Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Cry for Argentina: Fiscal Mismanagement, Odious Debt or Pillage?
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
Argentina has now taken the US to The Hague for blocking the country’s 2005 settlement with the bulk of its creditors. The issue underscores the need for an international mechanism for nations to go bankrupt. Better yet would be a sustainable global monetary scheme that avoids the need for sovereign bankruptcy.
→ read full articleMilitarization of US Police: Blowback in Ferguson, Missouri
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
[The fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager] This is a short call from informing the mainstream media that the country has been living under pseudo martial law for decades. Regardless of what big media wants us to believe, what we witness is a blowback. Our wars have come home to roost.
→ read full articleThe Tragedy of Great Power: The Massacre of Gaza and the Inevitable Failure of the Arab Spring
Khaled Abou El Fadl, ABC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
After the military coup in Egypt, I braced for the slaughter in Palestine. Sadly, one’s worst possible fears materialized with nightmarish predictability.
→ read full articleIsraeli Genocide and its Willing Accomplices
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
Outside of Israel and its organized supporters in the major Zionist organizations, world public opinion and most experts in international law see the Jewish State’s invasion of Gaza and its systematic attack on civilians and basic infrastructure as a crime against humanity. The purpose of this essay is 4-fold.
→ read full articleSwamped by Rising Seas, Small Islands Seek a Lifeline
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
11 Aug 2014 – The world’s 52 small island developing states (SIDS), some in danger of being wiped off the face of the earth because of sea-level rise triggered by climate change, will be the focus of an international conference in the South Pacific island nation of Samoa next month.
→ read full articleIsrael Furious as UN Unveils Gaza Probe Team
AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
Israel lashed out on Tuesday [12 Aug 2014] after the UN Human Rights Council named the man who will be running an inquiry into its Gaza offensive. “This commission’s anti-Israeli conclusions have already been written, all it needs is a signature,” railed foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor.
→ read full article6 Things You Need to Know about Food and Cancer
EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Servicer,
18 Aug 2014
The notion of using food to prevent or delay the onset of certain ailments is centuries old—Hippocrates himself is famous for saying “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to My Palestinian Friends
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
I wish to acknowledge the sensitivity of some Palestinians to suggestions from those of us who are only Palestinian in the sense that ‘We are all Palestinian’. I did not choose my nationality. I did choose to study, exhaustively, strategic theory and nonviolent strategy so that I could share them with those who might be interested. I have no interest in doing more than offering this suggestion and my help.
→ read full articleUS Just Not Sure Who to Bomb in the Middle East Anymore
Pan-Arabia Enquirer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
An exhausted Barack Obama told US citizens that he was “mostly clueless” about who he should bomb in the Middle East. The statement days after US forces began air strikes against Islamic State forces in Iraq, despite their opposition to Syrian leader Bashar Al-Assad, who the US also consider an enemy and have considered bombing.
→ read full articleName Calling on the Road
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
A man was driving a car along a winding mountain road.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden the Most Wanted Man in the World
James Bamford, Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
In May [2014] I received an email from his lawyer, ACLU attorney Ben Wizner, confirming that Snowden would meet me in Moscow and let me hang out and chat with him for what turned out to be three solid days over several weeks. It is the most time that any journalist has been allowed to spend with him since he arrived in Russia in June 2013.
→ read full articleScience, Religion and War
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
The principle of reciprocity is an ancient one in human history, and it is thus embedded in our emotions. It is the basis of non-market economies, and also the basis of social interactions between family members, friends and colleagues. In hunter-gatherer societies, it is customary to share food among all the members of the group. Similarly, among friends in modern society, no payment is made for hospitality, but it is expected that the hospitality will be returned.
→ read full articleCapital in the Twenty-First Century [e-book]
Thomas Piketty – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
Download made possible by Wallace Patrick Farias.
→ read full articlePractical Solution to the Middle East Conflict
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
The best way to solve problems properly and effectively is to go straight to their source. This way adequate solutions could be provided in the best interest of all those involved.
→ read full articleGenocide in Iraq? A Political History of the Yazidis and Mandaeans
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
As an NGO representative to the United Nations, Geneva, and active on human rights issues, I had already raised the issues of two major religious minorities in Iraq at the UN Commission on Human Rights: the Yazidis and the Mandaeans.
