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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
Jan 11-17 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness.” – Confucius
→ read full articleSyria (Minding the Minds II)
Johan Galtung, 11 Jan 2016 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
Syria offered a poor choice between a minority dictatorship with tolerance and a majority dictatorship–democracy–without. Violence flourished, attracting old suspects for proxy wars. “Bomb Syria” was the panacea, after “bomb Libya”. What a shame. Bring it to an end.
→ read full articleThis Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
11 Jan 2016
January 9, 1987 – Dean Rusk (1909-1994), a former Secretary of State (1961-69) under presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson who received many awards during his career including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, spoke out against nuclear weapons with a statement that, “Nuclear war not only eliminates all the answers, but eliminates all the questions.”
→ read full article(Português) A Inteligência dos Porcos
Direitos Animais - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
11 Jan 2016
Cada vez mais vamos percebendo, através de estudos ou pela simples convivência, que os animais não humanos são mais inteligentes do que costumávamos pensar. Para exemplificar, segue uma lista de comportamentos peculiares dos porcos.
→ read full articleRomancing the Sunni: A US Policy Tragedy in Three Acts. Act I
Angelo Codevilla – Asia Times,
4 Jan 2016
For more than a quarter century, as Americans have suffered trouble from the Muslim world’s Sunni and Shia components and as the perennial quarrel between them has intensified, the US government has taken the side of the Sunni. This has not worked out well for us.
→ read full articleTwenty Pious Wishes for 2016: Mind the Minds
Johan Galtung, 4 Jan 2016 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Empirically, the West is often on the wrong side. Nevertheless, as anything empirical, it is subject to the law of change. Westerners are not slaves of the violent mind-sets in the Iliad and Beowulf spanning Europe. The liberation is overdue. By minding the minds.
→ read full articleRomancing the Sunni: A US Policy Tragedy in Three Acts. Act II
Angelo Codevilla – Asia Times,
4 Jan 2016
Iraq’s Sunni leaders awakened to the reality that far from cowing the Shia while punishing the Americans they were now in danger of their very lives. They offered to stop killing Americans if the Americans could stop the Shia from killing them. The US government set about doing that. This was “the surge” in 2006.
→ read full articleThe Mass Beheadings in Saudi Arabia
Bill Van Auken, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
4 Jan 2015 – Washington’s closest ally in the Arab world, the dictatorial monarchy of Saudi Arabia, ushered in the New Year with a torrent of blood, simultaneously executing 47 prisoners. This wave of state murders unfolded at 12 separate prisons across the kingdom. The barbaric killing spree was a calculated political act driven by both domestic and international objectives.
→ read full articleGITMO Clock
Andy Worthington, Close Guantánamo Campaign – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Holding President Obama to his promise to release the 48 cleared-for-release detainees at Guantánamo Bay.
As of 4 Jan 2016, 12:25 p.m. GMT:
1321 days, 11 hours, 26 minutes since the promise on May 23, 2013.
The Man Who Exposed the Lie of the War on Drugs
Ed Vulliamy – The Guardian,
4 Jan 2016
“The City of London is a far more important centre for laundering criminal money than the Cayman Islands.” Roberto Saviano already lives under armed guard after writing about the Neapolitan mafia. Now he is determined to uncover capitalism’s complicity with the narco-lords of South America.
→ read full articleYear of Hope 2016
Ada Aharoni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
The power of women and children for peace is rising,
Democracy and the Internet are spreading,
Global poverty has been cut in half –
Never have ordinary people, like you and me,
Had more power to face challenges
And to decide our own fate of Nonkilling.
The Soul of an Octopus: How One of Earth’s Most Alien Creatures Illuminates the Wonders of Consciousness
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Montgomery begins with a seemingly simple premise. The octopus is a creature magnificently dissimilar to us — it can change shape and color, tastes with its skin, has its mouth in its armpit, and is capable of squeezing its entire body through a hole the size of an apple. And since we humans experience reality in profoundly different ways from one another, based on our individual consciousnesses, then the octopus must be inhabiting an altogether different version of what we call reality.
