Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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We Have So Much to Learn From Cuba
Robert F. Kennedy Jr, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
“It seems stupid to pursue a U.S. foreign policy by repeating a strategy that has proved a monumental failure for six decades. The definition of insanity is repeating the same action over and over, and expecting different results. In this sense, the [Cuba] embargo is insane.”
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Michael Büker: What Ever Happened to Nuclear Weapons?
media.ccc.de – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Dec 29, 2014 – An overview of 70 years of nuclear weapons, focusing on some of the underlying physics, the international politics that surround the topic, modern technology for nuclear weapons detection and monitoring, and what everyone can do to help nuclear disarmament.
→ read full articleTorture Reports: Brazil and the United States Release Reports Documenting Systematic Human Rights Abuses
Kara Rochelle Martinez, Upside Down World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
2 Jan 2015 – One day after the U.S. Senate released its Executive Summary of the CIA’s policy of torture, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff unveiled her country’s investigatory National Truth Commission Report, identifying human rights atrocities committed in Brazil during the military dictatorship, 1964-1988. [She was tortured too.]
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
January 5-11 — Quote of the Week: “It isn’t enough to talk about peace; one must believe it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it; one must work for it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
→ read full article(Português) De volta para a Igreja: Cuba restitui templos cristãos
O Globo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
De maneira discreta, as autoridades cubanas vêm acelerando a restituição de antigas propriedades da Igreja Católica, que por muitos anos manteve uma relação conturbada com os Castro.
→ read full articleNew Level: Monsanto Tries Patenting Natural Tomatoes
Christina Sarich, Natural Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Stealing a Tomato with No Biotech Traits
→ read full articleAs Aleppo Goes, So Goes Syria? – A Strategic Area
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Freezing hostilities in Aleppo could possibly achieve the same for Syria. It’s worth a try.
→ read full articleWhy Do Men Stupefy Themselves? Leo Tolstoy on Why We Drink
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Decades before the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous and nearly a century before alcohol abuse was recognized as a disease by the World Health Organization, Tolstoy writes: “What is the explanation of the fact that people use things that stupefy them: vodka, wine, beer, hashish, opium, tobacco, and other things less common: ether, morphia, fly-agaric, etc.?”
→ read full articleConventional Prompt Global Strike Weapons
Amy F. Woolf, Congressional Research Service – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
CPGS weapons represent Washington’s preparation for military aggression for maintenance of world hegemony. They would allow the United States to strike targets anywhere on Earth in as little as an hour.
→ read full articleFor the Occupied and Oppressed Palestinians UN Means Useless Nations
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
What President Truman feared could happen did happen. On dealing with the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel the Security Council was put out of business by Zionism.
→ read full articleRichard Jackson: Terrorism, Torture, and the Problem of Evil in Our Time
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Richard Jackson, a professor of peace studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, has written a probing political essay that takes the form of an imagined dialogue between a British interrogator and an Egyptian terrorist who is apparently thought at the time of their conversation to be the mastermind of an imminent attack on Great Britain.
→ read full articleAfghanistan: Skulking Away from a Failed War
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
The ceremony, commemorating the war’s shutdown, was secret because authorities feared the possibility of a Taliban attack. The USA and NATO, as everyone knows, are the losers, despite the bloated enormity of their military superiority. What a mockery the reality of war makes of the rhetoric that blesses it.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to Arundhati Roy by an American
P.K. Willey Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
I now see that a misinformed view of his thought and action has led you to misrepresent Gandhi unfairly to the public around the planet. Churchill said, “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” Thoughts are another type of food, and our food, both mental and physical, determines our health, as individuals and as a society.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Stellungnahme des friedenspolitischen Sprechers des Komitees für Grundrechte und Demokratie zur Situation der deutschen Friedensbewegung
Prof. Dr. Andreas Buro – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Zum Jahreswechsel werden viele Fragen zur Situation und Zukunft der deutschen Friedensbewegung gestellt. Hier der Versuch zu antworten.
→ read full articleMonks & Politicians
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
A politician was campaigning for reelection and visited all kinds of people, trying to be folksy.
→ read full articleDeliberation on Post MDG (2015) Development Agenda
Centre for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development-CSEND – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
CSEND, a think tank focusing on the development nexus of trade, poverty, employment and social equity, is contributing to these deliberations through its engagement in both the global, national and regional levels.
