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Saudi Arabia and the “War on Terror”
Bill Van Auken, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
A more fundamental question is what does the Saudi regime mean by “terrorism”? Clearly, it is not referring to the various Al Qaeda-linked groups fighting in Syria, all of which get substantial funding as well as large numbers of fighters and their religious-ideological inspiration from the Wahhabist Saudi kingdom.
→ read full article(Português) Violência Contra Qualquer Espécie É Inaceitável
Malu Nunes - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
21 Dec 2015
Animais, plantas e micro-organismos silvestres estão desaparecendo em um ritmo avassalador, em decorrência de atividades humanas; e essa perda de biodiversidade também é uma forma de violência, que jamais poderia ser encarada como natural. A taxa de extinção atual é mil vezes superior ao ritmo normal da natureza, ou seja, a sociedade contemporânea é mais perigosa que o meteoro que dizimou os dinossauros em uma das outras cinco ondas históricas de extinções em massa.
→ read full articleU.S. Air Force Hires Private Companies to Fly Drones in War Zones
Chris Thompson, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
The unprecedented move is in response to demands from the Obama administration to dramatically expand the drone war just as the Pentagon faces a critical shortage of military pilots. As a result, civilian pilots will directly participate in military operations for the first time since the drone wars began about a decade ago.
→ read full articleIndia Declares Dolphins “Non-Human Persons” – Dolphin Shows Banned
EWAO – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests have made a groundbreaking decision, to completely forbid the keeping of captive dolphins for public entertainment in the entire country. A statement about their new policy was released Friday [30 Oct 2015],
→ read full articleImperialism and Capitalism: Rethinking an Intimate Relationship
Prof. James Petras and Prof. Henry Veltmeyer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
16 Dec 2015 – The literature on imperialism suffers from a fundamental confusion about the relationship between capitalism and imperialism. The aim of this paper is to remove this confusion.
→ read full article(Português) A Vida de Fraudes do Homem que Aumentou Um Comprimido para a SIDA [AIDS] de 13,5 para 750 Dólares: Foi Preso
Luís M. Faria – Expresso,
21 Dec 2015
As acusações têm a ver com uma fraude anterior, mas é possível que o ato que levou Martin Shkreli a ser odiado na internet tenha a ver com as suas dívidas pessoais.
→ read full article(Italiano) “Da Piazza Fontana a Piazza della Loggia. Tra violenza e verità”
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
Parte seconda – Il processo d’Appello bis di Piazza della Loggia è l’unico processo per strage ancora aperto in Italia.
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Empire Files
Abby Martin, TheRealNews - TeleSur,
21 Dec 2015
Abby Martin debuts teleSUR’s The Empire Files exploring the U.S. Empire and its rise to world hegemony.
→ read full articleChristmas Greetings 2015
Stephen Gill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
I see the spirit resurrecting
in Christmas trees,
mistletoe and Santa Claus.
I see her appearing
within the decoration in churches,
homes and offices
in parties, family reunions
and drinks.
Paris: We Need System Change!
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
Our entire system is leading us towards disaster, and this includes both economic and governmental establishments. To save human civilization, the biosphere and the future, the people of the world must take matters into their own hands and change the system.
→ read full articleWe Wish You a MERRY CHRISTMAS
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
Magnificent Orchestra & Choir – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
→ read full articleChina vs. Russia vs. USA; Xi vs. Putin vs. Obama
Johan Galtung, 21 Dec 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
China, the most populous; Russia, the largest; USA, the most military. And here is the key hypothesis, presumably more right than wrong: China-Xi: positive peace; Russia-Putin: negative peace; USA-Obama: war. It takes at least two to make wars, and two to make peace. The other side has to play the same role. The question is: who will yield to the other, China-Russia to major wars, or the USA to major peace?
→ read full articleUniversity of Barcelona Announces Official Boycott of Israeli Occupation
The Palestinian Information Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
20 Dec 2015 – The Central University of Barcelona (UAB) announced its decision to boycott Israeli universities and institutions that have ties, whether direct or indirect, with the occupation of Palestine.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
Dec 21-27 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Always remember to slow down in life; live, breathe, and learn; take a look around you whenever you have time and never forget everything and every person that has the least place within your heart.” — Unattributed
→ read full articleTehran’s Damascene Moment?
