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Living in the 21st Century
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
A confessional to the extent of acknowledging my own surroundings of digital devices that while liberating in some respects are repressive in others. To sustain our freedom under these ‘postmodern’ conditions requires the rechristening of meditative intelligence (as distinct from the instrumental rationality that acted as wet nurse of the ‘modern.’
→ read full articleUS Psychologists’ Convention Bans Participation in Torture
Tom Carter, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
On Friday [7 Aug 2015], the American Psychological Association overwhelmingly adopted a resolution banning participation by psychologists in national security interrogations, in the face of accusations that the proposed ban on torture was “anti-government” and “anti-military.”
→ read full articleUS Military an ‘Insurmountable Obstacle to a Nuclear-Free World’
Mikhail Gorbachev – Der Spiegel,
17 Aug 2015
In a SPIEGEL interview, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev discusses morals and politics in the nuclear age, the crisis in Russian-American relations and his fear that an atomic weapon will someday be used.
→ read full articleThe Need for a New Economic System – Part 4: Neocolonialism and Resource Wars
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
Our present economic system produces an endless series of resource-motivated wars. In addition to the enormous suffering, waste, injustice and ecological destruction produced by modern wars, we must recognize that in an era of thermonuclear weapons, war has become prohibitively dangerous. Therefore, we need a new economic system.
→ read full articleJewish Terrorists
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
Do we approve of administrative detention, without trial and democratic safeguards, perhaps saving thereby the lives of Arabs and Jews, preventing worse disasters? Or do we uphold strict democratic principles, release all people held in administrative detention, Arabs and Jews alike, knowing that some of them will go on a killing spree?
→ read full articleThe Arab Peace Initiative’s Role in the New Context and after the Deal with Iran
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
It is not astonishing then that the Arab League released a statement after the agreement with Iran blessing that agreement in one hand and calling for it to be made as a first step towards a Middle East that is free from WMD.
→ read full articleCrisis, Emergency Measures and Failure of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement System: The Case of Argentina
Federico Lavopa, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
The way in which the ISDS system was used to handle a spate of claims from foreign investors against Argentina following its economic and financial crisis of 2001/2002 has shown up flaws in the system and the need for its reform.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Syrien: Wie Luftabwehr und Völkerrecht ausgehebelt wurden
Christoph Marischka - Informationsstelle Militarisierung,
17 Aug 2015
Planlose Außenpolitik der USA?
→ read full articleScotland Completely Bans GMO Crops
Amanda Froelich, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
10 Aug 2015 – Joining a growing number of nations concerned about the effects GMO’s pose, Scotland just banned the cultivation of genetically modified crops. The country’s Rural Affairs Secretary, Richard Lochhead, announced last week that the clean, green nation will no longer be permitting GM crops to be grown within its borders.
→ read full articleExposing Abuse on the Factory Farm
Editorial Board – The New York Times,
17 Aug 2015
8 Aug 2015 – While most Americans enjoy eating meat, it is hard to stomach the often sadistic treatment of factory-farmed cows, pigs and chickens. Farm operators go to great lengths to hide these gruesome images from the public. A popular tactic is the so-called ag-gag law, which makes it a crime to secretly videotape industrial feedlots and slaughterhouses to expose animal mistreatment and abuse.
→ read full articleReality and Dreams
Fidel Castro Ruz, Granma – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
13 Aug 2015 – Celebrating his 89th birthday and the reopening of an American embassy in La Habana today, the leader of the Cuban Revolution insists that, ‘We will never stop struggling for peace and the wellbeing of all human beings, for every inhabitant on the planet regardless of skin color or national origin.’
→ read full articleShifting Priorities: The Rise and Fall of Arab Revolutionary Discourse
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
11 Aug 2015 – Intellectual discussion concerning the “Arab Spring” has almost entirely shifted from one concerning freedom, justice, democracy and rights in general, into a political wrangle between various antagonist camps. The people, who revolted across various Arab countries are now marginalized in this discussion, and are only used as fodders.