→ read full articleThe Limitations of Strategic Nonviolence
Timothy Braatz, Peace Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
If the goal is to reduce violence of all types, to create a society where tomorrow is less violent than today, strategic nonviolence is insufficient and, thus, not pragmatic. For such a transformation, the principled approach—identifying and rejecting any and all forms of violence—is also the pragmatic one.
→ read full article(Italiano) 2014 nulla di buono. 2015 meglio?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
La tragedia del 2014 è stata la mancanza di autentici amici degli USA che gli dicessero: guarda, questo non funzionerà – meglio cambiare; prendetevi miglior cura della vostra meravigliosa società e dei vostri vicini, ritrattate. La speranza per il 2015 è che molti alleati lo facciano.
→ read full articleUN Security Council Rejects Resolution on Palestinian State
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Bid to end Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories by 2017 garners eight votes, one short of total needed to pass:
YES: Jordan, China, France, Russia, Luxembourg, Chad, Chile, Argentina.
NO: United States, Australia.
ABSTAINED: United Kingdom, Lithuania, Nigeria, South Korea, Rwanda.
(Italiano) AOSTA. “ANTEPRIMA ASSOLUTA de IO STO CON LA SPOSA all’ Espace Populaire”
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Il loro passaporto nelle ambasciate europee vale carta straccia. Così ogni mese, migliaia di Siriani e Palestinesi si affidano ai contrabbandieri libici ed egiziani, per attraversare il Mediterraneo su imbarcazioni di fortuna. Fuggono dalla guerra in Siria e vengono a chiedere asilo politico in Europa.
→ read full article2015: Defending Humanity by Reason or Force
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Ideals are being spat on, dragged through dirt by the omnipotent manufacturers of obedience and by their most powerful tools – the mass media, religious entrepreneurs, the private education system, and the pop entertainment machine. Only consumerism, commercialism, business achievements and loyalty to the regime are glorified. There is nothing that encourages people to dream of a much better world, or to struggle for a new, just and egalitarian society.
→ read full articleInstitutional and Cultural Inertia
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Today we are faced with multiple interrelated crises, for example the threat of catastrophic climate change or equally catastrophic thermonuclear war, and the threat of widespread famine. These threats to human existence and to the biosphere demand a prompt and rational response; but because of institutional and cultural inertia, we are failing to take the steps that are necessary to avoid disaster.
→ read full article5,000 Year Old Subterranean City Found in Turkey
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
A massive 5,000 year old underground city has been discovered in Turkey according to reports Sunday [28 Dec 2014]. The finding has been regarded as the biggest archeological discovery of 2014.
→ read full articleThe Rock of Our Existence
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
On the connection between Archeology and Ideology. The Bible is not real history. It is a monumental religious and literary document, that has inspired untold millions throughout the centuries. It has formed the minds of many generation of Jews, Christians and Muslims. But history is something else. History tells us what really happened. Archeology is a tool of history, an invaluable tool for the understanding of what took place.
→ read full articleCuban Province Records World’s Lowest Infant Mortality Rate
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
The central province of Cienfuegos, Cuba, ended 2014 with a rate of infant mortality of three deaths per thousand live births, the lowest in the world, local health authorities reported Friday [2 Jan 2015].
→ read full articleOn the New Year
Stephen Gill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
What then
if it is a New Year.
This day is the same
as any other day of last week
even last year.
Obama’s Lists: A Dubious History of Targeted Killings in Afghanistan
SPIEGEL Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Combat operations in Afghanistan may be coming to an end, but a look at secret NATO documents reveals that the US and the UK were far less scrupulous in choosing targets for killing than previously believed. Drug dealers were also on the lists.
→ read full article(Português) Ecolinguagem
Francisco Gomes de Matos, Elza Kioko N. N. do Couto, Adilson Marques & Hildo Honório do Couto, A Arvinha – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
A primeira ideia que vem à mente quando ouvimos a palavra ‘ecolinguagem’ é a de que ela seria a “linguagem ecologicamente correta”. Essa é a opinião do leigo. Porém, ela é apenas parcialmente correta e pode levar a interpretações equivocadas, como sói acontecer. Usar ecolinguagem é admitir e assimilar a visão ecológica do mundo.
→ read full articleLeonardo’s Brain: What a Posthumous Brain Scan Six Centuries Later Reveals about the Source of Da Vinci’s Creativity
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
An astonishing intellectual, and at times spiritual, journey into the particular brain of one undereducated, left-handed, nearly ambidextrous, vegetarian, pacifist, gay, singularly creative Renaissance male who was able to attain a different state of consciousness than “practically all other humans.”