James Denselow – Al Jazeera,
14 Dec 2015
14 Dec 2015 – The wider regional conflict between Riyadh and Tehran has influenced much of the machinations of the Middle East over the past decade. The fact that the two countries are sitting at the same table discussing Syria rather than negotiating through violence on the ground is a significant – and under-reported – success of the Vienna process to date.
→ read full articleWe Are Going Backwards; COP21 Is the Opposite of Progress
Frank Barat interviews Naomi Klein – New Internationalist Magazine,
14 Dec 2015
10 Dec 2015 – Naomi Klein speaks with Frank Barat about the limits of the Paris climate talks and how climate change is an accelerator that makes pre-existing problems worse.
→ read full articleWorld Leaders Agree to Historic Global Climate Agreement
Stefanie Spear, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
12 Dec 2015 – World leaders from 195 countries adopted an historic international climate accord Saturday [12 Dec] in Paris. The 31-page pact, which comes after two weeks of negotiations at the COP21 climate summit, is the first-ever agreement that commits almost every country in the world to fight climate change.
→ read full articleWhy the World’s Most Powerful Telescope Has Just Been Ruled Unlawful
Maddie Stone, Gizmodo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
7 Dec 2015 – Last week, Hawaii’s Supreme Court voided a construction permit for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), a $1.4 billion observatory that would peer into distant corners of our universe and back in time, exploring new cosmic landscapes with a resolution twelve times sharper than that of Hubble.
→ read full articleThe Five Key Decisions Made in the UN Climate Deal in Paris
Ewa Krukowska and Alex Morales - Bloomberg,
14 Dec 2015
12 Dec 2015 – Envoys to the United Nations climate talks handed down a 31-page document on Saturday [12 Dec] outlining their boldest steps yet to rein in global warming. Here are the key points of the text, along with comment on why the decisions made in Paris matter.
• Envoys set goal to cap temperature rise below 2 degrees C
• Climate finance for poor nations to be scaled up by 2025
Eight Lessons from the Climate Disaster and Why Paris Worked
Alex Morales - Bloomberg,
14 Dec 2015
13 Dec 2015 – It took years of careful planning by the United Nations and the 195 countries involved to reach the historic deal on climate change agreed in Paris on Saturday [12 Dec].
• Envoys from 195 nations labored six years on global accord
• Mouton Cadet wines, Venezuela critic helped the process
100 Years of General Relativity (Part 1 of 3)
Don Barrett, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Produced in a revolutionary epoch, general relativity continues to be regarded as one of the momentous achievements of physics, yet its implications are far from exhausted. Even after the passage of a century, new insights connecting the theory and observed phenomena appear each year in the publications of thousands of physicists across the globe. It was the capstone to a century of intellectual struggle and the catalyst to a deeper understanding of the material world.
→ read full article100 Years of General Relativity (Part 2 of 3)
Will Morrow, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
The History, Science and Implications of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity
→ read full articleClimate Deal Requires $16.5 Trillion Investment to Cut Pollution
Alex Morales and Ewa Krukowska - Bloomberg,
14 Dec 2015
13 Dec 2015 – The deal struck at United Nations climate talks requires an overhaul of historic proportions for energy policies worldwide and a huge investment in cleaning up the pollution now damaging the Earth’s atmosphere.
• UN deal in Paris would require much deeper fossil fuel cuts
• Envoys from 187 nations submit action plans to cut emissions
Alright then…
Submitted by Robin Poulton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Bloke comes down to breakfast and says to his wife, “Honey, what would you do if I won the lottery?”
→ read full articleIsraeli Army Launches Limited Incursion into Blockaded Gaza
The Palestinian Information Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
9 Dec 2015 — Four Israeli army bulldozers raked through the area and leveled Palestinian lands amid intermittent discharge of gunfire. The incursions are the latest in a series of Israeli violations of the Cairo-brokered ceasefire accord signed in the wake of the 2014 offensive on the besieged coastal enclave.