→ read full articleNo Talking
Ada Aharoni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
The politicians decided
No talking with the enemy
Beat them because they attack us
Shed their blood and that of their leaders
LGBT Rights around the World
InfoGraphic World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
LGBT rights around the world vary; some countries such as Australia and Greenland recognize same-sex relationships. Many countries in Africa and the Middle East criminalize being gay, some go so far as to put a person to death. Learn how LGBT rights have changed over the years and what daily life is like around the world for the LGBT community.
→ read full article(Português) Um Lugar na Tua Alma
Tereza Halliday- TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
A vida não anda para trás. Sustenta-me a assertiva de Marc Chagall: “Só é meu o lugar que se encontra na minha alma”. E não é a Caruaru de hoje. Quais lugares se encontram na tua alma?
→ read full article45 Years Ago: The Complicated, Generation-Defining History of Woodstock
Corbin Reiff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
On Aug. 15, 1969, some 500,000 people descended upon Max Yasgur’s farm in Bethel, NY, to take part in one of the most memorable spectacles of the century. Through all the mud, the mayhem, and the music, Woodstock is still remembered as the greatest music festival of all-time. No security personnel, no occurrence of violence.
→ read full article‘We Tortured Some Folks’
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
This Modern World – Comic Strip
→ read full articleHumankind-Improving Concepts
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
A Rhymed Reflection
→ read full articleA Repugnant New Form of Fascism: The Palestinian Holocaust in Gaza
Fidel Castro Ruz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
11 Aug 2014 – I think that a new, repugnant form of fascism is emerging with notable strength, at this time in human history when more than seven billion inhabitants are struggling for their survival.
→ read full articleBuddhism in Myanmar: Extremism Galore
Sufyan bin Uzayr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
The radical [Buddhist] monks serve as handy allies for the pseudo-civilian government of Myanmar. Even [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi, so well-known for her pro-liberty credentials, has chosen to be a mute spectator while innocent Rohingya children are being massacred.
→ read full articleJustice as Arbiter: Educating for Moral Authority, Legitimacy, and Credibility
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
This paper is about justice! The term “justice” is widely used in our daily life in media, politics, economic, and religion sectors. This has resulted in surplus meaning, and perhaps a dulling of its implicit power as a historical force. There can be no doubt “justice” is an enduring human virtue and value.
→ read full articleGaza Exit Interview
Eli Valley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
Comic Strip
→ read full articleWhy Have the Media and Obama Administration Gone Silent on MH17?
Niles Williamson, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
The deafening silence of the US media and government about the investigation into the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 one month ago reeks of a cover-up. Having built up the crash into a casus belli against Russia, the US media suddenly dropped the matter completely. The New York Times has not found it fit to print a word on the MH17 crash since August 7. Why?
→ read full articleWhy Socialism?
Albert Einstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is.
→ read full article(Português) Bombardeios dos EUA no Iraque: A Hipocrisia Suprema
Robert Fisk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
A pergunta persiste: os Estados Unidos teriam feito o mesmo se os refugiados do norte do Iraque fossem palestinos? Bombardeariam os agressores?
→ read full articleThe Marshall Islands Sue All Nuclear Nations for Violations of the NPT’s Article VI
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
One can gain a small idea of the terrible ecological consequences of a nuclear war by thinking of the radioactive contamination that has made large areas near to Chernobyl and Fukushima uninhabitable, or the testing of hydrogen bombs in the Pacific, which continues to cause leukemia and birth defects in the Marshall Islands more than half a century later.
→ read full articleMalaysian Press Charges Ukraine Government Shot Down MH 17
Alex Lantier, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
A Thursday [7 Aug 2014] article in the New Straits Times, Malaysia’s flagship English-language newspaper, charged the US- and European-backed Ukrainian regime in Kiev with shooting down Malaysian Airlines flight MH 17 in east Ukraine last month.
→ read full articleHiroshima: The Myth of “Military Necessity”
Ronald Takaki – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
Harry S. Truman was an accidental president. He had been sworn into office only months earlier, when Franklin D. Roosevelt suddenly died on April 12 [1945]. Feeling inadequate to fill the shoes of the great F.D.R., he had to face indignities and sarcasm. In the streets, people asked, “Harry who?” and mocked him as “the little man in the White House.”
→ read full articleOver 400 Ukrainian Troops Cross into Russia for Refuge
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
More than 400 Ukrainian troops have been allowed to cross into Russia after requesting sanctuary. It’s the largest, but not the first, case of desertion into Russia by Ukrainian soldiers involved in Kiev’s military crackdown in the east of the country.