→ read full articleLooking with Gandhi at Advancing Common Sense: The Necessity of Devotion, and the Role of Death
P.K. Willey, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
“Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his liberty has to be curtailed at every step.” – Gandhi (Common Sense, the Social Aspect of Conscience)
→ read full articleArt, Politics and Social Change at the Venice Biennale
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
17 Aug 2015
Venice served for centuries as the crossroads of the world, a city where East met West and art flourished. This year’s Venice Biennale, called “All the World’s Futures,” showcases a growing community of politically engaged artists, who not only reflect the beauty and brutality of the world, but might actually change it.
→ read full articleIs Artificial Intelligence Really an Existential Threat to Humanity?
Edward Moore Geist – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
17 Aug 2015
With intellectual powers beyond human comprehension, Oxford University philosopher Nick Bostrom prognosticates, self-improving artificial intelligences could effortlessly enslave or destroy Homo sapiens if they so wished.
→ read full articleLosing One’s Language
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
It is estimated that there are about 6500 spoken languages today of which approximately 5000 will become extinct by the end of the 21st century.
→ read full articleJapan: Why Was the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant Restarted?
Tadahiro Katsuta – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
17 Aug 2015
The decision is probably based on the “dismal science” of economics, not safety. The justification for a restart was based upon three key points. Let us look at each of these items in turn.
→ read full articleDon’t Ask
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
Let a thousand flowers bloom
as we hasten to our doom.
This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
August 17-23 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.” – Dag Hammarskjöld
→ read full articleWarnings for Patients Taking Psych Drugs – Also for Their Families and Prescribing Practitioners
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
Over the years, I have formally taught my patients (as well as many participants in my lectures and seminars) about the un-advertised dangers of psychiatric medications – especially the long-term brain alterations and drug-dependencies that drug companies don’t test for before the FDA grants them marketing approval.
→ read full articleSea Shepherd Found Guilty by Danish Court of Defending Pilot Whales
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Yesterday [6 Aug 2015] five Sea Shepherd volunteer crewmembers were found guilty in a Danish court of breaking the Faroe Islands Pilot Whaling Act for the “crime” of interfering in the slaughter of over 250 pilot whales on the killing beaches of Bøur and Tórshavn on July 23.
→ read full articleOutsourcing the Kill Chain: Eleven Drone Contractors Revealed
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
3 Aug 2015 – Hundreds of private sector intelligence analysts are being paid to review surveillance footage from U.S. military drones in Central Asia and the Middle East, according to a new report from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
→ read full articlePsychologist’s Work for GCHQ Deception Unit Inflames Debate among Peers
Andrew Fishman – The Intercept,
10 Aug 2015
7 Aug 2015 – A British psychologist is receiving sharp criticism from some professional peers for providing expert advice to help the U.K. surveillance agency GCHQ manipulate people online.
→ read full articleHow Switzerland Ended Its Involvement in War
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
For the first 200 years of its history, Switzerland was involved in many wars, first to defend itself against repeated attempts by the German emperor to reconquer the cantons that had declared themselves independent in 1291, and later to acquire more territory. Two events brought an end to this involvement in war.
→ read full articleThe Roots of Religious Conflict in Myanmar
Matt Schissler, Matthew J Walton and Phyu Phyu Thi – The Diplomat,
10 Aug 2015
Understanding Narratives Is an Important Step to Ending Violence – “Unsubstantiated headlines that crow of a terrorist threat in Myanmar, like those recently published by Newsweek and the Independent, are dangerous and irresponsible.”
→ read full articleWilfred Burchett: The Atomic Plague
Wilfred Burchett, Fair Observer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Wilfred Burchett was the first reporter to enter the city of Hiroshima after the bombing. “I Write This as a Warning to the World” – The Daily Express, London, September 5, 1945
→ read full articleThe Greek Bailout Paves the Way for the United States of Europe
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – Mint Press News,
10 Aug 2015
Illusions are at play in the modern tragedy that is the Greek economic system, particularly when it comes to notions of who benefits most from the latest bailout. The Greek bailout is for Germany and Western Europe, not Greeks.
→ read full articleWartime Journalism: Mohammed Omer on Gaza
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Omer’s prior reporting earned him the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in 2007, recognizing the excellence of his reportage on Gaza (‘a voice for the voiceless’). After receiving the award in The Netherlands, Omer on his return home received a brutal reception at the Gaza border by Israeli security guards being beaten so severely as to endure serious injury that required specialized surgery.