→ read full articleThe Irrelevance of Liberal Zionism
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Frustrated by Israeli settlement expansion, excessive violence, AIPAC maximalism, Netanyahu’s arrogance, Israel’s defiant disregard of international law, various Jewish responses claim to seek a middle ground.
→ read full article2015, Conversion to Hinduism
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
India currently has witnessed intense debates on religious conversion particularly after some people converted into Hinduism. I am against forceful conversion. I apply this principle to all religions. Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Jains, Jews, and people without religion, have all called India their home. This is the beauty of India.
→ read full articleIs Cancer Risk Mostly Affected by Genes, Lifestyle, or Just Plain Bad Luck?
Jenna Birch, Yahoo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
While cancer can strike anyone — young or old, unhealthy and healthy — we do have some idea of what can affect risk.
→ read full articleWind Supplied 98% of Scotland’s Household Power in 2014 and Other Amazing Green Energy Stories
Juan Cole, Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Scotland is well on its way to getting 100% of its energy from renewable sources by 2022. Germany is rapidly replacing nuclear and coal with wind and solar, so much so that coal use was down 11% last year.
→ read full article(Português) Passagem de Ano
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
O fim do ano e o começo do outro deve ter a marca de uma alegria interior, que dispensa agitação e multidão, embora a presença das pessoas queridas seja coisa boa. A celebração da mudança de ano não precisa conter amargor de desejos não realizados ou cenários irreais.
→ read full articlePeru Is Now Giving Free Solar Power to Its 2 Million Poorest Citizens
Bill Ottman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
Dec 21, 2014 – The National Photovoltaic Household Electrification Program will cost about $200 million, which is basically nothing in the scheme of most international budgets. Peru also leads the way in national dedication to organic food and doesn’t allow GMO.
→ read full article(Castellano) Decir Todo, Decir Nada (LA Guerra Que No Es)
Fernando Montiel T. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
En la novela clásica del más importante ensayista inglés del siglo XX el Ministerio del Amor era el encargado de torturar a los disidentes, el Ministerio de la Verdad escondía los hechos y tergiversaba la información y el Ministerio de la Paz se encargaba de hacer la guerra. Las fantasías del literato devinieron en realidad cuando se normalizaron conceptos como comunidad internacional, terrorismo y comunismo. ¿Qué significan estas palabras?
→ read full articlePalestinians Granted Observer Status at International Criminal Court
JNS-Jewish and Israel News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
The ICC upgraded the Palestinians’ status to “non-state observer” at its summit meeting in New York on Monday [8 Dec 2014]. While largely symbolic, the move gives the Palestinians the right to ratify the Rome Statue, the founding treaty of the ICC.
→ read full articleThe NY Court of Appeals Granted the Vulture Funds Request of Information on Argentine Assets
Télam - Agencia Nacional de Noticias de la República Argentina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
28 Dec 2014 – The New York Second Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed Judge Thomas Griesa’s ruling, which had granted to vulture funds their request of seeking official information (discovery) on Argentine assets in the United States, as part of their litigation against the Argentine Republic.
→ read full articleHow Laws Restricting Tech Actually Expose Us to Greater Harm
Cory Doctorow, Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
The Internet isn’t just the world’s most perfect video-on-demand service. It’s not simply a better way to get pornography. It’s not merely a tool for planning terrorist attacks. Those are only use cases for the net; what the net is, is the nervous system of the 21st century. It’s time we started acting like it.
→ read full articleFox Affiliate Apologizes to Editing Protesters’ Chants to Say ‘Kill a Cop’
Walter Einenkel, Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
23 Dec 2014 – A Baltimore Fox station had to apologize to Black Lives Matter protester, Tawanda Jones, after they were busted for deceptively editing a protest chant to say “Kill a cop.”
→ read full articleDisdain and Belligerence Define IDF Leaders’ View of Palestinians
Jews For Justice For Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
Palestinians may feel anger and hatred towards their oppressors – but those oppressors regard them as contemptible sub-humans who can be ignored – if not rushed. Ya’alon in particular regards all filmed evidence of police and IDF brutality as faked. The refusal to deal with reality infects the whole country.
→ read full articleChina’s Second ‘Cultural Revolution’
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
China is in the midst of its second ‘cultural revolution’ in a half century. While the first (under Chairman Mao Tse Tung) was intended to ‘revitalize socialism’; the current is directed to ‘moralizing’ capitalism.
