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The Rohingya – Adrift on a Sea of Sorrows
Eric Margolis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
When is genocide not really genocide? When the victims are small, impoverished brown people no one wants or cares about – Burma’s Rohingya.
→ read full articleThe Silly Reason the Chinese Aren’t Allowed on the Space Station
Jeffrey Kluger – Time,
8 Jun 2015
China has been barred from the ISS since 2011, when Congress passed a law prohibiting official American contact with the Chinese space program due to national security. “National security,” of course, is the lingua franca excuse for any country to do anything it jolly well wants to do even if it has nothing to do with, you know, the security of the nation. But never mind.
→ read full articleThe Real Naqba
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
6 Jun 2015 – Three weeks ago was Naqba Day – the day on which Palestinians inside and outside Israel commemorate their “catastrophe” – the exodus of more than half of the Palestinian people from the territories occupied by Israel in the 1948 war. Each side has its own version of this momentous event. Both these versions are utter nonsense – a mixture of propaganda, legend and hidden guilt feelings.
→ read full articleDaniel Ellsberg Credits Edward Snowden with Catalysing US Surveillance Reform
Ewen MacAskill in London, and Dan Roberts and Ben Jacobs in Washington – The Guardian,
8 Jun 2015
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden should be thanked for sparking the debate that forced Congress to change US surveillance law, Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, said Monday [1 Jun 2015].
→ read full articleGlobal Psychosocial Implication in the Pentagramma Mirificum
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
Clues from Spherical Geometry to “Getting Around” and Circumnavigating Imaginatively – The question here is whether there are clues to be found from the insights which have enabled spherical navigation over recent centuries. To what extent do those insights reflect understandings of relevance to getting “around” a global information-based society?
→ read full articleWhy Hardly Anyone Dies from a Drug Overdose in Portugal
Christopher Ingraham – The Washington Post,
8 Jun 2015
5 Jun 2015 – Portugal decriminalized the use of all drugs in 2001. Weed, cocaine, heroin, you name it — possession and use of small quantities of these drugs are a public health issue, not a criminal one.
→ read full articleNuclear Weapons: Grand Bargain Is Not So Grand
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
The five nuclear-armed countries that are parties to the NPT (US, Russia, UK, France and China) appear more comfortable working together to maintain and modernize their nuclear arsenals than they do to fulfilling their disarmament obligations under the treaty. Their common strategy appears to be “nuclear weapons forever.” The US plans to spend $1 trillion on modernizing its nuclear arsenal over the next three decades.
→ read full articleThe High School Valedictory Address You Weren’t Supposed to Hear
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
8 Jun 2015
4 Jun 2015 – Evan Young was the valedictorian of this year’s graduating class at Twin Peaks High School, but Principal B.J. Buchmann told him he was not allowed to give his speech. “On a more serious note, there is something I would like to reveal to you. You may have already suspected this, but I hope this does not change your opinion of me: I am gay,” Evan said in his speech.
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WikiLeaks Launches Campaign to Offer $100,000 “Bounty” for Leaked Drafts of Secret TPP Chapters
Amy Goodman & Julian Assange – Democracy NOW!,
8 Jun 2015
2 Jun 2015 – TPP will fuel inequality, kill jobs, and undermine health, environmental and financial regulations. The negotiations have been secret, and the public has never seen most of the deal’s text. Well, this morning the whistleblowing group WikiLeaks launched a campaign to change that.
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Friends Will Be Friends (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Freddie Mercury & Queen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
Released on 9 June 1986 and performed by the immortal Freddie Mercury.
→ read full articleThe Twisted Legacy of Colombia’s Aerial Cocaine Crop Spraying Program
Steven Cohen, VICE - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
After 30 years of dubious results and loud protests, the flagship of the supply-side drug war in North America has finally been brought to ground.
→ read full articleCognitive Dissonance and the Psychopharmaceutical Industry
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
George Orwell understood the whistleblower’s dilemma when he said: “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.” And that is where the concept of cognitive dissonance comes in. Being willfully blind, willfully uninformed or in denial is the easy path to take when confronted by new unwelcome truths that may lead to becoming ostracized by fellow humans.