→ read full articleUS Suppressing Satellite Images Which Implicate Kiev in MH17 Crash: Petras
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
Professor James Petras, who has written several books on the Latin America and Middle East, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Saturday [9 Aug 2014], commenting on a statement by former US Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul in which he says Washington is “hiding” the truth about the downing of the Malaysia Airlines MH17.
→ read full articleConclusive: Two Ukrainian Government Fighter-Jets Shot Down That Malaysian Airliner
Eric Zuesse, OpEd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
August 5, 2014 – We’ll go considerably farther than has yet been revealed by the professional intelligence community, to provide the actual evidence that conclusively shows that (and how) the Ukrainian Government shot down the Malaysian airliner, MH-17, on July 17th [2014].
→ read full articlePalestinian Open Letter to UNSG Ban Ki-moon on Gaza
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
Open letter to Mr. Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon: stand for law and Justice or resign!
→ read full article(Italiano) Marx e Freud, il Taoismo e Gandhi
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
Lo Stato stabilizza con il controllo esterno – punizione e ricompensa; lo Spirito con il controllo interiore – buona o cattiva coscienza. Voler fare ciò che va fatto semplifica l’esistenza umana.
→ read full articleSystemic Reliance of World Religions on Human Sacrifice
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
This is not intended as a condemnation of religion. The concern is rather to highlight a mode of operation of systems of belief in general of which awareness appears to be variously discouraged. Scientism and atheism therefore merit related consideration as forms of belief — as “religions”, understood metaphorically.
→ read full articleHow Can We Destroy Love?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
What is love? In essence, love is a feeling. It is not something you experience as a thought, although a thought might arise from the feeling… Self-love is true love. The individual who does not truly love her/himself cannot love another.
→ read full articleThe Universal Abolition of Militarism
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
I was thrilled to read Mairead Maguire’s defence of a demilitarized world, something I’ve been talking about and campaigning for during the last fifty years!!!! However,…
→ read full articleSanctions for Russia and a Green Light for Israel to Continue War Crimes
Ajamu Baraka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
A permanent solution will not come from the U.S. or the Israeli colonial state, and with over 80% of Israeli civil society in support of the military assault on Gaza no justice will come from that sector either. A just solution of the Palestine/Israel issue can only be facilitated by the international community (international meaning beyond the U.S. and Europe).
→ read full articlePrinciples of International Co-Operation in the Detection, Arrest, Extradition and Punishment of Persons Guilty of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
Adopted by General Assembly resolution 3074 (XXVIII) of 3 December 1973
→ read full articleRussia, China Agree on More Trade Currency Swaps to Bypass Dollar
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
9 Aug 2014 – The Russian and Chinese central banks have agreed on a draft currency swap agreement, which will allow them to increase trade in domestic currencies and cut the dependence on the US dollar in bilateral payments.
→ read full articleWhy Aren’t ISIS and Al-Qaeda Attacking Israel?
Brandon Turbeville, Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
It is important to examine Israel’s central role in helping to create the very same organizations that it claims to be threatened by.
→ read full articleKhmer Rouge Verdicts Bring History Alive for Cambodian Students
Preeti Jha, AFP News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
On Thursday [7 Aug 2014], Cambodia’s UN-backed court found “Brother Number Two” Nuon Chea, 88, and ex-head of state Khieu Samphan, 83, guilty of crimes against humanity, sentencing them to life in prison.
→ read full articleLatin America Closes Ranks in Solidarity with the People of Gaza
Humberto Márquez, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
Latin America is the region whose governments have taken the firmest stance in support of Gaza in face of the battering from Israel, withdrawing a number of ambassadors from Tel Aviv and issuing harsh statements from several presidents against the attacks on the Palestinian people.
→ read full articleFr. George Zabelka’s Message for Peace
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
The former US Air Force chaplain who blessed the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and later became a peacemaker.
→ read full articleThe Hero
Felix Pollak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
I did not want to go
They inducted me.
I did not want to die
They called me yellow.