→ read full articleDon’t Eat That Shrimp
Roberto A. Ferdman – The Washington Post,
4 Jan 2016
Indentured and Enslaved Workers Fuel the Thai Shrimp Industry – Burmese men, women and children are being sold to factories in Thailand and forced to peel shrimp that ends up in global supply chains.
→ read full articleAdagio in G Minor (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Albinoni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Composer: Tomaso Albinoni. Adagio in G minor for strings and organ.
Performer: Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker.
This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Jan 4-10 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
→ read full articleRomancing the Sunni: A US Policy Tragedy in Three Acts. Act III
Angelo Codevilla – Asia Times,
4 Jan 2016
So long as the West plays Erdogan’s multiple-double game, why should Erdogan stop playing it? So long as the Sunni Muslim communities in the West pay no price for nurturing the thirst for infidel blood, what argument can convince them to stop nurturing it?
→ read full articleComing Out as a Radical — or Coming In?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Risks of Cultivating Negative Capability in a Caliphate of Normality – This argument is inspired by the progressive conflation in mainstream discourse of radicalisation with Islamisation, extremism, fundamentalism and terrorism. The concern here is whether it is possible to engage in thinking, framed as radical by some, without being branded a terrorist in consequence.
→ read full articleCulture, Education and Human Solidarity
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Human nature has two sides: It has a dark side, to which nationalism and militarism appeal; but our species also has a genius for cooperation, which we can see in the growth of culture. Our modern civilization has been built up by means of a worldwide exchange of ideas and inventions.
→ read full articleA Review of Stephen Prothero’s ‘Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When They Lose Elections)’
James A. Haught, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Social progress occurs because liberal-minded reformers defeat conservative resistance.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il servizio migranti di Aosta non deve chiudere. Sulla petizione postata su change org.
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
797 Sono le voci delle/dei sostenitori della petizione “Il servizio Migranti di Aosta non deve chiudere” in dissenso con la chiusura forzata del servizio Migranti di Aosta.
Da tutto il mondo è giunta, in pochi giorni, l’espressione di solidarietà per gli stranieri che da questa mattina non hanno più un servizio di riferimento.
‘No-Grow Zone:’ Israel Admits to Spraying Poisons Inside Gaza Strip
Sputnik News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
The Israeli Army has admitted that they used crop-dusters to kill hundreds of acres of Palestinian crops, claiming that it was to “enable security operations.”
→ read full articleVenezuela Passes Law Banning GMOs, by Popular Demand
William Camacaro, Frederick B. Mills and Christina M. Schiavoni – CounterPunch,
4 Jan 2016
1 Jan 2016 – The National Assembly of Venezuela, in its final session before a neoliberal dominated opposition takes the helm of legislative power on January 5, passed one of the most progressive seed laws in the world on December 23, 2015; it was promptly signed into law by President Nicolas Maduro.
→ read full articleOver My Dead Body
TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Gravestone
→ read full articleInternational Monetary Fund’s Rogues Gallery: Crooks, Rapists and Swindlers
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
The IMF has been under the control of the US and Western European states and its policies have been designed to further the expansion, domination and profits of their leading multi-national corporations and financial institutions. The executive directors of the IMF are Europeans; their counterparts in the World Bank are from the US.
→ read full articleYou Say ISIL, I Say ISIS, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
Tom H. Hastings, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Who benefits? Who loses? US elites benefit. Owners of military contractors benefit the most ($711,000,000 the last day of 2015 alone, nearly $40 million per hour around the clock), and they share their largesse with those who serve them best—friendly bellicose politicians, persuasive media, high-level military officers.
→ read full articlePentagon Curbs Use of Psychologists with Guantánamo Detainees
James Risen – International New York Times,
4 Jan 2016
31 Dec 2015 – The United States military has sharply curtailed the use of psychologists at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in response to strict new professional ethics rules of the American Psychological Association, Pentagon officials said.