→ read full articleLatin America: The Aborted Neo-Liberal Offensive
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Progressive social legislation has come to a virtual halt even before the recent political advances of the US-backed right-wing parties with their neo-liberal economic agenda. Any attempt to ‘unmake and reverse’ the social advances of the past decade will be met with (1) militant resistance, if not open class warfare; (2) institutional and political constraints; (3) and low commodity prices drastically limiting export revenues.
→ read full articleReinventing Banking: From Russia to Iceland to Ecuador
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
11 Dec 2015 – Global developments in finance and geopolitics are prompting a rethinking of the structure of banking and of the nature of money itself. Among other interesting news items:
→ read full articleCorporations Will Never Solve Climate Change
Naomi Oreskes and Auden Schendler – Harvard Business Review,
14 Dec 2015
The facts about VW — combined with recent revelations about Exxon-Mobil’s long history of misrepresenting what they understood about climate change, as well as BP’s failure to get “Beyond Petroleum” — spell the end of the old notion of green business, the idea that a big piece of the environmental fix might come voluntarily from the corporate world.
→ read full articleExtinction is Forever
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
it is two things that drive species over the edge: our systematic destruction of land habitat – forests, grasslands, wetlands, peatlands, mangroves… – in our endless effort to capture more of the Earth’s wild places for human use (whether it be residential, commercial, mining, farming or military) and our destruction of waterways and the ocean habitat by dumping into them radioactive contaminants, carbon dioxide, a multitude of poisons and chemical pollutants, and even plastic.
→ read full articleFive Years since the Arrest of Julian Assange
Robert Stevens, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
8 Dec 2015 – On December 7, 2010 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was detained in London under a European Arrest Warrant issued by Sweden. His sole crime was to bring to global attention the heinous war crimes committed by the US and other imperialist powers in Iraq and Afghanistan—crimes authorised at the highest levels of government.
→ read full articlePentagon Announces Worldwide Expansion of US Military Bases
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
11 Dec 2015 – The US Defense Department is preparing to expand its global network of military bases by establishing a new “string” of bases in countries stretching from Africa to East Asia, unnamed Pentagon officials told the New York Times Wednesday [9 Dec].
→ read full articleHow U.S. Interventions Dismembered the Middle East
Adil E. Shamoo – Foreign Policy In Focus,
14 Dec 2015
Despite everything, hawks are still pushing President Obama to send ground troops to Syria. He would be wise to reject their advice.
→ read full article100 Years of General Relativity (Part 3 of 3)
Bryan Dyne, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
The History, Science and Implications of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity
→ read full articleBanksy’s ‘Steve Jobs the Son of Syrian Migrant’ Pops Up in Calais Camp
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
11 Dec 2015 – The picture of the late pioneer of the microcomputer revolution, Steve Jobs, carrying a rucksack appears on the wall in infamous Jungle refugee camp in the French port of Calais. “The son of a migrant from Syria,” the description under the picture reads.
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My Way (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Frank Sinatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Celebrating 100 Years of Frank Sinatra, Born 12 Dec 1915 – The Voice of the 20th Century!
→ read full articlePyotr Kropotkin (9 Dec 1842 – 8 Feb1921) Sociability as a Law of Nature
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
In 1902, Kropotkin published his most lasting book, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. “We may safely say that mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle, but that as a factor of evolution, mutual aid most probably has a far greater importance, in as much it favors the development of such habits and character as insure the maintenance and future development of the species.”
→ read full article‘We Are Human Beings; We Are Not Dogs’
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
14 Dec 2015
On the outskirts of the northern French town of Calais, a massive, makeshift refugee camp called “The Jungle” grows daily, swelling with asylum-seekers fleeing war in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Sudan and beyond. Their countries of origin are a map of the targets of U.S. bombing campaigns. More than 6,000 people here.
→ read full articleWhile Left Governments in South America Face Setbacks, Gains of Progressive Period Likely to Endure
Benjamin Dangl, Upside Down World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
The gains of South America’s progressive period, won in the halls of power and in the streets, won’t likely be swept aside anytime soon.