→ read full articleBurma Government ‘Hampers’ Mandate of UN Rights Envoy
Feliz Solomon - The Irrawaddy,
10 Aug 2015
The Burmese government has placed prohibitive limits on the mandate of UN rights envoy Yanghee Lee during her third official visit to the country, the special rapporteur told reporters on Friday [7 Aug 2015] at the tail end of a five-day fact finding mission.
→ read full articleHow to Live Wisely
Richard J. Light – The New York Times,
10 Aug 2015
Imagine you are Dean for a Day. What is one actionable change you would implement to enhance the college experience on campus? I have asked students this question for years. The answers can be eye-opening. A few years ago, the responses began to move away from “tweak the history course” or “change the ways labs are structured.” A different commentary, about learning to live wisely, has emerged.
→ read full articleThe Brookings Institute Plan to Liquidate Syria
Mike Whitney - CounterPunch,
10 Aug 2015
When is regime change not regime change? When the regime stays in power but loses its ability to rule. This is the current objective of US policy in Syria, to undermine Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s ability to govern the country without physically removing him from office. The idea is simple: Deploy US-backed “jihadi” proxies to capture-and-hold vast sections of the country thereby making it impossible for the central government to control the state.
→ read full articleOur 70th Anniversary Homework: Confronting the Myths and Learning the Lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Joseph Gerson – Common Deams,
10 Aug 2015
The myths that the A-bombings were necessary to end the war against Japan and that they saved the lives of half a million US troops remain widely believed. The myths serve as the ideological foundation for continuing U.S. preparations for nuclear war, which in turn has served as the primary driver of nuclear weapons proliferation and the creation of deterrent nuclear arsenals.
→ read full article70 Years of Korean War
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
I’m inclined to think that August 10th should be formally recognized as Gulf of Tonkin War Fraud Day. But I’m not sure, because another event is in even more need of remembrance. It was the day after the death blow to Nagasaki, 70 years ago, that the victors of the most awesomest war ever chose to create a division of Korea along the 38th parallel.
→ read full articleNorway Revisited: Two Crises-An Oil Slick-And?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Norway, on top of the UN indicator of good life for years, is now hit by two different crises; one for the less developed aspect and one for the more developed. Yet the citizens are protected by a massive oil slick, the biggest sovereign fund in the world, the Government Pension Fund for an aging population when oil dries out.
→ read full articleAfghanistan: The Forever War
Rachelle Marshall – Foreign Policy In Focus,
10 Aug 2015
After the United States has been in Afghanistan for 14 years, 91,000 Afghans have been killed and 26,000 wounded.
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Should Palestinians Visit Nazi Concentration Camps?
MoralCourageChannel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
A Palestinian professor takes his students to visit Auschwitz – not to adopt the Zionist narrative, but to learn more about the conflict’s roots. Upon their return, the professor’s car is blown up. See why he persists, how one student was affected by the trip and, most surprising, who else wants to go.
→ read full article(Português) Dinamarca – O primeiro país que, por lei, só terá agricultura orgânica
Alice Branco – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Agosto 6, 2015 – A Dinamarca está se preparando para ter uma agricultura totalmente sustentável. Este é um dos projetos que o atual governo tem intenção de por em prática a de transformar a agricultura dinamarquesa em 100% orgânica.
→ read full articlePentagon Prepares for Century of Climate Emergencies and Oil Wars
Nafeez Ahmed – Middle East Eye,
10 Aug 2015
US Army research reveals the military’s latest strategies to safeguard the global fossil fuel system from threat of scarcity and climate disruption.
→ read full articleHiroshima Spring
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Under the flush of cherry,
in air as mild as breath,
by the Ota’s tributary–
five crooked fingers reaching
into the Inland Sea–
In Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
The heat of summer is oppressive.
Children pass by in groups, chattering.
The Need for a New Economic System – Part 3: Climate Change and the Urgent Need for Renewable Energy
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
These considerations point to a battle that will have to be fought by the people of the world who are concerned about the long-term future of human civilization and the biosphere, against the vested interests of our oligarchic rulers. This fight will require wide public discussion of the dangers of runaway climate change. At present, our corporate-controlled mass media hardly mention the long-term dangers, such as the methane hydrate feedback loop, so the battle will have to be fought in the alternative media.