I tried to run away
(Italiano) BRIC(K)S [mattoni] per un Nuovo Ordine Economico Mondiale!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
Ce l’hanno fatta, con alternative costruttive – la Nuova Banca di Sviluppo e il Contingency Reserve Arrangement (CRA) – alla banca Mondiale e al Fondo Monetario Internazionale dominati dagli USA, due pilastri fondamentali degli accordi di Bretton Woods nell’infrastruttura economica dell’ impero USA, nelle mani del proprio Congress (parlamento).
→ read full articleChoice: The Measure of All Things . . .
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
Reflecting on Human Nature and Oppression – What then is the measure of a person’s life? By what criteria should we judge, evaluate, and/or assess a person’s life?
→ read full article(Português) Os abutres, isolados do mundo
David Cufré, Página/12 –TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
É digno de nota que a Argentina obtenha apoio do editorialista estrela do Financial Times. “O caso da Argentina é uma temática proeminente para a comunidade internacional, que evidencia um vazio jurídico e deve dar lugar para reformas que permitam proteger os bens comuns.”
→ read full articleFrom Conflict Avoider to Conflict Expert
Marianne Perez de Fransius – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
I’ve learned that instead of avoiding (or fleeing) conflicts, I can engage with them and even gain something fruitful from them. I’ve learned how to navigate dreaded conversations with ease, how to create win-win opportunities, how to monitor my media intake to stay informed without getting depressed, and so many other skills that are vital to living a balanced and meaningful life.
→ read full articleDeviant and Proud: Sick of This Market-Driven World? You Should Be
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
The workplace has been overwhelmed by a mad, Kafkaesque infrastructure … whose purpose is to reward the winners and punish the losers. So if you don’t fit in; if you feel at odds with the world; if your identity is troubled and frayed; if you feel lost and ashamed, it could be because you have retained the human values you were supposed to have discarded. You are a deviant. Be proud.
→ read full articleChile Taps Solar Thermal Energy with Latin America’s First Plant
Marianela Jarroud, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
“Thermal solar plants are capable of generating and storing energy, and in practice that means they can operate around the clock for most of the year, solely based on energy from the sun.” — Professor Roberto Román
→ read full articleHatred in the Nuclear Era
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
August 6th, 2014 – “Why are we violent but not illiterate?” asked columnist Colman McCarthy. Well, for one thing, we don’t wrap illiteracy in a shroud of glory and call it war or self-defense or national security; nor have we developed a multi-trillion-dollar industry called the Illiteracy Industrial Complex (or maybe we have, and call it television).
→ read full articleWikiLeaks: Ban ki-Moon Worked with Israel to Undermine UN Report
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
WikiLeaks released documents on Friday [8 Aug 2014] that revealed that Ban wrote a letter to the UN Security Council asking its members not to take recommendations by the UN Board of Inquiry about Israeli bombings in Gaza into account.
→ read full articleHiroshima Peace Declaration
Mayor Matsui Kazumi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
August 6, 1945 – 8:15 a.m.: A single atomic bomb renders Hiroshima a burnt plain. Mayors for Peace, now with over 6,200 member cities, will work through lead cities representing us in their parts of the world and in conjunction with NGOs and the UN to disseminate the facts of the bombings and the message of Hiroshima.
→ read full articleViolence and Mediation Opportunities in the Wider Middle East
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
Sue and Steve Williams have written a very useful study on mediation efforts in politically violent situations by drawing on the experiences of Quaker mediators usually working under the direction of Quaker Peace and Service (UK) or the American Friends Service Committee (USA).
→ read full articleCircular Debate: Israel/Palestine Edition
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
Comic Strip – This Modern World
→ read full article(Castellano) Israel pide ayuda a EE.UU. para evitar ser juzgado por crímenes de guerra
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
El primer ministro israelí, Benjamin Netanyahu, ha solicitado ayuda a EE.UU. para evitar enfrentarse a cargos de crímenes de guerra por ofensiva en la Franja de Gaza.
→ read full articleHiroshima August 6, 1945: A Silence Broken
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
In Japanese the survivors of injuries from the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are called “hibakusha”. The Sokka Gakkai Hiroshima Peace Committee’s most recent book, “A Silence Broken”, contains the testimonies of 14 men who are among the last few remaining hibakushas. The nuclear destruction of Hiroshima was a tragedy in itself, but its larger significance is that it started a nuclear arms race which today threatens to destroy human society and much of the biosphere.