→ read full articleDoublespeak – Unpleasant Reckoning Looming for America’s Current Syrian Strategy
Prof. William R. Stanley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
Washington and its European allies have known for at least three years of the flow of their nationals to the Middle East to join jihadist groups fighting against the Syrian regime. Only recently have these same governments expressed alarm at the prospects for domestic violence at such time that battle hardened jihadists return home.
→ read full articleRemembering 2014 (Badly)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
A posture of cynical hopelessness or despair worsens prospects for positive future developments, however empirically based such a negative assessment seems. All of us should recall that those who struggle for what seems ‘impossible’ today often turn out to be the heroes of tomorrow.
→ read full articleAnother MH17 Cover-Up: Hiding a Key Autopsy
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
Decisive evidence as to how the July 17 [2014] shooting-down of the MH17 Malaysian airliner occurred is being hidden by the four-nation team that’s doing the official ‘investigation’ into the plane-downing incident.
→ read full article(Castellano) Catar 2022 un mundial empañado por la corrupción y la muerte
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
El Mundial de Fútbol 2022 se ha visto empañado por casos de corrupción, compra de votos en favor de la sede en Catar y la muerte de trabajadores durante la construcción de los estadios para el evento.
→ read full articleHappy New Year of 2015!
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
I would like to take this opportunity—change of year, New Year—to wish you, esteemed TMS reader, happiness, prosperity, health, peace in 2015.
→ read full articleIn the Right Place at the Right Time: The Lifting of the Cuban Embargo
Nuno Ramalho – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
I am overwhelmed with emotion as I rush my way through Montreal’s Pierre Eliot Trudeau International Airport, headed to La Habana…. Less than 48 hours after my arrival I was surprised by the Raul Castro/Obama simultaneous announcements that the diplomatic relations between Cuba and the US are to be reestablished.
→ read full articleIsrael Approves 380 New East Jerusalem Settler Homes
Agence France-Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
Israeli authorities gave final approval on Wednesday [24 Dec 2014] to the construction of 380 new settler homes in two areas of occupied east Jerusalem, a local official said.
→ read full articleSocialism and Man
Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
March 1965 – Written in the form of a letter to Carlos Quijano, editor of Marcha, a weekly published in Montevideo, Uruguay. Guevara wrote it while on a three-month overseas trip, during which he addressed the UN General Assembly and then visited a number of countries in Africa.
→ read full articleIs The New UN Arms Treaty a Boon for German Industry?
Deutsche Welle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
24 Dec 2014 – Over Christmas, the UN treaty on arms trade (ATT) will enter into force, but the German arms industry explicitly welcomes the additional regulations. Industry leaders hope the treaty could spell access to new markets.
→ read full articleMore Than 220 Ukrainian Jewish Immigrants Land in Occupied Palestine
Falastin News Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
Some 226 Jewish immigrants from Ukraine, among dozens of families fleeing fighting in eastern Ukraine, landed in Occupied Palestine on Monday [22 Dec 2014]. They are the first in an expected group of over 400 Ukrainians who will arrive before the end of the year. A second flight is scheduled for Dec. 30.
→ read full articleMy Glorious Brothers
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
When I was 15-year-old and a member of the Irgun underground (by today’s criteria, an honest-to-goodness terrorist organization), we sang “(In the past) we had the heroes / Bar Kochba and the Maccabees / Now we have the new ones / The national youth…” The melody was a German military marching song. Why did we look for heroes in the remote past?
→ read full article(Italiano) L’Impero Del Consumo
Eduardo Galeano, Come Don Chisciotte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
Società dei consumi. La bocca è una delle porte dell’anima, dicevano gli antichi. Ma se da lì passa solo cibo spazzatura, la vita è ridotta a un insieme infinito di acquisti di merci usa e getta. E lo struscio domenicale nel centro delle città è sostituito dal pellegrinaggio negli shopping mall che accerchiano le periferie.
→ read full articleOn Enlightened Self-Interest
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
What is the nature of activism? Why do we do what we do? How much self-sacrifice are we really willing to take? What do those of us feel after lost jobs, after time in jail, after being beaten and gassed by Israeli soldiers, or after all of the above? How does one distinguish between selfishness and enlightened self-interest? Is activism for peace and justice the ultimate love of humanity or the triumph of optimism over experience? Is activism and living life simply the ultimate love of Mother Nature or of God? The following rambling thoughts do not intend to give answers but hopefully give us time to reflect and think.