→ read full articleThe Art of Self-Culture and the Crucial Difference between Being Educated and Being Cultured
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
“In order to be cultured and not to stand below the level of your surroundings it is not enough to have read ‘The Pickwick Papers’ and learnt a monologue from ‘Faust,’ Anton Chekhov wrote in an 1886 letter to his brother, outlining the eight qualities of cultured people — among them sincerity, “no shallow vanity,” and a compassionate heart that “aches for what the eye does not see.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Le nubi stanno diventando più nere
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Come fa notare Robert Savio, “combattono tutti fino all’ultimo siriano”. La sola speranza fra le grandi potenze: la Russia. Bombardando e reagendo con moderazione, potrebbe far sì che gli sciiti Assad-Iraq-Iran-Bahrain arrivino a una tregua, aprendo a negoziati. Putin l’ha già fatto in passato. Cionondimeno, l’Occidente può preferire la guerra per far sì che sia Putin a risolvergli i problemi.
→ read full articleThe Climate vs. the Planet
Johan Galtung, 14 Dec 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
They made a major mistake in Paris, or Le Bourget rather: much about what to do and the legal framework, too little about how. Innovations do not come by themselves; many already exist, use them; demand specific innovations to be shared with humanity; no patents, no “market forces”–generally for the rich to become richer–please.
→ read full articleRationalism and Piety
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
There are contrasting views about rationalism and empiricism. Indian Rationalist Association is as the name suggests an Indian institution that tries to expose the so-called godmen and other superstitions.
→ read full articleRearranging the Deck on Capitalism’s Sinking Ship
Andrew Smolski - CounterPunch,
14 Dec 2015
We need to consider that any perceived incorporation of ecological rationality is “partially attributable to the growth of carbon-intensive manufacturing in less developed countries via the transnationalization of production.” We are just moving our problems around.
→ read full articleFrank Sinatra (12 Dec 1915 – 14 May 1998)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Francis Albert Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey and died in Los Angeles, California. Frank is often hailed as the greatest American singer of 20th-century; nicknamed The Voice.
→ read full article(Português) Nossos Amigos Animais
Olisomar Pires - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
14 Dec 2015
Ninguém é obrigado a ter um animal doméstico, porém se o tiver, aja com honradez para com ele, a paga recebida é muito maior que qualquer “enorme” sacrifício da nossa parte, se um dia constatar que já não tem condições de cuidar bem, procure alternativas pensando no bem estar do seu amigo, não o abandone jamais à própria sorte, eles são como crianças.
→ read full article(Français) Les Israéliens tuent les civils palestiniens dans une totale impunité
Mazin Qumsiyeh – Info-Palestine,
14 Dec 2015
Les assassinats par les Israéliens de civils palestiniens se répètent dans l’impunité. 108 Palestiniens ont été tués depuis le premier octobre [2015].
→ read full articleHow to Be an Anticapitalist Today
Prof. Erik Olin Wright, Ph.D. – Jacobin Magazine,
14 Dec 2015
Anticapitalism isn’t simply a moral stance against injustice — it’s about building an alternative.
→ read full articleBritish Amputee Soldier Bold Statement Defending Muslims
Chris Herbert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Point is, fuck off. I know who I dislike, and I know who I don’t. I know who I appreciate, and I know who I don’t. If you want to hate an entire race of men and women for the actions of a few dickheads feel free, but don’t push your views on me, thinking I am an easy target because one douchebag decided it was my day to die. Blaming all Muslims for the actions of groups like Daesh and the Taliban, is like blaming all Christians for the actions of the KKK or Westboro Baptist Church.
→ read full articleWhat Stinks in Saudi Ain’t the Camel Dung – ISIS Is a “Saudi Army in Disguise”
F. William Engdahl, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
The Saudi monarchy of King Salman and his hot-headed son, Prince Salman, for decades have financed terrorism under a fake religious disguise to advance their private plutocratic agenda. It has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with money and oil.
→ read full articleBack to Basics: Clearing the Fog of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Sami Al-Arian – CounterPunch,
14 Dec 2015
Oftentimes Israel and its enablers in the political and media arenas try to obfuscate basic facts about the nature and history of the conflict. Despite these attempts, however, the conflict is neither complicated nor has it existed for centuries.