→ read full articleIf a Genocide Falls in the Forest
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
There’s a wide and mysterious chasm between the intentions of the Israeli government as depicted by the U.S. media and what it has been doing in Gaza, even as recounted in the U.S. media. With the morgues full, Gazans are packing freezers with their dead children. Meanwhile, the worst images to be found in Israel depict fear, not death and suffering.
→ read full articleMarx and Freud, Daoism and Gandhi
Johan Galtung, 4 Aug 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
The State stabilizes through outer control with punishment and reward; the Spirit through inner control with bad or good conscience. Wanting to do what has to be done simplifies human existence.
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Rabbi Henry Siegman, Leading Voice of U.S. Jewry, on Gaza: “A Slaughter of Innocents”
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Jul 30, 2014 – Given his background, what American Jewish leader Rabbi Henry Siegman has to say about Israel’s founding in 1948 through the current assault on Gaza may surprise you.
→ read full articleFive Things Each of Us Human, Jews and Non-Jews, Can Do for Gazans/Palestinians
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
I will personally not have anything to do with any Zionist, who whitewashes, justifies, or actively supports Israel and its Nazi conduct towards Gaza. I urge you to show your solidarity by engaging daily in people-to-people boycott of Israel. Here are five things you can do – and this list is only suggestive.
→ read full article
Slave Workers Dying in Shocking Numbers in Qatar
Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
After visiting labor camps in Doha an international federation of trade unions called Qatar a country with only “a facade of government,” saying that migrant workers are living in squalid conditions as employers keep their passports and exit visas. Working in “unbelievable heat” six days a week they are now dying in “unprecedented numbers,” according to the report’s authors.”
→ read full articleGaza Operation Sparks Latin American Rebuke
The Star – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Five Latin American governments have withdrawn their ambassadors from Israel in recent days, in protest against that country’s ongoing ground and air assault in Gaza where the horrors just keep mounting, the horrors and the dead.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Gaza Backlash Targets Arab Minority
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Record levels of incitement, street violence and harassment at places of work and universities has Israel’s Palestinian citizens feeling the heat.
→ read full articleLet’s Open a Nonkilling Door: A Global Plea
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
When we see or read/hear about many innocent persons being brutally killed in a current war
Let´s plead guilty globally for Humankind is becoming more shamefully destructive than before
For Many Asian LGBT Youth, Homophobia Starts at Home
Jassmyn Goh, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
“I felt betrayed. It was the time when I needed my parents the most and they were not there for me. They chose to turn their backs on me.” — Alex
→ read full articleLatin American States Use Security Council Seats to Show Strong Support for the ICC and International Justice
Coalition for the International Criminal Court – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
With its mandate to oversee peace and security in the world, the UN Security Council is a prime forum for states to promote justice and accountability. A look at the different votes and initiatives put forward by Latin American Council members over the past few years bears witness to the region’s commitment to justice.
→ read full article(Português) Harvey: A violência nas ruas e o fim do capital
David Harvey – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Trecho editado do mais recente livro de David Harvey, 17 contradições e o fim do capitalismo, onde o britânico identifica e disseca didaticamente todas as contradições do capital segundo a análise feita por Marx – para ele, seriam exatamente dezessete.
→ read full articleObama Should Release Ukraine Evidence
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
We believe you need to seek out honest intelligence analysts now and hear them out. Then, you may be persuaded to take steps to curb the risk that relations with Russia might escalate from “Cold War II” into an armed confrontation. In all candor, we see little reason to believe that Secretary Kerry and your other advisers appreciate the enormity of that danger.
→ read full articleCruelties of Ceasefire Diplomacy
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Devastation and violence has continued in Gaza, with Palestinians deaths now numbering over 1000 (overwhelmingly civilians) and Israeli deaths latest reported at being 43 (almost all military personnel). Such casualty figures and disparities raise questions of state terrorism in a stark manner.
→ read full articleGerman Pilot’s Shocking Analysis of the ‘Shooting Down’ of Malaysian MH17: “Aircraft Was Not Hit by a Missile”
Peter Haisenko – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
The cockpit shows traces of shelling in pictures! You can see the entry and exit holes, most likely of a 30 millimeter projectile. This corresponds with the statement of Spanish controller ‘Carlos’ that he has seen two Ukrainian fighter aircraft in the immediate vicinity of MH 017. The shelling of the cockpit of air Malaysia MH 017 is definitely not speculation.