→ read full articleAugust: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
10 Aug 2015
August 6, 1945 – Colonel Paul Warfield Tibbets piloted the 509th Composite Group’s B-29 Superfortress bomber named Enola Gay, in honor of the pilot’s mother, from Tinian in the Marianas chain of Pacific Ocean islands to Hiroshima, Japan where the enriched uranium-fueled fission bomb code named “Little Boy” was dropped over a city of a quarter million inhabitants at 8:15:17 a.m. local time.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
August 10-16 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam
→ read full articlePope Francis: Burmese Treatment of Rohingya Minority a Form of ‘War’
Joshua J. McElwee – National Catholic Reporter,
10 Aug 2015
Pope Francis has again entered into controversial geopolitical territory, saying sharply Friday [7 Aug 2015] that Burmese treatment of its populous and persecuted Rohingya minority constitutes war against them.
→ read full article(Français) 25 vérités de l’économiste Thomas Piketty sur la dette grecque
Salim Lamrani, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
3 août 2015 – L’auteur de l’ouvrage Le capital au XXIe siècle dénonce l’hypocrisie de la troïka et du Fonds monétaire international au sujet de la question de la dette.
→ read full articleHiroshima Peace Declaration by Mayor Kazumi Matsui
The Japan Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Below is the full text of the Peace Declaration delivered Thursday [6 Aug 2015] by Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui at the ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the USA.
→ read full articleDr. Walter Palmer’s Crime Must Not Be Forgotten: Killing Cecil the Lion
Captain Paul Watson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Our outrage is having a positive impact. Delta, Air France, Emirates, Air Canada and United have banned the shipment of wildlife trophies. Zimbabwe has banned lion hunting. The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to ban wildlife trophies into the U.S. Botswana has banned big game hunting. We need to keep this outrage alive and we need to focus on destroying the Safari Club International and their 50,000 sadistic members. We need to create an understanding that anyone who puts a head of an animal on the wall as a trophy should be ostracized and publicly shamed.
→ read full articleBlessing the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombs
Father George Zabelka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Father George Zabelka, a Catholic chaplain with the U.S. Air Force, served as a priest for the airmen who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, and gave them his blessing. Over the next twenty years, he gradually came to believe that he had been terribly wrong; that he had denied the very foundations of his faith by lending moral and religious support to the bombings.
→ read full articleCitigroup’s Unchecked Crime Wave Proves that America Is Headed in the Wrong Direction
Pam Martens and Russ Martens, Wall Street on Parade - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Citigroup, the bank that played a central role in bringing America to its knees in 2008; received the largest taxpayer bailout in the history of finance to resuscitate its insolvent carcass; pleaded guilty to a felony count of rigging foreign currency trading in May and was put on a three year probation – is now under a string of manycriminal and civil investigations.
→ read full articleThe 70th Anniversary of the Bombing of Nagasaki: Unwelcome Truths for Church and State
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
70 years ago, (August 9, 1945) an all-Christian bomber crew dropped a plutonium bomb over Nagasaki, annihilating tens of thousands of innocent civilians, a disproportionately large number of them Japanese Christians. The bomb exploded directly over the massive Urakami Cathedral, the largest Christian church in the Orient.
→ read full articleCitizens of the World: Crisis and Response
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Whenever the structure among States was too small to deal with the socio-economic and political challenges being faced, persons have worked for larger groupings: the United States rather than the Articles of Confederation, the European Union, the African Union, the United Nations. Today, the challenges concern the whole planet.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Giappone rivisitato
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Guerra, colonialismo, atrocità sono state considerate l’essenza del Giappone, accidentali in Germania. Ecco all’opera il razzismo occidentale: impunità per i bianchi, non per i gialli. Giudicato dalle potenze coloniali occidentali i cui crimini coloniali gridano al cielo rispetto a quel che fece il Giappone. Me compreso, che ho attribuito il colonialismo occidentale al Giappone. Chiedo scusa.
→ read full articleWorld Welcomes US Border Walls
News From Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
T. Ronald Dump, one of 68 (and counting) contestants for the Republican presidential nomination, proposed a wall only for the border between the US and Mexico. But, as 67 other Republican contenders quickly argued, it would be relatively easy for Mexican rapists and drug dealers to travel to Canada and then invade the US across the northern border, so a northern wall was needed also.
