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Vietnam 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 articleUN Paid Millions to Russian Aviation Firm Even after Learning of Sex Attack on Girl
Paul Lewis, Oliver Laughland and Roger Hamilton-Martin – The Guardian,
3 Aug 2015
30 Jul 2015 – Documents reveal United Nations unit uncovered possible ‘culture of sexual exploitation and abuse’ after 2010 attack by UTair crew member, but permitted company to continue receiving contracts worth millions.
→ 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?
Protecting Schools 80 Years after Roerich
Bede Sheppard, Human Rights Watch – Culture of Peace News Network,
3 Aug 2015
The Declaration is a political commitment to do more to protect students, teachers, schools and universities from attack and from military use during times of armed conflict. It calls upon armed forces to refrain from converting schools or universities into military bases, barracks, defensive positions, detention centers, and weapons caches, as well as from harassment, rape, and forced recruitment by the soldiers inside the school.
→ read full articleWhy 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 articleBig Pharma’s Profiteers: You Want Us to Pay What for These Meds?
Martha Rosenberg - CounterPunch,
3 Aug 2015
Drug makers are even not above scaring the populace if it sells drugs for rare diseases. Your back pain may not be from working out at all but from a disease called ankylosing spondylitis, says AbbVie, a condition that can be treated with its biologic drug Humira for as much as $20,000 a year. (Injectable “biologic” drugs are a new drug industry push because they are so expensive and less susceptible to generic competition than pills.)
→ 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.
Dissident [Maung Zarni] Slams Attempts to Link Rohingyas to IS
Tin Thein – The Burma Times,
3 Aug 2015
Zarni referred to presidential spokespersons trying to brand Rohingyas with terrorists as ‘3rd rate Nazi propagandists’. His comments follow reports that Rohingyas might be attracted to IS as they continue to face ethnic cleansing by the Myanmar regime. Following these reports, the security forces have launched a crackdown in some parts and tortured many Rohingyas.
→ read full articleThe 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 articleRevealed: The Private Firms Tracking Terror Targets at Heart of US Drone Warfare
Abigail Fielding-Smith and Crofton Black – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
3 Aug 2015
Corporate staff are reviewing top-secret data and helping uniformed colleagues decide whether people under surveillance are enemies or civilians.
→ 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 articleUK, US Turn Blind Eye to Islamic State Oil Sales
Nafeez Ahmed – Middle East Eye,
3 Aug 2015
Amid the scramble for Kurdistan’s oil and gas wealth, the US and UK are tied to Kurdish and Turkish institutions heavily invested in the murky geopolitical triangle sustaining IS’ black market oil sales.
→ 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 article(Deutsch) Was geschieht eigentlich mit Europa?
Andreas Buro - Aachener Friedensmagazin,
3 Aug 2015
Über die schwierige Situation Griechenlands ist sehr viel für und wider und kreuz und quer gesagt und geschrieben worden. Mich bewegt die Frage, was geschieht eigentlich mit Europa und woraufhin steuert möglicherweise die deutsche Politik und die EU.
→ 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 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 articleA Renegade Trawler, Hunted for 10,000 Miles by Vigilantes (Part 4)
Ian Urbina – The New York Times,
3 Aug 2015
28 Jul 2015 – The Thunder, a fugitive fishing ship considered the world’s most notorious poacher wanted for illegal fishing, was chased for 110 days and more than 10,000 nautical miles across two seas and three oceans, until it sank in April 2015. Its dramatic story.
→ read full articleHow the American Psychological Association Lost Its Way
Roy Eidelson & Jean Maria Arrigo – Los Angeles Times,
3 Aug 2015
In early July, a devastating independent report by a former federal prosecutor determined that more than a decade ago APA leaders — including the director of ethics — began working secretly with military representatives to craft deceptively permissive ethics policies for psychologists, which effectively enabled abusive interrogation of war-on-terror prisoners to continue.
→ 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 articleWhat Does Gun Violence in the USA Really Cost? By the Numbers
Jaeah Lee and Julia Lurie – Mother Jones,
3 Aug 2015
The data below is the result of a joint investigation by Mother Jones and Ted Miller, an economist at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation.
→ 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 articleMusk, Wozniak and Hawking Urge Ban on Warfare AI and Autonomous Weapons
Samuel Gibbs – The Guardian,
3 Aug 2015
27 Jul 2015 – An open letter warning of a “military artificial intelligence arms race” and calling for a ban on “offensive autonomous weapons” was signed by Tesla’s Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Google DeepMind chief executive Demis Hassabis and professor Stephen Hawking along with over 1,000 AI and robotics researchers.