→ read full article2014 No Good. 2015 Any Better?
Johan Galtung, 29 Dec 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
The tragedy of 2014 was the lack of true friends telling USA: look, this is not going to work–better change; take better care of your own wonderful society, and your neighbors, retract. The hope for 2015 is that many allies will do that.
→ read full article(Italiano) Cuba – e poi?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
La reazione immediata all’ordine esecutivo di Obama del 17 dicembre 2014 di ristabilire rapporti diplomatici, agevolare i viaggi, scambiarsi prigionieri, è stata un senso di sollievo: finalmente correttivo di una stupidità vecchia d’oltre 50 anni. Ma perché adesso? Lo vediamo dopo; prima torniamo al giugno 1960.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
Dec 29/Jan 4 – Quote of the Week: “Be not forgetful to cherish the gifts each moment brings.” – Unknown.
→ read full articleUkraine Crisis: Playing Russian Roulette with All the Bullets in the Cylinder
Alexander Nekrassov, The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
There are two main schools of thought in Russia these days about the reasons for the crisis in Ukraine. The first states that the Cold War never really ended, but lay bubbling in the shadow of the supposedly ‘improving’ relations between Russia and the West.
→ read full articleAlan Lightman and ‘The Accidental Universe’
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
Science does not reveal the meaning of our existence, but it does draw back some of the veils. Theoretical physics is the deepest and purest branch of science. It is the outpost of science closest to philosophy, and religion.
→ read full articleThought Experiment
Jen Sorensen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
Cartoon – Comic Strip
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The Messiah – Hallelujah Chorus (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
George Frideric Handel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
From Andre Rieu’s “Live From Radio City Music Hall” in New York City, with the Johann Strauss Orchestra and the Harlem Gospel Choir.
→ read full articleJesus, a Muslim Prophet
Sufyan bin Uzayr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
Islam and Christianity: Two Faiths, One God – Islam views Jesus as a Prophet of God, rather than Son of God. Jesus, or Isa as he is called in Arabic, is referred to by name in nearly 25 different verses of The Quran, with titles such as Messenger, Prophet, and even Messiah. In fact, all Muslim theologians view Jesus as a precursor to Prophet Muhammad.
→ read full articleChange Them as Humans
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
A poem written on conversions especially in India.
→ read full articleThe 2014 P.U.-litzers
FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2014
Some of the Stinkiest Reporting from the Past Year – It’s that time of year again, when FAIR looks back at the year and recalls some of the stinkiest media moments. There were, of course, many contenders– but only a select few can make the list.
→ read full articleGaza’s Doctor Mads Gilbert Named Norway’s Person of the Year
Falastin News Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2014
20 Dec 2014 – An outspoken Norwegian doctor whose efforts to treat Palestinians wounded in the Gaza conflict garnered worldwide attention has been named person of the year by the country’s largest tabloid, Verdens Gang (VG).
→ read full articlePutin Shot Down a Plane! Putin Shot Down a … What? Never Mind
World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
The world outside of the U.S. media is full of evidence suggesting that Russia did not do it. The silence is deafening. Dutch plans to produce a dubious report by next summer are being outpaced by steps toward war.
→ read full articleThe Torture Report: American Exceptionalism for the Win!
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
This Modern World – Satirical Comic Strip
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
December 22 -28
→ read full articleCoexisting with Our Differences in a Civilized Manner
Pres. Raul Castro – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
Cuban President Raul Castro’s address to the nation on the developments in the Cuba-US relations, broadcast on radio and television on 17 Dec 2014.
→ read full articleIs the World View of a Holy Father Necessarily Full of Holes?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
Mysterious Theological Black Holes Engendering Global Crises – The argument has been variously presented: Which problems currently associated with global crisis would not be significantly reduced if the level of population was much lower? Presented otherwise: Is there every probability that global problems will be significantly aggravated by expected levels of population in the future?
→ read full articleEurope Has Lost Its Compass
Roberto Savio, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
With the fall of the Swedish government orchestrated by the far-right and centre-right opposition, a symbol of civic-mindedness and democracy in Europe has fallen, and the grip of an irrational fear of immigrants tightens as Europe’s politicians seek a scapegoat.
