tromper lourdement, il est permis d’avancer que la transformation du lexique est au cœur d’un vaste travail politique de marchandisation de la relation salariale.
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