→ read full article(Italiano) Anglo-America, UE, Occidente: una prognosi
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Grazie, cari studenti di Oxford, per il regalo di Natale, sfidare il culto di Cecil Rhodes – colonialista, classista, razzista. Sa di TV Reality. Gli USA reclamano il monopolio sulla “leadership” concedendo “un rapporto speciale” al Regno Unito. E la Paura dei Tedeschi divenne Paura dei Rossi, divenne Paura dei Cinesi, divenne Paura dell’Islam, divenne Paura della Russia. La paura del giorno divenne paranoia; di facile combinazione col narcisismo UK-USA.
→ read full articleA Happy & More Just and Peaceful New Year FOR ALL! -> Reduce the Great Divide between Rich and Poor
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
There are great divides that need healing. Honolulu has the largest number of homeless per capita of any city in the U.S. The gap between rich are poor widens while $50-100 million-dollar private jets crowd the Kona airport bringing the super rich to vacation in luxury homes and resorts.
→ read full articleSyria – A Light to the World
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
In November 2015 I visited Syria together with an International Peace delegation. This was my third visit to Syria in the last three years. There is hope and Syria is a light to the world as there are many people working for peace and reconciliation, dialogue and negotiations, and this is where the hope lies and what we can all support by rejecting violence and war in Syria, the Middle East and our World.
→ read full articleA Most Unhappy New Year at Guantanamo
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
4 Jan 2016
Currently there are 107 men imprisoned there, 48 of whom have been cleared for release for almost six years. Reuters recently reported that the Pentagon itself, which is supposed to be under the civilian control of Commander-in-Chief Obama, may be resisting the order to close Guantanamo.
→ read full articleComments to Paris Atrocities Editorial – A Reply
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
I grew up in Norway, forced into Christianity, dedicated to Western colonialism to spread Christianity, and fought both. Against the same from Islam, I favor using the military to defend the many exposed to IS brutality. But not to kill and escalate by using their approach. And in favor of negotiation based on understanding both.
→ read full articleDespair and Hope for the New Year
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Most needed in these dark times is to hold tight to what we believe with an unruly embrace of faith, patience, and urgency. This is my most fervent New Year’s wish for 2016.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Dabeisein ist alles!
Jürgen Wagner - Informationsstelle Militarisierung (IMI),
4 Jan 2016
Deutsche Syrien-Interessen und der erste Hauptsatz internationaler Machtpolitik
→ read full articleRenewable Energy Soars in 2015
Nathanael Greene, Natural Resources Defense Council, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
With Tax Incentives’ Renewal, Expect More of the Same in Years to Come – The truth is, 2015 has been one in a series of very good years for these pollution-free, renewable resources—years that are helping us get on track for the low-carbon future we need and need now.
→ read full articleBrazil: Back to the Future
Lucia Nader, Manoela Miklos, and Ana Carolina Evangelista – Open Democracy,
28 Dec 2015
Even if mired in a deep crisis affecting the three brands of power, Brazil’s civil society still believes in democracy. Recent women and student’s mobilizations show the way into the future.
→ read full article(Italiano) Cina vs. Russia vs. USA; Xi vs. Putin vs. Obama
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Cina, il più popoloso; Russia, il più vasto; USA, il più militarizzato. E qui c’è l’ipotesi chiave, presumibilmente più giusta che sbagliata: Cina-Xi: pace positiva; Russia-Putin: pace negativa; USA-Obama: guerra. Ci vogliono almeno due per fare la guerra, e due per fare la pace. La domanda è: chi cederà all’altro, Cina-Russia a una guerra estesa, o gli USA a una pace estesa?
→ read full articleSacrifice: Meat Producing Worse Than Airplanes for Environment
George Monbiot - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
A Kg of beef protein can generate the equivalent of 643 kg of carbon dioxide. A kilogramme of lamb protein can generate 749 kg. One kilo of protein from either source, in other words, causes more greenhouse gas emissions than a passenger flying from London to New York.
→ read full articleA Perfect New Year Gift: A Calendar Dedicated to the Rohingya Victims of Myanmar’s Slow Genocide
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Here is a perfect gift for this holiday season, especially for those with a social conscience. And Myanmar authorities will arrest you if it is found in your possession!
→ read full articleImagine (Music Video of the Week)
John Lennon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Remembrance on the 35th anniversary of his untimely death at the hands of an assassin on 8 Dec 1980. He was just 40 years old. RIP dearest John, your memory will live forever in our hearts and of upcoming generations of peace/music/poetry lovers throughout the world.