→ read full articleIndependent Report Finds Sri Lankan Government Systematically Violating Human Rights of Tamils, Other Minorities
Oakland Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
28 May 2015 – Investigation Exposes Military Occupation and Colonization of Tamil Land in Sri Lanka
→ read full articleGreenpeace Releases Confidential IAEA Fukushima-Daiichi Accident Report
Justin McKeating – Greenpeace International,
8 Jun 2015
The International Atomic Energy Agency report fails to accurately reflect the scale and consequences of the Fukushima disaster.
→ read full articleIndia: Call to End Imposition of Death Penalty
Asian Centre for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
2 June 2015 – Report released today called for an end to imposition of death penalty by majority view of the judges of the High Courts and the Supreme Court of India. “The ratio of differences of opinion among the judges whether somebody convicted for offences punishable with death should die or live in most cases in India is 2:1. When this difference of opinion is also between acquittal and death sentence, imposition of death penalty by majority opinion becomes legally untenable and morally unconscionable.”
→ read full articleHow a Corporate Cult Captures and Destroys Our Best Graduates
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
Universities should defend students against lovebombing by banks and consultancy firms – before it ruins their lives. Undergraduates must rely on their own wavering resolve to resist peer pressure, the herd instinct, the allure of money, flattery, prestige and security. Students, rebel against these soul-suckers! Follow your dreams, however hard it may be, however uncertain success might seem.
→ read full articleSick
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
A little boy did not want to go to school.
→ read full articleDude, Where’s My Humvee? Iraq Losing Equipment to Islamic State at Staggering Rate
Peter Van Buren, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
4 Jun 2015 – Iraqi security forces lost 2,300 Humvee armored vehicles when Islamic State overran Mosul in June 2014. In addition , Iraqi forces previously abandoned significant types and numbers of heavy weapons to IS. The United States is effectively supplying IS with tools of war the militant group cannot otherwise hope to acquire from its patrons.
→ read full articleThat 1914 Feeling
Paul Krugman, Nobel Economics Laureate – The New York Times,
8 Jun 2015
A forced Greek exit from the euro would create huge economic and political risks, yet Europe seems to be sleepwalking toward that outcome. The allusion to Christopher Clark’s recent magisterial book on the origins of World War I, “The Sleepwalkers,” is deliberate.
→ read full articleWhy ‘National Security’ Is a Fallacy
Ian Sanjay Patel – Middle East Eye,
8 Jun 2015
From the UK to Saudi Arabia, states are using this term to justify a clampdown on political dissent.
→ read full articleWashington Politicizes Football
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
Whether or not FIFA decisions are tainted by bribery, the purpose of the “investigation” is to cast doubt on the decision to hold the World Cup in Russia. The World Cup is a global spectacle and conveys prestige on the host country. Washington intends to deny this prestige to Russia. That is what the “investigation” is about.
→ read full articleFowl Deeds – Faeces, Bacteria, Toxins: Welcome to the Chicken Farm
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
The astonishing, multiple crises caused by chicken farming. Whether it’s welfare standards, environmental impact or the emerging threat to human health, we’ve got to change our insatiable greed for this meat. Nor does free range solve the feed problem: the birds are usually fed on soya, for which rainforests are wrecked.
→ read full articleJohn F. Nash Jr., Math Genius Defined by a ‘Beautiful Mind,’ Dies at 86
Erica Goode – The New York Times,
1 Jun 2015
John F. Nash Jr., a mathematician who shared a Nobel Prize in 1994 for work that greatly extended the reach and power of modern economic theory and whose long descent into severe mental illness and eventual recovery were the subject of a book and a film, both titled “A Beautiful Mind,” was killed, along with his wife, in a car crash on Saturday [23 May 2015] in New Jersey. He was 86.
→ read full articleThe Full Text of the Oslo Communique on Myanmar (Burma)
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Today (28 May, 2015) the Oslo Conference to End Myanmar’s Persecution of the Rohingya ended. It was held at the Norwegian Nobel Institute and Voksenaasen. The call made by Archbishop Desmond Tutu to end Myanmar’s genocide is supported by six additional Nobel Peace Laureates: Mairead Maguire, Jody Williams, Tawakkol Karman, Shirin Ebadi, Leymah Gbowee, and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.