→ read full articleGerry Spence on America Menaced by Impending Police State
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
The book pertains to the situation here in America, but as recent events in Paris, San Bernardino, and Colorado Springs confirm, we are in danger of moving without realizing it toward some kind of ‘global police state,’ all in the name of security, trampling on the rights and self-esteem of billions of people and extinguishing the freedom of all. Such a devastating scenario cannot be separated from the predatory features of global capitalism in its present neoliberal phase.
→ read full articleArms-Control Lessons from the Volkswagen Scandal
Moritz Kütt – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
14 Dec 2015
Volkswagen got away with this legerdemain for years because, like most carmakers, it uses proprietary software to control its engines and other systems, software that still is not available to vehicle inspectors or independent analysts. Arms-control verification relies on similarly complex combinations of software and hardware, and verification tools often use proprietary or export-controlled technology that prevents transparency and independent scrutiny.
→ read full articleThe Destroyer
UNILAD TV - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Powerful 1m47s message on the world environment. The video speaks for itself…
→ read full articleParis and the Long-Term Future
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
The ultimate fate of human civilization and the biosphere is in our hands. What we really have to fear, for the sake of our children and grandchildren and their descendants, is reaching a tipping point, beyond which uncontrollable feedback loops will make catastrophic climate change inevitable despite all human efforts to prevent it.
→ read full articleFour Examples of Mainstream Media Fabricating News to Push for War
Dylan Charles, Waking Times – The Conscious Reporter,
14 Dec 2015
As we inch further into the future and evermore closer to the next, and certainly last, world war, it seems proper to give pause and consider the significance of the fact that much of the information provided on world events is dreadfully compromised by corporate and political propagandists.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Dec 14-20 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Don’t let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don’t like them.” – Stacy London
→ read full articleDestroying Syria to Create Sunnistan
Mike Whitney - CounterPunch,
14 Dec 2015
What is the connection between the US bombing of a Syrian military base in Ayyash, Syria, and the Turkish invasion of northern Iraq? Both of these seemingly isolated events are part of a larger plan to Balkanize the Middle East, to strengthen Washington’s grip on dwindling resources, to draw Russia into a costly and protracted war, and to ensure that ME oil remains denominated in US dollars.
→ read full article(Italiano) “Da Piazza Fontana a Piazza della Loggia. Tra violenza e verità”
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Preciso, dettagliato, senza inutili orpelli e divagazioni, pregno di aspetti sociologici, culturali, ideali e quotidiani di quegli anni e delle due stragi fasciste di Piazza Fontana (Milano) e di Piazza della Loggia (Brescia), è stato il contributo che Milani e Sinicato hanno regalato, con grande generosità, anche al pubblico presente in biblioteca regionale di Aosta la sera prima, per una testimonianza di raro ed alto impegno umano, civile, intellettuale e professionale.
→ read full article“Truth”
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
He had a little truth;
He held it with his might.
How Our Naive Understanding of Violence Helps ISIS
Paul K. Chappell, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
During the era of the Internet revolution, it is naive to believe that we can use violence to defeat the ideologies that sustain terrorism. ISIS and Al Qaida are global movements, and with the Internet and social media, they can recruit people from all over the world, including people on American and European soil. And they only have to recruit a tiny amount of Americans and Europeans, initiate a single attack, and kill a few people to cause the huge overreactions that they want from their opponents.
→ read full articleObama, like Bush, Just Makes It All Worse
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
14 Dec 2015
Fear, doubt, uncertainty, confusion, and secrecy all conspire to defeat confidence, calm, proportionality, and reason. Leadership and populace alike embrace a zeitgeist of agitation and over-simplification, lashing out in one-dimensional military responses to misperceived threats that are not even fundamentally military. Anti-terrorism, as practiced by the US, is an oxymoron.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Radicalizing the Oppressed, Humiliated and Marginalized: There Must Be 50 Ways
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Understanding “radicalization” isn’t rocket science, but in order to understand it, one needs more information than what is spoon-fed to us consumers of inadequate, censored, canned and often fake (“faux”) news. That is fine with the National Rifle Association, the gun lobby, the weapons manufacturers, the Pentagon and Big Pharma, all of whom are beneficiaries of the half-truths with which we are force-fed.