→ read full articleBurundi : In Moments of Crisis the Wise Build Bridges
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
On 17 December 2015, the UN Human Rights Council held a Special Session on preventing further deterioration of the human rights situation in Burundi. A Special Session is the “highest profile” measure that the Human Rights Council has to highlight a dangerous situation and to call attention to a need for action.
→ read full articleMemories of Urvashi
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Urvashi is no longer alive physically but her memories and her supreme sacrifice continue to inspire and motivate many young persons. She is a symbol of encouragement and peace.
→ read full articleThe Believer: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Ruler of the Islamic State
William McCants – The Brookings Essay,
28 Dec 2015
The bare facts of Baghdadi’s biography show an unusually capable man. He helped found an insurgent group, finished a Ph.D. while managing the religious affairs of the Islamic State, built coalitions, and intimidated rivals.
→ read full articleLarge Pod of Bottlenose Dolphins Endures Brutal Capture and Slaughter in Taiji’s Infamous Cove
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
A large pod of approximately 85-90 bottlenose dolphins driven into Taiji, Japan’s infamous cove on Sunday, Dec. 20 was forced to endure brutal captive selection and slaughter that claimed the freedom of 30 dolphins and the lives of 28-30 others.
→ read full articleMilitary to Military
Seymour M. Hersh – London Review of Books,
28 Dec 2015
Seymour Hersh’s Latest Bombshell: U.S. Military Undermined Obama on Syria with Tacit Help to Assad
→ read full articleThe Art Collector’s Wife
Submitted by Robin Poulton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
A New York attorney representing a wealthy art collector called and asked to speak to his client, “Saul, I have some good news and, I have some bad news.”
→ read full articleSlouching toward Global Disaster: Chaos and Intervention in the Middle East
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Even the more thoughtful Democrats limit their proposals to enhanced militarism, hoping to induce the Arab countries to put ‘the boots on the ground’ with nary a worry about either igniting a regional war or the imaginative collapse that can only contemplate war as the recipe for peace, again recalling the degree to which Orwellian satiric irony is relied upon to shape foreign policy prescriptions by ambitious politicians.
→ read full articleAwakening an American Society and the Global Community
Clive Hambidge – Media with Conscience News,
28 Dec 2015
The celebrated physicist Fritjof Capra explains why this is a fact in nature, “Evolution is not just adaptation to environment … but rather an organism and its environment evolv[ing] together. Likewise, in music, the essence of the musical chord lies in relationship. Even subatomic particles are not discrete and separate.”
→ read full articleThe Roots of the Current Crisis in the Middle East
Free Haifa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
The wave of refugees that has reached Europe and the terror attacks in Paris reminded many people in Europe and beyond of the crisis in our region – but at the same time led them to forget that the main victims of this crisis are the people of the region themselves.
→ read full article15 Indigenous Rights Victories That You Didn’t Hear about in 2015
John Ahni Schertow – IC Magazine,
28 Dec 2015
21 Dec 2015 – Good news. Sometimes, it comes in the form of a cancelled hydro dam that spares 20,000 people from the burden of displacement. Other times, it takes the shape of a simple court admission that Indigenous Peoples do actually make the best conservationists. In this day in age such stories are incredibly rare.
→ read full articleAnglo-America, EU, the West: A Prognosis
Johan Galtung, 28 Dec 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Thanks dear Oxford students for the Xmas gift, challenging the cult of Cecil Rhodes–colonialist, classist, racist. Sounds like Reality TV: The USA claims monopoly on “leadership” granting “special relation” to the UK. And German Scare became Red Scare became China Scare became Islam Scare became Russia Scare. The scare of the day paranoia; easily combined with UK-US narcissism.
→ read full articleWhere to Invade Next
Godfrey Cheshire, Roger Ebert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Moore tells us the Joint Chiefs of Staff invited him to Washington, DC to confess that all their wars since “the big one” have been disastrous and ask his advice. He responds by offering himself up as a one-man army who will “invade countries populated by Caucasians whose names I can mostly pronounce, take the things we need from them, and bring them back home to the United States of America.”