→ read full articleDecipherment of Indus Valley Seals: Vedic Human Genetics & Cytology
Prof. Chandra P Trivedi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
The quest of creation is quest of human mind from dawn of the Civilization on the earth. The discovery of the double helical structure of the DNA by the Watson and crick 1953 has brought the revolution in the field of Biotechnology. The same echo is coming from the well developed Indus Valley Civilization. The pictographic symbols on the seals are cytological models for teaching; they explore the cellular genetic evolution on the earth with genetic recombination.
→ read full articleJudith Miller’s Comeback
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
1 Jun 2015
The disgraced reporter’s memoir: 400 pages of dogs eating 400 pages of homework. I’d say this will be a no-holds-barred review, but I promised myself I wouldn’t compare this book to ‘Mein Kampf’ for at least 500 words. So it’s not completely without restrictions.
→ read full articleNuclear Realism
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
27 May 2015 – There’s a category of political intellectuals who proudly proclaim themselves “realists,” then proceed to defend and advance a deeply faith-based agenda that centers on the ongoing necessity to prepare for war, including nuclear war. These intellectuals, as they defend the military-industrial status quo (which often supports them financially), have made themselves the spokespersons for a deep human cancer: a soul cancer.
→ read full articleThe Pre-charge Punishment of Julian Assange
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
1 Jun 2015
No charges, no trial, no ability to defend yourself … don’t even have the right to documents, because you’re not even a defendant.” His skin is pale from years without sunlight, matching his prematurely white hair. But his resolve is unbroken, and the leaks he originally sought to publish when he founded WikiLeaks almost 10 years ago are still reaching the light of day.
→ read full articleHouse Arrest & Disobedience – A Review
Theresa Wolfwood – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Although Grover is rooted in his own Indian culture there is a painful universality about the revelations in his poems. In every poem Grover writes he is holding up a mirror and asking us, the readers and his community, to dig inside our souls. That is the true role of poetry; Grover’s poems are true to the art.
Book Launch: 13 June 2015, Poetry Café, Covent Garden London.
Laissez Faire Water Laws Threaten Family Farming in Chile
Marianela Jarroud, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
May 27 2015 – Family farmers in Chile are pushing for the reinstatement of water as a public good, to at least partially solve the shortages caused by the privatisation of water rights by the military dictatorship in 1981.
→ read full articleThe Escalation of Global Financial Parasitism
Nick Beams, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
The rise in stock markets expresses not the health, but rather the deepening sickness, of the global economic order. The imposition of financial dictatorship is not a hypothetical issue—it has already been implemented in Greece, impoverishing millions of people.
→ read full articleOur Dogs Can Read Our Minds: The New Neuroscience of Animal Brains and Understanding
Michael C. Corbalis - Salon,
1 Jun 2015
Understanding emotion in others is basic to survival, grounded in evolution. Animals have the skill just as we do.
→ read full articleWorld’s First Ocean System Targeting Plastic Pollution to Launch in 2016
Renee Lewis – Al Jazeera America,
1 Jun 2015
29 May 2015 – The world’s first system designed to rid the oceans of plastic pollution will be deployed near Japan in 2016, with the aim of eventually capturing half of the plastic found in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — a large concentration of marine debris located between Hawaii and California.
→ read full articlePave Paradise, Put Up a Naval Base: South Korean Activists’ Extraordinary Struggle to Save Jeju Island
Medea Benjamin – Huffington Post,
1 Jun 2015
After a long journey to cross the DMZ from North to South Korea with a group of 30 peace women, some of us — including Nobel Prize winner Mairead Maguire and retired Colonel Ann Wright — stopped on Jeju Island and fell in love with this community of farmers, fisherpeople, city officials, small shop owners, florists, artists, poets, students and grandmothers.
→ read full articleYes to Development, No to Environmental Degradation
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
The emphasis of India today is on economic growth and development. Mahatma Gandhi often said, “Nature produces enough for peoples’ needs but not for their greed; characteristic aspect of modern civilization is an indefinite multiplicity of wants”, etc. Thus, let us have development and create jobs but not at the expense of our environment and biodiversity.
→ read full articleThe Olive Jar
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
A merchant in 8th century Baghdad went on a long trip to the orient.