→ read full articleSplendid Isolation
Uri Avnery - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
20 Dec 2014 – A Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with East Jerusalem as its capital, an Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty, the end of the occupation, peace between Israel and the entire Arab and Muslim world. Or a Greater Israel, continuous occupation or annexation, more settlements and ethnic cleansing, permanent war. Israel has to choose. So has the world.
→ read full articleA Life Worth Living: Albert Camus on Our Search for Meaning and Why Happiness Is Our Moral Obligation
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
“To decide whether life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question of philosophy,” Albert Camus wrote in ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’ in 1942. “Everything else … is child’s play; we must first of all answer the question.” If the question abides, it is because it is more than a matter of historical or biographical interest.
→ read full articleFinancial Market Manipulation Is The New Trend: Can It Continue?
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
It is too risky for the US to take on Russia militarily. Instead, Washington is using its unique symbiotic relationship with Western financial institutions to attack an incautious Russia that foolishly opened herself to Western financial predation.
→ read full articleFidel’s Legacy
Stephen Lendman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
At age 88, he’s Cuba’s [and Latin America’s] elder statesman. A legend in his own time and then some. Defying critics. Outwitting them. Outliving them. This article a snapshot of some of his achievements. Impressive by any standard.
→ read full articleHead of Stratfor, the ‘Private CIA’, Says Overthrow of Ukraine’s Yanukovych Was ‘The Most Blatant Coup in History’
Eric Zuesse, OEN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
This statement contradicts the description asserted by the White House, the EU and the Western press that Yanukovych’s overthrow was the result of the U.S. Government’s $5+ billion expense since 1991 to establish ‘democracy’ in Ukraine.
→ read full articleHamas Calls for EU Talks after Court Ruling
Andrew Rettman, EUObserver – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
17 Dec 2014 – Hamas wants the EU foreign relations chief, Federica Mogherini, to come to Gaza to start a new dialogue after the EU court said it should be taken off the terrorist register.
→ read full articleSaving the ICC from African Thugtators
Alemayehu G. Mariam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
When an African president accused of multiple crimes against humanity walks out of court by orchestrating an unprecedented and audacious obstruction of justice, it is not just a flagrant denial of justice to the thousands of victims. It is an outrage against all humanity. It is an affront to the rule of law. It is the triumph of injustice.
→ read full articlePhysicians’ Group Details Psychologists’ Role in CIA’s “Extensive System of Torture”
Matthew MacEgan, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
Health professionals violated a series of international treaties, laws, and ethical codes including the Geneva Conventions, the UN Convention Against Torture, the War Crimes Act of 1996 and the Nuremburg Code. “In certain instances,” the report states, “such as in the crime of unethical research on human subjects, these alleged crimes may rise to the level of crimes against humanity under international law.”
→ read full articlePassword
Baher Kamal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
WINDOWS: Please enter your new password.
USER: cabbage
Haunting Illustrations for Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Introduced by the Courageous Journalist Who Broke the Edward Snowden Story
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
As the full impact of the Snowden revelations sank in, many people made the connection, and Amazon announced a dramatic rise in sales of ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four.’ To some, the young NSA analyst had revealed a world which was near-Orwellian; others thought that he had described a state of affairs that Orwell could barely have imagined.
→ read full articleTaliban Butchers Are Pashtun Cowards
Robin Edward Poulton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
If you sit of an evening beside a fire in the Pashtun heartlands, you will hear tales of bravery, honour and generosity. You will hear stories about how the Pashtuns were never defeated by Alexander the Great nor by Genghis Khan nor by the British Empire nor by the Soviet or American imperial armies. If you remind the Taliban about surats from the Holy Koran that tell Muslims never to kill another Muslim, how will your brave Pashtun slaughterer-of-children reply?
→ read full articleProsecute the Torturers!
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
The US elite did the right thing by revealing the dark side of its torture programme. But we must remember that the US commands enormous global power, especially global military power. With massive power come huge responsibilities. It is in the realm of the responsibilities that it has failed miserably. And its torture program is just one of the many examples of its failure to act responsibly
→ read full articleALBA Leaders Reject US Interference as Summit Concludes
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
With the 13th summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) concluding Sunday [14 Dec 2014], the12-member bloc of left-leaning Latin American and Caribbean countries strongly rejected U.S. interference on the region, particularly in light of new sanctions announced against Venezuela this week.
→ read full articleVeritasphobia (Fear of Truth)
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
20th century “heroes” like Helen Keller, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Ho Chi Minh, Nelson Mandela, Ghassan Kanafani, Rosa Parks, and thousands of others follow those who in earlier centuries were called “prophets”. They are common people who shed their Veritasphobia and thus achieved remarkable things.