→ read full articleProf. Ståle Eskeland – A Life in the Vanguard for Peace and Justice
Fredrik S. Heffermehl – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Oslo, December 27, 2015 – A great Norwegian scholar for peace, justice and a sane foreign policy, Ståle Eskeland, died yesterday at age 72. He was a retired professor of (Norwegian and international) criminal law at the University of Oslo, who never shied away from pointing out social and political wrongs.
→ read full articleWhy Did You Make Me? A Pig’s Complaint to God
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
These Muslims, your Muslims
Why they hate me so much
They don’t want to see me
They don’t call even my name
What did I do to them?
The NRA Is Actually Half Right: Guns Don’t Kill People — Americans Kill People
Michael Moore – The Hollywood Reporter,
28 Dec 2015
The ‘Where to Invade Next’ filmmaker argues that even if the U.S. banned guns, its lack of a social safety net would still turn many toward violence: “We just need to modify [the NRA’s slogan] to, ‘Guns don’t kill people — Americans kill people.'”
→ read full articleRadical Localization in a Global Systemic Context
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Distinguishing Normality Using Playing Card Suits as a Pattern Language – There is currently considerable confusion as to what is to be distinguished as “radical” in contrast to “fundamental”, “extraordinary”, “exceptional” and “extreme”.
→ read full articleWhy Did Brookings Institution Hold a Secret Panel Countering BDS?
Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Americans should be asking why such a conference is taking place behind closed doors at a leading liberal thinktank– and why it’s tackling BDS, which Israeli leaders have termed an “existential” threat to Israel. The gathering is a reflection of the power of the Israel lobby in Washington.
→ read full articleWhen Terrorism Becomes Counter-Terrorism: The State Sponsors of Terrorism Are “Going After the Terrorists”
Prof Michel Chossudovsky - Global Research,
28 Dec 2015
A complex network of Al Qaeda affiliated terrorist organizations overseen by US and allied intelligence agencies has unfolded, extending across the Middle East, North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, Western China, South and South East Asia.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Das Weihnachtswunder von 1914
MMNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Deutsche und britische Soldaten legten zu Heiligabend 1914 die Waffen nieder und feierten an der Front ein spontanes Friedensfest. Das als “Christmas Truce” (“Weihnachtsfrieden”) in die Geschichte eingegangene Ereignis zeigt die Sinnlosigkeit von Kriegen.
→ read full articleA Christmas Message in Dark Times
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Christmas has an ecumenical resonance that calls for bright lights, ornamented trees, celebration, and wishes for peace on earth and good will toward all, bringing together those of diverse faith or no faith at all. The legions of ‘the politically correct’ determined to avoid offending those, especially Jews, who are not Christians, will carefully express their good wishes with such phrases as ‘happy holidays!’
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Nativity: Rev Kevin Annett and the “Little Matter of Aboriginal Genocide”
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
One of the most meaningful Christmas stories that I have ever read came from my friend from Vancouver, Canada, Reverend Kevin Annett. His story is titled “Nativity” and is printed further below.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il servizio Migranti di Aosta non deve chiudere. Petizione-appello alla comunità politica globale
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Da pochi giorni la comunità straniera e la comunità valdostana hanno appreso dai media che il servizio Migranti di Aosta dal 4 gennaio 2016 non sarà più operativo. Dopo 25 anni.
→ read full articleList of Palestinians [and Israelis] Killed between Oct. 1 and Dec. 18, 2015
Celine Hagbard – International Middle East Media Center,
28 Dec 2015
19 Dec 2015 – The Following is a list of names of all Palestinians shot and killed by Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, including one in the Negev, in the period between Thursday October 1st and the end of December 18th, as confirmed by the Palestinian Health Ministry.