→ read full articleUS Kneejerk Support for Israeli Nukes Torpedoes UN Disarmament Talks
Juan Cole – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
24 May 2015 – After four weeks of negotiations, a revised UN treaty on nuclear disarmament has been torpedoed by the US. In running interference for Israel’s estimated 400 warheads, the US has made the world a more dangerous place. Guess which country has requested further meetings at the UN in hopes of reviving the revised NPT? Iran.
→ read full articleLeaked Internal Documents Show U.N. Ignored CAR Child Abuse
Roger Hamilton-Martin, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
May 29 2015 – Leaked United Nations documents show high-level staff knew of abuses by soldiers in the Central African Republic and failed to act, all while planning the removal of U.N. whistleblower Anders Kompass.
→ read full articleThe Map on the Wall
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
History shows us that there are (at least) two kinds of peace agreements. One kind, the stupid one, is based on power. The other, the intelligent, is based on common interest. The most notorious of the first kind is the Treaty of Versailles that followed World War I.
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Women Peace Activists Cross North-South Korea Border
Al Jazeera English – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
May 23, 2015 – Group of 30 women cross heavily militarised DMZ by bus after being denied by authorities to walk across the border.
→ read full articleNon-Proliferation Treaty: Nuclear Weapons and Tension Areas
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
A major difficulty of moving to good-faith negotiations on a Middle East Nuclear-weapon Free Zone is the absence of a regional organization involving all States in the wider region. I believe that there is an urgent need to take steps toward creating a broad security and cooperation zone which has conflict resolution, arms control, human rights, and economic cooperation dimensions.
→ read full articleThe Militarization of Development Aid
Rafia Zakaria – Al Jazeera America,
1 Jun 2015
How War Makes USAID a Dirty Word – Most of the initial criticism focused on [new head of USAID] Gayle Smith’s close relationships with various African despots and her belief that aid is the vehicle for obtaining foreign policy concessions. Humanitarian aid must not bear hidden agendas, and accepting assistance should not come at the cost of cowing to imperialism.
→ read full articleINSURGE’s Pentagon-Gulf States-Turkey-ISIS Axis Report Makes National Headlines in Germany
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
28 May 20125 – Last week, my crowdfunded investigative journalism project, INSURGEintelligence, was able to break into the mainstream a story about startling assertions contained in a just released declassified Pentagon intelligence report, confirming that the West, the Gulf states and Turkey had, essentially, created ISIS through their support for Islamist militant rebels in Syria.
→ read full articleIn France, Post-Charlie Debate Hits a New Level of Vitriol
Konrad Yakabuski - The Globe and Mail,
1 Jun 2015
The marches were an act of “domination” and a warning to marginalized members of society to stay in line. They were the act of a deeply insecure elite reclaiming as “its highest priority the right to spit on the religion of the weak.” All the talk of freedom of expression, Mr. Todd concludes, was a “sham.”
→ read full articleWhat It Was Like to Glimpse John Nash’s Beautiful Mind
Maurice Ewing – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Nash taught me that even geniuses need other people to correct their thinking and vet their ideas (as he had done in interacting with Von Neumann). Most importantly, however, Nash taught me that anyone’s mind can be beautiful if it focuses on producing beautiful ideas.
→ read full articleRotten Science: How We Got Duped by Fake Chocolate Science
Daniela Hernandez, Fusion – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
On Retraction Watch, a site dedicated to tracking scientific papers that are retracted, newly debunked studies are piling up. The reason we keep getting duped is that science isn’t just science anymore. It’s Big Business. And it’s time we start thinking about it that way because, as in any big industry, there are some disturbing things going on that most people outside of scientific circles don’t know about — but should. After all, these missteps affect our lives.
→ read full articleWhy Does Greece Not Simply Default?
Jérôme Roos - TeleSur,
1 Jun 2015
History has shown that countries that refuse to pay their debts fall harder but recover faster than those that do not. So why does Greece’s left-led government not simply get it over with?
→ read full articleCorrelating a Requisite Diversity of Metaphorical Patterns
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Entuning the Dynamic of Cognitive Eases and Diseases – This is an exploration of a methodological possibility of dynamically interweaving disparate threads which might thereby offer integrative insight.
→ read full articleFirst Look Publishes Open Source Code to Advance Privacy, Security and Journalism
Micah Lee – The Intercept,
1 Jun 2015
27 May 2015 – The Intercept and its publisher, First Look Media, strongly believe in the benefits of free and open source software — in part because we rely on such software every day. To keep our journalists and sources safe, we use secure communication tools.