→ read full articleA Nail in Zionism’s Coffin?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
If, against all odds, a genuine ceasefire were to actually take place, the pause would allow time for both sides’ fighters to regroup and re-arm. But what of the civilian population of a now substantially destroyed Gaza? This region, and increasingly the global community as a whole, is planning for a post-Zionist Middle East and how best to achieve it without further suffering.
→ read full articleMeeting in a Tunnel
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
On one of the archery boards every single arrow had hit a bull’s eye. A curious visitor asked the owner: how is this possible? The reply: “Simple. First I shoot the arrows, and then I draw the circles around them.” In this war, our government does the same.
→ read full articleNot Losing to the Rain (Amenimo makezu)
Kenji Miyazawa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
This inspiring poem was written by Japanese school teacher, geologist, poet and writer Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933); it was found posthumously in a notebook in one of the poet’s trunks.
→ read full article1984 by George Orwell – Full Movie
Antonio C. S. Rosa, Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
A film from 1956 based on the novel Nineteen-Eighty-Four by George Orwell. This is the first cinema rendition of the story, directed by Michael Anderson. Big Brother Is Watching You! – Ring any bells? The book and the movie were supposed to be warnings, NOT GUIDELINES!
→ read full articleRecruiting to Kill – It Is Not Just an Israeli War on Gaza
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
The list of participating countries is growing as is the number of war criminals killing in the name of Israel. There are reportedly over 1,000 US citizens fighting in the Israeli army. The French government imposed a ban on French society from showing solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. The British government is shamelessly on the Israeli side as Gaza is being pulverized by western weapons and military technology.
→ read full articleThe Libyan Catastrophe
Alex Lantier, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
“We came, we saw, he died,” then-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton bragged, laughing on CBS News after Gaddafi was captured, tortured, and murdered by US proxy forces. The catastrophe in Libya is an indictment not only of the imperialist powers, but also of pro-imperialist academics and pseudo-left parties they mobilized to support the war.
→ read full articleStop the River of Blood!
Ada Aharoni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Stop the river of blood in Gaza and Sderot
Before it becomes an ocean!
The Emperor’s Rage: Let Chaos Envelop the World!
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Chaos reigns and spreads as enraged leaders in the US, Europe and their clients and allies pursue genocidal wars. Mercenary wars in Syria; Israel’s terror bombing on Gaza; proxy wars in the Ukraine, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Somalia.
→ read full articleThe Peace Movement’s Vision – A Universal Call for Peace through the Abolition of Militarism
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
We the Peace Movement are the alternative to militarism and war, and as we want a different world, we must be part of building it. We must not be satisfied with improvements and reform to militarism but rather offer an alternative. Militarism should be outdated and go like hanging and flogging!
→ read full article(Português) Dieta Vegetariana Pode Ser Adotada para Crianças desde o Desmame
Dr. Eric Slywitch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Uma alimentação vegetariana desde a infância promove o uso de alimentos mais diversificados que a dieta onívora, assim como hábitos alimentares saudáveis que tendem a acompanhar a criança até a idade adulta.
→ read full articleFascinating: The Universe, “Branes,” and the Science of Multiple Dimensions
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
How a needle, a shower curtain, and a New England clam explain the possibility of parallel universes. Gradually physicists and cosmologists are coming to see our ten billion light years as an infinitesimal pocket of a stupendous megaverse.
→ read full articleImagining Order as Hypercomputing
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
For 75 years, computers have worked within limits defined by the mathematician Alan Turing — although he had also foreseen the possibility of a form of universal computing machine. A recent report draws attention to new investigations into the possibility of such a machine — one that can solve the unsolvable.
→ read full articleWar Journalism Leads the Bleeding in Gaza
Erin Niemela, City Watch L.A. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
War journalism gives us two sides to choose from, but it only offers one option for resolving conflict: violence. As media often frame the Israeli government and its citizens, and Hamas and Palestinians, as one and the same, we get to choose the violence of either Hamas or Israel.