→ read full articleGot Fascism? The 1942 Norwegian Teachers’ Nonviolent Resistance to Nazis Has Answers
Rivera Sun, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
In April 1940, the Nazis invaded Norway and occupied the country. In 1942, as part of an attempt to implement a fascist curriculum in the schools, Minister-President Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian collaborator, disbanded the existing teachers’ union and required all teachers to register with the new Norwegian Teachers’ Union by February 5.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Dec 28–Jan 3 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.” – George Santayana
→ read full articlePre-Deciding about Violence
Elizabeth Traubman and Lionel Traubman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
What does smacking your child have in common with the fast-spreading violence we read about in headlines from every continent like terrorist attacks in Paris, Beirut, and Jerusalem, and drone strikes that kill innocent women and children? They all are part of the cycle of cruelty. Yet as today’s headlines clarify for us, violence primarily fuels more flames of hostility.
→ read full articleTerror, Climate Chaos, Financial Crisis Are the Costs of ‘Doing Business’
Nafeez Ahmed – Middle East Eye,
28 Dec 2015
The techno-narcissism of predatory neoliberal capitalism is locked into an endless war with the bastard monster of its own creation – Islamic State.
→ read full articleIt Wasn’t only Exxon That Knew about Global Warming since the 1970s
Lauren McCauley - Common Dreams,
28 Dec 2015
New investigative reporting by Neela Banerjee with Inside Climate News revealed on Tuesday [22 Dec 2015] that scientists and engineers from nearly every major U.S. and multinational oil and gas company may have for decades known about the impacts of carbon emissions on the climate.
→ read full articleOh Little Town of Bethlehem
Francis A. Boyle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Israel, Palestine and American Christian Hypocrites
→ read full articleSurveillance Techniques: How Your Data Becomes Our Data
Domestic Surveillance Directorate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
We’ve turned our nation’s Internet and telecommunications companies into collection partners by installing filters in their facilities, serving them with secret court orders, building back doors into their software and acquiring keys to break their encryption.
→ read full articleThe First Christmas without Our Santa Claus: Remembering Dietrich
Nirmanusan Balasundaram – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
He was a thoughtful human being born to strengthen a shared future that would uphold nonviolence, humanity and peace. Either ordinary life problems or peace building studies, Dietrich had answers to most situations, not through complex political theories but rather through simple short stories or jokes.
→ read full articleTarantino: I ‘Utterly Reject’ Argument That only Some Cops Are Bad
Truth Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
“I completely and utterly reject the bad apples argument. It’s about institutional racism. It’s about institutional cover-ups that are about protecting the force as opposed to the citizens.”
→ read full articleRaw Pecans: Discover 7 Health Benefits of Pecans
Dr. Edward Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
From 277 different nuts and foods, USDA researchers say pecans are the most antioxidant-rich nut; with more oleic acid than olive oil, they contain 90% unsaturated (heart-healthy) fats, are low sodium, cholesterol free, contain essential vitamins and minerals, and have alpha and gamma-tocopherol forms of vitamin E.
→ read full articleIs the EU the New USSR?
Sam Gerrans – Russia Today,
21 Dec 2015
“The Soviet Union was governed by 15 unelected people, who appointed each other and who were not accountable to anyone. The European Union is governed by two dozen people, who appoint each other and are not accountable to anyone.” His disturbing and lucid monologue concludes with the words: “I have lived in your future, and it didn’t work.”
→ read full articleI Helped Create ISIS
Vincent Emanuele - TeleSur,
21 Dec 2015
After we cut their zip-ties and took the black bags off their heads, several of our more deranged marines would fire rounds from their AR-15s into their air or ground, scaring the recently released captives. Always for laughs. Who knows how long they survived. After all, no one cared. We do know of one former U.S. prisoner who survived: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS.
→ read full articleSilence, Please! A New Middle East Is in the Making
Baher Kamal, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
When, in June 2006, former US National Security adviser and, later on, Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, spelled out the George W. Bush administration new, magic doctrine for the Middle East, tons of ink was poured and millions of words said in a harsh attempt to speculate with what she really did mean by what she called “Creative Chaos.”