→ read full article(Português) Guerras e Recessão: As Promessas da Pax Norte-Americana
Emir Sader, Carta Maior – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Os países que resistem aos imperativos do capital é que estão no começo de um novo ciclo, de construção de um mundo baseado na solidariedade.
→ read full articleTruthful
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Someone was walking with the devil. The person in front of them bent down and picked something up.
→ read full articleThe Bravenhearts of Wadi Al Nasera, Syria
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
The group of Greek Orthodox nuns was kidnapped in Dec 2013 and held for three months by Jabhat al, released three months later in a prisoner exchange. This observer was honored to spend time with this charming, passionate, energetic, group of sisters on Aug/4/2015 and we discussed many subjects.
→ read full articleDivide et Impera
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Binyamin Netanyahu is not known as a classical scholar, but even so he has adopted the Roman maxim Divide et Impera, divide and rule. The main (and perhaps only) goal of his policy is to extend the rule of Israel, as the “Nation-State of the Jewish People”, over all of Eretz Israel, the historical land of Palestine. This means ruling all of the West Bank and covering it with Jewish settlements, while denying any civil rights to its 2.5 million plus Arab inhabitants.
→ read full articlePondering Jonathan Pollard’s Release
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Loyalty to the state continues to be the north star of conventional patriotism. For the citizen pilgrim solidarity with an emergent eco-humanist insurgency is the keystone of 21st century political community and ethical responsibility deserving precedence when in conflict with nationalist and tribal affinities.
→ read full articleJournalists around the World Stand Up in Support of Netzpolitik after Outrageous ‘Treason’ Investigation
Trevor Timm – Freedom of the Press Foundation,
10 Aug 2015
5 Aug 2015 – Last week, the German government informed the popular news site Netzpolitik that two of its journalists were under investigation for treason for reporting on their government’s mass surveillance programs – in other words they were being investigated for doing their job.
→ read full articleStowaways and Crimes aboard a Scofflaw Ship (Part 1)
Ian Urbina – The New York Times,
3 Aug 2015
17 Jul 2015 — Men and Laws, Thrown Overboard – Few places on Earth are as free from legal oversight as the high seas. One ship has been among the most persistent offenders.
→ read full articleMurder at Sea: Captured on Video, but Killers Go Free (Part 2)
Ian Urbina – The New York Times,
3 Aug 2015
20 Jul 2015 — A video shows at least four unarmed men being gunned down in the water. Despite dozens of witnesses, the killings went unreported and remain a mystery.
→ read full article‘Sea Slaves’: The Human Misery That Feeds Pets and Livestock (Part 3)
Ian Urbina – The New York Times,
3 Aug 2015
27 Jul 2015 – Forced Labor for Cheap Fish – Men who have fled servitude on fishing boats recount beatings and worse as nets are cast for the catch that will become pet food and livestock feed.
→ read full articleJapan Revisited
Johan Galtung, 3 Aug 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
War, colonialism, atrocities were seen as the essence of Japan, as accidental in Germany. Western racism at work: impunity for white people-not for yellow. Judged by Western colonial powers whose colonial crimes cry to the heavens relative to what Japan did. Including me, attributing Western colonialism to Japan. Sorry.
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Up Up in the Sky (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
StopTheCrime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
Jul 22, 2015 – A song protesting aerosol crime operations in our skies: geoengineering/chemtrails.
→ read full articleVideo Graphic Footage Shows Mass Slaughter of Pilot Whales in the Faroe Islands
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
• All five Sea Shepherd crewmembers who were detained overnight have been arrested.
• Approx. 250 pilot whales were killed yesterday. *111 killed at Bøur *130-150 killed at Tórshavn.
Humanitarian Occupation of Haiti: 100 Years and Counting
Mark Schuller - CounterPunch,
3 Aug 2015
There are several parallels between the contemporary aid regime and the U.S. Marine administration. First and foremost, foreign troops are on the ground, controlling the country; the military regimes operated with complete immunity and impunity. Second, a new constitution was installed, centralizing power in the executive. Third, both occupations involved Haiti’s gold resources.
→ read full article(Português) Há Algo de Podre no Reino do Euro
Yanis Varoufakis, Financial Times - Pravda,
3 Aug 2015
Há odiosa restrição à soberania nacional, imposta pela “troika” de credores, se os ministros gregos não têm acesso a departamentos dos próprios ministérios. Quando dívidas oficiais insustentáveis geram perda de soberania, que abre espaço para que se imponham políticas subótimas em nações já estressadas, logo se vê que há algo de podre no reino do euro.