→ read full articleSolutions Movement: How Worker-Owned Co-ops Can Change the Way We Work
Derek Royden, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
21 May 2015 – As many of us watch or participate in the movement to improve the lives of service workers through raising the minimum wage, another, more radical story is being told on the margins: the story of worker-owned cooperatives, which have the potential to change the way we work.
→ read full articleThis College Student Chained Herself to a Shell Oil Ship for Three Days. Here’s Why.
Araz Hachadourian – Yes! Magazine,
1 Jun 2015
27 May 2015 – Unbearable’ is how Rose described the physical effects of being strapped in a harness for three days and nights. She said there were moments that helped push her through, like seeing her friends with supplies from 100 feet away or a school of fish underneath her feet.
→ read full articleUnsettling Settlements: More Wrongdoing at Banks, More Swingeing Fines, No Prosecutions
The Economist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
23 May 2015 – The scene was familiar: regulators meting out vast penalties to banks, scathing statements about gross misconduct, yet no individuals charged with any crimes and some confusion as to what exactly the banks were admitting to and what effect that would have.
→ read full articleMyanmar Officially Rejects the Oslo Conference to End Systematic Persecution of the Rohingya Since 1978
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Read press release from 31 May 2015.
→ read full articleIntegrated Peacebuilding: Innovative Approaches to Transforming Conflict – A Review
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Craig Zelizer of the Conflict Resolution Program of Georgetown University, Washington DC, and his colleagues have written a very useful book with extensive bibliographies and website addresses of organizations dealing with conflict resolution.
→ read full articleAmerica at Its Best Is Strange
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
America even at its best is a strange place, alive with contradictions, a Teflon political culture that has an unshakable faith in its innocent and virtuous national character and its overall impact on the world, impervious to the ghosts of slavery and of ethnic cleansing of native Americans that should be tormenting our sleep and darkening our dreams, comfortable with its robust gun culture, and with its promiscuous reliance on rogue drones engineered to kill on command and on the brutal happenings that take place in black sites immorally situated in countries whose leaders agree to avert their gaze from the dirty work taking place.
→ read full articleStop Calling the TPP a Trade Agreement – It Isn’t.
Dave Johnson – Moyers & Company,
1 Jun 2015
TPP is a corporate/investor rights agreement. TPP extends patents, copyrights and other monopolies so investors can collect “rents.” TPP elevates corporations and corporate profits to and above the level of governments.
→ read full articlePeace Education for Nonviolence and Solution of Terrorism
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
We find the history of terrorism and violence since the beginning of human civilizations. In every violent act, there is terror, fear and threat as experienced by its victim, similarly in every terror attack there is violence, fear, threat and terror.
→ read full articleIndia´s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Today “governability” is standardly defined as the overall capacity for governance of any societal entity or system. This definition has the defect of being somewhat circular since it uses the word “governance” to define the word “governability.” But before busying ourselves with improving the definition of the word, let us instead look at some of the important issues at stake in governability-talk.
→ read full article48 Countries March Against Monsanto
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Global anti-Monsanto protests have been spurred by a recent WHO warning that the company’s signature herbicide “probably” causes cancer.
→ read full articleNSA Planned to Hijack Google App Store and Plant Malware on All Android Apps
TechWorm – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Spy agencies planned to target mobile phones by hacking and hijacking Google and Samsung App store to implant spyware.
→ read full articleFinance like a Cancer Grows
Roberto Savio, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
To bail out the banks, the world has collectively spent around 4 trillion dollars of taxpayers’ money. It is astonishing that every week we see action being taken in various part of the world against the financial sector, without any noticeable reaction of public opinion. The “new ethic” is in reality a cancer, and it is metastasising rapidly
→ read full articleRalph Waldo Emerson on Small Mercies, the True Measure of Wisdom, and How to Live with Maximum Aliveness
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
“To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.” In contemplating the shortness of life, Seneca considered what it takes to live wide rather than long.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
June 1-7 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Beware the bareness of a busy life.” – Socrates
→ read full article(Italiano) Sulla violenza: suicidio, omicidio – e l’uno e l’altro
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Ciò non vale per il terrorismo di stato a terra o dall’aria: l’omicidio di decine, centinaia di migliaia senza incorrere in rischi, né suicidi incorporati nell’atto, cioè più come un lavoro d’ufficio. Seppure il suicidio può arrivare in seguito, odiandosi per gli omicidi commessi.