→ read full articleTurkish-ISIL Oil Trade: Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Russia All Accuse Turkey of Smuggling Oil (Part 1)
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya - Strategic Culture Foundation,
21 Dec 2015
Russia is not alone in accusing Turkey of being involved in the theft of Syrian and Iraqi oil. Turkish opposition politicians, Turkish media, and various governments in the Middle East have also raised their voices about the role of Turkish officials in smuggling from the conflict zones in Syria and Iraq.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – The 101st Anniversary of the Christmas Truce of 1914: Questioning Christian Participation in Aggressive War
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
“…and the ones who call the shots won’t be among the dead and lame;
And on each end of the rifle we’re the same” — John McCutcheon
Burma’s Hard-Line Buddhists Are Waging a Campaign of Hate That Nobody Can Stop
Francis Wade – Time Magazine,
21 Dec 2015
Sectarian hatred shown by Burma’s Buddhist extremists toward the country’s Muslim minority has become so pronounced that activists and politicians appear unable to stop it.
→ read full articleMistaken Identity
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
An old cowboy, dressed in a cowboy shirt, hat, jeans and boots went to a bar, sat down, and ordered a drink.
→ read full articleTurkish-ISIL Oil Trade: Did the Turkish Military Enter Mosul to Protect Its Oil Trade? (Part 2)
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – Strategic Culture Foundation,
21 Dec 2015
The move can be seen as a compensation for the weakening of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL / ISIS / IS / DAESH) and the ISIL’s oil smuggling infrastructure. It can also be viewed as a Turkish preparation for the aftermath of the future defeat of the ISIL in Iraq.
→ read full articleAs the World Debates Syria, Palestine’s Ignominy Continues in Silence
Ben Morris – CounterPunch,
21 Dec 2015
17 Dec 2015 – As the prophetic Orwellian concept of perpetual war is made manifest in Syria and Iraq, and the attention of the planet is understandably diverted towards the apocalyptic scenario currently being played out there, the subjugated and forgotten nation of Palestine limps quietly on under the curse of a media blackout.
→ read full articleClimate Change and the Road Through Paris
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
21 Dec 2015
Author and activist Naomi Klein said the deal will “steamroll over crucial scientific red lines … it is also going to steamroll over equity red lines.” She added, “We know, from doing the math and adding up the targets that the major economies have brought to Paris, that those targets lead us to a very dangerous future. They lead us to a future between 3 and 4 degrees Celsius warming.”
→ read full articleA New World Order? ISIS and the Sykes-Picot Backlash
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
The shaping of world order remains mainly the work of the heavyweight states that act on the basis of geopolitical calculations with respect for international law and morality displayed only as convenient. Yet the political monoculture of territorial states remains formally the exclusive foundation of world order, but its political reality is being challenged in various settings and nowhere more so than in the Middle East.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il clima contro il pianeta
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
Hanno commesso un grosso errore a Parigi, anzi a Le Bourget: un gran parlare a proposito della struttura legale, ben poco rispetto al come. Le innovazioni non arrivano da sole; già molte ne esistono, si utilizzino; si chiedano innovazioni specifiche da condividere con l’umanità; per favore, niente brevetti, niente “forze di mercato” – che in genere rendono i ricchi ancora più ricchi.
→ read full articleEndless War Crimes in Yemen Slowed by Ceasefire
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
21 Dec 2015
Saudi Arabia’s Yemen Has a Fascist Whiff of Franco’s Spain Circa 1936 – The first lie about Yemen’s dirty war in the world of official journalism is that the fighting there has been a “nine-month conflict” and that “the conflict started in March,” as the New York Times put it on December 17. This is simply not true in any meaningful sense.
→ read full articleAmerica Has Been at War 93% of the Time – 222 out of 239 Years – Since 1776
Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
The U.S. Has Only Been at Peace for 21 Years Total since Its Birth – Check Out Full Listing
→ read full articleDilma’s Fall: The Wrecking of an Inspiring Left-Wing Experiment in Brazil
Alfredo Saad Filho, The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
The country’s descent has been turbo-charged by a relentlessly negative media campaign and a succession of corruption scandals orchestrated by overtly partisan judges and a runaway Federal Police seeking to prosecute every instance of bribery and illegal finance touching the PT, however indirectly, as scandals involving the opposition remain un-investigated.
→ read full articleKerry Questions What Israel’s Policy Really Is
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
In a recent speech at the Brookings Institute, the US Secretary of State has clearly given up on reaching a two-state agreement. For the Israelis, he says, it is just a ‘slogan’ a ‘throw away remark’ contradicted by their practices of settlements and demolition of Palestinian homes.