→ read full articleThe Nobel Foundation Taken to Court on the Peace Prize
Jan Oberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
“We are not going to court for our own financial benefit,” says Fredrik Heffermehl, “but to get a court order on Nobel’s purpose and the limits the peace prize must keep within. To this end, we had to sue the board of the Nobel Foundation to restitute to the Foundation the €1 million paid to the EU in 2012. The money was paid to the EU against protests from Peace Prize recipients Desmond Tutu, Mairead Maguire, Perez Esquivel and the International Peace Bureau.”
→ read full articlePeace Researchers Urge Caution over Bombing in Syria
Kevin Clements, Feargal Cochrane and Hugh Miall – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Trying to stop ‘terrorism’ with ‘air strikes’ is like trying to stop a seeding dandelion by hitting it with a golf club. Bombing Syrian towns is likely to increase recruitment to ISIS, both in the Middle East and in Europe. We need more creative and imaginative solutions to the problems we are confronting than those currently on the table.
→ read full article(Français) Contrecarrer le changement démocratique: Etre Palestinien en Israël
Ben White, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Quelques morceaux choisis du livre de Ben White, ‘Etre Palestinien en Israël’. Edité par La Guillotine, cet ouvrage indispensable traite d’une question clé ignorée par le “processus de paix” officiel et par les commentateurs les plus influents : celle de la minorité palestinienne à l’intérieur d’Israël.
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Frank Sinatra Centennial – TMS Editor’s 7 Picks: Kick Back and Enjoy…
Frank Sinatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
New York New York, Got You under My Skin, You Make Me Feel so Young, It Was a Very Good Year, Frank Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim, Come Fly with Me, Young at Heart.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to Myanmar’s Leaders
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
May I, from the bottom of my heart, urge you to use your most precious time, while alive, to endeavor to end the hell of a slow genocide of the Rohingya and to bring about the cessation of all armed conflicts and wars against our own ethnic brethren in Eastern Myanmar, namely the Kachin, the Shan, the Pa-Oo, the Kokant, etc. May the Rohingya be free from the State’s genocidal persecution.
→ read full articleResponding to Megaterrorism after Paris
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
6 Dec 2015 – The post below is based on an opinion piece published by Middle East Eye on December 1, 2015 under the title “A Different Response to ISIS after Paris.” My modified text places its focus on the originality of megaterrorism and its distinctive challenges, suggesting that the choice of response needs to be extended beyond the iron cage of militarism and vengeance.
→ read full articleHow to Deal with Mass Shootings in the USA
Doc Jazz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
Satirical strip
→ read full articleThe Dynamics of Compassion
Robert C. Koehler, Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
We invented written language. The human species is now in the process of inventing something just as crucial: how to love itself, how to engage with itself nonviolently. We’ve been organized for far too long in a state of only partial connection, relying on the presence of enemies to stay in solidarity with our neighbors.
→ read full article(Português) Testes em animais: como as novas tecnologias podem evitar?
Carlos Eduardo Matos - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
7 Dec 2015
3 dez 2015 – Há cerca de dois anos uma notícia repercutiu em toda a imprensa nacional e tomou conta das postagens e comentários em diversas redes sociais: a invasão de ativistas dos direitos animais ao Instituto Royal, na cidade de São Roque, em São Paulo. O grupo resgatou no local animais que eram utilizados como cobaias para testes de medicamentos, incluindo cerca de 200 cachorros da raça Beagle.
→ read full articleThe Dark Alliance of Global Philanthropy and Capitalism
William G Moseley – Al Jazeera,
7 Dec 2015
It’s a problem if endowment investments generate the very poverty foundations are trying to alleviate.
→ read full articleImpeachment against Rousseff Might Be a Matter of Personal Vengeance
Sputinik News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
Impeachment proceedings against Brazil’s President launched by speaker of the lower house Eduardo Cunha is a matter of his personal vengeance, Deputy Leader of the Workers Party in the Brazilian parliament Margarida Salomao told Sputnik Thursday [3 Dec 2015].