→ 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 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 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 articleHiroshima Cover-up: How the War Department’s Timesman Won a Pulitzer
Amy Goodman and David Goodman – Common Dreams,
3 Aug 2015
What about the “deliberate deception” of William L. Laurence in denying the lethal effects of radioactivity? And what of the fact that the Pulitzer Board knowingly awarded the top journalism prize to the Pentagon’s paid publicist, who denied the suffering of millions of Japanese? It is long overdue that the prize for Hiroshima’s apologist be stripped.
→ 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 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 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 articleAnti-Torture Reforms Opposed within Psychology Group after Damning Report
Spencer Ackerman – The Guardian,
3 Aug 2015
Before the American Psychological Association meets in Toronto next Thursday [6 Aug], former military voices within the profession are urging the organization not to participate in what they describe as a witch hunt. Tempers rise as association found complicit in brutal military and CIA interrogation.
→ 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.
→ read full article
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 articleGod’s Masterpiece or the Devil’s Bad Joke? Barbarians and Apes — From the Opium Wars to the Origin of the Species
Eduardo Galeano - TomDispatch,
27 Jul 2015
[The following passages are excerpted from Eduardo Galeano’s ‘History of Humanity’] – Origin of Freedom of Oppression
→ 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 articleSlavoj Žižek on Greece: The Courage of Hopelessness
Slavoj Zizek – New Statesman,
27 Jul 2015
The people of Greece are not being asked to swallow many bitter pills in exchange for a realistic plan of economic revival: they are asked to suffer so that others in the European Union can go on dreaming their dream undisturbed.
→ read full articleRohingyas, the Victims of Sustained Genocidal Persecution for Nearly 40 Years
Amine Tuna Ertürk - İHH İnsani ve Sosyal Araştırmalar Merkezi (Turkey),
27 Jul 2015
Interview with Dr Maung Zarni – “Humanitarianism is all well and fine. It plays an ameliorative role. But the root cause is politically and racially driven genocide. In situations of genocide, humanitarianism is woefully inadequate. It is a band-aid, not a cure.”
→ read full 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 articleTutu: The Slow Genocide against the Rohingya in Myanmar (Burma)
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate – Newsweek,
27 Jul 2015
I would be more inclined to heed the warnings of eminent scholars and researchers including Amartya Sen, the Nobel laureate in economics, who say this is a deliberately false narrative to camouflage the slow genocide being committed against the Rohingya people. There’s evidence, they say, that anti-Rohingya sentiment has been carefully cultivated by the government itself.
→ 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 articleA Cuban Flag Flies Again in Washington
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
27 Jul 2015
The United States was the only country in the Western Hemisphere that didn’t have an embassy in Havana. And Cuba was the only country in the Western Hemisphere without an embassy here. This story began when the U.S. succeeded in isolating Cuba from the rest of the hemisphere, and now the first chapter has ended with the U.S. ending its isolation from the rest of the continent.
→ 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 article(Italiano) Il sistema della giustizia militare israeliano – una catena di montaggio per la detenzione di massa
Amira Hass – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
27 Jul 2015
E’ anche parte integrante del meccanismo di annullamento dei desideri di un popolo e della capacità di prendersi la sua terra e la sua libertà.
→ 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 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 article(Português) União Europeia:Testes Fatais
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Carta Maior,
27 Jul 2015
A Europa transformou-se num laboratório do futuro. O que nele se experimenta deve causar preocupação a qualquer democrata e a qualquer pessoa de esquerda. Será o epicentro de um novo despotismo ocidental, rivalizando em crueldade com o despotismo oriental estudado por Karl Marx e Max Weber.
→ 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 articleFor American Psychological Association, National Security Trumped Torture Concerns
Jenna McLaughlin – The Intercept,
27 Jul 2015
The report describes how repeated expressions of concern from within the CIA itself that psychologists had no place in the abusive treatment of detainees were brushed aside by leaders of what was supposed to be a highly ethical professional association. Psychologists with close ties to the CIA, in some cases even involving financial relationships, cited national security as the reason to ignore their fundamental oaths to do no harm.
→ read full article(Português) Presente de Grego – a minha experiência
Quézia Queiroz – ANDA-Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
27 Jul 2015
Cães não são mercadoria. Não tem prazo para troca. Não há devolução, nem garantia de qualidade. Cães ficam doentes, têm anomalias, engordam, são imperfeitos. Como nós. Mas eles são as melhores companhias não humanas que alguém pode ter nesta vida!