→ read full articleUS Drops Cuba from Terrorism List
Jesse Byrnes, The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
The State Department formally dropped Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism on Friday [29 May 2015] after more than three decades. Removing Cuba from the list paves the way for diplomatic recognition and the opening of embassies. Lifting the full U.S. trade embargo requires congressional action.
→ read full articleDemands
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
A group of terrorists burst into the Annual Convention of the American Bar Association at the New York Hilton Hotel and took three hundred lawyers as hostages.
→ read full articleA Bit Here a Bit There
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Get up and stand up
A bit here and a bit there
The body walks
The mind flies
Separate but together
Post Disaster Rebuilding of Nepal: Forward Thinking
Kedar Neupane – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
The suggested approach is timely for Nepal would not want to stagger like other countries which faced large disasters. Lessons from unsatisfactory response and weak coordination during the hurricane Katarina, earthquake in Haiti and typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines should guide response to the crisis.
→ read full articleFailure of the US Coup d’État in Macedonia
Thierry Meyssan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
23 May 2015 – Macedonia has just neutralised an armed group whose sponsors had been under surveillance for at least eight months and has prevented a new attempt at a coup d’État planned by Washington for the 17th of May. The aim was to spread the chaos already infecting Ukraine into Macedonia in order to stall the passage of a Russian gas pipeline to the European Union.
→ read full articlePalestinian Soccer Head under Fire after Withdrawing Motion to Suspend Israel from FIFA
Khaled Abu Toameh – The Jerusalem Post,
1 Jun 2015
Chairman of the Palestinian Football Association Jibril Rajoub’s critics take to social media to strongly condemn his decision and call for his dismissal from his job. Rajoub’s last-minute announcement came as a surprise to many Palestinians, especially after his repeated statements that nothing would stop him from pursuing his anti-Israel bid.
→ read full articleLatest Guilty Pleas Prove Big Bank Criminality ‘Rampant,’ But Jail Time Non-Existent
Deirdre Fulton – Common Dreams,
1 Jun 2015
In announcing settlement, Attorney General Loretta Lynch calls the crimes ‘a brazen display of collusion’ that caused ‘pervasive harm’. First, criminality is rampant on Wall Street. Second, the era of too-big-to-jail is alive and well. Even as they beat their chests announcing how tough they are, government regulators refuse to apply to the giant banks the same rules that apply to everyone else.
→ read full articleThe Years Since I Was Jailed For Releasing the ‘War Diaries’ Have Been a Rollercoaster
Chelsea E Manning (formerly Bradley Manning) – The Guardian,
1 Jun 2015
It can be difficult, sometimes, to make sense of all the things that have happened to me in the last five years… It didn’t help that a few of the Navy guards delivering meals would tell me that I was waiting for interrogation on a brig on a US cruiser off the coast of the horn of Africa, or being sent to the prison camps of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. At the very lowest point, I contemplated castrating myself.
→ read full articleThe Long Shadow of War: The Struggle for Justice in Postwar Sri Lanka – Report
Oakland Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
This report, authored by Anuradha Mittal, is based on research and fieldwork conducted between January 2014 and April 2015. We are grateful to individuals who assisted with research and fieldwork in Sri Lanka, who remain unnamed to ensure their safety.
→ read full articleConsider the Octopus: A Little Boy’s Moving Case against Eating Animals
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
A ‘food’ — this exquisite masterwork of evolution, this intelligent alien with an order of consciousness so beyond ours that we can barely begin to grasp its extent with the clumsy and insensitive tentacles of our moral imagination. Disarming wisdom from a tiny-bodied, huge-hearted human animal.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Auf dem Weg zur EU-Armee (Teil I): Vereint marschieren
Sabine Lösing und Jürgen Wagner - Informationsstelle Militarisierung,
25 May 2015
Die Bündelung militärischer Fähigkeiten der Mitgliedsländer der Europäischen Union soll Kosten reduzieren und langfristig weltweiten Einfluss sichern.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Auf dem Weg zur EU-Armee (Teil II und Schluss): »Germanische Macht«
Sabine Lösing und Jürgen Wagner - Informationsstelle Militarisierung,
25 May 2015
Eine gemeinsame europäische Streitkraft wäre vor allem im Interesse der Bundesrepublik. Andere Mitgliedsstaaten stellen sich deshalb quer.