→ read full articleMore Pilot Whales Slaughtered on the Shores of the Faroe Islands
Sea Shepherd – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
1 Dec 2015 – Yesterday, a pod of 11 pilot whales was slaughtered at the killing beach of Fuglafirði in the Faroe Islands. It is the sixth grindadráp in the archipelago this year, and brings the total number of pilot whales slaughtered in the 2015 drive hunts to 501.
→ read full articleThe Over-Written, Under-Reported Middle East – Part I: Of Arabs and Muslims
Baher Kamal, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
Egyptian-born, Spanish-national, secular journalist Baher Kamal tries to demystify some of the most common stereotypes circulating around the Middle East region.
→ read full articleThe Over-Written, Under-Reported Middle East – Part II: 99.5 Years of (Imposed) Solitude
Baher Kamal, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
Baher Kamal tries to demystify some of the most common stereotypes circulating around the Middle East region. Here he explains some of the roots of its drama.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il clima con occhi diversi
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
7 Dec 2015
Sara Flaunders, in un articolo del 2009, sosteneva che “il Pentagono è il maggior consumatore istituzionale di prodotti petroliferi e di energia in generale. Ma il Pentagono gode di una implicita esenzione in tutti gli accordi internazionali sul clima”.
→ read full articleIt Figures…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
Johnny and Billy, who sat next to each other at school, both had 17 mistakes in their dictation, and all in the same places.
→ read full articleWhat Next After Paris? Nonviolent Solutions to Violent Politics
Kevin Clements – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
Bettelheim said that, “Violence is the behaviour of someone incapable of imagining other solutions to the problem at hand.” And Gandhi said, “I oppose all violence because the good it does is always temporary but the harm it does is permanent”. So what might be some nonviolent solutions to Paris? There are some short, medium and long-term things that we could contemplate.
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
Dec 7-13 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “One day you’re seventeen and planning for someday. And then quietly and without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And that someday is yesterday. And this is your life.” – One Tree Hill
→ read full articleParis, India, and Coal
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
The MIT Technology Review recently published an important article entitled “India’s Energy Crisis”. Have India’s economic planners really thought about the long-term future? Have they considered the fact that drastic climate change could make India completely uninhabitable?
→ read full articleA Big Win for Cheap, Clean Energy
Bill Gates – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
30 Nov 2015 – I’m in Paris. Two related initiatives are being announced at today’s COP21 event. One is Mission Innovation, a commitment by more than ten countries to invest more in research on clean energy. The other is the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, a global group of private investors who will support companies that are taking innovative clean-energy ideas out of the lab and into the marketplace.
→ read full articleLocal Engagement with Armed Groups in the Midst of Violence
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
It is certain that insider mediators can play a key role in informal peace processes if they have “space” for action. Local populations are not just passive actors, simply coerced by armed actors. Yet the violent tactics of armed groups can overwhelm and silence voices for peace.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Weshalb ein überstürztes Eingreifen in Syrien falsch ist
Deutschen Fachschaften Friedens- und Konfliktforschung an der Philipps-Universität Marburg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
eine Antwort der deutschen Fachschaften Friedens- und Konfliktforschung auf das Vorhaben des Militäreinsatzes der Bundesregierung.
→ read full article600 Refugees Detained by Australia Say They Want to Die
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
3 Dec 2015 – Six hundred refugees and asylum seekers detained by the Australia government on Manus Island, part of Papua New Guinea, have written a letter to the Australian prime minister saying they want assistance to die.
→ read full articleConflict and Cooperation
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
During World War I, Muzafer Sherif from Turkey was in a group of civilians who were massacred by enemy soldiers. He was the only survivor, because he lay motionless under a pile of bodies and the soldiers thought he was dead. After that horrible experience, he decided to do everything he could to understand better the sources of hostility and ways to overcome them.
→ read full articleHaitians Denounce US-Funded Denial of Democracy
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
If you happen upon one of the few international news articles about the October 25 first round presidential election in Haiti, and it fails to mention Fanmi Lavalas, Haiti’s largest and most popular political party, and its candidate, Maryse Narcisse, you can be sure the report is part of a well-orchestrated media black-out.