→ read full 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 articleVaroufakis: Troika Forced Syriza [and Greece] into Choice between ‘Suicide or Execution’
Lauren McCauley – Common Dreams,
27 Jul 2015
21 Jul 2015 – Former finance minister blasts EU, saying: “No one government should ever be treated that way in the context of a club of democratic nations. The very powerful Troika of creditors were not interested in coming to a sensible, honorable mutually beneficial agreement. They were far more interested in humiliating this government and overthrowing it.”
→ read full articleMystery of Kazakhstan Sleeping Sickness Solved, Says Government
Alec Luhn in Moscow – The Guardian,
27 Jul 2015
17 Jul 2015 – More than 140 people in two tiny villages were hit by the illness, with sufferers drifting off for up to six days – now scientists appear to have discovered the cause.
→ 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 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 articleUkraine: The Mess That Nuland Made
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
27 Jul 2015
Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change in early 2014 without weighing the likely chaos and consequences. Now, as neo-Nazis turn their guns on the government, it’s hard to see how anyone can clean up the mess that Nuland made.
→ 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 articlePutin and Xi Plot the Future of Eurasia
John Batchelor – Al Jazeera America,
27 Jul 2015
There is nothing to be gained by Washington pretending it can continue to project military and economic power into an ambitious Eurasia. Strengthening ties between Moscow and Beijing are tipping the world’s balance of power eastward.
→ 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 articleGet Out of Your Own Light: Aldous Huxley on Who We Are, the Trap of Language, and the Necessity of Mind-Body Education
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
What are we in relation to our own minds and bodies — or, seeing that there is not a single word, let us use it in a hyphenated form — our own mind-bodies? What are we in relation to this total organism in which we live? The moment we begin thinking about it in any detail, we find ourselves confronted by all kinds of extremely difficult, unanswered, and maybe unanswerable questions.
→ 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.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Jul 27–Aug 2 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” – Denis Waitley
→ read full article“Christmas in July” in Absurdityville, USA
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Why do they hate us? Americans wondered after 911. And, our Philosopher-King George W. Bush answered majestically: “They hate us for our freedoms!” And most goody-goody Americans went back to sleep. We pride ourselves on our “separation of Church and State,” but who ever proposed that we separate Morality and the State, or Wisdom and the State?
→ read full articleHomosexuality Will Never Be Eliminated. How About Eliminating Homophobia?
Neela Ghoshal, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Jul 17 2015 -A report published in June by the Academy of Science of South Africa, in collaboration with the Uganda National Academy of Sciences, could help reshape understandings of human sexuality – if African policymakers take the time to consider the report’s findings.
→ read full articleMilitary Conscription Worldwide – Conscientious Objectors and Deserters
CJ Hinke, World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Incredibly, in the 21st-century, roughly half of the world’s nation-states practice military conscription. The countries on this list may still be enforcing military conscription.
→ read full articleWith Pope Francis at the Helm, World’s Mayors Pledge to Fight Climate Change
Nadia Prupis – Common Dreams,
27 Jul 2015
‘His Holiness did not convene us here to ratify the status quo, but in fact to upend it,’ said New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio at Vatican conference. At the Vatican on Tuesday [21 Jul 2015], mayors from around the globe pledged to fight climate change and help the world’s poor deal with the effects of a warming planet, an oath that came during a two-day conference with Pope Francis—himself a dedicated climate activist.
→ read full articleThe Social Economic Enslavement of Japan
WeAreChange – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Luke Rudkowski interviews economist Marc Abela in Tokyo, Japan. Marc has lived in Tokyo for over 25 years and reveals amazing insights and info about the hidden true social economics in Japan.
→ read full articlePhoto of ‘Mutant Daisies’ Near Fukushima Goes Viral
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
23 Jul 2015 – A recent photograph of less-than-perfect daisies near Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster site is generating headlines and is making the rounds on social media.
→ read full articleGreece’s Other Crisis
Mark Hetfield – Al Jazeera America,
27 Jul 2015
Refugees crossing the Aegean face hostile conditions – and no-one is helping them out. The best way to keep refugees from making perilous journeys is to protect them from what they are fleeing in the first place.
→ read full articleBill Nye on Glyphosate: ‘We Accidentally Decimated the Monarch Butterfly Population’
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
People developed this herbicide called glyphosate that kills all the weeds, and kills all of everything except the plants that have this cool gene in them that allows them to grow right through it. So we accidentally have decimated the monarch butterfly population, reduced it over the last two decades by 90 percent.
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