→ read full articleWhy Elites Love Drones
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Serviver,
25 May 2015
The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. once said: ‘The enemy is violence.’ But I believe the true enemy is our fear: the fear of nonviolently resisting violence, in all of its manifestations. Are you afraid?
→ read full article(Português) Ou o homem é mais velho do que pensávamos ou a Terra esconde mistérios
Manuela Goucha Soares – Expresso,
25 May 2015
Uma equipa de 22 arqueólogos encontrou cerca de 150 ferramentas de pedra mais velhas do que a espécie humana. Quem as fez?
→ read full articleResearchers Discover a 40.000-Year-Old Bracelet Made by an Extinct Human Species
EWAO – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
May 19, 2015 – It is one of the most incredible discoveries in recent years, confirming that we have actually very little knowledge of our distant past. Researchers have discovered the bracelet at Denisova Cave in Siberia, near Russia’s border with China and Mongolia.
→ read full articleA Color Revolution for Macedonia
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
22 May 2015 – During the Cold War Washington was concerned about communists fomenting street protests that they could turn into revolutions, with groomed politicians waiting in the wings to take over the new government, thus expanding the Soviet empire. Today this is precisely what Washington does. Why is Washington interested in controlling Macedonia?
→ read full article“Rebuilding America’s Defenses” PNAC – A Summary
Compiled by Bette Stockbauer – PNAC Library & Resources,
25 May 2015
Blueprint of the Project for the New American Century Plan for U.S. Global Hegemony – Not since “Mein Kampf” has a geopolitical punch been so blatantly telegraphed, years ahead of the blow. A summary of the document presented.
→ read full articleIs China Reclaiming the Law of the Sea?
Mira Rapp-Hooper – Lawfare Institute,
25 May 2015
In the last year, China has undertaken extensive efforts to transform at least 6 of these 7 reefs into artificial islands. China is not the only Spratly claimant to have engaged in serious construction efforts. Indeed, Taiwan, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam have all performed significant construction of some sort on the features that they occupy.
→ read full article(Italiano) Israele, Germania, e tre vicini parenti
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
Nel bel mezzo del Medio Oriente c’è Israele, che culla sogni di un Israele ancor più grande che quello di re Davide. Gli stati seguiranno l’autorità morale del mondo d’oggi, papa Francesco, temendo di riconoscere la Palestina troppo tardi, tanto quanto temevano di farlo troppo presto. Il sionismo di Netanyahu è sconfitto, non militarmente ma moralmente.
→ read full articleScientific Responsibility in Counting the War Dead – A Response to Washington Post and the Human Rights Data Analysis Group
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The more I looked into the matter, the more perturbed I became by Iraq Body Count’s odd relationships to US and European government agencies, questionable public statements, and pathological obsession with defending IBC methodologies. My investigation showed, for the first time, that Spagat’s work itself is false, fraudulent, and unreliable.
→ read full articleAnthem to Human Love
Guy Crequie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
For The Harmony of Our Lives
→ read full articleEight Years in the Making: Power without Borders in Europe
Rachel Morison and Weixin Zha – Bloomberg,
25 May 2015
Germany, France and central-western Europe connected their electricity markets on Wednesday [20 May 2015] under a system that lets prices dictate where power flows between countries. Flow-based market coupling matches supply and demand across borders, sending electricity to where prices are highest.
→ read full articleThe Oak Tree and the Reed Grass
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
A mighty oak tree ridiculed the soft thin reed grass bending back and forth in the lake.
→ read full article[Banksters Mafia Orgy] Major World Banks Hit by Record Fine for Rigging Forex Markets
Jill Treanor in London and Dominic Rushe in New York – The Guardian,
25 May 2015
The reputation of the banking industry took another hammering on Wednesday [20 May 2015] as record fines imposed on Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, Citi, JP Morgan and UBS, which pleaded guilty for rigging foreign exchange markets and over collusion by traders in several countries, topped [£6.3bn.] [€ 8.8bn.] [US$ 9.86bn.].