→ read full articleThe American Psychological Association’s ‘Independent Review’ on Ethics, National Security and Torture—In Historical Context
Marcie Holmes, Hidden Persuaders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
Our inquiries here chart important chapters in the ‘history of the present’, especially in light of recent revelations that the psychological methods once used to protect against ‘brainwashing’ have been reverse engineered as techniques of ‘enhanced interrogation’ in the ‘War on Terror’.
→ read full articleEuropean Federalism and Missed Opportunities – United States of Europe?
Emma Bonino, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
Emma Bonino, a leading member of the Radical Party, former European Commissioner and a former Italian foreign minister, argues that serious problems affecting Europe, like the Greek crisis and waves of migration, could have been addressed more quickly and efficiently if the European Union had embraced federalism.
→ read full articleNeeded: Political Will . . .
Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
A solution to the problem of global warming is not a technical problem, but rather a political problem. The means are available. The Earth Policy Institute published “Seven Surprising Realities behind the Great Transition to Renewable Energy” showing that the global transition to clean, renewable energy and away from nuclear and fossils is well under way. Their “seven surprising realities:”
→ read full articleNew Exhibit ‘Camera Atomica’ Surveys the Nuclear Age
James Adams – The Globe and Mail, Canada,
3 Aug 2015
Growing up absurd came easily in North America in the 1950s and ’60s when nuclear war would alternate from sinister diplomatic bargaining chip to “the end of civilization as we know it.”… If there’s a particular feeling you’re left with at the exhibition, it’s unease. On one hand, it’s hardly a clarion call to the anti-nuke barricades; on the other, it’s no apologia for the nuclear-industrial complex, no plea to cozy up to “our friend, the atom.”
→ read full articleThe Balance of Power in the Middle East Just Changed: U.S.-Iranian Relations Emerge from a 30-Year Cold War
Peter Van Buren - TomDispatch,
3 Aug 2015
The July accord acknowledges the real-world power map of the Middle East. It does not make Iran and the United States friends. It does, however, open the door for the two biggest regional players to talk to each other and develop the kinds of financial and trade ties that will make conflict more impractical.
→ read full articleReaping the Rewards: How Private Sector Is Cashing In on Pentagon’s ‘Insatiable Demand’ for Drone War Intelligence
Abigail Fielding-Smith and Crofton Black – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
3 Aug 2015
When you mess up, people die – An intelligence contractor. A misidentification of an enemy combatant with a weapon and a female carrying a broom can have dire consequences – An unnamed intelligence contractor.
→ read full articleNGO Open letter to Member States of the General Assembly on the Selection Process of the UN Secretary-General
Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
The selection of the new Secretary-General in 2016 will be one of the most important decisions the General Assembly will make in the next ten years. The new Secretary-General will have to address a world confronted with increasingly dangerous civil wars, humanitarian and environmental disasters, terrorism, regressive development, economic and financial turmoil, and inequality.
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Butterfly
Vishnu Vasu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
A very creative and poetic journey into Sri Lanka’s NO FIRE ZONE to meet with former child soldiers. A very powerful, engaging and insightful film on what terrorist/freedom fighting groups do for their recruitment.
→ read full articleSilence Is Complicity
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
31 Jul 2015 – Jewish colonial settler attacked a village near Nablus throwing Molotov cocktails and burning houses. Ali Dawabsheh age 1.5 years baby was burned to death and three family members sustained severe burns. Jewish terrorism is not new.
→ read full article(Português) As Crises da Vida e a Autorealização
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
O desafio posto a cada um não é como evitar as crises. Elas são inerentes à nossa condição humana. A questão é como as enfrentamos: que lições tiramos delas e como podemos crescer com elas. Por aí passa o caminho de nossa auto-realização e de nossa maturidade como seres humano ou de nosso fracasso.
→ read full articleRebuilding Nepalese Villages after the 2015 Earthquakes
Dr. Hari Kumar Shrestha – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
This paper highlights some rebuilding plans for the growth and development of Nepalese villages after the earthquakes of 2015. The information included in this article is based on my field observation and available secondary data.
→ read full articleVietnam 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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