→ read full articleA Special Relationship: The United States Is Teaming Up with Al Qaeda. Again
Andrew Cockburn – Harper’s Magazine,
21 Dec 2015
History of US/Saudi Alliance with Al Qaeda (excellent).
→ read full articleThe United States Drifts towards Political Irresponsibility
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
The recent Republican presidential debates were held in the gaudy and luxurious Venetian Casino in Los Vegas, a building whose billionaire Republican-backing owner Sheldon Adelson held a private meeting with fellow-billionaire Donald Trump before the debate.
→ read full articleNorthern Arakan as Rohingya’s Ancestral Land: G.H.Luce Citing the Stone Inscription from Ava Period
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
According to the late Gordon H. Luce, essentially the founder of modern historical studies of the ancient Myanmar or Burma and the mentor of Professor Than Tun, the presence of the Rohinjas in Burma was evidenced in the stone inscriptions from the Ava period (AD 1400).
→ read full articleWhat the Women of Berlin’s Rosenstraße Protest Can Teach Us about Trump
Rivera Sun, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
The parallels between the 1930s-40s in Germany and the United States in 2015 are frightening. It is clear to many citizens that the rise of bigotry and fascism in our nation cannot be allowed to continue unchallenged. Organized resistance is essential. In this effort, revisiting the history of resistance to the Nazis offers us some tantalizing concepts.
→ read full articleMartin Shkreli Arrested for Securities Fraud
Tom Hall, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
Martin Shkreli, the 32-year-old former hedge fund manager who became infamous earlier this year for raising the price of a 62-year-old drug to treat cancer by 4,000 percent, from $13.50 to $750 per pill, was arrested Thursday [17 Dec] on charges of securities fraud stretching back several years.
→ read full articleOh Holy Night! (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Il Divo with Katherine Jenkins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
Il Divo sing with Katherine Jenkins in “Steppin’ Out” on ITV.
→ read full articleEducation for Tolerance and Peace
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. - Transcend Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
Executive Vice President of International Association of Educators for World Peace Keynote Speech at the Kerala State Convention on the theme: Education for Tolerance and Peace.
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia’s Execution Spree
Editorial Board – The International New York Times,
21 Dec 2015
Saudi Arabia’s justice system has gone into murderous overdrive. More than 150 people have been executed this year, the most since 1995. More than 50 people are reported to be scheduled for imminent execution on terrorist charges, though some are citizens whose only crime was protesting against the government. This wave of killing has prompted some to compare Saudi Arabia to the Islamic State: both follow Shariah law.
→ read full articleBruce Lee on Self-Actualization and the Crucial Difference between Pride and Self-Esteem
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
“Real self-esteem is an integration of an inner value with things in the world around you,” Anna Deavere Smith wrote. “When, for whatever reason, self-esteem is unattainable, the autonomous individual becomes a highly explosive entity. He turns away from an unpromising self and plunges into the pursuit of pride — the explosive substitute for self-esteem.” –Bruce Lee
→ read full articleWhat’s Left of the Latin American Left?
Hisham Aidi – Al Jazeera,
21 Dec 2015
As happens in democracies, Latin American voters are punishing parties of the left for economic mismanagement. That leftist and rightist parties are no longer immune to electoral punishment is a sign of the stability of Latin American democracy.
→ read full articleReflections on Witnessing the Republican Presidential Candidate Debate
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
At what point do we as a nation acknowledge we have helped create the tragedy of terrorism by our own actions — policies serving our selfish needs and those of a few allies? For this we have thrown the world into chaos and disarray! We cannot continue imposing our will and interests on the world without consequence. Think! Hate begets hate! Nuclear weapons now proliferate.
→ read full articleThe “Saving of Humanity” Framed by “Sinking of the Titanic”
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
The 195 countries that gathered outside Paris… to negotiate a new agreement on climate change declared that the world’s temperature does not climb much more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels; and yet they simultaneously celebrated a new climate agreement that got nowhere close to preventing such a rise.
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