→ read full articleWhy Did the “Retired” Senior General Than Shwe Meet with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
5 Dec 2015 – The prevailing view is that the Old Man wants to ensure that he is safe from any form of retribution, that his extended family are safe and that their ill-gotten gains – estimated at US$ billions – remain intact. And for the Rohingya, the deal excludes their genocide.
→ read full articleThe Entire ‘War on Terror’ Has Been a Lie – And These Charts Prove It
Rebecca Sumner – The Canary,
7 Dec 2015
We were told long ago that the “war on terror” would make the world a safer place. But after 14 years of permanent warfare, terrorist attacks around the world have escalated by a staggering 6,500%. See charts.
→ read full articleMessage to Menkind by the Great Lao-Tzu
TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
“It is only when you see a mosquito landing on your testicles…
→ read full articleThe Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Is a Marketing Tool, Not a Charity
Emily Baselt Steiger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
2 Dec 2015 – This week, the internet exploded with news stories that Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan pledged to donate 99% of their wealth to charity through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
→ read full article(Italiano) Giornalismo di pace: funziona?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
In breve: No. Gli avvenimenti di Parigi hanno innescato un giornalismo di guerra; non si è osservato alcun giornalismo di pace. Dubitare che la violenza anti-IS funzionerà non è giornalismo di pace, solo giornalismo di guerra con degli interrogativi.
→ read full articleCrossing Cultural and Linguistic Boundaries: International Volunteer Day
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
5 December has been selected as the International Volunteer Day by a 1985 UN General Assembly resolution. This year 5 December comes as government representatives and volunteers of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are meeting in Paris to develop a new international climate agreement, COP 21.
→ read full articleUnearthing America’s Deep Network of Climate Change Deniers
Eric Roston - Bloomberg,
7 Dec 2015
A new study attempts the first tally of those driving the peculiarly American strain of climate change denial.
→ read full articleCompassion, Humanity Better Resolve Conflicts
Kristin Christman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
Constructive Intelligence a Smarter Choice to Finding Peace in the World – Alienated murderers may stand at the tip of an iceberg of countless people who are alienated but who react, not with homicide, but with depression, anxiety, callousness, misbehavior, or suicide, or who get murdered themselves. Constructive intelligence illuminates nonviolent actions critical for peace.
→ read full articleWe Must Stop the Madness of Brinkmanship
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
Brinksmanship is an insane and immoral game played by our arrogant and power-mad leaders. It is a game that the world could all too easily lose. We know from histories of the start of World War I how easily a small incident can escalate uncontrollably into a catastrophic global conflict. With thermonuclear weapons, the stakes are much higher today. The future of humanity and the biosphere are at stake.
→ read full articleThe Clouds Are Getting Dark
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
As Robert Savio points out, “They all fight to the last Syrian.” Only hope among the Big Powers: Russia. Bombing and reacting with moderation, it could get Shia Assad-Iraq-Iran-Bahrain to arrive at a cease-fire, opening for negotiations. Putin has done it before. Nevertheless, the West may prefer war to have Putin solve problems for them.
→ read full articleHuge: Monsanto Going to Trial for Crimes against Humanity
Christina Sarich, Natural Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
3 Dec 2015 – In The Hague, Netherlands, International Criminal Court. If you’ve been waiting to finally see Monsanto – one of the most hated companies in the world – to pay for its ecocide, knowing harm of human life, and devastation of our pollinators, then you won’t have to wait much longer.
→ read full articleWampis Nation of Peruvian Amazon Declares Creation of First Autonomous Indigenous Government in Peru
Forest Peoples Programme - Global Research,
7 Dec 2015
The Wampis nation of the Peruvian Amazon declares the creation of the first autonomous indigenous government in Peru to defend the totality of their ancestral territory covering 1.3 million hectares of tropical forest.
→ read full articleDoes Eleven Plus One Equal Sixty?
Nick Turse - TomDispatch,
7 Dec 2015
The U.S. military has built an extensive archipelago of African outposts, transforming the continent into a laboratory for a new kind of war.
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