→ read full articleThe US Feels the Heat on Palestine Vote at UN
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
The floodgates have begun to open across Europe. On Friday [12 Dec 2014] the Portuguese parliament became the latest European legislature to back statehood, joining Sweden, Britain, Ireland, France and Spain. Similar moves are expected in Denmark and the EU. The Swiss government will join the fray too this week.
→ read full article5 Ways to Protect Your Spine at Work
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
Regardless if your job requires heavy lifting or you spend most of your days at a desk, back injuries you want to avoid. They can happen from physical strains and many people don’t realize that they can happen under conditions that don’t appear as strenuous.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Peacebuilding von unten im Südsudan
Stephan Brües, Zivilcourage – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
Er ist das jüngste Land der Welt: Nach dem Friedensabkommen mit dem Sudan 2005, das ihm zunächst eine Autonomie mit eigener Präsidentschaft bescherte, hat sich der Südsudan nach einem Referendum im Januar 2011 endgültig vom Sudan abgespalten und ist nun unabhängig.
→ read full article(Português) Para Chomsky, na Casa Branca se articula o terror mundial
Noam Chomsky, Outras Palavras - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
Intelectual dissidente analisa campanhas de sabotagem deflagradas pelos EUA contra Angola, Cuba e Nicarágua. E alerta: Washington continua a desestabilizar adversários. “É oficial: os EUA são o maior Estado terrorista do mundo e se orgulham disso”.
→ read full articleMargaret Mead on Myth vs. Deception and What to Tell Kids about Santa Claus
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
How to instill an appreciation of the difference between “fact” and “poetic truth,” in kids and grownups alike. Belief in Santa Claus becomes a problem when parents simultaneously are telling their children a lie and insist on the literal belief in a man in a red suit. Children who have been told the truth about birth and death will know when they hear about Santa Claus that this is a truth of a different kind.
→ read full article
After Duo Created CIA Torture Methods, Did World’s Largest Group of Psychologists Enable Abuses?
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
Dec 16, 2014 – As a psychologist identified as the “architect” of the CIA’s torture program admits he personally waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, we look at allegations that the American Psychological Association — the largest association of psychologists in the world — secretly colluded with U.S. abuses.
→ read full articleWhy is Near Term Human Extinction Inevitable?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
The expression ‘near term human extinction’ is relatively new in the scientific literature but, unlike other truths that have been successfully suppressed by national elites and their corporate media, this one will keep filtering out until you start to hear the expression routinely. Why?
→ read full articleWhat Is in the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on CIA Torture (Part I)
Tom Carter, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
16 Dec 2014 – This is the first of three articles summarizing the contents of the unclassified executive summary of the US Senate Intelligence Committee’s 6,700-page report on the CIA torture program, released last week.
→ read full articleAnimal Overgrowth
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
Every child should visit an abattoir. What can you say about a society whose food production must be hidden from public view? In which the factory farms and slaughterhouses supplying much of our diet must be guarded like arsenals to prevent us from seeing what happens there?
→ read full articleX’mas Spirit
Stephen Gill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
I see her resurrecting in Christmas trees
mistletoe and Santa Claus.
The Germans Rebuilt Dresden and the Syrians Will Rebuild Aleppo!
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
One is distraught over the seeming futility of rebuilding this world heritage site. Would it require half a century as was required in Dresden Germany following three days of firebombing by British and American planes? There are many questions to be answered whether rebuilding would ever restore Aleppo’s old city to what it had been for centuries.
→ read full articleThe Dead End of Post-Oslo Diplomacy: What Next?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
The Oslo framework was an unseemly tacit assumption that the Palestinians would be willing to carry on negotiations without complaining about the Israeli violations of international law, most conspicuously the continued unlawful settlement activity.
→ read full articleThe Day Anti-Castro Forces Tried to Bomb the U.N.
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
When Ernesto Che Guevera was at the UN to address the General Assembly in 1964, the U.N. headquarters came under attack – literally. The anti-Castro forces, backed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), mounted an insidious campaign to stop Che Guevera from speaking. A 3.5-inch bazooka was fired at the 39-storeyed glass house by the East River.
→ read full articleChristmas at the War Front Line
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
This is a battlefield,
the war front line
Blue Helmets are standing by,
the UN flags are waving by.