→ read full articleGaza Genocide and Arab Fratricide
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
According to the Convention on the Crime of Genocide, persons committing or in complicity with genocide shall be punished “whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals.” The US supports, funds and replenishes Israel with more weaponry on the ongoing genocide in Gaza; it also uses its political clout to enable Israel to continue its crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleEdna St. Vincent Millay on the Death Penalty and What It Really Means to Be an Anarchist
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
An Anarchist is a person who believes that human beings are naturally good, and that if left to themselves they would, by mutual agreement, govern themselves much better and much more peaceably than they are being governed now by a government based on violence. [TMS editor: The 12-Step self-help Anonymous groups as examples]
→ read full articleBolivia Declares Israel ‘Terrorist State’, Scraps Visa Exemption Agreement
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
South America Takes Moral Leadership Away From the Immoral West: 30 Jul 2014 – Bolivia has declared Israel to be a “terrorist state” and renounced a visa exemption agreement with the country in protest over the ongoing Israeli military offense in Gaza which already killed more than 1,300 dead and left over 7,000 wounded.
→ read full articleJoint Declaration on International Law & Gaza – Final List of Endorsers
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
With only a voluntary effort the Joint Declaration on International Law in relation to the Gaza Attacks by Israel has elicited an encouraging response from legal experts from around the world, including some of our most distinguished colleagues. Others without formal legal credentials have also indicated their support, and expressed their desire to endorse the Joint Declaration.
→ read full articleArgentina Must Not Follow NY Court’s Dictated Path to Bankruptcy
Peter Koenig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Why would a New York Court have jurisdiction over a sovereign country? There is no bankruptcy law for sovereign nations. Argentina must not obey judge Griesa, or any US ruling interfering in its sovereignty – in its handling of sovereign debt.
→ read full article(Français) Le BRICS, l’UNASUR et la CELAC dessinent une nouvelle carte du monde multipolaire
Alberto Cova– TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Le 22 juillet 1944, il y a exactement 70 ans, s’achevait la réunion dans un hôtel du New Hampshire dans laquelle les Etats-Unis firent prévaloir leurs intérêts devant les délégués de 44 pays et imposèrent la planche à billet illimitée du dollar pour remplacer l’or en tant qu’étalon de la valeur de chaque monnaie dans le monde.
→ read full articleHenry Frowde, the Mysterious OUP Publisher of Zionist Scofield Bible, Was a Lifelong Darbyite Plymouth Brother
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
In a 2009 piece entitled “Zionism’s Un-Christian Bible,” I wrote that “it remains a mystery” why the reputable Oxford University Press had a century earlier published The Scofield Reference Bible, the highly influential but controversial work whose annotated Zionist commentary on the Authorized King James Version has “induced generations of American evangelicals to believe that God demands their uncritical support for the modern State of Israel.”
→ read full articleBrazil Farmers Say GMO Corn No Longer Resistant to Pests
Caroline Stauffer, Reuters in São Paulo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Genetically modified corn seeds are no longer protecting Brazilian farmers from voracious tropical bugs, increasing costs as producers turn to pesticides, a farm group said on Monday [28 Jul 2014]. Producers want four major manufacturers of so-called BT corn seeds to reimburse them for the cost of spraying up to three coats of pesticides this year.
→ read full articleFoundation of the US Empire: Axes of Evil
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Empires are not easy to sustain given the multiple enemies that they provoke: at the international level (imperial rivals and emerging new powers), at the national level (national resistance movements, unreliable clients and untrustworthy ‘Sepoy’ armies) and at the local level (boycotts, sabotage and strikes).
→ read full article(Castellano) Los buitres, aislados del mundo
David Cufré, Pagina/12 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
La pelea de Argentina con los fondos buitre viene a completar una etapa que arrancó en 2008, con la crisis de las hipotecas subprime en Estados Unidos. “El de Argentina es un caso testigo para la comunidad internacional, que pone de manifiesto un vacío legal y debe dar lugar a reformas que permitan proteger el bien común”.
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Everybody’s Talkin’-Midnight Cowboy (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Harry Nilsson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
This great song became a massive success performed by Harry Nilsson in 1969 as featured song for the film “Midnight Cowboy” starring Dustin Hoffman and John Voight, Oscar for Best Picture plus 15 other awards. (Plot: a con man and a Texas hustler try to survive on the tough streets of New York). Voight, of course, is the father of iconic actress Angelina Jolie.
→ read full articleIQ
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
A team of psychologists has developed a new measure of intelligence, a metric measure. The basic unit is the tary.
→ read full articleWhy Sport Hunting Is Cruel and Unnecessary
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals-PETA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Although it was a crucial part of humans’ survival 100,000 years ago, hunting is now nothing more than a violent form of recreation that the vast majority of hunters do not need for subsistence. It has contributed to the extinction of animal species all over the world, including the Tasmanian tiger and the great auk.
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