→ read full article(Italiano) L’anno 2015: rapporto sul primo quadrimestre
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
La Cina è proattiva nei “cortili” UE e USA; realizzando guadagni in modo nonviolento quando altri ci perdono violentemente per inazione e sfruttamento. Perché? Forse la Cina considera Africa e America Latina in ascesa come più competitive che UE e USA in declino; pensando in grande, a lungo termine, come fanno loro.
→ read full articleTexans Propose to Adopt Threatened African Rhinos
Lisa Vives, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
May 13 2015 -Thefts, murders and mutilation of Africa’s wildlife, from white rhinos to elephants with their prized horns and tusks, are at an all-time high, say conservationists who are keeping track of the poaching of species by fortune-seeking hunters.
→ read full articleWhistleblower Warns on Safety of UK Nukes, Goes on the Run
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
17 May 2015 – A UK Navy Seaman has warned that the UK’s nuclear submarine system, Trident, are a “disaster waiting to happen” and is now in hiding. In coming months, the UK government will decide whether to spend £100bn (US$150bn) on upgrading its nuclear weapons system.
→ read full articleNew Lives in Uruguay – Freedom Elusive after 12 Years at Guantanamo
Marian Blasberg – Der Spiegel,
25 May 2015
Six former Guantanamo prisoners have been sharing a house in the Uruguayan capital Montevideo for the last six months. The planned closure of the US detention facility could hinge on the outcome of this experiment.
→ read full articleWomen and Biodiversity Feed the World, Not Corporations and GMOs
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The two great ecological challenges of our times are biodiversity erosion and climate change. And both are interconnected, in their causes and their solutions. Industrial agiculture is the biggest contributor to biodiversity erosion as well as to climate change. According to the United Nations, 93% of all plant variety has disappeared over the last 80 years.
→ read full articleHow to Make Use of Our Suffering: Simone Weil on Ameliorating Our Experience of Pain, Hunger, Fatigue, and All That Makes the Soul Cry
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
There is almost a Buddhist undertone to Weil’s insistence on accepting everything that is, as it is, without compounding pain with “the second arrow” of our tendency to resist any unpleasantness and judge it as a kind of personal failure, which in turn precipitates an even graver sense of dissatisfaction.
→ read full articleWhy Aren’t the Banksters in Prison?
Andre Damon, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The financial impact on JPMorgan and the other banks for pleading guilty to a felony will be effectively zero. As part of the deal, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued waivers exempting the banks from the legal repercussions arising from their status as criminal organizations, giving them continued preferential treatment in issuing debt, as well as the continued right to operate mutual funds.
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Dear Future Generations: Sorry (Legendado em Português)
Prince Ea – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
An Apology Letter to Future Generations (Um Pedido de Desculpas às Gerações Futuras)
→ read full articleNon-Proliferation Talks Fail over Mideast Nuclear-Weapons Free Zone Plan
Carole Landry – Middle East Eye,
25 May 2015
23 May 2015 – United States, Canada and Britain opposed a plan to set up a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East.
→ read full articleDestroying What Remains: How the U.S. Navy Plans to War Game the Arctic
Dahr Jamail - TomDispatch,
25 May 2015
The bottom line on all this is simple, if brutal. The Navy is increasingly focused on possible future climate-change conflicts in the melting waters of the north and, in that context, has little or no intention of caretaking the environment when it comes to military exercises.
→ read full article(Français) Haïti-Népal : regards croisés sur la mondialisation
Frédéric Thomas – Centre Tricontinental,
25 May 2015
On aura à nouveau parlé d’Haïti, suite au récent séisme du Népal. Il est vrai que des correspondances existent entre les deux situations. À cela s’ajoute le voisinage encombrant de grandes puissances, qui pèsent lourd sur la souveraineté de ces deux pays…
→ read full article‘They Hit Us, with Hammers, by Knife’: Rohingya Migrants Tell of Horror at Sea
Kate Lamb – The Guardian,
25 May 2015
Up to 8,000 are believed to be stuck off Thai, Indonesian and Malaysian coasts, and those who made it to shore describe violence and starvation.
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